Tasmania

  • Fourteen ethnographic portraits from the miniature globe 'The world with its inhabitants'

    # 50213

    BAUER, Carl Johann Sigmund, (1780-1857)

    Fourteen ethnographic portraits from the miniature globe ‘The world with its inhabitants’

    [Nuremberg : Bauer, c. 1830]. Concertina paper strip of vignettes of the races of the world, each vignette 55 x 45 mm, coloured by hand, the illustrations cut into sections and laid on an early leaf, perhaps from a scrapbook, with captions in German, including inhabitants from Greenland, Canada, Turkey, Arabia, Persia, China, Kamchatka, Van …

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  • [THYLACINE; GOLD RUSH] Display of gold from the Colony of Victoria at the International Exhibition, London, 1862

    # 40072

    LONDON STEREOSCOPIC & PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPANY

    [THYLACINE; GOLD RUSH] Display of gold from the Colony of Victoria at the International Exhibition, London, 1862

    London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company, 1862. Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, 80 x 80 mm each image (arched format), on yellow mount 84 x 173 mm; recto with printed title: The International Exhibition of 1862: No. 141 – N. E. Transcept, and Australian Gold Case; under magnification, the sign on the case reads: The Stamping Machine / Victoria …

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  • Abbildungen der Bewohner der Erde,

    # 43015

    FEMBO, Christoph (editor and publisher)

    Abbildungen der Bewohner der Erde,

    aus den besten Schriften zusammengestellt … … Nürnberg : Christoph Fembo, 1816. Broadsheet, 610 x 500 mm, copper engraving with original hand colouring; light creasing, some short edge tears and a few expert repairs. A spectacular early nineteenth-century coloured engraving illustrating the traditional costume of peoples of the world. The sixty-six full-length portraits are arranged …

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  • Lang toolroom lathes

    # 9521

    [R.L. MILLIGAN]

    Lang toolroom lathes

    Johnstone, U.K. : John Lang & Sons, Ltd., [c.1938]. Quarto, decorative card covers, front with printed agent's label of R.L. Milligan 68A Collins Street Hobart; 15 pp, illustrated, a good copy.

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  • Universal Grinding Machine Company

    # 9517

    [H.P. GREGORY & CO., LTD.]

    Universal Grinding Machine Company

    Fitchburg, Massachusetts : Universal Grinding Machine Company, 1919. Quarto, pictorial card covers (front detached), front with printed label 'H.P. Gregory & Co., Ltd., 74 Clarence St., Sydney, N.S.W.' and ownership inscription of H.W. Hollus, Instructor in Charge, Technical College, Hobart, Tasmania, 20 pp, illustrated. 

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  • [TASMAN] Reize van Maarten Gerritsz. Vries in 1643 naar het Noorden en Oosten van Japan,

    # 49581

    LEUPE, Pieter Arend (editor); SIEBOLD, Philipp Franz von

    [TASMAN] Reize van Maarten Gerritsz. Vries in 1643 naar het Noorden en Oosten van Japan,

    volgens het journaal gehouden door C.J. Coen, op het schip Castricum … Met de daarbij behoorende kaart en eenige fac-similés, en geographische en ethnographische aanteekeningen, tevens dienende tot een zeemansgids naar Jezo, Krafto en de Kurilen, en stukken over de taal en voortbrengselen der Aino-landen, van Jonkheer P.F. von Siebold.  Amsterdam : Frederik Muller, 1858. …

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  • Relations de divers voyages curieux,

    # 48825

    Thévenot, Melchisédec (1620-1692)

    Relations de divers voyages curieux,

    qui n’ont point esté publiees, ou qui ont esté traduites d’Hacluyt, de Purchas, & d’autres Voyageurs Anglois, Hollandois, Portugais, Allemands, Espagnols; et de quelques Persans, Arabes & autres Orientaux. Enrichies de Figures de Plantes non décrites, d’Animaux inconnus à l’Europe, et de Cartes Geographiques de Pays dont on n’a point encore donné de Cartes. Paris : Jacques Langlois, …

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  • [TASMANIA] Ambrotype portrait of Dr. James Richardson and his second wife, Agnes Percy Peet. Launceston(?), c.1855; plus associated photographic portraits of members of the Richardson and Sherwin families.

    # 43660

    [Various photographers]

    [TASMANIA] Ambrotype portrait of Dr. James Richardson and his second wife, Agnes Percy Peet. Launceston(?), c.1855; plus associated photographic portraits of members of the Richardson and Sherwin families.

    I. Dr. James Richardson and his second wife, Agnes Percy Peet, c.1855. [Photographer unknown]. Half-plate ambrotype with hand colouring, 120 x 90 mm (sight), housed in a brass mat with ormolu preserver under the original cover glass and in the original leather half-case; verso with two brass hooks and wire for wall hanging; small areas …

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  • Voyage de D'entrecasteaux, envoyé à la recherche de La Pérouse

    # 48532

    D'ENTRECASTEAUX, Antoine Bruni [Bruny] (1737-1793)

    Voyage de D’entrecasteaux, envoyé à la recherche de La Pérouse

    … /​ rédigé par M. de Rossel. Paris : De L’Imprimerie impériale, 1808. Two volumes, thick quarto, both text volumes finely bound in uniform full morocco, ruled in gilt, expertly rebacked, spines in compartments with ornamental gilt tooling and lettering, all edges gilt, first volume with half-title, title leaf, pp. lvi, 704 pp with 32 folding …

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  • Colonial and Indian Exhibition, 1886. Her Majesty's Colonies.

    # 49242

    TRENDELL, A. J. R.

    Colonial and Indian Exhibition, 1886. Her Majesty’s Colonies.

    A series of original papers issued under the authority of the Royal Commission. London : William Clowes and Sons, 1886. Octavo, presentation binding of full crushed morocco over bevelled boards, ruled in gilt, spine in compartments with gilt rule and lettering (edges a little rubbed), all edges gilt, gilt-lettered morocco presentation label to front pastedown to …

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  • [TASMANIAN ABORIGINES; MAORI] Handbill advertising J. W. Reimers's Anatomical and Ethnological Museum in Saville House, Leicester Square, London. September, 1853.

    # 47522

    REIMERS, J. W.

    [TASMANIAN ABORIGINES; MAORI] Handbill advertising J. W. Reimers’s Anatomical and Ethnological Museum in Saville House, Leicester Square, London. September, 1853.

    Never Before Exhibited in London. Saville House, Leicester Square. Open every day. Reimers’s Anatomical & Ethnological Museum, consisting of upwards of Several Hundred Magnificent Preparations in Wax, &c. … Anatomical Figures … Human Brain and Five Sense … Gallery of All Nations … Great Human Family … For Gentlemen Only…. London : J. W. Peel, …

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  • Tasmanian Aborigines on Kangaroo Island, South Australia.

    # 48978

    TINDALE, Norman B.

    Tasmanian Aborigines on Kangaroo Island, South Australia.

    Adelaide : The Hassell Press, 1937. “From Records of the South Australian Museum, vol. VI, no. 1, November 30, 1937”. Large octavo (245 x 175 mm), original printed wrappers; pp. 29-37, with several in-text line-drawn illustrations, plus a b/w photographic plate without pagination; an excellent copy.

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

    # 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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  • The Van Diemen's Land Annual for the year 1834.

    # 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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  • 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.

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

    # 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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