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Australasiana Australasiana Collectors’ List No. 181, 2015 Josef Lebovic Gallery 103a Anzac Parade (cnr Duke St) Kensington (Sydney) NSW P: (02) 9663 4848 E: [email protected] W: joseflebovicgallery.com 1. First General Map Of The World, Showing JOSEF LEBOVIC GALLERY Unknown “Terra Australis”, c1588. Wood engrav­ Established 1977 ing, 32.3 x 35.9cm. Minor foxing, old folds and Member: AA&ADA • A&NZAAB • IVPDA (USA) • AIPAD (USA) • IFPDA (USA) creases, chips and repaired tears to edges. $4,400 Address: 103a Anzac Parade, Kensington (Sydney) NSW Text loosely translated from German includes “The first general chart showing the sphere of the Earth.” The map shows “Terra Postal: PO Box 93, Kensington NSW 2033, Australia Australis non dum cognita [not yet known]”, which includes Phone: +61 2 9663 4848 • Mobile: 0411 755 887 • ABN 15 800 737 094 parts of the coastlines of Antarctica and Australia. Email: [email protected] • Website: joseflebovicgallery.com This map was completely redrawn and re­engraved for the 1588 edition of Sebastian Münster’s Cosmographia, Open: Monday to Saturday by chance or please make an appointment. and all subsequent editions up to 1628, published in Basle, Switzerland by Sebastian Petri [?]. Münster was not directly connected with this map, which is based on the world maps by A. Ortelius of 1570. Ref: Shirley #163. COLLECTORS’ LIST No. 181, 2015 2. After Sydney Parkinson (Scot­ tish, c1745­1771). Vue De La Riviere D’Endeavour Sur La Côte De La Australasiana Nou­­velle Hollande Ou Le Vaisseau Fut Mis À La Bande (A View Of The On exhibition from Wed., 23 December to Sat., 27 February. Endeavour River, On The Coast Of New Holland, Where The Ship Was All items will be illustrated on our website from 9 January. Laid On Shore), c1774. Engraving, Prices are in Australian dollars and include GST. Exchange rates as text and caption in plate above and at time of printing: AUD $1.00 = USD $0.72¢; UK £0.48p below image, 20.1 x 33.9cm. Old vertical folds as issued, fox ing, soiling, © Licence by VISCOPY AUSTRALIA 2015 LRN 5523 ink off set to lower plate mark below image, trimmed upper edge of plate mark. $990 Compiled by Josef & Jeanne Lebovic, Dimity Kasz, Lenka Miklos, Takeaki Totsuka French text reads “Tome IV, plate 1, Duret sculp.” From the French edition of John Hawkesworth’s An account of the voyages undertaken by the order of His present Majesty for making discoveries in Cover: Alan D. Baker. Resch’s Long Bottle Pilsener. Now For The Best Round the Southern Hemisphere, vol. 4, Paris, 1774. Depicts the Endeavour beached for repairs in North Of All [Golf], c1940s. Oil on canvas, signed, #153, p30. Queensland. Ref: NLA. Believed to be the first known landscape engraving of the east coast of Australia. 3. After John Webber (Brit., 1752­1793). The Death Of Captain Cook, 1784. Engrav­ Next catalogue: Posters Holiday Break ing, title and date in plate below image, 48.1 x 60.7cm. Repaired tears to lower por tion including plate mark, slight soiling to edges, The gallery will be open during the holidays minor foxing. Framed. $12,500 by appointment or by chance. Text includes “Drawn by J. Webber. The figures engraved by E. Bartolozzi RA, engraver to His We will take a short break in January Majesty. The landscape by W. Byrne. To the Right from Wednesday, 6 to Tuesday, 12. Honourable the Lords Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of Great Britain. This plate representing the death of Captain Cook is Wishing happy holidays and humbly inscribed by their lordship’s most obedient happy collecting to all our and humble servant John Webber. Published as the Act directs, 1 Jan’y 1784, by J. Webber, No. 312, clients, friends and colleagues Oxford St and W. Byrne, No. 79, Tichfield St, Lond.” 2 4. Peter Mazell (British, fl. 1764­1797). The Kangaroo, 7. James Gillray (British, 1756­1815). The Great 1790. Etching, signed “P. Mazell sculp.”, date and title in South Sea Caterpillar, Transform’d Into A Bath Butterfly plate lower right, above and below image, 17.5 x 11.7cm. [Sir Joseph Banks], 1795/c1851. Etching with later Minor discolouration, trimmed left plate mark, ragged edge hand­colouring, number “410” in plate upper right, from publication. initialled, titled and captioned in plate below image, $990 35.4 x 24.9cm. Minor stains to margins. Text includes “Literary Magazine and British Review. Drawn from $1,650 the animal in the possession of Mr Stockdale, Piccadilly. Published Text reads “Pub. July 4th 1795 by H. Humphrey, No. 37, New as the Act directs, 1st August, 1790, by C. Forster, 41, Poultry.” Bond Street.” Caption provides a satirical description of the Held in SLNSW, with the comment “This etching is similar, though “butterfly” Sir Joseph Banks, emerging from a chrysalis shortly not identical, to Mazell’s etching of a kangaroo published in John after receiving the red ribbon of the Order of the Bath in 1795. Stockdale’s The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay.” Two other etchings appear verso, titled “A Slice of Glo’ster Cheese” and “For Improving the Breed.” Ref: Library of Con­ gress, USA. 8. After Charles Alexander Lesueur (French, 1778­1846). Nouvelle Hollande: 5. R.P. Nodder (British, 1774­1820). Australian Sea Shells, c1790s. Three hand­ Nouvelle Galles Du Sud [Sydney Cove], 1802/1807. Hand­coloured engraving, artist and coloured etchings with stipple, each with plate number and artist’s name or initials in plate title in plate below image, 14.8 x 21cm (image). Repaired tear to image centre and lower above and below image, accompanied with portion, slight rubbing and soiling to margins. page of letterpress in Latin, sizes range from Framed. 18.6 x 5.7cm to 14.6 x 9.3cm. Missing portion $880 to margin of one image, some minor foxing, all Text includes “C.A. Lesueur del. J. Milbert direx. with ragged edges from publication. Gravé à l’eau­forte par Pillement et terminé par Née. Vue d’une Partie de la Ville de Sydney capitale The group $ 990 des Colonies Anglaises aux Terres Australes, et de Plate numbers read “702, 912, 924.” Text in one image l’entrée du Port Jackson dans lequel cette ville est reads “Drawn, engraved and published by R.P. Nodder.” située. De l’Imprimerie de Langlois.” Lesueur made 1,500 drawings while on the Peron and de Freycinet Voyage. Illustrated in McCormick, First Views of Australia: 1788-1825, pl. 69. 9. After William Westall (Brit., 1781­1850). View Of Wreck-Reef Bank, Taken At Low Water, 1814. Engraving, artist, title and date in plate below image, 15.7 x 22.9cm. Slight stains, tears, repaired missing portion to lower right edge. 6. The Black Swan, 1792. Hand­coloured etch­ $1,100 ing, date in plate above and below image, 15.9 x Text reads “Engraved by I. Pye. Published by 10.7cm. Minor discolouration, ragged edge from G. & W. Nicol, Pall Mall, Feb’y 12, 1814.” One of publication. the engravings from Matthew Flinders’ voyage. $1,350 Flinders and William Westall were passengers Text reads “108. London. Published July 1st, 1792, by on board the HMS Porpoise which was wrecked F.P. Nodder & Co., No. 15 Brewer Street.” Accompanying along with the HMS Cato in 1803 on a reef (now letterpress in English and Latin includes “[The Black Swan] called Wreck Reef) located in the southern part of is a native of New Holland [Australia], and the neighbouring the Coral Sea Islands approximately 450km east islands.” This engraving was based on a watercolour by an of Gladstone, Queensland. Held in NGA; SLV. artist only known as “The Port Jackson Painter.” Ref: Wiki. 3 10. After William Westall (Brit., 1781­1850). View Of Murray’s Islands With The Natives Offering To Barter, 1814. Engraving, artist, title and date in plate below image, 15.7 x 22.4cm. Slight stains, tears, repaired missing portion to lower right edge. $1,100 Text reads “Engraved by I. Pye. & W. Finden. Pub’d by G. & W. Nicol, Pall Mall, Feb’y 12, 11. After John Oxley (Brit./Aust., 1784­1828). Chart Of Part Of The Interior New South 1814.” This is one of the engravings from Matthew Flinders’ voyage. Held in NGA. Wales, 1820. Engraving, title, date and captions in plate, 19.5 x 61.5cm. Slight foxing, soiling, repaired tears, missing portions, old folds. Laid down on acid-free tissue. Captain Edwards of the HMS Pandora $1,650 named ‘Murray Island’ (originally known as Text includes “By John Oxley, Surveyor General, 1818. Second Expedition. Reduced sketch of the Mer) and its neighbouring islands of Waier and Dauar the ‘Murray Islands’ in 1791. They are located two expeditions. J. Walker sculp. Published as the Act directs, 15th March 1820 by John Murray, in the Torres Strait near the Great Barrier Reef. Albermarle St, London.” Captions include descriptions of the two routes used for the expeditions, and the terrain, such as “low hills thinly covered with stoney [sic] and brushy ridges; fine open country; 12. After Captain James Wallis Acacia pendula the principal shrub or tree.” (Irish, 1785­1858). View Of Hunter’s River, Newcastle, New South Wales, 13. Isaac Nathan (Brit./Aust., 1790­1864). Why Are You 1820. Hand­coloured engraving, art­ Wand’ring Here, I Pray, c1820s. Sheet music in letterpress, ist, title and date in plate above and signed by a “Henrietta Ringer” in ink upper left and Nathan’s below image, 23.4 x 34cm. facsimile signature lower right on front page, 32.9 x 24.5cm.
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