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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
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.....
Price (AUD):
$225.00
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.....
Price (AUD):
$175.00
Ref: #4012365
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
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, based on the original engraved chart in Hawkesworth's official account of the first voyage. This was the earliest charting of the coast of Queensland; it details the.....
Price (AUD):
$1,400.00
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; 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 of the east.....
Price (AUD):
$2,200.00
Ref: #2904309
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[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.....
Price (AUD):
$9,500.00
Ref: #4311660
Portrait of Capt. James Cook.
London: J.Webber, June 4, 1784.
Proof impression before letters
Stipple engraving, oval 120 x 95 mm, printed in sepia; a proof before letters; mounted. Rare proof impression before letters of John Webber's and Francesco Bartolozzi's fine oval portrait of Captain Cook. This portrait has a very large margin, unusual for.....
Price (AUD):
$5,500.00
Ref: #4504227
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.....
Price (AUD):
$750.00
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.....
Price (AUD):
$2,850.00
Ref: #4504359
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.....
Price (AUD):
$11,000.00
Ref: #3911457
Woman reading in an Oriental setting…
c.1890.
Reading in an Ottoman inspired Interior
Oil on canvas, signed lower right 920 x 490 mm, in original Melbourne frame. This large and attractive oil painting is in the original timber frame with the label of the Melbourne maker, W. & C. Dean, Collins Street on verso. It is.....
Price (AUD):
$28,500.00
Ref: #4504862
Chart of part of New South Wales with plans of the harbours…
London: Joseph Cross, but sold by James Wyld, 1828.
With an inset depicting Port Phillip
Large hand-coloured engraved map, 1180 x 650 mm., dissected and backed on linen as issued, in an old case-binding of blue half pebbled morocco, lettered to spine. One of the great maps of New South.....
Price (AUD):
$12,500.00
Ref: #4008014
Chart of part of New South Wales with plans of the harbours…
London: Joseph Cross, Mar. 18th 1827, corrected to 1829.
With an inset depicting Port Phillip
Large hand-coloured engraved map, 990 x 640 mm., dissected and backed on linen as issued; folding into an early binding of half blue grained calf, marbled sides. One of the great maps of New South.....
Price (AUD):
$10,500.00
Ref: #4401817
(Native Huts) Nlle Hollande and Nlle Zelande…
Paris: Tastu, 1833.
Indigenous dwellings of Australia and New Zealand
Hand-coloured lithograph depicting four native huts, 340 x 520 mm., very good. Hand-coloured lithograph depicting four native huts, two from New Zealand, one from Jervis Bay (with a distinctive cone shape) and the other from King George's Sound. The Astrolabe.....
Price (AUD):
$850.00
Ref: #4007898
A Map of the Discoveries Made by Captn. Willm. Dampier…
London: John Harris, 1744.
Emanuel Bowen map of Dampier's discoveries
Engraved chart measuring 245 x 410 mm. (sheet size). The fine Bowen map of William Dampier's discoveries along the Papuan coastline and adjacent islands. Dampier sailed in the Roebuck in January of 1699, landing in Shark Bay, Western Australia in.....
Price (AUD):
$1,800.00
Ref: #4107419
Map of New Guinea.
Amsterdam: Jansson, 1646.
Across the Pacific to New Guinea
Engraved map, 185 x 435 mm.; with central fold, in fine condition and mounted. Important early map of the Pacific with insets of the Le Maire Strait and New Guinea from Commelin's compendium of Dutch voyages, Begin Ende Voortgangh. This map.....
Price (AUD):
$2,250.00
Ref: #3602358
James Cook.
New York: circa 1886.
After the dance portrait
Mezzotint engraving with facsimile signature below portrait, 254 x 178 mm. This beautiful engraving, after the portrait of Cook by Nathaniel Dance, was published circa 1886 for The Picturesque Atlas of Australasia. The Picturesque Atlas publishing company was set up to publish.....
Price (AUD):
$450.00
Ref: #4504225
Portrait of Charles Darwin.
London: published by William Mackenzie, circa 1885.
Portrait of the great scientist as an old man
Steel engraving, 107 x 134 mm. within larger sheet, An engraved portrait of the legendary naturalist Charles Darwin. The engraving is taken from an image by the famous studio of Elliott & Fry, specialists.....
Price (AUD):
$585.00
Ref: #3111119
A Map of all those Parts of the Territory of New South Wales...
London: John Stockdale, 1792.
First exploration of the Sydney basin
Engraved chart measuring 415 x 548 mm. Important early map of the colony showing both coastal surveys and the extent of inland exploration attempted during the first three years of settlement. William Dawes is remembered as one of the most.....
Price (AUD):
$2,450.00
Ref: #4307537
Plan of Cape Town...
London: William Day, 1854.
The charm of Table Bay
Lithographed plan; 340 x 425 mm. Attractive English map of Cape Town, showing the street plan of the city with detail of public parks and thoroughfares, the waterfront onto Table Bay, cemeteries, hospitals, quarries and the like. The lower portion of.....
Price (AUD):
$400.00
Ref: #3912476
Tabula Indiæ Orientalis…
Amsterdam: 1662.
Tasman map by Blaeu's apprentice
Engraved map, 460 x 560 mm., with original handcolouring; mounted. Fine early map of the East Indies showing the north-Australian discoveries of Abel Tasman. Frederick de Wit was one of the foremost map-makers in Holland, whose 'maps were distinguished by their excellent craftsmanship.....
Price (AUD):
$2,250.00
Ref: #2810828
Death of Captain Cook.
London? circa 1800.
Popular issue
Engraving, 16.5 x 22 cm. (image size), a good strong impression, mounted. An unusual version of the famous scene at Kealakekua Bay, in a very good impression. Although the original image on which this is loosely based is clearly that of Webber, the engraving bears.....
Price (AUD):
$750.00
Ref: #3003086