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Hordern House Rare Books HORDERN HOUSE July 2015 ANZAAB bookfair [email protected] ANONYMOUS, often mis-attributed to William Eden. The History of New Holland, from its First Discovery in 1616, to the Present Time… Octavo, with two folding maps, finely handcoloured in outline (small marginal tears, some offset- 1 ting), pp. i -xxiv, (lacks advertisement leaves), 254; modern half calf, marbled boards. London, John Stockdale, 1787. First Fleet sails for New South Wales First edition. Published on the eve of the departure of the First Fleet for New South Wales, this sometimes neglected publication was the most widely read early descriptions of Australia. It is ‘an extremely interesting work and an essential inclusion in all comprehensive collections’ (Davidson). The anonymous compiler discusses the imminent departure and lists the numbers and equipment of the fleet as well as the principal officers, and there is also material in both preface and text about transportation, as well as an ‘Introductory Discourse’ on the subject by William Eden which has often led to the misattribution of the whole book to him. The ‘Eden’, as it is often called, is written ‘to present at one view a connected description of the whole country of New Holland’. The book is clearly aimed at a public eager for information on the new colonial venture, and for details of Botany Bay itself, which is here described at length. This is the form in which many of the participants in the First Fleet must have absorbed what little information existed about conditions in Australia. The two fine folding maps depict the continent of ‘New Holland’ with an inset of Botany Bay, and the ‘Passage from England to Botany Bay in New Holland 1787’, showing clearly the anticipated route of the First Fleet. Ferguson, 24. $3850 [BARRINGTON, George, supposed author]. The History of New Holland, from its First Discovery in 1616, to the Present Time… Octavo, pp. i-xxxvi, 254, with two large folding hand-coloured maps; a very good copy in mod- ern dark blue morocco, spine gilt. London, John Stockdale, 1808. John Stockdale’s (belated) revenge A very uncommon book, one of the odder productions to appear over the name of the convict Barrington; with two marvellous maps of Australia, both hand-coloured in outline. Although said to be written by “George Barrington”, the famous pickpocket and supposed author of several books on New South Wales, this is a more brazen imposter than most, as the work is 2 actually a reissue of an important and real guide to New South Wales published more than 20 years earlier, by the published Stockdale himself, before the First Fleet had even sailed in 1787 (see previous). John Stockdale was one of the major publishers of the late eighteenth century, well known in Australia for having issued both Phillip’s Voyage (1789) and Hunter’s Historical Journal (1793), two major First Fleet accounts. In a way, the present book might be considered Stockdale’s belated revenge. Up until the appearance of this strange work in 1808, his only association with the so-called “George Barrington” accounts was as the dupe of more adventurous competitors: the Barrington account of a Voyage to New South Wales was in large part plagiarised directly from Hunter’s Historical Journal. Strangely, as Nathan Garvey has written, while Stockdale was well-aware of the brazen “borrowing”, he never publicly denounced his revival publisher Symonds, even when the Barrington version was reviewed glowingly in the press. To confuse things further, this publication is described on the title-page as “Second Edition”: it is hard to decipher what that actually means in this context. Certainly no “first” edition with Barrington’s name on it is recorded. As the collector Rodney Davidson noted, “this would appear to be another example of Barrington’s name being used, presumably to increase sales… a most desirable item” (A Book Collector’s Notes, p. 80). Ferguson, 458; Garvey AB41. $1200 3 ARROWSMITH, John. Australia from Surveys made by order of the British Gov- ernment combined with those of D’Entrecasteaux, Baudin, Freycinet &c &c… Engraved map, hand-coloured in outline, with three inset maps 686 x 903 mm (sheet size), dissected and backed on linen, as issued; folds into slip case with original label. London, John Arrowsmith, 1 May 1848. Counties and tracks of the explorers pre Separation Fine impressive map of Australia showing 46 counties in New South Wales, 23 counties in Port Phillip, and 26 counties in Western Australia, (and penal settlements in Tasmania in the inset) with detailed notes on explorers and discoveries. $4500 ASHWORTH, Edward. Watercolour, captioned: “Fortaleza de São Francisco Macao”. Watercolour, 220 x 260 mm; ink caption lower right; some darkening of paper around edges where previously framed, now in acid-free mount to original framing dimensions. Macau,, prob- 4 ably mid-1844. Original watercolour of the Fortaleza de São Francisco, Macau An important original watercolour of Macau. Edward Ashworth was born near Exeter, Devon in 1814, and trained as an articled apprentice to Robert Cornish, architect to Exeter Cathedral. Unhappy with the quality of his commissions in England, Ashworth decided to immigrate to New Zealand via Port Phillip in May 1842. During a two-year stay, Ashworth made numerous watercolours of Auckland and its street life including an expedition into the Waikato, now treasured views of the very first stages of colonial occupation. Ashworth left Auckland in February 1844, heading across to Hong Kong aboard the American ship Navigator by way of Batavia (Jakarta) and Macau. The timing was impeccable. The first ‘official’ land auction of Hong Kong under Crown sovereignty had taken place just a few months earlier, in January 1844, and a building boom ensued. Now, finally, he could find actual architectural commissions and build. Ashworth returned to England in 1846 and set up practice in Exeter. Here, in bucolic Devon, he remained until his death in 1896, devoting much of his work to the restoration of parish churches. $12,500 BENNET, Henry Grey. 5 A Letter to Earl Bathurst, Secretary of State for the Colonial Department… Octavo, half-title, 144 pp.; fine condition in modern half calf, gilt-title on the spine, the Hobill Cole copy with his bookplate and with the blind stamps of Tom Ramsay and Fred Eager. London, James Ridgway, 1820. Bennet’s attack on Macquarie precipitating the Bigge enquiry One of the most important political documents of the Macquarie period, which ultimately had a catastrophic effect on Macquarie’s career. It specifically attacked Macquarie’s style of government, for his extravagance and autocracy, and led to the appointment of Commissioner Bigge to investigate the state of the colony, which in turn began the process to end Macquarie’s governorship. Bennet (1777-1836) was a British politician who led a crusade to reduce crime, investigate prisons and transportation while reforming the London police. With a charge to ‘to diminish the sum of human misery’ Bennet worked tirelessly to expose maladministration and archaic practices in British gaols and the transportation system generally. In this published address to Lord Bathurst, Macquarie is accused of extravagance and autocracy. However, writing from England, Bennet relied upon prejudiced testimonies from Macquarie’s enemies (including the indefatigable Reverend Samuel Marsden) and ultimately presented a biased version of events. Although Bennet’s work in England was broad and enlightened, his critique of convict administration became a tool for colonial ‘exclusives’ who wished to end Macquarie’s term as governor of New South Wales. A Letter to Earl Bathurst… remains a highly informative account of transportation and early colonial society, it includes useful statistical information including population figures, a civil list of persons holding government posts and shipping arrivals and departures for the years 1819-20. Furthermore, the appendix prints letters from Governor Macquarie, Samuel Marsden, W.H. Moore and others. Marsden’s letter concerning affairs at the Parramatta hospital is a fine work of vitriol, asserting ‘For the number of persons in the hospital, I do not believe that there is such an infamous brothel in the whole universe…I behold drunkenness, whoredom, sickness and death…in the room where the dead are lying, debaucheries are going on.’ Australian Rare Books, 44; Ferguson, 777. $5850 BENNET, Henry Grey. Letter to Viscount Sidmouth… Octavo, bound with the half-title, often lacking, folding table, 137pp.; a fine copy, in traditional half calf, spine gilt-lettered, the Hobill Cole copy with his bookplate and with the blind stamps of Tom Ramsay and Fred C. Eager. London, J. Ridgway, 1819. Attack on the convict system during Macquarie’s administration Scarce first edition of Bennet’s scathing attack on the convict system under Governor Macquarie. This work is one of the more significant contemporary accounts of convict discipline, and is considered an essential document of the Macquarie era, not least as it prompted Macquarie’s own response. Henry Bennet (1777-1836) was a British parliamentarian who began a crusade for penitentiary reform that culminated in 1816. His “efforts ‘to diminish the sum of human misery’ adorn the history of English criminal law. No retributory institution, prison, hulk, penal colony, or 6 penitentiary adequately combined punishment with reformation: he and his select committees exposed them, but to little avail” (ODB). The scope of his inquiry was both broad and enlightened,
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