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"Habitans de la Nouvelle Hollande."
circa 1830.
Aborigines of New Holland
Handcoloured wood engraving, 100 x 75mm; Very good. Charming French hand-coloured woodcut depicting a man and woman of "New Holland". It was most likely printed as part of a series of costume plates, and may be the same as a similarly-sized woodcut of the...
Price (AUD):
$450.00
Ref: #4202850
![The Death of Captain Cook [caption title]. ANONYMOUS](/pictures/thumb/4007930.jpg?v=1459830501)
The Death of Captain Cook [caption title].
Philadelphia: circa 1798. Engraving on laid paper by Scot & Allardice, 65 x 130 mm. Robert Scot and Samuel Allardice worked together in Philadelphia as printers and engravers, Francis Shallus who is credited with doing all 41 plates of the 1818 Philadelphia edition of The Voyages of Captain Cook, worked...
Price (AUD):
$385.00
Ref: #4007930
Promotional booklet; drop-title "South Australia"… "By an Old Colonist".
Adelaide: no publisher, circa 1858.
'England in miniature - England without it's poverty'
Duodecimo pamphlet, as issued without wrappers, 12 pp. (last blank), blue tinted paper stock. Scarce pamphlet printed to promote the colony. Anonymously compiled 'by an old Colonist', the booklet comprises various parts gleaned from several sources. First...
Price (AUD):
$625.00
Ref: #4107388
The History of New Holland, from its First Discovery in 1616, to the Present Time.
London: John Stockdale, 1790.
An essential book for First Fleet collectors
Quarto, folding map; black half roan, with the bookplate of Henry White. An essential First Fleet book, widely considered the best guide to the establishment of a penal colony in New South Wales: 'an extremely interesting work and an...
Price (AUD):
$4,000.00
Ref: #4403191
The History of New Holland, from its First Discovery in 1616, to the Present Time…
London: John Stockdale, 1787.
First Fleet sails for New South Wales
Octavo, with two folding handcoloured maps; bound in contemporary marbled boards (rebacked retaining original crimson label) from the Westport House library with Browne family armorial bookplate. Published on the eve of the departure of the First Fleet for New...
Price (AUD):
$4,600.00
Ref: #4106490
The History of New Holland, from its First Discovery in 1616, to the Present Time…
London: John Stockdale, 1787.
First Fleet sails for New South Wales
Octavo, with two folding maps, finely hand coloured in outline, modern half calf, marbled boards. First edition. Published on the eve of the departure of the First Fleet for New South Wales, this sometimes neglected publication was the most...
Price (AUD):
$3,850.00
Ref: #4503934
Physionomies Nationales des Peuples…
Paris: Delaunay, c. 1810.
Peoples of the world, and their characters shown on their faces
Duodecimo, 25 engraved plates (all hand coloured); mottled pink wrappers. First edition of this fascinating French physiognomical study of the peoples of the world, which compares the facial structures and features of various European races...
Price (AUD):
$5,500.00
Ref: #4504201
Tales of Woe. Love & Constancy, or the Fatal Denial, a True Story; Leonora, or the effects of treachery; and the Lover's Leap…
London: Thomas Tegg, n.d. but, 1804. Duodecimo, pp. 181-216, simple modern tan wrappers. One of the rarest Barrington works, and one of the more egregious impositions on his so-called "authorship", with his name the only one featured on the title-page despite his complete lack of involvement. Copies are known with...
Price (AUD):
$775.00
Ref: #4303396
Le Comte d'Artois…
Paris: circa 1790.
The King of Botany Bay offers refuge from the French Revolution
Octavo, 19, [1] pp; disbound from a volume. A very rare early "satire on French politics and English colonization" (Ferguson). Likening those who fled the tumult of the French Revolution to the English convicts transported to...
Price (AUD):
$7,350.00
Ref: #4504805
A Garland of New Songs.
Newcastle-upon-Tyne: J. Marshall, MS note dated, 1807.
Nelson & Trafalgar
Single sheet folded to form four leaves (eight pages paginated); edges untrimmed. A well-preserved early nineteenth-century English chapbook of popular ballads and ditties. This publication of eight pages is one of a series; each part being separately issued and individually...
Price (AUD):
$285.00
Ref: #4201766
The Lord Chief Justice Denman.
circa 1840. Original lithograph, 195 x 166mm., mounted. Portrait of Thomas Denman, Lord Chief Justice and politician, in his judicial robes. Denman played an active role in reforming English laws so as to secure individual liberties. In 1837 he carried two bills abolishing the death penalty for forgery and other...
Price (AUD):
$325.00
Ref: #1600369
The History of New Holland, from its First Discovery in 1616…
London: John Stockdale, 1787.
New South Wales described for First Fleeters
Octavo, with two folding maps handcoloured in outline; a most attractive copy in contemporary tree calf, the ornately gilt spine skilfully renewed. First edition: a study of the Australian continent and the history of its discovery, only possible with...
Price (AUD):
$10,500.00
Ref: #4504476
Peche Française de la Baleine, dans les mers du Sud en 1829.
Le Havre: chez Hue Libraire, 1829.
Whaling in the southern ocean
Octavo, [iv], 56 pp.; with two fine lithograph plates, one folding; period-style French marbled boards. Whaling in the southern ocean: a very scarce special printing. This is a separately paginated offprint, in other words partly reset from the periodical...
Price (AUD):
$3,600.00
Ref: #4504200
Voyage Philosophique au Japon, ou Conférences Anglo-Franco-Bataves.
"Pressure" (Paris?): Dans les Jardins de M. l'Ebahi, 1788.
A visit to Japan
Octavo, half-title, woodcut vignette of a ship setting sail at start of text; neat modern quarter calf. First edition: a very scarce anonymous imaginary voyage and a satirical commentary on French politics and society which has decadent...
Price (AUD):
$1,600.00
Ref: #3005361
Wolliger Kanguruh.
Germany: circa 1860.
Kangaroo and Pangolin
Lithograph, 205 x 290 mm. Handsomely executed lithograph of a kangaroo from a mid-nineteenth century German zoological handbook; also depicted is a Javanese pangolin (scaly ant-eater).
Price (AUD):
$250.00
Ref: #2904308
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The Hawaiian Islands. Paradise of the Pacific...
Chicago: Belford, Middlebrook & Co., 1898.
Hawaiian Royal portraits
Large oblong quarto, photogravure plates throughout, fine in the publisher's gilt lettered red cloth. Wonderful historical album of Hawaiian views published on the year of annexation with the United States, with 79 photogravure plates including photographs of the Royal family and...
Price (AUD):
$1,650.00
Ref: #3002971
The Saturday Magazine for January 23rd 1836, containing an article titled "The Natives of Swan River".
London: Parker, 23 January, 1836.
Indigenous trackers find a boy lost in the scrub
Quarto, pp. [25]-32, disbound. The article is reprinted from the Western Australian of January 1835. It describes the skill of two indigenous trackers - "Migo" and "Molly-Dobbin" who found a lost child after a long and...
Price (AUD):
$185.00
Ref: #2604304
The Bristol Riots, their Causes, Progress, and Consequences. By a Citizen.
London: Cadell, 1832. Octavo, with a lithographic frontispiece; later olive half roan, spine gilt; bookplate of Bernard Gore Brett. Contemporary anonymous account of the Bristol Riots, a popular uprising that resulted in the transportation of offenders charged with sedition to the Australian colonies. Following the rejection of electoral reform laws...
Price (AUD):
$425.00
Ref: #4107566
Etat présent des Indes Hollandaises…
Batavia (but Amsterdam?): n.p., circa 1780. Octavo, 96pp., booksellers label to inner front cover, engraved vignette on the title; uncut in contemporary patterned wrappers fashioned from a booksellers catalogue, handwritten title-label to upper cover. A remarkable eighteenth century pamphlet detailing the political, economic and military conditions in the Dutch East...
Price (AUD):
$2,250.00
Ref: #4302373