J & SL Bonham Antiquarian Booksellers

• ANON. THE HOBART TOWN ALMANACK AND VAN DIEMEN'S LAND ANNUAL FOR 1838. Elliston, nd [1838.] [9896]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xv, 173, advertisements, frontispiece (foxed), 2 hand-coloured plates (signals), illustration, original brown cloth, joints worn and split, text very clean. £650
  
  

• ARMSTRONG E S. THE HISTORY OF THE MELANESIAN MISSION. Isbister, 1900. [9047]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xxviii, 372, folding map, illustrations, original blue cloth, inner joints cracked, otherwise a very good copy. £110
  
  

• BADEN-POWELL George S. NEW HOMES FOR THE OLD COUNTRY; a Personal Experience of the Political and Domestic Life, the Industries and the Natural History of Australia and New Zealand. Richard Bentley, 1872. [6124]
  FIRST EDITION, large 8vo, pp xx, 512, 4 plates, maps, illustrations, a.e.g, original red decorative cloth, prize binding with gilt vignette on upper cover, inner hinges cracked. £95
  
  

• BLACKWOOD Beatrice. BOTH SIDES OF BUKA PASSAGE; an Ethnographic Study of Social, Sexual, and Economic Questions in the North-Western Solomon Islands. UP, 1935. [11396]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xxiii, 624, 80 plates, map, tables, illustrations, original red cloth, light staining to top edge, dust-jacket (very good), clean. £350
  
  

• BONWICK James. FRENCH COLONIES AND THEIR RESOURCES. Street & Co, 1886. [10307]
  FIRST EDITION, small 8vo, pp viii, 152, folding map, original blue cloth, vignette on upper cover, small ink stain on title-page, very good. £100
  A signed copy from the author to Josiah Beddow.
  

• BONWICK James. PORT PHILLIP SETTLEMENT. Sampson Low, 1883. [10548]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp x, 537, coloured frontispiece, 36 plates, original blue decorative cloth, partially unopened, excellent. £500
  Important historical information and the reproduction of Foundation documents. Ferguson 7252
  
  

• BRENCHLEY Julius L. JOTTINGS DURING THE CRUISE OF HMS 'CURAÇOA' AMONG THE SOUTH SEA ISLANDS IN 1865. Longmans, Green, 1873. [9632]
  FIRST EDITION, royal 8vo, pp xxviii, 487, folding chart, 2 chromolithographs (including folding frontispiece, neatly tipped in), 50 lithographic plates (42 hand-coloured), 8 wood engravings, 36 textual engravings, original green cloth, gilt vignette (canoe 'Ulakua'), neatly re-backed using original spine, a good, clean copy. Rare. £1250
  The HMS 'Curaçao' cruised the South Sea Islands - including Norfolk Island, Samoa, Tonga, Fiji, New Hebrides, and the Solomons - with Brenchley aboard as amateur naturalist and observer. Many of the specimens and artifacts he collected on this voyage ended up in the Maidstone Museum and Bentif Art Gallery and the British Museum. This volume has particularly fine text engravings depicting aspects of daily life of the South Sea Islanders: individual portraits of the King and Queen of Tonga, a Samoan chief; ear, nose and neck ornaments; native art and architecture. The 50 natural history plates include the following: 21 Bird plates with 27 figures; 4 Reptile plates with 9 figures; 10 Fish plates with 12 figures; 7 Shell plates with 32 figures; 8 Insect plates with 27 figures. All plates have tissue guards and accompanying text descriptions. The tropical Bird (by J Smit) and Butterfly (by A G Butler) plates are particularly fine, with bright hues, subtle shading, and exquisite attention to detail. Ferguson 7376.
  
  

• BUNCE Daniel. LANGUAGE OF THE ABORIGINES OF THE COLONY OF VICTORIA AND OTHER AUSTRALIAN DISTRICTS. Thos Brown, 1859. [11405]
  Second Edition, 8vo, pp 61, original yellow boards, very good. £250
  
  

• BYRNE Lawrence J. VISIT OF THE DETACHED SQUADRON; with Their Royal Highnesses Prince Edward and and Prince George of Wales, to Brisbane, from 16th to 20th August 1881. James C Beal, 1881. [10413]
  FIRST EDITION, quarto, pp40, 10 photographs, 1 chromolithograph, some foxing mainly marginal and not affecting images, original brown full morocco, gilt,slight wear to head and tail of spine, corners rubbed. £650
  Presentation copy from the author to Lord Amherst. Ferguson 17981.
  
  

• CALEY-WEBSTER H. THROUGH NEW GUINEA AND THE CANNIBAL COUNTRIES. T Fisher Unwin, 1898. [6194]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xvii, 387, folding map, illustrations, original blue decorative cloth, small nick at head of spine. £350
  
  

• CALLANDER John. A COLLECTION OF VOYAGES TO THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE. Printed for Editor and Sold by the Booksellers of London and Westminster, 1788. [10048]
  First Edition as Thus, 2 vols, 8vo, pp 692; iim 746; contemporary brown tree calf, re-backed with original spine, small loss to Vol I, facsimile title-page to Vol I. £580
  A very rare version of Callander's Terra Australis Cognita, first issued as three volumes 1766-8. Callander's work, based on the 1756 French collection of De Brosses, contains in this two-volume form a total of forty-one narratives, some in English for the first time, including the voyages of Hawkins, Quiros, Spilbergen, Le Maire, Schouten, Pelsaert, Tasman, Dampier, Shelvocke and Anson. This has been described as "the fundamental proposal for the first European settlement of the Southern Continent". Sabin 10053; not in Ferguson
  
  

• CALVERT Albert F. THE EXPLORATION OF AUSTRALIA. Dean & Son, 1901. [10764]
  Second Edition, Vol II only, large 8vo, pp xiv, 389, original green cloth. £20
  
  

• CHOY Sam. CUISINE HAWAII; Featuring the Premier Chefs of the Aloha State. Pleasant, 1990. [11326]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 168, original tan cloth, dust-jacket. £15
  
  

• CHRISTIAN F W. THE CAROLINE ISLANDS; Travel in the Sea of the Little Lands. Methuen, 1899. [10681]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xiii, 412, advertisements, maps (1 folding and repaired), frontispiece, illustrations, original green decorative cloth, vignette, near fine. £180
  
  

• COFFEE Frank. FORTY YEARS ON THE PACIFIC; the Lure of the Great Ocean. Oceanic, 1925. [3547]
  Second Edition, 8vo, pp xvii, 403, illustrations, original black cloth. £70
  Author's Presentation Copy to the Rt Hon L S Amery.
  

• CORNISH Henry. UNDER THE SOUTHERN CROSS. Mail Press, 1879. [1442]
  First Thus, 8vo, pp xviii, 462, folding map, original brown decorative cloth, hinge cracked. £80
  This is a revised, enlarged and illustrated edition published one year later than the first edition. Ferguson 8706.
  
  

• CURTEIS, Mrs G Herbert. IN MEMORIAM; a Sketch of the Life of the Right Reverend George Augustus Selwyn, late Bishop of Lichfield. C Hickson, nd [1889.] [11350]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 90, original blue/grey cloth, very good and clean. £25
  
  

• DALY Dominic, Mrs. DIGGING, SQUATTING AND PIONEERING LIFE IN THE NORTHERN TERRITORY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA. Sampson Low, 1887. [1449]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xii, 368, folding map, original yellow decorative cloth, small wear to head and tail of spine. £250
  Ferguson 8939.
  
  

• DAVIS John. TRACKS OF MCKINLAY AND PARTY ACROSS AUSTRALIA. Sampson Low, 1863. [8128]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xvi, 408, advertisements, frontispiece, 14 lithographs, 1 plate, folding map (routes of McKinlay, Stuart, Burke, Landsborough and Walker), contemporary brown prize full calf, neatly re-backed using original spine, spine with raised bands, covers scuffed in parts with loss of leather, corners rubbed, internally a good clean copy. £375
  Ferguson 9005.
  
  

• DONNE T E. THE GAME ANIMALS OF NEW ZEALAND; an Account of their Introduction, Acclimatization and Development. John Murray, 1924. [10484]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xviii, 322, folding map, illustrations, original olive green cloth, small wear to head of spine, otherwise a very good copy. £320
  
  

• EARL George Windsor. THE NATIVE RACES OF THE INDIAN ARCHIPELAGO: PAPUANS Hippolyte Bailliere, 1853. [10511]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xiv, 240, coloured frontispiece, 2 folding maps, folding charts, 4 coloured plates, original red blind-stamped cloth, spine very slightly faded otherwise excellent. £500
  The Easton Neston copy.
  

• EARLE Augustus. A NARRATIVE OF A NINE MONTHS' RESIDENCE IN NEW ZEALAND IN 1827; together with a Journal of a Residence in Tristan d'Acunha, an island situated between South America and the Cape of Good Hope. By Augustus Earle, draughtsman to His Majesty's surveying-ship THE BEAGLE. Longman Rees... 1832. [7931]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp x, 371, (1) imprint, (16) advertisements, engraved frontispiece, 6 engraved plates (2 folding), some light marginal foxing, contemporary black half calf, a very good copy. £850
  "Earle's crowded six months (not nine) in northern New Zealand gave posterity a double legacy. In his text a fascinating if not unprejudiced outline of Maori social life and custom and European intruders in the amalgam's most unsettled decade; in the sketches not merely landscapes but a series of reclining or posturing figures, the most striking of any visitor since the navigators' artists." Bagnall 1, 1757 Hocken p51, Bagnall 1757.
  
  

• ELLIS William. NARRATIVE OF A TOUR THROUGH HAWAII; or, Owhyhee; with Observations on the Natural History of the Sandwich Islands, and remarks on the manners, customs, traditions, history, and language of the inhabitants. H Fisher, 1827. [8070]
  Second Edition, 8vo, pp viii, 480, portrait frontispiece (foxed with small waterstain in corner not affecting image), 8 illustrations, 2 folding maps, contemporary brown half calf, £320
  
  

• ELLIS William. POLYNESIAN RESEARCHES DURING A RESIDENCE OF NEARLY SIX YEARS IN THE SOUTH SEA ISLANDS; including Descriptions of the Natural History and Scenery of the Islands... Fisher, 1830 [3982]
  SECOND EDITION, 2 vols, pp xvi, 536; viii, 576; 2 maps, 9 plates,
  early 20th century half blue morocco, a clean crisp copy £295
  
  

• FOX C E. THE THRESHOLD OF THE PACIFIC; an Account of the Social Organization Magic and Religion of the People of San Cristoval in the Soloman Islands. Kegan Paul, 1924. [7577]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 379, map, illustrations, original blue decorative cloth, a fine copy. £70
  
  

• GRACE Morgan S. A SKETCH OF THE NEW ZEALAND WAR. Horace Marshall, 1899. [10032]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 171, advertisements, 8 plates, original blue cloth. £135
  
  

• GREGORY J W. THE DEAD HEART OF AUSTRALIA; a Journey around Lake Eyre in the Summer of 1901-1902, with some account of the Lake Eyre Basin and the flowing wells of Central Australia. John Murray, 1906. [10472]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xvi, 384, 2 folding maps, illustrations, original decorative cloth, a near fine copy of this uncommon work. £390
  
  

• GREY George. JOURNALS OF TWO EXPEDITIONS OF DISCOVERY IN NORTH-WEST AND WESTERN AUSTRALIA; during the Years 1837, 38 and 39, under the Authority of Her Majesty's Government. Describing many newly discovered, important and fertile districts, with observations on the moral and physical condition of the aboriginal inhabitants, etc... T and W Boone, 1841. [10390]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, 2 vols, pp xiv, 412, advertisements; viii, 482; illustrations (some coloured), original plum blind stamped cloth, Vol II neatly re-backed using original spine, lacks the 2 Arrowsmith maps, internally good and clean. £400
  Sir George Grey, in addition to being Governor of South Australia was twice Governor of New Zealand and once Prime Minister, and was also Governor of Cape Colony. Both the journeys of exploration described in these volumes were undertaken for the RGS. They met with disasters. The first expedition landed near Hanover Bay, and made the discovery of a river and much useful territory. In a skirmish with the natives Grey was badly wounded by a spear and was forced to abandon the expedition. The second journey was for the exploration of the west coast, north and south of Shark's Bay. The Gascoyne River was discovered, but a hurricane damaged their stores, their boats were wrecked, and the party had to set off for an overland tramp of 300 miles to Perth. All dropped out on the journey except Grey. Fortunately rescue parties were able to save all but one. Ferguson 3228.
  
  

• GRIFFIN H L. AN OFFICIAL IN BRITISH NEW GUINEA. Cecil Palmer, 1925. [3922]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xii, 252, map, illustrations, original blue cloth. £50
  
  

• [HAMILTON George.] EXPERIENCES OF A COLONIST FORTY YEARS AGO; a Journey from Port Phillip to South Australia in 1839 and a Voyage from Port Phillip to Adelaide in 1846. By An Old Hand. J Williams (Printer), 1880. [5981]
  Second Enlarged Edition, 8vo, pp (viii), 84, 79, (1), 23, 3 mounted albumen paper photographs, original red blind-stamped decorative cloth, a trifle rubbed and stained, upper hinge weak but an excellent copy of this uncommon book without the plate at p34 as usual. £295
  This very uncommon book was first published the previous year with 6 wood engravings (Ferguson incorrectly describing them as photographs). This enlarged edition with the extra VOYAGE FROM PORT PHILLIP TO ADELAIDE IN 1846 is illustrated with photographs of five of the six drawings on which the first edition woodcuts were based. Ferguson does not call for the plate shown in the list of illustrations at page 34. Frequent references to the aborigines. Ferguson 10184; Coles 607: "The missing plate is that of Daeclo Gigantea (the Kookaburra) at page 34 of the first part of the work. There is no evidence of it ever having been present".
  
  

• HAYDON G H. THE AUSTRALIAN EMIGRANT; a Rambling Story, containing as much fact as fiction. Arthur Hall, Virtue, 1854. [9590]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp v, 192 , frontispiece, illustrations, original red decorative cloth, re-backed. £75
  
  

• HAYDON G H. FIVE YEARS' EXPERIENCE IN AUSTRALIA FELIX; comprising a Short Account of its Early Settlement...with illustrations by Henry Hainsselin... Hamilton, Adams, 1846. [10372]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp (ii), 168, (1) appendix, 6 lithographs (including a tinted frontispiece), marginal water-staining on plates, original blue/green blind stamped cloth, spine faded and worn at head and tail. £200
  Ferguson 4305; Coles 617.
  
  

• HEYERDAHL Thor. THE KON-TIKI EXPEDITION by Raft Across the South Seas Theodore Brun, 1950. [10722]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 235, 18 plates, original de luxe edition in brown gilt and morocco-styled cloth, fine. £320
  No. 250 of 350 copies.
  

• HORN William Austin-Spencer. REPORT ON THE WORK OF THE HORN SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITION TO CENTRAL AUSTRALIA. Vol 1 NARRATIVE, large folding map, 17 photographic illustrations on 11 plates.
  Vol 2 ZOOLOGY, 29 plates.
  Vol 3 GEOLOGY AND BOTANY, 9 plates.
  Vol 4 ANTHROPOLOGY, 20 plates (4 coloured, 11 photographic). Dulau & Co, 1896. [10667]
  FIRST EDITION, 4 vols, quarto, original blue cloth, a little rubbed at extremities, ex Library with number on spines. £950
  The most comprehensive scientific record of the natural history and geology of Australia published in the nineteenth century. Its sponsor, William Austin Horn was a mining tycoon who accompanied the early part of the expedition. Ferguson 16071
  
  

• HORNE. A YEAR IN FIJI; or, an Inquiry into the Botanical, Agricultural, and Economical Resources of the Colony. Geo E Eyre, 1881. [7539]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 297, large folding map, original blue decorative cloth, a near fine copy. £150
  
  

• HUXLEY Julian. T H HUXLEY'S DIARY of the Voyage of HMS 'Rattlesnake'. Edited from the unpublished mss. Chatto & Windus, 1935. [8354]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp viii, 372, folding map, coloured frontispiece, illustrations, original blue cloth, very good. £45
  
  

• JUDD Laura Fish. HONOLULU; Sketches of Life, Social, Political and Religious, in the Hawaiian Islands from 1828 to 1861. Anson D F Randolph, 1880. [10688]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 258, portrait frontispiece, original purple cloth, spine faded with wear to head and tail, ex library (The Rodick Collection of Hawaiiana, Honolulu), the number 9344 on verso of title-page, label on front endpaper. £75
  
  

• JUKES J B. NARRATIVE OF THE SURVEYING VOYAGE OF HMS FLY, Commanded by Captain F P Blackwood, RN,in Torres Strait, New Guinea, and other Islands of the Eastern Archipelago, during the years 1842-1846. Together with an excursion into the interior of the eastern part of Java. T & W Boone, 1847. [11339]
  FIRST EDITION, 2 vols-in-one, pp xiii, 423; 362; 2 folding maps, 49 plates and woodcuts, 19th Century brown full calf, armourial gilt stamp on upper cover, spine lightly rubbed with small wear to head, very good and clean. £1750
  Between the years 1839 and 1840 Jukes was resident geologist in Newfoundland where he carried out much exploratory work.
  

• KEATE George. AN ACCOUNT OF THE PELEW ISLANDS; Situated in the Western Part of the Pacific Ocean, composed from the Journals and Communications of Captain Henry Wilson... G Nicol, 1789. [8197]
  Fourth Edition, 8vo, pp xxx, 408, folding map, frontispiece portrait, contemporary brown full calf, slight rubbing to joints, small split to base of spine, a very good crisp copy. £180
  Not in NMMC; Hill pp160-1: "an unlisted edition, obviously quite scarce."
  
  

• KING Phillip P. NARRATIVE OF A SURVEY OF THE INTERTROPICAL & WESTERN COASTS OF AUSTRALIA Performed between the Years 1818 and 1822. John Murray, 1827. [10551]
  FIRST EDITION Second Issue, 2 vols, 8vo, pp xxxix, 451; viii, 637; folding map (neatly repaired), folding chart, 13 plates (including 3 Natural History, 1 folding, creased at fore-edge), 19th century brown half calf, good. £2950
  
  

• KOLFF D[irk] H[endrik]. VOYAGES OF THE DUTCH BRIG OF WAR 'DOURGA'; through the Southern and Little-known Parts of the Moluccan Archipelago and along the previously unknown Southern Coast of New Guinea...translated from the Dutch by George Windsor Earl... James Madden, 1840. [11038]
  First English Edition, 8vo, pp xxiv, 365, (1) imprint, 2 engraved maps (1 double-page), original purple cloth, library label on front free endpaper, small autobiography has been written on a front free endpaper, good and clean. £850
  The first Dutch edition was published in 1828. Following the massacre of the crews of British ships, sent out from Melville Island and Raffles Bay to trade with the Arru Islands, the Dutch government decided to investigate the Molucca and Java Seas to Timor and New Guinea. Ferguson 3016; NMMC 457; Hill p164.
  
  

• LAWRY Walter. FRIENDLY AND FEEJEE ISLANDS; a Missionary Visit to Various Stations in the South Seas. John Mason, 1850. [5510]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 303, folding map, 6 plates, original red decorative cloth, gilt vignette, new front endpaper, small wear to head and tail of spine. £135
  
  

• LAY William & HUSSEY Cyrus. NARRATIVE OF THE MUTINY ON BOARD THE SHIP 'GLOBE', of Nantucket in the Pacific Ocean, Jan 1824 and the Journal of a Residence of Two Years on the Mulgrave Islands. Wm Lay and C M Hussey, 1828. [10718]
  FIRST EDITION, 12mo, pp (i-v), vi-x, (11)-168, foxed throughout, contemporary full tree calf, joints and corners rubbed. £650
  Lay & Hussey were mutineers who were the only ones to survive on the Mulgrave Islands. They were picked up by Captain Percival of the USS 'Dolphin', the remaining mutineers having been murdered by the local natives.
  

• [LINDSAY David.] JOURNAL OF THE ELDER SCIENTIFIC EXPLORING EXPEDITION, 1891-2. Under Command of D Lindsay. Equiped solely at the cost of Sir Thomas Elder...placed under the control of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia - South Australian Branch. C E Bristow, Government Printer, 1893. [9137]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 208, 2 large folding maps in separate folder with ties, text in new grey paper wrapper, brown pot on title-page otherwise very clean.. £300
  Only 500 copies of the JOURNAL were printed. It includes Lindsay's final report and journal, the journal of Wells, the surveyor and later second officer and a vocabulary of the Pidong tribe at the head of the Murchison River. Because of the serious drought the expedition was not entirely successful but nevertheless covered 2,700 miles of unexplored territory and mapped 80,000 square miles of unknown country in south western Australia and South Australia. Ferguson 9409a; Wantrup 208
  
  

• MACGILLIVRAY John. NARRATIVE OF THE VOYAGE OF THE HMS 'RATTLESNAKE', Commanded by the late Capt Owen Stanley, RN, FRS, during the Years 1846-1850, including discoveries and surveys in New Guinea, the Louisade Archipelago, etc, to which is added the account of Mr E B Kennedy's expedition for the exploration of Cape York Peninsula. T & W Boone, 1852. [10465]
  FIRST EDITION, 2 vols, 8vo, pp xi, 402; 395; folding map, 2 lithographic frontispieces slight foxing and a little light staining to upper edges not affecting images), 11 lithographs, textual illustrations, contemporary brown half calf, a handsome set. £6000
  
  

• MALONE R Edward. THREE YEARS' CRUISE IN THE AUSTRALASIAN COLONIES. W Clowes, 1854. [1774]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp viii, 304, contemporary half calf. £195
  Her Majesty's ships 'CALLIOPE' and 'FANTÔME' left Plymouth Sound to relieve the squadron ('HAVANNAH' and 'FLY') on the Australian Station, March 2, 1851. The author was appointed to HMS 'FANTÔME' and was on the Australian Station 1851-3. He visited all the colonies and discussed many subjects, such as convictism, mining, immigration, etc. Ferguson 12214.
  
  

• MARKHAM Albert H. THE CRUISE OF THE 'ROSARIO'; amongst the New Hebrides and Santa Cruz Islands, exposing the recent atrocities connected with the kidnapping of natives in the South Seas. Sampson Low, Marston... 1873. [5832]
  Second Edition, 8vo, pp xvi, 304, 24 publisher's list, half-title, frontispiece, 7 engraved plates, folding map at end, textual illustrations and ornaments, slight foxing on and adjacent to map and list, original blue cloth, gilt vignette on upper cover, spine lettered in gilt, upper hinge weak. £350
  Ferguson 12259; NMMCI 693.
  
  

• MORELL Benjamin. A NARRATIVE OF FOUR VOYAGES to the South Sea, North and Southern Atlantic Ocean, Chinese Sea, Ethiopic and Southern Atlantic Ocean, from the year 1822 to 1831. J & J Harper, 1832. [11332]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xxvii, 492, portrait frontispiece, light foxing throughout like most copies, 3 cm marginal tear, re-bound in later green cloth, early red morocco label. £520
  Morell was an intrepid and curious man and had an adventurous career, being one of the early visitors to the Antarctic region. He has been called: "the biggest liar in the Pacific" as some of his accounts were rather imaginative, and although some of the islands he claimed to have discovered, had in fact been chartered, his work is nevertheless very interesting and constitutes one of the earliest first hand records of many South Sea islands. He visited numerous Pacific islands including New Zealand, New Britain, New Ireland, New Guinea, Fiji, The Philippines, etc. This work is the source from which Edgar Allan Poe derived his famous work, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym. Sabin 50778, Howes 818.
  
  

• MOSSMAN Samuel. OUR AUSTRALIAN COLONIES; their Discovery, History, Resources and Prospects. RJS, nd [1866.] [5049]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp viii, 344, folding map, plans, original brown decorative cloth, stamp on free endpaper. £165
  
  

• MYERS Francis. THE COASTAL SCENERY, HARBOURS, MOUNTAINS AND RIVERS OF NEW SOUTH WALES. Thos Richards, 1886. [10445]
  FIRST EDITION, quarto, pp 76, 30 plates (Heliotype Process), original black morocco, corners rubbed, very good and clean. £250
  Ferguson 13048
  
  

• NAPIER Francis. NOTES OF A VOYAGE FROM NEW SOUTH WALES TO THE NORTH COAST OF AUSTRALIA; from the Journal of the Late Francis Napier. [1876.] [7377]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 96, photographic portrait frontispiece, 5 maps (4 folding), 8 illustrations, original blue decorative cloth, small mark where paper label removed from spine. Scarce. £1100
  "In 1867 the South Australian Government sent an expedition under Captain Cadell to the north coast of their territory to discover desirable localities for settlements. The author of these notes joined it. On the 23rd December, 1875, while preparing a short account of his voyage for the Philosophical Society of Glasgow, he died. This and his journal form the basis of this account and were submitted by members of his family after his death.
  The course of the voyage and discoveries made, including the entrance to the Roper River, are summarised at p.7." Ferguson Ferguson 13058
  
  

• NEW ZEALAND. PAPERS: 1. Minute on the New Zealand Mission, Church Missionary House, Nov 20, 1866. Pp 7
  2. The New Zealand Government and the Native War. Pp 38
  3. Letters from New Zealand, for the Use of Deputations. Pp6
  4. New Zealand Memorial to His Grace the Secretary of State for the Colonies, together with a vindication of the character of missionaries and native christians. London: Church House, 1861. Pp x, 35
  5. New Zealand Memorial to His Grace the Secretary of State for the Colonies; together with, a Memorandum on New Zealand Affairs. Pp xi, 47
  6. New Zealand, Further Remarks on New Zealand Affairs. Pp 30. Church Missionary House, (1861.) [10755]
  Disbound. £250
  
  

• NICHOLAS John L. NARRATIVE OF A VOYAGE TO NEW ZEALAND; Performed in the years 1814 and 1815, in company with the Rev Samuel Marsden, Principal Chaplain of New South Wales. James Black, 1817. [10533]
  FIRST EDITION, 2 vols, pp xx, 432; xii, 398; advertisements, frontispieces, map, chart, 2 plates (1 folding), original grey boards, original paper label, spine faded. clean and uncut in a leather-backed box. £1500
  John Nicholas, a New South Wales settler of two years' standing, accompanied Marsden on his historic mission to the Bay of Islands in December 1814 and was his close companion for the duration of their stay, to the end of February 1815. His full impressions of Maori culture are of the greatest value. His narrative is a useful parallel to the more volatile but succinct and direct record kept by Marsden. Nicholas's retelling of the Boyd massacre, as related by the leader 'George', is the first account from the Maori standpoint. Ferguson 690; Bagnall 4268.
  
  

• NIGHTINGALE Thomas. OCEANIC SKETCHES; with a Botanical Appendix by Dr Hooker of Glasgow. James Cochrane, 1835. [6996]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp x, list of illustratons and errata, 132, advertisements, engraved portrait frontispiece, hand-coloured plate, 5 aquatint plates (1 coloured), some light foxing and browning, original blue cloth with original label. Bookplate of Bücherei Augustin Kramer. A rare work. £1250
  Author's presentation copy.
  An early journey to South America and the Pacific Islands. Nightingale spent time in Chile and Peru before travelling to the Gallipagos, the Marquesas, Cook, Samoan and Society Islands. The botanical appendix is dedicated to Dr Hooker.
  

• PATTERSON Samuel. NARRATIVE OF THE ADVENTURES AND SUFFERINGS OF SAMUEL PATTERSON Experienced in the Pacific Ocean, and many other parts of the world, with an account of the Feegee and Sandwich Islands. Patterson, 1817. [10733]
  FIRST EDITION, 12mo, pp 144, light browning throughout,contemporary brown calf, recently rebacked with new spine and label, title-page has small repaired marginal tear not affecting text. £850
  
  

• PERON M F. A VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY TO THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; Performed by Order of the Emperor Napoleon. Richard Phillips, 1809. [9943]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 314, folding frontispiece, folding plate, some occasional light browning, contemporary brown calf with later re-back, corners rubbed. £1000
  
  

• RAWLING C G. THE LAND OF THE NEW GUINEA PYGMIES. Seeley Service, 1913. [9321]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 366, frontispiece, folding map, illustrations, original red cloth, spine faded. £140
  Attached to the front free endpaper is a signed letter from author to a Miss Talbot. He writes from the trenches (62nd Infantry Brigade) about her imminent travels to Italy.
  

• REID Thomas. TWO VOYAGES TO NEW SOUTH WALES AND VAN DIEMEN'S LAND; with a Description of the Present Condition of that Interesting Colony including facts and observations relative to the State and management of convicts of both sexes. Longman Hurst, 1822. [10805]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xxi, 391, contemporary brown full calf, spine rubbed, upper joint cracked. £380
  Copy ex The Society of Writers to the Signet. Ferguson 876
  
  

• RIVELL Rex & SPENCE Sydney. PORTRAITS OF THE FAMOUS AND INFAMOUS; Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific 1492-1970. Kivell, 1970. [11312]
  FIRST EDITION, folio, p0p 332, illustrations, original white cloth, near fine, dust-jacket (split and torn into several pieces). £50
  
  

• ROMILLY Hugh H. FROM MY VERANDAH IN NEW GUINEA; Sketches and Traditions. David Nutt, 1889. [10835]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xxvi, 277, advertisements, folding map original blue cloth, near fine. £350
  
  

• ROMILLY Hugh H. LETTERS FROM THE WESTERN PACIFIC AND MASHONALAND 1878-1891. David Nutt, 1893. [6176]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xii, 384, frontispiece, 16 illustrations, original blue cloth, a near fine copy. £200
  
  

• ROTH Henry Ling. CROZET'S VOYAGE TO TASMANIA; New Zealand, the Ladrone Islands, and the Philippines in the years 1771-1772. Truslove & Shirley, 1891. [10788]
  First London Edition, 8vo, pp xxiv, 148, folding coloured map, folding plan, 8 photogravure plates, textual illustrations, t.e.g, limited to 500 copies this one No 60. £500
  Crozet sailed on the 'Mascarin' to New Zealand in 1770. After the massacre of Marion he commanded the vessel on its journey back to Port Louis.
  

• ROTH Walter E. ETHNOLOGICAL STUDIES AMONG THE NORTH-WEST CENTRAL QUEENSLAND ABORIGINES. Edmund Gregory, 1897. [10787]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xvi, 200, 24 plates, original purple blind stamped cloth. £280
  Ferguson 15115.
  
  

• ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY JOURNAL EXTRACTS; GREEN W S. RECENT EXPLORATIONS IN THE SOUTHERN ALPS OF NEW ZEALAND, pp 57-70, folding map (Alps).
  
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  GODWIN-AUSTI H H. THE MOUNTAIN SYSTEMS OF THE HIMALAYA and Neighbouring Ranges of India, pp 84-87, large folding map, folding map (Himalaya). RGS, 1884. [10982]
  £45
  
  

• ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY JOURNALS (Extract). RECENT EXPLORATIONS IN THE SOUTHERN ALPS OF NEW ZEALAND. The Mountain Systems of the Himalaya and Neighbouring Ranges of India. RGS, 1884. [10744]
  Pp 57-70 and 83-87. £35
  
  

• SAMWELL David. CAPTAIN COOK AND HAWAII. David Magee, 1957. [6048]
  Second Edition, 8vo, pp xi, 42, portrait frontispiece, 4 plates (1 folding), original red cloth, vignette on upper cover, dust-jacket. £80
  Original edition published in London in 1786. The second edition above has an introduction by Sir Maurice Holmes and is limited to 750 copies.
  

• SAMWELL David. CAPTAIN COOK AND HAWAII. David Magee, 1957. [6671]
  Second Edition, 8vo, pp xi, 42, portrait frontispiece, 4 plates (1 folding), original red cloth, vignette on upper cover, dw. £150
  Original edition published in London in 1786. The second edition above has an introduction by Sir Maurice Holmes and is limited to 750 copies.
  

• SANDS & KENNY (Publishers). LANDSCAPE SCENERY (AUSTRALIAN KEEPSAKE); Illustrating Sydney and Port Jackson, New South Wales. Sands & Kenny, 1855. [5881]
  FIRST EDITION, oblong quarto, errata slip before title-page, 39 engraved plates (including vignette on title), light foxing in places, some edges of margins browned and soiled, original blue grained decorative cloth, g.e, spine and corners a little rubbed and split. £750
  With both (a) variants of Plate 8, without plates 14 and 18 but with plate 24 not usually found. The plates are all unnumbered (see Ferguson) Ferguson 15440a; not in Coles.
  
  

• SEEMANN Berthold. A MISSION TO VITI; an Account of a Government Mission to the Vitian or Fijian Islands in the years 1860-61. Macmillan, 1862. [9223]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xv, 447, advertisements, map, tinted lithographs, illustrations, original green cloth, a very good copy. £250
  
  

• SMYTHE W J. TEN MONTHS IN THE FIJI ISLANDS. Henry and Parker, 1864. [7504]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 282, 4 maps, 4 coloured lithographs, 6 tinted plates, 3 illustrations, light water-staining to frontispiece, original green decorative cloth, head and tail of spine a little rubbed, inner hinge cracked. £150
  
  

• SOWDEN, William J. AN AUSTRALIAN NATIVE'S STANDPOINT. Macmillan, 1912. [1938]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xii, 306, advertisements, original green cloth, slightly rubbed at head and base of spine. £55
  
  

• SPENCER W Baldwin (Ed). REPORT ON THE WORK OF THE HORN SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITION TO CENTRAL AUSTRALIA. Dulau & Co, 1896. [9619]
  FIRST EDITION, 4 vols, quarto, pp xviii, 220; iv, 432; iv, 204; iv, 200; folding map, 69 plates (15 coloured and 7 folding), textual illustrations,original black cloth, library stamp on verso of title-pages and gilt numbers on spine, otherwise very good and clean. £1000
  "William Austin Horn fitted out an expedition to investigate the country between Oodnadatta and the Macdonnell ranges; the four volumes in which results of this expedition are embodied contain a mass of geological, biological, botanical, and ethnological detail." Australian Encyclopaedia. He took with him Charles Winnecke as surveyor. Australian Encyclopaedia, Vol I, p622; Ferguson 16071
  
  

• SPRUSON J J. NORFOLK ISLAND; Outline of its History from 1788 to 1884. Thomas Richards, 1885. [7910]
  FIRST EDITION, quarto, pp 51, corrigenda et addenda, double-page plate ("The Town"), 13 plates, original brown cloth, a fine copy. £380
  
  

• STEAD David G. FISHES OF AUSTRALIA; a Popular and Systematic Guide to the Study of the Wealth within our Waters. Wm Brooks, 1906. [9989]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xii, 278, 10 plates, numerous illustrations, original green decorative cloth. £75
  
  

• STEPHENS John. THE HISTORY OF THE RISE AND PROGRAMS OF THE NEW BRITISH PROVINCE OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA. Smith Elder, 1839. [10405]
  Second Edition, 8vo, pp viii, 224, frontispiece (folding map of South Australia), plan (Adelaide), 4 plates (lightly browned), original dark green ribbed cloth boards, gilt design on upper cover, good, crisp copy. £380
  Ferguson 2851
  
  

• STOKES J Lort. DISCOVERIES IN AUSTRALIA; with an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed during the Voyage of HMS BEAGLE, in the Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43... T & W Boone, 1846. [10532]
  FIRST EDITION, 2 vols, 8vo, pp xv, 521; x, 543; advertisements, 8 maps, 26 plates, some marginal foxing, original blue-grey blind-stamped cloth, vignette on spines, a very good set. £2950
  "The third surveying voyage of the BEAGLE, during which the North-West and Western Coasts of Australia, also Bass Strait, Port Essington, the Gulf of Carpentaria and Torres Strait, etc., were surveyed. Stokes was Lieutenant under Commander Wickham, but succeeded to the command when Wickham was invalided home.
  Sir George (then Lieutenant) Grey came out from Plymouth with the expedition, and he and his party were landed at Hanover Bay, W.A., to commence his first Western Australian expedition." Renard, Gaston. Catalogue of the F G Coles Australiana Collection. Ferguson 4406; Coles p152
  
  

• STONEHEWER Cooper H. CORAL LANDS. Richard Bentley, 1880. [10756]
  FIRST EDITION, Vol II only, 8vo, pp iv, 370, photographic frontispiece, 2 photographs in text, original decorative cloth, good and clean. £60
  
  

• STONEY H Butler. A RESIDENCE IN TASMANIA; with a Descriptive Tour through the Island from Macquarie Harbour to Circular Head. Smith Elder, 1856. [9051]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp viii, 311, folding map, tinted lithograph, contemporary brown polished calf, Eton binding, joints rubbed, small scuff mark on upper cover, internally crisp and clean. £275
  
  

• STURT Charles. TWO EXPEDITIONS INTO THE INTERIOR OF SOUTHERN AUSTRALIA, DURING THE YEARS 1828, 1829, 1830, AND 1831; with Observations on the Soil, Climate, and General Resources of the Colony of New South Wales. Smith Elder, 1834. [8359]
  Second Edition, 2 vols, 8vo, pp lxxx, 219; vi, 271; 1 chart, frontispieces, 4 colour plates, 7 plates, 1 folding map (neatly repaired), contemporary brown full morocco, spine, covers and some corners a little rubbed, a good tight copy. £600
  
  

• TAUNTON Henry. AUSTRALIND; Wanderings in Western Australia and the Malay East. Ed Arnold, 1903. [6195]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xi, 247, original blue decorative cloth, notes on front pastedown, spine faded with slight wear to head and tail. £55
  
  

• TAYLOR James. PART OF HARBOUR OF PORT JACKSON and the Country between Sydney and the Blue Mountains, New South Wales. Colnaghi & Co, 1823. [10661]
  Panorama 455 x 620 mm, aquatint by R Havell & Son after Major Taylor, hand-coloured with blue wash, tear in upper right corner (skilfully repaired). £4000
  
  

• THOMAS J Luther. YR YNY'S AUR. Cymdeithas Genhadol Llundain, 1929. [10279]
  First Welsh Edition, 8vo, pp 129, map, illustrations, original red decorative cloth. £20
  
  

• THOMSON Basil. THE DIVERSIONS OF A PRIME MINISTER. Wm Blackwood, 1894. [9699]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xv, 407, folding maps, illustrations, original brown decorative cloth, vignette (Great Seal of Tonga), small rubbing to head and tail of spine and a joint, small scuff mark on lower board, internally very clean. £95
  A good history of Tonga.
  Thomson also wrote an important work on Fiji.
  

• THREADGILL Bessie. SOUTH AUSTRALIAN LAND EXPLORATION 1856 TO 1880. The Hassell Press, 1922. [7415]
  FIRST EDITION, 2 vols, 8vo, pp 184 (Vol 1); 13 maps (Vol 2); original brown wrappers. £250
  
  

• TURNER Samuel. THE CONQUEST OF THE NEW ZEALAND ALPS. T Fisher Unwin, 1922. [1585]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 291, map, illustrations, original decorative cloth. £180
  Bagnall T814.
  
  

• VALLARD Nicholas. (c 1600) COPY OF THE FIRST MAP OF AUSTRALIA. McCahey, nd (1847). [10662]
  Coloured Chromolithograph, 54 x 43 cms, some light marginal foxing. £1250
  The original map was owned by Sir Thomas Phillips and he produced the facsimile, probably 100 copies.
  

• VOGEL Julius. PRIME MINISTER OF NEW ZEALAND; to Mr Blenkinsop reminding him about doing something for Vogel's son. 'You will be doing a very kind action.' nd [1588]
  ALS, 8vo, pp 1. £30
  
  

• WARD Thomas; & FOUNTAIN Paul. RAMBLES OF AN AUSTRALIAN NATURALIST. John Murray, 1907. [6144]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp viii, 343, original brown decorative cloth, small nick at head of spine. £40
  
  

• WHEELER Daniel. EXTRACTS FROM THE LETTERS & JOURNAL OF DANIEL WHEELER; now Engaged in a Religious Visit to the Inhabitants of some of the Islands of the Pacific Ocean, Van Diemen's Land, and New South Wwales, accompanied by his son, Charles Wheeler. Harvey & Darton, 1839. [6972]
  First Edition as thus, 8vo, 8vo, pp 300, original black blind stamped cloth. £55
  This is Part I and was reprinted from the original issues, published separately 1834-9. Part IV was issued later in the year.
  

• WHEELER Gerald C. MONO-ALU FOLKLORE. Geo Routledge, 1926. [6156]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xv, 389, page of preliminaries carelessly opened, original green cloth. £65
  
  

• WILLIAMSON Robert W. THE MAFULU; Mountain People of British New Guinea. Macmillan, 1912. [10375]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xxiii, 364, folding maps, illustrations, original maroon cloth, slip case, near fine. £320
  
  

• WILLIAMSON Robert W. THE WAY OF THE SOUTH SEA SAVAGE; a Record of Travel and Observation amongst the Savages of the Solomon Islands and Primitive Coast and Mountain Peoples of New Guinea. Seeley Service, 1914. [10463]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 308, advertisements, map, illustrations, original orange decorative cloth, teg, near fine. £150
  
  

• WODZICKI K A. INTRODUCED MAMMALS, NEW ZEALAND. an Ecological and Economic Survey. Dept of Scientific & Industrial Research. 1950. [11315]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp x, 255, original grey cloth, plates, textual illustrations, dust-jacket (small loss). £20
  
  

• WOOD G Arnold. THE DISCOVERY OF AUSTRALIA. Macmillan 1922. [1599]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xvi, 542, 2, folding map, maps, illustrations, original red cloth. £25
  
  

• YOUNG Jess. RECENT JOURNEY OF EXPLORATION ACROSS THE CONTINENT OF AUSTRALIA; its Deserts, Native Races, and Natural History. American Geographical Society, 1878. [9687]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 116, 41, recent maroon morocco, Bulletin Vol 10, No 2. £450
  It is a rare account of the Elder Expedition. Young was an astronomer on the Expedition.