Australian & Historical (#473) 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 801-900 of 1337. Previous|1...7891011121314|Next1234567891011121314 Lot 794 A full length portrait studio photograph of a young woman (possible in her wedding dress?), circa 1900, in a period oak frame with applied gilt floral decoration. Overall 53 x 34cm. View details Estimate$80 - $120Price Realized$100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 795 "QUEENSTOWN, LAKE WAKATIPU" New Zealand albumen photograph by MUIR & MOODIE of Dunedin, circa 1900, framed and glazed, 14 x 20cm, frame 25 x 29cm overall View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$20StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 796 A small cloth-bound photograph album, with handwritten presentation dated 1903; containing numerous small format photographs depicting a farming family and their activities. Including ladies riding bicycles, horse & cart, the local preacher, visiting wildlife, etc. View details Estimate$100 - $200StatusCLOSED! Lot 797 1908 AMERICAN NAVAL VISIT TO SYDNEY: A display comprising various albumen prints, photographs, postcards and private snapshots (21 items) mounted, framed and glazed, with title "Original Photos of the American Naval Great White Fleet entering Sydney Harbour 20th August 1908. Overall 85 x 68cm. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$550StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 798 Camberwell Grammar School, cricket team photograph, c.1910, 14.5 x 20cm. View details Estimate$50 - $75Price Realized$20StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 799 VICTORIAN RAILWAYS: Sealer's Cove, Wilson's Promontory, sepia print, circa 1910, 29 x 59cm from a series of photographs displayed View details Estimate$100 - $200StatusUnsold Lot 800 HAWKER, SOUTH AUSTRALIA c.1910s: An old scrapbook, apparently assembled by Ivor Bagg of South Australia. It includes a wide range of home and WW1 army snaps, but also a significant group of albumen prints and later photographs featuring activities at Hawker. View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 801 A small group of Australian ephemera, real photograph "Aboriginals" postcard, 2 antique cartes-de-visite photographs (one of a blind woman), vintage photograph of a bush camp, (10 items) View details Quantity10Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$80StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 802 VICTORIAN RAILWAYS: Little Bird Rock, sepia print, circa 1910, 29 x 59cm from a series of photographs displayed in Victorian Railway carriages. View details Estimate$100 - $200StatusUnsold Lot 803 VICTORIAN RAILWAYS: Agnes River, South Gippsland, sepia print, circa 1910, 29 x 59cm from a series of photographs displayed in Victorian Railway carriages. View details Estimate$100 - $200StatusUnsold Lot 804 VICTORIAN RAILWAYS: Sealer's Cove, Wilson's Promontory, sepia print, circa 1910, 29 x 59cm from a series of photographs displayed in Victorian Railway carriages. View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$40StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 805 VICTORIAN RAILWAYS: Agnes Falls, South Gippsland, sepia print, circa 1910, 29 x 59cm from a series of photographs displayed in Victorian Railway carriages. View details Estimate$100 - $200StatusUnsold Lot 806 A framed presentation of 5 team photographs, circa 1915; believed to emanate from a Catholic Boy's School in Ballarat. The teams appear to be football, cricket and debating. 49 x 80cm overall. View details Estimate$60 - $100Price Realized$20StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 807 Large format colour glass plate advertising slides (positives) together with associated ephemera pertaining to G.E. HIGGINS McKillop Steet, Melbourne and "SELEVISOR, The New And Visual Sales Boosting Medium, Visual Industries Pty. Ltd.", Melbourne and Hobart. Attractive and in remarkably good condition, ads include "Orlando Wines", "Spalding" and "Mobilgas For Flying Horsepower". Larger slides 16.5 x 22cm View details Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 808 Maharajah Saheb of Dharampur official photo album with captions together with book "Sangit Bhava" by Maharana Vijayadevji of Dharampur and signed by the author [Bombay, 1934], along with two bits of Indian silver View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$600StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 809 JOHN EATON (1881 - 1966) Strezlecki Ranges South Gippsland, c.1940, silver gelatin photograph, signed lower right in pencil on border, titled verso, 26.5 x 36.5cm. View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$1,800StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 810 Two photographic portraits on "milk glass", one in sepia, one in black & white. Both approx. 16.5 x 12cm. (2). View details Estimate$50 - $100StatusCLOSED! Lot 811 Ray Studios, Baintree, Essex: "Millfield School, Summer Term 1967", panoramic photograph of the entire school student and staff population. Framed & glazed, overall 15.5 x 105cm. View details Estimate$60 - $100StatusUnsold Lot 812 WILL PARKER, Broome, W.A. colour photograph, signed & titled on mount, View details Estimate$100 - $200StatusCLOSED! Lot 813 MARK STRIZIC (1928-2012), Swan Street at Church Street, 1963, silver gelatin photograph printed 1998, titled, signed and dated in lower margin, View details Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$220StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 814 A GRANT OF LAND AT WINDSOR: JAMES UPTON (1803 - 1888): A letter, dated 20th October, 1830 from the Colonial Secretary's Office, Sydney, advising Upton that the Governor "has been pleased to Sanction your receiving an Allotment of Land.....on the express Condition that you become Resident thereon....and cultivating the same for Seven Years....". The partly printed letter was addressed to Upton at "Cornwallis, near Windsor", which is where he was living when he died 58 years later. View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$160StatusSold Lot 815 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$250 - $350Price Realized$320StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 816 STIRLING, Patrick James, F.R.S.E. "THE AUSTRALIAN AND CALIFORNIAN GOLD DISCOVERIES, AND THEIR PROBABLE CONSEQUENCES....." [Edinburgh : Oliver & Boyd, 1853], 1st ed., hardback, 3/4 leather with marbled boards; gilt lettering to spine between raised bands; with repaired fold-out and title page. Ferguson: 16282. View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$180StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 817 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$200 - $300Price Realized$160StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 818 AN EARLY LAND TRANSACTION AT QUEENSCLIFFE 5th April 1859 eight-page vellum document formalizing the "Lease of an Allotment of Land at Queenscliffe" by James Dawson of Kangalong, Point Fairy "in the Portland Bay District" and John Lang Currie of Larra Station, to Mr. Alexander Henry (cabinet maker); sealed, and signed by Henry and Walter Adamson, Hotel Keeper, Queenscliffe (witness); also signed by Thomas Sunderland, Acting Registrar. The land in question was bounded on one side by Mercer Street. View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$600StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 819 MACAULAY, Lord Thomas Babington, "THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND FROM THE ACCESSION OF JAMES THE SECOND" [London : Longman, Green, et al. 1863], 1st ed., in 8 volumes; hard cover, half-leather with gilt lettering to spines, marbled endpapers, previous owner's signature to each front free end paper. View details Quantity8Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 820 SHERIFFS OFFICE MELBOURNE: Three documents dated 1870; two being Warrants on Fieri Facias demanding payments from Louis Le Compte and another from John Watson as a result of Supreme Court judgements against them; also a note to the Sheriff asking for a "stay in further proceedings". (3 items). View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$140StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 821 "Wellbank's Australian Nautical Almanac and Coaster's Guide, for the Southern and Eastern Coasts of Australia, compiled from the Most Authentic Sources, for the Year 1874" Edited by SUSTENANCE, S. S. [James Reading, Sydney, 1873], hardback, 304pp + 22pp adverts. half leather binding, with 4 raised bands to spine; marbled end papers with J.Reading & Co to front paste-down. Previous owner's ink inscriptions. View details Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$160StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 822 WARBURTON, Peter Egerton. JOURNEY ACROSS THE WESTERN INTERIOR OF AUSTRALIA. Octavo, plates, the folding map separated into two pieces and with some split folds, original gilt-pictorial cloth, rear joint opening. [London, Sampson Low, 1875]. First edition. Ferguson, 18187. View details Estimate$300 - $400StatusCLOSED! Lot 823 QUEENSLAND AT THE 1876 PHILADELPHIA CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION. Illuminated presentation certificate, hand-illustrated and with calligraphy by H.W. Fox, the recipient being ANGUS MACKAY, who was the Commissioner for Queensland at the exhibition, which took place between May and November 1876. The certificate is dated 27th February, 1877 and is signed "on behalf of your Fellow Colonists" by W.W. Cairns, the Governor of Queensland between 1875 and 1877. Framed & glazed; overall 55.5 x 40cm. View details Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$1,100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 824 GIBBON, Charles (ed.) "The Casquet of Literature..." in six volumes, [London : Blackie & Son; C. Stuart, Melbourne] red cloth bindings with gilt and black decoration, View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$140StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 825 BLAKSTON, W.A., SWAYSLAND, W. & WIENER, A.F., The Illustrated book of CANARIES AND CAGE-BIRDS, British and Foreign, [Cassell & Co., London, N.D. by 1878], red half-calf binding, with gilt titles and raised bands to spine; 448pp + numerous chromolithographic plates. View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$400StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 826 BRASSEY, Mrs. Anna "Annie" (1839-1887), A Voyage In The 'Sunbeam' Our Home on The Ocean for Eleven Months with 118 Illustrations engraved on wood..." Sixth Edition, [Toronto, Rose-Belford Publishing Co., 1879], 511pp, contemporary half-calf binding, spine with raised bands, gilt title and decorations; 2 folding maps and a chart, marbled endpapers. Although issued in many editions, this Canadian edition is rarely seen. View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 827 THE KELLY GANG & OTHER BUSHRANGERS. A collection of books including "History of the Australian Bushrangers" by Boxall,1935; "Tell 'em I died game" by Wannan, 1963; "Ned Kelly : Man and Myth" (intro) by Cave, 1968; "Australian Bushrangers" by Wannan, 1970; "The Australasian Sketcher with Pen and Pencil", 1880 facsimile reprint, 1970; "Beechworth : A Titan's Field" by Woods, 1985; "Ned Kelly: The Authentic Illustrated History" by McMenomy, 1984, and several others. (24 vols.), newspaper cuttings, View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$440StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 828 AUSTRALIAN INTEREST: "Cyclopaedia of Australasia.." by Blair (1881); "The Australian Encyclopaedia" in 2 vols. (Angus & Robertson, 1926-27); and 2 other volumes. Mixed condition. (5 items). View details Estimate$80 - $120Price Realized$80StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 829 SYDNEY HOSPITAL: A range of booklets including "Address of the President Sydney Infirmary and Dispensary.....on the laying of the Foundation Stone..." July 1881; Rules & Regulations 1900; By-Laws 1913; General Rules and Regulations in various sections, 1913; Report on the Work of the Almoner;s Dep't 1941; various 1940 - 63 annual reports of the Kanematsu View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$80StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 830 NORTHERN TERRITORY: THE 1883 EXPEDITION TO LOCATE "STURT'S TREE" Dec.10th 1883 four-page letter headed "Palmerston" and addressed "The Acting Government Resident, Palmerston; written by James P. Hingston, Surveyor, in which he provides a day-by-day description of the trip "which I am glad to report was successful." The letter is accompanied by a map, dated 13/12/83, signed by him and titled "Rough Sketch Shewing approximate position of J.M.D. STUART'S last marked tree. View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Price Realized$2,600StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 831 "Picturesque Atlas Of Australasia" in 3 volumes, [Melbourne 1886] bound in quarter leather, with gilt embossed spines; wear to boards and spine, varying degrees of internal spotting, bindings intact. View details Quantity3Estimate$120 - $180Price Realized$220StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 832 MELBOURNE & VICTORIA INTEREST: "Centennial International Exhibition, Melbourne1888-9: Official Record" [Sands & McDougall, Melbourne, 1890], "Cyclopaedia of Victoria - Vol III" edited by James Smith (1905); "Melbourne...Pictured by Jack Cato" (1949); condition issues with the two earlier titles. View details Quantity3Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$140StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 833 MOSS, Frederick J. "Through Atolls and Islands in the Great South Sea", View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 834 "NEW ZEALAND FERNS" by ERIC CRAIG, circa 1880. A stunning tome of 153 pressed New Zealand fern specimens attractively displayed and captioned. Title page includes Maori cartes-de-visite portraits and lithograph view "SCENE IN TIKITAPU BUSH NEAR OHINEMUTU". Retailer's label and ink stamp "ERIC CRAIG, PRINCES ST. AUCKLAND". Finely carved mottle kauri boards with title and red morocco spine with gilt embossing. 19th century. Eric Craig (1829-1923) was a collector, publisher and dealer of natural h View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Price Realized$4,000StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 835 "Collins Street, Melbourne" hand-coloured newspaper supplement print, 19th century, in a period birdseye maple frame with gilt slip and glass, 37 c 42cm overall View details Estimate$60 - $100Price Realized$120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 836 SHEWAN & CO. Hong Kong, Canton & Kobe: 14th September 1893 "Hongkong Market Letter"2-page printed document sent to their offices and representatives around the world (including Anson. B. Heath in Melbourne) regarding the current prices for products of all types: Flour, Kerosine Oil, Lead, Coal, various oils, palm leaf fans and silk, amongst others. View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$80StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 837 AUSTRALIAN INTEREST: "Stories of Australia in the Early Days" by Clarke, 1897 (2nd ed.); "Sydney University drawings by Lloyd Rees" 1922 (signed by Rees in 1984); "Australian Landfall" by Kisch (translated by Fisher and Fitzgerald), 1937; "The National Gallery of Victoria 1861 - 1968..." by Cox. (4 vols.) View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$160StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 838 McLEOD, Norman & Annie,"Half Hours in the Holy Land : Travelsin Egypt, Palestine, Syria with numerous illustrations" 341pp., [London; James Nisbet & Co., 1898], tree-calf leather bound, marbled endpapers, gilt embossed hardback, highlighted with a gilt seal on the front cover representing Hawkshead Grammar, Cumbria. View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$140StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 839 "A SOUVENIR of the CELEBRATION OF THE JUBILEE of RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT in NEW SOUTH WALES. MAY 22, 1906" [Sydney; W.A. Gullick, Government Printer], 63pp + plates. Surprisingly rare. View details Estimate$150 - $200StatusCLOSED! Lot 840 RENTOUL, Annie I. and RENTOUL, Ida S. Mollie's Staircase [Melbourne: M.L. Hutchinson, 1906]. Oblong quarto, lettered wrappers, original ribbon ties, 12 black & white plates, plus illustrations in text. View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$280StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 841 ILLUSTRATED BOOKS: "The Lady of the Blue Beads" by Rentoul (1908), "Here is Faery" byLeason (1915), "The Lore of theLyre Bird" by Pratt (1937), and "Flinders Lane" by Grimwade (1947). Mixed condition. (4 vols.). View details Quantity4Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$140StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 842 HARRINGTONS' CATALOGUE of CAMERAS and PHOTOGRAPHIC SUPPLIES 1910 - 1911, 388pp with numerous illustrations. [Printed by Builder Print, Kent St., Sydney.] View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$320StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 843 [FRED McCUBBIN] James MACDONALD The Art of Frederick McCubbin [Melbourne & Sydney : Lothian, 1916] Limited to 1000 copies, signed by McCubbin, this is #961. Folio, gilt lettered cloth covered boards, 104pp, 45 plates tipped in. View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$480StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 844 "The Pastoral Homes of Australia - Victoria" published by the Pastoralists' Review [Melbourne, McCarron, Bird & Co, 1910] with introduction by W.H Lang; quarto, full morocco with gilt embossed board and spines, marbled endpapers with W.H. Lang's personal (signed) bookplate adhered to the front endpaper, abrasions to boards and spine, very good internal condition with bindings fully intact; xii + 497pp divided into 43 sections, with most pages illustrated.Volume 1 (Victoria) is the first in... View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 845 "The Pastoral Homes of Australia, New South Wales & Queensland" published by the Pastoralists' Review [Sydney, John Andrew & Co, 1911] quarto, gilt embossed boards and spine, marbled endpapers with W.H. Lang's personal bookplate adhered to front the front endpaper, spine damage and heavily worn boards, very good internal condition with bindings fully intact; viii + 536pp, with most pages illustrated. View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$800StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 846 "The Pastoral Homes of Australia, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia & New Zealand" published by The Pastoral Review Propy. Ltd [Sydney, John Andrew & Co, 1914] quarto, gilt embossed boards and spine, marbled endpapers with W.H.Lang's personal bookplate adhered to front the front endpaper, spine damage and wear to the boards, very good internal condition with bindings largely intact; viii + 442pp, with most pages illustrated. View details Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$700StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 847 HOSPITALS: Various booklets, including "Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney GENERAL RULES 1911"; "The By-Laws of the ALFRED HOSPITAL 1937'; "Model By-Laws and Rules for Public Hospitals 1951"; and several others. (9 items). View details Estimate$80 - $120Price Realized$80StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 848 DENNIS, C.J. Backblock Ballads and Other Verses by "Den", [E.W.Cole, Book Arcade, Melbourne, 1913], 200pp; original blue cloth binding with illustration and titles in black and red. Ownership inscription of Phil. D. Flower, dated July 1913. This book of poems by C.J. Dennis was published in 1913, although many of the works had previously appeared in various periodicals. Although 'Backblock Ballads and Other Verses' was not a good seller, twenty-one of its poems were included in his later book, ' View details Estimate$500 - $1,000Price Realized$400StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 849 1913-21 dated entries in a large format autograph book featuring a double-page spread signed by Australian soldiers, also identifying their battalions; several pages with delightful drawings; the P.L.C. Class of 1913; and a series of four illustrations titled "Wash-Day in Coonville." View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$500StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 850 GREGORY BLAXLAND: "A Journal of a Tour of Discovery Across the Blue Mountains, New South Wales in the Year 1813" by Gregory Blaxland, "with References and Explanatory Notes, Maps, Etc" by Frank Walker [Sydney, S.T. Leigh & Co,1913] Three copies, each 56pp hardbound in good/very good condition. Also softbound "John and Gregory Blaxland" by J.K.S. Houston, being a paper that was read before the Royal Australian Historical Society, October 29, 1935 [Sydney, D.S. Ford, 1935]; View details Quantity5Estimate$160 - $220Price Realized$340StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 851 CHILDREN'S BOOKS: with "The Glugs of Gosh" by C.J. Dennis (1st Edn, Angus & Robertson, Sydney 1917), "Little Songs of Long Ago - More old Nursery Rhymes" published by Augener/A.C.Black (1912), "The Animals that Noah Forgot" by "Banjo" Paterson (3rd edn, 1933), "Adventures of Robinson Crusoe" by Defoe (pub. T. Fisher Unwin, London 1884); condition variable (4) View details Quantity4Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$140StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 852 "SYDNEY HOSPITAL : SPECIAL PEACE APPEAL 1918 -1919" [Sydney, Deaton & Spencer, 1918], 132pp on glossy stock with numerous photo plates, black leather boards with gilt lettering to front; (replaced spine). Previously recorded by us with cardboard covers and cream-coloured pages; this appears to be a superior production for important (?) recipients. View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 853 AUSTRALIAN CHILDRENS BOOKS: "Tales of Snugglepot and Cuddlepie" by Gibbs [1919]; "Two Little Gumnuts Chucklebud and Wunkydoo" by Gibbs [1924]; "Bushland Broadcast" by Prior & Camm [1933]; "Blinky Bill" by Wall [1933]; "All-About : The Srory of a black community on Argyle Station, Kimberley" by Mary & Elizabeth Durack [1944]; and "Scotty in Gumnut Land" by Gibbs [1944]. All hardcover and all with condition issues. (6). View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$280StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 854 SYDNEY HOSPITAL: 1921 - 1959, complete set of Annual Reports of the hospital, including interim reports for 1931, 1932, 1936, 1938 and 1939. (44 items). View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusCLOSED! Lot 855 IDA RENTOUL OUTHWAITE: "The Enchanted Forest" with stories by Grenbry Outhwaite published by A & C Black [London, 1931], first edition, quarto, red/blue cross-hatched heavy card boards, missing the blue cloth spine, white label with illustration to front board, all the colour tipped-in images are intact; internal foxing throughout although colour plates are largely unaffected, viii + 93pp + 2pp of advertising. View details Estimate$180 - $240Price Realized$200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 856 VILLIERS, Alan John "TO THE FROZEN SOUTH" [Hobart, Davies Brothers, 1924] 1st ed., 96pp, papered boards with faded gilt title, fifty full page b&w photographs and map. The story of the 1923-4 the Norwegian Ross Sea Whaling Expedition under Captain C.A. Larsen. View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$140StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 857 PUNCH magazine (July - December 1925) complete in attractive binding with gilt decorations to maroon boards; 1938 "Test Match Records of All Games Australia v England 1877 - 1938" softcover; "The Restless Years" by O'Shaughnessy, Inson and Ward, 1970. (3 items). View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$60StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 858 THE COLLISION OF THE S.S. TAHITI and the passenger ferry "GREYCLIFFE" on SYDNEY HARBOUR, November 1927: A Keystone News original press photo showing the Union Liner S.S. Tahiti, accompanied by several pages of documents and correspondence (including duplicates) regarding the original cost of building the "Greycliffe" and its' value on the day of the collision. There is a also a quote to replace the "Greycliffe. The documents are the work of W.M. Ford, Jnr., of Berry's Bay, North Sydney and Morri View details Estimate$200 - $250StatusCLOSED! Lot 859 TRADE CATALOGUE: Dunklings The Jewellers, Bourke St & Collins St., Melbourne; 35th edition catalogue; fully illustrated; circa 1930s, 98pp + covers. View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$60StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 860 AUSTRALIAN INTEREST: "Art in Australia - Norman Lindsay Number" [Dec.1930]; "Art in Australia - Art and Architecture" [Nov.1936]; "Melbourne Savages" by Dow [1947]; "The Art of Albert Namatjira" by Mountford [1951]; "Sali Herman" by Thomas [1962]; "John Moffat's Empire" by Kerr [1979]; "Eded Mer" (My Life) by Lowah [1988] & two others. Mixed condit. (9) View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$360StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 861 Autograph book containing several fine illustrations, late 1920s to early '30s entries. View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 862 SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS: Two shelves of booklets, pamphlets, books and maps; mainly Australian, some New Zealand and foreign. Noted much on geology, fossils, soils and climate. Includes early Royal Society of Victoria reports, etc. Mixed condition. (qty). View details Estimate$500 - $1,000StatusCLOSED! Lot 863 A "mixed-bag" in a small box. Noted "The Lone-Girl-Flyer" music (with Amy Johnson and her plane on the front cover); "Comin' in on a Wing and a Prayer" music; other sheet music; a copy of "Piccaninny Walkabout"; several first day covers; WW2 era photo negatives; 2 autograph books, one of which features many TENNIS greats (Neale Fraser, Clive Wilderspin, Helen Anguin, Frank Sedgman, Bill Talbert, Bob Perry, Lew Hoad, Harry Hopman, Ken Rosewall, etc.), the other with English entertainers. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$100StatusSold Lot 864 CHILDREN'S BOOKS/PUBLICATIONS: comprising Walt Disney "The Adventures of Mickey Mouse", hardbound [Halstead, Sydney,1931], "Walt Disney's Clock Cleaners" picture story book [Ayers & James, Sydney, undated], and Walt Disney Comics No 202 [W.G. Publications, Sydney, 1963]; also "Witchetty's Tribe - Aboriginal Cartoon Fun No.31" by Jolliffe, and three other items; condition variable. (7) View details Quantity7Estimate$100 - $140Price Realized$240StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 865 MOTORING INTEREST: "The Caravan & Touring in Australia" published by Motor Manual (1948); the "Shell Tour Book of Victoria" incorporating 7 removable folding maps (1932); "The Herald Road Guide" (1932). (Mixed condition. (3 items). View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$40StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 866 THE WEEKLY TIMES "Wild Nature Book" 1932 colour supplements in original card binding, 30 x 27cm overall View details Estimate$60 - $100Price Realized$60StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 867 SIR ERNEST HENRY WREFORD (1866 – 1938) January 1932, illuminated leather-bound presentation to Wreford on the Jubilee of his association with the National Bank of Australasia; presented by the members of the National Bank Staff Club: "congratulations upon the completion of your fiftieth year of service with the Bank, and we express our sincere hopes that you and Mrs. Wreford may be granted long life...." also, a leather-bound dinner menu on the April 1935 occasion of a retirement dinner. View details Quantity2Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusCLOSED! Lot 868 LONDON & ENGLISH TOURISM: The London Underground "IN & AROUND LONDON" guide for Summer 1932; "London's Double Deck Buses" by Gillham, 1950; a folio of 31 Road Maps of the British Isles issued by "Wonderful Britain" circa 1930; plus several other items. View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$60StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 869 MELBOURNE SAVAGE CLUB: 190th Smoke Concert, 6th May 1933: programme with humorous cartoon front cover depicting the "SMATIONAL BUNK" on the occasion that E.H. Wreford (Chief Manager of The National Australasian Bank) was the guest of honour. View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$140StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 870 "The Victorian Centenary Book 1834-35 - 1934-35", A Series of Records of People and Firms at the Time of the Centenary, [Tavistock Press,Geo.A.List & Sons, Geelong.], 312pp, profusely illustrated; handbound. View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$220StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 871 TRADE CATALOGUES: "D & W. CHANDLER General Hardware Catalogues" No. 46, 50 and 51, 1930s; the last with a full page notice dated Sept.1939 "This Catalogue was completed before the outbreak of War. Prices and supplies of merchandise, therefore, cannot be relied upon...."(3 items); mixed condition. View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 872 JARMAN, A.E. Australian Plant Drawings, Parts 1 to 8, Published in 8 parts with notes by H.B. Williamson F.L.S. [Valentine Publishing Melbourne] c1935, 1st edition, with complete original box and 16 page prospectus. Overall 41 x 28.5cm. View details Estimate$500 - $750StatusCLOSED! Lot 873 "500 Victorians, Centenary Edition" by H.G. Crawford [Melbourne, W.&.K. Purbrick,1934] 303pp leatherbound, each page dedicated to an eminent male Victorian showing a caricature image, list of offices held, club memberships and home address; some light spotting/ageing mostly to end pages, wear to the cover and spine edges, overall good condition. View details Estimate$80 - $120Price Realized$100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 874 CHARLES C. EVANS, Commercial Artist: A Landseer Drawing Book, circa 1930s, filled with original artwork; "Artistic Signs by Chas. C. Evans" to the inside front cover; with full page adverts for "Silvarite Signs", "B.A.L.M. Speed Enamel", "Caldwell's Wines", "Tooth's KB Lager", "Waratah Ice Cream", "STC Radio", etc. 24 x 34cm. (21 items). View details Estimate$500 - $1,000Price Realized$550StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 875 ROYAL AUSTRALIAN AIR FORCE:"R.A.A.F. DISPLAY April 1938" program (48pp + covers); plus "WINGS" magazine Vol. 1 editions for May 23 and Sept.14, 1943. (3 items). View details Estimate$60 - $100Price Realized$160StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 876 DURACK, Mary & Elizabeth, The Way of the Whirlwind, [Consolidated Press, Sydney, 1941],1st edition, hardback. Illustrated boards, black backstrip. Tall 4to. Lovely tipped in colour illustrations and illustrated endpapers + b/w illustrations within text. View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$180StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 877 BENNETT-BREMNER, E. "FRONT-LINE AIRLINE - The War Story of Qantas Empire Airways Limited" [Sydney : Angus & Robertson] 1944, 1st ed. with (defective) dust jacket; 193pp + photo plates. View details Estimate$80 - $120Price Realized$60StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 878 ALEX GURNEY (1902-1955) "BLUEY & CURLEY" original artwork rendered in watercolour, inscribed "With Bluey & Curley's best wishes", signed lower right "Gurney", 23 x 26cm View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$800StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 879 MOTORING INTEREST: HAYES-WILLIAMS, L.G. "How Old is that Car? Used Cars on the Australian Market from 1923 - 1938 Incorporating 1939-1940 Supplement" [Belmore; C.H. Begg] 320pp soft cover. View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$80StatusSold Lot 880 "Lake Heights Estate, Blackburn" Great Land Auction, December 1949, sales brochure with photos, plan and View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$40StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 881 TRADE BROCHURE: "Fordson Major" Farms Australia catalogue, circa 1950s; also, a range of Golden Fleece items associated with Blackwell Service Station, Clayton. View details Estimate$50 - $100Price Realized$160StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 882 Comic book titled 'The Calamitous Career of Dictator Bob' published by the Communist Party of Australia Eight page black & white on newsprint stock, 1951, 17 x 29cm. Very rare. [Artwork by Edward Ambrose Dyson]. Produced for the "No" campaign in relation to the Australian Referendum held on 22 September 1951: "To give the Commonwealth Parliament power to make laws with respect to communists and communism where this was necessary for the security of the Commonwealth." The proposal was not carrie View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 883 The VIENNA BOYS' CHOIR in Australia, June 1954: the program, together with a RP postcard, signed verso by 11 of the touring party. (2 items). View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusCLOSED! Lot 884 ENGLAND: "Collectors' Items from the Saturday Book" 1955; "Heraldic Design" by Child, 1966; "The Architecture of Southern England" by Norwich, 1985, plus others, all h/cover. (8 vols.). View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusCLOSED! Lot 885 OZ MAGAZINE (Sydney): Eleven original complete editions, No.8 (April 1964), No.10 (June1964), No.27 (May1966) and No.28 (June 1966), No.29 (August 1966), No.31 (Dec.1966), No.32 (Jan.1967), No.35 (Jan.1968), No.36 (Feb.1968), No.37 (March 1968), No.40 (Sept.1968) and No.44 (April 1969) a rare example of the 4-page "newsletter" format produced by Richard Walsh & Dean Letcher before the magazine format was reborn in London. (12 items). View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$650StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 886 WILLIAM RICKETTS "A Living Voice of the Living Bush" 1965 publication with original pictorial card cover, signed by William Ricketts with dedication and sketch, 27 x 22cm overall View details Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 887 AWA TRI-FI STEREO PLAYER point of sale advertising, black and white print on heavy card, framed and glazed 68 x 50cm overall View details Estimate$120 - $200StatusCLOSED! Lot 888 AUSTRALIAN INTEREST: "The Hero as Murderer" by Dutton, 1967; "A Journey to Horseshoe Bend" by Strehlow, 1969; "A Roll of Australian Arms" by Low, 1971; "Morgan The Bold Bushranger" by Carnegie, 1974; "A History of Tasmania" in 2 volumes (1983,1991), by Lloyd Robson (signed by the author); and others; mainly hardcover with d/js. (28 vols.) View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$160StatusSold Lot 889 AUSTRALIAN INTEREST: "Australian Birds" by Hill (1968); "A pictorial history of HEIDELBERG since 1836" ed. Cummins (1971); "The Glorious Years..." by Inson & Ward (1971); "The history & design of the AUSTRALIAN HOUSE" compiled by Irving (1985). (4 items). View details Estimate$80 - $120Price Realized$20StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 890 RAINE, Kathleen Blake & Tradition - The A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts 1962, [London : Routledge & Kegan Paul], 1968; 2 vols. h/cover with jackets. View details Estimate$100 - $200StatusCLOSED! Lot 891 MOUNTFORD, Charles & ROBERTS, Ainslie, The Dreamtime Book : Australian Aboriginal Myths [Rigby Limited, 1973], Folio. 175pp. Orange cloth binding in orange cloth slipcase. Limited to 1100 copies, signed by the author and the artist this being copy 421. View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 892 SOUTH AUSTRALIA: "Adelaide Lace" by Robertson, 1973 (signed l/e 158/1001); "To the Desert with Sturt" by Brock, 1975; "Walking the Flinders Ranges", by Bonython, 1973; "From the River to the Hills - Campbelltown" by Warburton, 1986; plus 8 others; mainly hardcover with dust jackets. (12 vols.). View details Estimate$150 - $200StatusCLOSED! Lot 893 LYNN, Elwyn The Australian Landscape and its Artists. [Bay Books, Sydney, 1977] Oblong folio. Bound in simulated full leather with gilt decoration by Sidney Nolan on front cover. In slipcase. 160pp. With 100 full-page colour plates by 50 different artists. The limited edition of 200 numbered copies only, fully signed 'Elwyn Lynn'; this is #190. 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