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Report from the Select Committee upon Brown's Diggings; together with the proceedings of Committee, minutes of evidence and appendices.
Melbourne: John Ferres, Government Printer, 1860.
Goldfields land dispute examined
Tall quarto, xxii, 96pp., fine in a crushed brown morocco, spine gilt with raised bands. Detailed report tabled in Victorian parliament on disputed land ownership and miner's rights at Brown's Diggings (including Smythe's Creek, North Briton and Contest Leads). The.....
Price (AUD):
$550.00
Ref: #4106516
Northern Territory of South Australia, North-western District. Reports (Geological and General) Resulting from the Explorations made by the Government Geologist and Staff during 1905.
Adelaide: Government Printer, 1906.
Pioneer prospectors of the tropical North
Tall quarto, with five folding maps and plans (some colour), oirginal green cloth with gilt lettering. Detailed report and travel itinerary of the government geological expedition to the Kimberley and remote north in 1905. Unexpected additions include notes on fossils.....
Price (AUD):
$1,000.00
Ref: #4107518
The voyage of the "Scotia"…
Offprint: Transactions of the Perthshire Society of Natural Science, Vol. IV, Part II, 1905.
Presentation copy of a rare offprint
Octavo, pp. 63-70, with four photographic plates (numbered 7 to 10); modern quarter calf. Rare: not recorded by Rosove or Renard, this is an offprint of an account of the.....
Price (AUD):
$365.00
Ref: #4504329
America: A Four Years' Residence in the United States and Canada.
Leeds: William Brown, 1849.
A Yorkshire man amongst the Yankees
Octavo, handsome full red morocco binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. The author was a Leeds clothing merchant, who 'having been called upon, in many towns and villages in Yorkshire, to recite my personal narrative of America and the Americans, a......
Price (AUD):
$550.00
Ref: #4107335
New Zealand and Its Aborigines…
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1845.
Polemic on New Zealand: Waitangi and Wakefield
Octavo, viii, 302 pp. (incorrectly paginated 320); in the publisher's blind blocked deep green cloth, gilt. A detailed and informative account of Maori life and custom from the perspective of a successful merchant settler. 'Brown, a shrewd.....
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$600.00
Ref: #4106219
England's Exiles; or, a View of a System of Instruction and Discipline...
London: Darton and Clark, 1842.
The health of convicts on convict transports
Small octavo, 238 pp., original printer's green cloth. Important book by Browning building on his experience as a Surgeon on board convict transports, most notably the Elphinstone which arrived in Hobart in 1836. Browning could not be accused.....
Price (AUD):
$725.00
Ref: #4106378
Echoes from Coondambo.
Adelaide: Hutchison, Craker, & Smith, 1893.
South Australian Pastoral History.
Octavo, portrait frontispiece; original green cloth with gilt title, inscription on title page to W.C.M. Finniss from W.P.Auld May 1912. Gift from William P Auld, (vigneron & a surveyor on the 1861-2 McDouall Stuart expedition to traverse the continent, and.....
Price (AUD):
$450.00
Ref: #4107511
Guide to the Health Resorts in Australia…
Sydney: Australian Medical Gazette, 1888. Octavo; in original green cloth. An exhaustive guide to over 200 health resorts in Australia and New Zealand, with analyses of mineral waters, services and therapeutic indications. Also includes activities available to patients, such as Killarney, Queensland, "Very pretty scenery, and dry, bracing climate. Shooting.....
Price (AUD):
$485.00
Ref: #2811885
Manuel du Libraire et de l'Amateur de Livres…
Paris: chez Brunet, 1814.
The bibliographer's grail
Four volumes, octavo; contemporary half calf, flat spines gilt with black leather labels. Second edition, greatly expanded from the first of the most famous rare book bibliographies. 'Brunet's annotations… are often still unsurpassed. There is hardly any other bibliography in which the wide.....
Price (AUD):
$1,250.00
Ref: #3402063
Notice sur la Province de Canterbury Nouvelle Zélande…
Geneva: Carey, 1866.
With a folding map of the Canterbury province
Large octavo, 22pp., with a folding map; original yellow printed wrappers. A very scarce pamphlet, in fine condition. De Budé's brief study of the province of Canterbury with short supplements on pastoralism and emigration. Why the title-page is headed.....
Price (AUD):
$440.00
Ref: #2811849
The Cruise of the "Cachalot"…
London: Smith Elder, 1898. Octavo, original blue cloth, with gold vignette on upper board; well illustrated, pages untrimmed;. An excellent copy of the first edition. A ripping yarn based on the author's experiences on board the Splendid of New Bedford, in whaling grounds off 'the Solanders, Vau Vau, South Pacific.....
Price (AUD):
$1,100.00
Ref: #3002965
The Cruise of the "Cachalot"…
London: Smith Elder, 1898. Octavo, frontispiece and seven other plates and a folding map; in original blue cloth, with gilt vignette on upper board, quarter morocco case. First edition of this ripping yarn, based on the author's experiences on board the Splendid of New Bedford, in whaling grounds off 'the.....
Price (AUD):
$1,750.00
Ref: #3202193
Forty Years in New Zealand.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1878. Large octavo, portrait and plates; in original pictorial cloth. With a large section of "Maoridom"
Price (AUD):
$275.00
Ref: #2903114
Explanation of a View of Hobart Town…
London: 1831. Engraving, 280 x 450 mm.; mounted. Scarce panoramic view of Hobart, complete with key description, based on an original painting by Augustus Earle. Earle arrived in Tasmania in January 1825 and painted "a series of linked watercolour views of Hobart Town which were later developed into this panorama.....
Price (AUD):
$1,250.00
Ref: #1700688
Progress Report of the Exploration Committee of the Royal Society of Victoria for 1861.
Melbourne: printed by Mason and Firth for the Royal Society of Victoria, 1862.
Who is responsible for the Burke and Wills tragedy?
Foolscap folio, tinted paper, 8pp. (last blank), with related blank envelope loosely inserted. A curious mix of remorse and self-preservation - an account of the Burke and Wills.....
Price (AUD):
$600.00
Ref: #4106181
The Burke and Wills Exploring Expedition… with portraits and biographical sketches of Robert O'Hara Burke, and William John Wills.
Melbourne: Wilson and Mackinnon, 1861.
A pristine copy in the original wrappers: with the frontispiece portraits of Burke and Wills
Octavo, iv, 36 pp. (last blank), with a striking lithographic portrait frontispiece of both explorers (later portrait of Wills pasted to rear of frontispiece), well preserved copy in original green.....
Price (AUD):
$1,950.00
Ref: #4106096
Burke and Wills Commission. Report of the Commissioners…
Melbourne: John Ferres, Government Printer, 1862.
'A far greater amount of zeal than prudence…'
Foolscap folio, 104 pp., printed on light blue paper, edges uncut; half calf. Official report of the Royal Commission appointed to investigate the Burke and Wills disaster: 'now very scarce and of high interest' (Australian Rare.....
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$1,950.00
Ref: #4504502
Exploration Expedition. Letter from Commander Norman…
Melbourne: John Ferres, Government Printer, 1862.
Landsborough in search for Burke and Wills
Foolscap folio, 52pp.,in a splendid full black morocco binding by Sangorski with gilt lettering. This report prints the journal of Captain Norman, including much information relating the Landsborough's search for Burke and Wills. The Victoria had been.....
Price (AUD):
$500.00
Ref: #4106156
Victoria. Exploration Committee. Correspondence - Liabilities of.
Melbourne: John Ferres, Government Printer, 8 May 1866.
Burke and Wills monument
Foolscap folio, 8pp. Correspondence and notes collected by David Wilkie in his role as treasurer of the Exploration Committee; primarily concerning the expenditure on the monument erected to the memory of Burke and Wills who perished 'under circumstances.....
Price (AUD):
$400.00
Ref: #4106188
Report of the Commissioners…
Melbourne: John Ferres, 1862.
The ill fated expedition
Foolscap folio, 104 pp., together with two other relevant Victorian Parliamentary Papers 1864-66; modern quarter calf, the Ingleton copy with his bookplate and his shelfmark. The rare and important Royal Commission report on the ill-fated Burke and Wills expedition: 'very scarce and.....
Price (AUD):
$3,250.00
Ref: #4503968
The Burke and Wills Exploring Expedition…
Melbourne: Wilson and Mackinnon, 1861.
Scarce pamphlet account
Octavo, pp. iv, 32 (double column); bound without wrappers in modern morocco gilt. Very scarce: one of the early impressions of this important pamphlet account of the expedition drawn from the original Melbourne Argus reports. It was reprinted many times between November.....
Price (AUD):
$2,500.00
Ref: #2712355
Review of the Labours of Several Explorers of Australia…
Melbourne & Sydney: Clarson, Shallard and Co., 1863.
With the narrative of John King and a wood engraving of Burke's grave
Octavo pamphlet, original titling wrappers featuring a wood-engraving of Burke's grave at Cooper's Creek to rear cover, the Mackaness copy in recent blue cloth. In the original illustrated wrappers.....
Price (AUD):
$3,200.00
Ref: #2712356
Robert O'Hara Burke and the Exploring Expedition of 1860.
London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1862. Octavo, with title-page vignette, a folding map and 16 pp. advertisements at rear; in the original green cloth. An important record of the ill-fated Burke and Wills expedition. This is the only edition of the one substantial contemporary publication of Burke's own journals. Australian.....
Price (AUD):
$1,950.00
Ref: #3109982
Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria…
Melbourne: Wilson and Mackinnon, 1862. Octavo, with a lithographic portrait frontispiece and large folding map measuring 656 x 794 mm.; in handsome half crushed morocco by Sangorski with gilt lettering and raised bands. The first public printing of Landsborough's journals from the Burke and Wills relief expedition, featuring a splendid.....
Price (AUD):
$1,200.00
Ref: #4106101