AUSTRALIAN BOOK AUCTIONS
BOOKS, MAPS, EPHEMERA
Online sale of books and ephemera – Australiana and Travel, Maps, Ephemera, Local History (balance of a collection), Art and Private Press including Norman Lindsay books from the collection of Norman Hetherington, Literature, &c., &c.
To be sold by live online auction Monday 22nd March 2021 at 12.00 noon AEDT
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Lots 1 – 118 General Australia and Travel
Lots 119 – 153 Local History (balance of a collection)
Lots 154 – 184 Ephemera
Lots 185 – 217 Maps and Charts
Lots 218 – 220 Antiquarian and General
Lots 221 – 251 Art and Private Press
Lots 252 – 279 Literature
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Up to $200 by $10s $50,000 to $100,000 by $5000s $200 to $500 by $20s Over $100,000 auctioneer’s discretion $500 to $1000 by $50s $1000 to $2000 by $100s $2000 to $5000 by $200s $5000 to $10,000 by $500s $10,000 to $20,000 by $1000s $20,000 to $50,000 by $2000s Lot 261 (part). A book by Barry Humphries personally inscribed by the great Labor minister Sir Les Patterson General Australiana and Travel (lots 1 – 118)
[1] BRADY, Rev. John. VOCABOLARIO della lingua nativa dell’ Australia occidentale… e tradotto dall’Inglese da Nicola Caporelli, Console Generale Pontificio. Duodecimo, uncut and unopened, sewn in original plain wrappers. Rome, Congregazione de Propaganda Fide, 1845. Rare: one of the earliest attempts to treat an Aboriginal language. Ferguson, 3996. Estimate $400/600 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[2] GIGLIOLI, E. H. I TASMANIANI, cenni storici ed etnologici di un populo estinto. Octavo, map and illustrations, title page with blind stamp, without the wrappers, early binder’s cloth. Milan, Fratelli Treves, 1874. Ferguson, 9906 (not noting the folding map). Estimate $200/400 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[3] MATHEW, John. TWO REPRESENTATIVE TRIBES OF QUEENSLAND. With an Inquiry Concerning the Origin of the Australian Race. Octavo, plates and a map, original red cloth (minor flecking), fore- and bottom edges uncut. London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1910. First edition: scarce. Estimate $200/300 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[4] PLOMLEY, N.J.B. THE BAUDIN EXPEDITION AND THE TASMANIAN ABORIGINES 1802. Quarto, frontispiece and illustrations, original cloth with dustwrapper (bit flecked and spotted). Hobart, Blubber Head Press, 1983. Edition limited to 1000 numbered and signed copies. Estimate $80/120 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[5] RIDLEY, William. KAMILAROI, AND OTHER AUSTRALIAN LANGUAGES... Second edition, revised and enlarged by the author. Quarto, plates, binder’s cloth, ex-library copy with stamps. Sydney, Thomas Richards, 1875. Ferguson, 14916. Estimate $60/90 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[6] ROTH, Walter E. ETHNOLOGICAL STUDIES Among the North-West-Central Queensland Aborigines. Octavo, black & white and coloured plates, one folding table, map, pale foxing of final three plates, uncut in original embossed cloth, the publisher’s inserted slip tipped onto the front endpaper stating that “This work is intended for scientific purposes only”. Brisbane, Edmund Gregory, 1897. First edition of this important anthropological study of the Queensland Aborigines, complete with the so-called ‘ethno-pornographic’ plate XXIV, which is missing from some copies. Ferguson, 15115. Estimate $200/400 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com Lot 8
[7] TAPLIN, Rev. George. GRAMMAR OF THE NARRINYERI TRIBE OF AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES. Octavo, minor wear, stapled as issued. Adelaide, E. Spiller, Government Printer, 1880. Second edition. Ferguson, 16710. Estimate $200/300 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[8] ABBOTT, W.E. MOUNT WINGEN and the Wingen Coal Measures. Octavo, three plans (two coloured), four photographic plates, folding coloured map in endpocket, a little pale foxing, early half morocco, H. L. White copy with bookplate. Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1918. + ABBOTT, J. H. M. MOUNT WINGEN, the Burning Mountain of the Kingdon Ponds Valley… being a paper read before the Royal Australian Historical Society, 1921). Quarto, typescript copy, early morocco (slight bowing), with H. L. White bookplate. With ink inscription from the author to H.L. White, and a loosely inserted original photograph circa 1891 at Mount Wingen inscribed to White from his field- worker, the ornithologist and author S.W. Jackson., + TWO TYPESCRIPT COPIES of reports of Mount Wingen in 1828 and 1829, one being a 6-page quarto letter from Charles Wilton to the Editor of the Sydney Gazette in 1829: together in later lettered wrappers, with White’s stamp. An attractive and valuable archive – with distinguished provenance – on this famous coal seam fire in the Hunter Valley. Estimate $1000/1500 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com [9] ATKINSON, James. AN ACCOUNT OF THE STATE OF AGRICULTURE AND GRAZING IN NEW SOUTH WALES; including observations on the soils and general appearance of the country, and some of its useful natural productions. Octavo, with half-title and terminal advertisement leaf, three handcoloured aquatint plates and one aquatint plan, one leaf with slight marking, a fine copy in modern half calf and marbled boards, gilt. London, J. Cross, 1826. First edition: the very scarce first book on Australian agriculture. James Atkinson, a farmer from a farming family, served as a clerk in the naval service during the Napoleonic wars. Having become, like many others, an economic casualty of the peace, Atkinson determined to emigrate and raised enough capital to obtain a land grant in New South Wales, establishing his property in the Bong Bong district in 1821. While in England in 1824, Atkinson was assailed “with innumerable questions and enquiries respecting the present state of New South Wales, and especially of its Agriculture and Grazing”. This determined him to write an account of the pastoral and agricultural frontier in New South Wales, based on his extensive personal experience. His survey of the agricultural districts and the larger pastoral properties was also a very practical handbook of “rural and domestic economy”, which seems to have been of real assistance to the settlers with capital who had begun to arrive at Sydney through the early 1820s as post-war prospects in Britain showed no signs of improving. Having lived an obscure life in England, Atkinson left a significant heritage in New South Wales. He published two further works, on sheep farming and on brewing, and was active in civic affairs. Unassuming, intelligent, and humane, Atkinson married late, in 1827, to one of the colony’s more remarkable women, Charlotte Waring, tutor to the children of Hannibal Macarthur. Before Atkinson’s early death in 1834, he and Charlotte had four children. His youngest was the future novelist, Louisa Atkinson; his wife, Charlotte, wrote the first Australian book for children, published in 1841. When first published in 1826, his book was issued in two forms: “Price Seven Shillings, or, including a large Map and View of Sydney, Fourteen Shillings”. The present lot is the issue without view and map. Abbey, 572; Ferguson, 1054; Richards, 126; Wantrup 2nd edition (in publication) 279. Estimate $3000/4000 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com [10] ACOCKS, W.G. THE SETTLERS’ SYNOPSIS OF THE LAND LAWS of New South Wales. Octavo, interleaved with blanks, original cloth flecked. Sydney, Law Book Company, 1906. With author’s signed inscription. Estimate $50/80 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[11] BANKS, Sir Joseph. THE ENDEAVOUR JOURNAL of Joseph Banks 1768-1771. Edited by J.C. Beaglehole. Two volumes, octavo, colour and black & white plates, illustrations and double-page map, original cloth with dustwrappers. Sydney, Public Library of New South Wales, 1962. First impression. + A copy of Beaglehole’s The Life of Captain James Cook (London, Hakluyt Society, 1974) with dustwrapper. + A copy of Beaglehole’s pamphlet Cook and the Russians (1973). Estimate $150/300 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[12] BARERE DE VIEUZAC, Bertrand. A LIBERDADE DOS MARES, Ou o governo inglez descoberto; traduzido livremente do hespanhol. Small octavo, three parts in one volume, original quarter roan and marbled boards, gilt. Rio de Janeiro, Miranda & Carneiro, 1833. A little-known Portuguese translation (from the Spanish) of Barère de Vieuzac’s 1798 La Liberté des Mers, attacking British maritime colonialism and with a short reference to the exiling of political prisoners to Botany Bay. Not in Ferguson. Estimate $200/300 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[13] BARRINGTON, George. A SEQUEL TO BARRINGTON’S VOYAGE TO NEW SOUTH WALES, comprising an interesting narrative of the transactions and behaviour of the convicts … Octavo, pp. iv (numbered to viii), 88 [vi], uncut, a clean copy in early half calf and marbled boards (front board detached). London, C. Lowndes and... H.D. Symonds, 1801. This is the second edition of the Sequel to the Symonds ‘Barrington’ voyage account. Symonds was a prominent London publisher of chapbooks and other cheaper books who published the original ‘Barrington’ Voyage account in 1795, publishing this Sequel first in 1800. He subsequently issued an edition of the two works in uniform smaller octavo style, issued both separately, as here, or together in papered boards. See Ferguson, 328. Estimate $300/500 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[14] BARRINGTON, George. A VOYAGE TO NEW SOUTH WALES, with a description of the country; the manners, customs, religion, &c. of the natives, in the vicinity of Botany Bay. Duodecimo in sixes, text browned as usual, occasional marks, sheep of the period (small repair at head of spine). Philadelphia, Thomas Dobson, 1796. Rare first American edition of the Barrington voyage account. This was the second book on the colony to be published in America, preceded only by the 1789 New York edition of Tench’s narrative. Ferguson, 235. Estimate $400/600 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com [15] BARRINGTON, George. AN ACCOUNT OF A VOYAGE TO NEW SOUTH WALES to which is prefixed a Detail of his Life, Trials, Speeches &c. &c. Octavo, portrait frontispiece, engraved title with coloured vignette, eight (of nine) handcoloured plates, the folding Plan of New South Wales with torn margins, laid down and showing an old tear and pale browning, early half calf, upper joint weakening. London, Jones, 1810. Includes very early coloured plates of New South Wales. Sold as a collection of plates and so not subject to return. Estimate $600/800 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[16] BARRINGTON, George. VOYAGE À BOTANY BAY, avec une description du Pays, des Moeurs, des Coutumes et de la Religion des natifs. Octavo, with the half-title, old stamp at foot of title, pastepaper boards of the epoch, front joint starting, morocco spine, gilt, marbled endpapers. Paris, Desenne, 1798. First French edition. Unlike most of the English editions, this French translation was produced in a ‘respectable’ style, uniform with that adopted for the French editions of Phillip, Tench, and White, whose works it was intended to complement. Ferguson, 259, Garvey, AB12. Estimate $600/800 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[17] BARRINGTON. Anonymous. TALES OF WOE. Love & Constancy, or the Fatal Denial, a True Story; Leonora, or the effects of treachery; and the Lover’s Leap… Duodecimo, browned, without frontispiece, recent plain wrappers. London, Thomas Tegg, n.d. (1804). A rare item associated with Barrington. See Ferguson, 365a; Garvey, AB35 (noting only the National Library copy). Estimate $100/150 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[18] BENNETT, George. GATHERINGS OF A NATURALIST IN AUSTRALASIA: Being observations principally on the Animal and Vegetable productions of New South Wales, New Zealand, and some of the Austral Islands. Octavo, with seven handcoloured and one tinted lithographed plates and 24 woodcuts, original violet cloth, spine faded as ever. London, John Van Voorst, 1860. First edition: “a practical, well illustrated guide to the productions of Australia and an active attempt to protect certain Australian species such as the echidna, the emu and the notornis” (Wettenhall). As noted in the preface, “The drawings, with a few exceptions, are from the accurate pencil of Mr. G.F. Angas, well known for his correct delineations of subjects of Natural History”. Casey Wood, p. 231; Ferguson, 6929; Wettenhall, 17; Whittell, p. 49. Estimate $300/400 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[19] BLAND, William. OBJECTIONS TO THE PROJECT OF HIS EXCELLENCY SIR GEORGE GIPPS, for raising a loan to be secured on the ordinary revenue of the colony, submitted by His Excellency to the Legislative Council of New South Wales, 1841. Octavo, formerly folded, sewn in original plain wrappers. Sydney, James Tegg, 1842. Very scarce. Ferguson, 3364. Estimate $300/500 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com [20] BONWICK, James. AN OCTOGENARIAN’S REMINISCENCES. Octavo, six plates, original plum cloth over bevelled boards, spine and front board lettered in gilt, front board with a large decoration in black, Bonwick’s funeral notice loosely inserted. London, James Nichols, 1902. First edition: inscribed to his grand-daughter and signed by the author. Pescott, 108. + BONWICK, James. FIRST TWENTY YEARS OF AUSTRALIA. Octavo, folding table, original cloth, gilt. London, Sampson Low, and Melbourne, George Robertson, 1882. Estimate $150/240 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[21] BOOKS ON BOOKS. PESCOTT, E.E. JAMES BONWICK, a writer of school books and histories with a bibliography of his writings. Quarto, original cloth-backed boards. Melbourne, H.A. Evans and Son, 1939. First edition limited to 250 numbered and signed copies. + COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA. Catalogue of the Books, Pamphlets, Pictures, and Maps in the Library of Parliament to September, 1911. Octavo, original half roan (joints rubbed). Melbourne, Government Printer, 1912. H. L. White copy with bookplate, subsequently Ivo Hammet with stamp. + TYRRELL, James R. DAVID SCOTT MITCHELL: A Reminiscence. Octavo, original wrappers. Sydney, Sunnybrook Press, 1936. Edition limited to 300 copies. + Sydney Spence’s Bibliography of Selected Early Books (London, 1952, 525 copies) and H. E. Barff’s A Short Account of the University of Sydney (Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1902). Estimate $150/200 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[22] BRUCK, Ludwig. GUIDE TO THE HEALTH RESORTS IN AUSTRALIA, TASMANIA, AND NEW ZEALAND. Octavo, with numerous advertisements, stamped with the publisher’s compliments, a bright copy in original gilt- lettered cloth. Sydney, “Australasian Medical Gazette” Office, 1888. Very scarce: describing over 200 resorts, with much of local historical interest. Bagnall, 720; Ferguson, 7603; Ford, 456. Estimate $150/300 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[23] BUNCE, Daniel. AUSTRALASIATIC REMINISCENCES of Twenty-three years’ Wanderings in Tasmania and the Australias; including Travels with Dr. Leichhardt in North or Tropical Australia. Duodecimo, frontispiece portrait, complete with half-title and advertisement leaves, marginal stain to some early leaves, modern calf, gilt, with leather title label. Melbourne, Published by J.T. Hendy, Printed by W. Fairfax and Co., 1857. The extremely scarce first issue of the first edition. Bunce wrote one of two “essential” primary accounts of Leichhardt’s second expedition, 1846-7, published later by participants. Leichhardt himself published no account of his failed second expedition to cross the continent. Bunce appended to his own journal a heavily edited – virtually rewritten – version of Leichhardt’s narrative of his third expedition, August – September 1847. A more correct publication of Leichhardt’s account was published by Rev. W.B. Clarke in 1860. There are at least three distinct issues of Bunce’s book of which this is the first: all are scarce. Ferguson, 7664; Wantrup, 141a. Estimate $400/600 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com Lot 24 (see over) [24] BURKE AND WILLS. “ARGUS”. THE BURKE AND WILLS EXPLORING EXPEDITION: an account of the crossing the continent of Australia, from Cooper’s Creek to Carpentaria, with Biographical Sketches of Robert O’Hara Burke and William John Wills. Reprinted from “The Argus”. Octavo, with frontispiece lithographed portraits of Burke and Wills, folding lithographed map taped (both recto and verso) along the folds of one panel and for 20 mm at centrefold at foot, two panels of verso browned, loss of two words in text through adhesion damage pp. 30/31, without wrappers in later unlettered binder’s cloth. Melbourne, Wilson and Mackinnon, 1861. Rare: one of the central documents in the Burke and Wills literature. This is a scarce issue that includes the additional folding map, here in its first state with the vignette of camels. The pamphlet is an early issue with the two additional leaves: pages 33 – 35 ‘Biographical Sketches’ and ‘Heroes of the Victorian Expedition’, and with the two misprints in the second column on page 25: ‘Fred Mueller’ for ‘Ferd.’; ‘explana ions’ for ‘explanations’. Ferguson, 7703; see Maria, 20; Wantrup 2nd edition (in publication) 164b. Estimate $3000/5000 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[25] BUSBY, James. JOURNAL OF A RECENT VISIT to the Principal Vineyards of Spain and France … with a catalogue of the different varieties of grape; an attempt to calculate the profits of cultivating the vine… Octavo, browned as usual, recent binder’s cloth; Max Lake copy with bookplate. New York, Charles S. Francis, 1835. Very scarce US edition of Busby’s famous work. Ferguson Addenda, 1894d. Estimate $500/800 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[26] BYRON, John. THE NARRATIVE OF THE HONOURABLE JOHN BYRON... containing An Account of the Great Distresses suffered by himself and his companions on the Coast of Patagonia, from the year 1740, till their arrival in England, 1746. With a description of St. Jago de Chile... also a relation of the loss of the Wager Man of War, one of Admiral Anson’s Squadron. Octavo, with frontispiece, contemporary quarter calf, marbled boards with vellum-tipped corners, Ingleton copy with his bookplate and stamp. London, Printed for S. Baker and G. Leigh, and T. Davies, 1768. Second edition (in the same year as the first) of an important supplement to the official account of Anson’s voyage: “Admiral Byron’s narrative of the loss of the Wager is one of the most thrilling accounts in the language, and supplied his illustrious descendant with many particulars for the shipwreck in Don Juan” (Sabin). Hill 2, 233; Sabin, 9732. Estimate $200/400 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[27] CAMPBELL, Major John. GEOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF MELVILLE ISLAND AND PORT ESSINGTON, on the Cobourg Peninsula, Northern Australia; with some observations on the Settlements which have been established on the North Coast of New Holland [contained in] Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, London… Volume IV, Part II. Octavo, with folding handcoloured maps, two plates heavily oxidised, uncut and largely unopened in the original wrappers. London, John Murray, 1834. Only printing of this early and important account of the abandoned first British settlement of North Australia, 1824-9, by a former commandant. Greenway, 1814. Estimate $100/200 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com [28] CASH, Frank. PARABLES OF THE SYDNEY HARBOUR BRIDGE. Setting forth the preparation for, and progressive growth of, the Sydney Harbour Bridge, to April, 1930. Octavo, with numerous photographic plates, some folding, bookplate on front pastedown endpaper, original gilt-decorated cloth. Sydney, [The Author], 1930. First edition. Estimate $80/120 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[29] COLLINGRIDGE, George. THE DISCOVERY OF AUSTRALIA. A Critical, Documentary and Historic Investigation Concerning the Priority of Discovery in Australasia by Europeans before the arrival of Lieut. James Cook, in the “Endeavour”, in the year 1770… Folio, with 12 maps (five folding) and very numerous in-text maps, charts and illustrations (some full-page), original brown cloth, armorial bookplate of Humphrey Marten. Sydney, Hayes Bros. 1895. First edition of a substantial contribution to the history of Australian discovery, of particular interest for the discussion of the claims that the Spanish and Portuguese discovered the Australian coast before the recorded discoveries of the Dutch and Cook. Importantly, the Anglo-centric history of Australian discovery is here corrected by Collingridge who claimed to have examined every book and chart “of real importance to the question, which has been produced in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Dutch”. Ferguson, 8465; Kroepelien, 205. Estimate $200/300 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[30] CONVICT DISCIPLINE. REPORT FROM THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON SECONDARY PUNISHMENTS. Together with the Minutes of Evidence, an Appendix of Papers, and an Index. Foolscap folio, two small repairs to endpapers, uncut in original printed wrappers. London, 1835. Scarce: includes evidence by James Busby and James Walker. Ferguson, 1958a. Estimate $100/200 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[31] COOK. HAWKESWORTH, John. AN ACCOUNT OF THE VOYAGES undertaken by order of His Present Majesty, For making, Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere...by Commodore Byron, Captain Carteret, Captain Wallis and Captain Cook. Three volumes, octavo, large folding map (repairs on verso), two folding plates, early tree calf, rebacked, marbled endpapers. Dublin, A. Leathley, J. Exshaw, W. Sleater, et al., 1773. The Dublin octavo edition of Cook’s first voyage. Beddie, 649. Estimate $150/300 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[32] COOTE, William. HISTORY OF QUEENSLAND. From 1770 to the close of the year 1881. Volume I [ all published]. Octavo, folding map replaced with facsimile, small repairs to title, a clean, uncut copy in modern cloth, gilt. Brisbane, Thorne, 1882. Only edition: rare. The author’s death prevented the publication of further volumes. Ferguson 8668. Estimate $200/400 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com [33] COX, William. MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM COX, J.P., Lieutenant and Paymaster of N.S.W. Corps, or 102nd Regiment. Late of Clarendon, Windsor. Octavo, four plates (one in colour), frontispiece with a trace of adhesion from tissue, original red cloth, top edge gilt. Sydney and Brisbane, William Brooks and Co., 1901. First edition. William Cox is best remembered for overseeing the construction of the road over the Blue Mountains, at the command of Governor Macquarie: his journal is printed in the present work. ANB, 11345. Estimate $200/300 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[34] CRAMP, W.B. NARRATIVE OF A VOYAGE TO INDIA; of a Shipwreck on Board the Lady Castlereagh; and a Description of New South Wales. Two works in one, octavo, first and final leaves browned, later cloth boards, front joint neatly repaired: H.L. White copy with bookplate. London, Sir Richard Phillips, 1823. The second work is Forbin’s account of Sicily (with the plate ‘Ruins of the Theatre of Taormina’). Ferguson, 901. Estimate $200/300 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[35] CUNNINGHAM, Peter. TWO YEARS IN NEW SOUTH WALES; a series of letters, comprising sketches of the actual state of society in that colony... Two volumes, octavo, without half-titles, early half calf and marbled boards, recornered, sympathetic modern spines. London, Henry Colburn, 1827. First edition. Cunningham took a land grant on the Hunter River in 1825 following four voyages to New South Wales as surgeon-superintendent on various convict ships. His account of the developing distinctiveness of the Australian people is now considered the classic account from the early colonial era and his observations on the unique Australian vocabulary and accent and on the distinctive physical characteristics of the Australian-born youth are of great interest. Ferguson, 1109. Estimate $200/300 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[36] CUNNINGHAM, Peter. ZWEI JAHRE IN NEU SUDWALES… Octavo, contemporary German half calf and marbled boards, pale browning and occasional staining. Leipzig, Hartmann, 1829. Rare German edition of Cunningham’s Two Years’ in New South Wales. Ferguson, 1253; see Ford, 589. Estimate $80/120 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[37] DALRYMPLE, Sir John. MEMOIRS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, Three volumes, octavo, each volume neatly signed by Dalrymple’s fellow advocate and author Alexander Fraser Tytler, a fine set in early tree calf, gilt. London, A. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1790. New edition. In one of the appendices Dalrymple refers to the activities of Banks and Cook in New Holland, and deals with his own attempt to organise an expedition against Spain in the Pacific. Ferguson, 78. Estimate $400/600 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com [38] DARLING, Lieutenant-General Ralph, Governor. NEW SOUTH WALES. PAPERS EXPLANATORY OF THE CHARGES brought against Lieut. Gen. Darling, by William Charles Wentworth, Esq. Foolscap folio, sewn, housed in modern folding cloth-backed papered boards portfolio with ribbon ties. London, Ordered, by The House of Commons, to be Printed, 1 July 1830. Following the agitation of opposition Members of Parliament, the Colonial Secretary published these dispatches from New South Wales. The tabling of these papers was a thoroughly dishonest representation of the Wentworth – Darling affair, anticipating, without ambiguity, the way the government would handle the whole matter. Darling’s dispatches relating to Wentworth’s attempted impeachment of him with all the various attachments and enclosures were printed here “exclusive of a Letter, also therein enclosed, addressed by Mr. William Charles Wentworth to the Right Honourable Sir George Murray…”. In other words, Darling’s defence against Wentworth’s charges, the Executive Council’s detailed critical response to Wentworth’s letter of impeachment, and other supporting documents were laid upon the table and printed but not the very case for impeachment that formed the crux of the entire affair! Once this deceptive conduct was revealed by Robison and his allies in the famous pamphlet by “Miles”, the Colonial Office was forced to reveal the entire text of the Wentworth impeachment and it was published in the parliamentary papers in 1832. Ferguson, 1355. Estimate $600/800 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[39] DAVIDSON COLLECTION. AUSTRALIAN AND PACIFIC VOYAGES AND TRAVELS from the Library of Mr. Rodney D. Davidson. Three volumes, quarto, illustrated, traces of pale foxing and with the final two volumes showing rippled margins (but without adhesion) from storage in humid surroundings, original cloth, gilt. Melbourne, Australian Book Auctions, 2005 – 2007. One of the special sets, limited to 150 numbered and signed copies. The Davidson catalogue has been described as “a set of monumental auction catalogues, the most substantial book auction catalogues ever produced in Australia. These are now themselves collectors’ pieces and significant works of reference” (Stitz). Estimate $100/200 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[40] DAVIS, John. TRACKS OF McKINLAY AND PARTY ACROSS AUSTRALIA. By John Davis, one of the party. Edited... by William Westgarth. Octavo, with plates (most tinted) and a folding map (two splits in folds) in endpocket, a little pale marking of upper board, original embossed cloth (pinprick hole in spine), gilt and decorated, Rupert Clarke copy with bookplate. London, Sampson Low, Son, & Co., 1863. First edition of the only substantial publication relating to the McKinlay expedition in search of Burke and Wills. In a sense the ‘formal’ narrative of the expedition, it was based on the journals of John K. Davis, a member of the expedition. Ferguson, 9005; Wantrup 180. + PROCEEDINGS, Vol. VI No. IV, of Royal Geographical Society, London, 1862 (original wrappers), containing Lord Ashburton’s presidential address at the Anniversary Meeting, summarising recent activities in Australia and with mention of the presentation of a medal in memory of the late explorer Burke. Estimate $400/600 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com Lot 42 (part) [41] DEMARR, James. ADVENTURES IN AUSTRALIA FIFTY YEARS AGO. Being a Record of an Emigrant’s Wanderings through the Colonies of New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland during the years 1839 – 1844. Octavo, plates, folding coloured map, original cloth. London, Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1893. First edition. Reminiscences in later life of working as a drover, storeman, and stockman in the Australian colonies, 1839-1844. Sympathetic observations on convicts and, especially, the Aborigines. Ferguson, 9086. Estimate $100/150 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[42] DESCUBES, Alexandre. SERIES OF TEN original botanical watercolours of Australian plants, late nineteenth century. Ten watercolour and pencil drawings, each approx. 430 x 265 mm., with pencilled scientific details and title, signed in ink by the artist, each mounted and within marbled borders. Little is known of the artist, beyond the existence of a collection of 2500 watercolour drawings of plants of the Indian subcontinent by Descubes held in the Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens in Virginia, from the period 1880-1915. The specimens in this series of ten include Sydney Blue Gum, Brigalow Gum, River Red Gum, and Hickory Wattle. Estimate $2000/3000 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[43] FIELD, Barron. AN ANALYSIS OF BLACKSTONE’S COMMENTARIES on the Laws of England, in a series of questions, to which the student is to frame his own answers, by reading that work. Octavo, with some inked marginalia by the original owner, with recent endpapers in early marbled boards and half calf (recornered and spine renewed). London, Cadell and Davies, 1811. Rare: an early legal work by Field before his appointment to the bench in New South Wales. Not in Ferguson nor the 1986 Addenda. Estimate $600/800 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[44] FITZGERALD, Robert D. AUSTRALIAN ORCHIDS. Vol. II (of 2). Folio, coloured plates, publisher’s half calf. Melbourne, Lansdowne Editions, 1979. Facsimile edition, limited to 350 numbered copies, signed by the author’s grandson. + NICHOLLS, W.H., ORCHIDS OF AUSTRALIA. Four parts, colour botanical illustrations, original wrappers. Melbourne, Georgian House, 1951 – 1958. Estimate $200/400 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[45] FLANAGAN, Roderick. THE HISTORY OF NEW SOUTH WALES; with an Account of Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania), New Zealand, Port Phillip (Victoria), Moreton Bay, and other Australasian Settlements. Comprising a Complete View of the Progress and Prospects of Gold Mining in Australia... Two volumes, octavo, later half morocco with new endpapers, upper joints repaired. London, Sampson Low, 1862. Ferguson, 9634. Estimate $120/180 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com Lot 46 and 49
[46] GARDEN, Francis, Lord Gardenstone. “HINTS RESPECTING BOTANY BAY” [in] MISCELLANIES IN PROSE AND VERSE. Small octavo, early half calf and marbled boards. Edinburgh, J. Robertson, 1792. Rare: a very early critical and well-argued case against the ‘Botany Bay experiment’, included in a collection of literary pieces by a noted Scottish judge. Ferguson, 136. Estimate $200/400 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com [47] FRY, Elizabeth. MEMOIR OF THE LIFE OF ELIZABETH FRY, with extracts from her Journal and Letters. Edited by Two of her Daughters. Two volumes, octavo, engraved portrait frontispieces, owner’s name in ink, a good set in later hard-grain morocco, decorated and gilt, all edges gilt. London, John Hatchard and Son, Charles Gilpin, 1848. Second edition, revised and enlarged. Mackaness copy with bookplate. Ferguson, 4767. Estimate $150/240 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[48] GARRYOWEN [Edmund FINN]. THE CHRONICLES OF EARLY MELBOURNE 1835 to 1852. Historical, Anecdotal and Personal. Three volumes, quarto, illustrations, original cloth with dustwrappers. Melbourne, Heritage Publications, n.d. Facsimile edition limited to 500 sets. Estimate $150/300 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[49] GIBSON, Caroline (attributed). A SIMPLE ABSTRACT of the Geography and History of Tasmania, intended for young learners. Octavo, folding frontispiece coloured map, inscribed from the author on the map verso, a bright copy in original decorated green cloth. Launceston, Hudson & Hopwood, 1871. Author’s presentation copy of this rare Launceston-printed primer on the history and geography of Tasmania. Ferguson, 15718. Estimate $300/500 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[50] GILL, Thomas. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA. Octavo, lithographed title-page, original decorated green wrappers, a fine copy with the bookplate of Sir Henry Ayers, housed in quarter morocco book form box, gilt. Adelaide, E. Spiller, Government Printer, 1886. First edition. Ferguson, 9925. Estimate $100/200 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[51] GOLD FIELDS. GOLD FIELDS OF AUSTRALIA. Notes on the distribution of gold throughout the world, including Australia, California, and Russia. With five maps. Octavo, five folding engraved maps with outline colouring, without the wrappers: bound with other pamphlets, with the bookplate of William George Prescott, early half vellum and marbled boards with manuscript titling on spine. London, James Wyld, undated (1852). Second edition. Ferguson, 18922. Three of the five maps are of the Australian gold fields, one being a detailed map of Sydney to Bathurst, and one covering Victoria and New South Wales. + SCHEER, F. A LETTER to Thomas Baring, Esq., M.P., on the effects of the Californian and Australian Gold Discoveries. Octavo, London, Effingham Wilson, 1852. + TEN PAMPHLETS dealing with gold, currency, and decimalization, published between 1840 and 1855, mostly signed by (and one inscribed to) Prescott. Estimate $500/800 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com [52] GODWIN, Thomas. GODWIN’S EMIGRANT’S GUIDE TO VAN DIEMEN’S LAND, more properly called Tasmania, containing a description of its climate, soil, and productions; a form of application for free grants of land... and other information useful to emigrants. Octavo, folding engraved frontispiece (short tear) after George William Evans, and folding map, with 16 pages of advertisements dated January 1824, and a further [16] pages undated, a pure copy, uncut in original boards, front board detached, housed in modern book form box of quarter calf and marbled boards: with the armorial bookplate of Joseph Robertson Raines (north Yorkshire) and his signature, 1824, on title-page. London, Sherwood, Jones and Co., 1823. First edition and now rare: the much-sought issue with the folding map coloured by hand. Godwin’s work on Van Diemen’s Land is one of the earliest books to promote free emigration to an Australian colony. Indeed, with the earlier publications being essentially historical or narrative accounts, this is one of the earliest Australian emigrant’s guide-books properly so-called. He offers advice on most topics which would be of interest to prospective emigrants. Among the subjects covered are commerce in Van Diemen’s Land, sheep and cattle, labour prices, clearing and settling the land, public amenities, and the like. Ferguson 907; Wantrup 59; Wilson 94. Estimate $3000/5000 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[53] GOODENOUGH, Commodore James. JOURNAL OF COMMODORE GOODENOUGH, R.N., C.B., C.M.G., During His Last Command as Senior Officer on the Australian Station 1873 – 1875. Octavo, maps, engraved portrait, woodcuts, original cloth over bevelled boards, gilt and decorated, small nick in spine. London, Henry S. King, 1876. Second edition. Ferguson, 9978. Estimate $100/150 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com [54] GREY, George. 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. Two volumes, octavo, with the two large folding maps loose in a folding pocket in volume two, 22 plates (six coloured), and with advertisement leaves, uncut in attractive modern half calf and marbled boards, gilt. London, T. & W. Boone, 1841. First edition of a classic Western Australian exploration account. In July 1837 Grey sailed for Australia on board the Beagle to explore the land in Australia’s north-west with a view to establishing a permanent settlement there. In the course of his two expeditions, both of which were undertaken in extreme hardship, Grey discovered and named the Glenelg River, the Macdonald Range, the Stephen Range, the Gairdner River, Mount Lyell, the Gascoyne River, the Murchison River and nine other rivers, the Lyell, Victoria and Gairdner Ranges, and many other features along the west coast. Grey’s expeditions and the associated coastal surveys of Wickham and Stokes in the Beagle, were a major advance in the discovery of the west and north-west parts of the Australian continent. Grey’s narrative includes scientific appendices by John Gould, John Edward Gray, and Adam White. The Aboriginal rock paintings found on the first expedition are illustrated on several plates. Bagnall, 2336; Ferguson, 3228; Richards, 97; Wantrup 131. Estimate $1500/2000 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[55] HAMILTON, George. EXPERIENCES OF A COLONIST FORTY YEARS AGO, and A Journey from Port Phillip to South Australia in 1839. By An Old Hand. With Illustrations. Octavo, with errata slip following the text and six wood-engraved plates, small catch at inner margin foot of title and Preface, later two-tone cloth. Adelaide, Frearson and Brother, 1879. First edition: extremely scarce. Hamilton was one of the earliest overlanders to and from Port Phillip and these densely printed reminiscences are a lively record of experience in the earliest years of two colonies. Hamilton was an amateur artist of some ability and the wood-engraved plates, after his drawings, have a distinct naïve charm. Ferguson, 10183 (miscollated). Estimate $200/300 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[56] HARGRAVE, Laurence. “NOTES ON FLYING-MACHINES” and “ON A FORM OF FLYING-MACHINE” [contained in] JOURNAL… of the Royal Society of New South Wales… vol. XIX. Octavo, plates, original cloth. Sydney, 1886. Quite scarce. Estimate $80/120 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[57] HARGRAVES, Edward Hammond. AUSTRALIA AND ITS GOLD FIELDS: An Historical Sketch of the Progress of the Australian Colonies... Octavo, frontispiece, handcoloured outline map, library label on endpaper and inked number on title verso, original gilt-decorated cloth with joint repaired, slightly canted. London, H. Ingram and Co, 1855. First edition of this account of the Australian gold rush colonies, with the first-hand account of Hargraves’s discovery of the Ophir goldfields together with a good deal of interesting controversy relating to the various counter- claims to prior discovery. Ferguson, 10245; Wantrup 2nd edition (in publication) 343. Estimate $200/400 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com [58] HARMS, H. AUSTRALIAN, Ozeanien und Antarktis. Octavo, illustrated, original wrappers, creased at upper corner. Leipzig, 1930. Estimate $60/90 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[59] HASSALL, Rev. James S. IN OLD AUSTRALIA. Records and reminiscences from 1794. Octavo, plates, a handful of markings, uncut, modern half calf, gilt. Brisbane, R. S. Hews & Co., 1902. + Le SOUEF, A.S. and others. THE WILD ANIMALS OF AUSTRALASIA. Octavo, black & white plates, original pictorial cloth, in uncommon dustwrapper. London, George G. Harrap & Co., 1926. + SEARCY, Alfred. BY FLOOD AND FIELD. Octavo, black & white plates, folding map, a bright copy in original cloth, gilt. London, G. Bell & Sons, 1912. + ELMES, J.T. AUSTRALIAN FARMERS’ PRACTICAL HANDBOOK. Octavo, diagrams, original wrappers. Melbourne, E.W. Cole, circa 1925. + WIEDER, Dr. F.C. TASMAN’S KAART van zijn australasiche ontdekkingen 1644. Quarto, illustrations including 19 maps, without the large folding map, original boards. The Hague, Martinus Nijhoff, 1942. Estimate $100/200 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[60] HEDGE, John. TROUT FISHING IN NEW SOUTH WALES. Octavo, illustrations, maps (large folding map in pocket at rear), bookplate, original cloth with dustwrapper. Sydney, Abbey Publishing Co., 1963. Second edition. Inscribed and signed by the author for the famous riverkeeper Frank Sawyer. Estimate $100/200 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[61] HOGAN, J.F. THE GLADSTONE COLONY. An Unwritten Chapter of Australian History. Octavo, original cloth. London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1898. + GRAY, Robert. REMINISCENCES of India and North Queensland 1857-1912. Octavo, map and plates, original cloth. London, Constable and Company, 1913. A comprehensive account of pastoral life in north-west Queensland outback from the first opening up of the country in the early 1860s to the end of the colonial era in 1900. Estimate $100/200 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[62] HOWITT, William. LAND, LABOUR, AND GOLD; or, Two Years in Victoria: with Visits to Sydney and Van Diemen’s Land. Two volumes, octavo, with half-titles, slight wear to spine ends, original cloth (varnished?), a good set. London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855. First edition of a gold rush classic, one of the best of the digger narratives. In September 1852, hoping to improve his family’s fortunes, Howitt and two sons, Alfred and Charlton, arrived in Victoria where they spent the next two years travelling through the colonies and digging with mixed success. Although he discovered the rich Nine-Mile Creek diggings, his other mining ventures were less rewarding. As a prolific professional writer, of greater value was the literary material he assembled which resulted in four books. Of these the best is this lively account of goldfields life noted for its vivid immediacy and candid critique of colonial society. Writing before Eureka, his criticism of the administration of the goldfields gave articulate expression to the concerns and aspirations of the emigrant diggers that were soon to boil over in open rebellion. Ferguson 10618; Wantrup 2nd edition (in publication) 415. Estimate $400/600 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com [63] HUBNER, Baron de. A TRAVERS L’EMPIRE BRITANNIQUE (1883-1884). Two volumes, octavo, original pebbled cloth and marbled boards. Paris, Hachette, 1886. Ferguson, 10627b. + JUNG, Karl. DER WELTTEIL AUSTRALIEN. Four volumes, octavo, illustrated, original blindstamped cloth. Leipzig, Frentag, 1883. Ferguson, 11032. + Four travel works by Sievers, Tisserot and Amero, Roy, and Eden. Estimate $250/300 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[64] HUNTER, Governor John. AN HISTORICAL JOURNAL OF THE TRANSACTIONS AT PORT JACKSON AND NORFOLK ISLAND. Octavo, with frontispiece, engraved title, folding chart, folding plate (engraved by William Blake), recent calf, new endpapers. London, John Stockdale, 1793. The scarce octavo edition of Hunter’s Journal. Estimate $300/500 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[65] HURLEY, James Francis. ARGONAUTS OF THE SOUTH... Being a Narrative of Voyagings and Polar Seas and Adventures in the Antarctic with Sir Douglas Mawson and Sir Ernest Shackleton. With 75 illustrations and maps. Octavo, 46 leaves of plates, and two folding maps, original green cloth. New York and London, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1925. First edition. Renard, 768; Spence, 615 (title mistranscribed). Estimate $200/400 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[66] IMMIGRATION. CORRESPONDENCE RELATING TO CHINESE IMMIGRATION into the Australasian Colonies... Foolscap folio, final leaf with pencilled notes, original printed wrappers (chipped). London, Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1888. Estimate $100/200 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[67] JACK, Robert Logan and Robert ETHERIDGE. THE GEOLOGY AND PALAEONTOLOGY OF QUEENSLAND AND NEW GUINEA… Plates and Map. Octavo, lithographed plates and maps, original cloth (spine fading). Brisbane, James Charles Beal, 1892. The uncommon plate volume only. Estimate $100/200 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com [68] KING’S SCHOOL, PARRAMATTA. DELECTUS SENTENTIARUM GRAECARUM, usum tironum accommodatus, cum notulis et lexico. Duodecimo, original roan (spine chipped at head and foot) without lettering or label. London, Valpy, Longman, Hurst and others, 1824. This copy belonged to William Howe and is signed by him on the endpaper and on the title-page, “King’s School, Parramatta, March 15th 1852”. An attractive souvenir, from a famous Sydney family, of early education in classics in Australia. Estimate $400/600 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[69] LANG, John Dunmore. AN HISTORICAL AND STATISTICAL ACCOUNT OF NEW SOUTH WALES, Both as a Penal Settlement and as a British Colony. Two volumes, octavo, engraved folding map with outline colouring, uncut in early cloth, paper spine labels. London, Cochrane and M’Crone, 1834. First edition. + LANG, John Dunmore. THE FATAL MISTAKE, or how New South Wales has lost its caste in the world. Octavo, original printed wrappers. Sydney, William Maddock, 1875. Estimate $100/200 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[70] LANG, John Dunmore. COOKSLAND IN NORTH-EASTERN AUSTRALIA; The future cotton-field of Great Britain: its characteristics and capabilities for European colonization. With a disquisition on the Origin, Manners, and Customs of the Aborigines. Octavo, with folding map and seven lithographed plates, intermittent pale foxing, the map taped along two folds, pale stain to corner of two plates, in neat modern calf, gilt. London, Longman, 1847. First edition: includes a long transcript of Leichhardt’s journal of his expedition to Port Essington and one of the plates is a portrait of him. Ferguson, 4558. Estimate $200/300 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[71] LEAVITT, T. W. H. THE JUBILEE HISTORY OF TASMANIA, Illustrated. Two volumes, quarto, tinted portraits and plates, publisher’s half morocco, decorated and gilt. Melbourne, Wells and Leavitt, n.d. Very scarce: a handsome set in the original binding. Estimate $400/600 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[72] LEICHHARDT, Ludwig. JOURNAL OF AN OVERLAND EXPEDITION IN AUSTRALIA, from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-5. Octavo, with frontispiece and six aquatint plates, the folding plate repaired and with 100 mm tear and small loss at left margin, occasional soiling, rubbed early half calf and marbled boards. London, T. & W. Boone, 1847. First edition. Ferguson, 4571; Wantrup, 138a. Estimate $400/600 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com Lot 68 [73] LLOYD, E. A VISIT TO THE ANTIPODES: With some Reminiscences of a Sojourn in Australia. By A Squatter. Octavo, with lithograph frontispiece Aboriginal portrait, original embossed russet cloth, slightly canted, back board marked, gilt kangaroo vignette on the front board. London, Smith, Elder, 1846. First edition: includes a chapter describing the departure of Sturt from Adelaide on his great Central Australian expedition. Lloyd’s is a very good circumstantial account of the occasion including a report of various speeches – and some overheard conversations – and festivities that accompanied this momentous event. Ferguson, 4334. Estimate $300/400 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[74] LUDWIG SALVATOR, Archduke of Austria. HOBARTTOWN ODER SOMMERFRISCHE IN DEN ANTIPODEN. Quarto, 23 plates (two folding), illustrations in the text, without folding coloured map, original half red cloth and printed boards, spine mottled. Prague, Heinr. Mercy, 1886. Only edition of this aristocratic vanity publication: an extensive account of a summer trip to Tasmania with illustrations engraved from photographs. Ferguson, 11766b and 13542. Estimate $80/120 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[75] LYONS, Captain W.F. BRIGADIER-GENERAL THOMAS FRANCIS MEAGHER: His Political and Military Career; With Selections from his Speeches and Writings. Octavo, bound with original green wrappers in neat binder’s cloth, leather spine-label. Glasgow, Cameron & Ferguson, circa 1870s. Very scarce: Irish nationalist sentenced to death but then transported to Tasmania in 1849. He escaped to America, becoming at one point Acting-Governor of Montana. Includes Meagher’s convict experiences in Tasmania and his escape. Ferguson 11796 (not noting this issue in wrappers). Estimate $200/300 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[76] MACQUARIE. BENNET, Hon. Henry Grey. A LETTER TO EARL BATHURST, Secretary of State for the Colonial Department, On the Condition of the Colonies in New South Wales and Vandieman’s Land, as set forth in the evidence taken before the Prison Committee in 1819. Octavo, bound without the half-title in recent full navy calf, the boards with gilt rule. London, J. Ridgway, 1820. First edition: rare – this is the first copy we have handled. In the later years of his administration in New South Wales, Macquarie had to contend with a vicious campaign to remove him as governor that was waged from the colony by the “exclusives”, led in the main by the flogging parson, Samuel Marsden. The exclusives had excellent contacts in London and so Macquarie was subject to attacks made against him there which he was not able to answer effectively until he had already been recalled. The British representative of the Marsden party, the parliamentarian Henry Grey Bennet, led the earliest attack in the House of Commons in 1816. Bennet continued his sustained campaign in Parliament and in published pamphlets. Ferguson, 777; Wantrup, 44. Estimate $1200/1800 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com Lot 76 [77] MACQUARIE. BIGGE, John Thomas. A COMPLETE SET OF THE THREE REPORTS into the State of the Colony of New South Wales, the Judicial Establishments of New South Wales and Van Diemen’s Land, and the State of Agriculture and Trade. Three pieces, foolscap folio, uncut in original printed wrappers, spines renewed to match, the First Report is the Craig copy, signed by him on rear endpaper, the Second has a cancelled library stamp on title verso, and the Third has contemporary inked notes connecting it to Lord Dacre. [London, House of Lords, and House of Commons, 1822-1823]. A complete set of Commissioner Bigge’s reports of his enquiry into the state of the colony under Governor Macquarie’s administration. Bigge was appointed Royal Commissioner by Lord Bathurst to examine the transportation system, but “it was clear that Macquarie’s administration as much as the transportation system was under review… Bigge’s reports had a profound influence on the future constitutional and political development of Australia and have a place in any Australian collection” (Wantrup). In this set the First Report is the House of Lords printing, the others House of Commons. See Ferguson 854, 891, and 892; Wantrup 46, 47, and 48; Wilson 35. Estimate $3000/5000 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[78] MANN, John Frederick. EIGHT MONTHS WITH DR. LEICHHARDT, in the years 1846 – 47. Octavo, with frontispiece, ex-library copy with several stamps (including on frontispiece recto), the sewing opening, original wrappers: with inked presentation from the author. Sydney, Turner and Henderson, 1888. First edition and extremely scarce: a critical account of Leichhardt’s failed second expedition. This copy is the first issue, without the subsequently-printed four-page appendix. Ferguson, 12226; Wantrup, 142a. Estimate $200/400 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[79] MANN, William SIX YEARS’ RESIDENCE IN THE AUSTRALIAN PROVINCES, ending in 1839; Exhibiting their Capabilities of Colonization and containing the History, Trade, Population, Extent, Resources, &c. &c. of New South Wales, Van Diemen’s Land, South Australia, and Port Philip; with an account of New Zealand. Octavo, frontispiece handcoloured folding map, uncut in original cloth, rebacked and with neat strengthening along hinges, the title-page signed by the author R. Montgomery Martin. London, Smith, Elder, and Co., 1839. Only edition of a very scarce account of New South Wales, Van Diemen’s Land, Port Phillip, South Australia, and New Zealand by an early colonist, whose compendious account includes description of the historical and social background of the various “provinces”. Bagnall, 3354; Billot, 156; Ferguson, 2799. Estimate $200/300 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[80] MARSDEN, Samuel. SECOND ANNIVERSARY ADDRESS (by the Vice-President) of the Agricultural Society of New South Wales. Small octavo, sewn in original plain wrappers. Sydney, Robert Howe, Government Printer, 1824. A very rare early Sydney imprint: the second report of the Society’s activities by the second vice-President (after Barron Field). Ferguson 929. Estimate $200/400 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com [81] MARSH, M.H. OVERLAND FROM SOUTHAMPTON TO QUEENSLAND. Octavo, three maps (one folding), uncut in original cloth, gilt and decorated, tiny splits in cloth of front joint, spine extremities chipped. London, Stanford, 1867. First edition: presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title-page. Ferguson, 12277. Estimate $100/200 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[82] McKINLAY. DAVIS, John. TRACKS OF McKINLAY AND PARTY ACROSS AUSTRALIA. By John Davis, one of the party. Edited... by William Westgarth. Octavo, with plates (most tinted) and a folding map (two splits in folds) in endpocket, recased in the original cloth with new endpapers. London, Sampson Low, Son, & Co., 1863. First edition of the only substantial publication relating to the McKinlay expedition in search of Burke and Wills. In a sense the ‘formal’ narrative of the expedition, it was based on the journals of John K. Davis, a member of the expedition. Ferguson, 9005; Wantrup 180. Estimate $400/600 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[83] MELBOURNE, A.C.V. REPORT ON AUSTRALIAN INTERCOURSE WITH JAPAN AND CHINA. Octavo, ex- library copy with minimal marking, original wrappers. Brisbane, Government Printer, 1932. Estimate $80/120 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[84] MILITARY. BALLARD, Geoffrey St Vincent. ON ULTRA ACTIVE SERVICE: The Story of Australia’s Signals Intelligence Operations During World War II. Folio, illustrations, original boards with dustwrapper. Melbourne, Spectrum Publications, 1991. Estimate $80/120 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[85] MITCHELL, Thomas Livingstone. JOURNAL OF AN EXPEDITION INTO THE INTERIOR OF TROPICAL AUSTRALIA... Octavo, frontispiece and lithographed plates, seven maps (four folding), original embossed cloth, gilt, rebacked preserving original spine, new endpapers. London, Longmans, 1848. First edition. This was Mitchell’s full narrative of his fourth and last expedition. The fine lithographed plates after Mitchell’s own drawings show his work as a topographical artist at its best. Ferguson, 4828; Wantrup, 129. Estimate $200/400 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com [86] MILLER, Linus Wilson. NOTES OF AN EXILE TO VAN DIEMAN’S LAND: comprising incidents of the Canadian rebellion in 1838, trial of the author in Canada... and transportation to Van Dieman’s Land. Also, an account of the horrible sufferings endured by ninety political prisoners during a residence of six years in that land of British slavery, together with sketches of the Island, its history, productions, inhabitants, &c, &c. Octavo, usual blotchy foxing, later quarter morocco, spine mellowed. Fredonia, New York, W. McKinstry & Co., 1846. Rare. Only edition of one of the rarest and most interesting of the Canadian Exile narratives: “a most vivid and interesting account of the convict system in Tasmania from within by a political prisoner, who publishes testimonials to his upright character and reliability from Tasmanian public men” (Ferguson). Altogether eight other narratives by the Canadian political transportees appeared: by William Gates, Daniel Heustis, Jebediah Hunt, Caleb Lyon, Samuel Snow, and Benjamin Wait (see lot 116 below) in English, and by Léon Ducharme and François Xavier Prieur in French. Ferguson 4349; Wilson 54. Estimate $1500/3000 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com [87] MORETON BAY. PAPERS RELATIVE TO THE SEPARATION OF THE MORETON BAY DISTRICT from New South Wales and the Establishment of a Separate Government. Foolscap folio, folding handcoloured lithographed map by Arrowsmith, 40 mm. split expertly repaired at head throughout, in faded modern papered boards (and with new endpapers) reproducing the title layout. London, George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode… for Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1858. Rare: an important foundation document for the new colony of Queensland. Estimate $300/500 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[88] MORRISON, W. Frederic. THE ALDINE HISTORY OF QUEENSLAND, Illustrated. Two volumes, quarto, with maps and many plates, original publisher’s half morocco, one front board reattached (small loss at foot of spine), and section of one spine replaced to match. Sydney, Aldine Publishing Company, 1888. Scarce: among the numerous plates are coloured natural history plates. Ferguson, 12864. Estimate $400/600 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[89] MUELLER, Ferdinand Von. DESCRIPTION AND ILLUSTRATIONS of the Myoporinous Plants of Australia. [Volume] II: Lithograms [all published]. Quarto, lithographed plates, a fine copy in full contemporary tan morocco over bevelled boards, the boards decorated and gilt with gilt triple-frame, gilt inner dentelles, all edges gilt, moiré silk endpapers. Melbourne, Government Printer, 1886. A very fine deluxe presentation binding from the Victorian Government Printer’s binder (illustrated right). Estimate $600/800 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[90] NAPIER, Charles James. COLONIZATION; PARTICULARLY IN SOUTHERN AUSTRALIA: With Some Remarks on Small Farms and Over Population. Octavo, original quarter cloth and boards, paper label on spine, hinges strengthened, slight chipping. London, T. & W. Boone, 1835. First edition: an important early work encouraging emigration using the eye-witness accounts of the first explorers and earliest settlers. Ferguson, 1991. Estimate $400/600 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com [91] NAPIER, Francis. NOTES OF A VOYAGE from New South Wales to the North Coast of Australia, from the Journal of the late Francis Napier. Octavo, with photographic portrait, eight lithographed plates, four folding maps, one full-page map (p. 70), and a few other illustrations in the text, spine ends chipped, very good in the original green cloth, gilt. [Glasgow, Privately Printed, 1876]. Extremely scarce: the posthumous first edition of Francis Napier’s journal of Cadell’s 1867-9 Northern Territory Expedition, the only separately-published account. Napier had died in 1875 and his brother James published this book on the basis of his journal and papers for private distribution, without an imprint, in Glasgow in 1876. The Davidson copy, with bookplate. Ferguson, 13058; Wantrup, 102. Estimate $600/800 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[92] NIXON, Bishop Francis Russell. THE CRUISE OF THE BEACON: A Narrative of a Visit to the Islands in Bass’s Straits, with Illustrations. Octavo, wood-engraved frontispiece, additional wood-engraved title, and eight wood- engraved plates, all after the author’s sketches, original cloth, recased. London, Bell & Daldy, 1857. First edition. Ferguson, 13424. Estimate $200/300 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[93] OLYMPIC GAMES. OFFICIAL SUBMISSION to host the Games of the XXVIth Olympiad [cover title] Three volumes, eccentric folio, illustrations, quarter leather, decorated boards with pictorial onlays in cloth case. Melbourne, Melbourne Olympic Candidature, circa 1990. Elaborate prospectus for the 1996 Olympics. Estimate $200/400 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[94] PHILLIP, Arthur. THE VOYAGE OF GOVERNOR PHILLIP TO BOTANY BAY… Quarto, plates and charts, publisher’s morocco. Melbourne, Georgian House, 1950. Facsimile edition, superior issue in leather, limited to 1000 numbered copies. + Copies of the Mackaness Angus & Robertson biographies of Arthur Phillip (1937) with repaired dustwrapper, and William Bligh (1951 revised edition), as well as the Heritage Press Voyage of HMS Beagle (1957). Estimate $80/120 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[95] POWELL, Rev. J. Giles. THE NARRATIVE OF A VOYAGE TO THE SWAN RIVER, with an Account of that Settlement from an Authentic Source; containing useful hints to those who contemplate an emigration to Western Australia, with a map and notes. Octavo, with a frontispiece map, an excellent copy in modern navy half morocco and marbled boards. London, F. C. Westley, 1831. Very rare: the only edition of the first book to describe the Swan River settlement. This is the first book-length description of the new settlement in Western Australia, printing a series of letters by the author, dated from Fremantle, November 1829. Powell’s book had been preceded only by emigration tracts published in 1830. The “narrative and account are compiled from several letters addressed by a young man of respectability (now resident at the Swan River) to his relations in England... no statement is presented herein which is not in strict accordance with the truth” (Advertisement). Ferguson, 1467. Estimate $3000/5000 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com Lot 95 [96] PHILLIPS, Sir Richard. A LETTER TO THE LIVERY OF LONDON, relative to the views of the writer in executing the Office of Sheriff. Second Edition Octavo, original papered boards with contrasting spine (chipped at head and foot), contemporary manuscript title-label on spine. London, T. Gillet, 1808. Very scarce. Phillips, a former Sheriff, points out among much else the cruelty and injustice of transporting female offenders to Botany Bay. Ferguson 472. Estimate $200/400 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[97] PULSFORD, Edward. SPECIAL RECORD... in fitting out and starting The Exploratory Expedition to New Guinea. July, 1885. Octavo, a little foxing, owner’s stamp, lightly worn original printed wrappers, front wrapper detaching. Sydney, Cunninghame, 1885. Rare: an important pamphlet relating to the historically significant expedition of 1885, following the Australian annexation of New Guinea in the previous year. The pamphlet is an up to the minute record of all the details leading to the establishment and furnishing of the expedition, the special instructions to the leader and various officers of the Expedition, an account of the departure of the expedition and an early despatch received. Ferguson, 14504. Estimate $600/800 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[98] ROSS, James. HOBART TOWN ALMANACK for the year 1830. With Embellishments. 24mo, with engraved title and separate engraved title for the Calendar, both with vignette illustrations, two signals plates (one coloured), seven views by Thomas Bock, and further wood-engravings in the text, owner’s book label, original calico with portion of printed title label on spine, in neat canvas felt-lined book form box. Hobart Town, James Ross, 1830. Rare: the second Ross almanac, with a “Descriptive Itinerary” for travel around Van Diemen’s Land as well as comprehensive statistics for the colony. The plates are by Thomas Bock after Frankland, Dalrymple, and Lemprière. Ferguson, 1366. Estimate $800/1200 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[99] RUSSELL, H.C. DESCRIPTION OF THE STAR CAMERA, at the Sydney Observatory. Quarto, one photographic plate and seven lithographed diagrams (three folding), original cloth, decorated and gilt, small loss to surface of front board. Sydney, 1892. + RUSSELL, H.C. RESULTS of Astronomical Observations made at the Sydney Observatory… 1879, 1880, & 1881. Octavo, illustrated, original cloth, some abrasion and marking. Sydney, 1893. + RUSSELL, H.C. RESULTS of Double Star Measures made at the Sydney Observatory, New South Wales, 1871 to 1881. Octavo, illustrated, original cloth, gilt. Sydney, 1882. Three scarce and important early works on Australian astronomy. Estimate $200/400 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com [100] SCOTT, Robert Falcon. THE VOYAGE OF THE ‘DISCOVERY’. Two volumes, thick octavo, with all coloured plates (some double-page) and black & white plates, maps and folding charts), traces of foxing, original cloth with gilt vignettes, top edges gilt, a very good set. London, Smith, Elder, & Co., 1905. Second impression. The official account of Scott’s first expedition and one of the great works of exploration literature. The British Nation Antarctic Expedition of 1901-04 was primarily a scientific and surveying expedition aimed at re-establishing the British Navy at the forefront of Polar exploration. Scott’s Discovery expedition was the first detailed and truly elaborate scientific exploration of the continent and set a high standard of achievement for the expeditions that followed. The fine coloured plates are after watercolours by Edward Wilson. Renard, 1370; Rosove, 286.A2; Spence, 1051 (not distinguishing the two impressions). Estimate $500/800 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[101] SIDNEY, Samuel. THE THREE COLONIES OF AUSTRALIA: New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia; their pastures, copper mines, & gold fields. By Samuel Sidney, Author of “The Australian Hand-book,” etc. With numerous engravings. Octavo, eleven engraved plates, title splitting along inner margin, many illustrations in-text, two full- page, original gilt-decorated cloth, rebacked. London, Ingram, Cooke & Co., 1852. First edition. Sidney’s interest in the colonies began in the 1840s when his brother John emigrated to New South Wales. In 1847-8 the brothers collaborated on two popular books dealing with Australian emigration and established “Sidney’s Emigrant’s Journal”. Strongly influenced by both Caroline Chisholm and Alexander Harris, Sidney argued that the Australian colonies were ideal for working class emigration. This work is an excellent description of Australia’s current state with a strong anti- Wakefield bias, making it a key document in the debate between the competing Wakefield and Chisholm proposals for emigration. Sidney was well-informed and the numerous verbatim transcripts from otherwise inaccessible primary sources add considerably to the book’s value. Ferguson 15679; Wantrup 2nd edition (in publication) 465a. Estimate $150/240 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[102] SINGLETON, John. A NARRATIVE OF INCIDENTS in the Eventful Life of a Physician. (Melbourne). Octavo, mounted photographic frontispiece, 24 leaves of plates, unrelated inscription, bright original green cloth. Melbourne, Hutchinson, 1891. First edition: superior issue with mounted photographic portrait as frontispiece. Singleton emigrated to Victoria from Ireland in 1851, practising there throughout the gold rush years. Among his major philanthropic achievements were the initiation of the Singleton Bread Fund for the unemployed, the establishment of night shelters for destitute women, a mission to the blind, Widows Cottages in Collingwood, the West Melbourne night shelters for men, the Women’s Model Lodging House, and the Retreat for Friendless and Fallen Women (now Singleton House) in Collingwood. Ferguson, 15732; Ford, 1917; Holden, 99. Estimate $200/300 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[103] SOUTHEY, Robert. “BOTANY-BAY ECLOGUE” [contained in] THE EDINBURGH MAGAZINE… Vol. IX. Octavo, quarter calf and marbled boards. London, 1797. Estimate $50/70 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com [104] SMITH, Madeline. A COMPLETE REPORT OF THE TRIAL of Miss Madeline Smith, for alleged poisoning of Pierre Emile l’Angelier. Revised and corrected by John Morison, Esquire, Advocate, with an introductory chapter. With a correct portrait taken in the Court. Octavo, portrait frontispiece, with the original printed front wrapper, early binder’s cloth, corners rubbing. Edinburgh, William P. Nimmo, 1862. Second edition. A very interesting piece, according to a newspaper cutting laid in, after the murder charge was dismissed Smith left England for Western Australia, living there in seclusion for some years until her identity was discovered, then moving to Melbourne where she died in 1893. Estimate $300/500 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[105] SOWDEN, William J. THE NORTHERN TERRITORY AS IT IS. A Narrative of the South Australian Parliamentary Party’s Trip, and full description of the Northern Territory; its settlement and industries. By William J. Sowden. With an Appendix, containing reports of the general resources of the Territory by Professor Tate, F.G.S. Octavo, original cloth, gilt, spine sunned. Adelaide, W.K. Thomas & Co., 1882. First edition of this detailed and important account of the Northern Territory written on the basis of the official tour of inspection through the Territory by South Australian parliamentarians after nearly two decades of settlement. Ferguson, 16038. Estimate $100/150 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[106] STEPHENS AND STOKES. THE NEW SOUTH WALES CALENDAR and General Post Office Directory 1833. Octavo, frontispiece folding plan, folding interest table and tide table, folding coloured signals plate, folding semaphore table, plan of Victoria Pass, two engraved plates, twelve engraved advertisements, old cloth-backed boards, morocco spine label, all edges gilt, Nancye Kent Perry copy with bookplate. Sydney, Stephens and Stokes, 1833. Very scarce early Sydney almanac. Ferguson, 1689. Estimate $1000/1500 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[107] STIRLING, Patrick James. THE AUSTRALIAN AND CALIFORNIAN GOLD DISCOVERIES, and their probable consequences... Octavo, folding table, library label on endpaper and inked number on title verso, original cloth, gilt, rebacked preserving earlier spine. Edinburgh, Oliver and Boyd, 1853. Very scarce. Ferguson, 16282. + A copy of the 1853 Paris edition, uncut in original wrappers. Ferguson, 16283. Estimate $200/400 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[108] STRETTON, Charles. SPORT AND SPORTSMEN, a book of recollections. Octavo, frontispiece and pictorial title (pale foxing), early half calf and marbled boards, marbled edges. London, Hurst and Blackett, 1866. Scarce: the final chapter, “Two Days with a Native Chief”, is an account of hunting in 1852 at Forest Creek with “King Tom” of the Yarra Yarra tribe. Not in Ferguson. Estimate $200/300 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com Lot 108 [109] SYDNEY HARBOUR. THE PORT OF SYDNEY N.S.W. Official Handbook. Octavo, lacking one text leaf (pp. 53-4), folding maps and plates, original cloth, several date stamps on map versos and on rear endpaper. Sydney, Sydney Harbour Trust Commissioners, 1919. + A 1903 NSW government report on Railways and Tramways. Estimate $80/120 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[110] THERRY, Sir Roger. REMINISCENCES OF THIRTY YEARS’ RESIDENCE in New South Wales and Victoria. With a supplementary chapter on transportation and the ticket-of-leave system. Octavo, without advertisements, uncut in original cloth, slightly canted and with faint markings. London, Sampson Low, Son, and Co., 1863. First edition: reminiscences of a prominent judge from 1829 to 1859. Therry’s observations on colonial society, on transportation and the convict system, and on the social consequences of the gold rush are particularly valuable. Ferguson, 16988. Estimate $100/150 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[111] TILLEY, Wilberton. THE WILD WEST OF TASMANIA. Being a description of the Silver Fields of Zeehan and Dundas. Octavo, illustrations, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, the spine and endpapers with old damp staining. Zeehan and Dundas, Evershed Bros., and Melbourne, E.A. Petherick, 1891. Very scarce history of the exploration and development of the west coast and its mineral resources. Ferguson, 17173. + NEW ALBUM OF TASMANIAN VIEWS. Oblong octavo, original cloth gilt. Hobart, J. Walch & Sons, circa 1905. Estimate $80/120 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[112] TRANSPORTATION. BLOSSEVILLE, Marquis De. HISTOIRE DES COLONIES PENALE. de L’Angleterre dans l’Australie. Octavo, occasional foxing, uncut, contemporary pastepaper boards. Paris, Adrien le Clere and others, 1831. Ferguson, 1424. + WHATELY, Richard. THOUGHTS on Secondary Punishments. Octavo, early marbled boards and half roan, with library label. London, Fellowes, 1832. Ferguson, 1616. + GRIFFITHS, A. MEMORIALS of Millbank. Octavo, illustrated, original decorated cloth, gilt. London, Chapman and Hall, 1884. New edition. + EGAN, Pierce. ACCOUNT of the Trial of John Thurtell and Joseph Hunt (London, 1824). Ferguson, 960. + JONES, G.H. ACCOUNT of the Murder of the late Mr William Weare (London, 1824). Ferguson, 956. + Another related title. Estimate $300/400 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[113] TRANSPORTATION. HOWARD, John. AN ACCOUNT OF THE PRINCIPAL LAZARETTOS IN EUROPE, with various papers relative to the plague, together with further observations on some foreign prisons and hospitals, and additional remarks on the present state of those in Great Britain and Ireland. Quarto, 22 folding and double-page engraved plates, folding engraved table (with repair to a long tear), front hinge starting, a good copy in early calf. London, J. Johnson, C. Dilly, and T. Cadell, 1791. Second edition. Following his pioneering prison reforms, Howard devoted himself to the study of gaol fever: the work includes chapters on hulks and penitentiaries. See Garrison and Morton, 1601. Estimate $400/600 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com [114] TRANSPORTATION. HOWARD, John. THE STATE OF THE PRISONS in England and Wales, With Preliminary Observations, and an account of some Foreign Prisons and Hospitals. Octavo, eleven folding engraved plates (one with a clean split in fold), occasional pale staining, later calf retaining original spine, gilt. Warrington, T. Cadell and M. Conant, 1780. Second edition. Estimate $300/500 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[115] WAIT, Benjamin. LETTERS FROM VAN DIEMAN’S LAND, written during four years imprisonment for political offences committed in Upper Canada... Small octavo, woodcut portrait frontispiece, and a white on black map of Van Diemen’s Land (toned), foxed, original leather-backed boards. Buffalo, (New York) A.W. Wilgus, 1843. Only edition of this “Canadian patriot” exile account (See also Linus Miller, lot 85 above). Ferguson, 3762. Estimate $200/400 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[116] WHATELY, Richard. THOUGHTS ON SECONDARY PUNISHMENTS, in a letter to Earl Grey... To which are appended, two articles on Transportation to New South Wales, and on Secondary Punishments; and Some Observations on Colonization. Octavo, pale foxing of several leaves, a fine copy in early sprinkled calf, with the leather book label of Archibald Acheson, 2nd Duke of Gosford. London, B. Fellowes, 1832. First edition of Whately’s plea for a radical reform of the British penal system. Ferguson, 1616. Estimate $150/240 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[117] WHITE, Capt. Samuel Albert. INTO THE DEAD HEART. An Ornithological Trip Through Central Australia. 16mo, 27 leaves of plates, with the original front wrapper, bound with three further titles by White in early quarter morocco. Glover copy with bookplate. Adelaide, W.K. Thomas & Co., 1914. First edition. Account of a tour of the country between Oodnadatta and the Macdonnell Ranges, with much on the Aborigines, reprinted from the Adelaide Register newspaper. + WHITE, Capt. Samuel Albert. THE CRUISE OF THE AVOCET In Search of Skuas and other Things. 16mo, 16 leaves of plates, original front wrapper. Adelaide, W.K. Thomas & Co., [1917]. First edition: inscribed by the author (trimmed by binder): bookplate of Edward Angas Johnson. + WHITE, Capt. Samuel Albert. OOLDEA ON THE EAST-WEST RAILWAY. On the Flooded Murray River. And other Sketches. 16mo, plates (three folding), original front wrapper, inscribed by the author (trimmed by binder) to E.A. Johnson. Adelaide, W.K. Thomas & Co., [1918]. + WHITE, Capt. Samuel Albert. IN THE FAR NORTH-EAST. A Scientific Expedition. 16mo, plates, original front wrapper: inscribed from the author (trimmed by binder) to Edward Angas Johnson, with his bookplate. Adelaide, W.K. Thomas & Co., [1917]. Estimate $1000/1500 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[118] WIMMER, G.A. NUESTES GEMALDE VON AUSTRALIEN… Octavo, with six engraved plates (stamped on verso), ex-library copy with numbered paper label on upper board and several stamps on early leaves, contemporary continental papered boards with contrasting spine. Vienna, Anton Doll, 1832. The plates include views of Sydney and Hobart. Ferguson, 1616a. Estimate $100/150 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com Local History (balance of a collection) (lots 119 – 153)
[119] ALBURY. ANDREWS, Dr. Arthur. THE HISTORY OF ALBURY. 1824 – 1895. Octavo, pp. [xii] (first leaf blank), 94, [2] (blank), with map in the text; an excellent copy in the original green cloth, spine little sunned. Albury, Printed by Adams, Cooper, and Adams, “Banner” Office, 1912. First edition – the rare cloth issue – of an extremely scarce borderland regional history. Estimate $150/200 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[120] ARARAT. BANFIELD, Lorna L. LIKE THE ARK: The Story of Ararat. Octavo, pp. [xiv], 202, with four leaves of plates; original cloth with dustwrapper. Melbourne, F.W. Cheshire, 1955. First edition. Beaumont, 309. + BANFIELD, Lorna L. SHIRE OF ARARAT: Its Settlement and Development 1864 – 1964. Quarto, pp. 78, [2] (last colophon, recto blank), with coloured frontispiece and other illustrations throughout; original cloth, title in gilt on the front cover. Ararat, New Ararat Advertiser Pty. Ltd., March 1964. Scarce. Beaumont, 310. Estimate $60/80 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[121] BALLARAT. McCALLUM, Malcolm Montague. BALLARAT AND DISTRICT “CITIZENS AND SPORTS” at Home and Abroad. Octavo, pp. [xiv], 118, [24] (mainly advertisements); original cloth. Ballarat, Tulloch & King for the McCallum Press and Publishing Company, 1916. Scarce. Beaumont, 352. Estimate $50/80 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[122] BALWYN. MACLEAN, Donald. BALWYN 1841 – 1941. Octavo, pp. [ii] (limitation leaf, recto blank), 24 (first leaf blank), [2] (blank); original morocco-backed boards. Melbourne, Catherine Gregson, 1942. First edition, the very scarce special issue in a special binding limited to 30 numbered and signed copies. The history evidently commenced as a form project at Camberwell Grammar School and was then published in aid of the School War Fund. Beaumont, 91. Estimate $80/120 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[123] BARHAM. McCONNELL, T.R. THE HISTORY OF BARHAM. Octavo, pp. 124, illustrations; original cloth with dustwrapper. Melbourne, D.W. Paterson [for the Author], 1951. Very scarce. District in the Murray borderlands. The printer’s copy with D.W. Paterson ownership inscription on the free front endpaper. Estimate $60/80 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com [124] BENDIGO. ARGUS, The. BENDIGO’S RICHES. Reprint of a Special Series of Articles which appeared in “The Argus” on the Potential Wealth of the Water Supply, Soil, and Sunshine of the Bendigo District. Octavo, pp. 16, illustrations; stapled as issued. Melbourne, Wilson & Mackinnon, [1910]. Articles and additional extracts by the Argus ‘Special Reporter’ promoting the claims of Bendigo and district for further development. Not in Beaumont. + CITY OF BENDIGO 1856 – 1956. Large octavo, pp. [24], illustrations throughout; original titling-wrappers. Bendigo, Cambridge Press, 1956. Beaumont, 399. + An ephemeral sheet on A.C. Cooke’s panorama of Sandhurst Estimate $50/80 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[125] CASTLEMAINE. MARTIN, James. INAUGURATION OF THE CASTLEMAINE MUNICIPAL COUNCIL. Octavo, pp. 48; original wrappers. Castlemaine, Castlemaine Mail Print, circa 1950. Beaumont, 465 (part). + MARTIN, James. INAUGURATION of the Castlemaine Municipal Council. Part 2. Octavo, pp. 68; original wrappers. Castlemaine, Castlemaine Mail Pty. Ltd., circa 1950. Beaumont, 465 (part). + O’BRIEN, J.P. STORE BAG of gilt paper, printed on both sides. No imprint. circa 1920s – 1930s. A small store bag from the store of J.P. O’Brien Wholesale and Retail Grocer, Castlemaine and Fryerstown; advertisement for tea on other side – very rare, obviously. Estimate $40/80 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[126] CRESWICK. GRAHAM, John A. EARLY CRESWICK: The First Century. Octavo, pp. 275 (own ends); original cloth. Melbourne, Arbuckle, Waddell Pty. Ltd., 1942. First edition: presentation copy, personally inscribed and signed by the author on the front pastedown endpaper in 1943. Beaumont, 503. Estimate $100/150 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[127] DANDENONGS. COULSON, Helen. STORY OF THE DANDENONGS 1838 – 1958. Large octavo, pp. xvi (last blank), 416, with 27 leaves of plates; original cloth with dustwrapper. Melbourne, F.W. Cheshire, 1959. First edition: scarce in dustwrapper. Beaumont, 152. Estimate $50/70 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[128] DUNOLLY. FLETT, James. DUNOLLY: THE STORY OF AN OLD GOLD-DIGGINGS TOWN. Large quarto, pp. [viii], 160, with 22 plates, including two tipped-in coloured plates; original cloth with dustwrapper. Melbourne, The Poppet Head Press, 1956. First edition. See Beaumont, 530. + FLETT, James. GRANT-CROOKED RIVER DIGGINGS [drop title]. Quarto, pp. [8], illustrations; stapled, without wrappers as issued. Melbourne, A.C. Brooks, Government Printer, n.d. but 1965. Offprint from Mining & Geological Journal, Vol. 6. No. 5. Not in Beaumont. Estimate $80/100 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com [129] GEELONG. BROWNHILL, George H. ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO GEELONG AND DISTRICT. Written by Geo. H. Brownhill. Issued by the Committee of the Geelong Progress Associations. Octavo, pp. 232, with a large folding map laid down on fine linen bound in after the text, with numerous full-page illustrations from photographs and advertisements in the text; original printed cloth wrappers. Geelong, Henwood &Dancey, 1908. Rare. Pages 105- 232 comprise an alphabetically ordered advertising section with a stepped A-Z index on the leading margin. Beaumont, 565. Estimate $120/180 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[130] GEELONG. BROWNHILL, Walter Randolph. THE HISTORY OF GEELONG AND CORIO BAY. Large quarto, pp. [x] (last blank), 674, illustrations throughout; original green plasticised cloth, all edges green, without dustwrapper as issued. [Melbourne, Wilke & Co. for the Author], 1955. First edition: privately-published, much sought and scarce. Beaumont, 566. Estimate $200/400 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[131] GIPPSLAND SOUTH. ELMS, A.W. and others. THE LAND OF THE LYRE BIRD: A Story of Early Settlement in the Great Forest of South Gippsland… Quarto, pp. 428 (last blank), [4] (blank), and a folding table, illustrations throughout; little shaken in the original dark green cloth. Melbourne, Gordon and Gotch (Australasia) Limited for the South Gippsland Pioneers’ Association, 1920. First edition: extremely scarce. Presentation copy signed and inscribed by one of the contributors, the surveyor J. Lardner. Not in Beaumont but see 604 for a modern reprint. Estimate $100/150 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[132] INGLEWOOD. INGLEWOOD GOLDFIELD. THE INGLEWOOD GOLDFIELD. Past history and Future Prospects [drop title]. Octavo, pp. 28; later plain wrappers. No imprint . [Inglewood], circa 1910. All copies of this short work are found in later plain wrappers; a bundle of the unbound sheets were sold through Penn’s Bookshop (Melbourne) in the late 1960s and probably originated from the stock of a country printing shop. Beaumont, 678. Estimate $40/60 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[133] LISMORE [and] HAMPDEN. OMAN, J.R., P.S. LANG, and John RYAN. BROWN’S WATER HOLES: History of Lismore 1840 – 1961. Octavo, illustrations, original cloth. Geelong, Adams Printers, 1961. + McALPINE, R.A. THE SHIRE OF HAMPDEN 1863 – 1963. Octavo, illustrations, original cloth. Terang, 1963. Estimate $100/150 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com [134] MALVERN. COOPER, John Butler. THE HISTORY OF MALVERN FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT TO A CITY. Compiled by Order of the Malvern Council. Octavo, pp. xii, 268, with colour frontispiece and 50 leaves of plates; fine in original black plasticised cloth, gilt, top edge gilt, without dustwrapper as issued. Melbourne, The Specialty Press Pty. Ltd., 1935. First edition: the last of Cooper’s grand suburban histories. The volume was issued wrapped in tissue or glassine, which has invariably adhered to the plasticised cloth; most copies show some signs of adhesion, this copy unblemished (and rare thus). Beaumont, 215. Estimate $120/200 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[135] MILDURA. A GROUP of Vintage Aerial Photographs of Mildura. 36 photographs, mounted on seven album leaves, some pencilled captions. Mildura, 1929-1930. Amateur aerial photographs taken in this period are quite uncommon. Estimate $30/50 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[136] NORTHCOTE. SWIFT, William George. THE HISTORY OF NORTHCOTE from its first Settlement to a City. Compiled in 1927 by order of the Northcote City Council. Octavo, pp. viii, 152, with 36 leaves of plates, with errata slip; fine in original cloth with fine dustwrapper. Melbourne, “The Leader” Publishing Company, 1928. First edition: rare in dustwrapper. Beaumont, 231. Estimate $100/150 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[137] OCEAN GROVE. EDWARDS, Ron G. THE HISTORY OF OCEAN GROVE written and illustrated by Ron G. Edwards. Octavo, pp. [viii] (first leaf and last page blank), 32 (last blank), with decorations throughout; fine in original quarter leather, the spine lettered in gilt, gilt vignette on the front board, preserved in a later slipcase. Ferntree Gully, The Rams Skull Press, 1952. The limited Rams Skull Press edition of 50 numbered copies, half of which were lost at the binder’s (Farmer). Beaumont, 879 (ordinary edition). Estimate $60/90 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[138] PORTLAND. LEARMONTH, Noel F. THE PORTLAND BAY SETTLEMENT: being the History of Portland, Victoria from 1800 to 1851. Octavo, pp. x, 286 (last blank), with eleven leaves of plates, two folding maps, other maps in the text; original cloth, without dustwrapper as issued(?). Melbourne, McCarron, Bird & Co., 1934. First edition. A classic and exemplary history. Beaumont, 932. Estimate $80/120 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com [139] PRAHRAN. COOPER, John Butler. THE HISTORY OF PRAHRAN from its First Settlement to a City. Compiled (1912) and Revised (1924) by Order of the Prahran Council. Large octavo, pp. [iv] (half-title and title), ix – xvi, 372, with tipped-in coloured frontispiece and one other tipped-in coloured plate, 55 other leaves of plates; an excellent, sharp, clean copy in original cloth, top edge gilt, without dustwrapper as issued. Melbourne, Modern Printing Co., 1924. The better and preferred second edition, revised and much expanded over the smaller edition of 1912. This was thee first of Cooper’s carefully researched and comprehensive histories of three prominent Melbourne suburbs – Prahran, St Kilda, and Malvern – generally acknowledged as the ‘classic’ local histories from the pre-war era. Beaumont, 240. Estimate $100/160 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[140] SCARSDALE. M’GRATH, Patrick, et al. THE STORY OF BROWNS AND SCARSDALE by Patrick M’Grath and others. Edited by John West. Octavo, pp. [viii], 160, [8] (blanks), with a folding map, other illustrations in the text; the extremities of the friable original cloth little worn as usual but sound. Melbourne, Sands & McDougall, 1912. Rare: published as a Jubilee Souvenir for the 1912 Scarsdale Old Boys Reunion. Tipped onto the back endpaper is the programme for the Reunion celebrations. Beaumont, 440. + SCARSDALE OLD BOYS’ Seventh Re-union [drop title]. Two conjugate card leaves, outside printed black on pale blue, inside printed black on pale pink, with hotographic illustrations; folded as issued. No imprint [Scarsdale, 1912]. Rare and ephemeral: with list of historical landmarks headed “Jubliee Souvenir of the Borough of Browns & Scarsdale” on the third page + Loosely inserted is a printed photograph of the 1911 re-union, being a version of that printed in M’Grath’s History of Brown’s and Scarsdale and evidently separately-issued. Estimate $120/240 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[141] SEYMOUR. SEYMOUR DEVELOPMENT LEAGUE. SEYMOUR: The Hub of Victoria Australia [cover title]. Oblong duodecimo, pp. [24], illustrations throughout (one in colour); small institutional stamps but near fine in the original titling-wrappers. Shepparton, “The Shepparton News” Publishing Coy, n.d. circa 1950. Promotional piece giving a snapshot of Seymour in the late 1940s – early 1950s. Not in Beaumont. Estimate $30/60 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[142] SOUTH MELBOURNE. DALEY, Charles. THE HISTORY OF SOUTH MELBOURNE from the Foundation of Settlement at Port Phillip to the year 1938. Compiled by Order of the City of South Melbourne. Octavo, pp. xxiv, 408, with 27 leaves of plates (some folding); original plasticised cloth, photographic endpapers, with dustwrapper (little chipped). Melbourne, Robertson and Mullens, 1940. Scarce first edition: rare with dustwapper. Beaumont, 263. Estimate $120/180 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com [143] ST. KILDA. COOPER, John Butler. THE HISTORY OF ST. KILDA FROM THE FIRST SETTLEMENT TO A CITY AND AFTER: 1840 – 1930. Compiled by Order of the St Kilda City Council. Volume I-II. [together with] LONGMIRE, Anne. ST. KILDA: THE SHOW GOES ON. The History of St. Kilda Vol. III, 1930 to July 1983. Two volumes, octavo, pp. xvi (first leaf and last page blank), 406 (last blank), [2] (colophon, verso blank); pp. xvi (first leaf and last page blank), 338, [2] (blank, verso colophon); with tipped-in colour frontispiece in volume one and tipped-in frontispiece in volume two, 104 other leaves of plates in total; fine in original rib-grain blue cloth, gilt, top edges gilt, without dustwrappers as issued [and] Octavo, pp. xii, 340, with illustrations throughout; original blue library buckram lettered and ruled in gilt, top edge gilt, without dustwrapper as issued. Melbourne, Printers Proprietary Limited, 1931 [and] Melbourne, Hudson, 1989. First editions. Cooper’s classic local history complemented by the extremely scarce “third” volume of this official history published in 1989 and written by Anne Longmire. This is one of a small number of copies bound in blue library buckram, lettered and decorated uniformly with Cooper’s original two volumes, with which it stands sympathetically. Beaumont, 254 (Cooper volumes only). Estimate $180/260 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[144] STAWELL. SHARPLEY, Walter Gordon. AN HISTORICAL REVIEW OF STAWELL. Compiled from Old Records… in connection with the “Home to Stawell” Celebrations October 1st to October 8th, 1947. Large octavo, pp. [72], illustrations; original illustrated wrappers; T.M. Ramsay copy with blindstamp. Melbourne, [Printed by Alex. King & Sons Pty. Ltd. Ballarat, for] Matthews Publishing Co., 1947. Beaumont, 1027. + SMITH, L.L. STAWELL Victoria Australia. The gateway to the Grampians [drop title]. Oblong quarto broadsheet, folding twice to form three double-sided panels, photographic illustrations and a map, the two outer panels printed in red and black; light use, very good. Stawell, Printed at the Office of the “Stawell Times-News”, circa 1961. Very scarce: prepared by the Town Clerk and the publication sponsored by the Town Council, North Western Woollen Mills, Stawell Timber Industries Pty Ltd, and the Stawell Development Association. Estimate $60/80 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[145] STRATHBOGIE. VROLAND, A.W.R. THE EARLY HISTORY OF STRATHBOGIE. Folio, four preliminary leaves, 38 leaves (text), one blank leaf, processed typescript, printed on the rectos only; original wrappers. Box Hill, “Supreme” Duplicating Service for the Author, 1949. First edition: as explained in Vroland’s preface, the present work was based on an original manuscript history by Vroland and fellow teacher J.R. Donald produced in 1906, illustrated by original photographs and decorations by their pupils, and here typed from the original and now first published. Beaumont, 1034 (misunderstanding the nature of the unpublished original manuscript history of 1906). Estimate $30/50 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[146] TOORAK. ROBB, Emily Maud. EARLY TOORAK AND DISTRICT. Oblong octavo, pp. 138 (last blank), [2] (blank), with numerous illustrations throughout; original contrasting cloth with little defective dustwrapper. Melbourne, Robertson and Mullens, 1934. First edition: very scarce and much sought (the only history of Toorak, hard as that may be to believe); the dustwrapper is highly uncommon. Beaumont, 272. + TOORAK AND VICTORIA’S FIRST GOVERNOR [drop title]. 16mo, pp. [8] (last blank); stapled as issued without wrappers. No imprint. No date, circa 1930s. History of the house that gave the suburb of Toorak its name. Not in Beaumont. Estimate $150/200 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com [147] UPPER MURRAY. ANDREWS, Dr. Arthur. THE FIRST SETTLEMENT OF THE UPPER MURRAY 1835 TO 1845. With a Short Account of over Two Hundred Runs 1835 to 1880. Octavo, pp. 188, with one plate and a folding map; very good in original cloth. Sydney, D.S. Ford, 1920. First edition: very scarce. Inscribed and signed presentation copy. Beaumont, 1087. Estimate $100/200 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[148] UPPER MURRAY. MILLER, Royal R. THE UPPER MURRAY: A Centenary Survey with special reference to the Coryong District. Octavo, pp. 124 (first two leaves blank), [4] (first colophon, others blank), with eleven leaves of plates, and a double-page map; original cloth, title on front board in gilt. Melbourne, Spectator Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd., 1934. First edition: very scarce. Beaumont, 1088. Estimate $100/200 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[149] VICTORIA. SELBY, Isaac. THE OLD PIONEERS’ MEMORIAL HISTORY OF MELBOURNE. From the Discovery of Port Phillip down to the World War. Large octavo, with two folding maps, illustrations, original cloth wearing. Melbourne, Old Pioneers’ Memorial Fund, [1924]. First edition: detailed chronicle, concentrating on the early years of Melbourne. Beaumont, 54. + SAXTON, John George. VICTORIA PLACE-NAMES AND THEIR ORIGIN. Octavo, pp. 72; original cloth-backed printed boards. Clifton Hill, Saxton and Buckle, Printers and Publishers, 1907. Scarce. Beaumont, 1249. + DUNN, Nellie Augusta. A HISTORY OF POINT LONSDALE. Octavo, pp. [x] (last blank), 64 (last colophon only), two leaves of plates; original boards with dustwrapper. Melbourne, F.W. Cheshire, 1949. First edition. See Beaumont, 910 (second edition). + LAPTHORNE, Alice M. MILDURA CALLING. Octavo, pp. 62 (last blank), illustrations; original cloth-backed cut-flush boards with dustwrapper. Melbourne, Bread and Cheese Club, 1946. First edition. See Beaumont, 797 (later edition). + Two others. Estimate $60/120 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[150] WARRAGUL. COPELAND, Hugh. THE PATH OF PROGRESS: from the Forests of Yesterday to the Homes of To-day. Octavo, pp. xvi, 536 (last colophon only), with 32 leaves of plates; original cloth, gilt, with scarce dustwrapper. Warragul, Shire of Warragul, 1934. First edition, very scarce with dustwrapper. Beaumont, 1120. Estimate $50/70 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[151] WILLIAMSTOWN. ELSUM, William H. THE HISTORY OF WILLIAMSTOWN FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT TO A CITY 1834 – 1934. Compiled by Order of the Williamstown Council. Octavo, pp. viii, 144, with 32 leaves of plates; original textured boards, gilt, the spine lightly faded but fine copy, without dustwrapper, apparently as issued. Williamstown, Frank S. Young, “Chronicle” Office, 1934. First edition: scarce especially in such tight, clean condition. Beaumont, 284. Estimate $150/200 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com [152] WIMMERA. BLAKE, Leslie and K.H. LOVETT. WIMMERA SHIRE CENTENARY: An historical account. Large octavo, pp. 104, illustrations throughout; near fine in original wrappers. Horsham, Wimmera Mail-Times for Wimmera Shire Council, 1962. First edition (of several): signed by both authors. Beaumont, 1161. Estimate $30/60 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[153] YEA. GORDON, H.C. YEA: ITS DISCOVERY AND DEVELOPMENT 1825 TO 1920. Quarto, pp. 90 (last blank), [2] (colophon, verso blank), with six leaves of plates; original cloth, evidently as issued without dustwrapper. Melbourne, The Hawthorn Press, 1954. Rare: first edition. Beaumont, 1194. Estimate $120/180 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
Ephemera (lots 154 – 184)
[154] ART TRAINING INSTITUTE. THE NEW COMMERCIAL ART IN AUSTRALIA or the New Era in Advertising Art. Quarto, illustrations, original pictorial wrappers with Isaac Northfield illustration, complete with perforated enrolment form (and additional loosely inserted form). Melbourne, circa 1940s. Prospectus for students. Contributors include Northfield, Percy Trompf, and Harry Weston. Estimate $40/60 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[155] AUSTRALIAN AUTHORS’ WEEK 1935. BOOK EXHIBITION CATALOGUE. Farmer’s Blaxland Galleries. Octavo, original wrappers. Sydney, Waite & Bull, 1935. + THE AUSTRALIAN AUTHOR: Produced by the Fellowship of Australian Writers. Authors Week 1935, in original pictorial wrappers. Contributors include Norman Lindsay, Kenneth Slessor, and Lennie Lower. Estimate $40/60 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[156] BRIGHTON. PRINTED AND ILLUSTRATED POSTCARD, ‘Yachting at Brighton’, used by the council for correspondence, completed in manuscript, postally used. 1904. Estimate $40/60 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com [157] BAIRNSDALE. PLAN OF THE MITCHELL TOWNSHIP situate on the west side of the River Mitchell, Gipps Land, and on the south side of the main road. G. J. Jones, Surveyor, 16th August, 1860. Original manuscript deed of conveyance, incorporating map of approximately 420 x 260 mm. lithographed by Fergusson & Mitchell, for sale of land by William Essington King to George Bull, on vellum, dated 13 June 1862, single sheet folded to four pages, signed by King, with wax seal, old folds, docketed by the Registrar of the Supreme Court. Melbourne, 1862. Prepared from an 1860 survey, the plan shows allotments from the wharf to Smith Street, and extends west to Dawson Street. The vendor of the land, William Essington King, was a son of Admiral Phillip Parker King and grandson of Governor Philip Gidley King. With his brother Arthur he ran a stock and station agency in Bourke Street, Melbourne between 1859 and 1863. Estimate $2000/3000 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[158] CARON, Leon, and J.W. MEADEN. VICTORIA. Prize Cantata. Words by J.W. Meaden. Music by Leon Carron. Composed Expressly for the Inauguration of the Melbourne International Exhibition, 1880. Tall octavo, with musical score, original cloth-backed wrappers (worn). Melbourne, Allan & Co., and London, Novello, 1880. Rare. Estimate $80/120 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[159] CENTRAL VICTORIA. ABOUT 57 POSTCARDS. Mostly Daylesford, Ballarat, Bendigo, and Mt Macedon. Estimate $100/200 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com [160] CRICKET. THE LISTENER IN. Vol. 10. No. 33. (18 August 1934). Special Cricket Issue. Quarto, illustrations, original pictorial wrappers. Melbourne, 1934. With the score sheet for the Fifth Test at the Oval - including Ponsford’s 226 & Bradman’s 244 runs - neatly filled-in Estimate $40/60 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[161] DANDENONGS. ABOUT 15 POSTCARDS. Includes images of Gembrook, Healesville, and Belgrave. Estimate $70/90 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[162] FILM POSTERS. A GOOD COLLECTION of locally printed posters. 32 coloured lithograph movie posters, 750 x 330 mm, folded, in fine state Sydney, circa 1960s. Including posters for The Pink Jungle, Journey to Shiloh, and The Plainsmen. Estimate $200/300 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[163] FRANK JOHNSON. A COLLECTION of about 18 humorous publications issued by the publisher Frank Johnson, circa 1940s, in original pictorial wrappers. Sydney. Contributors include Lennie Lower, Unk White, and Les Robinson. Estimate $150/300 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[164] GIPPSLAND. ABOUT 34 POSTCARDS. Includes images of Lake Tyers, Bemm River, and Phillip Island. Estimate $80/120 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[165] GREAT OCEAN ROAD (Victoria). ABOUT 23 POSTCARDS circa 1905-1950, including some from the Victorian Railways Tourist Series, mostly depicting Lorne & Apollo Bay. Most postally used. Estimate $100/200 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[166] HORSE RACING. THE AUSTRALASIAN. 2 July, 1932. Folio, numerous black & white illustrations, 26pp. coloured pictorial supplement, original wrappers. Melbourne, Wilson & MacKinnon, 1932. Grand National Souvenir Number. Estimate $40/60 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[167] MAGAZINE. THE BULLETIN. 15 July 1931. Folio, illustrations, original wrappers. Sydney, 1931. + A copy of the 1974 facsimile issue of the 1899 Christmas number of the Bulletin. Estimate $40/60 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[168] MAGAZINES. AN INTERESTING ARCHIVE of the first (and sometimes only) issues of about 40 English magazines & journals, mostly 1890s and Edwardian, purchased in Melbourne, and put aside at the time. Includes The Hippodrome (1901), The Printseller (1903), and The Rostrum and Auctioneer’s Journal (1904) Estimate $100/200 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[169] MILDURA. ABOUT 16 PHOTOGRAPHIC POSTCARDS. Includes images of the Grand Hotel, the Railway Station, and Deakin Ave. + A few postcards relating to the Murray River. Estimate $60/90 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[170] NEWSPAPER. THE NEW SOUTH WALES GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, Vol. 16. 1 July to 31 December, 1844. Foolscap folio, contemporary marbled boards and half calf, spine mottled and labels chipped, with the binder’s ticket of W. Moffitt, Pitt Street, Sydney. Sydney, J. Row, Government Printer, 1844. Estimate $200/300 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[171] NORTH WESTERN VICTORIA. ABOUT 21 POSTCARDS. Includes images of Bright, Harrietville, and Mt Buffalo. + A small group of cards &c. relating to Marysville. Estimate $80/120 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[172] PORT CAMPBELL. ADVERTISING CARD for “Seafoam” guest house. Printed card, 110 x 75mm, illustrated, scalloped edges. Cobden, Kerr, Printer, circa 1915. Rare ephemeron. Estimate $100/200 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[173] PORT PHILLIP BAY. ABOUT 19 POSTCARDS. IncludesGeelong, Queenscliff, and Sorrento. Estimate $80/120 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[174] POSTCARDS. THREE POSTCARDS with undivided backs: “Kangaroo”, “Bush Turkey”, and “Opossum”. Circa 1910. A.A.A. All About Australians (Series A). Estimate $40/60 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com [175] PRAHRAN. THE PRAHRAN TELEGRAPH. With Which Are Incorporated the St. Kilda Advertiser, and the Malvern Argus. 29 May - 6 Nov. 1909. Five issues (including one duplicate), broadsheet, folded. Prahran, Arthur Tilley, 1909. + Twelve issues published under the St. Kilda Advertiser masthead (1909-10), and one as the Malvern Argus (19 March 1910). Estimate $70/90 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[176] PRESENTATION MANUSCRIPT. CALLIGRAPHIC MANUSCRIPT presented to Joseph Forrester. Manuscript on vellum, twelve leaves, 180 x 125 mm, armorial frontispiece, illuminated title, each leaf within double rule border and with coloured corner-pieces, several bearing signatures (the balance blank), in a fine contemporary binding (unsigned) of polished calf, moiré silk endpapers, spine elaborately gilt, with inner gilt dentelles and all edges gilt. [London], 1931. Illuminated by G.N. Higgin, Kendal, and presented to Forrester on the occasion of his wedding in 1931, by friends in Toc H who have signed the album. Estimate $150/200 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[177] RADIO. THE WIRELESS WORLD. Vol. I. No. I. (April 1913). Octavo, illustrations, original pictorial wrappers. London, Marconi, Press Agency, 1931. + A copy of Popular Wireless Weekly Vol. I. No. I (June 1922). Quarto, illustrations, original pictorial wrappers. London, Amalgamated Press, 1922. Estimate $40/60 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[178] THOMSON, James (ed.). ILLUSTRATED HANDBOOK OF VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA. Large octavo, folding map, numerous plates (some folding), original cloth-backed wrappers. Melbourne, John Ferres, 1886. Prepared for the 1886 Colonial and Indian Exhibition. Complete as issued without the plate, “Interior of St Paul’s New Church of England Cathedral”. With signed inscription to the architect Joseph Reed from the President of the Commission, Joseph Bosisto. Ferguson, 8486a. Estimate $200/400 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[179] THOMSON, James (ed.). ILLUSTRATED HANDBOOK OF VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA. Large octavo, folding map, numerous plates (some folding, one defective), original Government Printer’s presentation red morocco elaborately gilt, all gilt edges, silk endpapers. Melbourne, John Ferres, 1886. Prepared for the 1886 Colonial and Indian Exhibition. As issued without the plate, “Interior of St Paul’s New Church of England Cathedral”. With signed inscription from the editor. Ferguson, 8486a. Estimate $200/400 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com [180] TRADE CARDS. A GROUP OF FIVE postcards &c. advertising Australian wines &c. Estimate $40/60 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[181] TRADE CARDS. TOBLER & Co. ALBUM FOR TOBLER’S PICTURE CARDS. Quarto album, sixteen leaves completed with 180 (of 186) numbered trade cards, stiffened papered wrappers, gilt and decorated. Butler & Cope, Ye Printers, undated, circa 1910. Estimate $200/300 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[182] WARRNAMBOOL & PORT FAIRY. ABOUT 17 POSTCARDS. Includes a few cards depicting the Fletcher Jones factory. Estimate $80/120 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[183] WESTERN VICTORIA. ABOUT 22 POSTCARDS &c. Includes Dimboola, Rainbow, Landsborough, and Jeparit. Estimate $60/90 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[184] WWII. GROUP OF EIGHT mostly Melbourne newspapers dealing with the end of WWII. Melbourne, 1945. Newspapers include the Argus (with the banner headline: “Nazis Prostrate; Japs Next”), Sun News-Pictorial, and the Herald. Estimate $40/60 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com Lot 181 Maps and Charts (lots 185 – 217)
[185] AA, Pieter van der. BASSORA en de Landsehappen Tussen den Eufrat en Tiger Stroom, een Gedeelte van Persoen, De Indiaanze zee en Kusten, tot aan de Stragt Zunda. Engraved map, approx. 230 x 156 mm, old vertical folds, margins slightly foxed, a bit browned, unframed. [Leiden, circa 1708]. Map of the Orient showing Africa, India, and the west coast of Australia. Estimate $200/300 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[186] AA, Pieter van der. SCHEEPS-TOGT door Ferdinand Magellan. Engraved map with colouring, approx. 223 x 140 mm, old vertical fold, browning, left margin trimmed to image (touching the border at two points), bevelled and gilt mount. [Leiden, 1707]. Showing the track of Magellan’s voyage from Spain to the Moluccas, with California shown as an island, the cartouche depicting bargaining, with a smaller scene on the left showing Magellan’s death. Estimate $300/500 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[187] AFFERDEN, F. GLOBUS TERRESTRIS. Engraved map with colouring, 240 x 160 mm, two old vertical folds, in double mount, unframed. [Antwerp, 1709]. Double-hemisphere map, with two small astronomical globes. Estimate $150/300 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[188] ARIAS MONTANO, Benito. PARS ORBIS. SACRAE GEOGRAPHIAE TABULAM ex antiquissimorum cultor, familii a Mose recensitis ad sacrorum libror, explicandor. Engraved double-hemisphere world map, with colouring, corner cartouches, with depictions of winds, sea monsters, and sailing ships, text in Latin and Hebrew, approx. 320 x 520 mm, trimmed to neat line at right, three vertical folds (one with 15 mm split of blank margin at head), a sprinkle of pale foxing, verso dusty at head and strengthened at three points, unframed. [London, John Pearson] circa 1660. “This rare map has a special place in the early cartography of Australia. On the eastern hemisphere the triangular corner of an unknown country is shown emerging from the waves at a point where on modern maps northern Australia is situated. This indicates the northern part of an unexplored country, a suggestion of incomplete discovery which in this form does not appear on any earlier map. In this coastline, rising mysteriously from the sea, some scholars believe there is an indication of the discovery of Australia in the sixteenth century” (Schilder). Illustrated on the cover. Estimate $3000/5000 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[189] ARROWSMITH, John. CHART OF FORESTIERS AND TASMANS PENINSULAS. Van Diemens Land Folding coloured chart, 420 x 320 mm. London, John Arrowsmith, 1843. From British government report: Convict Discipline. New South Wales and Van Diemen’s Land. Estimate $80/120 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com [190] BODENEHR, Gabriel. CARTA HYDROGRAPHICA, ODER ALGEMEINE WELT. Engraved map with handcolouring, approx. 230 x 141 mm, double mount with triple line border. Augsburg, circa 1710. Estimate $150/200 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[191] CROSS, Joseph. CHART OF PART OF NEW SOUTH WALES with Plans of the Harbours, Respectfully dedicated to John Oxley, Esq., Surveyor-General… Corrected to 1829. Engraved map with original outline colouring, approx. 950 x 610 mm, dissected and linen-backed as issued, folding into early case of half morocco over marbled boards. London, Joseph Cross, 1829. A rare and celebrated map, issued first in 1826 and revised several times in the 1820s and 1830s. Showing the east coast from Moreton Bay to Port Phillip, and with inset maps including Port Phillip and Western Port. Illustrated over. Estimate $2000/3000 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[192] CRUTTWELL. ATLAS to Cruttwell’s Gazetteer. Folio, twenty-six double page engraved and handcoloured maps, some browning and offsetting, lacking title-page, with printed index leaf and a leaf of inked manuscript notes, early calf and marbled boards. London, G. G. & J. Robinson, 1799. Estimate $300/500 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[193] DESNOS. Louis Charles. HEMISPHÈRE ORIENTAL. Coloured map, 400 x 500 mm, text pasted in margins. Paris, circa 1760. + THE AUSTRIAN, FRENCH AND DUTCH NETHERLANDS, from the best Authorities. London, C. Dilly & G. Robinson, 1785. + Modern folded map of East Asia. Estimate $100/200 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[194] HUNTER. Captain John. SKETCH OF SYDNEY COVE, Port Jackson, in the County of Cumberland, New South Wales. July 1788. Engraved map, 510 x 480 mm, old folds. London, J. Stockdale, 1789. From Arthur Phillip’s Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay (London, John Stockdale, 1789). Estimate $200/400 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[195] JANSSON, Jan. INSULARUM MOLUCCARUM NOVA DESCRIPTIO. Engraved map with colouring, approx. 380 x 490 mm, verso with French text, two vertical folds, verso showing restoration at foot (blank margin), browned, unframed. [Amsterdam, circa 1650]. Estimate $300/500 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com Lot 191 [196] JANSSON, Jan. INDIAE ORIENTALIS NOVA DESCRIPTIO. Engraved map with colouring, 390 x 505 mm, German text on verso, some offsetting and browning, single vertical fold, unframed. Amsterdam, circa 1640. Estimate $600/800 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[197] JANSSON, Jan. MAR DEL ZUR HISPANIS, MARE PACIFICUM Engraved map with colouring, approx. 436 x 535 mm, browned and with several spots, pinprick holes and tiny splits in the surface, small abrasion at lower right, unframed. Amsterdam, 1650. The first map of the Pacific Ocean to show California as an island. Estimate $600/800 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[198] LANGENES, Barent. NOVA GUINEA ET IN. SALOMONIS. Engraved map with colouring, approx. 86 x 124 mm, Dutch text on verso, unframed. [Amsterdam, 1598]. Early map of New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, engraved by Petrus Kaerius, from Langenes’s miniature atlas Carte-Thresoor. + Another copy of the same image, engraved, approx. 86 x 124 mm, Latin text on verso. Estimate $200/400 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[199] LOTTER, G.F. KARTE VON AUSTRALIEN. Engraved map with colouring, approx. 236 x 200 mm, original paper crease of 70 mm, corners stained (old tape marks), browned at head and right top margin, unframed. Augsburg, n.d., circa 1810. Estimate $80/120 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[200] MALLET, Alain Manesson. ISLES DE SALOMON. Engraved map, approx. 150 x 105 mm, French text on verso, unframed. [Paris, 1683]. From the author’s multi-volume Description de l’Univers, this leaf shows the Solomons, Guadal Canal, and part of the New Zealand coast. Estimate $140/180 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[201] MORSE, Jedediah. CHART OF THE NEW DISCOVERIES east of New Holland and New Guinea 1797. Engraved map with outline colouring, approx. 245 x 167 mm, old vertical folds strengthened at head and foot on verso, pale browning and text-offsetting, one pinprick hole. [Boston, 1797]. Morse’s chart showing the tracks of various explorers including de Surville, Quiros, Bougainville, and Mendana. Estimate $150/200 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com [202] ORTELIUS, Abraham ACORES INSULAE. Engraved map with colouring, approx. 330 x 465 mm, verso with Latin text, a dozen small spots, two pale 100 mm, splash marks, tape strengthening on verso at head, browned, single vertical fold, unframed. [Antwerp], 1584 Estimate $300/500 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[203] ORTELIUS, Abraham. INDIAE ORIENTALIS insularumque adiacentium typus. Engraved map with colouring, approx. 350 x 496 mm, original paper crease, Latin text on verso, single vertical fold (browned), the sheet browned, unframed. [Amsterdam], circa 1570. Estimate $1000/1500 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[204] SCHRAMBL, F.A. OESTLICHE HALB KUGEL Engraved hemisphere map with colouring, approx. 630 x 610 mm, old folds, 30 mm repairs at each margin of horizontal fold affecting one letter, two pinpricks and spots, unframed. Vienna, 1786. Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia. Estimate $300/400 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com [205] STRZELECKI, Paul Edmund de. ROUTE FROM YASS PLAINS by the Australian Alps and Gipps Land, to Port Phillip. By E.P. Streleski, 1840 Folding coloured map, 600 x 500 mm. London, John Arrowsmith, 1841. From the 1841 government report recording the exploration of Gippsland and of the Australian Alps, as well as other explorations undertaken during the first three years of Governor Gipps’s administration. Estimate $200/400 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[206] VALENTYN, François. [FREDERIK HENDRIKX BAY AND MARIAS EYLAND]. Engraved map, approx. 164 x 131 mm, untitled, with Dutch text to verso and below image (under mount), mounted and with double line border. [Amsterdam, 1724-26]. Map No. 3 C, part of a single leaf from Francois Valentyn’s Oud en nieuw Oost-indien. Showing the southeast coast of Tasmania during Abel Tasman’s voyage, relief along the coast shown pictorially, with two ships. Estimate $300/500 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[207] VALENTYN, François. OTTENS, F. 1. BOREELS EYLANDEN, 2. STORM BAY, 3. ZUYD CAEP, 4. TASMANS EYLAND, F. Ottens fec. Direxit. Engraved map, approx. 162 x 147 mm, with Dutch text to verso and below image (under mount), mounted and with double line border. [Amsterdam, 1724-26]. Map No. 2 B, part of a single leaf from Francois Valentyn’s Oud en nieuw Oost-indien. Map showing the outline of the southern and southwestern coastline of Van Dieman’s Land with no inland details, and in the foreground Abel Tasman’s two ships the Heemskerck and the Zeehaen. Schilder p. 170; Tooley, 1274. Estimate $300/500 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[208] VAUGONDY, Robert de. ASIE, divisée en ses principaux Etats, Empires & Royaumes, revue et corrigé par C.F. Delamarche, son successeur a Paris. Engraved map with outline colouring, approximately 660 x 505 mm, vertical centre fold, mounted, framed and glazed. Paris, n.d., circa 1804. Includes a text panel to the right of map. Estimate $300/500 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[209] WELLS, Edward. ORBIS TERRARUM COGNITUS, hodiernis Europaeis. Engraved map with colouring, approx. 155 x 80 mm, faint marking at title, and in blank margins, mounted, unframed. [London, 1688]. Miniature double- hemisphere map. Estimate $400/600 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com [210] BURDEN, Philip D. THE MAPPING OF NORTH AMERICA, a list of printed maps 1511-1670. Folio, 11 colour and 418 black & white plates, morocco, gilt, in cloth slipcase. Rickmansworth, Raleigh Publications, 1996. Edition limited to 25 numbered and signed copies. + BURDEN, P. THE MAPPING OF NORTH AMERICA II, a list of printed maps 1671-1700. Folio, plates, cloth in dustwrapper (verso foxed). Rickmansworth, Raleigh Publications, 2007. Estimate $400/600 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[211] CORONELLI, Vincenzo. LIBRO DEI GLOBI. Venice 1693 (1701), with an Introduction by Dr Helen Wallis. Folio, full- and double-page maps, original cloth, gilt, in dustwrapper, endpapers with a trace of foxing. Amsterdam, Chicago and London, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum Ltd., 1969. Estimate $200/300 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[212] DE ROEVER, Arend, and BROMMER, Bea. COMPREHENSIVE ATLAS OF THE DUTCH UNITED EAST INDIAN COMPANY. VOL. III: MALAY ARCHIPELAGO AND OCEANIA. Grote atlas van de Verenigde Oost- Indische Compagnie. Deel III: Indische Archipel en Oceanie. Large (and heavy) folio, illustrated in colour throughout, original cloth in dustwrapper, laminated slipcase. Voorburg, Atlas Maior and others, 2008. Limited edition of 1600 numbered copies. A comprehensive historical and topographical presentation of this region between 1590 and 1820, from the Netherlands National Archives in particular. Estimate $200/400 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[213] KROGT, Peter van der & GROOT, E. de. KOEMAN’S ATLANTES NEERLANDICI. Quarto, four volumes in nine (vols I, II, IIIA, IIIB, IV-1, IV-2¹, IV-2², IV 2³, IVA¹, IVA²), colour frontispieces, thousands of illustrations, original cloth, gilt. Amsterdam, HES Publishers (later HES & De Graaf), 1997-2012. Completely revised edition, with new bibliographical descriptions, of Koeman’s bibliography of Netherlands-published atlases: terrestrial, maritime, and celestial. Volumes I-IV cover publications by Mercator, Hondius, Janssonius, Blaeu, Ortelius, and van der Aa. Volumes V-VIII are forthcoming. Estimate $1500/3000 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[214] SCHILDER, Gunter and others. COMPREHENSIVE ATLAS OF THE DUTCH UNITED EAST INDIAN COMPANY. VOL. I: ATLAS ISAAK DE GRAAF. ATLAS AMSTERDAM. Grote atlas van de Verenigde Oost- Indische Compagnie. Deel I: Atlas Isaak de Graaf. Atlas Amsterdam. Large (and heavy) folio, illustrated in colour throughout, original cloth in dustwrapper, laminated slipcase. Voorburg, Atlas Maior and others, 2006. Limited edition of 1000 numbered copies. Facsimile edition, with Dutch and English text, of the comprehensive manuscript atlas of the VOC’s trading territory around 1700. Estimate $200/400 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com [215] SHIRLEY, Rodney. MAPS IN THE ATLASES OF THE BRITISH LIBRARY, a descriptive catalogue c. AD 850- 1800. Two volumes, quarto, pale foxing of initial and final leaves, and edges, complete with CD Index. London, British Library, 2004. Estimate $200/400 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[216] SHIRLEY, Rodney. THE MAPPING OF THE WORLD, early printed world maps 1472-1700. Quarto, illustrated, occasional pencilled annotation, original cloth rubbing at foot of spine, dustwrapper wearing. London, New Holland Publishers, 1993. Estimate $200/400 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[217] WORMS, Laurence and BAYNTON-WILLIAMS, Ashley. BRITISH MAP ENGRAVERS, a dictionary of engravers, lithographers and their principal employers to 1850. Octavo, illustrated, original cloth, gilt, in dustwrapper. London, Rare Book Society, 2011. + EDSON, E. THE WORLD MAP 1300-1492. Octavo, illustrated, endpapers foxed, slightly marked original cloth, in dustwrapper. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. Estimate $100/150 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
Antiquarian and General (lots 218 – 220)
[218] HORTENSIUS, Lambertus. HET BOECK D. LAMBERTII HORTENSII VAN MONTFOORT … Van den oproer der Weder-Dooperen : eerst in’t Latijn beschreven, ende ghedruckt tot Basel, ... : ende nu in Nederlandts overgheset. Quarto, with title vignette and eight original engraved plates mounted, LACKING two leaves, early parchment (soiled). Amsterdam, Ian Bramsz, 1643. A Dutch translation of Hortensius’s 1548 Basel work on the radical Anabaptists. Estimate $200/400 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[219] RUSS, Dr Karl. THE SPEAKING PARROTS, a scientific manual. Octavo, eight chromolithed plates, publisher’s pictorial cloth, spine and joints fraying. London, Upcott Gill, 1890s. + A copy of Lankester’s Wild Flowers Worth Notice (illustrated, original cloth, front board detached). Estimate $60/80 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[220] RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR. OFFICIAL HISTORY of the Russo-Japanese War. Part IV. Liao-Yang. Prepared by the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence. Octavo, folding map, and seven maps in rear endpocket, original cloth backed papered boards. London, H.M.S.O., 1909. + A copy of E.K. Nojine’s The Truth About Port Arthur (1908), third impression. Estimate $80/120 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com Art and Private Press (lots 221 – 251)
[221] BARNETT, P. Neville. AUSTRALIAN BOOK-PLATES AND BOOK-PLATES OF INTEREST TO AUSTRALIA. Quarto, pp. [vi], 286, [20] (being ten additional leaves added to this De Luxe Special Edition and Author’s Edition only: listed at p. 15), over 300 illustrations throughout of which almost a quarter are tipped-in original bookplates (many in colour and some signed by the artist), pale offsetting or paste show-through occasionally, original parchment-backed boards with dustwrapper (a little spotted foxing of both) and original additional plain plastic protective dustwrapper, in worn card slipcase. Sydney, Privately Printed at The Beacon Press, 1950. Extremely scarce: the De Luxe Special Edition, limited to 85 numbered and signed copies, with 336 original tipped-in bookplates (that is, with an additional series of 31 plates not in the standard edition of 200 copies and with two rare bookplates replacing two others in the standard edition). The most complete survey of Australian bookplates, from the earliest period up to the time of publication. + SOUVENIR OF AUSTRALIAN BOOK-PLATES and book-plates of interest to Australia. Quarto, illustrated, tied in blue wrappers, slight marking along spine fold. Sydney, Privately Printed, Beacon Press, 1951. Edition limited to 200 copies, numbered and signed by the author Estimate $600/800 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[222] BARNETT, P. Neville. WOODCUT BOOK-PLATES. Quarto, numerous bookplates, some handcoloured and some signed, both tipped-in and as text illustrations, original patterned papered boards, in the scarce dustwrapper (flecked and chipped). Sydney, Privately Printed at the Beacon Press, 1934. First edition, limited to 210 copies, signed by the author. One of the most attractive Australian books of the period. Estimate $400/600 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[223] BRACK, John. JOHN BRACK NUDES. Fifteen Original Lithographs. Text by Margaret Plant. Introduction by Gordon Thomson. Folio, 15 original lithograph plates (two of them double-page), with loosely inserted 4-page illustrated prospectus, quarter calf and linen boards (several spots) with embossed design, housed in original linen folding case, scattered pale foxing of linen. Melbourne, Lyre Bird Press, 1982. Edition limited to 200 numbered and signed copies (copy # 2), although many fewer were bound up and issued in the projected form. The balance of the edition was then issued as separate prints. This was doubly disappointing since Brack had designed the lithographs for presentation as a book rather than for presentation on a flat plane. Although a portfolio of his etchings had been issued some years earlier (most now framed), this was the only livre d’artiste that Brack produced – a unique production from one of the most eminent Australian artists of the post-war period. Estimate $3000/5000 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[224] DAVIE, Donald. THREE FOR WATERMUSIC. Illustrations by Gerald Woods. Small folio, two full page colour lithograph plates, original quarter morocco over papered boards, a little pale spotting of endpapers and rear board. [Hove], Snake River Press, undated, circa 1980. With a pencilled limitation of 5/25, without signature or colophon leaf. Estimate $150/300 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com Lot 223
[225] FLINT, Sir William Russell. DRAWINGS. Folio, illustrated and with loosely-inserted mounted drawing in envelope (both with pale foxing), publisher’s cloth-backed papered boards, torn glassine wrapper, in card slipcase, the endpapers and slipcase foxed. London, Collins, 1950. Edition limited to 500 copies, numbered and signed. Estimate $80/120 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[226] KLEY, Heinrich. THE DRAWINGS, Introduction by Arthur Miller [with] Drawings, Volume Two, Introduction by George Grosz. Two volumes, folio, illustrated, scattered foxing, original cloth in dustwrappers. Los Angeles, Borden Publishing, 1941-1947. + KLEY, H. SAMMEL-ALBUM, alte und neue Zeichnungen. Folio, illustrated, foxed original decorated cloth. Munich, Langen, n.d., circa 1923. Estimate $80/120 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com [227] LANDOR, Robert Eyres. SELECTIONS FROM HIS POETRY AND PROSE, with an introduction, biographical & critical by Eric Partridge. Octavo, quarter vellum over blue cloth, in cloth and marbled paper slipcase. London, Fanfrolico Press, 1927. Edition limited to 155 numbered copies (unsigned). Arnold, 10a. + A copy of Grose’s Classical Dictionary (Scholartis Press, 1931) edited by Partridge, and Partridge’s Songs and Slang of the British Soldier 1914-1918 (second edition, revised and enlarged, Scholartis Press, 1930). Estimate $100/150 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[228] LINDSAY, Norman. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED to Mrs Purnell. One page, ink manuscript, quarto, old folds. Faulconbridge, undated but 1960. Written after his son Ray’s death in 1960, the letter speaks of both Ray and also his son Phil (who died in 1958) as being part of a generation very few of whom lived into middle age: “Those boys paid the price of all the bad liquor they drank in the years of early closing of pubs… victims of wowserism and the need to get all the fun out of life which is youth’s prime need.” + A manuscript letter from Dave [Adams] on Bulletin letterhead to Norman [Lindsay], May 1950, asking Lindsay to stand in as cartoonist for a couple of weeks. Estimate $200/400 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[229] LINDSAY, Norman. LYSISTRATA… Done into English Verse by Jack Lindsay, with illustrations and decorations by Norman Lindsay. Quarto, four mounted plates, illustrated in text, occasional finger marks, endpapers shadowed from boards, original quarter cloth (slight marking), papered boards decorated in gilt, with worn original plain dustwrapper. Sydney, Fanfrolico Press, 1925. The first publication of Fanfrolico Press. Limited edition of 135 copies on handmade paper, numbered and signed by Jack Lindsay. Estimate $400/800 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[230] LINDSAY, Norman. LYSISTRATA… Done into English Verse by Jack Lindsay, with illustrations and decorations by Norman Lindsay. Quarto, four mounted plates, illustrated in text, occasional soiling, endpapers shadowed from boards, original quarter cloth, papered boards decorated in gilt. Sydney, Fanfrolico Press, 1925. The first publication of Fanfrolico Press. Limited edition of 135 copies on handmade paper, numbered and signed by Jack Lindsay. Estimate $400/800 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[231] LINDSAY, Norman. MICOMICANA. Folio, pen drawings in black and white, pale spots of foxing on fore-edge, original full calf, gilt decorated, in publisher’s box. Melbourne University Press, 1979. First edition: edition limited to 527 numbered copies signed by Jane Lindsay. Estimate $200/300 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com [232] LINDSAY, Norman. NORMAN LINDSAY WAR CARTOONS 1914-1918. Edited and with a commentary by Peter Fullerton. Folio, colour plates, illustrated, canvas with leather label, with dustwrapper. Melbourne University Press, 1983. + A group of six further works by or about Lindsay, including Tales from the Heptameron of Marguerite de Navarre and Letters of Rachel Henning. + Ephemeral pieces from Odana Editions and others. Estimate $100/150 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[233] LINDSAY, Norman. EIGHTEEN IMPORTANT WATERCOLOUR PAINTINGS reproduced in their original colours, with notes on the artist’s life by Godfrey Blunden. Quarto, tipped-in colour plates, bright original cloth. Sydney, Springwood Press, 1939 [but later]. The interrupted limited edition of The Water Colour Book. Estimate $200/300 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[234] LINDSAY, Norman. NORMAN LINDSAY’S BOOK: No. 1. Edited by Harold Burston. Octavo, numerous black & white illustrations, retaining the original pictorial wrappers (laid to thick card in Book I) in later undistinguished binder’s cloth. Sydney, New South Wales Bookstall Co., 1912. + NORMAN LINDSAY’S BOOK: No. II. Octavo, retaining wrappers, uniformly bound. Sydney, New South Wales Bookstall Co., 1915. Estimate $200/400 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[235] LINDSAY, Norman. PAINTINGS IN OIL: with essays by Douglas Stewart and Norman Lindsay. Quarto, tipped-in colour plates, three of the black & white plates with small adhesion loss, traces of pale foxing at lower margin, endpapers shadowed, original bright green papered boards with gilt decoration, with glassine wrapper and separate (foxed) pictorial dustwrapper. Sydney, Shepherd Press [1945]. Limited edition of 1000 numbered copies. Estimate $300/500 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[236] LINDSAY, Norman. PEN DRAWINGS. Folio, plates, original art vellum-backed gilt-decorated boards, some foxing. Sydney, Arthur McQuitty & Co., 1924. Edition limited to 500 numbered copies, signed by Lindsay. Estimate $150/240 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[237] LINDSAY, Norman. WATERCOLOURS: Nineteen Reproductions in Colour From Original Watercolours With an Appreciation of the Medium by Norman Lindsay and a Survey of the Artist’s Life and Work by Godfrey Blunden. Quarto, tipped-in coloured plates, original papered boards in dustwrapper. Sydney, Ure Smith, 1969. + BLOOMFIELD, L. THE COMPLETE ETCHINGS of Norman Lindsay. Quarto, frontispiece, illustrated, some adhesion damage, cloth with dustwrapper: with loosely inserted Exhibition Catalogue marking the launch. Sydney, Odana Editions and Josef Lebovic Gallery, 1998. + Three works on Lindsay. Estimate $100/200 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com [238] LINDSAY, Norman. BLOOMFIELD, Lin. NORMAN LINDSAY OIL PAINTINGS 1889-1969. Quarto, frontispiece mounted photograph, illustrated in colour throughout, with a loosely inserted art auction notice which has foxed and offset to endpapers, publisher’s leather in matching slipcase (several small spots). Bungendore, Odana Editions, 2006. Deluxe edition limited to 550 copies numbered copies, signed by the author. Includes photograph of The Vanities. Estimate $400/600 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[239] LINDSAY, Norman. BLOOMFIELD, Lin. NORMAN LINDSAY WATERCOLOURS 1897-1969. Quarto, frontispiece mounted photograph, illustrated in colour throughout, publisher’s leather (small spots) in matching slipcase (several marks). Bungendore, Odana Editions, 2003. Deluxe edition limited to 550 copies numbered copies, signed by the author. Includes photograph of The Presentation. Estimate $400/600 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[240] LINDSAY, Norman. BLOOMFIELD, Lin. NORMAN LINDSAY WATERCOLOURS 1897-1969. Quarto, illustrated in colour throughout, laminated boards, in dustwrapper (small tear at foot of rear fold, and blank verso foxed). Bungendore, Odana Editions, 2003. Standard edition. Estimate $200/400 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[241] LINDSAY, Norman. BLOOMFIELD, Lin. NORMAN LINDSAY, 80 years of Pencil Drawing. Quarto, illustrated, pale foxing of title-page, laminated boards. Bungendore, Odana Editions, 2008. + LINDSAY, Norman. SELECTED PEN DRAWINGS. Quarto, prelims and edges foxed, original boards with dustwrapper. Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1968. + LINDSAY, Norman. PENCIL DRAWINGS. Quarto, prelims and edges foxed, original boards with dustwrapper. Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1969. + Three titles on Lindsay’s cats and bears. Estimate $100/150 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[242] LINDSAY, Norman. BLOOMFIELD, Lin. ROSE LINDSAY, a model wife. Quarto, illustrated, laminated boards: signed by the author. Bungendore, Odana Editions, 2001. + Catalogue of the Norman Lindsay and Rose Lindsay exhibition, 1974, marking the publication of Angus & Robertson’s limited edition Two Hundred Etchings. Estimate $60/80 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[243] LINDSAY, Norman. BLOOMFIELD, Lin. THE COMPLETE ETCHINGS OF NORMAN LINDSAY. Quarto, frontispiece, numerous black & white illustrations, with loosely inserted publisher’s certificate and book mark, small adhesion at foot of one opening in Index, fore-edges with pale foxing, publisher’s leatherette in matching slipcase. Sydney, Odana Editions/Josef Lebovic Gallery, 1998. Deluxe edition limited to 550 copies numbered copies, signed by the author and Lindsay’s grand-daughter Helen Glad. Includes facsimile etching: The Artist. Estimate $400/600 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com [244] MÜLLER, W. FLUCH UND GEBET. Folio, three linocut leaves (title, contents and end-leaf), twelve original signed prints in window mounts, with printed colophon and pictorial label laid to upper board, loosely enclosed in (stained) early boards with old vellum clasps. Freiburg im Breisgau, Hans Schoof, 1920. Limited edition of 125 numbered and signed copies. Post-war Expressionist art. Estimate $200/400 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[245] OWEN, Wilfred. THIRTEEN POEMS, with drawings by Ben Shahn. Small folio, half-title, title and decorations in red and black, original quarter buckram over marbled boards. Northampton, Mass., Gehenna Press, 1956. Edition limited to 400 copies, this copy unnumbered. Estimate $150/300 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[246] RAMPANT LIONS PRESS. THE PSALMS OF DAVID. Small folio, title in grey and green, quarter vellum, patterned papered boards, top edge gilt, outer and lower untrimmed. Folkestone, Wm. Dawson and Sons Ltd., Deighton Bell, 1977. Edition limited to 315 numbered copies. Estimate $200/400 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[247] STREETON, Arthur. THE ART OF ARTHUR STREETON. Quarto, tipped in colour plates, original cloth-backed papered boards, with dustwrapper. Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1919. Special number of Art in Australia, limited to 1500 copies : this copy inscribed by the publisher to Stanley Unwin. Estimate $80/100 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[248] TRIANON PRESS. SAMUEL PALMER, A VISION RECAPTURED, the complete etchings and the paintings for Milton and for Virgil. Quarto, illustrated, with five separate loose plates as issued, stiffened wrappers, loosely inserted in lettered canvas boards (this foxed) with canvas ties. London, Trianon Press Facsimiles for the William Blake Trust, 1978. Edition limited to 3826 numbered copies. + Rouault (Paris, Hyperion Press, 1947), and Masterpieces of the National Gallery of Victoria (Melbourne, Cheshire, 1949). Estimate $60/80 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[249] WAYZGOOSE PRESS. WAYZGOOSE ONE. Folio, coloured and black & white plates (some tipped-in and some folding) illustrations, loosely inserted errata slip (and prospectus for Wayzgoose II), original wrappers. Sydney, The Wayzgoose Press, 1985. One of 450 copies. Estimate $70/90 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com [250] WOOLNER, Thomas. TIRESIAS. Octavo, uncut in original red cloth, gilt and decorated, spine mellowed, pale pencilled notes on rear endpapers. London, George Bell and Sons, 1886. A scarce book of poems, with tipped-in presentation slip signed by the author, by the artist and sculptor Thomas Woolner, who had come to the Victorian goldfields to make his fortune. Without success as a digger, he removed to Melbourne where he found work as a sculptor and portrait painter, producing a medallion of Governor Latrobe and a portrait of Sir Redmond Barry, among others. Moving to Sydney he painted a number of notable portraits, including Sir Charles Fitzroy and Admiral Phillip Parker King, as well as sculpting the well-known statue of Captain Cook in Hyde Park. Estimate $80/120 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[251] ZWEIG, Paul. IMAGES &FOOTSTEPS, a poem by Paul Zweig, five etchings by Berta Molke. Small folio, plates, quarter morocco over papered boards, in slipcase. Verona, Plain Wrapper Press, 1971. Edition limited to 200 numbered copies, signed by the author and the artist. Estimate $200/300 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com Literature (lots 252 – 279)
[252] BLEWETT, Dorothy, writing as ‘Anne Praize’. VISION. A Novel. Octavo, original purple cloth, well used copy. London, Cecil Palmer, 1931. Australian author: very scarce UK edition - only the SLNSW copy located in Trove. Estimate $80/120 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[253] BOLDREWOOD, Rolf. ROBBERY UNDER ARMS. Octavo, contemporary half red morocco and marbled boards, top edge gilt. London, Macmillan, 1897. A handsome, well-bound copy of the one-volume Macmillan version. Estimate $100/150 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[254] DAVIDSON, Frank Dalby WHILE FREEDOM LIVES. Quarto, original pictorial wrappers, bit marked, old vertical fold, Clem Christesen’s copy with ownership stamp. Sydney, Tomalin & Wigmore for The Author, 1938. Scarce anti-fascist pamphlet. Estimate $100/200 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[255] DEAMER, Dulcie. THE DEVIL’S SAINT. Octavo, original blue textured cloth. New York, International Publishers, 1925. Rare first US edition - no copies located in Trove. Estimate $200/400 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[256] FRANKLIN, Miles. ALL THAT SWAGGER. Octavo, original red cloth. Sydney, Bulletin, 1936. First edition. Signed and dated by the author in the year of publication. Estimate $150/300 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[257] FRANKLIN, Miles. SOME EVERYDAY FOLK AND DAWN. Octavo, original red decorated cloth. Edinburgh, William Blackwood & Sons, 1909. First edition, colonial issue. Estimate $200/400 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[258] HEALY, Dominic. VOYAGE TO VENUS. A Novel. Octavo, bright original card wrappers with pictorial dustwrapper. Sydney, The Currawong Publishing Company, 1943. Estimate $80/120 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com Lots 258 and 260
[259] HUME, Fergus W. SIGNED manuscript letter written after his return to England. Two pages on one leaf, small quarto, old folds. Royal Hotel, Ventnor, Isle of Wight, 29 Sep. 1889. From Hume’s early UK years, this discusses his writing including his current books & correspondence, apparently referring to his third Melbourne novel of 1890, Miss Mephistopheles. A Novel. (Sequel to Madame Midas). + A similar signed letter (one page on one leaf) dated 25 June 1889. Letters by Hume are uncommon. Estimate $300/500 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[260] HUME, Fergus W. THE MYSTERY OF A HANSOM CAB... A Startling and Realistic Story of Melbourne Social Life. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers (bit worn on spine), contemporary bookseller’s label on front panel. London, Hansom Cab Publishing Company, [1888-9]. Scarce: “Two Hundred and Twenty-Fifth Thousand” of the London edition. See Loder, pp. 118-9; see Wantrup 2nd edition (in publication) 519b. Estimate $200/400 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com [261] HUMPHRIES, Barry. BIZARRE. Square octavo, illustrated, boards in defective dustwrapper. London, Elek Publishing, 1965. Signed by Humphries and with his ink annotation to the title vignette. + A copy of the New York edition of the same year, signed and with an ink sketch on the half-title. + A group of twelve Humphries titles including the limited edition Dame Edna’s Coffee Table Book (250 copies signed by Dame Edna Everage), all inscribed to Greg Young or signed by Humphries, including one uncorrected proof where Humphries has corrected a name in text, and one signed by ‘Les Patterson’ with an inscription that runs off the page and onto the fore-edge. + A limited edition, unsigned, of Barry Humphries: Bepraisements on his Birthday, compiled by Ken Thomson. Estimate $300/500 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com [262] HUMPHRIES, Barry. A CHORALE FOR CORAL, with a portrait by Don Bachardy. Octavo, frontispiece, sewn in printed wrappers. Los Angeles, V. & D. Dailey, Very Privately Printed, 1992. Limited edition of 75 numbered copies, signed by Humphries. This copy with signed inscription from Humphries to Greg Young. Estimate $100/200 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[263] HUMPHRIES, Barry. A GARLAND FOR STEPHEN, arranged by Barry Humphries. Octavo, illustrated, original decorated wrappers (tape-marked). Edinburgh, Tragara Press, 1991. Limited edition of 150 copies, numbered and signed by Humphries. This copy with two signed inscriptions, one on the title-page and one on the colophon, from Humphries to Greg Young- an earlier recipient’s name being obscured by correction fluid. Additionally inscribed by Stephen Spender to Greg Young. Estimate $100/200 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[264] HUMPHRIES, Barry. SHADES OF SANDY STONE. with a vignette by Andrew Baird. Octavo, original wrappers with printed label. Edinburgh, Tragara Press, 1989. Limited edition of 130 numbered copies, signed by Humphries. This copy with signed inscription from Humphries to Greg Young. Estimate $100/200 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[265] HUMPHRIES, Barry. SMALL GROUP of titles, plus several theatre programs and magazines. Estimate $50/80 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[266] LAWSON, Henry. WHILE THE BILLY BOILS. Octavo, eight plates by Mahony, with advertising slip for Paterson’s Man from Snowy River, endpapers tanned, original cloth, slight marking, top edge gilt, Wantrup book label. Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1896. First edition, with publisher’s advertisements dated August 1896. Mackaness, 3a (omitting the final blank leaf of the terminal advertisements); this ordinary issue not in Chaplin; Wantrup 2nd edition (in publication) 528a. Estimate $200/400 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[267] LINDSAY, Joan, writing as ‘Serena Livingstone-Stanley’. THROUGH DARKEST PONDELAYO: An Account of the Adventures of Two English Ladies on Cannibal Island… Edited by Rev. Barnaby Whitecorn D.D. Octavo, plates, original cloth with dustwrapper (bit worn). London, Chatto & Windus, 1936. First edition: an entertaining comic novel, written pseudonymously thirty years before Lindsay’s most famous book, this is a wicked satire on the spate of books by Edwardian women travellers. Rare with dustwrapper. Estimate $150/300 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com [268] LINDSAY, Norman. EVERY MOTHER’S SON. Octavo, minor residue on front paste-down endpaper, very good in bright original cloth, fore-edge uncut. New York, Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, 1930. First US edition, first impression. Published more or less simultaneously in the UK as Redheap. Estimate $200/400 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[269] MITCHELL, Mary writing as ‘Josephine Plain’. THE PAZENGER PROBLEM. Octavo, paper residue on endpapers, a few bookseller stamps &c., original cloth. London, Thornton Butterworth, 1937. Cheap edition. Scarce - only the NLA 1936 first edition copy located in Trove. Estimate $100/200 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[270] MITCHELL, Mary writing as ‘Josephine Plain’. THE SECRET OF THE SANDBANKS. Octavo, original cloth, lightly worn ex-circulating library copy. London, Thornton Butterworth, 1934. First edition. Very scarce pseudonymous Australian crime novel. No copies located in Trove. Estimate $100/200 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[271] OUTHWAITE. RENTOUL, Ida S. and Annie. MOLLIE’S BUNYIP by A.R. Rentoul and I.S. Rentoul. Oblong quarto, pp. [50], each leaf printed on one side only, with twelve full-page line-drawn illustrations and with title-page vignette and page decorations in sepia throughout; a very good copy bound in half dark green morocco, gilt, retaining original pictorial wrappers. Melbourne, Robert Jolley, 1904. Rare: this was the very first publication of Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, with hand-scripted text by her elder sister Annie. essentially a private publication – certainly one with a very limited circulation – it was published when Ida was just sixteen. Estimate $900/1100 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[272] OUTHWAITE. RENTOUL, Annie Isobel and Ida Sherborne. MOLLIE’S STAIRCASE by A.I. Rentoul and I.S. Rentoul. Oblong quarto, [26] leaves, with full-page illustrations throughout, the first and last leaf a little tanned from the wrappers, a very good copy bound in half dark green morocco, gilt, retaining original wrappers; Rentoul family presentation inscription on the title-page. Melbourne, M.L. Hutchinson, circa 1906. First edition. Written by her mother, Annie Isobel Rentoul, this was the second published book illustrated by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, Australia’s outstanding fantasy illustrator. Estimate $800/1200 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[273] OUTHWAITE, Ida Rentoul (illustrator). QUIN, Tarella. BEFORE THE LAMPS ARE LIT. Oblong octavo, with frontispiece and 25 other full-page black & white illustrations by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, other illustrations in-text; near fine in original pictorial green cloth, lettered and decorated in red and black. Melbourne, George Robertson, n.d. but 1911. First edition. Estimate $300/500 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com [274] OUTHWAITE, Ida Rentoul (illustrator). THE SENTRY AND THE SHELL FAIRY. Quarto, pp. 16, with six full- page colour illustrations, other black & white illustrations; neat and unobtrusive owner’s inscription, original colour- decorated wrappers. Melbourne, British Imperial Oil Co. Ltd, n.d. circa 1922. Very scarce: through her husband’s association with the British Imperial Oil Company, Ida Rentoul Outhwaite was commissioned to illustrate a number of ephemeral gift booklets produced by the firm. The present piece, with text anonymously by George Martin, is illustrated with six colour plates of Outhwaite’s watercolour drawings of fairies and other black & white illustrations. Always an ephemeral piece, it is now one of her scarcer works. Estimate $600/900 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com [275] OUTHWAITE, Ida Rentoul. ELVES & FAIRIES of Ida Rentoul Outhwaite. Verses by Annie R. Rentoul. Edited by Grenbry Outhwaite. Folio, tipped-in colour and black-and-white plates (one colour plate torn across, one detached from the backing sheet), the sewing opening, original gilt-decorated blue cloth. Melbourne & Sydney, Lothian, 1916. First edition. Muir, 5592. Sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return. Estimate $400/600 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[276] TENNANT, Kylie. RIDE ON STRANGER. Octavo, original cloth with scarce dustwrapper (bit chipped & worn on spine). Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1943. Suppressed first edition. Quickly withdrawn from sale and a new edition, without the libellous text, published by A.& R., under its Sirius imprint in 1945. Estimate $100/200 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[277] TURNER, Ethel. SEVEN LITTLE AUSTRALIANS. Octavo, three plates, illustrations throughout, calf prize binding, edges gilt, marbled endpapers, prize plate. London, Ward, Lock, 1895. Third impression (“edition”). + The publisher’s file copy of Turner’s An Ogre Up-To-Date (1911) in exceptionally bright cloth with lightly worn dustwrapper, publisher’s labels on dustwrapper and front board & stamp on half-title page. Estimate $100/200 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[278] UPFIELD, Arthur W. THE BONE IS POINTED. Octavo, original green cloth, rather faded and marked with old repairs to spine, green top stain. London, John Hamilton, [1939]. First UK edition. Very scarce - only SLNSW copy located in Trove. Estimate $200/400 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[279] WHITE, Patrick. THE AUNT’S STORY. A Novel. Octavo, bright original navy cloth. London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1948. First UK edition: scarce (especially with unblemished cloth). Estimate $80/120 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
[280] DOYLE, Arthur Conan (contributes to).THE STRAND MAGAZINE. Vols 1-7. Seven volumes, quarto, bound without the wrappers, first four volumes in original cloth (hinges wearing, cloth a bit handled), final three volumes in half roan with defective spines. London, 1891-1894. First printing: including in vols 2-4 the complete series of stories The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. + Three works (some wear) signed by the illustrator John Leech: A’BECKETT, G.A. THE COMIC HISTORY OF ENGLAND (Two volumes, London, 1855), SURTEES, R.S. ASK MAMMA (London, 1858) and SURTEES, R.S. “PLAIN OR RINGLETS?” (London, 1860). + Copies of Combe’s Doctor Syntax’s Three Tours (1869), Egan’s Boxiana (1812, some plates defective), and the 1887 Victoria Edition in two volumes of Dickens’s Pickwick Club. Estimate $100/200 Illustrated online www.invaluable.com
End of Sale Prices Realised. Auction Number 0098, 23 November 2020. Australian Dollars, Hammer Prices
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1. Australian Book Auctions its servants and agents (“the further authority or consent from the Buyer than this Auctioneer”) is agent only for the Seller and is not condition shall be final and binding on all parties and such responsible for any act or omission or default of the Seller or entry together with these Conditions shall constitute the the Buyer. whole of the contract. A deposit or the whole of the Purchase Price may be demanded by the Auctioneer at the 2a. The Auctioneer has the right in his absolute discretion to fall of the hammer. The title to a lot shall not pass to the refuse any person admission to or to eject any person from Buyer until the Purchase Price (plus interest and any other the place of auction. charges if applicable) has been paid in full. 2b. As a service to bidders Australian Book Auctions will, if so 4b. 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The Auctioneer may, however, refuse to as amended, which may restrict or prohibit the export of a accept any bid which is not in the best interests of the Seller. lot outside a state or the Commonwealth of Australia. 3c. In the event of any error or dispute during or after the sale of Refusal of any permit shall not vitiate the sale and the Buyer any lot, the Auctioneer may in his absolute discretion and shall be bound to take delivery of the lot without an regardless of the fall of the hammer put up such lot again for allowance or abatement in price. sale or withdraw the lot from sale. The decision of the 5a. At the conclusion of the auction the Buyer will immediately Auctioneer shall be final. pay to the Auctioneer the whole of the Purchase Price. 3d. The Auctioneer has the right in his absolute discretion: Payment of the Purchase Price shall be made in Australian (i) to refuse any bid; dollars in cash. 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If a Buyer has not collected any or all of his purchases by fall of the hammer. noon of the day following the auction, the Auctioneer may place the property in storage at the Buyer’s risk and the 4a. Subject to the Auctioneer’s discretion the fall of the hammer Buyer shall be responsible for all removal, storage and marks his acceptance of the highest bid and the conclusion insurance charges on such property. Packing, handling and of a Contract for Sale between the Buyer and the Seller. It transportation of all purchased lots is entirely at the risk and shall not be requisite for the Buyer to sign the sale book but expense of the Buyer. In no event will the Auctioneer be the entry of the Buyer’s name or number and the amount of liable for loss of or damage to purchased lots irrespective of his bid in the sale book by the Auctioneer without any cause, including negligence, notwithstanding that the property is in the custody and control of the Auctioneer at 7a. 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Should absolute discretion, without prejudice to any other rights or the Auctioneer be satisfied that: remedies available to him, will be entitled without notice to (i) the lot is returned in the same condition as it was at the the Buyer to dispose of the Buyer’s purchases by public date of the sale; and auction or private treaty and the Buyer shall pay to the (ii) the Buyer establishes that he has not sold or Auctioneer any resulting deficiency in the Purchase Price transferred the lot, and that no rights have been created (plus interest) and any other costs incurred as a result of the in favour of any third party in respect of that lot; and Buyer’s default, including storage, freight, insurance and (iii) the Buyer establishes that the lot is a forgery, that is to any other charges whatsoever. Any surplus shall be paid to say an imitation originally conceived and executed as a the Seller. whole with a fraudulent intention to deceive as to 6a. 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The Buyer shall be entitled to claim under this condition will be deemed to have knowledge of all matters which they only the Purchase Price, being the hammer price plus the could reasonably be expected to find out given their buyer’s premium, or part thereof actually paid by the Buyer particular expertise and the exercise by them of reasonable to the Auctioneer for the lot and shall not include a refund of due diligence. any sales tax, storage charge, insurance, interest, 6b. All conditions, notices, descriptions, statements and other commissions, or any other costs to the Buyer other than the matters concerning a lot are subject to any statement Purchase Price actually paid and specifically the Buyer shall modifying or affecting that lot made by the Auctioneer from have no claims for any direct or consequential loss suffered the rostrum prior to any bid being accepted on that lot. or expense incurred by him. 6c. All lots are sold “as is” and no error or misdescription or 7c. 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Neither the Auctioneer nor the Seller make any federal law and which cannot legally be excluded or where representations or warranties, implied or express, as to such exclusion would render any contract with the Buyer, or whether any lot is subject to copyrights nor whether the any part of such a contract, void or voidable. Buyer acquires any copyrights, including but not limited to reproduction rights in any lot sold. 8a. These Conditions of Business shall be governed and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of 6f. The Seller gives to Australian Book Auctions full and Victoria, Australia, and all parties concerned hereby submit absolute right to photograph and illustrate any lot consigned to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of that state. for sale and to use such photographs and illustrations at any time at its absolute discretion whether or not in connection 8b. If any part of these Conditions of Business is found by any with the sale. The Buyer and the Seller acknowledges that court to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, that part may be the copyright of all photographs taken and illustrations of discounted and the rest of the conditions shall continue to be any lot by Australian Book Auctions shall be the absolute valid and enforceable to the fullest extent permitted by law. property of Australian Book Auctions.