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1887rif. 6000091Aboard ship 1887. Binding a bit marked short split in front joint but solid generally sound and internally fine. Folio journal 325 x 200 mm; about 200 pp. manuscript entries in ink with hand coloured title page two diagrams one in colour and altogether 14 fine original charts of Australian New Zealand and Pacific waters ten of them folding coloured in outline and some detail; original full parchment binding with a later lettering label original London stationer's label. An extensively illustrated manuscript journal recording service aboard HMS Nelson flagship of the Royal Navy's Australia Station during a pivotal period in the development of British and Australasian naval policy. The volume is distinguished by finely executed charts tracing the ship's movements through Australian and New Zealand waters including a particularly detailed chart of Bass Strait densely annotated with depth soundings. The journal was kept while the Australia Station was commanded by Vice-Admiral George Tryon one of the most influential naval officers of the late Victorian era with Captain Atwell Peregrine MacLeod Lake later Admiral Sir Atwell Lake serving as his flag-captain. Lake a trusted subordinate who had previously served with Tryon in HMS Raleigh assumed command of Nelson in January 1885 and remained closely associated with the admiral throughout the period covered. The journal coincides with increasing colonial concern over the adequacy of British naval protection in the Pacific amid expanding French German and Russian influence. From HMS Nelson Tryon and Lake were central participants in discussions that led to the Australasian Naval Agreement of 1887 under which the Australian colonies agreed to subsidise an enlarged R oyal Navy squadron. This landmark agreement represented one of the earliest examples of inter-colonial cooperation on a shared strategic policy and is now recognised as an important precursor to Australian Federation and ultimately the establishment of the Royal Australian Navy. Built at Glasgow between 1874 and 1876 HMS Nelson joined the Australia Station in 1881 and became flagship in 1885. The journal records her extensive movements from her Sydney base including cruises to Hobart Melbourne Brisbane and repeated voyages to New Zealand visiting the Bay of Islands Auckland and Wellington. Together with its attractive and finely-drawn charts the journal offers an unusually vivid visual and documentary record of service aboard the principal symbol of British naval authority in the South Pacific. --- A final section records a voyage aboard HMS Tyne from Australia to Bombay in June-July 1887 suggesting the anonymous author's departure from the station. Tryon's career ended dramatically six years later with the loss of HMS Victoria following his ill-fated manoeuvring order in the Mediterranean. Attractive well illustrated and historically important the journal is an exceptional record of the Australia Station at a formative moment in Australasian naval history. . Provenance: Rollin Miles Warner Jr. academic of Yale and Stanford universities and book collector with his research notes; with his armorial bookplate; https://www.mantecabulletin.com/obits/rollin-miles-warner-jr/. unknown
1833rif. PHO-2302Paris, Imprimerie Royale, Arthus Bertrand, au dépôt général de la marine, 1833-1839. 5 vol. in-8 (25,5x16,5cm) demi-chevrette rouge, dos à nerfs orné (reliure de l'époque), supplément lépidoptères broché de I. [2] ff.-xli-558-[1] pp. ; II. [2] ff.-481-[1] pp., grande carte dépliante (piqûres, coupures aux pliures sans manque) ; III. [2] ff.-510-[1] pp. ; IV. [2] ff.- 480 pp. ; V. [2] ff., 195-200 pp., Supplément Lépidoptères 30pp., 70 planches dont 61 soigneusement aquarellées. Rousseurs touchant principalement le texte et très peu les planches, mouillures claires par endroits au texte, feuillets volants pour le supplément. Sans les deux grands atlas historique et hydrographique, mais bien complet du très rare 5e volume d'histoire naturelle, paru ultérieurement qui manque presque toujours et complet des planches. Ce rarissime cinquième et dernier volume de texte, qui comporte 2 parties, renferme le rapport fait à l'Académie des sciences le 4 février 1833 sur les collections d'histoire naturelle recueillies pendant le voyage de la corvette La Favorite…, les Recherches sur les marsupiaux par Fortuné Eydoux et Laurent, la 2e partie Zoologie par Fortuné Eydoux et Paul Gervais, le supplément sur les Lépidoptères nouveaux par Feisthamel.
1807rif. PHO-1A Paris, Dépôt général des Cartes et Plans de la Marine et des Colonies, 1807 et De L’Imprimerie Impériale, 1808 RARE ENSEMBLE COMPLET en 3 volumes TEXTE ; 2 forts vol. in-4° ; (2)-LVI-704 pp.-32 pl. h.-t. repliées in-fine (I-XXXII)/(2)-VIII-692 pp.-1 pl. h.-t. Repliée sur papier bleuté , relié demi cuir , dos lisse avec titre et tomaison , tranches mouchetées , mouillure angulaire sur 7 planches, petites rousseurs sur les planches . ATLAS ; 1 volume grand in-folio (560x445) ,page de titre-1 fnch. (Table )-39 cartes et vues h.-t. , dont 29 à double page ,dressées par l'ingénieur hydrographe C. F. Beautemps Beaupré et gravées sur cuivre par E. Collin , relié demi cuir , dos lisse ,cachets répétés , petites rousseurs .
1866rif. 141595Adelaide: Townsend Duryea 1866. First Edition. Hardcover. Adelaide Townsend Duryea circa 1866. A photograph album 254 × 340 mm containing a magnificent panorama of Adelaide comprising five roughly uniform albumen paper photographs mounted as issued slightly overlapping to form a continuous image 124 × 880 mm on a linen-backed card mount 244 × 951 mm folded into three plus 12 albumen paper photographs nine of them around 130 × 200 mm or the reverse one 130 × 172 mm and the last two approximately 220 × 285 mm mounted on the rectos of stiff card leaves. Original russet pebble-grain cloth lettered in gilt on the front cover; cloth slightly flecked with minor wear to the extremities; endpapers foxed with slight loss to silverfish and the rear free endpaper is missing; leading edge ribbon ties appear never to have been inserted; mounts lightly cockled and occasionally lightly spotted and foxed; bottom margin of the final mount lightly stained with trifling loss to silverfish; minimal signs of age and use; overall a very pleasing copy with the photographs - and in particular the stunning panorama - in uniformly fine condition. The twelve individual photographs are captioned in pencil on the mounts: 'View in botanical gardens - showing Asylum' 'View in Botanical Gardens' 'View in Gardens' five captioned simply 'Botanical Gardens' 'Bridge between N & S Adelaide' 'near Willunga' and two captioned 'Willunga' both superb large-format prints. New York-born Townsend Duryea 1823-1888 emigrated to Australia Melbourne in 1852 and commenced work as a photographer the following year. In 1855 he relocated his studio to Adelaide. By the early 1870s Duryea's panoramas royal portraits and prizes won in Society of Arts photographic competitions had made him famous 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. Much more detail on Duryea may be had from the lengthy article in Joan Kerr's 'Dictionary of Australian Artists . to 1870'. However the panorama in this album is not the one described in Kerr 'a fold-out 360-degree panorama of Adelaide taken from the tower of Adelaide Town Hall in 1865 was the album's major feature' nor is it the larger panorama 'taken from the top of the GPO tower soon after it was completed in 1870'. The present panorama is taken from a local rise in North Adelaide and sweeps left to right from the hills towards the sea. All of these panoramas are very rare indeed not least because 'Duryea's studio and enormous collection of glass-plate negatives stated to number 50 000 were destroyed by fire in 1875'. This catastrophe effectively ended Duryea's career as a photographer. It must assuredly account for the genuine scarcity of material by Duryea on the open market other than bread-and-butter carte de visite portraits. This album is very rare in our experience and if the available records are any guide for long before we came on the scene in the mid-1970s. Although this is the fourth example we have handled it is also only the fourth one we have seen on the open market in that time. We have inspected three other examples in institutions; all seven copies are bound similarly and contain the same panorama. However the balance of the contents varies in quantity and image selection in each instance. Duryea began to advertise these albums in Adelaide newspapers in August 1866. One such from the 'South Australian Register' for 28 August 1866 reads: 'DURYEA'S VIEW ALBUMS. These Albums are neatly bound in cloth and form a beautiful acquisition either for the drawing-room table or transmission home. A PANORAMIC VIEW of the CITY of ADELAIDE and the SUBURBS three feet in length has been introduced as a Frontispiece; and as a further advantage purchasers have the privilege of choosing Photographs from a large Album containing 90 of the most interesting and picturesque Views of Adelaide and the Country. The above are open to the inspection of the public at Mr. Duryea's Studio 66 and 68 King William-street. Any of the Views mentioned above can be had separately. Photographs of Gentlemen's Country Seats Business Offices Shops &c. taken at the shortest notice by Ross's Improved Wide Angle Lens'. Provenance: Edwin Ashby 1861-1941 South Australian property developer and naturalist; by descent. While Ashby was obviously not the first owner of this album its numerous images of the Botanical Gardens must have appealed to him. The fine gardens he established at his property 'Wittunga' at Blackwood in the Adelaide hills after the turn of the century were later donated to the State by his heirs and are now the Wittunga Botanic Garden. Townsend Duryea hardcover
1844rif. 30734Nouvelle-Hollande 1844 40,5 x 26,5 cm environ marie-louise, sous-verre et encadrement moderne (48 x 41 cm)
rif. 108073The very fine portrait visible image size 545 × 395 mm in its original ornate gilt frame external dimensions 740 × 595 mm is exquisitely hand-painted and signed by the famous colonial photographer Townsend Duryea 1823-1888. His original label is affixed to the paper backing on the verso of the frame 'T. Duryea Artist Photographer 66 and 68 King William Street Adelaide' and in our opinion he has created a masterpiece as both artist and photographer with this work. James Hurtle Fisher commenced practice as a solicitor in London in 1816 and 'was drawn into the colonizing movement in 1835. He was selected as resident commissioner one of the most important offices under the South Australian Act . second only to the governor'. Fisher 'left England in July 1836 with the governor's party in the "Buffalo" arriving on 28 December 1836 at Holdfast Bay where the official oaths were administered a proclamation was read and a ceremony marked the beginning of settlement. In January 1837 Fisher erected his reed hut and Land Office near the survey camp of Colonel William Light at the north-western corner of the new capital site; the destruction of these temporary buildings by fire on 23 January 1839 caused both men serious loss. Fisher had been allowed to draft his own instructions which were not shown to Governor Sir John Hindmarsh. Disputes between the two men over their respective powers had begun on the voyage and were soon revived in the new Council of Government and more violently outside and led in February 1837 to the Resident Magistrate's Court binding the participants over to keep the peace towards each other. The new governor George Gawler was appointed both governor and resident commissioner a radical departure from the principles on which the colony had been founded' ADB. Fisher returned to his profession and became a leader of the South Australian Bar. In October 1840 he was elected first mayor of Adelaide; in 1860 he became the first resident South Australian to be knighted. Townsend Duryea was at the King William Street address from 1858 until his illustrious career as a photographer 'was cut short when his studio and entire collection of 50000 negatives were destroyed by fire on 18 April 1875' ADB. We suggest as a date for this magnificent portrait 'circa 1870'. unknown
1868rif. 142860Adelaide: Townsend Duryea 1868. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Townsend Duryea 1868. A large quarto album approximately 415 × 365 mm containing 18 albumen paper portraits each approximately 280 × 210 mm mounted on the rectos of cloth-hinged thick card leaves interleaved with guards plus one leaf of letterpress see below. Contemporary half roan and cloth lettered and tooled in gilt with a binder's ticket on the front pastedown 'Bound at the "Register" Office Grenfell Street Adelaide'; covers slightly worn; leaves slightly cockled; one guard missing; most photographs lightly discoloured near the right-hand edge; a few light spots of foxing mainly to the guards and the versos of the mounts and some minor signs of age and handling but overall in excellent condition. The subjects include some of the most prominent figures in early colonial South Australia. In order of appearance the portraits depict John Morphett President Henry Ayers Charles Hervey Bagot John Henry Barrow Charles George Everard John Baker William Wedd Tuxford Thomas Elder William Peacock William Morgan Thomas Hogarth John Tuthill Bagot Thomas English Henry Mildred John Crozier William Parkin John Hodgkiss and Emanuel Solomon. The 'South Australian Advertiser' for 20 August 1868 records that: 'Mr. Duryea is preparing a parliamentary group containing the members of both Houses of the Legislature which promises to be an effective affair. The members of the Council have already given him sittings and a fine series of portraits is the result'. In the subsequent months Duryea exhibited the photographs at his King William Street studio but most accounts refer to them assembled as a group around Morphett. This photo-collage with the portraits all heavily cropped is almost certainly the basis for a contemporary carte de visite published by Duryea see SLSA B 9258. However most of the images in this album appear to be rare or even unrecorded in their uncropped form; indeed the only other examples we located were of Henry Ayers and Charles Hervey Bagot. It is also rare to find photographs of early colonists at all let alone of this size quality and quantity. The guard leaves for the portraits of Morphett Hogarth J.T. Bagot and Mildred contain manuscript biographical details in a single hand. Although we have not identified the writer it is likely to be one of the eighteen MLCs as he refers to 'our chamber' in the entry for Morphett. The portrait of C.H. Bagot is accompanied by a similar short biography but this time in letterpress and misspelling his middle name as 'Harvey'. C.H. Bagot English Mildred Crozier Parkin and Solomon are identified in another hand on the mounts beneath the image. Townsend Duryea] hardcover
rif. 95963The archive comprises nearly 440 pieces each approximately 320 × 510 mm or larger many from the later 1970s when Mitchell was at the height of his powers. A unique commentary on the personalities and events of the times: when Hawke Fraser and Dunstan were in power Nixon went to China the war in Vietnam ended and the first wave of 'boat people' began to arrive here many Indigenous Australians were in a parlous state cricket and cricketers still caused grief . Approximately 440 items. unknown
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1869rif. 29221London: by the author printed by Richard and John E. Taylor 1840-_ 1869. First edition. A FINE COPY OF GOULD'S MOST IMPORTANT WORK which was issued in 41 parts over 30 years and occupied more than half of his career. In the original publishers' full morocco gilt stamped binding. Provenance: Presented to the Right Reverend Mathew Blagden Hale by the members of the Church of England and other Denominations of Christians of Western Australia Perth October 28th 1876. With large presentation label printed in gold dated in each volume. Mathew Blagden Hale 1811-1895 was the first Bishop of Western Australia and founder of Hale School. Gould started work on the Birds of Australia in 1837 but ceased this effort when he found he did not have enough material to work from in England. He and his family departed for Australia where his wife had two brothers and remained there for 18 months collecting new specimens in New South Wales and Tasmania. John Gilbert was sent to collect specimens from Western Australia Queensland and South Australia. As Gould had introductions to the explorers working at the time he also received contributions of specimens from Sturt and Grey. As a result of this intensive effort 300 new species were claimed by Gould. AUSTRALIAN EXPLORERS' CONTRIBUTION TO GOULD'S BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA In May 1838 Gould his wife Elizabeth John Gilbert their zoological collector one of their sons a nephew & two servants sailed for Australia. On their 27 montsh stay in the Colonies they received assistance from all sides ~ the Colonial Governors and most importantly the early explorers of Australia's interior. In Tasmania the Goulds were looked after by the Governor Sir John Franklin of later Arctic fame and Lady Franklin who were greatly interested in the flora and fauna of the country. Gould and Gilbert explored much of Tasmania and the Bass Strait islands. In February 1839 John Gilbert departed for an eleven month stay in the Swan River Colony. Gilbert made further explorations to the Northern Territory with Ludwig Leichhardt but during Leichhardt's overland expedition in 1845 from Brisbane to Port Essington was tragically killed by aboriginals. Book - Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia. 1847. In June of 1839 Gould began a journey with Captain Charles Sturt from Adelaide to "the Murray Scrubs" the Mallee returning to Adelaide in July from where he visited Kangaroo Island before returning to Hobart. Books- Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia. 1833 & Narrative of an Expedition into Central Australia. 1849. Contributions of specimens & information came from all quarters. George French Angas contributed eggs and information about the Yellow- eared Black Cockatoo. Book- South Australia Illustrated one of the great Australian topographical view books. In the course of his hydrographical voyage on the H.M.S. Rattlesnake John MacGillivray contributed information about the Great Palm Cockatoo. Book- Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake commanded by the late Captain Owen Stanley. 1852 Cape York area. T.L. Mitchell surveyor general of New South Wales supplied descriptions of the Leadbeater's Cockatoo commonly known as the "Major Mitchell". Books- Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia.1838 & Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia.1848. The last voyage of the "Beagle" was in Australian waters from 1837 to 1843. In 1841 Capt. Wickham suffering ill-health was relieved of his command by Lieut. John Lort Stokes Book - Discoveries in Australia; with an account of the Coasts and Rivers explored and surveyed during the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle In the Years 1837- 1843. 1846. The task of the expedition was to survey those parts of the northern coast of Australia not already charted by Flinders or King. Accompanying them on this trip was the young lieutenant George Grey whose duty it was to explore the land in Australia's northwest with a view to establishing a permanent settlement there. Book - Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia. 1841 The scientific appendices in volume two of Grey's "Journals" include one on birds by John Gould ~ " Mr. Gould kindly forwarded the following enumeration of the species which have come under his notice as inhabiting that part of the country Western Australia." There follows a 7 pp listing of birds of W.A. "Officers of the Beagle" are credited by Gould's "Handbook to the Birds of Australia" as supplying information on the Rose-breasted Cockatoo. To conclude the history of Australia's inland exploration is inextricably bound up with Gould's masterwork The Birds of Australia. It was an extremely fertile and productive time in Australia ~ Sturt Mitchell & Angas in eastern & southern Australia; Leichhardt MacGillivray Stokes & Grey in the north & west. Reading the letter-press that accompanies each color plate of Gould's Birds bears witness to the combined efforts of Gould and the explorers and settlers of Australia ~ Gould constantly refers to specimens and information on the birds' customs and habitat sent to him by various explorers. Many times this spirit of cooperation overflows into the naming of the bird itself. Gould was the touchstone who pulled together the contributions of Australia's explorers into the foundation work on Australia's ornithology. This combined with Gould's work with Darwin interpreting the specimens from the famous "Beagle" voyages takes Gould's Birds of Australia out of a strictly natural history realm and places it firmly alongside the great scientific discovery expeditions of the 19th century. GOULD'S CONTRIBUTION TO DARWIN'S THEORY OF EVOLUTION Before the Goulds' plans for the work on the Birds of Australia came to fruition John Gould became involved in a co-operative project with another scholar - Charles Darwin. In October 1836 Darwin returned to England from his 5 year circumnavigation on the H.M.S. Beagle on which John Lort Stokes served for 18 years- rising from midshipman in 1825 to commander in 1841. Darwin needed expert help in the description & identification of the preserved birds insects rocks shells & insects for his production of the Zoology of the Voyages of H.M.S. Beagle. Darwin had heard of Gould's books from Thomas Campbell Eyton a naturalist friend from Cambridge days who had bought Gould's Toucan prints. They were expensive he wrote but of good value as he had since been offered a higher price! Through the Zoological Society where Gould had established his reputation as a premier taxidermist Darwin initially made contact with Gould about a special Rhea seen during his travels in Northern Patagonia. This Rhea was an ostrich of dark mottled color with shorter legs than the Common Rhea. Conrad Martens the artist on the Beagle expedition shot one for food and it was cooked and eaten before Darwin realized that it was a less-known species. Fortunately the head neck feathers & skin had been preserved and were sent to the Zoological Society where it was put together and a nearly perfect specimen made for display. Gould classified the Rhea as a new species "Rhea Darwinii". The third volume of the "Zoology of the Voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle" contained fifty bird plates which was advertised by Darwin as "taken from sketches made by Mr. Gould himself and executed on stone by Mrs. Gould". When Gould & Darwin were examining the birds brought from the Galapagos Islands they were fascinated by a group of about thirteen finches of the same species which had curiously different-sized beaks. These modifications occurred on different islands and it was the investigation of this and other scientific data accumulated over a long period that led to Darwin's theories of evolution by adaptation formulated many years later. Frank Sulloway Harvard University 1982 has investigated Gould's part in Darwin's theory of evolution and shows that Gould astutely realised the basic peculiarities of these birds thus paving the way for Darwin's first notes on the "Transmutation of Species". Gould presented descriptions of the Galapagos finches and mockingbird specimens at the Zoological Society in January 1837. However he was unable to finish his work for Darwin. Due to the rush before the Goulds' departure to Australia parts of his manuscript were left unresolved and the work was completed by George Robert Gray of the British Museum. As Gould only published 250 sets of "The Birds of Australia" the number of complete copies which could possibly come on the market is significantly diminished by many factors ~ the work was issued in parts and not all copies were bound which would contribute to their demise over time. Many of the sets that survive are in institutional hands and unlikely to come onto the market. Over the last 20 years at least 10 copies have been "broken up" and sold as plates. This loss of a number of complete sets will certainly lead to a complete and undisturbed Gould attracting a premium by virtue of its increasing scarcity. 8 imperial folio volumes including supplement 2 pp list of subscribers 681 hand-colored lithograph plates including 3 double-page by John and Elizabeth Gould or by Gould and H.C. Richter. Printed by Hullmandel and Walton. Occasional minor spotting. Uniformly bound in publisher's green period full green morocco sides with gilt borders spines gilt in 6 compartments gilt edge by Clyde. The books are presently in the UK. Nissen IVB 370; Anker 174 and 179; Fine Bird Books p. 78; Wood p. 365; Zimmer pp 255-6 and 259; Sauer 9 and 18; Ferguson 4773 & 10032a. Bibliography: Lambourne Maureen Wm. McEvoy & Dr. Gordon Sauer. "John Gould - BIRD MAN" London 1987 Wantrup Jonathan "Australian Rare Books 1788-1900" Sydney 1987. by the author, printed by Richard and John E. Taylor, (1840-_ unknown
