Peter Arnold: John Alexander Collection - Australia before European Settlement and Natural History, 71925, Prahran VIC

An account of several late voyages & discoveries to the south and north, towards the Straights of Magellan, the South Seas, the vast tracts of land beyond Hollandia Nova, &c.

The naturalist's miscellany, or coloured figures of natural objects, drawn and described immediately from nature. Volume 1[- 11].

A specimen of the botany of New Holland. The figures by James Sowerby.

Exotic botany: consisting of coloured figures, and scientific descriptions, of such new, beautiful, or rare plants as are worthy of cultivation in the gardens of Britain.

Autograph letter, signed, in Spanish, from the Mariana Islands, to the Duchess of Aveiro in Spain, 25 April 1684:

A year in Tasmania: including some months' residence in the capital; with a descriptive tour through the island from Macquarie Harbour to Circular Head.

Explorations in Australia. The journals during the years 1858, 1859, 1860, 1861 & 1862, when he fixed the centre of the continent and successfully crossed it from sea to sea.

Flora Australasica; or, a selection of handsome, or curious plants, natives of New Holland and the South Sea Islands; containing coloured figures and descriptions of some of the choicest species most proper for the conservatory or greenhouse.

Journal of his discovery of Van Diemen's Land and New Zealand in 1642.

Relations de divers voyages curieux, qui n'ont point este publiees.

Voyages et avantures de Jacques Masse.

[Oud en nieuw Oost-Indien.

Description des plantes nouvelles et peu connues, cultivees dans le jardin de J.M. Cels.

Journael vande Nassausche vloot, ofte beschryvingh vande voyagie om den gantschen aerdt-cloot, gedaen met elf schepen onder't beleydt vanden Admirael Jaques l'Heremite . inde jaeren 1623, 1624, 1625, en 1626.

Journal of the Calvert Scientific Expedition, 1896-7.

A statistical account of the British settlements in Australasia, including the Colonies of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land.

Sketches in Australia, from drawings by Captain R. M. Westmacott.

Four years aboard the whaleship. Embracing cruises in the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian and Antarctic Oceans, in the years 1855, '6, '7, '8, '9.

The South Pole. An account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the 'Fram', 1910-1912.

Folio leaf, 41 x 25 centimetres, printed and manuscript, dated Sydney 2 May 1823, setting out the strict obligations of the apprentice, an orphan named Charles Gregory, who is to be instructed in the 'art and mystery of a tailor'.

A group of five volumes, as listed below, all large quartos, illustrated throughout, partly in colour; bound by Richard Griffin in tan leather with brown and khaki inlays, pictorial paper insets and embossed lettering, the endpapers suede-lined: together

Plan of the new settlement of Australind in Western Australia, 50 miles distant south of Swan River.

Volume 1 numbers 1-52 - Volume 2 numbers 1-31.

Atmotic ship.

A voyage to the South Sea . for the purpose of conveying the bread-fruit tree to the West Indies, in His Majesty's Ship The Bounty, commanded by Lieutenant William Bligh.