Peter Arnold: John Alexander Collection - Australia before European Settlement and Natural History, 71925, Prahran VIC

Auction Details

Auction Date: July 19, 2025 - July 19, 2025

Page Size: 168 items in 7 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
26	DICK, James.	A geological and prospecting expedition which filled many blank spaces on the map. Mr R. L. Jack, geologist and Mr James Crosbie, prospector.	Port Douglas	1913	AUD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	AUD 1,143.00
27	DIGGLES, Silvester.	Companion to Gould's handbook; or, a synopsis of the birds of Australia.	Brisbane	1877	AUD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00	AUD 24,130.00
28	DUDLEY, Sir Robert.	Carta particolare della costa Australe scoperta dall' Olandesi.	[Florence	1646	AUD 14,000.00 - 16,000.00	AUD 17,145.00
29	EYRE, Edward John.	Journals of expeditions of discovery into central Australia, and overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound in the years 1840-41.	London	1845	AUD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	AUD 6,985.00
30	FLEURIEU, Charles Pierre Claret, compte de.	Discoveries of the French in 1768 and 1769, to the south-east of New Guinea, with the subsequent visits to the same lands by English navigators, who gave them new names.	London	1791	AUD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00	AUD 12,065.00
31	FLINDERS, Matthew.	Matthew Flinders's narrative of his voyage in the Schooner Francis, 1798.	[London],	1946	AUD 800.00 - 1,500.00	AUD 952.50
32	[FOIGNY, Gabriel de].	A new discovery of Terra Incognita Australis, or the southern world, by James Sadeur, a Frenchman, who, being cast there by a shipwrack, lived thirty-five years in that country, and gives a particular description of the manners, customs, religion, laws, s	London	1693	AUD 12,000.00 - 15,000.00	AUD 25,400.00
33	FORSTER, George.	A voyage round the world in His Majesty's Britannic Sloop Resolution, commanded by Captain James Cook, during the years 1772, 3, 4, and 5.	London	1777	AUD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	AUD 16,510.00
34	FOSTER, Thomas.	Review of the labours of several explorers of Australia. Also, the narrative of Mr. John King, sole survivor of the Burke and Wills expedition.	Melbourne and Sydney	1863	AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00	AUD 3,556.00
35	GOLD FIELDS AND EUREKA.	A group of Victorian Parliamentary Papers, Melbourne, 1851-58:	Melbourne	1851-58:	AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00	AUD 2,032.00
36	GOULD, John.	A synopsis of the birds of Australia, and the adjacent islands.	London,	1837-38 [but 1840s.	AUD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00	AUD 12,065.00
37	GOULD, John.	The birds of Australia and the adjacent islands.	London,	1837-38.	AUD 80,000.00 - 100,000.00	AUD 101,600.00
38	GOULD, John.	A monograph of the Macropididae, or family of kangaroos.	London	1841-42.	AUD 18,000.00 - 25,000.00	Not Sold
39	GOULD, John.	The mammals of Australia.	London	1845-63.	AUD 150,000.00 - 180,000.00	Not Sold
40	[HALL, Joseph].	The discovery of a new world, or a discovery of the South Indies hitherto unknowne.	[London	1609	AUD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00	AUD 17,145.00
41	HARRIS, John.	Navigantium atque itinerantium bibliotheca. Or a complete collection of voyages and travels .	London	1764	AUD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00	AUD 9,525.00
42	THE HISTORY OF NEW HOLLAND, from its first discovery in 1616 to the present time.	With a particular account of its produce and inhabitants and a description of Botany Bay.	London	1787	AUD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	AUD 2,413.00
43	HODGKINSON, Clement.	Australia, from Port Macquarie to Moreton Bay, with descriptions of the natives, their manners and customs; the geology, natural productions, fertility and resources of that region; first surveyed and explored by order of the Colonial Government.	London	1845 [but 1844.	AUD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00	AUD 6,096.00
44	HOLT, Joseph.	Memoirs of Joseph Holt, general of the Irish rebels in 1798. Edited from his original manuscript by T. Crofton Croker.	London	1838	AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00	AUD 952.50
45	JACK, Robert Logan.	Northmost Australia. Three centuries of exploration, discovery and adventure in and around the Cape York Peninsula.	London	1921	AUD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	AUD 2,159.00
46	JUKES, Joseph Beete.	A sketch of the physical structure of Australia so far as it is present known.	London	1850	AUD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	AUD 30,480.00
47	JUST, Patrick.	Australia; or notes taken during a residence in the colonies from the gold discovery in 1851 till 1857.	Dundee	1859	AUD 600.00 - 800.00	AUD 2,286.00
48	KELLY, Alexander C.	The vine in Australia.	Melbourne and Sydney	1861	AUD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00	AUD 3,302.00
49	KING, Phillip Parker.	Narrative of a survey of the intertropical and western coasts of Australia performed between the years 1818 and 1822.	London	1827	AUD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	Not Sold
50	KING, Phillip Parker.	Description of the north-east coast of Australia [Contained in The Nautical Magazine, volume III, numbers 25-27, London, March-May, 1834].		1834	AUD 600.00 - 800.00	AUD 952.50

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