Tasmania

# 15736

GENDRON, Ernest

[MANUSCRIPT] Campagne de la Corvette à Voiles l’Alcméne. Commandée par Mr. Coudein, Capitaine de Frégate, à destination des Mers du Sud et Océanie.

An important, unpublished first-hand account of the voyage of the French naval corvette Alcméne in the South Seas, 1848-1852, including extended descriptions of the loss of crew members to cannibalism in New Caledonia in 1850, and of the vessel’s infamous shipwreck at Kaipara on the west coast of New Zealand in 1851, whilst en route from Hobart Town to Tahiti. …

# 15838

PÉRON, François, 1775-1810; FREYCINET, Louis Claude Desaulses de, 1779-1842; LESUEUR, Charles Alexandre, 1778-1846; PETIT, Nicolas-Martin, 1777-1804

Voyage de découvertes aux terres Australes. Exécuté par ordre de sa Majesté l’Empereur et Roi, sur les corvettes le Géographe, le Naturaliste, et la goélette le Casuarina, pendant les années 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803 et 1804.

Rare complete set, in contemporary bindings, of the official account of the Baudin voyage. One of the most important and famous descriptions of Australia ever published, it also contains the first published complete and fully detailed map of Australia, Freycinet’s Carte générale de la Nouvelle Hollande, along with many significant charts of the southern Australian coastline (“Terre Napoléon”), superb …

# 16035

Anon.

[BROADSIDE] Van Diemans Land [i.e. Van Diemen’s Land] / Lillies in a Valley Grew / Lillies and Roses

Birmingham : Jackson & Son, Printers, 69, Digbeth (From 21, Moor Street.), [circa 1830]. Broadside, 230 x 155 mm, laid down on fine linen; three ballads printed in two columns, with Van Diemans Land occupying the entire left column; some mild creasing, mostly confined to the right edge, and a few tiny areas of loss; …

# 16032

ANSON BROS.

Photographic portrait of a widowed father with his two sons and the family dog, Hobart, circa 1885.

Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 165 x 117 mm (mount), recto of mount with imprint of ‘Anson Bros Hobart’; both the albumen print and mount are in fine condition. A poignant studio portrait in which the mother’s absence is almost certainly explained by the father’s black mourning armband, made prominent by the photographer in …

# 15555

Fly-fisher in Tasmania

Melbourne : Melbourne University Press, 1961. First edition. Octavo, boards with pictorial dust jacket (some silverfishing), inscription of previous owner, and bookseller’s stamp on half title, pp ix-208, occasional pen annotations.

# 15808

BOCK, Alfred (1835-1920)

Photographic portrait of a lady in a fine dress, Hobart Town, circa 1865

Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 103 x 63 mm, verso of mount with imprint in blue ink of Alfred Bock, City Photographic Establishment, 140 Elizabeth St. Hobart Town; both the albumen print and mount are in fine condition. A superb studio portrait of a wealthy lady wearing a fine taffeta dress. In her left hand she holds what appears …

# 15811

DURYEA, Townsend (1823-1888); "W.S.E."

Carte de visite with an acrostic laudatory poem to Tasmanian newspaper publisher and editor John Campbell Macdougall

Albumen print photograph of a lithographed poem titled ‘An Acrostic’, dated and initialled in the image ‘Hobart Town, 9th August 1848 / W.S.E.’, carte de visite format, 105 x 63 mm (mount), verso with imprint of ‘T. Duryea, Artist & Photographer, by Appointment, 66 & 68 King William St., Adelaide / Prize Medal, Universal Exhibition 1867’; both the …

# 14857

ROSS, James (1786-1838)

The Hobart Town Gazette (virtually complete run of issues for the year 1834)

Hobart : James Ross and George Howe, Government Printers, 1834. A run of 49 issues for 1834: vol. XIX, no. 919, January 10, 1834 – vol. XIX, no. 968, December 18, 1834 (missing nos. 918; 928; 969). Quarto, all issues stitch bound, various paginations; a number of issues with supplements (Government acts); some issues with …

# 14856

ROSS, James (1786-1838)

The Hobart Town Gazette (complete run of issues for the year 1835)

Hobart : James Ross and George Howe, Government Printers, 1835. A complete run of 52 issues for 1835: vol. XX, no. 970, January 1, 1835 – vol. XIX, no. 1021, December 25, 1835. Quarto, all issues stitch bound, various paginations; a number of issues with supplements (Government acts); some issues with subscriber's name [H.B. Fortesse] …

# 15686

[MEAGHER, Thomas Francis, 1823-67]

[TASMANIA] General Thomas Francis Meagher, Irish Nationalist, convict in Van Diemen’s Land

[U.S.A. : s.n., circa 1865. Albumen print photograph of a painting or drawing, carte de visite format (102 x 61 mm), printed caption below image ‘Maj. Gen. Meagher’; no studio imprint; in fine condition. Thomas Francis Meagher (1823-67) was a prominent figure in the 1848 Irish Rebellion, during which he was captured by the British and arrested …

# 15512

BANK OF VAN DIEMEN'S LAND; [KELLY, James, 1791-1859]

Bank of Van Diemen’s Land cashier’s cheque, Ten Pounds Sterling in favour of James Kelly, 1829

’16th May 1829. Pay to Self for house or Bearer the sum of Ten Pounds Sterling and place the same to Account of James Kelly [signatory]’; 94 x 175 mm, clean and legible. James Kelly (1791-1859), whaler and sealer, pilot and harbourmaster at Hobart Town, is known as the ‘father and founder of whaling’ in Tasmania (see entry on …

# 15271

GREENWOOD, John; SPEAK, Henry

A small archive of letters relating to the Baptist community at Constitution Hill, Van Diemen’s Land, 1860-62.

The unpublished letters in this recently discovered archive were written at Constitution Hill, north of Hobart Town, by John Greenwood (1778-1866), a devout Baptist and uncle of the noted early Tasmanian Baptist, Henry Speak. They are addressed to Greenwood’s former Baptist friends in New York State, where Greenwood had lived for a period earlier in his life after emigrating …

# 14882

STANTON, Don E.

Oh Australia!

Bermagui Sth., N.S.W. : Maranatha Revival Crusade, [1979]. Series: Monthly Message, no. 26. Octavo, pictorial wrappers (lower wrapper with stain), stapled, 112 pp, illustrated; a couple of annotations in biro, otherwise a very good copy. “Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people” (title page). Christian religious pamphlet written by an …

# 14904

PARKER, R.S. (Robert Stewart) et al.

New states for Australia : The Australian Institute of Polictical Science ;

Spring Forum ; 1955 ; Proceedings. Sydney : Australian Institute of Polictical Science, 1955. Quarto, original card covers, roneo printed, 90 pp, 1 folding table, 3 folding maps; a very good copy. Contains four papers delivered at the Armidale forum by R.S. Parker (New states for Australia : why new states?), J. MacDonald Holmes (The proposed …

# 14800

Photographer unknown.

Tasmanian Smelting Co. Works, Zeehan, Tasmania, circa 1910

Photographic glass magic lantern slide, 84 x 84 mm, small typed paper label with caption '104. Zeehan'; in fine condition.

# 14628

GOESIN, Petrus de

Geographie, ofte beginselen der Land-Beschryvinge, zoo als die in haer eygen aerd, in verdeeling

van Landen en Gewesten met Wateren en Zee-en sig bevinden, en door Bergen, Rivieren en Stroomen onderscheiden zyn; als mede den principaelsten Koophandel die in elke Landen verrigt worden. Tot Gend [Ghent] : Petrus de Goesin, [1762]. Duodecimo, contemporary calf (heavily rubbed and scuffed), spine with raised bands, compartments with stamped floral design in gilt …

# 14233

Gourié, E.

Manuscript map of Australia, dated 1835

Ink and wash on paper, 350 x 455 mm (sheet); laid down on modern backing sheet; some loss along the early vertical fold line (mainly at the extremities) and in bottom left corner of sheet. A relatively early manuscript map showing Australia and Van Diemen's Land, as well as New Guinea and parts of the …

# 13798

SOCIETE ECONOMIQUE D'ALIMENTATION, LYON.

[THYLACINE; ABORIGINES] Australie

Lyon : Société Economique d'Alimentation, [c.1910]. Trade card, 73 x 166 mm, recto with chromolithographed design featuring a thylacine, Australian Aborigines and mia-mia, and a sulphur-crested cockatoo; verso with printed information about the Société Economique d'Alimentation in Lyon; in fine condition.

# 13839

MICHEL, Ernest

A travers l’hémisphère sud

: Equateur, Panama, Antilles, Mexique, Iles Sandwich, Nouvelle-Zélande, Tasmanie, Australie. Limoges : Marc Barbou, n.d. [c.1890]. Quarto, publisher's pictorial cloth gilt (rubbed), front hinge weakened, all edges gilt, 296 pp, illustrated with lithographed plates and line drawings in the text; scattered foxing; a good copy.  French travel memoir which includes detailed accounts of visits to …

# 12742

CHEYNE, John Powles

Relics of Sir John Franklin’s Expedition, recently brought home by Captn. McClintock R.N.

Sent here by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. [Title from ms. label in image] [London : s.n., c.1861]. Stereographic albumen print photograph, each image approximately 74 x 65 mm (irregular), on pale yellow card mount; verso blank; the albumen prints are in fine condition and the mount is free from foxing. In 1861, with …

# 12825

MORRIS, Alfred

Road to Mt. Wellington, near Springs

[Title from contemporary pencil inscription verso]. Circa 1865. Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each image approximately 75 x 75 mm (irregular), on sky blue card mount, embossed imprint at right margin “A. Morris Photo.”; the left hand albumen print has two small spots of surface loss (at left edge and in the sky area); the right …

# 12744

CLIFFORD, Samuel (1827-1890) (attributed)

St. David’s, Hobart Town, Tasmania

[Title from contemporary inscription verso]. 1861-1865. Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each image approximately 80 x 80 mm, on pale yellow card mount; the albumen prints are in good condition.

# 12743

CLIFFORD, Samuel (1827-1890) (attributed)

Hobart Town from the Wharf

[Title from contemporary inscription verso]. 1861-1865. Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each image approximately 80 x 80 mm, on pale yellow card mount; a 15 mm tear at upper edge, otherwise the albumen prints are in good condition.

# 11931

[TASMANIA] Souvenir of Scottsdale centenary celebrations 1855-1955

[Scottsdale, Tas. : s.n., 1955]. Oblong octavo, pictorial stiff wrappers, 40 pp, illustrated, a good copy.