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Narrative of Shipwreck of the "Admella"…
Melbourne: J. H. Moulines and Co. for the Committee of the 'Admella', November 1859.
Iconic Australian shipping disaster
Octavo, frontispiece and folding map; in original blind blocked plum cloth with dramatic gilt vignette to front board bearing the slogan 'Hope to the Last.'. Only edition: the harrowing tale of the.....
Price (AUD):
$3,000.00
Ref: #3311994
Report of Commission appointed by the Governor-in-Chief to inquire into the Loss of the "Admella"…
Adelaide: W.C.Cox, Government printer, 1859.
The tragic wreck of the Admella
Foolscap folio, 36, [iv] pp., last blank, large folding map; wrappers thumbed. Uncommon: official report of the Commission tasked to investigate the appalling loss of the steamship Admella off the coast of South Australia in 1859. The tragedy marks.....
Price (AUD):
$750.00
Ref: #4108165
Columbus Outdone! Capt. Andrews' Cruise in the Sapolio.
New York: Enoch Morgan's Sons Company, 1893.
William Andrews' solo crossing in his smallest boat
Octavo, folding map and folding plate, illustrated throughout; in original illustrated brown cloth, flyleaf inscribed and signed by the author. Signed presentation copy in original illustrated cloth, detailing the audacious solo transatlantic crossing of William.....
Price (AUD):
$875.00
Ref: #3910373
A Voyage to the South Seas, and to many other parts of the world…
London: John and Paul Knapton, 1744.
The anonymous "Squadron" account of the Anson voyage
Octavo, with an engraved portrait frontispiece and four folding engraved plates; contemporary speckled calf, old rebacking. The rarest of two pirated accounts of the Anson voyage to appear in print in 1744, marking the hugely celebrated.....
Price (AUD):
$7,200.00
Ref: #4504976
Copper Medal in commemoration of his 1740-1744 Circumnavigation…
London: Thomas Pingo, 1747.
Anson's circumnavigation and defeat of the French
Copper medal, 43.3 mm., with Anson crowned by Victory at right, on the reverse Victory on hippocamp, the names of Anson's officers around; corrected CAMPBEL variety, remnants of 'H' faintly visible, about uncirculated, some mint color remaining, slight abrasions.....
Price (AUD):
$2,450.00
Ref: #4302371
Copper Medal for the 1740-1744 Circumnavigation…
London: Thomas Pingo, 1747.
Circumnavigation and victory
Copper medal, 43.3 mm., with Anson crowned by Victory at right, on the reverse Victory on hippocamp, the names of Anson's officers around; CAMPHEL issue with 'B' faintly visible on 'H', about uncirculated, a few minor blemishes to the rims. An excellent medal.....
Price (AUD):
$3,450.00
Ref: #4302372
Aris's Birmingham Gazette: or, the General Correspondent. Monday January 3 1743. No. LX.
Birmingham: T. Aris, 1743.
Eight Million Pieces of Eight
Bifolium; franked. Original newspaper containing exciting news of Anson's buccaneering windfall: 'that Commodore Anson has taken eight rich Prizes, and after ravaging the Coast, departed about the middle of April for the East Indies; that he has two Ships with him.....
Price (AUD):
$360.00
Ref: #4403248
Pars Orbis. Sacrae geographiae tabulam ex antiquissimorum cultor…
Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, 1571.
An unexplained proto-Australia: a single southern continent for the first time
Copper-engraved double-hemisphere world map, 335 x 545 mm.; mounted. A very rare sixteenth century map depicting an island roughly in the position of Australia. Montanus shows for the first time on a world map a......
Price (AUD):
$19,850.00
Ref: #4504784
The Lightning Galop.
London: Chappell, 50 New Bond Street, circa 1854.
Illustrated sheet music for a fast Austral clipper
Sheet music, 8 pp. and colour-lithograph cover. A racy tune by the dance composer Charles d'Albert (1809-1886), this rare early sheet music features a particularly appealing coloured lithograph of the clipper Lightning, a vessel.....
Price (AUD):
$1,400.00
Ref: #4008043
Early French Voyages to Australia. Les premières expéditions françaises vers l'Australie. A portfolio of reproductions…
Sydney: 1981.
The French in Australia
Folio, viii pp. title and preliminaries with illustrations, followed by seventeen plates, some in colour; a fine set, unbound as issued in the original folder. Handsome album issued to commemorate BNP's first hundred years in Australia, with finely printed reproductions of original plates from.....
Price (AUD):
$600.00
Ref: #4504182
Point Nago Spirito Santo
South America: 7 January 1832.
Original panorama from the Beagle voyage
Original watercolour, 85 x 390mm., inscribed "Point Naga S.65.W. H.M.S Beagle Jan 7 1832" lower left; "Spirito Santo 3.20 distant 5 miles" lower centre; on verso inscribed "Fanny 1836"; backed on tissue and mounted. Striking coastal profile, thought to.....
Price (AUD):
$16,500.00
Ref: #4306469
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
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
Voyage of H.M.S. 'Pandora'…
London: Francis Edwards, 1915.
With extra material by Captain Edwards
Octavo, folding map; original maroon cloth, gilt lettering to spine. The standard modern edition, including the captain's report on the voyage of the Pandora, printed for the first time, with introduction and notes by Basil Thomson. This edition includes the.....
Price (AUD):
$850.00
Ref: #3611709
The Sea: Its History and Romance.
London: Halton & Truscott Smith, 1924-1926.
A particularly handsome set
Sixteen parts bound in four volumes quarto, illustrated in colour and black & white; publisher's blue cloth boards, gilt, sailing ship vignette to front boards. An attractive set of Bowen's deluxe history of sailing and voyaging. The four volumes cover.....
Price (AUD):
$685.00
Ref: #3710373
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HMS "Mæander" 44 guns, in a heavy squall [and] Shortening sail…
London: Ackermann, 1852.
Splendid marine lithographs by Queen Victoria's artist
Pair of colour lithographs, 375 x 535 mm. A fine pair of portraits of a splendid ship: these colour lithographs after original watercolours by Oswald Brierly were made by T. G. Dutton and printed by Day and Son for Ackermanns.....
Price (AUD):
$8,500.00
Ref: #2711255
England's Exiles; or, a View of a System of Instruction and Discipline...
London: Darton and Clark, 1842.
The health of convicts on convict transports
Small octavo, 238 pp., original printer's green cloth. Important book by Browning building on his experience as a Surgeon on board convict transports, most notably the Elphinstone which arrived in Hobart in 1836. Browning could not be accused.....
Price (AUD):
$725.00
Ref: #4106378
The Cruise of the "Cachalot"…
London: Smith Elder, 1898. Octavo, original blue cloth, with gold vignette on upper board; well illustrated, pages untrimmed;. An excellent copy of the first edition. A ripping yarn based on the author's experiences on board the Splendid of New Bedford, in whaling grounds off 'the Solanders, Vau Vau, South Pacific.....
Price (AUD):
$1,100.00
Ref: #3002965
The Cruise of the "Cachalot"…
London: Smith Elder, 1898. Octavo, frontispiece and seven other plates and a folding map; in original blue cloth, with gilt vignette on upper board, quarter morocco case. First edition of this ripping yarn, based on the author's experiences on board the Splendid of New Bedford, in whaling grounds off 'the.....
Price (AUD):
$1,750.00
Ref: #3202193
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
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
The Wreck of 'The Hereward' Maroubra Beach, Sydney.
circa 1898.
The Maroubra Beach shipwreck
Watercolour, 18.2 x 54 cms. mounted and framed. This watercolour is signed lower left, M Clarke and was painted as the clipper ship Hereward lay on its side wrecked at Maroubra Beach. The Hereward had blown onto soft sand at the northern end of.....
Price (AUD):
$2,850.00
Ref: #4209095
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.....
Price (AUD):
$2,550.00
Ref: #4003692
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.....
Price (AUD):
$2,650.00
Ref: #3806722