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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
Carte reduite des mers comprises entre l'Asie, l'Amerique apelees par les navigateurs Mer du Sud ou Mer Pacifique…
Paris: Deposit des cartes, plans et journaux de la Marine, 1756.
Imagining Australia's eastern coastline conjoined with New Guinea
Engraved map, 572 x 852 mm, on quite thick paper; attractively coloured with background beige wash for sea areas; folding into an original boards binding, lined with some old manuscript; manuscript.....
Price (AUD):
$4,750.00
Ref: #4504220
Carte des variations de la Boussole...
Paris: Dépôt Génerale de la Marine, 1765.
Edmund Halley and William Dampier's work carried on by Bellin
Chart, engraved; 620 x 930 mm. Mid eighteenth century world map showing magnetic variation through the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. This map represents decades of work by several enlightenment luminaries. The scientific study.....
Price (AUD):
$6,750.00
Ref: #3912467
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
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
Carte très Curieuse de la Mer du Sud…
Paris: l'Honore & Chatelain, 1719.
One of the most richly decorated world maps ever produced
Engraved map, with fine hand colouring, printed in four sheets joined, 860 x 1440 mm.; mounted and framed. A splendid example of Henri Châtelain's rare and magnificent wall chart of the Pacific and its surrounds.....
Price (AUD):
$30,000.00
Ref: #4504770
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
Far O'er the Sea… Poetry by Mrs Hemans Music by S.H.Marsh.
Sydney: J.R.Clarke, circa 1857.
Sydney Harbour
Illustrated tinted lithographed sheet music cover. Edmund Thomas (1827-1867, painter and lithographer) arrived in Port Phillip in 1852, where he spent a productive few years before he moved to Sydney in late 1854. Having produced a well received album of Melbourne views before leaving.....
Price (AUD):
$450.00
Ref: #4504224
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
Fine watercolour portrait believed to be Harriette Ann Simson (1858-1942) of Launceston, Tasmania.
Launceston: Circa 1875.
A fine Colonial portrait with Tasmanian interest
Watercolour portrait, 18 x 14.8 cm (mount size), very fine; preserved in a handsome folding travelling folder of burgundy roan, lined with green moire silk, gilt, the picture surround with gilt fillets and blind-embossed. A remarkable portrait in fine original.....
Price (AUD):
$6,500.00
Ref: #3809895
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