Aus: N.T.
![Nouvelle-Hollande: Terre de Witt … Terre de Diémen du nord… [Plate VII from:] Voyage de...](/pictures/thumb/2303029.jpg?v=1445314350)
Nouvelle-Hollande: Terre de Witt…
Paris: 1807.
Coastal views of Northwestern Australia
Single sheet, 353 x 260 mm., wove paper, hand-coloured engraving. A charming set of coastal views on the western and northern coast of Australia after the original sketches by Lesueur. The first two coastal views depict stretches of the Champagny archipelago (present-day Champagny...
Price (AUD):
$2,100.00
Ref: #2303029
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
Progress Report of the Exploration Committee of the Royal Society of Victoria for 1861.
Melbourne: printed by Mason and Firth for the Royal Society of Victoria, 1862.
Who is responsible for the Burke and Wills tragedy?
Foolscap folio, tinted paper, 8pp. (last blank), with related blank envelope loosely inserted. A curious mix of remorse and self-preservation - an account of the Burke and Wills...
Price (AUD):
$600.00
Ref: #4106181
Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria, in search of Burke and Wills.
Melbourne: Wilson and Mackinnon, 1862.
First edition, first issue
Octavo, engraved frontispiece and large folding map of Australia; original linen-backed pink printed card boards; bookplate of Captain Frederick Aarons; quarter morocco box. First edition, first of several issues, of the first public printing of Landsborough's journals from the Burke and...
Price (AUD):
$1,365.00
Ref: #4504374
Robert O'Hara Burke and the Australian Exploring Expedition of 1860.
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1862.
Letters and journals of Burke and Wills
Octavo, title-page with engraved portrait of Burke, detailed folding map; early (contemporary?) dark green half calf. First edition, first issue. Jackson, who knew Burke personally and was an officer in the same regiment as Burke's father, published...
Price (AUD):
$2,250.00
Ref: #4504432
Burke and Wills Commission. Report of the Commissioners…
Melbourne: John Ferres, Government Printer, 1862.
'A far greater amount of zeal than prudence…'
Foolscap folio, 104 pp., printed on light blue paper, edges uncut; half calf. Official report of the Royal Commission appointed to investigate the Burke and Wills disaster: 'now very scarce and of high interest' (Australian Rare...
Price (AUD):
$1,950.00
Ref: #4504502
Burke and Wills Commission…
Melbourne: John Ferres, Government Printer, 1862.
'A far greater amount of zeal than prudence…'
Foolscap folio, 104 pp., a fine and clean copy, edges rough-trimmed only, in quarter blue morocco by Sangorski. Official report of the Royal Commission appointed to investigate the Burke and Wills disaster: 'now very scarce and...
Price (AUD):
$2,100.00
Ref: #4504375
![Exploration Expedition. Letter from Commander Norman… [bound with] Report of Commander Norman,...](/pictures/thumb/4504376.jpg?v=1523422533)
Exploration Expedition. Letter from Commander Norman… [bound with] Report of Commander Norman, of H.M.C.S. "Victoria"…
Melbourne: John Ferres, Governmewnt Printer, 1862.
Landsborough and Walker search: with the maps
Two reports bound together, foolscap folio, the first report with 52 pp. and three folding maps; the second 32 pp.; fine in recent quarter dark blue morocco by Sangorski. Two important Burke and Wills related reports, with...
Price (AUD):
$3,850.00
Ref: #4504376
Report of the Commissioners…
Melbourne: John Ferres, 1862.
The ill fated expedition
Foolscap folio, 104 pp., together with two other relevant Victorian Parliamentary Papers 1864-66; modern quarter calf, the Ingleton copy with his bookplate and his shelfmark. The rare and important Royal Commission report on the ill-fated Burke and Wills expedition: 'very scarce and...
Price (AUD):
$3,250.00
Ref: #4503968
The Burke and Wills Exploring Expedition…
Melbourne: Wilson and Mackinnon, 1861.
Scarce pamphlet account
Octavo, pp. iv, 32 (double column); bound without wrappers in modern morocco gilt. Very scarce: one of the early impressions of this important pamphlet account of the expedition drawn from the original Melbourne Argus reports. It was reprinted many times between November...
Price (AUD):
$2,500.00
Ref: #2712355
Review of the Labours of Several Explorers of Australia…
Melbourne & Sydney: Clarson, Shallard and Co., 1863.
With the narrative of John King and a wood engraving of Burke's grave
Octavo pamphlet, original titling wrappers featuring a wood-engraving of Burke's grave at Cooper's Creek to rear cover, the Mackaness copy in recent blue cloth. In the original illustrated wrappers...
Price (AUD):
$3,200.00
Ref: #2712356
Robert O'Hara Burke and the Exploring Expedition of 1860.
London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1862. Octavo, with title-page vignette, a folding map and 16 pp. advertisements at rear; in the original green cloth. An important record of the ill-fated Burke and Wills expedition. This is the only edition of the one substantial contemporary publication of Burke's own journals. Australian...
Price (AUD):
$1,950.00
Ref: #3109982
Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria…
Melbourne: Wilson and Mackinnon, 1862. Octavo, with a lithographic portrait frontispiece and large folding map measuring 656 x 794 mm.; in handsome half crushed morocco by Sangorski with gilt lettering and raised bands. The first public printing of Landsborough's journals from the Burke and Wills relief expedition, featuring a splendid...
Price (AUD):
$1,200.00
Ref: #4106101
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
Progress Report of the Exploration Committee…
Melbourne: Mason and Firth, Printers, 1862.
Sixth Progress Report
Foolscap folio, 7 pp., printed on blue paper; stitched but unbound as issued, folded for the original "Exploration Committee" envelope, also present. The important Sixth Progress Report issued after the adverse findings of the Royal Commission enquiring into the disastrous Burke...
Price (AUD):
$575.00
Ref: #4504501
Sturt's third and final expedition as reported in 'The Edinburgh Evening Courant'...
Edinburgh: Davis Ramsay and Son, 1846.
'the entire country is of comparatively recent formation'
Large bifolium, 560 x 405 mm. Sturt's third expedition to inland Australia, reported to readers in Scotland. Departing from Adelaide in 1844 accompanied by John MacDougall Stuart and Harris Browne, the expedition ventured into some of...
Price (AUD):
$275.00
Ref: #4011254
Captain Sir Christopher Cole, R.N. K.C.B. Colonel of Marines, &c. &c. &c.
London: N.D., circa 1830.
John Septimus Roe's patron
Mezzotint engraving, 522 x 404 mm., noted in the plate as "proof" at bottom left, mounted and framed. A fine mezzotint portrait of Sir Christopher Cole, an important naval officer and significant as the patron to John Septimus Roe, Phillip Parker King's...
Price (AUD):
$2,550.00
Ref: #4003692
Northern Territory. Memorandum prepared under the direction of the Hon. L.E. Groom, Minister for External Affairs, July, 1909, in connexion with the Bill for the Acceptance of the Northern Territory…
Melbourne: Government printer, 1910.
The transfer to Federal administration
Foolscap folio, 36pp., staple bound, otherwise excellent condition. Detailed report on prospects in the remote north on the eve of transfer of administration from South Australia to the Federal government (finalised in 1911). With chapters on climate, the Aborigines, history of...
Price (AUD):
$350.00
Ref: #4106202
Enterprise in Tropical Australia.
London: Madden and Malcom, 1846. Octavo, two folding hand-coloured maps, contemporary half-calf with gilt labels, an attractive copy. The bookplate of Viscount Novar - formerly Ronald Munro Ferguson (1860 - 1934), the sixth Governor-General of Australia.
Price (AUD):
$685.00
Ref: #4106132
A Handbook for Colonists in Tropical Australia…
Singapore: printed for the editor, at Pinang, by Matthew Gregory Sr. 1862.
By a Northern Territory first fleeter, published in Singapore
Octavo, four plates (three folding) an excellent copy, the original blue printed wrappers bound in, early French owner's note to front wrapper, later quarter calf. The north coast of...
Price (AUD):
$9,850.00
Ref: #4002659
The Native Races of the Indian Archipelago.
London: Hippolyte Bailliere, 1853. Octavo, with five plates (four coloured) and two folding maps; half morocco. Important anthropological observations on the natives of New Guinea, but also on the North Australian Aborigines: chapter XII is devoted to Melville Island, Port Essington and North Australia in general, and one of the...
Price (AUD):
$1,450.00
Ref: #2709126
Journal of the Elder Scientific Exploring Expedition, 1891.
Adelaide: House of Assembly, 1893.
Predating the public report
Folio, with two large colour folding maps; uncut in recent cloth. One of only 750 copies published: this rare printing is not recorded by Ferguson. Sir Thomas Elder, who had earlier financed the first great desert journey of Ernest Giles, in...
Price (AUD):
$2,850.00
Ref: #2712386
Journal of the Elder Scientific Exploring Expedition…
Adelaide: C.E. Bristow, 1893. Octavo, complete with maps; original wrappers and boards, preserved in a brown morocco bookform box. One of only 500 copies, complete with folding maps: the first edition of the narrative of one of the last great Australian exploring expeditions, written by its leader. Lindsay led this...
Price (AUD):
$3,750.00
Ref: #2712376
North West Side of the Gulf of Carpentaria by M. Flinders…
London: G and W. Nicol, 1814.
Prepared for Flinder's Australian atlas
Engraved map measuring 668 x 469 mm., neatly backed upon linen. Original engraved chart of the Gulf of Carpentaria published for the atlas volume of Flinders' masterpiece A Voyage to Terra Australis. Charting this region was particularly difficult for...
Price (AUD):
$2,250.00
Ref: #4210139