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A PRIVATE COLLECTION OF AUSTRALIAN TRAVEL 117 Australia. Historical Records of Australia, 33 volumes (Series I, volumes I-XXVI, Series III, volumes I-VI, & Series IV, volume I), Sydney, Library Committee of the Commonwealth Parliament, 19141922, rebound in modern good-quality blue cloth gilt, thick 8vo (33)
122 Bougainville (Louis de). A Voyage Round the World. Performed by Order of His Most Christian Majesty, in the Years 1766, 1767, 1768, and 1769, Translated from the French by John Reinhold Forster, 1st Dublin ed., 1772, folding engraved chart (with a couple of closed tears), engraved plate of Tahitian canoes (closetrimmed at outer margin), some light toning, library inkstamps, recent black half calf, 8vo
£300-500
Sabin 6869. Printed in the same year as the first London edition. (1) £150-200
123 Britton (Alexander & Bladen, F.M., editors). Historical Records of New South Wales, 7 volumes, bound in 8, Facsimile Edition, Sydney, 1978-80, numerous maps and plates, including many folding and some in colour, original brown cloth gilt in dust jackets, spines lightly faded, 8vo (8)
£100-150
118 Backhouse (James). A Narrative of a Visit to the Australian Colonies, 1st ed., 1843, 15 etched plates, including one folding, three folding maps at end (torn without loss), scattered light spotting, original green blindstamped cloth, rebacked with original spine relaid (faded), corners and edges a little bumped, 8vo Ferguson 3558. Leading the first Quaker mission to Australia, Backhouse, along with George Washington Walker investigated and reported to the authorities the condition of penal colonies and treatment of Aborigines. (1) £150-200
119 Beaglehole (J. C., ed.). The Journals of Captain James Cook on his Voyages of Discovery, 4 vols. plus portfolio, CUP for the Hakluyt Society, 1955-69, colour and black and white illustrations, scattered light spotting, bookplates, portfolio containing folding charts, original blue cloth gilt, d.j.s to text vols. (small tears and stains), 8vo & folio (5)
124 Collins (Lieutenant-Colonel David). An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, from its First Settlement in January 1788, to August 1801: With Remarks on the Dispositions, Customs, Manners &c. of the Native Inhabitants of that Country. To which are Added, some Particulars of New Zealand, Compiled, by Permission, from the MSS. of Lieutenant-Governor King: And an Account of a Voyage Performed by Captain Flinders and Mr. Bass; by which the Existence of a Strait Separating Van Diemen’s Land from the Continent of New Holland was Ascertained. Abstracted from the Journal of Mr. Bass, 2nd ed., 1804, engraved portrait frontispiece, 25 engraved plates and charts (a few close-trimmed), eight text engravings, including one hand-coloured, advertisement leaf at end, one or two closed tears, some offsetting and spotting, waterstains at front and rear gutters, previous owner signature, contemporary half-calf, modern calf reback, 4to
£150-200
120 Bischoff (James). Sketch of the History of Van Diemen’s Land, Illustrated with a Map of the Island, and an Account of the Van Diemen’s Land Company, 1st ed., 1832, large folding hand-coloured map by Arrowsmith (as frontispiece), two uncoloured engraved plates, some light offsetting and spotting, modern half calf, spine a little rubbed, 8vo Ferguson 1517. (1)
£150-200
121 Bonwick (James). The Last of the Tasmanians; or, the Black War of Van Diemen’s Land, 1st ed., 1870, folding map, three colour plates, illustrations, a few spots, bookplate and library stamps of St. Augustine’s College Canterbury, recent green half morocco, 8vo, together with Daily Life and Origin of the Tasmanians, 1st ed., 1870, colour frontispiece, folding map, illustrations, publisher’s list at end, light spots, ex-libris and rebound as above, 8vo (2)
Ferguson 390. Contains detailed accounts of the First Fleet expedition and life in the colony. It is noted for the realistic illustrations of an Aboriginal initiation ceremony, from drawings by convict artist Thomas Watling ‘he no longer uses the enobling poses of antique sculpture’ (Smith, European Vision and the South Pacific). The second part contains the only account of Bass’s journal, which was never recovered, and record for the first time the existence of the koala, wombat and lyrebird. £600-800 (1)
£100-150
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