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| BACKHOUSE, JAMES: A narrative of a visit to the Australian colonies. London, Hamilton, Adams & Co., 1843. Pp. xviii, 569; cxliv. With three large folding maps by James Wyld, 15 full page etchings and many illustrations in the text. The maps are of the world, Tasmania and New South Wales. Later half green calf, spine gilt with five raised bands and title label, extremities rubbed. Bookplate. Light foxing to the plates. A journal kept by the author when he travellled to most of the Australian colonies and Tasmania during the years 1831-38. He was especially interested in natural history and collected a variable herbarium which was sent to Kew. Ferguson 3558. Mendelssohn p.60. € (euro) 600.00 [Appr.: US$ 898.8 | £UK 540.75 | JP„ 79392] Book number: 29100 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books. | ||
| CUNNINGHAM, PETER MILLER: Two years in New South Wales comprising sketches of the actual state of society in that colony; of its peculiar advantages to emigrants; of its topography, natural history &c.&c. Second edition, revised and enlarged. Two volumes in one. London, Henry Colburn, 1827. Large 12mo. Pp. xvi, 346; iii-viii, 336. With one large folding map (with tear repaired at the back). Later half green calf, spine gilt with four raised bands and red title label, speckled edges, somewhat worn at extremities. Bookplate. Cunningham was a surgeon in the Royal Navy and he spent four years in New South Wales. His work is considered to be one of the best decriptions of the life and manners in the colony at this time. The map has been added to this edition. Ferguson 1110. € (euro) 650.00 [Appr.: US$ 973.7 | £UK 585.75 | JP„ 86008] Book number: 29097 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books. | ||
| DILLBERG, GUSTAF: Kanniballiv pć Nya Zealand. Lund 1913. Pp. 96. With many illustrations in the text. Original pictorial boards, cloth spine. A Swedish account about the Maori people in New Zealand. € (euro) 50.00 [Appr.: US$ 74.9 | £UK 45.25 | JP„ 6616] Book number: 43042 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books. | ||
| DOW, T.K. (EDITOR): The Government handbook of Victoria. An Australian Colony. Preface by J.W. Taverner. Melbourne, Robert S. Brain, about 1898. Pp. 194. With many photographic illustrations. Modern green cloth, gilt and with title label on spine with the original stapled paper covers bound in. Front cover strengthened. € (euro) 160.00 [Appr.: US$ 239.68 | £UK 144.25 | JP„ 21171] Book number: 29135 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books. | ||
| FISCHER, TEODOR: Vagabondlif i Australien. Stockholm 1879. Pp. 124. With 4 illustrations. Original printed wrapper (with one illustration) is not present in our copy. Contemporary half cloth. Scarce. Only edition. A narrative of the author's stay in the area around Adelaide in South Australia. € (euro) 240.00 [Appr.: US$ 359.52 | £UK 216.25 | JP„ 31757] Book number: 16024 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books. | ||
| FRANKLYN, H. MORTIMER (EDITOR): A glance at Australia in 1880: or, Food from the South: showing the present condition and production of some of its leading industries, namely, wool, wine, grain, dressed meat, etc. etc., the amounts of each produced and exported. To which is appended the rise and progress of some of the leading mercantile houses in Melbourne, Sydney, and Adelaide, and also a pastoral & agriculture directory of the whole of Australia. Melbourne, The Victorian Review Publishing Company Limited, 1881. Tall 8vo. Pp. xxxii advertisement, xx, 414, directory (ii), cvii. Original pictorial maroon cloth, stamped in black and gold. Spine and upper part of front cover faded. Some wear to spine and corners. Bookplate. Ferguson 9734. € (euro) 200.00 [Appr.: US$ 299.6 | £UK 180.25 | JP„ 26464] Book number: 29109 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books. | ||
| LABILLIERE, FRANCIS PETER: Early history of the colony of Victoria, from its discovery to its establishment as a self-governing province of the British Empire. Two volumes. London, Sampson Low, etc., 1878. Pp. xvi, 312, advertisement 32; viii, 372. Publisher's black stamped brown cloth, spines lettered in gilt. Bookplates. This work is based on despatches and letters of the New South Wales Correspondence from the foundation of the Colony in 1788, to the colonization of the Port Phillip District, as well as of most of the Tasmanian Correspondence during the same period. Ferguson 11264. € (euro) 300.00 [Appr.: US$ 449.4 | £UK 270.5 | JP„ 39696] Book number: 29102 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books. | ||
| SINNETT, FREDERICK: An account of the colony of South Australia, prepared for distribution at the International Exhibition of 1862. Adelaide, W.C. Cox, 1862. Pp. vi, 99. With one large folding lithographed map. Original printed boards, upper hinge cracked, spine and corners worn. Outer margin of title page soiled otherwise a good copy. First edition. This work was issued as part of the South Australian Government's contribution to the Exhibition of 1862 in London. Probably one copy of a small issue printed at Adelaide. (The remaining printed in London). Ferguson 15735. € (euro) 600.00 [Appr.: US$ 898.8 | £UK 540.75 | JP„ 79392] Book number: 29094 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books. | ||
| STURT, CHARLES: Narrative of an expedition into Central Australia performed under the authority of her Majesty's Government, during the years 1844, 5 and 6. Together with a notice of the province of South Australia in 1847. Two volumes. London, T. & W. Boone, 1849. Pp. x, iv, 5-416; vi, 308, appendix 92. Our copy is without the advertisement. With two frontipieces, one folding sketch map (tear at fold) and 14 (of 16) plates, of which 2 are hand coloured natural history plates by John Gould. The 2 missing hand coloured plates (of "mus conditor" and "milvus affinis") are supplied in facsimile. The appendices in volume one are by John Gould with a "Botanical Appendix" by Robert Brown. Stain to some of the plates. Small hole on one leaf (255/256) with slight loss of text. Contemporary blue half calf on marbled boards, rebacked with original spines preserved, spines with five raised bands decorated in gilt and with red title labels. Speckled edges. Bookplate. "The geographical result of Sturt's last expedition, the first into the heart of the continent, were significant. He determined the confluence of the Darling and the Murray, settled speculation about a vast inland sea, found no evidence of a large central river, and determined that there was no central dividing range. The expedition was also responsible for major discoveries, especially the discovery and exploration of Cooper's Creek, the Stony Desert, and the Simpson Desert. For his labours in the cause of Australian discovery Sturt was awarded the gold medal of the Royal Geographic Society in 1847 and hailed as a national hero". (Wantrup pp. 195-6). Ferguson 5202. Wantrup 119. € (euro) 960.00 [Appr.: US$ 1438.08 | £UK 865 | JP„ 127027] Book number: 29138 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books. | ||
| TROLLOPE, ANTHONY: Australia and New Zealand. Authorized Australian edition. Six parts in one volume. Melbourne, George Robertson, 1873. Pp. iii-vii, (ii), 120; (ii), 121-226; (ii), 227-334; (ii), 335-434; (iii), 435-528; (ii), 529-691. Publisher's pictorial green cloth, stamped in black and gilt, reset, some minor stain to covers. Bookplate. Occasional spotting. First Australian edition. Ferguson 17334. € (euro) 180.00 [Appr.: US$ 269.64 | £UK 162.25 | JP„ 23818] Book number: 29133 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books. |
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