Australia Described - Douglas Stewart Fine Books

86. BONNEFONT, Gaston. Lady Brassey. Aux Indes et enAustralie dans le yacht le ‘Sunbeam’. Tours: Mame, 1893.Folio, fine gilt-illustrated boards, all edges gilt, 398pp.,foxing, illustrated. A very attractive account of Brassey.$33087. HUE, Fernand. Aventures de deux Francais at d’un Chienen Australie. Nouvelle edition. Paris: Lecene, Oudin et Cie,1892. Octavo, decorated cloth, 142pp., scattered foxing,engraved illustrations. The adventures of two Frenchmenand a dog in Australia, a charming children’s book withmuch discussion of Aborigines. A scarce edition. $50088. PEARSON, M. J. Cookery recipes for the people.Melbourne: H. Hearne & Co., 1894. Octavo, printedboards, 124pp, staples rusted. Third edition of the popularwork, first published 1889 for the Centennial Exhibition inMelbourne. $45089. LOIR, Maurice. Gloires et souvenirs maritimes : d’aprèsles mémoires ou les récits de Baudin, de Bonaparte, del’Amiral P. Bouvet…. Paris : Librairie Hachette, 1895. Firstedition. Quarto, half-calf over gilt-decorated boards, topedge gilt, marbled endpapers, 331pp, front hinge cracking,numerous colour plates. First edition with accounts of LaPerouse and other maritime heroes. $40090. EARDLEY-WILMOT, S. (Capt.) Voyages and travels ofLored Brassey K.C.B., D.C.L. from 1862 to 1894. London: Longmans, Green , and Co., 1895. Two volumes octavo,original cloth with gilt titles, 292pp, 343pp., folding maps,faint foxing, bookplate to front pastedown. A fine set ofthe famous voyage by the English peer who sailed aroundthe Australian coastline in the Sunbeam. $44021