b'144963 BOOKS & HISTORICAL DOCUMENTSJUSTUS PERTHES,Korallen Meer, 973hand coloured steel engraving,[Gotha, 1875], An antique Islamic Indo-Persian illuminated manuscript page, 46 x 38cm (sheet size), 19th century. One loose folio with recto, finely illustrated with shows northern Queensland, the Great Barrier Reef,images of two hornbills. Ink and opaque watercolour on paper, Torres Strait islands and part of New Guinea. mounted in lucite panel.$8012034.8 x 18.4cmNote: The text is written in both Arabic and Farsi; in red are 964 verses from the Quran in Arabic, in black are the translation and interpretation of the verses in Farsi. On the side illustrated ADOLF STIELER, with the hornbills in red contains verses 100-102 of Surat Sud-Ost-Australien.von A. Petermann, Al-Nahl (The Bee) of the Quran. The practice of juxtaposing steel-engraving with minimal hand colouring, calligraphed poetry and paintings was not uncommon and from Stielers Hand Altas, 1879. saw a rise from 15th century works collected in albums in 47 x 39cm (sheet size). the Persianate and Islamic world. Sometimes the text and $80120images are contemporary, sometimes images are added later. Sometimes there is a relationship between the content of the 965 test and the images, sometimes not, as in this case.General Map of QUEENSLAND published 1887 by ThePROVENANCEPicturesque Atlas Publishing Co. 67 x 44cm. Private collection, Melbourne. Former estate collection of $100200Dr.W.M.Bogdanowicz (1936-2017), Neurosurgeon, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.966 $8001,200 Northern Territory of South Australia and South Australia974(with inset City of Adelaide), both maps published in 1887 by the Picturesque Atlas Publishing Co. (2). Both 45 x 35cm. The HOBART TOWN GAZETTE, Friday December 11, 1835, $100200a 21 page edition with many interesting features, especially regarding the sale of Crown Lands, the circumstances of the Female Houses of Correction at Launceston and Hobart, a 967 tender for the supply of articles to the Convict Establishment, Western Australia (with inset City of Perth), published ina list of prisoners who had absconded, etc., with many names 1887 by the Picturesque Atlas Publishing Co. 67 x 45.5cm. and details, ideal for research.$100200$200300 968 975General Map of Tasmania (with inset King Island),THYLACINE, chromolithograph plate XXIV from the published in 1887 by the Picturesque Atlas Publishing Co. 64.51896 publication A Hand-Book To The Marsupialia and x 43cm. Monotremata by E. Lloyd, [London].$10020012 x 18.5cm, 23 x 30cm overall$80120 969RAILWAY, POSTAL, TELEGRAPH and RAINFALL MAP of976TASMANIA 1889 by Alex J. Scally for the Picturesque AtlasLieutenant JOSEPH MOORE (British, active circa 1824),Publishing Co., overall 84 x 69cm. First Anglo-Burmese War in 1824-26.$100200A rare set of four finely hand-coloured aquatint plates engraved by G. Hunt after original drawings by Lieutenant Joseph 970 Moore, a senior officer of the 89th Regiment, published 1825 NEW SOUTH WALES: 1918 & 1921 land sub-division postersby Kingsbury & Co., London in his Eighteen Views taken at (Pleasant Hills, between Henty & Rand Railway Stations),and near Rangoon, and combined operations in the Birman together with contemporary parish maps for Munyabla,Empire, the most important pictoral documentation of the Milbrulong, Jerra Jerra, and Cookardinia, all in the districts ofAnglo-Indian capture of Rangoon, as well as presenting a Wagga Wagga or Albury. All laid down on linen or paper. (6) visual record of Burmese scenery, architecture and landscape. The plates are the first large-scale views of Burma, largely $100200unknown to the British at the time.I.)The Attack upon the Stockades near Rangoon by Sir 971 Archibald Campbell, KCB on the 28th of May 1824. Collection of assorted maps and charts (qty) (Plate 6),$100200II.)The Storming of the Lesser Stockade at Kemmendine near Rangoon on the 10th of June 1824. (Plate 10),III.)Rangoon. The Position of part of the Army previous 972 to attacking the Stockades on the 8th of July 1824. THE RESOURCES AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE MURRAY(Plate 12),VALLEY, VOLUME TWO, MAPS printed by The DepartmentIV.)Rangoon. The Storming of one of the principal Stockades Of National Development, Canberra [Melb. 1953], (5 duplicateon its inside on the 8th of July 1824. (Plate 15),copies) Unframed/mounted Sheets 37 x 51cm.$250350Mounts 46.5 x 55.5cm (4)$3,5004,500'