404 THE PENAL SETTLEMENT ON NORFOLK ISLAND: A select library including "Alexander Maconochie of Norfolk Island" by Barry [1958], "The Life and Death of John Price" by Barry [1964], "The Norfolk Island Story" by Clune [1967], "The Commandants: The Tyrants who ruled Norfolk Island" by Britts [1980], "Punishment Short of Death - A History of the Penal Settlement at Norfolk Island" by Hazzard [1984], "The Forgotten Generation of Norfolk Island and Van Diemen’s Land" by Wright [1986], and 6 others; mainly h/cover with d/js. (12 vols.). $200–250 405 THE HUNTER SKETCHBOOK. Birds and Flowers of New South Wales drawn on the Spot in 1788, 89 & 90 by Captain John Hunter RN of the First Fleet. Calaby, John (general ed.) [Canberra: National Library of Australia, 1989] 251pp. 100 colour plates, index, quarter cream calf and marbled boards in slipcase, #252 of the edition limited to 500 copies. Also, BAUDIN IN AUSTRALIAN WATERS - The Artwork of the French Voyage of Discovery to the Southern Lands 1800-1804 edited by Bonnemains, Forsyth & Smith [Melbourne, OUP , 1988]; and, THE ART OF THE FIRST FLEET & other early Australian drawings edited by Smith &Wheeler [Melbourne, OUP , 1988]. $200–300 ❖ 406 THE GEOFF TELFER LIBRARY A collection of nearly 500 volumes covering the full breadth of Australian History. Subjects include the Voyages of Discovery and the Journals kept on-board those ships, Australia’s Convict Beginnings, early European contact and settlement and the impact on the Indigenous population, much on Captain Cook, William Bligh, the First Fleet, the social and political conditions which lead to Transportation, Botany Bay and Sydney Cove, Convict life, the Convict ships, Female convicts, the role of the clergy and religion, free settlers and trade, Prison reform, Wrecks and Rescues, the early Governors and their legacies, Exploration and expansion of settlements, artistic interpretations of the "new" land, convict literature, Norfolk Island, Queensland, Western Australia, Van Diemen’s Land, bushrangers, the Gold Rush, etc. $1,000–1,500 ❖ CONVICT ERA – OTHER VENDORS 407 Two 1797 Proclamation pennies with convict related markings "1830" and "45" 3.5cm diameter $200–300 ❖ 408 Convict ball and chain, cast iron, 19th century chain not original ball 15cm diameter $300–500 409 Cessation of Transportation medallion 1853 in white metal, 55mm $120–200 ❖ 409 408 401 401 REQUEST TO ATTEND A HANGING: 19th August 1889 letter from J.Drayton, Editor of The Sunday Times (Sydney) to C.C. Cowper, Sherrif, Darlinghurst, requesting a card to allow a representative of his paper to be present at the execution of "the condemned man" (Morrison). The letter is annotated in another hand "Refused. orders only issued to the duty Press." James Morrison – 19 August 1889 – Hanged at Darlinghurst for the murder of Constable David Sutherland in Macleay St, Potts Point. $400–600 402 The Cholera Scare: 5 September 1890 mss letter to his son from W.G.Browne in which he expresses the hope that "the Cholera scare is over and that it will not reach P .M.Burg, it is a fearful scourge." Pietermaritzburg is the capital (and 2nd largest city) in the South African province of Natal. $150–250 ❖ 403 ELLIS, M.H. Francis Greenway: His Life and Times. [Sydney; The Shepherd Press, 1949] Small 4to. Original gilt- decorated full red morocco. Gilt-decorated spine with raised bands. (xx, 296pp.). With colour portrait, colour plates, b/w plates, maps, plans, and illust. coloured endpapers. 1st Edition, limited to 350 numbered copies, fully signed ‘M.H. Ellis’. In original slipcase. $100–150 ❖ 62