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184275315London: C. Dolman 1842. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London C. Dolman 1842. Octavo 27 pages in a total of ii 564 2 pages. Original ribbed cloth with a paper title-label on the spine; cloth a little marked and sunned; label a little chipped and sunned; small blank piece torn from the bottom corner of eight leaves not part of the relevant article; endpapers and first and last leaves foxed; an excellent copy. Pages 74-100 contain an article drawn from Grey's 'Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia' published the previous year and George Moore's extremely rare pamphlet 'Evidences of an Inland Sea collected from the Natives of the Swan River Settlement' Dublin 1837. C. Dolman hardcover
189675097Adelaide: Government Printer 1896. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide Government Printer 1896. Foolscap folio 16 pages plus a page of lithographic illustrations accompanying the Etheridge paper and 4 folding geological maps and a large folding geological section all in colour. Modern cloth lettered in gilt on the front cover; a fine copy. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 127 of 1896; only 500 copies printed. Brown was in the Northern Territory from early April to early August 1896; he gives detailed reports and maps for each of his five journeys. Etheridge's contribution is 'No. 9 - The Occurrence of Olenellus in the Northern Territory'. Government Printer hardcover
188080145Adelaide: E. Spiller Government Printer 1880. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide E. Spiller Government Printer 1880. Octavo 55 pages. Original flush-cut quarter cloth and card covers with the title page details repeated on the front cover; cloth a little flecked and slightly sunned and rubbed; card a little tanned mottled and lightly marked; minimal signs of age and use; an excellent copy. At the time of publication the author was Chief Warden of the Goldfields of the Northern Territory. 'This pamphlet is published by permission of the Government of South Australia; but it is only proper to state that the recommendations herein made especially with reference to the formation of a railway have not yet been considered by the Ministry and must therefore be only regarded as the individual views of the author. A portion of the matter in the following pages was compiled by me' for Harcus's 'South Australia' published in 1876; it 'incorporated some useful papers written by residents there'. <p>That book also contained an important chapter on Central Australia incorporated here with additional material. To quote Harcus: 'the following interesting and well-written account of Central Australia along the line of telegraph has appeared in the "Register". The writer Mr J.A. Giles is well acquainted with the whole of the country which he describes. It is the best and most trust-worthy account of Central Australia which has yet been published'. Knight remarks that it 'affords an excellent insight into the vast tract of country'. The article takes up most of the 17-page chapter; it refers on occasion and thus eliminates any misattribution to Alfred Giles the explorer with strong telegraph line credentials. It is augmented with a page of quotations from Charles Winnecke's 1879 Herbert River expedition reports. Ferguson 11231 pretty light on detail even to the extent of not recording the binding. E. Spiller, Government Printer paperback
1888119346Adelaide: H.F. Leader Government Printer for the RGSSA 1888. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide H.F. Leader Government Printer for the RGSSA 1888. Octavo 16 pages plus the title-wrappers. Wrappers very lightly marked on the outside of the plain rear panel; essentially a fine copy. This rare pamphlet contains an account of Lindsay's 'Arnheim's Land Explorations in 1883' but it primarily concerns a more recent expedition 'a private one fitted out at my own expense'. The 'Australian Dictionary of Biography' has the following to say about these series of explorations by David Lindsay: 'In 1883 the South Australian government commissioned him to explore the central and eastern part of Arnheim's Arnhem Land; his party survived fierce attacks by Aborigines one group numbering 300. In 1885-86 he took seven men and twelve camels from Hergott Springs to the Gulf of Carpentaria tracing the Finke River to its mouth and seeking information about Ludwig Leichhardt. Lindsay surveyed the country between the overland telegraph line and the Queensland border explored the MacDonnell Ranges made a brief foray into the Simpson Desert and spent six months in the country between Lake Nash and Powell's Creek'. <p>This account first appeared in the Proceedings of the RGSSA Volume 2 Third Session 1887-8; the title-wrappers and pagination are new to this separate issue. Ferguson 11653; McLaren 12608. H.F. Leader, Government Printer [for the RGSSA] paperback
1853biblio249<p><i>First edition. John Murray. London. 1853. 8vo. vi 1 errata slip 488pp. Chromolitho frontispiece 3 further chromolitho plates all with tissue guards 3 uncoloured plates folding map text illus. Later half calf marbled boards Spine in six compartments with raised bands gilt lettering rules and motifs leather label to spine. All edges marbled. New endpapers. Occasional marginal light foxing to plates. Short closed tear to attachment of map. A handsome volume.</i><br /></p><p><i><b>John Elphinstone Erskine</b> 1806 - 1887 British Naval Officer and Liberal MP. </i><i> "In February 1848 Erskine was appointed to the Havannah as senior officer on the Australian station. Soon after his arrival Erskine made a tour of Samoa Tonga Fiji the New Hebrides the Loyalty Islands and New Caledonia between 25 June and 7 October 1849. With experience of naval anti-slavery operations in the West Indies and the effects of European penetration in the Pacific he joined the Aborigines Protection Society and became a parliamentary leader of the influential lobby working for the Pacific Islanders Protection Act of 1872." Australian Dictionary of Biography.</i></p> John Murray hardcover
182928055London: John Murray 1829. Paperback. Very good condition. Important early report on the Swan River Colony based on Captain Stirling's findings during his 1827 expedition and intended as a guide for prospective emigrants. The 29 page article is titled "Regulations for the Guidance of those who may Propose to embark as settlers for the New Settlement on the Western Coast of New Holland" and includes a one page woodblock map. The map "Sketch of the New Settlement on Swan River" has the text "Fine undulating grass plains thinly wooded" stretching from Mangles Bay to Port Leschenault. The WA coast is shown from above Swan River in the north around Cape Leeuwin and further to the East. Disbound from Vol XXXIX with the title page pp 315-344 with some extraneous pages. John Murray paperback
18653621262(Batavia, Koninkl. Natuurkundig Vereeniging in Ned. Indie, 1851-1865). Zusammen etwa 680 S. mit einigen Tabellen, 2 Tafeln, 21 mehrfach gefalteten, teils farbigen Tafeln mit zahlreichen Abbildungen und Karten, separat 1 mehrfach gefaltetee und auf Leinen gezogene farbige Karte in Tasche. Hlwd der Zeit mit Rückenvergoldung. Gr.-8vo. (etwas beschabt, Vorsätze und Tasche etwas fleckig, einige Bl. mit kleinen Randläsuren und Fehlstellen ohne Textverlust, einige Bl. bzw. Tafeln staubrandig und fingerfleckig).
1839PHO-1813Hortet et Ozanne, Paris 1839, 4 volumes en 2 tomes in-8, 400pp. et 423pp. et 399pp. et 451pp., relié demi basane aubergine, dos à faux nerfs avec auteur, titre et tomaison, illustré de 60 gravures, petit dictionnaire du dialecte des différents peuples rencontrés à la fin du quatrième tome, frottements aux plats, peu de rousseurs.
185036075Paris H. Lebrun s.d. [1850] 2 vol. in-8 demi-basane moutarde, dos à nerfs ornés de filets et caissons dorés, pièces de titre et de tomaison noires, tranches mouchetées [Rel. de l'époque], rousseurs
185926071Paris Poulet-Malassis et De Broise 1859 in-8 broché
186246403085Paris, Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, 1862 ; in-12, demi-chagrin brun, dos orné de caissons à froid, fleurons et filet dorés, tranche jaspée. (Reliure de l’époque) 2 ff. (faux-titre et titre noir), XVIII pp., 278 pp.Il ne s’agit sans dout pas d’une nouvelle édition, mais d’une remise en vente d’exemplaires de 1857. Seuls le titre et le faux-titre sont changés. Pour le reste, même composition et même papier.Launay 28.Exemplaire dans une élégante reliure, avec le nom du collectionneur frappé au bas du dos : Mr Piquemal.FAUCHERY (Antoine)Beau type d’aventurier, de rêveur audacieux. Banville, un de ses plus chers amis précise dans la préface pour un de ses livres : « Ai-je besoin de vous dire qu’il a commencé par être un très mauvais écolier ?... Il aurait été de force à planter les buissons lui-même sur les chemins qui mène à l’école. » Né en 1824 à Paris, il était fils d’un ménage de graveurs : Jean-Claude Auguste et Augustine Fauchery. Il sera lui-même peintre, puis graveur sur bois, écrivain, chroniqueur, voyageur, chercheur d’or. Dans les années 1850, haute époque de la bohème murgerienne, il était célèbre dans les ateliers pour ces deux préceptes : « Un loyer ne doit jamais être payé » et « tout déménagement s’effectue par la fenêtre ».En 1856 il fit jouer au Vaudeville une pièce intitulée Calino, faite en collaboration avec Barrière.Pendant toute sa brève existence il fut la proie du démon du voyage et de l’aventure. Dès 1848 ses instincts généreux le firent partir pour la Pologne. « La voix de Mierolawski appelait les réfugiés polonais et les Français patriotes à la défense de la Pologne, et quelques intrépides formaient déjà le projet d’aller mourir là, comme Byron dans le pays d’Homère » (Banville). Il fit le voyage en compagnie de Nadar. Les deux héros n’atteignirent jamais la patrie de Chopin, et connurent les pires mésaventures à travers l’Allemagne où ils furent emprisonnés dans toutes les principautés. En 1856 il eut l’idée d’aller chercher fortune en Australie où l’on avait découvert d’abondantes mines d’or. De là il embarqua pour les Philippines. En 1860 il tomba dans l’ « officiel » et fut nommé correspondant du Moniteur pour suivre l’armée française à Pékin pendant la guerre entre la France et la Chine. Maillard raconte dans son livre sur les derniers bohèmes que Fauchery était à peu près le seul Français qui sortait du Palais Yuen-Ming-Yuen les mains et les poches vides. A défaut d’objets précieux il emporta de cette campagne de Chine une maladie infectieuse. Arrivé à Yokohama il mourut d’une gastrite le 27 avril 1861 ; à l’âge de 37 ans. Cette mort lui évita de justesse une décoration que le Gouvernement français s’apprêtait à lui remettre.Malassis qui a toujours aimé les originaux, novateurs et marginaux ne pouvait manquer d’être séduit par cet aventurier poète.
18063025Edinburgh, A. Constable, 1806. In-8 de VII-232-LXI pp., cartonnage de l'époque.
18671206T017London: Hurst and Blackett 1867. 1st Edition . Hardback. Printed pages: xi 359. Good Plus. 6 x 8.75 inches 15 x 22.5 cm. Publisher's red cloth binding bevelled board edges illustrated in gilt to front board. Rebacked with original spine overlaid. Light marking to boards slight wear to corners. Marking to endpapers chipping to edges of front free endpaper stain to edge of outer margin of first few pages. Occasional spots and small marks to text a few pages have been carelessly opened. Complete with all plates foxing to tissue guards one tissue guard creased and torn. Inscriptions to upper margin of title page and to preface page. A good solid example. Overall condition is Good Plus. Size: 6 x 8.75 inches 15 x 22.5 cm. Hurst and Blackett hardcover
1831biblio240<p>First edition. 2 vols. Frederick Westley and A.H. Davis Booksellers to the London Missionary Society. London. 1831. 8vo. xxiv 566pp tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece 6 further engraved plates; viii 568pp tissue guarded engraved frontispiece 6 further engraved plates. Later half calf marbled boards. Spines in five compartments with gilt double rules. Original leather labels relaid to spines. All edges and endpapers marbled. Title page to Vol. I slightly chipped to base. A few short closed marginal tears. Closed tear across tissue guard opposite p515. Occasional spotting. A handsome set. </p><p>"In 1821 Tyerman and George Bennet of Sheffield were appointed by the London Missionary Society to visit their southern stations. They sailed from London on 2 May in the whaler Tuscan and proceeding round Cape Horn visited Tahiti the Leeward and Sandwich Islands and other mission stations in the South Seas. In 1824 they visited New South Wales and on the way narrowly escaped from Maori in New Zealand. From Sydney in September 1824 they sailed through the Torres Straits to Java and thence to Singapore Canton and Calcutta. At Serampore on 3 May 1826 they met the venerable William Carey who received them with much kindness. After visiting Benares they sailed to Madras and thence to Goa. From India they voyaged in 1827 to Mauritius and Madagascar where the missions were firmly established under King Radama. On 30 July 1828 Tyerman whose health had given way under the climate of southern India died at Antananarivo." ODNB Bagnall 5667. Cordier 2112. Ferguson 1487. Hocken p. 49. Hunnewell pp. 69-70.<br /></p> Frederick Westley and A.H. Davis, Booksellers to the London Missionary Society. hardcover
183864089London: Robert Tyas 1838. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Robert Tyas 1838 'Second Edition considerably augmented'/ 1837. Octavo vi 118 4 publisher's catalogue pages plus a folding leaf of shipping statistics and a folding map 147 × 268 mm comprising a map of Australia with South Australia marked out a map of the eastern coast of Gulf St Vincent and a plan of Adelaide. Original brown cloth lettered in gilt within a decorative border on the front cover; cloth a little sunned about the spine mottled and lightly marked; corners slightly bumped with minimal wear to the extremities; minor foxing confined mainly to the folding leaf of statistics and adjacent leaves the advertisements and the last few leaves of text; an excellent copy. Robert Tyas hardcover
1882103473Perth: Government Printer George Inkpen. 1882. Folio original printed wraps with cloth spine folding map with colour detail pp vii 131. With the ex-library stamps of the Eastern Districts Chronicle which was published in York 1877-1927. Closed tear to the large folding map. Small silverfished area corner of endpapers light marks wraps some creasing. Good condition. Scarce. A fascinating glimpse into life in Western Australia in 1881. Sections include: population and dwellings ages conjugal condition education religion occupations nationalities year of entering the colony sick and infirm agriculture mines and manufactories and appendices. Aborigines are specifically excluded from the census except in a table showing the numbers "in service". A valuable resource for historians and researchers. 1st Edition. Wraps. Government Printer (George Inkpen) paperback
186280756London: Hall Virtue 1862. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Hall Virtue 1862. Octavo viii 167 pages. Original blind-stamped brown cloth lightly marked and a little rubbed and bumped at the extremities with slight wear to the corners; expert restoration to minor wear to the head and foot of the spine; trifling surface damage to the gutter of the rear endpaper; an excellent copy. 'I was offered some time before leaving South Australia strong inducements to write a history of that virtuous territory which should be palatable to certain classes of a small community; but as I had no high opinion of either the colony or the principles on which it was founded or its subsequent career I could not be the partisan at any price of a locality which I could not conscientiously recommend as a suitable field of emigration for any class of my fellow-country-men.' Nothing is sacred; it is perhaps hardly surprising to learn that 'every copy available was purchased and destroyed by the Angas family' Ferguson 10265 citing a note in the Petherick copy in the National Library of Australia. Hall, Virtue hardcover
1869024094Melbourne: John Ferres Government Printer 1869. HEAVY. vi 644pp index glossary appendices num bw ills several folding. Or brown cloth with gilt vignette to front gilt title to spine. Approx 3cm split in cloth at bottom front edge of spine light even browning of page edges minor bumps to top corners. Endpapers replaced pre-WWII. Lacks folding maps at rear. A lovely bright fresh copy of this scarce early work on mining in colonial Victoria. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 4to. John Ferres (Government Printer) Hardcover
183979454London: Smith Elder and Co 1839. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. London Smith Elder and Co. 1839 second edition/ 1839. Octavo viii 224 2 9 advertisements pages plus 4 lithographs 2 folding maps and a folding table. Original gilt- and blind-stamped dark green ribbed cloth lightly marked and a little bumped at the extremities; corners and spine ends neatly reinforced with black leather; endpapers replaced; title page slightly marked with the leading edge lightly chipped; plates moderately foxed affecting the adjacent leaves a little with light scattered foxing elsewhere; overall a very presentable copy with the contemporary signature of J. Smith at the head of the title page and the later bookplate of F.G. Coles. The lengthy subtitle is 'including particulars descriptive of its soil climate natural productions &c. and proofs of its superiority to all other British colonies. Embracing also a full account of the South Australian Company with hints to various classes of emigrants and numerous letters from settlers concerning wages provisions their satisfaction with the colony &c.'. <p>Apart from dropping the original title 'The Land of Promise' 'on the ground sic of vagueness and liability to misconstruction' and outing himself as author only the title page and two-page preface distinguish the first and second edition texts. Smith, Elder, and Co hardcover
186845410ABSt. Gallen, Scheitlin und Zollikofer 1868. VII, 299 S. Illustrierte Original-Leinwand. Ein Gelenk etwas angeplatzt und mit kl. Fehlstelle. 2 Bll. etwas gebräunt (Zeitungspapier-Abklatsch).
186163664Traduit et annoté d'après les travaux hydrographiques les plus récents par A. le Gras., 1 vol. in-8 reliure de l'époque demi-chagrin rouge à coins dos orné, double filet doré en mors et coins, coll. Dépôt des Cartes et Plans de la Marine, n° 312, Imprimerie Administrative de Paul Dupont, 1861, XXIII-566 pp. avec une grande carte dépliante
1866144419Adelaide: C. Platts E.S. Wigg J. Howell and W.C. Rigby 1866. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide C. Platts E.S. Wigg J. Howell and W.C. Rigby 1866. Duodecimo ii viii including the index to the Almanack 128 iv index to the Directory 122 vi index to the South Australian Almanac sic and Directory Advertiser 70 70a-71a 71-98 98a-99a 99-144 pages plus advertising on the pastedowns. Some of the advertisements contain woodcut illustrations; the two 'a' leaves and an adjacent one in each case are printed on orange paper. Flush-cut blue cloth with the full title page details repeated on the front cover and advertising on the rear one; cloth a little mottled and marked with minimal fraying at the edges; trifling signs of age and use; a very good copy. The very large oval blindstamp of 'Howell Bookseller Rundle Street Adelaide' appears at the head of the first leaf of the first index. C. Platts, E.S. Wigg, J. Howell, and W.C. Rigby hardcover
1881136694Adelaide: E. Spiller Government Printer 1881. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide E. Spiller Government Printer 1881. Quarto 8 pages last blank and 52 separately-paginated Acts in all approximately 500 pages. Contemporary full morocco; spine tooled in gilt; front cover extensively stamped in gilt with the design repeated in blind on the rear cover; all edges gilt and lightly marked; slight wear to the extremities now expertly conserved; marbled endpapers and adjacent leaves a little creased and marked; paper a little tanned; trifling signs of age and use; in excellent condition. The elaborate binding was likely executed by Emanuel Spiller the South Australian Government Printer at the time. Spiller's name appears as exhibitor and jury-member of competitions and exhibitions of binding and printing throughout the 1880s. The 'Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser' for 27 March 1880 carries a lengthy article by John Plummer on colonial bookbindings displayed at the Sydney International Exhibition noting that '. in the South Australian Court Mr. E. Spiller the Government printer of Adelaide occupies the foremost rank'. <p>Although offered primarily as a fine example of colonial binding the Acts contained in this volume numbers 196 to 238 as well as nine Private Acts are not without interest. There are numerous railways and tramways acts as well as acts on subjects as diverse as Chinese immigration the Adelaide Synagogue mining inebriates and the substantial 'No. 237. Marine Board and Navigation Act' 143 pages. E. Spiller, Government Printer hardcover
1861100535London: George Philip 1861. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. London George Philip late 1861. A full-colour map printed surface 610 × 510 mm cut into 20 panels mounted on linen as issued folded and mounted in the publisher's gilt-decorated cloth case external dimensions 190 × 118 mm. Slight wear to the corners of the case with minimal restoration to the spine; light erasures to the pastedown and paper-lined verso of the exposed panel of the folded map; the map is lightly marked in one spot but is essentially in fine condition. There are two interesting rubber-stamps on one cloth panel that of 'W.C. Rigby Newsagent Adelaide' and 'Archiv. Provinciae Austriae S. J.'; the erasures mentioned above appear to have removed a couple of examples of the Jesuit Archive stamp. Philips' Authentic Maps of the Australian Colonies Number 6 according to the information printed on the front pastedown. Tooley 974 basic details of the map only not noting the Travelling Maps series. Pertinent details printed on the map that provide evidence of the date of publication include 'Burke & Wills 1860-61' and the locations where King and the bodies of Gray Burke and Wills were found King was found in September 1861. The latest reference to Stuart is 'Stuart's Route 1860' presumably his fifth expedition from November 1860 to September 1861. The entire region of South Australia west of about 133 degrees east longitude and north of the coastline is described as 'Unexplored Country added to South Australia in 1861'; the Act to annex this land was passed in Great Britain in August 1861. Historians of Australian bookselling will know that William Charles Rigby commenced trading as a bookseller and newsagent in Adelaide in late 1859. George Philip hardcover
1874115996Adelaide: James Heath Lewis Printer first conference and Wesleyan Book Depot all other conferences 1874. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide James Heath Lewis Printer first conference and Wesleyan Book Depot all other conferences 1874 to 1886. Octavo 13 issues ranging from 32 to 90 pages the first and the last conferences but generally 50-60 pages each. Contemporary binder's cloth all edges speckled; title in gilt on the spine with the year of publication neatly inked on the leading edge of each issue; small and much later ownership details on the first title page; in excellent condition. Trove indicates that the only institutional holdings of any copies are the first three issues in the State Library of South Australia. James Heath Lewis, Printer (first conference), and Wesleyan Book Depot (all other conferences) hardcover
