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Progress Report of the Exploration Committee…
Melbourne: Mason and Firth, Printers, 1862.
Sixth Progress Report
Foolscap folio, 7 pp., printed on blue paper; stitched but unbound as issued, folded for the original "Exploration Committee" envelope, also present. The important Sixth Progress Report issued after the adverse findings of the Royal Commission enquiring into the disastrous Burke...
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$575.00
Ref: #4504501
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
A third letter to a member of the present parliament…
London: F. and C. Rivington, 1797.
"A gang of felons and murderers..."
Octavo in fours; contemporary quarter calf. First edition, Burke's continues to oppose peace with France: published posthumously. Extending his long-held opposition to the Revolution in France, this letter, published from drafts left by Burke, maintains his steadfast opposition...
Price (AUD):
$325.00
Ref: #2408050
Practical Hints on Colour in Painting.
London: John Carpenter, 1843. Quarto, eight handcoloured engraved plates; in original cloth-backed boards, paper titling label on front board. Fifth edition of this beautifully-produced but practical guide to colour in painting, which uses works by old masters such as Titian, Van Dyck and Rubens as a guide.
Price (AUD):
$750.00
Ref: #3211645
The Justice of the Peace and Parish Officer.
London: T. Cadell and W. Davies et al. 1814. Five volumes, thick octavo, light spotting to endpapers; contemporary full tan calf, double red and green spine labels. Handsome 1814 edition of the first and most enduring work of legal writer Richard Burn. The Justice of the Peace and Parish Officer...
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$1,850.00
Ref: #3706036
The Works of Robert Burns...
London: Cadell and Davies, 1813.
Scotland's greatest lyric poet
Five volumes, with an arresting portrait frontispiece; uniformly bound in contemporary full green polished calf with gilt ornament including a lyre in gilt on front and back covers; a most endearing set. A beautifully bound set of the complete works. The...
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$1,650.00
Ref: #4504101
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
Catalogue of the Lepidoptera of New Zealand.
London: E.W. Janson, 1874. Quarto, with three lithograph plates; in original cloth-backed printed green boards. This study of the butterflies and moths of New Zealand, made as part of the scientific surveys during the voyage of the Erebus and Terror, was issued separately, but also formed part of the general...
Price (AUD):
$785.00
Ref: #2903134
Hudibras.
London: W. Nicol for John Murray, 1835. Two volumes, octavo, extra-illustrated with 71 plates by Hogarth and others (inlaid to size or pasted down); in contemporary dark green pebble grain morocco gilt, all edges gilt. A very handsome extra-illustrated copy of Butler's famous mock epic, in fine condition. This edition...
Price (AUD):
$1,750.00
Ref: #3409297
Discovery: the Story of the Second Byrd Antarctic Expedition.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1935.
The last of the old guard in the Antarctic
Large octavo, portrait frontispiece, four maps (two folding) and illustrations; publisher's cloth. First edition of Byrd's classic account of his second expedition to the Antarctic. Limited edition of one thousand copies, signed by the author...
Price (AUD):
$450.00
Ref: #4108010
Little America. Aerial exploration in the Antarctic. The flight to the South Pole.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1930.
First aviator to the South Pole
Large octavo, portrait frontispiece, four maps (two folding) and illustrations; in contemporary half tan morocco. First edition of Byrd's account of his pioneering two-year aerial exploration of the Antarctic, during which he became the first man to fly...
Price (AUD):
$550.00
Ref: #3005210
Little America. Aerial exploration in the Antarctic. The flight to the South Pole.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1930.
First aviator to the South Pole
Large octavo, portrait frontispiece, four maps (two folding) and illustrations; publisher's cloth. Limited edition of one thousand copies, signed by the author and publisher, numbered 586.
Price (AUD):
$450.00
Ref: #4108009
Voyage of HMS Blonde to the Sandwich Islands…
London: John Murray, 1826.
Important early voyage to Hawaii
Quarto, with 14 charts and aquatint plates, some folding; overall a good copy in modern calf with label from an earlier binding. First edition of a famous voyage account, and an important and extensive illustrated description of Hawaii in the mid-1820s...
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$4,000.00
Ref: #2205003
Voyage of H.M.S. Blonde to the Sandwich Islands…
London: John Murray, 1826.
Returning the Royal deceased to Hawaii
Quarto, with a folding chart and 13 other charts and plates (one folding); modern half calf. First edition of a famous Pacific voyage account, and an important and extensive illustrated description of Hawaii in the mid-1820s. Kamehameha II of Hawaii...
Price (AUD):
$3,600.00
Ref: #2203378
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Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice [bound with] Werner, A Tragedy.
London: John Murray, 1821.
Lord Byron's influences
Tall octavo, missing both half-titles, 'Marino Faliero' without terminal ad.; contemporary green half morocco, gilt, Attractive volume of two important works by Byron. First edition, first issue of Marino Faliero: the Doge's speech on page 151 consists of only five and a half...
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$685.00
Ref: #2408062
The Narrative of the Honourable John Byron…
London: S. Baker, 1768.
Wrecked in forlorn Patagonia
Octavo, with a frontispiece; contemporary dark calf, various owners' signatures including a presentation to 'Arthur Cadogan from Genl. Fox'. First edition. 'Admiral Byron's narrative of the loss of the Wager is one of the most thrilling accounts in the language, and supplied...
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$3,200.00
Ref: #2607352
Viaggio Intorno al Mondo…
Firenze: Giuseppe Allegrini, 1768.
The towering Patagonians
Square octavo, engraved frontispiece, 4, 152 pp., untrimmed, in plain modern boards. Uncommon contemporary Italian edition of the famous account of Byron's circumnavigation by Charles Clerke. As would be expected, the edition includes an excellent new version of the famous frontispiece of an...
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$2,850.00
Ref: #4305431
A Journal of a Voyage round the world…
London: A. Manson, P. Denham, W. Robertson, and F. Nicholson n.d., circa 1784.
"By a midshipman on board"
Small octavo, 93 pp., early owner's names on endpapers; an excellent copy in contemporary sprinkled calf, An uncommon edition of the Byron voyage in excellent original condition. The earliest accounts of the...
Price (AUD):
$5,500.00
Ref: #3712545
Grigri, Histoire véritable…
Nangazaki [Paris]: "Klnporzenkru, L'an du monde 59749" 1749. Two volumes in one, duodecimo, first title lightly stained and with an early ms attribution to 'Cahusac'; in old dark blue paper boards, red leather label. "Last edition" of this charming and rare book which had been suppressed by the authorities in...
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$1,400.00
Ref: #3006527
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
De Monarchia Hispanica…
Amsterdam: Louis Elzevir, 1653.
Build a wall "lest the English should break in and bring heresy."
24mo., engraved title, all edges gilt; in nineteenth-century full red morocco, gilt arms of Henry J.B. Clements on front cover, spine banded and gilt. Attractive small Elzevir edition of this utopian work by the...
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$3,450.00
Ref: #3806730
Report by Mr.C. W. Campbell, His Majesty's Consul at Wuchow, on a Journey in Mongolia.
London: HMSO, 1904.
Impressive map of Mongolia
Foolscap folio, 44pp. (last blank), large folding chromolithographic map; recent plain green wrappers. Notes and observations based upon a summer trip into Chihli during June to October 1902, also drawing on experiences in Chakkar country a few years previously.
Price (AUD):
$350.00
Ref: #4107572
Lives of the Admirals, and other eminent British Seamen…
London: T. Osborne [etc], 1761.
"he has not been in the inside of a church for many years"
Four volumes, octavo, with a number of oval portraits of naval figures, and six folding engraved maps, contemporary calf binding, spines gilt in compartments between raised bands, red edges. Third edition: a....
Price (AUD):
$2,400.00
Ref: #2212532