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Auction House:Mossgreen Auctions (No longer trading)Number of lots recorded:135
Sale Title:The Collection of Martin Copley, AMLots with images:135
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Date:22-Oct-2017
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Amundsen, Roald. The South Pole. An account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the Frame, 1910-1912. London, 1912. Two volumes thick octavo, numerous maps and plates, original cloth (flag ornament on spine of the first volume flaked, as often). A little foxing. A mixed set, the second volume a second impression. With, Shackleton, Ernest, South, 1919, second impression, a very good copy in the original cloth.
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Angas, George French. South Australia illustrated. London, 1847 [reprinted in facsimile, Sydney, 1967]. Folio, coloured plates, original half morocco. Edition limited to 1000 numbered copies. With, Angas, Description of the Barossa Range, 1849, facsimile edition, 1979.
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Arago, Francois. Narrative of a voyage round the world in the Uranie and Physicienne corvettes commanded by Captain Freycinet, in the years 1817, 1818, 1819, and 1820. London, 1823. Quarto, with folding map and 25 lithographed plates after drawings by the author, contemporary half calf (spine faded, label slightly chipped). Some foxing on the plates and adjacent leaves as usual, bound without half-title., The first published account in English of this important scientific voyage into the Pacific, by the…
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Backhouse, James. A Narrative of a visit to the Australian colonies. London, 1843. Thick octavo, 3 engraved folding maps and 15 etched plates, one folding, original cloth, rebacked with the spine mounted. With, Wentworth, William, Description of the Colony of New South Wales, third edition, two volumes, 1824, Lang,John Dunmore, Account of New South Wales, third edition, two volumes, 1852, and Stoney, H. Butler, A residence in Tasmania, 1856.
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Baker, Richard T. The hardwoods of Australia and their economics. Sydney, 1919. Large quarto, with numerous coloured plates and one folding plate, original cloth. With, Baker, A research on the eucalypts, especially in regard to their essential oils, second edition, 1920.
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Ballarat Mechanics' Institute. Catalogue of the library. Ballarat, 1864. Duodecimo, pp. 56, original printed wrappers, disbound. Some light marginal waterstaining., The rare inaugural catalogue of the Institute, which was established in 1859.
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Banks, Joseph. The Endeavour journal... 1768-1771. Edited by J.C. Beaglehole. Sydney, [1962]. Two volumes octavo, with folding map and numerous plates, some coloured, original cloth in dustjackets. With 4 other modern works on Banks.
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Banks, Joseph and Solander, Daniel. Illustrations of the botany of Captain Cook's voyage round the world in H.M.S. Endeavour in 1768-71. London, Printed by order of the British Museum, 1900-05. Three volumes large folio, with 320 photolithographed plates and 3 folding maps (one with short sealed tear), contemporary half calf. Bottom margin of first title and of a few text leaves repaired, the plates unaffected. The first publication of these splendid large plates, from the copper engravings prepared under…
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Basedow, Herbert. Journal of the Government north-west expedition. Adelaide, 1914. Octavo, pp. 57-242, large folding map and photographic plates, original printed wrappers. With White, S. A. and others, Scientific notes on an expedition into the north-western regions of South Australia, 1915, pp. 707-842, with 2 maps and photographic plates, original printed wrappers., Offprints from the Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, South Australian Branch and the Transactions of the Royal…
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Battye, J.S. The cyclopedia of Western Australia. Perth, 1912-13. Two volumes thick quarto, profusely illustrated, orginal half roan (cloth sides of the first volume stained). With, Colless, V. H., publisher, Men of Western Australia, 1937, in wearing original roan.
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Bligh, William. A voyage to the South Sea undertaken by command of His Majesty for the purpose of conveying the bread-fruit tree to the West indies in His Majesty's Ship Bounty, including an account of the mutiny on board the said ship and the subsequent voyage of part of the crew in the ship's boat from Tofua, one of the Friendly Islands, to Timor. London, 1792. Quarto, frontispiece portrait, 4 folding charts, 2 folding plans and a plate of the breadfruit, contemporary calf well rebacked, the spine…
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Brown, Henry Y.L. Government Geologist's report on explorations in the Northern Territory. Adelaide, 1895. South Australian Parliamentary Paper, small folio, drop title, pp. 34, with a large folding map, 15 coloured geological maps or sectional plans, and 4 photographic plates, quarter calf retaining the original printed wrappers (dusty and slightly worn). With, Brown, Report [on] geological reconnaissance from Van Dieman Gulf to the McArthur River, 1908, pp. 12 and large folding coloured geological map,…
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[Brown, Henry Y.L., Basedow, Herbert, Gee, Lionel C.E. and Etheridge, Robert]. Northern Territory of South Australia, north-western district. Reports (geological and general) resulting from the explorations made by the Government Geologist and staff during 1905. Adelaide, 1906. South Australian Parliamentary Paper, small folio, pp. 42, [3]-54, with 2 folding coloured geological maps, 3 folding sections, 2 plates, and text illustrations, quarter calf retaining the printed wrappers.
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Campbell, W.D. Aboriginal carvings of Port Jackson and Broken Bay. Sydney, 1899. With, Etheridge, Robert. The cylindro-conical and cornute stone implements of western New South Wales and their significance [and] The warrigal, or dingo, introduced or indigenous' Sydney, 1916. With, Etheridge, Robert. The dendroglyphs or carved trees of New South Wales. Sydney, 1918. Three volumes in one, quarto, with numerous plates and maps, binder's cloth. Marginal repairs to the first few leaves of the first volume.,…
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Chisholm, Alec H. The story of Elizabeth Gould. Melbourne, 1944. Octavo, with a frontispiece portrait, original cloth. Edition limited to 350 copies. With, Belcher, Charles F., The birds of the district of Geelong, [1914], [Wheelwright, H.W.], Bush wanderings of a naturalist, Notes on the field sports and fauna of Australia Felix, by An old bushman, 1861, White, Captain S. A., The life of Samuel White, soldier, naturalist, sailor, 1920, and Smith, Geoffrey, A naturalist in Tasmania, 1909., The Life of…
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[Cook]. Hawkesworth, John, editor. An account of the voyages undertaken by the order of His Present Majesty for making discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Carteret, Captain Wallis and Captain Cook... drawn up from the journals which were kept by the several commanders and from the papers of Joseph Banks, Esq. London, 1773. Three volumes quarto, 51 maps and plates, some folding, contemporary diced calf well rebacked in style, spines with gilt…
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Cook, James. The journals... on his voyages of discovery. Edited by J.C. Beaglehole. Cambridge, Hakluyt Society, 1955-67. Four volumes in five, thick octavo, coloured frontispieces, numerous maps and plates, and portfolio of charts, original cloth in dustjackets, the charts in original cloth ribbon-tied. With Beaglehole's Life of Captain James Cook, London, Hakluyt, 1974, in jacket. First editions of Beaglehole's magisterial edition.
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Curr, Edward M. The Australian race: its origins, languages, customs, place of landing in Australia, and the routes by which it spread itself across the continent. Melbourne, 1886-87. Three volumes octavo, with 19 plates and folding table included in the pagination, and large folio atlas of comparative vocabularies, with folding coloured map, binder's cloth. Map loose and a little stained.
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D'Albertis, L. M. and Salvadori, T. Catalogo degli uccelli raccolti da L.M. D'Albertis durante la seconda e terza esplorazione del Fiume Fly negli anni 1876 e 1877. Genoa, 1879. Octavo, pp. 132 with text figures, contemporary quarter cloth., Presentation copy from Salvadori of this rare catalogue of the birds collected on the Fly River expeditions of D'Albertis, offprinted from the Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova.
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Dale, Lieutenant Robert. Descriptive account of the panoramic view of King George's Sound and the adjacent country. London, 1834. Small octavo, pp 20 with hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece 'Portrait of Yagan, King of the Swan River', after George Cruikshank, original lilac wrappers (oxidized), stab-sewn as issued. Very rare pamphlet published to accompany Dale's aquatint panorama. The severed head of Yagan, the Aboriginal warrior, was sent to England and displayed in a museum.
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[Dalrymple, George Elphinstone]. Narrative and reports of the Queensland North-East Coast Expedition, 1873. With, Hill, Walter. Report on the Brisbane Botanic Garden. Brisbane, 1874. Two Queensland Parliamentary Papers, small folio, pp. 54 with large folding map + 8, together in quarter calf., The only published accounts of this important expedition, on which a vast tract of arable land was revealed north of Rockingham Bay and the party became the first Europeans to traverse the Bellenden Ker Range. Hill's…
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Dampier, William. A new voyage round the world... [With] Vol. II. Voyages and discoveries in three parts. [With] Vol. III. A voyage to New Holland, &c. in the year 1699... [With] A continuation of a voyage to New Holland, &c. London, 1703-09. Four volumes in three, octavo, with a total of 42 maps and plates, contemporary panelled calf neatly rebacked. Slight marginal worming in the first volume, small corner restored to the first map in the third volume, affecting only the rule border. Fifth, third, first…
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Dampier, William. A voyage to New Holland, &c.... In the year 1699. London, 1703. Octavo, with folding map and 14 plates, contemporary panelled calf well rebacked. Corner from four leaves affecting only the side-notes and page numerals, some browning or foxing. First edition, styled Vol. III on the title but separately issued.
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[Dampier]. Sherwin, Charles, engraver. Captain William Dampier. From an original picture in the British Museum. London, [1791]. Engraving, 23 x 27 centimetres plus margins, framed and glazed., Scarce portrait of the British navigator, after the painting by Thomas Murray, showing him holding a volume of his Voyages.
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Darwin, Charles, editor. The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, under the command of Captain Fitzroy, R.N., during the years 1832 to 1836. London, 1839-43. Five parts in three volumes, large quarto, original blind-stamped and gilt-lettered cloth (spines neatly repaired, joints a little worn, front board of first volume a little stained). Traces of library markings at foot of spines, small inked numbers on versos of two titles (but no other library markings), very slight waterstain on top edge of a few…
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Darwin, Charles and Wallace, Alfred R. On the tendency of species to form varieties. [Contained in the Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, volume III, no.9, London, 1858]. Octavo, pp.62, [ii], 64, unopened in the original printed blue wrappers, felt-lined quarter morocco box. Very slight foxing, in excellent state. The famous joint paper establishing that life on earth evolved by means of natural selection. The Darwin-Wallace paper, comprising pages 45-62 of this issue of the Journal, is now…
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David, Andrew, editor. The charts and coastal views of Captain Cook's voyages. London, Hakluyt Society, 1988-97. Three volumes large folio, profusely illustrated, partly in colour, original gilt-decorated cloth in dustjackets.
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Davidson, Allan A. Journal of explorations in central Australia by the Central Australian Exploration Syndicate Limited, under the leadership of Allan A. Davidson, 1898-1900. Adelaide, 1905. South Australian Parliamentary Paper, small folio, pp.76, with folding coloured map and folding coloured geological plan, both very large, contemporary gilt-lettered cloth (a little stained)., Scarce record of a series of expeditions undertaken to search for gold-bearing country in one of the few regions that remained…
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D'Entrecasteaux, J.-A. Bruny. Voyage de Dentrecasteaux, envoye à la recherche de La Perouse. Paris, 1807-08. Two volumes thick quarto, with 32 folding charts and diagrams in the first volume and a folding plate in the second, half-title in each, and large folio atlas with title and table of contents, both engraved, 35 engraved charts (27 double-page) and 4 plates of coastal views or profiles (2 double-page): all uncut in the publisher's mottled blue boards (joints cracked but cords sound, atlas spine with…
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[Elder Scientific Expedition to the unknown portions of Australia. Scientific reports, edited by Ralph Tate]. Adelaide, Royal Society of South Australia, 1892-96. Volume XVI of the Transactions, in 3 parts, octavo, with numerous plates and a large folding coloured geological map in an endpocket, binder's cloth retaining the printed wrappers. Comprising the Botany and Zoology reports, by various authors, Geology, by Victor Streich, and Anthropology by Richard Helms. Bound with the Handbook of instructions…
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Flinders, Matthew. A voyage to Terra Australis, undertaken for completing the discovery of that vast continent, and prosecuted in the years 1801, 1802 and 1803. London, 1814. Two volumes large quarto, with 9 steel-engraved views after William Westall, and elephant folio atlas with 11-double-page and 5 full-page charts, 2 double-page plates of coastal views and 10 botanical plates after Ferdinand Bauer, the text volumes in nineteenth-century half green morocco (a little rubbed), bound without half-titles,…
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Flinders, Matthew. A voyage to Terra Australis. London, 1814 [reprinted in facsimile, Adelaide, 1966]. Two volumes large quarto and uniform folding box of charts, original canvas. With, Ingleton, Geoffrey C., Matthew Flinders, Navigator and chartmaker, 1986, and Scott, Ernest, The life of Matthew Flinders, 1914.
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Forrest, John. Explorations in Australia. 1. Explorations in search of Dr. Leichhardt and party. 2. From Perth to Adelaide, around the Great Australian Bight. III. From Champion Bay, across the desert to the Telegraph at Adelaide. London, 1875. Octavo, with 4 folding coloured maps and 8 wood-engraved plates after George French Angas, original gilt-decorated cloth. A little foxing. With two exploration journals by Forrest extracted from the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, 1871 and 1875, each with…
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Freycinet, Louis de. Reflections on New South Wales, 1788-1839. Now translated for the first time into English from the original publication of Freycinet's Voyage autour du monde, 1824-44. Sydney, 2001. Thick octavo, with numerous illustrations, some in colour, original cloth with paper label. Edition limited to 300 copies.
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Giles, Ernest. Mr.Ernest Giles's explorations, 1873-74. [Adelaide, 1874]. South Australian Parliamentary Paper, small folio, drop title, pp.70 with folding map, half calf. Some very slight marginal staining at end., The first printing of the great explorer's account of explorations in central Australia, with W. H. Tietkens as second in command. Gibson's Desert he named after his young companion, Alfred Gibson, who perished in its wilderness, and Giles himself barely survived.
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Gould, John. The birds of Australia and the adjacent islands. London, The Author, 1837-38. The two parts, all published, large folio, with 20 fine hand-coloured plates by the author and Elizabeth Gould, notice to subscribers slip in the second part, half green morocco, spine gilt-decorated, retaining the printed wrappers of both parts and the small armorial labels of Lord Northwick, an original subscriber, in folding cloth box with leather labels. A little foxing, slightly affecting a few plates, a fine…
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Gould, John. The birds of Australia. London, [1840]-69. Eight volumes large folio, with 681 hand-coloured lithographed plates by the author and Elizabeth Gould, H.C. Richter and Edward Lear, 3 double-page, contemporary dark green morocco, sides with broad gilt borders, spines fully gilt, gilt edges, by riviere. A little foxing, a few plates slightly affected. A fine set of this magnificent work, in Gould's own estimation his finest achievement. During his two years in Australia he travelled through New…
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Gould, John. The birds of Asia. London, The author, 1850-83. Seven volumes large folio, with 530 fine hand-coloured lithographed plates by Gould, H. C. Richter, William Hart and Joseph Wolf, contemporary dark green morocco, sides with wide gilt borders, spines fully gilt, gilt edges, by Zaehnsdorf. Slight foxing, affecting only a very few plates. A fine set of one of the scarcest of Gould's works, with just 207 subscribers and publication spanning 34 years. After Gould's death in 1881 Hart completed the…
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Gould, John and Sharpe, Richard Bowdler. The birds of New Guinea and the adjacent Papuan islands, including many new species recently discovered in Australia. London, 1875-88. Five volumes large folio, with 320 hand-coloured lithographed plates, contemporary dark green morocco, sides wiith wide gilt borders, spines fully gilt, gilt edges, by riviere. Occasional foxing of text leaves, a few plates a little affected. A fine set of Gould's last major monograph, completed after his death by Bowdler Sharpe,…
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Gould, John. Handbook to the birds of Australia. London, The Author, 1866. Two volumes octavo, original pictorially-gilt cloth (a little stained).
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Gould, John. An introduction to the mammals of Australia. London, The Author, 1863. Octavo, original cloth. Very scarce.
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Gould, John. The mammals of Australia. London, [1843]-63. Three volumes large folio, with 182 hand-coloured lithographed plates by the author, Elizabeth Gould and H.C. Richter, contemporary dark green morocco, sides with wide gilt borders, spines fully gilt, gilt edges, by Zaehnsdorf. A little foxing, affecting only a few plates. A fine set of the first survey of the subject, including wonderful plates, some of which have become iconic images. Gould writes in his introduction that ' it was not until I…
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Gould, John. A synopsis of the birds of Australia. London, 1837-38. First issue in four parts, tall octavo, with 73 hand-coloured plates by Elizabeth Gould, original cloth-backed printed boards (back board of fourth part stained), prospectus bound in the first part, in quarter morocco folding box. The rare original issue of Gould's first work on Australian birds, with superior colouring to that found in the single-volume reissue. The plates comprise about 200 head studies, with many species depicted for…
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[Great Britain, Board of Agriculture]. Davis, Richard. General view of the agriculture of the County of Oxford, with observations on the means of its improvement. London, 1794. Quarto, pp.40, with hand-coloured map (slightly cropped), bound with 45 other works from this series, two incomplete, London, Edinburgh and Brentford, 1793-94, with numerous maps and plates, some coloured: in five volumes, late ninetenth-century half calf. A little staining, minor defects.
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Gregory, A. C. and Gregory, F. T. Journals of Australian explorations. Brisbane, 1884. Octavo, original cloth., An unusually fine copy of the complete record of the eight Gregory expeditions to northern, central and western Australia, between 1846 and 1861.
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Gregory, A. C. North Australian expedition. Letter from... Victoria River, 14 June, 1856. [ With] Letter from... Burnett District, 2 December, 1856. [ With] Third letter... from Sydney, 7 January 1857. Sydney, 1856-57. Three New South Wales Parliamentary Papers, small folio, drop titles, pp. 2 + 4 with large folding map (foxed) + 6 with 2 large folding maps, together in quarter morocco. With, North Australian Exploring Expedition. Copy correspondence [and] Copy of additional correspondence. Melbourne, 1855…
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[Gregory]. Papers relating to an expedition recently undertaken for the purpose of exploring the Northern Territory of Australia. London, 1857. British Parliamentary Paper, small folio, pp. [iv], 30 with folding coloured map by Arrowsmith, quarter morocco. Stamp at head of title.
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Grey, George. Journals of two expeditions of discovery in north-west and western Australia during the years 1837, 38 and 39. London, 1841. Two volumes octavo, with 2 folding maps and 20 lithographed plates, some coloured, original cloth rebacked with the spine mounted. Some staining.
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Hann, William. Report from Mr. W. Hann, leader of the northern expedition party. [With] Copy of the diary of the northern expedition party under the leadership of Mr. William Hann. [Brisbane, 1873].Two Queensland Parliamentary Papers, small folio, drop titles, pp.14 + 26 with map on 2 folding sheets, quarter calf. A little foxing., The scarce original printing of Hann's account of his exploration of Cape York, during which he reached and named the Tate, Daintree and Palmer Rivers.
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Hardman, Edward. T. Report on the geology of the Kimberley district, Western Australia. Perth, 1885. Western Australian Parliamentary Paper, small folio, pp. 38 with 20 lithographed plates (2 double-page) by H.C. Prinsep from drawings by the author, quarter calf., Rare. The charming plates record the progress of the expedition and the country traversed.
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Harris, John, editor. Navigantium atque itinerantium bibliotheca. Or, a complete collection of voyages and travels... London, 1744-48. Two volumes thick folio, printed double column, with 22 maps, mostly folding or double-page, and 39 plates, contemporary calf finely rebacked, spines with gilt ornaments. Some offsetting and foxing as usual. A handsome set of the second and preferable edition, much enlarged by John Campbell, including accounts of the voyages of Tasman, Dampier and Pelsaert, as well as many…
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Heeres, J.E. The part borne by the Dutch in the discovery of Australia, 1606-1765. London, 1899. Folio, in English and Dutch, 2 folding coloured lithographed charts, reproductions of charts in the text, half calf over marbled boards. With, Schilder, Gunter, Australia unveiled: the share of the Dutch navigators in the discovery of Australia, 1976, cloth in dustjacket.
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Heeres, J.E. The part borne by the Dutch in the discovery of Australia, 1899, another copy, in binder's cloth, also with Schilder's Australia unveiled.
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Hill. J.G., compiler. The Calvert Scientific Exploring Expedition, Australia, 1896. London, 1905. Small quarto, pp. viii, 44, with frontispiece map and large folding map, original cloth., Scarce acount of this disastrous Western Australian expedition led by Lawrence A. Wells, on which two of the party perished.
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Hipkins, A.J. Musical instruments, historic, rare and unique. Edinburgh, 1888. Folio, with 50 chromolithographed plates, later half calf over the original vellum sides(stained).
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Hoeven, J. van der. Memoire sur le genre Ornithorhinque. [With] Corrections. [Bonn, 1823-25]. Quarto, pp. 353-72 with hand-coloured plate + 869-72, together in contemporary plain wrappers. Text foxed. Rare extracts from Nova acta Leopoldina.
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Horne, G. and Aiston, G. Savage life in central Australia. London, 1924. Octavo, with folding map and photographic plates, original cloth. With, Strehlow, T.G.H., Aranda phonetics and grammar, Sydney, 1947, in original printed wrappers.
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Howitt, A. W. The native tribes of south-east Australia. London, 1904. Thick octavo, with 9 folding maps, folding table and numerous ilustrations, original cloth (rubbed). Some foxing. With, Smyth, R. Brough, The Aborigines of Victoria, 1878, two volumes in binder's cloth without the two folding maps.
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Illiger, Johann Karl. Prodromus systematis mammalium et avium. Berlin, 1811. Octavo, contemporary half calf (front joint neatly repaired). Foxed., A major contribution to zoological taxonomy, revising the Linnaean system and introducing the taxa family.
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Jack, Robert Logan. Northmost Australia. Three centuries of exploration, discovery and adventure in and around the Cape York Peninsula, Queensland. Melbourne, 1922. Two volumes thick large octavo, with 16 endpocket maps on 17 sheets and numerous plates, original cloth. Some foxing. With, Lumholtz, Carl, Among cannibals: an account of four years' travels in Australia and of camp life with the Aborigines of Queensland, London, 1889, in original cloth.
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Jardine, Sir William, Selby, Prideaux John and Swainson, William. The naturalist's library. Ornithology. Edinburgh, [1843]. Fourteen volumes small octavo, frontispiece portraits, engraved titles with coloured vignettes and 435 hand-coloured plates, original cloth (wearing). Some text leaves and plates detached., A complete set of the ornithological volumes from this famous series.
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King, Phillip Parker. Narrative of a survey of the intertropical and western coasts of Australia performed between the years 1817 and 1822. London, 1826. Two volumes octavo, with 2 folding engraved charts, 12 aquatint plates, folding engraved plate and woodcuts in the text, half-titles and errata leaf, uncut in the original boards (a little damp-marked, spines repapered mounting the original labels). A little foxing. Inscribed on the first half-title 'George Brown with the publisher's compliments'., A very…
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King, Phillip Parker, Narrative of a survey of the intertropical and western coasts of Australia performed between the years 1817 and 1822, another set, the reissue of 1827, with the half-titles and errata leaf, without the terminal leaf of the second volume (blank except for imprint), uncut in original boards (a little worn, corners repapered, spines rebacked in leather), in very good, clean state.
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King, Captain Philip Parker, Fitzroy, Captain Robert and Darwin, Charles. Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle between the years 1826 and 1836, describing the examination of the southern shores of South America, and the Beagle's circumnavigation of the globe. London, 1839. Three volumes in four, large octavo, with 10 charts, all but one folding and most finely linen-backed as bound, and 10 engraved plates, errata leaf in the first volume, bound without half-titles,…
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Krefft, Gerard. Catalogue of the mammalia in the collection of the Australian Museum. Sydney, 1864. Small octavo, pp.[iv], 134, [ii], with the signature of the naturalist Charles French senior and the pencilled initials of W.Baldwin Spencer, old marbled wrappers, disbound. With, Krefft, Two papers on the vertebrata of the Lower Murray and Darling and on the snakes of Sydney, Sydney, 1865, pp.60 in modern calf. Both rare.
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Krefft, Gerard. The mammals of Australia. Illustrated by Miss Harriett Scott and Miss Helena Forde... With a short account of the species hitherto described. Sydney, 1871. Large folio, with 16 lithographed plates, binder's cloth retaining the original printed stiff wrappers (worn and repaired). Some foxing, scarcely affecting the plates. Marginal defect in title.
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Kuhl, Heinrich. Conspectus psittacorum. [Bonn, 1820]. Quarto, pp.104, with 3 hand-coloured plates, uncut in original cloth-backed wrappers (spine worn, with defective label), with the bookplates of Frederick Ducane Godman, J.H. Calaby and H.W.Whittell. A little foxed. With, Temminck, M.C. J., Account of new species of the birds of the genera Psittacus and Columba in the Museum of the Linnean Society, [London, 1820], quarto, pp.107-130, extracted from the Transactions, in binder's cloth retaining the…
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Labillardiere, Jacques J.-H. de. Relation du voyage à la recherche de La Perouse... pendant les annees 1791, 1792, [1793 and 1794]. Paris, [1800]. Two volumes quarto and large folio atlas with engraved title, double-page chart and 43 plates, uncut in the publisher's mottled blue boards (backstrip of the first volume lost and that of the atlas deficient, labels on the second volume and atlas intact). Slight marginal worming in the second volume, the atlas in very clean, crisp state., By the naturalist on…
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Leichhardt, Ludwig. Tagebuch einer Landreise in Australien von Moreton-Bay nach Port Essington wahrend der Jahre 1844 und 1845. Halle, 1851. Octavo, with wood-engraved illustrations, contemporary half calf. A few owner's stamps, some foxing. First German edition.
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Lindley, John. A sketch of the vegetation of the Swan River Colony. London, 1840. Octavo, with 9 hand-coloured lithographed plates (some stained), later calf, spine with gilt ornaments. The first separate monograph on Western Australian plants.
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McCOY, Frederick. Prodromus of the zoology of Victoria, or, figures with descriptions of the living species of all classes of the Victorian indigenous animals. Melbourne, [1875]-1888. Two volumes thick imperial octavo, with 199 lithographed plates, including one folding double plate, nearly all coloured, some hand-finished, binder 's cloth. A little foxing, some tape repairs to inner margins of preliminary leaves in each volume., McCoy's unfinished grand project, which was also a long time in gestation:…
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Mathew, John. Eaglehawk and Crow. A study of the Australian Aborigines, including an inquiry into their origin and a survey of Australian languages. London, 1899. Octavo, with folding coloured map and 5 plates, original cloth. With, Taplin, George, The Narrinyeri, 1874, Calder, James E., Some account of the wars, extirpation, habits &c. of the native tribes of Tasmania, 1875, Basedow, Herbert, The Australian Aboriginal, 1925, [Stow, Catherine] 'Mrs Langloh Parker', The Euahlayi tribe, 1905, and Dahl, Kurt,…
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Maurice, R.T. Extracts from journals of explorations. Fowler's Bay to Rawlinson's Ranges, and Fowler's Bay to Cambridge Gulf. Adelaide, 1904. South Australian Parliamentary Paper, small folio, pp. 40 with 2 large folding maps and 6 photographic plates, quarter calf retaining the printed wrappers. A little marginal staining., Scarce account of Northern Territory expeditions in 1901 and 1902.
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Mawson, Sir Douglas. The home of the blizzard. Being the story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914. London, [1915]. Two volumes thick large octavo, with 3 folding maps in endpocket, numerous plates, some coloured, and text maps and illustrations, original cloth with silver vignette on the front boards. First edition, an excellent set.
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Mawson, Sir Douglas, The home of the blizzard, another set of the first edition in original cloth (spines dulled).
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Mitchell, Thomas Livingstone. Three expeditions into the interior of eastern Australia. With descriptions of the recently explored region of Australia Felix and of the present colony of New South Wales. second edition, carefully revised. London, 1839. Two volumes octavo, with large folding coloured map (a little defective), 2 other engraved maps (one coloured) and 49 lithographed plates, some coloured, original cloth rebacked with the spines mounted. One plate supplied from another copy and smaller.
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Moore, George Fletcher. Extracts from the letters and journals of George Fletcher Moore, now filling a judicial office at the Swan River Settlement. London, 1834. Small octavo, with a folding map, original cloth(spine wearing, the label defective, front endpaper replaced). A litle staining. Very scarce.
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Mountford, Charles P. and Specht, R.L., editors. Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land. Melbourne, [1956-64]. Four volumes quarto, plates (some coloured), maps, and numerous illustrations, original cloth, all but the first volume in dustjackets., Comprising: Art, myth and symbolism, by Mountford, Anthropology and nutrition, edited by Mountford, Botany and plant ecology, edited by Specht and Mountford, and Zoology, edited by Specht.
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Norman, W.H. Exploration expedition. Report of Commander Norman, of H.M.C. S.' Victoria', together with copy of his journal on the late expedition to the Gulf of Carpentaria. [With] Norman, W.H. Exploration expedition. Letter from Commander Norman reporting the return of the ' Victoria' from the Gulf of Carpentaria, together with reports and correspondence. Melbourne, 1862. Two Victorian Parliamentary Papers, small folio, pp.32 + 52, uniform quarter calf. With, enclosed in an endpocket, the progress report…
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Ogilvie-Grant, W.R. Report on the birds collected by the British Ornithologists' Union Expedition and the Wollaston Expedition to Dutch New Guinea. London, 1915. Octavo, with 2 folding maps and 8 coloured plates, binder's cloth. The Ibis, Tenth series, Jubilee supplement, no. 2. With, Tenth series, vol.5, 1917, including Thomas Carter and Gregory Mathews, The birds of Dirk Hartog Island and Shark Bay, Western Australia, with folding map and 2 coloured plates, in binder's cloth.
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Oldfield, Thomas. Catalogue of the marsupialia and monotremata in the collection of The British Museum (Natural History). London, 1888. Octavo, with 22 plates (4 hand-coloured), original cloth. With, Bensley, Arthur, On the evolution of the Australian marsupialia, 1903, and another, related.
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Outhwaite, Ida Rentoul. Elves and fairies. Verses by Annie R. Rentoul. Melbourne, [1916]. Folio, with 45 tipped-in plates, of which 15 are coloured, original gilt-decorated cloth (spine dulled), top edge gilt. Foxing, mainly affecting preliminary and concluding leaves. First edition, of 1500 copies.
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Owen, Richard. Researches on the fossil remains of the extinct mammals of Australia. London, 1877. Two volumes quarto, with 132 lithographed plates, some folding, some double-page, including large folding linen-backed plate in the text volume, contemporary cloth. A little foxing. An excellent set of this rare work, the finest ever published on the extinct Australian megafauna.
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Pelsaert, Francois. Ongeluckige Voyagie van het Schip Batavia... na Oost-indien en gebleven is op de Abrollos van Fredrick Houtman. Amsterdam, Gillis Joosten Saeghman, [circa 1663]. Small quarto, pp. 44 printed double column, with a wood-engraved title vignette, full-page wood-engraving on title verso, and 6 copper-engraved illustrations in the text, modern limp vellum, tied, in slipcase. Inner margin of title backed and a little stained, very small rust-hole in final engraving, but a very good copy with…
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Peron, François and Freycinet, Louis de. Voyage de decouvertes aux Terres Australes... pendant les annees 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803 et 1804. Paris, 1807-16. Two volumes quarto text, with portrait of Peron and 2 folding tables, half-titles, and errata leaf in the first volume, and atlas in two parts, large quarto, with engraved titles (the first with vignette view), 2 large folding charts, 24 other maps and plans on 12 sheets and 40 engraved plates, of which 23 are present in two states, coloured and…
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Peters, W. and Doria, W. Enumerazione dei mammiferi raccolti da O. Beccari, L. M. D'Albertis ed A.A. Bruijn, nella Nuova Guinea propriamenti detta W. Peters e G. Doria. Genoa, 1881. Octavo, pp.48, [ii], with 14 plates (10 coloured), contemporary quarter cloth., Rare offprint from the Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova.
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[Purry, Jean-Pierre]. Memoire sur le Pais des Cafres et la Terre de Nuyts [and] second memoire sur le Pais des Cafres et la Terre de Nuyts. Amsterdam, 1718. Two volumes in one, small octavo, pp. 84 + 78, [ii], later calf. First title a little dusty and with two early signatures, light marginal waterstain on a few leaves in the second work, but very good, crisp copies. The only published record of the European discovery of the southern coastline of Western Australia in 1627, when Pieter Nuyts in the Gulden…
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Roberts, Jane. Two years at sea. Being the narrative of a voyage to the Swan River and Van Diemen's Land during the years 1829, 30, 31. London, 1834. Octavo, with 2 aquatint plates, later quarter calf. With, Bull, John Wrathall, Early experiences of life in South Australia, 1878, in original cloth with the bookplate of Sir Henry Ayers, Trollope, Anthony, South Australia and Western Australia, 1875, in the pictorial boards, and Demarr, James, Adventures in Australia fifty years ago, 1893, in original cloth.
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Salvadori, Tommaso. [Collection of 29 ornithological papers]. Genoa, 1874-91. Together in two volumes octavo, in total approx. 780 pages, with 2 hand-coloured plates, binder's cloth retaining the wrappers., A rare series, entirely relating to the birds of New Guinea and neighbouring islands, including catalogues of specimens collected by D'Albertis on his Fly River expeditions of 1876 and 1877. Offprinted from the Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova.
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Saville-Kent, W. The naturalist in Australia. London, 1897. Large quarto, with 59 plates (9 coloured) and text illustrations, original decorated cloth (rubbed and a little marked). Slight adhesion damage to the double-page plate. With Bennett, George, Gatherings of a naturalist in Australasia, 1864, in original cloth. Saville-Kent's expensively-produced book deals mainly with the natural history of Western Australia.
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Scott, Captain Robert. Scott's last expedition. Being the journals... arranged by Leonard Huxley. London, 1913. Two volumes thick large octavo, with 8 folding maps and numerous plates, some coloured, original cloth, top edges gilt. A liitle foxing. First edition.
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Shackleton, Ernest. The heart of the Antarctic. London, 1909. Two volumes thick large octavo, with 3 folding maps and sheet of panoramas, all in endpocket, and numerous plates, some coloured, original silver-decorated cloth, top edges gilt. First edition.
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Shaw, George. Zoology of New Holland. Vol. 1 [all published]. London, [1793]-94. [ With] Smith, James. A specimen of the botany of New Holland. Vol. 1 [all published]. London, [1793-95]. Two volumes in one, quarto, with 12 + 16 hand-coloured plates, contemporary half green morocco. A few plates browned, some offsetting on to text, first three leaves neatly extended at the gutter, but fine, large copies in an attractive period binding. Imprints of plates 1 and 4 of the Zoology erased as issued. The first…
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Smith, Meredith, Aslin, Heather J. and Ganf, Rosemary Woodford. Marsupials of Australia. Melbourne, 1980-87. Volumes 1 and 2 (of 3), large folio, with fine coloured plates, original canvas with large pictorial leather inlays on the front boards, onlaid leather backstrips. Edition limited to 1000 numbered and signed sets. With the bookplates of J. H. Calaby, who wrote the foreword to the first volume.
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Soderberg, R. Studies of the birds in north west Australia. Results of Dr. E. Mjoberg's expeditions to Australia, 1910-1913, [Part] XVIII. Stockholm, 1918. Quarto, pp. 116, with 5 plates (one coloured) and text illustrations including a map, contemporary half cloth., The author's copy, interleaved, with his copious pencilled notes, partly on loose sheets, and with, loosely enclosed, 11 small original photographs of birds and nests, several attributed on the reverse to Charles Barrett, and an original…
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Southey, Thomas. The rise, progress, and present state of colonial wools. London, 1848. Octavo, in contemporary calf, spine fully gilt. Some embrowning as usual, marginal repairs to title and following leaf.
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Spencer, W. Baldwin. An introduction to the study of certain native tribes of the Northern Territory. [With] Preliminary report on the Aboriginals of the Northern Territory. Melbourne, 1912-13. Bulletin of the Northern Territory, numbers 2 and 7, quarto, pp.56 with plates + 28 with plates and folding map, together in binder's cloth retaining the printed front wrappers.
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Spencer, W. Baldwin. Native tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia. London, 1914. Thick octavo, with folding map and numerous plates, some coloured, original gilt-decorated cloth.
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Spencer, W. Baldwin, editor. Report on the work of the Horn Expedition to central Australia. London, 1896. Four volumes quarto, with large folding linen-backed map in endpocket and 69 plates, some coloured, text map and illustrations, corrigenda slip in the second volume, contemporary half calf by Wigg of Adelaide. A fine set. Comprising: Narrative and summary of results, Zoology, Geology and botany, and Anthropology.
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Spencer, Baldwin and Gillen, F.J. Across Australia. London, 1912. Two volumes octavo, with 2 folding maps and numerous plates, some coloured, original gilt-decorated cloth. First edition, a fine set.
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