CATALOGUE TRAVEL & EXPLORATION II

A superb folding illuminated presentation address, comprised of three panels dedicated to the outgoing Mayor of Ashfield, Mr John H.Hammond dated 17 November 1917. Folio bound in dark brown full Morocco with gilt lettering and gilt embossing to inside panels with watercolour illumination on inside front cover by John Sands Ltd. Offered with original invitation and program.

John Harold Hammond (1875-1932) was the son of Mark John Hammond who also served as Mayor of Ashfield between 1882 and 1884. Hammond was called to the New South Wales Bar in 1898 and appointed a QC in 1926. He was appointed Chairman of the Royal Commission on Wireless in 1927. Hammond was an alderman of Ashfield Municipal Council for seventeen years and Mayor twice (1915-1917 and 1923).

Oil of the AHS Centaur (Australian Hospital Ship) leaving Sydney Harbour May 1943 with North Head on the right. It sailed unescorted without patients and although clearly marked as a hospital ship with three crosses on its side, was torpedoed on 14 May 1943 by a Japanese submarine about 50 miles from Brisbane. Of the 332 persons on board, only 64 survived. The wreck was only located in 2009.

Rare map showing the extent of exploration north of Port Macquarie to 1841. Includes the recently discovered Clarence River and extends to Moreton Bay and Brisbane which had been opened to free settlers in 1838. In his report, Gipps lamented the difficulties settlers were having in transporting supplies and produce, especially wool, to market. He advised that he had employed a surveyor at Moreton Bay since 1 July 1839 and that a large quantity of land had been surveyed and was ready to be sold. He also proposed that a town or settlement be established on the Clarence River which had only been discovered two years earlier by cedar cutters. From Copy of a Dispatch from Sir.Gipps, Governor of New South Wales to the Secretary of the State for the Colonies. Ordered, by the House of Commons, to be Printed, 9 March 1841.

Very detailed map of Moreton Bay made only three years after the area was opened up to free settlers and surveyed by Robert Dixon who had been made surveyor of the area in 1840. From, "Copy of a Dispatch from Sir.Gipps, Governor of New South Wales to the Secretary of the State for the Colonies. Ordered, by the House of Commons, to be Printed, 9 March 1841.

Lindeman Island was named in 1870 and is the oldest of all the resort islands in the Whitsundays. As early as 1923, Angus Nicolson established a camp for visitors on the island. It was very primitive and it is said that Angus used to advise his ‘campers’ that ‘anytime you run short of bread bring me your flour and I'll cook you some damper. If you want meat, then shoot a goat. But don’t get shootin’ them for sport’.

Detailed map of Port Cockburn, Apsley Strait (present day Beagle Gulf), with insets of Fort Dundas and a Plan of King's Cove. The Fort Dundas British settlement was established in September 1824 with the goal of developing trade with Malays. It was a short lived failure and abandoned in February 1829. From, Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia by Phillip Parker King.

Covers the area around Albert (now Gregory), Nicholson Rivers and includes the routes of the following inland expeditions; Leichhardt (1845), Gregory (1856), Walker (1861), Landsborough (1861-2), and McKinlay (1861). From Petermann’s Geographische Mittheilungen.

Peterman was of international repute, he accompanied Barth in Central Africa, and travelled the Arctic. He worked in London 1847-1854, experimented in thematic mapping and compiled maps for Fullarton. In Germany he worked for Perthes. He died in Gotha.

John Austin, sketcher, lithographer, farmer, journalist, mining consultant and accountant, arrived in South Australia with his family in 1843. John helped in clearing and developing some 500 acres purchased by his father Reverend John Austin in Macclesfield. The property later became known as Lashbrooke. Prints such as these highlighted the colony’s economic progress and served as visual confirmation of the potential prosperity, both in wealth and social status, that could be gained through emigration to the colonies. Very rare separately issued lithograph.

View looking south from Battery Point along Sandy Bay to Mount Nelson. Mulgrave Battery was put in place in 1818 on the southern side of the point as part of Hobart's coastal defenses.

Joseph Lycett, an artist, was convicted of forgery in 1811 and transported to New South Wales. He was given his ticket-of-leave soon after arriving and began working as a clerk in the police office but was arrested again for forgery. He was sent to the notorious penal settlement of Newcastle and pardoned in 1821 after Governor Macquarie, who had taken an interest in Lycett, sent three of his drawings, including a large view of Sydney, to then Colonial Secretary Lord Bathurst. Lycett returned to England armed with a portfolio of colonial views which he published in his Views in Australia: or, New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land delineated in Fifty Views in 1825, dedicated to the Earl of Bathurst. Lycett is acknowledged as being one of the most important colonial artists to record the early progress of the colony.

View of the Argyle Plains looking towards Ross which can be seen in the distance.

Joseph Lycett, an artist, was convicted of forgery in 1811 and transported to New South Wales. He was given his ticket-of-leave soon after arriving and began working as a clerk in the police office but was arrested again for forgery. He was sent to the notorious penal settlement of Newcastle and pardoned in 1821 after Governor Macquarie, who had taken an interest in Lycett, sent three of his drawings, including a large view of Sydney, to then Colonial Secretary Lord Bathurst. Lycett returned to England armed with a portfolio of colonial views which he published in his Views in Australia: or, New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land delineated in Fifty Views in 1825, dedicated to the Earl of Bathurst. Lycett is acknowledged as being one of the most important colonial artists to record the early progress of the colony.