Australasia.- Australia.- King (Capt. Phillip Parker) Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia, performed between the years 1818 and 1822, 2 vol., first edition, second issue with cancel titles (as usual), lacking half-titles and colophon leaf at end of vol.2, with 2 folding engraved maps and 13 engraved plates, mostly aquatint views after King, others natural history, one folding, wood-engraved illustrations, errata slips pasted to final leaves, some foxing to maps and plates, first map torn and slightly frayed at fold, folding plate 'Kingia Australis' creased and soiled, contemporary half calf, spines gilt, rubbed and faded, [Abbey, Travel 573; Ferguson 1130; Wantrup 84b], 8vo, 1827.

⁂ King was the first Australian-born hydrographer, son of Philip Gidley King the third Governor of New South Wales. He was commissioned to explore and chart the north and north-western coasts of Australia, completing areas not surveyed by Flinders, to establish British claims to the territory. The work was first issued in 1826 but is very rare, it was then re-issued with new title-pages the following year.

"An essential inclusion in any collection of books relating to Australian coastal discovery". Wantrup p.162