b'47315QUEENSLAND AT THE 1876 PHILADELPHIACENTENNIAL EXHIBITIONIlluminated presentation certificate, hand-illustrated and with calligraphy by H.W.Fox, the recipient being ANGUS MACKAY,who was the Commissioner for Queensland at the exhibition, which took place between May and November 1876. The certificate is dated 27th February, 1877 and is signed on behalf of your Fellow Colonists by W.W. Cairns, the Governor of Queensland between 1875 and 1877. Framed & glazed; overall 55.5 x 40cm.$500750316BLAIR, David, THE HISTORY OF AUSTRALASIA, Published by McGready, Thomson & Niven [Glascow, Melb. Dunedin, 1879], full red morocco with embossed gilt boards and spine with Australian coat of arms, full gilt edging, hinges splitting boards worn and losses to the bottom of the spine, internally good condition$80120 317NEWSPAPER COVERAGE OF THE KELLYGANG - November 1878 to April 1881A fascinating collection of 48 original complete newspapers,all of which provide significant coverage of the activities, capture, deaths and trial of the members of the Kelly Gang. Starting with the Sydney Morning Herald of November 12, 1878, with the heading The Bushranging Outrages in Victoria to the SMH of January 1, 1879, with the heading Five Thousand Pounds reward - The Kelly Gang Still at Large and the SMH of June 28, 1880, with Fresh Outrage by the Kelly Gangand the Otago Times of July 8, 1880 which carried The Kelly Gang - Interview with Ned Kelly. The South Australian Register of July 10, 1880, carries two full pages titled The Victorian Bushranger - Destruction of the Kelly Gang while the SMH of July 13, 1880, reported on The Black Trackers and the Kelly Gang followed on July 15 by Capture of the Kelly Gang. There are numerous articles over several months regarding the Trial of Ned Kelly and theex 317collection concludes with coverage of the execution and a report detailing The Rewards for the Apprehension of the Kellys.Overall in excellent condition, this assemblage of contemporary319reportage provides a remarkable insight into the way the mediaMELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION 1880 - 1881 of the day dealt with one of the most notorious and fascinatingOFFICIAL RECORDepisodes in Australias history. The Kelly legend lives on to[Melbourne; Mason, Firth & Mcutcheon, 1882] this day with new books, films and documentaries appearingxxiv (adverts) + clxviii + 681 + xxvii; cloth boards at regular intervals; it is fascinating to read these first reportswith leather spine by Detmold; gilt titles.without the overlay of later scholarship or analysis. [A full list of$150200 the newspapers and the relevant articles accompanies the lot.] (48) 320$3,0004,000 Picturesque Atlas of Australasia by the Hon.Andrew Garran [Syd., Melb.,Lon., USA, 1886], 3 Vol. 318 Rebound quarter Morocco with canvas cloth boards, BLAIR, David full gilt edging and embossed gilt title to spines The History of Australasia From the First Dawn of Discovery$400600 in the Southern Ocean to the Establishment of Self-Government in the Various Colonies.[Glasgow, Melbourne,321and Dunedin - McGready, Thomson and Niven; 1879] 711pp.LEAVITT, T.W.H and LILBURN, W.D.Comprising the settlement and history of New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Queensland, WesternThe JUBILEE HISTORY of VICTORIA and Australia, Tasmania and New Zealand, together with someMELBOURNE. ILLUSTRATEDaccount of Fiji and New Guinea. Illustrated throughout[Melbourne; Duffus Bros., 1888] Volume 1 (of 2)with fourteen tinted plates and five coloured maps; gilt4to. Orig. half roan over gilt titled red cloth boards.decorated morocco binding with embossed coat of arms. also,$100150BLAIR, DavidCyclopaedia of Australasia; or, Dictionary of Facts, Events, Dates, Persons, and Places.to the year 1881[Melbourne; Fergusson and Moore, 1881] 780pp + xv. (2)$500750 '