Library
Gatherings of a Naturalist in Australasia…
London: John Van Voorst, 1860.
With coloured lithographs after Angas
Octavo, with eight handcoloured lithograph plates by George French Angas; in green half morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. First edition: a handsome copy of this popular book by the well-travelled naturalist. "The drawings, with a few exceptions, are from the...
Price (AUD):
$2,100.00
Ref: #4106484
Historical and Descriptive Account of South Australia…
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1843.
Between slander and praise.
Octavo, later orange cloth; Tristan Buesst bookplate. Handbook for prospective emigrants from a former resident (Bennett lived in South australia from 1839-1842). The book offers 'a plain unvarnished statement of facts, as to the character and capabilities of a Colony...
Price (AUD):
$475.00
Ref: #4107235
Voyages et Mémoires…
Paris: F. Buisson, 1791.
First French edition
Two volumes, octavo, half-title not present in the first volume; old French sprinkled calf, spine gilt with double labels. First edition in French of this scarce narrative of a voyage in the north Pacific, particularly interesting for Alaska, Kamchatka and the Northwest. Often...
Price (AUD):
$2,400.00
Ref: #2402358
Notes on the Materials of Motor-Car Construction.
London: St. Martin's, 1912.
Early automobile design and construction.
Quarto, illustrated, fine copy in original red cloth. An early book on the engineering and construction of automotive parts, with a special emphasis on metallurgy. 'An account of the modern metallurgical science applied to automobile engineering, inclusing detailed descriptions of the...
Price (AUD):
$265.00
Ref: #4403213
An Introduction to Heraldry, Containing the rudiments of the science in general, and other necessary particulars connected with the subject.
London: T. Egerton, 1810.
A dictionary of heraldic ornament
Octavo, with 12 engraved plates; splendidly bound by Sangorski in half crimson morocco with gilt lettering. An appealing introduction to the design and history of heraldry, beautifully presented in a fine crimson leather binding by Sangorski and Sutcliffe. The author served...
Price (AUD):
$685.00
Ref: #4108135
Eight Sermons by the Rev. Charles Marsden Betts…
Canterbury: 1859.
Drowned in the Wollondilly
Octavo; in original cloth. Published as a memorial from the parishioners of Goulburn to their curate who was drowned age twenty-four when the Wollondilly river flooded in 1857. This volume was printed at St Augustine's College Press, Canterbury where Reverend Betts had been educated...
Price (AUD):
$1,100.00
Ref: #2206593
The series of three official reports into the state of New South Wales.
House of Commons: 1822-1823.
Commissioner Bigge reports on conditions in New South Wales
Three volumes, folio; completely uncut and in original printed dark blue wrappers, as issued; spines neatly renewed. A very fine set of the earlier House of Commons publication of the full series of Bigge's three consequential reports...
Price (AUD):
$12,850.00
Ref: #4504626
Beretning om Corvetten Galathea's Reise.
Copenhagen: C.A. Reitzel, 1849-1851.
The first Danish circumnavigation
Three volumes, octavo, tinted lithographs; uncut in the original quarter purple cloth with printed labels, brown boards. Scarce official account of the first Danish circumnavigation. The Galathea made her voyage between 1845 and 1847. Forbes notes that the purpose of the mission...
Price (AUD):
$2,450.00
Ref: #3302735
A Letter to the Right Honorable Lord Viscount Glenelg…
London: Henry Stocking, 1837.
Governor Bourke, Mr Bingle, and some cattle rustling
Octavo, in the publisher's blind blocked navy cloth with gilt lettering. Fiery letters from the Australian magistrate and landholder John Bingle to Lord Glenelg, concerning his trial on the charge of cattle-stealing. Bingle had earlier clashed with the...
Price (AUD):
$885.00
Ref: #4107184
Lights and shadows of church-life in Australia including thoughts on some things at home.
London: Jackson & Walford, 1860.
Reflections upon the Colonial Missionary Society
Octavo, appendix, advertisement leaves; in original blind-stamped cloth. With the stamp of Arthur W Piper, South Australian Supreme Court Jurist, Federationist and son of the long-serving pastor of the Adelaide district, Thomas Piper. Thomas Binney, a fervant Congregationalist minister...
Price (AUD):
$325.00
Ref: #4108108
The Australian Birthday Book and Record of Memorable Events…
Melbourne: Hugo Wertheim, 1887.
A Victorian keepsake
12mo.; a good copy in original decorated boards, cloth spine. Delightful unused birthday book: "The first of its peculiar kind ever published… specifically for the benefit of Victorian readers". Principally an advertising vehicle for Wertheim sewing machines and Hapsburg pianos, it nevertheless is...
Price (AUD):
$350.00
Ref: #2811866
Sketch of the History of Van Diemen's Land…
London: John Richardson, 1832.
With a fine Arrowsmith map
Octavo, with two engraved plates and a large hand-coloured folding map; very good in original boards with green cloth spine and printed label. First edition. An important account of Tasmania, intended for distribution among shareholders and prospective shareholders of the Van...
Price (AUD):
$1,350.00
Ref: #4106570
Sketch of the History of Van Diemen's Land…
London: John Richardson, 1832.
With a fine Arrowsmith map
Octavo, with two engraved plates and a large hand-coloured folding map; very good in original boards, early inked ownership inscription on front board, with later papered spine and printed label, modern slipcase. First edition. An important account of Tasmania, intended for...
Price (AUD):
$1,650.00
Ref: #4503931
The Decisions of the Right Hon. Evelyn Denison, Speaker of the House of Commons… and of the Right Hon. Sir Henry Bouverie William Brand…
Adelaide: C. E. Bristow, 1892. Octavo, contemporary ownership inscription tot title page, contemporary full roan with gilt lettering. With the ownership inscription of Edwin Gordon Blackmore (1837-1909), formerly of the Taranaki Rifle volunteers who later served as a South Australian parliamentary clerk.
Price (AUD):
$300.00
Ref: #4108093
Captain Cook's Ship "Endeavour". Notes by F.M. Bladen…
Sydney: William Applegate Gullick, Government printer, 1904.
The later history of Captain Cook's Endeavour
Foolscap folio, 3pp. Concerns the fate of the Endeavour after her time with Captain Cook, sold to a New Bedford whaler and later working from Newport, Rhode Island. This report collates various sources relating the remnants...
Price (AUD):
$300.00
Ref: #4108194
The Atmotic Ship…
Sydney: David Mason, printer, circa 1866.
Atmotic: pioneering steam driven airship in 1860s Sydney
Single printed sheet measuring 570 x 445 mm. in good condition, mounted. Rare Sydney broadside and a milestone in aviation history. This ephemeral large single sheet promotes the 'Atmotic Ship' – an early steam driven airship...
Price (AUD):
$4,250.00
Ref: #4403227
Letters to Charles Buller…
Sydney: D. L. Welch, Atlas Office, George Street, opposite the Barrack Gate, 1849.
The Australian Patriotic Association
Octavo, inscribed from the author on the title-page, with the addendum slip; handsome burgundy roan binding, lettered in gilt. An excellent copy of one of William Bland's more uncommon titles, inscribed to one...
Price (AUD):
$975.00
Ref: #4107087
Objections to the project of His Excellency Sir George Gipps…
Sydney: James Tegg, George Street, 1842.
Governor Gipps Under Fire
Octavo, 20 pp.; in plain brown wrappers. Scarce attack on Gipps: the final ten pages comprise a protest regarding the New South Wales Legislative Council signed by both John Jamison and John Blaxland. Having unsuccessfully sought English aid in cancelling...
Price (AUD):
$950.00
Ref: #3401038
Promissory note to Captain Joseph James signed by G. Blaxcell for £250, and accompanying government document signed by Ellis Bent, Judge Advocate.
Sydney: 1812 & 1813.
Early financial documents, predating the first Australian bank
Quarto, two-leaf document printed on one side of the first leaf and completed in manuscript, with manuscript promissory note on the second leaf; with another ms. note on a smaller separate sheet. A pair of rare early financial...
Price (AUD):
$4,250.00
Ref: #4504506
Reports, &c. [on Improvements to Dublin Harbour]…
Dublin: N.P. [maps with the imprint of Henecy & Fitzpatrick], N.D. [1801].
William Bligh maps... Dublin Bay
Folio, 84 pp., with six folding engraved maps with coloured details; contemporary dark calf. Very rare. This collection of reports on proposed improvements to the Dublin waterways, submitted to the Directors-General of Inland...
Price (AUD):
$12,250.00
Ref: #4504925
Capitainens vid Engelske Ammiralitetet, Wiliam Bligh's Resa…
Nyköping: Joh. Pet. Hammarin, 1795.
First Swedish edition
Small octavo, woodcut headpiece; in understated contemporary half calf. First Swedish edition of Bligh's Voyage to the South Seas. Rolf du Rietz's excellent note in the catalogue of the Kroepelien catalogue explains that this very rare version was anonymously translated by Carl.....
Price (AUD):
$3,800.00
Ref: #3902031
Seven Printed Legal Documents dealing with Land in the Estate of William Bligh.
London: Battye, Fisher & Sudlow, June 1838 - January, 1840.
Bligh's land-holdings
Seven printed legal documents, all individually stitch-sewn and folded into dockets, some legal marginalia in lead and blue pencil chiefly relating to the property "Copenhagen" A good set of printed legal documents relating to the sale of Bligh's...
Price (AUD):
$5,500.00
Ref: #3809885
Histoire des Colonies Pénales de l'Angleterre dans l'Australie.
Paris: Adrien le Clere, 1831.
An unusual outcome of the Duperrey expedition
Octavo, frontispiece; uncut copy in original boards. First edition. Ernest de Blosseville's younger brother Jules sailed for the Pacific in 1822 under Duperrey who had been ordered to report on western New Holland as a possible site for...
Price (AUD):
$585.00
Ref: #2302032
The Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris, for the Year 1818.
London: John Murray, 1815.
Rare Phillip Parker King-era almanac
Octavo, in original polished calf. Rare copy of the Nautical Almanac for 1818, a fundamental inclusion in the shipboard library of any Admiralty-sponsored voyage. The Almanac was used for reckoning the longitude at sea by the lunar method, and was closely...
Price (AUD):
$885.00
Ref: #4306501