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BURCHETT, Josiah.
A Complete History of the Most Remarkable Transactions at Sea...
London, J. Walthoe, 1720.
Small folio, engraved allegorical frontispiece, engraved portrait and nine engraved maps (some double-page and some...
A very handsome copy of the first general naval history published in the English language, with maps by the famous...
Alden, 'European Americana', 720/38; Sabin, 9205.
Australian: $3800 (Approx. US $3965, Euro €2755) Quote ref.
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CHESTERFIELD, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of.
Letters written by the Late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope...
London, John Nichols, 1800.
Four volumes, octavo; title pages with armorial ownership stamp; small tear affecting just five letters of text, a few...
A most attractive set of this famous book. Chesterfield (1694-1773) is chiefly remembered as the author of these famous...
Australian: $2700 (Approx. US $2817, Euro €1958) Quote ref.
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COOK, James and James KING.
A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean...
London, G. Nicol and T. Cadell, 1785.
Three volumes, quarto, and an atlas, folio, with altogether 87 engraved plates and maps, of which 63 appear in the...
A very attractive set of the official account of Cook's last voyage. The full story of the voyage, and Cook's eventual...
Beddie, 1552; Forbes, 'Hawaiian National Bibliography', 85; Hawaii One Hundred, 5; Hill, 361; O'Reilly-Reitman, 434.
Australian: $28,000 (Approx. US $29,215, Euro €20,300) Quote ref.
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[COOK: LIFE] KIPPIS, Andrew.
The Life of Captain James Cook.
London, G. Nicol, 1788.
Quarto, with engraved frontispiece portrait of Cook; light spotting to portrait, light offsetting of portrait onto...
An attractive copy of the first edition of the great life of Captain Cook.
Using Admiralty sources as well as...
Beddie, 32; Hill, 935; Holmes, 69; Kroepelien, 647; Lada-Mocarski, 40; O'Reilly-Reitman, 455.
Australian: $9000 (Approx. US $9391, Euro €6525) Quote ref.
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DEFOE, Daniel.
The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner…...
London, W. Taylor, 1719- 1720.
Three volumes, octavo, frontispiece and one folding plate (originally the frontispiece to vol. III) in volume one,...
A handsome set of all three of the Robinson Crusoe books by Daniel Defoe: the ground-breaking first work, the...
Blewett, 'The Illustration of Robinson Crusoe', pp. 25-9 & 195; Gibson, 'St. Thomas More... with a Bibliography of Utopiana', 663; Grolier, 41; Printing and the Mind of Man, 180; Rothschild, 775; Sargent, p. 9; Schaer et al, Utopia, pp. 180-1.
Australian: $36,000 (Approx. US $37,562, Euro €26,100) Quote ref.
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ELLIS, William.
An Authentic Narrative of a Voyage performed by Captain Cook and Captain Clerke...
London, G. Robinson, J. Sewell, and J. Debrett, 1783.
Two volumes, octavo, with a folding chart and 21 engraved plates; a fine copy in the original grey boards, spines...
An extremely good copy of the second, revised edition in original boards. Ellis, a surgeon's mate and talented amateur...
Beaglehole, III, p. ccvii; Beddie, 1600; Davidson, 'A Book Collector's Notes', p. 66; Forbes, 'Hawaiian National Bibliography', 49; Hawaii One Hundred, 3n; Hill, 556; Hocken, pp. 20-21; Holmes, 42 (first edition); Kroepelien, 400; O'Reilly-Reitman, 428.
Australian: $11,000 (Approx. US $11,477, Euro €7975) Quote ref.
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FOWLES, Joseph.
Sydney in 1848: Illustrated by Copper-Plate Engravings of its Principal Streets, Public Buildings, Churches, Chapels, Etc….
Sydney, D. Wall, 76 York Street, n.d. but, 1848.
Quarto, with 40 plates, with the single sheet "Opinions of the Press" present; a fine copy in later polished half calf,...
First edition, first issue of Australia's first work devoted to architecture, showing the Georgian heritage of Sydney...
Australian: $12,500 (Approx. US $13,043, Euro €9063) Quote ref.
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FREIND, John.
The History of Physick; from the time of Galen, to the beginning of the sixteenth century...
London, J. Walthoe, 1726.
Two volumes, octavo; titles within rules; a very good set in contemporary panelled calf, slightly worn and rubbed,...
Attractive early mixed set of this first history of medicine written by an Englishman, third edition of the first...
Australian: $2850 (Approx. US $2974, Euro €2066) Quote ref.
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GOULD, John.
The Mammals of Australia.
London, Taylor and Francis, 1845- 1863.
Three volumes, imperial folio, with 182 handcoloured lithographed plates; with only very little of the usual foxing;...
One of the most appealing of all Australian illustrated books, Gould's Mammals contains some of the most...
Nissen, ZBI, 1661; Sauer, 14; Wood, p. 365.
Australian: $295,000 (Approx. US $307,803, Euro €213,875) Quote ref.
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HUNTER, Governor John.
Land Grant to Thomas Granger.
Sydney, 12 March, 1800.
Manuscript in ink on paper, 370 x 330 mm.; restored to early folds, otherwise in good original condition with suspended...
A fine and early land grant with the signatures of two prominent First Fleeters, John Hunter and George Johnston. The...
Ryan 'Land Grants' , no. 959.
Australian: $11,500 (Approx. US $11,999, Euro €8338) Quote ref.
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