b'42AUTOGRAPHS293HENRY LAWSON [1867 - 1922], Full autograph on Sydney Book Club notepaperat the foot of a quotation from an unpublished poem: c.1918,And his was a lightthat shone to the endAnd mine was alight that failed,mounted together with a caricature of Lawson by David Low.Framed together; overall 44 x 54cm.$1,0001,250294 Baron Sir Ferdinand von MUELLER [1825 - 1896],1877 (September 1) autographed letter sheet written in ink to the Undersecretary of the Mining Departments, Sydney, in which von Mueller expresses his gratitude for a series of vegetable fossils that had been sent to him. Signed Ferd von Mueller, M.D.From 1857 to 1873, von Mueller was director of the RoyalBotanic Gardens, Melbourne, and not only introduced many plants into Victoria, but also made the excellent qualities of the blue gum (Eucalyptus globulus) known all over the world,and succeeded in introducing it into the south of Europe,North and South Africa, California, and the extratropical portions of South America. Mueller was decorated by many foreign countries, including Germany, France, Spain, Denmark, and Portugal. He was appointed a fellow of the Royal Society in 1861, and knighted as Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1879. Mueller died in Melbourne and is buried in the small Jewish section of St Kilda Cemetery.$300500293295 A QUEENSLAND MUSICAL AUTOGRAPH BOOK,With entries dated between 1901 and 1909, this delightful little book has been used to collect the autographs, musical and literary quotations of Queensland-based musicians as well as several international visitors to Brisbane during those years. Noted are Nellie Melba (1920), Josef Paderewski (1904), Clara Butt (Rumford), R. Kennerley Rumford (1907), Mary Massie Jefferies, Vada Massie Jefferies, Jessie Niven MacLachlan (May 1905), Ada Crossley, Edward Branscombe, Marie Hooton, Guiseppe Truda (1902), and many others.$8001,200294 295'