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  • Tuckey’s Voyage (to Port Philip) – an abridgement 1805

    Tuckey’s Voyage (to Port Philip) – an abridgement 1805

    An abridgement of the 239 pages “An account of a Voyage to establish a Colony at Port Philip, in Bass’s Strait, on the south coast of New South Wales, in his majesty’s ship Calcutta, in the years 1802-3-4, by J. H. Tuckey Esq First Lieutenant of the Calcutta” – Longman & Co, London.

    20 pages in simple blue sugar paper wrappers. Refer Ferguson bibliography of Australia, 410 and copy in the National Library Rex Nan Kivell Collection NK1729.

    Much of the twenty pages is taken up by the voyage out but the arrival at Port Philip and the difficulties and hostilities encountered with the local aboriginal group are written up in detail and give a good understanding as to why the site was abandoned for the Derwent.

    Rare abridgement and early Port Philip

    $40.00

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  • Kennedy’s Expedition (with folding map) – Fine Facsimile Edition

    Kennedy’s Expedition (with folding map) – Fine Facsimile Edition

    Full title of original scarce account …. Narrative of An Expedition Undertaken under the Direction of the late Mr Assistant Surveyor E.B. Kennedy, for the Exploration of the Country lying between Rockingham Bay and cape York by Wm Carron one of the Survivors of the Expedition.

    A very good condition facsimile of Kennedy’s fateful expedition from Rockingham Bay and Cape York by William Carron with large folded map at rear. 97 pages faithfully reproduced … the original being published in Sydney in 1849. Kennedy was speared in an ambush by native tribes and died of his wounds.

    This is the superior issue by the Adelaide Libraries Board in 1965. Australian Facsimile Editions No 9.

    Far North Exploration

    $40.00

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  • Some Early Records  of the Macarthurs of Camden – Edited by Sibella Macarthur Onslow – 1914

    Some Early Records of the Macarthurs of Camden – Edited by Sibella Macarthur Onslow – 1914

    A first edition published by Angus and Robertson, Sydney in 1914. Royal octavo, 496 pages with illustrations and foldout facsimile documents. Some edge foxing but overall a very good copy in a nice firm binding with coloured frontispiece.

    This comprehensive record is based on papers by the authors father James Macarthur. She dedicated the book to her father and mother (Emily) and her uncle Sir William Macarthur.

    This is a family that stood up to its adopted motto “Fide et Opera” – “Faith and Work”

    $120.00

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  • Tasmanian Journey – Geoffrey Horner

    Tasmanian Journey – Geoffrey Horner

    Published by Cat & Fiddle Press in Hobart a very good copy in a nice dust jacket.

    First printing 1974 albeit that the journey recorded was made in 1936 so has an interesting perspective. Covers Maria Island, Woolnorth Point, Macquarie Harbour, West Tamar, Pontville and the North West Coast.

    Interesting and nicely written

    $30.00

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  • Early Tasmania – James Backhouse Walker F.R.G.S.

    Early Tasmania – James Backhouse Walker F.R.G.S.

    Published in Tasmania by the Government Printer 1973.

    A reprint of paper published in the late 19th century by Tasmanian historian supreme James Backhouse Walker. The French, the “founding”, Collins expedition, Port Dalrymple, then back to Tasman, Norfolk Islanders, aborigines and the cartography of Australia as a whole.

    James Backhouse Walker new his stuff

    $30.00

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  • The Contented Botanist – Sophie Ducker

    The Contented Botanist – Sophie Ducker

    Published in 1988 by Melbourne University at the Miegunyah Press and produced to their usual exceptional standard. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

    Unusual and important work. William Harvey (1811-1886) was one of the great Victorian Botanist. He travelled the Pacific and produced and book on Australian flora Phycologia Australica. He knew Hooker and Professor Asa Gray and corresponded with them. His visits to Australia included meeting the convicts at Port Arthur. This work based on his letters and paper unearthed at the Harvard University herbarium is brilliantly put together by the exceptional Sophie Ducker.

    Important records found and presented

    $40.00

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