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Hordern House Rare Books HORDERN HOUSE October 2014 [email protected] [WINEMAKING] Agricultural Society of New South Wales. Certificate awarded to an Australian winemaker at the 1877 Metropolitan Intercolonial Exhibition, Sydney. Colour lithograph with manuscript additions, 490 x 370 mm., a few closed tears and a little foxing, good. Sydney, printed by S.T. Leigh, 1870 but dated 1877. 1 Honourable mention for a full bodied wine Uncommon relic of Australian win- emaking in the 1870’s, a certificate awarded at the Sydney Intercolonial Exhibition of 1877 to winemaker Conrad Sohninger of Orange for his ‘full bodied white wine’. For Australian agriculturalists, espe- cially those who produced goods for ready export (such as winemakers), the Intercolonial exhibitions were an opportunity to reach hitherto inaccessible markets. The Melbourne Intercolonial Exhibition of 1866- 1867 had been a great success, and the decision to stage a similar event in Sydney from 1870 onwards was motivated (in part at least) by rivalry between the two colonies. The grand spectacle of public ex- hibitions arose from precedents in England and Europe, as revealed in a Sydney Morning Herald of October 1870: ‘This exhibition was called into existence under the auspices of the Agricultural Society of New South Wales, and it has proved a splendid success. It has been to this colony what the Great Exhibition of 1851 was to England - what the Exposition Universelle of Paris was to France in 1862. It has attracted large numbers of people from all parts of New South Wales, and also from other colonies of Australasia.’ $825 [HALL, Captain William]. BERNARD, William Dallas. Narrative of the Voyages and Services of the Nemesis, from 1840 to 1843… the colony of Hong Kong… Two volumes, large octavo, with a total of six engraved plates, including the frontispiec- 2 es, and three folding maps; from the Bellfield Library with preliminary stamps to both volumes and spine labels removed; a very good set overall in original publisher’s cloth; in a bookform box by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. London, Henry Colburn, 1844. Britain’s first ironclad deployed in the Opium wars. First edition: a good account of Britain’s first ironclad at war. Launched in 1839, the Nemesis was the first British ironed hulled warship, used to great effect during the Opium Wars due to her shallow draught allowing access to Chinese river ports. The Nemesis was commanded by Captain William Hall, whose notes and journals formed the basis for this book. The author was an Oxford scholar who travelled to China: ‘In addition to, therefore, to her own very interesting tale, the Nemesis supplied a valuable foundation upon which to build a more enlarged History. The Author had long taken a deep interest in all that concerned our relations with China; and, with a view to study personally the character of the people, and to obtain accurate information by observation on the spot, he paid a lengthened visit to that country in 1842’. $2150 [TRANSPORTATION] CONVICT REGISTER. The Names and Descriptions of all Male and Female Convicts arrived in the Colony of New South Wales during 3 the year 1830. Large folio, 188 pp., small tear in one leaf neatly repaired, very minor foxing, tiny old pencil markings throughout; very good, in later marbled wrappers. Sydney, 1831. “Anchor on right arm, flattish nose…”: 7 years for picking pockets Rare and important: Ferguson knew only the Mitchell Library copy of this enormous folio work printed in Sydney, the first such register to provide so complete a descrip- tion of each convict as they arrived in Australia. The enormous register prints various assigned numbers, age, education, religion, marital status, children, native place, trade, offences, sentence, former convictions, physical details, particular marks and scars, etc. Space is left for recording later events in the convicts’ lives under a heading “Unofficial History” to show the date of ticket of leave, pardon, certificate of freedom, etc., and ultimate death or departure. Such registers, which were later issued annually, were intended for official use only and therefore very limited in number. It was printed for official use only, probably at the Sydney Gazette Office. A fascinating work. $5800 COOKE, Edward. A Voyage to the South Sea, and Round the World Octavo, with two folding maps and eighteen plates and plans; early panelled calf, in excellent condition London, Lintot and Gosling, Bettesworth and Innys, 1712. 4 William Dampier’s last voyage A very good copy of the second, best and first complete edition of this famous buc- caneering narrative, Dampier’s own last voyage. The expedition of 1709 and 1710 had been proposed by Dampier, but he ‘was in such reduced circumstances as to engage himself [as] pilot on board the Duke’ (Burney). Cooke was second captain on the Dutchess which accompanied Captain Woodes Rog- ers’s Duke on a privateering voyage around the world. Amongst the work’s wealth of detail are an account of the sacking of Puna and Guyaquil, the taking of an Acapulco prize ship, and a full translation, including extensive woodcut illustrations of coastal profiles, of a captured Spanish manuscript, a coasting pilot for the American coast from Tierra del Fuego to California, which was not printed in Rogers’s account. It was on this voyage that the Scot Alexander Selkirk - the original for Defoe’s Robin- son Crusoe - was picked up, and this work contains the first printed description of his four-year sojourn on the desolate Juan Fernández Island. Although this edition was preceded by a one-volume edition of the same year, the ear- lier edition was a much simpler book designed simply to ‘beat Rogers’ account to the market’ (Hill). In the second edition what had been merely a discursive chapter on the voyage home now became a second volume, which offers detailed sailing instruc- tions supported by charts and woodcut views of the American Coasts. Cowan, pp.141-2; Hill, p. 64; Howes, 733; Kroepelien, 224 (volume II only). $9600 [FLINDERS] DEFOE, Daniel. Robinson Crusoe… A New Edition revised and corrected for the Advancement of Nautical Education… Large octavo, folding map of the world by J. Mawman (slightly spotted), illustrated 5 throughout with woodcuts, some wear throughout; but a fine copy in a bespoke calf binding gilt-decorated from the library of John Spencer Smith, with his bookplate on the front-pastedown. London, Joseph Mawman, 1815. A hydrographer’s copy, with a brief but significant manuscript note on Flinders. A marvellous large-paper copy of Defoe’s great novel edited by the “Hydrographer of the Naval Chronicle”, in an edition keenly anticipated by Matthew Flinders: in his last known letter, written from his deathbed, Flinders wrote to the editor asking to become a subscriber to this work. Quite a rare book in any case, this is the only large paper copy we have ever handled; it has the armorial bookplate of John Spencer Smith, and is in a binding evidently prepared for him. Smith would appear to have added an intriguing manuscript correction to the short preface seeking to further promote the work of Flinders. The printed note includes a glowing men- tion of Flinders, but is here further amended: “read the three last lines of the above paragraph thus -- to whose enchanting influence, it is within the present editor’s direct knowledge that England owes more than one among her most eminent naval officers and ablest navigators” (see illustration). The tenor of this note speaks to a personal connection between Flinders and Smith, but we have not been able to find any firm evidence for it. One intriguing possibility is that several of the better Pacific maps and hydrographical notes included in the Naval Chronicle are signed “ISS” (including, for example, “Notice of a lately discovered shoal from the Log-book of the Ship Freder- ick” out of Port Jackson, vol. 33, 1815). The implication is that Smith was active in the circle of hydrographers, and that he had been in personal communication with Flinders: it would be nice to have this theory confirmed. The work itself was prepared by the hydrographical editor of the Naval Chronicle, a professional journal full of British naval news and reports. One of the most fascinat- ing editions of Robinson Crusoe ever published, this work is extensively annotated throughout with fantastically long footnotes, written with a view to the ‘advance- ment of nautical education.’ With extensive notes on sailing directions, geography and particularly natural history, this work was meant to rouse young sailors: in this sense, there is no doubt that Flinders was one of the great navigators who inspired this edition – it was in the Naval Chronicle, after all, that he first published his now famous comment that he had been ‘induced to go to sea against the wish of friends, from reading Robinson Crusoe.’ The last known letter of Flinders, written a mere eight days before his death on 19 July 1814, was to the editor of the Naval Chronicle asking him to ‘insert his name in the list of subscribers to his new edition of Robinson Crusoe; he wishes also that the volume, on delivery, should have a neat common binding, and be lettered’ (Matthew Flinders: Personal Letters from an Extraordinary Life, p. 239). $3400 [SCOTTISH MARTYRS] DUNN, Reverend William. Unto the Right Honourable the Lord Justice General, Lord Justice Clerk, and Lords Commissioners of Justiciary… Quarto, 8pp. (last blank), drop-title; a little foxing, disbound, good. Edinburgh, dated 6 February 25, 1793. Dangerous dissent in a time of unrest Scarce legal printing relating to the activity of Thomas Muir, a ‘Scottish martyr’ sentenced to transportation to New South Wales for sedition. In 1792 Muir travelled widely throughout Scotland, promoting civil liberty and constitutional reform of feudal privilege.
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