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A U S T R ALI A N B OO AUSTRALIAN K A UCTI O N S BOOK AUCTIONS Monday 21st - Tuesday 22nd August 2017 Monday 21st - Tuesday AUSTRALIAN BOOK AUCTIONS ABA0087 Monday 21st August, 2017, at 6.30pm Tuesday 22nd August, 2017, at 11.30am AUSTRALIAN BOOK AUCTIONS AUSTRALIAN BOOK AUCTIONS PTY. LTD. A.B.N. 60 088 582 030 A.C.N. 088 582 030 Barbara Hince, Director Jonathan Wantrup, Director Dr Gavin De Lacy, General Manager Tony Long, Director CorporateAffairs GALLERY AND SALEROOM: 909 High Street, Armadale, Victoria, 3143 TELEPHONE: (+61) 03 9822 4522 FACSIMILE: ( +61) 03 9822 6873 EMAIL: [email protected] WEB ADDRESS: www.australianbookauctions.com Front: Lot 40 Back Cover: Lot 54 AUSTRALIAN BOOK AUCTIONS BOOKS AND DOCUMENTS Featuring books, ephemera &c. from the collection of Brian McDonald, historian of the bushrangers, and on behalf of other private vendors, comprising Important Books, Voyages and Travels, Literature and Art, Fishing, &c., and an extensive collection of Australiana. To be sold by auction in two sessions Monday 21st August 2017 at 6.30 pm Tuesday 22nd August 2017 at 11.30 am At Australian Book Auctions Gallery 909 High Street, Armadale, Victoria Telephone (+61) 03 9822 4522 Facsimile (+61) 03 9822 6873 Email [email protected] www.australianbookauctions.com On View At the Gallery, 909 High Street, Armadale, Victoria Friday 18th August from 10.00 am to 4.00 pm Saturday 19th August from 10.00 am to 4.00 pm Monday 21st August from 10.00 am to 4.00 pm Catalogue Price: $33.00 Important Information for Buyers Registration and Buyer’s numbers payment is made by credit card, an additional charge of The auction will be conducted using Buyer’s 1.1% will be added to your invoice to cover bank fees numbers. All prospective bidders are asked to register and charges. and collect a Buyer’s number before the sale. Condition of lots Buyer’s premium All lots are sold “as is”, in accordance with clauses 6a- Please note that a Buyer’s premium of 19.8% f of the Conditions of Business, and Australian Book (inclusive of Goods and Services Tax) of the hammer Auctions makes no representation as to the condition of price on each lot is payable by the buyer. any lot. Buyers should satisfy themselves as to the Absentee bidding and Telephone bidding condition of any lot before the sale. As a convenience to buyers who are unable to attend Every attempt is made to describe all lots accurately in the auction in person, Australian Book Auctions will, the catalogue but condition of lots is not generally if so instructed in writing at least 24 hours before the noted. sale, execute bids on behalf of prospective buyers. Where a note describing the condition of any lot is Absentee bids can only be accepted on the included in the catalogue this is intended as general appropriate form fully completed (the form is to be guidance only for intending buyers who should satisfy found at the end of this catalogue). Absentee bids themselves as to the condition of any lot or as to any cannot be accepted by telephone unless confirmed in other matter affecting the value of any lot before the writing. sale, either by personal inspection or by obtaining any In the case of lots with a lower estimate of at least independent expert advice reasonable in view of the $1000, Australian Book Auctions will, if so requested buyers’ expertise and the value of the lot. Buyers will at least 24 hours before the sale, make all reasonable be deemed to have knowledge of all matters which efforts to contact prospective buyers by telephone so they could reasonably be expected to find out given the as to enable them to participate in bidding. Requests exercise by them of reasonable due diligence. See for this service must be confirmed in writing. In no especially clauses 6a-f and 7a-f of the Conditions of circumstance will Australian Book Auctions be held Business. responsible for any error or failure to execute bids. Sale Room Notices and Announcements from the Absentee bids should conform to the increments Rostrum published in this catalogue (see page 3). An absentee All conditions, notices, descriptions, statements and bid that does not conform to the published increments other matters concerning a lot are subject to any may be lowered to the next bidding interval. statement modifying or affecting that lot made by the Collection of purchases Auctioneer from the rostrum prior to any bid being All lots purchased must be collected from the place of accepted on that lot. In general and where possible, any auction within seven days of the sale date. Collection such matter will also be noted in a Sale Room Notice may be available for a brief period at the conclusion posted prior to the sale. of the sessions. Pre-sale estimates Uncollected lots may be placed in storage at the The pre-sale estimates are intended as a guide for Buyer’s risk and the Buyer’s expense. Australian prospective buyers only. A bid between the listed Book Auctions will be pleased to assist any Buyer figures should, in our opinion, offer a fair chance of who wishes to make special arrangements for success. However, all lots, depending on the level of collection. Please notify us before the sale if you competition, can realise prices either above or below require special assistance. the listed estimates. Methods of payment Please note that where any lot is subject to a seller’s Unless otherwise announced by the auctioneer, no reserve in no case will the seller’s reserve exceed the purchases may be collected until the end of the sale. lower estimate. Payment should be made in Australian dollars in Conditions of Business cash, or bank cheque, or by telegraphic transfer to The auction will be conducted in accordance with our Australian Book Auction’s account. Personal cheques Conditions of Business printed in this catalogue. may be accepted at the discretion of Australian Book Prospective bidders should read these Conditions Auctions and, unless prior arrangements have been carefully before bidding. The above notes are for made, must be cleared before delivery of any lots. general guidance and should not be taken as a Credit card payments by Mastercard or Visa can also summary of the Conditions of Business nor an be accepted by prior arrangement. Please note that if alternative to them. Order of Sale First Session: Monday, 21st August 2017 at 6.30 pm. Lots 1 – 249 Lots 1 – 51 Rare and Important Books, &c. Lots 52 – 100 Art and Literature, &c. Lots 101 – 146 Ephemera, Documents, Manuscripts, Photographs, Maps Lots 147 – 159 Sydney Harbour Bridge Lots 160 – 171 Australian Aborigines Lots 172 – 178 Military Lots 179 – 226 The Convict Era Lots 227 – 249 Gold Rushes Second Session: Tuesday, 22nd August 2017 at 11.30 am. Lots 250 – 520 Lots 250 – 362 General Australiana and Travel Lots 363 – 383 Ned Kelly and Kellyana Lots 384 – 420 Bushranging Lots 421 – 434 Police Lots 435 – 458 Angling Lots 459 – 520 Quantity (uncatalogued) Bidding Increments Bidding generally opens below the lower estimate and advances in increments of up to 10%, subject to the auctioneer’s discretion. Absentee bids that do not conform to these published increments may be lowered to the next bidding interval. Up to $200 by $10s $5000 to $10,000 by $500s $200 to $500 by $20s $10,000 to $20,000 by $1000s $500 to $1000 by $50s $20,000 to $50,000 by $2000s $1000 to $2000 by $100s $50,000 to $100,000 by $5000s $2000 to $5000 by $200s Over $100,000 auctioneer’s discretion Lot 4 First Session: Monday, 21st August 2017 at 6.30 pm. Lots 1 – 249 [1] COOK. HAWKESWORTH, John. AN ACCOUNT OF THE VOYAGES undertaken by the order of His Present Majesty for making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Carteret, Captain Wallis, and Captain Cook... Four volumes, octavo, 11 plates and charts (all folding), plates offset, final gathering of third volume wormed, a few leaves browned or marked, a sound set in modern morocco, gilt. London, W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1785. First octavo edition and third edition overall of Hawkesworth’s important edition of James Cook’s voyage in the Endeavour. The octavo edition was more accessible to the general public and had a wider circulation than the expensive quarto editions, despite which it is quite scarce today. Beddie, 665. Estimate $800/1200 [2] KIPPIS, Andrew. THE LIFE OF CAPTAIN JAMES COOK. Quarto, with frontispiece portrait of Cook (corner crease), without the half-title, later marbled boards and half calf, C.A.O. Fox copy with bookplate. London, G. Nicol and G.G.J. and J. Robinson, 1788. First edition: the first biography of Cook. Beddie, 32 and 1962; Forbes, 149; Holmes, 69; Hill 2, 935; Kroepelien, 647; Sabin, 37954. Estimate $1000/2000 [3] BURNEY, James. A CHRONOLOGICAL HISTORY OF THE DISCOVERIES IN THE SOUTH SEA OR PACIFIC OCEAN. Part I. Commencing with an Account of the earliest Discovery of that Sea by Europeans, And terminating with the Voyage of Sir Francis Drake, in 1579. Illustrated with Charts [Part II. From the Year 1579, to the Year 1620; Part III. From the Year 1620, to the Year 1688; Volume IV. To the Year 1723, including a History of the Buccaneers of America; Volume V. To the Year 1764]. Five volumes, quarto, with 28 engraved charts (17 folding), 13 plates, and six woodcuts in the text, a very attractive copy in period-style half calf and marbled boards, one front endpaper renewed.