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A History of the University of Oxford, its Colleges, Halls and Public Buildings.
London: R. Ackermann, 1814.
Georgian Oxford in colour
Two voumes, quarto; with engraved portrait of the Chancellor, Lord Grenville, 64 hand-coloured aquatint plates, and 17 coloured costume plates of university figures in their academic garb; contemporary half calf. First edition: a very good complete set of the classic and beautifully.....
Price (AUD):
$6,850.00
Ref: #4505142
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
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
The Horse. Its treatment in health and disease...
London: Gresham Publishing Company, 1907.
For equine connoisseurs
Nine volumes, quarto, colour frontispieces and plates, folding tables; bright original decorated cloth with the bookplate of Henry White. A most attractive set in original art nouveau bindings of this complete guide to equine veterinary care, husbandry and pedigrees; profusely illustrated throughout.....
Price (AUD):
$2,500.00
Ref: #4403214
Banks' Florilegium.
London: Editions Alecto, in association with the British Museum, 1980-1990.
A supreme example of eighteenth-century European civilisation
743 engravings of plants collected by Sir Joseph Banks and Dr Daniel Solander. Printed in colours à la poupée from the original 18th century copper plates with five supplementary plates engraved between 1986.....
Price (AUD):
$94,500.00
Ref: #4505102
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
Mon Voyage aux Terres Australes. Journal personnel du commandant Baudin.
Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 2000.
Baudin's personal record of the voyage
Large octavo, includes many colour and black & white plates; original illustrated wrappers. French language edition of the personal journal of Nicolas Baudin, carefully edited and prepared for publication with special appendices and numerous colour plates of original scientific and.....
Price (AUD):
$145.00
Ref: #3101963
Voyage de Découvertes aux Terres Australes…
Paris: Imprimerie Impériale [Royale], 1807/16/07/11; 1815/12.
The full account of the Baudin voyage: superbly hand-coloured
Bound in five volumes; a handsome set of the complete official edition, including the two-volume quarto narrative text with portrait frontispiece and two folding tables, the two-parts of the large quarto atlas bound as a......
Price (AUD):
$98,500.00
Ref: #3811937
Voyage de Découvertes aux Terres Australes…
Paris: Imprimerie Impériale [Royale], 1807-1816.
The Baudin voyage to Australia and the Pacific
Three volumes, small and large quarto; the two-volume text with portrait frontispiece and two folding tables; the two-part large quarto atlas (bound in one volume) containing 40 plates (23 coloured and two folding) and 14 maps (two.....
Price (AUD):
$44,500.00
Ref: #4311663
Sketch of the History of Van Diemen's Land…
London: John Richardson, 1832.
With a fine Arrowsmith map
Octavo, with two engraved plates and a large hand-coloured folding map; very good in original boards with green cloth spine and printed label. First edition. An important account of Tasmania, intended for distribution among shareholders and prospective shareholders of the Van.....
Price (AUD):
$1,350.00
Ref: #4106570
Sketch of the History of Van Diemen's Land…
London: John Richardson, 1832.
With a fine Arrowsmith map
Octavo, with two engraved plates and a large hand-coloured folding map; very good in original boards, early inked ownership inscription on front board, with later papered spine and printed label, modern slipcase. First edition. An important account of Tasmania, intended for.....
Price (AUD):
$1,650.00
Ref: #4503931
Reports, &c. [on Improvements to Dublin Harbour]…
Dublin: N.P. [maps with the imprint of Henecy & Fitzpatrick], N.D. [1801].
William Bligh maps... Dublin Bay
Folio, 84 pp., with six folding engraved maps with coloured details; contemporary dark calf. Very rare. This collection of reports on proposed improvements to the Dublin waterways contains a significant contribution by William.....
Price (AUD):
$12,250.00
Ref: #4504925
First on the Antarctic Continent…
London: George Newnes, 1901.
The Southern Cross expedition: first edition, first issue
Octavo, with photogravure portrait frontispiece, three coloured maps (folding), 18 plates and numerous photographic illustrations; an excellent copy in the original gilt and silver decorated pictorial cloth, top edge gilt and others uncut. The very scarce first issue.....
Price (AUD):
$3,850.00
Ref: #4504339
The Novels of Charlotte, Emily, & Anne Brontë.
London: J. M. Dent, 1922.
Colour plates by Edmund Dulac
Six volumes, octavo, with a total of 60 colour plates (including frontispieces), otherwise a most attractive set in uniform half polished navy calf by Bayntun with ornate gilt spine ornament and crimson labels. Collected edition of the Brontë novels, here.....
Price (AUD):
$2,450.00
Ref: #3804616
Scenes in Asia: For the Amusement & Instruction of Little Tarry-At-Home Travellers.
London: Harris, 1821. Octavo with a folding frontispice map, 84 hand-coloured engravings on 28 plates (three on each); original printed boards. Second edition of this children's study of Asian lands. Each engraving is numbered and complimented by a corresponding description. The pictures and text cover a number of Asian countries.....
Price (AUD):
$750.00
Ref: #3002961
Foreign Field Sports, Fisheries, Sporting Anecdotes…
London: Edward Orme, circa 1823.
Famous colourplate book including a section on the Aborigines of NSW
Quarto, pp. with 110 hand coloured aquatints (including the New South Wales plates), a good copy in ornate contemporary gilt decorated deep green morocco with all edges gilt. This is a later issue of.....
Price (AUD):
$5,250.00
Ref: #3911447
Terres et Peuples de Sumatra.
Amsterdam: Société d'Edition, 1925. Thick quarto, with 180 plates and 150 illustrations in the text, large folding colour map; untrimmed, in original colour decorated wrappers. Limited edition of 1000 copies, printed on 'papier vergé'. This is a beautifully produced and exceptionally detailed study of the Sumatran people and culture. In.....
Price (AUD):
$1,250.00
Ref: #3103160
An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales.
London: A. Strahan, for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1804.
The posthumous second edition, revised by Collins' widow, with additions to 1803
Quarto, with a portrait frontispiece, two maps (one folding), 23 engraved plates (the three natural history plates coloured) and eight text vignettes (that of the emu coloured); old.....
Price (AUD):
$3,750.00
Ref: #4504466
An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales…
London: T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, 1798 & 1802.
The complete First Fleet account of David Collins, thick paper issue, in an unrecorded state with extra foldout engravings
Two volumes, quarto, [1798]: 2 charts, 18 plates and four textual vignettes, the vignettes most unusually repeated on additional folding plates.....
Price (AUD):
$32,750.00
Ref: #4503961
History of the Royal Sappers and Miners, from the Formation of the corps in March 1772…
London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1857.
Sir George Grey overland in South Australia.
Two volumes, octavo, seventeen coloured plates,in half-red morocco by Sangorski, spines with raised bands with gilt lettering. Second edition, with considerable additions and a pleasing suite of lithographic plates showing uniform changes through the history.....
Price (AUD):
$750.00
Ref: #4107586
Through the first Antarctic Night…
London: William Heinemann. 1900.
"The extraordinary services rendered by Frederick Cook"
Octavo, with colour frontispiece and three other coloured plates, 74 plates, and 21 illustrations and maps in the text; original blue cloth, ship image in white on front cover. First UK edition, first issue (with the larger lettering at.....
Price (AUD):
$2,500.00
Ref: #4504340
The Journals of Captain James Cook…
Cambridge: Hakluyt Society, 1968-1974.
Authoritative edition
Five volumes and portfolio of charts, thick octavo, coloured frontispieces, numerous black and white plates and maps (some folding), original decorated cloth with dust-jackets. The most reliable and authoritative narrative of Cook's three voyages, edited by J.C. Beaglehole. This set comprises the original Hakluyt.....
Price (AUD):
$2,500.00
Ref: #3602279
A Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas…
London: C. Dilly and J. Phillips, 1784.
A highly unusual coloured Parkinson with the plates in two states
Quarto, second enlarged edition, with a frontispiece portrait, two maps (one double-page), and 26 engraved plates with fine hand-colouring and with the uncoloured plates bound in duplicate; notably wide margins, contemporary binding.....
Price (AUD):
$55,000.00
Ref: #4503971
Petits Voyages Pittoresques dans l'Asie, l'Afrique, l'Amerique, la Polynesie et les Terres Australes…
Paris: chez Saintin, Libraire de S.M. l'Imperatrice, 1813.
Baudin, Peron and Marion du Fresne
Two volumes bound in one, square duodecimo, 32 plates (one with early amateur hand-colour); a handsome copy, later quarter calf over early paper boards, Scarce ethnological handbook with beautifully engraved plates depicting the native peoples of.....
Price (AUD):
$2,850.00
Ref: #3802486