b'53375370 THE CONVICT ERAPECK, Marilyn The Waste Land Suite 375[Melbourne, MacMillan, 2004] 112pp Burnt orange clothA View Near Woolwich In Kent, Shewing The boards and silvery blue endpapers. Title blind-stamped onto front cover and in bright gilt on the spine. In matchingEmployment Of The Convicts From The Hulks.solander box together with an original signed watercolourc1800. Hand-coloured engraving, text including At the Market Place from a limited edition [#16 of 50] withtitle and number 51 in plate below image,accompanying Special Edition sleeve signed by the artist. [London. Printed for Bowles & Carver, $200300No. 69, St Pauls Church Yard.]30 x 44.5cm.The image depicts prison hulks on the River Thames, showing 371 convicts moving coal in wheelbarrows and driving piles. The The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio hulks were mostly floating prisons which held convicts awaiting[Published by The Folio Society, Westminster, 2007] 8vo.transportation to the colonies (including Australia). In the 710 pp. limited edition, this 560 of 1750 numbered copiesmeantime, the hulks were usually moored near dockyards or in this Wassa Goatskin red leather binding blocked withgarrisons where convicts were used as a ready-made labour force.Jeff Clements design, in very decorative red leather gilt.$1,8002,000With The Happy Art of Narration Folio Society 2007, pamphlet; in original dark green cloth gilt solander box. 376$150200CONVICTS & TRANSPORTATION: Acts of Parliament & Reports: July 1812 English Act for amending.the Provisionsimposing 372 the Penalty of Death for any Act done in Breach of or Resistance COOK & HIS COMPANIONS: A shelf of books by or about Josephto any Part of the Laws for collecting His Majestys Revenue; July 1825 An Act for registering of British Vessels.; July 1830 Banks, Johann Reinhold Forster, John Hunter & Sydney ParkinsonReturns Relating to the Employment of Convicts at New South plus a few books about navigation, map making, etc. (20 vols.) Wales; 1826-1828; March 1832 Copy of the Instructions $150200issued to the Governor of New South Wales for the Regulation of the Penal Settlements.; July 1846 An Act for abolishing 373 the Office of Superintendent of Convicts under Sentence of A Captain Cook Library: More than 85 volumes,Transportation; August 1855 Further Correspondence on the subject of CONVICT DISCIPLINE and TRANSPORTATION.; mainly hardcover with dust jacket, covering all aspectsMay 1861 Report from the Select Committee on of Cooks life, voyages, discoveries including someTRANSPORTATION together with the proceedings of the facsimile editions and child-oriented publications. committee, minutes of evidence (7 items; approx.500pp)$300500$200300 374 376AA Captain Cook Library: More than 85 volumes, mainlyCAPPER, John Henry hardcover with dust jacket, covering all aspects of CooksTwo Reports of John Henry Capper, Esq. Superintendent of life, voyages, discoveries including some facsimile editionsShips and Vessels Employed for the Confinement of Offenders and child-oriented publications. Similar to previous lot butUnder Sentence of Transportation: dated 16th July 1825.almost all different and with some earlier editions. [London, House of Commons. 1826.] 11pp. Folio. British $300500Parliamentary Paper. HC36. Contains lists of convict hulks at Portsmouth, Gosport, Sheerness, Chatham, Woolwich & Deptford with numbers of convicts. Summaries of work performed, health etc.$100150 '