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 1131-1140 of 1671. Previous|1...112113114115116117...168|Next Lot #1115 POSTCARDS - VICTORIA: A diverse early-20th century collection from publishers such as Fleischer, Kodak Austral, Moorabbin Southern Cross, Rose, Turner, Wildt & Kray; noted "Block of Granite for Burke and Wills Monument passing WM & Geo Dean's Premises in September 1863", "Snow Scene, Last Chance Gold Mine, Ballarat", "View from the Fire Tower, Ararat", and "A. Edments Melbourne Supply Stores 309-311 Bourke Street". (70+ items) Login to bid Quantity70Estimate$100 - $200Orig. Starting Price$80 Lot #1116 POSTCARDS AND EPHEMERA including a selection of Channel 9 celebrity shots signed by actors such as Paul Cronin, Ray Gorman, Vikki Hammond and others, as well as a selection of Australian aeroplane tickets including Ansett and TAA; together with a folk art Melbourne Cup match box holder, (qty). Login to bid Estimate$120 - $200Orig. Starting Price$100 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. Login to bid Estimate$400 - $600Orig. Starting Price$300 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. 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. 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