AUSTRALIAN & HISTORICAL (#497) 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 1-61 of 61. Previous|1|Next Lot 1002 "KANGUROO" copper engraving from "Histoire naturelle generale et particuliere" (1799-1808), by the Comte de Buffon and Charles Nicolas Sigisbert Sonnini. 15 x 11cm, 24 x 20.5cm overall View details Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$550StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1003 COOK'S VOYAGE, I.) Un homme De La Terre De Van-Diemen, II.) Une Femme De La Terre De Van-Diemen, French engravings taken from Cook's Voyages, c1790, sheet size 27 x 21.5cm View details Quantity2Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1004 "BEWOHNER VON VAN DIEMENS LAND" (inhabitants of Van Diemen's Land), antique folio hand-coloured engraving, [Zurich, 1827] from "Naturhistorische Abbildungen der Saeugethiere" by Heinrich Rudolph Schinz, lithographed by Karl Joseph Brodtmann, sheet size 34 x 23cm View details Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$60StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1005 Sir WILLIAM JARDINE (Scotland, 1800-1874) "Thylacinus cynocephalus" hand-coloured engraving, plate No.5 (Tasmanian Tiger), engraved by WILLIAM LIZARS for the Naturalist's Library, circa 1835, 10 x 16cm, 23 x 29cm overall View details Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$260StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1006 [VAN DIEMENS LAND] A group of sworn statements from disputes dealt with by a magistrate: March 1831, a testimonial by Thomas Daley declaring how someone came up to him and shook his fists at him and called him a "damned Irish rascal..."; January 1837 a testimonial by Josia Pitcher declaring he was the only person not drunk at Carolin’s Pubic House; and a testimonial by Isaac Proctor from April 1837 declaring how Ann Hicks stole money from him while they were drinking in various Inns. View details Estimate$300 - $400Price Realized$280StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1007 JOHN HEAVISIDE CLARK (British, 1771-1863), The Repose, hand-coloured engraving from the series "Field Sports Of The Native Inhabitants Of New South Wales", c.1813, 21 x 26cm, 37 x 41cm overall. Together with: NICHOLAS CHEVALIER (1828-1902), The Old and New Home Stations, hand-coloured engraving, 17 x 21cm, 35 x 39cm overall View details Quantity2Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$700StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1008 POUKALEM (and) MATOUA-TAWAI (New Zealand) lithograph, from 'VOYAGE AU PÔLE SUD ET DANS L'OCÈANIE.' By Dumont D'Urville, Embossed below image, 'Gide Editeur', Printed lower centre, 'Lith.é par Léveillé dáprès les bustes modelès d'après nature photographié par Bisson / sous la Direction de Mr le Dr. Dumoutier.' Printed lower right below image, 'Lith: de Thierry frères à Paris.', overall 36 x 53cm. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$60StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1009 [VAN DIEMEN'S LAND] Oct.1844 & Jan.1853 vellum documents summarising 2 cases brought to court; the first signed by THOMAS HORNE [Judge, MP & Solicitor-General]; the latter signed by VALENTINE FLEMING [Judge, Chief Justice, MP & Solicitor-General]. Both cases involve larceny View details Estimate$300 - $400Price Realized$200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1010 "AITKEN'S BREWERY, VICTORIA PARADE, MELBOURNE, ESTABLISHED 1854", colour lithograph of the new Carlton Brewery on the corner of Powlett Street in East Melbourne, circa 1860, 10 x 18cm, 33 x 41cm overall View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$650StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1012 The Gravesend-to-Auckland ship-board diary of William Thomas Bassett, 1858: Using a "Letts's Diary or Bills Due Book and An Almanack No.9 for 1858", Bassett has recorded his impressions and observations while on board "The Egmont" between February and June 1858. View details Estimate$600 - $1,000StatusCLOSED! Lot 1013 HOBART INTEREST. A fascinating group of seventeen mortgage and conveyance documents, 19th and 20th century. Including prominent locations such as the corner of BARRACK STREET and MACQUARIE STREET View details Quantity17Estimate$600 - $800Price Realized$320StatusSold Lot 1014 SCIENTIFIC PAPERS, MONOGRAPHS, REPORTS and CATALOGUES, 19th-20th Century, mainly of Australian origin and with a heavy focus on Geological matters. (qty). View details Estimate$250 - $500Price Realized$50StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1015 GRACIUS JOSEPH BROINOWSKI (1837-1913), group of five hand-coloured antique bird engravings, 19th century, framed and glazed, 54 x 42cm each overall View details Quantity5Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$60StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1016 ANNIE SULLIVAN, AGED 9; ORPHAN SCHOOL APPRENTICE June 1881 memo from The Queen's Orphan Asylum at New Town, Hobart, to Doctor T.C. Smart asking him about Annie Sullivan "an Orphan School Apprentice; the Guardians would be glad if Dr. Smart will kindly furnish them with a certificate as to the state of her health, and if...her disease [is] of such a nature as to render her unfit to complete her apprenticeship..." View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$140StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1017 GEOLOGY & OTHER SCIENCES: A range of hardcover books, 1860s - 1980s, including "Signalling through Space without Wires" by Lodge; "Transactions of the Royal Society of Victoria", 1860; "Memoirs of the National Museum, Melbourne", 1914; etc. (Total: 12). View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$160StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1018 1880s-early 1900s: Various hand-written journals, an autograph book; noted some illustrations, etc. (5 volumes). View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$320StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1019 [N.S.W. RAILWAYS] RULES, REGULATIONS, AND BY-LAWS for the GUIDANCE OF OFFICERS AND SERVANTS of the RAILWAYS OF NEW SOUTH WALES. [Sydney, Thomas Richards, Government Printer, 1885] 205pp, original red boards with gilt titles. View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$40StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1020 "THE PICTURESQUE ATLAS OF AUSTRALASIA" edited by Andrew Garran, [Melbourne, 1888], unbound as issued by subscription View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1021 A TASMANIAN WILL & LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION for WILLIAM BOYER [1889] with the large Seal of the High Court of Australia still attached. William Boyer had arrived in Tasmania in 1868. He established his estate 6km from New Norfolk on the banks of the Derwent River, from which a town developed, named Boyer. In 1938 the paper manufacturers, Australian Newsprint Mills, opened on the Boyer Estate. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$160StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1022 AN ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT PRESENTATION TO LORD LAMINGTON, 1896:A most attractive leather-bound illuminated manuscript presented to Lord Lamington, "Governor and Commander in Chief of the Colony of Queensland" to "extend a cordial welcome to your Excellency to our Town" (Toowoomba) on 5th August 1896; with gilt decorations and title lettering; 36 x 63.5cm (when opened out). View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$1,600StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1023 [N.S.W. RAILWAYS & TRAMWAYS] GOVERMENT TRAMWAYS: "RULES, REGULATIONS, AND BY-LAWS for the CONDUCT OF THE TRAFFIC and for the GUIDANCE OF THE OFFICERS AND MEN in the service of the RAILWAY COMMISSIONERS OF NEW SOUTH WALES." [Sydney, William Gullick, Gov.t Printer, 1898] 92pp, original black boards with gilt titles. Also, "NEW SOUTH WALES GOVERNMENT RAILWAYS - PASSENGER FARES and COACHING RATES. 1st July 1907." [Sydney; William Gullick, 1907] viii + 88pp., bound presentation copy. View details Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1024 "Phil Mays Illustrated Winter Annual", the Xmas 1899 and the 1900-1901 Season editions, (2). View details Estimate$80 - $120Price Realized$120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1025 LAND TITLES. Group of nine, mainly early 20th century examples from Melbourne and Ballarat View details Quantity9Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$180StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1026 AUSTRALIAN INTEREST: Including C.J. DENNIS (3), "Bill Baillie" by ELLIS ROWAN, "Australian Aboriginal Art" by Barrett and Kenyon, "The Cyclopaedia Of Victoria" Vol.2, "Our First Century...", 1st edition, (7 items) View details Quantity7Estimate$200 - $400Price Realized$160StatusSold Lot 1027 EARLY THEATRE & CINEMA publications including "Fuller News", J.C. Williamson items, Empire Theatre, Tivoli, Palace, the Grand Opera House, and a few unrelated items. (approx. 150). View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$420StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1028 An Anniversary History Victoria 150 (3 vols.); Australian Dictionary Of Biography (3 vols.); Natural History Of Man (2 vols.); YIN-YANG by Hardy Wilson; Poetical Works Of Adam Lindsay Gordon, (10 vols. total) View details Quantity10Estimate$60 - $100Price Realized$20StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1029 [Australian Federation Invitation] Australian Commonwealth Celebrations. The Government of Victoria requests the honour of the presence of [Mr & Mrs A. Leane (manuscript insertion in ink)] at the Royal Review at Flemington on Friday the 10th of May 1901 Melbourne, Sands & McDougall Limited, 1901. View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$420StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1030 LIONEL LINDSAY (1874-1961), group of three assorted bookplates, the largest 8 x 6cm View details Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1031 AUSTRALIAN MUSIC PUBLISHERS: A collection of early (1910s-40s) printed music, most with illustrated or photographic covers; incl. "Singin 'in the rain", "There's a new star in heaven to-night", Over the Rainbow", "Painting the clouds with sunshine", "Why did I kiss that girl", "Britannia needs you like a mother...", "Who takes care of the caretaker's daughter..." and many more. View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$60StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1032 A carton of Australian and foreign paper ephemera. (qty). View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1033 "Port of Sydney" a small hard-bound book in green cloth with gilt title, published circa 1923 by The Maritime Service Board of New South Wales; containing several colour lithographic maps/plans (all present, but with faults and old repairs), photographs, including fold-outs, and text. View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1034 "Old Colonial Architecture in New South Wales and Tasmania" by Hardy Wilson [Sydney, 1924], signed by the author and numbered 655/1000, with 50 tinted lithograph plates and tissue guards intact, some signs of wear in particular to the spine, fair condition. View details Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$360StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1035 A carton of ephemera; mainly film, radio and theatre related. (qty). View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1036 THEATRE, CONCERTS & OTHER SPECIAL EVENT programmes, souvenirs and other ephemera, (qty). View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1037 "HIGHLANDS ESTATE EASTWOOD EAST" 1905 real estate advertisement poster, 43.5 x 56cm, 53 x 73cm overall View details Estimate$80 - $120Price Realized$240StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1038 MOTOR TRADE: An original "Exide Batteries" poster (1926); a "Keep Bros. & Wood Pty Ltd, Batman Street, West Melbourne c.1930s trade catalogue; various unused motor-trade related advertising blotters (Golden Fleece, Aero-Press, Shell Motor Oil, etc.); an Armstrong-Siddeley pamphlet; Golden Fleece product brochures; a 1904 Australian Rough Diary (partly filled with daily entries); etc. (14 items). View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$180StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1038a Two antique chromolithograph advertising posters, 1890 and 1892, one advertising "R. T. English Sadler... Kyabram" and the other "M. Dickens, Tramway Boot Emporium, Terminus, Sydney Road, Brunswick", the larger 56 x 44cm View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$220StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1039 Rylands Brothers "Handbook for the Man on the Land" [1934] with Waratah Fencing Products advert to front cover; also, two Mighty Mouse comics. (3 items). View details Estimate$60 - $100Price Realized$60StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1040 [MOTOR CAR BROCHURES] A "Morris 8/40" 12-page brochure, circa 1935, for York Motors, William Street, Sydney; also, an "Oldsmobile Sixes and Eights" 16-page colour brochure, circa 1937, for General Motors - Holden's Limited (Printed in Australia). (2 items). View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$160StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1041 A leather-bound autograph book containing HUBERT WILKINS (Feb.1939), HUBERT OPPERMAN (circa 1938), numerous Australian, Royal & U.S. Naval personnel, etc. View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$60StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1042 ORIGINAL COMIC ARTWORK: A three-panel Ben Bowyang strip titled in pencil "Gunn's Gullibility!" circa 1940, framed and glazed, 32 x 89cm overall. View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1043 1940's to 1980's group of Australian destination brochures and souvenirs. Noted Mt Buffalo national park, Tasmania holiday by Frank Hurley, under southern sky's (Victoria) etc. (12 items). View details Quantity12Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$60StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1045 ARMSTRONG OF THE ARGUS, two WW2 period publications, printed in Melbourne View details Quantity2Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold Lot 1046 "The Daily and Sunday Telegraph ATOMIC AGE EXHIBITION Royal Easter Show, March 1948", illustrated catalogue, 32pp + covers. Very rare. View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1047 David DRIDAN, "The Art of Hans Heysen", [Rigby, Adelaide, 1966], signed in ink by Hans Heysen to the title page next to his portrait, cloth binding; no d/jacket present. View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$180StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1048 ABORIGINAL INTEREST. A range of books including "Rex Battarbee...with text by Strehlow", signed and dated by Battarbee in 1957; "Speak you so gently" by Tennant; "The Road to Mowanjum" by McKenzie; plus 13 others. (16). View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1049 Picture post cards, playing cards etc; a group of five hard cover reference books. View details Quantity5Estimate$60 - $80Price Realized$40StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1050 TONY KENTUCK series of eight illustrations depicting Theatrical prompts, individually framed and glazed, 32 x 27cm each overall View details Quantity6Estimate$60 - $100Price Realized$60StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1051 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 loosely inserted, numbered etching by the artist. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1052 LAND BEYOND TIME, limited edition leather bound volume, signed and numbered 195/500, verified by the authors on 6th June, 1984. Signatures include John Olsen, Mary Durack, Geoffrey Dutton, Vincent Serventy and Alex Bortignon. With pictorial embossed gilt cover and spine. View details Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$220StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1053 "NINETEENTH CENTURY AUSTRALIAN FURNITURE", by Fahy, Simpson and Simpson [Syd. 1985] limited edition of 2000 copies, with D/J (faded on spine), black cloth boards with gilt title. Used but good firm copy. View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1054 AUSTRALIAN FURNITURE & ART: "Early Colonial Furniture in New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land" by Craig, Fahy and Robertson; "Memories" by Graham Cornall; "Guide To Collecting Australiana" by Julianna and Toby Hooper; "Australiana" by Mona Brand; "Collecting For The Nation The Australiana Fund", "Australians At Home" by Terence Lane and Jessie Searl' and "Australian Colonial Art, 1800-1900" Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, (7 Vols.) View details Quantity7Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$160StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1055 WEG "Weather Forecast" original pen and ink cartoon, published in The Melbourne Sun, 25 x 20cm, 44.5 x 34.5cm overall View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$40StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1056 "FINCHES OF AUSTRALIA A FOLIO" by Frank T. Morris, Lansdowne editions [Melb. 1976], limited edition 283/350, signed by the author, brown half morocco folio View details Estimate$60 - $100Price Realized$120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1057 WARREN BROWN "Sydney Traffic" original pen and ink cartoon, published in the Australian edition of Mad Magazine, circa 1990, 24 x 30cm, 27 x 33cm overall View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$40StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1058 Max HARRIS & Jenny BURRELL, "Panoramas of Ballaarat", [Harris House, Ballarat, 1998], signed & numbered limited edition [#34/150], leather & buckram boards with gilt titles. View details Estimate$80 - $120Price Realized$160StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1059 Assorted Australian colour-lithograph fruit labels (qty) View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$80StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1060 A collection of original pen and ink drawings for published cartoons by various artists including FRANK DICKENS, DAVID GREEN, RON TANDBERG, CAROLINE MAGERL, CATHY WILCOX, KERRY MILLARD, NIK SCOTT and an unknown artist, (8 items), the largest 22 x 57.5cm overall View details Quantity8Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1061 MICHAEL LEUNIG (1945-), "The Last Seven Words of Jesus Christ", typed manuscript address given at "Musica Viva", Sunday 27th April, 2003, with additional handwritten quotation and illustration signed "Michael Leunig" View details Estimate$250 - $350StatusCLOSED! Lot 1062 "CITY OF MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA" facsimile print of Melbourne from the South Bank with descriptive key, attractively framed and mounted, 68 x 86cm overall View details Estimate$60 - $100Price Realized$60StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1063 Assorted books and vintage newspapers including "Sydney Harbour Bridge Official Souvenir Program", "A Lifetime With Watercolours, Bernaldo Recollections", "Pavlova", "Chums, 1935-36", "Peter Pan & Wendy" and "The Old Curiosities Shop". (qty) View details Estimate$40 - $80Price Realized$40StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next