Seller: Douglas Stewart Fine Books, Armadale, VIC, Australia
Sydney : Hordern House, 2001.Deluxe edition, on large paper and custom bound, limited to 28 copies (this is no. 20). Large quarto (310 x 225 mm), in the publisher's specially commissioned binding by Newbold and Collins of quarter vellum over glazed boards, spine stamped in gilt; pp. xxxii, 670; with a frontispiece portrait, 20 maps and illustrations, and 8 colour plates; tiny mark to upper board, a touch of foxing to the top- and fore-edges of the text block, otherwise pristine. 'This, along with the regular issue, represents the only edition in English of Freycinet's comprehensive examination of early New South Wales, one of the most important historical texts to deal with Australian settlement, and especially with the city of Sydney.' (Hordern House).