Australia Pre 1850
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# 42022
HOWE, George (compiler and printer)
New South Wales Pocket Almanack, for the Year of Our Lord 1815;
Being the third after Bissextile, or Leap Year; and the fifty-fifth of the Reign of His Present Majesty King George the Third. Published under the Sanction and Patronage of His Excellency the Governor and Commander in Chief. Sydney : Compiled and Printed by G. Howe, Government Printer, [1815]. Duodecimo (155 x 95 mm), later half …
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# 50803
JONES, Phillip
Illustrating the Antipodes. George French Angas in Australia and New Zealand 1844-1845
Canberra : National Library of Australia, 2021. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 380. illustrated. A very good copy. George French Angas (1822-1886) spent 18 months sketching and observing in Australia and New Zealand between 1844 and 1845. It was a period of decisive and irreversible cultural change. The young Angas excelled at capturing the minute …
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# 50780
JONES, John
Robert Dowling. Tasmanian son of Empire
Melbourne : NGV, 2010. Octavo, illustrated boards, corners slightly bumped, pp. 192, illustrated. Dowling holds a special place in the history of Australian art, as the first artist to be be trained in Australia and was renowned for his paintings of pastoralists, indigenous people and biblical themes. This is the first major exhibition of his …
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# 50779
GILMOUR, Joanna
Elegance in Exile : Portrait Drawings from Colonial Australia
Canberra : National Portrait Gallery, 2012. Octavo, decorated cloth in illustrated dustjacket, maps to endpapers, pp. 180, illustrated, folding plates. Includes works by Thomas Watling, Elizabeth Prinsep, Thomas Wainwright, Thomas Bock, Richard Read, Charles Rodius et al.
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# 50747
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 (lightly marked), 43 pp., frontispiece portrait. Limited to 250 copies signed by Pescott.
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# 50723
McPHEE, John (ed.)
Joseph Lycett : convict artist
Sydney : Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, 2006. Quarto, cloth-covered boards in illustrated dust jacket (lightly sunned), pp. 285, illustrated in colour throughout, academic text on the artist by John McPhee, Richard Neville, Roger Butler, Shane Frost and Martin Terry. A richly illustrated monograph on the convict artist Joseph Lycett published on the …
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# 50382
HEYLYN, Peter
Cosmographie, in four books. Containing the Chorographie & Historie of the whole World, and all the Principal Kingdoms, Provinces, Seas, and Isles thereof.
by Peter Heylyn. With an accurate and an approved Index of all the Kingdoms, Provinces, Countries, Inhabitants, People, Cities, Mountains, Rivers, Seas, Islands, Forts, Bays, Capes, Forests, &c. of any Remarque in the whole World; Much wanted and desired in the former, and now annexed to this last Impression, Revised and Corrected by the Author himself …
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# 50509
BENNETT, Jas. F.
South Australian Almanack and General Directory for 1841,
being the first year after leap year. Calculated for the meridian of Adelaide. Adelaide : Robert Thomas & Co., [1840]. Duodecimo, modern calf, spine lettered in gilt, bookplate from Geoffrey Farmer collection to front pastedown, offset to free endpaper, all edges gilt, pp. 150, xix (advertisements); blank, a few spots of foxing, but a clean …
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# 49972
GREIG, George
[SWAN RIVER COLONY]. The South African Almanac and Directory for the year 1833
Cape Town : Printed and Published by the Proprietor, George Greig, Keizersgracht, [1832]. Octavo, printed blue wrappers (light edge wear), pp. [xviii – advertisements]; five lithographed plates of views of Cape Town; title leaf; preface leaf; lxxxiii; [i]; 13 – 292, occasional light foxing or spotting, a very good copy. A scarce Cape Town colonial …
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# 50377
PHILLIP, Arthur
The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay; with an Account of the Establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson and Norfolk Island;
Compiled from authentic papers, which have been obtained from the several departments. To which are added, the Journals of Lieutenants Shortland, Watts, Ball and Captain Marshall; with an account of their new discoveries. The views &c. &c. drawn on the spot, by Capt. Hunter, Lieuts. Shortland, Watts, Dawes, Bradley, Capt. Marshall, &c. Dublin : Printed for …
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# 50666
ARDEN, George
Latest information with regard to Australia Felix, the finest province of the great territory of New South Wales;
including the history, geography, natural resources, government, commerce, and finances of Port Phillip; sketches of the aboriginal population, and advice to immigrants; by the editor of the Port Philip Gazette, Melbourne. [Melbourne] : Arden and Strode, 1840 / Queensberry Hill Press, 1977. Facsimile edition. Octavo, half calf over cloth, spine in compartments with raised bands, …
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# 50611
BILLIS, R.V. & KENYON, A.S.
Pastures new. An account of the pastoral occupation of Port Phillip.
Melbourne : Macmillan, 1930. Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth in dustjacket (slightly edge worn), endpapers lightly offset, pp. xiv; 272, edges foxed, a fine copy, scarce in the dustjacket.
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# 50603
CURREY, John (editor)
David Collins. General Orders. Issued at Sullivan Bay Port Phillip. October 16 1803 – January 27 1804. With an Account of the First Printing Press in Victoria.
Melbourne : The Banks Society, 2025. Foolscap folio, quarter leather over marbled boards, spine in compartments with raised bands, contrasting title label lettered in gilt, pp. 142; colophon (with corrections slip); illustrations, folding plates, three facsimile orders (suitable for framing) loosely inserted in endpocket. Edition limited to 16 numbered copies. Includes facsimiles of all the …
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# 50655
HOWE, George (1769-1821)
The Sydney Gazette, and New South Wales Advertiser. Vols I – II, 1803-1805.
THE CRADLE OF PRINTING, PUBLISHING AND JOURNALISM IN AUSTRALIA : AN IMPORTANT COLLECTION OF EARLY ISSUES OF AUSTRALIA’S FIRST NEWSPAPER, FROM ITS FIRST TWO YEARS OF PUBLICATION. Sydney : G. Howe, 1803-05. A total of 91 (ninety-one) issues, housed in two calf clamshell cases, silk-lined and with gilt lettering, custom made to the highest standard. Vol. …
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# 50592
BUSBY, James (1801-1871)
A treatise on the culture of the vine, and the art of making wine; compiled from the works of Chaptal, and other French writers; and from the notes of the compiler, during a residence in some of the Wine Provinces of France (facsimile edition)
Australia [i.e. Sydney], R. Howe, Government Printer, 1825 (but Sydney : David Ell Press, 1979). Facsimile edition. Octavo, gilt-lettered buckram, [pp. i – ii], pp. [iii] – xxxiv, 270 (actually 272, as the pagination 183 – 184 is duplicated), [1 – errata], [1 – blank], with one folding table (designated pp. 62-63, inserted after p. …
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# 50549
NORST, Marlene J.
Ferdinand Bauer : the Australian natural history drawings
Melbourne : Lothian, 1989. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, some light edge wear, pp. 120, illustrated.