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300. “GIACOME DI ROSENBERG” (TUCKER, James.) ralph rashleigh or the life of an exile. now first published from the original manuscript edited with introduction and notes by colin roderick. Angus and Robertson.1952.
£400
folio, original orange morocco backed buckram boards by sangorski and sutcliffe, lettered in gilt on spine with gilt roundel on upper board, map endpapers, with an original signed etching of port hunter by geoffrey ingleton, with ten photographic plates of original documents. A fine copy.
deluxe issue of the first edition, limited to 50 copies signed by the editor, with an etching by ingleton. this is the first authentic and unadulterated edition of one of the
most
important literary productions of the
colonial era and one of only two novels by a convict. tucker’s novel - the
authorship of which was first established here by professor roderick - had previously been published in london a quarter of a century earlier in an emasculated and grossly altered form as a quaint autobiographical narrative. it was roderick’s edition that brought the manuscript - discovered by charles bertie early this century - into the canon of Australian literature and established tucker’s reputation as one of the four or five outstanding novelists of the era.
301. TURNBULL, John. ‘A voyage round the World in the years 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803, and 1804, in which the Author visited the principal islands in the pacific ocean, and the english settlements of port Jackson and norfolk island. by John turnbull. 3 vols. crown octavo, price 15s. boards. — phillips, 1805’, extracted from: sir richard phillips. A collection of modern and contemporary voyages and travels, vol. iii. London: Barnard & Sultzer for Richard Phillips, 1805-1810.
£250
8vo (207 x 128mm). modern dark-blue boards, upper board lettered in gilt; pp. [1]-52, [2 (index, directions to the binder, and erratum)], [2 (blank l.)]; one folding letterpress table ‘table of the territorial productions of the morea’ [relating to pouqueville’s work included in A Collection]; some
light on spotting and
browning, otherwise very good; provenance: gilbert hampden manley (1931-2008, inkstamp endpaper).
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First publication thus. John turnbull (fl. 1799-1813) ‘was a sailor in the merchant service. While second mate of the Barwell
in 1799 he visited china, and came to the
conclusion that the Americans were carrying on a lucrative trade in north- west Asia. on his return home he induced an enterprising merchant to fit out a vessel to visit those parts. sailing from portsmouth in may 1800 in the Margaret, a ship of ten guns, he touched at madeira and at cape colony, which had recently passed into british hands. on 5 January 1801 he arrived at botany bay. the north-west speculation turned out to be a failure and turnbull resolved to visit the islands of the pacific. he devoted the next three years to exploring new Zealand, the society islands, the
sandwich islands, and many parts of the south seas. At tahiti he encountered the agents of the london missionary society, to whose zeal he bore testimony while suggesting they change their methods. After visiting the friendly islands he returned home by cape horn in the Calcutta, arriving in england in June 1804’ (odnb). turnbull’s account of his voyage was first published in three volumes as A Voyage round the World, in the Years 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803, and 1804: in which the Author Visited the Principal Islands in the Pacific Ocean, and the English settlements of Port Jackson and Norfolk Island (london: richard phillips, 1805), and phillips then published this abridgement of it in volume iii of his Collection of Modern and Contemporary Voyages and Travels. As Wantrup states, in his Voyage ‘John turnbull introduced Australia to the world as a field for private commercial endeavour and emigration [...] his account is the first work to describe new south Wales from a commercial point of view [...] As the first work to record Australia from a commercial point of view and as a key work in the promotion of Australia as a field for emigration and trade, it makes a valuable addition to any collection’ (pp. 116-117). A second, revised edition of the 1805 text appeared in 1813, and there were also a number of translations.
this copy is from the library of the biological anthropologist gilbert manley, who was born in shanghai in 1931 and grew up in china, spending two-and-a-half years interned with his family in yangchow camp during the Japanese occupation. in 1950 he left china for britain to pursue his studies, graduating from the university of nottingham in 1956 with a first class honours degree in Zoology, which led to a dphil based on an ethological study of avian social behaviour at oxford university. following a series of fellowships and lectureships at the university of nottingham, the Zoological society of london, the smithsonian primatological survey in ceylon, and Queen elizabeth college and birkbeck college, university of london, manley was appointed lecturer in the department of Anthropology at the university of durham in 1974, where he remained until his retirement as senior lecturer in 1994.
Ferguson 422; Hawaiian National Bibliography 376; Hill p. 596; Kroepelien 1303.
302. UZANNE, Octave. AVRIL, Paul (illustrator). the fan. J.C. Nimmo and Bain. 1884.
£998
royal 8vo. sometime handsomely bound in full maroon morocco, elaborate gilt borders to sides, both covers with a gilt fan design at the centre, spine decorated in gilt and with five raised bands, decorative gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, others untrimmed; illustrated and decorated throughout by paul Avril, the illustrations mostly tinted, a fine copy, preserved in a cloth dust-jacket with gilt title on the spine; bookplate of bernice olds roe.
first english edition. A study from ancient times into the nineteenth century, uzanne’s work on fans, was part of his wider series of “books of the boudoir” which was intended to provide a comprehensive history of feminine adornment. his collaboration with the artist paul Avril creates as gordon ray described it “an elegant pastiche of rococo bookmaking, exactly to the taste of the bibliophiles of his day”.
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