Fawkner John Pascoe (14 results)

hard cover. No Jacket. With an introductory essay by Wallace Kirsop. Facsimile edition limited to 500 copies 18, 14 pages VG. Very good condition with light shelf wear to covers, owner stamp on front endpaper.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. LIMITED EDITION. Being 1 of 500 unnumbered copies. This copy is SIGNED in full in black ink on title page by Wallace Kirsop. Facsimile of the Sale Catalogue of John Pascoe Fawkner's Library in 1868. Includes a preface, list of subscribers, an introductory essay by Wallace Kirsop with footnotes, plus 14-page facsimile of the original catalogue. Contains b&w photographic portrait fronstispiece of John Pascoe Fawkner, plus two b&w illustrations preceding the introduction, as issued. Printed in Australia. Thin volume. Bound in original black cloth with bright gilt lettering to front board, printed endpapers. No clear acetate dustjacket. Very slight shelfwear, otherwise a very nice clean tight solid hardcover copy. 18pp + 14pp. Uncommon title, scarce signed copy. SB-14. Signed by Author(s).

8vo, 32pp. A very good hardback copy. Edition limited to 500 copies.

18+14pp. 8vo. Original cloth in glassine dustwrapper. Black and white frontispiece. A near fine copy. One of a limited edition of 500 copies.

12pp. 8vo. Original cloth, with some slight insect damage to extremities. Otherwise a very good copy. Signed by Ian McLaren and John Gartner. Limited to 250 copies.

18+14pp. 8vo. Original cloth in glassine dustwrapper. Black and white frontispiece. A near fine copy. One of a limited edition of 500 copies. Signed by Wallace Kirsop on the title page.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. In unread condition. Some discolouration, black smudges, to back cover of book. John Pascoe Fawkner arrived in the Derwent with David Collins' party in February 1804, and watched the birth of the settlement and its fight to survive during its e arly years. More than sixty years later he returned to Hobart Town to interview its early pioneers and to prepare his memoirs of those times. Fawkner's memories were not always accurate (he was a boy when he arrived), and some of his accounts of events were based on hearsay or oral history. Nevertheless, his memoir is a valuable historical record, containing much information not found elsewhere. Unlike most other surviving accounts of early Hobart Town, it is written from the perspective of the free settler, and provides an insight into many aspects of daily life: encounters with Aborigines and bushrangers; fire, starvation and other hard ships of life on the land. It reflects what ordinary people thought, felt or believed, and adds a valuable human dimension to the scanty official records of the period.

Hard Cover. Condition: F-. Second Edition. 8vo. original navy cloth gilt (a trifle rubbed); pp. [vi (last blank)], 14 (last blank), [4 (colophon, limitation page, last blank)]. A near fine copy. A limited edition of 250 copies signed by the publisher, Ian F. McLaren, and printer, John Gartner. Signed by Publishers.

Hard Cover. Condition: F-. Dust Jacket Condition: VG+. First Edition. F-/VG+. 8vo. original cream boards gilt in dustwrapper (a little rubbed & nicked, some creasing to upper flap); pp. xx (last blank), 108, with a map & facsimiles. A very good copy.

Hardcover. Second Edition. Octavo, vi, [2],196 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Brown spine with gilt lettering. Boards have been rebound, have light bumping to spine head/tail and front head fore corner, and a small dent along the front fore edge. Textblock has foxing and light soiling throughout, and moderate age toning to edges. The half-title page appears to be tipped in when the book was rebound. Features two inscriptions from economic historian and Oxford scholar Max Hartwell to John Hughes, dated '1963', on the front and rear free endpapers (the latter inverted). Additionally, signed by John Pascoe Fawkner (1792-1869), founder of Melbourne, Australia, on page [1]. Shelved in Case 5. 1399220. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

Hard Cover. Condition: G+. First UK. 12mo. original blindstamped brown cloth gilt (ex-Gisborne Mechanics Institute Library with labels to spine and upper board, occ. RSM and blindstamp to outer leaves; cloth rubbed & frayed at extremities, some marks and spots, but generally clean); pp. [iv (last blank)], 468 (last blank). Ex-libris John Pascoe Fawkner, founding father of Melbourne and one-time resident of the failed Sullivan Bay convict settlement at Sorrento as a boy of 10. Fawkner has signed (as initials 'J.P.F.') to the first text page upon his original acqusition of the book on Aug. 1st 1853, with a later presentation inscription 'Presented to the Gisborne Mechanics Institute October the 21st 1861 by John Pascoe Fawkner, M.L.G.'. Fawkner has additionally signed on the title page, with another presentation inscription, possibly in a different hand, to the verso FFE. A good copy with a significant association in Victorian history.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. JOHN PASCOE FAWKNER'S COPY of Liturgical Services. Floridly SIGNED in full FOUR TIMES by JOHN PASCOE FAWKNER in black ink. The 4 signatures appear on the title page, the first text page (p.3), in the middle of the book (p.347), & final text page (p.695) where he has added "May 10 '54 Sydney". All four signatures are bright & clear, though the title-page signature has been ink-stamped, obscuring the "Fawkner" portion. John Pascoe Fawkner (1792-1869), founder of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; early pioneer, businessman, politician. He is the namesake of two Melbourne suburbs, Fawkner & Pascoe Vale. This is his copy of Liturgical Services: Liturgies & Occasional Forms of Prayer Set Forth in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth. Edited for The Parker Society, by the Rev. William Keatinge Clay. FIRST EDITION, published 1847. From the preface: "The present volume comprises two Litanies, the English Prayer Book of 1559, the Godly Prayers, the Ordinal of 1559, the Latin Prayer Book of 1560, the New Calendar of 1561, & many Occasional Forms of Prayer set forth, chiefly by public authority, in the latter portion of the sixteenth century". Bound in publisher's original brown blind-embossed pebbled cloth, with bright gilt arms of The Parker Society to front board, gilt lettering to spine, blind-ruled spine, yellow endpapers. NOTE: A FAIR copy only. Cancelled Ex-Library copy with usual library markings (QC, UofM bookplate to front pastedown, plus several unobtrusive ink stamps internally [to 12 pages] from two libraries: Queen's College, University of Melbourne, & Congressional College Library, Melbourne), front board & ffep detached (but present), rear board loose, lacking top portion of spine (3 x 3cm), old library labels to spine, wear to spine gutters, much handling wear, faint marginal staining to first couple of pages, otherwise a solid hardcover reading copy. Internally VG. The value obviously lies in the fact that it was Fawkner's own personal copy of a much read/used book, with his ownership signatures. Fawkner lived a fascinating life. "He was born in 1792 in Cripplegate, London. His father was convicted of receiving stolen goods & in 1801 was sentenced to fourteen years transportation. With his mother & younger sister, Elizabeth, 11-year old John accompanied his father to the new settlement to be formed in Bass Strait. They joined H.M.S. Calcutta at Portsmouth & sailed on 29 April 1803 in company with the Ocean, carrying a number of free settlers & stores. After Port Phillip was abandoned & the convicts & settlers were moved to Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania), the Fawkners lived in a primitive hut at the new settlement on Sullivan's Cove, suffering great hardship & continuing shortages of food. In 1835 Fawkner financed a party of free settlers from Van Diemen's Land, to sail to the mainland in his ship, Enterprise. His party sailed to Port Phillip Bay & up the Yarra River to found a settlement which became the city of Melbourne. Fawkner himself landed at Hobson's Bay in October 1835 & at once began to lay the foundations of a fortune that grew to £20,000 in his first four years on the mainland. In January 1838 he added to his trade of hotel-keeping that of newspaper proprietor. In 1839 Fawkner also added to his already considerable land holdings a 780-acre property known as Pascoe Vale. As a man of property & influence, Fawkner took an active & leading part in the political & social struggles of the time. Fawkner died on 4 September 1869 at his home in Smith Street, Collingwood, the grand old man of contemporary Victoria." (largely from: Hugh Anderson, 'Fawkner, John Pascoe', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Vol. 1, MUP, 1966, pp.368-370). Thick heavy volume. Printed at The University Press, Cambridge. Full pagination as follows: ffep, [blank], half-title page, title page, contents (v-vii), preface (ix-xxxvi), 1-695pp, [blank], rear endpaper. Extremely RARE & UNIQUE SIGNED COPY from the library of the founder of Melbourne. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. JOHN PASCOE FAWKNER'S COPY of LORD MACAULAY. SIGNED in full by JOHN PASCOE FAWKNER in black ink on ffep. Very faint signature, the "Fawkner" portion has almost completely faded, though still legible. John Pascoe Fawkner (1792-1869), founder of Melbourne, Australia; early pioneer, businessman, politician. He is the namesake of two Melbourne suburbs, Fawkner & Pascoe Vale. VOLUME 1 only (of 2). FIRST EDITION, published 1860. Frontispiece engraving of Macaulay with facsimile signature printed below. With erratum sheet bound in following contents page. Bound in publisher's original blind-stamped brown cloth. Fair only, this volume lacks top half of spine, damage to foot of spine, covers are moderately soiled & stained & worn, hinges tender, binding cracked at page 160, light marginal staining throughout, otherwise a reading copy only. The value obviously lies in the fact that it was Fawkner's own personal copy of a much read/used book, with his ownership signature. Fawkner lived a fascinating life. "He was born in 1792 in Cripplegate, London. His father was convicted of receiving stolen goods & in 1801 was sentenced to fourteen years transportation. With his mother & younger sister, Elizabeth, 11-year old John accompanied his father to the new settlement to be formed in Bass Strait. They joined H.M.S. Calcutta at Portsmouth & sailed on 29 April 1803 in company with the Ocean, carrying a number of free settlers & stores. After Port Phillip was abandoned & the convicts & settlers were moved to Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania), the Fawkners lived in a primitive hut at the new settlement on Sullivan's Cove, suffering great hardship & continuing shortages of food. During one period when scurvy was rife, young Fawkner lost the use of his right leg for some months. In 1835 he financed a party of free settlers from Van Diemen's Land, to sail to the mainland in his ship, Enterprise. Fawkner's party sailed to Port Phillip Bay & up the Yarra River to found a settlement which became the city of Melbourne. Fawkner himself landed at Hobson's Bay in October 1835 & at once began to lay the foundations of a fortune that grew to £20,000 in his first four years on the mainland. In January 1838 he added to his trade of hotel-keeping that of newspaper proprietor. His Melbourne Advertiser was handwritten on four pages of foolscap for nine numbers until a press & type arrived from Tasmania, & it was then printed weekly until suppressed because Fawkner had no licence. In February 1839, with a licence, he began the Port Phillip Patriot & Melbourne Advertiser; this later became a daily, & he ran it in conjunction with a bookselling & stationery business. In 1839 Fawkner also added to his already considerable land holdings a 780-acre (316 ha) property known as Pascoe Vale. As a man of property & influence, Fawkner took an active & leading part in the political & social struggles of the time. Fawkner died on 4 September 1869 at his home in Smith Street, Collingwood, the grand old man of contemporary Victoria." (largely from: Hugh Anderson, 'Fawkner, John Pascoe (1792 - 1869)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Vol. 1, Melbourne University Press, 1966, pp.368-370). Thomas Babington Macaulay (Lord Macaulay) (1800-1859) was a British poet, historian & Whig politician. He wrote extensively as an essayist & reviewer, & on British history. He also held political office as Secretary at War between 1839 & 1841 & Paymaster-General between 1846 & 1848. He was made Secretary at War in 1839 by Lord Melbourne & was sworn of the Privy Council the same year. The Miscellaneous Writings of Lord Macaulay was printed in 1860 by Spottiswoode & Co., London. 395pp + 24pp ads. Extremely RARE & UNIQUE SIGNED COPY from the library of the founder of Melbourne. Signed by Author(s).

Written for and published by Jn. P. Fawkner. Monday, January the 8th. 1838. Melbourne. Vol. 1, No. 2.[Melbourne : s. n., circa 1860]. Foolscap folio, pp. [4], photolithographic facsimile, edges chipped, old folds and tape stains to a tear, edges chipped and brittle. Early facsimile of Melbourne's first newspaper, originally circulated in manuscript form only. As noted by Ferguson, a number of photolithographic facsimiles were produced in the nineteenth century, of which this is an example without imprint. Ferguson, 2547.