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 181-190 of 590. Previous|1...171819202122...59|Next 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 Lot #695 James ROSS: "The HOBART TOWN Almanack for the Year MDCCCXXIX" [Hobart Town, 1829]. 165pp with six copper plate engravings including "Macquarie Street Hobart Town"; the plate of ship's signals being hand coloured. The first issue of the almanacs by James Ross. A presentation copy from Thomas Scott, the Deputy Surveyor General (appointed by Lachlan Macquarie) to his father in Scotland. From the collection of Henry L. White, with his bookplate. Ferguson 1272. View details Estimate$1,000 - $2,000Price Realized$8,000StatusSold Lot #696 MANSFIELD, Ralph: "Australian Almanack, for the Year of our Lord 1830…"Small octavo, with two folding plates of signals (one coloured), [Sydney, Ralph Mansfield, Gazette Office; for the Executors of Robert Howe, 1830.] Rebound preserving blank endpapers. Packed full of useful and interesting information such as regulations about Tickets of Leave, advice on reviving the drowned, the early “Observations on the Garden and Field” (pp. 107 ff.), a section on horticulture and botany spec... View details Estimate$2,000 - $2,500Price Realized$3,800StatusSold Lot #697 MANSFIELD, Ralph: "AUSTRALIAN ALMANACK for the year of our Lord 1831" [Gazette Office, Sydney, undated but 1830]; 273 pp. includes a fascinating Appendix "Advice to Emigrants Newly Arrived in New South Wales". Ferguson 1412. View details Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$500StatusSold Lot #698 MANSFIELD, Ralph "AUSTRALIAN ALMANACK, for the year of our Lord 1832" [Sydney 1831]; 270 pp with fold out of Telegraph Signals but lacking the Flagstaff Signals plate. Ferguson 1506.Inside front cover bears the ownership inscription of "Hovenden Hely 31/6/43". Hely [1823-1872] explorer, landowner and politician, was born at Tullamore, King's County, Ireland. As an infant he went with his family to Sydney. Educated under W. T. Cape and at The King's School, Parramatta, he worked for two yea... 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