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[1886 earthquake] Supplement to the New Zealand Herald.
[1886 earthquake] Supplement to the New Zealand Herald.
C.P. Wilsons & Horton Chromo-Lith. Auckland.
June 21, 1886.
Three chromolithographs and two litho maps on one sheet. 445 x 290mm (18 x 11½"). Some spotting and wear.
A newspaper sheet published eleven days after the earthquake and volcanic eruptions that hit New Zealand's North Island on June 10th 1886. 150 people, mostly Maori, were killed, and two of New Zealand's most famous natural features, the Pink and White Terraces illustrated here, were destroyed.
[Ref: 44003]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item
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The extraordinary Manner of the Trial for Adultery, among the Malays.
The extraordinary Manner of the Trial for Adultery, among the Malays.
[William Elmes.]
[London Pub. by T. Tegg, Oct. 7. 1808.]
Hand-coloured aquatint. Sheet size: 260 x 175mm (10¼ x 7"). Trimmed, creases, edges damaged and paper toned.
A fascinating image from a very scarce series of plates by the caricaturist William Elmes depicting shipwrecks and maritime disasters, attacks by native Americans and by other indigenous peoples and pirates, ceremonies, punishments and torture. Published by Thomas Tegg.
[Ref: 44680]   £220.00   (£264.00 incl.VAT)
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Australian Explorers.
Australian Explorers. 1, Sir C. Grey. 2, Giles 3, Stuart 4, Forrest.
[Anon., c.1880]
Chromolithograph, printed area 160 x 220mm (6¼ x 8½").
Portraits of: Sir George Grey (1812-98), Ernest Giles (1835-97), C John McDouall Stuart (1815-66), and John Forrest (1847-1918). From a book of Australian views.
[Ref: 44030]   £65.00   (£78.00 incl.VAT)
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Australian Explorers
Australian Explorers 1, Leichardt. 2, Sturt. 3, Burke. 4, Wills.
[Anon., c.1880]
Chromolithograph, printed area 160 x 220mm (6¼ x 8½").
Portraits of: Ludwig Leichardt (1813-48), Charles Sturt (1795-1869), Robert O'Hara Burke (1821-61), and William John Wills (1834-61). From a book of Australian views.
[Ref: 44029]   £65.00   (£78.00 incl.VAT)
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Group of Gouty-Stem Trees,
Group of Gouty-Stem Trees, Adansonia gregorii, near the Baines River, Victoria River, North Australia .
From an original oil-painting by T. Baines, in the Museum, Kew.
[n.d., c.1860.]
Chromolithograph, printed in colours. Sheet 145 x 230mm (5¾ x 9").
An illustration of the boab (or boabab) tree, by Thomas Baines (1820-75), the official artist and storekeeper for Augustus Gregory's 1855-7 expedition across northern Australia for the Royal Geographical Society. Both Mount Baines and the Baines River were named in his honour. The following year Baines accompanied Livingston to the Victoria Falls in Africa.
[Ref: 44652]   £110.00   (£132.00 incl.VAT)
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View, Botanical Gardens, Brisbane.
View, Botanical Gardens, Brisbane.
Phillip-Stephan Process Co [c.1880]
Chromolithograph, printed area 220 x 160mm (8½ x 6¼").
From a book of Australian views.
[Ref: 44025]   £30.00   (£36.00 incl.VAT)
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Stanley Bridge, Norman Creek, Brisbane.
Stanley Bridge, Norman Creek, Brisbane.
Phillip-Stephan Process Co [c.1880]
Chromolithograph, printed area 220 x 160mm (8½ x 6¼").
A man fishing in Norman Creek, a small tributary of the Brisbane River. From a book of Australian views.
[Ref: 44023]   £50.00   (£60.00 incl.VAT)
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Goodna, Brisbane River.
Goodna, Brisbane River.
Phillip-Stephan Process Co [c.1884]
Chromolithograph, printed area 220 x 160mm (8½ x 6¼").
Goodna in Queensland, Australia, by the Brisbane River between Brisbane and Ipswich. From a book of Australian views.
[Ref: 44028]   £45.00   (£54.00 incl.VAT)
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Queen St. Brisbane.
Queen St. Brisbane.
Phillip-Stephan Process Co [c.1880]
Chromolithograph, printed area 220 x 160mm (8½ x 6¼").
Brisbane street view, showing various identifiable shops and offices. From a book of Australian views.
[Ref: 44026]   £50.00   (£60.00 incl.VAT)
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Queen St. Brisbane.
Queen St. Brisbane.
Phillip-Stephan Process Co [c.1884]
Chromolithograph, printed area 220 x 160mm (8½ x 6¼").
The elegant premises of the Queensland Club in Brisbane, at the corner of Alice and George Streets. The building was completed in 1884 and is continues to serve the purpose for which it was built. From a book of Australian views.
[Ref: 44027]   £70.00   (£84.00 incl.VAT)
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Brisbane River.
Brisbane River.
[Anon., c.1880]
Chromolithograph, printed area 170 x 225mm (6¾ x 8¾").
From a book of Australian views.
[Ref: 44022]   £50.00   (£60.00 incl.VAT)
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A Canoe and Natives of Mulgrave's Range.
A Canoe and Natives of Mulgrave's Range.
R. Cleveley Del.t. T. Medland sculp.t.
Published Oct. 15. 1789 by J. Stockdale.
Engraving. 210 x 255mm (8½ x 10"). Trimmed within plate at top. Small margins on 3 sides. Very slight staining at top, small tear on right.
An outrigger canoe of 'Lord Musgrave's Range', apparently a coral island near the Caroline Islands. From Phillip's 'The voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay', published in London in 1789, although illustrating John Marshall's voyage from Port Jackson to Whampoa in China, also described in the book.
[Ref: 44037]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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Cascade Cove, in Dusky Bay, New Zealand.
Cascade Cove, in Dusky Bay, New Zealand.
[n.d., c.1790.]
Engraving. Sheet 110 x 180mm (4¼ x 7")
European sailors fishing and shooting birds in Dusky Sound, New Zealand. The fjord was visited by Cook on his First and Second Voyages.
[Ref: 44637]   £120.00   (£144.00 incl.VAT)
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Assemblée des Chefs des Iles Sandwich en conférance avec le Commandant de la Vénus.
Assemblée des Chefs des Iles Sandwich en conférance avec le Commandant de la Vénus.
Masselot del.t. Lith par Bichebois. fig. par Bayot.
Lith. Thierry freres. [n.d., c.1841.]
Lithograph, on india paper. Image: 380 x 280mm (15 x 11"), with very large margins.
A view in a large hall during a meeting between King Kamehameha III and High Chiefess Kina'u and his advisors and Captain du Petit-Thouars and other officers of the French naval frigate Venus. The meeting was called to dicuss two Catholic priests who had been expelled from Hawaii but had returned on a British ship. Captain du Petit-Thouars and his officers sit on chairs facing a dias on which the king and queen and their advisors sit. A plate from 'Atlas Pittoresque of du Petit-Thouars' Voyage Autour du Monde sur La Fregate La Venus'.
[Ref: 44920]   £280.00   (£336.00 incl.VAT)
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A Man and Woman of the Sandwich Islands.
A Man and Woman of the Sandwich Islands. Engraved for the Lady's Magazine.
[after John Webber.]
[London: John Coote & John Wheble, c.1775.]
Engraving. 120 x 180mm (4¾ x 7"). Trimmed into plate at top.
A composite image, putting the heads of two Webber portraits of Hawaiians into ovals in a decorative boder.
[Ref: 44662]   £75.00   (£90.00 incl.VAT)
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Death of Captain Cook.
Death of Captain Cook.
Pye sc.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Engraving. 105 x 160mm (4¼ x 6¼") large margins. Some spotting.
An uncommon version of the famous scene.
[Ref: 44574]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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An Offering before Captain Cook, in the Sandwich Islands.
An Offering before Captain Cook, in the Sandwich Islands.
Webber del. Walker sculp.
Published as the Act directs, by Harrison & Co September 1. 1784.
Engraving. 155 x 195mm (6¼ x 7¾").
A ring of islanders sitting in front of a thatched building with a wooden palisade, surrounding Cook and several other officers, who sit in front of two tall wooden images draped in cloths, one standing to present him with a pig.
[Ref: 44573]   £65.00   (£78.00 incl.VAT)
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Scène prise dans l'ile d'Oahou, (Iles Sandwich.)
Scène prise dans l'ile d'Oahou, (Iles Sandwich.)
J. Masselot del.t. Lith par Sabatier.
Lith de Thierry freres, Paris. [n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph, printed on india paper. Image: 235 x 215mm (9¼ x 8½"), with very large margins.
A view of the beach in Hawaii showing children playing, some people fishing and some gathered around a large pot. A plate from 'Atlas Pittoresque of du Petit-Thouars' Voyage Autour du Monde sur La Fregate La Venus'.
[Ref: 44921]   £240.00   (£288.00 incl.VAT)
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Vue d'une rue d'Honoloulou, Capitale des Iles Sandwich. La Reine Kinau revient du Temple des Etrangers accompagnée de ses dames d'honneur.
Vue d'une rue d'Honoloulou, Capitale des Iles Sandwich. La Reine Kinau revient du Temple des Etrangers accompagnée de ses dames d'honneur.
Masselot del.t. Lith par Bichebois. Fig par Bayot.
Lith. de Thierry frères. [n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph, printed on india paper. Image: 320 x 250mm (12½ x 9¾"), with very large margins. Some tears in edges.
A view of a street in Honolulu in Hawaii, showing Queen Rainu returning from the foreign church, she stands in the foreground followed by two of her ladies in waiting. A plate from 'Atlas Pittoresque of du Petit-Thouars' Voyage Autour du Monde sur La Fregate La Venus'.
[Ref: 44922]   £320.00  
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View of Macaulay's Islands.
View of Macaulay's Islands.
Lieu.t Watts del. T. Medland sculp.t.
Published Nov. 5. 1789 by J. Stockdale.
Engraving. 210 x 255mm (8½ x 10"). Trimmed within plate at top. Small margins on 3 sides.
Skeches of a rocky island in the Kermadec Islands, named by the artist, Lieutenant John Watts, after one of the crew of the 'Lady Penryn', the first Europeans to visit the area. From Phillip's 'The voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay', published in London in 1789, although illustrating Watts's account of the return voyage via Canton, also described in the book. Watts (1755–1801) had been a midshipman in Resolution on James Cook's third voyage to the Pacific, 1776-80, but had travelled to Australia with the First Fleet as a passenger. On the return leg he was the supercargo (i.e.. in charge of the cargo).
[Ref: 44039]   £120.00   (£144.00 incl.VAT)
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A Man of the Duke of York's Island. A Man of Lord Howe's Island.
A Man of the Duke of York's Island. A Man of Lord Howe's Island.
Published by Alex.r Hogg. Aug.t 1. 1793.
Engraving. 185 x 230mm (7¼ x 9") Small margins.
A man of Duke of York's Island, Papua New Guinea; and a man of Lord Howe Island, Australia. From 'The New Royal System of Universal Geography' by Michael Adams.
[Ref: 44624]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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New Zealand. Te Kewiti, son of Te Kauwain, young chief of the Ngate Watuas. New Zealander.
New Zealand. Te Kewiti, son of Te Kauwain, young chief of the Ngate Watuas. New Zealander.
Drawn in London. Lizars sc.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Coloured engraving. Sheet 165 x 100mm (6½ x 4"). Creased.
The heads of two tattoo'd maori.
[Ref: 44664]   £45.00   (£54.00 incl.VAT)
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The Islands of Lema.
The Islands of Lema.
[London: for the author by John and Paul Knapton, 1748.]
Coloured engraving. 230 x 520mm (9 x 20½"). Folded as issued, backed on paper.
A profile of the Lema islands of the Mariana Islands, described by Anson as 'rocky and barren'. George Anson's circumnavigation, 1740-44, was one of the last great buccaneering voyages, an official expedition to the South Seas to harass the Spanish bases but, more importantly, plunder their shipping. A main target was one of the richly-laden Manila galleons that crossed between Acapulco in Mexico and Manilla the Philippines. A stroke of luck presented them with one laden with 1.3 million silver pieces of eight; on their return to London, thirty-two wagons were needed to transfer them to the Tower of London. Published in Anson's own account, ''A Voyage Round the World, in the years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV''.
[Ref: 43996]   £95.00   (£114.00 incl.VAT)
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A view of the N. W. side of Saypan
A view of the N. W. side of Saypan one of the Ladrones of Marian Islands.
[London: for the author by John and Paul Knapton, 1748.]
Coloured engraving. 230 x 520mm (9 x 20½"). Folded as issued, backed on paper.
A profile of Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands, now a U.S. commonwealth. George Anson's circumnavigation, 1740-44, was one of the last great buccaneering voyages, an official expedition to the South Seas to harass the Spanish bases but, more importantly, plunder their shipping. A main target was one of the richly-laden Manila galleons that crossed between Acapulco in Mexico and Manilla the Philippines. A stroke of luck presented them with one laden with 1.3 million silver pieces of eight; on their return to London, thirty-two wagons were needed to transfer them to the Tower of London. Published in Anson's own account, ''A Voyage Round the World, in the years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV''.
[Ref: 43995]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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Camp Hill, Moonee Ponds
Camp Hill, Moonee Ponds
[Anon., c.1860]
Watercolour on card with decorative embossed border, sheet 115 x 150mm (4½ x 6"). `
A building in Moonee Ponds, now an inner suburb of Melbourne in Australia. It was named by the politician Donald Kennedy (1807-64), after his native valley in Inverness-shire, Scotland.
[Ref: 44780]   £650.00  
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Mercury Bay New Zealand.
Mercury Bay New Zealand.
[n.d., c.1860.]
Coloured wood engraving. Sheet 145 x 90mm (5¾ x 3½"). Torn.
Two vignette illustrations, probably commemorating Cook's visit in 1769. The upper scene shows a European ship surrounded by canoes, the lower a large waka.
[Ref: 44656]   £95.00   (£114.00 incl.VAT)
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Woman of New Caledonia.
Woman of New Caledonia.
Piron del. Harding ex. C. Warren sc.
Pub.d. Apr. 20, 1800 by J. Debrett Piccadilly.
Engraving. Sheet 290 x 225mm (11½ x 9"). Trimmed to plate.
A New Caledonian native with a grass skirt. From the English edition of Jacques Labillardière's ''An Account of A Voyage in search of La Perouse... Under the Command of Rear-Admiral Bruni d'Entrecasteaux'', an expedition that crossed the South Pacific, visiting Australia, New Zealand and the East Indies between 1791-3.
[Ref: 44035]   £70.00   (£84.00 incl.VAT)
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Man, Woman & Children of New South Wales.
Man, Woman & Children of New South Wales. From a Sketch taken on the Spot.
Goldar Sculp.t.
Published by Alex.r Hogg, July 1, 1793.
Engraving. 195 x 260mm (7¾ x 10¼"). Edges toned.
Published in ''A New Royal System of Universal Geography'', this plate is a copy of the engraving by William Blake in ''An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island'' by John Hunter.
[Ref: 44575]   £120.00   (£144.00 incl.VAT)
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A View in Port Jackson, New South Wales.
A View in Port Jackson, New South Wales.
T. Webley Sculp.t. [after John White.]
Published by Alex.r Hogg, May 1, 1793.
Engraving. 195 x 260mm (7¾ x 10¼"). Edges toned.
Published in ''A New Royal System of Universal Geography'', this plate is an enlarged version of a vignette on the titlepage of John White's ''Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales'', attributed to White himself. White (c. 1756-1832) was principal naval surgeon for the voyage of the First Fleet to Australia in 1787.
[Ref: 44576]   £230.00   (£276.00 incl.VAT)
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Captains Hunter, Collins & Johnston, with Governor Phillip, Surgeon White, &c.
Captains Hunter, Collins & Johnston, with Governor Phillip, Surgeon White, &c. Visiting a Distressed Female Native of New South Wales, at a Hut, near Port Jackson.
Published by Alex.r Hogg. Aug.t 31. 1793.
Engraving. 185 x 230mm (7¼ x 9"). Cut inside platemark at bottom. Small margins on 3 sides.
From 'The New Royal System of Universal Geography' by Michael Adams.
[Ref: 44633]   £230.00   (£276.00 incl.VAT)
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[Chart containing the greater part of the South Sea to the South of the Line, with the Islands dispers'd throu' the same.]
[Chart containing the greater part of the South Sea to the South of the Line, with the Islands dispers'd throu' the same.]
[Engraved by Thomas Jefferys after Braddock Mead.]
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament and Printed for Robert Sayer in Fleet Street and Thomas Jefferys in the Strand. [n.d., 1768.]
One sheet only (of six). Engraved map with border, scarce but damaged. Sheet 440 x 545mm (17¼ x 21½"). Trimmed into plate, losing title above top border, damage in plate. Laid onto old canvas, in turn glued to board. Tears.
The bottom left sheet of Braddock Mead's important six-sheet map, 'A Chart of North and South America including the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans with the nearest coasts of Europe, Africa and Asia.' It shows the pre-Cook outline of New Zealand, Espiritu Santo (then posited to be the east coast of Australia), the Solomon Islands and Marquesas, with the routes of the major explorers marked. Despite being designed to be joined, each sheet had a printed border and an individual title, missing in this example, allowing the sheets to be sold separately. The map was originally published by Jefferys alone in 1753 but, after backruptcy in 1766 forced him to take on partners, this second edition was published with Sayer, apparently unrevised. A third state, published by Sayer and Bennett in 1775, has Cook's mapping of New Zealand.
[Ref: 44645]   £680.00  
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View of Sydney
View of Sydney
Drawn from an Original Sketch by W.H. Wilson. Engraved by H. Bibby.
The London Printing and Publishing Company. [n.d., c.1860.]
Steel engraving. Sheet 190 x 280mm (7½ x 11"). Bottom edge frayed.
A view from above the city.
[Ref: 44661]   £120.00   (£144.00 incl.VAT)
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Sydney, New South Wales, S. View.
Sydney, New South Wales, S. View.
Gent. Mag. May 1824 Pl. I. p.393.
Engraving. Image: 160 x 130mm (6¼ x 5").
A view of Sydney harbour showing the buildings, warehouses and docks. In illustration from the 'Gentleman's Magazine'.
[Ref: 44865]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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Wool and Produce Stores, Circular Quay, Sydney.
Wool and Produce Stores, Circular Quay, Sydney. Commercial Architecture No 2. Supplement to the Sydney ''Sydney Mail''.
[Sydney: John Fairfax & Sons, c.1877.]
Lithograph, rare. Sheet 240 x 335mm (9½ x 13¼"). Some surface soiling.
The Sydney Mail was a weekly newspaper that ran from 1860 to 1938.
[Ref: 44572]   £290.00   (£348.00 incl.VAT)
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The Exchange, Sydney. Bridge and Gresham Streets.
The Exchange, Sydney. Bridge and Gresham Streets. Commercial Architecture No 1. Supplement to the Sydney ''Sydney Mail''.
[Sydney: John Fairfax & Sons, c.1877.]
Lithograph, rare. Sheet 240 x 335mm (9½ x 13¼"). Small tears in edges.
The Sydney Mail was a weekly newspaper that ran from 1860 to 1938.
[Ref: 44571]   £290.00   (£348.00 incl.VAT)
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A Double Canoe of New Caledonia.
A Double Canoe of New Caledonia. 1. A Catamaran of Cape Diemen. 2. A. A Canoe of Santa Cruz or Egmont Island.
Piron del. Harding sc. Eastgate sc.
Pub.d. Apr. 20, 1800 by J. Debrett Piccadilly.
Engraving, sheet 230 x 305mm (9 x 12"). Trimmed to plate.
Sketches of a catamaran of New Caledonia, complete with open fire, and a Tasmanian canoe, and a diagram of a canoe of Nendo (Santa Cruz Islands). From the English edition of Jacques Labillardière's ''An Account of A Voyage in search of La Perouse... Under the Command of Rear-Admiral Bruni d'Entrecasteaux'', an expedition that crossed the South Pacific, visiting Australia, New Zealand and the East Indies between 1791-3.
[Ref: 44034]   £70.00   (£84.00 incl.VAT)
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Feenou Chief of the Warriors of Tongataboo.
Feenou Chief of the Warriors of Tongataboo. Map of Cape Diemen.
Piron del. Harding ex. A.W. Warren sc.
[Pub.d. Apr. 20, 1800 by J. Debrett Piccadilly.]
Engraving, sheet 230 x 305mm (9 x 12"). Trimmed to plate, tear into title area.
A chief of Tongatapu, the main island of Tonga; and an Aboriginal map of Tasmania. From the English edition of Jacques Labillardière's ''An Account of A Voyage in search of La Perouse... Under the Command of Rear-Admiral Bruni d'Entrecasteaux'', an expedition that crossed the South Pacific, visiting Australia, New Zealand and the East Indies between 1791-3.
[Ref: 44036]   £120.00   (£144.00 incl.VAT)
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Toubou Son of the King of the Friendly Islands.
Toubou Son of the King of the Friendly Islands. Vouacecee An Inhabitant of Fidgi or Fejee.
Piron del. Harding ex. A.W. Warren sc.
[Pub.d. Apr. 20, 1800 by J. Debrett Piccadilly.]
Engraving, sheet 290 x 230mm (9 x 12"). Trimmed to plate.
Portraits of men of Tonga and Fiji. From the English edition of Jacques Labillardière's ''An Account of A Voyage in search of La Perouse... Under the Command of Rear-Admiral Bruni d'Entrecasteaux'', an expedition that crossed the South Pacific, visiting Australia, New Zealand and the East Indies between 1791-3.
[Ref: 44033]   £70.00   (£84.00 incl.VAT)
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Australian Race. Willilnga. A Native of the Interior of Australia.
Australian Race. Willilnga. A Native of the Interior of Australia.
[n.d., c.1848.]
Coloured engraving. Sheet 115 x 185mm (4½ x 7¼"). Right edge frayed, a little spotting.
An Australian aborigine wearing a white shirt. From Charles Pickering's 'Races of Man and Their Geographical Distribution'.
[Ref: 44663]   £65.00   (£78.00 incl.VAT)
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