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Louis Renard (c. 1678-1746)
Poissons, Ecrevisses et crabes, de Diverses Couleurs et Figures Extraordinaires
A. Amsterdam : Donné au public par Louis Renard ... [1719?]
MRB/F597/R
Joseph Banks (1734-1820)
Endeavour journal, Vol. 1: 25 August 1768-14 August 1769; Vol 2: 15 August 1769-12 July 1771
Exhibited date: April 2004 to March 2005
ML Safe 1/12-13
Sydney Bird Painter
Drawings of birds chiefly from Australia, c. 1790
Exhibited date: April 2004 to March 2005
PXD 226
Sarah Stone (c. 1760-1844)
Album of 31 watercolours of Australian Fauna c. 1789
Exhibited date: April 2004 to March 2005
PXA909
'After' Sarah Stone (c. 1760-1844)
John White Journal of a voyage to New South Wales ... London, 1790
Exhibited date: April 2004 to March 2005
Q79/34
unknown
Johanna (Brazil/Portugal), 1728
Exhibited date: April 2004 to March 2005
DN/C 1046
unknown
Half Johanna (Brazil/Portugal), 1757
Exhibited date: April 2004 to March 2005
DN/C 1297
unknown
Guilder (Netherlands), 1764
Exhibited date: April 2004 to March 2005
DN/C 1288
unknown
Dollar (Peru/Spain), 1778
Exhibited date: April 2004 to March 2005
DN/C 1297
unknown
Ducat (Netherlands), 1780
Exhibited date: April 2004 to March 2005
DN/C 790
unknown
Shilling (Great Britain), 1787
Exhibited date: April 2004 to March 2005
DN/C 790
unknown
Guinea (Great Britain), 1791
Exhibited date: April 2004 to March 2005
DN/C 817
unknown
Rupee (India/East India Company), 1792-1818
Exhibited date: April 2004 to March 2005
DN/C 1225
unknown
Mohur (India/east India Company), 1793-1818
Exhibited date: April 2004 to March 2005
DN/C 1228
unknown
Penny (Great Britain), 1797
Exhibited date: April 2004 to March 2005
DN/C 770
After Benjamin West by J.R. Smith (1752-1812)
Mr Banks, 1773
Exhibited date: April 2004 - March 2005
DL Pf 65
Charles Ryley (1752 - 1798) and Sydenham Edwards (1769 - 1819)
The Banksian Cockatoo from George Shaw,
Musei Leverianie Explicato - London, Vol.2, 1796
Exhibited date: April 2004 - March 2005
Q591.9/1A2
Artist unknown
Sarah Lawson, c. 1790
Exhibited date: January to March 2004
MIN 64
Artist unknown
William Cox, c. 1797
Exhibited date: January to March 2004
MIN 382
Richard Cosway (c.1742-1821) poss.
Duchess of Hamilton and Argyle, c. 1790
Exhibited date: April to June 2004
MIN 60
Artist unknown
Harriott Blaxland, c. 1795
Exhibited date: October to December 2004
MIN 89
Artist unknown
John Blaxland, c. 1795
Exhibited date: October to December 2004
MIN 88
Arthur Bowes-Smyth (1750 - 1790)
A Journal of a Voyage from Portsmouth to New South Wales and China in the Lady Penrhyn, Merchantman William Cropton Sever, Commander by Arthur Bowes-Smyth, Surgeon - 1787-1788-1789, compiled c. 1790
Exhibited date: January 2003 to March 2004 412747
ML Safe 1/15
William Bradley (1758?-1833)
A Voyage to New South Wales, December 1786 - May 1792; compiled 1802 or later
Exhibited date: January 2003 to March 2004
ML Safe 1/14
Ralph Clark (1755-1794)
Journal kept on the Friendship during a voyage to Botany Bay and Norfolk Island; and on the Gorgon returning to England, 9 March 1787 - 10 March 1788, 15 February 1790 - 17 June 1792
Exhibited date: January 2003 to March 2004
ML Safe 1/27a
John Easty
Pt Jno Easty A memorandum of the Transa[ ] of a Voiage [sic] from England to Botany Bay in The Scarborough transport Captn Marshall Commander kept by me your humble Servan[ ] John Easty marine wich [sic] began 1787, November 1786 - May 1793
Exhibited date: January 2003 to March 2004
DL Spencer 374
John Hunter (1737 - 1821)
Journal kept on board the Sirius during a voyage to New South Wales, May 1787 to March 1791 (Catalogue record)
Exhibited date: January 2003 to March 2004
DL MS 164
Philip Gidley King (1758-1808)
Private journal, in to volumes;
Vol. 1: Remarks & Journal kept on the Expedition to form a Colony in His Majestys Territory of New South Wales - His Majestys Ship Sirius - 24 October 1786 - 12 January 1789;
Vol 2: Continuation of A Daily Journal - on Norfolk Island - 13 January 1789 - 17 April 1790, with additional material, 1790-1792
Exhibited date: January 2003 to March 2004
ML Safe 1/16
Jacob Nagle (1762-1841)
Jacob Nagle his Book A.D. One Thousand Eight Hundred and Twenty Nine May 19th. Canton. Stark County Ohio, 1775-1802; compiled 1829
Exhibited date: January 2003 to March 2004
ML MSS 5954
James Scott (d. 1796)
Remarks on a passage Botnay [sic] bay 1787, 13 May 1787 - 20 May 1792
Exhibited date: January 2003 to March 2004
DL MSQ 43
George Bouchier Worgan (1757-1838)
Journal kept on a voyage to New South Wales with the First Fleet, with a letter written to is brother Richard, 12-18 June 1788
Exhibited date: January 2003 to March 2004
C830 (filed at ML Safe 1/114)
Louis Charles Desnos (1750-1790)
Grande mappemonde céleste, terrestre, historique & cosmographique, dediée au Roi, où sont représentés les differens systêmes du monde. Scale [c. 1:35 000 000]. Paris Desnos, 1786
Exhibited date: January to March 2004
M4 100 1786 1
William Bligh (1754-1817)
Log of the Proceedings of His Majesty's Ship Bounty - Vol.1, 1787-1788:Vol. 2, 1789-1790
Exhibited date: January to December 2003
ML Safe 1/46-47
Joseph da Costa e Miranda (fl. 1676- 1706)
World Map, Lisbon, 1706
Exhibited date: July to December 2003
ML 857
Dress sword belonging to Captain James Cook, 1743
Exhibited date: January to June 2003
ML LR 29
Pair of shoe buckles used by Captain James Cook for court wear, c. 1770s
Exhibited date: January to June 2003
ML R 206
Pair of shoe buckles used by Captain James Cook for ordinary wear, c. 1770s
Exhibited date: January to June 2003
ML R 205
Mrs Elizabeth Cook
Left and right front sections of unmade waistcoat, c. 1771-1779
Exhibited date: January to June 2003
ML R 198
Glass drinking tumbler used on HMS Resolution 1772-1775
Exhibited date: January to June 2003
ML R 197
Selection of flatware and cutlery owned by Captain James Cook and Mrs Cook, c. 1730s-1785
Exhibited date: January to June 2003
ML R 201-203; R208-211; R 233
Mourning ring for Captain James Cook, owned by Elizabeth Cook, c. 1780
Exhibited date: January to June 2003
ML R 363
Ditty box, shaped like a coffin, containing a watercolour sketch of the death of Captain James Cook, a lock of his hair and a document of authentification. Inscribed 'Made of Resolution oak', c. 1779
Exhibited date: January to June 2003
DR 2
William Bligh
[Cockatoo] Van Dieman's Land, 1791-1793
Exhibited date: January to December 2007
PXA 565, f. 32
François Balthazar Solvyns
Portrait of Il Netunno, later Marquis Cornwallis, under sail, 1793
Exhibited date: January to December 2007
ML 1353
William Bradley
South coast of Norfolk Island, 1791
Exhibited date: April to December 2007
DL Cb 79/5

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