Asher Rare Books

Manuscript letter by one of the first missionaries in Samoa, being a rare first-hand account
of missionary life in the South Pacific

NISBET, Henry. [Letter to his sister Sarah Nisbet].
Upolu, Samoa, 7 January 1844. Folio. Written in one column in brown ink in a cursive 19th-century hand. Folded. [2] ll. Full description

€ 5,000

Autographs & Letters Church History & Missions Pacific Islands

From Rio de Janeiro to Batavia: a gripping account of the fastest circumnavigation of the globe of the time

ORTEGA, Casimiro de (translator), [Charles CLERKE (attributed)]. Viage del comandante Byron al rededor del mundo, hecho ultimamente de orden del almirantazgo de Inglaterra.
Madrid, Don Francisco Mariano Nipho, 1769. 4to. With a full-page, copper-engraved frontispiece, a large, folding, copper-engraved map of the Strait of Magellan in the back with the coasts highlighted in blue, and ornamental head-pieces throughout. Contemporary vellum with the manuscript title and a (later) shelf mark ("143") on the spine. [18], 245, [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 6,500

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Rare first Dutch edition of Oxley's expeditions into the interior of New South Wales

OXLEY, John. Reizen in de binnenlanden van Australie, in de jaren 1817 en 1818, . . . Uit het Engelsch, met platen en kaarten.
Dordrecht, Blussé, Van Braam, 1821. 8vo. With 2 engraved views (1 folding) by J.C. Bendorp and 2 engraved folding maps by C. van Baarsel & son (30.5×62 and 21.5×63 cm). Contemporary sprinkled half sheepskin. XVI, 420 pp. Full description

€ 3,950

Australia Charts & Maps Travel & Voyages Australia Travel & Voyages Pacific

Sydney, the Blue Mountains, Jenolan Caves and Launceston in the late 19th century

PAINE, John & Steven SPURLING II. [Photograph album containing pictures of New South Wales and Tasmania].
[Australia, 1870s-1880s]. 16.5 x 37 cm. With 34 mounted albumen prints, mostly between 10 x 15 cm and 18 x 23.5 cm, with the smallest ca. 7 x 10 cm, most of them captioned underneath in ink. Oblong half morocco photo album, titled "Queensland" on the front. 18 ll. Full description

€ 1,850

Australia Photography

First French edition of Parkinson's account of Cook's first voyage

PARKINSON, Sydney. Voyage autour du monde, sur le vaisseau de sa majesté Britannique l'Endeavour, ... précédé d'un discours en forme d'introduction sur les principaux navigateurs anglais et français qui ont précédé l'Endeavour: suivi d'un abrégé des deux derniers voyages du capitaine Cook, ... Ouvrage traduit de l'Anglais. Par le C. Henri.
Paris, Guillaume, 1797. 2 volumes. 8vo. With 6 folding engraved plates. Contemporary half calf. 12, LVI, 344; [4], 309, [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 2,250

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Emigrant's guide to New South Wales, Australia

[PATTISON, John]. Neu-Südwales. Seine Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und Zukunft, oder Erfahrungen und Beobachtungen während eines zwölfjährigen Aufenthaltes in Australien.
Leipzig, Christian Ernst Kollmann, 1850. 8vo. Contemporary half tanned sheepskin. [4], 190, [2] pp. Full description

€ 1,750

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The Batavia wreck and mutiny: the extremely rare first edition

[PELSAERT, François]. Ongeluckige voyagie, van 't schip Batavia, nae de Oost-Indien. Gebleven op de Abrolhos van Frederick Houtman ...
Including:
- [VLIET, Jeremias van]. Verbael ende historisch verhael van't gene des Vereenighde Nederlandtsche Geoctroyeerde Oost-Indische Compagnies dienaers, onder de directie van Jeremias van Vliet, in de jaren 1636 ende 1637 by den koningh van Siam in de stadt Judia vedervaren is. ...
- Droevigh verhael van't gene sich in Persia in 't Konincklijcke Hof ende stadt Espahan ... in den jare 1645 toegedragen heeft. ...
Amsterdam, Jan Jansz., 1647. 2 works in 1 volume. Small 4to. With 6 folding plates containing full-size scenes of the bloody mutiny, 2 large woodcut decorated initials, and an ornamental woodcut tailpiece. Modern gold-tooled half dark red morocco and dark orange cloth sides, with the title lettered in gold on the spine. [2], 118 pp. Full description

€ 275,000

Australia Mutiny, Piracy & Shipwrecks Southeast Asia Travel & Voyages Australia VOC

Second and improved edition of one the finest items of Australiana

PÉRON, François Auguste and Louis Claude de Saulses de FREYCINET. Voyage de découvertes aux Terres Australes, fait par ordre du gouvernement, sur les corvettes le Géographe, le Naturaliste et la goëlette le Casuarina, pendant les années 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803 et 1804; historique.
Paris, (printed by Lebel for) Arthus Bertrand, 1824. 4 text volumes (8vo) and 1 atlas volume (folio). With lithographed portrait of François Péron; the atlas with engraved title-page and 68 (27 hand-coloured) lithographed plates, maps and charts, including a double-page map of Australia. Contemporary gold-tooled red half sheepskin. XXIV, 400; 532; 432; 353, [4] pp.; Atlas vol. [10] pp. text (Index of plates). Full description

€ 35,000

Anthropology & Ethnography Australia Charts & Maps Travel & Voyages Australia Travel & Voyages Pacific

Nineteenth-century panorama photograph of Sydney Harbour

[PHOTOGRAPHY - AUSTRALIA]. [Sydney Harbour and Circular Quay].
[Sydney, ca. 1875]. Ca. 8 x 46.5 cm. Panorama photograph, consisting of three albumen prints joined together with white bookcloth. Full description

€ 350

Australia Photography

Late 19th-century photographs of Sydney and surroundings

[PHOTOGRAPHY - AUSTRALIA]. [Views of New South Wales].
[Australia, ca. 1885]. Folio (ca. 44 x 36.5 cm). With 65 albumen prints. Contemporary gold-tooled black morocco, with the title lettered in gold on the front, gold-tooled turn-ins, gilt edges, watered-silk end papers. [29] ll. Full description

€ 5,500

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Manuscript letter by one of the first missionaries in Samoa, being a rare first-hand account
of missionary life in the South Pacific

From Rio de Janeiro to Batavia: a gripping account of the fastest circumnavigation of the globe of the time

Rare first Dutch edition of Oxley's expeditions into the interior of New South Wales

Sydney, the Blue Mountains, Jenolan Caves and Launceston in the late 19th century

First French edition of Parkinson's account of Cook's first voyage

Emigrant's guide to New South Wales, Australia

The Batavia wreck and mutiny: the extremely rare first edition

Second and improved edition of one the finest items of Australiana

Nineteenth-century panorama photograph of Sydney Harbour

Late 19th-century photographs of Sydney and surroundings


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