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Short List No. 55 - 2012. Australian Land Exploration.

Part One 2 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 55 2012.

SOME GENERAL WORKS

1 Calvert, Albert F. THE EXPLORATION OF AUSTRALIA. 2 vols., cr. 4to, First Edition; Vol. I, pp. [viii], 238, [20](adv. & reviews of Calvert’s works); large folding map, 15 plates (of which 13 are portraits of the Explorers); Vol. II, From 1844 to 1896; pp. [ii], xiv, 386, [6](adv., last 3 blank); large folding map & 1 smaller folding map (at Pp. 320/321), the latter not mentioned by Ferguson; appendix to each vol., index; original linen backs (a little foxed as often), with blue cloth sides, top edges gilt, others uncut; a very nice, clean set; scarce. London; George Philip & Son; 1895- 96. ***Ferguson 7821, not mentioning the third map at Pp. 320/21 in Volume II. The two large folding maps are identical as always, and are dated 1895. The smaller map shows the proposals for the Calvert Scientific Exploring Expedition, 1896. #19452 A$1250.00 3 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 55 2012.

2 Clune, Frank. ROAMING ROUND THE DARLING. Demy 8vo, New and Revised (2nd) Edn.; pp. xii, 212; endpaper map, 15 plates; frequent quotations, copies of inscriptions, etc.; bibliog.; original cloth; (paper slightly browned, as usual); a very good copy with remains of d/w. by Adrian Feint loosely inserted. ; Angus and Robertson; (1952). ***With remarks on the explorers. Burnet 3.2. #27914 A$45.00 4 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 55 2012.

3 Favenc, Ernest. THE HISTORY OF AUSTRALIAN EXPLORATION FROM 1788 TO 1888. Compiled from State Documents, Private Papers and the Most Authentic Sources of Information. Issued under the Auspices of the Governments of the Australian Colonies. London: Griffith, Farran, Okeden & Welsh, Successors to Newbery & Harris, West Corner of St. Paul’s Churchyard; Sydney: Turner & Henderson. Roy. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xvi, [17]-476(last blank), [4](list of Australian Publications on sale by Turner & Henderson); 3 folding maps (1 col.), 1 full-page map, 2 folding & 1 full-page facsimiles (letters & signatures), 5 plates (of the cave paintings discovered by Grey in 1838), appendix, chronological summary, index of names, places & incidents; original red cloth (spine ends repaired); a very good, clean copy; scarce. Sydney; Turner & Henderson; [1888]. ***Ferguson 9563. #5143 A$450.00 5 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 55 2012.

4 Jones, Phyllis Mander. A CATALOGUE OF THE MANUSCRIPTS IN THE LIBRARY OF THE ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF AUSTRALASIA (South Australian Branch) Inc. Compiled by Phyllis Mander-Jones. Cr. 4to, First Edition; pp. x, 54; 15 illusts., index; original papered boards; a fine copy. Adelaide; Royal Geographical Society of Australasia (South Australian Branch) Inc.; 1981. ***Including 179 items, many of exploration and Aboriginal interest. #18895 A$60.00 6 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 55 2012.

RARE EARLY WORK ON AUSTRALIAN GEOLOGY 5 Jukes, J. Beete. A SKETCH OF THE PHYSICAL STRUCTURE OF AUSTRALIA, so far as it is at present known. By J. Beete Jukes, M.A. F.G.S. Late Naturalist of H. M. S. Fly. First Edition; pp. [viii], 96(last blank), 8(advertisements for Australian exploration narratives); 2 folding col. maps; original black fine- grained straight-ribbed cloth, decorated in blind on both boards; (neatly rebacked in calf, gilt, with new chalk-faced endpapers to match the originals); a fine copy; rare. London; T. & W. Boone; 1850. ***Ferguson 5406; Wantrup 94 (first issue, variant coloured cloth). A rare and important early work on Australian geology, the first attempt at a comprehensive treatment of the subject, including much synthesized from, and referenced to the journals of the explorers. #53749 A$3750.00 7 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 55 2012.

6 Kunz, Egon & Elsie. A CONTINENT TAKES SHAPE. Roy. 4to, First Edition; pp. 176; numerous col. & b/w. maps, sources, index; original decorated cloth; a nice copy in d/w. Sydney; Collins; (1971). ***The mapping of Australia as built up by the early explorers & navigators. #4958 A$145.00 8 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 55 2012.

7 [Maslen, T. J.]. THE FRIEND OF AUSTRALIA; or, A Plan for Exploring the Interior, and for Carrying on a Survey of the Whole Continent of Australia. By a Retired Officer of the Hon. East India Company’s Service. Illustrated with a Map of Australia, and Five Plates. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xxiv, 428, [4](last 3 blank); large folding map, 5 fine and attractive double-page handcoloured aquatint plates, appendix; contemporary half calf and marbled boards, marbled edges and endpapers, spine with raised bands and gilt in compartments, spine label renewed; (binding a little rubbed; some occasional mild marginal foxing); a nice copy; very rare. London; Hurst, Chance, and Co.; 1830. ***Ferguson, 1379; Wantrup, 117a. An important book, printed in an edition of only 250 copies, this is the most detailed of the proposals for exploration of the Australian interior which was at this stage still virtually unknown. Some optimistic assessments as to the fertility of the interior are combined with detailed suggestions for the equipment and organisation of expeditions and the future of the country. The plates include a proposal for a new flag for , a specimen plan for new townships and beautiful illustrations for the conduct of expeditions. A second “edition” comprising the unsold sheets of the First Edition with a new title-page and preface was issued by Smith, Elder in 1836: this is equally rare. #20287 A$13,500.00 9 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 55 2012.

8 Peach, Bill. THE EXPLORERS. From the ABC television series. 4to, First Paperback Edition; pp. 160; numerous col. & b/w. illusts. & maps, bibliog., index; original stiff wrappers; a very good copy. (Sydney; Australian Broadcasting Commission; 1985). #19186 A$25.00 10 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 55 2012.

9 Pownall, Eve. EXPLORING AUSTRALIA. Illustrated by Noela Young. F’cap 4to, First Edition; pp. [iii-vi](lacking half- title), 74; 7 full-page & 19 text maps, numerous text illusts., bibliog., index; binder’s cloth (label partly removed from front board); a good ex-library copy with minimal markings. London; Methuen & Co Ltd; (1958). #5182 A$10.00 11 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 55 2012.

10 Robinson, H. E. C. EPITOME OF THE DISCOVERY AND EXPLORATION OF AUSTRALIA. A.D. 1519 to 1901. With an index giving the names and some particulars of the early voyagers and of the land explorers. Prepared for use with the map. Roy. 8vo, First Edition; pp. 48; index to persons, places and ships; original wrappers (slightly silverfished); a very good copy. Sydney; H. E. C. Robinson Ltd.; [1928]. #19190 A$75.00 12 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 55 2012.

11 Spence, Sydney A. A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SELECTED EARLY BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS RELATING TO AUSTRALIA 1610-1880. Demy 4to, First Edition; pp. iii-xii(but intact, as issued), 88, [2](blank); original stiff wrappers (cover very slightly spotted, but a fine copy); scarce. London [sic] Mitcham, Surrey; Published by the Compiler; 1952. ***Edition limited to 525 copies, hand-set and printed by letterpress. Includes (pp. 83-88) a List of Early Australian Engraved Portraits, Etc. #32146 A$185.00 13 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 55 2012.

12 Ward, Russel. AUSTRALIA SINCE THE COMING OF MAN. Impl. 8vo, New Edition, first issue; pp. 256(last 2 blank); a few text maps, numerous illusts., endnotes, index; a nice copy in d/w. Sydney; Lansdowne Press; (1982). ***Revised from the original edition of 1965 and illustrated. #18801 A$50.00 14 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 55 2012.

EARLY EXPLORATION

13 Tench, Captain Watkin, of the Marines. SYDNEY’S FIRST FOUR YEARS: being a reprint of A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay and A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson. With an Introduction and Annotations by L. F. Fitzhardinge. Med. 8vo, 3rd Impr. of this reprint; pp. xxviii, 364; folding map, reproductions of the title-pages of the “Narrative” and the “Complete Account”, general introduction by Geoffrey Ingleton, chronological table of Tench’s service career, separate notes to each work, appendix, bibliog., index; original cloth; a nice copy in d/w. (Sydney); Angus and Robertson in association with the Royal Australian Historical Society; (1962). ***Includes Tench’s discovery of the Nepean River. #49095 A$110.00 15 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 55 2012.

CROSSING THE BLUE MOUNTAINS 14 [Blaxland, Gregory]: A JOURNAL OF A TOUR OF DISCOVERY ACROSS THE BLUE MOUNTAINS IN NEW SOUTH WALES. London: B J. Holdsworth, 18, St. Paul’s Church-Yard. 1823. Cr. 8vo, Type Facsimile of First Edition; pp. [ii](limitation leaf, recto blank), 48; top edge gilt, others uncut; original half blue morocco, gilt, marbled sides; (very lightly rubbed; a few fox spots); a very good copy; rare. [Sydney; Angus & Robertson; 1893]. ***Ferguson 7134; Wantrup 103b. The limitation notice contains the text: “Edition de Luxe. A line for line reproduction of the very scarce original edition of 1823, limited to fifty- five copies (fifty for sale), of which this is No. 35 A & R [the figure and A & R in manuscript]. Edinburgh: Reprinted by Young J. Pentland, for Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1893”. This copy carries, in addition, the manuscript annotation at head: “For Review from Angus and Robertson”. A second edition of this work was published in 1870 and a third in 1904, both of which are very scarce. This exact facsimile of the extremely rare first edition is therefore the third publication of the journal and second only to the first in rarity. An important primary account. #21741 A$3250.00 16 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 55 2012.

15 Blaxland, Gregory: A JOURNAL OF A TOUR OF DISCOVERY ACROSS THE BLUE MOUNTAINS, New South Wales, in the Year 1813, by Gregory Blaxland. With References and Explanatory Notes, Maps, etc. by Frank Walker. First Edition under this Editorship; pp. 56; full-page map, 3 portraits, 9 plates, appendix; original red cloth (a little marked; lacking free endpapers; small blank corner torn from last leaf ). [Sydney; Australian Historical Society (?); 1913]. ***Walker was President of the Australian Historical Society. #38397 A$65.00 17 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 55 2012.

16 Richards, Joanna Armour; Editor. BLAXLAND-LAWSON- WENTWORTH 1813. First Edition; pp. 224(last blank); 3 maps on 2 folding sheets, frontis., 12 plates, notes, bibliog., index; original cloth (a little marked, as often); a nice copy in d/w. Hobart; Blubber Head Press; 1979. ***Edition limited to 780 signed & numbered copies. The first expedition to cross the Blue Mountains west of Sydney - all the important primary materials relating to the crossing are here published including Blaxland’s Journal, first published in 1823 and extremely rare; together with Lawson’s Journal and Wentworth’s monograph, both not previously published. An important and very well produced book. #5213 A$250.00 18 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 55 2012.

FURTHER EXPLORATION OF N.S.W.

17 Weatherburn, A. K. GEORGE WILLIAM EVANS. Explorer. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xvi, 138; 17 maps, 17 plates, appendix, index; original cloth; (small tapemarks on endpaper & half-title); a nice copy in d/w.; scarce. (Sydney); Angus & Robertson; (1966). ***This is the first full-length biography of Evans, who discovered the Macquarie and Lachlan Rivers, becoming Surveyor-General of New South Wales and later of Van Diemen’s Land (although he did not take up the latter position). #43477 A$110.00 19 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 55 2012.

18 Oxley, John. JOURNALS OF TWO EXPEDITIONS INTO THE INTERIOR OF NEW SOUTH WALES, undertaken by Order of the British Government in the Years 1817-18. 4to, Facsimile Edition; pp. [ii], xvi, 408; 3 folding maps, 2 col. & 4 b/w. plates (1 folding), 2 folding tables (temperatures & population), appendices, index; original cloth; (soft pencilled notes, some quite informative, throughout); a very good copy; scarce. Adelaide; Libraries Board of South Australia; 1964. ***Australiana Facsimile Editions No. 6. First published London, John Murray, 1820. The original edition is extremely scarce and the facsimile also is seldom seen. #26188 A$450.00 20 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 55 2012.

19 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$425.00 21 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 55 2012.

20 McMinn, W. G. ALLAN CUNNINGHAM. Botanist and Explorer. First Edition; pp. x, 150(last 3 blank); 5 maps, 4 plates, appendix, refs., bibliog., index; original cloth; a fine copy in slightly worn d/w. Melbourne; Melbourne University Press; 1970. #5137 A$95.00 22 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 55 2012.

HUME AND HOVELL

A FINE COLLECTION OF PRESENTATION COPIES 21 [Bland, Dr. William; Editor]. JOURNEY OF DISCOVERY TO , NEW SOUTH WALES, in 1824 and 1825. By W. H. Hovell and H. Hume, Esquires. Second Edition. Sydney: Published by James Tegg. Printed by Henry Bull. 1837. Demy 8vo in fours; pp. viii, 98(last printer’s colophon only); folding engraved “Map of Australia from Moreton Bay to the New Colonies in Australia Felix with the Discoveries of the Recent Expeditions in the interior in 1824-5 and 1835-6 Published by R[aphael] Clint, Sydney”, with the route outlined in red by hand; appendix; full contemporary dark plum roan, nicely panelled in blind & gilt; all edges gilt; unsigned and unticketed but almost certainly by the Sydney binder Kern; (the spine a little faded; lower edge of the map just shaved by the binder); a fine copy; very rare. Sydney; James Tegg; 1837. ***A special presentation binding with stamping in gilt on front board to “Coln. Perceval, C.B. from the Editor Wm. Bland.” Ferguson 2234; Wantrup 110 and page 187 (q.v.). A rare presentation copy of the first published account in book form of the first exploration into the Port Phillip district. The designation on title-page “Second Edition” is considerably misleading as the “First Edition” of 23 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 55 2012.

1831 (what Bland describes in his Preface to the present volume as the “first limited impression”) was evidently made up from preliminary printings in very few copies (Bland laments the lack of a supply of paper for its printing) and most of those few copies which have survived are incomplete. It is one of the legendary rarities of Australian exploration with only one or two copies in private hands, The South Australian library issued a facsimile of that “edition” in 1965 (reprinted 1971). Hume and Hovell’s exploration was of vast importance as numerous significant discoveries were made including the Hume (later renamed the Murray), Tumut, Ovens and Goulburn Rivers, the Australian Alps, and vast tracts of fertile and well-watered country. Their reports at last dispelled the notion of Oxley that the land to the south was worthless and paved the way for the exlorations of Sturt and Mitchell which followed. Bland’s work was edited from the journals of Hovell and Hume, neither of whom published accounts of their own until 1855 when Hume, stung into action by press reports which seemed to suggest that Hovell was taking all the credit for their discoveries, first published his “Brief Statement of Facts ....” [with] Bland, William. LETTER FROM THE AUSTRALIAN PATRIOTIC ASSOCIATION to C. Buller, Jun., Esq., M.P. in reply to his communication of 31st May, 1840. November, 1840. Sydney: Printed by James Tegg & Co., George Street, opposite the Barrack Gate. First Edition; pp. 18. [bound with] OBJECTIONS TO THE PROJECT OF HIS EXCELLENCY SIR GEORGE GIPPS, for Raising a Loan to be secured on the Ordinary Revenue of the Colony; submitted by His Excellency to the Legislative Council of New South Wales, 1841. Sydney: Printed by James Tegg, George Street. 1842. Pp. 20. [bound with] EXPENDITURE OF THE LAND-FUND OF NEW SOUTH WALES in the Colony, and Principally on Public Works; as a means of promoting and supporting Immigration. 1842. Sydney: Printed by D. L. Welch, Atlas Office, Charlotte Place, Church Hill. 1842. Pp. 24. Three works in one volume, 8vo, bound in a contemporary colonial binding (unsigned and unticketed but almost certainly by Kern) of dark plum roan, ruled and lettered in gilt, with attractive marbled endpapers; (spine slightly faded); a fine copy. Sydney; James Tegg [and] D. L. Welch; 1840, 1842, 1842. ***Ferguson 2922, 3364, and 3365. [with] Bland, William. SUPPRESSION OF SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION IN WOOL SHIPS, &c., &c., &c. 24 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 55 2012.

Second Edition. By W. Bland, M.C. Sydney: D. L. Welch, Printer, Atlas Office, George Street, opposite the Post Office. 1845. 8vo, Second Edition; pp. x, [11]-16; 2 fine plates engraved by John Carmichael, North Kent Street, Sydney, and published by W. Bland, 1839; handsomely bound in a contemporary colonial binding (unsigned and unticketed but almost certainly by Kern) of dark plum roan, ruled and lettered in gilt (spine slightly faded); a fine copy. Sydney, D. L. Welch, 1845. ***Author’s presentation copy: stamped in gilt on the front board: “Coln. Perceval C.B. 12th Regiment. From the Inventor”. Ferguson, 3992. Ferguson lists two “First Editions” of 1843 (F. 3572 & 3573), one of six pages royal octavo, (apparently usually without plates), and another which appears similar to the present work, but represented only in the National Library copy, and notes a third edition of 1867 (which, however, he does not list). Clearly an invention of significant importance for a country dependent for its economy on the export of wool. [with] Bland, William. LETTER TO HIS EXCELLENCY SIR CHARLES AUGUSTUS FITZ ROY, Governor-in- Chief of New South Wales, &c. &c. &c. From William Bland, M.C January 11, 1850. Sydney: Printed by T. Forster, 334, Pitt-street, North. MDCCCL. 8vo, First Edition; pp. 14; bound in a contemporary colonial binding (unsigned and unticketed but almost certainly by Kern) of dark plum roan, ruled and lettered in gilt (spine a little faded); a fine copy. Sydney; T. Forster; 1850. ***Stamped in gilt on the front board: “Coln. Perceval C. B. 12th Regiment”. Ferguson 5289. Bland comments on the financial state of the colony and the remedies proposed in England, such as a reduction of the drain upon the Land Fund from the colony, and revival of Transportation. Together, 6 works in 4 volumes, 8vo. Sydney; James Tegg [and others]; 1837-50. ***Similarly, but not identically bound in contemporary colonial presentation bindings, almost certainly executed for Bland by the Sydney binder Kern, and presented to Lt.-Colonel John Maxwell Perceval. The attribution of the bindings to Kern is based on the survival of similarly bound presentation copies of the Hume and Hovell account which contain Kern’s ticket. Colonel Perceval took up command of the 1st Battalion of the 12th Regiment in 1854, during which year it arrived at Van Diemen’s Land and served in Australia for six years. He attained the rank of General in 1874. #42475 A$48,000.00 25 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 55 2012.

22 [Bland, Dr. William; Editor]. JOURNEY OF DISCOVERY TO PORT PHILLIP, NEW SOUTH WALES, IN 1824 AND 1825 [drop title]. Contained in the complete issue of the Transactions of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia (Victorian Branch), Vol. XI. Med. 8vo; pp. xx, 126(last blank); 21 plates & 2 full-page diagrams; original wrappers (frayed at margins and partly defective; contents very good; a couple of stamps of ther Imperial Institute); a very good copy; rare. [Melbourne; Robt. S. Brain, Government Printer for The Royal Geographical Society of Australasia (Victorian Branch); 1894]. ***This is the third printing of Bland’s Journal of the Hume and Hovell expedition, and comprises pp. 65-119, with a folding map & 9 wood-engraved plates (the first illustrated edition). The text is taken from the so-designated “Second Edition” of 1837 including a photo-lithographed version of the map by R. Clint which accompanies that edition. The first edition of 1831, consisting of a handful of copies only, mostly incomplete, and compiled from early proof printings of the text is extremely rare, and the second edition is also very rare. This edition, the only one to contain the attractive plates, is also the only other edition to contain the complete, expanded text of the second edition, since the South Australian Library facsimile is of the first, limited printing. In addition to Bland’s journal, this issue of the Transactions contains several other articles of considerable interest, including: illustrated papers on the Australian Aboriginals of Western Queensland and Central Australia, Warrnambool Region, and Elder Expedition by Brabazon Harry Purcell, Joseph Archibald and David Lindsay; and Travels in Fiji by J. W. Lindt, with notes and six plates in fire-walking. #27961 A$1650.00 26 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 55 2012.

23 [Bland, William; Editor]. JOURNEY OF DISCOVERY TO PORT PHILLIP, NEW SOUTH WALES; by Messrs. W. H. Hovell, and Hamilton Hume; in 1824 and 1825. Sydney: A. Hill, Printer, George Street. Facsimile of First Edition; pp. [ii], [iv], viii, 88(last blank), [8](Appendix, last 3 blank); original vinyl; a fine copy. [Adelaide; Libraries Board of South Australia; 1965]. ***Australiana Facsimile Editions, No. 12 (610 copies printed). The original edition, published in 1831, is extremely rare, and the second edition of 1837 is also very rare. This is an interesting copy, from the library of Brigadier Lawrence Fitzgerald, with bookplate, and with numerous pencilled notes on geographical locations, etc. in margins; also a pasted-in note concerning the original edition in the State Library of Victoria. #6508 A$175.00 27 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 55 2012.

24 Hume, Hamilton. A BRIEF STATEMENT OF FACTS in connection with an Overland Expedition from Lake George to Port Phillip, in 1824. Third Edition: With Addenda. Pp. 112; portrait frontis. (slightly foxed); original limp cloth (spine a little worn), with original printed title-label on cover; (with a new front endpaper, and an old sepia photograph of a statue of Hume affixed to inside front board); a very good copy; rare. Yass; J. J. Brown, Courier Office; 1874. ***Ferguson 10665; Wantrup 113a. The important Addenda, here collected from newspaper columns and extremely rare pamphlets and published for the first time, consist of - (a) A letter from Mr. H. ANGEL, one of the survivors of the Overland Expedition of 1824; (b) a letter by HAMILTON HUME addressed to Mr. W. H. HOVELL through the Goulburn Herald; (c) a letter by Mr. C. H. BARBER to the Sydney Morning Herald; (d) the text of a pamphlet, entitled “Answer to the Preface of the Second Edition of Mr. Hamilton Hume’s ‘A Brief Statement of Facts’, by William H. Hovell”; (e) A letter addressed by “Australian” to the Editor of the Yass Courier, in reply to Mr. W. H. HOVELL’s “Answer”, &c. #5134 A$2750.00 28 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 55 2012.

25 O’Grady, Frank. NO BOUNDARY FENCE. First Paperback Edition; pp. [viii], 208; original wrappers. (Sydney); Pacific Books, Angus and Robertson; (1961). ***Novel based on the life of Hamilton Hume, first published in the previous year. #55871 A$10.00 29 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 55 2012.

26 Andrews, Alan E. J.: Editor. HUME AND HOVELL 1824. First Edition; pp. 392(last 2 versos blank); 16 maps (2 folding), frontis. & 12 plates, bibliog., notes, index; original cloth; (a few pp. wrongly imposed and thus out-of-order, but complete; some light pencilled lines and comments in margins); a very good copy in slightly discoloured d/w. Hobart; Blubber Head Press; 1981. ***Limited to 750 copies numbered and signed by the Editor. Reproducing many original printed and manuscript sources concerning the expedition and the animosity which developed between the two leaders. #43437 A$85.00 30 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 55 2012.

EARLY WESTERN AUSTRALIAN EXPLORATION

27 [Cross, Joseph; Editor & Publisher]. JOURNALS OF SEVERAL EXPEDITIONS MADE IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA, during the Years 1829, 1830, 1831, and 1832; under the Sanction of the Governor, Sir James Stirling, containing the latest authentic Information relative to that Country, accompanied by a Map. London: Published by J. Cross, 18 Holborn; and sold also by all Booksellers. 1833. F’cap 8vo, Facsimile Edition; pp. [ii] (inserted leaf ), xxii, 264, 2(adv.), [2](blank); appendix, large folding map in pocket; original vinyl; a nice copy. [Nedlands; University of Western Australia Press, on behalf of The Royal Western Australian Historical Society (Inc.); 1980]. ***For the very rare original edition of 1833 see Ferguson 1664. #15855 A$85.00 31 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 55 2012.

MORE EARLY VICTORIAN EXPLORATION

28 Kruta, Vladislav; Whitley, Gilbert P.; (& five other authors). DR. JOHN LHOTSKY: The Turbulent Australian Writer, Naturalist and Explorer. Roy. 8vo, First Edition; pp. 176; 5 full- page maps, 27 plates, refs. & notes to each chapter, chronology, 28- page bibliog., index of persons & index of Geographical Names; original wrappers; a fine copy. Melbourne; (Australia Felix Literary Club); 1977. #455 A$65.00 32 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 55 2012.

AND TASMANIA 29 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, bibliog., index; original cloth; (some foxing, but very bright and crisp). 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, bibliog., index, List of Subscribers; original cloth (very slightly flecked). Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, 1939. Together; 2 vols., a fine set in d/ws.; scarce. London & Melbourne; 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. The second volume contains a chapter on the early land explorations of Tasmania. Volume I is inscribed by the author to R. S. Garnett and a covering holograph letter, signed, is loosely enclosed. #22146 A$650.00 33 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 55 2012.

30 Crawford, The Hon. Mr. Justice; Ellis, W. F. & Stancombe, G. H.; Editors. THE DIARIES OF JOHN HELDER WEDGE 1824-1835. Cr. 4to, First Edition; pp. xlvi, 102(last 3 blank); map, 4 illusts., notes, bibliog., index; original cloth; a very good copy; scarce. [Hobart]; The Royal Society of Tasmania; 1962. ***Edition of 1000 copies. #25099 A$85.00 34 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 55 2012.

VICTORIA AGAIN

31 Mitchell, Major T. L. THREE EXPEDITIONS INTO THE INTERIOR OF EASTERN AUSTRALIA; with Descriptions of the Recently Explored Region of Australia Felix, and the Present Colony of New South Wales. 2 vols., Facsimile Edition; Vol. I, pp. [iv], xxiv, 356(last blank); large folding map, drawn by Mitchell & engraved by B. R. Davies, with outlines, divisions & Mitchell’s routes in colour, coloured frontispiece (portrait of the Aboriginal Cambo) & 20 plates (incl. 1 full- page map), title vignette & 14 text illusts., appendix; Vol. 2, pp. [iv], xii, 376(last blank), [377]-416(appendices); 30 plates, including a coloured folding geological section, 1 map (with col. outlines & divisions), a folding panoramic plate, & 3 col. plates (1 folding & 1 of Leadbeater’s Cockatoo, sometimes called Major Mitchell Cockatoo), title vignette & 20 text illusts., appendices (vocabularies, meteorological & barometrical journals, Report from Lieut. Zouch, Mounted Police, respecting the death of botanist Allan Cunningham, wool exports, shipping, etc.); original vinyl; (some minor internal soiling & marking); a good, sound set. Adelaide; Libraries Board of South Australia; 1965. ***Australiana Facsimile Editions No. 18 (just over 770 copies were printed). Facsimile of the Second Edition, T. & W. Boone, 1839, see Ferguson 2811. From the library of Brigadier Lawrence Fitzgerald, with his light pencilled notes and lines in margins. #9445 A$265.00 35 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 55 2012.

32 Cumpston, J. H. L. THOMAS MITCHELL. Surveyor General & Explorer. First Edition; pp. xvi, 270, [2](blank); 12 maps, portrait frontis. & 16 plates, 4 appendices, refs., bibliog., index; original cloth; a very good copy in d/w. London; Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press; 1954 (1955). ***Brigadier Lawrence FitzGerald’s copy with light pencilled notes in margins. #5017 A$145.00 36 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 55 2012.

33 Eccleston, Gregory C. MAJOR MITCHELL’S 1836 AUSTRALIA FELIX EXPEDITION. A report on a proposal for a ‘Major Mitchell Long Distance Track’. 4to, First Edition; pp. [vi], 214(last blank); 66 full-page col. maps, 15 figs., 34 illusts., notes, 11 appendices, bibliog.; original pictorial wrappers; a very good copy; scarce. (Melbourne; Department of Conservation, Forests and Lands); 1985. ***A detailed analysis on the ground of Mitchell’s Victorian explorations, with maps at 1:100,000 showing his routes. #19101 A$175.00 37 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 55 2012.

EYRE PUSHES WEST 34 Eyre, Edward John; Resident Magistrate, . JOURNALS OF EXPEDITIONS OF DISCOVERY INTO CENTRAL AUSTRALIA, and Overland from Adelaide to King George’s Sound in the Years 1840-1; sent by the Colonists of South Australia, with the Sanction and Support of the Government: Including an Account of the Manners and Customs of the Aborigines and the State of their Relations with Europeans. London: T. and W. Boone; 29; New Bond Street. 1845. 2 vols., demy 8vo, First Edition; Vol. I, pp. [ii](inserted adv. dated May, 1845, for Stokes (F. 4406) in preparation), xviii, [ii](recto List of Plates, verso adv. for Hodgkinson (F. 4067) lately published), 448, 4(inserted adv. for Grey (F. 3228), Mitchell (2nd Edn., F. 2811) and other works); 5 steel engravings (by G. Hamilton, E. Gill and J. Neil, including a portrait of Wylie) and 6 lithographs of natural history subjects, appendices (natural history, by J. E. Gray, Dr. Richardson, Adam White, John Gould & others); Vol. II, pp. [iv](inserted adv.), vi, 512, 8(inserted adv., undated, various of Boone’s publications); 5 steel engraved views by G. Hamilton, J. Neil and E. Gill, and 6 engraved plates of aboriginal weapons, artefacts, etc.; 2 text illusts., 4 tables (3 of Aboriginal languages & dialectical comparisons); uncut in the original blind-stamped blue-green ribbed cloth, spines gilt; (both vols. neatly rebacked with roan, with original backstrips preserved); a very nice, clean set, but lacking the two folding maps as often. London; T. and W. Boone; 1845. ***Ferguson 4031 (incorrectly describing it as royal 8vo); Wantrup 133a. Pages 145-512 in Volume II consist of “Manners and Customs of the Aborigines of Australia”, a substantial and important early contribution to the literature on the Aborigines. #44468 A$2250.00 38 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 55 2012.

35 Eyre, Edward John. JOURNALS OF EXPEDITIONS OF DISCOVERY INTO CENTRAL AUSTRALIA, and Overland from Adelaide to King George’s Sound in the Years 1840-1; sent by the Colonists of South Australia, with the Sanction and Support of the Government: Including an Account of the Manners and Customs of the Aborigines and the State of their Relations with Europeans. 2 vols., Facsimile Edition; Vol. I, pp. [ii], xx, 448; folding map (in pocket), 5 plates from steel engravings (by G. Hamilton, E. Gill and J. Neil, including a portrait of Wylie) and 6 from lithographs of natural history subjects, 6 appendices (natural history, by J. E. Gray, Dr. Richardson, Adam White, John Gould & others); Vol. II, pp. [ii], vi, 512; large partially coloured folding map (in pocket), 5 plates from steel engraved views by G. Hamilton, J. Neil and E. Gill, and 6 of aboriginal weapons, artefacts, etc.; 2 text illusts., 4 tables (3 of Aboriginal languages & dialectical comparisons); original vinyl; (top and fore-edges dyed); a very good set; scarce. Adelaide; Libraries Board of South Australia; 1964. ***Australiana Facsimile Editions No. 7 (981 sets printed including a 1967 reprint of about 500 copies). First published, T. & W. Boone, 1845, see Ferguson 4031. #14610 A$450.00 39 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 55 2012.

36 Uren, Malcolm and Stephens, Robert. WATERLESS HORIZONS. The first full-length study of the extraordinary life- story of , Explorer, Overlander and Pastoralist in Australia. 3rd Edn.; pp. 256(last blank); 7 maps (3 double-page), 25 plates, bibliog.; original cloth; (some mild soiling); a very good copy. Melbourne; Robertson and Mullens; 1942. #5168 A$35.00 40 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 55 2012.

37 Dutton, Geoffrey. THE HERO AS MURDERER. The Life of Edward John Eyre, Australian Explorer and Governor of Jamaica, 1815-1901. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. 416; endpaper & 3 other full-page maps, 9 plates, 2 appendices, bibliog., index; original papered boards; a nice copy in worn & torn d/w. (Glasgow); Collins, & (Melbourne), Cheshire; (1967). #21892 A$95.00

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