Peter Arnold: Australiana & Pacific Voyages: The Collection of John Alexander, 112324, Prahran VIC

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November 23, 2024 - November 23, 2024
Page Size: 171 items in 7 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
27 CARNEGIE, David W.

Spinifex and sand. A narrative of five years' pioneering and exploration in Western Australia.

London 1898 AUD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 AUD 2,794.00
28 CARRON, William.

Narrative of an expedition undertaken under the direction of the late Mr. Assistant Surveyor E.B. Kennedy, for the exploration of the country lying between Rockingham Bay and Cape York.

AUD 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 AUD 16,510.00
29 CHEVALIER, Nicholas.

N. Chevalier's album of chromo lithographs [cover title].

Melbourne 1865 AUD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 AUD 6,985.00
30 CHRISTIAN, Fletcher.

The letters of Fletcher Christian.

Guildford 1984 AUD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
31 [CLARK, John Heaviside].

Field sports, &c. &c. of the native inhabitants of New South Wales.

London 1813 AUD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 AUD 26,670.00
32 COLLINS, David.

An account of the English colony in New South Wales. [With, in the second volume] An account of a voyage performed by Captain Flinders and Mr. Bass; by which the existence of a strait separating Van Dieman's Land from the continent of New Holland was asce

London 1798-1802. AUD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 Not Sold
33 COLLINS, David.

An account of the English colony in New South Wales, from its first settlement in January, 1788 to August, 1801 ... and an account of a voyage performed by Captain Flinders and Mr Bass, by which the existence of a strait separating Van Diemen's Land from

London 1804 AUD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 AUD 6,096.00
34

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.

London 1804 AUD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 Not Sold
35

The names and descriptions of all male and female convicts arrived in the Colony of New South Wales in the year 1832.

Sydney 1833 AUD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
36 CROSS, Joseph, publisher.

Journals of several expeditions made in Western Australia during the years 1829, 1830, 1831 and 1832.

London 1833 AUD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 AUD 13,335.00
37 [DALRYMPLE, George Elphinstone].

Narrative and reports of the Queensland North-east Coast Expedition, 1873.

Brisbane 1874 AUD 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
38 DARLING, Ralph.

Letter addressed by Lieut.-Gen. R. Darling, late Governor of New South Wales, to Joseph Hume, Esq., M.P.

London 1832 AUD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 AUD 2,413.00
39 [DARLING].

NEW SOUTH WALES. Papers explanatory of the charges against Lieut.-Gen. Darling by William Charles Wentworth, Esq.

London 1830 AUD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 AUD 2,476.50
40 DAVIS, John.

Tracks of McKinlay and party across Australia. Edited by William Westgarth from Mr Davis's manuscript journal.

London 1863 AUD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 AUD 3,302.00
41 D'ENTRECASTEAUX, J.-A.

Bruny. Voyage de Dentrecasteaux, envoye a la recherche de La Perouse.

Paris 1807-08. AUD 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 AUD 20,320.00
42 DICK, James.

A geological and prospecting expedition which filled many blank spaces on the map. Mr. R.L. Jack, geologist, Mr. James Crosbie, leader and prospector.

Port Douglas 1913 AUD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 AUD 4,826.00
43 DILLON, Peter, Chevalier Captain.

Narrative and successful result of a voyage in the South Seas ... to ascertain the actual fate of La Perouse's expedition.

London 1829 AUD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 AUD 2,032.00
44 DIXON, James.

Narrative of a voyage to New South Wales and Van Dieman's Land in the Ship Skelton, during the year 1820, with observations on the state of these colonies.

Edinburgh 1822 AUD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 Not Sold
45 DIXON, Robert and BALCOMBE, Thomas.

[Scenes in New South Wales]. Set of 4 lithographed views

London 1837 AUD 40,000.00 - 50,000.00 AUD 120,650.00
46 EVANS, George William.

A geographical, historical and topographical description of Van Diemen's Land.

London 1822 AUD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 Not Sold
47 EYRE, Edward John.

Journals of expeditions of discovery into central Australia, and overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound in the years 1840-41.

London 1845 AUD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 AUD 8,255.00
48 FIELD, Barron, editor.

Geographical memoirs on New South Wales, by various hands; containing an account of the Surveyor-General's [Oxley's] late expedition to two new ports; the discovery of Moreton Bay River, with the adventures for seven months there of two shipwrecked men; a

London 1825 AUD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 AUD 1,905.00
49 FIELDING, John, publisher.

An historical narrative of the discovery of New Holland and New South Wales.

London 1786 AUD 25,000.00 - 30,000.00 AUD 30,480.00
50 FLINDERS, Matthew.

A voyage to Terra Australis, undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that vast continent, and prosecuted in the years 1801, 1802, and 1803.

London 1814 AUD 60,000.00 - 80,000.00 AUD 76,200.00
51 FLINDERS, Matthew.

Matthew Flinders's narrative of his voyage in the Schooner Francis, 1798.

London 1946 AUD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
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