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Tableau des découvertes du Capne. Cook & de La Pérouse.
Paris: circa 1795.
From ethnology to fashion
Engraved aquatint with original handcolouring, 440 x 530 mm. (sheet size), mounted and framed. Rare and alluring hand-coloured engraving of the islanders of the Pacific, composed of twenty-four groups of inhabitants from new lands revealed through the voyages of Captain James Cook and.....PRICE ON REQUEST
View from Vaucluse.
Sydney: circa 1857.
Looking from Vaucluse to Mosman
Oil painting on papered boards, 31.3 x 61 cms. in an early gilt frame, signed lower right F. Halsted. The artist George F. Halsted worked in Sydney from the 1850s to the 1880s. It is thought that he may have been the.....
Price (AUD):
$15,000.00
Ref: #4302341
Albumen photograph of a butterfly, Hawkesbury River.
1896.
A Nineteenth Century Nature Study
Albumen silver photograph 84 x 69 mm. contemporary manuscript inscription on the obverse, very good. Original field-work photograph of the "Danaeia Erippus" (actually Danaus, the "Southern Monarch") taken at the Hawkesbury River in 1896 and a compelling image of butterflies, caterpillars and a chrysalis.....
Price (AUD):
$225.00
Ref: #4001593
The warwoven from Chile.
London: 1785. Original watercolour on paper with faint outline of engraving, 250 x 360 mm., signed and dated lower right, mounted. An original watercolour by the highly regarded artist William Hayes (1727-1799) Despite a complete lack of training in any field, Hayes discovered a natural aptitude for painting birds. His.....
Price (AUD):
$1,500.00
Ref: #4202787
Gen. Holt. The Leader of the Irish Rebels.
London: Henry Colburn, 1838. Engraving, 210mm x 142mm, in fine condition. A wonderful portrait of Joseph Holt (1756-1826), one of the most prominent Irish convicts of the early years of settlement at Sydney Cove. In 1798 Holt joined a band of rebels engaged in six months of guerrilla conflict near.....
Price (AUD):
$850.00
Ref: #3402044
Typus Orbis Terrarum.
Amsterdam: 1607. Handcoloured copper engraving, 290 x 180 mm. (sheet size), with letterpress to verso. Mounted. Beautiful decorated double-hemisphere map of the world from the Atlas Minor published by Jodocus Hondius in 1607. In 1604 Hondius and a business partner purchased the copper plates from Mercator's estate and continued to.....
Price (AUD):
$2,250.00
Ref: #4107412
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.....
Price (AUD):
$4,850.00
Ref: #4211259
Portrait of Sir William Jackson Hooker.
London: M. & N. Hanhart Imp. circa 1851.
Friend to Sir Joseph Banks: a portrait of the great botanist in his prime
Lithograph portrait; 295 x 240 mm., wide margins, mounted. A fine portrait of the botanist Sir William Jackson Hooker (1785-1865). Hooker enjoyed the friendship and support of Sir.....
Price (AUD):
$1,450.00
Ref: #3111121
Sketch of Sydney Cove, Port Jackson…
London: J. Stockdale, 1789.
The first printed map of Sydney
Engraved map, 530 x 470 mm. (sheet size). The first printed map of the settlement at Sydney Cove with fascinating details of the colony in its earliest days. It was engraved for the 1789 London publication of Phillip's Voyage to.....
Price (AUD):
$3,800.00
Ref: #4107421
Canoe of the Duke of York's Island.
London: John Stockdale, 1792.
First Fleet artist of some capacity
Engraving, 210 x 285 mm. (sheet size). Engraved illustration of a Papuan outrigger by first fleet officer Captain John Hunter, originally printed for inclusion in his Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island (1792). Hunter sailed.....
Price (AUD):
$400.00
Ref: #4402902
Chart of the Coast Between Botany Bay and Broken Bay
London: John Stockdale, 1792.
Hunter and Bradley as pioneer map-makers
Engraved chart, 720 x 400 mm. Important early colonial map of the coastline of New South Wales, a direct result of searching for alternate settlement sites within easy sailing distance from Sydney Cove. John Hunter and William Bradley undertook surveys.....
Price (AUD):
$2,850.00
Ref: #4306454
Captain John Hunter.
London: J. Stockdale, 1792. Engraving, 280 x 215 mm. (sheet size), good condition overall. Portrait of Captain Hunter seated, in naval uniform and holding papers in his left hand (one of which depicts a ship passing between two headlands). Captain John Hunter (1737 - 1821) was appointed second captain, under.....
Price (AUD):
$650.00
Ref: #4307540
Illuminated leaf from a Book of Hours.
Rouen: circa 1480-1500. Illuminated leaf, 166 x 112 mm., panel border on each side of the leaf composed of blue and gold acanthus, coloured flowers on hair-line stems; 4-line initial in dark red and heightened in grey and white on a liquid gold panel enclosing a coloured flower, three 1-line.....
Price (AUD):
$1,750.00
Ref: #2909743
King David in Prayer.
Southern France: circa 1475.
Superb illuminated miniature of King David
Arched miniature depicting King David kneeling in prayer, 91 x 65mm., set in elaborate illuminated border on three sides; 4-line illuminated initial D (of "Domine" - O Lord), eight lines of gothic text on the other side;Mounted. A superb late.....
Price (AUD):
$8,750.00
Ref: #3108951
Revd Richard Johnson, B.A. Chaplain to the Settlement in New South Wales…
Paternoster Row, London: Goff & Co., February 8th. 1787.
Rev. Richard Johnson; Chaplain of the first Christian service in Australia on February 3rd. 1788.
Engraving, 17 x 11 cms. title inscribed around oval half length portrait; vignette below depicting a redemption scene by a harbour with sailing ships, captioned with.....
Price (AUD):
$750.00
Ref: #4504878
"Natives pursuing Kangaroos in the neighbourhood of Sydney…
[England]: circa, 1820.
Nonplussed kangaroos on Sydney harbour
Single leaf from a scrapbook, 215 x 260 mm., the engravings and captions neatly cut-out and pasted down, views to both sides of the sheet; in a nineteenth century frame. Marvellous page from a scrap book with a naïve scene depicting "Natives.....
Price (AUD):
$2,450.00
Ref: #4504876
Wolliger Kanguruh.
Germany: circa 1860.
Kangaroo and Pangolin
Lithograph, 205 x 290 mm. Handsomely executed lithograph of a kangaroo from a mid-nineteenth century German zoological handbook; also depicted is a Javanese pangolin (scaly ant-eater).
Price (AUD):
$250.00
Ref: #2904308
Portrait of The Honble. Augustus Keppel, Admiral of the Blue, Half Length in uniform.
London: Dickinson & Watson, 1779. Mezzotint, 38 x 28cm. Henry Keppel had first served in the Malacca Straits in the early 1840s during the campaign against the Borneo pirates. During that time he formed a close friendship with Sir James Brooke, who had been appointed rajah of Sarawak in perpetuity.....
Price (AUD):
$950.00
Ref: #4504275
Patêt: Australians of King George's Sound.
London: Hippolyte Bailliere, 1842. Handcoloured stipple engraving, 220 x 140 mm. (leaf size). Portraits of two natives of King George's Sound, Western Australia, published in Prichard's The Natural History of Man. James Cowles Prichard (1786-1848) spent several decades amassing pictorial information to support his theory that all of the world's.....
Price (AUD):
$350.00
Ref: #3309877
The District of Albany formerly t'Zuurenveld…
London: W. Faden, 1822.
"Fine pasture country, uninhabited and considered as neutral ground"
Engraved chart, hand coloured; 605 x 890 mm. Detailed topographic map of the Albany district (present day South Africa) presenting a wilderness mapped but largely untamed. This map was published by William Faden (1749-1836), one of the.....
Price (AUD):
$1,500.00
Ref: #3912530
Engraving of Vanikoro captioned 'Monument à la mémoire de Lapèrouse'…
Paris: Didot Fréres, 1836. Engraving, 135 x 220 mm. Charming engraved plate depicting the memorial to La Pérouse erected by the Dumont d'Urville expedition to Vanikoro. The plate was published in Domeny de Rienzi's Océanie ou Cinquième partie du monde, revue géographique et ethnographique de la Malaisie, de la Micronésie.....
Price (AUD):
$120.00
Ref: #3509128
Portrait of La Pérouse.
London: G. & J. Robinson, 1798. Engraving, 255 x 190 mm. Attractive portrait of La Pérouse, "Commodore in the French Navy, born at Alby in 1741". Jean-Francois de Galoup, Compte de la Perouse was commissioned in 1785 by the King of France to head an expedition to explore the Pacific.....
Price (AUD):
$600.00
Ref: #3007701
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"Célèbre Navigateur Français" [Portrait of La Pérouse].
Paris: Blaisot, n.d., circa 1800.
La Pérouse portrait
Line engraving, 190 x110 mm. (plate size). Fine portrait of the navigator published while his fate was still a mystery. La Pérouse, inscribed "Célèbre Navigateur Français." La Pérouse was born at Albi in 1741 and was commissioned in 1785 by Louis XVI.....
Price (AUD):
$450.00
Ref: #3007690
Portrait of La Pérouse.
Paris: Dufour & Mulat, n.d., but circa 1820. Engraving, 210 x 150 mm. (plate size). A fine portrait. La Pérouse, was born at Alby in 1741. Compte de la Perouse was commissioned in 1785 by the King of France to head an expedition to explore the Pacific Ocean. He was.....
Price (AUD):
$450.00
Ref: #3007714