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Chart of the Coast Between Botany Bay and Broken Bay
London: John Stockdale, 1792.
Hunter and Bradley as pioneer map-makers
Engraved chart, 720 x 400 mm. Important early colonial map of the coastline of New South Wales, a direct result of searching for alternate settlement sites within easy sailing distance from Sydney Cove. John Hunter and William Bradley undertook surveys...
Price (AUD):
$2,850.00
Ref: #4306454
Captain John Hunter.
London: J. Stockdale, 1792. Engraving, 280 x 215 mm. (sheet size), good condition overall. Portrait of Captain Hunter seated, in naval uniform and holding papers in his left hand (one of which depicts a ship passing between two headlands). Captain John Hunter (1737 - 1821) was appointed second captain, under...
Price (AUD):
$650.00
Ref: #4307540
Leaf from a Psalter.
England: circa 1450. Illuminated leaf, 201 x 132 mm., 2-line initial in burnished gold on blue and pink ground, numerous 1-line initials in blue and burnished gold alternately, each with calligraphic penwork, 21 lines in gothic text. An unusual English Psalter leaf with free marginal decoration. The 2-line initial introduces...
Price (AUD):
$1,450.00
Ref: #2909745
Illuminated leaf from a Missal.
France: circa 1420. Illuminated leaf on vellum, 265 x 175 mm., double-column text written in an attractive bâtard script in dark brown ink, lightly ruled, rubrics in red, handsome 4-line initial in burnished gold leaf on a blue and red background with delicate white filigrans, initial two lines alternatively red...
Price (AUD):
$2,950.00
Ref: #2909771
Illuminated leaf from a Book of Hours.
Rouen: circa 1480-1500. Illuminated leaf, 166 x 112 mm., panel border on each side of the leaf composed of blue and gold acanthus, coloured flowers on hair-line stems; 4-line initial in dark red and heightened in grey and white on a liquid gold panel enclosing a coloured flower, three 1-line...
Price (AUD):
$1,750.00
Ref: #2909743
King David in Prayer.
Southern France: circa 1475.
Superb illuminated miniature of King David
Arched miniature depicting King David kneeling in prayer, 91 x 65mm., set in elaborate illuminated border on three sides; 4-line illuminated initial D (of "Domine" - O Lord), eight lines of gothic text on the other side;Mounted. A superb late...
Price (AUD):
$8,750.00
Ref: #3108951
Revd Richard Johnson, B.A. Chaplain to the Settlement in New South Wales…
Paternoster Row, London: Goff & Co., February 8th. 1787.
Rev. Richard Johnson; Chaplain of the first Christian service in Australia on February 3rd. 1788.
Engraving, 17 x 11 cms. title inscribed around oval half length portrait; vignette below depicting a redemption scene by a harbour with sailing ships, captioned with...
Price (AUD):
$750.00
Ref: #4504878
"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
Wolliger Kanguruh.
Germany: circa 1860.
Kangaroo and Pangolin
Lithograph, 205 x 290 mm. Handsomely executed lithograph of a kangaroo from a mid-nineteenth century German zoological handbook; also depicted is a Javanese pangolin (scaly ant-eater).
Price (AUD):
$250.00
Ref: #2904308
Portrait of The Honble. Augustus Keppel, Admiral of the Blue, Half Length in uniform.
London: Dickinson & Watson, 1779. Mezzotint, 38 x 28cm. Henry Keppel had first served in the Malacca Straits in the early 1840s during the campaign against the Borneo pirates. During that time he formed a close friendship with Sir James Brooke, who had been appointed rajah of Sarawak in perpetuity...
Price (AUD):
$950.00
Ref: #4504275
Patêt: Australians of King George's Sound.
London: Hippolyte Bailliere, 1842. Handcoloured stipple engraving, 220 x 140 mm. (leaf size). Portraits of two natives of King George's Sound, Western Australia, published in Prichard's The Natural History of Man. James Cowles Prichard (1786-1848) spent several decades amassing pictorial information to support his theory that all of the world's...
Price (AUD):
$350.00
Ref: #3309877
The District of Albany formerly t'Zuurenveld…
London: W. Faden, 1822.
"Fine pasture country, uninhabited and considered as neutral ground"
Engraved chart, hand coloured; 605 x 890 mm. Detailed topographic map of the Albany district (present day South Africa) presenting a wilderness mapped but largely untamed. This map was published by William Faden (1749-1836), one of the...
Price (AUD):
$1,500.00
Ref: #3912530
Engraving of Vanikoro captioned 'Monument à la mémoire de Lapèrouse'…
Paris: Didot Fréres, 1836. Engraving, 135 x 220 mm. Charming engraved plate depicting the memorial to La Pérouse erected by the Dumont d'Urville expedition to Vanikoro. The plate was published in Domeny de Rienzi's Océanie ou Cinquième partie du monde, revue géographique et ethnographique de la Malaisie, de la Micronésie.....
Price (AUD):
$120.00
Ref: #3509128
Original photographs of relics of the Vanikoro wreck with an official document celebrating their recovery…
Noumea, New Caledonia: August 1883.
The major retrieval of anchors and cannons from the La Pérouse wrecks in Vanikoro
Two albumen photographs, 135 x 200 mm, with manuscript captions in ink, mounted on card and framed together; with 3 pp. folio manuscript in ink on official paper with printed heading...
Price (AUD):
$6,400.00
Ref: #4505030
Portrait of La Pérouse.
London: G. & J. Robinson, 1798. Engraving, 255 x 190 mm. Attractive portrait of La Pérouse, "Commodore in the French Navy, born at Alby in 1741". Jean-Francois de Galoup, Compte de la Perouse was commissioned in 1785 by the King of France to head an expedition to explore the Pacific...
Price (AUD):
$600.00
Ref: #3007701
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"Célèbre Navigateur Français" [Portrait of La Pérouse].
Paris: Blaisot, n.d., circa 1800.
La Pérouse portrait
Line engraving, 190 x110 mm. (plate size). Fine portrait of the navigator published while his fate was still a mystery. La Pérouse, inscribed "Célèbre Navigateur Français." La Pérouse was born at Albi in 1741 and was commissioned in 1785 by Louis XVI.....
Price (AUD):
$450.00
Ref: #3007690
Portrait of La Pérouse.
Paris: Dufour & Mulat, n.d., but circa 1820. Engraving, 210 x 150 mm. (plate size). A fine portrait. La Pérouse, was born at Alby in 1741. Compte de la Perouse was commissioned in 1785 by the King of France to head an expedition to explore the Pacific Ocean. He was...
Price (AUD):
$450.00
Ref: #3007714
La Perouse from a Miniature in the possession of La Perouse's niece at Alby
London: Charles Knight, circa 1830. Stipple engraving, 140 x 110 mm (plate size). Published under the superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. Fine. La Pérouse was born at Albi in 1741 and was commissioned in 1785 by Louis XVI to head an expedition to the Pacific...
Price (AUD):
$385.00
Ref: #4007938
La Perouse. Engraved…. from a Miniature in the possession of La Perouse's niece at Alby…
London: William Mackenzie, circa 1840. Stipple engraving, 170 x 120 mm (plate size). Good. Almost identical to the portrait printed by Charles Knight (Nan Kivell & Spence p.171), this one has the addition of bushes in the background and the sky. La Pérouse was born at Albi in 1741 and...
Price (AUD):
$385.00
Ref: #4007942
Entrée de la rivière de Païou (île Vanikoro).
Vanikoro (Santa Cruz Islands) and ?Paris: c.1838 and possibly worked on later.
La Pérouse's final encampment on Vanikoro
Pencil drawing, 245 x 407 mm; inscribed at the lower left "E. Goupil" and dated 1838; titled as above on mount. This fine original drawing from the Dumont d'Urville expedition of 1837-1840...
Price (AUD):
$40,000.00
Ref: #4504840
Savage of New Caledonia Throwing a Dart.
London: circa 1800. Engraving. 250 x 200mm, mounted. A fine portrait of a New Caledonian man by Piron. This image was first published in Labillardière's account of the D'Entrecasteaux expedition. Piron was the official artist on the expedition, in which Australia was circumnavigated twice, and the islands surrounding investigated for...
Price (AUD):
$250.00
Ref: #1600211
Cabinet Portrait of "Lady Carington", wife of the Governor General of NSW.
London: Alexander Bassano, circa 1875.
Wife of the Governor of NSW
Cabinet card, measuring 165 x 110 mm., early manuscript annotation, the card in very good condition overall. Charming cabinet card photographic portrait of the Honourable Cecilia Margaret Harbord, who married the future governor of New South Wales, Sir Charles...
Price (AUD):
$440.00
Ref: #4111703
Vue du Village de Nama (Vanikoro).
Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1833. Lithographed view, 218 x 297mm., mounted. The voyage of the Favorite under Laplace's command was aimed at re-establishing French influence over Indo-China and the Pacific as well as gathering detailed trading information, hydrographic data and natural history specimans. Although it was a difficult voyage, scientifically it...
Price (AUD):
$400.00
Ref: #2802460
Rivière de Derwent (Van Diemen).
Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1833. Aquatint view, 222 x 320 mm.; mounted. A fine view of the Derwent River, one of only two Tasmanian illustrations published from the La Place voyage. The Favorite arrived in Hobart on 11 July 1831, both ship and crew in a weakened condition. Their stay was...
Price (AUD):
$1,800.00
Ref: #2112730