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Nouveau Voyage à la Mer du Sud…

[CROZET] ROCHON, Alexis Marie, editor.

Paris: Barrois l'aîné, 1783.

Octavo, with seven plates (including two maps, one folding); contemporary French marbled calf, spine gilt in compartments between raised bands, leather label.

Tasmania and New Zealand, and the first printed account of Surville's voyage

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Panoramic View of King George's Sound…

DALE, Lieutenant Robert.

London: J. Cross, 1834.

Folding panorama, 180 x 2745 mm.; handcoloured etching and aquatint, captioned with title and "London Pubd. as the Act Directs Octr. 1834, by Robt Havell, 77 Oxford Street"

The first settlement of Western Australia

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Voyage de Découvertes aux Terres Australes…

[BAUDIN] PERON, Francois & Louis de FREYCINET.

Paris: Imprimerie Impériale [Royale], 1807/16/07/11; 1815/12.

Bound in five volumes; a handsome set of the complete official edition, including the two-volume quarto narrative text with portrait frontispiece and two folding tables, the two-parts of the large quarto atlas bound as a single volume containing 40 plates (23 coloured and two...

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A General Plan for laying out Towns and Townships…

SHARP, Granville.

London: n.d., but, 1794.

Octavo, large folding plate of plans with early handcolouring in red; bound in original heavy pink card wrappers, a bit faded, with early manuscript title to front.

Laying out the settlements

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Narrative of the Expedition of the Australian Squadron to the south-east coast of New Guinea…

AUSTRALIAN SQUADRON. ERSKINE, Commodore James E.

Sydney: Thomas Richards, Government Printer, 1885.

Large square folio, with a folding map, three coloured lithograph plates, 33 original silver albumen photographs (283 x 212 mm) mounted on card with printed captions and borders, and two superb panoramas, one of them double-page (240 x 553 mm) and the other on...

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Description des plantes… dans le jardin de J.M. Cels…

VENTENAT, Etienne Pierre.

Paris: de l'Imprimerie de Crapelet, [Revolutionary Year VIII], 1800-1803.

Folio, 100 engraved plates each with descriptive letterpress sheet; complete with the half-title; a large copy, edges uncut, in contemporary green quarter morocco gilt.

With Australian plants gathered on the d'Entrecasteaux voyage

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N. Chevalier's Album of Chromo Lithographs.

CHEVALIER, Nicholas.

Melbourne: C. Troedel, 1865.

Imperial folio; 12 unnumbered chromolithographs mounted on stiff white sheets, with Troedel's blind-stamped mark in the margins and printed captions on the verso of each plate; original cloth portfolio lettered as above on front cover. Melbourne, C. Troedel, [1865].

Pioneering chromlithograpy depicting the wilderness regions of Victoria

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