His discoveries, romantic life, and tragic disappearance. Pp. xii+172(last blank), frontispiece portrait plus 12 plates, text maps (1 double page), appendices, index; boards slightly marked; dust wrapper, a trifle soiled; free endpapers lightly offset, a little faint foxing; Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1952. First edition. *Signed by the author on... More
, Commander-in-Chief of the Corvettes Geographe and Naturaliste, assigned by order of the government to a voyage of discovery. Translated from the French by Christine Cornell. With a Foreword by Jean-Paul Faivre. Pp. xxii+610(last blank), frontispiece, 2 full page maps, appendices, index; demy 4to; dark green cloth, lettered and ruled... More
The Men and the Mutiny. Pp. 320, 15 plates (1 double page), title page vignette, text illustrations (some full page), decorative headpieces, text maps, endpaper chart, chronology, notes on sources, index; med. 8vo; edges of boards a trifle rubbed; dust wrapper, edges rubbed and split, with a couple of short... More
[cover title]. Pp. [16], text illustrations; pictorial stiff paper wrappers, stapled, slightly soiled and faintly creased, with small ownership label on verso of upper wrapper, the staples a trifle rusted; Kyneton Guardian Pty. Ltd., [Kyneton], 1969. *Thomas Livingston Mitchell crossed and named the Campaspe River near present-day Kyneton, Victoria, during... More
From Melbourne to Myth. [Exhibition catalogue]. Pp. [vi]+50(last blank), illustrated in colour and black & white, map, notes, exhibition list of works; square 4to; pictorial stiff paper wrappers with flap folds; National Library of Australia, Canberra, 2002. First edition. More
Pp. viii+172, appendices, bibliography, endpaper maps; pictorial stiff paper wrappers, the laminate slightly wrinkled, edges slightly worn; Marsh Walsh, Melbourne, 1975. First edition. *The author traces the voyages of exploration to the South Seas and to Australia, from Marco Polo, Da Gama and Tasman through to James Cook. More
George Caley's journey to Mount Banks, 1804. Pp. [viii]+150, 12 plates, full page text illustration, title page vignette printed in green, pictorial endpapers, 10 maps (1 folding, 3 double page), appendix, notes and references, select bibliography, index; green cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt; dust wrapper; edges of leaves a.... More
Convict, bushranger, explorer. Pp. [xii]+100, 4 plates, text drawings, 3 full page maps, appendix, references, bibliography, index; corners of boards a trifle rubbed; price-clipped dust wrapper, slightly soiled; occasional faint soiling; Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1970. First edition. *George Clarke, alias the Barber, lived for five years among Aborigines in... More
Botanist and explorer. Pp. x+148(last blank), 4 plates, full page maps, references, bibliography, index; cloth a trifle flecked; price-clipped dust wrapper, slightly soiled, backstrip faded, edges lightly rubbed; edges of leaves slightly foxed; Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1970. First edition. More
Pp. 76, frontispiece portrait, title page vignette, text illustrations (one full page), tipped-in folding facsimile of a manuscript page from The Origin of Species, map, bibliography; small demy 4to; printed card wrappers, slightly soiled, edges lightly rubbed; occasional slight soiling; Burndy Library, Norwalk, Connecticut, 1960. Burndy Library Publication No. 17. More
The life of Edward John Eyre, Australian explorer and Governor of Jamaica, 1815-1901. Pp. 416, frontispiece portrait plus 8 plates, 3 full page maps plus endpaper map, appendices, bibliography, index; med. 8vo; upper board faintly scratched, bottom fore-corners of boards a trifle bruised; top edges red, slightly damp marked; dust... More
SOUTH SHETLANDS, &c. [Facsimile edition]. Pp. [ii]+324, frontispiece, appendix; pictorial cloth, slightly soiled; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown; The Gregg Press, Upper Saddle River, N.J., 1970. *Facsimile of the fourth edition, published in 1838. Captain Edmund Fanning made the first of his numerous Pacific voyages for sealskins in... More
Pp. [viii]+318, illustrated throughout in colour and black & white, pictorial double title page printed in brown & black, double and full page coloured maps, gazetteer of Australian place names, bibliography, index; tall demy 4to; pictorial boards, slightly foxed, bottom fore-corner of lower board faintly bruised; dust wrapper, short closed... More
With the contribution of Phillida Stephens. Foreword by Max Cramer. Pp. [ii]+332, illustrated throughout in colour and black & white (several full or double page), maps, bibliography, index; demy 4to; a couple of tiny bruises to edges of upper board; dust wrapper, slightly creased, with a tiny indentation to front... More
The story of the epic of exploration by Hume and Hovell, with party, October - December, 1824. Pp. [32](last blank), title page vignette, text illustrations and maps; pictorial stiff paper wrappers, stapled, the backstrip slightly faded, small surface chip to fore-edge of upper wrapper, ownership sticker on verso of upper... More
The Lives and Association of John Hunter (1728-1793), The Surgeon; James Cook (1728-1779), The Navigator; and Joseph Banks (1743-1820), The Naturalist. Foreword by Surgeon Vice-Admiral Sir James Watt. Pp. 80, 4 coloured plates, black & white frontispiece and text illustrations, endpaper map, appendices, notes, index; small cr. 4to; dust wrapper... More
Birds & Flowers of New South Wales drawn on the Spot in 1788,89 & 90 By Captain John Hunter RN of the First Fleet. General editor John Calaby. Pp. [x]+252(last blank), illustrated throughout in colour and black & white (many full page), references, glossary, index; wide demy 4to; qr. beige... More
With a Map Showing his Route. Pp. [iv]+128, lithographic frontispiece, large folding map; early half burgundy leather, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, dark blue cloth boards, edges and spine slightly rubbed; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown, hinges starting, neat paper repair to closed tear from inner fold... More
from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845. Pp. xx+544, frontispiece, plus 6 plates (one folding), 7 text illustrations; later half calf, (new spine, earlier corners), with gilt lettered and decorated maroon leather title label on the spine, fore-corner tips neatly... More
The Discovery and Settlement of the Pacific. Drawings by Walter Stackpool. Pp. [x]+212+[2](last blank), text illustrations, 4 text maps (1 double-page), endpaper map, bibliography; cr. 4to; dust wrapper, laminate lifting, edges slightly creased and split; small marks to fore-edges of leaves, bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown; Doubleday, Sydney... More
Under command of D. Lindsay. Equipped solely at the cost of Sir Thomas Elder, G.C.M.G., for the purpose of completing the exploration of Australia, and placed under the control of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia - South Australian Branch. [Facsimile edition]. Pp. [ii]+208(last blank), vocabularies; navy cloth, lettered in... More
Pp. x+222, 22 plates (one coloured), pictorial headpieces, one full page text map plus endpaper map, note, index; spine cloth faintly bruised; top edges red; price-clipped dust wrapper (designed by Sidney Nolan), faintly soiled, edges lightly rubbed and split, with a few tiny chips, backstrip faded; bookseller's sticker at foot... More
Pp. 176, 24 plates, several tailpiece illustrations, appendices, bibliography, index; dust wrapper, edges lightly worn; Terence Dalton Limited, Lavenham, Suffolk, 1975. First edition. *David Blackburn, of Norfolk Island descent, was Master of H.M.S. Armed Tender Supplywhen it joined the fleet to sail from Portsmouth to Botany Bay in 1787. A.... More
Edited with an Introduction by Marjorie Tipping. Pp. 94+[2](colophon, verso blank), frontispiece, plus 2 full page illustrations, the title and headpiece decorations printed in red, bibliography, index; navy papered boards, lettered and decorated in gilt; dust wrapper, slightly scuffed; top edges of leaves a trifle foxed, the pages slightly discoloured;Queensberry... More
Edited with an Introduction by Ernest Scott. In two volumes. Volume One: BY SEA. Pp. xxxvi+412, frontispiece plus 14 plates (including maps); Volume Two: BY LAND. Pp. xxxii+422, frontispiece plus 15 plates (including maps); gilt lettered maroon cloth, slightly flecked and marked, edges a trifle rubbed, the spines faded; top... More