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Printed announcement of the death of Charles Baudin.
Paris: 8 June, 1854.
The death of Charles Baudin
Sheet of wove paper 262 x 210 mm., printed with black mourning border. Rare obituary notice for Charles Baudin, who had sailed as a young man on the Baudin expedition to the Terres Australes; Charles was not related to the commander...
Price (AUD):
$725.00
Ref: #4307524
Original pencil sketch of Port Louis from the Ile aux Tonneliers.
Port Louis (Mauritius): circa 1801.
The great Mauritian port in the age of Baudin and Flinders, with the Géographe at anchor
Pencil sketch, 263 x 428 mm., fugitive note in pencil lower right; mounted. A fine pencil sketch of Port Louis, with the Géographe at the precise anchorage Baudin noted.....
Price (AUD):
$34,500.00
Ref: #4504924
Voyage pittoresque à l'Ile-de-France, au cap de Bonne-Espérance, et à l'île de Ténériffe…
Paris: A. Nepveu, 1812.
The Indian Ocean by a Baudin veteran
Two volumes octavo of text, with small folio atlas of 45 plates and charts (5 folding); the text volumes in contemporary quarter calf bindings, spines gilt with double labels, the atlas completely unbound and the loose plates contained in...
Price (AUD):
$9,500.00
Ref: #4504933
Voyage de Découvertes aux Terres Australes…
Paris: Imprimerie Impériale, 1807-1816.
Official account of the Baudin expedition
Two volumes, quarto, and large quarto atlas in two parts containing 41 full-page engravings, many in original handcolouring, and 14 fine charts; the text volumes uncut; a fine set in modern quarter morocco. First edition: the Baudin-Freycinet expedition, one of...
Price (AUD):
$32,000.00
Ref: #4504309
Personal ALS by Baudin veteran and later Commander-in-Chief of the French during the Mexican "Pastry War".
Lyon: 28 July, 1832.
Candid and personal letter by the junior Baudin
Four page letter, single sheet folded to letter-size 258 x 207 mm., French postal marks. A personal and revealing letter by the Baudin voyage veteran Charles Baudin, written at a time when his family fortunes were at a....
Price (AUD):
$1,350.00
Ref: #4306500
Mon Voyage aux Terres Australes. Journal personnel du commandant Baudin.
Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 2000.
Baudin's personal record of the voyage
Large octavo, includes many colour and black & white plates; original illustrated wrappers. French language edition of the personal journal of Nicolas Baudin, carefully edited and prepared for publication with special appendices and numerous colour plates of original scientific and...
Price (AUD):
$145.00
Ref: #3101963
L'amiral Baudin.
Paris: Librairie Plon, 1888.
In the original publisher's wrappers
Small octavo, with seven folding maps; in the original printed pale blue wrappers. First edition: a very scarce publication, by a French naval officer who sailed with the D'Entrecasteaux expedition in the 1790s. Admiral Charles Baudin played a role in the...
Price (AUD):
$1,485.00
Ref: #3702859
Voyage de Découvertes aux Terres Australes…
Paris: Imprimerie Impériale [Royale], 1807/16/07/11; 1815/12.
The full account of the Baudin voyage: superbly hand-coloured
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....
Price (AUD):
$98,500.00
Ref: #3811937
Voyage de Découvertes aux Terres Australes…
Paris: Imprimerie Impériale [Royale], 1807-1816.
The Baudin voyage to Australia and the Pacific
Three volumes, small and large quarto; the two-volume text with portrait frontispiece and two folding tables; the two-part large quarto atlas (bound in one volume) containing 40 plates (23 coloured and two folding) and 14 maps (two...
Price (AUD):
$44,500.00
Ref: #4311663
Seven Tales.
London: Privately Printed, 1916.
With pencil revisions probably by the author
Octavo, original wrappers, uncut, partly unopened. A very good copy of the only edition, with pencil revisions to several poems, probably by Baylebridge himself. Christened Blocksidge, the Australian poet and short story writer is better known as William Baylebridge...
Price (AUD):
$340.00
Ref: #2009564
Discoveries in Australia…
London: T. & W. Boone, 1846.
The Beagle in Australia
Two volumes, octavo, with 26 plates and eight folding charts (six of them tipped into pockets of the binding, as issued); bound without the Sibourne advertisements at front of vol. II, but with both of the fragile advertising slips ('South...
Price (AUD):
$9,500.00
Ref: #4504310
De rampspoedige scheepvaart der Franschen naar Oostindien…
Amsterdam: Jan Rieuwertsz and Pieter Arentsz, 1669.
French incursions in the East Indies
Quarto, with eight engraved plates; bound in later period-style full calf, spine gilt with raised bands, ex libris of Saint Charles de Bourbon seminary on title;. First Dutch edition, and rare. This is the only separate appearance...
Price (AUD):
$6,850.00
Ref: #3602388
Le Robinson de Douze Ans…
Paris: E. Ducrocq, 1850.
French Robinsonade
Octavo, with eight chromolithographs (including frontispiece); in the original black grained cloth, spine ornately gilt, all edges gilt. A good example of one of the later Robinsonades. First published around the same time as the now more famous Swiss Family Robinson tales by Wyss...
Price (AUD):
$485.00
Ref: #3103121
Civan, Roi de Bungo, Histoire Japonnaise…
Londres: Jean Nourse, 1758.
Educational use of an imaginary voyage setting
Two volumes, small octavo; a neat set in contemporary calf, flat spines gilt in compartments. Second edition, following a 1754 version by the same publisher. Both works are of some rarity, NUC listing a single copy of the first...
Price (AUD):
$1,600.00
Ref: #3006524
Voyage autour du monde… Australie…
Paris: Henri Plon, 1870-, 1872.
With photographic plates
Three volumes, octavo, in total 7 folding maps & 38 plates engraved after photographs (5 folding); contemporary quarter green morocco. A very good early mixed set of this extremely popular account of the author's voyage around the world. This popular and well-written...
Price (AUD):
$1,150.00
Ref: #3710382
Nicodème dans la Lune…
Paris: l'Auteur, 1791.
Lunar living is rather like France
Octavo; original condition, stitched in plain blue-grey wrappers. First edition: lunar life proves very similar to life in provincial France, but the music is better. Beffroy de Reigny (1757-1811) was a highly successful journalist and dramatist. His most important works were...
Price (AUD):
$1,850.00
Ref: #3005370
Essais cosmographico-poëtiques ou choix de lectures…
La Haye and Paris: Pierre Aillaud, 1786.
Science in the wake of Pacific exploration
Octavo, [ii], 236 pp., uncut copy in original buntpapier wrappers. Curious and eclectic collection of essays on geography, astronomy, and recent voyage discoveries. The geographical sections are informed by the discoveries of Cook, la Pérouse and...
Price (AUD):
$1,250.00
Ref: #4202837
Bell's British Theatre, consisting of the most esteemed English plays.
London: George Cawthorn, 1797.
The "most esteemed" English plays
34 volumes, 16mo., engravings; contemporary sprinkled calf, blue morocco spines richly gilt. A most handsome set of collected plays by the famous publisher Bell, 'the mischievous spirit, the very Puck of booksellers' (DNB). This fine collection includes many of the most...
Price (AUD):
$4,800.00
Ref: #3002013
Report of the Committee of the Benevolent Society of New South Wales…
Sydney: "Monitor" Press, 1826.
Relief of the poor in 1820s Sydney
Duodecimo, 24 pp., some foxing particularly to the title and last page; twentieth-century "Mackaness morocco" Early Sydney printing from the press of the Monitor. The Benevolent Society was set up 'to relieve the Poor, Distressed, the Aged, and the...
Price (AUD):
$1,200.00
Ref: #4111709
The Spirit of the Public Journals…
London: James Ridgway, 1797-1814.
Hoping that Barangaroo will be saved from "lightning, sharks, and red men"
Seventeen volumes, duodecimo, in attractive modern wrappers with double spine labels to each volume. A fine long run of an intriguing late-Georgian journal, with a good deal of interest to contemporary Australia, perhaps most...
Price (AUD):
$4,450.00
Ref: #4304407
A Letter to Earl Bathurst, Secretary of State for the Colonial Department
London: James Ridgway, 1820.
Bennet's attack on Macquarie precipitating the Bigge enquiry
Octavo, half-title, 144 pp.; modern half calf, gilt-title on the spine, the Hobill Cole copy with his bookplate and with the blind stamps of Tom Ramsay and Fred Eager. One of the most important political documents of the...
Price (AUD):
$5,850.00
Ref: #4503941
A Letter to Earl Bathurst, Secretary of State for the Colonial Department.
London: James Ridgway, 1820.
Bennet's attack on Macquarie precipitating the Bigge enquiry
Octavo, Aquarius binding of full navy calf, gilt spine. An important early colonial work, Bennet's attack on the administration of Governor Macquarie, was an important document that precipitated the enquiry by Commissioner Bigge and the end of Macquarie's...
Price (AUD):
$3,450.00
Ref: #4302337
The Tower Menagerie: Comprising the Natural History of the Animals Contained in that Establishment; with Anecdotes of their Characters and History…
London: Robert Jennings, 1829.
Kangaroos in the Tower of London
Octavo, with 107 wood-engravings; finely bound in contemporary red morocco gilt decorated, edges fully gilt, early inked manuscript note on endpaper. First edition. The menagerie in the Tower of London had been established in the mid-thirteenth century at which time...
Price (AUD):
$1,950.00
Ref: #4504295
Gatherings of a Naturalist in Australasia; being observations principally on the animal and vegetable productions of New South Wales, New Zealand, and some of the Austral Islands.
London: John Van Voorst, 1860. Octavo, with eight chromolithographic plates (including the frontispiece), in the publisher's blind blocked purple cloth. The best general account of Australian natural history at the time of its publication, and still a useful work. Bennett was particularly interested in the Platypus and his account of...
Price (AUD):
$1,785.00
Ref: #4103480