CLA Auction 190

BOOKS & EPHEMERA

Table of Contents


Lot Symbols Description Estimate
63 L ARCTIC & ANTARCTIC:  Nansen: "The First Crossing of Greenland", The Silver Library edition, with portrait, numerous illustrations and map [London, 1906].  $150 - $
64 L AUSTRALIA:  A Clergyman: "Australia As It Is", [London, 1894].  $40 - $
65 L AUSTRALIA:  Pease: "The Catalpa Expedition" [New Bedford, 1897], plates (lacking two), original gilt cloth.  $80 - $
66 L AUSTRALIA:  "The Acts and Ordinances of The Govenor and Council of New South Wales. Vol.1 1824-1831" [Sydney, 1838], 390 pages plus general index (40pp) & index to Acts of Parliament (32pp), modern half calf.  $250 - $
67 D AUSTRALIA:  1828-29 NSW Government Acts, relating to justice, banking, census, servants, public entertainment, female workers & Catholics. 169pp.  $80 - $
68 D AUSTRALIA:  1830-31 NSW Government Acts, noted slander & libel, stray dogs, pubs & alcohol, punishment & transportation. 107pp.  $80 - $
69 D AUSTRALIA:  1832 NSW Government Acts, noted Juries, Customs, stray dogs, banking, cattle, expenditure, quarantine & ports. 189pp.  $90 - $
70 D AUSTRALIA:  1833 NSW Government Acts, noted alcohol & pubs, census, cattle, expenditure, police & banking. 187pp.  $90 - $
71 D AUSTRALIA:  1834 NSW Government Acts, noted cattle, clergy, expenditure, £50,000 loan, Sydney streets & Methodist missionaries. 200pp.  $80 - $
72 L AUSTRALIA:  1835-38 NSW Government Acts, incomplete run comprising 178pp plus indexes.  $50 - $
73 L AUSTRALIA:  "The Acts and Ordinances of New South Wales" 1843-51, bound together in one huge 1100pp volume (half-roan, worn) with manuscript index. With signature of Randolph John Want (1811-1869), solicitor, who arrived in Sydney in 1829 and was 2nd President of the Law Institute of NSW.  $500 - $
74 L AUSTRALIA:  "The Empire", complete newspaper (4 pages), Sydney, January 2, 1868, noted Homebush New Year Races, HRH Prince Alfred at Melbourne Races.  $40 - $
75 L AUSTRALIA:  "The Empire", complete newspaper (4 pages), Sydney, January 17, 1868, noted loss of ship "Light of the Age", the Duke of Edinburgh in Tasmania.  $40 - $
76 L AUSTRALIA:  "The Empire", complete newspaper (4 pages), Sydney, February 19, 1868, noted career of the bold rascal Thunderbolt.  $40 - $
77 L AUSTRALIA:  "The Empire", complete newspaper (8 pages), Sydney, March 7, 1868, noted buried alive and shot as a ghost & ornithology of the colony.  $40 - $
78 L AUSTRALIA:  "The Empire", complete newspaper (8 pages), Sydney, April 11, 1868, noted extraordinary adventures of a female servant in Ballarat, discovery of new group of islands - mentions Pleasant Island (Nauru).  $40 - $
79 L AUSTRALIA:  "The Empire", complete newspaper (4 pages), Sydney, April 28, 1868, noted USA - impeachment of President Johnson.  $40 - $
80 L AUSTRALIA:  "The Empire", complete newspaper (4 pages), Sydney, May 5, 1868, noted a wife sold for £400.  $40 - $
81 L AUSTRALIA:  "The Empire", complete newspaper (4 pages), Sydney, May 7, 1868, noted Fighting at the Fijis.  $40 - $
82 L AUSTRALIA:  "The Empire", complete newspaper (4 pages), Sydney, May 11, 1868, noted execution of Swales the NZ incindiarist.  $40 - $
83 L AUSTRALIA:  "The Empire", complete newspaper (4 pages), Sydney, May 15, 1868, noted establishment of an Australian Native-born Association.  $40 - $
84 L AUSTRALIA:  "The Empire", complete newspaper (4 pages), Sydney, May 21, 1868, noted disastrous fire in Melbourne.  $40 - $
85 L AUSTRALIA:  "The Empire", complete newspaper (8 pages), Sydney, May 30, 1868, noted New Caledonia.  $40 - $
86 L AUSTRALIA:  "The Empire", complete newspaper (4 pages), Sydney, June 5, 1868, noted entances for Melbourne Cup.  $40 - $
87 L AUSTRALIA:  "The Empire", complete newspaper (8 pages), Sydney, June 6, 1868, noted Jockey Club investigation.  $40 - $
88 L AUSTRALIA:  "The Empire", complete newspaper (8 pages), Sydney, June 20, 1868, noted earthquake in Sydney.  $40 - $
89 PS P AUSTRALIA:  c1901 ledger pages from printer's archive providing samples of Official embossed crests for letterheads, envelopes & calling cards for various Govt Depts, including the Prime Ministers, Parliament, Navy, Papua; also four wafer embossed seals of the Patent & Design Office of Australia. Very unusual & desirable lot. (120) $250 - $
90 L EXPLORATION:  Goodrich: "The Sea and Her Famous Sailors - A history of maritime adventure and exploration from the Christian era to the present time", portraits plus 7 plates [London, c1862]; worn spine.  $50 - $
91 L EXPLORATION:  "The Story of the Life and Travels of Alexander Von Humboldt", first edition, 25 plates plus map. [London, 1879].  $40 - $
92 L GERMANY:  "Hindenburg" 1934 125pp. text in German with b&w photograpghs and cards affixed, odd tone.  $150 - $
93 L GREAT BRITAIN:  "Adam's Illustrated Guide to Rye (With Map), Winchelsea, Camber-on-Sea, Northam, and all Places of interest in the Neighbourhood" [Rye, 1901].  $20 - $
94 L HISTORY:  Rollin: "Ancient History", Volume 1, frontispiece plus fold out maps. [Glasgow, c1870].  $50 - $
95 L LITERATURE:  Combe: "The Tour of Doctor Syntax in Search of the Picturesque - A Poem", seventh edition with new plates, incomplete with damage to binding, 22 hand coloured aquatints illustrated by T. Rowlandson. [London, c.1830]  $150 - $
96 L LITERATURE:  Darley: "The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher", in two volumes. [London, 1840] - English Theatre.  $100 - $
97 L LITERATURE:  "Emerson's Works", prose & poetical writings, essays, lecturs and speeches of Ralph Waldo Emerson. [London, 1903]; bound in half leather in 4 volumes.  $50 - $
98 L LITERATURE:  Herbert: "The Writings of Henry Fielding", [Edinburgh, 1885], rebound in leather and cloth.  $15 - $
99 L LITERATURE:  Roscoe: "The Works of Henry Fielding", second edition with portrait, [London 1843], (some toning) rebound in leather and cloth.  $15 - $
100 L MARITIME & NAVAL:  Foss: "Marine Kunde" handbook on the German Navy, 627 pages with 517 illustrations. Superb. [Stuttgart, 1890].  $120 - $
101 L MILITARY:  Leach: "Rough Sketches of the Life of an Old Soldier: During a Service in the West Indies; at the Siege of Copenhagen in 1807; in the Peninsula...", half-title, [London, 1831].  $200 - $
102 L MILITARY:  "Guinea Gold" [Newspaper of the Australian Forces in New Guinea], 12 issues 1943-44, interesting contents regarding progress of WW2. (12) $100 - $
103 L MILITARY:  "Five Fighting Years - The Australian Army at War 1939-44"  $40 - $
104 L RELIGION:  Farrar: "The Life of Christ", fifteenth edition in two volumes, [London, c1840].  $20 - $
105 L RELIGION:  Froude: "Short Studies on Great Subjects", new edition in 4 volumes. [London, 1888]; modern leather and cloth rebinding. (4) $80 - $
106 L RELIGION:  Gilbert: "An Exposition of the Thirty-nine Articles of the Church of England", third edition corrected [Dublin, 1721], rebound in half leather.  $20 - $
107 L RELIGION:  Hervey: "Meditations and Contemplations", 2 volumes in one. [Edinburgh, 1797]; rebound in half leather.  $20 - $