Australian & Colonial History (#110MG) Closed Auction Info View ▼ Items per page 102550100 Sort by DefaultTime LeftLot#Lot NameNewestHighest PriceLowest PriceBidsViews Filter By Categories Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above Featured Exclude closed lots Price Lot Number Results: Viewing items 201-300 of 663. Previous|1234567|Next Lot 202 Convict leg irons with twisted links, N.S.W. origin, 19th C View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Price Realized$950StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 203 A pair of articulated manacles with key View details Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$240StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 204 A pair of 19th century manacles View details Estimate$200 - $400Price Realized$150StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 205 A STAY OF EXECUTION FOR SAMUEL GILBERT, 7th April 1826 letter written by Judge James Burrough, who had convicted Gilbert at Taunton Assizes and sentenced him to death for an assault on a young woman, Charlotte Smith. When commuting a death sentenceizes in the County of Somerset, View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$150StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 206 "The Hobart Town Gazette" of Saturday, October 4, 1828; with a fine strike of the TWO PENCE Newspaper Duty stamp at top right. The lead article requires Officers in command of Parties, Superintendents and others, "having Convicts under their charge or direction, are enjoined to read over to them.....that the offence of being found Drinking in unlicensed Houses,or purchasing Spirits from unlicensed Persons, will be recorded against them....." There also follows a list of 9 Convicts who have... View details Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 207 A MUSTER OF CONVICTS AT RICHMOND, VAN DIEMEN'S LAND23 July, 1830, the sworn statement of John Farrow headed "Richmond". In order to keep track of the convict population, regular musters were held to account for the "location of the felons." In this instance, convict John Farrow, assigned to the service of Mr William Kearney, had not attended the Muster at Richmond,but instead, visited the local inn, the Lennox Arms, where he was treated to a glass of rum by a free man, Peter McDonald. Fa... View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$600StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 208 CONVICT HENRY STEVENSON - VAN DIEMEN'S LAND & NORFOLK ISLANDHenry Stevenson was 13 when convicted at Liverpool Quarter Sessions in April 1836 for stealing a handkerchief. As this was not his first offence he was sentenced to be transported for seven years, arriving at Hobart in May 1837 aboard the "Frances Charlotte" together with 149 other young male convicts.This rare Convict Department Form No.62 is a summary of his penal record whilst under sentence in Van Diemen's Land. He was pun... View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$380StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 209 7th NOV. 1837 CONVICT "PASS" FROM VAN DIEMEN'S LANDHeaded "Roads Establishment Oatlands" the handwritten "pass" for Convict Alfred Stallard [ H.M.S. "Bardaster", in 1835; 7 years for larceny], to leave the road-gang at Oatlands to proceed to Ross, where he had been assigned to work for Mr Hugh Robertson, a prominent landowner there. A very rare document. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$500StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 210 CAMPBELLTOWN POLICE MAGISTRATES COURT, VAN DIEMEN'S LAND "RECORD BOOK" 1839-1840 View details Estimate$5,000 - $7,500Price Realized$6,000StatusSold Lot 211 THE END OF THE ASSIGNMENT OF CONVICTS:1840 (Oct.9) Ship letter from Sydney to London with Feb.1841 arrival backstamps. In part, the letter reads "Money and labour is much wanted & the Government, as if purposely to retard the advancement of the Colony has stopped the assignment of convicts & withdrawn their specie from the public at the very time it was most wanted." View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$650StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 212 A LETTER FROM THE PRINCIPAL SUPERINTENDENT OF CONVICTS IN SYDNEYMarch 1843 OHMS outer cover with imprint "Prin. Sup. of Convicts' Office, Sydney" at lower left and addressed to a magistrate in Van Diemen's Land. The contents are largely illegible but what is clearly illustrated by the postal markings is the privilege of FREE franking that was extended to the Principal Superintendent of Convicts under the 1835 Postal Act. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$150StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 213 BROWNS RIVER PROBATION STATION:A small leather-bound New Testament [Cambridge, The British and Foreign Bible Society, MDCCCXXXVI]. Endorsed on the title page "Browns River Probation Station" and in another hand "J. Skene" and with the "broad arrow" brand on the front cover. Also, a matching leather-bound volume titled "Reflections on the Wisdon, Power, and Goodness of God. Selected from Sturm's Reflections." [Dublin, John Jones, 1828] 180pp. Scarce survivors of the sea jou... View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Price Realized$750StatusSold Lot 214 THREE CONVICTS ESCAPE FROM PORT ARTHURNovember 1843 hand-written letter from a Police Magistrate enlisting help in the re-capture of three escapees. The letter reports that two men had demanded provisions from a Mrs Brown at Muddy Plains; and that it was supposed that these were two of the three men who had escaped on Sept.25th 1843. The third escapee, William Westwood, also known as "Jacky-Jacky" was a notorious bushranger from NSW but he had already been recaptured in October. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$1,400StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 215 ELIZABETH DAVIS, LEFT A PAUPER FOLLOWING HER HUSBAND'S CONVICTION March 18th, 1844 printed form from The Guardians of the Poor of the Atherstone Union, about the cost of keeping Elizabeth Davis, a pauper from Tamworth. View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot 216 A FATHER ASKS ABOUT HIS SON, TRANSPORTED TO VAN DIEMEN'S LANDJune 1844 OHMS outer cover from the Secretary of State's Office (Whitehall) together with the original enclosure; a response to the enquiry about a convict, one John Duffield. Particularly scarce. (2 items)John Duffield had been convicted at the Lent assizes in Derby in March 1819, of sheep stealing and sentenced to death. The sentence was respited by Mr Justice Burrough on 28th April 1819 and the sentence reduced to transporta... View details Estimate$300 - $400Price Realized$240StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 217 ESCAPE AND RE-CAPTURE - THE LIFE OF A CONVICT AT PORT ARTHURJuly 1844 letter from the Chief Police Magistrate at Hobart regarding the convict Michael Ryan who had absconded "from the Settlement at Port Arthur with no good cause". He was recaptured seven days later; both events being advertised in the Gazette. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 218 N.S.W. CONDITIONAL PARDON, dated 13th July 1847 View details Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$3,000StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 219 CONDITIONAL PARDON FOR CONVICT WILLIAM SWEENEY View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$700StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 220 CRIME & PUNISHMENT: Group of 5 Government blue papers; "Convicts, 1851, Victoria", "Returns, Penal Establishment, Pentridge, 1851", "Police Reward Fund. Victoria 1854-5", " Transportation. Victoria 1856", "Regulations for the Employment of Convict Labor. Victoria 1856-7". View details Estimate$80 - $100Price Realized$50StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 221 CONVICT SHIP "RODNEY" and SALTWATER RIVER PROBATION STATION:A small volume titled "An Alarm to Unconverted Sinners..." By Joseph Alleine [London, The Religious Tract Society] 198pp. Endorsed on the inside front cover "Rodney C.S. 69" and numbered "69" on the leather spine. Also endorsed on the title page "Salt Water River Station, Nov.1853".Also, a matching volume titled "Memoir of Harlan Page....." by William A Hallock [London, The Religious Tract Society] 176pp. Endorsed on the inside ... View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Price Realized$1,300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 222 WILLIAM BUCKLEY, THE WILD WHITE MAN:"THE NEWSLETTER OF AUSTRALASIA" Number XIV - August 1857 [George Slater, Melbourne] with an engraved portrait of William Buckley by Frederick Grosse and a lengthy manuscript letter dated July 1857 and concerning the better pay and employment prospects to be found in Victoria, at the "gold sinkings" or working as a bricklayer.William Buckley [1780-1856] was an English convict who was transported to Australia, escaped, was given up for dead, and lived in... View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$5,500StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 223 A CONVICT WHO MADE GOOD - CHARLES DAVIS OF HOBARTLarge advertising card for Charles Davis, Wholesale and Retail Furnishing Ironmonger, Importer of English and American Hardware, incorporating an albumen print (by the Anson Brothers) of his premises in Elizabeth Street, Hobart. Backed by a similar ornate advertisement for Calder, Bowen & Co., General Printers of Liverpool Street, Hobart. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$400StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 224 PORT ARTHUR: A group of (4) mounted albumen prints including 2 from the Anson Brothers Studio in Hobart. Includes views of the interior of a cell, the remains of the Commandant's carriage, the interior of the chapel and a general view of the prison buildings and officers' houses. View details Estimate$300 - $400Price Realized$180StatusSold Lot 225 C1853 Goldfields map of Victoria by J.Bartholomew View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$320StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 226 Gold buyer's scales from the "Albion and Band of Hope" mine in Ballarat, c1863. 83cm. Provenance: Private collection Ballarat. View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot 227 Belle & Haig wax vestas in tin case, circa 1851 View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$320StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 228 Gold buyer's scales by Degrave & Co. with weights View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot 228a A set of brass gold buyer scales & plates by Degrave & Co of London, 19th century View details Estimate$600 - $800StatusUnsold Lot 229 Gold miner's scales and assorted Troy weights in box View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot 230 Gold buyer's scales and assorted weights, circa 1850 View details Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 231 Three boxed sets of gold miner's scales, 19th century View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot 232 Chinese hand written book on ritual and ceremony View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$500StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 233 Antique glass oil lamp with original acid etched shade View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold Lot 234 A collection of "NOBEL No.6" detonator tins (19) & soap View details Estimate$200 - $400Price Realized$200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 235 Chinese pocket banjo gold scales, mid 19th century View details Estimate$200 - $400StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 236 An apothecary set in brass bound mahogany box View details Estimate$600 - $800Price Realized$1,400StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 237 A hand painted glass 19th century vase oil lamp View details Estimate$600 - $800Price Realized$500StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 238 S.D.S. HUYGHUE (1815-1891) The Government Camp View details Estimate$200 - $400Price Realized$1,600StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 239 Two sets of Chinese pocket banjo scales View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot 240 Four sets of pocket gold and apothecary scales View details Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$400StatusSold Lot 241 Two pocket barometers, 19th century View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$320StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 242 A ruby satin glass oil lamp with original shade, 19th C. View details Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 243 A hand painted glass oil lamp with Duplex double burner and original acid etched shade View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot 244 A traveling deed box with lift out tray and compartments, original painted Japanned finish with gilt decoration, mid 19th century View details Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$140StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 245 "Hand of Faith" Nugget replica View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$340StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 246 A brass oil lamp with twin burner, shade and chimney View details Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 247 GOLD NUGGET (Kilgower Victoria) 133.2 grams View details Estimate$9,000 - $11,000StatusUnsold Lot 248 GOLD NUGGET (Inglewood Victoria) 54.5 grams View details Estimate$3,500 - $4,500StatusUnsold Lot 249 GOLD NUGGET (Kingower Victoria) 30.75 grams View details Estimate$2,000 - $2,500StatusUnsold Lot 250 A fine Australian gold nugget 120 grams (4.2oz) View details Estimate$7,000 - $9,000StatusUnsold Lot 251 GOLD NUGGETS: Two nuggets, 7.4g & 4.8g. View details Estimate$800 - $1,000StatusUnsold Lot 252 SUPER PIT DISPLAY, comprising 4g gold nugget, window mounted with photo of Fimiston Open pit, known as the Super Pit in Kalgoorlie, framed & glazed, overall 99x37cm. View details Estimate$300 - $400Price Realized$480StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 253 "TULLOCH & BROWN'S MAP OF THE COLONY of VICTORIA Comprising part of New South Wales. Seaport and Inland Townships, THE GOLD FIELDS with the latest Discoveries; Roads, Tracks, &e. &c. 1857" [Tulloch & Brown, Melbourne, 1857] large map mounted on linen and folded into 18 sections (54 x 82cm) contained within original cloth-covered boards with title label affixed to front cover. View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$700StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 254 [PATTERSON, J.A.] "The GOLD FIELDS of VICTORIA in 1862" [Wilson & Mackinnon, Melbourne, 1862] vii, 331pp + adverts. Original cloth-covered boards bound by Detmold. Some water damage and stains. View details Estimate$300 - $400Price Realized$240StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 255 1880'S GOLDFIELD'S MINING BOX, Talbot Victoria View details Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 256 CHIFLEY, Ben [Australia's 16th Prime Minister: 1945-49] full autograph on Prime Ministerial letterhead, typed message to Alfred B. Strauss (New York) together with the original addressed envelope. Also, "John Curtin" autograph on small card. (3 items). View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$2,200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 257 LACHLAN MACQUARIE (1761-1824, 5th Governor of Australia [NSW]), signature on 1821 Land Grant for 60 Acres in Van Diemen's Land, scarce original document. View details Estimate$500 - $700Price Realized$3,000StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 258 SIR CHARLES HOTHAM (1806-55, 2nd Governor of Victoria), signature on 1854 "Victoria, Town Lot" document for the purchase of land at Geelong, with seal of Colony of Victoria; plus 1855 letter regarding a correction made to the Grant. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$950StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 259 JOHN PASCOE FAWKNER signed carte de visite View details Estimate$200 - $400Price Realized$3,800StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 260 CHRIS WATSON (1867-1941, 3rd Prime Minister of Australia), nice signature on 1905 letter on "The Parliament of the Commonwealth. Parliament House, Melbourne" letterhead. [John Christian Watson was the first Prime Minister from the Australian Labour Party, and the first Prime Minister from the labour movement in the world]. The most difficult Australian Prime Minister's autograph to obtain, Watson being in office for only four months, April-August 1904 GSTex GSTSymbol† View details Estimate$5,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold Lot 261 A leather-bound "Address & Telephone Number Book" with mss dedication "Presented to Major S. Barclay by Old Boys of Albert Park State School.....June 23rd, 1928". Partly used as an autograph book, the first page is headed "Pacific Flyers" and features the original signatures of Charles Kingsford Smith, Charles Ulm, James Warren and Harry Lyon, the Australian/American crew who had just completed the first aerial crossing of the Pacific Ocean - 31st May to 9th June. View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Price Realized$1,150StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 262 c1935-87 signed documents & letters, noted Victorian Premiers - Sir Harry Lawson, Stanley Argyle & John McDonald; NSW Premier Barrie Unsworth; Justices - Owen Dixon (2) & Thomas Clyne (2). View details Estimate$100 - $200StatusUnsold Lot 263 SIR ROBERT MENZIES (1894-1977, 12th Prime Minister of Australia), 1939 & 1942 signed letters on "Commonwealth of Australia/ House of Representatives" letterhead. View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 264 AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY, poster "1891-1991 Australian Labor Party" with 7 signatures including Gough Whitlam, Bob Hawke, Bill Hayden & Neville Wran, limited edition 62/250, framed & glazed, overall 64x90cm. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$160StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 265 WHITE, John: "Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales with Sixty-five Plates of Non descript Animals, Birds, Lizards, Serpents, curious Cones of Trees and other Natural Productions." [J. Debrett, London, 1790]; Quarto, with an engraved title page and 64 (of 65) engraved plates; old calf, partially rebound with replaced corners and spine. First edition: the foundation of natural history of the new colony. View details Estimate$2,000 - $2,500Price Realized$1,250StatusSold Lot 266 "A Kangaroo", Plate 54 from John White's "Journal of a voyage to New South Wales" [London, 1790]. View details Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 267 LAWRENCE, John: "The New Farmer's Calendar; Or, Monthly Remembrancer, for All Kinds of Country Business: Comprehending All the Material Improvements in the New Husbandry, With the Management of Live Stock. Inscribed to the Farmers of Great Britain. By a Farmer and Breeder." [London, H.D.Symonds, 1802] 4th edition. 554 pages, folding plan of the farm yard as frontispiece, index in rear. Octavo, owner's name stamped to Preface page. View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 268 CUNNINGHAM, Peter (Surgeon, R.N.) "Two Years in New South Wales; A Series of Letters, comprising sketches of the actual state of society in that Colony; of its peculiar advantages to Emigrants; of its Topography, Natural History, etc.." [Henry Colburn, London, 1827] in 2 volumes, 352 + 346 pp. Rebound with new endpapers but preseerving most of the original leather bindings; with new gilt titles to spines. Ferguson 1109. View details Estimate$500 - $600StatusUnsold Lot 269 "The HOBART TOWN GAZETTE" of Saturday, April 26, 1828. The leading article is a Proclamation by George Athur, Lieutenant-Governor of the Island of Van Diemen's Land and its Dependencies, namely that "....since the primary Settlement of this Colony, various acts of aggression, violence, and cruelty have been, from different causes, committed on the Aboriginal Inhabitants of the Island, by Subjects of His Majesty.And whereas, for the preventing and punishing such sanguinary, and wicked pract... View details Estimate$300 - $400Price Realized$900StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 270 "The Hobart Town Gazette" April 11, 1829 GSTex GSTSymbol† View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot 271 DE REINZI, M.L.-D. "PANORAMA UNIVERSAL. HISTORIA DE LA OCEANIA, Ó QUINTA PARTE DEL MUNDO." [Fomento, Barcelona, 1845] in 4 volumes, 392 + 387 + 300 + 339pp. Profusely illustrated with engraved plates and folding maps. Contemporary half-calf bindings (with defects) and new endpapers. View details Estimate$300 - $400Price Realized$200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 272 ALEXANDER McLEAY, COLONIAL SECRETARY of NEW SOUTH WALESNov.1846 envelope (opened out for display) sent from CAMDEN to SYDNEY with oval datestamps and signed by McLeay under the word "Free" at lower left. McLeay was entitled to free postage when acting in his official capacity.McLeay was loved and revered by his friends and inspired the loyalty of all who worked closely with him. As a man of science his name was respected far beyond the borders of New South Wales. His share in encouraging... View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$60StatusSold Lot 273 A SUPREME COURT TRIAL AT MELBOURNEMay 1846 letter from Captain Richard Hanmer Bunbury, with rectangular "PAID AT MELBOURNE" marking (rated at 3/9 - 3 times the basic rate) addressed to his wife, then in Sydney, with arrival backstamp. Bunbury is writing to advise that his return to Sydney has been delayed due to his involvement in a case before the Supreme Court. He is a witness to an incident wherein an employee of his has used a "cheque" to obtain money under false pretences. The culprit, ... View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 274 "The Royal Society of Van Diemen's Land" 10 volumes View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$220StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 275 REDMOND BARRY Signed Bible View details Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$1,300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 276 "Views Of Victoria 1853-4" by Edmund Thomas View details Estimate$200 - $400Price Realized$2,200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 277 SONG SHEET: "The City of Sydney Polka", [c1854], early Australian song sheet with engraved illustration of George Street, Sydney. View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 278 AUSTRALIA AND THE CRIMEAN WAR "The Seat of the War in the East by William Simpson." Dedicated by Permission to Her Most Gracious Majesty The Queen. First Series. [Paul & Dominic Colnaghi & Co., London, 1855] comprising 40 full page lithographic "sketches"; bound together in one volume with the Second Series [1856] comprising a further 41 lithographic full page illustrations. Red leather spine with gold titles and raised bands; gilt title to front cover. View details Estimate$3,000 - $4,000StatusUnsold Lot 279 VICTORIA: "BONWICK'S Port Phillip" [Melb. 1856]; "Colonial and Indian Exhibition, London 1886, Illustrated Handbook Of Victoria, Australia" [Melb.]; "Victoria And It's Metropolis" 2 volumes [Melb. 1888] View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$650StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 280 SONG SHEET: "Advance Australia" (1859) “the first song lithographed, and the first national song published in Victoria,…” (from notes by lyricist Eliza Postle). View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$80StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 281 1861 Victorian ‘PASSAGE WARRANT’ (270x265mm) with imprint ‘By Authority: John Ferres, Government Printer, Melbourne’ vertically at left, entitling a ship’s master to a payment of £14 for the carriage of two children aged 8 and 10 (apparently unaccompanied minors) from England, signed “LF Sullivan” Commissioner of Trade & Customs and “J Chatfield” (?) Immigration Agent. A rare & significant document, and the only example we have seen. View details Estimate$750 - $1,000StatusUnsold Lot 282 VICTORIA ILLUSTRATED [1862, 2nd Edition]: A collection of 43 steel engravings based on drawings by S.T.Gill and Nicholas Chevalier, mostly engraved by A. Willmore. Bound without title page; the contents pages also incomplete. All engravings are present, together with the interleaving and explanatory texts; a number are affected by damp staining. Sold as a collection of plates. View details Estimate$500 - $750StatusUnsold Lot 283 WALCH'S TASMANIAN ALMANAC; 8 volumes View details Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$600StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 284 SONG SHEET: "The Alfred March" (1867) Composed for a Reception Concert in honour of the visit to Australia by Albert, Duke of Edinburgh. View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$280StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 285 "Contributions to Terrestrial Magnetism - No.XI" by Lieut.-General Edward Sabine, from 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, 1867', bound with 3 maps "Antarctic Magnetic Survey, Epoch 1840-1845, Inclination", "..Declination" & "..Intensity". View details Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 286 FORREST, John "Explorations in Australia…" [London, Sampson Low, 1875]. Octavo, eight plates, four folding maps; in original green cloth, gilt vignette on upper board. An important account of Forrest's successful exploring career, during which he most famously became the first person to cross the continent west to east. View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,250Price Realized$1,300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 287 "Monsters of the Deep and Curiosities of Ocean Life. A book of anecdotes, traditions, and legends." [London, Nelson and Sons, 1876] by W.H. Davenport Adamas, based on his translation of the original by Armand Landrin. Leather-bound presentation copy with "R.H.Budd Educational Institute for Ladies" label "Christmas 1880" affixed to inside front cover. View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$75StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 288 SONG SHEET: "The Waratah Blossom Waltz" (c.1879) Tasmanian composition, published by Mercury newspaper, features Tasmania’s endemic species of waratah, Telopea truncata. View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$80StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 289 "Australia by Edwin Carton Booth, illustrated with Drawings by Skinner Prout & N. Chevalier" published by Virtue & Co [Melbourne], with 57 steel engravings plus Burke and Wills monument title page engraving View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Price Realized$750StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 290 BOOKS: "Official Handbook and Guide to Victoria. Illustrated. 1880 Exhibition Edition" (lacks map); "The Australasian Turf Register 1897"; "The Jubilee History of Kew, Victoria" by Barnard 1910; "The Gun Alley Tragedy" by T.C.Brennan [1922]. (4 vols.]. View details Estimate$300 - $400StatusUnsold Lot 291 SONG SHEETS: "The Victorian Galop" (1881/82), cover illustrates Melbourne Town Hall; plus "Old England And The New" (1887) with cover artwork by prominent 19th century UK illustrator Alfred Concanen of an Australian stockman. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$360StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 292 SONG SHEETS: "Unfurl The Flag" (1883) composed by Sir William Robinson (1834-1897), Governor of both WA & SA; plus "Our Star Cross Ensign" (1908) with ealaborate back cover. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$220StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 293 CRICKET: "The AUSTRALIANS IN ENGLAND - A Complete Record of the CRICKET TOUR of 1884" Edited by Charles F. Pardon. [George Robertson & Co., London, 1884] 184pp + advertisement pages. Rebound, lacking original soft covers. View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$160StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 294 Tasmanian real estate advertising broadsides "Lots for Sale at Hobart on Tuesday 23rd June 1885. COPPING" 36.5 x 36cm; "MANUKA, Strahan Estate" with attached amendment, late 19th century, 57.5 x 42cm. (2 items) View details Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 295 PRISONER'S LETTERS FROM MUDGEE GOALA group of (3) letters written on "G.186" forms provided to prisoners periodically, depending on the relationship of the correspondent: 1885 (Jan.) letter from Thomas Lambert to his mother; 1896 (April) letter from Mary Mason to her mother; 1900 (June) letter from Mary Mason to her mother.Letters from female prisoners are particularly rare. In her earlier letter, Mary Mason reports that she has only a little over a month to serve "then I will come home ... View details Estimate$300 - $400Price Realized$240StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 296 A LETTER FROM H.M. GOAL, PENTRIDGE1885 (Sept.5) complete hand-written letter on prison letterhead, addressed to Mr. J. Singleton from the convicted rapist, Charles Hansen; with COBURG despatch and MELBOURNE arrival datestamps.Hansen [or Hansson], a Swede (although the address panel is endorsed "Norwegian" in a different hand) who had been in prison since 1880 writes "....I am geting wary impatience in geting my leberty, as I think I was very shamfully delt with; the awydance against me... View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$150StatusSold Lot 297 The Australian Irrigation Colonies, 1888, 1 Volume View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$20StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 298 BROINOWSKI, Gracius J.: "The Birds of Australia" comprising three hundred full-page illustrations..." [Charles Stuart & Co., Melbourne, 1890] in six volumes but bound together in 3 volumes. While the bindings are in poor condition most of the coloured lithographic plates are fine. View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Price Realized$1,600StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 299 "National Australian Convention, Sydney 1891. 1. Record Of The Proceedings. 2. Record Of The Debates" printed by George Stephen Chapman, Acting Government Printer. Blue cloth boards with embossed gilt lettering on the cover and spine. View details Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 300 CONVICT DOCUMENT: 1893 Department of Prisons document for Frances Schomberg with photograph, description & offence (Causing the death of her infant son by starvation). View details Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$80StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Items per page 102550100 Previous|1234567|Next Previous 1234567 Next Previous 1234567 Next
