Australia Pre 1850
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# 50447
TURNER, John
Joseph Lycett. Governor Macquarie’s convict artist.
Newcastle : Hunter History Publications, 1997. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 148, illustrated, light edge wear, else a very good copy. A detailed study of Lycett by New South Wales historian Dr. John Turner.
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# 50030
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 general …
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# 50034
BUSBY, James (1801-1871)
Journal of a Tour through some of the Vineyards of Spain and France (facsimile edition)
Sydney : printed by Stephens & Stokes, 1833 (but Sydney : David Ell Press, 1979). Facsimile edition. Octavo, gilt-lettered buckram, pp. iv; 141; a very good copy. Facsimile of the first edition of one of the first Australian books on wine. Regarded as the father of the Australian wine industry, James Busby arrived in Sydney …
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# 50033
BUSBY, James (1801-1871)
A manual of plain directions for planting and cultivating vineyards and for making wine in New South Wales (facsimile edition)
Sydney : printed by R. Mansfield for the Executors of R. Howe (but Sydney : David Ell Press, 1979). Facsimile edition. Octavo, gilt-lettered buckram, pp. vi; 96; (3); bookseller’s label to front pastedown, very slightly marked on fore edge, a very good copy. Facsimile of the first edition of one of the first Australian books …
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# 50219
INGLETON, Geoffrey C.
Matthew Flinders : navigator and chartmaker
Foreword by HRH The Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh. Guildford, Surrey [U.K.] : Genesis Publications in association with Hedley Australia, 1986. Large quarto, publisher’s green cloth boards with gilt lettering to upper board and spine, upper board with pictorial onlay of Flinders’ Investigator and Baudin’s Le Géographe, front endpapers with map, rear endpapers illustrated with …
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# 50218
PARKIN, Ray
H.M. Bark Endeavour : her place in Australian history.
With an account of her construction, crew and equipment and a narrative of her voyage on the east coast of New Holland in the year 1770. Melbourne: Miegunyah Press (MUP), 1999. Reprint. With plans, charts and illustrations by the author. Quarto, two volumes in slipcase, pp. 468, 25 maps, a few very small spots of …
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# 29230
TENCH, Captain Watkin
A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson, in New South Wales,
including an accurate description of the situation of the colony; of the natives; and of its natural productions. London : Sold by G. Nicol, Pall-Mall ; and J. Sewell, Cornhill, 1793. Quarto, later half calf over marbled papered boards (rubbed), spine in compartments with elaborate gilt decoration and green morocco title label lettered in gilt, bookplate removed from front pastedown; all edges speckled red; frontispiece folding Map of the hitherto unexplored country …
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# 40313
[GREAT BRITAIN. ROYAL NAVY]
A List of His Majesty’s Royal Navy. Navy Office, 1st October 1794.
Large octavo (230 x 150 mm), in the original Admiralty-style binding of straight-grain red morocco with elaborate gilt border incorporating stars, wreaths and cornerpieces, spine gilt in six compartments; inner dentelles; all edges gilt; original marbled endpapers; engraved title-page with date in manuscript 1st October 1794 (although the list has additions to 1801); 200 pp., …
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# 50083
HUNT, Susa and CARTER, Paul
Terre Napoleon. Australia through French eyes 1800 – 1804
Sydney : Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales in association with Hordern House, 1999. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 150, extensively illustrated. Art from the Baudin voyage to Australia. ‘Includes many exquisite watercolours from the Lesueur Collection at the Museum d’Histoire Naturelle Le Havre and explores the story behind the Baudin expedition which produced …
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# 48767
AUSTRALIAN COLLEGE. COUNCIL.
First report of the council of the Australian College.
Sydney : Printed by Horatio Wills for the executors of R. Howe, 1832. Small octavo, original blue paper wrappers, lightly creased, 8 pp, a fine, original copy. Ferguson, 1508. The Australian College for boys was established in Sydney by the Reverend John Dunmore Lang in November 1831. The Presbyterian teaching staff were recruited from Scottish …
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# 44744
HUME, Stuart Hamilton
Beyond the borders. An anecdotal history of the Hume and related pioneering families (signed copy)
Canberra : Jennifer Hume MacDougall and Prudence Grieve, 1991. Octavo, illustrated wrappers (edges slightly rubbed), pp. xvi; 218, illustrated. Signed by Jennifer Hume MacDougall, Editor, on the title page. A fine copy.
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# 46404
MAWE, John (1764-1829)
The voyager’s companion, or shell collector’s pilot;
with instructions and directions where to find the finest shells; also for preserving the skins of animals; and the best methods of catching and preserving insects &c. &c. &c. London : printed for and sold by the author, and by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1825. Fourth edition. Duodecimo, full polished calf (corners …
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# 50035
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 (lightly sunned to spine and upper wrapper), pp. 167, illustrated, previous owner’s name to half-title. 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 …
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# 49567
EDEN, William (1744 - 1814), et al.
The History of New Holland, from its first discovery in 1616 to the present time :
with a particular account of its produce and inhabitants and a description of Botany Bay : also, a list of the naval, marine, military, and civil establishment. To which is prefixed, An introductory discourse on banishment, by the Right Honourable William Eden. London : Printed for John Stockdale, 1787. First edition. Octavo, period style half calf, …
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# 49473
BLAXLAND, Gregory
A journal of a tour of discovery across the Blue Mountains, in New South Wales, in the year 1813.
Sydney : Gibbs, Shallard, & Co., [1870]. Second edition. Octavo, original mustard printed wrappers, a couple of very faint stains, pp. 46; [2 – blank], scattered foxing as usual, a fine, crisp copy. The second edition, published in 1870 by the explorer’s son, as the first edition from 1823 was now unprocurable. The journal accounts …
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# 49332
HUNTER, John (1737-1821)
An historical journal of the transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island,
with the discoveries which have been made in New South Wales and in the Southern Ocean, since the publication of Phillip’s Voyage, compiled from the official papers; including the journals of Governors Phillip and King, and of Lieut. Ball; and the voyages from the first sailing of the Sirius in 1787, to the return of …