AUSTRALIAN & HISTORICAL (#486) 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 1-100 of 104. Previous|12|Next Lot 748 "VICEROY PURE INDIAN TEAS" (Wilkinson & Co. Australia) chromolithograph point of sale advertising poster depicting an Indian man proudly displaying his wares over the body of a Chinese man, 19th century, 49.5 x 38cm, 63 x 53cm overall View details Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$700StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 749 JOHN WEBBER (1751-1793), "A Man Of Van Diemen's Land. A Woman & Child Of Van Diemen's Land", engraving from "Cook's Voyages", 18th century, 24 x 39cm, 34 x 48cm overall View details Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$240StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 750 JOHN WEBBER (1751-1793), "A Man Of New Zealand. A Woman & Child Of New Zealand", engraving from "Cook's Voyages" circa 1784. 24.5 x 39cm, 34 x 48cm overall View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusCLOSED! Lot 751 ANDREW KIPPIS, THE LIFE OF CAPTAIN JAMES COOK, [Dublin : Chamberlaine, Colles, et al., 1788] 1st Irish edition, issued in the same year as the first London edition; 8vo, contemporary calf, the spine with gilt and contrasting label, blank endpapers, xvi, 527pp, bookplate of William Blair of Blair to front paste down. View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Price Realized$1,400StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 752 GOVERNOR ARTHUR PHILLIP, "The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay; with an Account of the Establishment of the Colonies of PORT JACKSON & NORFOLK ISLAND; compiled from Authentic Papers, which have been obtained from the several Departments, to which are added the Journals of Lieuts. Shortland, Watts, Ball, & Capt. Marshall, with an Account of their New Discoveries. Embellished with fifty five Copper Plates, The Maps and Charts taken from Actual Surveys, & the Plans & Views drawn on the Spot View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Price Realized$4,600StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 753 GOVERNOR ARTHUR PHILLIP, "The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay...", The 1950 facsimile edition of the 1789 original, [Georgian House, Melbourne, 1950] #425 of 1000. Excellent condition, with defective d/j. View details Estimate$60 - $80Price Realized$140StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 754 CAPTAIN WILLIAM DAMPIER, A NEW VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD - 4th Edition 1699; VOYAGES AND DESCRIPTIONS Vol. II. in THREE Parts - 2nd Edition, 1700; and, A VOYAGE TO NEW HOLLAND, &c IN THE YEAR, 1699. in the Year 1699 - with a Continuation of a Voyage to New Holland, 1st Edition, 1703. [London : James Knapton], contemporary decorated calf, the spines in six compartments with five raised bands, gilt lettering and decorations. View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Price Realized$5,500StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 755 "NEW SOUTH WALES WOLF" handcoloured engraving of a thylacine (Tasmanian Tiger), based on the 1850s image by JOHN TALLIS, as printed in his "The Natural History of The Sacred Scriptures, And Guide To General Zoology". 9 x13cm, 24 x 29cm overall (in a rosewood frame). View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$600StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 756 THOMAS REID, TWO VOYAGES TO NEW SOUTH WALES AND VAN DIEMEN'S LAND; with a Description of the Present Condition of that Interesting Colony including facts and observations relative to the State and management of convicts of both sexes. [London : Longman, Hurst..., 1822] 1st ed., 8vo, xxi, 391pp + errata; contemporary half calf, marbled end papers. Ferguson 876. View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$900StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 757 "Report made to the Special General Meeting of the Van Diemen's Land Company....31st October, 1833: Octavo, (22 x 14.5cm), original 8pp, unopened example. View details Estimate$80 - $120Price Realized$140StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 758 [ALLAN CUNNINGHAM] The Works of Robert Burns, complete in two volumes, With Life by Allan Cunningham, [Edinburgh : Thomas C. Jack], n.d. but circa 1850; half leather, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration. (2 vols.). View details Estimate$80 - $120Price Realized$220StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 759 CAPTAIN H. BUTLER STONEY "VICTORIA with a description of its principal cities, Melbourne and Geelong : and remarks on the present state of the colony; including an account of the Ballaarat disturbances, and of the death of Captain Wise, 40th Regiment." [London : Smith, Elder, 1856] 1st ed., 219pp + 16pp of adverts.; 8 engraved plates incl. title, folding map; original blind-stamped blue cloth binding with gilt decorations and title; all page edges gilt. View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$800StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 760 SAMUEL THOMAS GILL (1818 - 1880), "VICTORIA ILLUSTRATED", [Sands & Kenny: Melbourne & Sydney], 1857, oblong quarto, engraved vignette title page and 45 steel engraved plates; original rich blue cloth elaborately decorated in gilt and the pages with gilt edges. View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Price Realized$1,400StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 761 Thomas McCOMBIE, The History of the Colony of Victoria from its settlement to the death of Sir Charles Hotham, [Melbourne : Sandy and Kenny, 1858] 1st ed., 8vo, iv, 336pp; original cloth binding, gilt titles to spine, Detmold binding label. Extensive references to contacts and relationships between the aborigines and the early settlers. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$750StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 762 JOHN PASCOE FAWKNER signature on the title page of "Last Day Of Dibden" [Lon. 1833] View details Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$550StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 763 Two antique hand-coloured engravings: I.) Diggers On The Road To The Rush, II.) Gladstone, Queensland, 39 x 40cm each overall View details Quantity2Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$220StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 764 SAMUEL THOMAS GILL (1818 - 1880), NICHOLAS CHEVALIER (1828 - 1902), and others, "VICTORIA ILLUSTRATED Second Series with descriptive letterpress.", [Sands & Kenny: Melbourne & Sydney], 1862, oblong quarto, engraved vignette title page and 41 steel engraved plates interleaved with pages of descriptive text; original deep green cloth elaborately decorated in gilt and the pages with gilt edges. View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Price Realized$2,200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 765 R. THERRY "Reminiscences Of Thirty Years' Residence In New South Wales And Victoria" [Lon. 1863], hardcover in brown cloth boards, View details Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$220StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 766 BENTHAM & VON MUELLER, Flora Australiensis: A description of the Plants of the Australian Territory, six volumes; the first 3 published in 1863, 1864 & 1866 are first editions in the original bindings; the last 3 are the 1967 reprints, similarly bound. (6 vols). View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 767 FERDINAND VON MUELLER [1825 - 1896],Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae, Volumes VI (1867-8), IX (1875), X (1876-7) & XI (1878-81), [Melbourne : John Ferres]; original green boards; gilt titles. Ex library. (4 vols).; also, 3 booklets on Victorian Indigenous Animals by Frederick McCoy (1884, 1886 & 1887). (7 items). View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$320StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 768 JAMES BONWICK, JOHN BATMAN, THE FOUNDER OF VICTORIA, [Melbourne : Fergusson and Moore, 1868], 2nd ed. Duodecimo, xii, [iii]-iv, 106 (last blank), [2] (review notices of earlier publications) pages. The preliminaries comprise a 12-page section tipped in before the original preface, blind-decorated green stippled cloth lettered in gilt on the front cover. View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 769 LUDOVIC, Marquis de BEAUVOIR, A Voyage Round the World - in two Volumes: Vol.1 AUSTRALIA; Vol 11 JAVA, SIAM, CANTON., [London : John Murray, 1870], 1st English edition; 8vo; Vol.1 pp. xii, 307; Vol.2 pp. vi, 388.; original dark brown cloth bindings; later black endpapers. (2 vols). View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$240StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 770 "AUSTRALIEN (NEUHOLLAND)" chromolithograph, 19th century, 20.5 x 25.5cm View details Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$140StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 771 EDWIN CARTON BOOTH, F.R.C.I., "AUSTRALIA illustrated with drawings by Skinner Prout, N. Chevalier, & c.&c.", [London; Virtue & Co., 1873-76]; 2 vols., green half leather with gilt titles and decorations; gilt page edges; numerous engraved plates with original tissue guards. View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$700StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 772 [MELBOURNE BOTANICAL GARDENS] WILLIAM R. GUILFOYLE, Curator Domain & Botanical Gardens, Gardens and Parks. Report of the Inspector-General of Gardens, Parks, and Reserves, Foolscap folio, folding map of the Botanical Gardens, four plates, sewn as issued. [Melbourne, John Ferres, Government Printer, 1873]. Victorian Parliamentary Paper. Provenance: The Denis Joachim Collection, Lot 387, June 2016. View details Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$280StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 773 ARTHUR STOCK (1810 - 1901) Astronomy for Beginners, who live in the Southern Hemisphere, [Wellington : T.A. Bowden, 1874] duodecimo,i-iv, 5-44pp, original cloth-backed printed card covers, endpapers with advertisements; early printed ownership label of "Mr. R. Wilson, Craiglea, Benhar, Otago"; illustrated with diagrams. Only two examples of this first edition are recorded in Australian collections: NLA and SLNSW. View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$400StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 774 Three Broinowski Australiana engravings, 35 x 28cm View details Estimate$100 - $160Price Realized$260StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 775 Elisee RECLUS, The Universal Geography with illustrations & maps, [London ; Virtue & Co., 1876 - 1894], 12 volumes, bound in green cloth with ornate gilt and black titles and decorations. Europe, Asia, The British Isles. View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$360StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 776 ADVANCE AUSTRALIA - ALBUM OF MELBOURNE VIEWS, blue covers with ornate gilt title and decorations, cloth spine, with 24 illustrations, mainly notable buildings including the newly erected Exhibition Building. View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$180StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 777 "Catalogue Of The Public Library Of Victoria" 2 vol. full red morocco with embossed gilt lettering to the spines and pictorial boards, [published in 1880], complete but fair condition only, vol.2 front board detached, both scuffed. View details Quantity2Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$180StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 778 "THE PICTURESQUE ATLAS OF AUSTRALASIA" [Melbourne. 1888], vol. I. and II., full morocco with embossed gilt lettering View details Quantity2Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$1,100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 779 [GARDENING] "A dictionary of Popular Names of the Plants which furnish the Natural and Acquired Wants of Man...." by John Smith [London : Macmillan and Co., 1882] publisher's green buckram binding, 457pp; also, "The Century Book of Gardening" by E.T. Cook, circa 1900 [London : Country Life] 610pp in a half-leather binding by E.G. Wigg & Son of Adelaide. Both books with the armorial bookplate of John Bagot of Forest Lodge, Adelaide Hills. (2 vols). View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$80StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 780 "The Warrnambool Standard Almanac And Tourist Guide To Warrnambool & District, For 1884" View details Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$2,200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 781 WILLIAM BRAMWELL WITHERS The History of Ballarat, from the First Pastoral Settlement to the Present Time. [Ballarat : F.W. Niven, 1887] Second edition, 8vo, 362pp with two folding panoramas, tinted and b/w plates, original gilt pictorial cloth. View details Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$340StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 782 "THE CHRONICLES OF EARLY MELBOURNE 1835 TO 1852, HISTORICAL, ANECDOTAL AND PERSONAL" centennial edition by Garryowen [Melb. 1888], 2 vol. hardcover full red morocco with gilt titled boards, View details Quantity2Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$550StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 783 "THE PICTURESQUE ATLAS OF AUSTRALASIA" [Melbourne. 1888], vol. I., full morocco with embossed gilt lettering on the spine View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$160StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 784 "CASSELL'S PICTURESQUE AUSTRALASIA", edited by E.E. Morris, [Cassell & Co., London, 1889-90] 1st ed. in 4 vols., original green half-leather bindings, gilt titles to spines, numerous full page plates and text illustrations and 5 maps. View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 785 "THE BLOCK" In Collins Street Melbourne, 1890 supplement from The London Illustrated News (later framing), 68 x 79cm overall View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 786 Three old Melbourne prints: I.) THOMAS HAM "The Post Office, Melbourne". II.) S.T. GILL "City Police Station and Town Hall, Melbourne". III.) S.T. GILL "The National Model & Training School, Melbourne". the largest 19 x 23cm, 33 x 38cm overall View details Quantity3Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 787 "THE OCTOPUS OF MONOPOLY" original cartoon artwork done in ink, signed lower left (illegible), 22 x 26cm, 31.5 x 36cm overall View details Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$60StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 788 W. SAVILLE-KENT, "The Great Barrier Reef of Australia; Its Products and Potentialities.", [W.H.Allen & Co., London, 1893], folio, orig. blue cloth with gilt title on front cover; (xx, 387pp.). With 48 full-page b/w plates, 16 full-page chromo-lithograph colour plates, all with protective tissue-guards, text-illusts., graphs and maps of which one is folding. View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$550StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 789 CHARLES DARWIN, Journal of Researches Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited during the Voyage of the HMS Beagle Round the World under the command of Captain Fitz Roy R.N. View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$380StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 790 Andrew Barton ("Banjo") PATERSON (1864 - 1941), The Man from Snowy River and other verses [Sydney : Angus and Robertson, 1st ed.] 8vo, original brown cloth; forward by Rolf Bolderwood. With a 6 page manuscript transcript of "The Ballad of the Calliope" written, signed and dated Xmas '97 by Paterson. View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$3,200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 791 ROBERT HAWCRIDGE (New Zealand, 1866 - 1920) BICYCLE MANUFACTURING: A superb leather-bound and gilt titled, hand painted and illuminated presentation from the employees of the Massey Harris Company of New Zealand, to William Andrew Shields, September 1900, on the occasion of his "Promotion to the Management of the Company's Implement Business in Victoria.....with original watercolour illuminations by Hawcridge. View details Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$420StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 792 AUSTRALIAN INTEREST: Several books, including Australia Unlimited by Brady; History of Ballarat by Withers and several others. (7). Mixed condition. View details Estimate$80 - $120Price Realized$100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 793 EMPHEMERA & JOURNALS including "BIRTH, A Little Journal Of Australian Poetry", "War Without Tears" by Armstrong, "We Of The A.I.F.", "Blitz", "Bluey And Curley", "The Weekly Times Annual 1912" and "The Australian Sanitary Engineering Supply Company". View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$320StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 794 A 1901 COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA GROUP from the estate of Peter F. Thomson: A blue leather binding with gilt titles and decorations containing the 'Official Programme of Functions and Displays to Celebrate the Opening of the First Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia, By His Royal Highness the Duke of Cornwall and York, 6th May to 17th May, At Melbourne" endorsed to Thomson "With kind remembrances of a happy time at Wangaratta." plus 3 invitations. View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$4,000StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 795 ANNIE R. RENTOUL & IDA S. RENTOUL (illustrator) The Lady of the Blue Beads : Her Book, [George Robertson & Co., Melb., n.d., 1908] Quarto, oatmeal cloth boards, the upper board decorated in orange and blue, 102 pp, illustrated throughout, with thirteen full page black and white illustrations and line drawings in the text. View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$160StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 796 HALLEY'S COMET. Circa 1910 scrap album with a fascinating assemblage of news clippings, diagrams and notations pertaining to the comets coarse and observations from around the globe. View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$460StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 797 SIBELLA MACARTHUR ONSLOW "Some Early Records of the MacArthurs of Camden" [Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1914] 1st ed. 496pp + plates; original blue hardcover with gilt decoration and lettering. View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$420StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 798 EDWIN J. BRADY, "Australia Unlimited", [Melbourne : George Robertson & Co.] n.d. but circa 1917, 1084pp + lvi, extensively illustrated on gloss paper, original red cloth binding with lettering and decoration. View details Estimate$80 - $120Price Realized$140StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 799 AUSTRALIAN NATIVES ASSOCIATION, MELBOURNE: Combined Syllabus booklets for July - December 1919, January - June 1920 and July - December 1921; softcovers, all with Foy & Gibson's adverts to back covers and other adverts throughout. Rarely seen. View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$140StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 800 AUSTRALIANA: A shelf lot including "Wild Animals of the World....Taronga Zoological Park" (1919) by Charles Hedley; "Australian Insects..." by Keith McKeown (1945); "Wonders of the Great Barrier Reef" by Roughley (1946); "Behind Bamboo" by Rohan Rivett (1950); and several others. Mixed condition. (9 vols.) View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$80StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 801 Three Australian "SONGSTER" booklets, early 20th century, View details Quantity3Estimate$60 - $100Price Realized$160StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 802 "THE MEADMORE MODEL ENGINEERING Co." The First Division Scale models Of All Varieties, price 2/6 booklet with original brown card wrapper View details Estimate$80 - $120Price Realized$40StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 803 "FORE" original cartoon artwork, early 20th century, 34 x 29cm overall View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$40StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 804 THEATRE PROGRAMMES: MTC, RSC and other Shakespeare's plays (40 different), 1930s to 1980s New York productions (34), London productions, mainly 1960s - 90s (100+) plus a range of Musicals from Australia, London and New York (60+). Total: 230+. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$360StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 805 "KOMET, SWEET ORANGE JAM" pair of lithographed fruit labels, early 20th century, framed and mounted for display, 29.5 x 39.5cm overall View details Estimate$60 - $100Price Realized$20StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 806 "The Total Eclipse of the Sun 21st September 1922 : AUSTRALIA" 35pp + charts, [Melbourne : Albert J. Mullett, 1922]. View details Estimate$80 - $120Price Realized$100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 807 PERCY GRAINGER & ROSE GRAINGER, Photos of Rose Grainger and of 3 short accounts of her life by herself, in her own hand-writing; reproduced for her kin and friends by her adoring son Percy Grainger; also table of dates, & summary of her cultural tastes. [Self published; White Plains, New York, 1923], 46pp; decorative card front cover. View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$160StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 808 TASMANIAN canned fruit label framed display, attractively framed and mounted, 89 x 61cm overall View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 809 WILLIAM DAMPIER, "A New Voyage Round the World" with an Introduction by Sir Albert Gray. [London : The Argonaut Press, 1927], first ed., 4to, xxxviii, 376, [2]pp, #153 of 975 copies on Japan Vellum, portrait, 4 maps (3 folding), 2 facsimiles, original vellum-backed buckram, gilt titles and decoration. View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$140StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 810 "BILL BAILLIE" by ELLIS ROWAN oblong hardback View details Estimate$60 - $100Price Realized$80StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 811 JOHN BUTLER COOPER, "The History of St. Kilda from its first settlement to a city and after, 1840 to 1930", [Printers Pty Ltd, Melbourne, 1931], two vols, octavo: xvi, 405; xv, 338pp plus illustrations; ribbed blue cloth with gilt medallions to top boards and gilt lettering to spines. (2). View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$80StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 812 ROBERT HENDERSON CROLL, The Life and Work of R.W, Sturgess, [Melb., The Fine Arts Society Pty Ltd, 1938], Quarto, quarter-cloth over papered boards, with pasted-on colour illustration; 18 tipped-in colour plates with text. Limited to 300 copies. View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 813 ALEXANDER HENDERSON, "Henderson's Australian Families - A Genealogical and Biographical Record" Vol.1 (the only one published), [Melbourne : A. Henderson, 1941] 1st ed. 4to. xxiv, 408pp; numerous illustrations, original maroon cloth binding. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$800StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 814 THE STORY OF THE RED CROSS, written & compiled by Daryl & Joan Lindsay, [Melb., Australian Red Cross Society, n.d. 1941], Quarto, decorated cloth covers, illustrated endpapers, extensively illustrated by Daryl Lindsay, Lionel Lindsay, Douglas Annand, Ethel Spowers and others. View details Estimate$80 - $100Price Realized$160StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 815 James S. MacDONALD, The Art of Charles Wheeler, O.B.E., D.C.M., [Melbourne : Lothian Publishing Co., 1952], large 4to; 37pp; tipped-in colour frontispiece plate, 34 plates (of which 14 are colour, tipped-in), bottom of pages uncut; excellent dustjacket. #14 from a limited edition of 25; signed by the artist. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$1,100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 816 CARTON LOT: An accumulation of historic newspapers, cuttings, airline menus, postcards, various guides, prints, etc. View details Estimate$50 - $100Price Realized$140StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 817 MAINLY AUSTRALIAN INTEREST: "Report of the Royal Commission on Espionage 22nd August 1955"; "Splinters and Shards" by Colin Thiele; "Jindyworobak Anthology, 1944"; plus 3 other publications. (6 items). View details Estimate$80 - $120Price Realized$60StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 818 Kenneth MacQUEEN, Adventure in Watercolour. An artist's story written and illustrated by Kenneth Macqueen. With a letter from Prof. J.V. Duhig, biographical summary by Vida Lahey and also an explanation of technique by the artist himself.[Sydney : Legend Press], n.d. but 1948; 4to. original yellow cloth with illustrated title label to front cover. #138 from a limited edition of 1100, signed by the artist. Seventeen tipped-in colour plates. With dust jacket. View details Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$140StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 819 [AUSTRALIAN INTEREST] "Australian Painting 1788 - 1960" by Bernard Smith [1st ed. 1962]; "Early Artists of Australia' by Rex & Thea Rienits [1st ed. 1963]; "Statistical, Historical, and Political Description of the Colony of New South Wales....." by W.C. Wentworth [1979 facsimile edition]; "Forsaken Settlement" by Spillettt [1972]; plus several others; all h/c with d/js. (9 vols). View details Estimate$80 - $120Price Realized$140StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 820 "Dawn of Art - Painting and Sculpture of Australian Aborigines" by Kupka [1962] h/cover with d/j; "die kunst des funften erdteils - katalog" the collection of Andreas and Katharina Lommel [Munich, 1959]; "Liardet's water-colours of early Melbourne" by Adams & Bate [1972]; h/c with d/j. (3 items). View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$60StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 821 CHARLES MOUNTFORD (1890 - 1976), Australian Aboriginal Portraits, [Melbourne University Press, 1967] 1st ed., 4to, signed by the author/photographer; original quarter leather and cloth binding. View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 822 [AUSTRALIAN ARCHITECTURE] "Historic Homesteads of Australia" [1st ed. 1969]; "Historic Homesteads of Australia - Vol.2" [1st ed. 1976 and 2nd ed. 1985]; "Historic Public Buildings of Australia" [1st ed. 1971]; "Historic Houses of Australia" [1st ed. 1974]; also, "ANTIQUES IN AUSTRALIA from private collections" by Rogan [1st ed. 1975]; all hardcover; 5 with dust jackets. (6 vols.) View details Estimate$80 - $120Price Realized$240StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 823 A range including the catalogue for a Jeffrey Smart Exhibition at South Yarra Gallery 1970; a catalogue for a 1948 Exhibition of Modern European Paintings & Sculpture at the Melbourne Town Hall; a 1967 catalogue from the Munch Museum, Oslo; a collection of programmes and documents featuring Hephzibah Menuhin; and various other items. View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$40StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 824 JOHN GOULD The Birds of Australia, [Melbourne : Lansdowne Press, 1972], folio, eight volumes (facsimile), coloured plates; publisher's vinyl binding, with gilt titles to spines. A good, clean set with original packaging. View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Price Realized$1,800StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 825 THE ROYAL VISIT TO AUSTRALIA - OCTOBER 1973 - FOR THE OFFICIAL OPENING OF THE SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE: A group of briefing booklets titled "Working Programmes" prepared by the State Director, Royal Visit, 1973: "Arrival at Sydney" (20th Oct.); "Civic Reception" (20th Oct.); "Arrival at Government House" (20th Oct.); "Concert at the Sydney Opera House" (20th); "Divine Service at St Andrew's Cathedral" (21st Oct.); "Press Reception" (21st Oct.); "Departure from Australia" (22nd Oct.); etc. (9 items). View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$400StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 826 J.O. RANDELL,The Pastoral Pattersons - The History of Myles Patterson and his descendants 1822 to 1976,[Queensbury Hill Press, Carlton, 1977] 1st ed.; small 4to, 236pp, colour portrait frontispiece, B & w photos, fold-out maps; cloth boards, leather spine with gilt titles and family crest to front cover. No.457 of 750 signed by the author. "As new" condition. View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 827 Joanna MENDELSSOHN, The Life and Work of Sydney Long, (deluxe edition), [Sydney : Copperfield Publishing, 1979] Folio, bound in full leather, gilt lettering, 284pp; limited to 275 signed copies of which this is #63. Subscription price was $375. View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$160StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 828 J.O. RANDALL, Pastoral Settlement in Northern Victoria - Volume 1 - The Coliban District, [Queensbury Hill Press, Melbourne, 1979] 1st ed., small 4to, 353pp, illustrations, maps, bibliography, general index, etc., cloth boards with leather spine; gilt lettering. No.179 of 525 signed by the author. "As new" condition. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$160StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 829 AUSTRALIANA SOCIETY JOURNAL. Starting with vol.2, 1979-1993, 54 editions. Note 4 missing from 1992 plus one missing 1982 View details Quantity54Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$440StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 830 AUSTRALIAN & COLONIAL group of five vintage auction catalogues View details Quantity5Estimate$80 - $120Price Realized$260StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 831 Joseph M. FORSHAW and William T. COOPER (illustrator) Australian Parrots [Melbourne, Lansdowne Editions, [1980 and 1981]; Folio, two volumes, with illustrations, maps and 70 plates; dark green morocco with coloured pictorial inlays on the front covers; an unused set in the original Solander box. Set #129 of 1000 signed by the author and the artist. View details Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$420StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 832 SCHODDE, MASON and BOOT, Nocturnal Birds of Australia, [Melb., Lansdowne Editions, 1980], folio, full leather binding with gilt titles, Limited edition #103 of 750 signed by the authors and the artist and accompanied by a signed limited edition lithograph (#103/500) by Jeremy Boot. In original box of delivery. View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$160StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 833 "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. View details Estimate$60 - $100Price Realized$40StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 834 A.B. "BANJO" PATERSON, "Singer of the Bush" and "Song of the Pen", two-volume presentation set in attractive lined box. [Sydney, Lansdowne Press, 1983]. "This Collector's Issue of Singer of the Bush and Song of the Pen being the complete works of A.B. Paterson is limited to 350 copies. This copy is number 339."; signed by Rosamund Campbell and Philippa Harvey. Also, a book titled "The Art Collections of the Victorian Arts Centre" signed and dated (1992) by John Olsen on page 16-17. View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 835 Max ANGUS, Simpkinson de Wesselow. Landscape painter in Van Diemen's Land and the Port Phillip District 1844 - 1848. [Hobart : Blubber Head Press, 1984]; limited edition #653 signed by the author. View details Estimate$80 - $120Price Realized$60StatusSold Lot 836 PAUL WHITE, The Art of Brian Dunlop, [The Craftsman's Press, Sydney,1984], No.14 of an edition limited to 200 copies signed by the artist and including a loosley inserted, numbered etching by the artist. View details Estimate$300 - $400StatusCLOSED! Lot 837 "MEMORIES, A SURVEY OF EARLY AUSTRALIAN FURNITURE IN THE COLLECTION OF THE LORD McALPINE OF WEST GREEN" by Graham Cornall [Perth, 1990], hardcover with D/J in very good condition View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 838 CORNALL, Graham "MEMORIES. A Survey Of Early Australian Furniture In The Collection Of The Lord McAlpine Of West Green", [Perth, 1990], first edition, hardcover with d/j. View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$140StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 839 EARNSHAW, John "EARLY SYDNEY CABINET MAKERS" published Sydney, Surry Hills Wentworth Books 1971, hardcover with d/j View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$180StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 840 "THE GENTLEMAN AND CABINET-MAKER'S DIRECTOR" by Thomas Chippendale, [Lon. 1939], 3rd edition, hardcover View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$80StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 841 AUSTRALIAN ANTIQUES: group of three books comprising: HOOPER, Toby and Juliana "AUSTRALIAN COUNTRY FURNITURE" published by Viking O'Neil, 1988, first edition, signed by the authors, hardcover with d/j. HOOPER, Toby and Juliana " A GUIDE TO COLLECTING AUSTRALIANA" 3rd edition, 1990, signed by the authors, hardcover with d/j. SIMPSON, Caroline "AUSTRALIAN ANTIQUE, FIRST FLEET TO FEDERATION" [Syd. 1977], hardcover with d/j View details Quantity3Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 842 Stephen MARCHANT & P.J. HIGGINS, Handbook of AUSTRALIAN, NEW ZEALAND & ANTARCTIC BIRDS - Vol.2 - Raptors to Lapwings, [Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1993], as new, with d/j. View details Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 843 P.J. HIGGINS & S.J.J.F. DAVIES, Handbook of AUSTRALIAN, NEW ZEALAND & ANTARCTIC BIRDS - Vol.3 - Snipe to Pigeons, [Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1996], as new, with d/j. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$160StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 844 P.J. HIGGINS, Handbook of AUSTRALIAN, NEW ZEALAND & ANTARCTIC BIRDS - Vol.4 - Parrots to Dollarbird, [Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1999], as new, with d/j. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 845 P.J. HIGGINS, J.M. PETER & W.K. STEELE, Handbook of AUSTRALIAN, NEW ZEALAND & ANTARCTIC BIRDS - Vol.5 - Truant-flycatchers to Chats, [Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 2001], as new, with d/j. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 846 P.J. HIGGINS & J.M. PETER, Handbook of AUSTRALIAN, NEW ZEALAND & ANTARCTIC BIRDS - Vol.6 - Pardalotes to Shrike-thrushes, [Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 2002], as new, with d/j. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 847 P.J. HIGGINS, J.M. PETER & S.J. COWLING, Handbook of AUSTRALIAN, NEW ZEALAND & ANTARCTIC BIRDS - Vol.7 - Part A: Boatbill to Larks; Part B: Dunnock to Starlings, [Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 2006], as new, with d/j. (2 vols.). View details Estimate$300 - $400Price Realized$200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Items per page 102550100 Previous|12|Next Previous 12 Next Previous 12 Next
