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Printed & Written Material — Davidson Auctions

$11,500
Land Grant, Governor MacQuarie to Blaxland 1812.…
$4,600
Land Grant, Governor Macquarie.…
$4,600
Land Grant, Governor Macquarie.…
$4,025
100 Magic Lantern Slides of China c.…








Auction House: Davidson Auctions
Number of lots recorded: 235
Lots with images: 235
Prices available: 235
Category: Printed & Written Material




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*** Land Grant, Governor MacQuarie to Blaxland 1812. Handwritten grant of 500 acres to pastoralist and explorer Gregory Blaxland on the Nepean at Cubbady River (now Cobbity). Signed and sealed 'L. Macqurie' on 25 August 1812. A drought and failure of this. 29.5 x 42 cm ***
*** Land Grant, Governor Macquarie. Grant for Bathurst to Robert Fop of two hundred acres in the district of Bathurst. 43 cm x 31 cm, oblong folio, dated Sydney, 10 June 1815. Manuscript in ink on vellum (which was locally produced). Good paper pendant seal of ***
*** Land Grant, Governor Macquarie. Unique 1810 Land Grant for BOTANY BAY to William Packer (late Sergeant in the 102nd Regiment) of one hundred acres in the district of Botany Bay.39 cm x 28 cm, oblong folio, dated Sydney, 1 January 1810. Partly printed and co ***
*** 100 Magic Lantern Slides of China c.1899, a mixture of personal photographs taken by China Inland Missionary, Dr Frank Burden in China 1890-1899. Also, various published views. Includes a 1922 flier for a presentation at Henley, South Australia. '100 ste ***
*** Sydney Land Grant 1792. (1795 copy) signed by David Collins. Original land grant was made under Captain Arthur Phillip on 22nd Feb. 1792 which was lost in a fire. This document is a copy of that document & is dated 16th November, 1795 & is signed by Dav ***
*** Sir Joseph Banks. The Father of Australia. Autograph Letter Signed 1.5pp quarto. Soho Square, 5 August 1817. Addressed to customs, alerting them of special experimental packages from France. Signed: 'I am Sir Your most Humble Servant Jos. Banks.' Good let ***
*** 1798 map of Australia. 'La Nuova Olanda e la Nuova Guinea, Delineate Sulle Ultimo Osservazioni,' pub. Roma, Presso La Calografia Camerale, 1798. Hand coloured. Old central fold line. Laid down. Label verso 'The arts centre, Johannesburg.' engraving 37 x 51 cm ***
*** Book: 'Picasso's Sketch Book'. Limited edition in exact facsimile. 250 copies. Published by Thames and Hudson/Abrams, 1960. Original glassine wrappers, and 16 page introductory book. ***
*** 1859 Photograph 1st NSW Legislative Assembly. Albumin cameo portrait photo of Australia's first 'Responsible' government. Original birds Eye walnut frame, glass & backing. 53 x 42.5 cm ***
*** Original Printed Parchment 1823 Land Grant from Nsw Governor Sir Thomas Brisbane. Grant is for 60 acres at Parramatta to Samuel Barber. Signed by Brisbane & Registrar Goulburn. Has notation to verso by Barber transferring title to Richard Hunt in 1837. ***
*** Original 1823 Governor Brisbane Land Grant to emancipated convict David Horton Senior. Grant for 100 acres at Kurrajong with long hand written notation by Brisbane verso releasing Senior from the obligation to supply timber from this property for Governm ***
*** Deed Govt. Bourke to Lawson 1835. Deed of sale form, with handwritten description, detailing the sale of 1,060 acres for 265 pounds to Blue Mountains explorer William Lawson. This land was on the Coolaburragundy Creek near Coolah (Mudgee district), one 30 x 36.5 cm ***
*** Photo album Egypt, circa 1880, 66 full plate photos by the studios of Lekegian (most) and Langaki. Scenes, natives and occupations. Some light foxing. Albumin photograph 20.5 x 25 cm (each) ***
*** Original Governor Charles Fitzroy 1853 Town Lot Grant (by purchase) to William Bligh John O'Connell under the reward's for army officers scheme. Grant is for 6 perches at Haymarket in Sydney bounded by George & Gipps Streets. Signed boldly & legibly by Fi ***
*** Two albums L. J. O'Malley Papuan photographs. Approx. 60 original photographs 1920s-30s mainly of full. Length portraits in casual and ceremonial dress, plus village and landscape views. Some extensively annotated and bearing O'Malley's stamp. ***
*** 25 Stereoscope Images. Views of early Australian landscapes & civic buildings. Mostly Victoria & Tasmania. ***

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