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Dublin: Chamberlaine and Rice, P. Wogan and others, 1790.
Rare poetic epitaph for Captain Cook
Two volumes, with both half-titles; contemporary mottled calf, flat spines gilt and with double red and green morocco labels. A fine and attractively bound set of voyages collected and edited for the enlightenment of younger...
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$2,850.00
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Ref: #3810914
The South Australian Almanack and General Colonial Directory, for 1849.
Adelaide: Andrew Murray, 1849.
With map of the "Settled portions" and details of mines
Octavo, folding frontispiece map with outline colouring, xl, 220 pp., (including directory and advertisements), with a folding table of goods and prices bound in; in plain brown cloth (if not original certainly of the period). A...
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$1,150.00
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Ref: #4107200
The Royal South Australian Almanack and General Directory for 1840…
Adelaide: Robert Thomas and Co., December, 1839.
The second South Australian almanac
Octavo, 150, xii pp., original printed limp linen wrappers; folding Sangorski quarter brown morocco case. Ferguson notes this is the second South Australian almanac.The work includes the important and very early botanical series of lectures by George Stevenson...
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$1,800.00
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Ref: #4107206
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...
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$625.00
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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...
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$4,000.00
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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...
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$4,600.00
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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...
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$3,850.00
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Ref: #4503934
Pioneer Difficulties in Founding South Australia. A lecture delivered to the Australian Natives Association…8th June, 1891.
Adelaide: W. K. Thomas & Co., 1891.
In original tinted wrappers
Octavo, 20 pp. (last blank), original green titling wrappers. Uncommon booklet on the early years of South Australia, broaching topics such as the formation of the South Australian Company, speculation and investment schemes, the foundation of Adelaide and the...
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$240.00
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Ref: #4107444
Extracts from the Letters of James Backhouse…
London: Harvey and Darton, 1838.
Convict discipline and social conditions
Octavo, half calf, marbled boards, armorial bookplate James Bluth. Third edition, a valuable account of convict discipline in Australia as observed at the penal settlements, also of social conditions at the time. From the collection of Robert Edwards.
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$450.00
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Ref: #4106580
The Works of Francis Bacon… in Ten Volumes.
London: J. Johnson et al. 1803.
Awarded to abolitionist Thomas Fowell Buxton
Ten volumes, octavo, engraved portrait frontispiece and folding table, prize-plate & bookplate, later gift inscription from Buxton to his son; early diced calf with the insignia of Trinity College Dublin to the boards. A fine and most attractive...
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$2,850.00
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Ref: #3004138
First and Second Report from the Select Committee on Transportation…
London: by order of Parliament, 1856.
Transportation to Western Australia
Two volumes, tall quarto, both copies in recent blue polished half calf, original printed wrappers bound in. Two of the most important reports on transportation to Western Australia, and perhaps the most detailed public accounting of the aftermath of the...
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$1,600.00
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Ref: #4106461
A Sequel to Barrington's Voyage to New South Wales…
London: C. Lowndes, 1801.
"Barrington" account, chiefly from Collins
Duodecimo, on blue-ish paper, pp. viii, 5-88, [vi]; old half calf. Second edition of the so-called sequel to Barrington, issued by the same publishers as the Voyage to Botany Bay. As with most Barrington material this is fraudulently attributed to him...
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$2,300.00
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Ref: #4106370
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An Account of a Voyage to New South Wales…
London: Jones, 1810.
Matching pair uncut in original boards
Two volumes, octavo; both works completely uncut in original boards, later paper title-labels; handsome matching slipcases. A beautiful uncut set of Barrington's famous pair of works, rare in this condition. The History, with its seventeen full-page plates, is the first book...
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$10,000.00
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Ref: #3705009
An Account of a Voyage to New South Wales.
London: Jones, 1810.
Second edition with fine handcoloured plates
Octavo, portrait frontispiece and nine handcoloured plates, folding map (laid down); contemporary half calf. The second edition (first published 1803) of this substantial account of the voyage to New South Wales via the Cape of Good Hope, with incidents partly derived...
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$3,250.00
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Ref: #2302019
The Genuine Life and Trial of George Barrington…
London: W. Clements & J. Sadler, 1791.
With Barrington's speeches from the dock
Octavo in fours, with wood-engraved frontispiece. Very rare: the second issue of this scarce pamphlet celebrating the misdeeds and famous speeches from the dock of Australia's most famous convict. This is one of the earliest and most...
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$2,400.00
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Ref: #3002002
The History of New South Wales including Botany Bay, Port Jackson, Parramatta, Sydney, and all its Dependencies.
London: M. Jones, 1802.
Gentleman pickpocket turned colonial historian?
Octavo, with an engraved title page and 14 hand-coloured plates (including frontispiece), contemporary full polished calf (a bit scuffed and rubbed), morocco label. The first book to contain coloured illustrations of Sydney.This is the first book edition of Barrington's famous work...
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$3,000.00
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Ref: #4504791
A Sequel to Barrington's Voyage to New South Wales…
London: C. Lowndes, 1801.
Barrington sequel, mostly sourced from Collins
Octavo, laid paper uncut, with the 6 pp. 'Official Register of the Crimes, Trials and Executions'; in later half calf, spine banded and gilt, crimson morocco label. A scarce Barrington title.This so-called Sequel drew most of its content from David...
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$3,250.00
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Ref: #3701855
Voyage à Botany-Bay,
Paris: Desenne, Anno VI, 1798. Octavo, xvi, 192 pp.; joints rubbed, contemporary quarter roan with crimson morocco label. French edition of Barrington, with a five page preface explaining the extraordinary circumstances of the author, noting his aptitude for observation and return to grace in a new land.Garvey notes of this...
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$2,250.00
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Ref: #4206024
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...
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$5,800.00
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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...
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$5,800.00
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Ref: #4304422
Portrait of George Barrington.
London: 1804-, 1809.
Fine image of the famous pickpocket
Stippled engraving, 98 x 75 mm. A very good portrait of Barrington, within an octagonal border. George Barrington was convicted of felonry and transported with the Third Fleet in 1791. Soon after his arrival in Sydney Cove, Barrington's "irreproachable conduct" led...
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$450.00
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Ref: #3002910
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 a......
Price (AUD):
$775.00
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Ref: #4303396
A Letter to Earl Bathurst, Secretary of State for the Colonial Department
London: James Ridgway, 1820.
Bennet's attack on Macquarie precipitating the Bigge enquiry
Octavo, half-title, 144 pp.; modern half calf, gilt-title on the spine, the Hobill Cole copy with his bookplate and with the blind stamps of Tom Ramsay and Fred Eager. One of the most important political documents of the...
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$5,850.00
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Ref: #4503941
A Letter to Earl Bathurst, Secretary of State for the Colonial Department.
London: James Ridgway, 1820.
Bennet's attack on Macquarie precipitating the Bigge enquiry
Octavo, Aquarius binding of full navy calf, gilt spine. An important early colonial work, Bennet's attack on the administration of Governor Macquarie, was an important document that precipitated the enquiry by Commissioner Bigge and the end of Macquarie's...
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$3,450.00
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Ref: #4302337