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Melb. Lansdowne., 1972-1975.. All elephant folio. Full calf gilt-decorated bindings. Various pag. Contains reproductions of 681 of Gould's famous bird illustrations from the original 1848-1869 London edition. A very good set. Scarce.

Lond. Remington & Co., 1888.. Rebound in half calf with cloth sides. 300,300,291pp. The cloth sides sl.discoloured and a little foxing else a very good set of the Extremely Rare first editon of this classic of Australian literature.

Lond. T & W. Boone., 1847.. Beautifully bound in half morocco with raised bands. xii,423,8;v,361,10pp. t.e.g. 19 engraved plates, 18 text figures & 2 fold-out charts, laid down on linen. The charts are of the Great Barrier Reef and the eastern end of the Island of Java. The edges of the plates, though not the pages, with sl.water-marking. The first British expedition to be despatched to Australia on a surveying mission. 1st ed.

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Syd. The Gazette Office., 1833.. Rebound in half red morocco gilt with raised bands. xxi,330pp.,unpag. directory. Engraved title page, folding map of the Town of Sydney, folding tables & engraved advertising leaves. Folding hand-coloured table of Signals for the Colony of N.S.W. Two engraved plates of Mount Victoria. A little foxing else a very good copy. Very Scarce. F.2157.

Lond. George Bell & Sons., 1884.. Folio. Half morocco with raised bands and gilt fishing motifs on the spine panels. xxvi,204pp. 41 splendid full-page coloured chromolithographic plates of fish. Engravings in the text. A little foxing on the title but the plates particularly clean. Binding sl.rubbed elase a very good copy. 1st ed. Scarce. One of the finest British natural history books of the Victorian era.

Lond. Sampson, Low, Marston &c., 1880. Rebound in half leather. x,424;x,406pp. Four fine colour plates of New Guinea birds, numerous b/w plates and b/w.ills. in the text. Large folding map at the end of vol.2. Some foxing else a very good copy. 1st ed. Very Scarce. The set. D'Albertis was an Italian naturalist and explorer who in 1875, charted the Fly River in Papua New Guinea. During this, he was involved in skirmishes with the various

Lond. W.Whittaker., 1819.. Finely rebound in half morocco gilt. xii;466pp. Fine. 1st ed. Very Scarce. F.771. An important book. A fine copy in a fine binding, of the first original work published by an Australian author.

Dublin. P.Byrne [etc.], 1790.. Full calf. viii,352,74pp. 7 engraved plates. Very good copy. The first Dublin edition. The plates as described below are usually found this way in all printings of this edition. Plates vary from list on p.viii.: Not bound in are: "Natives of Botany" and "Plan of Port Jackson". Added plates are: "A Canoe and Natives of Mulgraves Range" & "A View of New South Wales". F.93.

Lond. Printed for M.Jones., 1802.. Old full calf, rebacked, the corners worn. xliv,506,2pp. Fourteen hand-coloured plates of aborigines and natural history subjects, hand-coloured vignette on title page and an engraved view of the church at Parramatta. Bookplate on front paste-down. The boards a little worn but in generally good condition. Scarce. F.345.

Lond. John Murray., 1857.. Full calf with elaborately decorated spine. ix,711pp. Folding lithograph frontispiece. Portrait, two maps by Arrowsmith and numerous illustrations. A little foxing and some tears to the plates and maps else a god copy. The scarce 1st ed.

Syd. The Gazette Office., 1836.. Rebound in half morocco with raised bands. xviii,16,407,147pp. uncut. Engraved title page, folding map of the Town of Sydney, folding tables & engraved advertising leaves. Three engraved plates of Signals for the Colony of N.S.W., one being hand-coloured. A little foxing else Fine. Very Scarce. F.2157. Edge-Partington bookplate.

Lond. Longmans Green., 1887.. Roy.8vo. Or.cl. xvi,194pp. uncut. t.e.g. Profusely illustrated. Hinges strengthened and corner bumped else a very good copy. 1st ed. Very Scarce.

Lond. Printed for M.Jones., 1803.. Half calf (rubbed & Rebacked) 472pp. Frontispiece portrait, colour vignette on title, folding map & 10 hand-coloured plates of which 7 are views of Sydney. These views dated 1802-03 and engraved by V.Woodthorpe are the first colour plate views of Sydney.

Lond. John Stockdale., 1793.. 8vo. Bound in modern qt.calf with marbled sides. xxii,583pp. uncut. Frontispiece portrait of Hunter. Vignette on title page. Large folding map. Lacks the plate "Family of NSW". The abridged octavo edition of Hunter's Journal published the same year as the quarto first edition.

Lond. G. & W.B.Whittaker., 1819.. Finely rebound quarter calf & marbled boards. xii;466pp. Some foxing. Small blind stamp of a Pennsylvanian Museum at head of title else a good copy. 1st ed. Very Scarce. F.771. An important book. The first original work published by an Australian-born author.

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Birmingham. Printer John Baskerville, 1758.. Both vols contemporary full mottled calf, rebacked, with a decorative tooled border on the front & back boards. xxviii,416;lxix,390pp. Mottled edges. The corners a little worn else a very good set of the 1st ed. Baskerville edition. Scarce. One of the high points of English literature. In his preface Baskerville spoke of his pride in the printing of these volumes and his desire to print only ". books of

Lond. Arthur L.Humphreys., 1908.. Bound in full morocco with raised bands on the spine & blind-stamped flower decorations on the front board. iv,222pp. uncut. The binding sl.rubbed else a very good copy. Very Scarce. A collection of epigrams, bon mots and maxims. Sebastian Melmoth was Oscar Wilde's pseudonym use after his arrest and subsequent move to the continent. The latter work is fully titled "The Soul of Man Under Socialism."

Melb., 1916.. Folio. Or.cl. with gilt McCubbin illustration. 97pp. uncut. + 45 tipped-in plates in colour or b/w. The cloth slightly moisture affected else a very good copy. 1st ed. Scarce. Limited to 1,000 numbered copies signed by the Artist. Particularly Scarce.