Sporting, games
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
Tigre tué en Amerique par S. A. Monseigneur Le Prince de Nassau Siegen…
Vienna: Jean Jacobe, 1787.
Bougainville, Casanova and the Prince of Nassau
Mezzotint engraving 700 x 990 mm; a fine impression; framed. A rare and very surprising pictorial image of the Bougainville expedition: we have never seen the image before and can find no record of it. Published in Vienna, it...
Price (AUD):
$12,500.00
Ref: #4011300
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
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
Foreign Field Sports, Fisheries, Sporting Anecdotes…
London: Edward Orme, circa 1823.
The anonymous work of John Lewin?
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. An attractive copy of one of the outstanding aquatint books of...
Price (AUD):
$8,000.00
Ref: #3911447
Field Sports, &c. &c. of the Native Inhabitants of New South Wales with ten plates by the Author.
London: Edward Orme, 1813.
Dedicated to Bligh: the first book on the Australian Aborigines
Quarto, 10 coloured aquatints; modern half calf, spine gilt-titled. A very good copy of the first issue of this important Australian plate book. This was the first work to be published on the Australian Aborigines. Clark...
Price (AUD):
$7,500.00
Ref: #4503983
Woburn Sheepshearing.
London: G. Garrard, 31 May 1811.
Sir Joseph Banks judges sheepshearing
Original aquatint, stipple, etching and engraving; 540 x 800 mm., mounted and framed. A large detailed and striking image of the annual sheep shearing festival held by the Duke of Bedford at Woburn Abbey, with Sir Joseph Banks a....
Price (AUD):
$10,500.00
Ref: #4504111
Experiences of a Colonist Forty Years Ago…
Adelaide: Frearson and Brother, 1879. Octavo, with six woodcuts of sketches by the author; in modern half cloth. The distinctly rare first edition of this account of Hamilton's experiences droving a herd of sheep from Port Philip to Adelaide. He settled in South Australia on his arrival in 1839, and...
Price (AUD):
$1,450.00
Ref: #3403136
Royal Agricultural Show of 1897.
Sydney: N.S.W. Government Printer, 1897.
Photographic Panorama of the Sydney Agricultural Show
Five-panel panoramic photograph, highlighted by hand, laid down on canvas, 390 x 3490 mm.; some wear and staining to canvas backing, very lightly cracked at one joint, but overall in very good condition. A rare very large panoramic...
Price (AUD):
$8,500.00
Ref: #3504681
Sporting Pictures.
London: Cassell and Company, 1902.
The English sporting life.
Large folio, tipped plates, original green decorated cloth. Large format folio deluxe issue, featuring 48 tipped in plates. Scenes include cricket, racing polo, hunting, and fly-fishing.
Price (AUD):
$385.00
Ref: #4403216
A Boy's Voyage Round the World…
London: John Murray, 1871. Octavo, with steel-engraved illustrations; original green cloth, decorated in black and gilt. The surprisingly scarce first edition of this famous juvenile; Ferguson records only a later impression. The attractive vignettes used as chapter-headings include rather good views of Melbourne and Sydney as well as Auckland, Honolulu...
Price (AUD):
$400.00
Ref: #2104488
Sport and Sportsmen: a Book of Recollections.
London: Hurst and Blackett, 1866.
Kangaroo hunting with the Yarra Yarra tribe
Octavo, frontispiece and illustrated title- page; contemporary half calf and marbled boards. First edition of a scarce collection of sporting memoirs, mainly set in England, Wales and the Scottish Highlands. However Stretton had been to the Victorian diggings...
Price (AUD):
$1,250.00
Ref: #2311341
Autograph Letter Signed, to Mr. Mash (?).
Sydney: 26 November, 1871.
Trollope in Australia
Single leaf, small octavo, conjugate leaf removed but the letter evidently complete, simple red device to head of recto, pin-holes, very good. An engaging letter from Anthony Trollope, politely refusing an invitation to whist during his visit to Sydney in 1871. It is...
Price (AUD):
$1,400.00
Ref: #3806737
Album of watercolours.
Probably Venice: variously dated from 1795 to 1825.
Fine Commedia dell'arte watercolours
Oblong small quarto album, 185 x 275mm, containing forty-six watercolours of various sizes and shapes ranging from delicate circular vignettes to larger scenes of urban and theatrical life, elegantly bound in nineteenth-century ochre morocco with ornate gilt decoration...
Price (AUD):
$47,500.00
Ref: #4504048
The Complete Angler. Or the Contemplative Man's Recreation.
London: Nattali and Bond, 1860. Two volumes, large octavo, 14 fine engraved plates, with many additional textual engravings; contemporary half brown morocco over marbled boards, top edge gilt, preserved in a cloth slipcase. This edition is richly illustrated with a total of 61 plates and vignettes, after Stothard, Inskipp, and...
Price (AUD):
$2,850.00
Ref: #3002974