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April Gallery Sale AUSTR ALI AN B AN OO AUSTRALIAN BOOK AUCTIONS K A UCTI ONS April Gallery Sale Monday 1 April 2019 ABA0093 AUSTRALIAN BOOK AUCTIONS MONDAY 1 APRIL 2019 AT 1.00 PM 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, Executive Director Dr Gavin De Lacy, General Manager Tony Long, Director Corporate Affairs GALLERY AND SALEROOM: 2/970 High Street, Armadale, Victoria, 3143 TELEPHONE: (+61) 03 9509 7424 EMAIL: [email protected] WEB ADDRESS: www.australianbookauctions.com Cover: lot 16 AUSTRALIAN BOOK AUCTIONS APRIL GALLERY SALE Important Voyages and Natural History, including The Voyages of Captain James Cook, the Voyage of Matthew Flinders John Gould’s Magnificent Mammals of Australia, as well as Travel and Australiana, Natural History and Science, Interesting Ephemera, Militaria, Literature including Limited Editions and Children’s Books, &c., &c. To be sold by auction Monday 1st April 2019 at 1.00 pm At Australian Book Auctions Gallery NEW ADDRESS: 2 / 970 High Street, Armadale, Victoria NEW Telephone (+61) 03 9509 7424 Email [email protected] www.australianbookauctions.com On View AT THE NEW GALLERY: 2 / 970 High Street, Armadale, Victoria Friday 29th March from 10.00 am to 4.00 pm Saturday 30th March from 10.00 am to 4.00 pm Monday 1st April from 10.00 am to 12.00 noon 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 Monday, 1st April 2019 at 1.00 pm. Lots 1– 44 Voyages, Travels, Important Natural History, and Australiana Lots 45 – 55 Natural History and Science Lots 56 – 103 Ephemera Lots 104 – 112 Domestic Architecture and Design Lots 113 – 122 Militaria Lots 123 – 133 Literature including Limited Editions and Children’s Books Lots 134 – 142 General and Quantity 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 8 The great map of Australia from the atlas to Matthew Flinders’s Voyage to Terra Australis (1814) Voyages, Travels, Important Natural History, and Australiana [1] VISSCHER, Nicolaes. INDIAE ORIENTALIS nec non insularum adiacentium nova descriptio per Nicolaum Visscher. Engraved handcoloured map, approximately 460 x 560 mm, slight trimming of right border. [Amsterdam, circa 1690]. Handsome map of Asia including a substantial portion of the north coast of Australia, naming a number of coastal features in Arnhem Land for the first time, with compass rose and an elaborate cartouche. Tooley, 1300. Estimate $1500/2000 [2] ROGERS, Captain Woodes. A CRUISING VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD, first to the South-Sea, thence to the East Indies, and homewards by the Cape of Good Hope. Begun in 1708, and finish’d in 1711. Octavo, five engraved folding maps, the front blank, frontispiece map and title versos, and rear pastedown all bearing signatures of the crew of a Scottish twentieth century submarine hunting expedition, early panelled calf, rebacked. London, A. Bell and B. Lintot, 1718. Second edition, corrected. Estimate $600/800 [3] COOK, James. A COMPLETE SET OF THE VOYAGE ACCOUNTS. Comprising: 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 Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook; COOK, James. A VOYAGE TOWARDS THE SOUTH POLE AND ROUND THE WORLD. Performed in His Majesty’s Ships the Resolution and Adventure; COOK, James and James KING. A VOYAGE TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN... for making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere... in His Majesty’s Ships the Resolution and Discovery. Eight volumes, quarto, of text, plus folio atlas volume to the third voyage, with all plates and maps; the first voyage with the leaves of “Directions for Placing the Cuts and Charts” and the chart of the Straits of Magellan that were not in the first issue and are usually absent; both text volumes and atlas in uniform contemporary tree calf, all with good rebacking in period style, corners strengthened, the atlas boards relined, scattered foxing and offsetting, a handsome set; with armorial bookplates of two separate owners in each text volume. London, W. Strahan, and T. Cadell, [third voyage: W. and A. Strahan, for G. Nicol, and T. Cadell], 1773 – 1777 – 1784.
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