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Chowbokiana or Notes about the Antipodes and the Antipodeans.
[Bombay]: 1875. Octavo, 100 pp., New York Public Library stamp on verso of title-page, preserved in solander box of half green morocco, marbled paper boards. Rare: although often quite whimsical in tone, this work is in fact an empassioned plea to protect the Maori from the worst excesses of European.....
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$985.00
Ref: #4002609
Better Side of the Chinese Character…
Melbourne: E.W. Cole, Book Arcade, 1918. Octavo, frontispiece and illustrations, with six leaves illustrating Cole's medals bound in, publisher's advertisements; in original gilt lettered blue cloth. A benevolent plea to Australian readers for racial tolerance by eccentric Australian philanthropist and businessman Edward William Cole, owner of Cole's Book Arcade, a......
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$475.00
Ref: #3805678
Captain Sir Christopher Cole, R.N. K.C.B. Colonel of Marines, &c. &c. &c.
London: N.D., circa 1830.
John Septimus Roe's patron
Mezzotint engraving, 522 x 404 mm., noted in the plate as "proof" at bottom left, mounted and framed. A fine mezzotint portrait of Sir Christopher Cole, an important naval officer and significant as the patron to John Septimus Roe, Phillip Parker King's.....
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$2,550.00
Ref: #4003692
Terres et Peuples de Sumatra.
Amsterdam: Société d'Edition, 1925. Thick quarto, with 180 plates and 150 illustrations in the text, large folding colour map; untrimmed, in original colour decorated wrappers. Limited edition of 1000 copies, printed on 'papier vergé'. This is a beautifully produced and exceptionally detailed study of the Sumatran people and culture. In.....
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$1,250.00
Ref: #3103160
The Discovery of Australia. A Critical, Documentary and Historic Investigation Concerning the Priority of Discovery in Australasia by Europeans before the arrival of Lieut. James Cook, in the "Endeavour", in the year 1770.
Sydney: Hayes Brothers, 1895.
The hermit of Berowra
Quarto, with numerous maps (some folding), plates and text illustrations, original cloth. One of the best known and eccentric accounts of early European discovery, using the Dieppe maps as proof of early Portuguese mapping of all but the south coast of Australia.....
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$450.00
Ref: #4401842
An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales.
London: A. Strahan, for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1804.
The posthumous second edition, revised by Collins' widow, with additions to 1803
Quarto, with a portrait frontispiece, two maps (one folding), 23 engraved plates (the three natural history plates coloured) and eight text vignettes (that of the emu coloured); old.....
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$3,750.00
Ref: #4504466
An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales…
London: T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, 1798 & 1802.
The complete First Fleet account of David Collins, thick paper issue, in an unrecorded state with extra foldout engravings
Two volumes, quarto, [1798]: 2 charts, 18 plates and four textual vignettes, the vignettes most unusually repeated on additional folding plates.....
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$32,750.00
Ref: #4503961
An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales…
London: Cadell & Davies, 1798.
The most detailed First Fleet account
Quarto, two charts (one folding), 22 engraved plates; a handsome and large copy in full speckled calf, gilt, double spine labels. First edition of this substantial account of the first Australian settlement, with its important suite of images of.....
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$12,500.00
Ref: #4505129
Bill of Exchange to John Madden in London signed over by David Collins…
Sydney: 19 March 1795.
Rare and early Bill of Exchange signed by David Collins
Quarto, single leaf, 2pp., manuscript in ink on paper. An ephemeral example of the emerging New South Wales economy with a rare association. David Collins' own account of the new settlement (An Account of the English.....
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$6,400.00
Ref: #4504547
Three Parliamentary reports…
Sydney: E.H. Statham, York Street, 1835. Three foolscap reports, with docket-titles, A collection of three reports by the Auditor General on the finances of New South Wales, full of interesting notes on expenses in the colony, printed by the prolific Sydney based printer and newspaper publisher Edwyn Henry Statham. It.....
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$475.00
Ref: #3402054
An inquiry into the Colonial Policy of the European Powers.
Edinburgh: E. Balfour, Manners & Miller, 1803.
An attractive set in red morocco by Sangorski
Two volumes octavo, bound without half-titles; half red morocco by Sangorski. Remarkably detailed survey of colonial policy on the eve of the Napoleonic Wars. 'The larger portion of this scarce work relates to America, and.....
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$950.00
Ref: #4107594
China in Transformation.
London: Harper & Brothers, 1898. Octavo, frontispiece, four folding maps and other illustrations;, in contemporary half vellum, banded spine with double brown morocco labels, gilt. Second edition of this treatise on China at the turn of the century. Colquhoun, who spent several years in China as a special correspondent of.....
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$375.00
Ref: #2610573
A Treatise on the wealth, power, and resources of the British Empire…
London: Joseph Mawman, 1814. Quarto, contemporary tree calf with gilt tooled flat spine and green calf label. First edition: a detailed description of the state of the British Empire at the final stage of the war with Napoleon, with a chapter on the penal colony at New South Wales. Patrick.....
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$1,850.00
Ref: #2402684
La Colombiade, ou la foi portee au nouveau monde.
Paris: Desaint & Saillant, Durand, 1756. Octavo, engraved frontispiece portrait by Tardieu le fils, and 10 engraved plates by Chedel, engraved titlepage vignette, headpiece to dedication leaf and tailpieces at end of each canto; a very attractive copy in contemporary French mottled calf, spine gilt, crimson morocco label. First edition.....
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$2,650.00
Ref: #3806722
Share certificate for One Hundred Pounds…in the name of John Malcolm.
11 February 1836.
A precursor to the National Australia Bank
Share certificate, printed and completed in manuscript 116 x 190 mm. An early share certificate for bank stock in the Commercial Banking Company of-Sydney established on 24 October 1834, opening for business on 1 November 1834 in a temporary office.....
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$1,800.00
Ref: #4504556
Northern Territory. Memorandum prepared under the direction of the Hon. L.E. Groom, Minister for External Affairs, July, 1909, in connexion with the Bill for the Acceptance of the Northern Territory…
Melbourne: Government printer, 1910.
The transfer to Federal administration
Foolscap folio, 36pp., staple bound, otherwise excellent condition. Detailed report on prospects in the remote north on the eve of transfer of administration from South Australia to the Federal government (finalised in 1911). With chapters on climate, the Aborigines, history of.....
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$350.00
Ref: #4106202
The Connoisseur by Mr Town, Critic, and Censor-General.
London: R. Baldwin, 1755 [i.e., 1754-, 1756.
A sharpening wit unleashed upon London society
140 original numbers bound into two volumes, small folio, with woodcut decorations; corner of first title-page renewed with two letters supplied in ink, most of the imprints at the end of each number trimmed away or.....
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$2,400.00
Ref: #4106633
History of the Royal Sappers and Miners, from the Formation of the corps in March 1772…
London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1857.
Sir George Grey overland in South Australia.
Two volumes, octavo, seventeen coloured plates,in half-red morocco by Sangorski, spines with raised bands with gilt lettering. Second edition, with considerable additions and a pleasing suite of lithographic plates showing uniform changes through the history.....
Price (AUD):
$750.00
Ref: #4107586
Pardon for James Browne signed by William IV and Viscount Melbourne with convict mark.
1831.
Van Diemen's Land first independent court of record
Bifolium 315 x 198 mm; manuscript with paper; royal wafer seal affixed. A pardon for James Browne, convicted and sentenced to death, for murder in Van Diemen's Land, conditional on his being transported to Norfolk Island for the term of his.....
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$2,100.00
Ref: #4504538
Éloge du Capitaine Cook…
Paris: chez Morin, 1787.
Cook admired in Enlightenment France
Octavo, 118 pp. (last blank), period-style red crushed morocco, spine gilt with raised bands. A very scarce, florid and rather entertaining elegy for Cook, published in Paris, which shows the high regard in which Cook was held in Enlightenment France, as.....
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$8,750.00
Ref: #4204898
A set of the three voyage accounts…
London: 1773-1784.
Cook's voyages: with the extra atlas, and uniform contemporary provenance
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.....
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$68,500.00
Ref: #4504379
A New, Authentic, and Complete Collection of Voyages Round the World…
London: Printed for Alex. Hogg, at the Kings' Arms, 1784-1786.
Cook in a million words
Folio, with altogether 157 engraved maps, plans and views, with about 25 of the plates having more than one image; a nice old binding of half dark green calf, red morocco label, the sides dwecrated.....
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$5,400.00
Ref: #3804556
A New, Authentic, and Complete Collection of Voyages Round the World…
London: Printed for Alex. Hogg, at the Kings' Arms, 1784-1786.
Cook in a million words
Folio, with altogether 157 engraved maps, plans and views, with about 25 of the plates having more than one image; modern half calf. An unusually good, complete copy of this huge compendium of Cook's three.....
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$6,400.00
Ref: #4504297
The Journals of Captain James Cook…
Cambridge: Hakluyt Society, 1968-1974.
Authoritative edition
Five volumes and portfolio of charts, thick octavo, coloured frontispieces, numerous black and white plates and maps (some folding), original decorated cloth with dust-jackets. The most reliable and authoritative narrative of Cook's three voyages, edited by J.C. Beaglehole. This set comprises the original Hakluyt.....
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$2,500.00
Ref: #3602279