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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...
Price (AUD):
$1,250.00
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...
Price (AUD):
$1,250.00
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...
Price (AUD):
$1,600.00
Ref: #4312695
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...
Price (AUD):
$650.00
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...
Price (AUD):
$650.00
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...
Price (AUD):
$1,250.00
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...
Price (AUD):
$1,450.00
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...
Price (AUD):
$900.00
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...
Price (AUD):
$15,000.00
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...
Price (AUD):
$9,500.00
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...
Price (AUD):
$10,500.00
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...
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: 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...
Price (AUD):
$685.00
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...
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):
$5,850.00
Ref: #4211259
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...
Price (AUD):
$3,600.00
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
Leaf from a Psalter.
England: circa 1450. Illuminated leaf, 201 x 132 mm., 2-line initial in burnished gold on blue and pink ground, numerous 1-line initials in blue and burnished gold alternately, each with calligraphic penwork, 21 lines in gothic text. An unusual English Psalter leaf with free marginal decoration. The 2-line initial introduces...
Price (AUD):
$1,450.00
Ref: #2909745