Australian & Colonial – Antique & Historical (#78MG) 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 1-10 of 75. Previous|12345678|Next Lot #685 VERY EARLY DEPICTITION OF A KANGAROOSAUER, C.: "Der Hoch-Deutsch-Amerikanische Calender auf das Jahr.....1775" [Germantown, Pennsylvania, 1774]. Although incomplete, lacking covers and a few leaves, present is the page depicting and describing the kangaroo, "a new type of animal" which had not previously been described in words or images and which relies heavily on the report provided by "Mr Banks". The Roo is described as having a head like a deer, lips and ears like a hare, etc. Later ha... View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #686 SECOND FLEET: "A Voyage to Botany Bay, with a description of the country, manners, customs, religion of its natives" by George Barrington [London, 1805], one shilling and sixpence edition. No wrappers but complete with end papers. View details Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$300StatusSold Lot #687 HOWE, George (Publisher): "NEW SOUTH WALES Pocket Almanack for the year of our Lord 1814" [Sydney, undated but 1813]; 135pp. Includes all shipping movements from 1788 to the end of 1813 and much other information. Ferguson 588 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Price Realized$3,200StatusSold Lot #688 VAUX, James Hardy. "MEMOIRS OF JAMES HARDY VAUX. WRITTEN BY HIMSELF." in two volumes. [London, Printed by W. Clowes…and sold by All Respectable Booksellers, 1819]. First edition of this convict autobiography. The final 75 pages of the second volume contain Vaux’s celebrated “Vocabulary of theFlash Language”, the first dictionary of underworld cant to emanate from Australia. Ferguson, 770 Both volumes with Ingleton and Lesnie ex-libris labels; Vol. 1 with extensive mss note in Ing... View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Price Realized$1,150StatusSold Lot #689 HOWE, George [1769-1821] "New South Wales Pocket Almanack , for the year of our Lord 1820..." [Sydney] 119p; rebound with bookplate of Mannie Lesnie. Extremely scarce. This almanac contains information on many topics such as the public holidays for the year, tide table, moon phases, a chronology of English Sovereigns as well as the reigning families of Europe, distances from township to township, persons in the Civil Establishment and the Military Establishment, as well as details on t... View details Estimate$2,000 - $2,500Price Realized$1,500StatusSold Lot #690 HOWE, Robert: "AUSTRALASIAN POCKET ALMANACK for the year of our Lord 1823" [Sydney, undated but 1822]; 139pp. Former ownership inscription of John Lusk, Captain of the ship "Brixton" which arrived in April 1823. Ferguson 886 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,250Price Realized$600StatusSold Lot #691 HOWE, Robert. "AUSTRALIAN POCKET ALMANACK for the year of our Lord 1825" [Sydney]; 150 pp + 2 fold-out charts. Ferguson 994. Ex Library copy.Includes an extraordinary "Chronology of LOCAL OCCURRENCES, from the first establishment of the Colony, in 1788, down to the present period, 1825." p.90-118. View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Price Realized$500StatusSold Lot #692 HOWE, Robert: "AUSTRALIAN ALMANACK for the year of our Lord 1828" [Sydney]; 173 pp plus 2 folding plates. A very informative volume with chronological cycles, astronomical and celestial information, arrivals of prisoners for the years 1826 and 1827, accounts of Fisheries 1826, imported Foreign Tobacco 1826 and many tables and regulations. The last words in the publisher's introduction are "ADVANCE AUSTRALIA". Ferguson 1170.From the collection of Henry L. White, with his bookplate. View details Estimate$600 - $800Price Realized$800StatusSold Lot #693 CUNNINGHAM, Peter; Surgeon R.N.: "TWO YEARS IN NEW SOUTH WALES; comprising Sketches of the Actual State of Society in that Colony; of its Peculiar Advantages to Emigrants; of its Topography, Natural History..." [London, 1828, 3rd edition] in 2 volumes with large folding map. Ferguson 1182. View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold Lot #694 HOWE, Robert: "Australian Almanack for the year of our Lord 1829" [Sydney, undated but 1828]; 212 pp with 2 folding signal plates and a list of all 8 Australasian newspapers (p.100), number of Prisoners arrived, shipping arrivals and departures, etc. Ex Libris Dr George Mackaness. Ferguson 1238. View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Price Realized$500StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|12345678|Next Previous 12345678 Next Previous 12345678 Next
