Paris: Dabo and Masson, 1823.

15 volumes, duodecimo, with numerous folding maps & plates; contemporary half calf.

Miniature voyage collection, with a Freycinet section

England: circa 1795-1800.

Pastel on paper backed onto linen 62 x 50cm; in the original gilt frame and glass.

An unrecorded version of Banks's favourite portrait, by the daughter of a friend

Paris: P. Pourrat Frères, 1839.

Four volumes, octavo, with 42 engravings (portrait, two title-pages, over 20 views, costumes, objects and tools, and coastal profiles as well as 19 coloured engravings of birds and mammals); in a most attractive modern French binding of quarter red calf with glazed green sides, housed...

London: Engravings printed by Boydell for the publishers Strahan and Cadell, 1777.

Large folio atlas, with the full complement of 64 charts and plates published to accompany the voyage account and two extras (see below), some folding, the smaller plates mounted to size; in a very good modern quarter calf...

London: Wm. S. Orr & Co and William Smith, 1841-1849.

Three volumes, quarto, profusely illustrated with full-page plates exquisitely hand-coloured; uniformly bound in half morocco richly gilt, all edges gilt, with the gilt arms of the Barons Sherborne.

A paen to the beauty of butterflies and the under-appreciated moth

A Lausanne: chez Marc-Mic. Bousquet, 1756.

Four volumes, quarto; contemporary speckled calf, gilt backs with raised bands, contrasting spine labels with gilt lettering, with gilt stamped coat-of-arms arms at foot of spine encircled by the text 'Monstrant regibus astra viam'.

De la Rochefoucauld's copy of a de luxe issue, with...

London: W. Bulmer and Co., 1802.

Quarto, 19 pp. and four large folding plates; contemporary (? original) neat quarter red roan binding.

The earliest scientific notice of the echidna, in a special author's pre-issue

Avignon and Paris: Froulle, 1779.

Octavo, with an engraved frontispiece view of Tahiti; a fine copy in contemporary speckled half calf.

The earliest separate serious work on Tahiti

Edinburgh: Lizars; and London, Bohn, 1835 to 1866.

Complete set of 40 volumes, small octavo, each volume with portrait frontispiece & engraved and printed title-page to each volume, and some 1248 handcoloured engraved plates (see note below), making a total of 1328 plates; in a fine nineteenth-century half calf binding...

Melbourne: c.1880.

Watercolour on paper, 355 x 540mm, mounted and framed; signed lower right.

The Yarra River in Dawn Light.

London: 1773-1784.

Together eight volumes, quarto, and two folio Atlases; uniformly bound in contemporary polished diced russia leather, decorated in blind and gilt, atlases in half binding with marbled paper sides matching the endpapers of the text volumes; all volumes neatly respined.

Cook's voyages: with the extra atlas, and uniform...

Vicenza: Jean Rossi, and Modena, 1785-1786.

Three volumes, folio, comprising: "Les Bâtimens et les desseins", four parts (bound in the first two volumes), each with separate decorated title-pages, portrait frontispiece to the first volume and a total of 208 engraved plates, many folding; "Les Thermes", being the third volume of...

Amsterdam: Joannes Wolters, 1707.

Folio, with a fine engraved title-page, parallel text in Greek and Latin in double columns; well-preserved contemporary vellum, spine elegantly lettered in ink with in gilt ornament between raised bands, covers ornately gilt with complex central emblematic device.

The best edition of Strabo's "colossal work"

London: Published by J. Sowerby & Co, 1793.

Hand coloured engraved plate, 235 x 170mm, mounted and in a handsome nineteenth century timber frame.

The first engraved image of the magnificent waratah

[Sydney?]: circa 1840s.

Three ink caricatures on a single sheet of laid foolscap paper, 215 x 340 mm.

Unsigned caricature of three men in mid-century New South Wales

Sydney: circa 1850.

Oil on artists' board, 139 x 291 mm.

Government House and Fort Macquarie from the Harbour