Australian & Historical (#463) 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 701-800 of 1214. Previous|1...678910111213|Next12345678910111213 Lot 1086 ARTHUR PHILLIP (1738 - 1814) The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay with an Account of the Establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson & Norfolk Island.... [London : John Stockdale, 1789], Quarto, half-calf over marbled boards, spine ruled and lettered in gilt, armorial bookplate of H. Holland Edwards to front pastedown, armorial bookplate of Henry Hampden Dutton to front free endpaper; frontispiece portrait; engraved title (in the first state, foxed); pp 6 [errata; blank], viii, [8 - l View details Estimate$45,000 - $55,000StatusUnsold Lot 1087 JOHN WHITE (1756 - 1832) "Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales with Sixty-five Plates of Non descript Animals, Birds, Lizards, Serpents, curious Cones of Trees and other Natural Productions by John White Esqre, Surgeon General to the Settlement." [London : J. Debrett, 1790], View details Estimate$18,000 - $20,000StatusCLOSED! Lot 1088 1817 LOTTERY HANDBILLS - ENGLAND - THOMAS BISHTwenty-two different printed handbills advertising an upcoming lottery (Jan.21) each with an engraved illustration of a national "type" and comical verse -- includes ENGLAND, CHINA, RUSSIA, SOUTH AFRICA, ALGIERS, CORSICA (depicting Napoleon), IRELAND and ITALY, etc.Thomas Bish (1779-1843) - English proprietor of lottery offices at Charing Cross, Cornhill and several provincial cities. He was noted for his elaborate lottery promotions. The fin... View details Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$380StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1089 [TRIBAL WARFARE VAN DIEMAN'S LAND] "View taken in the interior of New Holland, near the torrent of Kirkham" Jaques Arago engraving from his 1818 sketch made during Louis Freycinet's visit to eastern Tasmania aboard "l'Uranie". The engraving was prepared in 1823 for inclusion in Freycinet's publication "Voyage autour du monde sur les corvettes "'l'Uranie" et "la Physicienne." Framed and glazed, overall 27 x 30cm. View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$380StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1090 MASLEN, T.J. THE FRIEND OF AUSTRALIA; or, A Plan for Exploring the Interior, and for Carrying on a Survey of the Whole Continent of Australia. By a Retired Officer of the Hon. East India Company's Service. Illustrated with a Map of Australia, and Five Plates. Pp. xxiv+428+[2] (Supplemental note, verso blank), 5 double page plates (4 being hand-coloured aquatints), large folding map at end, appendix; [Hurst, Chance and Co, London, 1830]; rebound preserving the upper and lower boards and the pap View details Estimate$6,000 - $8,000Price Realized$7,000StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1091 RAYMOND, James (compiler), The New South Wales Calendar and General Post Office Directory,1832, [Sydney, Stephens & Stokes, 1832.] Octavo, original green cloth, remnants of original paper label to spine; front pastedown with early binder's ticket of William Moffitt, King St., Sydney; folding frontispiece map of Sydney Town dated 1831; colour folding plate of flags mostly missing. The first year of issue. View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,250Price Realized$1,300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1092 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 (incomplete), all plates and engraved advertisements as called for. Ferguson 2157. View details Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$380StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1093 LEGAL AFFAIRS IN THE DISTRICT OF PORT PHILLIP - 1842 to 1861 A group of six (6) documents, mainly warrants created by the Deputy Sherrifs (Samuel Rayward, Alistair MacKenzie) in discharging their roles in settling disputes between free settlers. Three are printed forms which have been completed in manuscript, the others are all hand-written. View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$320StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1094 James BACKHOUSE (1794 - 1869) A Narrative of a Visit to the Australian Colonies. [London, Hamilton, Adams & Co., 1843.] Pp. xviii, 569, appendixes pp. cxliv. With three large folding maps by James Wyld, 15 full page etchings and many illustrations in the text. View details Estimate$500 - $600Price Realized$360StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1095 AN 1852 VICTORIAN LAND GRANT BY PURCHASE February 1852 land grant to ROBERT McEWIN of a Town Lot in the Town of Footscray, signed and sealed by the Lieutenant Governor, CHARLES LATROBE. (The price of £14/-/- is detailed in manuscript and the exact location is described in manuscript. 34 x 44.5cm. View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$240StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1096 AN 1855 TASMANIAN LAND GRANT BY PURCHASE October 1855 land grant to FREDERICK GREEN of a 4 acre Township allotment in York Town, Van Diemen's Land, signed and sealed by the Governor, SIR HENRY EDWARD FOX YOUNG. (The price of £16/10/- is detailed in manuscript and a map illustrating the grant is shown at left; also signed by William HENTY, Colonial Secretary. 35 x 60cm. View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1097 PHRENOLOGY IN EARLY MELBOURNE Four written and printed reports on the "character and talents" of Melbourne residents of the 1850s; mixed condition. View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$1,000StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1098 AN 1855 TASMANIAN LAND GRANT BY PURCHASE October 1855 land grant to EDWARD JOHN DAWES of a Township allotment in York Town, Van Diemen's Land, signed and sealed by the Governor, SIR HENRY EDWARD FOX YOUNG. (The price of £16/10/- is detailed in manuscript and a map illustrating the grant is shown at left; also signed by William HENTY, Colonial Secretary. 40 x 69cm. View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1099 AN 1856 TASMANIAN LAND GRANT BY PURCHASE March 1856 land grant to James Reid of 500 acres in the vicinity of the River Inglis, County of Wellington, Tasmania, signed and sealed by the Governor, SIR HENRY EDWARD FOX YOUNG. (The price of £1 per acre is detailed in manuscript and a map illustrating the grant is shown at left; also signed by William HENTY, Colonial Secretary. 40 x 60cm. View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1100 AN 1857 TASMANIAN LAND GRANT August 1857 land grant to Robert Thirkell, of 189 acres in the Parish of Longford, County of Westmoreland Tasmania, signed and sealed by the Governor, Sir Henry Edward Fox YOUNG. (The price of £1 per acre is detailed in manuscript and a map illustrating the grant is shown at left; also signed by William HENTY, Colonial Secretary. View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1101 AN 1858 VICTORIAN LAND GRANT DURING THE GOLD RUSH October 1858 land grant by purchase to JOSEPH BALL of an allotment in CASTLEMAINE, signed and sealed by the Governor, SIR HENRY BARKLY. (The price of £39/5/- is detailed in manuscript. View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusCLOSED! Lot 1102 Three original Acts of Parliament, comprising July 1814 re "the East India Company"; March 1864 re "Sir John Laird Mair Lawrence to receive the full Benefit of the Salary of Governor General of India..."; and July 1864 "An Act to facilitate...the obtaining of Powers for the Construction of Railways." also, a Nov.1893 letter from the George Jennings Sanitary Engineers Co. to H.H. The Thakore Sahib of Gondal (re an unpaid account) and a 1913 invoice from Harrods, Ltd. (5 items).... View details Quantity5Estimate$100 - $150StatusCLOSED! Lot 1103 SMITH, Philip AN ANCIENT HISTORY FROM THE EARLIEST RECORDS TO THE FALL OF THE WESTERN EMPIRE. [London: James Walton, 1868]. Three volumes. View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1104 AN 1870 VICTORIAN LAND GRANT BY PURCHASE December 1870 land grant to EDWARD FLETCHER of an allotment in LYGON STREET, CARLTON, signed and sealed by the Governor, Viscount CANTERBURY (John Henry Thomas Manners-Sutton). (The price of £106 is detailed in manuscript and a map illustrating the grant is shown at left.) 35 x 45cm. View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1105 TAYLOR, Alfred Swaine, MD FRS (1806-1880), An 8 page a.I.s from a practitioner in Geelong to Dr A.Taylor who appears to have been experimenting with paraffin or kerosene in solution. Also enclosed are 3 small papers that he has experimented on with pencilled notes. Also an a.I.s from REESE, John, the American editor of the 7th edition of Dr Taylor's book "A Manual of Medical Jurisprudence" to Dr Alfred Swaine Taylor, dated 20th of August, 1874. View details Estimate$150 - $200StatusCLOSED! Lot 1106 Three Broinowski Australiana engravings, 35 x 28cm View details Quantity3Estimate$120 - $200StatusCLOSED! Lot 1107 "Australia and New Zealand" Vol. 2 by Anthony Trollope [1876]; "AUSTRALASIA" by A.R.Wallace [1883]; "Official Record of the Proceedings of the Australasian Federation Conference, 1890"; "Fact'ry 'ands" by Edward & Will Dyson [1918]; "Maori Witchery" by C.R. Browne [1929]; plus 4 other volumes. (9 items). Mixed condition. View details Quantity9Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1108 "EMERALD HILL Band Of Hope" chromolithograph temperance movement membership certificate to George Thomas Schollick (No. 1481), June 4th, 1877. Emerald Hill is now goes by the name South Melbourne. 15 x 16.5cm View details Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$180StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1109 "Grandmamma's Verse Book For Young Australian, Part 1" by Mrs. Meredith, [Hobart, Tasmania, 1878] View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$240StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1110 INDIA: A range of early real photo postcards (mostly Nilgiris, Coonoor, Ootacamund), various signed letters incl. Mar.1910 from Lord Wenlock (Governor of Madras), Lord Elphinstone, etc. Mixed condition. (37 items). View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1111 (After) George Frankland (British, 1800–1838).| Governor Davey’s Proclamation To The Aborigines, 1816, c1880s watercolour and ink drawing, captioned in image, 40 x 23.4cm. [Unknown date, but 2nd half 19th century.] View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Price Realized$2,500StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1112 CITY OF RICHMOND, VICTORIA: 1884 - 1898 "Corporation of the City of Richmond" salary sheets comprising the hand-written name, position, amount of pay and the signature of every employee. View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusCLOSED! Lot 1113 THACKERAY, William Makepeace, The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray, illustrated by the author and Richard Doyle, Published by Smith, Elder, & Co., London, 1886-88, an incomplete set of 13 volumes, uniformly bound half calf, with marbled endpapers and gilt titles on red and green spine labels. View details Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1114 PRAETERITA - Outlines of Scenes and Thoughts Perhaps Worthy of the Memory of My Past Life - Three Volumes - First Edition Ruskin, John Published by George Allen, Sunnyside, Orpington, Kent, 1886 View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$140StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1115 "History of Ballarat - From the First Pastoral Settlement to the Present Time" by W.B. Withers (1887, revised 2nd edition) published by F.W. Niven & Co (Ballarat), bound in olive-green cloth boards with gilt decoration. Contents include a 32cm x 88cm fold-out chromolithograph "View of Ballaarat" and a 37cm x 62cm fold-out Plan of the Ballarat and Sebastopol Gold Mines; illustrations include reward-for-capture notices, proclamations & licences. One chapter is devoted to the Eureka Stockade; 362pp View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$340StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1116 LEAVITT, T.W.H and LILBURN, W.D. The JUBILEE HISTORY of VICTORIA and MELBOURNE. ILLUSTRATED" [Melbourne; Duffus Bros., 1888] Volume 1 (of 2) View details Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$320StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1117 "THE AUSTRALIAN IRRIGATION COLONIES ILLUSTRATED on the River Murray in VICTORIA and SOUTH AUSTRALIA", [Chaffey Bros., London : 1888], hard cover folio edition, half red morocco with embossed gilt lettering and coat of arms to the front boards, with numerous attractive and fascinating advertisements. Issued in association with the 1888 Melbourne International Exhibition. View details Estimate$300 - $400Price Realized$550StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1118 [FRENCH CHILDREN'S BOOK] Emile PECH Un oncle d'Australie [Paris : Jouvet & Cie, c1895] Quarto, gilt decorated green cloth, spine with gilt decoration, 286pp, illustrated with 73 gravures in the text. also, another example in quarter red calf over red pebbled cloth. (2 vols.) View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$140StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1119 "Timber Building At Murtoa, For Mrs McKean" scale 8 feet to 1 inch, original architectural plans, ink and watercolour, 19th century, 51 x 73cm, frame 75 x97cm View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusCLOSED! Lot 1120 COLLINGWOOD, W.G. (ed.) THE POEMS OF JOHN RUSKIN Vol. 1 POEMS WRITTEN IN BOYHOOD, Vol II POEMS WRITTEN IN YOUTH 1836-1845 AND LATER POEMS [Published by George Allen, London, 1891] complete 2 volume set, with early facsimiles of MSS. and illustrations by the author. Half-leather, spine with raised bands, gilt titles and top edges. View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusCLOSED! Lot 1121 THE LASCELLES FAMILY OF GEELONG & MELBOURNEAn archive including a blank share certificate for Dennys, Lascelles Ltd; an 1893 letter to Mr Lascelles from Lord Hopetoun; a 1911 letter and signed photograph from Mary Gibson-Carmichael (wife of the Governor) to Mrs Lascelles; a Nov.1923 bearer's letter signed by the Premier of Victoria (Harry Lawson), various travel and business related documents. (13 items). View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$160StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1122 [JUDAICA] "The Pentateuch with Haftaroth and Prayers for Sabbath : Hebrew and English" [Budapest, M.E. Lowy's Son, 1893], 5 vols., tooled black leather with gilt decoration and titles to spines. Each volume endorsed in manuscript, "Ballarat Hebrew School. First Prize Awarded to Master Hyman Grinblat. October 1905 - Tishrei 5666. Benzion Lenzer, Principal. Presented by Mr.L.Slutzkin." View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$160StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1123 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. View details Estimate$400 - $500Price Realized$550StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1124 RUSKIN, John [1819 - 1900] Fors Clavigera - Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain in 8 volumes + index for the 8 vols. [London, George Allen, 1895 and earlier] uniformly bound in half-calf with marbled end papers, gilt titles and decorations, View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$80StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1125 [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. View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$75StatusSold Lot 1126 1899 Australasian Federal Referendum colour lithograph certificate, inscribed to "A.E. Farmer", illustrated with captioned portraits of the six State Premiers and Parliament House; framed & glazed, overall 48x63cm. View details Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$340StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1127 BEER LABELS: collection including Ballarat (Bertie) Bitters, Ballarat XXX Ale, Victoria Lager, Carlton, Fosters, Melbourne Bitter etc, (Qty) View details Estimate$60 - $100Price Realized$260StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1128 F.HUMPHRIS & SONS (ADELAIDE) FOOD LABELS: attractive selection with duplication including Pickles Chow Chow (5), Hop Beer (9), Real Bobs Sauce (12), Booemerang Tonic (5), and others. (70+) View details Estimate$60 - $80Price Realized$260StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1129 MORRIS JACOBS OF GEELONG: A March 1902 contract between Hendy & Apted, Architects (Moorabool St.) and Mr. Morris Jacobs, for "works to be done and material to be used in the alteration to shopfronts, repairs, painting, etc., to the premises in Malop Street". The four-page printed contract is signed by Jacobs and Frank Apted and is accompanied by six pages of hand-written specifications. View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusCLOSED! Lot 1130 1900s-1950s Donaldson/Warren family archive housed in old-time projector box with two large bundles of Warren family WWII correspondence plus a 1943 letter to Acting Sergeant Sidney Warren from then RAAF Flight Sergeant John (Bay) Adams whilst training in Canada, WWII military documents for Lance Sergeant Sidney Warren incl. Record of Service Book, Army Driving Licence, Demobilization Procedure Book & Certificate of Discharge, postcards incl. real-photo types & photographs including of the AH Wa View details Estimate$180 - $220Price Realized$260StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1131 WILLIAM H. OGILVIE (1869 – 1963): manuscript copy (in ink) of a tribute to Adam Lindsay Gordon, titled "From 'Hearts of Gold' by Will H. Ogilvie" with five stanzas followed at base by the signature "Will H. Ogilvie". Mounted & framed together with a photograph of Ogilvie in later life. Overall 57.5 x 29cm. View details Estimate$900 - $1,200Price Realized$500StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1132 PLAYING CARDS - "PICTURESQUE AUSTRALIA": early 1900s full deck cards showing monochrome photographic images of Australian scenes in the centre of each card with representations from every Australian State, complete with original box. (54 cards) View details Estimate$80 - $120Price Realized$180StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1133 VIEWS OF VICTORIA IN 1857 - CIGARETTE CARDS: 1906-11 Sniders & Abrahams large-part set [29/32], condition fair to fine. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$150StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1134 Ida Rentoul OUTHWAITE The Lady of the Blue Beads : Her Book, Written by Annie R. Rentoul, [Melbourne : George Robertson, n.d. but 1908], View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$180StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1135 "Proposed Alterations To Gippsland Hotel, Swanston Street, Melbourne, For W.H. Higgins Esq.", scale half inch to one foot, architects original elevations and scale drawings in ink and watercolour, circa 1910, 57 x 84cm, (framed: 82 x 106cm overall). "The Gippsland Hotel", owned by John A Parer & William Higgins between 1891 and 1911, is now known as "Young & Jacksons" View details Estimate$500 - $1,000Price Realized$380StatusSold Lot 1136 TARELLA QUIN & IDA RENTOUL OUTHWAITE, Before the Lamps are Lit, [Melbourne, George Robertson, 1911], Oblong quarto, illustrated cloth boards, 189pp. A compilation of six children's stories with engravings by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite. View details Estimate$400 - $500Price Realized$340StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1137 "PUBLIC HOSPITAL WONTHAGGI" original architectural rendering and sectional views in ink and watercolour for the successful tender by G.S. Matthews (for £5866) showing elevated views of the "Mortuary, Administrative Wards & Kitchen Block" scale 8 feet to 1 inch, signed and dated lower left 1913, 53 x 74cm, frame 79 x 99cm. View details Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$240StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1138 BRADY, Edwin J. [1869 - 1952] AUSTRALIA UNLIMITED [Melbourne; George Robertson; undated but circa 1918] 1084pp + lvi; thick 4to, View details Estimate$60 - $100Price Realized$80StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1139 IDA RENTOUL OUTHWAITE Elves & Fairies of Ida Rentoule Outhwaite, Verses by Annie R. Rentoul, [Lothian, Melbourne & Sydney, 1916] Folio, one of 1500 copies. With the original thick card slip-case (faults) of which few survive today. Outhwaite's first book of colour illustrations. View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,500Price Realized$1,000StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1140 Norman LINDSAY (1879 - 1969) The Magic Pudding [Sydney : Angas & Robertson, 1918] First edition, rebacked and with new endpapers, original dustjacket (with chip to spine). View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,250Price Realized$1,000StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1141 Ethel C. PEDLEY Dot and the Kangaroo, [Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1920], 82pp, colour frontispiece; sepia plates, cloth backed pictorial boards, original dust jacket. View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$220StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1142 Folding maps and street guides for Adelaide & Suburbs (1930s), Brisbane (c1920s), Tourist Map of Canberra (1954), Whitcombe's Map of Auckland (1933) and various pictorial booklets including "Canberra The City Beautiful" (c1960), "Picturesque Hobart and Surroundings" by Spurlings (1925), "Queensland Illustrated - 70 Exquisite Views" (c1910), "Northern Territory Australia - Illustrating Scenes along The North South Highway" (C.A.Pitt, Ltd., c1950), etc. (11 items). Mixed co... View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$160StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1143 [JUDAICA]. "Service of the Synagogue : A New Edition of the Festival Prayers with an English Translation in Prose and Verse" [London, George Routledge & Sons, (n.d. 1927) ], 5 volumes, padded leather bindings, gilt edges and titles. Each volume endorsed in manuscript: "To Dear Harold on the occasion of his Barmitzvah" With love from Grandpa & Grendma Grinblat, Iyar 13 - 5694 May 20 - 1934" View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$80StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1144 Assortment with 1930-40s autograph book with signatures of actors/performers Walter Niblo (music hall comedian, on photograph) & Georgie Wood ("Wee Georgie Wood") with dated pen & ink drawing of himself alongside and Owen Nares (actor); cigarette cards Wills 1929 "Crests and Colours of Australian Universities, Colleges & Schools" [67/68], also Millhoff (London) 1931-33 Real-Photo series (70) & Gallagher's Park Drive 1937 "The Navy" (56) including duplicates; View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$80StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1145 May GIBBS Tales Of Snugglepot & Cuddlepie: All About Two Little Gum-Nut Babies & Their Adventures Wonderful [Angus & Robertson, Sydney nd (1934)], 88pp, sepia illustrations & colour frontispiece, hardback with dustjacket. Also, "Little Obelia and Further Adventures of Ragged Blossom Snugglepot and Cuddlepie" [Angus & Robertson]. (2 vols.). View details Estimate$120 - $150Price Realized$480StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1146 IDA RENTOUL OUTHWAITE Sixpence to Spend [Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1935] First edition, quarto h/cover with dust jacket. Illustrated in b/w, with 5 tipped-in colour plates. View details Estimate$300 - $400Price Realized$240StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1147 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$200 - $300StatusCLOSED! Lot 1148 A carton containing various books, pamphlets, brochures, invoices, guides, bank cheques and other ephemeral material, circa 1920s - 60s and mostly Australian. View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1149 Various books, including "Tales of Rowe Street" by Pearson (with d/j); "The Letters of Rachel Henning" with illustrations by Norman Lindsay (1952); "The Australia Book" by Pownall; "Dobell on Dobell" by Freeman (with d/j); "E.G. Waterhouse of Eryldene" by Armati (signed l/e); "A Lifetime of Embroidery" by Field (signed l/e); etc. (8 items), mixed condition. View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$80StatusSold Lot 1150 Eclectic array of newspapers and posters including WWII newspapers Dziennik Polski (Mar 23, 1941), Die Zeitung (Mar 12, 1941), Onafhankelijk Belgie (Apr.10, 1941) & Norske Tidend (Apr. 22, 1941) all published in London, 1973 edition Kuwait Times, 1991 (Feb) Australian 1st Gulf War billboard posters (20); movie daybills for "All About Sex of all Nations" (1971), "Around the World with Fanny Hill" (1974), horror film "Dark Places" (1974) & Roger Vadim's "Night Games" View details Estimate$120 - $160Price Realized$80StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1151 "Ned Kelly - Being His Own Story of His Life and Crimes" published by Hawthorn Press 1942. Introduction by Clive Turnbull with transcript of a letter written by Kelly to Donald Cameron M.L.A. on 14th December 1878; unpaginated, hardbound with slipcase. Limited edition numbered #154 of 175, signed by Turnbull, decorative illustrator Adrian Feint and designer John Gartner; some light spotting. View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$220StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1152 HOBBIES ILLUSTRATED ANNUALS: 1946 - 1949, [Sydney : Dunvegan Publications], 4 volumes, h/c; mixed condition. View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$40StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1153 "The Great Jubilee Book" by Feldmann (1951); "A Camp-Fire Yarn" by Henry Lawson (1984)' "A Fantasy of Man" by Henry Lawson (1984); "The Hours of Etienne Chevalier" by Fouquet; plus 4 other books. (8). View details Estimate$50 - $100Price Realized$20StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1154 ION L. IDRIESS: "The Red Chief" [Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1953] signed and endorsed by the author on the title page, together with the autograph of Russell McDonagh (photographer). Accompanied by a 55 page hand-written manuscript of notes relating to the book and other related ephemera. View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$180StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1155 "Martin Sharp cartoons: a selection from Oz, The Australian, Sydney Morning Herald, Honi Soit, Tharunka, etc.." View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1156 MARTIN SHARP [1942 - 2013] "Catalog....continued No.3", [published by Reid Books, 1971]. Extremely rare. Vincent appears as talisman on the cover of "Catalog" produced in 1971 for a show of Sharp’s work in Sydney. The 36-page exhibition guide, which Sharp likened to a digestive process, is a confessional scrapbook built organically, at the end of each day, from his handwritten meditations, passages cut from books and papers, reviews of his work, and snippings of cartoons and photos set... View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$260StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1157 BOYD, Arthur & PORTER, Peter, "NARCISSUS", limited edition of 500 copies of which this one is numbered 168, signed by both Boyd and Porter, [printed by Secker & Warburg, London, 1984], black cloth bound hardcover boards with silver gilt lettering on the spine, pictorial D/J (a little scuffed and curling on the top margin), a good firm copy otherwise. View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$60StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1158 "Nineteenth Century Australian Furniture" by Kevin Fahy, Christina Simpson and Andrew Simpson [David Ellis Press, Sydney, 1985], limited edition of 2000 copies, black cloth hardcover with D/J. Dust jacket faded and a little scuffed otherwise a good firm copy View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$380StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1159 GOULD. John, The Birds Of Australia Supplement Part 4 and 5, S.A. White Collection, facsimile limited edition, [South Australian Government Printers, 1989], elephant folio, gray half morocco with silver gilt title, in original cardboard box as distributed, some foxing throughout View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$80StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1160 CORNALL, Graham "Memories. A Survey Of Early Australian Furniture In The Collection Of Lord McAlpine Of West Green", [Perth, W.A. 1990], first edition, hardcover with green boards and d/j View details Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1161 AUSTRALIAN OPALS, Len Cram, A JOURNEY WITH COLOUR in four volumes "A History of Queensland Opal 1869 - 1979", "A History of White Cliffs Opal 1889 - 1999", "A History of South Australian Opal 1840 - 2005" & "A History of Lightning Ridge Opal 1873 - 2003"; the leather bound limited edition in individual slipcases; uniformly numbered #34 of the limited edition of 100; all signed by the author/publisher and with original Ownership Certificates signed by Cram. A superb "as new" set. (4). View details Estimate$4,000 - $5,000Price Realized$4,200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1162 AUSTRALIAN OPALS Len Cram A JOURNEY WITH COLOUR: three volumes, being "A History of White Cliffs Opal 1889 - 1999", "A History of South Australian Opal 1840 - 2005" & "A History of Lightning Ridge Opal 1873 - 2003"; the hard-bound limited edition series; all signed by the author/publisher and dated 2005 or 2006. Superb "as new" condition. (3). View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Price Realized$1,300StatusSold Lot 1163 AUSTRALIAN OPALS A collection of publications by Len Cram; all different and all in "as new" condition. Titles include "Beautiful Opals - Australia's National Gem", "Beautiful Lightning Ridge - 100 Years of the World's Most Famous Black Opal Field" (signed); "Beautiful Boulder Opal - The Exquisite Gem" (signed); "Beautiful Coober Pedy - Home of the Desert Opal" (signed); "Beautiful Opals of the Desert" (signed), "Beautiful Australian Opals" (signed), "Beautiful Queensland Opals" (signed), etc. View details Estimate$400 - $500Price Realized$300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1164 AUSTRALIA: A range of early RP postcards (or small format photographs) with subjects including WW1 soldiers, aborigines, a boating party, timber cutting, the "Kia-Ora Fruit Stand" (outside the Royal Hotel), family groups and landscapes. Noted a RP of Buchan Falls on a PC addressed to Bruthen; with scarce "BUCHAN SOUTH" cds and BN postmark. (48 items). View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$220StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1165 POSTCARDS & STEREO CARDS: Stereo cards (30) including 1901 Duke of York Celebrations in Melbourne (10), also alpine snow scenes & tram depot; quantity of 1900s-60s postcards mostly foreign, few Australian with RP types 'Barwon Heads Bridge' c.1928" & "View from Bulli Pass, NSW"; very mixed condition. View details Estimate$80 - $100Price Realized$120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1166 A1 MINE SETTLEMENT: early 1900s real photo monochrome image showing horse and carriage entering the township, unused. [Located north of Woods Point in the Shire of Mansfield, the township was named 'A1' as a tribute to quality of the gold mined in the area.] View details Estimate$40 - $60Price Realized$30StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1167 VICTORIA - REGIONAL & COASTAL SCENES: 1900s-40s selection noting "Cudgewa Creek" (Wodonga) "Raisin Drying" (Mildura), "Main Street (Trafalgar), "Walker's General Store" (Gembrook), real-photo "Commercial St, Korumburra", plus Bendigo views (20), waterfalls, Gippsland lakes, etc. (71) View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$320StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1168 MELBOURNE, SYDNEY, ADELAIDE, and BROKEN HILL: 1900s-40s selection with Melbourne (23) including Botanical Gardens views and animated street scenes; Adelaide & environs (16) including horse-drawn fire engines "Racing to the Scene" and "Driving Camels in Harness"; Sydney & environs (24) with many beach or harbour views; Broken Hill (7) including two mining scenes. (70) View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$240StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1169 TASMANIA:1900s-40s selection including many Beattie Studios (Hobart) real-photo types, Tasmanian Government Tourist Bureau showing "Marriott Falls", Spurling "The Pinnacle, Ben Lomond", "Charles St, Launceston" animated scene, "Benevolent Asylum Grounds" (Launceston), real-photo of Currie Township, King Island, etc; nice variety. (50) View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$320StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1170 Early 20th century diverse selection including real-photo of two Aboriginal children, "Railway Collision at Lara Nov 7th 06", "Church of England Cathedral, Townsville", "Giant Tea Camp, King Parrot Creek, also Artist types, few shipping incl. SS Largs Bay (2), "Gum Leaf From the Golden South (3), etc. (30) View details Estimate$120 - $160Price Realized$140StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1171 Mostly unused selection in album including Sydney Harbour views, European cards including real-photo of Guinness Brewery, Dublin (2), European WWI images including real-photo "Decorating a Canadian on the Field of Battle" & KGV Reviewing troops on Salisbury Plain, Daily Mail "Official War Photograph" cards, humorous Bystander's "Fragments from France" cards, etc. (80+) View details Estimate$160 - $220Price Realized$220StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 989 BELLIN, Jacques Nicholas [1703-1772] Carte reduite des terres Australes, Par le Sr. Bellin, Ingr. de la Marine De la Societe Royale de Londres & ca. 1753; 22 x 29.5cm (plate size). View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,250Price Realized$4,800StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 990 BOWLES'S NEW ONE-SHEET MAP of ASIA, Divided into its Empires, Kingdoms, States, &c. [Bowles and Carver, St. Paul's Church Yard], circa 1801 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Price Realized$1,200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 991 [NEW SOUTH WALES & NEW ZEALAND, NEW HEBRIDES & THE ISLANDS ADJACENT] 1808 (DEC.12) WILKINSON PRINTING (LONDON); ENGRAVED BY FROGGETT. "Comprising the discoveries of Mandana, Quiros, Carteret, Bougainville, Surville, Cook, Shortland, &c, &c; with the British Settlements at Port Jackson, Norfolk Isle, &c"; framed and glazed, overall 39 x 33.5cm. View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$60StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 992 Wallis's New Game, Exhibiting a Voyage round The World. WALLIS, Edward [Published by Published by E. Wallis, 42 Skinner Street and 12 High Street, Islington] c.1823. Engraved game map with hand colour, dissected and mounted on linen, folding into original cloth slipcase, lettered in gilt. 41 x 62cm. Lacks instruction booklet. View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000StatusCLOSED! Lot 993 [VICTORIA OR PORT PHILIP DISTRICT] 1853 PRINTED HARPER BROS (NEW YORK); ENGRAVED CHAPMAN & HALL, LONDON. Framed and glazed, overall 35 x 42.5cm. View details Estimate$80 - $120Price Realized$120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 994 G.W. GOYDER Plan of the Southern Portion of the Province of South Australia, as divided into Counties and Hundreds, showing the most Important Settlements, Post Towns, Telegraph Stations, Main Roads, Railways &c. Compiled from Official Documents in the Office of the Surveyor General. [Adelaide, Surveyor General's Office, 1877] Elephant folio (670mm tall), lithographed title sheet, plan and 17 double page maps of South Australia. View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,000Price Realized$1,600StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 995 [MAP PUZZLE GAME] "GEOGRAPHISCHES GEDULDSPIEL" c1870, set of 6 engraved dissected puzzles, with a colour printed copy of each map loosely inserted, 28 x 31cm., decorative box with colour lithograph on lid. This lovely German puzzle-game, includes two circular puzzles of the Western and Eastern Hemispheres; the other four puzzles being of Europe. As the title of the game suggests ("geduldspiel" translates as "patience game"), patience was required to complete the set. All six puzzles are accom... View details Estimate$600 - $800Price Realized$400StatusSold Lot 996 ENGLISH COUNTIES: Philips' New Series of County Maps from the Ordnance Survey - Cloth Edition:[Published by George Philip & Son Ltd.]Six individual folding maps, linen backed in hardcovers for GLOUCESTERSHIRE, HEREFORDSHIRE, NORFOLK, NORTH WALES, SUFFOLK & WARWICKSHIRE. (6). View details Estimate$200 - $250StatusCLOSED! Lot 997 THE LONDON to MELBOURNE MacROBERTSON CENTENARY AIR RACE 1934 Silver medal created to honour the winning entry, the "Uiver", 50mm diameter and depicting the aeroplane, a KLM Douglas DC2 in flight over a map depicting the route (obverse) and with the names of the crew on the reverse. Quite common in bronze, this is the first example we have seen in silver. View details Estimate$800 - $1,000Price Realized$950StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 998 THE LONDON to MELBOURNE, MacROBERTSON CENTENARY AIR RACE 1934 Bronze fob created to honour the winning entry, the "Uiver", 25mm diameter and depicting the aeroplane, a KLM Douglas DC2 in flight over a map depicting the route (obverse); the reverse with "D.H.W. / 45 K.M." engraved. Not previously seen by us. View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$180StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 999 THE LONDON to MELBOURNE, MacROBERTSON CENTENARY AIR RACE 1934A Delft porcelain wall plaque, 18cm diameter, depicting the "Uiver" flying over a map of the route from London to Melbourne, superb condition with original hanging string still intact. View details Estimate$250 - $300Price Realized$220StatusSold Lot 1000 THE LONDON to MELBOURNE, MacROBERTSON CENTENARY AIR RACE 1934Porcelain hanging plaque by Koninklyk Goedewaagen Gouda (and numbered "183" on reverse), 18.5cm diameter; depicting a stork (Uiver in Dutch) carrying passengers and mail over the route from London to Melbourne, created to celebrate the success of the KLM aeroplane in this important air race. View details Estimate$500 - $600StatusCLOSED! Lot 1001 THE LONDON to MELBOURNE, MacROBERTSON CENTENARY AIR RACE 1934 Porcelain hanging plaque by Koninklyk Goedewaagen Gouda (and numbered "3" on reverse), 18.5cm diameter; depicting a stork (Uiver in Dutch) carrying passengers and mail over the route from London to Melbourne; as previous item but in different colours. View details Estimate$400 - $500StatusUnsold Lot 1002 THE LONDON to MELBOURNE, MacROBERTSON CENTENARY AIR RACE 1934 Dutch jig-saw puzzle titled "1ste PRIJS HANDICAP - RACE LONDEN - MELBOURNE 20 OCT. - 23 OCT. 1934" with labelled photographs of the four crew members of the KLM "Univer", the dutch flag and a representation of the flown route with all 22 scheduled stops en route. [NB: Narromine is incorrectly named Marramine.]. Assembled, and displayed within a frame. Overall 28 x 37cm. Extremely rare. 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