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AUSTRALIAN
BOOK AUCTIONS
Monday 1st June, 2015 at 6.30pm
AUSTRALIAN BOOK AUCTIONS
AUSTRALIAN BOOK AUCTIONS Pty. Ltd.
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AUSTRALIAN BOOK AUCTIONS
THE COLLECTION OF JOHN
LANE MULLINS
Under instructions from Sancta Sophia College
within the University of Sydney
To be sold by auction on
Monday 1st June 2015 at 6.30 pm
At Australian Book Auctions Gallery
909 High Street, Armadale, Victoria
Telephone (+61) 03 9822 4522 Facsimile (+61) 03 9822 6873
Email [email protected]
www.australianbookauctions.com
On View
At the Gallery, 909 High Street, Armadale, Victoria
Friday 29th May from 10.00 am to 4.00 pm
Saturday 30th May from 10.00 am to 4.00 pm
Sunday 31st May from 10.00 am to 4.00 pm
Monday 1 June from 10.00 am to 4.00 pm
Catalogue Price: $33.00
Important Information for Buyers
Registration and Buyer’s numbers
The auction will be conducted using Buyer’s
numbers. All prospective bidders are asked to register
and collect a Buyer’s number before the sale.
Buyer’s premium
Please note that a Buyer’s premium of 19.8%
(inclusive of Goods and Services Tax) of the hammer
price on each lot is payable by the buyer.
Absentee bidding and Telephone bidding
As a convenience to buyers who are unable to attend
the auction in person, Australian Book Auctions will,
if so instructed in writing at least 24 hours before the
sale, execute bids on behalf of prospective buyers.
Absentee bids can only be accepted on the
appropriate form fully completed (the form is to be
found at the end of this catalogue). Absentee bids
cannot be accepted by telephone unless confirmed in
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In the case of lots with a lower estimate of at least
$1000, Australian Book Auctions will, if so requested
at least 24 hours before the sale, make all reasonable
efforts to contact prospective buyers by telephone so
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responsible for any error or failure to execute bids.
Absentee bids should conform to the increments
published in this catalogue (see page 3). An absentee
bid that does not conform to the published increments
may be lowered to the next bidding interval.
Collection of purchases
All lots purchased must be collected from the place of
auction within seven days of the sale date. Collection
may be available for a brief period at the conclusion
of the sessions.
Uncollected lots may be placed in storage at the
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Every attempt is made to describe all lots accurately in
the catalogue but condition of lots is not generally
noted.
Where a note describing the condition of any lot is
included in the catalogue this is intended as general
guidance only for intending buyers who should satisfy
themselves as to the condition of any lot or as to any
other matter affecting the value of any lot before the
sale, either by personal inspection or by obtaining any
independent expert advice reasonable in view of the
buyers’ expertise and the value of the lot. Buyers will
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they could reasonably be expected to find out given the
exercise by them of reasonable due diligence. See
especially clauses 6a-f and 7a-f of the Conditions of
Business.
Sale Room Notices and Announcements from the
Rostrum
All conditions, notices, descriptions, statements and
other matters concerning a lot are subject to any
statement modifying or affecting that lot made by the
Auctioneer from the rostrum prior to any bid being
accepted on that lot. In general and where possible, any
such matter will also be noted in a Sale Room Notice
posted prior to the sale.
Pre-sale estimates
The pre-sale estimates are intended as a guide for
prospective buyers only. A bid between the listed
figures should, in our opinion, offer a fair chance of
success. However, all lots, depending on the level of
competition, can realise prices either above or below
the listed estimates.
Please note that where any lot is subject to a seller’s
reserve in no case will the seller’s reserve exceed the
lower estimate.
Conditions of Business
The auction will be conducted in accordance with our
Conditions of Business printed in this catalogue.
Prospective bidders should read these Conditions
carefully before bidding. The above notes are for
general guidance and should not be taken as a
summary of the Conditions of Business nor an
alternative to them.
The Collection of John Lane Mullins
The collection of John Lane Mullins is offered for sale by Sancta Sophia College, within the
University of Sydney.
The collection has been held by Sancta Sophia College for several decades but in the interests of
making it more accessible to members of the public, the College now offers it for sale so that
serious collectors can enjoy its gems.
A talk on John Lane Mullins addressed to the Catholic Historical Society in 1959 by Fr. C.J. Duffy
perhaps best explains the view John Lane Mullins took of his books:
“ a particular quality of the culture of John Lane Mullins needs mention. There was nothing of
the selfish pride of ownership that is found in wealthy art lovers, or of a consciousness of artistic
class distinction in his.
Let me bring him and his thoughts on life and art down into the market place by quoting from an
interview reproduced in the Telegraph 12.4.35. ‘I stress the importance of sharing with others.
The pleasure aroused by the possession of a good book or a fine painting should be passed on.
There is no real satisfaction to be derived from keeping the book locked in a library, or the
painting tucked away out of sight of your friends. The privilege of possession is not enriched by
the practice of selfish isolation, but rather in the sharing of all treasures.’”
Bidding Increments
Bidding generally opens below the lower estimate and advances in increments of up
to 10%, subject to the auctioneer’s discretion. Absentee bids that do not conform to
these published increments may be lowered to the next bidding interval.
Up to $200
$200 to $500
$500 to $1000
$1000 to $2000
$2000 to $5000
by $10s
by $20s
by $50s
by $100s
by $200s
$5000 to $10,000
by $500s
$10,000 to $20,000
by $1000s
$20,000 to $50,000
by $2000s
$50,000 to $100,000
by $5000s
Over $100,000 auctioneer’s discretion
Auctioneer’s Notice
Virtually all books from the collection of John Lane Mullins show marks of accession by the
library of Sancta Sophia College within the University of Sydney, to whom his collection was
gifted after his death. These marks consist predominantly of a shelf mark at the base of the spine,
the shelf mark repeated discreetly in the top gutter margin of an endpaper or the first leaf, and an
endpocket affixed to a blank leaf. There are no other markings, although in a comparatively small
number of instances the discrete college library stamp has been added to a front endpaper. Most,
but not all, books and pamphlets bear the special John Lane Mullins bookplate commissioned for
the gift to Sancta Sophia. A good number of volumes, mainly those bound for Mullins by a local
binder, are in half calf of modest quality; these are mostly rubbed and worn. These factors have
been considered in the estimates provided.
This sale comprises the collection of John Lane Mullins but we have included, with the approval
of the vendor, a handful of lots consigned by other vendors that complemented the Mullins
collection so aptly. These ‘introduced’ lots are signified with an asterisk next to the lot number.
Australian Book Auctions is most grateful to Charles Stitz, author of three series (a fourth in
preparation) of Australian Book Collectors, for generously providing an illuminating biographical
sketch of John Lane Mullins as collector.
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John Lane Mullins (1857-1939)
John Lane Mullins, solicitor, politician, bibliophile and bookplate collector, was born in Sydney
on 4 June 1857 to Irish-born parents James Mullins and his wife Eliza, née Lane. James was a
leading Catholic layman, wealthy from shrewd city real estate investments, and he later provided
his son with an independent income, which freed him from financial cares, and allowed him to
follow gentlemanly pursuits, such as the collection of books and paintings, and a career as patron
of the arts.
John was initially educated at private schools, and later by the Benedictines at St. Mary’s College,
Lyndhurst, and St. John’s College, at the University of Sydney, from which he graduated B.A. in
1876, and M.A. in 1879. He was then articled to Sydney solicitor Robert Burdett Smith, and after
the customary Grand Tour of Europe in 1882-83, admitted as a solicitor on 23 February 1885. Six
weeks later he married Jane Mary Francis Hughes, the daughter of another Sydney solicitor, in a
society wedding celebrated at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney.
Mullins was closely involved in many of the activities of the Catholic Church in Australia, the
founder of, and solicitor for, the Catholic Press, and a trusted adviser and confidant of Cardinal
Patrick Moran and Archbishop Michael Kelly. He was made a Papal Chamberlain in 1903, and a
Knight Commander of the Papal Order of St. Gregory the Great in 1920.
He was nominated to the NSW Legislative Council in 1917, and served it continuously until 1933,
a director of City Mutual Fire Insurance Co. Ltd. from 1923, and Tooheys Ltd. from 1927, and
closely connected to a large number of charitable bodies throughout his lifetime.
Mullins was a significant patron of the arts, and as a young man studied music, and financially
assisted the sculptor Achille Simonetti. Later he supported Hugh McCrae, and arranged
publication of his first book. As well as books, he collected bookplates, and with Neville Barnett,
founded the Australian Ex Libris Society in 1923, and was its first president. He was also president
of the Australian Limited Editions Society, secretary and treasurer of the Society of Artists,
Sydney, a trustee of the National Art Gallery of NSW from 1916, and its president in 1938-39. He
was active in local numismatic and philatelic societies, and a member of the (Royal) Australian
Historical Society.
Survived by his four daughters, he died at the age of 82 on 24 February 1939 at Elizabeth Bay, and
was buried in South Head Cemetery. His wife had predeceased him in 1926, and his only son,
Brendan, was killed in action in 1917. His library was left by his daughters to Sancta Sophia
College in the University of Sydney, with some of the more valuable books lodged by the College
in the Fisher Library for safe keeping.
John Lane Mullins collected books on Australian history and exploration, Australian literature
(including many presentation and inscribed copies, and a copy of Patrick White’s rare The
Ploughman) and a variety of works relating to the history of the Catholic Church in Australia. A
copy of the 1893 Catalogue of Books in the library of John Lane Mullins at “Killountan”(not
including “Australian” books, which form another catalogue.) is held by the State Library Of New
South Wales in the Mitchell Library, under Call no. Q 017.2/1. The 87- page typewritten document
has as its frontispiece a contemporary sepia photograph of the spacious room in which the Lane
Mullins library was housed, and provides a detailed description of this part of the collection, in
fifteen categories, ranging from Bibliography to Voyages and Travel. For each work, the author,
title, date and place of publication are listed, but the publisher’s name and details of condition are
absent. The works are not numbered, and as many are in multiple volumes, it is difficult to
accurately assess the extent of this part of the collection.
A keen collector of bookplates, Mullins used a multitude of different plates on his own books.
Andrew Peake, in his Australian Personal Bookplates, Tudor Australia Press (Dulwich, South
Australia, 2000) identified seventeen commissioned by him in the period 1892 to 1938, by artists
as diverse as Birmingham, Byrne, Cole, Feint, Fujinami, Godson, the Lindsays, Lionel and
Norman, McCrae, Perrottet, Roberts, Sands, Spence, and Stuyvaert.
He was remembered as a genial, lovable man, and an honourable and upright gentleman. At a
Citizens Dinner held on 22 June 1937 at the Carlton Hotel in Sydney to celebrate his 80th birthday,
and attended, it appears, by almost every person of consequence in the State, the then Premier, The
Honourable Sir Thomas Bavin, K.C.M.G., in moving the toast to the guest of honour said of him:
“He has brought into his public life a spirit which was badly wanted, always has been and always
will be, and that is a complete freedom from bigotry or intolerance, and love of what is upright and
honourable, and a very high sense of public duty.”
Charles Stitz
April 2015
John Lane Mullins
Monday 1 June 2015 at 6.30pm
[1]
ANDREWS, Dr. Arthur. AUSTRALASIAN TOKENS AND COINS: A Handbook. Small quarto, illustrations,
original cloth. Sydney, 1921. + Two works on numismatics, one inscribed by the author. + A small group of others
similar, mainly on stamps.
Estimate $100/160
[2]
ART IN AUSTRALIA. A LONG RUN OF ART IN AUSTRALIA in 96 issues, comprising: First Series (19161921) Nos. 1-11; Second Series (1922) Nos. 1-2; Third Series (1922-1940) Nos. 1-73; and Fourth Series (1941-1942)
Nos. 1-6. 96 parts, quarto and folio, profusely illustrated in colour and black & white, with the original wrappers,
sixteen volumes half roan (rubbing), eleven volumes binders cloth (and four issues unbound). Sydney, Art in Australia,
1916-1942. Includes one Special Number of Art in Australia, bound with an inscribed copy of Ure Smith’s Old
Colonial By-Ways.
Estimate $2000/3000
[3]
ATKINSON, James. AN ACCOUNT OF THE STATE OF AGRICULTURE AND GRAZING IN NEW SOUTH
WALES, and of some of its most useful natural productions, with other information, important to those who are about
to emigrate to that country… Octavo, lacking front free endpaper, original gilt-decorated green cloth. London, J.
Cross, 1844 Second edition. Ferguson, 3774.
Estimate $200/400
[4]
AUSTRALIAN LIMITED EDITIONS SOCIETY. PUBLICATIONS OF THE SOCIETY belonging to the
President of the Society, John Lane Mullins. Five volumes, octavo, original bindings. Sydney, 1938 – 1941 A set of
the limited editions published by the Society belonging to Mullins, all numbered 15. Comprising: Tench’s Narrative,
illustrated by Adrian Feint; Lawson’s Romance of the Swag, illustrated by Lionel Lindsay; Eldershaw’s Life and
Times of Captain John Piper, illustrated by Adrian Feint; Barnard’s Macquarie’s World, illustrated by Frank
Medworth.
Estimate $100/150
[5]
AUSTRALIAN TOWN PLANNING CONFERENCE AND EXHIBITION.
OFFICIAL VOLUME OF
PROCEEDINGS of the First Australian Town Planning and Housing Conference and Exhibition, Adelaide (South
Australia) October 17th to 24th, 1917. Quarto, 74 plates, illustrations and plans, some folding, original wrappers.
Adelaide, Vardon & Sons Ltd., 1918. + Volume of Proceedings of the Second Australian Town Planning Conference
and Exhibition … Brisbane (Queensland) 30th July to 6th August, 1918. Quarto, plates, illustrations and plans, some
folding (including one in colour), original colour pictorial wrappers. Brisbane, Government Printer, 1918.
Estimate $300/500
[6]
BADHAM, Professor Charles. O’CONNELL CENTENARY CELEBRATION. 1875. Cantata by Dr. Badham
(Sydney University) Octavo, original wrappers. Sydney, J. G. O’Connor, 1875. Rare.
Estimate $100/200
[7]
BAKER, R.T. CABINET TIMBERS OF AUSTRALIA. Oblong octavo, colour plates, original cloth, gilt. Sydney,
W.A. Gullick, Government Printer, 1913. + BAKER, R.T., BUILDING AND ORNAMENTAL STONES OF NEW
SOUTH WALES. Oblong octavo, black & white and coloured illustrations, original cloth, gilt.
Estimate $200/400
[8]
BAKER, Richard T. THE HARDWOODS OF AUSTRALIA and Their Economics. Quarto, plates in colour and
black & white, original cloth (marked), gilt. Sydney, Government Printer, 1919. + A copy of Baker’s A RESEARCH
ON THE EUCALYPTS, 1920, (flecked) original cloth. + A copy of Baker’s Research on the Pines (1910) + Baker’s
The Australian Flora in Applied Art (1915).
Estimate $200/300
[9]
BAKER, William. HEADS OF THE PEOPLE: AN ILLUSTRATED JOURNAL OF LITERATURE, WHIMS, AND
ODDITIES. Quarto, full-page lithographic plates and other illustrations, early marbled boards and half calf, boards
detached. Sydney, 1847. A collection of 21 of the first 26 issues, with title, preface and index.
Estimate $200/300
[10]
BARLEE, C.H. (ed.) THE SYDNEY ONCE A WEEK MAGAZINE… First Series. Volume I. (19 Jan. to 29 June
1878). Octavo, publisher’s cloth. Sydney, Hill Brothers, 1878.
Estimate $150/300
[11]
BARLOW, John B. A PLEA FOR COLOUR IN COLONIAL ARCHITECTURE. Small octavo, retained original
wrappers, bound with two other pamplets in old half calf. Sydney, 1892. Rare. The volume includes two other pieces
by Barlow: ‘Architecture and the Allied Arts in New South Wales’ (1898), and ‘Presidential Address’ (1900).
Estimate $100/200
[12]
BARRINGTON, George. AN ACCOUNT OF A VOYAGE TO NEW SOUTH WALES To which is prefixed a
Detail of His Life, Trials, Speeches, Enriched with beautiful Colour’d Prints. [together with] THE HISTORY OF
NEW SOUTH WALES, including Botany Bay, Port Jackson, Parramatta, Sydney, and all its Dependancies from the
Original Discovery of the Island: with the Customs and Manners of the Natives; and an Account of the English
Colony, from its Foundation, to the Present Time... Enriched with beautiful Coloured Prints. Two volumes, octavo,
engraved titles with coloured vignettes, coloured plates, folding map, lacking one plan, one of the Voyage plates
bound in the History, the History with some duplicated plates from the Voyage, early unmatched cald, uniform
rebacking (rubbed). London, Printed for M. Jones, 1810 and 1802. Sold as a collection of plates and so not subject to
return.
Estimate $500/800
Lot 13. A fine portrait from the Peron-Freycinet account of the Baudin voyage.
[13]
BAUDIN. PERON, Francois & Louis FREYCINET. VOYAGE DE DÉCOUVERTES AUX TERRES
AUSTRALES... sur les corvettes le Géographe, le Naturaliste, et la goelette le Casuarina, pendant les années 1800,
1801, 1802, 1803 et 1804. Four volumes in three, comprising two-volume quarto text with portrait frontispiece and
two folding tables, and two-part large quarto atlas containing 40 plates (23 coloured and two folding) numbered IIXLI, and 14 maps (two double-page and folding), both the large charts with pale foxing (one with short old tear) and
laid onto polished linen, list of contents in part 2 but not in part 1 (as often), top edge gilt, others uncut, early marbled
boards and half calf. Paris, 1807 – 1811 – 1816. The official account of the important Baudin voyage to the Pacific.
The so-called “general reader’s set”, the form in which the book is usually seen, comprising the full narrative account
and the Atlas Historique with its superb coloured plates. The official account of the Baudin expedition was published
between 1807 and 1816. François Péron began preparing the narrative for publication but died before the second
volume was completed. The narrative was illustrated with a two-part atlas of maps and plates, prepared by Charles
Lesueur and Nicholas Petit, which includes the first complete and detailed map of the Australian continent, assisted
substantially by Flinders’s impounded charts. Ferguson, 449; Wantrup, 78a and 79a.
Estimate $20,000/30,000
[14]
BAYLY, Captain M. THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF USEFUL RIFLE SHOOTING [wrapper title]. Octavo, two
photographic plates (one with a tear), stapled in wrappers, old fold. Sydney, Charles Potter, Government Printer,
1893. Uncommon.
Estimate $200/400
[15]
BEAN, C.E.W. (editor). THE ANZAC BOOK. WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED IN GALLIPOLI BY THE MEN
OF ANZAC. Quarto, pp. xvi, 170 + frontispiece and 10 other coloured plates, and one folding plate, very numerous
leaves of plates included in the pagination; usual foxing, bound with the original David Barker wrappers in early
binder’s cloth. London, Cassell and Co., 1916. First edition: first state with the error in date on the plate of landing at
Anzac Cove (facing page 4), and with the misattribution of the poem on p. 104. This first state is always in wrappers
and was almost certainly only issued in this form. The Anzac Book is of one of the most significant literary
productions of the war and arguably one of the key books of the first century of the Commonwealth. Virtually every
contribution (the poem on p. 104 apart) was written or drawn in the trenches under fire. Dornbusch, 237; Fielding and
O’Neill, p. 241.
Estimate $100/200
[16]
BEAUVOIR, Ludovic, le Comte de. AUSTRALIE. Voyage autour du monde. Duodecimo, with 12 plates and two
folding coloured maps, quarter morocco and marbled boards, gilt on spine. Paris, Henri Plon, 1873. Eighth edition of
the self-contained volume dealing with the Beauvoir’s Australian travels. Ferguson, 6842. + Uniform editions of de
Beauvoir’s Java Siam, Canton, and Pekin, Yeddo San Francisco. A well-presented set.
Estimate $100/200
[17]
BECKE, Louis. BY REEF AND PALM. Narrow octavo, original decorated cloth. London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1894.
First edition.
Estimate $80/120
[18]
BECKE, Louis. HIS NATIVE WIFE. Narrow octavo, original wrappers bound in half roan and cloth boards
(rubbed). Sydney, Alexander Lindsay, 1895. First edition. Rare.
Estimate $150/300
[19]
BENNETT, George. GATHERINGS OF A NATURALIST IN AUSTRALASIA: Being observations principally on
the Animal and Vegetable productions of New South Wales, New Zealand, and some of the Austral Islands. Octavo,
with eight handcoloured lithographed plates and 24 woodcuts (many after George French Angas), original violet
cloth (flecked), spine faded as ever. London, John Van Voorst, 1860. First edition: signed by the author on the verso
of the free front endpaper. “[A] practical, well illustrated guide to the productions of Australia and an active attempt to
protect certain Australian species such as the echidna, the emu and the notornis” (Wettenhall). The illustrations are
mainly after George French Angas. Casey Wood, p. 231; Ferguson, 6929; Whittell, p. 49.
Estimate $200/400
[20]
BENNETT, Samuel. THE HISTORY OF AUSTRALIAN DISCOVERY AND COLONISATION. Octavo, with
lithographed title and frontispiece in Part I, and two other lithographed plates, retaining original front wrappers of
the five parts, later half calf, the boards with Mullins crest. Sydney, Hanson & Bennett, 1867. Rare: important midcentury history of Australia. Bennett, editor of “The Empire”, took an enthusiastic interest in the early history of the
colony and sought out eye-witnesses to earlier events. The issue in parts was a legendary rarity for the old school of
collectors (see, for example, Spencer’s lyrical account in The Hill of Content, pp. 188-9). Ferguson, 6937.
Estimate $150/300
[21]
BIGGE, John Thomas. A COMPLETE SET OF THE THREE REPORTS into the State of the Colony of New South
Wales, the Judicial Establishments of New South Wales and Van Diemen’s Land, and the State of Agriculture and
Trade. Foolscap folio, the first report in its original wrappers and with a contemporary signature, the others without
wrappers, later marbled boards and half calf. London, House of Commons, 1822-23. A complete set of Commissioner
Bigge’s reports of his enquiry into the state of the colony under Governor Macquarie’s administration. Bigge was
appointed Royal Commissioner by Lord Bathurst to examine the transportation system, but “it was clear that
Macquarie’s administration as much as the transportation system was under review… Bigge’s reports had a profound
influence on the future constitutional and political development of Australia and have a place in any Australian
collection” (Wantrup). The first report is the rare suppressed printing of June 1822 that included libellous comments
on William Charles Wentworth removed in a subsequently- issued new printing. Ferguson 853a, 891a, and 892;
Wantrup, 46, 47, 48.
Estimate $3000/4000
[22]
BISCHOFF, James. SKETCH OF THE HISTORY OF VAN DIEMEN’S LAND, illustrated by a map of the island,
and an account of the Van Diemen’s Land Company. Octavo, two plates browned and offset, large folding
handcoloured map a little foxed, later half morocco and marbled boards, top edge gilt. London, John Richardson,
1832. First edition: superior issue with the map handcoloured. Published for the benefit of investors in the Van
Diemen’s Land Company, Bischoff’s important work includes a number of the Company’s early reports, including the
important and extremely rare Third Report of 1828 detailing the explorations of the Company’s explorers, Alexander
Goldie, Henry Hellyer, and Joseph Fossey. Ferguson, 1517; Wantrup, 148.
Estimate $400/600
[23]
BLACK, George. A HISTORY OF THE N.S.W. POLITICAL LABOR PARTY First Number – Seventh Number.
Eight pieces, octavo, bound with original wrappers in binder’s cloth. Sydney, [1926 – 1930]. Rare: a complete set of
Black’s history together with his even rarer “Arbitrations Chequered Career” (circa 1928) bound in at the beginning of
the volume; with Black’s signature.
Estimate $300/500
[24]
BLAXLAND, Gregory. A JOURNAL OF A TOUR OF DISCOVERY across the Blue Mountains, in New South
Wales, in the Year 1813. Second Edition. Octavo, pp. 46, [2] (integral terminal blank); later half calf (rubbed);
original wrappers bound in after text. Sydney, Gibbs, Shallard, & Co., [1870]. Second edition: a new edition
published in Sydney in 1870 by the explorer’s son because copies were “no longer to be had” – even then something
of an understatement. Now extremely scarce, the second Blaxland family edition is generally considered the earliest
realistically obtainable. Ferguson, 7133 (omitting the terminal blank); Wantrup, 103c (omitting the terminal blank).
Estimate $2000/4000
[25]
BLAXLAND, Gregory. A JOURNAL OF A TOUR OF DISCOVERY across the Blue Mountains in New South
Wales. Octavo, pale foxing, several library stamps, contemporary half morocco and marbled boards. [Sydney, Angus
and Robertson, 1893]. Scarce type-facsimile edition: a line-by-line reproduction of the extremely rare 1823 first
edition, limited to 55 copies, numbered and initialled by the publisher. Ferguson 7134; Wantrup 103b.
Estimate $200/400
[26]
BLIGH, Lieutenant William. A VOYAGE TO THE SOUTH SEA, undertaken by command of His Majesty, for the
purpose of conveying the Bread-fruit Tree to the West Indies, in His Majesty’s Ship the Bounty... Including an
Account of the Mutiny on board the said Ship, and the subsequent Voyage of Part of the Crew in the Ship’s Boat, from
Tofoa, one of the Friendly Islands, to Timor, a Dutch Settlement in the East Indies. Quarto, with frontispiece portrait,
seven engraved plates and charts (five folding) with a little pale foxing or offsetting, later marbled boards and half
calf. London, Printed for George Nicol, 1792. First edition of the complete official account of one of the most
celebrated Pacific voyages, Bounty voyage and the mutiny. Published after Bligh had left on his second and successful
breadfruit voyage in the Providence at the end of 1791, the official account was prepared for the press by his former
shipmate, James Burney, the future historian of Pacific discovery, with the assistance of Sir Joseph Banks. Ferguson,
125; Wantrup, 62a.
Estimate $6000/8000
[27]
BLIGH. LUCAS, Sir Charles (editor). THE PITCAIRN ISLAND REGISTER BOOK. Octavo, illustrations and
folding map, original cloth-backed boards (bit rubbed). London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1929.
Estimate $150/200
[28]
BOER WAR. THE NEW SOUTH WALES CONTINGENTS FOR SOUTH AFRICA: Being a Pictorial Record of
the Organisation of the Colony’s Forces for Active Service, and the Scenes of Unparalleled Enthusiasm Marking Their
Departure For the Front. Quarto, illustrations, original pictorial wrappers (chipped with some tape repairs). Sydney,
The New South Wales Bookstall Co., 1900. Scarce.
Estimate $100/200
[29]
BOLDREWOOD, Mrs. Rolf. THE FLOWER GARDEN IN AUSTRALIA... A Book for Ladies and Amateurs.
Octavo, sewing weakening, original cloth. Melbourne, Melville, Mullen and Slade, 1893. First edition of the first
Australian gardening book by a woman. The author’s husband was Thomas Alexander Browne, best known under his
pseudonym, ‘Rolf Boldrewood’. The preface to the present book has autobiographical elements and the introduction
conveys the delight of flower gardening in Australia. Crittenden, 77 (“an excellent book”); not in Ferguson (although
it should be).
Estimate $100/200
[30]
BOND, George. A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE COLONY OF PORT-JACKSON, in New South Wales; Its Native
Inhabitants, Productions, &c. &c. with An Interesting Account of The Murder of Mr. Clode, late of that settlement...
Sixth Edition. Octavo, first and final leaf foxed, later half roan, the front board with Mullins’s gilt armorial crest.
Dublin, Printed by J. Barlow for the Author, n.d. (1810?). The sixth edition of Bond’s narrative, all editions of which
are of signal rarity. Ferguson, 488.
Estimate $6000/8000
[31]
BOOKPLATES. ALBUM of 38 original bookplates. Octavo, mounted plates, buckram with leather label (Book
Plates, J.L.M). John Lane Mullins’s album of family bookplates, with engraved, etched, woodcut, and linocut
examples from artists including George Perrottet, Adrian Feint, Herbert Cole, Lionel Lindsay, Hugh McCrae, Harold
Byrne, Norman Lindsay, Tom Roberts and Ruby Lindsay. Seven of the Adrian Feint plates, and one George Perrottett,
signed by the artists.
Estimate $1000/2000
[32*]
BOOKPLATES. A GROUP OF ORIGINAL engraved printer’s blocks for Australian bookplates. Fourteen blocks,
the majority for R. H. Croll bookplates, circa 1920-1930s, and including one for David Scott Mitchell.
Estimate $400/800
[33*]
BOOKPLATES. INTERESTING ARCHIVE of 1930s correspondence to Mrs. Adeline Moran, from a handful of
fellow bookplate owners wanting to exchange bookplates. + A group of about 120 bookplates, many Australian, the
artists including P. Neville Barnett, L. Roy Davies (signed), and George Perrottet. Correspondents include H.B. Muir,
Rosa Gibson, and V.S. Hewett.
Estimate $600/800
[34*]
BOOKPLATES. AMERICAN SOCIETY OF BOOKPLATE COLLECTORS AND DESIGNERS. YEAR
BOOK 1939. [includes two articles on Gayfield Shaw]. Octavo, title-page printed in red and black, illustrated with
engraved and tipped-in bookplates, uncut in original wrappers. Tennessee, University of Sewanee, 1940. Edition
limited to 250 numbered copies. With a Gayfield Shaw inscription to Adeline Moran (eccentrically, dedicating it to
her house), signed and with, loosely inserted, nine of his bookplates, eight of them signed, including one variant in
which he has included a silverfish.
Estimate $200/400
Lot 31. Two of the bookplates prepared for John Lane Mullins and his family.
[35]
BOOKPLATES. AUSTRALIAN EX LIBRIS SOCIETY. ANNUAL REPORT (1930-31). Octavo, tipped-in
plates, original wrappers. Sydney, 1932. Limited edition of 250 numbered copies. + The Australian Ex Libris Society
Year Book 1933. Octavo, tipped-in and other plates, original wrappers. Sydney, The Beacon Press, 1933. Limited
edition of 250 numbered copies. + Three similar items, all lacking one or two of the tipped-in plates.
Estimate $100/200
[36]
BOOKPLATES. AUSTRALIAN EX LIBRIS SOCIETY. REPORTS for 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928,
1929. Eight volumes (including one duplicate), duodecimo, tipped-in bookplates, illustrations, original wrappers,
pictorial endpapers, early half roan (rubbed) by G. Short & Son. Sydney, Tyrrell’s Galleries, 1923-29. Limitation
ranges from 200 to 500 copies per issue. The volume includes a second copy of the 1926 Report, in the special edition
of 50 numbered copies with the Thea Proctor plate signed by Adrian Feint.
Estimate $400/600
[37]
BOOKPLATES. BARNETT, P. Neville. ARMORIAL BOOK-PLATES: Their Romantic Origin and Artistic
Development. Octavo, 16 tipped-in bookplates, illustrations, original cloth (varnished). Sydney, Beacon Press, 1932.
The standard edition limited to 300 copies, this copy not signed or numbered. With a number of pencillings by
Mullins, generally in the nature of queries or amendments to the text. Barnett includes an excellent account of the
bookplates of significant early Australian figures including explorers such as Blaxland and Oxley, among others. The
tipped-in bookplates include several notable Australian contemporaries, including Sir Douglas Mawson, Sir Charles
Kingsford-Smith, Sir Philip Game and Captain Francis Edward de Groot.
Estimate $200/300
[38*]
BOOKPLATES. BARNETT, P. Neville. DE LUXE PUBLICATIONS. Octavo, complete with the removable order
form at the end of the text, with three tipped-in plates (two in colour), original wrappers. [Sydney, Privately Printed
(at The Beacon Press?)], n.d. but circa 1939]. Very scarce: presentation copy, inscribed by the author to Mrs.
[Adeline] Moran, of this celebratory piece that is also an advertisement for Barnett’s publications, produced with as
much style as his books themselves. The tipped-in bookplate here is that of Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith – copies of
this work have various different bookplates tipped in. + Signed letter from Barnett, and six loose Barnett bookplates. +
The Australian Ex Libris Society Year Book, 1933.
Estimate $150/300
[39]
BOOKPLATES. BARNETT, P. Neville. PICTORIAL BOOKPLATES: Their Origin; and Use in Australia.
Octavo, numerous illustrations, tipped-in bookplates, original cloth, gilt. Sydney, Beacon Press, 1931. Edition
limited to 300 copies, signed by the author. This was Barnett’s first substantial essay on the bookplate and the first of
his elaborate private publications.
Estimate $200/300
[40]
BOOKPLATES. BARNETT, P. Neville. THE BOOKPLATE IN AUSTRALIA: Its Inspiration and Development.
Octavo, tipped-in bookplates (most signed by the artist), original wrappers with textured glassine dustwrapper.
Sydney, Tyrrell’s Galleries, 1930. The rare special edition limited to 50 numbered and signed copies. This was
Barnett’s first separate publication on the bookplate.
Estimate $200/400
[41]
BOOKPLATES. BARNETT, P. Neville. WOODCUT BOOK-PLATES.
Quarto, numerous bookplates, some
handcoloured and some signed, both tipped-in and as text illustrations, two leaves browned from a blank loose insert,
original parchment backed patterned papered boards. Sydney, Privately Printed at the Beacon Press, 1934. First
edition, the de luxe edition limited to 70 copies, numbered and signed by the author. One of the most attractive
Australian books of the period.
Estimate $800/1200
[42]
BOOKPLATES. FEINT, Adrian. ADRIAN FEINT. Bookplate Artists. Number One. Octavo, with 19 tipped-in
bookplates, original cord tied wrappers with textured glassine wrapper. Sydney, Beacon Press, 1934. Extremely
scarce: edition limited to 150 numbered and signed copies.
Estimate $300/500
[43]
BOOKPLATES. FEINT, Adrian. BOOKPLATES BY ADRIAN FEINT. With an Introduction by The Honourable
John Lane Mullins. Octavo, with 21 tipped-in bookplates (nine coloured), uncut, original linen-backed boards (faded
at the head). Sydney, Palmtree Press, 1928. Extremely scarce. The edition was limited to 125 numbered and signed
copies, published by Feint himself under his private Palmtree Press imprint; typography and design by Perce Green.
Estimate $500/600
[44]
BOOKPLATES. MULLINS, The Hon. John Lane. ADRIAN FEINT’S BOOK-PLATES. Octavo, pp. 16, stapled
in original lettered wrappers. Washington, 1931. Reprinted from the 1930 Year Book of the American Society of
Bookplate Collectors and Designers. Very rare. The printed checklist of plates, which ends at 100, has been annotated
in Mullins’s hand with six further examples.
Estimate $500/1000
[45]
BOOKPLATES. NEW SOUTH WALES BOOKPLATE CLUB. FIRST INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION,
FEBRUARY 1933. Octavo, with two original signed bookplates (Feint and Perrottet) tipped-in, and with two loosely
inserted Perrottet bookplates, a little pale foxing, stapled in original printed wrappers. Sydney, “Building” Print
[printers], n.d. Limited edition of 50 numbered copies. There is a discrepancy in date between the title (1933) and the
wrappers (1332), and on the wrappers there is a correction by hand to March 2. Thirty-five local artists are included,
with exhibitors also from New Zealand, USA, Canada, and Europe. Perrottet won two awards for his John Lane
Mullins linocut bookplate, which is one of the two tipped-in plates.
Estimate $300/500
[46]
BROWN, Robert. PRODROMUS FLORAE NOVAE HOLLANDIAE et Insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres
plantarum quas annis 1802-1805 per oras utriusque insulae collegit et descripsit Robertus Brown… Vol. I Octavo,
publisher’s patterned cloth, front board detached, spine defective. London, J. Johnson, 1810. First edition. With
author’s signed inscription. Based on the specimens collected by Sir Joseph Banks as well as on Brown’s own
observations with Matthew Flinders. Ferguson, 491.
Estimate $300/500
[47]
BROWN, Robert. SUPPLEMENTUM PRIMUM PRODROMI FLORÆ NOVÆ HOLLANDIÆ: Exhibens
Proteaceas Novas quas in Australasia legerunt D.D. Baxter, Caley, Cunningham, Fraser et Sieber… Octavo, uncut in
the original dun wrappers, spine chipped. London, Richard Taylor. 1830. With author’s signed inscription to Alexr.
Macleay. The scarce supplement to Brown’s famous 1810 Prodromus, based on the specimens collected by Sir Joseph
Banks as well as his own observations with Matthew Flinders. The Supplementum deals mainly with additional
Proteaceae collected in New South Wales by William Baxter, George Caley, Allan Cunningham and Charles Frazer.
Ferguson, 1329; Wantrup, 71.
Estimate $600/800
[48]
BROWNING, Colin Arrott. AN ADDRESS TO THE PRISONERS DEBARKED From the “Surry,” at Sydney,
December 8, 1831; - the “Arab,” at Hobart Town, July 5, 1834; - and the “Elphinstone,” at Hobart Town, May 30,
1836. By the Medical Officer in Charge During the Voyage. Octavo, errata leaf, original boards. Hobart Town,
James Ross, 1836. Ferguson, 2100.
Estimate $300/500
[49]
BURNELL, F.S. HOW AUSTRALIA TOOK GERMAN NEW GUINEA: AN ILLUSTRATED RECORD. Quarto,
pp. [36] (last leaf advertisements for Angus and Robertson publications), numerous photographic illustrations, early
binder’s cloth, retaining original pictorial wrappers (short tear in the back one). No imprint but Sydney, Printed by
W.C. Penfold [for Angus and Robertson], n.d. but 1915. Very scarce: quickly published after the taking of German
New Guinea – Australia’s first action of the war – with a two-page account by Burnell, a five-page honour roll of the
Expeditionary Force, and the rest of the piece comprising photographic illustrations of the action. Dornbusch, 372; not
in Fielding and O’Neill; Trigellis-Smith, 334.
Estimate $200/300
[50]
CAYLEY, Neville. AUSTRALIAN BIRDS, a beautiful coloured series. Octavo, eleven unnumbered colour plates,
original wrappers with pictorial onlay, gilt, early half roan. Sydney, N.S.W. Bookstall Co., no date [1900]. See
Ferguson, 8035 (calls for ten plates). [bound with] CAYLEY, Neville W. Our Birds. Octavo, seven numbered plates
and index leaf, original wrappers with oval cut-out window. Sydney, Aldenhoven Art Galleries, no date [1918].
Estimate $80/120
[51]
CAZNEAUX, Harold. THE FRENSHAM BOOK. 100 Pictures by Cazneaux of an Australian School. Quarto, black
& white plates, foxing, original cloth-backed boards. Sydney, Art in Australia, 1934. Edition limited to 600 numbered
copies.
Estimate $100/200
[52]
CLARKE, Marcus. HIS NATURAL LIFE. Octavo, pp. viii, 480, 12 (advertisements, dated January, 1874), front
hinge broken and the free endpaper lost, original cloth (canted and faded), George Robertson binder’s ticket on the
back pastedown. Melbourne, George Robertson, 1874. The rare first edition of Clarke’s major work, arguably the
greatest novel of the colonial era and the one book for which the author is now generally remembered. In 1875 Bentley
published a London edition in three volumes for which Clarke made some changes required by Bentley and, most
significantly, added an epilogue to give the novel the ‘happy’ ending that Bentley’s readers required. Bentley would
later change the title, against Clarke’s wishes, to For the Term of His Natural Life, by which title it is still better
known. Loder, p. 54; McLaren, 31; Miller, p. 611; Sadleir, 560; Wolff, 1247 (but no copy).
Estimate $800/1200
[53]
CLUNE, Frank. LAST OF THE EXPLORERS: The Story of Donald Mackay. Octavo, plates, a couple of college
stamps, original cloth, in the Adrian Feint dustwrapper. Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1942. Extremely scarce first
edition of this important work, effectively of an ‘official account’ of his explorations in Australia and New Guinea,
published with Mackay’s co-operation some years before his death. ANB, 9889; McLaren, 12912.
Estimate $200/400
[54]
COFFEE, Frank M. IN MEMENTO OF THE LATE LIEUTENANT FRANK M. COFFEE, of the 24th Battalion,
Australian Imperial Forces, who was killed in action at Anzac, in the Dardanelles, November 18th, 1915. Being a
series of Letters, written to his Relatives and others, depicting the life of a Soldier in the firing line. Oblong octavo, pp.
[iv] + 44 (last blank), stapled in original decorated yapp wrappers (the rear wrapper faded). Sydney, printed by Batson
& Co. Ltd., For Private Circulation, 1916. Very rare: one of a small number of personal narratives of Australians in
the First World War. One of the sons of the author and businessman Frank Coffee (Forty Years on the Pacific), Coffee
was a member of the literary staff of The Age.
Estimate $600/800
[55]
COLLINGRIDGE, George. THE DISCOVERY OF AUSTRALIA. A Critical, Documentary and Historic
Investigation Concerning the Priority of Discovery in Australasia by Europeans before the arrival of Lieut. James
Cook, in the “Endeavour”, in the year 1770. Quarto, with numerous maps (some folding), plates and text illustrations,
original brown cloth. Sydney, Hayes Brothers, 1895. First edition. Author’s presentation copy inscribed to Mullins.
Ferguson, 8465.
Estimate $200/400
[56]
COLLINGRIDGE, George. THE FIRST DISCOVERY OF AUSTRALIA AND NEW GUINEA. Being the
Narrative of Portuguese and Spanish Discoveries in the Australasian Regions, between the years 1492 – 1606...
Octavo, illustrations and maps (some coloured), original cloth. Sydney, William Brooks and Co., 1906. Revised
edition.
Estimate $80/120
[57]
COLLINGRIDGE, George. ALICE IN ONE DEAR LAND. Quarto, coloured plates and woodcuts, tied in original
printed wrappers, a little foxing, a good copy (with no library pocket). Hornsby (NSW), The Author, [1922]. Scarce:
first edition of Collingridge’s inventive responses to Lewis Carroll. Alice comes to Australia down a rabbit hole which
takes her to Alice Spings. With the author’s signed inscription, and with a separate manuscript limitation (250 copies)
and numbering statement, also initialled. Muir, 1721.
Estimate $400/600
[58]
COLLINGRIDGE, George. THROUGH THE JOKE IN CLASS. Quarto, mounted actual woodcuts, tied in original
printed wrappers, a very good copy. Hornsby (NSW), The Author, [1923]. Scarce: de luxe issue of the first edition of
the sequel of Alice in One Dear Land. Alice revisits Australia: Sydney with complications arising from the North
Shore Bridge. Muir, 1722. With the author’s signed inscription, and with a separate manuscript limitation (50 copies)
and numbering statement, initialled. Muir, 1721.
Estimate $400/600
[59]
COLLINGRIDGE, George. BEROWRA & THE UNSOLVED MYSTERY OF ITS AMAZING RIDGE by the
Hermit of Berowra. Octavo, mounted plates, original printed yapp wrappers. Hornsby, The Author, n.d. [1924]. De
luxe edition, one of 50 copies, with signed author’s inscription to Lane Mullins.
Estimate $200/400
[60]
COLLINGRIDGE, George. IT IS PRINCIPALLY A COLLECTION OF WOOD CUTS, with descriptions and
various other cuts all arranged alphabetically. Octavo, tipped-in plates, uncut, pale foxing, sewn in (now loose within)
original printed yapp wrappers. Sydney (Hornsby, NSW), The Author, [1924]. De luxe edition, numbered and
initialled by the author.
Estimate $300/500
[61]
COLLINGRIDGE, George. ROUND AND ROUND THE WORLD by the Hermit of Berowra. Octavo, complete in
six parts, mounted and other illustrations, original printed yapp wrappers. Hornsby, N.S.W., The Author, n.d. [19251927]. Five of the six parts numbered by Collingridge, and with his signed inscription to Lane Mullins.
Estimate $200/400
[62]
COLLINGRIDGE, George. ESPERANTA ALFABETO de E. A. Pryke, D.B.E.A, Bankstown and Sydney. Illustrita
de Geo. Collingridge, K.B.E.A. Octavo, tipped-in woodcuts, original title wrappers. Hornsby, N.S.W., no date. Very
rare. Initialled by Collingridge, and with his note that all images are artist’s proofs. + Veraj Rakontoj pri la eltrovo de
Australando. Two esperanto pamphlets, sewn (now detached) within wrappers bearing an onlaid label (Esperanto) and
the remains of a further label or illustration, with the pencilled name Geo. C. Also within the wrappers are a title-page
for the current work, a catalogue of Collingridge paintings, several prospectuses and a list of his works. + A copy of
Part 3 only of Collingridge’s Pacifika.
Estimate $200/400
[63]
COLLINS, David. AN ACCOUNT OF THE ENGLISH COLONY IN NEW SOUTH WALES, from its first
Settlement in January 1788, to August 1801: with Remarks on the Dispositions, Customs, Manners, &c. of the Native
Inhabitants... Two volumes, quarto, two maps, 23 plates, (three coloured) and eight half-page engravings (two
coloured), with both half-titles, two leaves stained (possibly during the printing), contemporary speckled calf, two
boards detached, spines worn. London, Printed by A. Strahan for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1798-1802. First editions
and extremely scarce. Collins’s First Fleet account is the earliest history of colonised Australia, and contains the most
detailed and painstaking of all descriptions of the voyage and first years of settlement in any of the early accounts. The
rare second volume was based on Governor Hunter’s papers, supplemented by the official records and despatches. As
well, Collins had access to the journals of Bass and Flinders, which he reproduces in detail – this was the only
publication of Bass’s journal. Ferguson, 263 & 350; Wantrup, 19-20.
Estimate $3000/5000
[64]
COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA: DEFENCE THE MILITARY FORCES LIST of the Commonwealth of
Australia. 1st February, 1904. Octavo, original wrappers preserved in contemporary cloth. Melbourne, Robt. S. Brain,
1904.
Estimate $100/200
[65]
COOK, James. A SET OF THE VOYAGE ACCOUNTS. Comprising: HAWKESWORTH, John. An Account of the
Voyages undertaken by the Order of His present Majesty for making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and
successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook..., three volumes,
quarto, first edition, with the Magellan chart, London, 1773; COOK, James. A Voyage towards the South Pole and
Round the World. Performed in His Majesty’s Ships the Resolution and Adventure, two volumes, quarto, first edition,
London, 1777; COOK, James and James KING. A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean... for making Discoveries in the
Northern Hemisphere... in His Majesty’s Ships the Resolution and Discovery, three volumes, quarto, London, 1784.
Eight volumes, quarto, plates and maps, lacking the folio atlas to the Third Voyage, some plates offset, contemporary
speckled calf, spines worn and a number of boards detached, the three volumes of the first voyage with a version of
the royal crest to front and rear boards. London, W. Strahan, and T. Cadell, [third voyage: W. and A. Strahan, for G.
Nicol, and T. Cadell], 1773 – 1777 – 1784. First editions: a set of the text of the official accounts of Cook’s three
voyages around the world.
Estimate $10000/15000
[66]
COOK, Samuel. THE JENOLAN CAVES: An Excursion in Australian Wonderland. Quarto, black & white plates,
map, original gilt-decorated cloth over bevelled boards. London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1889. + FOSTER, J.J, THE
JENOLAN CAVES. Octavo, foxing, lacking map and folding plan, publisher’s presentation morocco (deteriorated on
spine), edges gilt. Sydney, Charles Potter, 1890.
Estimate $80/120
[67]
COOTE, Errol. HELL’S AIRPORT: The Key to Lasseter’s Gold Reef. Foreword by Air Commodore Sir Charles
Kingsford Smith. Octavo, with plates and folding map, original cloth, in the scarce dustwrapper. Sydney, Peterman
Press, 1934. Second edition. With the author’s signed and dated inscription to John Lane Mullins on the title page.
Estimate $300/500
Lot 67. Striking heroic humanist dustwrapper design.
[68]
COX, James C. A MONOGRAPH OF AUSTRALIAN LAND SHELLS, ILLUSTRATED. Octavo, twenty colour
lithographed plates, early contrasting cloth. Sydney, William Maddock, 1868. Uncommon.
Estimate $200/400
[69]
CRICHTON, David A. (editor). THE AUSTRALIAN HORTICULTURAL MAGAZINE AND GARDEN GUIDE,
Vol. I [of 2]. Octavo, original cloth, gilt. Melbourne, Alex. M’Kinley & Co., 1878.
Estimate $100/200
[70]
D’ALBERTIS, L.M. NEW GUINEA: What I Did and What I Saw. Two volumes, octavo, with plates (four
coloured) and folding map, as usual with 2 plates appearing at the listed page but in the opposing volume, with halftitle in volume two only (consistent with previous sets examined), original pictorial cloth. London, Sampson Low,
1880. First edition: very scarce. D’Albertis undertook a series of scientific expeditions in New Guinea, sailing from
Australia and accompanied by several notable Australian scientists and naturalists. Apart from his significant scientific
work and the delivery of a substantial collection of living plants to the Sydney Botanic Gardens, D’Albertis was also
the first to explore up the Fly River. Ferguson, 8920.
Estimate $800/1200
[71]
DALEY, Victor J. AT DAWN AND DUSK. Octavo, publisher’s cloth. Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1898. With
original signed Lionel Lindsay pen and ink sketch of Daley laid to the half-title verso.
Estimate $200/400
[72]
DALLEY, Hon. W. B. SPEECH OF THE HON. W.B. DALLEY ON THE DIVORCE BILL in the Legislative
Council, on Wednesday, October 19th, 1870. Sextodecimo, on blue paper, original title wrappers, bound with others
in half calf. [bound with] Sydney Platforms & European Cabinets. An Address to the Catholics of New South Wales
on the Education Question. Octavo, original wrappers, signed by John Lane Mullins. Sydney, 1879. Ferguson, 8927.
[bound with] A Speech delivered by the Honorable William Bede Dalley, Q.C., M.L.C., in the Legislative Council on
the 10th March, 1880, on the motion for the second reading of the Education Bill. Octavo, original wrappers, signed
by James Lane Mullins. Sydney, Edward F. Flanagan, circa 1880(?).
Estimate $200/300
[73]
DAVIS, John. TRACKS OF MCKINLAY AND PARTY ACROSS AUSTRALIA. By John Davis, one of the
expedition. Edited from Mr. Davis’s Manuscript Journal; with an Introductory View of the Recent Australian
Explorations of McDouall Stuart, Burke and Wills, Landsborough, Etc., by William Westgarth. Octavo, with plates
(most tinted) and a folding map, original green cloth. London, Sampson Low, Son, & Co., 1863. First edition of the
only substantial publication relating to the McKinlay expedition in search of Burke and Wills. Ferguson, 9005;
Wantrup 180.
Estimate $600/900
[74]
DAWSON, Robert. THE PRESENT STATE OF AUSTRALIA... Octavo, half calf and marbled boards (rubbed).
London, Smith, Elder, 1831. Second edition. Ferguson, 1427.
Estimate $100/150
[75]
DENIEHY, Daniel H. THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL OF NEW BARATARIA. Introduction and biographical
notes by William B. Dalley, woodcuts designed and engraved by Lionel Lindsay. Small folio in sixes, with fine woodengraved frontispiece and vignettes by Lionel Lindsay, original cloth, varnished and bowed. Sydney, Sunnybrook
Press, 1932. Edition limited to 100 numbered copies signed by the printer Ernest H. Shea, the artist Lionel Lindsay,
and by W.B. Dalley. This was the third book of the press.
Estimate $150/300
[76]
DENNIS, C.J. BACKBLOCK BALLADS and Other Verses by “Den”. Octavo, foxing, original pictorial wrappers in
later pebbled cloth. Melbourne, E.W. Cole, [1913]. First edition.
Estimate $80/120
[77]
DEVINE, W. THE STORY OF A BATTALION. Octavo, with 12 plates after Daryl Lindsay, and four maps,
original cloth. Melbourne, Melville & Mullen, 1919. First edition: 48th Battalion A.I.F.
Estimate $100/200
[78]
DICKENS, Charles. A TALE OF TWO CITIES. With illustrations by H. K. Browne. Octavo, fifteen plates plus title
vignette, some foxing and offsetting, original red embossed cloth, lacking the spine. London, Chapman and Hall,
1859. First edition, first issue: scarce. Page 134 line 12 with the misspelling “affetcionately” and page 213 incorrectly
paginated 113.
Estimate $800/1200
[79]
DICKENS, Charles. BLEAK HOUSE. Octavo, plates, original cloth, spined sunned. London, Bradbury and Evans,
1853. First edition. + DICKENS, Charles. Little Dorrit. Octavo, plates, original cloth. London, Bradbury and Evans,
1857. First edition. + Dicken’s Pickwick Papers, published by Chapman and Hall, London in two volumes, octavo,
original cloth, 1887.
Estimate $200/300
[80]
DICKINSON, John Nodes. A LETTER to the Honorable the Speaker of the legislative Council, on the formation of
a Second Chamber in the Legislature of New South Wales. Octavo, later half morocco, spine rubbed, free endpaper
detached. Sydney, W.R. Piddington, 1852. Uncommon. Ferguson, 9143.
Estimate $100/200
[81]
DIXON, James. NARRATIVE OF A VOYAGE TO NEW SOUTH WALES AND VAN DIEMEN’S LAND, in the
ship Skelton, during the year 1820. With observations on the state of these colonies, and a variety of information,
calculated to be useful to emigrants… Duodecimo, complete with half-title and the rare frontispiece, without the
advertisement leaves issued with some copies, uncut in the original boards, front board detached, some foxing and
offsetting as usual. Edinburgh and London, John Anderson, Jun. and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Browne,
1822. A notable rarity: the frontispiece silhouette portrait of Cobawn Wogy that is present here is frequently missing –
mysteriously so. The long appendix contains Macquarie’s report on Van Diemen’s Land. The frontispiece is based on
a caricature painted by the convict artist Richard Browne of Cobawn Wogy, an Aboriginal ‘chief’ of Ashe Island,
Hunter’s River, in New South Wales. Ferguson, 858; Wantrup, 57.
Estimate $10000/15000
[82]
DOYLE, Ruby. OLD HOMES on Paterson and Allyn Rivers. Gresford Memoirs [drop title]. Oblong octavo, printed
in double column, cord bound. [No imprint but Dungog?, 1932] Rare: with presentation inscription on the front
wrapper.
Estimate $100/200
[83]
DUER, J.W. (attributed) A HANDBOOK TO ST. JOHN’S COLLEGE within the University of Sydney. Octavo, pp.
[viii] + 72, the paper uniformly aged, with the original wrappers in early half roan. Sydney, 1881. With pencilled
attribution to J.W. Duer. Ferguson, 15370.
Estimate $100/200
[84]
DYSON, Will. POEMS: In Memory of a Wife. Octavo, original wrappers illustrated by Ruby Lindsay, in early half
roan. London, Cecil Palmer, 1919. Signed by the author.
Estimate $200/300
[85]
EARL, George Windsor. THE NATIVE RACES OF THE INDIAN ARCHIPELAGO. PAPUANS. Octavo, 5 plates
(4 coloured, one folding), 2 maps, original cloth. London, Hippolyte Baillière, 1853. First edition: Australian
Aborigines throughout but Chapter XII – Melville Island and North Australia – especially. Ferguson, 9339.
Estimate $150/240
[86]
EARLE. BURFORD, Robert. DESCRIPTION OF A VIEW OF THE TOWN OF SYDNEY, NEW SOUTH
WALES; the Harbour of Port Jackson, and surrounding country; now exhibiting in the Panorama, Leicester-Square.
Painted by the Proprietor, Robert Burford. Octavo, with a folding engraved frontispiece panoramic view of Sydney,
without the inserted advertisement leaf found in some copies, later half roan with Mullins crest. London, J. and C.
Adlard, 1829. First edition: a detailed description and reproduction of Burford’s panorama of Sydney, exhibited at his
premises in London in 1829. In 1827 Augustus Earle had painted a panoramic series of watercolours of Sydney from
Palmer’s Hill which he sent to Burford who prepared a large scale version for public display at his famous Panorama
in the Strand. Ferguson, 1248; Kerr, pp. 234-7; Wantrup, 221.
Estimate $700/900
Lot 91. One of the covers for this journal of fashion.
[87]
EDEN, William (traditional misattribution). THE HISTORY OF NEW HOLLAND, from its First Discovery in
1616, to the Present Time. With a Particular Account of its Produce and Inhabitants; and a Description of Botany
Bay... Second Edition. Octavo, with two folding maps handcoloured in outline (one torn), with an advertisement leaf
(not noted by Ferguson), worn old calf. London, Printed for John Stockdale, 1787. An important First Fleet book, this
was one of the earliest and most widely read descriptions of Australia, published to coincide with the departure from
England of the First Fleet of which many details are provided. The two fine handcoloured maps are highly regarded
and show the entire continent as then known, with an inset map of Botany Bay, and a large folding world map with the
“passage from England to Botany Bay in New Holland 1787” showing the route of the First Fleet. This second edition,
published within a few months of the first, is generally preferred since the extended preface gives precise details of the
First Fleet expedition to Botany Bay which had only been under discussion when first issued a few months earlier.
Beddie, 28; Davidson, pp. 79–81; Ferguson, 25; Holmes 66 (first edition).
Estimate $1200/1500
[88]
EDUCATION. HISTORY OF AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND for Catholic Schools. Sextodecimo, stapled,
lacks wrappers. Sydney, Angus and Robertson, no date (circa 1898). Very rare. The Introductory Note signed J.C.
Estimate $100/200
[89]
ELDERSHAW, Finney. AUSTRALIA AS IT REALLY IS, in its life, scenery, & adventure: with the character,
habits, and customs of its Aboriginal inhabitants, and the prospects and extent of its gold fields. Duodecimo in sixes,
frontispiece and three chromolithographs, errata slip, original gilt-decorated cloth. London, Published for The Author
by Darton & Co., 1854. First edition. Ferguson, 9411.
Estimate $150/300
[90]
FAIRFAX. IN MEMORIAM. Obituary Notices and Funeral Services Having Reference to the Late Hon. John
Fairfax, Esq., M.L.C., Who Died 16th June, 1877. Collated and Reported by Members of the Literary Staff of the
“Sydney Morning Herald.” Octavo, pencil marks in text (possibly marked-up for a second edition) original limp cloth.
Sydney, J. Reading & Co. Printers, [1877]. ‘Printed for Private Circulation.’ Ferguson, 9544
Estimate $100/200
[91*]
FASHION. EVERYLADY’S JOURNAL. A Home and Fashion Journal for Australian Women. Quarto, illustrated in
black and white, loosely inserted patterns, colour wrappers, occasional faults but generally in good condition.
Melbourne, Fitchett Brothers Pty. Ltd., 1922-1937. A largely complete run for a period of sixteen years, comprising
about 175 issues.
Estimate $4000/5000
[92*]
FASHION. AUSTRALIAN HOME JOURNAL. About twenty-nine issues. Quarto, illustrated in black and white,
loosely inserted patterns, colour wrappers. Sydney, printed by John Sands for the Proprietors, 1937-1959. Twentynine issues, between 1937 and 1959.
Estimate $200/300
Lot 93.
[93]
FAVENC, Ernest. THE STORY OF OUR CONTINENT, TOLD WITH BRUSH AND PEN. Illustrated by F.S.
Spence. Quarto, stapled, detached within original pictorial wrappers. Sydney, R. A. Thompson & Co., no date [1891].
Rare: a large format work, anticipating Favenc’s history of Australian exploration. The format, illustration and design
suggest an early example of a ‘coffee-table’ book. Its rarity is quite surprising.
Estimate $300/500
[94]
FEDERATION. AUSTRALASIAN FEDERATION CONFERENCE 1890. Official Record of the Proceedings and
Debates of the Australasian Federation Conference, 1890, held in the Parliament House, Melbourne. Octavo, pp. [ii],
286, [2] (blank), [287] – 464 (first leaf sectional title, verso blank + photographic frontispiece and separate printed
key, original cloth. Melbourne, Robert S. Brain,
1890. Rare: public edition of the proceedings of this crucial
precursor to the series of Federal Conventions between 1891 and 1898 that led to the drafting of the Australian
Constitution Bill and to the Federation of the colonies into the Commonwealth of Australia. This is the special issue,
comprising the proceedings of the conference, a long additional section of “Public Opinion of England as expressed by
the Public Journals” (pp. 287 – 464), and a fine frontispiece group photographic portrait of the fourteen participants in
the conference with an additional printed key. The standard issue, identical in format and in the style of binding,
comprised only the proceedings (i.e. to page 286 only). Not in Ferguson (but see 6215a for the standard issue).
Estimate $200/400
[95]
FEDERATION. SOUVENIR OF THE INAUGURATION OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA. Folio,
portraits and illustrations, original colour pictorial wrappers. Sydney, John Sands for the N.S.W. Bookstall Co.,
[1901].
Estimate $100/200
[96]
FEDERATION. SOUVENIR OF THE INAUGURATION OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA. Folio,
portraits and illustrations, original colour pictorial wrappers, bound with others journals in contemporary half roan,
covers detached and spine gone, two leaves torn across, other minor tears. Sydney, John Sands for the N.S.W.
Bookstall Co., [1901]. Bound as the first piece of a volume compiled, probably by John Lane Mullins, bringing
together the ‘Commonwealth’ issues of a handful of journals and newspapers. Sold as a periodical and so not subject
to return.
Estimate $150/200
[97]
FEDERATION. GOVERNMENT OF NEW SOUTH WALES. OFFICIAL PROGRAMME OF CEREMONIAL
AND ENTERTAINMENTS Commemorative of the Inauguration of the Australian Commonwealth at Sydney.
January 1st, 1901. Octavo, illustrated, original wrappers with lithographed design by John Sands printed in gilt and
colours on the front wrapper. Sydney, [Government Printer], 1901. Uncommon.
Estimate $80/120
[98]
FITZGERALD, Robert D. AUSTRALIAN ORCHIDS. Four parts (of twelve), folio, 43 handcoloured lithographed
plates including four double-page, occasional tears, flecking or foxing, original illustrated parts wrappers. Sydney,
Thomas Richards, Government Printer, [187-?]-[188-?]. Volume 2, parts 1-2 and 4-5, plus 27 detached plates in three
further parts wrappers (one part unnumbered, one with the plates uncoloured and foxed).
Estimate $400/600
Lot 98. One of the fine handcoloured plates of Australian orchids
[99]
FLANAGAN, Roderick J. THE ABORIGINES OF AUSTRALIA. Octavo, frontispiece, original cloth, gilt. Sydney,
Edward J. Flanagan and George Robertson, 1888. Ferguson, 9635.
Estimate $100/150
[100]
FORDE, J.M. SOME FRAGMENTS OF OLD SYDNEY. Gathered by “Old Chum.” Octavo, illustrations, original
wrappers in later binder’s cloth. Sydney, McCarron, Stewart & Co., 1898. Bound with A.G. Foster’s EARLY
SYDNEY (1920) and ODD BITS OF OLD SYDNEY (1921) preserving original wrappers.
Estimate $100/200
[101]
FORSYTH, William Stanley GARRISON GUNNERS. Part I. The Legends of a Subaltern. Part II. The PortCullis…. By “Fronsac”. Octavo, black and white plates, original blue cloth Tamworth, The Tamworth Newspaper
Company, 1929. Scarce.
Estimate $80/120
[102]
FOWLES, Joseph. SYDNEY IN 1848. Illustrated by copper-plate engravings of the Principal Streets, Public
Buildings, Churches, Chapels, Etc. Quarto, frontispiece and 39 full-page lithographed illlustrations, original cloth,
gilt, the binding broken. Sydney, J. Fowles, [1878]. The 1878 reproduction of 1848 original edition.
Estimate $150/200
[103]
FOX, Frank, “Frank RENAR”. BUSHMAN AND BUCCANEER. Harry Morant: His ‘Ventures And Verses. By
Frank Renar. With many illustrations, and a map showing the Bushveldt Carbineers’ Operations. Octavo, pp. 64 (last
blank), many photographic illustrations in the text but including a drawing by Fred Leist and one by Norman Lindsay;
original Norman Lindsay wrappers (worn on spine, lower wrapper detached); New South Wales Bookstall stamp on
title-page. Sydney, H.T. Dunn and Co., 1902. Rare: Fox’s almost hagiographical account of Morant is one of the most
influential contemporary pieces that help sway public opinion here in his favour. The text is largely taken up with an
account of Morant’s life as a soldier in South Africa, after a decent section describing his earlier career in Australia.
The final section includes Morant’s verses: this was the first edition of them in book form. Dornbusch, 47; Fielding
and O’Neill, p. 133; Hackett, p. 179 (apparently unseen and entered under the author’s pseudonym only); Miller, p.
288.
Estimate $500/800
[104]
FREAME, William. THE EARLY DAYS OF LIVERPOOL. Octavo, illustrations, original wrappers, bound in cloth
with three other Freame pamphlets. Liverpool, 1916. Includes Freame’s ON OLD SOUTH CREEK (1916), OLD
MEMORIES (1918), and A DELECTABLE PARISH (1923). + Copies of Freame’s PARRAMATTA: Past and
Present (1925), inscribed and signed by the author, ST. LUKE’S CHURCH OF ENGLAND, LIVERPOOL (1930),
both in original wrappers, and THE MAN FROM KANGAROO and Other Verses (1927) in original cloth.
Estimate $150/300
[105]
GARRAN, Andrew. PICTURESQUE ATLAS OF AUSTRALASIA. Three volumes, folio, plates, maps and
illustrations, some pale waterstaining, with several loosely inserted large folding Railway maps, early morocco.
Sydney, Picturesque Atlas Publishing Company, 1886.
Estimate $150/300
[106]
GEDIK, Simon. DISPUTATIO PERIUCUNDA, QUA ANONYMUS PROBATE NITITUR, Mulieres Homines non
esse: cui opposita est Simonis Gedicci, defensio sexus muliebris… Duodecimo, browned, in contemporary vellum.
Paris, 1693. An extensive refutation of the proposition that women are not human.
Estimate $150/300
[107]
GELLERT, Leon. SONGS OF A CAMPAIGN. Octavo, with illustrations by Norman Lindsay, cuttings pasted on
endpapers, original decorated green cloth with both Norman Lindsay’s pictorial dustwrapper and the rare additional
typographic dustwrapper. Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1917. First illustrated and first Angus & Robertson edition: the
third edition overall.
Estimate $100/200
[108]
GIBBS, May. GUM-BLOSSOM BABIES [and] GUM-NUT BABIES [and] BORONIA BABIES [and] FLANNEL
FLOWERS [and] WATTLE BABIES. Five pieces, octavo, illustrations, original wrappers bound in half morocco and
cloth boards (spine rubbed). Sydney, Angus and Robertson, n.d. circa 1918 – 1920. The complete series of May
Gibbs’s Gumnut booklets. (The first two reprinted, the final three booklets in the series are probable first editions.)
Estimate $100/300
[109]
GILBERT, Thomas. VOYAGE FROM NEW SOUTH WALES TO CANTON, in the year 1788, with views of the
islands discovered. By Thomas Gilbert, Esq. Commander of the Charlotte. Quarto, with engraved vignette on the title,
four large folding plates of coastal views (foxed as usual), with half-title, and with the terminal advertisement leaf,
uncut in early marbled boards and half calf. London, J. Debrett, 1789. First edition of the first trading voyage from
Australia. Debrett published Gilbert’s Voyage as a companion to his publication of Surgeon John White’s Journal and
– very rarely – it is found bound up with it, as its publisher had suggested. Gilbert was commander of a First Fleet
convict transport, the Charlotte, who continued from New South Wales to Canton to pick up a cargo of tea on the
return voyage to England. After a brief description of the colony – he was critical of the land around Botany Bay but
more sanguine about prospects further north – Gilbert commences his journal with his departure from Port Jackson to
Canton in May 1788. During the voyage to China a number of islands were discovered and named, most notably the
Gilbert and Marshall islands that were named for Gilbert himself and Captain Marshall of the Scarborough, the
Charlotte’s companion ship on the voyage. Gilbert’s has proved to be a rare book in recent years and although “the
actual Australian interest of this volume is limited... it is an important and scarce work, particularly from the point of
view of general Pacific discovery” (Davidson). It is also, of course, a desirable companion and complement to John
White’s First Fleet account. Ferguson, 38; Hill 2, 702; Wantrup, 18.
Estimate $5000/7000
Lot 109.
[110]
GILMORE, Mary. UNDER THE WILGAS, POEMS. Square octavo, original cloth-backed papered boards.
Melbourne, Robertson & Mullens Ltd., 1932. Limited edition of 100 numbered and signed copies. + GILMORE,
Mary. The Wild Swan, Poems. Square octavo, original cloth-backed papered boards. Melbourne, Robertson &
Mullens Ltd., 1930. Limited edition of 200 numbered and signed copies. + GILMORE., Mary. The Tilted Cart, a book
of recitations. Octavo, original decorated card wrappers. Sydney, 1925. With the author’s signed inscription.
Estimate $150/300
[111]
GORDON, Adam Lindsay. BUSH BALLADS AND GALLOPING RHYMES. By the Author of “Ashtaroth.”
Octavo, original cloth. Melbourne, Clarson, Massina, and Co., 1870. First edition. + A copy of Gordon’s
ASHTAROTH (1867) in uniform binding.
Estimate $100/200
[112]
GOULD, John. AN INTRODUCTION TO THE MAMMALS OF AUSTRALIA. Octavo, original red cloth, spine
wearing. London, Printed for the Author by Taylor and Francis, 1863. First edition. For many of his major illustrated
works Gould prepared a separately-printed introduction, in “limited numbers… in an octavo form, for distribution
among my scientific friends and others”. Casey Wood, 365; Ferguson, 10030; Sauer, 24.
Estimate $400/600
[113]
GRAHAM, John Ryrie. A TREATISE ON THE AUSTRALIAN MERINO.
Melbourne, Clarson, Massina, & Co., 1870.
Estimate $100/200
Octavo, original brown cloth.
[114]
GRANT, James. THE NARRATIVE OF A VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY, performed in His Majesty’s Vessel The
Lady Nelson... in the years 1800, 1801 and 1802, to New South Wales… Quarto, large folding plan of sliding keels
laid down on coarse fabric, folding chart of Bass Strait, coloured plate of a cockatoo and five other plates, title-page
dusted, occasional soiling, title and final leaf flecked, top edge gilt, outer and lower edges uncut, later marbled boards
and half calf, front board detached and dented at foot. London, C. Raworth, 1803. First edition of one of the
foundation works for Victoria, recording the discovery of the Victorian coast. In 1800 James Grant was instructed to
sail the Lady Nelson from England to Sydney where it was intended he would hand her over to Matthew Flinders. In
the course of the voyage, Grant was instructed to search for the western passage into Bass Strait and traverse it from
west to east. This he succeeded in doing, discovering the Victorian coastline west of Bass’s discoveries of 1797 and
1798. Subsequently, in 1801, Grant and Lieutenant-Governor William Paterson, explored the Hunter River in the Lady
Nelson. As a result of Paterson’s report Governor King established the future city of Newcastle. Grant published this
substantial voyage account upon his return to England. His handsome work is well illustrated with a large folding
plate of sliding keels, a folding chart of Bass Strait (the first English chart to record the newly discovered Victorian
coast), a finely handcoloured plate of the Fringe Crested Cockatoo, and five engraved plates. Ferguson, 375; Hill 2,
718; Wantrup, 75.
Estimate $2000/3000
[115]
GREGORY, Augustus Charles and Francis Thomas GREGORY. JOURNALS OF AUSTRALIAN
EXPLORATIONS. Octavo, with three (of four) mounted albumen paper photographic prints (plate excised between
pp. 194-95), half-calf and marbled boards (rubbed). Brisbane, James C. Beal, Government Printer, 1884. First
edition: the very rare illustrated issue. Unusually the two photographs of the Gregory brothers are signed.
Estimate $1000/2000
[116]
GREY, George. JOURNALS OF TWO EXPEDITIONS OF DISCOVERY IN NORTH-WEST AND WESTERN
AUSTRALIA, during the years 1837, 38, and 39, Under the Authority of Her Majesty’s Government. Describing
many newly discovered, important, and fertile Districts, with Observations on the moral and physical Condition of the
Aboriginal Inhabitants, &c. &c. Two volumes, octavo, with the two large folding maps at the end of volume one (one
detached), complete with 22 plates (six coloured), the plates with some foxing and marking, early marbled boards and
half morocco. London, T. & W. Boone, 1841. First edition of a classic Western Australian exploration account. In July
1837 Grey sailed for Australia on board the Beagle under Wickham to explore the land in Australia’s north-west with
a view to establishing a permanent settlement there. In the course of his two expeditions, both of which were
undertaken in extreme hardship, Grey discovered and named the Glenelg River, the Macdonald Range, the Stephen
Range, the Gairdner River, Mount Lyell, the Gascoyne River, the Murchison River and nine other rivers, the Lyell,
Victoria and Gairdner Ranges, and many other features along the west coast. Grey’s expeditions and the associated
coastal surveys of Wickham and Stokes in the Beagle, were a major advance in the discovery of the west and northwest parts of the Australian continent. The Aboriginal rock paintings found on the first expedition are illustrated on
several plates. Bagnall, 2336; Ferguson, 3228; Wantrup 131 (miscounting plates in the second volume).
Estimate $600/900
[117]
GROSSE, E. M. (Artist). SERIES OF SEVENTEEN COLOUR LITHOGRAPHED PLATES, from the 1913
expedition to the coral reefs of the Torres Straits of the Department of Marine Biology of the Carnegie Institution of
Washington. Quarto, 17 plates, early half roan. [Sydney, Government Printer, n.d. (circa 1914)]. A series of 17 plates
(numbered to 19) of echinoderms, with a typescript insert inscribed to J. Lane Mullins by F. Walsh.
Estimate $200/400
[118]
HAKLUYT, Richard. THE PRINCIPAL NAVIGATIONS, VOYAGES, TRAFFIQUES AND DISCOVERIES OF
THE ENGLISH NATION, made by sea or overland, to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the Earth, at any
time within the compasse of these 1600 yeres. Two volumes in one, folio, with second issue title page, ornamental
woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, with a handful of tears, adhesions or marks, worn old calf, spine broken,
boards detached. London, George Bishop, Ralph Newberie, and Robert Barker, 1599. Second edition, without the
third volume published in 1600. Sabin, 29597 (paginating the first issue only).
Estimate $2000/4000
[119]
HARGRAVE, John F. LECTURE ON LAW, delivered at the Mechanics’ School of Arts, Pitt Street, Sydney, August
3, 1858. Octavo, inscribed from the author, early half calf, spine abraded. Sydney, J. W. Waugh, 1858. Ferguson,
10239. [bound with] HARGRAVE, John F. Introductory Lecture on General Jurispudence, delivered at the University
of Sydney, March 5, 1860. Octavo, with author’s inscription to Professor Smith. Sydney, J. W. Waugh, 1860.
Ferguson, 10240.
Estimate $200/300
Lot 115. The rare special illustrated issue.
Lot 118.
[120]
HARGRAVES, Edward Hammond. AUSTRALIA AND ITS GOLD FIELDS: An Historical Sketch of the Progress
of the Australian Colonies... Octavo, frontispiece, handcoloured outline map, original gilt-decorated cloth (minor
wear at head and foot of spine). London, H. Ingram and Co, 1855. First edition of this account of the Australian gold
rush colonies, including the first-hand account of Hargraves’s discovery of the Ophir goldfields. Ferguson, 10245.
Estimate $300/500
[121]
HARPUR, Charles. THE BUSHRANGERS; A Play in Five Acts, and Other Poems. Duodecimo, original cloth with
printed paper label on the front board. Sydney, W.R. Piddington, 1853. Rare: first edition of Harpur’s second volume
of verse.
Estimate $400/600
[122]
HARRIS, Robert. WHAT HAS MRS. CAROLINE CHISHOLM DONE FOR THE COLONY OF NEW SOUTH
WALES? Octavo, postaly used, with an old fold and the final leaf with franking stamp and with old damage affecting
text, later half morocco. Sydney, James Cole, Bookseller, 1862. Very rare. Inscribed (and then partly erased) to John
Smith, M.D., with the editor’s respects, also signed by John Lane Mullins. Ferguson, 10261a. + A later work on
Chisholm.
Estimate $600/800
[123]
HENRY, T. Shekleton. “SPOOKLAND!”, a record of research and experiment in a much-talked-of realm of mystery,
with a review … of spirit materialisation, and hints and illustrations as to the possibility of artificially producing the
same. Octavo, illustrated, original wrappers, bound as the first piece in a group of three, later binder’s cloth. Sydney,
Gordon & Gotch, [1894]. With author’s signed inscription to John Lane Mullins. Ferguson, 10379. [bound with]
Mediums and Their Dupes, a complete exposure of the chicaneries of professional mediums, and explanation of socalled spiritual phenomena. Sydney, Greville’s Telegram Company, 1879. Octavo, front wrapper repaired, inscribed to
Mullins. Ferguson, 12386. + STEPHEN, Harold W. H. Vagabonds and their Dupes, being a complete exposure of
some errors and misstatements of “The Vagabond”, and certain of his friends. Ocavo, original wrappers. Sydney,
Hampson & Gibson, 1879. Ferguson, 16230.
Estimate $200/400
[124]
HIDES, Jack. PAPUAN WONDERLAND. Octavo, plates, original cloth with dustwrapper. London, Blackie, 1936.
First edition. + A copy of Hides’s SAVAGES IN SERGE (1938) with dustwrapper.
Estimate $80/100
[125]
HINKLER. HURRICANE HINKLER [wrapper title] Small quarto, illustrated, original wrappers. Sydney, 1928.
Programme for the Sydney reception to Bert Hinkler on his England-Australia flight
Estimate $200/400
Lot 127. One of the most sophisticated and stylish design journals and ‘lifestyle’ publications of the 1920s and 1930s.
[126]
HOCKEN. MAUNSELL, R. GRAMMAR OF THE NEW ZEALAND LANGUAGE. Second Edition. Octavo, in
original cloth, printed paper label (distressed) on spine, T.M. Hocken’s copy, and signed by him twice. Auckland,
W.C. Wilson, 1862. Rare.
Estimate $100/200
[127]
HOME. ART IN AUSTRALIA (published by). THE HOME: an Australian Quarterly. Fifteen volumes, quarto, the
first 13 in uniform early binder’s cloth, the final three in early cloth-backed papered boards, largely retaining the
striking original colour pictorial wrappers, in good condition, a few endpaper or wrapper creases, several leaves
removed or incomplete. Sydney, 1920-1931. An impressive run, largely but not entirely continuous from 1920 to 1931,
of this celebrated periodical: starting with volume one number one in February 1920 and comprising a total of 83
issues. Commenced as a quarterly publication, the magazine was for a brief period bi-monthly, and settled by 1926
into monthly issues. + Three issues of The Home Pictorial Annual, and one Home Easter Pictorial Sydney number.
Estimate $4000/6000
[128*]
HOME BEAUTIFUL. THE AUSTRALIAN HOME BEAUTIFUL. A Monthly Journal entirely devoted to home
building in its widest sense. Quarto, illustrated, colour pictorial wrappers, small faults but generally in good
condition. Melbourne, United Press, 1928-1937. A largely compete run for a period of ten years, comprising about
110 issues.
Estimate $1500/2000
[129]
HORNE, George A. and AISTON, G. SAVAGE LIFE IN CENTRAL AUSTRALIA. Octavo, plates, one folding
map, foxing on edges, original gilt-decorated cloth. London, Macmillan, 1924. First edition.
Estimate $150/300
[130]
HORNE, Richard Henry. AUSTRALIAN FACTS AND PROSPECTS: to which is prefixed the author’s Australian
autobiography. Octavo in sixteens, original cloth, gilt vignette of three diggers on front board. London, Smith, Elder,
1859. First edition: one of the best personal accounts of the gold rush era in Victoria. Ferguson 10545.
Estimate $100/200
[131]
HUME, Hamilton. A BRIEF STATEMENT OF FACTS in connexion with an Overland Expedition from Lake
George to Port Phillip, in 1824. By Hamilton Hume. Edited by the Rev. William Ross, Goulburn. Octavo, with the
terminal blank leaf overlooked by Ferguson, original cloth with paper label, boards detached Sydney, J. Moore, 1855.
The rare first published edition of Hume’s narrative of his expedition to Port Phillip in 1824. William Bland’s 1826 –
1837 edition of the journal of the Hume and Hovell expedition, based largely on Hovell’s field book, remained for
decades the only published narrative. Hamilton Hume himself gave no public account of the expedition until 1855
when newspaper reports of a speech given by Hovell in Geelong, gave Hume the impression that Hovell was claiming
all the credit for their discoveries. Angrily, Hume published this book in May 1855, giving his account of their
journey, with supporting statements from three servants showing Hovell not only to have been incompetent but also
wilful, headstrong and cowardly. Both men spent their final years in a pamphlet war which persisted even after
Hume’s death in 1873. This first published edition of 1855 is rare. Ferguson, 10663 (without the terminal blank leaf);
Wantrup, 111b.
Estimate $3000/5000
Lot 128. Selection of striking covers.
[132]
HUNTER, John. AN HISTORICAL JOURNAL OF THE TRANSACTIONS AT PORT JACKSON AND
NORFOLK ISLAND, with discoveries which have been made in New South Wales and in the Southern Ocean, since
the publication of Phillip’s Voyage… Quarto, with an engraved title-page, portrait frontispiece, eleven plates, and
four folding maps, minor foxing or dusting, entirely uncut, original boards, the binding broken, spine defective.
London, John Stockdale, 1793. First edition: a large copy of this ‘official’ First Fleet narrative. Stockdale’s edition of
Governor Hunter’s Journal is a continuation of the 1789 edition of Governor Phillip’s Voyage. Among other plates most notably William Blake’s engraving of an Aboriginal family after a drawing by Philip Gidley King - is the first
published view of the First Fleet settlement at Sydney Cove, engraved by Edward Dayes after a drawing by Hunter.
The view shows the settlement at Sydney Cove at the very earliest stage of its development. Ferguson, 152;
McCormick, First Views, plate 7ff; Wantrup, 13.
Estimate $3000/5000
[133]
HUNTER, John. AN HISTORICAL JOURNAL of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island, with the
discoveries which have been made in New South Wales and in the Southern Ocean, since the publication of Phillip’s
Voyage... Quarto, with engraved title-page (the date entire), plates and folding maps, some foxing and staining, two
long clean tears in the folding map, early sheep, later rebacking (torn at head of spine). London, John Stockdale,
1793. First edition of this important First Fleet journal, the ‘continuation’ of Governor Phillip’s Voyage by the second
Governor. Ferguson, 152; Wantrup, 13.
Estimate $1800/2600
[134]
HUNTINGTON, Henry William Hemsworth. HISTORY OF AUSTRALASIA. Quarto, printed in double column,
eight Bartholomew maps in colour, 3 blank leaves, contents leaf laid to an early blank, contemporary cloth backed
boards. [Newcastle, circa 1882]. With the author’s presentation inscription in 1882 to Doctor G.H. Tucker. Ferguson,
10685. (“Only a few copies seem to have been privately distributed”).
Estimate $150/300
[135]
IDRIESS, Ion L. MAN TRACKS. With the Mounted Police in Australian Wilds. Octavo, plates, original cloth with
chipped dustwrapper.. Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1935. First edition. + Eight other Idriess works in original cloth
from the 1930s, including some first editions including THE DESERT COLUMN (1932).
Estimate $120/180
[136]
INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS New South Wales. ART AND ARCHITECTURE…
illustrations, original wrappers, some detached. Sydney, 1907 – 1912 Uncommon.
Estimate $100/200
Seven issues, folio,
[137]
JACK, Robert Logan. NORTHMOST AUSTRALIA: Three centuries of exploration, discovery, and adventure in
and around the Cape York Peninsula, Queensland… Two volumes, octavo, plates, maps in back endpockets, original
green cloth with Mullins’s gilt armorial crest on front board. London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co.,
1921. First edition.
Estimate $300/500
[138]
JOSELAND, Howard. ANGLING IN AUSTRALIA AND ELSEWHERE. Octavo, black & white and coloured
plates (some tipped-in), original cloth-backed papered boards (flecked on spine). Sydney, Art in Australia, 1921. First
edition.
Estimate $300/500
[139]
KALESKI, Robert. AUSTRALIAN BARKERS AND BITERS. Octavo, illustrations, original pictorial wrappers
bound in cloth. Sydney, N.S.W. Bookstall, 1914. First edition.
Estimate $150/300
[140]
KING, Dr. Truby. TWO LECTURES. Authorised and issued by the Royal Society for the Welfare of Mothers and
Babies [wrapper title]. Octavo, five diagrams (several folding) printed in red and black, stapled in original wrappers.
Sydney, William Applegate Gullick, Government Printer, 1921.
Estimate $100/200
[141]
KING, James AUSTRALIA MAY BE AN EXTENSIVE WINE-GROWING COUNTRY. Octavo, marked and worn
original green wrappers, lower wrapper defective (no library endpocket). Edinburgh, Grant Brothers, 1857. ‘Printed
for private circulation.’ Ferguson, 11152.
Estimate $100/200
[142]
KING, Phillip Parker. NARRATIVE OF A SURVEY OF THE INTERTROPICAL AND WESTERN COASTS OF
AUSTRALIA. Performed between the years 1818 and 1822... With an appendix, containing various subjects relating
to Hydrography and Natural History. Two volumes, octavo, with thirteen plates and two folding charts, with half-titles
and the errata leaf, first gathering of volume one detached in the sewing, uncut in the original papered boards, spines
defective and boards detached. London, John Murray, 1827. Captain Phillip Parker King, Australian-born son of the
third governor, Philip Gidley King, became the Navy’s leading hydrographer. His coastal voyages and Oxley’s
expeditions inland were the great expansionary undertakings of the Macquarie era. Appointed in 1817 to complete
Flinders’s interrupted survey and firmly to establish Great Britain’s claim to the north coast of Australia, King charted
the greater part of the west, north and north-east coasts, and also carried out important surveys in the area of the
Barrier Reef between 1817 and 1822. His hydrographical work is still the basis of many modern charts. The second
issue of the first edition, the normal form in which the book is seen. Ferguson, 1130; Hill 2, 927; Wantrup, 84b and pp.
162-3.
Estimate $2000/3000
[143]
KINGHORN, J.R. SNAKES OF AUSTRALIA. Small oblong duodecimo, illustrations (mainly in colour), original
decorated cloth. Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1929. First edition: an Australian herpetological classic.
Estimate $150/240
[144]
KIPPIS, Andrew. THE LIFE OF CAPTAIN JAMES COOK. Quarto, engraved frontispiece portrait, contemporary
calf, external wear, boards detached. London, G. Nicol and G.G.J. and J. Robinson, 1788. First edition of the first
biography of Cook. Presentation copy with the half-title inscribed “From the Author”. Beddie, 32; Forbes, 149;
Holmes, 69; Hill 2, 935; Kroepelien, 647; Sabin, 37954.
Estimate $2000/4000
[145]
KNAGGS, Samuel T. DR DE LION, CLAIRVOYANT. Confessions of a Vagabond Life in Australia, as Narrated by
Maiben Brook Narrow octavo, bound in half roan and cloth boards (rubbed), original front title wrapper bound in
after text. Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1895. Inscribed to Mullins by the author 7 June 1895. Ferguson, 11217. + A
good copy of the same author’s RECREATIONS OF AN AUSTRALIAN SURGEON.
Estimate $100/200
[146]
KNOX, George. THE SUPREME COURT AND ITS CRITICS. Observations on the proposed amendments of the
law of libel. Octavo, early half calf, front board and free endpaper detached. Sydney, F. Cunninghame & Co.,
Printers, 1883. Not located in Ferguson. [bound with] KNOX, George. VITALITY OR ENDOWMENTS? The
Present Needs of the University of Sydney. Octavo, signed by James Lane Mullins. Sydney, John Woods and Co.
Printers, 1880. Ferguson, 11240.
Estimate $200/300
[147]
KREFFT, Gerard. THE SNAKES OF AUSTRALIA; An Illustrated and Descriptive Catalogue of all the Known
Species. Quarto, twelve handcoloured lithographs, later cloth, preserving remnants only of an earlier leather spine.
Sydney, Thomas Richards, 1869. The rare coloured issue of the first Australian reptile book, by the ‘father’ of
Australian herpetology. Finely illustrated by the sisters Harriett and Helena Scott, “this is one of the most important of
all nineteenth-century natural history publications. In its coloured form it belongs to a select group of colour-plate
books produced wholly in Australia. A coloured Krefft is the centrepiece of any collection of Australian reptile books”
(Isles). Casey Wood, p. 442; Ferguson, 11247.
Estimate $2000/3000
[148]
KREFFT, Johann Ludwig Gerard. THE MAMMALS OF AUSTRALIA Illustrated by Miss Harriett Scott and Mrs
Helena Forde, for the Council of Education; with a short account of all the species hitherto described. Quarto, 16
lithographed plates, some foxing, small dark stain in margin throughout, original stiff wrappers (spine and front hinge
roughly taped). Sydney, Thomas Richards, 1871. Krefft’s most important work, finely illustrated by Harriett and
Helena Scott. Ferguson, 11248 (noting only 15 plates in error); Wood, p. 442. + A copy of Krefft’s 1864 catalogue of
Mammalia, the title-page defective.
Estimate $1000/2000
[149]
LABILLARDIERE, J. J. de VOYAGE IN SEARCH OF LA PEROUSE, performed by order of the Constituent
Assembly, during the years 1791, 1792, 1793, and 1794. Quarto, large folding map, engraved plates, the plates foxed
and offset, owner’s stamps on an early blank, hinges taped, early marbled boards, later rebacking. London, John
Stockdale, 1800. First edition of the first, best and most complete English edition of Labillardière’s account of the
D’Entrecasteaux expedition.
Estimate $1500/2000
Lot 150. Rare Port Phillip pamphlet on the Aborigines.
[150]
LANG, Gideon S. THE ABORIGINES OF AUSTRALIA: in their original condition and in their relations with the
white men. Octavo, bound with the green wrappers in later half calf. Melbourne, Wilson & Mackinnon, 1865. Rare:
the revised and enlarged edition, with an appendix. Ferguson, 11333.
Estimate $1000/2000
[151]
LANG, John Dunmore. EMIGRATION; Considered Chiefly in Reference to the Practicability and Expediency of
Importing and Settling Throughout the Territory of New South Wales… Octavo, bound without wrappers in half roan
and cloth boards (worn on spine). Sydney, E.S. Hall, 1833. Uncommon: inscribed ‘To His Excellency, The Governor
&c. &c. &c. With Dr Lang’s Most respectful Compliments.’ Ferguson, 1667.
Estimate $100/200
[152]
LAWRENCE, T.E. SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM. A Triumph. Quarto, plates, folding maps, original gilt
decorated buckram (flecked) with dustwrapper. London, Jonathan Cape, 1935. First trade edition.
Estimate $100/150
[153]
LAWSON, Henry. IN THE DAYS WHEN THE WORLD WAS WIDE AND OTHER VERSES. Octavo, original
buckram, top edge gilt, Mullins armorial crest in gilt on front board. Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1896. Rare: limited
edition of Lawson’s first regular publication, limited to 50 copies on large paper. This is copy no. 2, numbered and
initialled by the publisher, and with Lawson’s signed presentation inscription to John Lane Mullins. A unique copy, in
which Norman Lindsay has added original ink sketches, all signed, in the margins of twelve leaves. It may be assumed
that Mullins commissioned Lindsay to add these twelve illustrations probably at an early date.
Estimate $6000/9000
[154]
LAWSON, Henry. VERSES POPULAR AND HUMOROUS. Octavo, original buckram, top edge gilt, Mullins
armorial crest in gilt on front board. Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1900. Very scarce. Edition limited to 58 numbered
copies on large paper (the printed limitation of 50 amended in George Robertson’s hand as always). This is copy no.
26, numbered and initialled by the publisher, with an additional poem “A Song of Southern Writers”. A unique copy,
in which Percy Leason has added original ink sketches, all signed, in the margins of six leaves. It may be assumed that
Mullins commissioned Leason to add these twelve illustrations probably at an early date.
Estimate $1500/2000
[155]
LAWSON, Henry. ON THE TRACK [AND] OVER THE SLIPRAILS. Octavo, original cloth with Mullins’s gilt
armorial crest on front board, top edge gilt. Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1900. Edition limited to 50 copies with an
additional story ‘Thin Lips and False Teeth’.
Estimate $200/300
[156]
LAWSON, Henry. THE RISING OF THE COURT and Other Sketched in Prose and Verse. Octavo, original
pictorial wrappers in binder’s cloth. Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1910. Inscribed and signed by Lawson (15 Sep.
1910) on the half title page.
Estimate $200/400
Lot 153. Vignette illustration by Norman Lindsay in Henry Lawson’s In the Days When The World Was Wide.
Lot 154. Vignette illustration by Percy Leason in Henry Lawson’s Verses Popular and Humorous.
[157]
LAWSON, Henry. WHILE THE BILLY BOILS. Octavo, plates, with advertising slip for Paterson’s Man from
Snowy River, original cloth with Mullins’s gilt armorial crest on front board, top edge gilt, other edges uncut Sydney,
Angus and Robertson, 1896. First edition. + Three other Lawson first editions in original cloth with Mullins’s gilt
armorial crest on front boards.
Estimate $200/400
[158]
[LAWSON]. THE AUSTRALIAN BIRTHDAY BOOK Passages selected from Australian and New Zealand Poetry.
Edited by Bertram Stevens. 16mo, with an engraved Norman Lindsay bookplate for John Lane Mullins, publisher’s
semi-limp reversed calf, edges gilt, no library markings. Sydney, Angus & Robertson, circa 1908. Signatures include
Henry Lawson, Livingston Hopkins, and J.H.M. Abbott.
Estimate $200/400
[159]
LEICHHARDT, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig. JOURNAL OF AN OVERLAND EXPEDITION IN AUSTRALIA,
from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844 – 1845. Octavo, with
frontispiece and six aquatint plates (one folding), advertisement leaves (two defective), later binder’s cloth. London, T.
& W. Boone, 1847. First edition. Abbey, 579; Ferguson, 4571; Wantrup, 138a. + A copy of Mitchell’s TROPICAL
AUSTRALIA (1848) loose in boards, spine gone.
Estimate $300/500
[160]
LEIGH, W.H. RECONNOITERING VOYAGES AND TRAVELS, with adventures in the new colonies of South
Australia. Octavo, complete with lithographed plates and additional lithographed title-page (foxed), bound with the
half-title and terminal advertisements in original cloth. London, Smith, Elder, 1839. First edition: most of the plates
depict the Aboriginal inhabitants. Ferguson, 2786.
Estimate $200/300
[161]
LEVY, George Collins. MEN OF THE TIME IN AUSTRALIA. Victorian Series 1878. Octavo, original publisher’s
half roan, edges rubbed, yellow china clay endpapers with printed advertisements, additional binder’s blank leaf
before and after the text. Melbourne, M’Carron, Bird, 1878. Not in Ferguson.
Estimate $150/200
[162]
LINDSAY, Lionel. TWENTY-ONE WOODCUTS, drawn, engraved & printed by Lionel Lindsay. Quarto, tipped-in
plates, cloth-backed papered boards (patches of wear on the rear board) with paper label, spine darkened. Sydney,
Meryon Press, 1924. The first book of the Meryon Press, hand-printed by Lindsay, in an edition of 95 copies with the
plates on Japanese vellum.
Estimate $1000/1500
[163]
LINDSAY, Norman. THE MAGIC PUDDING. The Adventures of Bunyip Bluegum. Quarto, plates, shaken in worn
original cloth-backed boards Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1918. First edition: the first issue with A & R endpapers.
Estimate $400/600
[164]
LIND[SAY], Ruby. THE DRAWINGS OF RUBY LIND: (Mrs Will. Dyson) 1887 – 1919. Quarto, tipped-in
frontispiece, black & white and coloured plates, cloth-backed papered boards. London, Cecil Palmer, 1920. First
edition. With tipped-in signed autograph letter from Ruby Lindsay discussing a bookplate that she designed for
Mullins. And with loosely inserted signed letters from Edward Dyson and the publisher Cecil Palmer regarding the
publication of the book.
Estimate $200/400
[165]
LUTHER, Martin. OMNIUM OPERUM Reverendi Patris D. M. L. Four volumes, folio in sixes, titles within
woodcut borders, early leather, front board of first volume detaching. Jena, Christian Rhodius, 1556-1558. An early
edition of the works of Luther in Latin. Signed by Thomas Hayden, Manly College, 1925, and with several stamps on
endpapers.
Estimate $400/800
[166]
MACARTHUR, James. NEW SOUTH WALES; its present state and future prospects: being a statement, with
documentary evidence, submitted in support of petitions to His Majesty and Parliament. Octavo, folding map,
original green moiré cloth. London, D. Walther, 1837. Ferguson, 2304.
Estimate $80/120
[167]
MACKAY, George. MAJOR NISH MACKAY, LLM. Scholar and Patriot. Octavo, three tipped-in plates, foxing,
original wrappers. Bendigo, Cambridge Print, circa 1917.
Estimate $100/200
[168]
MACONOCHIE, Alexander. AUSTRALIANA. THOUGHTS ON CONVICT MANAGEMENT and other subjects
connected with the Australian Penal Colonies... [and] Supplement to Thoughts on Convict Management. Octavo, two
works bound together in original cloth, printed paper label (distressed) on spine, with errata slip in the first work.
London, John W. Parker, [and] Hobart Town, MacDougall, 1839. The sheets of the main work, Australiana, were
printed in Hobart in 1838 and some were sent to London for the Parker issue of 1839; not all copies were issued with
the Hobart-published supplement, with its own title-page. Ferguson, 2796-7.
Estimate $600/900
[169]
MAIDEN, J.H. THE FLOWERING PLANTS AND FERNS OF NEW SOUTH WALES… Part I – VII [complete].
Quarto, twenty-eight coloured plates, a little pale foxing, the seven parts with original front wrappers in later half
roan. Sydney, Government Printer, 1895-1898. Ferguson, 12183.
Estimate $500/600
[170]
MANN, John Frederick. EIGHT MONTHS WITH DR. LEICHHARDT, in the years 1846 – 47. Octavo, with
frontispiece, tears on two leaves repaired, with original wrappers in brown moiré cloth. Sydney, Turner and
Henderson, 1888. First edition and extremely scarce: a critical account of Leichhardt’s failed second expedition. This
copy is the first issue, without the subsequently-printed four-page appendix. Ferguson, 12226; Wantrup, 142a.
Estimate $200/400
[171]
MARTIN, James. THE AUSTRALIAN SKETCH BOOK, By James Martin, An Ex-Student of the Sydney College.
Duodecimo in sixes, early Sydney calf by Moffitt with his binder’s ticket, front board detached and spine defective.
Sydney, James Tegg, 1838. Rare: the first volume of essays published in Australia by an Australian-born author.
Ferguson, 2543.
Estimate $100/200
[172]
MARTIN, R. Montgomery. AUSTRALIA: Comprising New South Wales; Victoria or Port Philip; South Australia;
and Western Australia… Three parts, octavo, plates, 8 double-page maps with added handcolouring, original giltdecorated embossed cloth (rubbed). [London and New York, John Tallis and Company, n.d. circa 1850s] Divisions I,
II, and III, containing all six Australian maps by John Tallis.
Estimate $300/500
[173]
MASLEN, T.J. THE FRIEND OF AUSTRALIA; or, a Plan for exploring the Interior, and for carrying on a survey of
the whole continent of Australia. By a Retired Officer of the Hon. East India Company’s Service. Illustrated with a
Map of Australia, and five plates. Octavo, with a large folding map, five double-page handcoloured aquatint plates,
uncut in original cloth, paper spine label, joints splitting and front board detached. London, Hurst, Chance, and Co.,
1830. Rare: the supreme monument to the speculative geography of the 1820s and 1830s. This is the first edition of
the most important of the proposals for the exploration of the still entirely unknown Australian interior, written by a
retired lieutenant of the Indian Army and printed in an edition of only 250 copies. Ferguson, 1379; Perry and Prescott,
1839.08; Wantrup, 117a.
Estimate $1500/2000
[174]
MAY, Phil. CATALOGUE OF ORIGINAL DRAWINGS… for “The Bulletin”. Octavo, two illustrations, foxed,
original wrappers, loose in publisher’s white buckram with title in gilt, with additional lots and corrigenda tipped-in.
Sydney, Walter Bradley and Co., 1903. Scarce. One of 25 specially bound and numbered copies. + Later Bulletin
catalogue.
Estimate $300/500
[175]
MCFARLAND, Alfred. ILLAWARRA AND MANARO: Districts of New South Wales. Octavo, original clothbacked stiffened wrappers (rubbed). Sydney, William Maddock, 1872. Ferguson, 11955.
Estimate $100/200
[176]
MITCHELL,
Thomas Livingstone.
THREE EXPEDITIONS INTO THE INTERIOR OF EASTERN
AUSTRALIA, with descriptions of the recently explored region of Australia Felix. Two volumes, octavo, with plates
(some coloured), and coloured maps, detached within original cloth, spines torn. London, T. & W. Boone, 1838. First
edition: three expeditions of the greatest importance for the discoveries made. Billot, 129; Ferguson, 2553; Wantrup,
124a.
Estimate $400/600
[177]
MOSSMAN, Samuel. THE GOLD REGIONS OF AUSTRALIA: A Descriptive Account of New South Wales,
Victoria, and South Australia; with Particulars of the Recent Gold Discoveries… Second Edition. Octavo, folding
handcoloured engraved map, bound without the wrappers in half red morocco and marbled boards, marbled
endpapers, a little minor marginal marking, an attractive copy. London: William S. Orr and Co., James McGlashan,
Dublin, n.d. circa 1853. One of the earliest diggers’ guides: extremely scarce. The Australian colonist and promoter of
emigration, Samuel Mossman, published works in the guidebook genre and a general travel account, written in
collaboration with Thomas Banister. Mossman’s first guidebook was published in April or May 1852 by William S.
Orr, the London popular publisher, as part of his shilling series, Readings in Popular Literature. That first edition, said
to have comprised three thousand copies, was published before the news of Victorian gold had reached Britain. It
proved very popular and sold out within a month, with two further editions in the same year. These later editions,
extended to 128 pages, included news of the recent Victorian discoveries that had reached Britain by June 1852 and
was first published here in the second edition. Each of the three mining colonies is described in the later editions,
together with general observations on the policy of colonisation. Ferguson, 12889.
Estimate $200/300
[178]
MULLINS, George Lane. A BRIEF HISTORY OF SMALLPOX AND VACCINATION IN NEW SOUTH WALES
from the foundation of the colony to the present day [wrapper title]. Octavo, printed in double column, original
wrappers, bound as the ninth piece in a volume of eleven pamphlets and magazines, library cloth. Sydney, Angus &
Robertson, London, Young J. Pentland, 1898. A collection of works by, or with contributions from, the physician
George Lane Mullins, brother of John Lane Mullins.
Estimate $200/400
[179]
MULLINS, John Lane. ART UNDER THE ROMAN EMPERORS as shown in contemporary coins and medals.
Octavo, early half roan, gilt. [Sydney, J.L. Mullins], n.d. (circa 1910).
Estimate $100/200
[180]
MULLINS, John Lane. HERALDRY ON ENGLISH COINS [wrapper title]. Octavo, early half morocco, gilt,
original wrappers retained. Sydney, Privately printed by Arthur McQuitty, 1918. + MULLINS, John Lane. Art under
the Roman Emperors as shown in contemporary coins and medals. Octavo, pp. 14 (last blank). [Sydney, privately
published, n.d.].
Estimate $100/200
[181]
MULLINS, John Lane. HOW TO FRAME A MODEL BUILDING ACT. Octavo, bound with five other pieces in
old half calf. Sydney, 1902. Rare. Bound as the second of six pamphlets; the other pamphlets are: Town Planning
Display (1913); Fitzgerald’s Greater Sydney and Greater Newcastle (1906); Selfe’s Sydney (1908); Henley’s Greater
Sydney or What? (1909), Wise’s Local Government (1904).
Estimate $150/300
[182]
MULLINS, John Lane. CITIZENS’ DINNER to the Hon. John Lane Mulins in celebration of his birthday. Chairman
the Honourable Sir Thomas Bavin, K.C.M.G., Hotel Carlton 22nd June 1937 [wrapper title]. Octavo, tipped-in
portrait and plate, retaining original lettered wrappers, unlettered binder’s leather. Sydney, Privately printed by
Arthur McQuitty & Co., 1937.
Estimate $150/300
[183]
MURRAY, Lieutenant-Colonel P.L. OFFICIAL RECORDS of the Australian Military Contingents to the War in
South Africa. Compiled and edited for the Department of Defence. Small quarto, pp. [iv], 608, original dark green
cloth, gilt, flecked. Melbourne, Albert J. Mullett, Government Printer, [1911]. Extremely scarce: a detailed record of
the contingents arranged by State (Colony).
Estimate $200/400
[184]
MUSKETT, Philip E. AN AUSTRALIAN APPEAL. The Evil – The Cause – The Remedy. Including the Mountain
Sanatoria of Australia and Legislation for the Protection of Infant Life. Octavo, wrappers detached but entire. Sydney,
Edwards, Dunlop & Co., n.d. but 1892. Rare.
Estimate $100/200
[185]
NAPIER, S. Elliott (editor). THE BOOK OF THE ANZAC MEMORIAL, NEW SOUTH WALES. Quarto, with
tipped-in colour frontispiece, numerous photographic illustrations, publisher’s morocco. Sydney, The Beacon Press,
1934. First edition. The photographs of the memorial in this handsome art deco book are by Harold Cazneaux and
Cecil W. Bostock. Bostock also contributed the watercolour of the Memorial that is reproduced as the colour
frontispiece to the book. The photographs are not individually attributed but Bostock’s photographs are distinguished
by his monogram (bottom right mainly).
Estimate $100/150
[186]
NAVAL. AMERICAN FLEET. ALBUM of ephemeral items associated with the visit of the American Fleet 1908,
compiled by John Lane Mullins. Folio, a few loosely inserted photographs, half morocco.
Estimate $800/1200
[187]
NAVAL. AUSTRALIAN FLEET. ALBUM of ephemeral items associated with the arrival of the Australian Fleet
1913, compiled by John Lane Mullins. Folio, half morocco.
Estimate $800/1200
[188]
NEILSON, John Shaw. HEART OF SPRING. Octavo, publisher’s blue padded reverse calf (deteriorated on spine
and edges), edges gilt. Sydney, The Bookfellow, 1919. Special edition limited to 25 copies, numbered and signed with
initials by A.G. Stephens. Signed by the author and with a poem in the author’s holograph.
Estimate $800/1200
Lot 192. Very rare early history of the colony.
[189]
NEILSON, John Shaw. HEART OF SPRING. Octavo, original blue streaked cloth with Mullins’s gilt armorial
crest on front board. Sydney, The Bookfellow, 1919. First edition, the rare first (uncancelled) state. + A copy of
Neilson’s BEAUTY IMPOSES (1938) in original wrappers.
Estimate $100/200
[190]
NEILSON, John Shaw. BALLAD AND LYRICAL POEMS. Octavo, original cloth backed boards (rubbed), top
edge gilt, others uncut (no library endpocket). Sydney, The Bookfellow in Australia, 1923. First edition: special issue
printed on large paper and limited to 75 signed copies.
Estimate $500/800
[191]
NEW SOUTH WALES LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY. CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS TO HIS MOST
GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE KING on the signing of an armistice with Germany. Report of speeches and extract
from minutes of proceedings, Wednesday 13th November 1918. Octavo, plates, original cloth gilt. Sydney,
Government Printer, 1918.
Estimate $100/200
[192]
NEW SOUTH WALES. A CONCISE HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH COLONY IN NEW SOUTH WALES,
FROM THE LANDING OF GOVERNOR PHILLIP IN JANUARY 1788, TO MAY 1803; Describing also, the
Dispositions, Habits, & Savage Customs of the Wandering Unfortunate Natives of that Antipodean Territory, with
some cursory remarks on the Treatment and Behaviour of the Convicts & Free Settlers. Octavo, pp. [ii] ii 4 xcvi 40,
later binder’s cloth, backstrip splitting. London, Harris, Darton & Harvey, Hookham and Eber, and Tindal, For the
Editor, n.d. [1804]. Very rare. A popular account of New South Wales in chap-book form. See Ferguson, 391.
Estimate $8000/10000
[193]
NEW SOUTH WALES. THE CYCLOPEDIA OF N.S.W. (ILLUSTRATED). An Historical and Commercial
Review. Descriptive and Biographical, Facts, Figures and Illustrations. Quarto, illustrations, original cloth, some
insect damage and worn on spine. Sydney, McCarron, Stewart & Co., 1907.
Estimate $150/300
[194]
ORME, Edward. FOREIGN FIELD SPORTS, FISHERIES, SPORTING ANECDOTES, &C. &C… With a
Supplement of New South Wales. Containing One Hundred and Ten Plates. Large quarto, 110 fine handcoloured
plates, a handful of tears in text (one with an old repair), pale offsetting, plates generally clean, a few with marks or
spots, contemporary sraight grain morocco, all edges gilt. London, Edward Orme, 1819. The scarce second edition of
a famous work in larger format, one of the most notable books from the golden age of the handcoloured illustrated
book. Orme’s Foreign Field Sports comprised the 100-plate main work, depicting European, African, Indian, and
American hunting scenes, together with a “supplement” of ten handcoloured aquatint plates of Australian Aboriginal
scenes. The plates in this supplement represent in vivid style and delicate detail various aspects of Aboriginal life in
the bush. The plates are justly celebrated and are without question the most attractive and sympathetic of the early
European depictions of the Aboriginal inhabitants. Ferguson, 739; Wantrup, 213b (note) and pp. 280-3.
Estimate $2000/3000
Lot 194.
[195]
OSBOLDSTONE & Co. (publishers). SOUVENIR OF THE FIRST EXPEDITIONARY FORCE FROM NEW
SOUTH WALES TO GO TO THE SEAT OF WAR [drop title]. Oblong octavo, photographic illustrations
throughout, original wrappers in binder’s cloth (some insect damage). [Melbourne], Osboldstone & Co., October,
1914.
Estimate $200/400
[196]
OUTHWAITE, Ida Rentoul and Grenbry OUTHWAITE. THE ENCHANTED FOREST. Quarto, with tipped-in
colour and black & white plates, a number of the colour plates with creasing, pale foxing, original cloth-backed
decorated boards. London, A. and C. Black, 1925.
Estimate $200/300
[197]
OUTHWAITE, Ida Rentoul and Grenbry OUTHWAITE. THE LITTLE FAIRY SISTER. Quarto, with full-page
and black & white plates, the text foxed, original cloth-backed decorated boards. London, A. and C. Black, 1923. First
edition.
Estimate $200/300
[198]
OUTHWAITE, Ida Rentoul. BLOSSOM. A Fairy Story. Quarto, with full-page colour and black & white plates,
pale foxing, original cloth-backed papered boards. London, A. & C. Black, 1928. First edition.
Estimate $300/500
[199]
OXLEY, John. JOURNALS OF TWO EXPEDITIONS into the Interior of New South Wales, undertaken by order
of the British Government… Quarto, with two handcoloured aquatint plates, four engraved plates, three folding
maps, and two tables, the plates with pale foxing, text offset to one aquatint, early signature on dedication leaf, uncut,
original papered boards (worn), the binding broken. London, John Murray, 1820. First edition of the official account
of Oxley’s two major expeditions, the earliest book devoted to Australian inland exploration: “the foundation work in
the field of Australian inland exploration and the first detailed description of the interior of New South Wales”
(Wantrup). Ferguson, 796; Wantrup, 107.
Estimate $2000/3000
[200]
PAMPHLETS. CATHOLIC COLLEGE OF ST. JOHN THE EVANGELIST. A Corrected Report of the Aggregate
Meeting in St. May’s Cathedral, on Monday the 3rd of August, 1857… Octavo, nine pieces bound without wrappers
in half roan and marbled boards, spine defective, boards detached. Sydney, J. Moore, 1857. Ferguson, 8023; bound
with eight similar pamphlets.
Estimate $100/200
[201]
PATERSON, A.B. ‘Banjo’. RIO GRANDE’S LAST RACE and other verses. Octavo, endpapers foxed, original
cloth with Mullins’s gilt armorial crest on front board, top edge gilt. Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1902. First
edition. With loosely inserted signed note from Paterson (Sydney, Australian Club, 5 Jan. 1939) to Mullins.+ Three
other works by Paterson including THE ANIMALS NOAH FORGOT (1933) in original bindings.
Estimate $200/400
[202]
PATERSON, George. THE HISTORY OF NEW SOUTH WALES, From its First Discovery to the Present Time…
By a Literary Gentleman. Octavo, two maps and three plates, foxing and browning as usual, later half calf, spine
defective. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Mackenzie, 1811. First edition: scarce. Ferguson 522.
Estimate $200/400
[203]
PENFOLDS. AN EMPIRE ACHIEVEMENT From 1844 to 1933 [cover title]. Oblong octavo, illustrations, original
wrappers. No imprint, no date, circa 1933.
Estimate $80/120
[204]
PETHERICK, E.A. CATALOGUE OF THE YORK GATE Geographical and Colonial Library. Tall octavo, portion
of the original wrappers mounted to an early blank, library cloth. London, printed by R. Clay, 1882. Scarce. With the
author’s signed inscription, October 1882.
Estimate $200/300
[205]
PETHERICK, E.A. THE TORCH AND COLONIAL BOOK CIRCULAR. Four volumes, large octavo, original
wrappers (some faults) retained at rear, contemporary morocco-backed boards, two spines defective. London, 18871891. Rare. Includes Petherick’s uncompleted bibliography of Australia. Tipped-in to the first volume is an a.l.s. from
Petherick to John Lane Mullins, February 1889.
Estimate $200/400
[206]
PHILLIP, Governor Arthur. THE VOYAGE OF GOVERNOR PHILLIP TO BOTANY BAY, with an Account of
the Establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson & Norfolk Island... to which are added the Journals of Lieuts.
Shortland, Watts, Ball & Capt. Marshall... embellished with fifty-five copper plates. Quarto, with all plates and
charts, the natural history plates in original publisher’s handcolouring (one plate with small paper defect), the
uncoloured plates a bit foxed, contemporary half calf over marbled boards, somewhat distressed, spine broken.
London, John Stockdale, 1789. The rare deluxe handcoloured issue of the first edition of the foundation book for New
South Wales. NEWLINE Stockdale’s rarely encountered, special deluxe issue with the engraved plates handcoloured
and printed on laid paper. The present copy has very good bright handcolouring and with the title-page in the first state
naming the artist, John Webber, on the vignette. Davidson, pp. 70-2; Ferguson, 47; Hill 2, 1347; Wantrup, 5.
Estimate $18000/22000
[207]
PIPER, Captain John. SMALL ARCHIVE relating to Captain John Piper and his family. Comprising mainly notes
– presumably by Mullins(?) – on Piper but including a small number of early manuscript documents, the most
important of which is a letter to Piper from George Suttor dated from London, 24 September 1809. The archive was
probably compiled in relation to the publication of Eldershaw’s biography of Piper published by the Australian
Limited Editions Society.
Estimate $200/400
Lot 206. One of the fine handcoloured natural history plates from the rare coloured issue of Phillip’s Voyage.
[208]
PORTER, Mrs G.R. ALFRED DUDLEY; or, The Australian Settlers. Duodecimo, frontispiece and three other
engraved plates, same defect on one leaf not affecting text, original quarter red roan and marbled papered boards
(worn on spine). London, Printed for Harvey and Darton, 1830. First edition: first work of children’s fiction set
entirely in Australia. Ferguson, 1313.
Estimate $300/500
[209]
PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL. REPORT OF THE FIRST BOARD OF DIRECTORS to the Annual Subscribers,
October 22, 1883. Octavo, the first of seven consecutive annual reports (with two related items), all in original
wrappers,bound together in early half calf, boards detached and spine defective. Reports for 1883-1889, bound with
copies of the General Rules and Regulations of the Prince Alfred Hospital, 1888, and By-Laws, Prince Alfred
Hospital, 1889.
Estimate $200/400
[210]
QUIRÓS. DUNCAN, William Augustine. ACCOUNT OF A MEMORIAL PRESENTED TO HIS MAJESTY by
Captain Pedro Fernandez de Quir, concerning the population and discovery of the fourth part of the world, Australia
the Unknown, its great riches and fertility, discovered by the same Captain, with licence of the Royal Council of
Pampeluna, printed by Charles de Labayen, anno 1610. From the Spanish, with an introductory notice by W.A.
Duncan, Esq. Octavo, some foxing, original Government Printer’s half red morocco, marbled boards and endpapers,
mild rubbing of the spine. Sydney, Thomas Richards, 1874. Uncommon: comprising an essay on Pedro Fernandez de
Quirós by Duncan, followed by a translation and a photo-lithographed facsimile of the very rare 1610 Pamplona
edition of his great Eighth (and most important) Memorial to the Spanish throne. Inscribed to W.B. Dalley ‘with Mr
Duncan’s compliments.’
Estimate $300/500
[211]
RAYMENT, Tarlton. A CLUSTER OF BEES… Octavo, plates (some coloured), original gilt-decorated cloth.
Sydney, Endeavour Press, 1935. Uncommon.
Estimate $500/700
[212]
REDWOOD, Most Rev. Francis. REMINISCENCES OF EARLY DAYS IN NEW ZEALAND [with]
REMINISCENCES OF EARLY DAYS IN NEW ZEALAND (Continued). Two pieces, octavo, original wrappers.
Wellington, C. M. Banks, printers, n.d. circa 1922. With author’s inscription.
Estimate $100/200
[213]
REID, Thomas. TWO VOYAGES TO NEW SOUTH WALES AND VAN DIEMEN’S LAND, with a Description of
the Present Condition of that Interesting Colony: including Facts and Observations relative to the State and
Management of Convicts of Both Sexes. Also Reflections on Seduction and its general consequences. Octavo, half
calf and marbled boards (rubbed). London, Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1822. First edition
of a very scarce Australian voyage, and “a valuable account of the treatment of transported convicts” (Ferguson).
Ferguson, 876; Ford, 1790.
Estimate $300/500
[214]
RIDLEY, William. KAMILAROI, DIPPIL, AND TURRUBUL: Languages Spoken by Australian Aborigines.
Quarto, illustrations, original cloth. Sydney, Thomas Richards, 1866.
Estimate $200/400
[215]
ROWE Richard. PETER ‘POSSUM’S PORTFOLIO. Octavo, additional pictorial title, errata slip, yellow china
clay endpapers, original green cloth (sunned on spine). Sydney, J.R. Clarke, 1858. Ferguson, 15152.
Estimate $100/200
[216]
RULE, Captain Edgar John. JACKA’S MOB. Octavo, original cloth with dustwrapper. Sydney, Angus &
Robertson, 1933. First edition. Very scarce in dustwrapper.
Estimate $100/200
[217]
RUSDEN, George William. THE DISCOVERY, SURVEY & SETTLEMENT OF PORT PHILLIP. Octavo, bound
with the (repaired) wrappers, originally posted to Hon. W. B. Dalley, in half roan, rubbed. Melbourne, George
Robertson, 1871. First edition. Ferguson, 15213.
Estimate $100/200
[218]
SAUNDERS, A.T. BULLY HAYES. Barrator, Bigamist, Buccaneer, Blackbirder, and Pirate. Octavo, illustration,
two-columns, binder’s cloth preserving original title-wrappers Perth, Sunday Times, 1915. Scarce: ‘For Private
Circulation’.
Estimate $100/200
[219]
SCHERZER, Dr. Karl. NARRATIVE of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara.
Octavo, maps and illustrations, publisher’s cloth gilt over bevelled boards. London, Saunders, Otley and Co., 18611863. The major Austrian circumnavigation.
Estimate $200/300
[220]
SCOTT, Alexander Walker. AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA AND THEIR TRANSFORMATIONS, Drawn from
the Life, by Harriet and Helena Scott; with Descriptions, General and Systematic, by A.W. Scott. Three parts only (of
eight), folio, 9 lithographed plates, with text, loose within original illustrated parts wrappers, some chipping and
fraying. London, John van Voorst, 1864 – Sydney, Trustees of the Australian Museum, 1890-8. The plates, here in
their uncoloured version, in this important work of entomology are by Harriet and Helena Scott, daughters of the
author and, after Lewin, the most accomplished Australian natural history artists of the colonial era.
Estimate $200/400
[221]
SCOTT, A. W. MAMMALIA, RECENT AND EXTINCT; An elementary treatise for the use of the Public Schools
of New South Wales. Octavo, early marbled boards and half calf. Sydney, Thomas Richards, Government Printer,
1873. With author’s inscription.
Estimate $100/200
Lot 223.
[222]
SHINE, Thomas. THE HISTORY OF THE SOUDAN EXPEDITION: An Historical Record of the Events relating
to the Levy, Despatch, and Return of the New South Wales Contingent… [bound with the] Constitution Act of New
South Wales. Quarto, original wrappers in binder’s cloth. Sydney, Southern Cross Publishing Co., circa 1884-5. The
colophon is dated 1884 (c.f. Ferguson 6424). + A quantity of the Australian Portrait Gallery parts (some duplication)
in original wrappers.
Estimate $100/200
[223]
SHIPBOARD JOURNAL. PROCEEDINGS AT A COURT OF ENQUIRY HELD AT THE ANTIPODES. By the
Reporter Extraordinary of the “Pictorial Review” [wrapper title]. Octavo, self-wrappers, foxed. Port Purgatory, 1871.
“This Court sat on Saturday last to enquire into the conduct of Captain Naughty Child, of H.M.C.S, “Te Kooti,”
charged with using insulting and unbecoming language to his officers amd crew; also with some miscellaneous
matters of a very discreditable nature, which will appear in evidence.” A rare jocular shipboard newspaper
Estimate $200/400
[224]
SMITH, John. WAYFARING NOTES. Sydney to Southampton by Way of Egypt and Palestine. Printed For Private
Distribution Octavo, frontispiece, original blue gilt-decorated cloth. Sydney, Sherriff & Downing, 1865. Ferguson,
15828.
Estimate $80/120
[225]
SMITH, Sir Charles Kingsford. THE OLD BUS.
Octavo, frontispiece and plates, original decorated cloth.
Melbourne, Herald Press, 1932. + A copy of Cobham’s AUSTRALIAN AND BACK (1926) in original pictorial
cloth. + A copy of Ross Smith’s THE FIRST AEROPLANE VOYAGE FROM ENGLAND TO AUSTRALIA, New
South Wales edition, in original silk-tied wrappers.
Estimate $100/200
[226]
SOMER, H.M. (ed.). THE R.A.S. ANNUAL. Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of New South Wales… 1913
Octavo, illustrations (some in colour), original gilt-decorated blue cloth (flecked). Sydney, Simmons Ltd, 1913.
Estimate $80/120
[227]
SOUTER, D.H. (illustrator). IRVINE, Robert Francis. BUBBLES HIS BOOK. Octavo, full-page colour
illustrations by D.H. Souter, original decorated embossed cloth over bevelled boards, top edge gilt. Sydney, Wm.
Brooks & Co., [1899]. First edition: scarce. Muir, 3721.
Estimate $200/400
[228]
SPENCER, Walter Baldwin and Francis James GILLEN. THE ARUNTA: A Study of Stone Age People. Two
volumes, octavo, illustrations, plates, original olive green cloth (lightly flecked), top edges gilt. London, Macmillan,
1927. First edition: primary binding of green cloth.
Estimate $300/500
Lot 232. Front and back wrappers form one complete picture.
[229]
SPENCER, Walter Baldwin and Francis James GILLEN. THE NATIVE TRIBES OF CENTRAL AUSTRALIA.
Octavo, illustrations, folding coloured plates, folding maps and tables, original burgundy cloth. London, Macmillan,
1938. New edition with introduction by Sir James G. Frazer.
Estimate $150/200
[230]
SPRUSON, J.J. (compiler). NORFOLK ISLAND: Outline of Its History from 1788 to 1884. Quarto, double-page
photographic frontispiece and thirteen full-page photographic plates, original cloth over bevelled boards, gilt.
Sydney, Thomas Richards, 1885. Very scarce. Ferguson, 16092.
Estimate $300/600
[231]
STEPHENS, A.G. THE BOOKFELLOW. A Monthly Magazinelet for Book-Buyers and Book-Readers. Nos 1-5 (7
Jan. 1899-31 May 1899). Five issues, duodecimo, illustrations, original silk-tied illustrated wrappers, publisher’s giltdecorated buckram. Sydney, 1899. Number one of 16 specially bound sets. A.G. Stephens’s copy. Numbered and
signed by Stephens in the characteristic purple ink he affected.
Estimate $800/1200
[232]
STEPHENS, A.G. CATALOGUE OF THE BOOKFELLOW’S BOOK SALE… To Be Sold By Auction Without
Any Reserve, At the Auction Sale Rooms of James R. Lawson and Little… June 4th & 5th, 1907… Octavo,
illustrations, original pictorial wrappers. Sydney, James R. Lawson, 1907. “Stephens went into business as a
bookseller from October 1906 until May 1907, but the venture failed, as did a “giant” two-day sale of stock and
valuable books and manuscripts from his library” (A.D.B.).
Estimate $200/400
[233]
STEPHENS, A.G. WOODCUTS. With an Original Woodcut by Lionel Lindsay. Decorations by Roy Davies. Octavo,
tipped-in woodcut, illustrations, original papered boards with silk tie, a few spots of pale foxing. Sydney, Tyrrells’
Limited, 1923. Edition limited to 125 numbered copies: inscribed to Lane Mullins with the publisher’s compliments.
Estimate $200/300
[234]
STEPHENS, A.G. CHRIS: BRENNAN. Octavo, frontispiece, and one folding plate, illustrations, original pictorial
cloth. Sydney, The Bookfellow, 1933. One of 35 “superior” copies.
Estimate $100/200
Lot 237. Rare author’s presentation copy of Stokes’s account of the Beagle voyage.
[235]
STEPHENS, J. Brunton A HUNDRED POUNDS. A NOVELETTE. Original autograph manuscript. Octavo, circa
68 leaves (marked up for publication), bound with a note about its publication by the journalist W.H. Traill, and a
related letter from Stephens to the poet Josephine Fotheringham, half roan and cloth boards. [Stanthorpe], circa
1876. One of a very small number of original literary manuscripts of Australian colonial fiction. In his note Traill
writes: “This contains the original manuscript by J. Brunton Stephens of the first prose work of fiction he ever wrote.
He showed it to me when I visited him at Stanthorpe, Queensland and I there secured the right of publication for ‘The
Queenslander’, of which I was at that time editor in all aspects save in name”. Serialised in the Queenslander from 19
Feb 1876, and published in book form by Samuel Mullen in Melbourne in the same year.
Estimate $1000/2000
[236]
STIRLING, John. THE COLONIALS IN SOUTH AFRICA, 1899 - 1902: Their Record Based on the Despatches.
Octavo, diffuse foxing, original cloth. London, William Blackwood & Sons, 1907.
Estimate $100/200
[237]
STOKES, John Lort. DISCOVERIES IN AUSTRALIA; with an account of the Coasts and Rivers explored and
surveyed during the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, In the Years 1837 – 38 – 39 – 40 – 41 – 42 – 43. By Command of the
Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative of Captain Owen Stanley’s Visits to the Islands in the
Arafura Sea. Two volumes, octavo, with 26 plates and eight folding charts (in front endpockets), front hinge
weakening, head of spines splitting, original publisher’s cloth. London, Boone, 1846. First edition. With the author’s
presentation inscription to Sir Thos. Pasley on a fonrt endpaper. The Beagle was on the Australian station from 1837
to 1843. In the course of this expedition Wickham and Stokes completed the discovery of the north-west coast and
accurately charted for the first time other stretches of coast. On the northern coast they discovered and partly explored
five rivers, while Stokes and his men also undertook many expeditions inland which are recorded in the official
account. Presentation inscriptions by any of the Boone explorers are very rare. Ferguson, 4406; Wantrup, 89.
Estimate $5000/8000
[238]
STRZELECKI, Count Paul Edmond de. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION OF NEW SOUTH WALES AND VAN
DIEMEN’S LAND. Accompanied by a Geological Map, Sections, and Diagrams, and Figures of the organic remains.
Octavo, with handcoloured folding map, three tinted lithographs, 19 plain plates (one folding), with pp. 32 terminal
advertisements, rebacked and with later endpapers in the original cloth. London, Longman, Brown, Green, and
Longmans, 1845. First edition. With author’s presentation inscription to Col. Sabine. The narrative of Strzelecki’s
7000-mile excursion on foot with James Macarthur and a small party through New South Wales, across the Australian
Alps into Gippsland, and then into Van Diemen’s Land. Ferguson overlooks the view of “Ben Nevis and Ben
Lomond” (at p. 164) and the portrait of “Jemmy” (at p. 333). Ferguson, 4168 (omitting two plates); Forbes, 1568.
Estimate $800/1200
[239]
STRZELECKI, Count Paul Edmond de. GOLD AND SILVER: A Supplement to Strzelecki’s Physical Description
of New South Wales and Van Diemen’s Land. Octavo, original wrappers, with publisher’s presentation blindstamp,
front wrapper detached, short catch at head of final blank and rear wrapper. London, Longman, Brown, Green, and
Longmans, 1856. First edition: a rare and important supplement to Strzelecki’s major 1845 publication on the geology
of New South Wales and Van Diemen’s Land, in which he had disguised the existence of gold, writing disparagingly
of “the scarcity of simple minerals”. Ferguson, 16369.
Estimate $1000/1500
[240]
STURT, Captain Charles. NARRATIVE OF AN EXPEDITION INTO CENTRAL AUSTRALIA, performed under
the authority of Her Majesty’s Government, during the years 1844, 5, and 6. Together with a notice of the Province of
South Australia, in 1847 [with] Map of Captain Sturt’s Route from Adelaide into the Centre of Australia, Constructed
from his Original Protractions, and other Official Documents. By John Arrowsmith. 1849. Two volumes, octavo, text,
with 16 plates (two chromolithographed and four handcoloured), and a folding map with outline colouring, some of
the uncoloured plates foxed and offset, without advertisements in late issue cloth (one board stained, part of one spine
lacking, sewing of one volume weakening), the separately-issued large folding handcoloured map (the two sheets
joined as issued) splitting on some folds, loosely inserted in original embossed cloth boards (spine perished, and ties
gone). London, T. & W. Boone, 1849 [and] London, John Arrowsmith, 1849. First edition: with the rare two-sheet
Arrowsmith map. Ferguson, 5202; Wantrup, 119 (text) and 120 (map).
Estimate $6000/8000
[241]
SUNNYBROOK PRESS. FERGUSON, John Alexander, and Mrs. A.G. FOSTER, and H.M. GREEN. THE
HOWES AND THEIR PRESS. Quarto, tipped-in plates, a little pale foxing, uncut in original cloth with dustwrapper
(flecked). Sydney, Sunnybrook Press, 1936. Edition limited to 120 numbered copies, signed by all contributors. +
RUMSEY, Herbert. THE PIONEERS OF SYDNEY COVE. Sydney, Sunnybrook Press, 1937. Edition limited to 150
numbered and signed copies.
Estimate $200/300
[242]
SUTTOR, George. THE CULTURE OF THE GRAPE-VINE, and the Orange, in Australia and New Zealand.
Octavo, frontispiece, original embossed cloth. London, Smith, Elder and Co., 1843. Scarce. Ferguson, 3731.
Estimate $200/300
[243]
SYDNEY GRAMMAR SCHOOL. THE SYDNEIAN. No. 1. A magazine edited by members of the Sydney
Grammar School. Thirty-six issues, bound in six volumes, retaining many original wrappers, contemporary morocco
gilt, some rubbing, all edges gilt. Sydney, Joseph Cook & Co., Printers, 1875-1881.
Estimate $100/200
[244]
SYDNEY HARBOUR BRIDGE. OFFICIAL SOUVENIR AND PROGRAMME. [wrapper title]. Large octavo,
illustrations, original wrappers and a few leaves flecked. Sydney, Alfred James Kent, Government Printer, 1932.
Estimate $100/150
[245]
SYDNEY PAMPHLETS. BOUND VOLUME of about eleven pamphlets. Eleven pieces, octavo, illustrations,
original wrappers in binder’s cloth. Sydney, 1890-1908. Including St. Ignatius’ College Rowing Club Annual Report
and Balance Sheet, 1888-’89; Deaf & Dumb Institution, Waratah, N.S. Wales. Report, 1890; The Twenty-Seventh
Annual Report Of The City Night Refuge and Soup Kitchen, Kent Street South (1894); and the East Sydney
Swimming Club Fourteenth Annual Report. Season 1907-8.
Estimate $100/200
Lot 248. The first published eyewitness account of the First Fleet settlement at Port Jackson.
[246]
SYDNEY UNIVERSITY REVIEW. VOLUME of approximately 80 letters to the editor (John Lane Mullins,
honorary secretary) of the Sydney University Review, 1881-82, bound with the prospectus for the first issue of the
periodical. Quarto, rubbed half roan and cloth boards, marbled endpapers (no library end-pocket). Sydney, 1881-82.
Correspondents include Edmund Barton, Henry Kendall, and J.E. Tenison-Woods, covering a period a little over half
the life of the magazine. First published in November 1881, the Review ran to five numbers, and was last issued in
July 1883.
Estimate $300/500
[247]
SYDNEY. ELIZABETH BAY HOUSE ESTATE presenting the residence and 15 allotments of Sydney’s greatest
residential subdivision by Public Auction sale on the ground, Saturday, 17 Sept., 1927 at 3 p.m. Octavo, illustrated,
original decorated yapp wrappers. Sydney, W.T. Baker & Co. Ltd [printers], 1927.
Estimate $100/200
[248]
TENCH, Watkin. A NARRATIVE OF THE EXPEDITION TO BOTANY BAY; with an account of New South
Wales, its productions, inhabitants, &c. Octavo, with the half-title and the terminal leaf of advertisements, two leaves
with marginal ink blot contemporary sheep, upper board detached, armorial bookplate. London, J. Debrett, 1789.
The first edition: always the scarcest of the First Fleet accounts this first edition is now rarely seen and vastly more
difficult for the collector than any of the other First Fleet journals. This is the earliest, and arguably the best written,
eyewitness account of the earliest European settlement of Australia. White’s journal apart, the others are more or less
official in tone; none has the directness of Tench’s description of life in the first days of the colony. The book
appeared quickly, first being put on sale on 24 April, 1789 and proved extremely popular with three editions in
English, a Dublin piracy, as well as French, Dutch, German, and Swedish translations all appearing quickly. Tench
spent altogether four years in the colony, carrying out his military duties as a marine, but devoting as much time as he
could to exploration. He discovered the Nepean River and traced it to the Hawkesbury, and began the many attempts
to conquer the Blue Mountains. He was a lively, good-humoured and cultured member of the new society, and these
qualities come through in his book which gives a vivid picture of the voyage out, and the establishment of the town at
Sydney Cove. Apart from its importance as the first genuine description of the new colony, Tench’s narrative provides
us with the clearest of the surviving images of the first crucial months of settlement. Ferguson, 48; Wantrup, 2.
Estimate $8000/10000
[249]
TENCH, Watkin. A COMPLETE ACCOUNT OF THE SETTLEMENT AT PORT JACKSON IN NEW SOUTH
WALES, including an accurate description of the situation of the colony; of the natives; and of its natural productions.
Quarto, with a folding map (foxed), an uncut copy with a repair to the title page, one leaf defective, later half roan.
London, G. Nicol and J. Sewell, 1793. First edition of Captain Watkin Tench’s second book on New South Wales.
Ferguson, 171; Wantrup, 16.
Estimate $800/1200
[250]
TENISON-WOODS, J.E. FISH AND FISHERIES of New South Wales. Octavo, black and white plates, half roan
(rubbed). Sydney, Thomas Richards, 1882. + ROUGHLEY, T.C., FISHES OF AUSTRALIA and Their Technology.
Quarto, coloured plates, illustrations, original red gilt-decorated cloth. Sydney, William Applegate Gullick, 1916. + A
bound volume of Tenison-Woods pamphlets, including NOT QUITE AS OLD AS THE HILLS (1864), and ON THE
NATURAL HISTORY OF NEW SOUTH WALES (1882).
Estimate $100/200
Lot 251. Very rare topographical view book.
[251]
TERRY, Frederic C. THE PARRAMATTA RIVER ILLUSTRATED BY F.C. TERRY [wrapper title]. Oblong
quarto, six tinted lithographs, foxed and stained, original titling-wrappers, signed by John Lane Mullins, with inked
library number but no pocket. Sydney, Lith[ographed by] J. Degotardi & Co., n.d. circa 1860. One of the rarest of all
colonial view books. Published by Terry on his own account and accordingly distributed somewhat haphazardly, this
is a piece of exceptional rarity. Apart from the Davidson copy sold by us in July 2007, we have been unable to trace
any record of another copy offered for sale. Ferguson, 16966; not in Wantrup. On Terry see further ADB, 6:256-7 and
Kerr, pp. 784-6.
Estimate $8000/12,000
[252]
THERRY, Mr. Justice [Roger] COMPARISON BETWEEN THE ORATORY OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
THIRTY YEARS AGO AND THE PRESENT TIME. A Lecture delivered at the Mechanics’ School of Arts, Sydney,
on Tuesday, 22nd July. Octavo, small hole in title, later half morocco. Sydney, W. R. Piddington, London, J. Ridgway,
1856. With the author’s inscription to the distinguished public servant [Sir] E. D[eas] Thomson.Ferguson, 16986.
Estimate $200/300
[253]
THOMSON, Robert. AUSTRALIAN NATIONALISM, an earnest appeal to the sons of Australia in favour of
federation and independence of the states of our country. Octavo, portraits, original ribbed cloth, front board gilt
lettered. Burwood [N.S.W.], Moss Brothers, 1888. Ferguson, 17085.
Estimate $100/200
[254]
THRELKELD, L.E. A KEY TO THE STRUCTURE OF THE ABORIGINAL LANGUAGE. Being an Analysis of
the Particles Used as Affixes, to Form the Various Modifications of the Verbs… Octavo, frontispiece (foxed), original
gilt-decorated morocco. Sydney, Kemp and Fairfax, 1850.
Estimate $600/800
[255*]
TOURISM. AUSTRALIA TO-DAY. Group of six issues. Six items, folio, illustrated, colour pictorial wrappers.
Melbourne, The United Commercial Travellers’ Association of Australia Limited, various years. The issues for 1941,
1943, 1944, 1945 and 1946 (2 copies).
Estimate $200/300
[256]
TRADE CATALOGUE. HOSKINS IRON & STEEL COMPANY LTD. Oblong quarto, illustrations, original gilt
decorated semi-limp morocco (worn on spine), marbled endpapers, edges gilt. Sydney, John Sands, circa 1925.
Elaborately produced trade history.
Estimate $100/200
[257]
TRADE CATALOGUE. HUDDART PARKER LIMITED: 1876 – 1926. Quarto, illustrations, original wrappers
(no library endpocket). Sydney, Harbour Newspaper and Publishing Co., [1926].
Estimate $80/120
Lot 255 (part).
[258] TRADE CATALOGUE. THE FRAGRANT WEED, with some account of its origins and benefits, together
with illustrations of the packings of the products of the subsidiary companies of British Tobacco Company (Australia)
Limited. Octavo, pp. [32], ribbon-tied in the original decorated wrappers. Sydney, 1927. + Tobacco Manufacture in
Australia. Oblong octavo, black and white photographic illustrations, pp. [32] + 2 folding plates, original yapp
wrappers with patches of silverfish flecking, ribbon-tied. Sydney, 1926.
Estimate $100/200
[259]
TURNER, Ethel. SEVEN LITTLE AUSTRALIANS. Octavo, three plates, illustrations throughout, original red
cloth (minor wear at head and foot of spine). London, Ward, Lock & Bowden, 1894. First edition.
Estimate $300/500
[260]
TURNER, Ethel. GUM LEAVES. By Ethel Turner with Oddments by Others. Pictures by D.H. Souter. Tall octavo,
with numerous illustrations (many full-page) in the text, original cloth-backed glazed pictorial boards, rear joint
splitting. Sydney, William Brooks & Coy., n.d., circa 1900. Very scarce: “successful art nouveau decoration and
unusual design make this one of the most distinctive books of its time” (Richards). This is the variant issue or edition
with interpolated imaginative reports from the Boer War. Muir 7544; Richards, 203.
Estimate $400/600
[261]
URE SMITH, Sydney. CATALOGUE OF THE ETCHINGS of Sydney Ure Smith. With an original etching and
twelve reproductions by the artist, and an introduction by Bertram Stevens. Small quarto, original etching, tipped-in
plates, uncut, cloth-backed papered boards with paper label, a good copy. Sydney, 1920. Edition limited to 50
numbered and signed copies, the plates printed on a hand-press by Percy Green at the Smith and Julius Studios.
Estimate $300/400
[262]
VAUX, James. MEMOIRS OF JAMES HARDY VAUX A Swindler and Theif [sic] now transported to New South
Wales for the second time, and for life. Duodecimo, bound with the series title-leaf but without the terminal
advertisements noted by Ferguson in old half calf and marbled boards, the spine defective. London, Hunt and Clarke,
1827. Second edition. Ferguson, 1158.
Estimate $80/120
[263]
WADDELL, Thomas, MLC. THE NORTH-SOUTH RAILWAY: The Best Route [wrapper title]. Large duodecimo,
double-page map, title-wrappers. Sydney, 1925. Rare: apparently held only in the State Library of New South.
Loosely inserted is a signed letter from the author to John Lane Mullins on the letterhead of the Parliament New South
Wales presenting this pamphlet. The title-page differs: “How to Develop the Northern Territory”.
Estimate $150/300
Lot 258.
[264]
WAITE, Edgar R. A POPULAR ACCOUNT OF AUSTRALIAN SNAKES, with a complete list of the species and
an introduction to their habits and organisation. Octavo, sixteen chromolithographed plates, uncut, library half roan.
Sydney, Thomas Shine, 1898. Very scarce: one of the most sought-after Australian reptile books. With the publisher’s
signed inscription to John Lane Mullins, June 1898. Ferguson, 18029.
Estimate $800/1200
[265]
WAKEFIELD, Edward Gibbon. A LETTER FROM SYDNEY, THE PRINCIPAL TOWN OF AUSTRALASIA.
Edited by Robert Gouger. Together with the Outline of a System of Colonization. Duodecimo, with folding map
(offset), later portrait inserted, with half-title in marbled boards and rubbed half calf. London, Joseph Cross, Simpkin
and Marshall, Effingham Wilson, 1829. First edition: “perhaps the archetypal immigrant’s handbook, espousing a
complete system of emigration” (Richards). Ferguson 1307.
Estimate $150/300
[266]
WALLACE, Albert. JOTTINGS REFERRING TO THE EARLY DISCOVERY OF GOLD IN AUSTRALIA and
some remarks relative to the veteran gold miner John Calvert. Octavo, frontispiece, stapled in original wrappers, the
spine taped, old fold. Sydney, G. Murray and Co., circa 1890s. Extremely scarce. Ferguson, 18144.
Estimate $100/200
[267]
WALLIS, James. AN HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE COLONY OF NEW SOUTH WALES and its Dependent
Settlements; in illustration of Twelve Views, engraved by W. Preston, a Convict; from Drawings taken on the Spot,
By Captain Wallis, of the Forty-Sixth Regiment. To which is subjoined an accurate Map of Port Macquarie, and the
newly discovered River Hastings, by John Oxley, Esq. Surveyor General to the Territory. Folio, with a map, six
double-page and six single-page engraved plates, long tear in one of the double-page plates, plates foxed, with the
half-title, in contemporary stiffened wrappers (worn and torn), with original printed label, (later?) cloth rebacking
now split. London, R. Ackermann, 1821. Wallis’s famous book of views depicts scenes in Sydney, Newcastle and the
Hawkesbury River as well as an Aboriginal corroboree and two natural history plates of kangaroos and black swans.
The present copy includes the additional leaf reprinting Macquarie’s highly commendatory “General Order”,
published in the Sydney Gazette when the 46th Regiment was recalled in 1818, praising Wallis’s work in improving
Newcastle and his humane treatment of the convicts there. Ferguson, 842; McCormick, 145, 148 – 151, and pp. 30910; Wantrup, 217b.
Estimate $8000/10000
[268]
WESTGARTH, William. A REPORT ON THE CONDITION, CAPABILITIES, AND PROSPECTS OF THE
AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES. Octavo, bound with the wrappers in later half calf. Melbourne, printed by William
Clarke, at the Herald Office, 1846. Rare. Ferguson, 4442.
Estimate $1000/2000
[269]
WESTON, Harry J. “ALL’S WELL WITH THE FLEET.” Small quarto, twelve colour lithographs, most signed in
the image, all titled, in contemporary binder’s cloth, original decorated wrappers retained, showing the marks of the
original cord binding at upper left margin: a fine copy. Sydney, Australasian News Company Limited, n.d. [1914].
Rare: an entertaining series of caricatures by an esteemed illustrator.
Estimate $400/600
Lot 268. A rare and early Port Phillip report on the Aborigines.
Lot 272. Very rare monograph on the Aborigines.
Lot 270.
[270]
WHITE, John. JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE TO NEW SOUTH WALES with Sixty-five Plates of Nondescript
Animals, Birds, Lizards, Serpents, curious Cones of Trees and other Natural Productions. Quarto, with engraved titlepage and 65 handcoloured plates on Whatman paper, a fresh and uncut copy with bright colours, a handful of plates
dusty or with slight foxing, bound without terminal advertisements (not issued with all copies) in marbled boards and
half calf. London, J. Debrett, 1790. The superior issue of the celebrated First Fleet journal with the fine natural history
plates on Whatman paper and in original publisher’s handcolouring. In this special handcoloured form, it is the earliest
and one of the best and most appealing of Australian colour-illustrated natural history books. Abbey, 605;
Ayer/Zimmer, 672; Casey Wood, 626; Davidson, pp. 81-6; Ferguson, 97; Ford, 2495; Hill 2, 1858; Nissen ZBI, 4390;
Wantrup, 17.
Estimate $7000/10000
[271]
WHITE, Patrick. THE PLOUGHMAN and Other Poems. Octavo, with decorations by L. Roy Davies, original cloth.
Sydney, Beacon Press, 1935. First edition of White’s first published book: limited to 300 numbered copies.
Estimate $1000/1500
[272]
WILHELMI, Charles. MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE AUSTRALIAN NATIVES. Octavo, bound with the
wrappers in later half calf. Melbourne, Mason and Firth, 1862. Rare. With author’s inscription. Ferguson, 18559.
Estimate $1000/2000
[273]
WILSON, Hardy. THE COW PASTURE ROAD. Quarto, tipped-in colour and monochrome plates, original clothbacked papered boards, front hinge opened. Sydney, Art in Australia, 1920. First edition: limited to 600 copies.
Estimate $100/150
[274]
WILSON, Hardy. OLD COLONIAL ARCHITECTURE in New South Wales and Tasmania. Folio, with 50 tipped-in
plates, original batik boards, backstrip incomplete and detached. Sydney, The Author, 1924. One of 1000 numbered
and signed copies.
Estimate $300/500
[275]
WOODS, J.D. et al. THE NATIVE TRIBES OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA. Comprising The Narrinyeri by the Rev.
George Taplin. The Adelaide Tribe by Dr Wyatt… Octavo, plates, some foxing, original blue cloth gilt. Adelaide, E.S.
Wigg & Son, 1879.
Estimate $300/400
[276]
WOOLLS, William. A CONTRIBUTION TO THE FLORA OF AUSTRALIA. Octavo, foxing, lacking front free
endpaper, original blind-stamped cloth, worn at head of spine. Sydney, F. White, 1867.
Estimate $300/500
Quantity (Lots 277 – 321)
[277]
CATHOLIC CHURCH IN AUSTRALIA.
Estimate $/
[278]
MILITARY.
Estimate $/
An extensive group of works on one and a half shelves.
A very good group on about a shelf.
[279]
CATHOLIC CHURCH IN AUSTRALIA.
Archbishops Bede, Vaughan, and Kelly.
Estimate $/
A very good collection of mainly bound pamphlet volumes by
[280]
DYMOCKS.
A very good small collection of early catalogues (some in duplicate), circa 1920s and 1930s. Noted
the catalogue of the collection of W.A. Duncan.
Estimate $/
[281]
ABORIGINES
Estimate $/
on half a shelf.
[282]
NEW ZEALAND, &c.
Estimate $/
[283]
POLITICS.
Estimate $/
One shelf: New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, &c.
Small group of politicians' memoirs, &c., including four on Billy Hughes.
[284]
PARKES, Henry. A collection of the works
Estimate $/
[285]
SYDNEY GAZETTE.
Estimate $/
[286]
BOOKS ON BOOKS
Estimate $/
in eight volumes.
A group of issues, mainly 1830s – 1840s.
on a bout half a shelf.
[287]
AUSTRALIAN DISCOVERY.
Estimate $/
Group on half a shelf.
[288]
GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS.
Launch.
Estimate $/
[289]
PARLIAMENT OF N.S.W.
Estimate $/
Two works of Australasian interest: Rutter's First Fleet, and Fryer's Bounty
Small group.
[290]
SYDNEY.
Small group including importantly Report of the Royal Commission for the Improvement of the City of
Sydney and its Suburbs… (1909) as well as two copies of the separate folder of Plans.
Estimate $/
[291]
NEW SOUTH WALES
Estimate $/
on over half a shelf.
[292]
AUSTRALIANA C19th
Estimate $/
on one shelf.
[293]
AUSTRALIANA C19th
Estimate $/
on one shelf.
[294]
AUSTRALIANA C20th
Estimate $/
on one shelf.
[295]
AUSTRALIANA C20th
Estimate $/
on one shelf.
[296]
GENERAL TRAVEL
Estimate $/
on one shelf, including Antractica.
[297]
AUSTRALIA: Politics, Economics, &c.
Estimate $/
on over half a shelf.
[298]
AUSTRALIAN HISTORIOGRAPHY.
Estimate $/
[299]
AUSTRALIANA.
Estimate $/
A very good group of important early historical works on half a shelf.
About one shelf of small octavo works of, mainly, the 1930s.
[300]
ROYAL SOCIETY OF N.S.W.
Estimate $/
A bound run of the Journal of the Society 1923 -1938.
[301]
ROYAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AUSTRALIA.
first 21 volumes in leather, volumes 22 – 41 in cloth.
Estimate $/
[302]
ROYAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AUSTRALIA.
duplication.
Estimate $/
[303]
GENERAL ANTIQUARIAN.
Estimate $/
[304]
NATURAL HISTORY.
Estimate $/
A complete run from Volume 1, no. 1 to Volume 41. The
Small group of loose issues, and bound volumes, some
A shelf of old bindings, most worn.
Shelf and a half.
[305]
BLIGH AND THE BOUNTY.
Estimate $/
An excellent group on half a shelf.
[306]
NATURAL HISTORY.
A group of the separate parts of Maiden's Forest Flora of New South Wales; not collated
but the plates appear all to be present.
Estimate $/
[307]
BROINOWKSI.
Estimate $/
[308]
JOHNS, Fred.
Estimate $/
Collection of plates from Broinowski's Birds of Australia.
Group of early Who's Who volumes and others related.
[309]
DENNIS, C.J.
Estimate $/
[310]
SYDNEY.
Estimate $/
Small group of his works.
A run of the handbook, Municipal Council of Sydney, in red morocco, from 1900 – 1926.
[311]
TERRY, Michael.
Estimate $/
Three books, including Untold Miles.
[312]
DICKENS AND HIS ILLUSTRATORS.
wrappers.
Estimate $/
[313]
FIRST WORLD WAR.
Estimate $/
[314]
LOCAL HISTORY
Estimate $/
Small group including four extra numbers of All the Year Round in
Shelf of First World War fiction and other literature.
on about a shelf.
[315]
ART AND ARCHITECTURE
Estimate $/
on about a shelf.
[316]
AUSTRALIAN LITERATURE C20th
Estimate $/
on one and a half shelves.
[317]
AUSTRALIAN LITERATURE C20th
Estimate $/
on one and a half shelves.
[318]
SYDNEY UNIVERSITY.
Estimate $/
Small group relating to Sydney University.
[319]
COLONIAL AUSTRALIAN LITERATURE
Estimate $/
on over half a shelf.
[320]
COLONIAL AUSTRALIAN LITERATURE
Estimate $/
[321]
CLASSICAL LITERATURE.
and annotations.
Estimate $/
on over half a shelf.
over a half a shelf. Noted Ficino's edition of Plato's Republic with Latin translation
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subscribers or advertisement leaves or cancel leaves or
errata slips or errata leaves;
then the sale will be rescinded and the amount paid by the
Buyer will be refunded.
6b. All conditions, notices, descriptions, statements and other
matters concerning a lot are subject to any statement
modifying or affecting that lot made by the Auctioneer from
the rostrum prior to any bid being accepted on that lot.
7b. The Buyer shall be entitled to claim under this condition
only the Purchase Price, being the hammer price plus the
buyer’s premium, or part thereof actually paid by the Buyer
to the Auctioneer for the lot and shall not include a refund of
any sales tax, storage charge, insurance, interest,
commissions, or any other costs to the Buyer other than the
Purchase Price actually paid and specifically the Buyer shall
have no claims for any direct or consequential loss suffered
or expense incurred by him.
6c. All lots are sold “as is” and no error or misdescription or
deficiency in quantity shall vitiate the sale and the Buyer
shall be bound to take delivery of the lot without an
allowance or abatement in price.
7c. This condition does not apply to any multiple lot, box lot,
shelf lot, any uncatalogued lot, or any lot described in the
catalogue as sold “not subject to return”, or “w.a.f.” (i.e.
with all faults).
6d. Many lots are of an age or nature that precludes their being
in perfect condition and reference may be made in some
descriptions to damage, restoration, or defect. Such
information is given for guidance only and the absence of
such reference does not imply that a lot is free from defects
nor does the reference to particular defects imply the
absence of others. Illustrations of any lot are for the
guidance of prospective buyers and are not to be relied upon
to determine either tone or colour of any item or to reveal
imperfections (if any).
7d. The benefit of this condition is a non-assignable exclusive
right in favour of the actual Buyer of the lot at the auction
and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, may
not be assigned to a third party by a Buyer acting as an agent
on behalf of such third party except when in accordance
with clause 4c of these Conditions.
6e. Neither the Auctioneer nor the Seller make any
representations or warranties, implied or express, as to
whether any lot is subject to copyrights nor whether the
Buyer acquires any copyrights, including but not limited to
reproduction rights in any lot sold.
6f.
The Seller gives to Australian Book Auctions full and
absolute right to photograph and illustrate any lot consigned
for sale and to use such photographs and illustrations at any
time at its absolute discretion whether or not in connection
with the sale. The Buyer and the Seller acknowledges that
the copyright of all photographs taken and illustrations of
any lot by Australian Book Auctions shall be the absolute
property of Australian Book Auctions.
7e. The Buyer shall not be entitled to claim under this condition
if he is in breach of any of the terms of these Conditions.
7f.
The terms of this condition shall not operate so as to exclude
such conditions or warranties as are implied by state of
federal law and which cannot legally be excluded or where
such exclusion would render any contract with the Buyer, or
any part of such a contract, void or voidable.
8a. These Conditions of Business shall be governed and
construed in accordance with the laws of the State of
Victoria, Australia, and all parties concerned hereby submit
to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of that state.
8b. If any part of these Conditions of Business is found by any
court to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, that part may be
discounted and the rest of the conditions shall continue to be
valid and enforceable to the fullest extent permitted by law.