[MILITARIA] Illustrated diary of Gunner Ramon Mascord, A.I.F., New Guinea, 1942-43

MASCORD, Ramon Enslin Ernest (1913-1983)

# 4495

AN IMPORTANT HANDWRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED DIARY BELONGING TO AN AUSTRALIAN SERVICEMAN IN NEW GUINEA DURING THE KOKODA TRACK CAMPAIGN. PRIOR TO ENLISTING IN 1940, RAMON MASCORD WAS A COMMERCIAL ARTIST IN SYDNEY. AFTER THE WAR HE WENT ON TO BECOME A BOOK ILLUSTRATOR AND ALSO ONE OF AUSTRALIA'S FOREMOST EXPERTS ON SPIDERS, RENOWNED FOR HIS FIELD COLLECTING OF AND PUBLICATIONS ON AUSTRALIAN ARACHNIDS. HIS WARTIME DIARY CONTAINS ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE GRAVES OF AUSTRALIAN SOLDIERS AND SCENES OF NATIVE LIFE, AS WELL AS NEW GUINEA FAUNA, MOST NOTABLY A WONDERFUL DEPICTION OF A BIRD-EATING SPIDER, …

Ship board letter from an English immigrant arriving in Adelaide on the Omega, July 1851

MUSSON, Richard (attributed)

# 4492

Manuscript in ink on two-and-a-half sides of two quarto size sheets of unlined paper, original horizontal and vertical folds, some edge tears resulting in a small amount of loss at the end of some lines, a small hole at the centre of the first sheet, otherwise the text is legible, the main contents of the letter complete but lacking a final signature. A fascinating letter written on board the ship Omega at the conclusion of its voyage from England to Adelaide in 1851. The Omega, of 762 tons, under the command of Captain Samuel Potter, sailed from Liverpool on the 5th April 1851 and …

The two jovial huntsmen. Apropos of a ride with Mr Hey into Beni forest, S.E. Wynaad; July 1890

[GORSE]

# 4453

Manuscript in ink on paper, illustrated with pen and ink sketches, quarto, disbound, 10 pp (being one stitched quire removed from a contemporary sketch book), signed Gorse at the foot of the last page, complete, the paper a little browned at the edges but very clean and stable.  A charming personal account in verse form of the hunting adventure of two colonial gentlemen, Mr. Hey and Mr. Gorse (the author), and their 'native guide' in the wilderness region of Wayanad in southwest India, in the winter of 1890. The manuscript probably dates to a little later in the 1890s, and was …

[MILITARIA] Letters home from Trooper W.V. Weaber, 9th Light Horse Regiment, AIF, Egypt, 1917-18.

WEABER, William Victor (1881-1918)

# 4401

An archive of handwritten correspondence from Trooper William Weaber of the 9th (and later 10th) Australian Light Horse Regiment, AIF, 26th Reinforcement Morea Group, which embarked from Fremantle, Western Australia on board RMS Morea on 26 February 1917 and served in Egypt and Palestine. 3272 Private William Victor Weaber was a 35 year old sheep farmer from Kojonup, Western Australia, who left behind his wife Eleanor (Nellie) and their baby to go and fight for King and Country. The archive comprises 21 letters to his mother back home in Kojonup, dating from February 1917 to May 1918, the …

Native legends (First edition, inscribed by David Unaipon)

UNAIPON, David (1872-1967)

# 4300

Adelaide : Hunkin, Ellis & King Ltd., [1920]. First edition. Octavo, publisher's illustrated wrappers, the front cover inscribed 'With David Unaipon's Compliments', staples rusted, 15 pp, contents clean and sound. …

[MILITARIA] Unpublished manuscript poems by soldiers of the Australian 2/8th Field Regiment, 1940-41

Anon.

# 4299

Single sheet of octavo size Australian Salvation Army notepaper, recto with printed Red Shield Services letterhead, verso with two manuscript poems in pen, both signed 'The Boys' and with a further entry: 'Just a few dottys from the boys of 2/8', two horizontal folds, toning and light soiling, but intact and entirely legible, a miraculous survivor considering that the sheet must have been kept folded in a soldier's pocket or inside his notebook for at least a year of the war. The 2/8th Field Artillery Regiment was raised in the eastern States of Australia during 1939-40 and …

To Will H. Ogilvie : souvenir of dinner (Signed by Ogilvie, Roberts, Ashton, A.B. Paterson et al).

OGILVIE, Will H. (Will Henry), 1869-1963 ; PROCTOR, Thea, 1879-1966.

# 4287

on his leaving Australia for Scotland. 28th Jan., 1901, Hotel Australia, Sydney. Sydney, N.S.W. : Artistic Printers, Queen's Place, 1901. Octavo, printed in violet ink, illustrated wrappers (mild foxing front and back and a shorttear to front lower edge), the front cover featuring a beautiful and very early Thea Proctor design, original purple ribbon tie, [8] pp (contents very clean and presentable), includes 3 poems by Ogilvie, illustrated. The front cover is signed in pencil by WILL H. OGILVIE, TOM ROBERTS, ROSE SCOTT, RODERIC QUINN and others; a space designated for autographs on the …

[CHILD’S TRAVEL ALBUM] A description of a journey through Victoria.

Anon.

# 4286

Circa 1930. Photo album, oblong quarto, cream-coloured card covers (lacking the front), the first page with manuscript title and hand drawn map of Victoria indicating the route taken on a circular trip through Victoria starting and ending at Birchip (on the edge of the Wimmera and the Mallee in the northwest of the State), ribbon ties, [40] pp, comprising a visual and written record of the trip, taking the form of family photo snaps and commercial postcards mounted with corner hinges, pasted-in newspaper and magazine cuttings, and the adolescent writer's accompanying manuscript commentary …

Promissory note for Hepburn and Leonard, stock agents, Ballarat, 1864.

HEPBURN & LEONARD

# 4168

Ballaarat : Printed by W.M. Brown [for Hepburn and Leonard], manuscript date of 13th Sept., 1864. 100 x 210 mm, promising that Donald McKay will pay the company of Hepburn and Leonard the sum of Thirty-six pounds nineteen shillings [MS entry] for stock received, due on 16th October 1864 and payable at the London Chartered Bank, Ballarat. Fine. The stock agents Benjamin Hepburn and William Leonard operated large saleyards, slaughter yards and bone mills on the Creswick Road, Ballarat from around 1860, the business having been established by Hepburn in 1856. The sale and slaughter yards were a …

A printed vellum leaf from the first edition of the Constitutiones of Clemens V

CLEMENS V (1264-1314, Pope)

# 4165

[Mainz : Johann Fust and Peter Schoeffer, 1460]. 368 x 267 mm. Double column, with 72 [of 79] lines of commentary by Johannes Andreae surrounding the text. Rubrics in red, paragraph marks in blue and red, one two-line initial in blue. Removed from a binding, trimmed at lower edge with loss of seven lines; also trimmed at hinge edge with loss of a third of one column of the commentary, 60 x 20 mm edge loss to upper section of the same edge, four small perforations in the text section with negligible loss, small white circle of paper affixed to the upper right corner with manuscript numeral …

Legal document signed by Sir William Foster Stawell, Chief Justice of the Colony of Victoria, 1884

STAWELL, Sir William Foster (1815-1889)

# 4123

Manuscript legal document signed by Sir William Foster Stawell and dated 22 November 1884, acknowledging the admission of Arthur Seddon, then of Twyford Street in Willliamstown, now of 24 Market Street, Melbourne, as an Attorney, Solicitor and Proctor of the Supreme Court in 1861; attached by ribbon at the foot of the document is the Seal of the Supreme Court of the Colony of Victoria and a 5 /- stamp duty revenue stamp. Fine condition. Irish-born William Foster Stawell arrived in Port Phillip in 1842, having already been admitted to the bar in England and Ireland in 1839. He served as …

[MANUSCRIPT; VICTORIAN GOLDFIELDS] Some account of my doings in Australia from 1855 to 1862.

REYNOLDS, Frederick

# 4005

AN APPARENTLY UNPUBLISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL ACCOUNT OF LIFE ON THE VICTORIAN GOLDFIELDS DURING THE 1850s. Circa 1870. Manuscript written in ink on [27] pp, being one gathering from a contemporary quarto size notebook, the text complete in itself, titled on first page Some account of my doings in Australia from 1855 to 1862; written in one hand throughout and signed by the author Frederick Reynolds at the foot of the final page; beneath this signature is written in pencil in a slightly later hand (probably that of a family member) Husband of Guglielma Melford; the handwriting throughout the …

[MANUSCRIPT] Australian Aboriginal mythology.

Anon.

# 4001

[Title from heading on first page]. Circa 1930. Notebook containing a manuscript word list arranged in alphabetical order, written in ink on lined paper, octavo, faux roan covers (rubbed), stapled, 32 pp (centre leaf detached, the final five sans entries), clean and legible throughout. A compilation of words from a wide range of Australian Aboriginal languages, which pertain to the traditional stories of Indigenous peoples from all around Australia. For example: alcheringa (Arrernte, Central Australia); Thugine (Bunya-Bunya, Queensland); Ulanji (Binbinga, Arnhem Land); …

[MANUSCRIPT] Book with an account of the voige [sic] from Sydney N.S.W. to London England

LOCHHEAD, J. McK.

# 3983

in Board of the Ship Bruckley [sic] Castle.  A FASCINATING, WELL-TRAVELLED JOURNAL WHICH CONTAINS THE LENGTHY SHIPBOARD DIARY OF A SCOTTISH PASSENGER ON A VOYAGE FROM AUSTRALIA TO ENGLAND IN 1868, AND A SHORT RECORD OF THIS PERSON'S ARRIVAL AS A PIONEER SETTLER IN KANSAS TERRITORY, U.S.A., IN 1869.  Manuscript journal, small octavo, quarter calf over papered boards (heavily worn, the spine with loss at the tail), string bound, front paste-down inscribed with the owner's name, J. McK. Lochhead, and Book with an account of the voige [sic] from Sydney N.S.W. to London …

Love letter from George to Kate, Wangaratta, circa 1900

MANLEY, George

# 3843

Manuscript letter in ink written and signed by G[eorge] Manley, headed Wangaratta, July Wednesday, addressed to Dearest Kate, single sheet of lined paper folded into 4 pp octavo, written on three sides, original folds (tears along fold lines, some soiling and light foxing), complete.  'Dearest Kate, Not being able to have a personal interview with you for some time, I fail to know how to express my love for you. Dear Kate, I am going to ask a favour of you, could you if possible meet me in front of the Fire Brigade Station at 8.30 to morrow evening (Thursday), do not forget as I would …

[WINE; TOBACCO;MELBOURNE] Manuscript letter to Édouard Adet, of Curcier & Adet, wine merchants, 1863

CURCIER & ADET

# 3536

Entire letter (single folded octavo sheet of blue writing paper), addressed to Edouard Adet Esq., Curcier & Adet, Post Office, Castlemaine, the addressed side franked with 4d stamp of the Colony of Victoria and postmarked Melbourne SE 8 63, with rubber cachet in blue of Curcier & Adet, Melbourne, arrival cancel of Castlemaine Victoria SE 9 63 on reverse, along with remains of wax seal, message written in French over one-and-a-quarter sides, signed by one of Adet's business associates, whose identity is not certain (although the signature looks tantalizingly …

[SYDNEY] Land document, Thomas Dunn to D’Arcy Wentworth, Bankstown, 1818

DUNN, Thomas

# 3278

Manuscript land indenture for the sale of 80 acres of land (originally granted by Lachlan Macquarie to Thomas Dunn) located in the 'Banks Town District', for the sum of 20 pounds, from Thomas Dunn to D'Arcy Wentworth. Sydney, 8 June 1818. Manuscript written on three pages in the hand of Thomas Dunn and signed by Dunn and a witness. Single sheet, 320 x 390 mm (folded), complete, stable and legible. The Irish medical practitioner D'Arcy Wentworth, who arrived in Port Jackson in 1790, was the younger brother of the explorer and politician William Wentworth. He rose to become the …

J.R.R. Tolkien : manuscript letter, signed, 1947

TOLKIEN, J.R.R. (1892-1973)

# 3136

Quarto, 4 pp, written in blue ink in Tolkien's distinctive and fine hand, addressed from Merton Collecge, Oxford, dated September 26th 1947, addressed to 'My dear Jennifer' [Jennifer Paxman, daughter of Colin Brookes-Smith], signed 'Uncle Ronald'. A long and detailed letter in which Tolkien offers Miss Paxman advice on Oxford colleges and discusses misprints in The Hobbit and the various editions of the work, as well as giving a brief excursus on the development of Runes. Fine. '... As for "the Hobbit". There are a fair number of errors in it, and though I keep on …

Tony Benn : manuscript note, signed, circa 1980

BENN, Anthony Neil Wedgwood (1925 - )

# 3132

Single sheet, 295 x 205 mm, on embossed House of Commons letterhead, undated, manuscript in pen, from British politician Tony Benn to an unknown correspondent, expressing interest in a quote from historian A.J.P. Taylor, signed Tony. Tony Benn, arguably Britain's most popular politician of the second half of the twentieth century, was a Labour MP for fifty years, and is still actively involved in grass-roots political movements such as the Stop the War Coalition. …

John Betjeman : typed letter, signed, with pen sketch, circa 1950

BETJEMAN, John (1906-1984)

# 3127

Single sheet of writing paper, 160 x 200 mm (tipped onto modern card), on embossed Farnborough, Wantage, Berkshire letterhead, typed, dated April 25th, from the British poet John Betjeman to an Australian fan (a Mr. Castle), signed in red pen John Betjeman with an accompanying sketch of a champagne glass and bubbles.  '... I have always heard that Australia is enlightened and a hope of the future. Now I know it. Your letter has made my week for me. This is the first tribute I have ever had from Empire and I expect it will be the last.'  Betjeman, who would become Poet Laureate …

Saul Bellow : manuscript letter, signed, circa 1960.

BELLOW, Saul (1915-2005)

# 3085

A RARE MANUSCRIPT LETTER WRITTEN BY PULITZER AND NOBEL PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR SAUL BELLOW TO FELLOW WRITER, THOMAS BERGER. Octavo sheet, on letterhead of the literary magazine The Noble Savage, manuscript in pen, dated 6/29, to the American writer Thomas Berger (1924-), urging him to contribute to The Noble Savage, signed Saul Bellow.  In the Spring of 1960 Saul Bellow, along with fellow founding editors Keith Botsford and Jack Ludwig, launched The Noble Savage magazine, which was published by Meridian Books in New York. The magazine's regular contributors included such luminaries …

[GRAHAM GREENE; CATHOLICISM] Typed letter, signed, from Graham Greene to Heinrich Jansen-Cron

GREENE, Graham, 1904-1991

# 3045

GRAHAM GREENE, WHO CONVERTED TO CATHOLICISM IN 1926, DISCUSSES THE RELIGIOUS IDEAS IN HIS NOVELS BRIGHTON ROCK [1938] AND THE HEART OF THE MATTER [1948] IN A LETTER TO  A GERMAN CATHOLIC SCHOLAR. Single octavo sheet, typescript, on letterhead of 5 St. James's Street, London S.W.1, dated 17th January 1950, addressed to Dr. Heinrich Jansen Cron in Cologne, signed by Graham Greene; tear at lower right edge not affecting the text, paper browned, faint horizontal and vertical fold lines. 'Dear Dr. Cron, Thank you for your letter of January 9. No, personally I do not agree with the …

[GEORGE MACDONALD FRASER] Typed letter, signed, from George MacDonald Fraser to John Prebble, 1975

FRASER, George MacDonald, 1925-2008

# 3044

Single octavo sheet, addressed from The Bungalow, Baldrine, Isle of Man, dated 17.11.75., to the writer and historian John Prebble, in which Fraser writes that he is delighted Prebble enjoyed his latest 'Flashman' book, and that Prebble approves of Fraser's review of Prebble's new book, 'Mutiny : the Highland regiments in revolt', a book for which Fraser wishes Prebble every success; signed George Fraser. Fine. …

William Carew Hazlitt : holograph letter to Octavia Susman of Hobart, 1901

HAZLITT, William Carew, 1834-1913

# 3040

Single octavo sheet, written from Barnet Common, Surrey, dated June 4 1901, addressed to Miss [Octavia] Susman [in Tasmania], signed by Hazlitt. Fine. William Carew Hazlitt was a noted British bibliographer and writer. Octavia Susman (1865-1926) was a women's rights activist and autograph collector from Hobart, Tasmania, noted for her literary recitals in the colony. She was the daughter of Leo Susman, a successful merchant and prominent member of Hobart's Jewish community who had arrived in Hobart Town from Germany in the early 1850s. A file of biographical cuttings on Octavia Susman …

[SAMUEL BECKETT] A page from a typescript of Waiting for Godot, signed by Samuel Beckett

BECKETT, Samuel, 1906-1989

# 3038

A PAGE FROM ONE OF BECKETT'S TYPESCRIPTS OF HIS OWN ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF EN ATTENDANT GODOT, A MASTERPIECE OF TWENTIETH CENTURY THEATRE, WRITTEN BY ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL WRITERS OF OUR TIME. Single typescript foolscap sheet, a portion of Act II of Waiting for Godot, with an autograph correction by Samuel Beckett (line 3, elementary for elemantary) and signature of Beckett lower right, very clean with light horizontal fold lines, the sheet housed in an archival sleeve, which is string bound within archival card covers, the front with calligraphic paper title label. Samuel …

[TONGA] George Tubou II, King of Tonga : three manuscript documents

GEORGE TUBOU [TUPOU] II, King of Tonga, 1874-1918

# 3036

Two holograph notes written in pencil and signed by the King of Tonga, George Tubou II, dated 10 January 1909 and 7 November 1908, both written on embossed letterheads (two variants) of the Kingdom of Tonga, foolscap, both addressed to Mrs Munro and requesting whiskey, each with horizontal folds and some mild foxing, tipped-in on individual archival leaves; together with the King's 'at home' card, 95 x 110 mm, gilt royal crest, gilt edges, endorsed in manuscript in the King's own hand with the address of the Palace in Nukualofa and the date 4 April 1906, his signature beneath, …

[KINGSLEY AMIS] Autograph of Kingsley Amis on typed letter, 1988

[KINGSLEY AMIS, 1922-1995]

# 3035

Typed letter, single octavo sheet (laid down on card), on Sunday Telegraph [London] letterhead, from Sandie Oram, the newspaper's literary editor, to the writer Kingsley Amis, dated April 28, 1988, informing Amis of the schedule of books to be sent to him for review, signed by Sandie Oram and later by Kingsley Amis. Fine. The books for review are presumably Kissing the Rod: An Anthology of Seventeenth-Century Women's Verse, edited by Germaine Greer, London : Virago, 1988; The Civil War Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce, compiled with a foreword by Ernest Jerome Hopkins, Lincoln : …

[GLEESON]. Selected Poems

GLEESON, James

# 2995

Sydney : Angus & Robetrson, 1993. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, pp. 75, inscribed on first leaf 'Publisher's Proof #1'. Loosely enclosed, a signed and dated letter from Gleeson to Tom Thompson (publisher) stating he encloses a late poem, which is also enclosed, a handwritten sheet consisting of the satirical poem 'Twelve useful occupations of the neo-elderly' listing the activities that Gleeson wryly observes the ageing should be engaged in. An unique copy of this book with an original unpublished poem by James Gleeson. …

Manuscript document signed by the French naturalist La Billardière, Alençon, 1798

La Billardière, Jacques-Julien Houtou de, 1755-1834

# 2994

Single sheet folded into 4 pp, folio, imprinted letterhead of Administration municipale du Canton d'Alençon intra muros : LIBERTÉ / ÉGALITÉ, followed by a closely written manuscript over 4 pages, with formulaic imprinted heading Du Registre de l'Administration municipale d'Alençon, Canton intra muros, destiné particulièrement à inscrire [MS] Sa Deliberation a été extrait ce que suit: [MS] Aujourd'hui vingt quatre Floréal, an Six de la République [13 …

[MELBOURNE] Probate document for the estate of Henry Hennett, railway guard, 1887.

# 2916

Single parchment sheet, 290 x 470 mm, dated 16th June 1887, relating to the estate of Henry Hennett, railway guard, of Abbotsford Street, Hotham [North Melbourne] in the Colony of Victoria, who died intestate on 25th April 1887, granting Letters of Admnistration of the estate (with sworn value of 788 pounds 16 shillings and sixpence) to his widow, Eliza Ann Hennett, signed by the Master in Equity of the Supreme Court of Victoria, Thomas Prout Webb, Government seal attached, original folds. Fine. …

Land grant document for Samuel Bayliss, Hunter Valley, 1845, signed by Governor Gipps

[Government of New South Wales]

# 2910

Printed document on vellum (350 x 430 mm) with clerical manuscript entries in ink, dated 30th June 1845, recording the grant of 200 acres of Crown land at the confluence of the Goulburn and Hunter Rivers to Samuel Bayliss, the land being that originally granted to Patrick Kelly in 1828 and bordering on the property of James Strachan, signed by the Governor, George Gipps, and with the official government seal attached, original vertical folds. Clean and legible. The junction of the Goulburn and Hunter Rivers in the Upper Hunter Valley was discovered by the surveyor Henry Dangar in 1824. The …

Town grant to Stephen Partridge, Port Macquarie, 1840

[New South Wales Government. General Registrar's Office]

# 2909

Copy issued by the New South Wales General Registrar's Office and dated 12th April 1865 of a grant document originally issued 30th May 1840 by Governor George Gipps. Single sheet, 395 x 255 mm, printed both sides, with clerical manuscript entries in ink, a New South Wales Government land grant to Stephen Partridge of Port Macquarie for two roods (half an acre) on the corner of Murray and Clarence Streets in the 'Town of Macquarie, Parish of Macquarie in the County of Macquarie'. The site is now a prime piece of Central Coast real estate. Fine. …

[IMMIGRATION] William Wells, baker. 229 Inkerman Street, St Kilda, Melbourne, Australia

[WELLS, William]

# 2804

Manuscript letter, 2 pp octavo, dated 7 September 1896, from William Wells, 229 Inkerman Street, St Kilda, Melbourne, to Mr Saunders, Solicitor, Chipping Norton, Oxon. England, horizontal fold lines (some tears at edges), mild foxing, but complete and legible. The letter concerns William Wells' inheritance and is in response to an advertisement placed in the Melbourne Argus by an Oxfordshire solicitor which seeks information on the whereabouts of William Wells. 'Dear Sir, In reference to an advertisement in the morning paper the Argus September 4th 1896 advertising for one William …

[MANUSCRIPT ATLAS] French manuscript atlas, 1838

[Louise Lucas]

# 2778

Folio (390 x 270 mm), contemporary quarter green morocco over patterned green boards (rubbed), front board with gilt stamp Louise Lucas, containing 19 hand-drawn and coloured maps on double-size sheets (390 x 540 mm), each numbered at upper right and bound in sequence with a central fold, most with titles and dated 1838, including a map showing Oceania with Australia marked as Notasie ou Nouvelle Hollande. The maps are in fine condition, a few with some very mild foxing but overall fresh and extremely well preserved. 1. Mappe monde ou carte générale du globe terrestre, An …

[MANUSCRIPT ATLAS] Atlas historique de la France,

[Juliette Collinen]

# 2776

offert et dédié à mon père chéri par l'amour de sa fille, Juliette Collinen. AN EXQUISITE MANUSCRIPT HISTORICAL ATLAS OF FRANCE, DRAWN BY A YOUNG FRENCH WOMAN AND LOVINGLY DEDICATED TO HER FATHER, CIRCA 1840. INCLUDES A MAP OF THE HEMISPHERES SHOWING NEW HOLLAND. Folio (360 x 235 mm), quarter morocco over brown pebbled boards (lightly marked), cover with gilt stamped intials G.C., spine with raised bands and gilt title Atlas Historique, silk lining and endpapers, all edges gilt, 89, [4] pp, the maps drawn and coloured by hand (many with gold ink), each map …

[POETRY] Holograph letter of Hugh McCrae, with two drawings, 1953

[HUGH McCRAE]

# 2423

Single sheet, octavo, folded into 4 pp (written in pen on two sides only), with two sketches by McCrae (one in pen, one in pencil), from 4 Greycliffe Avenue, Vaucluse, Jan. 31. 1953, addressed to the writer Freda Barrymore, thanking her for congratulating McCrae on his recently awarded O.B.E. Some minor toning and pin holes, but complete and legible. Dear Freda Barrymore: Yes ... Grand C.G.G. (Common or Garden Gent), I have risen to an O.B. Eship. Next year, I hope, "with bar". Needless to say, your sympathy has kept me calm; and I thank you straight from my heart. Meanwhile, they are not the …

[SOUTH AUSTRALIA] Holograph letter of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, 1874

BUXTON, Sir Thomas Fowell

# 2250

Manuscript letter, single sheet folded into 4pp octavo, written on all 4 pages, addressed to the editor of the Spectator, titled The Famine & the Electors, signed T. Fowell Buxton, 14 Grosvenor Crescent, Feb. 9. Original mailing folds, residual glue mark from mounting along right hand edge of final page, but complete and legible. Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton (1837-1915) was Governor of South Australia from 1895 to 1899. A philanthropist with a keen interest in social reform, he became early in his career vice-president of the British and Foreign Aborigines Protection Society, as well as serving …

[SCULPTURE] Ola Cohn : a holograph note

COHN, Ola, 1892-1964

# 2223

Manuscript in ink (octavo, single sheet, folded into 4 pp), on Cohn's embossed letterhead, Ola's Home, 41-43 Gipps St. East Melbourne, dated 20.2.58, signed Ola Cohn, a note to an unnamed recipient regarding one of Cohn's terra-cotta sculptures which the adressee has in his/her collection. Cohn's note quotes lines from a poem by the American writer Carl Sandburg (1878-1967), Precious Moments, which she says remind her of this 'little terra-cotta'. On the inner pages the letter's recipient has written out the poem in full. …

Russell Drysdale

# 2162

Melbourne : Richmond Hill Press, 1979. Elephant folio, full leather (somewhat marked), essays, 45 full page colour plates reproducing Drysdale paintings and drawings, paper folio with 6 loose colour plates, all housed in a tan clamshell box, a little bumped. Limited to 500 copies signed by the artist, this is a presentation copy from Drysdale to his friend and art dealer Rudy Komon, inscribed on the limitation page 'For Rudy Komon as a mark of respect and affection from his old friend. Tass Drysdale. At Bouddi Farm: 29 : III : 80'; [together with] holograph letter from Drysdale to …

[MANUSCRIPT MAP] Australia and Islands Adjacent, 1845

BRIDGES, Henry

# 1869

Manuscript map with hand-coloured details (435 x 540 mm), laid down on modern board, bold calligraphic title across upper margin, the lower margin inscribed: Henry Bridges. The Temple Grammar School. Brighton. 1845. A talented schoolboy's beautifully drawn manuscript copy of a map by Sidney Hall, which had been published in Samuel Butler's Atlas of Modern Geography (1844), showing Australia, New Guinea and the Malay archipelago, with relief indicated by hachures. The notable lacunae in this copy are the borders of South Australia, along with Lake Torrens in South Australia and the …

[RUDYARD KIPLING] Typed letter signed by Kipling, discussing illustrations in the Just-So Stories.

[KIPLING, Rudyard]

# 1822

Single, folded octavo sheet on letterhead with Kipling's Bateman's Burwash, Sussex, address (very clean and bright), typescript, and signed in ink by Rudyard Kipling, dated 20 November 1924, with original envelope and addressed to D. Avery Esq., London. 'Dear Sir, I am much obliged to you for your interesting account of your discoveries in the illustrations of my "Just-So Stories"; as I am struck with the zeal with which you followed your clues. As to the letters on the collar round King Solomon's neck, any friend of yours who happens to be a Freemason will tell you what they …

[MELBOURNE] Stephanie Taylor : original watercolours and an archive of ephemera

[TAYLOR, Stephanie 1899-1974]

# 1803

Melbourne artist and lecturer Stephanie Taylor was a noted watercolourist, and this small collection includes some fine examples of her work. She was a member of the Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors and also of the Victorian Artists' Society.  1. [Untitled]. Watercolour on paper, 165 x 310 mm (irregular fan shape), signed and dated in pencil lower right, Stephanie Taylor 1940. A tranquil, impressionistic composition: ladies in early nineteenth century dress at the water's edge, framed by overarching trees, with a sailing boat in the distance. 2. William …

[MEDIAEVAL MANUSCRIPT] Fourteenth century legal document in Old French

# 1798

Single parchment sheet, 300 x 395 mm, (short tear centre top edge and some wrinkling, otherwise very good condition), dated 1374 in a later hand in upper left margin, the text written in a neat, consistent hand, two versal letters at upper left, a small coloured anchor in left margin. Attractive. …

[GOVERNOR GIPPS; JUDAICA] Purchase of land by Benjamin and Moses, Goulburn, 1838

# 1795

Printed document on vellum (350 x 410 mm) with manuscript entries, for the purchase of an allotment of two roods (half an acre) of Crown land in the Goulburn district, by Samuel Benjamin and Elias Moses, dated 12 May 1838, signed by the Governor, George Gipps, and with the official government seal attached. Clean and legible. The Australian Dictionary of Biography contains an entry on the merchant Samuel Benjamin (1804-54). Benjamin arrived in Sydney from London in 1833, and in partnership with Elias Moses operated a general store in George Street. Benjamin and Moses opened the highly …

[MILITARY; TOBRUK; MELBOURNE] Archive of AUBREY HICKES LAWSON GIBSON

# 1783

AUBREY HICKES LAWSON GIBSON (1901-73). A FILE OF OFFICIAL & PERSONAL CORRESPONDENCE, REPORTS AND COMMUNIQUÉS, MANY OF THEM MARKED SECRET AND CONFIDENTIAL, COMPILED BY LT. COL. A. H. L. GIBSON and relating to his military service in South Australia, the Northern Territory and Tobruk from April 1941 to May 1944. The file, contained in manila covers and marked A.I.F. File 1, comprises more than 180 items, mainly typescript folio pages, but including manuscript correspondence.  Melbourne-born Aubrey Gibson (1901–73) was a Major in the Militia at the outbreak of the Second …

[HONG KONG; POETRY] In loving memory of Drummer Flowers

WALLACE, A.

# 1750

who departed this life on the 14th of March 1897 at Hong-Kong. Manuscript poem, written in ink, folio writing paper, 2 pp, 'Composed by Pte. A. Wallace, 1st West Yorkshire Regt., Copied by Pte. A. Gowan, 1st Batt. Middx Regt.'  A heartfelt composition - full of bathos - penned by a poorly educated soldier in honour of a young drummer boy serving in the Far East with the Prince of Wales' Own. The boy died in the middle of a regimental football match, as the poem explains, and his actual headstone, which still stands in the Hong Kong Cemetery, reads: 'Ich dien/ India/ Sacred …

[ARTHUR STREETON] Holograph letter to Charles Lloyd Jones, with pen drawing self-portrait

STREETON, Sir Arthur Ernest (1867-1943)

# 1609

Single page (250 x 200 mm) with Streeton's embossed letterhead in red (his Grange Road, Toorak address), dated 6.Feb/37, addressed to Charles Lloyd Jones and Marion [possibly Marion Hall Best, the Sydney interior designer who later became the director of the David Jones' Art Gallery), written in pen and signed 'Arthur Streeton'; embellished with a pen drawing by Streeton, showing the sun in the sky with the initials 'L.J' (Lloyd Jones) immediately below, and a self-caricature of the artist painting en plein air, holding a palette in the shape of Australia. The letter is …

[FREYCINET] Manuscript letter signed by Jacques Arago

ARAGO, Jacques Étienne Victor (1790 - 1855)

# 1453

Single sheet (250 x 270 mm), folded vertically, the blindstamped initials 'J.A.' impressed into the paper, with a short message written in ink in the hand of Arago's secretary (Arago had lost his sight in 1837), signed in pencil in the frail hand of the aged Arago himself and dated 9 October 1853. The letter is addressed to 'The editorship of the Press' (publication unknown), thanking them on behalf of his family for their condolences on the death of his brother, the mathematician, astronomer and politician François Arago. Jacques Arago sailed with Freycinet on his …

[POETRY] The Bird of Paradise / The Bird, let loose

Unknown artist / [MOORE, Thomas 1779-1852]

# 1416

Pencil drawing (45 x 55 mm) on paper with accompanying manuscript copy of the Irish poet Thomas Moore's poem 'The Bird, let loose', in ink, single sheet (250 x 190 mm), titled in copperplate calligraphy, also initialled in copperplate "L.F." and dated 1830, lower right. "The Bird let loose in Eastern skies / When hast'ning fondly home / Ne'er stoops to earth her wing, nor flies / Where idle warblers roam / But high she shoots thro' air and light / Above all low delay / Where nothing earthly bounds her flight / Nor shadow dims her way. / So Pilgrim haste, from ev'ry …

[CONVICTS; MANUSCRIPT] An atlas to Guthrie’s geographical grammar

# 1330

[WITH A CONTEMPORARY TRANSPORTATION MANUSCRIPT ANNOTATION]. London : Barnard and Farley, 1815. Small octavo, contemporary half calf over marbled boards (very worn), title, one engraving of the Armillary Sphere, a defective copy with only 12 out of 30 hand coloured maps, free endpaper with lengthy pencilled inscription which reads as follows: Capt. Rd. Howlett sailed round the Globe in a short space of eighteen months, calling at the following places. From London to Madeira, Madeira to St Jagoes [i.e. Santiago], one of the Cape de Verd Islands; ex hence to St Helena, ex St Helena to …