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Captain Cook tiles, one featuring H.M.S. Resolution (10.8cm square), two others (both 15cm square), one features Cook and his ship and a modern government boat named Captain Cook, reverse of tile states, 'To commemorate the landing of Captain Cook at Nootka in 1778', the other features bust of Cook and around, 'Captain Cook Bicentennial British Columbia' small base metal bell with image of Endeavour on top; aluminium mugs (3), two large with one coloured red and the other green, and one smaller uncoloured, all with image of Endeavour and all with timber base; circular timber pencil holder and around the middle a leather wrap marked 'Mount Cook Line New Zealand' on opposing sides; leather key holder, marked in gold lettering on one side, 'Greetings from The Hermitage Mt Cook NZ; irregular cut-out shaped piece of timber (27.5x18cm) and across the middle an image of Endeavour with ship's statistics; Nerada Botany Bay Brew tea tin featuring Captain Cook landing at Botany Bay; large pencil (28cm long) marked, 'Cooks' Cottage Melbourne - Australia', with suspension cord; rare Peters Dairy Milk bottle tops featuring the Endeavour and 1770/1970 (4). Very fine - uncirculated. (16)
Estimate $70
SOLD $40
Captain James Cook, extracts from his journal kept during the voyage of H.M.S.Endeavour 1768-1771, together with an original lithograph of Cook at his desk with a map spread out in front, presented by the Committee of the National Library, black on buff coloured paper with evidence of original documents ageing, in timber frame (75x50cm), under perspex. Some toning, otherwise very fine.
Estimate $120
Passed in
Captain James Cook at Botany Bay, a large coloured print of Captain James Cook, Dr. Carl Solander and a Tahitian interpreter at Botany Bay in 1770, in an impressive timber frame (90x73.5cm), under perspex. Extremely fine.
Estimate $200
Passed in
His Majesty's Bark Endeavour, from a watercolour by C.E.Ellwood, a colour print Volume 1 - 1 to 1,000, in black metal frame (51x41cm), under perspex; another, Captain Cook's Ships, H.M.S.Resolution and Adventure in the Long Reach, from an oil painting by F.Holman, 1772, a colour print in black metal frame (51x41cm), under perspex. The second with foxing throughout, the first extremely fine. (2)
Estimate $100
Passed in
Captain James Cook at Nootka Sound, British Columbia, Canada with Cook in a native village talking to Indians with his ships moored in the Sound behind, a 2-page colour spread mounted in a frame (63x48cm), under perspex. Crack in perspex at top right corner, otherwise very fine.
Estimate $50
Passed in
Captain Cook's Family Tree, in black print on white, matt framed under perspex (46.5x36.5cm); Captain Cook Memorial at Kurnell, Sydney, a colour print in frame (42x37cm), under perspex; also Bark Endeavour from an oil painting by F.J.Booth, a colour print in a timber frame (46x37.5cm), under perspex. A few spots of foxing on the white border of the second and third prints, otherwise good very fine. (3)
Estimate $150
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Captain Cook & the Voyage of Endeavour 1768-1771, by Captain Frank Knight, 1968, board cover, 174pp; Endeavour 200, produced exclusively for Australian Hoechst Limited, 1970, hard cover, 64pp; Captain James Cook, by Australian Publishing Co, c1970, soft cover, approx 165; Ships and Seafarers in Australian Waters, by Max Colwell, 1973, hard cover with dust jacket, approx 130pp; The Three Voyages of Captain Cook, by Frank Paluka, 1974, hard cover, 80pp; From Maui to Cook, The Discovery and Settlement of the Pacific, by David Lewis, 1977, hard cover with dust jacket, 212pp; European Voyaging Towards Australia, edited by John Hardy and Alan Frost with assistance of Isabel Moutinho, occasional paper No.9, 1990, soft cover, 171pp; The Illustrated Longitude, by Dava Sobel and William J.H.Andrewes, 1998, soft cover, 216pp; The Replica of H M Bark Endeavour, The story so far: 1987-1994, edited by Mike Lefroy, c1994, soft cover, 52pp; also various leaflets mostly for Captain Cook and includes replica documents and postal cover (9 items). Good - very fine. (18)
Estimate $120
Passed in
The Voyages of Captain Cook, selected and edited by Christopher Lloyd, 1949, hard cover with dust jacket, 383pp, with happy birthday inscription on fly page; Captain Cook, by Alistair Maclean, 1972, hard cover with dust jacket, 192pp; James Cook, Maritime Scientist, by Tom and Cordelia Stamp, 1976, hard cover with dust jacket, 159pp; The Murder of Captain James Cook, by Richard Hough, 1979, hard cover with dust jacket, 271pp; Captain Cook's Final Voyage: The Journal of Midshipman George Gilbert, introduced and edited by Christine Holmes, 1982, hard cover with dust jacket, 158pp; Voyages of Discovery, Captain Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific, by Lynne Withey, 1987, hard cover with dust jacket, 512pp. Some with foxing, mostly fine - very fine. (6)
Estimate $70
SOLD $40
First Voyage, by John Gwyther F.R.G.S., 1954, hard cover, 208pp; Captain Cook, the Seamen's Seaman, by Alan Villiers, 1967 reprinted 1970, soft cover, 326pp; James Cook, by Thea Stanley Hughes, 1981, soft cover, 79pp; The Captain Cook Myth, by Jillian Robertson, 1981, soft cover, 164pp; Captain James Cook, by John Hooker, 1987, soft cover, 257pp; Elizabeth Cook, The Captain's Wife 1741-1835, by Shirley Sinclair, 1995, soft cover, 24pp, signed by author; Captain Cook, Obsession and Betrayal in the New World, by Vanessa Collingridge, c2001, an advance uncorrected proof for editing, soft cover, 376pp; Into the Blue, Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before, by Tony Horwitz, 2002, soft cover, 480pp. Fine - very fine. (7)
Estimate $50
SOLD $30
The Explorations of Captain James Cook in the Pacific as told by Selections of his Own Journals 1768-1779, edited by A. Grenfell Price, 1958, hard cover with dust jacket (cover loose and repaired, fly page with tear), 292pp; Captain Cook and the South Pacific, by Oliver Warner in consultation with Dr. J.C. Beaglehole, 1964, hard cover, 153pp; The Voyages of Captain Cook, by Rex and Thea Rienits, 1968 reprinted 1969, 1970, 1976, hard cover with dust jacket, 157pp; James Cook and New Zealand, by A. Charles Begg and Neil C. Begg, 1969, hard cover, 156pp + plates and text index; Captain James Cook, His Early Life and Voyage of the Endeavour, by William Beard, 1970, hard cover with dust jacket, 32pp; Captain Cook his Artists his Voyages, the Daily Telegraph portfolio of original works, 1970, hard cover with dust jacket, 64pp; Captain Cook Navigator & Scientist, papers presented at the Cook Bicentenary Symposium Australian Academy of Science, Canberra 1 May 1969, edited by G.M. Badger, 1970, hard cover with dust jacket, 143pp; Captain Cook, R.N., The Resolute Mariner, an International Record of Oceanic Discovery, by Thomas Vaughan, 1974, soft cover, 97pp; Captain Cook's Hawaii as seen by his artists, by Anthony Murray-Oliver, 1975, hard cover, 215pp; The British Museum Yearbook 3, Captain Cook and the South Pacific,1979, by various authors, hard cover with dust jacket, 249pp; James Cook Royal Navy, by George Finkel, 1987, hard cover with dust jacket, 224pp. Several with foxing, otherwise good - very fine. (11)
Estimate $130
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Bligh of the Bounty, being the Narrative of the Mutiny of the Bounty and the Voyage in the Open Boat, edited by E.A. Hughes M.A., hard cover, 191pp, inside front cover is bookplate of T.Hanley and with 'Awarded to' sticker from Supt Heathcote PSSM Sunday School 1945; The Pacific Ocean, by Felix Riesenberg, 1947, hard cover, 284pp, includes a chapter on Captain Cook; Darwin and the Beagle, by Alan Moorehead, 1969 reprinted 1971, 1973, 1978, soft cover, 222pp; A Voyage to New Holland, The English Voyage of Discovery to the South Seas in 1699, by William Dampier, edited with an introduction by James Spencer, 1981, hard cover with dust jacket, 256pp; First Impressions, The British Discovery of Australia, by Margaret Steven, 1988, hard cover with dust jacket, 96pp; The National Maritime Museum, The Collections, by Scala Publications, 1990, soft cover, 128pp, includes a feature on James Cook; The Bounty, The True story of the Mutiny on the Bounty, by Caroline Alexander, 2003, soft cover, 491pp; various other books mostly relating to Captain James Cook including several children's books on this subject, all with hard covers (11 includes one duplicate issue). Good - very fine. (18)
Estimate $120
SOLD $70
The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Officer (OBE) (Military type 1), breast badge, in Royal Mint M.B.E. (Mily.) case. Nearly extremely fine.
Estimate $150
SOLD $140
The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Member (MBE) (Military type 2), breast badge, in Royal Mint case of issue. Extremely fine.
Estimate $120
SOLD $120
Second China War Medal 1857-60, - two clasps - Taku Forts 1860, Pekin 1860. Gnr Thos Harris, No.3 B. 13th Bde R.Art. Impressed. Very fine.
Estimate $250
SOLD $550
Afghanistan Medal 1878-80, - clasp - Kandahar. No.2266 Pte V.Trump, Rifle Brie (or Drie). Impressed but worn in parts. Edge bumps, very good.
Estimate $150
SOLD $200
India Medal 1895-1902, - clasp - Relief of Chitral 1895. 4724 Pte H.Billingsley 1st Bn K.R.Rifle Corps. Engraved. Good very fine.
Estimate $350
SOLD $420
Queen's South Africa Medal 1899, (type 3 reverse), - five clasps - Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902. T.Penny. Surgeon. Engraved. Hairlines, otherwise extremely fine.
Estimate $550
SOLD $650
Queen's South Africa Medal 1899, (type 2 reverse), - four clasps - Cape Colony, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Wittebergen. 3601. Pte. B.Hammerton. 17/Lcrs: Engraved. Contact marks, otherwise very fine.
Estimate $150
SOLD $200
China War Medal 1900, G.A.Bristow Ord H.M.S. Dido. Impressed. Good very fine.
Estimate $320
SOLD $400
Tibet Medal 1903-04, in bronze. Cooly Banda Bir Gurung S. & T. Corps. Engraved in running script. Extremely fine.
Estimate $150
SOLD $220
Military Medal, (GVR type 1). 200371, Cpl R.Carruthers. 1/4 R.Lanc:R. Impressed. Contact marks and short cut on king's head, otherwise nearly very fine.
Estimate $500
SOLD $350
Singles: 1914-15 Star; Victory Medal 1914-19; Naval General Service Medal 1915-62, (GVR), - clasp - Persian Gulf 1909-1914; 1939-45 Star; Africa Star. J.35221, H.C.T.Kelley, Boy. 1., R.N. on first medal, 28739 Sjt. J.T.Day. R.E. on second medal, 238267 C. (indecipherable and crudely overnamed) H.M.S. Swiftsure on third medal, last two medals unnamed. Named medals impressed. Five single medals, the second and third medals without ribbons, the last two medals nearly uncirculated, the rest fine - good very fine.
Estimate $200
SOLD $130
Singles: British War Medal 1914-18. 182682 Gnr. H.Styring. R.A. Impressed.; War Medal 1939-45.7128733 Hav. N.Singh I.A.C.C. Impressed.; War Medal 1939-45. NX11344 G.J.Armstrong. Impressed. Three single medals, the first and last without ribbons, very fine.
Estimate $80
SOLD $60
Singles: India General Service Medal 1908-35, (Kaisar-i-Hind), two clasps - Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919, Mahsud 1919-20; another, clasp - Waziristan 1921-24; another (Indiae.Imp), two clasps - North West Frontier 1930-31, Mohmand 1933. 207 Sepoy. Bhan Singh. 1-15 Sikhs. on first medal, SO. 105391 Cl K. S. Fauja Singh, I.A.S.C on second medal, 11955 Sep. Milkhi Ram, 5-10 Baluch R. on last medal. All medals impressed. Three single medals, very fine - good very fine.
Estimate $200
SOLD $150
Single medals. General Service Medals 1918-62, (GVIR), - clasp - Malaya. 5671091 Sgt T.S.Lindsay R.A.M.C.; (EIIR) - Malaya. S/22916453 Pte J.A.Johnson R.A.S.C.; (EIIR) - clasp - Cyprus. 23435609 Pte T.Howell A.C.C. Impressed. Three single medals, very fine.
Estimate $200
SOLD $210
General Service Medal 1918-62, (EIIR Dei Gratia), - clasp - Malaya. H.G. Chen Kok Chee. Malaya H.G. Impressed. Toned, good very fine.
Estimate $60
SOLD $80
General Service Medal 1918-62, (EIIR Dei Gratia), - clasp - Malaya. T/22976325 Dvr. J.Sullivan. R.A.S.C. Impressed. Hairlines, otherwise nearly extremely fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $110
Distinguished Service Cross, (GVIR). An original unnamed issue. Scuffing on reverse, otherwise toned, good very fine.
Estimate $300
SOLD $500
South Atlantic Medal 1982, with rosette (combat zone emblem). AEM(M)1 G W Moon D173102R HMS Hermes. Impressed. Good very fine.
Estimate $750
SOLD $700
Royal Fleet Reserve Long Service and Good Conduct Medal, (GVIR Ind:Imp). An original unnamed issue. Scuffing in obverse field, otherwise good very fine.
Estimate $60
SOLD $90