Australia Described - Douglas Stewart Fine Books

25. PRICHARD, James Cowles. The natural history of man;comprising inquiries into the modifying influence ofphysical and moral agencies on the different tribes ofthe human family. With thirty-six coloured and four plainillustrations engraved on steel, and ninety engravings onwood. London : H. Bailliere, 1843. Octavo, full calf withmorocco title label (joints repaired), marbled endpapers,556pp. extensively illustrated with hand-coloured plates.The frontispiece is an image of a Native of New Zealandwhile the Australians of King George’s Sound portrays asickly image of Australian Aborigines. There is extensivediscussion of the ‘Australian race’. $75026. Nouvel abrege de tous les voyages autour du monde,depuis Magellan jusqu’a D’Urville et Laplace (1519-1832).Series: Bibliotheque de la jeunesse chretienne. Tours :Mame, 1841. Third edition. Two volumes octavo, decoratedplum calf with gilt spine, marbled edges & endpapers,311 pp; 311 pp, 8 leaves of plates. Fine. Includes thevoyages of Quiros, Tasman, Dampier, Anson, Byron, Wallis,Bougainville, Cook, Dufresne, De Surville, La Perouse, Bligh,Vancouver, Maurelle, D’Entrecasteaux, Wilson, Baudin,Freycinet, Dupurrey, Beechey, Dillon, D’Urville etc. $50027. LAFOND DE LURCY, Gabriel. Voyages autour du mondeet naufrages celebres. Paris, Administration de librairie,1844. Eight volumes octavo, quarter bound crushedmorocco with gilt-decorated spines over marbled boards,marbled endpapers, engraved plates, many with fine handcolouring, occasional foxing. Volumes 1 and 2 concern theAmericas, volumes 3 - 5 deal with voyages in the SouthSeas, China, and South East Asia, volumes 7 & 8 containaccounts of infamous shipwrecks. $150028. Voyages through the Northern Pacific Ocean, IndianOcean and Chinese Sea. New York : Lane & Scott, 1850.Duodecimo, marbled boards, expertly rebacked, 160pp.,frontispiece of a Native of Java, engraved plates. Thevoyage of Captain Campbell in the Arrow, possibly basedon the journal of James Morris. The account opens as theship leaves Port Jackson to sail up the east coast of NewHolland. Scattered foxing. $24029. GILLRAY, James. Consequences of a successful Frenchinvasion. No. 1. Plate 1. “We come to recover your longlost liberties”. Scene: The House of Commons. London :James Gillray, 1798 (the Bohn restrike of 1851). Etchingwith later hand colouring, 270 x 385mm. Satirical depictionof the House of Commons if the planned French invasionwas successful, a caption in the image reads ‘This houseadjourned to Botany Bay’ with the members of the Housegarbed as convicts, shackled for their journey. Restrikeof the 1798 plate by Henry Bohn, with the permission ofGillray’s widow. $185030. Speech of James Martin, Esq., member of Council for theUnited Midland Counties of Cook and Westmoreland,delivered in the Legislative Council, on Tuesday the 2ndday of July, 1850, on moving the second reading of a billto abolish all duties on brandy and spirits distilled in thecolony of New South Wales, from grapes and grain ofcolonial growth. Sydney: William John Row, 1850. Octavo,self-wrappers (a couple of stains to front wrapper), 22pp.Ferguson 5446. Rare. $6009