Geography, geology
Australien Natur och Kultur - Studier och Minnen.
Stockholm: Hugo Gebers förlag, 1915.
Eucalypts and minerals, gold and sheep
Octavo, with 48 plates and two colour maps, original green cloth with attractive gilt blocked kangaroo motif. An excellent copy of this generously illustrated survey of Australia's agriculture and natural resources by the long-serving secretary of the Swedish Society...
Price (AUD):
$175.00
Ref: #3910388
Essais cosmographico-poëtiques ou choix de lectures…
La Haye and Paris: Pierre Aillaud, 1786.
Science in the wake of Pacific exploration
Octavo, [ii], 236 pp., uncut copy in original buntpapier wrappers. Curious and eclectic collection of essays on geography, astronomy, and recent voyage discoveries. The geographical sections are informed by the discoveries of Cook, la Pérouse and...
Price (AUD):
$1,250.00
Ref: #4202837
Carte des variations de la Boussole...
Paris: Dépôt Génerale de la Marine, 1765.
Halley's great dream pursued by Bellin
Chart, engraved; 620 x 930 mm. Mid eighteenth century world map showing magnetic variation through the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. This map represents decades of work by several enlightenment luminaries. The scientific study of magnetic variation was.....
Price (AUD):
$9,750.00
Ref: #3912467
Northern Territory of South Australia, North-western District. Reports (Geological and General) Resulting from the Explorations made by the Government Geologist and Staff during 1905.
Adelaide: Government Printer, 1906.
Pioneer prospectors of the tropical North
Tall quarto, with five folding maps and plans (some colour), oirginal green cloth with gilt lettering. Detailed report and travel itinerary of the government geological expedition to the Kimberley and remote north in 1905. Unexpected additions include notes on fossils...
Price (AUD):
$1,000.00
Ref: #4107518
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
A Chart of the Islands discovered in the Neighbourhood of Otaheite.
London: Alexander Hogg, circa 1780. Engraved chart, 185 x 355 mm, with decorative title cartouche in the upper right corner. An early map of the Society Islands in the South Pacific published by Alexander Hogg to illustrate the voyages and discoveries of the sea captains Byron, Wallis, Carteret and Cook...
Price (AUD):
$225.00
Ref: #4012366
Memoirs of William Cox, JP.
Sydney and Brisbane: William Brooks & Co., 1901. Octavo, portrait frontispiece, coloured plate depicting arms and 2 photographic plates, top edge gilt; in the original red moire cloth, gilt. First edition, rare: an exceptional copy in the original red moiré cloth boards. This work includes printed extracts from Cox's journal...
Price (AUD):
$850.00
Ref: #3812968
A Map of the Discoveries Made by Captn. Willm. Dampier…
London: John Harris, 1744.
Emanuel Bowen map of Dampier's discoveries
Engraved chart measuring 245 x 410 mm. (sheet size). The fine Bowen map of William Dampier's discoveries along the Papuan coastline and adjacent islands. Dampier sailed in the Roebuck in January of 1699, landing in Shark Bay, Western Australia in...
Price (AUD):
$1,800.00
Ref: #4107419
South Australia. Journal of the Elder Exploring Expedition, 1891.
Adelaide: Government Printer, 1893.
Enormous geological chart of the central desert
Folio, 78 pp., with two large folding maps each measuring 720 x 1530 mm., recent black cloth. First published report of the Elder Scientific Expedition of 1891, complete with the two magnificent lithographic maps of the central desert on...
Price (AUD):
$2,850.00
Ref: #4106152
South Australia and its Mines…
London: T. & W. Boone, 1846.
Inscribed to Captain FitzRoy of the Beagle
Octavo, frontispiece and five plates (including map of the Rivoli Bay district bound into the text); with a large handcoloured folding map measuring 684 x 535 mm. in front sleeve; a handsome copy with the advertisements in...
Price (AUD):
$1,400.00
Ref: #4107265
Collection of Seven Pamphlets on Gold…
London: various publishers, 1840-, 1855.
Pamphlets on Gold
Thick octavo, a contemporary collection of thirteen rare pamphlets, seven on the subject of gold, with in total five folding maps, each with original title-pages (one with drop-title only), several with owner's signature, and one with authorial inscription; a handsome volume in...
Price (AUD):
$3,650.00
Ref: #3806721
Géographie des Grecs analysée…
Paris: Didot l'aîné, 1790.
Ancient Greek geographers
Quarto, with ten folding engraved maps; later half red grained morocco. An analysis of the geographical knowledge of the ancient Greeks undertaken by Gossellin for a contest set by the French Academie Royale des Inscriptions. The ten folding maps are particularly interesting for.....
Price (AUD):
$1,125.00
Ref: #4103485
Typus Orbis Terrarum.
Amsterdam: 1607. Handcoloured copper engraving, 290 x 180 mm. (sheet size), with letterpress to verso. Mounted. Beautiful decorated double-hemisphere map of the world from the Atlas Minor published by Jodocus Hondius in 1607. In 1604 Hondius and a business partner purchased the copper plates from Mercator's estate and continued to...
Price (AUD):
$2,250.00
Ref: #4107412
Journal, etc., of the Horn Scientific Expedition to Central Australia (with plates and plans). 1894.
Adelaide: C.E. Bristow, Government Printer, October, 1896.
The report suppressed by Horn
Foolscap folio, 32 pp., with 13 full page photogravure plates and four larger folding maps and sheets bound in (including the large map measuring 1290 x 1290 mm., and a plan of the Hermannsburg mission measuring 822 x....
Price (AUD):
$1,800.00
Ref: #4106163
Copies of correspondence respecting American Citizens who were supposed to have participated in the late riots at Ballaarat.
Melbourne: Government Printer, 7 March 1855.
'the prime movers were Scotchmen'
Foolscap folio, single leaf. Curious exchange between James Tarleton, U.S. Consul to Australia and Lieutenant Governor Sir Charles Hotham, laying the blame for the Eureka Stockade. Tarleton asserts in his first letter that 'the prime movers were Scotchmen' and...
Price (AUD):
$250.00
Ref: #4106195
The International Exhibition of 1862. The illustrated catalogue…
London: Printed for Her Majesty's Commisioners, 1862.
Australian products on the world stage.
Three volumes, quarto, folding plan and steel engraved illustrations throughout; in original gilt decorated cloth. Official catalogue of the 1862 International Exhibition, a spectacle of vast proportions promoting the products and manufacturing of Britain and her colonies...
Price (AUD):
$1,600.00
Ref: #4403232
Jeu de Cartes Geographiques…
Lille: chez Vanackere and Paris, chez Nicolle, circa 1806.
Early children's geographical card game
Geographical card game, consisting of 48 cards measuring 105 x 70 mm, each illustrated with a small round engraving by Pierre-François Godard, together with a folded sheet with introduction and rules for the game, and a....
Price (AUD):
$4,850.00
Ref: #4109671
An Account of some Geological Specimens from the Coasts of Australia.
London: W. Clowes, 1826. Slim octavo, [iv], 64 pp., with three aquatints and an impressive folding map of the coastline of north and western Australia; in recent polished half calf. Scarce paper concerning the mineral specimens collected during the north Australian voyage of Philip Parker King, with three aquatints from...
Price (AUD):
$1,450.00
Ref: #4008016
Carte réduite de la Riviére de la Plata depuis les Caps Sainte Marie et Saint Antoine jusqu'aux Iles de Hornos et Buenos-Ayres
Paris: Dépôt Général de la Marine, 1833.
Sounding chart for the River Plate.
Engraved chart; two conjoined sheets measuring 655 x 988 mm. in total. Sounding chart of the headwaters of the River Plate, with soundings of the approaches to Montevideo. The map was produced by the French navy and.....
Price (AUD):
$1,250.00
Ref: #3912529
Géographie du moyen Age, étudiée par Joachim Lewelel.
Bruxelles: Pilliet, 1852-1854-, 1857.
Rare complete set with the full complement of maps
Four parts text bound in one volume, with epilogue and atlas volumes, the latter oblong folio; 18 plates (some folding) in the text volumes, 50 plates (see note) in the atlas volume, excellent impressions of all the...
Price (AUD):
$4,200.00
Ref: #3810922
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[Opera]…
Lyon: Sebastianus Gryphius, 1556.
An early pocket Macrobius with the world map, in original dated pigskin binding
Octavo, with diagrams and woodcut map, woodcut initials, printer's device on title; marginal notes; contemporary dated binding (1560) of blind-embossed pigskin over wooden boards, two engraved metal clasps. This is a most attractive...
Price (AUD):
$6,400.00
Ref: #4504804
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Hoc Volumine Continentur… [Opera, edited by Nicolaus Angelius].
Florence: Juntae, 1515.
The pocket Macrobius
Octavo, ff. [xii], 280, italic letter, woodcut printer's device on last leaf, with six woodcuts; contemporary vellum, This was the first popular pocket edition of Macrobius's influential text, printed by the Giunta family in Florence; such smaller format publications were a feature of publishing...
Price (AUD):
$5,400.00
Ref: #3002024
Pomponius Mela. Julius Solinus…
Florence: the heirs of Filippo Giunta, 1519.
Early geographical compendium
Small octavo, italic letter, capital letters neatly rubricated; numerous annotations of differing vintage; an excellent copy in contemporary Italian vellum, flat spine lettered and banded in gilt. Scarce edition of this important collection of classical geographical texts, closely based on...
Price (AUD):
$4,250.00
Ref: #2903217
Testimony of the Rocks.
Edinburgh: Thomas Constable & Co, 1857.
From the library of William Berry
Octavo, numerous text illustrations; publisher's blind-stamped cloth. Published posthumously and as the melancholy Note records " Few readers of this volume, it is presumed, need to be informed that its lamented author spent a part of the last...
Price (AUD):
$450.00
Ref: #4403187