Australian & Historical 11 27, 2021 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 Image Lot # Item Title Quantity Time Left Your Bids 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. Estimate$80 - $120Price Realized$100StatusSold View details 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 Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$20StatusSold View details 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. Estimate$100 - $200StatusCLOSED! View details 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. Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$550StatusSold View details 798 Camberwell Grammar School, cricket team photograph, c.1910, 14.5 x 20cm. Estimate$50 - $75Price Realized$20StatusSold View details 799 VICTORIAN RAILWAYS: Sealer's Cove, Wilson's Promontory, sepia print, circa 1910, 29 x 59cm from a series of photographs displayed Estimate$100 - $200StatusUnsold View details 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. Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$300StatusSold View details 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) 10 Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$80StatusSold View details 802 VICTORIAN RAILWAYS: Little Bird Rock, sepia print, circa 1910, 29 x 59cm from a series of photographs displayed in Victorian Railway carriages. Estimate$100 - $200StatusUnsold View details 803 VICTORIAN RAILWAYS: Agnes River, South Gippsland, sepia print, circa 1910, 29 x 59cm from a series of photographs displayed in Victorian Railway carriages. Estimate$100 - $200StatusUnsold View details 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. Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$40StatusSold View details 805 VICTORIAN RAILWAYS: Agnes Falls, South Gippsland, sepia print, circa 1910, 29 x 59cm from a series of photographs displayed in Victorian Railway carriages. Estimate$100 - $200StatusUnsold View details 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. Estimate$60 - $100Price Realized$20StatusSold View details 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 Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$200StatusSold View details 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 Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$600StatusSold View details 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. Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$1,800StatusSold View details 810 Two photographic portraits on "milk glass", one in sepia, one in black & white. Both approx. 16.5 x 12cm. (2). Estimate$50 - $100StatusCLOSED! View details 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. Estimate$60 - $100StatusUnsold View details 812 WILL PARKER, Broome, W.A. colour photograph, signed & titled on mount, Estimate$100 - $200StatusCLOSED! View details 813 MARK STRIZIC (1928-2012), Swan Street at Church Street, 1963, silver gelatin photograph printed 1998, titled, signed and dated in lower margin, Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$220StatusSold View details 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. Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$160StatusSold View details 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. Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$320StatusSold View details 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. Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$180StatusSold View details 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. Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$160StatusSold View details 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. Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$600StatusSold View details 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. 8 Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$200StatusSold View details 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). Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$140StatusSold View details 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. Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$160StatusSold View details 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. Estimate$300 - $400StatusCLOSED! View details 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. Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$1,100StatusSold View details 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, Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$140StatusSold View details 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. Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$400StatusSold View details 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. Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$120StatusSold View details 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, Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$440StatusSold View details 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). Estimate$80 - $120Price Realized$80StatusSold View details 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 Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$80StatusSold View details 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. Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Price Realized$2,600StatusSold View details 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. 3 Estimate$120 - $180Price Realized$220StatusSold View details 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. 3 Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$140StatusSold View details 833 MOSS, Frederick J. "Through Atolls and Islands in the Great South Sea", Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$120StatusSold View details 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 Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Price Realized$4,000StatusSold View details 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 Estimate$60 - $100Price Realized$120StatusSold View details 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. Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$80StatusSold View details 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.) Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$160StatusSold View details 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. Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$140StatusSold View details 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. Estimate$150 - $200StatusCLOSED! View details 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. Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$280StatusSold View details 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.). 4 Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$140StatusSold View details 842 HARRINGTONS' CATALOGUE of CAMERAS and PHOTOGRAPHIC SUPPLIES 1910 - 1911, 388pp with numerous illustrations. [Printed by Builder Print, Kent St., Sydney.] Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$320StatusSold View details 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. Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$480StatusSold View details 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... Estimate$1,500 - $2,000StatusUnsold View details 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. Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$800StatusSold View details 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. Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$700StatusSold View details 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). Estimate$80 - $120Price Realized$80StatusSold View details 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, ' Estimate$500 - $1,000Price Realized$400StatusSold View details 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." Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$500StatusSold View details 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]; 5 Estimate$160 - $220Price Realized$340StatusSold View details 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) 4 Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$140StatusSold View details 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. Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$120StatusSold View details 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). Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$280StatusSold View details 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). Estimate$200 - $300StatusCLOSED! View details 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. Estimate$180 - $240Price Realized$200StatusSold View details 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. Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$140StatusSold View details 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). Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$60StatusSold View details 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 Estimate$200 - $250StatusCLOSED! View details 859 TRADE CATALOGUE: Dunklings The Jewellers, Bourke St & Collins St., Melbourne; 35th edition catalogue; fully illustrated; circa 1930s, 98pp + covers. Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$60StatusSold View details 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) Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$360StatusSold View details 861 Autograph book containing several fine illustrations, late 1920s to early '30s entries. Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$120StatusSold View details 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). Estimate$500 - $1,000StatusCLOSED! View details 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. Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$100StatusSold View details 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) 7 Estimate$100 - $140Price Realized$240StatusSold View details 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). Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$40StatusSold View details 866 THE WEEKLY TIMES "Wild Nature Book" 1932 colour supplements in original card binding, 30 x 27cm overall Estimate$60 - $100Price Realized$60StatusSold View details 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. 2 Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusCLOSED! View details 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. Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$60StatusSold View details 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. Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$140StatusSold View details 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. Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$220StatusSold View details 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. Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$120StatusSold View details 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. Estimate$500 - $750StatusCLOSED! View details 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. Estimate$80 - $120Price Realized$100StatusSold View details 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). Estimate$500 - $1,000Price Realized$550StatusSold View details 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). Estimate$60 - $100Price Realized$160StatusSold View details 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. Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$180StatusSold View details 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. Estimate$80 - $120Price Realized$60StatusSold View details 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 Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$800StatusSold View details 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. Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$80StatusSold View details 880 "Lake Heights Estate, Blackburn" Great Land Auction, December 1949, sales brochure with photos, plan and Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$40StatusSold View details 881 TRADE BROCHURE: "Fordson Major" Farms Australia catalogue, circa 1950s; also, a range of Golden Fleece items associated with Blackwell Service Station, Clayton. Estimate$50 - $100Price Realized$160StatusSold View details 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 Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$300StatusSold View details 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). Estimate$100 - $150StatusCLOSED! View details 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.). Estimate$100 - $150StatusCLOSED! View details 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). Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$650StatusSold View details 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 Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$120StatusSold View details 887 AWA TRI-FI STEREO PLAYER point of sale advertising, black and white print on heavy card, framed and glazed 68 x 50cm overall Estimate$120 - $200StatusCLOSED! View details 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.) Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$160StatusSold View details 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). Estimate$80 - $120Price Realized$20StatusSold View details 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. Estimate$100 - $200StatusCLOSED! View details 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. Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$300StatusSold View details 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.). Estimate$150 - $200StatusCLOSED! View details 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. Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$140StatusSold View details Items per page 102550100 Previous|1...7891011121314|Next1234567891011121314 Previous 1234567891011121314 Next
