Australian & Historical (#457) Closed Auction Info PDF Prices Realized 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 301-400 of 940. Previous|12345678910|Next Lot 302 PROVIDENCE DAILY JOURNAL - UNITED STATES - 1842: (Nov.6) edition with hoax story gleaned from French newspaper "L'Etoile" of an Englishman Rodger Dodsworth who had fallen into a coma during an avalanche in the Alps in the late 17th century, was subsequently found in 1826, thawed out and brought back to life, (becoming the foundation for Mary Shelley's 1863 short story "The Reanimated Englishman"); View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusCLOSED! Lot 303 BACKHOUSE, James (1794 - 1869) A Narrative of a Visit to the Australian Colonies. [Hamilton, Adams and Co., London, 1843] Octavo, xviii, 560pp, cxliv (appendices) pages with in-text illustrations (by Backhouse), plates and 3 large folding maps. Contemporary half-leather and marbled boards; marbled end-papers, gilt edges. View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$950StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 304 [EARLY COMMERCIAL INVOICES, WINDSOR N.S.W.] A collection of 1840s-70s detailed invoices including Thomas Aspinall (Linen Draper, Silk Mercer, Hosier), George Wood (Boots & Shoes), W. Alderson (Tanner, Boot & Shoemaker), J.M. Illidge (Boot and Shoe Warehouseman), Moses & Hopkins (Auctioneers & General Commission Agents), Windsor Medical Dispensary, etc. (10). View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$220StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 305 AUTOGRAPHED LETTER FROM THOMAS MITCHELL, NEW SOUTH WALES SURVEYOR GENERAL, DECEMBER 1849 A letter signed by "T.L. Mitchell" headed Surveyor General's Office, Sydney 8th December, 1849 addressed to Mr James Upton, Windsor. The rare letter concerns a request by Upton to lease four "sections of land in the County of Hunter...on the north side of the Bulga Road...", however, Mitchell points out that according to his records, Upton had already leased the land "at the Macdonald River". View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$360StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history SymbolD Lot 306 [The SYDNEY MORNING HERALD and LABAN WHITE] A collection of fourteen different receipts, issued and signed by Laban White [1794 - 1873] on behalf of the Sydney Morning Herald or John Fairfax. The period involved in these transactions, when White was an agent and correspondent for the SMH cover the period when he was resident in Windsor. Local residents and businesses could lodge and pay for advertisements with White. View details Quantity14Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$280StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 307 [EARLY N.S.W. NEWSPAPERS & PRINTERS] 1855 - 1903 printed receipts issued by "The Empire" Daily Newspaper (to Henry Parkes); E. Mason, Stationer's Hall, Parramatta; Metropolitan Printing Office, Bridge St.; Sydney Morning Herald; Australian Newspaper Office, Windsor; Sydney Daily Telegraph, Barrack & York Sts.; Hawkesbury Chronicle and Farmers' Advocate, Windsor; S. Cooke & Co., Arthur Lewis (Bookseller & Stationer); The Windsor & Richmond Gazette; "Bligh Watchman", Coonabarabran; etc. (20). View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$220StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 308 [THE BANKSTOWN ROAD TOLLGATE & THE RICHMOND ROAD TRUST] The lease documents setting out the terms for the Lease of the Bankstown Toll Gate for 1857, 1861 & 1862 together with the documents recording the Bonds and Sureties required to "secure [the] Tolls" on behalf of the Richmond Road Trust. Also, the January 1862 "Lease of the Ferry over the Hawkesbury at Windsor" in favour of George Augustus Davis (Innkeeper) and John Ryan (farmer) of Newtown. (6 items). George Augustus Davis was declared ban View details Estimate$250 - $300Price Realized$200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 310 [NEW SOUTH WALES - ELECTORAL HISTORY] "A list of Electors for the CUMBERLAND BOROUGHS for the town of CAMPBELLTOWN for the year 1857-8" being a manuscript listing over nine foolscap pages of all those males eligible to vote, signed off by the Chief Constable, Police Office Campbelltown, 27th June 1857. In each case, to the 130 named individuals are added their "qualification" (to vote) and "where property affording the qualification is situate." View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusCLOSED! Lot 311 [NEW SOUTH WALES - ELECTORAL HISTORY] "Lists of Electors for the Electoral District of the CUMBERLAND BOROUGHS for the town of LIVERPOOL in the Police District of Liverpool for the year 1857-8" being a manuscript listing over five foolscap pages of all those males eligible to vote, signed off by the Chief Constable. In each case, to the 125 named individuals are added their "qualification" (to vote) and "Place of Abode." View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$220StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 312 [NEW SOUTH WALES - ELECTORAL HISTORY] "Lists of Electors for that Portion of the Electoral District of the CUMBERLAND BOROUGHS being the Borough of PENRITH in the Police District of Penrith for the years 1857 & 1858" each page bearing a hand-stamped oval "POLICE OFFICER PENRITH" and signed by the Senior Magistrate, Robert Copland Lethbridge. A manuscript listing over eight large format pages of all those males eligible to vote. There are 105 individuals named. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$900StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 313 HARPER'S WEEKLY: 1857-1884 selection comprising including 1857 (first year of publication) Apr.4 issue (No.14); also 1858 (2); then American Civil War era issues 1861, 1862 (4), 1863 (3), 1864 (4), 1865 (2); also single issues for 1868, 1871, 1873, 1874 (Jan.24, with wonderful Thomas Nast "A Hard Fish to Catch" cartoon on front cover) & 1884; lots of attractive engravings and political cartoons throughout; condition variable, housed in A3 display books. (22 issues in 3 folios) View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$160StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 314 [FERDINAND von MUELLER] The 1858 & 1861-62 Annual Reports of the Government Botanist and Director of the Botanic Garden, as presented to Parliament; 27pp + 11pp. (2 items). View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold Lot 315 DANIEL BUNCE [1813-72] Language of the Aborigines of the Colony of Victoria and other Australian Districts; with parallel Translations and familiar specimens in Dialogue, as a guide to Aboriginal Protectors and others engaged in ameliorating their condition. [Geelong; Thomas Brown, 1859] Second edition. xii, 60 pages; 18 cm. Original orange boards. Ferguson 7665. Although bearing the second edition imprint this is actually the third edition, the second having been published by Slater, Williams View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$650StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 316 [HISTORIC HOTELS IN THE HAWKSBURY RIVER REGION] February 1861 lease for the "Cricketers Arms Hotel" (cnr of George & New Streets, Windsor) between George Freeman [Green Hills, 1806 - Windsor, 1867] and Sarah Blanchard [1826 - 1905] View details Quantity3Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 317 HARPERS WEEKLY - 1861 - AMERICAN CIVIL WAR ERA: complete fully bound compilation of journals for the year, comprising 832 pages, being the year of Lincoln's Inauguration and the outbreak of the American Civil War. Lavishly illustrated with engravings by Winslow Homer, and numerous political cartoons featuring Lincoln. Topics covered include the bombardment of Fort Sumter, secessions from the Union and The First Battle of Bull Run. View details Estimate$200 - $400Price Realized$280StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 318 HARPER'S WEEKLY - CIVIL WAR ERA: 1861 to 1865 selection comprising 1861 (May 25, Jul.13, Aug.17, Dec.14, Dec.28), 1863 (Feb.28, Nov.7), 1864 (Mar.12, Apr.9, May 21) & 1865 (Jan.28, Feb.18); illustrated with engravings by top artists of the day including Winslow Homer and Thomas Nast; all the journals are individually presented in beautiful gilt-lettered hardbound folios (33.5x44.5cm). (12 folios) View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$180StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 319 NEW YORK TIMES - CIVIL WAR ERA - First Invasion of Northern States: 1861 to 1862 selection comprising 1861 (Oct.13, Oct.21 & Dec.6) & 1862 (Sep.15, Oct.2 & Nov.19) edition which include Union biased reports from field correspondents, plus official dispatches and the reporting of important speeches; the Sep.15, 1862 edition covering a "Heavy battle...at Harper's Ferry" where a portion of Lee's invading army under Stonewall Jackson captured the Union garrison at Harper's Ferry before rejoining Lee View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$160StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 320 BURKE & WILLS COMMISSION, Report of the Commissioners Appointed To Enquire Into And Report Upon The Circumstances Connected With THE SUFFERING AND DEATH OF ROBERT O'HARA BURKE AND WILLIAM JOHN WILLS, THE VICTORIAN EXPLORERS. [John Ferres, Government Printer, Melbourne] 1862, 104pp on blue paper. Reference: Wantrup 167. View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 321 NEW YORK TIMES - CIVIL WAR ERA - : 1863 selection comprising editions for Feb.15, Jul.18 & 29, Aug.2 & 5, Oct,7, 24, & 31; the Jul.18, edition reviewing the Siege of Vicksburg (July 4) the correspondent noting "the almost impassable natural obstacles that opposed Grant's army in the late siege" (Vicksburg located on a high river bluff) and the Draft Riots (Jul.13-16) with headlines "Quiet Restored" and "A Peaceful Day in the Metropolis"; View details Estimate$300 - $400StatusCLOSED! Lot 322 NEW YORK TIMES - CIVIL WAR ERA - Gettysburg Address & Third Battle of Winchester: 1863-64 selection comprising 1863 (Nov.18, Dec.26) & 1864 (Jul.27, Aug.11 & 13, Sep.20 & 22); the Jul.18 1863 edition featuring General Curtin's proclamation for "The Heroic Dead at Gettysburg" previewing next day's dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery, at which Lincoln gave his celebrated Gettysburg Address; Aug.11 1864 edition with details of Admiral Farragut's success at the Battle of Mobile Bay; Sep.2 View details Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$240StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 323 NEW YORK HERALD - CIVIL WAR ERA - GETTYSBURG ADDRESS: 1863 (Nov.20) edition with "Our Special Despatch From Gettysburg" coverage of the ceremony held on Nov.19, with details of speeches by Lincoln, Secretary of State William H. Seward, Governor Horatio Seymour & Senator Edward Everett, plus scaled plan of the National Cemetery headed "The American Necropolis". An important historical edition beautifully presented in a gilt-lettered, hardbound folio (44.5 x 61cm) View details Estimate$400 - $500Price Realized$420StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 324 NEW YORK TIMES - CIVIL WAR ERA - Battle of Fort Harrison: 1864-65 selection comprising 1863 (Oct.1, 4, 5, 7, 10 & 11 and Dec.24) & 1865 (Apr.23); the Oct.1 1864 with Special's Correspondent's Sep.29th report on the movements of the Army of The James prior to Union's victory at the Battle of Fort Harrison (Sep 29-30); Oct.7 1864 featuring the "Desperate speech by Jeff. Davis at Macon" and a report that "Two-thirds of Rebel Army Absent Without Leave"; View details Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 325 NEW YORK TIMES - CIVIL WAR ERA - Lee Surrenders, Lincoln Assassination & Death of John Wilkes Booth: 1865 editions comprising (Apr.10) headed "Hang Out Your Banners" and "Union, Victory! Peace! - Surrender of General Lee and His Whole Army" with transcript of War Department order for a National "Two Hundred Guns" Salute following General Lee's surrender on April 9; (April 17) mourning edition headed "Our Great Loss" following Lincoln's assassination View details Estimate$250 - $300Price Realized$220StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 326 [BENJAMIN ISAACS, PRINTER, PUBLISHER & JOURNALIST 1796 - 1881] 1867 - 1878 group of six different printed receipts signed by Isaacs on behalf of his Albion Printing Office at Windsor where, for a time, he had published "The Windsor Advocate". The receipts are mostly to the Richmond Road Trust for printing circulars, tenders for repairs, etc. (6 items). View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$240StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 327 LEWIS & WHITTY chromolithograph soap advertising poster, 19th century. "Manufacturers Factories Charles St. Fitzroy & Bridge Rd. Richmond, Office Flinders Lane W. Melbourne", printed by Charles Troedel & Co. Melbourne & Sydney. 57 x 44cm View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$480StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 328 MOSTLY EUROPEAN & ASIAN GROUP: incl. "Bangkok Then and Now" by van Beek, "Postcards of Old Siam" by Davis, "Edwardian London" by Barker, "Pioneer of the Pacific" by Rigby, der Merwe & Williams, "Amercan Vandal - Mark Twain Abroad" by Morris, "Russian in Pacific Waters 1715-1825" by Barratt, "Squadron - Ending African Slave Trade" by Broich; also a bound volume of 1870 July to December issues of "Illustrated London News". (15 items) View details Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$80StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 329 "HOBART TOWN GAZETTE" - TASMANIA - 1875: Dec.21 (No.5086) edition with content including timetable for mail between England and Tasmania, via Point De Galle & Melbourne for year ending December 31st 1876, Assessment Roll for George Town District, Land and Works Office notice of auction for leases including that of Maria Island, plus government, rural municipality and court notices. View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$60StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 330 "AUSTRALIAN PETS" colour lithograph supplement from the Illustrated Australian News, December, 1876, sheet size 58 x 38cm View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$240StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 331 A DEED FOR LAND BOUGHT IN THE NEW HEBRIDES (NOW VANUATU), AUGUST 1879, A signed and sealed indenture recording the fact that one VICTOR NISSEN of Sydney, New South Wales has acquired some land at Black Beach on the west coast of Tanna Island, New Hebrides: View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$380StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 332 AUSTRALIAN HISTORY: selection incl. "Voyage of Discovery to Terra Australis by Willem De Vlamingh in 1696-97" by Playford, "Victorian Year Book for 1884-85", "Brisbane Town in Convict Days 1824-1842" by Steele, "Brisbane in the 1890s" by Lawson, "The Russians in Hobart 1823" by Barratt; also noted "Antarctica - A Biography" by David Day. Plenty of interest. (25) View details Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 333 THE FIRST ITALIAN TO CIRCUMNAVIGATE THE WORLD DE AMEZAGA, Comandante Carlo (1835 - 1899) Viaggio di Circumnavigazione della regia corvetta "Caracciolo" (Comandante C. de Amezaga), negli anni 1881-82-83-84. [Roma, Forzani e Comp., 1885] Volume View details Estimate$250 - $300Price Realized$200StatusSold Lot 334 "Handbook Of Information for The Colonies And India, Issued By The British India & Queensland Agency Co. Ltd., [Published by Warwick & Sapsford, Printers, Brisbane, 1888] 112pp + 46pp of advertisements; maps, plates and numerous illustrations in the text. Stiff, cloth-backed illustrated wrappers. View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$260StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 335 1888-89 CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION MELBOURNE: Press Pass issued in the name of K.D.Bennett; leather with gilt embossed title and Exhibition logo; internal photograph and affixed card with details. Also, a souvenir miniature folding pocket knife from the 1904 World's Fair St.Louis. (2 items). View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$480StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 336 The Excelsior Album Of Ballarat Views Impl. 24mo; folding panorama, with 7 additional plates of early Ballarat including the publisher's premises at 78 Sturt Street, original blue boards with gilt title and border, no date but circa 1890. [Ballarat, Birtchnell]. View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$380StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 337 CHIRNSIDE Family WERRIBEE PARK, scrap album and two photograph albums pertaining to the Chirnside family of Werribee Park Mansion, Victoria, (3 items). View details Quantity3Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$2,600StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 338 AUSTRALIAN INTEREST: A shelf of books including "Handbook of the Destructive Insects of Victoria - Part 1" by French [1891], "David Syme - The Father of Protection in Australia" by Pratt [1908], "The History of Prahran" by Cooper [1912], "The Story of the ANZACS" pub. James Ingram [1917], "Whaling Ways by Philp [1926], "The Old Bus" by Kingsford Smith [1932], "The Merino - Past, Present & Probable" by Austin [1944], plus 3 others. (10 vols. all h/c.) Mixed condition. View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 339 NEWSPAPERS. A collection of various Victorian regional newspaper dating from 1892 to 1901 including The Gippsland Times, The Mount Alexander Mail, The Euroa Advertiser, The Evening Echo (Ballarat), Seymour Telegraph, Ballarat Courier, Ballarat Star, The Bendigo Independent, The Bendigo Advertiser, The Argus and The Age. View details Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$160StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 340 Antique and vintage Australian fruit labels, postcard and ephemera, 19th and early 20th century, (10 items) View details Quantity10Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 341 FEDERATION Australian Commonwealth Celebration Government of Victoria illuminated invitation to Mr ARTHUR PARKER and Lady, Tuesday 7th of May, 1901 (21 x 28cm). Together with an associated thank you letter from the Government of Victoria, 18th Sept. 1899, (31 x 21cm). Both framed and glazed. View details Quantity2Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$280StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 342 SPENCER, Baldwin & GILLEN, F.J. "The Native Tribes of Central Australia" [Macmillan & Co., London, 1899] 1st ed. Octavo, xx, 671 pages with illustrations of churingas, a map and 130 illustrations (mainly after photographs) plus 2 folding maps, 3 folding charts, 4 folding chromolithographic plates. Olive-green gilt-pictorial buckram flecked and rubbed, with the spine sunned and beginning to split; all edges uncut; scattered light foxing. View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$700StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 343 DOULTON & CO. & THE 1900 PARIS EXPOSITION: "Doulton & Co. Limited: A Description of their Works and Manufactures : London 1900 : With a description of their Exhibits at Paris, 1900." [Lambeth Pottery, London] 56pp with photo plates. An extremely rare reference, in very fine condition. View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 344 Sydney Cove 1788 facsimile engraving together with a floral still life watercolour by P.I. HIBBERT, (2 items), the watercolour 25 x 32cm View details Quantity2Estimate$60 - $100Price Realized$160StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 345 "The Union Bank Of Australia" share certificate together with two "National Bank Of Australasia" share certificates, all unissued and mint condition, framed and glazed, (3 items), the largest 42 x 60cm overall View details Quantity3Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 346 Assorted books, ephemera, pictures and prints, 19th and 20th century, View details Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$260StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 347 Goldfield's engraving, Boer War engraving, and a facsimile print "North View Of Eagle Hawk Neck", all framed and glazed, (3 items), the largest 39 x 48cm overall View details Quantity3Estimate$60 - $100Price Realized$320StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 348 QUICK, John & GARRAN, Robert Randolph The Annotated Constitution of the Australian Commonwealth. [Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1901 First Edition]. Brown cloth binding with gold lettering on spine. 1008pp. 15.5 x 25.5cm. Cover sunned, especially to spine. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$360StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 349 PRIME MINISTER EDMOND BARTON'S PRIVATE SECRETARY: THOMAS BAVIN (1874 - 1941), (Knighted 1933) Lawyer, judge, politician and Premier of New South Wales, 1927 - 1930 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Price Realized$2,800StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 350 KITSON, Arthur (1859 - 1937) Captain James Cook R.N., F.R.S. "The Circumnavigator" [John Murray, London, 1907] 1st edition; pp. xvi, 526 (last colophon), [2 (pubs. cat.)], with 20 illustrations + a folding map. Specially rebound in vellum with gilt embossing to front cover for "The Duke of Devonshire Prize - Presented by the British Empire League 1927." and with details of the presentation and recipient (John Robert Murray Senior) in an attractive mss label affixed to the front pastedown. View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$280StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 351 [OCEAN YACHT RACING] "Across Bass Strait - A Souvenir of Ocean Yacht Race from Queenscliff, Vic to Low Head, Tas., December 27th 1907." [Atlas Press, Block Place, Melbourne], n.d. but 1908. 60 p., [21] p. of plates :ill., ports.; 29 cm with illustrated upper board. An account of the win of the "Rudder Cup" by "Thistle" owned by E. Newlands. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$500StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 352 [C.J. DENNIS INTEREST] "Marri'd and Other Verses" by Mary Gilmore [1910] (with a printed slip affixed to front pastedown "...from the Library of the late C.J. DENNIS..."); "The Moods of Ginger Mick" [1916]; "The Making of a Sentimental Bloke" by Alec Chisholm [1946], and View details Estimate$50 - $100Price Realized$80StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 353 DANIEL WHITE Esq. hand-painted illuminated presentation, "To Daniel White Esq. Dear Sir, In The Presence Of A Gathering Representing All Branches Of The Carriage Trade Of Victoria And On The Eve Of Your 81st Birthday, We Desire To Offer Our Congratulations And To Ask You To Accept This Address As An Expression Of The Very Great Esteem With Which You Are Held By The Trade With Whom You Have Been Hounourably Associated For Over Fifty Years, 18th Sept. 1915.", View details Estimate$600 - $800Price Realized$700StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 354 [ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION] TAYLOR, Griffith (1880 - 1963) With Scott : The Silver Lining [London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1916] 1st ed., xiv, 464p., [44] leaves of plates; illustrations, maps, portraits; folded map. Rebound preserving original green covers. View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$420StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 355 1917 paper parachute advertising 'Shell' benzine (petrol) intended to be dropped from Basil Watson's home-built Sopwith-Pup type biplane over Victoria and Tasmania. Watson was killed on 28th March 1917 when his aircraft broke up in flight near Point Cook and thus the promotional paper parachutes were never used. Watson had successfully flown between Melbourne and Warrnambool in January 1917 and between Melbourne and Mount Gambier in February 1917, carrying small unofficial mails on those flights View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$320StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 356 [AUSTRALIAN MILITARY] "The 38TH BATTALION A.I.F." by Eric Fairey [Bendigo, Bendigo Advertiser Pty Ltd, and the Cambridge Press, 1920] 1st edition; 110pp, soft cover. View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$140StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 357 [AUSTRALIAN LITERATURE] "Retrospect" by Martin Boyd [1920]; "The Boundary Rider" by R.B. Plowman [1935]; "The Fear" by Thomas Keneally [1965]; and, "Poor Fellow My Country" by Xavier Herbert [1975]. View details Estimate$50 - $100Price Realized$60StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 358 Australian-Oriental Line "Travel To Manila, China & Japan Under The British Flag" lithographic brochure, circa 1920, 22 x 14cm View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$80StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 359 MILITARY TITLES: selection of titles incl. "The Fighting at Jutland" (c.1920, scarce), "Naval Engineering and American Sea Power", "Breaking the Chains - The Royal Navy's War on Slavery" by Pocock, "Christian IV and his Navy" by Bellamy, "Royal Navy and the Battle of Britain" & "German East - First World in East Africa" by Gardner, plus three others titles. (8) View details Estimate$120 - $160Price Realized$90StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 360 Canberra: General Notes for the Information of Public Servants - April 1926 [Melbourne, H.J. Green, 1926] 1st Edition, 92pp + fold-out plan. With numerous photographs and details of the "Standard Home Types" available, with their dimensions and prices. Endorsed on front cover "With Senator Sampson's Compliments 29/9/26". View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$400StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 361 ALFRED HOSPITAL certificate "Alfred Hospital, Founded 1867, Melbourne, 30th January, 1929, The Managers Have Elected GEORGE FREDERICK WILCOX Esq. An Honorary Life Governor Of The Hospital", three colour lithograph with attractive elevated view of the hospital, 45 x 34cm View details Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 362 "ROYAL COMMISSION on the Constitution of the Commonwealth." Report of Proceedings and Minutes of Evidence. Canberra, Monday, 19th September, 1927" in 2 volumes (823pp + 913pp) Quarto, half calf and cloth bindings. [H.J. Green, Government Printer, Canberra], 1929. With the autographs of the chairman and the six commissioners tipped-in on the flyleaf of vol.1 and dated 7th Sept.1929. View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$1,200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 363 "The New Era In Commercial Art" The Art Training Institute Melbourne. Green card wrapper with embossed lettering, some fading to right margin of the front cover, otherwise a good copy with vibrant colour lithography including IDA RENTOUL OUTHWAITE. View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 364 c.1930s Presbyterian Ladies College (Melbourne) workbook with newspaper/magazine cut-outs of articles & images affixed relating to famous British literary figures, plus a few postcards and few pencil drawings of famous British landmarks; also 1948-49 Dispensing Chemists record book of customer prescriptions with A-Z record of customer entries at the front. (2 items) View details Estimate$50 - $60Price Realized$40StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 365 Souvenir booklets including "Pictorial Guide To The West Coast Of Tasmania", "Souvenir Views Of Perth", "St. Thomas' Church, Port Macquarie", "The Mines Of The Bellambi Coal Co, Ltd.", "Souvenir Of Kuring-Gai Chase And Bobbin Head", "Ballarat Views An Statuary", plus more, inspection will reward. (13 items). View details Quantity13Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$280StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 366 [BUILDING TRADE, ENGINEERING & HANDYMAN CATALOGUES] McPherson's Engineers' and Manufacturers' Catalogue No.34 (1933), also the 1966 edition and several smaller McPherson publications (Home Workshop Guide, Guide for the Handyman, etc.) and the VICTORIAN BUILDERS' TRADE DIRECTORY Edition V (circa 1963). (9 items). View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$160StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 367 PLAN FOR A NEW COLONY, A proposal for Empire settlement on a large scale in the Kimberly Division of Western Australia, by Sir James D. Connolly (Formerly Agent General for Western Australia), reprinted from "The Morning Post (July 25-29, 1933). 15pp pamphlet. View details Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 368 William H. ELSUM The History of Williamstown. From its First Settlement to a City 1834-1934. [Williamstown, Frank S. Young, 1934] First Edition; 8vo; pp. viii, 144; numerous b/w. photographs; original green cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine and front board. View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$180StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 369 [MOTOR CAR BROCHURES] A "Morris 8/40" 12-page brochure, circa 1935, for York Motors, William Street, Sydney; also, an "Oldsmobile Sixes and Eights" 16-page colour brochure, circa 1937, for General Motors - Holden's Limited (Printed in Australia). (2 items). View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 370 The "ASPRO YEAR BOOK 1938", "1939 Mobiloil Chart and Lubrication Manual", "The Aboriginal Word Book" by Kenyon (1960), "Grand Prix Racing" by Monkhouse, and several other items, mainly Australian interest. (10 items). View details Estimate$50 - $100Price Realized$100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 371 NEW YORK TIMES - WWII ERA: 1939 Oct. 1-15, Nov. 1-15, Nov. 16-30 & Dec.1-15 broadsheets in four bound volumes. Strong coverage of "The European Conflict" with the Oct 1st (Sunday) edition "Week in Review" article covering the Surrender of Warsaw and the Russian/German partition of Poland (Sep.27); other major news stories include U-Boat sinking of British Battleship "Royal Oak" killing 833 (Oct.15) and attempted assassination of Hitler in Munich (Nov.9); View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusCLOSED! Lot 372 [MOTOR CYCLES] The Book of the Velocette by Heathcote ]1940]; Instruction Manual for TRIUMPH Motor Cycles 1947-48 Models [1947]; The BOOK of the J.A.P. ENGINE by Haycraft [1948]; Motor Cycles and How to Manage Them by The Motor Cycle Staff [1948]; The Story of the T.T. by Davison [1950]. (6 vols.) View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 373 NEW YORK TIMES - WWII ERA: 1940 Jan.16-31, Feb.1-15, Feb.16-29 & Mar.1-15 broadsheets in four bound volumes. Extensive coverage of war in Europe including the HMS Cossack raid of the German "Altmark" prison vessel, freeing 326 British seamen (Feb.18); Moscow peace treaty ending war between Russia & Finland (Mar.13); domestic news includes World Premiere of Pinocchio (Feb.7) and S.S. Queen Elizabeth arriving in New York on her maiden voyage (Mar.7); Sunday issues with New York Times Book Review View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 374 NEW YORK TIMES - WWII ERA: 1940 Apr.1-15, Jul.1-15, Aug.1-15 & 16-31 broadsheets in four hardbound volumes. Strong coverage of the war in Europe including the German invasion of Denmark and Norway (Apr.9), commencement of Battle of Britain (Jul.11); Japan announcing the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere (Aug.2), "Eagle Day" launch of all-out Luftwaffe attack of Southern England (Aug.13); other domestic and international stories covered include the assassination of Leon Trotsky (Aug.22); View details Estimate$300 - $400Price Realized$900StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 375 NEW YORK TIMES - WWII ERA: 1940 Oct.1-15 & 16-31, Nov.1-15 & 16-30 & Dec.16-31 broadsheets in five hardbound volumes. The War in Europe is well covered including the Italian invasion of Greece (Oct.28), Roosevelt outlining his plan for Lend-Lease Aid to Britain (Dec.17) and "Havoc in The City" - Germans commencing The Blitz fire bomb attack on London (Dec.31); domestic news includes the World Premiere of Charlie Chaplin's "The Great Dictator" (Oct.15), Roosevelt winning an unprecedented third t View details Estimate$350 - $550Price Realized$280StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 376 ART EXHIBITION CATALOGUES: 1947 "Melbourne Contemporary Artists" at the Athenaeum Gallery (includes Russell Drysdale's "Sofala" at 200 guineas, Purves-Smith, George Bell, Ola Cohn, Roger Kemp, etc.); 1962 "Artists of Fame and Promise Part 1" at Leveson Street Gallery (includes Ian Fairweather "Abstract" at 45 guineas, Fred Williams "Landscape" at 200 guineas, Dorothy Braund "Greek Village" at 45 guineas, John Brack "Roofs of Burwood" at 200 gunieas, etc.); Hermia Boyd 1965; etc. (12). View details Quantity12Estimate$120 - $150Price Realized$80StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 377 AUSTRALIA - PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGES: small library of titles with focus on Australian history through photography incl. "An Australian Camera 1851-1914" by Cannon, "Cazneaux's Sydney 1904-1934", "Sydney from the Sky" & "Shackleton's Argonauts" both by Frank Hurley, "Frank Meadow Sutcliffe - a Selection of his Work" in four volumes, Charles Kerry's "Federation Australia" and James Flood "Book of Early Australian Photographs", amongst the many better titles. (26) View details Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$240StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 378 SHIPS & WATER NAVIGATION: library of titles incl. "Cunard - a Photographic History" by McCutcheon, "The Long Haul - Ships of the England-Australia Run" by Fitchett, "River of Light - Monet's Impressions of the Seine", "Mariners are Warned - Stokes and HMS Beagle in Australia 1837-43" by Horden, "Pioneering Pathways" (development of Mannum river port) by Rod Williams (signed), "Hospital Ships" by Goodman, "Austalian Shipwrecks" by Bateson & "New Zealand Shipwrecks" by Ingram, amongst others. Good View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 379 ARCHITECTURE: library of titles with Australian Council of National Trusts series "Historic Places" (Vol. 1 & 2), "Historic Homesteads" (Vol. 1 & 2), "Historic Houses" & "Historic Public Buildings" plus "Historic Buildings of New Zealand" (two volumes); other titles noted incl. "The Heritage of Australia - The Illustrated Register of the National Estate", "Historic Buildings of Victoria" by Sauders, "Pioneers of Modernism - Arts & Crafts Movement in Australia" by Edquist, View details Estimate$300 - $400Price Realized$200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 380 [AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL INTEREST] Books, comprising "The Australian Aborigines : How to Understand them" by A.P. Elkin [1964, with d/j]; "The Aborigines of south-eastern Australia As They Were" by Aldo Massola [1971, with d/j]; "The Timeless Land" by Eleanor Clark [1954, with d/j]; "White Blackfellows" by Charles Barrett [1948, with d/j]. (4 vols.). View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$80StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 381 Royal Australian Navy 75th Anniversary - Navy Lithographic Collection. Blue cloth oblong boards containing 25 colour prints on heavy paper, in excellent condition. View details Estimate$600 - $800StatusCLOSED! Lot 382 POSTCARDS including Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, Aborigines, Singer Sewing Machine, Viceroy Tea, S.T. Gill, real photograph, novelty and others (68 items) View details Quantity68Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$380StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 383 POSTCARDS: ABORIGINAL SUBJECTS, collection of (43) real photo cards, circa 1905-10, almost all postally used and the subjects mainly from identified locations: Queensland (5), South Australia (2), Tasmania (2), Victoria (10), Western Australia (14), and general (8), together with a small group of non-Aboriginal subjects of the same period (9). Cpl. of duplicates noted. (Total: 50). Among the subjects we note "Natives playing football at Coranderrk, Vic.", "Annual distribution of blankets to bla View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,500Price Realized$950StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 384 POSTCARDS and souvenir cards, Australian themes all real photos including Tasmanian, Mt Gambier, The Grampians and South Australia, (79 items), View details Quantity79Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 385 POSTCARDS Australian themes including Sorrento, Queenscliff, Port Arlington, Northcote, St Kilda, mostly real photograph, (69 items). View details Quantity69Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$400StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 386 POSTCARDS mainly Australian themes including Carlton street scenes, Saw Milling, Gippsland, gold digger's shanty and others (97 items) View details Quantity97Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$400StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 387 POSTCARDS, real photograph of a gold nugget with handwritten caption "Weight 1135. Ozs. Value Over £5,000" by T.F. Mackay of Kalgoorlie. Plus "Scenes Of The Heroic Rescue Of The Entombed Miner, Bonnie Vale, W.A." View details Quantity2Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$180StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 388 POSTCARD "Tutu Ngarahu" Maori warrior, by "Col. G. Robly" View details Estimate$60 - $100StatusCLOSED! Lot 389 POSTCARDS: A small collection of (13) mainly real photo cards, circa 1905-10, with subjects including "Aboriginals & Canoe" by Cooper, "The First Cobbs' Coach Imported from America, Delivering H.M. Mails to the Natives at Coranderrk.", "Crossing the Mystic Figure" by Kerry, "Natives Darwin", etc. Mixed condition. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$320StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 390 AUSTRALIA: Diverse range in small box; noted one from Broadmeadows Military Camp Aug.1914 ("What little food we have had has been very crook"), an undivided back "Jenolan Caves" RP, "Prince's Highway at Ulladulla", Mosman Bay, Portland Vic., Lake Tyres, Coranderrk Weir, Werribee Gorge, Germantown, Railway Station Benalla, and a rare group from Barraport (near Bendigo). Mixed condition. (Total: 45). View details Quantity45Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 391 POSTCARDS: A whole world accumulation; noted many ships and maritime subjects, G.B., Exhibitions, romantic, children, etc. (240+). View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$80StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 392 POSTCARDS, Australian and British, ephemera and photos, vintage and antique, (55+ items) View details Quantity60Estimate$60 - $80Price Realized$80StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 393 POSTCARDS, bundle of mostly British & European early 20th century cards, with plenty of town scenes and tourist images incl. real-photo types, plus humorous and sentimental cards; also a few Australian cards and some photographs; condition is rather mixed. (150 approx) View details Estimate$80 - $100Price Realized$140StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 394 POSTCARDS: Norman Lindsay "Australian Types" cards from the Bulletin Series No.5 "The Cocky" and "Horse" also, 3 Bulletin comic cards (#923, #1348 & 1362) with Lindsay borders and a Lionel Lindsay Christmas card. (6). View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$440StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 395 VICTORIA: A collection of WARRNAMBOOL subjects, all RPs, (19) all different. View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$160StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 396 POSTCARDS & PHOTOGRAPHS: selection with album incl. Press Agency photo of 1972 Elizabeth Street flood, many others featuring trams scenes or ships; another album with 1951-62 images of Brisbane including for the 1954 Queen's visit; also album with postcards showing Brisbane scenes incl. early 20th century cards. (few 100s) View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$260StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 397 A rare Colonial powder horn engraved "ADVANCE VAN DIEMEN'S LAND", decorated with a lady in Regency costume, trees and birds, circa 1825, 24cm high View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Price Realized$4,800StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 398 Van Diemen's Land truncheon, turned hardwood with hand-painted Queen Victoria cipher and "V.D.L.", circa 1840, rare. 46cm long View details Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$6,500StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 399 Tasmanian Police truncheon, blackwood with hand-painted Queen Victoria cipher, 19th century, 44cm long View details Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$2,200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 400 Three Victoria Crown "CONVICT PRISON" Officer's tunic buttons and a matching cap button with silk surround, 19th century, rare. (4 items), View details Quantity4Estimate$500 - $700Price Realized$400StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 401 Convict era penny tokens and shop tokens, 19th century, (5 items). View details Quantity5Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$240StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 402 WESTERN AUSTRALIAN interest. 18ct yellow gold and enamel half hunter presentation pocket watch with inscription "Presented To Miss Laura E.J. Clifton By The Officers Of The Convict Establishment Portland On The Occasion Of Her Marriage, November 1877". Laura Clifton was born in Fremantle W.A. in 1856, daughter to the renowned botanist George Clifton who had moved to Fremantle to take up a position with the newly formed Western Australia Water Police. After a period of some years George returned View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Price Realized$1,700StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Items per page 102550100 Previous|12345678910|Next Previous 12345678910 Next Previous 12345678910 Next
