Australia Pre 1850

  • History of Australia

    # 51028

    RUSDEN, G. W.

    History of Australia

    Melbourne : Melville, Mullen & Slade, 1897. Second edition. Three volumes, octavo, in fine presentation binding of gull polished calf, spines in compartments with raised bands, ruled, lettered nd tooled in gilt, contrasting morocco title labels lettered in gilt, armorial stamp for Scotch College, Melbourne to upper panels, edges slightly scuffed, marbled edges and endpapers, …

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  • 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.

    # 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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  • Description of a view of the town of Sydney, New South Wales; the harbour of Port Jackson, and surrounding country; now exhibiting in the Panorama, Leicester-Square.

    # 50753

    BURFORD, Robert (1791-1861)

    Description of a view of the town of Sydney, New South Wales; the harbour of Port Jackson, and surrounding country; now exhibiting in the Panorama, Leicester-Square.

    Painted by the proprietor, Robert Burford. London : printed by J. and C. Alard, Bartholomew Close, 1829. Price sixpence. Octavo, in a fine modern binding of half crushed morocco over marbled papered boards, ruled in gilt, spine lettered in gilt, pp 12, folding lithographed plate of Burford’s panorama (after Augustus Earle) presented in two registers …

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  • Arthur Phillip. Private letters 1787 - 1796

    # 50727

    CURREY, John (1940 - )

    Arthur Phillip. Private letters 1787 – 1796

    Selected, with notes and commentary, by John Currey. [Melbourne] : The Banks Society, 2017. Octavo, finely bound in papered boards, pp. 213 set on Caslon typeface printed on Mohawk Superfine Eggshell Soft White 118 gsm, illustrated, folding map. ‘Twenty-five copies of this book marked A to Y were made by John Currey at The Colony …

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  • An Appendix to the Former Work [Cosmographie], endeavouring a discovery of the unknown parts of the World, especially of Terra Australis Incognita, or the Southern Continent.

    # 50566

    HEYLYN, Peter

    An Appendix to the Former Work [Cosmographie], endeavouring a discovery of the unknown parts of the World, especially of Terra Australis Incognita, or the Southern Continent.

    By Peter Heylin. London : Printed for Henry Seile, 1652. [Extracted from the first edition of Heylyn’s Cosmographie]. Disbound folio, 340 x 235 mm; title-leaf, pp. 191-7, [1 Emendation of the Errata in the Fourth Book]; browned at the edges, some very early annotations and pen trials on the last side. The idiosyncratic geography of English …

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  • The Skottowe Manuscript.

    # 51082

    BONYHADY, Tim et al.

    The Skottowe Manuscript.

    Thomas Skottowe’s select specimens from nature of the birds, animals, &c. &c. of New South Wales. Published for the first time from the original manuscript in the Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales. Edited, with an introductory essay, by Tim Bonyhady. Natural history consultant: John Calaby. Foreword by Sir David Attenborough, C.B.E., F.R.S. …

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  • The Irish in Australia

    # 50728

    HOGAN, James Francis

    The Irish in Australia

    London : Ward & Downey, 1887. Octavo, lettered cloth (edges rubbed, wear to head and foot of spine), patterned endpapers, faded stamp to half-title, pp. [viii]; 348; [blank]; viii, text block slightly shaken, a good copy. Written mostly in Melbourne, Hogan’s history of the Irish population in Australia covers the history of Irish emigration to …

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  • Skinner Prout in Australia 1840-1848

    # 51131

    BROWN, Tony and KOLENBERG, Hendrik

    Skinner Prout in Australia 1840-1848

    Hobart : The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 1986. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 80, illustrated, a fine copy. Prout’s works in Australia, including studies of indigenous Australians.

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  • Illustrating the Antipodes. George French Angas in Australia and New Zealand 1844-1845

    # 51024

    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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  • Ongeluckige voyagie, van’t schip Batavia, nae de Oost-Indien.

    # 48371

    PELSAERT, Francois (c.1595-1630)

    Ongeluckige voyagie, van’t schip Batavia, nae de Oost-Indien.

    Amsterdam : Jan Jansz, 1647. First edition. Small quarto, papered boards; title-leaf, pp. 118, lacking final blank (as in most copies); six folding copperplates (plate V provided in expert facsimile); some very pale marginal water stains, tiny worm hole to margin of first few leaves; a clean and well preserved copy, housed in a calf …

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  • The Sydney Gazette, and New South Wales Advertiser. Vols I - II, 1803-1805.

    # 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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  • Diario del teniente de navio D. Francisco Xavier de Viana, trabajado en el viage de las corbetas de S.M.C. “Descubierta” y “Atrevida” en los años de 1789, 1790, 1791, 1792 y 1793.

    # 49798

    VIANA, Francisco Javier de (1764-1820)

    Diario del teniente de navio D. Francisco Xavier de Viana, trabajado en el viage de las corbetas de S.M.C. “Descubierta” y “Atrevida” en los años de 1789, 1790, 1791, 1792 y 1793.

    [Also titled: Diario del viage explorador de las corbetas españolas “Descubierta” y “Atrevida”, en los años de 1789 á 1794]. Cerrito de la Victoria [Uruguay] : Imprenta del ejército, 1849. Octavo, quarter crushed morocco over marbled papered boards, spine ruled and lettered in gilt (small expert restorations to head and foot of spine); marbled endpapers; …

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  • Joseph Lycett : convict artist

    # 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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  • New South Wales Pocket Almanack, for the Year of Our Lord 1815;

    # 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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  • Robert Dowling. Tasmanian son of Empire

    # 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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  • James Bonwick : A writer of school books and histories with a bibliography of his writings.

    # 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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