Australasia from Paul Haynes Rare Books

First edition. John Williams and Co., Library of Arts. London. Engraved title dated 1847. Title dated 1848. Folio. 36pp text and description. Engraved frontispiece, Engraved title, 20 further tissue guarded engraved plates, plate 22 being a double folding. (22 plates in total). Original publisher's decorative red cloth, with gilt and blind tooled decoration and lettering. Spine showing slight wear, lightly… Read more

First edition. University Press, Cambridge. 1939. xlii, 373pp. 10 plates, folding map, text map, 7 tables. Original green cloth, gilt to spine. Edges untrimmed. Corners lightly rubbed. Map misfolded, with minor chipping to edge. Bookplate to fep of Lancashire Education Committee. Date due label removed from ffep. Brown pocket with card and original catalogue card to rep. Faint mark to… Read more

Printed for Richard Phillips. London. [1806]. 8vo. 52, (2 [index, directions to the binder and erratum]), folding table. No title page as published. Modern dark blue cloth, upper board lettered in gilt. Uniformly toned, some light spotting, otherwise very good. An abridgement of A Voyage round the World in the years 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803, and 1804, in which the author… Read more

Third edition. (The Octavo Edition) Printed for John Stockdale, Piccadilly. London. 1790. xxiv, 383pp. Frontispiece portrait, title page copper engraved Wedgewood vignette, folding table, 16 copper engraved plates of which 13 are folding: folding plate View of Botany Bay, folding plate View in Port Jackson, folding plate Natives of Botany Bay (short closed marginal fold tear), plate Lieutenant King, folding… Read more

First edition. John Snow. London. 1863. Octavo. xi, (1), 489, (1)pp + 16pp publisher's catalogue. Tissue guarded engraved frontis., 6 further plates. Original blue embossed cloth, gilt lettering and rules to spine. Spine darkened and rubbed to head and tail. Predominantly unopened. Provenance: Bookplate of Sir Thomas George Fermor Hesketh, Bart., Rufford Hall to fep. Bookplate Easton Neston Library… Read more

Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington. London. 1884. 8vo. (4), 216, (1)pp. adverts to front. Frontis., 11 engraved plates. Original pictorial cloth, slightly darkened to spine. Top and tail of spine worn. Corners bumped. Light foxing to endpapers. Occasional spotting/browning. James Bonwick (1817-1906) Writer, educationalist, traveller. Bonwick and his wife arrived in Hobart on 10 October 1841. By 1852 he… Read more

First edition. John Murray. London. 1853. 8vo. vi, (1), errata slip, 488pp. Chromolitho frontispiece, 3 further chromolitho plates, all with tissue guards, 3 uncoloured plates, folding map, text illus. Later half calf, marbled boards Spine in six compartments with raised bands, gilt lettering, rules and motifs, leather label to spine. All edges marbled. New endpapers. Occasional marginal light foxing to… Read more

First edition. 2 vols. Frederick Westley and A.H. Davis, Booksellers to the London Missionary Society. London. 1831. 8vo. xxiv, 566pp, tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece, 6 further engraved plates; viii, 568pp, tissue guarded engraved frontispiece, 6 further engraved plates. Later half calf, marbled boards. Spines in five compartments with gilt double rules. Original leather labels relaid to spines. All edges and endpapers… Read more

Simkin and Marshall; Groombridge & Sons, [1825-1850] Two Parts bound in one volume. Small quarto. Engraved half title, Title page Part I, xvi, 240pp; Title page Part II, 13, 144pp. 3066 woodcuts. Contemporary half morocco, gilt, raised bands to spine. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Corners rubbed. Index to Part II and pp141-144 originally published in smaller… Read more