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 1101-1200 of 1671. Previous|1...1011121314151617|Next Lot #1083 TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION: Original silver gelatin photograph, 16.5 x 11.5cm, numbered '5' in pencil in Herbert Ponting's hand, known to have been titled by Ponting "Evening sky effect in Pack. Dec 9th 1910". Condition ReportHoused in block mount but not affixed in any way. Showing a slight degree of oxidisation. No bends, creases, folds or any other faults. Provenance: Originally purchased as a collection from a U.S. based auction house by the current vendor, a private collector, Melbourne. Login to bid Estimate$400 - $600Orig. Starting Price$300 Lot #1084 TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION: Original silver gelatin photograph, 16.5 x 12cm, numbered '76' in pencil in Herbert Ponting's hand, known to have been titled by Ponting "End of the Barrier. Jan. 3rd 1911.". Condition ReportHoused in block mount but not affixed in any way. Showing a slight degree of oxidisation. No bends, creases, folds or any other faults. Provenance: Originally purchased as a collection from a U.S. based auction house by the current vendor, a private collector, Melbourne. Login to bid Estimate$400 - $600Orig. Starting Price$300 Lot #1085 TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION: Original silver gelatin photograph, 9.5 x 11.5cm, numbered 'A191' in pencil in Herbert Ponting's hand, known to have been titled by Ponting "Lieut Wilfrid Bruce". Condition ReportHoused in block mount but not affixed in any way. Showing a slight degree of oxidisation. No bends, creases, folds or any other faults. Provenance: Originally purchased as a collection from a U.S. based auction house by the current vendor, a private collector, Melbourne. Login to bid Estimate$400 - $600Orig. Starting Price$300 Lot #1086 TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION: Original silver gelatin photograph, 16.5 x 11.5cm, numbered '249' in pencil in Herbert Ponting's hand, known to have been titled by Ponting "Mirage of Cape Barne & Barne Glacier". Condition ReportHoused in block mount but not affixed in any way. Showing a slight degree of oxidisation. No bends, creases, folds or any other faults. Provenance: Originally purchased as a collection from a U.S. based auction house by the current vendor, a private collector, Melbourne. Login to bid Estimate$400 - $600Orig. Starting Price$300 Lot #1087 TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION: Original silver gelatin photograph, 16.5 x 11.5cm, numbered '387' in pencil in Herbert Ponting's hand, known to have been titled by Ponting "Hut Point and Vince's Cross, looking South. November 4th 1911". Condition ReportHoused in block mount but not affixed in any way. Showing a slight degree of oxidisation. No bends, creases, folds or any other faults. Provenance: Originally purchased as a collection from a U.S. based auction house by the current vendor, a private collector, Melbourne. Login to bid Estimate$400 - $600Orig. Starting Price$300 Lot #1088 TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION: Original silver gelatin photograph, 16.5 x 11cm, numbered '430' in pencil in Herbert Ponting's hand, known to have been titled by Ponting "Cloud effect on the Sea from Cape Royds". Condition ReportHoused in block mount but not affixed in any way. Showing a slight degree of oxidisation. No bends, creases, folds or any other faults. Provenance: Originally purchased as a collection from a U.S. based auction house by the current vendor, a private collector, Melbourne. Login to bid Estimate$400 - $600Orig. Starting Price$300 Lot #1089 TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION: Original silver gelatin photograph, 16.5 x 11.5cm, numbered '458' in pencil in Herbert Ponting's hand, known to have been titled by Ponting "Beautiful Cirrus Clouds, over the Barne Glacier. December 19th 1911". Condition ReportHoused in block mount but not affixed in any way. Showing a slight degree of oxidisation. No bends, creases, folds or any other faults. Provenance: Originally purchased as a collection from a U.S. based auction house by the current vendor, a private collector, Melbourne. Login to bid Estimate$400 - $600Orig. Starting Price$300 Lot #1090 TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION: Original silver gelatin photograph, 11.5 x 16.5cm, numbered '531' in pencil in Herbert Ponting's hand, known to have been titled by Ponting "On the ice, sky effect". Condition ReportHoused in block mount but not affixed in any way. Showing a slight degree of oxidisation. No bends, creases, folds or any other faults. Provenance: Originally purchased as a collection from a U.S. based auction house by the current vendor, a private collector, Melbourne. Login to bid Estimate$400 - $600Orig. Starting Price$300 Lot #1091 AUSTRALIAN ONE-SHEET MOVIE POSTERS: Group comprising 1964 "La Ronde", 1966 Dean Martin "Murderer's Row", 1967 Peter Sellers "Casino Royale", 1968 Jerry Lewis "Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the Water", 1969 "Ring of Bright Water", 1970 "A Man Called Sledge", 1970 "The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun", 1970 "The Reckoning", 1972 Sydney Poitier "Buck and the Preacher", and 1973 Yuri Ozerov "The Great Battle"; approximately 68 x 100cm. (10 items). Login to bid Quantity10Estimate$200 - $300Orig. Starting Price$160 Lot #1092 AUSTRALIAN ONE-SHEET MOVIE POSTERS: Group comprising 1966 Dean Martin "Murderer's Row", 1970 "The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun", 1970 "The Reckoning", 1970 "A Man Called Sledge", 1970 "The Liberation of L.B. Jones", 1971 Omar Sharif "The Horsemen", 1972 Hammer Films "Creatures the World Forgot", 1972 "Reflection of Fear", 1972 "The Amazing Mr Blunden", and 1972 "The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe"; approximately 68 x 100cm. (10 items). Login to bid Quantity10Estimate$150 - $200Orig. Starting Price$120 Lot #1093 DAYBILL POSTERS: Group comprising 1967 "The Taming of the Shrew", 1968 "The Odd Couple", 1969 "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang", 1972 "Round the Bend", 1972 "Mutiny on the Buses", 1973 "Jesus Christ Superstar", 1975 "Sunday Too Far Away", 1975 "Naturally Free", 1976 "A Star is Born", and 1976 "Chaplin Does It To You Again". (10 items) Login to bid Estimate$200 - $250Orig. Starting Price$160 Lot #1094 AUSTRALIAN ONE-SHEET MOVIE POSTERS: Group comprising 1967 Truman's Capote's "In Cold Blood", 1967 "The Tiger-r-r-r-r Makes Out", 1969 Jerry Lewis "Hook, Line & Sinker", 1970 "The Liberation of L.B. Jones", 1970 "Getting Straight", 1971 "Bless the Beasts and Children", 1971 "Doctors' Wives", 1971 "Happy Birthday, Wanda June", 1971 Omar Sharif "The Horsemen", and 1972 "The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe"; approximately 68 x 100 cm. (10 items). Login to bid Quantity10Estimate$200 - $300Orig. Starting Price$160 Lot #1095 THE ITALIAN JOB: Rare 1969 Australian market one-sheet poster by Robert Burton (Sydney); folded, but with no losses to the actual image; 101 x 68cm. Login to bid Estimate$500 - $750Orig. Starting Price$400 Lot #1096 RAQUEL WELCH: "Hannie Caulder" original 1971 Australian daybill poster; very fine condition. Login to bid Estimate$200 - $300Orig. Starting Price$160Current starting$160 (1 bid) Lot #1097 ELVIS PRESLEY: "Elvis on Tour in Multiple-Screen" original 1972 Australian daybill poster; very fine condition. Login to bid Estimate$200 - $300Orig. Starting Price$160 Lot #1098 BRUCE LEE: "The Way of the Dragon" original 1973 Australian daybill poster; very fine condition. Login to bid Estimate$300 - $500Orig. Starting Price$240 Lot #1099 NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT: A group of 1980s political posters, comprising "Hiroshima Day Rally...Parliament House, Spring Street", "Remember Hiroshima Rally...Myer Music Bowl", "Energy Walk for a safe energy future...Edinburgh Gardens Fitzroy", "Jean Melzer for the Senate - Vote 1 Nuclear Disarmament Party", and "Conference Against the Threat of War...Storey Hall, RMIT"; mixed condition, the largest 43 x 60cm. (5 items) Login to bid Quantity5Estimate$300 - $500Orig. Starting Price$240 Lot #1100 CONCERT POSTERS: A group of c. 1980 posters comprising Early Kookas, Ovarian Sisters "Beat Your Breasts in concert, Swanston St. Storey Hall" (2), "Anzac Concert...The Bushwackers/Redgum/Eric Bogle/John Derum...Festival Hall", and Margret Roadknight/Jeannie Lewis/Elizabeth Drake/Jan Cornall/Janie Conway "All Together Now"; mixed condition, the largest 57 x 45cm. (5 items) Login to bid Quantity5Estimate$250 - $350Orig. Starting Price$200 Lot #1101 NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT: A group of 1980s political posters, comprising "This is a Nuclear Free Zone", "Remember Hiroshima Rally...Myer Music Bowl", "Jean Melzer for the Senate - Vote 1 Nuclear Disarmament Party" (2), "Conference Against the Threat of War...Storey Hall, RMIT", and "International Women's Festival, March 7-10, 1980"; mixed condition, the largest 57 x 41cm. (6 items) Login to bid Quantity6Estimate$250 - $350Orig. Starting Price$200 Lot #1102 NED KELLY: A group of posters related to the 1980 centenary of Kelly's last stand at Glenrowan, comprising "Ned Kelly Centenary Festival - Winton, Victoria...The Great Australian Family Weekend!" by New Chum Promotions (2), and "Ned Kelly - One Hundred Years A Hero - Souvenir E.P. Record" by Released On Bail Records; the largest 61 x 38cm. (3 items) Login to bid Quantity3Estimate$150 - $200Orig. Starting Price$120 Lot #1103 A collection mostly consisting of 1980s-90s movie posters (also some Melbourne sporting interest), all with Australian classification ratings; titles include Bloodsport, Exit to Eden, Jumanji (3), Maverick, Ready or Not, and Wyatt Earp; generally good to very good condition, the largest 100 x 70cm. (19 items) Login to bid Estimate$100 - $150Orig. Starting Price$80 Lot #1105 AUSTRALIAN FLORA & FAUNA: A collection of early-20th century postcards, including several artist groupings and series; noted J.M. Cantle (18), Neville Cayley (4), "Ferns of Australasia", "Australian Series" and two bird-feather types, (approximately 52 items). Login to bid Quantity52Estimate$120 - $200Orig. Starting Price$100 Lot #1106 RAILWAYS & BRIDGES: A collection of early-20th century postcards, mostly RPs; noted "Junee Railway Station", "The New Station, Beerburrum, Queensland", and several views of derailments; publishers include Clark, Empire, Kodak Austral, Rose, and Valentines. Mixed condition. (35 incl. Court-size examples) Login to bid Quantity35Estimate$150 - $200Orig. Starting Price$120 Lot #1107 BLUE MOUNTAINS & SYDNEY: A collection of early-20th century RP and artist postcards, including attractive series such as "Old Sydney"; noted "Leura Cascades Floodlit", "Main Street, Katoomba", and "Zig Zag Blue Mountains"; publishers include Beagles, Fowler, H.&B., Kodak Austral, Phillips, and Valentine. Artists noted include Fullwood, Fisher, Lister Lister and Riches, (95 items). Login to bid Quantity95Estimate$150 - $200Orig. Starting Price$120 Lot #1108 AUSTRALIAN POSTCARDS: A diverse early-20th century collection including comic types featuring Koalas and Kangaroo mothers, and views of Tasmania (26) by Ash Bester, plus 15 items of early postal stationery; artists include Phil May, Harold Stephens (series of three), and George Taylor. Mixed condition. (69 items) Login to bid Quantity69Estimate$150 - $200Orig. Starting Price$120 Lot #1109 SHIPPING - AUSTRALIA: A collection of early 20th century postcards; noted a series of ten Australasian United Steam Navigation Co. cards, paddle steamers on the Murray, and many 1908 United States Fleet visit types including the NSW 1d Postal card; publishers include Reiners, Edco, Kerry, Graphic, Harding & Billing, Kodak Austral, and Tuck. (34, incl. one modern). Login to bid Quantity34Estimate$150 - $200Orig. Starting Price$120 Lot #1110 OVERSIZED & PANORAMIC POSTCARDS - AUSTRALIA: An early-20th century collection, mostly RPs; noted a series of four "Stuart Jamieson Bros Alphington Photo Series Giant Postcard" (Healesville, Marysville), Hobart and Launceston Panoramics, Martin Place, and H.R.H. Prince of Wales; the largest 28 x 16.5cm; plus a group of seven photographs of similar size and subject. (19 items). Login to bid Quantity19Estimate$250 - $300Orig. Starting Price$200 Lot #1111 LIFE IN THE BUSH - LANDSCAPES & BUSHRANGERS: A group of early-20th century postcards, including several artist groupings; noted Hutchings (5), MacInnes (9), and J.A. Turner (9), as well as a "Starlight" and two "Thunderbolt Series". (37 cards) Login to bid Quantity37Estimate$250 - $300Orig. Starting Price$200 Lot #1112 AUSTRALIA - MILITARY & PATRIOTIC: A collection of early-20th century postcards, including many RPs; noted "Australian despatch riders firing from cover", "Australian Hospital, Harefield Park, Midx.", a Tuck "Advance Australia" card with integrated vinyl record, and a series of eleven Australian Comforts' Fund cards; publishers include Champion Tobacco, Kodak Austral, Rose, Ward Lock & Co., and others. (59 items) Login to bid Quantity59Estimate$200 - $250Orig. Starting Price$160 Lot #1113 AUSTRALIAN AVIATION: A small group including several postcards (noted 1919 Poulet and Benoist with their aircraft), and other ephemera. (10 items) Login to bid Quantity9Estimate$100 - $150Orig. Starting Price$80 Lot #1114 EARLY AUSTRALIAN BICYCLING: A fascinating collection of early-20th century postcards, mostly RPs, plus three small photographs; noted "Starters, Dunlop Warrnambool to Melbourne road race - 1908", Norwood "League of Wheelmen" arrayed on their bicycles, "H.A. Tipper, great Australian Champion...rides smallest bicycle in the world", "Fred Giles from Australia, cycle touring the world", nine South Melbourne Cycling Club cards, and more; mostly Kodak Austral and Empire types. (20 items) Login to bid Quantity20Estimate$200 - $300Orig. Starting Price$160 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. 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$240Current starting$240 (1 bid) 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 Items per page 102550100 Previous|1...1011121314151617|Next1234567891011121314151617 Previous 1234567891011121314151617 Next Previous 1234567891011121314151617 Next
