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Journal of the Calvert Scientific Exploring Expedition, 1896-7…
Perth: Wm. Alfred Watson, Government Printer, 1902.
Incomprehensible suffering and despair
Folio, 62 pp., with a large folding lithographic map measuring 890 x 648 mm., fine in handsome quarter green polished calf with gilt lettering. Official account of the scientific expedition financed by the wealthy English traveller Albert Calvert, dispatched.....
Price (AUD):
$1,200.00
Ref: #4106162
De Monarchia Hispanica…
Amsterdam: Louis Elzevir, 1653.
Build a wall "lest the English should break in and bring heresy."
24mo., engraved title, all edges gilt; in nineteenth-century full red morocco, gilt arms of Henry J.B. Clements on front cover, spine banded and gilt. Attractive small Elzevir edition of this utopian work by the.....
Price (AUD):
$3,450.00
Ref: #3806730
Report by Mr.C. W. Campbell, His Majesty's Consul at Wuchow, on a Journey in Mongolia.
London: HMSO, 1904.
Impressive map of Mongolia
Foolscap folio, 44pp. (last blank), large folding chromolithographic map; recent plain green wrappers. Notes and observations based upon a summer trip into Chihli during June to October 1902, also drawing on experiences in Chakkar country a few years previously.
Price (AUD):
$350.00
Ref: #4107572
Lives of the Admirals, and other eminent British Seamen…
London: T. Osborne [etc], 1761.
"he has not been in the inside of a church for many years"
Four volumes, octavo, with a number of oval portraits of naval figures, and six folding engraved maps, contemporary calf binding, spines gilt in compartments between raised bands, red edges. Third edition: a......
Price (AUD):
$2,400.00
Ref: #2212532
A Political Survey of Britain…
London: for the author; and sold by Richardson and Urquhart, and others, 1774.
England in the 1770s
Two volumes, large quarto, in a lovely contemporary tree calf binding, flat spines featuring gilt foliate ornament with green and crimson morocco labels. Redolent of the 1770s in its strictly contemporary binding, Campbell's.....
Price (AUD):
$2,800.00
Ref: #4202846
Autograph letter from Robert Campbell to the founder of the London Missionary Society, William Alers Hankey.
Sydney: 1826.
Campbell of the Wharf to the founder of the London Missionary Society
ALS, single sheet of laid paper, stamped Portsmouth Ship Letter and London date stamp. Short letter dated 6 Mar 1826, written from Campbell's Wharf, signed by the wharf's owner, Robert Campbell (1769-1846) and addressed to the.....
Price (AUD):
$1,450.00
Ref: #4205941
Notes of an Exile to Van Dieman's Land…
Fredonia: New York, 1846.
Scarcest of the Canadian exile accounts
Octavo; light spotting throughout, but a very good copy in twentieth-century quarter green morocco, raised bands. First edition and scarce: 'A most vivid and interesting account of the convict system in Tasmania from within by a political prisoner, who publishes.....
Price (AUD):
$5,850.00
Ref: #3410347
Letters from Van Dieman's Land...
Buffalo: A.W. Wilgus, 1843.
Firsthand account of Tasmanian convict life.
Small octavo, frontispiece and folding map printed white-on-black; original quarter roan. Exile account by a conspicuous figure in the Canadian Patriotic Rebellion of 1837. Wait was condemned to be hanged, but the efforts of his wife procured a stay of.....
Price (AUD):
$850.00
Ref: #2402287
Letters from Van Dieman's Land, written during four years imprisonment for political offences committed in Upper Canada…
Buffalo: A.W. Wilgus, 1843.
Firsthand account of Tasmanian convict life.
Small octavo, frontispiece and folding map printed white-on-black; some browning (as usual with this paper stock), yet a very good copy in handsome full speckled calf with black and red labels. Exile account by a conspicuous figure in the Canadian.....
Price (AUD):
$1,200.00
Ref: #4106572
Canterbury Papers Parts 1 & 2.
London: John W. Parker, February, 1850. Octavo, 8 pp. advertisements, 56 pp. text, large folding map; preliminary leaves and advertisements in attractive half green morocco by Sangorski, spine gilt. Scarce early history of the settlement, collecting and publishing important primary documents related to the Canterbury Association with a modest desire.....
Price (AUD):
$600.00
Ref: #4106240
Narrative of the Overland Expedition of the Messrs. Jardine…
Brisbane: J.W. Buxton, 1867. Octavo, photographic portrait frontispiece, single lithographic plate and a large folding map at the rear; in original cloth inscribed 'presented by the author January 1870'. Rare narrative of an important inland expedition across far north Queensland and Cape York, with an original mounted sepia frontispiece photograph.....
Price (AUD):
$6,400.00
Ref: #3905171
Capper's South Australia Containing The History of the Rise, Progress and Present State of the Colony.
London: Charles Reynell, 1839.
The industry of emigration
Duodecimo, with three folding maps (including the frontispiece) and a folding table; original blind stamped ribbed brown cloth, bookplate of Charles Glover. Third edition. Settler's guide with good maps of Adelaide and surrounds. The separately paginated 16 pp. advertising appendix contain some.....
Price (AUD):
$600.00
Ref: #4107246
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
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