NATURAL CURIOSITY: Unseen Art of the First Fleet by ANEMAAT, Louise - 2014

Sydney, Library Council of New South Wales, 1990.. Lge. 4to; pp. xv, 190; frontispiece; stiff illustrated wrapper, tape spine, a fine copy.

State Library of NSW, Sydney, New South Wales - 1990 Softcover, 21cms x 29½cms (8¼" x 11½") Archive Guide in GOOD condition Mitchell Library Manuscripts Guides, No. 13. ANGUS & ROBERTSON began business as a Sydney bookseller in 1884 and rose to become the nation's largest bookseller, printer and publisher. The company has headed by George Robertson, a Scot, who assembled the company's publishing records, annotating some documents, into this collection dated to 1933. Correspondence, mss, photographs and publishing papers - included those with Henry Lawson, Banjo Paterson, C J Dennis, May Gibbs, Mary Gilmore, Norman Lindsay and Ethel Turner (plus 50 others) - form the archive topics detailed in this Guide. A short history of the company to 1989, when publishing activities were merged with William Collins, is also included.

NSW: Published by New South Publishing, 2014. 4to. pp.258 with many colour and black & white illustrations. Original pictorial flexible boards with a small bump to bottom of the spine. Else a fine unmarked copy. A sense of awe swept through natural history circles in eighteenth-century London when the first ships returned from Sydney with their cargo of exotic animals, birds and plants - and striking watercolour illustrations. The sudden emergence, in 2011, of a large number of these watercolour illustrations has revealed much about the early years of the colony. In Natural Curiosity, Louise Anemaat uncovers never-before-published works from the artists of the First Fleet, including convicts-turned-watercolourists Thomas Watling and John Doody, and the anonymous 'Port Jackson Painter'.