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LABILLARDIÈRE, Jacques Julien Houton de. Voyage in Search of La Pérouse …London : 1800
First edition in English, same year as the French, this in the favoured, and less common, single-volume quarto edition. Labillardière was the botanist and doctor on the d'Entrecasteaux Pérouse search expedition, and was entrusted with the task of writing the official account following the death of the commander from scurvy. "Although unsuccessful... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 79886
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[PETHERICK, Edward Augustus, compiler.] Edwards's Australasian Catalogue:London : [1899]
First edition of bookseller, publisher, bibliographer and book collector's 3,000 item priced catalogue of Australiana. In 1865, the English-born Petherick (1847-1917) started collecting titles for a catalogue or bibliography of Australia but temporarily abandoned the project in 1870 to focus on reorganising the bookselling firm that he worked for, George... Learn More£225.00Stock Code: 118564
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AUSTRALIA. Report from the Select Committee on Transportation.London : 1812
First edition of this uncommon and important paper, providing the only published documentation relating to Macquarie's earliest years. After Bligh was deposed in the Rum Rebellion of 1808, questions were asked about the real value of transportation to New South Wales, and in 1811 a Parliamentary Select Committee was called to inquire into the system... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 114355
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HARRISSON, Tom. Savage Civilisation.New York : 1937
First US edition, same year as the UK first. Uncommon, Harrisson's first book of anthropology based on the work of the Oxford expedition to the New Hebrides, for which he was officially the ornithologist; "When the rest of the Oxford party left Santo Island for home in 1934, Harrisson got to Malekula, where cannibalism was still widespread. Unarmed,... Learn More£200.00Stock Code: 51720
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SWEET, Samuel White, Captain. Captain Sweet's Views of South Australia.Adelaide : c.1884
Superb lifetime album of fully-captioned photographs of remarkable depth and clarity by the pioneering photographer of Australia Captain Samuel White Sweet (1825-1886), presenting a generous panorama of his art in prints reflecting the civic pride of the city of Adelaide through its many fine buildings, alongside the landscape of South Australia captured... Learn More£15,000.00Stock Code: 129596
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WILSON, James. The Life and Dreadful Sufferings of Captain James Wilson, In various Parts of the Globe,Portsea : 1810
First edition of the first biography of James Wilson, captain of the Duff on her first missionary voyage to the South Seas.
"Although there are several accounts of James Wilson's life, sufferings and missionary voyage, this was the earliest biography of him to appear. Written anonymously, this lively telling follows Wilson's life from his birth... Learn More£4,500.00Stock Code: 70373
