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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. It was a tense time in the political history of Great Britain, overshadowed by the revolution in France that threatened the implicit rights and material safety of the landowning elite. During November of 1792 Muir inspired the formation of a locally based group in Kirkintilloch called the ‘Society of Reform’. The group quickly attracted the attention of local authorities, who seized notebooks recording proceedings at group meetings. This document asserts that the local pastor, Reverend William Dunn, removed incriminating leaves from one such notebook before it came it was seized by the Sheriff. The missing leaves allegedly implicated members of the Society of Reform in sedition. This document initiated the formal prosecution against Reverend Dunn, who was ultimately imprisoned for a term of three months; his release was met with public jubilation by the parishioners. The proceedings outlined in this printing were instigated by Lord Advocate Robert Dundas, a key figure in the prosecution of Thomas Muir and other Scottish martyrs. Dundas kept a close tab on Muir’s movements in 1792 and early 1793, collecting evidence that was to become instrumental in the show trial that followed. Muir was ultimately convicted of sedition and sentenced to 14 years transportation. $550 DUPERREY, Louis-Isidor. Cartes des isles Hogoleu. Engraved chart measuring 435 x 600 mm., very good condition. Paris, Arthus Ber- 7 trand, 1827. Truk Lagoon Early engraved map of Chuuk lagoon from the atlas to the Duperrey voyage of 1822- 1825. Also known as Truk, the island was the scene of intense fighting during the Second World War. Overall, the experience of French sailors and scientists of the Duperrey expedition in Micronesia was peaceful. So much so that two sailors chose to remain on the Chuuck islands rather than remain aboard the Coquille and return to Europe. This contact was greatly different to earlier landfalls made by the Spanish, which were character- ised by violence and pillaging of the native villages. Francis Hezel The First Taint of Civilization. A history of the Caroline and Marshall Islands in pre-Colonial days pp. 95-102 $1200 DUPERREY, Louis-Isidor. Plan des isle Duperrey [&] des isles Mac-Askill. Engraved chart measuring 435 x 600 mm, very good copy. Paris, Bertrand, 1827. 8 French cartography in the Caroline Islands Attractive engraved chart of two remote atolls in the Caroline Islands from the Duperrey voyage atlas, named the isles Duperrey and Mac-Askill. Today the atolls are respectively known by their indigenous Micronesian names of Mokil and Pelelap. The original discovery of these islands remains shrouded in mystery; they may have been encountered by sixteenth-century Spanish explorers of the Pacific such as Al- varo de Saavedra but exact details remain elusive. We do know that Mokil was unre- corded by the time of the Duperrey voyage of 1822-1825: ‘a group of islands appeared that did not appear on the charts; they were named the Iles Duperrey, another island receiving the name of d’Urville: they were Mokil and Losap-nama’ (Dunmore Who’s Who in Pacific Navigation p. 92). Francis Hezel The First Taint of Civilization. A history of the Caroline and Marshall Islands in pre-Colonial days pp. 95-102 $1200 DUPERREY, Louis-Isidor. Plan d’Ile Oualan. Engraved chart measuring 600 x 855 mm., closed tear (now expertly repaired), a well preserved example. Paris, Arthus Bertrand, 1827. 9 First contact in Micronesia Chart of the Micronesian island of Ko- srae printed for the official atlas to the French scientific expedition of 1822- 1825 under the command of Louis- Isidor Duperrey. The expedition is of great importance to the history of European contact with the indigenous peoples of the Caroline Islands. It was also the first time truly accurate maps and sounding charts of the region were produced. The expedition left France in the Coquille in August 1822. After ventur- ing through the Pacific and stopping at New Zealand they reached the Caro- lines in June of 1824. The island of Kosrae had been sighted some twenty years earlier by Captain Crozer of the American whaler Nancy but he did not send a party ashore to investigate. Although Duperrey did not discover Kosrae, his expedition was the first European contact with the indigenous people of the island. The Coquille anchored for ten days, and was greeted with astonishment by the native inhabitants who had never beheld Europeans before. Duperrey wrote in his journal: ‘Our arrival in Lele caused extreme joy: men, women and children rushed up to us in a body. They were particularly surprised by the colour of our skin which they touched with their hands or faces, uttering at every moment shouts of admiration.’ While the Coquille remained at anchor, officers charted the island in a smaller sailing vessel. They measured the coastline and took soundings, gathering all the scientific data required to produce this extraordinary detailed map of Kosrae. Francis Hezel The First Taint of Civilization. A history of the Caroline and Marshall Islands in pre-Colonial days pp. 95-102 $950 FORREST, Thomas. Reflections on the Present State of the East-India Trade… Octavo pamphlet, 16 pp., title-page and last page rather worn, simple faded number stamp at head of title; very good in modern marbled paper wrappers. London, [no 10 printer], 1779. Sailing instructions for traders: keep New Holland to port Very rare pamphlet: the East India Company, Captain Cook, and the opening up of a broader South Seas trade. In this small essay Forrest sought to unshackle the East India traders from their slavish adherence to returning to Europe by the Cape of Good Hope, instead arguing for a much broader trade with the countries of the Indian Ocean and south-east Asia, with ships returning via the Pacific (“leaving New Holland on the left hand”), taking advantage of the “fair wind” in “a high south latitude.” Forrest was involved in the 1770 settlement of Balambangan, a colonising project based on rec- ommendations by Alexander Dalrymple; from 1774 he was in the service of the East India Company, who wanted to extend their sources of trade in the direction of New Guinea. The same year as this small pamphlet was published Forrest also issued his classic voyage account, A Voyage to New Guinea, and the Moluccas, from Balambangan (1779), which detailed his 1774-1776 journey of exploration in the region. The Voyage to New Guinea is well known for its dedication to Sir Joseph Banks (“Who thirsting after Knowledge, left the Enjoyment of Opulence and Ease, to sail round the World”), so it is no surprise that much of the pamphlet also relates to similar themes. Forrest first wrote the piece as early as 1769, but obviously returned to the theme with his new-found expertise uppermost in his mind, adding the new postscript about Cook. He begins with a potted history of the East India Company which includes some comments on his own shipwreck in 1762 and several months spent living with the Dutch. He then expands his ambitious proposal on trade, imagining a second East India Company which would work in sympathetic collusion with the first but go much further afield in the region. In the 1779 post-script he comments that the time is ripe for his ideas to be pressed into service, not least because in the intervening decade “the method of circumnavigating recommended by him, has been successfully prosecuted by Captain Cook…”. $1425 [BAUDIN] FREYCINET, Louis de. Carte Générale de la Terre Napoléon. Engraved chart measuring 580 x 846 mm. (sheet size), fine, some creasing at the edges but never folded. Paris, Gravé par Tardieu, “1808”. 11 French designs for South Australia

Impressive early chart of the South Australian coastline revealing French colonial ambitions for Australia, a result of the survey undertaken during the Baudin expedi- tion in Australian waters during 1802. This must have been from a portfolio of maps as issued as, unlike most examples, it has never been folded or disbound from the voyage atlas. As the title “Terre Napoleon” strongly implies, the map is tangible proof of French colonial ambitions for Australia. At the time of the Baudin voyage a Napoleonic or- der existed to conquer the continent, a plan ultimately frustrated by defeat in Europe. The place names engraved on this chart maps are almost entirely in French; interest- ingly, when the second edition of Baudin’s voyage was published in 1824 most of these names were discretely changed into English. Although the map bears the engraved date of 1808, it was included in the atlas volume of the official voyage account published in 1812. A milestone in mapping the continent, this was the first Australian atlas ever published. Although Matthew Flinders charted this coastline at the same time as Baudin, and the two expeditions famously met in Encounter Bay, Flinders’ publication was delayed by several years due to his imprisonment at the hands of the French on Mauritius. The matter of prec- edence remained a bone of contention between the English and the French for some time as here there is no acknowledgement of Flinders’ prior discoveries. This map is beautifully enhanced by vignettes of Australian flora and fauna based on drawings by Charles Alexandre Lesueur (featuring kangaroos and sea lions reclining composed beneath an idealised neoclassical figure). Most examples are removed from the atlas and are subsequently folded, however this example is a single unfolded sheet and remains in excellent condition. $6800 HERSCHEL, Sir John. Una Veduta Lunare. Lithograph, 480 x 220 mm. (sheet size), some foxing and a little marginal discoloura- tion, good. Milano, Pagagni, no date, but 1836. 12 Utopia on the moon Extraordinary 19th-century lithograph of a utopian lunar community, complete with winged humanoids, palm trees and beavers at work on an ingenious wigwam like home. The inclusion of lush vegetation and palm trees draws upon an earlier utopian tradition from the Pacific, while novel architectural forms loom in the distance. This idyllic scene was inspired by the lunar hoax of 1835, when six articles reporting life on the moon appeared in the New York newspaper The Sun. The articles were en- tirely spurious, claiming that the esteemed astronomer Sir John Herschel had viewed an amazing lunar society while using a high powered telescope based at the Cape of Good Hope. Many elements of the hoax were in fact derived from fanciful specula- tions of moon life published in the early 19th century that were quite popular. Although Herschel quickly denounced the findings as entirely fictitious, the stories had by this stage acquired a momentum of their own. Pamphlets and prints were published across Europe, of which this Milanese lithograph is an arresting example. Interestingly, the descriptive text accompanying this print asserts scientific plausibility by stating that evidence was published in the Edinburgh Journal of Sciences. $1385 HOLMES, Samuel. The Journal of Mr. Samuel Holmes, Serjeant-Major of the XIth Light Dragoons, Octavo, viii, 256 pp., original full polished calf calf, expertly rebacked retaining original gilt decorated panel; a lovely copy. London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1798

13 “Written by a worthy, sensible, but unlearned man” Scarce firsthand account of the Macartney embassy to the Imperial Court, written by a military officer in the form of a travel diary. The preface notes the author’s simple and unaffected style, giving ‘an immediate and local impression’ of his travels through China. The book itself is carefully composed with large type and good margins. It was offered by subscription in limited numbers, as the following passage from the preface explains: ‘it was for the above reasons, and for patronage of humble merit, that it was proposed to print from this Diary or Journal a certain number of copies, for the libraries of the curious: and as no further publica- tion or sale was intended, the subscription (though for a small octavo) was fixed at One Guinea, - in order to defray the expense of printing in a handsome manner, and to provide a residue acceptable to the worthy Author, in his present situation in life’. Indeed, the manuscript original of the journal was deposited in the library of the Royal Society. Lust notes French, German and Italian editions. Cordier, 2387; Lust, 512; Morrison I, 358. $3450 [HOWE, William, junior] Delectus Sententiarum Graecarum, usum tironum accom- modatus… 14 Duodecimo, owner’s inscription on title-page and front free endpaper; some wear and loss, but a good copy in original plain roan binding. London, Valpy, 1824 Early Australian schoolbook A charming relic of early Australian education. This classical Greek textbook in its seventh edition, is in its original colonial binding and was originally owned by Wil- liam Howe, member of a prominent Australian family. It is inscribed in ink “William Howe, King’s School Parramatta March 15th 1852”. William Howe senior arrived in New South Wales in 1816, and by 1820 was a magistrate. He had eight sons and two daughters. The King’s School was founded in 1832 for the children of the colonial elite. It was customary for the young to receive a classical education that included Latin and Greek, and this text was obviously still in use almost thirty years after publication. $1100 JACKSON, Sidney William. Egg Collecting and Bird Life of Australia. Catalogue and data of the “Jacksonian Oological Collection”, illustrated 15 with numerous photographs… Quarto, custom bound in limp green morocco with gilt lettering, a very fine copy, manuscript material bound in. Sydney, F.W. Kent, 1907. In an original Belltrees library binding (detail on cover) Superb association copy with manuscript notes by the author bound in. This is the catalogue of the Australian native egg collection assembled by Sidney William Jackson (1873-1946), who worked for some eighteen years as the curator of Henry White’s ornithological collection at Belltrees. ‘By 1907 Jackson had amassed a unique collection of Australian birds’ eggs, which he described in Egg Collecting and Bird Life of Australia: Catalogue and Data of the Jacksonian Oological Collec- tion (1907) and illustrated with his own photographs. He sold the collection that year to the prominent collector H. L. White, a pastoralist of Scone. (This con- stitutes a major part of the H. L. White egg collection now in the National Mu- seum of Victoria). In 1907-27 Jackson was employed by White as curator of his collection and one of his chief field-workers’ (Australian Dictionary of Biography). Jackson was a fine example of the accomplished amateur at work in Australian natural history collecting, before the advent of the professional biological sciences following the First World War. He was a meticulous observer, capable taxidermist and prodigal tree climber (indeed, some of the images in this book show Jackson and his compan- ions scaling eucalypts and emergent rainforest giants well over 30 meters in height using their set of custom built rope ladders). This copy was custom bound for the Belltrees library and includes nine paper slips in Jackson’s meticulous cursive hand. It has the extra leaf of “Additions and Errata” bound after the colophon, which is not present in all copies. $5850

[HARRIET KING] KING, Harriet. ALS to her son Philip Gidley King. Four page letter on a single leaf folded in half; 220mm x180mm. January 4, 1858. 16 Death, annuities and the blinding heat A letter from Harriet King, matriarch, and the widow of Phillip Parker King, to her eldest son Philip Gidley King. Often bemoaning the heat and apologising to her son for her “shabby note”, she nonetheless addresses the scope of King family business in the wake of Christmas and New Year celebrations. Harrriet was widely regarded as an able admimistrator of her husband’s considerable property holdings often in his lengthy absence. In this regard she was not unlike that other remark- able colonial figure, Elizabeth Macarthur (her daughter-in-law’s aunt). She comiserates with her son on the death of Hugh Gordon, husband to her neice Mary King Macarthur. There was much in- termarriage between the sizable King, Macarthur and Lethbridge clans, despite the fact that the two progenitors, John Macarthur and Governor Philip Gidley King had had a fairly well-exercised dislike for one another. The letter goes on to note the infirmity of Janie (her son Frederic’s wife: they had married the prevous year) and how touched she was by her daughter ‘Libby’s’ gift and how she longed to see her grandchildren. Harriet quite openly discusses the business of annuities-and the difficulties of manag- ing cashflow. ‘Till Grantham was let I could not ask either John or Frederic to pay me’and is troubled by her son Frederic’s waning business fortunes ‘the interest he has to pay may swamp him’. In 1851 Gidley King had been appointed superintendent of stock for the Austral- ian Agricultural Co., but with the discovery of of gold on the bed of the Peel River in 1852 and the indication that much of the land on the Peel could be auriferous he moved with his family to Goonoo Goonoo south of Tamworth. The resultant gold rush, whilst not bringing with it the dramatic change wrought on Victoria, nonethe- less had a profound impact on the King family business and social order especially prior to the issue of mining licenses. At the time of Harriet’s letter, labour for the traditional pastoral pursuits would have been in short supply and the demands on her son’s time fierce. A casual letter by a loving but weary mother, touching on the workings of three prominent colonial dynasties. $1350 KNOBEL, J. The District of Albany Handcoloured engraved map measuring 605 x 890 mm. (sheet size); lower blank mar- 17 gin chipped (but well outside plate mark), a very good copy. 1822. “Fine pasture country, uninhabited…” Detailed topographic map of the Albany district of South Africa. This map was published by William Faden (1749-1836), one of the more prolific car- tographic publishers of the later eighteenth-century who began his trade with Thomas Jefferys. In 1783 Faden was appointed geographer to the king and by 1796 ‘he assem- bled an unrivalled stock of large-scale maps of the British counties’. Over the coming two decades Faden served the emerging market for maps of the colonies, of which this chart of the Cape of Good Hope is a good example. A sense of the frontier nature of this country is given in note engraved in a blank section to the northeast corner: ‘fine pasture country, uninhabited and considered as neutral ground since the convention with the Caffre chiefs, after the last disturbances in the Year 1819’. $750 [TONGA] LAWRY, Walter. Lengthy autograph signed letter regarding the Wesleyan mission to Tonga and dissent in the Church at Sydney. Bifolium sheet, four pages measuring 330 x 203 mm., laid paper watermarked 1815; 18 folded to letter size, addressed and postmarked, very good condition. Parramatta, 26 January, 1824. First Wesleyan missionary to Tonga Intriguing personal letter from convict chap- lain and South Seas missionary Walter Lawry written and signed at Parramatta in 1824. Although clearly written as an official request, this letter to the Wesleyan general committee in London is unsually candid, as Lawry pleads his case to leave NSW and return to England. Walter Lawry (1793-1859) is a significant figure in the early history of Pacific missionary activity. He was appointed chaplain to the con- vict transport Lady Castlereagh which arrived in May 1818. Lawry was soon stationed in Parramatta where he married and constructed the first church in the region. In 1822 he was appointed missionary to the Friendly Islands (Tonga group) and purchased a vessel named the St. Michael, which sailed for New Zealand and Tonga, but here the mission met with little success due to the enduring memory of disrepu- table Europeans, including an escaped convict from Botany Bay (ADB). Given his travails, the present letter is most interesting because in it Lawry openly discusses his dissatisfaction with NSW, writing ‘I am un- happy and greatly troubled’. He gives several reasons for returning to England, mostly relating to acrimony between himself and the Wesleyan general committee. These ongoing disputes soured Lawry’s experiences in the colony, lamenting ‘My reputation in the eyes of my revered brethren has been blasted by the breath of distraction and misrepresentation, their confidence in me is withdrawn, and my remonstrance’s are without weight.’ It appears that years of service in the South Seas and Australia financially ruined Lawry, who constructed the church at Parramatta at his personal expense for the considerable cost of £300. On a brighter note, Lawry draws upon his considerable experience in the Pacific to offer guidance on ‘those places in the South Seas where you have thought proper to establish missions, and I hope I might be able to furnish the society with such information on the missions to the colony, to the Aborigines of New Zealand… as would be considered of no small importance’. On a more personal note, Lawry insists that he must return to visit his ageing parents, calling upon a promise he made them to return within six years. However, the com- mittee denied Lawry’s request and appointed him to service in Van Diemen’s Land. He disregarded this order and sailed for England in 1825 where he mended relations with the Church and after many years of ministry was appointed superintendent of the NZ missions in 1843. Lawry spent his final years in Parramatta. $2750

LEBOURGUIGNON-DUPERRE, Gabriel-Cyprien. Plan de la rade de Buenos-Ayres dans le Rio de la Plata, levé 19 en 1831… Engraved map, two conjoined sheets measuring 655 x 988 mm. in total, fine condition. Paris, Dépôt Général de la Marine, 1833. The old township of Buenos Aires. Finely engraved map showing the township of Buenos Aires, with much detail includ- ing the street plan of the old city, parks, and surrounding agricultural lands. The chart also shows navigational approaches along the River Plate (with soundings). The map was produced by the French navy and published by the Dépôt Général de la Marine. Like the Admiralty Office in London, the Dépôt served both as a depository for marine charts and a publishing firm. The intention was to provide accurate and up-to-date charts for the use of the navy and merchant marine. $1400 [REID, Mary Ann] Cursory Remarks on board the ship Friendship… in the years 1799, 1800, and 1801. Octavo, 13 consecutive extracts printing the full account (pagination varies), early 20 owner’s note that it was published in the “Asiatic Journal”, presentation inscription; very good in contemporary half roan, gilt. London, Black, Kingsbury, Parbury & Allen 1819-1820. Author’s Presentation: Bennelong, Sydney and a live kangaroo A unique anthology, collecting the detailed and entertaining narrative by Mary Ann Reid, the wife of Hugh Reid, master of the Friendship that sailed for New South Wales in 1799. Mrs. Reid’s “Cursory Remarks” were published in the monthly Asiatic Journal between late 1819 and early 1820, in thirteen parts, and the author herself (as a pres- entation inscription makes clear) has had this full run of extracts bound as a gift for her sister Mrs. Campbell. The account is a particularly early account of a convict voyage written by a woman, and might be compared with Mary Ann Parker’s account of the Gorgon voyage. The Friendship sailed from Cork in August 1799 with one hundred and thirty three con- victs including a number of Irish political prisoners. Reid shows a genuine curiosity about life at sea, and is particularly interested in natural history, making comments and describing her attempts to make a small collection throughout the narrative. She spent some time ashore in St. Helena, spending nine days at the house of Henry Porteous, a protégé of Banks and botanist for the East India Company. The ship arrived at Port Jackson in February 1800, and remained for three months, during which time she lived aboard ship, as it was deemed more comfortable than anything that could be found on shore. They were entertained royally by Hunter and Paterson, although internal politics were quite obvious (two rival farewells were thrown). She also had several interactions with Sydney Aborigines, including a fish dinner with Bennelong, but was not at all impressed with his manners. She was also taken to witness a ritual fight on the Barrack Square, which she describes in some de- tail, and gives a long and accurate account of a woman fishing in a bark canoe, openly impressed by the woman’s dexterity. Her other great pastime was the collection of natural history, and her account is a surprisingly early notice of how such an activity was undertaken in polite society. Reid writes that she ‘was not idle in making a little collection of birds, quadrupeds, and other animals, and of the weapons and implements of the natives’ either through purchase or gift. She is thrilled to acquire a ‘young docile kangaroo’ in return for a bottle of spirits, but unfortunately the animal died on the return trip after a fall down the hatchway. The narrative was originally published in the Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register, 1819-20. A part of the journal was published in a booklet edited by Col Graham, Perry McIntyre, and Anne-Maree Whitaker in 2000. More recent research has been done by Joan Druett online, including a full transcription of this important account. Druett’s research suggests that Reid’s name was in fact Eleanor. $9200

ROGERS, Captain Woodes. A Cruising Voyage round the World: First to the South-Seas, thence to the East-Indies, and homewards by the Cape of 21 Good Hope… The second edition, corrected. Octavo, with five folding maps including frontispiece; very good in contemporary panelled calf, joints neatly repaired and label renewed; extensive inscriptions to front endpapers and verso of title-page. London, Andrew Bell, 1718. Dampier, Selkirk & anti-submarine officers of the Great War

Fine second edition, corrected, of this “buccaneering classic” (Hill): the voyage was one of the most important of its kind, and is also significant for being an important insight into the later career of William Dampier, who was the pilot. The book recounts a cruising voyage from 1708-1711, raiding Spanish possessions on the Pacific coast of South America, including a famous attack on the Manila galleon. The book is perhaps best known for the detailed recounting of their rescue of Alex- ander Selkirk, whose life is described in detail, and which is thought to have been the inspiration for Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe. This attractive copy has an intriguing Royal Navy association as several pages, includ- ing the verso of the frontispiece map and the title-page, are covered with signatures of serving British naval officers in 1914 and 1915, including one name, that of the “Naval Secretary to the Admiral in Charge”, which has been deleted by the censor. Evidently Rogers’ book was carried on board several ships on active service against German submarines in the North Sea, and the signatures include those of Rear Admiral Richard Purefoy (flying his flag in the Assistance), Vice Admiral Charles H. Dare, and Rear Admiral Reginald Tupper (who later joined the British fascists). The inscription relating to the submarine-hunter HMY Hersilia is the fullest, reading: ‘Lt. Commander and officers of HM Yacht Hersilia north west of Scotland 1914. Mis- sion to hunt submarines and their bases, suspicious ships and destroy mines’ followed by the signature of Lieutenant-Commander F. Whitfield and three other officers. The Hersilia was a hired yacht in Royal Naval service from September 1914 until it was wrecked in mid-1916 in the Hebrides. Borba de Moraes, p. 744, note; Hill, 1479 (first edition); JCB, 718/154. $6750 [NOVARA] SCHERZER, Dr. Karl von. Reise der Oesterreichischen Fregatte Novara 24 original parts, octavo, with lithograph plates, maps, and numerous illustrations in the text; a very fine set in original yellow wrappers, preserved in two bookform boxes. 22 Wien, K. Gerold’s Sohn, 1864-1866. A stunning set in original parts

A fine set in original parts of this narrative of the Novara expedition, the only major Austrian exploring expedition. The author, Scherzer, was one of the naturalists on the expedition, in charge of ethnography, linguistics, anthropology and statistics. This important voyage to the Pacific and round the world (almost entirely in the southern hemisphere) was commanded by Captain Bernard von Wüllerstorf-Urbair. There were also extensive publications resulting from the scientific work carried out, but this narrative in its Volksausgabe form, intended for popular consumption, was successful enough to be published five times during the 1860s and 1870s. There are substantial sections on both Australia and New Zealand. Bagnall, 5024. $9850 [LINNAEUS] SMITH, Sir James Edward. A Selection of the Correspondence of Linnaeus, and other Naturalists, from the original manuscripts. Two volumes, octavo; with 10 folding plates (foxed); a very good uncut set in publisher’s papered boards 23 with backstrips recently renewed. London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1821. “The indolence induced by a sedentary and luxurious life…” Early English language printing of Carl Linnaeus’ correspondence, including letters from Daniel Solander and Sir Joseph Banks. The editor of these volumes, James Edward Smith, was a leading English naturalist and is fondly remembered as the author of the first separately-published book on Australian botany, A Specimen of the Botany of New Holland (1793). Linnaeus was a prodigious correspondent. Both the nature of his research and relatively remote location necessitated contact with a wide range of naturalists, collectors, and other men of science. The correspondence of Daniel Solander printed here is of special interest. A pupil of Linnaeus at Upsala, Solander travelled to England to promote the new system of classification and later served under Sir Joseph Banks aboard the Endeavour voyage of Captain Cook. Solander was an intermittent correspondent (in part due to ‘the indolence induced by a sedentary and luxurious life’ as the editor sourly notes) making any extant letters significant. This book prints 16 of his letters, some of which relate to Cook in the Pacific. They detail, for example, Omai in London, Furneaux’s return, and the nutritional qualities of breadfruit. Other notable correspondents include the Duchess of Portland (owner of one of the finest natural history collections in England), naturalists Sir Joseph Banks and Antoine de Jussieu, naval surgeon James Lind, the enlightenment philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau, and many others. The ten facsimile lithographic plates reproduce, through the transfer method, samples from the letters of 31 correspondents including the Banks and Solander. $985 [SOVIET PUBLISHING] Tihookeanskie skazki. Avstralia i Novaya Gvineya [that is, 24 Pacific Ocean Tales]. Large octavo, 78 pp., original wrappers. Moscow, 1923. Early Soviet printing of Pacific mythology Scarce early Soviet era publication of traditional myths and legends of Australia, New Guinea and the Pacific Islands. This copy is well preserved in the original illustrated wrappers featuring two indigenous figurines either side of a palm tree. $750 [GIPPS] TEMPERANCE SOCIETY. Australian Temperance Magazine Vol. III. 13 issues (including Supplement) bound in a single volume, octavo, the full year’s run for volume III; in an attractive binding of contemporary grained roan, rebacked, presentation inscription to Sir George Gipps in gilt on front cover; bound by W. Moffitt 25 with his ticket. Sydney, “Herald” Office, 1840. Fine Moffitt binding presented to Governor Gipps A fine signed Moffitt binding with a splendid provenance from the personal collection of Governor Gipps with a presentation in gilt on the front cover; subsequently in the library of the Sydney Mechanics’ School of Arts with their label and shelfmark together with Moffitt’s oval ticket on front pastedown. Sir George Gipps (1791-1847) arrived in Sydney as the newly ap- pointed Governor in February 1838. He would oversee what proved to be a difficult and even a tumultuous era in the Colony in failing health and with almost universal criticism from the squatters and newspaper editors, most of him ranged against him on everything from land-title to education. He was known for his high principles, and certainly the inclusion of a volume on temper- ance is not a surprising addition to his library: he had, the ADB notes, “a strong sense of justice, and unostentatious generosity. He was blessed with a logical mind and had a sharply analytical bent, a sense of detail, and unimpeachable moral character…”. William Moffitt (1802-1874) was a stationer and publisher, but is now chiefly remem- bered as perhaps the best book-binder working in colonial Sydney: his bindings, with the well-known ticket for his Pitt Street premises, are particularly sought after. $1375 THELWALL, Reverend Algernon Sydney. The Iniquities of the Opium Trade with China; Octavo, [xii], 178 pp. original cloth (expertly rebacked retaining backstrip); with the publisher’s advertisment leaf bound in, a good copy. London, William Allen an Co., 26 1839. Chinese opium edicts translated for an English audience. Pointed essay on the injustice of the opium trade by Algernon Thelwall, son of the English orator and political reformer John Thelwall. A minister of the Church of England, Algernon Thelwall believed in expanding the role of the church in social reform within Britain and abroad. An outspoken critic of British policy in China, his book was published at a critical period after Com- missioner Lin had ordered the destruction of opium stockpiled in the British factories at Canton and imprisoned the British Commissioner Captain Elliot for violation of Chinese law. Interestingly, this book prints both English and Chinese documents relating to the trade, including a good excerpt by the the British missionary Walter Medhurst Medhurst. Chinese state edicts and memorials are likewise translated and provided to reinforce Thewall’s position on the trade. $600 TUCKEY, James H. Maritime Geography and Statistics, or, A Description of the Ocean and its Coasts, Maritime Commerce, Navigation &c… 27 Four volumes, octavo; scattered moderate foxing, old shelf notation from an early Philadelphia private library to the title-page of each volume, a very good set in under- stated uniform contemporary full speckled calf (joints a bit rubbed), flat spines with gilt lettered black morocco labels. London, Black, Parry and Co., 1815. An old hand on Flinders, Australia and the Pacific: with an early USN provenance Rare: an intriguing compendium of practi- cal nautical geography, of note as the first major work of its kind to draw on the recently published discoveries of Matthew Flinders. This ambitious work was compiled by James Hingston Tuckey, a naval officer with significant experience in Australian waters, which makes the long section on New Holland and Van Diemens Land of added interest. The Australian section oc- curs as part of a much longer discussion of the remote islands of the Pacific generally. In 1802, some years prior to the publication of this set, Tuckey sailed on the Calcutta with David Collins to establish a new settlement at Port Phillip. The colony at Port Phillip was abandoned after several months, and the Calcutta sailed for Hobart where the first convict outpost in Van Diemen’s Land was founded (as such, the voyage effectively formed Tasmania’s First Fleet). Tuckey later published An Account of a Voyage to Establish a Colony at Port Philip in Bass’s Strait (London, 1805). In the preface to the present work Tuckey explains that the book is designed as a compact yet comprehensive global geography for mariners, explaining that the enormous task of synthesising this information – ‘the perusal of many thousand volumes’ – was only possible due to his captivity by the French. Tuckey’s Maritime Geography is the first popular, and widely disseminated work, to utilise the information contained in Matthew Flinders’ Voyage to Terra Australis published in 1814 as, for example, the section on Arnhem Land (illustrated). Indeed, Tuckey states ‘when the first volume of this work was sent to the press, the relation of the voyage of Captain Flinders had not been published’. Tuckey provides good detail of the 1802 Investigator voyage along the north coast of Australia and into the Gulf of Carpentaria, including the brief respite in Timor before the vessel was declared unseaworthy. He touches upon the unhappy wreck of the Porpoise, and Flinders’ important role in the ensuing rescue. Not surprisingly, the issue of first discovery along the southern coastline of the continent in 1801-1802 is addressed, with the French expedition led by Baudin taking second place: ‘the English navigator has, therefore, the indubitable right of discovery. We have, however, in the text given the synonymous French and English names attached to the principal points on the south coast, as useful in the perusal of the relations of the two voyages.’ The long section concerning NSW, New Holland and Van Diemens Land is by no means confined to nautical matters. We find rich and detailed description of the trees, birds and mammals alongside an animated account of the convict settlement. Tuckey’s rendition of Aboriginal life and customs is refreshingly acute, no doubt informed by the author’s first-hand experiences. From the library of H.B. Sawyer USN, given to him by his brother the Rev. Edward Ruttledge in 1829. Sawyer (1797-1860.) was an experienced and much-decorated of- ficer of the US Navy, who saw action against the British, notably in the battle of Lake Champlain (also known as the Battle of Plattsburgh) in 1813. Ferguson, 628; not in the catalogue of the Hill collection. $2600 [TRANSPORTATION] WHATELEY, Archbishop Richard. Thoughts on Secondary Punishments, in a Letter to Earl Grey [with] Remarks on Transportation… Two volumes, octavo, very good in matching gilt lettered half roan, with the bookplates of Richard Hussey, the first Baron Vivian. London, B. Fellowes, 1832 & 1834. 28 Very attractive set of two important works on transportation First editions of two important works on the transportation system from the pen of the Archbishop of Dublin. Richard Whately (1787-1863) was a theologian and philosopher from an talented family with a history of political involvement (his maternal uncle had served in the administration of Lord Grenville during the later eighteenth-century). Whateley approached the notion of transportation from the perspective of moral and pragmatic philosophy, concluding that only punishment that proved their worth as deterrents could be justified. Furthermore, Whately maintained transportation and colonization were incompatible projects that could never be happily reconciled. Although his philosophical approach was too abstract to gain a widespread following, Whately did contribute to the movement against transportation then acquiring a slow momentum. One of the two books comprising this set, titled Thoughts on Secondary Punishments (1832) prompted the House of Commons select committee inquiry of the same year. Ferguson, 1616 and 1870. $925