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Le Capne. Jacques Cook. Membre de la Societe Royale de Londres
Paris: n.d., but circa 1778.
French version
Engraving, 240mm x 188mm. Fine French version of the Basire engraving of the William Hodges portrait, prepared as frontispiece for the French publication of the official account of the second voyage.
Price (AUD):
$550.00
Ref: #3007743
Illuminated presentation address from the German Association of Victoria to Prince Otto von Bismarck.
Melbourne: 1885.
The German Association of Victoria salutes the Iron Chancellor
Large folio-sized presentation album framing lithographed and hand-painted illuminated manuscript address, 435 x 315 mm, ink and watercolour, two large initials gilt with red and blue foliate decoration, and initials alternating red and blue, with moiré. This handsome illuminated.....
Price (AUD):
$5,750.00
Ref: #4504774
The Mutineers turning Lieutenant Bligh and part of the Officers and Crew adrift…
London: B.B. Evans, 1790.
The most infamous moment in naval history: Bligh cast adrift
Coloured aquatint engraving, 455 x 620 mm., mounted and framed. The mutiny on the Bounty, Bligh and his men cast adrift: one of the best known of all maritime images, which includes the only known portrait.....
Price (AUD):
$21,000.00
Ref: #4504091
Consequences of a Successfull French Invasion…
London: J. Gillray, nd. circa 1850.
The House is adjourned to Botany Bay
Engraving, 370 x 270 mm., handcoloured as issued, mounted. A famous, satirical look at the decision of the English parliament to create a penal settlement at Botany Bay, in contrast to the atmosphere of reform and concern.....
Price (AUD):
$2,200.00
Ref: #2711259
Tetes et Groupe de Sauvages du Camden-Shire (Nouvelle Galles meridionale).
Paris: Bulla, 1828.
Aboriginal portraits and camp-fire scene
Handcoloured lithograph, 385 x 290 mm. Engaging Australian Aboriginal portraits and camp scene from the official voyage account of Hyacinthe de Bougainville, who toured the South Pacific between 1824 and 1826. Edmond de la Touanne, whose work formed the basis of these.....
Price (AUD):
$1,250.00
Ref: #3402059
![HMS "Mæander" 44 guns, in a heavy squall [and] Shortening sail for anchoring. Sir Oswald Walters...](/pictures/thumb/2711255.jpg?v=1444191149)
HMS "Mæander" 44 guns, in a heavy squall [and] Shortening sail…
London: Ackermann, 1852.
Splendid marine lithographs by Queen Victoria's artist
Pair of colour lithographs, 375 x 535 mm. A fine pair of portraits of a splendid ship: these colour lithographs after original watercolours by Oswald Brierly were made by T. G. Dutton and printed by Day and Son for Ackermanns.....
Price (AUD):
$8,500.00
Ref: #2711255
HMS "Rattlesnake" Commanded by Captain Owen Stanley R.N.
London: Day and Son, 1852. Coloured lithograph measuring 250 x 350 mm., mounted and framed. Dramatic and finely executed coloured lithograph of the survey vessel HMS Rattlesnake by eminent marine artist Sir Oswald Brierly (1817 - 1894). Under the command of Captain Stanley Owen the Rattlesnake undertook an extensive marine.....
Price (AUD):
$4,500.00
Ref: #4005793
Explanation of a View of Hobart Town…
London: 1831. Engraving, 280 x 450 mm.; mounted. Scarce panoramic view of Hobart, complete with key description, based on an original painting by Augustus Earle. Earle arrived in Tasmania in January 1825 and painted "a series of linked watercolour views of Hobart Town which were later developed into this panorama.....
Price (AUD):
$1,250.00
Ref: #1700688
![Sonnenuntergang an der asiatischen... [Asian Sunset]. CANTON, Eduard HILDEBRANDT](/pictures/thumb/4504243.jpg?v=1512707460)
Sonnenuntergang an der asiatischen... [Asian Sunset].
[Canton]: circa 1863.
Old Canton through European eyes
Watercolour on paper, 210 x 300 mm; signed in pencil; mounted. Charming and atmospheric watercolour of the Guangzhou area, depciting the Pearl River at sundown, looking towards old Canton, with the Chigang Pagoda and the Temple of the Six Banyan Trees seen.....
Price (AUD):
$1,985.00
Ref: #4504243
Captain Cook.
London: J. Wilkes, 20 September, 1800.
Commemorative portrait
Engraving, 161 x 114mm. (plate size). A particularly interesting engraved portrait of Cook, after the original by Nathaniel Dance. The vignette at the base of the oval includes a minute but essentially accurate rendering of Webber's scene depicting Cook's death in Hawaii.....
Price (AUD):
$1,350.00
Ref: #3007572
Watercolour of Chefoo (Yantai) During the Taiping Rebellion (1850-1864).
Yantai, Shandong Province, China: 23 June 1860.
HMS Gunboat Opossum during the Taiping Rebellion
Watercolour, 230 x 380 mm, signed and dated ("Lindesay Brine fecit June 22 1860"); mounted. An attractive and skillfully executed drawing heightened with watercolour. Two Chinese figures carrying baskets have been sketched in the foreground but.....
Price (AUD):
$2,250.00
Ref: #4504244
Habitans de la Nouvelle Hollande. No. 43 Anecdote.
Paris: circa 1830. Aquatint, 200 x 233mm. (sheet size). View of Aboriginal shelters, with detail of a dingo and an armed warrior. The plate was prepared from the suite of native studies by John Heaviside Clarke, first published in Foreign Field Sports (London 1814) and here re-printed for a French.....
Price (AUD):
$175.00
Ref: #4106610
The Wreck of 'The Hereward' Maroubra Beach, Sydney.
circa 1898.
The Maroubra Beach shipwreck
Watercolour, 18.2 x 54 cms. mounted and framed. This watercolour is signed lower left, M Clarke and was painted as the clipper ship Hereward lay on its side wrecked at Maroubra Beach. The Hereward had blown onto soft sand at the northern end of.....
Price (AUD):
$2,850.00
Ref: #4209095
Engraved portrait captioned 'Louis Antoine Bougainville'.
Weimar: 1802.
Engraved from the medallion profile
Stipple engraving, 155 x 100mm (plate sized. Elegant portrait of the great Pacific navigator Bougainville, 'dessiné par Cless d'après un portrait en medaillon'. The portrait was engraved and printed for inclusion in Allgemeine geographische Ephemeriden (Weimar 1802).
Price (AUD):
$165.00
Ref: #4109643
The Oval Oxylobe. Flowering plant.
London: 1845. Handcoloured zincograph print, mounted. Handcoloured print of the Australian species Oxylobium Ovalifoloium, from Swan River, Western Australia. Species closely related to another legumious plant of Australia; Oxylobium retusum, "a handsome greenhouse shrub, native of King George's Sound in New Holland, whence seeds were brought by Mr. J. Richardson.....
Price (AUD):
$170.00
Ref: #1600281
Various-Leaved Labichea. Flowering plant.
circa 1845. Handcoloured zincograph, with accompanying page of text attached; mounted, approx 270 x 210mm. The Labichea is an Australian plant found on the Western Coast and also parts of Sydney. From The Floral Cabinet or Magazine of Exotic Botany by Knowles & Westcott.
Price (AUD):
$150.00
Ref: #1600282
Veronica Formosa. Flowering plant.
London: circa 1840. Handcoloured zincograph; mounted, picture approx 200 x 260 mm. A handcoloured print taken from The Floral Cabinet by Knowles & Westcott of the Australian Veronica Formosa. Accompanying text attached.
Price (AUD):
$150.00
Ref: #1600280
Debarquement A Erramanga, L'une Des Nlles Hebrides.
Paris: circa 1778. Engraving, 155 x 280 mm., some rubbing. View from the French edition of Cook's Second Voyage towards the South Pole, showing the landing at Erramanga, one of the New Hebrides Islands.
Price (AUD):
$150.00
Ref: #4007922
William Jackson Hooker.
London: Fisher Son & Co, 1834. Engraving, 230 x 145mm (plate size). Fine portrait of the great botanist as a young man. Hooker was born at Norwich in 1785. Following his father's fascination with exotic plants, he showed a precocious interest in botany and in 1809, through the encouragement of.....
Price (AUD):
$385.00
Ref: #4109665
The Royal Society Medal, in commemoration of Captain Cook…
London: Royal Society, 1784.
Bronze issue of the Royal Society medal
Bronze medal, 43 mm. diameter, relief bust of Captain Cook on recto, full-length relief portrait of Fortune leaning on a column while resting her hand upon a rudder which is affixed to a globe on verso. The bronze issue.....
Price (AUD):
$4,200.00
Ref: #4212270
"Capt. James Cook: Courage and Perseverance".
London: circa 1780.
Exceptionally rare medal, an early commemoration of Cook's death
Bronze medal, 37 mm. Extremely rare: the "Courage and Perseverance" medal, struck soon after news of Cook's death reached England. News of Cook's death was first published in Büsching's Wöchentlichte Nachrichten (Berlin, 1780) in early January 1780, via.....
Price (AUD):
$12,000.00
Ref: #4102433
Representation of the Death of Capt. Cook.
London: imprint clipped, but S.A. Cumberlege, 1 July, 1781. Engraving, 145 x 180 mm., laid paper, mounted. Early and very important representation of the death of Captain Cook: evidently based on John Webber's original painting, this engraving actually predates the more famous Bartolozzi engraving with which Webber's name is now.....
Price (AUD):
$750.00
Ref: #3003085
The Death of Captain Cook…
London: Sold in Spur Street, Leicester Square, n.d. [but 1784].
The very rare variant issue
Oval engraving, 350 x 265 mm. (image size); mounted. Rare variant of the famous engraving of Cook's death showing, as the caption notes, "Part of the Original Plate after Webber" and presumably quite literally printed.....
Price (AUD):
$7,750.00
Ref: #3603426
The Royal Society Medal, silver issue.
London: Royal Society, 1784.
One of 322 silver specimens
Silver medal, 43 mm. diameter; relief bust of Captain Cook on recto, full-length relief portrait of Fortune leaning on a column while resting her hand upon a rudder and globe on verso. The handsome silver issue of the Royal Society's formal.....
Price (AUD):
$7,850.00
Ref: #4304411