J.H. Abbott and Co. Tanners & Curriers. Manufacturers…
Bendigo: circa 1890. Quarto; stapled as issued, four leaves (including wrappers). Illustrated price-list from Bendigo boot and shoe manufacturers. More
Library
Copies of Instructions… for promoting the Moral and Religious Instruction of the Aboriginal Inhabitants of New Holland or Van Diemen's Land.
London: 23 September, 1831.
Macquarie, Brisbane & Darling on schools for Aborigines
Foolscap folio, 19 pp.; Later half roan, spine lettered in gilt. An excellent copy of a rare report, printing a decade of major dispatches from New South Wales Governors on the subjects of the Aborigines of New South... More
Un Nouveau Grand Palais des Expositions. Technique pour l'Utilisation de l'Acier.
Paris: Office Technique Pour l'Utilisation de l'Acier, 1935. Folio, numerous photogravure plates, plans, elevations and details, black leather spine, coloured decorative boards edged with white leather scuffed. Binding signed 'Barast' apparently one of a number of special copies for presentation, this copy numbered '8' and inscribed to M.Bruneton. This impressive... More
The Settlers' Synopsis of the Land Laws of New South Wales.
Sydney: Law Book Company, 1906.
Significant association copy
Octavo, original purple cloth (a bit flecked), interleaved with lined blanks. This copy is inscribed by the author to Australian pastoralist Henry White, whose racehorses were acclaimed on the Australian turf, with winners in the 1896 Australian Jockey Club Derby and 1900 Doncaster. More
Lecture II: On the Due Observance of the Sabbath.
Sydney: James Reading, n.d. but, 1841. Duodecimo, 24 pp.; original plain blue paper wrappers. Very scarce Sydney printing of the Reverend Adams' lecture on the Sabbath. Adams, a seaman's chaplain, delivered this sermon in the Scot's Church, Sydney on 25 July 1841. It was the second in a series of... More
Modern Voyages:
Dublin: Chamberlaine and Rice, P. Wogan and others, 1790.
Rare poetic epitaph for Captain Cook
Two volumes, with both half-titles; contemporary mottled calf, flat spines gilt and with double red and green morocco labels. A fine and attractively bound set of voyages collected and edited for the enlightenment of younger... More
Narrative of Shipwreck of the "Admella"…
Melbourne: J. H. Moulines and Co. for the Committee of the 'Admella', November 1859.
Iconic Australian shipping disaster
Octavo, frontispiece and folding map; in original blind blocked plum cloth with dramatic gilt vignette to front board bearing the slogan 'Hope to the Last.'. Only edition: the harrowing tale of the... More
Report of Commission appointed by the Governor-in-Chief to inquire into the Loss of the "Admella"…
Adelaide: W.C.Cox, Government printer, 1859.
The tragic wreck of the Admella
Foolscap folio, 36, [iv] pp., last blank, large folding map; wrappers thumbed. Uncommon: official report of the Commission tasked to investigate the appalling loss of the steamship Admella off the coast of South Australia in 1859. The tragedy marks... More
Viagem ao interior da Nova Hollanda, obra moral, critica e recreativa…
Lisbon: Vicente Jorge de Castro, 1841.
Portuguese public servant's imaginary voyage to the interior
Three volumes bound in one, small octavo; some wear to the edges of the boards and a library reference at head of spine, an attractive copy in contemporary quarter calf. A rare Portuguese imaginary voyage to... More
Viagem ao interior da Nova Hollanda, obra moral, critica e recreativa… Por V.J.A.
Lisbon: Vicente Jorge de Castro; Sociedade Propagadora dos Conhecimentos Uteis, 1841.
The pernicious contagion of immorality
Three volumes bound in one, small octavo; in contemporary marbled sheep preserved in folding cloth case. A rare Portuguese imaginary voyage to Australia, not recorded by most of the commentators on the genre. In... More![Ukazanie Puti v Tsarstvie Nebesnoe. Pouchenie na Aleutsko-Lis'evskom jazike, sochinennoe svjaschennikom Ioannom Veniaminovym 1833 goda. [Indication to the Way to the Kingdom of Heaven, in Aleut language, composed by Priest Ioann Veniaminov in 1833]. ALEUT LANGUAGE, Ivan Evseevich VENIAMINOV-POPOV, Innokentii.](/pictures/thumb/4002642.jpg?v=1456377722)
Ukazanie Puti v Tsarstvie Nebesnoe.
Moscow: Sinodalnaya Typografija, 1899.
Saint Innocent of Alaska
Octavo, [iv], 114 (paginated in Old Slavonic); old quarter sheep with marbled boards. Rare: evangelical text translated into the Aleut language (and printed in Cyrillic), prepared by Ivan Veniaminov-Popov (1797-1879), the great Orthodox missionary to the northern Pacific. Veniaminov was educated in... More
The South Australian Almanack and General Colonial Directory, for 1849.
Adelaide: Andrew Murray, 1849.
With map of the "Settled portions" and details of mines
Octavo, folding frontispiece map with outline colouring, xl, 220 pp., (including directory and advertisements), with a folding table of goods and prices bound in; in plain brown cloth (if not original certainly of the period). A... More
France Illustrated, Exhibiting its Landscape Scenery, Antiquities…
London: Fisher, Son, & Co., n.d. but 1845-, 1847.
Fine steel-engravings of French scenery
Four volumes, quarto, each with engraved titlepage featuring vignette, 144 full page plates engraved on steel, a very attractive set in full morocco gift binding, elaborately gilt and embossed. A lovely set of one of Allom's... More
Hobart Town Almanack, and Van Diemen's Land Annual for 1835.
Hobart: James Ross, 1834.
Rare Tasmanian almanac with a pertinent provenance
Duodecimo, frontispiece and plate by Thomas Bock, owner's armorial bookplate; a very good copy in contemporary patterned cloth, fragments of early paper spine label. A rare Tasmanian almanac of great significance to the early history of the colony. The... More
The Royal South Australian Almanack and General Directory for 1840…
Adelaide: Robert Thomas and Co., December, 1839.
The second South Australian almanac
Octavo, 150, xii pp., original printed limp linen wrappers; folding Sangorski quarter brown morocco case. Ferguson notes this is the second South Australian almanac.The work includes the important and very early botanical series of lectures by George Stevenson... More
Nouvel Alphabet. Instructif et pittoresque...
Paris: Théodore Lefévre, circa 1880.
Kangaroo with a striped tail
Quarto; frontispiece, 48pp., handcoloured illustration throughout, original papered stiff boards. French children's primer, comprising an illustrated alphabet, grammatical games, and short tales of moral instruction. The illustrated examples accompanying the alphabet are entirely birds and animals, and refreshingly the letter... More
Alphabet de l'Histoire des Animaux, orné de 27 gravures.
Paris: Brianchon Libraire, circa 1820.
French menagerie, with kangaroo after Stubbs
Octavo, 6 pp., handcoloured engravings throughout; in original pictorial wrappers. Very early fully engraved Abecedaire for children containing a quaint illustration of the kangaroo derived from the classic image by George Stubbs. The rear cover has a particularly good... More
Sydpolen…
Kristiania: Jacob Dybwads Forlag, 1912.
The South Pole: in very fine condition
Two volumes, octavo; many photographic illustrations, eight maps at the end (three folding and one double-page); original pictorial cloth, in very fine condition. First edition in the original Norwegian; very scarce. a superb copy, with the pictorial bindings... More
L'Universale fabrica del mondo, overo cosmografia…
Venice: A. Muschio, for A. San Vito at Naples, 1582.
With the Ruscelli world map
Small quarto, with five folding engraved maps; some interesting early ink marginalia, contemporary flexible vellum, manuscript spine label. Best edition of this important sixteenth-century summary of geographical knowledge, containing for the first time the suite... More
Australien Natur och Kultur - Studier och Minnen.
Stockholm: Hugo Gebers förlag, 1915.
Eucalypts and minerals, gold and sheep
Octavo, with 48 plates and two colour maps, original green cloth with attractive gilt blocked kangaroo motif. An excellent copy of this generously illustrated survey of Australia's agriculture and natural resources by the long-serving secretary of the Swedish Society... More
Columbus Outdone! Capt. Andrews' Cruise in the Sapolio.
New York: Enoch Morgan's Sons Company, 1893.
William Andrews' solo crossing in his smallest boat
Octavo, folding map and folding plate, illustrated throughout; in original illustrated brown cloth, flyleaf inscribed and signed by the author. Signed presentation copy in original illustrated cloth, detailing the audacious solo transatlantic crossing of William... More
Un Royaume Polynésien. Iles Hawaï.
Paris: Plon, 1893. Octavo, folding map; a good copy, uncut in the original blue-grey wrappers, First edition: this is an especially good account of Hawaii at the end of the nineteenth century, by a French diplomat, written under the pseudonym Georges Sauvin.D'Anglade was French Consul and Commissioner to Hawaii and... More
Promotional booklet; drop-title "South Australia"… "By an Old Colonist".
Adelaide: no publisher, circa 1858.
'England in miniature - England without it's poverty'
Duodecimo pamphlet, as issued without wrappers, 12 pp. (last blank), blue tinted paper stock. Scarce pamphlet printed to promote the colony. Anonymously compiled 'by an old Colonist', the booklet comprises various parts gleaned from several sources. First... More
The History of New Holland, from its First Discovery in 1616, to the Present Time.
London: John Stockdale, 1790.
An essential book for First Fleet collectors
Quarto, paginated [lxxix] - clxxv; folding map; later black half roan, bookplate of Henry White. An essential First Fleet book, widely considered the best guide to the establishment of a penal colony in New South Wales: 'an extremely interesting... More
The History of New Holland, from its First Discovery in 1616, to the Present Time…
London: John Stockdale, 1787.
First Fleet sails for New South Wales
Octavo, with two folding handcoloured maps; bound in contemporary marbled boards (rebacked retaining original crimson label) from the Westport House library with Browne family armorial bookplate. Published on the eve of the departure of the First Fleet for New... More