The map bound into the copy of David Collins’ An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales sold by Australian Book Auctions for Aus$26,000 (£15,115).
Written by Judge Advocate David Collins, secretary, close friend and adviser to Governor Arthur Phillip, An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales of 1798-1802 was the last of the so-called ‘First Fleet’ journals to be published.
It is also the most detailed of those early accounts of English settlement of the Australian continent.