William Dampier. Buccaneer Explorer
London, The Folio Society, 1994 (first thus). With an Introduction by Gerald Norris. More
London, The Folio Society, 1994 (first thus). With an Introduction by Gerald Norris. More
London, The Folio Society, 1994 (first thus). With an Introduction by Gerald Norris. More
London, The Folio Society, 1994 (first thus). With an introduction by Gerald Norris. More
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1863. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 127 of 1863. The most important item of correspondence reprinted here is Governor Dominick Daly's long letter of 23 December 1862 to the Duke of Newcastle, informing him of the successful return the previous month of John McDouall Stuart and his..... More
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1866. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 83 of 1866. Very detailed letters from Government Resident Boyle Travers Finniss to Chief Secretary Henry Ayers, written at Escape Cliffs between 19 June and 16 October 1865 (but before he had received Ayers' letter of 21 September recalling him to..... More
Adelaide, W.C. Cox, Government Printer, 1863. 'On 16 July, 1863, the Crown annexed to South Australia "until We think fit to make other disposition thereof the Territory now known as the Northern Territory"'. Responsibility was transferred to the Commonwealth on 1 January 1911. The book reprints the Letters Patent and..... More
[Adelaide, Government Printer], 1883, 1883, 1883 and 1884. South Australian Parliamentary Papers Number 53, 53A, 54 and 54A of 1883-84; only 670 copies of each of the last three reports were published. Although these reports are numbered consecutively, the periods covered are the last quarter of 1882 and the last..... More
[Adelaide, Government Printer], 1864. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 36A of 1864. More
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1868. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 100 of 1868-69. It contains full details of the nine tenders for the survey of 420,000 acres of land in the Northern Territory, together with a report on them by George Goyder, the Surveyor-General. He saw fit to consider seriously only..... More
Adelaide, [Government Printer], 1887. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 98 of 1887; only 670 copies printed. An account by Messrs W. Earle, Peter Anderson and George Mayers of a 2000-mile journey undertaken between late July and mid-September 1887 'through the western district of South Australia, from Streaky Bay to the..... More
London, William Heinemann, 1900. Oswell first went to the Cape in 1844, aged 26, and became 'the most dashing hunter and successful explorer of his time in South Africa'; he shared the discovery of the Zambesi with Livingstone. [2 items]. More
London, John Murray, 1820. The record of Oxley's expeditions to chart the Lachlan and Macquarie rivers, 'arguably the most handsome of all Australian exploration journals [and] the foundation work in the field of Australian inland exploration and the first detailed description of the interior of New South Wales' (Wantrup). The..... More
Canberra, Roebuck Society, 1981. Number 29 in the Roebuck Series. More
London, The Folio Society, 1984 (first thus). Introduction and epilogue by John Keay. More
Sydney, Hordern House for the Australian National Maritime Museum, 1991 (augmented facsimile edition)/ 1795. Australian Maritime Series Number One. One of 675 copies of the standard edition; a deluxe edition of 75 numbered copies in full calf was also published. With a lengthy commentary (25 pages with illustrations) by Gavin..... More
'I can ... write to the Bishop of Norwich, who has a great respect for your Father, to ask his advice about it, and I am sure he will do all he can for you, consistently with his rules of duty.' Rear-Admiral Sir William Edward Parry, Arctic explorer, spent the..... More
Adelaide, RGSSA, 1985. Signed by the author on the title page. More
Adelaide, RGSSA, 1985. With the ownership details of Honor and Shirley Cameron Wilson. More
Adelaide, The Society, 1985. Number 19 of only 50 copies of this deluxe edition, signed in ink by the author on a presentation label. In addition, this copy is dated (16 May 1985) and signed by the author on the title-page. More
London, Harvill/ Harper Collins, 1993. More
Melbourne, Georgian House, 1950 (facsimile edition)/ 1789. The first volume in the publisher's Australiana Facsimiles series; number 257 of 1000 copies. At first, the books in this edition were bound in full morocco, but this soon gave way to much less expensive papered boards. Provenance: R.B. Lewis, with his signature..... More
London, John Stockdale, 1790 (second edition)/ 1789. The superior second edition, with the substantially expanded appendix, which includes 'The History of New Holland ... and a Discourse on Banishment' and its accompanying hand-coloured map. Ferguson 90; Wantrup 5 (and pages 59-64). More
London, John Stockdale, 1789 [first edition, later issue - see below]. First edition, later issue, with the name of the artist, Henry Webber, removed from the title page vignette, and the 'Wulpine Opossum' plate now showing 'Vulpine' (but with the early state of the 'Kangooroo' plate). Ferguson 47; Wantrup 5..... More
Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1968 (facsimile edition)/ 1789. Peade A185: 1,144 copies. More