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Previous|1|Next Image Lot # Item Title Quantity Time Left Your Bids 710 LONDON GAZETTE - ENGLAND - 1668 issues: almost complete May to August run (between Numb.258 and 291, excl. 273, duplicate 271): content mostly concerns news from various European cities, plus fleet movements, ship arrivals, details of ships wrecked & religious news including Papal activities; issue 271 (Jun.18) reports that Sir William Temple, the King's ambassador for the Treaty of Aix-la-Chappelle (May 7) had arrived at Whitehall to relay his account of proceedings to the king; Estimate$600 - $800Price Realized$460StatusSold View details 711 LONDON GAZETTE - ENGLAND - 1668 issues: largely complete September to December run (between #292 and 326, ex 301, 303 & 320): content mostly concerns news from various European cities, plus fleet movements, ship arrivals, and religious news including Papal activities; many issues with reports of the Turkish siege of Venetian-ruled Candia (Crete); issue 292 (Sep.3) stating that the Turks had gathered 12,000 men in Morea to assist in the siege of Canea (Chania) and issue 304 with reports on an as Estimate$600 - $800Price Realized$460StatusSold View details 712 LONDON GAZETTE - ENGLAND - 1675-1678: large group of issues between numb.1079 and 1337: some notable reports include issue 1083 (Apr.3.1676) with news of arrival in Spain of Spanish galleons carrying 25 million pieces of eight, the same issue also carries reports of the trial for treason of Danish statesman Peder Griffenfeld; issue 1093 (May 8, 1676) with reports from Constantinople that the Grand Siegnior is constructing a seraglio (harem) for the women of Adrianople; issue 1134 (Oct 2, 1676) r Estimate$800 - $1,200Price Realized$600StatusSold View details 713 LONDON GAZETTE - ENGLAND - 1679-1684: large group of issues between numb.1449 and 1980: with many articles of interest including issue 1507 (Apr.26, 1680) reports of a "false and dangerous rumour spread abroad" that Charles II is to marry the mother of the Duke of Monmouth; issue 1694 (Feb. 9, 1682) with a report that a "most curious and excellent way of preserving dead bodies from putrefication" had been presented to the King; Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold View details 714 LONDON GAZETTE - ENGLAND - 1687-1688: large selection of issues between #2200 and 2343: plenty of interesting content including issue 2212 (Jan 27, 1687) report from Paris of a Notre Dame thanksgiving for the recovery of King Louis XIV following surgery; issue 2213 (Jan.31,1687) reports of Emeric Thokoly (Prince of Upper Hungary) had joined forces with the Turks against the Habsburgs, this issue also carries notice of an important book sale by William Cowper at the Pelican in London; issue 2226 Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold View details 715 LONDON GAZETTE - ENGLAND - 1694-1709: large group of issues between numb.3000 and 4578 with many articles of interest including issue 3003 (Aug.20) which reports the introduction of a superfine gunpowder which does not foul firearms; issue 3030 (Nov.22 1694) with a report from Paris that bread prices are rising, robberies are on the increase and a poll tax is to be levied; issue 3078 (May 9, 1695) reports that coal is being transported from Newcastle to Yarmouth in a fleet of 100 vessels, plus a Estimate$800 - $1,200Price Realized$500StatusSold View details 716 THE HOBART TOWN GAZETTE Friday, July 12, 1839 No.1206. A fascinating early news paper showing land grants of the day, there size and location and whom they were granted, Ticket Of Leave listings, court listings and the general administration of the Colony of Van Diemen's Land. 28 x 22.5cm overall Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$280StatusSold View details 717 "THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION" - ENGLAND - 1842 - BUSH RANGERS IN TASMANIA: 16 July 1842 (No.3) edition of a monthly magazine with lengthy article entitled "An encounter with Bush-Rangers in Van Diemen's Land" by "An Officer" with a detailed 5-page account of his pursuit and capture of three ex-convict bushrangers Palmer, Regan & Atterall in the late 1830s; other articles of interest include "A Cure for Hydrophobia"& "On the Growth of Plant in Cities"; minor aging. Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold View details 718 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"); Estimate$80 - $120StatusUnsold View details 719 NEW SOUTH WALES - PORT PHILLIP DISTRICT. LAND and EMMIGRATION RECEIPT No.45, issued to Mr. W.G. Brodie of Moonie Ponds on 1st December 1849 for the payment of £135. The payment is in the nature of a deposit so that Brodie could participate in the purchase of Crown Lands. The receipt is signed by Charles Latrobe, Superintendent and Robert Hoddle, Surveyor in Charge. An extremely rare document and the first example we have offered. Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$1,900StatusSold View details 720 "The Renaissance Vase and Dish in Parian by Minton of Stoke Upon Trent" and "Stove in white porcelain by Hoffman of Berlin", 2 full plate lithographs from "The Industrial Arts of the Nineteenth Century, At The Great Exhibition, 1851", both mounted, framed and glazed. Accompanied by a humorous hand-coloured lithograph. (3 items). Estimate$100 - $200StatusCLOSED! View details 721 'PUNCH' or the 'LONDON CHARIVARI': Volumes II to VII plus Vols. XX & XXI, each volume bound in brown cloth with gilt lettering on spines and gilt-stamped 'Punch' on front boards, printed by Bradbury & Evans (London); also 1882 Alamanac in half leather with blue boards printed by Bradbury, Agnew & Co, bound by Hewetson of Hampstead, and 1903 (July-Dec) and 1905 (Jan-Jun) editions, both bound in maroon cloth, gilt decoration on spine & front boards, also printed by Bradbury, Agnew & Co. Estimate$200 - $400Price Realized$160StatusSold View details 722 "The VICTORIA GOLD READY RECKONER...." published by Sands & Kenny [1857]; "The Native Tribes of South Australia" by Woods (with all 8 lithographs); "The History of Australasia" by Blair [1878] (with plates and maps), plus a few other reference books. Very mixed condition. (6 vols.). Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$460StatusSold View details 723 SIR WILLIAM CHARLES COOPER (1851 - 1925) & OTHERS: A collection of conveyances and other legal documents (several on vellum), some with duty stamps, etc., and many involving property transactions in which Cooper was a principal player. Other involve Michael COAN (Coen), John QUINN, John McINTOSH, John ANDERSON and others, circa 1850s to 1900s. (17 items). Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$300StatusSold View details 724 MACADAM, John (for the Council of the Institute), TRANSACTIONS OF THE PHILOSOPHICAL INSTITUTE OF VICTORIA. From January to December, 1859, inclusive. Volume IV. [Mason and Firth, Melbourne. 1860], 8vo, 210pp, plus Proceedings, Appendices etc, and with illustrations in black and white and coloured, some fold-out; in original decorated boards. Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$160StatusSold View details 725 The Plants Indigenous to the Colony of Victoria. Vol. I: Thalamiflorae . MUELLER Ferdinand. Published by 1860-1862, 1860 Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$420StatusSold View details 726 POLEHAMPTON, Rev. Arthur, KANGAROO LAND, [Richard Bentley, London, 1862], 1st ed., 269pp, with frontispiece and title page vignette; rebound in half-leather with new blank endpapers; also, AN AUSTRALIAN RAMBLE or A Summer in Australia by J. Ewing Ritchie (Christopher Crayon) [T. Fisher Unwin; London, 1890] 235pp + adverts., also rebound in half leather with new blank endpapers. (2). Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$240StatusSold View details 727 WOODS, JULIAN EDMUND, "Geological Observations in South Australia: principally in the district south-east of Adelaide" [Melbourne: H.T. Dwight: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green, 1862], Octavo, 404 pp.,text illustrations, five uncoloured plates and map. Publisher's green blind stamped cloth. Ferguson 18805. Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$320StatusSold View details 728 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"; Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$320StatusSold View details 729 VICTORIA: PASTORAL LICENSE issued January 1870 in favour of Edwin Brett and John Russell Ross of Melbourne for land in the District of Benalla; signed by the Governor of Victoria, Viscount Canterbury. Also, another example dated December 1869 for another plot of land in the Benalla area (this time signed by the Governor but using his own name, J.H.T. Manners Sutton. (2 items). Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$800StatusSold View details 730 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. Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$80StatusSold View details 731 Three lithographic plates from The Palaeontology of Victoria by Professor Frederick McCoy [1877], individually framed & glazed, each 41 x 31cm overall. (3). Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$60StatusSold View details 732 SMYTH, R. BROUGH, THE ABORIGINES OF VICTORIA. With Notes Relating to the Habits of the Natives of Other Parts of Australia and Tasmania. In Two Volumes, rebound in blue boards with new endpapers. [John Ferres, Melbourne. 1878]., 4to, 483pp and 456pp. With black and white plates in in-text illustrations; lacking both maps. Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$420StatusSold View details 733 VICTORIAN SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS including "Natural History of Victoria. Prodromus of the Zoology of Victoria.....Indigenous Animals" Decades III and IV by Frederick McCoy [1879]; "Transactions of the Royal Society of Victoria Vol II part II (1891) & 1918; Geological Survey of Victoria Monthly Progress Reports April 1899 to March 1900; Geological Survey of Victoria 1907; 1910; 1912; and "Report on Jurassic and Carboniferous Fish Remains" 1912. Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$40StatusSold View details 734 "HUNTING THE KANGAROO" hand-coloured lithograph newspaper supplement, circa 1883, 37 x 25cm Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$120StatusSold View details 735 "The Australian Race - It's Origin, Languages, Customs" - Volume IV - "Comparative Vocabulary"; elephant-sized folio being a 45 page gazette of comparative Aboriginal languages, plus a large folding colour map of Australia, annotated to show locations where circumcision and 'The Terrible Rite' (penile subincision) were practised; pub. John Ferres, Government Printer, Melbourne, 1887. Estimate$200 - $400Price Realized$320StatusSold View details 736 "GARRYOWEN", THE CHRONICLES OF EARLY MELBOURNE 1835 to 1852. Historical, Anecdotal and Personal. Centennial Edition, with Portraits and Illustrations. [Ferguson and Mitchell, Melbourne, 1888], Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$700StatusSold View details 737 "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. Estimate$300 - $400Price Realized$300StatusSold View details 738 "Victoria and its Metropolis - Past and Present" [McCarron, Bird & Co, Melbourne, 1888.] in two volumes, Vol.1 594pp missing spine and back cover, Vol.2, 822pp with bindings split at front, the covers intact; 258 illustrations in black & white plus fold-out maps; original gilt decorated morocco (very worn on the spine of Vol.2) Estimate$80 - $120Price Realized$800StatusSold View details 739 A collection of antique and vintage Australian product labels including "Boomerang Tonic" and "Chow Chow Pickles", (50 items). 50 Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$260StatusSold View details 740 A LETTER FROM ARTHUR STREETON to ROGER LEECH of BRIGHTON, VICT. Undated (but October 1892) , 2-page ALS, headed "Highbury Grove, Kew. Between the Cemetery & the Asylum", in which Streeton offers to meet with Leech "if you are so interested as to invest a couple of guineas in me - I will be at Buxtons at 12 sharp - with the sketches you saw". Accompanied by large part of the original envelope which preserves the "KEW OC 18 1892" datestamp. (2 items). Estimate$750 - $1,000Price Realized$2,200StatusSold View details 741 NELLIE MELBA as JULIET in a ROYAL PERFORMANCE, LONDON 1893 A souvenir programme for the State Performance of Romeo & Juliet given at The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in honour of the marriage of The Duke of York & Princess Mary of Teck (later King George V & Queen Mary) on July 4th, 1893. The beautiful silk programme features portraits of the royal couple, Queen Victoria, the Prince & Princess of Wales and Princess Mary's parents. The performance of Gounod's opera "Romeo et Juliette" feature Estimate$300 - $400Price Realized$600StatusSold View details 742 "Records of the Australian Museum" and similar publications, various editions (June 1898, July 1899, January 1902, June 1904, 1913, April 1921) plus several small pamphlets. (10 items). Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$80StatusSold View details 743 An assortment of postcards, souvenir booklets, religious picture and books, mixed vintages and condition Estimate$60 - $100Price Realized$40StatusSold View details 744 PALAEONTOLOGY, GEOLOGY & GEO-PHYSICS: A collection of Australian publications, circa 1900s - 1970s. (qty.). Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$100StatusSold View details 745 "Souvenir of the Federation of Australia 1st January, 1901" booklet featuring the six State Costs-of-Arms and Queen Victoria on the front cover; a map, photographs of the Duke & Duchess of York, Lord & Lady Hopetoun and other dignitaries as well as views from around the country. Printed & Published by E. Whitehead & Co., Melbourne. Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$480StatusSold View details 746 "A Queenly Colony - Pen Sketches and Camera Glimpses" by William Henry Traill [Brisbane, 1901], 142pp hardbound with black & white illustrations and two maps, blue boards with gilt decoration, in good condition with intact bindings. Estimate$80 - $120Price Realized$420StatusSold View details 747 THE CORONATION OF THEIR MAJESTIES KING EDWARD VII and QUEEN ALEXANDRA at Westminster, 26th June 1902: The Form and Order of the Service (64pp; London : Eyre and Spottiswoode); accompanied by ticket No.188 issue to Lady Rattigan (Evelyn Higgins), who had the honour of being seated in the South Transept - Gallery, together with her husband, Sir William Henry Rattigan. (2 items). Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$80StatusSold View details 748 1905 Advertising Calendar for "The United Insurance Co., Ltd" of Sydney; colour lithograph and offset, overprinted at base for their Ballarat agents, Titheridge & Growcott; with a central vignette featuring an emu and a kangaroo. Designed as a wall-hanging, overall 32 x 24.5cm. Estimate$80 - $120Price Realized$200StatusSold View details 749 EPHEMERA - PLAYING CARDS: Diverse array of Australian and British cards from early 1900s onwards, many with evocative advertising on reverse, one volume dedicated to alcohol-related advertising, most whiskeys & beers including Australian "Hardy's Wines", "Tintara Wines", "Penfolds" and "Melbourne Ales"; also Grocery types including British "T. Pecriaux, Turtle Soup", "Carnation Milk", "Bovril", "Ovaltine", "Oxo" and "Andrews Liver Salt"; Sport themes with British types Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$220StatusSold View details 750 "Protected Native Birds Of South Australia" published by Department of Crown Lands and Immigration (South Australia), Adelaide, 1910, soft cover tall octavo pamphlet Estimate$60 - $100Price Realized$40StatusSold View details 751 SILK CIGARETTE CARDS: Selection with Wills 1910-17 'Crests and Colours of Australian Universities, Colleges & Schools' [32/50] plus some duplicates, other Wills oddments including 1910 Arms of British Empire (10) plus two duplicates, 1916 War Medals (4), few wildlife, etc; also WWI silk postcards (5) including 'Australia for Ever' & 'Australian Commonwealth Military Forces' types and a 1937 fold-out postcard with 'LATE FEE SYDNEY RLY STN' postmark. Estimate$60 - $80Price Realized$180StatusSold View details 752 VIEWS OF MELBOURNE: with "Melbourne Illustrated - Present Day Views", two issues (pub. Osboldstone & Co, c.1910-12) one with E.W. Cole retailer's imprint on front cover, each with (different) centrespread panoramic views of Melbourne from Fire Brigade Tower, plus animated images of "Mail Steamers at Port Melbourne", "Melbourne Cricket Club Ground" & "The Lawn at Flemington on Cup Day"; also "36 Views Melbourne" (pub.John Sands Ltd c.1910) and "Traveller's Guide to Melbourne" with Foy & Gibson ce Estimate$80 - $120Price Realized$300StatusSold View details 753 COMIC BOOKS: comprising "Buster Brown and His Chum Tige" by R.F. Outcault (W.R. Chambers, Edinburgh & London, 1915), "Bringing Up Father" by George McManus (A.V.N. Jones & Co, London, 1919), and a 1938 "Tiger Tim's Annual" all with defects; also "The Amazing Dancing Charlie" (Chaplin) illusional toy made from card complete with instruction leaflet and original sleeve, a Donald McGill Chaplin postcard, plus a modern (undated) Ginger Meggs souvenir booklet. (6 items) Estimate$80 - $120Price Realized$80StatusSold View details 754 IDA RENTOUL OUTHWAITE - "Elves & Fairies of Ida Rentoul Outhwaite" with verses by Annie R. Rentoul, published by The Lothian Book Publishing Co [Melbourne & Sydney, 1916], blue cloth boards with gilt decoration, somewhat dilapidated binding, colour plates in good condition, the volume includes an additional (loose) Title Page signed "Ida Rentoul Outhwaite". Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$750StatusSold View details 755 Four Australian art books including "The Art Of Arthur Streeton" edited by Ure Smith (Syd. 1919) limited edition of 1500 copies; "Exhibition Of Australian Art In London, 1923" limited edition 85/1000 copies; "The Art Of Rupert Bunny" Ure Smith Publications [Syd.]; "The Life And Work Of R.W. Sturgess" [Melb. 1938]. (4 items) 4 Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$240StatusSold View details 756 PIONEER AVIATION: "The First Aeroplane Voyage from England to Australia by Sir Ross Smith, K.B.E.....With Aeroviews by Capt. Frank Hurley." [New South Wales Edition] with 27 full-page views. [Angas & Robertson, Sydney, 1920]. Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$340StatusSold View details 757 "PALS - An Australian Paper for Australian Boys": incomplete run from Vol.2 No.1 to Vol.5 No.13, issued between August 27, 1921 and November 22, 1924, includes editions with front cover artwork by Chales Tindall, Lance Driffield, Harold Herbert and Edgar Holloway; also two books "The Wonder Book of Aircraft" (pub. Ward, Lock & Co, London & Melbourne, 1928) and "The Big Book of Aeroplanes" (pub. Oxford University Press, c.1928); all items are more or less foxed. (49 Papers + 2 books) Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$220StatusSold View details 758 [ESPERANTO] A 1922-23 collection of postal cards, all addressed to "Sinjoro Colin Unwin" in Fremantle and all written in the nascent "Universal" language of Esperanto. Unwin's correspondents were from Rotterdam, Radom, Genoa, Krakow, Wilno, Warsaw and Bialystok. (8 items). Estimate$200 - $300StatusCLOSED! View details 759 HARDIE, Martin, R.I., R.E., The Pageant Of Empire Souvenir Volume [Fleetway Press Ltd, London, 1924]. Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$200StatusSold View details 760 LINDSAY, Norman, Pen Drawings, [Sydney, Arthur McQuitty, 1924], Folio. Original quarter vellum. Gilt decoration on front board. Foreword by Francis Crossle. With title-vignette, initial 12 full-page plates as mentioned in the list of plates with 12 additional full-page tipped-in plates. With all the original tissue-guards. Title-page printed in black/red ink. Ed. limited to 500 numbered copies, of which this is No.25, fully signed "Norman Lindsay". Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$420StatusSold View details 761 LINDSAY, Norman, The Etchings of Norman Lindsay [London, Constable & Co. Ltd., 1927], Folio. Dark blue cloth. Gilt lettering to cover and spine. This edition is limited to 129 copies of which 120 copies are for sale. This is copy #43 and is signed by Norman Lindsay. With Forty-five reproductions of original etchings, made under the supervision of Mr. F.J. Newbery of the Chiswick Press. NB: this book has been damaged in a fire. The covers and page extremities are most affected. Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$360StatusSold View details 762 LINDSAY, Norman: A collection of colour lithographic plates "tipped" onto pages removed from fire-damaged books; the images mainly in very fine condition and mostly 21 x 18cm. (14 items). Provenance: From the estate of Frederick Lane (1880 - 1969), Lindsay's friend and printer. Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Price Realized$700StatusSold View details 763 Two classroom vintage maps of Australia and the world, published by Robinson's and Chas H. Scally & Co., 20th century, the larger 88 x 118cm 2 Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$120StatusSold View details 764 FRUIT BOX LABELS: A collection of colourful labels, circa 1930s for apples, pears and citrus fruits, including for C. Geo. Kellaway & Sons, H. Jones & Co., W.D. Peacock & Co., B.P. Atkinson & Son, Melba, Producers Co-Operative, Paterson & Co., etc. Lovely condition. (19 different). Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$300StatusSold View details 765 FRUIT BOX LABELS: A similar collection of colourful labels, circa 1930s for apples, pears and citrus fruits, including for C. Geo. Kellaway & Sons, H. Jones & Co., W.D. Peacock & Co., B.P. Atkinson & Son, Melba, Producers Co-Operative, Paterson & Co., etc. Lovely condition. (20 different). Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$220StatusSold View details 766 Instrument of Appointment for an officer to the Military Forces of the Commonwealth, awarded to a Richard James Kilby at the rank of Lieutenant, signed by Governor-General Isaac Albert Isaacs at upper left; dated 1935, 26.5 x 34cm. Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$220StatusSold View details 767 Ernest SCOTT, HISTORICAL MEMOIR OF THE MELBOURNE CLUB, First Edition; pp. xii, 112 (last blank); 21 plates; original full leather, gilt; top edge gilt, others uncut. [Melbourne; The Specialty Press Pty. Ltd.; 1936]. Edition Limited to 650 numbered copies for private circulation. #459. Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$260StatusSold View details 768 "The Tourists' Road Guide For South Australia" 16th edition, together with a small group of ephemera pertaining to the R.A.C.V. including 1936 membership card. (6 items). Estimate$100 - $200StatusUnsold View details 769 Ida Rentoul OUTHWAITE - "A Bunch of Wild Flowers": verse and illustrations by Outhwaite, published by Halstead Press Pty Ltd (Sydney), 1948; also "The Entrancing Life" by J.M. Barrie being his address when installed as Chancellor of Edinburgh University on Oct. 25th, 1930; first edition 1930. (2 items) Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$160StatusSold View details 770 EPHEMERA - SWAP CARDS: Assortment in albums or loose with heaps of Tuckfields' "Birds" types, also c.1930s John Player "Wild Birds" and Gallagher "Butterflies & Moths" cigarette cards. (100s) Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$200StatusSold View details 771 McCARTHY, Frederick D. Australia's Aborigines - Their Life and Culture [Colorgravure, Melbourne, 1957] Number 1079 of the limited edition. Cream cloth with gilt titles on brown leather labels on front and spine. Estimate$80 - $120Price Realized$220StatusSold View details 772 ART & FURNITURE: "TURNER" at the NGA [1996]; "The Complete Guide to Furniture Styles" by Boger [1961]; "Van Gogh" at the NGV [2000]; "Japan - A History in Art" by Smith [1979]; "China - A History in Art" by Smith & Weng; plus several others. (8 vols.). Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$60StatusSold View details 773 IDA RENTOUL OUTHWAITE - "Fairyland" with verses by Annie R. Rentoul and stories by Grenby Outhwaite & Annie R. Rentoul, published by A & C Black [London, 1931], blue cloth boards with bindings largely intact, 16 colour plates, 31 black & white plates, 12 text illustrations, internal foxing throughout, although the colour plates are largely unaffected; 126pp, hardbound. Estimate$160 - $200Price Realized$400StatusSold View details 774 PROGRAMMES: Mostly 1960s British theatre/musical productions including incl. HMS Pinafore (Her Majesty's Theatre, 1962), My Fair Lady (Theatre Royal,1958), Sound of Music (Palace Theatre, 1962); also choral/orchestral productions incl. Royal Choral Society 1963 production of "Messiah Handel" signed by performers Elizabeth Simon & Trevor Anthony; few other items inc. Royal Wedding programme for marriage of Princess Alexandra & Angus Ogilvy. (small qty) Estimate$80 - $120Price Realized$20StatusSold View details 775 OZ MAGAZINE (Sydney): Four original complete editions, No.12 (August 1964), No.15 (Nov.1964), No.16 (Jan.1965) and No.20 (June 1965). Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$200StatusSold View details 775a AUSTRALIAN INTEREST: A shelf of books including "Early Houses of Northern Tasmania" by Robertson & Craig [1966]; "Early Buildings of Southern Tasman" vols.1 & 2 by E. Graeme Robertson [1970]; "A History of Australia" in 6 volumes by C.M.H. Clark; plus several others. (14 vols.). Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$320StatusSold View details 776 Involvement: The Portraits Of Clifton Pugh & Mark Strizic, Illustrated With 45 Full Page Plates (Of Which 41 Are In Colour) Together With 45 Plates Reproducing Other Portraits & 41 Photographic Portraits Grimwade, Andrew (essay): Geoffrey Dutton (intro): Clifton Pugh (paintings) & Mark Strizic (photos) Published by Sun Books, Melbourne 1968 (1968) Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$80StatusSold View details 777 GOODIN, VERNON W.E. (1892-1971) "Australianism, The Labor Party And The Unions" c1969-70 original handwritten manuscript in ink consisting of 50 stapled folios, accompanied by a typed version in four folders, signed in ink on typescript title page, marginalia and notes throughout manuscript, 35 x 23cm (folders, each); 448pp. Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$420StatusSold View details 778 WOPFNER, H. & DOUGLAS, J.G. (editors), The Otway Basin of Southeastern Australia Geological Survey. Special Bulletin. Published by Geological Surveys of South Australia and Victoria, Minister of Development and Mines, South Australia, and Minister of Mines, Victoria, 1971., 8vo., hardback, 464pp with plans, maps, b&w photographs. As new condition, in a matching box with many fold-out maps and charts- all present. Accompanied by another set, ex. Earth Science Dept. Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$120StatusSold View details 779 HANSARD: February 1976 - May 1980 complete run of "Hansard" Parliamentary Debates in the House of Representatives, uniformly bound in green cloth with gilt titles to the 20 volumes. Malcolm Fraser was Prime Minister; Gough Whitlam and Bill Hayden were leaders of the Labor Party. Estimate$1,000 - $1,250StatusCLOSED! View details 780 WATCHES & CLOCKS: "Old Clocks and Watches & their Makers" by Britten [1977]; "WATCHES their history, decoration and mechanism" by Baillee [1979]; "Britten's Old Clocks & Watches and their Makers" by Clutton, Baillie & Ilbert [1986]; all hardcovers, with dust jackets. (3). Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$200StatusSold View details 781 HAZZARD, Margaret & HEWSON, Helen, Flower Paintings of Ellis Rowan from the Collection of the National Library of Australia. National Library of Australia, Canberra, 1982], with original slipcase; also, a folio of four poster-size reproductions by AP&P Limited. (2 items). 2 Estimate$80 - $120Price Realized$100StatusSold View details 782 FAHY, Kevin "NINETEENTH CENTURY AUSTRALIAN FURNITURE" by Fahy, Simpson and Simpson [David ell Press, Sydney, 1985], limited edition of 2000 copies, hardcover with pictorial D/J, spine sunned otherwise a good firm copy Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$380StatusSold View details 783 AUSTRALIANA & FURNITURE: Group of eight hardcover reference books including "Early Colonial Furniture In New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land" by Clifford Craig, Kevin Fahy and Graeme Robertson, "Old Furniture, Understanding The Craftsman's Art" by Nancy A. Smith, "Australiana" by Mona Brand, "Buying Antiques In Australia" by Toby and Juliana Hooper, "Australia's National Collections" by Clem Lloyd and Peter Sekuless, "The Complete Book Of Furniture Restoration" by Tristan Salazar, "Restoring U 8 Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$300StatusSold View details 784 EXPLORATION: group of titles comprising hardbound "South with Endurance - Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition 1914-17" (Penguin Books, 2001), lavishly illustrated featuring the photographs of Frank Hurley, 320pp, hardbound; "Shackleton & the Antarctic Explorers" by Gavin Mortimer (Carlton Books, 1999), 128pp, hardbound; also "Mawson A Life" by Tim Bowden (2003), 321pp soft bound. (3) 3 Estimate$60 - $80Price Realized$100StatusSold View details 785 BALANCE OF AN AUSTRALIAN COMIC COLLECTION: diverse array of earlier issues comprising "Adventure Comics - featuring Superboy" Nos 3 & 4, "Archie" No.2, "Archie's Pal Jughead" No.2, "Blackhawk" No.12, "Buck Rogers" No.171, "Captain Atom" No.21, "Captain Triumph" Nos 12 & 15, "Cometman" Nos 23 & 24, "Congo Bill" Nos 4 & 5, "Hurricane Comic" Nos 6 & 11, "Jet Fury" No.29, "Jungle Comic" No.4, "Mandrake - The Magician" two unnumbered issues (large format), Estimate$200 - $400Price Realized$1,300StatusSold View details 786 COMICS - AUSTRALIAN NUMBER '1' ISSUES: selection of First Issues comprising "Buccaneers", "Congo Bill", "Dick Tracy", "G-Man", "Jumbo Comic", "Ken Shannon - Private Eye", "Outlaws", "Roundup", "Supa Dupa Man", "Taxi O'Hara" and "Yarmak - Jungle King" (plus issues #2 & 5); all are priced at 6d or 8d, c.1950s; generally good or above-average condition. Desirable group. (13) Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$1,800StatusSold View details 787 COMICS (AUSTRALIAN) - DETECTIVE/CRIME TITLES: selection with "Cole Steele" No.2, "Corrigan Secret Agent" No.15, "Famous Yank Police Comics" No.17, "Grey Domino" No.8, "Kerry Drake Detective" No.25, "Manhunter" Nos 31, 34, 39 & 43, "Red Finnegan" No.2, "Rip Kirby" No.7, "The Shadow" No.20, "Speck Ryan" No.5, "Steve Roper - American Crime Reporter" No.16; Also "Johnny Hazard - America's Super-Ace Pilot" Nos 2 to 7; all are priced at 6d or 8d, c.1950s; generally good or above-average condition. Estimate$180 - $240Price Realized$850StatusSold View details 788 COMICS (AUSTRALIAN) - FEATURING FEMALE HEROES: Selection comprising "Belinda - The Girl Film Star" No.3, "Black Cat" No.2, "Brenda Starr" Nos 4, 6, 7, & 8, "Cowgirl" Nos 1 to 7, "Rangers Comic - featuring Firehair" issues Nos 7 & 13 and "Firehair Comic" No.1, "Fight Comics - featuring Tiger Girl" No.3, and "Jane" No. 2; all are priced at 6d or 8d, c.1950s; generally good or above-average condition. (18) Estimate$200 - $400Price Realized$600StatusSold View details 789 COMICS (AUSTRALIAN) - "WESTERN" THEMED: Group comprising "Adventure Comics" No 6, 8, 10 & 17, "Ben Barbary Bushranger" No.4, "Hopalong Cassidy" No.5, "Indians" No.5, "Kit Carson" No.16, "Northwest Mounties" No.7, "Phantom Ranger" Nos 14 & 27, "Rocky Lane" No.26, "Roy Rogers" Nos 2, 32, 39, 42, 45, 48, 51 & 57, "Straight Arrow" No.15, "Western" No.2 & "Western Hero" Nos 4 & 5; all are priced at 6d or 8d, c.1950s; generally good or above-average condition. (24) Estimate$180 - $240Price Realized$500StatusSold View details 790 COMICS - BATMAN (Australian Issue): complete run of issues #1 to 34 plus issue #49, priced at 6d (issues 1-10) or 8d (from issue #11 onwards), generally well above-average condition, published by Colour Comics Pty Ltd /K.G. Murray Publishing Co (Sydney). (35) Estimate$1,000 - $2,000Price Realized$5,500StatusSold View details 791 COMICS - SUPERBOY (Australian Issue): bundle of earlier issues comprising #7, 9-10, 12-23, 25-29, 33-44, 47-48, 50-51, foxing on earlier issues, nonetheless presentable condition overall, K.G. Murray Publishing Co (Sydney). (35) Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$1,300StatusSold View details 792 COMICS - SUPERMAN (Australian Issue): bundle of earlier issues comprising #22-23, 27-29, 36-43, 45-58, 60-68, priced at 6d or 8d (from issue #46), condition variable, but generally most presentable, published by Colour Comics Pty Ltd /K.G. Murray Publishing Co (Sydney). (36) Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$1,700StatusSold View details 793 COMICS - SUPER ADVENTURE COMIC (Australian Issue): bundle of early issues comprising #1, 4-5, 8-15, 18-24, 27-28, 30-32, 35, 42 & 79; all front covers feature Superman and Batman, and often Superboy and/or Robin too, priced at 6d or 8d (from issue #11); some foxing early issues, overall above-average condition. (26) Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$2,400StatusSold View details Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next