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2025x-1009655868Cambridge University Press 2025. Hardcover. New. 250 pages. 6.69x0.63x9.61 inches. Cambridge University Press hardcover
Outside dimensions 10.75" x 14.5". Unmarked with light wear and soiling. An attractive vintage copy. Book
9313Paris, Librairie Ch. Delagrave, 1883. 1 volume in-4, 459 pp., reliure demi-chagrin, plats cartonnés marbrés légèrement frottés, intérieur propre et frais, ouvrage richement illustré d'après les photographies rapportées par l'auteur (52 illustrations dont 38 hors texte) et enrichi de cartes géographiques, très bon état.
25086‘H M Ship America Palermo. / Septr 11. 1813.’. An excellent letter describing the state of affairs in Sicily during the period of British occupation 1806-1814. The recipient Sir Sidney Smith see Oxford DNB was second in command to Sir Edward Pellew head of the Mediterranean squadron which included Bromley’s ship HMS America a 76-gun third-rater launched only three years before in 1810. The present letter is written with the ship on the verge of a notable engagement described in the European Magazine March 1814 pp.245-247 quoting from the London Gazette. From Bromley’s entry by P. R. Eldershaw in the Australian Dictionary of Biography it would appear that he was merely incompetent and that the true embezzler of the £8388 Naval Office and Treasury funds discovered in 1824 was his convict clerk Bartholomew Broughton. Bromley certainly did all he could to pay the money back. The present item is 4pp 4to on a bifolium. In good condition lightly aged with folds for postage. Signed ‘E F. Bromley’ and with valediction addressed to ‘my Dear Sir Sidney’. Begns: ‘My dear Sir: / by the return of the Thistle to the Fleet I embrace the opportunity of giving you my little Information of what is going on here: it would seem by the precautions taken that we are a little afraid. The Sicilians are not quite so well-disposed towards us as we could wish - one Hundred Men as a Picquet from each of our Regts. mount Guard every night - the Artillery Horses are constantly kept saddled. and the troops told to hold themselves in readiness to turn out at a moments warning.’ He continues: ‘Their Parliament is now sitting - and have been extremely Violent on the Subject of Quarantine at Messina. Genl. Montreson Sir Henry Tucker Montresor had given their board of Health some cause of complaint respecting his Interference this came here officially and they noted his conduct censurable and that two of their Members should be sent to England with a Complaint to the Prince Regent this was however lost in the House of Lords.’ He reports that ‘such is their dread of the Plague’ that the Sicilians would not allow the ‘Horses lately arrived from Egypt’ to land: ‘they are gone to Spain - but to obviate the difficulty arising from the want of those Horses they voted 15000 Dollars for the purchase of others in this country’. The second half of the letter covers topics including Prince Belmonte’s departure from office the king never going ‘to the city’ the throwing open of ‘all reserves respecting. Game’ that do not have ‘a wall of a certain Height around them’ the ill effects of ‘regulations. respectingg the Necessaries of Life’: ‘Fish is hardly to be procured - and yesterday not an Egg to be found in the Markett’ a report from Naples of a renewal of the armistice ‘another from Messina Via Clabria says Austria has joined the Allies and that Hostilities have recommenced’. Bromley concludes: ‘all here looking out anxiously for the expected promotion - I am much afraid I shall loose sic my good Captain the future admiral Sir Josias Rowley 1765-1842 who most probably will be Included. This loss I shall feel in no trifling degree - for I have experienced the utmost kindness from him’. After a reference to ‘Harris’ he ends with ‘respects to Captn. Smith’. ‘H M Ship America Palermo. / Septr 11. 1813.’ unknown
Roy. 8vo., First and Sole Edition, small, relatively unobtrusive damp-mark at lower outer blank margin (nowhere affecting text); strongly bound in modern grey boards, paper label lettered and ruled in black on upper board, original printed wrappers preserved, uncut, a good, sound copy of a scarce work. A SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR'S WIFE WITH HER SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. With publisher's advertisement leaf bound in at end. Scarce. Ferguson 16696.
20150Launceston Van Diemen's Land Tasmania ; and Sydney and Melbourne Australia. Between 1853 and 1866. See William Johnstone's obituary in the Illustrated Tasmanian News May 1874. He was born in England and left Somerset for Van Diemen's Land in 1841. He set up in business the following year in Launceston which had been founded in 1806 and is said to be the third oldest colonial settlement in Australia after Sydney and Hobart.As the years proceeded he prospered spectacularly and by the time of his death he was so highly esteemed that 'many places of business had the front windows partially closed while the shipping in port and the Town Hall had the Union Jack hoisted at half mast'. The nine documents are in fair condition on aged and worn paper with occasional closed tears. They comprise the meticulous and detailed accounts of six Australian and Tasmanian firms with Johnstone mostly double-entry with minor variations in layout reflecting the different approaches of the six firms. Most are substantial Item Nine for example shows debits of £19482 11s 3d and credits of £10482 11s 3d. with three of the those involved Bayles du Croz and Westgarth featuring in the Australian Dictionary of Biography. Taken as a whole the accounts provide a substantial amount of information casting valuable light on Australian and Tasmanian economic and social history. Of interest are Items Five Lewis Cohen and Eight Moses Moss which show Johnstone's dealings with Jewish merchants. In the following description only a small sample of the items present in the various documents is listed in order to provide an impression of the range. ONE to THREE: William Bayles & Co. of Melbourne. See William Bayles 1820-1903 in ADB which states 'In 1846 he arrived in Van Diemen's Land and was a shipping merchant in Launceston until 1852 when he established in Victoria the shipping firm of Bayles & Co. remaining part-owner and agent for the Launceston and Melbourne Steam Navigation Co.'. Three double-page 'In Account Current' signed from Melbourne on the firm's behalf on 1 January 1856 'Goods Pork' 'Empty Butter Tubs' 'Gold pr Capt Woods' Marsala wine whiskey 'R A McKenzie' 'Flour'; 1 January 1857 'Postages' bran oats potatoes barley butter; 30 June 1857 tea oats nutmegs ale wine. FOUR: Henry Burge & Co. of Melbourne. One double-page 'in a/c'. Signed from Melbourne on the firm's behalf and dated 8 October 1859 'Cash to retire Harley & Co's Bill' '½ loss on Flour ex “Black Swan†½ loss on Flour ex “Royal Shepherd†½ loss on Oats ex “Mercuryâ€' 'Allowance on Wheat ex “Little Petâ€'. FIVE: Lewis Cohen of Launceston. Probably Lewis Cohen 1831-1903. One single-page 'in acct'. Signed from Launceston on the firm's behalf 29 August 1859 bills 'Auction acct.' 'Goods on acct' and two entries of 'Errors in extension'. SIX and SEVEN: Du Croz Nichols & Co. of Launceston. Frederick Augustus du Croz 1821-1897; ADB and Charles Nichols 1827-1878 described by one modern source as 'an importer of general merchandise and an exporter of wool'. One single-page account headed 'Ducroz & Co' with entries from June 1861 to March 1864 commissions unsigned and undated; and one double-page 'In Account Current' signed from Launceston on the firm's behalf 31 March 1866 'Bill discounted' 'Union Bank'. EIGHT: Moses Moss of Sydney. Morris Moses Moss 1819-1883 Sydney merchant banker described in his long obituary in the Sydney Morning Herald 22 December 1883 as 'a well-known figure in commercial circles' and a 'prominent and active member' of 'the Jewish community of Sydney'. One double-page 'in a/c' headed 'Interest to 20th. July 1859. Signed from Sydney on the firm's behalf 20 July 1859 'Goods pr Dart' 'Bank Dft' 'Nett proceeds Tea ex Buonaparte'. NINE: Westgarth Ross & Co. of Melbourne. William Westgarth 1815-1889; ADB. One double-page in “Flour†acct current'. Signed 'Will Johnstone' and dated from Launceston 28 February 1853 '25 Tons Fine Flour bags incl:' insurance commission 'brokerage effecting Insurance' and single entries on the Sea Witch Ariel Mariposa Rattler and Gem all to Melbourne; the Seabelle Helen and Peri to Geelong. [ Launceston, Van Diemen's Land [ Tasmania ]; and Sydney and Melbourne, Australia. ] Between 1853 and 1866. unknown
Profusely illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: The Jogi's Curse - An Indian government official is cursed by a wondering jogi (priest) and the prophecy is tragically fulfilled; An Underground Wonderland - Fantastic photo-illustrated article on the Carlsbad Cavern of New Mexico; Adrift in the China Seas - Sent off to fetch help for their crippled steamer, H.W. Millard, G. Grant Simmons and their companions are blown off course and suffer an eight-day ordeal; "Watu Wa Miti" - R. St. Barbe Baker founded the "Men of the Trees" in Equatorial Africa to preserve trees which were continually being burned to secure land for cultivation - with photos; The Man Who Wanted a Change - A factory hand seeking escape travels to the South Seas, only to return sadder and wiser; Two Years in Borneo - Part I - Oscar Cook spent eight years there, the last two of which were quite strenuous - with photos; "The Man With the Buried Head" - photo of alms-seekers in India; The Promotion of Private Smith - The inside facts of an affair involving Private Smith, a young soldier in the American Army, stationed in the Philippines; The Last of the Bushrangers - Mrs. Mary J. Nichols reflects on the old pioneer days in Tasmania and the 'sticking-up' of an isolated station by the last gang of bushrangers that operated in the island - with photos; Forbidden Nepal - Hugh Walter had unusual opportunities to visit this closed state and provides interesting glimpses of the manners, customs, and principal religious festivals of the Nepalese - with photos; White Man's Magic - While exploring the interior of New Zealand the author and his companion fell afoul of a rascally Maori tohunga, or medicine man; Where Cannibals Roam - Part II - An eventful journey into the unknown interior of Papua, with photos; "Old Peter" - C.N.C. Hayter, formerly of the Royal North-West Mounted Police, describes instances of 'second sight' he witnessed among Eskimos, thus providing independent corroboration of a story about apparent Eskimo telepathy in this publication a few months ago; What Happened to Spott - A funny story about a miserly old South African storekeeper and a black mamba snake; The World's Largest Goldfish Farm - founded by Eugene Shireman of Martinsville, Indiana - with photo. 88 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy of this great vintage issue. Book
196925680Hobart: Government Printer 1969. A long run of this mining periodical complete for the reports published in 1895-98; 1900-02; 1910-23; 1925-26; 1928-38; 1955-57; 1959-60; 1969. <br /> <br /> From the library of the Franklin Institute Philadelphia with infrequent stamps. Bound in original paper wrappers some chipped loose or missing. Dates refer to publication dates not the year covered by the report.<br /> <br /> Report of the Secretary for Mines: Trove 49644546 started 1883 ceased with 1939.<br /> Later title: Report of the Director of Mines for year ending December 31. 1883-2019 Trove: 40701281. Government Printer unknown
1988139048Launceston: Prestige Bookbinders Pty. Ltd 1988. Hardcover. Fine. Launceston Prestige Bookbinders Pty. Ltd. 1988 facsimile/ 1900. Quarto two volumes ii 629 and ii 425 pages with hundreds of illustrations from photographs. Half black morocco and cloth; morocco decorated and lettered in gilt; a fine set in the fine slipcase. Number 139 of only 500 sets. 2 items. Prestige Bookbinders Pty. Ltd hardcover
1799PHO-2288Paris, Jansen, an VIII (1799) 2 vol. in-8, demi-veau havane, dos lisse orné, avec pièces de titre rouge et tomaison verte. Tome I : xvi pp. (dont faux-titre et titre), 440 pp., Tome II : 332 pp. (dont le faux-titre et le titre), 109 pp., (1) f., quelques brunissures, frottements, coiffes absentes ou usées, début de fente (tome 1), accrocs aux dos, petit manque de matière (tome 2).
1868008256Hobart Town: James Barnard Government Printer 1868. First Edition . Leather Spine and Front Corners. No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Very Good with a small closable tear on the lower spine. several hundred pages with fold out maps and charts. . Very Rare ! <br/> <br/> James Barnard Government Printer hardcover
1876008261Hobart Town: James Barnard Government Printer 1876. First Edition . Cloth. No Jacket as Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Very Good with light wear to the covers. PP 206 weekly police reports for the year 1876 Rare ! <br/> <br/> James Barnard Government Printer hardcover
1900008262Hobart: John Vail Government Printer Hobart 1900. First Edition . Cloth. No Jacket as Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Very Good with light wear to the covers. PP 206 weekly police reports for the year 1899 Rare ! <br/> <br/> John Vail Government Printer Hobart hardcover
In 8°, br. edit. ill., pp. 160, con 20 ill. inc. n.t. (anche a p. p.) e una carta geografica; buon es. dell’ed. originale (coll. Biblioteca di Viaggi, XXI), di notevole rarità (cat. 12)
18441875101844-c.1950. A group of legal documents reflecting the transfer of lands from government to settlers as Tasmania transitioned from a penal settlement to a British colony. Tasmania was permanently settled by the British in 1803 although criminal transportation continued until 1853. These documents including three purchase grants two conveyances and an indenture concern lands in some of the oldest settlements on the island including Franklin and Hobart Town from the 1840s to the 1860s. The collection also includes a recent printed facsimile of the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi widely recognized as one of New Zealand's founding documents. A full inventory is available on request. Provenance: Martin Schøyen. Together seven documents six in manuscript and one printed facsimile various sizes 610 x 801 to 390 x 652 mm four with manuscript maps in pink blue and red various seals and stamps. Mostly on tri-fold vellum parchment. Minor toning and creasing: a very good well-preserved collection. hardcover
184827883Dundee: Printed for the author sold by W. Middleton Dundee; James Dewar and Son Perth 1848. First edition. Good overall. An extremely scarce account of early life in Tasmania including his experience guarding convicts / work crews many of them North American political prisoners transported for their participation in the rebellion in Upper Canada in 1838. It also includes a valuable account of the life of the bushranger Mike Howe. James Syme was a Scot. Supervising convicts from 1841-1845 he described the Rocky Hills road station as a "hotbed of idleness and laxity." He recalled that in 1842 there were 400 cases of insubordination and escape. Conditions were so bad that military reinforcements had to be sent from Hobart Town. Louisa Anne Meredith early settler and botanical artist was unimpressed by the efforts of the Rocky Hills road gang recalling that 'at one part of the road we found a gang of men employed in its improvement; forming in the mean time greater obstacles than they removed; and so they have continued to be employed . and still after nearly nine years the comparatively trifling task remains unfinished. The mismanagement of the gang was evident. This herding together of so many idle men under the pretence sic of "doing probation" as they call it must be injurious to the well-disposed among them and is no punishment to the worthless' Meredith 1852 pp.83–84.<br /> <br /> Ferguson 4929; Wilson 101. 12mo iv 384pp yellow endpapers marked. Publisher's green cloth boards gilt title on spine rubbed dusty covers binding cracked but holding. This copy is consistent with the copy held by the National Library of Australia Ferguson 4929; dark green embossed boards with yellow endpapers gilt lettering and raised bands on the spine. OCLC: 166311297 at 13 libraries. Early owner inscribed the ffep "Mr. James Reid No. 10 West Campbell St. Paisley May 20th 1862". <br /> <br /> A very difficult book to find in the market. Printed for the author, sold by W. Middleton, Dundee; James Dewar and Son, Perth unknown
1833PHO-1811Paris,1833, in-folio, demi-reliure basane rouge, dos lisse, muet (rel. mod.), illustré avec 1 portrait en frontispice, lithographié par Lemercier d'après A. Maurin, [1] f. (titre gravé avec vignette), 20 planches disparates (8 cartes gravées sur acier dont 6 doubles, 11 vues reliées (dont 5 coloriées) et 15 planches en feuilles, papier des plats gondolé, quelques rousseurs aux planches libres avec défauts en marges.Recueil réunissant : 1 carte générale ; 1 carte de Nouvelle-Zélande (côte partielle); 1 carte du Pacifique; 1 de Nouvelle-Guinée; 1 de l'Archipel des îles Viti; 1 de l'île Tonga-Tabou; 1 des îles Vanikoro; 1 de Nouvelle-Zélande (nord); des vues de paysages; de personnages locaux (dont 7 coloriées).
1799PHO-333Paris, Jansen, an VIII (1799) 2 vol. in-8 ,demi-veau havane, dos lisse orné (rel. Légt post., mors usagés et rongés) et un atlas in-folio en seconde édition (1817) brochure moderne en papier marbré. Texte :Tome I : xvi pp. (dont faux-titre et titre), 440 pp.Tome II : 332 pp. (dont le faux-titre et le titre), 109 pp., (1)f. Atlas : titre gravé, grande carte sur double page (Mer des Indes et une partie de celle du Sud, par Darbié du Bocage - volante) et 43 planches (vues, scènes, costumes, portraits et types, faune et flore) gravées sur cuivre par Dien, Copia, Pérée, etc., d'après Piron, Redouté, Audebert, etc. représentant des personnages, des scènes de vie, des armes, des vues, la faune et la flore. Nombreuses piqûres et taches d'humidité, mais papier solide, à bonnes marges.
012129Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. All 79 Volumes Are Near Fine With Gilt Titles And The Name Of The Original Owner J C White A Tasmanian Member Of Parliament On The Spine <br/> <br/> hardcover
1808PHO-1626Paris, Imprimerie impériale, 1808. 2 grands et forts volumes in-4 (32x24), lvi, 704 p., 33 pl. ; viii, 692 p., relié demi basane et coins moderne, dos avec auteur, titre, tomaison, lieu et date, exlibris en page de garde, non rogné, tome 2 non coupé, petite mouillure au tome 2, petites rousseurs aux illustrations du tome 1. Exemplaire sur papier bleuté, complet de son illustration mais sans son atlas de cartes
1870171471Hobart: Alfred Winter c.1870. An icon of a vanished race These compelling studio portraits of Truganini c.1812-1876 and William Lanne 1834-1869 issued in the 1870s by Hobart photographer Alfred Winter have long been burdened by the colonial myth of "the last of the Tasmanians". Truganini a Nuennone woman and daughter of Mangana endured the killings of close family members forced relocation to Oyster Cove and the continual intrusions of settler violence. Although repeatedly described as the final Tasmanian Aborigine this was a racist fiction disproved by the many descendants of her contemporaries. Lanne often named as Truganini's third partner was seized with his family in 1842 confined on Flinders Island later moved to Oyster Cove and into a Hobart orphanage and eventually went to sea as a whaler. Labelled the "last male" of his community he died in 1869 of disease exacerbated by these conditions. Their portraits must be read within the 19th-century "salvage" ethnography that treated Indigenous peoples as vanishing subjects and sought to record them before their supposed extinction. From Bishop Francis Nixon's 1858 photographs of the tiny imprisoned Oyster Cove community to Charles Woolley's 1866 studio images for the Melbourne Intercolonial Exhibition photography served a pseudo-scientific narrative of disappearance. Woolley's vignetted portrait of Truganini became an icon of this myth even as it misrepresented a living and surviving people. The belief in extinction proved tenacious: Truganini's death was taken as definitive despite later corrections - including Robert Hughes's reminder that the last full-blood Tasmanian Aborigine was Suke who died in 1888. Sir J. W. Agnew's 1888 paper "The Last of the Tasmanians" included in this volume typifies the period's primitivist and racist assumptions attributing the community's collapse not to colonial violence but to the supposed nature of these "children of the forest" and their mistreatment by "all kinds of whites". Two albumen print photographs each approximately 150 x 100 mm both blind-stamped at lower left "A". Report with numerous folding plates and tables. Winter Photo. "Hobart Town"; laid down on their original mount of thick card 190 x 247 mm with respective captions in ink in the lower margin: "Trucanini last of Tasmanians a woman" and "Billy or William Lannie the last native Man of Tasmania". Report: original dark greyish green sand-grain cloth gilt-lettered spine. Both prints in very good condition; the mount free from foxing. Report a little shaken opaque tape repair to rear inner hinge otherwise very good. Mourouf Hasian Jr Debates on Colonial Genocide in the 21st Century 2020; Robert Hughes The Fatal Shore: A History of the Transportation of Convicts to Australia 1787-1868 2003; Lyndall Ryan The Aboriginal Tasmanians 1996: James R. Ryan Picturing Empire: Photography and the Visualization of the British Empire 1997. hardcover
1890D4TCASY3Z0MCNew Zealand 1890. Including 13 Maori portraits 4 albumen prints of Hobart and locality a loose albumen print of the North Shore Native and Aquatic Regatta at Auckland in 1898. Collection of photographs mainly albumen prints showing 13 Maori portraits in full feather dress and 5 views of New Zealand and Tasmania. Included are i.a.:- Native girl. Full-length portrait of a standing Maori girl.- Photograph of a pinned down photo with a portrait of a standing Maori girl.- Chieftains of Hono Hono Kinikaiahi A half-length portrait of a standing Maori in front of wood-carved statue and a half-length portrait of a standing Maori with carved fan. - 2 full-length portraits of Maori couples.- Native boy. Portrait of a Maori boy with feather in hair.- A Maori beauty. Portrait of a Maori girl with large neck-lace & pendant. In good condition. ABE CAT Anthropology & Ethnography ABE CAT Costumes & Uniforms unknown
1783PHO-2039A Paris, Chez Barrois l’aîné, 1783. In-8° (195x120) Relié plein veau époque, pièce de titre rouge, dos lisse orné, tranches rouges. VIII, 290 pp, illustré de 2 cartes dont 1 repliée h.-t. et 5 pl. h.-t., Complet du dernier feuillet, extrait du privilège à la date du 11 mai 1782, établi par Condorcet secrétaire de l’Académie des sciences. Quelques frottements aux charnières.
1807PHO-1A Paris, Dépôt général des Cartes et Plans de la Marine et des Colonies, 1807 et De L’Imprimerie Impériale, 1808 RARE ENSEMBLE COMPLET en 3 volumes TEXTE ; 2 forts vol. in-4° ; (2)-LVI-704 pp.-32 pl. h.-t. repliées in-fine (I-XXXII)/(2)-VIII-692 pp.-1 pl. h.-t. Repliée sur papier bleuté , relié demi cuir , dos lisse avec titre et tomaison , tranches mouchetées , mouillure angulaire sur 7 planches, petites rousseurs sur les planches . ATLAS ; 1 volume grand in-folio (560x445) ,page de titre-1 fnch. (Table )-39 cartes et vues h.-t. , dont 29 à double page ,dressées par l'ingénieur hydrographe C. F. Beautemps Beaupré et gravées sur cuivre par E. Collin , relié demi cuir , dos lisse ,cachets répétés , petites rousseurs .
