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"Habitans de la Nouvelle Hollande."
circa 1830.
Aborigines of Nouvelle Hollande
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, similar to those in the rare ethnographic survey prepared by Rudolf.....
Price (AUD):
$285.00
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
Copper Medal in commemoration of his 1740-1744 Circumnavigation…
London: Thomas Pingo, 1747.
Anson's circumnavigation and defeat of the French
Copper medal, 43.3 mm., with Anson crowned by Victory at right, on the reverse Victory on hippocamp, the names of Anson's officers around; corrected CAMPBEL variety, remnants of 'H' faintly visible, about uncirculated, some mint color remaining, slight abrasions.....
Price (AUD):
$2,450.00
Ref: #4302371
Copper Medal for the 1740-1744 Circumnavigation…
London: Thomas Pingo, 1747.
Circumnavigation and victory
Copper medal, 43.3 mm., with Anson crowned by Victory at right, on the reverse Victory on hippocamp, the names of Anson's officers around; CAMPHEL issue with 'B' faintly visible on 'H', about uncirculated, a few minor blemishes to the rims. An excellent medal.....
Price (AUD):
$3,450.00
Ref: #4302372
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
Melbourne: circa 1880.
The Yarra River in dawn light
Watercolour on paper, 355 x 540mm, mounted and framed; signed lower right. A lovely example of Ashton's atmospheric watercolours, illustrating his sensitive use of colour and light; the steam ships and the warehouses beyond are painted delicately at sunrise when the.....
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):
$6,000.00
Ref: #4505126
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: #4505127
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
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[A proof version of the portrait of Joseph Banks, later captioned "Mr. Banks"].
[London: S. Hooper & J.R. Smith, before 15 April 1773].
Proof engraving: Joseph Banks, returned on Cook's Endeavour
Mezzotint engraving, 555 x 376 mm; mounted. Exceptionally rare and unrecorded artist's proof version of Benjamin West's famous portrait of Joseph Banks, differing significantly in detail from the mezzotint as subsequently published.....
Price (AUD):
$32,500.00
Ref: #4505154
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
Original drawing of a scene in Mauritius…
Mauritius: 1801-1803.
Rare original view in Mauritius by one of Baudin's artists
Pencil sketch, 135 x 195 mm.; laid down on the original blue-paper mount, signed on the lower left of the mount and captioned. A striking pencil sketch by the Baudin voyage artist Milbert, done in the south-west of.....
Price (AUD):
$12,500.00
Ref: #4504851
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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
Point Nago Spirito Santo
South America: 7 January 1832.
Original panorama from the Beagle voyage
Original watercolour, 85 x 390mm., inscribed "Point Naga S.65.W. H.M.S Beagle Jan 7 1832" lower left; "Spirito Santo 3.20 distant 5 miles" lower centre; on verso inscribed "Fanny 1836"; backed on tissue and mounted. Striking coastal profile, thought to.....
Price (AUD):
$16,500.00
Ref: #4306469
Queen Adelaide.
London: Colnaghi, 1831.
The reigning queen for whom Adelaide was named
Engraved oval portrait, 29 x 24 mm. Sir William Beechey, well known English portrait painter, was elected A.R.A. in 1793. In the same year he painted a portrait of Queen Charlotte which procured him the appointment of portrait painter.....
Price (AUD):
$950.00
Ref: #3111081
Two fascinating broadsheets for his travelling zoo.
Germany? circa 1851.
Travelling menagerie including an Australian dingo
Two broadsheets (400 x 243 mm.; 218 x 380 mm.). Two wonderful German broadsheets, advertising a travelling zoo. Among the fascinating animals listed as being exhibited, the Australian dingo makes a rather surprising inclusion. The 1840s and 1850s had witnessed a......
Price (AUD):
$3,200.00
Ref: #3706061