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September Gallery Sale AUSTRALIAN BOOK AUCTIONS SEPTEMBER GALLERY SALE Voyages and Travels, Militaria, Fishing, Australiana, Literature Art, Architecture and Antiques, A Collection of Ion Idriess, &c., &c. To be sold by auction in two sessions Monday 7th September 2015 at 6.30 pm Tuesday 8th September 2015 at 11.00 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 4th September from 10.00 am to 4.00 pm Saturday 5th September from 10.00 am to 4.00 pm Monday 7th September from 10.00 am to 4.00 pm Catalogue Price: $33.00 Important Information for Buyers Registration and Buyer’s numbers of 1.1% will be added to your invoice to cover bank The auction will be conducted using Buyer’s fees and charges. numbers. All prospective bidders are asked to register Condition of lots and collect a Buyer’s number before the sale. All lots are sold “as is”, in accordance with clauses 6a- Buyer’s premium f of the Conditions of Business, and Australian Book Please note that a Buyer’s premium of 19.8% Auctions makes no representation as to the condition of (inclusive of Goods and Services Tax) of the hammer any lot. Buyers should satisfy themselves as to the price on each lot is payable by the buyer. condition of any lot before the sale. Absentee bidding and Telephone bidding Every attempt is made to describe all lots accurately in As a convenience to buyers who are unable to attend the catalogue but condition of lots is not generally the auction in person, Australian Book Auctions will, noted. if so instructed in writing at least 24 hours before the Where a note describing the condition of any lot is sale, execute bids on behalf of prospective buyers. included in the catalogue this is intended as general Absentee bids can only be accepted on the guidance only for intending buyers who should satisfy appropriate form fully completed (the form is to be themselves as to the condition of any lot or as to any found at the end of this catalogue). Absentee bids other matter affecting the value of any lot before the cannot be accepted by telephone unless confirmed in sale, either by personal inspection or by obtaining any writing. independent expert advice reasonable in view of the In the case of lots with a lower estimate of at least buyers’ expertise and the value of the lot. Buyers will $1000, Australian Book Auctions will, if so requested be deemed to have knowledge of all matters which at least 24 hours before the sale, make all reasonable they could reasonably be expected to find out given the efforts to contact prospective buyers by telephone so exercise by them of reasonable due diligence. See as to enable them to participate in bidding. Requests especially clauses 6a-f and 7a-f of the Conditions of for this service must be confirmed in writing. In no Business. circumstance will Australian Book Auctions be held Sale Room Notices and Announcements from the responsible for any error or failure to execute bids. Rostrum Absentee bids should conform to the increments All conditions, notices, descriptions, statements and published in this catalogue (see page 3). An absentee other matters concerning a lot are subject to any bid that does not conform to the published increments statement modifying or affecting that lot made by the may be lowered to the next bidding interval. Auctioneer from the rostrum prior to any bid being Collection of purchases accepted on that lot. In general and where possible, any All lots purchased must be collected from the place of such matter will also be noted in a Sale Room Notice auction within seven days of the sale date. Collection posted prior to the sale. may be available for a brief period at the conclusion Pre-sale estimates of the sessions. The pre-sale estimates are intended as a guide for Uncollected lots may be placed in storage at the prospective buyers only. A bid between the listed Buyer’s risk and the Buyer’s expense. Australian figures should, in our opinion, offer a fair chance of Book Auctions will be pleased to assist any Buyer success. However, all lots, depending on the level of who wishes to make special arrangements for competition, can realise prices either above or below collection. Please notify us before the sale if you the listed estimates. require special assistance. Please note that where any lot is subject to a seller’s Methods of payment reserve in no case will the seller’s reserve exceed the Unless otherwise announced by the auctioneer, no lower estimate. purchases may be collected until the end of the sale. Conditions of Business Payment should be made in Australian dollars in The auction will be conducted in accordance with our cash, or bank cheque, or by telegraphic transfer to Conditions of Business printed in this catalogue. Australian Book Auction’s account. Personal cheques Prospective bidders should read these Conditions may be accepted at the discretion of Australian Book carefully before bidding. The above notes are for Auctions and, unless prior arrangements have been general guidance and should not be taken as a made, must be cleared before delivery of any lots. summary of the Conditions of Business nor an Credit card payments by Mastercard or Visa can also alternative to them. be accepted by prior arrangement. Please note that if payment is made by credit card, an additional charge Order of Sale Monday, 7th September 2015 at 6.30 pm Lots 1 – 25 Voyages, Travels, Natural History Lots 26 – 32 Cycling Lots 33 – 46 Ephemera Lots 47 – 99 Military, including books from the collection of John Hamilton Lots 100 – 134 Literature, Illustrated Books, General Antiquarian, &c. Lots 135 – 163 Art, Architecture, Antiques, &c. Lots 164 – 201 General Australiana and Travel, &c. Lots 202 – 232 A Collection of the Works of Ion L. Idriess Lots 233 – 297 Fishing Tuesday, 8th September 2015 at 11.00 am Lots 298 – 370 Quantity. To be sold without reserve. Room buyers only 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 12. A very rare Dutch imaginary voyage in the South Seas First Session: Monday, 7th September 2015 at 6.30 pm. Lots 1 – 297 the voyage was to return the remains of King Kamehameha II Voyages, Travels, Natural History and Queen Kamamalu who had died after contracting measles during a visit to London in 1824. The narrative was compiled by Maria Graham from official papers and the journal of [1] chaplain Richard Bloxham. Robert Dampier’s fine aquatint [BURKE, Robert O’Hara] MATHEWS, Julia. views of Hawaii are highly regarded. Forbes, 630; Hill 2, PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPH of the popular actress and 231; Sabin, 100816. singer Julia Mathews. Carte-de-visite size, mounted on plain Estimate $200/400 card. Burke was infatuated with Mathews, proposing to her in 1860. Estimate $200/400 [5] CARBONI, Raffaello. SIT NOMEN DOMINI [2] BENEDICTUM. THE EUREKA STOCKADE: The BURKE AND WILLS. “THE ARGUS”. THE BURKE consequence of some pirates wanting on quarter-deck a AND WILLS EXPLORING EXPEDITION: an account of rebellion. Octavo, first leaf and last leaves browned and with the crossing the continent of Australia, from Cooper’s Creek repairs, mechanical defect on leaf 113-14 affecting a few to Carpentaria, with Biographical Sketches of Robert O’Hara letters in the fore-margins, bound without wrappers in later Burke and William John Wills. Octavo, pp. iv, 32, 33-36 binder’s cloth. Melbourne, The Author, 1855. (double column; last blank), frontispiece lithographed Estimate $6000/9000 portraits of Burke and Wills, colophon on page 32; bound in modern artificial morocco for George Mackaness, retaining the original green printed wrappers, subsequently Davidson copy with bookplate. Melbourne, Wilson and Mackinnon, [6] 1861. The most frequently reprinted of the contemporary CLERKE, Charles. A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD, accounts of the expedition, the so-called “Argus” pamphlet is in His Majesty’s Ship the Dolphin, commanded by the one of the central documents in the Burke and Wills Honourable Commodore Byron. In which is contained, a literature. This is the issue of this pamphlet with two faithful account of the several places, people, plants, animals, additional leaves: pages 33 – 35 print ‘Biographical Sketches’ &c. seen on the voyage: and, among other particulars, a and ‘Heroes of the Victorian Expedition’. As with the original minute and exact description of the Streights of Magellan, issue there are two misprints in the second column on page and of the gigantic people called Patagonians. Together with 25: ‘Fred Mueller’ for ‘Ferd.’; ‘explana ions’ for an accurate account of seven islands lately discovered in the ‘explanations’. Ferguson, 7703; Maria, 20 (salmon wrappers); South Seas. By an Officer on Board the said Ship. Octavo, Wantrup, 164a (salmon wrappers). three plates, few neat annotations in a contemporary hand, Estimate $600/900 bound with advertisement leaf (and half-title page at end) in later polished calf, Glover and Donald A.
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