Australian & Colonial – Antique & Historical 11 09, 2015 View ▼ Items per page 102550100 Sort by DefaultTime LeftLot#Lot NameNewestHighest PriceLowest PriceBidsViews Filter By Categories Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above Featured Exclude closed lots Price Lot Number Results: Viewing items 1-75 of 75. Previous|1|Next Image Lot # Item Title Quantity Time Left Your Bids 685 VERY EARLY DEPICTITION OF A KANGAROOSAUER, C.: "Der Hoch-Deutsch-Amerikanische Calender auf das Jahr.....1775" [Germantown, Pennsylvania, 1774]. Although incomplete, lacking covers and a few leaves, present is the page depicting and describing the kangaroo, "a new type of animal" which had not previously been described in words or images and which relies heavily on the report provided by "Mr Banks". The Roo is described as having a head like a deer, lips and ears like a hare, etc. Later ha... Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold View details 686 SECOND FLEET: "A Voyage to Botany Bay, with a description of the country, manners, customs, religion of its natives" by George Barrington [London, 1805], one shilling and sixpence edition. No wrappers but complete with end papers. Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$300StatusSold View details 687 HOWE, George (Publisher): "NEW SOUTH WALES Pocket Almanack for the year of our Lord 1814" [Sydney, undated but 1813]; 135pp. Includes all shipping movements from 1788 to the end of 1813 and much other information. Ferguson 588 Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Price Realized$3,200StatusSold View details 688 VAUX, James Hardy. "MEMOIRS OF JAMES HARDY VAUX. WRITTEN BY HIMSELF." in two volumes. [London, Printed by W. Clowes…and sold by All Respectable Booksellers, 1819]. First edition of this convict autobiography. The final 75 pages of the second volume contain Vaux’s celebrated “Vocabulary of theFlash Language”, the first dictionary of underworld cant to emanate from Australia. Ferguson, 770 Both volumes with Ingleton and Lesnie ex-libris labels; Vol. 1 with extensive mss note in Ing... Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Price Realized$1,150StatusSold View details 689 HOWE, George [1769-1821] "New South Wales Pocket Almanack , for the year of our Lord 1820..." [Sydney] 119p; rebound with bookplate of Mannie Lesnie. Extremely scarce. This almanac contains information on many topics such as the public holidays for the year, tide table, moon phases, a chronology of English Sovereigns as well as the reigning families of Europe, distances from township to township, persons in the Civil Establishment and the Military Establishment, as well as details on t... Estimate$2,000 - $2,500Price Realized$1,500StatusSold View details 690 HOWE, Robert: "AUSTRALASIAN POCKET ALMANACK for the year of our Lord 1823" [Sydney, undated but 1822]; 139pp. Former ownership inscription of John Lusk, Captain of the ship "Brixton" which arrived in April 1823. Ferguson 886 Estimate$1,000 - $1,250Price Realized$600StatusSold View details 691 HOWE, Robert. "AUSTRALIAN POCKET ALMANACK for the year of our Lord 1825" [Sydney]; 150 pp + 2 fold-out charts. Ferguson 994. Ex Library copy.Includes an extraordinary "Chronology of LOCAL OCCURRENCES, from the first establishment of the Colony, in 1788, down to the present period, 1825." p.90-118. Estimate$800 - $1,200Price Realized$500StatusSold View details 692 HOWE, Robert: "AUSTRALIAN ALMANACK for the year of our Lord 1828" [Sydney]; 173 pp plus 2 folding plates. A very informative volume with chronological cycles, astronomical and celestial information, arrivals of prisoners for the years 1826 and 1827, accounts of Fisheries 1826, imported Foreign Tobacco 1826 and many tables and regulations. The last words in the publisher's introduction are "ADVANCE AUSTRALIA". Ferguson 1170.From the collection of Henry L. White, with his bookplate. Estimate$600 - $800Price Realized$800StatusSold View details 693 CUNNINGHAM, Peter; Surgeon R.N.: "TWO YEARS IN NEW SOUTH WALES; comprising Sketches of the Actual State of Society in that Colony; of its Peculiar Advantages to Emigrants; of its Topography, Natural History..." [London, 1828, 3rd edition] in 2 volumes with large folding map. Ferguson 1182. Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold View details 694 HOWE, Robert: "Australian Almanack for the year of our Lord 1829" [Sydney, undated but 1828]; 212 pp with 2 folding signal plates and a list of all 8 Australasian newspapers (p.100), number of Prisoners arrived, shipping arrivals and departures, etc. Ex Libris Dr George Mackaness. Ferguson 1238. Estimate$800 - $1,200Price Realized$500StatusSold View details 695 James ROSS: "The HOBART TOWN Almanack for the Year MDCCCXXIX" [Hobart Town, 1829]. 165pp with six copper plate engravings including "Macquarie Street Hobart Town"; the plate of ship's signals being hand coloured. The first issue of the almanacs by James Ross. A presentation copy from Thomas Scott, the Deputy Surveyor General (appointed by Lachlan Macquarie) to his father in Scotland. From the collection of Henry L. White, with his bookplate. Ferguson 1272. Estimate$1,000 - $2,000Price Realized$8,000StatusSold View details 696 MANSFIELD, Ralph: "Australian Almanack, for the Year of our Lord 1830…"Small octavo, with two folding plates of signals (one coloured), [Sydney, Ralph Mansfield, Gazette Office; for the Executors of Robert Howe, 1830.] Rebound preserving blank endpapers. Packed full of useful and interesting information such as regulations about Tickets of Leave, advice on reviving the drowned, the early “Observations on the Garden and Field” (pp. 107 ff.), a section on horticulture and botany spec... Estimate$2,000 - $2,500Price Realized$3,800StatusSold View details 697 MANSFIELD, Ralph: "AUSTRALIAN ALMANACK for the year of our Lord 1831" [Gazette Office, Sydney, undated but 1830]; 273 pp. includes a fascinating Appendix "Advice to Emigrants Newly Arrived in New South Wales". Ferguson 1412. Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$500StatusSold View details 698 MANSFIELD, Ralph "AUSTRALIAN ALMANACK, for the year of our Lord 1832" [Sydney 1831]; 270 pp with fold out of Telegraph Signals but lacking the Flagstaff Signals plate. Ferguson 1506.Inside front cover bears the ownership inscription of "Hovenden Hely 31/6/43". Hely [1823-1872] explorer, landowner and politician, was born at Tullamore, King's County, Ireland. As an infant he went with his family to Sydney. Educated under W. T. Cape and at The King's School, Parramatta, he worked for two yea... Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$500StatusSold View details 699 O'SHAUGHNESSEY, E.W.: "AUSTRALIAN ALMANACK, for the year of our Lord 1833" bound together with the 1834 publication in one volume. 227 pp + 279 pp plus introductions, plates, tables of contents, folding tables of signals, a directory of the residents of Sydney and engraved advertisement pages including the Royal Hotel & Commercial Exchange in George St., the Wellington Brewery of Edward Fagan in George St., Nash's Manchester Warehouse in Pitt St., and others. Ferguson 1621 & 1735. Estimate$800 - $1,200Price Realized$950StatusSold View details 700 STEPHENS & STOKES: "New South Wales Calendar and General Post Office Directory, 1833." [Sydney: December, 1832.] with folding map, engraved title-page with view of the GPO, two folding tables, two folding plates (one hand-coloured), map of Mount Victoria, two views of the Mount Victoria pass by John Carmichael, and engraved advertisements for Sydney merchants Estimate$2,000 - $2,500Price Realized$1,200StatusSold View details 701 STEPHENS & STOKES: "The New South Wales Calendar and General Post Office Directory, 1834." with folding map, engraved title-page with view of the GPO, two folding tables, two folding plates (one hand-coloured), engraved advertisements for Sydney merchants; a very good copy in the original linen boards, original label retained. [Sydney, Stephens & Stokes, December, 1834.] Ferguson 1833. This was the third year of publication for the New South Wales Calendar, and itfeatures an impres... Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Price Realized$2,800StatusSold View details 702 QUEEN ADELAIDE (1792-1849, wife of King William IV, after whom city of Adelaide is named): Envelope marked "Piece of the dress presented to Queen Adelaide from Edward Blakeley's Norwich 1834", containing sample of bright red material. Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$50StatusSold View details 703 O'SHAUGHNESSEY, E.W.: "Australian Almanack and General Directory, for the year of our Lord 1835..." [Sydney, 1835]. Ferguson 1878. In an early Australian binding, complete with Read's portrait of Governor Burke and Austins Lithographic advertisement, Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Price Realized$1,100StatusSold View details 704 HOWE, Anne: "The New South Wales CALENDAR and GENERAL POST OFFICE Directory, 1836" [Sydney, Gazette Office, undated but 1835]. 410 pp + the General Post Office Directory of 147 pp. With the map of Sydney, all plates and engraved advertisements as called for. Ferguson 2157. Estimate$600 - $800Price Realized$420StatusSold View details 705 "ELLISTON'S HOBART TOWN ALMANACK and (ROSS'S) VAN DIEMAN'S LAND ANNUAL for 1837"; Original cloth binding and paper title label. 167 pages before a list of vessels arriving in 1836 and business advertisements. Also present are the two accompanying folded maps – “the Tasman’s Peninsula” and “the South Coast of Australia and Van Diemen’s Land”.With the bookplate of Henry L. White. Ferguson 2257 Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$1,600StatusSold View details 706 SOUTH AUSTRALIA: "Reports from The Select Committee on SOUTH AUSTRALIA together with the MINUTES OF EVIDENCE, Appendix and Index." Bound in one volume with the relevant maps, charts and plans. Estimate$1,500 - $2,000StatusUnsold View details 707 TEGG, James [1808-1845] "Tegg's New South Wales Pocket Almanac and Remembrancer' [Sydney, 1844] pp.160 + iii Index. Rebound. Contains information on immigration, government, religious establishments, clubs and societies and postal information. It also includes rural and law calendars, a comprehensive list of roads throughout New South Wales and information on the Merchant Seamen's Act. Ferguson 3924. Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$200StatusSold View details 708 "The Sydney Morning Herald Almanac, being a supplement to the Sydney Morning Herald of Wednesday, 1st of January, 1845"; 1 broadside 65 x 51 cm, folded to 25.5 x17 cm. Laid down on linen and contained in a book-like cover and case. Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$360StatusSold View details 709 Francis LOW [1788-1846]: "LOW'S DIRECTORY of the CITY AND DISTRICT of SYDNEY for MDCCCXLVII" [Sydney, 1847] FIRST EDITION, with coloured code of signals frontispiece, narrow 8vo, modern half leather; printed by Alonzo Grocott, Sydney. Ferguson 4579With pages of advertisements, listing 80 trade advertisements, plus the following inserted advertisements,- Andrew Lenehan, cabinet maker and W. Baker, lithographer (2 on 1 leaf); D. Wall, Columbian Press.; Henry Parkes Ivory and Bone Manufacture... Estimate$1,000 - $2,000Price Realized$1,800StatusSold View details 710 COLMAN, W.A. (publisher). "THE NEW SOUTH WALES ALMANAC AND REMEMBRANCER for 1848…" with frontispiece folding map lithographed by J.Allan, coloured signal plate, original green cloth with printed label on the front board, [Sydney, Colman, 1848]. Very scarce. Ferguson 4842. Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$1,500StatusSold View details 711 "WAUGH & COX'S AUSTRALIAN ALMANAC" for the years 1855 and 1856. (2 volumes) Estimate$500 - $600Price Realized$300StatusSold View details 712 "J. COX & CO'S Australian Almanac for the year 1857", "WAUGH'S AUSTRALIAN ALMANAC for the year 1859." & "WAUGH'S AUSTRALIAN ALMANAC for the year 1860". All 3 volumes with extensive advertising pages and rebound to match. Estimate$600 - $800Price Realized$1,100StatusSold View details 713 WAUGH, James W.: "Waugh's Australian Almanac , for the year 1858" [Sydney]; original cloth binding with gold lettering and map of Australia; 259p., [4] leaves of plates; 38p of advertisements. Contents include: "On the aboriginal inhabitants of N.S Wales" by George French Angas; "Language of the Australian aborigines" [extracted from the work of L.E. Threlkeld]. Ferguson 18251. Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$480StatusSold View details 714 "WAUGH'S AUSTRALIAN ALMANAC for the year 1861" & "WAUGH'S AUSTRALIAN ALMANAC for the year 1862" & "WAUGH'S AUSTRALIAN ALMANAC for the year 1863" plus "The AUSTRALIAN ALMANAC for the year 1864" by SHERRIFF and DOWNING. All 4 volumes with extensive advertising pages and rebound to match. Estimate$800 - $1,000Price Realized$600StatusSold View details 715 "WALCH'S TASMANIAN ALMANACK and GUIDE to TASMANIA for 1863" [J. Walch & Sons, Hobart Town, 1862] with a folding map and many pages of advertisements. The first year of publication. Endorsed by the publisher to R.C.Gunn, Esq.From the ADB: Gunn was a first-rate botanist whose contribution was commemorated in Sir Joseph Hooker's introduction to his Flora Tasmaniae: 'There are few Tasmanian plants that Mr. Gunn has not seen alive, noted their habits in a living state, and collected large suite... Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$1,400StatusSold View details 716 "WALCH'S TASMANIAN ALMANACK and GUIDE to TASMANIA for 1865" and 1868. (2 volumes). Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$320StatusSold View details 717 SHERRIFF & DOWNING: "THE AUSTRALIAN ALMANAC" for the years 1865 & 1866: SHERRIFF "The AUSTRALIAN ALMANAC" for 1871 & REYNOLDS "The AUSTRALIAN ALMANAC and COUNTRY DIRECTORY" for 1877. All 4 volumes with original bindings and extensive advertising pages. Estimate$600 - $800Price Realized$450StatusSold View details 718 SHERRIFF, John L. "The AUSTRALIAN ALMANAC" for the years 1867, 1868 & 1869. All 3 volumes with extensive advertising pages and rebound to match. Estimate$600 - $800Price Realized$450StatusSold View details 719 SHERRIFF, John L. "The AUSTRALIAN ALMANAC" for the years 1870, 1872, 1874 & 1875. All 4 volumes with extensive advertising pages and rebound to match. Estimate$800 - $1,200Price Realized$600StatusSold View details 720 SHERRIFF, John L.: "The Australian Almanac, for the Year 1873" [Sydney, John Ferguson]; 280pp + adverts. in original red cloth hard cover with gold embossed title and map of Australia to front cover. Estimate$200 - $400Price Realized$150StatusSold View details 721 Charles Turner [Australian fl. 1850s-1912] "Mr [And] Mrs F.M. Bates" c.1874, pair of lithographs each signed and titled in image lower right and centre, laid down on linen; 56.5 x 43.5cms. Estimate$1,800 - $2,000StatusUnsold View details 722 FORREST, John: "Explorations in Australia" Parts I, II & III "With an appendix on the condition of Western Australia" [Sampson Low, Marston, Low, & Searle: London, 1875]: 354pp + end papers 40pp. In original green cloth binding with gilt decoration; all 4 maps and all plates intact. Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$1,200StatusSold View details 723 "Maddock's Guide to Sydney and Tourists Handbook" 4th edition [Exhibition Edition] circa 1880 [William Maddock, 383 George Street, Sydney] with numerous advertisements, 2 maps and a guide to the Sydney International Exhibition of 1880. Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$320StatusSold View details 724 "Port Phillip Settlement" by Bonwick [1st ed, London, 1883]; "Robert O'Hara Burke and the Australian Exploring Expedition of 1860" by Jackson [London, 1862]; "The Coming Commonwealth" by Garran [Sydney, 1897]. Poor/Fair condition. Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$240StatusSold View details 725 "VICTORIA and its METROPOLIS - Past and Present" [Melbourne, McCarron, Bird & Co. 1888.], 1888. 2 volumes of 594 and 822pp. With 258 illustrations in b/w. Folding maps. Original gilt decorated morocco, professionally recased in leather retaining the original decorated backstrips. Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$340StatusSold View details 726 A collection of Melbourne Exhibition Items; 13 printed items relating to the Melbourne Exhibition Building in 1888 including full pages from "The Australasian Sketcher", "The Sydney Mail" and "The Illustrated Australian News"; 46 x 32cms (largest sheet size) Estimate$1,000 - $1,250StatusUnsold View details 727 DAME NELLIE MELBA: Silk programme "Royal Italian Opera, Covent Garden, State Visit To The Opera, Tuesday, July 2nd 1889, By Command Of Her Most Gracious Majesty The Queen, In Honour Of His Majesty The Shah, K.G". Very good condition with only fold marks and very minor fraying to the left margin. 45 x 30cm Estimate$200 - $400Price Realized$260StatusSold View details 728 NEW SOUTH WALES with Index: [London, George Philip and Son, c1890] A colour map (490x300mm) laid onto a single linen sheet (54 x 65 cm), folded and cased in brown cloth covers, lettered in black and gilt, an Index booklet (19pp, with wrappers, 17.5x9.5 cm) mounted on the inside of the front cover and publisher's advertising sheet for the series mounted on the section of the (rear of the) map facing. Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold View details 729 BROINOWSKI, Gracius J. THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA with a descriptive account of the life and characteristic habits of over seven hundred species.Six volumes with 303 full-page chromolithographs. [Melbourne, Charles Stuart, 1890 – 1891]. Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Price Realized$1,300StatusSold View details 730 BROINOWSKI: The Birds of Australia: another complete set, as above, the 6 sections bound into 3 volumes. Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Price Realized$1,700StatusSold View details 731 EPHEMERA: The Victoria Social Club - Ticket to their 4th Picnic on Boxing Day 1896 at Dandenong, plus "V.S.C." badge; train tickets (13) many with notes on reverse re various dates; 1893 ticket to sample Canadian Club Whisky at 1893 Columbian Exposition; 1901 Federation - ticket to Young & Jackson's Grand Stand during The Royal Processions. Estimate$300 - $400Price Realized$150StatusSold View details 732 "SAMUELL’S Illustrated Pocket Guide to Sydney, with which is incorporated ‘How to Know Sydney’" [Sydney: Di Samuell: Copyright 1899]. Enlarged and Improved Edition (page v). Quarter cloth decorated wrappers; pp. xxxviii, 352 plus two folding maps. Illustrated. The detailed scope of this extraordinary production is indicated by the fact that it includes, for example ‘Box plans of all the Theatres and Halls’., 1899 Estimate$200 - $400Price Realized$120StatusSold View details 733 PANORAMA OF SYDNEY: circa 1900 folding leporello print in 7 panels laid down on linen; a sweeping view of Sydney from the North Shore looking South. 16.5 x 92.5 cm. Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$340StatusSold View details 734 "Glimpses of Federated Australia - its Sceneries & Splendours" - A rare and elaborate collection of PHOTOGRAPHIC VIEWS, depicting Sceneries, Cities, Industries, and Interesting Phases of Australian Life" published by Charles Taylor, London, c.1901. Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold View details 735 1901 FEDERATION - OPENING OF PARLIAMENT: Three invitations - Opening of Parliament Celebrations, 7 May Conversazione in the Exhibition Buildings; & 9 May Evening Reception. Estimate$300 - $400StatusUnsold View details 736 PRIME MINISTERS & POLITICS: Collection with signatures (81) including John Gorton, Malcolm Fraser (2), Bob Hawke (2), John Howard (17), Kevin Rudd - also Richard Nixon, Anthony Eden (UK) & Peter Fraser (NZ); Prime Ministers prints, postcards & stamps; 1901 Federation invitations (3); 1927 Canberra booklet; ALP & Liberal Party ephemera; 2001 Centenary of Federation souvenirs. Estimate$600 - $800Price Realized$400StatusSold View details 737 RENTOUL, A.I. and I.S.: "MOLLIE'S STAIRCASE" [Hutchinson, Melbourne, No Date but probably 1906]; 12 verses and 12 full page illustrations. Estimate$500 - $750StatusUnsold View details 738 RENTOUL, Annie R. THE LADY of the BLUE BEADS: Her Book: Being an Account of Her First Blue Moon Spent on Sun Island. [Melbourne: George Robertson: no date]. First Edition. Probably 1908. Decorated cloth pp. viii, 102; Illustrated by Ida S. Rentoul (better known as 'Outhwaite'), in black & white throughout, and including thirteen full-page pictures. Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold View details 740 "THE CLEVELAND STREET ECHO" a hardbound collection comprising Vol.1 No.1 complete to Vol.1 No.24; all with front & back covers preserved. Covers the period from April 1909 to June 1911. Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$180StatusSold View details 741 "WILSON' AUTHENTIC DIRECTOR Sydney and Suburbs. 1915" [Sydney]; 607pp "containing Street Directory and 78 Street Maps and Plans of City, Suburbs, Harbour and Blue Mountains, N.S.W." With large fold-out map and numerous advertisements. Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$160StatusSold View details 742 "THE ART OF F. McCUBBIN" [Lothian, Melbourne & Sydney, 1916]; No.774 of 1000 signed by the artist. Folio; 38.5cm x 25.5cm. 45 tipped in plates (colour and black and white), 95pp, List of Subscribers. Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold View details 743 "Gumnut Babies" written and illustrated by May Gibbs [Angus & Robertson Ltd. Sydney], published 1916, octavo wood grain wrapper bound with orange cord, colour illustrated title and frontispiece, 28 pages Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$220StatusSold View details 744 AUSTRALIAN ARTISTS: "The Art of Arthur Streeton" [1919], "The Julian Ashton Book" [1920], "Fifty Years of Australian Art 1879-1929" & "Noel Counihan" by Max Dimmack [1974]. (4 volumes). Estimate$150 - $200StatusUnsold View details 745 SYDNEY & NEW SOUTH WALES: A small group including Robinson's "The Premier Street Directory of Sydney and Environs" 9th Ed., c.1920, "The Daily Telegraph Guide to Sydney" with folding map c.1921, "Guide to Sydney & Pleasure Resorts of N.S.Wales" c.1930; plus 8 other books, mainly facsimile reprints. Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$120StatusSold View details 746 BROKEN HILL ASSOCIATED SMELTERS/ PORT PIRIE: c1920-57 archive of documents, including Patent application for White Lead Process (which led Broken Hill Associated Smelters to becoming the biggest lead smelter in the world); Port Pirie photographs & negatives; press clippings; menu for 1935-36 England cricket team visit; letter re 1942 Walter Lindrum visit; ephemera re swimming club with 1936 poster. Estimate$200 - $400Price Realized$100StatusSold View details 747 OUTHWAITE, Ida Rentoul and OUTHWAITE. Grenbry: THE ENCHANTED FOREST [London, A. & C. Black 1921], first edition, quarto, red/blue cross-hatched heavy card boards with blue cloth to spine, gilt lettering to spine, white label with illustration to front board, illus eps, frontispiece tipped in, viii + 93pp + 2pp adverts Estimate$400 - $500Price Realized$300StatusSold View details 748 VICTORIAN REAL ESTATE: 1921 "The Well-known AITKINSIDE Estate...comprising 720 Acres Situate in the far-famed BARRABOOL HILLS DISTRICT...close to village of CERES, 6 miles from Geelong, consisting of rich arable and grazing land, a portion suitable for lucerne. 75 x 50 cm. Estimate$250 - $300StatusUnsold View details 749 "Old Colonial Architecture in New South Wales and Tasmania" by Hardy Wilson [Sydney, 1924], signed by the author and numbered 48/1000, with 50 tinted lithograph plates and tissue guards intact, some signs of wear. Estimate$600 - $800Price Realized$300StatusSold View details 750 GINGER MEGGS, original cartoon titled "Ginge", with signature of J.C.Bancks. Estimate$100 - $120Price Realized$380StatusSold View details 751 STREETON, Arthur: "The Arthur Streeton Catalogue" [Melbourne, 1935]. Quarto, gilt lettered purple cloth (a little sun faded), 141 pp, with tipped-in colour and black and white plates, essays by J. S. Macdonald, Irwin Macdonald and Lionel Lindsay. Limited to 500 copies signed by the artist of which this is No.22. Published by the artist as a catalogue raisonné of his known works to date, in an effort to stop the circulation of fakes which had plagued him. Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$800StatusSold View details 753 BLUEY & CURLEY: Two hand-illustrated Xmas cards by Alex Gurney (one dated 1950); plus two original artworks for Bluey & Curley comic strip by Les Dixon. Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$240StatusSold View details 754 AUSTRALIAN ART: "Hans Heysen Watercolours and Drawings" [1952]; "The Life and Work of Sydney Long" [1979] L/E 34/275 signed; "Thea Proctor The Prints" [1980] & "Marsupials of Australia - Possums, the Koala and Wombats" [1980] L/E 406/1000 signed. (4 volumes). Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$220StatusSold View details 755 "ABEL JANSZOON TASMAN'S JOURNAL" [Los Angeles. 1965. N. Kovach., 1965.] Reprint of the 1892 original edition by Frederik Muller. Edition limited to 225 copies. Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$650StatusSold View details 756 LARGE FORMAT LIMITED EDITION BIRD BOOKS by FRANK T. MORRIS and all individually signed by the artist."Birds of Prey of Australia" [1973] #12 of 500; "Pigeons & Doves of Australia" [1976] #378 of 500; "Robins & Wrens of Australia" [1979] #82 of 500; "Birds of the Australian Swamps" Vol.1 [1978] & Vol.2 [1981] #406 of 500. Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$1,000StatusSold View details 757 SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE: Group with signature of Danish architect Jorn Utzon; ticket to 1973 Official Opening; booklets "The Australian Opera" [Sydney, 1973]. Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$500StatusSold View details 758 "RUSSELL DRYSDALE", Nagle, J.F. & Andrew, R.R. [Richmond Hill, 1979]; signed Limited Edition 116/500. Folio, quarter leather and brown cloth, eleven pages of text and 50 full-page plates. Separate loose folio containing six plates loosely inserted. Fine in slipcase. Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$220StatusSold View details 759 "The Life & Art of William Strutt 1825 - 1915", Heather Curnow [1980] Limited edition No.116 of 1500. Bound in leather and linen with silver blocking on the face and spine and presented in a linen-bound presentation box, silver blocked on spine with silk holding threads. Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$220StatusSold View details 760 POLITICAL CARTOONS: Original artwork for c1980s political cartoons by Weg (4), Pickering & Norm Mitchell. Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$150StatusSold View details 761 "The Hunter Sketchbook - Birds & Flowers of New South Wales drawn on the Spot in 1788, 89 & 90 by Captain John Hunter R.N. of the First Fleet", published by National Library of Australia [1989], number XI of 50 unbound sets of sheets. Estimate$150 - $200StatusUnsold View details Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next
