‘Newcastle in New South Wales…’, a view drawn and engraved in 1812 by two transported convicts. It sold for Aus$15,500 (£8855).
The ‘Great Brown Kings Fisher’, one of the 31 natural history plates found in a coloured copy of The Voyage of Governor Philip to Botany Bay… of 1789, sold at Aus$25,000 (£14,825).
Lots relating to explorer Matthew Flinders are particularly topical given that his grave has just been re-discovered in a graveyard under Euston station as part of works for the HS2 high-speed railway line.