Australia Pre 1850
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# 46720
GOTT, Ted et al.
Napoleon : revolution to empire
Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 2012. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. xv, 313, illustrated. Includes a chapter on the Baudin Expedition to Australia. ” This panoramic volume tells the story of French art, culture and life from the 1770s to the 1820s: the first French voyages of discovery to Australia, the stormy period of social …
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# 46718
BARRY, John Vincent
Alexander Maconochie of Norfolk Island (signed copy with letter)
A study of a pioneer in penal reform. Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1958. Octavo, cloth in dustjacket, signed by the author on the title page, pp. xxii;277, a fine copy. From the library of noted art historian Ann Galbally. Loosely enclosed, a letter from the author The Hon. Sir John Barry addressed to the …
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# 46706
EVANS, Susanna
Historic Sydney as seen by its early artists
Sydney : Doubleday, 1983. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, spine a little faded, pp. 160, illustrated in colour and black and white. The history of Australia’s first city told through its colonial artists.
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# 46289
THOMAS, Isaac (of Aberdare)
Dychweliad Morgan Bach o Australia : a’i fam (Gwen o’r Gyrnos) yn methu ei adnabod.
[=The return of Morgan Bach from Australia, unrecognisable to his mother (Gwen o’r Gyrnos)]. [Drop title]. [s.l.] : [s.n.], [between 1850 and 1860]. Chapbook ballad. Disbound duodecimo bifolium (155 x 90 mm), printed on all four sides with woodcut vignette of a paddle-steamer at the head of the first side; at the foot of the …
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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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# 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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# 45940
CLUTTERBUCK, James Bennett
Port Phillip in 1849
London : John W. Parker, 1850. Duodecimo, original gilt-lettered green cloth (expertly rebacked, preserving original spine), folding frontispiece map of the colony with hand coloured outline, pp. [vi]; 166; 6 (advertisements), a few spots of foxing to preliminaries, a very good copy. First and only edition of this account of the early settlement of Port …
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# 46506
BATE, Weston (editor)
Liardet’s water-colours of early Melbourne.
Introduction and captions by Susan Adams. Edited by Weston Bate. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press on behalf of the Library Council of Victoria, 1972. First edition. Oblong quarto (230 x 300 mm), linen over boards in illustrated dust jacket; illustrated endpapers, pp. ix, 101; internally very clean, an excellent copy.
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# 46499
TURNER, John
Joseph Lycett. Governor Macquarie’s convict artist.
Newcastle : Hunter History Publications, 1997. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 148, illustrated, light handling marks, a very good copy. A detailed study of Lycett.
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# 43634
Photographer unknown.
Ambrotype portrait of Lady Susannah Wilson (Edmeades) Hindmarsh, wife of the first Governor of South Australia, Sir John Hindmarsh. Taken in England, circa 1856; reframed in Melbourne, 1859.
Quarter-plate ambrotype (wet collodion positive on glass), 100 x 80 mm (sight), in a paper and card mount with oval inset, housed within a colonial gilded timber wall frame with original cover glass (95 x 170 mm); the paper on the back of the frame with an inscription in ink in a refined hand identifying …
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# 22017
BESWICKE, Mabella (née Mayall) (attributed)
Writing case belonging to Mabella Beswicke (Mayall), wife of Port Phillip pioneer Charles Beswicke of Moodie Yallo Station.
[Between 1835 and 1840]. Portable case for writing accessories and paper, of thick card covered with hand-sewn floral-patterned purple velvet trimmed with corduroy, the underside covered in black silk, 220 x 285 x 30 mm (slightly irregular), with four flaps opening to 460 x 460 mm; the exposed card of the interior floor and flaps …
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# 46423
McDONALD, Patricia R.; PEARCE, Barry
The artist and the patron : aspects of colonial art in New South Wales
Sydney : Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1988. Quarto, pictorial wrappers (light handling creases), 187 pp, colour and black and white illustrations, a very good copy. From the library of renowned art historian Ann Galbally, signed by her on the half title.
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# 46421
JONES, John
Robert Dowling. Tasmanian son of Empire (Ann Galbally’s copy)
Melbourne : NGV, 2010. Octavo, illustrated boards, 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 work. Published in conjunction …
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# 46417
DI TOMMASO, Lisa
The art of the First Fleet
Melbourne : Hardie Grant Books, 2012. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, light handling wear, pp. 112, extensively illustrated. Ethnographical and topographical art, zoology and botanical painting from the Natural History Museum, London.
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# 46350
SMITH, Bernard and WHEELER, Alwyne (eds.)
The art of the First Fleet & other early Australian drawings
Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1988. Folio, cloth in dustjacket, pp. 256, illustrated. A significant survey of Australia’s earliest colonial art, including ethnographical studies, natural history drawings, early views of Sydney and New South Wales as well as early maps.
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# 45908
MACPHERSON GRANT, James (1811-1847)
Letter from an aristocratic Scottish squatter to his father, written on “Bendinine”, near Yass, New South Wales, December 1843.
Manuscript in ink, 2 pp, quarto (lacking the first sheet), signed at the foot ‘Your affectionate son, J. Macpherson Grant’; outer wrapper addressed to Sir George Macpherson Grant, Baronet, Edinburgh (but redirected to Ballindalloch), with framed ‘YASS / POST PAID’ in red, and oval ‘PAID SHIP LETTER / SYDNEY’ dated ‘DE 23 1843’ in red; …