Journal of a voyage to New South Wales, with sixty five plates of non descript animals, birds, lizards, serpents, curious cones of trees and other natural productions.
London: J. Debrett, 1790. Quarto, [iv] 65 handcoloured engraved plates, without advertisements. Later nineteenth century half calf and marbled boards, top edge gilt but other edges uncut, apart from some paper browning and a few spots all the plates well coloured, a handsome exceptionally large copy.
White was chief surgeon of the First Fleet, and distinguished himself by overcoming serious medical problems in appalling conditions, both on the voyage out and when the settlement was founded. He was also a keen amateur naturalist and after arriving at Port Jackson found time to accompany Phillip on two journeys of exploration. Many important Australian animals are figured and described for the first time.
Abbey 605; Ferguson 97; Ford 2495; Nissen ZBI 4390; Wantrup 17; Zimmer 672.