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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
A Short Review of the Political State of Great-Britain…
London: J. Debrett, 1787.
The sixth edition: the first to include the attack on Lord Sydney and Botany Bay
Octavo, title + 86 pp., in later nineteenth-century half black roan. A withering political satire containing one of the earliest printed treatments of Lord Sydney's plan to found a penal colony...
Price (AUD):
$475.00
Ref: #4107102
A Liberdade dos Mares, ou o Governo Inglez Descoberto…
Rio de Janeiro: Miranda & Carneiro, 1833.
Unrecorded reference to Botany Bay
Three parts in one volume, small octavo; in contemporary green quarter calf, gilt. The first edition in Portuguese of this unrecorded reference to Botany Bay. First published in 1789 in Paris, Barère de Vieuzac's La Liberté des Mers.....
Price (AUD):
$1,350.00
Ref: #3409328
Relations of the most famous kingdomes and Common-wealths…
London: John Haviland, 1630.
"Lately found out, and by our latest Cosmographers"
Small quarto, a good copy but bound without the map mentioned on the title-page; contemporary calf, spine and joints wearing, label chipped. Early English edition of Botero's famous chronicle. Translated into several languages from the original Italian, it...
Price (AUD):
$1,400.00
Ref: #2108484
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Voyage autour du Monde [and] Journal d'un Voyage.
Neuchatel: de l'Imprimerie de la Société Typographique, 1772-1773.
The two earliest works on Tahiti
Three volumes, octavo; contemporary French tortoiseshell calf, flat spines gilt in compartments with floral decoration, double labels. The two earliest works on Tahiti brought together to form a complete work: the first French account of Cook's.....
Price (AUD):
$7,250.00
Ref: #3712564
Voyage autour du Monde, par la frégate du roi La Boudeuse…
Neuchâtel: Société Thypographique [sic], 1773.
Bougainville's Tahiti: the South Sea paradise
Two volumes in one, small octavo; a fine copy in a very attractive contemporary binding of marbled calf, sides bordered in gilt, the flat spine ornately gilt with a repeating drawer-handle design. An attractive copy of the Neuchâtel version.....
Price (AUD):
$2,850.00
Ref: #4504180
A Voyage Round the World…
Dublin: J. Exshaw, et al, 1772.
First Dublin edition
Octavo, with a folding map and folding plate of native canoe; bookplate and old ownership inscriptions of the Le Power (later De la Poer, later still Lord Power) families; contemporary calf. The first Dublin edition, very scarce: a smaller format issue...
Price (AUD):
$2,200.00
Ref: #3602333
A Voyage round the World…
London: J. Nourse and T. Davies, 1772.
First English edition of Bougainville
Quarto, with five folding maps and a folding plate of canoes, the maps neatly refolded; a very good copy in recent polished tan calf, Greek key border to both boards, spine richly gilt, red morocco label. First English...
Price (AUD):
$7,750.00
Ref: #3804544
Sur l'identité des deux espèces nominales d'Ornithorhynque…
Paris: Annales des Sciences Naturelles, December 1826.
Separately printed and important work on the platypus
12 pp., caption-title; tipped into a modern binding of quarter linen and boards. The renowned French zoologist Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire on the platypus: an important study, read to the Académie des Sciences and set up.....
Price (AUD):
$3,200.00
Ref: #4102423
Tigre tué en Amerique par S. A. Monseigneur Le Prince de Nassau Siegen…
Vienna: Jean Jacobe, 1787.
Bougainville, Casanova and the Prince of Nassau
Mezzotint engraving 700 x 990 mm; a fine impression; framed. A rare and very surprising pictorial image of the Bougainville expedition: we have never seen the image before and can find no record of it. Published in Vienna, it...
Price (AUD):
$12,500.00
Ref: #4011300
Tetes et Groupe de Sauvages du Camden-Shire (Nouvelle Galles meridionale).
Paris: Bulla, 1828.
Aboriginal portraits and camp-fire scene
Handcoloured lithograph, 385 x 290 mm. Engaging Australian Aboriginal portraits and camp scene from the official voyage account of Hyacinthe de Bougainville, who toured the South Pacific between 1824 and 1826. Edmond de la Touanne, whose work formed the basis of these...
Price (AUD):
$1,250.00
Ref: #3402059
The Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty…
London: John Murray, 1831.
Barrow describes the "piratical" mutiny
Small octavo, with a frontispiece and five plates; contemporary polished calf. First and apparently the only authorised edition of a popular account of the Bounty story. The plates, after drawings by Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Batty, the army officer and prolific artist, include...
Price (AUD):
$500.00
Ref: #4107560
Voyage of H.M.S. 'Pandora'…
London: Francis Edwards, 1915.
With extra material by Captain Edwards
Octavo, folding map; original maroon cloth, gilt lettering to spine. The standard modern edition, including the captain's report on the voyage of the Pandora, printed for the first time, with introduction and notes by Basil Thomson. This edition includes the...
Price (AUD):
$850.00
Ref: #3611709
Original land grant for a selection near Appin.
Sydney: March, 1835. Parchment grant measuring 340 x 390 mm., signed by the Governor of New South Wales, with well-preserved wax seal; folded to docket size. Original colonial document for a discrete land purchase. Land grant to William Henry Chapman for lot 74 on Appin road, Cumberland County. This original...
Price (AUD):
$800.00
Ref: #3808857
Etat de la Societe Taitienne a l'arrivee des Europeens…
Papeete: Government printer, 1909. Octavo, 66pp, in later quarter cloth with titling wrappers bound in. Bound with another Papeete printed pamphlet Souvenirs de P. Marcantoni... 1879-1931 (Imprimerie de l'Oceanie 1932, 32pp, good in original wrappers although front cover and preliminaries a bit stained).
Price (AUD):
$1,000.00
Ref: #2903219
The Sea: Its History and Romance.
London: Halton & Truscott Smith, 1924-1926.
A particularly handsome set
Sixteen parts bound in four volumes quarto, illustrated in colour and black & white; publisher's blue cloth boards, gilt, sailing ship vignette to front boards. An attractive set of Bowen's deluxe history of sailing and voyaging. The four volumes cover...
Price (AUD):
$685.00
Ref: #3710373
John Boydell, Esq.
London: Cadell & Davies, 21 June, 1814. Soft ground etching, plate size 380 x 325 mm. on a larger sheet; ex-library stamp to verso, together with the relevant letterpress. A fine portrait of the great publisher John Boydell (1720-1804), the most important print publisher of his day, and together with...
Price (AUD):
$750.00
Ref: #4109664
Vocabolario della lingua nativa dell' Australia occidentale…
Rome: Coi tipi della S. Congregazione de propaganda fide, 1845. Duodecimo, 50 pp., uncut and unopened; original plain blue paper wrappers. A superb copy of this rare and interesting pamphlet, the Italian edition of John Brady's Descriptive vocabulary of the native language of W. Australia (Ferguson, 3996; see 3995 for...
Price (AUD):
$1,650.00
Ref: #3906199
The Trials of Jeremiah Brandreth, William Turner, Isaac Ludlam, George Weightman, and Others for High Treason…
London: Butterworth and Sons, 1817.
Mourned by Shelley; sent to Australia
Two volumes, octavo, an excellent set in deep brown crushed morocco by Sangorski, spine with raised bands and gilt lettering, top edges gilt. Rare original record of the High Treason trials that resulted from the last of the English...
Price (AUD):
$1,350.00
Ref: #4106365
Aux Indes et en Australie dans le yacht le "Sunbeam"…
Tours: Alfred Mame et fils, 1893. Quarto, with many illustrations, some taken from photographs, gilt edges, in the original ornately pictorial cloth, with pretty decoration in silver and gilt. Fine copy of the first French edition, which puts the English edition of 1890 quite in the shade. It is scarce...
Price (AUD):
$1,850.00
Ref: #3807769