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Relating the adventurous life of Capt. Edward Primrose Tregurtha - The Napoleonic Wars - The East India Company's China Run - Whaling in the South Seas - Shipmaster to the Port Phillip District. 12.5" x 7.5", royal blue cloth, gilt decoration to upper board, gilt title to spine, map eps, pp. (1-8) 9-166 incl. index, illustrated by colour and b&w prints (some tipped-in), book and dw (now protected) both new. 1980 first edition, No. 557 of a limited edition of 600 numbered and signed copies (plus 25 in full leather). Signed by Dan Sprod on the limitation page. …

Hardback. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Fine condition in a Fine Dustjacket - DJ now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs and Drawings. B/w map. Three colour folded charts to rear pocket. 228 pages. This book presents original accounts of the circumnavigation of Tasmania by Flinders and Bass together with commentary, notes and references. A facsimile of Flinders most rare pamphlet "Observations on the Coasts of Van Diemen's Land, on Bass's Strait and its Islands, and on part of the Coasts of New South Wales" along with three important charts which were intended to accompany the pamphlet are reproduced in this book.…

Hardcover (Embossed Cloth). Condition: Good. This edition is limited to 600 copies, numbered and signed. This is Copy No: 31 Relating the adventurous life of Cornishman Captain Edward Primrose Tregurtha….

Landscape painter in Van Diemen's Land and the Port Phillip District 1844-1848 12.5" x 11", mid-blue cloth, gilt decoration to upper board, gilt bands, titles and decoration to spine, crimson eps, Pierre Gorman bookplate on front pastedown, pp. (1-7) 8-191 incl. index, illustrated by 61 colour plates incl. foldout, light foxing to outer and upper edge, o/w book and dw (now protected) as new 1984 first edition, No. 404 of a limited edition of 1000 copies. Large, heavy volume, for which a postage quote is recommended.…

1st edition limited to 600 copies hand numbered (No. 142) and signed by the Editor. 165 PP with 3 maps (FEP, text, REP), 3 illustrations pasted down (frontispiece and 2 headpieces in colour), and 6 b/w illustrations (vignette on title page, 1 map of Port Phillip, 3 headpieces and 1 tailpiece). Fp: Portrait of Capt. Tregurtha. FEP: Map of Australia & South Seas. REP: Map of Europe & the East. Cloth covers, gilt device on front board and gilt title on spine, dj. Light foxing on outside page edges and inside of dust jacket, o/wise a fine copy. 32 x 20. …

4to. pp.ix + 228 with frontispiece and black & white plates, 3 folding charts [one coloured] in pocket at rear. bibliography, index; Original dark blue cloth hardcover in pictorial dust wrapper. Very good copy. Limited to 750 copies.