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"Natives pursuing Kangaroos in the neighbourhood of Sydney…
[England]: circa, 1820.
Nonplussed kangaroos on Sydney harbour
Single leaf from a scrapbook, 215 x 260 mm., the engravings and captions neatly cut-out and pasted down, views to both sides of the sheet; in a nineteenth century frame. Marvellous page from a scrap book with a naïve scene depicting "Natives...
Price (AUD):
$2,450.00
Ref: #4504876
"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
Captain J. Cook.
London: Wetton & Jarvis, 1822.
The illustrious persons series
Engraving, 92mm x 63mm (plate size);. For the series Portraits of illustrious persons, after the famous portrait by Dance.
Price (AUD):
$485.00
Ref: #3007570
Captn James Cook F.R.S
Philadelphia: (Dobelbower, Key and Simpson), 1796. Engraved portrait, 155 x 100 mm. Oval engraved portrait of Cook in profile.Originally issued in The World Displayed, or A Curious Collection of Voyages and Travels Selected and Compiled from the Writers of all Nations by Smart, Goldsmith & Johnson.
Price (AUD):
$375.00
Ref: #4007920
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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
Sauvage de la Nouvelle-hollande avenant de combattre (Port Jackson).
Paris: Langlume, 1840. Single sheet measuring 305 x 222 mm., wove paper, lithograph. Confronting image of a Port Jackson Aborigine, lithographed after a sketch by Jacques Arago, official artist of the expedition commanded by Louis de Freycinet.This portrait is stylistically similar to the work of Arago's predecessor Nicolas Petit, who...
Price (AUD):
$650.00
Ref: #3309879
Tamor des îles Carolines et sa femme, vus sur l'île Tinian.
Paris: circa 1822.
A timeless neoclassical depiction of the Caroline islands
Hand-coloured engraving, 240 x 320 mm (plate size). small paper repair at bottom margin else very good condition. A famous portrait of a man and woman of the Caroline islands, depicted in high neoclassical style. This engraving is derived...
Price (AUD):
$380.00
Ref: #3509162
Original pen and ink sketch, captioned "L'Intérieur d'un ménage, à Coupang"...
Timor: during the expedition of the Uranie, 1818.
Beautiful original sketch drawn on the Uranie expedition by Freycinet's official artist
Fine watercolour, the image 198 x 265 mm., on laid paper; pencil note "Mr. Arago" in Freycinet's later hand at bottom left; framed. Fine watercolour depiction of a scene in...PRICE ON REQUEST
Pars Orbis. Sacrae geographiae tabulam ex antiquissimorum cultor…
Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, 1571.
An unexplained proto-Australia: a single southern continent for the first time
Copper-engraved double-hemisphere world map, 335 x 545 mm.; mounted. A very rare sixteenth century map depicting an island roughly in the position of Australia. Montanus shows for the first time on a world map a....
Price (AUD):
$19,850.00
Ref: #4504784
Captain James Cook (proof copy).
London: for the Proprietor, 1821.
Proof version of a Captain Cook portrait plate
Engraving, printed upon india paper sheet measuring 180 x 130mm., laid upon larger sheet;. Proof version on india paper, marked "proof" to lower left-hand corner. This portrait is based on the oil painting by Nathaniel Dance now...
Price (AUD):
$650.00
Ref: #3007744
Captain James Cook.
London: for the Proprietor, 1821.
After the dance portrait
Engraving, 180 x 130 mm. Engraving after the famous portrait by Dance.
Price (AUD):
$325.00
Ref: #3007741
Shipping on the Yarra - early Morning c.1880…
Melbourne: c.1880.
The Yarra River in Dawn Light.
Watercolour on paper, 355 x 540mm, mounted and framed; signed lower right. Julian Rossi Ashton (1851-1942) had exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts, London before emigrating to Australia in 1878. He first lived in Melbourne for five years before moving to...
Price (AUD):
$21,000.00
Ref: #4504885
Original watercolour, captioned: "Chinese Street in Macao".
Macau: probably mid-1844.
Original watercolour of a street of Chinese shops in Macau
Watercolour, 370 x 274 mm; ink caption at centre below; original cropping marks and marginal annotations relating to subsequent publication; now in acid-free mount to original framing dimensions. An important original and atmospheric watercolour, recently rediscovered, depicting...
Price (AUD):
$15,500.00
Ref: #4504037
Original watercolour, captioned: "To ti kong Small Temple nr. Macao".
Macau: probably mid-1844.
Original watercolour of an important Macau temple
Watercolour, 215 x 290 mm; ink caption at lower right; in mount. An important original watercolour by the English artist and architect Edward Ashworth who travelled through Macau and Hong Kong in the 1840s. The T'ou T'ei Temple in Patane...
Price (AUD):
$6,000.00
Ref: #4504038
Asia for the Elucidation of the Abbe Gaultier's Geographical Games.
London: John Harris, 1832.
Scarce educational game featuring Australia
Engraved map, 345 x 432 mm. (image size), original hand-colouring. An attractive children's educational map of Australia, Asia and the east coast of Africa.The map is based on the work of the Abbé Gaultier, an educationalist originally from Piedmont, who had...
Price (AUD):
$675.00
Ref: #3809889
A Plane Chart of the World on Mercator's Projection, With the Tracks & Discoveries of the Principal and most recent Navigators…
London: John Harris, 1832. Engraved map, 315 x 432 mm. (image size), original hand-colouring. An attractive children's educational map of the WorldThe map is based on the work of the Abbé Gaultier, an educationalist originally from Piedmont, who had settled in France in 1780 and later fled the revolution to...
Price (AUD):
$650.00
Ref: #3809892
Engraved plate captioned 'The Kanguroo an Animal found on the Coast of New Holland'.
London: J. Cooke, 1787-1790. Original eighteenth century engraving, 120 x 175 mm. (image size). Engraving of Stubb's kangaroo, disbound from Bankes' New System of Geography.
Price (AUD):
$200.00
Ref: #2908542
The Great South Sea Caterpillar, transform'd into a Bath Butterfly.
London: H. Humphrey, 4 July 1795.
Making fun of Sir Joseph Banks, who metamorphoses into a splendid butterfly
Hand coloured engraving, 350 x 250 mm.; fine; mounted and framed. The rare 1795 first issue of this splendid satirical cartoon of Sir Joseph Banks, ridiculed for using the Royal Order of...
Price (AUD):
$21,000.00
Ref: #4504783
"Portrait of Sr. Joseph Banks. President of the Royal Society" (early caption)…
England: circa 1795-1800.
An unrecorded version of Banks's favourite portrait, by the daughter of a friend
Pastel on paper backed onto linen 62 x 50cm; in the original gilt frame and glass. A compelling lifetime portrait of Sir Joseph Banks at the height of his powers, recently rediscovered in England...
Price (AUD):
$65,000.00
Ref: #4504922
Joseph Banks Esq.
London: W. Dickinson, 30 January 1774.
The classic portrait of Banks as a young man
Mezzotint portrait, 510 x 370 mm.; a very good impression, mounted and framed. In this fine mezzotint Joseph Banks " the father of Australia" is shown sitting confidently at his desk, surrounded by the accoutrements...
Price (AUD):
$14,500.00
Ref: #4504653
Sir Jph. Banks (Voyageur-Naturaliste,) Président de la société royale…
Paris? circa 1824.
French portrait of Sir Joseph Banks
Stipple-engraved portrait, 204 x 120 mm. Fine head-and-shoulders portrait of Sir Joseph Banks by Ambrose Tardieu. Banks is shown wearing the star and garter' the comments that the image was based on the painting by Sir Thomas Phillips, and the borrowing...
Price (AUD):
$425.00
Ref: #4103466
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...
Price (AUD):
$450.00
Ref: #3002910
Andrew Kippis, D.D. F.R.S. & S.A.
London: Thos. Macklin, 20 October, 1792.
Earliest major portrait of Cook's biographer
Stipple engraving, 290 x 210 mm., An uncommon portrait of Cook's great first biographer, stipple-engraved by the great artist Bartolozzi, famous for his role in producing many of the engravings relating to Cook's third voyage, including a portrait...
Price (AUD):
$1,250.00
Ref: #4308580
Captain James Cook, F.R.S.
London: William Strahan & Cadell, 1777.
The Hodges portrait
Engraved portrait, 265 x 200 mm. Fine portrait of Cook after William Hodges. This oval head-and-shoulders portrait of the navigator as a young man was commissioned from the engraver Basire to be used as the frontispiece of the official account of...
Price (AUD):
$1,450.00
Ref: #3103115