Australia Pre 1850
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# 16352
[LANG, John, 1816-64]
[FISHER’S GHOST] Une cause célèbre en Australie. L’esprit.
IN: L’ami de la maison, Paris : Paulin et Le Chevalier, vol. 1 no 11, March 20 1856, pp161-67 and vol. 1 no. 12, March 27 1856, pp177-82, each part with 3 engraved illustrations; contained within a bound volume of nos. 1-25 (the complete first volume), January-June 1856, quarto, contemporary quarter calf over marbled papered …
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# 16319
[GILL, S.T.]
The Melbourne Rose. Part II.
London : Joseph, Myers & Co., 1862 (printed in Hamburg by C. Adler’s Printing Establishment). Chromolithographed and engraved folding card in the shape of a rose, in the original gilt-printed envelope honouring Burke and Wills; fine. A significant and very rare Melbourne publication of the gold rush era, with engravings after those of S.T. Gill …
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# 16115
BONWICK, James (1817 - 1906)
A sketch of Boroondara
Second edition. With an introduction. Melbourne : Book Collectors’ Society of Australia, 1968. Octavo, cloth (spine sunned), pp. [viii]; 40, map. Printed in a limited edition of 250 copies signed by the writer of the introduction Ian McLaren and the printer John Gartner. Reprint of the original work first published in 1858 and now rare.
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# 16076
John Pascoe Fawkner’s Library. Facsimile of the sale catalogue of 1868.
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.
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# 16011
The Hobart Town Gazette and Southern Reporter: a facsimile reproduction of Volumes I & II: May 11, 1816, June 1, 1816 to December 27, 1817.
Hobart : Platypus Publications Pty. Ltd., 1965. Large quarto, brown cloth covered boards (lightly marked), spine lettered in gilt; unpaginated; contents fine.
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# 15872
CURRER-JONES, A[nnie]
William Dawes, R. M. 1762 to 1836 (presentation copy)
A sketch of his life, work and explorations (1787) in the first expedition to New South Wales : also as Governor of Sierra Leone, and in Antigua, West Indies. By his great-grand-daughter, A. Currer-Jones (VIVA). Torquay : W. H. Smith & Son, 1930. Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth in gilt-lettered dustjacket (chipped and sunned), armorial bookplate to …
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# 16046
OWEN, Samuel
[MANUSCRIPT] A List of 18 Male Convicts (Boys) discharged from the Bellerophon Hulk at Sheerness for New South Wales by the Ship Lady East this 21st October 1824.
[Drop title]. Folio, [4] pp, manuscript in ink on laid paper watermarked Charles Wise 1822 with Britannia surmounted by crown; signed at the foot of the third page by the Bellerophon‘s Commander, Samuel Owen; the list of prisoner profiles, set out in tabular form, contains Commander Owen’s remarks on the conduct and demeanour of each of …
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# 15876
TOWNSEND, Joseph Phipps
Rambles and observations in New South Wales with skethes of men and manners, notices of the Aborigines, glimpses of scenery, and some hints to emigrants.
London : Chapman and Hall, 1849. Octavo, later quarter-calf over cloth, contrasting title label to spine, pp. vii; [1]; 312. Ferguson 5213.
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# 15882
[HAMILTON, George]
Experiences of a colonist forty years ago; a journey from Port Phillip to South Australia in 1839 and a voyage from Port Phillip to Adelaide in 1846.
By an old hand. With illustrations. Adelaide : J. Williams, 1880. Octavo, gilt-lettered red cloth, blue endpapers with previous owner’s name neatly inscribed, photographic frontispiece, pp. [viii]; 84; 79; [1]; 23; two photographic plates reproducing four painted scenes, Second edition, the first with photographic illustrations. Ferguson 10184; Holden 49
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# 16074
A brief statement of facts in connection with an overland expedition from Lake George to Port Phillip in 1824.
Third edition : with addenda. Yass : J. J. Brown, 1874. Octavo, original flush-cut pebbled cloth (upper board nearly detached), printed paper title label, bookplate inside upper board from Henry White, portrait frontispiece lithographed by Charles Turner of Melbourne, pp. 112, foxing to preliminaries. A good copy. The 1824 expedition overland to Port Phillip is …
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# 15811
DURYEA, Townsend (1823-1888); "W.S.E."
Carte de visite with an acrostic laudatory poem to Tasmanian newspaper publisher and editor John Campbell Macdougall
Albumen print photograph of a lithographed poem titled ‘An Acrostic’, dated and initialled in the image ‘Hobart Town, 9th August 1848 / W.S.E.’, carte de visite format, 105 x 63 mm (mount), verso with imprint of ‘T. Duryea, Artist & Photographer, by Appointment, 66 & 68 King William St., Adelaide / Prize Medal, Universal Exhibition 1867’; both the …
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# 15754
PLIMER, Nathaniel, 1757-1822, attributed
A portrait miniature of Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Brisbane, sixth Governor of New South Wales, 1821-1825
A fine portrait of a distinguished administrator whose political and social legacies were of immense importance in the shaping of the Colony of New South Wales. Portraits of such significant early Australian figures are of the utmost rarity. [Attributed to Nathaniel Plimer, probably 1803-1804]. Portrait on ivory, in its original nine-carat gold mount, 70 x 53 mm; verso of …
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# 15616
WALLIS, James, Captain, 1785?-1858
An historical account of the Colony of New South Wales and its dependent settlements; in illustration of twelve views, engraved by W. Preston, a convict; from drawings taken on the spot by Captain Wallis, of the Forty-Sixth Regiment. To which is subjoined an accurate map of Port Macquarie, and the newly discovered River Hastings, by J. Oxley, Esq. Surveyor General to the Territory.
One of Australia’s finest early plate books, coloured by a skilled hand to striking effect. London : R. Ackermann, 1821. Folio, half crushed morocco over marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt, lacking the half-title, pp [iv] (with the “Extract from the Sidney Gazette“); 42, followed by 12 engraved plates of views (six are double page) and a …
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# 14854
ROSS, James (1786-1838)
The Hobart Town Gazette (complete run of issues for the year 1828)
Hobart : James Ross, Government Printer, 1828. A complete run of 52 issues for the year 1828: vol. XIII, no. 608, January 5, 1828 – vol. XIII, no. 659, December 27, 1828. Large quarto, bound in contemporary blue-papered boards with manuscript dates to front and spine; most issues [4] pp; some issues with supplement (Government …
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# 14853
ROSS, James (1786-1838)
The Hobart Town Gazette (complete run of issues for the year 1829)
Hobart : James Ross, Government Printer, 1829. A complete run of 50 issues for the year 1829: vol. XIV, no. 660, January 3, 1829 – vol. XIV, no. 709, December 26, 1829. Large quarto, bound in contemporary blue-papered boards with manuscript dates to front and spine; most issues [4] pp; some issues with supplement (Government …
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# 14857
ROSS, James (1786-1838)
The Hobart Town Gazette (virtually complete run of issues for the year 1834)
Hobart : James Ross and George Howe, Government Printers, 1834. A run of 49 issues for 1834: vol. XIX, no. 919, January 10, 1834 – vol. XIX, no. 968, December 18, 1834 (missing nos. 918; 928; 969). Quarto, all issues stitch bound, various paginations; a number of issues with supplements (Government acts); some issues with …
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# 14856
ROSS, James (1786-1838)
The Hobart Town Gazette (complete run of issues for the year 1835)
Hobart : James Ross and George Howe, Government Printers, 1835. A complete run of 52 issues for 1835: vol. XX, no. 970, January 1, 1835 – vol. XIX, no. 1021, December 25, 1835. Quarto, all issues stitch bound, various paginations; a number of issues with supplements (Government acts); some issues with subscriber's name [H.B. Fortesse] …
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# 14855
ROSS, James (1786-1838)
The Hobart Town Gazette (a virtually complete run of issues for the year 1837)
Hobart : James Ross and George Howe, Government Printers, 1837. A virtually complete run of 51 issues for 1837: vol. XXII, no. 1075, January 6, 1837 – vol. XXII, no. 1126, December 29, 1837 (missing no. 1078; but including the “Extraordinary issue” of July 11 1837). Quarto, all issues stitch bound, various paginations; a number …
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# 14850
LEWIN, John William, 1770-1819
A natural history of the birds of New South Wales, collected, engraved and faithfully painted after nature. By John William Lewin, A.L.S., late of Paramatta, New South Wales. New and improved edition, to which is added a list of the synonymes of each species, incorporating the labours of T. Gould, Esq., N. A. Vigors, Esq., T. Horsfield, M.D., and W. Swainson, Esq.
A fine example, in original condition, of one of the rarest illustrated works of Australian natural history. London : Henry H. Bohn, 1838. Folio, original publisher’s binding of quarter crushed morocco, spine lettered in gilt ‘Lewin’s Birds of New Holland’, green cloth covered boards, yellow endpapers, pp [iv], 26 etched plates with original gouache hand-colouring, …
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# 15627
MARSH, S[tephen] H[ale] (1805 1888)
[SHEET MUSIC] Dr. Leichhardt’s March, for the piano, composed on the successful termination of his Expedition, after having traversed a distance of nearly 3000 miles through a portion of Australia, hitherto untrodden by civilized man, by his friend, S. H. March.
London : T. Boosey & Co., [circa 1846]. Folio, lithographed title page [verso blank] with a scene of the expedition drawn by W. Boosey, slip cancel “for the piano” replacing “for the harp” (as in other copies); pp [1 blank], 2-5, [1 blank]; four leaves in total; occasional foxing, paper spine; a very good copy of this …
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# 15436
GIBSON, Andrew Lucian (Scotland, 1796 - "Tirranna", near Goulburn, 1840)
Sketches made during the Napoleonic Wars and later (c.1815-1821), by military surgeon Dr. Andrew Gibson, founder of Tirranna station near Goulburn, New South Wales
Nine leaves removed from a small early nineteenth century sketchbook, trimmed to various dimensions up to 160 x 100 mm, eight with watercolour and pencil vignettes and manuscript captions in ink, one with manuscript bearing the artist’s name, ‘Andrew Lucian Gibson’, laid down on a later nineteenth century backing sheet, 380 x 320 mm; in very good condition, with some mild …
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# 15512
BANK OF VAN DIEMEN'S LAND; [KELLY, James, 1791-1859]
Bank of Van Diemen’s Land cashier’s cheque, Ten Pounds Sterling in favour of James Kelly, 1829
’16th May 1829. Pay to Self for house or Bearer the sum of Ten Pounds Sterling and place the same to Account of James Kelly [signatory]’; 94 x 175 mm, clean and legible. James Kelly (1791-1859), whaler and sealer, pilot and harbourmaster at Hobart Town, is known as the ‘father and founder of whaling’ in Tasmania (see entry on …
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# 15798
BLOCKLEY, John (composer); NORTON, Caroline Sheridan
[SHEET MUSIC] Love not : a ballad / the music composed by J. Blockley ; the poetry selected from The soorows of Rosalie, written by The Honble. Mrs Norton.
Sydney : G. Hudson & Co., 377 Pitt Street North, [1849, or earlier]. Folio, disbound, with later paper spine, engraved cover with calligraphic lettering in a variety of fonts, 5 pp of music notation; a very good copy. A scarce Sydney sheet music imprint from the pre-gold rush period. Only two copies of this edition are recorded in Australian …
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# 15361
A letterpress description of the views of Sydney in 1810.
Sydney: William Dymock, Book Arcade, 1884. Quarto, self-wrappers, pp. 6, lithographed map ‘A new plan of the settlements in New South Wales, taken by order of Government. July 20th 1810’ (unfolded and thus discoloured the right portion). Letterpress description of the Dymock facsimile of the rare 1810 John Eyre views of Sydney, originally issued with the …
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# 15965
CORTAMBERT, Richard
[QUEENSLAND] Eliza Fraser : a brief account of her shipwreck, ordeal and rescue
[article in] La Science pour tous : journal illustré paraissant tous les jeudis. 8e Année – No 2. 18 décembre 1862. Quarto, disbound, [pp 17-24, double columns], illustrated. A single issue of this weekly journal which contains a review (single column) by the French writer Richard Cortambert of the recently published book of narratives of …
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# 13862
Parliament of Great Britain
World sea voyage journey times and seamen’s voyage rations
By the Commissioners for managing and causing to be levied and collected HIs Majesty’s Customs and other Duties 23d November 1832. [Great Britain : Parliament, 1833]. Quarto, disbound from a volume of H.M. Customs General Orders for 1833, [pp 12], with ink annotations. Contains a list of foreign goods that can be shipped duty free and …
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# 14834
Tench, Captain Watkin (1758-1833)
A narrative of the expedition to Botany Bay;
with an account of New south Wales, its production, inhabitants, &c. To which is subjoined, a list of the civil and military establishments at Port Jackson. London : J. Debrett, 1789. Second edition. Octavo, half-calf over marbled boards, spine in compartments with gilt fleurons, gilt lettered morocco title label, pp [xii, including the half-title], 146, …
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# 14833
Tuckey, James Kingston (1776-1816)
An account of a voyage to establish a colony at Port Philip in Bass’s Strait,
on the South Coast of New South Wales : in His Majesty’s Ship Calcutta, in the years 1802-3-4 / by J. H. Tuckey, Esq. First Lieutenant of the Calcutta. London : Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme; and J.C. Mottley, 1805. First edition. Octavo, original polished calf, gilt-decoration, expertly recased with new spine to style by Aquarius, …
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# 14806
McINTYRE, William (1805-1870); HOWE, Robert Charles (1820-1875), publisher
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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# 14472
[MULGRAVE, Peter Archer, 1778-1847]
The Tasmanian. Volume II, number 56. March 21, 1828. Subscriber copy of P.A. Mulgrave.
Hobart Town : Printed and published by John Campbell MacDougall, at the Tasmanian Office, Elizabeth Street, March 21 1828. Folio newspaper, [4] pp, upper margin of first page with subscriber's name 'P.A. Mulgrave, J.P.' inscribed in ink and 2d newspaper duty stamp in orange; old folds (some tearing along the fold lines); a fragile but …
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# 14604
MARJORIBANKS, Alexander
Travels in New South Wales
London : Smith, Elder & Co., 1847. Duodecimo, publisher's gilt-lettered red cloth (worn, chipped at head of spine), pp. vii; 267, waterstain to read endpapers. As well as much detail on the penal history of the colony, it includes chapters on Aborigines, Women in the colony and the new settlement at Port Phillip. Ferguson 4593
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# 14501
LANG, John Dunmore (1799-1878)
Account of the steps taken, in England, with a view to the establishment of an academical
institution, or college, in New South Wales : and to demonstrate the practicability of effecting an extensive emigration of the industrious classes from the mother country to that colony. Sydney : Printed by Stephens and Stokes, 1831. Octavo, old marbled wrappers, pp 27, first 2 leaves with minor creasing flaws, light foxing, pale water stain …
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# 14178
BURNS, Robert
The poetical works of Robert Burns
Printed for the booksellers in Australia. 1832. Octavo, modern half-morocco, lithographed title page [with vignette images of Tam O'Shanter and Souter Johnny, “His ancient trusty drouthy crony”] and frontispiece [“from Taylor's authenticate picture”], pp ix; [blank]; xiv; 284; 23 [glossary]. According to Gibson (Bibliography of Robert Burns …, Kilmarnock, 1881) the text is the 1813 …
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# 14120
RUMSEY, Herbert
The Pioneers of Sydney Cove.
With decorations by James Emery. Sydney : Sunnybrook Press, 1937. Quarto, gilt-lettered boards in dustjacket (fine), pp. 121, line illustrations, original card slipcase Limited to 150 numbered copies signed by the author and publisher. A near perfect copy.
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# 12366
[HENTY, Henry, 1833-1912]
First settlers in Victoria
(Reprinted from the “Mission Field,” of Jan. 1, 1883). A significant association copy inscribed by Henry Henty, nephew of pioneer Port Phillip settler Edward Henty: “The Henty Family – Presented to the Club by Henry Henty”. Octavo, disbound, pp 7; foxed throughout. Transcript of an address describing the establishment of the Portland Bay settlement. Originally …
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# 13989
WELLS, William Henry
A geographical dictionary ; or a gazetteer of the Australian colonies:
their physical and political geography, together with a brief notice of all the capitals, principal towns, and villages; also of rivers, bays, gulfs, mountains, population and general statistics. Illustrated with numerous maps and drawings. Sydney : W. & F. Ford, 1848. Octavo, patterned cloth (worn), printed label to spine and map to front board, pen …
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# 13970
The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (facsimile edition limited to 100 copies, 1899)
Reproduced by authority of the Trustees of the Public Library of New South Wales, 1899. Angus & Robertson, 1899. Folio, half-crushed morocco over cloth (a few marks), lettered in gilt to the spine, bookplate from the W. R. Griffiths collection to front pastedown, unpaginated, foxing to edges, photo-lithographed by Vincent Brooks, Day & Sons of …
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# 13461
RAYMOND, James (compiler)
The New South Wales Calendar and General Post Office Directory, 1833
[Sydney] : [Stephens & Stokes], [1832 or 1833]. Octavo, original half morocco over marbled boards, rebacked, preserving the original gilt decorated backstrip; front pastedown with early binder's label of William Moffitt, King Street, Sydney, and twentieth century bookplate; front free-endpaper with a presentation inscription from the Sydney shipping agents Messrs. Aspinall, Brown & Co., Sydney …
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# 13940
RICHARDS, Thomas
New South Wales in 1881 :
Being a brief statistical and descriptive account of the colony up to the end of the year, extracted chiefly from official records. Sydney : Thomas Richards, 1882. Second issue. Octavo, printed blue wrappers (chipped), pp. v; 144; 19 (advertisements), folding tables and map.
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# 13929
BARKLY, Henry Sir (1815-1898)
Royal Society of Victoria. President’s inaugural address for 1860.
[Cover title]. Also titled: President's inaugural address for 1860 / delivered by His Excellency Sir Henry Barkly … to the members of the Royal Society of Victoria at the anniversary dinner held on the 10th April, 1860. [Melbourne : The Society, 1860]. Octavo, string bound pamphlet, 17 pp, a fine copy. Includes reference to Burke …
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# 13491
[PORTER, Sarah]
Alfred Dudley; or, the Australian settlers
London : Harvey and Darton, n.d. [c. 1836]. Second edition. Duodecimo, gilt-illustrated cloth (spine sunned), all edges gilt, early owner's inscription to front free endpaper, engraved frontispiece (foxed); pp. 196. The second edition of what is referred to the first novel set in Australia, drawing largely from Dawson's 'The Present State of Australia'. Ferguson 1313; …
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# 13591
BONWICK, James
John Batman, the founder of Victoria (Presentation copy inscribed for Redmond Barry)
Melbourne : Fergusson and Moore, 1868. Second edition. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the front free-endpaper for “His Honour Sir Redmond Barry”. Small octavo, original blind embossed green cloth with gilt lettering to upper board, front pastedown with armorial bookplate of John McMahon and bookplate of John Chapman tipped in, pp 105, [2] …
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# 13492
Prévost, abbé, 1697-1763
Histoire générale des voyages,
ou, Nouvelle collection de toutes les relations de voyages par mer et par terre, qui ont été publiées jusqu'à présent dans les différentes langues de toutes les nations connues … Tome Quarante-deuxie'me. A Paris : Chez Didot, 1753. [Volume 42]. Octavo, contemporary full calf, spine with raised bands, gilt ornament and contrasting leather title and …
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# 13473
GOUDIE, James T.
Notes and gleanings [presentation copy]
being leaves from the diary of a voyage to and from Australia and New Zealand in 1893. Edinburgh : R & R Clark for private circulation, 1894. Octavo, half-calf over cloth (rubbed), bookplate to front pastedown, presentation inscription on blank to William Goudie from the author, pp. 168. Includes chapters on each state and the …
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# 13466
HOOD, John
Australia and the East :
Being a journal narrative of a voyage to New South Wales in an emigrant ship : with a residence of some months in Sydney and the bush, and the route home by way of India and Egypt, in the years 1841 and 1842. London : John Murray, 1843. Octavo, publisher's purple cloth (spine faded), bookplate …
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# 13457
FRANKLYN, H. Mortimer
A glance at Australia in 1880, or, Food from the south : showing the present condition
and production of some of its leading industries, namely wool, wine, grain, dressed meat etc. etc. … Melbourne : Victorian Review Publishing Co., 1881. Large octavo, publisher's pictorial cloth (a little rubbed to corners and head and foot of spine), pp xxxii (advertisements), 414, cv (Pastoral and agricultural directory of Victoria, New South Wales, South …
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# 13451
HOWE, George (1769-1821)
The Sydney Gazette, and New South Wales Advertiser. Vols I – II, 1803-1805
91 ISSUES OF THE FIRST AUSTRALIAN NEWSPAPER, FROM ITS FIRST TWO YEARS OF PUBLICATION. Sydney : G. Howe, 1803-05. Two full calf clamshell cases, silk-lined with gilt-lettering, custom made to the highest standard, housing the first two years of issue. Vol. I (No. 1, March 5, 1803 – No. 52, February 26, 1804) : a …
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# 13385
HOWE, George (1769-1821)
Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser. Volume Eight, number 320, February 17, 1810
Folio, disbound; incomplete, being one half of the bifolium only (i.e. the first 2 pages), loss at top edge and along fore-edge resulting in loss of text, in particular at the ends of lines on the first page; creasing, several small perforations with loss of text, paper strengthened in sections. Includes Government and General Orders …
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# 13387
HOWE, George (1769-1821)
Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser. Volume Fifteen, number 723, September 27, 1817.
Folio, disbound, [4] pages, original horizontal fold, two small sections with paper strengthening (tiny loss), a well preserved copy. Includes Government and General Orders issued during the preceding week. The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser was Australia’s first newspaper. The first edition was printed by George Howe (1769-1821) and was issued on March …
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# 13196
HOWE, George (1769-1821)
Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (Volume XVI, 1818, virtually complete)
Vol. XVI, no. 737, January 3, 1818 – vol. XVI, no. 788, December 26, 1818 (omitting no. 750). 51 issues, bound in one volume, folio, contemporary half calf over marbled boards; includes Government and General Orders, 2nd April 1818, reporting the death of Princess Charlotte; no. 785 with supplement; a few issues with subscriber’s name …
