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South Australia and its Mines…
London: T. & W. Boone, 1846.
Inscribed to Captain FitzRoy of the Beagle
Octavo, frontispiece and five plates (including map of the Rivoli Bay district bound into the text); with a large handcoloured folding map measuring 684 x 535 mm. in front sleeve; a handsome copy with the advertisements in.....
Price (AUD):
$1,400.00
Ref: #4107265
Notes on the Management of Chronometers and the Measurement of Meridian Distances.
London: J.D. Potter, 1861.
The chronometers of HMS Fly, by an officer on board
Octavo, xvi, 228 pp., including appendices and tables. New edition, revised and considerably expanded. The work includes important statistical tables from the north Australian survey conducted by HMS Fly under the command of Francis Blackwood between.....
Price (AUD):
$925.00
Ref: #4402900
The Adventures of a Griffin on a Voyage of Discovery. Written by Himself.
London: Bell and Daldy, 1867.
Melville's charming work for a young audience, based on the Fly voyage
Octavo, wood-engraved illustrations including frontispiece; original tan gilt-decorated cloth. A scarce and attractive work based on the experiences of the artist Harden Sidney Melville on a surveying voyage of coastal Australia. The HMS.....
Price (AUD):
$2,850.00
Ref: #3709358
Ost- und West-Indischer wie auch Sinesischer Lust- und Stats-Garten.
Nürnberg: Johann Andreæ Endter, 1668.
The exotic East and West Indies: in monastic pigskin binding
Thick folio, engraved title, followed by title-page in red & black, envoi to German Emperor Leopold I with separate armorial frontispiece, 65 plates, with one textual illustration and the terminal Errata leaf; contemporary full pigskin.....
Price (AUD):
$19,850.00
Ref: #4012339
The History of Physick; from the time of Galen…
London: J. Walthoe, 1726.
First history of medicine written by an Englishman
Two volumes, octavo, contemporary panelled calf. Attractive early mixed set of this first history of medicine written by an Englishman, comprising the third edition of the first volume and first edition of the second. Regarding nautical medicine, Friend.....
Price (AUD):
$2,850.00
Ref: #3511197
Collection of Seven Pamphlets on Gold…
London: various publishers, 1840-, 1855.
Pamphlets on Gold
Thick octavo, a contemporary collection of thirteen rare pamphlets, seven on the subject of gold, with in total five folding maps, each with original title-pages (one with drop-title only), several with owner's signature, and one with authorial inscription; a handsome volume in.....
Price (AUD):
$3,650.00
Ref: #3806721
Géographie des Grecs analysée…
Paris: Didot l'aîné, 1790.
Ancient Greek geographers
Quarto, with ten folding engraved maps; later half red grained morocco. An analysis of the geographical knowledge of the ancient Greeks undertaken by Gossellin for a contest set by the French Academie Royale des Inscriptions. The ten folding maps are particularly interesting for.....
Price (AUD):
$1,125.00
Ref: #4103485
The Micrographic Dictionary; A guide to the examination and investigation of the structure and nature of microscopic objects.
London: John van Voorst, 1875.
Marvels of pond life in London tapwater
Large thick octavo, two volumes bound in handsome deep red half morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, the second volume with 48 engraved plates, some handcoloured. Splendidly bound copy of the third edition, a marvellous relic of Victorian popular.....
Price (AUD):
$550.00
Ref: #3002988
The History of Creation...
London: Henry S. King, 1876.
Precursors to Darwin illuminated
Two volumes, octavo, with a total of 15 plates (including the folding frontispiece map), contemporary full polished calf, spine banded with green labels. Good summary of Darwinian evolutionary theory, and its historical precursors (namely Kant, Lamarck, Cuvier, Agassiz, Goethe, Oken and.....
Price (AUD):
$300.00
Ref: #4504103
A Description of Ventilators…
London: W. Innys, R. Manby, T. Woodward, 1763.
From men-of-war to the Drury Lane Theatre
Two volumes, octavo, five folding plates, contemporary speckled calf. First edition: Hales' ventilators became known as "ship's lungs", and were so appreciated by eighteenth-century sailors, and contributed so significantly to an improvement in seaboard conditions.....
Price (AUD):
$7,500.00
Ref: #3706038
A Voyage round the World in His Majesty's Frigate Pandora.
Berwick and London: W. Phorson, B. Law and Son, 1793.
The Bounty mutineers wrecked in the Endeavour Strait
Octavo, with an engraved frontispiece portrait of the author; untrimmed; in modern calf, gilt, in a matching half calf box. First edition: the only published account of the voyage of the Pandora.....
Price (AUD):
$15,000.00
Ref: #4503907
South Australia: its history, resources, and productions.
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1876.
From the library of James Moxon
Thick octavo, frontispiece and numerous detailed steel-engraved plates, two folding lithographed maps in sleeve to the rear; a fine copy in later polished half calf, spine gilt. Beautifully bound history of South Australia with the bookplate.....
Price (AUD):
$479.00
Ref: #4108112
The Description and Use of the Globes, and the Orrery…
London: Printed for Thomas Wright, Mathematical Instrument-Maker… And E. Cushee, Globe-Maker, 1738.
Globes, by the Master of the Mint
Octavo, with six engraved folding plates; early ink ownership inscription ("John Wadham, his booke July 12th 1762"), armorial bookplate of Belsfield, and a later owner's embossed stamp; a good, crisp copy.....
Price (AUD):
$2,850.00
Ref: #3409273
Cosmography in four books…
London: Printed by A.C. for P. Chetwind, and A. Seile…, 1677.
"Terra Australis Incognita, or the Southern Continent"
Folio, printed title in red and black, with an additional engraved title and four folding maps; contemporary dark sprinkled calf. A famous geographical work by the seventeenth-century theologian and historian, here in.....
Price (AUD):
$5,500.00
Ref: #4505180
Typus Orbis Terrarum.
Amsterdam: 1607. Handcoloured copper engraving, 290 x 180 mm. (sheet size), with letterpress to verso. Mounted. Beautiful decorated double-hemisphere map of the world from the Atlas Minor published by Jodocus Hondius in 1607. In 1604 Hondius and a business partner purchased the copper plates from Mercator's estate and continued to.....
Price (AUD):
$2,250.00
Ref: #4107412
Journal, etc., of the Horn Scientific Expedition to Central Australia (with plates and plans). 1894.
Adelaide: C.E. Bristow, Government Printer, October, 1896.
The report suppressed by Horn
Foolscap folio, 32 pp., with 13 full page photogravure plates and four larger folding maps and sheets bound in (including the large map measuring 1290 x 1290 mm., and a plan of the Hermannsburg mission measuring 822 x......
Price (AUD):
$1,800.00
Ref: #4106163
Copies of correspondence respecting American Citizens who were supposed to have participated in the late riots at Ballaarat.
Melbourne: Government Printer, 7 March 1855.
'the prime movers were Scotchmen'
Foolscap folio, single leaf. Curious exchange between James Tarleton, U.S. Consul to Australia and Lieutenant Governor Sir Charles Hotham, laying the blame for the Eureka Stockade. Tarleton asserts in his first letter that 'the prime movers were Scotchmen' and.....
Price (AUD):
$250.00
Ref: #4106195
An Account of the Principal Lazarettos in Europe…
London: J. Johnson, C. Dilly and T. Cadell, 1791.
Prisons, hulks, quarantine stations and mental hospitals
Quarto, with 22 engraved plans and views (18 of them folding) and a large folding table; bound without the half-title in contemporary sprinkled calf, flat spine banded in gilt, red morocco label; an excellent.....
Price (AUD):
$2,250.00
Ref: #4002621
The State of the Prisons in England and Wales…
London: William Eyres for Cadell and Conant, 1780.
Prison reform in the 1780s
Octavo, with ten folding engraved plates including seven highly detailed architectural plans; contemporary tree calf, spine panelled in gilt between raised bands. Second and best edition of John Howard's exhaustive and highly influential examination of the prisons.....
Price (AUD):
$2,000.00
Ref: #4303377
Article on John Hutchinson's longitude clock...
London: D. Henry, November, 1775.
Experimental marine chronometer
Octavo, 48 pp., disbound. Complete issue of the Gentleman's Magazine for November 1775 containing an interesting biographical article on John Hutchinson (1674-1737), a natural scientist who, in 1712, invented and built a novel chronometer for ascertaining longitude. The article reads 'Some time.....
Price (AUD):
$375.00
Ref: #3707085
Giphantie.
Babylone (Paris): n.p., 1760. Octavo, with four engraved plates by Cochin after Desfriches illustrating the second work "Mon Odyssée ou le Journal de Mon Retour de Saintonge"; contemporary mottled calf,spine gilt with red label. First edition: a marvellous utopian community in Africa, prefiguring the uses of photography, television and the.....
Price (AUD):
$7,250.00
Ref: #3006485
Address in Surgery.
Melbourne: Stillwell & Co., 1889.
"accurate knowledge, infinite painstaking, and sacred reverence for human life"
Octavo, 23 pp., some foxing, old fold, and manuscript postal address and postmarks (1889), where the pamphlet has been mailed from South Australia to New South Wales; in the original printed wrappers, rather spotted and.....
Price (AUD):
$1,050.00
Ref: #3806686
The International Exhibition of 1862. The illustrated catalogue…
London: Printed for Her Majesty's Commisioners, 1862.
Australian products on the world stage.
Three volumes, quarto, folding plan and steel engraved illustrations throughout; in original gilt decorated cloth. Official catalogue of the 1862 International Exhibition, a spectacle of vast proportions promoting the products and manufacturing of Britain and her colonies.....
Price (AUD):
$1,600.00
Ref: #4403232
Jeu de Cartes Geographiques…
Lille: chez Vanackere and Paris, chez Nicolle, circa 1806.
Early children's geographical card game
Geographical card game, consisting of 48 cards measuring 105 x 70 mm, each illustrated with a small round engraving by Pierre-François Godard, together with a folded sheet with introduction and rules for the game, and a......
Price (AUD):
$4,850.00
Ref: #4109671