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 $2424, Euro €1774) Quote ref.

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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 $1143, Euro €837) Quote ref.

ANON.
Riviere du Parramatta Nouvelle Hollande.
7 Juillet, 1846.

Pencil drawing, 200 x 130 mm., in fine condition, mounted.

Fine view of the Parramatta River from a French voyage around the world.

The drawing is dated 1846.

Australian: $185 (Approx. US $169, Euro €124) Quote ref.

ARMYTAGE, James Charles.
Ballarat, Victoria [engraved by J. Saddler].
London, Virtue & Co., 1873.

Steel-engraving, 129 x 184 mm; mounted, fine.

A detailed and finely engraved view of Ballarat, from Edwin Carton Booth's Australia Illustrated.

Australian: $120 (Approx. US $110, Euro €80) Quote ref.

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[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.

Australian: $2650 (Approx. US $2424, Euro €1774) Quote ref.

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AUSTRALIAN SCHOOL.
Original oil painting of a group of Australian Aborigines.
Probably Sydney, 1849.

Oil on board, 140 x 190 mm.; in very good condition, framed.

A haunting mid-nineteenth-century painting of an Aboriginal man standing in front of a group of Aboriginal women. The...

Australian: $18,500 (Approx. US $16,920, Euro €12,388) Quote ref.

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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 $1326, Euro €971) Quote ref.

[BARRINGTON] ANON.
A Deep One: Portrait of George Barrington.
Dublin, Walker, c. 1800.

Engraving, 172 x 144 mm.; creased and soiled to the left of image.

Rare Irish portrait of notorious pickpocket George Barrington, in disguise.

Convicted of felonry, Barrington was...

Not in Nan Kivell and Spence.

Australian: $650 (Approx. US $594, Euro €435) Quote ref.

[BARRINGTON] ANON.
Portrait of George Barrington.
London, 1804- 1809.

Stippled engraving, 98 x 75 mm.; very good.

A very good portrait of Barrington, within an octagonal border. George Barrington was convicted of felonry and...

Nan Kivell and Spence, p. 23.

Australian: $450 (Approx. US $412, Euro €301) Quote ref.

[BARRINGTON] ANON.
Portrait of George Barrington.
Liverpool, Nuttall, Fisher & Dixon, 1810.

Stippled engraving, 98 x 76 mm.; good.

Barrington's rollercoaster ride from notorious felon to "zealous" chief constable of Parramatta was well-documented by...

Nan Kivell and Spence, p. 23.

Australian: $450 (Approx. US $412, Euro €301) Quote ref.