b'138969969 971Henry WIDOWSON,EPHEMERA: Early engineering notes and drawings, some Present State of Van Diemens Land; comprising an account offrom the 1840s, the Victorian Historical Magazine Dec.1914 its Agricultural Capabilities with Observations on the presentedition, The Farm Garden Bulletin No.60 of 1929, Salt state of farming &c. &c. pursued in that Colony : And otherAustralian Army Journal for Sept. 1942., etc.important matters connected with Emigration.,$100200 [London : S. Robinson, 1st ed.], 1829, octavo, xviii, 200pp; half calf over cloth boards; spine with gilt lettering on leather972label; engraved map as frontispiece. The last two pagesSYDNEY HERALD January to June, 1841: Bound provide details of land availability and acquisition at the newlynewspapers in elephant folio. A fascinating insight into the established settlement at Swan River in Western Australia. comings and goings of Sydney Harbour and The Colonies $300500 including Port Philip and Portland Bay.$120200 970COLLINS STREET TOWN OF MELBOURNE, PORT PHILLIP,973NEW SOUTH WALES albumen paper print, circa 1890 of aWilliam Westbrooke BURTON (1794-1888),lithograph of the 1840 painting by ALBERT NOYCE. The Insolvency Law of New South Wales with Practical 26 x 21cm, 42 x 36cm Directions and Forms.$100200 [Sydney : Wm. Moffitt, 1842, 1st ed,], 202pp plus blank forms at rear, contemporary half-calf binding by W. Moffitt of Pitt Street, whose label is affixed to the inside front cover.Rare first and only edition of the first Australian treatise on bankruptcy. Whilst in Australia, Burton, a judge in the Supreme Court of NSW, attempted to ameliorate the harsh treatment of convicts at Norfolk Island, where he was sent in 1834 to try some convicts who had mutinied. Many were sentenced to death, but as no clergy were on the island, Burton reprieved them until their cases could go before the Executive Council. He endeavoured, also with some success, to improve the miserable condition of the convicts.Burton took a keen interest in the cause of the Aborigines, providing two important judicial decisions. The first arose from the trial of an Aborigine named Murrell on a charge of murder. The defence was that the defendant was a member of a tribe which had inhabited the territory before its occupation by Great Britain and was therefore not subject to English law. Burton ruled, however, that Aborigines were amenable to English law. The second case related to a trial of whites for the murder of Aborigines on the Liverpool Plains. Burton extended the same principle, applying the protection of English law to Aborigines notwithstanding that those charged were British subjects.$500800973970'