Australia Pre 1850
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# 35180
COOPER, John Butler
The history of Malvern from its first settlement to a city (presentation copy)
Compiled by order of the Malvern Council by John Butler Cooper. Melbourne : Specialty Press Pty. Ltd., 1935. Octavo, gilt-lettered imitation leather (slightly marked), top edge gilt, patterned endpapers, pp. xii, 268, photographic plates, presentation inscription from the Secretary, City of Malvern to half-title, internally clean.
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![[TASMANIA] Convict record of Thomas Watson, sentenced at the Gloucester Assizes in August 1833 to 7 years transportation to Van Diemen's Land; arrived on the John Barry, August 1834; remained in penal servitude until July 1845.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/04/13110731/2022_DSFB_2192-300x300.jpg)
# 34735
[COMPTROLLER-GENERAL OF CONVICTS]
[TASMANIA] Convict record of Thomas Watson, sentenced at the Gloucester Assizes in August 1833 to 7 years transportation to Van Diemen’s Land; arrived on the John Barry, August 1834; remained in penal servitude until July 1845.
Single parchment sheet, 300 x 250 mm; manuscript in ink, densely written across 1 1/2 pages, the entries covering the period August 1834 to July 1845, written in many different hands and in different locations in Van Diemen’s Land; the prisoner’s physical description and background are entered in the upper margin recto, and beside it …
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# 34800
[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 …
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![[TASMANIA; POLICE; CONVICTS] Manuscript letter from the Chief Magistrate of Police in Van Diemen's Land, to the Police Magistrate at Richmond, re. directions given by the Colonial Secretary for keeping prisoner records. April 1833.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/04/13113906/2022_DSFB_2218-300x300.jpg)
# 34728
FORSTER, Matthew (1796-1846)
[TASMANIA; POLICE; CONVICTS] Manuscript letter from the Chief Magistrate of Police in Van Diemen’s Land, to the Police Magistrate at Richmond, re. directions given by the Colonial Secretary for keeping prisoner records. April 1833.
Foolscap folio, 320 x 200 mm, manuscript in ink on laid paper watermarked ‘J. Whatman Turkey Mill 1828’, 2 pages; written in a clerical hand and signed at the foot ‘M. Forster, CPM’ (Matthew Forster, Chief Police Magistrate), headed ‘Circular. Police Office, Hobart, 23rd April 1833’, addressed to ‘The Police Magistrate, Richmond’ (William Thomas Parramore); …
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![[TASMANIA; POLICE; CONVICTS] Manuscript letter from William H. Ellis, Hobart Town, to the Chief Magistrate of Police of Van Diemen's Land, seeking reimbursement for providing a member of the convict Field Police with clothing. April 1831.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/04/13113925/2022_DSFB_2224-300x300.jpg)
# 34722
ELLIS, William H.; SHALVEY, James; GORDON, James (1779-1842)
[TASMANIA; POLICE; CONVICTS] Manuscript letter from William H. Ellis, Hobart Town, to the Chief Magistrate of Police of Van Diemen’s Land, seeking reimbursement for providing a member of the convict Field Police with clothing. April 1831.
Foolscap folio, 335 x 210 mm, manuscript in ink on laid paper watermarked ‘Gilling & Alford 1828’; 1 page autograph letter signed by William H. Ellis, headed Hobart Town, 11 August 1831, addressed to James Gordon Esq., Chief Police Magistrate: ‘I most respectfully request you will be pleased to stop from Constable Shalvey’s Salary the …
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![[TRANSPORTATION] An Act for the effectual Transportation of Felons and other Offenders ; and to authorize the Removal of Prisoners in certain Cases ; and for other Purposes therein mentioned.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/04/13113842/2022_DSFB_2211-300x300.jpg)
# 34739
[GREAT BRITAIN. PARLIAMENT]
[TRANSPORTATION] An Act for the effectual Transportation of Felons and other Offenders ; and to authorize the Removal of Prisoners in certain Cases ; and for other Purposes therein mentioned.
[Drop-head title with coat of arms at head of text]. London : Printed by Charles Eyre and William Strahan, 1784. Foolscap folio, 320 x 200 mm, disbound, pp 907-919, [1 blank], [1 colophon], [1 blank]; first leaf with toning to bottom margin, else a fine copy. The Transportation, etc. Act 1784 (24 Geo. 3 c. …
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# 23510
EVANS, George William, (1780-1852)
Voyage a la terre de Van Diemen, ou, Description historique, géographique, et topographique de cette ile.
[Series : Collection des meilleurs voyages modernes, Tome 40]. Paris : Bureau des Annales des Voyages, 1823. Octavo, contemporary blue paper wrappers, pp. [iv – prospectus for Ternaux-Compans’ Archives des voyages], 187; [2 – catalogue for Librairie de Gide Fils, with an advertisement for this title], folding frontispiece plate with engraving of Hobart by Engelmann, large …
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![[TASMANIA; WINE] Entire letter sent from Circular Head to Launceston, August 27 1847, regarding the purchase of port wine.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2017/11/21164456/2017_DSFB_5075-300x300.jpg)
# 17105
[TASMANIA; WINE] Entire letter sent from Circular Head to Launceston, August 27 1847, regarding the purchase of port wine.
Manuscript in ink, single folio sheet, 370 x 235 mm, folded, headed ‘Circular Head, August 27 1847’, signed at the foot ‘Yours truly, W. [Shepman?]’; outer side addressed to ‘W. Johnstone Esq. Launceston’ and endorsed ‘[Per] “Mercury”‘ / Paid’; old loss at 2 corners, small perforation from letter spike, but the letter itself is complete …
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![[TARIFFS] An Act to continue, until the First Day of January [1824], an Act ... relating to imposing and levying Duties in New South Wales ; to authorise the imposing and levying other Duties on Goods imported into the said Colony ; and to suspend, for Ten Years, the Payment of Duty on the Importation of certain Goods of Produce of New South Wales. 30th July 1822.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/04/13113838/2022_DSFB_2209-300x300.jpg)
# 34743
[GREAT BRITAIN. PARLIAMENT]
[TARIFFS] An Act to continue, until the First Day of January [1824], an Act … relating to imposing and levying Duties in New South Wales ; to authorise the imposing and levying other Duties on Goods imported into the said Colony ; and to suspend, for Ten Years, the Payment of Duty on the Importation of certain Goods of Produce of New South Wales. 30th July 1822.
[Drop-head title with coat of arms at head of text]. London : Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1822. Foolscap folio, 305 x 190 mm, disbound, pp 913-918, [2 blank]; a fine copy. ‘For the purpose of tariff fixing, the colony of New South Wales made up all of the modern “Australia” until 1825. …
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# 35143
CRAIG, Clifford
Old Tasmanian prints : prepared in Great Britain, Europe and on the mainland of Australia
Launceston : Foot & Playsted, 1964. Edition limited to 1000 numbered and signed copies. Large octavo, pictorial cloth boards, colour frontispiece, xii, 349 pp, illustrated with 81 plates (7 colour), endpapers slightly browned, a very good copy.
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# 34500
PARTINGTON, JAMES Edge (1854 - 1930)
Books, maps and pictures relating to Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific. A catalogue of the library of the late James Edge Partington.
London : Francis Edwards, 1934, Two volumes, octavo, bound in library buckram without the wrappers, pp. [iv]; 94; [ii]; 96 – 178; xvii, catalogue of 2682 rare books, maps and pictures, with index and black and white illustrations. The library of of one of the great collectors of Australia and the Pacific. A very good …
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# 34100
BUTLER, Roger
Printed: images in colonial Australia 1801 – 1901
Canberra : National Gallery of Australia, 2007. Quarto, pictorial boards in dustjacket, pp. 294, colour illustrations, a fine copy. “Printed Images in Colonial Australia 1801-1901” is concerned with the history of printmaking in Australia’s foundational period. This book’s 377 images, many of them exceedingly rare or long overlooked, are presented alongside Roger Butler’s original research …
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# 33205
FAWKNER, John Pascoe
The Melbourne Advertiser, Port Phillip, Australia
Written for and published by Jn. P. Fawkner. Monday, January the 8th. 1838. Melbourne. Vol. 1, No. 2. [Melbourne : s. n., circa 1860]. Foolscap folio, pp. [4], photolithographic facsimile, edges chipped, old folds and tape stains to a tear, edges chipped and brittle. Early facsimile of Melbourne’s first newspaper, originally circulated in manuscript form only. …
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# 32325
WESTALL, William (1781-1850)
William Westall, voyage artist: autograph receipt for the sale a drawing for Mrs. Haldimand, dated 31 October 1826.
Manuscript in ink on laid paper, 75 x 180 mm; dated ‘Oct. 31st 1826’, the document is written in Westall’s hand and is worded: ‘Recd. of G. J. Robson Esqre. Ten Guineas for a Drawing for Mrs. Haldimand. [Signed] W. Westall. / £10.10’; blind stamped at left margin ‘Receipt Three Pence’; clean and complete. Rare …
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# 32756
RAE, John (1813 - 1900)
Gleanings from my scrap-book (presentation copy)
Third series. Sydney : Printed by the Author, 1874. Octavo, half-crushed morocco over marbled papered boards, spine in compartments lettered in gilt, edges dyed red, presentation inscription to preliminary blank to Joseph James Phelps, Member of the NSW Legislative Assembly ‘J. J. Phelps Esq. M. P. with the author’s compliment 2 August 1875’, double page lithographed …
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# 31733
GREGORY, Benjamin (1820 - 1900); POWELL, Walter (1822 - 1868)
The thorough business man : memoirs of Walter Powell, merchant, Melbourne and London
London : Wesleyan Conference Office, 1879. Sixth edition. Octavo, gilt-lettered green cloth (rubbed and marked), lacks the front free endpaper, pp. viii, 382, portrait frontispiece, internally clean. Autobiography of the English born Wesleyan businessman, influential in Melbourne commerce and one of the Founders of Wesley College, Melbourne, in 1866.