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Un Royaume Polynésien. Iles Hawaï.
Paris: Plon, 1893. Octavo, folding map; a good copy, uncut in the original blue-grey wrappers, First edition: this is an especially good account of Hawaii at the end of the nineteenth century, by a French diplomat, written under the pseudonym Georges Sauvin. D'Anglade was French Consul and Commissioner to Hawaii.....
Price (AUD):
$385.00
Ref: #2205179
Souvenirs d'un aveugle. Voyage autour du monde…
Paris: Hortet et Ozanne, 1839.
The new version, with new title
Four volumes, octavo, with 60 lithograph plates (six folding); later binding of quarter dark green morocco. A fine set of the substantially changed version of Arago's classic account of the French circumnavigation in the Uranie under the command of.....
Price (AUD):
$5,250.00
Ref: #2808749
Souvenirs d'un Aveugle. Voyage autour du monde… Chasses. Drame.
Paris: H.-L. Delloye, 1840.
The rare supplementary volume
Large octavo, 15 plates, untrimmed with an early library stamp on the title-page; a handsome copy in polished half calf, spine banded and gilt. Fine copy of this unusual addition to his voyage account by the prolific and eccentric Arago, which includes.....
Price (AUD):
$2,100.00
Ref: #3702861
Asia for the Elucidation of the Abbe Gaultier's Geographical Games.
London: John Harris, 1832.
Scarce educational game featuring Australia
Engraved map, 345 x 432 mm. (image size), original hand-colouring. An attractive children's educational map of Australia, Asia and the east coast of Africa. The map is based on the work of the Abbé Gaultier, an educationalist originally from Piedmont, who.....
Price (AUD):
$675.00
Ref: #3809889
A Plane Chart of the World on Mercator's Projection, With the Tracks & Discoveries of the Principal and most recent Navigators…
London: John Harris, 1832. Engraved map, 315 x 432 mm. (image size), original hand-colouring. An attractive children's educational map of the World The map is based on the work of the Abbé Gaultier, an educationalist originally from Piedmont, who had settled in France in 1780 and later fled the revolution.....
Price (AUD):
$650.00
Ref: #3809892
An Account of the State of Agriculture & Grazing in New South Wales…
London: J. Cross, 1826.
The first book on Australian agriculture
Octavo, half-title, with four hand-coloured aquatint plates, and advertisement leaf for the printer Joseph Cross; a very attractive copy in modern half calf. Scarce: The first book on Australian agriculture, with the earliest published architectural drawing of an Australian house.....
Price (AUD):
$5,000.00
Ref: #4505134
Briefe im Jahr 1772 nach Island angestellte Reise betreffen.
Upsala & Leipzig: Magnus Swederus, 1779.
Banks and Solander in iceland
Octavo, large map and chart and eleven plates (most folding), 13 plates in total; contemporary quarter roan and marbled boards. First German edition, preceded only by the very rare Swedish edition of 1777, and followed by London and Paris.....
Price (AUD):
$3,200.00
Ref: #3910345
A Voyage to New South Wales…
Philadelphia: Printed by Thomas Dobson, 1796.
The rare American Barrington
Duodecimo, with 2-pp. publisher's advertisements;, with the half-title, in original American mottled sheep, unlettered spine ruled in gilt; front hinge starting, head of spine restored. Only the second work on Australia to be published in America. This first American edition.....
Price (AUD):
$5,800.00
Ref: #3206510
A Voyage to New South Wales…
Philadelphia: Printed by Thomas Dobson, 1796.
The rare American Barrington
Duodecimo, with 2-pp. publisher's advertisements, contemporary owner's inscription for "Will. Bowman"; in old sheep boards, recently rebacked. Only the second work on Australia to be published in America. This first American edition of Barrington's Voyage, in appealing and characteristic contemporary.....
Price (AUD):
$5,800.00
Ref: #4304422
Da Asia de Joáo Barros e de Diogo de Couto, Nova Edição…
Lisbon: Regia Officina Typographica, 1788.
Portuguese discoveries in a crisp uniform edition
24 volumes, duodecimo, with four portraits and five folding maps; contemporary blonde speckled calf. This extensive set is a fundamental travel book, and the basis for any history of Portuguese exploration. This is the first collected edition of.....
Price (AUD):
$14,500.00
Ref: #3111076
Walks about the City and Environs of Jerusalem.
London: Daldy Isbister and Co., circa 1844.
The Holy Land Illustrated
Octavo; engraved frontis and title-page, 23 engraved plates and 29 line drawings; original blind stamped blue cloth boards, rebacked, corners slightly worn, highly decorated in gilt front and spine, all edges gilt. William Henry Bartlett was a prolific 19th.....
Price (AUD):
$550.00
Ref: #3312986
Aardrijkskunde: Prenten-Magazijn voor de jeugd.
Leiden: Van D. Noothoven Van Goor, 1860.
Information on Java for Dutch children
Single printed leaf, 440 x 310 mm., simply handcoloured. Scarce news-sheet publication for Dutch children. One of a long series (this is number 78), this is devoted to information about Java, with a map and three views.....
Price (AUD):
$175.00
Ref: #2903295
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
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
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
A Liberdade dos Mares, ou o Governo Inglez Descoberto…
Rio de Janeiro: Miranda & Carneiro, 1833.
Unrecorded reference to Botany Bay
Three parts in one volume, small octavo; in contemporary green quarter calf, gilt. The first edition in Portuguese of this unrecorded reference to Botany Bay. First published in 1789 in Paris, Barère de Vieuzac's La Liberté des Mers.....
Price (AUD):
$1,350.00
Ref: #3409328
The voyage of the "Scotia"…
Offprint: Transactions of the Perthshire Society of Natural Science, Vol. IV, Part II, 1905.
Presentation copy of a rare offprint
Octavo, pp. 63-70, with four photographic plates (numbered 7 to 10); modern quarter calf. Rare: not recorded by Rosove or Renard, this is an offprint of an account of the.....
Price (AUD):
$365.00
Ref: #4504329
America: A Four Years' Residence in the United States and Canada.
Leeds: William Brown, 1849.
A Yorkshire man amongst the Yankees
Octavo, handsome full red morocco binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. The author was a Leeds clothing merchant, who 'having been called upon, in many towns and villages in Yorkshire, to recite my personal narrative of America and the Americans, a......
Price (AUD):
$550.00
Ref: #4107335
Guide to the Health Resorts in Australia…
Sydney: Australian Medical Gazette, 1888. Octavo; in original green cloth. An exhaustive guide to over 200 health resorts in Australia and New Zealand, with analyses of mineral waters, services and therapeutic indications. Also includes activities available to patients, such as Killarney, Queensland, "Very pretty scenery, and dry, bracing climate. Shooting.....
Price (AUD):
$485.00
Ref: #2811885
Explanation of a View of Hobart Town…
London: 1831. Engraving, 280 x 450 mm.; mounted. Scarce panoramic view of Hobart, complete with key description, based on an original painting by Augustus Earle. Earle arrived in Tasmania in January 1825 and painted "a series of linked watercolour views of Hobart Town which were later developed into this panorama.....
Price (AUD):
$1,250.00
Ref: #1700688
Progress Report of the Exploration Committee…
Goverment Printer, 1862. Foolscap folio, 7 pp., printed on blue paper; bound in modern half calf. The important Sixth Progress Report issued after the adverse findings of the Royal Commission enquiring into the disastrous Burke and Wills expedition. This separate printing of the report is identifiable by its colophon on.....
Price (AUD):
$475.00
Ref: #2303137
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
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
Britannia…
London: John Nichols, for T. Payne and Son... and G.G.J. and J. Robinson, 1789.
"The British Strabo": a splendid copy in a superb period binding
Three volumes, tall folio (452 x 283 mm); with altogether 155 engraved plates and maps comprising frontispiece portrait, 53 double-page or folding engraved maps and.....
Price (AUD):
$8,400.00
Ref: #4505176