Australiana

ALMQVIST, Carl Jonas Love.
Parjumouf. Saga ifran Nya Holland.
Stockholm, A. Gadelius, 1817.

Duodecimo, 98 pp.; in good condition in a neat modern morocco binding.

An interesting early Swedish fiction set in colonial Australia, although an archaic name is used for the continent....

Du Rietz, Swansea, 92; Ferguson, 691a.

Australian: $2650 (Approx. US $1697, Euro €1356) Quote ref.

ANGAS, George French.
The Wreck of the "Admella," and Other Poems.
London, 1874.

Octavo, 91 pp.; original green cloth, rebacked; couple of stains on upper board, some shelfwear.

Presentation copy inscribed by George French Angas to his daughter Georgiana: she and her three sisters were the...

Australian: $1250 (Approx. US $800, Euro €640) Quote ref.

[AUSTRALIA].
The New Universal Gazetteer; or Modern Geographical Index.
Edinburgh, David Ramsay, for Bell & Bradfute, J. Dickson, W. Creech, and P. Hill, 1796.

Octavo, six folding maps, very occasional manuscript annotations; a good copy in contemporary calf, neatly rebacked to...

Second edition of this important Gazetteer, and an attractive association copy (see below). This work is also of...

Not in Ferguson.

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BABU, M.L.
Les Mines d'or de l'Australie...
Paris, Vve. Ch. Dunod et P. Vicq, 1896.

Octavo, pp. 86, illustrations and four large folding plans; some foxing and embrowning throughout, and the paper...

A very scarce detailed study of Victorian gold and New South Wales silver deposits, not recorded by...

Not in Ferguson.

Australian: $1450 (Approx. US $928, Euro €742) Quote ref.

BARKER, E.H. (editor).
Geographical, Commercial, and Political Essays.
London, Longman and Co., 1812.

Octavo; uncut in the original blue papered boards with printed spine label; a remarkably fine copy.

Collection of essays on a wide range of topics, edited by the English classical scholar Edmund Henry Barker...

Ferguson, 529.

Australian: $4400 (Approx. US $2817, Euro €2251) Quote ref.

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BARRINGTON, George.
A Voyage to Botany Bay...
London, C. Lowndes and H.D. Symonds, circa 1800 [and], 1801.

Small octavo, two works bound together, the first with an engraved frontispiece and vignette on title, the second bound...

The latest news from the new colony of New South Wales. This is an early pairing of the two initial "Barrington" Botany...

Ferguson, 206 (dated c. 1795) and 328.

Australian: $4800 (Approx. US $3073, Euro €2456) Quote ref.

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BARRINGTON, George.
An Account of a Voyage to New South Wales.
London, Jones, 1810.

Octavo, portrait frontispiece and nine handcoloured plates, folding map (laid down); some browning and staining but an...

The second edition (first published 1803) of this substantial account of the voyage to New South Wales via the Cape of...

Abbey, 606 (note); Ferguson, 486.

Australian: $3250 (Approx. US $2081, Euro €1663) Quote ref.

BARTHOLOMEW, J.G.
A Literary and Historical Atlas of Africa and Australasia...
Melbourne, E.W. Cole, n.d., c. 1920.

Small octavo, with many colour maps; good in original publisher's cloth.

An attractive Australian edition of this popular Everyman's Library title, providing an interesting overview of the...

Australian: $70 (Approx. US $45, Euro €36) Quote ref.

[BAUDIN] PETIT, Nicholas-Martin (after).
Bewohner von Neuholland.
Germany, np., c. 1815.

Lithograph consisting of three portraits, 331 x 222 mm. (sheet size); fine condition.

A German composite of three of Nicholas Petit's Aboriginal portraits from the official account of the Baudin-Freycinet...

Australian: $480 (Approx. US $307, Euro €246) Quote ref.

BEAUVOIR, Ludovic, Marquis de.
Australie. Voyage autour du monde...
Paris, 1872.

Octavo, steel-engraved frontispiece and 11 other plates, two folding maps; a good copy in the original printed...

Sixth of at least twelve editions, with illustrations steel-engraved from photographs. Ferguson records only the Oxley...

Ferguson, 6841.

Australian: $325 (Approx. US $208, Euro €166) Quote ref.