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Catalogue of the Lepidoptera of New Zealand.
London: E.W. Janson, 1874. Quarto, with three lithograph plates; in original cloth-backed printed green boards. This study of the butterflies and moths of New Zealand, made as part of the scientific surveys during the voyage of the Erebus and Terror, was issued separately, but also formed part of the general...
Price (AUD):
$785.00
Ref: #2903134
Hudibras.
London: W. Nicol for John Murray, 1835. Two volumes, octavo, extra-illustrated with 71 plates by Hogarth and others (inlaid to size or pasted down); in contemporary dark green pebble grain morocco gilt, all edges gilt. A very handsome extra-illustrated copy of Butler's famous mock epic, in fine condition. This edition...
Price (AUD):
$1,750.00
Ref: #3409297
Discovery: the Story of the Second Byrd Antarctic Expedition.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1935.
The last of the old guard in the Antarctic
Large octavo, portrait frontispiece, four maps (two folding) and illustrations; publisher's cloth. First edition of Byrd's classic account of his second expedition to the Antarctic. Limited edition of one thousand copies, signed by the author...
Price (AUD):
$450.00
Ref: #4108010
Little America. Aerial exploration in the Antarctic. The flight to the South Pole.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1930.
First aviator to the South Pole
Large octavo, portrait frontispiece, four maps (two folding) and illustrations; in contemporary half tan morocco. First edition of Byrd's account of his pioneering two-year aerial exploration of the Antarctic, during which he became the first man to fly...
Price (AUD):
$550.00
Ref: #3005210
Little America. Aerial exploration in the Antarctic. The flight to the South Pole.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1930.
First aviator to the South Pole
Large octavo, portrait frontispiece, four maps (two folding) and illustrations; publisher's cloth. Limited edition of one thousand copies, signed by the author and publisher, numbered 586.
Price (AUD):
$450.00
Ref: #4108009
Voyage of HMS Blonde to the Sandwich Islands…
London: John Murray, 1826.
Important early voyage to Hawaii
Quarto, with 14 charts and aquatint plates, some folding; overall a good copy in modern calf with label from an earlier binding. First edition of a famous voyage account, and an important and extensive illustrated description of Hawaii in the mid-1820s...
Price (AUD):
$4,000.00
Ref: #2205003
Voyage of H.M.S. Blonde to the Sandwich Islands…
London: John Murray, 1826.
Returning the Royal deceased to Hawaii
Quarto, with a folding chart and 13 other charts and plates (one folding); modern half calf. First edition of a famous Pacific voyage account, and an important and extensive illustrated description of Hawaii in the mid-1820s. Kamehameha II of Hawaii...
Price (AUD):
$3,600.00
Ref: #2203378
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Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice [bound with] Werner, A Tragedy.
London: John Murray, 1821.
Lord Byron's influences
Tall octavo, missing both half-titles, 'Marino Faliero' without terminal ad.; contemporary green half morocco, gilt, Attractive volume of two important works by Byron. First edition, first issue of Marino Faliero: the Doge's speech on page 151 consists of only five and a half...
Price (AUD):
$685.00
Ref: #2408062
The Narrative of the Honourable John Byron…
London: S. Baker, 1768.
Wrecked in forlorn Patagonia
Octavo, with a frontispiece; contemporary dark calf, various owners' signatures including a presentation to 'Arthur Cadogan from Genl. Fox'. First edition. 'Admiral Byron's narrative of the loss of the Wager is one of the most thrilling accounts in the language, and supplied...
Price (AUD):
$3,200.00
Ref: #2607352
Viaggio Intorno al Mondo…
Firenze: Giuseppe Allegrini, 1768.
The towering Patagonians
Square octavo, engraved frontispiece, 4, 152 pp., untrimmed, in plain modern boards. Uncommon contemporary Italian edition of the famous account of Byron's circumnavigation by Charles Clerke. As would be expected, the edition includes an excellent new version of the famous frontispiece of an...
Price (AUD):
$2,850.00
Ref: #4305431
A Journal of a Voyage round the world…
London: A. Manson, P. Denham, W. Robertson, and F. Nicholson n.d., circa 1784.
"By a midshipman on board"
Small octavo, 93 pp., early owner's names on endpapers; an excellent copy in contemporary sprinkled calf, An uncommon edition of the Byron voyage in excellent original condition. The earliest accounts of the...
Price (AUD):
$5,500.00
Ref: #3712545
Grigri, Histoire véritable…
Nangazaki [Paris]: "Klnporzenkru, L'an du monde 59749" 1749. Two volumes in one, duodecimo, first title lightly stained and with an early ms attribution to 'Cahusac'; in old dark blue paper boards, red leather label. "Last edition" of this charming and rare book which had been suppressed by the authorities in...
Price (AUD):
$1,400.00
Ref: #3006527
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