NEW SOUTH WALES NATIONAL DIRECTORY for 1867-68. Including Sydney, Bathurst, Maitland, Newcastle, Goulburn, Forbes, Armidale Tamworth, Grafton, Murrurundi, Muswellbrook, Singleton, Mudge, etc. by WALTER SAMSON & CO'S and Walter Jameson MEYER.: - 1866

Tyrrells, Sydney, 1915. First Edition. Hardcover (Embossed Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Norman Lindsay. Cover and loose colour insert by Norman Lindsay. Special Limited Edition of 250. Size: Quarto. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact, but spine is foxed. Moderate foxing front/rear pages, but body of book mostly clean and unfoxed. Deckled edges (rough cut), browned. Illustrator: Norman Lindsay. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Antiquarian & Rare; Australia; 1900-1920; Australian Literature; Poetry. All our pictures shown here are of the actual item, not stock photos. Inventory No: 8962. .

Sydney, NSW, Australia: The Dene Bindery, 1981. General wear to boards. Foxing to title pages. First published in 1909. Being reprints of drawings issued with "The Australasian Coachbuilder and Wheelwright. 56 drawings (many fold out) covering everything from the Baker's Delivery Wagon to the Prince George Cart. . Facsimile Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

1838 1ed Shipwreck of Stirling Castle Australia James Fraser Voyages Illustrated

The Stirling Castle was a Scottish ship who is remembered for its fateful voyage where it wrecked near Queensland, Australia. Commanded by James Fraser, this ship was on an excursion toward Singapore where they ran aground on the reefs. Those that survived the wreck were taken into camps by local Aboriginal people of the Butchulla tribes.

'The Shipwreck of the Stirling Castle' is a rare account of the wreck and the events of the survivors. Written by John Curtis, this book describes the tortures endured by the survivors, including Fraser's wife Eliza. In addition to describing the wreck and the local tribes, Curtis describes the landscape of Australia and Amboyana Islands, account of 'kangaroo dogs' (dingo), influence of the British government and British missionaries in Australia, along with impressive full-page engravings depicting events of the voyage. One notable engraving is an illustration of Captain Fraser being… Read More

1853 1ed Natives of Papua New Guinea Australia Aborigines Illustrated MAP Earl
'The Ethnographical Library'
was a series of essays and reports on various tribes and human traits conducted by Edwin Norris. Norris included the works of various ethnology scholars including George Earl's "Native Races of the Indian Archipelago, Papuans". This volume is one of the best reports on the indigenous people in Papua New Guinea focusing on the aboringal tribes of Melville Island and Northern Australia.
This 1853 first edition contains numerous full-page and folding engravings including a frontispiece of a Dourga Strait hunter and a map of New Guinea!
Item number: #19802
Price: $499
EARL, George Windsor
The Ethnographical Library… The native races of the Indian Archipelago : Papuans
London : Hippolyte Bailliere, 1853. First edition.

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Collation: Complete with all pages;
o 'Papuans' – 5, [3], xiv, 239, [1]
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Provenance: Handwritten – E. S. Mills
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Language: English
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London, printed for M. Jones, 1802-1803.. FIRST EDITIONS 2 volumes 1803 and 1802, by George Barrington Superintendent of the Convicts. To which is prefixed a Detail of His Life, Trials, Speeches, &c. &c. Enriched with beautiful Coloured Prints. AN ACCOUNT OF A VOYAGE TO NEW SOUTH WALES 1803. 8vo, approximately 210 x 125 mm, 8¼ x 5 inches, engraved frontispiece portrait of the author, engraved title page with hand coloured vignette of an aborigine fishing from a boat, a folding hand coloured map of NSW, 10 hand coloured plates including 4 views of Sidney, A Native Family, The Cape of Good Hope, The Peak of Teneriffe, Pinchgut Islands, Spotted Hyena and Camelopard, the last 2 on 1 plate, pages: (8), 1-467, (5 - index), lacking Directions to the Binder, not always included in this edition, bound in modern quarter burgundy morocco over marbled sides, raised bands, gilt rules and gilt ship motif in compartments, 2 dark brown gilt lettered labels. Pale age-browning to text, occasional pale foxing to a… Read More

Adelaide: The Cyclopedia Company. 1907& 1909. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Good+ condition in original half-leather binding. Gilt to page edges. Corners, top and tail of spine lightly rubbed. Gilt to spine still clear. Gilt page edges. Previous owner's details to preliminary pages. Black & white illustrations. Overall a very nice set. This is a very heavy item [weighs 6.25kg unpacked] and will require substantial additional postage costs for an international sale. 630 pages. The Cyclopedia contains a vast resource of historical and biographical information on South Australia - the people, towns, industries, professional, commercial and social institutions and much more. The volumes include thousands of illustrations, the larger number of these being portraits of those whose biographies are included. These are not just the wealthy and influential, but include quite a number of "ordinary citizens". . 1st Edition. Hardback.

London: W. & R. Chambers, 1912. First Edition. N. Parker. First edition of this justly famous children's book with anthropomorphised kangaroo characters - 'perhaps the best known story entirely devoted to the kangaroo' (Robert Holden 'The Mint Exhibition' 1985). Twelve stories of kangaroos told in verse with many small drawings in sepia and twelve beautifully printed, full-page, partially-coloured plates. Quarto, full colour pictorial boards, edge rubbing, corner wear, chipping of paper at spine ends and along spine edges, two pages with minor nicks at page edge, clean and bright, a very good copy indeed overall.

1889 1ed Queensland Cannibals Lumholtz Australia Aborigine Illustrated Maps

The Norwegian, naturalist, anthropologist and explorer Carl Lumholtz spent four years in Australia from 1880. Lumholtz' expedition to Australia was partly paid at the expense of the University of Christiania, to collect zoological and zootomical material for the museums of the University, and research the manners and anthropology of the natives, and among the cannibals. Lumholtz succeeded in securing a large collection of zoological specimens and discovered four new mammals - a tree kangaroo and three opossums, which are depicted in the colored lithographed plates. He collected four new species of mammals with his account of his travels, Among Cannibals, containing detailed observations of Aboriginal life.
This 1889 first edition includes 2 folding colored maps, 29 plates including frontispiece portrait and 4 colored lithographs, and numerous in text illustrations.
Item number: #13415
Price: $499
LUMHOLTZ, Carl
Among… Read More

1853 1ed Tasmania Australia Meredith Aborigines Poison Animals Plants Sydney

'My Home in Tasmania' is a travel account with descriptions of the settlement, settlers, their manners, and Tasmanian plants and animals. Meredith includes information on Sydney, gardens, prisoner-servants, colonial roads, eastern marshes, black swans, kelp forests, oysters, orchards, aborigines, tiger, poison fanged snakes, wasps, mawpawk, and much more!
This 1859 first American edition includes reproductions of black and white pen and ink drawings.
Item number: #13414
Price: $499
MEREDITH, Charles
My Home in Tasmania; or, Nine Years in Australia
New York: Bunce and Brother, 1853. First American Edition.

Details:
· Collation: Complete with all pages
o x, 370, [8]
o 6 plates
· Language: English
· Binding: Hardcover; tight & secure
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· Size: ~7.5in X 5.5in (19cm x 14cm)
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London, printed for M. Jones, 1802-1803.. FIRST EDITIONS 2 volumes 1803 and 1802, by George Barrington Superintendent of the Convicts. To which is prefixed a Detail of His Life, Trials, Speeches, &c. &c. Enriched with beautiful Coloured Prints. AN ACCOUNT OF A VOYAGE TO NEW SOUTH WALES 1803. 8vo, approximately 210 x 125 mm, 8¼ x 5 inches, engraved frontispiece portrait of the author, engraved title page with hand coloured vignette of an aborigine fishing from a boat, a folding hand coloured map of NSW, 10 hand coloured plates including 4 views of Sidney, A Native Family, The Cape of Good Hope, The Peak of Teneriffe, Pinchgut Islands, Spotted Hyena and Camelopard, the last 2 on 1 plate, pages: (8), 1-467, (5 - index), lacking Directions to the Binder, not always included in this edition, bound in modern quarter burgundy morocco over marbled sides, raised bands, gilt rules and gilt ship motif in compartments, 2 dark brown gilt lettered labels. Pale age-browning to text, occasional pale foxing to a… Read More