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!["Célèbre Navigateur Français" [Portrait of La Pérouse]. LA PEROUSE, MAGUE, engraver](/pictures/thumb/3007690.jpg?v=1434432123)
"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
La Perouse from a Miniature in the possession of La Perouse's niece at Alby
London: Charles Knight, circa 1830. Stipple engraving, 140 x 110 mm (plate size). Published under the superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. Fine. La Pérouse was born at Albi in 1741 and was commissioned in 1785 by Louis XVI to head an expedition to the Pacific.....
Price (AUD):
$385.00
Ref: #4007938
La Perouse. Engraved…. from a Miniature in the possession of La Perouse's niece at Alby…
London: William Mackenzie, circa 1840. Stipple engraving, 170 x 120 mm (plate size). Good. Almost identical to the portrait printed by Charles Knight (Nan Kivell & Spence p.171), this one has the addition of bushes in the background and the sky. La Pérouse was born at Albi in 1741 and.....
Price (AUD):
$385.00
Ref: #4007942
Savage of New Caledonia Throwing a Dart.
London: circa 1800. Engraving. 250 x 200mm, mounted. A fine portrait of a New Caledonian man by Piron. This image was first published in Labillardière's account of the D'Entrecasteaux expedition. Piron was the official artist on the expedition, in which Australia was circumnavigated twice, and the islands surrounding investigated for.....
Price (AUD):
$250.00
Ref: #1600211
Cabinet Portrait of "Lady Carington", wife of the Governor General of NSW.
London: Alexander Bassano, circa 1875.
Wife of the Governor of NSW
Cabinet card, measuring 165 x 110 mm., early manuscript annotation, the card in very good condition overall. Charming cabinet card photographic portrait of the Honourable Cecilia Margaret Harbord, who married the future governor of New South Wales, Sir Charles.....
Price (AUD):
$440.00
Ref: #4111703
Vue du Village de Nama (Vanikoro).
Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1833. Lithographed view, 218 x 297mm., mounted. The voyage of the Favorite under Laplace's command was aimed at re-establishing French influence over Indo-China and the Pacific as well as gathering detailed trading information, hydrographic data and natural history specimans. Although it was a difficult voyage, scientifically it.....
Price (AUD):
$400.00
Ref: #2802460
Rivière de Derwent (Van Diemen).
Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1833. Aquatint view, 222 x 320 mm.; mounted. A fine view of the Derwent River, one of only two Tasmanian illustrations published from the La Place voyage. The Favorite arrived in Hobart on 11 July 1831, both ship and crew in a weakened condition. Their stay was.....
Price (AUD):
$1,800.00
Ref: #2112730
Carte réduite de la Riviére de la Plata depuis les Caps Sainte Marie et Saint Antoine jusqu'aux Iles de Hornos et Buenos-Ayres
Paris: Dépôt Général de la Marine, 1833.
Sounding chart for the River Plate.
Engraved chart; two conjoined sheets measuring 655 x 988 mm. in total. Sounding chart of the headwaters of the River Plate, with soundings of the approaches to Montevideo. The map was produced by the French navy and.....
Price (AUD):
$1,250.00
Ref: #3912529
Plan du Port et de la Rade de Montevideo, dans le Rio de la Plata, levé en 1831.
Paris: Dépôt Général de la Marine, 1833.
The original township of Montevideo in 1831
Engraved chart, two conjoined sheets measuring 655 x 988 mm. in total. Splendid map of the coastline of Uruguay - with detail of the original city grid of Montevideo - from the golden age of French.....
Price (AUD):
$1,285.00
Ref: #3912537
Plan de la rade de Buenos-Ayres...…
Paris: Dépôt Général de la Marine, 1833.
The old township of Buenos Aires.
Engraved chart; two conjoined sheets measuring 655 x 988 mm. in total. Finely engraved map showing the township of Buenos Aire, with much detail including the street plan of the old city, parks, and surrounding agricultural lands.....
Price (AUD):
$1,400.00
Ref: #3912525
Alarming Prospect The Single Ladies off to the Diggings.
London: 1853. Handcoloured engraving, 210 x 305 mm. on wove paper, mounted. A wonderful satirical mid-nineteenth century cartoon portraying young, single and desirable ladies abandoning generous marriage proposals in favour of fortune seeking on the goldfields. The Prints and Printmaking in Australia and the Pacific online database confirms that the.....
Price (AUD):
$850.00
Ref: #4201764
Vue De La Ville De Sydney…
Paris: 1814. Handcoloured engraving, 140 x 250mm, mounted, with caption letterpress laid down. This hand coloured engraved view is a smaller rendition of the engraving by Milbert, which appeared in Peron's Voyage de decouvertes aux Terres Australes….. Paris 1807. It is the view seen from Nicholas Baudin's camp in 1802.....
Price (AUD):
$550.00
Ref: #4107358
Ansicht von Sidney von der Südseite, und der Mündung des Parramatta Flusses.
probably Weimar: circa 1808.
Rare German version of the Lesueur Sydney view
Single sheet, 340 x 222 mm., laid paper, featuring an engraved view of Sydney Cove, slight browning, very good. A good view of Sydney Cove closely based on the original engraving in the official publication of the Baudin.....
Price (AUD):
$750.00
Ref: #2909760
Reed Warbler
London: J.H. Bohte, 1822. Handcoloured engraving, 289 x210mm.; mounted. The Reed Warbler is an interesting bird, found down Eastern Australia to Victoria and Tasmania, but coming and going mysteriously in the southern parts of its habitat. Besides being a migrant, the Reed Warbler, as its name indicates, is a merry.....
Price (AUD):
$3,500.00
Ref: #4111695
White-eared Honey-eater.
London: J.H. Bohte, 1838.
Australia's first professional artist
Engraved plate with contemporary handcolouring, 280 x210mm. The graceful Sydney honey-eater engraved by Australia's first professional artist John Lewin, who arrived in the colony in 1800 and established himself as our first natural history illustrator. Aside from being Australia's first natural history.....
Price (AUD):
$2,500.00
Ref: #4312700
Carte de Visite of Anne Lindsay…
Melbourne: Alfred Winter, circa 1860. Photographic carte de visite, 95 x 60 mm., some rubbing; Alfred Winter trade details verso and manuscript attribution, very good. Fine photographic carte-de-visite of Anne Lindsay, by the prominent early photographer Alfred Winter. The photographer was Alfred Winter, and his printed advertising crest is on.....
Price (AUD):
$285.00
Ref: #4008187
Hobart Town from the Wharf.
Hobart: M. & N. Hanhart, circa 1857.
From the personal collection of John Alexander Ferguson
Tinted lithograph measuring 380 x 550 mm., mounted. Attractive Hobart view with good view of the township and wharves during the middle nineteenth-century. Provenance: from the collection of he great Australian bibliographer, John Alexander Ferguson.....
Price (AUD):
$1,250.00
Ref: #3012944
Carte de l'Océan Pacifique…
Augsburg: Tobie Conrad Lotter, 1781.
Pivotal early map of Hawaii and the North Pacific
Engraved map, 465 x 490 mm., with original handcoloured outlines; mounted. The first separately-issued map to depict Hawaii: the panels of text beneath the map, in both French and German, mention the discovery of Hawaii and.....
Price (AUD):
$5,500.00
Ref: #3211625
Bathurst Cataract, on the River Apsley.
London: J. Souter, November 1824.
Idealised Australian parkland view
Hand-coloured aquatint, 265 x 355 mm., mounted. An attractive plate from the Joseph Lycett's Views in Australia or New South Wales, & Van Dieman's Land, published in London in 1825 and a landmark in the development of Australian illustrated books. Lycett.....
Price (AUD):
$2,250.00
Ref: #4007917
"Vah-ta-ah, the Feejeean Princess".
[England]: no date but 1857.
From Vah-ta-ah to Lydia
Oval portrait Baxter print in the original timber frame, 145 x 125 mm., modern labels pasted to back. A most attractive Baxter print of a "Feejean Princess". This image was included as the frontispiece to a book on Fiji by the.....
Price (AUD):
$685.00
Ref: #4403223
Alexander Macleay.
London: for the Linnean Society, 1845. Engraving, 243 x 300 mm. (plate size). Fine engraved portrait of Alexander Macleay, after the oil painting by Sir Thomas Lawrence commissioned by the Linnean Society and displayed in their prestigious portrait gallery of eminent naturalists at Burlington House, London. Macleay was Secretary of.....
Price (AUD):
$975.00
Ref: #3111101
Portrait of Fernand Magellan
Np: circa 1680. Woodcut engraving, 180 x 130 mm. From Isaac Bullart's "Académie des Sciences et des Arts…" (François Foppens: Brussels, 1682 & 1695), by the printmaker Nicolas de L'Armessin (signed bottom right). Magellan's expedition was the first to cross the Pacific and the first circumnavigation of the globe. The.....
Price (AUD):
$400.00
Ref: #3002907
![New South Wales. View of Sydney from the West Side of the Cove No. 1 [and] No. 2. MANN, John EYRE](/pictures/thumb/4202818.jpg?v=1566359503)
New South Wales. View of Sydney from the West Side of the Cove No. 1 [and] No. 2.
London: John Booth Duke Street Portland Place, 4 June 1810.
The first panoramic views of Sydney to be exhibited
Pair of uncoloured aquatints joined as a panorama as intended, 340 x 980 mm; in original bird's-eye maple frame. A rare panoramic view of Sydney Harbour. John Eyre arrived in New.....
Price (AUD):
$14,500.00
Ref: #4202818