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Antarctic Crime – A Victim of the Aurora – Thomas Keneally – First Edition 1977

Published by Collins a first edition 1977 in pretty good condition.

A mischief-maker is strangled during a pre WWI British Antarctic Expedition, and personalities are revealed in a believable and usual crime story from the great Thomas Keneally. Dedicated to Bob Hawke!

Murder at its Coldest!

$20.00

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A Cave on Enderby Island -The Auckland Islands (Sub-Antarctic) – Louis Le Breton for Dumont d’Urville – 1840

Grotte Sur L’isle Enderby – Isles Auckland.

An original lithograph from a drawing by Louis Le Breton (1818-1866) published as part of the great “Atlas Pittoresque” to accompany “Voyage au Pole Sud et dans l’Oceanie sur les corvettes l’Astrolabe et la Zelee … sous commandement de M.J. Dumont d’Urville”.

A detailed view of a cave on Enderby with indigenous birds and a small boat with figures in the foreground. Dumont d’Urville’s ships the Astrolabe and the Zelee can be seen in the background. Incidentally it was one of three scientific expeditions to visit the islands that year, the American Wilkes expedition and also that of Britain Sir James Clark Ross

Lithographed by P Blanchard. A sizeable image on sturdy paper – 35 x 21cm to the edge of the image with very wide margin. Some light marks more towards the edge of the wide margin, none on the lithograph itself as can be seen from the scan – overall in pretty good condition.

The Auckland Islands are 465 kms south of the South Island of New Zealand. Enderby is a smaller island in the group to the Northern tip of the main Auckland Island. There are no permanent inhabitants. They are a World Heritage site and classifies as sub-Antarctic. They were first discovered by Bristow in 1806 on a whaling voyage. He named them after William Eden, Baron Auckland. He also named Enderby Island the subject of this image after Samuel Enderby who sponsored his voyage.

Good early image of sub-Antarctic Enderby in the Aucklands

$120.00

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Part of Australia comprising the settled portions of New South Wales and South Australia. – William Hughes – 1844

A fine example of Adam and Charles Black’s 1844 map which pre-dated the formation of Victoria in 1851 so here is referred to as Australia Felix. The inset map shows Norfolk Island. The coastline to the East extends past Moreton Island and to the West to Point Fowler. The interior is still sparsely understood and the extent of Lake Torrens is perhaps greatly exaggerated. Twenty Counties of New South wales are outlined in colour and a key is shown in the bottom right. Relief is shown by hachure.

Included in the National Library Collection, cited in Tooley’s dictionary of mapmakers 142. Dimensions 36.7 by 25.3 cm.

Charles and uncle Adam Black founded their publishing firm in 1807. Their publications included the Encyclopaedia Britannica and incidentally Walter Scott’s novels.

William Hughes (1818-1876) was a cartographer active in London during the middle part of the 19th century. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in 1838 and from 1840 taught cartography at a number of distinguished institutions and was also the map librarian at the British Museum.

A good copy of a detailed map from an important era … Click on the map to see its entirety … ask if you require more images

$240.00

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Earless or True Seal – Vauthier – 1820

A lovely hand coloured copper engraving of the Earless or True Seal “Phoque de Chris” engraved by Smith after a drawing by Antoine Charles Vauthier and published in Paris circa 1820. A very clean example. Classified by Rene Lesson who participated in the Duperry voyage round the world on board La Coquille.

Price $270.00 framed in Voyager Natural History style ready for hanging …

A real seal from the early 19th century … click on me to see all my earlessness

$140.00

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Elephant Seal – Vauthier -1820

A scarce hand coloured copper engraving of the Elephant Seal “Le Phoque a trompe” Peron. In the distance a ship can be seen. Engraved by Barreau after Vauthier and published in Paric in 1820.

Price $270.00 framed in Voyager Natural History style ready to hang in your study …

Rare hand coloured Elephant Seal

$270.00

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Lady Godina’s Rout – or – Peeping Tom Spying out Pope Joan – James Gillray – 1847

A special satirical print Lady Godina is a play on Lady Godiva. Pope-Joan is a card game and Lady Godina is holding the nine of diamonds which represents Pope Joan (the Pope that was said to be a lady). Note Voyager have an original Georgian Pope Joan Board for sale … see our Curiosities Section.

A fashionable crowd, with two card tables, a round table in the foreground at which four persons play Pope-Joan. The most conspicuous is a pretty young woman directed to the left who is Lady Georgiana Gordon the Duchess of Bedford (1781-1853). Her semi-transparent draperies revealing her person leaving her breasts almost uncovered. A leering man stands behind her chair, negligently holding candle snuffers to a candle on the table, in order to peer down her décolletage. A stout lady in back view, sitting on a stool is Albinia Countess of Buckinghamshire, a little girl, and an elderly man (Dr John Sneyd 1763-1835) complete the table. On the right is another card-table at which three persons are playing. Standing figures freely sketched for the background, the whole design being dominated by the erect feathers of the ladies, usually springing from a turban

James Gillray first produced this comic caricature in 1796. This issue in 1847 was published by Henry Bohn in London and whilst later is on a grander scale than the original. Expertly coloured.

Price unframed … ask for recommended framing options.

A popular card game and the exotic Lady Godina

$140.00

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Antarctic Crime – A Victim of the Aurora – Thomas Keneally – First Edition 1977

A Cave on Enderby Island -The Auckland Islands (Sub-Antarctic) – Louis Le Breton for Dumont d’Urville – 1840

Part of Australia comprising the settled portions of New South Wales and South Australia. – William Hughes – 1844

Earless or True Seal – Vauthier – 1820

Elephant Seal – Vauthier -1820

Lady Godina’s Rout – or – Peeping Tom Spying out Pope Joan – James Gillray – 1847

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