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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, early inked ownership inscription on front board, with later papered spine and printed label, modern slipcase. First edition. An important account of Tasmania, intended for.....
Price (AUD):
$1,650.00
Ref: #4503931
Illuminated presentation address from the German Association of Victoria to Prince Otto von Bismarck.
Melbourne: 1885.
The German Association of Victoria salutes the Iron Chancellor
Large folio-sized presentation album framing lithographed and hand-painted illuminated manuscript address, 435 x 315 mm, ink and watercolour, two large initials gilt with red and blue foliate decoration, and initials alternating red and blue, with moiré. This handsome illuminated.....
Price (AUD):
$5,750.00
Ref: #4504774
The Decisions of the Right Hon. Evelyn Denison, Speaker of the House of Commons… and of the Right Hon. Sir Henry Bouverie William Brand…
Adelaide: C. E. Bristow, 1892. Octavo, contemporary ownership inscription tot title page, contemporary full roan with gilt lettering. With the ownership inscription of Edwin Gordon Blackmore (1837-1909), formerly of the Taranaki Rifle volunteers who later served as a South Australian parliamentary clerk.
Price (AUD):
$300.00
Ref: #4108093
Captain Cook's Ship "Endeavour". Notes by F.M. Bladen…
Sydney: William Applegate Gullick, Government printer, 1904.
The later history of Captain Cook's Endeavour
Foolscap folio, 3pp; unbound as issued. A government printing, concerning the fate of the Endeavour after her time with Captain Cook, sold to a New Bedford whaler and later working from Newport, Rhode Island. This report.....
Price (AUD):
$300.00
Ref: #4108194
The Atmotic Ship…
Sydney: David Mason, printer, circa 1866.
Atmotic: pioneering steam driven airship in 1860s Sydney
Single printed sheet measuring 570 x 445 mm. in good condition, mounted. Rare Sydney broadside and a milestone in aviation history. This ephemeral large single sheet promotes the 'Atmotic Ship' – an early steam driven airship.....
Price (AUD):
$2,850.00
Ref: #4403227
Letters to Charles Buller…
Sydney: D. L. Welch, Atlas Office, George Street, opposite the Barrack Gate, 1849.
The Australian Patriotic Association
Octavo, inscribed from the author on the title-page, with the addendum slip; handsome burgundy roan binding, lettered in gilt. An excellent copy of one of William Bland's more uncommon titles, inscribed to one.....
Price (AUD):
$975.00
Ref: #4107087
Objections to the project of His Excellency Sir George Gipps…
Sydney: James Tegg, George Street, 1842.
Governor Gipps Under Fire
Octavo, 20 pp.; in plain brown wrappers. Scarce attack on Gipps: the final ten pages comprise a protest regarding the New South Wales Legislative Council signed by both John Jamison and John Blaxland. Having unsuccessfully sought English aid in cancelling.....
Price (AUD):
$950.00
Ref: #3401038
Promissory note to Captain Joseph James signed by G. Blaxcell for £250, and accompanying government document signed by Ellis Bent, Judge Advocate.
Sydney: 1812 & 1813.
Early financial documents, predating the first Australian bank
Quarto, two-leaf document printed on one side of the first leaf and completed in manuscript, with manuscript promissory note on the second leaf; with another ms. note on a smaller separate sheet. A pair of rare early financial.....
Price (AUD):
$4,250.00
Ref: #4504506
Reports, &c. [on Improvements to Dublin Harbour]…
Dublin: N.P. [maps with the imprint of Henecy & Fitzpatrick], N.D. [1801].
William Bligh maps... Dublin Bay
Folio, 84 pp., with six folding engraved maps with coloured details; contemporary dark calf. Very rare. This collection of reports on proposed improvements to the Dublin waterways contains a significant contribution by William.....
Price (AUD):
$12,250.00
Ref: #4504925
Capitainens vid Engelske Ammiralitetet, Wiliam Bligh's Resa…
Nyköping: Joh. Pet. Hammarin, 1795.
First Swedish edition
Small octavo, woodcut headpiece; in understated contemporary half calf. First Swedish edition of Bligh's Voyage to the South Seas. Rolf du Rietz's excellent note in the catalogue of the Kroepelien catalogue explains that this very rare version was anonymously translated by Carl.....
Price (AUD):
$3,800.00
Ref: #3902031
The Mutineers turning Lieutenant Bligh and part of the Officers and Crew adrift…
London: B.B. Evans, 1790.
The most infamous moment in naval history: Bligh cast adrift
Coloured aquatint engraving, 455 x 620 mm., mounted and framed. The mutiny on the Bounty, Bligh and his men cast adrift: one of the best known of all maritime images, which includes the only known portrait.....
Price (AUD):
$21,000.00
Ref: #4504091
Histoire des Colonies Pénales de l'Angleterre dans l'Australie.
Paris: Adrien le Clere, 1831.
An unusual outcome of the Duperrey expedition
Octavo, frontispiece; uncut copy in original boards. First edition. Ernest de Blosseville's younger brother Jules sailed for the Pacific in 1822 under Duperrey who had been ordered to report on western New Holland as a possible site for.....
Price (AUD):
$585.00
Ref: #2302032
The Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris, for the Year 1818.
London: John Murray, 1815.
Rare Phillip Parker King-era almanac
Octavo, in original polished calf. Rare copy of the Nautical Almanac for 1818, a fundamental inclusion in the shipboard library of any Admiralty-sponsored voyage. The Almanac was used for reckoning the longitude at sea by the lunar method, and was closely.....
Price (AUD):
$885.00
Ref: #4306501
The Transvaal, Past and Present, and its Future. Vigilance papers No. 11.
Cape Town: South African Vigilance Committee, 1900. Octavo booklet, 58pp. (last blank), a good copy in original printed wrappers; Mitchell library duplicate copy with a few discreet stamps. The stated object of the South African Vigilance Committee was 'To set forth to the British public the necessity for the prosecution.....
Price (AUD):
$185.00
Ref: #2403326
The Works
London: David Mallet, 1754. Five volumes, quarto; a good set in contemporary calf. First edition. Bolingbroke (1678-1751) was a prominent and controversial Tory politician in the reign of Queen Anne.
Price (AUD):
$950.00
Ref: #2408029
Curious facts of Old Colonial Days.
London: Sampson Low, Son & Marston, 1870. Octavo, in recent polished green half calf. 'The present sketches of Australian and Tasmanian history will mark the difficulties of progressionists, and indicate the triumph of freedom'.
Price (AUD):
$450.00
Ref: #4108017
Discovery and Settlement of Port Phillip…
Melbourne: W. M. Goodhugh & co., 1859.
Later issue in original wrappers
Octavo, [ii], 142 pp., paper wrappers. Later issue of Bonwick's important work in good original condition, with "1859" on the covers but retaining the original date of 1856 on the title-page. This is the issue noted by Ferguson.....
Price (AUD):
$350.00
Ref: #4107023
James Bonwick. A Writer of School Books and Histories…
Melbourne: Evans & Son. 1939. Quarto, portrait frontispiece of Bonwick; original boards. Number 162 of 250 copies signed and numbered by the author.
Price (AUD):
$200.00
Ref: #2304063
Sorrows. Sacred to the Memory of Penelope.
London: W.Bulmer and Co., 1796.
From the library of Frances Mary Currer
Folio, stipple engraved frontispiece and engravings in text; a charming copy in half dark green morocco, marbled boards, armorial bookplates for Frances Mary Richardson Currer and Mathew Wilson, contemporary ink ownership signature of 'M R Currer' on half.....
Price (AUD):
$1,400.00
Ref: #4102406
First on the Antarctic Continent…
London: George Newnes, 1901.
The Southern Cross expedition: first edition, first issue
Octavo, with photogravure portrait frontispiece, three coloured maps (folding), 18 plates and numerous photographic illustrations; an excellent copy in the original gilt and silver decorated pictorial cloth, top edge gilt and others uncut. The very scarce first issue.....
Price (AUD):
$3,850.00
Ref: #4504339
A Contribution to the Demography of South Australia…
London: Bailliere, Tindall and Cox, 1891. Slim octavo, 64 pp, three tables; publisher's red cloth, flecked. From the collection of the Western Australian Historical Society Library Moss Collection of Australian Books, with bookplate to front endpaper.
Price (AUD):
$180.00
Ref: #4108115
De la Colonie de Frederiks-Oord…
Gand: J. N. Houdin, 1821.
Early utopian socialism
Octavo, uncut, in wrappers. First French edition: history of the formation of an early socialist society in Europe. This is a French translation from the Dutch of a text by the reformer van den Bosch, who, along with his Societé de Bienfaisance.....
Price (AUD):
$1,385.00
Ref: #3006506
Le Comte d'Artois…
Paris: circa 1790.
The King of Botany Bay offers refuge from the French Revolution
Octavo, 19, [1] pp; disbound from a volume. A very rare early "satire on French politics and English colonization" (Ferguson). Likening those who fled the tumult of the French Revolution to the English convicts transported to.....
Price (AUD):
$5,350.00
Ref: #4504805
Consequences of a Successfull French Invasion…
London: J. Gillray, nd. circa 1850.
The House is adjourned to Botany Bay
Engraving, 370 x 270 mm., handcoloured as issued, mounted. A famous, satirical look at the decision of the English parliament to create a penal settlement at Botany Bay, in contrast to the atmosphere of reform and concern.....
Price (AUD):
$2,200.00
Ref: #2711259