b'45304 309 A pair of Bank of Van Diemens Land cheques, dated FAWKNER, John Pascoe. 19th and 20th October 1830, instructing the Cashier of theThe Melbourne Advertiser Port Phillip AustraliaBank, to pay to two different payees the sums of elevenNo.1, Written for, and Published by, John P Fawknerpounds 14/- Sterling and Nine pounds two shillings & 8and dated January 1st 1838pence Sterling and place the funds into the account ofLithographed.James Kelly, who has signed both cheques. (2 items). The first number of the first Melbourne newspaper, here James Kelly (1791-1859), sealer, pilot and harbourmaster,reproduced in a scarce nineteenth-century facsimile edition.was born in Parramatta. He travelled extensively including[Melbourne: Peter Alcock and George Robertson, 1869.]circumnavigating Van Diemens Land, and discovering PortNot surprisingly, copies of the original issues are of the Davey and Macquarie Harbour. Kelly was appointed pilot andutmost scarcity; accordingly, this rare facsimile edition was harbourmaster at the Derwent and later as pilot he was engagedprinted in 1869 by Peter Alcock and sold by Robertson as a in whaling and, with additional land ownership, he became antribute to Fawkner, the pioneering publisher of the Port Phillip important citizen in Hobart. Kelly suffered personal and shippingdistrict. Fawkner, who some years previously had been an losses in the 1830s and by the 1840s, with the depression, hisinnkeeper in Van Diemens Land, by all impressions was a losses were heavy, forcing him to assign his property to creditorsman of indefatigable industry and enthusiasm. He perceived and later accept employment from the port authorities again. Hethe need for a circular newspaper in the newly established died in Hobart on 20 April 1859. The Bank of Van Diemens Landcolony and, not easily discouraged by the lack of moveable was founded in Hobart in 1823 it closed on 4 August 1891. (2) type, press and a printer to work it, Fawkner proceeded nonetheless with handwritten bulletins. Differences in the $300400 script between the handful of extant copies indicate that Fawkner had an assistant to help him with this task.305 Ferguson notes that numbers 1-9 of The Melbourne Advertiser of HUNTER, John January and February 1838 were handwritten, and that numbersTHE WORKS OF JOHN HUNTER, F.R.S. 10-17 were typeset. It was at that stage that the publication was with Notes. Edited by James F. Palmer. suppressed by Captain Lonsdale as Fawkner had not complied [Longman, Rees, Orme,, London, 1835] In four volumes,with the provisions of the Newspaper Act which required him Illustrated by a fifth volume of Plates in Quarto.to forward recognisances and swear an affidavit in Sydney.Green cloth bindings split in places with some losses,$350500including original paper labels. (5 volumes in total)$500750310 FAWKNER, John Pascoe.306 The Melbourne Advertiser Port Phillip AustraliaSTOKES, J. Lort No.2, Written for, and Published by, Jn P Fawkner DISCOVERIES IN AUSTRALIA; with an Account of the dated January 8th 1838Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed during the VoyageLithographed.of H.M.S. BEAGLE, in the Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. The second number of the first Melbourne newspaper, here [T & W Boone, London, 1846] Hardcover. First Edition.reproduced in a scarce nineteenth-century facsimile edition.In two volumes. xii, 521pp; viii, 543pp. Ex Library set[Melbourne: Peter Alcock and George Robertson, 1869.]with most maps non-original, one plate non-original,$350500 foxing an other faults. A good user copy.The third surveying voyage of the BEAGLE, during which the North-West and Western Coasts of Australia, also Bass Strait, Port Essington, the Gulf of Carpentaria and Torres Strait, etc., were surveyed. Stokes was Lieutenant under Commander Wickham, but succeeded to the command when Wickham was invalided home. Sir George (then Lieutenant) Grey came out from Plymouth with the expedition, and he and his party were landed at Hanover Bay, W.A., to commence his first Western Australian expedition. (2)$350500 3071850s - 1890s accumulation of commercial letters, receipts,Bank of New South Wales sight notes, and legal documents, mostly pertaining to the commercial undertakings and affairs of Thomas Cooper, Jnr of Waterloo Warehouse, Sydney. (44 items).$200300 308SMITH, Philip AN ANCIENT HISTORY FROM THE EARLIEST RECORDS TO THE FALL OF THE WESTERN EMPIRE.[London: James Walton, 1868]. Three volumes, contemporarycalf with gilt borders and emblem of Dorset County School, raised bands, spine compartments with ornate design, red and green morocco labels, marbled edges and endpapers. With numerous fold-out maps and in-text maps. Front flyleaf with inked prize presentation: Divinity & Mathematics.June 22nd, 1869.$300500309'