24082

(AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL POSTER) INTERNATIONAL YEAR FOR THE WORLD'S INDIGENOUS PEOPLE. ABC Radio for All Australians.
ABC, Sydney, nd c.1993. Decorative colour poster on brown kraft paper, 78 x 68 cms., old damp stains on r/h margin (not affecting image).
No designer or printer details
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$250

23546
CARY, John.

A NEW MAP OF ASIA [INCLUDING AUSTRALIA], FROM THE LATEST AUTHORITIES.
John Cary, London, 1806. Hand-coloured engraved map, 45 x 51 cms., original hand-colouring, wide margins, centrefold (soft crease), no marks or foxing, paper watermarked 1804, VG+.
Showing Asia from the east coast of Africa. Particularly interesting is the treatment of Australia and New Guinea, where the unknown coasts are left blank. Flinders and Freycinet had charted the south eastern coast of New Holland, but their charts were not published until 1812 and 1814, when the continent became generally known as Australia. The southern coast of New Guinea was not fully charted until the 1850s. This map marks the forefront of geographical knowledge of Australasia at the end of the eighteenth century after the discoveries of James Cook.
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$1250

24080
DEGOTARDI, Johann (John) Snr (1823-82).

[PANORAMA] SYDNEY HARBOUR FROM NORTH SHORE.
Sydney, late 1860s-70s. Continuous panorama made up of 5 albumen paper prints (each approx 25 x 32 cms.) totalling 157 cms. in length. Seven old fold marks with surface damage and some paper losses at the creases, other creases and a couple of small holes. The whole panorama now professionally stabilised and remounted on acid-free Japanese rice paper toned to match the sepia tones of the albumen prints.
Photographs taken from the North Shore above Lavender Bay, looking towards the southern shore (almost certainly from 'observatory' tower of a house off Blues Point Road formerly called 'Fryer's Folly'). The view pans west from Balls Head (right-hand end of panorama), through Morts Bay, Goat Island, Darling Harbour, Millers Point, Walsh Bay, Dawes Point, Sydney Cove, Bennelong Point, Garden Island, Rushcutter's Bay and beyond (left-hand end of panorama). Many large ships are visible on the harbour and docked at Walsh Bay and Circular Quay. The Observatory is very visible on its hill. There are detailed views of buildings on the north shore as well, including some identifiable commercial enterprises. Good detail of buildings on McMahon's Point and Blues Point. Kirribilli House is visible above Lavender Bay. John Degotardi was born in Yugoslavia and arrived in Sydney from Graz, Austria in 1853. He worked as a printer and engraver, turning to photography in the 1860s. His landscape photographs were in great demand, and he won several awards in local and international exhibitions. His name and address are on the lower-right of the image. The area shown is roughly the same as the more famous larger Holtermann Panorama of 1875, but taken from a slightly different viewpoint.
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$7500

24066
[DOWER, John] TEESDALE, Henry.

A NEW GENERAL ATLAS OF THE WORLD (1837). Comprehended in forty seven maps. Compiled from the latest authorities both English and Foreign containing separate maps of the various countries and states, and exhibiting their boundaries & divisions. Also the chains of mountains, rivers, lakes and other geographical features, comprehended in forty seven maps, including ancient maps of Greece, the Roman and Persian Empires and Palestine from drawings made expressly for this work by John Dower.
Henry Teesdale, London, 1837 Folio, 380 x 270 mm., orig half-leather (rubbed) with mottled (oiled-silk) boards, gilt decorated spine and title. A well preserved binding still firm and complete. Engraved title-page and forty seven hand-coloured engraved maps in excellent condition.
All maps engraved double page (India larger on 4 joined sheets) folded and bound into volume on guards, no foxing, marks or tears on any map. All maps full original hand-colour. Includes double-page Eastern and Western Hemispheres with Cook's voyages, New South Wales showing the new boundaries for South Australia, Van Diemen's Land, and two maps of the United States showing developments to the west.
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$2750

23549
DURY, A & R. Sayer.

1761 MAP OF THE WORLD IN TWO HEMISPHERES.
Dury & Sayer, London, 1761. Engraved map, 10.5 x 20.5 cms., orig outline colour, signs of old vertical folds, wide margins, no foxing or marks, VG. Framed & glazed.
An inexpensive miniature double hemisphere map of the world originally published in 'A New and Universal Atlas (engraved by Mr Kitchin and others)' in 1761. Interesting pre-Cook conjecture of shape and size of Australia/New Guinea.
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$295

23478
FREYCINET, Henri de. [BAUDIN'S VOYAGE]

1812 MAP PLAN D'UNE PARTIE de la TERRE NAPOLEON. Modern day Ceduna (SA) & Portland (Vic).
Paris, 1808 - 1812. Two hand-coloured engraved maps on one sheet, each 11 x 17 cms., no foxing, very good condition. Framed and glazed.
Baudin was the first European navigator to explore the region between Port Phillip Bay in Victoria and Encounter Bay in SA. The top map of these two (Portland) can, therefore, rightfully be named with French place names. However, the lower map shows an area round present-day Ceduna, which was first charted by Flinders a year before Baudin. Mapmaker Freycinet therefore had no right to bestow coast and islands with the names of Bonaparte's family. An interesting historical "what might have been...". Tooley ref no. 615.
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$295

23448
[NICOLAS BAUDIN] PETIT, Nicolas.

NOUVELLE - HOLLANDE: GNOUNG - A - GNOUNG, MOUR - RE - MOUR - GA. (dit Collins.).
Paris, 1824. Hand-coloured lithograph, 34 x 24 cms., fine condition.
Plate XVII from the deluxe edition of Freycinet's 5 volume atlas published in 1824 to complete the findings of Baudin's expedition of 1802-3. The aborigine shown was well-known to the English colony at Port Jackson.
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$350

23057

[PHOTOGRAPH] H.M.A.S. AUSTRALIA IN THE FIRTH OF FORTH.
Colarts, Melbourne, nd c.1920s. Orig hand-tinted photograph, 30 x 46 cm., set in orig 1920s black mount with white-lettered title, Colarts authentication stamp and number (E N 7) on rear board, small closed tear (6 cm), some abrasions at outer edges (near mount, not affecting central image), orig black frame available if required.
Colarts was a Melbourne Company which specialised in producing and selling enlarged, coloured images from World War 1. They claimed that "the special process of colouring and enlarging from small snapshots to such an immense size and beauty....is a secret one." HMAS Australia (1912-1924) was an Indefatigable Class battlecruiser which arrived in Sydney in 1913. She led the fleet which chased the Germans out of New Guinea and the Pacific in1914-15. When deployed to England in 1915 she became flagship of the 2nd Battle-cruiser Squadron of the Grand Fleet. It is from this period that the original of this photogaph dates. An accident led to HMAS Australia missing the Battle of Jutland, and she survived the war to lead the port column of the Grand Fleet at the surrender of the German High Seas Fleet. Returning home in 1919, HMAS Australia suffered a mutiny (over shore leave) upon reaching Fremantle. Postwar patrol duties included early experiments in launching aircraft at sea. Converted "Imperial Gift" Avro 540Ks were launched from platforms built over the guns. Under the terms of the Washington Treaty HMAS Australia was scuttled off Sydney Harbour in 1924.
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$500

23407
SPCK [SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE].

1845 AUSTRALASIA: A MAP OF AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND. Cottage Map No. 3.
Committee of General Literature and Education SPCK, London, nd c. 1845. Engraved map, 47 x 57 cm., original hand-colouring, 2 wood-engraved vignettes (view Sydney & NZ natives) , centrefold crease, a very good copy of an extremely rare map of unexplored Australia. Tooley ref. 1184. Framed and glazed.
Text at bottom of map gives interesting information (dated census 1841) on population and development of missions and clergy in Australia and New Zealand. Interior of continent marked "Unexplored Regions", with Eyre's mythical horseshoe-shaped Lake Torrens as the only feature apart from major NSW rivers. A rare map to find in any condition, let alone very good, due to fragility of paper - many were published, few survived.
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$750

22802
TALLIS, John.

1851 MAP OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA (part).
John Tallis, London, nd c.1851. Hand-coloured engraved map, hand-coloured outlines & vignettes, 34 x 25 cms., fine condition. Another available framed and glazed. Accompanied by copy of relevant text page.
A fine copy of the famous and decorative Tallis map, now becoming very hard to find in good condition. Shows mining areas and the tracks of Eyre (1840) and Frome (1842), 2 vignette scenes, 2 engraved animals and the State Seal, hand-coloured decorative border. One significant feature of the map is the marking of the two great copper discoveries of the 1840s at Kapunda and Burra, which gave rise to a unique subculture of transplanted Cornish folk and rescued the South Australian economy for many years. The map also maintains explorer Eyre's mistaken belief (1840) that Lake Torrens was a continuous horseshoe-shaped barrier to further northward exploration. In fact, it was not until 1858 that Babbage and then Warburton confirmed the separation of Lake Torrens from Lake Eyre and located the first stock crossing between them.
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$495

24114
TODD, Sir Charles (1826 - 1910).

MAP TO ACCOMPANY REPORT ON THE CONNECTION OF ADELAIDE AND MELBOURNE BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH, SHEWING THE ROUTE PROPOSED TO BE TAKEN. South Australian section from the border.
Surveyor-General's Office, Melbourne, January 9th.1857. First edition. Hand-coloured lithographed map, 380 x 290 mm., fine condition, framed & glazed.
Charles Todd surveyed the South Australian section of this map in 1856 during his return visit to Adelaide on horseback from Melbourne where he had met and negotiated the Melbourne to Adelaide telegraph connection with Samuel McGowan, the Victorian Superintendent of Telegraphs. The line was commenced in April 1857, and connection established with Melbourne (through the existing Portland - Melbourne line) in July 1858. The submarine cable required at Lake Alexandrina on this route proved to be unreliable and the line was rerouted through Wellington in 1861. This map shows the route of the South Australian section of the first telegraph service to connect two capital cities in Australia, and is also a remarkable record of the speed and sophistication with which Australia took up the Morse's newly-invented telegraphic system. The Adelaide - Melbourne link enabled news from overseas to reach Melbourne a week earlier than before, and also ensured that Adelaide became a key player in telegraphic connection with the rest of the world when the Overland Telegraph Line was completed by Todd in 1872. This Melbourne edition of Todd's survey misspells Encounter Bay's newly-proclaimed Port Elliot as Port Eliott.
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$950

24083
TULA PRESS

[AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL POSTER] CIVILIZATION (KATH WALKER). For National Aborigines' Day, July 11, 1969.
National Aborigines' Day Observance Committee (NADOC), Sydney, 1969. Decorative colour poster, 43 x 55 cms., old folds.
Designed and printed by Tula Press, Darlinghurst.
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$250