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MONCKTON, A.W.
Some Experiences Of A New Guinea Resident Magistrate.
London.: 1921..
8vo. pp. x, [2], 337, [1]blank, [2]ads. 37 illus. on 35 plates & 1 folding map. index. original cloth (spine darkened, corners knocked, light foxing to outer leaves). Third Edition.
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MUDIE, James.
The Felonry Of New South Wales: Being A Faithful Picture Of The Real Romance Of Life In Botany Bay. With Anecdotes Of Botany Bay Society.
London: Printed For The Author, By Whaley And Co., 1837..
8vo. pp. viii, [9]-300, 293-94, 325-362. irregular pagination but complete. folding lithographed map (frontis.). original blind-stamped wavy cloth (spine ends repaired, some slight fraying to rear joint & corners, outer edge of map reinforced without affecting text, some scattered light to moderate foxing). First Edition. Dismissed from the British navy, and bankrupted with a bookseller in a venture to make commemorative medals of events and heroes of the Napleonic wars, Mudie and his four daughters were given free passage to New South Wales. In 1822 they landed in Sydney, and by 1825 Mudie and his son-in-law partner, John Larch, had created one of the best agricultural establishments in the colony using convict labour. In 1830 Mudie was appointed a justice of the peace, delivered extraordinarily harsh judgments on the bench, and conspired with others to undermine the authority of Governor Bourke, whose methods they described as being responsible for a great increase in crime. In 1833, six of Mudie's convict servants at Castle Forbes mutinied, looted the stores, and fled. Captured and convicted, five were executed for their actions. Because of charges made at the trial, Mudie and Larnach were invesigated for the ill-treatment of their servants. They were exonerated although critized for the paltry rations they gave them. When he was not reappointed in 1836, Mudie sold his property and returned to England, where he published the present work, "an attack on all whom he fancied had opposed him in the colony." (Austr. Dict. Of Biography) Ferguson 2312.
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MUNDY, Godfrey Charles [1804?-1860].
Our Antipodes: Or, Residence and Rambles In The Australasian Colonies. With a Glimpse Of The Gold Fields.
London: Richard Bentley, 1852..
8vo. pp. 15 lithographed plates after the author's own sketches. attractive later half morocco, gilt backs, t.e.g. (some foxing throughout). Second Revised Edition. Bagnall 3671. Ferguson 12957. Abbey, Travel, 562.
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MURRAY, Thomas Boyles.
Pitcairn: The Island, The People, And The Pastor. To Which Is Added A Short Notice Of The Original Settlement And Present Condition Of Norfolk Island.
London: Society For Promoting Christian Knowledge, [c1860]..
small 8vo. pp. 1 p.l., xiv, [15]-414, [4]ads. 1 map, 15 steel & wood-engraved plates, 1 folding facsimile, & 4 text illus. original blind & gilt-stamped cloth (joints & extremities chipped, front cover detached).
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MYTINGER, Caroline.
Headhunting In The Solomon Islands Around The Coral Sea.
New York: Macmillan Company, 1942..
8vo. pp. ix, [1 leaf], 416. 5 plates (3 double-page). text illus. map endleaves. original cloth (spotting to spine & upper cover). First Edition.
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[NEVILLE, Emma Etta].
Life's Work As It Is; Or, The Emigrant's Home In Australia. By A Colonist.[Pseud.].
London: Sampson Low, Son, & Marston, 1867..
8vo. pp. vi, [1 leaf], 179. wood-engraved frontis. of the township of Willunga. original cloth (spine faded, rear hinge partly cracked). First Edition. Chapter IX contains practical advice to emigrants while the appendix provides details regarding the Australian government and other insitutions, tables of wages for men and women, and immigration regulations for southern Australia. Ferguson 8517.
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NIELSEN, Aage Krarup.
Aloha En Sydhavsfaerd.
Copenhagen: Gyldendalske Boghandel Nordisk Forlog, 1941..
8vo. pp. 200. numerous double-sided plates. text illus. contemporary quarter leather (spine ends & upper front hinge worn). coloured wrs. bound in. Second Edition (first: 1939).
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O'BRIEN, Frederick.
White Shadows In The South Seas.
London: T.Werner Laurie, Ltd., [1919]..
8vo. pp. xiv, 450. frontis. & 31 double-sided plates. cloth (soiling to 1 page, lower outer blank corner of one leaf defective). dw. (dw. soiled & chipped at edges). First London Edition?
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PARKER, Henry Walter.
The Rise, Progress And Present State Of Van Dieman's Land: With Advice to Emigrants.
London J. Cross, Holborn and Simpkin Marshall, 1833..
small 8vo. pp. 1 p.l., vi, v, 244, xiv, [2]ads. folding hand-coloured map. untrimmed in original cloth (upper joints starting to fray, scattered light foxing, skillful repair & cello-tape residue to map, most page numbered re-entered in ms.). First Edition. Including a chapter on convicts, showing the efficacy of transportation as a secondary punishment. Ferguson 1693.
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PATON, John G[ibson] [1824-1907].
John G.Paton, Missionary To The New Hebrides. An Autobiography. Edited By His Brother. [WITH:] .Second Part.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1890..
2 Volumes. 8vo. pp. 1 p.l., [v]-xv, [1]blank, 375, [1]blank, [2]ads; xvi, 382, [2]ads. half-title in Vol. II. coloured map & photogravure frontis. portrait in Vol. I, frontis. in Vol. II. original gilt-stamped cloth (hinges cracking, foxing to outer leaves). Second & Third Editiions. Ferguson 13923a & 13924b. cfO'Reilly 2720.
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PATON, Maggie Whitecross (Mrs. Dr. John G.Paton).
Letters And Sketches From The New Hebrides.Edited By Her Brother-In-Law, Rev. Jas. Paton, B.A.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1894..
8vo. pp. xi, [1]blank, [1 leaf], 382, [2]ads. with half-title. photogravure frontis., 1 coloured map & 23 text illus. (some full-page). untrimmed & largely unopened in original gilt-stamped cloth (some scattered foxing). Second Edition. The author was the second wife of pioneer missionary, John G.Paton, who devoted his life to the Presbyterian Church in the New Hebrides, and later Australia. "He took his new bride out to Aniwa, neighbouring Tanna in the archipelago between the Solomons and New Caledonia in 1865, and there they stayed, weathering inhospitable natives, repeated illness, the birth of six children (and the death of two more), until 1881.[Maggie's] account of life on Ainiwa is by turns high-spirited and despairing - the latter particularly when one by one her children are sent for their own safety to live with relatives in Australia; it is less saccharine than many a missionary's tale and one of the most reprinted of them all." (Robinson) cfO'Reilly 2728. cfRobinson, Wayward Women, pp.168-69.
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PHILLIP, Arthur [1738-1814].
The Voyage Of Governor Phillip To Botany Bay with an Account of the Establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson & Norfolk Island compiled from Authentic Papers.to which are added, The Journals of Lieuts. Shortland, Watts, Ball, & Capt. Marshall, with an Account of their New Discoveries.
London: Printed for John Stockdale, 1789.
4to. pp. 1 p.l., 6, [1 leaf]errata, viii, [8]list of subscribers, [3]plate list, x, 298, lxxiv, [2]ads. engraved title, 7 folding engraved charts & 47 engraved plates (incl. frontis. portrait). contemporary tree calf, rebacked with gilt spine mounted, corners renewed, new lettering piece (foxing to plates & neighbouring leaves, frontis. & title rather heavily affected, marginal dampstains to first few leaves). First Edition. "This was the first authentic and official account of the expedition to New South Wales and the foundation of the settlement. It aroused world-wide interest.". (Ferguson) Phillip was appointed to transport seven hundred and seventy-eight convicts to Australia in 1787 for the purposes of establishing the first colony in New South Wales. After his arrival he inspected various sites and decided the most suitable location for the colony would be Port Jackson. This work gives a detailed and accurate account of the early history of the settlement based on the official government documents and the journals of Phillip, Shortland, Watts, Ball, and Marshall. A twenty-page list of the names of the convicts transported is included in the appendix. The volume is handsomely illustrated with twenty plates of birds, ten of animals, four of fishes, one of plants, portraits of Phillip, King and Shortland, a view of Botany Bay, &c. Our copy contains early states of the 'Kangooroo' and 'Wulpine Oppossum' plates the captions for which were later changed to 'Kanguroo' and 'Vulpine'. Ferguson 47. Hill p. 233. Casey Wood p. 518. Cox I p. 314. Wantrup pp. 59-64.
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PUSELEY, D[aniel] [1814-1882].
The Rise And Progress Of Australia, Tasmania, And New Zealand, To Which Will Be Found Increase And Habits Of Population; Tables Of Revenue And Expenditure.In Each Of The Colonies, Cities, And Provinces Enumerated.
London: Warren Hall & Co., 1858..
8vo. pp. 2 p.l., 416, + 16 pp. of ads bound in before title. original blind-stamped cloth (extremities bit frayed). Fourth Edition, the first with Puseley's name on the title; the first three editions were published anonymously. Puseley wrote this important detailed political, economic and social account of Australia, New Zealand and Tasmania after his visit to the colonies in 1854. Ferguson 14530. Bagnall 4737.
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REECE, R.H.W.
Aborigines and Colonists: Aborigines And Colonial Society In New South Wales In The 1830s And 1840s.
Sydney: Sydney University Press, [1974]..
8vo. pp. ix, [1], 254. 4 double-sided plates. 1 text map. biblio. index. cloth. dw. (large strip torn away from upper rear panel of dw.). First Edition.
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ROBERTSON, George [1731?-1799?].
The Discovery Of Tahiti. A Journal of The Second Voyage Of H.M.S. Dolphin Round The World, Under The Command Of Captain Wallis, R.N., In The Years 1766, 1767 And 1768 written by her master.Edited By Hugh Carrington.
London: Printed For The Hakluyt Society [Second Series: No. 98], 1948..
8vo. pp. li, [i], 291, [1]. with half-title. 4 plates (incl. folding frontis.) & 6 maps & charts (1 folding, 2 in the text). partly unopened in original blind & gilt-stamped cloth. "This journal, written by the master of the Dolphin under Wallis, covers the period when he joined her in the Thames in June 1766 until reaching Uea (Wallis Island) in the Western Pacific in 1767. Wallis' circumnavigation voyage in the Dolphin, 1766-8, included visited to Tahiti and the Tuamotu Archipelago." (NMM) National Maritime Museum Cat. I 131.
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