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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
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
The Botanist's Repository, comprising colour'd engravings of new and rare plants only, with botanical descriptions… [engraved title].
London: T. Bensley, for the author, 1797-1815.
With magnificent hand-coloured plates depicting Australian plants
A fine set of 10 volumes quarto, with in total 10 engraved titles and 664 exquisite hand-coloured plates (many folding), bound in original half green morocco with marbled boards, lettered in gilt. A fine set of.....
Price (AUD):
$65,000.00
Ref: #4505239
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
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 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
A Voyage to the South Seas, and to many other parts of the world…
London: John and Paul Knapton, 1744.
The anonymous "Squadron" account of the Anson voyage
Octavo, with an engraved portrait frontispiece and four folding engraved plates; contemporary speckled calf, old rebacking. The rarest of two pirated accounts of the Anson voyage to appear in print in 1744, marking the hugely celebrated.....
Price (AUD):
$7,200.00
Ref: #4504976
An Authentic Journal of the late Expedition under… Anson.
London: Printed for J. Robinson, 1744.
First account of the full Anson voyage
Octavo, iv, 516 pp; contemporary panelled calf, joints neatly repaired; an excellent copy. The first book-length account of the entire Anson expedition to be printed, dating a full four years before the appearance of the official narrative.....
Price (AUD):
$5,750.00
Ref: #4505118
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
Inauguration de la Statue de François Arago…
Paris: Chamerot et Renouard, 1893.
The Paris Observatory statue of the scientist Arago
Quarto, 64 pp.; a very good unopened copy in the original grey titling wrappers. Publication commemorating the inauguration of the statue erected to honour the eminent French physicist and astronomer François Jean Dominique Arago (1786-1853). The bronze.....
Price (AUD):
$485.00
Ref: #2905335
Souvenirs d'un aveugle…
Brussels: Société Typographique, 1840.
The abridged popular version
Large octavo, with a portrait frontispiece, lithographs and in-text illustrations; original gilt decorated full calf. One of the reduced single-volume editions of Arago's classic account. There were numerous editions of his narrative: this particular one is not recorded by Ferguson (although a......
Price (AUD):
$785.00
Ref: #2609420
Souvenirs d'un aveugle. Voyage autour du monde…
Paris: Hortet et Ozanne, 1839.
The new version, with new title
Four volumes, octavo, with 60 lithograph plates (six folding); later binding of quarter dark green morocco. A fine set of the substantially changed version of Arago's classic account of the French circumnavigation in the Uranie under the command of.....
Price (AUD):
$5,250.00
Ref: #2808749
Souvenirs d'un Aveugle. Voyage autour du monde… Chasses. Drame.
Paris: H.-L. Delloye, 1840.
The rare supplementary volume
Large octavo, 15 plates, untrimmed with an early library stamp on the title-page; a handsome copy in polished half calf, spine banded and gilt. Fine copy of this unusual addition to his voyage account by the prolific and eccentric Arago, which includes.....
Price (AUD):
$2,100.00
Ref: #3702861