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Habitans du Port du Roi Georges.
Paris: Tastu, 1833. Lithograph, 225 x 320 mm.; mounted. Fine original lithograph from the official account of the Dunont d'Urville expedition, depicting a group of West Australian Aborigines roasting lizards over a fire. Louis de Sainson, the topographical draughtsman travelling with the expedition, made many detailed studies of the local.....
Price (AUD):
$2,250.00
Ref: #2901048
Vue du port du Roi Georges (Nouvelle Hollande).
Paris: 1833. Lithographed view, coloured; 185 x 350mm, mounted. Beautifully coloured engraving of a view of the Port of King George, illustrating the voyage of Dumont D'urville. The Astrolabe made several points of call along the Australian coastline, particularly in New South Wales and north-western Australia, as well as New.....
Price (AUD):
$1,500.00
Ref: #2807703
Bronze Medal for the Coquille voyage.
Paris: Andrieu & de Puymaurin, 1822.
Duperrey's Coquille voyage
Bronze medal, 50 mm, An excellent example of the very uncommon bronzed copper medal commemorating the first voyage of Duperrey to the Pacific. A similar example of this bronze version is held in the Rex Nan Kivell collection of the National.....
Price (AUD):
$4,100.00
Ref: #3903102
Great Brown King Fisher.
London: John Stockdale, 1789.
Fine depiction of the kookaburra
Original engraving, 260 x 190 mm. very good condition, mounted. Fine impression of the so-called "Great Brown Kings Fisher" or Laughing Kookaburra. This engraving is taken from Governor Phillip's Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay published by Stockdale in late.....
Price (AUD):
$650.00
Ref: #2908539
View of Sydney in New South Wales (Taken from Bell Mount).
London: James Whittle & Richard Holmes Laurie, 1814.
From Bellevue Hill
Engraving on paper, 290 x 430 mm; a good, well-inked impression. A lovely, early Sydney view: the city and Harbour is shown from the Bellevue Hill and Vaucluse area, looking westward. This fine engraving was published by Laurie and.....
Price (AUD):
$7,750.00
Ref: #4108638
Views of Australia…
London: undated but all circa 1853.
The settlement of Brisbane and the Darling Downs; rare pictorial records.
Eleven black and white lithographs: numbers 1-5 and 7-9 approx 255 x 330 mm (matted size) and 2 approx 280 x 375 mm (conforming to those prepared for "Fifteen views of Australia in.....
Price (AUD):
$12,500.00
Ref: #3812956
Illuminated leaf from a Book of Hours.
France: Paris or Rouen, circa 1475-1500.
Late medieval manuscript leaf.
Illuminated leaf, 215 x 139 mm., with an illuminated panel border on each side of the leaf, one 2-line initial, ten 1-line initial and eight line-fillers, 18 lines of gothic bookhand; mounted. A beautifully illuminated leaf from a luxurious fifteenth-century.....
Price (AUD):
$2,750.00
Ref: #2909770
Illuminated leaf from a Book of Hours.
Paris or Rouen: circa 1475-1500. Illuminated leaf, 215 x 139 mm., with a panel border on both sides of the leaf composed of blue and gold acanthus and coloured flowers and leaves on shaped grounds of liquid gold, three 2-line initials in pink with white tracery, naturalistic branch line fillers.....
Price (AUD):
$1,950.00
Ref: #3504685
Illuminated leaf from a Book of Hours.
Paris or Rouen: circa 1495. Illuminated leaf, 215 x 152 mm., with a panel border on both sides of the leaf composed of blue and gold acanthus leaves and coloured flowers and leaves on diagonal grounds of liquid gold, illuminated initials in white tracery on pink grounds, and numerous 1-line.....
Price (AUD):
$1,950.00
Ref: #2909699
Illuminated leaf from a Book of Hours.
France: circa 1480. Illuminated leaf, 182 x 118 mm., with a panel border of liquid gold on one side and red ground on the other, nine 1-line and two 2-line initials in red and blue and gold, eighteen lines of text;. A well-illuminated leaf from a French Book of Hours.....
Price (AUD):
$1,350.00
Ref: #2909716
Illuminated leaf from a Book of Hours.
Northern France (probably Paris): circa 1475-1500. Illuminated leaf, 215 x 139 mm., with an illuminated panel border on each side of the leaf, one 2-line initial, eleven 1-line initial and nine line-fillers, 18 lines of neat gothic bookhand. A beautifully illuminated leaf from a French Book of Hours with all.....
Price (AUD):
$2,750.00
Ref: #2909769
Original watercolour "L'Intérieur d'un ménage, à Coupang"...
Timor: during the expedition of the Uranie, 1818.
Beautiful original drawing from the Uranie expedition by Freycinet's official artist
Fine watercolour, the image 198 x 265 mm., on laid paper; pencil note "Mr. Arago" in Freycinet's later hand at bottom left; mounted. Fine scene in Timor, drawn by Jacques Arago.....
Price (AUD):
$37,500.00
Ref: #4403171
"Wayggiou". Freycinet's corrected proof engraving of plate 44 of his Atlas Historique…
Paris: after 1820 and before final publication in 1826.
Freycinet insisting on ethnographic and scientific detail
Early proof plate before letters and number; manuscript caption and notes, bold ink note with instructions to engraver. Early stage of an important engraving from the official account of Louis de Freycinet's voyage in.....
Price (AUD):
$8,800.00
Ref: #4504614
Iles Mariannes: Divers objets à l'usage des habitans actuels.
Paris: circa 1828.
Ethnology of Micronesia
Engraved plate measuring 320 x 235 mm. (plate size). Early proof version (before number) of a splendid engraving made for the official publication of the Uranie voyage: it would appear in the Atlas Historique of Louis de Freycinet's Voyage autour du monde. Duperrey, who.....
Price (AUD):
$785.00
Ref: #4202816
Original drawing "M le curé d'Agana en petit negligé".
Guam: 1819.
A priest of Guam takes his ease during the Freycinet visit
Original ink drawing, 310 x 245 mm., fully signed and dated, framed. Jacques Arago, artist on board Freycinet's Uranie during the French circumnavigation of 1817-20, drew this intimate portrait of the priest in Agana, the capital of.....
Price (AUD):
$11,000.00
Ref: #4504053
Bronze Medal for the Voyage of the Uranie.
Paris: Puymaurin & Andrieu, 1817.
Medal for the departure of Freycinet on the Uranie
Bronze medal, 41 mm, fine. Obverse: profile portrait of Louis XVIII. Reverse: "Hémisphère Austral. Physique Astronomie. La Corvette l'Uranie Mr. Ls. de Freycinet Commandt… S.A.R.M. Le Duc d'Angoulême, Amiral de France…." An excellent bronze example of.....
Price (AUD):
$3,450.00
Ref: #4204892
Ile Ombai: Armes Et Ornements.
Paris: 1822. Engraving by Coutant, 240 x 320mm (proof state before plates numbered). Proof impression of Indonesian weapons & armour reproduced as plate no. 35 in the Atlas Historique, Voyage autour du monde by Louis de Freycinet.
Price (AUD):
$1,800.00
Ref: #4202805
Engraved portrait of Louis Claude de Saulces de Freycinet (1779-1842).
[Paris]: before 1810, perhaps closer to 1804.
"The Commander whose calm features you behold": Péron on Freycinet
Circular portrait within rectangular engraving, signed in the plate "Roy del. & sculp."; plate size 102 x 79 mm on sheet 171 x 129 mm. A remarkable engraving: the only published portrait of.....
Price (AUD):
$4,750.00
Ref: #4504882
Nlle Hollande: Port-Jackson. Sauvages des Montagnes Bleues.
Paris: 1825.
Blue Mountains Aborigines
Handcoloured stipple engraving, 150 x 270mm. A marvellous engraved portrait of an Aboriginal elder of the Blue Mountains named Karadra and his companion Hara-o, after an original study by Alphonse Pellion; Karadra, the older man on the right, holds a clay tobacco pipe in his.....
Price (AUD):
$2,400.00
Ref: #3502581
Nouvelle-Hollande. Vue De La Riviere Waragamba, Dans Les Montagnes-Bleues, Au Port-Jackson.
Paris: 1822. Hand-coloured engraving, 190 x 270 mm., mounted. Early view of Warragamba River in the lower Blue Mountains, the site of Sydney's ever important Warragamba Dam from the official published account of the major French voyage of 1817-1820 to Australia and the Pacific commanded by Louis de Freycinet. The.....
Price (AUD):
$1,850.00
Ref: #4008985
The Galley Memento.
[Exeter]: [1879].
Superb presentation album honouring a campaigner for a wrongly convicted man's release
Large quarto (365 x 275 mm); contents comprising 14 vellum leaves heavily illuminated by F. Faulkner White, Gothic-style calligraphic text surrounded by multicoloured borders; title leaf with small oval albumen photograph of the recipient, Ralph Sanders.....
Price (AUD):
$26,750.00
Ref: #4505043
Woburn Sheepshearing.
London: G. Garrard, 31 May 1811.
Sir Joseph Banks judges sheepshearing
Original aquatint, stipple, etching and engraving; 540 x 800 mm., mounted and framed. A large detailed and striking image of the annual sheep shearing festival held by the Duke of Bedford at Woburn Abbey, with Sir Joseph Banks a......
Price (AUD):
$10,500.00
Ref: #4504111
Bifolium missal leaf.
Germany: circa 1400-1500. Bifolium on vellum, 458 x 318 mm. (each leaf), each leaf written in double columns of 32 lines, ruled with ink, dark brown ink with rubrics and brown ink initials, two with decorative penwork, capitals touched with red, full margins. original sewn repairs in lower margin, a......
Price (AUD):
$3,250.00
Ref: #3010830
The Hon'ble Sir Charles Wager Kn't. Admiral of ye Blen Squadron…
London: John Faber, 1732. Mezzotint measuring 350 x 250 mm. with detailed engraved caption. Mezzotint portrait of Admiral Charles Wager, an instrumental figure in the effective organisation of the British Navy in the first half of the eighteenth-century. Wager won his fame by capturing the rich Spanish prize Santa Cruz.....
Price (AUD):
$425.00
Ref: #4005824