Australiana

Calcutta: Surveyor General of India, 1925. Revised Edition. Linen-backed. Near Fine. Calcutta, India, 1925. Color "heliozincographed" map. Measures 46.5cm x 43cm (18¼" x 17"). Backed with linen as issued (for 3 anna extra). "Published under the direction of Brigadier E. A. Tandy, DSO, Surveyor of India, 1925." Condition: Slight edge toning, old folds. With the rubber-stamp of "Henri Vetch, The French Bookstore," Peking. Detailed topographic map of the territory that would become critical in the CBI - China-Burma-India Theater - during WWII. From a historic-cartographic standpoint, the need for accurate maps in executing Allied wartime logistics cannot have been more vital. Approaches to China by land and sea had been cut off by the Japanese. As a result, the burdensome "Hump" had to be surmounted. The E. A. Tandy-directed survey that generated this map would prove invaluable in negotiating that effort. That this copy was sold by Henri Vetch adds a hint of intrigue. More than a bookstore, Vetch's… Read More

Melbourne Australia: Sands, Kenny & Co, 1860. Orig cloth hardback, gilt title fr.cvr./spine. Pp.3 (adverts.)+ 407 + 2 (adverts) + 51 (adverts). First/last adverts paste downs. Contents: Almanac/Calendar + Directories :- North,East,West Melb. * Carlton,Fitzroy,Richmond. * East Collingwood,South Yarra, Prahran, St.Kilda, Emerald Hill, Sandridge, Williamstown &c. Streets - Suburban alphabetical. *Trade & professional incl Banks. *Societies & institutions incl Govt.. *Religious, legal, postal. *Miscellaneous - Tariffs, newspapers etc. Condition - Covers handling marks, stains, ink writing spine/cvr. sml tear spine.Bump cnrs., no major damage - fair. Text: Usage marks (fingers,ink) name previous owner (ink) 3 pp. Pp171-202 need restitch. Some later pages t/r cnrs turned. Despite faults, text remarkably clean, complete. Text VG. Covers fair. Rarely offered. Please note: Due to International mail delivery problems, we currently send items only to Australian addresses.

London: Sampston Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1878. First edition. Two volumes, small thick octavo, pp xvi, 312; viii, 371, a duplicate from a reference library, with labels on the endpapers, a stamp and neat manuscript numbers on each title page, and the occasional small oval stamp on internal pages, remains of a shelf label on each spine, original brown cloth slightly marked and worn, slightly dusty internally but overall in very good condition. A good sound set.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good.

London: Robert Hardwicke for The Ray Society [1866 - 1868]. Three volumes. Volume I - octavo, pp viii, 612, top edge gilt, a little age-toned throughout, later green cloth in good condition, a duplicate from King's College Library with discard stamp on the title page and two earlier stamps of the London Institute, ( devoted to Geographico-Botanical and Structural & Physiological Memoirs]. Volume II - Octavo, pp viii, 786, a little used and marked internally, the first few pages slightly foxed, otherwise sound and tight, original cloth rubbed, faded and slightly worn [Systematic Memoirs and Contributions to Systematic Works]. Volume III - Atlas of Plates, folio, pp 15 + 38 fine litho plates (some folding), many by Ferdinand Bauer, slight foxing, some hinges cracked and weak, and one plate nearly detached, original cloth-backed boards, a little worn and marked. A heavy set - extra postage may be needed. RARE. [Robert Brown, 1773 -1858, was a Scottish botanist and paleobotanist who made… 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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This is a comprehensive, profusely iluustrated history of the Gogo fish fiossil sites in Australia.

Very rare complete set of 5 volumes, all in good shape. Volume 1 is a llibrary copy with the usual signs. Other volumes contain ex-libris sticker.

Henri Charriere. Papillon. 1970 William Morrow First U.S. Edition. USED. VG/G Unclipped $8.95 Dust jacket. "An international sensation – the #1 bestseller in France, England, Germany, Italy, Spain and other countries" 434 pages 6 ½ X 9 3/8. Former owner signature on title page.

New and Complete Manual of Maori Conversation: Containing Phrases and Dialogues on a Variety of Useful and Interesting Topics, Together with a few General Rules of Grammar; and a Comprehensive Vocabulary, S.A. (Suzanne Aubert a.k.a. Sister Mary Joseph). Published by Lyon and Blair, Wellington, New Zealand, 1885. First Edition. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall., 197pp. Brown cloth boards with red titles and speckled edges. Boards are square; hinges lightly weakened, rubbing to edges, red titles remain bright. Text block is clean without any markings, tan marks to endpapers, small closed tear at top edge title page and top edge crease to page eight. A rare copy in very good condition.
Suzanne Aubert (1835-1926) was a religious sister who devoted her life to helping others. Her work took her from France to Auckland then to Hawke's Bay, to the Whanganui River and finally to Wellington. And along the way, she founded a new Catholic congregation, cared for children and the sick, by skilfully combining Māori… Read More

London, John Fielding, in Pater-noster Row, 1786.. THE FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST SEPARATE ACCOUNT OF NEW SOUTH WALES. Illustrated with 2 maps on 1 sheet, a chart of New Holland, New South Wales, Botany Bay, and the New Discovered Islands in the North and South Pacific Ocean, hand coloured in outline,1786, corrected second impression with longitude East from the meridian of Greenwich omitted from the first printing in frame at foot. Small slim folio, page size: approximately 235 x 185 mm, 9¼ x 7½ inches, no binding, stitched as issued, publisher's small device on title page, price one shilling and six-pence at bottom of title page, note to reader about the chart on reverse of title page, pages: [2], 33, [1] - adverts mentioning books by Captain Cook, loosely laid in purpose-made covers of modern half dark blue morocco over blue cloth sides, gilt title to upper cover, white pastedowns, in matching cloth slipcase with morocco round edges of opening. Title page slightly dusty with 2 small creases… Read More

London, W. Bent, 1787.. Small section of the Universal Magazine (no title page) 1787 including 3 pages on early Australia with summary of plans for the convict settlement at Botany Bay, also several mentions of Captain Cook, pages 137-139. Slim 8vo, approximately 220 x 135 mm, 8½ x 5¼ inches, engraved portrait of Jonas Hanway and engraved folding chart of New Holland dated 1787, pages: 113-168, nicely bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe (their name in gilt at the foot of first pastedown), in half calf, gilt lettering and rules to spine, marbled boards with dividing gilt rules, new cream endpapers. Lacks original wrappers, printing on page 137 a little pale, but all text legible, pale age-browning, 2 small neat edge repairs, otherwise a very good copy. One article outlining early Dutch discoveries and the landfalls of William Dampier before Captain Cook's survey of the east coast. The folding chart is based on Fielding's map of 1786, though the 3 page article is short it details early Dutch discoveries… Read More

Adelaide, published by E.S. Wigg, 12 Ruddle Street, 1867.. FIRST EDITION 1867. 8vo approximately 215 x 135 mm, 8½ x 5 ½ inches, 8 small text illustrations at rear, pages: viii, 1-234, rebound at sometime in wine coloured cloth with an early printed label mounted on upper cover, yellow endpapers. Pale age-browning to title page and a few pages at front and rear, occasional pale spot or stain, not affecting text, tiny repair to edge of 1 lower margin, not affecting text, pale vertical stain in the inner margin of first free endpaper, paper label slightly chipped at edges, otherwise a good clean tight copy. See: James M. Gabler, Wine into Words, pages 154-155, No. G26120; "Dr Kelly was born in Leith Scotland and received his doctorate in medicine. Due to health problems he emigrated to South Australia in 1840 and began a medical practice at Port Adelaide. Three years later he purchased eighty acres south of Adelaide and planted a vineyard and his medical practice became secondary to that of vigneron";… Read More