Decorative Arts & Collectables (#469) Closed Auction Info PDF Prices RealizedPDF Catalogue 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 1-46 of 46. Previous|1|Next Lot 1347 THE SALE OF A HOUSE AT VERSAILLES - 1691, 14th February 1691, French seven-page document on vellum, being the contract covering the sale of a house at Versailles; signed on the last page by the seller (Bruneau) and the purchaser (Bontemps). View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$1,000StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1348 Three large vellum sheets on which are recorded the details of land holdings and transactions in and around Liverpool during the reign of King George 1 (early 1700s) and later. With relevant tax stamps but lacking seals. Each approx. 64 x 72cm. View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1349 KINGO, Th[omas]. Den forordnede Ny Kirke-Psalme-Bog, [Copenhagen, 1723]. Contemporary silk over wooden boards, marbled end-papers, silver clasps and decorations to upper and lower boards. View details Estimate$200 - $400Price Realized$1,900StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1350 A group of seven framed antique documents and indentures written in French and English, 18th/19th century, the largest frame 45 x 81cm overall View details Quantity7Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$260StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1351 A range of etchings and engravings affixed to the pages of a dilapidated album, or loosely inserted; various sizes and subjects (approx. 220 items). Includes some Australasian subjects. Mixed condition. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1352 LEGAL DOCUMENTS: A collection of 1880s - 1900s framed & glazed indentures and conveyances, mainly English; all with appropriate revenue stamps, signatures and hand-drawn maps, where relevant. (11 items). The largest 64 x 78cm. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1353 TENISON-WOODS, J.E. Fish and Fisheries of N.S.Wales, [Thomas Richards, Government Printer, Sydney 1882]. First edition. pp 213, Octavo, half leather bound with marbled boards, gilt lettering on spine, fifty photographic plates, bindings intact. View details Estimate$120 - $180Price Realized$200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1354 "The Works of Sir Edwin Landseer" in three (dilapidated) volumes, text by W. Cosmo Monkhouse, the gilt-tooled cloth bindings are more or less detached with many loose pages evident, however most of the 44 steel engravings and numerous woodcuts appear to be present; peripheral foxing on many pages; publisher Virtue & Co (London), c.1880s. View details Estimate$80 - $120Price Realized$60StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1355 BALL, SIR ROBERT STAWELL, An Atlas of Astronomy: A Series of Seventy-Two Plates with Introduction and Index. [George Philip & Son, London, 1892] 1st ed., 72 lithographic plates, with spacers and tissue guards. Original blue cloth binding with gilt decorations and lettering; all edges gilt. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$280StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1356 MOUNTAINS & MOUNTAINEERING: A shelf of books including " View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1357 "A Chart of the British Empire showing the growth of the Empire during the Queen's Reign and also the relative prosperity of its various divisions at the present time." circa 1900 supplement to "The Graphic", 84 x 125cm. A remarkable document, listing, amongst other things "The growth of large towns" (Melbourne: 490,000; Adelaide: 133,000); "Deficiency of Females in each 100 Males" (New Zealand: 11; Western Australia: 55); etc. View details Estimate$200 - $400Price Realized$850StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1358 ELLIS, Edward S. (1840 - 1916) "Ned in the Block House", "Ned in the Woods", "Ned on the River" and "Footprints in the Forest", all Cassell & Co. hardcover editions with attractive illustrated covers, View details Estimate$80 - $120Price Realized$220StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1359 SCOTT, Captain Robert. Scott's Last Expedition. Being the journals . . . arranged by Leonard Huxley. [London, Smith, Elder & Co.,1913] Two volumes, original blue cloth. First edition. View details Estimate$400 - $500Price Realized$340StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1360 MALORY, POLLARD, Alfred W., RACKHAM, Arthur (illus.), The Romance of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table. Abridged from Malory's Morte d'Arthur. [Published by Macmillan and Co., London, 1917], xxiv, 507pp. With 16 mounted colour illustrations by Arthur Rackham, each with printed tissue overleaf, plus text illustrations in black and white. Folio, publisher's gilt-decorated vellum, First edition; No. 345 of 500 copies signed by Rackham. View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Price Realized$1,000StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1361 LORD GEORGE GORDON BYRON, "Marino Faliero : Doge of Venice : An Historical Tragedy, in Fife Acts" [Avalun-Verlag, Vienna, 1922]; limited edition #145 of 275 numbered and signed by Frank Sepp, the illustrator. Hardcover, quarter parchment, 112pp., 1st ed. View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$60StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1362 POLAR EXPLORATION: A shelf of books, mainly hardcover with d/jackets, including "Willis Island" by Davis (1923, signed), "Polar Exploration" by Croft (1939), "The Crossing of Antarctica" by Fuchs & Hillary (1958), "The Far South" by Bechervaise (1961), "Blizzard and Fire" by Bechervaise (1963, signed), "The Worst Journey in the World" by Cherry-Garrard (1965), "The Sea and the Snow" by Temple (1966), "Mawson : A Life" by Ayres (1999), plus 8 others. (16 vols). View details Estimate$400 - $500Price Realized$440StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1363 ABEL PFEFFERMANN PANN (1883 - 1963), "Bereshit: Genesis, from the Creation Until the Deluge, twenty five original coloured lithographs reproduced by The Author, issued by The Palestine Art Publishing Co. Ltd. Jerusalem.", c1925, half-calf binding with gilt decorations and title to spine. 45 x 31cm. View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$340StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1364 CHRISTIE, Agatha, The Secret of Chimneys, [John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1925], 306pp, rebound in hard covers for Northcote Free Library; foxing throughout; p225/6 dislodged from binding but present. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1365 PROGRAMMES, ETC.: "Theatre de Monte-Carlo 1925 Programme Officieal de la season d'Opera", "Folies Bergere" (circa 1961), Latin Quarter, and "The Elks National Memorial" book, 1931. (5 items). View details Quantity5Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1366 EPHEMERA & NEWPAPERS: Assortment with several newspaper 'Royalty' commemorative editions incl. "The Argus" 1937 (May 24) Coronation Souvenir, "The Star" 1934 (Dec.8) for Royal Centenary Visit (2), "The Sun" 1934 (Dec.11) Centenary Celebrations, also 1910 (May 24) Illustrated London News edition for "Funeral Procession of KEVII" and 1910 (May 21) "Gentlewoman's In Memoriam of KEVII" supplement; also Woman's Weekly "The Australian Year" (1957); View details Estimate$120 - $160Price Realized$100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1367 EVERARD, John, PORTRAIT OF A MODEL, with an Introduction by Charles Simpson, R.I. [London; George Routledge & Sons], 1st edition, 1939, oatmeal cloth covers with red titles to front and spine. (47 of 48 plates present). View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusCLOSED! Lot 1368 MOUNTAINS & MOUNTAINEERING: A shelf of books including " View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1369 GLAMOUR CALENDAR IMAGES: selection of 1950s-70s images including pin-up artwork by Vaughan Bass, Art Frahm, Gil Elvgren, Knute Munson & Charles Showalter, images used to promote H & R Seddon, Dripping Suppliers (East Preston, Melbourne); one image with 1971 calendar still attached; few duplicates, condition variable. (23) View details Estimate$60 - $100Price Realized$180StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1370 SHEET MUSIC: quantity of early to mid 20th century sheet music mostly in A4 booklet form, noting Britten, Delius, Puccini, "Chappell's album of song, dance and talkie hits" and works by Australian composer George Clutsam. Fair to good condition (Qty) View details Estimate$60 - $80Price Realized$80StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1371 MOUNTAINS & MOUNTAINEERING: A shelf of books including "Mountains and Men" by Noyce (1947),"Mountains of Memory" by Lunn (1948), "The Alpine Annual 1950" (h/s, d/j), "The Mountain World" 1953, '54 & '55 (all h/cover with d/js), "High Mountains" by Meade (1954), "K2 The Savage Mountain" by Houston & Bates (1955), plus 12 others. (20 vols). View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1372 HILLARY, Edmund High Adventure (signed), [London, Hodder & Stoughton] 1955, 1st edition; original blue cloth binding; signed by the author and with the bookplate of Charles Bonython. View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$900StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1373 GEOLOGY, MINING, NATURAL RESOURCES & PEST CONTROL: Selection of titles incl. "The Physiography of Victoria" by E. Sherborn Hills (1940), "Bulletins of the Geological Survey of Victoria" (1926) and "Prospectors Guide" (1963) both issued by Department of Mines (Victoria) & "Mines in the Spinifex" by Geoffrey Blainey; also Department of Defence Military Survey Map of Evandale, Tasmania. (1939). (10 items) View details Estimate$80 - $120Price Realized$140StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1374 MARITIME, NAVAL & SHIPWRECKS: library with better hardbound titles incl "Historic Naval Events of Australia, Day-by-Day" by Lew Lind, "Warships of Australia" by Ross Gillett "History of An Australian Schooner 1903-1975" by Captain Ralph McDonell, "New Zealand Shipwrecks 1795 to 1960" by Ingram & Wheatley, "The Lighthouses of Victoria" by Dacre Smyth; also softbound "The 'Graphic' souvenir of the German Navy's Surrender" (1918), View details Estimate$160 - $240Price Realized$240StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1375 MARITIME & NAVAL: selection of hardbound titles, several of "coffee-table" magnitude including "Lost Liners" by Ballard & Archbold, "Titanic" by Leo Marriott, "Jane's Fighting Ships of World War I" & "The Royal Australian Navy" by George Odgers; also "Exploring the Lusitania" by Ballard, "Lost Ships of Guadacanal" by Ballard, "Ships in Australian Waters" by Williams & Serle, "Australian & New Zealand Warships 1914-1945" by Ross Gillett. (13) View details Estimate$140 - $180Price Realized$180StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1376 SHIPS & SHIPPING: with "Passenger Ships of Australia & New Zealand: Volume I 1876-1912" by Plowman, "The Royal Australian Navy - A Pictorial Review" by John Mortimer; also softbound "The Story of P&O" by David & Stephen Howarth, "Australian Coastal Shipping" by Barry Pemberton, etc, plus some booklets/magazines. (qty) View details Estimate$60 - $80Price Realized$260StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1377 AUSTRALIAN SHIPWRECKS: Assembly of predominantly softbound titles many by Jack Loney including "Mysteries of the Bass Strait Triangle", "Wrecks along the Great Ocean Road", "Wrecks on the Gippsland Coast", "Wrecks on the New South Wales Coast", "Wrecks on the Western Australian Coast", "Wrecks on the Queensland Coast" & "Victorian Shipwrecks" (hardbound); also "Australian Shipwrecks: 1622-1850" by Bateson (hardbound), "Wrecks in Tasmanian Waters" (2, both hardbound) & "Wrecks in Darwin Waters" b View details Estimate$120 - $160Price Realized$440StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1378 "Royal Australian Navy 1939-1942" (686pp) & "1942-1945" (753pp) by G. Hermon Gill, published 1957 & 1968 respectively by the Australian War Memorial (Canberra), both editions with dust jackets. (2) View details Quantity2Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$60StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1379 POLAR EXPLORATION: A shelf of books, mainly hardcover with d/jackets, including View details Estimate$250 - $300Price Realized$280StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1380 A VLADIMIR NABOKOV LIBRARY: including "The Gift" [1963, 1st ed.], "Poems and Problems" [1970, 1st ed.], "Ada" [1969 1st ed.] plus four others; all hardback with dust jackets; also View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$260StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1381 BIRDS & BIRDWATCHING: small library of titles incl. "Birds of Western Australia" by Serventy & Whittell, "The Mallee-Fowl; The Bird that Builds an Incubator" by Frith, "The Romance of the Lyrebird" by Chisholm and "Australia Finches" by Immelmann; overseas titles incl. "Manual of British Birds" by Saunders (1889, first edn.); few other natural history books incl. "Marine Molluscs of Victoria" by Macpherson & Gabriel. (30) View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1382 AUSTRALIA - EXPLORATION, TRAVEL & SETTLEMENT: small library of books with "ANARE" by Law & Bechervaise (1957), "Railroading in Tasmania 1830-1962" by Colley, "So fine a Country: A History of the Shire of Corio" (Ian Wynd, 1981), "Pictorial Guide to West Coat of Tasmania" (facsimile edition, 1971), "The Streets of Melbourne from early Photographs" (1985), "Australia on Wheels - Early Beginning to the Present Day" (1999); also guides, pamhplets & magazines incl. "Aboriginal Polices of the Aborigin View details Estimate$80 - $120Price Realized$100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1383 AUSTRALIA - HISTORY, GEOGRAPHY & TRAVEL: with "coffee table" tomes "Australia: A Timeless Grandeur" by Grasswill & "Australia: The Greatest Island" by Raymond both lavishly illustrated with Reg Morrison photography; also "Australia: The Wild Continent" by Morcombe, "Cradle Mountain, Lake St Clair National Park" by Chapman, "Explore Australia's Great Rivers" by Andrews and "A Coastal Diary" by John Landy; plus softbound "Stories of Australian Colonial Days" (2), View details Estimate$120 - $160Price Realized$40StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1384 PALMER, Samuel, A Vision Recaptured: The Complete Etchings and the Paintings for Milton and for Virgil. No.169 from a limited edition; Small folio, 88pp., 23 plates in colour and black and white, with 5 facsimile prints in a separate folder, contained in a cloth portfolio. Also, "Rouault" by Edward Alden Jewell (1947) and "Robertson/Russell/Snowdon Private View : The Lively World of British Art" (1965). (3 vols.). View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusCLOSED! Lot 1385 AUSTRALIAN ARTISTS group of nine hardback reference books including Charles Blackman, John Perceval, Brett Whiteley, Norman Lindsay, Sidney Nolan, Pro Hart, Arthur Boyd etc. View details Quantity9Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$380StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1386 TAYLOR, Derek; HARRISON, George, FIFTY YEARS ADRIFT. [Genesis Publications Ltd, Guildford, 1984]. Signed by Derek Taylor and George Harrison. Limited to 2000 numbered copies of which this #917. Publisher's original dark brown half leather, with five raised bands and gilt title and decorations to the spine, a gilt ship illustration to the upper board, and a gilt reproduction of Taylor's signature to the lower board. All page edges gilt and with bound in marking ribbon and buckram slipcase. Illust View details Estimate$3,000 - $4,000Price Realized$2,600StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1387 "Australia's Wilderness Heritage" by Meier, Figgis & Mosley (1988), in two volumes, both 400pp hardbound with dustjackets, lavishly illustrated; almost as new. View details Estimate$60 - $80Price Realized$40StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1388 BALANCE OF A LIBRARY: mainly hardbound, many maritime related incl. "Man on the Rim: The Peopling of the Pacific" by Thorne & Raymond (1989); also noted "Lebanon to Labuan - A Story of Mapping by the Australian Survey Corps, World War II" by Lawrence Fitzgerald (1980); plus a few magazines & guides. (40+ items) View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$180StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1389 INSTITUTE OF DOCUMENTATION FOR THE INVESTIGATION OF NAZI WAR CRIMES: six volumes of documents, published between 1991 and 1996, compiled by the Institute's director Tuviah Freedman. (6) View details Estimate$160 - $220StatusCLOSED! Lot 1390 "COLOR" ATLAS: standard colour measure scale for "nomenclature, identification, analysis and production of colour" for use in "photo processes, multicolour printing and other branches of industrial arts", published by Huebner Laboratories (New York, 1936), elephant folio sized at 53x46cm, weight 10.3kg. View details Estimate$150 - $250StatusCLOSED! Lot 1391 Smith, Michael; Byrne, Jennifer; et al. BRUCE POSTLE : THE IMAGE MAKER, [Melbourne, 2011] 1st edition. 374pp., No.572 from a limited edition of 1000, signed by Postle. View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$140StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1392 Love That Burns: A Chronicle of Fleetwood Mac : Volume One 1967 - 1974, by Mick Fleetwood COLLECTORS EDITION: A chronicle of the first seven years of Fleetwood Mac. This official limited edition autobiography contains over 400 rare images and contributions from early Fleetwood Mac members including the legendary Peter Green, Christine McVie and John McVie and Jeremy Spencer. No.602 of a limited edition of only 1,650 copies worldwide; signed by Mick Fleetwood. In the original publisher's packagin View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$420StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next
