Government House, Sydney: 12 May, 1851.
"Busy preparing for the Homebush meeting"
Manuscript letter, 230 x 180 mm., laid paper folded to form four pages. Original letter concerning a race meeting at Homebush in 1851. Fitzroy thanks James Gibson, head agent for the Van Diemen's Land company, for sending four... More
At sea: 1835-1836.
Meeting "the Mary from New South Wales to Calcutta"
Journal kept by Captain J.T. Baldwin Madras Artillery during a voyage to India in the year 1835 [&] Original verses written on visiting home after a few years absence; Original verses on visiting Newgate after seven years Transportation;... More
[Paris]: 28 October, 1825.
Cashmere fantasies: Bory de Saint-Vincent still scheming
Five-page autograph letter, folded to letter-size 224 x 171 mm., the sixth page blank; neatly written with some original scratching-out and corrections; secured together at the left margin;. A long letter from Bory de Saint-Vincent to an unknown correspondent... More
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... More
Land & Estate Agency, George Street: Stephen & Stokes, Printers, 2 May, 1833.
Home for a publican and the beginnings of Burwood
112 x 174 mm, printed form completed in manuscript in brown ink; printed decorative device above printers' caption; completed" Webb £2.12.0" on verso, together with small sum workings... More
London, Victualling Office, 18 June 1777.
Rare document from Cook's third and last voyage
Manuscript in ink on official paper (watermark "GR" with a crown), written in ink on one side of a single sheet, 239 x 201 mm, small folio. Rare document relating to the provisioning of Cook's third... More
Sydney: 24 May, 1830.
Over-supply in the colonial market
ALs single sheet of laid paper, 250 x 440 mm., stamped "India Letter Deal" A colonial mercantile correspondence: Crombie Maclaren & Co write to advise Andrew Scott in Edinburgh of an over supply in the colony due to the previous large... More
Paris: 25 August 1814.
Senior officer of the d'Entrecasteaux voyage presents the official account
Manuscript letter, 227 x 183 mm., on a bifolium sheet, letter comprising first page with three blank pages, dated and signed by Rossel; folded to letter size, addressed with remnants of seal. A friendly letter from... More
London: 12 January 1801.
"Last night at Sir Joseph Banks's house…"
Single sheet of wove paper, 265 x 445 mm., watermarked "JW", folded to letter-size with holograph manuscript to three pages; traces of original folds, later refolded to docket-size and with manuscript description in another hand. A very significant letter... More
Sydney: date missing, but April, 1857.
The first Premier of New South Wales
Single leaf of wove paper, 268 x 208 mm. comprising the last page of a letter and address panel verso; blue NSW sixpence stamp and other postmarks. Sadly missing the first sheet, this is nonetheless a substantial... More
circa 1863.
Dumas on convicts, New Caledonia and Botany Bay
Six sheets of neatly written autograph manuscript on light blue paper, headed "Les Bagnes", each sheet measuring 276 x 215 mm., preserved in a neat modern slipcase. An important and revealing manuscript essay on prisons and convict transportation by the... More
no place: no date but circa 1832.
Dumont d'Urville presents his new work to a scientific opinion-maker
Single sheet of laid paper, 207 x 260 mm., folded vertically to form a letter, written in a small and neat hand to first page and addressed – but not stamped – to... More
Paris: 25 March 1830.
A Baudin voyage veteran studies Dumont D'Urville
Letter signed on official letterhead of the "Ministère de la Marine", 310 x 200 mm. Intriguing letter which shows the workings of the inner circle of French grands voyages experts and veterans, explicitly thanking Bory de Saint-Vincent for the... More
Steeple Aston, Oxfordshire: 1879.
Eyre reminiscing in old age
4 pp., black bordered notepaper with crest. An attractive autograph letter from the explorer and governor of South Australia, Edward John Eyre, to 'Campbell' - evidently the pastoralist George Campbell.Eyre had first met George's father Robert Campbell as early as 1834... More
London: 1931.
A symbol of common fellowship
Manuscript album measuring 188 x 138 mm., bound in full polished calf, spine gilt with raised bands, boards embossed and decorated in gilt, dentelles, edges gilt; silk endpapers. In 1915 a soldier's rest centre was opened at Poperinghe, Belgium. It was named Talbot... More
Kronstadt: 26 November 1787 (old calendar; 7 December 1787 in the modern calendar).
Cancellation of the Russian voyage to New Holland
Single sheet of laid paper, 232 x 382 mm., folded to letter size, watermark "J. Honig & Zoonen", written in French in a neat and legible hand, signed "G... More
Paris, Rue St Roch, 5: 2 March, 1827.
Louis to Bory de Saint-Vincent in debtor's prison
Two-page autograph letter, on a single sheet of laid paper, folded to letter size 200 x 162 mm., neat autograph manuscript on two pages, the third blank and the fourth an address panel; remnants... More
Paris: 6 August, 1814.
Vielch of the Lys
One-page autograph letter, written on a single sheet, folded to letter-size 230 x 185 mm., written and signed to the first page, the fourth page an address panel, others blank. An interesting letter from Louis de Freycinet to Lieutenant de Vielch of... More
Paris: 26 July, 1839.
Louis on printing the narrative of the Uranie voyage
Two-page letter with address panel on the last page, folded to letter size 215 x 148 mm., postmarks for Paris and Rochefort; archive stamp, Louis de Freycinet completes his account of the Uranie voyage to Australia and... More
Paris: circa 1830.
Freycinet and Humboldt work on Uranie observations
Archive of manuscripts, including drafts, notes and various tables, most with the Archives de Laage stamp, several of the manuscripts in Freycinet's hand, other in different hands but all with evidence of Freycinet's careful attention (and most including his personal... More
Ste. Croix de Tenerife: 24 October, 1817.
Selecting wine for the Uranie voyage
ALS on bifolium of laid paper, 255 x 200 mm., some simple calculations in Freycinet's hand, Archives de Laage stamp. A letter sent on board the Uranie while it was anchored at Tenerife in the Canary Islands... More
London & Maidstone: dated between 4 September 1879 & 23 December, 1880. Four single sheets; including two printed receipts from Gould, 13.5 x 21 cm, both completed in manuscript, one with internal revenue stamp and signature of Gould, purchase order from Maidstone Museum, 12.5 x 16 cm, printed in red... More
Sydney: 1849.
Gardens in the Maneroo
Bifolium, dated 26 June, 1849. written in cross hatch, stamped in red 'PAID SHIP LETTER SYDNEY', dated 1849, stamped Cooma and also stamped on arrival in London. Alexander Hamilton (1816-1869) was a squatter and pastoralist who arrived in New South Wales around 1839 (having... More
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1918.
Hunter Valley coal riches
Published quarto, bound manuscript, and other materials (full description below). An archive of material relating to the smouldering volcanic outcrop at Mount Wingen, prepared by local landholder and pastoralist William Edward Abbott (1844-1924) and his nephew John Henry Abbott (1874-1953).William Abbot... More
[Sydney or Scotland]: 21 August, 1829. Three-page ALS in a neat but unfinished hand, 228 x 185 mm., original red wax seal, stamp for the Sydney post office but not otherwise marked, very good. A charming and rather rare example of a woman writing from Sydney in the 1820s. The... More