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  • La Favorite – Au Mouillage Durant la Colla de Manille – Lauvergne – 1835

    La Favorite – Au Mouillage Durant la Colla de Manille – Lauvergne – 1835

    An original engraving by Barthelemy Lauvergne (1805-1875) of the French Vessel La Favorite using a shackle anchor in high seas. Executed on India-laid paper being plate number 32 from “Voyage Autour du Monde par les Mers de l’Inde et de la Chine de la corvette de sa Majeste La Favorite execute pendant les annees 1830,1831,1832 sous le commandement de M. Laplace” published in Paris in 1835 under the direction of Louise Auguste de Sainson.

    Le Favorite arrived in Hobart on the 11th July 1830 and stayed until the 7th August before sailing for Sydney.

    Some foxing away from the plate image and minor marks still a very good example and we believe well priced.

    Plate size 28.8 x 38.2 cm. Included in the National Collection as part of the Rex Nan Kivell bequest NK685

    La Favorite at anchor in rough seas … click on me to see all of me!

    $140.00

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  • Earless or True Seal – Vauthier – 1820

    Earless or True Seal – Vauthier – 1820

    A lovely hand coloured copper engraving of the Earless or True Seal “Phoque de Chris” engraved by Smith after a drawing by Antoine Charles Vauthier and published in Paris circa 1820. A very clean example. Classified by Rene Lesson who participated in the Duperry voyage round the world on board La Coquille.

    Price $270.00 framed in Voyager Natural History style ready for hanging …

    A real seal from the early 19th century … click on me to see all my earlessness

    $140.00

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  • Java la Grande – Lawrence Fitzgerald

    Java la Grande – Lawrence Fitzgerald

    Published in Hobart in 1984 a very good copy in a fine dust jacket.

    A useful and easily read book on the Portuguese Discovery of Australia … where else could it be … Brigadier Fitzgerald was well qualified to compile this well illustrated account. A good understanding of the Dauphin map.

    Portuguese First … no really they were!

    $40.00

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  • Map of the Pacific Ocean – 1747 Cartographer – Bellin

    Map of the Pacific Ocean – 1747 Cartographer – Bellin

    A nice early map of the Pacific (“La Grande Mer du Sud”) engraved in copper by Cosmant from the cartographer Bellin strictly after a map by Herman Moll for Dampier.

    Tropical trade winds are shown based on Halley’s 17th century wind map.

    One can see why his work became an essential reference for future explorers – Cook included. Interesting features such as the pre-Cook form of New Holland, California shown as an island and in the bottom right the Isles of Juan Fernando where Dampier was to maroon Alexander Selkirk of Robinson Crusoe fame.

    Price framed in a charcoal black frame and a cream mat board with black core. Please ask if you would like this item unframed.

    1747 Century Map of the Pacific – Fine condition … Click on me to see the full map!

    SO SORRY SOLD

    $340.00

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  • Bowhead Whale – 1793 (Balaena Mysticetus) – Shaw and Nodder

    Bowhead Whale – 1793 (Balaena Mysticetus) – Shaw and Nodder

    The Bowhead Whale then known variously as the Great Northern Whale, Toothless Whale, Greenland Whale, Artic Whale etc etc. They grow up to 18 metres and 100 tonnes and have no dorsal fin. It has the largest mouth of any animal. Whilst once endangered a moratorium in 1966 has saved the species which is now no longer under threat.

    Copper engraved and hand coloured by Shaw & Nodder and published in London on 1st March 1793 (marked in the plate). Shaw was in charge of the Natural History Department at the British Museum. Frederick Nodder was a natural history artist and worked for Banks on his Florilegium.

    Framed in Voyager Natural History style within black cored cream mat and beaded gilt frame.

    Early Whale Engraving in fine condition … click on the image to see all my whaliness! … hmmuuuueooowmh

    $180.00

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  • The Cruise of the Marchesa – Guillemard (engravings by Whymper) -1889

    The Cruise of the Marchesa – Guillemard (engravings by Whymper) -1889

    Published by John Murray, London 1889.

    The magnificent account of the voyage of the schooner yacht Marchesa from Cowes on the Isle of Wight in 1881 first to Ceylon, then via Singapore to Formosa and the Liu-Kiu islands to Japan. She left Yokohama for Kamschatka returning three months later, thence to China and Hong Kong at the end of March 1883 from where the Sulu islands were explored and then the Celebes and on to New Guinea.

    Many maps and special Whymper illustrations. One of the most interesting Victorian travel accounts. Very good condition.

    Superb voyage and natural history account

    $180.00

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