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Australian Explorers.
McGready, Thomson & Niven / Copyright / McFarlane & Erskine Lithog.rs Edinburgh [c.1870's]
Lithograph with tintstone, sheet 265 x 170mm (10½ x 6¾").
Portraits of: Ernest Giles (1835-97), John Forrest (1847-1918), Charles Sturt (1795-1869), Robert O'Hara Burke (1821-61), William John Wills (1834-61), Ludwig Leichardt (1813-48), John McDouall Stuart (1815-66) and Sir George Grey (1812-98). In the centre is Charles Summers' monument to Burke and Wills in Melbourne. In 1860-1 Burke and Wills led an expedition crossing Australia from Melbourne in the south to the Gulf of Carpentaria in the north. They successfully did so but both men lost their lives on the return to Melbourne. Kivell & Spence: Pg 124.
[Ref: 37092] £85.00
(£102.00 incl.VAT)
Brisbane.
McGready, Thomson & Niven, Glasgow [n.d. 1878].
Tinted lithograph. Sheet 210 x 290mm (8¼ x 11½"), large margins.
A view of the European settlement at Brisbane. From David Blair's 'The History of Australasia', the first such history to be published.
[Ref: 62384] £75.00
(£90.00 incl.VAT)
South Head, Port Jackson.
McGready, Thomson & Niven, Glasgow [n.d. 1878].
Tinted lithograph. Sheet 210 x 290mm (8¼ x 11½"), large margins.
A view of cliffs and the Macquarie Lighthouse of Port Jackson, New South Wales. From David Blair's 'The History of Australasia', the first such history to be published.
[Ref: 62383] £60.00
(£72.00 incl.VAT)
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