Politics, economics
Conquista de las Islas Malucas.
Madrid: Alonso Martin, 1609.
The "Spanish Hakluyt" Herrera's annotated copy of Argensola's classic work on the western Pacific
Small folio, pp. [12], 407 [i.e. 411]; eighteenth-century stiff parchment. A remarkable and very important association copy of this great book, by a figure whose circle of literary colleagues included both Cervantes.....
Price (AUD):
$155,000.00
Ref: #4504611
![The Memorial and Justification of Mr. Barton … [bound with] The Affairs of the Australian...](/pictures/thumb/4107074.jpg?v=1580795400)
The Memorial and Justification of Mr. Barton…
Cornhill [and] London: Pelham Richardson, 1832 &, 1833.
Scandals in the Australian Agricultural Company
Two works bound in one, octavo; the first 73 pp. with folding table; the second 33 pp.; tan half calf. Two very scarce works relating to the scandals that engulfed the Australian Agricultural Company, both written.....
Price (AUD):
$5,500.00
Ref: #4107074
On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures.
London: Charles Knight, 1832.
Babbage's most successful work
Small octavo, engraved title-page, original maroon cloth. Second edition of Charles Babbage's most successful work: there were four editions between 1832 and 1835 and the book was translated into at least six European languages. Babbage wrote this at the time he was.....
Price (AUD):
$1,750.00
Ref: #4107488
First and Second Report from the Select Committee on Transportation…
London: by order of Parliament, 1856.
Transportation to Western Australia
Two volumes, tall quarto, both copies in recent blue polished half calf, original printed wrappers bound in. Two of the most important reports on transportation to Western Australia, and perhaps the most detailed public accounting of the aftermath of the.....
Price (AUD):
$1,600.00
Ref: #4106461
Observations on a Bill…
London? 1787.
Wool in England; preface probably by Joseph Banks
12mo, uncut, recent marbled wrappers. Rare: an intriguing pamphlet on the vexed question of the importation of wool into England, with a preface thought to have been contributed by Sir Joseph Banks. The West Countryman John Anstie had first mooted.....
Price (AUD):
$925.00
Ref: #4010210
A Short Historical Account of the University of Sydney.
Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1902. Octavo; original green cloth. Published in connection with the Jubilee celebrations 1852-1902.
Price (AUD):
$100.00
Ref: #2400647
Report of the Committee of the Benevolent Society of New South Wales…
Sydney: "Monitor" Press, 1826.
Relief of the poor in 1820s Sydney
Duodecimo, 24 pp., some foxing particularly to the title and last page; twentieth-century "Mackaness morocco" Early Sydney printing from the press of the Monitor. The Benevolent Society was set up 'to relieve the Poor, Distressed, the Aged, and the.....
Price (AUD):
$1,200.00
Ref: #4111709
The series of three official reports into the state of New South Wales.
House of Commons: 1822-1823.
Commissioner Bigge reports on conditions in New South Wales
Three volumes, folio; completely uncut and in original printed dark blue wrappers, as issued; spines neatly renewed. A very fine set of the earlier House of Commons publication of the full series of Bigge's three consequential reports.....
Price (AUD):
$9,850.00
Ref: #4504626
A Letter to the Right Honorable Lord Viscount Glenelg…
London: Henry Stocking, 1837.
Governor Bourke, Mr Bingle, and some cattle rustling
Octavo, in the publisher's blind blocked navy cloth with gilt lettering. Fiery letters from the Australian magistrate and landholder John Bingle to Lord Glenelg, concerning his trial on the charge of cattle-stealing. Bingle had earlier clashed with the.....
Price (AUD):
$885.00
Ref: #4107184
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
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
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
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
A Political Survey of Britain…
London: for the author; and sold by Richardson and Urquhart, and others, 1774.
England in the 1770s
Two volumes, large quarto, in a lovely contemporary tree calf binding, flat spines featuring gilt foliate ornament with green and crimson morocco labels. Redolent of the 1770s in its strictly contemporary binding, Campbell's.....
Price (AUD):
$2,800.00
Ref: #4202846
On Political Economy, in connection with the moral state and moral prospects of society.
Glasgow: William Collins, 1832.
In the tradition of Adam Smith and Malthus
Octavo, contemporary diced russia, with gilt spine label, title page inscribed 'to Captain McKenzie with the author's best regards'. Standard work by the great Scottish minister, theologian and economist.
Price (AUD):
$550.00
Ref: #4107109
Cockatoo Island, and other Penal Establishments…
Sydney: Thomas Richards, 1866. Foolscap folio, 9pp.; in recent binder's cloth. Cockatoo Island was established as a penal settlement in 1839, by Governor Gipps primarily to alleviate the overcrowding on Norfolk Island. Three years after this report was published the settlement was closed in 1869 and the prisoners transferred to.....
Price (AUD):
$275.00
Ref: #3205440
Three Parliamentary reports…
Sydney: E.H. Statham, York Street, 1835. Three foolscap reports, with docket-titles, A collection of three reports by the Auditor General on the finances of New South Wales, full of interesting notes on expenses in the colony, printed by the prolific Sydney based printer and newspaper publisher Edwyn Henry Statham. It.....
Price (AUD):
$475.00
Ref: #3402054
An inquiry into the Colonial Policy of the European Powers.
Edinburgh: E. Balfour, Manners & Miller, 1803.
An attractive set in red morocco by Sangorski
Two volumes octavo, bound without half-titles; half red morocco by Sangorski. Remarkably detailed survey of colonial policy on the eve of the Napoleonic Wars. 'The larger portion of this scarce work relates to America, and.....
Price (AUD):
$950.00
Ref: #4107594
A Treatise on the wealth, power, and resources of the British Empire…
London: Joseph Mawman, 1814. Quarto, contemporary tree calf with gilt tooled flat spine and green calf label. First edition: a detailed description of the state of the British Empire at the final stage of the war with Napoleon, with a chapter on the penal colony at New South Wales. Patrick.....
Price (AUD):
$1,850.00
Ref: #2402684
Paris Moderne. Plan d'une ville que l'auteur a apelee Novutopie.
Paris: Libraires du Palais-Royal, 1860. Duodecimo, green quarter morocco. First edition: a proposal for a 'new utopia' founded on pacifist principles. In 1859, a Franco-Italian alliance had sought to repel Austrian aggression in northern Italy, but the French people had been sickened by the losses, and Napoleon III had hastily.....
Price (AUD):
$985.00
Ref: #3006532