Australia
Original land grant for a selection near Appin.
Sydney: March, 1835. Parchment grant measuring 340 x 390 mm., signed by the Governor of New South Wales, with well-preserved wax seal; folded to docket size. Original colonial document for a discrete land purchase. Land grant to William Henry Chapman for lot 74 on Appin road, Cumberland County. This original.....
Price (AUD):
$800.00
Ref: #3808857
Vocabolario della lingua nativa dell' Australia occidentale…
Rome: Coi tipi della S. Congregazione de propaganda fide, 1845. Duodecimo, 50 pp., uncut and unopened; original plain blue paper wrappers. A superb copy of this rare and interesting pamphlet, the Italian edition of John Brady's Descriptive vocabulary of the native language of W. Australia (Ferguson, 3996; see 3995 for.....
Price (AUD):
$1,650.00
Ref: #3906199
Aux Indes et en Australie dans le yacht le "Sunbeam"…
Tours: Alfred Mame et fils, 1893. Quarto, with many illustrations, some taken from photographs, gilt edges, in the original ornately pictorial cloth, with pretty decoration in silver and gilt. Fine copy of the first French edition, which puts the English edition of 1890 quite in the shade. It is scarce.....
Price (AUD):
$1,850.00
Ref: #3807769
Excursions in New South Wales…
London: Richard Bentley, 1834.
An honest look at the three colonies
Octavo, with two lithograph plates;, edges rough-trimmed only, in half red morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Sangorski & Sutcliffe. The revised and enlarged second edition. Breton emigrated to Tasmania after leaving the navy in 1827, eventually becoming police.....
Price (AUD):
$950.00
Ref: #4106482
Panorama of Australia and America…
England: 1851.
"Positively for 2 nights only"
Broadside, halved at central rule to form two sheets measuring 330 x 255 mm. & 330 x 260 mm., illustrated with four dramatic woodcut scenes. Rare and significant broadside advertising a panoramic lecture show on the Australian colonies that toured England in 1850.....
Price (AUD):
$4,200.00
Ref: #3910334
Letters from Victorian Pioneers…
Melbourne: Robt. S. Brain, 1898.
Mackaness to Ingleton
Octavo, folding map; presentation inscription; bookplates of George Mackaness and Geoffrey Farmer. A very good copy of this now uncommon work, printing letters from Victorian pioneers to Governor Latrobe. The work is very interesting on early settlers, and particularly as regards interaction.....
Price (AUD):
$250.00
Ref: #4108022
HMS "Rattlesnake" Commanded by Captain Owen Stanley R.N.
London: Day and Son, 1852. Coloured lithograph measuring 250 x 350 mm., mounted and framed. Dramatic and finely executed coloured lithograph of the survey vessel HMS Rattlesnake by eminent marine artist Sir Oswald Brierly (1817 - 1894). Under the command of Captain Stanley Owen the Rattlesnake undertook an extensive marine.....
Price (AUD):
$4,500.00
Ref: #4005793
Profr. Hennicke in his Unrivalled Entertainment of Magic and Mystery...which have never before been performed in these Colonies.
Brisbane: Rogers & Harley, 1868.
Colonial Magic and Mystery
Silk theatre bill with green ribbon border, 355 x 238mm. A rare commemorative silk theatre bill on the Lieutenant Governor's attendance at "Professor'' Hennicke's fabulous amusements at the Brisbane School of Arts. According to notices in the Brisbane Courier these entertainments.....
Price (AUD):
$1,500.00
Ref: #4504230
Printed land grant, completed in manuscript, to John Smith.
Sydney: 30 June 1823.
200 acres in Methven
Large printed vellum leaf, completed in manuscript, approx. 290 x 257 mm., verso blank except for ms. docket title; original folds, with well-preserved ribbon and paper seal attached. Fine original land grant signed by the sixth governor, for 200 acres in Methven.....
Price (AUD):
$3,250.00
Ref: #4504507
Report from the Select Committee upon Brown's Diggings; together with the proceedings of Committee, minutes of evidence and appendices.
Melbourne: John Ferres, Government Printer, 1860.
Goldfields land dispute examined
Tall quarto, xxii, 96pp., fine in a handsome half navy morocco by Sangorski, spine gilt with raised bands. Detailed report tabled in Victorian parliament on disputed land ownership and miner's rights at Brown's Diggings (including Smythe's Creek, North Briton and.....
Price (AUD):
$550.00
Ref: #4106503
Report from the Select Committee upon Brown's Diggings; together with the proceedings of Committee, minutes of evidence and appendices.
Melbourne: John Ferres, Government Printer, 1860.
Goldfields land dispute examined
Tall quarto, xxii, 96pp., fine in a crushed brown morocco, spine gilt with raised bands. Detailed report tabled in Victorian parliament on disputed land ownership and miner's rights at Brown's Diggings (including Smythe's Creek, North Briton and Contest Leads). The.....
Price (AUD):
$550.00
Ref: #4106516
Northern Territory of South Australia, North-western District. Reports (Geological and General) Resulting from the Explorations made by the Government Geologist and Staff during 1905.
Adelaide: Government Printer, 1906.
Pioneer prospectors of the tropical North
Tall quarto, with five folding maps and plans (some colour), oirginal green cloth with gilt lettering. Detailed report and travel itinerary of the government geological expedition to the Kimberley and remote north in 1905. Unexpected additions include notes on fossils.....
Price (AUD):
$1,000.00
Ref: #4107518
England's Exiles; or, a View of a System of Instruction and Discipline...
London: Darton and Clark, 1842.
The health of convicts on convict transports
Small octavo, 238 pp., original printer's green cloth. Important book by Browning building on his experience as a Surgeon on board convict transports, most notably the Elphinstone which arrived in Hobart in 1836. Browning could not be accused.....
Price (AUD):
$725.00
Ref: #4106378
Echoes from Coondambo.
Adelaide: Hutchison, Craker, & Smith, 1893.
South Australian Pastoral History.
Octavo, portrait frontispiece; original green cloth with gilt title, inscription on title page to W.C.M. Finniss from W.P.Auld May 1912. Gift from William P Auld, (vigneron & a surveyor on the 1861-2 McDouall Stuart expedition to traverse the continent, and.....
Price (AUD):
$450.00
Ref: #4107511
Guide to the Health Resorts in Australia…
Sydney: Australian Medical Gazette, 1888. Octavo; in original green cloth. An exhaustive guide to over 200 health resorts in Australia and New Zealand, with analyses of mineral waters, services and therapeutic indications. Also includes activities available to patients, such as Killarney, Queensland, "Very pretty scenery, and dry, bracing climate. Shooting.....
Price (AUD):
$485.00
Ref: #2811885
Explanation of a View of Hobart Town…
London: 1831. Engraving, 280 x 450 mm.; mounted. Scarce panoramic view of Hobart, complete with key description, based on an original painting by Augustus Earle. Earle arrived in Tasmania in January 1825 and painted "a series of linked watercolour views of Hobart Town which were later developed into this panorama.....
Price (AUD):
$1,250.00
Ref: #1700688
Progress Report of the Exploration Committee of the Royal Society of Victoria for 1861.
Melbourne: printed by Mason and Firth for the Royal Society of Victoria, 1862.
Who is responsible for the Burke and Wills tragedy?
Foolscap folio, tinted paper, 8pp. (last blank), with related blank envelope loosely inserted. A curious mix of remorse and self-preservation - an account of the Burke and Wills.....
Price (AUD):
$600.00
Ref: #4106181
The Burke and Wills Exploring Expedition… with portraits and biographical sketches of Robert O'Hara Burke, and William John Wills.
Melbourne: Wilson and Mackinnon, 1861.
A pristine copy in the original wrappers: with the frontispiece portraits of Burke and Wills
Octavo, iv, 36 pp. (last blank), with a striking lithographic portrait frontispiece of both explorers (later portrait of Wills pasted to rear of frontispiece), well preserved copy in original green.....
Price (AUD):
$1,950.00
Ref: #4106096
Burke and Wills Commission. Report of the Commissioners…
Melbourne: John Ferres, Government Printer, 1862.
'A far greater amount of zeal than prudence…'
Foolscap folio, 104 pp., printed on light blue paper, edges uncut; half calf. Official report of the Royal Commission appointed to investigate the Burke and Wills disaster: 'now very scarce and of high interest' (Australian Rare.....
Price (AUD):
$1,950.00
Ref: #4504502
Victoria. Exploration Committee. Correspondence - Liabilities of.
Melbourne: John Ferres, Government Printer, 8 May 1866.
Burke and Wills monument
Foolscap folio, 8pp. Correspondence and notes collected by David Wilkie in his role as treasurer of the Exploration Committee; primarily concerning the expenditure on the monument erected to the memory of Burke and Wills who perished 'under circumstances.....
Price (AUD):
$400.00
Ref: #4106188
Report of the Commissioners…
Melbourne: John Ferres, 1862.
The ill fated expedition
Foolscap folio, 104 pp., together with two other relevant Victorian Parliamentary Papers 1864-66; modern quarter calf, the Ingleton copy with his bookplate and his shelfmark. The rare and important Royal Commission report on the ill-fated Burke and Wills expedition: 'very scarce and.....
Price (AUD):
$3,250.00
Ref: #4503968
The Burke and Wills Exploring Expedition…
Melbourne: Wilson and Mackinnon, 1861.
Scarce pamphlet account
Octavo, pp. iv, 32 (double column); bound without wrappers in modern morocco gilt. Very scarce: one of the early impressions of this important pamphlet account of the expedition drawn from the original Melbourne Argus reports. It was reprinted many times between November.....
Price (AUD):
$2,500.00
Ref: #2712355
Review of the Labours of Several Explorers of Australia…
Melbourne & Sydney: Clarson, Shallard and Co., 1863.
With the narrative of John King and a wood engraving of Burke's grave
Octavo pamphlet, original titling wrappers featuring a wood-engraving of Burke's grave at Cooper's Creek to rear cover, the Mackaness copy in recent blue cloth. In the original illustrated wrappers.....
Price (AUD):
$3,200.00
Ref: #2712356
Robert O'Hara Burke and the Exploring Expedition of 1860.
London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1862. Octavo, with title-page vignette, a folding map and 16 pp. advertisements at rear; in the original green cloth. An important record of the ill-fated Burke and Wills expedition. This is the only edition of the one substantial contemporary publication of Burke's own journals. Australian.....
Price (AUD):
$1,950.00
Ref: #3109982