Australia Pre 1850

  • Important information relative to New Zealand,

    # 38389

    [WHITE, William]

    Important information relative to New Zealand,

    intended to be an answer to all Inquiries made by those Interested in the occupancy of that country by British Subjects, &c., especially with respect to questions relative to its geography, soil, climate, natural resources, and the validity of titles to lands purchased from the native chiefs by foreigners. Together with an appendix, comprising the …

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  • Cyrille Laplace, French navigator : autograph letter, signed, regarding the published account of his circumnavigation in La Favorite. Toulon, 16 September 1835.

    # 40355

    LAPLACE, Cyrille Pierre Théodore (1793-1875)

    Cyrille Laplace, French navigator : autograph letter, signed, regarding the published account of his circumnavigation in La Favorite. Toulon, 16 September 1835.

    Manuscript in brown ink, 2 pp., octavo (200 x 135 mm), on wove paper watermarked ‘MARION’; headed ‘Toulon, 16 September 1835’, and signed at the foot ‘C. Laplace’, the letter is to an unnamed recipient (but the content makes it clear it is addressed to a representative of the Imprimerie Royale, the publisher of his …

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  • [JORGEN JORGENSON] Jörundar Hundadagakónungur : Ævisaga

    # 38509

    BAKEWELL, Sarah

    [JORGEN JORGENSON] Jörundar Hundadagakónungur : Ævisaga

    Reykjavík: Skrudda, 2005. Octavo (235 x 150 mm), publisher’s blue cloth over boards in pictorial dust jacket, pp 280, b/w plates, map, bibliography, index; text in Icelandic; an as new copy. Icelandic translation of Sarah Bakewell’s The English Dane : a life of Jorgen Jorgenson (London : Chatto & Windus, 2005), which tells – through his own manuscripts and …

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  • Early artists of Australia

    # 38505

    RIENITS, Rex and Thea

    Early artists of Australia

    Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1963. Quarto, cloth in illustrated dustjacket (light edge wear), 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, early Tasmanian …

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  • [SYDNEY] An important letter to Thomas Smyth’s banker in London, regarding a substantial payment he made to David Collins, signed by Collins on the verso.

    # 37336

    [COLLINS] SMYTH, Thomas

    [SYDNEY] An important letter to Thomas Smyth’s banker in London, regarding a substantial payment he made to David Collins, signed by Collins on the verso.

    Autograph letter signed by Thomas Smyth, dated Sydney, 19 March 1795, addressed to his banker in London, John Madden Esq.; manuscript in ink on a single sheet of laid paper, 227 x 183 mm; endorsed and signed on the verso by David Collins; fine. First Fleeter and Provost Marshal Smyth makes a substantial payment to David …

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  • [SYDNEY] Manuscript list of the effects of Third Fleeter Edward Robinson, sold at auction for Samuel Terry by Simeon Lord., January 1821

    # 37340

    TERRY, Samuel (1776-1838)

    [SYDNEY] Manuscript list of the effects of Third Fleeter Edward Robinson, sold at auction for Samuel Terry by Simeon Lord., January 1821

    Two sheets, manuscript in ink to the recto of both, each 245 x 183 mm, wove paper; dated Sydney, 16 January 1821; very good, the second sheet with repair to top edge. Samuel Terry buys up the estate of a Third Fleeter. The present manuscripts are clearly the invoices sent by the auctioneer Simeon Lord regarding the …

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  • The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (facsimile edition limited to 100 copies, 1899)

    # 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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  • Australian rare books 1788 - 1900 (deluxe edition)

    # 37206

    WANTRUP, Jonathan

    Australian rare books 1788 – 1900 (deluxe edition)

    Sydney : Hordern House, 1987. Two volumes, octavo, gilt-lettered cloth, slipcase, vol. 1 pp. x; 168; vol. 2 pp. 32; a fine set. The deluxe edition, each volume limited to 125 copies signed by the author. The deluxe edition is specially bound in slipcase, and includes the additional volume ‘First news from Botany Bay : …

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  • A man of many parts : the life and times of Edward Charles Close, 1790-1866

    # 36935

    BEAUMONT, Ann

    A man of many parts : the life and times of Edward Charles Close, 1790-1866

    Mittagong [N.S.W.] : Highland House Publications, 2016. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, pp. xiv, 172, illustrated. “This lively narrative delves into the private and public worlds of Edward Charles Close, Father of the Hunter and one of the Duke of Wellington’s Men in Australia. Based on extensive use of primary sources in England and Australia, private family …

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  • Early Melbourne paintings

    # 36900

    MORGAN, Gary

    Early Melbourne paintings

    Melbourne : The La Trobe Society and Roy Morgan Research, 2020. Revised edition. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. [58], illustrated. Foreword by Alex Chernov AC QC, Governor of Victoria Self-written and published catalogue of an exhibition of colonial Melbourne paintings at Morgans at 401 in Collins Street, Melbourne, from December 7, 2012 and at Government House, …

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  • [EARLY SYDNEY PRINTING] Receipt for payment of quit rent made to the Crown by Edward Robinson. Sydney, 29 January 1806.

    # 35815

    HOWE, George (1771-1821) (printer)

    [EARLY SYDNEY PRINTING] Receipt for payment of quit rent made to the Crown by Edward Robinson. Sydney, 29 January 1806.

    Sydney, NSW : [George Howe, Government Printer], [printed 1802-06]. Printed in black ink on laid paper, 40 x 98 mm; manuscript date of 29 January 1806, with further clerical entries recording the receipt from Edwd. Robinson of 11 shillings, ‘being the Amount of one Year’s Quit-Rent due to the Crown the 28th of Sept. 1805 …

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  • Official duplicate correspondence re. reimbursement to the Church Missionary Society in Sydney for Rev. James Norman's passage to Tasmania from England. February-October, 1829.

    # 35908

    [NORMAN, James, 1790-1868] SCOTT, Thomas Hobbes, Archdeacon; HILL, Richard, Rev.; ARTHUR, George, Lieutenant-Governor

    Official duplicate correspondence re. reimbursement to the Church Missionary Society in Sydney for Rev. James Norman’s passage to Tasmania from England. February-October, 1829.

    [Sydney, NSW, 1829]. Manuscript in ink, [3] pp, foolscap folio bifolium; in the hand of a CMS clerk; being duplicate copies of three letters, comprising: 1. Sydney, 17 February 1829. Archdeacon Thomas Hobbes Scott, to the Rev. Richard Hill of the CMS, Sydney; 2. Sydney, 26 August 1829. Rev. Richard Hill, to Archdeacon Thomas Hobbes …

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  • A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean, and round the world;

    # 30173

    VANCOUVER, George (1757-1798)

    A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean, and round the world;

    in which the coast of North-West America has been carefully examined and accurately surveyed. Undertaken by his Majesty’s command principally with a view to ascertain the existence of any navigable communication between the North Pacific and North Atlantic Oceans; and performed in the year 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, in the Discovery sloop …

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  • The voyager's companion, or shell collector's pilot;

    # 28427

    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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  • Photographic portrait of John Pascoe Fawkner

    # 16374

    GLENNY, Henry; [CHUCK, Thomas Foster]

    Photographic portrait of John Pascoe Fawkner

    [Circa 1870]. Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 104 x 64 mm (mount), recto and verso with imprint of ‘H. Glenny, Dublin and Melbourne Portrait Rooms, Main Road, Ballarat East, Victoria, Australia’, the posthumously published albumen print taken from the original image by Melbourne photographer Thomas Foster Chuck; in fine condition. John Pascoe Fawkner …

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  • Ralph Rashleigh, or the life of an exile. (Deluxe edition)

    # 27893

    "Giacomo di Rosenberg" (James Tucker)

    Ralph Rashleigh, or the life of an exile. (Deluxe edition)

    Now first published from the original manuscript. Edited with introduction and notes by Colin Roderick, M. A. Sydney and London : Angus and Robertson, 1952. Folio, gilt-lettered quarter crushed morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, London, gilt-decorated cloth, top edge gilt, pictorial map endpapers (signed Mayo), etched frontispiece titled ‘Port Hunter, 1832’ by Geoffrey Ingleton, signed …

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