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Journal of Captain Cook's Last Voyage to the Pacific Ocean…
London: F. Newbery, 1781.
First full account in English of Cook's third voyage
Octavo, with a folding map and five engraved plates (one folding); the leaf D4 cancelled as usual and replaced with four unsigned leaves; contemporary polished calf with spine label "Newberry's Collection Voyages" and the volume number '6'.....
Price (AUD):
$9,000.00
Ref: #4503917
A Catalogue of the Different Specimens of Cloth collected in the three voyages of Captain Cook…
London: Alexander Shaw, 1787.
Exceptional artefact from Cook's Pacific voyages: with 56 specimens of native tapa cloth including a suite of 17 extra specimens, most of them Hawaiian
Quarto (220 x 164 mm.), pp [8, comprising title and three leaves of descriptions], with 56 tapa cloth specimens interleaved between or.....
Price (AUD):
$450,000.00
Ref: #4504181
Imprest Document, a receipt for a Bill of Exchange at the Cape of Good Hope.
London, Victualling Office, 18 June 1777.
Rare document from Cook's third and last voyage
Manuscript in ink on official paper (watermark "GR" with a crown), written in ink on one side of a single sheet, 239 x 201 mm, small folio. Rare document relating to the provisioning of Cook's third.....
Price (AUD):
$24,500.00
Ref: #4401840
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[A View of the Town and Harbour of St Peter and St Paul, in Kamtschatka].
London: circa 1784.
Rare proof impression
Engraving, 253 x 533 mm. to plate mark, paper size 290 x 540 mm.; a little light old creasing at right side; in fine condition. Rare proof impression of one of the most atmospheric views made by Webber to illustrate Cook's third voyage: the.....
Price (AUD):
$4,850.00
Ref: #3611651
Dernier Voyage du Capitaine Cook autour du monde…
Berne: Nouvelle Société Typographique, 1783.
The rare second edition
Octavo, woodcut vignette on title; contemporary continental (?Swiss) mottled calf, spine with small floral device gilt in compartments between raised bands, double orange labels just chipped at edges; a nice copy. The second French edition, and very scarce. Beddie records only.....
Price (AUD):
$18,000.00
Ref: #3503669
Dernier Voyage du Capitaine Cook…
Berne: chez la nouvelle Société Typographique, 1782.
Including an eye-witness account of Cook's death
Octavo; a very good, clean copy in contemporary French half calf. The first and best French edition of this important personal account of Cook's third voyage, and extremely scarce: a most attractive copy. This edition contains.....
Price (AUD):
$21,000.00
Ref: #4401814
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Das Leben des Malers Johann Weber von Bern…
Zurich: n.p., 1821.
Elusive biography of the great Cook voyage artist, with portrait and view
Square octavo, aquatint frontispiece, 13pp. with engraved oval portrait at head of first page; a fine copy in the original printed brown wrappers, preserved in a folding bookform case. Only edition: with the famous engraved.....
Price (AUD):
$5,400.00
Ref: #4302366
Ward and Lock's Home Book: A Domestic Companion.
London: Ward, Lock & Co., circa 1890. Small thick octavo, colour frontispiece; quarter maroon oasis, cloth sides. Companion to Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management.
Price (AUD):
$225.00
Ref: #3203307
Le Cook de la Jeunesse…
Paris: no publisher, 1808. Two volumes, duodecimo, three folding engraved plates after John Webber, charming early printed prize label to front endpapers; in original tree calf, ornate gilt spines with black morocco labels. A beautiful set of this charming and popular French account of various voyages for children. As the.....
Price (AUD):
$4,750.00
Ref: #4302369
Le Cook de la Jeunesse…
Paris: n.p., 1808.
With some fifty pages devoted to Hawaii
Two volumes, duodecimo, the three wide folding engraved plates after John Webber; uncut in the original orange paper wrappers. A very good copy of this charming and popular French account of various voyages for children. As the title suggests, most.....
Price (AUD):
$4,750.00
Ref: #3801448
History of Gawler 1837 to 1908.
Adelaide: Vardon & Sons, 1910.
Local history in South Australia
Octavo, plates, with old local association stamp of "E.G. Heaslip - Gawler" to the title-page. Published by the Gawler Institute as a memento of the jubilee of the Institute and the Municipality of Gawler in 1908.
Price (AUD):
$350.00
Ref: #4108095
French Exploration in South Australia…
Adelaide: published by the author, 1952.
Baudin and Peron in the South
Quarto, plates,in original boards. With especial reference to Encounter Bay, Kangaroo Island, the Two Gulfs and Murat Bay 1802-1803. Limited edition of 200 copies.
Price (AUD):
$220.00
Ref: #4108062
Original landscape study titled 'Banda - The Spice Islands'.
Lisbon: 1841.
Lucrative Spice Island possession
Pencil drawing measuring 204 x 260 mm. (sheet size), well preserved, mounted. Original mid-nineteenth century sketch of Banda, the fabulously lucrative and contested Spice island in present day Indonesia. Once the primary source of nutmeg and mace, the Banda islands were a prized Dutch.....
Price (AUD):
$1,150.00
Ref: #3904137
Relación del último viage al Estrecho de Magallanes…
Madrid: Ibarra, 1788-1793.
Patagonia and the straits of Magellan
Quarto, two volumes bound together, with an engraved portrait of Magellan as frontispiece, five fine large folding maps and five folding tables; contemporary calf-backed marbled boards. The full first edition, complete with the separately published Apendice a la Relación (Madrid, 1793).....
Price (AUD):
$7,850.00
Ref: #2708028
La Geografia en Laminas y Mapas…
Barcelona: por los herederos de D. Agustin Roca, 1834.
Delightful Spanish album of costume plates
Oblong octavo, engraved frontispiece, title and 32 plates; a fine copy in original printed boards. A very good copy of this rare illustrated Spanish edition of the costumes of the world, after the original French.....
Price (AUD):
$2,450.00
Ref: #3605521
Petits Voyages Pittoresques dans l'Asie, l'Afrique, l'Amerique, la Polynesie et les Terres Australes…
Paris: chez Saintin, Libraire de S.M. l'Imperatrice, 1813.
Baudin, Peron and Marion du Fresne
Two volumes bound in one, square duodecimo, 32 plates (one with early amateur hand-colour); a handsome copy, later quarter calf over early paper boards, Scarce ethnological handbook with beautifully engraved plates depicting the native peoples of.....
Price (AUD):
$2,850.00
Ref: #3802486
Petits Voyages Pittoresques dans l'Asie, l'Afrique, l'Amerique, la Polynesie et les Terres Australes…
Paris: chez Saintin, Libraire de S.M. l'Imperatrice, 1813.
Peoples of the world, including Botany Bay
Two volumes, square duodecimo, with a total of 32 plates including the frontispieces; recent marbled boards. Scarce ethnological handbook with beautifully engraved plates depicting the native peoples of the Pacific, New Holland and the Americas.....
Price (AUD):
$2,400.00
Ref: #4011313
Nouvel Atlas des Enfans et des Commerçans…
Paris: Chez Saintin, 1811.
Children's atlas
Octavo, two hand-coloured plates and seven hand-coloured maps (four double-page, three folding), a handsome copy. A charming children's atlas, with delightful depictions of Tahiti, New Zealand and Hawaii. Although much reprinted and very popular, this work is now rare in any edition. Two exquisite.....
Price (AUD):
$2,850.00
Ref: #3702899
Paris Moderne. Plan d'une ville que l'auteur a apelee Novutopie.
Paris: Libraires du Palais-Royal, 1860. Duodecimo, green quarter morocco. First edition: a proposal for a 'new utopia' founded on pacifist principles. In 1859, a Franco-Italian alliance had sought to repel Austrian aggression in northern Italy, but the French people had been sickened by the losses, and Napoleon III had hastily.....
Price (AUD):
$985.00
Ref: #3006532
Paris Moderne: Plan d'une ville Modèle que l'Auteur a appelée Novutopie.
Paris: Libraires du Palais-Royal, 1860. Duodecimo, uncut; original blue paper wrappers, manuscript inscription on front cover. First edition: a proposal for a 'new utopia' founded on pacifist principles. In 1859, a Franco-Italian alliance had sought to repel Austrian aggression in northern Italy, but the French people had been sickened by.....
Price (AUD):
$1,250.00
Ref: #3005388
Poems by William Cowper of the Inner Temple.
London: J. Johnson, 1782-, 1785. Two volumes, octavo; early ownership inscription on title of volume two, a handsome set in attractive nineteenth-century calf. First edition, issue without preface. The first edition of volume one was published separately in 1782 as Poems, the first edition of volume two appeared separately in.....
Price (AUD):
$925.00
Ref: #2408092
Poems, by William Cowper…
London: J. Johnson, 1808. Two volumes, octavo; contemporary blue morocco, gilt. New edition, with engraved head- and tail-pieces by Thurston. Based on the first editions of 1782 and 1785, and including his most famous work The Task. Thurston's engravings are an attractive complement to Cowper's poetry.
Price (AUD):
$485.00
Ref: #2408091
The Works of William Cowper…
London: Baldwin and Cradock, 1835-, 1837. 15 volumes, small octavo, each volume with engraved title and frontispiece, 11 portrait engravings,, in matching contemporary full polished calf, spines with raised bands, decorated in gilt, black and red morocco labels. A first edition set of William Cowper's (1731-1800) complete works edited by.....
Price (AUD):
$1,450.00
Ref: #3804618
A Series of Progressive Lessons intended to Elucidate the Art of Painting…
London: T. Clay, 1828.
Learning to paint in watercolour
Oblong quarto; illustrated throughout with full-page hand-coloured lithographs; in later quarter maroon calf over original marbled boards. Artistic tuition by a notable English painter whose reputation has grown in recent years. The recent major exhibition of Cox's work at the Yale.....
Price (AUD):
$3,600.00
Ref: #3806703