b'35BOOKS & HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS152 Thomas Muir, a Glasgow lawyer, was one of a group of five Assorted trade catalogues, cigarette cards and ephemeraradicals known as the Scottish Martyrs, sentenced in 1794 to 14 including McPhersons Engineering, Alstons Patent Steelyears transportation for sedition. As one of New South Wales Windmills, Lysaght Bros. and lots more earliest political prisoners, Muir was permitted two convict $200400servants and purchased a brick house at Sydney Cove as well as a farm across the water, two miles distant.Muir escaped from Botany Bay in 1796 and managed to reach 153 France, where he died in 1799. This poem, addressed to Henry [AN EARLY HISTORY OF EUROPE] Erskine, a fellow radical, was actually written by Rev. George Matthew PARIS (English, circa 1200 - 1259) Hamilton. It describes the condition of the convicts and satirises Matthaei Paris Monachi Albanensis Angli,Muirs political ideas.Historia Major. Justa Exemplar Londinense 1640. $400600 verbatim recusa. Et cum Rogeri Wendoveri,Williemi Rishangeri, authorisque majori minorquehistoriis, chronicisque MSS, in Biblioteca Regia, 157Collegii Corporis Christi Cantabrigiae, Cottoniaque< John Preston NEALE (1780 - 1847)fideliter collata. The History and Antiquities of the Abbey Church of St. Peter, [London, Abel Swale, 1686] WESTMINSTER : including Notices and Biographical Memoirs of folio, full vellum, gilt lettered calf title label, the Abbots and Deans of that Foundation.bookplate of George Chetwynd to pastedown. Illustrated by John Preston Neale.The definitive edition of Paris historical chronicle of The whole of the Literary Department by Edward Wedlake European history, edited and added to by noted 17th Century Brayley.theologians and scholars. [London : J.P. Neale, 1818 - 1823] two volumes. (2)$100200$300500 154 158[CAPTAIN JAMES COOK, R.N.] [ATLAS]The Gentlemans Magazine for July 1784, A. LESAGE (pseud.); (Comte de las Cases)[London : Printed by J. Nichols, for D. Henry,Atlas historique, genealogique, chronologique etlate of St. Johns Gate, July 1784] geographique de A. Lesage.being the first number of vol. LIV part II. [Paris : Chez Dolloye; c.1837]Octavo, disbound, frontispiece, folding copper engraving afterFolio, bound in contemporary quarter morocco over marbled John Webber (A Canoe of the Sandwich Islands and with aboards; spine with gilt lettering and ornament; unpaginated, second plate showing engravings of the Royal Societys medalall tables and maps coloured by a contemporary hand, as for Captain Cook, described in detail in a letter to the editor atissued, including a mappe-monde showing the voyages of the p.483.) great navigators.$200300The Comte de Las Cases first published his atlas in 1802 under the pseudonym A. Lesage. It proved to be very popular and was 155 subsequently issued in several editions.[SHIPWRECK OF THE GUARDIAN, 1789] The present example is one of the latest ones, despite which Melancholy Disaster of his majestys ship The Guardian, Australia is still shown as Nouvelle HollandeBound to Botany Bay with Stores and Convicts, Lieut. Riou, $200300 Commander, Which struck on an island of ice, December 24, 1789; Providential Escape of part of the crew in boats, Fortitude159of the Captain, and wonderful recovery of the vessel. Also an[MELBOURNE GARRICK CLUB]account of an Indian woman, &c. Amateur Performance in aid of.the Benevolent Asylum,[London : Thomas Tegg, 1809] 28pp, 1 folding plate.June 4th, 1856, at the Olympic Theatre.Ferguson 464. Broadside with original silk and fine lace border,Extracted from the Mariners marvelous Magazine or wonders31 x 28cmof the ocean, containing narratives of the most noted shipwrecksPrinted at the Auction Mart Daily Advertiser Office, and disasters at sea. 23 Collins Street, East.The Guardian, laden with two years provisions for the new colony, left London in July 1789, but was wrecked on an icebergAn apparently unrecorded broadside from the earliest days of twelve days out of Cape Town. Melbourne theatre, advertising a charity performance staged $300500by the Garrick Club at George Coppins Olympic Theatre (on the corner of Exhibition & Lonsdale Streets).156 $300500 Thomas MUIR (1765 - 1799) and George HAMILTON (1783 - 1830) 160The TELEGRAPH; a CONSOLATORY EPISTLE from Prince Alfred In Victoria, Narrative Of The Visit Of His Royal Thomas Muir, Esq. of Botany Bay Highness The Duke Of Edinburgh To The Colony Of Victoria, Quarto, disbound, pp 11, [1], front with mss note in pencil datedAustralia Compiled by J.G. Knight [Melb. 1868], blue cloth 1820, referring to Muirs handwriting and Hunters Hill. boards with embossed gilt border and pictorial cover, corners a One of three variant quarto editions, this being the issue withlittle chipped and boards a bit grubby, otherwise good firm copy.signature B at the foot of page 5. Ferguson 242. $100200 '