Voyages & Exploration

  • First views of Australia 1788-1825 : an early history of Sydney

    # 44260

    McCORMICK, Tim

    First views of Australia 1788-1825 : an early history of Sydney

    Sydney : Longueville Publications, 1987. Edition limited to 2000 copies. Large quarto, publisher’s navy cloth boards lettered in gilt, in illustrated dust jacket, light handling marks, light foxing to preliminaries, 340 pp, illustrated throughout (mostly colour plates), introduction by Robert Irving, with biographical notes on the artists, index; a very good copy of this important …

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  • Charlie Mike Charlie : a true adventure story (from the library of Criss Canning)

    # 44250

    CANNING, Clive

    Charlie Mike Charlie : a true adventure story (from the library of Criss Canning)

    Melbourne : C. J. Publications, 1978. First edition. Octavo, boards in illustrated dustjacket, pp x; 176; illustrated. A fine copy. Clive Canning flew to England and back in 1976 in a Thorp T-18 he built himself, narrowly avoiding being shot down by MIG fighters over Syrian airspace. Signed by the author’s daughter, noted Australian artist …

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  • European vision and the South Pacific 1768-1850 (Russell Drysdale's copy, signed by artist and author)

    # 44121

    SMITH, Bernard

    European vision and the South Pacific 1768-1850 (Russell Drysdale’s copy, signed by artist and author)

    A study in the history of art and ideas. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1960. First edition. Quarto, publisher’s navy cloth over boards, in dust jacket (chipped, sunned and worn), 287 pp, with 171 b/w plates; internally very clean and sound, a good copy of the scarce first edition. Signed on the title page by …

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  • Early artists of Australia (presentation copy for Russell Drysdale)

    # 44120

    RIENITS, Rex and Thea

    Early artists of Australia (presentation copy for Russell Drysdale)

    Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1963. Quarto, cloth in illustrated dustjacket (light edge wear, chips to head and foot of spine, a little more than evident in the photo), patterned endpapers,, pp. x; 246, illustrated. A good copy. Presentation copy, signed and inscribed from the authors ‘Maisie and Tass with lots of love from Rex …

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  • [WHALING] Pratique de la pèche de la baleine dans les mers du sud.

    # 43311

    LECOMTE, Jules

    [WHALING] Pratique de la pèche de la baleine dans les mers du sud.

    Paris : Lecointe et Pougin, 1833. First edition. Octavo (225 x 145 mm), original yellow wrappers lettered in black, the upper wrapper with a presentation inscription from the author to his friend: ‘offert par l’auteur a son ami Edouard Launet(?)’; title-page with vignette engraving of a a whaling scene, pp. xvi, 280; text in French; …

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  • A sequel to Barrington's Voyage to New South Wales,

    # 42879

    BARRINGTON, George (falsely attributed)

    A sequel to Barrington’s Voyage to New South Wales,

    comprising an interesting narrative of the Transactions and Behaviour of the Convicts; the Progress of the Colony; an Official Register of the Crimes, Trials, Sentences, and Executions that have taken place; a Topographical, Physical, and Moral Account of the Country, Manners, Customs &c. of the Natives, as likewise Authentic Anecdotes of the most Distinguished Characters, and Notorious Convicts that have been Transported …

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  • James Bonwick, colonial historian and archivist : cut signature, with a brief inscription.

    # 43899

    BONWICK, James (1817-1906)

    James Bonwick, colonial historian and archivist : cut signature, with a brief inscription.

    [undated, but after 1865]. Autograph signature in ink, on piece (42 x 180 mm): ‘Yours truly, James Bonwick’; cut from the foot of a letter, the last part of which reads: ‘… Secretary & Assistant Secretary for the honour conf[erred] ..’, and with a postscript which reads: ‘In my little leisure, I am working up …

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  • Voyages et naufrages curieux en Océanie.

    # 41879

    DELATTRE, Charles

    Voyages et naufrages curieux en Océanie.

    Paris ; Limoges : Martial Ardent, 1850. Octavo (187 x 11 3 mm), publisher’s original embossed cloth over boards gilt (corners worn, spine with small loss at head and with loss to cloth at tail), front paste-down with original owner’s name, lithographed frontispiece with ethnic types of the Americas and Oceania (including natives of the …

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  • Sake Dean Mahomed : surgeon, traveller, introducer of Indian cuisine and shampoo to Europe, and the first Indian to publish a book in English : cut signatures in Roman and Arabic script, dated at Horsham (West Sussex), 22 July 1841.

    # 41661

    DEAN MAHOMED [DIN MAHOMED] (1759–1851)

    Sake Dean Mahomed : surgeon, traveller, introducer of Indian cuisine and shampoo to Europe, and the first Indian to publish a book in English : cut signatures in Roman and Arabic script, dated at Horsham (West Sussex), 22 July 1841.

    Manuscript in ink on paper, 50 x 118 mm; mounted on a section cut from a nineteenth-century album leaf, along with an accompanying cutting, in a different hand, recording the place and date the signatures were obtained: Horsham, July 22nd 1841 (Horsham is just 18 miles from Brighton, where Dean Mahomed lived from 1814 until …

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  • [ADELAIDE PRESENTATION BINDING] Pictures from the German Fatherland drawn with pen and pencil

    # 44017

    GREEN, Rev. Samuel G.

    [ADELAIDE PRESENTATION BINDING] Pictures from the German Fatherland drawn with pen and pencil

    London : The Religious Tract Society, [c.1880]. Folio, fine presentation binding of full Prussian blue leather, ruled in gilt, spine in compartments with raised bands and gilt ornament, contrasting morocco title label lettered in gilt, gilt illustration and motto of Prince Alfred College, Adelaide to upper board; marbled edges and endpapers, presentation prize label from …

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  • Endeavour voyage : the untold stories of Cook and the first Australians

    # 42547

    COATES, Ian (editor)

    Endeavour voyage : the untold stories of Cook and the first Australians

    Canberra, ACT : National Museum Of Australia, 2020. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 200, illustrated. ‘The Story of Cook and 1770 marks the first moment of British contact with the east coast of the continent we now know as Australia. It is one of our nation’s origin stories, although remembered very differently by Anglo-Australians and by …

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  • Granville Stapylton : Australia Felix 1836 : second in command to Major Mitchell

    # 43721

    ECCLESTON, Gregory C.

    Granville Stapylton : Australia Felix 1836 : second in command to Major Mitchell

    Melbourne : Evandale Publishing, 2018. Oblong quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. xix; 250; 46 pages of plates, a fine, new copy. “Granville Stapylton Australia Felix 1836 Second-in-command to Major Mitchell is based on the true journals of the pioneer land surveyor Granville Stapylton when he accompanied Major Thomas Mitchell on the famous ‘Australia Felix’ expedition …

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  • Exploration of Unknown New Guinea.

    # 43284

    TAYLOR, J. L. ("Jim")

    Exploration of Unknown New Guinea.

    Published in four issues of Pacific Islands Monthly (Sydney, NSW), Vol. X, Nos. 8-11, March-June 1940. No. 8, Section I: pp. 37-42 with 1 map and 3 b/w photos; No. 9, Section II: pp. 37-41 with 1 map; No. 10, Section III: pp. 32-37 with 1 map; No. 11, Section IV: pp. 50-54; the four …

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  • Story of “Southern Cross” Trans-Pacific Flight 1928.

    # 43429

    KINGSFORD-SMITH, C.E. (Charles Edward); ULM, C.T.P. (Charles Thomas Philippe)

    Story of “Southern Cross” Trans-Pacific Flight 1928.

    Sydney : Penlington & Somerville, 1928. First edition. Octavo (185 x 130 mm), publisher’s pictorial blue cloth over boards with design and lettering in silver (edges and corners rubbed, lower joint split, a few marks, softened at head and foot of spine), illustrated endpapers, pp 227, with 68 b/w photographic plates; owner’s stamp to endpaper …

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  • Big Oilman from Arabia

    # 43172

    CHENEY, Michael Sheldon.

    Big Oilman from Arabia

    London :Heinemann, 1958. First edition, first impression. Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth (spine a little dulled, slightly canted, lightly rubbed), maps to endpapers, pp. 320, black and white photographic plates, pale foxing to edges, a very good copy. The author recollects seven years spent with oil and construction firms in Saudi Arabia during a period of rapid …

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  • Art of the Absolons : John Absolon of London & John de Mansfield Absolon in Western Australia 1869-1879 (deluxe edition)

    # 42618

    ZIMMER, Jenny

    Art of the Absolons : John Absolon of London & John de Mansfield Absolon in Western Australia 1869-1879 (deluxe edition)

    Melbourne : Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2020. Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth with pictorial inlay, pp 192, illustrated, in matching slipcase. The deluxe edition, limited to 100 copies signed and numbered by the author. ‘John Absolon was a well-known nineteenth-century London water-colour artist. John de Mansfield Absolon, one of his artist sons, married a daughter of Robert Mace …

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