Department
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.
Edmund Halley and William Dampier's work carried on 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.....
Price (AUD):
$6,750.00
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):
$1,450.00
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
Wanderings in New South Wales, Batavia, Pedir Coast, Singapore, and China…
London: Richard Bentley, 1834.
Owned by a friend of Lord Byron
Two volumes, octavo, with an aquatint frontispiece in each volume (Bugong Mountain, NSW, in vol. 1, top border just shaved by the binder; the European Factory at Canton in vol. 2), errata slip laid down; in a very good.....
Price (AUD):
$3,400.00
Ref: #4106614
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
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):
$9,850.00
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
A Letter to the Right Honorable Lord Viscount Glenelg…
London: Henry Stocking, 1837.
Governor Bourke, Mr Bingle, and some cattle rustling
Octavo, in the publisher's blind blocked navy cloth with gilt lettering. Fiery letters from the Australian magistrate and landholder John Bingle to Lord Glenelg, concerning his trial on the charge of cattle-stealing. Bingle had earlier clashed with the.....
Price (AUD):
$885.00
Ref: #4107184
Lights and shadows of church-life in Australia including thoughts on some things at home.
London: Jackson & Walford, 1860.
Reflections upon the Colonial Missionary Society
Octavo, appendix, advertisement leaves; in original blind-stamped cloth. With the stamp of Arthur W Piper, South Australian Supreme Court Jurist, Federationist and son of the long-serving pastor of the Adelaide district, Thomas Piper. Thomas Binney, a fervant Congregationalist minister.....
Price (AUD):
$325.00
Ref: #4108108
The Australian Birthday Book and Record of Memorable Events…
Melbourne: Hugo Wertheim, 1887.
A Victorian keepsake
12mo.; a good copy in original decorated boards, cloth spine. Delightful unused birthday book: "The first of its peculiar kind ever published… specifically for the benefit of Victorian readers". Principally an advertising vehicle for Wertheim sewing machines and Hapsburg pianos, it nevertheless is.....
Price (AUD):
$350.00
Ref: #2811866
Sketch of the History of Van Diemen's Land…
London: John Richardson, 1832.
With a fine Arrowsmith map
Octavo, with two engraved plates and a large hand-coloured folding map; very good in original boards with green cloth spine and printed label. First edition. An important account of Tasmania, intended for distribution among shareholders and prospective shareholders of the Van.....
Price (AUD):
$1,350.00
Ref: #4106570