London: Macmillan & Co, 1896. First edition. Read More about A Sketch of the Natural History of Australia, With Some Notes on Sport

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 about A General History of Quadrupeds. The Figures engraved on wood chiefly copied from the original of...

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 about Australia; its Scenery, Natural History and Resources, and Settlements. With a Glance at its Gold...

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 about England and America. A Comparison of the Social and Politcal State of Both Nations

Paris: Dondey-Dupré père et fils, 1833. Early response to the French conquest of Algeria in 1830 and subsequent plans for its annexation to France. While the initial hopes of “men of various parties in England” had been that the 1830 expedition would see a favorable outcome from the French administration..... Read More about Appel en Faveur d'Alger, et de l'Afrique du Nord, par un Anglais

New York: Robert Craighead, 1855. Read More about The Convict Ship; A Narrative Of The Results Of Scriptural Instruction And Moral Discipline As...

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 about A Year in the New Hebrides

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 about Long Odds. A Novel

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1957. Number 122 of 1500 copies, signed by the artist and printer Douglas A. Dunstan. Printed at the Griffin Press, Adelaide, Australia. Read More about The Explorations of Captain James Cook in the Pacific

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 about A Narrative of Voyages and Travels, in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres: Comprising Three...

London: Macmillan and Co, 1868. First edition, with errata slip. Part I covers the USA Virgibna, Canada, The Pacific Rarilroad, Colorado, Rocky Mountains, Mormonism, Utah, California; Part II covers the Pacific, including Pitcairn Island, Hokitka, and the Maories, Maori dinner; Part III is about Australia; Part IV covers Ceylon (two..... Read More about Greater Britain: A Record of Travel in English Speaking Countries

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 about The House of White Shadows. A Novel. [With:] Great Porter Square: A Mystery Seventh edition....

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 about ALS “James Edward Fitzgerald” as Assistant Secretary of the British Museum to William Gourlie