Sporting & Historical Memorabilia (#420) Closed Auction Info PDF Prices Realized View ▼ Items per page 102550100 Sort by DefaultTime LeftLot#Lot NameNewestHighest PriceLowest PriceBids (Low - High)Bids (High - Low)Views (Low - High)Views (High - Low) Filter By Categories Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above Featured Exclude closed lots Price Lot Number Results: Viewing items 21-30 of 615. Previous|12345678...62|Next Lot #21 CAPTAIN COOK'S PISTOL: An early 18th Century Continental Flintlock holster pistol, the lock signed #Corbau-A-Maastricht# with plain 13 bore barrel, brass fore-sight, spurred brass pommel (minor damage to spur tips), brass trigger guard, replacement ramrod and pipe, pale fruitwood full stock with carved shell behind tang (some minor damage at fore-end), 50cm long, 31cm barrel. This pistol was traditionally the property of Captain James Cook R.N. and was passed to his elder sister, and her direct View details Estimate$100,000 - $200,000Price Realized$180,000StatusSold Lot #22 CAPTAIN COOK: "Bibliography of Captain James Cook" edited by M.K.Beddie [2nd edition, Library of NSW, Sydney, 1970], 894pp including index, fine copy in illustrated d/j. View details Estimate$100 - $120Price Realized$75StatusSold Lot #23 CAPTAIN COOK: "The Life of Captain James Cook" by J.C.Beaglehole [London, 1974], 760pp including index, tinted end-papers, coloured and b&w plates, top edge tinted, very good copy, illustrated, price-clipped d/j. View details Estimate$100 - $120Price Realized$75StatusSold Lot #24 CAPTAIN COOK: Books (6) including "Seventy North to Fifty South - The Story of Captain Cook's Last Voyage" by Dale [USA, 1969]; "The Death of Captain Cook" by Williams [London, 2008]; "Voyages of Discovery - Captain cook and the Exploration of the Pacific" by Withey [London, 1987]. View details Estimate$100 - $120Price Realized$75StatusSold Lot #25 HMS ENDEAVOUR: "H.M.Bark Endeavour" by Ray Parkin [Melbourne, 1997], two volumes in slipcase, one volume is charts, other is text. True first edition - limited to one thousand copies - later reprinted in the same year (1997). G/VG condition. View details Estimate$300 - $400Price Realized$225StatusSold Lot #26 MATTHEW FLINDERS & HMS INVESTIGATOR: "Drawings by William Westall - Landscape artist on board H.M.S. Investigator during the circumnavigation of Australia by Captain Matthew Flinders R.N. in 1801-1803" edited by Perry & Simpson [London, 1962], 68 pp followed by 131 coloured and b&w plates, folio, b&w frontispiece, maps (some folding), marbled boards, very good copy (minor tone spots) in handsome half-calf binding. View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$460StatusSold Lot #27 HMS BEAGLE: Conrad Martens (1801-78): "View of Port Famine, Strait of Magellan", oil on board, 18x26cm, with a lengthy description on the reverse, early wooden frame. The verso inscription reads "Port Famine. Straits of Magellan/ The anchorage of H.M.Ships Adventure and Beagle 1827 to 1830, and Beagle in 1833/ drawn by Conrad Martens/ artist H.M.S. Beagle/ to the order of Capt. Fitzroy/ where I spent many happy days as a lad amidst the snow and ice".{Charles Darwin states, in "The Journal of the View details Estimate$15,000 - $20,000Price Realized$14,500StatusSold Lot #28 CHARLES DARWIN: manuscript letter to W.B. Carpenter concerning South American rock specimens, 25th December 1844DARWIN, Charles R. (1809-1882) This important letter forms a crucial part of the correspondence between Charles Darwin and the invertebrate zoologist William Benjamin Carpenter regarding the structure of tertiary period rock specimens from the Pampas region of northern Patagonia, and their comparison with specimens taken from Chilean tuff [volcanic deposits]. The two scientists exchang View details Estimate$15,000 - $17,500StatusUnsold Lot #29 "The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication" in two volumes, by Charles Darwin [2nd edition, London, 1875]. Publisher's green cloth, badly worn and split, new endpapers, a sound working copy only. {This represents the only section of Darwin's big book on the origins of species which was printed in his lifetime and corresponds to his first two intended chapters... The text was extensively altered for the second edition of 1875, and the format was reduced to the usual crown octavo..." View details Estimate$180 - $220StatusUnsold Lot #30 "Insectivorous Plants" by Charles Darwin [1st edition, London, 1875]. Publisher's cloth, some wear, a sound copy. Second thousand. Freeman 1218. View details Estimate$180 - $220StatusUnsold Items per page 102550100 Previous|12345678...62|Next1234567891011121314151617181920212223242526272829303132333435363738394041424344454647484950515253545556575859606162 Previous 1234567891011121314151617181920212223242526272829303132333435363738394041424344454647484950515253545556575859606162 Next Previous 1234567891011121314151617181920212223242526272829303132333435363738394041424344454647484950515253545556575859606162 Next
