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Sauvage montant sur un arbre.
Sauvage montant sur un arbre. (Nouvelle hollande.)
N. Maurin del. Lith:Kaeppelin et Cie. d'apres le Croquis de J. Arago.
[Paris, c.1839.]
Lithograph. Sheet: 145 x 225mm, (5¾ x 9").
A European artist-traveller, his portfolio under his arm, watches an aboriginal Australian climb a tree to cut down a branch with his axe. Plate to 'Souvenirs d'un aveugle (blind man)' by Jacques Etienne Victor Arago (1790 - 1855), who is probably the European figure depicted. A French writer, artist and explorer, Arago joined Louis de Freycinet on his 1817 voyage around the world aboard the ship Uranie, which inspired his witty 'Voyage autour du monde'. Although he lost his sight in 1837, he went on travelling and writing for the theatre.
[Ref: 39821]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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Lower Wallabi Rocks.
Lower Wallabi Rocks.
On Stone by W.L. Walton. From a Sketch by Coll. Mundy. Printed by Hullmandel & Walton.
London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1852.
Tinted lithograph. Sheet: 140 x 220mm (5½ x 8½"). Repaired loss of top left and bottom right corner.
The dramatic rock formations at Wallabi point, New South Wales, Australia. Plate to Volume III of 'Our Antipodes', published in three vols. in 1852.
[Ref: 39865]   £65.00   (£78.00 incl.VAT)
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A Man of the Sandwich Islands, Dancing.
A Man of the Sandwich Islands, Dancing. 62.
J.Webber del. C.Grignion sc.
[London, G. Nicol and T. Cadell, 1785.]
Engraving, very large margins. Platemark: 300 x 210mm (11¾ x 8¼"). Uncut.
A Hawaiian dancer in native costume. John Webber (1751-93) travelled with Captain Cook on the Third Voyage (1776-80) as the Official Artist of the expedition, recording the explorer's death at the hand of Hawaiian natives.
[Ref: 40042]   £240.00   (£288.00 incl.VAT)
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Ansicht des König Georgs-Hafens. [&] Eingeborne von König Georgs-Hafen. (Neu-Holland.)
Ansicht des König Georgs-Hafens. [&] Eingeborne von König Georgs-Hafen. (Neu-Holland.)
[de Sainson pinx. Lith de J. Brodtmann.]
[n.d. c.1836.]
Lithograph. Sheet: 250 x 340mm, (9¾ x 13¼").
Two views of King George Sound, Western Australia. Natives around a fire near to a Western White-man's camp; and natives cooking and eating lizards, sat around a fire. From a German translation of 'Voyage de la Corvette l'Astrolabe'.
[Ref: 39789]   £180.00   (£216.00 incl.VAT)
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