CATALOGUE NUMBER 388
Captain James Cook, Sir Joseph Banks, etc., William Bligh and the Bounty Mutiny, its aftermath on Pitcairn Island, and Norfolk Island: Its association with Pitcairn, the Penal Settlement, etc. GASTON RENARD BOOKS AUSTRALASIA
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2006 Catalogue No. 388. 2006. Captain James Cook, Sir Joseph Banks, etc., William Bligh and the Bounty Mutiny, its aftermath on Pitcairn Island, and Norfolk Island: Its association with Pitcairn, the Penal Settlement, etc.
Section I: General Works (items 1—35)
1 Beaglehole, J. C. THE EXPLORATION OF THE PACIFIC. Second Edition; pp. xvi, 412(last blank); 3 (of 4) folding maps with explorers’ routes in colour, bibliography, index; original cloth; (LACKING the first map of routes of the early explorers). London; Adam & Charles Black; 1947. ***Holmes 146 (First Edition); Beddie 444. #1847 A$35.00
2 Beaglehole, J. C. THE EXPLORATION OF THE PACIFIC. Third Edition, reprinted; pp. xvi, [3]-346; 4 maps with explorers’ routes in colour, bibliography, index; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. London; Adam & Charles Black; (1975). ***This third edition is completely revised and re-written to take account of researches since the first edition of 1934. #43341 A$120.00
3 Becke, Louis; and Walter Jeffery. THE NAVAL PIONEERS OF AUSTRALIA. First Edition, Australian Issue; pp. [ii], [ii](cancel title-page), [vii]-xii, 314, [2](adv.); 21 plates (including 1 map), index; original gilt-decorated blue cloth (spine & portions of boards faded; some foxing, especially at start; partial erasure of name from title-page); a very good copy; scarce. Melbourne; Melville, Mullen, & Slade, London, John Murray, Albemarle Street; 1899. ***This issue not in Ferguson but see 6851 for the London edition. The Hobill Cole copy, with book label. #3909 A$325.00
4 Brosse, Jacques. GREAT VOYAGES OF EXPLORATION. The Golden Age of Discovery in the Pacific. Translated by Stanley Hochman. Preface by Leslie R. Marchant. Roy. 4to, First Australian Edition; pp. 232; 2 double-page & 7 other coloured maps, very numerous coloured & b/w. illustrations (some full-page), appendices (biographical dictionary of navigators, scientists & artists; geographical dictionary, bibliography), index; original black cloth, spine and front board lettered in gilt; a nice copy in pictorial dustwrapper reproducing the oil painting of the Resolution and Adventure at Tahiti by William Hodges); scarce. (Sydney); Doubleday; (1983). ***A valuable & useful reference, reproducing a number of rare natural history plates and other illustrations of interest. Includes the early Antarctic voyages. #13323 A$165.00
5 Brosse, Jacques. GREAT VOYAGES OF EXPLORATION. Circumnavigators and Scientists, 1764- 1843. Translated by Stanley Hochman. Preface by Fernand Hochman. Roy. 4to, First U.S. Edition; pp. 232; 2 double-page & 7 other coloured maps, very numerous coloured & b/w. illustrations (some full-page), appendices (biographical dictionary of navigators, scientists & artists; geographical dictionary, bibliography), index; original black cloth, spine and front board lettered in gilt; a nice copy in slightly faded pictorial dustwrapper reproducing the oil painting of the Resolution and Adventure at Tahiti by William Hodges); scarce. New York, New York; Facts on File Publications; (1983). ***A valuable & useful reference, reproducing a number of rare natural history plates and other illustrations of interest. Includes the early Antarctic voyages. The various different regional editions appear to have had Prefaces by different authors. #17973 A$165.00
6 Burney, James. A CHRONOLOGICAL HISTORY OF THE DISCOVERIES IN THE SOUTH SEA OR PACIFIC OCEAN. 5 vols., cr. 4to; Facsimile Edition; Vol. 1, pp. [ii], [ii], xii, [viii], 392(last blank); 5 folding charts; Vol. II, pp. [iv], vi, [x], 482, [2](blank); 5 folding & 2 full-page charts & 2 in text, 3 plates & 2 text illustrations; Vol. III, pp. [ii], [x], 440(last 3 blank); 6 folding & 6 full-page charts, 7 plates (4 folding); Vol. IV, pp. [ii], xviii, 580; 3 folding, 1 full-page & 1 text charts; Vol. V, pp. [ii], viii, 178, [2], 179-340(last 3 blank); 1 folding & 1 full-page chart, folding view & 1 text illust.; original simile vellum (some corners slightly bumped); a nice set; very scarce. Amsterdam; N. Israel; (1967). ***First published London, G. & W. Nicol [and others], 1803-17. A vastly comprehensive work covering the period from Magellan to 1764. This facsimile has been out of print for several years and the original edition is a rare and sought-after work. Burney sailed with James Cook on his second voyage —see item 55. #4977 A$1250.00
7 Calvert, Albert F. THE DISCOVERY OF AUSTRALIA. 4to, First Edition; pp. [ii], vi, [5]-92 (but intact); 24 full-page maps (reproductions of early charts of Australia & parts thereof ), 5 plates; list of circumnavigators before Cook; appendix; original cloth; top edge gilt, others uncut; (covers a little bumped & marked; internally fine); scarce. London; George Philip & Son; 1893. ***Ferguson 7812. The maps are reproductions of early maps and charts, including several of the Dieppe maps showing Portuguese discoveries of the 16th century, and there is of course much on Cook (nearly half the book). #6488 A$325.00
8 Calvert, Albert F.; F.R.G.S. THE DISCOVERY OF AUSTRALIA. Cr. 4to, Second & Best Edition; pp. xii, 184, [8](reviews of Calvert’s works); 60 plates (almost all reproductions of early maps), list of list of circumnavigators before Cook, index; finely rebound in full burgundy calf in facsimile of the original cloth binding, all edges gilt; a fine, most attractive copy; scarce. London; Dean & Son, Limited; 1902. ***The maps are reproductions of early maps and charts, including several of the Dieppe maps showing Portuguese discoveries of the 16th century. Greatly expanded from the first edition and including much on Captain Cook as well as the earlier voyages. #21648 A$750.00
9 Carter, Paul. THE ROAD TO BOTANY BAY. An Essay in Spatial History. First Edition; pp. [ii], xxvi, 384, [4](blank); 22 illustrations on 32 plates (including 13 maps, some double-page), notes, index; original papered boards; a nice copy in dustwrapper. London; Faber and Faber; (1987). ***Cook, Flinders, Sturt, Mitchell, etc. #18432 A$85.00
10 [Cowley, Des; Editor]. THE GREAT SOUTH LAND. An Exhibition of Books Relating to the European Discovery and Exploration of Australia. Cr. 4to, First Edition; pp. 36; couple of text maps, 4 coloured plates, several illustrations; original stiff wrappers; a fine copy. Melbourne; The Friends of the State Library of Victoria, Library Council of Victoria; 1988. #18274 A$35.00
11 Dorling, Taprell. SEA VENTURERS OF BRITAIN by Taffrail (Commander Taprell Dorling, D.S.O, R.N.). Illustrations by Cecil King, R.I. Cr. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xx, 316; 5 folding & 5 full-page maps, 14 plates; original cloth, gilt; a very good copy. London; W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd.; (1925). ***Including Franklin in the Arctic and Scott in the Antarctic, and a chapter devoted to James Cook. Not in Spence nor in Renard. #64054 A$65.00
12 Edgell, Vice-Admiral Sir John; Hydrographer of the British Navy, 1932-1945. SEA SURVEYS. Second Impression; pp. iv, 34; 7 plates (2 double-page, 1 cut in two by the binder, but complete), 1 fig.; binder’s cloth (library marks removed from endpaper, otherwise clean). London; Published for the British Council by Longmans, Green and Co.; (1949). ***A concise description of the British contribution to hydrography, with notes on the hydrographers and navigators such as Cook, Flinders, Franklin, etc. #12049 A$25.00
13 Giblin, R. W. THE EARLY HISTORY OF TASMANIA. 2 vols. thick demy 8vo, First Editions; [Vol. I] The Geographical Era 1642-1802. Pp. xiv, 342; 10 folding & 2 full-page charts, 3 plates, chronological table, 3 appendices, notes, bibliography, index; original cloth. London; Methuen & Co. Ltd., (1928). Vol. II: The Penal Settlement Era, 1804-18 [actually 1804-1828 - per Errata slip]: Collins, Sorell and Arthur. Edited, with additions from the Author’s Notes, by J. D. A. Collier. Pp. xxx, 710; Errata slip, notes, 2 appendices, bibliography, index, List of Subscribers; original cloth (very slightly flecked). Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, 1939. Together; 2 vols., a fine set in dustwrappers; scarce. London & Melbourne; Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Methuen & Melbourne University Press; 1928-39. ***An important and useful work covering the early voyages, including, as well as the obvious ones such as Tasman, Cook, D’Entrecasteaux, Flinders & Bass, Baudin, etc., those of Marion du Fresne, Bligh (Bounty and second voyages), Captain John Henry Cox, Lieut. John Hayes, and others. #22146 A$650.00
14 Gurney, Alan. BELOW THE CONVERGENCE. Voyages Toward Antarctica 1699-1839. Med. 8vo, First Edition, Second Impression; pp. [xii], 316(last blank); 3 double-page maps, 13 other maps, 15 illustrations, bibliography, index; original half cloth; a fine copy in dustwrapper. New York; W. W. Norton & Company; (1997). #63504 A$110.00
15 Gurney, Alan. DIE WEISSE KONTINENT. Die Geschichte der Antarktis und ihrer Entdecker. Australia dem Englischen von Michael Benthack. First Edition in German; pp. 432(last blank); 18 maps, several text illustrations, bibliography, index; a fine copy in dustwrapper. Munchen, Zurich; Diana Verlag; (1997). ***German edition of “Below the Convergence”. #31934 A$45.00
16 Heawood, Edward. A HISTORY OF GEOGRAPHICAL DISCOVERY IN THE SEVEN TEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES. Facsimile Edition; pp. [ii](blank), xii, 482(last 7 blank); 3 folding maps, 25 text maps, 26 text illustrations, appendix, index; original cloth; a fine copy. New York; Octagon Books; (1965). ***First published 1912 by Cambridge University Press. #64077 A$95.00
17 Henderson, G. C. THE DISCOVERERS OF THE FIJI ISLANDS: Tasman, Cook, Bligh, Wilson, Bellingshausen. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xviii, 324, [2](adv.); large folding map (in pocket), 3 other folding & 17 full-page maps, 27 plates, sources of information, index; original cloth (spine slightly faded); a very good copy; scarce. London; John Murray; (1933). ***Including an account and analysis of the “Bounty” mutiny. #1827 A$325.00
18 Holthouse, Hector. SHIPS IN THE CORAL. Impl. 8vo, First Edition; pp. [vi], 146; endpaper & 3 full- page maps, 8 coloured plates, numerous b/w. illustrations, bibliography, index; a fine copy in dustwrapper. (Melbourne); Macmillan; (1976). ***An historical survey of shipwrecks and other encounters with the Great Barrier Reef, including Cook, Bligh, the “Pandora”, the “Beagle” and others. A review copy, with label tipped to endpaper. #22221 A$135.00
FIRST (U.K.) EDITION, WITH THE RARE DUSTWRAPPERS 19 Jack, Robert Logan. NORTHMOST AUSTRALIA. Three Centuries of Exploration, Discovery, and Adventure in and around the Cape York Peninsula, Queensland. With a Study of the Narratives of All Explorers by Sea and Land in the Light of Modern Charting, many Original or Hitherto Unpublished Documents, Thirty-Nine Illustrations, and Sixteen [actually 17] Specially Prepared maps. 2 vols., thick roy. 8vo, First Edition, First (U.K.) Issue; Vol. I, pp. xvi, 366, [2](blank); portrait of the author as frontispiece & 20 portraits of explorers; 9 folding maps in pocket (included index map); Vol. II, pp. xiv, 367-768; 18 portraits of explorers, 8 folding maps in pocket, 3 indices (Persons, Places & Subjects); some foxing as almost always; otherwise a fine, bright set in the dark green cloth of the original issue, together with the rare dustwrappers (these with small defects to spines); scarce. London; Simpkin Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co.; (1921). ***An important work which contains, among numerous other narratives, accounts of explorations which are virtually unprocurable in original form, e.g., those by WILLIAM CARRON, WILLIAM HANN, JAMES MULLIGAN, GEORGE DALRYMPLE, DONALD LAING, J. T. EMBLEY, and others, including the not unimportant explorations of the Author. The early voyagers, Quiros, Cook, Bligh, the “Pandora”, Flinders, etc. are also included. #43393 A$2500.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books FIRST AUSTRALIAN EDITION, WITH THE RARE DUSTWRAPPERS 20 Jack, Robert Logan. NORTHMOST AUSTRALIA. Three Centuries of Exploration, Discovery, and Adventure in and around the Cape York Peninsula, Queensland. With a Study of the Narratives of All Explorers by Sea and Land in the Light of Modern Charting, many Original or Hitherto Unpublished Documents, Thirty-Nine Illustrations, and Sixteen [actually 17] Specially Prepared maps. 2 vols., thick roy. 8vo, First Edition (Australian Issue); pp. xvi, 366; portrait of the author as frontispiece & 20 portraits of explorers; 9 folding maps in pocket (included index map); Vol. II, pp. xiv, [367]-768; 18 portraits of explorers, 8 folding maps in pocket, 3 indices (Persons, Places & Subjects); (foxing throughout, occasionally moderately heavy, but otherwise a fine, bright set in the dark green cloth of the original issue and the rare original dustwrappers, these a little worn); scarce, rare with the dustwrappers. Melbourne; George Robertson & Co. (Proprietary Limited); 1922. ***An important work which contains, among numerous other narratives, accounts of explorations which are virtually unprocurable in original form, e.g., those by WILLIAM CARRON, WILLIAM HANN, JAMES MULLIGAN, GEORGE DALRYMPLE, DONALD LAING, J. T. EMBLEY, and others, including the not unimportant explorations of the Author. The early voyagers, Quiros, Cook, Bligh, the “Pandora”, Flinders, etc. are also included. This set has the attractive bookplate of Edith Foley (designed by E. H. Zeck) in each volume. #11228 A$2400.00
21 Kenny, John. BEFORE THE FIRST FLEET. Europeans in Australia 1606-1777. Cr. 4to, First Edition; pp. 184; endpaper & several text maps, 16 coloured plates, numerous illustrations, references, bibliography, index; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. (Kenthurst, N.S.W.); Kangaroo Press; (1995). ***Including the Dutch, English & French explorations with reference to the indigenous inhabitants and fauna and flora. #49385 A$75.00
22 Lee, Ida (Mrs. Charles Bruce Marriott). EARLY EXPLORERS IN AUSTRALIA: From the Log- Books and Journals, including the Diary of Allan Cunningham, Botanist, from March 1, 1817, to November 19, 1818. Thick demy 8vo, First Edition; pp. xii, 652; large folding map, 9 double-page & 13 full-page maps, 17 plates, 1 text illust., Errata slip tipped in at. p. 618; general index & botanical index; original cloth (slightly mottled, as often; slight partial split to cloth of front joint; some very minor foxing, but internally fine & crisp); scarce. London; Methuen & Co. Ltd.; (1925). ***The Cunningham Diary is here published for the first time. From Dampier onward, including Cook, Flinders, etc. #5271 A$495.00
23 McLaren, Ian. F. AUSTRALIAN EXPLORERS BY SEA, LAND AND AIR 1788-1988. [In 9 volumes, complete]. Vols. I-III, REFERENCES & INDEX. Vols. IV-IX, BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER & INDEX. 9 vols., 4to, First Edition; Vol. I, pp. xviii, 320; Vol. II, pp. xviii, 254(last blank); Vol. III, pp. xx, 304; Vol. IV, pp. xviii, 334(last blank); Vol. V, pp. xvi, 306; Vol. VI, pp. xvi, 316; Vol. VII, pp. xvi, 306; Vol. VIII, pp. xvi, 332(last blank); Vol. IX, pp. xxxiv, 292(last blank); 2 coloured plates (in Vol. IV), numerous maps & illustrations, references, addenda & corrigenda, and indices; original wrappers; a fine, complete set. Melbourne; University of Melbourne Library; 1988-91. ***Limited Edition of 500 copies. An extensive and comprehensive bibliography with detailed collations of several thousand items and including Australian involvement in Antarctica and New Guinea, as well as fictitious voyages and imaginary explorations, and including naturally Cook and Bligh. #35100 A$350.00
24 Marshall, James Stirrat and Marshall, Carrie; Compilers. PACIFIC VOYAGES. Selections from Scots Magazine, 1771-1808. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. [xiv], 100; endpaper map, several illustrations (1 coloured); original cloth; a fine copy in dustwrapper. Portland; Oregon, Binfords & Mort, Publishers; 1960. ***Including Cook, La Perouse, William Bligh, the Nootka Sound Controversy, etc. #53480 A$100.00
25 Nile, Richard and Clerk, Christian. CULTURAL ATLAS OF AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC. Med. 4to, First Edition; pp. 240; numerous coloured illustrations & Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books maps, glossary, bibliography, gazateer, index; original papered boards; (inscription on endpaper); a fine copy in dustwrapper. [Amsterdam]; Time Life; [1995]. ***Including such diverse topics as Cook’s explorations, the Bounty mutiny, Ned Kelly, Melanesian art and physical geography. #14550 A$65.00
26 Reid, Frank. THE ROMANCE OF THE GREAT BARRIER REEF. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xiv, 194(last 3 blank); 1 full-page map, illustrations by Geoffrey Ingleton.; original cloth; a very good copy in slightly worn dustwrapper. Sydney; Angus and Robertson; (1954). #23384 A$45.00
27 Renard, Julien. A MAJOR COLLECTION OF RARE AUSTRALIANA, PACIFIC VOYAGES AND OTHER BOOKS. To be sold at Auction by Leonard Joel. 29th, 30th and 31st August, 1988. Roy. 8vo (approx.); pp. xvi, 224; 8 full-page coloured plates, 22 b/w. illustrations (mostly full-page), explanatory notes, table of book sizes, supplementary index, references; list of prices realised loosely inserted; stiff wrappers. Collingwood; Gaston Renard; 1988. ***921 lots including many great rarities and major & important works. All items are fully described, with detailed bibliographical notes and explanatory footnotes. In addition to the many items of rare Australiana and Pacific Voyages, there are sections of Australian Art Exhibition Catalogues, Australian Designer Bindings, Australian Art Photographs; and many books on Australian Art. This was the most important book auction to be held in Australia since the landmark sale of the F. G. Coles collection in 1965, and realised a total just over 2.4 million dollars, tripling the previous record, and many new records were set for individual items. Including several rare and major items relating to Cook and Bligh. #22160 A$85.00
28 Renard, Julien. MAJOR COLLECTIONS OF ANTARCTICA, AUSTRALIAN EXPLORATIONS and General Australiana, AUSTRALIAN ART REFERENCE, Illustrated Books, and Literature including Children’s Books. To be sold at Auction by Leonard Joel, Fifteenth, 16th and 17th November, 1994. 3 vols., super roy. 8vo; Vol. I, Antarctica, pp. x, 246; Vol. II, Australian Exploration, pp. xviii, 118; Vol. III, Australian Art and Literature, pp. xii, 148; numerous illustrations; original wrappers. Collingwood; Gaston Renard; 1994. ***With lists of prices realised to each volume. A huge auction totalling 3757 lots, all carefully described, with informative footnotes - a valuable reference. Including many rare items relating especially to Cook’s second voyage. #45048 A$110.00
29 Rice, Dr. Tony. VOYAGES OF DISCOVERY. Three centuries of Natural History Exploration. With an Introduction by Dr David Bellamy. Large square 4to, First Edition; pp. 336(last blank); numerous coloured b/w. illustrations, bibliography, index; original papered boards; a very good copy in dustwrapper. London; The Natural History Museum, Scriptum Editions; (2000). ***Substantially on Australia and the Pacific, including substantial chapters on Cook’s first and second voyages, Matthew Flinders & Ferdinand Bauer, Darwin & the Beagle, Alfred Russel Wallace, and the Challenger Expedition. #12771 A$75.00
30 Scott, Ernest; Editor. AUSTRALIAN DISCOVERY. [Vol. I] By Sea. [Vol. II] By Land. [With an Introduction by the Editor]. Illustrated with ... Contemporary Portraits and Maps. 2 vols., First Edition; Vol. I, By Sea, pp. xxxvi, 412; 9 maps, 6 portraits; Vol. II, By Land, pp. xxxii, 422, [2](blank); 10 charts, route maps & drawings, 6 portraits; original cloth; (stamp of New York Times Club Library on front endpapers, but no other markings); a fine, clean & crisp set, virtually unused. London and Toronto; J. M. Dent and Sons, Ltd., New York: E. P. Dutton & Co. Inc.; (1929). ***Comprising the navigators’ and explorers’ own narratives, including substantial chapters on Cook and Bligh. U.S. issue with the Dutton imprint on spine, but printed in England. #26024 A$295.00
31 Scott, Ernest; Editor. AUSTRALIAN DISCOVERY. [Etc.] Another set, as above, the U.K. issue in original cloth; (a very good ex-library set with labels removed from front endpapers, white numbers on spines & markings on title verso, but no other markings). London and Toronto; J. M. Dent and Sons, Ltd., New York: E. P. Dutton & Co. Inc.; (1929). #5214 A$195.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books 32 Sharp, Andrew. THE DISCOVERY OF AUSTRALIA. First Edition; pp. xii, 340(last blank); 2 maps (1 folding) & 17 full-page map-plates, bibliography, extensive index; original cloth; a fine copy in slightly worn dustwrapper; scarce. Oxford; at the Clarendon Press; 1963. ***An important and useful reference history of Australian coastal discovery to 1839. #43366 A$250.00
33 Spate, O. H. K. PARADISE FOUND AND LOST. Super roy. 8vo, First U.K. Edition; pp. xxii, 410; 28 maps (nearly all full-page), 21 illustrations, notes, index; a fine copy in slightly worn dustwrapper. London; Routledge; (1988). ***The Pacific since Magellan, Volume III. Concluding this fine work, this volume gives a chronological overview of the peopling of the Pacific, the subsequent commercial exploitation and final loss of the paradise existing before European imperialism. With, inter alia, much interesting detail on the voyagers, before, including, and after Cook. #53499 A$110.00
34 Steven, Margaret. FIRST IMPRESSIONS. The British Discovery of Australia. Square 8vo, First Edition; pp. 96; maps, numerous coloured & b/w. illustrations, bibliography, index; original pictorial wrappers. [London]; British Museum (Natural History); [1988]. ***Includes Cook, the First Fleet, Flinders, etc. providing an insight into the lives of the early colonists and describing the impact of the British Museum (Natural History) collections on European thought. #38292 A$25.00
35 Villiers, Alan. THE CORAL SEA. (Illustrations by James Fuller. Maps by Stephen J. Voorhies). Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. vi, 310, [4](blank); endpaper & 6 other maps (3 full-page), 18 illustrations, bibliography, index; original cloth; a nice copy in slightly worn dustwrapper; scarce. New York & Toronto; Whittlesey House, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc.; (1949). ***”Oceans of the World” series. #23646 A$175.00
Section II: Captain James Cook, Sir Joseph Banks, etc. (items 36—191)
36 Adams, Brian. THE FLOWERING OF THE PACIFIC: Being an account of Joseph Banks’ travels in the South Seas and the story of his Florilegium. Demy 4to, First Edition; pp. [xii], 196(last 2 blank); text map, 17 fine coloured plates & 38 other coloured illustrations, 17 b/w. illustrations, notes, bibliography, appendix on Banks’ Florilegium, index; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. (Sydney); Collins/British Museum (Natural History); (1986). #15307 A$95.00
37 Badger, G. M.; Editor. CAPTAIN COOK: NAVIGATOR AND SCIENTIST. Papers presented at the Cook Bicentenary Symposium, Australian Academy of Science, Canberra, 1 May, 1969. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. x, 144; endpaper maps, 2 full-page & 6 text maps, coloured mounted portrait frontispiece & 4 other coloured full-page illustrations, several b/w. illusts, references; original cloth; a fine copy in dustwrapper. Canberra; Australian National University Press; 1970. ***With substantial sections on the Great Barrier Reef, South Pacific botany and astronomical observations. #2139 A$70.00
38 Badger, G. M.; Editor. CAPTAIN COOK: NAVIGATOR AND SCIENTIST. Papers presented at the Cook Bicentenary Symposium, Australian Academy of Science, Canberra, 1 May, 1969. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. x, 144; endpaper maps, 2 full-page & 6 text maps, coloured mounted portrait frontispiece & 4 other coloured full-page illustrations, several b/w. illusts, references; original cloth; (slight glue marks from mounted frontispiece & a little foxing at end, otherwise a nice copy in defective dustwrapper). Canberra; Australian National University Press; 1970. #17908 A$45.00
39 Banks, Sir Joseph: SIR JOSEPH BANKS IN NEW ZEALAND: From his Journal. Edited by [Professor] W. P. Morrell. First Edition; pp. 160(last blank); 13 plates, index; original cloth (marked; tape marks on endpapers; waterstain to lower portion throughout); very good dustwrapper. Wellington; A. H. & A. W. Reed; (1958). #7977 A$25.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books 40 Banks, Sir Joseph: THE ENDEAVOUR JOURNAL OF JOSEPH BANKS 1768-1771. Edited by J. C. Beaglehole. 2 vols., med. 8vo, First Edition; Vol. I, pp. xxviii, 476; Vol. II, pp. xvi, [ii], 406; folding map & 8 sketch maps, 16 coloured plates (including portrait) & 86 b/w. plates, 5 appendices, index; original cloth; a nice set in worn dustwrappers (dustwrapper to Volume II torn & repaired). (Sydney); The Public Library of New South Wales in association with Angus and Robertson; (1962). ***Beddie 705. Published from the original manuscript in the Mitchell Library, this is the first publication of BANKS’ Complete Journal of COOK’s First Voyage. Most of the illustrations are from paintings and drawings by SYDNEY PARKINSON, who accompanied BANKS as his draughtsman. #21897 A$550.00
41 Banks, Joseph. SOME ACCOUNT OF THAT PART OF NEW HOLLAND now called New South Wales. Edited, with an Introduction, by John Currey. First Edition; pp. 68(last 3 blank); 6 plates, notes, sources, index; a fine copy in original coloured wrappers. (Malvern); The Banks Society (at The Colony Press; 2004). ***Attractively presented in an affordable format. #35176 A$35.00
WITH A LETTER FROM DARWIN TO JOSEPH BANKS 42 Darwin, Erasmus. THE BOTANIC GARDEN; A Poem, in Two Parts. Part I. Containing The Economy of Vegetation. Part II. The Loves of the Plants. With Philosophical Notes. London, Printed for J. Johnson, St. Paul’s Church-Yard. MDCCXCI. Entered at Stationers Hall. Two parts in one volume, 4to, Part I, pp. xii, 214, [211]-214(Contents of the Notes), 126(additional notes), [2](Errata, verso (adv.).); frontispiece & 9 other plates (1 folding); Part II, pp. [iv](half-title & title-page, versos blank), x(Preface & Proem), 198(last blank); frontispiece, 9 plates & engraved tail-piece; contemporary full diced russia, with marbled endpapers & edges; (joints a little tender, with slight worming of rear joint, but quite sound; some very light foxing to a few leaves); a fine copy; rare. London; Printed for J. Johnson; 1791. ***Comprising the First Edition of Part I and the third edition of Part II, together comprising the First Edition of the complete work. Part II was originally published in 1789, two years before Part I, and a second edition was issued in 1790. Erasmus Darwin, a physician, philosopher and poet, was one of the finest scientist-philosophers of his day as well as a literary figure of the first rank. He was the grandfather of Charles Darwin and this work is important as one of the early precursors to the evolutionary theories of his better-known grandson. Part II, the first to be published, entitled “The Loves of the Plants” derives its subject from the sexual system of Linnaeus. Although written as an epic poem, a form which may seem strange to us now, this work is both highly regarded as literature and immensely informative as science; its extensive footnotes further enhance its informative value. Darwin had established a botanic garden near his home in Litchfield in 1778 and began composing the poem in the following year. Botany was then a very fashionable subject and it is said that he was offered the then vast sum of ten shillings a line for Part II by the publisher Johnson and a thousand guineas before publication for Part I. This part, entitled “The Economy of Vegetation” is a much more wide-ranging discursive poem, again supplemented by extensive footnotes commenting on many aspects of the natural history and geology of the day. In addition, this part has especial interest for Australia through its connection with the first settlement at Botany Bay. On James Cook’s first voyage in the Endeavour, Joseph Banks had collected clay from Botany Bay which he sent to Joshua Wedgwood, who made from it a famous medallion. Wedgwood asked his friend, Erasmus Darwin to write a poem to accompany this medallion and an engraving from it was published as a vignette on the title-page of the official account of the First Fleet, The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay. In the preliminaries to Phillip’s voyage an account is given of this vignette which bears repeating: “The elegant vignette in the title-page, was engraved from a medallion which the ingenious Mr. Wedgewood caused to be modelled from a small piece of clay brought from Sydney Cove. The clay proves to be of a fine texture, and will be found very useful for the manufactory of earthern ware. The design is allegorical; it represents Hope encouraging Art and Labour, under the influence of Peace, to pursue the employments necessary to give security and happiness to an infant settlement. The following verses upon the same subject, and in allusion to the medallion, were written by the author of The Botanic Garden, and will speak more powerfully for themselves than any encomium we could bestow.” This is followed by the poem itself, “Visit of Hope to Sydney Cove, near Botany Bay.” The poem is highly prophetic in its vision of the future Sydney, including even the Harbour Bridge: Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books “There shall broad streets their stately walls extend, “The circus widen, and the crescent bend; “There, ray’d from cities o’er the cultur’d land, “Shall bright canals, and solid roads expand.- “There the proud arch, Colossus-like, bestride “Yon glittering streams, and bound the chasing tide; “Embellish’d villas crown the landscape-scene, “Farms wave with gold, and orchards blush between.- “There shall tall spires, and dome-capt towers ascend, “And piers and quays their massy structures blend;
The vignette is re-engraved (in rather better quality) for Part I of The Botanic Garden where it appears in the plate opposite page 87, accompanied by a new reference in verse to Botany Bay
‘... Form the poor fetter’d SLAVE on bended knee / From Britain’s sons imploring to be free; / Or with fair HOPE the brightening scenes improve, / And cheer the dreary wastes at Sydney-cove; / Or bid Mortality rejoice and mourn / O’er the fine forms on PORTLAND’S mystic urn.-’
In an accompanying footnote it is explained that these lines allude to “two cameos of Wedgwood’s manufacture; one of a Slave in chains” (also illustrated) which was widely distributed to assist in the abolition of the slave trade; “and the other a cameo of Hope attended by Peace, and Art, and Labour; which was made from the clay of Botany Bay; to which place he sent many of them to shew the inhabitants what their materials would do, and to encourage their industry.” Wedgwood was in turn much admiring of the verses and sent a much better engraving of Cupid to accompany The Loves of the Plants - this is incorporated in the second edition of Part II and again here in the third. It is clear that Erasmus Darwin took a keen interest in Australia and in particular its natural productions: in his 1794 work “Zoonomia, or the Laws of Organic Life” he quoted almost exactly from John Hunter’s “AN HISTORICAL JOURNAL OF THE TRANSACTIONS AT PORT JACKSON ...”
The present work, The Botanic Garden is also noteworthy for its fine illustrations: a stipple-engraved frontispiece and nine botanical plates in Part II and two botanical plates, a section of the earth, the Wedgwood cameos, two plates by Fuseli, and four fine plates of the Portland Vase in Part I, alluded to in the quotation from the poem shown above. One of the plates by Fuseli “The Fertilization of Egypt” is engraved and signed by William Blake and those of the Portland vase are also generally agreed to have been engraved by him although they are unsigned. Although this interesting work is of obvious Australian relevance it is not recorded by Ferguson. [With]
A fine Autograph Letter, signed, from Erasmus Darwin to Joseph Banks, sending queries and comments relating to the translation of Linnaeus which Darwin was preparing for publication by the Botanical Society at Litchfield, and to his poem “The Botanic Garden.” [Radburn Hall] Derby, Oct. 14 [17]81. 3½ pages, small 4to, neatly but unnecessarily reinforced at the hinge, with slight glue stains, and with small printed label “ERASMUS DARWIN” affixed to foot of first page, otherwise in fine, clean condition and highly legible; accompanied by a an autograph letter, signed, from Francis Darwin (the son of Charles and great grandson of Erasmus) to John Enys (from whose collection it came), 4 pages, small 8vo, explaining some aspects of the Erasmus letter.
This most interesting letter from Darwin to Banks was previously known only from a copy made for Dawson Turner in the 1830s. A very brief summary, misdated Oct. 24, is given at page 252 of Warren Dawson’s The Banks Letters (British Museum, Natural History, 1958). The full text of the letter is available on request. Darwin deluged Banks with letters and constantly sought his advice on matters of terminology, translation 10 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books and publication, and Banks’ assistance was invaluable to Darwin as he worked on translations of Systema Vegetabilium, The System of Vegetables (1783) and Genera Plantarum, The Families of Plants (1787). As can be seen from the remarks in this letter Banks checked Darwin’s translations of terms and lent many precious books from his own library. In 1781, Darwin was already working on Part II (the first published) of The Botanic Garden, and his difficulties with the new scientific terminology are interesting because some botanists favoured euphemistic renderings of Linnaeus’ sexual system of classification. However, Darwin is responsible for at least fifty new words in English where his usage preceded those cited in the OED (see King-Hele’s Erasmus Darwin, 1999). The reference to Anna Seward (she who wrote the Elegy on Captain Cook, but this was possibly actually largely written by Erasmus) is also interesting, as the poem referred to was later used, unacknowledged, and greatly to her annoyance, as a preface to ‘The Loves of the Plants’ (Part II of The Botanic Garden). It seems, however, that her annoyance may have had more to do with his failure to marry her after the death of his first wife (see DNB). Darwin agreed with Banks about the Tremella or star-jelly fungus, and in the published text of The Botanic Garden (page 43, Part II) he corrects his own suggestion that it was turned to a white gelatinous substance by frost, stating in the footnote that “... but have since been well informed that the Tremella Nostoc is a mucillage voided by Herons after they have eaten frogs ....” Darwin thanked Banks for all his help and support by dedicating The System of Vegetables to him, and both this work and The Families of Plants are referred to in the preface to Part II of The Botanic Garden.
An interesting and important letter, more revealing than the brief summary published in The Banks Letters would suggest. Together, the book and letter -- #8238 A$16,500.00
UNCUT IN THE ORIGINAL BOARDS WITH A LETTER FROM JOSEPH BANKS 43 [Haweis, Thomas; Editor]. A MISSIONARY VOYAGE TO THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC OCEAN, performed in the Years 1796, 1797, 1798, in the Ship Duff, commanded by Captain James Wilson. Compiled from Journals of the Officers and the Missionaries; and illustrated with Maps, Charts, and Views, drawn by Mr. William Wilson, and engraved by the most eminent Artists. With a Preliminary Discourse on the Geography and History of the South Sea Islands; and an Appendix, including Details never before published, of the Natural and Civil State of Otaheite; by a Committee appointed for the Purpose by the Directors of the Missionary Society. Published for the Benefit of the Society. London: Printed by S. Gosnell, for T. Chapman, No. 151, Fleet Street. 1799. Med. 4to, First Issue of First Edition, pp. [xii](title, dedication, Advertisement, Prints (i.e. list of plates) & Errata and Contents), c(Preliminary Discourse containing Geographical and Historical Account of the Islands where Missionaries have settled [etc.] - Pp. [i]-lxxxviii; and “Letter of Instructions to Captain Wilson, from the Directors”, Pp. [lxxxix] - c); pp. [1]-420, [12](Subscribers’ Names); 7 maps & charts (5 folding), 6 plates, appendix (on Otaheitian government, society, inhabitants, deities, customs, natural history, etc.) ; ENTIRELY UNCUT IN THE ORIGINAL BOARDS (the joints a little loose, but the cords and sewing quite sound, with the backstrip and original title-label substantially intact; occasional slight foxing and offsetting of plates, but generally very clean and crisp); a very fine, exceptional copy, preserved in in a quarter morocco book-form Solander box. London; Printed by S. Gosnell, for T. Chapman; 1799. ***Ferguson 301; Hill 2, No. 1894. Another edition bearing the imprint “Printed for T. Chapman ... by T. Gillet” and with a completely different set of subscriber’s names and the large map of the Feegees considerably reduced, was issued almost simultaneously (see Ferguson 302). The purpose of employing two printers appears to have been to ensure the speedy production of sufficient copies to meet the demand. This edition printed by Gosnell is generally accepted as the first and is preferred for its larger paper size (241 x 305 mm. uncut, vs. 200 x 260 mm. for the Gillet edition) and better quality paper. An important work, it is the account of the first English missionary enterprise in the South Seas and was largely composed from the journal of the chief mate, William Wilson, with additions from the papers of the captain (James Wilson) and importantly from the then-unpublished journal of James Morrison, one of the pardoned Bounty mutineers (it was later published in 1935 by the Golden Cockerel Press). The hostility of the natives at Tahiti and Tonga caused many of the missionaries to seek refuge at Sydney. Some of them settled in Australia “and founded families important in Australian history” - Ferguson. Apart from its missionary interest the work contains much valuable information on Tahiti, Fiji and the Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books 11 Marquesas. The Duff Group in the Santa Cruz islands was newly discovered on this voyage. The anonymous editor, Dr. Thomas Haweis, was an early promoter and one of the founders of the London Missionary Society, reference to which is made in the accompanying fine letter:
Banks, Sir Joseph. An Autograph Letter, signed, to the editor of the above work, Thomas Haweis, 2 pages, small 4to, with conjugate leaf bearing the recipient’s address and postmark (7 o’Clock, 12 NO 98 Night). The letter, in excellent condition, lightly folded, reads as follows:
Soho Square Novr. 12 1798.
Rev’d Sir
I Return you many thanks for the books you were so good as to send to me & to my friend Mr. Dalrymple, tho it was not what I meant to ask you but I have perused these [?] with both pleasure & profit. The Zeel [?] & ardor with which it abounds is not I can assure you good Sir lost upon me.
What I wished to possess & to put my friend Mr. Dalrymple in possession of is the Report of the directors previous to the month of May last which I see is prefixed to a set of sermons preached in that month if any separate [underlined] copies of that report are remaining I shall be thankfull for two.
I wish I had time to profit by the obliging indulgence you offer me of sending me a part of the Mss of the Duffs voyage but at this time of the year owing to the approaching Anniversary of the Royal Society I have indeed very little time which I can call my own.
It would be a great indulgence to me to see the maps & charts as they are drawn off but I fear the trouble of sending them would be great, if I might be allowed to pay the people who bring them for their trouble the obligation would be compleat.
I rejoice with great sincerity to hear that your ship is to proceed the second time with another cargo of benefactors to mankind, if I flattered myself that I could be of any use in adjusting your new plan ^ I would be happy to see it ^ if not why should I be troublesome to you.
I am Sir with due Regard & Esteem your obedient servant Jos. Banks [signed].
A fine letter, indicative of the interest and cooperation shown by Banks to all enterprises in the Pacific; such letters are now very seldom available. Together, the book and letter -- #15950 A$25,000.00
44 Barrow, John; Editor. COOK’S VOYAGES OF DISCOVERY. Small cr. 8vo; pp. viii, 418(last blank); 6 plates (1 folding); several text illustrations; full prize calf (worn; some foxing & soiling; the folding plate in two pieces; tear to one other plate). Edinburgh; Adam and Charles Black; MDCCCLXXIX [1879]. #1480 A$45.00
45 Barrow, John; Editor. COOK’S VOYAGES OF DISCOVERY. Edited by John Barrow, Esq., F.R.S., F.S.A. With Eight Illustrations in Colour by John Williamson. Cr. 8vo; pp. viii, 418(last colophon only), [10](adv.); 8 coloured plates, folding facsimile document with signature of Cook, map & 9 text illustrations; original red cloth with illustrations in gilt & colours on spine and front board; a fine copy. London; Adam and Charles Black; 1910. ***The notice on verso of title-page states: “This edition first published July 1904.” #15761 A$200.00 12 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books 46 Beaglehole, J. C. THE LIFE OF CAPTAIN JAMES COOK. Thick med 8vo, First Edition, Second Impression; pp. xii, 760; 1 folding & 4 full-page maps, 4 coloured & 40 b/w. plates, bibliography, index; original buckram, gilt; a fine copy in dustwrapper. London; Adam & Charles Black; (1974). ***Reprinted in the same year as the First Edition. #18298 A$295.00
47 Beaglehole, J. C. THE LIFE OF CAPTAIN JAMES COOK. Thick med 8vo; pp. xii, 760; 1 folding & 4 full-page maps, 4 coloured & 40 b/w. plates, bibliography, index; original buckram, gilt; a fine copy in dustwrapper. London; The Hakluyt Society; 1974. ***Published collaterally with the First Edition by A. & C. Black. #639 A$375.00
FIFTY COPIES ONLY — HAND PRINTED 48 Beaglehole, J. C. THE DEATH OF CAPTAIN COOK. Roy. 4to, Limited Edition; pp. [xii], 22, [6](notes); quarter oasis goatskin; cloth sides; handmade paper; a fine copy in original cloth slip-case; rare. Wellington; Alexander Turnbull Library; 1979. ***Limited edition of 50 numbered copies, printed by hand on an Albion press with hand-made white wove paper from the Wookey Hole Mill, Somerset, England. Published “to mark the bicentenary of the death of Captain Cook” and originally presented as a lecture. With an example of the equally rare hand-printed prospectus loosely inserted. #22045 A$1850.00
49 Beaglehole, J. C. THE DEATH OF CAPTAIN COOK. Roy. 4to, Second Edition; pp. [xii], 22, [6](notes); original cloth; a nice copy in very slightly worn dustwrapper; scarce. Wellington; Alexander Turnbull Library; 1979. ***Limited edition of 1000 numbered copies. The first edition of the same year was of 50 copies only, printed by hand. The dustwrapper, unique to this, second edition, shows the death of Captain Cook taken from an engraving by Bartolozzi, 1785. #34840 A$195.00
50 Beddie, M. K.; Editor. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CAPTAIN JAMES COOK, R.N., F.R.S., Circum navigator. [By] The Library of New South Wales. Thick med. 8vo, Second Edition; pp. xvi, 896(last 2 blank); bibliography, errata, addenda, index; original cloth; a fine copy in dustwrapper. Sydney; Library of New South Wales; 1970. ***A revised and greatly expanded edition of the 1928 bibliography. #696 A$175.00
51 Begg, A. Charles & Begg, Neil C. DUSKY BAY. [In the Steps of Captain Cook]. Foreword by the Right Hon. The Viscount Cobham. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. 240(last blank); 18 maps & figures, 12 coloured & 16 b/w. plates, 3 appendices, bibliography, index; a very good copy in slightly worn dustwrapper; scarce. Christchurch; Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd; (1966). #50617 A$125.00
52 Besant, Walter. CAPTAIN COOK. First Edition; pp. vi, 192(last blank); portrait frontispiece; original cloth (recased, with new endpapers); uncut; a very good copy; scarce. London; Macmillan and Co.; 1890. ***English Men of Action series. Holmes 126; Beddie 2045. #2147 A$75.00
53 Besant, Walter. CAPTAIN COOK. With illustrations by J. Macfarlane. Fourth Impression; pp. viii, 192(last blank); portrait frontispiece & 7 plates; full prize calf, gilt, by Relfe Bros., marbled edges & endpapers (boards a little flecked); a very good copy. London; Macmillan and Co.; 1903. ***Macmillan’s Prize Library; the first edition to contain the additional illustrations. #49323 A$65.00
54 Bryce, Graham. THE SKETCHBOOK OF HMS ENDEAVOUR. 4to, First Edition; pp. 80; 33 full- page illustrations, glossary, bibliography; original slick pictorial papered boards; portions of dustwrapper loosely inserted (reproducing the boards, but including biographical information from the flaps); a fine copy; scarce. Sydney; Collins; (1983). ***With Geoffrey Ingleton’s bookplate. An attractive, intelligent book for children, comprising extracts from Cook’s journals with commentary by the author illustrated by his fine sketches. #19212 A$65.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books 13 55 Burney, James: WITH CAPTAIN JAMES COOK IN THE ANTARCTIC AND PACIFIC. The private journal of James Burney, Second Lieutenant of the Adventure on Cook’s Second Voyage 1772-1773. Edited and with an Introduction by Beverley Hooper. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xii, 112; 5 maps; 8 plates; appendix; bibliography; index; original brown cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, spine title on blue panel; illustrated endpapers; a fine copy in dustwrapper. Canberra; National Library of Australia; (1975). ***Not in Spence; Renard 231. A handsome production, finely printed by letterpress on light yellow laid stock by Brown Prior Anderson. #3967 A$175.00
56 Cameron, Hector Charles. SIR JOSEPH BANKS, K.B., P.R.S.: The Autocrat of the Philosophers. First Edition; pp. xx, 344(last 3 blank); 9 plates, 7 appendices, notes on Banks correspondence, chronology, references, index; original cloth; a fine copy in slightly chipped dustwrapper; scarce. London; The Batchworth Press; (1952). ***Beddie 3970. #13807 A$165.00
57 Cameron, Hector Charles. SIR JOSEPH BANKS. Second Edition; pp. xx, 344(last 3 blank); 9 plates, 7 appendices, notes on Banks’ correspondence, chronology, references, index; original cloth; (some slight foxing); a very good copy in dustwrapper; scarce. (Sydney); Angus and Robertson; (1966). #34837 A$95.00
58 Cameron, Roderick. THE GOLDEN HAZE with Captain Cook in the South Pacific. Demy 8vo; pp. xviii, 286(last 3 blank); 1 double-page, 6 full-page & 2 text maps, 4 coloured & 32 b/w. plates (some double- page); original papered boards; a very good copy in dustwrapper. London; Readers Union, Weidenfeld and Nicolson; 1965. ***The smaller of two Readers Union editions of the same year, this with a reduced complement of plates. First published the previous year in royal 8vo format. #18306 A$45.00
59 Capper, Paul. A COOK CHRONOLOGY. Taken from the Pages of Cook’s Log the quarterly journal of the Captain Cook Study Unit. This version: April 1997. 4to; ff. [i], 27 (printed on rectos only); plastic strip binder. No Place; Captain Cook Study Unit; 1997. ***A useful quick reference. #19758 A$18.00
60 Carrington, Hugh. LIFE OF CAPTAIN COOK. First Edition; pp. x, 324; folding chart, 9 text maps, portrait & 10 plates, 5 appendices, bibliography, index; original cloth; a fine copy in slightly worn dustwrapper; scarce. London; Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd; (1939). ***Holmes 150; Beddie 288. #2155 A$175.00
61 Carrington, Hugh. LIFE OF CAPTAIN COOK. Facsimile Edition; pp. [viii], 324; 9 text maps, 5 appendices, bibliography, index; original wrappers. London; Sidgwick & Jackson; (1967). ***The folding chart and plates of the original edition were omitted from this facsimile. Beddie 2130. #17818 A$30.00
62 Carruthers, Sir Joseph. CAPTAIN JAMES COOK, R.N. One Hundred and Fifty Years After. With Forewords by Admiral Sir Dudley R. S. de Chair, K.C.B. (Governor of New South Wales) and by the Rt. Hon. W. M. Hughes, P.C., M.P. (Prime Minister of Australia during the Great War). Cr. 8vo, First Edition; pp. [ii](blank), xx, 316, [6](adv.); map, 16 plates (1 double-page), 8 appendices, index; original cloth; a very good copy; scarce. London; John Murray; (1930). ***Beddie 283. #7864 A$135.00
63 Carter, Harold B. SIR JOSEPH BANKS 1743-1820. Cr. 4to, First Edition; pp. xii, 672(last blank); endpaper pedigree, coloured frontispiece, 80 illustrations, 27 appendices, bibliography, sources, index; original cloth; a fine copy in dustwrapper; very scarce. London; British Museum (Natural History); (1988). ***An excellent and comprehensive biography of Banks. #21499 A$475.00
64 Christie’s: EXPLORATION AND TRAVEL WITH THE POLAR SALE. [London], Thursday 23 September 2004. 4to; pp. 276; 226 lots, mostly illustrated in colour; original pictorial wrappers; estimates; list of prices realised loosely inserted; a fine copy. London; Christie’s; 2004. ***This sale included some interesting Cook relics including his original pocket hammer, the original watercolours for John Cleveley’s series of Views in the South Seas, and some fine Antarctic material. #17835 A$45.00 14 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books 65 Cilento, Sir Raphael; Compiled and Edited by. “SEEKING THE GREAT SOUTHLAND”. Cook and the “Endeavour” in Queensland. A commemorative tribute to the greatest of British navigators on the Two-Hundreth Anniversary of his mapping of the whole coastline of Queensland from the southern border to Possession Island, Torres Strait. 4to, First Edition; pp. 48; a few maps, several illustrations (mostly coloured); original stiff wrappers (lightly soiled); a very good copy. Brisbane; Allan J. Campbell; [1970]. #19204 A$35.00
66 Collins, David. LETTERS TO SIR JOSEPH BANKS. London & the Derwent 1798-1808. Edited, with an Introduction an Notes, by John Currey. First Edition; pp. 52(last blank); 2 folding facsimile letters, 4 plates (2 coloured), appendix, notes, sources, index; a fine copy in original coloured wrappers. (Malvern); The Banks Society (at The Colony Press; 2004). ***Attractively presented in an affordable format. #24240 A$30.00
67 Conner, Daniel & Miller, Loraine. MASTER MARINER. Capt. James Cook and the Peoples of the Pacific. Oblong 4to, First Australian Edition; pp. xii, 164; 7 maps, 4 coloured & 61 b/w. plates, 16 other illustrations, bibliography; a nice copy in slightly worn dustwrapper. (St. Lucia); University of Queensland Press; (1979). #2159 A$85.00
COOK’S THREE VOYAGES:
68 Cook, Captain James: THE OFFICIAL ACCOUNTS OF COOK’S THREE VOYAGES ROUND THE WORLD. A fine collection of the First Editions, comprising:-
First Voyage: AN ACCOUNT OF THE VOYAGES undertaken by Order of His Present Majesty for making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow and the Endeavour: Drawn up from the Journals which were kept by the several Commanders, and from the Papers of Joseph Banks, Esq; by John Hawkesworth, LL.D. In three volumes. Illustrated with Cuts, and a great Variety of Charts and Maps relative to Countries now first discovered, or hitherto but imperfectly known. London: Printed for W. Strahan; & T. Cadell in the Strand. M DCC LXXIII. 3 vols., med. 4to, First Edition; Vol. I, pp. [xii], xxxvi, 140(last blank), [361]-676; 20 charts & plates (mostly folding); Vol. II, pp. xvi, 410; 22 charts & plates (mostly folding); Vol. III, pp. [vi], 411-800(last blank); 9 charts & plates, mostly folding; contemporary full calf (neatly rebacked, see below); some occasional spotting and offsetting from plates, but a very good, generally clean set. Printed for W. Strahan; & T. Cadell, 1773. ***One of the earliest issues, without the Directions for Placing the Cuts as noted by Holmes (No. 5), but with the chart of the Streights of Magellan (possibly supplied from another copy).
Second Voyage: A VOYAGE TOWARDS THE SOUTH POLE AND ROUND THE WORLD. Performed in His Majesty’s Ships the Resolution and Adventure, in the Years 1772, 1773, 1774, and 1775. Written by James Cook, Commander of the Resolution. In which is included, Captain Furneaux’s Narrative of his Proceedings in the Adventure during the Separation of the Ships. In two volumes. Illustrated with Maps and Charts, and a Variety of Portraits of Persons and Views of Places, drawn during the Voyage by Mr. Hodges, and engraved by the most eminent Masters. London: Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell in the Strand. MDCCLXXVII. 2 vols., med. 4to., First Edition; Vol. I, pp. xl, 378; portrait frontispiece & 36 charts & plates; Vol. II, pp. [viii], 396; 27 charts and plates; 8 plates with imprints cropped or shaved by the binder (as often, owing to the plates being engraved too large for the size of the text), 2 folding charts in Vol. II with neatly repaired tears); contemporary full speckled calf (neatly rebacked, see below); a very good, clean set. Printed for W. Strahan & T. Cadell, 1777.
Third Voyage: A VOYAGE TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN. Undertaken by the Command of His Majesty, for making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere. To determine the Position and Extent of the West Side of North America; its Distance from Asia; and the Practibility of a Northern Passage to Europe. Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books 15 Performed under the Direction of Captains Cook, Clerke, and Gore, in His Majesty’s Ships the Resolution and Discovery; in the Years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780. In three volumes. Vol. I. and II. written by Captain James Cook, F.R.S. Vol. III. by Captain James King, LL.D. and F.R.S. Illustrated with Maps and Charts, from the Original Drawings made by Lieut Henry Roberts, under the Direction of Captain Cook; and with a great Variety of Portraits of Persons, Views of Places, and Historical Representations of Remarkable Incidents, drawn by Mr. Webber during the Voyage, and engraved by the most eminent Artists. Published by Order of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. London: Printed by W. and A. Strahan: For G. Nicol, Bookseller to His Majesty, in the Strand; and T. Cadell, in the Strand. MDCCLXXXIV. 3 vols., med. 4to, & atlas, large folio, First Edition; Vol. I, pp. [viii](title, verso blank, & Contents), xcvi(Introduction & List of Plates), 422(last blank); 7 charts & views (5 folding); Vol. II, pp. [ii](title, verso blank), [x](Contents), 550(last blank); 12 charts & plates (7 folding); Vol. III, pp. [ii](title, verso blank), [x](Contents, last blank), [ii](Appendix & Erratum, verso blank), 558+[2](advertisement for complete sets of Cook’s voyages, verso blank); 6 charts (2 folding), folding comparative table of languages, 7 appendices (Pp. 491-558); contemporary full calf, neatly rebacked (see below); some offsetting of plates to text, but generally very fine and clean; Atlas, 2 large folding charts & 61 plates; in a splendid unsophisticated contemporary German binding of full calf, with red oval title label on front board: “Kupfer zu Cook’s Reisen”, and attractive block-printed rose paste-paper endpapers; (top & bottom of spine expertly & unobtrusively repaired; some foxing of tissues and consequent mild marginal foxing to some of the plates, but generally very clean, with excellent impressions); a fine set. London; Printed by W. and A. Strahan; 1784.
***Together 8 vols. text, med. 4to, & folio atlas; in all 202 fine, engraved maps, charts, portraits, costume plates, views, etc.; the text volumes uniformly rebacked in contemporary style, the atlas in near-matching contemporary full calf as described above; a very attractive set. London; 1773-1784. See Holmes 5, 24 & 47; Beddie 648, 1216, 1543; Hill I, Pp. 139-40, 61-62; Hill 2, Nos. 782, 358 & 361. A complete collection of First Editions of the three voyages, of which the “long-delayed official account of the third voyage was so eagerly awaited by the public that it was sold out on the third day after publication ....” (Holmes). The third voyage is the first issue of the first edition of which Forbes (No. 62) says: “It is in fact one of the most important English books published in the last quarter of the eighteenth century.” #36600 A$67,000.00
69 Cook, Captain James & King, Captain James. A VOYAGE TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN. Undertaken by the Command of His Majesty, for making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere. To determine The Position and Extent of the West Side of North America; its Distance from Asia; and the Practicability of a Northern Passage to Europe. Performed under the Direction of Captains Cook, Clerke, and Gore, In his majesty’s Ships the Resolution and Discovery. In the Years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780. In three volumes. Vol. I. and II. written by Captain James Cook, F.R.S. Vol. III. by Captain James King, LL.D. and F.R.S. Illustrated with Maps and Charts, from the Original Drawings made by Lieut. Henry Roberts, under the Direction of Captain. Published by Order of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. Vol. I. [II, III]. Dublin: Printed for H. Chamberlaine, W. Watson, Potts, Williams, Cross, Jackson, Moncrieffe, Walker, Jenkin, Burnet, Wilson, Wogan, Exshaw, Vallance, Beatty, White, Whitestone, Burton, Byrne, Mills, J. Porter, Stewart, Wallace, Higly, Cash, Herey and Mc.Kenzie. M,DCC,LXXXIV. 3 vols., demy 8vo, text & 1 vol. med. 4to, Atlas; Vol. 1, pp. [viii], xcviii, 422(last blank); portrait of Cook by Dance as frontispiece; Vol. 2, pp. [xvi](first 2 blank), 552(last 3 blank); Vol. 3, pp. [xii](last blank), 560(last blank); folding comparative table of numbers expressed in various languages of the Malay region; 6 other appendices; Atlas, 25 (of 26) folding and full-page charts and coastal views; text vols. in full contemporary tree calf with contrasting spine labels; (spine ends with very slight wear & a couple of small defects to leather); atlas in contemporary quarter calf, with marbled sides (spine a little worn, with a small defect at top); generally very fine, clean and crisp; an excellent set. Dublin; Printed for H. Chamberlaine [etc.]; 1784. ***Beddie 1546; Forbes 72. Although the title refers to maps and charts and there is at the end of the preliminaries to the first volume a two-page list of 26 charts and views with directions for their placement throughout the three volumes, the text volumes contain only the frontispiece to Vol. I and this is not listed. The charts and views were 16 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books never present in these text volumes and this is clearly one of the forms in which the book was issued -- we have handled a similar set (without Atlas) before. Beddie notes that the Baillieu Library copy is similar, having only the portrait frontispiece. This set carries the bookplate of John B. Gilmore on the front pastedown of all three text volumes and his contemporary inscription dated Boghead Janry. 1st 1789. The Atlas in similar, but not quite matching, contemporary quarter calf, with marbled sides, carries the bookplate of David Rochfort and a contemporary manuscript list of the charts and views contained therein. The individual charts carry corresponding manuscript numbers (1-25). The printed numbers (roman numerals) on the charts and the directions for placing them (in the text volumes) generally correspond with the list printed in text Volume I, but there are several discrepancies and internal inconsistencies (to the Atlas). Plate XVI, Views on the West coast of North America, to the Westward of Cook’s River, is lacking; Plate II is numbered IV (as is also Plate IV); Plate XIX is numbered XVI and there is no plate numbered XIX. While clearly contemporary and intended to accompany the text volumes, the Atlas was almost certainly matched to this set at a later date and there is no indication the missing chart was ever present. #20444 A$5500.00
70 Cook, Captain James. A VOYAGE TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN. Undertaken by the Command of His Majesty, for making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere. Performed under the Direction of Captains Cook, Clerke, and Gore, in His Majesty’s Ships the Resolution and Discovery; in the Years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780. In three volumes. Vol. I. and II. written by Captain James Cook, F.R.S. Vol. III. by Captain James King, LL.D. and F.R.S. Published by Order of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. The Third Edition. London: Printed by H. Hughs, for G. Nicol, Bookseller to His Majesty, in the Strand; and T. Cadell, in the Strand. M.DCC.LXXXV. 3 vols., med. 4to, Third Edition; Vol. I, pp. [x](title, verso blank, & Contents), xcvi(Introduction & List of Plates), 422(last blank); 7 charts & views (5 folding); Vol. II, pp. [ii](title, verso blank), [xii](Contents), 548; 11 charts & plates (6 folding); Vol. III, pp. [ii](title, verso blank), [xii](Contents, last blank), 556, 557-564(A Defence of the Arguments advanced in the Introduction to Captain Cook’s last Voyage, against the existence of Cape Circumcision); 6 charts & profiles (2 folding), full-page table of bank capital facing page 286, folding comparative table of languages, 7 appendices (Pp. 489-556); contemporary full tree calf; (Vol. I, expertly rebacked with original backstrip preserved & new endpapers, with title-page & following leaf in Volume I repaired at inner margin and resized; following 5 or six leaves a little stained in inner margin; last leaf in Vol. I also resized; one chart in Vol. III repaired in inner margin; a couple of expert restorations to leather); notwithstanding these essentially minor defects, a very nice, clean set. London; Printed by H. Hughs; 1785. ***Without the folio Atlas. See Holmes 47; Beddie 1553; Hill I, Pp. 61-62; Hill 2, 361 (First Edition); Forbes 86. The “Defence of the Arguments ... “ which is by William Wales, appears for the first time in this Third Edition which is in other respects similar to the first and second editions of the previous year, both sold out within days of publication. Forbes, whose collations are meticulous, makes no mention of the table of bank capital (“Corrected to the Fifth of January, 1786”) opposite page 286, and there seems no obvious reason for its inclusion, except for references to South Sea stock. The table is headed “(To face Page 286.)”, but it seems likely that this is an accidental inclusion from another contemporary publication: it has clearly been present in this copy since its original collation. #64850 A$9500.00
RARE ABRIDGMENT OF COOK’S VOYAGES 71 Cook, James. AN ABRIDGMENT OF CAPTAIN COOK’S FIRST AND SECOND VOYAGES. The first performed in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771; the Second in 1772, 1773, 1774, and 1775. For making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere, By Order of His Majesty. Extracted from the Quarto Edition, in Five Volumes. Containing A Relation of all the interesting Transactions; Including an Abridgement of Capt. Furneaux’s Narrative of his Proceedings during the Separation of the two Ships. The Seventh Edition. Ornamented with several Plates. London. Printed for G. Kearsley, No. 46, Fleet-Street. 1798. Demy 12mo; pp. [ii](title, verso blank), [iv](adv.), iii-[iv](Contents, verso blank), 328(last 20 index); frontispiece and 7 other plates, index; contemporary full mottled calf (neatly rebacked in contemporary style; a fine, clean copy; very scarce. London; G. Kearsley; 1798. ***Beddie 60. The plates are as follows: frontispiece, portrait of Omai, Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books 17 but here at page 187 in accordance with the number at top left; facing page 42, Head of a Chief of Otaheite; facing page 53, A Dance of Ulietea by Females; facing page 79, View of a perforated Rock; facing page 86, A War Canoe of New Zealand (showing also a Branch of the Bread fruit); facing page 160, Inhabitants of Dusky Bay; facing page 192, A Morai or burial place; and facing page 268, Instruments & Weapons used by the Natives [etc.]. [with]
Cook, James. AN ABRIDGMENT OF CAPTAIN COOK’S LAST VOYAGE, performed in the years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780. For making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere, By Order of His Majesty. Extracted from the Quarto Edition, in Three Volumes. Containing a Relation of all the Interesting Transactions, particularly those relative to the unfortunate Death of Captain Cook; to which are added, extracts from Captain King’s Account of his Life and public Services. The Seventh Edition. Ornamented with several Plates and Improved by a copious Index, also a Chart of the Tracts of the Ships. London: Printed for C. and G. Kearsley, No. 46, Fleet-Street. MDCCXCIV. Demy 12mo; pp. xxiv, 442, [16](index), [2](adv.); folding frontispiece (Death of Cook), folding chart, 7 other plates, index; contemporary full mottled calf (rebacked in matching contemporary style); a fine, clean copy; very scarce. London; C. and G. Kearsley; 1794. ***Beddie 1576; Forbes 233. The first and second editions of this abridgment were published in 1784 and the fourth, fifth and sixth in 1787. Neither Beddie nor Forbes record a third edition, but both make the minor error throughout of mis-spelling the word ABRIDGMENT (“ABRIDGEMENT”) in the title. This copy appears to be quite complete, as issued, with a total of 9 plates including the chart. The plates are as follows: folding frontispiece showing the death of Captain Cook, but here facing page 320 in accordance with the number at the head; facing page ix, Royal Society Medal by Mr. Pingo; facing page 1, the folding chart exhibiting the discoveries made by Cook in his three voyages; facing page 129, Human Sacrifice in Otaheite; facing page 347, A Canoe of the Sandwich Islands; facing page 376, Manner of Travelling in Kamtschatka; facing page 389, Shooting Sea Horses; facing page 389, A White Bear; and facing page 415, A Winter’s Habitation in Kamtschatka. Various copies of these scarce editions appear to have different numbers of plates, but the number present here (17 in total) is, we believe, the maximum and most complete. Although published four years apart these two “Seventh Edition” volumes appear to have been issued, or at least purchased, at the same time and are uniformly bound in full contemporary mottled calf (now neatly rebacked in contemporary style). The original binder has inserted the “landscape” plates lengthways and neatly folded, an arrangement which has contributed to this set being exceptionally fine and clean, both plates and text; a most attractive set and rare thus. This set recently belonged to the Australian diplomat W. R. Crocker, and has his signature dated 1964 in the front of each volume. #24324 A$3250.00
72 Cook, James: CAPTAIN COOK’S FIRST VOYAGE, Commenced in 1768, and finished in 1771. His first published account of landing in the Endeavour River. Reproduced from the ‘Newcastle’ edition of Cook’s diaries [cover title]. Facsimile Edition; pp. [80](inc. wrappers); 7 illustrations; original stiff wrappers; a very good copy; scarce. [Herberton; Hisine Technique]; N.D. [c. 1965 ?]. ***Cover design by J. Hillier. A facsimile (of rather poor quality in brown ink) of the section dealing with the “Endeavour’s” course from Trinity Bay to the Endeavour River including the running aground and subsequent repairs followed by her negotiation of the Great Barrier Reef through Endeavour Straight. Not traced in Beddie. #17952 A$45.00
73 Cook, Captain James: A JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD, in His Majesty’s Ship Endeavour, in the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, and 1771; Undertaken in Pursuit of Natural Knowledge, at the Desire of the Royal Society: Containing all the various Occurrences of the Voyage, with Descriptions of several new discovered Countries in the Southern Hemisphere; and Accounts of their Soil and Productions; and of many Singularities in the Structure, Apparel, Customs, Manners, Policy, Manufactures, &c. of their Inhabitants. To which is added A Concise Vocabulary of the Language of Otahitee. London, Printed for T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt, in the Strand. MDCCLXXI. Demy 4to, Facsimile Edition; pp. [ii](modern title), [ii](original title-page), 130, [4](vocabulary of Otaheite, last blank), [2](blank); (slight mark to top edge, otherwise a fine copy); scarce. [Amsterdam; N. Israel; 1967]. ***Bibliotheca Australiana No. 14. This edition Beddie 701; see Holmes 3, Beddie 694, for original edition. The first issue contained a Dedication to Banks and Solander, which was suppressed after a small number of copies had been circulated, following the 18 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books publication of an advertisement by Banks and Solander, disclaiming any responsibility for its publication. The dedication is not reproduced in this facsimile. This rare surreptitious account of Cook’s First Voyage preceded Hawkesworth’s official account by two years. It is the first published account of Cook’s First Voyage and of his discovery of the Eastern Coast of Australia, which led to the Foundation of Australia eighteen years later. The authorship of the work is a matter of conjecture - it has been ascribed to JAMES MAGRA (or MATRA) and others, but the evidence is inconclusive. #26437 A$550.00
74 Cook, Captain James: CAPTAIN COOK’S JOURNAL DURING HIS FIRST VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD made in H.M. Bark “Endeavour” 1768-71. A Literal Transcription of the Original MSS. With Notes and Introduction. Edited by Captain W. J. L. Wharton, R.N., F.R.S. Hydrographer of the Admiralty. Illustrated by Maps and Facsimiles. Cr. 4to, Facsimile Edition; pp. [vi], lvi, 400; frontispiece, 2 folding charts (1 in 2 sheets) at end, 4 other folding charts, portrait of Cook, 4 plates, including 2 facsimiles of log entries, index; a fine copy in original canvas. Adelaide; Libraries Board of South Australia; 1968. ***Originally published in 1893. Australiana Facsimile Editions No. 188. #5036 A$475.00
75 Cook, Captain James: THE JOURNALS OF CAPTAIN JAMES COOK ON HIS VOYAGES OF DISCOVERY. Edited from the Original Manuscripts by J. C. Beaglehole with the Assistance of J. A. Williamson, J. W. Davidson and R. A. Skelton. Four Volumes and a Portfolio [series title]. 3 vols. in 4, thick med. 8vo, plus Portfolio of Charts; Vol. I. The Voyage of the Endeavour 1768-1771. Pp. [ii], cclxxxiv, [ii], 686(last 4 blank). Portfolio, pp. viii, 58 charts & views. Vol. II. The Voyage of the Resolution and Adventure 1772-1775. Pp. [iv], clxx, 1024(last 2 blank). Vol. III [In Two Parts]. The Voyage of the Resolution and Discovery 1776-1780. Part I, pp. ccxxiv, [1]-718, [2](blank); Part II, pp. viii, [2], [723]-1648(last blank); in all 224 maps & illustrations including 2 coloured portraits, indices, appendices, bibliography, references, etc. original buckram; a very good set; Volume III and the porfolio in worn dustwrappers. Cambridge; Published for the Hakluyt Society; 1955-67. ***All volumes are First Editions and the separate Addenda and Corrigenda to Volume II and the Portfolio are included. The work is an essential reference to Cook’s voyages and it is certainly the most convenient edition to use. #38172 A$2500.00
76 Cook, Captain James: THE JOURNALS OF CAPTAIN JAMES COOK ON HIS VOYAGES OF DISCOVERY. Edited from the Original Manuscripts by J. C. Beaglehole [with the Assistance of J.A. Williamson, J. W. Davidson and R. A. Skelton]. I. The Voyage of the Endeavour 1768-1771. II. The Voyage of the Resolution and Adventure 1772-1775. III. (In Two Parts). The Voyage of the Resolution and Discovery 1776-1780. With the Supplementary Volume, The Life of Captain James Cook. 4 vols. in 5, thick demy 8vo (text), & portfolio of charts, cr. folio; Vols. I & II, Second Impression, remainder First Editions; Vol. I, pp. [ii], cclxxxiv, [ii], 696; Vol. II, pp. [iv], clxx, 1028; Vol. III, Pt. I, pp. ccxxiv, [1]-718, [2]; Pt. II, pp. viii, [2], [723]-1648; Portfolio, pp. viii, 58 charts & views; “Life”, pp. xii, 760; 224 maps & illustrations in text vols., including 2 coloured portraits, indices, appendices, bibliography, references, etc., plus 49 maps, portraits & views (including 4 coloured), bibliography, index in “Life”; original buckram; a fine set in dustwrappers (the dustwrappers a little marked and that to the Portfolio worn). Cambridge; Published for the Hakluyt Society at the University Press; 1968-74. ***Volumes I & II are the second impressions of the original edition, with the addenda and corrigenda included at end; Volume III is the First (and only original) Edition. Also included is the 9-page addendum to the Third Voyage entitled “Cook and the Russians”, in original wrappers. The work is an essential reference to Cook’s voyages and it is certainly the most convenient edition to use. All volumes are now out-of-print, except in rather poor quality and expensive facsimile. #27078 A$3200.00
77 Cook, Captain James: FACSIMILE OF THE LONDON CHRONICLE for July 20, 1771. Tabloid; pp. 4; containing report of Cook’s return in the Endeavour after three years on his first voyage. The account contains details of the observation of the transit of Venus, the circumnavigation of New Zealand, the encounter with the east coast of Australia, description of the Australian Aborigines, the kangaroo, etc. [London]; Supplement to the Daily Mirror; April, 1969. #21077 A$35.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books 19 78 Cook, Captain James: AN ACCOUNT OF A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD, with a Full Account of the Voyage of the Endeavour in the year MDCCLXX along the East Coast of Australia by Lieutenant James Cook, Commander of his Majesty’s Bark Endeavour. Compiled by D. Warrington Evans. Illustrated with a variety of Cuts and Charts relative to the country discovered. 4to; Facsimile Edition; pp. xxx, [481]-661(i.e., pp. xxxi-ccxi), ccxii-ccxvi(including list of persons who left England in the Endeavour, and those who died on the voyage - totalling 38); portrait of Cook, large folding chart, 3 smaller folding charts, 2 folding plates; original papered boards, gilt; a fine copy in original colour-printed pictorial cloth slipcase (slightly marked); scarce. Brisbane; W. R. Smith & Paterson Pty. Ltd. [& others]; MCMLXIX [1969]. ***Comprising a facsimile of the portion of Hawkesworth’s edition of Cook’s first voyage dealing with the Australian coast (Book III, Chapters I-IX), together with modern introduction and a re-setting of various tables of personnel, etc. #23432 A$185.00
79 Cook, James: JAMES COOK 1770 1970 [cover title]. Cr. 4to, First Edition; pp. [32](including wrappers); double-page map, numerous coloured illustrations; original wrappers; a very good copy. [Sydney; V. C. N. Blight, Government Printer]; 1970. ***Captain Cook Bi-Centenary Commemorative Booklet [rear cover]. #12595 A$35.00
80 Cook, James: CAPTAIN JAMES COOK. A printed folder, so titled, with a curious assortment of facsimiles deriving from, or of the period of Cook’s voyages, including a Letter from Cook to the Admiralty, a Plan of the Endeavour, Part of the Complement of the Endeavour, a Page from the Ship’s Log, Drawings of a Dancer & a Chief, a Plan of King George’s Island, a drawing Ship’s Officer barters with a Native, two engravings of Madagascar & a Kangaroo, and a French Map of the World, together with an article on Early Map Making by T. M. Perry; various sizes, all printed in colours; with: Finkel, Commander George. JAMES COOK. 4to, pp. 32; numerous coloured & monochrome illustrations & maps; original pictorial wrappers. Sydney; The Sun-Herald, in conjunction with Shoalhaven Paper Mill; N.D. [1970]. ***The whole produced as a promotional piece by Wiggins Teape Australia, Shoalhaven, this copy distributed by The Sun-Herald, with the original acknowledgement form still present. #41014 A$50.00
81 Cook, Captain James. A VOYAGE TOWARDS THE SOUTH POLE AND ROUND THE WORLD. Performed in His Majesty’s Ships the Resolution and Adventure, in the Years 1772, 1773, 1774 and 1775. In which is included, Captain Furneaux’s Narrative of his Proceedings in the Adventure during the Separation of the Ships. Illustrated with Maps and Charts, and a Variety of Portraits of Persons and Views of Places; drawn during the Voyage by Mr. Hodges, and engraved by the most eminent Masters. 2 vols. med. 4to, Facsimile of First Edition; Vol. I, pp. [viii], xl, 378; portrait frontispiece, large folding chart & 6 smaller charts (2 double-page), 2 folding plans, 27 plates (10 double-page, 2 folding); Vol II, pp. [ii], [viii], 364, [ii](folding plate), [367]-370, 369-396; 7 charts (3 folding), 20 plates (3 folding & 8 double-page), folding language table, appendices, including vocabularies; original canvas; a very fine set. [Adelaide; Libraries Board of South Australia; 1970]. ***Spence 318; Renard 370. Australiana Facsimile Editions No. 191. Only 781 sets were printed of this facsimile from the first edition of W. Strahan & T. Cadell, 1777. The pp. [viii] in Volume I contains an introduction written specially for this facsimile reprint by A. Grenfell Price and the pp. 369-396 in Vol. II contain Sir John Pringle’s discourse on the health of mariners (from Cook’s paper on the subject). The two sets of pages 369-70 contain variations in the text of Sir John Pringle’s introduction. #2162 A$1100.00
82 Cook, James. CAPTAIN COOK IN THE SOUTH SEAS. Two Letters Written to Captain John Walker 1771 and 1775. Facsimile Edition with Transcriptions. 4to, First Edition; pp. 24; 11 pp. facsimiles; original wrappers (a little marked). Sydney; The Council of the Library of New South Wales; 1970. #49355 A$65.00
83 Cook, Captain James: HISTORICAL RECORDS OF NEW SOUTH WALES. Vol. I, Part 1. - Cook. 1762-1780. Facsimile Edition; pp. [ii], xliv, 526; frontispiece, 7 plates (including 3 folding facsimiles of entries in the Endeavour log), appendices, index; original buckram; a nice copy in dustwrapper. (Sydney; Lansdown Slattery & 20 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Co.; 1978). ***First published in Sydney: Charles Potter, Government Printer, 1893 [Holmes 127, see also Beddie 614, 707, 716, 1024, 2500, etc.]. This volume contains much useful first-hand background information concerning Cook’s discovery of the eastern coast of Australia including extracts from the journals of several of the personnel on board H.M.S. Endeavour and including also documents relating to the second and third voyages. #36274 A$185.00
84 Cook, James: HISTORICAL RECORDS OF NEW SOUTH WALES. Cook 1762-1780. Facsimiles of Charts, to accompany Vol. I, Part 1. 4to, First Edition; pp. [iv]; 13 folding charts, tipped-in note; original cloth (a little flecked; neat unobtrusive stamps at foot of title-pages and on versos of maps & cancelled library labels on endpaper, but no other marks); a very good copy; very scarce. Sydney; Charles Potter, Government Printer; 1893. ***Beddie 889. #64670 A$195.00
85 Cook, James: WEDGWOOD PORTRAIT MEDALLION OF CAPT. JAMES COOK. Produced in a limited edition of 100 in 1997 during the visit to the United Kingdom of the Endeavour Relica. Oval bas-relief profile portrait in white on blue jasper ground, white laurel leaf border, approx. 85 mm by 110 mm; in fine condition in original card box. (England; Wedgwood; 1997). ***Numbered on back 8/100 in gold ink with Wedgwood impression and date (97). #19975 A$275.00
86 Cook, James. JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS AT ENDEAVOUR RIVER 11 June-14 August 1770. Transcribed by Captain W. J. l. Wharton, Hydrographer of the Admiralty. Edited, with an Introduction, by John Currey. First Edition, second issue; pp. 64; 2 folding charts, 6 illustrations (including coloured portrait), notes, sources, index; a fine copy in original coloured wrappers & dustwrapper. (Malvern); Banks Society Publications (An imprint of the Colony Press; 2003). ***Attractively presented in an affordable format. This second issue contains a coloured portrait frontispiece and is printed on superior paper. #15967 A$30.00
87 Cook, James. JOURNAL OF H. M. BARK ENDEAVOUR ON THE EAST COAST OF NEW HOLLAND. April 1770 - August 1770. Transcribed by Captain W. J. L. Wharton, Hydrographer of the Admiralty. Introduction by John Currey. First Edition; pp. 92(last 5 blank); portrait frontispiece, 2 folding charts, 2 plates (1 folding), sources, index; original coloured pictorial wrappers; a fine copy. (Malvern); The Banks Society; (2006). #24346 A$38.00
88 Cooke, Edw. W. THE DISCOVERY. Convict Ship (lying at Deptford). The Vessell, which accompanied Capt. Cook, on his last Voyage. Drawn & Etched by Edw. W. Cooke, 1828. London, Published Feb. 1829. A fine copperplate etching showing the “Discovery” lying in dry-dock, 200 by 165 mm approx. (to platemark) plus margins; (a couple of mild fox-marks); in very good condition; framed & glazed. London; Published Feb.; 1829. ***This is in fact Vancouver’s “Discovery” rather than Cook’s. #20101 A$165.00
89 Cordingly, David; Editor. CAPT. JAMES COOK. Navigator. The achievements of Captain James Cook as a seaman, navigator and surveyor. 4to, Second Edition; pp. 112; many numerous coloured & b/w. illustrations & maps, bibliography; original stiff wrappers; a fine copy. London; Published by the National Maritime Museum in association with Campbell Publishing, Sydney; (1990). #18369 A$45.00
90 Currey, John. A VOYAGE TO THE GREAT SOUTH SEA COMPLETED. How England learned of Cook’s return in 1771. Compiled and introduced by John Currey. First Edition; pp. 74(last 3 blank); 3 charts (2 folding), 1 coloured & 3 b/w. plates (1 folding), notes, sources, index; original coloured pictorial wrappers; a fine copy. (Malvern); The Banks Society; [2006].***One of an edition of 100 copies for private sale prior to publication. #24340 A$38.00
91 Dale, Paul W.; Editor. SEVENTY NORTH TO FIFTY SOUTH. The Story of Captain Cook’s Last Voyage. Wherein are Discovered numerous South Pacific Islands, the Hawaiian Islands, the Coast of North America, and Alaska. Condensed, Edited and Annotated by Paul W. Dale. Med. 8vo, First Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books 21 Edition; pp. xii, 370; endpaper maps, 38 plates, charts, etc., bibliography, index; original cloth; a nice copy in dustwrapper. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.; Prentice-Hall, Inc.; (1969). ***Either the author or the publisher or both were extraordinarily ignorant: a title-page from a copy of the Dublin edition is illustrated and described as the “First Edition of Cook’s Journals”. #2170 A$60.00
92 David, Andrew [C. F.]; Chief Editor. THE CHARTS AND COASTAL VIEWS OF CAPTAIN COOK’S VOYAGES. Volume Two. The Voyage of the Resolution and Adventure, 1772-1775. With a Descriptive Catalogue of all the known original surveys and coastal views and the original engravings associated with them. Assistant editors for the views Rudiger Joppien and Bernard Smith. Demy folio, First Edition; pp. c, 332; coloured frontispiece, 40 plates (23 coloured), biographical notes, publication notes, bibliography, descriptive catalogue with over 250 illustrations, index (to introduction); a fine copy in original cloth, gilt, in dustwrapper. London; The Hakluyt Society; 1992. ***A most useful and interesting complement to The Art of Captain Cook’s Voyages, published a few years earlier (see items 123-126) and an essential accompaniment to The Journals of Captain Cook on his Voyages of Discovery, edited by Beaglehole and published 1955-67 (see items 75-76). #35900 A$650.00
THE FIRST LOCALLY PRINTED HISTORY OF HAWAII 93 Dibble, Sheldon. HISTORY OF THE SANDWICH ISLANDS. By Sheldon Dibble. [Three-line biblical quotation]. Lahainaluna. Press of the Mission Seminary. 1843. Med. 12mo, First Edition; pp. viii, 452(last blank), [453]-464(Appendix); folding map; original cloth; (some light browning); a fine copy, preserved in a full morocco folding box, decorated with geometric onlays, moire silk chemise; very rare. Lahainaluna; Press of the Mission Seminary; 1843. ***A greatly expanded version of the author’s “History and General Views of the Sandwich Islands Mission” published in New York by Taylor & Dodd in 1839, this was the first locally-printed history of Hawaii. Chapter I contains an account of Cook’s discovery of the islands and of his subsequent visit which resulted in his death. Dibble’s account is highly critical of Cook and his ‘immoral conduct’ in accepting the divine honours accorded him by the population. Holmes notes that as a result of Dibble’s “biased attitude” Cook’s reputation in the United States suffered for some years. Dibble’s account was based on replies to a questionaire which he submitted to the oldest inhabitants with no attempt made to collate the information with other sources or to check its accuracy and it has been suggested that the memories elicited were a conflation of Cook’s conduct with that of later visitors. Bernard Smith has commented that this is “an interesting example of the creation of anti-Cook ideology”. Holmes 89 (noting that some copies lack the Appendix - pp. 453-464 - and some very few copies include four views); Beddie 2479; Hunnewell, Page 35 (describing a copy without the Appendix); Sabin 19992 (of great scarcity); Hill 2, 476 (describing the Appendix as “rare”); Taylor, page 145 (mis-attributing the printing of the 1839 work to the Mission Seminary). Forbes, 1383 gives the most thorough and enlightening description and notes that the Appendix was printed to include an account of the “Provisonal Cession” and restoration of Hawaiian sovereignty. This supplementary text was printed twice, first at Lahainaluna and subsequently, in a revised version, at Honolulu, in an edition of 400 copies. This copy contains the revised, Honolulu appendix. Forbes notes also that the views were printed separately after the work was published and only partially distributed so are very seldom found. #17824 A$6500.00
94 Dodge, Ernest S. BEYOND THE CAPES. Pacific Exploration from Captain Cook to the Challenger 1776-1877. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. [ii], xvi, 430(last blank); endpaper & several other maps, coloured frontispiece, numerous illustrations (mostly full-page), bibliog; index; original cloth (spine faded); a very good copy. Boston; Little, Brown and Company; (1971). #33309 A$70.00
95 Dodge, Ernest S. BEYOND THE CAPES. Pacific Exploration from Captain Cook to the Challenger 1776-1877. Med. 8vo, First U.K. Edition; pp. xvi, 432(last 3 blank); endpaper map & 3 other maps, coloured frontispiece, 58 illustrations (mostly full-page), 5-page table, bibliog; index; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. London; Victor Gollancz Ltd; 1971. #9384 A$95.00 22 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books 96 Duyker, Edward. NATURE’S ARGONAUT. Daniel Solander, 1733-1782. Naturalist and Voyager with Cook and Banks. Med. 8vo, Second Impression; pp. xx, 384(last 3 blank); 4 maps, 36 plates (several coloured), 1 text illust., glossaries of scientific & Swedish terms, appendix, notes, bibliography, indices (botanical, zoological & general); a fine copy in dustwrapper. (Carlton South); The Miegunyah Press (Melbourne University Press; 1999). ***No. 17 in the second Miegunyah series. Having co-edited his Collected Correspondence, Duyker concerns himself again with Daniel Solander, naturalist on the Endeavour voyage, and intimately explores this character at the very epicentre of eighteenth century naturalism and exploration. #63367 A$50.00
97 Ebes, Hank; Compiler. THE FLORILEGIUM of Captain Cook’s First Voyage to Australia 1768-1771. Demy 4to, First Edition; pp. 200; numerous maps, charts, b/w illusts, b/w. & coloured photos.; original illustrated wrappers; a fine copy. [Melbourne]; Ebes Douwma Antique Prints & Maps; [1988]. ***Illustrating in colour all 738 plates from Banks’ Florilegium together with some background information on the voyage and its associated artwork. Sotheby’s auction booklet (20 pp.) loosely inserted. #29988 A$125.00
98 Editions Atlas: LES VOYAGES DE COOK. 4to, First Edition; pp. 256; very numerous coloured & b/w. illustrations, chronology; original vinyl gilt; a fine copy in dustwrapper. [Paris]; Editions Atlas; [1986]. ***Text in French. An excellent survey, very well-illustrated with modern photographs and reproductions of early views and engravings. #19259 A$85.00
99 Elliott, John; & Pickersgill, Richard. CAPTAIN COOK’S SECOND VOYAGE: The Journals of Lieutenants Elliott and Pickersgill. Edited and introduced by Christine Holmes. First Edition; pp. xxxii; 48(Elliott); 49-100(Pickersgill, last 3 blank); 3 full-page maps, 24 full-page plates reproduced from Cook’s own account of his second voyage; original brown cloth-grained boards, spine lettered in gilt; a fine copy in dustwrapper. (London); Caliban Books; (1984). ***Renard 481. Both of these accounts are here printed for the first time. The Midshipman (later Lieutenant) Elliott’s holograph “Memoirs” (which cover almost 50 years) are in the British Museum and the unfinished manuscript journal of Third Lieutenant Richard Pickersgill is now in the possession of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. #8306 A$145.00
100 Ellis, William. NARRATIVE OF A TOUR THROUGH HAWAII, or, Owhyhee; with Observations on the Natural History of the Sandwich Islands, Remarks on the Manners, Customs, Traditions, History, and Language of their Inhabitants. By William Ellis, Missionary from the Society and Sandwich Islands. Second Edition, Enlarged. Second Edition; pp. [viii], 480; 2 folding maps, 9 plates (a light waterstain to lower inner corners), 2 text illustrations & facsimile signature, appendix on the Hawaiian language; contemporary half calf, with marbled sides (front joint cracked, but sound); a nice copy; very scarce. London; H. Fisher, Son, and P. Jackson; 1827. ***Considerably enlarged from the first edition of 1826. See Hill 2, 545 & 546 (first & third editions only); Forbes 656. “The Narrative of English missionary William Ellis is particularly important, as it was the first book written about the Hawaiian islands and the first serious notice of the islands since Captain Cook’s discovery of them forty-eight years earlier. It may be called the first scientific book on Hawaii: although its main purpose was to report on mission progress, and Ellis was primarily interested in local manners and traditions, he was sufficiently expansive to include observations on such natural and cultural history topics as volcanoes, antiquities, and the anthropology of the islands.” -- Hill. He includes an account of the death of Captain Cook from an eyewitness report of native Hawaiians. #12926 A$1700.00
101 Ellis, William. AN AUTHENTIC NARRATIVE OF A VOYAGE performed by Captain Cook and Captain Clerke, in His Majesty’s Ships Resolution and Discovery, during the Years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780; in Search of a North-West Passage between the Continents of Asia and America. Including a faithful Account of all their Discoveries, and the unfortunate Death of Captain Cook. Illustrated with a Variety of Cuts. By W. Ellis, Assistant Surgeon to both Vessels. London, Printed for G. Robinson ... J. Sewell ... and J. Debrett ... MDCCLXXXII (1782). 2 vols., Facsimile Edition; Vol. I, pp. [ii], [x], 358, [2](blank); folding chart, 8 plates; Vol. II, pp. [ii], [vi], 350(last 3 blank); 13 plates; original imitation vellum; a fine set. Amsterdam; N. Israel; (1969). ***Cook’s Third Voyage. Facsimile of the First Edition, see Beddie 159. #2189 A$195.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books 23 102 Fisher, Robin & Johnston, Hugh; Editors. CAPTAIN JAMES COOK AND HIS TIMES. Med. 8vo, First Canadian Edition; pp. [x], 278; endpaper & 11 other maps, 31 illustrations, 4 tables, notes, index; original papered boards; (inscription on half-title); a nice copy in worn dustwrapper. Vancouver; Douglas & McIntyre; (1979). #35902 A$70.00
103 Forster, Johann Reinhold: THE RESOLUTION JOURNAL OF JOHANN REINHOLD FORSTER. Edited by Michael E. Hoare. 4 vols., First Edition; Vol. I, pp. xviii, 182; folding map, coloured frontispiece & 6 b/w. plates (1 folding); Vol. II, pp. viii, 183-370; 5 text maps, 11 plates (2 folding); Vol. III, pp. viii, 371-554; 5 text maps, 10 plates; Vol. IV, pp. viii, 555-834(last 3 blank); 4 text maps, 9 plates, 2 appendices, bibliography, indices; original blue cloth, spines lettered in gilt, with gilt device on front boards; a fine set in worn dustwrappers. London; The Hakluyt Society; 1982.***Cook’s Second Voyage in which he crossed the Antarctic Circle for the First Time. This journal was only recently discovered, and has never before been published. Hakluyt Society, Second Series Nos. 152-155. #4147 A$275.00
104 Frost, Alan. THE PRECARIOUS LIFE OF JAMES MARIO MATRA. Voyager with Cook. American Loyalist. Servant of Empire. With the assistance of Isabel Moutinho. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xiv, 266(last blank); 12 plates (including several maps), notes, sources, bibliography, index; original canvas; (a corner bumped, otherwise a fine copy in dustwrapper). (Carlton, Melbourne); The Miegunyah Press; (1995). ***Using his letters and a probing biographical narrative, Frost builds up a picture of Matra, an important, but little-known figure in Australian history. An enigmatic American who sailed with Cook, Matra (who changed his name from Magra) was the first (in 1771) to have published a major book on the “Endeavour” voyage, and strove to found a colony in New South Wales for dispossessed American loyalists, only to end his days as Consul at Tangier. This is number six in the second Miegunyah Press series. #48600 A$65.00
105 Furneaux, Rupert. TOBIAS FURNEAUX: Circumnavigator. First Edition; pp. xii, 188(last blank); double-page map, 9 plates; bibliography, sources, index; original cloth; (name on endpaper); a very good copy in slightly worn dustwrapper; scarce. London; Cassell; (1960). ***Furneaux commanded the Adventure during Cook’s Second Voyage. Beddie 4443; Not in Spence nor in Renard. #4743 A$175.00
106 Gilbert, George: CAPTAIN COOK’S FINAL VOYAGE. The Journal of Midshipman George Gilbert. Introduced and Edited by Christine Holmes. Med. 8vo, First Australian Edition; pp. [viii], 158, [4](blank); 3 double-page maps, 7 coloured plates (1 double-page); original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. (Canberra); Brian Clouston; (1982). ***Gilbert’s Journal is here published for the first time. #41057 A$125.00
107 Gilbert, Pamela; Editor. THE BANKS/COOK PORTFOLIO. With Essays by Harold B. Carter F.R.S.(Edin.); F.L.S.(Lond.) And Lieut. Cdr. Andrew C. F. David R.N. (Retd.). Cr. folio, First Edition; pp. 112; a few maps, several coloured & b/w. plates & illustrations, notes & bibliogs.; original cloth; gilt; a fine copy. Melbourne & London; Hill House Publishers; [1990]. ***Consisting of two separate essays with copious illustrations on: Sir Joseph Banks as the Father of Australia, and, Captain Cook’s Second Voyage and His Chart of the Southern Hemisphere. #12591 A$175.00
108 Godwin, George. VANCOUVER. A Life. 1757-1798. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xii, 308; frontispiece, folding plan of the “Discovery”, 2 folding maps (1 very large, in pocket of rear board), 7 plates, full-page map & full-page illust., appendix, bibliography, index; original cloth (a little marked); very scarce. London; Philip Allan; 1930. ***Many copies of this scarce work were issued without the large map. Vancouver sailed with Cook on both his second and third voyages; the early part of the book is devoted to his excellent training under Cook. #63992 A$225.00
109 Godwin, George. VANCOUVER. A Life. 1757-1798. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xii, 308; portrait frontispiece, 1 (of 2) folding maps, 7 plates, full-page map & full-page illust., folding draught of the Discovery, 24 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books appendix, bibliography, index; original cloth of the remainder issue; a nice copy. London; Philip Allan; 1930. ***Many copies of this scarce work were issued without the large map, this being one such. #18750 A$110.00
110 Gray, William R. VOYAGES TO PARADISE: Exploring in the Wake of Captain Cook. Photographed by Gordon W. Gahan. Super roy. 8vo, First Edition; pp. 216; a few sketch maps, numerous coloured illustrations (several double & full-page), index; original papered boards; a fine copy in slightly defective dustwrapper. Washington, D.C.; National Geographic Society; (1981). #23420 A$65.00
111 Greenhill, Basil. JAMES COOK. The Opening of the Pacific. Oblong 4to, First Edition; pp. 32; 51 illustrations & maps; original wrappers. London; Her Majesty’s Stationery Office; 1970. #18022 A$35.00
112 Hauptmann, William. JOHN WEBBER 1751-1793. Landschaftsmaler und Sudseefahrer. Pacific Voyager and Landscape Artist. Mit Neitragen von / with contributions by J. Harald Waber, Ernst J. Klay, Thomas Psota. 4to, First Edition; pp. 256(last blank); numerous illustrations (several coloured), Introduction with 3 appendices, Catalogue; original stiff wrappers; a fine copy; scarce. Bern; Kunstmuseum [and] The Whitworth Art Gallery, The University of Manchester; 1996. ***Text in English and German. #16824 A$165.00
113 Hawkesworth, John. AN ACCOUNT OF THE VOYAGES undertaken by Order of His Present Majesty for making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow and the Endeavour: Drawn up from the Journals which were kept by the several Commanders, and from the Papers of Joseph Banks, Esq; by John Hawkesworth, LL.D. In three volumes. Illustrated with Cuts, and a great Variety of Charts and Maps relative to Countries now first discovered, or hitherto but imperfectly known. London: Printed for W. Strahan; & T. Cadell in the Strand. M DCC LXXIII. 3 vols., med. 4to, First Edition; Vol. I, pp. [xii], xxxvi, [iv], 140(last blank), [361]-676; 20 charts & plates (mostly folding); Vol. II, pp. xvi, 410; 22 charts & plates (mostly folding); Vol. III, pp. [vi], 411-800(last blank); 9 charts & plates, mostly folding; contemporary full calf with old rebacking preserving original labels, but joints now cracked and boards detached; internally generally very good and clean, with some occasional minor spotting; the charts and plates excellent impressions; a very good set. London; W. Strahan & T. Cadell; 1773. ***This is the First Edition of the official account of Cook’s first voyage, combined with the official accounts of the voyages of Byron, Wallis and Carteret, and drawn up, as stated in the title, by John Hawkesworth, for which he was paid the enormous sum of 6000 pounds. Unfortunately Hawkesworth, a minor literary figure, had no direct knowledge or experience of the matters described and it is impossible to tell from the narrative whether it is the voice of Cook or Banks or the commanders of the other voyages which one hears or it is the fanciful suppositions and embellishments of Hawkesworth. But, as Holmes notes, the work is valuable for the fine illustrations engraved from drawings by Sydney Parkinson (who is nowhere acknowledged as the artist) and the charts by Cook, Bayly and others. This set is one of the earliest issues, without the Chart of the Streight of Magellan (and no sign that it was ever present), as noted by Holmes, but with the Directions for Placing the Cuts (2 leaves following Page xxxvi). Holmes 5; Beddie 648; Hill I, Pp. 139-40; Hill 2, No. 782. Offered, as is, at a modest price; repairs may be effected at the request and cost of the purchaser. #717 A$6750.00
114 Hawkesworth, John. AN ACCOUNT OF THE VOYAGES undertaken by the Order of His Present Majesty for making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, In the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavour: Drawn up from the Journals which were kept by the several Commanders, and from the Papers of Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. By John Hawkesworth, LL.D. In Four Volumes. Illustrated with Cuts and Charts, relative to Countries now first discovered, or hitherto but imperfectly known. The Fourth Edition. Vol. II. [ONLY]. Perth: Printed by R. Morison, Junior, for R. Morison and Son, Booksellers. M,DCC,LXXXIX. 12mo; Vol. II, pp. vi, 262(last blank); 1 chart & 1 plate; full contemporary roan (a little worn). Perth; R. Morison; 1789. ***Including all of Carteret’s voyage and the first part of Cook’s voyage. #21180 A$85.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books 25 115 Hicks, Zachary. THE ENDEAVOUR JOURNAL OF ZACHARY HICKS, LIEUTENANT. 13 April 1770 -22 August 1770. With notes by F. M. Bladen. Edited by John Currey. First Edition; pp. 26(last blank); folding plate, 2 plates, sources, index; original wrappers; a fine copy. (Malvern); The Banks Society; [2006]. ***One of an edition of 100 copies for private sale prior to publication. #24504 A$38.00
116 Hoare, Michael E. THE TACTLESS PHILOSOPHER. Johann Reinhold Forster (1729-98). Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. [xvi], x, 422(last 3 blank); endpaper maps, 8 plates; illust., family tree, appendices, list of Forster’s works, bibliography, index; a fine copy in worn dustwrapper. Melbourne; Hawthorn; (1976). ***Forster was naturalist with Cook on H.M.S. Resolution during its voyage across the Antarctic Circle. Renard 727; Not in Spence. #2026 A$110.00
117 Holmes, Sir Maurice. CAPTAIN JAMES COOK, R.N., F.R.S.: A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL EXCURSION. Demy 8vo, Facsimile Edition; pp. 106(last 3 blank); 11 plates, chronology, biographical notes of some of Cook’s Men; original cloth; a fine copy. New York; Burt Franklin; (1968). ***This work contains precise descriptions of the books listed and is an invaluable reference to first editions of works relating to Cook’s voyages. In this facimile two pages are transposed, being wrongly imposed, but it is quite complete. #18291 A$65.00
118 Horwitz, Tony. BLUE LATITUDES. Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. [xii], 484(last 3 blank); endpaper & 7 full-page maps, notes, bibliography, index; original papered boards; (inscription on a preliminary blank); a fine copy in dustwrapper. New York; Henry Holt and Company; (2002). #19199 A$65.00
119 Horwitz, Tony. INTO THE BLUE. Boldly going where Captain Cook has gone before. Med. 8vo, First U.K. Edition; pp. [xii], 484(last 3 blank); endpaper & 7 full-page maps, notes, bibliography, index; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. (London); Bloomsbury; (2002). ***Published in the U.S. under the title “Blue Latitudes” as above. #18968 A$65.00
120 Hough, Richard. THE MURDER OF CAPTAIN JAMES COOK. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. 272(last blank); 3 maps (1 full-page), 16 plates, including 2 maps, bibliography, index; (a well-used ex-library copy, with the usual markings & lacking half-title); in very good dustwrapper. London; Macmillan; (1979). #2209 A$20.00
121 Hough, Richard. CAPTAIN JAMES COOK. [A biography]. Med. 8vo, First Edition, Second Impression; pp. xviii, 398; 14 maps & drawings in text, 16 plates, 2 appendices, sources, index; original papered boards; (inscription on endpaper); a very good copy in dustwrapper. London; A John Curtis Book, Hodder & Stoughton; (1994). #18330 A$50.00
122 Innes, Hammond. THE LAST VOYAGE. Captain Cook’s lost Diary. First U.S. Edition; pp. 256; coloured endpaper maps, addendum; a nice copy in dustwrapper. New York; Alfred A. Knopf; 1979. ***Fiction. #49333 A$35.00
123 Joppien, Rudiger & Smith, Bernard. THE ART OF CAPTAIN COOK’S VOYAGES. Volume I: The Voyage of the Endeavour 1768-1771 with a Descriptive Catalogue of all known original drawings and paintings of peoples, places, artefacts and events and original engravings associated with them. Pp. [xvi], 248(last blank); approx. 600 illustrations in coloured & b/w., bibliography, index. Volume II: The Voyage of the Resolution and Adventure 1772-1775 with a Descriptive Catalogue of all known original drawings and paintings of peoples, places, artefacts and events and original engravings associated with the Voyage. Pp. [xiv], 274; approx. 600 illustrations in coloured & b/w.; bibliography, index. Volume III: The Voyage of the Resolution and Discovery, 1776-1780 with a Descriptive Catalogue of all known original drawings and paintings of peoples, places, artefacts and events and original engravings associated with the Voyage. 2 vols., super roy. 4to, First Edition; pp. xxii, 234(last blank) [text]; pp. [viii], 235-670 [catalogue]; over 650 illustrations (93 in coloured); 8 appendices, bibliography, 26 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books index. Together, 3 vols. in 4, super roy. 4to, ALL FIRST EDITIONS; a fine set in dustwrappers in cloth slipcase. Melbourne; Oxford University Press; 1985-1987. ***A substantial and important work - many of the illustrations are previously unpublished. Only 500 copies of this First Edition of volumes I & II were done and these were sold out within days of publication. Included is an account of each voyage and notes on the artists. The third volume (in two parts) includes an interesting note on the publication of the Third Voyage (9pp.) and a full account of the life and art of John Webber, the official artist on the voyage, and also William Ellis. The second part of each volume comprises a complete illustrated catalogue of the known first-hand work relating to the various voyages. #22141 A$1500.00
124 Joppien, Rudiger & Smith, Bernard. THE ART OF CAPTAIN COOK’S VOYAGES. Volume I: The Voyage of the Endeavour 1768-1771. Super roy. 4to, First Edition; pp. [xvi], 248(last blank); several hundred illustrations in coloured & b/w.; bibliography; index; original papered boards; a fine copy in slightly worn dustwrapper. Melbourne; Oxford University Press; (1985). #41253 A$250.00
125 Joppien, Rudiger & Smith, Bernard. THE ART OF CAPTAIN COOK’S VOYAGES. Volume II: The Voyage of the Resolution and Adventure 1772-1775. Super roy. 4to, First Edition; pp. [xiv], 274; several hundred illustrations in coloured & b/w.; bibliography; index; original papered boards (one corner slightly bumped); a fine copy in dustwrapper. Melbourne; Oxford University Press; (1985). #41254 A$250.00
126 Joppien, Rudiger & Smith, Bernard. THE ART OF CAPTAIN COOK’S VOYAGES. Volume II, as above, original papered boards; (pages x, xi, xiv and 1 overprinted with other pages; otherwise quite sound & complete & a fine copy in dustwrapper). Melbourne; Oxford University Press; (1985). ***A substantial and important work - many of the illustrations are previously unpublished. #11935 A$135.00
127 Kaeppler, Adrienne L. “ARTIFICIAL CURIOSITIES”: being an Exposition of Native Manufactures collected on the three Pacific Voyages of Captain James Cook, R.N. at the Bernice Panahi Bishop Museum January 18, 1978-August 31, 1978 on the occasion of the Bicentennial of the European Discovery of the Hawaiian Islands by Captain Cook - January 18, 1778. Med. 4to, First Edition; pp. xvi, 204; endpaper maps, 622 illustrations, many coloured, some full-page, including portrait frontispiece (Cook), endpaper maps & a few text maps, appendices, references, etc.; original stiff wrappers; a nice copy. Honolulu, Hawaii; Bishop Museum Press; (1978). #23073 A$195.00
128 King, John Bolton. JAMES KING R.N. Captain Cook is killed but The Third Voyage of Discovery goes on. Maritime Monograph No. 4. First Edition; pp. [x], 214(last 5 blank); several illustrations, 4 appendices; original stiff wrappers; a fine copy. Exton, Exeter; South West Maritime History Society; 2004. #18377 A$60.00
129 Kippis, Andrew. THE LIFE OF CAPTAIN JAMES COOK. Totque maris vastaeque exhausta Pericula Terrae. Virg. By Andrew Kippis, D.D. F.R.S. and S.A. London: Printed for G. Nicol, Bookseller to His Majesty, in Pall-Mall; and G. G. J. and J. Robinson, Pater-noster Row. M.DCC.LXXVIII. 4to, First Edition; pp. xvi, 528(last advert.); portrait frontispiece; half calf, with raised bands in contemporary style, with marbled sides; (tooth marks to upper right-hand corner of front board only; faint marks from pressed leaf to a couple of leaves; a light waterstain to upper & inner margins only of a few leaves at end); notwithstanding these slight blemishes a very nice, generally clean & crisp copy, complete with half-title; scarce. London; Printed for G. Nicol [etc.]; 1788. ***Holmes 69; Beddie 32. #43312 A$5250.00
130 Kippis, Andrew. A NARRATIVE OF THE VOYAGES ROUND THE WORLD, performed by Captain James Cook. With an Account of his Life, during the previous and intervening periods. Cr. 8vo; pp. xii, 404, 16(adv.); mounted frontispiece, 11 other mounted plates, appendix; all edges gilt; a nice copy in attractive pictorial gilt decorated cloth (very slightly marked); scarce. London; Bickers and Son; 1883. #15844 A$295.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books 27 131 Kippis, A. A NARRATIVE OF THE VOYAGES ROUND THE WORLD performed by Captain James Cook. With an Account of his Life, during the Previous and Intervening Periods. 12mo; pp. [ii], 424, 10(adv., last 2 blank); frontispiece of Shepherd’s Isles; original decorated pale green cloth, lettered on front board: “Cook’s Voyages” and “Alta Edition” within elaborate decoration; (some browning of edges from poor quality paper, but a a very good, sound & clean copy). Philadelphia; Porter & Coates; N.D. [c. 1886]. ***Inscribed on preliminary blank: Whittie Bowers Dec. 25; 1886 presented by my Mother. An unusual American imprint of this oft-reprinted title. #15766 A$175.00
132 Kitson, Arthur. THE LIFE OF CAPTAIN JAMES COOK, R.N., F.R.S. “The Circumnavigator”. First Edition; pp. xvi, 526, [2](adv.); tinted folding map & portrait frontispiece (both considerably foxed), 17 plates (3 double-page), index; original cloth; top edge gilt; (some small repairs to inner margin of a few leaves; some foxing to edges); a good, sound copy; very scarce. London; John Murray; 1907. ***Holmes 130 (“excellent”); Beddie 2069. Inserted in this copy is a reproduction (roneo?) of a neat manuscript transcription on two folded sheets of good quality blue paper of the secret instructions issued to Cook on his first voyage, these making a useful addition to this highly regarded biography. #49334 A$325.00
133 [Lefroy, Mike]. THE REPLICA OF H M BARK ENDEAVOUR. The story so far: 1987-1994. [A pictorial record of the building of the replica of H M Bark Endeavour]. Oblong 8vo, First Edition (?); pp. 52; illustrated throughout in colour; original stiff wrappers; a fine copy. No Imprint; No Publisher; 1994. #18856 A$35.00
134 Lewis, David. FROM MAUI TO COOK. The Discovery and Settlement of the Pacific. Drawings by Walter Stacpool. Cr. 4to, First Edition; pp. [x], 214(last blank); endpaper maps, 1 double-page & 3 full-page maps, numerous drawings (some full-page), bibliography; original cloth; (name stamp on half-title); a very good copy in worn dustwrapper. Sydney; Doubleday; (1977). ***Nicely printed in green and black. #9272 A$60.00
135 Lewis, David. FROM MAUI TO COOK. The Discovery and Settlement of the Pacific. As above, Special Limited Issue; original quarter leather, with canvas sides; a fine copy in clear dustwrapper; scarce. Sydney; Doubleday; (1977). ***Limited Edition of 100 numbered and signed copies. Nicely printed in green and black. #48771 A$165.00
136 Lloyd, Christopher. CAPTAIN COOK. First Edition, Second Impression; pp. 176(last 4 blank); portrait frontispiece, 1 double-page & 1 full-page maps, 3 plates, index; original cloth; a nice copy in defective dustwrapper. London; Faber and Faber Limited; (mcmlvii) [1957]. ***This impression not in Beddie (see 296 for the first impression of 1952). #17830 A$50.00
137 Low, Lieutenant Charles R.; Editor. CAPTAIN COOK’S THREE VOYAGES ROUND THE WORLD. With a Sketch of his Life. Edited by Lieutenant Charles R. Low (Late) H.M. Indian Navy, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, and Member of the Royal United Service Institution. Pp. 512; 1 text & 27 full-page wood-engraved plates (included in pagination); original red ribbed cloth; a very good copy. London; George Routledge and Sons, Limited; N.D. [c. 1895?]. ***One of the many issues of this edition. [Beddie 192]. #15930 A$225.00
138 Lyte, Charles. SIR JOSEPH BANKS. 18th Century Explorer, Botanist and Entrepreneur. First Australian Edition; pp. 248; 8 coloured & 16 b/w. plates, bibliog, index; original papered boards; (name on endpaper); a nice copy in dustwrapper. (Sydney); Reed; (1980). #21893 A$95.00
139 Macarthur, Antonia. HIS MAJESTY’S BARK ENDEAVOUR. The story of the ship and her people. Informative text by Antonia Macarthur. Illustrated with Contemporary paintings, charts and sketches, Line and wash drawings by Dennis Adams. Second Impression; pp. x, 86; numerous coloured b/w. illustrations, bibliography; original stiff wrappers; a very good copy. (Sydney); Angus & Robertson; (1997). #8224 A$25.00 28 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books 140 [Macarthur, Antonia & Longley, John]. ENDEAVOUR. Souvenir Brochure. In association with the National Maritime Museum [cover title]. 4to, First Edition; pp. 32; numerous coloured illustrations; original stiff wrappers; a fine copy. [Hadlow, Kent; Addax Retail Publishing Ltd. for HM Bark Endeavour Foundation, Fremantle; 1997]. #19272 A$30.00
141 Maclean, Alistair. CAPTAIN COOK. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. 192; coloured portrait frontispiece, endpaper & double-page maps, 21 coloured plates (1 double-page), several illustrations, index; original papered boards; a nice copy in dustwrapper. London; Collins; (1972). #49338 A$65.00
142 Maclean, Alistair. CAPTAIN COOK. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. 192; coloured portrait frontispiece, endpaper & double-page maps, 21 coloured plates (1 double-page), several illustrations, index; original papered boards (spine faded). London; Collins; (1972). #18379 A$45.00
143 Maiden, J. H. SIR JOSEPH BANKS: The “Father of Australia.” First Edition; pp. xxiv, 244; 2 very large folding charts (a couple of small neat repairs), 2 smaller folding charts, facsimile letter on two folding sheets, 60 illustrations (several full-page); original cloth, elaborately gilt, with bevelled edges; a very nice, bright copy; scarce. Sydney; William Applegate Gullick, Government Printer; 1909. ***Includes chapters on the botanical proteges of Banks - artists, botanist-librarians and botanical collectors. Beddie 3955. #5278 A$350.00
FIRST PUBLISHED ACCOUNT OF COOK’S SECOND VOYAGE. 144 [Marra, John]. JOURNAL OF THE RESOLUTION’S VOYAGE, In 1772, 1773, 1774, and 1775. On Discovery to the Southern Hemisphere, by which the Non-Existence of an undiscovered Continent, between the Equator and the 50th Degree of Southern Latitude, is demonstratively proved. Also a Journal of the Adventure’s Voyage, in the Years 1772, 1773, and 1774. With an Account of the Separation of the two Ships, and the most remarkable Incidents that befel each. Interspersed with Historical and Geographical Descriptions of the Islands and Countries discovered in the Course of their respective Voyages. Illustrated with a Chart, in which the Tracks of both Vessels are accurately laid down, and other Cuts. [Edited by D. Henry]. London: Printed for F. Newbery, at the Corner of St. Paul’s Church-Yard. 1775. First Edition; pp. xiv, 328 (pp. 19/20 - leaf D2 is a cancel); folding chart, 5 plates; finely bound in modern sprinkled calf in contemporary style; some mild foxing pretty well throughout, but a very good attractive copy; very rare. London; F. Newbery; 1775. ***The first published book to contain a factual account of the Antarctic regions. The track chart shows the three points of penetration of the Antarctic circle by the Resolution (the first accompanied by the Adventure - shortly afterwards the ships experienced great difficulty in keeping company due to the icy conditions, and were soon separated by a severe storm) and includes on the third occasion the notation “land seen” although the narrative makes it clear that this was by no means certain. Correspondence between Cook and the Admiralty indicates that the author was the Irishman, John Marra, gunner’s mate on the Resolution, and whom Cook had picked up at Batavia on the Endeavour Voyage. The work was edited by David Henry, editor and a voluminous contributor to the “Gentleman’s Magazine” for many years, and author/editor of “An Historical Account of all the Voyages round the World”, published in 4 volumes in 1773-4, to which in 1775 was added a fifth volume containing the Resolution voyage (i.e. the present account), and in 1786 a sixth, with an account of Cook’s third voyage (Rickman’s account). Hocken notes that “The preface discloses considerable knowledge of private matters connected with the voyage, and gives an account of the causes which led Mr. Banks and his staff to withdraw in high dudgeon from the expedition at the last moment.” The publication of Marra’s work preceded Cook’s Official Account by at least 18 months. Holmes 16; Hill p. 60; Beddie 1270; Hocken p. 14; Du Rietz 809; Spence 758; USN 23-5.2; Renard 997; Rosove 214.A1.a. #20938 A$14,500.00
145 [Marra, John]. JOURNAL OF THE RESOLUTION’S VOYAGE, [Etc., as above]. Facsimile Edition; pp. [ii], xiv, 328, [2](blank); long folding chart, 5 plates; original imitation vellum; a fine copy; scarce. Amsterdam; N. Israel; 1967. ***Bibliotheca Australiana No. 15. #8236 A$500.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books 29 146 Megaw, J. V. S.; Editor. EMPLOY’D AS A DISCOVERER. Papers Presented at the Captain Cook Bi- Centenary Symposium, Sutherland Shire, 1-3 May, 1970. First Edition; pp. 144(last 3 blank); endpaper maps, 8 plates, illust., notes, index; (Errata leaf loosely inserted); original papered boards; (foxed; otherwise a very good copy in dustwrapper). Sydney; A. H. & A. W. Reed, for the Sutherland Shire Council; (1971). #19406 A$35.00
147 (Mitchell, T. C.; Editor). CAPTAIN COOK AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC. The British Museum Yearbook 3. Cr. 4to, First Edition; pp. 252(last 3 blank); over 160 illustrations, notes, bibliogs., index; original cloth; a fine copy in dustwrapper. London; British Museum Publications; (1979). ***Including interesting well-illustrated articles by A. M. Lysaght, Rudiger Joppien, Brian Durrans, Adrienne Kaeppler & Deborah Waite, especially on anthropological aspects of Cook’s voyages. #41055 A$85.00
148 Moorehead, Alan. THE FATAL IMPACT. An Account of the Invasion of the South Pacific, 1767-1840. Illustrated. First Edition; pp. xiv, 230; endpaper & 4 other maps, portrait frontispiece (of Capt. Cook) & 30 other plates, appendix, bibliography, index; original green cloth-grained papered boards, spine lettered in gilt on red panel; (some occasional slight browning to top margins); a nice copy in pictorial dustwrapper by Philip Gough. London; Hamish Hamilton; (1966). ***Spence 808; Renard 1089; Beddie 315. #17650 A$65.00
149 Murray-Oliver, Anthony; Compiler. CAPTAIN COOK’S ARTISTS IN THE PACIFIC 1769-1779. Oblong med. folio, First Edition; pp. xxiv, 168; endpaper maps, 6 full-page & 4 half-page maps, 2 coloured portraits of Cook as frontispiece, 70 coloured & 50 b/w. plates, annotated list of plates detailing draughtsman, size of original drawing, present location & reference & commentary; original half leather, with cloth sides, in original cloth slip-case; a nice copy, with a copy of the original prospectus. New Zealand [Christchurch]; Avon Fine Prints Ltd; 1969. ***Edition limited to 2000 numbered copies. #49373 A$450.00
150 Murray-Oliver, Anthony. CAPTAIN COOK’S HAWAII. As seen by his Artists. Oblong 4to, First Edition; pp. 216; endpaper maps, 70 coloured & b/w. illustrations (including full-page map), bibliographical references, index; original cloth, gilt; a fine copy in dustwrapper. Wellington; Millwood Press; 1975. #18456 A$250.00
151 Paget, Hugh. TO THE SOUTH THERE IS A GREAT LAND: Captain Cook, Sir Joseph Banks and Australia. 4to, First Edition; pp. 48; a few maps, 8 coloured plates, several b/w. illustrations, notes, index; original stiff wrappers; a nice copy. Sydney; The Australian; 1970. #42561 A$35.00
152 Parkin, Ray. H. M. BARK ENDEAVOUR. Her place in Australian History. With an Account of her Construction, Crew and Equipment and a Narrative of her Voyage on the East Coast of New Holland in the Year 1770. With Plans, Charts and Illustrations by the Author. Med. 4to, First Edition; pp. xii, 468; 25 maps, 31 full- & half-page ship drawings and 12 smaller, several sourced from original drawings by Sidney Parkinson, 2 reproductions of original drawings by Parkinson, 15 other illustrations by Ray Parkin (mostly views), notes, bibliography, index; original cloth, gilt; together with, in cloth folding case, 15 detailed ship drawings and plans by Ray Parkin, each 800 by 580 mm., and sourced from original Admiralty drawings supplemented by sketches of Sidney Parkinson, artist on the “Endeavour”; a fine set in cloth slipcase. (Melbourne); The Miegunyah Press; (1997).***Edition limited to 1000 copies for sale. Number Thirteen in the second Miegunyah Press series. A magnificent production; a long-overdue detailed analysis of Captain James Cook’s ship, fully placed in the context of her time. The “Endeavour” is one of the most famous ships in maritime history, yet surprisingly few details of her were known to any but a small number of maritime historians. More than twenty-five years ago Ray Parkin, seaman, author and artist was amazed to find how little was known and recorded of this ship, and set out to document everything he could discover. His researches were encouraged by that renowned scholar and chronicler of James Cook, Professor J. C. Beaglehole. The result is the most painstaking study of the “Endeavour” yet undertaken and a unique account of a great voyage of discovery: the passage of the “Endeavour” up the east coast of Australia (then called New Holland) in the year 1770. Written for the scholar, mariner and layperson alike, Ray Parkin has recreated for the reader the very “experience” of being on board H. M. Bark “Endeavour”. With meticulous research, he reveals what she looked like, how she sailed, 30 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books how she smelled; all aspects of daily life on board. No part of the ship or her functioning is too insignificant for his enquiries. How many strands of yarn were there in the ships cable? (954) Did the ship have a lightning conductor? (Yes) What was the diameter of the main mast? (21 inches). The work is divided into two sections: Part I, The World of the Ship, details the sailor and his environment, the Captain, the ship herself, scurvy and provisioning, the ship’s company, and remarks on individuals come to notice through misfortune or by their sins and adventures. The text is accompanied by a series of plans and figures depicting the ship’s architecture and construction, her deck plan, rigging, sails, armament, boats, cables, anchors and accommodation. Fifteen of these are reproduced as large folding full-size sketches in the accompanying folding case. Part II, The Voyage (up the east coast of Australia), is a masterly synthesis of the Ships Log and the journals of James Cook, Sidney Parkinson and Joseph Banks, supplemented where illuminating and appropriate, by extracts from the journals of other members of the ship’s complement, and with an interpretive commentary and clearly drawn explanatory charts. The Author, Ray Parkin, was born in Melbourne and joined the Royal Australian Navy in 1928, spending eighteen years in the service. He was on board HMAS “Perth” in 1942 when the cruiser was sunk in Sunda Strait, killing two thirds of her complement. After the sinking Mr Parkin spent three and a half years as a Japanese prisoner of war in Java, on the Burma-Siam railway and in coal mines in Japan. His vivid accounts of these experiences in World War II were published by the Hogarth Press: “Out of the Smoke” (1960), “Into the Smother” (1963), and “The Sword and the Blossom” (1967). At the end of the war Mr Parkin completed a fine arts course. He worked on the Melbourne waterfront until his retirement in 1975 when he went to London to continue his research on the “Endeavour”. “H. M. Bark Endeavour”, is an absorbing book: discursive, erudite, at times poetic; full of wisdom, insight and information. It is an ESSENTIAL companion and supplement to the standard works on Cook’s voyages. #49819 A$450.00
THE SCARCE FIRST EDITION - SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR 153 Parkin, Ray. H. M. BARK ENDEAVOUR. [Etc., as above]. Med. 4to, FIRST EDITION; pp. xii, 468; 25 maps, 31 full- & half-page ship drawings and 12 smaller, several sourced from original drawings by Sidney Parkinson, 2 reproductions of original drawings by Parkinson, 15 other illustrations by Ray Parkin (mostly views), notes, bibliography, index; original cloth, gilt; together with, in cloth folding case, 15 detailed ship drawings and plans by Ray Parkin, each 800 by 580 mm., and sourced from original Admiralty drawings supplemented by sketches of Sidney Parkinson, artist on the “Endeavour”; a fine set in cloth slipcase. (Melbourne); The Miegunyah Press; (1997). ***This First Edition is printed on superior paper and limited to 1000 copies for sale, all of which were sold out immediately on publication. This copy is, unusually, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on title-page. Sadly, Ray Parkin died in May, 2005. #61649 A$650.00
154 Parkinson, Sydney: A JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE TO THE SOUTH SEAS, in His Majesty’s Ship, The Endeavour. Faithfully transcribed from the Papers of the late Sydney Parkinson, Draughtsman to Joseph Banks, Esq. on his late Expedition, with Dr. Solander, round the World. Embellished with Views and Designs delineated by the Author, and engraved by capital Artists. Large 4to, Facsimile Edition; pp. [ii], xxiv, 212, [2](Errata & Directions to the Binder); portrait, map & 26 plates; original buckram; a fine copy; scarce. Adelaide; Libraries Board of South Australia; 1972. ***Australiana Facsimile Editions Number A34. Only 635 copies were printed. Facsimile of the First Edition, London, Printed for Stanfield Parkinson, the Editor, 1773. The work includes several native vocabularies. See HOLMES 7 and 49 for the interesting history of this work. #2234 A$550.00
155 Parkinson, Sydney. A JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE TO THE SOUTH SEAS, in His Majesty’s Ship the Endeavour: Faithfully Transcribed from the Papers of the late Sydney Parkinson, Draughtsman to Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. in his Expedition with Dr. Solander round the World; and embellished with Twenty- nine Views and Designs engraved by Capital Artists. To which is now added, Remarks on the Preface, by the late John Fothergill, M.D., F.R.S., &c. Demy 8vo, Reduced Facsimile Reprint of the Second Issue/Edition Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books 31 of 1784; pp. [vi], xxiv, 22, 212, [2](Errata & Directions to Binder), [2](blank); 2 full-page maps (East & West Hemispheres), 27 full-page plates (including map of New Zealand), several native vocabularies (including New Zealand & New Holland); original papered boards; a nice copy in dustwrapper. Printed for Charles Dilly ... M DCC LXXXIV [1784]. Reprinted (London); Caliban Books; (1984). ***A reprint of the Second Edition of 1784, with the Remarks by Fothergill and Postscript, but omitting the accounts of Cook’s second and third voyages which comprised an appendix to it (pp. 213-353). #8307 A$135.00
156 Parkinson, Sydney. ACCOUNT OF THE COUNTRY, NATIVES, & NATURAL PRODUCE OF NEW HOLLAND. Edited, with an Introduction By John Currey. First Edition; pp. 52; 2 maps, 5 illustrations, notes, vocabulary, sources, index; a fine copy in original wrappers & dustwrapper. (Malvern); Banks Society Publications (An imprint of the Colony Press; 2003). ***Attractively presented in an affordable format. #11025 A$30.00
157 Perdrix, J. L. CAPTAIN JAMES COOK, R.N., F.R.S. AND AUSTRALIA [drop title]. Pp. 30-34; 1 plate; [contained in] The Journal of the Astronomical Society of Victoria, Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 29-52, several illustrations; original wrappers. Melbourne; Astronomical Society of Victoria; 1970. ***With also, articles on The Radio Astronomer’s Universe, Carbonaceous Chondrites, The 1970 Transit of Mercury, etc. #64668 A$25.00
158 Price, A. Grenfell; Editor. THE EXPLORATIONS OF CAPTAIN JAMES COOK in the Pacific, as told by selections of his own journals 1768-1779. Illustrated by Geoffrey C. Ingleton. Med. 8vo; pp. xx, 292; endpaper maps, mounted coloured frontispiece, 10 full-page & 32 text drawings; original cloth; a fine copy in dustwrapper. (Sydney); Angus and Robertson; (1969). ***Adapted from The Heritage Press edition, New York, 1957. #62774 A$75.00
159 Price, A. Grenfell; Editor. THE EXPLORATIONS OF CAPTAIN JAMES COOK in the Pacific, as Told by Selections of His Own Journals 1768-1779. Illustrated by Geoffrey C. Ingleton. With a new Introduction by Percy G. Adams. Med. 8vo; pp. xx, 292, [2](blank); 2 double-page maps, portrait frontispiece, 10 full-page & 32 text drawings; original stiff wrappers; a very good copy. New York; Dover Publications, Inc.; (1971). ***An unabridged reprint of the original Limited Editions Club edition of 1957, with the addition of the introduction by Percy Adams. #49013 A$45.00
160 Purves, D. Laing. VOYAGES ROUND THE WORLD by Captain James Cook. Edited, with Notes, etc., by D. Laing Purves. Cr. 8vo; pp. 352(last blank); wood-engraved frontispiece Edinburgh; W. P. Nimmo, Hay, & Mitchell; N.D. [bound with] Purves, D. Laing. A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD by Sir Francis Drake and William Dampier. According to the Text of the Original Narratives. Edited, with Notes, etc., by D. Laing Purves. Pp. 288; wood-engraved frontispiece; together, two works in one volume, as issued in original publisher’s pictorial cloth, gilt; (a little rubbed, but a nice copy); scarce. Edinburgh; W. P. Nimmo, Hay, & Mitchell; N.D. [c. 1880?]. #15937 A$195.00
161 Reed, A. W.; Editor. CAPTAIN COOK IN AUSTRALIA. Extracts from the journals of Captain James Cook, giving a full account in his own words of his adventures and discoveries in Australia. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. 192; folding map, 5 full-page maps, 16 plates, several text illustrations, index; original cloth; a fine copy in torn dustwrapper. Wellington, A. H. & A. W. Reed, (1969). ***Beddie 692. [with] Reed, A. H. & A. W.; Editors. CAPTAIN COOK IN NEW ZEALAND. Extracts from the journals of Captain James Cook, giving a full account in his own words of his adventures and discoveries in New Zealand. Med. 8vo, Second Edition; pp. 264(last 2 blank); folding map, 3 full-page maps, 16 plates, several text illustrations, notes, index; original cloth; a fine copy in rubbed dustwrapper. Wellington, A. H. & A. W. Reed, (1969). ***Beddie 238. Together, 2 vols., as issued. #49348 A$125.00 32 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books 162 [Rickman, John]. JOURNAL OF CAPTAIN COOK’S LAST VOYAGE to the Pacific Ocean on Discovery; performed in the Years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, Illustrated with Cuts, and a Chart, showing the Tracts of the Ships employed in this Expedition. Faithfully Narrated from the original MS. Facsimile Edition; pp. [viii], [vi], xlvi, 396(last 4 unnumbered); double-page map, 1 double-page & 5 full-page plates; original plasticised cloth; a fine copy; scarce. [U.S.A.]; Readex Microprint; (1966). ***The original edition: London, Printed for E. Newbery, M DCC LXXXI [1781] is of very great rarity. #9373 A$275.00
163 [Rickman, John]. JOURNAL OF CAPTAIN COOK’S LAST VOYAGE [Etc., as above] another Facsimile Edition; pp. [ii], [iv], xlvi, 396(misnumbered 388), [2](blank); folding map, 2 folding & 3 full- page plates; original imitation vellum; (bookplate on endpaper); a fine copy; scarce. Amsterdam; N. Israel, and New York, Da Capo Press; 1967. ***Bibliotheca Australiana No. 16. #2243 A$350.00
164 Rienits, Rex and Thea. THE VOYAGES OF CAPTAIN COOK. Demy 4to, First Edition; pp. 160(including endpapers); 4 maps (1 double-page); numerous coloured & b/w. photos; (some full-page & double-page), index; original papered boards, gilt; a very good copy in slightly torn dustwrapper. London; Paul Hamlyn; (1968). ***Beddie 324. #5034 A$45.00
165 Roberts, Lynette. THE ENDEAVOUR. Captain Cook’s First Voyage to Australia. First Edition; pp. 280; 9 plates, bibliography; original cloth; a very good copy in worn dustwrapper. London; Peter Owen; (MCMLIV) [1954]. ***Beddie 739. #36123 A$65.00
166 Robson, John. CAPTAIN COOK’S WORLD. Maps of the Life and Voyages of James Cook R.N. Oblong f’cap folio, First Edition; pp. 212; 128 coloured maps, gazeteer, select bibliography; original papered boards; a nice copy in dustwrapper. (Sydney); Random House Australia; (2000). #18353 A$100.00
167 Robson, John; Written and Edited by. THE CAPTAIN COOK ENCYCLOPAEDIA. 4to, First Edition; pp. 288; 8 coloured plates, numerous b/w. illustrations & maps, 6 appendices, bibliography, index; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. London; Chatham Publishing; (2004). ***The bibliographical treatment leaves much to be desired. #45887 A$80.00
168 Rouse, W. H. D.; Editor. CAPTAIN COOK’S SECOND VOYAGE. F’cap 8vo, First Edition; pp. 128; original printed cloth wrappers, cut flush (strip cut from top of endpaper); a very good copy. London; Blackie & Son Limited; 1906. ***Blackie’s English School Texts. The text is “a portion of his Second Voyage, forming a narrative complete in itself, reprinted from the folio edition of G. W. Anderson, printed for Alex. Hogg (no date).” #17827 A$35.00
169 Ryden, Stig. THE BANKS COLLECTION. An Episode in 18th-Century Anglo-Swedish Relations. First Edition; pp. 124(last blank); folding map, 34 plates including 57 figures, bibliography, index; original wrappers; a very good copy; very scarce. Stockholm; Almqvist & Wiksell; 1963. #29505 A$110.00
170 Samwell, David. CAPTAIN COOK AND HAWAII. A Narrative by David Samwell. With an Introduction by Sir Maurice Holmes, G. B. E., K. C. B. F’cap 4to, First Edition in this form; pp. [xii], x, [iv], 42, [4](blank) + 3 section titles (not included in pagination); 4 plates (1 folding) & reproduction of original title-page; original cloth; a fine copy; scarce. San Francisco; David Magee, London, Francis Edwards, Ltd.; MCMLVII [1957]. ***Concerning the death of Captain Cook, see Beddie 2546. Edition of 750 copies only, finely printed in red & black. The original edition of 1786 (see Beddie 2448) is extremely rare, but it is not the only other edition as claimed by the publishers as another reprint was done in 1916 (500 copies only) by the Hawaiian Historical Society (see Beddie 2511): that edition however seems to be even scarcer than this. Appendices include Some Particulars concerning his Life and Character, and Observations respecting the Introduction of the Venereal Disease into the Sandwich Islands. #41069 A$250.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books 33 171 Skelton, R. A. CAPTAIN JAMES COOK - after two hundred years. A commemorative address delivered before the Hakluyt Society. First Edition; pp. 32; coloured frontispiece & 24 b/w. plates, notes; original stiff wrappers; a fine copy. London; Trustees of the British Museum; 1969. #2255 A$45.00
172 Skelton, R. A. CAPTAIN JAMES COOK after Two Hundred Years. Second Edn; pp. 32; coloured frontispiece, 25 plates (including 1 coloured & 5 maps); notes; original stiff wrappers; a fine copy. (London); Published for The British Library by British Museum Publications Limited; (1976). #27139 A$35.00
173 Smith, Bernard. IMAGINING THE PACIFIC. In the Wake of the Cook Voyages. 4to, First Edition; pp. xiv, 262; numerous col. & b/w. illustrations, notes, bibliography, detailed illustration listing, index; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. Melbourne; Melbourne University Press at the Miegunyah Press; 1992. ***Number 10 in the Miegunyah Press series. An analytical exploration of matters discussed in the author’s earlier important work “European Vision and the South Pacific” commencing with a discussion of perceptions and representations of the New World before Captain Cook, including reproductions of rare early paintings and watercolours from explorers journals, etc., followed by a detailed analysis of “Style, Information and Image in the Art of Cook’s Voyages” with fine coloured and black-and-white illustrations from all parts of the Pacific including Antarctica, and a discussion of Cook’s posthumous reputation. A fine, beautifully illustrated reference by an acknowledged expert. #35683 A$100.00
174 Sparks, Jared. THE LIFE OF JOHN LEDYARD, the American Traveller. By Jared Sparks. Cambridge, Published by Hilliard and Brown; and by Hilliard, Gray, Little, and Wilkins, and Richardson and Lord, Boston; G. and C. Carvill, New York; Carey, Lea, and Carey, Philadelphia. 1828. First Edition; pp. xii, 328(last 3 blank); modern buckram; (inscription erased from half-title; light waterstain to lower portion throughout, a little heavier at front and back, but a generally clean and sound copy); very scarce. Cambridge; Hilliard and Brown [etc.]; 1828. ***Holmes 85; Beddie 1659/1660. Ledyard sailed with Cook on his third voyage as corporal of marines, and his work contains valuable information not available elsewhere. He died in Egypt at the age of 38 on an expedition financed by Joseph Banks to investigate the source of the Nile. #49330 A$850.00
175 [Sparks, Jared]. TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES OF JOHN LEDYARD; comprising His Voyage with Capt. Cook’s Third and last Expedition; his journey on foot 1300 miles round the Gulf of Bothnia to St. Petersburgh; his adventures and residence in Siberia; and his exploratory mission to Africa. Second Edition. London: Published for Henry Colburn by R. Bentley. Sold by all Booksellers. 1834. Second English Edition, 8vo; pp. [iii]-xii(lacking half-title?), 428; early to mid-twentieth-century half calf, with cloth sides (spine faded); top edge gilt; (some occasional mild soiling); a very good copy; rare. London; Henry Colburn; 1834. ***Beddie 1661. First published by Colburn in 1828 in the same year (1828) as the first (U.S.) edition, this new edition (the first U.K. edition sheets with cancel title-page) may well not have been issued with a half-title. With the bookplate of Bjarne Kroepelien and ink inscription on title-page identifying Sparks as the author and noting the work’s identity to the First (U.S.) Edition of 1828 from which it has been reset. #19764 A$1200.00
50 COPIES ONLY - FINELY BOUND IN WHITE PIGSKIN 176 Sparrman, Anders. A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD with Captain James Cook in H.M.S. Resolution. Introduction & Notes by Owen Rutter. Wood-Engravings by Peter Barker-Mill. [Translated into English by Averil Mackenzie-Grieve]. F’cap folio; First Edition in English; pp. 220, [4](blank); folding map, 12 wood-engravings; appendix, notes; original full white pigskin, gilt decoration on front board, gilt lettering on spine, with raised bands; top edge gilt; others uncut; a fine, clean copy; rare. [London]; The Golden Cockerel Press; 1944. ***Spence 1150; Du Rietz 1231 (standard edition); Renard 1517. This is one of the first 50 numbered copies, specially bound as above, within the total edition of 350 numbered copies on Arnold’s mould-made paper. The work is the first translation into English of Sparrman’s account of Cook’s Second Voyage and can be regarded as a kind of sequel to Sparrman’s South African narrative (first published in English in 1785) which contains only a few pages on the remainder of the voyage. #41232 A$4850.00 34 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books 177 Sparrman, Anders. A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD with Captain James Cook in H.M.S. Resolution. Introduction & Notes by Owen Rutter. [Translated into English by Averil Mackenzie-Grieve]. F’cap folio; First Edition in English; pp. 220(last blank), [2](blank); folding map, 12 wood-engravings by Peter Barker-Mill; appendix, notes; original green buckram, gilt, top edge gilt; (very slight browning of preliminary blank & back [only] of frontispiece from previously inserted newsclipping, but a nice clean copy); scarce. London; Golden Cockerel Press; 1944. ***Edition limited to 350 numbered copies on Arnold’s mould-made paper. [Holmes 92*; Beddie 1284; Davidson, pages 62-63; Spence 1150; USN 23-5.59; Du Rietz 1231; Renard 1517 (specially bound issue only)]. #2259 A$1850.00
178 Sparrman, Anders. A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD with Captain James Cook in H.M.S. Resolution. Translated by Huldine Beamish and Averil Mackenzie-Grieve. Introduction and notes by Owen Rutter. First General Edition; pp. xxii, 214; large folding map, 13 wood-cuts by C. W. Bacon (2 full-page); appendix, notes; original cloth (slightly faded at edges); a very good, sound copy in slightly worn dustwrapper; very scarce. London; Robert Hale Limited; (1953). ***Beddie 1285. #4793 A$250.00
179 Sparrman, Anders. A VOYAGE TO THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, towards the Antarctic Polar Circle, Round the World and to the Country of the Hottentots and Caffres, from the Year 1772 to 1776. Based on the English editions of 1785-1786 published by Robinson, London. Edited by Prof. V. S. Forbes. Translation from the Swedish revised by J. & I. Rudner. 2 vols., 8vo; Vol. 1, pp. [xiv], 344(last 13 adv.); folding map, 5 plates; Vol. 2, pp. [x], 296, [8](adv.); 2 folding maps, 7 plates, 2 appendices (on a new species of rat and on native languages); bibliography, general index, zoological index & botanical index; original cloth; a fine set; scarce. Cape Town; Van Riebeeck Society; 1975-77. ***An important work: Sparrman joined Cook’s second voyage at the Cape of Good Hope as naturalist (in addition to the Forsters) and his participation in the voyage is recorded in Volume I, but the work is chiefly of value for its natural history and anthropological observations of Southern Africa. #32903 A$275.00
180 Stamp, Tom & Cordelia. JAMES COOK: MARITIME SCIENTIST. First Edition; pp. xiv, 160(last blank); 10 illustrations (2 full-page), chronology, 3 appendices, bibliography, index; a fine copy in dustwrapper. Whitby; Caedmon of Whitby Press; (1978). #5313 A$45.00
181 Syme, Ronald. THE TRAVELS OF CAPTAIN COOK. [Photographs by] Werner Forman. Med. 4to, First English Edition; pp. 180; 102 plates (30 coloured, a few double-page), text decorations; original cloth; a fine copy in dustwrapper. London; Michael Joseph; (1972). ***A fine photographic essay on the locations visited by Cook, with text by Ronald Syme. Apparently not in Beddie. #49353 A$165.00
182 Villiers, Alan. CAPTAIN COOK, THE SEAMAN’S SEAMAN: A study of the great discoverer. Illustrations by Adrian Small, Master Mariner in Sail. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. 256; endpaper maps, 7 other maps (including 1 double-page & 5 full-page), 4 plates, 23 text illustrations (including 3 double-page & 2 full-page), appendices, bibliography, index; a nice copy in slightly worn dustwrapper; scarce. London; Hodder & Stoughton; (1967). ***Beddie 320. #41058 A$125.00
183 Villiers, Alan. CAPTAIN JAMES COOK. Med. 8vo, First U.S. Edition; pp. xii, 308(last blank); 8 maps (including endpapers), 43 illustrations [including drawings by Adrian Small], appendix, bibliography, index; original cloth; a fine copy in slightly torn dustwrapper; scarce. New York; Charles Scribner’s Sons; (1967). ***Beddie 321. #18352 A$110.00
184 Villiers, Alan. CAPTAIN JAMES COOK. Med. 8vo, U.S. Edition; pp. x, 310(last 3 blank); 7 maps, 43 illustrations, appendix, bibliography, index; original cloth; a fine copy in dustwrapper; scarce. New York; Charles Scribner’s Sons; (1967) [but later c. 1980?]. ***Hudson River Editions. This edition not in Beddie. #15909 A$95.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books 35 185 Whitehead, P. J. P. FORTY DRAWINGS OF FISHES made by the Artists who accompanied Captain James Cook on his Three Voyages to the Pacific, 1768-71, 1771-75, 1776-80, some being used by Authors in the Description of New Species. Text by P. J. P. Whitehead. Demy folio, First Edition; pp. xxviii(Introductory text, references, etc.), [72], xxix-xxxii(index of scientific names); frontispiece of 7 portraits (Cook, Banks, Solander, Sydney Parkinson, J. R. & Georg Forster and John Webber), facsimiles of signatures, etc., 27 coloured & 9 b/w. plates illustrating 40 drawings, index of scientific names; original buckram, gilt; a fine copy in slightly worn & soiled dustwrapper; scarce. London; The Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History); 1968. ***Only 750 copies were printed. A few of the drawings are by FORSTER, BUCHAN and SPORING, but the great bulk of them are by SYDNEY PARKINSON, the draughtsman who died at Batavia on the return of the “Endeavour” (First) Voyage. A most attractive publication, finely printed, with striking typography to complement the fine illustrations. [Beddie 553]. #5985 A$750.00
186 Whitehead, P. J. P. FORTY DRAWINGS OF FISHES made by the Artists who accompanied Captain James Cook on his Three Voyages to the Pacific, [Etc., as above]; (some foxing); a very good copy in slightly torn dustwrapper. London; British Museum (Natural History); 1968. #21898 A$495.00
187 Williams, Glyndwr; Editor. CAPTAIN COOK. Explorations and Reassessments. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xiv, 266; 22 illustrations, index; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. (Woodbridge, Suffolk); The Boydell Press; (2004). #18378 A$135.00
188 (Wilson, James and Randles, Tony). THE ENDEAVOUR. The authentic story of Captain Cook’s epic voyage of discovery from which Australia sprang. 4to, First Edition; pp. 48; several maps, numerous illustrations; original wrappers. (Melbourne; Southdown Press Pty. Ltd.); N.D. [c. 1970]. ***Consisting of articles originally published in The Australian newspaper. #4597 A$25.00
189 Wood, G. Arnold. THE VOYAGE OF THE ENDEAVOUR. Cr. 8vo, Second Edition; pp. x, 116, [2](blank); 2 maps, 6 full-page illustrations; original wrappers; (a few marks). Melbourne; Macmillan & Co.; 1944. ***Australian Pocket Library. #2295 A$30.00
190 Zimmermann, Heinrich. DERNIER VOYAGE DU CAPITAINE COOK AUTOUR DU MONDE, ou se trouvent les circonstances de sa mort, Publie en Allemand par Henri Zimmermann temoin oculaire, & traduit avec un abrege de la vie de ce navigateur celebre, & des notes. Berne, Chez la nouvelle Societe typographique. 1783. Second Edition in French; pp. xvi, 200; in most attractive full contemporary vellum, gilt (a trifling stain at foot of spine only), marbled edges; a fine copy; very rare. Berne; la nouvelle Societe typographique; 1783. ***Beddie 1630; Holmes 44 (q.v.); Forbes 59; Du Rietz 1364. All early editions of this important account of Cook’s Third Voyage, published four years before the official account are very rare, the first [German] edition extremely so. It was not translated into English until 1926. This second French edition is reset from the first of the previous year but is identical apart from the ornamentation on the title-page and the date at its foot. Both French editions are of great rarity and are of particular interest as they contain additional matter not found in the original German editions or in the (very late) English translations. This additional matter comprises some brief introductory notes by one Roland (almost certainly the translator), the “Abregee” Life of Cook (pp. 118-172), and quite extensive notes (pp. 173-200 - some forty numbered items). Holmes and Du Rietz note that the “Life” appears to be a somewhat abridged translation of Lichtenberg and Georg Forster’s early life of Cook, published in Gottingen in 1780. Zimmermann was coxswain in the “Discovery” and as a foreign national (he was a native of Speyer) was able to withhold his journal despite the instructions to surrender all logs and journals which were given to all serving officers and men. As a low-ranking member of the expedition his account gives an interesting and different perspective from the other accounts of Cook’s third voyage. Holmes notes that “his appreciation of Cook’s character deserves to rank with that of Samwell.” #8241 A$25,000.00 36 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books 191 Zimmermann, Heinrich: ZIMMERMANN’S ACCOUNT OF THE THIRD VOYAGE OF CAPTAIN COOK 1776-1780. Translated by Miss U. Tewsley. With a few Explanatory Notes. Roy. 8vo, First Edition in English; pp. 50, [2](blank); folding map, 2 plates, facsimile of title-page of original German edition, appendix; the superior issue in original blue cloth, lettered in black; (covers a little marked; with the signature of Norman Ford on title-page and his fine bookplate by John Goodchild on pastedown); a very good copy; scarce. Wellington; W. A. G. Skinner, Government Printer, for Alexander Turnbull Library; 1926. ***Beddie 1634. #2296 A$185.00
Section III: William Bligh and the Bounty Mutiny (items 192—266)
192 Alexander, Caroline. THE BOUNTY. The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xx, 492(last blank); 4 double-page maps, 8 coloured & 32 b/w. plates, sources, bibliography, index; original papered boards; a nice copy in dustwrapper. (London); HarperCollins Publishers; (2003). #18300 A$60.00
193 Allen, Kenneth S. “THAT BOUNTY BASTARD”. The True Story of Captain William Bligh. First Edition; pp. 224; 2 maps (1 double-page), 12 plates, sources, index; original cloth; a very good copy in dustwrapper (spine faded). London; Robert Hale & Company; (1976). #2299 A$110.00
194 Barrett, Charles; Editor. THE PACIFIC. Ocean of Islands. Cr. 4to, First Edition; pp. [x], 180(last 4 blank); mounted coloured frontispiece, 40 plates, several text maps & illustrations; original buckram, with bevelled boards; a nice copy in clear acetate dustwrapper. Melbourne; N. H. Seward; N.D. [1950]. ***Du Rietz 44 (no mention of coloured frontispiece); McLaren 123. An interesting and attractively produced work containing sixteen essays by notable scholars and talented amateurs including Geoffrey C. Ingleton, Nancy M. Taylor, Geoffrey Rawson, Evelyn Cheesman, Phyllis Mander Jones, Frederick D. McCarthy, H[arry] B. Muir, Peter H. Buck, the Editor, C. Irving Benson, Noel Lothian, William C. Groves, Rex Ingamells, and C. R. H. Taylor. The article by Harry Muir is on ‘The Literature of the “Bounty”’ and there are references to Bligh in other essays. #1639 A$175.00
195 Barrow, J. THE MUTINY AND PIRATICAL SEIZURE OF H.M.S. BOUNTY. Illustrated by Lieut.-Colonel Batty. Cr. 8vo; pp. viii, 392; 5 etched plates by Batty, several text illustrations; original purple gilt-decorated cloth (spine faded) with bevelled edges; all edges gilt; a very good copy; scarce. London; William Tegg; N.D. [1876]. ***Ferguson 6716 (giving the date as 185-); not in Du Rietz, but see his footnote to No. 52 wherein he gives the date of this edition as 1876, on what grounds is not clear. #4253 A$185.00
196 Barrow, J. THE MUTINY AND PIRATICAL SEIZURE OF H.M.S. BOUNTY. Illustrated by Lieut.-Colonel Batty. Cr. 8vo; pp. viii, 392; 5 etched plates by Batty, several text illustrations; original grey gilt & black-decorated cloth, with bevelled edges; a very good copy; scarce. London; George Routledge and Sons; 1883. ***Ferguson 6717. #16579 A$150.00
197 Barrow, John. THE MUTINY OF THE “BOUNTY”. With illustrations by Nigel Lambourne. Pp. 320; 8 full-page illustrations; (name on endpaper; some partial colouring of illustrations & headpieces - not overly obtrusive); original cloth; a very good copy. London and Glasgow; Blackie; (1961). ***The first edition was in 1831. A most interesting account of the whole affair, compiled from original documents, and including details of the wreck of the “Pandora”, the trial of the mutineers, and the discovery of the descendants of some of the mutineers on Pitcairn Island, etc. #35142 A$65.00
198 Barrow, Sir John. THE EVENTFUL HISTORY OF THE MUTINY AND PIRATICAL SEIZURE OF H.M.S. BOUNTY: its Causes and Consequences. Edited and with an Introduction by Captain Stephen W. Roskill. Pp. 262, [2](blank); endpaper maps, 12 plates including portrait frontispiece; original decorated Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books 37 cloth; a fine copy in original slip-case. London; The Folio Society; MCMLXXVI [1976].***The first edition was in 1831. A most interesting account of the whole affair, compiled from original documents, and including details of the wreck of the “Pandora”, the trial of the mutineers, and the discovery of the descendants of some of the mutineers on Pitcairn Island, etc. The introduction by Roskill contributes useful background. #36255 A$110.00
199 Barrow, Sir John. THE MUTINY OF THE BOUNTY. Edited by Gavin Kennedy. Roy. 8vo, Illustrated Edition; pp. 208; 7 coloured plates (1 double-page), about 80 b/w. illustrations (many full-page), & including several maps, 3-page reading list, index; original cloth; a nice copy in slightly worn dustwrapper. Boston; David R. Godine; (1980). ***A useful edition with facsimiles of interesting documents, paintings and contemporary title-pages. #9269 A$145.00
200 Beard, William. “VALIANT MARTINET” or, The Adventures on Sea and Land of Captain William Bligh. Roy. 8vo, First Edition; pp. 92(last blank); portrait frontispiece, 2 illustrations (1 double-page); original stiff wrappers; a very nice copy; very scarce. [Sydney; The Author; 1956].***”Of this edition, one hundred copies for sale and twenty-five for presentation have been privately printed for the author.” Telling the story of Bligh’s life in verse form. #16735 A$150.00
in fine original condition 201 Bligh, Lieutenant William. A NARRATIVE OF THE MUTINY, on Board His Majesty’s Ship Bounty, and the Subsequent Voyage of Part of the Crew, in the Ship’s Boat, from Tofoa, one of the Friendly Islands, to Timor, a Dutch Settlement in the East Indies. Written by Lieutenant William Bligh. Illustrated with Charts. London: Printed for George Nicol, Bookseller to His Majesty, Pall-Mall. M DCC XC. Demy 4to, First Edition; pp. iv(title, verso blank & Advertisement), 88; folding chart of the route of the Bounty’s launch from Tofoa to Timor, folding draught of the launch, folding chart of Bligh’s Islands, & full-page chart of the N.E. Coast of New Holland; contemporary half calf, with marbled sides; (corners a little worn & joints a little cracked, but cords firm); a very nice, clean, large and completely unsophisticated copy; rare, especially in such state. London; George Nicol; 1790. ***Ferguson 71; Wantrup 61; Hill, page 26. The voyage of Bligh and 18 of his crew over 3500 miles in six weeks through mostly uncharted waters is one of the most remarkable feats of seamanship ever undertaken. During the journey over 150 miles of previously unknown Australian coast were charted and named. #21799 A$25,000.00
202 Bligh, William, & Christian, Edward: BLIGH’S NARRATIVE OF THE MUTINY ON BOARD H.M. SHIP BOUNTY, and the Subsequent Voyage of Part of the crew in the Ship’s Boat from Tofoa, one of the Friendly Islands, to Timor, a Dutch Settlement in the East Indies. Written by William Bligh. Illustrated with Charts. (1790). [with] MINUTES OF THE COURT-MARTIAL held at Portsmouth August 12, 1792, on Ten Persons charged with Mutiny of Board His Majesty’s Ship Bounty with an APPENDIX containing a full account of the real Causes and Circumstances of that unhappy transaction, the most material of which have hitherto been withheld from the public. [By Edward Christian], (1794). [with] BLIGH’S ANSWER TO CERTAIN ASSERTIONS contained in The Appendix to a Pamphlet entitled Minutes of the Proceedings on the Court-Martial held at Portsmourth, August 12, 1792 [etc.], by Captain William Bligh. (1794). EDWARD CHRISTIAN’S SHORT REPLY to Captain William Bligh’s Answer. (1795). Demy 4to, exact Facsimile Edition of the above four items (in 1 vol); pp. [iv], iv, 88, [2](blank); folding plan of the Bounty’s launch & 3 charts (2 folding); pp. [iv], 80, [2](blank); pp. [ii], 32, [2](blank); pp. 12(last blank); original full navy blue morocco of the primary issue, gilt-decorated spine, top edge gilt; a fine copy; scarce. Melbourne; Georgian House, for The Australiana Society; (1952). ***The second and last facsimile under the Australiana Society imprint. The edition was limited to 1000 numbered copies, and is a reproduction of the highest quality. The last three items in this collection are exceedingly rare in the original, and very seldom occur for sale. [Refer Ferguson 71, 175, 176, and 218]. Du Rietz 124. #34609 A$600.00 38 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books 203 Bligh, William, & Christian, Edward: BLIGH’S NARRATIVE OF THE MUTINY ON BOARD H.M. SHIP BOUNTY, [etc., as above, another copy in original full navy blue morocco of the primary issue]; (library stamp on title verso, but no other markings); a fine copy; scarce. Melbourne; Georgian House, for The Australiana Society; (1952). #16734 A$365.00
BLIGH’S VOYAGE IN THE “BOUNTY” - AT FIRST HAND 204 Bligh, William: THE LOG OF THE BOUNTY. Being Lieutenant William Bligh’s Log of the Proceedings of His Majesty’s Armed Vessel Bounty in a Voyage to the South Seas, to take the Breadfruit from the Society islands to the West Indies. Printed in Great Britain at the Golden Cockerel Press, Ten Staple Inn, London. Now Published for the First Time from the Manuscript in the Admiralty Records, with an Introduction and Notes by Owen Rutter, Comments on Bligh’s Navigation by Rear Admiral J. A. Edgell, O.B.E., Hydrographer of the Navy, and Four Engravings on Wood by Lynton Lamb. 2 vols., f ’cap folio; First Edition; Vol. I, pp. [iv](blank), 436(last blank); facsimile of page of Log; Vol. II, pp. [iv](blank), 260(last colophon); full-page draught of the Bounty’s launch, 2 full-page charts (of Fiji Islands & of N-E coast of New Holland); double-page titles, each with 2 wood-engravings to each vol.; in the handsome binding of original linen in three colours; fore and lower edges uncut; (the cream linen portion of the sides very slightly foxed, as often); a very nice set; very scarce. London; Golden Cockerel Press; [1937]. ***Edition limited to 300 numbered copies printed on mould-made paper. A handsome production and an important work, being the first publication of Bligh’s original log. The first volume (undated) was issued late in 1936, see Du Rietz 1125. See also Pertelote 117: “In the light of enquiry, it seems clear that this was the first ship’s log to be published with full details. The transcription from the Admiralty records alone took three months, and the setting presented many difficulties. All the events of the day were recorded on the page devoted to that day in the space allotted to the hour, or even half hour, at which they were recorded. When necessary, hand-writing can be compressed, but not so type. The easy solution would have been to use various type-sizes, but this would have produced an ugly irregularity throughout the book. By arduous calculation, a standard setting able to absorb all irregularities was evolved. The volumes are unpretentious, and, if they have any beauty, it is like that inherent in good machinery, and resides in their functional simplicity--to be recognised by the expert, who can compare them in his mind’s eye with the horrid spectre of what, with less ambitious care, they would have been.” #21834 A$4000.00
205 Bligh, William: BLIGH’S VOYAGE IN THE RESOURCE, from Coupang to Batavia, together with the Log of His subsequent Passage to England in the Dutch Packet Vlydt, and his Remarks on Morrison’s Journal. All printed for the first time from the Manuscripts in the Mitchell Library of New South Wales, with an Introduction and Notes by Owen Rutter & Engravings on Wood by Peter Barker-Mill. F’cap folio, First Edition; pp. [ii](blank), 166(last 5 blank); 5 wood-engravings; original blue & cream linen; fore & lower edges uncut; (slight foxing of edges & endpapers); a very good copy; scarce. [London]; The Golden Cockerel Press; 1937. ***Edition limited to 350 numbered copies on Van Gelder paper. Du Rietz 1126. #2110 A$1350.00
206 Bligh, William: A VOYAGE TO THE SOUTH SEA, undertaken by Command of His Majesty, for the Purpose of Conveying the Bread-Fruit Tree to the West Indies, in His Majesty’s Ship the Bounty, commanded by Lieutenant William Bligh. Including an Account of the Mutiny on Board the said Ship, and the Subsequent Voyage of Part of the Crew, in the Ship’s Boat, from Tofoa, one of the Friendly Islands, to Timor, a Dutch Settlement in the East Indies. Demy 4to, Facsimile Edition; pp. [iv], [x], 264; 6 charts & plans (5 folding), 2 plates; (spine slightly faded; a little marginal foxing); a nice copy in faded dustwrapper. (Melbourne; Hutchinson; 1979). ***Facsimile of the First Edition, London, George Nicol, M.DCC.XCII [1792] - see Ferguson 125. Although probably best known for the Bounty mutiny, Bligh was a superb seaman and made many discoveries and observations of value, both in the voyage of the Bounty’s launch subsequent to the mutiny and in his second voyage with the ships Providence and Assistant. #98 A$135.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books 39 207 Bligh, William. THE MUTINY ON BOARD H.M.S. BOUNTY 1789. [The Log in Facsimile. Edited by Stephen Walters]. F’cap Folio, First Edition; pp. xiv, [190](last 2 blank); 9 illustrations by Roy Williams; a nice copy in dustwrapper. (Guildford, Surrey); Pageminster Press in association with Argot Press (Melbourne) & Mitchell Beazley; 1981. ***Consisting of a Foreword by Stephen Walters, a list of The Bounty’s Crew, and a facsimile of the portion of Bligh’s handwritten log covering the events of the mutiny. Bligh’s hand is unusually legible and easy to read. #33114 A$145.00
208 Bligh, William: THE BLIGH NOTEBOOK. “Rough account - Lieutenant Wm Bligh’s voyage in the Bounty’s Launch from the ship to Tofua & from thence to Timor” 28 April to 14 June 1789. With a draft list of the Bounty Mutineers. Facsimile Edition in Two Volumes, Edited by John Bach. Volume I: the Facsimile, f ’cap 8vo, pp. [viii], [110](facsimile); 1 folding leaf in collation, plus 3 additional loose folding sheets, being facsimiles of the “list of mutineers”; Volume II: the Transcription, super roy. 8vo; pp. [xvi], xiv, 224(last blank); coloured portrait frontispiece, double-page coloured plate of Bligh & the others being set adrift from the colour engraving by Robert Dodd, folding draught of the Bounty’s launch, folding chart, folding view of Kupang, 1 double-page & 5 full-page plates, transcription, numerous other illustrations, bibliography, list of mutineers, etc.; full calf, gilt, with morocco title-label on spine (Facsimile); and half calf (Transcription); a fine set in original presentation box. Canberra; National Library of Australia; 1986. ***Edition limited to 500 numbered copies. #14657 A$750.00
209 Bligh, William: THE BLIGH NOTEBOOK. “Rough account - Lieutenant Wm Bligh’s voyage in the Bounty’s Launch from the ship to Tofua & from thence to Timor” 28 April to 14 June 1789. With a draft list of the Bounty Mutineers. Transcription and Facsimile Edited by by John Bach. Roy. 8vo; pp. [ii], xiv, 336; coloured portrait frontispiece, double-page coloured plate of Bligh & the others being set adrift from the colour engraving by Robert Dodd, folding draught of the Bounty’s launch, folding chart, double-page view of Kupang, 1 double-page & 7 full-page plates (including 1 coloured), 116-page facsimile of the notebook account, transcription, numerous other illustrations, bibliography, list of mutineers, etc.; original cloth; a fine copy in dustwrapper. (Sydney); Allen & Unwin, in association with National Library of Australia; (1987). #17168 A$65.00
210 Bligh, William. ACCOUNT OF THE REBELLION OF THE NEW SOUTH WALES CORPS. Communicated to the Rt. Hon. Lord Castlereagh and Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. Edited, with an Introduction By John Currey. First Edition; pp. 64(last blank); folding map, 2 folding facsimiles, 5 illustrations, notes, sources, index; a fine copy in original wrappers & dustwrapper. (Malvern); Banks Society Publications (An imprint of the Colony Press; 2003). ***Attractively presented in an affordable format. #11028 A$30.00
211 Borthwick, John. IN THE WAKE OF THE BOUNTY. 4to; pp. 58-73; several coloured illustrations; contained in The Australian Geographic, Number 20, Oct-Dec 1990; original wrappers; a nice copy. [Sydney; Australian Geographic; 1990]. ***Containing also an article on Norfolk Island and the Bounty descendants by Stuart Inder, pp. 36-57, well-illustrated. The advertised poster map of Norfolk Island is not included. #18271 A$25.00
212 Bounty: SILVER 5 DOLLAR COIN OF NIUE 1992 showing The Bounty on obverse, Niue coat of arms on reverse. In fine uncirculated condition in original plastic holder. (Niue); [Government of Niue]; 1992. #20099 A$45.00
213 Brunton, Paul. AWAKE, BOLD BLIGH. William Bligh’s letters describing the mutiny on H.M.S. Bounty. Edited, with an introduction by Paul Brunton. 4to, First Edition; pp. [viii], 88; 15 illustrations including coloured portrait of Bligh’s daughter & 4 other coloured illustrations, as well as complete coloured facsimile of the letters and transcription, short bibliography; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. (Sydney); Allen & Unwin [and] State Library of New South Wales; (1989). #35417 A$85.00 40 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books 214 Christian, Glynn. FRAGILE PARADISE. The Discovery of Fletcher Christian, Bounty Mutineer. Cr. 4to; pp. 256; 8 coloured plates, numerous illustrations (including text maps), sources & bibliographical note, index; original papered boards; slightly torn dustwrapper. London; Book Club Associates; (1983). #58161 A$95.00
215 Christie’s: EXPLORATION AND TRAVEL INCLUDING THE BLIGH RELICS. [London], Thursday 26 September 2002. 4to; pp. 144; 129 lots, mostly illustrated in colour; original pictorial wrappers; estimates; list of prices realised loosely inserted; a fine copy. London; Christie’s; 2002. ***As well as interesting travel books, the Bligh material includes his coconut shell drinking cup, horn beaker, compass needle, a number of his watercolour sketches, etc. #23940 A$45.00
216 Clarke, Peter. HELL AND PARADISE. Square 4to (250 x 240mm.), First Edition; pp. 190; endpaper, 2 double-page, 3 full-page & several text maps & very numerous double-page, full-page & other illustrations, mostly in colour, appendices, bibliography, index; original cloth; a nice copy in dustwrapper. [Ringwood]; Viking [Penguin Books Australia Ltd; 1986]. #16115 A$135.00
217 Danielsson, Bengt. WHAT HAPPENED ON THE BOUNTY. Translated from the Swedish by Alan Tapsell. First Edition in English; pp. 230, [2](recto colophon, verso adv.); double-page chart of the Pacific, showing the “Bounty’s” route, the track of Bligh’s epic voyage in the open boat, and the mutineers’ route to Pitcairn, full-page map of Tahiti & 1 full-page plan of the “Bounty”; original quarter cloth & wood-grain patterned paper sides; (name on preliminary blank); a very good copy in slightly defective dustwrapper. London; George Allen & Unwin Ltd; (1962). ***Du Rietz 278. #22375 A$75.00
218 Danielsson, Bengt. WHAT HAPPENED ON THE BOUNTY. Translated from the Swedish by Alan Tapsell. Second Edition; pp. 224(last colophon); portrait of Bligh by Dance (new to this edition), double-page chart of the Pacific, showing the “Bounty’s” route, the track of Bligh’s epic voyage in the open boat, and the mutineers’ route to Pitcairn, text map of Tahiti & 1 full-page plan of the “Bounty”; original papered boards; a nice copy in dustwrapper; scarce. London; George Allen & Unwin Ltd; (1963). #16581 A$75.00
219 Darby, Madge. WHO CAUSED THE MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY? First Edition; pp. [vi], 128, [2](blank); a few text illustrations, appendix, index; original cloth; a nice copy in slightly worn dustwrapper. (Sydney); Angus and Robertson; (1965). ***Du Rietz 281. #9360 A$85.00
220 Dening, Greg. MR BLIGH’S BAD LANGUAGE. Passion, Power and Theatre on the Bounty. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. [ii], xii, 450(last 5 blank); several maps & illustrations including portraits of many of the people connected with Bligh, notes, references bibliography, index; original cloth; a nice copy in dustwrapper. (Cambridge); Cambridge University Press; (1992). ***A compelling and useful new contribution, with much interesting background on the Bounty Mutiny and subsequent developments over 200 years. #35904 A$50.00
221 Edwards, Captain Edward; and Hamilton, George. VOYAGE OF H.M.S. “PANDORA” despatched to Arrest the Mutineers of the “Bounty” in the South Seas, 1790-91. Being the Narratives of Captain Edward Edwards, R.N., the Commander and George Hamilton the Surgeon. With Introduction and Notes by Basil Thomson. First Edition; pp. [viii], 180(last 3 blank); large folding chart, index; original cloth; top edge gilt, others uncut; (fore-edges slightly foxed & the occasional mild spot elewhere, but a nice, bright copy); scarce. London; Francis Edwards; 1915. ***Hamilton’s account is reprinted from the very rare Berwick edition of 1793; the account by Edwards is here published for the first time. Du Rietz 1286. #13595 A$850.00
222 Ellis, M. H. JOHN MACARTHUR. Third Edition; pp. xviii, 606(last 3 blank); 10 b/w. plates (including Plan of Settlements in N.S.W. 1810), 2 full-page facsimile letters, bibliography, ref. notes, index; a very good copy in slightly worn dustwrapper. Sydney; Angus and Robertson; (1973). ***Including naturally the rebellion against Governor Bligh. #9093 A$45.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books 41 223 Hamilton, George. A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD in His Majesty’s Frigate Pandora. [Performed under the direction of Captain Edwards In the Years 1790, 1891, and 1792. With the Discoveries made in the South-Sea; and the many Distresses experienced by the Crew from Shipwreck and Famine, in the Voyage of Eleven Hundred Miles in open Boats, between Endeavour Straits and the Island of Timor]. First printed in 1793, reissued with a foreword by Alex Allan, British High Commissioner and an Essay by Peter Gesner, Curator of maritime Archaeology, Queensland Museum. Facsimile Edition; pp. 38, 164, [2](blank); portrait frontispiece (to original work), map frontispiece & 5 illustrations in introduction; original quarter leather, with marbled sides; a fine copy. (Sydney); Hordern House; (1998). ***Edition limited to 950 copies. Originally published at Berwick in 1793. #59450 A$295.00
224 Harris, Rolf: MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY. The Story of Captain William Bligh seaman, navigator, surveyor and of the Bounty mutineers. 4to, First Edition; pp. 112; numerous coloured illustrations, references; original stiff wrappers; a fine copy. (Sydney); Rolf Harris Productions Pty Ltd in association with State Library of New South Wales Press; (1998). ***With scholarly contributions by Richard Ormond, Glynn Christian, Bruce Harris, Peter Gesner, Ronald A. Coleman, Gavin Kennedy and Paul Brunton. #17464 A$35.00
225 Hawkey, Arthur. BLIGH’S OTHER MUTINY. Book Club Edition; pp. [vi], 202; 8 plates, bibliography, index; original papered boards; a very good copy in dustwrapper. London; PBS Book Club Edition; (1975). ***The Rum Rebellion. #16827 A$65.00
226 Hayes, Walter. THE CAPTAIN FROM NANTUCKET AND THE MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY. A Recollection of Mayhew Folger, Mariner, who Discovered the last Mutineer & his Family on Pitcairn’s Island: together with Letters & Documents never previously Published. Cr. 4to, First Edition; pp. 144; 17 illustrations (mostly full-page & coloured), 6 facsimile letters & facsimiles of Log entries (32 pp. in all), notes, bibliography; quarter cloth, with canvas sides; a fine copy. Ann Arbor, Michigan; The William L. Clements Library; 1996.***Edition of 1000 copies. An attractively produced book with new material on the “Bounty” - Pitcairn affair. #54965 A$185.00
227 Hood, T. H. NOTES OF A CRUISE IN H.M.S. “FAWN” IN THE WESTERN PACIFIC in the Year 1862. First Edition; pp. xii, 268; folding track chart, full-page plan of the ruins at Ascension (Ponapi) Island, 9 full-page tinted litho. plates, 4 b/w. plates, 6 text illustrations, 5 appendices; original blind-stamped purple pebbled cloth (a little rubbed; front hinge cracked, but sound); uncut; a fine copy; scarce. Edinburgh; Edmonston & Douglas; 1863. ***Ferguson 10528. Treats of Norfolk Island and the Pitcairners, and gives a general account of the “Bounty” mutiny and subsequent events. #48784 A$750.00
228 Hough, Richard. CAPTAIN BLIGH & MR. CHRISTIAN. The Men and the Mutiny. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. 320; endpaper maps, 18 plates (1 double-page), 13 text illustrations & maps, chronology, sources, index; original cloth; a very good copy in slightly worn dustwrapper. London; Hutchinson of London; (1972). #2114 A$75.00
229 Hough, Richard. CAPTAIN BLIGH & MR CHRISTIAN. The Men and the Mutiny. Med. 8vo, First U.S. Edition; pp. 320; endpaper maps, 16 plates (1 double-page), 13 text illustrations & maps, chronology, sources, index; original cloth; a very good copy in dustwrapper. New York; E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.; 1973. #2115 A$65.00
230 Hough, Richard. CAPTAIN BLIGH & MR CHRISTIAN. The Men and the Mutiny. Med. 8vo, Arrow Edition; pp. 320; 4 maps (1 double-page), 16 plates, numerous illustrations, chronology, sources, bibliography, index; original stiff pictorial wrappers; a nice copy. (London); Arrow Books; (1974). ***First published by Hutchinson, 1972. #30215 A$30.00
231 Hough, Richard. CAPTAIN BLIGH & MR CHRISTIAN. The Men and the Mutiny. Demy 8vo, Book Club Edition; pp. 320; 4 maps (1 double-page), 16 plates, numerous illustrations, chronology, sources, 42 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books bibliography, index; original papered boards; a nice copy in dustwrapper. Newton Abbot; Readers Union; 1974. ***First published by Hutchinson, 1972. #16733 A$35.00
232 Hough, Richard. CAPTAIN BLIGH & MR CHRISTIAN. The Men and the Mutiny. Med. 8vo, Second Edition, with additions; pp. 320; double-page map, 3 text maps, 18 plates (1 double-page), 10 text illustrations, including sketches of the Bounty & the Bounty’s Launch, chronology, sources, index; a fine copy in slightly faded dustwrapper. London; Cassell; (1979). #2116 A$65.00
233 Johnston, Lieutenant Colonel George: A CHARGE OF MUTINY. The Court Martial of Lieutenant Colonel George Johnston for deposing Governor William Bligh in the Rebellion of 26 January 1808. Introduced by John Ritchie. Med. 8vo, First Edition (with this introduction); pp. XXII(Introduction); [iv], 486(last blank, the facsimile), 487-490(modern index); mounted coloured portrait frontispiece, 5 illustrations on 4 plates, appendix, errata, index; original cloth; a very good copy in dustwrapper. Canberra; National Library of Australia; 1988. ***Facsimile of “Proceedings of a General Court Martial ... for the Trial of Lieut-Col. Geo. Johnston ... on a Charge of Mutiny ... for deposing ... William Bligh ....” first published in 1811. #20998 A$95.00
234 Kallgard, Anders. MYTERISTERNAS ATTLINGAR. [The Mutineers’ Descendants]. 4to, First Edition; pp. 218, [2](blank); very numerous coloured & b/w. illustrations, bibliography; original papered boards; a nice copy in slightly worn dustwrapper; scarce. (Arboga); Textab Forlag; (1986). ***Signed by the Author on title-page, and with a typed letter signed (in English) from the Author and concerning the book loosely inserted. The text is in Swedish and there is no edition in English: the illustrations from old and modern photographs and from engravings, etc. are of considerable interest. A chapter on Norfolk Island is included. #18239 A$250.00
235 Kennedy, Gavin. BLIGH. Roy. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xii, 420; endpaper maps, 20 plates, bibliography, index; original cloth; (lower front board waterstained; otherwise a very good copy in slightly worn dustwrapper). London; Duckworth; (1978). #64300 A$75.00
236 Kennedy, Gavin. BLIGH. Roy. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xii, 420; endpaper maps, 20 plates, bibliography, index; original cloth; a very good copy in slightly worn dustwrapper. London; Duckworth; (1978). #32998 A$135.00
237 Kennedy, Gavin. CAPTAIN BLIGH the man and his mutinies. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xiv, 322(last blank); endpaper maps, 8 plates, bibliography, index; original papered boards; a nice copy in dustwrapper. London; Duckworth; (1989). ***A different book from the author’s biography of Bligh published in 1978, this book addresses the “Bounty” mutiny and the lesser-known mutinies on the “Director” and in New South Wales. #45680 A$110.00
238 McFarland, Alfred. MUTINY IN THE “BOUNTY!” and Story of the Pitcairn Islanders. Sydney; J. J. Moore, Publishers, George Street. Gibbs, Shallard, & Co., Letterpress Printers, Artists, and Engravers, Pitt Street North. First Edition; pp. xx, 240, [2](adv., verso blank, for another book by the same author which was never published); engraving of The “Bounty” at Otaheite” following title-page; original gilt- decorated cloth; (title-page & last leaf washed and laid down on thin tissue); bound, a little crudely, in recent half leather, with marbled endpapers; a very good, sound copy; very scarce. Sydney; J. J. Moore; [1884]. ***Ferguson 11956; Du Rietz 757. The Author was a Judge at the District Court, New South Wales; the unpublished work referred to above was a maritime history of Australia. #2118 A$350.00
239 Mackaness, George. THE LIFE OF VICE-ADMIRAL WILLIAM BLIGH R.N., F.R.S. Two volumes in one. Illustrated with Contemporary Charts and Engravings. Thick med. 8vo, First U.S. Edition; pp. xiv, 369, [iii], 348; [48](bibliography & index); folding chart, 3 double-page & 5 full-page maps, 1 double-page & 38 full-page plates (including 2 portraits of Bligh), 25 page bibliography, index; original Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books 43 cloth; a nice copy in very slightly defective dustwrapper; scarce. New York; Farrar & Rinehart, Inc.; N.D. [1936]. ***”The whole career of this famous seaman from his early life, including a voyage with Captain Cook, the complete story of the mutiny on the Bounty, and the voyage of the Pandora, his explorations in Fiji and elsewhere, the mutiny at the Nore, his governorship of New South Wales and the rebellion there, together with many naval engagements and other adventures.” See Du Rietz 758. #40999 A$325.00
240 Mackaness, George. THE LIFE OF VICE-ADMIRAL WILLIAM BLIGH R.N., F.R.S. Thick med. 8vo, Second (revised) Edition, London issue; pp. xvi, 576(last 3 blank); double-page map, 7 full-page maps, 2 coloured plates, 1 double-page & 46 full-page b/w. plates, bibliography, index; original cloth, gilt; a very good copy. London; Angus and Robertson; (1951). ***See Du Rietz 758. #16732 A$145.00
241 Mackaness, George. THE LIFE OF VICE-ADMIRAL WILLIAM BLIGH R.N., F.R.S. Thick med. 8vo, Second (revised) Edition, London issue; pp. xvi, 576(last 3 blank); double-page map, 7 full-page maps, 2 coloured plates, 1 double-page & 46 full-page b/w. plates, bibliography, index; original cloth, gilt; a nice copy in dustwrapper. London; Angus and Robertson; (1951). ***See Du Rietz 758. #48858 A$175.00
242 Mackaness, George; Editor. SOME CORRESPONDENCE OF CAPTAIN WILLIAM BLIGH, R.N., with John and Francis Godolphin Bond 1776-1811. With an Introduction and Notes. Cr. 4to, First Edition; pp. 40; 5 plates; original stiff wrappers (a small spot on front); a fine copy; scarce. Sydney; D. S. Ford, Printers [for the Editor]; 1949. ***Australian Historical Monographs No. 19. Edition limited to 125 signed and numbered copies for sale and 15 for presentation. This is one of the presentation copies signed in full by Mackaness and further inscribed to Vivian Timms, initialled and dated 22/1/50. #14945 A$165.00
243 [Mackaness, George; Editor]. A BOOK OF THE ‘BOUNTY’. William Bligh and Others. Cr. 8vo; pp. xvi, 326, 10(adv., last 2 blank); builder’s draft of the “Bounty’s” launch, chart of the launch’s course, facsimile of title-page to Bligh’s “Voyage to the South Sea”, bibliography; original cloth; a nice copy. London; J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd; (1952). ***Everyman’s Library No. 950. Includes Stephen Barney’s “Report of the Court Martial of Ten of the Mutineers”, with an Appendix by Edward Christian; also Bligh’s Answer to Edward Christian’s Assertions, and other material. #12276 A$75.00
244 Marden, Luis. HUZZA FOR OTAHEITE! Modern-day Bounty, a replica of the square-rigger Captain Bligh knew, relives history in the South Seas. Super roy. 8vo; pp. 435-459; numerous coloured illustrations; contained in the complete issue of The National Geographic Magazine, April, 1962; original wrappers. Washington; National Geographic Society; 1962. ***With, also two other articles on the Pacific and one on New Zealand. #13263 A$25.00
245 Maude, H. E. IN SEARCH OF A HOME. From the Mutiny to Pitcairn Island (1789-1790). Pp. [103]- 132(last blank); 2 full-page maps, 1 diag., references; original wrappers (slightly worn); scarce. Wellington, New Zealand; Journal of the Polynesian Society, Extract from Vol. 67, No. 2, June; 1953. #40474 A$45.00
246 Maude, H. E. OF ISLANDS AND MEN. Studies in Pacific History. First Edition; pp. xxii, 398(last blank); endpaper maps, 19 text maps (7 full-page), 20 plates, 6 appendices, bibliography; original cloth; a very good copy in dustwrapper. Melbourne; Oxford University Press; 1968. ***Including an account of the fate of the Bounty after the mutiny, reconstructed for the first time from long-forgotten documents, together with a sequel recounting the later attempt of the descendants of the mutineers to return from Pitcairn to Tahiti. Du Rietz 822b. #8922 A$145.00
247 Maxwell, John. H.M.S. ‘BOUNTY’. First Edition; pp. 288(last blank); bibliography; a very good copy in dustwrapper. London; Jonathan Cape; (1977). ***Novel based on the mutiny. #35183 A$50.00 44 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books 248 Montgomerie, H. S. WILLIAM BLIGH OF THE “BOUNTY” in Fact and in Fable. First Edition; pp. xiv, 312(last 3 blank); large folding chart, 5 plates, 13 appendices, bibliography, index; a nice copy in worn dustwrapper; scarce. London; Williams and Norgate, Ltd.; (1937). ***Du Rietz 861. #2121 A$175.00
249 Nordhoff, Charles; & Hall, James Norman. MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY. With a Preface by the Authors and an Appendix Containing the True Story of Peter Heywood. Illustrated by Fletcher Martin. Med. 8vo; pp. xii, 468(last 3 blank); 16 coloured plates, 15 text illustrations; a nice copy in original decorated cloth (spine very slightly toned) in worn original slipcase. New York; The Heritage Press; (1947). ***An attractive edition with nice coloured plates. #33809 A$145.00
250 Oliver, Douglas. RETURN TO TAHITI. Bligh’s Second Breadfruit Voyage. Cr. 4to, First Edition; pp. xxii, 282; 27 coloured & 2 b/w. plates, 17 text maps & figures, appendix, bibliography, index; original cloth; a fine copy in faded dustwrapper. Melbourne; Melbourne University Press; 1988. ***An important new study of Bligh’s voyage in the Providence. The colour plates are reproductions of fine watercolours by Lieutenant George Tobin, who was third mate on the voyage. Number 2 in the Miegunyah Press series; 1250 copies were printed. #20719 A$120.00
251 Pelham, Camden; Esq. THE CHONICLES OF CRIME; or, The New Newgate Calendar. Being a Series of Memoirs and Anecdotes of Notorious Characters who have outraged the laws of Great Britain from the earliest period to 1841. Comprising Coiners. Extortioners. Forgers. Fraudulent Bankrupts. Footpads. Highwaymen. Housebreakers. Incendiaries. Impostors. Murderers, Mutineers, Money-Droppers. Pirates. Pickpockets. Rioters. Sharpers. Traitors. &c., &c. Including a number of curious cases never before published. Embellished with fifty-two engravings, from original drawings by “Phiz.”. 2 vols., med. 8vo; Vol. I, pp. xii, 592; engraved (additional) title-page & 24 engraved plates with tissues; Vol. II, pp. viii, 636; 23 engraved plates with tissues; original cloth, decorated in black & gilt (spines slightly faded); uncut; a nice set; scarce. London; T. Miles & Co.; 1887. ***This edition not in Ferguson, but see F. 3273 for the First Edition of 1841. Notwithstanding the statement on title-page the set appears to be quite complete with a total of 48 engraved plates (including title). Many cases of Australian interest are included, notably George Barrington, Mary Bryant, Joseph Hunt, the Bounty mutineers (with engraving), and others. #12938 A$450.00
252 Phillip, Governor Arthur: HISTORICAL RECORDS OF NEW SOUTH WALES. Vol. I, Part 2. - Phillip. 1783-1792. Facsimile Edition; pp. [ii], xxxiv, 748; 3 plates, appendices, index; original buckram; a nice copy in dustwrapper. (Sydney; Lansdown Slattery Co.; 1978). ***First published in Sydney: Charles Potter, Government Printer, 1892. The establishment and despatch of the First Fleet, foundation of the settlement, establishment of the penal colony at Norfolk Island, etc., etc., also much information on the Bounty mutiny and the subsequent voyage of Bligh and the loyal members of the crew in the Bounty’s launch. #36275 A$150.00
253 Phillips, Marion. A COLONIAL AUTOCRACY. New South Wales Under Governor Macquarie 1810- 1821. Second Impression; pp. xxiv, 336; chronology, bibliography, index; a fine copy in dustwrapper. Sydney; Sydney University Press; (1971). ***First printed in 1909. Includes Bligh’s deposition. #6466 A$75.00
254 Rawson, Geoffrey. BLIGH OF THE ‘BOUNTY’. First Edition; pp. [x], 244, [2](blank); folding map, 8 plates; references, index; original light blue cloth (spine faded; some foxing); a very good copy; scarce. London; Philip Allan & Co., Ltd.; (1930). ***The secondary issue. Du Rietz 1071. #64302 A$135.00
255 Rawson, Geoffrey. BLIGH OF THE ‘BOUNTY’. F’cap 8vo, Second Edition; pp. 192; double-page folding map, appendix, index; original cloth (slightly worn); fore & lower edges uncut; a very good copy; scarce. London; Philip Allan & Co. Ltd.; (1934). ***Du Rietz 1072. The appendix is new to this edition. The Nautilus Library No. 26. #33118 A$135.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books 45 256 Rawson, Geoffrey. PANDORA’S LAST VOYAGE. First Edition; pp. x, 166(last blank); 2 maps (1 double-page), 4 plates, 3 appendices, bibliography, index; original papered boards; a very good copy in dustwrapper. (London); Longmans; (1963). ***Du Rietz 1074. #11411 A$85.00
257 Rienits, Rex. STORMY PETREL. First Edition; pp. 238, [2](blank); original papered boards; a very good copy in worn dustwrapper. London; Frederick Muller Limited; (1963). ***A novel of the rum rebellion under William Bligh. #30058 A$35.00
258 Rutter, Owen. THE COURT-MARTIAL OF THE “BOUNTY” MUTINEERS. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Owen Rutter, F.R.G.S. Late District Magistrate, British North Borneo Civil Service. First Edition; pp. xii, 204(last 2 blank); 10 plates, bibliography; original red cloth, lettered in gilt; a fine, clean, bright copy; scarce. Edinburgh and London; William Hodge & Company, Limited; (1931). ***Notable British Trials Series: the primary issue. The introduction includes information on the voyage of the “Bounty” prior to the mutiny, Bligh’s open boat voyage, the fate of the mutineers, etc. Six days of testimony, the verdict and sentences are included in the text. #16825 A$275.00
259 Rutter, Owen. THE TRUE STORY OF THE MUTINY IN THE “BOUNTY”. Cr. 8vo, First Edition; pp. 192(including pastedowns, last 7 blank); original cloth; a very good copy; scarce. London; Newnes; [1936]. ***Du Rietz 1123. #30775 A$150.00
260 Toohey, John. CAPTAIN BLIGH’S PORTABLE NIGHTMARE. First U.S. Edition; pp. xii, 212(last blank); 4 maps, several illustrations, appendix, sources; a fine copy in dustwrapper. (New York); HarperCollins Publishers; (2000). ***An interesting account of Bligh’s experiences with Captain Cook, the Bounty Mutiny, etc. #64833 A$45.00
261 Vaughan, Crawford. THE LAST OF CAPTAIN BLIGH. Cr. 8vo, First Edition; pp. [x], 234; original cloth; a very good copy in slightly worn dustwrapper. London; Staples Press; (1950). ***Novel based on the facts of the Rum Rebellion. Du Rietz 1319. #51816 A$45.00
262 Weate, Philip & Graham, Caroline. CAPTAIN WILLIAM BLIGH. [An illustrated history]. Med. 4to, First Edition; pp. 160; double-page map & a few text maps, numerous coloured & b/w. illustrations (many full & double-page), bibliography, index; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. Sydney; Paul Hamlyn; [1972]. #32147 A$75.00
263 [Weaver, Denis]. PHILATELIC BOUNTY. The story of the Mutiny on the Bounty, the finding of Pitcairn Island and the life of the Mutineers and their descendants since as told on postage stamps. 4to; pp. [28]; 161 coloured illustrations being reproductions of Pitcairn and Norfolk Island stamps, with informative captions; original plastic sleeve binder containing the loose cards as compiled; a fine copy; rare. [Dover; The Compiler; 2001]. ***Unpublished and produced in very limited numbers “merely for the compiler’s own amusement” from an original presentation as a slide show. The production is of a very high quality. #18283 A$100.00
264 Wilkinson, C. S. THE WAKE OF THE BOUNTY. How a Ship having passed the Line was driven by Storms to the cold Country towards the South Pole; and how from thence she made her course to the Tropical Latitude of the Great Pacific Ocean: and of the strange things that befell: and in what manner the Ancyent Marinere came back to his own Country. Argument of the ‘Ancient Mariner’ by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. With 8 pages of half-tone illustrations. First Edition; pp. [xiv], 200, [2](blank); 2 maps, 8 plates, 6 appendices including the full text of the original version of the “Ancient Mariner”, index; original cloth (spine ends rubbed; slight foxing of endpapers); a very good copy with front panel from dustwrapper tipped to endpaper; scarce. London; Cassell & Company Ltd; (1953). ***Du Rietz 1351. Geoffrey Ingleton’s copy, with bookplate. #33138 A$175.00 46 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books 265 Woodard, David & Vaughan, William: THE NARRATIVE OF CAPTAIN DAVID WOODARD and Four Seamen, who lost their Ship while in a Boat at Sea, and surrendered themselves up to the Malays in the Island of Celebes; Containing an Interesting Account Of their Sufferings from Hunger and various Hardships, and their Escape from the Malays, after a Captivity of Two Years and a Half: Also an Account of the Manners and Customs of the Country, and a Description of the Harbours and Coast, &c. Together with an Introduction, And an Appendix, containing Narratives of various Escapes from Shipwrecks, under great Hardships and Abstinence; holding out a Valuable Seaman’s Guide, and the Importance of Union, Confidence, and Perseverance, in the Midst of Distress. London: Printed for J. Johnson, 72, St. Paul’s Church-yard, By S. Hamilton, Shoe-Lane, Fleet-street. 1804. First Edition; pp. [iii]-xl(bound without half-title), 252; portrait frontispiece, 2 folding maps & 2 plates, 22 appendices & list of shipwrecks, etc.; entirely uncut in the original papered boards (spine ends very neatly restored; worn original printed label retained); a fine copy; rare. London; Printed for J. Johnson [etc.]; 1804. ***Ferguson 399; Hill, page 331. The work includes accounts of the mutiny on the Bounty, the wrecks of the Antelope and the Pandora, and the hardships of part of the crew of the Shah Hormazier in Torres Strait. The last page carries a short list of books useful to seamen including “Robinson Crusoe”, Lind on “Warm Climates, and Diseases of Seamen”, and other works on Navigation, Seamanship etc. #63944 A$1500.00
266 Young, Rosalind Amelia. MUTINY OF THE BOUNTY and STORY OF PITCAIRN ISLAND 1790-1894. By Rosalind Amelia Young, A Native Daughter. Eighth Printing. Published by Pastor David Nield 148 Tasman Street, Wellington, New Zealand. Printed by Dawson Printing Company, Auckland, New Zealand, 1924. Cr. 8vo; pp. xii, 13-266, [267]-[304](appendix by David Nield, last blank), [2](adv., verso blank); 36 full-page & other illustrations, 2 appendices; original pictorial cloth (spine a little faded); a very good copy; very scarce. Wellington; Pastor David Nield; 1924. ***A curious and interesting edition of this work, first published in 1894. There are several additional illustrations and the second Appendix by David Nield (of personal recollections of the Author) is new to this edition. Du Rietz 1358. #38216 A$225.00
Section IV: Pitcairn Island (items 267—300)
267 Ball, Ian M. PITCAIRN. Children of Mutiny. First Edition; pp. [ii], xvi, 382(last 2 blank); endpaper & 1 double-page map, 33 illustrations (2 double-page & several full-page), index; original papered boards; a nice copy in slightly torn dustwrapper. Boston; Little, Brown & Co.; (1973). ***A study of the island and a new look at the Bounty Mutiny. #33136 A$120.00
268 Ball, Ian M. PITCAIRN. Children of the Bounty. First U.K. Edition; pp. [ii], xvi, 382(last 2 blank); endpaper & 1 double-page map, 33 illustrations (2 double-page & several full-page), index; original papered boards; a nice copy in dustwrapper. London; Victor Gollancz Ltd; 1973. ***A study of the island and a new look at the Bounty Mutiny. #33137 A$95.00
269 Beechey, Captain Frederick William: NARRATIVE OF A VOYAGE TO THE PACIFIC AND BEERING’S STRAIT, to co-operate with the Polar Expeditions: Performed in His Majesty’s Ship Blossom, under the Command of Captain F. W. Beechey, R.N. F.R.S. &c. in the Years, 1825, 26, 27, 28. Published by Authority of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. 2 vols., First 8vo Edition; Vol. I, pp. [iii]-xxviii, 472; 3 charts (2 folding), 13 plates, 1 text illust.; Vol. II, pp. iv, 330, [ii](title to appendix), 331-452; 10 plates (4 folding), 6 appendices (including Esquimaux vocabulary); bound without half-titles in full contemporary calf (rebacked); (some foxing & browning of plates, but a very good set); very scarce. London; Henry Colburn & Richard Bentley; 1831. ***Du Rietz 68; Ferguson 1419. This octavo edition was preceded by a quarto edition (the so-called “Admiralty Edition”) of the same year (see Ferguson 1418). The work includes an account of Pitcairn Island and its inhabitants (including 3 plates), also Tahiti and other Pacific islands, Kotzebue Sound, San Francisco and an account of China. #34918 A$3500.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books 47 270 Brodie, Walter. PITCAIRN’S ISLAND, and the Islanders, in 1850. Together with Extracts from his Private Journal, and a Few Hints upon California; also, the Reports of all the Commanders of H. M. Ships that have touched at the above Island since 1800. Med. 12mo, First Edition; pp. [iv], [5]-260; lithographic portrait of the Author as frontispiece & 2 lithographic plates including a portrait of John Adams from a sketch by Beechey, 1 full-page text illust. (page 15) of the hieroglyphs on Pitcairn Island, list of shipping & list of subscribers, slip advising subscribers how to pay for the work tipped in at front; entirely uncut in the original blind-stamped cloth with printed title-label on spine (the spine a little faded and the label slightly chipped); a very fine, clean copy in original state; very scarce. London; Whittaker & Co.; 1851. ***Du Rietz 130; Hill 2, No. 185; also Ferguson 7444, making no mention of the hieroglyphs, though he notes these as “facing p. 14” in the Second Edition (F. 7445) of the same year. This page is, in fact, Page 15, (unnumbered), and the text is continuous from Page 14 to Page 16. #11998 A$1250.00
271 Brodie, Walter. PITCAIRN’S ISLAND, and the Islanders, in 1850. Together with Extracts from his Private Journal, and a Few Hints upon California; also, the Reports of all the Commanders of H. M. Ships that have touched at the above Island since 1800. Second Edition. Med. 12mo; pp. [iv], [5]-260; lithographic portrait of the Author as frontispiece & 2 lithographic plates including a portrait fo John Adams from a sketch by Beechey, 1 full-page text illust. (page 15) of the hieroglyphs on Pitcairn Island, list of shipping & list of subscribers; original cloth (back relined, spine label chipped; extremities slightly worn); a very good, clean copy; scarce. London; Whittaker & Co.; 1851. ***Ferguson 7445; Du Rietz 130. #41230 A$650.00
272 Clune, Frank. JOURNEY TO PITCAIRN. First Edition; pp. xviii, 246(last blank); illust. endpapers; 5 maps, 24 plates; appendix, references; original cloth; a very good copy in slightly worn dustwrapper; scarce. (Sydney); Angus and Robertson; (1966). ***Burnet 60. #8468 A$145.00
273 Clune, Frank. JOURNEY TO PITCAIRN. First Edition; another copy in original cloth, as above; a very good copy ex-library copy in dustwrapper, with the usual markings, but otherwise clean; scarce. (Sydney); Angus and Robertson; (1966). ***Burnet 60. #58514 A$65.00
274 Fogle, Ben. THE TEATIME ISLANDS. Journeys to Britain’s Faraway Outposts. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xxiv, 264; col. endpaper map, 6 double-page maps, 32 coloured plates, bibliography, index; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. (London); Michael Joseph an imprint of Penguin Books; (2003). ***Tristan da Cunha, British Indian Ocean Territories, St. Helena, The Falklands, Pitcairn & Ascension Island. #13167 A$60.00
275 Ford, Herbert. THE MISCELLANY OF PITCAIRN’S ISLAND. First Edition; pp. 208(last 2 blank); original stiff wrappers; a nice copy. Mountain View, California; Pacific Press Publishing Association; (1980). ***Everything you need to know about Pitcairn island, alphabetically arranged! #59051 A$50.00
276 Fullerton, W. Y. THE ROMANCE OF PITCAIRN ISLAND. Cr. 8vo, First Edition; pp. 112; frontispiece & 7 plates; original cloth; a very good copy; scarce. London; The Carey Press; N.D. [c. 1910]. ***Du Rietz 474. #41248 A$125.00
277 Hornadge, Bill; Compiler & Editor. THE PITCAIRN ISLANDS STAMP CATALOGUE. The stamps, postal history, postal stationery, postal markings, etc. Compiled by the Editor of “Stamp News”. First Edition; pp. 128; numerous illustrations; original stiff wrappers. Dubbo, N.S.W.; Review Publications Pty. Ltd.; 1976. #17101 A$50.00
278 Howard, Ed. PITCAIRN AND NORFOLK. The Saga of Bounty’s Children. Photographs by David Hiser and Melinda Berge. Super roy. 8vo; pp. 510-541; numerous coloured illustrations; contained in the complete issue of The National Geographic Magazine, Vol. 164, No. 4, 1983; original wrappers. Washington; National Geographic Society; 1986. #58974 A$30.00 48 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books 279 Lucas, Sir Charles; Editor. THE PITCAIRN ISLAND REGISTER BOOK. Edited with an Introduction by Sir Charles Lucas. Together with Map, Index and Appendices. Cr. 8vo, Facsimile Edition; pp. [viii], 182; folding map; 3 plates (2 facsimiles of pages from the Register Book & facsimile of John Adams’s MS. prayer), appendices, bibliography; index; original cloth; a fine copy. New York; A.M.S. Press; (1977). ***First published 1929. “The Pitcairn Island Register Book, now in the archives of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, is the earliest record from within of the settlement on Pitcairn Island”. It contains the Register itself, covering the years January, 1790 to February, 1854, now for the first time reproduced page by page and word for word; an undated list of prices of different articles on Pitcairn; and a list of shipping entries of the ships that called at Pitcairn in the years 1823 to 1853 (including information of the movements of American whale-ships in the Pacific during that period). #18747 A$165.00
280 [Lucatt, Edward (or Lucett, Edward)]. ROVINGS IN THE PACIFIC, from 1837 to 1849; with a Glance at California. By a Merchant long resident at Tahiti. 2 vols. in 1, demy 12mo, First Edition; Vol. I, pp. xii, 352; Vol. II, pp. [iii]-xii(lacking half-title), 372; 4 fine coloured litho. plates drawn by “E.L.” (i.e., the Author) & lithographed by M. & N. Hanhart; half calf, with marbled sides; a nice copy; scarce. London; Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans; 1851. ***Not in Ferguson; Sabin 73525 (no authorship); Hocken (Lacatt, -) Page 161; Bagnall (Lucett) 3198; Hill 2 (Lucatt) 1041. The Author left England for New South Wales on a convict ship from Deptford, on March 7, 1837, having signed the ship’s articles to conform with regulation requirements (unfortunately he keeps the name of the ship as secret as his own), and arrived at Sydney Cove on July 18. He spent about two-and-a-half years in New South Wales, and gives descriptions of the country and the life of the inhabitants, the fauna, the native people, etc. He then proceeded to New Zealand, which in the course of nine or ten years he visited three times (vide Bagnall; also Hocken - “Spirited journal of adventure in almost every island of the Pacific”). Amongst the places visited, apart from the main groups, are Lord Howe Island, Phillip Island, Norfolk Island, Nepean Island, Isle of Pines, Fanning Island, Pitcairn Island (where he found 116 descendants of the “Bounty” mutineers), and many others. He was present at Tahiti during the annexation proceedings by Admiral du Petit-Thouars, and gives substantial account of them, and it was here that he established himself as a Pacific Islands merchant/trader. During the course of his voyages he revisited Sydney twice. He also visited San Francisco and as Hill notes “gives a very unflattering picture of San Francisco and Sacramento during the height of the gold rush.” The work is a fascinating, first-hand record of life and adventure in the Pacific. #2222 A$1350.00
281 McLoughlin, D. AN ACCOUNT OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SYSTEM OF GOVERN MENT AND LAWS ON PITCAIRN ISLAND DURING THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. Pp. [137](blank)-164; bibliography; original stiff wrappers. Suva, Fiji; Reprinted from Transactions and Proceedings of the Fiji Society of Science and Industry; Vol. 10 - 1964 and 1965. #17397 A$35.00
282 McLoughlin, D. AN ACCOUNT OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SYSTEM OF GOVERN MENT AND LAWS ON PITCAIRN ISLAND IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. Pp. 63-88(last blank); bibliography; original stiff wrappers. Suva, Fiji; Reprinted from Transactions and Proceedings of the Fiji Society of Science and Industry; Vol. 11 - 1966 and 1967. #17439 A$35.00
283 Marden, Luis. I FOUND THE BONES OF THE BOUNTY. Lonely Pitcairn Island, Home of the Descendants of History’s Most Famous Mutineers, Yields Its Secret to a Diver. Super roy. 8vo; pp. 725-790; numerous coloured illustrations; contained in the National Geographic Magazine, December, 1957; original wrappers (silverfished, internally fine). Washington; National Geographic Society; 1957. #58972 A$35.00
284 Marden, Luis. I FOUND THE BONES OF THE BOUNTY. As above, pp. 725-790; plain wrappers. Extracted from The National Geographic Magazine, Vol. CXII, No. 6, December; 1957. #51847 A$35.00
285 Marden, Luis. I FOUND THE BONES OF THE BOUNTY. [Etc., as above]. Another copy in binder’s cloth; a fine copy. Washington; Extracted from The National Geographic Magazine, Vol. CXII, No. 6, December; 1957. #17587 A$65.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books 49 286 Maude, H. E. TAHITIAN INTERLUDE. The Migration of the Pitcairn Islanders to the Motherland in 1831. Med. 8vo; pp. 115-140; references; original wrappers. [Wellington, New Zealand; Extract from Journal of the Polynesian Society, Vol. 68, No. 2, June; 1959]. #20866 A$30.00
287 Murray, Spencer. PITCAIRN ISLAND: THE FIRST 200 YEARS. Demy 4to, First Edition; pp. [ii], 188, [2](blank); endpaper maps, numerous illustrations, notes, bibliography, ships list, index; original stiff wrappers. La Canada, Ca; Bounty Sagas; (1992). #38738 A$50.00
288 Murray, Rev. Thos. Boyles. PITCAIRN: The Island, the People, and the Pastor: With a Short Account of the Mutiny of the Bounty. Fourth Edition. F’cap 8vo; pp. xiv, [15]-304(last blank); 13 plates (including map) & 1 text illust. as per list at Page [viii], plus 3 tail-piece illustrations in text; original blind-stamped blue cloth, title in gilt on spine & gilt ship device in centre of front board; (spine slightly rubbed, hinges strengthened); a very good copy; scarce. London; Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; 1854. ***Ferguson 13010. #34478 A$225.00
289 Murray, The Rev. Thos. Boyles. PITCAIRN: The Island, the People, and the Pastor. To which is added a Short Notice of the Original Settlement and Present Condition of Norfolk Island. Eighth Edition. F’cap 8vo, Eighth Edition; pp. [ii], xiv, [15]-428; 16 plates including map, 3 text illustrations; recent half hard-grained morocco; (some foxing & soiling; slight defects to a couple of blank margins); a very good copy; very scarce. London; Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; 1857. ***Ferguson 13014 (Mitchell Library copy only). The list of illustrations has 16 entries and this edition includes the Preface to the Eighth Edition. #16577 A$275.00
290 Murray, The Late Rev. Thos. Boyles. PITCAIRN: The Island, the People, and the Pastor. To which is added a Short Notice of the Original Settlement and Present Condition of Norfolk Island. F’cap 8vo, Twelfth Edition; pp. [ii], xiv, [15]-414; 17 plates (1 folding) including map, 4 text illustrations; original plum cloth (spine faded & a little worn; lacking free endpapers); a good, sound copy. London; Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; [1860](but presumably later). ***Similar to Ferguson 13018a, with the Clay colophon on verso of title-page, but without statement of Twelfth Edition or date on title-page (as implied in Ferguson’s entry). The list of illustrations has 18 entries (comprising the plates and one of the text illustrations). #33141 A$125.00
291 Murray, The Late Rev. Thos. Boyles. PITCAIRN: The Island, the People, and the Pastor. To which is added a Short Notice of the Original Settlement and Present Condition of Norfolk Island. F’cap 8vo, Twelfth Edition; pp. [ii], xiv, [15]-414; 17 plates (1 folding) incl. map, 4 text illusts.; original blue blind-stamped cloth, with bevelled edges, spine gilt & gilt ship illust. on front board; (the cloth a little worn; some foxing & soiling); a good, sound & complete copy; scarce. London; Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; [1860 but probably later]. ***Ferguson 13018 (with the Spottiswoode colophon). The list of illustrations has 18 entries (one being a text illust.). #16578 A$145.00
292 Nicolson, Robert B. THE PITCAIRNERS. With the assistance of Brian F. Davis. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xvi, 222, [2](blank); double-page map, 16 plates, appendices, bibliography, index; original cloth; a very good copy in worn dustwrapper; scarce. (Sydney); Angus and Robertson; (1965). #33133 A$175.00
293 Peard, Lieutenant George: TO THE PACIFIC AND ARCTIC WITH BEECHEY. The Journal of Lieutenant George Peard of H.M.S. ‘Blossom’ 1825-1828. Edited by Barry M. Gough. First Edition; pp. x, 272, [6](blank); 4 charts (2 folding, 1 double-page & 1 full-page), plan of Pitcairn Island by Beechey, 3 plates, notes, appendix, bibliography, index; original cloth; a very good copy in dustwrapper. Cambridge; Published for the Hakluyt Society at the University Press; 1973. ***Hakluyt Society Second Series, Vol. 143. #9334 A$95.00
294 Pitcairn Island: A GUIDE TO PITCAIRN. Cr. 4to, Fifth Edition; pp. 76; 2 maps, several illusts., 4 appendices; original pictorial wrappers; a nice copy. [Pitcairn]; Published by the Government of the Islands of Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno; (1990). ***Inscribed on title-page by Tom Christian, Great Great Great Grandson of Fletcher Christian of H.M.S. Bounty. Text by Reid Cowell, H. E. Maude, Roy P. Clark, and others. #18228 A$40.00 50 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books 295 Pitcairn Island: GUIDE TO PITCAIRN. 4to, Sixth Edition; pp. 68; map, numerous coloured & b/w. illustrations, 4 appendices; original pictorial wrappers; a fine copy. (Auckland); Published by the Government of the Islands of Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno; (1999). ***Text by Reid Cowell, H. E. Maude, Roy P. Clark, and others, with revisions by Rachel Salt. #18262 A$25.00
296 Ross, Alan S. C., Moverley, A. W.; and others. THE PITCAIRNESE LANGUAGE. First Edition; pp. 270, [2](blank); glossary, bibliog.; original papered boards; a nice copy in dustwrapper; scarce. (London); Andre Deutsch; (1964). ***Contains also histories of Pitcairn and Norfolk Islands. Du Rietz 1107. #32851 A$195.00
297 Shapiro, H. L. THE HERITAGE OF THE BOUNTY. The Story of Pitcairn through Six Generations. First Edition; pp. xvi, 330, [4](blank); endpaper maps, decorated title, 8 plates, appendices, bibliog., index; orig. cloth (a little marked; spine darkened); a very good copy; scarce. New York; Simon & Schuster; 1936. #2129 A$195.00
298 Shapiro, H. L. THE HERITAGE OF THE BOUNTY. The Story of Pitcairn through Six Generations. First U.K. Edition; pp. 320; 8 plates, appendices, sources; original cloth; (some foxing); a very good copy; scarce. London; Victor Gollancz Ltd; 1936. #33129 A$175.00
299 Shillibeer, Lieut. J[ohn]. A NARRATIVE OF THE BRITON’S VOYAGE TO PITCAIRN’S ISLAND; including an Interesting Sketch of the State of the Brazils and of Spanish South America. By Lieut. J. Shillibeer, R. M. Illustrated with Sixteen Etchings by the Author, from Drawings on the Spot. Third Edition. London: Printed for Law and Whittaker, No. 13, Ave Maria Lane, Ludgate Street. 1818. Demy 8vo, Third Edition; pp. xii, 180; 16 etched illustrations on 12 plates (2 folding & 1 printed in red-brown ink); modern half calf in antique style; the frontispiece (with a small tear repaired), title-page & following leaf washed, some occasional very mild browning or soiling to other leaves; the two folding plates sometime split at folds, with minor loss of upper margin to the second, but now well-restored and laid down; blank foremargin of pp. 173/4 restored; uncut; a very good, sound copy; rare. London; Law & Whittaker; 1818. ***Ferguson 728; Du Rietz 1188 “this edition [revised and extended] is the best (and apparently also the rarest) of the three English editions.” We are disposed to dispute Du Rietz’s claim as to rarity, the First Edition, printed in Taunton, being the rarest in our experience, but all editions are rare. The Briton visited several places on the South American coast, but was ordered from Brazil to find the American frigate, U.S.S. Essex, Captain David Porter, which was threatening British whalers in the Pacific. Details of the activities of U.S.S. Essex in the Marquesas are related. When the Briton called at Pitcairn the author interviewed John Adams, the sole survivor of the Bounty mutineers, who gave him a full account of the history of the mutineers after they left Tahiti. #51805 A$1650.00
300 Silverman, David. PITCAIRN ISLAND. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xxx, 258; endpaper maps, 11 plates including double-page plate of Bligh being turned adrift, from the painting in the Dixon [i.e., Dixson] Collection, notes, bibliography, index; original cloth; a very good copy in worn dustwrapper; scarce. Cleveland & New York; World Publishing Co.; (1967). ***Du Rietz 1190b. #2130 A$145.00
Section V: Norfolk Island and its history before and after the arrival of theBounty descendants (items 301—341)
301 Backhouse, James. A NARRATIVE OF A VISIT TO THE AUSTRALIAN COLONIES, by James Backhouse. Illustrated by three maps, fifteen etchings, and several wood-cuts. London: Hamilton, Adams, and Co. Paternoster Row, York: John L. Linney, Low Ousegate. MDCCCXLIII. Demy 8vo, First Edition; pp. xviii, 560, cxliv(appendices); 3 folding maps by James Wyld (The World, Tasmania, & New South Wales), 15 etched plates (including folding plate of chain gang) & 7 wood-cut text illustrations; contemporary half calf (rubbed) with marbled sides; plates foxed as usual); a very good, basically sound & complete copy; scarce. London; Hamilton, Adams, and Co.; MDCCCXLIII [1843]. ***Ferguson 3558. The work is of major importance containing much detailed and valuable information on the state of the colonies at the time. Backhouse was a quaker missionary who Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books 51 arrived in Hobart with George Washington Walker in 1832, spent three years in Van Diemen’s Land, and later visited nearly all the scattered Australian settlements. During their travels he made natural history observations and collected a valuable herbarium which was sent to Kew Gardens. Backhouse’s medical knowledge also proved very valuable, and he gave much assistance to the sick and wounded in the colonies. In Van Diemen’s Land they were granted access by Governor Arthur to all the penal establishments and aboriginal settlements and was encouraged to make observations and suggest improvements. In New South Wales they were encouraged by Governor Bourke to make similar observations and visited and described the penal settlements of Norfolk Island, Moreton Bay and Port Macquarie and the Aboriginal station at Wellington Valley. In 1837 they also visited Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth, all still then in their infancy, promoting temperance and protection of the Aborigines. The extensive appendices include remarks on Judicial Oaths, Indigenous Vegetable Productions of Tasmania, Chain Gangs, Penal Discipline; a letter fom a convict; addresses to the prisoner and free populations of the colonies; letters to Governor Bourke on the Aborigines; details of Quaker meetings, etc. #25220 A$1350.00
302 Barry, The Honourable Mr Justice John Vincent. THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JOHN PRICE. A Study of the Exercise of Naked Power. First Edition; pp. xiv, 204, [2](blank); 9 plates, notes, 3 appendices, bibliography, index, Errata slip; original cloth; a very good copy in dustwrapper; scarce. Melbourne; Melbourne University Press; (1964). ***Price was Civil Commandant of the Norfolk Island penal colony and subsequently Inspector-General of Penal Establishments in Victoria. #16366 A$165.00
303 Bassett, Marnie. THE GOVERNOR’S LADY. Mrs. Philip Gidley King. An Australian Historical Narrative. First Edition; pp. xii, 132; portrait frontispiece, 14 plates (including 2 maps), 3 appendices including bibliography, index; original cloth (slightly marked); a very good copy; scarce. London; Oxford University Press; 1940. ***Includes extracts from Mrs. King’s journal giving her impressions on several voyages with her husband, including observations of Norfolk Island. #57181 A$95.00
304 Bassett, Marnie. THE GOVERNOR’S LADY. Mrs. Philip Gidley King. An Australian Historical Narrative. Second Edition; pp. xii, 132; portrait frontispiece, 14 plates (including 2 maps), 3 appendices, including bibliography, index; a fine copy in worn & soiled dustwrapper. Melbourne; Oxford University Press; 1956. ***New facts are incorporated in this second edition. #7305 A$75.00
305 Bulletin: THE BULLETIN. August 5, 1961. 4to; pp. 52; several illustrations; original wrappers. Sydney; The Bulletin; 1961. ***Including a short story by Amy Witting and an article on Governor King on Norfolk Island by M. H. Ellis. #64552 A$15.00
306 Clay, John. MACONOCHIE’S EXPERIMENT. First Edition; pp. x, 276; 1 map, several illustrations, index; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. London; John Murray; (2001). ***The “Mark” system on Norfolk Island. #23966 A$35.00
307 Clune, Frank. THE NORFOLK ISLAND STORY. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. [ii], xxvi, 308; map, 24 plates, bibliography; original cloth; (bookplate on endpaper); a very good copy in slightly worn dustwrapper; scarce. (Sydney); Angus and Robertson; (1967). ***Burnet 61. #32684 A$125.00
308 [Common, Ruth]. BEAUTIFUL NORFOLK ISLAND. 4to, First Edition; pp. 24; numerous coloured illustrations; original stiff wrappers with original fold-out set of four perforate postcards retained; a nice copy. [Buranda, Qld.; Robert Brown & Associates; 1992]. #19721 A$25.00
309 Cook, Thomas. THE EXILE’S LAMENTATIONS. First Edition; pp. [ii](blank), 134(last 3 blank); endpaper maps, 8 plates, illust., index; original cloth; a fine copy. Sydney; Library of Australian History; 1978. ***Limited edition of 1,000 copies. Including much on Norfolk Island. Possibly lacking a plate with two illustrations but similar to all other copies we have seen. #27990 A$75.00 52 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books 310 Cox, Philip and Stacey, Wesley. BUILDING NORFOLK ISLAND. Impl. 8vo, First Edition, Second (?) Impression; pp. 96; numerous coloured & b/w. illustrations (many full & double-page), references, chronology, bibliography; original papered boards; a nice copy in dustwrapper. (Melbourne); Nelson; (2000). ***Including the Pitcairn settlement. #17663 A$65.00
311 Dalkin, R. Nixon. COLONIAL ERA CEMETERY OF NORFOLK ISLAND. Oblong 4to, Fifth Edition; pp. 96(last 5 blank); mounted folding plan, numerous photos., index; original wrappers. (Coorparoo); Robert Brown & Associates (Qld) Pty Ltd; (1995). #17442 A$30.00
312 David, Andrew. THE VOYAGE OF HMS HERALD to Australia and the South-west Pacific 1852-1861 under the command of Captain Henry Denham. Cr. 4to, First Edition; pp. xxviii, 524(last blank); 8 maps, 16 coloured & 8 b/w. plates, 11 survey charts, note on measurements, appendices, glossary, notes & references, bibliog, index; a fine copy in dustwrapper. (Melbourne); The Miegunyah Press, (Melbourne University Press; 1995). ***“The authoritative account of one of the longest and most important surveying cruises of the golden age of world hydrography”. Excellent use is made of the journals of Denham and his officers to create a detailed vision of mid- nineteenth-century surveying and charting techniques. Significant forays were made into botanical and ornithological studies, much of which are detailed here. Its anthropological content clearly illustrates the paradoxical nature of the south-west Pacific at the time of the voyages, where missionary, colonist and the lords of commerce co-existed with the native peoples in an often uneasy alliance. Included is an account of the resettlement of the Pitcairn Islanders on Norfolk Island. This is number 3 in the second Miegunyah Press series; only 1200 copies were printed. #46753 A$95.00
313 Davies, K. & K. A. OLD NORFOLK TOWN. The past in pictures. Photographs etc. from the collection at the Bounty Folk Museum, Norfolk Island. Oblong 4to, First Edition; pp. 80(including wrappers); map, numerous illustrations from early engravings and photographs, table of persons who landed on Norfolk Island from Pitcairn (with a neat ms. addition); original stiff wrappers; a fine copy. [Norfolk Island; The Compilers]; N.D. [c. 1990]. #18214 A$35.00
314 Edgecombe, Jean. NORFOLK ISLAND - South Pacific. Island of history and many delights. First Edition; pp. 180(last blank); a few maps, 12 coloured plates, numerous b/w. text illustrations, 4 appendices, bibliography, index; original pictorial stiff wrappers. (Sydney; J. M. Edgecombe; 1991). #16828 A$40.00
315 (Hickey, Elsie; President). DARS-ET. (This is it). Birds and Flowers of Norfolk Island. First Edition; pp. [16]; 24 coloured & 1 b/w. illustrations; original stiff wrappers; a fine copy. (Norfolk Island; Norfolk Island Hospital Auxiliary; 1976). #19490 A$25.00
316 Hillier, R. S. THIS IS NORFOLK ISLAND. 4to, Third Edition, Second Impression; pp. [48]; endpaper map, 96 coloured illustrations (several full-page); original pictorial papered boards; a nice copy in dustwrapper. Norfolk Island; Harper & Durley Publications; 1977. #17440 A$35.00
317 Hillier, R. S. THE NORFOLK ISLAND BOOK. 4to, Third Edition, revised and enlarged; pp. 96; 139 coloured illustrations (several full-page), chronology; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. Norfolk Island; Anson Publications; (1999). #17654 A$40.00
318 Hoare, Merval. THE DISCOVERY OF NORFOLK ISLAND. Cr. 4to, First Edition; pp. x, 26(last 3 blank); 2 full-page maps, 6 illustrations, references, bibliography, index; original stiff pictorial wrappers; a fine copy. Canberra; Australian Government Publishing Service; 1974. #11746 A$25.00
319 Hoare, Merval. RAMBLER’S GUIDE TO NORFOLK ISLAND. Revised (i.e. Second) Edition; pp. 80; 1 folding, 1 double-page & 5 full-page maps, 19 photos., index; original wrappers (a little worn). [Sydney]; Pacific Publications; (1968). #34946 A$30.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books 53 320 Hoare, Merval. NORFOLK ISLAND: An Outline of Its History 1774-1968. First Edition; pp. [x], 174(last blank); endpaper maps, 8 plates (including map), notes, bibliography, index; original papered boards; (name on half-title); a nice copy in dustwrapper. (St. Lucia); University of Queensland Press; (1969). ***Including Pitcairn Island and the settlement of the Pitcairn Islanders after closure of the penal settlement. #33143 A$75.00
321 Hoare, Merval. NORFOLK ISLAND: An Outline of Its History 1774-1968. Second Impression; pp. [x], 174(last blank); endpaper maps, 8 plates (including map), notes, bibliography, index; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. (St. Lucia); University of Queensland Press; (1972). #40861 A$60.00
322 Hoare, Merval. NORFOLK ISLAND: An Outline of Its History 1774-1987. Fourth Edition. Pp. xx, 206; full-page map, 16 plates, notes, bibliography, index; original wrappers; a fine copy. St. Lucia; University of Queensland Press; (1988). #16832 A$35.00
323 Hoare, Merval. NORFOLK ISLAND: A Revised and Enlarged History 1774-1998. Fifth Edition; pp. xx, 228; full-page map, 20 plates, chronology, notes, bibliography, index; original wrappers; a fine copy. (Rockhampton); Central Queensland University Press; (1999). #17157 A$35.00
324 Hoare, Merval. THE WINDS OF CHANGE NORFOLK ISLAND 1950-1982. First Edition; pp. [viii], 112(last blank); map, 8 plates, notes, bibliography, index; original papered boards; a nice copy in dustwrapper. (Suva, Fiji; Institute of Pacific Studies of the University of the South Pacific; 1983). #33139 A$65.00
325 Hoare, Merval; Editor. ELIZABETH ROBERTSON’S DIARY. Norfolk Island 1845. First Edition; pp. 64; 6 full-page illustrations, 3 appendices, sources, index; original stiff wrappers; a fine copy. Newcastle, N.S.W.; Newey and Beath Printers Pty. Ltd.; 1988. #17278 A$30.00
326 Hunter, John, Esqr.; Post Captain in His Majesty’s Navy. AN HISTORICAL JOURNAL OF THE TRANSACTIONS AT PORT JACKSON AND NORFOLK ISLAND, with the Discoveries which have been made in New South Wales and in the Southern Ocean, since the publication of Phillip’s Voyage, compiled from the Official Papers; Including the Journals of Governors Phillip and King, and of Lieut. Ball; and The Voyages from the first Sailing of the Sirius in 1787, to the Return of that Ship’s Company to England in 1792. Illustrated with seventeen Maps, Charts, Views, & other embellishments, drawn on the Spot by Captains Hunter, & Bradley, Lieutenant Dawes & Governor King. London. Printed for John Stockdale, Piccadilly, January 1. 1793. Thick roy. 4to, First Edition, engraved title, pp. [viii], [viii], 584(last blank); portrait, title-vignette, 2 folding & 3 full-page maps, 10 plates, list of subscribers; contemporary full calf, neatly rebacked; (some foxing of the tissue-guards to plates with consequent spotting of the plates); generally very clean; a fine, tall copy. London; John Stockdale; 1793. ***Ferguson 152 (q.v.). Apart from the work’s general and obvious importance, it should be noted that the plate facing Page 77 - “View of the Settlement on Sydney Cove, Port Jackson 20th August, 1788”, Drawn by S. Dayes from a Sketch of I. Hunter”, executed less than eight months after the arrival of the First Fleet, is the earliest pictorial representation of the settlement. There is much on Norfolk Island, including a plan. The title-page was engraved too large for the size of the text with the consequence that most copies lack either the word “AN” at the top or the date at the foot: in this copy the top of the letters “AN” is just shaved, with a clear centimetre below the date at the foot. #22826 A$6750.00
327 Hunter, Captain John. AN HISTORICAL JOURNAL OF THE TRANSACTIONS AT PORT JACKSON AND NORFOLK ISLAND, with the Discoveries which have been made in New South Wales and in the Southern Ocean, since the Publication of Phillip’s Voyage, compiled from the Official Papers, including the Journals of Governors Phillip and King, and of Lieut. Ball; and the Voyages from the First Sailing of the Sirius in 1787, to the Return of that Ship’s Company to England in 1792. Illustrated with seventeen Maps, Charts, Views, & other embellishments, drawn on the Spot by Captains Hunter, 54 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books & Bradley, Lieutenant Dawes, & Governor King. Med. 4to, Facsimile of First Edition, engr. title (with vignette), pp. [ii], [xviii], 584(last blank); portrait, 5 charts & plans(2 folding & 3 full-page), & 10 plates, list of subscribers; original quarter leather; a fine copy. [Adelaide; Libraries Board of South Australia; 1968]. ***Australiana Facsimile Editions No. 148 (702 copies only). First published London, Stockdale, January 1, 1793. Pages 549-551 contain a list of the first settlers (both free men and convicts) and their grants of land; and the plate at Page 77 - View of the Settlement in Sydney Cove, Port Jackson, 20 August, 1788 - is the earliest view of the settlement. #6498 A$425.00
328 Hunter, Captain John; Commander of H.M.S. Sirius. AN HISTORICAL JOURNAL OF EVENTS AT SYDNEY AND AT SEA 1787-1792. With Further Accounts by Governor Arthur Phillip, Lieutenant P. G. King, and Lieutenant H. L. Ball. (Originally published 1793). Edited by John Bach, Ph. D. Thick med. 8vo, First Edition of this modern rendering; pp. xxxvi, 452; coloured frontispiece, 16 plates (including 2 folding & 3 full-page charts), appendices, ref. notes, note on charts, bibliography, index; original cloth; a fine copy in dustwrapper. (Sydney); Angus and Robertson in association with The Royal Australian Historical Society; (1968). #8477 A$150.00
329 La Trobe, Charles. CHARLES JOSEPH LA TROBE. Landscapes and Sketches. Introduced by Dianne Reilly. Notes by Victoria Hammond. Square 4to, First Edition; pp. xviii, 342; portrait frontispiece, approx. 240 pp. of coloured illustrations, catalogue, notes, bibliography, index; original imitation leather, gilt, raised bands on spine, mounted coloured plate on front cover; a fine copy in slipcase. (Melbourne); State Library of Victoria, Tarcoola Press, and National Trust of Australia (Victoria); (1999). ***Limited edition of 500 numbered copies. After printing was completed the plates were destroyed. The man who was Superintendent of the Port Phillip District and the first Lieutenant-Governor of the new colony of Victoria, was also a great traveller and an artist of quite prodigious talent. Here, finely reproduced, we see his sketches deriving from travels in Switzerland and Italy, North America, Mexico, and the West Indies, Cape Verde, Lord Howe Island, Norfolk Island, Tahiti and Panama. Also featured are his Port Phillip, Tasmanian and English sketches. Together they provide an exploration of the vivid artistic life of an important Australian historical figure. #62454 A$450.00
330 Nobbs, Raymond. ST BARNABAS AND THE MELANESIAN MISSION NORFOLK ISLAND. 4to, First Edition; pp. [20]; map, 35 illustrations; original stiff wrappers; a nice copy. (Norfolk Island; Macquarie University Australian History Resources Centre for) Friends of St Barnabas; (1990). #18082 A$25.00
331 Norfolk Island: THE NORFOLK ISLANDER. 2 issues, Vol. 32, No. 13 and Vol. 35 No. 31. 4to; pp. [40] & [44] respectively; several illustrations; stapled as issued. Norfolk Island; The Norfolk Islander; 1997-2000. #19699 A$18.00
332 Phillip, Arthur: EXTRACTS OF LETTERS from Arthur Phillip, Esq., Governor of New South Wales, to Lord Sydney; to which is annexed a Description of Norfolk Island by Philip Gidley King, Esq. and an Account of Expenses incurred in transporting Convicts to New South Wales. London, Printed for J. Debrett, 1791. Roy. 4to, Facsimile Edition; pp. [iv], 26; original vinyl; a fine copy. Adelaide; Public Library of South Australia; 1963. ***Australiana Facsimile Editions No. 15. First Published by Debrett in 1791, see Ferguson 116. The original edition is extremely rare. 443 copies of this facsimile were done. #734 A$185.00
333 Roughley, T. C. BOUNTY DESCENDANTS LIVE ON REMOTE NORFOLK ISLAND. Roy. 8vo; pp. 558-584; map, numerous coloured illustrations; contained in the National Geographic Magazine, October, 1960. Washington; National Geographic Society; 1960. #16034 A$20.00
334 Seventh-day Adventist Church: HYMNS OF PITCAIRN AND NORFOLK ISLANDS. First Edition(?); pp. [20]; 9 illustrations, words and music to 13 hymns; original stiff wrappers; a fine copy. (Norfolk Island; Seventh-day Adventist Church); N.D. [c. 1990?]. #19669 A$25.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books 55 335 Sims, Peter C. THE NORFOLK SETTLERS OF NORFOLK ISLAND AND VAN DIEMEN’S LAND. 4to, First Edition; pp. xii, 356; 46 maps, very numerous illustrations, appendix, references, index; original vinyl; a fine copy in dustwrapper; scarce. Quoiba, Tasmania; (The Author; 1987).***Edition limited to 500 signed and numbered copies. #17668 A$295.00
336 Society of Pitcairn Descendants, Norfolk Island: A POLITICAL HISTORY OF THE PITCAIRN PEOPLE IN NORFOLK ISLAND from 1856 to 1996. In Brief, and in Chronological Order. First Edition; pp. [i], 27; original wrappers. Norfolk Island; Greenways Press; 1996. ***Inscribed and signed by Vera Christian on title-page. #19489 A$30.00
337 Sweeney, Christopher. TRANSPORTED: IN PLACE OF DEATH. Convicts in Australia. F’cap 4to, First Edition; pp. xiv, 186(last blank); over 40 illustrations, bibliography, index; original papered boards; a very good ex-library copy with minor marking only in worn dustwrapper. (South Melbourne); Macmillan; (1981). #23028 A$30.00
338 Taylor, Nancy M.; Editor. THE JOURNAL OF ENSIGN BEST 1837-1843. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. 466(last blank); 5 maps in text, coloured frontispiece, 8 b/w. plates, 21 appendices, sources, index; original buckram; (some foxing); a very good copy in rubbed dustwrapper. Wellington; R. E. Owen, Government Printer; 1966. ***A Turnbull Library Monograph. Life in N.S.W., Norfolk Island and New Zealand. #8050 A$70.00
339 Tench, Captain Watkin. A NARRATIVE OF THE EXPEDITON TO BOTANY BAY. By Captain Watkin Tench of the Marines. (Third Edition: London, 1789). Decorated with Woodcuts and Drawings by Adrian Feint. With an Introductory Note by C. H. Bertie. The Australian Limited Editions Society: Sydney. 1938. Med. 8vo, Third Edition, (modern reprint); pp. [vi](5 blank), xviii(last blank), 116, [4](blank); facsimile of original title-page, 5 coloured & 15 monochrome illustrations by Adrian Feint; original quarter blue calf, with canvas sides (spine worn, otherwise fine and clean), fore & lower edges uncut; a very good copy; scarce. Sydney; The Australian Limited Editions Society; 1938. ***Edition limited to 500 numbered copies, signed by Adrian Feint and Perce Green, who designed the book and hand-set the type in Caslon Old Face for which the punches were cut in 1730. It was the first book commissioned by the Australian Limited Editions Society in 1938, and is the first reprinting of Tench’s narrative since the eighteenth century. Includes an account of Norfolk Island. #26041 A$450.00
340 Tench, Watkin. A NARRATIVE OF THE EXPEDITION TO BOTANY BAY. By Captain Watkin Tench. First published in 1789, and now reprinted in type facsimile of the first edition, with additions from the third and other editions of the Same Year. Edition Renard, Melbourne, 2004. Limited Edition; pp. [iv], xii, 164, [2](blank), [2](adv.); endpaper track chart of the First Fleet, coloured frontispiece (portrait of Tench), 3 plates (reproductions of contemporary views & chart), bibliographical and publishing notes; section sewn and cased in full cloth, gilt, top edge dyed and marker ribbon. Melbourne; Edition Renard; 2004. ***Edition limited to 200 numbered copies for sale, of which 120 are bound in full cloth as here. The book is an exact type- facsimile of the rare First Edition, with the original long esses replaced by the modern form to aid readability, but otherwise faithful to the original. Additional material from the second and third editions is added where this differs from the First Edition, and illustrations from contemporary sources illuminate the text and an essay on the publishing history of the work. #41752 A$145.00
341 [Welsh, Kathleen; President]. NORFOLK ISLAND COOKERY BOOK. With Local Words and Phrases. Compiled by Members of the Sunshine Club. Cr. 8vo, First Edition; pp. 48; original pictorial wrappers; a fine copy. (Waverney, Norfolk Island); Sunshine Club; N.D. [c. 1990]. #17097 A$30.00