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View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$440StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 269 LONDON GAZETTE - ENGLAND - 1665 issues: Numb.25 & 52: folio half-sheets, issue #25 with news of naval activities especially of His Majesty's fleet under Sir Christopher Minnes, plus a report that 105 parishes were clear of the plague; issue #52 reports that buccaneers have captured Tobago; the former with aged edges, the latter quite fine. Extremely scarce early editions. (2) View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$280StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 270 LONDON GAZETTE - ENGLAND - 1666 issues: complete run between Nov.19 and Dec.17 plus Dec.27 (Numb.106 to 114 & 117): published in folio half-sheets, content mostly concerns news from various European cities, plus ship and fleet movements; issue 110 talks of great storms in the South of England with several ships wrecked off Portland beach; issue 111 describes the wrecking of a ship near Swanage, laden with wine, sugar and Brazilwood; View details Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 271 LONDON GAZETTE - ENGLAND - 1667 issues: incomplete run between Jan.3 and Apr.22 (Numb.118 to 127, plus 129, 131 & 143 to 149): published in folio half-sheets, content mostly concerns news from various European cities, plus ship and fleet departures arrivals and ships wrecked off the British coast; condition variable with some aging as to be expected, generally quite fine. (20 issues) View details Estimate$400 - $500Price Realized$300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 272 LONDON GAZETTE - ENGLAND - 1667 issues: incomplete run between May.4 and Jul.29 (between Numb.152 and 177 ): published in folio half-sheets, content mostly concerns news from various European cities, plus fleet arrivals & departures and ship arrivals and international conflicts, issue 172 with account of the Ottomans laying siege to Candia (Crete), issue 173 reports that the English Fleet has burnt several French ships in the Leeward Islands View details Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$300StatusSold Lot 273 LONDON GAZETTE - ENGLAND - 1667 issues: largely complete run between Aug.5 and Oct.10 (between Numb.180 and 199, 191 missing): content including news about international tensions and conflicts including post 2nd Anglo-Dutch War incidents following the Treaty of Breda (Jul.21,1667), issue 180 with a Aug.2 report from Plymouth that the Dutch had attempted a landing at Wenbury but were forced to retreat to their ships by local militia, issue 181 reporting that Dutch Fleet had surrounded the Scilly View details Estimate$400 - $500Price Realized$300StatusSold Lot 274 LONDON GAZETTE - ENGLAND - 1667 issues: complete run between Oct.14 and Dec.23 (between Numb.200 and 220): content mostly concerns news from various European cities, plus fleet movements and ship arrivals and religious news including Papal activities; issue 208 (Nov. 11) announcing that letters had arrived from Rome with updates regarding the Turkish siege of Candia stating that "the Turks are much discouraged by the tediousness of the siege" & "the little progress they have yet made"; View details Estimate$400 - $500Price Realized$300StatusSold Lot 275 LONDON GAZETTE - ENGLAND - 1668 issues: almost complete January to April run (between Numb.222 and 257, excl. 229, incl. duplicates of issues 250 & 257): content mostly concerns news from various European cities, plus fleet movements, ship arrivals and details of ships wrecked off the British coast; issue 250 (Apr.9) with details of proposed treaty to end the War of Devolution between France and Spain. View details Estimate$750 - $1,000Price Realized$500StatusSold Lot 276 LONDON GAZETTE - ENGLAND - 1668 issues: almost complete May to August run (between Numb.258 and 291, excl. 273, duplicate 271): content mostly concerns news from various European cities, plus fleet movements, ship arrivals, details of ships wrecked & religious news including Papal activities; issue 271 (Jun.18) reports that Sir William Temple, the King's ambassador for the Treaty of Aix-la-Chappelle (May 7) had arrived at Whitehall to relay his account of proceedings to the king; View details Estimate$750 - $1,000StatusCLOSED! Lot 277 LONDON GAZETTE - ENGLAND - 1668 issues: largely complete September to December run (between Numb.292 and 326, ex 301, 303 & 320): content mostly concerns news from various European cities, plus fleet movements, ship arrivals, and religious news including Papal activities; many issues with reports of the Turkish siege of Venetian-ruled Candia (Crete); issue 292 (Sep.3) stating that the Turks had gathered 12,000 men in Morea to assist in the siege of Canea (Chania) and issue 304 with reports on a View details Estimate$750 - $1,000StatusCLOSED! Lot 278 LONDON GAZETTE - ENGLAND - 1669-1675 selection of issues: with issue 982 (Apr.15, 1675) announcing that King Charles II would no longer conduct public healings of The King's Evil (scrofula/tuberculosis) after Apr.30 until further notice, the same issue also carries an Franco-Dutch War report from Brussels stating that troops were beginning to march on all sides, the French to attack, the Confederates in defence commanded by the Prince of Orange; other content mostly concerns fleet movements & sh View details Estimate$400 - $500Price Realized$300StatusSold Lot 279 LONDON GAZETTE - ENGLAND - 1675-1678: large group of issues between numb.1079 and 1337: some notable reports include issue 1083 (Apr.3.1676) with news of arrival in Spain of Spanish galleons carrying 25 million pieces of eight, the same issue also carries reports of the trial for treason of Danish statesman Peder Griffenfeld; issue 1093 (May 8, 1676) with reports from Constantinople that the Grand Siegnior is constructing a seraglio (harem) for the women of Adrianople; issue 1134 (Oct 2, 1676) r View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusCLOSED! Lot 280 LONDON GAZETTE - ENGLAND - 1679-1684: large group of issues between numb.1449 and 1980: with many articles of interest including issue 1507 (Apr.26, 1680) reports of a "false and dangerous rumour spread abroad" that Charles II is to marry the mother of the Duke of Monmouth; issue 1694 (Feb. 9, 1682) with a report that a "most curious and excellent way of preserving dead bodies from putrefication" had been presented to the King; View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800StatusCLOSED! Lot 281 LONDON GAZETTE - ENGLAND - 1685-1688: large selection of issues between numb.2012 and 2193: plenty of interesting content incl. issue 2012 (Feb.26, 1685) with a notification of alterations to the Book of Common Prayer in relation to prayers dedicated to the new King (James II); issue 2013 (Mar.2, 1685) records addresses made to King James II acknowledging sorrow at the death of Charles II and joy at the succession, other March issues contain dedications of loyalty to the new King; issue 2073 (S View details Estimate$900 - $1,200Price Realized$600StatusSold Lot 282 LONDON GAZETTE - ENGLAND - 1687-1688: large selection of issues between numb.2200 and 2343: plenty of interesting content including issue 2212 (Jan 27, 1687) report from Paris of a Notre Dame thanksgiving for the recovery of King Louis XIV following surgery; issue 2213 (Jan.31,1687) reports of Emeric Thokoly (Prince of Upper Hungary) had joined forces with the Turks against the Habsburgs, this issue also carries notice of an important book sale by William Cowper at the Pelican in London; issue 2 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusCLOSED! Lot 283 LONDON GAZETTE - ENGLAND - 1688-1694: large group of issues between numb.2371 and 2998: much of interest including issue 2371 (Aug. 6,1688) with records of addresses to the King and Consort on the birth of the Prince of Wales, the same issue reporting that the King has ordered breast feeding be given to the Prince "with much success"; issue 2384 (Sep.20,1688) with a declaration from James II that no Roman Catholic may be a member of the British House of Commons; View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,600Price Realized$900StatusSold Lot 284 LONDON GAZETTE - ENGLAND - 1694-1709: large group of issues between numb.3000 and 4578 with many articles of interest including issue 3003 (Aug.20) which reports the introduction of a superfine gunpowder which does not foul firearms; issue 3030 (Nov.22 1694) with a report from Paris that bread prices are rising, robberies are on the increase and a poll tax is to be levied; issue 3078 (May 9, 1695) reports that coal is being transported from Newcastle to Yarmouth in a fleet of 100 vessels, plus a View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusCLOSED! Lot 285 BENJAMIN MARTIN (1704 - 1782) "The Description and Use of both the GLOBES, the Armillary Sphere, and Orrery, exemplified in a large and select variety of problems in Astronomy, Geography, Dialling, Navigation, Spherical Trigonometry, Chronology, &c., also, A New Construction of each Globe, by an Apparatus exhibiting the Phænomena of the Earth and Heavens exactly as they are, and adapting the same to every Age of the World" [London, Benj. Martin, circa 1770] Second edition; 244pp + five plates. View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$350StatusSold Lot 286 HAWKESWORTH, John (1715 - 1773) An Account of the Voyages undertaken by the order of His present Majesty for making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavour: drawn up from the journals which were kept by the several Commanders, and from the papers of Joseph Banks, Esq; By John Hawkesworth LL.D. Illustrated with cuts and a great variety of charts.. View details Estimate$5,000 - $7,500Price Realized$8,000StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 287 THE PENNSYLVANIA PACKET, AND DAILY ADVERTISER - 1789 - BILL OF RIGHTS: (Oct.6) edition with column headed "Congress of the United States" showing the Twelve Articles of Amendment approved by Congress on September 25, 1789; other contents include a verse dedicated to "The Bastille" (Storming of Bastille took place on July 14, 1789), plus articles on foreign intelligence, as well as ship departure notices and numerous advertisements; condition is quite fine overall with mild uniform aging. View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Price Realized$750StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 288 "Buffon's Natural History, Abridged." pub. by C. & G. Kearsley [1791] in a single volume (lacks several plates), "Hunters and Fishers.." by Sinnett [1846], "Geology in its relation to Revealed Religion" by Bellew [1853] & "Bully Hayes South Sea Pirate" by Lubbock [1931]. (4 vols.) Mixed condition. View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 289 THE SPECTATOR (NEW YORK): 1800 (Jan.1) edition of this short-lived (Oct. 1797 to Dec.31 1800) broadsheet including a report on the "Funeral Procession as a tribute to the memory of General George Washington" held on December 31st 1799, with full details of the procession including illustration of the position of the pall-bearers and the order of the procession; quite fine with some light foxing, overall 33.5 x 50cm. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$160StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 290 AN AUSTRALIAN MEDICAL PIONEER - EDWARD LUTTRELL "SELLS" SOME OF HIS LAND, JULY 1810 An indenture, signed and dated at Parramatta, 24 July 1810, by which Luttrell transfers ownership of 2 acres of his land at Richmond Hill to David Bele, provided he proceeds "to build...a House Joining the House already erected on the said land, Edward Luttrell's Farm at Richmond Hill." View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$420StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 291 RICHARD HAYMAN - STOLE A WATCH, BEAT HIS WIFE AND MAY HAVE MURDERED HIS MOTHER-IN-LAW An indenture on vellum, formalizing the sale to Thomas Johnson for £45, of "forty-three acres of Land lying and situate in the District of Mulgrave Place, on the Banks of the River Hawkesbury being part and parcel of one hundred and thirty Acres of Land originally given and granted by His Excellency Governor King unto Edward Yardley....". Signed by all parties and with the original seal. View details Estimate$400 - $500Price Realized$400StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 292 A DOCUMENT SIGNED BY REVEREND SAMUEL MARSDEN [1765 - 1838] - NORFOLK ISLAND, PARRAMATTA & NEW ZEALAND A conveyance for the sale of "136 Rods of Ground" [approx. 700 sqr mtrs] being "all that allotment of Land situate in Macquarie Street, Windsor, opposite the Wesleyan Chapel Ground" to brothers, Thomas and John Tebbutt, early settlers in Windsor. The document is signed by Marsden and witnessed by Joseph Harpur and one other. View details Estimate$750 - $1,000Price Realized$1,200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 293 A LAND TRANSACTION IN WILBERFORCE, NSW - 1824 A conveyance of "20 Acres of Land in the District of Wilberforce under a writ of Fieri Facias" [ a writ of execution after judgment obtained in a legal action for debt or damages] by which Robert COOPER (merchant of Sydney) acquires the land from John LYONS in settlement of a debt calculated at "80 pounds in Spanish Dollars at five shillings each". The details of the land are described and a small hand-drawn map provides further information. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$220StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 294 AUTOGRAPHED LETTER FROM ALEXANDER MCLEAY, COLONIAL SECRETARY, JUNE 1829 A letter signed by "Alex Mcleay" headed Colonial Secretary's Office, Sydney 26th June, 1829 addressed to Private John Hunt, late of the Royal Staff Corps. The letter confirms the offer of "an Allotment of Ground in the Town of Windsor........but you will understand that this order will be null and void if you are not actually residing on the Land alluded to, at the end of Six Months from the present date." SymbolD View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$360StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 295 AUTOGRAPHED LETTER FROM ALEXANDER MCLEAY, COLONIAL SECRETARY, JUNE 1829 A letter signed by "Alex Mcleay" headed Colonial Secretary's Office, Sydney 26th June, 1829 addressed to Private James Pickles, late of the Royal Staff Corps. The letter confirms the offer of "an Allotment of Ground in the Town of Windsor........but you will understand that this order will be null and void if you are not actually residing on the Land alluded to, at the end of Six Months from the present date." A transfer to View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$400StatusSold Lot 296 THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN: A group of original 1830 playbills for "The Gamester" (March 18), "The Merchant of Venice" (March 27), "Handel's Oratorio The Messiah" (March 31) and "The Grecian Daughter" (April 12). All with much detail of the production and in the case of the first 2 items, details of forthcoming productions. All approx. 34 x 22cm (4 items) View details Estimate$150 - $200StatusUnsold Lot 297 ALEXANDER MCLEAY, COLONIAL SECRETARY, April 1829 A printed document, titled "SMALL GRANT" signed by "Alex Mcleay" and headed Colonial Secretary's Office, Sydney 22nd April, 1831 and addressed to John Francis Evan, confirms that Evan's request of the Governor for "Sixty Acres of Land" has been agreed to "in the County of Cook, Parish unnamed, at Kurrajong: bounded on the West by Smith's and Nash's Farms." The details of the Crown's retained rights over water, creeks, mines of gold, silver & coal. View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$200StatusSold Lot 298 [WILLIAM COX, 1764 (Dorset) - 1837 (Windsor, NSW): Explorer, roadmaker, builder & grazier] A lease dated August 1833 between "William Cox of Clarendon" and John Forrester for "Five acres of Land at the Cornwallis" which was in the District of Windsor, bounded "on the North by the River Hawkesbury....". The document is signed by Cox and Forrester. In January 1837 the lease is transferred to James Upton "with the consent of Mr Laban White" and signed by all parties. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$260StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 299 [WILLIAM COX, 1764 (Dorset) - 1837 (Windsor, NSW): Explorer, roadmaker, builder & grazier] A lease dated February 1837 between "William Cox of Fairfield Windsor" and James Upton "of Cornwallis Windsor" for "Forty Acres...lately in the occupation of John Forrester, being portion of the Argyle Farm situate in the District of Mulgrave Place..."Windsor, bounded ". The document is signed by Cox and Forrester. In January 1837 the lease is transferred to James Upton "with the consent of Mr Laban White View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$240StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 300 LEGAL AFFAIRS IN THE DISTRICT OF PORT PHILLIP - 1842 to 1861 A group of six (6) documents, mainly warrants created by the Deputy Sherrifs (Samuel Rayward, Alistair MacKenzie) in discharging their roles in settling disputes between free settlers. Three are printed forms which have been completed in manuscript, the others are all hand-written. View details Estimate$500 - $750StatusCLOSED! Lot 301 "THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION" - ENGLAND - 1842 - BUSH RANGERS IN TASMANIA: July 16 1842 (No.3) edition of a monthly magazine with lengthy article entitled "An encounter with Bush-Rangers in Van Diemen's Land" by "An Officer" with a detailed 5-page account of his pursuit and capture of three ex-convict bushrangers Palmer, Regan & Atterall in the late 1830s; other articles of interest include "A Cure for Hydrophobia"& "On the Growth of Plant in Cities"; View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusCLOSED! Lot 302 PROVIDENCE DAILY JOURNAL - UNITED STATES - 1842: (Nov.6) edition with hoax story gleaned from French newspaper "L'Etoile" of an Englishman Rodger Dodsworth who had fallen into a coma during an avalanche in the Alps in the late 17th century, was subsequently found in 1826, thawed out and brought back to life, (becoming the foundation for Mary Shelley's 1863 short story "The Reanimated Englishman"); View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusCLOSED! Lot 303 BACKHOUSE, James (1794 - 1869) A Narrative of a Visit to the Australian Colonies. [Hamilton, Adams and Co., London, 1843] Octavo, xviii, 560pp, cxliv (appendices) pages with in-text illustrations (by Backhouse), plates and 3 large folding maps. Contemporary half-leather and marbled boards; marbled end-papers, gilt edges. View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$950StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 304 [EARLY COMMERCIAL INVOICES, WINDSOR N.S.W.] A collection of 1840s-70s detailed invoices including Thomas Aspinall (Linen Draper, Silk Mercer, Hosier), George Wood (Boots & Shoes), W. Alderson (Tanner, Boot & Shoemaker), J.M. Illidge (Boot and Shoe Warehouseman), Moses & Hopkins (Auctioneers & General Commission Agents), Windsor Medical Dispensary, etc. (10). View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$220StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 305 AUTOGRAPHED LETTER FROM THOMAS MITCHELL, NEW SOUTH WALES SURVEYOR GENERAL, DECEMBER 1849 A letter signed by "T.L. Mitchell" headed Surveyor General's Office, Sydney 8th December, 1849 addressed to Mr James Upton, Windsor. The rare letter concerns a request by Upton to lease four "sections of land in the County of Hunter...on the north side of the Bulga Road...", however, Mitchell points out that according to his records, Upton had already leased the land "at the Macdonald River". SymbolD View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$360StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 306 [The SYDNEY MORNING HERALD and LABAN WHITE] A collection of fourteen different receipts, issued and signed by Laban White [1794 - 1873] on behalf of the Sydney Morning Herald or John Fairfax. The period involved in these transactions, when White was an agent and correspondent for the SMH cover the period when he was resident in Windsor. Local residents and businesses could lodge and pay for advertisements with White. View details Quantity14Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$280StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 307 [EARLY N.S.W. NEWSPAPERS & PRINTERS] 1855 - 1903 printed receipts issued by "The Empire" Daily Newspaper (to Henry Parkes); E. Mason, Stationer's Hall, Parramatta; Metropolitan Printing Office, Bridge St.; Sydney Morning Herald; Australian Newspaper Office, Windsor; Sydney Daily Telegraph, Barrack & York Sts.; Hawkesbury Chronicle and Farmers' Advocate, Windsor; S. Cooke & Co., Arthur Lewis (Bookseller & Stationer); The Windsor & Richmond Gazette; "Bligh Watchman", Coonabarabran; etc. (20). View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$220StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 308 [THE BANKSTOWN ROAD TOLLGATE & THE RICHMOND ROAD TRUST] The lease documents setting out the terms for the Lease of the Bankstown Toll Gate for 1857, 1861 & 1862 together with the documents recording the Bonds and Sureties required to "secure [the] Tolls" on behalf of the Richmond Road Trust. Also, the January 1862 "Lease of the Ferry over the Hawkesbury at Windsor" in favour of George Augustus Davis (Innkeeper) and John Ryan (farmer) of Newtown. (6 items). George Augustus Davis was declared ban View details Estimate$250 - $300Price Realized$200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 310 [NEW SOUTH WALES - ELECTORAL HISTORY] "A list of Electors for the CUMBERLAND BOROUGHS for the town of CAMPBELLTOWN for the year 1857-8" being a manuscript listing over nine foolscap pages of all those males eligible to vote, signed off by the Chief Constable, Police Office Campbelltown, 27th June 1857. In each case, to the 130 named individuals are added their "qualification" (to vote) and "where property affording the qualification is situate." View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusCLOSED! Lot 311 [NEW SOUTH WALES - ELECTORAL HISTORY] "Lists of Electors for the Electoral District of the CUMBERLAND BOROUGHS for the town of LIVERPOOL in the Police District of Liverpool for the year 1857-8" being a manuscript listing over five foolscap pages of all those males eligible to vote, signed off by the Chief Constable. In each case, to the 125 named individuals are added their "qualification" (to vote) and "Place of Abode." View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$220StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 312 [NEW SOUTH WALES - ELECTORAL HISTORY] "Lists of Electors for that Portion of the Electoral District of the CUMBERLAND BOROUGHS being the Borough of PENRITH in the Police District of Penrith for the years 1857 & 1858" each page bearing a hand-stamped oval "POLICE OFFICER PENRITH" and signed by the Senior Magistrate, Robert Copland Lethbridge. A manuscript listing over eight large format pages of all those males eligible to vote. There are 105 individuals named. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$900StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 313 HARPER'S WEEKLY: 1857-1884 selection comprising including 1857 (first year of publication) Apr.4 issue (No.14); also 1858 (2); then American Civil War era issues 1861, 1862 (4), 1863 (3), 1864 (4), 1865 (2); also single issues for 1868, 1871, 1873, 1874 (Jan.24, with wonderful Thomas Nast "A Hard Fish to Catch" cartoon on front cover) & 1884; lots of attractive engravings and political cartoons throughout; condition variable, housed in A3 display books. (22 issues in 3 folios) View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$160StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 314 [FERDINAND von MUELLER] The 1858 & 1861-62 Annual Reports of the Government Botanist and Director of the Botanic Garden, as presented to Parliament; 27pp + 11pp. (2 items). View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold Lot 315 DANIEL BUNCE [1813-72] Language of the Aborigines of the Colony of Victoria and other Australian Districts; with parallel Translations and familiar specimens in Dialogue, as a guide to Aboriginal Protectors and others engaged in ameliorating their condition. [Geelong; Thomas Brown, 1859] Second edition. xii, 60 pages; 18 cm. Original orange boards. Ferguson 7665. Although bearing the second edition imprint this is actually the third edition, the second having been published by Slater, Williams View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$650StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 316 [HISTORIC HOTELS IN THE HAWKSBURY RIVER REGION] February 1861 lease for the "Cricketers Arms Hotel" (cnr of George & New Streets, Windsor) between George Freeman [Green Hills, 1806 - Windsor, 1867] and Sarah Blanchard [1826 - 1905] View details Quantity3Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 317 HARPERS WEEKLY - 1861 - AMERICAN CIVIL WAR ERA: complete fully bound compilation of journals for the year, comprising 832 pages, being the year of Lincoln's Inauguration and the outbreak of the American Civil War. Lavishly illustrated with engravings by Winslow Homer, and numerous political cartoons featuring Lincoln. Topics covered include the bombardment of Fort Sumter, secessions from the Union and The First Battle of Bull Run. View details Estimate$200 - $400Price Realized$280StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 318 HARPER'S WEEKLY - CIVIL WAR ERA: 1861 to 1865 selection comprising 1861 (May 25, Jul.13, Aug.17, Dec.14, Dec.28), 1863 (Feb.28, Nov.7), 1864 (Mar.12, Apr.9, May 21) & 1865 (Jan.28, Feb.18); illustrated with engravings by top artists of the day including Winslow Homer and Thomas Nast; all the journals are individually presented in beautiful gilt-lettered hardbound folios (33.5x44.5cm). (12 folios) View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$180StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 319 NEW YORK TIMES - CIVIL WAR ERA - First Invasion of Northern States: 1861 to 1862 selection comprising 1861 (Oct.13, Oct.21 & Dec.6) & 1862 (Sep.15, Oct.2 & Nov.19) edition which include Union biased reports from field correspondents, plus official dispatches and the reporting of important speeches; the Sep.15, 1862 edition covering a "Heavy battle...at Harper's Ferry" where a portion of Lee's invading army under Stonewall Jackson captured the Union garrison at Harper's Ferry before rejoining Lee View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$160StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 320 BURKE & WILLS COMMISSION, Report of the Commissioners Appointed To Enquire Into And Report Upon The Circumstances Connected With THE SUFFERING AND DEATH OF ROBERT O'HARA BURKE AND WILLIAM JOHN WILLS, THE VICTORIAN EXPLORERS. [John Ferres, Government Printer, Melbourne] 1862, 104pp on blue paper. Reference: Wantrup 167. View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 321 NEW YORK TIMES - CIVIL WAR ERA - : 1863 selection comprising editions for Feb.15, Jul.18 & 29, Aug.2 & 5, Oct,7, 24, & 31; the Jul.18, edition reviewing the Siege of Vicksburg (July 4) the correspondent noting "the almost impassable natural obstacles that opposed Grant's army in the late siege" (Vicksburg located on a high river bluff) and the Draft Riots (Jul.13-16) with headlines "Quiet Restored" and "A Peaceful Day in the Metropolis"; View details Estimate$300 - $400StatusCLOSED! Lot 322 NEW YORK TIMES - CIVIL WAR ERA - Gettysburg Address & Third Battle of Winchester: 1863-64 selection comprising 1863 (Nov.18, Dec.26) & 1864 (Jul.27, Aug.11 & 13, Sep.20 & 22); the Jul.18 1863 edition featuring General Curtin's proclamation for "The Heroic Dead at Gettysburg" previewing next day's dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery, at which Lincoln gave his celebrated Gettysburg Address; Aug.11 1864 edition with details of Admiral Farragut's success at the Battle of Mobile Bay; Sep.2 View details Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$240StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 323 NEW YORK HERALD - CIVIL WAR ERA - GETTYSBURG ADDRESS: 1863 (Nov.20) edition with "Our Special Despatch From Gettysburg" coverage of the ceremony held on Nov.19, with details of speeches by Lincoln, Secretary of State William H. Seward, Governor Horatio Seymour & Senator Edward Everett, plus scaled plan of the National Cemetery headed "The American Necropolis". An important historical edition beautifully presented in a gilt-lettered, hardbound folio (44.5 x 61cm) View details Estimate$400 - $500Price Realized$420StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 324 NEW YORK TIMES - CIVIL WAR ERA - Battle of Fort Harrison: 1864-65 selection comprising 1863 (Oct.1, 4, 5, 7, 10 & 11 and Dec.24) & 1865 (Apr.23); the Oct.1 1864 with Special's Correspondent's Sep.29th report on the movements of the Army of The James prior to Union's victory at the Battle of Fort Harrison (Sep 29-30); Oct.7 1864 featuring the "Desperate speech by Jeff. Davis at Macon" and a report that "Two-thirds of Rebel Army Absent Without Leave"; View details Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 325 NEW YORK TIMES - CIVIL WAR ERA - Lee Surrenders, Lincoln Assassination & Death of John Wilkes Booth: 1865 editions comprising (Apr.10) headed "Hang Out Your Banners" and "Union, Victory! Peace! - Surrender of General Lee and His Whole Army" with transcript of War Department order for a National "Two Hundred Guns" Salute following General Lee's surrender on April 9; (April 17) mourning edition headed "Our Great Loss" following Lincoln's assassination View details Estimate$250 - $300Price Realized$220StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 326 [BENJAMIN ISAACS, PRINTER, PUBLISHER & JOURNALIST 1796 - 1881] 1867 - 1878 group of six different printed receipts signed by Isaacs on behalf of his Albion Printing Office at Windsor where, for a time, he had published "The Windsor Advocate". The receipts are mostly to the Richmond Road Trust for printing circulars, tenders for repairs, etc. (6 items). View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$240StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 327 LEWIS & WHITTY chromolithograph soap advertising poster, 19th century. "Manufacturers Factories Charles St. Fitzroy & Bridge Rd. Richmond, Office Flinders Lane W. Melbourne", printed by Charles Troedel & Co. Melbourne & Sydney. 57 x 44cm View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$480StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 328 MOSTLY EUROPEAN & ASIAN GROUP: incl. "Bangkok Then and Now" by van Beek, "Postcards of Old Siam" by Davis, "Edwardian London" by Barker, "Pioneer of the Pacific" by Rigby, der Merwe & Williams, "Amercan Vandal - Mark Twain Abroad" by Morris, "Russian in Pacific Waters 1715-1825" by Barratt, "Squadron - Ending African Slave Trade" by Broich; also a bound volume of 1870 July to December issues of "Illustrated London News". (15 items) View details Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$80StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 329 "HOBART TOWN GAZETTE" - TASMANIA - 1875: Dec.21 (No.5086) edition with content including timetable for mail between England and Tasmania, via Point De Galle & Melbourne for year ending December 31st 1876, Assessment Roll for George Town District, Land and Works Office notice of auction for leases including that of Maria Island, plus government, rural municipality and court notices. View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$60StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 330 "AUSTRALIAN PETS" colour lithograph supplement from the Illustrated Australian News, December, 1876, sheet size 58 x 38cm View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$240StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 331 A DEED FOR LAND BOUGHT IN THE NEW HEBRIDES (NOW VANUATU), AUGUST 1879, A signed and sealed indenture recording the fact that one VICTOR NISSEN of Sydney, New South Wales has acquired some land at Black Beach on the west coast of Tanna Island, New Hebrides: View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$380StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 332 AUSTRALIAN HISTORY: selection incl. "Voyage of Discovery to Terra Australis by Willem De Vlamingh in 1696-97" by Playford, "Victorian Year Book for 1884-85", "Brisbane Town in Convict Days 1824-1842" by Steele, "Brisbane in the 1890s" by Lawson, "The Russians in Hobart 1823" by Barratt; also noted "Antarctica - A Biography" by David Day. Plenty of interest. (25) View details Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 333 THE FIRST ITALIAN TO CIRCUMNAVIGATE THE WORLD DE AMEZAGA, Comandante Carlo (1835 - 1899) Viaggio di Circumnavigazione della regia corvetta "Caracciolo" (Comandante C. de Amezaga), negli anni 1881-82-83-84. [Roma, Forzani e Comp., 1885] Volume View details Estimate$250 - $300Price Realized$200StatusSold Lot 334 "Handbook Of Information for The Colonies And India, Issued By The British India & Queensland Agency Co. Ltd., [Published by Warwick & Sapsford, Printers, Brisbane, 1888] 112pp + 46pp of advertisements; maps, plates and numerous illustrations in the text. Stiff, cloth-backed illustrated wrappers. View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$260StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 335 1888-89 CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION MELBOURNE: Press Pass issued in the name of K.D.Bennett; leather with gilt embossed title and Exhibition logo; internal photograph and affixed card with details. Also, a souvenir miniature folding pocket knife from the 1904 World's Fair St.Louis. (2 items). View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$480StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 336 The Excelsior Album Of Ballarat Views Impl. 24mo; folding panorama, with 7 additional plates of early Ballarat including the publisher's premises at 78 Sturt Street, original blue boards with gilt title and border, no date but circa 1890. [Ballarat, Birtchnell]. View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$380StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 337 CHIRNSIDE Family WERRIBEE PARK, scrap album and two photograph albums pertaining to the Chirnside family of Werribee Park Mansion, Victoria, (3 items). View details Quantity3Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$2,600StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 338 AUSTRALIAN INTEREST: A shelf of books including "Handbook of the Destructive Insects of Victoria - Part 1" by French [1891], "David Syme - The Father of Protection in Australia" by Pratt [1908], "The History of Prahran" by Cooper [1912], "The Story of the ANZACS" pub. James Ingram [1917], "Whaling Ways by Philp [1926], "The Old Bus" by Kingsford Smith [1932], "The Merino - Past, Present & Probable" by Austin [1944], plus 3 others. (10 vols. all h/c.) Mixed condition. View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 339 NEWSPAPERS. A collection of various Victorian regional newspaper dating from 1892 to 1901 including The Gippsland Times, The Mount Alexander Mail, The Euroa Advertiser, The Evening Echo (Ballarat), Seymour Telegraph, Ballarat Courier, Ballarat Star, The Bendigo Independent, The Bendigo Advertiser, The Argus and The Age. View details Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$160StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 340 Antique and vintage Australian fruit labels, postcard and ephemera, 19th and early 20th century, (10 items) View details Quantity10Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 341 FEDERATION Australian Commonwealth Celebration Government of Victoria illuminated invitation to Mr ARTHUR PARKER and Lady, Tuesday 7th of May, 1901 (21 x 28cm). Together with an associated thank you letter from the Government of Victoria, 18th Sept. 1899, (31 x 21cm). Both framed and glazed. View details Quantity2Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$280StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 342 SPENCER, Baldwin & GILLEN, F.J. "The Native Tribes of Central Australia" [Macmillan & Co., London, 1899] 1st ed. Octavo, xx, 671 pages with illustrations of churingas, a map and 130 illustrations (mainly after photographs) plus 2 folding maps, 3 folding charts, 4 folding chromolithographic plates. Olive-green gilt-pictorial buckram flecked and rubbed, with the spine sunned and beginning to split; all edges uncut; scattered light foxing. View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$700StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 343 DOULTON & CO. & THE 1900 PARIS EXPOSITION: "Doulton & Co. Limited: A Description of their Works and Manufactures : London 1900 : With a description of their Exhibits at Paris, 1900." [Lambeth Pottery, London] 56pp with photo plates. An extremely rare reference, in very fine condition. View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 344 Sydney Cove 1788 facsimile engraving together with a floral still life watercolour by P.I. HIBBERT, (2 items), the watercolour 25 x 32cm View details Quantity2Estimate$60 - $100Price Realized$160StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 345 "The Union Bank Of Australia" share certificate together with two "National Bank Of Australasia" share certificates, all unissued and mint condition, framed and glazed, (3 items), the largest 42 x 60cm overall View details Quantity3Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 346 Assorted books, ephemera, pictures and prints, 19th and 20th century, View details Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$260StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 347 Goldfield's engraving, Boer War engraving, and a facsimile print "North View Of Eagle Hawk Neck", all framed and glazed, (3 items), the largest 39 x 48cm overall View details Quantity3Estimate$60 - $100Price Realized$320StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 348 QUICK, John & GARRAN, Robert Randolph The Annotated Constitution of the Australian Commonwealth. [Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1901 First Edition]. Brown cloth binding with gold lettering on spine. 1008pp. 15.5 x 25.5cm. Cover sunned, especially to spine. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$360StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 349 PRIME MINISTER EDMOND BARTON'S PRIVATE SECRETARY: THOMAS BAVIN (1874 - 1941), (Knighted 1933) Lawyer, judge, politician and Premier of New South Wales, 1927 - 1930 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Price Realized$2,800StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 350 KITSON, Arthur (1859 - 1937) Captain James Cook R.N., F.R.S. "The Circumnavigator" [John Murray, London, 1907] 1st edition; pp. xvi, 526 (last colophon), [2 (pubs. cat.)], with 20 illustrations + a folding map. Specially rebound in vellum with gilt embossing to front cover for "The Duke of Devonshire Prize - Presented by the British Empire League 1927." and with details of the presentation and recipient (John Robert Murray Senior) in an attractive mss label affixed to the front pastedown. View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$280StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 351 [OCEAN YACHT RACING] "Across Bass Strait - A Souvenir of Ocean Yacht Race from Queenscliff, Vic to Low Head, Tas., December 27th 1907." [Atlas Press, Block Place, Melbourne], n.d. but 1908. 60 p., [21] p. of plates :ill., ports.; 29 cm with illustrated upper board. An account of the win of the "Rudder Cup" by "Thistle" owned by E. Newlands. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$500StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 352 [C.J. DENNIS INTEREST] "Marri'd and Other Verses" by Mary Gilmore [1910] (with a printed slip affixed to front pastedown "...from the Library of the late C.J. DENNIS..."); "The Moods of Ginger Mick" [1916]; "The Making of a Sentimental Bloke" by Alec Chisholm [1946], and View details Estimate$50 - $100Price Realized$80StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 353 DANIEL WHITE Esq. hand-painted illuminated presentation, "To Daniel White Esq. Dear Sir, In The Presence Of A Gathering Representing All Branches Of The Carriage Trade Of Victoria And On The Eve Of Your 81st Birthday, We Desire To Offer Our Congratulations And To Ask You To Accept This Address As An Expression Of The Very Great Esteem With Which You Are Held By The Trade With Whom You Have Been Hounourably Associated For Over Fifty Years, 18th Sept. 1915.", View details Estimate$600 - $800Price Realized$700StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 354 [ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION] TAYLOR, Griffith (1880 - 1963) With Scott : The Silver Lining [London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1916] 1st ed., xiv, 464p., [44] leaves of plates; illustrations, maps, portraits; folded map. Rebound preserving original green covers. View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$420StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 355 1917 paper parachute advertising 'Shell' benzine (petrol) intended to be dropped from Basil Watson's home-built Sopwith-Pup type biplane over Victoria and Tasmania. Watson was killed on 28th March 1917 when his aircraft broke up in flight near Point Cook and thus the promotional paper parachutes were never used. Watson had successfully flown between Melbourne and Warrnambool in January 1917 and between Melbourne and Mount Gambier in February 1917, carrying small unofficial mails on those flights View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$320StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 356 [AUSTRALIAN MILITARY] "The 38TH BATTALION A.I.F." by Eric Fairey [Bendigo, Bendigo Advertiser Pty Ltd, and the Cambridge Press, 1920] 1st edition; 110pp, soft cover. View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$140StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 357 [AUSTRALIAN LITERATURE] "Retrospect" by Martin Boyd [1920]; "The Boundary Rider" by R.B. Plowman [1935]; "The Fear" by Thomas Keneally [1965]; and, "Poor Fellow My Country" by Xavier Herbert [1975]. View details Estimate$50 - $100Price Realized$60StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 358 Australian-Oriental Line "Travel To Manila, China & Japan Under The British Flag" lithographic brochure, circa 1920, 22 x 14cm View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$80StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 359 MILITARY TITLES: selection of titles incl. "The Fighting at Jutland" (c.1920, scarce), "Naval Engineering and American Sea Power", "Breaking the Chains - The Royal Navy's War on Slavery" by Pocock, "Christian IV and his Navy" by Bellamy, "Royal Navy and the Battle of Britain" & "German East - First World in East Africa" by Gardner, plus three others titles. (8) View details Estimate$120 - $160Price Realized$90StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 360 Canberra: General Notes for the Information of Public Servants - April 1926 [Melbourne, H.J. Green, 1926] 1st Edition, 92pp + fold-out plan. With numerous photographs and details of the "Standard Home Types" available, with their dimensions and prices. Endorsed on front cover "With Senator Sampson's Compliments 29/9/26". View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$400StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 361 ALFRED HOSPITAL certificate "Alfred Hospital, Founded 1867, Melbourne, 30th January, 1929, The Managers Have Elected GEORGE FREDERICK WILCOX Esq. An Honorary Life Governor Of The Hospital", three colour lithograph with attractive elevated view of the hospital, 45 x 34cm View details Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 362 "ROYAL COMMISSION on the Constitution of the Commonwealth." Report of Proceedings and Minutes of Evidence. Canberra, Monday, 19th September, 1927" in 2 volumes (823pp + 913pp) Quarto, half calf and cloth bindings. [H.J. Green, Government Printer, Canberra], 1929. With the autographs of the chairman and the six commissioners tipped-in on the flyleaf of vol.1 and dated 7th Sept.1929. View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$1,200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 363 "The New Era In Commercial Art" The Art Training Institute Melbourne. Green card wrapper with embossed lettering, some fading to right margin of the front cover, otherwise a good copy with vibrant colour lithography including IDA RENTOUL OUTHWAITE. View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 364 c.1930s Presbyterian Ladies College (Melbourne) workbook with newspaper/magazine cut-outs of articles & images affixed relating to famous British literary figures, plus a few postcards and few pencil drawings of famous British landmarks; also 1948-49 Dispensing Chemists record book of customer prescriptions with A-Z record of customer entries at the front. (2 items) View details Estimate$50 - $60Price Realized$40StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 365 Souvenir booklets including "Pictorial Guide To The West Coast Of Tasmania", "Souvenir Views Of Perth", "St. Thomas' Church, Port Macquarie", "The Mines Of The Bellambi Coal Co, Ltd.", "Souvenir Of Kuring-Gai Chase And Bobbin Head", "Ballarat Views An Statuary", plus more, inspection will reward. (13 items). View details Quantity13Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$280StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 366 [BUILDING TRADE, ENGINEERING & HANDYMAN CATALOGUES] McPherson's Engineers' and Manufacturers' Catalogue No.34 (1933), also the 1966 edition and several smaller McPherson publications (Home Workshop Guide, Guide for the Handyman, etc.) and the VICTORIAN BUILDERS' TRADE DIRECTORY Edition V (circa 1963). (9 items). View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$160StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 367 PLAN FOR A NEW COLONY, A proposal for Empire settlement on a large scale in the Kimberly Division of Western Australia, by Sir James D. Connolly (Formerly Agent General for Western Australia), reprinted from "The Morning Post (July 25-29, 1933). 15pp pamphlet. View details Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 368 William H. ELSUM The History of Williamstown. From its First Settlement to a City 1834-1934. [Williamstown, Frank S. Young, 1934] First Edition; 8vo; pp. viii, 144; numerous b/w. photographs; original green cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine and front board. View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$180StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Items per page 102550100 Previous|12|Next Previous 12 Next Previous 12 Next
