Voyager Rare Books Maps &amp; Prints - November Collection

Voyager Rare Books Maps & Prints 

November Catalogue 2019 

Summer is nearly here and Christmas shortly too. 

We hope you have time to flick through our 

catalogue … if you find something of interest that 

would be super. If not there’s lots more on our 

website which is continually updated 

 

The Log of HMS Providence Captain William Bligh 

The Geology and Palaeontology of Queensland –1892 

Philosophia Britannica — Benjamin Martin — 1759 

 

 

Antique Medical Instruments 

Collectable Australian Bookplates 

May Gibbs — First Edition — Baronia Babies — 1919 

 

 

Some special Egyptology items 

Louis de Freycinet Map of the County of Cumberland in New South Wales 

and Isles Jerome and Berthier — 1811 

Queensland Goldfields — Magic Lantern Slides — Frank Hardie — 1890’s 

Georges Barbier stylish Pochoir — “Rugby” — 1914 

Charles Darwin—The Descent of Man — 1890 

 

Scarce 1708 Daniel Defoe Pamphlet 

Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians—Wilkison 1837 

V o y a g e r h o b a r t . c o m 

Treat yourself at Voyager

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Voyager Rare Books Maps & Prints 

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Charles Darwin - The Descent of Man 

and Selection in Relation to Sex 

A nice second revised and augmented edition, 

published by John Murray, London, 1890. The 

desired original “Murray” green cloth binding as 

issued with blind stamped borders and gilt titles 

and banding to spine. 

Octavo, 693 pages, illustrated throughout, a 

little sign of age, generally a very good copy 

Darwin's classic work on comparative anatomy. 

By comparing the physiological and 

psychological aspects of man and ape, he fills in 

what had been merely suggested in the Origin: 

that man's ancestor, if still alive today, would be 

classified among the primates and on a 

lower scale than the apes. 

The last chapter is an added essay on sexual 

selection, the superior chances of mating that 

some individuals of one sex have over their 

rivals. The essay ends with the famous and often 

misquoted statement ... 

"Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible 

stamp of his lowly origin." 

It was in this book that Darwin used the word 

“Evolution” for the first time. 

Price $490.00 

The Descent of Man Companion to Origin 

Revising this edition Darwin was 

assisted by his second son George 

Darwin, later a distinguished 

Astronomer and FRS. Charles had 

originally asked Wallace to help and 

had to renege after his wife Emma 

objected. His “Bulldog”, Thomas 

Huxley, helped update text relating 

to apes and was most pleased that 

“Descent” in its revised form 

“pounds the enemy into a jelly”. 

V o y a g e r h o b a r t . c o m

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Bligh’s Log — HMS Providence 

Narrative whilst at Adventure 

Bay, Bruny Island, Tasmania 

Sir Lionel Lindsay – Three Bookplates 

Three original bookplates by Sir Lionel Lindsay (1874-1961) of particular interest. 

All based on woodcuts. Very clean condition. 

First his own produced 1930-33, 9.0 cm x 8.0 cm. Included in Mendelssohn 1982. 

A working proof of this bookplate is held by the NGV, accession 990D-4. 

The other two by Lionel for his son Peter Lindsay (1907-1990). They were produced 

earlier, circa 1923. The Cockatoo slightly larger at 7.5cm x 6.0cm in the block, the 

other 6.7cm x 5.7cm in the block. 

Price $90.00 

Three Lionel Lindsay bookplate for himself and his son Peter

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The Log of HMS Providence 1791-1793 

(Second Breadfruit Voyage) 

Captain W. Bligh 

Published by upmarket Genesis, Guildford, 

England a limited fine edition 1976. 

The first publication from the original log 

held at the Public records Office, Kew. 

A wealth of knowledge and information. 

A complete reproduction of Bligh’s Log in 

which he tries to trace the course of the 

Bounty Mutineers. Preface by Mountbatten 

and introduced by Stephen Walters. 

One of 500 copies, thick folio, 901 pages, 

several kgs, coloured frontispiece, 

5 folding maps, numerous illustrations. 

Bound in original half leather and buckram 

with raised bands, gilt tooling and 

sprinkled page edges. Original buckram slip 

case. Includes a colour reproduction of 

Sydney Parkinson’s beautiful breadfruit 

watercolour and a complete reproduction 

of John Ellis’ book of 1775 “A Description 

of the Mangoston and Breadfruits” with 

notes by botanist Dr David Bellamy. 

The first breadfruit voyage failed as a 

result of the Bounty Mutiny. Ever resilient 

Bligh set out in HMS Providence in 1791 for 

a second and ultimately successful 

attempt. The Admiralty had purchased the 

Providence “on the stocks” from Perry & 

Co, Blackwall Yard in February of that 

year. Launched in April, coppered and 

commissioned under Bligh. Rated sixth rate 

she sailed on 2 August for the Pacific. She 

made the West Indies and delivered the 

specimens to the Royal Botanic Gardens at 

St Vincent. She was back in England in 

August 1793. Providence went on to the 

Vancouver expedition and was shipwrecked 

off Japan in 1797. 

Price $690.00 

Special Issue of Captain Bligh’s Successful 

Breadfruit Voyage 

Voyager = Thoughtful Gift

First edition maps of Islands off Terra Napoleon and the County of Cumberland 

in New South Wales — Louis de Freycinet — 1811 

An original copper engraving” Plan des Iles Jerome (Terre Napoleon) par M.M.H. Freycinet at 

Bernier, an 1802. Plan des Iles Berthier (Terre Napoleon) par M.M.H. Freycinet et Bernier, an 

1802. Plan du Comte de Cumberland (Nouvelle-Galles du Sud) d’apres les Cartes Anglaises, 

mais assujetti aux observations Francaises. 

The map is by Louis Claude Desaulses de Freycinet (1779-1842). Plate No 9 from the second 

atlas of his maps from the Voyage de Decouvertes aux Terres Australes (Voyage of Discovery 

to the Southern Lands) published by Langlois in Paris, in 1811. Tooley reference Map, 618 

The French intended to colonise Australia. The first volume of this work was published in 

1807. The second volume which contained the maps was in 1811 three years before Flinders. 

Three maps on one sheet, thick sturdy paper, strong plate mark, excellent definition. Sheet 

size 35.1cm by 26.1 cm. Cumberland map 16.7 by 10.5 cm other two 8.3 by 10.5cm each. 

Price $390.00 

Freycinet accompanied Nicholas Baudin on his famous voyage to improve the French mapping 

of Australia. Baudin leader aboard Le Geographie and Freycinet aboard Le Naturaliste. Whilst 

in Sydney Baudin sent the Naturalist home with the records of their effort so far and 

purchased a vessel from Philip Gidley King, the Casuarina, which he placed under Freycinet’s 

command. Baudin died on the voyage home and the task of writing up the travels fell to the 

naturalist Francois Peron. Sadly, he in turn died before completing the work and the mantle 

was passed to Freycinet who completed that task and the magnificent accompanying atlas. 

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A Voyage Round the World 

in His Majesty’s Frigate Pandora 

George Hamilton 

The Pandora was sent to recover the Bounty 

and bring back the Mutineers. The voyage is an 

extraordinary story told with a light and 

readable touch by George Hamilton, surgeon 

onboard. After having recovered some 

Mutineers the Pandora was wrecked on the 

Barrier Reef approaching the Torres Straits. 

One of a limited edition of 950 copies 

published by Hordern House in 1998. Octavo, 

illustrated, bound in quarter Scottish cherry 

calf with marbled paper covered boards. 

A faithful facsimile of the Voyage of the 

Pandora a rare 1793 publication connected to 

Bligh’s Mutiny on the Bounty. 

HMS Pandora was a sixth rate Porcupine class 

naval vessel. She was commissioned in May 

1779, built by Adams & Barnard, Deptford. 

Pandora saw action in the war against France 

in that year and in the American War of 

Independence. She was mothballed in 1783. 

In 1790 having heard of the Bounty 

Mutiny, the First Lord of the Admiralty, Lord 

Chatham despatched her, under Captain 

Edward Edwards, to recover the Bounty and 

capture the Mutineers. When they arrived at 

Tahiti, they found that a group of fourteen 

mutineers had broken away from Fletcher 

Christian and returned there. Some 

surrendered, including Peter Heywood, others 

proved more difficult, but eventually all 

fourteen were captured and locked in a cell on 

board … known as Pandora’s Box. The Pandora 

visited numerous islands looking for the 

others ... but only managed to lose some of 

their own crew to desertion. They headed 

west for home, but the ship ran aground on 

29 th August 1791 on the outer Great Barrier 

Reef. She soon sank with 35 men lost including 

4 of the Bounty Mutineers. The survivors made 

for a sand cay and two days later sailed in four 

open boats for Indonesia. 

The wreck was found in 1977 jointly by John 

Heyer and Ben Cropp, after much competition 

to be the first to the spot. 

The Queensland Museum excavated the wreck 

under a team led by Peter Gesner who wrote 

the forward to this book. 

Price $190.00 

HMS Pandora ... the recovery of the Bounty 

Mutineers and subsequent Shipwreck on 

The Great Barrier Reef. 


The Geology and Palaeontology of 

Queensland and New Guinea – 

(Plate Album – Some Hand Coloured) - 1892 

Robert Logan Jack and Robert Etheridge (Jnr) 

This is the scarce first edition plate album 

published by James Beal, Brisbane in 1892 and 

Dulau, London 

Small quarto (25cm by 19cm) containing 68 

striking plates. Plate 69 is listed being a 

Geological Map of Queensland, as this was bound 

separately it is nearly always missing as in this 

case. Original embossed brown cloth covered 

binding, gilt titles to spine, original patterned 

endpapers. Some ageing to extremities. 

Internally very clean, with some damage to one 

plate (no 25) not affecting the images. 

Specimens figured are predominantly from the 

Geological Survey of Queensland Collection along 

with some from the British Museum, Australian 

and Queensland Museums ; and individuals 

including Richard Daintree, Tenison Woods etc 

Robert Logan Jack (Voyager hero) was the Government Geologist for Queensland. Robert 

Etheridge son a an equally famous father of the same name worked with Logan Jack 

previously on the Geological Survey of Scotland. At the time of this work Etheridge was 

Government Palaeontologist of NSW. 

The first 44 plates contain 661 individual illustrations lithographed by Berjeau & Highley 

and printed by Mintern Brothers, London a combination active in scientific works of the 

period including the leading London Societies. 11 of the plates represent geological 

sections of varying degrees of complexity; a plate of drill cores; a coloured folding chart of 

the Burrum coal field; a larger folding coloured plan of Gympie Gold Field; a larger again 

folding coloured plan of Chartered Towers. The 12 excellent hand coloured images of rock 

thin section drawn from the microscope by Isabel Phoebe Clarke (1863-1960) wife of 

Arthur Walter Clarke (1854-1893) who was at Chartered Towers 

Price $490.00 

Important Queensland Geological Work – Special Plates 

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Rugby – Georges Barbier - Gazette du Bon Ton -1914 

An original hand coloured “Pochoir” by Georges Barbier (1882-1932) the most desirable 

artist of the Paris Gazette du Bon Ton published in 1914. A very early Bon Ton. 

Rugby and “Costume tailleur de Redfern” … a stylish outfit by designer John Redfern 

(1853-1919), in snowy cheviot (a soft luxurious wool weave from the Cheviot sheep), 

with a small black vest in the finest silk Ottoman, fastened with braided black frogs. 

Price $290.00 framed in Voyager Bon Ton style or $190.00 unframed — you choose 

Much sought after Georges Barbier 


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If its Hemingway its Voyager 

See our website 

A Moveable Feast - Hemingway 

True First Edition -1964 

Predates American Edition by one day 

“If you are lucky enough to have lived in 

Paris as a young man, then wherever you go 

for the rest of your life, it stays 

with you, for Paris is a Moveable Feast”. 

Price $150.00 – a very nice copy 

Scarce Collectable Hemingway First Edition

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The Cruise of HMS Galatea, Captain HEH 

The Duke of Edinburgh, KG in 1867-1868. 

By the Rev John Milner and Oswald Brierly. 

First edition published by W.H. Allen, London 

in 1869. Large octavo, 487 pages bound in 

original decorated blue cloth covered boards, 

professionally re-cased. Carries an original laid 

-down oval photograph of Prince Alfred., the 

Duke of Edinburgh and Captain of the Galatea, 

attributed to the London Stereoscopic & 

Photographic Company, Regent Street. 

Illustrated with eleven chromolithographs, 

illustrations in the text and a large folding map 

at the rear. Good condition and rare in the 

original binding. Some foxing, in the ends and 

on pages around the plates. 

An interesting circumnavigation and a strong 

Australian focus. Eight of the twelve chapters 

relate to Australia, visiting South Australia, 

Victoria, Tasmania and New South Wales. 

Unfortunately, when in Sydney Prince Alfred 

was shot in the back by Henry O’Farrell, who 

claimed to be a Fenian but was really just a 

crazy man. The Prince survived. The events 

were the first Royal visit to Australia and the 

first assassination attempt! Alfred got out and 

about on his visits and the narrative is pretty 

interesting in all locations. 

Prior to Australia the Galatea called in at 

Gibraltar, Malta, Rio and Voyager favourite 

Atlantic Island Tristan d’Acunha of which thirty 

pages are devoted. Then the Cape of Good 

Hope and an extraordinary elephant hunt. 

Price $290.00 

Prince Alfred was the second son and fourth 

child of Victoria and Albert. He became a 

highly regarded naval officer. He was given the 

command of HMS Galatea a 36 gun Ariadne 

Class frigate in 1866 after it had been 

re-fitted. He eventually became Duke of 

Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. 

Clontarf 

The Fleet at Sydney Heads 


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A Voyage of Discovery 

to the Southern Hemisphere, Performed by 

Order of the Emperor Napoleon, During the 

Years 1801, 1802, 1803 and 1804 

(Two Volumes plus the Atlas) 

Francois Peron and Louis de Freycinet 

Published progressively at Adelaide by The Friends 

of the State Library of South Australia. 

Volume I – large octavo (24cm by 16cm), 430 pages 

and with large folding map of New Holland in the 

rear pocket (the Freycinet Map). Numerous other 

illustrations, some colour, some folding. Fine 

condition. Published 2006. 

Taken from the second French edition 1824, 

translated by Christine Cornwall. Comprising Books II 

to III in that original being Chapters I to XXI 

Contents of this volume includes … the Plan, aim 

and composition of the expedition; Le Harve to the 

Canary Islands and time in Tenerife; on to Ils de 

France; then to New Holland … Leeuwin Land, 

Eendracht Land, De Witt’s Land and on to Timor; 

the Naturaliste’s work in Edels Land and Eendtacht 

Land; from Timor to South Cape Ban Diemen’s Land; 

Southern, South-east and East Van Diemen’s Land; 

Banks and Bass Straits; South West New Holland; 

Return to Van Diemen’s Land and Adventure Bay; to 

Port Jackson and back to Banks Strait, Bass Strait; 

Experiments on the strength of the native people of 

Van Diemen’s Land, New Holland and Timor etc. 

Volume II – large octavo (24cm by 16cm), 278 pages 

with large folding map .. Carte Generale de la Terra 

Napoleon (Part of South Coast of Australia) in rear 

pocket. Numerous other illustrations, some colour. 

Fine condition. Published 2003. 

Taken from the second French edition 1824, 

translated by Christine Cornwall. Comprising Book IV 

in that original being Chapters XXII to XXXIV 

Contents of this volume includes … King Island the 

Hunter Islands; the Elephant Seal; Kangaroo Island; 

South West Coast, St Peter Islands and Isles of St 

Francis; Nuyts Lan and King Georges Sound; further 

work.. Leeuwin, Edels, Eendracht, De Witt’s and the 

Bonaparte Archipelago; Timor and De Witt again and 

head home via the Cape of Good Hope. 

Atlas Volume, folio (36cm by 27cm), again from the 

1824 edition. Introduction by Sarah Thomas 10 

pages; English language “Explanatory Table of the 

Plates …” 9 pages; Facsimile of original title and 

Explanatory Table in French … followed by the 68 

full page plates, in colour where appropriate. 

Fine condition. Published 2008. 

Price $480.00 

Full set of a sought after facsimile of the 

Baudin Voyage to Australia

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Freycinet accompanied Nicholas Baudin on his 

famous voyage to complete the French 

mapping of Australia. Baudin leader aboard Le 

Geographie and Freycinet on Le Naturaliste. 

Whilst in Sydney Baudin sent the Naturalist 

home with the records of their effort so far 

and purchased a vessel from Philip Gidley 

King, the Casuarina, which he placed under 

Freycinet’s command. Baudin died on the 

final voyage home and the task of writing up 

the travels fell to the naturalist Francois 

Peron. He in turn died before completing the 

work and the mantle was passed to Louis 

Freycinet who with MM Lesueur and Petit 

completed that task and produced the 

magnificent accompanying atlas 


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The Emin Pasha Relief Expedition 

My Personal Experiences in Equatorial Africa 

as Medical Officer – Thomas Parke 

First Edition 1891 

Published by Sampson Low etc, London in 

1891 a first edition. 

Large octavo, 526 pages. Original green cloth 

with gilt titles to spine and gilt illustration to 

front cover, from a drawing by Dorothy 

Stanley (Stanley’s wife). Frontispiece of the 

author, 17 plates, large folding coloured map. 

Thomas Heazle Parke (1857-1893)was an Irish 

born surgeon who had joined the Egyptian 

Army and served at Tel el-Kebir in 1882. 

Soon became Director of the Hospital at 

Helwan. In 1885 he was involved in the relief 

of Gordan at Khartoum. He was appointed to 

Stanley’s expedition more or less by 

accident. Stanley met him at Alexandria on 

his way through … must have come without 

proper medical assistance .. Parke was his 

man. He spent three years as part of the 

Advance Column. Known as “the man who 

saved Stanley’s life” he saved many more … 

famously sucked the poison from arrow 

wound in the chest of Captain Stairs. He was 

as a consequence of the expedition the first 

Irishman to cross Africa. 

His account is a lively read, largely because 

of Parke meticulous daily journals. He was a 

supporter of Stanley (there were two camps), 

who he thought … “carried us through a 

series of difficulties which, I believe, no 

other living man would have been able to 

battle with so successfully”. 

Price $380.00 

Stanley Expedition – Relief of Emin Pasha 

Parke’s account

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Antique Medical Instruments – Bennion 

Published by Sotheby Parke Bernet, University 

of California Press a first edition 1979. 

Large quarto, 355 pages, heavily and nicely 

illustrated. A trifle foxed inside dust jacket 

otherwise clean and a very good copy. A 

heavy book. Includes correspondence from 

the author to previous owner regarding 

antique stethoscopes and a catalogue from 

her Employer, a distinguished retailer of such 

items in Piccadilly. 

Foreword by Reginal Murley, President of the 

Royal College of Surgeons, says it all … 

“a book of this quality has been long overdue, 

the meticulous and thorough research stand 

out and the newly created “Directory of 

Surgical Instrument Makers” will be a go to 

reference for all Medical Historians”. 

Covers the Middle Ages to 1870 with chapters 

by instrument family following an introduction 

on the history of the profession. Then saws, 

trephines and phlebotomy instruments; 

knives, directors and forceps; lithotomy and 

urethrotomy; ear, nose and throat; obstetrical 

and gynaecological; ophthalmic; Dental; 

Veterinary; etc … Extensive bibliography, 

glossary of terms, chronological chart of 

Surgeons and aforementioned “Directory” 

Price $90.00 

Well researched book on medial antique – 

The Fate of Anatomical Collection 

Published by Ashgate, Farnham, 2015. One of the 

prestigious “History of Medicine in Context” series. 

Large octavo, 305 pages, relevant illustrations, a very 

good production on quality paper. Fine. 

Editors Rina Knoeff of the University of Groningen and 

Robert Zwijnenberg from Leiden. Contributors number 

19 and are a “who is who” of medical history writing. 

Anatomical collections continue to be relevant to 

medical training, research etc. Some collections are 

well preserved by those that hold them, some not so. 

After useful introductory chapters, we explore the 

“Fated Collections” … What Richard Owen did to John 

Hunter’s Collection; McGill University’s Collection and 

the Case of Curator Maude Abbott; Resilience and the 

Long Life of Leiden’s Earliest Anatomical Collection and 

the Charnel House and the early Skeletons. Part III 

deals with Preparations, Models and Users. Part IV .. 

Provenance and Fate .. the Beaded Babies; Strasbourg’s 

Pathology Collection etc. Part V …. Modern Practices … 

the Public Veneration of Anatomical Relics. 

Price $80.00 

Quality work of the highest standard … 

Anatomical Collections described and considered. 


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Philosophia Britannica – Benjamin Martin – 1759 

Volume 3 – Optics, Astronomy, the Use of the Globes an Optical Instruments 

One of three volumes each of which stands alone. We have two and are selling them 

individually or as a pair … scarce. 

Published by M Cooper in Pater-noster-row, J Newbery in St Pauls Church-yard, S Crowder on 

London-bridge etc London and sold by the Author at his House in Fleet-street, 1759. 

Bound in original full speckled Calf showing some age but holding very well. Original maroon 

leather title labels. A beautiful antiquarian look. Text block speckled red. Title page in red 

and black. 408 pages after preliminaries, with solid index at the rear. Thirty five magnificent 

copper engraved plates, all folding, two with professionally repaired tears. 

Benjamin Martin (1705-1782) established a school in Chichester during his twenties. By 1738 

he had a keen interest in optics and produced several microscopes. He presented lectures in 

experimental philosophy to audiences in Reading, Bristol, Bath and London. He published his 

first “Philosophia” in 1747. This the second 1759 edition is a new and augmented version. 

By 1756 Martin settled in London, trading as an Optician and in scientific instruments. His 

address, was “Hadley’s Quadrant and Visual Glasses”, near Crane Court, in Fleet Street. His 

trade cards advertised … “All Sorts of Philosophical, Optical and Mathematical Instruments 

many of which are of New Invention made and Sold by Benjamin Martin at his shop … viz 

Planetariums, Globes of any Size, Air Pumps, Barometers, Thermometers, Pocket 

Microscopes, Wilson’s Microscopes, Solar Microscopes, Reflecting and Refracting Telescopes, 

Opera Glasses, Spectacles, Hadley’s Quadrants, Cases of Instruments, Sectors, Sliding Rules. 

Artificial Magnets”. 

The book comprises; Optics containing inter alia; Lenses; 

Harmonical Reflection in Mirrors; Images; Algebra; Eye and 

Vision; Refractive Power; Defects of the Eye; Optical 

Instruments; Microscopes; Cata-dioptric Microscope; 

Reflecting Microscope; Micrometer; Pocket Microscope of the 

Author’s Invention; Refracting Telescopes; Newton’s 

Reflecting Telescope; Camera Obscura; Solar Telescope; 

Astronomy – inter alia The Universe; Ptolomean System; 

Tycho Brahe; Copernican or Solar System; Periodical Times of 

The Planets; Satellites or Moons; Atmosphere of the Moon; 

Moons of Jupiter and Saturn; Saturn’s Rings; Newtonian 

Theory of Planetary Motion; the Orrery; Eclipses; Comets; 

The Path of the Comet of 1743/3. Cycles of the Moon; the 

Golden Numbers; The Astronomical Principles of Sir Isaac 

Newton’s Chronology Explained. The use of the Globes inter 

alia Catalogue of Stars; Zodiac; Nebulous Stars; Problems on 

the Celestial Globe; Voyage to the Arctic by the French King’s 

Mathematicians; Mercator’s Projection Explained. Lunar 

Motions; Computing the Quantity of Matter, Density, and 

Weight of Bodies, in the Sun, Earth, Jupiter, and Saturn. 

Improvements in Optical Instruments Universal Microscope; 

the New Solar Microscope; the New Reflecting Microscope etc 

The folding map of the world is by distinguished English 

cartographer Emanuel Bowen (1694-1767). Described as “the 

Globular Projection or A Map of the World Drawn from the best Authorities & Regulated by 

Astronomical Observations” c1750 but obviously before 1759. 

A special pre-Cook map of the world. Australia based on the Dutch understanding of the 

coastline with New Holland, Carpentaria and Van Diemens Land named. Elsewhere a number 

of false of fictitious landmarks add interest, including Darkes Land south of the Horn; Davis 

Land (which may be Easter Island) and Gamas Land in the North west Pacific, and Terra 

Australis just south of Tristan da Cunha. Strong plate mark and in good condition. Uncoloured 

as it should be. This map underpins the value of the book. 

Price $690.00 

Superb 18thC Physics based on Newton and his followers with special engravings to 

demonstrate the principles and instruments involved. Early world map by Emanuel Bowen. 

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Le Theatre – Revue Bimensuelle Illustree - 1906 

A beautiful collection of “Le Theatre” – Six months from January to June 1906. 

Folio (35cm by 28cm) by Goupil & Co, Paris. Six editions complete and in beautiful 

condition. Bound in blue cloth covered boards, front board with striking art 

nouveau design by George Feuge. Gilt title to spine and top page edges richly gilt. 

Each edition carries a coloured front page and the occasional coloured image 

throughout. Many, many black and white images, often full page, of a theatrical 

and costume nature. Period advertisements add interest. 

Price $140.00 

A stunning historical record of the Parisian Theatre at the start of the 20thC. 

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A Guide to Maps of Australia 

in Books Published 1780-1830 

Essential as Tooley on the mapping of Australia. 

Described as an “annotated cartobibliography” 

compiled by Tom Perry and Dorothy Prescott. 

Published by the National Library of Australia in 1996, 

small quarto, 315 pages with some illustrations. 

Hardbound, published without a dust jacket, 

decorative paper covered boards, quality paper. 

Supreme effort cataloguing near 600 maps and charts 

of Australia, or parts of Australia. Referencing system 

is simple and useful, giving the date of publication 

then order of appearance, and with a reference to 

Ferguson if appropriate - e.g. 1824.19 is the 1824 

published map of Van Diemen’s Land by Sidney Hall 

from Wentworth’s “A Statistical Account of the British 

settlements in Australasia” (Ferguson 990). 

Price $160.00 

Up there with Tooley – Perry and Prescott 

Guide to Australian Maps 

Terra Australis to Australia 

Published by Oxford University Press, Melbourne 

a first edition 1988. A fine copy. 

Edited by Glyndwr Williams and Alan Frost. 

Contributions from Voyager favourite Gunter 

Schilder (author Australia Unveiled) and Helen 

Wallis Keeper of Maps at the British Library 

Octavo, 242 pages heavily illustrated and colour 

where appropriate. Super selection of maps. 

Nice production – Theory on and Speculation of 

Terra Australis, The enigma of the Dieppe Maps, 

the Dutch Discoveries and the arrival of the 

English. Beautifully and intelligently done. 

Price $50.00 

Must rate as one of the best books on the subject 

Joan Blaeu and his Grand Atlas 

Published by esteemed Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, Amsterdam 

By distinguished Professor of Cartography at Utrecht, Dr Ir. C. 

Koeman and an excellent introduction and background to the 

making of this never bettered work. 

Octavo, 144 pages plus index. Nicely illustrated. Hardback 

edition, more difficult to come by. Faux vellum covering to 

the boards illustrated in git and blue. Very good condition. 

Starts with a biography of Joan Blaeu, the printing house and 

cartographical institute. The origin of the Atlas and its growth 

… the Atlas Maior; the content of the Grand Atlas and the 

consequences of the fire of 1672. 

Price $60.00 

The book to gain an understanding of the 


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Pat Corrigan – Four Bookplates 

Commissioned from Australian Artists 

Four original bookplates by four quite different 

Australian artists, produced 1970’s. Excellent condition 

Earle Backen (1927-2005), books in cubic arrangement. 

In his time one of the most respected painters in 

Sydney. His principal field printmaking. In 1954 he won 

a scholarship to London and Paris. 13.5cm x 9.2cm. 

Peter Chapman (1925-2016) Blues Player. Chapman 

born in North Sydney. He became one of Australia’s 

foremost comic book illustrators including The Phantom 

Ranger, The Shadow and Sir Falcon. 13cm by 10cm. 

James Willibrant (Born 1950) Sydney Harbour. Born in 

Shanghai, returning to Australia in time to study and 

develop an keen talent. Remains very active, his 

painting are a true delight … look them up. At the time 

of producing this special bookplate for Pat Corrigan he 

was teaching art at Chiron College. 12.5cm x 9.0cm. 

Joel Elenberg (1948-1980). Totemic form. Born in 

Melbourne and died very young in Bali. Soulmate of 

Brett Whiteley and loved by many. Elenberg an 

accomplished painter drawn later to sculpture. The 

form of this bookplate reflects that transition 

Pat Corrigan having done more to re-stimulate the art 

of bookplate design in Australia than any other person. 

Price $120.00 

Four Corrigan Commissioned Bookplates 

by four very different Australian Artists.

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The Love Books of Ovid 

“The Love Books of Ovid being the Amores [The 

Loves], Ars Amatoria [The Art of Love], Remedia 

Amoris [The Cure for Love] and Medicamina Faciei 

Femineae [Women’s Facial Cosmetics] of Publius 

Ovidus Naso translated from Latin by J. Lewis May”. 

Extravagant illustrations of the great Jean De 

Bosschere, Voyagers favourite book illustrator. 

Published by the Bodley Head in 1925 a numbered 

limited edition. Large octavo (24cm by 16cm). This 

is the finest copy we have seen partly because we 

have the original dust jacket which is as scarce as 

hen’s teeth. The beautiful blue covers with lavish 

gilt work were also designed by Bosschere. The 

many illustrations of which several are in striking 

colour are a little naughty but oh so natural to the 

stories of Publius Ovidious. 

Price $220.00 

Best copy of The Love Book – superbly illustrated 


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Gold Mining in Queensland 

Four Hand Coloured Lantern Slides 

Photographer, Frank Hardie 1890’s 

Four rare original magic lantern slide issued 

by George Washington Wilson (G.W.W.) of 

Aberdeen in the late 1890’s. Hand coloured. 

Original 3.5 inch square, lantern slide. Label 

from G.W.W. Fine images. 

G.W.W. sent their top photographer, Fred 

Hardie, to Australia in the 1890’s to take 

images for their business in magic lantern 

slides. Hardie travelled from South Australia 

to Cairns, Queensland mainly by train but 

occasionally by horse and trap. Very active 

at the time. G.W.W. went out of business 

just before WWI, through competition and a 

waning in interest in the product. The slides 

produced are quite scarce, and rarely seen 

coloured. The bulk of the G.W.W. catalogue 

eventually ended up at Aberdeen University. 

The slides comprise: 

Alluvial Gold Diggings – Cradle at Work – 

Aberdeen Reference 30591; Alluvial Gold 

Digging Queensland – Good Prospect – Ref 

30592; Sinking in a Payable Reef – Ref 30593 

and Gold Digging – The Whim – Ref 30595. 

Note we have an uncoloured slide of 30594 

The Whip which is being sold separately. 

Price $390.00 

Rare Hand Coloured Images of Queensland 

Gold Mining Activity.

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Sport in Many Lands (Europe, 

Asia, Africa and America etc) 

by H.A. Leveson known as “Old 

Shakarry” 

“Old Shekarry” was Major Henry 

Astbury Leveson and he was one of 

the great 19 th Century traveller 

hunters. He went everywhere and 

had a shot at everything. His 

recollections of the Man Eating Bengal 

Tiger do add a little balance. 

Published posthumously as a sort of 

compilation of his other works on a 

grander scale. Published by Warne, 

London and New York in 1890. Royal 

octavo, 597 pages with towards 200 

illustrations. Delightful decorative 

covers – all in very good condition. 

Starts with a memoir on Leveson by 

H.F. which reassures one that here 

was a man who lead a full life, with a 

distinguished military career to back 

up his private interests. 

The book proper starts at home with 

Her Majesty’s Buckhounds and the 

chasing of the red deer. Off to 

Bavaria, the Alps and the Chamois. 

Wild Fowl shooting and the marsh 

lands of the Somme .. what different 

place they were to become. The 

exotic and hog hunting in India … 

Bears, Tigers and Leopards before the 

formidable yet vulnerable Elephant. 

Up in the Himalaya and some 

interesting travel notes before more 

shooting. Into the Middle east and the 

sad markets in wives and slaves. The 

hard life of the Bedouins around the 

Suez and blasting Hyena. South Africa 

and the “bok” in all its forms and, 

sadly, the quagga (they have all 

gone). After the challenge of the Lion 

we move up to Abyssinia and 

reflections on native customs. A 

different part of the world the North 

American “Rockies” and a narrow 

escape from a grizzly bear … into the 

prairies and the mode of hunting 

adopted by the Red Indians. A 

skirmish with the Red Indians gives 

the buffalo a chance! 

Gladiator & Lion Bookends 

Deco period bookends manufactured in the 

USA circa 1930. Not the best way to fight a 

Lion. Unusual and quite rare. 

Price $140.00 

Get back you feline beast 

Price $160.00 

Old Shakarry from a different era – 

travel and hunting – in Many Lands 


Bridgewater – Mount Direction – Hobart, Tasmania -1840 

An original lithograph from a drawing by Louis Le Breton (1818-1866) lithographed by Leon 

Jean Baptiste Sabatier published as part of the great “Atlas Pittoresque” to accompany 

“Voyage au Pole Sud et dans l’Oceanie sur les corvettes l’Astrolabe et la Zelee … sous 

Commandement de M.J. Dumont d’Urville”. 

Delightful view of Bridgewater looking across the Derwent to imposing Mount Direction 

Lithographed on sturdy paper size 55cm by 35cm. Very good clean condition. 

Price $480.00 unframed – rare 

Striking Tasmanian image from the voyage of Dumont d’Urville. 

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Carte de la Terra Van-Diemen - 1777 

Original copper engraved 18 th century map from 

the French version of Cook’s Second Voyage 

depicting South East Tasmania. 

First drawn up after the discovery of Adventure 

Bay, Bruny Island, by Captain Tobias Furneaux in 

1773. The track is that of H.M.S. Adventure 

It was not until 1792 when Bruni d’Entrecasteaux 

found the channel that separates Bruny Island. 

Other irregularities .. Cape Frederick Henry (now 

Cape Queen Elizabeth) is technically misplaced as 

Furneaux believed incorrectly he was just south of 

Tasman’s Fredrick Henriex Bay. Tasman Peninsula 

named Isles Maria. We like the reference to Mewstone, 

Pedro Blanco (after the China Seas Island 

and one of the few remaining Portuguese names) 

and Eddystone, which was named by Cook after 

the Eddystone Lighthouse in England. 

The three coastal profiles are delightful, a view 

along Cape Meridional; A view of Cape Cannelee, 

Penguin Island to the right and a hint of Adventure 

Bay and a view from south of the Mewstone. 

Tooley reference Map T346 and included in the 

Australian National Collection reference 2820776 

Price $290.00 unframed 

Early and interesting map of South East Tassie 


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Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians 

First Series 1837 - Wilkinson 

Full title … Manners and Customs of The Ancient 

Egyptians, Including their Private Life, Government, 

Laws, Arts, Manufactures, Religion, and early History; 

Derived from a Comparison of the Paintings, 

Sculptures and Monuments Still Existing, with 

Accounts of Ancient Authors. Illustrated by Drawings 

of Those Subjects. 

Three volumes, first edition published by Murray, 

London in 1837. Octavo, 406, 446 and 404 pages. 

With numerous illustrations, including 17 

lithographed plates, some colour, some tinted and 

three folding. Original gilt pictorial cloth. Some light 

foxing, minimal signs of age and use. A very good set 

of this important work. 

A second series of and additional three volumes was 

published in 1841. We have that set also. Make an 

offer for the combination if you wish. 

Ten parts, comprising inter alia … The Early State of 

Egypt; History from Accession of King Menes to 

Conquest by Alexander; Class System; Houses, 

Gardens, Villas; Furnishings; Activities; Hunting; Arts 

and the Style of Art etc 

Sir John Gardner Wilkinson (1797-1875) was traveller 

a pioneer Egyptologist. Regarded as the “Father of 

British Egyptology”. Oxford educated after Harrow. 

He fell ill and did not finish his degree. Travelling in 

Italy to recuperate he met William Gell under whose 

influence he decided to study Egyptology. From the 

age of 24 he spent twelve continuous years in Egypt. 

Soon after his return to England he published this 

work which became regarded as the best work on the 

subject … he received a knighthood as a result. His 

papers are held at the Bodleian, and are regarded as 

fundamental being before a widespread interest in 

the subject which brought tourism and the natural 

“spoiling” that comes with that. 

Price $590.00 

Wilkinson – Important early work on Egyptology.

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An Account of the Discoveries Made in the South Pacific Ocean Previous to 1764 

Alexander Dalrymple 

A quality production, Number 3 in the Australian Maritime Series published by Hordern 

House. A Limited edition of 950 copies hand bound in midnight blue Scottish calf with 

marbled papered boards. Designed by Margo Snape. 

First published in 1767 one of the rarest accounts. This is the first time reissued faithfully 

reproduced complete with seven fold-out plates. The original account used as a reference 

on HMS Endeavour and mentioned by Banks and Cook. 

Price $120.00 

Dalrymple lead Cook to Australia 


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Proceedings and Debates of 

The House of Commons in 1620 and 1621 

…. Collected by a Member of that House. And now 

Published from his Original Manuscript, in the 

Library of Queen’s College, Oxford. 

Published by the Clarendon Press, 1766. Two 

volumes, octavo, 375 pages and 264 pages after 

preliminaries and with addendum. Complete, and 

bound in original mottled calf, spine gilt with raised 

bands and original titles labels. A little age, hinges 

tender but holding well. Genuine antiquarian look. 

Edited by Sir Thomas Tyrwhitt a classical scholar 

educated at Eton and Queen’s College, Oxford. In 

1756 he was under-secretary of war, and then in 

1762 clerk of the House of Commons. The original 

manuscript is attributed to Sir Edward Nicholas, 

Member for Winchelsea in 1620/21. 

A scarce and valuable source on the political history 

of James I. Parliament of the day was a source of 

funds for James and it did not sit for periods if it 

incurred his displeasure. The country was in a poor 

economic state. The period was one when patents 

were used to create monopolies and hence wealth. 

Conflict arose were the King who felt that allowing 

patents was a Royal prerogative and Members sought 

Parliament to control them for personal gain. There 

was even an attempt to patent Beggars meaning they 

would be licenced and have to pay an annual fee to 

the patent holder! 

Serious history plays out … Edward Coke a favourite 

of Queen Elizabeth I speaks regularly. He had been 

England’s leading law maker … tried Raleigh and the 

Gunpowder Plot Accused. Here later in life he 

continues his hatred of Sir Francis Bacon (now 

Viscount St Alban). His investigations discover that 

Bacon had taken bribes and he was soon off to the 

Tower. James in order to raise money through 

dowry was planning to marry Prince Charles off to a 

Spanish Princess. Coke campaigned against this 

preferring war with Spain. James had had enough 

and told Parliament that it was to wrap up before its 

term was due. Coke continued to argue and shortly 

after these journals he too finds himself in The 

Tower. Floyd made rude remarks about the young 

Royals and found himself riding backward on a horse 

holding its tail to three different pillory sites … with 

a paper in his head defining his crime and then off to 

a place worse than the Tower … the Fleet Prison. 

Price $390.00 

Rare details of Parliamentary goings on when it was 

more interesting than today. 

James I or the IV depending where you are 

from — liked a nice hat … and a bit of lace.

Tennessee Williams 

More on our Website 

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The Night of the Iguana 

First edition Tennessee Williams 

published Secker & Warburg, 1961. 

Made into the Oscar winning movie 

filmed by John Houston in 1964. 

Rev Shannon, Richard Burton in the 

movie, is defrocked following a triste 

with a Sunday School teacher. He gets 

work with an Religious Travel Group … 

off to Mexico. Accused of more 

inappropriate conduct and to avoid 

being reported on contrives the group 

to stay in a remote Hotel run by the 

vivacious Maxine (Ava Gardner). 

Another beauty arrives (Deborah Kerr) 

and it gets too complex for Shannon 

who breaks down … has to be tethered 

… like the local boys “pet” Iguana. 

Price $40.00 

Read and watch we reckon ... 

Tennessee William’s Short Stories 

Published by New Directions 

see our Website 

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 

Classic Tennessee Williams play published Secker & Warburg, London 1956, a second 

printing same year as the first. Fine condition. Won the Pulitzer Prize. 

Set in a Plantation home in the Mississippi Delta owned by Big Daddy Pollitt … the play 

examines the complex relationships among the family including his son Brick and 

Maggie the “Cat” Brocks wife. Two years after this book it was made into a Movie 

with a super cast including Paul Newman and Elizabeth Taylor as Brick and the “Cat” 

Price $50.00 

TW’s personal favourite and perhaps his best-known work.... 

Orpheus Descending 

First published by Secker and Warburg, London 1958. 

Contains an interesting introduction by the dramatist titled 

“The Past, The Present and the Perhaps”. TW had already 

found success with “A Streetcar Named Desire” before the 

release of this work. Williams divulges that this drama was in 

fact an earlier work originally titled “Battle of Angels” and it 

was in that form that he got his first big break – a Rockefeller 

grant. He had never quit working on it until this …. So we 

think a bit more to this play ... 

Price $30.00 

Orpheus – a long time coming but done in the end … 


Pope Joan Game Staking Board 

19thC Pope Joan Staking Board, 

Georgian or Regency. 

A red lacquered board likely made in the Orient for the English market. The central 

circular pot for counters is surrounded by eight divisions. Borders embellished to 

describe each of the compartments … the Nine of Diamonds (Representing “Pope 

Joan”; The Ace, King, Queen and Jack of Diamonds, and the words Matrimony, 

Intrigue and Game with floral devices in gilt in-between. Still has the pot top (often 

missing) with card decorations. Does not have a wooden pedestal foot which would 

have screwed on below. 24cm in diameter. Made from Birch or some other 

decorative light wood. A really super example. 

An 18thC game of cards for up to eight players; related to Newmarket, if you have 

played that. It did not appear in Hoyle until 1814 but was listed in earlier 

Dictionaries, and included in a James Gilray engraving … see opposite. Pope Joan 

refers to the suspicion that Pope John VIII was actually a woman. 

Price $480.00 

Two Hundred Year Old Decorative Staking Board for Pope Joan 

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Lady Godina’s Rout - or 

Peeping Tom Spying out Pope Joan 

James Gillray 

A special satirical print Lady Godina is a play on 

Lady Godiva. Pope-Joan is a card game [see 

opposite] and Lady Godina has the nine of diamonds 

which represents Pope Joan (the Pope that was said 

to be a lady). A fashionable crowd, with two card 

tables, a round table in the foreground at which 

four persons play Pope-Joan. The most conspicuous 

is a pretty young woman, Lady Georgiana Gordon 

the Duchess of Bedford. Her semi-transparent 

draperies revealing her person. A leering man 

stands behind her, holding snuffers to a candle on 

the table, in order to peer down her décolletage. A 

stout lady, Countess of Buckinghamshire, a young 

girl, and an elderly man (Dr John Sneyd) complete 

the table. On the right is another card-table at 

which three persons are playing. Standing figures 

freely sketched for the background, the whole 

design being dominated by the erect feathers of the 

ladies, usually springing from a turban 

James Gillray first produced this comic caricature in 

1796. This issue in 1847 was published by Henry 

Bohn in London and whilst later is on a grander 

scale than the original with later expert colouring 

Price $290.00 

A popular card game and Lady Godina 


“La Division de Nostre Ocean” — 1646 

Philippe Briet 

A scarce early copper engraved map of the eastern hemisphere with an outline of 

Northern Australia from the Dutch understanding. 

Published in Paris in 1648. The cartographer was Philippe Briet (1601-1668) also 

know as Philippus Brietius. He was a Jesuit scholar, historian and cartographer. 

Uncommon, with a good dark impression. Text on reverse with some show 

through as usual. Very good condition. Size 19cm by 14.5 cm in the printed area. 

As well as Terre Australe there are a number of other cartographic features of 

interest including, Korea shown as an island, Africa has a large Lake Zaire, Sri 

Lanka is named Zailan an early Arabic name for the island. The mountain ranges 

across Asia, east to west and down into the Himalayan region are the only 

topographical features. The sea between Java / Timor and Australia is named 

“Lanchidol” a curiosity explored by Donaldson in his paper “In Search of a Sea: 

the Origins of the Name Mare Lanchidol” published by the Australian Association 

for Maritime History” well worth the read … 

Price $390.00 

Scarce Mid 17th Century Map with Terre Australe 

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The True-born English-man: A Satyr 

A rare pamphlet by Daniel Defoe 1708. 

Octavo, 37 pages plus one page of advertisements. 

Previous owners name on title. A very good copy. 

Satire of length about xenophobia. William of 

Orange has become King of England, and there was 

much tittle tattle about his lack of Englishness. 

Defoe, forever a wit, ridicules the notion of English 

racial purity. The evidence is there. 

“that het’rogeneous thing, an Englishman: 

In eager rapes, and furious lust begot 

Betwixt a painted Britain and a Scot 

Whose gend’ring off-spring quickly learn’d to bow, 

And yoke their heifers to the Roman plough: 

From whence a mongrel half-bred race there came, 

With neither name, nor nation, speech nor fame. 

In whose hot veins new mixtures quickly ran, 

Infused betwixt a Saxon and a Dane 

While their rank daughters, to their parents just, 

Receiv’d all nations with promiscuous lust. 

This nauseous brood directly did contain 

The well-extracted blood of Englishmen.” 

Mmhhh … no holding back in 1708 ... 

Price $180.00 

Daniel Defoe at his greatest wit … wish he had met 

Spike – 300 years plus old ... 

Diamond and Precious Metals Scales. 

Circa 1920’s a pocket sized set of scales. In beach wood box with nice curved lid. 

Complete with two pans, approximately 3.5cm in diameter, scales operate nicely. Original 

tweezers with diamond “shovel” head. Weights are covered with a pop up lid and smaller 

weights with a round stopper within that. 12cm, 7cm by 2.5 cm. Handy size for the trousers 

Price $140.00 

Nice example of portable “jewellers” scales from early 20thC. 


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Cook the Discoverer – George Forster 

Small quarto, number six in the prestigious 

Maritime series published by Hordern House 

in 2007. Limited to 1050 copies, 276 pages, 

bound in quarter tan kangaroo with speckled 

papered sides. Fine condition. 

The book includes a facsimile of the original 

book published in the German language with 

a new English translation to follow. Copious 

notes and a good bibliography the whole 

supported by an excellent introduction by 

Nigel Erskine, Curator of Explorations at the 

Australian National Maritime Museum. 

It was eight years after the death of Cook 

that Forster completed his essay on the 

great man Cook der Entdecker (Discoverer). 

Partly written as an introduction to 

Forster’s own translation of Cook’s Third 

Voyage. Foster had participated in Cook’s 

second Voyage along with his father who 

had taken over as naturalist with Joseph 

Banks dropping out. Forster displays a true 

understanding of the character of Cook and 

that alone makes his viewpoint worthy of 

this sumptuous presentation by HH. 

Price $190.00 

Forster required reading James Cook’s 

second voyage through the eyes of Forster

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The Tomb of Iurudef – 

A Memphite Official in the Reign of Ramesses II 

First edition published jointly by the National 

Museum of Antiquities Leiden and the Egypt 

Exploration Society, London. 

The Principal author Maarten Raven is a leading 

Egyptologist and curator of Egyptology at Leiden. 

Since 1975 he has been active in the field at Saqqara 

at a New Kingdom archaeological burial site. 

Q 

Quarto, 82 pages plus 55 full page plates of 

artefacts, including the frontispiece. Printed to a 

high standard and in fine condition. 

A wealth of material has been found, preserved and 

catalogued from the sands of the City of the Dead of 

Ancient Memphis. They discovered the Tomb of 

Iurudef as a part of the tomb structure of his Master 

the Overseer of the Treasury Tia, brother-in-law to 

Ramesses II. Dated to the first half of the Nineteenth 

Dynasty. The excavators discovered further chambers 

and in total some seventy burials were found. 

Presented at the highest technical standard. A useful 

Preface and List of Plates, Historical introductions. 

Follows a logical progression ... the Superstructure; 

the Substructure; Coffins and Related Objects; Catalogue 

of Objects; Pottery; Skeletal remains 

Price $90.00 

The Tomb of Iurudef was shared with many others. 

Life in Ancient Egypt and Assyria - Maspero 

Published by Chapman and Hall, London I 1892. 

A first English edition translated by A.P. Morton. 

Gaston Camille Charles Maspero (1846-1916) was the 

leading French Egyptologist of his day. He achieved 

many things but is best known for digging the Sphinx 

out of the sand. He did much to control the 

movement of antiquities and resorted to torture to 

obtain information from looters and traders. 

Octavo, 376 pages, nicely illustrated. Bound in red 

boards with decorations to front and gilt titles and 

decoration to spine. Professionally re-cased at some 

time with nice appropriate endpapers. 

Half the book is devoted each to Egypt and Assyria. 

Thebes and the “Popular Life” introduce Egypt. The 

Markets and shop trading and the Pharoh. Amen the 

Great God of Thebes. The Army … recruitment and 

life in the Castle. Illness, Death and the Tomb. 

The Royal residence introduces Assyria. The Royal 

“way” … preparing for War. Assurbanipal’s Library 

and the Science of the Presages. The War; the Fleet 

and the Siege of the City an eventual Triumph. 

Price $60.00 

Maspero – Understood the “Way of Life” 

In ancient Egypt and Assyria 


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Boronia Babies 

May Gibbs - First Edition 

Published Sydney: Angus Robertson no date but 

1919 and a First Edition. Original wrapper with 

orange cord, 18 pages. Colour pictorial overlay 

to front of a lovely Boronia Baby. Illustrated 

with coloured frontispiece and 11 full page 

black and white illustrations. Neat gift 

inscription on the page dedicated for that 

purpose. Very nice condition. 

Reference authority Muir 2740. 

Price $160.00 

May Gibbs original – beautiful Boronia Babies

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Life and Adventurers of Robinson Crusoe 

Daniel Defoe 

Reprinted from the original edition of 1719, with 

an introduction by William Lee 

Very nice Victorian decorative edition of Robinson 

Crusoe. Published by Frederick Warne, London. 

Whilst there is no date the introduction by Warne 

is dated 1869; whilst the advertisements at the 

rear contain the date 1879, so circa 1880. 

Octavo, 517 pages plus the aforementioned adverts. 

One hundred original illustrations by Ernest 

Griset. Striking decorative red cloth covered 

boards with a delightful gilt Crusoe. Similar to the 

spine. A little shaken and showing a little age, a 

strip cut from top of title, regardless a good copy 

of a sought after edition. 

With the preface to the original edition, and a 12 

page introduction by Defoe expert Lee. Excellent 

references to Alexander Selkirk (Selcraig) the 

inspiration for the story. 

Price $90.00 

Collectable Robinson Crusoe – c1880 

Lovely Pictorial Boards 

The Eastern Archipelago – Adams 

First Edition 1880 

… A description of the Scenery, Animal 

and Vegetable Life, People, and Physical 

Wonders of the Islands in the Easter Sea. 

Published by Nelson, London in 1880 a 

first edition. Octavo, 576 pages with 54 

illustrations. Many full page including a 

map. All page edges gilt with a beautiful 

decorated cover, a very good copy. 

With e success of Wallace’s Malay 

Archipelago there was heightened 

interest in the islands of the East Indies. 

Prolific writer William Henry Davenport 

Adams saw an opportunity and compiled 

this easily read book on the region. Takes 

in Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Timor, 

Celebes, Sarawak, the Moluccas, New 

Guinea, Papua and the Philippines. 

Price $120.00 

Special book on the East – striking covers 


Australian Fairywrens – Sir William Jardine —1826 

An original hand-coloured engraving of three species of Australian Fairywrens published in 

Edinburgh 1826 by Scotland’s greatest naturalist Sir William Jardine (1800-1874), as part of 

his first great work “Illustrations in Ornithology” a now scarce and valuable work. 

Drawn by William Jardine himself and signed in the plate. This engraving and colouring 

have a somewhat naive nature which we think gives them a special artistic appeal. 

We have the male Red Breasted Fairywren (Malarus Brownii); Variegated Fairywren 

(Malarus Lamberli) and the Superb Fairywren (Malarus Cyaneus). The Red Breasted is 

prevalent from the very North of Australia around the Kimberleys down to the Hunter 

Valley; the Variegated is found along the East Coast as is the Superb Fairywren although 

this beautiful creature is more common in the South and Tasmania 

Jardine was the 7 th Baronet of Applegirth, Dumfriesshire and founder of the Ray Society. 

He was a superb artist. He alos utilised the great illustrators of the day to complete his 

works including, Edward Lear, Selby, Stewart, Thompson and William Holmes-Lizars 

Price $180.00 Unframed 

Australian Fairywrens – Three of Them — Rather Naively Portrayed 

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From the Unconscious to the Conscious 

— Gustav Geley –1920 

First English edition published by Collins, 

London 1920. Large octavo, 329 pages plus 

photographic illustrations of ectoplasm 

emanating from a woman’s mouth and from 

her hands that materialised into a woman’s 

head. Melton in the “New Age Almanac” 

referred to “Unconscious to the Conscious” as 

“The Bible of Reincarnation”. 

Geley (1868-1924) born in France studied 

Medicine at Annecy. In 1919 he gave up his 

practice to become Director of the Institute 

Metapsychique International. 

This copy was gifted to Professor Lovell by a 

student April 20 th 1921. Professor Henry 

Tasman Lovell (1878-1958) was a leading 

psychologist and educator. He was the first 

Australian Professor of Psychology in the first 

Department of Psychology at an Australian 

University. He held many distinguished 

academic positions later in life. 

Price $70.00 

Rare Book with an Interesting 

Australian Provenance 

Spiritualism 

The Report of the Seybert Commission 

Henry Seybert was an enthusiastic believer in 

Modern Spiritualism. On his death he left money to 

the cause and the appointment of a Commission to 

investigate and report on elements of Spiritualism. 

The results were published in the 1880’s and again 

here in this edition of 1920. 

The report contains full detail (transcriptions) of 

many live tests they observed and a review of 

Spiritual Photography; Mediumistic Development; 

Sealed Letters; Materialization. We are particularly 

intrigued by the experiments on “Slate Writing”. 

Price $40.00 

Seybert’s Report – Did He Read It? 


Australian Bristlebird – (Dasyornis Australis) - 1826 

Sir William Jardine 

Original hand-coloured engraving of the Bristlebird published in Edinburgh 1826 by 

Scotland’s greatest naturalist Sir William Jardine (1800-1874). One of the earliest fine 

engravings of the bird. Found and described by Latham around Port Jackson in 1801. 

The engraving was published as part of Jardine’s first great work “Illustrations in 

Ornithology” a now scarce and valuable collection of bird engravings. 

Bristlebirds are named after the stiff “hair like” feathers that arise around the beak. 

They are thought to assist in catching insects and provide protection to the eye. There 

are a number of sub-species of the Eastern, Rufous and Western Bristlebirds. Subclasses 

number six, of which one is extinct, one critically endangered, two endangered and the 

other two on the way. Bush fires and land clearing the main culprits. 

Jardine, 7 th Baronet of Applegirth, Dumfriesshire was a founder of the Ray Society. A 

superb artist in his own right he utilised the great illustrators of the day to complete his 

works including, Edward Lear, Selby, Stewart, Thompson and William Holmes-Lizars 

Price $180.00 Unframed 

Early engraving of the endangered Australian Bristlebird … help to save them 

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The Collected Poems of Sidney Keyes 

With Unpublished typescript Poem 

“Ode to Hitler” 

Published posthumously by Routledge, 

London a 1951 edition. Small octavo, xxiv, 123 

pages, original binding, good condition. The 

typescript poem “Ode to Hitler’ is dated June 

1941 (whilst still at Oxford – see below). There is a 

manuscript note on the endpapers “including 

unpublished poem”; also a note from Anthony 

Smith, Headmaster of Dartford Grammar, which 

Keyes attended “Dear Professor Porter, I am 

returning three items we borrowed from you …”. 

This is 1987 and there had been a Keyes event 

held at the school … it is possible that the poem 

was one of the borrowed items. Professor Porter 

likely the Theologian at Oriel College, Oxford for 

13 years from 1949. 

The manuscript date “June 1941” is surely in 

Sidney Keyes’ hand, by comparison with a 

facsimile included in “Collected Poems” 

A special story. Sidney Keyes (1922-1943) was 

raised by his maternal grandparent, his mother 

died shortly after his birth. He began writing 

poetry at a young age, influenced by Wordsworth, 

Rilke and Jung. He won a scholarship to Queen’s 

College, Oxford. At University he wrote two 

collections “The Cruel Solstice” and “The Iron 

Laurel”. He was later awarded the Hawthornden 

Prize. He was very active at Oxford editing the 

Cherwell Magazine and forming a dramatic society. 

Leaving Oxford in 1942 he joined the army and 

sadly died in service in Tunisia in April 1943. 

There are 110 poems of which half relate to the 

War. All written during active service were lost. 

“Ode to Hitler” is a seven verse poem the first six 

comprising seven lines, the last six. It is a serious 

matter, whilst clear in meaning. We do not want to 

publish all here … but here are the final lines. 

“You tapeworm of the mind, you will forgive 

My wanderings, stung by a sudden fury; 

Not even speaking for my country, only 

A mouthing sharp-tongued poet for the lonely 

And awkward speaking. But you will never thrive 

While we, the sour and cunning, stay alive.” 

Price $360.00 

A special poet who gave his life too young and, 

a potentially important unpublished work. 


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From Fetish to God in Ancient Egypt 

Wallis Budge 

First edition published by Oxford University 

Press in 1934. Large octavo, 545 pages with 240 

illustrations. Decorated cloth covered boards 

and with part of the rare jacket, with repaired 

separation to rear corner and large chip to base 

of spine. Rarely with its jacket. Very good. 

A history of the progress of Egyptian religious 

beliefs and mythology during ancient times. 

Contents ...The Religions of Ancient Egypt; 

Predynastic Cults – Animism – Fetishism – Gods 

and Goddesses of Fetish Origin etc ; Magic the 

Foundation of Egyptian Religions; Magical Rituals 

and Spells; The Magician – His Powers and 

Works; The Family of Gebb and Nut; Hathor and 

Hathor Goddesses; Gods – Stellar, Borrowed and 

Foreign; Osiris rival of Ra; The Judgement of 

the Dead; Life Beyond the Grave etc etc 

Wallis Budge (1857-1934) one of a group of top 

Egyptologists to be associated with the British 

Museum. Born in poor circumstances he made 

London and the British Museum as a young man. 

He was so well liked and he was sponsored 

through Cambridge by Gladstone and Smith (of 

W.H. Smith fame). He studied the work of 

Layard, knew Alfred Sayce well; learned from 

Assyriologist George Smith. It was not long until 

he was in charge of building the collection 

which he did in a grand scale. His most 

distinguished acquisition maybe the Papyrus of 

Ani “Book of the Dead”. He wrote many books 

on his subject. This his final and enduring work. 

Price $220.00 

A lifetime devoted to Egyptology.

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A Treatise on Land-Surveying 

Thomas Dix - 1799 

Printed by Baldwin, London and sold by 

Seeley at Ave-Maria-Lane and Buckingham and 

the Author at Oundle. 

Octavo, 182 pages illustrated 180 diagrams 

and nine of ten copper plates, five of which 

are large and folding. There are ten plates 

noted in the list but the last was a separate 

facsimile field book invariably missing. 

Thomas Dix was a teacher at the Oundle 

School. The school was formed in 1556 when 

Sir William Laxton, Mayor of London and 

Master of the Worshipful Company of Grocers 

endowed a “Free Grammar School”. The 

Grocers have supported the school since. Of 

the 108 livery companies in London they are 

number two … formed in 1515, originally the 

Guild of Pepperers who go back to 1100. 

Second edition … more complete. The author’s 

aim ... Is to rectify the deficiency of a Book … 

to instruct on the first rudiments of Landsurveying 

by the Chain and Cross only. 

Bound in full leather, gold lines to spine no 

sign of having a title label. Gilt to board edges, 

joints split but holding well. Inside clean, fold 

out engravings are in good condition. 

Went through a number of editions into the 

1820’s. This, the earliest copy we have seen. 

Price $190.00 

Methodical training in Surveying 1799. 


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