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Bates postcard "Native Camp at Beagle Bay"; together with a 1915/16 Rose Series postcard View details Quantity2Estimate$60 - $100Price Realized$160StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 301 1924 Richard Buckley Warrent Issues sent to USA by Victoria Police View details Estimate$80 - $120StatusUnsold Lot 302 Postcards group of 52 real photo cards predominantly Rose's series of Australian scenes View details Quantity52Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$160StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 303 Stereoviews a group of 24 published by the Australasian Stereoscopic Co including convoy of Australians, kit inspections of Australians and balloon corp View details Quantity24Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$140StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 304 A Victorian scrap album, 1859-1907 View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$320StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 305 "Birds of the Australian Swamps" by Frank T. Morris, vol 2, limited edition of 500 copies View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 306 "Australian Parrots, Volume II Pisittacinae" by Joseph M. Forshaw and illustrated by William T. Cooper View details Estimate$200 - $400Price Realized$160StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 307 Postcards collection of predominantly Australian real photo vintage postcards including group of four photo series giant postcards and 19th century photographs View details Estimate$200 - $400Price Realized$120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 308 A Ned Kelly vintage postcard mounted in perspex block View details Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$160StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 309 A collection of Australian lithographed vintage fruit box labels, in mint condition View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$60StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 310 A 19th century scrap album bearing numerous original drawings and watercolours as well as poems and stories, inspection will reward View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$260StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 311 Two real estate advertising posters, Safety Beach Estate Dromana and Victoria Estate Perth (poor condition) View details Quantity2Estimate$60 - $100Price Realized$40StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 312 [after JOSEPH LYCETT] "Views In Australia, Or New South Wales And Van Diemens Land" View details Estimate$1,200 - $2,000StatusUnsold Lot 313 New Station Buildings at Windsor' original architectural drawings of Victorian Railways, 1885 View details Estimate$600 - $800StatusUnsold Lot 314 "South Yarra and Oakleigh Line, Column with Basin for Platform Verandah" original architectural drawings of Victorian Railways, 1879 View details Estimate$600 - $800StatusUnsold Lot 315 "New Station Buildings at Windsor" original architectural drawing of Victorian Railways, 1885 contract no. 2336, no.1 View details Estimate$600 - $800StatusUnsold Lot 316 A collection of 8 'Australia Illustrated' books published by Edwin Carton Booth GSTex GSTSymbol† View details Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$100StatusSold Lot 317 AUSTRALIA & New Zealand IN ENGLISH NEWSPAPERS: 1779 - 1857Jackson's OXFORD Journal of April 3, 1779 carries a note about Captain Cook of the Adventure then supposed to be in Japan; the Liverpool Courier of Aug.3, 1831 carries a long article headed "Cannibalism in New Zealand" and another about the opening of "The New London Bridge"; the Daily News of Aug.15, 1846 provides coverage of the present agricultural, financial and industrial state of the colony; another, about the better governors... View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot 318 BARE KNUCKLE BOXING IN LONDON NEWSPAPERS 1788 - 1789 FEATURING DANIEL MENDOZA, ENGLAND'S HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION FROM 1792 to 1795A remarkable archive of ten original, complete newspapers (The London Chronicle x9 & The Times x1) which report on all manner of sporting, regal, political, philiosophical, artistic and commercial news while, at exactly the same time, the First Fleet was landing at Botany Bay and the first faltering steps in establishing the Colony of New South Wales were taking pl... View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot 319 FIRST FLEET & BOTANY BAY: THE LONDON CHRONICLEThe first printed accounts of the Expedition to and the Settlement at Sydney Cove, appeared in issues of the London Chronicle newspaper issued in early 1789. This lot, and the following four lots, comprise the earliest printed reports emanating from the new settlement at Sydney Cove. This, and all the following items comprise complete editions of The London Gazette: February 21-24, 1789: Notice of the arrival of "the Botany Bay squadron.." A small.. View details Estimate$500 - $1,000Price Realized$1,100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 320 FIRST FLEET & BOTANY BAY: THE LONDON CHRONICLE. The first printed accounts of the Expedition to and the Settlement at Sydney Cove, in issues of the London Chronicle newspaper issued in early 1789: February 26-28, 1879: Regarding the safe arrival of Commodore Phillips with his ships and convicts at Botany Bay, "...very few men died on the passage...." The short article also notes that it was intended that the supply brig would be returned home "last November with advices for Go... View details Estimate$500 - $1,000Price Realized$1,800StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 321 FIRST FLEET & BOTANY BAY: THE LONDON CHRONICLE. The first printed accounts of the Expedition to and the Settlement at Sydney Cove, in issues of the London Chronicle newspaper issued in early 1789: March 24-26, 1879: A lengthy article, "...Of the convicts and others, from the departure of the squadron from Portsmouth, to the time the ship which brings the advice left Jackson's Bay, only 40 appear to have died; and to compensate for this loss, 42 infants were born."..."Three of ... View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Price Realized$2,600StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 322 FIRST FLEET & BOTANY BAY: THE LONDON CHRONICLE. The first printed accounts of the Expedition to and the Settlement at Sydney Cove, in issues of the London Chronicle newspaper issued in early 1789: March 26-28, 1789: A very lengthy article covering nearly four complete columns in the paper. On 23 March 1789 the convict transport Prince of Wales sailed into Plymouth after an absence of almost two years. This article, published the next day, was the earliest full account of the s... View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Price Realized$3,000StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 323 FIRST FLEET & BOTANY BAY: THE LONDON CHRONICLE. The first printed accounts of the Expedition to and the Settlement at Sydney Cove, in issues of the London Chronicle newspaper issued in early 1789: March 28-31, 1789: A short article reporting on the arrival at the Admiralty office of Commodore Phillips journals from Botany Bay. "...The natives of New Holland never appeared in such consternation, as one morning when they beheld Capt. Hunter, of the Sirius, on horseback. They had... View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$650StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 324 FIRST FLEET & BOTANY BAY: THE LONDON CHRONICLE. The first printed accounts of the Expedition to and the Settlement at Sydney Cove, in issues of the London Chronicle newspaper issued in early 1789: April 4-7, 1789: Two columns titled "Further Particulars of the BOTANY BAY EXPEDITION" in which much detail of the aboriginal inhabitants and their responses to the English is provided. "....Although the women appear always without the least covering, the men seem, notwithstanding, t... View details Estimate$750 - $1,000Price Realized$950StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 325 FIRST FLEET & BOTANY BAY: THE LONDON CHRONICLE. The first printed accounts of the Expedition to and the Settlement at Sydney Cove, in issues of the London Chronicle newspaper issued in early 1789: April 28-30, 1789: Containing a short article, "....The extent of our possessions in New Holland have not been explained to the public....." following which, the coordinates of Governor Phillips' huge commission are delineated. Also, an early reference to the fur trade, with a ship h... View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$380StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 326 FIRST FLEET & BOTANY BAY: THE LONDON CHRONICLE. The first printed accounts of the Expedition to and the Settlement at Sydney Cove, in issues of the London Chronicle newspaper issued in early 1789: May 5-7, 1789: Containing a long and detailed "Authentic Letter from BOTANY BAY" headed "Sydney Cove, July 12, 1788" togther with an explanation about the fact that it was hot in January at Botany Bay (when the First Fleet had arrived) and that in July, when the letter had been writt... View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Price Realized$1,600StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 327 FIRST FLEET & BOTANY BAY: THE LONDON CHRONICLE:May 14-16, 1789: This edition includes an "Extract of a Letter from an Officer of Marines at New South Wales, to a Gentleman in Town. Dated, Port Jackson, New South Wales, Nov. 16, 1788." and provides some details of the first several months in the colony, with particular emphasis on "the vicissitudes and rapid changes of climate that we experience.......It was natural enough to expect that inflammatory disorders would have been the consequenc... View details Estimate$750 - $1,000Price Realized$500StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 328 FIRST FLEET & BOTANY BAY: THE LONDON CHRONICLEMay 28-30, 1789: This edition of the newspaper contains an account of life in the Colony written by a woman. It is headed "The following Letter from Port Jackson, dated Nov.14, 1788 is written by a Female Pen.""I take the first opportunity that has been given us, to acquaint you with our disconsolate situation in this solitary waste of the creation......However, we have now two streets, if four rows of the most miserable huts you can possib... View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Price Realized$600StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 329 FIRST FLEET & BOTANY BAY: THE LONDON CHRONICLEJune 2-4, 1789: This edition includes an "Extract of a Letter from Botany Bay, received by the Golden Grove Transport, Captain Sharp, now at Corke.""The Governor's commission....had so little effect on the convicts, that they soon found means to break open the King's stores and stole some articles thereout, for which a man of the name of Barret was executed on the 27th of February 1788...."Barret was the first person executed in Austral... View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 330 FIRST FLEET & BOTANY BAY: THE LONDON CHRONICLEJune 18-20, 1789: This edition contains a short extract of a letter "from an officer on board the Sirius at Botany Bay, to a gentleman in this city [Edinburgh] by which "we have a more favourable account of the country than what has yet appeared.""The inhabitants (he says) are exceedingly shy, and do not seem to wish for any communication with us. The less, in my opinion, the better, as they seem fond of thieving every thing they can lay th... View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$480StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 331 FIRST FLEET & BOTANY BAY: THE LONDON CHRONICLEJune 23-25, 1789: This edition features a small and intriguing article about "the dispute between the Governor and Lieutenant Governor of the new settlement at Botany Bay." (Governor Phillip, Lieutenant-Governor Ross, Major Bruce and the Adjutant General, David Collins are arguing about who is in charge!). Details are also provided of the corps that was being raised "for the defence of the colony" listing a total of 316 men. This information, t... View details Estimate$250 - $500StatusUnsold Lot 332 FIRST FLEET & BOTANY BAY: THE LONDON CHRONICLEJuly 21-23, 1789: Features an "Extract of a Letter from Sydney Cove, Port Jackson, county of Cumberland, New South Wales, to Mrs. Dinah Cable, at Laxfield.....dated November 17, 1788." A rare letter from a female convict written only a few months after the arrival of the Fleet. "....this country is the most barren that I ever heard of;....as for any sort of fruit, it is as scarce as on the barren mountains of Wales. There is an animal called ca... View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$700StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 333 BOTANY BAY & THE NATIVE INHABITANTS: THE LONDON CHRONICLESeptember 3-5, 1789: This edition contains two fascinating entries; the first being news carried by a Dutch ship, recently arrived from China, having met a ship from Port Jackson while en route at a port in India: "...the Governor's house and one street were finished with much neatness; that the crops of grain, though not so fine as were expected, had been tolerably fruitful.....Three persons had been punished with death....an iron m... View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 334 BOTANY BAY: THE LONDON CHRONICLE September 8-10, 1789: Extracts from a Letter from Portsmouth note that "....Nine convicts from the hulks at Langston harbour, and 16 from the hulk lying off Weevil....were this day embarked on board his Majesty's ship Guardian, bound to Port Jackson, Botany Bay. The Guardian will sail.....loaded with beds, clothing, and every other necessary which Commander Phillips did not take out. The 25 convicts now embarked are....chiefly house carpenters and blacksmith... View details Estimate$500 - $750StatusUnsold Lot 335 BOTANY BAY: THE LONDON CHRONICLESeptember 10-12, 1789: includes a short piece about a curious item "imported from Botany Bay...a leaf of very uncommon properties; the most extraordinary is, that when dried, even without being pulverised, it goes off on application of a match, with an explosion somewhat in the manner of gunpowder, the air is afterwards agreeably perfumed......" View details Estimate$250 - $500StatusUnsold Lot 336 BOTANY BAY & A FEMALE TRANSPORT: THE LONDON CHRONICLE October 20-22, 1789: A small article but a big story; this edition of the paper carries an "Extract of a Letter on board the Lady Juliana, Aitken, for Botany Bay, dated Santa Cruz, Sept.1" in which the correspondent notes "I have the pleasure of informing you of our safe arrival in this place......We are all in good health; the women have behaved much better than was expected....."The British government chartered the Lady Juliana to... View details Estimate$500 - $750StatusUnsold Lot 337 BOTANY BAY: THE LONDON CHRONICLEOctober 31 - November 3, 1789: This edition includes a small entry regarding a group of three felons who had previously "rejected his Majesty's [offer of] clemency on condition of being transported to Botany Bay" but who had since "thought [it] proper to accept." View details Estimate$250 - $500StatusUnsold Lot 338 COOK'S VOYAGES, BOTANY BAY & THE SECOND FLEET: THE LONDON CHRONICLE November 5-7, 1789: This edition includes a long (almost full page) commentary on a new book published by Captain Nathaniel Portlock, who had previously accompanied Captain James Cook on his Third Pacific Voyage; also, a small reference to "The fleet, with convicts for the new settlement at South Wales" being prepared for departure from Portsmouth "before the conclusion of the month." This is a reference to the Second Flee... View details Estimate$250 - $500Price Realized$180StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 339 COOKS VOYAGES, BOTANY BAY & BOXING: THE LONDON CHRONICLENovember 12-14, 1789: Concluding in this issue is the lengthy article (started in the 5-7 Nov. edition) concerning "A Voyage round the WORLD...." by Captain Nathaniel Portlock, who had accompanied Captain James Cook on his Third Voyage to the Pacific. It also includes an extensive coverage of the latest trial of "The notorious D'Arcy Wentworth". At the conclusion of the case the prosecutor informed the judge: 'My Lord, Mr. Wentworth,... View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history 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$420StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history 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$280StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history 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$260StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history 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$160StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history 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$220StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history 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$380StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history 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$420StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 350 SOME STATISTICS FROM NEW SOUTH WALES: THE LONDON CHRONICLEMarch 22-24 & 24-26, 1791: Two editions which provide fascinating statistical insight into the fledgling Colony, including:Convicts shipped: 2,029Convicts intended to be sent in the ships now under orders: 1,830also much accounting detail regarding the costs of the Civil and Military Establishments, the cost of Provisions and Stores, with lists for the various ships, types of equipment (including handcuffs and irons), medicine... View details Quantity2Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$220StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 351 FAVOURABLE NEWS FROM BOTANY BAY: THE LONDON CHRONICLEMay 26-28, 1791: "Letters have been received in town from Botany Bay, which contain the most favourable accounts of that colony. The arrival of the Scarborough, Surprise, Justinian, Lady Juliana and Neptune transports, in the months of July and August [1790], entirely relieved the colony from the distress it laboured under when Lieutenant King left it....." View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot 352 STARVING CONDITIONS AT BOTANY BAY: THE LONDON CHRONICLEJuly 2-5 and 5-7, 1791: These editions carry two short reports from the colony advising of "..almost...starving condition..." and that attempts to establish relations with the natives and that, furthermore, "there seemed very little prospect of ever bringing the scheme to a satisfactory accomplishment." Other coverage in these editions is heavy in news from the on-going revolution in France, the loss of the supply ship, Neptune while ... View details Quantity2Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 353 SECOND FLEET & DEATHS EN ROUTE: THE LONDON CHRONICLEJuly 14-16 and August 4-6, 1791: The earlier edition carries a report on the arrival of the Neptune, the Scarborough and Surprize at Botany Bay [June 1790]. "The convicts were very sickly, of whom 270 died on their passage, and 100 more after their arrival....They found the colony in a distressed state...". The later condition provided more insight into the sorry state of the colony and the recent arrivals via an "Extract of a Letter from... View details Quantity3Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 354 Lieutenant McCLUER VISITS THE PELEW ISLANDS (PALAU): THE LONDON CHRONICLESeptember 1-3, 3-6 and 13-15, 1791: These editions carry quite extensive coverage of this visit. In August 1790, when he was 31 years old according to his own account, McCluer was sent to the Pelew (Palau) Islands in the Panther, accompanied by the Endeavour, commanded by Lieutenant William Drummond, to inform the King of the death in London of his son Lee Boo, who had been brought to England by Captain Henry Wilson, ... View details Quantity3Estimate$500 - $750StatusUnsold Lot 355 A LETTER FROM A CONVICT TO HIS WIFE: THE LONDON CHRONICLEOctober 15-18, 1791: A convicted highway robber sent to Botany Bay "for the term of his natural life" writes from Port Jackson "...If you can send me any thing without distressing yourself, soap and shoes will be the most useful articles, and knives......" View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot 356 JAMES GEORGE SEMPLE: THE LONDON CHRONICLEJanuary 28-31, 1797: This edition carries a short report about "Major Semple" being sent to the hulks at Portsmouth in preperation for transportation.In 1784, Semple was arrested for obtaining goods by false pretences, and in Sept. 1786 was sentenced to 7 years' transportation. Released on condition of quitting England, he went to Paris, where he represents himself as serving on General Berruyer's staff, and as witnessing the execution of Louis ... View details Quantity4Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot 357 COLLINS, David [1756-1810] "An account of the English colony in New South Wales from its first settlement in January 1788, to August 1801 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Price Realized$1,150StatusSold Lot 358 The ELIOTT FAMILY Scrapbook View details Estimate$2,000 - $4,000Price Realized$2,600StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 359 THE MORNING HERALD, London: 1805 A group of complete editions of this large-format newspaper, each of which carries news or information from Botany Bay, which "may give some idea of the state of society in this extraordinary colony...." The Feb.28 edition provides snippets and advertisements transcribed from "The Sydney Gazettes' recently received in London; the April 16 edition reports on the possible new Governor of New South Wales as well as the immenent departure of various families of ... View details Estimate$250 - $300StatusUnsold Lot 360 BALCOMBE, Thomas Tyrwhitt [1810-1861] (An expedition party rowing up a river) Watercolour on paper, signed and dated "T.Balcombe 1861" at lower left. 17 x 30cm. Provenance: Eliott family, by descent. View details Estimate$8,000 - $10,000StatusUnsold Lot 361 COLLARD, Anna Sarah Rachel (nee Wauch) [1824-1904] (attrib.)(A mare and her foal)Watercolour on paper, 20 x 25cmPROVENANCE: Removed from the Eliott Family scrapbook which had originally been owned by Jane Richards.The painting is believed to depict the mare, "Jessie Grey". She has a distinct "P" on her near-side shoulder. Further details are available on request. View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$600StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 362 COLLARD, Anna Sarah Rachel (nee Wauch) [1824-1904] (A young horse with Aboriginal strapper) Watercolour on paper, signed and dated "A.S.R.Collard 1863" at lower right; 20 x 25cm PROVENANCE: Removed from the Eliott Family scrapbook which had originally been owned by Jane Richards. The painting is believed to depict the foal depicted in the previous painting, being led by an aboriginal strapper. The setting also matches that of the earlier painting. It is... View details Estimate$1,000 - $2,000Price Realized$3,400StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 363 NICHOLAS, William [1807-54](A Pale Lady picking flowers)watercolour on paper, signed "NICHOLAS" at lower right25 x 19cm.PROVENACE: The Eliott family, by descent. View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$420StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 364 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$600 - $800StatusUnsold Lot 365 STEPHENS & STOKES: "New South Wales Calendar and General Post Office Directory, 1833." [Sydney: December, 1832.] with folding map, engraved title-page with view of the GPO two folding tables, two folding plates (one hand-coloured), map of Mount Victoria, two views of the Mount Victoria pass by John Carmichael, and engraved advertisements for Sydney merchants including R.Broad Watch & Clock Maker; Fagan's Wellington Brewery; Peterson, Painter, Plumber & Glazier; & George Ross, Boot & Sh... GSTex GSTSymbol† View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,500Price Realized$1,800StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 366 AN EARLY INWARDS LETTER TO A SMALL TASMANIAN VILLAGE1838 (Aug.7) lengthy cross-written entire social letter from England to "Thomas Rawling, Bull Inn, Prossers Plains, Van dienab Land" with unframed "PAID AT BRISTOL" handstamp and rated 1/-; with "PAID SHIP LETTER" in red and a fine strike of the scarce first type boxed "SHIPLETTER/3DE/1838" on arrival. The Prossers Plains post office had just opened in early August 1838.The area around Buckland was originally settled around 1820. It wa... View details Estimate$600 - $700Price Realized$500StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 367 THE EMIGRATION GAZETTE AND COLONIAL SETTLERS" UNIVERSAL GUIDE: No.4 - November 13, 1841 to No.62 - December 24, 1842. View details Estimate$6,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold Lot 368 A REQUEST TO BUY LAND NEAR LAUNCESTON1854 (Jan.25) "On Public Service Only" (countersigned "Robt Bain" entire letter from LAUNCESTON to the Surveyor General in Hobart Town; written by William Johnstone who is seeking to exercise his right to purchase 500 acres at "New Plains, County Devon") that he had been occupying under licence. William Johnstone was born in 1819. Married in 1841 and shortly thereafter William sold up his possessions and sailed from Gravesend with his young wife for... View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$150StatusSold Lot 369 The GEORGE WHITELAW archiveA fine illustrated diary with gold embossed title to spine, titled "Sketches in Australia by George Whitelaw, 1857 - 1864" with parrakeet feathers affixed to pages in places and containing 24 charming and mostly detailed and annotated pen and ink sketches tipped in; some with annotations on reverse. Accompanied by several original letters to Whitelaw's mother or sister and with a framed portrait photograph of Whitelaw. The sketches include "Looking towards th... View details Estimate$5,000 - $7,500Price Realized$4,800StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 370 A LETTER FROM HOBART CARRIED ON THE IRON STEAM-SHIP "SIMLA"1857 (May) envelope to Scotland, endorsed "per "Simla" overland mail" with 2 x 4d Van Diemens Land imperforate stamps paying double the standard letter rate, with a fine Liverpool "tombstone" arrival datestamp in red.The "Simla" had been launched in 1854 at the shipyard of Tod & McGregor, Glasgow, for the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Co. View details Estimate$250 - $300Price Realized$280StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 371 JOHN PASCOE FAWKNER important archive collection of documents, papers, notes and artifacts View details Estimate$5,000 - $7,000Price Realized$7,500StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 372 JOHN PASCOE FAWKNER Collection of personal artefacts belonging to Fawkner View details Quantity16Estimate$1,000 - $2,000Price Realized$600StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 373 JOHN PASCOE FAWKNER Hotel bell purported have been kept on the counter of Fawkner's first hotel in Melbourne and used to call last drinks.PROVENANCE: Direct family descent View details Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$750StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 374 FAWKNER, John Pascoe [1792-1869] - Pioneer of Melbourne & VictoriaCalligarphic manuscript address toFawkner by "The undersigned inhabitants of Echuca....who now view with pride....the completion of a trunk line of Railway....again we cannot forget the grand political movement you made in returning Earl Grey to represent Melbourne in the Legislative Council of New South Wales which was the primary step in obtaining our constitution as a separate colony..." with 22 signatures, decorative ink... View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Price Realized$1,200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 375 FAWKNER, John Pascoe [1792-1869] - His Family Bible"The Illustrated FAMILY BIBLE, containing The Old and New Testaments" by Rev. John Brown [Smith, Elder & Co, London, 1838] in original leather binding; endorsed on the title page "John Pascoe Fawkner M.L.C. & J.P. 1866" and again on the first page of the introduction.PROVENANCE: The family, by descent. View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$3,600StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 377 NEW SOUTH WALES with Index: [London, George Philip and Son, c1890] A colour map (490x300mm) laid onto a single linen sheet (54 x 65 cm), folded and cased in brown cloth covers, lettered in black and gilt, an Index booklet (19pp, with wrappers, 17.5x9.5 cm) mounted on the inside of the front cover and publisher's advertising sheet for the series mounted on the section of the (rear of the) map facing. View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot 378 "The Rainhill & Melbourne Horrors. Deeming, Sentenced to Death" [Fred Jones Printer, Sheffield, England]; 4-page pamphlet published in 1892. Not previously seen by us.Finally captured and hanged in Melbourne Gaol on May 23, 1892, Frederick Bayley Deemings' execution made headlines in Britain, South Africa, the US and Australia.Afterwards, it was widely speculated that Deeming had committed the slashing murders of eleven women in Whitechapel, London between 1888 and 1891. Deeming was fo... View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$550StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 380 LIVINGSTON "HOP" HOPKINS (1846-1927): original pen cartoon "Federation" showing kangaroo hopping over Murray River, size 31x36cm. View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$1,700StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 381 AUSTRALIAN FEDERATION CELEBRATIONSA collection of five souvenir invitations to various events associated with the Celebrations for the Opening of the Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia in Melbourne. The invitations are all inscribed to "Mr Neil McGlashan & Lady" and are for the Royal Review at Flemington, an Evening Reception at the Exhibition Building, the actual Opening by Edmund Barton, an eveing Conversazione and an invitation on behalf of the Duke of Cornwall and York. (5 items)... View details Quantity5Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$1,100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 382 POSTCARDS: collection of Australian postcards (c215), mainly scenes, noted "W.W.Armstrong (The Australian Cricket Team 1909)" & "Australian Cricket Team, England, 1934". View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$340StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 383 NAVY: Attractive 4-page programme "To Commemorate the Arrival of The Australian Fleet, Sydney October 4th, 1913". View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 384 C.E.HUGHES, The DEPARTMENT OF DEFENCE & The IMPERIAL WAR GRAVES COMMISSIONNov.1934 to Nov.1936 archive of original and copy correspondence including signed letters from the Minister of Defence Archdale Parkhill, letters from Major General Fabian Ware, a copy letter from Prime Minsiter Joseph Lyons to Ware, others from Colonel C.P.Oswald, Lord Stanley, Oliver Holt and others, mainly on official letterheads. (19 items). View details Quantity19Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot 385 "South Australia Illustrated" by George French Angas, facsimile edition 263/1000 [Sydney, 1967], superb condition View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$240StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 386 BARRY HUMPHRIES/ DAME EDNA EVERIDGE: Collection including signature on piece, theatre programmes, badges, stamps, books, Barry McKenzie mugs (5), print of Bill Leak cartoon. View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$320StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 387 THE COMEDY COMPANY: Superb artwork showing Con the Fruiterer, Kylie Mole, Russ the Postie, David Rabbitborough & Col'n Carpenter. Artwork by Chrissy Davies of Grubb & Grubb, gouache on paper, each signed "G&G" in image, each about 40x64cm. (5 items). GSTex GSTSymbol† View details Quantity5Estimate$400 - $500StatusUnsold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next
