Peter Arnold: John Alexander Collection - Australia before European Settlement and Natural History, 71925, Prahran VIC

Auction Details

Auction Date: July 19, 2025 - July 19, 2025

Page Size: 168 items in 7 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	BANKS, Joseph.	The journal of Joseph Banks in the Endeavour. With a commentary by A. S. Lysaght.	[Guildford and Adelaide],	1980	AUD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Unknown
2	BENNETT, George.	Wanderings in New South Wales, Batavia, Pedir Coast, Singapore and China, being the notes of a naturalist in those countries during 1832, 1833 and 1834.	London	1834	AUD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Unknown
3	BISCHOFF, James.	Sketch of the history of Van Diemen's Land. Illustrated with a map of the island and an account of the Van Diemen's Land Company.	London	1832	AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00	Unknown
4	[BOTANY BAY].	The London Chronicle.	London	1786-97.	AUD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00	Unknown
5	[BOUGAINVILLE, Louis Antoine de].	Voyage autour du monde, par la fregate du Roi La Boudeuse et la flute l'Etoile, en 1766, 1767, 1768 et 1769.	Paris	1771	AUD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	Unknown
6	BOUGAINVILLE, Louis de.	A voyage round the world performed by order of His Most Christian Majesty, in the years 1766, 1767, 1768 and 1769.	London	1772	AUD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00	Unknown
7	BOWEN, Emmanuel.	A complete map of the southern continent, survey'd by Capt. Abel Tasman & depicted by order of the East India Company in Holland.	London	1744	AUD 4,500.00 - 5,500.00	Unknown
8	BROINOWSKI, Gracius.	The birds of Australia.	Melbourne and Sydney	1890-91.	AUD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	Unknown
9	BROSSES, Charles de.	Histoire des navigations aux Terres Australes.	Paris	1756	AUD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00	Unknown
10	BROUSSONET, Pierre Marie Auguste.	Ichthyologia sistens piscium, descriptiones et icones.	London	1782	AUD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00	Unknown
11	BROWN, Robert.	General remarks, geographical and systematical, on the botany of Terra Australis.	London	1814	AUD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00	Unknown
12	BURNEY, James.	A chronological history of the discoveries in the South Sea or Pacific Ocean . . . commencing with an account of the earliest discovery of that sea by Europeans [to the year 1764].	London	1803-17.	AUD 10,000.00 - 12,000.00	Unknown
13	BYRNE, J.C.	Twelve years' wanderings in the British Colonies, from 1835 to 1847.	London	1848	AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00	Unknown
14	[CALLANDER, John].	Terra Australis cognita: or voyages to the southern hemisphere, during the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries.	Edinburgh,	1766-68.	AUD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	Unknown
15	CARBONI, Raffaello.	Sit nomen Domini benedictum. The Eureka Stockade: the consequence of some pirates wanting on quarter-deck a rebellion.	Melbourne	1855	AUD 30,000.00 - 40,000.00	Unknown
16	[COOK]. HAWKESWORTH, John, editor.	An account of the voyages undertaken by the order of His Present Majesty for making discoveries in the southern hemisphere, and successfully performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret and Captain Cook . . . drawn up from the journals w	London	1773	AUD 40,000.00 - 50,000.00	Unknown
17	COOK, James.	Captain Cook's journal during his first voyage round the world, made in H.M. Bark Endeavour, 1768-71. A literal transcription of the original MSS, with notes and introduction by Captain W.J.L. Wharton, Hydrographer to the Admiralty.	London	1893	AUD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	Unknown
18	[COOK].	Captain Cook's florilegium.	London,	1973	AUD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	Unknown
19	COOK, James.	The journal of H.M.S. Endeavour, 1768-1771.	[Guildford and Adelaide],	1977	AUD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Unknown
20	COOK, James.	The journal of H.M.S. Resolution, 1772-1775.	[Guildford and Sydney],	1981	AUD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Unknown
21	COZENS, Charles.	Adventures of a guardsman.	London	1848	AUD 600.00 - 800.00	Unknown
22	CROZET, Julien Marie.	Nouveau voyage a la Mer du Sud commence sous les ordres de M. Marion . On a joint a ce voyage un extrait de celui de M. de Surville dans les memes parages.	Paris	1783	AUD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00	Unknown
23	DALRYMPLE, Alexander.	An historical collection of the several voyages and discoveries in the South Pacific Ocean.	London,	1770-71.	AUD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00	Unknown
24	DAMPIER, William.	A new voyage round the world . [With ] Volume II. Voyages and descriptions in three parts. [With ] Vol. III. . . A voyage to New Holland, &c. in the year 1699 . [With ] A continuation of a voyage to New Holland, &c.	London	1703-1709.	AUD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00	Unknown
25	DAMPIER, William.	A collection of voyages.	London	1729	AUD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	Unknown

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