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 1201-1300 of 1671. Previous|1...1011121314151617|Next 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$160Current starting$160 (1 bid) 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$80Current starting$80 (1 bid) 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 Lot #1217 GILES, Ernest "Geographic Travels In Central Australia, From 1872 To 1874" [Melbourne, 1875], with presentation inscription by Baron Ferdinand von Mueller (Giles' expedition sponsor), original green cloth covered boards with gilt pictorial cover and lettering to the spine. Login to bid Estimate$500 - $700Orig. Starting Price$400 Lot #1218 WARBURTON, Colonel Peter Egerton "Journey Across The Western Interior of Australia" [London, Sampson Low, Marston, Low & Searle, 1875], hardcover in green cloth covered boards with embossed gilt pictorial decoration, retaining original folding map. Login to bid Estimate$150 - $250Orig. Starting Price$120Current starting$120 (1 bid) Lot #1219 Marcus CLARKE (1846 - 1881), "HIS NATURAL LIFE", [LONDON : Richard Bentley & Son, 1875], three volumes, octavo, contemporary leather spines over marbled boards; neat ownership inscription to all three blank front end papers. The extremely rare first London edition of Clarke's epic novel (the title of which had been changed by the publisher by the 1882 edition, without permission). Only 750 copies of the three-volume first Bentley edition were printed, 206 of which were remaindered... Login to bid Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Orig. Starting Price$800 Lot #1220 "THE MELBOURNE CLIPPER And Racing and Theatrical Record, SPORT - SENSATION - SATIRE", 4-page illustrated monthly newspaper, Edition No.5, Melbourne, November 18, 1876; published by William Henry Williams, published at the office of The Democrat, Little Collins St East. Overall 45 x 31cm. Offered together with three later editions: December 1876, February 3, 1877 and February 24, 1877, the last of which carries an account and illustration of an assault by Captain Moonlight. (4 complete editions). Login to bid Estimate$400 - $600Orig. Starting Price$320 Lot #1221 [NEW ZEALAND] CHARLES DECIMUS BARRAUD (1822-97), group of original chromolithographic prints, 1877, each individually laid down on title card: Wairarapa Lake, Port Chalmers, Auckland Harbour, Nelson, all initialled and dated "1875" in the plate; image size 24.5 x 35cm; overall 39.5 x 54.5cm Login to bid Estimate$300 - $500Orig. Starting Price$240 Lot #1222 "THE DEMOCRAT - A WEEKLY ILLUSTRATED JOURNAL", Melbourne, May 5, 1877 (Vol.1, No.17), May 12, 1877 (Vol.1, No.18), July 14, 1877 (Vol.1, No.27), July 21, 1877 (Vol.1, No.28) and November 3, 1877 (Vol.1, No.43), printed and published by A. Asher or S. Lyle at Little Collins St. East; overall 45 x 31cm. (5 editions). Extremely rare. Login to bid Estimate$500 - $750Orig. Starting Price$400 Lot #1223 "CAKES and ALE, A Family Paper of News & Notes. Melbourne Mercantile and Property Advertiser." Christmas Number, December 31st, 1877 (Edition No.1), 8-page illustrated newspaper, printed & published by Reynolds & Co., Elizabeth St., Melbourne. Overall 44 x 29cm. No other example located. Login to bid Estimate$150 - $250Orig. Starting Price$120 Lot #1224 DAVID BLAIR, "The History of Australasia from the First Dawn of Discovery in the Southern Ocean to the Establishment of Self-Government in the Various Colonies... [Melbourne; McGready, Thomson & Niven, 1878], 711pp., seventeen plates and hand-tinted map; half morocco binding, marbled endpapers and edging, gilt title to spine. Login to bid Estimate$150 - $200Orig. Starting Price$120 Lot #1225 R. BROUGH SMYTH, "THE ABORIGINES OF VICTORIA: with Notes relating to the habits of the Natives of other Parts of Australia and Tasmania", in two volumes, large octavo, with two frontispieces, two folding maps, and 297 numbered plates and illustrations, [Melbourne : John Ferres; and London : Trubner and Co., 1878]; part original bindings with replaced red calf spines, with five raised bands, gilt decoration and a contrasting title label. A comprehensive and scholarly work. Login to bid Estimate$500 - $750Orig. Starting Price$400 Lot #1226 A pair of framed SKINNER PROUT antique coloured etchings, titled "Sydney Heads" and "Port Philip Bay"; together with a framed NICHOLAS CHEVALIER facsimile etching, titled "Melbourne From The Yarra", 19th and 20th century, (3 items), the largest 35 x 40cm overall. Login to bid Quantity3Estimate$120 - $200Orig. Starting Price$100 Lot #1227 "MELBOURNE CHRISTMAS ANNUAL." (n.d., but 1880), 12 page journal printed by A.H. Massina & Co., for the publisher, Cameron, Laing & Co.; overall 45 x 28.5cm. The front cover image illustrates the story, "A Terrible Christmas Day" by Marcus Clarke: A story exploring dark seasonal themes by the author of For the Term of His Natural Life. The artwork is by J.R. A. (Julian Ashton), Login to bid Estimate$200 - $300Orig. Starting Price$160 Lot #1228 "OUR IDEA And Intercolonial Trade Bulletin", 1 March, 1881, 1st edition; 4 page newspaper printed by John Haase & John M'Queen, Swanston St., for Boyle, Robertson Pater & George Richardson.; 44 x 29cm. Login to bid Estimate$150 - $250Orig. Starting Price$120 Lot #1229 "MELBOURNE FROM THE SOUTH SIDE OF THE YARRA YARRA, 1839" An 1881 reprint, attractively framed and mounted, 40 x 55cm overall. Login to bid Estimate$120 - $200Orig. Starting Price$100 Lot #1230 RICHARDS, Thomas, "New South Wales in 1881: Being a Brief and Descriptive Account of the Colony Up to the End of the Year, Extracted Chiefly from Official Records.", [Sydney : Government Printer, 1882], v, 144pp + adverts at rear; 1 large folding map and 2 folding tables; appendices; original boards, replaced blank endpapers. Login to bid Estimate$100 - $150Orig. Starting Price$80 Lot #1231 EDWARD CURR, "RECOLLECTIONS OF SQUATTING IN VICTORIA Then Called the Port Phillip District (from 1841 to 1851)", [Melbourne : George Robertson, 1st edition], Octavo, folding coloured map, original cloth with calf spine and corners, gilt. First and only complete edition of Curr’s celebrated memoirs of Port Phillip squatting life in the 1840s. Ferguson, 8878. Ex Library stamp to label affixed to inside front cover only. Login to bid Estimate$200 - $300Orig. Starting Price$160 Lot #1232 Alfred McFARLAND, "MUTINY in the BOUNTY and Story of the Pitcairn Islanders", [SYDNEY : J.J. Moore, n.d. but 1884; 1st ed.], 240pp+ advert; original blue cloth, highly decorated in gilt; engraving of the "Bounty at Otaheite" with hand-written dedication to Captain Archibald Fletcher for Christmas 1884 and later ownership handstamp. Captain Archibald Fletcher (1829-1905) was a highly esteemed 19th-century master mariner who played a significant role in Australian coastal shipping, most notably t Login to bid Estimate$120 - $200Orig. Starting Price$100 Lot #1233 THE PICTURESQUE ATLAS OF AUSTRALASIA: Vols 1-3, edited by Andrew Garran, published 1886 by the Picturesque Atlas Publishing Company, Sydney/Melbourne; full morocco folios with embossed gilt boards and lettering to spine. (3 items) Login to bid Quantity3Estimate$150 - $200Orig. Starting Price$120 Lot #1234 A group of hardcover books comprising 1886 "Australian Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil" by Willoughby, 1910 "Australia Painted By Percy F.S. Spece" by Fox, 1927 "A Brief History of Canberra, the capital city of Australia" by Watson, and 1952 "Stones of a Century" by Sharland. (4 items) Login to bid Quantity4Estimate$150 - $200Orig. Starting Price$120 Lot #1235 ARCHDUKE LUDWIG SALVATOR OF AUSTRIA, "Hobart Town oder Sommerfrische in den Antipoden" ("Hobart Town, or a long summer holiday in the Antipodes"), original 1886 German-language first edition published anonymously in Prague by Heinrich Mercy; map and all 23 plates present, 284pp., striking gilt title to spine. Login to bid Estimate$500 - $750Orig. Starting Price$400 Lot #1236 "THE AUCTIONEERS' GAZETTE" Melbourne, 1st December, 1886; first edition of an eight-page weekly newspaper, published during the height of the 1880s Victorian Land Boom. Overall 38 x 25cm. By 1886, Melbourne was rapidly expanding into "Marvellous Melbourne," driven by intense real estate speculation, suburban subdivision, and massive public infrastructure investments. The first edition carries large notices for the "Paradise Estate" at Essendon, 171 Shop & Residence Sites in Richmond.. Login to bid Estimate$150 - $250Orig. Starting Price$120 Lot #1237 "LIFE - AUSTRALIAN TIT-BITS - FUN - FACT - FICTION" edition No.14, 30 September, 1886; 16-page illustrated weekly, printed and published by John Florance Williams, Queen St., Melbourne. Overall 38 x 28cm. Wonderful illustrations and advertisements, news, theatre reviews, opinions. Login to bid Estimate$150 - $250Orig. Starting Price$120 Lot #1238 "LIFE - AUSTRALIAN TIT-BITS - FUN - FACT - FICTION" edition No.15, 7 October, 1886; 16-page illustrated weekly, printed and published by John Florance Williams, Queen St., Melbourne. Overall 38 x 28cm. "The tour of the Australian Eleven (cricket team to England) has not proved a financial success. So says a recent cablegram. In what way, then, has it been a success? From a cricketing point, or from a banquestting aspect? It ought not to take you long to answer that." Login to bid Estimate$150 - $250Orig. Starting Price$120Current starting$120 (1 bid) Lot #1239 Convict period cloth covered book titled Fables in French (FABLES CHOISIES: A l'usage des ENFANS, et Des autres Personnes qui commencent à apprendre La Langue Françoise), published in 1786, inscribed with ownership details inside and out "JOHN WILLIS VDL" (Van Diemen's Land). Login to bid Estimate$100 - $200Orig. Starting Price$80 Lot #1240 "ORIENT LINE OF THE ROYAL MAIL STEAMSHIPS. BETWEEN ENGLAND AND AUSTRALIA" Attractive tri-fold pictorial card brochure with timetable, passenger listing, ship specs, destinations, map etc., dated July, 1887. Login to bid Estimate$120 - $200Orig. Starting Price$100 Lot #1241 WITHERS, "The History of Ballarat, from the First Pastoral Settlement to the Present Time" second edition with two folding panoramas and original gilt pictorial cloth [Ballarat; F.W. Niven, 1887], 362pp. Login to bid Estimate$150 - $200Orig. Starting Price$120 Lot #1242 Charles D. FERGUSON, "THE EXPERIENCES OF A FORTY-NINER During Thirty-four Years’ Residence in California and Australia.", [CLEVELAND : The Williams Publishing Co., 1888, 1st ed.], Octavo, 507pp, black + white frontispiece and full-page illustrations, original decorated brown cloth; new blank end papers. Covers both the American and Australian gold rushes, and one of very few published accounts of the Eureka Stockade Rebellion by a participant. Ferguson, 9584. Login to bid Estimate$150 - $200Orig. Starting Price$120 Lot #1243 "Systematic Account of the Geology of Tasmania by Robert M. Johnston", printed 1888 by William Thomas Strutt (Hobart), 408pp.; fold-out map of Tasmania, two fold-out geological cross-sections, and many plates (incl. portraits of King Billy and Truganini) hand-tinted or otherwise; original spine, non-original boards. Login to bid Estimate$500 - $750Orig. Starting Price$400 Condition ReportMap of Tasmania unfortunately has one tear. Lot #1244 "CASSELL'S PICTURESQUE AUSTRALASIA", edited by E.E. Morris, an early edition in four volumes, each with bound note reading "THIS EDITION Is specially prepared for Subscription only, and is not obtainable through the general Booksellers. - CASSELL & COMPANY, Limited."; all volumes with matching gilt lyrebird and title to spine. Login to bid Estimate$200 - $300Orig. Starting Price$160 Lot #1245 CARL LUMHOLTZ "Among Cannibals - An Account of Four Years' Travels in Australia and of Camp Life with the Aborigines of Queensland", [1889, John Murray, Albemarle Street, London], gilt-stamped cloth covers, 395pp, complete with all twenty-nine plates and two folding coloured maps; first edition of the English translation from the Norwegian. Login to bid Estimate$400 - $600Orig. Starting Price$320 Lot #1246 HAMILTON RACING CLUB stunning hand-painted illuminated presentation folder in gilt embossed scarlet leather, presented to D. A. Skene Esq., July 1887, signed by the president, vice-president and the secretary. Crafted by W. N. Lansley of Ballarat. 43 x 36cm overall. Login to bid Estimate$120 - $200Orig. Starting Price$100Current starting$100 (1 bid) Lot #1247 QUEENSLAND'S NEED FOR IMMIGRANTS IN THE 1890s: Two original watercolour artworks on boards, prepared for display at an Exhibition (probably in London), illustrating the abundance of farming production that could be generated in the young Colony of Queensland: "Harvesting The Pine Apples - Queensland" (initialled "AP" at left), and "Harvesting - Darling Downs.", each 36 x 46cm and accompanied by their original hand-written labels. (2). Login to bid Estimate$600 - $800Orig. Starting Price$500 Lot #1248 SHERRIN & WALLACE, "Early History of New Zealand - From Earliest Times To 1840, By R. A. A. Sherrin. From 1840 To 1845, By J. H. Wallace.", [AUCKLAND : H. Brett], large quarto, coloured frontis of a Fern Gully, 728pp, xliii (i); full modern green calf, gilt titles and raised bands to spine; replaced blank end papers. Login to bid Estimate$100 - $150Orig. Starting Price$80 Lot #1249 AUSTRALIA ILLUSTRATED 8 vol. hardcover with gilt embossed coat of arms and pictorial floral boards, housing a selection of plates including examples by Nicolas Chevalier and John Skinner Prout, several loose, with some foxing present. Login to bid Quantity8Estimate$120 - $200Orig. Starting Price$100 Lot #1250 "THE BLADE", Vol.1, No.2, Friday, December 5, 1890; eight-page illustrated newspaper, printed by H.W. Mills for C.E. Jones at Melbourne Place, Russell Street. With the sub-heading "Bench, Parliament, and Press", overall 45 x 29cm. Fascinating reading and comic illustrations. We can find no reference to the existence of this publication. Login to bid Estimate$150 - $250Orig. Starting Price$120 Lot #1251 [AUSTRALIANA & BOOKS] A shelf of books including "Pioneers in Australasia" by Johnston (c.1912); "Old Books, Old Friends, Old Sydney" by Tyrrell (1952); "Early Melbourne Architecture" by Sumberlege (1953); "Bibliomania" by Mackaness (1965); "A Book Collector's Notes" by Davidson (1970), and others. (Total: 11 vols.). Login to bid Estimate$200 - $300Orig. Starting Price$160 Lot #1252 HOGAN, "The Convict King, being the Life and Adventures of Jorgen Jorgenson..." [London; Ward & Downey, 1891], 235pp.; red cloth boards with embossed floral pattern, gilt text to spine. Login to bid Estimate$100 - $150Orig. Starting Price$80 Lot #1253 George Collins LEVEY, "The Handy Guide to Australasia, including New Zealand, Fiji and New Guinea, its Resources, Physical Features, and Indebtedness, with the Tariffs of the Various Colonies, and a Complete List of British Firms Transacting Business with Australia" with fold-out map [London; Hutchinson & Co., 1891], 408pp.; bound in red cloth with gilt text to cover and spine. Login to bid Estimate$150 - $200Orig. Starting Price$120 Lot #1254 WILLIAM HANSON, "Geographical Encyclopaedia of New South Wales, including the Counties, Towns and Villages within the colony.....With a map and diagram of light-houses on the coast.", [Sydney : Charles Potter, Government Printer], 1892; with a folding map and diagram of light-houses on the coast. 462pp + adverts.; blue leather binding with gilt text and highlights. Ex library. Published for the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893. Login to bid Estimate$100 - $200Orig. Starting Price$80 Lot #1255 George WHITFIELD and Albert BLAKELOCK, "Our Diary. 1891 - 1892", two large quarto typed manuscript volumes, full leather bindings (with Wooderspoon & Co., Lincoln's Inn labels), marbled endpapers, gilt titles and decoration to spines. A most entertaining unpublished account of Englishmen travelling in the United States, Japan, China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Ceylon, India, Australia, New Zealand, then on to Aden, Suez, Egypt, the Holyland, and then home. Login to bid Estimate$200 - $400Orig. Starting Price$160 Lot #1256 A diverse group of Australian ephemera including 1894 Victoria Education Department teacher examination report ("Result: Failure"), 1920 Commonwealth of Australia Prospectus of the Second Peace Loan, 1940 Leichhardt Patriotic and War Service Fund urgent donation appeal, 1963 Lalor ALP How to Vote card, and 1964 Broadcast Listener's Licence, together with some silk cigarette cards and c. 1900s greeting cards. (qty.) Login to bid Estimate$100 - $150Orig. Starting Price$80 Lot #1257 JAMES BACKHOUSE WALKER, "Abel Janszoon Tasman: His Life and Voyages, Read before the Royal Society of Tasmania, 25th November, 1895" [Hobart; William Grahame, 1896], iv + 56pp.; four maps loosely inserted; a scarce pamphlet, since bound in brown leather with gilt title to spine. Login to bid Estimate$200 - $250Orig. Starting Price$160 Lot #1258 "A Hand-Book to the Marsupialia and Monotremata" by Richard Lydekker [London; Edward Lloyd, 1896], 320pp. with 38 colour plates; gilt edging, quarter leather binding (worn). Login to bid Estimate$100 - $150Orig. Starting Price$80 Lot #1259 "THE COLLECTIVIST - A Monthly Magazine Published by The Australian Socialist League." Sydney, November 1, 1897; Edition No.1; printed by the Metropolitan Printing Co., Central Arcade.; 4 pages, overall 44 x 28.5cm. The standalone monthly run survived for less than a year, merging with the "Northern People" in 1898 to form "The People and the Collectivist" in 1900 and under other names in later years. Login to bid Estimate$150 - $250Orig. Starting Price$120 Lot #1260 "THE ADVANCE AUSTRALIA" Journal, Vol.1, No.1, January 26, 1897; a 16-page monthly newspaper "devoted to Australian National Advancement and circulating in the Australian Natives' Association throughout the Australian Commonwealth"; overall 44 x 28cm. Edited and published in Melbourne by Frederick Davison, containing many local advertisements, sporting news and results, news from the war between Russia and Turkey, the fitness of Cardinal Moran for a seat in the forthcoming Federal Convention, etc Login to bid Estimate$100 - $150Orig. Starting Price$80 Lot #1261 A.S. MURRAY: A group of 1898 window-mounted chromolithographs, all 39 x 47.5cm overall, comprising "The Wharf at Echuca", "A View Near Mildura", "A Flooded Track Near the River", "A Long Reach of the River in the Evening Light", and "A View Near Koondrook". (5 items). Login to bid Quantity5Estimate$150 - $200Orig. Starting Price$120 Lot #1262 "BROOKS'S AUSTRALIAN XMAS ANNUAL" No.1, December 1898; printed by WM. BROOKS & Co., Sydney; 36pp + colour lithographic covers; overall 35.5 x 24cm. This inaugural edition is most notable for being the first publication of "Saltbush Bill's Gamecock" by "Banjo" Paterson (with illustrations by George Lambert), along with written or artistic contributions by A.H. Fullwood, Henry Lawson, Sydney Carton, Julian Ashton, W.B. Beattie, D.H. Souter, and others. Login to bid Estimate$150 - $250Orig. Starting Price$120 Lot #1263 "THE NEW ERA", Melbourne, May 6, 1899, 4-page newspaper, Edition No.1, printed and published by John Thom, Park Street, North Carlton; overall 45 x 27cm. With news about socialist movements, worker's rights, equal opportunity for women, Congresses, etc., from all over the world, with several articles about local events and issues. We have found no other examples of this publication. Login to bid Estimate$150 - $250Orig. Starting Price$120 Lot #1264 "THE NEW ERA", Melbourne, May 6, 1899; 4-page newspaper printed and published by John Thom, Park St., North Carlton; overall 44.5 x 28cm. A socialist newspaper, with news from around the world but with a particular focus on Victorian and Melbourne news and advertisers. There do not appear to be any other surviving examples. Login to bid Estimate$150 - $250Orig. Starting Price$120 Lot #1265 An accumulation of Victorian ephemera related to a young woman with the surname Nicholson, including letters, pages of advertising, railway tickets, cigarette cards (7 x 1917 MacRobertson "Sports of the World), photographs, invitations, telegraphs, keys, and more; localities mentioned in the correspondence include Albury, Bairnsdale, Brighton, Collingwood, Cowes, Fitzroy, Maldon, and Mansfield; needs work. (qty.) Login to bid Estimate$200 - $300Orig. Starting Price$160 Lot #1266 Albert F. CALVERT, "My Fourth Tour in Western Australia", Illustrated by Walker Hodgson and from Photographs, [London: Dean & Son, 1901 2nd edition]. Red cloth; quarto; 359 pp + adverts at back. Login to bid Estimate$150 - $200Orig. Starting Price$120 Lot #1267 KENNEDY, "The Black Police of Queensland - Reminiscences of Official Work and Personal Adventures in the Early Days of the Colony" [London; John Murray, 1902], 280pp. with 20 plates; maroon cloth boards with gilt text to spine and cover, embossed eucalypt motif on cover. Login to bid Estimate$150 - $200Orig. Starting Price$120 Lot #1268 "Tasmanian Government Railways - Illustrated Guide to Tasmania, the Holiday Resort of Australia" [Launceston; The Examiner and Weekly Courier Offices, 1903], oblong quarto, 60pp., addenda page and colour fold-out map present; original printed pictorial cloth boards. Login to bid Estimate$100 - $150Orig. Starting Price$80 Lot #1269 James SMITH (ed.), "The Cyclopedia of Victoria", [Melbourne : F.W. Niven & Co., 1903-05], Three volumes, quarto, with numerous photographic illustrations; original half roan. Login to bid Estimate$400 - $500Orig. Starting Price$320 Lot #1270 MARTIN BRENNAN, "Reminiscences of the Gold Fields" [Sydney; William Brooks & Co., 1907 1st ed.], 340pp.; red cloth boards (worn) with gilt title to cover and spine; marbled edges faded. Login to bid Estimate$200 - $250Orig. Starting Price$160 Lot #1271 [LAUNCESTON INTEREST] A 1908-15 17 x 10.5cm "Hart & Co." ledger documenting mail deliveries and vegetable orders from various members of the local community; many surnames such as Bayles, Gatenby, and Leedham present; 60+ pages of densely formatted notes; "One of the men working at the Bridge...living in the wash house at rental of 3/- per week 25/9/13...cleared out and never paid up", "Filled in and forwarded War Census card (personal) 13-9-15". Login to bid Estimate$150 - $200Orig. Starting Price$120 Lot #1272 Frank LITTLER, "A Handbook of the Birds of Tasmania and its Dependencies" [Launceston; The Author, 1910]; 242pp., with all 42 plates present; additional original blank Frank M. Littler subscription form loosely inserted. Login to bid Estimate$300 - $400Orig. Starting Price$240 Lot #1273 AUSTRALIAN FLORA & FAUNA: A group of books including hardcovers with dust jackets; noted 1910 "A Handbook of the Birds of Tasmania and its Dependencies" by Littler, 1999 "The Huon Pine Story" by Kerr & McDermott, and 2001 "Tasmania's Offshore Islands: Seabirds and other natural features" by Brothers. (7 items) Login to bid Quantity7Estimate$250 - $350Orig. Starting Price$200 Lot #1274 JOHN SHIRLOW (1869-1936) SKETCHBOOK. Fascinating hardcover inscribed and dated in the artist's hand "John Shirlow April 28th, 1910". Containing plentiful pencil and pen drawings and sketches, including Melbourne city scenes. Inspection will reward. Login to bid Estimate$600 - $1,000Orig. Starting Price$500 Lot #1275 "PHILIPS' PLANISPHERE Showing The Principal Stars Visible For Every Hour In The Year From Lat .35° South", together with publication "AN EASY GUIDE TO SOUTHERN STARS", (2 items). Login to bid Quantity2Estimate$120 - $200Orig. Starting Price$100 Lot #1276 A group of early-20th century books regarding Tasmania, mostly clothbound hardcovers; noted 1913 "The Tasmanian History of Australian Exploration" by Long, 1921 "Tasmania's War Record 1914-1918" by Broinowski, and 1935 "T.H. Huxley's Diary of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake". (10 items) Login to bid Quantity10Estimate$200 - $250Orig. Starting Price$160Current starting$160 (1 bid) Lot #1277 A group of reports of the Melbourne Harbor Trust Commissioners, covering the years 1914, 1916, 1917, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1929 (2), and 1931, plus one other report; all bound in cloth, with gilt details to covers and spine. (10 items) Login to bid Quantity10Estimate$150 - $200Orig. Starting Price$120 Lot #1278 "Handbook of Tasmania, issued by the Government of Tasmania, with Two Hundred and Sixty-Five Illustrations and Three Maps", second edition [Hobart; John Vail Government Printer, 1914], 499pp. Login to bid Estimate$150 - $200Orig. Starting Price$120Current starting$120 (1 bid) Lot #1279 "Hughes and his Views - Compiled for the benefit of Mr Hughes by his best friend Frank Anstey", circa 1916, 4-page satirical political pamphlet written and compiled by prominent left-wing Australian Labor Party politician, Frank Anstey. It targeted the sitting Prime Minister of Australia, William Morris "Billy" Hughes, during the height of the bitter World War I conscription debates. Overall 44 x 28cm. Login to bid Estimate$150 - $250Orig. Starting Price$120 Lot #1280 A group of books comprising 1916 "History of the Australian Bushrangers" by Boxall, 1936 Banjo Paterson "The Shearer's Colt" (1st ed. hardcover), and 1954 "Air War Against Germany and Italy 1939-1943" by Herington (1st ed.). (3 items) Login to bid Quantity3Estimate$100 - $150Orig. Starting Price$80 Lot #1281 Charles Arrowsmith BERNAYS (1862 - 1940), "Queensland Politics During Sixty (1859 - 1919) Years", [Brisbane : A.J. Cumming, 1919 1st ed.]; 564pp; black leather binding. Login to bid Estimate$100 - $200Orig. Starting Price$80 Lot #1282 A shelf of early-20th century hardcover books on Australian topics; noted 1920 "Conrad Martens - The Man and his Art" by Lindsay, 1921 "The Rabbit Pest in Australia, with Chapters on Foxes, Dingoes, Wombats, the Fences Act of Victoria, and Noxious Weeds" by Matthams, and 1939 "Diseases of Poultry in New South Wales" by Hungerford. (19 items) Login to bid Quantity19Estimate$300 - $500Orig. Starting Price$240 Lot #1283 PLAYING CARDS: Three different complete early-20th century decks (comprising W.R. Rolph & Sons "Tasmanian Souvenir Playing Cards" with Tasmanian Devil as joker (!), "Valentine - Australian Views", and one other), mostly featuring monochrome photographic images of Australian scenes; all three decks offered with maker's boxes. (164 cards total, incl. spares) Login to bid Quantity3Estimate$150 - $200Orig. Starting Price$120 Items per page 102550100 Previous|1...1011121314151617|Next1234567891011121314151617 Previous 1234567891011121314151617 Next Previous 1234567891011121314151617 Next
