Australia Pre 1850

# 30755

[GREAT BRITAIN. PARLIAMENT] SPEARMAN, A. Y. and Charles GRANT, 1st Baron GLENELG

[CONVICTS] Police Establishment at Port Macquarie.

Despatch from the Right Honorable Lord Glenelg to His Excellency Sir George Gipps, stating that the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury do not disapprove of the increase of the Police Establishment at Port Macquarie, but suggest the apportionment of the expence [sic] between the Colonial and Convict Funds. No.3. Downing Street, 14th October, 1837 … …

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# 28919

Artist unknown.

[PORT PHILLIP] No. 1 Nelson’s Place, Williams Town. June 1840.

Ink on paper, 122 x 270 mm; unsigned, but with artist’s manuscript caption lower left ‘No. 1 Nelson’s Place, Williams Town. June 1840’; scattered light foxing and toning, old central verical fold line, mild creasing at upper left corner and right edge; verso with a later manuscript note in pencil ‘Please [xxxxx] without fail for W. …

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# 29749

LOVEGROVE, Austin

Images of an Australian enlightenment : the story of Lachlan and Elizabeth Macquarie’s treatment of the convicts as a history tale for today.

London : Unicorn, [2019]. Small quarto (245 x 200 mm), publisher’s cloth backed pictorial boards with a specially commissioned design by Indigenous artist Rosella Namok; 272 pp, extensively illustrated, with Notes, Select Bibliography and Index; a new copy. ‘This is the story of two Scots: Lachlan Macquarie, governor of the British colony of New South …

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# 28414

LANG, John Dunmore (1799-1878)

Account of the steps taken, in England, with a view to the establishment of an academic institution, or college, in New South Wales

: and to demonstrate the practicability of effecting an extensive emigration of the industrious classes from the mother country to that colony. Sydney : Printed by Stephens and Stokes, 1831. Octavo, old marbled wrappers, pp 27; first 2 leaves with minor creasing flaws, light foxing, pale water stain to top edges; a good copy. A …

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# 26875

TILLY, Onora (1773-1857)

Letter to Port Phillip pioneer Charles Parker Tilly from his mother in Falmouth, Cornwall. Dated 9 July, 1839.

[Entire letter]. Manuscript in ink written on 3 sides of a small quarto bifolium (230 x 185 mm); the outer side is addressed Mr. Charles Tilly, care of Messrs Welsh Eddy & Co. Merchants, Launceston, Van Diemen’s Land; the letter itself is headed Tremough, July 9th 1839, is addressed to My Beloved Children and is signed at …

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# 11262

MUIR, Thomas (1765-1799) [HAMILTON, George]

The telegraph; a consolatory epistle : from Thomas Muir, Esq. of Botany Bay,

to the Hon. Henry Erskine, late Dean of Faculty. [Edinburgh? : s.n., 1796]. Quarto, disbound, pp 11, [1], front with manuscript note in pencil referring to Muir’s handwriting and Hunter’s Hill, dated 1820, old horizontal fold throughout, otherwise a good copy. One of three variant quarto editions, this being the issue with signature B on page …

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# 23407

AUSTRALIAN COLLEGE. COUNCIL.

First report of the council of the Australian College.

Sydney : Printed by Horatio Wills for the executors of R. Howe, 1832. Small octavo, original blue paper wrappers, 8 pp, a fine, original copy. Ferguson, 1508. The Australian College for boys was established in Sydney by the Reverend John Dunmore Lang in November 1831. The Presbyterian teaching staff were recruited from Scottish universities, and …

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# 22531

PRAED, Winthrop Mackworth (1802-1839)

Australasia : a poem which obtained the Chancellor’s Medal at the Cambridge commencement, July 1823

[Cambridge : s.n., 1823]. Octavo, plain blue wrappers (edges chipped, label of J. O. Edwards inside upper wrapper), pp. 14; [2], stitchbound, occasional slight foxing, else very good. The Chancellor’s Gold Medal is the premier prize for poetry at Cambridge University. It was founded in 1813, and is an annual event, with each poem being …

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# 19215

COLQUHOUN, Patrick (1745-1820)

[TRANSPORTATION] Traité sur la police de Londres

contenant le détail des crimes et délits qui se commettent dans cette capitale, et indiquant les moyens de les prévenir….Traduit de l’Anglais sur la sixième édition. Paris : Léopold Collin, 1807. Two volumes octavo, contemporary red half calf over red boards (rubbed), spines with gilt numbers, decoration and stamped title labels, pastedowns and free endpapers …

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# 16352

[LANG, John, 1816-64]

[FISHER’S GHOST] Une cause célèbre en Australie. L’esprit.

IN: L’ami de la maison, Paris : Paulin et Le Chevalier, vol. 1 no 11, March 20 1856, pp161-67 and vol. 1 no. 12, March 27 1856, pp177-82, each part with 3 engraved illustrations; contained within a bound volume of nos. 1-25 (the complete first volume), January-June 1856, quarto, contemporary quarter calf over marbled papered …

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# 15882

[HAMILTON, George]

Experiences of a colonist forty years ago; a journey from Port Phillip to South Australia in 1839 and a voyage from Port Phillip to Adelaide in 1846.

By an old hand. With illustrations. Adelaide : J. Williams, 1880. Octavo, gilt-lettered red cloth, blue endpapers with previous owner’s name neatly inscribed, photographic frontispiece, pp. [viii]; 84; 79; [1]; 23; two photographic plates reproducing four painted scenes, Second edition, the first with photographic illustrations. Ferguson 10184; Holden 49

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# 15798

BLOCKLEY, John (composer); NORTON, Caroline Sheridan

[SHEET MUSIC] Love not : a ballad / the music composed by J. Blockley ; the poetry selected from The soorows of Rosalie, written by The Honble. Mrs Norton.

Sydney : G. Hudson & Co., 377 Pitt Street North, [1849, or earlier]. Folio, disbound, with later paper spine, engraved cover with calligraphic lettering in a variety of fonts, 5 pp of music notation; a very good copy. A scarce Sydney sheet music imprint from the pre-gold rush period. Only two copies of this edition are recorded in Australian …

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# 13862

Parliament of Great Britain

World sea voyage journey times and seamen’s voyage rations

By the Commissioners for managing and causing to be levied and collected HIs Majesty’s Customs and other Duties 23d November 1832. [Great Britain : Parliament, 1833]. Quarto, disbound from a volume of H.M. Customs General Orders for 1833, [pp 12], with ink annotations. Contains a list of foreign goods that can be shipped duty free and …

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# 12925

READING, James; SANDOE, Francis

Colonial literary journal and weekly miscellany of useful information. Vol. 1 no. 19 October 31 1844

Sydney : Printed and published by James Reading and Francis Sandoe, at the General Printing Office, 1844. Quarto newspaper, front with decorative masthead, pp 289-304; text in double columns; occasional toning and light staining, but a good copy. Ferguson, 3809. The Colonial literary journal was a short-lived periodical published weekly in Sydney between June, 1844 …

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# 12924

READING, James; SANDOE, Francis

Colonial literary journal and weekly miscellany of useful information. Vol. 1 no. 18 October 24 1844

Sydney : Printed and published by James Reading and Francis Sandoe, at the General Printing Office, 1844. Quarto newspaper, front with decorative masthead, pp 273-288; text in double colums; occasional toning, but a good copy. Ferguson, 3809. The Colonial literary journal was a short-lived periodical published weekly in Sydney between June, 1844 (vol. 1, no. …

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# 13086

GREAT BRITAIN. POST OFFICE.

[AUSTRALIAN MAILS] Post Office Circular. Monday, August 23, 1875

[s.l.] : [s.n.], 1875. Folio broadsheet, printed on both sides; includes an announcement regarding Homeward Australian Mails: “The Australian Mails via Brindisi, due in London on Monday the 30th August, having missed the junction with the proper Packet at Point de Galle, will be a fortnight late. They may be expected in London on Monday, …

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