The Willcox Collection of Pacific and Australian Exploration.
Catalog Information: 63 lots | 45 with images
Date: 2004
Auction House:
Sotheby's
Location:
Australia
Lot 1: BLIGH, WILLIAM
A VOYAGE TO THE SOUTH SEA... FOR THE PURPOSE OF CONVEYING THE BREADFRUIT TREE TO THE WEST INDIES. London, George Nicol, 1792.Quarto; engraved portrait frontispiece, 7 engraved plates and maps; full contemporary calf covers with gilt border, spine dec [...more]
Lot 2: [H.M.S RATTLESNAKE] BRIERLY, SIR OSWALD
NO. 1. H.M.S. RATTLESNAKE, & BRAMBLE TENDER... FINDING AN ENTRANCE THROUGH THE REEFS INTO THE LOUISIADE ARCHIPELAGO. [AND] NO. 2. H.M.S. RATTLESNAKE, & BRAMBLE TENDER... ENTERING THE LOUISIADE ARCHIPELAGO.Two hand-coloured lithographs. London, Day & [...more]
Lot 3: [H.M.S RATTLESNAKE] BROOKER, EDWARD WOLFE, ATTRIBUTED
ALBUM OF DRAWINGS OF NORTHERN AUSTRALIA AND NEW GUINEA. Endeavour River (Qld) - Port Essington - New Guinea, 26 July 1848 - 10 December 1849.Folio sketchbook, pencil and watercolour, 108 leaves in total (two leaves loose evidently for some time), 195 [...more]
Lot 4: CALLANDER, JOHN
TERRA AUSTRALIS COGNITA: OR VOYAGES TO THE TERRA AUSTRALIS, OR SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE, DURING THE SIXTEENTH, SEVENTEENTH, AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES. Edinburgh, A. Donaldson, 1766-1768.Three volumes, octavo, 3 folding maps; full contemporary polished calf [...more]
Lot 5: COLLINS, DAVID
AN ACCOUNT OF THE ENGLISH COLONY IN NEW SOUTH WALES... London, printed for T. Cadell jun. and W. Davies, 1798 [and] AN ACCOUNT OF THE ENGLISH COLONY IN NEW SOUTH WALES...TO AUGUST 1801... London, printed by A. Strahan for T. Cadell jun. and W. Davies [...more]
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