Voyager Rare Books Maps & Prints - December 2024
A selection of items from Voyager's cabinet. Some early rarities, some intriguing objects and scientific curiosities. We have thousands more on our website - take a look.
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Voyager Rare Books Maps & Prints
Catalogue of Curiosities
December 2024
A selection of items from Voyager’s cabinet. Some early
rarities, some intriguing objects and scientific curiosities. We
have only space for a few — but there are thousands on our
website, check them out — drop us a line if you wish!
• Siluria — Geology Cornerstone — Murchison — First edition 1854
• Hemingway—Moveable Feast—First Edition—Best copy we have had
• Encyclopedia of the Antarctic — everything you need to know
• Chunky Fossil Fern from Lune River
• Socrates in Trouble — Catherall — 1717
• The Arabian Nights—all of them 16 Volumes—Richard Burton
• De Re Metallica—Hoover translation—early Mining
• Bradman and the Australian Cricket Team promoting Laundry
• Peter Carey First Editions
• Sought after The Moth Hunters
• Tek Sing Treasure
• Major Semple Bound for Botany Bay — 1786
• Super stylish Bookends by Marcel Goldscheider
• Victorian Apothecary or Medical Cabinet with unusual provenance
• Diggles Rawnsley Satin Bower Bird
• Droll Tales illuminated by Jean de Bosschere
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Voyager Curiosities
Voyager Rare Books Maps & Prints
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Voyager is a different sort of bookshop … we are forever changing, adding the more
curious to the curious, and selecting prize items for our collection. We don’t measure our
stock by numbers of items but by variety and quality.
It has been a pleasure producing this Catalogue. And we hope you enjoy reading it and
that it gives you a sense of what we are about … Sometimes our selections are a bit
cheeky … but we hope that makes it more enjoyable.
if you have an order then thank you and we will attend to it with care .
Items are available on a first come first served basis. We take orders by telephone, email
and through our website. When ordering quote page number and title of item.
Postage and packing will be charged at cost and care is taken to get the best rate
available. All items are packed to a high standard and will arrive safely.
We accept Visa, Mastercard and direct deposits to our account. And issue PayPal invoices.
Items are sold complete and in good condition. Anything found to be not as expected may
be returned within seven days of receipt for full refund.
We are now exclusively Online with the Occasional Catalogue on Yumpu.
Enquiries info@voyagerhobart.com or ring Voyager Bill 0411 875 508
Website www.voyagerhobart.com
Deco Howdah Elephant Bookends by Aronson 1923
A nice collectable pair of art deco howdah elephant bookends in the rare multi
-coloured finish by Aronson (formerly Art Metal Works) and then later the
Ronson Company - USA 1923
These are small bookends for small books or decorative effect on the bookshelf
in the library or the bedroom – one of our regular customer’s coined the
phrase bedroom bookends and we got it.
Good condition with bright colouring with some tiny loss likely from over
cleaning – always wipe elephants gently.
Price $280.00
Deco era bookends for the bedroom – something a little different
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Rare Image of Australia’s Rarest Bird
Rawnsley’s Satin Bower Bird [Ptilonorhynchus Rawnsleyi]
Silvester Diggles – c1870
Rare original hand-coloured image lithographed on stone by Queensland naturalist
Silvester Diggles. Highlighted with gum Arabic. Published as part of his magnificent work
“The Ornithology of Australia" between 1866 and 1870 in a very limited edition. By the
time the final parts were published there were only ninety-two subscribers.
The bird was found in the scrub at Indooroopilly on the Brisbane River in 1867. Diggles
thought that the resemblance to the Satin Bower and the Regent Bower suggested a
hybrid. However, noted explorer A.C. Gregory, confirmed seeing the species in North
Queensland. We now know it was a hybrid – the only other seen in the last twenty years.
Measures 38cm by 27cm, good strong hand colouring and will frame nicely
Silvester Diggles came to Australia in 1853 settling in Brisbane. He taught music and art.
Founded the Choral Society, Philharmonic and Philosophical Societies and helped establish
the Museum. The Ornithology of Australia nearly sent him broke. His health deteriorated
worry about finances being a factor. He died at Kangaroo Point in 1880.
Price $590.00
A great example of perhaps Australia’s most unusual bird
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The True-born English-man: A Satyr
A rare item by Daniel Defoe. The scarce “enlarged” edition printed and sold by
James Roberts in 1716. Small pocket sized 12mo, 12, 26 pages, bound in
contemporary calf backed boards, some age but solid and rare in this original state.
First edition thus. After the accession of Hanover Defoe added a new passage of 49
lines satirizing the English temper. It was hastily published and contains a number of
errors which ironically confirms its pedigree
Satirical poem of length about xenophobia … a few could learn from it today. Dutch
born William of Orange has become King of England, and there was much tittle tattle
about his lack of Englishness. Defoe, forever a wit, wrote this is in support of William
of O, ridiculing the notion of English racial purity. Well the evidence is there.
Defoe … much quoted from his opening rant
“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.”
Price $340.00
Daniel Defoe and his True-born a hilarious antiquarian rarity
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A Moveable Feast – First Edition
Ernest Hemingway
“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”.
A fine copy of this important work. The
best we have seen. As this is Voyager’s
favourite book we have seen a few.
Published by Jonathan Cape, London in
1964. Octavo, 192 pages. We can’t find a
mark and the dust jacket is perfect, as if
new, except price clipped – a previous
gift givers prerogative.
Price $240.00
Collectable Hemingway First Edition
As fine a condition as can be found
Green Hills of Africa—Hemingway
1962 edition in the desirable Jonathan Cape format.
Octavo, 284 pages, illustrations by Shenton. Green
boards with “game’ gilt design to front. Top edge
stained green. A few dust jacket light chips and age.
A good copy of a hard to find item.
Hemingway’s safari to Africa in 1933. Lauded as the best
African safari book ever written. Tanzania and up the
Great Rift Valley. The lure of the hunt, the landscape
and beauty of the wilderness. Intermingled with
conversations and view on writers and his writing.
Appreciation for “J P” i.e. Jackson Philip who was his
guide and inspiration behind the character Robert
Wilson “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber”
Price $70.00
Green Hills of Africa – true Hemingway
Death in the Afternoon
Hemingway’s classic book on the ceremony
and traditions of Spanish bullfighting.
Contemplates the nature of fear and courage.
Large octavo, 358 pages, plus bibliographical
note. Eighty one reproductions from original
photographs. This issue published by Cape,
London in 1966. A very good copy.
Price $80.00
Bullfighters Delight
Voyager = Thoughtful Gift
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WWI Copper Thermos in Original
Leather Casing [Super Condition] –
Captain McCraken
Captain Kenneth McCracken was in the
Royal Field Artillery attached to the
Royal Flying Corps. His service covered
the entire war 1914-1918 so lone of the
few that survived in his dangerous role.
Born in 1895 at Newcastle-Upon Tyne
he was a medical student at Edinburgh
University when war broke out.
The Royal Flying Corp was the air arm
of the British army and it was not until
1918 that it joined the Royal Naval Air
Service to be the Royal Air Force.
McCraken’s was skilled in artillery
observation; so, he was likely an aerial
observer or photographer.
The item is in great condition. The full
leather casing is 25cm by 20cm,
stitching perfect – nicely embossed with
McCraken’s details. The copper thermos
has a ding but is a solid lovely item.
The screw on top is undamaged
Price $290.00
Special WWI Item in great condition
with interesting provenance
[More details on our website]
Call to the Winds – P.G. Taylor
First Edition 1939
Important and scarce aviation book.
“Bill” Taylor’s heroic flight with Kingsford Smith
First edition Angus and Robertson, Sydney,
1939. Octavo, 227 pages, period photographs of
the “Southern Cross”, damaged engine and
propellor and the life saving thermos flask. Very
good copy with impossible to find dust jacket.
Patrick Gordan Taylor (1891-1966) had several
major flight firsts with Kingsford Smith, Charlie
Ulm and Richard Archbold. Known as “Bill”he
joined the British Royal Flying Corps in 1916.
After WWI he returned to Australia and the start
of commercial aviation activities.
The core of the book is about a flight with
Kingsford Smith and Ulm from Australia to New
Zealand with the view to establishing a mail
service. Mid Tasman the starboard engine failed.
They decided to return to Sydney but into high
winds, the port engine began to overheat
running out of cooling oil. Taylor climbed out
the aircraft along the wire below the wind strut,
with a thermos flask, drained oil from the
starboard engine and transferred it to the port
side. He did this six times before they made a
safe landing back in Sydney.
Price $180.00
Aviation Heroics – Bill Taylor with Kingsford
Smith and Ulm – outside the Southern Cross
(six times) over the Tasman
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Ten Droll Tales - Balzac
Illustrated by John de Bosschere
The best rendition of Balzac’s hilarious and
slightly erotic work originally published in 1833.
Fine production from John Lane, Bodley Head,
London. A limited edition published in 1926.
Includes the remarkable decadent art work of
Jean de Bosschere of which 16 are in colour -
in his usual striking palette.
The droll tales include The Venial Sin; The Virgin
of Thilhouse, The Merrie Diversions of King Louis
the Eleventh; The Fair Imperia; The High
Constable’s Wife – must have been fun in the
writing! and the drawing!
Price $180.00
Droll and rather amusing
Beautiful Bosschere illustrations
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Tek Sing Shipwreck Treasure – “Hare Bowl” – 1822
Qing Dynasty decorated bowl recovered by Mike Hatcher from the Tek Sing
shipwreck. A special example.
In our view one of the most interesting Tek sing bowls with the rather cute Hare
image to centre. Large and deep by comparison with others – 16.2cm by 5.8cm
deep. The decorative rim with three panels of scrolls or net-like design.
Chrysanthemum design and bamboo leaves underneath. and bamboo. Very good
condition given its 200 plus years and most of that time underwater. Retains the
Nagel auction and catalogue stickers underneath for provenance.
Price $290.00
A Tek Sing special - Nice strong and uncommon Hare decoration.
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The Tek Sing Shipwreck – Background
The Tek Sing (Chinese for “Bright Star”’) was a large Chinese Junk which sank in
1822 in the South China Sea at the Belvidere Shoals. She was 50 meters long, 10
metres wide and weighed a thousand tons. Manned by a crew of 200. The great
loss of life has led to the Tek Sing being referred to as the “Titanic of the East”.
Sailing from the port of Amoy, the Tek Sing bound for Jakarta, with a cargo of
porcelain goods and 1,600 Chinese immigrants. Captain Lo Tauko took a shortcut
through the Gaspar Straits and ran aground on a reef and sank in 100 ft of water.
The next morning and English East Indiaman captained by James Pearl sailing from
Indonesia to Borneo passed through the Gaspar Straits. He found debris from the
sunken Chinese vessel and survivors. They managed to rescue 190 people.
In 1999, marine salvor Mike Hatcher discovered the wreck. His crew raised what
has been described as the largest cache of Chinese porcelain ever recovered. It
was auctioned by Nagle in Stuttgart, Germany the following year
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The Governor’s Noble Guest
Hyacinthe de Bougainville’s Account of Port Jackson
Marc Serge Riviere
Beautiful production of the Miegunyah Press.
Published in 1999, large octavo, 291 pages, nicely
illustrated, super fine copy.
Baron Hyacinthe the son of explorer Bougainville
commanded an expedition in 1825 to Macau,
Manilla and New South Wales in the Thetis and
Esperance. This is a translation of his private
diaries. He met Governor Brisbane and many
explorer and notables … Hume, Blaxland, Oxley,
Macarthur, Marsden and Piper. It contains a bit of
an expose as a result.
Price $50.00
Hyacinthe had influence and knew people
The Life of Jean-Francois de La Perouse
Where Fate Beckons.
First edition published by the ABC in 2006. Large
octavo, 292 pages, nicely illustrated . A quality
production printed in heavy paper.
The book on La Perouse, John Dunmore being the
recognised world authority. From his teenage life,
the American War, issues in the Indian Ocean and
the great tragic voyage and the mystery.
Price $40.00
La Perouse by Dunmore
Marion Dufresne
An Officer of the Blue
The French Explorer who was the first to
encounter Tasmanian Aborigines and was a
precursor to the voyages of La Perouse,
d’Entrecasteaux, Baudin and Dumont d’Urville.
This book is more than that it traces his life in
great detail as one would expect from author
Duyker. Chronologies, references, bibliographies
make this a first source. Sought after work.
Price $70.00
Dufresne from start to finish
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Kushan Empire Artefact
(First Century BCE)
Hand Holding a Serpent by the Head
Fragment well carved in the regions red sandstone.
From the Kushan Empire of Northern India and
beyond circa 1 st – 2 nd Century BCE.
Dimensions 10cm by 9cm 8cm [16cm on the stand]
weighs 450gm with the simple stand, all that is
needed to make this unusual sculpture accessible.
Kushan Empire at the centre of the world between
the Roman Empire in the west and the Chinese Han
Empire in the east. They were heavily influenced by
the Greeks and in the earlier years used the Greek
alphabet and language for official matters.
The grip is a little strange but likely the best way to
hold a serpent or snake which students of the
region will know had very special meaning.
Price $390.00
Interesting item for its age, origin and symbolism.
Australian Ashes Cricket Team 1934 [Bradman, Woodfull, Ponsford]
Unusual Original Advertising Memorabilia.
Significant size 50cm x 25cm will frame and display nicely – fragile so handle carefully.
One of the most usual pieces of period advertising we have come across.
With the strong message “Well laundered sportswear gives confidence” we are told to
“Send your cricket and tennis flannels and Ladies sports frocks”.
Nice image of the team, not all in baggy green and a strangely suited L Darling.
Australia won the 1934 Ashes in England. Bradman and Ponsford scored partnerships of
388 at Headingly and 452 at the Oval to take the urn.
Price $160.00
Bradman 1934 Ashes treasure – how has it survived?
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De Re Metallica –
Georgius Agricola – the Hoover Translation.
This is the second printing of the famous Hoover
translation of the equally famous 16 th Century work by
Georgius Agricola on all things then known in mining,
metallurgy, geology etc.
Longer title … De re Metallica translated from the first
Latin edition of 1556 with biographical introduction,
annotations and appendices upon the development of
mining methods, metallurgical processes, geology,
mineralogy & mining law from the earliest times to
the 16 th century by Herbert Clark Hoover and Lou
Henry Hoover.
This edition, large royal octavo blue cloth covered
boards, 638 pages after xxxi preliminaries, illustrated
throughout from the images of the original wood
engravings, simply superb. Dust jacket closed tear at
top front otherwise pretty good, a very good copy
overall. Quite a heavy book which will require and
Overseas postage supplement.
The series of books within the book (an early style) I
Arguments against the art of mining II The miner and
the mining of veins III Veins and stringers and seams in
rocks IV The method of delimiting veins and the
functions of the mining officials V The digging of ore
and the Surveyor’s art VI The miner’s tools and
machines VII The assaying of ore VIII Rules for the
work of roasting, crushing, and washing the ore IX
Methods of smelting ores X the work of separating
silver from gold, and lead from gold and silver XI
Separating silver from copper XII rules for
manufacturing salt, soda, alum, vitriol, sulphur,
bitumen, and glass … Agricola’s works – Ancient
authors on mineralogy, mining, metallurgy-
Nomenclature to be adopted for weights etc.
There is so much to admire about this book … the date
of the foundation work, its breadth and quality, the
learning from the engravings. Strangely maybe we
particularly like the section on pumps in mines –
essential equipment for water bound mines and the
ingenuity pre powered machines is very interesting.
Regarding the translation – what a job done by Hoover
(s). The difficulty must have been great – for example
Agricola struggled to find Latin equivalents for many
mining terms so had to contrive them from everyday
Latin – Hoover then had to decipher these once and
only Latin words – unsurprising his hair was depleted.
Price $140.00
De Re Metalicca – The Foundation Work for all Mining
and related – the readable version
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Portraiture of Socrates – Catherall - 1717
Scarce and one of the great 18 th Century scholarly works re Socrates. Longer title from
front – Eikon Sokratike Or, a Portraiture of Socrates, Extracted out of Plato.
In Blank Verse by Sam. Catherall, A.B. and Fellow Oriel College, Oxon.
Unbound as issued, amazing even though very worn, that it has survived in this form for
over three hundred years. Printed at Oxford by Lichfield and Peisley and sold by Knapton
et al Booksellers in London 1717. Carries the “Imprimatur” of Jo. Baron Vice-Can, Oxon
Ball. [Balliol] College Oxon June 17, 1717. Octavo, sewn as issued, 6, 53, pages, old water
stain now faded. Ownership signature dated 1726 on title.
The Preface by the translator is so humble. He explains his approach, omissions and
limitations … obviously a great fan of Plato and Socrates.
There are 36 “Dialogues” by Plato with Socrates as the central character – here we have
Socrates at the Bar (Trial); Socrates in Prison; Socrates Discoursing on the Immorality of
the Soul with Crito, and Simmias; Socrates about to drink Poison, Discoursing with Crito in
the Presence of all his Friends ... interesting the work ends FINIS … which it did.
Price $290.00
Socrates by Plato and then Catherall at Oxford – 1717 – the pointy bits
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Australia (Our Colonies)
Magic Lantern Slide Set – c1905.
By W. Butcher & Sons, London (1870-1906). Sold as a set of
eight in cardboard box with Lecture Reading notes.
Standard size 3.5in by 3.5in. Images square with rounded
corners, original mounting tape. Very bright colouring, super
condition apart from a crack in one. Slides comprise:
Government House Melbourne
Sydney Harbour
Gold Mining Past and Present
Sheep Shearing
Richmond River [Northern NSW]
In the Bush
A Kangaroo Hunt
Australian Aborigines
Image of aborigines includes a proud Murray River Warrior
derived from a photograph taken in 1880 by Samuel White
Sweet. Resplendent in a possum skin coat holding a fighting
waddy and decorated malcarra (shield) and string bag the
subject cuts a proud figure. Maggs are currently seeing a
collection including the photograph – eye watering $.
Gold mining slide is super albeit cracked with an image of
the old time cradle against the mechanised Ballarat mines.
$270.00
Australia as it was seen over100 years ago.
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Tasmanian Classic
A Hundred Years of Yachting
Webster and Norman –1936
A very good copy of this prized first edition.
Published by the Hobart Marine Board in 1936.
Large format octavo (24.4cm x 16.5cm), 256
pages, illustrated throughout.
The hundred years references the first Hobart
Regatta held in December 1838, so they
jumped the starting gun a little. We excuse
them for that as it is a fabulous record of the
love of yachting on the River Derwent.
Price $250.00
Perhaps Hobarts most important yachting
collectable in ship shape condition.
Tasmanian - Sea Wolves and Bandits
L. Norman
Maybe our favourite Tasmanian book. Published by Walch,
Hobart in 1946. Large octavo, 208 pages illustrated with
images from early photographs … many maritime, early
buildings of note and key identities and groups etc…
Starts with “Chronology of Curious and Interesting Facts”
good introductory reading. Then .. Privateering; Military
Camps; Duelling; Railways; Bicycling; Sealers and Wreckers;
Smuggling and Piracy; Early Banditry; Brigands of the
Twenties; First Hobart Town Whaler … and much more
Price $90.00
Tasmanian Maritime History Treasure
The Tasmanian Trading Ketch – Garry Kerr
Another Voyager favourite – what better looking boat?
Self published in 1987. Small quarto, 179 pages, very
special illustrations of images and technical drawings
of these fine craft, end paper charts. Very good copy.
The author a crayfisherman who developed an interest
in writing from oral history – what a combination.
Super sections on the design, hull form, lofting and
building. Sails and sailing follow with yarns about
plying there trade and the showing at regattas. And,
life on board and the inevitable mishaps.
Price $45.00
Wonderful book on a wonderful vessel.
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The Moth Hunters
Aboriginal Prehistory of the Australian Alps –
Josephine Flood.
First edition of this important work – history of the
Aboriginal people who inhabited south-eastern Australia.
Published by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal
Studies, Canberra 1980. Large sized soft cover, 388
pages. Well illustrated with diagrams, images from photographs
and sketches, maps, tables etc.
Chapters on – archaeological background; geographical
setting; ethnohistorical evidence; demography; material
culture; of Moths and Men; tribal territories; rock art;
settlement patterns; Canberra, Alps, southern uplands;
stone assemblages of open campsites etc etc.
Near the end we have commentary on the excavation of
nine rocks shelters. Followed by numerous appendices re
specific understandings and discoveries – a wealth of
information and a most rewarding book.
Price $240.00
Readable most comprehensive work of
Australian Aboriginal pre-history.
Australian Private Press:
The Dying Stockman – A Ballad …
with Notes by Hugh Anderson and Lino
Cuts by Ronald Edwards – No 1 of The
Black Bull Chapbooks from The Ram’s
Skull Press – Signed Limited No 50 of 75.
Quite a story. Ron Edwards eventually be
given an OAM for his lifetime of work
preserving Australian bush heritage. The
Rams Skull Press still exists and is run by
Ron’s son out of the Brisbane Valley. Ron
himself moved from Fern Tree, Victoria
to equally beautiful Kuranda behind
Cairns before he packed his bags.
This first of firsts printed in hand set
Baskerville on Tudor Antique paper by
R.G. Edwards at the sign of the Rams
Skull Press … Lording Street, Lower
Ferntree Fully, Victoria … limitation ..
February, 1954.
Comprising music score, illustrated with
woodcuts, hand sewn with ties, preserved
inside original goatskin covers. A
few insect nibbles to goatskin, otherwise
all in excellent condition.
The verses are The Dying Stockman;
Rosin the Beau; The Tarpaulin Jack and
The Dying Digger … a bit of dying but
they seemed to have had a good life and
needed few possessions.
Price $190.00
Scarce wondrous Australian bush verses
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Siluria - Sir Roderick Murchison
First Edition — 1854
The History of the Oldest Fossiliferous Rocks
and Their Foundations; with a Brief Sketch of
the Distribution of Gold Over the Earth.
Very good copy of the first edition
published by John Murray, London in 1854.
Thick Royal Octavo, bound in full leather,
green leather title label, gilt decorations to
compartments on the spine. Marbled end
papers, marbling continuing to the page edges;
boards with decorative gilding to front, back
and edges. 523 pages after preliminaries, 37
lithographed plates of the principal Silurian
fossils, descriptive letterpress, folding world
map at page 475. Folding Geological Map of the
Silurian Rocks in pocket at rear.
The coloured folding map (53cm by 43cm)
published Murray drawn by J.W. Lowry and
lithographed by Vincent Brooks is a first edition
dated 1853 of the Geological Map of the Silurian
Rocks and overlying formations as developed in
Wales and the Adjacent Parts of England,
chiefly prepared for the Geological Survey of
Great Britain. It is in very good condition, cloth
backed likely at the time of binding.
The plates are well executed, many by James
De Carle Sowerby (1787-1872).
Roderick Impey Murchison (1792-1871) was an
incredible individual. Scottish born, was sent to
Durham for schooling. Joined the military and
at 16 was in the Peninsula War. In 1818 he met
Sir Humphrey Davy who persuaded him to
pursue science. He joined the Royal Geological
Society … his colleagues included, Buckland,
Lyell and Darwin. He worked with Lyell on the
geology of the Alps. In the 1830’s he did much
research in and around the England Wales
border and through that established the Silurian
system and then went on to categorise the
Devonian and Permian systems.
Murchison new several Cornish miners who
went to Australia to explore for gold. In 1845
they sent samples to Murchison.
He won the Royal Society Copley Medal, the
Geological Society Wollaston Medal, and the
Edinburgh Brisbane Medal. Also, many overseas
awards. Founder and President of the Royal
Geographical Society.
A crater on the Moon is named after him as well
as geographical features in Greenland, USA,
Canada, Antarctica, Uganda. In Australia the
Murchison River with its tributaries named,
Roderick and Impey.
Price $690.00
Murchison—The “King of Siluria”
First Edition Cornerstone Geology.
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First Discovery of Australia and New Guinea
George Collingridge -1906
The Portuguese and Spanish Discoveries in the Australasian
Regions, between the Years 1492-1606, with descriptions of
their old charts. Includes 16th century voyages to the spice
islands and the discovery of New Guinea, the Villalobos
Expedition and further discoveries in Papua, Jave-le-Grande
and the early map of Australia, maps of Pierre Descelier, and
Deslien. The discovery of the Solomons by Mendana and
Sarmiento with an early map and of course Queiroz voyage
to Espiritu- Santo and Torres and his important discoveries.
Frontispiece map and many others mostly coloured plus
black and white illustrations and a useful chronology.
$120.00
Collingridge on the early discoveries.
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Rare Large Sized Microscope Size – Lantern Fly - China
No date or maker but this presentation was a specialty in the late Victorian /
Edwardian era. Reference Bracegirdle shows a number of “outsized” examples
but none quite like this. 3.5 inches by 3.5 inches lantern slide sized.
In modern terms known as the spotted lantern fly. The insect is on the move
and a potential threat in Australia – modelling has shown that it could survive
well in western and north-western Victoria. When we say a threat, it was
endemic to China and Vietnam but moved into South Korea in 2006, Japan in
2009 and the USA in 2014 … so the move is on.
Here the little blighter is beautifully preserved in Canda Balsam … we know that
CB was the mounters choice due its quality and the narrative says so.
Price $180.00
A microscopical rarity oversized mount of the Spotted Lantern Fly.
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Nouveau Manuel Complet Du Blason
ou Code Heraldique – Pautet – 1854
Special Fine Leather Binding from
The Convent of the Birds – Notre Dame
Published in 1854, octavo, 340 pages and ten
extraordinary multi folding plates. Bound in crimson
leather, raised bands to spine five compartments,
separate title label, gilt decorations to compartments,
author’s name at top and binder’s name at bottom.
Front and back boards panelled in gilt, heraldic shield
to front, page edges richly gilt.
Carries the unusual and large bookplate of the “Maison
des Oiseux” which shows two kneeling angels adoring
flaming hearts, one pierced by a dagger the other
crown of thorns …engraved by Chezoud, Paris.
Long regarded as an important work on Heraldry and
French Coat of Arms made by its impressive engravings
– in a binding to die for.
Price $180.00
Heraldry French style dressed to impress
for the Convent of the Birds
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The Itinerary of
Ludovico di Varthema of Bologna from
1502 to 1508;
With a Discourse on Varthema and His Travels
in Southern Asia by Sir Richard Carnac Temple
– Argonaut Press Limited Numbered
Edition 1928 – Edited Penzer
This was the fourth work in a superb series of
historical travel and exploration accounts by
the Argonaut Press.
Limited to 975 copies printed on Japon
Vellum printed by Walter Lewis at the
University Press, Cambridge – number 642.
Well bound quarto, blue cloth covered boards
quarter backed in vellum, titles gilt to spine
and a lovely gilt embossed image to front
taken from the original 16 th Century work.
Effectively two works – the lengthy
“Discourse” after introductions ... preface,
tables, analysis etc of lxxxv (85 pages) then
work itself from the 19 th Century Badger/
Winter translation 121 pages, including useful
index. Useful maps where appropriate in the
discourse. Very good near fine copy.
Verthema travelled at the time of Drake and
Magellan which provides perspective and in
1502 he went from Italy to Egypt and Syria
and then to Arabia Deserta [Damascus,
Medina, Jedda etc] … then in 1503 to Arabia
Feliz [Aden, Dhamar, Lahaj etc] and on to
Ethiopia in 1504. By later that year he was in
Persia [Hormuz, Muscat etc] and India
[Gogha, Cambay, Chaul, Calicut etc] Then to
Ceylon in 1505 ... Bengal and east to the
Malacca and the Spice Islands, Java and
Borneo. On his way back he assisted the
Portuguese in various skirmishes – they being
the dominant invasive force at the time. Back
home in 1507 via Mozambique.
What makes this book extra interesting is the
history of the translations and the impact of
early “reviewers” views. The original work
was in Italian, translated to Latin and then
English by Richard Eden in 1577. Various
others held views and the influential traveller
Garcia da Orta Poo Pooed Varthema’s
account. Because of this at one time account
was thought to be full of fiction … not so and
this book goes a long way to settle the myth
and put Verthema back where he belongs as a
truly remarkable early traveller.
His story of being chased by elephants in
Africa is worth the read alone.
Price $190.00
Verthema’s extensive early 16 th Century
Travels – Once Poo Pooed – but now true.
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Encyclopedia of the Antarctic
Beau Riffenburgh
Published by Routledge in 2006;
two-volumes regarded as the font
of all things Antarctica. Substantial
effort; one hundred contributors.
Quarto,1,272 pages overall heavily
illustrated with all sorts; maps,
charts, diagrams etc. Very good.
Elements relating to the History of
Exploration and History of Polar
Science are our favourites. Other
topics include … Atmosphere;
Birds; Conservation; Geography;
Glaciology; Technology; Oceans;
Physics and Astronomy etc.
Price $480.00
It is all here in the Encyclopedia of
the Antarctic – a winter’s reading
“The Arabian Nights” - Sir Richard Francis Burton’s Translation
The Book of the Thousand Nights and A Night &
The Supplemental Nights to the Thousand Nights and A Night
Sixteen Volumes — Complete Dual Set
To many one of the greatest men to live in the Victorian era Sir Richard Francis
Burton- Adventurer, Explorer, Linguist extraordinaire… published the first ten
volume work in 1885 and the additional six volumes between 1886 and 1888.
Believed by scholars of the work to be the best available translation of the
existing old texts. Enhanced understanding by the adding of extensive footnotes
and references. Printed privately for “subscribers only” and “The Burton Club”
was formed. This undated set likely 1920’s. Complete and in good condition.
Price $490.00
All of the Nights in captivating Burton Language.
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Antique French Microscope c1860
[Nachet – see Billings Collection]
A nice mid 19thC microscope with original
box. Likely by the French maker Nachet of
Paris. Original lacquer in rather good
condition. Functioning well.
Similar to the Billings Collection Fig 125,
page 67. Billings states makers unknown but
suggests Nachet or Hartnack both of Paris
and circa 1860’s.
Also, online “History of the Microscope”
shows three examples of which this is the
larger – refer to English maker Steward as
something similar but recognise a French
maker re this specific style.
The microscope arises from a painted green
and gold-toned weighted foot via a ball and
socket joint to the bottom of the pillar. A
small knob on the food adjusts the tension on
the ball and socket joint to lock the position
of inclination. The single sided gimbaled
mirror attached to the pillar via a pin.
Focusing of the main tube is by a knurled
knob acting on the rack and pinion. On the
tube there is a jointed arm with a bullseye
condenser. The objective “French” button
type, compounding. Under the stage a
revolving disc of diaphragms for moderating
light, above the stage a casing with a
lyre-shaped slide clip. Stands eleven inches
fully closed.
The original box retains its original sections,
has some cracks and age about it but is \authentic
and has kept the microscope all this
time in very good condition.
Camille Sebastien Nachet was a Parisian
optician early 19th Century. He began
producing lenses for the famous microscope
manufacturer Chevalier and later set up his
own small business at 16 Rue Serpente,
Paris. Nachet produced his first instruments
based on the drum style.
Camille Nachet was succeeded by his son
Jean Alfred 1831-1908, likely the maker of
this instrument. Jean Alfred is recognised
with Chevalier and Oberhauser as one of the
three leading makers in Paris at this time.
Price $340.00
Unusual French microscope
over 150 years old — great condition
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Antarctica – Reginald Ford
An unusual facsimile presentation of one of the rarest heroic era publications –
the tiny book “Antarctica” which was originally published in New Zealand in 1906.
Boxed set of items by the Erskine Press issued in 2015 .. two postcards – Discovery in
Winter Quarters from a painting by Wilson and a map of the islands of Antarctic by
Power; a broadsheet advertising the lecture “Farthest South” by Ford. Twelve page
biography of Ford by Crispin de Boos. The facsimile book linen card covers, 32 pages
numerous images – a faithful facsimile including the odd stain of the original.
Ford was a steward on the Discovery Expedition and the first person to break his leg on
the Antarctic - skiing. On return he acted as Scott’s secretary lecture tour.
Price $85.00
Try to find an original if you can –
Next best thing is this unusual collection from the Polar specialists Erskine Press.
Matthew Flinders Private Journal
1803-1814
the Mitchell Library Manuscript
Deluxe Genesis Publications with Hedley Australia
in 1986. Quarter leather bound, gilt Flinders to
front, title to spine, raised bands, page edges richly
gilt, quality of Genesis. Fine condition.
Folio, 365 pages of facsimile and useful index at the
end … Ingleton’s introductory note helps one into
the manuscript. This is Flinders in Mauritius
incarcerated by the French on his way to England to
complete his charts which would change the name
of the lucky country to Australia. His hand very
readable … and the index helps.
He did have his freedom removed, he had a
comfortable time of it .. albeit lengthy.
Price $190.00
Flinders in Mauritius beautifully presented.
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Fossil Fern [Osmundacaulis pruchnikki]
Lune River Tasmania –
Rare unusual Jurassic 182 Million years old.
Significant piece in terms of size and quality of
petrified tree fern “Osmundacaulis pruc-nikki”
from Lune River deep in the southern Tasmania.
The dating to the early Jurassic Period (182 Ma) by
isotopic measurements of zircons in the volcanic
sandstone hosting the fossils.
A substantial piece weighing 362gm length circa
11cm – by 5cm. The extremity is cleaved in the
centre of the oval plant core and the core can be
side clearly running down one side and on top.
Twelve paratypes (arborescent) ferns and one
bracken-like (rhizomatous) fern have been found.
The tree ferns belong to the genus Osmundacaulis.
This paratype exhibits clear and tight trachioles
The species evolved in the region, the
Australian portion of Pangea.
Price $290.00
Large fossil tree fern Jurassic Tasmania.
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Geology and Mineralogy
William Buckland—1837
Published in London by William Pickering in 1837 –
2 Volumes complete bound in half black Morocco
over marbled papered boards, gilt titles, volume
numbers and designs to spine. In very good
condition, the condition of the plates terrific.
Large octavo, xvi, 618 pages; vii, 129 pages, 69
plates [2 folding]
The volumes as lavishly illustrated with a famous
multiple fold out plate in excess of a metre long
beautifully hand coloured demonstrating various
geological structures [one of the best executed
coloured plates of the period.
Rev William Buckland (1784-1856) an exceptional
individual – a Fellow of the Royal Society, President
of the Royal Geological Society. His interest in
geology and paleontology led him to write the first
full account of a fossil dinosaur which he named
Megalosarurus. He discovered the Kirkdale cave and
concluded that it had been a prehistoric hyena den
– for which he was awarded the Copley Medal by
the Royal Society. This work was written just prior
to his awakening that certain geological structures
and fossil remains were a result of glaciation and
not the effect of floodwaters from the great
deluge. Buckland was a friend of a young Charles
Darwin - there must have been some very
interesting conversations.
Price $440.00
Buckland’s Great Work on Geology and Paleontology
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Vous Dites Cancan II – Pochoir -1913
A striking “Pochoir”, Vous Dites Cancan II, by Charles Martin (1884–1934) for
the Gazette du Bon 1913. Designs by John Redfern (1853 – 1929).
An afternoon dress for the races in pole print, an envelope jacket, closed by a
single large button from which hangs a scarf and from the sleeves hang two
acorns. Stunning colour choice heightened with gold.
Price $290.00 Framed $180.00 unframed
Striking design “at the races” pochoir
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Fine Apothecary/ Medical Cabinet –
c1850- Godfrey & Cooke London
[Established 1680]
finely polished mahogany medical cabinet
retailed by Godfrey and Cooke, London in
the Victorian era. Campaign style brass
handle and recess, working lock with original
key [not to be lost]. Lovely red velvet
padded interior, with two finely crafted
lift out stacking trays. compartments
around the inside contain eleven glass
medical bottles all with ground glass stoppers.
Top tray contains period apothecary
scales and a good set of weights [2,1 and
½ Drams; 2,1 Scruples and 6,5,4,3,2,1
and ½ Grains]. Lower larger tray contains
a glass pestle and mortar, two lidded jars
and three small ground glass stoppered
bottles. Below this tray is a void containing
a tiny measuring cylinder in a
shagreen case and an old dropper.
The cabinet is unmarked, 26.5cm by
15cm by 14cm high; weighs 3.5 kgs. The
internal items are in as good a condition
as you will get, one stopper with a chip
the rest undamaged. Three stoppers fused
in place – we are not going to force them.
The back story is worth a movie.
Ambrose Godfrey-Hanckwutz (1660-1741)
born in Kothen, Germany. At nineteen,
already married, he moved to London to
be assistant to Robert Boyle founding
member of The Royal Society, described
as the first chemist. He reduced his name
to Ambrose Godfrey to assimilate. His
primary task with Boyle was to discover
the method of making phosphorous –
which involves an intriguing story [too
long for here]. He was successful, and
much money was made which allowed him
to set up his own chemist’s at the Sign of
the Phoenix, Covent Garden. On his death
in 1741 his sons took over the business
and then in turn a nephew of the same
name. On his death in 1797 the business
was bought by Charles Cooke and became
Godfrey and Cooke on Conduit Street and
later the Royal Arcade, Bond Street.
Price $1,590.00
Fine fitted 19thC London apothecary/
Many More Images on our Website
www.voyagerhobart.com
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Mother Goose and Her Friends
Adventures in the Old Woman’s Shoe
Maude Warren and Eve Davenport
illustrated by Charles Federer
Absurdly wonderful book of tales, published by
Hodder & Stoughton, first of type 1923.
Large thick octavo, 309 pages, with ten lovely
tipped in coloured plates, fancy end papers,
coloured plate pasted to front board. A trifle
age otherwise really a super copy, by any
standards good for a book over a century old.
Traditional children’s stories with no prejudice
and lots of positive messages and lots of fun.
Old King Cole was a Merry Old Soul [and he
was] and Simple Simon’s Pie-man had a very
large pie on his head.
Price $60.00
Stories for children that you can rely on.
Billabong Riders—Mary Grant Bruce
This is the first UK edition published in 1952,
having been published in Australia in 1942.
An absolutely clean copy with a perfect dust
jacket … given the time period of over 70 year
something special .. would make great gift.
Octavo, 192 pages, frontispiece like the jacket
cover. We have gushed about the quality, put up
with previous owners book label at the front.
This is all about the riders of Billabong the
authors special place that defines real Australia
to many … full of character and characters.
Understand it before tall buildings take over.
Price $35.00
One for the bush or the curious city dweller.
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“The Wicked Mate”
The Antarctic Diary of Victor Campbell
Victor Campbell was on Robert Scott’s Terra Nova
Expedition. He led the Northern Party, six men
who explored King Edward VII Land. Spent ten
months at Cape Adare and then Inexpressible
Island, a stormy desolate place. Marooned over
the winter they holed up in an man made ice
cave. As the weather eased they returned over
230 miles of sea ice.
Campbell’s papers and diary are at the University
of Newfoundland. Edited by King who was the
librarian at the Scott Polar Institute, illustrated
with Campbell’s sketches and photographs, many
not published elsewhere.
Published by cold weather specialists Erskine
Press. Large squarish format octavo, 192 pages,
All in fine condition.
Price $80.00
Victor Campbell’s Antarctic Diaries
The Northern Party
Polar Castaways – The Ross Sea Party
A through account of the Shackleton 1914
expedition Ross Sea Party. The Aurora escaped its
winter moorings and left the men stranded yet they
still went about their task laying depot’s for
Shackleton’s attempt at the first right across.
Three of the ten men died and it took perennial
Captain J.K. Davis to rescue them
Price $35.00
First time Ross Sea Party fully explained
Trial By Ice
The Antarctic Journals of John King Davis
The collectable Erskine Press 1997
edition in fine condition. The greatest Ship’s
Captain of the Heroic Antarctic era with
seven voyages from 1907 to 1930. Unrivalled
experience in Ice Navigation. Stern discipline
earned him the nickname “Gloomy Davis”.
This book, taken from his journals provides an
interesting contrast to those of Mawson.
Price $80.00
Maybe Gloomy but Very Good
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Goldscheider Deco Lady Bookends – c1940
Simply superb, a rare pair of ceramic bookends by Marcel Goldscheider.
The Goldscheider family through Friedrich Goldscheider started their ceramics
business in Vienna in 1885. It soon developed an enviable reputation for quality and
leading art in its form. They opened outposts in Paris, Leipzig and Florence creating
masterpieces in Art Nouveau and Art Deco. They were also commissioned by
Rosenthal and Meissen.
With the “writing in the wall” the family left Vienna in 1938. Brother Walter went to
the USA and started a factory at Trenton, New Jersey. Marcel went to England and
the ceramic heartland at Stoke to work alongside Myott.
The bookends are free of any damage, are signed Goldscheider Staffordshire. They
are beautifully formed with a very feminine Goldscheider look. They appear to be
slightly different – one lady her head slightly cocked, evidencing a truly crafted
piece. Nicely hand painted not in a fully like for like manner which adds to the
special feel. They are roughly 11cm cube and weigh circa 850gm the pair.
Price $440.00
Goldscheider Deco Ladies a rare find and in fine condition.
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Surveyor’s Prismatic Compass
Stanley Retailed by Winsor & Newton c1900
Large working surveyor’s prismatic compass.
Blackened brass design 11.0 cm in diameter,
weighs 500gm. Engraved on the case lid
“Winsor & Newton Ltd, London”. This is the
famous supplier or art materials and likely
relates to a foray by them into materials for
surveying / cartography etc. We cannot find
another example of a Winsor labelled
instrument, so the initiative was likely short
lived. We put the manufacturer as Stanley as
there are example of similar instruments by
them in the suggested period.
A super instrument with the added element
of fixtures allowing solar measurement or
very high vertical objects – see more below.
The sighting arm still contains its “horsehair”
and lifts and extends stays in the vertical
position. It has the added feature of the
variable angled mirror on a rail that runs up
and down the sighting arm for high items or
solar observations. There is a “fixing” button
at the bottom of the sighting ram to lock the
compass for solid reading.
Hinged prism housing moves to its operating
position over the base plate. With the
compass held steady the notch on the
refractor body is aligned with the horsehair
on the arm. A compass reading can be taken
through the magnified refractor lens.
Attached to the arm are two moveable
coloured glass filters in red and amber for
solar work and contrast
The silvered compass dial rotates freely, and
the glass is free of scratches.
Below the compass is a short, threaded arm
for fitting to a surveyor’s pole or equivalent.
Bar a short scratch and a little wear to the
blackened cover, fine condition.
Price $190.00
Large early prismatic compass with
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The Northern Hero – 1786 — No 18 in Ferguson
Being a Faithful Narrative of the Life, Adventures, and Deceptions, of
James George Semple, Commonly called Major Semple.
Extremely scarce, despite being introduced as a “New Edition” with the circumstances of
Each Fraud, and the Names of the Parties injured.
title continues Major Semple .. alias Major Harrold, Major Maxwell, Major Grant, Major
Cunningham, Major Winter etc. With and account of his Devices at Lord Salisbury’s, Sir
Thomas Dundass’s, and Mr Pitt’s. Also the various Inventions by which he obtained Goods
of Tradesmen. The Whole supported by indisputable Authority, with the Names of the
Persons who were the Objects of his Depredations. Likewise … an Account of his Trial
Before Mt Justice Gould and the Recorder at the Old Bailey on Saturday September 2 for
defrauding Mr John Lycett, Coach-maker, in Whitechapel, of a Post-chaise, value fifty
Guineas, of which he was Convicted.
Published by G. Kearsley, Fleet Street, 1786. Octavo, half title, frontispiece with engraving
by Barlow of Semple in the dock, full title, book advertisements 2 pages, dedication from
Compiler 1 page, blank 1 page, list of content 5 pages and Errata 1 page, 90 pages text.
Bound in quarter mottled polished leather with lavish marbled paper covered boards,
corners bumped. Date in gilt bottom of spine, gilt on tanned leather title label a later
addition. A really delightful binding. Carries previous ownership bookplates of bibliophiles
Nanyce Kent Perry and Dr George Mackaness.
Major Semple was a bit of a rogue and a classy one at that. His final comeuppance rested
on the fact the it was found that he intended to steal a coach … his defence was that it was
a debt that he couldn’t pay … he lost and was sentenced to Botany Bay. Slipped ship at Rio!
Price $390.00
Priceless Semple … off to Botany Bay in 1786 … well almost!
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Antique Surgical Tracheotomy Set – Downs Brothers – c 1910
A nice complete cased set of tracheotomy instruments by Downs Brothers, London.
Case identifies the maker and their premises opposite Guy’s Hospital.
Comprising two ebony handled retractors, ebony handled scalpel and tracheotomy
forceps, all with makers mark. The dilating forceps are after a design by Dr St Clair
Thomson, Professor Laryngology at King’s College. Three silvered tracheotomy cannulae
of differing sizes. Housed in the original custom velvet lined box truly authentic.
Down Brothers was founded in 1874 with premises opposite Guy’s Hospital, London.
Price $290.00
Quality antique surgical Instrument from a leading London maker
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[Music Theme] Violin and Score Bookends
By Marion Bronze c1930-40’s
Delightful pair of weighty bookends. Stand 10cm tall and weigh a hefty 2.4kg the pair.
Overall, pretty good condition. A great present for the music lover. Made by Marion and
Arthur France in their cottage factory in New Jersey.
A Mom and Pop business. Marion and Arthur France started making bookends and other
decorative items in 1922 in the sheds behind their house at Metuchen, New Jersey. They
continued to do this until the mid-1950’s when the business was put up for sale.
The image of the house comes from the business sale document which Voyager found
through a website run by Marion and Arthur’s grandchildren who could remember waiting
on the porch – for Grandpa to finish his daily toil in the shed at the back of the yard.
Price $380.00
Unusual weighty bookends by Marion and Arthur
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Bliss
Peter Carey – First Edition 1981
Very good copy of the first edition of Peter
Carey’s first novel Bliss published by the
University of Queensland Press in 1981.
Also published by Faber in London and
Harper in the New York. Our preferred
edition the thoughtful Queensland Press.
Peter Carey argued by many as Australia’s
best modern era writer. Born in Bacchus
Marsh in the 1940’s, living variously
throughout Australia then New York and
London. Before becoming a literary
success worked for many years in
advertising writing pretty good copy.
Unsurprisingly the protagonist of Bliss was
an advertising executive Harry Joy. Harry
dies from a heart attack but is brought
back to life … as a consequence his view of
what went on and what was around him
changed. Life was Hell actually and it took
meeting Honey to fix that. Bliss was
received with great acclaim and won the
Miles Franklin Award.
Carey went on to win the Miles Franklin
award three times and is one of only five
authors to have won the Booker twice.
Price $80.00
A First Edition of Peter Carey’s First Novel
– the scarce Queensland Edition
My Life as a Fake
Peter Carey – First edition
Published by Knopf, Sydney in 2003.
A first edition in great condition.
Octavo, 280 pages, rough cut edges
(trendy) as published. Unusual endpapers
one half Kuala Lumpur image
other stark pink.
Given an international mystic flavour
this book is partly based on the real
life faking of the poet Ern Malley by
the promotors of the superb Angry
Penguins. Not only was the poet Ern
Malley a fake he was also considered
a bit rude which got the inventors
into a little bit of trouble.
The works of Bob McCorkie the
invention of Christopher Chubb who
wants to teach the pretentious a
lesson. There is a twist though and it
has something to do with the saying
… “be careful what you wish for”.
When we say twist – it is Peter Carey
so more to it that that.
Price $60.00
Peter Carey First edition
maybe our favourite.
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