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A painters' box made from an eighteenth-century book.
circa 1780.
Eighteenth-century book-art
Mottled-calf binding sculpted to form a painters' box 210 x 140 x 55 mm, fully-lined in floral linen with two-removable inner trays, containing 28 ceramic paint-shells and three paint-brushes. An eighteenth-century painters' box intricately sculpted from a book-binding of full mottled-calf with marbled fore-edges. Intriguingly the.....
Price (AUD):
$3,500.00
Ref: #3706053
J.H. Abbott and Co. Tanners & Curriers. Manufacturers…
Bendigo: circa 1890. Quarto; stapled as issued, four leaves (including wrappers). Illustrated price-list from Bendigo boot and shoe manufacturers.
Price (AUD):
$800.00
Ref: #2205461
"Habitans de la Nouvelle Hollande."
circa 1830.
Aborigines of New Holland
Handcoloured wood engraving, 100 x 75mm; Very good. Charming French hand-coloured woodcut depicting a man and woman of "New Holland". It was most likely printed as part of a series of costume plates, and may be the same as a similarly-sized woodcut of the.....
Price (AUD):
$450.00
Ref: #4202850
Copies of Instructions… for promoting the Moral and Religious Instruction of the Aboriginal Inhabitants of New Holland or Van Diemen's Land.
London: 23 September, 1831.
Macquarie, Brisbane & Darling on schools for Aborigines
Foolscap folio, 19 pp.; Later half roan, spine lettered in gilt. An excellent copy of a rare report, printing a decade of major dispatches from New South Wales Governors on the subjects of the Aborigines of New South.....
Price (AUD):
$1,300.00
Ref: #4106401
The Settlers' Synopsis of the Land Laws of New South Wales.
Sydney: Law Book Company, 1906.
Significant association copy
Octavo, original purple cloth (a bit flecked), interleaved with lined blanks. This copy is inscribed by the author to Australian pastoralist Henry White, whose racehorses were acclaimed on the Australian turf, with winners in the 1896 Australian Jockey Club Derby and 1900.....
Price (AUD):
$260.00
Ref: #4403207
Lecture II: On the Due Observance of the Sabbath.
Sydney: James Reading, n.d. but, 1841. Duodecimo, 24 pp.; original plain blue paper wrappers. Very scarce Sydney printing of the Reverend Adams' lecture on the Sabbath. Adams, a seaman's chaplain, delivered this sermon in the Scot's Church, Sydney on 25 July 1841. It was the second in a series of.....
Price (AUD):
$885.00
Ref: #3412505
Modern Voyages:
Dublin: Chamberlaine and Rice, P. Wogan and others, 1790.
Rare poetic epitaph for Captain Cook
Two volumes, with both half-titles; contemporary mottled calf, flat spines gilt and with double red and green morocco labels. A fine and attractively bound set of voyages collected and edited for the enlightenment of younger.....
Price (AUD):
$2,850.00
Ref: #3810914
Captain J. Cook.
London: Wetton & Jarvis, 1822.
The illustrious persons series
Engraving, 92mm x 63mm (plate size);. For the series Portraits of illustrious persons, after the famous portrait by Dance.
Price (AUD):
$485.00
Ref: #3007570
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
Report of Commission appointed by the Governor-in-Chief to inquire into the Loss of the "Admella"…
Adelaide: W.C.Cox, Government printer, 1859.
The tragic wreck of the Admella
Foolscap folio, 36, [iv] pp., last blank, large folding map; wrappers thumbed. Uncommon: official report of the Commission tasked to investigate the appalling loss of the steamship Admella off the coast of South Australia in 1859. The tragedy marks.....
Price (AUD):
$750.00
Ref: #4108165
Viagem ao interior da Nova Hollanda, obra moral, critica e recreativa…
Lisbon: Vicente Jorge de Castro, 1841.
Portuguese public servant's imaginary voyage to the interior
Three volumes bound in one, small octavo; some wear to the edges of the boards and a library reference at head of spine, an attractive copy in contemporary quarter calf. A rare Portuguese imaginary voyage to.....
Price (AUD):
$4,850.00
Ref: #3005354
Viagem ao interior da Nova Hollanda, obra moral, critica e recreativa… Por V.J.A.
Lisbon: Vicente Jorge de Castro; Sociedade Propagadora dos Conhecimentos Uteis, 1841.
The pernicious contagion of immorality
Three volumes bound in one, small octavo; in contemporary marbled sheep preserved in folding cloth case. A rare Portuguese imaginary voyage to Australia, not recorded by most of the commentators on the genre. In.....
Price (AUD):
$4,850.00
Ref: #4205917
Ukazanie Puti v Tsarstvie Nebesnoe.
Moscow: Sinodalnaya Typografija, 1899.
Saint Innocent of Alaska
Octavo, [iv], 114 (paginated in Old Slavonic); old quarter sheep with marbled boards. Rare: evangelical text translated into the Aleut language (and printed in Cyrillic), prepared by Ivan Veniaminov-Popov (1797-1879), the great Orthodox missionary to the northern Pacific. Veniaminov was educated in.....
Price (AUD):
$1,850.00
Ref: #4002642
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
The Royal South Australian Almanack and General Directory for 1840…
Adelaide: Robert Thomas and Co., December, 1839.
The second South Australian almanac
Octavo, 150, xii pp., original printed limp linen wrappers; folding Sangorski quarter brown morocco case. Ferguson notes this is the second South Australian almanac. The work includes the important and very early botanical series of lectures by George.....
Price (AUD):
$1,800.00
Ref: #4107206
Set of letter blocks.
England: circa 1800-1850.
Spelling set
Alphabet set of 179 pieces of bone, each approx. 15 x 18 mm., letters incised and filled in with black ink by hand; original cedar box with 18 internal compartments and a sliding lid, 256 x 153 mm. A fine, early alphabet set, consisting of.....
Price (AUD):
$2,850.00
Ref: #3202191
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
Captn James Cook F.R.S
Philadelphia: (Dobelbower, Key and Simpson), 1796. Engraved portrait, 155 x 100 mm. Oval engraved portrait of Cook in profile. Originally issued in The World Displayed, or A Curious Collection of Voyages and Travels Selected and Compiled from the Writers of all Nations by Smart, Goldsmith & Johnson.
Price (AUD):
$375.00
Ref: #4007920
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The Death of Captain Cook [caption title].
Philadelphia: circa 1798. Engraving on laid paper by Scot & Allardice, 65 x 130 mm. Robert Scot and Samuel Allardice worked together in Philadelphia as printers and engravers, Francis Shallus who is credited with doing all 41 plates of the 1818 Philadelphia edition of The Voyages of Captain Cook, worked.....
Price (AUD):
$385.00
Ref: #4007930
Promotional booklet; drop-title "South Australia"… "By an Old Colonist".
Adelaide: no publisher, circa 1858.
'England in miniature - England without it's poverty'
Duodecimo pamphlet, as issued without wrappers, 12 pp. (last blank), blue tinted paper stock. Scarce pamphlet printed to promote the colony. Anonymously compiled 'by an old Colonist', the booklet comprises various parts gleaned from several sources. First.....
Price (AUD):
$625.00
Ref: #4107388
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