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Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait…
London: Henry Colburn, 1831.
The 'Admiralty' issue in larger format
Two volumes, quarto, with two large folding engraved maps, a double-page map, 23 plates (including four double-page); bound without the half-titles and advertisement leaf found in some copies, but with the rare errata slip called for by Forbes and Hill...
Price (AUD):
$9,000.00
Ref: #4303376
Queen Adelaide.
London: Colnaghi, 1831.
The reigning queen for whom Adelaide was named
Engraved oval portrait, 29 x 24 mm. Sir William Beechey, well known English portrait painter, was elected A.R.A. in 1793. In the same year he painted a portrait of Queen Charlotte which procured him the appointment of portrait painter...
Price (AUD):
$950.00
Ref: #3111081
Nicodème dans la Lune…
Paris: l'Auteur, 1791.
Lunar living is rather like France
Octavo; original condition, stitched in plain blue-grey wrappers. First edition: lunar life proves very similar to life in provincial France, but the music is better. Beffroy de Reigny (1757-1811) was a highly successful journalist and dramatist. His most important works were...
Price (AUD):
$1,850.00
Ref: #3005370
Essais cosmographico-poëtiques ou choix de lectures…
La Haye and Paris: Pierre Aillaud, 1786.
Science in the wake of Pacific exploration
Octavo, [ii], 236 pp., uncut copy in original buntpapier wrappers. Curious and eclectic collection of essays on geography, astronomy, and recent voyage discoveries. The geographical sections are informed by the discoveries of Cook, la Pérouse and...
Price (AUD):
$1,250.00
Ref: #4202837
Bell's British Theatre, consisting of the most esteemed English plays.
London: George Cawthorn, 1797.
The "most esteemed" English plays
34 volumes, 16mo., engravings; contemporary sprinkled calf, blue morocco spines richly gilt. A most handsome set of collected plays by the famous publisher Bell, 'the mischievous spirit, the very Puck of booksellers' (DNB). This fine collection includes many of the most...
Price (AUD):
$4,800.00
Ref: #3002013
Carte reduite des mers comprises entre l'Asie, l'Amerique apelees par les navigateurs Mer du Sud ou Mer Pacifique…
Paris: Deposit des cartes, plans et journaux de la Marine, 1756.
Imagining Australia's eastern coastline conjoined with New Guinea
Engraved map, 572 x 852 mm, on quite thick paper; attractively coloured with background beige wash for sea areas; folding into an original boards binding, lined with some old manuscript; manuscript...
Price (AUD):
$4,750.00
Ref: #4504220
Carte des variations de la Boussole...
Paris: Dépôt Génerale de la Marine, 1765.
Halley's great dream pursued by Bellin
Chart, engraved; 620 x 930 mm. Mid eighteenth century world map showing magnetic variation through the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. This map represents decades of work by several enlightenment luminaries. The scientific study of magnetic variation was.....
Price (AUD):
$9,750.00
Ref: #3912467
Report of the Committee of the Benevolent Society of New South Wales…
Sydney: "Monitor" Press, 1826.
Relief of the poor in 1820s Sydney
Duodecimo, 24 pp., some foxing particularly to the title and last page; twentieth-century "Mackaness morocco" Early Sydney printing from the press of the Monitor. The Benevolent Society was set up 'to relieve the Poor, Distressed, the Aged, and the...
Price (AUD):
$1,200.00
Ref: #4111709
The Spirit of the Public Journals…
London: James Ridgway, 1797-1814.
Hoping that Barangaroo will be saved from "lightning, sharks, and red men"
Seventeen volumes, duodecimo, in attractive modern wrappers with double spine labels to each volume. A fine long run of an intriguing late-Georgian journal, with a good deal of interest to contemporary Australia, perhaps most...
Price (AUD):
$4,450.00
Ref: #4304407
A Letter to Earl Bathurst, Secretary of State for the Colonial Department
London: James Ridgway, 1820.
Bennet's attack on Macquarie precipitating the Bigge enquiry
Octavo, half-title, 144 pp.; modern half calf, gilt-title on the spine, the Hobill Cole copy with his bookplate and with the blind stamps of Tom Ramsay and Fred Eager. One of the most important political documents of the...
Price (AUD):
$5,850.00
Ref: #4503941
A Letter to Earl Bathurst, Secretary of State for the Colonial Department.
London: James Ridgway, 1820.
Bennet's attack on Macquarie precipitating the Bigge enquiry
Octavo, Aquarius binding of full navy calf, gilt spine. An important early colonial work, Bennet's attack on the administration of Governor Macquarie, was an important document that precipitated the enquiry by Commissioner Bigge and the end of Macquarie's...
Price (AUD):
$3,450.00
Ref: #4302337
The Tower Menagerie: Comprising the Natural History of the Animals Contained in that Establishment; with Anecdotes of their Characters and History…
London: Robert Jennings, 1829.
Kangaroos in the Tower of London
Octavo, with 107 wood-engravings; finely bound in contemporary red morocco gilt decorated, edges fully gilt, early inked manuscript note on endpaper. First edition. The menagerie in the Tower of London had been established in the mid-thirteenth century at which time...
Price (AUD):
$1,950.00
Ref: #4504295
Gatherings of a Naturalist in Australasia; being observations principally on the animal and vegetable productions of New South Wales, New Zealand, and some of the Austral Islands.
London: John Van Voorst, 1860. Octavo, with eight chromolithographic plates (including the frontispiece), in the publisher's blind blocked purple cloth. The best general account of Australian natural history at the time of its publication, and still a useful work. Bennett was particularly interested in the Platypus and his account of...
Price (AUD):
$1,785.00
Ref: #4103480
Gatherings of a Naturalist in Australasia…
London: John Van Voorst, 1860.
With coloured lithographs after Angas
Octavo, with eight handcoloured lithograph plates by George French Angas; in green half morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. First edition: a handsome copy of this popular book by the well-travelled naturalist. "The drawings, with a few exceptions, are from the...
Price (AUD):
$2,100.00
Ref: #4106484
Historical and Descriptive Account of South Australia…
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1843.
Between slander and praise.
Octavo, later orange cloth; Tristan Buesst bookplate. Handbook for prospective emigrants from a former resident (Bennett lived in South australia from 1839-1842). The book offers 'a plain unvarnished statement of facts, as to the character and capabilities of a Colony...
Price (AUD):
$475.00
Ref: #4107235
De la Colonisation des condamnés, et de l'avantage qu 'il y aurait pour la France a `adopter cette mesure.
Paris: Martinet, 1827.
Prison camps of New Holland
Octavo, pp. [4], 67, [1], complete with the half-title; a fine copy, uncut, stitched the original plain dark blue wrappers. The only edition of this significant study by the historian and pioneering statistician Louis-François Benoiston de Chateauneuf (1776-1856) of convict transportation and...
Price (AUD):
$2,785.00
Ref: #4504892
Voyages et Mémoires…
Paris: F. Buisson, 1791.
First French edition
Two volumes, octavo, half-title not present in the first volume; old French sprinkled calf, spine gilt with double labels. First edition in French of this scarce narrative of a voyage in the north Pacific, particularly interesting for Alaska, Kamchatka and the Northwest. Often...
Price (AUD):
$2,400.00
Ref: #2402358
Two fascinating broadsheets for his travelling zoo.
Germany? circa 1851.
Travelling menagerie including an Australian dingo
Two broadsheets (400 x 243 mm.; 218 x 380 mm.). Two wonderful German broadsheets, advertising a travelling zoo. Among the fascinating animals listed as being exhibited, the Australian dingo makes a rather surprising inclusion. The 1840s and 1850s had witnessed a....
Price (AUD):
$3,200.00
Ref: #3706061
Le Capne. Jacques Cook. Membre de la Societe Royale de Londres
Paris: n.d., but circa 1778.
French version
Engraving, 240mm x 188mm. Fine French version of the Basire engraving of the William Hodges portrait, prepared as frontispiece for the French publication of the official account of the second voyage.
Price (AUD):
$550.00
Ref: #3007743
Notes on the Materials of Motor-Car Construction.
London: St. Martin's, 1912.
Early automobile design and construction.
Quarto, illustrated, fine copy in original red cloth. An early book on the engineering and construction of automotive parts, with a special emphasis on metallurgy. 'An account of the modern metallurgical science applied to automobile engineering, inclusing detailed descriptions of the...
Price (AUD):
$265.00
Ref: #4403213
An Introduction to Heraldry, Containing the rudiments of the science in general, and other necessary particulars connected with the subject.
London: T. Egerton, 1810.
A dictionary of heraldic ornament
Octavo, with 12 engraved plates; splendidly bound by Sangorski in half crimson morocco with gilt lettering. An appealing introduction to the design and history of heraldry, beautifully presented in a fine crimson leather binding by Sangorski and Sutcliffe. The author served...
Price (AUD):
$685.00
Ref: #4108135
Eight Sermons by the Rev. Charles Marsden Betts…
Canterbury: 1859.
Drowned in the Wollondilly
Octavo; in original cloth. Published as a memorial from the parishioners of Goulburn to their curate who was drowned age twenty-four when the Wollondilly river flooded in 1857. This volume was printed at St Augustine's College Press, Canterbury where Reverend Betts had been educated...
Price (AUD):
$1,100.00
Ref: #2206593
The series of three official reports into the state of New South Wales.
House of Commons: 1822-1823.
Commissioner Bigge reports on conditions in New South Wales
Three volumes, folio; completely uncut and in original printed dark blue wrappers, as issued; spines neatly renewed. A very fine set of the earlier House of Commons publication of the full series of Bigge's three consequential reports...
Price (AUD):
$12,850.00
Ref: #4504626
Beretning om Corvetten Galathea's Reise.
Copenhagen: C.A. Reitzel, 1849-1851.
The first Danish circumnavigation
Three volumes, octavo, tinted lithographs; uncut in the original quarter purple cloth with printed labels, brown boards. Scarce official account of the first Danish circumnavigation. The Galathea made her voyage between 1845 and 1847. Forbes notes that the purpose of the mission...
Price (AUD):
$2,450.00
Ref: #3302735