Australia Pre 1850
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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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 50563
VALLANCE, T. G. et al.
Nature’s investigator : the diary of Robert Brown in Australia, 1801-1805
Compiled by T.G. Vallance, D.T. Moore & E.W. Groves. Canberra, ACT : Australian Biological Resources Study (Flora), [2001]. Octavo, laminated pictorial boards, maps to endpapers, previous owner’s name to front free endpaper, pp. xii; 666, illustrations, a fine copy. Scarce. The diary of Robert Brown, naturalist on the ‘Investigator’ voyage of Matthew Flinders, with much …
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# 50550
McCORMICK, Tim
First views of Australia 1788-1825 : an early history of Sydney
Sydney : Longueville Publications, 1987. Edition limited to 2000 copies. Large quarto, publisher’s navy cloth boards lettered in gilt, in illustrated dust jacket, light handling marks and small tear, small stain to fore edge, 340 pp, illustrated throughout (mostly colour plates), introduction by Robert Irving, with biographical notes on the artists, index; a very good …
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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.
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# 50498
MAYNARD, John
True light and shade : an aboriginal perspective of Joseph Lycett’s art
Canberra : National Library of Australia, 2014. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 168, illustrated. Out of print, a fine copy. ‘True light and shade’ is filled with beautiful images by convict artist Joseph Lycett that powerfully capture in intimate detail Aboriginal life, a rare record of Aboriginal people within the vicinity of Newcastle and how they …
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# 50484
GROOM, Linda
First Fleet artist. George Raper’s birds & plants of Australia
Canberra : National Gallery of Australia, 2009. Quarto, illustrated boards, pp. 146, slight sunning to spine. Natural history and topographical art from the First Fleet.
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# 50483
EMMETT, Peter
Fleeting encounters : pictures & chronicles of the First Fleet
Sydney : Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, 1995. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 132, illustrated.
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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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# 50378
BISCHOFF, James
Sketch of the history of Van Diemen’s Land, (Lieutenant-Governor Sir John Eardley Wilmot’s copy)
illustrated by a map of the island, and an account of the Van Diemen’s Land Company. London : John Richardson, 1832. Octavo, original cloth-backed papered boards (scuffed and edge-worn) with printed title label to spine; front free-endpaper with the ownership signature of Sir John Eardley Wilmot (1783-1847), Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen’s Land 1843-1846; frontispiece engraving …
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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 …