Australian & Historical (#536) 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)Relevance Filter By Categories Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above Featured Exclude closed lots Price Lot Number Results: Viewing items 1-100 of 265. Previous|123|Next Lot #1117 Nicolas GERVAISE (1662 - 1729), "Description historique du royaume de Macaçar", [Ratisbonne : Erasmus Kinkius, 1700], frontis copper engraving, small octavo, 280pp, original vellum over boards; old bookplates. In his account, based on sources found on-site, Gervaise recounts the history of the Celebes archipelago in Indonesia, as well as its cultural, political, and religious situation and evolution, offering copious information on the fauna, flora, and customs of the indigenous people. Login to bid Estimate$300 - $500Orig. Starting Price$240 Lot #1118 George ANSON and Richard WALTER, "A Voyage Round the World, in the Years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV. By George Anson, Esq; Commander in Chief of a Squadron of His Majesty's Ships, sent upon an Expedition to the South-Seas." [London : John and Paul Knapton, fourth edition, 1748], octavo; 548pp with three large folding engraved maps; modern half calf with marbled boards and new blank end papers. Login to bid Estimate$300 - $500Orig. Starting Price$240 Lot #1119 "The Universal Scots Almanack for the Year of our Lord, MDCCLXI" [1761] edited by John Chapman, [Edinburgh : Walter Ruddiman, John Richardson & Co for the Widow of John Chapman] 72pp + blank pages, original card boards bound into an old leather wrap-around with tie-string, all of which are original. Extremely scarce. Condition ReportAs can be seen in the online images the leather wrap around has many signs of its extreme age, but remarkably is still complete. The text pages are complete and all are present with a few pages showing evidence of light water staining. There are several additional blank pages bound in at the end, some with vertical lines ruled for accounts and others with a few with pen notes or calculations which can also be found on the last page and the inside back cover. The names James Bald appears twice in manuscript on those pages, and may well be the name of the original owner. Login to bid Estimate$400 - $600Orig. Starting Price$300 Lot #1120 VARIOUS BOOKS: "The World displayed..." vol.XI [London, 1768]; two volumes (Vol. VI & VII) of Mavor's "Historical Account of the most celebrated VOYAGES..." covering Cook's three Voyages" [London, 1796]; "The Phantasmagoria; or Monthly Picture of the Times" Jan. & Feb.1816 editions bound together in one volume; "Mammalia" Vol. XI of Waterhouse (1841); "A Glance at Australia in 1880" by Franklyn; and two later facsimile reprints. (8 vols.). Login to bid Estimate$200 - $400Orig. Starting Price$160 Lot #1121 [AUSTRALIA] A range of books in very mixed condition; most lacking maps and/or plates; incl. "The Political Magazine and Parliamentary, Naval, Military and Literary Journal" for 1784 (Cook's Voyages); "The Narrative of Captain David Woodard and Four Seamen..." (1804); "An Historical and Statistical Account of New South Wales..." by Lang (1837, 2 vols); "The Southern World" by Young (1854); "Land, Labour, and Gold" by Howitt (1858, 2 vols); and several others. (Total: 13 vols.). Login to bid Quantity13Estimate$200 - $300Orig. Starting Price$160 Lot #1122 A diverse group of prints, comprising 1789 John Stockdale "Norfolk Island Flying Squirrel", 1822 John Lewin "Crested Fly Catcher", and c. 1880s "View of Daylesford", plus 1969 Neville Cayley "Folio of Australian Bird Drawings" (four present). Login to bid Estimate$150 - $200Orig. Starting Price$120 Lot #1123 John HUNTER (1737-1821), "An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island, with the Discoveries which have been made in New South Wales and in the Southern Ocean, since the Publication of Phillip's Voyage, compiled from the Official Papers; Including the Journals of Governors Phillip and King, and of Lieut. Ball; and the Voyages from the first Sailing of the Sirius in 1787, to the Return of that Ship's Company to England in 1792", by John Hunter Esqr..... Login to bid Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Orig. Starting Price$2,400 Lot #1124 EARLY DEPICTIONS OF INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIANS: Six 1798 engravings by James Neagle after Thomas Watling, taken from David Collins' "An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales"; all titled "Yoo-long Erah-ba-diang", the numbers present being 1-4 and 6-7; all 21 x 26.5cm. (6 items) Login to bid Quantity6Estimate$500 - $750Orig. Starting Price$400 Lot #1125 A group of window-mounted engravings taken from David Collins' 1798 "An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales...", all 35.5 x 42cm overall; titles include "A View of the Governor's House at Rose Hill in the Township of Parramatta" and "The North View of Sydney Cover, taken from the end of Pitt's Row". (5 items) Login to bid Quantity5Estimate$400 - $600Orig. Starting Price$320 Lot #1126 A group of window-mounted engravings taken from David Collins' 1798 "An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales...", all 35.5 x 42cm overall; titles include "The Brick-field-hill, or High road to Parramatta" and "An Eastern View of Sydney, taken from a small prominence, nigh the New barracks". (5 items) Login to bid Quantity5Estimate$400 - $600Orig. Starting Price$320 Lot #1127 A group of five pages from David Collins' "Account of the English Colony in New South Wales", featuring engravings depicting Indigenous Australians and early settlers' homesteads, plus the August 3rd 1878 front page of the Australasian Sketcher, featuring a dramatic engraving depicting the attempted recovery of bodies from the wreck of the Loch Ard. (6 items) Login to bid Quantity6Estimate$150 - $200Orig. Starting Price$120 Lot #1128 Two antique German hand-coloured engravings featuring a black cockatoo and a sulphur crested cockatoo, early 19th century, both attractively presented in matching gilt frames, 43 x 35cm each overall. Login to bid Quantity2Estimate$400 - $600Orig. Starting Price$360 Lot #1129 Robert SMIRKE, "Review of a Battalion of Infantry, including the Eighteen Manoeuvres, illustrated by A Series of Engraved Diagrams", [London : Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1806, Fourth Edition]; original boards, lacking spine; 56pp + copper plates; signed to back and front blank endpapers, by John Leake. Accompanied by "Miss Leake's Journal" by Hodgson [2014]. Login to bid Estimate$300 - $400Orig. Starting Price$200 Lot #1130 George BARRINGTON (1755-1804), "An Account of A Voyage to New South Wales by George Barrington, Superintendent of the Convicts, To which is prefixed a Detail of His Life, Trials, Speeches, &c, &c. Enriched with Beautiful Colour'd Prints.", [London : M. Jones, 1810]; contemporary marbled boards with leather spine and replaced blank end papers; portrait frontispiece, engraved title and all plates present. Upper board detached. Login to bid Estimate$800 - $1,200Orig. Starting Price$650 Lot #1131 George BARRINGTON (1755 - 1804), "The History of New South Wales, including Botany Bay, Port Jackson, Parramatta, Sydney, and all its Dependencies, from the Original Discovery of the Island, with the Customs and Manners of the Natives and an account of The English Colony ....", [London : M Jones, 1810]; modern full calf, replaced blank end papers; "Town and Cove of Sydney" hand-coloured frontispiece, engraved title and all coloured plates present. Ferguson 487. Login to bid Estimate$800 - $1,200Orig. Starting Price$650 Lot #1132 William Charles WENTWORTH (1790 - 1872), "A Statistical, Historical and Political Description of the Colony of New South Wales and its dependent Settlements in Van Diemen’s Land... ", [London : G. and W.B. Whittaker, 1st ed., 1819], xi, 466pp, octavo, contemporary calf, spine panelled with gilt ornaments. The first edition of the first published work by a native-born Australian. John Oxley’s report to Governor Macquarie on his first expedition appears on pages 65-76. Login to bid Estimate$500 - $750Orig. Starting Price$400 Lot #1133 William Charles WENTWORTH, "A Statistical Account of the British Settlements in Australasia; including the Colonies of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land...." [London : Geo. B. Whittaker, 1824. Third edition.]; Octavo, two volumes, collated and complete as per Ferguson 990. Engraved frontispiece and folding maps of NSW and Van Diemen's Land; early leather spines over original marbled boards. Ex library. Login to bid Estimate$300 - $500Orig. Starting Price$240 Lot #1134 "Proclamations, Acts in Council, Government Orders, and Notices, issued by His Excellency Lieut. Gen. Ralph Darling, Captain General and Governor in Chief of New South Wales" from July 1825 to January 1832 in a single volume, [Sydney : Robert Howe]. Login to bid Estimate$200 - $400Orig. Starting Price$160 Lot #1135 BARRON FIELD (1786 - 1846), "Geographical Memoirs on New South Wales by Various Hands : Containing An Account Of The Surveyor General's Late Expedition To Two New Ports; The Discovery of Moreton Bay River, With The Adventures For Seven Months There Of Two Shipwrecked Men; A Route From Bathurst to Liverpool Plains....", [London : John Murray, 1825] 1st ed. 504pp + folding maps and plates; frontispiece by Lewin. With Ingleton bookplate to front pastedown; rebound in half calf... Login to bid Estimate$500 - $750Orig. Starting Price$400 Lot #1136 ASTROLABE: original, hand-coloured engravings from D'Urville's "Voyage Au Pole Sud Et Dans L'Oceanie", 1826-29, comprising Zoophytes (Plate 1, 5, 8, 9, 11, 13, 18, 19, 20, 23, 26, ), Molluscs (Plate 27, 49 86) and Monotremes (Plate 21). Total: 15 items, all matte-mounted. Login to bid Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Orig. Starting Price$800 Lot #1137 PETER CUNNINGHAM (Naval Surgeon, 1789 - 1864) "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, &c. &c…", [London : Henry Colburn, 1828, Third Edition]; in 2 vols., with large folding map; quarter tan calf over marbled boards. Login to bid Estimate$200 - $300Orig. Starting Price$160 Lot #1138 HOBART TOWN GAZETTE Volume XIII, Saturday November 22, 1828 [Number 654], complete 4pp edition, with red ink 2d newspaper duty stamp and mss owner's name upper right "Mr Simpson". Login to bid Estimate$300 - $400Orig. Starting Price$240 Lot #1139 ROBERT DAWSON "The Present State of Australia; a Description of the Country, its Advantages and Prospects, with Reference to Emigration: and a Particular Account of the Manners, Customs, and Condition of its Aboriginal Inhabitants", first edition, published 1830 by Smith, Elder & Co., London, with dedication "The Viscount Barrington - With the Author's Compts"; gilt leatherbound octavo with marbled boards and edges. Login to bid Estimate$400 - $600Orig. Starting Price$320 Lot #1140 20th August, 1831, manuscript lettersheet from Michael McDonald at Launceston to his business associate, John Martin, at Hobart. McDonald writes to advise that in an effort to retain ownership of his "vessel", he would like Martin to try to sell his "Grant of Land"; watermarked paper, indistinct postal markings and mss calculations. Login to bid Estimate$120 - $200Orig. Starting Price$100 Lot #1141 Ernest de BLOSSEVILLE, "Histoire des Colonies Pénales de l'Angleterre dans l'Australie", [PARIS : Ad. Le Clere Et Cie; 1st ed.], Octavo; 596pp; modern green calf and new endpapers, retaining the original stiffened decorated wrappers; leading and bottom edges uncut. Login to bid Estimate$200 - $300Orig. Starting Price$160 Lot #1142 BISCHOFF, "Sketch of the History of Van Diemen's Land, Illustrated by a Map of the Island, and an Account of the Van Diemen's Land Company" [London; John Richardson, 1832 1st ed.], hardcover, xii, 260pp. with two engraved plates; folding map is absent. Bischoff's book was intended for distribution to the Company's shareholders in order to encourage potential investors. Login to bid Estimate$200 - $300Orig. Starting Price$160 Lot #1143 NEW SOUTH WALES - ACTS IN COUNCIL: 1832 - 33 and 1834 - 37: The Acts and Ordinances of The Governor and Council of New South Wales Volume II parts I and II and 2. Folio size. Half leather and marbled boards. Comprehensive and fascinating reading, with acts for the suppression of Robbery and Housebreaking, the levying of Tolls, repairing roads, bridges and ferries, establishing a Savings Bank, Quarantine, the laws of Transportation and Punishment, the retailing of fermented and spiritous liquors Login to bid Estimate$1,000 - $2,000Orig. Starting Price$800 Lot #1144 LOUIS AUGUSTE DE SAINSON (1800 - 1887), "Vue d'Hobart-Town, Prise de l'Est. (Ile Van-Diemen.)", hand-coloured lithograph taken from Jules Dumont d'Urville's 1833 "L'Atlas historique du Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe"; window-mounted, 50 x 63cm overall. Login to bid Estimate$500 - $750Orig. Starting Price$400 Lot #1145 POLICING AT RICHMOND, VAN DIEMEN'S LAND: An August 1834 mss report regarding the appearance on summons of James TAYLOR to answer the charge of striking and assaulting Rebecca DAVEY, to which he plead Guilty; also, a February 1844 note regarding an agreement between Thomas LASCELLES and a Mr. DURIEN. (2 items). Login to bid Estimate$100 - $200Orig. Starting Price$80 Lot #1146 CHARLES STURT (1795-1869), "TWO EXPEDITIONS INTO THE INTERIOR OF SOUTHERN AUSTRALIA, during the years 1828, 1829, 1830 and 1831: with Observations on the Soil, Climate and General Resources of the Colony of New South Wales." [LONDON : Smith, Elder and Co., 2nd edition, 1834] in 2 vols., with 13 plates (4 hand coloured), a large folding map, and a chart; later ornate calf binding with new end papers. (2 vols). Login to bid Quantity2Estimate$800 - $1,200Orig. Starting Price$650 Lot #1147 Colin Arrott BROWNING (1791 - 1856), "AN ADDRESS TO THE PRISONERS DEBARKED From the “Surry,” at Sydney, December 8, 1831; - the “Arab,” at Hobart Town, July 5, 1834; - and the “Elphinstone,” at Hobart Town, May 30, 1836. By the Medical Officer in Charge During the Voyage." [Hobart-Town : James Ross, 1836 1st ed.] Octavo, 116pp, errata leaf, early card; endorsed "Probation Depart't" in pen to the title page. Login to bid Estimate$300 - $500Orig. Starting Price$240 Lot #1148 [1836 - SCARCE INDIGENOUS DEPICTION & ARTICLE] The Saturday Magazine. Published in London by the Education Committee of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. The complete set of weekly issues for 1836 and 1837, each year bound in quarter-calf and marbled boards. Login to bid Estimate$250 - $300Orig. Starting Price$200 Lot #1149 A group of 19th-century hardcover books on Australian topics; noted 1836 "History of Australasia: Comprising New South Wales, Van Diemen's Island, Swan River, South Australia, etc." by Martin, 1840 "Extracts from the Letters and Journal of Daniel Wheeler while engaged in a Religious Visit to the Inhabitants of some of the Islands of the Pacific Ocean, Van Diemen's Land, New South Wales, and New Zealand", and 1899 "Union Line of Steamers Tourists' Guide to Tasmania - Second Edition". (8 items) Login to bid Quantity8Estimate$300 - $600Orig. Starting Price$240 Lot #1150 JAMES MacARTHUR (1798-1867) "New South Wales; its Present State and Future Prospects: Being a Statement, with Documentary Evidence, Submitted in Support of Petitions to His Majesty and Parliament," published 1837 by D. Walther, 42 Piccadilly, London, with bookplate of British Banker Sir Jonathan Edmund Backhouse, 1st Baronet, to inner cover; octavo, 344pp., green cloth with gilt title to spine, folding hand-coloured map present. Condition ReportLight foxing to fold-out map. Login to bid Estimate$300 - $500Orig. Starting Price$240 Lot #1151 "The Melbourne Advertiser, Port Phillip, Australia Written for and published by Jn. P. Fawkner. Monday, January the 8th. 1838. Melbourne. Vol. 1, No. 2." foolscap folio, pp. [4], photolithographic facsimile, circa 1860s, by Peter Alcock and George Robertson. Overall 34 x 22cm; with defects, as usual. Login to bid Estimate$150 - $200Orig. Starting Price$120 Lot #1152 Thomas Livingstone MITCHELL, "THREE EXPEDITIONS INTO THE INTERIOR OF EASTERN AUSTRALIA, with descriptions of the recently explored region of Australia Felix...", [London : T. & W. Boone; revised 2nd edition]; two volumes, octavo, with plates (some coloured), and coloured maps, handsome period style half calf, with marbled end papers; ex libris labels of Charles R.J. Glover; and neat 1844 presentation inscription to title pages. Login to bid Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Orig. Starting Price$800 Lot #1153 W.H. LEIGH (Ship's surgeon), "Reconnoitering Voyages and Travels, with Adventures in the New Colonies of South Australia; a particular description of The Town of Adelaide, and Kangaroo Island..." [LONDON : Smith, Elder and Co., 1839, 1st ed.] octavo, xv, 291pp, 24pp adverts; engraved frontispiece, additional engraved title, 6 plates, later half-calf binding with patterned end papers Login to bid Estimate$150 - $200Orig. Starting Price$120 Lot #1154 [EARLY SYDNEY & NEW SOUTH WALES INTEREST]"THE AUSTRALASIAN CHRONICLE", Sydney, August - December 1839, printed by Andrew Bent for William Augustine Duncan; almost complete run from Vol.1 No.1 to Vol.1 No.42 (lacking only numbers 22 and 41); bound together; overall 56 x 40.5cm. Defects throughout, but extremely scarce. (40 complete editions). Login to bid Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Orig. Starting Price$800 Lot #1155 "GEELONG ADVERTISER" Vol.1, No.2, Saturday, November 28, 1840; four-page newspaper edited by James Harrison, printed and published for John Pascoe Fawkner by William Watkins; overall 45 x 30cm; poor condition, but largely intact. This second edition of the Advertiser carries a report of a shipwreck (the Prince Albert) off Cape Shank, a report that two cricket clubs "for the practice of this noble game" were being formed; and an advertisement for "CASHMORES London & Manchester Warehouse".. Login to bid Estimate$100 - $150Orig. Starting Price$80 Lot #1156 Sir GEORGE GREY (1812-1898) "JOURNALS OF TWO EXPEDITIONS OF DISCOVERY IN NORTH-WEST AND WESTERN AUSTRALIA, during the years 1837, 38, and 39, Under the Authority of Her Majesty's Government. Describing many newly discovered, important, and fertile Districts, with Observations on the moral and physical Condition of the Aboriginal Inhabitants, &c. &c. By George Grey, Esq. Governor of South Australia; Late Captain of the Eighty-third Regiment.", [LONDON ; T. & W. Boone, 1841, 1st ed.], in 2 vols., Login to bid Estimate$500 - $750Orig. Starting Price$400 Lot #1157 "HOBART-TOWN - Vue du Côté du Mont Wellington", hand-coloured lithograph taken from Jules Dumont d'Urville's 1841 "Voyage au Pôle Sude et dans l'Océanie"; window-mounted, 33.5 x 43.5cm overall. Login to bid Estimate$500 - $750Orig. Starting Price$400 Lot #1158 [NEW ZEALAND] LOUIS LE BRETON (after), "Mouillage de Korora - Reka" (Bay of Islands), lithograph by Leon Sabatier, from the Dumont-D'Urville "Atlas Pittoresque", plate 183, first edition; overall 36 x 55cm. Login to bid Estimate$400 - $500Orig. Starting Price$320 Lot #1159 Rev. William PRIDDEN, "Australia, Its History and Present Condition; Containing an Account Both of the Bush and of the Colonies, with their Respective Inhabitants" [London; James Burns, 1843], 363pp. with fold-out map; non-original boards and endpapers, original cloth preserved. Login to bid Estimate$150 - $200Orig. Starting Price$120 Lot #1160 ROBERT DOUGLAS MURRAY, "A Summer at Port Phillip", [Edinburgh : William Tait, 1843 1st ed.], viii incl. lithographic frontispiece "Villa on the Yarra..", 263pp + adverts.; original tooled cloth with gilt text to spine. Login to bid Estimate$200 - $300Orig. Starting Price$160 Lot #1161 MEREDITH, "Notes and Sketches of New South Wales during a Residence in that Colony from 1839 to 1844" [London; John Murray, 1844], 164pp., bound together with 1845 "The French in Algiers" by Gordon and 1844 "Western Barbary - its Wild Tribes and Savage Animals" by Drummond; brown cloth boards, gilt text to spine. Login to bid Estimate$150 - $200Orig. Starting Price$120 Lot #1162 A small range of early Australian newspapers in very mixed condition: includes "The Morning Chronicle" (Sydney, Nov.1845); "The Daily News" (Sydney, Nov.1848); "Cassell's Illustrated Family Paper" (Melbourne, Sept. 1854); "The Advertiser" (Collingwood, Feb. 1866); "Linville's Saturday Night" (Melbourne, Oct. 1879) and several others. (8 items). Login to bid Estimate$150 - $200Orig. Starting Price$100 Lot #1163 Colin Arrott BROWNING, "The Convict Ship and England's Exiles, in Two Parts", second edition [London; Hamilton Adams & Co., 1847], 409pp. plus appendix; original green cloth preserved with gilt ship illustration to cover, non-original boards and endpapers. Login to bid Estimate$150 - $200Orig. Starting Price$120 Lot #1164 EDWARD WILSON LANDOR (1811 - 1878), "The BUSHMAN or, LIFE IN A NEW COUNTRY", [London : Richard Bentley, 1847, 1st ed.], x, 438pp, frontispiece (View of Kangaroo Hunting (after A.H. Irby) plus 3 additional full page plates (laid down on linen) ; later ornate full leather binding with new blank endpapers. Login to bid Estimate$300 - $400Orig. Starting Price$240 Lot #1165 "Correspondence on the Subject of Convict Discipline and Transportation, Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty, February 16, 1847", printed by T.R. Harrison (London); 406pp. with fold-out plan of stone cells; rebound with new spine, boards and endpapers, some elements of the original leather having been preserved. Condition ReportLibrary stamps and foxing to the introductory pages, but the majority of the text largely unaffected. Login to bid Estimate$250 - $350Orig. Starting Price$200 Lot #1166 JOHN GOULD: A group of original hand-coloured lithographs, including "Euphema Pulchella", "Halcyon Sordidus", "Pitta Strepitans", "Grus Australasianus", and "Ptilinopus Swainsonii"; condition issues, dimensions generally approx. 54 x 35cm. (15 items) Login to bid Quantity15Estimate$1,500 - $1,750Orig. Starting Price$1,200Current starting$1,200 (1 bid) Lot #1167 [MASONIC LODGES in TASMANIA] A two-page manuscript document laid-down on linen, recording the income and expenditure of the six V.D.L. District "Tents" for 1847-48; signed off by the relevant members. Login to bid Estimate$100 - $200Orig. Starting Price$80 Lot #1168 [NEW ZEALAND INTEREST] "THE OTAGO NEWS" Dunedin, June 23, 1849, Edition No.16; June 30, 1849 (Edition No.17) and August 11, 1849 (Edition No.23); each of 4 pages and overall 43 x 38cm. Login to bid Estimate$300 - $400Orig. Starting Price$240 Lot #1169 CHARLES STURT, Captain (1795 - 1869), "NARRATIVE of an EXPEDITION into CENTRAL AUSTRALIA.....during the years 1844, 5, and 6.....", [LONDON : T. and W. BOONE, 1849, 1st ed.] in 2 vols., with a folding map and plates (six coloured and several after John Gould and S.T. Gill), with the stamp of the Northern Protector of Aboriginals to both title pages; vol.2 with advert slip for Leichhardt's "Journal of an Overland Expedition" bound in before p.1.; rebound with new endpapers. (2). Login to bid Estimate$800 - $1,200Orig. Starting Price$650 Lot #1170 An antique book plate of an Aboriginal hunting scene, printed in German, 19th century, 19 x 13cm, 45 x 39cm overall. Login to bid Estimate$120 - $200Orig. Starting Price$100 Lot #1171 "THE MELBOURNE FAMILY JOURNAL" 29 November 1850, Edition No.17; 16-page weekly newspaper , printed by Wilson & Johnston, Collins St., for John Samuel Cragg. Login to bid Estimate$150 - $200Orig. Starting Price$120 Lot #1172 Walter BRODIE, "PITCAIRN’S ISLAND, AND THE ISLANDERS, in 1850... Together with extracts from his Private Journal, and a Few Hints on California...", [London : Whittaker & Co., 1851], octavo, plates, half calf, marbled boards and endpapers. Full list of subscribers. Login to bid Estimate$150 - $250Orig. Starting Price$120 Lot #1173 John MORGAN, "THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF WILLIAM BUCKLEY, Thirty-two Years a Wanderer amongst the Aborigines of the then Unexplored Country round Port Phillip, now the Province of Victoria.", 208pp; octavo, re-bound in modern black calf, spine with 5 raised bands and gilt decoration; without original wrappers, portrait frontispiece and title page. Morgan’s narrative of Buckley’s experiences was based on an intelligently conducted series of interviews with him. Login to bid Estimate$250 - $300Orig. Starting Price$200 Lot #1174 VICTORIAN GOVERNMENT PAPERS: 1852-1933 mixed blue/white group, noted October 1853 "On the Adjustment of Accounts between New South Wales and Victoria", January 1854 "Savings Banks", 1853 "Estimates of the Ways and Means and of the Probable Expenditure of the Colonial Government of Victoria for the year 1854", 1859 "Finance - Balance Sheet for the Year 1857", and many others. (40 items) Login to bid Quantity40Estimate$200 - $300Orig. Starting Price$160 Lot #1175 [THE AMERICAS], Alcide D'ORBIGNY (1802 - 1857) "Viaggio pittoresco nelle due Americhe...", [Venice : G. Antonelli, 1852-55], quarto, 2 volumes bound together; half-titles, engraved frontispiece, and 142 full-page (including one folding) lithographed plates (several showing two or more subjects), 2 large folding maps; publisher's quarter calf, gilt. Login to bid Estimate$250 - $300Orig. Starting Price$200 Lot #1176 Samuel SIDNEY (Samuel Solomon, 1813 - 1883), "The Three Colonies of Australia: New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia; their pastures, copper mines, & gold fields. With numerous engravings. [London : Ingram, Cooke & Co., 1852]. Octavo, 428 pages, frontispiece and plates. Modern decorative leather and new endpapers. Login to bid Estimate$150 - $250Orig. Starting Price$120 Lot #1177 CAROLINE CHISHOLM (1808 - 1877) AND THE FAMILY COLONISATION LOAN SOCIETY: An archive comprising of imploring letters, practical requests, receipts, notes, signed cheques and deposit slips, and various other associated pieces. (A total of 39 items in mixed condition). A remarkable recent discovery, which has brought to light these original objects illustrating the life and work of a remarkable woman, five of which bear her original signature. Login to bid Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Orig. Starting Price$4,000 Lot #1178 VICTORIAN GOVERNMENT BLUE PAPERS: 1852-1862 group, noted November 1853 "Statistics of the Colony of Victoria", November 1853 "Ship Mails", September 1854 "University of Melbourne Report", November 1854 "Postal Communication with the United Kingdom", March 1855 "Post Office", July 1857 "Submarine Electric Telegraph between Great Britain and Her Majesty's Australasian Colonies", and many others. (40 items) Login to bid Quantity40Estimate$250 - $350Orig. Starting Price$200 Lot #1179 VICTORIAN GOVERNMENT PAPERS: 1853-1933 mixed blue/white group, noted October 1854 "Purchase by Government of the Mount Alexander Railway", October 1854 "Second General Report of the Government Botanist on the Vegetation of the Colony", March 1855 "Intemperance", June 1863 "Report from the Select Committee on the Refreshment Rooms", August 1873 "Regulations Under the Inebriates Act 1872", and many others. (40 items) Login to bid Quantity40Estimate$150 - $200Orig. Starting Price$120 Lot #1180 ROBERT STEWART, "Popular Geographical Library - Australasia with An Appendix" [London; W. Tweedie, 1853], 480pp., with fold-out map; brown cloth boards with embossed floral pattern to covers and spine, gilt title to spine. Login to bid Estimate$200 - $300Orig. Starting Price$160 Lot #1181 William WESTGARTH, "VICTORIA; LATE AUSTRALIA FELIX, or Port Phillip District of New South Wales; being an historical and descriptive account of the Colony and its Gold Mines...", [Edinburgh : Oliver & Boyd; 1st ed.], Octavo, folding hand-coloured map, original claret cloth, ex Library stamp to title page. Login to bid Estimate$100 - $150Orig. Starting Price$80Current starting$80 (1 bid) Lot #1182 VICTORIAN GOVERNMENT PAPERS: 1853-1874 mixed blue/white group, noted 1854 "Census of Victoria Population Tables", April 1856 "War With Russia", October 1858 "Alpacas", 1860 "Report on the Yarra Bend Lunatic Asylum", 1864 "Transportation", August 1874 "Kidnapping of South Sea Islanders by the Officers and Crew of the Daphne", September 1874 "Despatch...Relative to the Annexation of the Fiji Islands", and others. (13 items) Login to bid Quantity13Estimate$200 - $250Orig. Starting Price$160 Lot #1183 "THE DIGGERS ADVOCATE", Vol.1, No.2, Thursday, November 10, 1853; 6-page newspaper published by Hough & Co., Elizabeth St., Melbourne; the heading incorporating "FRIENDS I SHELTER - FOES I CRUSH"; overall 43.5 x 29cm. With news from the diggings at Bendigo, Forest Creek, Ballarat, other relevant news and advertising of shipping options, mails, and much coverage of the vexed issues associated with the diggers and their leases, which would boil over in late 1854 to the Eureka Stockade. Login to bid Estimate$250 - $350Orig. Starting Price$200 Lot #1184 "THE GOLD MINER : Australian Journal of General Literature.", edition No.2; Melbourne : April 30, 1853; printed by Goodhugh & Trembath, Flinders Lane East; published by John Hethergton, Great Collins St. 12 pages, overall 28 x 21cm. Carries some excerpts from "Bleak House" by Charles Dickens, an article about the education of the Royal children, anecdotes about the Duke of Wellington, etc. We have located no other examples of this publication. Login to bid Estimate$150 - $250Orig. Starting Price$120 Lot #1185 VICTORIAN GOVERNMENT BLUE PAPERS: 1853-1862 group, noted June 1854 "Births, Deaths, and Marriages in the Colony of Victoria", September 1854 "Health Officer Report", April 1861 "Pleuro-Pneumonia in Cattle", December 1861 "Health Officer Report", "Chief Medical Officer Report on the Sanitary Station for the Year 1860", and many others. (40 items) Login to bid Quantity40Estimate$250 - $350Orig. Starting Price$200 Lot #1186 VICTORIAN GOVERNMENT BLUE PAPERS: 1853-1862 group, noted September 1853 "Prisoners", March 1854 "Police Force", November 1854 "Penal Establishments", February 1855 "Police Department", March 1855 "Report of Police Commission Respecting Distribution of Police Reward Fund", June 1855 "Police Office, Tarraville", and many others. (40 items) Login to bid Quantity40Estimate$300 - $400Orig. Starting Price$240 Lot #1187 "THE MELBOURNE ILLUSTRATED NEWS" Vol.1, No.2, November 5, 1853; eight-page illustrated newspaper printed and published by Caleb Turner, Swanston St., South Melbourne. Overall 38 x 25cm. Published during the Victorian Gold Rush, the "News" survived for only a couple of issues. This edition features a Calvert engraving on the front page titled "The Prahran Steeple Chase" and another depicting "The Great Fire in Collins Street". There is an article about the vexed issue of female immigration... Login to bid Estimate$150 - $250Orig. Starting Price$120 Lot #1188 THE EUREKA STOKADE: "RIOT AT BALLAARAT" Victorian Government "blue paper", November 1854; Report of the Board appointed to enquire into circumstances connected with the late disturbance at Ballarat. Folio, modern half morocco with gilt title to spine. Login to bid Estimate$150 - $250Orig. Starting Price$120Current starting$120 (1 bid) Lot #1189 "THE DEMOCRAT" 1 December, 1855, first edition of a short-lived weekly newspaper, eight pages, printed by Walker, Boyd & Co., Little Collins St., for Robert Kennedy. Overall 44.5 x 28.5cm. Login to bid Estimate$200 - $300Orig. Starting Price$160 Lot #1190 "THE DEMOCRAT" 8, 15 & 22 December, 1855, 2nd, 3rd & 4th editions of this weekly newspaper, each of eight pages, printed by Walker, Boyd & Co., Little Collins St., for Robert Kennedy. Each overall 44.5 x 28.5cm. (3). Mixed condition. Login to bid Estimate$300 - $500Orig. Starting Price$240 Lot #1191 SARAH TUCKER (d. 1857), "The Southern Cross and Southern Crown; or, The Gospel in New Zealand.", [London : James Nesbit and Co., 4th ed., 1858] 264pp, illustrated, frontispiece ("Corpse of Chief killed in Battle Lying in State, Waikanae"), original blind-stamped green cloth (dulled). Manuscript ownership inscription "Julia King" to front blank endpaper; "Edmonds & Remnants, London" binding label inside rear. Login to bid Estimate$100 - $150Orig. Starting Price$80 Lot #1192 William KELLY, "LIFE IN VICTORIA: or Victoria in 1853, and Victoria in 1858 showing the march of improvement made by the Colony within those periods, in town and country, cities and diggings." [London : Chapman and Hall, 1859 1st ed.] Two volumes, octavo, folding map, original embossed cloth. (2). An eye-witness account of the days of the gold rushes and the prosperity that followed. Login to bid Estimate$300 - $500Orig. Starting Price$240 Lot #1193 "Progress Report from the Select Committee upon the Tariff; together with the Proceedings of the Committee and the Minutes of Evidence", [Melbourne : John Ferres; blue paper, April 1860, 133pp.]. Login to bid Estimate$100 - $200Orig. Starting Price$80 Lot #1194 STUART, JAMES McDOUALL "J. McDouall Stuart, Explorations Across The Continent of Australia. With Charts. 1861-62", [Melbourne, F. F. Bailliere, 1863], hardcover with original pink lithograph boards. Login to bid Estimate$100 - $200Orig. Starting Price$80 Lot #1195 "The Plants Indigenous to the Colony of Victoria, Described by Ferdinand Mueller" [Melbourne, John Ferres Government Printer], 1862 volume containing the descriptive portion of the work, together with the 1865 volume containing the illustrative portion; folio, green woven boards, ex. Prahran Public Library. Login to bid Estimate$200 - $300Orig. Starting Price$160 Lot #1196 WILLIAM LANDSBOROUGH (1825 - 1886), "Journal of Landsborough's Expedition From Carpentaria, In Search Of Burke and Wills. With A Map Showing His Route. ", [Melbourne : Wilson & Mackinnon, 1862, 1st ed.] 128pp, with a frontispiece depicting the expeditioners and a large folding map; original papered boards with original cloth spine. Login to bid Estimate$200 - $300Orig. Starting Price$160 Lot #1197 "THE ILLUSTRATED MELBOURNE POST" Melbourne, January, 1862 Edition No.1; eight page newspaper published by Charles Somerton, at The Herald Office, 9 Bourke Street East, Melbourne. The front cover with an engraving of "The All-England (cricket) Eleven ; Arrival at the Cafe de Paris" in Swanston Street; the second page carrying extensive coverage of their matches; page four describes and illustrates Ludwig Leichhardt's explorations; Overall 41 x 28cm. Login to bid Estimate$100 - $200Orig. Starting Price$80 Lot #1198 BURKE AND WILLS: "BURKE AND WILLS COMMISSION. REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS appointed to enquire into and report upon the circumstances connected with the Sufferings and Death of Robert O’Hara Burke and William John Wills, the Victorian Explorers." Foolscap folio, printed on blue paper, in modern half calf. The Commission held twelve hearings between 22 November 1861 and 31 January 1862. Their instructions specifically required them to identify the cause of the “lamentable result”... Login to bid Estimate$300 - $500Orig. Starting Price$240 Lot #1199 THE SEARCH FOR BURKE & WILLS: "EXPLORATION EXPEDITION" Victorian Government "blue paper", Report of Commander Norman, of H.M.C.S. Victoria, together with copy of his journal on the late Expedition to the Gulf of Carpentaria; bound together with a further "blue paper" being a Letter from Commander Norman together with further reports and correspondence and four additional documents; including a Petition titled "Exploration of New Holland", a message titled "Country Discovered by Burke and Wills Login to bid Estimate$300 - $500Orig. Starting Price$240 Lot #1200 EDWARD M. CURR "Pure Saddle-Horses and How to Breed Them in Australia Together with a Consideration of the History and Merits of the English, Arab, Andalusian, & Australian Breeds of Horses", [Wilson & MacKinnon, Melbourne, 1863]; title page, xviii, 299p, 4pp publishers catalogue; hardcover 8vo. Login to bid Estimate$120 - $200Orig. Starting Price$100 Lot #1201 JOHN GOULD (1804-1881), Cacatua Ducorpsi (Ducorps's Cockatoo), hand-coloured engraving, descriptive page verso, 50, 34cm, mounted 73 x 54cm overall. Login to bid Estimate$400 - $600Orig. Starting Price$300 Lot #1202 "THE RAILWAY ADVERTISER AND TIME TABLE" edition No.1, July 1, 1863; printed and published by George Beatley, 3 Chapel Street, South Yarra, Melbourne; 4pp (44 x 28cm); the front page with advertisements for shipping lines, agents, "Madame Sohier's Waxworks Exhibition", Marsh's, etc., the inner pages with time tables for "The Victorian Railways", the "Melbourne and Hobson's Bay Railway", the "Melbourne Railway" and the "Melbourne and Brighton Railway"; the rear page with more local advertisements Login to bid Estimate$200 - $300Orig. Starting Price$160 Lot #1203 JOHN GOULD (1804-1881), Hypsiprymmus Apicalis (Tasmanian Rat Kangaroo), hand-coloured engraving, attractively displayed in antique birdseye maple frame, 35 x 52cm, 70 x 85cm overall. Login to bid Estimate$200 - $300Orig. Starting Price$160 Lot #1204 JOHN GOULD (1804-1881), I.) Mus Assimilis, (descriptive page verso), II.) Mus Sordidus, hand-coloured engravings, 35 x 53cm, 63 x 79cm overall. Login to bid Quantity2Estimate$250 - $350Orig. Starting Price$200 Lot #1205 John M'DOULL STUART, "J. M'DOUALL STUART'S EXPLORATIONS ACROSS THE CONTINENT OF AUSTRALIA WITH CHARTS 1861-62", [MELBOURNE : F.F. Bailliere], FIRST EDITION, with large folding map, 7 pages of advertisements at the beginning and 3 pages at the end, rebound in half-calf. [Ferguson 16380; Wantrup 161]. Login to bid Estimate$300 - $500Orig. Starting Price$240 Lot #1206 THE VICTORIAN GOLD FIELDS: "GOLD FIELDS ROYAL COMMISSION OF ENQUIRY. Report of the Royal Mining Commission appointed to enquire into the Condition and Prospects of the Gold Fields of Victoria." [Melbourne, 1863]. Victorian Parliamentary blue paper, folio, pp. [iv], 490; modern half calf. Login to bid Estimate$200 - $300Orig. Starting Price$160Current starting$160 (1 bid) Lot #1207 Framed antique certificate made out to "MR. ANDREW KIDDIE, You Are Hereby Appointed TAILOR To His Royal Highness The Duke Of Edinburgh.....15th April, 1868". 45 x 32cm overall. Login to bid Estimate$200 - $300Orig. Starting Price$160 Lot #1208 JAMES HINGSTON (1830 - 1902), "GUIDE FOR EXCURSIONISTS FROM MELBOURNE. Dedicated to all in search of Health, Recreation, and Pleasure." [Melbourne : H. Thomas, 1st ed. Not in Ferguson]. Duodecimo, pp. 256, [8] (blanks), [52] (advertisements, many illustrated), original semi-limp green cloth, gilt lettering "OUTS" on front board, advertisement endpapers. Login to bid Estimate$200 - $300Orig. Starting Price$160 Lot #1209 "SYDNEY Engineer, Ship Smith, Founder BOUGHT Of JNo. STRUTH" antique copper plate engraving by J. Carmichael of North Sydney, attractively displayed in a period maple frame; together with an antique colour lithograph of St. Gerard in a maple framer, plus an antique Tasmanian huon pine picture frame, 19th century, (3 items), the largest 22.5 x 31cm overall. Login to bid Quantity3Estimate$150 - $250Orig. Starting Price$120 Lot #1210 LE COMTE de BEAUVOIR, "Voyage Autour du Monde", [Paris : Henri Plon], 1870 4th edition; octavo, frontispiece, plates, two large folding maps, contemporary half French calf and marbled boards; gilt titles, 363pp + table of plates. Login to bid Estimate$100 - $150Orig. Starting Price$80 Lot #1211 "L'ECHO JOURNAL" 24 November 1870, Edition No.1, printed by H.G. De Gruchy & Co., Elizabeth St., Melbourne; 4-page broadsheet newspaper, lithographic print of manuscript text. The newspaper’s front-page banner featured the subtitle: "Publié à Melbourne, à l'usage des colons français, belges, suisses, italiens & autres" (Published in Melbourne, for the use of French, Belgian, Swiss, Italian and other colonists.) Login to bid Estimate$150 - $250Orig. Starting Price$120 Lot #1212 SOUTH AUSTRALIA: The 1871 diary of Constable W. Gregory of the northern Flinders Ranges, in which he records the duties he engaged in throughout that year; many localities mentioned, including Beltana, Blinman, Moolooloo, and Pekina. Login to bid Estimate$300 - $500Orig. Starting Price$240 Lot #1213 NEW SOUTH WALES (mainly) reports and other official documents, including 1871 "Estimates of the Probable Expenditure of the Government for 1872", 1873 "Tin-Bearing Country, New England" with four pages of lithographic plates, 1876-77 "New Guinea Exploration", etc. (qty). Login to bid Estimate$100 - $200Orig. Starting Price$80 Lot #1214 THE TICHBORNE CASE: Lord Chief Justice Cockburn's lengthy summing-up at the conclusion of the legal cause célèbre concerning a Wagga Wagga butcher's claim to being the missing heir to the Tichborne baronetcy; since rebound in brown boards, the pages well preserved, with errata section and multiple annexes at rear. Login to bid Estimate$150 - $200Orig. Starting Price$120 Lot #1215 A collection of 23 full page engraved plates, loosely held in the cover of Volume Seven: subjects include King George Sound (Aboriginals), The Gwailor Plains, Gladstone, Queensland, New Zealand Gully near Roehampton, Townsville, Return of Burke & Wills to Coopers Creek, Port Phillip Heads, etc. (23). Login to bid Estimate$120 - $200Orig. Starting Price$100 Lot #1216 BEAUVOIR, "Australie - Voyage autour du monde" [Paris; E. Plon & Co., 1874], iv + 363pp.; ninth edition with both maps and all plates present; red quarter leather binding with gilt title to spine. Login to bid Estimate$150 - $200Orig. Starting Price$120 Items per page 102550100 Previous|123|Next Previous 123 Next Previous 123 Next