Catalogue
World pictorial books, AIT, Invisible Bridges; Wade-Mathews, Great Railway Journeys of the World; National Geographic Society. 100 years of Adventure and Discovery; NGS, 100 best pictures; NGS, Wild Animals of north America; National Geographic, The Photographs; The Book of Best Kept Secrets; Life, One Nation, America Remembers Sept. 11, 2001; Davis, Hong Kong Through the Looking Glass; NGS, Orbit (Earth photos from Space); NGS, The Builders, Marvels of Engineering; Reader's Digest, The Living World of Animals; Beach, Keeping the Promise; The Reader's Digest Book of World Travel; NGS, Discovering Britain and Ireland; NGS, Journey into China. Nearly new. (16)
Estimate $100
SOLD $90
World pictorial books, National Geographic Society. 100 years of Adventure and Discovery with expansion to 110 years; NGS, Photographs, Then and Now; NGS, Peoples and Places of the Past; NGS, Atlas of the World; Burrows, Compassionate Photographer; NGS, Images of the World; NGS, Exploring the Deep Frontier; Bolles, The Beauty of America; Wells, Titanic, Legacy of the World's Greatest Ocean Liner; Kennedy, The Death of the Tirpitz; Sawada, Dusty Death (Photos of Viet-Nam War). (11)
Estimate $100
SOLD $70
Lease and indenture on vellum, 3rd July 1801, for 99 years, with two wax seals and two impressed duty stamps. Very fine.
Estimate $50
SOLD $300
Van Diemen's Land. Conditional Pardon, No.1180 granted to John Drane tried at Hobart Town and sentenced for seven years, signed and sealed by Lieutenant Governor Sir William Thomas Denison, dated 30th November, 1848. On vellum. Very fine.
Estimate $500
SOLD $1,050
Convict Discipline and Transportation. An Act for the Transportation of Offenders from Great Britain, 21st June 1824; An Act for punishing Offences committed by Transports kept to labour in the Colonies; and better regulating the Powers of Justices of the Peace in New South Wales, 22nd June 1825; An Act to amend the Law relative to Offences punishable by Transportation for Life, 17th July 1837; Further Correspondence on the subject of Convict Discipline and Transportation, 15 April 1847, includes New South Wales, Transmitting Memorials against the revival of transportation into the Colony; and a Report from the Select Committee on the renewal of transportation; and Van Diemen's Land, State of Discipline of the Probation Gangs at Oyster Cove. With foxing and tears to page edges, otherwise fine. (4)
Estimate $300
SOLD $360
Transportation Bill. A Bill to amend an Act for the Transportation of Offenders from Great Britain, and for punishing Offences committed by Transports kept to labour in the Colonies, dated 8 June 1830. Very fine. (2)
Estimate $100
SOLD $130
Van Diemen's Land. Duplicate Assignment List of 312 male convicts embarked on the Ship 'Rodney' for Van Diemen's Land, with accompanying letter, dated 19 August 1850. Some foxing, otherwise very fine.
Estimate $150
SOLD $900
Victorian Government reports, 1853 and 1854, relating to Prisoners Committals-Trials, 1st July 1851 to 30th June 1853 and 1st July to 30th June 1854. Very fine. (2)
Estimate $100
SOLD $0
Victorian Government reports, 1854, Returns of Offenders; 1854-5, Convictions under the Convicts Prevention Act; 1856-7, Regulations for the Employment of Convict Labor. Very fine. (3)
Estimate $120
SOLD $0
Victorian Government reports, 1858, 1859 on Criminal Statistics including Offences and other particulars of Prisoners, Prisoners on Board Penal Hulks, Ticket of Leave Holders. Very fine. (2)
Estimate $100
SOLD $70
Report. Return to an Address of the House of Lords, dated 3rd July 1857, for Correspondence relative to the Murder of the late Mr John Price of Melbourne, Inspector of Convicts. Very fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $150
Victoria, documents from the County Court Benalla, High Court, Supreme Court of Victoria, including Affidavits, Order on Appeal, Transcripts, briefs, dated 1896 to 1911; together with newspaper clippings. Fine - very fine. (23)
Estimate $100
SOLD $100
New South Wales, Abstract of the Title of Messrs. Thomas William Shepherd, David Shepherd and Patrick Lindsay Crawford Shepherd to land in and around Sydney, known as The Darling Nursery Estate, includes a copy of the last Will of Thomas Shepherd, document covers from 12th August 1835 to 15th March 1856. Some foxing and tears to folds, otherwise very fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $0
New South Wales. Improvement Lease for a parcel of land of nine thousand eight hundred acres in the parish of Bourke, county of Cooper to Telford Mackenzie Young and Charles Mackenzie Young of Myatt Creek, Inverell, signed and sealed by Governor Sir Harry H Rawson, 14th August, 1902.
Estimate $120
SOLD $0
Victoria. Legal documents including Equitable Mortgages 1861, 1864; Submission to Arbitration; 1868; Deed of Partnership, 1871; Mortgage, 1873; Deed of Dissolution, 1873; Further Charge, 1875; Power of Attorney, 1879; Mortgage of Live Stock, 1889 (2). Very fine. (10)
Estimate $100
SOLD $0
Victoria. Legal documents including Declaration of Trust, 1891; Transfer of Land, 1891; Acknowledgement and Confirmation of a right to light over a strip of land, 1873; Agreement betwen the Federal Coffee Palace Company and A.M.Knight, 1897; Mortgage, 1892; The Agency Land and Finance Company (in liquidation), letters, bankers receipts, Notice of Call, 1911. Very fine. (25)
Estimate $100
SOLD $0
Victoria. Real Estate advertising posters and flyers for Land Sales, mostly Melbourne and surrounds inluding Preston, Rosanna, Coburg, Christmas Hills, Kinglake, Diamond Creek, Eltham, Aspendale, c.1920-1950s. Good - very fine. (60)
Estimate $120
SOLD $150
Colony of Victoria, miners right No. 44617, issued on 3 Sept 1878; State Savings Bank of Victoria, cheque, un-issued, Dandenong 192_. Fine. (2)
Estimate $60
SOLD $80
Fisherman's License, N.S.W Government Fisherman's Licence dated 28 January 1931; N.S.W. Government Fishing Boat Licence dated 12 April 1934, both issued at the Treasury, Sydney for a five shillings fee. Fine - very fine. (2)
Estimate $100
SOLD $0
Union Memorabilia, membership cards and related documents, a wide selection from many different unions 1920/21-1990 (43); plus a group of membership cards from the Operative Painters and Decorators Union 1927-1940 including rules and awards books (8). Very good - extremely fine. (51)
Estimate $120
SOLD $0
Amalgamated Shearers Union of Australasia, Creswick Branch, Victoria, members receipt for 1892. Made out to R. Ross of Victoria for an annual contribution of ten shillings, dated 15th September 1891. No.5101. Fine - very fine.
Estimate $150
SOLD $0
Amalgamated Shearers Union of Australasia, Creswick Branch, Victoria, members receipt for 1893. Made out to James T. Pope (?) of Creswick for an annual contribution of ten shillings, dated 25th August 1892. Slightly different design at left. Voting paper ballot attached to left border. No.1461. Fine - very fine.
Estimate $150
SOLD $0
New Guinea, Lodge memorabilia 1950's-1960's, includes By Laws booklets for Moresby Royal Arch Chapter No. 62; New Guinea Lodge No. 292; Torres Straits Lodge Thursday Island No.92; Rabaul Memorial Lodge No. 449 plus installation Odes; Moresby Royal Arch Chapter and Newport Memorial Arch Chapter Rabaul, Installations of Principals, Brisbane and Cairns, printers noted. Very fine - extremely fine. (7)
Estimate $40
SOLD $0
Victoria. Bank pass books, mostly Melbourne, dated 1908-1983, including National Bank of Australasia (2), Commonwealth Savings Bank (5), State Savings Bank of Victoria (12), The Savings Bank (2), The Australasian Temperance and General Mutual Life Assurance Society Limited. Fine - very fine. (22)
Estimate $50
SOLD $0
Australian banks, Johnston/Stone twenty dollars in ten folded bundles of ten notes each printed as 'dummy notes' with electronic tracking device in centre of eight middle bundles with square cutout. Extremely fine.
Estimate $1,000
SOLD $2,200
A collection of various types of specimen travellers cheques, including folders of issues from Commercial Banking Company of Sydney, Rural Bank of NSW, Bank of NSW, Bank of WA, National Bank, Wespac and Thomas Cook, circa 1975-1995. Extremely fine. (Approx 300)
Estimate $100
SOLD $1,300
Cheques and share certificates, including issues from the Derwent Bank, Tasmania, 1839, the Union Bank, Cessnock, 1936, South Australian Barytes mining share certificates, as well as Commonwealth of Australia World War II one pound War Savings Certificates. Fine - extremely fine. (18)
Estimate $100
SOLD $190
Gold Mining. Grant's Amalgamated Gold, Mount McDonald, N.S.W., 1882 (this scrip No.1); Tingha Tin, Tingha, N.S.W., 1923; Mount Morgan Developments, 1935; Queensland Gold (Sofala, N.S.W.), 1937; New Butlers Tin, Torington, N.S.W., 1948; North Golden Mile, 1948; Shaw River Alluvials, 1954. Very fine. (7)
Estimate $100
SOLD $180
Gold Mining. Mount Drysdale Gold, Cobar, N.S.W., 1895; Mt Pleasant Talmalco, Dora Dora, N.S.W., 1901; Great Boulder No.1, 1902; Tingha Consolidated Tin, 1906; Copes Creek Central Tin, Tingha, N.S.W., 1913; Bourkes Hill Tin, 1918; Silent Grove Tin, Emmaville, N.S.W., 1927; Mount Marshall Mines, Mineral Hills, N.S.W., 1934. Very fine. (8)
Estimate $100
SOLD $140
Gold Mining. North Queen Gold, Charters Towers, 1903; The O.K. Copper Company, 1909; Gold and Copper Mining Company, Cloncurry, 1912; Lode Hill Tin, Cooktown, 1915; Gympie Gold Dredging No.1, 1934; Consolidated Mining Industries, 1968. Very fine. (6)
Estimate $100
SOLD $90