LYALL (Robert).Livre Rare Book
S.D.U.K.Livre Rare Book
[AUSTRALIE] The Australian colonies.
1850LBW-855London, George Cox, 1853. 405 x 684 mm.
Librairie Le Bail · Paris, France500,00 €
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18252452Paris, Anselin et Pochard, 1825. In-8 de VIII-63 pp., 1 tableau replié, demi-chagrin bleu, couverture imprimée et dos conservés (reliure moderne).
1850LBW-855London, George Cox, 1853. 405 x 684 mm.
1880108150Adelaide: E.S. Wigg & Son 1880. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide E.S. Wigg & Son 1880s. Duodecimo 170 × 113 mm a cased leporello comprising 12 original albumen silver photographs each approximately 95 × 150 mm mounted on cards captioned and bordered in red joined together with cloth hinges. Red cloth lettered and decorated in gilt and decorated in black and blind; cover lightly marked plain spine a little sunned; an excellent copy the contents are in fine condition. The views are mainly street scenes and public buildings; all of them are illustrated on our website. Two of the plates are signed in the negative 'Sweet Adelaide' and the balance of the photographs are almost certainly his work. We have a similar item in blue cloth entitled 'Photographic Views of Adelaide South Australia. Series '; only two of the images are the same 'Rundle Street & The Arcade' and 'Coast Natives' Wurlie'. <p>Captain Samuel White Sweet 1825-1886 was a sea captain surveyor and photographer: after he was censured when his ship ran aground in 1875 he 'retired from the sea opened a photographic studio in Adelaide and concentrated on landscapes. With his horse-drawn dark room he travelled through South Australia taking hundreds of skilful pictures of the outback stations and homesteads. The colony's foremost documentary photographer of the 1870s in the early 1880s he was one of the first to use the new dry-plate process' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. <p>'Coast Natives' Wurlie' was clearly taken at the same time as the scene in the frontispiece to Taplin's 'The Folklore Manners Customs and Languages of the South Australian Aborigines' published in 1879 and illustrated with original photographs by Samuel Sweet. E.S. Wigg & Son hardcover
1880141137Adelaide: E.S. Wigg & Son 1880. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide E.S. Wigg & Son 1880s. Duodecimo 170 × 113 mm a cased leporello comprising 12 original albumen silver photographs each approximately 95 × 150 mm mounted on cards captioned and bordered in red joined together with cloth hinges. Blue cloth lettered and decorated in gilt and decorated in black and blind; cloth lightly rubbed at the extremities; card mounts uniformly tanned; a near-fine example with the contents in fine condition. The views are mainly street scenes and public buildings; all of them are illustrated on our website. Three of the plates are signed in the negative 'Sweet Adelaide' albeit an attempt has been made in two of them to mask these details and the balance of the photographs are almost certainly his work. We have a similar item in red cloth entitled 'Photographic Views of Adelaide South Australia. Series II'; only two of the images are the same 'Rundle Street and The Arcade' and 'Coast Natives' Wurlie'. <p>Captain Samuel White Sweet 1825-1886 was a sea captain surveyor and photographer: after he was censured when his ship ran aground in 1875 he 'retired from the sea opened a photographic studio in Adelaide and concentrated on landscapes. With his horse-drawn dark room he travelled through South Australia taking hundreds of skilful pictures of the outback stations and homesteads. The colony's foremost documentary photographer of the 1870s in the early 1880s he was one of the first to use the new dry-plate process' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. <p>'Coast Natives' Wurlie' was clearly taken at the same time as the scene in the frontispiece to Taplin's 'The Folklore Manners Customs and Languages of the South Australian Aborigines' published in 1879 and illustrated with original photographs by Samuel Sweet. E.S. Wigg & Son hardcover
186578579Adelaide: Andrews Thomas and Clark 1865. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Andrews Thomas and Clark 1865. Octavo ii frontispiece ii title leaf vi 118 vi book review pages with 2 mounted albumen paper photographs one is a frontispiece portrait of Stephenson 87 × 57 mm; the other is of a sketch presumably by Stephenson 103 × 57 mm. The book review reprinted from the 'South Australian Register' December 28 1865 has been folded down the middle before being bound in. Full morocco now expertly rebacked all edges gilt contemporary but probably not original - we have only seen blind-stamped cloth before; corners worn front and rear covers a little scuffed; overall a very good copy. One of the earliest Australian imprints illustrated with original photographs see Holden: 'Photography in Colonial Australia' Sydney 1988 where the author is incorrectly referred to in the text and index as Stevensen. The first essay the St Peter's Collegiate School Prize Essay of 1864 is entitled 'The Difficulties of Colonization in the Northern Territory' 17 pages; another two pages are devoted to the importance of the acquisition of the Northern Territory to South Australia. Almost half the book 58 pages is given over to verse by Stephenson who died at the age of 18 in May 1865. Inscribed on an early blank in what we know to be the hand of Charles Todd to 'Mr Edwd Stirling Junr / Xmas 1865'; with the pictorial bookplate 'Gang forward' of Edward Charles Stirling. Ferguson 16245; Holden 103. We have previously sold a copy inscribed by Todd to his daughter on 4 December 1865 in which the review was loosely inserted as an eight-page pamphlet. The Christmas inscription and the inclusion of the review not published until 28 December suggest that this morocco binding came after the event. Andrews, Thomas, and Clark hardcover
1838140755London: Harvey and Darton 1838. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Harvey and Darton 1838 first edition. Duodecimo viii 136 pages. Original full dark green leather extensively decorated in blind on both sides recently rebacked in dark green calf retaining an early cloth backstrip and small leather title-label with slight loss; new marbled endpapers; leather worn at the extremities with the corners of the boards rounded off; all edges gilt; minor signs of age and use including some early pencilling most of it lightly erased; overall a very good copy. A presentation copy in a presentation binding inscribed on the flyleaf to 'The Revd. H.M. Villiers with the author's best regards'. <p>Robert Gouger 1802-1846 'Earnest persistent and practical . with a pleasant manner and a persuasive tongue but he was inclined to exaggerate his own republican views and the virtues of South Australia. With his youthful looks and boyish ardour he was often thought to be brash and reckless yet he was South Australia's most devoted promoter' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. 'The South Australian Act was passed in August 1834 and a month later Gouger presented his library of colonial books to the South Australian Literary and Scientific Association. After much delay and more hard work by Gouger the South Australian Colonization Commission was gazetted in May 1835. Its first appointment was Gouger as colonial secretary a recognition of faithful service that was affirmed even by the Colonial Office'. <p>He arrived on the 'Africaine' in November 1836. His young wife and new-born son both died five months later. He 'bought eight town acres 3.2 ha at Adelaide's first land sale and began to build a house but was soon entangled in the party factions that bedevilled the new settlement. He quarrelled with Osmond Gilles; after a public brawl they were both arrested and Gouger was suspended. By way of Hobart Town he left in November 1837 for England where he was reinstated by the Colonization Commission raised funds for a Congregational chapel in Adelaide and published "South Australia in 1837; in a series of letters with a postscript as to 1838". In October 1838 he married his cousin Sarah Whittem of Kenilworth. <p>Gouger returned to Adelaide in June 1839 and resumed office but his health began to fail. Soon after Governor Sir George Grey arrived he was appointed colonial treasurer. He bore the brunt of Grey's economic reorganization until August 1844 when he had to apply for leave because of mental affliction. He had also suffered in the depression but his claims for a pension and repayment of salary lost during his suspension were refused by the Colonial Office. Although Gouger had £1700 worth of securities the sale of his effects yielded barely enough for him to return to London with his family. He died at Kensington on 4 August 1846 survived by his widow two sons and a daughter'. Ferguson 2497. <p>Provenance: Henry Montagu Villiers 1813-1861 bishop of Durham fifth son of George Villiers 1759-1827 and younger brother of George William Frederick Villiers fourth earl of Clarendon . In 1836 he was ordained to the curacy of Deane Lancashire and on 25 Jan. 1837 was removed to the vicarage of Kenilworth Warwickshire. The lord chancellor Lord Lyndhurst gave him the wealthy rectory of St. George's Bloomsbury London in 1841 and it was as rector of St. George's that he made his reputation displaying great ability and untiring zeal in the management of his large parish. He was an extreme low churchman and especially appealed as a preacher to the poor. The dissenters in his vestry eagerly supported him and with men of every sect and stamp who belonged to the evangelical order he avowed the fullest sympathy. He introduced an admirable system of management into his parochial schools. From 26 March 1847 to 1856 he was a canon of St. Paul's Cathedral. In June 1860 he was translated to the see of Durham. Great things were expected from his energy and tact in Durham where the spiritual provisions were very deficient; but he died at the Castle Bishop Auckland on 9 Aug. 1861' 'Dictionary of National Biography'. <p>The book later entered the collection of Sir Archibald Grenfell Price 1892-1977 geographer historian and educationist; his armorial bookplate has been remounted on the renewed pastedown. Harvey and Darton hardcover
1871144375Adelaide: The Author and 'Sold by All Booksellers' 1871. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Adelaide The Author and 'Sold by All Booksellers' 1871 second edition revised and enlarged/ 1843. Duodecimo 180 × 106 mm viii last blank 134 23 advertising section including the rear pastedown pages. Flush-cut plum-coloured cloth with the short title on the front cover in gilt within a gilt frame with a double-line border in blind around the margins; lettering a little indistinct; cloth discoloured and stained and a little worn at the extremities; front joint cracked with the hinge later reinforced with a narrow strip of paper; small light waterstains to the margins of the front endpaper; minor signs of age and use including an annotation in red ballpoint at the foot of the title page 'First published 1843'; notwithstanding this is a very presentable copy of a book designed to be used in the field. See Crittenden 12 for mention of this revised edition of only 'the fourth in the line of Australian gardening books'. McEwin notes in his preface to this edition the addition of a chapter on the 'Formation of the Flower Garden and Shrubbery with Monthly Calendar of operations' calendars are now also included 'for the Vineyard Fruit Garden and Kitchen Garden. There has also been added to the catalogues of fruits and vegetables a list of the most esteemed varieties of each . An Appendix has also been added on Fruit-drying'. [The Author] (and 'Sold by All Booksellers') hardcover
188327755Perth: Goverment Printer 1883. Robert Fairbairn the prominent 19th century Western Australian magistrate is the appointee to whom this "Minute" is aimed. He would soon be in charge of the Kimberley district and Wrenfordsley was at the time of this writing the Acting Governor of Western Australia. Unusually this is not recorded on either Trove or the State Library of Western Australia. <br /> <br /> The "minute" advises Mr. Fairbairn on his duties which will involve ".those of the Judge the Collector of Customs and the Registrar". and he advises "the Magistrate to take his own notes of the evidence and not to trust to his clerk." It is most interesting for the directions of caution in meting out punishment to the aboriginal community. "As the dispenser of justice to an uncivilised race it is all important that he should appear to act with judicial calmness and deliberation." Settlers were to be discouraged from taking the law into their own hands. And the statues prohibiting the supply of liquor to natives were to be strictly enforced so that "in the remote and . peaceful wilds of the Kimberley country the white man's curse will long remain unknown." An early reader has commented at the top "This is good" and has also highlighted various sections of interest. <br /> <br /> At the time of this writing Wrenfordsley was Acting Governor of Western Australia however he had a long career in law as solicitor Attorney General of Jamaica Chief Justice of Western Australia and Chief Justice of Fiji. <br /> <br /> Foolscap folio 3pp black text on cream paper. At the end of page printed H.T. Wrenfordsley Administrator. 13-3-83." A notation on verso in ink "Notes of Wrenfordsley on Justice duties." Top edge ruffled small puncture top right pin mark two period folds overall very good. Goverment Printer unknown
1866513171866. Melbourne: Printed by John Ferres 1866. 4 vols. Melbourne: Printed by John Ferres 1866. 4 vols. Victorian Acts in Force in 1866 Australia. Victoria. The Victorian Statutes. Published by Authority. Melbourne: Printed by John Ferres 1866. 4 volumes. Quarto 10-1/2" x 8-1/2". Modern cloth hardcover gilt titles to spines endpapers renewed internally clean. Ex-library with small stamps Bibliothek des Reichsgerichts to title pages. $650. Only edition. A companion volume of imperial statutes in force in Victoria was published in 1868. The first three volumes contain general acts. Volume IV contains acts that relate to particular persons or localities or have a "special or limited operation." Both volumes are indexed have chronological tables and are digested alphabetically. The Reichsgerichtsbibliothek Imperial Court of Justice Library was at its peak Germany's largest and most important law library with 170000 works in its collection before the outbreak of the First World War. OCLC locates 6 copies. Sweet & Maxwell A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 6:88. unknown
1866513171866. Melbourne: Printed by John Ferres 1866. 4 vols. Melbourne: Printed by John Ferres 1866. 4 vols. Victorian Acts in Force in 1866 Australia. Victoria. The Victorian Statutes. Published by Authority. Melbourne: Printed by John Ferres 1866. 4 volumes. Quarto 10-1/2" x 8-1/2". Modern cloth hardcover gilt titles to spines endpapers renewed internally clean. Ex-library with small stamps to title pages. $650. Only edition. A companion volume of imperial statutes in force in Victoria was published in 1868. The first three volumes contain general acts. Volume IV contains acts that relate to particular persons or localities or have a "special or limited operation." Both volumes are indexed have chronological tables and are digested alphabetically. OCLC locates 6 copies. Sweet & Maxwell A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 6:88. unknown books
1898007763Wellington: Government Printer 1898 SPECIMEN copy being only 111pp of the 'A' section of the Maori lexicon and 21 disconnected samples of the English lexicon cover titled in gilt 'Maori-English Lexicon of the New Zealand Tongue by the Rev. W. Colenso F.R.S. & F.L.S. Specimen' blind panelled cloth lightly handling bumped original black endpapers rear one has minor edge tear three small pen 'ticks' to half-title printed slip tipped onto title 'With Author's Compliments' xii 1-111 iv -21pp The complete lexicon was never issued pp 17-21 at rear are Colenso's letters to the General Assembly of the New Zealand Government concerning his work on the lexicon Bagnall C1195 scarce. association copy. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7 - 9 tall. Government Printer hardcover
185720665Smith Elder & Co. 1857. 8vo. First Edition with large folding map coloured in outline as frontispiece and 2 maps one folding; one full-page; original green cloth sides elaborately framed and patterned in blind backstrip blocked in blind and lettered in gilt uncut AND LARGELY UNOPENED primrose endpapers upper hinge cracked but binding entirely sound a remarkably well-preserved bright clean fresh copy IN WHOLLY UNRESTORED PUBLISHER'S BINDING. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR TO JOHN O'SHANNASSY WITH THE FORMER'S HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. With a bookplate on front paste-down and 16pp publisher's catalogue dated July 1857 bound in at end. This copy was formerly in the holdings of Melbourne Public Library and bears its stamp dated 18 Dec 1888 on frontispiece verso title and occasionally in text. Westgarth's Notes on the Overland Route comprise pp.376-451. A detailed statistical Appendix occupies pp.453-466. LOVELY COPY OF AN EARLY ISSUE OF A SCARCE AND IMPORTANT ACCOUNT OF THE COLONY. Ferguson 18418. Smith Elder & Co., hardcover
18431206T097London: Hamilton Adams and Co. 1843. 1st Edition . Hardback. Printed pages: 8vo. xviii 560 cxliv. Very Good Minus. 6 x 8.75 inches 15 x 22 cm. Recent half calf leather binding with marbled boards. Spine with four raised bands blind and gilt decoration red morocco title label. Fading to spin. Ex-library book with small stamp to top page edge title page and a few text pages. Text block strained at p270 but very securely bound. Complete with the 15 plates several illustrations within the text and three large fold-out maps. Foxing to plates clean text throughout. Maps have some tears creasing and light foxing. First map has a library stamp to upper margin. Overall condition is Very Good Minus. Size: 6 x 8.75 inches 15 x 22 cm. Hamilton, Adams and Co. hardcover
1866131289Adelaide: Government Printer 1866. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Government Printer 1866. Foolscap folio 2 and 12 pages. Drop-title both items recently bound in cloth with a leather title-label along the spine; bottom corner of both papers lightly creased with the first one slightly mottles; in excellent condition. South Australian Parliamentary Papers Number 79 and 80 of 1866. The first one by Frederick Howard gives a summary account of activities from 28 December 1865 to 26 August 1866. It contains numerous references to the McKinlay expedition; the 'Beatrice' was its support vessel. Most of the second one contains reports from Escape Cliffs Camp by James Manton Acting Government Resident after the recall of Finniss. These include the complete journal of events at the camp from Manton's arrival on 13 November 1865 until 10 August 1866 with numerous references to John McKinlay and his expeditions. Government Printer hardcover
186658408Adelaide: Government Printer 1866. Very Good. Adelaide Government Printer 1866. Foolscap folio 12 pages. Drop-title; small amount of residual paste along the spine where neatly disbound; an excellent copy. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 80 of 1866. Primarily reports from Escape Cliffs Camp by James Manton Acting Government Resident after the recall of Finniss; they include the complete journal of events at the camp from Manton's arrival on 13 November 1865 until 10 August 1866 with numerous references to John McKinlay and his expeditions. Government Printer unknown
1870112789Adelaide: The Adelaide Photographic Company 1870. Adelaide The Adelaide Photographic Company circa 1870. An albumen paper photograph 94 × 61 mm mounted as issued on the printed card 104 × 63 mm of The Adelaide Photographic Company. A few tiny surface scrapes to the bottom millimetre or so of the photograph and slight surface loss to the plain section of the mount adjacent to it but overall the condition is excellent. There is an example of the same image in the State Library of NSW a gift from a family member John Howard Johnson dated January 1870. The 'Australian Dictionary of Biography' has this to say about Angas: 'although his prominence in the foundation of South Australia has been somewhat exaggerated . he deserves full credit for the capital and settlers that he introduced into the new colony'. He emigrated with his family in 1851 and spent the rest of his life in the colony. The Adelaide Photographic Company unknown
1877126843Adelaide: E.S. Wigg & Son 1877. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Adelaide E.S. Wigg & Son 1877 second edition/ 1871. Duodecimo 132 4 index 8 advertisements pages. Original yellow papered boards printed in black on all surfaces in red and black on the front cover with an advertisement for the publisher at the rear; covers a little worn and marked with slight loss to the rear top edge; endpapers marked especially the front one used as a watercolour palette by a child with a few numbers written later in ink; title page a little soiled; minor signs of age and handling but overall a very decent copy of a rare book meant to be used. This is only the fourth copy we have seen in 50 years and Trove records only five institutional holdings. We have noted two different bindings: papered boards as here in two instances and quarter contrasting red and green cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and front cover in another two instances. <p>Ernst Bernhard Heyne 1825-1881 botanist and horticulturist 'was a prodigious writer. Though overshadowed by von Mueller his botanical and horticultural work greatly contributed to the early development of the two colonies' of Victoria and South Australia 'Australian Dictionary of Biography' making a rare error in not recording accurately this edition. Ferguson 10397; Crittenden 53 with a lengthy commentary on its importance. The first edition was published as 'The Fruit Flower and Vegetable Garden' in 1871 Ferguson 10396 recording only one copy; Crittenden 47 'not sighted'; Trove records five copies. E.S. Wigg & Son hardcover
1848056240Sydney: W. & F. Ford 1848. title continues: Statistics. Illustrated with Numerous maps and Drawings. xvi 438 2 pages 16 advertisements 4 plates 23 col maps 1 folding additional engraved advertising plate. Half leather titled in gilt to spine. Ferguson 4949. This copy with an additional engraved advertising plate for J. Goodwin Law & Fancy Book Binder Sydney and with a map of the Orient Steam Navigation Company routes with departures from London to Australia on verso loosely inserted at rear. Minor rubbing to spine some tanning and foxing. Bookplate of Peter Shand Kydd inside front cover. Signature of P.L. Simmonds and blindstamp of Simmonds & Co Agents Barge Yard London on title page. A very nice complete copy. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo. W. & F. Ford Hardcover
183681211836 couv. imprimée., br., non rogné. in-8, XIV-394pp. IVpp., (deux tableaux depl. compris dans la pagination), P. Paulin 1836,
1833PHO-1342Paris (Imprimerie Royale) 1833/35. 4 vol. in-8°, 23,5 x 15,5 cms, reliés demi basane lisse rouge, dos ornés.Coiffes accidentées, cachets effacés 3ff-XLI-558pps; 6ff-481pps; 6ff-510pps; 6ff-480pps., pages de titre avec réparations (tome 3 et 4)
1838PHO-1194London, Richard Bentley, 1838. 2 volumes in-8 (21 x 13 cm), veau fauve glacé (reliure de l'époque), dos lisse orné, pièces de titre et de tomaison en maroquin grenat et olive, dentelles dorées et triple filet à froid encadrant les plats, roulette dorée intérieure et sur les coupes, tranches peignées, xii-403-[1];vi-441-[1] pages (complet). Coins usés, charnières frottées et fendues, coiffes accidentées ,manque au dos avec épidermure .
185314573Paris Librairie de Guillaumin 1853 in-12, br., couv. impr
180747325London, The Author, 1807. 8vo. Contemp. calf, rebacked with brown buckram. Title- and tomelabels with gilt lettering. Corners bumped. In: ""A Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, and the Arts. By William Nicholson."" Vol. XVI. - VIII,392,(8) pp. a. 8 engraved plates. (Entire volume offered). Flinders letter: pp. 107-118 a. pp. 173-182. Internally clean.
185044333(London), JAs (James) Wyld, (around 1850). (62,5 x 94 cm.). Engraved map, with original outline colourung.. A few small tears in margins, not affecting image.
185044333London JAs James Wyld around 1850. 625 x 94 cm. Engraved map with original outline colourung. A few small tears in margins not affecting image. <br/><br/><em>This large map having insets of Western Australia plan of Adelaide plan of Sydney and Van Diemen's Land. </em> unknown
