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Rare auction catalogue promoting the sale of John Calvert's collection of Australasian printed material. INCLUDING The Voyages of Hacke, Dampier, Narborough, Anson, Captain Cook (a Fine Uniform Set of the Original Editions of the Three Voyages, with three Folio Atlases, etc., in 14 vols, also a Holograph Letter from the great Navigator), Parkinson, Governor Phillip, Dixon, Portlock, Bligh, Hunter, Vancouver (with the rare Atlas), La Perouse, Collins, Burney's History of Discoveries in the South Seas, 5 vols, Freycinet and Peyron, Kotzebue, Beechey, Jukes, Macgillivray, and many others. Rare Books relating to or printed in the Australian Colonies and Tasmania, INCLUDING Wallis' Account of New South Wales, 1821-Atkinson's State of Agriculture in the same Colony,1826-N.S.W., Melbourne, Van Diemen's Land, other Almanacs ranging between 1814 and 1872-Act and Proclamations printed in Sydney 1826-29-The Early Inter-Continental Travels of Oxley, Sturt, Mitchell, Grey, Stokes, Eyre, etc. -Government Publications and other Books dealing with the Early Penal Settlements and Emioration, 1831-56-Smyth's Aborigines of Victoria, 2 vols, and other works of Anthropological interest- Tulloch's Coloured Views of the Gold Diggings of Victoria, 1852, and others relating to Gold Mining and the Squatter's Life in General. Also Books on Polynesia and the South Sea Islands. THREE INTERESTING ALBUMS OF ORIGINAL DRAWINGS, etc. [ca. 1845], executed by P. H. F. Phelps, an early Settler, comprising Sketches of the Aborigines, Views of Sydney, a Map and Plan of the Moruya Estate, County of St. Vincent, N.S.W., and Coloured Drawings of Birds. FINE BOOKS WITH COLOURED PLATES, INCLUDING Webber's Views in the South Seas, 1808-Orme's Foreign Field Sports, 1814 - Lycett's Views in New South Wales, 1824- Angas's South Australia, and New Zealand, 1847-Brees. Pictorial llustrations of New Zealand, Large Paper, 1847- Stack's Views of Auckland, 1862, etc. Valuable Works on the Natural History and Ornithology of Australasia, including Lewin's Lepidopterous Insects of New South Wales, 1805, and the New Edition of the Birds, 1838-Duperrey's Voyage autour du Monde (Botany and Mammals), 3 vols, 1826-7-Buller's Birds of New Zealand, Second Edition with the Supplement, 3 vols, 1888-1905, most of the foregoing having numerous coloured plates. The whole forming a remarkable Collection, generally speaking in excellent condition, either in the original cloth as issued, or well-bound in half calf gilt. Also an Oil Painting by Thomas Baines, depicting the Ships of the North Australian Expedition in the Gulf of Carpentaria, 1855, Which will be Sold by Auction by Messrs. HODGSON & CO. JOHN EDMUND HODGSON and SIDNEY HODGSON) At their Rooms, No. 115 Chancery Lane, London, W.C.2 (Fleet Street End), On Firday, May 2nd, 1924 at ONE o'clock punctually. Octavo, bound in printed faun paper wrappers, staple-bound, 32 pages, 2 black & white full page plates, contemporary annotations from the auction room floor throughout (noting the occassional sale price with additional tick and cross marks in red pencil), a very good annotated copy.
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