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Index to Rouge’s Mitchell Map
LE ROUGE, George Louis, 1777.
£10,000
Cook in Parts!
ANDERSON, George William pseud., 1785.
£750
Joseph Huddart’s Certificate of Admittance to Trinity House, the Lighthouse Authority
HUDDART, Joseph; Charles WILDBORE; and Hector ROSE, 1790.
£3,500
Rare first edition of woodworker’s manual
BERGERON, [Louis-Eloy] [but Louis-Georges-Isaac SALIVET], 1792.
£1,000
A guide to sailing to Jamaica
GAULD, George, 1795.
£6,000
An innovative globe
COVENS, Cornelius, 1802.
£3,000
The first scientific analysis of the American Southwest
HUMBOLDT, Alexander von [and] Aime J.A. BONPLAND, 1811.
£45,000
Catalogue of maps and atlases published by the Spanish Admiralty
REAL DIRECCION DE TRABAJOS HIDROGRAFICOS, 1815.
£12,000
The Towneley sale catalogue
[HOLLAR]. KING, Thomas., 1818.
£2,500
‘One of the world’s finest collections of graphic art’
KRAUSS, George Friedrich, 1822.
£210,000
Bigge’s damning report of Macquarie’s tenure as emancipist Governor of the Colony of New South Wales
BIGGE, John Thomas; and Governor Lachlan MACQUARIE, 1822.
£8,000
Inquiry in the Poyasian Fraud
CODD, Edward, 1824.
£4,000
A hydrographer’s library
BUACHE, Jean Nicolas, 1826.
£850
A Frankfurt publisher
WILMANS, Frederic, 1829.
£250
First inklings of self-government and nationhood for Australia
WENTWORTH, William Charles, and Sir Ralph DARLING, 1830.
£2,000
Murchison’s seminal work on the Silurian System
MURCHISON, Roderick Impey, 1839.
£10,000
“All Smell is Disease”
THE GENERAL BOARD OF HEALTH, 1855.
£15,000
“The largest fleet that has ever been seen to act in concert, for any purpose whatsoever, since the world began”
MAURY, Matthew Fontaine, 1855.