Australia Pre 1850

# 49556

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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# 49532

RIENITS, Rex and Thea

Early artists of Australia

Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1963. Quarto, cloth in illustrated dustjacket (light edge wear, silver fishing), patterned endpapers,, pp. x; 246, illustrated. A good copy. A valuable survey of the first European artworks of the Australian continent, including chapters on Cook’s artists, the First Fleet, Thomas Watling, William Westall, John William Lewin, George William Evans, …

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# 49527

McINTYRE, William (1805-1870); HOWE, Robert Charles (1820-1875), publisher

[SYDNEY] 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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# 47650

[DAY, Henry]

[CONVICT TRANSPORTATION] Henry Day, convicted at the Wallingford General Quarter Sessions, 3 July 1835, of receiving goods under false pretence; sentenced to 7 years transportation.

[Wallingford, Berks. : s.n.], 1835. Transportation order. Folio sheet, 330 x 210 mm, printed recto only, with ms. entries dated 3 July 1835 recording the Court Order that Henry Day be transported for a term of 7 years for the felony of obtaining goods under false pretence; docketed title verso; two original horizontal folds, a …

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# 49396

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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# 48821

HOWE, George (1769-1821)

Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser. Sunday, April 28, 1805. Vol. III, Number 113, together with an example of the signature of George Howe, the printer and publisher

Sydney : George Howe, 1805. Bifolium, quarto, 280 x 222 mm, printed on laid paper, text in 3 columns; original horizontal and vertical folds, insect damage with loss, extensively and comprehensively conserved with gampi (Japanese tissue), presented with a cut signature of George Howe, the printer. Due to its ephemeral nature and tiny circulation numbers, …

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# 48517

WOOD, James

Wood’s Royal Southern Kalendar, Tasmanian Register, and General Australasian & East Indian Official Directory. 1850 :

Launceston : Henry Dowling, 1850. Small octavo (180 x 110 mm), early purple cloth, spine lettered in gilt (sunned); recased with new pastedowns, retaining Walch & Sons binder’s ticket; pp. xiv, [1-25 Kalendar], 26-252, [40 advertisements]; colour plates of Hobart Town and Launceston Signals on pp. 26-7; very clean throughout. Ferguson, 5587

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# 48520

MELVILLE, Henry (editor & publisher)

The Van Diemen’s Land Annual for the year 1834.

Hobart Town : Henry Melville, [1834]. Small octavo (174 x 115 mm), later cloth (marked); engraved title-leaf with vignette of Aborigines, pp. iv, [12 almanac], 11 lithographic plates, 1-242, coloured plate of Signals made at Mulgrave Battery, 243-262 (last blank), [26 advertisements], [2 blank]; occasional spotting, a good copy bound without the View of New Norfolk lithographed …

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# 48521

MELVILLE, Henry

Van Diemen’s Land; comprehending a variety of statistical and other information, likely to be interesting to the emigrant, as well as to the general reader.

Hobart Town : Henry Melville, and London : Smith and Elder, 1833. Small octavo (180 x 110 mm), later green cloth over original brown papered boards; front pastedown with a 19th-century bookplate (surname erased); pp. 1-6, [vii]-xii (last blank), [7]-216, [18 ads., last blank); occasional spotting, a good copy. Ferguson, 1676

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# 48509

ROSS, James (compiler & publisher)

(Ross’s) Hobart Town Almanack, and Van Diemen’s Land Annual for 1835.

Hobart Town : James Ross, [1836]. Small octavo (177 x 108 mm), modern half calf; title with early owner’s name ‘Fletcher’ in pencil, pp. xii, 270, [4 advertisements]; folding chart of D’Entrecasteaux Channel bound at p. 209 (lightly foxed); occasional spotting, a good copy. The last-issued Ross almanac, which includes Ross’s autobiographical account The Settler …

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# 48524

ROSS, James

The Hobart Town Almanack, for the year 1830.

With embellishments. Hobart Town : James Ross, [1830]. 24mo (130 x 90 mm), original green calico (faded and stained), upper board with the initials ‘C. C. H.’ in early manuscript, spine with remnants of printed paper label; front hinge split; front free-endpaper with early ownership inscription of Isabella Robinson, Westbury; engraved frontispiece of The residence …

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# 48513

MELVILLE, Henry (editor & publisher)

The Van Diemen’s Land Almanack, for the year of our Lord 1831; being the third after leap year.

Hobart Town : Henry Melville, 1831. Octavo, contemporary purple pebbled cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt; pp. 263, [1 Errata]; bound without the coloured plate (Signals made at Mulgrave Battery); pastedown with bookplate removed, title with erased stamp; clean throughout. The first Henry Melville almanac. Ferguson, 1491; Wilson, 246

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# 16544

Quirós, Pedro Fernández de [Queirós, Pedro Fernandes de], 1563-1615

Relation Herrn Petri Fernandes de Quir, Spanischen Hauptmans [et]c. So er König. May. in Spanien [et]c. : Von dem new erfundnem vierten theil der Welt (so bissher in Mappis oder Landtafflen Terra Australis incognita genannt) vnd desselben Länder, Reichtumb vnd Fruchtbarkeit u. vbergeben : In Spanischer Sprach zu Pampelona mit dess Koniglichen Raths erlaubnuss getruckt jetzo aber meniglich zu gutem ins Teutsch gebracht.

Augspurg [i.e. Augsburg] : bey Chrysostomo Dabertzhofer, 1611. Small quarto, recent marbled papered wrappers, all edges blue; pp. [2], 9, [1], title-leaf with woodcut printer’s device, engraved headpiece with Jesuit trigram, historiated initial; a fine copy, housed in a custom blind-tooled morocco clamshell box. Rare first German edition of the Eighth Memorial of the explorer …

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# 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, pp. [ii – title leaf], 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 …

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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. [12] (including the half-title), 146; …

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# 48348

COLLINS, David (1756 - 1810)

An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales :

With Remarks on the Dispositions, Customs, Manners, &c. of the Native Inhabitants of that Country. [Together with] An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales from its first Settlement, in January 1788, to August 1801: with Remarks on the Dispositions, Customs, Manners, &c. of the Native Inhabitants of that Country. To which are …

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