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Historical Documents — Printed & Written Material - Leski Auctions Pty. Ltd.
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Historical Documents
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| *** | Bushranger - Captain Moonlite (Andrew George Scott 1845-80): a remarkable collection of letters and documents archive comprising 33 items: - 1858 (March 16) Extract from Register of Baptisms, giving birth date Jan.8 1845 & baptism date July 5 1845,… | *** |  |
| *** | A correspondence of eleven letters from John Monash to Ada Benjamin (nee Krakowski): 1911 to 1926, during the turbulent and hugely consequential years that included his service during World War One, John Monash (1865 - 1931) maintained a correspondence… | *** |  |
| *** | The Archives of Rabbi Joseph Lipman Gurewicz Born in Vilna in 1885, Rabbi Gurewicz arrived in Australia in 1932, becoming the spiritual head of the United Congregations of Carlton. Rabbi Gurewicz was an authority in Halachic matters; in addition, he… | *** |  |
| *** | Freycinet, Louis-Claude De Saules De (1779-1842), 'Voyage de decouvertes aux Terres Australes, execute. sur les corvettes le Geographe, le Naturaliste, et la goelette le Casuarina, pendant les annees 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803 et 1804. Partie Navigation et… | *** |  |
| *** | An important and unique large folio of proof plans and maps by George Gordon and Calder Oliver, 1870s, comprising around 200 plates, many with hand annotations and colour lithographed. Housed in a modern custom made aluminium case, the folio was… | *** |  |
| *** | A German Anthropologist in Australia, circa 1900 - 1910 An archive, written in German, which appears to be the field notes and typed manuscripts of an anthropologist who travelled extensively throughout Australia to visit, learn, record and preserve the… | *** |  |
| *** | A History of the Maccabi Movement - 1900 to 2000. A collection in four volumes, illustrating the history of the Maccabi Sports Movement, with documents, photographs, letters, tickets, badges, participation cards, pro grams, newsletters, medals and other… | *** |  |
| *** | 'Sydney Harbour bridge official souvenir & Programme', the Mayor of north Sydney's commemorative, multi-signed book. Full black leather, scuffed edges and spine; gold blocked titles and drawing of the completed bridge, with 'Opening date 19th March 1932 /… | *** |  |
| *** | Albert Einstein (1879-1955, the father of modern physics & one of the most prolific intellects in human history), display comprising March 1939 signed letter on Princeton University letterhead, window mounted with the envelope in which it was posted from… | *** |  |
| *** | The Hobart town Almanack for the year 1832. With embellishments, 1 folding map (Launceston), lacks pictorial title, plates and a 2nd map, original green cloth with leather-reinforced spine, [Hobart town, van Diemen's land: printed by James Ross],… | *** |  |
| *** | A unique Memento of the 1928 first flight Across the Pacific by Kingsford Smith, Ulm, Lyon and Warner: two U.S. Gold coins ($21/2 Indian head 1927 and $5 Indian head 1909) affixed to a document signed by Charles Kingsford Smith and his parents, William… | *** |  |
| *** | Baron Sir Ferdinand von Mueller [1825 - 1896], 1877 (September 1) autographed letter sheet written in ink to the Undersecretary of the Mining Departments, Sydney, in which von Mueller expresses his gratitude for 'a series of vegetable fossils' that had… | *** |  |
| *** | A 1901 Commonwealth of Australia group from the estate of Peter F. Thomson: a blue leather binding with gilt titles and decorations containing the 'Official programme of functions and displays to Celebrate the opening of the first Parliament of the… | *** |  |
| *** | Australiana: 'An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island, with the Discoveries Which Have Been Made in New South Walesand in the Southern Ocean.' by John hunter (London 1793), with engraved frontispiece of the author,… | *** |  |
| *** | Lighthouses- An Archive of early and important plans, maps and design features of Australia's earliest lighthouses. Many of the plans were designed, signed and drawn by James Johnstone Barnet, (1827-1904), noted Australian Architect who was also… | *** |  |
| *** | 1907-09 British Antarctic Expedition: a fragment of an 'Erratic Boulder' from cape Royds, McMurdo sound, mounted on wood, 11 x 8 cm, with silver plaque engraved 'A fragment of Antarctica. May It Bring You Luck. May 31st 1940'. With accompanying framed… | *** |  |
| *** | £1 Colony of Victoria, miner's right printed on vellum, issued to Arthur hope 'At Melbourne' on the 11th of January, 1855 (shortly after his arrival in Melbourne) and endorsed to be in force until 10 January, 1856. The document is further endorsed verso… | *** |  |
| *** | Victorian Goldfields: A collection of 23 (of 24) lithographic plates from S.T.Gill's series 'The Diggers and Diggings of Victoria as they are in 1855' [James J. Blundell Co., Melbourne, 1855] in a later binding with several ownership notations on the… | *** |  |
| *** | A hand-written invitation to dinner from President George Washington, 23rd February 1799 one-page invitation in Washington's distinctive hand, accompanied by the outer wrapper addressed to 'Mr and Mrs Ramsay &c in Alexandra' who were the recipients of the… | *** |  |
| *** | Andrew Barton ('Banjo') Paterson (1864 - 1941), The Man from Snowy River and other verses, (Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1st ed.) 8vo, original brown cloth; forward by Rolf Bolderwood. With a 6 page manuscript transcript of 'The Ballad of the Calliope'… | *** |  |
| *** | Eureka Rebellion: a Victorian Government 'Blue Paper' Proclamation titled 'Disturbances at Ballaarat'. Lieutenant Governor Hotham 'Has the painful duty of informing the Legislative Council that serious disturbances have occurred at Ballaarat...' dated 5… | *** |  |
| *** | A spectacular & important illuminated presentation folio to Joseph Cook, M.H.R. A bi-fold, leather-bound presentation, with gilt embossed decorations and addressed to the Honourable Joseph Cook, M.H.R. On the front cover. Internally, a hand-painted and… | *** |  |
| *** | Australiana: 'An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island, with the Discoveries Which Have Been Made in New South Walesand in the Southern Ocean....' by John hunter (London 1793), with engraved frontispiece of the author,… | *** |  |
| *** | Prime Minister Edmond Barton's Private Secretary, Thomas Bavin (1874 - 1941), (Knighted 1933), Lawyer, judge, politician and Premier of New South Wales, 1927 - 1930, Bavin's 1902 diary, with an entry for almost every day of the year. On an introductory… | *** |  |
| *** | Preserving the Visual and Literary History of Australia the Bread and Cheese Club Archive: Formed in Melbourne in June 1938 and devoted to 'Mateship, Art and Letters', the all-male Bread and Cheese Club was active in promoting Australian writers,… | *** |  |
| *** | Miner's Right Colony Of Victoria £1, Buninyong, August 11th, 1857, made out to John Aute Marshall, rare and early vellum issue No.28. Housed in a period cedar frame. 19 x 22 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Chirnside Family Werribee Park, scrap album and two photograph albums pertaining to the Chirnside family of Werribee Park Mansion, Victoria, (3 items). | *** |  |
| *** | Prince of Wales gold mining Company, Cobblers Ballarat' lithographic poster, circa 1864, by H. Deutsch, Ballarat. With an exterior view of the mine head, interiors of the quartz crushing & engine house, an interior view of the Puddling machine & Sluicing… | *** |  |
| *** | Northern Territory: The 1883 Expedition to Locate 'Sturt's Tree', Dec.10th 1883 four-page letter headed 'Palmerston' and addressed 'The Acting Government Resident, Palmerston; written by James P. Hingston, Surveyor, in which he provides a day-by-day… | *** |  |
| *** | Ben Chifley (1885-1951, 16th Prime Minister of Australia), pipe in leather case with initials 'J.B.C.' (Joseph Benedict Chifley); Australian Flag from Prime Minister's Car, with embroidered Australian Coat-of-Arms on each side, size 30 x 13 cm; Robert… | *** |  |
| *** | 1910-13 British Antarctic Expedition: 'The Undying Fire' by H.G.Wells (London, 1919) signed by the author and endorsed 'To Cherry-Garrard, with Warmest Thanks For His Penguins, From H.G.Wells'. Together with two other H.G.Wells books - 'The First Men in… | *** |  |
| *** | 'Shipping Register, Railway pier Sandridge', manuscript register from 1857 to 1898, listing date, name of ship, where from, description, tonnage, cargo, master and date of departure. Fascinating historical document, c600pp. Noted a few pages missing… | *** |  |
| *** | The Hobart town Almanack for the year Mdcccxxx, [1830], with embellishments, [Hobart town : James Ross, 1830]; 272pp, with 9 plates etched by Thomas Bock including 7 showing views in van Diemen's :and 2 showing telegraph signals and maritime flags (hand… | *** |  |
| *** | Newspaper Coverage of the Kelly Gang - November 1878 to April 1881, A fascinating collection of 48 complete original newspapers, all of which provide significant coverage of the activities, capture, deaths and trial of the members of the Kelly Gang.… | *** |  |
| *** | Tulloch & brown, Melbourne, 'Map of the Colony of Victoria 1856, comprising part of New South Wales, the Boundaries, Counties also Seaport & Inland Townships, the gold fields with the Latest Discoveries, Roads, tracks, &c. &c Compiled from… | *** |  |
| *** | A letter from Arthur Streeton to Roger Leech of Brighton, Victoria. Undated (but October 1892), 2-page Als, headed 'Highbury Grove, Kew. Between the Cemetery & the Asylum', in which Streeton offers to meet with Leech 'If you are so interested as to invest… | *** |  |
| *** | 'The Warrnambool standard Almanac and tourist guide to Warrnambool & District, for 1884' | *** |  |
| *** | 1880-81 Melbourne International Exhibition: certificate 'Melbourne international Exhibition 1880. This is to Certify that Jury No. XXX (Navigation and life Saving Hemp, Manilla rope, Turines) Selected as the most Meritorious Australasian Exhibit in Their… | *** |  |
| *** | New Guinea /Queensland: 'narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By the Late Captain Owen Stanley. Added the Account of Mr E.B.Kennedy's Expedition For the Exploration of the Cape Yorke Peninsula' by John MacGillivray, in two volumes… | *** |  |
| *** | Henry Lawson (1867-1922): 'Selected Poems of Henry Lawson' illustrated by Percy Leason (Sydney 1918) endorsed with poem & signature of Henry Lawson. Printed portrait of the poet by John Longstaff with the artists signature dated 1935. Dust wrappers, minor… | *** |  |
| *** | A Signed Letter From Ranjitsinhji to King George V - 6th March 1932, 6th March 1932 typed letter on The Palace, Jamnagar, Kathiawar letterhead, with Ranjitsinhji's crest embossed in green, signed by Ranji at the end. A highly important historical document… | *** |  |
| *** | A Conditional Pardon For Mary Ann Beddow December 1846 Van Diemen's Land Conditional Pardon on vellum, signed by Charles Latrobe and with the seal of the Colony largely intact at left. Extremely rare. Beddow had been sentenced to seven years… | *** |  |
| *** | French Revolution - 'Certificat de Civisme': good conduct certificate in manuscript headed 'Liberte', 'Egalite', 'Fraternite' and 'Ou La Mort', presented to Lieutenant-Adjoint 'Tremery' by the 2nd Battalion of Tirailleurs (skirmishers), dated 1794; framed… | *** |  |
| *** | New South Wales - Port Phillip District. Land and Emmigration receipt No.45, issued to Mr. W.G. Brodie of Moonie Ponds on 1st December 1849 for the payment of £135. The payment is in the nature of a deposit so that Brodie could participate in the purchase… | *** |  |
| *** | Benito Mussolini and King Victor Emmanuel III, signed Ministry of Finance document dated 3 August 1936, both signatures in strong ink. 36.5 x 24.5 cm. Note the manuscript amendment 'Imperatore d'Etiopia' two months after Victor Emmanuel III became Emperor… | *** |  |
| *** | Tea trade document. Dutch East India Company (Voc). An unpublished manuscript document recording a cargo of tea from china carried on the Voc ship Vrouw Maria Cornelia, dated 1790, titled: Prisatie over de Lading Thee per het Schip Vrouw Maria Cornelia… | *** |  |
| *** | Rose Kennedy (1890-1995, mother of United States President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and Senator Edward Kennedy), signature 'Rose' on extraordinary letter to the Duchess of Windsor in Paris, written on mourning card, with envelope posted… | *** |  |
| *** | P. E. De Strzelecki (1797 - 1873), Physical Description of New South Wales and van Diemen's land. Accompanied by a Geological map, sections, and diagrams, and figures of the organic remains. [London : Longman, brown, green and Longmans, 1845, 1st ed.]… | *** |  |
| *** | The Sketchbook of Lord Inverurie, Ian Douglas Montagu Keith-Falconer (1877 - 1897), son of Lord Kintore, Governor of South Australia from 1889 - 1895. Titled 'Ian's Early Sketches', the bound volume bears a tipped-in certificate on the inside front cover,… | *** |  |
| *** | An Unconditional Free Pardon For Timothy Lee: A Free Pardon For Timothy Lee: 18 February 1844 Free Pardon on vellum, awarded to one Timothy Lees and signed by the Governor of New South Wales, George Gipps; with official Coat of Arms and the original seal… | *** |  |
| *** | A red leather-bound album of Australian and Pacific albumen prints containing 65 images of Melbourne, rural Victoria, Tasmania and Fiji, mostly 13 x 18 cm each approximately, with others 24 x 30 cm. | *** |  |
| *** | Ornate red-leather presentation album with embossed title 'Photographs. Illustrating the Earliest Times of New South Wales.' the large album was presented to lady Darley, wife of the Acting Governor, Sir Frederick Darley of NSW in 1895. Contains onl | *** |  |
| *** | An illuminated manuscript presentation to Lord Lamington, 1896:A most attractive leather-bound illuminated manuscript presented to Lord Lamington, 'Governor and Commander in chief of the Colony of Queensland' to 'Extend a cordial welcome to your Exc | *** |  |
| *** | 1850s-90s collection of engravings, book plates, illustrations, etc. depicting Jewish life and personalities. Noted 'Presentation of an Address to Cardinal Manning by the Jewish Community of England' [1890], 'Consecration of the Melbourne Synagogue'… | *** | N/A |
| *** | Macquarie, Lachlan [Governor of New South Wales, 1810-1821] signature and seal on July 1816 Land Grant for 105 Acres in the District of Argyle, Van Diemen's Land. The land granted to Andrew Whitehaed is described as being bounded by Gunning's Farm, the… | *** |  |
| *** | H.M.S. Megaera, Australia & New Zealand Naval Interest Wilson, George, Sub-Lieutenant June 1870 to October 1873 hand-written journal kept by Wilson. It comprises of geographic details and observations as well as extensive diary entries. Wilson was one of… | *** |  |
| *** | The Alarming History of Abraham Crabtree - Van Diemen's Land & Norfolk Island Crabtree arrived in Van Diemen's Land in July 1832, one of the 221 convicts aboard 'Katherine Stewart Forbes', following his trial at York, West Riding Quarter Sessions, where… | *** |  |
| *** | Bendigo: an original document hand written in ink on vellum, 'Rules and Regulations of the Isabella Mining Company Registered.' a rare example of early documentation of miners amalgamating into companies. This one from 23 September 1870 in Sandhurst… | *** |  |
| *** | Policing in Victoria 1858 - 1911: A large cloth-bound volume providing a manuscript record of 'Report of Charges Taken' at various Watch Houses: Mainly at Yendon but also at Rokewood, Rokewood Junction, Whim Holes and Stockyard Hill, all being in the… | *** |  |
| *** | Policing in Victoria 1860 - 1914: A large leather & cloth-bound volume providing a manuscript record of 'Report of Charges Taken' Burrumbeet & Miner's Rest Watch Houses, both being in the vicinity of Ballarat. Many hundreds of entries giving the… | *** |  |
| *** | Elizabeth Cheatham - sentenced to death; transported for life: 5 November 1833 mss letter (2pp) written to her parents from the Chester City Gaol where she was being held pending removal to the hulks prior to transportation. 'I am sorry to afflict your… | *** |  |
| *** | A Free Pardon For Joseph Taylor: December 1846 Free Pardon signed by Governor Charles Fitzroy and bearing his seal, issued in favour of Taylor, a tailor, who had originally been tried at Cumberland Assizes in 1830 at the age of 16, found guilty and… | *** |  |
| *** | Northern Territory Land Company Ltd 1882-1980s archive of documents including 1882 bank & legal correspondence with C.J. Sanders (company secretary) relating to the March 1882 incorparation of the company, plus Bank of Australasia opening account books,… | *** |  |
| *** | A New South Wales Conditional Pardon April 1833 Conditional Pardon granted to Thomas Yarwood and signed by Richard Bourke, Governor of New South Wales [1831-37]. The document is vellum and retains a small portion of the official seal of the Colony.… | *** |  |
| *** | Caroline Chisholm (1808 - 1877), full original pen signature on 10th October 1866 4-page Als, headed 15 Brookland Road, Stoney Croft, Liverpool, and address to a Mr. Childers. She is seeking his support in having some of her 'Progressive' writings… | *** |  |
| *** | Raymond, James (compiler), the New South Wales calendar and general post office Directory,1832, [Sydney, Stephens & Stokes, 1832.] Octavo, original green cloth, remnants of original paper label to spine, front pastedown with early binder's ticket of… | *** |  |
| *** | James Prinsep (1799 - 1840), Benares Illustrated in a Series of Drawings, [Calcutta : Baptist Mission Press, 1830], folio; incomplete but with 21 lithographed and 7 engraved plates present. | *** |  |
| *** | The Matchbox Labels of the Palestine Mandate. A fascinating collection on exhibit pages and stock sheets. Little study has been undertaken about the match industry in Palestine and the present offering is little more than a record of the known (or… | *** |  |
| *** | 1879 (July 17) an important Bushranger document. A letter headed 'Confidential' from the Sergeant of Police to the Manager, Union Bank, Daylesford, Victoria, the letter gives the description of four men including Andrew G. Scott, alias 'Captain Moonlight'… | *** |  |
| *** | A Document Signed By Reverend Samuel Marsden [1765 - 1838] - Norfolk Island, Parramatta & New Zealand, A conveyance for the sale of '136 Rods of Ground' [approx. 700 sqr mtrs] being 'all that allotment of Land situate in Macquarie Street, Windsor,… | *** |  |
| *** | Garden license (Victoria), issued in 1881 in Sandhurst (Bendigo), written in both English and Chinese | *** |  |
| *** | A New South Wales Ticket-of-Leave William Petts, who had been found guilty of housebreaking and was sentenced to seven years transportation, arrived in New South Wales in August 1838 aboard 'Lord Lyndoch' is granted a Ticket-of-Leave in December 1842. He… | *** |  |
| *** | A Pension For the Chief Clerk at Norfolk Island: In May 1857 Thomas Jewel Oliver applied 'for a Superannuation Allowance' following his enforced retirement from the Penal & Convict Department after ten years service. Transportation to Tasmania had ended… | *** |  |
| *** | A seven-page typed letter from Monash to his Daughter, Bertha: dated 6th July 1906. Bertha, thirteen years old, is to embark on a train journey and her father has written an extensive letter with much detail where she will be, when and with whom: '6.45am… | *** |  |
| *** | A two-page typed letter from John Monash to his daughter, Bertha, dated July 23rd 1906. 'Dear Bert', he writes, 'I am just sending you a few lines so that you May have a definite guide as to what to do on your return journey.....About 9.30 or 10 it will… | *** |  |
| *** | Sedon Galleries: 1925 - 1927 stock and payments journal, which is a hand-written record divided into the following sections: part one: lists payments received with names and amounts. Names include Wertheim, Monash, Baillieu, A.M. Nicholas, lady Robinson,… | *** |  |
| *** | A Conditional Pardon signed by Queen Victoria: Andrew Munro, 'now under Sentence of Transportation in Millbank Prison, he having been convicted of felony at Perth in April 1846?' is the beneficiary of this Conditional Pardon, granted and signed by Queen… | *** |  |
| *** | Abraham Elias Appointed to Administer the Estate of Joseph Solomon - 1824, 14th May 1824 vellum document with intact seal, titled 'Administration of the Goods Chattels..of Solomon Josephs late of Windsor, dec'ed - to - Abraham Elias adm'or' and signed by… | *** |  |
| *** | 'John Monash July / 29' dated signature on blank front page of 'Callinicus - a Defence of Chemical Warfare' by J.B.S. Haldane, [London : Kegan Paul, trench, Trubner & Co., 1925]. With an additional notation in Monash's hand 'See pages 24/5' '....If one… | *** |  |
| *** | Queensland At The 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition. Illuminated presentation certificate, hand-illustrated and with calligraphy by H.W. Fox, the recipient being Angus Mackay, who was the Commissioner for Queensland at the exhibition, which took… | *** |  |
| *** | 'The Tasmanian Royal Kalendar, Colonial register, and Almanck, 1849' compiled by James wood, [Launceston : Henry Dowling, Jun., and J.W.H. Walch, Hobart, 1849], 209pp + 26pp of advertisements; plus a bound-in advert from Henry Dowling, Launceston, the… | *** |  |
| *** | 1927 Royal Visit to Australia: Autograph letter written by the future Queen Elizabeth (The Queen Mother) as Duchess of York, from her residence at 145 Piccadilly, to Madame Handley Seymour, regarding the cost of her wardrobe for the Royal visit to… | *** |  |
| *** | Tye & Co. Melbourne Furniture Manufacturers & Retailers: Original pen & ink artwork (by Edwin W. Slater) for six full-page illustrations of fully furnished rooms, as prepared for inclusion in a catalogue of their wares, circa 1900. Each illustration is a… | *** |  |
| *** | (Melbourne International Exhibition, 1888 - 89) Official Record of the Centennial International Exhibition, Melbourne, 1888 - 1889 Containing a sketch of the industrial and economic progress of the Australasian Colonies during the first century of their… | *** |  |
| *** | 'The Tasmanian Royal Kalendar, Colonial register, and Almanck, 1849' compiled by James wood, [Launceston : Henry Dowling, Jun., and J.W.H. Walch, Hobart, 1849], 209pp + 26pp of advertisements; plus a bound-in advert from Henry Dowling, Launceston, the… | *** |  |
| *** | 'Wood's Royal Southern Kalendar, Tasmanian register, and general Australasian & East Indian official Directory, 1850' compiled by James wood, [Launceston : Henry Dowling, Jun., and J.W.H. Walch, Hobart, 1850], 252pp + 40pp of advertisements; bound by H.… | *** |  |
| *** | The sale of a house at Versailles - 1691, 14th February 1691, French seven-page document on vellum, being the contract covering the sale of a house at Versailles; signed on the last page by the seller (Bruneau) and the purchaser (Bontemps). Alexandre… | *** |  |
| *** | 507pp. With 16 mounted colour illustrat Malory, pollard, Alfred W. Rackham, Arthur (illus.), the Romance of King Arthur and his Knights of the round table. Abridged from Malory's Morte d'Arthur. [Published by Macmillan and Co. London, 1917], XXIV, 509pp.… | *** |  |
| *** | Backhouse, James (1794 - 1869), A Narrative of a Visit to the Australian Colonies. [Hamilton, Adams & Co., London, 1843] Octavo, xviii, 560pp, cxliv (appendices) pages with in-text illustrations (by Backhouse), plates and 3 large folding maps.… | *** |  |
| *** | Hans Heysen (1877 - 1968) full signature on a one-page letter, dated 'Jan.22nd, Hahndorf' (circa 1940) to a 'Miss Fern' advising that he had just sent her three watercolours which he hopes 'may fall in with your client's wishes'. He also advises that… | *** |  |
| *** | NSW Government Gazette: 23 leather-bound volumes, comprising run of newspapers July-Dec. 1850; July-Dec. 1851; July 1852 - Dec. 1856; July 1857 - June 1861; Jan.-June 1862; Jan.-June 1863; Jan.-Dec. 1864. Incomplete though impressive run, with c2360… | *** |  |
| *** | Family Ephemera, noted wonderful 1852 diary 'Route From Adelaide to the Victoria Diggings'; book of tailor's (cutters) dia grams used by W'm Shepherd in Inglewood Victoria in the 1850s; c1909-16 album with postcards (87) including real photo types of… | *** |  |
| *** | [New South Wales - Electoral History], Lists of Electors for that Portion of the Electoral District of the Cumberland Boroughs being the Borough of Penrith in the Police District of Penrith for the years 1857 & 1858' each page bearing a hand-stamped oval… | *** |  |
| *** | Thomas Reid, two voyages to New South Wales and van Diemen's land; with a Description of the Present condition of that interesting Colony including facts and observations relative to the state and management of convicts of both sexes. (London: Longman,… | *** |  |
| *** | A Hand-Written letter from Monash to his daughter, Bertha: dated Jan'y 19, 1929 and on 'Iona' letterhead, Monash writes his regrets in not being with 'Bert' on her birthday 'Owning to our respective peregrinations....'; he signs off 'Your affectionate… | *** |  |
| *** | A Ship Captain's note book dated 1793, containing recipes for medical cures, scientific formul', a 'How to make' section for everyday non-medical necessities, plus many others. 80 pages, vellum covers, very legible. There are a total of 250 cures and… | *** |  |