b'52325 329NEW YORK TIMES - CIVIL WAR ERA - Lee Surrenders,HOBART TOWN GAZETTE - TASMANIA - 1875:Lincoln Assassination & Death of John Wilkes Booth: 1865Dec.21 (No.5086) edition with content including timetable editions comprising (Apr.10) headed Hang Out Your Bannersfor mail between England and Tasmania, via Point De Galle & and Union, Victory! Peace! - Surrender of General Lee and HisMelbourne for year ending December 31st 1876, Assessment Whole Army with transcript of War Department order for aRoll for George Town District, Land and Works Office notice National Two Hundred Guns Salute following General Leesof auction for leases including that of Maria Island; plus surrender on April 9; (April 17) mourning edition headed Ourgovernment, rural municipality and court notices.Great Loss following Lincolns assassination on April 15 with$100150 articles including Last Moments of the President, The Great Calamity and the Inauguration of Andrew Johnson; (Apr.29)330edition with article headed Booths Fate detailing the April 26 capture and death of Lincolns assassin, plus analysis of theAUSTRALIAN PETS colour lithograph supplement from the surrender of General Joseph Johnston and the ConfederateIllustrated Australian News, December, 1876,Army of Tennessee. Three important editions individuallysheet size 58 x 38cmpresented in beautiful gilt-lettered and dated hardbound folios$100200 (43.5 x 57.5cm). (3 folios)$250300331A DEED FOR LAND BOUGHT IN THE NEW HEBRIDES326 (NOW VANUATU), AUGUST 1879[BENJAMIN ISAACS, PRINTER, PUBLISHER & JOURNALISTA signed and sealed indenture recording the fact that one 1796 - 1881] VICTOR NISSEN of Sydney, New South Wales has acquired 1867 - 1878 group of six different printed receipts signed bysome land at Black Beach on the west coast of Tanna Island, Isaacs on behalf of his Albion Printing Office at Windsor where,New Hebrides:for a time, he had published The Windsor Advocate. TheWittnessed that in consideration of the sum of 600 Dollars or receipts are mostly to the Richmond Road Trust for printingsame value represented by 20 Muskets, 1 cases of tobacco, circulars, tenders for repairs, etc. (6 items). 160 Tomahawks, 250 pipes and 1 bottle of liquor the land was Born in London, Isaacs (son of Jacob & Esther Isaacs) arrived inwell and truly paid for and witnessed by those present, which Sydney in 1832 and worked as an overseer at Edward Smith- included a number of local chiefs. There are a number of marks Halls Monitor and as a printer and publisher at Parramatta,made by the native chiefs, signatures of witnesses, a hand-intermittently, for about 13 years. During that period he returneddrawn map of the subject land and several seals. A document to England (1836-38) and also spent some time in New Zealandwith much research potential.where he conducted the Bay of Islands Advocate from 1843- It appears that Mr Nissen had been involved in cotton farming 44. On his return to Sydney, Isaacs opened a printing businesson the West Coast of Tanna since at least the early 1870s. There in Bent Street and in February 1848 founded the Bathurstare details of several European settlers employing indentured Advocate. In August 1852 he established the Goulburnlabour on their plantations. Later, in the late-1880s, he attempted Times. The Bathurst Free Press questioned whetherto establish ostrich farming in New Zealand. It would appear that the district of Goulburn contains a population sufficientlynone of his schemes prospered as the Sydney Morning Herald numerousto maintain two newspapers and perceptivelyof 14 December 1907 reported that A Dane named Victor observed that time would solve the problem. It did; theEnglistoft Aniello Nissen, 79 years of age, was found guilty of Goulburn Times died in infancy. vagrancy at the police court today, and sentenced to six months Benjamin Isaacs left Bathurst through the inconvenience andhard labour in Maitland Gaol. The evidence given showed that losses caused by an action for libel brought against him by thethe accused made a practice of staying at boarding-houses, Chief Constable. From Bathurst , he went to Windsor, whereand not paying. Sergeant Wensor stated that he owned 100 to he lived for more than 20 years and where he started a weeklyboarding-house-keepers in Sydney and Maitland.paper known as The Windsor Advocate. The paper failed,$300500however, but Mr. Isaacs continued in business as a job printer; the receipts offered here being rare remnants of that business. 332Isaacs married three times; all his wives were named Elizabeth.$200300AUSTRALIAN HISTORY: selection incl. Voyage of Discovery to Terra Australis by Willem De Vlamingh in 1696-97 by Playford, Victorian Year Book for 1884-85,Brisbane Town in 327 Convict Days 1824-1842 by Steele, Brisbane in the 1890s by LEWIS & WHITTY chromolithograph soap advertising poster,Lawson, The Russians in Hobart 1823 by Barratt; also noted 19th century. Antarctica - A Biography by David Day. Plenty of interest. (25)Manufacturers Factories Charles St. Fitzroy & Bridge Rd.$250350 Richmond, Office Flinders Lane W. Melbourne,printed by Charles Troedel & Co. Melbourne & Sydney. 33357 x 44cm$200300THE FIRST ITALIAN TO CIRCUMNAVIGATE THE WORLDDE AMEZAGA, Comandante Carlo (1835 - 1899)328 Viaggio di Circumnavigazione della regia corvetta Caracciolo MOSTLY EUROPEAN & ASIAN GROUP: incl. Bangkok Then(Comandante C. de Amezaga), negli anni 1881-82-83-84.and Now by van Beek, Postcards of Old Siam by Davis,[Roma, Forzani e Comp., 1885] Volume 1; rebound in blue half calf Edwardian London by Barker, Pioneer of the Pacific bywith grey boards; green and red spine labels, new end papers. Rigby, der Merwe & Williams, Amercan Vandal - Mark TwainFolding maps, engravings, lithographs 332 pp, index; untrimmed.Abroad by Morris, Russian in Pacific Waters 1715-1825 byThe route of the Caracciola included the east coast of Australia, Barratt, Squadron - Ending African Slave Trade by Broich; alsowith chapters devoted to Sydney, Townsville and Thursday a bound volume of 1870 July to December issues of IllustratedIsland.De Amezaga was the first Italian to perform the London News. (15 items) circumnavigation of the globe, collecting and describing many $150250artefacts that can still be seen at the naval museum of Genoa. De Amezaga had travelled westward touching points such as'