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 321-330 of 706. Previous|1...313233343536...71|Next 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$950StatusSold 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$380StatusSold 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$1,600StatusSold 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$500StatusSold 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$600StatusSold 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$300StatusSold 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$480StatusSold 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$700StatusSold 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... 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