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

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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
76 [ROBINSON, Tancred, editor ].

An account of several late voyages & discoveries to the south and north, towards the Straights of Magellan, the South Seas, the vast tracts of land beyond Hollandia Nova, &c.

London 1694 AUD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 AUD 13,970.00
77 SHAW, George and NODDER, Frederick.

The naturalist's miscellany, or coloured figures of natural objects, drawn and described immediately from nature. Volume 1[- 11].

[London 1789-1800. AUD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 AUD 30,480.00
78 SMITH, James. Edward.

A specimen of the botany of New Holland. The figures by James Sowerby.

London 1793 [-95. AUD 40,000.00 - 50,000.00 AUD 58,420.00
79 SMITH, James Edward.

Exotic botany: consisting of coloured figures, and scientific descriptions, of such new, beautiful, or rare plants as are worthy of cultivation in the gardens of Britain.

London 1804-[08. AUD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 AUD 17,780.00
80 SOLORZANO, Father Manuel de.

Autograph letter, signed, in Spanish, from the Mariana Islands, to the Duchess of Aveiro in Spain, 25 April 1684:

1684 AUD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 Not Sold
81 [STONEY, Henry Butler].

A year in Tasmania: including some months' residence in the capital; with a descriptive tour through the island from Macquarie Harbour to Circular Head.

Hobart Town 1854 AUD 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
82 STUART, John McDouall.

Explorations in Australia. The journals during the years 1858, 1859, 1860, 1861 & 1862, when he fixed the centre of the continent and successfully crossed it from sea to sea.

London 1864 AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
83 SWEET, Robert.

Flora Australasica; or, a selection of handsome, or curious plants, natives of New Holland and the South Sea Islands; containing coloured figures and descriptions of some of the choicest species most proper for the conservatory or greenhouse.

London 1827-28. AUD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 AUD 4,953.00
84 TASMAN, Abel Janszoon.

Journal of his discovery of Van Diemen's Land and New Zealand in 1642.

Amsterdam 1898 AUD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 AUD 10,160.00
85 THEVENOT, Melchisedec.

Relations de divers voyages curieux, qui n'ont point este publiees.

Paris 1666-72. AUD 80,000.00 - 100,000.00 Not Sold
86 [TYSSOT DE PATOT, Simon].

Voyages et avantures de Jacques Masse.

Bordeaux [but The Hague] 1710 [circa 1714-1717.] AUD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
87 VALENTYN, Francois.

[Oud en nieuw Oost-Indien.

Amsterdam and Dordrecht 1726 AUD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 AUD 13,970.00
88 VENTENAT, Etienne Pierre.

Description des plantes nouvelles et peu connues, cultivees dans le jardin de J.M. Cels.

Paris 1800-03. AUD 20,000.00 - 25,000.00 AUD 45,720.00
89 [WALBEECK, Johannes van, attributed ].

Journael vande Nassausche vloot, ofte beschryvingh vande voyagie om den gantschen aerdt-cloot, gedaen met elf schepen onder't beleydt vanden Admirael Jaques l'Heremite . inde jaeren 1623, 1624, 1625, en 1626.

Amsterdam 1626 AUD 80,000.00 - 100,000.00 Not Sold
90 [WELLS, Lawrence A.].

Journal of the Calvert Scientific Expedition, 1896-7.

Perth 1902 AUD 500.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
91 WENTWORTH, William C.

A statistical account of the British settlements in Australasia, including the Colonies of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land.

London 1824 AUD 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
92 WESTMACOTT, Robert Marsh.

Sketches in Australia, from drawings by Captain R. M. Westmacott.

[Exeter, circa 1852 AUD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 Not Sold
93 WHITECAR, Willam B.

Four years aboard the whaleship. Embracing cruises in the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian and Antarctic Oceans, in the years 1855, '6, '7, '8, '9.

Philadelphia 1860 AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00 AUD 1,016.00
94 AMUNDSEN, Roald.

The South Pole. An account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the 'Fram', 1910-1912.

London 1912 AUD 600.00 - 800.00 AUD 1,270.00
95 APPRENTICESHIP INDENTURE.

Folio leaf, 41 x 25 centimetres, printed and manuscript, dated Sydney 2 May 1823, setting out the strict obligations of the apprentice, an orphan named Charles Gregory, who is to be instructed in the 'art and mystery of a tailor'.

Sydney 2 May 1823 AUD 600.00 - 800.00 AUD 1,079.50
96 [AUSTRALIAN ART MONOGRAPHS].

A group of five volumes, as listed below, all large quartos, illustrated throughout, partly in colour; bound by Richard Griffin in tan leather with brown and khaki inlays, pictorial paper insets and embossed lettering, the endpapers suede-lined: together

AUD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
97 AUSTRALIND.

Plan of the new settlement of Australind in Western Australia, 50 miles distant south of Swan River.

London 1840 AUD 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
98 BATAVIASCHE KOLONIALE COURANT.

Volume 1 numbers 1-52 - Volume 2 numbers 1-31.

Batavia 1810-11. AUD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
99 BLAND, William.

Atmotic ship.

Sydney circa 1866. AUD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 Not Sold
100 BLIGH, William.

A voyage to the South Sea . for the purpose of conveying the bread-fruit tree to the West Indies, in His Majesty's Ship The Bounty, commanded by Lieutenant William Bligh.

Dublin 1782 AUD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
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