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987526Chez Pougin, Imprimeur-Libraire Paris 1795 In-8 ( 215 X 135 mm ) de 206[2] et 256-[4] pages, demi chagrin anthracite, dos lisse orné de filets dorés et à froid. Edition originale française de cette importante relation de voyage sur l'Australie. "( . )Ouvrage ou l'on trouve de nouveaux détails sur le caractère et les usages des habitans du Cap de Bonne-Espérance, de l'Île Ténériffe, de Rio-Janeiro et de la Nouvelle-Hollande, ainsi qu'une description exacte de plusieurs animaux inconnus jusqu'à présent." L'auteur était chirurgien en chef à bord de l'un des navires de l'Escadre anglaise qui transportait les condamnés, déportés en Australie. Rousseurs claires, anciens cachets de bibliothèque, bon exemplaire.
8vo [22 x 15 cm]; 4 volumes, xv, 599; xvi, 739; xvii, 741; xvi, 526 pp, 550 illustrations and plates from photos, 677 other illustrations from drwgs, maps including 2 large folding maps in pockets, diagrams, tables, index in each volume. original blue cloth with gilt title lettering on spines & front covers, spines faded but lettering clean, stain on endpapers, a little paper rippling but a very good clean copy with excellent maps in pockets, printer has excised some blank pages at end. A Bookplate of Philip Snow on endpapers. Day p. 160. A massive and comprehensive compilation covering all parts of the Pacific and its islands in great detail, very well-illustrated with photos and drawings, including geography, topography, peoples, natural history, resources, administration, climate, etc. Volume I has a hundred page history of the Pacific and a bibliography up to World War II. A superb reference with a high reputation for accuracy and impartiality. The versos of each title has the cancel, 'this volume was produced and printed for official purposes during the war 1939/45'.
1887BIB288084Adelaide: Burden & Bonython Advertiser Office. 1887. Octavo Size approx 15.5 x 22.8cm. Very Good Condition. Red cloth boards as noted in Ferguson 13317 are faded at spine and upper edge. Free endpapers are age-toned. Interior is very good. 39 pages. A reprint of articles originally published in the Advertiser of the author's trip through the centre of Australia. As well as touching on colonial politics it also addresses the issue of Aboriginal people. The author is now best known for his early novel of colonial South Australia ' Paving the Way' but was a notable figure politically in the early years of the colony. Robust professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardback. Burden & Bonython, Advertiser Office hardcover
Manuscript Signed Letter, dated 21 January 1897, discussing matters pertaining to the settlement era of Perth, Western Australia. 8vo. Two double-leafs, 5 pages. Very good condition. Fascinating content such as a poverty, drought, general health issues in Perth from the conditions, problems of the homeless, and in contrast the increase in land values, and prospects for youngsters, The writer also talks of the Music Society and of singing the Messiah at Christmas. Written by M. Barigh of Havelock Street, her home located on a hill above the central town, who may have been a relative of Richard Henry Barigh, an immigrant to Australia, possibly originally as a convict. Excerpts from the letter: "Lately we have had a water famine and all day long the water is cut off but we fill a tank and so it does not cause us much inconvenience... We do not like W.A. half so much as N.Z. it is too hot and dry and this town is not healthy." "The place must have grown half since we came and building is going on all the time and the values of property increasing - our land cost about four pounds a foot and a lady has just bought this piece adjoining ours and given over eleven pounds for it and thinks she has got it cheap." "There are scores of people here with nothing who a little while since in Melbourne were living in luxury." End Excerpts. Perth had only been established since 1829. In 1850, Western Australia was opened to convicts at the request of farming and business people looking for cheap labour. Queen Victoria announced the city status of Perth in 1856.
4002218-nnew. unknown
8vo., Second Australian Edition, with a frontispiece, 16 plates on 11 and a double map in red on blue stock; handsomely bound in red full morocco, backs gilt with five raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled and ruled in gilt, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. With small blind stamp on title. Daisy Bates's classic work was first published by Murray in 1938; with a first Australian edition following in 1944.
180229606London: Printed for W. Peacock and Sons 1802. The Third edition Correceted and Considerably enlarged. Embellished with Maps including thoe of Australia and Polynesia. 1 vols. 24mo. Bound in full contemporary red morocco a.e.g. Fine. The Third edition Correceted and Considerably enlarged. Embellished with Maps including thoe of Australia and Polynesia. 1 vols. 24mo. With a fine folding map of New Holland and New Zealand and a separate one of Polynesia including the Sandwich Islands. Not in Ferguson Printed for W. Peacock and Sons unknown books
189119168London: Truslove & Shirley 1891. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo 148 pp with eight photogravure plates folding plan of outrigger canoe folding chart and other illustrations. Number 291 of 500 copies issued. Spine lean rubbed and bumped corners old tape repair to verso of chart otherwise clean and sound. First English translation of Crozet's account of the South Pacific voyage of Marion du Fresne with Crozet as second captain which had two objectives: to return a Tahitian native who had been taken to France by Bougainville in 1769 and to seek the great southern continent" Terra Australis" which the French hoped to use as a base on the route to India and a strategic position to cut off British shipping lanes in wartime. The expedition discovered the Crozet islands in the southern Indian Ocean and visited Tasmania. Hill 401 402: "Reaching New Zealand a party put ashore in the Bay of Natives where Marion du Fresne and twenty-one of his men were massacred by the Maori. Crozet became captain and they sailed homeward via Guam the Philippines and Mauritius. An excellent description of New Zealand its products its natives and their customs is given. An extract from Jean de Surville's earlier voyage to New Zealand is added to this account." Truslove & Shirley hardcover books
1937009678Sydney: Angus & Robertson 1937 green cloth slight rubbing unmarked 343pp 10pp adverts plates. Diving for pearls and other endeavours in the seas of Australias Northern Territories such as the Timor sea Arafura sea Gulf of Carpentaria Coral sea etc. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7 - 9 tall. Angus & Robertson hardcover
1883WRCAM40477Primarily at sea 1883. 111pp. carbon copy of a manuscript on sheets 10 1/4 x 8 inches brad-bound along top edge. Approximately 20500 words. First leaf torn along old creases with no loss to text. Several leaves chipped along edges. Some light dampstaining along bottom edge. Last two leaves mutilated. Fair. Young man's journal of a trip from New York to Melbourne Australia. He records a relatively calm and uneventful passage lasting just over three months. Though dreadfully seasick for the first week or two he eventually gains his sea legs and stomach and enjoys an easy if lengthy voyage. His activities aboard ship include fishing and shooting at birds with the captain as well as learning navigation and astronomy from the mate. unknown books
2224423 November 1832; Nottingham. Despite the four years 1840-1844 Howitt spent in the colony with his brother the entomologist Godfrey Howitt 1800-1873 the present letter has nothing to do with Australia. The letter is addressed to the editors of 'The Aurora Borealis: A Literary Annual edited by Members of the Society of Friends'. This periodical was the work of a group of Quakers in Newcastle-upon-Tyne with George Atley Brumell 1800-1877 one of the founding editors. Another of those involved was Joseph Watson 1807-1874 named in the letter's address. Howitt as the present letter reveals was one of a number of prominent Quakers to contribute. Only one number of the periodical was published under the title 'The Aurora Borealis' in Newcastle and London in 1833; but the following year a second number appeared with the title 'The Friends' Annual; or Aurora Borealis for 1834'. No other numbers were published. The University of Illinois holds a collection of manuscripts relating to the magazine. 3pp 4to. Bifolium addressed with remains of seal in red wax on reverse of second leaf to 'Editors of the “Aurora Borealis†Care of Joseph Watson St. Nicholas' Church-yard Newcastle-Upon-Tyne.' Signed 'Richard Howitt.' In fair condition lightly aged and worn with closed tears to second leaf repaired with strips of paper. The recto of the first leaf is filled with the first six of the seven five-line stanzas of the poem with the page headed 'Esteemed Friends Editors of the “Aurora Borealisâ€'. The seventh stanza is on the reverse of the leaf at the head of the second page. Each of the seven stanzas of the poem ends with the refrain 'The Aurora Borealis'. The poem is unpublished and the first and last stanzas give an indication of its tone. The first reads: 'Now the days are dark and dreary Now the nights are long and weary Very welcome very cheery With the glory it doth trail – is The Aurora Borealis.' The last stanza reads: 'Blessings on ye for the blessing! Tome of many a heart's caressing - Past a homely bard's expressing Balm of many a bosom's bale – is The Aurora Borealis.' The letter itself begins without salutation after the last stanza at the head of the second page and Howitt himself concedes the mediocre nature of his poem: 'So far – not “so good†- but “so long.†To speak plain truth – setting aside poetry - “poets are such liars and take all colours like the hands of dyers†says Lord Byron yet in plain prose I have been much pleased with uyour little tome.' He comments approvingly on some of the volume's contributions before continuing: 'I must confess that when I first met with the title of the book in the Public Prints it struck me as flashy and unsubustantial – and I believe I expressed my feeling to be such – but the work itself has altered my opinion.' The volume has however left him with some 'dissapointment': 'I hoped to meet with an Essay from Thomas Knott and with a Poem of Montgomery's – if not with one from the pen of the great Lake Poet Wordsworth. And I have also vainly sought for something with Thomas Wilkinson's signature.' The editors have 'so many gems' that Howitt's own contributions to the volume 'shrink into comparative significance'. He does not blame them 'for making the last line of Eventide if more correct less vigorous. If I remember right it was “To feeling and to slinking hearts.†Many would prefer the line as it is printed but I would turn from the many to the few – and I have Wordsworth on my side of the question – He says – not “thinking minds†- but “To pipe a simple song for thinking hearts.†He ends with the gentle reproof: 'I perceive another or two verbal variations not of any consequence – but they would have been as well as they were.' He was also borther to William and Mary Howitt both writers. 23 November 1832; Nottingham. unknown
12112'H.M.S. Tauranga at Sea' undated but presumably on HMS Tauranga's maiden voyage to Australia 1890. 13pp. 12mo. On three bifoliums and a last single leaf. On aged and worn paper. A semi-literate but spirited epistle. Little is to be discovered concerning the identity of the writer. Addressed to 'My Darling Son' and signed 'good bye be good ever yours and yours alone William Kay' but with a few hints that the letter may not in fact be from a father to his son. Kay begins by stating that he is going to fulfil his promise and write 'a long letter'. Of the journey he writes: 'its not particularly rough but its the speed we are going that makes her roll we are now steaming past Deal at the rate of 19.8. so you can judge the rate we are going . we are ripping as the sailors call it. She's a very good sea boat so far. Shes alright down below but on deck oh my she simply washes down fore and half so we stay down below as much as we can. We had it rough last night off lands end but she behaved very well you would laugh if you were here we were standing on the forecastle last night watching her capers and a big fat wave came and washed us out of it she doesnt attempt to jump over them but she simply plunges right through it You ought to of seen us we was like a lot of drownded rats and then their was a yell how do you like Her.' He reports that 'we have a lot of young Blue Jacket sailor Boys on board we are going to take them out to Australia and I pittied them last night they were all sick and one of our little drumer sic Boys was that bad we had to take him to the Doctor in fact we thought he was going to roll up but he's alright now of course it doesnt effect us old seadogs'. He reports that the ship is going to Grimsby and Hull and then Torquay. He declares 'I shant kiss anybody else Annie Glenister ask me for one when I was at home but I wouldnt giver her one she said it was to bad of me she said if it was Lou Blane you wouldnt say no Not I. why should I you had better answer that one day when I was in No. 9 Union terrace the two annies got me down in the dressmaking shop and both of them kissed me what cheek but didnt I pay them out for it I got annie J. Down and capsized all her dressmaking gear all over her'. Docketed 'Very last letter. From on board ship.' HMS Tauranga was an Pearl-class Royal Navy cruiser built by J. & G. Thomson Glasgow and originally named HMS Phoenix. She was launched on 28 October 1889 and was renamed Tauranga as part of the Auxiliary Squadron of the Australia Station on 2 April 1890 arriving in Sydney with the squadron on 5 September 1891. She saw service during the Samoan civil war in 1899 and spent between 1901 and 1903 in reserve at Sydney before being assigned to the New Zealand division of the Australia Station. She left the Australia Station on 14 December 1904 and was sold for scrap in July 1906. 'H.M.S. Tauranga at Sea' [undated, but presumably on HMS Tauranga's maiden voyage to Australia, 1890]. unknown
1888219318London.: HMSO. 1888. Parliamentary Paper x 87pp original blue wrappers archivally strengthened on the verso spine chipped with loss scant pencil and ink marginal highlighting small circular stamp to the front cover but a good crisp copy. Correspondence 87 in all between the Australian States and the British Government with some of New Zealand and Fijiian interest focussing on the States' desire to restrict Chinese immigration. The two appendices give the correspondence of Lew Ta Jen to the Earl of Rosebery July 13 1886 and 21 Acts of the Colonies and Canada in a separate appendix. . HMSO. unknown
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous illustrations; original dark green cloth, gilt back, gilt top, bevelled boards, covers very lightly age-marked, corners lightly bruised, some mild cockling (mainly at margins) else a good, clean copy. EXTREMELY SCARCE
2 voll. in 8 legati insieme, pp. 452 con 3 tavv. f.t. di cui 2 in lit. e 1 in xil. Manca una tav. all'antip.; 282 + (1) + (1b) con 13 tavv. f.t. di cui 6 in lit. e 7 in xil. Timbro all'occhietto del primo vol. Qualche abrasione ai p. e ai tagli. M. pl. coeva con tit. oro al d. Due volumi della raccolta completa che ne comprende 18. Nel primo e' descritto un viaggio in Arabia, nel secondo un viaggio in Australia e Nuova Olanda (zona dell'Australia) con racconto degli usi e dei costumi dei popoli incontrati, delle principali citta', luoghi di culto, monumenti architettonici. Thomas Livingston Mitchell (1792-1855), esploratore scozzese, esploro' l'Australia del sud est.
Madrid, 1852. Un mapa de 80 x 107 cm., plegado a 17 x 11 cm., coloreado, con planos particulares de Islas Marianas : Mapas de todas las Islas en la escala de 1:1.000.000 para la comparación de sus magnitudes, con las de otras posesiones españolas, Palaos y Carolinas Centrales, Carolinas Orientales, Archipielago de Gilbert ó Grupo Kingsmill, Isla de Rota, Guajan, Puerto de Umata, Farallon de Medinilla, Bahia y Ciudad de Agaña, Rada de la Isla de Tinian, Isla de Guguan, Puerto de Tarofofo, Farallon de Torres, y Puerto de San Luis de Apra. Encuadernación original en cartoné y media tela.
1778PHO-2169Paris, Hôtel de Thou, 1778. 1 vol. in-4 (Sur 4) 255x195mm, XLIV-460 pp., basane époque, dos à nerfs ornés avec titre et tomaison, triples filets aux plats, charnières fendillées, petit manque au dos, coiffes arasées, coins et coupes émoussés, etc. Illustré de 12 gravures sur 17 dont une détachée avec manque.
1774PHO-2066Paris, Saillant et Nyon, Panckoucke, 1774, 1 volume in-4 (sur 4)26x21,5cm, 3ff.-536pp.,reliés plein veau tacheté époque, dos à nerfs ornés, tranches rouges, manque les pièces de titre et de tomaison, quelques usures et frottements, coiffes arasées, coins usés dont un enfoncé, , début de fentes Complet des 16 gravures, dont certaines dépliantes,
1778PHO-2171Paris, Hôtel de Thou, 1778. 1 vol. in-4 (Sur 4) 255x195mm, XLIV-460 pp., basane époque, dos à nerfs ornés avec titre et tomaison, triples filets aux plats, charnières fendillées, petit manque au dos, coiffes arasées, coins et coupes émoussés, épidermures. Illustré de 6 gravures sur 7.
1859M106191859 P, Poulet-malassis et De Broise , 1859 , in8br , XXIII - 278 pp Couverture défraichie , intérieur frais avec quelques pâles rousseurs.
1991103417British Museum Hill House 1991 Hill House, British Museum Natural History, 1991, 75 planches en couleurs avec notice explicative en regard, cartonnage éditeur, environ 55x37cm, cartonnage constellé de petites décolorations et taché par endroits, un petit accroc sur le mors du second plat, un ex-libris contrecollé au premier contreplat, bon état pour le reste, intérieur bien propre.
1988103537British Museum Hill House 1988 Hill House, British Museum Natural History, 1988, 56 planches en couleurs avec notice explicative en regard, cartonnage éditeur, environ 55x37cm, un ex-libris contrecollé au premier contreplat, de pâles rousseurs sur les pages, une légère griffure sur le second plat, bon état.
337611 page in8 - trés bon état -
1870LBW-1273New York A.J. Johnson 1870 580 x 430 mm.
109903Junk Dr W. Junk bv Publishers, 3 volumes, 1981, 2142 pp., une carte dépliante, pleine toile de l'éditeur, sous étui, étui sali, bon état et intérieurs très propres.
