Sir Joseph Banks, 18th Century Explorer, Botanist and Entrepreneur
Sydney: A.H. & A.W. Reed, 1980. 8vo, boards, dustjacket, colour and b&w plates, pp 248. Very slight wear to d.j., o/w near-fine.
Sydney: A.H. & A.W. Reed, 1980. 8vo, boards, dustjacket, colour and b&w plates, pp 248. Very slight wear to d.j., o/w near-fine.
Tours: Alfred Mame et Fils, 1883. Durand -Brager (Illus). 4th ed., text in French, 4to., pp 400, b/w fronts., b/w plates by Durand -Brager, a.e.g., sm. tears to f.f.e.p., orig. pubisher's bds., rubbed corners, chipping to upper and lower spine, small stain to front bd, all edges gilt, contents very.....
London: Hurst, Chance and Co, 1830. 1st ed., first issue, octavo, pp. xxiv, 428, (i, Supplemental note), foxing to several pages (pp.xxii-xxiv, 1-5). Present are two double page plates, "Australia Flag" and the hand coloured plate, "Plan of Town for Australia". However, the volume lacks the map and 3 of.....
Sydney: David Ell Press, 1987. Limited Edition, quarto, pp.x, (11)-340, incl Index, col. and b&w plates, some foxing to top edge, orig gilt titled cloth bds, d.j. Near fine condn. The book documents all known views (paintings, drawings, prints and objects) made during the first four decades of settlement in.....
'S-Gravenhage (The Hague): Martinus Nijhoff, 1919. Royal 8vo, original blue cloth boards decorated in gilt, ten maps (three in colour and folding), b&w text illus, pp xcix, 300, light foxing to first few pages, uncut, top edge gilt, rubbing to edges and lower spine, with some loss to lettering o/w.....
Canberra: Roebuck Society, 1971. Quarto, cloth boards, dustjacket, b&w plates, maps, pp iii, 51. Previous owner's signature. Very good condition in very good d.j.
Perth: ACE Pty Ltd, 2013. Illus by Charles Lesueur, Nicolas Petit, Jacques Arago. 1st ed., quarto, 2 volumes, transcribed volume in French from original manuscript together with translated volume in English, profusely illustrated with works from the Kerry Stokes Collection, both volumes in cloth backed pictorial boards, fine condition in.....
Perth: ACE Pty Ltd, 2013. Illus by Charles Lesueur, Nicolas Petit, Jacques Arago. 1st ed., quarto, 2 volumes, transcribed volume in French from original manuscript together with translated volume in English, profusely illustrated with works from the Kerry Stokes Collection, both volumes bound in full leather, fine condition, the two.....
Lond. John Murray, 1892. Octavo, original blue cloth boards with darker blue spine, gilt titles, b&w frontis portrait plate, b&w illus, folding colour map, index, pp xxiv, 540. Pencilled notes rear endpaper. Fading / spotting edge of rear board. Very good condition. The Challenger expedition of 1872 - 1876 was.....
Sydney: Collins, 1986. 1st ed., 4to., pp 192 incl. index, biblio., b/w and col. Ills., or. cl. bds., light creasing to d.j. o/w near fine condition in d.j. Includes William Dampier, Charles Darwin, Joseph Banks, Captain Cook, Sydney Parkinson, Freycinet expedition and many of the Australian explorers and naturalists such.....
Sydney: Hachette, 2012. Octavo, cloth boards, dustjacket, colour and b&w plates, endpaper maps, pp xiii, 386. Gift inscription title page. Light edgewear. Very good condition.
Sydney: HarperCollins, 2016. Octavo, cloth boards, dustjacket, colour and b&w plates, maps, pp 374. Gift inscription front free endpaper. Near-fine condition. The story of the clipper ships and the many migrants they brought to Australia in the nineteenth century.
Artamon (NSW): Antipodean, 1974. Quarto, wraps, colour and b&w illus, maps, pp 64. Previous owner's signature, occasional pencil marks, good condition.
London: James Cochrane, 1835. 1st ed., octavo, pp x, ii, 132, viii pp publisher's advertisements. Frontis engraved portrait of the author, and five plates, one hand-coloured. Rebound in quarter leather, lettered and ruled in gilt to spine, original cloth sides, new endpapers.Ex-library stamps, pages tanned, foxing mainly to title-page and.....
London: Folio Society, 2016. Introd. Peter Campbell. Original quarter-cloth with illustrated upper board, colour plates, notes, bibliography, index, pp xxvi, 409. Near fine condition in like slipcase. Patrick O'Brian's comprehensive biography of Joseph Banks (1743-1820) the naturalist and botanist, who sailed with Cook on the Endeavour to the South Pacific.....
Canberra: National Library of Australia, 2010. Quarto, wraps, colour illus, pp x, 258. Fine condition. The animals of the new colony of New South Wales were viewed as odd and even unbelievable. Lavishly illustrated with early European images, and includes descriptions of species from collectors' and natyralists' journals, showing how.....
Sydney: Hordern House, 1991. Commentary by Gavin Fry of the Australian National Maritime Museum. Octavo, handbound in half maroon calf with marbled paper sides, b&w illus. Edition limited to 750 copies. Ex-lib stamp. First published in 1795. Mary Ann Parker travelled to New South Wales and back in 1791-2 on.....
Boston: Little, Brown, 1865. Octavo, original cloth boards, maps, pp xxii, 420. French explorers in the Americas, 1488-1635.
London: John Murray, 1824. 1st edition, quarto. pp. [8], xxx, [2], 571, [1]; 30 engraved plates incl. frontis., 26 after Captain Lyon, 4 folding views of elevations after J. Bushnan, 9 maps (4 folding) after Bushnan and Lyon, other illustrations in text, scattered foxing mainly to prelims with off-setting to.....
Sydney: Hordern House, 1994. Limited Edition of 750 copies, octavo, quarter-calf, marbled boards, b&w frontis, b&w plates, fold-out plates, pp xxiii, 162. Very good condition. First published in 1647, reissued with a translation from the original Dutch and a commentary by Martin Terry of the Australian National Maritime Museum. Edition.....
Minneapolis: Tilta Apgads, 1951. 8vo, original cloth boards, dustjacket, pp 269. Pages toned, good condition in poor, chipped d.j. Text in Latvian. Scarce. First published in Riga in 1942.
Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2018. Large octavo, wraps, b&w illus, maps, pp xvii, 435. Mint condition. The exploration of the monsoon coast, from Broome to Thursday Island.
New York: Walker and Co, 2004. 1st ed., octavo, pp.xii, 372, inc. Index, b&w plates, maps, text illus., endpaper maps, original bds lightly bumped, d.j. in protective sleeve. Near fine condition. Biography of pirate, explorer and scientist William Dampier (1651-1715). English poet and philosopher, Samuel Taylor Coleridge called Dampier a......
London: William P. Nimmo & Co., 1874. 1st ed., octavo, original decorated cloth boards, engraved frontis portraiits plate, illus vignette halftitle page, 4 folding maps, pp 831 plus publisher's catalogue. Last page from the table of contents has corner torn off. Waterstain to the edge of approx. first 70 pages.....
NSW: Surrey Beatty & Sons, 1990. 1st ed., quarto, pictorial boards, b&w plates, b&w text illus, maps, endpaper maps, bookseller's ticket front paste-down, pp.296. Near fine condition. Study of navigators' explorations around the coast, from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century.