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1693319626London: for John Dunton 1693. First edition in English. 10 88 97-186 6 pp. Ad leaves in the rear. 12mo. Period calf rebacked. Early inscription on the front endpaper "Sale at King's Jan. 1806 2.6 3/6. First edition in English. 10 88 97-186 6 pp. Ad leaves in the rear. 12mo. The First Appearance of the Words "Australia" and "Australians" in Print. The rare first English edition of the most famous of all the fictitious accounts of Australia. <br/><br/>This amusing and entertaining imaginary voyage of Jacques Sadeur to the Congo and thence to 'Australia' recounts his multiple shipwrecks and being dropped on the western shores of Australia after being saved by a winged creature. He gives an imaginative description of 'Australian' laws and customs the region's hermaphroditic culture Sadeur being an hermaphrodite himself the natural history mineral resources religion and language. The book ends with a highly fanciful description of Madagascar.<br/><br/>First published in French in 1676 the author Foigny was a defrocked and exiled Franciscan and the work was banned by the Church. Of particular note is that John Dunton the translator and publisher of the present first Engish edition anglicises the name "Terre Australe" into Australia and the inhabitants into Australians -- the first such usage of the words in print.<br/><br/>The first edition in English is very rare with only a handful of institutional holdings in Great Britain North America and Australia. Wing F1395; ESTC R20648; Friedrich p. 16ff; Spate p. 83; Davidson A Book Collector's Notes pp. 41-42 for John Dunton unknown books
1977221898Sydney: Communist Party of Australia 1977. 23p. pamphlet 8.25x11.75 inches paper toned horizontal crease else good condition. Communist Party of Australia unknown books
1902513161902. London: Sweet & Maxwell 1902-1933. 7 vols. London: Sweet & Maxwell 1902-1933. 7 vols. Digest of Victorian Cases 1895-1932 Australia. Victoria. A Digest of Reported Cases in the Supreme Court Court of Insolvency and Courts of Mines of the State of Victoria. From 1895 to 1932. Melbourne: Charles F. Maxwell G. Partridge & Co. London: Sweet & Maxwell 1902-1933. 7 Vols. Complete set. Original cloth gilt titles to spines some shelfwear soiling and minor spotting internally clean. Ex-library. Location labels to spines notes in pencil to front pastedowns small stamps to title pages. $500. Only editions. These volumes were issued serially and are often catalogued as independent titles. No complete sets on OCLC. Sweet & Maxwell omits the 1895-1901 volume but it is listed in the Harvard Law Catalogue. See Sweet & Maxwell A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 6:17. Catalogue of the Library of the Harvard Law School 1909 I:590. unknown books
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
194420043Washington D.C.: U.S. Navy Hydrographic Office 1944. Lightly tinted mostly black and white map; evidently produced for use during World War II with a Navy Department stamp to left margin dated 1945 indicating corrections noted map with a few extra dots of color for this; land features including the Liverpool Creek and Basilisk Range at the south to Cairns harbor at the northern part the coastline of this area of Queensland Australia as well as the off-shore reef systems Noggin Passage more; approx. 30" x 42" total size; light wear very clean and in very good condition. . Very Good. U.S. Navy Hydrographic Office unknown books
