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AUSTRALIAN BOOK AUCTIONS BOOKS, MAPS, DOCUMENTS The 100th sale of Books, Maps, Documents, and Ephemera: Voyages, Australiana, Travel, Maps, Natural History and Science, Literature, Art and Limited Editions, &c., &c. To be sold live and by live online auction Wednesday 2nd June 2021 at 12.00 noon AEST Sale Live Online At www.invaluable.com On View BY APPOINTMENT ONLY AT THE GALLERY: 2 / 970 High Street, Armadale, Victoria Wednesday 26th – Friday 28th May & Monday 31st May – Tuesday 1st June 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. 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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. 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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 Lots 1 – 42 Voyages Lots 43 – 73 Australiana Lots 74 – 118 General Travel and Australiana Lots 119 – 134 Ephemera Lots 135 – 154 Natural History, Science, Technology (including Fishing) Lots 155 – 205 Maps and Cartography Lots 206 – 253 Literature, including Children’s Books Lots 254 – 264 Private Press and Limited Editions Lots 265 – 270 Art & Antiques, &c. 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 $10,000 to $20,000 by $1000s $200 to $500 by $20s $20,000 to $50,000 by $2000s $500 to $1000 by $50s $50,000 to $100,000 by $5000s $1000 to $2000 by $100s Over $100,000 auctioneer’s discretion $2000 to $5000 by $200s $5000 to $10,000 by $500s Lot 3 Voyages (lots 1 – 42) [1] ADAMS, John MODERN VOYAGES: Containing a Variety of useful and entertaining Facts… Also, the latest authentic Accounts from yBo Bay…tan Two vo lumes, attractive contemporary mottled calf, contrasting labels. Dublin, Chamberlaine and Rice, P. Wogan et. al, 1790. Includes four chapters on Cook, while Dampier, Anson, Wallis, and Carteret are noticed extensively in the narratives, as well as surprisingly extensive material on the colony at Sydney Cove, then just established, and Phillip’s voyage. Estimate $300/500 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com [2] BASSET, Paul-André. JEU INSTRUCTIF DES PEUPLES et coutumes des quatres parties du Monde et des Terres Australes. Engraving on thick laid paper, 490 x 650 mm, a game board in the form of a spiral track comprising 63 numbered cartouches with vignette illustrations of inhabitants of all regions of the globe, minor edge-tears, small marginal restoration, in other respects very good. Paris, Chez Basset, 1815. A rare example of this geographical board game, of particular significance for its depictions of Australian Aborigines (based probably on Baudin’s voyage), Maori (biased by Crozet’s account of Marion du Fresne’s voyage), and Tahitians (based on Bougainville), indigenous peoples of regions only recently discovered and colonised by Europeans. The board includes representations of the native peoples of New Holland, New Zealand, Tahiti, New Guinea, Moluccas, Sumatra, and Java, as well as the Americas (Tierra del Fuego, Brazil, Chile, Guiana, Peru, Mexico, California, Iroquois, Nootka…), Asia (Tibet, Siam, China, Japan…), Africa and Europe. The rules of the game are printed across the centre of the board, while larger cartouches relating to Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas are printed on the corners. Estimate $2600/3200 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com [3] BAUDIN. PERON, François &Louis FREYCINET. VOYAGE DE DÉCOUVERTES AUX TERRES AUSTRALES… sur les corvettes le Géographe, le Naturaliste, et la goelette le Casuarina, pendant les années 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803 et 1804. Four volumes in three, comprising two-volume quarto text with portrait frontispiece and two folding tables, and two-part large quarto atlas containing 40 plates (23 coloured and two folding) numbered II-XLI, and 14 maps (two double- page and folding), the large General Chart with expert repair to 50 mm tear along fold, with a duplicate Plan du Comte de Cumberland loosely inserted, front hinge of atlas loosening, with the list of contents in both atlas parts, an excellent set, uncut in contemporary French crimson morocco-backed paste-paper boards, each of the three spines labelled Atlas in error, with the armorial bookplate of Alexandre Emmanuel Louis, Prince Duc de Bauffremont, Prince du St. Empire. Paris, 1807-1811-1816. The official account of the important Baudin voyage to the Pacific. The so-called “general reader’s set”, the form in which the book is usually seen, comprising the full narrative account and the Atlas Historique with its superb coloured plates. In 1800 Napoleon Bonaparte dispatched an expedition in Le Géographe and Le Naturaliste under Nicolas Thomas Baudin. Louis Claude De Saulces de Freycinet was the expedition hydrographer and François Péron was naturalist. Although Baudin was tardy in following his instructions and so was forestalled by Flinders in the discovery of most of the unknown stretches of the Australian south coast, the complete discovery of the coast was made by Flinders and Baudin early in the early 1802.

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