Decorative Arts & Collectables (#458) 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 1-27 of 27. Previous|1|Next Lot 771 ANTIQUE MAP CHRISTOPHER SAXTON (c1540 - 1610) OXONIENSIS Comitatus, vulgo Oxfordshyre OXFORDSHIRE, ENGLAND: c.1607 hand-coloured copper engraved, somewhat foxed, 33 x 41.5cm (sheet size).. View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$260StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 772 Ethiopian Orthodox religious pocket manuscript, 12 concertina pages of hand-written text including 5 illuminated illustrations of St. George and the dragon, Madonna and child plus Jesus and John the Baptist. Parchment paper bound in animal skin boards, 19th century, 8 x 7.5cm View details Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$700StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 773 "PICKWICK PAPERS - THE POSTHUMOUS PAPERS OF THE PICKWICK CLUB": by Charles Dickens, first edition published by Chapman & Hall (London, 1837) with etched plates by Seymour and Phiz incl. frontispiece by Phiz; some foxing to end pages otherwise good internal condition with binding intact, bound in half leather with some scuffing to edges and spine, very good condition overall. View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$320StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 774 GREAT BRITAIN: "The Ports, Harbours, Watering-Places and Coast Scenery of Great Britain" in two volumes, published by Gordon Virtue (London, 1844), "Illustrated by views taken on the spot by W.H. Bartlett; with descriptions by William Beattie", unpaginated with numerous steel engraved plates, tissue guards intact, intermittent browning/spotting to the gilt edged pages, handsomely rebound in velvet cloth, with metal book corners & decorative monogram, gilt titles to spines. View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$950StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 775 AUSTRALIA -GOLDFIELDS: "Land, Labour and Gold - Two Years in Victoria with Visits to Sydney & Van Diemen's Land" in two volumes by William Howitt, published by Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans (1855). Lively account of colonial and goldfields life, with reasoned criticism of land laws and goldfield administration reflecting the concerns and aspirations of emigrant diggers. Ex libris Anna T. Jeanes (American philanthropist) View details Estimate$300 - $400Price Realized$550StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 776 AUSTRALIA : "The Rise and Progress of Australia, Tasmania & New Zealand" by "An Englishman" (Daniel Puseley), pub. Saunders & Otley (London, 1857), contents including a Colonial Directory, Tables of Revenue and Expenditure, and information on the "Intellectual, Social & Moral Condition of the People"; 496pp followed by section of advertisements some illustrated; attractively rebound with new end papers and covers, internal pages with mild aging, fine overall. View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$320StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 777 BOATS SIGNALS BOOK: for the use of His Majesty's Fleet and Coastguard Stations published by HMSO (1907), with corrections in manuscript dated "19-6-13", belonging to T.W. Biddlecombe RAN. Thomas Wyburn Biddlecombe (1880-1917) joined the Royal Australian Navy as a Sub-Lieutenant in July 1913. In 1916 he was appointed Acting Commander of HMS Q27 and was killed in action whilst engaged in battle with a German submarine. He was the first RAN Officer to be killed in command during the First Wor... View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$70StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 778 POSTCARDS & TRAVEL EPHEMERA: with 1908 Australia Greets American Fleet cards (3), 1920s-40s European cards including many real-photo cards, one showing delegates at Conference of Locarno (1925), British 1940s cards showing military regiments,1940s Publicity Relations Office photographs of everyday life in Singapore; plus 1930s-50s European tourist brochures/leaflets & hotel ephemera, Dutch KLM cards, "Automobile Association" British town maps, etc. (qty) View details Estimate$120 - $160Price Realized$140StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 779 ASSORTMENT OF ITEMS: with photographs incl. "Officers Mess, 17th Regt, Burrumbeet Camp 1913", 1909 Western Victoria Floods images, album showing warships, rural & family scenes, 1915 General Birdwood Xmas card plus other PPCs and vintage greetings cards; also 1954 copy of "Ashworth's Dare",1954 edition of Second Sitting by John Everard featuring artist model images, 1962 Woodend & 1963 Ballarat horse race programmes, etc ; mixed condition. SymbolL View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 780 FURNITURE: "English Furniture of the Eighteenth Century" by Herbert Cescinsky in the three volumes published by G.Routledge (London, c.1911), profusely illustrated, half bound in leather over green cloth, spine titles in gilt. An important guide. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$1,600StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 781 TRADE CARDS: GILBERT & SULLIVAN: 1925-28 Player's "Gilbert & Sullivan Operas" three mounted sets of 50, framed & glazed, overall 68x53cm (2) or 51x41cm (with some loose cards); also Wills 1924 "Railways Engines" set of 50, framed & glazed, overall 68x53cm. (4 items). View details Quantity4Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$160StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 782 1929 EUROPEAN TOUR TRAVEL EPHEMERA: in three binders incl. Thomas Cook travel itinerary, Ristorante Luna (Venice) breakfast menu with gorgeous gondola illustrations (2), Austrian & Swiss Alps travel brochures incl. winter sports guide, hotel luggage labels, maps, etc; also County of London driver's licence, London County Council illustrated tram timetable, Automobile Association Touring Wallet, S.S. Maloja passenger list, travel tickets, postcards, etc. (Qty) View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$160StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 783 Stamps and albums, assorted books and journals View details Estimate$60 - $100Price Realized$200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 784 EPHEMERA ASSORTMENT: with 1939 TSMV Manoora menu cards (11), four rolls of early admission tickets, three are "priced" at 1/6d, large quantity of 1930s-60s bottle labels majority for whisky/brandy others for gin, rum & various liquors, quantity of cigar bands in cigar box; also Dept of Civil Aviation 1960 Flight Plan Forms (7, one unused), promotional postcards, collector cards, English & European hotel labels, etc. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$280StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 785 THE RING OF THE NIBLUNG: by Richard Wagner, illustrations by ARTHUR RACKHAM, first edition (1939) published by William Heinemann, dedication on front page dated "Xmas 1940" featuring 48 colour plates by Rackham, bound in blue cloth with titles in black to the front and spine. View details Estimate$60 - $80Price Realized$180StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 786 EPSTEIN An Autobiography, [Hulton Press (1955), London, 1955]. Hard cover, black leather binding with gilt lettering; b&w illustrations. 294pp. THIS EDITION IS SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTAINS A COLLOTYPE REPRODUCTION OF HIS WATERCOLOUR PAINTING 'LILIES'. IT IS LIMITED TO 195 COPIES OF WHICH 185 ARE FOR SALE. THIS IS NUMBER 16. View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 787 CINEMA & THEATRE PROGRAMMES: mostly 1960s-80s array incl. "Come Blow your Horn" (1963, starring Frank Sinatra), The Great Escape (1963), "My Fair Lady" (Warner Bros, 1964), "Mary Poppins" (1964) "Oliver!" (1968) "Jaws" (1975, pub. Modern Magazines); also noted "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs - Song Selection" (1937); condition variable. (50+) View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 788 MOVIE NEWS (AUSTRALIAN FILM MAGAZINE): 1967-1974 array; better front covers noted for Jane Fonda as "Barbarella" (Nov.1968), Ryan O'Neal & Ali McGraw for Love Story (Mar.1971), Malcolm McDowell for Clockwork Orange (Jun.1972), Al Pacino as "Serpico" (1974); also noted front covers featuring Elvis Presley (8), and for Australian-made "Petersen" starring Jack Thompson (Nov/Dec 1974). (60+) View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$260StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 789 AUSTRALIA - EARLY EXPLORATION & SETTLEMENT: selection of 1970s-80s hardbound titles with "Arthur Phillip - The Voyage to Botany Bay" published by Hutchison as facsimile reprint (1982), First Fleet journals comprising "Philip Gidley King 1787-1790", "Lt Ralph Clark 1787-1792" and "Arthur Bowes Smyth, Surgeon, 1787-1789" edited by Fidlon & Ryan; also "Journal of Peter Good" (gardener on 1801-03 Matthew Flinders Voyage), "King of the Australian Coast - The Work of Phillip Parker King and the Merm View details Estimate$120 - $160Price Realized$180StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 790 AUSTRALIA - LITERARY & VISUAL ARTS: selection of 1970-80s titles comprising "Gothic Taste in the Colony of New South Wales" by Kerr & Broadbent, "Homesteads of Southern New South Wales 1830-1900" by Cantlon, "Early Colonial Furniture in New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land" by Craig, Fahy & Robertson, "The Story of the Camera in Australia" by Cato, "Norman Lindsay - War Cartoons 1914-1918" and "Growing Together - Letters between Frederick John Cato and Frances Bethune, 1881 to 1884". (6) View details Estimate$120 - $160Price Realized$120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 791 NEW SOUTH WALES - EARLY EUROPEAN SETTLEMENT: group of 1970-80s hardbound titles comprising "History of New South Wales From the Record" Vol.1 "Phillip 1783-1789" and Vol.2 "Phillip & Grose 1789-1794", "The Wallabadah Manuscript" (early history of NSW Northern Districts), "Haddon Rig - The First Hundred Years" by Falkiner, "The White Family of Bell Trees" by Judy White, "Thomas West of Barcom Glen" by Marriot, "Blaxland-Lawson-Wentworth" by Richards; generally fine condition (7). View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$180StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 792 SOUTH AUSTRALIA, TASMANIA & VICTORIA - EARLY EUROPEAN SETTLEMENT: selection of 1970-80s hardbound titles with [SA] "Travels & Adventures in Australia 1836-1838" by Leigh, "A Forgotten Expedition 1875" by Giles & "Recollections of Daniel George Brock"; [Tasmania] "Old Hobart Town and Environs 1802-1855" by Stone & Tyson and "Journal of Charles O'Hara Booth" (Commandant Port Arthur Penal Settlement); [Victoria] "A History of the Port Phillip District" by Shaw, "Kerr's Melbourne Almanac", View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$320StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 793 AUSTRALIAN ACTORS & ACTRESSES: 1970s era publicity photos (mostly 20x25cm) noting Barry Crocker, Lorraine Bayley, Colin Friels, John Hargreaves, Wendy Hughes & Diane Craig, also noted Juliet Prowse (dancer); small publicity photo-cards for soap opera "Number 96" (some signed), others for other Channel 9 stars incl. Michael Caton & Gary Sweet (both signed); related ephemera incl. photographs of American actors, 1977 issues of "Entertainer" (7), View details Estimate$120 - $160Price Realized$240StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 794 AUSTRALIA - ABORIGINES: "The Baudin Expedition and the Tasmanian Aborigines" by N.J.B. Plomley published by Blubber Head Press (1983), 245pp quarto hardbound with illustrated dustjacket and end pages, limited edition numbered 602/1000; also "Australian Reminiscences & Papers of L.E. Threlkeld - Missionary to the Aborigines 1824-1859" edited by Gunson (1974) in two soft bound volumes and "Australian Aborigines" by Dawson hardbound facsimile edition (1981); fine condition. (4) View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$480StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 795 ROLLING STONE (AUSTRALIA): Bundle of 1974-76 issues noting many better front covers including Richard Nixon ("The Quitter" Sep.1974) The Eagles (Sep.1975), Rod Stewart/Britt Ekland (Nov.1975) & David Bowie (Feb.1976) amongst many others; all are more-or-less aged. (60) View details Estimate$60 - $80Price Realized$200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 796 Fourteen reference books on antiques, silver, Chinese ceramics, ivory, furniture and pottery View details Quantity14Estimate$60 - $100Price Realized$80StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 797 NEW SOUTH WALES: "Census of New South Wales - November 1828" (the first Australian census), published by Library of Australian History (Sydney,1980), 479pp in large quarto including 5 illustrations, 10 facsimile documents and 2 full page maps, clothbound with leather title labels, in excellent condition. 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