View ▼ Items per page 102550100 Sort by DefaultTime LeftLot#Lot NameNewestHighest PriceLowest PriceBids (Low - High)Bids (High - Low)Views (Low - High)Views (High - Low)Relevance Filter By Categories Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above Featured Exclude closed lots Price Lot Number Results: Viewing items 1-64 of 64. Previous|1|Next Image Lot # Item Title Quantity Time Left Your Bids 152 Assorted trade catalogues, cigarette cards and ephemera inclugin McPherson's Engineering, Alstons' Patent Steel Windmills, Lysaght Bros. and lots more Estimate$200 - $400Price Realized$480StatusSold View details 153 [AN EARLY HISTORY OF EUROPE] Matthew PARIS (English, circa 1200 - 1259) Matthaei Paris Monachi Albanensis Angli, Historia Major. Justa Exemplar Londinense 1640. verbatim recusa. Et cum Rogeri Wendoveri, Williemi Rishangeri, authorisque majori minorque historiis, chronicisque MSS, in Biblioteca Regia, Collegii Corporis Christi Cantabrigiae, Cottoniaque< fideliter collata. [London, Abel Swale, 1686] Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$80StatusSold View details 154 [CAPTAIN JAMES COOK, R.N.] The Gentleman's Magazine for July 1784, [London : Printed by J. Nichols, for D. Henry, late of St. John's Gate, July 1784] being the first number of vol. LIV part II. Octavo, disbound, frontispiece, folding copper engraving after John Webber ("A Canoe of the Sandwich Islands...." and with a second plate showing engravings of the Royal Society's medal for Captain Cook, described in detail in a letter to the editor at p.483.) Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$150StatusSold View details 155 [SHIPWRECK OF THE GUARDIAN, 1789] Melancholy Disaster of his majesty's ship The Guardian, Bound to Botany Bay with Stores and Convicts, Lieut. Riou, Commander, Which struck on an island of ice, December 24, 1789; Providential Escape of part of the crew in boats, Fortitude of the Captain, and wonderful recovery of the vessel. Also an account of an Indian woman, &c. [London : Thomas Tegg, 1809] 28pp, 1 folding plate. Ferguson 464. Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$220StatusSold View details 156 Thomas MUIR (1765 - 1799) and George HAMILTON (1783 - 1830) "The TELEGRAPH; a CONSOLATORY EPISTLE from Thomas Muir, Esq. of Botany Bay...." Quarto, disbound, pp 11, [1], front with mss note in pencil dated 1820, referring to Muir's handwriting and Hunter's Hill. One of three variant quarto editions, this being the issue with signature "B" at the foot of page 5. Ferguson 242. Estimate$400 - $600StatusCLOSED! View details 157 John Preston NEALE (1780 - 1847) The History and Antiquities of the Abbey Church of St. Peter, WESTMINSTER : including Notices and Biographical Memoirs of the Abbots and Deans of that Foundation. Illustrated by John Preston Neale. The whole of the Literary Department by Edward Wedlake Brayley. 2 Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$400StatusSold View details 158 [ATLAS] A. LESAGE (pseud.); (Comte de las Cases) Atlas historique, genealogique, chronologique et geographique de A. Lesage. [Paris : Chez Dolloye; c.1837] Folio, bound in contemporary quarter morocco over marbled boards; spine with gilt lettering and ornament; unpaginated, all tables and maps coloured by a contemporary hand, as issued, including a mappe-monde showing the voyages of the great navigators. Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$200StatusSold View details 159 [MELBOURNE GARRICK CLUB] Amateur Performance in aid of...the Benevolent Asylum, June 4th, 1856, at the Olympic Theatre. Broadside with original silk and fine lace border, 31 x 28cm Printed at the "Auction Mart Daily Advertiser" Office, 23 Collins Street, East. Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$220StatusSold View details 160 "Prince Alfred In Victoria, Narrative Of The Visit Of His Royal Highness The Duke Of Edinburgh To The Colony Of Victoria, Australia" Compiled by J.G. Knight [Melb. 1868], blue cloth boards with embossed gilt border and pictorial cover, corners a little chipped and boards a bit grubby, otherwise good firm copy. Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$360StatusSold View details 161 [VICTORIA] Fac-simile of ADDRESS from THE OLD COLONISTS OF VICTORIA to H.R.H. THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH K.G. [Melbourne; E. Whitehead & Co., c1870] Folio, original quarter red morocco over purple cloth with gilt embossed crown, lettering and double-ruled borders, silk endpapers. Includes the facsimile signatures and arrival Estimate$100 - $200StatusCLOSED! View details 162 [MARITIME; NEW ZEALAND] F. E. RAYNAL Les Naufrages ou Vingt Mois Sur un Recif des Iles Auckland [Paris : Hachette, 1870] 2nd edition. Quarto, quarter morocco over cloth boards, all edges gilt, spine decorated in gilt, 374pp with numerous full page illustrations, folding map. Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$100StatusSold View details 163 [SOUTH AUSTRALIA - IMMIGRATION] "SOUTH AUSTRALIA LAND ORDER WARRANTS of the value of £20 Are granted by the Agent-General for South Australia, to all persons approved as suitable......" [London, Agent-General for South Australia; circa 1875] broadside, printed in blue and brown, 43 x 28cm. Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$320StatusSold View details 164 Alex. Keith JOHNSTON HANDY ROYAL ATLAS of MODERN GEOGRAPHY [Edinburgh & London; W. & A.K. Johnston, 1877] Folio, half-crushed green morocco over pebbled cloth; all edges gilt, frontispiece chart of the North Polar regions. 45 double-page engraved maps; 2 with pasted on printed revisions. Estimate$400 - $500Price Realized$360StatusSold View details 165 Robert & James ADAM The Architecture, Decoration and Furniture, of Robert & James Adam selected from "Works in Architecture" published 1778 - 1822 and Photolithographed from the Originals." [London; B.T. Batsford, 1880] Large quarto, decorated paper boards, new endpapers, Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$50StatusSold View details 166 Edward Vaughan KENEALY (1819 - 1880) The Trial at bar of Sir Roger C.D. Tichborne, Bart., in the Court of Queen's Bench at Westminster, before Lord Chief Justice Cockburn, Mr. Justice Mellor, and Mr. Justice Lush, for perjury..... [London : "Englishman Office", 1875-80] six (of nine) volumes, folio, half morocco, spines with titles in gilt. 6 Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$120StatusSold View details 167 H. Mortimer FRANKLYN (1848 - 1900) A GLANCE at AUSTRALIA in 1880 : or, Food from the South: [Melbourne, The Victorian Review Publishing Co., 1881] large octavo, publisher's pictorial cloth. Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$120StatusSold View details 168 Circa 1880 Melbourne real estate poster "SEDDON, 27 Regent Street", printed at "Reporter " Office, 35 Hyde Street. 88 x 57cm Estimate$150 - $250StatusUnsold View details 169 [SYDNEY INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION 1879-80] A scrapbook of clippings from Australian newspapers and journals, 1860-80. Folio ledger book, original half red calf over cloth boards, original marbled endpapers; containing (at the front) 50 pages of pasted-in clippings related to the Sydney International Exhibition of 1879-80; and (at the back) clippings from 1860s editions of the Sydney newspaper The Empire, most related to theatrical and musical performances; etc. Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$75StatusSold View details 170 Northern Territory Land Company Ltd 1882-1980s archive of documents including 1882 bank & legal correspondence with C.J. Sanders (company secretary) relating to the March 1882 incorparation of the company, plus Bank of Australasia opening account books, early map of Port Darwin area showing land divisions, 1901 booklet "The Sugar Question in Queensland", copy of 1902 Act providing for construction of Oodnadatta to Pine Creek railway line with attached map of existing Australian railway lines Estimate$300 - $400Price Realized$1,300StatusSold View details 171 "PICTURESQUE ATLAS OF AUSTRALASIA" edited by Hon. Andrew Garran [Melb. Syd. 1886], 3 vol. blue morocco, ex library edition, boards chipped and scuffed, internally good. 3 Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$550StatusSold View details 172 Assorted ephemera, photographs, album etc inspection will reward, (27 items) 27 Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$240StatusSold View details 173 [MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1888 - 89] Official Record of the Centennial International Exhibition, Melbourne, 1888 - 1889 Containing a sketch of the industrial and economic progress of the Australasian Colonies during the first century of their existence : [Melbourne; Sands & McDOUGALL, 1890] Octavo, publisher's gilt-lettered cloth, all edges gilt, bookplate to front pastedown. Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$1,000StatusSold View details 174 Jules VERNE (1828 - 1905) Les Enfants du Capitaine Grant : Voyage autour du Monde [Paris : J. Hetzel et Cie; n.d. but 1890]; large octavo, 3 volumes in one, original publisher's pictorial blue and red cloth gilt, spine with gilt lettering and decoration, all edges gilt, engraved frontispiece, 624pp, 170+ illustrations. Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$220StatusSold View details 175 SIR HAYDEN ERSKINE STARKE (1871 - 1958) and his son, SIR JOHN ERSKINE STARKE (1913 - 1994): An archive. Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Price Realized$3,700StatusSold View details 176 THE YELLOW BOOK - Vol.1 to Vol.5 - 1894-95 Published by John LANE & Elkin MATHEWS. Editors, [Ballantyne Press, London] A literary & artistic source for the 1890's & known through its association with all the foremost writers of the time & its famous black & white illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley (who was art editor & foremost illustrator. Other contributors include M Beerbohm, H James, Walter Sickert, Kenneth Grahame, Charles Conder, Edmund Gosse, Anatole France, etc. 5 Estimate$400 - $500StatusCLOSED! View details 177 [FRENCH CHILDREN'S BOOK] Emile PECH Un oncle d'Australie [Paris : Jouvet & Cie, c1895] Quarto, contemporary half red cloth over marbled boards, spine with gilt lettering, all edges gilt, 286pp, illustrated with 73 gravures in the text. A French children's story in which much of the story is set in Australia - in particular Melbourne and Ballarat. Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$260StatusSold View details 178 [QUEEN VICTORIA] "Record Reign Celebrations – Programme for Tuesday 22 June 1897 to Celebrate the Completion of the Sixtieth Year of the Reign of her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria." Sydney, Printed by Gullick, with details of the 3 days of activities. Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$75StatusSold View details 179 [MARITIME & METEOROLOGICAL] "Meteorological Charts of the Southern Ocean between the Cape of Good Hope & New Zealand" [London ; printed for Her Majesty's Stationery Office by Darling & Son, 1899] oblong folio, 43.5 x 49.5cm. The scarce first edition; a second was published in 1907 and a 3rd in 1917. Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$240StatusSold View details 180 [CONSUMPTIVES HOMES, NEW SOUTH WALES] "Souvenir book : Published in connection with the Grand Fair and Press Bazaar In aid of the Queen Victoria Homes for Consumptives" / edited by Lord Beauchamp, [Sydney; William Brooks, 1899], [4] pages, [65] leaves of plates : illustrations, music, portraits. Estimate$100 - $150StatusCLOSED! View details 181 COLONIAL PREMIERS: "Special Issue Of The Punch, The Careers Of The Colonial Premiers, On The Imperial Wallaby In England", sixpence edition dated Tuesday, July 27th, circa 1901; together with 9 Picturesque Atlas of Australasia subscription journals (10 items) 10 Estimate$120 - $200StatusUnsold View details 182 A GERMAN ANTHROPOLOGIST IN AUSTRALIA, circa 1900 - 1910 An archive, written in German, which appears to be the field notes and typed manuscripts of an anthropologist who travelled extensively throughout Australia to visit, learn, record and preserve the aboriginal culture and way of life that he had observed and studied. Comprising of hundreds of pages of hand-written notes, approximately 600 typed pages, and many hundreds of hand-drawn and painted and reproduced illustrations, this remarkable Estimate$20,000 - $30,000Price Realized$15,000StatusSold View details 183 Percy SPENCE (1868 - 1933) "BRITAIN'S AUSTRAL EMPIRE portraits of the Statemen and Officials concerned in the work of establishing the Commonwealth of Australia...." The portraits from life, drawn by Percy F.S. Spence. The letterpress by G. Firth Scott [London : Sampson Low, et al, 1901] Folio, gilt decorated cloth portfolio containing one volume of letterpress text, and one volume of engraved plates with title guards [lacks plates 34 & 36]. Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$200StatusSold View details 184 Annie R. RENTOUL (1882 - 1978) The Lady of the Blue Beads illustrated by Ida S. Rentoul [Melbourne, George Robertson & Co., n.d. 1908] Quarto, printed grey papered flushcut boards, rexine backstrip, endpapers replaced. 102pp. Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$120StatusSold View details 185 Harry PHILLIPS (1873 - 1944) Three different oblong folio publications featuring Phillips' work; all circa 1910; titled "81 Views Blue Mountains Wonderland, N.S.W.", "Most Up-To-Date Sydney Panoramic Views" and "Views of the Far Famed Blue Mountains N.S.W." each folio 24 x 58cm. 3 Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$140StatusSold View details 186 Norman LINDSAY (1879 - 1969) PETRONIUS - A Revised Latin Text of the Satyricon with the earliest English Translation (1694) now first reprinted with an introduction, together with one hundred illustrations by Norman Lindsay. [London : Privately Printed by Ralph Straus, 1910] Quarto, later full vellum, ruled in gilt, morocco title label to spine, new blank endpaper card slipcase, top edges gilt, other edges uncut, 303pp, 100 black| and white plates by Lindsay. No.79 of 250 numbered and signed by Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$240StatusSold View details 187 [CYCLORAMA OF CANBERRA - 1911] Charles COULTER "Cycloramic view of Canberra capital site, view looking from from Camp Hill" [Sydney, John Sands Ltd.] 24.5 x 230cm Offset lithographic panorama (photomechanical reproduction of a watercolour). Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$480StatusSold View details 188 [FRED McCUBBIN] James MACDONALD The Art of Frederick McCubbin [Melbourne & Sydney : Lothian, 1916] Limited to 1000 copies, signed by McCubbin, this is #858. Folio, gilt lettered cloth covered boards, 104pp, Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$300StatusSold View details 189 Two Australian fruit label displays, attractively mounted and framed, 108 x 135cm each 2 Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$240StatusSold View details 190 May GIBBS (1877 - 1969) Hullo! Sporty Boy! Three letterpress calendar cards, original grey boards, imprinted at lower margins "Copyright May Gibbs", and each with a shaped colour process Gumnut Babies design with printed May Gibbs signature in the image. (3). Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$360StatusSold View details 191 Norman LINDSAY; Hugh McCRAE COLOMBINE by Hugh McCrae with XI illustrations by Norman Lindsay. [Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1920] Limited to 1000 copies. Quarto, papered boards with cloth spine, 53pp, 11 tipped-in plates. Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$160StatusSold View details 192 Edy LEGRAND (Édouard Léon Louis Warschawsky) [1892 - 1970] Voyages et glorieuses decouvertes des grands navigateurs et explorateurs Francais [Paris; Tolmer, 1921] Folio, original pictorial boards, decorative endpapers, Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$75StatusSold View details 193 [NORMAN LINDSAY] VISION : A LITERARY QUARTERLY Edited by Frank C. Johnson, Jack Lindsay & Kenneth Slessor. [Sydney : The Vision Press, 1923-24] Four editions (all that were published), quarto, bound together in quarter blue morocco over cloth boards; each issue with the original wrappers designed by Norman Lindsay, illustrated throughout with vignettes by Lindsay. Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$650StatusSold View details 194 "ART IN AUSTRALIA" 1918 - 1937 Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$360StatusSold View details 195 Ida Rentoul OUTHWAITE & Grenbry OUTHWAITE The Little Fairy Sister, [London : A. & C. Black, 1929] Original cloth backed patterned paper boards with titling-label mounted on front cover. (viii, 92, 4pp.). With colour frontisp., title-vign., 15 full-page plates of which 7 are colour, text-illusts., and illust. endpapers. Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$360StatusSold View details 196 Herbert BASEDOW 1881 - 1933) The Australian Aboriginal Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$140StatusSold View details 197 "Early Toorak And District" by E.M. ROBB., published by Robertson & Mullens Limited [Melb. 1934], hardcover landscape, no D/J Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$360StatusSold View details 198 Mary & Elizabeth DURACK The Way of the Whirlwind [Sydney; Consolidated Press, 1941] First edition. Folio, pictorial boards, illustrated with twelve tipped-in plates and vignette illustrations throughout. Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$150StatusSold View details 199 [GREETING CARDS] An archive of approximately 1500 cards in three massive leather-bound salesman's sample albums. Mainly English, Australian and American manufacturers, the albums, dated 1954 appear to have been prepared for a business called "Batman Wholesalers". The subjects include birthdays, engagements, weddings, condolences, Christmas, births, deaths, party invitations, etc.The cards are stuck down and are accompanied by hand-written pricing details. [Please note: very heavy.] Estimate$100 - $500Price Realized$120StatusSold View details 200 ALBERT NAMATJIRA: Two sets of six colour postcards of the artist's Hermannsburg landscapes, 2nd and 3rd series in original covers, circa 1950s, 11 x 16cm Estimate$80 - $120Price Realized$80StatusSold View details 201 [VICTORIAN INTEREST] "The Melbourne Album" by Troedel (1961 facsimile); "Victoria the Golden" by Strutt (1980 facsimile); "Victoria Illustrated 1834 - 1984" by Paynting & Grant (1985). (3 vols.) 3 Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$220StatusSold View details 202 Matthew FLINDERS [1774 - 1814] A Voyage to Terra Australis; undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that vast country, and prosecuted in the years 1801, 1802, and 1803..... (Facsimile edition.) [Adelaide; Libraries Board of South Australia, 1966] Two text volumes, quarto, and matching clamshell box of folding charts, cloth with cloth spine labels. Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$320StatusSold View details 203 "Hardy Wilson and his Old Colonial Architecture" by Pearl [1970]; "Lycett's Views in Australia, or New South Wales, & Van Diemen's Land Delineated" (facsimile edition, 1971); "The Australian Sketch-Book by S.T.Gill" (facsimile edition, 1974); "Eugene von Guerard's Australian Landscapes" by Tipping [1975]; and "Images of Early New Zealand" by Keith [1983]. (5 vols.) 5 Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$220StatusSold View details 204 Donald FRIEND [1915 - 1989] Tides of Sensuality (deluxe edition) Working drawings and studies for a major work to be titled Bumbooziana.... [Melb., Gryphon Books, 1978] 1st edition, Quarto, gilt-decorated red cloth in black dust-jacket. Limited to 350 copies of which this is No.5 of the first 100, signed by the artist and including an original signed drawing. Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$380StatusSold View details 205 Ernest SCHWIEBERT (USA, 1931 - 2005) TROUT [New York : E.P. Dutton, 1978] Quarto, two volumes, cloth bound, housed in a slipcase with pictorial pastedown label. Signed by the author on half title. Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$160StatusSold View details 206 CHARLES BLACKMAN : the Lost Domains with text by Nadine Amadio. [Sydney; A.H. & A.W. Reed, 1980] 144pp. No.64 from a limited edition of 150 signed by the artist and the author; this example being one of only seven in blue cloth binding with silk Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$150StatusSold View details 207 Cyril PEARL"HARDY WILSON AND HIS OLD COLONIAL ARCHITECTURE"[Melb., Thomas Nelson, 1970], with d/j. Estimate$80 - $120Price Realized$60StatusSold View details 208 John OLSEN, et al The Land Beyond Time. A Modern Exploration of Australia's North-West Frontiers. [Melbourne; Macmillan, 1984] 312pp deluxe leather-bound edition (#224/500) signed by Olsen, Mary Durack, Geoffrey Dutton, Vincent Seventy and Alex Bortignon. In original box and packaging. Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$260StatusSold View details 209 "NINETEENTH CENTURY AUSTRALIAN FURNITURE", by Fahy, Simpson and Simpson [Syd. 1985] limited edition of 2000 copies, with D/J (faded on spine), black cloth boards with gilt title. Good firm copy. Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$360StatusSold View details 210 "An Account in Two Volumes of Two VOYAGES to the South Seas by....Dumont D'Urville..." translations by Roseman [1987]; "The Hunter Sketchbook....by Captain John Hunter RN of the First Fleet [calf & marbled boards; 1989]; "The Dictionary of Australian Artists" by Kerr [1993] Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$220StatusSold View details 211 "AUSTRALIAN FURNITURE PICTORIAL HISTORY AND DICTIONARY 1788-1938" by Kevin Fahy & Andrew Simpson [Syd, 1998] signed limited edition 1849/2000, black cloth boards with embossed gilt lettering, with D/J. In cloth slipcase. Estimate$300 - $400Price Realized$420StatusSold View details 212 "AUSTRALIAN FURNITURE PICTORIAL HISTORY AND DICTIONARY 1788-1938" by Kevin Fahy & Andrew Simpson [Syd, 1998] signed limited edition 1421/2000, black cloth boards with embossed gilt lettering, with D/J and slip case. Original purchase receipt. Estimate$300 - $400Price Realized$460StatusSold View details 213 Robert JACKS Robert Jacks: his Bloomsday book. [Melbourne: Macmillan Art Publishing, 2004.] Folio, embossed with an original collage design by the artist on front panel, housed in striking red and black clamshell box, illustrated throughout and accompanied by poetry by James Joyce et al. The deluxe edition, limited to 100 copies, in the superior binding, with an original signed screenprint bound in [16/100]. Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$300StatusSold View details 214 John OLSEN & Ken MCGRECOR Teeming with Life. John Olsen: His Complete Graphics 1957 – 2005 Volume 1, with original etching "Floating" [29/70] signed by the artist. Brown cloth binding and matching slipcase. Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$500StatusSold View details 215 "Albertus Seba : Cabinet of Natural Curiosities" Complete coloured reprint (Taschen, 2001 boxed hardcover); "Atlas Maior of 1665" by Joan Blaeu (Taschen, 2016 hardcover, 594pp). (2 vols.). 2 Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$80StatusSold View details Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next
