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Auction House:Mossgreen Auctions (No longer trading)Number of lots recorded:783
Sale Title:Australian HistoryLots with images:781
Auction Location:MelbournePrices available:441
Date:11-Dec-2017
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A Colonial davenport, cedar and mahogany, most likely Sydney origin, circa 1850, 85 cm high, 70 cm wide, 55 cm deep
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A Tasmanian blackwood wine table, circa 1875, 70 cm high, 41 cm diameter
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Joseph Sly Australian cedar five drawer chest, circa 1845, full cedar construction with slab cedar back panels, stamped 'J. Sly' on the back, 121 cm high, 190 cm wide, 57 cm deep
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Andrew Lenehan Shaped tilt-top supper table, 19th century, rosewood veneer on cedar, stamped A. Lenehan and bearing Lenehan label, as well as Alexander Moore & Co. label, 75 cm high, 143 cm wide, 106 cm dep
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An Australian blackwood armchair, 19th century, 54 cm across the arms
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A gothic style 2 door cabinet, Australian cedar, 19th century, 96 cm high, 104 cm wide, 50 cm deep
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A heavy cedar blanket box, 19th century, dovetail construction with inch thick slab sides, 50 cm high, 94 cm wide, 54 cm deep
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An early Australian cedar tilt-top wine table, circa 1830, crab legged with tapering hexagonal column, 70 cm high, 60 cm diameter
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An early Australian blackwood supper table with turned baluster shaped column and refined carved scrolling feet, circa 1850, purported to have been the property of George Adams of Tattersall's fame, 75 cm high, 124 cm diameter
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An Australian cedar footstool, Sydney origin, 19th century, bearing label 'Alex W. Norton, Cabinet Maker, Sydney, 31 cm high, 71 cm wide, 26 cm deep
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A wotnot with single drawer, Australian cedar, 19th century, full cedar construction, 83 cm high, 65 cm wide, 40 cm deep
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A rustic pine farmhouse refectory table with breadboard ends, 20th century, 76 cm high, 205 cm wide, 84 cm deep
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Set of four kangaroo back chairs, blackwood and kauri pine, circa 1900
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A Baltic pine trunk, 19th century, 52 cm high, 107 cm wide, 52 cm deep
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A cedar spindle back chair from the Melbourne GPO, circa 1900
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An Australian spatter work cricket table, 19th century, 72 cm high, 53 cm diameter
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A Clerk's desk with slope top, Australian cedar, 19th century
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An Australian Tramp Art depression dresser, late 19th century, 128 cm high, 72 cm wide, 37 cm deep
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A hall table, stained pine, South Australian origin, late 19th century, 75 cm high, 92 cm wide, 45 cm deep
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A Colonial wine table, kauri pine, circa 1865, 75 cm high, 50 cm diameter
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A Windsor armchair, kauri pine, late 19th century, 60 cm across the arms
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An Australian cedar toilet mirror, 19th century, 84 cm high, 60 cm wide, 23 cm deep
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An Australian cedar writing slope, gun case and glove box, 19th century, the gun case 12 cm high, 77 cm wide, 27 cm deep
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School of Robert Prenzel, carved blackwood table, early 20th century, 42 cm high, 104 cm wide, 43 cm deep
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A huon pine 8 drawer chest with turned columns, 19th century, possibly South Australian with red pine secondary timbers, mother of pearl inlaid handles, 141 cm high, 116 cm wide, 51 cm deep
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Walter Burley Griffin Swivel desk chair, circa 1917, made for Newman College University of Melbourne, oak with leather upholstery, 58 cm across the arms
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An early Australian cedar chiffonier, Tasmanian origin, circa 1840, full cedar secondary timbers, 130 cm high, 114 cm wide, 52 cm deep
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A wingback armchair with blackwood legs, 19th century, brown leather upholstery (cat scratched), 78 cm across the arms
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A Tasmanian huon pine chest of drawers with half bobbin turnings, mid 19th century 133 cm high, 124 cm wide, 57 cm deep
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An Australian occasional table, blackwood, maple, pine and cedar, early 20th century 71 cm high, 64 cm wide, 65 cm deep
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An Australian carver chair, solid blackwood, early 20th century, 60 cm across the arms
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A folkart chair, wooden packing crates and Hessian sacking, 93 cm high, 58 cm across
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A craftsman's tool trunk, 19th century, painted pine with rope handles, interior veneered in mahogany and ebony, originally the property of noted Ballarat cabinet maker G.E. Jelbart, 55 cm high, 95 cm wide, 50 cm deep
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A conservatory or garden table, cast iron and marble, late 19th century, 74 cm high, 64 cm diameter
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A five piece Coalbrookdale style cast iron garden setting, the table 71 cm high, 64 cm diameter
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A pine blanket box with original green/blue painted finish, 19th century, edges bound in brass, fitted with candle compartment, 32 cm high, 93 cm wide, 43 cm deep
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An Australian cedar side chair, circa 1880
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An Australian cedar caned seat side chair, 19th century.
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A group of twenty glass chemist's bottles, 19th century, 22 cm high. Provenance: Private Collection Victoria
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A set of twenty glass chemist's jars in three sizes, 19th century, 17 cm, 20 cm and 24 cm high. Provenance: Private Collection Victoria
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A group of ten glass chemist's bottles, 19th century, 26 cm high. Provenance: Private Collection Victoria
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A group of eight green glass chemist's bottles, 19th century, 12.5 cm high. Provenance: Private Collection Victoria
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A collection thirty-two apothecary jars of various size, early 20th century, the tallest 20 cm high. Provenance: Private Collection Victoria
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A group of sixteen assorted apothecary bottles, 19th and 20th century, the tallest 45 cm high. Provenance: Private Collection Victoria
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A kerosene oil lamp, 19th century, ruby glass shade, duplex black button double burner, brass font and Corinthian column base, 75 cm high
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Pharmacists' pill press, 19th century, together with a pair of tailor's scissors, the scissors 38 cm long
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Gold scales and cup weights in oak box by W & T Avery, mid 19th century, Box 5 cm high, 23 wide, 14 cm deep
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A lantern, metal and glass with wooden handle, mid 19th century, 45 cm high. Provenance: Private collection Ballarat
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Three Chinese banjo pocket gold scales, 19th century, the longest 24 cm
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A set of gold buyer's scales, brass and cedar, mid 19th century, stamped 'McCraight London, 75 cm high. Provenance: Private collection Ballarat
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Two miner's lamps, a hurricane lantern and a pair of French opera glasses, the tallest 38 cm
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Balances, scales and weights, 19th and 20th century, collection including clock scales, boxed and assorted weights, kitchen scales etc
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Goldfields bank gold collection bag from Bealiba (central Victoria), circa 1857, leather with brass name plate and original padlock and key, additional locations added later in pen, 29 cm high
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A Chinese rickshaw, early 20th century, fully restored, 180 cm high. Provenance: Private Collection Ballarat
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(The Eureka Rebellion) Victorian Parliamentary Paper '1854 Victoria Gold Regulations, Letterpress, two pages, 72.8 x 21 cm (overall). Framed together in a single frame. Gold Regulations. Laid upon the council table by the Colonial Secretary, by command of His Excellency the Lieutenant Governor, and ordered by the Council to be printed, 26th September, 1854. Rules and regulations made by the Lieutenant Governor and Executive Council respecting the issue of Licenses for Mining and other purposes, under the…
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The Eureka Stockade Flag - A Fragment of Australian History, The Eureka Stockade, also known as the Eureka Rebellion, took place at the Eureka Diggings in Ballarat, Victoria, on the 3 December 1854. The rebellion was instigated by goldminers who were fed up with being ill-treated by the authorities and the high mining licence fees they were forced to pay. Two meetings were held at which a band of diggers burnt their mining licences in protest, the second of these was at Bakery Hill on 29 November, 1854,…
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Half sovereign: Qv 1856 Sydney Mint reverse, McDonald Cat #003a, VG.
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Victorian Goldfields, Colony Of Victoria, £1 Miner's Right Issued At Sandhurst (Bendigo), March 1857 Letterpress in blue, printed on vellum, inscribed and dated in ink, 21 x 23 cm. Inscriptions include '(District) Sandhurst. 16 March 1857. (Issued to) John August Niemann.' (Miner's Rights printed on vellum are scarce, most being printed on paper). This permit was most likely issued to Johannn August Niemann born in 1836 in Bremen, Germany. His family migrated in 1846 to Adelaide. During the 1850s the…
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(Victorian Goldfields - Bendigo) Artist Unknown, Pen and ink drawing on paper, 10 x 25 cm approx., the image including the Sargood & Co. store at left (Draper), the Pohl Symonds & Co General Store, etc. circa 1857. See Building At the Frontier by Miles Lewis (online) at p.20 for a more detailed illustration.
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Chromolithographic advertising label, circa 1860, for Welcome Nugget tobacco, 35 x 17 cm. With T.C.Williams Co. Manufacturers Virgivia U.S.A. at base and depicting a gold miner with pick and shovel holding aloft an enormous gold nugget. The brand name and advertisement reference the Welcome Nugget, discovered at Bakery Hill, Ballarat in 1858, and weighing 71.3 kilograms (incorrectly shown as 2217 ounces), at the time the largest alluvial gold nuggeet ever found. It has only ever been surpassed in weight by…
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Jones, John H. (1817-1872), Gold Digger's log hut (titled verso), circa 1861, Stereoscopic albumen print photograph (72 x 72 mm each image) on original pale yellow card mount. This very early Victorian goldfields photograph by John H. Jones was part of a series of 120 stereoviews titled 'Jones's Photographs of Australian Sceneries', published in 1862. Another example of this view, on a mount imprinted 'Jones's Photographs..' is held by the Bendigo Art Gallery.
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The Wentworth Diggings - A Marriage Certificate, A Gold Miner's Marriage Certificate signed by John Dunmore Lang (1799 - 1878), Letterpress, signed, inscribed and dated 'Twelfth day of April, 1864' 30 x 25 cm. Text includes '(Copy of) Certificate of Marriage. I, John Dunmore Lang, being Seniors Minister of the Scots Church, Sydney, do hereby certify that I have this day at the Scots Church duly celebrated the marriage between Heinrich Mohrman, bachelor, Goldminer, Wentworth Diggings, and Elizabeth Ross,…
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Half sovereign: Qv 1864 Sydney Mint reverse, Arabic '1' in date, McDonald Cat #011, VG.
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Half sovereign: Qv 1865 Sydney Mint reverse, McDonald Cat #012, VG.
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Deslandes, John, (Victorian Gold Rush) The Berlin Nugget (and other subjects), circa 1870, albumen print photograph in carte de visite format with hand colouring in gold, recto with contemporary inscription in ink 'the Berling Nugget 24lb waight. Victoria', verso blank. accompanied by a further six cartes de visite, all portrait photographs, 5 with the imprint of J.Deslandes. Photographic Artist. Inglewood, one inscribed 'Councler Gerke Inglewood' in the same hand as the inscription on the Berlin nugget…
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Paterson, William & Roberts, William C. Gold Standarding Tables, showing the weight in standard gold equivalent to the scale weight of gold of a greater or lesser degress of fineness. (Melbourne, Sands & McDougall, 1890) second edition. Folio, contemporary full roan (rubbed at edges), lettered in gilt to upper board, marbled end papers, pp 129, statistical tables. First printed in 1859, both editions are rare.
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A kerosene banquet lamp with gilt bronze figured base, embossed brass font, yellow vaseline glass shade & onyx stone base, 19th century, 76 cm.
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sovereign: 1908M Kevii, Melbourne Mint, St. George reverse, McDonald Cat #229, Vf.
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An Australian Art Nouveau silver plate comport by Stokes and Sons, Melbourne circa 1920 with pierced berried vine rim, 28 cm diameter, 20 cm high
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An Australian silver baluster wine jug by William Edwards, Melbourne, circa 1880, the hinged cover with grape vine finial, grape vine entwined handle, finely engraved with a jockey on horseback, putti, kangaroos, emu and initials 'Blc' among all-over scrolling grape vines and scrolls and stamped on the neck and cover 'Emu/W.E/Kangaroo, 32 cm high, 705 grams, For a similar jug see: Sotheby's Melbourne, July 1989, Lot 207
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Coach and horses scratch built silver plated model, 20th century, 33 cm long
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An Australian silver mug, late 19th century, engraved with a coat of arms, motto 'We Trust in God', initials 'Aagr' and scenes of kangaroos and emus among palm trees and native grasses, 11 cm high, 240 grams
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USA: 'Nova Anglia, Novum Belgium et Virginia. Anno 1630', interesting fake that contains elements from various 17th Century maps as well as designs invented by the forger, window mounted, framed & glazed, overall 65 x 58 cm. Plate dimensions 38.5 x 49.5 cm.
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United Kingdom: Janson, Johan, A general Plott and description of the Fennes and Surrounded grounds in the sixe Counties of Norfolke, Suffolke, Cambridge, with in the Isle of Ely, Huntington, Northampton and Lincolne, etc, (North oriented to the right). (Amsterdam, c1640), window mounted, framed && glazed, .43.5 x 55 cm plate dimensions.
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Johannes Janssonius (Dutch, 1588- 1664). Indiae Orientalis, Nova Descriptio, (Dutch Map Of The East Indies) 1630. Copperplate engraving, text including title in plate, overall, 50 x 58 cm (paper). Some hand colouring. Text includes 'Amstelodami. Ioannes Ianssonius excudebat.', Important early map of Southeast Asia and the Philippines, and a landmark in the mapping of Australia, first published by Jan Jansson in 1630. This is also the only Dutch printed map showing the 1606 discoveries of Willem Jansz, who…
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United Kingdom: Blaeu, Johannes, Penbrochia, Comitatus et Comitatus, Caermaridunum, (Amsterdam, 1648), hand-coloured, window mounted, framed & glazed, overall, 61 x 74 cm. Plate dimensions 41 x 53 cm.
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United Kingdom: Blaeu, Johannes, Norfolcia, Norfolke (Amsterdam, c1654), hand-coloured, window mounted, framed & glazed, overall 55 x 50 cm. Plate dimensions 38 x 49 cm.
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United Kingdom: Blaeu, Johannes, Rutlandia Comitatus. Rutland Shire (Amsterdam, c1662), hand-coloured, window mounted, framed & glazed, overall 45 x 52 cm. Plate dimensions 37.5 x 49.5 cm.
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Europe - Poland: 'Palatinatus Posnaniensis In Maiori Polonia Primarii Nova Delinatio' by Johannes Blaeu (Amsterdam, c1663), framed && glazed, overall 61 x 54 cm
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U.S.A. (Virginia): Montanus, Arnoldus. Nova Virginiæ Tabula. (London: John Ogilby, 1671). Coloured. 29.5 x 35.5 cm plate dimensions. The environs of Chesapeake Bay published in Ogilby's 'America', an English edition of Montanus' 'De Nieuwe En Onbekende Weereld'. Derived from the John Smith map of 1612 it ignores the development of Maryland, and for some reason has a llama and a unicorn in the title cartouche. The same plate was used for the Dutch edition of the same year, published by Meurs.
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USA: Mortier, Pierre 'Carte Particuliere de la Caroline, Dresse sur les Memoires le plus Nouveaux, Par le Sieur Sanson)', (Amsterdam, 1696), window mounted, framed & glazed, 48 x 60 cm. plate dimensions. First state of this scarce and detailed map of the area around Charleston, South Carolina (founded 1669), based upon the surveys and manuscript maps of Maurice Mathews and an extremely rare map of South Carolina by Thornton & Morden, published c1695, and is widely regarded as the first obtainable map of…
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Bellin, Nicolas, Paris 1753, Carte Reduite de la Mer Du Sud Pour servir a l'Histoire generale des Voyages, 25.5 x 38 cm, Plate dimensions 20.5 x 35.5 cm. Australia is attached to New Guinea and Tasmania attached to the mainland. The east coast is entirely imaginary. New Zealand includes only its western coast in an incomplete fashion. This map is remarkable in its historical significance, timed only a few years before the commencement of an intense campaign by the English and French to explore and map…
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Vaugondy, Robert de. Orbis Vetus in Utraque Contiente. Paris: c.1757. Double hemisphere world map, with hypothetical east coast of Australia connected to New Zealand and New Guinea. Ornate cartouche above and below. Original outline colour. 50 x 75 cm. The New World, located in the Western Hemisphere, is called 'Atlantis Insula', a reference to the lost continent of Atlantis first described by Plato. Vaugondy further annotates his Atlantis Insula with mythical cities and places of Antiquity such as…
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Brouckner/Remondini, Carte Generale du Globe Terrestre, Venice, 1761, 25 x 36 cm overall. This uncommon map is Remondini's reduction of Isaak Brouckner's map of the world. It features an extravagant collection of Northwest Passage theories, including one based on the infamous expedition by Admiral Bartholomew de Fonte. In the North Pacific, the routes of the Russian expeditions and the Manilla/Alcapulco galleons are charted. In the South Pacific, the partial coastlines of Australia and New Guinea are shown…
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Benard, Robert (Paris, 1774), Carte d'une partie de la Mer du Sud Contenant les Decouvertes de Vaisseaux de sa Majeste: Le Dauphin, Commodore Byron, la Tamar, Capitne Mouats, 1765. Le Dauphin, Capitne Wallis, Le Swallow, Capitne Cartaret, 1767. et l'Endeavour, Lieutenant Cook 1769. 36 x 66.5 cm.
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Buffon, George Louis le Clerc. Carte Magnetique des Deux Hemispheres. (Amsterdam: J.H. Schneider, 1775. Overall 58 x 95 cm. Binding folds flattened as usual. A double-hemisphere world map designed to display magnetic variation, so centred on the North and South Poles. Buffon has given the position of the supposed magnetic north as being in Canada, to the north of Hudson's Bay and east of Baffin's Bay. Australia is shown with some conjectural elements, good treatment of New Zealand after Cook, detailed…
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Bellin, Jacques Nicolas, 1776, Carte Reduite des Mers Comprises Entre l'Asie et l'Amerique Apelees par les Navigateurs Mer du Sud ou Mer Pacifique.., Paris, 1776, 63 x 89 cm. The chart focuses on the South Pacific, extending to China, Korea & Japan in the northwest and to Virginia and California in the northeast. Place names are given along the coasts, while the interiors are left almost entirely blank. This map was published after Captain Cook's second voyage and includes depictions of the western coast…
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De La Porte, Joseph: (Paris, 1781), Mappe-Monde, ou Description du Globe Terrestre, Assujettie aux Observs Astronomis. 17.5 x 22 cm. Only a portion of the New Zealand Coastline is shown. Early inaccurate treatment of the Australian Coastline. No sign of Antarctic Coastline. An interesting map of the World, on the eve of the wide spread dissemination of the results of the voyages of Cook, La Perouse and Vancouver.
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United Kingdom: West, Thomas, A Map of the Lakes in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, (London, 1784), window mounted, framed & glazed, plate dimensions 19.5 x 38 cm.
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(World map) Heinrich Robert / F. A. Schraembl, 1789, Generalkarte soemmtlicher Entdeckungen auf den drei Grossen Weltreisen des Kapit Jacob Cook. Two sheets, each 49 x 60 cm to the printed margins. Large world map showing the routes of three voyages made by Captain Cook to Asia and Australia. Taken from the 'Allgemeiner Deutscher Atlas aller Lander' printed in Vienna between 1786 and 1794 and edited by F.A. Schraembl. Hand coloured routes and some borders.
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Laurie & Whittle, (London, 1800), A New Chart of the World on Wright's or Mercator's Projection in which are Exhibited all the parts hitherto Explored or discovered with the Tracks of the British Circumnavigators Byron, Wallis, Carteret and Cook, &c. and the track of La Perouse in the Pacific Ocean. Framed & glazed, overall 93 x 112 cm, plate dimensions 72 x 91 cm.
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(Captain Cook) Rare late 18 th century embroidered silk map representing 'New Holland' with Van Diemen's land still attached, and displaying the routes of Captain Cook's three voyages. Original inked identifications of 'New South Wales' and 'Botany Bay' and of 'Concord Land', so-named from Dirk Hartog's discovery in 1616 in the ship Endracht or 'Concord'. Van Diemen's land is identified as 'Diemens Ld' and is attached to the main continent. Tasmania was not identified as a separate continent until 1798,…
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Scott, R. (Mackinzie & Dent, Newcastle on Tyne, Nd but 1811), Australasia, but unlike the earlier c1,800 edition showing the coastline more complete, the map also has 'Notasia' printed in the centre of the landmass. New Guinea and the surrounding islands are largely hypothetical, Tasmania is shown as an island. 18.5 x 15 cm.
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Malte-Brun, Conrad, (Paris, 1812), Mappe-Monde en deux Hemispherea, 35 x 49.5 cm, Plate dimensions 25 x 43.5 cm. Shows primitive knowledge of southern Australia and the Northwest Coast of America. No speculative northwest passage. No sign of Antarctica. Sandwich Islands named. J. B. Tardieu is given as the engraver.
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Australasia. Drawn under the direction of Mr. Pinkerton by L. Hebert. Neele sculpt. 352 Strand. London: published April 15th. 1813, by Cadell & Davies, Strand & Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown, Paternoster Row. 56 x 82 cm, framed and glazed. (60 x 86 cm overall). The outline of Australia is nearly complete, but still with 'Unknown Parts' around modern day Cooktown in Carpentaria and the coast of South Australia, and there is no detail away from the coast, parts of the New Guinea coast are speculative…
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Australia: 'Australasia and Polynesia', circa 1830, with two insets including 'Settlements in New South Wales', hand-coloured outlines, window mounted, framed & glazed, overall 45 x 55 cm. Plate dimensions 19 x 24 cm.
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Chapman & Hall, (London, 1840), Australia in 1839, 31 x 40 cm. Australia, showing the boundary of the first Australian State - South Australia - with a population census of all the white people residing in Australia at the time, totaling 141,000. Published in the Baldwin & Craddock edition of the Society For the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Sduk) Atlas.
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Pearson's New Map of Victoria showing the Post Towns, Money Order Offices, Telegraph Stations'. (Charlwood & Son, Melbourne 1869). Lithographed, with some hand colouring. 50 x 75 cm laid down on card, framed and glazed. (overall 58 x 83 cm). Surrounding the map on three sides is a key which lists the latitude & longitude of all towns, creeks, gullies, reefs and other geographical features, etc.
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Victoria: Hiscocks, F.E. & Co., publishers. 'F.E. Hiscocks & Co.'s New Victorian, Counties Atlas. Melbourne, 1874'. Folio, title, 5 leaves of letterpress and 22 lithographed maps, hand-coloured, original leather & cloth binding with the original gilt lettered panel on the front board. Complete but with defects, particularly to the binding and the large foldinf map of Victoria, most of the County maps being fine. Contained in a purpose-made solander box.
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Europe: 'Plan de Turgot A Paris' by Louis Bretez, large scale map of Paris in 20 sheets, originally published in 1739, reprinted in 1979, No.840/990 in folio of issue.
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