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.

ARAGO, Jacques Etienne Victoire.
Sauvage de la Nouvelle-hollande avenant de combattre (Port Jackson).
Paris, Langlume, 1840.

Lithograph, 300 x 222 mm. (sheet size); fine.

Confronting image of a Port Jackson Aborigine with club raised in his right hand and a severed head in his...

Australian: $650 (Approx. US $416, Euro €333) 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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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...

Australian: $18,500 (Approx. US $11,844, Euro €9465) 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 $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.

[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 $288, Euro €230) 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.

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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.

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