TENCH Watkin Relation d’une expédition à la Baye Botanique, située dans la Nouvelle Hollande, sur la côte Méridionale, nommée par le capitaine Cook, Nouvelle Galles Méridionale. Avec des observations sur les habitants de cette contrée, & la liste de l’état civil & militaire, au Port Jackson.

Ferguson, 54; see Hill, 1685 (for the first edition, 1789).

First edition of the French translation by Charles Pougens.

“Tench was a captain of British marines and sailed with the first convict fleet to Australia, where he resided four years. This expedition, under Governor Arthur Philip, visited the Canary Islands, Rio de Janeiro, the Cape of Good Hope, and founded the colony of New South Wales. This eminently readable book is regarded by the best authorities as the most accurate, orderly, vivacious, and valuable description of life in the colony in its first years” (Hill).

From the library of Prince Roland Bonaparte with his large book plate.