Melbourne: Andersn, Gowan Pty Ltd., n.d. With Compliments | The British Imperial Oil Company Limited | Throughout Australia and New Zealand. Anderson, Gowan Pty. Ltd. 532-4 Lonsdale St., Melbourne. No date. Quarto, 16pp., illustrated, 4 colour (blue and grey). Illustrated paper wraps (grey with orange title), stapled. Advertising booklet aimed... More
London: Elder, Smith and co., 1851. Second Edition. Three quarter calf. Duodecimo (19 x 11cm), pp. vii, 267. Recased in three quarter gilt tooled tan leather over tan boards with recent eps. Slight spotting on the eps, very slight tanning to the edges if the leaves, one or two small stains... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1912. Cloth. First edition. Complete in 2 volumes, ocatvo, original red publisher's cloth with gilt decorations of aborigines on front board and spine. Vol I: Pp. Xiv 254pp, 105 illustrations plus 5 coloured plates. Vol II: Pp. Xvii 260 (255 - 515), including 259 illustrations, 2... More
London: Printed for T. Cadell Jun. & W. Davies, The Strand, 1798. First Edition. Quarter calf. Quarto, xx xxxviii 617 pages, 27.5 x 22 x 5.2 cm, Half Title; Titlepage; Dedication to the Rt Hon. Thomas Lord Viscount Sydney; Preface dated London, May 25, 1798; Contents listing Introduction (3 parts)... More
Sydney: Tuesday, February 25, 1845. No.2429. One broadsheet folded into four pages. Centre fold has been repaired with paper tape, corners creased, occasional stain and spot of foxing. A full but generally unremarkable day in colonial news but for the mention of the dalight robbery of the mail coach at Berrima. More
Glasgow: Cambridge University Press for the Hakluyt Society:, 1967. Thick octavo, ccxxiv, 718pp, 17 maps, 64 illustrations. Half-title gives III as number within set. Admiralty instructions and the journal of the Third Voyage, with supplementary extracts from journals or logs by James King, Charles Clerke, James Burney, Richard Gilbert, Thomas... More
Melbourne/London: John Ferres/Trübner and Co, 1886-87. Three volumes bound in two (lacks the word atlas, volume 4), pp xix, 407, 501, viii, 710. Later binding by P. A. Franklin and Sons, Melbourne: blue canvas covers, gilt titles on spines. Ferguson 8879. LACKS volume 4, the folio word atlas. Some white scuffing... More
London: Adam and Charles Black, 1910. First Edition. Printed in Edinburgh, first edition, octavo 22.5 x 17 cm, hard cover, 220 pages, plus 75 full-colour plates facing text pages (total 295 pages, plus four pagers of book advertisements at rear). Contents, List of Illustrations, 15 Chapters, folding map before Index... More
Brisbane: J. W. Buxton, 1867. Octavo. Pp. xii, 88 (including Appendix). Frontispiece: Photograph of F. and A. Jardine (LACKING), view of Somerset (facing p.75), and folding map showing the orthern part of Queensland showing route of the explorers (at end). Ferguson 7747. Recased in leather with 'Overland Expedition' printed on the... More
Sydney: Hordern House, 2007. Australian Maritime Museum Series No.6. One of 1000 copies bound in quarter tan kangaroo with speckled papered boards. Small quarto, frontispiece plate, pp 276; includes an introductory essay by Nigel Erskine, facsimile of original German Book followed by English translation. The German naturalist and philosopher Georg... More
Adelaide: South Australian Library Board, 1967. London: Richard Bentley, 1834). Hardcover, gold lettered spines, boards bound in blue vinyl. Vol. I: xv 441 pages, engraved Frontispiece, Half title, Title, Contents , 21 Chapters, b&w diagrams in text, Note. Vol. II: viii 428 pages, engraved Frontispiece, Half title, Title, Contents... More
Brisbane: Watson, Ferguson & Co.Ltd. 1923. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo, brown boards with gilt title to front and spine, pp. Xiv 373, 11 leaves of plates (photographs, portraits) Head and tail of spine ever so slightly bumped. Light scattered foxing. Inscribed by the author to W. Lee. Robert Martin Collins (1843... More
Sydney: William Brooks & Co., n.d. Cloth. Maroon boards with gilt titles , t.e.g., vi p., 1 (contents)., 277 p., 1 (colophon). Collation matches the first edition published in London by T.F. Unwin, 1898. Colophon reads "Printed at the Edinburgh Press, 9&11 Young St". Slight rubbing along the joints, corners bumped... More
Adelaide: Libraries Board of South Australia, 1969. Australian Facsimile Editions No. 33, in two volumes. Octavo, Vol. I: xii 521 pages, engraved Frontispiece, List of Charts, List of b&w Illustrations, Errata to Vols. I and II, three foldout maps, one two-colour, at end; Vol. II: viii 543 pages, engraved Frontispiece... More
Woodbridge: Boydell Press Hordern House, 1999. Edited From the Original Manuscripts. Three volumes in four; folio portfolio, 58 charts and views. The Hakluyt authorised reprints. Blue buckram with gilt blocked portrait of Cook on top panels, gilt titling on spines. Volume I: The Voyage of the Endeavour 1768-1771, cclxxxiv, 696pp.... More
Sydney: Hordern House, 1997. Quarto, cloth covered boards, pictorial dust jacket, pp. 400, limited to 2000 copies, contains 24 colour plates and over 100 monochrome plates. One of 2000 printed. More
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, & Searle, 1875. Octavo, recased in blue boards, pp [vii] [351]; 3 pages of Statistics; 40 pp advertisements; 3 maps (4th map missing); 8 plates incl frontis. LACKS TITLE PAGE. In very good condition except for missing title page and fourth map. Last two pages of... More
London: Addey and Co | George Routledge adn Co., 1861 | 1853. Three quarter calf. Jules Gérard. Lion Hunting and Sporting Life in Algeria. London: Addey and Co., Henrietta Street, Covent Garden., 1861. Third Edition. BOUND WITH What We Did in Australia: Being the Practical Experience of Three Clerks, In... More
Launceston: Albernian Press, 2003. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo 25 x 18 cm, xiv 575 pages, 33 chapters in four Parts; 36 colour Plates (some full page) in text and many scores of b/w photographs, maps and illustrations. Hard cover, black cloth over boards, gilt decoration on front cover and gilt... More
Katoomba: Phillips, n.d. Staplebound wraps. Oblong format, 23cm x 57cm, dun paper covers with blue illustration and title, stapled, 24pp, 90 black and white photographs. Covers are a little bent and bruised along the edges with a chip out of the head of the back cover at the fore-edge, soft... More
London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & co., 1921. First Edition. Royal octavo, Vols. 1 and 2: each 25.3 x 16.3 x 5 cm; Vol. 1: 50 Chapters, xv, pp. 1-366; Vol. 2: Chapters 51-99, xiv, pp. 367-768. With frontispiece portrait photograph, dated 1920, of RL Jack (1845-1921), pristine tissue guard... More
London: Ingram, Cooke and co., 1852. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo, xvi, [ii] verso blank, [17] - 428pp, (last 8pp. Appendix, 3 unnumbered). Frontispiece ("Return of the Dray") and 53 other illustrations. red blind-stamped cloth boards, decorated in gilt, recently rebacked with title and author on spine in gilt, corners refurbished... More
Hobart: Supreme Court of Van Diemen's Land, 1828. Original manuscript Record in ink dated 1828 of a Supreme Court of Van Diemen’s Land case before the Chief Justice, signed by the solicitor and attorney Thomas Wood Rowlands acting for the Plaintiff, Sarah Smith, v. the defendants Sir John Owen and... More
Hobart: Supreme Court of Van Dieman's Land, 1834. Original manuscript Record in ink dated 1834 of a Supreme Court of Van Diemen’s Land case before the Chief Justice, signed by the solicitor and attorney Thomas Wood Rowlands acting for the Plaintiff, David Barclay, v. the defendant John Bodry, unfolded size... More
Sydney: Office of W.W. Billyard, Sol, 18th March, 1880. A five page hand-written attested copy of William Alexander Dumaresq granting Power of Attorney to his brother-in-law The Honouroble Sir Louis Hope. Five large mould-made leaves (41 x 33cm) bear the watermark “R. Barnard 1876” and the number “36”. The copy... More