Search Results: Titles starting with C from Hordern House Rare Books

London: Alexander Bassano, 1878. The card in very good condition.. Cabinet card, measuring 165 x 110 mm., early manuscript annotation. Charming cabinet card photographic portrait of the Honourable Cecilia Margaret Harbord, around the time of her 1878 marriage to the future governor of New South Wales, Sir Charles Robert Wynn Carington, 1st Marquess of Lincolnshire. After her marriage she was styled Baroness Carington of Upton (or "Lady Carington" as has been added in an early hand here). Her husband, a captain in the Royal Horse Guards, was appointed to the governorship of New South Wales in 1885. Although this image is not apparently recorded in any Australian collections, comparison with a similar image confirms her identity (see State Library of Victoria, Accession No: H2005.34/1186). Bassano was the leading society photographer of his day, and one of his many studios was at 72 Piccadilly. This particular studio was said to have been open between 1870 and 1881, which would accord with the… Read More

Newcastle: W. Boag, printer, 1830. Broadside measuring 390 x 255 mm. Scarce ephemeral broadside listing the name, age and alleged crimes of some 46 convicts held at the Gaols of Durham, Newcastle and Northumberland. Given the crimes include larceny, housebreaking, and assault, many of the men and women here listed would have been sentenced to transportation to New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land. Named are: Joseph Hutchinson, Joseph Ord, Ralph Atchison, Jos. Edwards, James Clark, Matthew Harrison, William Pearson, George Coultherd, William Smith, Thos. Teesdale, Benjamin Churchill, John Grant, William Day, Geo. Buckton, Jane Oliver, Eliz. Hopper, Francis Scott, William Gates, Eliz. Gates, Mary Spraggon, James Cowens, John Barnett, Thos. Thomson, Joseph Gilpatrick, Isabella Miller, Mark Smith, John Whitfield Bell, William Bell, Matthew Kirkup, Charles Hill, WM Manger, John Macpherson, Rachael Mitcheson, Rich. Beacher, Jane Craggs, Eliz. Smith, Thos. Henry, James Renoldson, John Ripley, William… Read More

London: John Stockdale, 1792. Slight foxing.. Engraving, 210 x 285 mm. (sheet size). Engraved illustration of a Papuan outrigger by first fleet officer Captain John Hunter, originally printed for inclusion in his Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island (1792). Hunter sailed with Arthur Phillip and undertook, amongst other tasks, essential map-making of the coast of New South Wales and Norfolk Island. As captain of the Sirius, Hunter was sent from Botany Bay to the Cape to replenish supplies in late 1788 and Hunter sailed through Papuan waters. In his Historical Journal of 1793, Hunter records interactions with natives of the Duke of York islands (New Britain), where his mariners were attacked while filling casks onshore: 'some of the stones, which they threw, came with the force of a shot from a gun among the sailors.' Hunter returned with grape-shot and created a scene of terror that induced a temporary accord. .

Edinburgh: printed by Sir D. Hunter Blair & J. Bruce, 1803. Disbound from stab-sewn binding, some browning, marginal paper repair to first leaf but overall sound condition.. Folio, pp. [1]-14, disbound. One of the most important amendments to the laws of Transportation, formalising the requirement for convict vessels to carry a Surgeon, and thus directly responsible for a huge improvement in mortality rates. The Act is also interesting for noting some of the abuses rampant aboard convict transports and other passenger vessels travelling from Britain. The First Fleet had been provisioned by the Admiralty itself, and the Surgeons on board, led by John White, had an excellent record. From the Second Fleet onwards the task was contracted to private companies, infamously derelict on the Second Fleet itself, and with wildly varying results over the ensuing decade. On several occasions officers colluded to deny the convicts their correct rations so the surplus could be sold upon arrival at Port Jackson for… Read More

Nyköping: Joh. Pet. Hammarin, 1795. A little mild foxing, bottom edge of title-page neatly repaired very good.. Small octavo, woodcut headpiece; in understated contemporary half calf. First Swedish edition of Bligh's Voyage to the South Seas. Rolf du Rietz's excellent note in the catalogue of the Kroepelien catalogue explains that this very rare version was anonymously translated by Carl Fr. Landell from Georg Forster's German edition of the Bligh account, and includes Forster's introduction. As with the German edition on which it is based, this book only includes the new material from the 1792 Voyage: that is, none of the Narrative section is included here, and a footnote explains that Ödmann's Swedish translation of that part should be thought of as the "second volume", so-called. This explains, in passing, the otherwise rather cryptic "Förrste Delen" ("first part") noted on the title-page here. Such a publishing arrangement had been Bligh's original intention for the English edition, but he… Read More

London: J K Sherwin, 1779. Private collection (Switzerland).. Engraving, artist's proof copy 275 x 235 mm, mounted and framed. A proof impression (before title, date and some letters) of the first issue of the first separately published engraving of Captain Cook. This famous portrait of the navigator was published in the year of his death, though news of the events at Kealakekua Bay did not reach Europe until the following year. Now the trademark image of Cook as a result of its very many subsequent versions (Beddie lists an astonishing 284 entries for the Dance group), it was considered the best likeness at the time and is known, for example, to have been distributed to friends by his widow Elizabeth. It is a conspicuously rare portrait in this first version. The engraving is based on Nathaniel Dance's original portrait, commissioned by Joseph Banks, for which Cook sat for Dance in 1776, before sailing on his third voyage. The painting is today in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. Dance, one… Read More

London: Wetton & Jarvis, 1822. Laid down.. Engraving, 92mm x 63mm (plate size);. For the series Portraits of illustrious persons, after the famous portrait by Dance. .

London, 1830. Small repaired tear in the right-hand side of the image, an excellent portrait.. Mezzotint engraving, 522 x 404 mm., noted in the plate as "proof" at bottom left, mounted and framed. A fine mezzotint portrait of Sir Christopher Cole, an important naval officer and significant as the patron of John Septimus Roe, Phillip Parker King's long-serving companion of the Mermaid and Bathurst voyages. A faint inscription at the lower left of the image notes that this is a proof copy. Cole (1770-1837), Post Captain and Colonel of Marine, served as Flag Captain to Lord Hugh Seymour and to Sir J.T. Duckworth, relieved the garrison to Amboyna in 1810 and captured Banda Neira. He retired from the sea to represent Glamorganshire, and was made commander of the yacht Royal Sovereign in 1828. He had tremendous influence on the career of the great Australian cartographer and naval officer John Septimus Roe. Roe's first appointment was as the "schoolmaster" under Cole on board the Rippon, a vessel which… Read More

London: for the Proprietor, 1821. A few spots, very good.. Engraving, printed upon india paper sheet measuring 180 x 130mm., laid upon larger sheet;. Proof version on india paper, marked "proof" to lower left-hand corner. This portrait is based on the oil painting by Nathaniel Dance now in the Greenwich Hospital Collection in the National Maritime Museum. The portrait was commissioned by Joseph Banks, and Cook sat for Dance in 1776, before sailing on his third voyage. Dance, is remembered as a pre-eminent British portrait artist and a founding member of the Royal Academy. .

London: Francis Edwards, 1952. Endpapers slightly spotted, otherwise fine.. Octavo; original brown cloth. One of 500 copies published of this early and influential Cook bibliography, by the doyen of Cook collecting, Sir Maurice Holmes. One of two standard bibliographical references for the voyages of Captain Cook, it is discursive and more attuned to the collector than Beddie's bibliography, which by comparison is encyclopaedic. This is the second and best version, revised and greatly expanded from Holmes' original 1936 essay (which, notes Holmes, 'contained one shocking howler... and half a dozen more venial errors'). It was put together by a significant collector: Holmes' Cook collection is today part of the libraries of UCLA. Like Holmes' earlier and less authoritative "Introduction to the Bibliography of Captain Cook" of 1936 it was published by the English bookseller Francis Edwards, at that time well known for its specialisation in books of voyages and travels. .

London: William Strahan & Cadell, 1777. Fine condition.. Engraved portrait, 265 x 200 mm. Fine portrait of Cook after William Hodges. This oval head-and-shoulders portrait of the navigator as a young man was commissioned from the engraver Basire to be used as the frontispiece of the official account of the second voyage. There were numerous later versions, hence the familiarity of the image. .

London: Alex Hogg., n.d., 1784. Some wear.. Engraving, 380 x 235 mm. Naïve oval portrait prepared as frontispiece for Anderson's New, Authentic and Complete Collection (1784-86). The scroll below gives birth and death information and names of the ships on each voyage. .

London: [E.A. Petherick], 1888. Printed sheet measuring 251 x 154 mm, a little toning but very good. Late nineteenth-century printing of a rare broadside promoting colonisation of "Terra Australis" by a private English company. Historically situated between Dampier and Cook, the broadside was originally published by Captain John Welbe circa 1720. It promotes his scheme to float a private company with the express purpose of taking and mining the land along 'the coast of West Peru to the East Indies...upwards of 2,500 leagues'. The broadside makes note of Welbe's association with Dampier on his voyage of 1703-1706; experience that gave him unprecedented geographical knowledge and confidence to assert that these lands 'abound with Mines of Gold and Silver, and belong to no European state'. So confident is Welbe that he boldly asserts the Crown stands to reap some 50 million pounds from the venture (a mere half of that which he claims the Spanish have taken from Peru). Nonetheless, Welbe's ambitions bore… Read More

Paris: chez Rosselin, 1837. Some discolouring on edges.. Lithograph, 240 x 170 mm. (sheet size). A fine and elegant lithograph of Captain James Cook in his naval uniform looking to the left, with another engraving of Cook at a later stage of his life with a printed description of his life. .

London: for the Proprietor, 1821. Engraving, 180 x 130 mm. Engraving after the famous portrait by Dance. .

Philadelphia: (Dobelbower, Key and Simpson), 1796. Engraved portrait, 155 x 100 mm. Oval engraved portrait of Cook in profile. Originally issued in The World Displayed, or A Curious Collection of Voyages and Travels Selected and Compiled from the Writers of all Nations by Smart, Goldsmith & Johnson. .

London: Burney & Gold, 1801. Stipple engraving, 175 x 128mm (sheet size), very closely trimmed but otherwise good. An unusual portrait of Captain John Hunter, captain of the Sirius during the First Fleet era and later Governor of New South Wales from 1795-1800. This portrait was prepared in 1801, and so is significant as showing Hunter just after he had returned from New South Wales for the second time. An accomplished and professional naval officer, Hunter's time on the Sirius saw him become a mainstay of the colony, dispatched to Batavia and the Cape of Good Hope to trade. His governorship was not as successful, as Hunter's attempts to confront the illegal trade in rum and other challenges to his authority led to even more turbulence from the New South Wales Corps and its cronies. It was a crucial period in the consolidation of New South Wales as the penal outpost of the British Empire, and while Hunter was widely regarded as a competent administrator by 1799 things had deteriorated to the extent… Read More

London: Methuen & Co, 1899. Corner of title-page heavily clipped with some loss of text, nonetheless an attractive near-fine copy.. Octavo, frontispiece and numerous photo-plates throughout, three plans and two folding maps; publisher's decorated green cloth with gilt spine lettering;. The author was Robert Louis Stevenson's neighbour in Samoa between 1890 and 1893 whilst he was engaged in the cultivation of Australian hardwoods for the nascent forestry industry of that island. Christian was an itinerant soul by nature who sold his land to Stevenson and moved further into Eastern Polynesia in search of pristine island worlds. After returning to Sydney he met Louis Becke 'who told me of an ancient island Venice shrouded in jungle, an enchanted region of archaeology far away in the sea of small islands'. From this romantic beginning Christian moved to the Carolines and produced the present detailed description of island life and culture. The author was particularly fascinated by the monumental… Read More

[Paris]: [Chez Pillet Ainé], 1826. Large engraved chart on laid paper, 1030 x 710 mm., watermarked "Depot de la Marine", annotations in pencil and red ink (see note); a few creases, rather frayed and worn to the large margins, but a very good copy, unfolded as issued. An important map from the personal archive of Louis de Freycinet, with distinctive annotations in his familiar style. Freycinet has gridded-up around most of the major landfalls on the map, a technique he used for added accuracy in the transfer of information and for further calculations. In the bottom left, adjacent to the island of Guam (the most significant island on the map and a major port of call for the Freycinet expedition), Freycinet has made some pencil calculations and remarks relating to the size of the island's landmass. Lastly, there is a series of repeated corrections turning the letter "u" into "w", in reference to the islands of Sariguan, Uracas, Aguigan, Guam, Almaguam and Guguan. The map was published as no. 8 in… Read More

Paris: gravé par Tardieu, 1808. Blank margins slightly rubbed with a few a few closed tears, fine overall.. Engraved chart; 580 x 850 mm. Impressive early chart of the South Australian coastline revealing French colonial ambitions for Australia, a result of the survey undertaken during the Baudin expedition in Australian waters during 1802. As the title "Terre Napoleon" confirms, the map is tangible proof of French colonial ambitions for Australia. At the time of the Baudin voyage a Napoleonic order existed to conquer the continent, a plan ultimately frustrated by defeat in Europe. The place names engraved on this chart are almost entirely in French; interestingly, when the second edition of Baudin's voyage was published in 1824 most of these names were, without comment, discreetly changed into English. Although the map bears the engraved date of 1808 it was included in the atlas volume of the official voyage account published in 1812. A milestone in mapping the continent, this was the first… Read More