Australian Book Auctions: Travels, Australiana, Literature & Art, 116, Armadale,

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Auction Date
December 08, 2025 - December 08, 2025
Page Size: 63 items in 3 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 ARTHUR, Colonel George, Lieutenant-Governor, and MURRAY, Robert Lathrop

ORIGINAL LAND GRANT TO ROBERT LATHROP MURRAY

Hobart Town 29 August, 1836 AUD 500.00 - 700.00 AUD 952.50
2 BALFOUR, J.O.

A SKETCH OF NEW SOUTH WALES

December, 1844 AUD 180.00 - 240.00 AUD 406.40
3 BANKS, Sir Joseph

JOURNAL OF THE RIGHT HON. SIR JOSEPH BANKS...

London 1896 AUD 500.00 - 800.00 AUD 889.00
4 BRISBANE, Sir Thomas, Governor

ORIGINAL LAND GRANT TO HARRIS WALKER, of 2000 acres in the District of Methven, adjacent to the Blackman's River, Van Diemen's Land

Sydney 30 June, 1823 AUD 400.00 - 600.00 AUD 508.00
5 BRISBANE, Sir Thomas, Governor

ORIGINAL LAND GRANT TO THOMAS GEORGE GREGSON, of 300 acres in the District of Bath, Van Diemen's Land

Sydney 30 June, 1823 AUD 400.00 - 600.00 AUD 508.00
6 BROWNHILL, Walter Randolph and WYND, Ian

THE HISTORY OF GEELONG AND CORIO BAY

Melbourne 1990 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 101.60
7 COLLINS, David

AN ACCOUNT OF THE ENGLISH COLONY IN NEW SOUTH WALES

London 1798-1802 AUD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 AUD 5,080.00
8 CURREY, JOHN

DAVID COLLINS. GENERAL ORDERS

October 16 1803 - January 27 1804 AUD 300.00 - 500.00 AUD 762.00
9 DUTTON, Henry Hampden

ACROSS AUSTRALIA BY MOTOR

Adelaide [1909] AUD 600.00 - 800.00 AUD 1,651.00
10

EPHEMERA BALANCE OF COLLECTION

AUD 60.00 - 80.00 AUD 50.80
11 GILES, Ernest

GEOGRAPHIC TRAVELS IN CENTRAL AUSTRALIA FROM 1872 TO 1874

Melbourne 1875 AUD 200.00 - 400.00 AUD 254.00
12 HARLEY, J.B. and WOODWARD, David

THE HISTORY OF CARTOGRAPHY

Chicago and London 1987-2015 AUD 240.00 - 340.00 AUD 304.80
13 FORSTER, Johann Reinhold, Georg Adam Forster, and Anders Sparrman

CHARACTERES GENERUM PLANTARUM, quas in itinere ad insulas Maris Australis, Collegerunt, Descripserunt, Delinearunt, annis MDCCLXXII - MDCCLXXV

London 1776 AUD 3,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
14 HUNTER, Captain John, Governor

AN HISTORICAL JOURNAL OF THE TRANSACTIONS AT PORT JACKSON AND NORFOLK ISLAND

London 1793 AUD 1,800.00 - 2,600.00 AUD 2,286.00
15 JOSELAND, Howard

ANGLING IN AUSTRALIA And Elsewhere

Sydney 1921 AUD 200.00 - 400.00 AUD 203.20
16 KINGSFORD-SMITH, C.E., and C.T. ULM

STORY OF "SOUTHERN CROSS" Trans-Pacific Flight 1928

Sydney 1928 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 762.00
17

LOW. LOW'S DIRECTORY of the City and District of Sydney, for 1847

Sydney 1847 AUD 200.00 - 400.00 AUD 609.60
18 LEWIN, John William

PRODROMUS ENTOMOLOGY. or, A Natural History of the Lepidopterous Insects of New South Wales Illustrated with Nineteen Plates

Melbourne 2007 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 381.00
19 MACQUARIE, Major-General Lachlan, Governor

ORIGINAL LAND GRANT to Thomas Allan Lascelles, of 800 acres in the District of Sussex, bounded to the north by the Iron Creek Stream

Sydney 8 October, 1816 AUD 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 AUD 2,794.00
20 MACQUARIE

GREAT BRITAIN & IRELAND, Parliament. REPORT FROM THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION

[London] 10 July 1812 AUD 1,200.00 - 2,200.00 AUD 3,556.00
21 MACQUARIE, Major-General Lachlan, Governor

PAPERS RELATING TO HIS MAJESTY'S SETTLEMENTS AT NEW SOUTH WALES

[London] 11 June 1816 AUD 800.00 - 1,200.00 AUD 2,794.00
22 MACQUARIE

GREAT BRITAIN & IRELAND, Parliament. REPORT FROM THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON THE STATE OF GAOLS, &C.

[London] 12 July, 1819 AUD 600.00 - 900.00 AUD 1,270.00
23 BIGGE, John Thomas

MACQUARIE. REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INQUIRY INTO THE STATE OF THE COLONY OF NEW SOUTH WALES

[London] 19 June 1822 AUD 500.00 - 800.00 AUD 1,778.00
24 BIGGE, John Thomas

MACQUARIE. REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INQUIRY INTO THE STATE OF AGRICULTURE AND TRADE [and] REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INQUIRY into the Judicial Establishments of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land

[London] 21 February 1823 and 13 March 1823 AUD 200.00 - 400.00 AUD 1,270.00
25 MICHELL, H.

VICTORIA'S GREATEST RACES with full descriptions of the Melbourne Cup 1921

Melbourne n.d. circa 1924 AUD 200.00 - 400.00 AUD 203.20
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