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The Collection of Michael Aitkin – Rare books & ephemera at Australian Book Auctions
May 29, 2017
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The Collection of Michael Aitkin, Esq. 235 Lots. Order of the sale: The Colony of Victoria (Lots 1 – 59), The Port Phillip District (Lots 60-103), The Gold Rush Era (Lots 104-172), Ephemera (Lots 173-235).
Highlights include:
Lot 14: CHARSLEY, Fanny Anne. THE WILD FLOWERS AROUND MELBOURNE… London, Day & Son, 1867… “First edition, first issue (i.e. with uncoloured title-page but with the plates handcoloured)”. Est. $2000/3000.
Lot 17: COLLINS, David. AN ACCOUNT OF THE ENGLISH COLONY IN NEW SOUTH WALES… “First and best editions”…”uniformly bound with both half-titles in speckled calf of the epoch”…”bound into the first volume… is a folding manuscript map of the Australian continent with much detail of the named features on the coast; it has been suggested that Matthew Flinders may have contributed to the map”. Est. $8000/12000.
Lot 24: GRANT, James. THE NARRATIVE OF A VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY… First edition… “with the rare leaf of the encouragers and the rare blank leaf d4, a crisp copy bound in half calf and marbled boards of the period, neatly rebacked”. Est. 8000/12000.
Lot 35: WALKER, Charles Bristow. PHOTOGRAPHS MELBOURNE & SUBURBS… “30 albumen paper photographic prints… in fine state (photographs and album). Melbourne, circa 1890s. Est. 5000/7000.
Lot 80: HULL, William. REMARKS ON THE PROBABLE ORIGIN AND ANTIQUITY OF THE ABORIGINAL NATIVES OF NEW SOUTH WALES…”rare: published anonymously”. Est. 1500/3000.
Lot 97: WALKER, Thomas. A MONTH IN THE BUSH OF AUSTRALIA… “in entirely original, unsophisticated condition – very rare thus”. Est. 4000/6000.
Lot 110: BONWICK, James. NOTES OF A GOLD DIGGER AND GOLD DIGGERS’ GUIDE. “The first Victorian publication on the diggings…” Est. 3000/5000.
Lot 161: THE MELBOURNE ALBUM CONTAINING A SERIES OF VIEWS OF MELBOURNE & COUNTRY DISTRICTS. Est. 12,000/18,000.
Lot 212: SOUVENIR OF THE METROPOLITAN FIRE BRIGADE. Est 150/300.