Australian History (#144MG) 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) Filter By Categories Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above Featured Exclude closed lots Price Lot Number Results: Viewing items 41-50 of 86. Previous|123456789|Next Lot #340 GEORGE BARRINGTON, D'ARCY WENTWORTH & BOTANY BAY: THE LONDON CHRONICLENovember 14-17, 1789: This edition carries a detailed report on an appearance by the notorious pickpocket George Barrington; a further update on the fate of D'Arcy Wentworth and a small but fascinating note of a report from America. "...the House of Representatives have fixed the salary of the President at 25,000 dollars per ann. including all expences; for the Vice President 5000 per ann. and for each of the Secretarie... View details Estimate$250 - $500Price Realized$420StatusSold Lot #341 D'ARCY WENTWORTH: THE LONDON CHRONICLE November 19-21 and 28-December 1: The lengthy saga of Wentworth's legal battle is continued in both these editions. There are also interesting articles from the Jamaica Royal Gazette "...There has not been any busines done here these three days past, owing to the great Revolution in France, which has reached this place [St.Pierre, Martinique] in all its force..."; from Warsaw "...The Polish regiments are said to have complained to the Commission of War t... View details Quantity2Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #342 FIRST FLEET & BOTANY BAY: THE LONDON CHRONICLE December 1-3, 1789: With a short report about an on-board dispute leading to a duel between Captain Gilbert of the Neptune and Lieutenant McArthur of the Botany Bay Rangers; December 3-5, 1789: With separate advertisements for the publication of "The Voyage of Governor Phillip to BOTANY BAY" and Thomas Gilbrt's "Journal of a VOYAGE from PORT JACKSON, NEW SOUTH WALES, to CANTON, in 1788, through an unexplored passage." Also, December 5-8, 1789: ... View details Estimate$250 - $500Price Realized$280StatusSold Lot #343 GEORGE BARRINGTON & D'ARCY WENTWORTH: THE LONDON CHRONICLEDecember 8-10, 1789: This edition contains a lengthy and detailed report on Barrington's trial at the Old Bailey; also, a further mention of the notorious D'Arcy Wentworth. Also, a report on a slave revolt in Martinique which includes the publication of a letter threatening "...we will spread fire and blood through all the colony..." signed "All the Negroes" and a note that "One of the convicts who was sentenced for transportation t... View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$260StatusSold Lot #344 GOVERNOR PHILIPS & PORT JACKSON: THE LONDON CHRONICLEDecember 10-12, 1789: Includes a short piece quoting "Philips" [correctly, Phillip] description of Port Jackson and Sydney Cove, of which he says "Here was the finest spring water, and ships can anchor so close in shore, that at a very small expence quays may be constructed, at which the largest vessels may constantly unload." There are also reports from the West Indies, France, Philadelphia, Vienna, Archangel and many other places. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$160StatusSold Lot #345 BOTANY BAY & SECOND FLEET: THE LONDON CHRONICLE:December 12-15, 1789: An edition rich with relevant articles including a brief reference to "The Neptune convict ship...with the Botany Bay Rangers on board..." still waiting for orders; an extract of a letter from Portsmouth reporting that "The number of convicts going out to Botany Bay, in the fleet now under sailing orders, amounts to 1000......." mentioning the numbers on the Neptune, the Scarborough and the Surprize. There is also a brief... View details Quantity2Estimate$250 - $500Price Realized$220StatusSold Lot #346 CONVICTS & GOVERNOR PHILIP: THE LONDON CHRONICLEDecember 22-24 & 24-26, 1789: the first edition carries a report regarding the launch of the new ship Discovery, to be commanded by Captain Roberts; another, reporting on the delivery of 100 more convicts from Newgate prison, "to be taken to the hulks, in order to wait their sentence of transportation." The second edition carries a lengthy review of the newly published "The Voyage of Governor Philip to Botany Bay; with an Account of the Estab... View details Quantity2Estimate$250 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #347 SERIOUS DOUBTS ABOUT BOTANY BAY: THE LONDON CHRONICLEFebruary 8-10 & 19-22, 1791: The first includes a lengthy report on Sir Charles Bunbury's speech and the subsequent debate in the House of Commons, on the subject of the "settlement of Botany Bay" and the "delayed disposal of convicts" there. Mr Jekyll observed that "he had many doubts of the policy of the system of colonizing New South Wales......The Chancellor of the Exchequer admitted....that the sending of such a number of convicts t... View details Quantity2Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$380StatusSold Lot #348 THE TRAGIC IMPACT OF SMALL POX: THE LONDON CHRONICLEFebruary 22-24, 1791: An edition carrying good and bad news; the first being a report on the exemplary behavoiur of two convicts, Richard Pugh and Elizabeth Morgan, who "....are stationed at Norfolk Island....Pugh has discovered great ingenuity in covering houses with shingles, and turns out to be a valuable member of the colony." The very bad news is introduced by the following statement: "The native inhabitants of the country have caugh... View details Estimate$250 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #349 NORFOLK ISLAND & CONVICT LABOUR IN NSW: THE LONDON CHRONICLEMarch 5-8, 8-10 & 10-12, 1791: the first edition carries an extract of the "instructions given by Governor Philip to the Lieutenant Governor during his command at Norfolk Isalnd, dated 2d of March 1790" which mostly concern the use of convict labour in "cultivating and dressing the flax-plant.." The second, contains a much more lengthy letter from Governor from Governor Philip to Lord Sydney, dated Sydney Cove, Feb.13, 1790, in wh... View details Quantity3Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$420StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|123456789|Next Previous 123456789 Next Previous 123456789 Next
