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AUSTRALIAN BOOK AUCTIONS PTY. LTD. A.B.N. 60 088 582 030 A.C.N. 088 582 030

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AUSTRALIAN BOOK AUCTIONS

BOOKS DOCUMENTS MAPSIncluding Important Documents and Books from the Estate of the lateRodney Davidson AO; Voyages, Exploration and Travels, Ephemera,

Literature, Natural History, Australiana, General Antiquarian &c. includingart and illustrated, sport, travel and topography.

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Catalogue Price: $33.00

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Order of Sale

Monday, 23rd July 2018 at 6.30 pm.

Lots 1 – 39 Important Australian Voyages, Travels, & Maps.

Lots 40 – 52 Important Documents & Books from the Estate of the late Rodney Davidson AO.

Lots 53 – 81 Ephemera, &c.

Lots 82 – 106 General Australiana.

Lots 107 – 128 General Antiquarian, &c., including sport, art and illustrated, travel and topography.

Lots 129 – 141 Literature, including children’s books

Lots 142 – 155 Natural History.

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 publishedincrements 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 $5000sOver $100,000 auctioneer’s discretion

AUSTRALIAN BOOK AUCTIONSwhere the best collections are sold

In our 20th year of continuous book auctions, longer than any other rare book auctioneer inAustralia, ABA has established an enviable record, one we believe can be equalled by no otherauction house. In addition to the exceptional list of important collections we have sold, ABA holdsthe world record price for an Australian book sold at auction, record auction prices for anAustralian book of the 17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, and the highest total value realised forany Australian collection sold at auction (Davidson Collection, $13,000,000). Here are some of themajor collections sold by us:

Rodney D. DavidsonDenis JoachimMichael AitkenH.N.B. WettenhallHugh WettenhallSyd. Trigellis-SmithDr John TangeDr John Loder

Kevin Crotty (UK)Berry CollectionHawker CollectionMoornmoot LibraryIan HallidaySir Edward StirlingIan McLarenDr. Eric Stock

Arbon H. AbbottBill DouglassJohn Lane MullinsPaul DwyerJohn CumminsDr. K.M. BowdenRalph RenardJoe Bedford

Dr. Ben HanemanDr. John HarrisonPeter GriffinKen WhiteDr Geoffrey LilburneDr. Lloyd RobsonNancye Kent Perry

ABA will offer your collection for sale within as little as two months of your consigning yourbooks to us and you will receive the full realisation one month later. No other auction house oroccasional auctioneer can offer such a speedy, efficient, and well-catalogued service, with anindividual catalogue of your collection if desired. We are always consigning important orinteresting individual items – books, ephemera, manuscripts and documents, maps, prints,artworks (historical, topographical, and voyage art).Record Price C17th Record Price C18th Record Price C19th Record Price C20th

Important Australian Voyages, Travels, & Maps. Lots 1 – 39

[1] [TASMAN] ROBINSON, Sir Tancred (editor). AN ACCOUNT OF SEVERAL LATE VOYAGES &DISCOVERIES TO THE SOUTH AND NORTH. Towards the Streights of Magellan and the South Seas, the vasttracts of land beyond Hollandia Nova & also toward Nova Zembla, Greenland or Spitsberg, Groynland orEngrondland, &c. By Sir John Narborough, Captain Jasmen Tasman, Captain John Wood, and Frederick Marten ofHamburgh. To which are Annexed a large introduction and supplement, giving an Account of other Navigations tothose Regions of the Globe. Octavo, title printed in red and black, 19 engraved plates (some folding; one withrepaired tear), folding table, two folding engraved maps (one with short repaired tear), old calf. London, Sam. Smithand Benj. Walford, 1694. First edition of this important voyage collection. Tancred Robinson’s edition of recentvoyages included an early account in English of Tasman’s 1642 voyage from Batavia, in the course of which hediscovered Tasmania, New Zealand, part of Tonga, as well as re-examining New Guinea and the Solomons, translatedfrom the 1674 Rembrantsz version of Tasman’s journal. Among other voyage accounts the volume includesNarborough’s important Pacific voyage. In his lengthy introductory summary of ‘modern’ voyages Robinson “impliesthat the Dutch had made great unannounced discoveries, and refers to the voyages of Quirós, Drake and Magellantowards Terra Incognita…” (Davidson), urging the British to take a more active role in maritime discovery – a pleathat would gain greater public support with the publication of Dampier’s voyages in 1697. Robinson’s remarks onTasman’s discoveries are often quoted: “tis the Discovery of a new World, not yet known to the English, ‘Tis probableby Abel Jansen Tasman’s Navigation, that New Guinea, New Carpentaria, and New Holland, are a vast prodigiousIsland, which he seems to have encompass’d in his Voyage...”. Davidson, p. 31; Hill 2, 1475; Landwehr, 370; Sabin,72186.Estimate $3000/5000

[2] COOK, James THE THREE VOYAGES OF CAPTAIN JAMES COOK Round the World. Complete in SevenVolumes. With Map and Other Plates. Seven volumes, octavo, plates, folding map, early half calf and marbled boards,gilt, the first volume neatly repaired at head of spine, an attractive set. London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, andBrown, 1821. New edition of the full texts of the original published accounts of Cook’s three voyages, with aquatintillustrations.Estimate $800/1200

[3] COOK, Captain James and Captain James KING. A VOYAGE TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN. Undertaken by theCommand of His Majesty, For Making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere. To Determine the Position andExtent of the West Side of North America; its Distance From Asia; and the Practicability of a Northern Passage toEurope. Performed under the direction of Captains Cook, Clerke, and Gore, in His Majesty’s Ships the Resolution andDiscovery. In the Years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780. Three volumes, quarto, 24 engraved plates and maps(some folding), old calf (upper board of vol. II detaching), gilt. London, Printed by W. and A. Strahan for G. Nicol andT. Cadell, 1784. First edition of Cook’s third voyage, without separate atlas.Estimate $1500/3000

Lot 4

[4] PHILLIP, Governor Arthur. THE VOYAGE OF GOVERNOR PHILLIP TO BOTANY BAY; with an Account ofthe Establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson and Norfolk Island... Inscribed by Permission to the Marquis ofSalisbury. Embellished with Copper Plates. third Edition. Quarto, pp. 298 (pp. 122 misnumbered 221), lxxiv, [2](advertisements) + frontispiece portrait and engraved title, two portraits, ten plates of views and ethnography, sevenfolding charts, four uncoloured natural history plates, and 28 handcoloured natural history plates on laid paper, oneplate cleanly torn and well repaired, some neat marginal repairs and trivial paper flaws but a fine copy with thehandcoloured plates bright and crisp; entirely uncut in the original publisher’s or bookseller’s marbled boards, neatold rebacking, preserved in a quarter morocco box. London, John Stockdale, 1790. The extremely rare quarto ‘third’ edition. Of the greatest rarity: virtually unrecorded. The remainder issue of the first edition of 1789, the self-described ‘third’quarto edition, in its deluxe form with handcoloured plates. This is the rarest form of Stockdale’s edition of the officialaccount of the first settlement of Australia. Early in 1790 Stockdale began publication of a quarto second edition in parts. It was the less than perfect organisationof the first edition text – a source of embarrassment for which he apologised in a preliminary notice to the reader –rather than the exhaustion of the first edition sheets that was the impetus for publishing that second edition with textimproved and re-arranged. In the same year Stockdale also published an abbreviated and cheaper octavo edition. Interestingly, he included in thatoctavo edition some of the actual charts and plates from the first quarto edition folded and trimmed to size. At aboutthe same time as he issued the octavo edition, he appears to have published this deluxe “third” quarto edition.Noting this hitherto unrecorded issue from a single rebound copy in 1986, with which the present copy agrees inessentials, Wantrup remarks: “The engraved title-page of the ‘third’ quarto edition is printed from the same plate asthat used to engrave the title-page for the ‘third’ royal octavo edition of the same year. The text however is printed andsigned as a quarto...”. The text of the ‘third’ quarto edition does, indeed, comprise the unsold sheets of the first edition printing. The platesalso comprise unsold stock from that edition. In common with other copies examined or reported, the present example excludes some preliminary pages and someplates. In this 1790 deluxe reissue Stockdale appears to have included, wherever possible, handcoloured plates on laidpaper from his remaining first edition stock, but where a handcoloured plate was no longer available he simplyincluded an uncoloured impression on wove paper in its place or left it out altogether. Although it must remain unclearwith no authoritative collation for this issue, it seems evident that the reissue never includes a full suite of the platesfound in the 1789 issue of the first edition – certainly none of the few copies reported comprises a full complement.The two plates not found in the present copy are plate 19 “The Tabuan Parrot” and plate 26 “The Bronze-wingedPigeon”. Provenance: Hordern House, Sydney, 1993; Davidson Collection, sale in our rooms March 2005, lot 181;bought from the above. Not in Ferguson nor in the 1986 Addenda; Wantrup, pp. 62-3 (noting a single copy); see alsoAustralian Book Auctions, September 1999, lot 710 (Hobill Cole copy).Estimate $12,000/15,000

[5] TENCH, Watkin. A NARRATIVE OF THE EXPEDITION TO BOTANY BAY; with an Account of New SouthWales, its productions, inhabitants, &c. to which is subjoined, A List of the Civil and Military Establishments at PortJackson. Second Edition. Octavo, with half-title and terminal leaf of advertisements (although this is not called for byFerguson), modern speckled calf by Aquarius in period style. London, J. Debrett, 1789. Second edition of the firstauthentic eye-witness account of Australia’s foundation. None of the other First Fleet accounts are as personal anddirect in their description of the first months of settlement. His book was a great success, with three editions inEnglish, a Dublin piracy, as well as French, Dutch, German, and Swedish translations. Tench’s Narrative issurprisingly scarce on the market and, in one form or another, must be considered “a basic first settlement item”(Davidson). Ferguson, 49; Hill 2, 1685; Wantrup, 2 (first edition) and pp. 54-7.Estimate $6000/8000

Lot 6

[6] WHITE, John. JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE TO NEW SOUTH WALES with Sixty-five Plates of NondescriptAnimals, Birds, Lizards, Serpents, curious Cones of Trees and other Natural Productions. Quarto, with engraved title-page, with 65 handcoloured plates on Whatman paper, bound without terminal advertisements (not issued with allcopies); a fine crisp copy, the top edge gilt, others uncut, finely bound in more recent citron morocco by Rivière.London, J. Debrett, 1790. The superb Dutton copy of the deluxe handcoloured issue: with both ‘suppressed’ leaves. The much-prized superior issue of the celebrated First Fleet journal with the fine natural history plates on Whatmanpaper and in original publisher’s handcolouring. In this special handcoloured form, it is the earliest and one of the bestand most appealing of Australian colour-illustrated natural history books. In this copy the two suppressed leaves, Hh4 and Kk4, are in their rare uncancelled state. Following his pioneering researches in the late 1960s, Davidson wrote: “I have no doubt that a copy of White’s journalwith the suppressed page is one of the great highlights of Australiana”. Wantrup initially disagreed (p. 77) butsubsequently recanted and all evidence suggests that only a very small number of copies retain these suppressedleaves. Abbey, 605; Ayer/Zimmer, 672; Casey Wood, 626; Davidson, pp. 81-6; Ferguson, 97; Ford, 2495; Hill 2, 1858;Nissen ZBI, 4390; Wantrup, 17. Provenance: Henry Hampden Dutton (Theodore Bruce Ltd, September 1966, lot 669);Davidson Collection , sale in our rooms March 2005, lot 202; bought from the above.Estimate $15,000/30,000

[7] MACROBIUS, AmbrosiusTheodosius. IN SOMNIVMSCIPIONIS LIBRI DVO: ETSEPTEM EIVSDEM SATVRN-ALIORUM. NUNC DENUORECOGNITI, & MULTIS INLOCIS AUCTI. Folio, ll. [10],140, title within decorativearchitectural woodcut borders,including a cut of Cleopatraholding the asp to her breast,with woodcut initials andheadpieces, seven woodcutdiagrams and a woodcut map ofthe globe including the SouthernContinent in the text; minorsprinkled worming affectingearly leaves, title with a faintstain in the top margin andlightly finger-marked, faintdampstain at the extreme bottomedge of a number of leaves throughout, later ownership initials on title, and a few small, neat contemporaryannotations and underlining; nineteenth-century limp papered boards, preserved in a quarter morocco bookform box.Cologne, Eucharius Ceruicornus, 4 January 1526. With the world map of Macrobius, one of the earliest world mapsand the ancient hypothetical basis for the existence of the Antipodes, or Terra Australis.Estimate $3000/5000

Lot 11

[8] MUNSTER, Sebastian. DIE ERSTE GENERAL TAFEL… Woodcut map, 31 x 36 cm, with later colour, Germantext in black letter on verso, top margin trimmed slightly affecting title, old repairs and some restoration. Basle, circa1550. World map including a sixteenth-century projection of Terra Australis.Estimate $80/120

[9] BLAEU, Willem Janszoon. INDIA QUAE ORIENTALIS DICITUR, et Insulae Adjacentes. Engraved map, 41 x 50cm, Latin text on verso, splitting at fold [1650]. Depicts parts of the northern and north-west coasts of Australia.Tooley, 227.Estimate $800/1200

[10] RAM, Joannem de. NOVA TOTIUS ASIAE TABULA… Cum Privilegio Ordinum Hollandiae et Westfrisiae.Engraved map, 45 x 56 cm with old outline colour (and later colour to the cartouche), the fold with minor tape repairon verso. [Amsterdam, 1690]. Tooley, 1473. Depicts the northern coast of Australia.Estimate $400/800

[11] CROSS, Joseph. CHART OF PART OF NEW SOUTH WALES with Plans of the Harbours, Respectfully dedicatedto John Oxley, Esq., Surveyor-General. Engraved map with original outline colouring, approximately 95 x 61 cms.,dissected and linen-backed as issued, linen wearing at some folds, a couple of ink marks. London, Joseph Cross, 1828.A rare and celebrated map of New South Wales, 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 eleven inset maps.Estimate $1000/1500

[12] ARROWSMITH, John. DISCOVERIES IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA from documents by J.S. Roe, Esq., Survr.Genl. Handcoloured engraved double-page map, approximately 520 x 590 mm., fine. London, J. Arrowsmith, May31st. 1833. Rare and important early map of the young colony, showing the south-west corner of Western Australia,with inset maps of the towns of Guildford, Augusta, Kelmscott, Perth and Fremantle. Issued as plate 36 fromArrowsmith’s The London Atlas of Universal Geography. Tooley, 123.Estimate $200/400

[13] EYRE, Edward John. JOURNALS OF EXPEDITIONS OF DISCOVERY into Central Australia, and overland from Adelaide to King George’s Sound, in the years 1840-1. Two volumes, octavo, with plates, complete with the two folding maps, original cloth with some fading and spotting. London, T. and W. Boone, 1845. A very rare presentation copy of Eyre’s journal, with inscription on the front free endpaper “Captain Stokes, R.N. | With the Author’s kind regards”. Presentation copies of exploration journals published by T. & W. Boone in the the epic age of Australian exploration are of great rarity, especially from one ‘Boone author’ to another. (For another instance see the Eric Stock sale, in our rooms, March 2001, lot 290, a copy of his journal inscribed by George Grey to Eyre). The journal records Eyre’s arduous and eventful expedition in search of an overland route from Adelaide to the Swan River colony. Ferguson 4031; Wantrup 133a.Estimate $4000/6000

[14] GOULD, John and Elizabeth. A MONOGRAPH OF THE MACROPODIDÆ, OR FAMILY OF KANGAROOS…Part I [II] [cover title]. Two parts, large folio, with thirty handcoloured lithographed plates, each with an accompanying leaf of text, errata slip in the second part; a trace of light foxing; original cloth-backed printed boards, preserved in a dark green morocco bookform box. London, Published by the Author, 1 August, 1841 – 1 May, 1842. Very rare: all published. Gould’s first essay on the Australian mammals was, like his first attempt at Australian birds, never completed, although he had a third part in mind as late as February 1844 when he wrote to Lord Derby: “I must beg your lordship to keep the two parts you have unbound, until you receive the next with Titles, etc” (Sauer, p. 51). But this splendid work on the kangaroos remained incomplete without title-page, contents, introduction or index and his account was subsumed within the great three-volume folio volumes of the mammals of Australia (see following lot). The Mammals incorporated thirteen plates from the Macropodidæ reprinted without substantial alteration; the general composition of one further plate, “Halmaturus Bennettii”, was largely retained but with the image reversed, the main animal redrawn, and background and foreground details altered more significantly. The remaining sixteen plates were completely reworked. Casey Wood, p. 365; Ferguson, 3197; Nissen ZBI, 1662; Sauer, 11. See also D.J. Dickison, “A Résumé of Gould’s Major Works” in Emu, vol. 38, pp. 118 – 131.Estimate $12,000/15,000

Lot 14

[15] FORREST, John. EXPLORATIONS IN AUSTRALIA: I. Explorations in search of Dr Leichhardt and party II. FromPerth to Adelaide, around the Great Australian Bight III. From Champion Bay, across the desert to the Telegraph andto Adelaide. Octavo, with plates and folding maps, endpapers and portrait with pale foxing, original gilt-decoratedcloth over bevelled boards (label removed, puncture mark on rear board). London, Sampson Low, 1875. First editionof Forrest’s narrative of the first crossing of the continent from the west coast to the Telegraph Line. Ferguson, 9681;Wantrup, 200.Estimate $400/600

[16] GILES, Ernest. GEOGRAPHIC TRAVELS IN CENTRAL AUSTRALIA FROM 1872 TO 1874. Octavo, with half-title, and a large folding map as frontispiece (one fold taped on verso), original russet cloth, gilt vignette on the frontboard, spine lettering worn as often with this binding. Melbourne, Printed for the Author by M’Carron, Bird & Co.,1875. First edition of Giles’s account of his first two expeditions. Ferguson, 9912 (miscollated); Wantrup, 203.Estimate $500/800

[17] GILES, Ernest. AUSTRALIA TWICE TRAVERSED. The romance of exploration, being a narrative compiled fromthe journals of five exploring expeditions into and through Central Australia, and Western Australia, from 1872 to1876. Two volumes, octavo, with maps and plates, a good set in original pictorial cloth, gilt, slight wear. London,Sampson Low, 1889. First edition of the collected narratives of Ernest Giles’s expeditions. “Giles’s claim to be the lastAustralian explorer is perhaps a little exaggerated, but he was undeniably the last great explorer. The very scarce two-volume account of his life’s work in the vast unknown tracts of the Australian continent is fundamental to a collectionof Australian exploration books...” (Wantrup). Ferguson, 9914; Wantrup 202a.Estimate $800/1200

[18] GREY, George. JOURNALS OF TWO EXPEDITIONS OF DISCOVERY IN NORTH-WEST AND WESTERNAUSTRALIA, during the years 1837, 38, and 39, Under the Authority of Her Majesty’s Government. Describingmany newly discovered, important, and fertile Districts, with Observations on the moral and physical Condition of theAboriginal Inhabitants, &c. &c. Two volumes, octavo, with the two large folding maps in an endpocket, complete with22 plates (six coloured), some plates with pale foxing, original cloth. London, T. & W. Boone, 1841. First edition of aclassic Western Australian exploration account. Grey’s expeditions were a major advance in the discovery of the westand north-west parts of the Australian continent. He 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. This work includes scientificappendices by John Gould, John Edward Gray, and Adam White. The Aboriginal rock paintings found on the firstexpedition are illustrated on several plates. Bagnall, 2336; Ferguson, 3228; Richards, 97; Wantrup 131 (miscountingplates in the second volume).Estimate $600/800

[19] HUME, Hamilton. A BRIEF STATEMENT OF FACTS in Connection with an Overland Expedition from LakeGeorge to Port Phillip, in 1824. Octavo, endpaper margins chipped, accession number stamped on title, a good copyin original cloth with paper label. Sydney, S. E. Lees, 1897. Third (i.e. fourth) edition, with Addenda. A type-facsimileof the Yass 1874 third edition, published in an edition of 25 copies, inscribed and signed by Mrs Hume Barbour, whohad this edition printed at the request of the Royal Colonial Institute in London. Ferguson, 10666.Estimate $800/1200

[20] KENT, Thomas. A LETTER TO BARRON FIELD, ESQ… Containing a Refutation of the groundless Assertions putforth by him to the prejudice of Van Diemen’s Land. By Thomas Kent, Esq. A Colonist who resided three years inNew South Wales and ten years in Van Diemen’s Land. Octavo, with the half-title (piece torn from the blank topmargin to remove an inscription – almost certainly a presentation one – and subsequently expertly andsympathetically restored); sporadic but largely pale foxing, nicely bound in modern quarter morocco, spine withraised bands, gilt. London, Printed for the Author, and published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green,circa 1824 – 1825. Very rare: Kent’s response to an address by Barron Field to the Agricultural Society of New SouthWales. The pamphlet “contains, inter alia, an interesting account of the establishment of the wool industry inAustralia” (Ferguson). This copy conforms with Ferguson’s collation but copies in the Mitchell Library and the BritishLibrary have an added three-page “Appendix” following the text, presumably indicating a secondary issue? Ferguson,1029. See further ADB, 2: 44-5 for Kent’s extraordinary, if ultimately unsuccessful, entrepreneurial career.Estimate $800/1200

[21] LANDSBOROUGH, William. JOURNAL OF LANDSBOROUGH’S EXPEDITION from Carpentaria, in search ofBurke and Wills. Octavo, frontispiece and large folding map, a good copy in cloth-backed card wrappers. Melbourne,Wilson & Mackinnon, 1862. First edition. Ferguson, 11329; Wantrup, 174a.Estimate $200/400

[22] LANDSBOROUGH, William. JOURNAL OF LANDSBOROUGH’S EXPEDITION FROM CARPENTARIA, insearch of Burke and Wills. Octavo, frontispiece and large folding map, sealed tears at head of front wrapper, portraitand title, original cloth-backed printed pink card wrappers. Melbourne, &c., F.F. Baillière, 1862. The very scarceBaillière issue of the Wilson and Mackinnon edition of Landsborough’s Journal with cancel title-page. Ferguson,11329 (variant issue); not in Maria (but see 109 for a related variant issue); Wantrup, 174c.Estimate $200/400

[23] LESSON, René Primevère. VOYAGE AUTOUR DU MONDE entrepris par ordre du Gouvernement sur la CorvetteLa Coquille; par P. Lesson, Membre correspondant de l’Institut. Two volumes, octavo, handcoloured natural historyplates, and engraved plates, some foxing as usual, old name obscured on versos of front free endpapers, Frenchquarter red morocco and papered boards of the period, little rubbed. Paris, P. Pourrat Frères, 1839. The ‘deluxe’issue with the fine natural history plates coloured by hand. The official account of the 1822-5 voyage in the Coquilleunder Louis Isidore Duperrey was never published and so this scarce account by the surgeon and naturalist on theCoquille is the only separate narrative account. Lesson reported many important scientific details which Duperreyfailed to publish in his incomplete account, including many extensive vocabularies and grammatical analyses,particularly of the Maori Language. The illustrations in Lesson’s work include over twenty plates of views, nativecostumes, objects and tools, as well as coastal profiles, while the beautiful, delicate handcoloured plates includeillustrations of the kangaroo, kiwi, lyrebird, opossum, parrots, platypus, wombat, and several Birds of Paradise. In asmall number of copies the non-integral illustrated title-page of the first volume (only) has the date 1838. The workwas probably issued in livraisons (parts) over 1838-9. Ferguson’s treatment of the work contains substantial errors: his2533 (describing copies with the mixed 1838 and 1839 title-pages), for example, calls for only 37 plates, giving rise toa belief in earlier years that there were two editions of the book, with the 1839 “edition” having more plates. Fergusonand others also appear only to describe this deluxe issue (with coloured plates); the ‘ordinary’ issue is identical butomits the handcoloured natural history plates. In addition, Ferguson initially transposed the collation of the twovolumes in error (2787). Ferguson, 2787(rev); Hill 2, 1012; Hocken, p. 73; Sabin, 40214.Estimate $2000/4000

[24] MACONOCHIE, Alexander. AUSTRALIANA. THOUGHTS ON CONVICT MANAGEMENT and other subjectsconnected with the Australian Penal Colonies... [and] Supplement to Thoughts on Convict Management. Octavo, twoworks bound together in original cloth (old marks of damp), printed paper label on spine, with errata slip in the firstwork. London, Parker, [and] Hobart Town, MacDougall, 1839. The sheets of the main work, Australiana, wereprinted in Hobart in 1838 and some were sent to London for the Parker issue of 1839; not all copies were issued withthe Hobart-published supplement, with its own title-page. Very scarce with the supplement. Ferguson, 2796-7.Estimate $800/1200

[25] McKINLAY, John. McKINLAY’S JOURNAL OF EXPLORATION IN THE INTERIOR OF AUSTRALIA. (BurkeRelief Expedition.) With three Maps. Octavo, with three loose folding maps in a back endpocket, original cloth, thefront hinge opened. Melbourne, F.F. Baillière, [1862]. First edition of the ‘standard’ public edition of McKinlay’sexpedition journal. Ferguson, 12057; Maria, 122; Wantrup, 178.Estimate $200/400

[26] [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 in endpocket,plates with slight foxing, a fine copy in original embossed cloth, gilt. London, Sampson Low, Son, & Co., 1863. Firstedition of the only substantial publication relating to the McKinlay expedition in search of Burke and Wills. In a sensethe ‘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 $500/700Illustrated opposite lot 33

[27] MITCHELL, Thomas Livingstone. THREE EXPEDITIONS INTO THE INTERIOR OF EASTERN AUSTRALIA,with descriptions of the recently explored region of Australia Felix, and of the present Colony of New South Wales.Two volumes, octavo, complete with plates and maps, with later colouring applied to every vignette and plate, thelarge folding handcoloured map with two old tape repairs (and marking) including along one fold, original cloth.London, T. & W. Boone, 1839. The revised second edition. Ferguson, 2811 (misdescribed); Wantrup, 125(misdescribed).Estimate $300/500

[28] MITCHELL, Thomas Livingstone. JOURNAL OF AN EXPEDITION INTO THE INTERIOR OF TROPICALAUSTRALIA... 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’sfull narrative of his fourth and last expedition. The fine lithographed plates after Mitchell’s own drawings show hiswork as a topographical artist at its best. Ferguson, 4828; Wantrup, 129.Estimate $300/500

[29] OXLEY, John. JOURNALS OF TWO EXPEDITIONS INTO THE INTERIOR OF NEW SOUTH WALES,undertaken by order of the British Government in the Years 1817-18. By John Oxley, Surveyor General of theTerritory and Lieutenant of the Royal Navy. With Maps and Views of the Interior, or newly discovered country.Quarto, one folding engraved plate, five aquatint plates (two handcoloured), three folding charts, and two foldingtables, with traces of pale foxing, an appealing copy in early full calf, front hinge tender, spine gilt. London, JohnMurray, 1820. First edition of Oxley’s narrative of two major expeditions, the foundation work of Australian inlandexploration and the first detailed description of the interior of New South Wales to be published. This official narrativeof Oxley’s two expeditions was published in an edition of 500 copies. “Undoubtedly the chief book-makingachievement of the Macquarie period” (Richards), it includes among its illustrations a fine hand-coloured aquatintportrait of an Aboriginal chief by John William Lewin – one of his few known Aboriginal subjects – as well as anevocative series of aquatint landscape views drawn by Major James Taylor from sketches by George William Evans,uniting in one book the work of three of the most substantial artists of the Macquarie era. Abbey, 568; Clancy, 9.20;Ferguson, 796; Perry and Prescott, 1820.03-05; Richards, 82; Wantrup, 107.Estimate $4000/6000

[30] STOKES, John Lort. DISCOVERIES IN AUSTRALIA; WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE COASTS AND RIVERSEXPLORED AND SURVEYED DURING THE VOYAGE OF H.M.S. BEAGLE, In the Years 1837 – 38 – 39 – 40 –41 – 42 – 43... Also a Narrative of Captain Owen Stanley’s Visits to the Islands in the Arafura Sea. Two volumes anda matching atlas volume, octavo, pp. xvi (last blank), 1 – 478, [2] (integral blank leaf) + 477 (bis) – 522 (last blank);pp. viii, [ii], 544; with, in total, 26 plates, and eight charts, bound in three volumes period-style half calf, the usualfoxing and offsetting from the plates. an excellent set with the six scarce folding charts loose in a matching bookformatlas volume. London, T. & W. Boone, 1846. First edition: the last great Australasian surveying voyages, sailing in theBeagle, Darwin’s ship. In the course of their survey Wickham and Stokes completed the discovery of the north-westcoast and accurately charted for the first time other stretches of coast. On the northern coast they discovered and partlyexplored five rivers, while Stokes and his men also undertook many expeditions inland which are recorded in theofficial account. Very scarce with all the loose folding charts. Ferguson, 4406; Wantrup, 89.Estimate $2000/4000

[31] STUART, John McDouall. EXPLORATIONS across the continent of Australia with charts 1861-62. Octavo, largefolding map, original cloth-backed card boards. Melbourne, F.F. Baillière, 1863. Ferguson, 16380; Wantrup, 161.Estimate $200/400

[32] STUART, John McDouall. EXPLORATIONS IN AUSTRALIA: The journals of John McDouall Stuart during theyears 1858, 1859, 1861, & 1862, when he fixed the centre of the continent and successfully crossed it from sea to sea.Octavo, with frontispiece mounted photographic portrait, sketch map, 12 plates, large folding coloured map (6 cm.tear), a fine copy in the original cloth. London, Saunders, Otley and Co., 1865. Second edition: identical to the first of1864 apart from the additional leaf, “Advertisement to the Second Edition”. Ferguson, 16382; Wantrup, 162b.Estimate $600/800

[33] STURT, Charles. TWO EXPEDITIONS INTO THE INTERIOR OF SOUTHERN AUSTRALIA, during the years1828, 1829, 1830 and 1831: with Observations on the Soil, Climate and General Resources of the Colony of NewSouth Wales. Two volumes, octavo, 13 plates (four handcoloured) and two maps (one folding), entirely uncut in theoriginal plum cloth with blue and white patterned endpapers, spines a little faded as usual, with the signature of H.Villiers Stuart and one stamped number on a rear blank, a fine copy. London, Smith, Elder, 1833. First edition. Sturt’sfull narrative of his two crucial expeditions into the interior, an account of over 4000 miles of exploration carried outin four years. Although the news of Sturt’s extensive discoveries had reached Britain within months of his return, withthe results reported in various journals, it was this handsome two-volume account that was most responsible forrekindling the subdued interest in Australian discovery and geography. Sturt’s journal was the first full-scalepublication of an explorer’s journal since the publication of Oxley’s book thirteen years before. It was a huge success,with a second edition being called for the following year. Among all the explorers of the heroic age of the 1830s and1840s only the journals of Sturt and Mitchell went to a second edition. Ferguson, 1704; Wantrup, 118a.Estimate $1000/1500

[34] STURT, Charles. NARRATIVE OF AN EXPEDITIONINTO CENTRAL AUSTRALIA. Two volumes, octavo, witha folding map and plates (six coloured and several afterJohn Gould and S.T. Gill), one plate repaired, with labels ofthe Bank of England Library, a good set in half calf, marbledboards and endpapers; the David N. Strang, and F.G. Colescopy, with bookplates.. London, T. & W. Boone, 1849. Firstedition of the official narrative of Sturt’s last expedition tocomplete the discovery of the unexplored interior of thecontinent. The text is illustrated with two tinted plates afterS.T. Gill, ten plates after Henry Melville, Sturt, Frome, andGill, as well as four hand-coloured natural history plates byJohn Gould. The appendices in the second volume include anarrative of Edmund Kennedy’s survey of Mitchell’s‘Victoria’ River, an appendix on birds by John Gould, andone on botany by Robert Brown. Ferguson, 5202; Richards,104; Wantrup, 119.Estimate $800/1200

[35] TIETKENS, William H. THE NULLABOR PLAINS andthe West Boundary of the Province. Octavo, pp. 8 + foldingmap (detached), bound with the self-wrappers in modernlinen, leather spine label. Adealide, H.F. Leader, 1889. Veryscarce. Ferguson, 17168. + Three government papersincluding Logan Jack’s report on the Bowen River Coalfield(1879) and Taranganba Gold Mine (1889), and Henry YorkeLyell Brown’s Report on Country Recently Examined in theDavenport & Murchison Ranges (1903).Estimate $200/400

Lots 26, 37, and 36.

[36] WARBURTON, Colonel Peter Egerton. JOURNEY ACROSS THE WESTERN INTERIOR OF AUSTRALIA…With an Introduction and Additions by Charles H. Eden, Esq. Author of “My Wife and I in Queensland.” Edited by H.W. Bates, Esq. Assistant Secretary of the Royal Geographical Society. With Illustrations and a Map. Octavo, withhalf-title and advertisements, frontispiece portrait and eight other plates, and a large folding map, a fine copy inoriginal green cloth over bevelled boards, decorated in gilt and black, one corner bruised. London, Sampson Low,Marston, Low, & Searle, 1875. First edition of the formal narrative of Warburton’s last, great expedition of 1873-4from the Telegraph Line to the west coast which won the race to cross the continent from east to west. The Warburton,Forrest, and Giles expeditions are pre-eminent in the history of exploration in the 1870s and this London account ofWarburton’s victorious expedition is an essential document in the story. Ferguson, 18187; Wantrup, 201.Estimate $400/600Illustrated previous page

[37] WILLS, William John. A SUCCESSFUL EXPLORATION THROUGH THE INTERIOR OF AUSTRALIA, FromMelbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria. From the Journals and Letters of William John Wills. Edited by his father,William Wills. Octavo, with half-title and inserted advertisements, engraved frontispiece, engraved portrait of Wills(detached), and a folding map, original cloth. London, Richard Bentley, 1863. First edition: an impressive familypresentation copy, inscribed by the editor to his sister (the aunt of William John Wills). The ‘official’ account of theexpedition, edited from his letters and journals by Wills’s father. “The largest, the most expensive and the worst ledexpedition yet seen in Australia, the Victorian Exploring Expedition became a symbol of intercolonial rivalry. Therecan be little doubt that the prime objective of the expedition when it set out in August 1860 was to beat Stuart’s SouthAustralian expedition to the north coast at any cost... Bentley’s edition of Wills’s journals is the most extensivecontemporary account of the expedition...” (Wantrup). Ferguson, 18622; Maria, 192; Wantrup, 172.Estimate $500/800Illustrated previous page

[38] BURKE AND WILLS. SUPPLEMENTARY PAMPHLET TO THE BURKE AND WILLS EXPLORINGEXPEDITION: Containing the Evidence taken before the Commission of Inquiry appointed by Government. Octavo,frontispiece portrait of King and Gray, printed in double-column, a good copy in original buff wrappers, old news-clippings loosely inserted. Melbourne, Wilson and Mackinnon, 1861. Rare. Ferguson, 7705 (not noting preliminaries);Wantrup, 166 (but misdated 1862).Estimate $300/600

[39] WINNECKE, Charles. MR. WINNECKE’S EXPLORATIONS DURING 1883. Diary of Northern Exploration Party[drop title]. Foolscap folio, very large folding colour map, stapled as issued, preserved in a cloth folding bookformbox. Adelaide, Government Printer, 1884. Rare: the report of Winnecke’s first private expedition. Includes a report byFerdinand von Mueller on plants collected. Gill, p. 14; McLaren 16972.Estimate $400/600

Lots 40 – 52. IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS AND BOOKS

FROM THE ESTATE OF THE LATE RODNEY DAVIDSON AO

Lot 41 (part)

We are pleased to offer below a small group of documents and books from the estate of the late Rodney Davidson AO.Of special importance are three documents acquired from the descendants of John Batman in 1964. At the time of thesecond sale of the Davidson Collection these items, although listed in Mr Davidson’s catalogue, were not able to befound. Happily Mr Davidson’s executors have located these ‘lost’ documents and they are now offered. It is also thecase that several books were not on the shelves in the library at Sky and so, by happenstance, were not included in thesale of the collection. Others, such as Paltock’s rare imaginary voyage, were purchased later – true collectors willunderstand the impulse to acquire what was not owned even after a collection is sold!

[40] BATMAN, John. MANUSCRIPT MEMORANDUM, witnessing an agreement for Batman to maintain 147 ewes andthree rams belonging to Charles Barnard, for eighteen months, the expenses to be borne by Batman, the progeny to bedivided two-thirds to Barnard, one-third to Batman. Two conjugate leaves, folio, splitting along the fold, signed byCharles Barnard and John Batman. Hobart, 6th May, 1824. An agreement underlining the close relations between Batman and Barnard, who twice played a part in the ratherdramatic events that sprang from Batman’s not entirely legitimate love affair with the convict Eliza Callaghan, whomBatman was accused of harbouring. Following the deposition of Edward Russell on 20 November 1825, theSuperintendent of Police at Launceston, Peter Archer Mulgrave, directed this sub-poena to the Chief Constable,George Lawson, requiring him to bring “Mr. Charles Barnard of the Tamar” before him “to give evidence against infavour of Mr. John Batman charged with harbouring Elizabeth Callaghan a runaway convict. Herein fail you not”.George William Barnard, Batman’s close friend and neighbour, apparently called himself ‘Charles’, which seemsalways to be the name under which he was known. Later it was Barnard who accompanied Batman to Hobart in 1828and provided him with a supporting character reference when he petitioned Lieutenant-Governor Arthur forpermission to marry Eliza Callaghan, who had by then borne him four daughters (See Davidson Collection sale, lots382-3).Provenance: By descent to Leslie John Batman Weire, John Batman’s great-grandson; Davidson Collection, acquiredfrom the above, 1964.Estimate $2000/4000

[41] [BUCKLEY, William]. AN IMPORTANT MEMORANDUM TO THE PORT PHILLIP ASSOCIATION,CONCERNING THE REQUESTED PARDON FOR WILLIAM BUCKLEY, THE ‘WILD WHITE MAN’. Threepages ink manuscript of two leaves, white paper, tall duodecimo by dimensions, signed with ‘E’ monogram. [Hobart],25 August 1835. The memorandum outlines to the Port Phillip Association, and specifically, one assumes, to John Batman, the termsunder which Lieutenant Governor Arthur was prepared to issue a pardon to Buckley as requested from Bellarine Point

by John Helder Wedge. The memorandum was dated the day before the pardon was granted and clearly states the legal difficulty arising in Arthur pardoning a convict outside his legitimate jurisdiction. Importantly, the memorandum also articulates the motivations of both the Lieutenant Governor and of the Port Phillip Association, stating that it was ”founded upon a desire to prevent bloodshed & to remove any inducement on Buckley’s part to make common cause with the natives in the commission of any outrages upon the white immigrants which might lay the foundation of a war of extermination… [in expectation that] the Aborigines may be so thoroughly conciliated as to ensure a lasting amity between them & the present or any future immigrants.” The writer of the memorandum (we believe it to have been Edward McDowell, Solicitor-General of VDL, 1833-7) also advises, in explicit terms, that the granting of any pardon to Buckley did not legitimate the Association’s claims to land at Port Phillip:“It will be understood that these are the only grounds for the present concession which must not be construed into an the admission of any right right claim made by the Gentlemen associated with Mr Batman to the territory at Port Phillip and any part of it.”The story of William Buckley is now well-known. Bricklayer and soldier, Buckley was sentenced in 1802 to transportation for life for receiving stolen goods. He was transported on the Calcutta to Port Phillip in 1803, where Lieutenant Governor David Collins had been instructed to establish a new convict settlement. Buckley was one of several convicts who escaped from that abortive settlement at Sorrento. Buckley appears to have been the only one of the escapees to have survived but, when Collins moved the entire settlement to the Derwent River in Van Diemen’s Land, Buckley was effectively marooned without any hope of surrender. Wandering along the southern coast of Victoria, he was befriended by an Aboriginal tribe who believed him to be the reincarnation of a chief who had recently died. Buckley lived among the Aborigines for 32 years. Although he had seen several European visitors in that time, he said that he was afraid to give himself up. It was only when he learnt in July 1835 that Aborigines were planning to rob a visiting ship and slaughter the white men that he decided to warn them and surrender himself.He walked into the Batman camp at Indented Head and surrendered to John Helder Wedge. At first, Buckley had forgotten the use of English but after some days his command of his mother tongue gradually returned and he was able to communicate.Wedge thought that Buckley would be useful as an interpreter and as an intermediary with the local Aborigines. On July 9, 1835, he wrote to Acting Colonial Secretary John Montagu from Bellarine Point, Port Phillip, supporting Buckley’s petition for a free pardon and describing the circumstances in which Buckley had been found and enumerating the ways in which he already had been and would in the future be of assistance to the party.Buckley’s petition was written on his behalf by one of the clerks in the Batman party at Bellarine Point. The document itself was drawn up by Wedge and rephrases into the formal language appropriate to such a petition Buckley’s own account of his experiences since 1803, and more especially of the occurrences that led him to surrender to Wedge a few days earlier.Lieutenant-Governor Arthur acted promptly, even while acknowledging his legal incapacity, and a free pardon for Buckley was forwarded to Wedge in Port Phillip.Modern critics, constrained by fashionable revisionist orthodoxy, may doubt the sincerity of the clearly stated hope of Batman’s Port Phillip Association’s that they might live at peace with the local Aborigines. Nonetheless, as this memorandum makes clear, through all the new settlers’ statements and deliberations runs a paramount concern that they should not carry across the Strait at least one evil from Van Diemen’s Land: that there should be a “friendly understanding” with the local Aborigines.Despite the formal illegality of Lieutenant Governor Arthur’s pardon, it was approved by Governor Bourke in New South Wales, and, one year later confirmed and approved by King William IV.Provenance: By descent to Leslie John Batman Weire, John Batman’s great-grandson; Davidson Collection, acquired from the above, 1964.Estimate $8000/12,000

[42] [BUCKLEY, William]. “WILLIAM BUCKELY IS A NATIVE OF MARSTON NEAR MACCLESFIELD INCHESHIRE…” [text continues]. 18 pages ink manuscript, on white paper, quarto, in fine state. [Bellarine Point?,1835?] An important but unsigned contemporary document, recounting in considerable detail the experiences ofWilliam Buckley during his thirty years living among the Aborigines of Port Phillip. The document shows a degree ofprocess which, together with its provenance, compellingly suggests that this document is the narrative constructed byJohn Helder Wedge from his interviews with Buckley and that this longer document formed the basis of, and evidentlypreceded, the briefer narrative of Buckley’s experiences between 1803 and 1835 that was included in his three-pagepetition of 9 July 1835 for a free pardon (see Davidson Collection sale, lot 393). Provenance: By descent to Leslie John Batman Weire, John Batman’s great-grandson; Davidson Collection, acquiredfrom the above, 1964.Estimate $4000/6000

[43] FEDERATION. ROLL OF THE NATIONAL AUSTRALASIAN CONVENTION to consider and report upon anadequate scheme for a Federal Constitution. Sydney, 2nd March, 1891. Foolscap folio, title-leaf and seven leaves ofprinted names and autograph signatures, original semi-limp tan morocco (slightly spotted), front board lettered ingilt. Sydney, Robt. S. Brain, [1891]. Extremely scarce. These honour rolls were produced for the participants andprobably for a few other dignitaries, the present copy was presented to Victorian delegate, Duncan Gillies. Thesignatories include many of the great names of Australasian history, some of whom were the founders of notablepolitical families. The signing participants include, among others: Sir George Grey, Sir Henry Parkes, Hon. EdmundBarton, Sir Samuel Walker Griffith, Sir Thomas McIlwraith, Sir John William Downer, Hon. Thomas Playford, Hon.Alfred Deakin, Sir John Forrest, and Alexander Forrest. Ferguson, 13072a.Estimate $2000/3000

[44] 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 newlydiscovered, important, and fertile Districts, with Observations on the moral and physical Condition of the AboriginalInhabitants, &c. &c. Two volumes, octavo, with two large folding maps, with all plates (six coloured), one plate withpale foxing, a clean copy, early half calf and marbled boards. London, T. & W. Boone, 1841. First edition of a classicWestern Australian exploration account. Grey’s expeditions were a major advance in the discovery of the west andnorth-west parts of the Australian continent. He discovered and named the Glenelg River, the Macdonald Range, theStephen Range, the Gairdner River, Mount Lyell, the Gascoyne River, the Murchison River and nine other rivers, theLyell, Victoria and Gairdner Ranges, and many other features along the west coast. This work includes scientificappendices by John Gould, John Edward Gray, and Adam White. The Aboriginal rock paintings found on the firstexpedition are illustrated on several plates. Bagnall, 2336; Ferguson, 3228; Richards, 97; Wantrup 131 (miscountingplates in the second volume).Estimate $600/800

[45] LA TROBE, C.J.SIGNED LETTER toB. Baxter, authorizingoccupation of thecottage on Batman’sHill, from 1st Octoberto 30th November,for the rental of 100pounds per annum.Two pages ink manu-script on two conjug-ate leaves, with oldholes from filing.Melbourne, October1841. A fine – andrare – example of LaTrobe’s autograph.Baxter was an early settler who had purchased lots in central Melbourne. Presumably he leased the cottage whiledeveloping his town lots.Estimate $200/400

[46] MELBOURNE. VERY GOOD GROUP OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF MELBOURNE AND THE YARRA RIVER,circa 1900. Eighteen albumen paper prints, mostly half-plate size, mounted on cardboard, some captioned. Includessome images of the Federation celebration and of the St Kilda foreshore.Estimate $400/600

Lot 47

[47] PALTOCK, Robert. THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF PETER WILKINS, a Cornish Man: Relating particularly,His Shipwreck near the South Pole; his wonderful Passage thro’ a subterraneous Cavern into a kind of new World; histhere meeting with a Gawry or flying Woman, whose Life he preserv’d, and afterwards married her; his extraordinaryConveyance to the Country of Glums and Gawrys, or Men and Women that fly. Likewise a Description of this strangeCountry, with the Laws, Customs, and Manners of its Inhabitants, and the Author’s remarkable Transactions amongthem. Taken from his own Mouth, in his Passage to England, from off Cape Horn in America, in the Ship Hector.With an Introduction, giving an Account of the surprizing Manner of his coming on board that Vessel, and his Deathon his landing at Plymouth in the Year 1739. Illustrated with several Cuts, clearly and distinctly representing theStructure and Mechanism of the Wings of the Glums and Gawrys, and the Manner in which they use them either toswim or fly. By R. S. a passenger in the Hector. Two volumes, duodecimo, contemporary mottled calf, rebacked.London, J. Robinson and R. Dodsley, 1751. First edition of this rare imaginary voyage. Paltock wrote at a time when Robinson Crusoe and Gulliver’s Travelswere well-known and enthusiastically embraced by the reading public. Paltock’s remarkable imaginary voyage, asignificant foundation work in the still embryonic science fiction genre, was clearly, if superficially, indebted to bothof these masterworks. Consequently, it was little esteemed by the contemporary readership. Furthermore, the mid-eighteenth century prized realism above all else. Realism to life was the main novelty of the novel (not a pun butetymology), whereas Paltock’s Peter Wilkins was a flight of fancy (pun intended) too far. Nonetheless, there was apredictable Dublin piracy in the same year and translations into French (1763) and German (1767). There was onlyone new edition – in 1783 ( also rare). The book was recognised as a classic of imaginative writing when Coleridge,Shelley, Leigh Hunt, Charles Lamb, and other romantics wrote enthusiastically about it in the early decades of thenineteenth century. Frequently reprinted throughout the century thereafter, it was also the source for a number oftheatrical treatments in those decades. Provenance: Hordern House, 2007.Estimate $1000/1500

[48] PYKE, W.T. THIRTY YEARS AMONG THE BLACKS OF AUSTRALIA. The Life and Adventures of WilliamBuckley, the Runaway Convict. Octavo, illustrations, original wrappers pictorial preserved in cloth boards. London,George Routledge and Sons, 1912. Estimate $150/200

[49] SMITH, Louis L. THE SECRETS AND CEREMONIES OF FREEMASONRY EXPOSED; giving a description ofthe signs, grips, and knocks, used in the apprentice, fellow craft, and master-mason lodges, by knowing which, anyone can enter a lodge of English masons. A lecture delivered on Monday, 24th March, 1862, at the Mechanics’Institute. Octavo, frontispiece, later leaves with a few stains, old vertical fold, modern quarter morocco (unlettered).Melbourne, Robert Stewart, no date. Second edition. Louis L. Smith was Mr Davidson’s ancestor.Ferguson, 15832.Estimate $100/200

[50] SPENCER, Walter Baldwin. SPENCER’S LAST JOURNEY. Being the Journal of an Expedition to Tierra DelFuego by the Late Sir Baldwin Spencer. With a Memoir. R. Marnett and T.K. Penniman. With Contributions by SirJames Frazer and H. Balfour. Octavo, illustrations, plates two folding maps, frontispiece, original cloth in chippeddustwrapper. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1931. + SPENCER, W. Baldwin. “How We Wrote Our Book. AcrossAustralia. By Professor Baldwin Spencer, Melbourne University”. [Melbourne, 1904]. Article extracted from theMelbourne magazine Life, 15 October 1904. Despite the title, this article refers to Spencer and Gillen’s The NorthernTribes of Central Australia, not to the as yet unpublished two-volume Across Australia.Estimate $300/400

[51] VAN DIEMEN’S LAND. TWO NINETEENTH-CENTURY DOCUMENTS including a marriage licence (1853),and a 1833 letter (in a later envelope) giving a convict permission to travel to Sydney. Estimate $100/200

[52] WILLS, William John. A SUCCESSFUL EXPLORATION through the Interior of Australia, from Melbourne to theGulf of Carpentaria. Octavo, with frontispiece, a portrait of Wills, and a folding map, with 32 pages of advertisementsfollowing text, a bright copy in original russet cloth, the preferred variant with coloured ‘wallpaper’ endpapers.London, Richard Bentley, 1863. First edition of the most extensive contemporary account, effectively the ‘official’account of the expedition, edited from his letters and journals by Wills’s father. “The largest, the most expensive andthe worst led expedition yet seen in Australia, the Victorian Exploring Expedition became a symbol of intercolonialrivalry. There can be little doubt that the prime objective of the expedition when it set out in August 1860 was to beatStuart’s South Australian expedition to the north coast at any cost... Bentley’s edition of Wills’s journals is the mostextensive contemporary account of the expedition...” (Wantrup). Ferguson, 18622; Maria, 192; Wantrup, 172.Estimate $600/900

Ephemera. Lots 53 – 81

[53] AMERICAN FLEET, 1908. Menu.FAREWELL LUNCHEON GIVEN BY THEGOVERNMENT OF VICTORIA In Honour ofRear Admiral Sperry and the Officers of theUnited States Atlantic Fleet… Melbourne, 4thSeptember 1908. Menu on card, folded to octavosize, printed in gilt and colour, in very good state.Melbourne, Sands & McDougall, 1908. Estimate $80/120

[54] AUSTRALIA. A VERY GOOD COLLECT-ION, in three albums, of Australian ephemera,including receipts and documents, and advertisingmaterial, mostly early 20th century. Estimate $100/200

[55] AUSTRALIAN COOKERY. A VERY GOODand attractive group of ephemeral pieces,including three pamphlets with recipes forAustralian fruit (with coloured pictorial wrappers,circa 1930s), and a promotional Sennitt’s icecream paper ink blotter. Estimate $80/120

[56] AUSTRALIAN LIMITED EDITIONSSOCIETY. A SMALL archive of ephemera, compiled by a subscriber, relating to the society & press (1930s –1940s). Estimate $60/90

[57] AUSTRALIAN TOURISM. A VERY GOOD GROUP of ephemeral pieces, including brochures, touring guides,and maps &c. mostly 1920s – 1950s. Estimate $100/150

[58] AUSTRALIAN TOURISM. EPHEMERA including a good group of Australian airline flight souvenirs, circa 1950,and brochures &. relating to Adelaide Estimate $50/70

[59] AUSTRALIAN TOURISM. BONDI. The Playground of the Pacific [cover title]. Oblong octavo, illustrations,striking original pictorial coloured art deco wrappers. Sydney, Henry & Cantwell, 1933. Estimate $100/200

[60] BANCKS, J.C. MORE ADVENTURES OF GINGER MEGGS. Sunbeams Book Series 12 and 13. Quarto, two items,coloured illustration, one stapled (the other detached and with old tape marks) in original coloured card wrappers.Sydney, Sun Newspapers, (1935-6). Muir, 445 and 446.Estimate $100/200

[61] BANCKS, J.C. MORE ADVENTURES OF GINGER MEGGS. Series 21 and 25. Quarto, two items, colouredillustration, stapled in original coloured card wrappers (one splitting). Sydney, Associated Newspapers, 1945. Estimate $80/120

[62] BENDIGO. SMALL GROUP of trade & tourism ephemera. Noted: J.H. Abbott & Co. catalogue circa 1890s.Estimate $80/120

[63] CHANDLER. D.W. GENERAL HARDWARE CATALOGUE. Issue no. 48. Quarto, illustrations (one colouredplate) hole-punched with string, top left, minor insect damage, complete with perforated order forms in originalwrappers (bit worn). Melbourne, W. & J. Barr, circa 1936. Scarce late-Depression era comprehensive catalogue fromthe Cash Ironmonger, Wire Merchants and Importers of Fitzroy and Flinders Lane.Estimate $80/120

[64] COMICS. GROUP OF THREE BUCK ROGERS COMICS. Special No. 8, Special No. 9, and Buck Rogers in the25th Century. West Melbourne, Fitchett Brothers, and Sydney, Consolidated Press, no date (1930s-1940s). Estimate $80/120

[65] DE CASTELLA, François. VITICULTURE IN VICTORIA. A Handbook for Intending Settlers. Octavo,illustrations, original pictorial wrappers. Melbourne, The Advertising and Intelligence Bureau, circa 1910. +IRRIGATION IN VICTORIA: Information for Home Seekers. Ready-Made Farms in the Irrigated Districts of theState of Victoria… The Stanhope and Werribee Estates. Melbourne, Albert J. Mullett, Government Printer, 1915.Octavo, illustrations, original pictorial wrappers.Estimate $60/90

[66] EMIGRATION. AUSTRALIA FOR FARMERS [wrapper title]. Octavo, illustrations, folding map, original colourpictorial titling-wrappers. Melbourne, McCarron, Bird & Co., 1915. + WHEAT GROWING IN AUSTRALIA.Melbourne, McCarron, Bird & Co., 1915. Octavo. Illustrations, original colour pictorial wrappers.Estimate $80/120

[67] FIRST FLEET. A GOOD GROUP of newspaper accounts of the First Fleet &c., five pieces (including oneduplicate), 1787 – 1789. + A copy of The London Chronicle (22-25 Jan, 1780) including an extract of a letter fromCaptain Clerke discussing Cook’s third voyage.Estimate $200/400

[68] GAME. RAILWAY RIOT. The New Style Australian Outdoor or Indoor Game… Complete with all sheets,including instructions, and cards in original printed box 25.5 x 16 cm (with some insect damage), Melbourne, G.N.Raymond, circa 1950s. Australian version of English game published by Universal Publications Ltd.Estimate $50/70

[69] [GILL] ADLER, C. (printed by). [SYDNEY ROSE]. Engraved and chromolithographed circular novelty souvenir,opened approximately 260 mm (extreme diameter); with four fold lines, as issued, some foxing. Hamburg, From C.Adler’s Printing Establishment, circa 1860s. Rare and attractive novelty souvenir. Folded to form a small bouquet ofcoloured flowers, the piece opens to form a circle with twenty-six separate miniature engraved vignettes of (mainly)Sydney streetscapes, buildings, etc. These derive from a variety of published Sydney view books, including some thatappear to be after S.T. Gill’s Sydney views. The Sydney Rose is, surprisingly, much rarer on the market than the samepublisher’s Melbourne Rose (also rare); possibly the greater interest at this stage in Victoria as a gold colony saw alarger market for the Melbourne souvenir?Estimate $1500/3000

Lot 69 (verso)

[70] JURGENS, A.A. THE HANDSTRUCK LETTER STAMPS of the Cape of Good Hope From 1792 to 1853 and thePostmarks From 1853 to 1910. Quarto, illustrations, two coloured plates, tipped in errata slip, red leather lettered ingilt, all edges gilt. Cape Town, Cape Times Limited, 1943. First edition, presentation binding, inscribed and signed bythe author.Estimate $80/120

[71] MILITARY. A GROUP of Australian World War I & World War II ephemera, including postcards & cigarettecards, Noted WWI recruiting postcard with Harry J. Weston illustration.Estimate $150/200

[72] MILITARY. AUSTRALIAN WEAVING CO. PTY LTD. Weavers of Hat Ribbons, Medal Ribbons…125 – 133Cromwell Street, Collingwood. Cloth wallet (bit worn), 110 x 220 mm., with 42 ribbon samples, folding concertinastyle Melbourne, circa 1918. Estimate $150/200

[73] PERTH. MAGNIFICENT VIEWS Illustrating Perth and Surroundings. Oblong quarto, illustrations, originalwrappers. [Adelaide], H.R. James & Co., circa 1930s. Estimate $50/70

[74] ROBERTSON, Macpherson. A YOUNG MAN AND A NAIL CAN: An Industrial Romance. Oblong quarto,illustrations, 24 colour plates with interleaves, original quarter morocco and cloth boards. Melbourne, The SpecialityPress for MacRobertson, 1921. Scarce: a superb example of Australian advertising art and colour promotionalprinting. Inscribed and signed by Macpherson Robertson. + A signed and inscribed copy of Macrobertson Abroad(1927), bit worn.Estimate $100/200

[75] SKIING. SMALL GROUP of ski ephemera, including a Mt. Buffalo tourist brochure with Percy Trompf image, andthree Rose stereographs. Estimate $80/120

[76] SOUVENIR PROGRAMME. THIRD ANNUAL ARTISTS’ MASQUERADE BALL. Sydney Town Hall. 29August 1924. Quarto, illustrations, original pictorial colour silk-tied wrappers, detached and lacking lower wrapper.Rare and ephemeral: contributors include Kenneth Slessor, Leon Gellert, Stan Cross, Syd Nichols, and queen ofbohemia Dulcie Deamer.Estimate $50/70

[77] TASMANIA. SMALL GROUP of ephemeral pieces Estimate $50/70

[78] THEATRE PROGRAMME. Old Vic Theatre Company. RICHARD III. Australian and New Zealand Tour 1948.Octavo, four page sheet including colour printed cover, with horizontal fold. Melbourne, Premier Printing Co., 1948.Signed on the front by Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier, and in the List of Characters by a further seventeen castmembers.Estimate $100/150

[79] TUCKER, Prof. T.G. AUSTRALIA AS A HOME… Issued by the Commonwealth Immigration Office… Octavo,illustrations, original wrappers. Melbourne, Albert J. Mullett, 1921. + SOCIAL LIFE IN AUSTRALIA. Octavo,illustrations, original decorated wrappers. Melbourne, Speciality Press, 1924.Estimate $80/120

[80] VICTORIAN READERS. THE VICTORIAN READERS. First Book. Octavo, colour illustrations, original cloth-backed card wrappers. Melbourne, J.J. Gourley, Government Printer, 1928. + Three other similar early Victorianschool primers.Estimate $50/70

[81] WARRNAMBOOL (Victoria). WARRNAMBOOL. The Popular Seaside Resort [wrapper title]. Oblong duodecimo,illustrations, original gilt and decorated wrappers. Warrnambool, Thos. Smith, circa 1910. + Postcard: “WilliamFerrier the Brave Fisherman - the Hero of the “La Bella”. Wrecked Warrnambool, Nov.10th 1905…” Postally used.Estimate $100/200

General Australiana. Lots 82 – 106

[82] AUSTIN, J.B. THE MINES OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA… Octavo, lacks map, bound without advertisements in gilt-decorated red morocco (lacking spine). Adelaide, C. Platts et al., 1863 First edition. Ferguson, 6183.Estimate $80/120

[83] AUSTRALIA. GROUP OF large format modern works of Australiana, including twelve volumes of theFairfax/Syme publication Australians: A Historical Library. Estimate $100/150

[84] 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, embrownedthroughout as usual with American books of the period, bound with the half-title in original tree calf or sheep, a littlerubbed,at the extremities. Philadelphia, Thomas Dobson, 1796. Rare: the first American edition of the Barringtonvoyage account. Ferguson, 235; Garvey, AB8; not in Sabin.Estimate $200/300

[85] BENNETT, Samuel. THE HISTORY OF AUSTRALIAN DISCOVERY AND COLONIZATION. Octavo,lithographed plates, publisher’s cumulative cloth, rebacked. Sydney, Hanson & Bennett, 1867. Ferguson, 6937. Withthe 1867 signature of J. Martineau.Estimate $150/240

[86] BILLIARDS. ALCOCK, Henry Upton (ed.). THE ALCOCK BOOK OF BILLIARDS… Re-written…and enlarged.Octavo, illustrations, diagrams, portraits, original cloth. Melbourne, Alcock & Co. 1901. Fifth edition.Estimate $100/150

[87] CONIGRAVE, John Fairfax. SOUTH AUSTRALIA: A Sketch of its History & Resources. A Handbook: Compiledby John Fairfax Conigrave for the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, London, 1886. Octavo, additional lithographedtitle, black & white plates, folding map, original pictorial wrappers (lacking lower wrapper), James Edge Partingtoncopy with bookplate Adelaide, E. Spiller, Government Printer, 1886. Ferguson, 8593.Estimate $80/120

[88] FITZSYMONDS, E. MONTAGU & STEPHEN, Van Diemen’s Land 1836. Octavo, with loosely insertedCorrigenda slip, red cloth, gilt, by Chasdor Bindery, in matching cloth slipcase. Adelaide, James Dally, 2007. Limitededition of 99 numbered copies, initialled by the publisher. + A shelf of miscellaneous Australiana, includingnineteenth-century works.Estimate $200/300

[89] FEDERATION. OFFICIAL RECORD OF THE PROCEEDINGS and Debates of the National AustralasianConvention, held in the Parliament House, Sydney, New South Wales, in the months of March and April, 1891.Foolscap folio, original cloth, gilt. Sydney, George Stephen Chapman, Acting Government Printer, 1891. Scarceofficial record of the entire proceedings and associated documents of the National Australasian Convention held inSydney, March – April 1891, the first of the series of Federation Conventions 1891-8 which established the AustralianConstitution and Australian Federation. The present official record includes much important material that was notreprinted in the octavo Official Report of the National Australasian Convention Debates published by the New SouthWales Government Printer later in 1891.Estimate $100/200

[90] JACKSON, Andrew. ROBERT O’HARA BURKE and the Australian Exploring Expedition of 1860. Octavo, loss athead of title-page, one folding map (tear repaired), original green blind-stamped cloth. London, Smith, Elder and Co.,1862. + Three works of inland exploration (two of them lacking maps), and a defective 1811 octavo edition of Cook’svoyages.Estimate $100/200

[91] LA TROBE, Charles Joseph. LANDSCAPES AND SKETCHES. Large quarto, coloured illustrations throughout,(small scratch at bottom of spine), imitation morocco in matching slipcase. Melbourne, State Library of Victoria inassociation with Tarcoola Press and National Trust of Australia (Victoria), 1999. Edition limited to 500 copies. + LATROBE, Charles Joseph. AUSTRALIAN NOTES, 1839-1854. Large quarto, coloured illustrations throughout,imitation morocco in matching slipcase. Melbourne, Tarcoola Press in association with State Library of Victoria andBoz Publishing, 2006. Edition limited to 200 copies.Estimate $300/500

[92] LEICHHARDT, Ludwig. JOURNAL OF AN OVERLAND EXPEDITION IN AUSTRALIA, from Moreton Bay toPort Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-5. Octavo, with all plates (one folding),title with two stamps, endpapers replaced, original cloth (label neatly removed). London, T. & W. Boone, 1847. Firstedition. Ferguson, 4571; Wantrup, 138a.Estimate $300/500

[93] MELVILLE, Henry. VAN DIEMEN’S LAND ANNUAL FOR 1834. Octavo, lithographed title, and 11lithographed plates and one folding lithographed, coloured signals plate, plate of New Norfolk wanting (see below),original calico, neatly rebacked, endpaper renewed, Craig copy. Hobart, Henry Melville, 1834. Very scarce: incommon with other copies we have seen and seen reported, this copy (Dr Clifford Craig’s) wants the “View of NewNorfolk”; this copy is also without the duplicate “Commercial Bank” plate that sometimes was additionally boundwith the advertisements. This may well be a variant issue. See Ferguson, 1865.Estimate $240/360

[94] MILITARY. HOCKING, Philip. THE LONG CARRY: A History of the 2/1 Australian Machine Gun Battalion1939-46. Octavo, illustrations and maps, original boards with dustwrapper. Melbourne, 2/1 Machine Gun BattalionAssociation, 1997. First edition. + Over half a shelf of Australian military historical works.Estimate $150/200

[95] MURRAY, A.S. TWELVE HUNDRED MILES ON THE RIVER MURRAY. Oblong folio, 15 coloured tipped-inplates, two stamped numbers (one on the title),one leaf detached, an attractive copy in bevelled boards, gilt, a coupleof stains to cloth. London, George Robertson & Co. and J.S. Virtue & Co., 1898. Ferguson, 12972.Estimate $200/400

[96] NICHOLSON, G. Harvey (ed.). FIRST HUNDRED YEARS SCOTCH COLLEGE, Melbourne, 1851 – 1951. Thickoctavo, plates, original cloth, gilt. Melbourne, 1952. + A shelf of local history, mainly Victorian.Estimate $200/300

[97] PARKER, Mary Ann . A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD. Octavo, illustrations, original quarter calf andmarbled boards, mint. Sydney, Hordern House, 1991. Limited to 750 copies. Australian Maritime Series no. 1.Estimate $80/120

[98] PERON, Francois and FREYCINET, Louis de. VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY TO THE SOUTHERN LANDS, anhistorical record. Atlas by Mm. Lesueur and Petit, second edition. Small folio Atlas, coloured and black & whiteplates, half leather (mottled). Adelaide, Friends of the State Library of South Australia, 2008. Facsimile edition of the1824 original. The deluxe issue of 150 numbered copies within the edition of 400. + Volume I (of two) of theaccompanying octavo text.Estimate $200/300

[99] PRESENTATION BINDING. [MURPHY, Sir Francis]. CATALOGUE OF THE CASTS, BUSTS, RELIEFS. andIllustrations of the School of Design and Ceramic Art, in the Museum of Art, at the Melbourne Public Library.Quarto, frontispiece, personalised presentation binding, elaborately gilt-decorated morocco (some abrasions), giltinner dentelles, all edges gilt, unsigned but almost certainly by Detmold. Melbourne, John Ferres, government printer,1865. “Presented by the Trustees of the Melbourne Public Library to Sir Francis Murphy.”Estimate $80/120

[100] SPENCER, Sir Walter Baldwin, J.A. GILRUTH, A. BREINL, et al. REPORT OF PRELIMINARY SCIENTIFICEXPEDITION TO THE NORTHERN TERRITORY… Bulletin No. 1. March, 1912. Quarto, illustrations, originalwrappers. Melbourne, Department of External Affairs, 1912. First issue of the Bulletin of the Northern Territory. + Agood group of similar geological & scientific reports relating to Australia and Papua.Estimate $100/200

[101] STEPHENS, John. THE HISTORY OF THE RISE AND PROGRESS of the New British Province of SouthAustralia… Octavo, with plates and folding map, folding table, modern half morocco and marbled boards, London,Smith, Elder, & Co., 1839. Second issue (“edition”) of Stephens’s Land of Promise… of the same year: Ferguson,2851.Estimate $80/120

[102] STOKES, John Lort. DISCOVERIES IN AUSTRALIA; with an account of the coasts and rivers explored andsurveyed during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle. Facsimile edition, two volumes, octavo, with plates and folding charts.Adelaide, LBSA, 1969. + A shelf of miscellaneous Australiana.Estimate $100/200

[103] TRAILL, W.H. A QUEENLY COLONY. Pen Sketches and Camera Glimpses. Quarto, numerous black & whiteillustrations, map, original gilt-decorated pebbled cloth. Brisbane, Edmund Gregory, 1901. Estimate $80/120

[104] WALCH, Charles E. THE STORY OF THE LIFE of Charles Edward Walch With a Selection of His Writings.Quarto, plates (one in colour), several spots of flecking, a fine copy in original cloth. Hobart, J. Walch and Sons,1908. Printed for private circulation, in an edition limited to 150 numbered copies. Signed by the author, and with twosigned autograph letters. With, loosely inserted, the supplementary pamphlet, Appreciations of Charles EdwardWalch.Estimate $100/200

[105] WILLOUGHBY, Howard. AUSTRALIAN PICTURES DRAWN IN PEN AND PENCIL. Small folio, map andnumerous illustrations, all edges gilt, original gilt pictorial cloth (lightly worn and marked). London, Religious TractSociety, 1886. Ferguson, 18617. + SPENCE, Percy F. and Frank FOX. AUSTRALIA. Octavo, colour plates,original decorated cloth (lower board flecked). London, Black, 1910.Estimate $60/90

[106] YOUNG, Mrs. I.S. Hunter. VICTORIAN GEOGRAPHICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL CHARADES. Intended as apastime for winter evenings, combining Amusement with Instruction. Small quarto, original blue cloth. Melbourne,Stillwell and Knight, 1870. Estimate $100/200

General Antiquarian &c., including art and illustrated, travel and topography.Lots 107 – 128

[107] BOYD, Arthur. PHILIPP, Franz. ARTHUR BOYD. Quarto, with signed lithograph, 44 tipped-in colour plates,illustrations, original beige buckram with dustwrapper in publisher’s buckram box, a fine copy. London, Thames &Hudson, 1967. First edition. One of 100 numbered copies with an additional lithograph signed by the artist.Estimate $1000/1500

[108] WISDEN, John, et al. (eds). WISDEN CRICKETERS’ ALMANACK. A run of 106 issues (bound in 101 volumes),1901-2006. Small octavo, photographic plates (1901-1915, 1922 editions), illustrations, folding plate (1905 edition),repair to illustration in 1917 edition; 1901-1970 editions re-bound, 32 with original wrappers and advertisements, inbinder’s cloth; 1971-2006 editions in publisher’s cloth &c. with dustwrappers (1971 edition lacking dustwrapper).London, John Wisden, 1901-2006. Slim wartime editions bound in pairs as 1916-1917, 1918-1919, 1941-1942, 1943-1944, & 1945-1946.Estimate $2000/4000

[109] BINDING. BREVIARIUM ROMANUM… Four volumes, octavo, printed in red and black, illustrations, elaboratered morocco, edges gilt. Antwerp, 1770. + A related altar book in morocco bindingEstimate $200/400

[110] BLANCK, Jacob. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE. Quarto, ten volumes, original cloth. NewHaven and London, Yale University Press, 1977. Fifth printing. + A quantity, in half a shelf, of works on bookcollecting and book selling.Estimate $200/400

[111] BREES, S.C. PICTORIAL ILLUSTRATIONS OF NEW ZEALAND. Folio, aquatint title and 22 aquatint plates,including one double-page (neat split at fold), one plate laid down and with small loss at left margin, apparentlyissued without text, original papered boards. London, (John Williams and Co.), 1847. Estimate $500/800

[112] CURZON, The Hon. Robert. VISITS TO MONASTERIES IN THE LEVANT, with numerous woodcuts. Octavo, agood ex-library copy with stamps on plate versos, prize calf. London, John Murray, 1849. With manuscript note onthe additional vignette title “Disposed of by order of the Trustees of the Melbourne Public Library”, signed and datedby Redmond Barry, September 10th. 1857. + Two shelves of books on books, book collecting, and book selling.Estimate $200/300

[113] CYNICUS, [Martin J. ANDERSON]. THE HUMOURS OF CYNICUS. Quarto, handcoloured illustrations,pictorial buckram (bit marked), top edge gilt, others uncut. London, The Author, 1891. Deluxe, limited edition,numbered and signed by the author.Estimate $50/70

[114] DIBDIN, Thomas Frognall. A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL, ANTIQUARIAN, AND PICTURESQUE TOUR, in Franceand Germany. Three volumes, octavo, engraved frontispiece and plates, with illustrations and facsimile autographs,uncut, original cloth, one spine label defective. London, Robert Jennings and John Major, 1829. Second edition. + Ashelf of books on books.Estimate $200/300

[115] FOLIO SOCIETY. PUBLICATIONS. One shelf, and including a separate three-volume leather bound History ofEngland published by George Virtue.Estimate $200/300

[116] HARGROVE, Wm. HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION OF THE ANCIENT CITY OF YORK. Octavo, two volumesin three, engraved plates and illustrations, uncut, early half morocco and marbled boards. York, Wm. Alexander andothers, 1818. + A shelf of history and literature, some in Italian, most in leather bindings.Estimate $200/300

[117] HAY, John (editor). NICHOLSON’S NEW CARPENTER’S GUIDE. Quarto, engraved portrait, title and plates(light spots of foxing), a good copy in modern binder’s cloth. London and New York, George Virtue, circa 1860. Estimate $80/120

[118] HENDERSON, T.F. JAMES I. AND VI. Quarto, handcoloured frontispiece, full-page plates in two series includinggravure, with loosely inserted engraved portrait from another source, contemporary green half morocco, top edgegilt, edges just rubbing, close to fine. London, Paris, New York, Goupil & Co., 1904. Limited edition of 200 copies onJapon vellum, this one out of series. + SKELTON, John. MARY STUART. Quarto, handcoloured frontispiece, full-page plates in two series including gravure, with loosely inserted engraved portrait from another source,contemporary green half morocco, top edge gilt, close to fine. London and Paris, Boussod, Valadon & Co., 1893.Limited edition of 300 copies on Japon vellum, this one out of series. + SKELTON, John. CHARLES I. Quarto,handcoloured frontispiece, gravure plates, contemporary blue crushed morocco, one mark on front board, spinemellowing, top edge gilt, in morocco-tipped marbled slipcase. London, Paris, New York, Goupil & Co., 1898.Estimate $300/400

[119] HERBERT, Edward. THE LIFE AND REIGN of King Henry the Eighth. Folio, engraved frontispiece, with earlyinked notes densely covering three preliminary pages, and with occasional inked marginalia, old full calf with wornedges, later rebacking. London, Ann Mearn, 1683. Estimate $150/300

[120] HOBBES, Thomas. HUMANE NATURE, or the Fundamental Elements of Policy, being a discovery of the faculties,acts and passions of the soul of man. Small octavo, later half calf and marbled boards (lacking back board). London,Gilliflower and others, 1684. Third edition, augmented and much corrected. + A shelf of miscellaneous literature,including a first edition of Stevenson’s Kidnapped (lacking the map).Estimate $150/300

[121] KEYNES, Geoffrey. BIBLIOTHECA BIBLIOGRAPHICI: A Catalogue of the Library formed by Geoffrey Keynes.Thick octavo, full-page plates, original buckram-backed cloth. London, Trianon Press, 1964. Limited edition of 500copies, printed at the Curwen Press. + A shelf of books on books.Estimate $200/300

[122] LESAGE, A-R. THE ADVENTURES OF GIL BLAS OF SANTILLANE. Translated by Tobias Smollett, withillustrations by John Austen. Two volumes, folio, plates in colour, uncut, original two-tone cloth, in dustwrappers.Oxford, Limited Editions Club, 1937. + A shelf of literature, including works by the Sitwells.Estimate $150/240

[123] MILN, James. EXCAVATIONS AT CARNAC (BRITTANY), a record of archaeological researches in the Bossennoand the Mont Saint Michel. Two volumes, quarto, illustrated and with full-page plates including colour lithographs, agood ex-library set with some markings including stamps on plate versos, early half calf and marbled boards.Edinburgh, David Douglas, 1877. + A shelf of various travel and history titles, including a first trade edition of T.E.Lawrence’s Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1935).Estimate $200/300

[124] NIXON, Frederick Robert. TWELVE VIEWS IN ADELAIDE AND ITS VICINITY SOUTH AUSTRALIA.Drawn, Etched, and Printed, By F.R. Nixon 1845. Price One Guinea [wrapper title]. Oblong quarto, 12 etched plates;occasional pale spotting and expert restoration to the blank margins of most plates; sewn in the original brown titling-wrappers, the title on the front wrapper, list of subscribers on the back wrapper; the wrappers well restored;preserved in a folding cloth case, gilt-lettered morocco label on the front board. Adelaide, The Artist, 1845. The firstSouth Australian view book. Drawn, etched, printed, and published by Frederick Richard Nixon, an assistantGovernment Surveyor, this rare collection of views is “a topographically important record of Adelaide before the goldrushes which changed the urban landscape throughout Australia” (Wantrup) and a work of considerable historicalinterest. Ferguson, 4124 (“rare”); Wantrup, 233.Estimate $500/800

[125] PARKMAN. Francis. THE CALIFORNIA AND OREGON TRAIL; being sketches of Prairie and Rocky Mountainlife. Duodecimo, tinted frontipiece (creased at one corner) and additional title, scattered foxing, pale waterstain athead of final few gatherings, recent half calf and marbled boards, New York, George P. Putnam, 1849. First edition,first printing, of this classic of Western Americana. BAL, 15446.Estimate $300/500

[126] ROBERTS, Emma (editor). VIEWS IN INDIA, chiefly among the Himalaya Mountains, by Lieut. George White.Folio, full-page engraved plates, detached within original gilt and embossed morocco boards. London & Paris,Fisher, Son, and Co., 1838. + Four nineteenth-century illustrated folios, and half-a-shelf of miscellaneous illustratedtitles (several modern).Estimate $200/400

[127] SMITH, Dr. Julian. FIFTY MASTERPIECES OF PHOTOGRAPHY. Large folio, with introductory pamphlet and50 loose black & white plates in publisher’s cloth-backed portfolio. Melbourne, 1948. + Melville’s monograph HenryMoore Sculptures and Drawings 1921-1969.Estimate $80/120

[128] WHITE, Gleeson. ENGLISH ILLUSTRATION: ‘The Sixties’: 1855-70. With numerous illustrations by Ford MadoxBrown… Lord Leighton, Sir J. E. Millais ... Dante Gabriel Rossetti... and others. Thick octavo, photogravure andother plates, hinges starting, a very good copy in original decorated cloth, top edge gilt. London, Archibald Constableand Co. Ltd., 1906. + A shelf of books on books.Estimate $200/300

Literature, including children’s books. Lots 129 – 141

[129] FITZGERALD, Robert D. HEEMSKERCK SHOALS. Decorated by a map and fifteen designs after drawingsdone by Geoffrey C. Ingleton. Large folio, handcoloured double-page map, fifteen woodcut illustrations, later halfmorocco, fine. Melbourne, The Mountainside Press, [1949]. Limited to 85 copies, this one of the 75 ‘ordinary’copies on Georgian semi-rag paper, signed by the author, illustrator and printer. It has been suggested thatconsiderably fewer than 85 copies were ever issued. The book was sold in flat sheets with binding done to thepurchaser’s order. With a 1961 signed inscription by Kirtley on the half-title.Estimate $1000/1500

[130] GOULD, Nat. TOWN AND BUSH: Stray Notes on Australia. Octavo, loss at head of front endpaper, a good copy inoriginal yellowback boards, corners rubbing. London, Routledge, 1896. First edition. + ROWCROFT, Charles.TALES OF THE COLONIES, or the adventures of an emigrant. Octavo, two small spots of adhesion on front board, agood copy in original yellowback boards. London, Smith, Elder, & Co., 1887. New edition.Estimate $100/150

[131] NEILSON, John Shaw. BALLAD AND LYRICAL POEMS. Octavo, original cloth-backed boards, bit worn andmarked. Sydney, The Bookfellow in Australia, 1923. First edition, ordinary issue.Estimate $80/120

[132] PRAED, Rosa. AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED. Three pages, ink manuscript on printed letterhead, old folds (&old paper residue). Bournemouth, 6 Dec. 1914. Letter written to a New Zealand correspondent: “[A]m very pleasedthat my name should be in your collection of writers.”Estimate $60/90

[133] RAE, John. GLEANINGS FROM MY SCRAP-BOOK. Octavo, early bookplates including John Lane Mullins (andwith library pocket on rear blank), crimson presentation morocco, decorated and gilt, all edges gilt. Sydney, Printedby the Author, 1869. First and Second Series. + A group of seventeen Australian poetry and literature works, mainlynineteenth century.Estimate $150/300

[134] WHITE, Patrick. HAPPY VALLEY. Octavo, original cloth, spine label sunned, bookplate on front paste-down,without dustwrapper. New York, Viking Press, 1940. First US edition. Hubber and Smith, C2.Estimate $300/500

[135] CAREY, Peter HIS ILLEGAL SELF. Octavo, publisher’s green morocco, in solander box. London, Faber andFaber, 2008. One of 10 numbered copies (within an overall limitation of 125 special copies) bound in full morocco forthe London Review Bookshop Limited Editions, signed by the author.Estimate $300/500

[136] MOORHOUSE, Frank. THE ILLEGAL RELATIVES. Octavo, line-drawings throughout in several colours,stapled in original self-wrappers, edges browned as usual, otherwise fine. No imprint but Sydney, Tomato Press forthe Author, 1973. First edition of this extremely scarce, privately-produced underground publication of explicitlypornographic fiction. Although the distribution of the book was ‘unauthorised’, the work was commissioned byMoorhouse. By one account (Michael Wilding), he wanted to revise some of the stories before giving approval to printbut the printer apparently went ahead without authorisation, printed the work as originally submitted, and thendistributed it despite the author’s objections. Another – and more probable – account (Paul Feain) has it thatMoorhouse commissioned the printing but could not pay for it. In order to recoup some of their losses, Tomato Presssold the entire printing of 100 copies to a local secondhand dealer, Gould Books, who proceeded to sell copiespiecemeal over the next forty-odd yearsEstimate $100/200

[137] ROHAN, Criena (pen name of Deirdre Cash). PORTRAIT of the Australian writer ‘Criena Rohan’, author of TheDelinquents (1962) and Down by the Dockside (1963), painted by her second husband Otto Ole Distler Olsen. Oil onpaper, 400 x 300 mm (creased with small defect at top), unsigned. Circa 1960. Estimate $100/200

[138] GIBBS, May. BIB AND BUB PAINTING BOOK: New Stories by May Gibbs. Oblong quarto, pp. [24], two doublepage leaves loose, panelled illustrations throughout (a few with some neat colouring), original colour Gumnut cardwrappers, bit worn on spine. Sydney, W.C. Penfold & Co for the Author, n.d. but 1932. Rare: the last of the Bib andBub series, comprising stories in comic strip form to be coloured in. This publication was a commercial enterpriseundertaken on her own account by May Gibbs – always dissatisfied with the returns from publication through regularchannels. But this was an essentially ephemeral, almost novelty, production and consequently the higher costsassociated with self-publishing meant few copies sold and the work was not a success; it is consequently rare.Estimate $300/500

[139] LINDSAY, Norman. THE MAGIC PUDDING. The Adventures of Bunyip Bluegum. Quarto, plates, original cloth-backed boards, joints a trifle rubbed at head and foot of spine, without dustwrapper, faint tide-mark at head of textblock but a very good copy. Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1918. First edition: the first issue with A & R endpapers.Estimate $800/1200

[140] MILNE, A.A. WINNIE-THE-POOH. Octavo, illustrations by E.H. Shepard throughout, minor defects to the marginsof a few leaves, original limp blue calf (bit worn) lettered and decorated in gilt, all edges gilt, E.H. Shepard illustratedendpapers. London, Methuen & Co. 1928. First edition, publisher’s deluxe binding. + Uniform de luxe (reprinted)editions of Milne’s When We Were Very Young, and Now We Are Six.Estimate $200/400

[141] ST JOHNSTON, Alfred. IN QUEST OF GOLD; or, Under the Whanga Falls. Octavo, illustrations, bright originalpictorial cloth, gilt. London, Cassell & Company, 1885. Estimate $60/90

Natural History. Lots 142 – 155

[142] JARDINE, Sir William (ed.). THE NATURALIST’S LIBRARY. Vol I -XL (lacking vols II & XVI) 38 volumes,octavo, handcoloured plates in colour, illustrations, half calf and decorated boards, Sir Henry Ayers’s set with hisbookplate in each volume. Edinburgh, W.H. Lizars, [1833 – 1844]. Very scarce: an exceptional run of this importantseries of colour-pate natual history books, with an impeccable colonial provenance.Estimate $1000/2000

[143] BENNETT, George. GATHERINGS OF A NATURALIST IN AUSTRALASIA: Being observations principally onthe Animal and Vegetable productions of New South Wales, New Zealand, and some of the Austral Islands. Octavo,with eight handcoloured lithographed plates and 24 woodcuts (many after George French Angas), ex-library copywith one stamp on frontispiece verso and a stamped number on title (also rear endpaper), early marbled boards andfaded half calf. London, John Van Voorst, 1860. Estimate $100/200

[144] CAMPBELL, A.J. et al. (eds). THE EMU. A Quarterly Magazine to Popularise the Study and Protection of NativeBirds. Official Organ of the Australasian Ornithologists’ Union. Vol. I - Vol. XXVI (1901-1927). Twenty-six volumes,octavo, illustrations and plates (including some hand-coloured plates), half morocco and cloth boards (rubbed).Melbourne, Walker, May & Co., 1901-1927. + Index for vols 1-20 in uniform binding, and a quantity of parts (1927 –1935) in original wrappers.Estimate $600/900

[145] CAMPBELL, Archibald James. NESTS AND EGGS OF AUSTRALIAN BIRDS. Including the GeographicalDistribution of the Species and Popular Observations Thereon. Octavo, frontispieces, black & white and colouredplates, map, original pictorial cloth. Sheffield, Pawson & Brailsford, 1900. Estimate $200/400

[146] DIGGLES, Silvester. THE ORNITHOLOGY OF AUSTRALIA… Three volumes, small folio, full-page colourplates, pictorial endpapers, quarter leather, a fine set. Adelaide, State Publishing, 1989 – 1992. Facsimile editionlimited to 500 numbered sets: S.A. White Collection series.Estimate $150/300

[147] DUFFIELD, T. PROTECTED NATIVE BIRDS OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA Octavo, colour plates, original clothR.E.E. Rogers, government printer, 1910. Estimate $80/120

[148] HUMPHREYS, H. Noel. THE GENERA OF BRITISH MOTHS. Popularly Described and Arranged According tothe System Now Adopted in the British Museum. Illustrated by a Series of Picturesque Plates… Two volumes, octavo,coloured plates (incomplete), loose (gutta-percha perished) in original gilt-decorated blue cloth, edges gilt. London,Paul Jerrard & Son, circa 1860. Sold as a collection of plates and so not subject to return.Estimate $200/400

[149] GOULD, John. THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA, Volume I. Folio, 36 coloured plates, original silk cloth. Melbourne,Hill House, 1992. Facsimile edition, limited.Estimate $150/300

[150] LATHAM, John. A GENERAL SYNOPSIS OF BIRDS. [with] Supplement to the General Synopsis of Birds. Threevolumes in six parts, and supplement (bound in seven), quarto, handcoloured title-pages (with ownership stamps)handcoloured plates, some plates removed (now loosely inserted), original boards (worn), defective on spines.London, Benjamin White; Leigh and Sotheby, 1781- 1787. Sold as a collection of plates and so not subject to return.Estimate $600/900

[151] MATHEWS, Gregory M. (ed.). THE AUSTRAL AVIAN RECORD. A Scientific Journal Devoted Primarily to theStudy of the Australian Avifauna. Volumes II & III. Octavo, two volumes, plates, including four handcoloured plates(one creased, but not affecting image) half calf and cloth boards (bit worn). London, Witherby & Co., 1913-1919. +Volume IV no. 1, nos 2 & 3, and nos 4 & 5 in original wrappers.Estimate $800/1200

[152] NORTH, Alfred J. DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE NESTS & EGGS of Birds found breeding in Australiaand Tasmania. Octavo, with 21 plates of eggs, original cloth backed boards (bit worn). Sydney, F.W. White, 1889. Estimate $100/200

[153] NORTH, Alfred J. NESTS AND EGGS of Birds Found Breeding in Australia and Tasmania. Four volumes, quarto,black & white plates, illustrations, half morocco and cloth boards (rubbed). Sydney, F.W. White, 1901 – 1914. Secondedition, with additions.Estimate $600/900

[154] WHITE, S.A. et al. (eds). THE SOUTH AUSTRALIAN ORNITHOLOGIST. Volumes I - VIII. Eight volumes (insix), octavo, illustrations, folding maps, half morocco and cloth boards (bit rubbed). Adelaide, 1914-1925. + Eightissues (1928-1935) in original wrappers.Estimate $300/500

[155] WHITE, Samuel Albert. A RECORD OF THE A.O.U. EXPEDITION TO EYRE’S PENINSULA. October, 1909,With Notes on Ornithology, Botany, and Entomology. Octavo, illustrations, original pebbled cloth. Adelaide, W.K.Thomas & Co., 1910. Estimate $80/120

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Prices Realised. Auction Number 0089, 23 April 2018.Australian Dollars, Hammer Prices

1 $7,0002 $3,4003 $24,0004 $2,4006 $11,0007 $10,0008 $1,8009 $11,00010 $4,20011 $11,00014 $18015 $55018 $8019 $48020 $1,60021 $10022 $18023 $9024 $65026 $36027 $6028 $40029 $7030 $7031 $55033 $65034 $34035 $1,00036 $80037 $36039 $70040 $600

41 $26042 $22043 $24044 $40046 $38047 $60048 $10052 $24053 $90054 $30055 $7057 $26058 $8059 $12060 $11061 $34062 $12063 $60064 $32065 $22066 $10067 $11068 $2,80069 $22070 $75071 $44072 $10073 $24074 $16075 $42077 $60078 $320

79 $17080 $26081 $12082 $11083 $10084 $11085 $7086 $6087 $28088 $13089 $7090 $22091 $46092 $38093 $8095 $19096 $11097 $6098 $24099 $130100 $260101 $360103 $180105 $500106 $280107 $900108 $160109 $320110 $1,200111 $150112 $480113 $380

114 $240115 $120116 $280120 $260121 $340122 $190123 $300124 $400125 $160126 $320127 $240128 $160129 $200130 $280131 $340132 $360133 $120134 $550135 $500136 $300138 $280139 $160140 $160141 $725142 $190143 $300144 $360145 $280146 $50147 $1,200148 $650149 $1,200

150 $600151 $2,000152 $2,200153 $110154 $340155 $340157 $40158 $420159 $700161 $240162 $260163 $300164 $220165 $150166 $260168 $150169 $150170 $300171 $150172 $200173 $220174 $280175 $380176 $100177 $150178 $150179 $220181 $900182 $100

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5f. In the event of a breach by the Buyer of any of the terms ofthese Conditions then any deposit or other sums paid to theAuctioneer shall be forfeited and the Auctioneer in hisabsolute discretion, without prejudice to any other rights orremedies available to him, will be entitled without notice tothe Buyer to dispose of the Buyer’s purchases by publicauction or private treaty and the Buyer shall pay to theAuctioneer any resulting deficiency in the Purchase Price(plus interest) and any other costs incurred as a result of theBuyer’s default, including storage, freight, insurance andany other charges whatsoever. Any surplus shall be paid tothe Seller.

6a. Any warranties express or implied on the part of theAuctioneer or Seller, other than those that are expresslycontained in these Conditions, are hereby excluded. Withoutlimiting the generality of the foregoing any representation inany catalogue, advertisement, condition report, or madeorally or in writing elsewhere as to authorship, origin, date,age, size, medium, attribution, genuineness, provenance,condition or estimated selling price is a statement of opiniononly. Prospective buyers must satisfy themselves as to allmatters relating to the condition, description, authenticityand the nature of any lot by inspection or by obtaining anyindependent expert advice reasonable in view of the buyers’particular expertise and the value of the lot prior to the dateof the auction and the Buyer must take delivery of the lotwith all faults patent or latent (if any). Accordingly, buyerswill be deemed to have knowledge of all matters which theycould reasonably be expected to find out given theirparticular expertise and the exercise by them of reasonabledue diligence.

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6c. All lots are sold “as is” and no error or misdescription ordeficiency in quantity shall vitiate the sale and the Buyershall be bound to take delivery of the lot without anallowance or abatement in price.

6d. Many lots are of an age or nature that precludes their beingin perfect condition and reference may be made in somedescriptions to damage, restoration, or defect. Suchinformation is given for guidance only and the absence ofsuch reference does not imply that a lot is free from defectsnor does the reference to particular defects imply theabsence of others. Illustrations of any lot are for theguidance of prospective buyers and are not to be relied uponto determine either tone or colour of any item or to revealimperfections (if any).

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7a. Notwithstanding anything else in these Conditions if withinfourteen days of the sale notice in writing from the Buyer isgiven to the Auctioneer that in the Buyer’s opinion the lot isa forgery that at the time of the sale had a value materiallyless than the Purchase Price then the lot may be returnedwithin a reasonably agreed time to the Auctioneer. Shouldthe Auctioneer be satisfied that:(i) the lot is returned in the same condition as it was at the

date of the sale; and(ii) the Buyer establishes that he has not sold or

transferred the lot, and that no rights have been createdin favour of any third party in respect of that lot; and

(iii) the Buyer establishes that the lot is a forgery, that is tosay an imitation originally conceived and executed as awhole with a fraudulent intention to deceive as toauthorship, age, origin, period, culture or source andwhere the correct description as to such matters is notfairly reflected by the catalogue description amendedby any statement modifying or affecting that lot madeby the Auctioneer from the rostrum prior to any bidbeing accepted on that lot. No lot shall be capable ofbeing a forgery by reason of any damage, restorationof any kind (including pen facsimile), defects ofbinding, staining, spotting, foxing, oxidisation, toning,absence of blank leaves or list of plates or list ofsubscribers or advertisement leaves or cancel leaves orerrata slips or errata leaves;

then the sale will be rescinded and the amount paid by theBuyer will be refunded.

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7d. The benefit of this condition is a non-assignable exclusiveright in favour of the actual Buyer of the lot at the auctionand, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, maynot be assigned to a third party by a Buyer acting as an agenton behalf of such third party except when in accordancewith clause 4c of these Conditions.

7e. The Buyer shall not be entitled to claim under this conditionif he is in breach of any of the terms of these Conditions.

7f. The terms of this condition shall not operate so as to excludesuch conditions or warranties as are implied by state offederal law and which cannot legally be excluded or wheresuch exclusion would render any contract with the Buyer, orany part of such a contract, void or voidable.

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