Australia
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
Exploration Expedition. Letter from Commander Norman…
Melbourne: John Ferres, Government Printer, 1862.
Landsborough in search for Burke and Wills
Foolscap folio, 52pp.,in a splendid full black morocco binding by Sangorski with gilt lettering. This report prints the journal of Captain Norman, including much information relating the Landsborough's search for Burke and Wills. The Victoria had been.....
Price (AUD):
$500.00
Ref: #4106156
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
Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria…
Melbourne: Wilson and Mackinnon, 1862. Octavo, with a lithographic portrait frontispiece and large folding map measuring 656 x 794 mm.; in handsome half crushed morocco by Sangorski with gilt lettering and raised bands. The first public printing of Landsborough's journals from the Burke and Wills relief expedition, featuring a splendid.....
Price (AUD):
$1,200.00
Ref: #4106101
Progress Report of the Exploration Committee…
Goverment Printer, 1862. Foolscap folio, 7 pp., printed on blue paper; bound in modern half calf. The important Sixth Progress Report issued after the adverse findings of the Royal Commission enquiring into the disastrous Burke and Wills expedition. This separate printing of the report is identifiable by its colophon on.....
Price (AUD):
$475.00
Ref: #2303137
Exploration Expedition.
Melbourne: John Ferres, Government Printer, 16 March 1865.
The financial aftermath of Burke and Wills
Foolscap folio, single sheet. Published for Victorian parliament, this report was prepared by David Wilkie in his role as treasurer of the Exploration Committee. It lists the very considerable costs arising from Landell's importation of.....
Price (AUD):
$250.00
Ref: #4106185
The State of Religion and Education in New South Wales
London: J.Cross and Simpkin, Marshall. 1840. Octavo, with a folding map and folding tables; complete with the errata slip, in the original cloth. First Edition. Burton was a judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, whose views on the moral decline of colonial society were a significant influence.....
Price (AUD):
$975.00
Ref: #3609618
Receipt of deposit for Lot 4 in the Burwood Estate, Thos. Rowleys division…
Land & Estate Agency, George Street: Stephen & Stokes, Printers, 2 May, 1833.
Home for a publican and the beginnings of Burwood
112 x 174 mm, printed form completed in manuscript in brown ink; printed decorative device above printers' caption; completed" Webb £2.12.0" on verso, together with small sum workings.....
Price (AUD):
$650.00
Ref: #4504213
Journal of the Calvert Scientific Exploring Expedition, 1896-7…
Perth: Wm. Alfred Watson, Government Printer, 1902.
Incomprehensible suffering and despair
Folio, 62 pp., with a large folding lithographic map measuring 890 x 648 mm., fine in handsome quarter green polished calf with gilt lettering. Official account of the scientific expedition financed by the wealthy English traveller Albert Calvert, dispatched.....
Price (AUD):
$1,200.00
Ref: #4106162
Autograph letter from Robert Campbell to the founder of the London Missionary Society, William Alers Hankey.
Sydney: 1826.
Campbell of the Wharf to the founder of the London Missionary Society
ALS, single sheet of laid paper, stamped Portsmouth Ship Letter and London date stamp. Short letter dated 6 Mar 1826, written from Campbell's Wharf, signed by the wharf's owner, Robert Campbell (1769-1846) and addressed to the.....
Price (AUD):
$1,450.00
Ref: #4205941
Notes of an Exile to Van Dieman's Land…
Fredonia: New York, 1846.
Scarcest of the Canadian exile accounts
Octavo; light spotting throughout, but a very good copy in twentieth-century quarter green morocco, raised bands. First edition and scarce: 'A most vivid and interesting account of the convict system in Tasmania from within by a political prisoner, who publishes.....
Price (AUD):
$5,850.00
Ref: #3410347
Letters from Van Dieman's Land...
Buffalo: A.W. Wilgus, 1843.
Firsthand account of Tasmanian convict life.
Small octavo, frontispiece and folding map printed white-on-black; original quarter roan. Exile account by a conspicuous figure in the Canadian Patriotic Rebellion of 1837. Wait was condemned to be hanged, but the efforts of his wife procured a stay of.....
Price (AUD):
$850.00
Ref: #2402287
Letters from Van Dieman's Land, written during four years imprisonment for political offences committed in Upper Canada…
Buffalo: A.W. Wilgus, 1843.
Firsthand account of Tasmanian convict life.
Small octavo, frontispiece and folding map printed white-on-black; some browning (as usual with this paper stock), yet a very good copy in handsome full speckled calf with black and red labels. Exile account by a conspicuous figure in the Canadian.....
Price (AUD):
$1,200.00
Ref: #4106572
Narrative of the Overland Expedition of the Messrs. Jardine…
Brisbane: J.W. Buxton, 1867. Octavo, photographic portrait frontispiece, single lithographic plate and a large folding map at the rear; in original cloth inscribed 'presented by the author January 1870'. Rare narrative of an important inland expedition across far north Queensland and Cape York, with an original mounted sepia frontispiece photograph.....
Price (AUD):
$6,400.00
Ref: #3905171
Capper's South Australia Containing The History of the Rise, Progress and Present State of the Colony.
London: Charles Reynell, 1839.
The industry of emigration
Duodecimo, with three folding maps (including the frontispiece) and a folding table; original blind stamped ribbed brown cloth, bookplate of Charles Glover. Third edition. Settler's guide with good maps of Adelaide and surrounds. The separately paginated 16 pp. advertising appendix contain some.....
Price (AUD):
$600.00
Ref: #4107246
South Australia. Containing Hints to Emigrants; Proceedings of the South Australian Company.
London: Robert Tyas, 1838.
Revised second edition
Slim duodecimo, folding map; at some point disbound from a larger volume (with over-printed numbers in the top margins), in recent green cloth. Informative emigrants handbook for South Australia, including a folding frontispiece map of the Gulf of St. Vincent with an inset.....
Price (AUD):
$480.00
Ref: #4107225
Victoria Cantata…
London & Melbourne: Novello Ewer & Co. [and] Allan & Co., 1880.
Prize-winner for the Melbourne International Exhibition
Tall octavo, some foxing, all advertisements present; in original lilac wrappers, Surprisingly scarce: a 161 pp. musical score for Victoria, the prize cantata written by Caron for the opening of the Melbourne.....
Price (AUD):
$450.00
Ref: #4111733