Australia Pre 1850
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# 42019
BACKHOUSE, James (1794-1869) and WALKER, George Washington (1800-1859)
A Christian address to the free inhabitants of New South Wales and Van Diemen’s Land.
Sydney : Printed by Henry Bull, Australian College Buildings, 1837. First edition. Duodecimo (170 x 103 mm), later half green calf over marbled papered boards, spine lettered in gilt; pp. 28; printed on letterpress; bound without wrappers, but a fine example. An exceedingly rare Sydney imprint, a tract by Quaker missionaries James Backhouse (1794-1869) and …
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# 42020
BRITISH AND FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY. NEW SOUTH WALES AUXILIARY. [HOWE, George, printer]
Third Report of the Auxiliary Bible Society of New South Wales. 1819. With a list of benefactions and subscriptions paid since the publication of the 2nd report. (Edward Wise’s copy)
Sydney : Printed by G. Howe, Government printer, 1819. Duodecimo (150 x 105 mm); later blue morocco with gilt-lettered spine; front pastedown with ex libris of Dr. George Mackaness; pp. 32, with the original grey wrappers bound in at the rear; title-page trimmed at bottom edge, and inscribed ‘B. Plashett Rodd, from Mr. Justice Wise, …
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# 42927
ROSS, James (1786–1838)
The Hobart Town Almanack for the year MDCCCXXXIV. (Inscribed by Ronald Campbell Gunn to fellow botanist William Jackson Hooker)
Also titled: (Ross’s) Van Diemen’s Land Annual and Hobart Town Almanack, for the year 1834. Hobart Town, Van Diemen’s Land : Printed by James Ross, [December, 1833]. Small octavo (180 x 115 mm), original blue paper wrappers with early vellum backstrip (moderate wear); front free-endpaper with a presentation inscription in ink: ‘Dr. W. J. Hooker from …
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# 47614
NORST, Marlene J.
Ferdinand Bauer : the Australian natural history drawings
Melbourne : Lothian, 1989. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 120, illustrated.
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# 47425
HACKFORTH-JONES, Jocelyn
The convict artists
Melbourne : Macmillan, 1987. Oblong quarto, boards in dustjacket, light sunning to spine, pp. 96, illustrated. The first European artists to have settled in Australia. Includes sections on Thomas Bock, Charles Henry Theodore Constantini, John Eyre, nun Bull, Fred Strange, William Buelow Gould, Joseph Lycett, Thomas Watling, Charles Rodius, Thomas Griffiths Wainwright and others.
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# 47371
CLARK, John Heaviside (c.1770-1863); [LEWIN, John William, 1770-1819]
Foreign field sports, fisheries, sporting anecdotes, &c. &c. :
from drawings by Messrs. Howitt, Atkinson, Clark, Manskirch, &c. Containing one hundred plates. With a supplement of New South Wales. London : Published and sold by Edward Orme, 1814. Large quarto, contemporary blind-tooled straight grained morocco, ornamental gilt edging, spine lettered in gilt with gilt tooling, gilt dentelles, all edges gilt, front pastedown with ex …
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# 47283
A. & S. JOSEPH, MYERS & CO. (publisher)
The Zones of the Earth. Plate No. X. Productions of the Southern Temperate Zone.
[Title from printed caption lower centre]. London : A. & S. Joseph, Myers & Co. 144 Leadenhall Street, [after 1842]. Chromolithograph, 253 x 378 mm, mounted on a fully contemporary backing sheet of marbled card, with an eyelet for hanging at top centre; some pale stains and light marks, mostly confined to the margins, otherwise …
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# 47272
McPHEE, John (ed.)
Joseph Lycett : convict artist
Sydney : Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, 2006. Quarto, cloth-covered boards in illustrated dust jacket, 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 occasion of …
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![[TASMANIA; WINE] Entire letter sent from Circular Head to Launceston, August 27 1847, regarding the purchase of port wine.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2017/11/21164456/2017_DSFB_5075-300x300.jpg)
# 47220
[TASMANIA; WINE] Entire letter sent from Circular Head to Launceston, August 27 1847, regarding the purchase of port wine.
Manuscript in ink, single folio sheet, 370 x 235 mm, folded, headed ‘Circular Head, August 27 1847’, signed at the foot ‘Yours truly, W. [Shepman?]’; outer side addressed to ‘W. Johnstone Esq. Launceston’ and endorsed ‘[Per] “Mercury”‘ / Paid’; old loss at 2 corners, small perforation from letter spike, but the letter itself is complete …
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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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# 45789
SUTHERLAND, Alexander
Victoria and its metropolis, past and present (facsimile edition)
Melbourne : Today’s Heritage, [1988] (originally published in Melbourne by McCarron, Bird & Co., 1888). Facsimile edition. Three volumes, quarto, gilt-lettered rexine, pp. xii; 594; [viii]; 439; [vi]; 441 – 882; numerous black and white illustrations, traces of foxing to fore edges, a very good set. Printed in an edition of 500 numbered copies. Ferguson …
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# 47119
"Garryowen" (FINN, Edmund, 1819-1898)
The chronicles of early Melbourne, 1835 to 1852. Historical, anecdotal and personal, by “Garryowen” (Facsimile edition)
Centennial edition with portraits and illustrations. Melbourne : Fergusson and Mitchell, 1888. [Melbourne : Heritage editions, 1976]. Facsimile edition. Three volumes, quarto, gilt-lettered rexine, pp. x; [iv]; 1000; 120; numerous lithographed illustrations, the occasional spot of foxing, overall a very good set. Includes : The Chronicles of early melbourne. Biographical notes by Michael Cannon. Descriptive …
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# 47281
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.
Australia [i.e. Sydney] : R. Howe, Government Printer, 1825. Small quarto (octavo in fours), early half-calf over papered boards, rebacked with new spine in period style, ruled in gilt with contrasting morocco title label lettered in gilt; bound as usual without the half-title pp. [3] – xxxiv, 270 (actually 272, as the pagination 183 – …
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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 inscribed ‘Stroud – Port Stephens, …
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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 …