Australian & Historical (#517) Closed Auction Info PDF Prices Realized 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 981-990 of 1569. Previous|1...979899100101102...157|Next Lot #980 An antique sketchbook in somewhat dilapidated state with numerous pencil drawings, mostly English but with a small selection of Australian related material, 19th century, 20 x 17cm overall. View details Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$100StatusSold Lot #981 G. BUTLER EARP, THE GOLD COLONIES OF AUSTRALIA: comprising their history, territorial divisions, produce, and capabilities; also, ample notices of the gold mines, and how to get to them; with every advice to emigrants., [London : Geo. Routledge & Co., 1852, 1st ed.], with a folding map as frontis., viii + 248pp, 20pp adverts., red leather spine with gilt titles, marbled boards. Enlarged and corrected 1st edition. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$600StatusSold Lot #982 GOLD IN AUSTRALIA: "Gold-Mining and Assaying : A Scientific Guide for Australian Emigrants." by Phillips (1852); "Lectures on Gold for the Instruction of Emigrants about to proceed to Australia." by Jukes, Forbes, et al. (1852); and, "The Golden Colony : or Victoria in 1854." by Wathen (1855) View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$700StatusSold Lot #983 A small lettersheet, dated 30th August 1853, written by James Strachan (1810 - 1875, known as John), a member of the Victorian Legislative Council, to his wife, Lillias Strachan, under the amusing pseudonym, "P. Stiggins, Esq., Commissioner Balaarat", with an illustration of the fictional Stiggins. He is writing to report on progress in "the advancement of Geelong" and finishes the page with a mock advertisement for Professor Holloway's Pills "Price 6d". View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$160StatusSold Lot #984 John SHERER, The GOLD-FINDER of AUSTRALIA; How he went, How he fared, and How he made his fortune.....illustrated with forty-eight Magnificent Engravings from authentic sketches taken in the Colony, [London : Clarke, Beeton & Co., 1st ed.] ND but 1853; xii, 372pp blind-blocked dark cloth binding (defects); engraved title page. The illustrations are after S.T. Gill and others. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$220StatusSold Lot #985 "The Sheep and Shepherding; embracing the history, varieties, rearing, feeding, and general management of Sheep; and including Australian Sheep-Farming...." by Milburn (1853); and, "The Timber Trees of New South Wales" by Nilson (1884). (2 vols.). View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$460StatusSold Lot #986 VICTORIAN GOVERNMENT "BLUE PAPERS" and several others, with subjects including "Police Force" (March 1854), "WAR WITH RUSSIA" (Apr.1856), "Transportation" (Aug.1856), "Melbourne and Hobson's Bay Railway" (April 1857), "Immigration" (July 1857), "Report on the Botanic Garden, Melbourne, by Dr. Ferdinand Mueller (Aug. 1857), "Imports of Cattle across the Murray" (Sept. 1857), "Postal Communication" (1859), "NEW ZEALAND WAR" (Sept.1860), plus others. (Total: 30 items). View details Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$220StatusSold Lot #987 William HOWITT, LAND, LABOUR, AND GOLD: or, Two Years in Victoria with Visits to Sydney and Van Diemen's Land, [London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855, 1st ed.] in 2 volumes, 414 + 398pp., contemporary calf, with gilt titles and decorations to spines. Each volume with a single library h/stamp to title page. View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$280StatusSold Lot #988 "How to Farm and Settle in Australia. Rural Calendar, and a Traveller's Map of the Squatting Stations, Townships, & Diggings of Victoria. Beautifully Illustrated on Steel, with General Observations, Authentic Account of the Gold Fields, Etc. Etc. by an Old Colonist.", [London : Ward and Lock, 1856, 1st ed.], blue cloth boards with gilt titles and decorations to front cover; 72pp + folding map tipped-in to inside front cover, 5 engraved plates. View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$320StatusSold Lot #990 JOHN PASCOE FAWKNER (1792 - 1869), original pen autograph, dated Dec.1858, to the title page of "The Collected Lectures of B.G. Niebuhr" [London : 1852-53], rebound with new endpapers. Also signed by Fawkner in two other places (p.220 and p.440) In 1835 Fawkner financed a party of free settlers from Van Diemen's Land, to sail to the mainland in his ship, Enterprize. Fawkner's party sailed to Port Phillip Bay and up the Yarra River to found a settlement which became the city of Melbourne. 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