[MAP: NEW SOUTH WALES - AUSTRALIA].

New South Wales. Map, Illustrations, and Decorative text. Sydney, Thomas Richards, 1884.

. A large tinted folding map titled: Principal towns and districts in New South Wales possessing railway communication with Sydney. Size: 88 x 62 cm. With accompanying text with illustrations on verso. One tear at fold and another tiny tear also at fold (without any loss). Some minor browning. Kept in 4to size original pictorial brown cloth stamped in black and gold. Two maps printed on paste downs. An excellent copy. Not in Ferguson.

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Book number: 99281

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ANDERSSON, NILS JOHAN:

En verldsomsegling skildrad i bref. Three volumes in two. Stockholm, Samson & Wallin, 1853-54.

. 12mo. Pp. xii, 232; vi, 262; viii, 388. With one folding map. Contemporary half calf, flat spines ruled and lettered in gilt, lightly rubbed and hinges nicely restored of one volume. Bookplate (Carl Gedvard Bonde, Ericsberg). First edition in bookform of a narrative of the first Swedish circumnavigation in the frigate Eugenie. Originally published as articles in the Stockholm newspaper "Aftonbladet" Dec. 1851 - July 1853. Mainly devoted to the natural history, by the expedition's botanist who brought back a large collection of botanical material. Du Rietz, Bibl. Polynesia 24. O'Reilly - Reitman 1173 (Tahiti). Martin p.36 (Hawaii).

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Book number: 99878

Catalogue: Travel general

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BACKHOUSE, JAMES:

Extracts from Letters of James Backhouse now Engaged in a Religious Visit to Van Dieman's Land, and New South Wales. Accompanied by George Washington Walker. Ten parts in one volume. London, Harvey and Darton, 1838; 1837-41.

. Pp. 94; 78; 86; 80; 66 (wrong pagination); 83, (1); 91,(1); 94; 99, (1) and ; 100. Each part published separately with individual title pages. First editions except part one which is in third edition. Contemporary half calf on papercovered boards, rebacked with the original back preserved, rubbed. Bookplate. Light foxing to endpapers. A small hole on title page with loss of one letter. Comprises: Parts 1-5 devoted to Australia; part 6 to Mauritius and parts 7-10 to South Africa. Backhouse was a Quaker missionary who lived in South Africa during the years 1838-41. Ferguson 2434-7 & 2703-4.

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Book number: 29099

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BACKHOUSE, JAMES:

A Narrative of a Visit to the Australian Colonies. London, Hamilton, Adams & Co., 1843.

. Pp. xviii, 569, appendixes pp. 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 somewhat rubbed. Bookplate. Some light foxing. This narrative is based on the author's journal kept during his six years of travels. He visited most of the Australian colonies and Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania), made natural history observations and collected a variable herbarium which was sent to Kew. The appendices include accounts of prison conditions and letters to the government about the plight of the Aborigines. Ferguson 3558. Mendelssohn p.60.

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Book number: 29100

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BRANCHI, GIOVANNI:

Tre mesi alle isole dei cannibali nell'arcipelago dell Figi. Firenze, successori Le Monnier, 1878.

. Small 8vo. Pp. (iv), 340. Original printed wrappers, corners of front wrapper restored and with a new spine. Occasionally some light staining. Scarce first edition. Comprises an account of a voyage to the Fiji islands, followed by another journey to Melbourne; a short trip to Tasmania; a chapter about the Chinese living in Australia. Cardon p. 185.

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Book number: 100518

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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 on verso). Later half green calf, spine gilt with four raised bands and red title label, speckled edges, extremities rubbed. Bookplate. Cunningham was a surgeon in the Royal Navy and 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. This edition is enlarged and includes a map not found in the first edition. Ferguson 1110. Kress C. 1869.

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Book number: 29097

Catalogue: Oceania incl. Pacific

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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.

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Book number: 29135

Catalogue: Oceania incl. Pacific

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EKBOHRN, CARL M.( Editor):

Loggboks-anteckningar under en jordomsegling med fregatten Eugenie åren 1851-53, gjorda och fäderneslandets ungdom tillegnade af en Jungman. Stockholm, P.A. Huldbergs Bokhandel, 1856.

. Pp. (iv), 256. With eight hand coloured lithographed plates, one folding map (foxed) and many woodcut illustrations in the text. Original printed pictorial boards, nicely rebacked, extremities lightly rubbed. First edition of the popular, abridged edition of the first Swedish circumnavigation. (Skogman published the first official account in 1854-55). The coloured plates depict views from Buenos Aires, Lima, San Francisco, Guayaquil, Tahiti and Honolulu, some of inhabitants from Tonga, Hawaii, Tahiti and Niue (Savage Island), and a Chinese theatre. Du Rietz, Bibl. Polynesiana 395. Larson 222.

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Book number: 120632

Catalogue: Travel general

Keywords: Travel general, Madeira, South America, the Galapagos, Hawaii, California, Tahiti, Australia, Hong Kong, Canton, the Philippines, Singapore, Mauritius and the Cap.

EYRE, EDWARD JOHN:

Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia, and Overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, in the Years 1840-1; sent by the Colonists of South Australia, with the Sanction and Support of the Government: Including an Account of the Manners and Customs of the Aborigines and the State of their Relations with the Europeans. Two volumes. London, T. & W. Boone, 1845.

. Pp. xviii, (2), 448; vi, 512. With 22 lithographed plates and one woodcut illustration. The two separately published maps by Arrowsmith are here supplied in facsimile. Publisher's blind-stamped green cloth, spines lettered in gilt. Bookplate (John Robertson). A wonderful copy of the first edition, probably a later issue (see Wantrub), which didn't include the maps. Includes Appendices by John Gould on birds of Southern Australia and by J.E. Gray on South Australian animals, amphibians and reptiles. "In 1839 Eyre made two expeditions, from Adelaide to Lake Torrens, and from Port Lincoln to Streaky Bay. In June 1840 he set out on his most notable expedition, westward from Adelaide along the Great Australian Bight, with one white companion (Baxter) and three natives. Baxter was murdered by two of the natives, and Eyre and the remaining Aborigine reached Albany only after a desperate journey. Eyre includes in his relations considerable valuable material on the Aborigines and their habits". (Ferguson). Eyre was awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Geographical Society. Coles 472. Ferguson 4031. Wantrub 133a.

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Book number: 29149

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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.

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Book number: 16024

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FORSTER, ANTHONY:

South Australia. Its progress and prosperity. London, Sampson, Law, Son and Marston, 1866.

. Pp. iii-xii, 474. Without advertisement. With one coloured folding map (with short tear at inner margin). Contemporary half green calf, spine gilt with five raised bands and red title label, slightly rubbed. Bookplate. Ferguson 9691.

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Book number: 29106

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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.

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Book number: 29109

Catalogue: Oceania incl. Pacific

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HAWKESWORTH, JOHN (Editor):

[COOK, JAMES]. An Account of the Voyages undertaken, for making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and successively Performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Carteret, Captain Wallis and Captain Cook. [First Voyage]. Three volumes. London, W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1773.

. 4to. Pp. (xii), xl, (8), 456; xiv, 410; 395. With 52 engraved plates and maps, many folding. One leaf repaired at lower margin, slight loss of text. Attractively bound in speckled calf, spines with five raised bands, richly decorated, with red and green morocco title labels, marbled end papers. (By G. Hedberg at the beginning of 20th century). Copy of Ericsberg castle, Sweden. Second, considered the best, edition of Cook's first voyage during the years 1768-71. The aim of the expedition was to observe the "Transit of Venus" at Tahiti and secondly to search for a Great Southern Continent. The expedition entered the Pacific around Cape Horn and sailed to Tahiti where the observations of the Venus were made, then the voyage continued to the Society Islands, and after that New Zealand was explored and also the eastern coast of Australia (New South Wales). Hawkesworth's account was an immediate success and aroused much interest in the Pacific throughout Europe. Captain Cook was promoted to the rank of Commander, and in the following year he set out in command of the Resolution heading once more to the Pacific. The first volume of Hawkesworth account covers the voyages by John Byron , Captain Wallis and Captain Carteret. Cf Hill (2004) 782 & 783.

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Book number: 100258

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KNÖS (KNOES), TEODOR:

Bilder ur lifvet i Australien. Reseskildringar. Stockholm, A. Bonnier, 1875.

. Pp. (viii), 262. With frontispiece, extra illustrated title, 2 maps (on one plate) and 11 woodcut illustrations. Publisher's pictorial blue cloth, gilt, corners lightly rubbed. Slightly shaken. A narrtaive based on letters written by Knös when he travelled through New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria.

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Book number: 99354

Catalogue: Oceania incl. Pacific

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LANG, JOHN DUNMORE:

An historical and statistical account of New South Wales both as a penal settlement and as a British Colony. Two volumes. London, George Routledge, 1840.

. Large 12mo. Pp. xii, 466, advertisement (2); iv, 527. With one large folding map, coloured in outline. Original blindstamped cloth, gilt lettering on spines, hinges cracked. Spine to volume one detached. Bookplate. The first edition was published in 1834. This is the second, augmented edition (however according to the title page it is the third edition).

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Book number: 29095

Catalogue: Oceania incl. Pacific

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