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AUSTR ALI AN B AN OO AUSTRALIAN K A UCTI ONS BOOK AUCTIONS Monday 27 - Tuesday 28 March 2017 28 March 27 - Tuesday AUSTRALIAN BOOK AUCTIONS Monday 27 March, 2017, at 6.30 pm ABA0085 Tuesday 28 March, 2017, at 11.30 am AUSTRALIAN BOOK AUCTIONS MARCH GALLERY SALE Books, Ephemera, Manuscripts, and Artworks. Original Norman Lindsay watercolours and drawings. Voyages, Travels, and Australiana; Art and Literature; Natural History; Militaria. Angling books &c. from the collection of Tom Edwards. To be sold by auction in two sessions Monday 27th March 2017 at 6.30 pm Tuesday 28th March 2017 at 11.30 am At Australian Book Auctions Gallery 909 High Street, Armadale, Victoria Telephone (+61) 03 9822 4522 Facsimile (+61) 03 9822 6873 Email [email protected] www.australianbookauctions.com On View At the Gallery, 909 High Street, Armadale, Victoria Friday 24th March from 10.00 am to 4.00 pm Saturday 25th March from 10.00 am to 4.00 pm Monday 27th March from 10.00 am to 4.00 pm Catalogue Price: $33.00 Important Information for Buyers Registration and Buyer’s numbers of 1.1% will be added to your invoice to cover bank The auction will be conducted using Buyer’s fees and charges. numbers. All prospective bidders are asked to register Condition of lots and collect a Buyer’s number before the sale. All lots are sold “as is”, in accordance with clauses 6a- Buyer’s premium f of the Conditions of Business, and Australian Book Please note that a Buyer’s premium of 19.8% Auctions makes no representation as to the condition of (inclusive of Goods and Services Tax) of the hammer any lot. Buyers should satisfy themselves as to the price on each lot is payable by the buyer. condition of any lot before the sale. 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Personal cheques Prospective bidders should read these Conditions may be accepted at the discretion of Australian Book carefully before bidding. The above notes are for Auctions and, unless prior arrangements have been general guidance and should not be taken as a made, must be cleared before delivery of any lots. summary of the Conditions of Business nor an Credit card payments by Mastercard or Visa can also alternative to them. be accepted by prior arrangement. Please note that if payment is made by credit card, an additional charge Order of Sale First Session: Monday, 27th March 2017 at 6.30 pm. Lots 1 – 199 Lots 1 – 115 Voyages, Travels, and Australiana Lots 116 – 126 Natural History Lots 127 – 141 Militaria Lots 142 – 199 Art, Literature, Antiquarian, &c. Second Session: Tuesday, 28th March 2017 at 11.30 am. Lots 200 – 355 Lots 200 – 233 Quantity Lots 234 – 355 The Tom Edwards Collection of Angling Books, &c. Bidding Increments Bidding generally opens below the lower estimate and advances in increments of up to 10%, subject to the auctioneer’s discretion. Absentee bids that do not conform to these published increments may be lowered to the next bidding interval. Up to $200 by $10s $200 to $500 by $20s $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 $50,000 to $100,000 by $5000s Over $100,000 auctioneer’s discretion Forthcoming Sale The Michael Aitken Collection Copy of a Letter from Jesse Morley in New South Wales… (Medhurst, UK, 1844). A rare 1844 piece describing life in Port Phillip. This is one of only two known copies and the only one in private hands (formerly the Dr. Clifford Craig collection, lot 1126). Sale May 2017 (date to be finalised). First Session: Monday, 27th March 2017 at 6.30 pm. Lots 1 – 199 6 lithographic plates, illustrations, a good copy in original Voyages, Travels, and Australiana decorated and gilt cloth, later rebacking (and with corners) in calf. London, Sampson Low, Marston, and others, 1877. Hocken, p. 303; Bagnall 320. [1] Estimate $1200/1800 ANSON. WALTER, Richard. A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD in the years mdccxl, i, ii, iii, iv by George Anson. [7] Quarto, 42 folding engraved charts and views (a few with BARRINGTON, George (attributed to). THE HISTORY paper repairs or chipped margins), without Directions to OF NEW SOUTH WALES, including Botany Bay, Port Binder, modern half calf. London, Knapton, 1748. First and Jackson, Parramatta, Sydney, and all its dependencies from best edition. Anson’s voyage has “long occupied a the original discovery of the island. Octavo, with engraved distinguished position as a masterpiece of descriptive travel. title with coloured vignette, 14 handcoloured plates, full-page Anson’s voyage appears to have been the most popular book woodcut in-text, contemporary half calf and marbled boards, of maritime adventure of the eighteenth century” (Hill). See boards detached and spine rubbed. London, Jones, 1802. Borba de Moraes, p. 38; see Hill, pp. 317-8. First edition: the first book with handcoloured topographical Estimate $600/800 views of New South Wales. Ferguson, 345. Estimate $700/900 [2] BACKHOUSE, James. A NARRATIVE OF A VISIT TO [8] THE AUSTRALIAN COLONIES. Octavo, with plates (one BARRINGTON, George. A VOYAGE TO BOTANY BAY folding) and three folding maps, original green embossed with a description of the country, manners, customs, religion, cloth. London and York, Hamilton, Adams, and Co., 1843. &c. of the natives... to which is added his life and trial [as First edition. Probably the most detailed and revealing issued with] A SEQUEL TO BARRINGTON’S VOYAGE account of the Australian colonies in the 1830s. Bagnall, 238; TO NEW SOUTH WALES. Two volumes in one, Billot, 335; Ferguson, 3558. duodecimo, lacking frontispiece in the first work, two Estimate $400/600 gatherings bound out of order, early calf rebacked. London, C. Lowndes and... H.D. Symonds, 1801. See Ferguson, 206 [3] (misdated 1795) and 328. BACKHOUSE, James. A NARRATIVE OF A VISIT TO Estimate $200/400 THE AUSTRALIAN COLONIES. Octavo, with 15 etchings (one folding) and three folding maps (“Tasmania or Van Diemen’s Land”, “New South Wales”, “The World on [9] Mercator’s Projection”), detached within broken original BARTHOLOMEW, J.