Australia Pre 1850
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# 21283
PHILLIP, Arthur (1738-1814)
The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay (coloured edition)
with an account of the establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson & Norfolk Island; compiled from authentic papers, which have been obtained from the several departments, to which are added, the journals of Lieuts. Shortland, Watts, Ball, & Capt. Marshall; with an account of their new discoveries. London : John Stockdale, 1789. Quarto, full …
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# 20791
EDWARDS, Francis
Australasia : books, maps, original water colour drawings, oil paintings and coloured plates relating to Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand and the islands of the Pacific Ocean including a fine series of original water colour drawings of Sydney and its harbour by Conrad Martens.
Cover title : Australasia old and new. London : Francis Edwards, 1928. Catalogue 505. Octavo, pictorial wrappers, tape repair to spine, fore edge foxed, catalogue of 1537 works, with prices.
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# 20644
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, original embossed olive cloth boards (edges rubbed), spine with gilt lettering, rebacked with spine laid down, endpapers replaced, pp 8 (publisher’s advertisements), xx, 544, frontispiece and 6 aquatint plates (1 folding), (12 – a second …
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# 20872
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. From the library of noted collector F. G. Coles, his bookplate on front pastedown.
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# 20673
BASSETT, Marnie
The Hentys. An Australian colonial tapestry
London : Oxford University Press, 1954. Octavo, cloth in illustrated dustjacket (price clipped and a trifle flecked), pp. xviii; 578, illustrations, fore edge a little foxed, else fine. One of the great early pioneering families of Australia.
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# 20466
The beginnings of government in Australia
Sydney : W. A. Gullick, Government Printer, 1913. Folio, lettered green cloth, armorial bookplate for Edward Angas Johnson to front pastedown, pp. [viii]; 23; [134], facsimiles of historical documents and manuscripts, light foxing to preliminaries, a very good copy. Foundation documents for Australia.
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# 20628
KELLY, David St. L.
Convict and free : the master furniture-makers of New South Wales 1788-1851
Kew, Victoria : Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2014. Quarto, green cloth boards in pictorial dust jacket, 377 pp, 24 full-page colour plates and black-and-white illustrations in the text, an as-new copy of a superbly produced publication, one which will surely become an essential reference on the subject. The biographies and work of more than 80 of …
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# 19366
PERRY, Bishop Charles et al
The Melbourne Church of England Messenger
Melbourne : Church of England Book Depot, 1850. Vol. I. Octavo, publisher’s purple cloth, paper title label, frontispiece engraving of St Paul’s Melbourne by Thomas Ham, pp. vi; 340. The first volume and a scarce early Melbourne imprint, A total of four volume of the first series were published and a new series begun in …
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# 20874
CRAIG, Clifford
Old Tasmanian prints : prepared in Great Britain, Europe and on the mainland of Australia
Launceston : Foot & Playsted, 1964. Edition limited to 1000 numbered and signed copies. Large octavo, pictorial cloth boards, colour frontispiece, xii, 349 pp, illustrated with 81 plates (7 colour), a fine copy.
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# 19578
INGLETON, Geoffrey Chapman.
True Patriots All, or, News from Early Australia, as told in a collection of broadsides
Rutland and Tokyo : Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1988. Reprint of the 1952 first edition. Quarto, boards in dustjacket (foxed), 280pp. reproducing illustrated broad-sides. An exploration on ephemeral early printings concerning Australia.
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# 20553
KIRSOP, Wallace
John Pascoe Fawkner’s Library. Facsimile of the sale catalogue of 1868. (Signed copy)
Melbourne : Book Collectors Society of Australia, 1985. Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth, glassine wrapper, pp. 32, essay by Wallace Kirsop, facsimile of the original sale catalogue. Limited to 500 copies. Signed by Kirsop, who wrote the introduction.
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# 19269
WHITE, John (1756-1832)
Journal of a voyage to New South Wales. (Coloured edition)
/ with sixty-five plates of non descript animals, birds, lizards, serpents, curious cones of trees and other natural productions by John White Esqre., Surgeon General to the settlement. London : J. Debrett, 1790. Quarto, full speckled calf, expertly rebacked with new spine, contrasting morocco title labels, decorated in gilt, marbled edges, pp [xviii], 299, [36], …
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# 19270
WHITE, John (1756-1832)
Journal of a voyage to New South Wales
with sixty-five plates of non descript animals, birds, lizards, serpents, curious cones of trees and other natural productions by John White Esqre., Surgeon General to the settlement. London : J. Debrett, 1790. Quarto, full tree calf, gilt decorated borders, spine with detailed ornamental tooling, contrasting morocco title label, marbled endpapers, pp [xviii], 299, [36], 65 …
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# 10546
KELL, Julius
Reise nach der Verbrecher-Colonie Neu-Südwales
[=Voyage to the penal colony of New South Wales]. Series: Neueren Entdeckungsreisen Nach grösseren Reisewerken für die Jugend; Band 3. Leipzig : Julius Meissner, 1848. Small octavo, contemporary half blue morocco over marbled papered boards, 240 pp, illustrated with [4] steel-engraved plates, scattered foxing and browning (particularly to the plates), a small faint damp stain …
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# 19392
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 …
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# 19215
COLQUHOUN, Patrick (1745-1820)
[TRANSPORTATION] Traité sur la police de Londres
contenant le détail des crimes et délits qui se commettent dans cette capitale, et indiquant les moyens de les prévenir….Traduit de l’Anglais sur la sixième édition. Paris : Léopold Collin, 1807. Two volumes octavo, contemporary red half calf over red boards (rubbed), spines with gilt numbers, decoration and stamped title labels, pastedowns and free endpapers …