New York: Printed by G. & E. Waite, No. 64, Maiden-Lane, 1804. Anderson, Alexander. First American edition. The first American edition of a classic work, with the cuts re-engraved (usually in reverse) from the original Bewick edition. Dr. Alexander Anderson (1775-1870) was America’s first wood engraver. Pomeroy identifies the fourth... Read More

London: The Religious Tract Society, n.d. [ ca 1854]. Contains an extensive description of the Australian gold fields, a segment on the Aborigines, a section for each on New South Wales, Victoria and South and Western Australia as well as agricultural information. Read More

London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1833. First Edition. Founder of the “New Colonization System”. Following imprisonment, Wakefield began to study colonial affairs of Australia with an eye towards immigration. Recognizing that the depressed condition of Australian affairs was due to a lack of efficiency and sensible handling he gathered... Read More

Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1977. First edition. Inscribed by the Beale, who was ambassador to the US from Australia during the Kennedy administration, "for dear Jane [Engelhard] / with affectionate regards / from Howard Beale / Nov. 24 '77" Read More

Canberra: National Library of Australia, 1986. Facsimile Edition. Number 376 of 500 bound copies. Read More

Geelong & Melbourne: [n.d. but 1873]. First Edition. INSCRIBED. Inscribed "To Samuel E.[dson] Cassino (Boston Publisher)/ regardfully offered/ by/ Baron von Mueller." Read More

Melbourne: Clarson, Massina, and Co., Printers and Publishers, 1869. First Edition of author’s first novel. The first novel from the bohemian Australian writer Marcus Clarke, author of perhaps the greatest Australian novel, HIS NATURAL LIFE, and “a pioneer in the development of the Australian short story and … a shrewd... Read More

Boston: Printed by E G House for the Author, 1817. First edition. "An account by an American of his three voyages to various parts of the Pacific between 1790 and 1807. He called at Van Diemen's Land and engaged in sealing in Bass Strait, of which he gives a description... Read More

London: Ward and Downey, later & Ward, Lock & Co, vd. Later editions. Inscribed to the Author's Father-in-Law, Actor Joe Jefferson. Each volume INSCRIBED, "To Joe W. Jefferson [or, 'Josie'] / With the author's love [or 'love from']/ Ben. L. Farjeon." Farjeon married Margaret Jane Jefferson, daughter of Joe Jefferson... Read More

London, British Museum: 21 August 1848. The Future Prime Minister of New Zealand. Fitzgerald acknowledges the receipt of “your obliging present of two specimens of Melania from the Falls of Essequibo” [Kaieteur Falls in Guyana] to the National Collections. Gourlie was a noted botanist and member of the Edinburgh Botanical... Read More

Wellington, N.Z: GPO, 1904. First edition. Read More

New Haven: S. Babcock, [1845]. First American edition, second issue (with Preface dated 1845). Shipwrecked in the Torres Strait. Early American chapbook printing of this first-hand account of the wreck of the Charles Eaton off the north coast of Australia and the subsequent capture and massacre of most of the... Read More