Australia Pre 1850
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![[SYDNEY] The prevalent forms and causes of Sabbath desecration.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2025/01/2025_DSFB_0374-300x300.jpg)
# 47207
McINTYRE, William (1805-1870); HOWE, Robert Charles (1820-1875), publisher
[SYDNEY] The prevalent forms and causes of Sabbath desecration.
Sydney : R. Howe, “Gazette” office, Lower George-street, [1841]. At head of title: Lecture III. Duodecimo, original plain blue wrappers, hand-sewn, 24 pp; a fine copy. Ferguson, 3244. The third in the series Lectures on the Sabbath, which was also published, along with lectures by John Dunmore Lang, M.T. Adam, James Fullerton, and John Tait, in …
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# 42885
JOHNSON, Rev. Richard, Chaplain to the Colonies.
An address to the inhabitants of the colonies established in New South Wales and Norfolk Island. Written in the year 1792.
London : Printed for the author : and sold by Mathews, Strand; Deighton, Holborn; Trap, Paternoster-Row; and Goff and Amey, No. 8, Ivy-Lane, 1794. Duodecimo (170 x 100 mm), original paper wrappers, inside upper wrapper with ownership inscription of ‘Margaret Amey, No 8 Ivy Lane, May 23d 1808’, upper wrapper with ownership inscription of Rev. …
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# 47174
PESCOTT, Edward Edgar.
James Bonwick : A writer of school books and histories with a bibliography of his writings.
Melbourne: H. A. Evans, 1939. Quarto, quarter cloth over lettered boards (edges rubbed), 43 pp., frontispiece portrait. Limited to 250 signed copies.
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# 46874
"Garryowen" (FINN, Edmund, 1819-1898)
The chronicles of early Melbourne, 1835 to 1852. Historical, anecdotal and personal, by “Garryowen”
Centennial edition with portraits and illustrations. Melbourne : Fergusson and Mitchell, 1888. First edition. Two volumes, quarto, gilt-decorated roan (refurbished and recoloured, expertly rebacked with new spines lettered in gilt, a pencilled note on the endpaper of the second volume reads ‘Repaired H. Green £6.6.0’), all edges gilt, endpapers replaced, bookplates of Bernard Gore Brett …
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![[ASTRONOMY] Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. For the year MDCCCXXIX. Part III. Containing astronomical observations made at the Observatory at Parramatta ; by Charles Rumker, Esq.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2024/05/2024_DSFB_2916-300x300.jpg)
# 42877
RÜMKER, Charles (1788-1862)
[ASTRONOMY] Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. For the year MDCCCXXIX. Part III. Containing astronomical observations made at the Observatory at Parramatta ; by Charles Rumker, Esq.
London : Printed by Richard Taylor, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street, 1829. Quarto (275 x 220 mm), period-style modern binding of half black calf over marbled papered boards, spine lettered in gilt; pp. v, [1 Contents], 152; astronomical tables throughout; a fine copy, with discreet stamps of the Dublin Library Society to a couple of …
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# 46678
CARMICHAEL, John (1803-1857)
Melbourne from the south side of the Yarra Yarra 1839
Original etching and engraving, 177 x 357 mm (plate line), mount burn, engraved inscription lower left Drawn by J. A. Adamson Esq., engraved inscription lower right Eng.d by J. Carmichael. for R.Clint, manuscript inscription lower centre in Tate Adams’ hand Melbourne 1839. Printed from the original plate in an edition of 100. No. 85 / …
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# 18756
SKINNER, S.
Educational essays; or, practical observations on the intellectual and moral training and scholastic discipline of youth
With inquiries and remarks illustrating the respective advantages of home and colonial education; and suggesting methods by which the necessity of leaving the colony in order to obtain a liberal education may be superseded. Cover title: Skinner’s educational essays. Melbourne : George Robertson, 1867. New and enlarged edition. Octavo, original purple cloth with gilt lettering to …
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# 30679
FOUNIET, Ernest
Allan, le jeune déporté a Botany-Bay.
Paris : Martial Ardant, 1845. Third edition. Duodecimo, contemporary blue boards with embossed gilt ornament (rubbed), spine with gilt title and ornament (bumped at head and tail), engraved frontispiece, 260 pp, illustrated; text in French; scattered light foxing, a good copy. A very early children’s book set in Australia. Muir 2598.
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# 47135
WATTS, Peter et al.
An exquisite eye : the Australian flora & fauna drawings 1801-1820 of Ferdinand Bauer
Sydney : Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, 1997. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 167, illustrated. A very good copy. “This publication coincides with an exhibition of the same title held at the Focus Gallery, Museum of Sydney on the site of first Government House, between 13 December 1997 and 19 April 1998.”
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# 46913
CALABY, John (editor)
The Hunter sketchbook : birds & flowers of New South Wales drawn on the spot in 1788, 89 & 90
By Captain John Hunter RN of the First Fleet ; general editor John Calaby. Canberra : National Library of Australia, 1988. Quarto, illustrated cards, pp. [viii], 251, illustrated with exquisite paintings recording the fauna and flora around Sydney and on Norfolk Island.
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# 46916
BROADBENT, James
The Australian colonial house. Architecture and society in New South Wales 1788-1842
Sydney : Hordern House in association with the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, 1997. Quarto, cloth covered boards, pictorial dust jacket, pp. 400, limited to 2000 copies, contains 24 colour plates and over 100 monochrome plates, contains in-depth academic text on the architecture of houses and buildings in New South Wales in the …
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# 29073
HOWE, Robert (1795-1829) (printer and publisher); MANSFIELD, Ralph (1799-1880) (editor)
The Australian Magazine; or, Compendium of Religious, Literary, and Miscellaneous Intelligence. Volume 1. For 1821.
Sydney : Printed by Robert Howe, Government Printer, 1821. Volume 1, Number 1, May 1 1821, to Volume 1, Number 8, December 1, 1821 (i.e. the first eight issues). Octavo (190 x 125 mm), contemporary half calf over pink papered boards (heavily rubbed, with some surface loss), spine with contrasting red morocco title label lettered in …
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# 29462
LEICHHARDT, Ludwig (1813-1848)
Journal of an overland expedition in Australia from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845.
London : T. & W. Boone, 1847. First edition. Octavo, bound in period style with half-calf over marbled papered boards, spine in compartments with contrasting morocco title labels, pp. xx, 544, 8 (publisher’s advertisements); frontispiece and [6] aquatint plates (1 folding), internally clean; with the rare separately issued, hand-coloured map on three sheets (as issued: …
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# 42884
LANG, John Dunmore (1799-1878)
An historical and statistical account of New South Wales, both as a penal settlement and as a British colony.
London : Cochrane and M’Crone, 1834. First edition. Two volumes, octavo (190 x 125 mm), contemporary uniform calf, spines in compartments with gilt lettering and decoration; pastedowns with early ownership inscription of S. A. Cooper, Canterbury, Kent; Vol. 1. pp. xiv, 401, frontispiece folding engraved map with hand-coloured outlines; Vol. 2. pp. iv, 443; a …
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# 46716
TURNER, Henry Gyles
A history of the colony of Victoria, from its discovery to its absorption into the Commonwealth of Australia
Melbourne : Heritage Publications 1973 (first published 1904). Two volumes, octavo, boards in dustjacket, light handling wear, pp. xvi; 395; x; 389; folding map, a few small marks, a very good set. A history of the colony of Victoria from European arrivals in the late eighteenth century to Federation. Facsimile of the 1904 edition.
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# 46719
HANCOCK, Marguerite
Colonial consorts : the wives of Victoria’s Governors 1839 – 1900 (signed presentation copy)
Melbourne : The Miegunyah Press, 2001. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. xxii; 326, colour plates. From the library of noted art historian Ann Galbally, with a warm inscription to her from the author on the title page. ‘”Carrying out the duties of a governor’s wife was the pinnacle of public service for women in colonial …