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Narrative of Shipwreck of the "Admella"…
Melbourne: J. H. Moulines and Co. for the Committee of the 'Admella', November 1859.
Iconic Australian shipping disaster
Octavo, frontispiece and folding map; in original blind blocked plum cloth with dramatic gilt vignette to front board bearing the slogan 'Hope to the Last.'. Only edition: the harrowing tale of the...
Price (AUD):
$3,000.00
Ref: #3311994
The South Australian Almanack and General Colonial Directory, for 1849.
Adelaide: Andrew Murray, 1849.
With map of the "Settled portions" and details of mines
Octavo, folding frontispiece map with outline colouring, xl, 220 pp., (including directory and advertisements), with a folding table of goods and prices bound in; in plain brown cloth (if not original certainly of the period). A...
Price (AUD):
$1,150.00
Ref: #4107200
Australien Natur och Kultur - Studier och Minnen.
Stockholm: Hugo Gebers förlag, 1915.
Eucalypts and minerals, gold and sheep
Octavo, with 48 plates and two colour maps, original green cloth with attractive gilt blocked kangaroo motif. An excellent copy of this generously illustrated survey of Australia's agriculture and natural resources by the long-serving secretary of the Swedish Society...
Price (AUD):
$175.00
Ref: #3910388
Columbus Outdone! Capt. Andrews' Cruise in the Sapolio.
New York: Enoch Morgan's Sons Company, 1893.
William Andrews' solo crossing in his smallest boat
Octavo, folding map and folding plate, illustrated throughout; in original illustrated brown cloth, flyleaf inscribed and signed by the author. Signed presentation copy in original illustrated cloth, detailing the audacious solo transatlantic crossing of William...
Price (AUD):
$875.00
Ref: #3910373
Un Royaume Polynésien. Iles Hawaï.
Paris: Plon, 1893. Octavo, folding map; a good copy, uncut in the original blue-grey wrappers, First edition: this is an especially good account of Hawaii at the end of the nineteenth century, by a French diplomat, written under the pseudonym Georges Sauvin. D'Anglade was French Consul and Commissioner to Hawaii...
Price (AUD):
$385.00
Ref: #2205179
The History of New Holland, from its First Discovery in 1616, to the Present Time.
London: John Stockdale, 1790.
An essential book for First Fleet collectors
Quarto, folding map; black half roan, with the bookplate of Henry White. An essential First Fleet book, widely considered the best guide to the establishment of a penal colony in New South Wales: 'an extremely interesting work and an...
Price (AUD):
$4,000.00
Ref: #4403191
The History of New Holland, from its First Discovery in 1616, to the Present Time…
London: John Stockdale, 1787.
First Fleet sails for New South Wales
Octavo, with two folding handcoloured maps; bound in contemporary marbled boards (rebacked retaining original crimson label) from the Westport House library with Browne family armorial bookplate. Published on the eve of the departure of the First Fleet for New...
Price (AUD):
$4,600.00
Ref: #4106490
The History of New Holland, from its First Discovery in 1616, to the Present Time…
London: John Stockdale, 1787.
First Fleet sails for New South Wales
Octavo, with two folding maps, finely hand coloured in outline, modern half calf, marbled boards. First edition. Published on the eve of the departure of the First Fleet for New South Wales, this sometimes neglected publication was the most...
Price (AUD):
$3,850.00
Ref: #4503934
Recent Expeditions to Eastern Polar Seas.
London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1882. Quarto, with 12 engravings and 2 charts; original gilt decorated cloth. Early anthology including voyages of Hansa, Germania & Tegethoff.
Price (AUD):
$140.00
Ref: #3005277
Asia for the Elucidation of the Abbe Gaultier's Geographical Games.
London: John Harris, 1832.
Scarce educational game featuring Australia
Engraved map, 345 x 432 mm. (image size), original hand-colouring. An attractive children's educational map of Australia, Asia and the east coast of Africa. The map is based on the work of the Abbé Gaultier, an educationalist originally from Piedmont, who...
Price (AUD):
$675.00
Ref: #3809889
A Plane Chart of the World on Mercator's Projection, With the Tracks & Discoveries of the Principal and most recent Navigators…
London: John Harris, 1832. Engraved map, 315 x 432 mm. (image size), original hand-colouring. An attractive children's educational map of the World The map is based on the work of the Abbé Gaultier, an educationalist originally from Piedmont, who had settled in France in 1780 and later fled the revolution...
Price (AUD):
$650.00
Ref: #3809892
Briefe im Jahr 1772 nach Island angestellte Reise betreffen.
Upsala & Leipzig: Magnus Swederus, 1779.
Banks and Solander in iceland
Octavo, large map and chart and eleven plates (most folding), 13 plates in total; contemporary quarter roan and marbled boards. First German edition, preceded only by the very rare Swedish edition of 1777, and followed by London and Paris...
Price (AUD):
$3,200.00
Ref: #3910345
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
Da Asia de Joáo Barros e de Diogo de Couto, Nova Edição…
Lisbon: Regia Officina Typographica, 1788.
Portuguese discoveries in a crisp uniform edition
24 volumes, duodecimo, with four portraits and five folding maps; contemporary blonde speckled calf. This extensive set is a fundamental travel book, and the basis for any history of Portuguese exploration. This is the first collected edition of...
Price (AUD):
$14,500.00
Ref: #3111076
L'amiral Baudin.
Paris: Librairie Plon, 1888.
In the original publisher's wrappers
Small octavo, with seven folding maps; in the original printed pale blue wrappers. First edition: a very scarce publication, by a French naval officer who sailed with the D'Entrecasteaux expedition in the 1790s. Admiral Charles Baudin played a role in the...
Price (AUD):
$1,485.00
Ref: #3702859
Voyage de Découvertes aux Terres Australes…
Paris: Imprimerie Impériale [Royale], 1807/16/07/11; 1815/12.
The full account of the Baudin voyage: superbly hand-coloured
Bound in five volumes; a handsome set of the complete official edition, including the two-volume quarto narrative text with portrait frontispiece and two folding tables, the two-parts of the large quarto atlas bound as a....
Price (AUD):
$98,500.00
Ref: #3811937
Voyage autour du monde… Australie…
Paris: Henri Plon, 1870-, 1872.
With photographic plates
Three volumes, octavo, in total 7 folding maps & 38 plates engraved after photographs (5 folding); contemporary quarter green morocco. A very good early mixed set of this extremely popular account of the author's voyage around the world. This popular and well-written...
Price (AUD):
$1,150.00
Ref: #3710382
Carte reduite des mers comprises entre l'Asie, l'Amerique apelees par les navigateurs Mer du Sud ou Mer Pacifique…
Paris: Deposit des cartes, plans et journaux de la Marine, 1756.
Imagining Australia's eastern coastline conjoined with New Guinea
Engraved map, 572 x 852 mm, on quite thick paper; attractively coloured with background beige wash for sea areas; folding into an original boards binding, lined with some old manuscript; manuscript...
Price (AUD):
$4,750.00
Ref: #4504220
Sketch of the History of Van Diemen's Land…
London: John Richardson, 1832.
With a fine Arrowsmith map
Octavo, with two engraved plates and a large hand-coloured folding map; very good in original boards with green cloth spine and printed label. First edition. An important account of Tasmania, intended for distribution among shareholders and prospective shareholders of the Van...
Price (AUD):
$1,350.00
Ref: #4106570
Sketch of the History of Van Diemen's Land…
London: John Richardson, 1832.
With a fine Arrowsmith map
Octavo, with two engraved plates and a large hand-coloured folding map; very good in original boards, early inked ownership inscription on front board, with later papered spine and printed label, modern slipcase. First edition. An important account of Tasmania, intended for...
Price (AUD):
$1,650.00
Ref: #4503931
Reports, &c. [on Improvements to Dublin Harbour]…
Dublin: N.P. [maps with the imprint of Henecy & Fitzpatrick], N.D. [1801].
William Bligh maps... Dublin Bay
Folio, 84 pp., with six folding engraved maps with coloured details; contemporary dark calf. Very rare. This collection of reports on proposed improvements to the Dublin waterways, submitted to the Directors-General of Inland...
Price (AUD):
$12,250.00
Ref: #4504925
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
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