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 Sale Live Online At www.invaluable.com On View BY APPOINTMENT ONLY AT THE GALLERY: 2 / 970 High Street, Armadale, Victoria Monday 15th March – Friday 19th March Important Information for Buyers Registration and Buyer’s numbers payment is made by credit card, an additional charge of The auction will be conducted using Buyer’s 1.1% will be added to your invoice to cover bank fees numbers. All prospective bidders are asked to register and charges. and collect a Buyer’s number before the sale. 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A bid between the listed Book Auctions will be pleased to assist any Buyer figures should, in our opinion, offer a fair chance of who wishes to make special arrangements for success. However, all lots, depending on the level of collection. Please notify us before the sale if you competition, can realise prices either above or below require special assistance. the listed estimates. Methods of payment Please note that where any lot is subject to a seller’s Unless otherwise announced by the auctioneer, no reserve in no case will the seller’s reserve exceed the purchases may be collected until the end of the sale. lower estimate. Payment should be made in Australian dollars in Conditions of Business cash, or bank cheque, or by telegraphic transfer to The auction will be conducted in accordance with our Australian Book Auction’s account. Personal cheques Conditions of Business printed in this catalogue. may be accepted at the discretion of Australian Book Prospective bidders should read these Conditions Auctions and, unless prior arrangements have been carefully before bidding. The above notes are for made, must be cleared before delivery of any lots. general guidance and should not be taken as a Credit card payments by Mastercard or Visa can also summary of the Conditions of Business nor an be accepted by prior arrangement. Please note that if alternative to them. Order of Sale Lots 1 – 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 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 $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.