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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
Enquiries touching the Diversity of Languages, and Religions…
London: Printed for John Bill, 1614.
"The Inhabitants of that South continent, are Idolaters"
Small quarto, bound with another work in contemporary limp vellum; boxed. First edition: containing a little noticed discussion of the Southern Continent and its likely inhabitants. Brerewood, Professor of Astronomy and scholar in many fields, explores...
Price (AUD):
$9,850.00
Ref: #3907227
Excursions in New South Wales…
London: Richard Bentley, 1834.
An honest look at the three colonies
Octavo, with two lithograph plates;, edges rough-trimmed only, in half red morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Sangorski & Sutcliffe. The revised and enlarged second edition. Breton emigrated to Tasmania after leaving the navy in 1827, eventually becoming police...
Price (AUD):
$950.00
Ref: #4106482
Panorama of Australia and America…
England: 1851.
"Positively for 2 nights only"
Broadside, halved at central rule to form two sheets measuring 330 x 255 mm. & 330 x 260 mm., illustrated with four dramatic woodcut scenes. Rare and significant broadside advertising a panoramic lecture show on the Australian colonies that toured England in 1850...
Price (AUD):
$4,200.00
Ref: #3910334
Letters from Victorian Pioneers…
Melbourne: Robt. S. Brain, 1898.
Mackaness to Ingleton
Octavo, folding map; presentation inscription; bookplates of George Mackaness and Geoffrey Farmer. A very good copy of this now uncommon work, printing letters from Victorian pioneers to Governor Latrobe. The work is very interesting on early settlers, and particularly as regards interaction...
Price (AUD):
$250.00
Ref: #4108022
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HMS "Mæander" 44 guns, in a heavy squall [and] Shortening sail…
London: Ackermann, 1852.
Splendid marine lithographs by Queen Victoria's artist
Pair of colour lithographs, 375 x 535 mm. A fine pair of portraits of a splendid ship: these colour lithographs after original watercolours by Oswald Brierly were made by T. G. Dutton and printed by Day and Son for Ackermanns...
Price (AUD):
$8,500.00
Ref: #2711255
HMS "Rattlesnake" Commanded by Captain Owen Stanley R.N.
London: Day and Son, 1852. Coloured lithograph measuring 250 x 350 mm., mounted and framed. Dramatic and finely executed coloured lithograph of the survey vessel HMS Rattlesnake by eminent marine artist Sir Oswald Brierly (1817 - 1894). Under the command of Captain Stanley Owen the Rattlesnake undertook an extensive marine...
Price (AUD):
$4,500.00
Ref: #4005793
Profr. Hennicke in his Unrivalled Entertainment of Magic and Mystery...which have never before been performed in these Colonies.
Brisbane: Rogers & Harley, 1868.
Colonial Magic and Mystery
Silk theatre bill with green ribbon border, 355 x 238mm. A rare commemorative silk theatre bill on the Lieutenant Governor's attendance at "Professor'' Hennicke's fabulous amusements at the Brisbane School of Arts. According to notices in the Brisbane Courier these entertainments...
Price (AUD):
$1,500.00
Ref: #4504230
Printed land grant, completed in manuscript, to John Smith.
Sydney: 30 June 1823.
200 acres in Methven
Large printed vellum leaf, completed in manuscript, approx. 290 x 257 mm., verso blank except for ms. docket title; original folds, with well-preserved ribbon and paper seal attached. Fine original land grant signed by the sixth governor, for 200 acres in Methven...
Price (AUD):
$3,250.00
Ref: #4504507
The Novels of Charlotte, Emily, & Anne Brontë.
London: J. M. Dent, 1922.
Colour plates by Edmund Dulac
Six volumes, octavo, with a total of 60 colour plates (including frontispieces), otherwise a most attractive set in uniform half polished navy calf by Bayntun with ornate gilt spine ornament and crimson labels. Collected edition of the Brontë novels, here...
Price (AUD):
$2,450.00
Ref: #3804616
Histoire des Navigations aux Terres Australes.
Paris: chez Durand, 1756.
The great French study of the South Seas
Two volumes, quarto, with seven folding maps, complete with errata leaves, and with the additional series of asterisked leaves (volume I, pp. 437*-450*); contemporary French mottled calf, spines gilt in compartments between raised bands, double red & green...
Price (AUD):
$22,500.00
Ref: #4006848
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 handsome half navy morocco by Sangorski, 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...
Price (AUD):
$550.00
Ref: #4106503
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...
Price (AUD):
$600.00
Ref: #4106219
Overlanding in Australia.
Melbourne: Mason, Firth & Co., General Printers, n.d., 1868.
Overlanding cattle to South Australia
Small octavo; original limp cloth, titling label on upper board. The high-risk and pioneering culture of "overlanding" was well entrenched in Australia by the time Browne wrote this most informative handbook. The famous explorer Charles Sturt...
Price (AUD):
$4,500.00
Ref: #3402132
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