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View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$220StatusSold Lot #1002 ABORIGINAL INTEREST: A group of books comprising of "The Aborigines of Victoria" in 2 volumes by Brough Smyth (1876), "Some Myths & Legends of the Australian Aborigines" by Thomas (1923), "Stone Age Craftsmen" by Mitchell (1949); "The Aborigines of south-eastern Australia As They Were" by Massola (1971) and a 1904 pamphlet "The Native Tribes of Victoria : Their Languages and Customs" by Mathews. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$550StatusSold Lot #1003 ALBERT CHARLES COOKE (1836-1902),THE TOWNSHIP OF STAWELL, a very detailed panoramic hand-coloured engraving, published in 1876 by The Illustrated Australian News. Wonderful details of mining activities in the foreground; initialled "A.C." in the plate at lower left. View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$340StatusSold Lot #1004 R. BROUGH SMYTH, The Aborigines of Victoria: With notes relating to the habits of the Natives in other Parts of Australia and Tasmania, [Melbourne: John Ferres Government Printer & George Robertson, 1878, 1st ed.] 2 volumes; blue morocco with gilt illustrations. With large folding maps at end of vol.1 and 2, numerous full page and in text illustrations. Ex library; vol.1 binding distressed. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$420StatusSold Lot #1005 "THE ENGLAND OF THE PACIFIC or NEW ZEALAND AS AN ENGLISH MIDDLE-CLASS EMIGRATION-FIELD" by Arthur Clayden, a 60-page booklet with eight full page engravings [London : Wyman & Sons, 1879] bound together with several other contemporary pamphlets on "Water", "The New Palace of Westminster" and others. View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$100StatusSold Lot #1006 WHITE & EVANS of Hobart, antique hand-painted point of sale advertising in timber frame. Stating "SUITS MADE TO ORDER, HOBART PRICES", "HIDES, RABBITS & SHEEPSKINS, HIGHEST PRICES GIVEN", "BEST BREAD, FULL WEIGHT", "TRY OUR BOOTS, THE BEST & CHEAPEST", signed lower right "A.L. Lins", 58 x 77cm overall View details Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$2,000StatusSold Lot #1007 "CATALOGUE of the THIRD ANNUAL SALE : PRICES OBTAINED, AND NAMES OF BUYERS, of SIR SAMUEL WILSON'S PURE MERINO EWES and RAMS sold at ERCILDOUNE by Fisken and Gibson : on Thursday, 28th October, 1880", [Ballarat : James Curtis, 1880], original red morocco covers with gilt lettering and image of ram to front cover, another image titled "GOLDEN FLEECE" to back cover; marbled page edges, seven full page albumen paper prints by William Bardwell (one a view of Ercildoune). View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$700StatusSold Lot #1008 MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1880 - 1881 OFFICIAL RECORD, [Melbourne : Mason, Firth & M'Cutcheon, 1st ed., 1882], Official Record containing Introduction, History of Exhibition, Description of Exhibition and Exhibits, Official Awards of Commissioners and Catalogue of Exhibits.", 681pp + folding plates & plans, lists of commissioners, list of exhibiting countries and states; decorative red cloth with gilt medallion to cover. With many pages of advertisements. View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$500StatusSold Lot #1009 Two full page chromolithographic plates from The Forest Flora of South Australia by J.E.Brown circa 1880s: "Eremophila Alternifolia" and "DODONAEA MICROZYGA"; both approx. 49 x 37cm. (2). View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$160StatusSold Lot #1010 A SUPERB ILLUMINATED ADDRESS TO THE COUNCIL CLERK & SURVEYOR OF PADDINGTON, OCTOBER 1884: A magnificent example of late-nineteenth century illumination, created for John Sands, of George Street, Sydney, by an unknown artist, on the occasion of the retirement of Charles Hellmrich and to accompany the presentation of a "gold watch and appendages together with a purse of Sovereigns". The illustrations include important buildings and street scenes in Paddington; overall 74 x 64cm. View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Price Realized$650StatusSold Lot #1011 PICTURESQUE ATLAS OF AUSTRALASIA, published in Sydney [c1886]. Three volumes folio in half morocco with gilt lettering on the spine. Corners & edges bumped and rubbed but all three volumes firm & complete; together with an additional supplement (part 36), (4 items) View details Quantity4Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$650StatusSold Lot #1012 HOWARD WILLOUGHBY, "Australian Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil", with a large map and one hundred and seventeen illustrations, [London : The Religious Tract Society, 1886], gilt decorated cloth. First Edition. 224, 8pp. patterned endpapers, all edges gilt. View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$140StatusSold Lot #1013 John Fairfax CONIGRAVE (1843 - 1920), "SOUTH AUSTRALIA : A Sketch of its History & Resources. A Handbook....for the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, London, 1886", [Adelaide : E. Spiller, 1886], 2nd ed., 180pp, plus plates, folding map, tables; illustrated paper covers (rear present but detached). View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$220StatusSold Lot #1014 THE NEW ATLAS OF AUSTRALIA 1886 : containing full descriptive geography of NEW SOUTH WALES, VICTORIA, QUEENSLAND, SOUTH AUSTRALIA and WESTERN AUSTRALIA; 5 volumes edited by Robert McLean; complete and all published. [Sydney : John Sands], folio, each volume with original illustrated boards; spines re-inforced and some endpapers replaced. With 99 coloured maps, lithographs and extensive text. View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$1,100StatusSold Lot #1015 Edwin M. CURR, The Australian Race : Its Origin, Languages, Customs, Place of Landing in Australia, and the Routes by which it Spreads itself over that Continent: Volume 4 (The Atlas folio) in pre-binding form, comprising of the Comparative Vocabulary, together with the large folding map of Australia; together with the text volumes, also in pre-binding format with the pages uncut. View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$400StatusSold Lot #1016 William Mogford HAMLET (1850 - 1951), (ed.), Handbook of Sydney, for the use of the Members of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science. [Sydney : Turner and Henderson, 1888], 116pp, blue cloth over boards with gilt titles. View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$140StatusSold Lot #1017 The Last Will & Testament of Thomas Falkinder of Ashley Swamp in the Province of Canterbury, New Zealand, who died in September 1889. An impressive vellum document with multiple duty stamps affixed, a hand-drawn map of Falkinder's property and duly signed. Falkinder states that his wife, Charlotte, is to have "the use of the...estate for the benefit of [his] children so long as she shall remain my widow and live a respectable life...". View details Estimate$100 - $200StatusUnsold Lot #1018 Robert WALLACE, The Rural Economy and Agriculture of Australia and New Zealand, [London : Sampson Low, Marston and Co., 1891 1st ed.] xvi, 541pp, adverts; photographic frontispiece, 89 full page plates, illustrations in text, 8 fold-out maps; original maroon cloth with gilt titles and decoration and original dark green endpapers; pages uncut. View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$100StatusSold Lot #1019 TWO DOCUMENTS SIGNED BY QUEEN VICTORIA; three original documents regarding the July 1895 appointment of William Austin Zeal to the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, thereby elevating him to the knighthood; the two letters of appointment personally signed by Queen Victoria and Robert Herbert the Chancellor of the Order; a third document signed by the secretary of the Order accompanies the two signed and sealed letters of appointment. View details Estimate$500 - $800Price Realized$600StatusSold Lot #1020 Baldwin SPENCER & F.J. GILLEN, "The Native Tribes of Central Australia", [Macmillan and Co., London, 1899] 1st ed. octavo, xx, 671 pages with illustrations of churingas, a map and 130 illustrations (mainly after photographs) plus 2 folding maps, 3 folding charts, 4 folding chromolithographic plates; gilt-pictorial buckram flecked and rubbed. View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$400StatusSold Lot #1021 Louis BECKE and Walter JEFFREY, The Naval Pioneers of Australia, [Melbourne : Melville, Mullen, & Slade, 1899], 1st ed., 313pp, blue cloth covered boards with gilt lettering and decoration; full page plates, With attractive bookplate of Commander John Francis Robins, RN, (1875 - 1957) who served with the Royal Australian Navy after retiring from the RN. View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$100StatusSold Lot #1022 HARDY WILSON group of five plates from "Old Colonial Architecture", each mounted in card, 36 x 46cm each overall View details Quantity5Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$100StatusSold Lot #1023 The Maori Wonderland : Okoroire, Rotorua, Whakarewarewa, Waiotapu Valley, Taupo, Tokaanu, Tongariro Group of Volcanoes and the Wanganui River : 31 views with Concise Guide; circa 1900, with photo plates plus introduction for Thomas Cook and several pages of advertisements. View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$80StatusSold Lot #1024 ELLIS ROWAN, two antique publications View details Quantity2Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$500StatusSold Lot #1025 AUSTRALIAN INTEREST: "On Our Selection" by Arthur H. Davis ("Steele Rudd") [Sydney, 1903]; "The Platypus..." by Harry Burrell [Sydney, 1927]; "Australian Aboriginal Art" [National Museum, Melbourne 1929]; "Wide Horizons : Wanderings in Central Australia" by Robert Henderson Croll [1937, 2nd ed.]. (4 items). View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$120StatusSold Lot #1026 Alfred William HOWITT (1830 - 1908), The Native Tribes of South-East Australia, [London : Macmillan and Co., 1904, 1st ed.], 819pp, plus photographs, foldout maps and diagram; green cloth, with gilt decorations (preserved by sensitive rebinding. View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$260StatusSold Lot #1027 [NEW ZEALAND & ROYAL DOULTON INTEREST] A CHRISTCHURCH NEW ZEALAND 1906 EXHIBITION "CERTIFICATE OF AWARD" for a Gold Medal awarded to Doulton & Co., Ltd., for a "Group of Royal Doulton Vases painted by Geo. White"; signed by the president & the general manager. Framed and glazed, overall 54 x 64cm. Condition ReportFrom inspection (without removing from the frame) it does not appear to be glued down on card as it shows lifting from the mount around the edges and the folded crease throughout the centre is also lifting. View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$240StatusSold Lot #1028 IDA RENTOUL OUTHWAITE, "FAIRYLAND", [Melb : Ramsay Publishing, 1926], deluxe edition limited to 1000 copies of which this is No.487 signed by the artist, with tipped in colour and black and white plates; blue cloth binding with gilt titles and decorations, 166 pp. including list of subscribers. Condition ReportThe front cover is discoloured and stained in places and is worn at both corners with small splits at the top and bottom of spine. The gilt lettering is intact and in otherwise good condition. There is slight foxing to the inside front cover and the illustrated first leaf. There is also very slight foxing in a few places to the printed pages but the plates are not affected. One coloured plate (The Crystal Gazer) has a small defect/loss of image to the tall column on the left. All plates are present and the artists signature is original and in excellent condition. Overall a better than average example. View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Price Realized$750StatusSold Lot #1029 Baldwin SPENCER & F.J. GILLEN, "Across Australia", [London : Macmillan and Co., 1912, 1st ed.], red cloth lettered in gold with natives on covers; 2 vols. 2 folding maps, colour plates and many illustrations. With original ownership signatures of Professor Charles A. Silberrad, 1912. (2 vols.) View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$280StatusSold Lot #1030 "Land Settlement in Victoria Australia" 64pp + pictorial covers; booklet produced by the Immigration and Labor Bureau, Melbourne, 1914, for distribution at the Victorian Stand at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition at San Francisco in 1915. With numerous photographs, statistics, instructions for intending immigrants, useful contacts, etc. View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$140StatusSold Lot #1031 C.J. DENNIS and HAL GYE, The Sentimental Bloke, [Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1915, 2nd ed., illustrated green cloth boards, 126pp + 15pp publisher's catalogue dated November 1915; illustrated by Hal Gye, with his original colour front cover preserved attached to the inside front cover; signed and dedicated by the author and the illustrator to the title page "C.J. Dennis. Hal Gye. Melbourne August 11/16" View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$400StatusSold Lot #1032 C.J. DENNIS and HAL GYE, The Moods of Ginger Mick, [Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1916], 1st ed., illustrated green cloth boards, 143pp + 24pp publisher's catalogue date September 1916; illustrated by Hal Gye; signed and dedicated to the title page "Cheero to Charlie! C.J. Dennis, Melbourne Nov.10th 1916" and also signed by "Hal Gye". View details Estimate$800 - $1,000StatusUnsold Lot #1033 DAME NELLIE MELBA: Group of seven publications, of note "Melba's Gift Book" signed by Melba. View details Quantity7Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$240StatusSold Lot #1034 C.J. DENNIS and Hal GYE, Doreen, [Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1917 Pocket edition for the trenches], 24pp, signed to the title page "Regards to Charlie Croll, C.J. Dennis, Toolangi Nov.4th 1917". View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$200StatusSold Lot #1035 C.J. DENNIS and Hal GYE, The Glugs of Gosh, [Sydney : Angus & Robertson Ltd, 1917, 1st ed.] original decorated cloth, 130pp, colour and black & white illustrations with tissue guards; original pictorial dust jacket. Signed and endorsed to title page: "Wishing Charlie Croll good luck. C.J. Dennis Toolangi, Nov. 4th 1917. Yours Hal Gye.. Feb.19th 1918". View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$300StatusSold Lot #1036 ART IN AUSTRALIA: A group comprising the complete editions of Nov.1917, Dec.1918, 1919, May 1923, August 1931, February 1932, November 1934, February 1937 and August 1939. Also, the Centenary Gift Book 1934 and "The Letters of Rachel Henning" with 40 pen drawings by Norman Lindsay (1952). (Total: 9 items). View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$180StatusSold Lot #1037 C.J. DENNIS and Hal GYE, Digger Smith, [Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1918, 1st ed.] original decorated green cloth boards with twin dust jackets (the pictorial jacket protected by the wrap-around publisher's blurb) and extremely scarce thus. Further enhanced by the original signature and dedication to the title page, "Wishing joy to Charlie Croll, C.J. Dennis, Toolangi, 12-2-19". C.J. Dennis lived at Toolangi, having purchased a property there with the proceeds of his The Sentimental Bloke. View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$300StatusSold Lot #1038 C.J. DENNIS and Hal GYE, Backblock Ballads and Later Verses [Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1918, 1st ed.] original decorated green cloth boards with twin dust jackets (the pictorial jacket protected by the wrap-around publisher's blurb, which is only partially present) and extremely. Further enhanced by the original signature of C.J. Dennis in green ink to the title page. View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$240StatusSold Lot #1039 C.J. DENNIS and Hal GYE, Jim of the Hills, [Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1919, 1st ed.] original decorated green cloth boards with twin dust jackets (the pictorial jacket protected by the wrap-around publisher's blurb) and extremely scarce thus. Further enhanced by the original signature and dedication to the title page, "Signed by the author, and many good wishes for Charlie Croll, C.J. Dennis, Toolangi, 25th February 1933". View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$240StatusSold Lot #1040 [AUSTRALIAN POLITICS] A range of pamphlets and books including "A History of Trade Unionism in Australia" by Sutcliffe [1921]; "The W.E.A. Exposed" by Sharkey [1944]; "Public Enemy the Press" by Mander [1944]; "Guilty Men Again" by Fox [1950]; "Difference in the Communist Movement" [1963]; "Story Without End" by Chao [1965]; "Vietnam - myth & reality" by Levien [1967]; mixed condition, but all complete. (6 items). View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$100StatusSold Lot #1041 CHIRNSIDE PARK and WERRIBEE MANSION. A superbly decorated testimonial, made by Arnall & Jackson of Collins Street, Melbourne, for presentation to GEORGE T. CHIRNSIDE Esq., on the occasion of his departure from the District. Beautifully bound in full leather, with embossed gilt and coloured highlights, silk lining, fine calligraphy and embellished by watercolour displays of Australian flowers in all four corners. View details Estimate$500 - $800Price Realized$1,900StatusSold Lot #1042 C.J. DENNIS and Hal GYE, The Sentimental Bloke, [Sydney : Cornstalk Publishing, First Platypus Printing], 179pp, with full colour first page, then colour frontis and colour vignette in title page, other b/w illustrations throughout; original red cloth binding. Extensively endorsed by the author to the title page: View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$300StatusSold Lot #1043 C.J. DENNIS and Hal GYE, Rose of Spadgers [Sydney : Cornstalk Publishing, First Platypus Printing], 194pp, with full colour first page, other b/w illustrations throughout; original red cloth binding. Signed to the title page by the author, C.J. Dennis, in his characteristic green ink. He has also signed "Madge Dennis", the fictional object of Bloke's attention in The Sentimental Bloke. In different ink, the page is dated 7th Decr 1924 with a small photograph of Dennis in his study. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$160StatusSold Lot #1043a "Old Colonial Architecture in New South Wales and Tasmania" by Hardy Wilson [Sydney, 1924]: a collection of 42 plates (with tissue protectors intact) removed from the original publication. View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$340StatusSold Lot #1043b "Old Colonial Architecture in New South Wales and Tasmania" by Hardy Wilson [Sydney, 1924], signed by the author and numbered 367/1000, with 50 tinted lithograph plates and tissue guards intact. View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$800StatusSold Lot #1044 "SOUVENIR OF THE VISIT OF AMERICAN FLEET, 1925" seemeograph by Hand Cinema Co. Antique flipbook with Charlie Chaplin scene. Rear cover loose with staining and silverfish damage. Rare. 8cm high View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$120StatusSold Lot #1045 Charles C. VIVIAN, "Australia from the Air, Being the story of a record-breaking flight around Australia by Messrs. Geo. A. Bond & Co. Ltd. Sydney, to investigate the possibilities of Commercial Aviation in Australia", [Melbourne, 1927] 1st edition, 44pp + covers. Extremely rare. Condition ReportThe booklet is complete with no tears and the binding is in very good condition. There is light foxing to a couple of pages but generally the text and images are clear. No repairs or holes. A nice example of a very rare booklet. View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$1,400StatusSold Lot #1046 WALTER BURLEY GRIFFIN original hand drawn plans for alterations to the Lucas residence in Frankston YAMALA View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$2,600StatusSold Lot #1047 AUSTRALIAN POETRY: "New Poems by Shaw Neilson" [The Bookfellow, 1927] signed by the poet; "An Australian Anthology" selected by Serle, Wilmot and Croll (and signed by all 3) [Collins, 1927]; "By-products - A Book of Verses" by Robert Henderson Croll [Melbourne : Perceval Serle, 1932] No.4 of L/E 300 signed by the poet; "Collected Poems of John Shaw Neilson [Lothian, 1934] signed by the poet; (Total: 4 vols.). All rare. View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$440StatusSold Lot #1048 Margaret HERRON (c.1884 - 1968), My Dear, [Sydney : Cornstalk Publishing Co., 1928, 1st ed.] 92pp, original grey decorated boards, with dust jacket; signed and dated to the title page "Margaret Herron, Toolangi, 1937" in the characteristic green ink also used by her husband, C.J. Dennis. View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$60StatusSold Lot #1049 LIONEL LINDSAY (1874-1961), two Ex Libris book plates, the larger 13 x 9cm Condition Report Some foxing evident as visible in photos (hardly worth noting) as well as a little toning. Otherwise in good condition. View details Quantity2Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$60StatusSold Lot #1050 [HORTICULTURAL TRADE CATALOGUES] "Yates' Annual" for 1934, 1935, 1938, and 1940 (x2). Mixed condition. (5). View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$80StatusSold Lot #1051 TABLE TALK MAGAZINE: Special 'Centenary Review' August 1 1934 issue, 28 x 38cm, with many colour advertisements and photographs, with articles such as 'The Aborigine and His Environment' and 'Living To-Day in the Old Stone-Age'. View details Estimate$60 - $80Price Realized$40StatusSold Lot #1052 SUN NEWS PICTORIALS MELBOURNE: Seven c. 1930s colour photograph 'Sun Nature Book' magazines by Charles Barrett, issues 1-5 and 9-10, with titles such as 'Birds & Blossoms', 'Birds & Butterflies', and 'Water Life'; also 'The Story of the Life-Boat 1824-1939', featuring many interesting nautical advertisements for products such as diving suits and searchlights. (8 items) View details Estimate$120 - $150Price Realized$100StatusSold Lot #1053 JARMAN, A.E. Australian Plant Drawings, Parts 1 to 8, Published in 8 parts with notes by H.B. Williamson F.L.S. [Valentine Publishing Melbourne] c1935, 1st edition, with complete original box and 16 page prospectus. Overall 41 x 28.5cm. View details Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$160StatusSold Lot #1054 EPHEMERA, BOOKS & COMICS: Small collection including a fascinating scrap album of Australian product labels, "Gallipoli Bill. The Man Who Walloped The Turks", The Coronation Panorama cut-out book, "The Brymay Toy Book (Bryant & May Pty Ltd)", children's books, photographs etc. Inspection will reward. Housed in vintage brown leather case. View details Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$420StatusSold Lot #1055 ROBERT HENDERSON CROLL (1869 - 1947), Tom Roberts : Father of Australian Landscape Painting, [Melbourne : Robertson & Mullens, 1935, 1st ed.], original cloth binding, 231pp, with portrait, colour and black & white plates. No.25 of the Presentation Edition of 60, numbered and signed by Mrs Jean Roberts and the author, R.H. Croll, who has also dedicated this volume to his brother Charles, "To C.C. from his brother Robert Henderson Croll 1.8.35". View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Price Realized$1,000StatusSold Lot #1056 C.J. DENNIS (1876 - 1938), The Singing Garden, [Australia : Angus & Robertson, 1935, 1st ed.], 188pp with decorations and full page illustrations for each season; photographic frontispiece of the author's home at Toolangi, in the Dandenongs; original green cloth and original dust jacket. Signed "C.J. Dennis" to the title page and with ownership inscription "Charles Croll, Christmas 1935" View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$240StatusSold Lot #1057 [PAPUA & PIDGIN ENGLISH] "Papua Wonderland" by Hides [1936, with d/j]; "Displaying Australia and New Guinea" {1945]; "The Book of Pidgin English" by Morris [1943]; "A Grammar of the Motu Language of Papua" by Chatterton & Lister-Turner; "Pidgin English Kuk Buk" by Levi {1964]; and, "A Primer of Police Motu" by Chatterton. (6 vols.). View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$80StatusSold Lot #1058 MARGARET HERRON (c.1884 - 1968), Seed and Stubble, [Sydney : Angus & Robertson Limited, 1936, 1st ed], 152pp, original red cloth with pictorial dust jacket; signed and dated to the title page "Margaret Herron, Toolagi 1937" using her husband's green ink. Also with Charles Croll's 1936 ownership signature. View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$80StatusSold Lot #1059 [ILLUSTRATED CHILDREN'S BOOKS]"Little Ragged Blossom" by May Gibbs [1937]; "Little Obelia and Further Adventures of Ragged Blossom Snugglepot & Cuddlepie" by May Gibbs [1938]; "The Tale of Christopher Cricket" by Gilmore [1946]; "The Tale of Gregory Grasshopper" by Gilmore [1947]; and "Peg's Fairy Book" by Peg Maltby. (5 vols.) Mixed condition. View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$160StatusSold Lot #1060 Robert Henderson CROLL (1869 - 1947), Dr. Alexander Thomson : A Pioneer of Melbourne and Founder of Geelong, [Melbourne, Robertson & Mullens, 1937, 1st ed.] 61pp, portrait frontispiece, plates; original two-tone green cloth with gilt lettering. Endorsed on the title page "C.C. [Charles Croll] from his brother (who wrote the book), R.H. Croll, Camberwell 10.12.37" also, I Recall : Collections and Recollections, [Melbourne : Robertson & Mullens Limited, 1939, 1st ed.] 188pp, View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$80StatusSold Lot #1061 Robert Henderson CROLL (1869 - 1947), Wide Horizons - Wanderings in Central Australia, [Sydney, Angus & Robertson Limited, 1937, 1st ed.], original green cloth; dedicated "To C.C. [Charles Croll] with the regards of his brother, who wrote the book, R.H. Croll. Camberwell, 25.9.37"; together with a bible and a book on the Ten Commandments, both with Croll family associations. (3 vols.) View details Estimate$80 - $120StatusUnsold Lot #1062 HEALTH AND PHYSICAL CULTURE MAGAZINE: Eight issues spanning August 1st 1938 to January 1st 1941, featuring much abuse of exclamation marks via such articles as 'My Experience As A Naturist!', 'Intimate Views On Marriage By A Doctor!', 'Is This Nudism A Sham?', and 'What Naturists Are Doing In Victoria!' (8 items) View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$80StatusSold Lot #1063 [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..."; an Official Souvenir Programme for the National Celebrations; and the official catalogue for a "Tapestry Exhibition, Sydney, 8th-25th June 1938, at David Jones' Auditorium. (5 items). View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$220StatusSold Lot #1064 ALAN D. BAKER, "...and a very good-night - with SHEAF STOUT - Brewed by Tooth & Co. Limited, Sydney" , lithograph in colours, circa 1940s, advertising poster for Tooth & Co., printed by William Brooks & Co., 98 x 74cm. Condition ReportOriginal condition without repairs, colour difference in the margin where iit was possibly framed. Several minor tears to the margin (the does not affect the image). Various creases throughout the image. A larger one two thirds horizontally to the upper part of the margin. An attractive lithograph. View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$380StatusSold Lot #1065 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. View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$80StatusSold Lot #1066 "ATLAS, LAMPS AND TUBES, ALL THE BETTER TO SEE YOU WITH. MADE IN AUSTRALIA. A PRODUCT OF THORN INDUSTRIES LTD" eight-sheet screen-printed advertising poster, circa 1947. Depicting a light bulb reading a book. Printed in England. Each sheet measures 76 x 101cm. Condition ReportOne sheet with slight damage along fold. Otherwise, very good overall. View details Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$340StatusSold Lot #1067 "The Fast Lady" by "Princess Zarina", subtitled "Amazing Adventures of Cleopatra's Cameo", [New Order Publications, Sydney] 127pp, pictorial front cover, circa 1940s. View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold Lot #1068 ERNIE OLD, By Bread Alone - The Autobiography of Famous Veteran Cyclist, [Melbourne: Georgian House, 1950], 183 pages, pictorial boards, signed and dedicated by the author on the first blank title page and dated 16/10/52. View details Estimate$80 - $120Price Realized$120StatusSold Lot #1069 [QANTAS] A range of publications including "Empire Airways" magazine (No.2 and No.4) issued in 1935, "Ethics and other things" (1955, signed by Hudson Fysh), a number of 1960s-80s illustrated on-board menus, a 1973 "Flight Guide", a 1968 King Neptune Order of Equatorial Air Voyagers certificate, a 1970 50th Anniversary folio, and some later postcards. View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$220StatusSold Lot #1070 LEE GORDON'S BIG SHOW programmes for the 1955 concert tour by FRANK SINATRA, the 1957 tour by Nat King Cole, and the 1957 tour by Johnnie Ray. (3). View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$100StatusSold Lot #1071 "The art of ALBERT NAMATJIRA" by C. P. Mountford, hardcover with original dust jacket, endorsed and signed by the author. View details Estimate$80 - $120Price Realized$140StatusSold Lot #1072 Melbourne Olympics car badge and program, assorted banknotes, antique documents and letters, housed in a vintage cigar box, (qty) View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$160StatusSold Lot #1073 ION IDRIESS: typed and manuscript notes for radio interviews, circa 1956 (he refers to his forthcoming book "The Silver City" which was published in 1956). View details Estimate$100 - $200StatusUnsold Lot #1074 "MOTOR SPORT IN AUSTRALIA 1960" five shilling publication, Victorian Railways "COUNTRY LINES SERVICES Passenger Time Table" circa 1935, and two vintage "BROADBENT'S" road guides, (4 items) View details Quantity4Estimate$120 - $200StatusUnsold Lot #1075 Art books and assorted catalogues, including a limited edition "The Lady And The Unicorn" signed by ARTHUR BOYD and PETER PORTER (1975), "Untold Lives" by Rosemary & Mike Dobson, signed L/E 220 of 240, (1992); "Dear Charles Dear Janet - Frame & Brasch in Correspondence" L/E No.64 of 150 (2010); JOHN BRACK Exhibition catalogues, namely "Paintings and Drawings of the Nude" at Australian Galleries, "John Brack Drawings 1945 - 1979" at Monash University Exhibition Gallery, and others. (26 items). View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$240StatusSold Lot #1076 REALITIES GALLERY "ROGER KEMP EXHIBITION" 3rd May 1976, gallery guest book, signed by many notable people and artists, some with additional sketches. Of note a full page ink sketch by RUSSELL DRYSDALE titled "Brandy in the afternoon is a must" signed lower right "Russell Drysdale 15:IV:77", plus a full page black pen drawing by DONALD FRIEND, and a CLIFTON PUGH full page black pen sketch and poem. Inspection will reward. View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Price Realized$500StatusSold Lot #1078 REALITIES GALLERY "A TRIBUTE TO GEORGE BALDESSIN EXHIBITION" 1st November 1978, gallery guest book, signed by many notable people and artists, some with additional sketches. Of note CLIFTON PUGH, ROGER KEMP, FRED WILLIAMS plus many more including a cartoon by SPOONER. View details Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$240StatusSold Lot #1079 REALITIES GALLERY visitors book, signed by many notable people and artists, circa 1970s. Inspection will reward. View details Estimate$120 - $200StatusCLOSED! Lot #1080 SAVAGE CLUB "S.GT PEPPER'S 150 at the Savage, Thursday 19th and 20th October, 2017", gouache on card, signed in the side margins by various members, 81 x 63cm overall View details Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$120StatusSold Lot #1081 YOSL BERGNER group of three exhibition catalogues, each dedicated to the artist DOROTHY BRAUND (1926-2013) and adorned with pen sketches by BERGNER. PROVENANCE: From the Dorothy Braund estate. View details Quantity3Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #1082 "EARTH HOLD" by Jennifer Rankin, illustrated by John Olsen, limited edition 89/150, with tipped in engraving titled "Banksias" and signed "John Olsen, 1978", first edition hard cover in brown morocco with gilt spine and pictorial boards in slip case. View details Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$120StatusSold Lot #1083 SIGNED BOOKS: "The Eric Thake Picture Book" by Elizabeth Summons [1978], 82/1000 signed by the artist; "Historic Sydney - The Founding of Australia" by Susanna de Vries [1983], cased & signed limited edition 5/60; "Queensland Wildflowers - A selection by Kathleen McArthur", signed by the artist. (3 volumes; all with dustjackets). View details Estimate$200 - $250StatusUnsold Lot #1084 GEORGE MANSELL (1916-1964, Thunder Beach (near Apollo Bay), watercolour, signed lower right "George Mansell", 39 x 59cm, 60 x 80cm overall. View details Estimate$200 - $400Price Realized$160StatusSold Lot #1085 "Hardy Wilson and his Old Colonial Architecture" by Cyril Pearl, [Sydney : Thomas Nelson, 1970], hardcover with d/j. View details Estimate$120 - $200StatusUnsold Lot #1086 [AUSTRALIAN & INTERNATIONAL ART INTEREST] Julian Ashton Sketchbooks" (Australian National Gallery, 1981); 2009 - 2011 and 2014 Bruneaf Catalogues; "Israel Painters" (Gazith Publishing, 1953); Ludwig Schwerin "Landscapes in Israel" (1961); "Jacques Carelman - Objets introuvables" (1978) plus several other diverse items including a 1944 edition of "The Magic Mountain" by Thomas Mann (defective d/j). (15 items). View details Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$80StatusSold Lot #1087 "THE ARTIST & THE DESERT" by Sandra McGrath and John Olsen, [Bay Books, Sydney, 1981], signed limited edition 65/200, brown Morocco with gilt title in slip case. View details Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$180StatusSold Lot #1088 REFERENCE BOOKS: "Nineteenth Century Australian Silver" by John Hawkins, vol I and II in slip case; "Australian Silver 1800-1900" by Hawkins and Houstone; "Early Australian Silver" by J.M. Houstone; "Australian Jewellery 19th An Early 20th Century" by Anne Schofield; and "Australian Pottery The First 100 Years" by Geoff Ford, five books in six vols. View details Quantity4Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$440StatusSold Lot #1089 FINE ART LIMITED EDITION BOOKS: "Francis Bacon : Of Gardens" (1993) L/E 220 with engravings by Betty Pennell; "A Pretty Mysterious Art" by C.W. Woolnough (1996) with eight antique samples tipped-in, in a solander case; "King's Wood Illuminations" by Gregory Pryor (2009) 327/500 signed by the author; "The artistry of Leslie Cole : Today I worked well - the picture fell off the brush" by Malcolm Yorke (2010) L/E 500. All hardcover and in "as new" condition. (4). View details Estimate$500 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #1090 CHARLES JOSEPH LA TROBE LANDSCAPES AND SKETCHES published by the State Library of Victoria in association with Tarcoola Press [1999], hardcover in burgundy boards and slip case with pictorial window View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$60StatusSold Lot #1091 QUILTING & AUSTRALIAN ARCHITECTURE: eight vols. hardcover View details Quantity8Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$80StatusSold Lot #1092 JOHN WHITE, Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales, [Edition Renard, Melbourne, 2002], 226 pages, frontispiece, 65 coloured plates from the hand-coloured originals. Full dark green goatskin leather, gilt lettering, all edges gilt. Edition of 212 numbered copies, 200 only for sale, this being #83, one of 150 numbered copies of the Standard Edition. View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold Lot #1093 ARTHUR PHILLIP, THE VOYAGE OF GOVERNOR PHILLIP TO BOTANY BAY [Published by Edition Renard, Melbourne, 2008] View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold Lot #1094 "THE WATERCOLOURS OF PAUL SIDNEY GOODWIN ALSO KNOWN AS WILLIAM YOUNG" by Stephen Robertson Marshall [ Syd. 2024], limited edition 98/100 copies signed by the author, hardback, near mint condition View details Estimate$250 - $350StatusUnsold Lot #1095 "THE WATERCOLOURS OF HERBERT HEPBURN CALVERT" by Stephen Robertson Marshall [ Syd. 2024], limited edition 98/100 copies signed by the author, hardback, near mint condition View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #1096 AUSTRALASIA ILLUSTRATED [1892, Syd., Melb., Lon., N.Y.], three volumes in black cloth and quarter Morocco with gilt title to the boards and spines. Complete but fair condition only. Condition ReportAll the volumes have had a partial re-bind at some stage. Mainly replacing the spines. The first volume has light water staining affecting the first third, mainly the bottom corner and including the frontis piece portrait of Cook. It appears to include all illustrations listed on the contents page. View details Quantity3Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$260StatusSold Lot #1096a A collection remainder, with most books on Australian, English or fishing-related subjects. Mixed condition and sizes. (29 items; mainly hard cover). View details Estimate$50 - $100Price Realized$480StatusSold Lot #1097 A fine range of Australian postcards in a small album. Noted, in particular, are seven different "Gruss Aus" colour lithographic types by McCarron Bird, a number of different views from the "In the Fifties" Series, early Sydney RP types, etc. (70+). View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$600StatusSold Lot #1098 Postcard album (dilapidated) with large range of cards including Australian themes, starlets and novelty cards etc, of note a nice range focusing on Castlemaine, (Victoria) New Zealand exhibition, Dandenong Ranges, Australian country towns, inspection will rewards. View details Estimate$500 - $800Price Realized$460StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1...910111213141516|Next12345678910111213141516 Previous 12345678910111213141516 Next Previous 12345678910111213141516 Next