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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).
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$165.00
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Ref: #4109643
A view of Moorea…
London: Thomas Martyn, 1787.
Scarce uncoloured version
Uncoloured aquatint, 490 x 690 mm.; mounted. An unusual uncoloured version of the famous aquatint by James Cleveley, one of the four remarkable views of the Pacific done after the Cook voyages. The Cleveley aquatints were issued in various different states; one version...
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$2,850.00
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Ref: #2706953
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...
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$6,500.00
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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. The...
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$170.00
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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.
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$150.00
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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.
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$150.00
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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.
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$150.00
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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 Sir...
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$385.00
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Ref: #4109665
A Chart of the Islands discovered in the Neighbourhood of Otaheite.
London: Alexander Hogg, circa 1780. Engraved chart, 185 x 355 mm, with decorative title cartouche in the upper right corner. An early map of the Society Islands in the South Pacific published by Alexander Hogg to illustrate the voyages and discoveries of the sea captains Byron, Wallis, Carteret and Cook...
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$225.00
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Ref: #4012366
Chart of the Friendly Islands.
London: Alexander Hogg, circa 1786. Engraved chart, 220 x 330 mm. Chart showing Cook's route around the Tongan Islands, which he discovered in 1773. The Islands are also known as the Friendly Islands because of the reception that Captain Cook received. Published for Anderson's New, Authentic and Complete Collection of Voyages round the World.
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$175.00
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Ref: #4012365
Sacred to Cook's immortal name…
London: circa 1788.
Cook's immortal name
Engraved view with poem, 195 x 105 mm., laid down on card. Rare Cook engraving, with commemorative poem, after a drawing by Thomas Stothard (1755-1834). Stothard was elected to the Royal Academy in 1794 and often collaborated with William Blake, although the present engraving...
Price (AUD):
$725.00
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Ref: #3002956
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...
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$750.00
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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...
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$8,750.00
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Ref: #3603426
Carte d'une Partie de la Cote de la Nle. Galles Meridle…
Paris: Saillant et Nyon, 1774.
Cape Tribulation to Cape York
Engraved map, 295 x 335 mm.; original folds. French edition of Cook's chart, which was published the previous year in an engraving by John Cheevers after Cook's original for Hawkesworth's official account of the first voyage. This was the earliest...
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$1,400.00
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Ref: #4504222
Carte de la Nlle. Galles Meridle…
Paris: Saillant et Nyon, 1774.
Point Hicks to Cape York
Engraved map, 370 x 785 mm.; original folds; with good margins; mounted. Perhaps Cook's most famous chart, here in its first French version, prepared for the French language edition of the official account of the Endeavour voyage. The magnificent sweep...
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$2,200.00
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Ref: #2904309
Chart of Part of the Coast of New South Wales…
London: 1773.
The Queensland coast charted by Cook on the Endeavour
Engraved map, 325 x 360 mm. Mounted. The earliest charting of the coast of Queensland, commemorating one of the most memorable passages of Cook's first voyage. This map, prepared by Cook himself, details the tracks and anchorages of the...
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$2,850.00
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Ref: #3502575
A Chart of the South-East Part of Newfoundland…
London: Printed for R. Sayer & I. Bennet at No. 53 in Fleet Street, "10 May 1770" but issued 1775.
Gilbert and Lane completing Cook's Newfoundland Survey
Double page engraved chart, 518 x 716 mm. A splendid map from Cook and Lane's Newfoundland Survey. Prepared in 1770, and carrying that...
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$3,250.00
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Ref: #4504754
![Captain James Cook]. COOK: PORTRAIT, Nathaniel DANCE, after, John Keyes SHERWIN](/pictures/thumb/4311660.jpg?v=1427773338)
[Captain James Cook].
London: J K Sherwin, circa 1779.
Very first proof copy of first separately issued portrait of Cook
Engraving, artist's proof copy 275 x 235 mm, mounted and framed. A proof impression (before title, date and some letters) of the first issue of the first separately published engraving of Captain Cook.This...
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$15,000.00
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Ref: #4311660
Capt: James Cook, F.R.S…
New York: Benjamin Gomez, circa 1779. Engraving, 13 x 10 cm. mounted and in a handsome early timber frame. Engraved portrait appeared as frontispiece to the New York octavo edition of third voyage, the image is based on Nathaniel Dance's original portrait, commissioned by Joseph Banks, for which Cook sat...
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$1,850.00
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Ref: #4504867
The Death of Capt. Alexander Hood...
London: Jeffryes & Co, Ludgate Hill, 1 October, 1798.
A veteran of Cook's second voyage
Handcoloured mezzotint measuring 554 x 655 mm. (plate size). Splendid mezzotint depicting the dramatic death of Alexander Hood, a Royal Navy captain who served under Captain Cook in his early career. This appears to be...
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$5,850.00
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Ref: #4211259
The fortunate escape of Capt. Cook from the furious natives…
London: circa 1790. Engraving, handcoloured, page size approx 160 x 240 mm; tear across the bottom of the plate has been expertly repaired. View from Cook's Second Voyage to the Pacific 1772-1775, showing Cook leaving Erramanga, one of the New Hebrides in 1774 by row boat with hostile natives ashore.Published...
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$750.00
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Ref: #3003089
Balaguns or Summer Habitations…
London: Boydell, 1808.
Summer habitations in far eastern Russia
Handcoloured aquatint, 330 x 455 mm. Fine view of the island of Cracatoa from Webber's magnificent series of views of the Pacific. This handcoloured aquatint is from the 1808 publication Views of the South Seas, and like other views by John...
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$2,850.00
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Ref: #4504359
Sir Hugh Palliser Bart.
London: published by the artist, 1787.
Cook's patron
Mezzotint three-quarter length portrait, trimmed very close to the plate mark, a few spots and some rubbing but overall an excellent impression. Mounted. Rare and impressive portrait of one of Cook's great friends and champions.Palliser (1722-1796) was born in Yorkshire, entering the...
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$1,950.00
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Ref: #4005780
Large illuminated leaf from an Antiphonal centred on the word Jerusalem.
Venice: circa 1430. Illuminated leaf on vellum, 469 x 353 mm., with illuminated initial "I", 122 x 90 mm. (body of initial); initial on a burnished gold ground and painted in rich colours of blue, red, green and ochre, the initial extended with lush leafy decoration in similar colours with...
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$11,000.00
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Ref: #3911457