Australian & Colonial – Antique & Historical (#38MG) Closed Auction Info View ▼ Items per page 102550100 Sort by DefaultTime LeftLot#Lot NameNewestHighest PriceLowest PriceBids (Low - High)Bids (High - Low)Views (Low - High)Views (High - Low)Relevance Filter By Categories Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above Featured Exclude closed lots Price Lot Number Results: Viewing items 1-38 of 38. Previous|1|Next Lot #178 Pewter plate, 19th century with "FRANKLIN" etched in the centre. From a private collection in Tasmania this plate is purported to have belonged to Sir John Franklin Polar Explorer & Governor of Van Diemen's Land. Franklin headed the ill fated 1845 Northwest Passage expedition into Arctic waters North of Canada never to return. Reverse also engraved "H.M.S. North Star". RARE View details Estimate$500 - $1,000Price Realized$1,000StatusSold Lot #179 BELGICA Polar Expedition; silver gelatin photograph captioned verso "Dr. Frederick A.Cook gave me this photo. Shows him on the Belgian Expedition to the South Pole. Ship BELGICA is in background. Cook said the temperature was 40 below, when this picture was taken". View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #180 "ANTARCTICA" by Edwin Swift Balch [Philadelphia, 1902] first edition endorsed by the author to Mr M.Watts of the Philadelphia Free Library with tipped in letter signed by the author. View details Estimate$2,000 - $2,500StatusUnsold Lot #181 SCOTTISH NATIONAL ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION, 1902-1904 - WILLIAM SPIERS BRUCE (1867-1921) "Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of S.Y. "Scotia" during the years 1902, 1903 and 1904, under the Leadership of William S. Bruce" - Volume II - Physics: Part 1 - Meteorology; Part II - Magnetism: Part III - Tides. [Edin., The Scottish Oceanographical Laboratory, 1907] GSTex GSTSymbolL View details Estimate$500 - $750StatusUnsold Lot #182 SCOTTISH NATIONAL ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION 1902-1904: "Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of S.Y. "Scotia" during the years 1902, 1903 and 1904..." Volume III - Botany, Parts I - XI, with plates and a chart; 153pp. Signed and dedicated by Robert Rudmose Brown, the lead author of this volume. GSTex GSTSymbolL View details Estimate$500 - $750StatusUnsold Lot #183 SCOTTISH NATIONAL ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION, 1902 - 1904: "Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of S.Y. "Scotia" during the years 1902, 1902 and 1904: [Edinburgh, 1908]. Volume IV - Zoology - Part I; 105pp with a coloured frontispiece, 33 plates, 2 maps and 100 photographs. GSTex GSTSymbolL View details Estimate$500 - $750StatusUnsold Lot #184 SCOTTISH NATIONAL ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION: "Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of S.Y. "Scotia" during the years 1902, 1903 and 1904" [Edinburgh, 1909] Volume V - Zoology. Parts I - XIII - Invertebrates. 312pp plus 36 plates. GSTex GSTSymbolL View details Estimate$500 - $750StatusUnsold Lot #185 SCOTTISH NATIONAL ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION, 1902 - 1904: "Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of S.Y. "Scotia" during the years 1902, 1903 and 1904" [Edinburgh, 1920]. Volume VII - Zoology. Parts I - XIII - Invertebrates; 323pp plus 15 plates and 23 text figures. GSTex GSTSymbolL View details Estimate$500 - $750StatusUnsold Lot #186 SCOTTISH NATIONAL ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION, 1902 - 1904. An original printed invitation from The Reception Committee to the recipient to be aboard the "Marchioness of Lorne" in Weymss Bay on July 21st, 1904, when it steams out to meet and convoy the "Scitia" home. With SNAE flag stick-pin affixed at left. GSTex GST View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #187 SCOTTISH NATIONAL ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION: BRUCE, William S., "Report on the Work of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, with eight photographs and a map" (Read at the Meeting of the British Association, Cambridge, August 23, 1904). GSTex GSTSymbolL View details Estimate$250 - $300Price Realized$200StatusSold Lot #188 SCOTTISH NATIONAL ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION, 1902 - 1904: Autographed letter from WILLIAM S. BRUCE on Scottish Oceanographical Laboratory, Edinburgh letterhead dated 30 March 1910; to Dr Dawson Turner, Edinburgh. Also, "Proceedings of the Philosophical Society of Glasgow - Arctic and Antarctic" an illustrated address by Bruce in which he proposes the Scottish Expedition. (2 items). GSTex GSTSymbolD View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold Lot #189 POSTCARDS: "Discovery" Antarctic Series. Two cards showing "Armitage's Party" & "Emperor Penguin Rookery At Commencement Of Great Barrier". Circa 1910 View details Estimate$160 - $200Price Realized$160StatusSold Lot #190 "The Seige of the South Pole" by High R. Mill [Alston Rivers, London, 1905] First Edition in original green cloth binding with title and highlights in gilt. 455pp plus all illustrations & maps in text + large folding map at rear. GSTex GSTSymbolL View details Estimate$150 - $200StatusUnsold Lot #191 "LIFE IN THE ANTARCTIC - Photographs by the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition" - Gowan's Nature Books, No.10 [Glasgow, 1907] with 60 full page photohraphs. Scarce and early little booklet of photographs of Antarctic wildlife. GSTex GSTSymbolL View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$200StatusSold Lot #192 THE SHACKLETON EXPEDITION: 1908 (Feb.3) envelope with "BRITISH ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION 1907" printed on the back flap, sent to Christchurch with a 1d King Edward VII Land adhesvive (SG.A1) tied by the "BRIT. ANTARCTIC EXPD" datestamp. This envelope was part of the second experimental mail, the datestamp being used at Cape Royds on McMurdo Sound and the mail send back on the "Nimrod", which departed on Feb.22nd for Lyttleton (backstamped 7 MR). GSTex GSTSymbolC View details Estimate$600 - $750Price Realized$600StatusSold Lot #193 SHACKLETON'S 1908 EXPEDITION: cover addressed to "Mr T.D. Robertson / King Edward VII Land / South Pole", endorsed at top left "per Nimrod", dated at lower left "29-11-08", franked with ½d pair with Invercargill machine cancel, with 2 line violet h/stamp 'NOT KNOWN AT / KING ED-VII Land". Plus 3 transit cancels on the reverse and octagonal 'Christchurch / Unclaimed' on the front. GSTex GSTSymbolC View details Estimate$1,800 - $2,000StatusUnsold Lot #194 ERNEST SHACKLETON (Nimrod Expedition 1907): View details Estimate$20,000 - $25,000Price Realized$18,000StatusSold Lot #195 "The Heart of the Antarctic - being the story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909" by Ernest H. Shackleton. First edition; rebound in red cloth, with gilt titles. [William Heinemann, London, 1909]. Volume 1 only; thick 4to; frontispiece + xlviii + 372pp; with 12 colour plates, b & w plates; 3 folding maps and one folding panorama in back pocket. GSTex GSTSymbolL View details Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$160StatusSold Lot #196 "The Heart of the Antarctic - being the story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909" by Ernest H. Shackleton. First edition, in original binding. [William Heinemann, London, 1909] Volume 2 only. 4to; frontispiece + xv + flyleaf of errata + 419pp; plus colour plates, b&w plates; 3 folding maps in back pocket. GSTex GSTSymbolL View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$360StatusSold Lot #197 HERBERT GEORGE PONTING (1870-1935) Birth of an Iceberg titled and numbered '24' on the on the Fine Art Society label on the reverse carbon print, 45 x 61cm. GSTex GST View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,000Price Realized$2,000StatusSold Lot #198 HERBERT GEORGE PONTING (1870 - 1935) Cumulus Clouds rising up over Barne Glacier the photographer's blindstamp "H.G. Ponting" in lower right margin carbon print, 49.5 x 65.3cm numbered "105" on the Fine Art Society label on the reverse GSTex GST View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,000Price Realized$1,800StatusSold Lot #199 HERBERT GEORGE PONTING (1870 - 1935) Face of the Great Ice Barrier and Mount Terror the photographer's blindstamp "H.G. Ponting" in lower right margin carbon print, 49.5 x 65.3cm numbered "20" on the Fine Art Society label on the reverse GSTex GST View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,000Price Realized$1,800StatusSold Lot #200 BRITISH ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION 1910-1913: 1911 (Jan.19) envelope sent by George Simpson (Expedition Meteorologist) to his sister in London; bearing the 1d Victoria Land stamp tied by "BRIT. ANTARCTIC EXPD" datestamp and with the "TERRA NOVA R.Y.S." crest printed on the backflap. Very few covers are recorded with this despatch date c.d.s., the first day it was used on the "Terra Nova" and, coincidentally, the day Mt. Erebus was first sighted. GSTex GSTSymbolC View details Estimate$600 - $750Price Realized$600StatusSold Lot #201 BRITISH ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION, 1910-1913: 1911 (Feb.9) envelope with "BRITISH ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION TERRA NOVA R.Y.S." printed crest on the reverse; addressed to Wellington by the Assistant Paymaster and Meteorologist Lt. Francis Drake; bearing a Victoria Land 1d tied by the "BRIT. ANTARCTIC EXPD" datestamp and backstamped at LYTTLETON (31 MR) on arrival. GSTex GSTSymbolCD View details Estimate$2,000 - $2,500StatusUnsold Lot #202 BRITISH ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION 1910-1913: 1913 (Jan.18) Registered B.A.E. cover to Cardiff bearing VICTORIA LAND 1d strip of 3 tied by the "BRIT.ANTARCTIC EXPD" datestamp, with a further strike on the blank type registration label (No.70). This was the date stamp used on the "Terra Nova" on the day it arrived at Cape Evans and learnt of the death of Captain Scott and his companions. GSTex GSTSymbolC View details Estimate$5,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold Lot #203 BRITISH ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION 1910-1913: 1913 (Jan.18) envelope with the "TERRA NOVA R.Y.S." crest printed on the flap; addressed Lt. Francis Drake, the Assistant Paymaster & Meteorologist on the Expedition, to A.T. Bate, President of the Wellington Football Club. Franked by VICTORIA LAND ½d and 1d (SG.A2 & A3) tied by the "BRIT. ANTARCTIC EXPD" datestamp and further backstamped at LYTTLETON (12 FE). GSTex GSTSymbolC View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #204 BRITISH ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION 1910 - 1913: RAYMOND EDWARD PRIESTLEY (1886-1974) Autograph letter signed "Ray" to his wife, Edith, dated 19 January 1911 at "Camp at Cape Royds"; a hurried note "to send you a stamp with every good wish for the season & next" GSTex GSTSymbolD View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,250Price Realized$800StatusSold Lot #205 PROGRAMME: "MAWSON Antarctic Expedition Pictures" Tuesday 25th June, 1912 held at His Majesty's Theatre Hobart. Original cardboard wrapper with photo portrait of Mawson on the cover. View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #206 SCOTT of the ANTARCTIC: Portrait photograph with facsimile signature captioned "Captain Robert Falcon Scott R.N. C.V.G. F.R.G.I. Leader of the National Antarctic Expeditions 1901-04 & 1910-1912. Born June 6th 1868. Died March 1912. in original timber frame, 45 x 58cm overall View details Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$400StatusSold Lot #207 BRITISH ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION 1910-1913: 1912 (Mar.3) envelope bearing the 1d VICTORIA LAND stamp tied by "BRIT. ANTARCTIC EXPD" datestamp and addressed to Lyttleton, New Zealand. The "3 MR 12" datestamp was only used on mail from those expedition members who were staying over at Cape Evans for the 3rd winter. GSTex GSTSymbolC View details Estimate$1,250 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #208 BRITISH ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION 1907-1909: "ANTARCTIC DAYS Sketches of the homely side of Polar life.....introduced by Sir Ernest Shackleton" by James Murray and George Edward Marston [London; Butler & Tanner for Andrew Melrose, 1913].Half title; four mounted coloured plates, 33 black & white plates, illustrations. GSTex GSTSymbolL View details Estimate$5,000 - $6,000Price Realized$6,000StatusSold Lot #209 SCOTTISH NATIONAL ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION, 1902 - 1904: "Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh - VOL.XLIX" [Edinburgh, 1914] 1047pp, Part II (pp.229-358) and Part III (pp.531-686 & 831-1044) dealing with information gathered by the Expedition. With numerous plates and illustrations. GSTex GSTSymbolL View details Estimate$500 - $750StatusUnsold Lot #210 "THE HOME OF THE BLIZZARD Being the Story of the Australian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914." by Sir Douglas Mawson. Complete 2 volume set, bound in original dark blue cloth. [Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, ND (1915)]. Illustrated in colour and black & white; also with 2 maps. 349pp & 338pp; maps in pocket. GSTex GSTSymbolL View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$420StatusSold Lot #211 "THE HOME OF THE BLIZZARD Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914" by Sir Douglas Mawson. Volume 2 only. [William Heinemann, London, 1915]. Illustrated in colour and b & w; with maps; 338pp; maps in pocket. GSTex GSTSymbolL View details Estimate$150 - $250StatusUnsold Lot #212 RUDMOSE BROWN, R.N. "A Naturalist at the Poles" [London, Seeley, Service & Company, 1923, First edition.; 316pp plus 12 pags of advertising, frontis portrait of Bruce, 38 plates, 3 maps including 2 folding and in colour. Five chapters were written by W. G. Burn Murdock. Based on Bruce's papers and interviews with shipmates and family. GSTex GSTSymbolL View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$150StatusSold Lot #213 "To The Frozen South" by A.J.Villiers [Hobart, 1924] published by Davies Brothers Limited, first edition. Original boards View details Estimate$200 - $400StatusUnsold Lot #214 "Little America - Aerial Exploration in the Antarctic - The Flight to the South Pole" by Richard Byrd. [Putnam's Sons, New York, 1930] 1st Edition; decorative blue cloth binding with gilt lettering to cover and spine. With all illustrations and maps. GSTex GSTSymbolL View details Estimate$80 - $100Price Realized$60StatusSold Lot #215 "The Worst Journey in the World - Antarctic 1910-1913" by Apsley Cherry-Orchard. [Catto & Windus, London, 1937]. The 1st one-volume edition; large 8vo; 585pp plus plates and maps. GSTex GSTSymbolL View details Estimate$100 - $125Price Realized$100StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next
