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Portrait of George Barrington.
London: 1804-, 1809.
Fine image of the famous pickpocket
Stippled engraving, 98 x 75 mm. A very good portrait of Barrington, within an octagonal border. George Barrington was convicted of felonry and transported with the Third Fleet in 1791. Soon after his arrival in Sydney Cove, Barrington's "irreproachable conduct" led...
Price (AUD):
$450.00
Ref: #3002910
Tales of Woe. Love & Constancy, or the Fatal Denial, a True Story; Leonora, or the effects of treachery; and the Lover's Leap…
London: Thomas Tegg, n.d. but, 1804. Duodecimo, pp. 181-216, simple modern tan wrappers. One of the rarest Barrington works, and one of the more egregious impositions on his so-called "authorship", with his name the only one featured on the title-page despite his complete lack of involvement. Copies are known with...
Price (AUD):
$775.00
Ref: #4303396
Da Asia de Joáo Barros e de Diogo de Couto, Nova Edição…
Lisbon: Regia Officina Typographica, 1788.
Portuguese discoveries in a crisp uniform edition
24 volumes, duodecimo, with four portraits and five folding maps; contemporary blonde speckled calf. This extensive set is a fundamental travel book, and the basis for any history of Portuguese exploration. This is the first collected edition of...
Price (AUD):
$14,500.00
Ref: #3111076
Walks about the City and Environs of Jerusalem.
London: Daldy Isbister and Co., circa 1844.
The Holy Land Illustrated
Octavo; engraved frontis and title-page, 23 engraved plates and 29 line drawings; original blind stamped blue cloth boards, rebacked, corners slightly worn, highly decorated in gilt front and spine, all edges gilt. William Henry Bartlett was a prolific 19th...
Price (AUD):
$550.00
Ref: #3312986
Andrew Kippis, D.D. F.R.S. & S.A.
London: Thos. Macklin, 20 October, 1792.
Earliest major portrait of Cook's biographer
Stipple engraving, 290 x 210 mm., An uncommon portrait of Cook's great first biographer, stipple-engraved by the great artist Bartolozzi, famous for his role in producing many of the engravings relating to Cook's third voyage, including a portrait...
Price (AUD):
$1,250.00
Ref: #4308580
Captain James Cook, F.R.S.
London: William Strahan & Cadell, 1777.
The Hodges portrait
Engraved portrait, 265 x 200 mm. Fine portrait of Cook after William Hodges. This oval head-and-shoulders portrait of the navigator as a young man was commissioned from the engraver Basire to be used as the frontispiece of the official account of...
Price (AUD):
$1,450.00
Ref: #3103115
Aardrijkskunde: Prenten-Magazijn voor de jeugd.
Leiden: Van D. Noothoven Van Goor, 1860.
Information on Java for Dutch children
Single printed leaf, 440 x 310 mm., simply handcoloured. Scarce news-sheet publication for Dutch children. One of a long series (this is number 78), this is devoted to information about Java, with a map and three views...
Price (AUD):
$175.00
Ref: #2903295
Illustrated Travels: A Record of Discovery, Geography and Adventure.
London: Cassell, circa 1890. Quarto, engravings; original cloth. Includes a chapter on Queensland.
Price (AUD):
$550.00
Ref: #3002991
Printed announcement of the death of Charles Baudin.
Paris: 8 June, 1854.
The death of Charles Baudin
Sheet of wove paper 262 x 210 mm., printed with black mourning border. Rare obituary notice for Charles Baudin, who had sailed as a young man on the Baudin expedition to the Terres Australes; Charles was not related to the commander...
Price (AUD):
$725.00
Ref: #4307524
Original pencil sketch of Port Louis from the Ile aux Tonneliers.
Port Louis (Mauritius): circa 1801.
The great Mauritian port in the age of Baudin and Flinders, with the Géographe at anchor
Pencil sketch, 263 x 428 mm., fugitive note in pencil lower right; mounted. A fine pencil sketch of Port Louis, with the Géographe at the precise anchorage Baudin noted.....
Price (AUD):
$34,500.00
Ref: #4504924
Original drawing of a scene in Mauritius…
Mauritius: 1801-1803.
Rare original view in Mauritius by one of Baudin's artists
Pencil sketch, 135 x 195 mm.; laid down on the original blue-paper mount, signed on the lower left of the mount and captioned. A striking pencil sketch by the Baudin voyage artist Milbert, done in the south-west of...
Price (AUD):
$12,500.00
Ref: #4504851
Voyage pittoresque à l'Ile-de-France, au cap de Bonne-Espérance, et à l'île de Ténériffe…
Paris: A. Nepveu, 1812.
The Indian Ocean by a Baudin veteran
Two volumes octavo of text, with small folio atlas of 45 plates and charts (5 folding); the text volumes in contemporary quarter calf bindings, spines gilt with double labels, the atlas completely unbound and the loose plates contained in...
Price (AUD):
$9,500.00
Ref: #4504933
Voyage de Découvertes aux Terres Australes…
Paris: Imprimerie Impériale, 1807-1816.
Official account of the Baudin expedition
Two volumes, quarto, and large quarto atlas in two parts containing 41 full-page engravings, many in original handcolouring, and 14 fine charts; the text volumes uncut; a fine set in modern quarter morocco. First edition: the Baudin-Freycinet expedition, one of...
Price (AUD):
$32,000.00
Ref: #4504309
Personal ALS by Baudin veteran and later Commander-in-Chief of the French during the Mexican "Pastry War".
Lyon: 28 July, 1832.
Candid and personal letter by the junior Baudin
Four page letter, single sheet folded to letter-size 258 x 207 mm., French postal marks. A personal and revealing letter by the Baudin voyage veteran Charles Baudin, written at a time when his family fortunes were at a....
Price (AUD):
$1,350.00
Ref: #4306500
Mon Voyage aux Terres Australes. Journal personnel du commandant Baudin.
Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 2000.
Baudin's personal record of the voyage
Large octavo, includes many colour and black & white plates; original illustrated wrappers. French language edition of the personal journal of Nicolas Baudin, carefully edited and prepared for publication with special appendices and numerous colour plates of original scientific and...
Price (AUD):
$145.00
Ref: #3101963
Carte Générale de la Terre Napoléon.
Paris: Gravé par Tardieu, 1808.
French designs for South Australia.
Engraved chart; 580 x 850 mm. Impressive early chart of the South Australian coastline revealing French colonial ambitions for Australia, a result of the survey undertaken during the Baudin expedition in Australian waters during 1802. As the title "Terre Napoleon"...
Price (AUD):
$8,500.00
Ref: #3912509
L'amiral Baudin.
Paris: Librairie Plon, 1888.
In the original publisher's wrappers
Small octavo, with seven folding maps; in the original printed pale blue wrappers. First edition: a very scarce publication, by a French naval officer who sailed with the D'Entrecasteaux expedition in the 1790s. Admiral Charles Baudin played a role in the...
Price (AUD):
$1,485.00
Ref: #3702859
Casoar de la Nouvelle Hollande
Paris: 1807.
The cassowary
Handcoloured engraving, 160 x 230mm. A fine rendering of the Cassowary from the account of the Baudin voyage to Australia and the Pacific. The expedition's artist was Charles-Alexandre Lesueur who set out on Baudin's expedition as an assistant gunner, and it wasn't until mass desertions, including...
Price (AUD):
$350.00
Ref: #3503646
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Nouvelle-Hollande: Terre de Witt…
Paris: 1807.
Coastal views of Northwestern Australia
Single sheet, 353 x 260 mm., wove paper, hand-coloured engraving. A charming set of coastal views on the western and northern coast of Australia after the original sketches by Lesueur. The first two coastal views depict stretches of the Champagny archipelago (present-day Champagny...
Price (AUD):
$2,100.00
Ref: #2303029
Voyage de Découvertes aux Terres Australes…
Paris: Imprimerie Impériale [Royale], 1807/16/07/11; 1815/12.
The full account of the Baudin voyage: superbly hand-coloured
Bound in five volumes; a handsome set of the complete official edition, including the two-volume quarto narrative text with portrait frontispiece and two folding tables, the two-parts of the large quarto atlas bound as a....
Price (AUD):
$98,500.00
Ref: #3811937
Voyage de Découvertes aux Terres Australes…
Paris: Imprimerie Impériale [Royale], 1807-1816.
The Baudin voyage to Australia and the Pacific
Three volumes, small and large quarto; the two-volume text with portrait frontispiece and two folding tables; the two-part large quarto atlas (bound in one volume) containing 40 plates (23 coloured and two folding) and 14 maps (two...
Price (AUD):
$44,500.00
Ref: #4311663
Seven Tales.
London: Privately Printed, 1916.
With pencil revisions probably by the author
Octavo, original wrappers, uncut, partly unopened. A very good copy of the only edition, with pencil revisions to several poems, probably by Baylebridge himself. Christened Blocksidge, the Australian poet and short story writer is better known as William Baylebridge...
Price (AUD):
$340.00
Ref: #2009564
Point Nago Spirito Santo
South America: 7 January 1832.
Original panorama from the Beagle voyage
Original watercolour, 85 x 390mm., inscribed "Point Naga S.65.W. H.M.S Beagle Jan 7 1832" lower left; "Spirito Santo 3.20 distant 5 miles" lower centre; on verso inscribed "Fanny 1836"; backed on tissue and mounted. This superb coastal profile is...
Price (AUD):
$16,500.00
Ref: #4306469
Discoveries in Australia…
London: T. & W. Boone, 1846.
The Beagle in Australia
Two volumes, octavo, with 26 plates and eight folding charts (six of them tipped into pockets of the binding, as issued); bound without the Sibourne advertisements at front of vol. II, but with both of the fragile advertising slips ('South...
Price (AUD):
$9,500.00
Ref: #4504310