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FIELD, Barron (Editor)
- GEOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS ON NEW SOUTH WALES; BY VARIOUS HANDS: Containing
an Account of the Surveyor General's Late Expedition to Two New Ports;
The Discovery of Moreton Bay River, with the Adventures for Seven Months
There of Two Shipwrecked Men; A Route From Bathurst to Liverpool Plains;
Together with other Papers on the Aborigines, the Timber, the Astronomy,
and the Meteorology of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land.
London, John Murray, 1825. xvi, 504pp. 14 x 21 cm. Rebound in half leather
and cloth; spine richly ornate gilt. Marbled endpapers, top edge gilt.
A very good copy with a little discolouration to the corner of the frontispiece
and the two Botanical plates at the rear. The rest of the book is very
clean. Frontispiece, 4 folding maps & 2 botanical plates. The maps are
1) Plan of the River Brisbane by John Oxley, Surveyor General of New South
Wales - this includes a box with the chart of Moreton Bay with the Brisbane
River; 2) Sketch of the River Boyne Port Curtis also by Oxley; 3) Map
of the Country between Bathurst and Liverpool Plains showing Mr Allan
Cunningham's Route during the months of April, May and June 1823 on a
Botanical Tour.; 4) Map of the Country to the South of Lake George showing
Captain Currie's & Major Ovens's Route during the month of May and June
1823. Drawn to correspond with Lieutenant Oxley's General Map of the Colony
of New South Wales by Major John Currie. F1009. This book is an important
account of the infant colony. It has writings from various prominent men
of letters and scientists and explorers, It has accounts from Oxley of
his expedition to survey Port Curtis, Moreton Bay and Port Bowen; a very
interesting account of three Englishmen who were shipwrecked and subsequently
lived with the Aboriginal people for seven months; a Journal of a Route
from Bathurst to Liverpool Plains in New South Wales explored by Allan
Cunningham; a paper read before the Philosophical Society of Australia
by Barron Field on the Aborigines of New Holland and Van Diemen's Land;
Phillip Parker King on The Maritime Geography of Australia; a specimen
of the indigenous botany by Cunningham; a journal of an excursion to the
southward of Lake George in NSW by Captain Mark John Currie. It also contains
articles on the Geology of part of the coast on NSW by Alexander Berry
and Astronomy of the Southern Hemisphere by Dr Charles Rumker. Barron
Field writes on the Rivers of NSW viz the Lachlan and the Macquarie. The
timbers and Meteorology of NSW are discussed - this includes a weather
diary for the year 1821-2. The appendix contains a reprint of the first
poetry published in New South Wales - Barron Fields's First Fruits of
Australian Poetry. The appendix also contains articles which were published
in the London Magazine and written by Field. This has the first Aboriginal
music reduced to writing which was recorded from the sister of BenelongClick
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