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FIELD, Barron [1786-1846] (Editor).
Geographical Memoirs On New South Wales; By Various Hands: Containing An Account Of The Surveyor General's Late Expedition To Two New Ports; The Discovery of Moreton Bay River, With The Adventures For Seven Months There Of Two Shipwrecked Men; A Route Fro
London: John Murray, 1825..
8vo. pp. ownership entry of Thomas B.Hassall, 1825. 8vo. pp. xvi, 504. aquatint frontis. & 2 engraved botanical plates. 4 folding engraved maps. original cloth-backed bds. (some foxing, paper flaw in frontis., joints, spine ends & label frayed & chipped). few old ms. notes. First Edition of this collection of material relating to major expeditions and discoveries in New South Wales and eastern Australia. Included here are two reports relating to Surveyor-General John Oxley's expedition to survey Port Curtis and Moreton Bay, with a view to forming convict establishments there, and on which he discovered the Brisbane River and chose the site of the future city of Brisbane, written by Oxley himself and by John Uniacke, the only published account of Allan Cunningham's exploration from Bathurst to the Liverpool Plains, Field's essay on the aborigines of New Holland and Van Diemen's Land, Captain Mark John Currie's journal of an excursion to the southward of Lake George in New South Wales, &c., as well as a reprint of the first book of poems published in Australia, Field's First Fruits of Australian Poety (Sydney: 1819). Ferguson 1009. Wantrup, pp. 108 & 183-84.
$2563 USD Book Number: PELogFIE81 Order / Enquire

[FLEURIEU, Charles Pierre Claret, Comte de] [1738-1810].
Discoveries Of The French In 1768 and 1769, To The South-East Of New Guinea, With The Subsequent Visits to the same lands by English Navigators, who gave them new Names. To Which Is Prefixed, An Historical Abridgement Of The Voyages And Discoveries Of The
London: Printed For John Stockdale, 1791..
4to. pp. xxiv, 323, [1]errata & directions to binder. with half-title. 12 folding engraved plates (incl. 9 maps) of the Solomon Islands and New Guinea. Uncut in 19th century quarter sheep (some foxing to plates & neighbouring leaves, marginal browning & few marginal tears repaired - no loss, first map partly dampstained). First Edition of the English Translation (first: Paris, 1790) of the major account of the French 'rediscovery' of the Solomon Islands. French politician and scientist Fleurieu was prompted to prepare the present work by the publication in Arthur Phillip's Voyage.to Botany Bay (1789) of Lt. Shortland's journal relating his claim to the discovery of 'New Georgia' in 1788. Fleurieu is here chiefly concerned with the accomplishments of Louis de Bougainville, who in 1768 discovered the three northern islands (Buka, Bougainville and Choiseul), and sailed through the channel which divides the last two and bears his name, and Jean de Surville, who in 1769 made a lengthy stay in the group and gave some of the islands the French names they still bear. Surville called the group the 'Terre des Arsacides', but the identity of these islands with Mendaña's Islas de Salomon was soon established by French geographer Buache. An extract from Buache's 1781 Memoir was printed for the first time in Fleurieu's account; in this English edition it occupies pp. 309-23. Also included here are compilations and translations made from various published and unpublished accounts of Spanish and English travellers in the Pacific, including Mendaña, Queirós, Mourelle, Carteret, Shortland, and Cook. '.In the narrative of the English expeditions to these regions there is a relation of Captain Cook's recognition of the Tierra Austral del Espiritu Santo of Queirós as the New Hebrides, as well as of Cook's discovery of New Caledonia in 1774.' (Cox) Bell F104. Cox II p. 304. Ferguson 105. Hill p. 105. JCB II 3457. Kroepelien 437. National Maritime Museum Cat. I 561. O'Reilly, New Caledonia, 57a. O'Reilly, New Hebrides, 1970. Sabin 24749.
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GANE, Douglas M.
New South Wales And Victoria In 1885.
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1886..
8vo. pp. viii, ,207, [1] + 32(ads). original gilt-stamped cloth (covers & first gathering heavily dampstained). First Edition. Includes chapters on Melbourne, Sydney, the Chinese in Australia, fortune-seekers, consumption, sport on the Blue Mountains and the plains of the interior of New South Wales, &c. Ferguson 9820.
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[GORDON, James Douglas] [d. 1872].
The Last Martyrs Of Eromanga. Being A Memoir Of The Rev. George N.Gordon, And Ellen Catherine Powell, His Wife.
Halifax, N.S.: MacNab And Shaffer, 1863..
8vo. pp. viii, ii, [3]-294. engraved frontis. portrait. original cloth (bit spotty & dull, frontis. dampmarked, upper corner torn from front flyleaf). First Edition. An interesting record of early Canadian missionary labours. George Nicol Gordon went to the South Seas in 1855 as the second missionary of the Presbyterian Church of Nova Scotia, settling in 1857 on the island of Eromanga. There he and his wife were slain by the natives in 1861. Eleven years later, his brother, the author of this memoir, met the same fate. Gordon devised a written alphabet for the Eromanga language and prepared and translated several school books and religious texts. Morgan p. 155. TPL 6054. O'Reilly 2691.
$205 USD Book Number: PORe[GOR45 Order / Enquire

GORST, Sir J[ohn] E[ldon][1835-1916].
The Maori King; Or, The Story Of Our Quarrel With The Natives Of New Zealand.
London.: Macmillan And Co., 1864..
8vo. pp. x, [1 leaf], 409, [1]blank, [2]ads. with half-title. mezzotint frontis. & folding coloured map. original cloth (front hinge cracked, cloth stained & worn, former owner's name excised from half-title). First Edition. "Gorst, a Cambridge graduate of independent means, spent three years in New Zealand before returning to England and a career in politics. Interesting himself in the Maori, he was in due time appointed Magistrate and Commissioner for the upper Waikato until mounting difficulties made his residence at Te Awamutu impossible in mid 1863. In The Maori King Gorst, in succinct but vivid prose, calls on his strong Maori sympathies, clear judgment and quickly acquired but deep understanding of the Maori point of view to present an indictment of New Zealand native policy. Clear pictures of the events leading to the Waikato War, the attitudes of the tribes, Wiremu Tamihana, Rewi and others, from the founding of the King Movement, past Fenton's well-intentioned but frustrated failure, to Grey's inadequate policies four years later. An outstanding, dispassionate, classic record of Maori and Pakeha before the campaigns of 1863-4." (Bagnall) Bagnall 2184.Hocken p. 229.
$350 USD Book Number: elala3638 Order / Enquire

GRAHAM, Rev. John [1822-1879].
Lawrence Struilby; Or, Observations And Experiences During Twenty-Five Years Of Bush-Life In Australia.
London: Longman, Green., 1863..
8vo. pp. xv, [16]-292, [2]ads. with half-title. original blind & gilt-stamped cloth (bit rubbed, some light marginal foxing). First Edition of this fictionalized account of the life of an Irish emigrant in Australia. Ferguson 10041.
$308 USD Book Number: PAHwrGRA33 Order / Enquire

HAMILTON, G[eorge] D[ouglas].
Trout-Fishing And Sport In Maoriland.
Wellington, N.Z.: Printed At The Government Printing Office, 1904..
8vo. pp. xix, 428. 25 plates (incl. 2 frontis.; 2 colour plates of flies) & 1 coloured map. without the 'detached maps' noted on the plate list (separately issued?). original blind & gilt-stamped cloth (upper margin of one leaf clipped affecting three letters). First Edition. "A complete handbook of equipment and methods, with list of streams and their special features. Two chapters on deer-stalking, pig-hunting, cattle-shooting, and winged game." (Hocken) Hampton p. 46. Hocken p. 461 (calling for maps & 26 illus.).
$350 USD Book Number: PMIouHAM66 Order / Enquire

HAYDON, A[rthur] L[incoln].
The Trooper Police Of Australia A Record Of Mounted Police Work In The Commonwealth From The Earliest Days Of Settlement To The Present Time.
London: Andrew Melrose, 1911..
8vo. pp. xviii, 431, [1 leaf]ads. 3 maps (1 folding, 2 in text), 42 plates, & 4 text illus. (2 full-page). A fine copy in original cloth, t.e.g. First Edition.
$250 USD Book Number: elala3349 Order / Enquire

HENDERSON, John.
Excursions And Adventures In New South Wales; With Pictures Of Squatting And Of Life In The Bush.
London: W.Shoberl, 1851..
2 Volumes. 12mo. pp. xii, 314; viii, 294, [6]ads. 2 tinted lithographed frontis., 1 lithographed map, & 2 wood-engraved plates. original blind-stamped cloth, rebacked with spines mounted (corners bit frayed, parts of text lightly embrowned). First Edition. The author was a lieutenant in Her Majesty's Ceylon Rifle Regiment. "Very interesting descriptions of various parts of New South Wales visited by the author. His station was situated on the Macleay River." (Ferguson) The tinted lithographs by R.J.Hamerton comprise views of Sydney after a sketch by Mrs. Lowe, and a view of the countryside from the author's residence at Elsineur after his own drawing. Ferguson 10365.
$705 USD Book Number: PNDcuHEN15 Order / Enquire

HEYERDAHL, Thor.
American Indians In The Pacific The Theory behind the Kon-Tiki Expedition.
London: G|eorge Allen & Unwin Ltd., [1952]..
large 8vo. pp. xv, 821. 11 maps (6 coloured of which 3 are folding, 5 in text). frontis. & 45 double-sided plates (4 colour). text illus. original cloth. First Edition.
$200 USD Book Number: elala3411 Order / Enquire

INGLIS, James [1845-1908].
Our Australian Cousins.
London: Macmillan And Co., 1880..
8vo. pp. xiv, [1 leaf], 466, [2]reviews, [43]ads, [1]. original cloth (spinal extremities & corners little frayed, former owner's rubberstamp on title, p. [1], & p. 466, & bookplate on half-title). First Edition. Including chapters on New Guinea, aboriginals, manufacturing, agriculture, Brisbane, Sydney, the working classes, sporting, the press, Newcastle, Lake Macquarrie, government, land settlement and reform, &c. Bagnall 2810. Ferguson 10777.
$256 USD Book Number: PGLrINGL49 Order / Enquire

IRVINE, R.F. & ALPERS, O.T.J.
The Progress Of New Zealand In The Century.
Toronto & Philadelphia: Linscott Publishing Company & London & Edinburgh: W. & R.Chambers, Limited, 1902..
8vo. pp. 3 p.l., [ix]-xvii, [1], 460, [4]. with half-title. contemporary half calf. First Edition. ".An excellent account of the great legislative changes, the new democracy, labour laws, widespread education, and other measures of advancement." (Hocken) Hocken p. 455.
$103 USD Book Number: PVIeIRVI72 Order / Enquire

JENKINS, J[ohn] S[tilwell] [1818-1852].
Recent Exploring Expeditions To the Pacific, and the South Seas, Under The American, English, and French Governments.
London & Edinburgh: T.Nelson And Sons, 1853..
8vo. pp. viii, 508, [5]ads. engraved frontis. & additional engraved title. original blind & gilt-stamped cloth (extremities frayed). First Edition. Some copies have an additional five plates, not present here. Including chapters on Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Tahiti, Australia, New Zealand, Tonga, Fiji, Sandwich Islands, Samoa, Oregon, the Philippines, and the Antarctic. Sabin 36013. Bagnall 2870. Ferguson 10922.
$125 USD Book Number: elala3477 Order / Enquire

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KEATE, George [1729-1797].
An Account Of The Pelew Islands, Situated In The Western Part Of The Pacific Ocean. Composed From The Journals And Communications Of Captain Henry Wilson, And Some Of His Officers, Who, In August 1783, Were There Shipwrecked, In The Antelope, A Packet Bel
London: Printed For G.Nicol, 1788.
4to. pp. xxvii, [1]directions to binder, 378, [1 leaf]errata. folding engraved map, engraved frontis. portrait of Wilson, engraved plan & 14 other engraved plates (1 folding). early 19th century diced russia, rebacked (corners & edges worn, some foxing to plates). First Edition. Keate's narrative of the shipwreck of the Antelope off the hitherto unexplored Pelew Islands in 1783 includes a full and interesting description of the manners and customs of the islanders. Constructing a small ship from the wreckage, the crew managed to reach Macao, and eventually arrived safely in England. They took with them Prince Lee Boo, one of the King's sons, but he unfortunately died of smallpox. [BOUND WITH:] HOCKIN, Reverend John Pearce [1773?-1831]. A Supplement To The Account Of The Pelew Islands; Compiled From The Journals Of The Panther And Endeavour, Two Vessels Sent By The Honourable East India Company To Those Islands In The Year 1790; And From The Oral Communications Of Captain H.Wilson. 4to. pp. 3 p.l., 72. 5 engraved plates (3 bound in previous item). (some foxing to plates). London: Printed For Captain Henry Wilson, By W.Bulmer And Co.; Sold By G. And W.Nicol; And J.Asperne, 1803. Hockin's supplementary work, which was added to the fifth edition of Keate (1803) and also provided as a separate to owners of earlier editions, relates the experiences of the crews of the ships Panther and Endeavour, commanded by Captain John M'Clure, sent by the East India Company to convey the unfortunate news of the death of his son to Abba Thulle, King of the islands. The ships conveyed gifts of cattle, animals, plants, and seeds, to the islanders, and the crews taught the natives how to plant and cultivate the new crops. Each ship spent several months at a time surveying the coast of New Guinea and visiting the coast of China. Bell K15 & H205. Cox II 302-303. Hill p. 160 & p. 449.

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