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Capitainens vid Engelske Ammiralitetet, Wiliam Bligh's Resa…
Nyköping: Joh. Pet. Hammarin, 1795.
First Swedish edition
Small octavo, woodcut headpiece; in understated contemporary half calf. First Swedish edition of Bligh's Voyage to the South Seas.Rolf du Rietz's excellent note in the catalogue of the Kroepelien catalogue explains that this very rare version was anonymously translated by Carl Fr.....
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$3,800.00
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Ref: #3902031
Seven Printed Legal Documents dealing with Land in the Estate of William Bligh.
London: Battye, Fisher & Sudlow, June 1838 - January, 1840.
Bligh's land-holdings
Seven printed legal documents, all individually stitch-sewn and folded into dockets, some legal marginalia in lead and blue pencil chiefly relating to the property "Copenhagen" A good set of printed legal documents relating to the sale of Bligh's...
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$5,500.00
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Ref: #3809885
A Voyage to the South Sea, undertaken by Command of His Majesty…
London: George Nicol, 1790-1792.
A Bligh rarity: the advance composite issue of his two major works
Quarto, pp. [x], 1-153, [1, blank]; iv, 88, [1, blank]; 246-264, with a portrait of Bligh and seven plates and charts, some folding; occasional light browning and faint offsetting from the plates and charts...
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$44,000.00
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Ref: #4504910
Histoire des Colonies Pénales de l'Angleterre dans l'Australie.
Paris: Adrien le Clere, 1831.
An unusual outcome of the Duperrey expedition
Octavo, frontispiece; uncut copy in original boards. First edition. Ernest de Blosseville's younger brother Jules sailed for the Pacific in 1822 under Duperrey who had been ordered to report on western New Holland as a possible site for...
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$585.00
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Ref: #2302032
The Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris, for the Year 1818.
London: John Murray, 1815.
Rare Phillip Parker King-era almanac
Octavo, in original polished calf. Rare copy of the Nautical Almanac for 1818, a fundamental inclusion in the shipboard library of any Admiralty-sponsored voyage. The Almanac was used for reckoning the longitude at sea by the lunar method, and was closely...
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$885.00
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Ref: #4306501
The Transvaal, Past and Present, and its Future. Vigilance papers No. 11.
Cape Town: South African Vigilance Committee, 1900. Octavo booklet, 58pp. (last blank), a good copy in original printed wrappers; Mitchell library duplicate copy with a few discreet stamps. The stated object of the South African Vigilance Committee was 'To set forth to the British public the necessity for the prosecution...
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$185.00
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Ref: #2403326
The Works
London: David Mallet, 1754. Five volumes, quarto; a good set in contemporary calf. First edition. Bolingbroke (1678-1751) was a prominent and controversial Tory politician in the reign of Queen Anne.
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$950.00
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Ref: #2408029
Curious facts of Old Colonial Days.
London: Sampson Low, Son & Marston, 1870. Octavo, in recent polished green half calf. 'The present sketches of Australian and Tasmanian history will mark the difficulties of progressionists, and indicate the triumph of freedom'.
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$450.00
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Ref: #4108017
Discovery and Settlement of Port Phillip…
Melbourne: W. M. Goodhugh & co., 1859.
Later issue in original wrappers
Octavo, [ii], 142 pp., paper wrappers. Later issue of Bonwick's important work in good original condition, with "1859" on the covers but retaining the original date of 1856 on the title-page. This is the issue noted by Ferguson...
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$350.00
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Ref: #4107023
James Bonwick. A Writer of School Books and Histories…
Melbourne: Evans & Son. 1939. Quarto, portrait frontispiece of Bonwick; original boards. Number 162 of 250 copies signed and numbered by the author.
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$200.00
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Ref: #2304063
Sorrows. Sacred to the Memory of Penelope.
London: W.Bulmer and Co., 1796.
From the library of Frances Mary Currer
Folio, stipple engraved frontispiece and engravings in text; a charming copy in half dark green morocco, marbled boards, armorial bookplates for Frances Mary Richardson Currer and Mathew Wilson, contemporary ink ownership signature of 'M R Currer' on half...
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$1,400.00
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Ref: #4102406
First on the Antarctic Continent…
London: George Newnes, 1901.
The Southern Cross expedition: first edition, first issue
Octavo, with photogravure portrait frontispiece, three coloured maps (folding), 18 plates and numerous photographic illustrations; an excellent copy in the original gilt and silver decorated pictorial cloth, top edge gilt and others uncut. The very scarce first issue...
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$3,850.00
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Ref: #4504339
A Contribution to the Demography of South Australia…
London: Bailliere, Tindall and Cox, 1891. Slim octavo, 64 pp, three tables; publisher's red cloth, flecked. From the collection of the Western Australian Historical Society Library Moss Collection of Australian Books, with bookplate to front endpaper.
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$180.00
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Ref: #4108115
De la Colonie de Frederiks-Oord…
Gand: J. N. Houdin, 1821.
Early utopian socialism
Octavo, uncut, in wrappers. First French edition: history of the formation of an early socialist society in Europe.This is a French translation from the Dutch of a text by the reformer van den Bosch, who, along with his Societé de Bienfaisance set.....
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$1,385.00
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Ref: #3006506
A Short Review of the Political State of Great-Britain…
London: J. Debrett, 1787.
The sixth edition: the first to include the attack on Lord Sydney and Botany Bay
Octavo, title + 86 pp., in later nineteenth-century half black roan. A withering political satire containing one of the earliest printed treatments of Lord Sydney's plan to found a penal colony...
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$475.00
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Ref: #4107102
A Liberdade dos Mares, ou o Governo Inglez Descoberto…
Rio de Janeiro: Miranda & Carneiro, 1833.
Unrecorded reference to Botany Bay
Three parts in one volume, small octavo; in contemporary green quarter calf, gilt. The first edition in Portuguese of this unrecorded reference to Botany Bay.First published in 1789 in Paris, Barère de Vieuzac's La Liberté des Mers was.....
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$1,350.00
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Ref: #3409328
Relations of the most famous kingdomes and Common-wealths…
London: John Haviland, 1630.
"Lately found out, and by our latest Cosmographers"
Small quarto, a good copy but bound without the map mentioned on the title-page; contemporary calf, spine and joints wearing, label chipped. Early English edition of Botero's famous chronicle. Translated into several languages from the original Italian, it...
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$1,400.00
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Ref: #2108484
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Voyage autour du Monde [and] Journal d'un Voyage.
Neuchatel: de l'Imprimerie de la Société Typographique, 1772-1773.
The two earliest works on Tahiti
Three volumes, octavo; contemporary French tortoiseshell calf, flat spines gilt in compartments with floral decoration, double labels. The two earliest works on Tahiti brought together to form a complete work: the first French account of Cook's.....
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$7,250.00
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Ref: #3712564
Voyage autour du Monde…
Paris: chez Saillant & Nyon, 1771.
First French voyage into the Pacific
Quarto, with twenty engraved charts, mostly folding, and three plates of boats; in a well-preserved contemporary French binding of cat's-paw mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments between raised bands, brown leather label. The first French circumnavigation and the...
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$9,000.00
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Ref: #3712540
Voyage autour du Monde, par la frégate du roi La Boudeuse…
Neuchâtel: Société Thypographique [sic], 1773.
Bougainville's Tahiti: the South Sea paradise
Two volumes in one, small octavo; a fine copy in a very attractive contemporary binding of marbled calf, sides bordered in gilt, the flat spine ornately gilt with a repeating drawer-handle design. An attractive copy of the Neuchâtel version.....
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$2,850.00
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Ref: #4504180
A Voyage Round the World…
Dublin: J. Exshaw, et al, 1772.
First Dublin edition
Octavo, with a folding map and folding plate of native canoe; bookplate and old ownership inscriptions of the Le Power (later De la Poer, later still Lord Power) families; contemporary calf. The first Dublin edition, very scarce: a smaller format issue...
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$2,200.00
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Ref: #3602333
A Voyage round the World…
London: J. Nourse and T. Davies, 1772.
First English edition of Bougainville
Quarto, with five folding maps and a folding plate of canoes, the maps neatly refolded; a very good copy in recent polished tan calf, Greek key border to both boards, spine richly gilt, red morocco label. First English...
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$7,750.00
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Ref: #3804544
Sur l'identité des deux espèces nominales d'Ornithorhynque…
Paris: Annales des Sciences Naturelles, December 1826.
Separately printed and important work on the platypus
12 pp., caption-title; tipped into a modern binding of quarter linen and boards. The renowned French zoologist Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire on the platypus: an important study, read to the Académie des Sciences and set up.....
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$3,200.00
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Ref: #4102423
Tigre tué en Amerique par S. A. Monseigneur Le Prince de Nassau Siegen…
Vienna: Jean Jacobe, 1787.
Bougainville, Casanova and the Prince of Nassau
Mezzotint engraving 700 x 990 mm; a fine impression; framed. A rare and very surprising pictorial image of the Bougainville expedition: we have never seen the image before and can find no record of it. Published in Vienna, it...
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$12,500.00
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Ref: #4011300