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 221-230 of 516. Previous|1...212223242526...52|Next Image Lot # Item Title Time Left Your Bids 220 BOTANY BAY: THE LONDON CHRONICLE September 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......" Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$50StatusSold View details 221 FIRST FLEET & BOTANY BAY: THE LONDON CHRONICLE October 22-24, 1789:Includes a very detailed, full column description of the book about to be published, "Governor Phillip's VOYAGE to BOTANY BAY." With a list of engravings and charts, a list of the booksellers who will be stocking the volume and the price, £1/11/6. This edition also carries a detailed article about the boxing match between Perrins and Johnson at Banbury: "...Sixty-two rounds of fair and hard fighting, which lasted exactly on... Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$75StatusSold View details 222 BOTANY BAY: THE LONDON CHRONICLE Oct. 31 - Nov. 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." Estimate$200 - $250StatusCLOSED! View details 223 D'ARCY WENTWORTH: THE LONDON CHRONICLENovember 19-21 & 28-December 1: The lengthy saga of Wentworth's legal battle is covered 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 tha... Estimate$100 - $150StatusCLOSED! View details 224 BOUND FOR BOTANY BAY - THE WHITEHALL EVENING POST - 20 - 22 August 1789 and later editionsAn advertisement on the front page of the first edition calls for tenders to transport convicts to New South Wales and another report about the details of the contract; the 1 - 3 December 1789 edition reports the arrival at Plymouth of Captain Gilbert on the Neptune with convicts for Botany Bay; the 15 - 17 December edition reports on Sir Joseph Banks' visit to the Discovery, then equipping at Deptfor... Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$100StatusSold View details 225 THE MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY - The WHITEHALL EVENING POST - September 19 - 22, 1789 to July 17 - 20, 1790. Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$175StatusSold View details 226 BOTANY BAY & PORT JACKSON: THE LONDON CHRONICLE Feb. 5-8 & Nov. 15-17, 1791:The first edition carries a short piece regarding Sir Charles Bunbury's intention to report on the felon's employment bill relative to the prisoners at Botany Bay and Port Jackson; the later edition carries a distressing letter from the Chaplain at Port Jackson regarding convict deaths on transport ships. (2 items). Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$100StatusSold View details 227 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, ... Estimate$200 - $300StatusCLOSED! View details 228 BLIGH, William (1754-1817); SURVILLE, Jean Francois de (1717-1770); FORSTER, Georg (1754-1794)William Bligh's Reise in da SudmeerGerman translation of Bligh's 'A Voyage to the South Sea', a variant edition of Ferguson 147, which was also published by Voss in Berlin in 1793 but with different pagination and plates. Bound together with IMLAY, Gilbert "Imlay's Nachrichten von dem westlichen Lande der Nord-Americanischen Freistaaten". (A Topographical Description of the Western Territory of No... Estimate$600 - $800StatusCLOSED! View details 229 MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY - HAMILTON, George: Reise um die Welt in der Konlichen Fregatte Pandora[Berlin, Bossischen Buchhandlung, 1794] pp 104, Octavo, contemporary half calf over papered boards; 19th Century bookplate of Soren Hansen.First German translation of George Hamilton's 'A Voyage Round the World in His Majesty's Frigate Pandora' (1793). Hamilton was surgeon aboard the Pandora, which, under Captain Edwards, was sent to track down mutineers from the Bounty. "In 1791, the expedition arr... Estimate$600 - $800StatusCLOSED! View details Items per page 102550100 Previous|1...212223242526...52|Next12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031323334353637383940414243444546474849505152 Previous 12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031323334353637383940414243444546474849505152 Next
