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GASTON RENARD Pty. Ltd. Established 1945 Postal Address: (A.C.N. 005 928 503) Electronic communications: P.O. Box 1030, ABN: 68 893 979 543 Telephone: +61 (0)3 9459 5040 Ivanhoe, Melbourne, FAX: +61 (0)3 9459 6787 Victoria, 3079, Australia. www.GastonRenard.com E-mail: [email protected] Short List No. 62 - 2012. Land Exploration of Australia. (Part III). 2 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 62 2012. GENERAL WORKS 1 Finlayson, H. H. THE RED CENTRE. Man and Beast in the Heart of Australia. With a Foreword by Frederick Wood Jones. Small cr. 4to, Facsimile Edition; pp. [ii], 148; large folding map, 52 plates; original vinyl; a nice copy. [Adelaide; Libraries Board of South Australia]; (1979). ***Australiana Facsimile Editions No. 206 (717 copies printed). Facsimile of the scarce first edition of 1935. #32490 A$95.00 3 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 62 2012. 2 Richardson, Norman A. THE PIONEERS OF THE NORTH- WEST OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA. (1856 to 1919). Facsimile Edition; pp. [xiv], 156; folding map, numerous b/w. illusts. (2 full-page); (some mild foxing; slight rust mark from paper clip on first couple of leaves); original vinyl; a very good copy. (Adelaide; Libraries Board of South Australia; 1969). ***Australiana Facsimile Editions No. 190. First published 1925. Charles Bateson’s copy with his signature on endpaper. #14908 A$65.00 4 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 62 2012. GEORGE GREY 3 Grey, George. JOURNALS OF TWO EXPEDITIONS OF DISCOVERY IN NORTH-WEST AND WESTERN AUSTRALIA, during the Years 1837, 38, and 39, under the Authority of Her Majesty’s Government. Describing Many Newly Discovered, Important, and Fertile Districts, with Observations on the Moral and Physical Condition of the Aboriginal Inhabitants, &c. &c. 2 vols., Facsimile of First Edition; Vol. I, pp. [ii], xiv, 412; 2 folding maps, 11 plates (5 coloured), 11 illusts. in text; Vol. II, pp. [ii], viii, 482; col. frontis. & 10 b/w. plates, 17 illusts. in text, appendices; original vinyl; a nice set. [Adelaide; Libraries Board of South Australia; 1964]. ***Australiana Facsimile Editions No. 8 (608 sets printed). See Ferguson 3228 for original edition. The appendices contain the natural history reports of the expeditions. The list of birds is by John Gould, the mammals, reptiles and amphibians are described by John Edward Gray, and the insects by Adam White. There is also contained in the work abundant material on the Aborigines including the famous Wandjina cave paintings of the Kimberley region, which were first discovered by Grey and of which there are several illustrations. Grey was later succesively Governor of South Australia, New Zealand, Cape Colony, and New Zealand again. He was an ardent naturalist and a keen observer of the native peoples he encountered. He was also a keen book collector and donated important libraries to Cape Town and Auckland. #23360 A$450.00 5 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 62 2012. EDMUND KENNEDY 4 Carron, Wm. NARRATIVE OF AN EXPEDITION, undertaken under the Direction of the late Mr. Assistant Surveyor E. B. Kennedy, for the Exploration of the Country lying between Rockingham Bay and Cape York. To which are added, 1. The Statement of the Aboriginal Native Jackey Jackey, who accompanied Mr. Kennedy. 2. The Statement of Dr. Vallack and Captain Dobson, who rescued the Survivors of the Expedition, and 3. The Statement of Captain Simpson, of the “Freak”, who proceeded in Search of Mr. Kennedy’s Papers, &c. Sydney: Printed by Kemp and Fairfax, Lower George Street. 1849. Facsimile Edition; pp. [ii], [ii], 126; folding map, full-page table, appendix; original vinyl; a nice copy. [Adelaide; Libraries Board of South Australia; 1965]. ***Australiana Facsimile Editions No. 9 (817 copies printed including a 1967 reprint). #11180 A$125.00 6 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 62 2012. 5 Beale, Edgar. KENNEDY OF CAPE YORK. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. [xii], 284(last 3 blank); endpaper maps, 2 double- page, 1 full-page & 3 text maps, 20 plates, bibliog. including MS., newspaper & Registries sections, notes, sources, etc., index; original papered boards; (some minor internal soiling); a very good copy in d/w. (Adelaide); Rigby; (1970). #5009 A$75.00 7 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 62 2012. 6 Trezise, Percy. LAST DAYS OF A WILDERNESS. First Edition; pp. 216; 4 col. plates; original papered boards; a very good copy in d/w. London; Collins; (1973). ***An exploration of Queensland’s Cape York Peninsula with an account of Kennedy’s expedition, Aboriginal rock art, Aboriginal culture, etc. #18293 A$35.00 8 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 62 2012. BURKE AND WILLS THE VERY FINAL, AND ONLY COMPLETE, VERSION 7 Burke & Wills: PROGRESS REPORTS AND FINAL REPORT OF THE EXPLORATION COMMITTEE of the Royal Society of Victoria, 1863. Royal Society, Melbourne, 20th August, 1863 [but 1873, see below]. F’cap folio, First and only Complete Edition; pp. [ii](letter of transmission from John Macadam, verso blank), [ii](title, verso blank), [ii](second title, with list of officers & members of the Committee, verso blank), 8(First Report of the Exploration Committee of the Royal Society of Victoria (then the Philosophical Institute of Victoria). [text follows]), 4(Second Report ....), 2(Third Report ....), 6(Fourth Report ...., last blank), 4(Special Report of the Exploration Fund Committee for 1859, last blank), 4(Fifth Progress Report of the Exploration Committee of the Royal Society of Victoria for 1860, last blank), 8(Sixth Progress Report ... for 1861, last blank), 6(Seventh and Final Report ... for 1863, last blank), 6(Appendix I, last blank), 8(Appendix II); 16(Supplementary Final Report, last 3 blank); original quarter dark blue-green wave-embossed cloth, light blue-green printed papered boards, cut flush; but for some very minor soiling of the papered boards, a fine copy; extremely rare. Melbourne; Royal Society of Victoria; 1872 [1873]. ***Ferguson 15185 (Mitchell Library copy only, with no mention of binding and miscollated); see also Renard, Fox Collection 2183 (first issue 1863); McLaren 5530 et seq. (but all his entries are unsatisfactory); and Wantrup: Catalogue of the Davidson Collection (Part 3) 475 (a variant copy in special binding with the final leaves on white paper, see below). All pages are printed on blue paper, and the printer’s colophon “MASON AND FIRTH, PRINTERS, MELBOURNE.” appears only at the foot of the last page of Appendix II. The signatures (first 5 leaves unsigned, B1-4, C1-4, D1-4, E1-4, F1-2, G1-4, H1-4, last 8 leaves unsigned) and unity of appearance would seem to leave little doubt that the whole, excepting the final 16 leaves, was printed by Mason and Firth. 9 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 62 2012. Ferguson mentions a Supplementary Final Report of eight pages printed on white paper. In this copy however, these pages are printed on blue laid paper, closely matching the blue wove paper of the earlier reports, the last blank, with the date Melbourne, 19th November, 1872 completing the report by William F. Stawell at the foot of Page 7. This is followed by a further 8 pages numbered 9-11 plus 2 unnumbered and 3 blank; these contain a List of Subscribers to the Exploration Fund, 3 pp., plus Balance Sheet and Summary of Expenditure, dated at end [Page 13] Melbourne, 7th July, 1873, and with the printer’s colophon at foot: STILLWELL AND KNIGHT, PRINTERS, COLLINS STREET EAST. The cover title reads identically to the title quoted above except for the date, which is 1872, but clearly this is a later, and final (final, final!) issue. This is an original binding, completely undisturbed, with the endpapers of blue laid paper similar to that used for the 16-page Supplementary Final Report, but with the chain lines running horizontally. Apart from the Supplementary Final Report the collation of this copy agrees exactly with Ferguson (but for the interleaves, these obviously added, perhaps only to some issues). The front board carries a complete duplication of the (first) title as transcribed above (that which Ferguson calls the “short title”), but for the date 1872. On Page 7 of the Supplementary Final Report it is stated that about 200 copies of the seven previous reports are [still] available and it is resolved to publish this “final Supplementary Report” bound up in one volume with these previous reports for distribution to public institutions in the colony and elsewhere. This must place an upper limit on the number of complete copies produced. Some copies are recorded with the final supplement printed on white paper, and several with varying lesser numbers of leaves to it. The configuration of this copy must however be the complete and final version, the care taken to match the paper and the unity of appearance and presence of the integral final blank surely signifying the intended finale to the whole sorry saga. It is noted at the foot of Page 7 that the last act of the Committee “has been to hand over to the Public Library and the Royal Society all their papers and documents, carefully secured in a suitable box.” #16383 A$13,500.00 10 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 62 2012. 8 Burke & Wills: THE BURKE AND WILLS EXPLORING EXPEDITION: An Account of the Crossing the Continent of Australia, from Cooper’s Creek to Carpentaria, with Biographical Sketches of Robert O’Hara Burke and William John Wills. Facsimile Edition; pp. [ii], [ii](cover reproduction), iv, 36; printed in double-column; folding map, frontis., facsimile of original wrapper; Pp.
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