Australian & Historical 06 25, 2022 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 1-100 of 110. Previous|12|Next Image Lot # Item Title Quantity Time Left Your Bids 973 An antique Islamic Indo-Persian illuminated manuscript page, 19th century. One loose folio with recto, finely illustrated with images of two hornbills. Ink and opaque watercolour on paper, mounted in lucite panel. 34.8 x 18.4cm Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusCLOSED! View details 974 The HOBART TOWN GAZETTE, Friday December 11, 1835, a 21 page edition with many interesting features, especially regarding the sale of Crown Lands, the circumstances of the Female Houses of Correction at Launceston and Hobart, a tender for the supply of articles to the Convict Establishment, a list of prisoners who had absconded, etc., with many names and details, ideal for research. Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$200StatusSold View details 975 THYLACINE, chromolithograph plate XXIV from the 1896 publication "A Hand-Book To The Marsupialia and Monotremata" by E. Lloyd, [London]. 12 x 18.5cm, 23 x 30cm overall Estimate$80 - $120Price Realized$850StatusSold View details 976 Lieutenant JOSEPH MOORE (British, active circa 1824), First Anglo-Burmese War in 1824-26. A rare set of four finely hand-coloured aquatint plates 4 Estimate$3,500 - $4,500StatusCLOSED! View details 977 An interesting range of legal documents including two related to the sale of "the good schooner "Empire" in Honolulu and San Francisco (1837 and 1851); several Victorian Indentures including one for the lease of a book stall at Ballarat West Railway Station (1884) and several Statutory Declarations under the Licensing Act for the sale of alcohol at Melbourne Hotels (Niagara Hotel, Royal George Hotel, Royal Mint Hotel, Royal Mail Hotel, Racing Club Hotel, etc.) circa 1909-10. (18 documents). 13 Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$260StatusSold View details 978 FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS: Group of mostly bank cheques with TASMANIA 1846 drawn on Commercial Bank (Hobart Town), 1886-1918 group drawn on the National Bank of Tasmania at Circular Head or Stanley including 1915 for Marrawah and Montague Cheese Factories; 1889 Commercial Bank of Tasmania for Irvine & McEarchern (Wine & Spirit Merchants) with embossed 3d Platypus Stamp Duty; VICTORIA 1886-91 group drawn on Colonial Bank of Australia (Birregurra), Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$140StatusSold View details 979 VICTORIAN GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS: with 1860-61 'Progress Report from the Select Committee upon The Lunatic Asylum' printed by John Ferres (Melbourne), 73pp plus appendices, "Australian Species of Acacia" (1887) and "Australian Salsolaceous Plants (1890) both by Government Botanist Ferdinand Von Mueller both printed by Ferres; also an 1852 document confirming appointment of William Swainson as Government Botanist, and a German publication "Die Diamantfuhrenden gesteine sudafrikas" Estimate$160 - $200Price Realized$240StatusSold View details 980 1854 VICTORIAN LAND GRANT DURING THE GOLD RUSH: July 1854 land grant by purchase to Allan McDougall and Theodore Clodins, signed and sealed by SIR CHARLES HOTHAM whilst serving as 2nd Lieutenant-Governor of Victoria (Appointed 1st Governor of Victoria in May 1855), for a parcel of land measuring "two acres, three roods and eight perches" in the County of Talbot, and the Parish of Castlemaine on Barkers Creek; Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$650StatusSold View details 981 PROMISSORY NOTE: 31st January 1859 10/- note (10x19cm), issued on behalf of the Grange General Store, redeemable at Mr. P. Drummonds Stores, Geelong, engraved and printed by Thomas Ham, Melbourne; in typically fragile condition; window mounted framed & glazed, overall 26x36cm. Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$240StatusSold View details 982 ROBERT L.J. ELLERY, "Results of Astronomical Observations made at the Melbourne Observatory, in the years 1863, 1864 and 1865" together with the matching volumes for 1866-67-68 and 1869-70, [Melbourne; Mason, Firth & M'Cutcheon; 1866, 1869 and 1873], original buckram bindings with gilt coats of arms and titles. (3 vols.). Estimate$300 - $400Price Realized$320StatusSold View details 983 Sir Frederick McCOY (1817-1899), Exposition Intercoloniale, 1866. Notes sur la zoologie et la paleontologie de Victoria, [Melbourne; Masterman, Imprimeur, Brunswick Street, Fitzroy], 35pp in French with original yellow paper covers. Estimate$80 - $100Price Realized$80StatusSold View details 984 UNION WOOLLEN MILLS GEELONG Block Plan scale 1"=20', original architectural drawing by LAIRD & BUCHAN, 43 x 23cm, 57 x 36cm overall Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$100StatusSold View details 985 SOUTH YARRA: 'Allotments on Gardiner's Creek & Punt Road, South Melbourne, lithographed sub-division plan by P.M. McGoldrick, Temporary Surveyor, dated February 1859, showing 'Proposed Park' (Fawkner Park, created in 1862), Gardiner's Creek Road (now Toorak Road) to the north, St Kilda and Brighton Road to the west and Punt Road to the east; window mounted, framed & glazed, 67x58cm. Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$850StatusSold View details 986 "THE GRAPHIC" 1878 bound volume in half morocco, January to June. Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$280StatusSold View details 987 BLAIR, David, 'The History of Australasia from the first dawn of Discovery in the Southern Ocean to the Establishment of Self-Government in the various Colonies. Comprising the settlement and History of New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia, Tasmania and New Zealand. Together with some account of Fiji and New Guinea.' Full leather binding with gilt embossed decoration to front, gilt titles and tooling to five band raised spine. 1st Edition. xxvi, 711 pages. 14 plates, 8 maps. Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$550StatusSold View details 988 L. KONG MENG, CHEOK HONG CHEONG & LOUIS AH MOUY, The Chinese Question in Australia 1878-79, [Melbourne; F.F. Bailliere], 31pp. (lacks original paper covers). Estimate$80 - $120Price Realized$240StatusSold View details 989 EPHEMERA, an attractive accumulation including bank cheques, share certificates, labels etc. 19th and 20th century, (qty) Estimate$300 - $500StatusCLOSED! View details 990 Three antique Australian scene coloured lithographs and prints in maple frames, 19th century, the largest 43 x 54cm overall 3 Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$360StatusSold View details 990a NEW SOUTH WALES PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS: "Aboriginal mission stations at Warangesda and Maloga : (report and correspondence respecting inquiry into working of.) " (1883); "Aborigines. (Report of the Protector, to 31 December, 1882.)" (1883); "Protection of the Aborigines. (Report of Board for 1894)" (1895). (3 items). Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$460StatusSold View details 991 ODDFELLOWS, BENDIGO DISTRICT: District Committee Meeting booklets for 1885 (Jun.2), 1896 (Dec.1, missing back cover), 1907 (Dec.3) & 1911 (Jun.6); some age spotting/staining, good condition overall. (4) Estimate$80 - $120Price Realized$120StatusSold View details 992 1886 bundle of Colonial Bank cheques and deposit slips, most of the cheques issued at Birregurra Branch; also 1888 Cobb & Co Royal Mail Coaches Terang-Warrnambool return ticket; the latter item framed & glazed. (85 + the framed item) Estimate$80 - $120Price Realized$360StatusSold View details 993 THOMAS W. KNOX The Boy Travellers in Australasia, [New York; Harper & Brothers, 1889], 538 pp & 6 pp of ads., highly decorated green cloth covers. Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$80StatusSold View details 994 'Orient Line Guide - Chapters for Travellers by sea and by land Illustrated. The Third Edition, re-written, with maps and plans.' Edited by W.J. Loftie, [London; Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington], 1889; 438pp incl. advertising + maps. Dark blue boards and cloth spine. The front cover and spine stamped in gilt with lettering and crown. Stamping on the rear in blind. Well illustrated; lithographic plates of ships and scenics, folding maps and plates. Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$120StatusSold View details 995 The Sketchbook of Lord Inverurie, Ian Douglas Montagu Keith-Falconer (1877 - 1897), son of Lord Kintore, Governor of South Australia from 1889 - 1895. Titled "Ian's Early Sketches", the bound volume bears a tipped-in certificate on the inside front cover, dated June 1890, advising that "Lord Douglas Montagu Inverurie" had passed a satisfactory examination in Model Drawing conducted by the Public Library, Museum and Art Gallery of South Australia. The album contains 39 tipped-in watercolours. Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Price Realized$1,700StatusSold View details 996 Antique Australian hand-painted newspaper display, circa 1893, signed "A. Shepherd", 41 x 48cm, 60 x 70cm overall Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$550StatusSold View details 997 CHANCERY OF THE ORDER OF ST MICHAEL & ST GEORGE: 1895 (Jul.5) 6pp notification document of the appointment of Sir William Austin Zeal to the office of Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George, signed by Queen Victoria "Victoria Re I" (Regina Imperatix) at the head of the two of the pages, beneath which are multicoloured 'Auspicium Melioris Aevi' seals and embossed wafer seals of the Order, the document twice countersigned by Sir Robert G.W. Herbert, and also c Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusCLOSED! View details 998 "PATERSON, LAING & BRUCE Ltd. MELBOURNE" chromolithograph advertising "New Patterns For Our Standard Shirts In Cellular, Silkstripe, Matti And Oxfords", dated 1898 with photographic vignette upper left, printed by McNeill & Bruce Lith., 45 x 57cm, 47.5cm x 60cm overall Estimate$350 - $450Price Realized$550StatusSold View details 999 "PATERSON, LAING & BRUCE Ltd. MELBOURNE" chromolithograph advertising "The New Era Shirt, Universal Shirt", circa 1898, with photographic vignette upper right of the Scarf Factory, printed by McNeill & Bruce Lith., 45 x 57cm, 47.5cm x 60cm overall Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$500StatusSold View details 1000 EDWARD LEAR (1812 - 1888), The Book of Nonsense, [London; Frederick Warne & Co., 1899], decorated red cloth boards. Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$80StatusSold View details 1001 CERTIFICATES OF APPRECIATION: comprising 1899 hand drawn & coloured on behalf of residents of Wamboota and surrounding districts (NSW), to Rev. Alfred Rogers for religious service; 1923 illustrated letter of appreciation from citizens of Hamilton (NZ) to a Mr & Mrs Fox; and a 1937 Oddfellows lithographed certificate presented for meritorious service for contribution to the local community; all are framed & glazed, largest 73x60cm. (3) Estimate$80 - $120Price Realized$100StatusSold View details 1002 Antique hand-coloured engraving from Hunter's 1793 book "An historical journal of the transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island" , dated 1792 with rare, original hand-colouring and one of the earliest descriptions of Australian shells (Mollusca)' 27 x 21cm Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$140StatusSold View details 1003 Two souvenir panoramic publications: I.) Panoramic Sydney, II.) Views Of The Famed Blue Mountains, N.S.W. 23 x 56cm each 2 Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$80StatusSold View details 1004 [CHILDRENS BOOKS] A collection, mainly early 20th Century hardbacks with illustrated covers, also noted several annuals, etc. Very mixed condition. (135+). Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$140StatusSold View details 1005 PARIS EXHIBITION 1900 (MADAGASCAR) "Exposition Universelle, 1900, Les Colonies Francaises, Madagascar" J. Charles-Roux, half morocco bound with embossed gilt lettering to the spine and marbled boards, a good firm and complete copy Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$260StatusSold View details 1006 "Robin Hood and the Curtall Fryer" narrated and illustrated by Matthew Hinscliff, published by Richard Jackson (Leeds, 1900), unpaginated Quarto, comprising sixteen leaves of illustrations, twelve of which have decorated text, limited edition of 1000 copies, tightly bound with minor cover wear. Estimate$80 - $120Price Realized$60StatusSold View details 1007 [SYDNEY INTEREST], 'The Commonwealth of Australia Inaugural Celebrations at Sydney' January 1901 official programme printed by John Sands; 'The Charm of Sydney' Ure Smith/Bertram Stevens 1918; 'Sydney from the Air' SMH 1937; 'Pageant of the Nations' Sydney 1938; 'Sydney from the Air' by Frank Hurley (1952), plus several other items. (10). Estimate$80 - $120Price Realized$160StatusSold View details 1008 "THE EMU, A Quarterly Magazine To Popularise The Study And Protection Of Native Birds", bound 11 full morocco volumes with embossed gilt lettering and pictorial boards. Volumes 1,10, 13,14,15,16,17,19,20,21 and an index volume. (1901-1922) Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Price Realized$1,100StatusSold View details 1009 "THE LEISURE HOUR" Nov.1903 to Oct.1904 in 2 attractively bound volumes. Noted coverage of the Shackleton Expedition and other Arctic and Antarctic exploration, Alpine Sports in Australia, the proposed railway across Australia, Anti-Chinese protests in Australia, etc. (2 vols.). Estimate$80 - $120Price Realized$20StatusSold View details 1010 N.S.W. BOOKSTALL and similar publishers: A range of softcover books, mainly circa 1900 - 1920, together with a reference book by Carol Mills [1991]. Total: 22 items. Estimate$80 - $120Price Realized$500StatusSold View details 1011 'CATALOGUE. NATIONAL ART GALLERY of N.S.W.' [Sydney, Gullick, Government Printer, 1908]; octavo, 252pp, original grey covers with gilt lettering and Coat of Arms. Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$80StatusSold View details 1012 GEORGE CHECKLEY, "The Girl at Blue Creek - A Book of the Bush, with Some Mention of Town", [Melbourne; Southern Press Agency, 1906], Hardcover 1st ed., Illustrated papered card covers. Illustrated by Laurie Tayler. Estimate$80 - $120Price Realized$60StatusSold View details 1013 "The Lone Hand" Magazine: Four uniformly bound volumes containing all issues from 1907 to April 1910. The Lone Hand was founded in 1907 by J. F. Archibald and Frank Fox as a monthly Australian magazine of literature and poetry as a sister magazine to The Bulletin. Contributors included C.J. Dennis, Will Dyson, Henry Lawson, Norman, Percy & Lionel Lindsay, B.E. Minns, Blamire Young and many others... Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$700StatusSold View details 1014 'Souvenir Illustrative of the American Fleet's Visit to Australia, 1908', [Sydney; N.S.W. Bookstall Co.], with folding photographic panorama and numerous advertisements and cover art by Harry J. Weston. Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$180StatusSold View details 1015 IDA RENTOUL OUTHWAITE - "THE LADY OF THE BLUE BEADS - HER BOOK": written by Annie Rentoul (George Robertson, Melbourne, N.D. but 1908), being an account of her first blue moon spent on Sun Island; quarto with oatmeal cloth boards, the front board decorated in orange and blue (faded), light foxing throughout; 102pp with numerous illustrations. Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$80StatusSold View details 1016 SOCIETY/LODGE CERTIFICATES: attractively illustrated trio of certificates comprising 1909 for Royal Agricultural Society of Victoria lithographed by H.W. Mills & Co (Melbourne), 1927 for Loyal Orange Institution of Victoria printed by Arnall & Jackson (Melbourne), 1938 for Australian Natives' Association (Minyip Branch); all are framed & glazed, largest 60x75cm. Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$180StatusSold View details 1017 "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 - $2,000Price Realized$2,400StatusSold View details 1018 "The Varsity Engineer": Issue No.1 (Aug, 1910) and Issue No.5 (June 1912) 47pp & 36pp softbound respectively, the first edition with tribute to William Charles Kernot, first Professor of Engineering at Melbourne University, and few plates including 'Our University Survey Camp, 1910, Burnie, Tasmania'; the latter including article "Mawson's Antarctic Expedition", a letter by expedition member Bob Bage; some aging, very good condition overall. (2) Estimate$80 - $120Price Realized$100StatusSold View details 1018a PHOTOGRAPHIC SOUVENIRS: 'The Garden City : Panoramic Views of BALLARAT & District', [H.J. Summerscales, Sturt St.,circa 1910], with an essay titled 'Ballarat Revisited', together with, 'Picturesque Port Phillip' by E.J. Brady, [George Robertson & Co., circa 1910] Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$260StatusSold View details 1019 THE ROYAL FAMILY & AUSTRALIA: A collection of books, pamphlets, souvenirs, etc. (20+ items) Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$120StatusSold View details 1020 R.J. CASSIDY, "Chandler of Corralinga", [Sydney; N.S.W. Bookstall Co., 1912], with eight illustrations by Lionel Lindsay; illustrated soft cover, 175pp + adverts. Estimate$80 - $120Price Realized$60StatusSold View details 1021 SOCIETY/LODGE CERTIFICATES: comprising 1915 for Melbourne Benevolent Asylum, Gould League of Bird Lovers of Victoria (undated), 1936 for Centenary of Methodism in Victoria all framed & glazed; also unframed 1927 for Independent Order of Rechabites, 1947 City of Coburg for appreciation of war service; largest (framed) 54x40cm. (5 items) Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$80StatusSold View details 1022 EPHEMERA - RECEIPTS & LETTERHEADS FOR VICTORIAN COMPANIES: mostly 1950s array (few earlier), sorted by business types, some illustrated including 1917 for J.B. Edwards (Bendigo) Watchmaker, Jeweller & Optician; other businesses represented include Builders & Glass Merchants, Chemists/Pharmacists, Garages & Motoring, General Merchants & Retailers, Quarrying companies, etc; also noted 1950 Geelong Waterworks and Sewerage Trust 'Plan of Drainage' for property in South Barwon, Estimate$120 - $160Price Realized$40StatusSold View details 1023 "Angus and Robertson's History of Australia" (1918), 80pp softbound, signed on front cover by artist and cartoonist RAYMOND LINDSAY; also "Our Shepherds" by W.R. Glasson of Gamboola, Molong, NSW ( Australian Medical Publishing, 2nd edn, c.1943), 31pp softbound, signed and dated message "To my pleasant train companion, from W.R.Glasson, 30.7.43"; also a bundle of philatelic covers with Australia pre-decimal FDCs and a 1940 Sea Floor, Bahamas cover. (2 publications & 30 covers) Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$140StatusSold View details 1024 Collection remainder comprising a framed copper engraving of "Venus", a framed share certificate for The Western Canada Land Company (1918) and copy of "Australian Memories" by Mary Buckle, (3 items). Estimate$60 - $100Price Realized$40StatusSold View details 1025 ARTHUR STREETON: Two books, comprising the 1919 Art in Australia devoted to his work, together with the NGV catalogue of the 1995 Retrospective of his works. (2 vols.) Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$160StatusSold View details 1026 An ETHEL TURNER LIBRARY: A collection including "Fugitives from Fortune" [1909], "John of Daunt" [1916], "Seven Little Australians", "Funny" [1926], "Ports and Happy Havens", and others; all hardcover, several with dust jackets. (29 vols.). 29 Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$160StatusSold View details 1027 AUSTRALIAN MILITARY: A shelf of books, (15). 15 Estimate$80 - $120Price Realized$120StatusSold View details 1028 AUSTRALIAN TOURIST GUIDES & SOUVENIRS: including "Queensland Illustrated: 70 Exquisite Views", "1927 Canberra Federal Capital", "North Queensland - Australia's Richest Territory", "Melbourne Illustrated : 39 Present-Day Views", "The Majesty and Beauty of the Australian Gums", plus several other items. (11). Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$80StatusSold View details 1029 MARTIN BOYD (1893 - 1972), Retrospect, [Melbourne; Australasian Authors' Agency, 1920] 1st ed., 45pp, octavo; original paper-covered boards. Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$80StatusSold View details 1030 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$120 - $200Price Realized$160StatusSold View details 1031 FRAMED COMMERCIAL DOCUMENTS comprising 1922 Commercial Bank of Australia cheque for William Lawrence (Dye Works), South Yarra, and early 1900s The National Bank of Australia for R&J Linay (timber merchant), South Yarra, mounted together in a single frame; also two 1913 share deed certificates for The Southern Alberta Land Company, separately framed and glazed; largest 35x41cm. (3 items) Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$60StatusSold View details 1032 1923 MELBOURNE 2a.m. SPECIAL EDITION NEWSPAPER - POLICE STRIKE: The Argus / Sunday 2am / RIOTS IN THE CITY / UNPRECEDENTED SCENES / Window Smashing & Looting / APPEAL BY THE MINISTRY / No Trains or Trams To-Night ....., single sided special edition, 68 X 15cm, framed and glazed 85 x 30cm overall. Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold View details 1033 JOHN BUTLER COOPER, 'The History of Prahran from its first settlement to a city', [Melbourne; Modern Printing Co; 1924], pp. xvi + 372, 2 hand-tipped coloured plates (including frontispiece with tissue guard), plus 55 black & white plates (1 folding); with signed dedication from A.H. Woodfull (Mayor 1921-22, 1928-29 & 1940-41) on the upper free endpaper. Estimate$80 - $120Price Realized$60StatusSold View details 1034 'Wells Cartoons, Sporting, Political and General' (2nd Edition) by S.G. Wells, cartoonist for "The Herald" newspaper (Melbourne), 136pp softbound, some light aging and minor spine damage, very good condition overall, c.1924; also "The Billy Book - Hughes Abroad" cartoons by Low, published by NSW Bookstall Co (Sydney, 1918), cover faults & spotting to cover and end pages. (2 items). Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$120StatusSold View details 1035 CHILDRENS BOOKS comprising three books by ETHEL TURNER, Australian Wonder Book with illustrations by IDA RENTOUL OUTHWAITE, and Mickey Mouse Annual, (5 books) 5 Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$40StatusSold View details 1036 CHILDREN'S BOOKS: selection with hardbound 'A Gallery of Children' by A.A. Milne (5th Edn, 1925) with illustrations by H. Willebeek Le Mair, 105pp, pub. Stanley Paul (London); "Those Boys" by Sale Barker pub, George Routledge (London 1891); Treasure Island pub. Three Sirens Press (New York, 1930); 'Cinty and the Laughing Jackasses" (1962), Foreword by Dallas Brooks; sotfbound "Mickey Mouse has a Party (1938), and 'A Day in the Bush' by Nan Fullerton (1946); Estimate$100 - $140Price Realized$120StatusSold View details 1037 GINGER MEGGS collection of 'The Sunbeams Book', all titled "More Adventures of Ginger Meggs" and comprising Series 3 (1926), 5 (1928), 8 (1931), 14 (1937), 17 (1940) and 19 (1942). (6 vol.) 6 Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$400StatusSold View details 1038 ART IN AUSTRALIA: Three complete editions, comprising June 1927 "Sydney Number", December 1930 "Norman Lindsay Number" and June 1932 "Watercolours and Drawings by Hans Heysen". (3). Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$140StatusSold View details 1039 [SHEET MUSIC] "Hats off to our Airmen" - A Song and Toast to Kingsford Smith and his Comrades.", Words by Cliff O'Keeffe; Music by Harry Grunden. Published by J. Albert & Sons, 1928. Written and released in 1928, following the first successful crossing of the Pacific Ocean by air. Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$80StatusSold View details 1040 EPHEMERA - UNUSED OFFICIAL/LEGAL DOCUMENTS (VICTORIA): mostly 1920-1930s era including 1928 Justices Act 'Information for an Offence and Warrant to Apprehend' form, Hawkers and Peddlars Act 1928 - Sixth Schedule, 'Hawkers and Pedlar's Recognisance' document, GPO Return of Postage Stamps and Return of Petty Sessions and Magisterial Business forms; others for Licence Transfer, Licence Renewal, Summary Conviction Order Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$60StatusSold View details 1041 Four assorted books including "The Weekly Times, Wild Nature Book", "Australian Plants", "Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management" and "The Pilgrim's Progress" 4 Estimate$60 - $100Price Realized$80StatusSold View details 1042 NORMAN LINDSAY, "The Magic Pudding", [Sydney; Angus & Robertson, 1930] with dustjacket; also, "Jacko the Broadcasting Kookaburra" by Brooke Nicholls [1933], also with d/j. (2 vols.). 2 Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$160StatusSold View details 1043 THE MAGNET MAGAZINE: 1932 editions in two uniformly bound volumes. Estimate$80 - $120Price Realized$200StatusSold View details 1044 C.J. DENNIS (1876 - 1938) 'I Dips me Lid' to The Sydney Harbour Bridge, pamphlet, 4pp with card covers and containing a poem subtitled 'Being Further Musings of "The Sentimental Bloke".' Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$120StatusSold View details 1045 "The Thirty-Ninth - The History of the Thirty-Ninth Battalion A.I.F." published by G.W. Green and Sons (Melbourne,1934), 371pp hardbound with gilt titles on spine, 36 illustrations and 11 maps, foreword by Lieut.-General Sir John Monash. Estimate$200 - $400Price Realized$200StatusSold View details 1046 CHARLES KINGSFORD SMITH pen autograph on an envelope carried by him on the 18th July 1935 Last Flight of the "Southern Cross" from Sydney to Richmond. Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$400StatusSold View details 1047 AUSTRALIA: A collection of books, mostly hardcover. (28 vols.). Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$60StatusSold View details 1048 [THE 1938 SESQUICENTENARY], The March 1938 'Art in Australia' edition devoted to an "Exhibition of 150 Years of Australian Art"; the "Catalogue of the Australian Historical Exhibition' Commonwealth Bank, Martin Place; "An Historic Retrospect on the occasion of the 150th Anniversary Celebrations..." and an Official Souvenir Programme for the National Celebrations. (4 items). Estimate$80 - $120Price Realized$60StatusSold View details 1049 MAY GIBBS "Snugglepot and Cuddlepie - Their Adventures Wonderful", [Sydney; Angus & Robertson, 1939]; hardcover, 87pp with plates. Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$60StatusSold View details 1050 ELECTRONICS & RADIO: 1940s-60s books, manuals, booklets and periodicals including hardbound 'House, Telephone, Bells & Signalling Systems' by Stuart (1942), "Miniwatt" Electronics Handbook (1960); manuals with 'Sylvania Radio Tubes Technical Manual (1942), 'Howard W Sams - Post War Communications Receiver Manual including Aircraft and Marine Radio' (1948), 'RCA Transmitting Tubes' (1956), Australian Post Office 'Linemen's Handbook' (1958) ; Estimate$100 - $140Price Realized$80StatusSold View details 1051 BOOKS FROM "THE GOLDEN BOOMERANG SERIAL": 'Tuckonie' [1942]; 'The Lost Tribe' [1943]; 'Tuckonie's Warrior Friend' [1944]; (3 softcover illustrated books). Estimate$80 - $120Price Realized$60StatusSold View details 1052 MASTER-SARG (J.W. HEMING 1900 - 1953), A Yank Discovers Australia, Illustrated by Walter Dowman, circa 1945, [Sydney; The Currawong Publishing Co.], 76pp, original illustrated red boards plus original coloured dustjacket. Estimate$80 - $120Price Realized$60StatusSold View details 1053 Family archive for Christoffels family who emigrated to Australia from Germany in the mid 1960s, the mostly German contents date back to 19th century including pocket watch (poor condition), several diaries, one for Bernard Joesph Christoffels dated 1845, another for the 1911-17 period with several well executed pen & ink drawings, as well a number of pressed flowers; WWII era content with ration tickets, correspondence for Wolfgang Christoffels, 1944 Mother's Day propaganda notice Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$240StatusSold View details 1054 E.F. AITKEN, The Story of the 2/2nd Australian Pioneer Battalion, [Melbourne; 2/2nd Battalion Association, 1953], 1st ed., hardcover with d/jacket., 288pp; signed by the author. Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$100StatusSold View details 1055 NORTHERN TERRITORY - FIRST CENSUS OF INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIANS: "Northern Territory of Australia Welfare Ordinance 1953-55: Schedule, Welfare Ordinance, Register of Wards", being a 1957 (May 13th) issue of the Government Gazette detailing by district, name (European and/or Tribal), Tribe, Sex and Date of Birth of the indigenous population; 272pp softbound; printed by "Truth" and "Sportsman" Ltd (Sydney). Ex Superintendent Les Wilson who was responsible for much of the work on the survey. Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$120StatusSold View details 1056 SHARE CERTIFICATES: 1959 for Reid Murray Holdings Limited (3), 1959 for The Papuan Aninaipi Petroleum Company Ltd (5) and 1964-68 for Mount Isa Mines Limited (10), the latter with Queensland Adhesive Duty stamp attached. (18 items) Estimate$100 - $140Price Realized$60StatusSold View details 1057 SYDNEY: Various books and two early SHB souvenir publications. (12 items). Estimate$80 - $120Price Realized$60StatusSold View details 1058 "Two Expeditions into Southern Australia 1828-31" Volumes 1 & 2 by Charles Sturt, facsimile editions published by the Public Library of South Australia (Adelaide, 1963), 219pp & 271pp hardbound respectively, each volume with a folding map and two colour plates. (2) Estimate$100 - $160Price Realized$100StatusSold View details 1059 "NORTHERN TERRITORY OF AUSTRALIA - HANDBOOK IN LAW FOR THE USE OF WELFARE OFFICERS" by J. R. Mattes being Les Wilson's (Superintendent of Bagot Settlement) personal copy, dated 16th January 1964, for legislation taking effect 15 May 1963; Northern Territory Administration (Darwin) label adhered to front inside cover; 437pp hardbound. Estimate$200 - $300StatusCLOSED! View details 1060 ANGAS, GEORGE FRENCH, South Australia Illustrated, Facsimile edition published by A. & A. Reed, 1967. [#457 of 1000]; Elephant folio, half leather with six raised bands, marbled boards; gilt ruled, decorated and text to spine, top edges gilt. with the text, including list of Subscribers, 60 coloured plates and reproductions of the wrappers of the 10 original issues bound in at rear. Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$280StatusSold View details 1061 An album of photographic reproductions of works by James Blackburn, compiled in 1970 by Hanley H. Preston and signed by him. The images depict plans, sketches, elevations and actual buildings erected. They include various churches, New Town Watch House, Government House, Public Schools, private homes, etc. Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$180StatusSold View details 1062 WEG (WILLIAM ELLIS GREEN), (1923-2008), group of 6 original comic artworks, the largest 50 x 66cm 6 Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$200StatusSold View details 1063 E.W. COLE, BOOK ARCADE, MELBOURNE: publications comprising 'Cole's Funny Picture Book No.1 (72nd edition, 1992) and No.2' (69th edition, undated); also 'Cole of the Book Arcade' biography of E.W. Cole by Cole Turnley (1974); all in good condition with slight cover wear. (3) Estimate$80 - $120Price Realized$40StatusSold View details 1064 GARNER, Helen "MONKEY GRIP" McPhee Gribble [S.A. 1977], first edition, hardcover with d/j Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$140StatusSold View details 1065 Assorted prints, artworks, posters and ephemera from the studio of JOSEPH GREENBERG (1923-2007). PROVENANCE: The Joseph Greenberg Collection Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$80StatusSold View details 1066 AUSTRALIAN INTEREST, small library of books, including "David and Hermia Boyd", (qty) Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$40StatusSold View details 1067 AUSTRALIAN ART & ARTISTS range of books including works on Norman Lindsay, Australian Impressionists, The Blue Mountains, William Dobell, Lionel Lindsay, and others. (11 vols.). 11 Estimate$80 - $120Price Realized$120StatusSold View details 1068 "VICTORIA THE GOLDEN - SCENES, SKETCHES, AND JOTTINGS FROM NATURE BY WILLIAM STRUTT. MELBOURNE, VICTORIA 1850-1862" Published by Library Committee, Parliament of Victoria, Melbourne (1980), large format (36.5x51cm), 84pp hardbound with protective plastic dust cover and original cardboard box. Estimate$80 - $120Price Realized$160StatusSold View details 1069 PAYNTING & GRANT, Victoria Illustrated, 1984, Blue cloth boards with title in silver on spine and pastedown on front board. In handsome slipcase. 532pp. Estimate$80 - $100Price Realized$120StatusSold View details 1070 AUSTRALIAN PHOTOGRAPHERS: A collection of books featuring the work of Max Dupain, Sam Hood, Harold Cazneaux, Olive Cotton, Frank Hurley, Damien Parer, and others. Mainly hardcover, (13 vols.). Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$200StatusSold View details Items per page 102550100 Previous|12|Next Previous 12 Next
