Lot 637

FLINDERS, Matthew (1774-1814). A Voyage to Terra Australis. Facsimile edition. [etc.]

Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer price: £450
Bidding ended. Lot has been sold.

FLINDERS, Matthew (1774-1814).  A Voyage to Terra Australis. Adelaide: Libraries Board of South Australia, 1966. 3 volumes comprising 2 text vols. and portfolio of folding facsimile charts, 4to (340 x 265mm). Original tan buckram. “Australiana Facsimile Editions No. 37.” With 9 other works, reprints or facsimiles, in 11 vols., namely William Dampier’s Voyages (New York, 1906, 2 vols., FINELY BOUND in black half morocco gilt), the same author’s Voyages and Discoveries (London, The Argonaut Press, 1931, original cream and red buckram, NUMBER 714 OF 975 COPIES ON JAPON VELLUM), Watkin Tench’s A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay … Decorated with Woodcuts and Drawings by Adrian Feint (Sydney, The Australian Limited Editions Society, 1938, original buckram-backed hessian, NUMBER 182 OF 500 COPIES SIGNED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR AND ANOTHER), William Bligh’s A Voyage to the South Sea (Adelaide, 1969, original buckram, “Australiana Facsimile Editions No. 121”), the same author’s The Log of H.M.S. Bounty 1787-1789 (Guildford, Genesis Publications Limited, 1975, facsimile logbook and charts, original half leatherette gilt, slipcase, NUMBER 283 OF 500 COPIES), the same author’s The Log of H.M.S. Providence 1791-1793 (Guildford, Genesis Publications Limited, 1976, facsimile logbook and charts, original half leatherette gilt, slipcase, NUMBER 283 OF 500 COPIES), Anders Sparrman’s A Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope (Cape Town, Van Riebeeck Society, 1975, 2 vols., original cloth), The Banks/Cook Portfolio ([No place], “Published by Hill House Publishers,” 1990, facsimile letters, maps, etc, loose, as issued, in cloth folder, no. 7 of an unspecified limitation) and Alexander Dalrymple’s An Account of the Discoveries made in the South Pacifick Ocean (Sydney, Hordern House, 1996, original leatherette-backed marbled paper boards, “Australian Maritime Series Number Three”, LIMITED TO 950 COPIES). Provenance: from the Collection of Lt. Cdr. Andrew David (bookplate). Please note that only a part of this lot is illustrated. (14)

Read more

Our website uses cookies, as almost all websites do, to help provide you with the best possible browsing experience.

Accept Read more