Catégorie : Book/atlas

Acquired From: Hordern House Condition: Very Good Confirmed: Yes Description: ''Volume 2: ''Marketed as a sequel to George Barringtons voyage narrative (#416), this volume broadens its scope to present a general history of the colony of New South Wales. It includes descriptive accounts of the geography, Indigenous inhabitants, flora and fauna, and the development of…

Acquired From: Hordern House Condition: Very Good Confirmed: Yes Description: ''Volume 1: ''This volume presents a semi-fictionalised narrative of George Barringtons transportation to New South Wales following his conviction for pickpocketing. Barrington, a notorious criminal widely known as The Prince of Pickpockets, had served multiple sentences on the prison hulks at Woolwich before being transported…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Excellent Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: 11/9/2023 Dealers ID No.: 19247 Description: 't Vergulde licht der zee-vaard ofte konst der stuurlieden (translated as The Gilded Light of Seafaring, or The Art of Navigation) is work on the art of navigation. Written by Dutch mathematician Klaas Hendriksz Gietermaker who was…

Acquired From: Harbeck Rare Books Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Good Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: 21/2/2014 Description: The Australian Agricultural Company (AACo.) was formally established by an Act of the British Parliament, enacted on 21 June 1824 under the citation 5 Geo. IV c. 86. This foundational legislation granted the newly incorporated company broad powers and authorities…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Excellent Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: 31/12/2021 Dealers ID No.: 19031 Description: This richly illustrated biographical chronicle celebrates the lives and military careers of William the Silent and his son Maurice of Nassau, key figures in the Dutch Revolt against Spanish rule. First published in 1610 by Jan Janszoon…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: 3/10/2024 Date Acquired: 29/12/2020 Description: The present set comprises the following editions: Vol. 1: 1588. Vol. 2: 1583. Vol. 3: 1565.nFor forty-three years, Giovanni Battista Ramusio served as a Venetian civil servant and secretary to the Council of Ten, the governing body of the Venetian…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Condition: Very Good Confirmed: 2/10/2017 Date Acquired: 30/12/2017 Description: In 1583 Jan Huygen van Linschoten, a Dutch explorer, travelled to Goa, India where he served as secretary to João Vicente da Fonseca, the newly appointed Portuguese Archbishop. At the time, Goa was the capital of the Estado da Índia, the administrative…

Condition: Excellent Description: Nine folding maps (18591871), bound as an atlas of Australian exploration from Petermann's Journal, along with a two-part folded map of Southern Australia stored in the back sleeve.nAugustus Heinrich Petermann was a distinguished 19th-century German cartographer, renowned for his detailed maps documenting various explorations, including those in Australia. In the 1840s, he…

Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Very Good Description: The book provides a comprehensive account of Dutch exploration and mapping of Australia between 1606 and 1765. It is a bilingual publication, featuring both Dutch and English texts side by side. It includes valuable historical mapssome fold-outreproducing early Dutch charts of the Australian coastline. First published: London: Luzac, 1899…

Acquired From: Hordern House Colouring: Coloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: No Description: This is one of the best illustrated books on Australian life in the mid-nineteenth century. Samuel Thomas Gill's most famous volume and his last, it is a most attractive album of 25 rural scenes – bushranging, kangaroo stalking, the bush mailman, cattle droving…