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Cambridge Univ Pr, 2010. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 185 pages. 8.40x5.50x0.50 inches.

Cambridge University Press, 2010-09-09. 1. Paperback. Used:Good.

Paperback / softback. New. A Voyage Round the World, in the Gorgon Man of War (1795) records Mary Ann Parker's voyage with her husband, Captain John Parker, to New South Wales. Written following the death of her husband, the memoir offers valuable insight into women's participation in eighteenth-century colonialism, both socially and economically.

Cambridge Univ Pr, 2010. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 185 pages. 8.40x5.50x0.50 inches.

Potts Point, Horden House 1991.. xxxii+150pp. 8vo. Original 1/4 calf with marbled boards. Black and white frontis and prints. Pale foxing to edges. A near fine copy.. Limited to 750 copies.

Sydney; Hordern House; 1991.. Facsimile Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. (xxxiv commentary), xxxii, 149; 1 b/w illustration; hand bound in half maroon calf with marbled boards, spine with minor marks, previous owner's inscription on half title page, bookplate of Rodney Davidson on front endpaper, very good copy. Facsimile of the edition of 1795 it was issued as the first number in the Australian Maritime Series, published by Hordern House for the Australian National Museum. Edition limited to 750 copies. Just three years after the first fleet the Author leaving 2 young children at home accompanied her husband and kept an excellent Diary of the events including the condition of convicts on transport ships. Also listing many of the others on board, sometimes their professions and where originally from. Including Captains Bristow, Hopwood, Hamilton, Murray, Miller, Colonel Otho Hamilton, Hugh Robert Hughes, Miss Catherine Hunter and Mr. Peyton Hadley. The author was extremely interested in everything… Read More

Sydney; Hordern House; 1991.. Facsimile Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. (xxxiv commentary), xxxii, 149; 1 b/w illustration; hand bound in half maroon calf with marbled boards, spine with minor marks, previous owner's inscription on half title page, bookplate of Rodney Davidson on front endpaper, very good copy. Facsimile of the edition of 1795 it was issued as the first number in the Australian Maritime Series, published by Hordern House for the Australian National Museum. Edition limited to 750 copies. Just three years after the first fleet the Author leaving 2 young children at home accompanied her husband and kept an excellent Diary of the events including the condition of convicts on transport ships. Also listing many of the others on board, sometimes their professions and where originally from. Including Captains Bristow, Hopwood, Hamilton, Murray, Miller, Colonel Otho Hamilton, Hugh Robert Hughes, Miss Catherine Hunter and Mr. Peyton Hadley. The author was extremely interested in everything… Read More

Sydney, Hordern House, 1991.. Facsimile Edition; 8vo; pp. (xxxiv commentary), xxxii, 149; 1 b/w illustration; hand bound in half maroon calf and marbled boards, fine copy. Facsimile of the edition of 1795 it was issued as the first number in the Australian Maritime Series, published by Hordern House for the Australian National Museum. Edition limited to 750 copies. Just three years after the first fleet the Author leaving 2 young children at home accompanied her husband and kept an excellent Diary of the events including the condition of convicts on transport ships. Also listing many of the others on board, sometimes their professions and where originally from. including Captains Bristow, Hopwood, Hamilton, Murray, Miller, Colonel Otho Hamilton, Hugh Robert Hughes, Miss Catherine Hunter and Mr. Peyton Hadley. The author was extremely interested in everything happening in board and around the ship even a lightning strike is noted. Dedication by Lady Diana Princess of Wales.

Sydney: Hordern House, 1991. 149pp, bw ills. Or marbled boards with leather spine (quarter leather). Edition limited to 750 copies of which this one of 675 hand bound in quarter maroon Scottish calf. Mary Parker was Australia's first tourist, and this the first published account of the colony by a woman. Originally published in 1795.. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine. 8vo.