b'1761111 Contents include a 32cm x 88cm fold-out chromolithograph AFTER| GEORGE FRANKLANDView of Ballaarat and a 37cm x 62cm fold-out Plan of the (BRITISH, 18001838) Ballarat and Sebastopol Gold Mines; illustrations include reward-for-capture notices, proclamations & licences. One chapter is Governor Daveys Proclamation To The Aborigines, 1816, devoted to the Eureka Stockade; 362pp hardbound.c1880s watercolour and ink drawing, captioned in image, $150200 40 x 23.4cm. [Unknown date, but 2nd half 19th century.]This proclamation presents a four-strip pictogram that1116attempts to explain the idea of equality under the law. Those who committed violent crimes in Van Diemens Land, be theyLEAVITT, T.W.H and LILBURN, W.D.Aboriginal Australian or European settler, would be The JUBILEE HISTORY of VICTORIA and MELBOURNE. punished in the same way. ILLUSTRATEDIncorrectly attributed to Governor Thomas Davey (17581823),[Melbourne; Duffus Bros., 1888] Volume 1 (of 2)this proclamation is in fact by Governor George Arthur (1784 4to. Orig. half roan over gilt titled red cloth boards.1854) from around 1828. also,The proclamation first appeared painted on a timber board,BLAIR, Daviddesigned by George Frankland in 1829, and around 100 copies inCyclopaedia of Australasia; or, Dictionary of Facts, Events, oil were subsequently produced to be hung on trees. Dates, Persons, and Places.to the year 1881In 1866 the proclamation board was reproduced as a lithograph[Melbourne; Fergusson and Moore, 1881] 780pp + xv.for display and sale at the Intercolonial Exhibition held in$250350 Melbourne. It was mistakenly attributed to Thomas Daveys governorship of Van Diemens Land from 1812 to 1817. 1117The lithographs were reissued again in 1867 for the ParisTHE AUSTRALIAN IRRIGATION COLONIES ILLUSTRATED on Exposition Universelle and are now erroneously known asthe River Murray in VICTORIA and SOUTH AUSTRALIA,Governor Daveys Proclamation. [Chaffey Bros., London : 1888], hard cover folio edition, half This hand-drawn copy of the proclamation is believed to bered morocco with embossed gilt lettering and coat of arms based on the 1866 lithograph. to the front boards, with numerous attractive and fascinating advertisements.At least four variant lithographic images are held in AustralianIssued in association with the 1888 Melbourne International museums. Exhibition.$3,0005,000 $300400 1112 1118CITY OF RICHMOND, VICTORIA: 1884 - 1898 Corporation[FRENCH CHILDRENS BOOK]of the City of Richmond salary sheets comprising the hand- Emile PECHwritten name, position, amount of pay and the signature ofUn oncle dAustralieevery employee. [Paris : Jouvet & Cie, c1895]Several Richmond street names recall some of the signatoriesQuarto, gilt decorated green cloth, spine with gilt decoration, on these 21 pages, which include Thomas Gardner, Alex286pp, illustrated with 73 gravures in the text.Edward Butler, Charles Blazey, Richard Miles Page (Inspector ofalso, another example in quarter red calf over red pebbled cloth. Nuisances), Alfre Clayton, William Cuddon, etc. (2 vols.)$300500A French childrens story in which much of the story is set in Australia - in particular Melbourne and Ballarat and the 1113 inheritance of a fortune made on the goldfields.THACKERAY, William Makepeace $150200 The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray,illustrated by the author and Richard Doyle, 1119Published by Smith, Elder, & Co., London, 1886-88, Timber Building At Murtoa, For Mrs McKean scale 8 feet to 1 an incomplete set of 13 volumes, uniformly bound inch, original architectural plans, ink and watercolour, 19th century,half calf, with marbled endpapers and gilt titles 51 x 73cm, frame 75 x 97cmon red and green spine labels. $300500Titles include Lovel the Widower, Sketches and Travelsin London, The Irish Sketch Book, The Virginians,Vanity Fair, The Adventures of Philip, etc.$150250 1114RUSKIN, JohnPRAETERITA - Outlines of Scenes and Thoughts Perhaps Worthy of the Memory of My Past LifeThree Volumes - First Edition[Published by George Allen, Sunnyside, Orpington, Kent, 1886]original half-vellum bindings.$100150 1115History of Ballarat - From the First Pastoral Settlement to the Present Time by W.B. Withers (1887, revised 2nd edition) published by F.W. Niven & Co (Ballarat), bound in olive-green cloth boards with gilt decoration. 1119'