Decorative Arts & Collectables (#484) 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 1-32 of 32. Previous|1|Next Lot 1487 KING LOUIS XIV - THE CHILD KING (1638 - 1715):Louis XIV became "king" in May 1643, at the age of four. His reign of 72 years and 110 days is the longest recorded of any monarch of a sovereign country in history. (Queen Elizabeth is still in her 70th year!). The present document is a note prepared on behalf of the infant king for signing and delivery by his mother, the queen regent. The subject of the letter to Marshall de Breze concerns the raising of recruits in the local area.. View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$240StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1488 ROBERT SAYER, (1725-1794) The Artist’s Vade Mecum; being the whole Art of Drawing, taught in a new work, elegantly engraved on one hundred folio copper plates; containing great variety of examples in every branch of that noble art; as parts of the face, heads, hands, feet, academy, antiques, and groups of figures, beasts, birds, insects, flowers, fruit, shells, ornaments, buildings, landscapes, &c &c &c. Collected from the works of the greatest masters. 1762. View details Estimate$2,000 - $4,000StatusCLOSED! Lot 1489 GERMAN SCHERENSCHNITTE LIEBESBRIEFE: cut paper decorated love letter, divided into 8 hearts with turtle doves above, with a central circular message area; 36cm diameter, dated 1780. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$380StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1490 TEA TRADE DOCUMENT. Dutch East India Company (VOC). An unpublished manuscript document recording a cargo of tea from China carried on the VOC ship Vrouw Maria Cornelia, dated 1790, titled: Prisatie over de Lading Thee per het Schip Vrouw Maria Cornelia voor de Kamer Middelburg, alsmede de Pryze zo als dezelve op den 29 November 1790 zyn verkogt. View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Price Realized$1,900StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1491 An antique Persian double-sided illuminated manuscript page, 18th/19th, mounted and affixed with tape on the margins, 24 x 15cm, sheet size 29 x 16cm View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$260StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1492 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 Note: The text is written in both Arabic and Farsi; in red are verses from the Quran in Arabic, in black are the translation and interpretation of the verses in Farsi. On the side illustrated with the hornbills in red contain verses 100-102 of Surat Al-Nahl (The Bee) of View details Estimate$650 - $850StatusUnsold Lot 1493 CHARLES DICKENS, 'A CHRISTMAS CAROL IN PROSE being A Ghost Story of Christmas.', with illustrations by John Leech, [London; Chapman & Hall, 1843], 3rd Edition, 166pp + 2pp of adverts.; contemporary cloth binding with gilt title to upper board. View details Estimate$1,200 - $2,000Price Realized$340StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1494 LEATHER BINDINGS: English & European books attractively rebound including "The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club" by Dickens [1887]; "The Complete Concordance to Shakespeare..." by Cowden Clarke [1875]; plus 4 others. (6). View details Estimate$60 - $100Price Realized$120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1495 STEVENSON, Robert Louis, Memories & Portraits, [London, Chatto & Windus, 1888], 2nd ed., octavo, half leather binding by Zaehnsdorf with five raised bands to spine, gilt lettering, top edges gilt. View details Estimate$60 - $100Price Realized$40StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1495a Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9th Edition, 25 volumes, 1888. View details Estimate$200 - $400Price Realized$750StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1496 RICHARD R. HOLMES, F.S.A. (Librarian to the Queen), QUEEN VICTORIA, [London; Boussod, Valadon & Co., 1897], 200 pp with coloured frontispiece depicting the young Queen and Prince of Wales from a miniature by Robert Thorburn; 41 engraved plates, many full-page with printed tissue guards. A large volume handsomely bound in three quarter red leather and marbled paper covered boards. Five raised bands on spine, gilt lettering to spine and covers. All pages with gilt edge View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1497 [CHILDRENS & ILLUSTRATED BOOKS] A quantity, including "The Town & Country Toy Book" (c1880), "PALS Young Australians in Sport and Adventure" (c1918), "More Adventures of Ginger Meggs" (1940), "Walt Disney's Bambi" (1941), "Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" (1932), "Bunyip Says So" by W.M. Fleming (1939), "The Adventures of Tommy" by H.G. Wells (1929), plus many others. (Total: 30+). View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$180StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1498 "RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM" with introduction by A.C. BENSON, [published by Siegle, Hill & Co. London], hardcover with gilt embossed boards, View details Estimate$60 - $100Price Realized$420StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1499 Eclectic Assortment with 1916 Player's 'Polar Exploration' (2nd Series) set [25], two albums of vintage swap cards, Gould League Bird Sketching book, Amoco vintage Australian road map, 1938 Victorian Railways monthly ticket, Queensland Railways 6d bottle deposit ticket, Zimbabwe 100 Trillion Dollars banknote, etc. (small qty) View details Estimate$60 - $80Price Realized$160StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1500 MORGAN, Jacques de, "Histoire du Peuple Arménien depuis les temps les plus reculés de ses annales jusqu'à nos jours. Préface par Gustave Schlumberger. 411 pages; [Berger-Levrault, Paris, 1919], hardbound, with Armenian postage stamps affixed to last page. View details Estimate$60 - $100Price Realized$80StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1501 A collection of books over several shelves; very diverse subjects and condition; mainly hardcover. (130+) View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$360StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1502 BERNARD EVANS Architect rendering of WESTRALIA HOUSE Gresham Street, London, 68 x 73cm overall View details Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1503 "BIGGLES" BY CAPTAIN W.E. JOHNS - REISSUES OF TITLES ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED BETWEEN 1932-1935: mostly hardbound comprising "Biggles in the Cruise of the Condor" (10) incl. 1955 Thames Publishing Co (Burnet #2.7) & 1956 Dean & Co (#2.8) reissues; "Biggles of the Camel Squadron" (12, plus 1 softbound); "Biggles Flies Again" (13); "Biggles Learns to Fly" (2) both the 1955 Brockampton Press reissues (#5.20), one with d/j & very scarce thus; View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$360StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1504 GUILLEMIN, Ernst A., 'Communication Networks Vol.1 The Classical Theory of Lumped Constant Networks' (1931) and 'Vol.2 The Classical Theory of Long Lines, Filters and Related Networks' (1935) [John Wiley & Sons, New York]; also, TERMAN, Frederick Emmons, 'Radio Engineers' Handbook' [McGraw-Hill, New York, 1943]; all h/cover. (3). View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$40StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1505 SHIRLEY TEMPLE: A collection of mainly 1930s publications including 'Shirley Temple in Stowaway', 'Shirley Temple in The Little Princess', 'Shirley Temple's Favorite Songs', 'The Little Colonel', etc. (8 items). View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$40StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1506 AUSTRALIAN & OVERSEAS postcards, souvenir cards and photographs mostly stuck down in large album, including interior views of SS Orcades; also 1930s trade cards with part sets of Hoadleys 'Wild West Series', Allens 'Kings & Queens of England', 'Sports & Flags' and 'Cricketers' including Don Bradman cards '1' & '9'; condition variable; c.1930s-50s. View details Estimate$80 - $120Price Realized$20StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1507 ELECTRONICS & RADIO: 1940s-60s books, manuals, booklets and periodicals including hardbound 'Complete Proceedings of the World Radio Convention (Sydney, 1936); periodicals incl. 1945-51 issues of 'Communication Review' (8) 1946-60 issues of 'The Proceedings of the Institution of Radio Engineers Australia' (quantity); also Commonwealth of Australia (PMG's Dept) publication 'Operators of Experimental Wireless Stations' (Jan,1946); condition variable. (Qty) View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$60StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1508 PAUL BRICKHILL ARCHIVE (THE GREAT ESCAPE). uncut galley proof of "The Great Escape" [First Edition, W.W.Norton & Co., New York, 1950] paginated to p.164 and printed on tissue-thin paper. View details Estimate$600 - $1,000StatusCLOSED! Lot 1509 RADIOS & HOBBIES IN AUSTRALIA Library of vintage journals and papers, mid 20th century. Inspection will reward. (qty) View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusCLOSED! Lot 1510 SPACE & SCIENCE FICTION: small library of books, journals & magazines with hardbound 'No Place Like Earth' by John Carnell (1st Edn, 1952), 'The Embedding' by Ian Watson (1st Edn,1973), 1960s "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." paperbacks (12), vintage 'Star Trek' paperbacks (7) ; 'Delta 99' comic, No.1 undated, published by Greydown (Sydney), 'Astounding Science Fiction' (Dec.1958, British Edn), 'Venture Science Fiction Monthly' (Nov.1963, Australian Edn), etc; mixed condition. (30 items) View details Estimate$100 - $140Price Realized$60StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1511 "MAD" MAGAZINE: complete run of issues from No.51 (Dec. 1959) to No. 202 (Oct. 1978); condition variable. (152). Satirical magazine founded in 1952 by Harvey Kurtzman and published by Bill Gaines, hitting a peak circulation of 2,000,000+ in the early/mid 1970s, under the editorship of Al Feldstein. View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$480StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1512 COMICS collection of vintage examples including, PHANTOM, SUPERMAN, BATMAN, JETSONS, MICKEY MOUSE and others, mainly poor condition with some exceptions, (70+) View details Quantity70Estimate$60 - $100Price Realized$100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1513 EPHEMERA - 1960's FASHION CATALOGUES: 1964-67 European fashion catalogues including 1964 (winter) Modestudio 'Robes de Vienne', Miroir 1965 & 1967 winter editions of 'Pour La Femme Chic Robes D'Un style Moderne' plus 6 others; condition variable. (9) View details Estimate$80 - $120Price Realized$100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1514 DEREK TAYLOR, GEORGE HARRISON, Fifty Years Adrift, [Genesis Publications, 1984], original half calf, spine gilt with raised bands, morocco spine label, gilt and coloured signet on front cover and author's signature gilt stamped on back cover. (x, 546pp.). Illustrated throughout with facsimiles of concert posters, tickets, photos, contracts, letters, handbills, artwork, etc. Limited to 2,000 copies [#1703], signed by Derek Taylor & George Harrison; in original captioned slipcase. View details Estimate$2,000 - $2,500Price Realized$1,700StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1515 SELECTION with hardbound signed copy of 'My Vietnam' by Stephen Lewis, 'King - the Life and Comedy of Graham Kennedy' by Graeme Blundell' signed by regular 'In Melbourne Tonight' performer Dorothy Baker, also 'My Gorgeous Life/Dame Edna Everage' (unsigned), softbound 'Whatever Happened to Diana Trask' with signed personal message to Dorothy Baker, 'An Ounce of Luck' by horseracing caller John Russell with personal dedication to Baker, View details Estimate$80 - $120Price Realized$40StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1516 An untidy accumulation of maps, charts, posters and prints (qty), View details Estimate$200 - $400StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1517 Box lot of assorted ephemera, photos etc (qty) View details Estimate$60 - $100Price Realized$20StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next
