Illustrated
Banks' Florilegium.
London: Editions Alecto, in association with the British Museum, 1980-1990.
A supreme example of eighteenth-century European civilisation
743 engravings of plants collected by Sir Joseph Banks and Dr Daniel Solander. Printed in colours à la poupée from the original 18th century copper plates with five supplementary plates engraved between 1986.....
Price (AUD):
$94,500.00
Ref: #4505102
An Account of a Voyage to New South Wales.
London: Jones, 1810.
Second edition with fine handcoloured plates
Octavo, portrait frontispiece and nine handcoloured plates, folding map (laid down); contemporary half calf. The second edition (first published 1803) of this substantial account of the voyage to New South Wales via the Cape of Good Hope, with incidents partly derived.....
Price (AUD):
$3,250.00
Ref: #2302019
Voyage of HMS Blonde to the Sandwich Islands…
London: John Murray, 1826.
Important early voyage to Hawaii
Quarto, with 14 charts and aquatint plates, some folding; overall a good copy in modern calf with label from an earlier binding. First edition of a famous voyage account, and an important and extensive illustrated description of Hawaii in the mid-1820s.....
Price (AUD):
$4,000.00
Ref: #2205003
Voyage of H.M.S. Blonde to the Sandwich Islands…
London: John Murray, 1826.
Returning the Royal deceased to Hawaii
Quarto, with a folding chart and 13 other charts and plates (one folding); modern half calf. First edition of a famous Pacific voyage account, and an important and extensive illustrated description of Hawaii in the mid-1820s. Kamehameha II of Hawaii.....
Price (AUD):
$3,600.00
Ref: #2203378
Foreign Field Sports, Fisheries, Sporting Anecdotes…
London: Edward Orme, circa 1823.
Famous colourplate book including a section on the Aborigines of NSW
Quarto, pp. with 110 hand coloured aquatints (including the New South Wales plates), a good copy in ornate contemporary gilt decorated deep green morocco with all edges gilt. This is a later issue of.....
Price (AUD):
$5,250.00
Ref: #3911447
Foreign Field Sports, Fisheries, Sporting Anecdotes…
London: Edward Orme, 1814.
Famous colourplate book including a section on the Aborigines of NSW
Quarto, 160 pages letterpress without pagination, 100 handcoloured aquatints with the 1813 New South Wales supplement bound at rear (this comprising separate title-page, dedication leaf, 10 handcoloured aquatints and 14 letterpress pages); a fine copy.....
Price (AUD):
$12,500.00
Ref: #4205932
An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales…
London: T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, 1798 & 1802.
The complete First Fleet account of David Collins, thick paper issue, in an unrecorded state with extra foldout engravings
Two volumes, quarto, [1798]: 2 charts, 18 plates and four textual vignettes, the vignettes most unusually repeated on additional folding plates.....
Price (AUD):
$32,750.00
Ref: #4503961
A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean…
London: Printed by W. and A. Strahan, for G. Nicol... and T. Cadell, 1784.
The superb official narrative of Cook's third voyage
Three volumes, quarto, and an atlas, folio, with altogether 87 engraved plates and maps, of which 63 appear in the atlas; contemporary diced russia leather, flat spines gilt.....
Price (AUD):
$18,500.00
Ref: #4401862
Nouvel Atlas des Enfans et des Commerçans…
Paris: Chez Saintin, 1811.
Children's atlas
Octavo, two hand-coloured plates and seven hand-coloured maps (four double-page, three folding), a handsome copy. A charming children's atlas, with delightful depictions of Tahiti, New Zealand and Hawaii. Although much reprinted and very popular, this work is now rare in any edition. Two exquisite.....
Price (AUD):
$2,850.00
Ref: #3702899
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Voyage autour du monde… [A series of Botanique plates].
Paris: Arthus Bertrand, circa 1826.
Original plates from the Duperrey voyage
Three original parts, folio, containing a total of 29 plates, 6 of which are in original colouring; completely unbound as issued, original printed wrappers. A substantial series of botanical plates from the finely-illustrated Duperrey voyage, published in Paris between.....
Price (AUD):
$8,500.00
Ref: #2011786
The Native Races of the Indian Archipelago.
London: Hippolyte Bailliere, 1853.
Northern Australia and New Guinea
Octavo, with five plates (four coloured) and two folding maps; half morocco. Important anthropological observations on the natives of New Guinea, but also on the North Australian Aborigines: chapter XII is devoted to Melville Island, Port Essington and North Australia in.....
Price (AUD):
$1,450.00
Ref: #2709126
Great Brown King Fisher.
London: John Stockdale, 1789.
Fine depiction of the kookaburra
Original engraving, 260 x 190 mm. very good condition, mounted. Fine impression of the so-called "Great Brown Kings Fisher" or Laughing Kookaburra. This engraving is taken from Governor Phillip's Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay published by Stockdale in late.....
Price (AUD):
$650.00
Ref: #2908539
Sydney in 1848: Illustrated by copper-plate engravings…
Sydney: D. Wall, 76 York Street, n.d. but, 1848.
First study of Australian architecture: "Georgian" Sydney
Quarto, with full page copper plate engravings throughout, owner's name "Alfred C. Johnson"; a good copy in the original pink papered boards, preserved in a blue folding quarter morocco book-form box, lettered to the.....
Price (AUD):
$6,250.00
Ref: #2406575
Sydney in 1848: Illustrated by copper-plate engravings…
Sydney: Gibbs, Shallard and Company, 1878.
Important Australian architectural record.
Quarto, with full page copper plate engravings throughout, half black roan with gilt lettering, bookplate of Henry White. Joseph Fowles arrived in Sydney in 1838 and this is without doubt his most important work, providing remarkably detailed information on the.....
Price (AUD):
$900.00
Ref: #4403193
Promenade Autour du Monde par J. Arago. Atlas volume.
Paris: Leblanc, 1822. Folio, with an engraved world map and 25 lithograph views; uncut; original boards, as issued, with the publisher's printed label. The splendid atlas volume to Jacques Arago's published account of his voyage to Australia and the Pacific with the Freycinet expedition of 1817-1820. Published in 1822, Arago's.....
Price (AUD):
$4,850.00
Ref: #4401843
Rambles at the Antipodes: a Series of Sketches…
London: W.H. Smith and Son, 1859.
In the rare original pictorial binding
Small octavo, with 12 tinted lithograph plates and two folding maps; a very good copy in the original pictorial boards, later cloth spine, preserved in a folding box. First edition, in the very rare original pictorial boards. The.....
Price (AUD):
$2,700.00
Ref: #4504388
Aventures les plus curieuses des Voyageurs…
Paris: Belin-Leprieur et Morizot, 1847.
Original version of the scene in Kealekakua
Two volumes, octavo, frontispiece in each volume and 38 black & white plates in the text; in contemporary quarter morocco. A very detailed illustrated history of the grands voyages for children, including La Pérouse and the third voyage.....
Price (AUD):
$2,150.00
Ref: #3605470
Aventures les plus curieuses des Voyageurs…
Paris: Belin-Leprieur et Morizot, 1847. Two volumes, octavo, frontispiece in each volume plus 38 plates in the text; in original blue cloth, with elaborate gilt decorations. A very detailed illustrated history of the grands voyages for children including La Pérouse, Dumont d'Urville and the third voyage of James Cook with.....
Price (AUD):
$2,750.00
Ref: #2711285
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British Moths and their transformations [with] British Butterflies…
London: Wm. S. Orr & Co and William Smith, 1841-1849.
A paen to the beauty of butterflies and the under-appreciated moth
Three volumes, quarto, profusely illustrated with full-page plates exquisitely hand-coloured; uniformly bound in half morocco richly gilt, all edges gilt, with the gilt arms of the Barons Sherborne. A.....
Price (AUD):
$5,500.00
Ref: #4505034
An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island…
London: John Stockdale, 1793.
Engraved by William Blake
Quarto, with 17 engraved plates, folding maps and charts, list of subscribers; period-style calf, spine gilt in compartments between raised bands. First edition of John Hunter's Journal: a foundation book of Australian coastal exploration which, together with Phillip's account, gives the first.....
Price (AUD):
$7,850.00
Ref: #4107632
Narrative of the Surveying Voyage of H.M.S. Fly…
London: T. & W. Boone, 1847.
The Fly, in Torres Strait and surveying the Barrier Reef
Two volumes, octavo, two folding maps and 19 plates, three line-engraved views, and four natural history plates, textual illustrations, with various publisher's advertisements including for Leichhardt & Stokes; a very attractive set in the.....
Price (AUD):
$9,750.00
Ref: #4504320
An Alphabet of Quadrupeds…
London: Joseph Cundall, 1844.
Handsome chapter initials
Small square octavo, frontispiece and 24 sepia plates, all edges gilt; in the original blind-stamped green cloth, lettered in gilt, First edition, uncommon. An attractive illustrated alphabet, with a charming image of a Kangaroo. Among the other plates are etchings after Rembrandt and.....
Price (AUD):
$1,750.00
Ref: #3706047
Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia…
London: John Murray, 1827. Two volumes, octavo, with a folding chart, 13 plates and a folding engraving; contemporary half calf, spines gilt with double labels. First edition to be properly published: a very rare form of this important book was evidently issued before publication, with the publication date of 1826.....
Price (AUD):
$9,850.00
Ref: #4504423
Ontdekkingsreis in de Zuid-zee en naar de Berings-Straat…
Amsterdam: Johannes van der Hey, 1822.
Dutch edition of Kotzebue
Three volumes, each with engraved title-page (the last hand-coloured), four hand-coloured plates and three folding plates, five folding maps, an excellent set in early twentieth-century vellum, decorated gilt and blind. Fine set in vellum of the uncommon Dutch edition of.....
Price (AUD):
$5,500.00
Ref: #3808869