AUSTRALIA from Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints

Oslo: Norsk Polarinstitutt, 1958. First edition. Paperback. A complete set, mostly in the original blue publishers wrappers, rarely found so. A groundbreaking study of glaciology, meteorology and geology, establishing that the world's "sea-level was principally controlled by the state of the Antarctic ice-sheet." The Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition was the first expedition to Antarctica involving an international team… Read more about this item

New York: Lith. of Chas. Hart, 99 Fulton Street, 1866. A rare print illustrating a New York City street scene. A bill poster sleeping in the lower right leaning against a street lamp; and young woman adjusting her shoes on the left. On a wall stating "Post No Bills" there is a panoply of handbills. The handbills are a… Read more about this item

London: Charles Knight, Ludgate Street & Pall Mall East, 1830. Otherwise very good condition. An chine collé aquatint proof of the famed French explorer 'From a Miniature in the possession of La Pérouse's niece at Alby.' Jean François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse [1740 - 1788], was a French naval officer from Albi, France and explorer of… Read more about this item

Paris, 1930. Postcard. An art deco inspired postcard for the first international exposition of airmail, aviation and art. No. 6992, with a blue 1f 50c Post Aerienne stamp canceled four times. The red plane design includes the names of early aviators - Lindbergh, Byrd, Coste, Hawker, Mermoz and Ross Smith. Smith, of the South Australian outback, and W.W.I veteran,… Read more about this item

London, 1770. Very good condition. The Asian continent showing Russian Empire, China, Persia. Pre-Cook but includes Torres Strait and Northeast of Australia. 9 7/8 x 7 3/4", copper engraving.

London, 1922. Signed by the artist in pencil at the lower right. Lovely white and pale yellow primroses with pale blue forget me nots in a pale blue vase, with the usual black background. Thorpe moved from Sydney to London just before the First World War and set up a studio on Redcliffe Sq. Here he created most of… Read more about this item

Bordeaux: G. Delmas, 1898. Hardcover. Very good condition. Two almanac/diaries with printed French advertisements, comical cartoons, tables, New Caledonia facts, government pages, tariffs, recipes and maps of New Caledonia and Noumea and the sea route from France, b&w photo illustrations of the ships Saint-Pierre, Saint Antoine, Saint Louis interspersed throughout, with manuscript additions. Also a b&w double page… Read more about this item

Hartford: American Publishing Co., 1897. First edition. Hardcover. Good + overall. Twain's travels in Australia, New Zealand and India. Large 8vo. 712pp. B&w frontis portrait, b&w ills in text. With the signature 11 at bottom of page 161 as called for by BAL. Pictorial gilt decorated inlay of elephant on front cover, gold gilt title and decoration at… Read more about this item

London: C. Buckton and sold by P. Elmsly, 1788. ARGUABLY ONE OF THE RAREST PUBLICATIONS ON COOK'S FIRST VOYAGE. This is the first scientific publication relating to Captain Cook's first voyage on HMS Endeavour (1768-1771) to the Pacific. Officially it was to observe the transit of Venus in the South Pacific but secretly it was to search for… Read more about this item

1890. An extraordinary collection of cabinet card photographs recording the Haddon Rig stud, the famed merino stud in Marthaguy NSW, clearly successful even at this early juncture, by a short-lived itinerant photographic studio owned by Eugene Fitzalan, an early botanist in Queensland. The stud was established by James Richmond in 1882 on Marthaguy Creek, NSW, and has been… Read more about this item

Sydney: Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, 1925. Paperback. Otherwise very good condition. Signed presentation copy to noted anthropologist Dr. B. Oetteking. Griffith Taylor (1880- 1963) was a British geographer & explorer who survived the Terra Nova Expedition to Antarctica of 1910 lead by Capt. Robert Scott. Offprint with tan printed… Read more about this item

London: W. Byrne, No. 79 Titchfield Street & J. Webber, No. 312 Oxford St., 1784. First printing. Print. Very good condition. The separately published image by Webber of one of the iconic images of the 18th century. Cook, already a successful navigator, was immortalized after his death at the hands of Hawaiian natives at Karakakoa Bay. Cook had… Read more about this item

London: Darton and Co., 1860. Hardcover. Good + overall. With chromolithographic frontis and title page & 6 colored lithographic plates. Many articles including kangaroo hunting and emu sport; curling; American prairie, seining by moonlight. 12mo, 296pp, 3/4 black leather and marbled boards, gilt title on spine, hinge cracked but holding, boards and edges rubbed. Internally with some… Read more about this item

1857. A manuscript letter sent from "Herds Island Indian Ocean, Corinthian Harbour Feb 30 (sic) 1857". The letter is from J. S. Sawyer, a resident sealer on the island, to his brother in Maine. In 1857, the writer J.S. Sawyer was about 40 years old. Alas, he does not report what his life or conditions were like. "I… Read more about this item

np (United States), 1918. An unrecorded broadsheet advertising a lecture by Skeyhill in the United States. It reprints a May 5, 1918 article from the Washington Times and the venue for the lecture is ink-stamped at the top "Y.M.C.A. Monday Night 9PM, Admission 30 & 50". Tom Skeyhill was an Australia soldier who claimed to have lost his sight… Read more about this item

Sydney: The Illustrated Sydney News, 1892. Otherwise very good condition. An article and team image printed in the Illustrated Sydney News of the Queensland Football team. The photo illustration is of 15 players, 2 subs and 2 managers. Text describes the players and analysis of the players performances. "...[T]he footballers did credit to the land of the fiery… Read more about this item

New York: The Mechanical Gold Extractor Co., 1893. Paperback. A scarce imprint not recorded on Trove. Page 11 refers to "Instances of Success" recounting the "Australian ore from the Ravenswood Mine, which fails to yield more than 25 per cent. of its Gold at an ordinary stamp mill, yielded upward of ninety per cent to the Crawford Mill, and… Read more about this item

A valuable reference collection of images and articles that shaped perceptions of Australia to the wider world in the 19th century. This is a collection of over 800 woodcut illustrations and articles from the 19th century, from the Illustrated London News, The Graphic and The Illustrated Times & other less successful periodicals. The images of the ILN and Graphic… Read more about this item

Glasgow: John Muir, 1819. First printing. Ephemera. Very good overall. A broadside issued for the court in Dumfries & Ayr in Scotland for the session held April 19 [1819] and Ayr April 22. Dumfries: Henry McNish (transported 29 Mar 1820 on the Mangles to NSW); John Brown and James Brown (no transportation record near 1820); Samuel… Read more about this item

Memphis, Tenn.: American Hardwood Manufacturers' Association, 1915. First printing. Pamphlet. Very good condition. Technical information about red gum, with an aim to introduce it into the US as a commercial forestry product, specifically in Tennessee. There is no mention of Australia that we could see. Oblong 8vo, blue printed paper wrappers, staple bound, title on front in… Read more about this item