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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....
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Ref: #3010830
Leaf on vellum from Graecismus of Evrard de Bethune.
Germany: 1386. Manuscript leaf, 215 x 170 mm., fine calligraphic initial at top of each page, on recto enclosing sketched head of a man, capitals touched in red, 26 lines in gothic hand. The initial D which begins the text contains a sketched head of a man. This decoration is...
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$2,250.00
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Ref: #2909742
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 in...
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$425.00
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Ref: #4005824
Consequences of a Successfull French Invasion.
London: J. Gillray, n.d., 1798.
The House is adjourned to Botany Bay
Etching; 320 x 360 mm., mounted. The original eighteenth century version of this rare transportation engraving, where the Parliament of Great Britain has been condemned - the chair of the Speaker being inscribed "This House adjourned to Botany...
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$6,850.00
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Ref: #3002930
The Great South Sea Caterpillar, transform'd into a Bath Butterfly.
London: J. Gillray, n.d., 1851.
From among the Weeds & Mud on the Banks of the South Sea
Original etching, 350 x 250 mm.; fine; mounted. (Two caricatures verso). Rare satirical cartoon of Sir Joseph Banks, ridiculed for using the Royal Order of the Bath for self-promotion.Portraits of Banks by...
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Ref: #4011321
Banded Honey-eater (Myzomela Pectoralis)
London: The Author 1840-, 1869. Hand-coloured lithograph (540 x 355 mm.), with letter-press text. The banded Honey-eater was bought to Gould's attention by Mr Benjamin Bynoe, Surgeon of the Beagle, who collected the specimen whilst on the northern coast. An interesting bird and further testament to Gould's statement that the...
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Ref: #4312696
Crested Penguin (Eudyptes Chrysocome)
London: The Author 1840-, 1869. Hand-coloured lithograph (365 x 540 mm.), with letter-press text; very good. The Crested penguin is occasionally found on the shores of Tasmania and the south coast of Australia. Gould borrows from Latham's description who calls it the Hopping Penguin and Jumping Jack due to its...
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Ewing's Acanthiza (Acanthiza Ewingii)
London: The Author 1840-, 1869. Hand-coloured lithograph (510 x 350 mm), with letter-press text. The Ewing's Acanthiza, Acanthiza Ewingii, is a native of Tasmania and was named after the Reverend Thomas James Ewing. This is an original hand coloured lithographic plate from Gould's most famous work, Birds of Australia.John Gould's...
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$650.00
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Ref: #4007935
Orange-fronted Epthianura (Epthianura Aurifrons).
London: published by the Author, 1848.
The "Orange Chat" of inland Australia
Hand-coloured lithograph (510 x 350 mm), with letter-press text. Delicately hand coloured original lithographic plate from Gould's most famous work, Birds of Australia, one of the great natural history publications of all time.Known more commonly today as the...
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$650.00
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Ref: #4007933
Sombre Gallinule (Gallinula Tenebrosa)
London: The Author 1840-, 1869. Hand-coloured lithograph (360 x 540 mm.), with letter-press text. The Sombre Gallinule was encountered by Gould in the upper Hunter and also on the banks of the Murry in South Australia. An original hand coloured lithograph plate from Gould's most famous work, Birds of Australia.Birds...
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Ref: #4312694
Striated Pardalote (Pardalotus Striatus).
London: The Author 1840-, 1869. Hand-coloured lithograph (510 x 350 mm.), with letter-press text. The Striated Pardalote, Pardalotus Striatus is a busy little bird that feeds off insects and frequents the Eucalyptus tree. This is an original hand coloured lithographic plate from Gould's most famous work, Birds of Australia.Birds of...
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$1,450.00
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Ref: #4007934
The Death of Captain Cook by the Natives of Owhyhee.
London: C.Cooke, 31 October, 1788.
Hand-coloured
Engraving, 155 x 215 mm (plate size), early hand-colouring. An attractive and rather uncommon version of Webber's death of Captain Cook, newly engraved by William Grainger, with good early hand-colouring. Although in a reduced format, the engraving is neatly executed, and the use of...
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$900.00
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Ref: #3003087
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...
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$15,000.00
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Ref: #4302341
A Favourite Poodle Hatching Poultry!!
London: J. Fairburn, June, 1824.
Kamehameha and Kamamalu an exotic tease for "Poodle" Byng
Handcoloured engraving (240 x 340 mm.), mounted. A wonderful and very rare British satirical print from the time of the royal visit to London by King Kamehameha II and Queen Kamamalu in 1824. The print was...
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$9,500.00
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Ref: #3701767
Robeing Royalty, a treat for the Sandwichers…
London: S. W. Fores, June 16, 1824.
Contemporary cartoon of the Hawaiian royals in London
Etching with original handcolour, 235 x 330 mm.; in a recent archival mount. Very rare caricature of the Hawaiian royal family, published during their visit to London in 1824.Kamehameha II, as the name has since...
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$10,500.00
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Ref: #3602265
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.Compelling image of butterflies, caterpillars and a chrysalis perched on a....
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$225.00
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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...
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Ref: #4202787
Gen. Holt. The Leader of the Irish Rebels.
London: nd. circa 1840. Engraving, 210mm x 142mm. Transported to Botany Bay on the convict ship Minerva in 1799. Holt was part of the United Irishmen group who formed in late 1791 in order to end social, political, economic and religious discrimination against Catholics and Presbyterians, and to prevent the...
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$685.00
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Ref: #3111105
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 Dublin...
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$850.00
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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...
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Ref: #4107412
Portrait of Sir Joseph Hooker.
London: M. & N. Hanhart Imp. circa 1851.
A great botanist of his era
Lithograph portrait; 295 x 240 mm., wide margins, mounted. A fine portrait of the botanist Sir Joseph Hooker (1817-1911). Son of the director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew (whom he later succeeded in the...
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$3,600.00
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Ref: #3111121
Near Rokeby House.
Tasmania: circa 1890.
An atmospheric image by an accomplished artist, Tasmania's first woman journalist
Oil on canvas, 300 x 540 mm. well framed in timber; signed by the artist on verso. Mabel Hookey (1871-1953) was the first woman journalist in Tasmania as well as an accomplished author, photographer and poet...
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$18,500.00
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Ref: #4504886
Engraved plate captioned 'A Man of the Duke of York's Island'.
London: John Stockdale, 1792.
Likeness of a Papuan warrior by Captain Hunter
Engraving, 220 x 285 mm. (sheet size). Remarkable engraved portrait of a Papuan warrior by First Fleet officer John Hunter, with detail of native musical pipes and weapons. Hunter sailed with Arthur Phillip and undertook, amongst other tasks...
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$400.00
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Ref: #4402901