July 2015 Melbourne ANZAAB Rare Book Fair

HORDERN HOUSE July 2015

ANZAAB bookfair acqs@hordern.com

ANONYMOUS, often mis-attributed to William Eden.

The History of New Holland, from its First Discovery in 1616, to the Present Time…

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Octavo, with two folding maps, finely handcoloured in outline (small marginal tears, some offsetting), pp. i -xxiv, (lacks advertisement leaves), 254; modern half calf, marbled boards. London, John Stockdale, 1787.

First Fleet sails for New South Wales First edition. Published on the eve of the departure of the First Fleet for New South Wales, this sometimes neglected publication was the most widely read early descriptions of Australia. It is ‘an extremely interesting work and an essential inclusion in all comprehensive collections’ (Davidson).

The anonymous compiler discusses the imminent departure and lists the numbers and equipment of the fleet as well as the principal officers, and there is also material in both preface and text about transportation, as well as an ‘Introductory Discourse’ on the subject by William Eden which has often led to the misattribution of the whole book to him.

The ‘Eden’, as it is often called, is written ‘to present at one view a connected description of the whole country of New Holland’. The book is clearly aimed at a public eager for information on the new colonial venture, and for details of Botany Bay itself, which is here described at length.

This is the form in which many of the participants in the First Fleet must have absorbed what little information existed about conditions in Australia. The two fine folding maps depict the continent of ‘New Holland’ with an inset of Botany Bay, and the ‘Passage from England to Botany Bay in New Holland 1787’, showing clearly the anticipated route of the First Fleet.

Ferguson, 24.

$3850

[BARRINGTON, George, supposed author].

The History of New Holland, from its First Discovery in 1616, to the Present Time…

Octavo, pp. i-xxxvi, 254, with two large folding hand-coloured maps; a very good copy in modern dark blue morocco, spine gilt. London, John Stockdale, 1808.

John Stockdale’s (belated) revenge A very uncommon book, one of the odder productions to appear over the name of the convict Barrington; with two marvellous maps of Australia, both hand-coloured in outline. Although said to be written by “George Barrington”, the famous pickpocket and supposed author of several books on New South Wales, this is a more brazen imposter than most, as the work is actually a reissue of an important and real guide to New South Wales published more than 20 years earlier, by the published Stockdale himself, before the First Fleet had even sailed in 1787 (see previous).

John Stockdale was one of the major publishers of the late eighteenth century, well known in Australia for having issued both Phillip’s Voyage (1789) and Hunter’s Historical Journal (1793), two major First Fleet accounts.

In a way, the present book might be considered Stockdale’s belated revenge. Up until the appearance of this strange work in 1808, his only association with the so-called “George Barrington” accounts was as the dupe of more adventurous competitors: the Barrington account of a Voyage to New South Wales was in large part plagiarised directly from Hunter’s Historical Journal. Strangely, as Nathan Garvey has written, while Stockdale was well-aware of the brazen “borrowing”, he never publicly denounced his revival publisher Symonds, even when the Barrington version was reviewed glowingly in the press.

To confuse things further, this publication is described on the title-page as “Second Edition”: it is hard to decipher what that actually means in this context. Certainly no “first” edition with Barrington’s name on it is recorded. As the collector Rodney Davidson noted, “this would appear to be another example of Barrington’s name being used, presumably to increase sales… a most desirable item” (A Book Collector’s Notes, p. 80).

Ferguson, 458; Garvey AB41.

$1200

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ARROWSMITH, John.

Australia from Surveys made by order of the British Government combined with those of D’Entrecasteaux, Baudin, Freycinet &c &c‌ Engraved map, hand-coloured in outline, with three inset maps 686 x 903 mm (sheet size), dissected and backed on linen, as issued; folds into slip case with original label. London, John Arrowsmith, 1 May 1848.

Counties and tracks of the explorers pre Separation Fine impressive map of Australia showing 46 counties in New South Wales, 23 counties in Port Phillip, and 26 counties in Western Australia, (and penal settlements in Tasmania in the inset) with detailed notes on explorers and discoveries.

$4500

ASHWORTH, Edward.

Watercolour, captioned: “Fortaleza de São Francisco Macao”.

Watercolour, 220 x 260 mm; ink caption lower right; some darkening of paper around edges where previously framed, now in acid-free mount to original framing dimensions. Macau,, probably mid-1844.

Original watercolour of the Fortaleza de São Francisco, Macau An important original watercolour of Macau.

Edward Ashworth was born near Exeter, Devon in 1814, and trained as an articled apprentice to Robert Cornish, architect to Exeter Cathedral. Unhappy with the quality of his commissions in England, Ashworth decided to immigrate to New Zealand via Port Phillip in May 1842.

During a two-year stay, Ashworth made numerous watercolours of Auckland and its street life including an expedition into the Waikato, now treasured views of the very first stages of colonial occupation.

Ashworth left Auckland in February 1844, heading across to Hong Kong aboard the American ship Navigator by way of Batavia (Jakarta) and Macau. The timing was impeccable. The first ‘official’ land auction of Hong Kong under Crown sovereignty had taken place just a few months earlier, in January 1844, and a building boom ensued. Now, finally, he could find actual architectural commissions and build.

Ashworth returned to England in 1846 and set up practice in Exeter. Here, in bucolic Devon, he remained until his death in 1896, devoting much of his work to the restoration of parish churches.

$12,500

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BENNET, Henry Grey.

A Letter to Earl Bathurst, Secretary of State for the Colonial Department…

Octavo, half-title, 144 pp.; fine condition in modern half calf, gilt-title on the spine, the Hobill Cole copy with his bookplate and with the blind stamps of Tom Ramsay and Fred Eager. London, James Ridgway, 1820.

Bennet’s attack on Macquarie precipitating the Bigge enquiry One of the most important political documents of the Macquarie period, which ultimately had a catastrophic effect on Macquarie’s career. It specifically attacked Macquarie’s style of government, for his extravagance and autocracy, and led to the appointment of Commissioner Bigge to investigate the state of the colony, which in turn began the process to end Macquarie’s governorship.

Bennet (1777-1836) was a British politician who led a crusade to reduce crime, investigate prisons and transportation while reforming the London police. With a charge to ‘to diminish the sum of human misery’ Bennet worked tirelessly to expose maladministration and archaic practices in British gaols and the transportation system generally. In this published address to Lord Bathurst, Macquarie is accused of extravagance and autocracy. However, writing from England, Bennet relied upon prejudiced testimonies from Macquarie’s enemies (including

the indefatigable Reverend Samuel Marsden) and ultimately presented a biased version of events. Although Bennet’s work in England was broad and enlightened, his critique of convict administration became a tool for colonial ‘exclusives’ who wished to end Macquarie’s term as governor of New South Wales.

A Letter to Earl Bathurst… remains a highly informative account of transportation and early colonial society, it includes useful statistical information including population figures, a civil list of persons holding government posts and shipping arrivals and departures for the years 1819-20. Furthermore, the appendix prints letters from Governor Macquarie, Samuel Marsden, W.H. Moore and others. Marsden’s letter concerning affairs at the Parramatta hospital is a fine work of vitriol, asserting ‘For the number of persons in the hospital, I do not believe that there is such an infamous brothel in the whole universe…I behold drunkenness, whoredom, sickness and death…in the room where the dead are lying, debaucheries are going on.’

Australian Rare Books, 44; Ferguson, 777.

$5850

BENNET, Henry Grey.

Letter to Viscount Sidmouth…

Octavo, bound with the half-title, often lacking, folding table, 137pp.; a fine copy, in traditional half calf, spine gilt-lettered, the Hobill Cole copy with his bookplate and with the blind stamps of Tom Ramsay and Fred C. Eager. London, J. Ridgway, 1819.

Attack on the convict system during Macquarie’s administration Scarce first edition of Bennet’s scathing attack on the convict system under Governor Macquarie. This work is one of the more significant contemporary accounts of convict discipline, and is considered an essential document of the Macquarie era, not least as it prompted Macquarie’s own response.

Henry Bennet (1777-1836) was a British parliamentarian who began a crusade for penitentiary reform that culminated in 1816. His “efforts ‘to diminish the sum of human misery’ adorn the history of English criminal law. No retributory institution, prison, hulk, penal colony, or penitentiary adequately combined punishment with reformation: he and his select committees exposed them, but to little avail” (ODB). The scope of his inquiry was both broad and enlightened, and included the conflation of political prisoners with felons and the plight of insane persons. Nor surprisingly, the penal colony at New South Wales was attacked as a dumping ground. Bennet writes in his Letter to Viscount Sidmouth ‘to get rid of the miserable objects of legal punishment constituted the sole occupation of these administrators of our penal law; and when the grave closed on some, and the distance of half the globe prevented the cries of the others of the victims we banished from our shores from being heard in England, these artificers of death, moral and physical, were satisfied the law had taken its course…’

Bennet was manipulated and sometimes misinformed by enemies of Macquarie (including the ‘flogging parson’ Samuel Marsden). Nonetheless, his Letter to Viscount Sidmouth reflects deep contemporary concern with the problematic role of New South Wales as a place of both punishment and reform.

A fine copy from notable Australian collections.

Ferguson, 731; Australian Rare Books, 42.

$5850

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BIGGE, John Thomas.

Set of the three Reports of Inquiry.

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Folio, three Parliamentary Papers: pp. [iv], 186; pp. [ii], 90; pp. 112, several leaves unopened; fine in original blue paper wrappers, preserved in a lined modern half-calf folding box, spine gilt-lettered, together with a review of Bigge’s report from The Edinburgh Review 1823. House of Commons, 1822-1823.

Full set of the Bigge reports, with the unexpurgated first issue A fine set of the series of reports of the official enquiry into Governor Macquarie’s administration of New South Wales, comprising: 1) Report of the Commissioner of Inquiry into the State of the Colony (here in its first issue of June 1822, with the libel against William Wentworth.

This first issue was withdrawn and is now rare. It was later reprinted on August 5 1822).

2) Report of the Commissioner of Inquiry on Judicial Establishments (February 1823).

3) Report of the Commissioner of Inquiry on Agriculture and Trade (March 1823).

John Thomas Bigge was appointed Royal Commissioner, with sweeping powers, by Lord Bathurst - ostensibly to examine the transportation system, but in fact to cast a critical eye over every aspect of Macquarie’s controversial administration. Bigge was unyielding in his critique and relations between the two were strained. However, by the time his reports were published, Macquarie had already resigned.

Bigge’s reports were central to the political history of the 1820s, and their influence can be seen in the later constitutional and political history of Australia. Indeed, it was as a result of Bigge’s recommendations that the New South Wales Act of 1823 was ratified, authorising the establishment of a Supreme Court and Legislative Council in New South Wales, as well as a Supreme Court in Van Diemen’s Land, and marked an important step towards responsible government in the colonies.

Bigge’s reports are also essential sources for information about conditions in New South Wales and Van Diemen’s Land in the 1820s, not least because of his recognition of the growing importance of the colonies for wealthy free settlers. Bigge had urged the Colonial Office to seek places away from Sydney both to send intractable offenders and to encourage free settlement by releasing land for graziers. It was as a direct result of his report that the Moreton Bay area was first explored with a view to future settlement. Consequently, Oxley was commissioned by Brisbane to reconnoitre the north coast. He explored Moreton Bay and named the Brisbane River; his report ultimately led to the foundation of the Moreton Bay colony.

Australian Rare Books, 46-8; Ferguson, 854, 891-2.

$12,500

BISCHOFF, James.

Sketch of the History of Van Diemen’s Land…

Octavo, with two engraved plates and a large hand-coloured folding map (small marginal tear); very good in original boards, early inked ownership inscription on front board, with later papered spine and printed label, modern slipcase. London, John Richardson, 1832.

With a fine Arrowsmith map First edition. An important account of Tasmania, intended for distribution among shareholders and prospective shareholders of the Van Diemen’s Land Company, reprinting several of the company’s reports, including the significant (and rare) third report of 1828 detailing the explorations of the company’s explorers, Alexander Goldie, Henry Hellyer, and Joseph Fossey.

It was Hellyer who ‘found a cliff of slate on the Arthur River, and promptly engraved on a large slab the words “Whoever is found stealing slate from this quarry, will be dealt with according to law”. Apart from the inherent unlikelihood of anyone making off with large quantities of slate, the claim of ownership is revealing for its total self-assurance in the face of the wilderness…’

(People, Print and Paper). The work is wide ranging, including sections on geography, wildlife, trade and emigration.

Of interest is the correspondence contained in the appendix between the governor George Arthur and his superiors in London, regarding the escalating tension between settlers and the Tasmanian Aborigines. The appendix also includes the substantial “Extract from the Report of the Aborigines Committee, 19th March 1830.”

Australian Rare Books, 148; Ferguson, 1517.

$1650

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BLIGH, William.

A Voyage to the South Sea, undertaken by Command of His Majesty…

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Quarto, pp. [x], 264, with a frontispiece portrait and seven plans and charts, some offsetting to the plates (as often), the large folding Chart of the N E coast of New Holland particularly fine, large margins, uncut; original papered boards to the Salisbury Reading Society 14 days with the names of the members printed and added in manuscript together with inked dates of borrowing from August 10th 1792, neatly rebacked, with the bookplate of an early owner. Preserved in a modern slipcase. London, Printed for George Nicol, 1792.

Bligh’s Voyage in an evocative contemporary binding First edition of the full official narrative of Bligh’s voyage in the Bounty, the mutiny, and the subsequent open-boat voyage: one of the most famous stories in the history of the sea. At the time of publication Bligh was on his second breadfruit voyage, and the work was edited for the press by James Burney, with the assistance of Sir Joseph Banks, both of whom had also sailed with Cook.

This gives the full account of the voyage, including a slightly altered version of Bligh’s account of the mutiny, which had been separately published two years earlier, in some haste as Bligh notes here, ‘for the purpose of communicating early information concerning an event which had attracted the public notice: and being drawn up in a hasty manner, it required many corrections.’

The Bounty mutiny and its ramifications would haunt Bligh always, although his reputation was also forever redeemed by the epic open-boat voyage of 4000 miles across the Pacific. One of the most famous of all feats of seamanship, it was also notable for the coastal discoveries made almost accidentally in the course of the desperate voyage. Bligh’s description here is accompanied by his important engraved chart of discoveries made on the coast of present-day Queensland. His achievement in charting large sections of the coast under conditions of terrible hardship partly completed the work of Cook himself on the Australian east coast. Bligh was justifiably proud of his achievements in mapping and charting during his travails, and each of the printed charts features his name prominently: the sketch of Matavai Bay in Tahiti even features his signature in facsimile (particularly notable given Bligh’s fury that his work on the charts of Cook’s third voyage was not recognised).

Bligh was at the time of this publication on his second breadfruit voyage, and the work was edited by James Burney, with the assistance of Sir Joseph Banks.

Ferguson, 125; Hill, 135; Kroepelien, 93; O’Reilly-Reitman, 550; Sabin, 5910; Australian Rare Books, 62a.

$19,500

BOUGAINVILLE, Hyacinthe Y.P.P. de Manuscript account, “Voyage autour du Monde de la fregate la Thetis”, retained by Louis de Freycinet.

63 pp. manuscript, 305 x 200 mm., stitch-sewn in gathers, closely written in a neat legible hand throughout, Archives de Laage stamp to first page; very good. Prepared at sea, or on the voyage’s return,, circa 1826.

Brest to the South China Sea: sending the latest news to Freycinet A newly discovered unpublished manuscript account by its commander of the first half of the 1824-26 voyage of the Thétis.

The voyage’s commander Hyacinthe de Bougainville may have prepared this manuscript narrative specifically for his friend and mentor Louis de Freycinet; in any case it made its way into the senior man’s possession, then working on his own account of the voyage of the Uranie under his command, the various parts of which were published between 1824 and 1844. Freycinet is well known to have assiduously gathered manuscripts of all kinds to do with voyages and their progress, associated technologies and science. The inclusion of this substantial account among the Freycinet papers once in the family chateau is therefore hardly surprising, given both Freycinet’s ongoing interest in the latest news from major voyagers, and his close friendship with Bougainville himself.

The connection between Bougainville and Freycinet stretched back to the Baudin voyage, when Bougainville, who had joined the expedition as an 18-year-old midshipman, found himself bearing the brunt of Baudin’s considerable ire: Baudin is known to have sent back damning reports on the young man to the Ministry. Freycinet supported Bougainville, however, and acquiesced in the young man’s request for a transfer from Baudin’s command to the smaller Naturaliste while in Port Jackson; at the time Baudin told Bougainville that he was a “poison” which he was “glad to be rid of” (Rivière, The Governor’s Noble Guest, p. 9). The two men continued on the Naturaliste to France, and Freycinet’s continuing regard for the younger officer was one of the reasons why Bougainville was able to rehabilitate his reputation, and go on to have such a stellar career in the French Navy.

Bougainville was given command of the Thétis in 1822, and ordered to make a circumnavigation in 1824. The voyage was to prove important for both the political connections and the scientific discoveries made during its two-year course.

The present manuscript is written in Bougainville’s rather rushed but still very legible hand, and has the hallmarks of a draft rather than a polished presentation. It begins with an overview of the setting up of the ship for a “long campaign”, and then gives a running journal of the voyage, beginning when they sail from Brest in March 1824, and describing their stays at Reunion, Ceylon, Pondicherry, Singapore, Manila, Macao, and Tourane (Da Nang). The manuscript finishes mid-voyage, half-way down the penultimate page, with a description of the “strong and well-constituted” islanders of the South China Sea near Vietnam: the account may well be complete as it stands, in which case one would assume that it was sent back to France at around that point in the voyage, or it may originally have continued in a second part now no longer extant. The break at the end of the text is neat and suggests that the manuscript is likely complete as it stands.

Needless to say, any manuscript account by its commander of any major Pacific voyage is of enormous interest and significance, and of course of exceptional rarity outside of institutional collections. This is no slight manuscript, running to about 25,000 words in its 63 pages. It is long enough to be considered an alternative account of the first half of Bougainville’s important expedition, and is quite distinct from any of the published versions that appeared in the wake of the voyage.

$57,500

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[BURKE AND WILLS COMMISSION] Report of the Commissioners…

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Foolscap Folio, Victorian Parliamentary Paper 104pp., together with two other relevant Papers 1864-66; fine in modern quarter calf, the Ingleton copy with his bookplate and his shelfmark.

Melbourne, John Ferres,, 1862.

The ill fated expedition The rare and important Royal Commission report on the ill-fated Burke and Wills expedition: ‘very scarce and of high interest’ (Wantrup). Bound together with two other Reports 1864-66 on the cost and liabilities of the Expedition.

The Royal Commission justly apportioned the blame between the expedition’s incompetent leader, Burke; William Wright, the careless overseer; and the indecisive Exploration Committee of the Royal Society of Victoria. Although it concluded that Wright appeared ‘to have been reprehensible in the highest degree’, Burke was also chastised for displaying ‘a far greater amount of zeal than prudence… overtaxing the powers of his party’, and also for his failure to keep a regular journal.

Maria, 35; Australian Rare Books, 167.

$3250

[MEARNE BINDING] CAVE, William.

Apostolici: Or, The History of the Lives, Actes, Deaths and Martyrdoms of those Who were Contemporary with, or Immediately succeeded the Apostles.

Folio, engraved frontispiece and 23 half-page engraved vignettes, a few pages with coarse old paper repairs to the bottom, but generally very good; in a fine binding of contemporary English black morocco by Samuel Mearne, elaborate gilt scroll and stamp decoration to borders and spine, in fine condition. London, Richard Chiswell, 1677.

An imposing Mearne binding in his best manner A splendid binding by Samuel Mearne, with complex two-line gilt inner and outer fillet borders with elaborate decoration of scrolls, flowers, stars and cherubs. This is a fine example of the best work of the celebrated English binder.

$6400

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DAMPIER, William A New Voyage round the World [with] Voyages and Descriptions. Vol. II. [with] A Voyage to New Holland, &c.

In the Year, 1699 [with] A Continuation of a Voyage to New13 Holland…

Four volumes, octavo, a very attractive harlequin set in contemporary bindings, complete with all maps, charts and natural history plates, expertly rebacked by Aquarius to style, red spine labels.

The volumes as follows: [1697]: 5 maps (4 folding), errata and advertisements, seventeenth-century owner’s name “Henley” on title-page; [1699]: four folding maps, with errata and advertisements, “Streights of Malacca” with small tear neatly repaired; [1703]: four folding maps and one plate of coastal views, 10 natural history plates, with errata and advertisements; [1709]: 13 maps and plates of coastal views, five natural history plates, with list of plates and advertisements.

London, Knapton, 1697-1699-1703-1709.

All of Dampier’s works in first editions A very handsome set: first editions of all four of the separately published volumes which make up the complete text of Dampier’s two voyages.

Only four books written by Dampier were ever published, making this run of the first editions of all four a complete contemporary account of the decades he spent sailing in South American, Pacific, Australian and south-east Asian waters. The Dampier accounts in first edition have now become notoriously scarce, and are effectively never seen in such fine condition as here (this is the first such set Hordern House has handled in almost three decades).

Each of the works was much reprinted by the London publisher Knapton, and each ultimately ran into multiple editions: so successful were these books that in 1729 Knapton produced a collected edition based on later editions still in stock: this 1729 set is the form in which Dampier’s books are now most commonly seen.

The four volumes are as follows:

Volume I: A New Voyage round the World… (1697).

The early voyaging of Dampier: a travel classic, which recounts the remarkable circumnavigation of the great English navigator, as part of an enthralling narrative description of trading throughout the southern hemisphere, and which famously includes his first landing on the northwest coast of Australia in 1688. In this volume Dampier describes in tremendous detail the years 1679-1691.

Volume II: Voyages and Descriptions. Vol. II. In Three Parts… (1699).

Described as “Volume II” on the title-page, this volume was published by Knapton because the voyage account of 1697 was a bestseller. It prints three substantial separate works by Dampier, each with separate pagination and title-pages, as follows: on the countries of South-east Asia, on “Two Voyages to Campeachy”, and on trade winds and currents around the world.

Volumes III & IV: A Voyage to New Holland, &c. In the Year, 1699… Vol. III. (1703) [and] A Continuation of a Voyage to New-Holland, &c. In the Year 1699… (1709).

Dampier’s great two-volume account of his voyage to New Holland in command of HMS Roebuck. Dampier’s publications relating to his first circumnavigation had made his name in Britain, and led directly to his appointment in command of a Royal Navy ship with express orders to investigate New Holland. Although Dampier survived, and although this account

points to the many remarkable discoveries he made (especially in natural history), the voyage was written off by contemporaries as an expensive failure, and interest in New Holland once again flagged. The Roebuck proved to be a poor sailor, and in this account Dampier describes his disappointment that the ship became dangerously unseaworthy just at the point when he had hoped to sail for the east coast of New Holland. The ship did not make it back to England, ultimately wrecked in Ascension Island. It was discovered in 2001, exactly three-hundred years after the wreck, by a team from the West Australian Maritime Museum.

$55,000

EVANS, George William.

A Geographical Historical and Topographical Description of Van Diemen’s Land…

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Octavo text with folding engraved view of Hobart Town after a sketch by Evans, 4pp. advertisements for the publisher Souter, some very light foxing; an excellent copy in the original papered boards, spine label chipped, some scuffs, Hobill Cole bookplate [with] the accompanying folding handcoloured engraved map, as issued, in the original boards box with paper label; both preserved in a modern brown morocco box. London, John Souter, 1822.

Complete with the separately-issued map: a most appealing set

A beautiful copy of the first edition of Evans’ important work on Tasmania, only very rarely found complete with the separately-issued chart: a most attractive example of Australian cartography, it is the finest of the early post-settlement maps of Van Diemen’s Land and the first survey map of the island.

Evans was Macquarie’s favourite explorer and was appointed Surveyor General of Van Diemen’s Land as a reward for his fine services in exploring the territory west of the Blue Mountains and as second-in-command to Oxley. This text was prepared as a guidebook for Macquarie during his tour of Van Diemen’s Land and is the best description of the state of the colony in the first decades of its existence. Evans’ explorations and surveys were foremost in advancing the geographical knowledge of the colony - “his achievements would have momentous effects on the future prosperity of the colony”, as Macquarie himself said.

Although Charles Jeffreys beat Evans into print with his plagiarism of Evans’ work, a manuscript of which he is supposed to have stolen, Evans’ was actually the first separate work on the colony to be written. Always highly regarded, his book gives an excellent account of the geography, history and prospects of Van Diemen’s Land and includes detailed procedures for prospective emigrants. Appendices list landholders, prices for agricultural produce and other relevant information for settlers.

This copy includes the 4pp. advertisements by the publisher Souter noted by Wantrup as being “recorded”.

Ferguson, 861; Australian Rare Books, 55 and 56.

$3850

EYRE, Edward John.

Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia…

Two volumes, octavo, with 22 plates Including frontispieces to both volumes), two folding maps, early owner’s name of E.H. Curr on the title-pages, advertisements including the notice for Stokes; bound in attractive brown crushed morocco gilt by Bayntun, the two maps in a matching bookform box. London, T. & W. Boone, 1845.

From Adelaide to Albany: with the rare maps

First edition, complete with the maps.

In June 1840 Eyre initially set out from Adelaide with his assistant John Baxter, five other white men and two Aborigines. From the Flinders Ranges, Eyre struck north to Lake Torrens (which he had named in 1839), but was unable to find a way north. A second, and equally unsuccessful attempt, involved crossing over Streaky Bay to the west. On the third attempt Eyre reached the head of the Bight, but he sent back most of the party to Adelaide because of the extreme difficulty of the terrain.

From Fowler’s Bay, Eyre, Wylie (his Aboriginal companion), Baxter, and two other Aborigines set out for the 850-mile journey to King George Sound determined to ‘either accomplish the object I had in view, or perish in the attempt’. Two months into the harsh desert crossing when the members of the party were suffering from cold, as they had had to abandon most of their clothing, the two Aborigines murdered Baxter, stole the provisions and fled into the desert.

Eyre and Wylie struggled on to the west until they were saved a month later by a French whaler near present-day Esperance. Rested and with renewed stores, they continued their journey and finally reached Albany. Having accomplished this formidable feat of endurance, Eyre was awarded the founder’s gold medal of the Royal Geographical Society.

Eyre prepared the journal of his epic and tragic journey during his return to England in 1844 and it was published in 1845. The text is illustrated with plates after the colonial artists George Hamilton, S.T. Gill, and J. Neill.

With the early owner’s signature of Edward M[icklethwaite] Curr (1820-1889), a squatter and author of Recollections of Squatting in Victoria (1883).

Ferguson, 4031; Australian Rare Books, 133a.

$3500

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FLINDERS, Matthew.

A Voyage to Terra Australis…

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Complete set of the Flinders account, comprising: two volumes, quarto, with nine engraved plates, some of the offsetting familiar to this work, but generally very good; the text volumes bound in nineteenth century tan calf gilt-ruled and blind stamped, rebacked in period style, endpapers renewed; the atlas in modern half calf, marbled boards, nine large charts (a couple with neatly strengthened along folds), seven single-page charts, two double-page plates of coastal views and ten botanical plates, all first-issue plates with large margins, some spotting and offsetting; a sound and handsome set. London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1814.

Flinders’ classic account One of the greatest of all classics of Australian exploration and discovery and scarce on the market: a handsome set of Flinders’ classic account of his voyage on board the Investigator, the full-scale expedition to discover and explore the entire coastline of Australia (which was the name that Flinders himself preferred and championed).

The three volumes form a complete record of the expedition, including an authoritative introductory history of maritime exploration in Australian waters from the earliest times. The text contains a day-by-day account of the Investigator voyage and Flinders’ later voyages on the Porpoise and the Cumberland. Robert Brown’s “General Remarks, geographical and systematical, on the Botany of Terra Australis”, which is illustrated by Ferdinand Bauer’s botanical plates in the atlas, is printed as an appendix in the second volume.

The text is illustrated by nine engraved plates and two double-page plates of coastal views in the atlas by the landscape painter William Westall, who travelled as official artist on the voyage. These are in many cases the very earliest views of the places visited and discovered on the voyage. Flinders’ charts in the atlas were of such accuracy that they continued to be issued by the Admiralty for decades and form the basis of all modern charts of Australia. All the charts in the atlas here bear the imprint “W. & G. Nicol Pall Mall… 1814”, an important point that identifies them all as being in the correct first issue form.

Australian Rare Books, 67a; Hill, 614; Ingleton, 6487; Kroepelien, 438; Nissen BBI, 637; Stafleu & Cowan, I, 1806.

$75,000

FORSTER, Johann Reinhold.

Observations made during a Voyage Round the World…

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Quarto, with the folding map and folding table, list of subscribers; contemporary tree calf sympathetically re-backed retaining the original title label, gilt decorated in compartments, the Ingleton copy with his bookplate. London, G. Robinson, 1778.

Pioneer work on Pacific anthropology, with Tupaia’s chart First edition of this pioneer work on the anthropology of the Pacific, written by the naturalist aboard Cook’s second voyage; this is one of the copies to contain the important “Chart Representing the Isles of the South Seas”, not present in all copies, which is based on the original sketch of the islands around Tahiti drawn for Cook by Tupaia, the Tahitian priest and navigator, on board the Endeavour. Tupaia discussed these islands at great length with Cook, who took extensive notes. A version of the map, in turn, was communicated to Forster by Richard Pickersgill, the Pacific veteran, but Forster also made comparisons with a second map in Banks’ possession, and a list prepared

by Cook himself. The map is, in Forster’s own words, ‘a monument of the ingenuity and geographical knowledge of the people in the Society Isles, and of Tupaya in particular.’

It was originally intended that Johann Forster should be involved in the official account of the voyage, but he fell out of favour with the Admiralty and the task was left to Cook and his editor Canon Douglas. Forster was then asked to supply a companion volume of his scientific observations, but this project too was shelved. Relations between the Forsters and the Admiralty became especially frosty once they published Georg’s unofficial Voyage, but Forster nonetheless persisted with this work and had it printed on his own account. This work should be considered the companion piece to the two-volume official account of the voyage.

Forster’s “Remarks on the Human Species”, accounting for two-thirds of the text, and its most important part, is primarily concerned with the South Sea Islanders, with inquiries into their ‘progress toward civilisation’, principles of happiness, health and diseases, religion, morals, manners, arts, and sciences, with a comparative table of languages from the Society Islands to New Holland. Forster carefully interviewed the natives (identifying his informants) in all aspects of their culture, and includes an account of Tahitian knowledge of geography and navigation, this last accompanied by the Tupaia chart.

Forster also includes interesting comments on the preservation of health during long sea voyages, notably regarding the findings of Dr James Lind (one of the people originally considered for the second voyage, who withdrew together with Banks and Solander after the contretemps regarding their accommodation).

The list of subscribers, including Joseph Banks and Alexander Dalrymple, accounts for only ninety-one copies.

Beddie, 1262; Holmes, 29; Kroepelien, 456; New Zealand National Bibliography, 2016

$9000

GILKS, Edward.

Prize for Lithography at the Melbourne Exhibition, 1854.

Bronze medal, 64 mm., edge impressed ‘Prize Medal 239 E Gilks Lithography’, good extremely fine; with tan morocco case of issue, the case a little rubbed. London, Joseph S. Wyon, 1854.

Britannia & the Southern Cross A beautiful rarity: the 1854 prize medal for lithography at the first Melbourne Exhibition, awarded to the important colonial lithographer Edward Gilks, in its original case of issue. Roger Butler suggests that Gilks only first became active in Australia around 1853, and as this medal was awarded in the following year, it obviously dates from the very beginning of his career.

Gilks (c. 1822-1886), was one of the more important Australian lithographers, perhaps best known for his separately issued images such as the ‘Commissioner’s Camp, Castlemaine, in 1852 (Mount Alexander)’ (see Roger Butler, Printed 18011901, p. 154), or his portraits of Burke and Wills.

Gilks also contributed to famous colonial illustrated works such as the Melbourne Album published by Charles Troedel in 1863-4, as well as being one of the team assembled for the wonderful, and undervalued, Prodromus of Frederick McCoy. The principles of lithography were first discovered in the last years of the eighteenth century, but the practice was not introduced to Australia until the efforts of Governor Sir Thomas Brisbane, who acquired a press as part of his equipping of the Parramatta observatory in 1822. The format was widely adopted, and lithography became the mainstay of the burgeoning interest in Australian views and portraits.

Little surprise, then, that a prize medal for lithography was awarded at the 1854 Exhibition, which was held in conjunction with the French Exposition Universelle of 1855. An impressive series of artists were awarded prizes in Melbourne, but this may have been the only prize for lithography, and may in fact be the only such medal for any type of printed works (a quick census of fellow nominees suggests most of the other prizes were for painters and sculptors, although there was also, for example, a photography prize, given to Robert McClelland).

This is an attractive medal in its own right, with the Melbourne Exhibition Building to the obverse, and Brittania being given the fruits of the harvest to the reverse (with the Southern Cross visible in the background).

$3200

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GILL, S.T. The Australian Sketchbook by S.T.G. Printed in colours and published by Hamel and Ferguson…

Oblong folio, with 25 fine chromolithograph plates including the title page; modern calf, gilt-ruled and spine gilt-titled, edges fully gilt, preserved in a slipcase. Melbourne, circa, 1865.

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Gill’s homage to life in the bush A warm and ironic tribute to colonial bush life, The Australian Sketchbook by Samuel Thomas Gill remains a classic of illustrated Australiana.

This is Gill’s sought-after most famous publication and his last, an attractive album of 25 rural scenes including bushranging, kangaroo stalking, the bush mailman, cattle droving. Throughout are poignant comparisons between Aboriginal life and that of the settlers. ‘Bush Funeral’, for example, shows a weeping funeral procession behind a coffin pulled by two bullocks and is followed by ‘Native Sepulchre’, an Aboriginal corpse on a platform with howling dingo’s below.

The colour printing of the lithographs is of notably high quality for this early date. The album was printed in 1865, later in the same year that chromolithography was first put to serious use in Chevalier’s Album. The colouring here (occasionally highlighted with a little hand-applied colour) is a delicate and successful use of the medium.

‘The title-page shows a likeness of the artist carrying his boots and equipment and crossing a shallow stream barefoot. His head is turned suspiciously towards two Aborigines shown half concealed by rocks, while unseen by him a snake menaces an unprotected foot. The sketch indicates something of Gill’s attitude towards himself at this time. He evidently viewed his own situation with wry humour, adopted a generally fatalistic attitude, and held his own achievements and future in scant regard’ (McCulloch, Artists of the Australian Gold Rush).

Ferguson, 9924f; Australian Rare Books, 251.

$17,500

GREGORY, Augustus Charles & Francis Thomas.

Journals of Australian Explorations.

Octavo, a very good copy in the original blind-stamped and gilt lettered green cloth,a few inked marginalia, endpapers slightly spotted. Brisbane, James C. Beal, Government Printer, 1884.

Inland exploration and the search for Leichhardt A handsome copy of the complete edition of the journals of eight expeditions undertaken by the Gregory brothers in Western, Northern and Central Australia between 1846 and 1861.

This was the first comprehensive publication of the Gregory journals, many of which had not been printed before in their entirety.

The Gregory brothers played an important role in the history of exploration in Western Australia, and Augustus also led expeditions further afield into unmapped regions of the continent. In 1855, on Governor FitzRoy’s recommendation, Augustus Gregory was selected by the British Government to lead the North Australian Exploring Expedition. The party of eighteen included his brother Henry as second-in-command, the botanist Ferdinand von Mueller, and the naturalist and artist Thomas Baines. Starting from the mouth of the Victoria River in August 1855, Gregory covered over five thousand miles in his sixteen-month expedition opening up vast areas for pastoral settlement. He was awarded the gold medal of the Royal Geographical Society on his return and is one of the greatest inland Australian explorers.

In 1858 Gregory made one further expedition in search of Ludwig Leichhardt and his party, but was forced by drought to abandon the search. This book includes material related to the search.

Australian Rare Books, 190a; Ferguson, 10075.

$2200

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HAMILTON, George.

A Voyage round the World in His Majesty’s Frigate Pandora.

Octavo, with an engraved frontispiece portrait of the author; some very slight browning but a very good untrimmed copy in modern calf, gilt, in a matching folding half calf box. Berwick and London, W. Phorson, B. Law and Son, 1793.

The Bounty mutineers wrecked in the Endeavour Strait First edition: the only published account of the voyage of the Pandora, the vessel dispatched from England in 1790 to arrest the mutinous crew of Bligh’s Bounty.

The narrative is by the affable and amusing George Hamilton, the ship’s surgeon on the Pandora, whose hair-raising tale of punishment and shipwreck is a classic of eighteenth-century voyage accounts. After sailing for some time in the South Pacific, Captain Edward Edwards of the Pandora decided to sail for England with the 14 mutineers he had captured in Tahiti all held in horrendous conditions in the “Box”, a cage specially mounted on the deck of the ship.

While navigating in Endeavour Strait the vessel struck a reef and foundered (ironically, Bligh himself had questioned Captain Edwards’ competency in navigating these difficult waters). Left to drown, ten of the mutineers managed to survive only though the kindness of the master-ofarms, who dropped the keys to them in the last moments.

This is now a very scarce book on the market. It was republished as a facsimile in the Australian Maritime Series in 1998.

Hill, 766; James Ford Bell, H24; Kroepelien, 507; O’Reilly-Reitman, 606.

$15,000

HARVEY, William Henry.

Algae from Ceylon, Friendly Islands and Australia.

Collected during the Years 1852, ’53, ’54 and ’55.

Folio album, manuscript title and 6 leaves of letterpress lists of “duplicates”, with 344 specimens mounted on 133 leaves, the backing paper of various colours, some very light foxing but generally in remarkably good condition, bookplate of Warren H. Corning collection; bound in contemporary crimson half morocco, joints strengthened, very good and attractive.,, Not Published, 1858.

Possibly unique: a collection of rare Australian seaweed specimens A fascinating collection of mounted seaweed specimens, including 251 collected in Australia

by Harvey himself, regarded as the “father of Australian Phycology”. This would appear to be a unique copy of this work despite the fact that Harvey originally advertised that he planned an edition of 50 such sets.

William Harvey (1811-1866), an Irish Quaker, received no formal education yet became professor at Trinity College Dublin, a fellow of the Royal Society and one of the country’s foremost botanists. His early work included naming the algae collected on both the Wilkes and Beagle voyages and publishing much on southern and Antipodean algae. In 1853 he embarked on a long tour of the world: in a prospectus he issued that year he called for subscribers to a planned “edition” of 50 duplicate sets of rare specimens he hoped to collect.

It is unclear just how many of these works were ultimately produced, but this is the only such copy we have discovered extant (keeping in mind that his own collection is held by Trinity

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College, Dublin, and that the State Library of New South Wales has a collection of volumes of his “Algae Australiae Exsiccatae”). Certainly the only notice of the present 1858 album recorded on WorldCat is for the present copy, catalogued in detail but since released from the collection of Warren H. Corning (at one time held by the Cleveland Botanical Garden).

The bulk of the specimens come from Australian waters, but there are also significant collections made by Harvey from the continuation of his voyage to Ceylon and the Friendly Islands (Tonga). This album contains 344 specimens: 53 from Ceylon on 16 leaves; 40 from the Friendly Islands on 10 leaves; and 251 of Australia on 107 leaves. The habitat of the Australian specimens reads like a description of Harvey’s travels, with specimens deriving from as far afield as Fremantle, King George’s Sound, Port Fairy, Port Arthur, Kiama, Port Jackson and even Auckland (continuing the fine tradition of not distinguishing the two countries).

Harvey is known for his published book Phycologia Australica (1858-1863), which is now quite rare and has long since been recognised as a work of tremendous beauty, and the present album is a marvellous opportunity to study the originals on which his published work was based.

$48,500

KING, Phillip Parker.

Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia…

Two volumes, octavo, with nine aquatint views, large folding map backed with linen, smaller engraved chart and three engraved natural history plates (one folding); a fine set in modern period-style half calf by Aquarius, spines gilt with morocco labels. London, John Murray, 1827.

King’s survey voyage: an attractive set First edition of this great book, recounting the Australian coastal voyages of the Mermaid and the Bathurst.

Admiral Phillip Parker King (1791-1856), Australian-born son of the third governor Philip Gidley King, became the British navy’s leading hydrographer. His Australian coastal voyages, together with Oxley’s expeditions inland, represented the great expansionary undertakings of the Macquarie era. King charted the greater part of the west, north and north-east coasts and also carried out important surveys in the area of the Barrier Reef. His hydrographical work is still the basis of many of the modern charts for the areas he surveyed.

King was sent from England in 1817 with Admiralty instructions to complete the survey of Australia and finish the charting begun by Flinders and Baudin. By 1824-25 he had issued a series of eight large charts showing the northern coasts, to be followed with this complete printed journal of his expedition. The engraved views were taken from King’s own sketches.

This is the regular 1827 issue: a few copies survive with an 1826 date on the title-pages, without any other points of difference (the 1826 issue appears to be a presentation issue of some kind, as is attested by the fact that where seen they are often accompanied by some sort of manuscript dedication).

Abbey ‘Travel in Aquatint and Lithography 1770-1860’, 573; Davidson, ‘A Book Collector’s Notes’, pp. 1278; Wantrup, 84b.

$8850

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KIPPIS, Andrew.

The Life of Captain James Cook.

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Quarto, with engraved frontispiece portrait of Cook, some offsetting affecting the title-page otherwise a fine large copy in modern half calf spine gilt-ruled, gilt-title, with the bookplate of C. A. O. Fox. London, G. Nicol, G.G.J. and J. Robinson, 1788.

The celebrated biography A handsome copy of this celebrated life of Captain James Cook, compiled from a variety of sources including Admiralty records and the personal papers of Sir Joseph Banks. Kippis consulted associates of the great mariner including Lord Howe, the Earl of Sandwich and Sir Hugh Palliser to enrich his account. Last but not least, ‘the Captain’s amiable and worthy Widow’ Elizabeth was not overlooked in the preparation of the work.

Aside from the biographical value of the work, Kippis sheds light on other aspects of late eighteenth-century Pacific exploration. Forbes notes the interesting inclusion of papers regarding the negotiation of a safe passage for Cook’s expedition in American waters during the war with Great Britain (including a letter from Benjamin Franklin written at Passy near Paris in 1779). Given the publication coincided with the establishment of the penal colony in New South Wales, it is not surprising that the author touches upon this consequence of Cook’s discovery of the east coast of Australia. He says of Botany Bay ‘If it be wisely and prudently begun and constructed, who can tell what beneficial consequences may spring from it, in future ages?’

Beddie, 32; Davidson, A Book Collector’s Notes, p. 67; Hocken, pp. 26-7; Holmes, 69; Kroepelien, 647; Lada-Mocarski, 40; O’Reilly-Reitman, 455.

$2850

LISLET GEOFFROY, Jean-Baptiste.

Carte de l’isle Bonaparte Assiyettie auz Opérations Géométriques de MM. la Caille, Chisny & de l’Auteur…

Manuscript map, 440 x 540 mm., beautifully detailed ink features, laid paper; a few old water stains chiefly to the lower margin, very good. [Réunion], 1808.

Réunion and the Indian Ocean: French map from the era of Flinders A most attractive manuscript map of the Île Bonaparte (modern Réunion) in 1808, by an important French savant born on the island.

Jean-Baptiste Lislet Geoffroy (1755–1836) was a French botanist and cartographer who spent most of his life in the Indian Ocean (he was born in Saint-Pierre, Réunion and died in PortLouis, Mauritius). His father was a French engineer employed by the Compagnie des Indes, and his mother a Senegalese woman called Niama who had been traded as a slave. Jean-Baptiste was elected to the French Academy of Sciences in 1791, and is thought to be the first person of African descent to be so honoured.

The map was prepared by Geoffroy Lislet in 1808, at a time when the French were ramping up the use of Réunion and its more important eastern neighbour Mauritius in their ongoing raiding of British shipping in the region. It was in 1808 that the French dispatched Baudin voyage veteran Jacques Hamelin to the region in command of the Vénus with orders to use the regional harbours as strongholds from which to attack the British India trade. The British Navy, under the overall command of Admiral Bertie, were much disadvantaged in their attempts to

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counterattack, but Bertie and Commodore Rowley came up with a tactically astute plan to take Réunion and Mauritius by ground invasion, crippling the French. In the event the more sparsely populated Réunion was taken first, and used as a springboard for the November 1810 assault on Mauritius.

Lislet Geoffroy had first prepared a general map of the region in 1797 (Carte réduite des îles de France et de la Réunion) for the Ministry of the Marine, but the present map incorporates additions from the intervening decade. We have not discovered any printed map which corresponds exactly to the present manuscript, although a contemporary map of neighbouring Mauritius was included as part of Tombe’s Voyage aux Indes Orientales… published by the great nautical printer Arthus Bertrand in 1811.

In fact, testament to the shifting political realities of the Indian Ocean, Geoffroy Lislet’s work was openly adopted by the major London map-maker Arrowsmith, who issued a map featuring the Frenchman’s work in 1819 (although the exact relation between the present manuscript and that published map is not established, there is clearly more detail in the present work, confirming its priority).

In Arrowsmith’s Memoir and Notice explanatory of a Chart of Madagascar which accompanied the printed map, a preface by the English Governor Robert Townsend Farquhar describes the great utility of proper mapping of this important region for trade, and praises the friendly assistance of Lislet Geoffroy in its preparation. Townsend comments that the 1819 map was based in part on the “voluminous materials which had been collected by the French Government”, and which he had lost no opportunity to review. Lislet-Geoffroy’s own memoir in the same publication describes how he had been closely involved in mapping the region for over 20 years, and was glad of the opportunity to publish such a thorough account.

A manuscript map of one of the harbours of Réunion by Lislet-Geoffroy is recorded in the NLA, but obviously any manuscript map of this kind is very uncommon indeed.

$8250

LYCETT, Joseph.

Views in Australia or New South Wales, & Van Diemen’s Land Delineated…

Oblong folio, handcoloured lithographed title and 48 fine handcoloured aquatint views after drawings by Joseph Lycett, with descriptive text (final leaf neatly laid-down), two folding maps; some offsetting, modern half morocco with spine gilt lettered and decorated in compartments, edges fully gilt. London, J. Souter, 1825.

A pivotal work in Australian landscape art First edition of the great Australian plate book. This is a fine copy of the most important work on antipodean landscapes.

A landmark in the development of Australian illustrated books: this is a most attractive copy.

Lycett’s charming, highly-coloured views of New South Wales and Tasmania are justly famous today, and the book as a whole provides a remarkable visual record of Macquarie’s Australia.

Not only does it provide an historical snapshot of New South Wales and Tasmania in the early decades of settlement, but especially from the point of view of colonial architecture, it is a collection of remarkable importance. Lycett’s incomparable plates record some of the colony’s most important houses and country seats, and provide an invaluable contextual record of many lesser-known buildings and indeed building types.

Lycett had arrived in New South Wales as a convict in 1814. Trained as a portrait and miniature painter in Staffordshire, his services as a professional artist were much in demand and he was soon working for the publisher Absalom West. He was appointed artist to MajorGeneral Macquarie, the governor of New South Wales. Impressed with Lycett’s talents, Macquarie sent three of his drawings to Earl Bathurst, Secretary of the Colonies (the dedicatee of the Views) who, it is supposed in payment, granted a pardon to the artist.

Little is known of Lycett after the publication of the Views, which - with Wallis’ Historical Account - marks the end of an era in the publication of Australian illustrated books. Macquarie’s departure and the deaths of both Lewin and Lycett meant that the illustrated books to follow would be on a rather less ambitious scale. ‘As far as we know Lycett produced no more work after the completion of his Views in 1825. In the Advertisement to the complete work, issued with the first part in July 1824, Lycett announced that… he intended to publish ‘in the same size and manner, the Natural History of Australia’. It is not known what became of this project.

In 1825 Lycett was in his early fifties and still, no doubt, the incurable alcoholic Commissioner Bigge reported him to be a few years before; it is probable that he did not live long enough to complete the project… The death, or at any rate, the silence of Lycett after 1825 marked the end of an era in Australian plate books. The lavish productions of Wallis and Lycett celebrated the expansiveness and the buoyancy of the Macquarie age. With Macquarie gone, Lewin dead and Lycett departed, artistic life in the colony was less robust in the 1820s. Australian plate books were still being published, but they were in most cases more humble productions than those of the preceding decade’ (Australian Rare Books).

Australian Rare Books, 218b.

$75,000

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[COOK: FIRST VOYAGE] MAGRA, James, attributed.

A Journal of a Voyage round the World…

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Quarto pagination but trimmed to a square octavo size, as a result the pages cut close to the text but with no loss, complete with the dedication leaf; an unusual copy but in fact most attractive, bound in contemporary polished half calf over sprinkled paper boards, probably German, with the gilt cipher of George III to both boards; in polished quarter calf box with double labels. London, Becket and De Hondt, 1771.

First account of the Endeavour: from the library of George III First edition: the earliest published account of Cook’s first voyage: the rare first issue, with the leaf of dedication to ‘The Right Honourable Lords of the Admiralty, and to Mr. Banks and Dr. Solander’ inserted by the publisher to add authenticity. It is ‘of the greatest rarity, and copies of the book containing the dedication are far more valuable than those without it…’ (Davidson).

This intriguing copy has a remarkable provenance, with the arms of George III on both boards, but apparently released as a duplicate. The binding is most unusual as they have taken advantage of the small text block to trim the book down to a small square-octavo scale. The copy was later in the Victorian-era collection of Thomas Harman Brenchley (armorial bookplate) and more recently the Ingleton collection, who noted confirmed that the boards have the “royal cipher of King George III on both sides in gilt”.

Published anonymously some two months after the return of Endeavour and nearly two years before Hawkesworth’s official account, its author remains unknown, though the great Cook scholar Beaglehole has demonstrated that the American sailor James Magra is the likeliest candidate. If Magra was indeed the author, his illicit sale of his journal to the publishers might well have confirmed Cook’s opinion of him: ‘one of those gentlemen, frequently found on board Kings Ships, that can very well be spared, or to speake more planer good for nothing…’. He was a New Yorker and a loyalist.

Bagnall, 3324; Beaglehole, I, pp. cclvi-cclxiv; Beddie, 693; Davidson, ‘A Book Collector’s Notes’, pp. 53-4; Hill (2nd edn), 1066 (the second issue); Hocken, p. 9; Holmes, 3; Ingleton sale catalogue, no. 6351; O’ReillyReitman, 362.

$37,500

[BAUDIN] [MARCHAIS, Pierre-Antoine, after (attributed)].

Unrecorded colour-printed plate depicting a formal Aboriginal combat scene from the time of the Baudin voyage.

Engraved colour-printed plate, 255 x 340 mm., highlighted in red by hand, fine, no caption nor any printer’s details; framed. [Paris], circa 1825..

Unrecorded plate based on Baudin voyage art An important and unrecorded colour-printed proof of a plate made in the 1820s,depicting one of the combat rituals of Aborigines in New South Wales circa 1802.

Although depicting men and women at least broadly based on original portraits by NicolasMartin Petit done during the Baudin voyage, this plate was almost certainly prepared in the 1820s, and was apparently planned as an inclusion in the atlas “Historique” of the Freycinet voyage (published 1825). No such scene was ever included in the published work and it is therefore fair to assume that this represents an abandoned proof or trial printing, not least because of the lack of any captions.

Most significantly, several of the figures are using or holding weapons or instruments which are very similar to those depicted in several Baudinvoyage illustrations relating to the Aborigines around Port Jackson, notably the long spears with a distinctive barbed tip, the white shields with ochre strapping, as well as several clubs and spear-throwers. The clincher is without doubt the fact that in the background, standing on one leg, there is a figure who bears close comparison with the man known as “Morore” but named as “Courroubarigal” on the portrait bust of him executed by Petit (Baudin voyage account, plate XVIII).

Our research has shown that plate is clearly based on an original watercolour sold by Christie’s in 2002 (“The Freycinet Collection”, lot 95). That watercolour was attributed to PierreAntoine Marchais (after Nicolas-Martin Petit) by Christie’s: this attribution seems completely plausible, not least because Marchais had the curious distinction of working on scenes relating to the Baudin voyage in the 1820s while he was simultaneously working on newer plates relating to the Freycinet voyage.

$17,500

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[MARRA, John].

Journal of the Resolution’s Voyage, In 1772, 1773, 1774, and 1775.

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Octavo, folding frontispiece map and five plates, leaf D2 is a cancel as usual; a very good copy in modern polished light tan calf. London, F. Newbery, 1775.

The first published account of the Antarctic

First edition, the earliest account of any Antarctic exploration. This is the first full account of Cook’s second voyage to have been published, a surreptitious narrative that preceded the official account by some eighteen months.

Although published anonymously, this is known to have been the work of John Marra, a Cook regular who was also to be an Australian First Fleeter. As early as September 1775 Cook was aware of the authorship: he had asked the gunner Anderson whether he had written the journal, and Anderson had convinced Marra to come forward. Amazingly, Johann Forster, the controversial naturalist of the second voyage, assisted in getting the book ready for the press (see Kroepelien, 809).

The second voyage marked the first crossing of the Antarctic Circle, and Marra’s book thus contains ‘the first… firsthand account of the Antarctic regions…’ (Rosove, Antarctica, 17721922). The engravings include the earliest Antarctic landscape, thirty-eight pages of text deal with the Antarctic visit, and the main map shows the passage of Cook’s two ships to the high southern latitudes.

Beaglehole, II, pp. cliii-clv; Beddie, 1270; Davidson, A Book Collector’s Notes, p. 60; Hill, 1087; Holmes, 16; Kroepelien, 809; O’Reilly-Reitman, 379; Rosove, 214.A1.a; Spence, 758.

$11,000

MARSDEN, Samuel.

Important ALS from the Flogging Parson…

Two-page ALS in Marsden’s hand,on watermarked paper, 325 x 200 mm., original red wax seal, old folds; stamp for the Parramatta post office, very good. Parramatta, 29 April, 1831.

Marsden in Parramatta and New Zealand A letter from the aging and indefatigable Marsden to the pastoralists’ agent, George Ranken agreeing to terms, presumably for the leasing of a property.

In his tenure as Chaplain to the Colony and incumbent of St John’s Parramatta, Marsden had become a wealthy man and a considerable landowner. He was, that is, a controversial figure in New South Wales: most stinging were the charges levelled at him by Governor Macquarie and William Wentworth to which Marsden had responded in his An Answer to Certain Calumnies in the Late Governor Macquarie’s Pamphlet, and the Third Edition of Mr. Wentworth’s Account of Australasia (London, 1826).

This letter is written after Marsden’s sixth and penultimate visit to New Zealand from March to May 1830. He had visited for the first time with his daughter Mary and at some personal cost ‘played a vital part in restoring peace between the rival armies in the bloody Girls’ War. A no less significant move was to set up a farm at Waimate North, to render the settlers less dependent on uncertain and expensive supplies from New South Wales and to set an example of peaceful, constructive industry. He threw himself into the work of teaching the small groups of anxious young inquirers who visited him in the evenings, and preaching in Maori to the crowds who gathered round him wherever he went.’ (Dictionary of New Zealand Biography). Marsden had, with the backing of the Church Missionary Society, established the Church in New Zealand, and was responsible for transforming the Maori economy and making way for the annexation of New Zealand by the British.

In the wake of this visit, Marsden appears anxious for Kinghorne, (Alexander Kinghorne, the Civil Engineer of the Colony) to visit New Zealand as soon as possible and to organise the establishment of a mill, to further ensure the growth of a stable society and a self-sustaining economy. The letter underlines the difficulties of distance and terrain-his beloved son Charles (who was largely to dissipate his father’s bequest) is to travel to Bathurst as soon as the flooded South Creek Bridge will allow. The bridge, first built in 1813 by convict labour, was near Windsor on the Hawkesbury.

Letters by Marsden are important and rare on the market and this is a very good, late example.

$6250

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OXLEY, John.

Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales...

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Quarto, 3 folding maps or charts (the Chart of New South Wales with a small tear along a fold, but with no loss and a neat sealed tear), 2 folding tables, a folding engraved plate (repaired) and five aquatints, two with original hand-colouring; an attractive copy rebound in modern polished calf spine gilt-decorated. London, John Murray, 1820.

The first major book of inland exploration First edition: ‘arguably the most handsome of all Australian exploration journals… the foundation work in the field of Australian inland exploration and the first detailed description of the interior of New South Wales…’ (Australian Rare Books).

Oxley’s book is now also recognised as of great note for Oxley’s extensive notes on the Aboriginal tribes of the Wiradjuri of central New South Wales.

Oxley’s great narrative of his two major expeditions, the first detailed description of the Australian interior and the earliest book devoted to Australian inland exploration. Following the discovery of the Lachlan River by Evans in 1815, Macquarie appointed Oxley to lead an expedition to determine the course of the river and investigate its potential. A second expedition, to determine the course of the Macquarie River, was mounted in 1818 again with Evans as second-in-command to Oxley.

Although their prime objective was not met, the expedition saw some exceedingly important discoveries including lush grazing pastures and a fine harbour. The appendices in the present volume include comments relating to this latter voyage, notably a letter from Oxley to Governor Macquarie dated 12 June 1819.

The finely-drawn maps and aquatints include “A Native Chief of Bathurst”, prepared after a drawing by John Lewin. This is one of very few known Aboriginal subjects by Australia’s first professional artist. There are also views drawn by Major James Taylor from sketches by Evans.

Ferguson, 796; Greenway, 7402; Australian Rare Books, 107.

$8500

PATERSON, George.

The History of New South Wales…

Octavo, two maps and three plates, printed on rather cheap paper which is consequently a little browned and with some offsetting; very good in polished brown morocco by Bayntun/Riviere. Newcastle, Mackenzie and Dent, 1811.

Contemporary account of the Rum Rebellion A very scarce book. This is the first issue: a later version gave the author’s name on the title-page. Although appearing to be an early history of New South Wales, the earlier part is largely cribbed from Collins, and in fact the three engravings are all straight copies from that work. Other sections are taken from famous Australian works such as Tuckey, Mann, and other authors.

The fact that the book was published in 1811 also means that the work was able to include some of the latest news and reports from the infamous “Rum Rebellion” trial of George Johnston, printed in a substantial appendix. The evidence presented at the court-martial, and included here, was the ‘fullest, clearest and best substantiated account of the present state of the colony’.

Ferguson, 522.

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$5000

REID, Thomas.

Two Voyages to New South Wales and Van Diemen’s Land…

Octavo, the paper with some browning; a very good copy in attractive modern crushed green half morocco, gilt. London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1822.

Important account of life on board convict ships A rare Australian voyage, and ‘a valuable account of the treatment of transported convicts’ (Ferguson). This is the only edition of the book, which was dedicated to Elizabeth Fry, the English Quaker and prison reformer.

Reid’s book is of some importance as a serious and detailed account of transportation with considered notes on the actual convicts themselves (who were all too often tacitly ignored in narratives of voyages to New South Wales).

Ferguson, 876.

$1850

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[COOK: THIRD VOYAGE] RICKMAN, John.

Journal of Captain Cook’s Last Voyage to the Pacific Ocean…

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Octavo, with a folding map and five engraved plates (one folding); the leaf D4 cancelled as usual and replaced with four unsigned leaves; map neatly reinforced at the back of folds and with a short tear repaired, a trace of worming in the last 35 leaves, affecting some letters; a very good copy in contemporary calf, well rebacked, preserving original label for “Newbery’s Collection Voyages”. London, F. Newbery, 1781.

First full account in English of Cook’s third voyage The first full account in English of Cook’s third voyage: this is one of the most significant of the surreptitious accounts of Cook’s voyages - the unauthorised accounts published anonymously to avoid repercussions from the Admiralty, who had embargoed the publication of private narratives before the appearance of the official version. In this example, Rickman scooped the official version by a full three years.

Though published anonymously, this scarce and important account of the voyage was conclusively shown by Judge Howay (Zimmermann’s Captain Cook, Toronto, 1930) to have been the work of John Rickman, a lieutenant on the voyage. His description of the voyage, as well as predating the official account, differs from it in many respects particularly regarding the death of Cook, for which this is a prime source.

This is therefore the first full authentic description of Hawaii to appear in English, and the engraved frontispiece “Representation of the Murder of Capt. Cooke at O-Whyee” is in fact the first representation of Hawaii in a printed book.

This particular volume has an interesting spine label for “Newbery’s Collection Voyages” and is lettered volume “6”: although not well recorded, it is known that the publisher Newbery did in fact issue Rickman’s book as part of an imprompu series of voyage accounts (although the text is completely unchanged, and the series is only really noted in the binding).

Beddie, 1607; Davidson, A Book Collector’s Notes, p. 64; Hill, 1453; Hocken, p. 20 (wrongly attributing to Ledyard); Holmes, 38; Judd, 150; Kroepelien, 1076; Lada-Mocarski, 32; O’Reilly-Reitman, 415.

$12,000

SCHUTZ, Friedrich G., publisher.

Darstellung der fünf Welttheile durch Zufammenfetzung…

Handcoloured paper globe comprising six gores measuring 170 x 65 mm., wonderfully preserved with the original cord ties within the publisher’s folding card case with printed onlays; accompanied by a folding suite of 15 handcoloured lithographic plates measuring 97 x 130 mm. depicting the peoples of the Earth, and a loose engraved card sheet detailing the orbit and poles of the earth.

Stuttgart, Friedrich G. Schutz, circa 1820.

German handcoloured globe for children A splendid early nineteenth-century German handcoloured paper globe, here offered complete with the original publisher’s ensemble containing a folding suite of 15 plates depicting native peoples of the earth and other educational aids. Two of the plates depict Australian Aboriginal subjects.

The globe and its accompaniments are a fine example of late enlightenment publishing for the benefit of children. The publisher Schutz states his plan for a novel educational aid ‘to facilitate the introduction and use of geographic education in schools about the nature and classification of the earth’. By presenting the countries of the world as a readily assembled globe to be handled by children, abstract geographical concepts could be grasped with relative ease.

The paper globe is significant for the information that accompanies it, especially the suite of 15 folding plates illustrating the peoples of the world. Geographers and ethnologists of the early nineteenth-century were fascinated by the relationship between race, climate and environment. In this wonderful package Schutz presents the regions of the earth as a paper globe alongside skilfully lithographed depictions of its peoples. In this way geographical space is linked to costumes and appearances in a manner comprehensible for children. Two of the plates depict Australian Aborigines, one from Van Diemen’s Land and the other from New Holland (specifically, Western Australia), who is curiously illustrated with a bow and arrow. The Pacific Islands are represented by a Tahitian warrior in a tapa wrap brandishing an axe.

Paper children’s globes are rare by their very nature, and this example preserved in its complete, original condition is an unusual survival.

$9850

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SEWARD, Anna.

Elegy on Captain Cook…

Quarto, 23 pp., a tall copy, a few spots, very good; in attractive mid-twentieth century blue half roan, gilt, bookplate of White of Belltrees. London, J. Dodsley, 1781.

The most famous poetic tribute to Captain Cook Uncommon third edition, and an attractive copy of ‘one of the most influential odes on Captain Cook’ (Forbes). Numerous footnotes refer to events on the voyages, including mentions of kangaroos, surf, increasing modesty in Tahitian women, New Zealand hemp, the islanders’ morais, and so on.

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Seward (1747-1809), the “Swan of Lichfield,” produced so many poetic elegies and odes that it seemed impossible that anyone important could die during her lifetime without being memorialized. In a vein similar to the wag who remarked that Lydia Sigourney, “The Sweet Singer of Hartford,” had added “a new terror to death” by her poetic eulogies, Scott remarked that he could not ignore Sewell for fear of “my death being prematurely announced by a sonnet or an elegy” (DNB XVII, p. 1218).

Published early in 1781, this edition is textually identical to the second edition, but has evidently been closely reset rather than simply reprinted. The publication of a third edition so quickly is testament to the rapturous response to the Seward’s poem.

Beddie, 2439; Forbes, ‘Hawaiian National Bibliography’, 25 (note); Kroepelien, 1183; O’Reilly-Reitman, 9809.

$2850

SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe.

Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Octavo, 415 pp., bound without the errata; an attractive and fresh copy in contemporary polished green calf, a few scuffs. London, Hunt, 1824.

With the introduction by Mary Shelley An attractive copy of this important collection, with a short but poignant biographical notice by Mary Shelley.

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Shelley died in July 1822, drowned in the sea off Livorno. Mary spent the ensuing year in Genoa with Leigh Hunt and his family, but returned to London in 1823 where she was granted a small allowance by Percy’s disapproving father Sir Timothy, and busied herself with literary work, including editing many of his poems and manuscripts for this edition. It includes Julian and Maddalo, The Witch of Atlas, Letter to Maria Gisborne, The Triumph of Life, Prince Athanase, Ode to Naples, Mont Blanc, as well as fifty-nine ‘Miscellaneous Poems’, nine ‘Fragments’, five translations, and Alastor (included because the original volume, published in 1816, was now so scarce that even Mary had found it difficult to track down a copy).

Wise, A Shelley Library, p. 70.

$4250

STURT, Captain Charles.

Narrative of an Expedition into Central Australia…

Two volumes, octavo, with folding map and fifteen plates including six lithographs (both chromolithographic and handcoloured), complete with the publisher’s advertisements; bound in modern brown calf, gilt; together with the large folding map in a matching box. London, T. and W. Boone, 1849.

With separately-issued folding map by Arrowsmith First edition, first issue, with the three advertisement leaves for Lort Stokes, Leichhardt and Melville noted by Wantrup. This set is accompanied by the largeformat Arrowsmith map showing Sturt’s route into the inland.

The narrative of Charles Sturt’s last expedition to Coopers Creek and the Simpson Desert. His journey into the harsh interior of the continent was one for which he had petitioned over many years. One of its most important results was the final (and most reluctant) abandonment of any hope for the discovery of an inland sea.

During the expedition Sturt and his party of fifteen suffered dreadfully. This work is noteworthy for its detailed and engaging plates, some of which were engraved from field sketches by Sturt himself. The four attractive chromolithographic plates are after natural history studies by John Gould and Henry Constantine Richter.

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Ferguson, 5202; Australian Rare Books, 119 (text) & 120 (Arrowsmith map).

$2400

STURT, Captain Charles.

Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia…

Two volumes, octavo, two maps (a smaller chart and a large folding map, the latter with a few slight repairs, backed on linen) and 13 plates (four depicting newlydiscovered birds with original hand-colouring), bound with Stokes advertisement and half-titles; an attractive set in modern half green morocco, gilt. London, Smith, Elder and Co., 1833.

Sturt’s first major expeditions, with the Arrowsmith map Sturt’s account of his first two expeditions, both of which yielded highly important discoveries about the geography of inland Australia.

Sturt’s first expedition set out from Sydney in 1828, with a brief from Governor Darling to follow the course of the Macquarie River. Within the first month he, and his second-in-command Hamilton Hume, had discovered the extent of the Macquarie Marshes. To the north they discovered and named the Darling River, and went on to trace the Bogan and Castlereagh rivers into the Darling, and the Macquarie into the Castlereagh.

This is the first edition of Sturt’s account of over four thousand miles of exploration over a four-year period. It was written while Sturt was in England, undergoing treatment for the blindness that had struck him during the voyage home.

Ferguson, 1704; Australian Rare Books 118a.

$2150

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SUMMERS, Charles.

Intercolonial Exhibition Medal.

Large copper medal, 220 mm. diameter, impressed “C. Summers Sculp.” And “W. Calvert fecit”; medal in fine original condition, housed in original printed mount laid down on timber, 444 x 360 mm., the mount worn, with some restoration. Melbourne, 1866-1867.

By the sculptor of the Burke & Wills memorial A fine example of the elegant neo-classical work of Charles Summers, Australia’s leading sculptor of the nineteenth century. Summers won many official commissions, including the supervision of the stone carvings for the Victorian Parliament House, the execution of the Burke and Wills memorial, the biggest bronze casting ever undertaken in Australia, and the design of this medal for the Intercolonial Exhibition.

The maker of the medal was William Calvert, a Melbourne-based engraver, lithographer and draughtsman. Coincidentally his brother, Samuel Calvert, was a silver medallist himself at the Intercolonial Exhibition. This particular copper example of the medal was awarded to John Jones of Sheepshead, Victoria, probably a local blacksmith, for ‘driving three picks’ (Official Catalogue of the Intercolonial Exhibition 1866-7, no. 37, p. 48).

$3750

TENCH, Captain Watkin.

A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson, in New South Wales…

Quarto, with a folding map, new endpapers; contemporary tree calf rebacked, a fine clean copy.

London, Nicol and Sewell, 1793.

Tench’s second book detailing the early years

Tench’s second book, completing his account of the settlement at Sydney Cove. This is a most attractive copy of this very readable account, which continues the story to cover the first four years of the colony. Tench left New South Wales with the other marines on 18 December 1791 aboard HMS Gorgon which had accompanied the Third Fleet and his book was published in November or December 1793, more than a year after his return.

Tench’s second publication paints a comprehensive view of daily life in the settlement through years of hardship and severe shortages. An understanding and intelligent observer of human nature, he gives vivid insights into the often strained relationships between convict labourers and the marines set to guard them. His account is praised as the most insightful and detailed description of the social fabric of the penal colony, in contrast to other more formal and official narratives. Tench also describes his significant explorations of the landscape of the Sydney basin and forays into the Blue Mountains, while providing sympathetic descriptions of their contact with the Eora Aboriginal people. The book includes a folding map providing an excellent survey of known lands, it details Botany Bay and Broken Bay along the coast and inland to the Nepean river, with numerous engraved notes on the landscape with a view to future farming and grazing ventures.

Crittenden, ‘A Bibliography of the First Fleet’, 238; Ferguson, 171; not in the catalogue of the Hill collection; Australian Rare Books, 16.

$12,000

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TUCKEY, Lieutenant James Hingston.

An Account of a Voyage to Establish a Colony at Port Philip in Bass’s Strait, on the south coast of New South Wales, in His Majesty’s Ship Calcutta in the years 1802-3-4.

Octavo, bound with the often absent half-title, pp xvi, 240; modern half black morocco with marbled boards, a few blind library stamps (old) with the bookplate of Geoffrey Ingleton. London, Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 1805.

Tuckey on Port Phillip First edition: the only contemporary publication describing Victoria’s abortive and Tasmania’s successful First Fleet. The Calcutta sailed from England in 1802, with the intention of establishing a settlement at Port Phillip under the command of Lieutenant Governor Collins.

The hostility of the natives, the lack of water, and other problems of environment caused the abandonment of the settlement after some months, and part of the expedition continued to found Hobart.

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Tuckey, first lieutenant on the Calcutta, was one of those who continued from Port Phillip to Sydney and then back to England. He gives a highly lucid narrative description of the events of the voyage and of life on the short-lived Port Phillip settlement. Port Phillip was not settled for more than twenty years as a result of the expedition’s failure, and was used only occasionally as a harbour by the whalers and sealers of Bass Strait, until the military settlement of Western Port - once again abortive - in 1826.

“An important addition to any collection of Australian books or of books relating to coastal discovery and essential to any collection dealing with the settlement of Victoria or Tasmania…” (Wantrup).

The Ingleton copy with his bookplate and shelfmark.

Australian Rare Books, 22; pp.83-84; Ferguson, 418.

$4250

TURNBULL, John.

A Voyage Round the World…

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Quarto, half-title, final leaf neatly repaired; modern half calf spine decorated in compartments, black title-label gilt lettered. With the bookplate of Tristan Buesst and an early inked inscription dated July,1823, a very good uncut copy London, A. Maxwell, 1813.

Second and best edition Second and best edition of this important voyage account, describing a speculative trading voyage into the Pacific: the earlier edition was so much slighter that this second edition is more like a new work. It contains substantial additions to all chapters, revising and expanding each by eight years. An additional chapter on New South Wales, an account of New Zealand, a narrative of Baudin’s voyage on the Geographe and Naturaliste, the destruction of the ship Boyd and a description of the Fiji Islands all appear here for the first time.

Hawaii One Hundred, 16; Borba de Moraes, p. 871; Hill, 1728; Judd, 176; Kroepelien, 1306; O’ReillyReitman, 718; Australian Rare Books, 52.

$7500

VANCOUVER, Captain George.

A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean, and round the world…

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Complete set, three volumes, quarto, with 18 engraved plates of views (one supplied), folio atlas with 16 large plates of charts and views on renewed stubs; handsomely bound in modern quarter calf with speckled papered boards and vellum tips, spines gilt in compartments, retaining the original crimson labels, the text volumes with the armorial bookplate of an early owner., G.G. and J. Robinson, 1798.

With the chart of Albany and the SW coast of Australia First edition of this great voyage, “one of the most important ever made” (Hill), and of considerable significance for its discoveries in and charting of the south-west coast of Australia.

Vancouver’s chart of the “S.W. Coast of New Holland” is the West’s equivalent of Cook’s chart of Botany Bay. George Vancouver (1757-1798), got his early training as a midshipman and later Lieutenant on Cook’s second and third voyages. After his return he spent most of the 1780s in West Indian waters, before being appointed, in 1791, to command of a major scientific expedition to focus on the northwest Pacific: the successes of Cook’s voyages were very much in mind in the planning of this expedition, and it was no coincidence that Vancouver’s new command was named Discovery, explicitly in honour of the vessel of that name that had sailed on Cook’s third voyage. Vancouver sailed to the Pacific by way of Australia where, in 1791, he made landfall on the then largely unknown south-west coast and discovered and named King George III Sound (modern Albany). This was the first English visit to any part of the west coast since Dampier, whose poor reports had led to the neglect of that part of the continent. Indeed, the west was explicitly excluded from Governor Phillip’s otherwise extensive realm, with the western boundary of his authority stopping at the famous “Pope’s line”, the line that still constitutes the inland border of Western Australia.

After leaving the south-west coast, Vancouver unsuccessfully attempted to enter the Great Australian Bight, discovering and charting Point Hood on its western extremity. He then sailed past Van Diemen’s Land into the Pacific, visiting New Zealand, Hawaii, and the Northwest coast of America. During the course of three seasons, he surveyed Alaska, the Northwest Coast, investigated the Straits of Juan de Fuca, discovered the Strait of Georgia, and circumnavigated Vancouver Island. He visited San Francisco, Monterey and other Spanish Settlements in Alta California, and made three visits to the Hawaiian Islands where he introduced cattle from Monterey. The expedition’s storeship Daedalus sailed twice to Port Jackson, to deliver cattle and stores for the colony and despatches for Phillip - including Vancouver’s charts of the south-west coast of Australia - and others for transmission back to London. Daedalus also collected such stores as were available at Port Jackson for the expedition. Vancouver also mentions that his ship was carrying breadfruit for planting at Norfolk Island.

Cook would have approved of the accuracy of Vancouver’s charting, which survived almost unchanged into modern times, and certainly Vancouver had learned the lessons of long voyages from his old captain, with only five men of a complement of 180 being lost in over four years at sea. But it is also true that by 1794 Vancouver was subject to wild mood swings and erratic behaviour which led to him being feared and sometimes mocked by his men (in modern times it has been argued that he was suffering from some form of hypothyroidism, possibly Grave’s Disease). His health was ruined by the time they returned to England in 1795. Vancouver retired to Petersham to prepare this publication for the press, but in an eerie foreshadowing of the fate of his successor Flinders, died at age 40 while the account was nearing publication.

Ferguson, 281; Forbes, 298; Hill, 1753; Lada-Mocarski, 55; Australian Rare Books, 63a.

$55,000

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