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A FAMILY AFFAIR: WITH SIGNATURES OF BLIGH & HIS WIFE BETSY [BLIGH FAMILY]
Document signed by William and Elizabeth Bligh and others…[detail opposite]
Exeter,1702-1802.
$22,500 5001018 at hordern.com
GREAT CLASSIC OF THE LITERATURE OF THE SEA BLIGH, William.
A Voyage to the South Sea…
London, George Nicol, 1792.
$12,500 5000660 at hordern.com
THE THÉTIS VOYAGE, WITH SUPERB LITHOGRAPHS
[BOUGAINVILLE, Hyacinthe Y.P.P. de] TOUANNE, Vicomte de la.
Album pittoresque de la frégate La Thétis et de la corvette l’Espérance…
Paris, chez Bulla, 1828.
$27,500 5000819 at hordern.com
BUILD A WALL “LEST THE ENGLISH SHOULD…BRING HERESY.” CAMPANELLA, Tommaso.
De Monarchia Hispanica… Amsterdam, Louis Elzevir, 1653.
$3450 3806730 at hordern.com
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Detail from a a vellum manuscript indenture with the signatures of William and Elizabeth Bligh.
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THE EARLY HISTORY OF FLETCHER CHRISTIAN
[CHRISTIAN, Fletcher] CHRISTIAN, Ann and John CHRISTIAN[-CURWEN].
Manuscript financial agreement signed by Fletcher Christian’s mother, and her cousin…
London, Rolls Building, 12 January 1776.
$12,500 5000936 at hordern.com
THE FIRST ENGLISHMAN ON THE AUSTRALIAN CONTINENT:
DAMPIER, William.
A Collection of Voyages…
London, Printed for James and John Knapton, 1729.
$21,500 5000658 at hordern.com
PICKWICK IN THE ORIGINAL PARTS
DICKENS, Charles.
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club.
London, Chapman and Hall, 1836-1837.
$16,500 5000624 at hordern.com
WRITTEN FROM THE SIRIUS, FLAGSHIP OF THE FIRST FLEET FOWELL, Newton.
Autograph letter signed, to his father. [illustrated opposite] HMS Sirius, Portsmouth,10 May 1787.
$165,000 5001062 at hordern.com
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Original letter by Newton Fowell, dated “Sirius, 10 May 1787” written aboard the flagship of the First Fleet just three days before she set sail for Botany Bay.
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THE PRIEST OF GUAM TAKES HIS EASE ON THE FREYCINET VISIT
[FREYCINET VOYAGE] ARAGO, Jacques.
“M le curé d’Agana en petit negligé”. [illustrated on back cover] Guam,1819.
$14,500 4504053 at hordern.com
“ONE OF THE RAREST ITEMS OF EARLY AUSTRALIANA”
GONNEVILLE, Jean Paulmier de Courtonne, de.
Mémoires touchant l’Etablissement d’une Mission Chrestienne dans le Troisième Monde…
Paris, chez Claude Cramoisy, 1663.
$84,000 5000981 at hordern.com
ILLUSTRATED BY REDOUTÉ
LABILLARDIERE, Jacques Julien Houtou de.
Icones Plantarum Syriae rariorum…
Paris, at the author’s expense, and Strasbourg, Amand Koenig; [part 2 also Turin and Frankfurt; part 3 Paris, Huzard, only], 1791/1791/1809.
$3800 5000280 at hordern.com
FIRST APPEARANCE OF THE MACROBIAN WORLD MAP
MACROBIUS, Ambrosius Theodosius.
In somnium Scipionis expositio… Brescia, Boninus de Boninis, 1483.
$225,000 4504803 at hordern.com
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ELIZABETH BAY & SYDNEY PAINTED FROM MRS DARLING’S POINT ROAD
MARTENS, Conrad.
View of Elizabeth Bay and Sydney… [illustrated on front cover]
Sydney, c 1845.
$68,750 5000833 at hordern.com
THE TERRES AUSTRALES, SIEUR DE GONNEVILLE & BOUVET DE LOZIER
MAUPERTUIS, P.-L. Moreau de. Lettre sur le progrès des sciences.
N.P. [Berlin?],1752.
$9850 6000006 at hordern.com
NATURAL HISTORY FOR THE POPULAR MARKET
[MAVOR, William Fordyce] MARTYN, William Frederick.
A New Dictionary of Natural History; or, Compleat Universal Display or Animated Nature…
London, Harrison & Co., 1785.
$9750 4505058 at hordern.com
FLORIO’S GREAT TRANSLATION OF MONTAIGNE
MONTAIGNE, Michel de.
Essayes… [translated by] John Florio.
London, Melch. Bradwood for Edward Blount and William Barret, 1613.
$8500 5000740 at hordern.com
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A SPLENDID EXAMPLE OF THE GREAT SEAL OF NSW NEW SOUTH WALES: SEAL.
Great Seal of the Colony of New South Wales… Sydney,circa 1827-1833.
$9850 6000001 at hordern.com
RARE AND BEAUTIFUL STUDY OF TATTOOING IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC NOURY, Charles-Gaëtan.
Album Polynésien…
Nantes, Olivier Merson, 1861.
$28,750 5000260 at hordern.com
THE FIRST GREEK BOOK PRINTED AT ROME PINDAR (c.522–c.443 BC).
Olympia, Pythia, Nemea, Isthmia [in Greek]…[illustrated opposite]
Rome, Zacharias Kallierges (for Cornelio Benigno), 13 August 1515.
$14,500 5000912 at hordern.com
CONSIDERED FOR THE GOVERNORSHIP: SOUTHEY’S LONG POEM ON BOTANY BAY SOUTHEY, Robert. Poems.
Bristol, Printed by N. Biggs for Joseph Cottle, and G.G. and J. Robinson, London, 1797; [vol. 2:] Bristol: Printed by Biggs and Cottle for T.N. Longman and G. Rees.
$7850 5000771 at hordern.com
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Editio romana of the Odes of Pindar, the first separate edition, the first Greek book to be printed in Rome, 1515.
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THE FIRST AUSTRALIAN BOTANICAL BOOK TO BE ILLUSTRATED FROM LIVE SPECIMENS
SWEET, Robert.
Flora Australasica…[illustrated opposite]
London, James Ridgway, 1827.
$11,850
6000018 at hordern.com
THE FIRST NATURAL HISTORY OF THE COLONY, FINELY COLOURED
WHITE, John.
Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales [coloured copy]…
London, J. Debrett, 1790.
$17,500
5001145 at hordern.com
Illustrated on front cover: from Conrad Marten’s View of Elizabeth Bay and Sydney...c1845 , detail showing Elizabeth Bay House
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Illustrated on back cover
Original drawing by Jacques Arago on the Freycinet visit to Guam, 1819 captioned “M le curé d’Agana en petit negligé”..
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Illustrated opposite Flora Australascia, 1827. The first Australian botany illustrated from live specimens.
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