GASTON RENARD Pty. Ltd. Established 1945 Postal Address: (A.C.N. 005 928 503) Electronic communications: P.O. Box 1030, ABN: 68 893 979 543 Telephone: +61 (0)3 9459 5040 Ivanhoe, Melbourne, FAX: +61 (0)3 9459 6787 Victoria, 3079, Australia. www.GastonRenard.com E-mail: [email protected] Short List No. 240 - 2017. Australiana. Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 240 2017 1 Akhurst, Adrian. HISTORY OF THE AUSTRALIAN CLUB, MELBOURNE. Roy. 8vo, First Edition; pp. [ii], 70(last 3 blank); 17 plates, 5 appendices; original cloth (marked; some foxing). (Melbourne); [The Australian Club]; (1943). [with] Knight, F. F. HISTORY OF THE AUSTRALIAN CLUB, MELBOURNE. Volume II, 1932-1965. Roy. 8vo, First Edition; pp. [viii], 128; 8 plates; original cloth; a fine copy. [Melbourne; The Australian Club; 1971]. #67525 A$50.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 240 2017 2 Akhurst, Adrian. HISTORY OF THE AUSTRALIAN CLUB, MELBOURNE. Roy. 8vo, Second Edition; pp. [iv], 68(last blank); 17 plates, appendices; original buckram; a nice copy. [Melbourne; The Australian Club; 1978]. ***The original edition of 1943 reprinted in the Club’s Centenary Year. [with] Knight, F. F. HISTORY OF THE AUSTRALIAN CLUB, MELBOURNE. Volume II, 1932-1965. Roy. 8vo, First Edition; pp. [viii], 128; 8 plates; original cloth (a little marked). [Melbourne; The Australian Club; 1971]. #14775 A$40.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 240 2017 3 Angel, J. R. THE AUSTRALIAN CLUB 1838-1988. The First 150 Years. Cr. 4to, First Edition; pp. [vi], iv-x(recto), 1-403(verso); numerous illustrations (several coloured), notes, 4 appendices, bibliography, index; original vinyl; a fine copy in dustwrapper (spine a little faded). Sydney; John Ferguson, in association with The Australian Club; (1988). #67526 A$50.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 240 2017 4 [Anley, Charlotte]. THE PRISONERS OF AUSTRALIA. A Narrative. By the Author of “Miriam”, “Influence”, “Essay on Body, Soul, and Spirit”, &c., &c. F’cap 8vo, First Edition; pp. viii, 192; original cloth (front joint worn; old signature of Evan Morgan at head of title-page & a few spots); a very good copy; scarce. London; J. Hatchard and Son; 1841. ***Ferguson 3134. “An account of the state of female prisoners in New South Wales. The Author had visited Australia and conducted an investigation there”. - Ferguson. #6227 A$350.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 240 2017 PRINTED FROM THE ORIGINAL COPPER-PLATES 5 Banks, Joseph & Solander, Daniel: CAPTAIN COOK’S FLORI- LEGIUM. A selection of engravings from the drawings of plants collected by Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander on Captain Cook’s first voyage to the islands of the Pacific, with accounts of the voyage by Wilfrid Blunt and of the botanical explorations and prints by William T. Stearn. Lion and Unicorn Press 1973. Large imperial folio, First Edition; pp. [ii](half-title, verso blank), very fine engraved frontis. printed from the original 18th Century copper-plate, preceded by leaf of descriptive text, pp. [ii](title, verso colophon), [iv](Contents & List of Plates, last blank), [14](The voyage, including half-title, verso blank), [22](The botanical explorations, last blank, including half-title, verso blank), [4](bibliog. & half-title to plates, versos blank), 29 very fine plates printed from the original 18th Century copper-plates, each preceded by a leaf of descriptive text, pp. [4](Index to plates, verso colophon & limitation note, last 2 blank); list of subscribers to the standard edition loosely inserted; finely hand-bound by Zaehnsdorf in half Nigerian goatskin with Japanese silk paper sides (the edges of the latter just beginning to fray, as often), and French grooves; enclosed in the original felt-lined black buckram Solander box (the box slightly marked); a fine copy; very scarce. [London]; Lion and Unicorn Press; 1973. ***Edition limited to 100 numbered standard copies of which this is number 94, and ten special copies, with an additional 12 plates. Prior to the publication of this work, none of the original copper-plates had ever been published as engravings, although pulls had been made from some of the plates so that they could be reproduced by lithography for Hooker’s Flora Antarctica and other works, as well as some 320 of the total 738 plates which were reproduced in 1900 also by lithography. Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 240 2017 For this book however great care was taken to print from the plates in the original manner intended and to do justice to the fine original eighteenth-century engraving by printing with inks of appropriate richness to the highest standards of copperplate printing. Great difficulties were experienced with the ink and the project, commenced in 1962, was not finally completed until 1974 but the result is magnificent. It remains the only publication to be printed from the original copper plates in the manner intended by the engraver. Both text and plates were printed on Crisbrooke handmade paper by J. Barcham Green. The text was handset by Alfred Page and printed by Harold Greenway and Michael Perry at the Royal College of Art. The plates were printed by Thomas Ross & Son, London and by Michael Rand of the Royal College of Art from the original copper-plates engraved for Joseph Banks and held in the British Museum (Natural History). The captions for the plates and the accompanying text by William T. Stearn and Daniel Solander are printed in different colours to identify the different regions from which the specimens came. Thirteen of the plates are of plants from Australia, eight from New Zealand, four from the Society Islands, three from Brazil and two from Java. An account of the travails of production is given in the accompanying book (see below). The work was oversubscribed before publication and of the 100 standard copies nearly half were subscribed by institutional libraries. [with] Law, Joy. CAPTAIN COOK’S FLORILEGIUM. A note on its production. Cr. 4to, First Edition; pp. 32; 3 mounted plates (2 coloured), 9 small specimens of printing experiments for the plates, 5 other illustrations, lists of subscribers to both standard and special editions; original quarter morocco; a fine copy. (London); Lion and Unicorn Press; 1976. ***Edition limited to 175 numbered copies of which this is number 94, to match the original volume above. The entire project was under the supervision of Joy Law from 1963 until completion. #21812 A$15,500.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 240 2017 6 Barrington, George: AN ACCOUNT OF A VOYAGE TO NEW SOUTH WALES, by George Barrington, Superintendent of the Convicts, To which is prefixed a Detail of his Life, Trials, Speeches, &c. &c. Enriched with beautiful Colour’d Prints. London. Printed for M. Jones, No. 5, Newgate Street and Sherwood, Neely, & Jones, Paternoster Row, 1810. 8vo, Second Edition; pp. [ii](engraved title with hand-coloured vignette, verso blank), [iv](Preface to the Reader & Letters from Barrington, each 2 pp.), 2, 7-470; stipple-engraved portrait of “George Barrington, Late Officer of the Peace, at Paramatta. Engraved from a Miniature Picture in the possession of Mrs. Crane. Pub. March 25 - 1803 by M. Jones Paternoster-row” as frontispiece, 9 attractive hand-coloured plates (including six topographical views of Sydney); old calf (rebacked); an ex-library copy with cancelled stamp on title-page. [London]; Printed for M. Jones; 1810. ***Ferguson 486. LACKING the folding plan and pp. 3-6, 471-2, some of the preliminaries and the 4 pages of index. #57141 A$125.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 240 2017 7 Bonwick, James. THE WILD WHITE MAN and the Blacks of Victoria. Second Edition. Pp. [iv], 90, iv(Reviews of Mr. Bonwick’s Colonial Works, last blank); 2 plates engraved by Calvert, appendix; original yellow thin boards printed in red, with a scene showing a party “pacifying” the aborigines with a gun printed in black; (crudely rebacked, and with tape marks on boards, frontispiece and title-page, but otherwise internally very good); very scarce. Melbourne; Printed and published by Fergusson & Moore; 1863. ***Ferguson 7226; See Pescott 51-52-53. Pages 89-90, which Ferguson claims are rarely found, are tipped in and comprise “Additional Particulars collected since the publication of this work.” These are dated at the end November 1, 1866. The work is the second edition of that published in 1856 under the title “William Buckley, the Wild White Man, and his Port Phillip Black Friends.” #67523 A$325.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 240 2017 8 Bonwick, James. CURIOUS FACTS OF OLD COLONIAL DAYS. Cr. 8vo, First Edition; pp. viii, 352; original cloth, gilt, uncut; (some minor foxing, but a very good copy); scarce. London; Sampson Low, Son & Marston; 1870. ***Pescott 63; Ferguson 7235. #67521 A$250.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 240 2017 9 Bonwick, James. PORT PHILLIP SETTLEMENT. With map, numerous drawings, and letters in facsimile. Thick demy 8vo, First Edition; pp. x, 538, [2](adv. consisting of Reviews of Former works); coloured frontispiece, plate of facsimile signatures, folding facsimile of Fawkner’s MS. newspaper, “The Melbourne Advertiser”, of February the 19th 1838, 29 plates; original blue publisher’s cloth, lettered on spine (the secondary binding); (marginal tears to several leaves at start repaired). London; Sampson Low; Marston, Searle, and Rivington; 1883. ***LACKING the folding facsimile letters and copy of Batman’s plan of Port Phillip. #67515 A$150.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 240 2017 10 Bonwick, James. THE LOST TASMANIAN RACE.