b'130723 729SIR WILLIAM CHARLES COOPER (1851 - 1925) & OTHERS: VICTORIA: PASTORAL LICENSE issued January 1870 in favour A collection of conveyances and other legal documents (severalof Edwin Brett and John Russell Ross of Melbourne for land on vellum), some with duty stamps, etc., and many involvingin the District of Benalla; signed by the Governor of Victoria, property transactions in which Cooper was a principal player.Viscount Canterbury. Also, another example dated December Other involve Michael COAN (Coen), John QUINN, John1869 for another plot of land in the Benalla area (this time signed McINTOSH, John ANDERSON and others, circa 1850s to 1900s.by the Governor but using his own name, J.H.T. Manners Sutton. (17 items). (2 items).$200300$200300 724 730MACADAM, John (for the Council of the Institute), TAYLOR, Alfred Swaine, MD FRS (1806-1880),TRANSACTIONS OF THE PHILOSOPHICAL INSTITUTEAn 8 page a.I.s from a practitioner in Geelong to Dr A. Taylor OF VICTORIA. From January to December, 1859, inclusive.who appears to have been experimenting with paraffin or Volume IV. kerosene in solution. Also enclosed are 3 small papers that he [Mason and Firth, Melbourne. 1860], has experimented on with pencilled notes.8vo, 210pp, plus Proceedings, Appendices etc, and withAlso an a.I.s from REESE, John, the American editor of the 7th illustrations in black and white and coloured, some fold-out;edition of Dr Taylors book A Manual of Medical Jurisprudence in original decorated boards. to Dr Alfred Swaine Taylor, dated 20th of August, 1874.$200300Dr Taylor, toxicologist and medical writer was considered the father of forensic medicine and an early experimenter in 725 photography (he developed the use of Hyposulphate of lime as a fixing agent). Noted as an expert witness in several murder MUELLER, Ferdinand von, cases and often wrote articles for various medical journals The Plants Indigenous to the Colony of Victoria. Vol. I:including The Medical Gazette of which he was the editor.Thalamiflorae $100200 [John Ferres, Melbourne, 1860-1862]together with the additional volumes of Lithograms published 1864-65; 731folio; both in original green cloth bindings with gilt titlesThree lithographic plates from The Palaeontology of Victoria by to spines. Professor Frederick McCoy [1877], individually framed & glazed, $200300each 41 x 31cm overall. (3).$100200 726POLEHAMPTON, Rev. Arthur, 732KANGAROO LAND, SMYTH, R. BROUGH,[Richard Bentley, London, 1862], 1st ed., 269pp, withTHE ABORIGINES OF VICTORIA.frontispiece and title page vignette; rebound in half-leather withWith Notes Relating to the Habits of the Natives of Other Parts new blank endpapers; also, AN AUSTRALIAN RAMBLE or Aof Australia and Tasmania.Summer in Australia by J. Ewing Ritchie (Christopher Crayon) [T.In Two Volumes, rebound in blue boards with new endpapers.Fisher Unwin; London, 1890] 235pp + adverts., also rebound in[John Ferres, Melbourne. 1878]., 4to, 483pp and 456pp. With half leather with new blank endpapers. (2). black and white plates in in-text illustrations; lacking both maps.$200300$150200 727 733WOODS, JULIAN EDMUND, VICTORIAN SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS including Natural Geological Observations in South Australia: History of Victoria. Prodromus of the Zoology of Victoria.principally in the district south-east of Adelaide Indigenous Animals Decades III and IV by Frederick McCoy [Melbourne: H.T. Dwight: Longman, Green, Longman,[1879]; Transactions of the Royal Society of Victoria Vol II part Roberts & Green, 1862], II (1891) & 1918; Geological Survey of Victoria Monthly Progress Octavo, 404 pp.,text illustrations, five uncoloured plates and map. Reports April 1899 to March 1900; Geological Survey of Victoria Publishers green blind stamped cloth. Ferguson 18805. 1907; 1910; 1912; and Report on Jurassic and Carboniferous $200300Fish Remains 1912.$100200 728NEW YORK TIMES - CIVIL WAR ERA - : 1863 selection734comprising editions for Feb.15, Jul.18 & 29, Aug.2 & 5, Oct,7,HUNTING THE KANGAROO hand-coloured lithograph 24, & 31; the Jul.18, edition reviewing the Siege of Vicksburgnewspaper supplement, circa 1883,(July 4) the correspondent noting the almost impassable37 x 25cmnatural obstacles that opposed Grants army in the late siege$100200 (Vicksburg located on a high river bluff) and the Draft Riots (Jul.13-16) with headlines Quiet Restored and A Peaceful Day735in the Metropolis; plus political & city governance news, theatre productions, monetary affairs, shipping & railroad departures andThe Australian Race - Its Origin, Languages, Customs - advertisements noting Smith & Brothers Pale Ale (beer barrellVolume IV - Comparative Vocabulary; elephant-sized folio illustration) and Helmbolds Extract Buchu (tonic & invigorator,being a 45 page gazette of comparative Aboriginal languages, lighthouse illustration); all the journals are individually presentedplus a large folding colour map of Australia, annotated to show in beautiful gilt-lettered bespoke hardbound folios (43.5x57.5cm).locations where circumcision and The Terrible Rite (penile (9 items) subincision) were practised; pub. John Ferres, Government $200300Printer, Melbourne, 1887.$200400 '