Non-fiction

The Identity of Captain Cook’s Kangaroo – Morrison-Scott & Sawyer – British Museum -1950

Card cover Bulletin Volume 1 No 3 from the British Museum … brief 10 pages in total … nice images.

Captain Cook took back three kangaroo specimens all from the Endeavour River. The skull of one was in the Royal College of Surgeons, London until it was destroyed by a bomb in WWII. The only figure of original material is the plate in Hawkesworth, this was later copied even though it is a poor depiction (it was a skin after all). Then there is the painting of a skull by Nathaniel Dunce most likely one of Cook’s. And then a photograph (reproduced here) of the R.C.S. bombed skull.

Unusual kangaroos certified

$25.00

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Papers – Royal Society Tasmania – 1890

The Papers and Proceeding printed at the Mercury, Hobart 1891.

An important journal including James Backhouse Walker’s paper on the discovery and Occupation of Port Dalrymple and Baron Von Mueller’s report on the discovery of new Tasmanian plants with a nice engraved plate. A large folding facsimile of the rare chart of Van Diemen’s Land (the South Extremity) by Captain John Hayes (1798) is of considerable interest to the cartographic collector.

Nice chart and important papers.

$90.00

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Telepathy Mental Telegraphic Communication: What it is, and How it is Done – Stocker – 1904

Published 1904 by Fowler in London. Bound in original grey thick boards, 73 pages plus publishers catalogue. Illustrated with there unusual plates. Very good condition and a rare item.

The author Dimsdale Stocker refers to Bennett of the Society for Psychical Research “The conclusion seems to be irresistible, that the five senses do not exhaust the means by which knowledge may enter the mind. In other words, the investigator seems to be driven to the conclusion that thought transference must now be included among scientifically proved facts”

Use your mind on a different level.

$60.00

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From Hausaland [Nigeria] to Egypt – 1910 – Karl Kumm

Published London 1910, Constable. A first edition of a special book dedicated to David Livingstone.

Kumm was a founder of the Sudan Pioneering Mission and was married to Lucy Guinness. He went into Service in Upper Egypt in 1900 which put him in a position to carry out his explorations.

Nicely illustrated including six coloured plates of butterflies and with a large fold map at rear showing Dr Kumm’s travels right across Africa. Packed with details and adventure and nicely illustrated from photographs. Closing chapters and appendices are of particular note covering the “Anthropology of the Sudan Tribe”, some interest vocabularies, meteorological observations, zoological specimens from the expedition and a good accounting of money spent on provisions!

Good account right across Africa – special illustrations

$240.00

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Brady McCabe, Dunne, Bryan Crawford, Murphy, Bird McKenney, Goodwin, Pawley, Bryant, Cody, Hodgetts Gregory, Tilley, Ryan Williams and their Associates – Bushrangers in Van Diemen’s Land 1824-1827

Another superb folio sized publication by Sullivan’s Cove 1979 number 338 of a limited edition of 750 – in fine condition.

Based on the text of James Calder originally published in 1873 together with later discovered documents edited beautifully by Eustace Fitzsymonds. Heavy in content as would be expected of an authoritative work. End paper maps assist in the following of the bushranger(y) developments

Collectable and complete

A large book will attract Overseas freight supplement … please enquire

$90.00

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Mortmain – Van Diemen’s Land – Eustace Fitz-Symonds – Limited No 90 of 500

Published by Sullivans Cove, 1977 title continues … A Collection of choice petitions, memorials and letters of protest and request from the convict colony of Van Diemen’s Land; written by divers person’s both eminent and lowly.

A fine copy of a folio edition limited to 500 (this being no 90) carrying the bookplate of collector Harold Royle. Dust jacket now protected in fine condition. Mortmain (Dead Hand)

A veritable potpourri of historical documents of interest and humour. A goldmine of stories, both grave and gay, of those early days in the history of Tasmania when men and women practised terrible savageries on each other.

Members of the convict community had to obtain permission to marry. When Norah Corbett petitioned Governor Arthur for permission to marry Jorgen Jorgensen, the police magistrate of the Oatlands District, R. Anstey, warned Jorgensen his ruin was inevitable if he married the woman, as the woman was much addicted to liquor and had a propensity to beat and scratch the back of her lover when she was intoxicated. Arthur allowed them to marry on the condition they exchange vows that they would love and cherish each other from that day forward to the exclusion of all others.

As a contrast – a letter from John Gould listing the marsupial specimens he would like (including the Thylacine in male and female form) and that he would pay for the effort involved.

And many, many more

Real history in fine condition

A heavy book that will require an overseas freight supplement … please enquire

$80.00

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The Identity of Captain Cook’s Kangaroo – Morrison-Scott & Sawyer – British Museum -1950

Papers – Royal Society Tasmania – 1890

Telepathy Mental Telegraphic Communication: What it is, and How it is Done – Stocker – 1904

From Hausaland [Nigeria] to Egypt – 1910 – Karl Kumm

Brady McCabe, Dunne, Bryan Crawford, Murphy, Bird McKenney, Goodwin, Pawley, Bryant, Cody, Hodgetts Gregory, Tilley, Ryan Williams and their Associates – Bushrangers in Van Diemen’s Land 1824-1827

Mortmain – Van Diemen’s Land – Eustace Fitz-Symonds – Limited No 90 of 500

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