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South Australia. Containing Hints to Emigrants; Proceedings of the South Australian Company.
London: Robert Tyas, 1838.
Revised second edition
Slim duodecimo, folding map; at some point disbound from a larger volume (with over-printed numbers in the top margins), in recent green cloth. Informative emigrants handbook for South Australia, including a folding frontispiece map of the Gulf of St. Vincent with an inset...
Price (AUD):
$480.00
Ref: #4107225
Free Church Colony at Otago, in New Zealand. Powers of local self-government established by act of Parliament…
London: Waterlow and Sons, 1847.
Self government for Otago
Octavo pamphlet, 14 pp., titling wrappers. 'Written chiefley by the Reverend Thomas Burns, on the resumption of, and as a stimulus to, the enterprise of which Capt. Cargill was leader and Dr. Aldcorn first secretary. Very heavy composition; likens the proposed...
Price (AUD):
$285.00
Ref: #4108206
Grien on Rougemont. Or the Story of a Modern Robinson Crusoe.
London: Edward Lloyd, 1898.
An Australian "Robinson Crusoe"
Folio, illustrated throughout, original wrappers printed in red and green bound in, old newspaper clippings tipped in; in modern red half morocco by Morrell, bookplate of Henry L. White. An interesting satirical account of one of the great late century hoaxes, of...
Price (AUD):
$875.00
Ref: #4108002
Victoria Cantata…
London & Melbourne: Novello Ewer & Co. [and] Allan & Co., 1880.
Prize-winner for the Melbourne International Exhibition
Tall octavo, some foxing, all advertisements present; in original lilac wrappers, Surprisingly scarce: a 161 pp. musical score for Victoria, the prize cantata written by Caron for the opening of the Melbourne...
Price (AUD):
$450.00
Ref: #4111733
The Land of the Starry Cross and Other Verses.
Melbourne: Lothian, 1911. Small octavo; original blue cloth, top edge gilt. Author's presentation copy of his first book of verse, with a long presentation inscription to Jack Vincent, dated 28 November 1947.
Price (AUD):
$125.00
Ref: #3305780
Gold Fields Act. Orders in Council… The Divisions of the Mining District of Castlemaine.
Melbourne: John Ferres, Government printer, 18 January, 1860. Tall quarto, 4 pp. Mining district of Castlemaine delimited, with polling implications clarified.
Price (AUD):
$100.00
Ref: #4108180
L'Annam au Moyen Age.
Angers: Lachese et Dolbeau, 1889. Octavo, 60 pp.; neatly bound in old quarter cloth, leather label. Scarce offprint from the Revue libérale: a discussion of the early history of Vietnam, and in particular China's attempts to gain control of the country. Fosses concludes that Vietnam would fare much better under...
Price (AUD):
$135.00
Ref: #2610484
Scelta di lettere edificanti scritte dalle Missioni straniere…
Milan: Ranieri Fanfani, 1825-1829.
Fine Americana in original wrappers
Eighteen small quarto volumes, with a total of 101 handcoloured plates and seven maps; an excellent set as issued in the publisher's tinted wrappers. Scarce in original condition: a record of Catholic missionary activity across the globe from the seventeenth to...
Price (AUD):
$7,500.00
Ref: #4211248
The Poems of Catullus.
Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1875. Small octavo; in a handsome vellum binding, boards with black morocco onlays, decorated ornately with gilt Greek key motif, morocco label and tailpiece, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers. A beautifully bound copy of the second edition, revised and corrected, of this attractive nineteenth-century version of the poems...
Price (AUD):
$575.00
Ref: #3804598
Memoire sur les Races d'Océanie…
Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1882.
A study of cultures
Octavo, diagrams and tables throughout the text, folding table; elegantly bound in modern three-quarter morocco with raised bands. Fine copy of a scarce anthropological study carried out by French maritime medical officer Cauvin, during his visit to Australia and New Guinea in...
Price (AUD):
$750.00
Ref: #3301678
Antiquitates Apostolicae or, the History of the Holy Apostles…
London: R. Royston, 1676.
The dreaded 'cauldron of boyling oyl'
Folio, with a frontispiece and double page 'Tree of Faith' plate, several other cuts in the text; contemporary gilt-ruled polished crimson calf, spine with gilt decorated panels between raised bands. A beautifully printed history of the early church, illustrated with...
Price (AUD):
$2,700.00
Ref: #4401855
The Kangaroo Islanders: A Story of South Australia Before Colonization 1823.
Adelaide: Rigby Ltd., 1926.
Aboriginal inhabitation of Kangaroo Island.
Octavo, original printed stiff cloth wrappers. A sterling copy. The author also wrote a biography of Johann Menge, the brilliant but eccentric geologist who called South Australia his home.
Price (AUD):
$200.00
Ref: #4107281
Centennial Cantata…
Melbourne: W.H. Glen & Co., circa 1888. Octavo; modern marbled cloth-backed boards with original printed stiff wrappers bound in. A rare musical souvenir of the lavish opening of the Centennial International Exhibition, held in the Exhibition Building in Melbourne, to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the landing of the First...
Price (AUD):
$325.00
Ref: #3311984
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Certificate of Freedom [granted to] William Smallridge, 1st September, 1842. No. 42/1524…
1st September 1842.
A transported shoemaker earns his freedom
Single leaf; 180 mm x 170 mm; printed and completed in manuscript. A certificate of freedom issued to William Smallridge in 1842, on completion of his fourteen year sentence. Smallridge was one of 200 convicts who had been transported on the...
Price (AUD):
$885.00
Ref: #4504558
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
The Australian Captive; or, an Authentic Narrative of fifteen years in the life of William Jackman… a forced residence of a year and a half among the cannibals of Nuyts' Land…
London and Auburn USA: Sampson Low, Son and Co.; Derby and Miller, 1853.
London edition: "among the cannibals of Nuyts' Land…"
Octavo, frontispiece portrait and four plates by Orr of New York; an excellent copy in green polished half calf by Sangorski. An excellent copy of a terrific yarn, the...
Price (AUD):
$825.00
Ref: #4504377
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 chromlithograpy depicting the wilderness regions of Victoria
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...
Price (AUD):
$16,500.00
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