b'84532H.M.S. COSSACK: Album of 19th Centurysilver gelatin photographs tracing the voyage of the Cossack from Sydney to Melbourne, Hobart, Fiji & on to England. Many photos captioned & pages adorned with superb cartoon caricatures & dated 1873. The Cossack was originally commissioned by the Russian Navy but was commandeered at the start of the Crimean War by the British & she was sent into battle at Fort Gotland in 1855. She then went on to serve in the Cape Colony, China Station, New Zealand & the Australia Station. The Cossack was instrumental in the fight against Blackbirding in the South Seas & the court-martial of Dr. James Patrick Murray of the Carl for murdering ex 529 70 Islanders was conducted onboard. Of note are a series of photographs of Levuka Fiji. (59 photographs)529 $2,5003,000UNKNOWN SOLDIER/ARTIST WITH A SENSE OF HUMOUR A pair of pen and watercolour illustrations titled Ocean Islanders5331941 and Ocean Islanders 1946. The first image depicts TASMANIAN PHOTOGRAPHS two lovely young island girls (Taken shortly after a garrison of Australian soldiers had landed there.) The second image, showsby Samuel Cliffordmamma surrounded by her little brood and wearing anAn old-time album, circa 1875, Australian flag and an Australian slouch hat (It will be noticedtitled TASMANIAN SCENCES that contact with Australian soldiers has influenced their culture.) on the front cover and with S. each approx. 23 x 29cm. (2) Clifford, Photographer, Hobart Town $400500 in manuscript on the blank front endpaper. The album contains 24 albumen paper prints, each approx. 10.5 x 18cm, laid 530 down two per page and all attractively An Australian custom made hunting knife with stunningly annotated below the images. forged Damascus steel blade, stamped HAGENS, 20th century Several variants of Samuel Cliffords 36cm long commercially produced Tasmanian Scenes $400600 photograph albums are recorded in Australian collections (five in Tasmanian collections and one in the State Library of PHOTOGRAPHS & New South Wales). Four of these recorded530albums contain only 12 prints; one holds PHOTOGRAPHY EQUIPMENT 24 prints; and the largest has 144 prints. There appears to be so much variety in the content of these albums that it appears likely that they were made to order, with 531 the prints being selected by the client and mounted within Cliffords ready-made bindings, making each album unique.AUSTRALIA: c1865 stereo-view titled verso Dights Falls (showing the paper mills in the background); a mountedAlso, a small album with mainly late 19th Century photograph, circa 1890 by J.H.Garden of Dulwich (depictingphotographs (various photographers), mostly annotated and shearers, ewes and fleeces at Pulpara Station); 2 RP postcardsa loose photograph (believed to be by Henry Hall Baily,depicting the King Edward VII balloon taking off and in flight from$500750the Melbourne Exhibition Buildings, plus 3 other items. (7)$150250 ex 532'