Australia Pre 1850

  • Terre Napoleon. Australia through French eyes 1800 - 1804

    # 34659

    HUNT, Susan and CARTER, Paul

    Terre Napoleon. Australia through French eyes 1800 – 1804

    Sydney : Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales in association with Hordern House, 1999. Quarto, illustrated cards, pp. 150, extensively illustrated. Art from the Baudin voyage to Australia. A fine copy.

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  • [MAORI] Children brought to Christ. = Ka mau-ria nga ta-ma-ri-ki ki Te Ka-rai-ti.

    # 26476

    [JONES, William]

    [MAORI] Children brought to Christ. = Ka mau-ria nga ta-ma-ri-ki ki Te Ka-rai-ti.

    [Sydney, N.S.W. : Jones, Printer, Bridge Street, c.1833]. Broadsheet, 450 x 390 mm, letterpress printed; old horizontal and vertical crease, pale foxing, a very good example. Text in English and Māori. A rare broadside printed around 1833 by William Jones of Bridge Street, Sydney, for use in Church Missionary Society schools. It is a lesson …

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  • Morning Prayer [and] Evening Prayer.

    # 26492

    JONES, William (printer)

    Morning Prayer [and] Evening Prayer.

    Sydney : [William] Jones, Printer, Bridge-street, [circa 1835]. Pair of broadsides, each 450 x 390 mm, printed on letterpress; both examples with an old central horizontal fold and toning, the Morning Prayer sheet with some insect damage around the fold and at top right corner (no loss of text); both unmounted. These rare companion broadsides were …

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  • Natural Curiosity : unseen art of the First Fleet.

    # 34645

    ANEMAAT, Louise

    Natural Curiosity : unseen art of the First Fleet.

    Sydney : State Library of New South Wales, 2014. Quarto, illustrated limp boards, pp. 256, illustrated. A sense of awe swept through natural history circles in 18th-century London when the first ships returned from Sydney with their cargo of exotic animals, birds, and plants—and striking watercolor illustrations. The sudden emergence, in 2011, of a large …

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  • Sydney views 1788-1888 from the Beat Knoblauch collection

    # 34644

    HUNT, Susan and DAVISON, Graeme

    Sydney views 1788-1888 from the Beat Knoblauch collection

    Sydney : Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, 2007. Quarto, illustrated gatefold wrappers, pp. 144, illustrated. Fine copy.

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  • Sketches in early Tasmania and Victoria by Emily Bowring (deluxe edition)

    # 34539

    BOWRING, Emily

    Sketches in early Tasmania and Victoria by Emily Bowring (deluxe edition)

    Edited by K. R. von Stieglitz, O.B.E. Victorian captions by P. L. Brown. Hobart : Fuller’s Bookshop, 1965. Oblong quarto, gilt-lettered cloth in illustrated dustjacket (silver fishing, mainly to lower wrapper), pp. [40], illustrated. Presentation copy from von Stieglitz to historian Marnie Bassett with signed inscription, with related correspondence loosely enclosed. ‘The author’s known and …

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  • Georgian architecture in Australia

    # 34556

    DUPAIN, Max et al.

    Georgian architecture in Australia

    With some examples of buildings of the post-Georgian period. Photography by Max Dupain. Architectural commentary and notes by Morton Herman. Social histories of New South Wales and Tasmania by Marjorie Barnard and Daniel Thomas. Sydney : Ure Smith, 1963. First edition. Quarto, boards in dustjacket (water stain to spine), pp. 148, illustrated with Dupain’s photographs. …

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  • The three colonies of Australia : New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia; their pastures, copper mines & gold fields

    # 34180

    SIDNEY, Samuel

    The three colonies of Australia : New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia; their pastures, copper mines & gold fields

    London : Ingram, Cooke & Co., 1852. First edition. Octavo, gilt-lettered plum cloth (edges rubbed), pp. 427, all edges gilt, illustrated with engravings. History of the Australian colonies with a section on the gold rush. Ferguson 15679

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  • Catalogue of extremely rare and important printed books and ancient manuscripts (signed presentation copy)

    # 33558

    ROBINSON, Lionel and Philip

    Catalogue of extremely rare and important printed books and ancient manuscripts (signed presentation copy)

    London : William H. Robinson Lts, 1948. Quarto, printed boards (discoloured and worn), pp. 200, illustrated including folding plates. Astonishing collection of printed books and manuscripts, too many treasures to list, but including the first book printed in English (Caxton’s Recuyell of the Historyes of Troy, 1475), the earliest known American verse (a broadside ballad …

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  • Nouvelle-Hollande. Cour-Rou-Bari-Gal.

    # 34398

    ROGER, Barthelemy (1767-1841, engraver); PETIT, Nicolas-Martin (1777-1804, artist)

    Nouvelle-Hollande. Cour-Rou-Bari-Gal.

    [Paris : Arthus Bertrand, Libraire-Éditeur, 1824]. Copperplate stipple engraving with original hand colouring, 314 x 241 mm (plate mark), 365 x 280 mm (sheet), titled in the image lower centre, number 21 printed upper right. light foxing and handling marks. Source : Voyage de découvertes aux terres Australes. Exécuté par ordre de sa Majesté l’Empereur …

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  • Nouvelle-Hollande : Nouvelle-Galles du Sud. Bedgi-Bedgi, jeune homme de la tribu des Gwea-gal

    # 34397

    ROGER, Barthelemy (1767-1841, engraver); PETIT, Nicolas-Martin (1777-1804, artist)

    Nouvelle-Hollande : Nouvelle-Galles du Sud. Bedgi-Bedgi, jeune homme de la tribu des Gwea-gal

    [Paris : Arthus Bertrand, Libraire-Éditeur, 1824]. Copperplate stipple engraving, 318 x 242 mm (plate mark), 365 x 280 mm (sheet), titled in the image lower centre, number 22 printed upper right; pale foxing and handling marks, a very good example. Source : Voyage de découvertes aux terres Australes. Exécuté par ordre de sa Majesté l’Empereur …

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  • Convicts and Carriageways : Tasmanian road development until 1880

    # 34294

    NEWITT, Lyn et al.

    Convicts and Carriageways : Tasmanian road development until 1880

    Researched and written by Lyn Newitt ; edited by Alan Jones. Tasmania : Department of Main Roads, 1988. Folio, illustrated cloth in illustrated dustjacket, pp. ix, 332, illustrated, previous owner’s blind stamp to half-title, a fine copy.

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  • Australian colonial portraits

    # 34416

    BUSCOMBE, Eve

    Australian colonial portraits

    Hobart : Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 1979. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, light edge wear, previous owner’s name inside upper wrapper,  pp.72, illustrated. Rodius, Chevalier, Gould, McCrae, Bock, Allport, Angus, Gill, Backler etc.

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  • Liardet's water-colours of early Melbourne

    # 34279

    BATE, Weston (editor)

    Liardet’s water-colours of early Melbourne

    Introduction and captions by Susan Adams. Edited by Weston Bate. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press, 1972. Oblong quarto, linen in illustrated dustjacket, illustrated endpapers (gift inscription), pp. 102, illustrated with Liardet’s watercolours of the foundation years of Melbourne.

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  • Fitzroy : Melbourne's first suburb (Virginia Fraser's copy with several authorial signatures)

    # 33878

    CUTTEN HISTORY COMMITTEE OF THE FITZROY HISTORY SOCIETY

    Fitzroy : Melbourne’s first suburb (Virginia Fraser’s copy with several authorial signatures)

    Melbourne : Hyland House, 1989. Quarto, boards in dust jacket (light edge wear), illustrated endpapers, pp. xii; 354, extensively illustrated. Loosely enclosed is a contemporary newspaper review of the book dated by Virginia Fraser. An exceptional association copy. Signed on the title page by Margaret E. Cutten, grand-daughter of Thomas Ewing, founder of the Fitzroy …

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  • The chronicles of early Melbourne, 1835 to 1852. Historical, anecdotal and personal, by "Garryowen"

    # 33862

    "Garryowen" (FINN, Edmund, 1819-1898)

    The chronicles of early Melbourne, 1835 to 1852. Historical, anecdotal and personal, by “Garryowen”

    Centennial edition with portraits and illustrations. Melbourne : Fergusson and Mitchell, 1888. First edition. Two volumes, quarto, gilt-decorated roan (edges rubbed, as commonly found), all edges gilt, pen inscription to preliminary blank, pp. xiv; 1000, numerous lithographed illustrations, the occasional spot of foxing, overall a very good set, uncommon in this condition. “The two volumes of …

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