Australia
The Land of the Starry Cross and Other Verses.
Melbourne: Lothian, 1911. Small octavo; original blue cloth, top edge gilt. Author's presentation copy of his first book of verse, with a long presentation inscription to Jack Vincent, dated 28 November 1947.
Price (AUD):
$125.00
Ref: #3305780
Gold Fields Act. Orders in Council… The Divisions of the Mining District of Castlemaine.
Melbourne: John Ferres, Government printer, 18 January, 1860. Tall quarto, 4 pp. Mining district of Castlemaine delimited, with polling implications clarified.
Price (AUD):
$100.00
Ref: #4108180
The Kangaroo Islanders: A Story of South Australia Before Colonization 1823.
Adelaide: Rigby Ltd., 1926.
Aboriginal inhabitation of Kangaroo Island.
Octavo, original printed stiff cloth wrappers. A sterling copy. The author also wrote a biography of Johann Menge, the brilliant but eccentric geologist who called South Australia his home.
Price (AUD):
$200.00
Ref: #4107281
Centennial Cantata…
Melbourne: W.H. Glen & Co., circa 1888. Octavo; modern marbled cloth-backed boards with original printed stiff wrappers bound in. A rare musical souvenir of the lavish opening of the Centennial International Exhibition, held in the Exhibition Building in Melbourne, to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the landing of the First.....
Price (AUD):
$325.00
Ref: #3311984
Sturt's third and final expedition as reported in 'The Edinburgh Evening Courant'...
Edinburgh: Davis Ramsay and Son, 1846.
'the entire country is of comparatively recent formation'
Large bifolium, 560 x 405 mm. Sturt's third expedition to inland Australia, reported to readers in Scotland. Departing from Adelaide in 1844 accompanied by John MacDougall Stuart and Harris Browne, the expedition ventured into some of.....
Price (AUD):
$275.00
Ref: #4011254
Carte très Curieuse de la Mer du Sud…
Paris: l'Honore & Chatelain, 1719.
One of the most richly decorated world maps ever produced
Engraved map, with fine hand colouring, printed in four sheets joined, 860 x 1440 mm.; mounted and framed. A splendid example of Henri Châtelain's rare and magnificent wall chart of the Pacific and its surrounds.....
Price (AUD):
$28,500.00
Ref: #4504770
The Answer.
Melbourne: Australasian Authors' Agency, 1911. Octavo, 80 pp. (last blank), frontispiece; a few old library stamps and scattered pithy marginalia; original printed wrappers. Uncommon Melbourne-printed first edition of one of the most eccentric Australian publications: much republished, this first edition includes the notorious folding colour frontispiece depicting criminal, lunatic and.....
Price (AUD):
$500.00
Ref: #4103469
Alfred Dudley; or, The Australian Settlers.
London: Harvey & Darton, 1830. Duodecimo, with an engraved frontispiece and three plates;, in the original quarter red roan with marbled boards, First edition: considered the first novel of Australia. This is an exemplary copy of the very scarce first edition, bound with the advertisements in the publisher's roan-backed marbled.....
Price (AUD):
$6,750.00
Ref: #3308859
Chinese and Gold Fields Revenue, Belvoir; and Customs, Murray.
Melbourne: John Ferres, Government printer, 1 March, 1860.
Revenue from Chinese gold-miners.
Single foolscap sheet. 'Statement of the amount of Chinese and gold fields revenue collected at Belvoir, from the date of Mr. Hanify's appointment as Chinese protector to the present time, and statement relating to the collection of customs.....
Price (AUD):
$150.00
Ref: #4108182
Foreign Field Sports, Fisheries, Sporting Anecdotes…
London: Edward Orme, circa 1823.
Famous colourplate book including a section on the Aborigines of NSW
Quarto, pp. with 110 hand coloured aquatints (including the New South Wales plates), a good copy in ornate contemporary gilt decorated deep green morocco with all edges gilt. This is a later issue of.....
Price (AUD):
$5,250.00
Ref: #3911447
Foreign Field Sports, Fisheries, Sporting Anecdotes…
London: Edward Orme, 1814.
Famous colourplate book including a section on the Aborigines of NSW
Quarto, 160 pages letterpress without pagination, 100 handcoloured aquatints with the 1813 New South Wales supplement bound at rear (this comprising separate title-page, dedication leaf, 10 handcoloured aquatints and 14 letterpress pages); a fine copy.....
Price (AUD):
$12,500.00
Ref: #4205932
Field Sports, &c. &c. of the Native Inhabitants of New South Wales with ten plates by the Author.
London: Edward Orme, 1813.
Dedicated to Bligh: the first book on the Australian Aborigines
Quarto, 10 coloured aquatints; modern half calf, spine gilt-titled. A very good copy of the first issue of this important Australian plate book. This was the first work to be published on the Australian Aborigines. Clark.....
Price (AUD):
$7,500.00
Ref: #4503983
Simple Abstract of the Geography and History of Tasmania…
Launceston: Hudson & Hopwood, circa 1871. Octavo, frontispiece folding colour map, author's presentation dated 1872; original green cloth. Author's presentation copy of this rare Launceston-printed primer on the history and geography of Tasmania. The author begins by describing the physical characteristics of the Island, flora and fauna. Then goes on.....
Price (AUD):
$885.00
Ref: #3006546
Habitans de la Nouvelle Hollande. No. 43 Anecdote.
Paris: circa 1830. Aquatint, 200 x 233mm. (sheet size). View of Aboriginal shelters, with detail of a dingo and an armed warrior. The plate was prepared from the suite of native studies by John Heaviside Clarke, first published in Foreign Field Sports (London 1814) and here re-printed for a French.....
Price (AUD):
$175.00
Ref: #4106610
The Wreck of 'The Hereward' Maroubra Beach, Sydney.
circa 1898.
The Maroubra Beach shipwreck
Watercolour, 18.2 x 54 cms. mounted and framed. This watercolour is signed lower left, M Clarke and was painted as the clipper ship Hereward lay on its side wrecked at Maroubra Beach. The Hereward had blown onto soft sand at the northern end of.....
Price (AUD):
$2,850.00
Ref: #4209095
Cockatoo Island, and other Penal Establishments…
Sydney: Thomas Richards, 1866. Foolscap folio, 9pp.; in recent binder's cloth. Cockatoo Island was established as a penal settlement in 1839, by Governor Gipps primarily to alleviate the overcrowding on Norfolk Island. Three years after this report was published the settlement was closed in 1869 and the prisoners transferred to.....
Price (AUD):
$275.00
Ref: #3205440
Nomenclature of South Australia.
Adelaide: W.K. Thomas & Co., 1908. Octavo, with two frontispiece portraits; in the original handsome decorated boards. History of South Australian place names.
Price (AUD):
$200.00
Ref: #4108102
Chowbokiana or Notes about the Antipodes and the Antipodeans.
[Bombay]: 1875. Octavo, 100 pp., New York Public Library stamp on verso of title-page, preserved in solander box of half green morocco, marbled paper boards. Rare: although often quite whimsical in tone, this work is in fact an empassioned plea to protect the Maori from the worst excesses of European.....
Price (AUD):
$985.00
Ref: #4002609
Captain Sir Christopher Cole, R.N. K.C.B. Colonel of Marines, &c. &c. &c.
London: N.D., circa 1830.
John Septimus Roe's patron
Mezzotint engraving, 522 x 404 mm., noted in the plate as "proof" at bottom left, mounted and framed. A fine mezzotint portrait of Sir Christopher Cole, an important naval officer and significant as the patron to John Septimus Roe, Phillip Parker King's.....
Price (AUD):
$2,550.00
Ref: #4003692
An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales.
London: A. Strahan, for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1804.
The posthumous second edition, revised by Collins' widow, with additions to 1803
Quarto, with a portrait frontispiece, two maps (one folding), 23 engraved plates (the three natural history plates coloured) and eight text vignettes (that of the emu coloured); old.....
Price (AUD):
$3,750.00
Ref: #4504466
An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales…
London: T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, 1798 & 1802.
The complete First Fleet account of David Collins, thick paper issue, in an unrecorded state with extra foldout engravings
Two volumes, quarto, [1798]: 2 charts, 18 plates and four textual vignettes, the vignettes most unusually repeated on additional folding plates.....
Price (AUD):
$32,750.00
Ref: #4503961
An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales…
London: Cadell & Davies, 1798.
The most detailed First Fleet account
Quarto, two charts (one folding), 22 engraved plates; a handsome and large copy in full speckled calf, gilt, double spine labels. First edition of this substantial account of the first Australian settlement, with its important suite of images of.....
Price (AUD):
$12,500.00
Ref: #4505129
Bill of Exchange to John Madden in London signed over by David Collins…
Sydney: 19 March 1795.
Rare and early Bill of Exchange signed by David Collins
Quarto, single leaf, 2pp., manuscript in ink on paper. An ephemeral example of the emerging New South Wales economy with a rare association. David Collins' own account of the new settlement (An Account of the English.....
Price (AUD):
$6,400.00
Ref: #4504547
Three Parliamentary reports…
Sydney: E.H. Statham, York Street, 1835. Three foolscap reports, with docket-titles, A collection of three reports by the Auditor General on the finances of New South Wales, full of interesting notes on expenses in the colony, printed by the prolific Sydney based printer and newspaper publisher Edwyn Henry Statham. It.....
Price (AUD):
$475.00
Ref: #3402054