Convict Transportation (5 results)

Condition: Very good condition. "Owen Suffolk - the prison poet of Australia. was a clerk in the Postoffice in London, and was transported for stealing a registered letter". Owen Hargraves Suffolk (born 1830?- ?) was a convict writer whose experiences provided the material for his book 'Days of Crime and Years of Suffering", which led to the creation of a Discharged Prisoners' Aid Society. Advertising brochure for the infamous ship "Success" owned by an American captain D. H. Smith, who exhibited it around the world as "an educational object lesson in Prison Reform". 8vo, 16pp. Pictorial paper wrappers, with b&w photograph of the ship with "convict ship" painted in large white letters on her side, framed by an illustration of a life saver, and with advertising text below the image. Rear wrapper with another b&w photographic image of the ship and hours of operation. Internally, text describing the history of the ship, the catalogue of exhibits, "descend to cells", "descend to lower deck", "In Officers' Quarters on Main Deck", reviews in the media, and testimonials. Wrappers slt marked, esp rear cover.…

Self wrappers pamphlet. Condition: Very good condition. First printing. A rare and important British Blue Paper, illustrating Governor Macquarie's early years. The report published in 1812 was the result of a report by a Parliamentary Select Committee to explore the future of transportation of convicts to New South Wales, a system that had operated for almost 25 years. It includes a complete transcript of evidence given by many important witnesses, including former Governor John Hunter, former Governor William Bligh, Scottish Martyr Maurice Margarot, Matthew Flinders, First Fleet chaplain Richard Johnson, and many other colonial officials. Extracts from several of Macquarie's early dispatches are included. The report is a document of great significance in the early history of Australia. It is the first major document from the Macquarie era. It endorsed the existing system of transportation and "the liberal views of the present Governor", and became the foundation for Macquarie's program of civil and administrative improvement. Ferguson, 543; Wantrup, 3; Trove Libraries Australia ID 4191118. Foolscap folio, 117pp (last blank). [Parliamentary papers / House of Commons] ; no. 341; Disbound from a compilation, lacking the original blue wrappers, with later brown paper wrappers which have tanned the title and last page. Internally, a bright clean copy of a very scarce piece of Australiana.…

2pp., 12mo. In fair condition, on aged paper, with traces of mount adhering at head of reverse of leaf. Regarding Smith's 'note with reference to the selection of a gentleman to fill the office of Chaplain at the Portland Convict Depôt', he writes that he must 'defer the consideration of this question, as it must necessarily be yet some considerable period before the works at the Island are sufficiently advanced for the reception of Convicts'. Earlier in 1847 Grey had proposed the abolition of penal transportation, and ten years later his Secondary Punishment Bill would deal with the issue again.…

London: Printed by William Clowes and Sons 1850. F'scap folio. Artificial (Mackaness) morocco (slightly rubbed). (viii 138pp.). Uncut. F. 5371. Slightly water-stained on preliminary pages otherwise a good complete copy dealing with the opposition of the settlers at Port Phillip to the introduction of convicts but those settlers at Moreton Bay seeking to have the convicts sent there.…

Condition: Scace. First. p.p. 144 with 7 large coloured plates of (1) Prisoners Tread Wheel, (2) Elevation of wheel & separate boxes for convicts off the wheel, (3) Ground plan of prisoner's barracks and Trinity Chapel at Hobart Town. (4) Elevation of the Old and New Dormitories, (5) Plan of the Mill Room and Wheel, (6) Stone Cells Plan and Plan of the Chapel, (7) Plan of The Prisoners Tread Mill & Parallel section of the Wheel. Original blue printed wrappers. Many of the convicts that had been transported to Van Dieman's Land were Irish and were not welcomed particularly in Hobar.…