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The History of New Holland, from its First Discovery in 1616, to the Present Time.
London: John Stockdale, 1790.
An essential book for First Fleet collectors
Quarto, folding map; black half roan, with the bookplate of Henry White. An essential First Fleet book, widely considered the best guide to the establishment of a penal colony in New South Wales: 'an extremely interesting work and an...
Price (AUD):
$4,000.00
Ref: #4403191
The History of New Holland, from its First Discovery in 1616, to the Present Time…
London: John Stockdale, 1787.
First Fleet sails for New South Wales
Octavo, with two folding handcoloured maps; bound in contemporary marbled boards (rebacked retaining original crimson label) from the Westport House library with Browne family armorial bookplate. Published on the eve of the departure of the First Fleet for New...
Price (AUD):
$4,600.00
Ref: #4106490
The History of New Holland, from its First Discovery in 1616, to the Present Time…
London: John Stockdale, 1787.
First Fleet sails for New South Wales
Octavo, with two folding maps, finely hand coloured in outline, modern half calf, marbled boards. First edition. Published on the eve of the departure of the First Fleet for New South Wales, this sometimes neglected publication was the most...
Price (AUD):
$3,850.00
Ref: #4503934
Copper Medal in commemoration of his 1740-1744 Circumnavigation…
London: Thomas Pingo, 1747.
Anson's circumnavigation and defeat of the French
Copper medal, 43.3 mm., with Anson crowned by Victory at right, on the reverse Victory on hippocamp, the names of Anson's officers around; corrected CAMPBEL variety, remnants of 'H' faintly visible, about uncirculated, some mint color remaining, slight abrasions...
Price (AUD):
$2,450.00
Ref: #4302371
Copper Medal for the 1740-1744 Circumnavigation…
London: Thomas Pingo, 1747.
Circumnavigation and victory
Copper medal, 43.3 mm., with Anson crowned by Victory at right, on the reverse Victory on hippocamp, the names of Anson's officers around; CAMPHEL issue with 'B' faintly visible on 'H', about uncirculated, a few minor blemishes to the rims. An excellent medal...
Price (AUD):
$3,450.00
Ref: #4302372
Aris's Birmingham Gazette: or, the General Correspondent. Monday January 3 1743. No. LX.
Birmingham: T. Aris, 1743.
Eight Million Pieces of Eight
Bifolium; franked. Original newspaper containing exciting news of Anson's buccaneering windfall: 'that Commodore Anson has taken eight rich Prizes, and after ravaging the Coast, departed about the middle of April for the East Indies; that he has two Ships with him...
Price (AUD):
$360.00
Ref: #4403248
A Voyage to the South Seas, and to many other parts of the world…
London: John and Paul Knapton, 1744.
The anonymous "Squadron" account of the Anson voyage
Octavo, with an engraved portrait frontispiece and four folding engraved plates; contemporary speckled calf, old rebacking. The rarest of two pirated accounts of the Anson voyage to appear in print in 1744, marking the hugely celebrated...
Price (AUD):
$7,200.00
Ref: #4504976
An Authentic Journal of the late Expedition under… Anson.
London: Printed for J. Robinson, 1744.
First account of the full Anson voyage
Octavo, iv, 516 pp; contemporary panelled calf, joints neatly repaired; an excellent copy. The first book-length account of the entire Anson expedition to be printed, dating a full four years before the appearance of the official narrative...
Price (AUD):
$5,750.00
Ref: #4505118
Recent Expeditions to Eastern Polar Seas.
London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1882. Quarto, with 12 engravings and 2 charts; original gilt decorated cloth. Early anthology including voyages of Hansa, Germania & Tegethoff.
Price (AUD):
$140.00
Ref: #3005277
Inauguration de la Statue de François Arago…
Paris: Chamerot et Renouard, 1893.
The Paris Observatory statue of the scientist Arago
Quarto, 64 pp.; a very good unopened copy in the original grey titling wrappers. Publication commemorating the inauguration of the statue erected to honour the eminent French physicist and astronomer François Jean Dominique Arago (1786-1853). The bronze...
Price (AUD):
$485.00
Ref: #2905335
Sauvage de la Nouvelle-hollande avenant de combattre (Port Jackson).
Paris: Langlume, 1840. Single sheet measuring 305 x 222 mm., wove paper, lithograph. Confronting image of a Port Jackson Aborigine, lithographed after a sketch by Jacques Arago, official artist of the expedition commanded by Louis de Freycinet. This portrait is stylistically similar to the work of Arago's predecessor Nicolas Petit...
Price (AUD):
$650.00
Ref: #3309879
Souvenirs d'un aveugle…
Brussels: Société Typographique, 1840.
The abridged popular version
Large octavo, with a portrait frontispiece, lithographs and in-text illustrations; original gilt decorated full calf. One of the reduced single-volume editions of Arago's classic account. There were numerous editions of his narrative: this particular one is not recorded by Ferguson (although a......
Price (AUD):
$785.00
Ref: #2609420
Tamor des îles Carolines et sa femme, vus sur l'île Tinian.
Paris: circa 1822.
A timeless neoclassical depiction of the Caroline islands
Hand-coloured engraving, 240 x 320 mm (plate size). small paper repair at bottom margin else very good condition. A famous portrait of a man and woman of the Caroline islands, depicted in high neoclassical style. This engraving is derived...
Price (AUD):
$380.00
Ref: #3509162
Souvenirs d'un aveugle. Voyage autour du monde…
Paris: Hortet et Ozanne, 1839.
The new version, with new title
Four volumes, octavo, with 60 lithograph plates (six folding); later binding of quarter dark green morocco. A fine set of the substantially changed version of Arago's classic account of the French circumnavigation in the Uranie under the command of...
Price (AUD):
$5,250.00
Ref: #2808749
Souvenirs d'un Aveugle. Voyage autour du monde… Chasses. Drame.
Paris: H.-L. Delloye, 1840.
The rare supplementary volume
Large octavo, 15 plates, untrimmed with an early library stamp on the title-page; a handsome copy in polished half calf, spine banded and gilt. Fine copy of this unusual addition to his voyage account by the prolific and eccentric Arago, which includes...
Price (AUD):
$2,100.00
Ref: #3702861
Pars Orbis. Sacrae geographiae tabulam ex antiquissimorum cultor…
Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, 1571.
An unexplained proto-Australia: a single southern continent for the first time
Copper-engraved double-hemisphere world map, 335 x 545 mm.; mounted. A very rare sixteenth century map depicting an island roughly in the position of Australia. Montanus shows for the first time on a world map a....
Price (AUD):
$19,850.00
Ref: #4504784
Captain James Cook (proof copy).
London: for the Proprietor, 1821.
Proof version of a Captain Cook portrait plate
Engraving, printed upon india paper sheet measuring 180 x 130mm., laid upon larger sheet;. Proof version on india paper, marked "proof" to lower left-hand corner. This portrait is based on the oil painting by Nathaniel Dance now...
Price (AUD):
$650.00
Ref: #3007744
Captain James Cook.
London: for the Proprietor, 1821.
After the dance portrait
Engraving, 180 x 130 mm. Engraving after the famous portrait by Dance.
Price (AUD):
$325.00
Ref: #3007741
Extensive Archive relating to the three-year maiden circumnavigation voyage of the Nova Scotia Bark "Avondale".
Various places: 1849-1852.
Insured for passage to Sydney and no further...
Extensive archive of bills of lading, purchase receipts, shipping documents, pay ledgers, harbour masters' certificates and other official documents. A remarkable archive of over eighty items summarising in detailed documents the history of a mid-19th century trading circumnavigation, including.....
Price (AUD):
$8,250.00
Ref: #4504252
The First Exhibition of the Art Society of New South Wales…
Sydney: Turner & Henderson, 1880.
The inaugural exhibition catalogue
Duodecimo, pp. 22, [ii]; original wrappers, preserved in a folding cloth box. The rare catalogue of the Society's inaugural exhibition held at the Garden Palace which had been purpose-built for the Sydney International Exhibition in 1879. An impressive two hundred and...
Price (AUD):
$4,750.00
Ref: #4504264
Land Grant of one acre and twenty one perches fronting Macquarie, Antill and Davey Streets in Hobart to William Sorell.
Hobart: 1832.
Appeasing the son
Folded parchment; 320 x 400 mm, folded lower edge secured with green ribbon in two places. Signed by George Arthur as Lieutenant-Governor and John Burnett as Colonial Secretary; annotated on the reverse "Inscribed and recorded in the Supreme Court of Van Diemen's Land this twenty-ninth...
Price (AUD):
$1,650.00
Ref: #4504544
Shipping on the Yarra - early Morning c.1880…
Melbourne: c.1880.
The Yarra River in Dawn Light.
Watercolour on paper, 355 x 540mm, mounted and framed; signed lower right. Julian Rossi Ashton (1851-1942) had exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts, London before emigrating to Australia in 1878. He first lived in Melbourne for five years before moving to...
Price (AUD):
$21,000.00
Ref: #4504885
Original watercolour, captioned: "Chinese Street in Macao".
Macau: probably mid-1844.
Original watercolour of a street of Chinese shops in Macau
Watercolour, 370 x 274 mm; ink caption at centre below; original cropping marks and marginal annotations relating to subsequent publication; now in acid-free mount to original framing dimensions. An important original and atmospheric watercolour, recently rediscovered, depicting...
Price (AUD):
$15,500.00
Ref: #4504037
Original watercolour, captioned: "To ti kong Small Temple nr. Macao".
Macau: probably mid-1844.
Original watercolour of an important Macau temple
Watercolour, 215 x 290 mm; ink caption at lower right; in mount. An important original watercolour by the English artist and architect Edward Ashworth who travelled through Macau and Hong Kong in the 1840s. The T'ou T'ei Temple in Patane...
Price (AUD):
$6,000.00
Ref: #4504038