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On Political Economy, in connection with the moral state and moral prospects of society.
Glasgow: William Collins, 1832.
In the tradition of Adam Smith and Malthus
Octavo, contemporary diced russia, with gilt spine label, title page inscribed 'to Captain McKenzie with the author's best regards'. Standard work by the great Scottish minister, theologian and economist.
Price (AUD):
$550.00
Ref: #4107109
A Garland of New Songs.
Newcastle-upon-Tyne: J. Marshall, MS note dated, 1807.
Nelson & Trafalgar
Single sheet folded to form four leaves (eight pages paginated); edges untrimmed. A well-preserved early nineteenth-century English chapbook of popular ballads and ditties. This publication of eight pages is one of a series; each part being separately issued and individually.....
Price (AUD):
$285.00
Ref: #4201766
Sturt's third and final expedition as reported in 'The Edinburgh Evening Courant'...
Edinburgh: Davis Ramsay and Son, 1846.
'the entire country is of comparatively recent formation'
Large bifolium, 560 x 405 mm. Sturt's third expedition to inland Australia, reported to readers in Scotland. Departing from Adelaide in 1844 accompanied by John MacDougall Stuart and Harris Browne, the expedition ventured into some of.....
Price (AUD):
$275.00
Ref: #4011254
Azémor ou Tableau des Moeurs et Coutumes du Pays de Solamir.
Paris: Chez les Libraires Associes, 1787. Two volumes, duodecimo; contemporary French quarter calf. The very rare first edition of this work, which purports to be the translation of an ancient text describing an expedition to "Solamir" in North Africa. The young Greek Azémor, travelling with Tiresias in order to learn.....
Price (AUD):
$1,550.00
Ref: #3005363
Bataille de Dorking, Invasion des Prussiens en Angleterre.
Paris: Henri Plon, 1871. Duodecimo, quarter red-brown morocco. Early French edition of Chesney's electrifying tale of the German invasion of England. Its depiction of the humiliation of the English in battle, but also the crushing despair of life under German rule, positions this work as one of the most important.....
Price (AUD):
$785.00
Ref: #3006529
Letters written by the Late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope…
London: John Nichols, 1800. Four volumes, octavo; title pages with armorial ownership stamp; in a fine contemporary binding of tree calf, flat spines gilt, double morocco labels. A most attractive set of this famous book. Chesterfield (1694-1773) is chiefly remembered as the author of these famous Letters, begun in 1737.....
Price (AUD):
$2,700.00
Ref: #3409291
N. Chevalier's Album of Chromo Lithographs.
Melbourne: C. Troedel, 1865.
Pioneering chromolithographic views in landscape art
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. A fine and richly-coloured copy.....
Price (AUD):
$9,500.00
Ref: #3705993
The Answer.
Melbourne: Australasian Authors' Agency, 1911. Octavo, 80 pp. (last blank), frontispiece; a few old library stamps and scattered pithy marginalia; original printed wrappers. Uncommon Melbourne-printed first edition of one of the most eccentric Australian publications: much republished, this first edition includes the notorious folding colour frontispiece depicting criminal, lunatic and.....
Price (AUD):
$500.00
Ref: #4103469
An Outpost In Papua.
London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1911.
"A picture which grips the imagination"
Octavo, black & white photographic illustrations; original green cloth. Day by day account of a missionary's life in Papua. The Archbishop of Brisbane, in his preface, says of the book "the freshness and humour, the varying moods, and.....
Price (AUD):
$210.00
Ref: #2710203
Alfred Dudley; or, The Australian Settlers.
London: Harvey & Darton, 1830. Duodecimo, with an engraved frontispiece and three plates;, in the original quarter red roan with marbled boards, First edition: considered the first novel of Australia. This is an exemplary copy of the very scarce first edition, bound with the advertisements in the publisher's roan-backed marbled.....
Price (AUD):
$6,750.00
Ref: #3308859
Les Buffon des Enfans ou Histoire des Animaux…
Paris: Martial Ardant freres, 1851. Small octavo, woodcuts throughout; original embossed boards. French natural history primer with two pages dedicated to the kangaroo.
Price (AUD):
$575.00
Ref: #2909748
Scenes in Asia: For the Amusement & Instruction of Little Tarry-At-Home Travellers.
London: Harris, 1821. Octavo with a folding frontispice map, 84 hand-coloured engravings on 28 plates (three on each); original printed boards. Second edition of this children's study of Asian lands. Each engraving is numbered and complimented by a corresponding description. The pictures and text cover a number of Asian countries.....
Price (AUD):
$750.00
Ref: #3002961
An Historical Account of the Embassy to the Emperor of China…
London: J. Stockdale, 1797.
The Macartney embassy to China
Octavo, folding map; contemporary sprinkled calf. An attractive copy of the reduced octavo version of the official narrative of the important Macartney embassy to China, by which the British sought to establish formal diplomatic and commercial relations. Staunton served as a......
Price (AUD):
$2,750.00
Ref: #2909765
Chinese and Gold Fields Revenue, Belvoir; and Customs, Murray.
Melbourne: John Ferres, Government printer, 1 March, 1860.
Revenue from Chinese gold-miners.
Single foolscap sheet. 'Statement of the amount of Chinese and gold fields revenue collected at Belvoir, from the date of Mr. Hanify's appointment as Chinese protector to the present time, and statement relating to the collection of customs.....
Price (AUD):
$150.00
Ref: #4108182
The Caroline Islands. Travel in the sea of the little lands.
London: Methuen & Co., 1899.
The journal of a searcher in a "sea of small islands"
Octavo, frontispiece and numerous photo-plates throughout, three plans and two folding maps; publisher's decorated green cloth with gilt spine lettering;. The author was Robert Louis Stevenson's neighbour in Samoa between 1890 and 1893 whilst.....
Price (AUD):
$395.00
Ref: #3602289
A Collection of Voyages and Travels.
London: John Walthoe, 1732.
Churchill's great voyage collection, complete
Eight volumes, folio, comprising two works in matching bindings, containing some 213 engraved plates including work by Herman Moll, Johannes Kip, and others (many double-page or folding), engraved and woodcut illustrations throughout; late eighteenth-century Russia, marbled edges. A splendid set of.....
Price (AUD):
$44,000.00
Ref: #3706073
Marci Tullii Ciceronis Opera quae extant Omnia ex MSS. codicibus emendata…
Lyon: Vander Aa, 1692.
Handsome uniform panelled calf binding
Eleven volumes, duodecimo, the first with four engraved folding plates, and all eleven volumes embellished with charming ornamental title-pages; a handsome set in mid eighteenth-century panelled calf with original labels. Attractively bound set of Cicero in eleven volumes, noted as 'respectable.....
Price (AUD):
$2,450.00
Ref: #3306804
Foreign Field Sports, Fisheries, Sporting Anecdotes…
London: Edward Orme, circa 1823.
The anonymous work of John Lewin?
Quarto, pp. with 110 hand coloured aquatints (including the New South Wales plates), a good copy in ornate contemporary gilt decorated deep green morocco with all edges gilt. An attractive copy of one of the outstanding aquatint books of.....
Price (AUD):
$8,000.00
Ref: #3911447
Foreign Field Sports, Fisheries, Sporting Anecdotes…
London: Edward Orme, 1814.
Famous colourplate book including a section on the Aborigines of NSW
Quarto, 160 pages letterpress without pagination, 100 handcoloured aquatints with the 1813 New South Wales supplement bound at rear (this comprising separate title-page, dedication leaf, 10 handcoloured aquatints and 14 letterpress pages); a fine copy.....
Price (AUD):
$17,500.00
Ref: #4205932
Field Sports, &c. &c. of the Native Inhabitants of New South Wales with ten plates by the Author.
London: Edward Orme, 1813.
Dedicated to Bligh: the first book on the Australian Aborigines
Quarto, 10 coloured aquatints; modern half calf, spine gilt-titled. A very good copy of the first issue of this important Australian plate book. This was the first work to be published on the Australian Aborigines. Clark.....
Price (AUD):
$7,500.00
Ref: #4503983
Simple Abstract of the Geography and History of Tasmania…
Launceston: Hudson & Hopwood, circa 1871. Octavo, frontispiece folding colour map, author's presentation dated 1872; original green cloth. Author's presentation copy of this rare Launceston-printed primer on the history and geography of Tasmania. The author begins by describing the physical characteristics of the Island, flora and fauna. Then goes on.....
Price (AUD):
$885.00
Ref: #3006546
Cockatoo Island, and other Penal Establishments…
Sydney: Thomas Richards, 1866. Foolscap folio, 9pp.; in recent binder's cloth. Cockatoo Island was established as a penal settlement in 1839, by Governor Gipps primarily to alleviate the overcrowding on Norfolk Island. Three years after this report was published the settlement was closed in 1869 and the prisoners transferred to.....
Price (AUD):
$275.00
Ref: #3205440
Charge of the Lord Chief Justice of England to the Grand Jury at the Central Criminal Court in the Case…
London: William Ridgway, 1867.
Court martial of George William Gordon in the Jamaica uprising
Octavo, 166 pp.; in publisher's gilt lettered cloth. Second edition. Details legal proceedings brought against Colonel Nelson and Lieutenant Brand for their role in the court martial trial, and subsequent execution, of George William Gordon during.....
Price (AUD):
$600.00
Ref: #4106118
Nomenclature of South Australia.
Adelaide: W.K. Thomas & Co., 1908. Octavo, with two frontispiece portraits; in the original handsome decorated boards. History of South Australian place names.
Price (AUD):
$200.00
Ref: #4108102