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Item 32: Gould (John), The Mammals of Australia

1 [ABORIGINAL KING these plates often made the recipients New South Wales. They would, of PLATE] King Jury, Havilah, Bowen more amenable to colonial expan- course, later be adopted on the na- River. sion. In Australia they wwere issued tional coat of arms. Although, these by colonial authorities and pastoral- breastplates were often made locally, Heart shaped engraved pictorial brass ists as a way of recognising local tribal there are examples from Queensland plate showing a portrait of King Jury leaders and as such are a fascinating that were made as far away as Sydney framed by an emu & kangaroo regar- example of cross-cultural exchange. (for Billy Hippie, King of Minnon), dant & a xanthorrhoea. Measuring The earliest example was presented and even London (for Peter, King of approximately 180 by 245mm. Four to King Bungaree by Governor Tchanning). This last also bears im- small holes punched at the top left and Lachlan Macquarie in 1815 and the ages of the kangaroo and the emu. right hand sides to allow for necklace. practise continued across the country Queensland, c. 1890. £10000 for over a century. Havilah was a cattle station just north of Mackay, Queensland. It was A rare example of an Aboriginal King King Jury’s heart-shaped plate is close to Collinsville, where coal was Plate in excellent condition. particularly unusual as most of the mined as early as 1866. (see back king plates were crescent shape. The cover for illustration) King plates, or breast plates, were portrait in the centre of the plate is originally adapted from the ornamen- equally rare. The regardant emu and See Cleary, Tania; Poignant Regalia. tal gorgets worn by officers in the kangaroo were commonly used sym- (1993) No 64 illustrated; Troy’ Jakelin; British army in the eighteenth cen- bols on these breast plates. Indeed, King Plates: A History of Aboriginal tury. The king plates can be seen as a they appear on 19 of the 33 examples Gorgets. (1993). development of the long tradition of in the National Museum of Aus- gift giving to inhabitants of the New tralia’s collection. The use of these World, similar plates and medals were two animals as symbols of Australia used extensively in North America stretches back to 1806 when the especially during the War of Indepen- Bowman flag was flown at Richmond, dance. It was found that prestige of

1 2 [ANON] Great Britain tions between New South Wales and THE FIRST TO INCLUDE THE The Almanack opens with “Some and New South Wales: an appeal Great Britain in the mid-nineteenth SECOND MAP Account of the inhabitants of New on behalf of that colony, against century. On the back of increased im- Zealand collected from Dr. Hawkes- the oppressive charges for police and migration and the rapid advances in 3 [ANON] Hints on Emigra- worth’s compilation of the voyages gaols, to which, since 1835, it has been agricultural production, the colony’s tion to the new settlement on the in the Southern Hemisphere.” A full , subjected. confidence burgeoned. Faced with Swan and Canning Rivers on the page excerpt discussing the Maori, taxes on exports and convicts, this West Coast of Australia. their dress, carriage and conversa- 8vo. Original paper wrappers, with work presents a strident and detailed Fourth edition. Two folding coloured tion, comparing them to Tahitians. contemporary manuscript annotations. opposition and includes extracts 47pp. London, Harrison & Co., 1841. maps & a plate. 8vo. Stitched as issued The illustration is based on Parkin- from parliamentary debates. This in plain wrappers, in a modern red cloth £2250 pamphlet is a good example of New son’s “Two Natives of New Holland chemise. 96pp. London, 1830. advancing to combat; New Zealand South Wales beginning to define itself £3750 as separate entity from Great Britain. warrior in his proper dress & armour” Rare. The Fasque copy. Ferguson No doubt, the British government which appeared in his A Journal of states that “Only a few copies were Scarce. The Fasque copy. First pub- was aware that the Revolutionary lished in 1829, this is the first edition a Voyage to the South Seas in His printed for presentation to Members War in America also began with a Majesty’s ship Endeavour 1773. The of Parliament.” to include the extra folding map of disagreement over taxation. Ferguson, Australia. The introduction provides following year, the plate appeared as the frontispiece in volume two of the An interesting overview of rela- 3227; Kress, 32174. a brief historical overview of the new settlent, comparing it favourably to first American edition of Hawkes- worth, though it is not believed to New South Wales and Van Diemen’s at the date of publication and sub- ted act of leadership, Anson pursued be by Paul Revere. This is one of the Land. sequently became Prime Minister. his stated objectives as best he could first representations of the Aborigines It was later acquired by Archibald, and took small prizes. The Centurion and Maori to appear in America. Information on the early days of the 5th Earl of Rosebery, another British then limped across the Pacific to Swan River Colony was drawn pri- Prime Minister. Macau, where the ship was repaired marily from early explorers’ reports. and he was able to recruit more men. Beginning with notes on Australian “This account is the official one. It This coincided with the arrival of 6 BLIGH (Capt. William). A geography, it then includes “An Ex- is a model of what such literature the westbound galleon from Mexico, Narrative of the Mutiny on Board tract of a Report received from Capt. should be” (Cox I, p49). which Anson successfully intercepted His Majesty’s Ship Bounty: and Stirling” and Mr J. Fraser’s “Remarks and captured. This one act, heavy the Subsequent Voyage of Part of the Anson’s voyage commenced at a time on the Botanical Productions of the in symbolism, redeemed the voyage Crew, in the Ship’s Boat from Tofoa, of crisis in Anglo-Spanish relations. Banks of the Swan River...” In light and Anson returned to England as one of the Friendly Islands, to Timor a The prospect of a short war seemed of the government directive to estab- the hero of the hour. Hill I, 317-318; Dutch Settlement in the East Indies. lish a colony on the Swan River, the unlikely and so Walpole and first lord Sabin, 1626; Cox I, p49. editor has further included extracts of the Admiralty, Sir Charles Wager, First edition. Engraved draught of the from Peron’s account of the Baudin adopted a strategy of harassing the Bounty’s launch and 3 folding charts. voyage relating to the area, and an Spanish colonies. A large fleet was 4to. Completely unrestored in original appendix comprised of correspon- sent to the Caribbean, while Anson’s 5 BICKERSTAFF. Bicker- boards, some minor, occasional spotting, dence by George Murray, Sir George smaller one was sent to the Pacific. staff ’s Boston Almanack for the original paper label to spine, in a modern Peel, Captain Stirling et al regarding He was to be ready to attack Panama Year of Our Redemption 1775; quarter morocco drop-back box. iv, the colony. Ferguson, 1365. should the larger force gain sufficient being the Third after Leap-Year, the 88pp. London, 1790. £8500 foothold on the other side. If the op- Fifteenth in the Reign of King George portunity arose, he was also charged III... A rare opportunity to acquire this with capturing the annual galleon, classic work in the original boards. AUTHOR’S PRESENTATION linking Mexico and the Philippines. 8vo. Stitched in pictorial wrappers, COPY faded. 32pp. Boston, Mills & Hicks, “Just before sun-rising, Mr. Christian, After long delays, a squadron of eight 1775. £1750 with the master-at-arms, gunner’s (George). 4 ANSON A Voy- ships departed in 1740. They man- mate and Thomas Burkett, seaman, age Round The World in the Years aged to elude the Spanish ships, who MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV. had learned of their objectives, on First edition. Large paper copy , original the coast of Patagonia and rounded red morocco by Brindley, the special Cape Horn. Assembling at Mas-a- presentation binding. Inscribed on a Tierra in the Juan Fernández Islands preliminary blank “Given to me by in mid-June, they eventually learned Lord Anson 1748 George Grenville”. that only four ships remained - the 42 engraved maps, charts & plates. 4to. Wager being wrecked and two oth- Contemporary red morocco, gilt. [xxxii], ers forced back into the Atlantic. 417, [2]pp. London, Printed for the au- This was an unmitigated disaster, the thor, 1748. £20000 squadron emerged with insufficient men to man even the Centurion Presented to George Grenville, who properly and was very quickly re- was secretary of state for the Navy duced to just two ships. In a commit- 2 3 came into my cabin while I was understand more about one of the at great houses around England. it. Given the date of the water- first official British hydrographi- asleep, and seizing me, tied my hands most important exotic gardens of marks, it seems that in addition to cal survey of Japanese waters. with a cord behind my back, and England. Under the guidance of Lady Sir Abraham and Lady Hume were being a catalogue of the garden, it In addition, it is on Broughton’s threatened me with instant death if Amelia (1751-1809), Wormleybury renowned in the horticultural circles is perhaps also an homage to the documentation that Britain’s I spoke or made the least noise...”! became the nursery for any number of of their day. From Wormleybury recently deceased Lady Amelia. If claim to Oregon rests, this was So begins Captain Bligh’s account of newly introduced plants from around House, they were in correspondence nothing else, it accords well with not resolved until 1846. Cordier, the infamous events of 29th April, the globe, and at the beginning of the with Joseph Banks (who sent them the expensive and very attractive 457; Hill, p35; Lada-Mocarski, 59; 1789, events which precipitated the nineteenth century, the great bota- seeds) and Josephine Bonaparte (to red morocco binding. Forbes (Hawaiian Nat. Bib.), 352. extraordinary open-boat voyage, one nists of the day visited the estate. Sir whom they sent plants) and they of the most thrilling narratives in all James Edward Smith, for example, introduced several new plants to Eng- naval history. Ferguson, 71; Hill p. 26. was in close contact with the Humes land for the first time. Indeed, such A BEAUTIFUL COPY while preparing his Exotic Botany was their stature that Latin plant UNRECORDED (1804-5) and the descriptions of sev- names including the word Humea 8 BRASSEY (Lady). Tahiti 10 BULL (Rev. A.H.) Lost and eral plants in this important work are do so in honour of Lady Hume (see A Series of Photographs taken by Found. An adventure in the Blue AUSTRALIAN EXOTIC BOTANY Smith’s Exotic Botany, plate 1). Colonel Stuart-Wortley. based on examples at Wormleybury. Mountains of New South Wales. 7 [BOTANY] HUME (Sir Abra- When Smith and Sowerby were First Edition. 43 plates. 8vo. James Edward Smith’s A Specimen Reprinted from “Our Own Fire- ham). Hortus Wormleyburiensis. working on Exotic Botany they toured A fine copy in original pictorial of the Botany of New Holland (1793) side”. 3 photographs (each with a these houses and gardens to study cloth. xii, 68pp. London, 1882. Manuscript in black ink. 4to. Original was the first separate work on Aus- decorative ms. border) & 2 original the specimens, some of which then  £950 red straight grained morocco, gilt, a little tralian plants. The illustrations were sketches laid down. 12mo. Loose in became the type specimens. Worm- rubbed. 90pp. Hertfordshire, on sheets produced (by James Sowerby) from contemporary limp black sheep. 30, leybury, in this context, was one of A lovely production recording watermarked 1811. £11500 specimens and drawings sent back [2ads]pp. London, W.H. Collin- the most significant private houses, a voyage in 1880. Brassey’s text to England from the great voyages of gridge, 1866. £2500 the late eighteenth century. However, growing an incredible number of complements her husband’s photo- A rare survival. This Georgian bo- over the next decade, the vogue for exotic plants from around the world. graphs. Robinson, Wayward Women, tanical manuscript details the exotic Exceedingly rare and apparently growing exotic plants increased rap- p.203. Australian, Pacific and American unrecorded. There are no copies idly. The most famous example is Jo- This manuscript, on sheets water- plants being grown on the estate on OCLC nor any holdings in sephine Bonaparte’s Malmaison, but marked 1811, contains over 200 of Sir Abraham and Lady Amelia Australian libraries. Almost noth- as this manuscript establishes, there specimens. Divided into two sections Hume, Wormleybury in Hertford- JAPAN’S CLAIM TO THE ing is known of the author, other were a number of important gardens “Stove Plants” and “Cape & Green- shire. It provides an opportunity to house Plants”, the plants carry dates NORTHERN ISLES than that he was based at Market between 1789 and 1812. In addition Drayton in Shropshire. A Rev ( to listing at least five native Austra- 9 BROUGHTON William A.H. Bull is listed among the as- ). lian plants - Hibiscus heterophyllus, Robert A Voyage of Discovery sociates of the British Archaelogi-

Hoya carnosa, Melalucca styphelioides, to the North Pacific Ocean: in and sent back to the North West cal Association in 1873 but this is Melalucca thymifolia, and Epacris gran- which the coast of Asia, from the lat. coast to join Vancouver. He sailed to the only trace we can find. diflora - the Hortus includes species of 35° north to the lat. of 52° north, Nootka via Rio de Janeiro, Australia, the island of Insu, (commonly known His account of his trip to the Blue from as far afield as India, Hawaii, the Tahiti and the Hawaiian Islands but Mountains in 1860 focuses on his Caribbean, South America (like the under the name of the land of Jesso,) found on arriving that Vancouver the north, south, and east coasts of disastrous three day effort to walk Canna glauca, native to Brazil) and had already left. Broughton therefore from Kurrajong to Mount Toomah. South East Asia. Other plants, such Japan, the Lieuchieux and the adjacent crossed the Pacific and stopped at isles, as well as the coast of Corea, The photographs are of illustrations as Laurus cinnamomum, Joseph Banks Macao. His associations with Bligh of Aleophila Glen, Kurrajong and the recounts collecting in his journal on have been examined and surveyed. continued when he purchased a Performed in his Majesty’s Sloop two charming original sketches depict board the Endeavour in 1768. schooner, the Prince William Henry, the author’s use of his umbrella to Providence, and her tender, in the which was reportedly built by the Furthermore, there are several entries years 1795, 1796, 1797, 1798. provide shelter overnight. Not in Bounty mutineers at Tahiti. He then Ferguson; not in Ingleton. with the name Roxburgh written began a survey of the coast of Asia First edition. 3 folding maps, 4 folding beside them. Almost certainly this which was carried on successfully coastal profiles & 2 other plates show- is the surgeon William Roxburgh, until May 1797 when the Provi- ing Japanese boats and an Ainu family. who was appointed Superintendent dence struck a reef near the coast 4to. Attractive copy with large margins of the Company garden at Sibpur of Formosa. Fortunately the crew in contemporary russia, rebacked, spine in 1793. He is known to have sent were all saved and having rested in richly gilt, fine contemporary marbled seeds and cuttings to the Humes Macao they continued the survey in endpapers. xx, 393pp. London, T. Ca- and illustrations to Joseph Banks. the tender for another year, when dell & W. Davies, 1804. £25000 Roxburgh produced his own Hortus - Broughton was discharged and Hortus Bengalensis - in 1814. Broughton (1762-1821) accompanied sailed for England. Vancouver in his voyage of discov- There was a network of botanists in Broughton’s “scarce and exceedingly ery from 1790 to 1793 on the North England and abroad focused on the important work” (Hill) is of great West Coast of America. Returning to study of botany from the New World. importance to the Japanese claim England he was given charge of the This manuscript demonstrates that to the Northern Isles and includes Providence, Captain Bligh’s old ship, the Hume’s were an integral part of the details of what was probably the 4 5 NOOTKA SOUND CONTRO- along the South American coast from tears to four plates, with repairs to tears THE VOYAGES OF CAPTAIN the rank of Lieutenant and des- particularly important since Cook VERSY Chile to Baja California. & folds of 3 plates, large ink stain to one JAMES COOK patched by the Admiralty at the insis- made the first crossing of the Ant- leaf of vol. I. [Amsterdam, 1646]. tence of the Royal Society to observe arctic Circle and finally determined 11 COLNETT (Capt. J.) A Voy- This narrative was published in the £45000 13 COOK (Capt. James), the 1769 transit of Venus across the once and for all that the Southern age to the South Atlantic and round same year as Vancouver’s voyage and HAWKESWORTH & KING (John) face of the sun and to seek out the Continent did not exist. In addition Cape Horn to the Pacific Ocean, gives an account of Colnett’s seizure The third and best edition of this & (James). An Account of the Voy- much-discussed southern continent. Cook secured the medal of the Royal for the purpose of extending the by the Spanish at Nootka. Having important collection of voyages made ages Undertaken by the Order of Accompanying Cook were Joseph Society by successfully eradicat- Spermaceti whale fisheries, and other arrived from Macao in 1789 Colnett on behalf of the East India Company. his Present Majesty for Making Banks (from the Royal Society), ing scurvy through diet and better objects of commerce, by ascertaining informed the Spanish commander Increasingly scarce, this attractive set Discoveries in the Southern Hemi- the Swedish naturalist Dr. Daniel hygiene. Only three shipboard deaths the ports, bays, harbours and anchor- that he had orders “under the author- is in the original Dutch binding. sphere...; A Voyage towards the Carl Solander and the artist Sydney (all resulting from accidents) were ing berths... ity of the King of England... to take South Pole, and Round the World..; A Parkinson. Sailing via Madeira and recorded on this voyage - a dramatic possession of Nootka, construct a The cornerstone of any research on Voyage to the Pacific Ocean... Tierra del Fuego Tahiti was reached reduction from the one third who First edition. Portrait frontispiece, 6 fort, establish a factory, and plant a early Dutch voyages, it contains a in April 1769 where the transit was died on his first voyage. folding maps, 2 engraved plates of First editions throughout. 8 vols. text colony.” Not surprisingly the Span- wealth of important material relating successfully recorded in June of that coastal profiles, & a diagrammatic plate & 2 atlases (folio & quarto). A total ish acted quickly and Colnett found to the history of early Pacific explora- year. From Tahiti, Cook sailed to the Cook’s third voyage began in July illustrating a sperm whale, this slightly of 202 charts and plates. 4to. Recently himself, his officers and men in tion, as well as the development of South Pacific in search of the new 1776 and concentrated on the North cropped at the upper margin. 4to. Smart bound in full 18th century Russia from irons. This indignity precipitated the the East Indies. The work includes continent, first striking the Society Pacific, resulting in the discovery of early nineteenth century half calf, black the Metta Catharina by Aquarius. [xii], “Nootka Controversy” which itself important early voyages to the Philip- Islands, before reaching New Zea- Hawaii, which Cook considered to morocco label to spine, gilt, small piece xxxvi, 676; xvi, 410; [vi], 411- 799; xl, was one of the principal reasons for pines, China and Japan and, as many land, whose coast he surveyed. From be his greatest feat. In addition the replaced at the foot of the spine. iv, 378; xcvi, 421; [xii], 549; [xii], 558pp. Vancouver’s expedition. Borba, of the voyages came from the East, thence Cook proceeded to New Hol- theory of a Northern passage con- [iii]-vi, xviii, 179pp. London, 1798. London, 1773, 1777 & 1784. p193; Hill, p58; Sabin, 14546; Streeter there is a good deal of information on land surveying the whole East Coast, necting the Pacific to the Atlantic £11000 £37500 VI, 3494. the Straits of Magellan. Furthermore, before returning home via Batavia, was also disproved. With him trav- it is noteworthy for including some of elled, William Bligh, George Van- Having served as a midshipman on A fine set of first editions of Cook’s proving once and for all that New the only contemporary information couver who later charted the North Cook’s last voyage, in a crew which three voyages. The plates for the Guinea was not a part of Australia, a on the voyages of the Duyfken. Skip- West Coast of America, and also the also included Vancouver and Bligh, [ ( ] second and third voyages are bound fact first shown by Torres in 1607. He 12 COMMELIN Isaac) ed. pered by Willem Janz, it made the artist John Webber, who provided Colnett went on to become a ship’s in a 4to and folio atlas to match. The finally reached England in 1771, an- Begin Ende Voortgangh van de first authenticated European sight- Europe with many images of the captain and maritime fur trader. His russia was reclaimed from the wreck choring off the Downs on 12th June, Vereenighde Nederlantsche Geoc- ing of Australia in 1605. Its preface, Pacific. Cook however was killed on introduction to A Voyage to the of the Metta Catharina located in having lost one third of his crew. troyeerde Oost-Indische Compag- by Commelin, contains a summary 14th February, 1779 in a shoreline South Atlantic... gives some idea as . Plymouth Sound in October 1973. nie. Amsterdam of Dutch voyages to the East Indies In July of the following year Cook, skirmish and Captain King took over to the underlying mercantile spirit of The ship was wrecked in 1786 and undertaken before 1631. now promoted to the rank of Com- command of the expedition, which the man: “...I never ceased to blend Third edition. 21 parts in 2 vols. Two a large quantity of the leather was mander, set out once more for the returned to England in 1780. Hol- the zeal of my naval character with extra engraved titlepages, two large found in its cargo. Beautifully illustrated, it contains a southern Pacific in the Resolution mes, 5, 24, 47; Hill, p139, 161; Sabin, the spirit of commercial enterprize...” folding maps, plus 228 other maps & wonderful assemblage of maps and with the Adventure . This voyage was 30934,16245,16250. This same spirit no doubt made him plates. Oblong 4to. Contemporary calf, plates of native peoples, hunting Cook (1728-1779) was promoted to the obvious choice to survey ports rubbed, engraved title & one plate in techniques (including for penguins and harbours for British whalers vol. I mounted, minor marginal losses & and polar bears), Dutch camps and settlements, forts, South Ameri- can ports, battle scenes, animals, trees, fruits, and other natural resources.

A full sum- mary of the voyages is available on request. Sabin, 14959, 14960; JCB III, II:339; Bell, C443; Tiele, 13-14pp.

6 7 A GRAND SERIOUS PANTO- tion of John Hawkesworth’s Account The first edition was published in of the British pound against foreign MIME of the Voyages... that Cook’s achieve- the previous year without the map. currencies, and much more. There ments became apparent. Marshall & “A valuable account of New South are several acts addressing religious 14 [COOK (Captain James).] Marshall; Pacific Voyages Selections Wales. The author had made four issues, including one providing relief Theatre Royal, Covent-Garden... from Scots Magazine. Portland, 1960. voyages thither as surgeon-superin- to Roman Catholic subjects and an- the Comic Opera of The Prophet... tendent of convict-ships.” (Fergu- other modifying the judicial oath so after which will be performed... son). In addition to the narrative, that Quakers and Moravians may tes- a Comedy, called, The Follies of Cunningham makes some interesting tify in trials. One proclamation sets AUTHOR’S PRESENTATION the Day... To which will be added, observations on the emerging Austra- a regular day for the livestock mar- COPY A Grand Serious Pantomime, in lian vocabulary. Ferguson, 1182. ket so as not to inconvenience the Three Parts, called, The Death of (James Coutts). populace by having to drive animals Captain Cook. 16 CRAWFORD Recollections of Travel in New through the streets of Sydney each day. Several other government orders Opera Bill. Broadside. 4to. London, Zealand and Australia. CHAPBOOK DAMPIER deal with regulating the behaviour [November, 1789]. £3750 of convicts, so plentiful in early New First edition. Frontispiece, 3 wood 18 DAMPIER (Captain William). South Wales. Dozens of acts make Rare. Only a single copy is held at the engraved plates & 3 coloured maps The Voyage of Capt. William appointments to various government British Library. (one folding), with numerous woodcut Dampier, round the World. illustrations in the text. 8vo. A very good offices. An evening’s entertainment culmi- copy in original brown pictorial cloth, 12mo. Later wrappers, ownership nating in the three act performance gilt. xv, 468pp. London, Truebner, 1880. inscription to title page, a little dusty. The most important aspect of the of The Death of Captain Cook. The £250 61pp. London, 1775. £2000 1829 volume is its inclusion of the pantomime was first performed in first published report of the famed London that year and travelled Inscribed in the year of publication to A very rare chapbook version con- Australian explorer Capt. Charles extensively throughout the coun- Mrs Inglis, Crawford composed this densed from Dampier’s voyage of Sturt, who had arrived in the colony try. According to a program of the work from his diaries. which we can find no copy recorded. in 1827 as an office of 39th Regi- pantomime being performed simulta- This is not to be confused with ment. In late 1828 Governor Darling neously in Hull, Cook’s appearance He sailed for Sydney in 1838 on the another chapbook version extracted sent Sturt to explore the sources of is saved for the second and longest Coromandel and took part in a cattle from Funnell. the Macquarie River. Sturt left Syd- act. Although, the first scenes relate drive to Adelaide, becoming one of ney on 10th November, and discov- Cook’s arrival and the swapping of the first to make the journey. The gifts and hospitality quite closely, the following November he sailed to (Lieut.-Gen. Ralph), playwright places Cook’s death in the New Zealand, where he would stay 19 DARLING (Charles). midst of a Hawaiian love story rather for the better part of the next forty STURT Proclamations, than a tale of exploration. years. Having visited the Kapiti and Acts in Council, Government Mana islands, he soon purchased Orders, and Notices, Issued by His land at Auckland and Watts Pen- Excellency Lieut. Gen. Ralph Darling, The other three pieces focus primar- married with their women, and en- insula, where he established the Captain General and Governor of new ily on Tahiti, including “An authentic joyed a felicity amongst them peculiar Glendavar cattle farm. Active and South Wales. 1829. [Bound with] Acts 15 [COOK’S FIRST VOYAGE]. account of Otahitee, or George’s to the salubrity of so sweet a clime. . curious, Crawford became an impor- and Ordinances of the Governor The Scots Magazine. 1771 Island; together with some of the As for my part, I never relinquished a tant part of the Wellington commu- and Council of New South Wales... particulars of the three years voy- situation with so much grief and dis- Volume XXXIII. 8vo. Contemporary nity. Accompanying Charles Clifford 1829-30. age lately made by Mr Banks and Dr satisfaction.” The letter then concen- quarter calf, slightly rubbed. 706, and Edward Stafford, he explored Solander... Being an extract from an trates on describing the Australian (18index)pp. Edinburgh, Murray & Wairarapa, served eight years on Folio. Contemporary calf, gilt, morocco original letter.” The letter describes Aborigines. Cochrane, 1771. £750 the Legislative Council, became the labels to spines, boards lightly worn, their reception (“the natives received principal geologist and later sheriff of small chip in lower gutter throughout, us with much hospitality and joy”) Lastly, the November issue includes a The Scots Magazine began in 1739 Wellington. Ferguson, 8815. otherwise clean. Sydney, R. Mansfield... and established its reputation and then concentrates on the man- four page review of the first surrepti- Government Printer, [1829 & 1830]. through its domestic and interna- ner and customs of the Tahitians. tious account of the voyage. Later £4500 tional reporting. Published monthly, He gives some attention to Tobia (“a attributed to James Magra, it contains in addition to reportage it contained kind of savage priest”) who sailed a letter signed by Banks and Solander 17 CUNNINGHAM (P., Sur- A rare and valuable collection of news from parliament, reports on his- with them. In contrast, regarding the stating that they know nothing of the geon, R.N.). Two Years in New the acts and laws of the government torical affairs and book reviews. The Maoris - “we were worse treated than account and directing readers to the South Wales; Comprising Sketches of New South Wales in the first few twelve issues here are of real interest ever, the native being so brave and so official narrative being produced by of the Actual State of Society in that years after a central government was for the material relating Cook’s first jealous of their rights that they would the Admiralty. Much of the review Colony; of its Peculiar Advantages to established in the territory. Included voyage (1768-1771). There are five not suffer us to land.” There is some comprises a lengthy excerpt from the Emigrants; of its Topography, Natural here are a great variety of laws and items of relevance - the first noting debate as to whether the letter is book on Tahiti. History, &c. &c. ordinances necessary for the devel- Cook’s return, the last announcing authentic. opment of a government in a new An interesting digest of some of the the purchase of two ships “in order Third edition. 2 vols. Folding map. world, including those regulating first reports from the voyage. Of no to fit them for the accommodation of Another letter appears in the Octo- 8vo. Original boards, headcaps vol. the allotment of land in Sydney and small interest, the notices here give Mr Banks &c. for the next voyage to ber edition, from a gentleman who I repaired. xvi, 346, [2]; viii, 336pp. other townships, setting up a system Banks far more prominence than the South Seas.” sailed with Cook. Particularly en- London, 1828. £350 of courts and drawing up rules of amoured with Tahiti, he writes: “We Cook, it was only with the publica- judicial procedure, setting the value 8 9 ered the river he named after Darling four months in getting ready so that land, Waikato, Taupo and Rotoaira. MAGNIFICENT SUITE OF PHO- most oft used descriptive term along THE MUTINY FOR CHILDREN and explored other river systems. we never saw the colour of gold, we His plans to complete a survey of the TOGRAPHS FROM ERSKINE’S with such passages as “the striking Sturt’s reports, written in diary form, had to lift the water thirty foot high North Island were cut short by the EXPEDITION TO NEW GUINEA variety and beauty of the colour in 25 [FISKE (Nathan W.)] The Story appear on page c3-8c, and c11-20c. by wheel and pumps for to wash the expiration of his contract with the the adjacent water were enchanting, of Aleck, or Pitcairn’s Island Being These mark the beginning and first stuff....” New Zealand Company. Howgego II, 24 [ERSKINE (Commodore James and struck the beholder with wonder a True Account of a Very Singular and publications of the career of one of D20. E.), DYER (Augustine)]. Narrative and admiration.” Similarly Erskine’s Interesting Colony. the most distinguished Australian of the Expedition of the Australian own speech, considered for many explorers. Sturt later described the Squadron to the South-East Coast years as a “Declaration of Rights” for First edition. 16mo. Original printed [ ( )] expedition in his Two Expeditions... 21 DAVIS E.M. Tai an tua... of New Guinea, October to De- New Guinea, contrasts strongly with wrappers, chipped around edges (espe- i (London, 1833). kiribati ian man Buritan ae ababak cember, 1884. the text of the Proclamation itself. cially lower corner of front wrapper) & [ Kiribati people under British law]. The latter is, as one would expect, soiled, generally clean internally, in a The first legislative council of New One of 500 copies. Map, 3 chromolitho- couched in formal, imperial language, cloth clamshell case, leather label. 54pp. South Wales was created in 1823, 8vo. Poor in browned and wormed graph plates (2 with multiple images), Amherst, J. S. & C. Adams, 1829 wrappers, loose. 12pp. Suva, Edward whereas the former looks ahead in and the acts and ordinances of the 33 original silver albumen prints (215 more open terms to the real benefits . £2000 John March, [1892]. £750 governor and council for the years by 285mm), one 4 sheet linen-backed that the tribesmen might expect and 1824 to 1826 were not published un- folding panorama (240 by 1025mm), is very specific with regard to the Written for children, this narrative Extremely rare, no copies on OCLC. & one 2 sheet linen-backed panorama of the South Seas and the Bounty til 1827. Ferguson locates only three March was the government printer. protection offered by Her Majesty copies of each of these titles: his (240 by 550mm), all bar larger pan- Queen Victoria: “look upon white Mutiny. Includes a history of Pitcairn own as well as copies at the Mitchell orama mounted on card with printed persons whom the Queen permits to Island. “Aleck” is Alexander Smith, Library in Sydney and the National captions. Folio (425 by 345mm approx.) reside amongst you as your friends...” one of the Bounty mutineers, who Library in Canberra. No copies are 22 DIEFFENBACH (Ernest). Contemporary blue morocco, gilt, titled renamed himself John Adams and located on OCLC. Travels in New Zealand; with con- in gilt on upper. a.e.g. [iv], 9pp. Sydney, However, it is the photographs them- became a leader of the island com- tributions to the Geography, Geology, Thomas Richards, 1885. £22500 selves, attributed to Augustine Dyer munity. Not in Rosenbach’s collec- ( ). Ferguson notes that pages D1-26D Botany, and Natural History of that 23 EBNER Carl Die Nationen (1873-1923) of the NSW Printing tion of early American children’s are missing in all the copies he exam- Country. der Erde Ein belehrendes Spiel fur die “The Imperial Government... decided Office, which are of prime impor- books. Later editions followed in the ined of the second title, as they are Iugend. to take steps to establish a Protector- tance. The album is principally a 1840s and after, but this first edition here. This copy, however, also lacks First edition. Two vols. Lithographic ate over that part of the southern visual record, a piece of photo-report- is scarce. Ferguson, 1258a. American pages D27-38D. A rare and impor- frontispieces, engraved title-page Hand coloured double-hemispherical shores of New Guinea to the east of Imprints, 38586. map, with lengthy erklarung. Plate size: age, unmatched by any comparable tant set of documents on the early vignettes, 3 plates. 8vo. Contemporary the territory claimed by the Neth- work of the period. No other account political and legal history of Austra- calf, gilt, morocco labels to spines, lightly 295 by 340mm. Nurnberg, c. 1800. erlands, with the double object of £1750 is so lavishly illustrated with so many lia. Ferguson, 1288, 1387. rubbed at extremities, bookplates to front preventing any foreign occupation and such large photographs. Through 26 [FITZROY (Capt. Robert)] pastedowns, occasional spotting, fron- of the country, and of protecting the the positioning of images of the offi- Rare. This map is actually an edu- inhabitants from aggression...” [ANON] Portrait of... tispieces browned. viii, 431; iv, 396pp. cational game based largely on the cial ceremonies alongside topographi- London, John Murray, 1843. £550 AUSTRALIAN GOLD RUSH LET- late eighteenth century discoveries of This declaration of the expedition’s cal views of the surrounding areas Lithograph measuring 160 by 195mm. the photographs themselves become TERS Dieffenbach “broke new ground in the new world performed by the likes objectives belies the tone of much of Laid down on thick cream card. [np, nd, a true part of the narrative itself. It is combining a meticulous account of Capt. Cook. There are 60 marked Erskine’s Narrative... , which reads but London, c.1836]. £750 ( ). indeed a credit to the NSW Govern- 20 DAVIE James and Jessie Six the life and physical character of the points on the map, illustrated by a more like a travelogue than an of- ment Printing Office and to William Scarce. This portrait is very similar to ALS sent from Lucky Gully, Jim country with humane observations costumed native from that country or ficial account. “Picturesque” is the . Dalley the Colonial that drawn by Philip Gidley King in Crow, to family back in Scotland about the plight of the Maori before region, on which players are to stop. Secretary for NSW who 1836, shortly after FitzRoy’s return to European settlement” (Howgego). Australia includes a “Neuhollander” Manuscript in ink. Various sizes. 23pp. and a “Van Diemenslander”. Tahi- ordered the production England. Lucky Gully, September 1856 – Febru- The German explorer arrived in tians, Hawaiians, New Caledonains of this commemorative ary 1860. £750 Born Suffolk in 1805, FitzRoy entered England in 1837 having completed and New Zealanders are also repre- piece. Indeed, in addi- sented. We imagine the game origi- ton to the five hundred the Royal Naval College at the age of “I am happy to say we have made his medical degree in Zurich the year nally included pieces of some sort, produced for presenta- 12. He made his way quickly through a beginning with our sluceing (sic) prior. He found entrance to London the ranks of the navy and was given society quickly and was acquainted but none are present here. tion a special copy was claim we have been working on it delivered to Her Majesty temporary command of the Beagle for the last two months I am happy with Charles Darwin, Richard Owen after the suicide of Pringle Stokes in and Charles Lyell. He was appointed The National Library of Australia’s the Queen as “a keen to say it is turning out pretty well as copy is dated circa 1820, but given supporter of photogra- 1828. Having established himself as yet and we expect it to do better, the natural historian to the New Zealand both a navigator and commander, he Company and departed in May 1839. that mainland Australia and Tasma- phy”. second week we shared eighty-two nia are joined, it’s more accurately was given official command of the pounds between the three of us and if Having explored the headwaters of placed around 1800. Newton (Shades of Light ship in 1831 prior to its projected it is averaged fifteen pounds per man the Hutt River, Dieffenbach made Photography and Austra- surveying voyage. Mindful, of Prin- since so that we cannot complain. the first ascent of Mt Egmont, a lia 1839-1988), pp57-59; gle Stokes’s suicide and that of his As yet Mother you will be at a loss mountain the Maori regarded as Holden (Photography uncle, Viscount Castlereagh, FitzRoy to know what a sluceing claim is, it sacred and so his guides refused to in Colonial Australia), requested a “gentleman companion” is a piece of ground sixty yards by accompany him to the summit. Fol- pp24-31. for the voyage. The position was thirty, it runs various (?) depths our lowing this, he continued he explora- given to Charles Darwin and the claim runs from ten to four feet, but tions of the North Island by walking subsequent voyage granted both men we cannot work it but in winter we along the west coast to the Mokau lasting fame. were late in getting started, we were River. He then travelled to North-

10 11 Tierra del Fuego and along the coast author, outraged at this slight deter- press. In addition to ministering the sufficient water en route, but at least of Patagonia. mined that his son (who as an unpaid natives, he produced several vocabu- they “provided details of over 60,000 civilian was outside the official ban laries such as this one. After set- square miles of country and Gosse’s The Beagle set sail from England on memoirs) bring out a rival account tling in Honolulu in 1868, Bingham maps prepared the way for John For- twice. During its first voyage, under in similar format to that proposed by went on to translate the Bible into rest’s successful crossing from east to Capt. Pringle Stokes, the crew spent Cook. Forster’s is an essential ad- Gilbertese as well as several hymn west of that same territory in 1874” two years surveying the coasts of junct to the literature of the second books, dictionaries and commentaries (ADNB). Unlike both Forrest and South America. When Stokes com- voyage, it came out in March 1776 in the language. Warburton, Gosse did not leave an mitted suicide in 1828, FitzRoy was three months or so after Marra’s oc- account of his expedition for the pub- given command. Having completed tavo (see item 48). A full account of Also known as the Kingsmill Islands, lic. This scarce Government report is their survey in 1830, the Beagle the circumstances of the publication, this chain of atolls in the Pacific his only legacy in print. sailed back to Plymouth where she its qualities and defects, can be found Ocean comprises the greater part of was refitted (at FitzRoy’s expense). in Beaglehole vol. II ppcxlviii-clii. the Republic of Kiribati. Ballou, List of On returning to London in 1836, Hill, p108; Holmes, 23; Sabin, 25130. 45 books in the language of Gilbert Is- FitzRoy was reappointed as com- WITH THE KANGAROO SUP- FitzRoy was awarded the Royal land, 1; Kunz, Annotated Bibliography mander and ordered “to continue the PLEMENT Geographical Society’s gold medal. of the Languages of the Gilbert Islands, charting of South America, as well He later served as the Governor of 52. as to run a chain of chronometric 32 GOULD (John). The Mam- New Zealand and achieved addi- readings around the globe” (How- mals of Australia. tion renown for his work on weather gego). The Beagle departed in late forecasting. Three vols. Folio. 182 handcoloured December 1831 and spent the next THE DISCOVERY AND NAM- lithographs. Contemporary green half three and half years completing its the earliest example we can find. ING OF AYER’S ROCK morocco. London, Taylor & Francis, survey of South America. In April 31 GOSSE (William Christie). 1845 - 63. [Bound With] GOULD (Capts. R. & 1835, the party sailed north to Peru The tree here shows two distinct 27 FITZROY, KING South Australia. W.C. Gosse’s Ex- (John). A Monograph of the Macro- P.P.), (Charles). before turning west and reaching the groups, the first emerging from “La & DARWIN Nar- plorations, 1873. podidae, or Family of Kangaroos. rative of the Surveying Voyages Galapagos Islands, where Darwin THE FIRST TREE OF Langue Primitive”, from which we see languages such as Greenlandic, Gui- 30 handcoloured lithographs. Folio. of His Majesty’s Ships Adventure spent a month. They continued on LANGUAGES Folio. Modern quarter calf. Drop-head anan, Turkish, Mexican, Persian, He- London, The Author, 1841 - 1842. and Beagle, Between the Years 1826 to Tahiti and eventually completed title. 20pp. Adelaide, South Australia ( ). brew and Tahitian. The second group £150000 and 1836, Describing Their Examina- a circumnavigation of the globe via 29 GALLET Felix Arbre House Assembly, 1874. £1250 derives from “Le Celte” which in tion of the Southern Shores of South New Zealand, Port Jackson, King genealogique des langues mortes A rare opportunity to acquire two of , turn generates the bulk of European America, and the Beagle’s Circumnavi- George Sound and Mauritius. Sabin, et vivantes dresse d’apres les Prin- “The hill as I approached presented a the most beautiful works on Austra- languages. The interaction between gation of the Globe. 37826; Hill, p104-5; Freeman, 10; cipes de l’Auteur du Monde Primitif most peculiar appearance, the upper lian mammals. Howgego II, F10. sur la Generation des Langues. Dedie the two groups is fascinating and portion being covered with holes or First edition (first issue of volume 3). 4 a Monsieur L’Abbe Sicard - Institu- shows what must be an early attempt caves. When I got clear of the sand Gould was apprenticed to his father, vols. 9 folding maps (8 of these loose in teur des Sourds-Muets, Membre de to integrate some of the discoveries hills, and was only two miles distant, the gardener at the royal gardens at a pocket, one linen backed) & 47 plates l’Institut National. of the New World into the existing and the hill for the first time coming Windsor, when he first began sell- ( ). (some of these rather foxed). 8vo. Late 28 FORSTER George A Voy- linguistic framework. fairly in view, what was my astonish- ing stuffed birds to students at Eton. nineteenth century calf. xxviii, [iv], 597; age Round the World in His Britan- Engraved broadside measuring 610 ment to find it was one immense rock By his early twenties, Gould had , xiv, [ii], 694, [2]; xiv, 615; viii, [ii], nic Majesty’s Sloop, Resolution by 460mm, plate size 395 by 290mm. raising abruptly from the plain... I established his own business as a 352pp. London, Henry Colburn, 1839. Commanded by Captain James Cook, Some faint old dampstains, some old FROM THE PRESS OF THE have named this Ayer’s Rock after Sir taxidermist and soon made regular £16000 during the Years 1772, 3, 4 and 5. folds. Felix Gallet Inventit, CG Geusler Henry Ayers.” trips to Europe. His reputation grew Sculps, [Paris?, c. 1795.] £1750 MORNING STAR First edition. 2 vols. Large folding quickly and was only enhanced when This is the official account of Gosse, described by his sister as be- engraved map of the South Pole. 4to. 30 [GILBERT ISLANDS] [Mis- charged with illustrating the birds what is probably the most famous Rare. The only other recorded copy is ing “of an exceedingly gentle and Contemporary hatched russia rebacked, sionary Syllabary for Gilbert Island- for the Zoology of the Beagle. Gould’s nineteenth-century naval exploring in the Bibliotheque Nationale. thoughtful temperament” joined the with red morocco label to spines; title ers.] grouping of the ground finches from expedition. Darwin’s contribution surveyor’s department in 1859 aged page of vol. I being a cancel mounted on This representation of a genealogy the Galapagos Islands proved in- amounts to the entire third volume of Single sheet. 4to. Minor stain to left seventeen. Thirteen years later he the stub of the fourth leaf. xx, 601, [2]; of languages long predates that of strumental in establishing Charles the work and contains all his obser- margin. [Ponape, Hiram Bingham, was asked to lead a party to explore [iv], 607pp. London, 1777. August Schleicher, who is generally Darwin’s theory of island speciation, vations made during the expedition, 1858]. £850 a way from central Australia to £5500 credited with inventing the form. an important step in the development including those which lead to the Perth. This was an expedition that of his theory of natural selection. development of his theory of natural Winfred Lehmann in Historical A rare survivor. The first printing The younger Forster’s version pre- the fifty-eight year old Warburton selection. It has therefore come to be Linguistics (1992) states: “The sug- in the Gilbert Islands, this alphabet, ceded Cook’s official account by had hoped to lead. Warburton had In 1838, Gould travelled to Australia considered a seminal work of natural gestion that the relationship between syllabary and rudimentary vocabulary six weeks; it is a substantial work to rely on private finance to attempt and spent nearly two years study- history scholarship, and was issued subgroups of a language is similar to was produced in an edition of just and was produced at great speed to a simultaneous venture, which was ing and collecting specimens of the separately under various different that between branches of a tree was 200. rival Cook’s official account. On his successful. Gosse’s party consisted animal and bird life. During this titles throughout the nineteenth propounded by August Schleicher, return to London a furious quar- of nine, including his brother, two time, he also met the likes of John century. Its importance, however, has who was strongly influenced by views Hiram Bingham (1831-1908) was a rel developed between Forster and Afghans, and an Aborigine and left Franklin (his wife stayed with the tended to overshadow the hydro- on evolution.” Schleicher’s use of Protestant missionary to both Hawaii Sandwich over the former’s contri- Alice Springs with horses and cam- Franklins during her pregnancy) and graphical significance of the expedi- the form in 1853 has been rather and the Gilbert Islands. He famously bution to the Official history, which els and provisions for eight months the explorer Charles Sturt. In the tion which was considerable, espe- overshadowed by Darwin’s depiction sailed on the Morning Star , also was deemed unworthy of publication of the history of living beings in the travelling. They were eventually preface to the Mammals, he describes cially for the detailed surveys made in known as “The Children’s Missionary forced to turn back not having found his amazement at the variety of spe- without substantial correction. The Origin of the Species, yet this remains Vessell”, through Micronesia with his 12 13 fictitious Rinialme name. Kroepelien, 507; O’Reilly-Reitman, 606. The copy here described is a re-issue using sheets primarily from the first edition, London, ( ) with one sheet (D) from the 36 HOPE Charles Extensive Hanau reprint. The London manuscript memorandum address edition may be distinguished to Lord Melville entitled “Hints as by having catchwords on both to the Conduct of this Country in the rectos as well as the versos the Event of a Spanish War”. of leaves throughout. The title Folio. 12pp. With a covering letter from page is in the rare first state, the author. Granton, Scotland, 22nd with vertical hatching on the October, 1804. £1750 plinth, and the maps which are each marked with page The author makes a case against numbers. STC 12685.3 cf. “humbling and weakening Spain in Church II, 54; Sabin, 29819. the event of a war as by doing so she John Millar Wands, “The Early will in future become subservient to Printing History of Joseph Hall’s the views of France... it should be Mundus Alter et Idem” in The our object to conduct our hostili- cies he encountered and that greater hiti, Fiji, Tonga, and the Marquesas. Papers of the Bibliographical ties against her in such manner as to attention hadn’t been paid to it. He There are also important sections on Society of America, 74 (1980). conduce more to our own aggrandise- remarks, “It was not, however, until Rio de Janeiro, the Caroline Islands ment than her humiliation.” Rather I arrived in this country, and found and Macao.” Hill, 727. he suggests the object of the war myself surrounded by objects as that he sees as inevitable should be THE HUNT FOR THE BOUNTY ITEM 38 strange as if I had been transported MUTINEERS the opening of trade in the Spanish to another planet, that I conceived America. He advocates a military and the Voyages From the first Sailing been exonerated, he returned to New 34 HALL (Joseph). Mundus the idea of devoting a portion of my 35 HAMILTON (George). A expedition with five or six sail of the of the Sirius in 1787, to the Return South Wales and succeeded Phillip Aater et idem sive terra australis attention to the mammalian class of Voyage Round the World in His line, 5000 troops and several mer- of that Ship’s Company to England in as Governor in 1794. At his behest, ante hac semper incognita longis itin- its extraordinary fauna.” Majesty’s Frigate Pandora. Per- chantmen the establishment with a 1792. exploration of the east coast was con- eribus peregrini Academici nuperrime formed under the Direction of Cap- factory based at Vera Cruz, possession ducted “and the early discoveries of lustrata. Once the publication of his Birds tain Edwards in the Year 1790, 1791, of a settlement at La Plata, and at First edition. Stipple engraved portrait Flinders and Bass owe much to him. of Australia was underway, he com- frontispiece, engraved title, 2 large fold- Engraved title & 5 folding maps, en- and 1792. With the Discoveries made Valdivia and Valpariso some Peruvian His journal is a very valuable work on menced on the mammals. Along with ing maps, 2 charts & 11 furtheengraved graving in text & small woodcut illustra- in the South-Sea; and the many Dis- ports near Lima, possibly Juan Fer- the early history of the English settle- the monograph on Kangaroos, this illustrations and views. Most plates with tions. 8vo. Attractive nineteenth-century tresses experienced by the Crew from nandez and finally “[i]t may also be ment in Australia” (Hill). Ferguson, would be one of the few exceptions original tissue protection. 4to. Original plum morocco, gilt, very lightly rubbed Ship-wreck and Famine, in a Voyage wise to establish ports on some of the 152; Wantrup, 13; Hill, 857. to a lifelong devotion to ornithology. paper boards, a little worn, original at edges, a.e.g., some signatures/ catch- of Eleven Hundred Miles in open Otaheite and Sandwich Islands...” Nissen, ZBI, 1661; Sauer 14; Wood, paper label to spine, armorial bookplate words cropped. [16], 224pp. [London, Boats, between Endeavour Straits and p.365; Ferguson, 3197. Hope, Scottish judge and MP, evi- of Robert Henry Lee Warner & contem- H. Lownes for] Frankfurt: heirs of A. de the Island of Timor. dently was requested by Melville to porary ownership inscription on front 38 The Illustrated Sydney News. Rinialme [1607]. £2250 First edition. Engraved stipple portrait of draw up a report on the looming free endpaper. [xvi], 582pp. London, Two volumes containing 29 issues Mundus Alter was not ascribed to the author as frontispiece. 8vo. Modern hostilities with Spain. Stockdale, 1793. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR pale calf, old style by Aquarius. 164pp. £4500 (lacking numbers 2 & 14). Numer- Bishop Hall until 1674, when the ous illustrations to the text & a folding ( . librarian of the Bodleian, Thomas Bewick, 1793. £6250 33 GRIFFIN John) Memoirs An integral member of the First Fleet, coloured plate. Folio. Contemporary half , Hyde identified Mercurius Britanni- of Captain James Wilson contain- A nice tall copy of this rare work by 37 HUNTER (Capt. John). An Hunter was second in command on roan. Sydney, Clarson Shallard & Co., cus. The work (a moral satire against ing an Account of his Enterprises and Hamilton, the ship’s surgeon. Historical Journal of the Transac- the Sirius under Arthur Phillip. He 16 June 1864 - 15 December 1866. the Church of Rome) is one of the Sufferings in India, his conversion to tions at Port Jackson and Norfolk served diligently in the early days £1000 earliest fictional voyages set in Terra Christianity, his Missionary Voyage to Captain Edwards was sent out to Island, with the Discoveries which of the colony, though the Sirius was Australis and was an inspiration for the South Seas and his Peaceful and Tahiti to arrest and bring back the have been made in New South Wales wrecked under his command off the An incredible resource documenting Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels . The maps Triumphant Death. Mutineers from H.M.S. Bounty. and in the Southern Ocean, since coast of Norfolk Island. This neces- life in Australia in the mid-1860s. show in some detail the imaginary Those who were traced were placed the Publication of Phillip’s Voyage; The Illustrated Sydney News originally Second edition, revised. 8vo. Contempo- sitated his return to England, during great Antarctic continent, and two in a prison cage on the quarterdeck of Including the Journals of Governors ran as a weekly between 1853-5. Pub- rary black half calf with marbled paper which time he collaborated in the also include details of the Americas. the Pandora. On her return from the Phillip and King, and of Lieut. Ball; lication recommenced on a monthly boards, shelf-worn, a little sporadic production of this journal. Having Friendly Isles the ship struck a reef basis on 16 June 1864 in part inspired foxing. [iv], 230, 2ads.pp. London, Wil- First printed and published in Lon- and was wrecked in Endeavour Strait by Victoria which was “able to sup- liams & Son, [1815?]. £500 don (with Frankfurt given on the with great loss of life. The author port two publications of this descrip- title page and the false imprint of gives a remarkable and matter-of-fact tion.” Although Hill suggests this was pub- Ascanius de Rinialme) probably in account of the voyage, the wreck lished in 1818, the author’s inscrip- 1605, a second edition appeared in and the second open boat voyage In addition to reporting on life in tion, dated February 14 1816, indi- 1606 (with 1607 on the title) printed occasioned by the mutiny on H.M.S. Sydney and ongoing exploration with cates otherwise. “The work contains in Hanau by Wilhelm Antonius, Bounty. Hill, p136; Ferguson, 151; the expeditions of Burke and Wills, many valuable details regarding Ta- and published there with the same 14 15 Leichhardt and the parties in search The New York Detective Library. Vol. novel and the author takes pains to half an hour before this battle had Lada-Mocarski, 80; Forbes (Hawai- North West Coast. Having rounded of them, the newspaper includes 1, Number 480. 4to. Pictorial wrap- compare the Australian goldfields to punished two of them severely for ian Nat. Bib.) I, 525; Hill, p164-5, du Cape Horn the two ships reached information on relations with the pers, staple bound, small ink annotation those in California. A very good copy. some trifling misdemeanour, but he Rietz, 670; Sabin, 38284. Easter Island in April of the follow- Aboriginal community. A telling indi- discounting the price to 8 cents. 29, lived and died a hero.” In 1816, he ing year, before sailing on to Hawaii, cator of colonial attitudes is the note [3ads]pp. New York, F. Tousey, 1892. FIRST-HAND ACCOUNT OF sailed on a privateering voyage and, “AN EXTREMELY RARE WORK” where the expedition members accompanying an image of “The Last £1250 EIGHTEENTH CENTURY AUS- at the age of 53, made a whaling voy- THE PREFERRED ENGLISH became the first Europeans to land of the Tasmanian Natives”, which TRALIA age on the Friends of New London in EDITION on Maui. They then proceeded to reads, “When Tasmania was first col- Rare. Only two copies on OCLC. 1836. Ferguson, 11064; Howes, K.61; Alaska, surveying the coastline as in- 40 KELLY (Ebenezer Beriah). 42 LA PEROUSE (Jean François onised the number of aborigines was This is likely a pirated abridgement Sabin, 37305. structed, before moving West to Asia, Ebenezer Beriah Kelly: An Autobi- de Galaup). A Voyage round the estimated at 7,000; the numbers were of a longer work published in London where La Pérouse charted the coast ography. World, performed In the Years soon reduced by outrages committed around the same time. Young Ameri- 41 KOTZEBUE (Otto von). North of Macao as far as Kamchatka, 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788, by the by the earlier settlers.” Further il- can detective Will Crolius learns of Entdeckungs-Reise in die Sud- and successfully navigated the Sea of First edition. 8vo. Original plum blind- Boussule and Astrolabe... lustrations include “The Distribution the Kelly gang while in London suc- stamped cloth, gilt, spine lightly sunned, See nach der Berings-Strasse zur Japan. of Blankets to Blacks of Queensland”, cessfully pursuing of a gang of forgers. contemporary ownership inscription in Erfordschung einer nordöstlichen Third English edition (the first un- . “Blacks Attacking an Outstation” Having received a commission from pencil to title-page. iv, 100pp. Norwich, Durchfahrt Unternommen in den abridged). 2 vols. 4to. & folio atlas. Copies of the expedition’s logs were and “Native Corroboree”. Scotland Yard, Crolius travels to Mel- Connecticut, 1856. £1750 Jahren 1815, 1816, 1817 und 1818... Portrait frontispiece to vol. I, engraved sent home from Macao, Kamchatka bourne where he sets out to join the title & 69 engraved maps, charts & (in the care of M. de Lesseps on the Kelly gang, then based at Glenrowan, Scarce. Just three copies have ap- First edition, an intermediate issue with overland route), and Botany Bay (in all but four of the plates nicely coloured plates to atlas. Contemporary English in order to capture them. peared at auction in the past thirty tree calf, joints repaired, the atlas in early 1788). Thereafter nothing was 39 [KELLY, NED]. A U.S. on laid paper. 3 vols in 1. 5 large folding years, the last in 1998. non-matching early nineteenth century known of the expedition’s fate until DETECTIVE. Ned Kelly and his Written for an American audience, charts, single sheet chart, 4 double-page roan, a little faded. [viii], lvi, 539; viii, Dillon discovered the wreck of the Bushmen. A Story of Robber Life in in many ways it follows the tem- sepia aquatints, plus 4 hand coloured Although first published in 1856, 531, [14]index, [1]errata.pp. London, two ships on the reef at Vanikoro in Australia. plate of the typical American outlaw engraved portraits, and 11 hand co- Kelly‘s autobiography contains a Johnson, 1798- 1799. £11000 the Santa Cruz islands in 1827. cf. first-hand account of eighteenth loured plates of butterflies & moths with Hill, p174. century New South Wales. In 1798, 1 other natural history plate. 4to. A fair he sailed on the “hell ship” Hillsbor- copy in publishers(?) continental half ough, a convict ship bound for Botany calf, back gilt, a little worn. [vi],xviii Bay. Soon after their departure, the (subscribers), 168; 176; [ii], 240pp. convicts rebelled. Kelly describes the Weimar, 1821. £6500 uprising and its beginnings: “We were eight days flogging, ironing and pack- There were three issues of this first ing them again”. This was followed by edition. Eighty-eight copies were a sickness that killed eighty-nine of produced on fine “Velinpapier” with the prisoners. On landing at Sydney, the plates hand-coloured in a wealth Kelly promptly fled to Parramatta and of colours, a further issue (as here) worked for an Irishman who kept an with the plates coloured, and finally underground distillery. He then re- an issue on handmade paper with a turned to Sydney to work for a baker. limited number of the plates being Observing the convicts during this coloured. Of the latter two issues time, he “learned a great deal about only a total of four hundred and their labors and sufferings.” ninety copies were produced in total. It is also worth noting that the yel- The subsequent chapter of the book low butterflies plate, which was not centres on the murder of Samuel included in the English edition is to Clode, the missionary to Tahiti. be found here. Clode had arrived with two other missionaries in May of that year. The “Rich in early original source material on Alaska” (Lada-Mocarski). Kotze- “This edition is usually considered to official account of the murder was 43 LABILLARDIERE (Jacques bue‘s narrative is not only invaluable be the best one in English and is now provided to the London Mission- J. de H.) Voyage in Search of La for its considerable scientific informa- an extremely rare work” (Hill, p174). ary Society by Richard Johnson, the Pérouse. Performed by order of the tion on Alaska but also for the whole Whilst Stockdale and Johnson both colony chaplain. Yet Kelly’s account Constituent Assembly During the North West Coast, including Cali- published octavo editions in 1798, includes some local reportage not Years 1791, 1792, 1793 and 1794. fornia. It contains the first scientific the one found here is the only quarto present in Johnson’s and captures version in English, and it is the first much of the drama. description of California‘s state flower First English edition. Large folding (the golden poppy) along with six unabridged translation of the official map & 45 engraved plates. 4to. Twen- In an eventful life, the author’s plates relating to the Rurik‘s passage French account of the voyage. tieth century burgundy half calf, with Australian sojourn preceded serving through the Golden Gate. Back in marbled paper boards. Slight rubbing to the Pacific the expedition also visited La Pérouse’s expedition departed under Collingwood at the Battle of from France in 1785 in the Boussole rear joint, with minimal splitting to front Trafalgar. Kelly describes the battle Hawaii on two occasions, giving joint. Off-setting from frontispiece to title Kotzebue the opportunity to record and the Astrolabe with orders to con- and Nelson as “rather tyrannical in tinue the work of exploration begun page, this faintly repeated in the case of the government of his men, and only the lives and customs of the islanders other plates, interior otherwise near fine. during the reign of Kamehameha I. by Cook in the Pacific and on the 16 17 xx, 476, 65, [1]pp. London, Stockdale, above manuscript is derived. The Port Jackson to Otaheite were over- New Zealand. The fine lithograph “blackbirding”, between the South most remarkable Incidents that befel 1800. £3500 first full version in English was not come by chartering the Hawkesbury plates were taken from drawings by Sea Islands and the Australian main- each. Interspersed with Historical and published until much later (Har- of 20 tons” (Ferguson). It includes the noted naturalist T.H. Huxley who land. Geographical Descriptions of the Is- Hill gives the two volume 8vo. edi- ris 1704). This ms. is completed in an eight page report on Tahiti. A acted as assistant-surgeon on the lands and Countries discovered in the tion published by Stockdale as the several scribal hands and was prob- letter from Pomare, King of Tahiti to Rattlesnake , but whose work mainly This article, written much later, Course of their respective Voyages. first English edition although the ably translated to order, however the Missionary Society is reproduced concentrated on marine specimens. recounts some of those exploits. In a edition described here may well be Admiral L’Hermite’s last port of call in both the original Tahitian and in distinct, legible hand he begins with First edition. Large folding engraved earlier, it is much scarcer than the before embarking on his expedition English translation. Ferguson, 466. The son of the noted naturalist Wil- a discussion of the cotton industry in track chart, with an additional folding 8vo edition. was Cowes in the Isle of Wight, so it liam MacGillivray, “John served as Queensland. “It was not an industry map: “Part of the Tropical Discoveries is just possible that an English sailor naturalist on various government particularly suited to white men; con- of the Resolution Sloop Captain J. Cook Labillardiere served as the was recruited, and has left this rather surveying expeditions from 1842 to sequently it led to the importation of in 1774,” & 6 views on 5 engraved ( ). ship’s surgeon and botanist on bare bones account. 46 MACGILLIVRAY John 1855, including that of chief natu- labour from the various neighbouring plates. 8vo. Contemporary calf, spine d’Entrecasteaux’s expedition. “Al- Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. ralist on the Rattlesnake . After the islands situated to the East of Aus- though unsuccessful in the search Jacques Le Hermite sailed with a Rattlesnake, commanded by the late latter date, he continued to study the tralia...” Markham relates that the for La Pérouse, the voyage was of fleet of nine ships and a yacht (the Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. &c. natural sciences in the Australasian Islanders often worked much longer considerable importance because of Nassau Fleet) for the South Seas via during the Years 1846-1850. Includ- Islands” (Hill). Ferguson, 11972; Hill, than the three years stipulated in the scientific observations that were the Straits of Le Maire in order to ing Discoveries and Surveys in New p483. their contracts, many never returning made and the surveys of the coasts extend Dutch influence. A savage Guinea, the Louisiade Archipelago, to their native islands as originally of Tasmania, New Caledonia, the freebooting campaign ensued with agreed. He goes on to demonstrate north coast of New Guinea, and the hostages taken, lost and murdered. that the lack of voluntary labour POLAR EXPLORER IN THE Southwest coast of Australia... [The] On one occasion Le Hermite hung meant that men were soon abducted SOUTH SEAS account of the Tongans is an excel- twenty five Spanish captive from the from the islands by captains being lent contribution to the ethnology foreyard of his flagship. Le Hermite (Sir Albert Hast- paid by plantation owners. “This so of that people” (Hill). cf. Hill, 955; 47 MARKHAM died during this cruise and was buried ings). called labour traffic was only slavery Ferguson, 309. Kidnapping in the South at their headquarters on San Lorenzo Seas. under another name...” Markham Island off Peru. Geen Schapenham also discusses the practices of these took over command and attempted unscrupulous sailors, notably disguis- SEVENTEETH CENTURY VOY- without success to capture the Ma- ing their ships in the manner of the AGE TO THE PACIFIC nila galleon and intercept the silver head of the Melanesian mission, fleet. His orders were that the Nassau Bishop Patterson. Markham describes 44 LE HERMITE (Jaques). The fleet should eventually cross the pa- that they even went so far as to Lord L’Hermite his voyage into the cific and make for the Spice Islands, impersonate him. Unsurprisingly, he Sowthe Seas Thorrow the Straits this they successfully achieved but was murdered by aggrieved islanders Lemar in the year 1623... Manuscript. with great loss of life. The fleet was in 1871. The article was eventually dispersed and Schapenham himself published in “Youth’s Companions”. Written in possibly two early seventeenth died in the East Indies and is buried century hands. 12pp. Folio. In a half in Batavia. Markham commanded the Alert as morocco drop-back box, gilt. England, part of Nares’s Arctic expedition richly gilt, gilt morocco label, front hinge n.d.[ but after 1626]. £18000 in 1875-76, where they reached 83 tender, light shelf wear, small wormholes 20’26” degrees north, the farthest in the lower margin of the second half The first sketchy news of this expedi- 45 LONDON MISSION- point at that time. Although er- of the leaves, not affecting the text. xiii, tion was published in 1625, (“A True ARY SOCIETY. Four Sermons, etc. To which is added the account of roneously attributed to Governor [1], 328pp. London, 1775. Relation...” London, 1625) which preached in London at The Fourteenth Mr. E.B. Kennedy’s Expedition for the Bowden, Markham further distin- £15000 is derived from Spanish newsletters General Meeting of The Missionary Exploration of the Cape York Penin- guished himself by designing the flag outlining Admiral L’Hermite’s preda- Society, May 11, 12, 13, 1808, by The sula. of New Zealand in 1869. The earliest complete account of tory exploits. A full account in Dutch Rev. John Campbell, DD Edinburgh; Cook’s second voyage to be pub- First edition. 2 vols. Large folding chart, was not published until the return of Rev. Richard Pearsall Allen, Exeter; Autograph manuscript in black ink with lished, and described by Forster as an 6 tinted lithographs & 7 other plates, the expedition in 1626, this was in Rev. Robert Winter, London; Rev. John substantial revisions in pencil. 4to. 24pp abortion (it pre- empted his own ac- with further illustrations in the text. 8vo. WITH THE EXTRA MAP turn translated into Latin and pub- Martyn Longmire, LLB Hargrave. (approx 2500 words). nd, [but circa count of the voyage) this account was lished by De Bry firstly in condensed Original cloth, repaired, discreet gilt probably edited by David Henry who 8vo. A fine copy in modern marbled 1905]. £1750 48 [MARRA (John)]. Journal of form in the Petits Voyages (1628) and ownership initials on back and on upper also edited the Gentleman’s Maga- later more fully in the Grands Voy- wrappers. [viii], 142pp. London, Wil- cover. xi, 402, 12ads.; v, 395, 8ads.pp. the Resolution’s Voyage, in 1772, Markham entered the Navy in 1852 zine, another of Newberry’s publica- ages (1634). It is most probably from liams & Smith, 1808. £500 London, 1852. £7500 1773, 1774, and 1775. On Discov- and spent the next eight years on the ery to the Southern Hemisphere, tions. Marra, a veteran of the first the condensed De Bry text that the China station fighting pirates. During voyage, confessed to being the author “The difficulties of conveyance from “A very important voyage of explora- by which the Non-Existence of an this time he took part in the siege of of the work, was flogged twice on the tion and scientific research” (Fer- undiscovered Continent, between Peking (1860) and the suppression second voyage on both occasions for guson). This, the official account, the Equator and the 50th Degree of of the Taipei uprising (1862-64). He insolence to an officer. Nevertheless records the Rattlesnake’s four year Southern latitude, is demonstratively later spent several years in command he appears to have been something voyage, during which she made brief proved. Also a Journal of the Adven- of a sloop of war on the Australia of a favourite with Cook who dealt visits to, amongst other places, Rio de ture’s Voyage, in the Years 1772, 1773, station where he actively helped to with him most leniently when the Janeiro, Mauritius, Port Stanley, Ho- and 1774. With an Account of the suppress the slave trade, known as Irishman made repeated attempts to bart Town, Sydney, Melbourne and Separation of the two Ships, and the 18 19 desert the ship at Tahiti. To his short vidson). Bagnall, 630; Rosover, 214. Diemen’s Land at the suggestion of covering some 8pp., and Hererra, account of these events and some A1.b; Kroepelien, 809; Beaglehole II, Captain Charles Swanston in 1833. Oviedo’s successor as official his- sympathetic remarks on Marra’s his- pp.cliii-clv; Beddie, 1270; Spence, 758; He purchased the Lovely Banks prop- torian of the Indies, writing at the tory and character Cook, surprisingly, Davidson, p60; Holmes, 16; Hocken, erty near Oatlands. Originally a letter beginning of the next century, was adds the following comment “I know p14; Hill, 1087; Streeter Sale, 2408; to the editor of the Colonial Gazette, to devote only 38pp. of his famous not if he might not have obtained my Sabin, 16247; David, 2.205B Mercer wrote to complain of an act chronicle to the events of the expedi- consent if he had applied for it in the establishing a minimum price of 20s. tion. Thus Oviedo’s twentieth book proper time”. per acre. He also discusses squatters has a strong claim to be considered and wool exports. Of additional note the main primary printed source. ( ). The second voyage included the 49 MORRISON George Ernest is the news of Sir Thomas Mitchell’s first crossing of the Antarctic circle, An Australian in China. fourth expedition to between Mel- The expedition, termed by Oviedo making Marra’s narrative the earliest as unhappy, was originally com- First edition. Frontispiece, 23 plates, 3 bourne and Port Essington. Not in first-hand account of the Antarctic, Ferguson. manded by Garcia Jofre de Loyasa. It and the engraved plates are the first illustrations to text & two folding maps. consisted of six vessels and a pin- depictions of that region. 8vo. Fine in original pictorial plum cloth, nace, manned by a total complement gilt. xii, 299pp. London, Horace Cox, of 450. Sailing from Spain in July This copy contains the extremely 1895. £300 1525, they made the coast of Brazil rare extra folded map, “Part of the M in December after difficulties and Tropical Discoveries of the Resolu- orrison enjoyed some early public- ity by selling his account of a 750 adventures during which two of the tion Sloop Captain J. Cook in 1774,” ships were lost, finally making their mile walk along the coast of South the Marquesas as head of the military ern calf old style, the first 20ll. stained, which is noted by Beddie and Rosove, way through the Straits of Magellan Australia to the Leader. His medical establishment of Nuku-Hiva. The some marginal worming throughout but but which is not called for in most of at the end of May 1526. Separated studies were interrupted by a journal- American navigator Capt. Joseph more serious and affecting the text in the the references, it has, though been by a gale, one of the ships the Pataca istic assignment for The Age , which Ingraham first visited the northern second half. 64ll. Valladolid, 1557. present in three of the 25 copies of being low in provisions sailed North sent him to North Queensland to Marquesas while commanding the £37500 the first edition sold at auction in and successfully made for the west investigate the “blackbirding” trade. brig Hope in 1791, giving them the the last thirty or so years. The chart 51 NIGHTINGALE (Thomas). coast of New Spain. The friar Areca- After another journey to New Guinea name Washington Islands. In 1813, Oviedo left behind a vast collection appears opposite the first page of text Oceanic Sketches... with a Botani- ga was on board and he was able to he sailed to Edinburgh where he Commodore David Porter claimed of ill-arranged data on his death, a and shows New Caledonia and the cal Appendix by Dr Hooker. give news of the expedition to Cortez. completed his medical training. Nuku Hiva for the United States, but small portion of which had already Great Cyclades islands, to the north Another ship the Santa Maria de la the United States Congress never been published in his two works on and Norfolk island to the south. It is First edition. Engraved portrait & 5 Vitoria commanded by Loyasa steered Departing in 1893, he travelled ratified that claim, and in 1842, the Indies. The twentieth book, here a most interesting production, and is aquatint plates (one coloured). 8vo. North West, but the commander fell through the Philippines then up the France, following a successful mili- offered, was the only part that was to be found in two states. Firstly as Particularly fine contemporary polished ill, died, and was succeeded by his coast of China, for economy’s sake, tary operation on behalf of a native to be published in the years immedi- here with the engravers name and calf, gilt, a.e.g. [xii], 132pp. London, second in command Juan Sebastian as a missionary in Chinese dress. chief (named Lotete) who claimed ately after Oviedo’s death. It is very with the position of Norfolk Island Cochrane, 1835. £4250 del Cano, who lasted only four days In Japan he decided to walk across to be king of the whole of the island uncommon (Borba suggests only ten incorrectly placed 4 degrees too far before expiring, when one Alonzo China into Burma. His journey of The author’s travels commenced in of Tahuata, took possession of the copies are known) but when found south, and secondly with the engrav- de Salazar took command. By 4th 3000 miles (4828 km), begun from South America, and he included in whole group, establishing a settle- is more often than not, as one would ers name erased (but just visible) with September, 1526, they had made the Shanghai in February 1894, took over his narrative accounts of Valparaiso, ment (abandoned in 1859) on Nuku expect, bound with either the first or Norfolk Island’s latitude corrected. Ladrone Islands where they watered three months and cost, he calculated, Lima, and Payta. From South Ameri- Hiva. French control over the group second edition of the Historia. The chart follows two of the Gilbert and rested - unlike Magellan, they less than £30. In Calcutta he recov- ca he sailed to the Galapagos Islands, was re-established in 1870, and later ms. charts (see David 2.225/6/) in found the natives co-operative. Soon ered from a near-fatal attack of fever Marquesas, Society Islands, Tahiti, incorporated into the territory of The subject matter it contains is of spelling Ballabeah Isle with a final ‘h’ after setting a course to the South, and was back in Australia by the end Tonga, and Samoa. The book, which French Polynesia. particular interest, and was written in unlike all of the other ms. charts. We of the year. This account focuses on San Domingo in 1539 when Oviedo Salazar was overcome and a new have a definite date for the corrected is most uncommon, is attractively China and in addition to the nar- This album contains very interesting was planning an expedition to China. commander Martin Yniguez was issue of this chart, as it accompanied illustrated with several naive views, rative, includes chapters describing lithographs, some coloured depicting The first three chapters contain a elected before they had reached the the article “Late Voyages of the including one showing the interior Chinese medicine, child slavery and local tattoos, weapons, carvings and commentary on the Magellan expedi- Celebes. Having reached the Moluc- Resolution and Adventure” published of Queen Pomare’s house, with the the scene of Consul Margary’s mur- assorted ethnographica. It is very rare tion in which Oviedo has used both cas by November, an intense rivalry in the Gentleman’s Magazine vol. author reclining on her hammock. der. Ferguson, 12858. we have located only three other cop- Maximillianus Transilvanius and grew up between the Portuguese, XLVI 1776 (edited by David Henry) Sabin, 55303; not in Hill. ies. Koninklijk Bibliotheek (Nether- Antonio Pigafetta’s versions (of the who were already established and the opposite p 120. ie in the March issue. lands), State Library of NSW, and the latter, he had had access to one of the depleted Spanish crew. Naval skir- It seems, therefore, probable that the mss.) but the remainder of the work mishes between the two continued ] ( ). Turnbull Library NZ. uncorrected chart found its way into 50 M[ERCER G[eorge] New A PACIFIC RARITY (92pp.) is concerned with the second throughout 1527. In July of that year copies of Marra issued during the last South Wales. To the Editor of the trans-Pacific expedition to the Spice Yniguez died, poisoned by the agent ( ) A two or three months of 1775. Colonial Gazette. 52 NOURY Charles lbum islands. Here the sources appear to of the Portuguese, and Hernando Polynesien. THE SECOND CIRCUMNAVI- be two members of the expedition de la Torre took over command. In “A rare work...contain[ing] details of Small 8vo. 8pp. Sewn as issued, with GATION Martin de Islares and a cleric, Juan the meantime Cortez fitted out a many events not recorded in the offi- four ms. annotations. London, Palmer & First edition. Folio. 15 lithographed de Arecaga. Hitherto Gomara has fleet in Mexico, Alvaro de Saavedra cial account, and a preface recording Clayton, [1844]. £1250 plates. Loose in wrappers , preserved 53 OVIEDO Y VALDEZ (Gon- been considered the principal printed was chosen as commander and he the causes which led Banks and his in a modern morocco box. Nantes, O. zalo Fernandes de). Libro XX. source on this expedition (pub. reached Tidore, where de la Torre staff to withdraw from the expedition A rare offprint. The Fasque copy. Merson, 1861. 1554), and it was used extensively was based, in January 1528. In order at the last moment. Accordingly it is £10500 First edition. Woodcut arms on title, The great grandson of King Charles by Burney and others. However, to explain the plight of this remote a vital second voyage item...” (Da- 3 woodcut illustrations, missing both II, George Mercer invested in Van Charles Noury (1809-1868) lived in cancel pastedowns. Small folio. Mod- Gomara’s account is extremely brief, but important outpost Saavedra made 20 21 strategic importance in the East and hold to be gods. Customs connected material is scarce with no examples the necessity of protecting shipping with the birth of children who are appearing at auction in the past 30 routes: “Should the French ever get taken to the pagan priestess (baylana) years. possession of the Manillas, they may two days after birth. Births are cel- utterly destroy our China trade... had ebrated with feastings and the child is not the Spaniards been the most inert given a temporary name so that it will ( ). and supine of beings, they might... evade any childhood illness. Some of 58 REID Thomas Two Voy- have intercepted half our Fleets.” their feast last for days and consist of ages to New South Wales and Van

pork chicken and rice. The author Diemen’s Land, with a Description Secondly “the Islands are immensely makes some specific examples of na- of the Present Condition of that productive of such things as sugar, tive behaviour such as a boy is not Interesting Colony: including Facts spices, timber and rice: whenever the allowed to wear a red loin cloth (ba- and Observations relative to the State famines that so frequently afflict the haque) until he has performed some and Management of Convicts of both Chinese Empire exist, then the im- great deed such as killing someone. Sexes. Also Reflections on Seduction mense profit on rice stimulates even He also gives details of their cos- and its General Consequences. the torpid Spaniard and without any mogony, marriage customs (virginity First edition. 8vo. Later paper boards, previous preparation in a few months is not required), superstitions etc. as much is raised in tonnage can be parchment backed, with hand-written provided for, and more lays to rot The ms. then takes a more prescrip- title label. Endpapers, title page and last on the ground” particular mention tive tone and includes details of how leaves foxed. Rear pastedown endpaper is made of the considerable Chinese the natives should be encouraged or scuffed. A very good uncut copy other- population in the Philippines “an forced to behave, for instance their wise. xxiii, 392pp. London, Longman, ingenious and industrious people”. drunken parties are to be limited, Hurst et al. 1822. £650 singing and shouting in large crowds “A valuable account of the treatment were overjoyed when they heard the Lance concludes: “Should our is to be forbidden, as is flag waving natives call out ‘Bligh! Bligh!’ recol- Government have any views of pos- of transported convicts” (Ferguson). and bell ringing, breeches are to be Ferguson, 876. lecting that Captain Bligh had been sessing this valuable colony. I have worn and not loincloths, natives must very humanely treated at Timor...” It reason to think that a prompt and not be allowed to sing the biao of turned out they were north of Timor, immediate attack would be success- their ancestors which is the root of but were given directions along with ful. Late in December last they had many of their “silly” beliefs. 59 [ROBERTSON (Captain).] food and water. They were eventually no naval force and by no means a The Wreck and Loss of the Ship picked up by the annual trading plow strong military establishment. The The text or at least part of it was evi- Fanny, Capt Robertson, on her pas- while resting on the island Sarrett. colonists are a miserably dissatisfied dently was meant to be promulgated sage from Bombay to China, No- Ferguson, 463. race totally devoid of all energy. Our as the writer notes towards the end vember 29 1803 ... Escape of Three recent establishment at Balanbangan, “So that this may be known, it is to Officers, in an open boat, from the a first attempt to re-cross the Pacific, ‘’In 1848 Perkins sailed on the Planet, and renewed connection with the be posted in the churches as a public Cannibals of Tate Island. and in so doing discovered Papua, but an American whaling ship, to Hawaii, Sultan of Zoolo and the princes of edict” 60 ROWAN (Mrs Ellis). A Flower was beaten back by contrary winds where he lived for nearly two years. that Archipelago may considerably First edition. Folding frontispiece. 12mo. Hunter in Queensland and New and returned to Tidore. A second He later spent considerable time on facilitate this conquest.” This ms., which has been in our Old wrapper with paper label to upper Zealand. attempt was made which again was Bora Bora, Raiatea, and Tahiti, in the stock since the 1920s, has had library wrapper, some spotting to the frontis- First edition. Frontispiece, 16 plates (1 unsuccessful and cost Saavedra his Society Islands. Perkins gives interest- stamps removed from six pages. piece and title page, title page trimmed double-page chromolithograph) & fold- life, the remaining crew making their ing data on whaling as well as on the at bottom. 28pp. London, Thomas Tegg, 56 [PHILIPPINES] Ms. Suma See the Boxer Codex partly transcribed ing coloured map. 8vo. Original green way back again to Tidore where de islands he visited’’ (Hill). Hill, 1325; 1808. £450 de los Ritos y cerimonias antiguas and partially translated by Carlos Quiri- pictorial cloth, gilt, uncut. [xvi], 272pp. la Torre was gallantly maintaining a Forbes, 2046. de los indios bisayas pintados. no and mauro Garcia in the Philippine London, John Murray, 1898. £500 Spanish claim. It was not until 1534 A very good copy of this scarce Journal of Science (December 1958, pp pamphlet. The account of the wreck that the Spanish left the Spice islands 17pp. Small 4to. Written on paper man- 325-454). via Cochin and de la Torre reached of the Ship Fanny off the coast of ufactured in the east. Library stamps Spain three years later in 1537. 55 [PHILIPPINES] LANCE Cochin China is followed by the story ). removed. Unsigned and undated, but c. Alden, 557/31; Sabin, 57991; Church, (David ALS to Viscount Melville as of the Shaw Hermozier [actually Shah 1590. £8500 Hermozier] which departed Norfolk 106; De Tavera, 1073; Borba, 644 (all First Lord of the Admiralty, on the 57 POMARE V (Ariiaue, King Island on 23 June 1793. The object treating this as a separate work). advisability of acquiring possession The Visayans were often called Pin- of Tahiti). Autograph Document of the voyage was to explore the of the Philippines. tados (i.e painted) from their habit Signed in Tahitian. passage between Australia and New Manuscript in ink. Folio. 9pp. South- of tattooing themselves. This ms. is written in an illiterate style, probably Measuring approx. 115 by 175mm. Guinea, in the course of which they 54 PERKINS (EDWARD T.) Na ampton, 28th October, 1804. [Tahiti, c. 1877]. £650 discovered Tate Island. Upon landing, £1750 by a conquistador, petty official or Motu; or, Reef-Rovings in the missionary. the party was attacked by the natives South Seas. King Pomare V (1839-1891) was the and held captive. They were able to Alexander Dalrymple advised Lance last king of Tahiti reigning for just escape and set out on an eleven day to contact Melville with regard to his The writer mentions how the Visayan First Edition. 8vo. Original blind- natives never eat anything they have three years until his forced abdica- open boat voyage during which they stamped decorative cloth, gilt, spine a views on the annexation of the Phil- tion in 1880. On June 29 that year he nearly starved to death. On the ninth ippines from Spain. Lance urges their harvested without first making an little sunned. New York, Pudney & Rus- offering to their ancestors whom they ceded Tahiti to France. Manuscript day, they came upon Timor. “They sell, 1854. £500 possession, firstly because of their 22 23 A fine copy. Born and educated east coast from 1822 and in 1824 The inscription reads: “BG Snow for was briefly in partnership, before set- you can well conceive...” Rabone in Melbourne, the author married produced one of the most detailed EF Duren Kusaien Dialect, Bangor ting up on his own in 1853. Stanford comments that it is easy to forget he Captain Charles Rowan in 1873. He charts of Tasmania to that date. He April 11 1871” then became one of the most promi- is 16000 miles away. Clearly keeping had fought in the Taranaki wars and was eventually appointed surveyor- nent map makers and publisher of the an eye on his destination, he men- they spent four years there after the general in 1825, though the ap- Ordained in 1851, Benjamin and late nineteenth century. tions “another advantage arising from wedding. He encouraged her to paint pointment was somewhat marred by Lydia Snow were pioneering protes- our staying here will be my gaining wildflowers and exhibit her work, internal politics. He led a party to tant missionaries to Micronesia acting 66 STODDARD (Charles Warren). some Knowledge and an acquain- which is known for both its beauty explore Adventure Bay and the south on behalf of the American Baptist Summer Cruising in the South tance with the Tongan language...” and accuracy. coast in 1826 and, two year later, Council of Foreign Missions. They Seas. The Rev. Nathaniel Turner had explored Port Arthur. The fruits of were initially stationed at Kusaie in agreed to instruct him. 61 SCOTT (Thomas). Map of the these expeditions are readily apparent November that year before transfer- Settled Part of Van Diemen’s Land in this chart. ring to Ebon Atoll, Marshall Islands. Rabone is impressed by the land- Snow spent more than 20 years in the scape and gives a description of local Copied from a Map in possession Taunton in the same year. The il- South Pacific and was a contempo- agriculture. However, of greater of His Excellency Colonel George lustrations, which are the same as rary of Hiram Bingham. He “picked interest, is his account of the local Arthur... those in the first edition, are etch- 62 SHILLIBEER (Lieut. J.) A up Bingham’s new press and brought convict population. “Dear Father, ings made by the author and include Hand coloured with two inset maps of Narrative of the Briton’s Voyage, it to Ebon... early in 1866 he printed how often has my heart sickened a folding panorama of Rio. The Wedge Bay and Port Arthur. Measuring to Pitcairn’s Island; including an a new primer” (Lingenfelter). at the affecting sight of gangs of my Marquesas, Juan Fernandez and the approximately 520 by 400mm. Some interesting sketch of the state of the fellow countrymen in chains working Galapagos were also visited during minor foxing. Framed & glazed. Hobart Brazils and of Spanish South America. Darlow & Moule 6036, have a note like beasts of burden.” He describes the cruise and Shillibeer describes the Town, James Ross, August, 1830. on Snow, but list nothing from this them dressed in yellow jackets and descendants of the Bounty’s crew at £750 Second edition. 16 engraved plates, one press. Lingenfelter, Presses of the Pacific trousers and ruminates on the acts of Pitcairn, giving a charming portrait in bisque, several folding. 8vo. A lovely islands, 1967, p106. evil that brought about such degrada- of Friday Christian. Borba, p796; Hill, The Ingleton copy. copy in contemporary half calf, marbled tion. He concludes with a description boards and matching marbled edges. vii, p274. Scott arrived in Hobart in 1820 and of George Arthur, Governor of the 179pp. London, 1817. £1500 colony, who attended his chapel. was appointed assistant surveyor by 65 STANFORD (Edward). A Macquarie. He explored much of the The first edition was printed in Map of Australia constructed from THE FIRST SOLO CIRCUMNAV- First edition. Frontispiece & 20 plates By 1840, Rabone had found his way the most recent official documents IGATOR by Wallis Mackay. 8vo. Fine original to Tonga and took up where the Rev. furnished by the Surveyors General green pictorial cloth, gilt, joint cracked at John Thomas left off. He produced

63 SLOCUM (Capt. Joshua). Sail- and from the Admiralty surveys. front endpapers, ownership inscription to a Tongan vocabulary in 1845 and . ing Alone Around the World Four large folded sheets, coloured, dis- front pastedown. xii, 13-319, 32ads.pp later became general secretary of the sected and mounted on linen. Each sheet (dated January 1876). London, Chatto Australasian Methodist Mission. First edition. Numerous illustrations. & Windus, [1874]. £125 8vo. A good copy in original two-tone measuring 970 by 1340mm, therefore pictorial silvered cloth, a little rubbed. 3880 by 5360mm in total. Scale: 26 Patently seduced by the “simple and xviii, 294pp. New York, 1900. £875 miles to 1inch. London, Edward Stan- natural life of the islander”, Stod- 68 TENCH (Capt. Watkin). Voy- ford, May 1st, 1879. £6500 dard’s account of four tours through age à la Baie Botanique; Avec une The Ingleton copy. Captain Slocum Description du nouveau Pays de Galles A fine copy of this enormous map, the Pacific includes notes on Hawaii set out from Boston in his small sloop Meridional, de ses habitans, de ses which further includes a map of New and Tahiti as well as a chapter on Spray on 24th April, 1895, at the age productions, &c. & quelques details Zealand’s south island. After the Capt. James Cook: “The Last of the of 51, and after a passage of 46,000 relatifs a M. de la Peyrouse, pendant wave of immigration during the gold Great Navigator.” miles returned to Newport Rhode son sejour a le Baie Botanique. Island on 27th June, 1898, thereby rush and the great success of the In- becoming the first person to sail tercolonial Exhibition in Melbourne First French edition. Lacking the map as around the world single-handed. Not in 1866, Australia’s international 67 [TASMANIA] RABONE (Rev. usual. 8vo. Original paste paper wrap- in Ferguson. stature continued to improve through Stephen). ALS to his parents. pers, uncut, slightly worn, inner joints the 1870s. Exploration of the interior mended with plain paper some time was ongoing with the likes of the Autograph manuscript in ink, cross- ago, and ms. label added to spine, old Forrest brothers becoming the first to written on the first page. Folio. 4pp. signature and stamp of Albert Spitaels AUTHOR’S PRESENTATION cross from the west to the Telegraph Creased from having been folded. (probably the Dutch banker b. 1770 at COPY line in 1874, and Ernest Giles crossed Hobart, 3 October, 1835. £750 Geraarsbergen; printout from a genea- the Gibson and Victoria deserts at logical website inserted). viii, 266pp. 64 SNOW (Benjamin Galen). Ma the same time. This map includes the Rabone was a Weslyan Missionary, Paris, Letellier, 1789. £1200 lalalfuni a ma mwuleun. tracks of these explorers and their evidently en route to Tonga when discoveries. he spent a short amount of time in According to Ferguson this is the first (a Kusaien prayer book?) [Bound Hobart with his pregnant wife, Eliza. of the two French editions printed in with] SNOW (Benjamin Galen) trans. Stanford served a three year appren- They arrived on 28 August 1835. 1789. Certainly it is a far fuller ac- Kutu letu al Jon el Sim (part of the ticeship in Wiltshire, before returning This is just his second letter to his count than that published by Knap- Gospel of St. John). 12mo. Contempo- to the London in 1844. He worked parents and so is awash with distinct rary marbled wrappers, spine perished, en, and includes an eighty-five page for different stationers, including impressions. “We are among the account of the discovery of Australia. stained. 13, 20pp. Ebon [Marshall Trelawny W. Saunders with whom he Kindest and most affectionate people Islands], 1866 & 1869. £1250 24 25 Watkin Tench (1758?-1833) entered ing as a butcher in Wagga Wagga. As with previous official voyages Vail- the Marines in 1776, and fought in The Tichborne claimant is one of lant was despatched to fly the Flag the American War of Independence the most famous and audacious of all for France in South American and rising to the rank of First Lieutenant. criminal cases, the extent of his fame Pacific ports, and on this occasion Following his promotion to Captain, is surely proved by his inclusion in to drop off various diplomatic rep- Tench volunteered to serve in the Madame Tussaud’s gallery. resentatives in both South America proposed Colony of New South Wales and the Pacific. Departing France and travelled on board the transport in February 1836 the Bonite rounded Charlotte arriving at Botany Bay in Cape Horn and preceded up the East THE HISTORICAL SECTION OF 1788. coast, making stops in Chile and Peru VAILLANT before sailing out into the Pacific for An acute and perceptive observer, he (Auguste Nico- the Hawaiian Islands. From thence took careful note of the new experi- 70 VAILLANT las) the ship sailed for China, and thence ences provided by the Australian & DE LA SALLE (A.) Voyage exécuté pendant was homeward bound, reaching Brest continent and his fellows’ reactions autour du Monde les années 1836 et 1837 sur la Corvette in November, 1837, where the task of to it. When not writing these down, LaBonite commandée par M. Vaillant writing up the account was given to Tench lead several expeditions into Capitaine de vaisseau. de la Salle, a senior clerk at the Min- the interior, discovering among other istry of the Marine. Forbes, 1572. things the Nepean River, which he First edition. 3 vols. 8vo + folio atlas. traced to the Hawkesbury. He failed Text: 4 engraved plates & one table; however to conquer the Blue Moun- atlas: 100 lithographed plates. Text in ( ). tains, the expedition having to turn original printed boards; atlas in half 71 VANCOUVER George A back at the Razorback. morocco. Paris, Arthus Bertrand, 1845 Voyage of Discovery to the North , and Round the - 1852. £17500 Pacific Ocean ITEM 71 Tench’s book was an immediate suc- World; in which the Coast of North- cess with the public, and ran to three Vaillant’s is one of the rarer of the West America has been carefully exam- Nootka Convention at Nootka English artist, John Sykes, and the 490mm). Original morocco-backed editions in England during 1789 “Grands Voyages”, and is unusual in ined and accurately surveyed... Sound, to thoroughly examine the engraved illustrations made from boards, the upper with a large chromo- and many others in Dublin, France, that a full English translation of the coast south of 60 degrees in order to his drawings were the first published lithograph panel. [iv], [39]pp. Wang- First edition. 3 vols. & atlas. 10 folding Germany and the Netherlands. A text has never been published. In find a possible passage to the Atlan- views of California. nanui, A.D. Willis, 1889. £3250 charts in atlas, 18 plates in text & 6 in contemporary review testifies to common with the other magnificent tic; and to learn what establishments atlas. 4to text, folio atlas. Period style The achievements of this voyage “Chromolithographs by W. Potts from this success: “A regular, connected, publications which formed the official had been founded by other powers” half calf over marbled boards, spine gilt rank among any of the great explor- photographs by J. Martin, S. Carnell, and seemingly well authenticated records of these voyages, which were (Hill). with red morocco lables. xxix, [viiil], ers of the late eighteenth century. Burton Bros., Wrigglesworth & Bins, narrative of the expedition, and of both political and scientific in nature, 432; [v], 504; [v], 505, [3](errata)pp. He set out in April 1791 with two Vancouver completed the formalities Tyree, etc., except for the eruption the adventures of the emmigrant. it was published over several years, London, Robinson & Edwards, 1798. ships, the Discovery and the Chatham, with Spain at Nootka, “investigated of Tarawera, a magnificent choreo- Our author’s modest preface, and with additional specialist volumes unassuming manner throughout the £45000 commanded by William Broughton. the Strait of Juan de Fuca; discovered graphic extravagance by Blomfield. relating to natural history. Offered They rounded the Cape of Good the Strait of Georgia; circumnavigat- The quality and clarity of the repro- whole of this little work, entitle him here is the entire “historical” section to our attention and regard” (Criti- Having gained the necessary experi- Hope and discovered King George’s ed Vancouver Island; and disproved ductions is heightened by the neo- of the voyage with the atlas which ence serving on Cook’s second and Sound on the south west coast of the existence of any passage between primitive conventionalised represen- cal Review, May 1789). Ferguson, 53; contains 100 superbly atmospheric McLaren, ‘Lapérouse in the Pacific’, third voyages, and in the Caribbean Australia in September of that year. the Pacific and Hudson Bay” (Hill). tation of figures, trees and the facades lithograph illustrations, including under Commodore Sir Alan Gardner, Having sighted Tasmania in October, Furthermore, his map of the Hawai- of buildings” (Bagnall). 813; Davidson, p75; Hill, 1686 (with- views of Valparaiso, Santiago, Lima, out the map); Kroepelien, 1280. Vancouver was appointed to com- they proceeded to New Zealand, ian islands was the first published to Hawaii, Manila, Singapore, Calcutta, mand a vessel that would “reclaim Tahiti (where they spent four weeks), depict the entire group. Sabin, 98443; The plates are titled as follows: Auck- Macao Canton and Hong Kong. Britain’s rights, resulting from the Hawaii and then onto the north west Wantrup, 63a; Hill, 1753; Tweney, land Harbour, N.Z.; Napier, N.Z.; coast of America. San Francisco Bay 78; Forbes I, 298; Howes, V23; City of Wellington, N.Z.; Wanganui, 69 [TICHBORNE CLAIMANT] was sighted in April 1792. Ferguson, 281; O’Reilly-Reitman, 635; N.Z.; New Plymouth, N.Z.; Nelson, MADAME TUSSAUD & SONS Fitzpatrick,G; Early Mapping of Hawaii N.Z.; Greymouth, N.Z.; Lyttelton Exhibition Catalogue containing Vancouver spent the following three (1987), 39-43pp. Harbour, N.Z.; City of Christchurch, biographical & descriptive sketches of seasons carrying out his instructions. N.Z. (From the Cathedral); Oamaru, the distinguished characters... He surveyed the Spanish settlements N.Z.; Dunedin, N.Z.; Pink Terrace, from La Paz in Baja, California, to Rotomahana, N.Z. (Destroyed by the 8vo. Original printed wrappers. xii, San Francisco. His impression of the 72 WAKEFIELD (Edward). New Eruption of Mount Tarawera, June 44, xiii-xxiipp. London, Grant & Co., Spanish settlements was of weakness Zealand Illustrated. The story of 10, 1886.); White Terrace, Rotomah- 1883. £150 and waste upon the part of the gov- New Zealand and Descriptions of its ana, N.Z. (Destroyed by the Eruption ernment of Spain. He wrote: “Why Cities and Towns... Also... The Natural of Mount Tarawera, June 10, 1886.); Refusing to accept the loss of her son, such an extent of territory should Wonders of New Zealand (Past and Mount Tarawera in Erruption, June Sir Roger Charles Doughty Tich- have been thus subjugated and after Present). 10, 1886 (From the native village borne, Lady Tichborne made enqui- all the expense and labour that has of Waitangi, Lake Tarawera, N.Z.) - ries across the globe for his where- been bestowed upon its colonization First edition. One large folding & 13 large folding chromolithograph; The abouts. In 1865 she received a letter turned to no account whatever, is a other fine chromolithograph plates & Waitomo Caves, N.Z. (The Blanket. from a Sydney solicitor advising that mystery not easily to be explained.” one uncoloured lithograph plate with Mair’s Cave. The Blanket...) - unco- her long lost son was actually work- Onboard the Discovery was the three images. Oblong folio (285 by loured lithograph. The chromolitho- 26 27 graph on the upper board is entitled pictorial panel to upper board, some mi- The Antarctic content of the work is THE DEDICATION COPY Phillip write us that owing to the In addition to a list of those serving “Queenstown, N.Z.” nor foxing and ownership inscription to of special significance “In January and rapidly increasing population in the in “Australia’s First Naval & Mili- the front free endpaper. 256pp. Hobart, February 1840, sighted the Antarctic 77 WILKINSON (Frank). [BOER Australian Colonies there is now less tary Expeditionary Force”, the work Bagnall mentions an extra illustrated J. Walch & Sons, 1936. £300 continent and followed its coastline WAR]. Australian Cavalry. The prejudice than formerly existed... they also includes a vocabulary of “native title page, with the chromolithograph for a distance of more than fifteen N.S.W. Lancer Regiment and First could if well supported with regular words”. of Queenstown used on the upper A very good copy. Issued under the hundred miles... he was the first to Australian Horse. With a Preface by shipments of a good quality introduce board, however we have been unable auspices of the Tasmanian govern- definitely announce the existence of Major-General French. to their connexions a new brand of to find another copy which includes ment and the Hobart Marine Board, the Antarctic continent” (Lydenberg Brandy.” He then outlines possible this. cf. Bagnall (N.Z. Nat. Bib.), this contains a brief description of & Haskell). Coloured frontispiece & 8 half-tone shipments and prices, reassuring his 5786; Not in Hocken. the Tasmanian coast. The rest of the plates, with further illustrations in the recipient that “a very large and profit- work is a detailed history of yacht- One thousand copies of this, the first text. Small 4to. Black presentation able business with the Australian ing on the island, including the first generally available edition were pro- binding, gilt, some very light browning, Colonies” can be attained. Hobart Town Regatta in 1838, the duced. Wilkes commented that “in a.e.g. [x], 64pp. Sydney & Melbourne, THE LARGE VERSION establishment of the Tasmanian some respects as a library and read- 1901. £1200 An interesting letter written at the Yacht Club in 1859, visiting yachts ing book it is to be preferred to the beginning of the gold rush. 73 WEBBER (John) BAR- such as Lord Brassey’s Sunbeam , the 4to edition”. One hundred and fifty “An Account of the first Volunteer TOLOZZI (F.) The Death of Cook. Derwent Yacht Club and The Great copies of which had been produced Cavalry unit raise in N.S.W. and the International Regatta of 1888. at the same time. Ferguson, 4209; services of its component Squadrons Engraving, with good margins to all but throughout the Colony. Entirely at right side, this trimmed to plate mark. Forbes, 1574; Haskell, 2b & 17b; Hill, 1866; Sabin, 103994. its own expense, the N.S.W. Lancer Closed tears repaired to upper margin, Regt. made several “expeditions” to touching image, and to the caption. 75 WILKES (Cmdr. Charles). Dublin and London to take part in Plate size: 605 by 485 mms. London, 1. Narrative of the United States Ex- Tournaments and Royal occasions. Jany., 1784. £6000 ploring Expedition. During the Years PREPARATIONS FOR WILKES’S In 1899, while returning home from VOYAGE Webber’s most ambitious effort at 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842. its latest visit to London, a detach- history painting. Although crammed ment of N.S.W. Lancers happened to First trade edition. 5 vols. plus atlas. 9 76 [WILKES] HOUSE OF 80 [WORLD WAR ONE] WY- with figures, the eye is drawn di- be in Cape Town at the time when ( ) double-page maps, 64 engraved plates REPRESENTATIVES. COMMIT- ATT Ransome T. The Digger on rectly to Cook, the tragic hero, who hostilities broke out with the Boer & 5 large folding maps in the atlas, TEE ON COMMERCE. Explore the “Durham” Sketches Illustrative is symbolically dressed in white, and Republics. The officers persuaded with numerous illustrations in the text. Pacific Ocean, &c. Rep. No. 94. [To of Life on a Troopship Executed on in contrast to the greater part of the the authorities to grant permission Tall 8vo. Original pictorial cloth, gilt, accompany bill H.R. No. 719.] Febru- the Voyage Home of the 26th QUO- image, which is dark and indistinct, for them to disembark their horses a good copy unfaded with the gilt still ary 7, 1835. TA, A.I.F. the warriors and seamen around him and weapons. The detachment was bright, one or two minor repairs lx, are highlighted in his reflected light. 8vo. Removed from a nonce volume, then able to join other Crown forces First edition. Heavily illustrated through- 434; xvi, 476; xvi, 438; xvi, 539; xvi, Joppien & Smith III, 3.305A. small some minor spotting. 28pp. Washington, in some of the earliest actions of the out. Original pictorial wrappers. 74pp. 558pp. Philadelphia, Lea & Blanchard, version. [1835]. £450 war. In 1900 they were joined by the Sydney, W.C. Penfold & Co., 1919. 1845. £6750 specially formed contingents from 79 [WORLD WAR ONE] £250 each of the Australian Colonies. Col- REEVES (Signaller L.C.) Austra- With this voyage the United States At the behest of John Quincy Ad- lectively they were known as the First lians in Action in New Guinea. Pho- A lovely copy of this humorous work, entered a field of endeavour long ams, in 1828 the US Congress voted Australian Commonwealth Horse...” tographs by Signaller H. Ellis. With an written solely for the amusement of dominated by Britain, France and to mount an expedition around the world to promote trade and secure introduction by Lieut.-Vol. Paton. the men onboard. In addition to the to a lesser extent Russia. This is the This copy was specially bound for auction of a wardrobe of a female narrative for the expedition, a lav- the investment in the fur, whaling and fishing industries. Yet another Lord Carrington, the dedicatee, who First edition. Frontispiece & 37 plates. impersonator, there is also a reference ishly produced work, but it was sup- was Honorary Colonel of the Regi- 8vo. Original pictorial buckram, a little to a lecture on “My Prison Life in ported by several specialist scientific ten years would pass before Charles Wilkes set sail for Rio de Janeiro. ment. His name is stamped in gilt browned. 97, [2ads]pp. Sydney, The Germany” by Sergeant Drake. volumes produced by the savants who on the upper cover and his bookplate Australasian News Company Ltd, accompanied the expedition. This report by the Committee of Commerce notes “that the inter- can be found on the front pastedown. 1915. £650 The author was war correspondent Wilkes’s expedition “was the first course between the different parts of A very good copy of this scarce title, the nation, and the islands and coun- with the Sydney Daily Telegraph and American scientific expedition of was author of Australia at the Front. an account of Australia’s first land any size, charged to “extend the tries of the Pacific, has become a mat- action in World War One. bounds of Science and promote the ter of public interest and deserving of acquisition of knowledge,” and was the protecting care of the National “When the Australians took Rabaul one of the most ambitious Pacific Legislature.” It includes a letter from 78 [WINE]. BARBER & BARK- in September 1914 they were pushing expeditions ever attempted” (Forbes). Capt. Thomas Ap Catesby Jones, ER. A letter reporting on the Aus- the border of Australian administered The expedition explored Tierra under whom the expedition was first tralian Wine Trade. territory north to the equator, and 74 WEBSTER (E.H.) & NOR- del Fuego, Chile and Peru in South organized and 12 pages of latitude they were accepting responsibility MAN (L.) A Hundred Years of America, before reaching out across and longitude co-ordinates of islands 2pp. 4to. London, 14th August, 1852. for governing another one million Yachting. the Pacific and visiting Samoa, Fiji, and reefs in the Pacific. £950 people, a population greater than Tahiti, Hawaii, Australia, New Zea- that then living in the entire western First edition. Numerous photographic il- land, the Philippines and Singapore. A letter probably between two wine half of the Australian continent” lustrations throughout & a folding plate. During this time, 280 Pacific islands merchants reporting that “our friends (Australian War Memorial website). 8vo. 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