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View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$2,400StatusSold Lot #697 AN EXTREMELY EARLY AUSTRALIAN MASONIC INDUCTION DOCUMENT - SYDNEY 1817, A signed and sealed vellum document recording the induction into the Royal Arch Chapter Mount Horeb No.227....assembled at Sydney in New South Wales on 24th February 1817, of Brother BENJAMIN GALE HUMFREY; signed by him and the officers of the Lodge. Condition ReportThe document is complete with no holes or tears. It has been folded several times but these folds have not broken the surface. Light overall foxing but does not detract from the legibility form the whole document which is an extremely attractive very early Australian example. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$650StatusSold Lot #698 NEW SOUTH WALES 1810, set of coloured lithographs, "View of Sydney from the East Side of the Cove" and "View of Sydney West Side of the Cove", 1884 facsimile of original by John Heaviside Clark (after John Eyre), published by William Dymock. Each framed and glazed 65 x75cm each overall. View details Quantity4Estimate$1,200 - $2,000Price Realized$1,100StatusSold Lot #699 "A VOYAGE THROUGH THE ISLANDS OF THE PACIFIC OCEAN, COMPILED FROM THE MOST AUTHENTIC AND RECENT AUTHORITIES" printed by Bentham & Gardiner [Dublin, 1824], original brown morocco boards rubbed and separating at the hinges and spine. Condition ReportThe binding, while original is split at the rear edges of the front and back covers and the spine has deteriorated quite substantially. The text pages are overall in extremely good condition with no creases, foxing or losses. The woodblock frontis piece and the illustrated title page are both in very good condition. For accuracy we mention that the last blank pages are held in place by later tape (not affecting any of the text pages). Overall 14.5cm high, 9.3cm wide, 1.5cm deep. View details Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$160StatusSold Lot #700 An early hand-coloured copper engraving of Hobart Town by Freidrich Justin Bertuch, circa 1825; the image approx. 15 x 21.5. The accompanying text (in German and French) describes the town as having 400 houses and 2700 inhabitants. View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$200StatusSold Lot #701 JOHN LATHAM, "Fan Tailed Cuckoo", coloured engraving from the 1822 publication "General History Of Birds", 23 x 18cm, 45 x 38cm overall. View details Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$100StatusSold Lot #702 AUGUSTUS PRINSEP (1803 - 1830) "The Journal of a Voyage from CALCUTTA to VAN DIEMEN'S LAND : comprising A Description of that Colony during a Six Months' Residence." [London : Smith, Elder, and Co. 1833], with folding map, original boards with original paper label; 118pp + adverts. Condition ReportThis volume retains the original cloth covered boards with printed label and original coloured end papers, although all are somewhat affected by age, it is remarkable to find them all intact. The folding map opposite the title page is intact but shows evidence of light water staining; hand-written previous owner’s name to top of title. The text pages are otherwise complete, in excellent condition and with only or two spots of foxing noted throughout. View details Estimate$300 - $350Price Realized$340StatusSold Lot #703 "THE HOBART TOWN GAZETTE", two complete editions, for December 4th, 1834, and September 14th, 1838. View details Quantity2Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$80StatusSold Lot #704 "A Collection of Voyages round the World... Containing a complete Historical Account of Captain COOK's First, Second, Third and Last VOYAGES.." [London : A. Millar, W. Law and R. Cater, 1790] volumes 3 and 4 only, with one plate present; "The Colony of Western Australia....." by Nathaniel Ogle [London : James Fraser, 1839] lacks ma View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$320StatusSold Lot #705 "THE HOBART TOWN GAZETTE", almost the complete run for the year 1840, bound into one large volume, from page 7 to page 1682; a mid-20th Century binding. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$320StatusSold Lot #706 EUGENE VON GUERARD (1811 - 1901), View On The Upper Mitta Mitta, colour lithograph, 30 x 39cm, 49 x 56cm overall View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$1,100StatusSold Lot #707 "TOWN OF ADELAIDE IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA" hand-coloured engraving, 19th century, drawn by Col. WILLIAM LIGHT, engraved by ROBt. HAVELL and published Smith Elder & Co. [London], 43 x 56cm, 66 x 79cm overall. View details Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$1,300StatusSold Lot #708 EARLY LAND TRANSACTIONS IN TASMANIA: July 1850 indenture on vellum recording the sale of 10+ acres on Pedder Street, Hobart from Henry Stevenson Hurst, Shirza Hurst and Joseph Allport to George & Margaret Bramwell, signed & sealed and witnessed by all parties, with a map of the location; also, an October 1856 land transaction vellum document between Edward Dumaresq and Charlotte Fogg, witnessed by William Henty for land on the Gawler River. (2 items). View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$260StatusSold Lot #709 JOHN WEST "The History of Tasmania", [Launceston : Henry Dowling, 1852, 1st ed.] in 2 vols., 340 + 380pp + prelims., original bindings repaired preserving most of the original including the gilt lettered spines. View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$320StatusSold Lot #710 Two antique hand-coloured lithographs: I.) Melbourne From The Botanical Gardens, 1853, II.) Post Office, Melbourne, image size 13 x 18cm, 38 x 41cm each overall. View details Quantity2Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$100StatusSold Lot #711 EDMUND THOMAS (1827-1867), Collins Street Looking West, 1853, colour lithograph, 14.5 x 26.5cm, 38 x 43cm overall. View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$240StatusSold Lot #712 GEORGE BAXTER (1804 - 1867), "News from Home", and "News from Australia", colour lithographs or Baxter prints, each 11 x 15cm, the lager frame 44 x 42cm overall. View details Quantity2Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$220StatusSold Lot #713 Melbourne Punch Volume I, half-morocco, 1856. View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$700StatusSold Lot #714 EARLY LAND GRANTS IN TASMANIA: A group of three original indentures on vellum View details Estimate$500 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #715 CHAMBERS, William & Robert, CHAMBERS'S INFORMATION FOR THE PEOPLE [London : W. & R. Chambers, 1857-58, 4th ed.], two full calf bindings, with coloured panels to spine, gilt titles and decorations. (2 vols.). Condition ReportBoth volumes present very well externally, although volume II appears to be more rubbed on the spine and the green leather plaque is a little faded as compared to volume I. The bindings are firm with attractive original end papers all intact. The text pages are complete with no evidence of foxing or any other faults. View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$100StatusSold Lot #716 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. Condition ReportWriting is clear and legible (very attractive). Well spaced entries of varying lengths in very good condition. Some foxing and toning in particular towards the end pages. Boards and binding rubbed and a little discoloured/grotty with age but complete and in fair to good condition. Some splitting and cracking to the interior hinge in several places but holding together well. View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$240StatusSold Lot #717 TASMANIA: A remarkable group of vellum land grant documents, all 1858-59 and all signed by Tasmanian Governor Henry Young: the recipients are James Leary, James Alexander Thomson (4 properties), William Duffy, Denis Maher, James Flannagan; all sealed and with hand-drawn maps identifying the parcel of land. (8 items). View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,250StatusUnsold Lot #718 F. W. NIVEN, Steamboat Corner, Lake Wendouree, Ballaarat, Yachts Starting for a Race, lithograph, 15 x 39cm, 33 x 56cm overall. View details Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$240StatusSold Lot #719 THE MELBOURNE ROSE twenty-eight engraved vignettes of Melbourne pasted on an old album sheet, disassembled from the die-cut folding card in the shape of a rose, second series [London, Jospeh Myer's & Co., 1862], the engravings after S. T. Gill (Victoria Illustrated), printed in Hamburg by C. Adler's Printing Establishment, the album page 41 x 31cm overall View details Estimate$250 - $350StatusUnsold Lot #720 FRANCOIS COGNE (1829-1883), Swanston Street (1863), tinted lithograph, printed by Charles Troedel of Melbourne, image size 26.5 x 36.5cm, sheet size 35.5 x 45.5cm View details Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$280StatusSold Lot #721 FRANCOIS COGNE (1829-1883), Botanical Gardens (1863), tinted lithograph, printed by Charles Troedel of Melbourne, image size 26.5 x 36.5cm, sheet size 35.5 x 45.5cm View details Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$240StatusSold Lot #722 FRANCOIS COGNE (1829-1883), Sandridge From Hobson's Bay, (1863), tinted lithograph, printed by Charles Troedel of Melbourne, image size 26.5 x 36.5cm, sheet size 35.5 x 45.5cm View details Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$300StatusSold Lot #723 SANDS & McDOUGALL'S MELBOURNE AND SUBURBAN DIRECTORY FOR 1866, [Melbourne : Sands & McDougall, 1866], 8vo, xxii + 552pp + 81 pages of advertisements; original hardcover (repaired). View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$1,700StatusSold Lot #724 TASMANIAN INTEREST: "The Australian Monthly Magazine" May 1867; "Australian Heroes and Adventurers" by George Routledge; "Minerals of Tasmania" by Petterd (1896); "The Vertebrate Animals of Tasmania" by Lord & Scott (1924) and "The Early History of Tasmania..." by Giblin (1928); very mixed condition; with A/F. View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$120StatusSold Lot #725 ROYAL HOBART REGATTA SILK PROGRAMMES 1868-1963: A collection of twenty-eight fringed silk souvenir programmes, each documenting all the races, entrants, prize monies, and officials; notable years include 1938 100th anniversary Regatta, 1942 300th anniversary of Abel Tasman discovery, 1955 90% of Hobart in attendance; some duplication present, extremely fine condition, most programmes of dimensions approx. 86 x 31cm. (28 items) View details Quantity28Estimate$2,500 - $3,000Price Realized$2,000StatusSold Lot #726 An antique coloured engraving titled "Melbourne"; together with a black and white print of Government House and a 1926 Girl Guides publication, (3 items), the largest 18 x 23cm View details Quantity3Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$100StatusSold Lot #727 A collection of 23 full page engraved plates, loosely held in the cover of Volume Seven: subjects include King George Sound (aborigines), The Gwailor Plains, Gladstone, Queensland, New Zealand Gully near Roehampton, Townsville, Return of Burke & Wills to Coopers Creek, Port Phillip Heads, etc. (23). View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #728 "THE AUSTRALIAN HANDBOOK and ALMANAC and SHIPPERS' AND IMPORTERS' DIRECTORY FOR 1877" View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$260StatusSold Lot #729 A 1880 City of London indenture on vellum with twelve red wax seals and four revenue stamps, detailing the establishment of a trust on behalf of one Elizabeth Cohen, widow of the late Samuel Cohen of Sydney, and their daughter Hannah Cohen and soon to be son-in-law Maximilian Stanislaus Hassfeld, detailing an arrangement for the management and later possible sale of land holdings in Cumberland County NSW, previously Crown Land granted in 1847 to one John Walker. 45 x 31cm. View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$700StatusSold Lot #730 CASSELL'S PICTURESQUE AUSTRALASIA edited by E.E. Morris, [London, Paris, New York, Melbourne, 1886], four volume set with red hardcover half morocco with embossed gilt coat of arms and lettering to the spines. View details Quantity4Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$550StatusSold Lot #731 NEW ZEALAND FERN ALBUM. A collection of native fern specimens attractively displayed in a period blue bound album with notations and inscription "Ferns Of New Zealand Collected and Mounted By WILLIAM LAYDELL, 23/1/91", View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold Lot #732 ARTIST UNKNOWN, supplement to the Illustrated Australia News, May 1881, "The Departure of the Burke and Wills Expedition", published by A. H. Massina, Melbourne, sepia tone lithograph, 31 x 46cm, 52 x 64cm. Condition ReportOverall very attractive with no tears, repairs or holes evident. Has not been inspected outside of the frame. Simple frame in good condition. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$400StatusSold Lot #733 BONWICK, James, FIRST TWENTY YEARS OF AUSTRALIA. A History Founded on Official Documents. [London : Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1882, 1st ed.] 8vo, viii + 256pp, frontispiece folding plate of facsimile signatures of early Governors and pioneer settlers; original blue cloth with gilt lettering. View details Estimate$80 - $100Price Realized$140StatusSold Lot #734 PERKINS, Horace, MELBOURNE ILLUSTRATED and VICTORIA DESCRIBED, [Melbourne : H. Perkins & Co., circa 1882], a small green and gilt decorated hardcover booklet containing a folding set of 17 leporello images accompanied by 38pp of text within red borders. View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$320StatusSold Lot #735 MARTIN SHOLL, "A Handy Book to Tasmanian Mining and General Investment" [Launceston : Launceston Examiner, 1882], 131pp, original stiff card boards and dark green end papers. View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$550StatusSold Lot #736 (After) JOHN HEAVISIDE CLARK (1771–1863), I.) View of Sydney From The West Side of The Cove, No.2, II.) View of Sydney From The West Side of The Cove, No. 4, colour lithograph reprinted by Dymock after the original, 38 x 52cm each, 59 x 72cm each overall. View details Quantity2Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$340StatusSold Lot #737 THE AGE ANNUAL: A Political & Statistical Register of the Colony of Victoria, 1885, [Melbourne : David Syme & Co.], 8vo, xxiv + pp158 + xxv-xlvi, original blue cloth with gilt lettering and blind-stamped decorations; replaced blank endpapers. Includes a wonderful range of advertisements. View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$120StatusSold Lot #738 "The Picturesque Atlas of Australasia", 1886, volumes I, II, III, all half morocco with gilt lettering on spine and cover, edited by the Honourable Andrew Garran L.L.D. M.L.C. View details Quantity3Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$280StatusSold Lot #739 GARRYOWEN [FINN, Edmund], "The Chronicles of Early Melbourne - 1835 TO 1852 - HISTORICAL, ANECDOTAL AND PERSONAL - CENTENNIAL EDITION WITH PORTRAITS AND ILLUSTRATIONS" [Melbourne, Fergusson and Mitchell, 1888]; 2vols. x+496+504pp. quarto, full Morocco binding with gilt decoration and lettering, black and white frontispiece and plates. View details Quantity2Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$600StatusSold Lot #740 "THE PICTURESQUE ATLAS OF AUSTRALASIA" [Sydney & Melbourne, 1886], two volumes, half morocco with embossed gilt lettering on the spine View details Quantity2Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$240StatusSold Lot #741 "THE PICTURESQUE ATLAS OF AUSTRALASIA" [Sydney, Melbourne, 1886], two volumes folio, full morocco with embossed gilt boards and lettering to the spine. View details Quantity2Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$160StatusSold Lot #742 BENDIGO: Antique black and white broadside publication in dusty green wrapper with gilt lettering, 19th century; together with "An Easy Guide To The Southern Stars" antique pocket handbook in original blue boards with pictorial gilt cover, [London, 1896], (2 items) View details Quantity2Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$200StatusSold Lot #743 FREDERICK ROBERT NIXON (1817-1860), I.) Part Of Adelaide, from the N.W. II.) Hindley Street, looking west, III.) The Port, IV.) Frame Bridge, V.) Government House, & part of N. Terrace. E. View. Circa 1880's group of five photo-lithographs in green ink on wove paper lithographed by an unknown artist after a series of etchings of Adelaide first published in Nixon's Views on Adelaide and its Vicinity (1845), the first South Australian view book. Sheet size 18.5 x 27.5cm View details Quantity5Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$100StatusSold Lot #744 JAMES BACKHOUSE WALKER, "Abel Janszoon Tasman : His Life and Voyages." [Hobart : William Grahame, Jun., 1896], original printed wrapper, iv, 56pp; 3 large folded maps. A scarce pamphlet. View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$100StatusSold Lot #745 CHARSLEY, Fanny Anne (1828-1915). The Wild Flowers Around Melbourne. [London: Day & Son., 1st November 1867], folio, lithographic title, 13 hand-coloured lithographic plates. Green cloth boards with gilt titles and decoration. Bookplate of Dame Mabel Balcombe Brookes. FIRST EDITION. Each plate is accompanied by one leaf of scientific description by Ferdinand von Mueller, the dedicatee of the work. Condition ReportFrist edition as catalogued. The pages have been hinged, sewn and repaired. The book has been re-backed. The end pages are not original. View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Price Realized$900StatusSold Lot #746 "THE MELBOURNE SET, ETCHINGS BY JOHN SHIRLOW", [published by Edward A. Vidler, Melbourne, 1920]. Limited edition of 80 copies, this folio numbered 14 and signed by the artist. Hard cover featuring six tipped-in etchings, each signed by John Shirlow with title label also tipped-in to each page. A good complete copy featuring all of the plates in very good condition, the boards worn and rubbed with age, the spine canvas split but present. View details Estimate$1,200 - $2,000Price Realized$1,100StatusSold Lot #747 WALCH'S TASMANIAN ALMANACS: "The Red Book" for 1900, 1916, 1922, 1935 and 1958. (5). View details Estimate$50 - $100Price Realized$100StatusSold Lot #748 1901 FEDERATION: An ornate colour lithographic invitation to an evening reception at the Exhibition Building, Melbourne, to celebrate the Opening of Parliament on the 9th of May 1901 by the Duke & Duchess of Cornwall & York, later King George V and Queen Mary; the invitation to "The Editor of Advance Australia and Lady", Laid down on card, overall 30.5 x 36.5cm. View details Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$100StatusSold Lot #749 1901 FEDERATION: Two colour lithographic invitations, the larger 30.5 x 36.5cm, inviting "The Editor of Advance Australia and Lady" to the May 9th Exhibition Building Opening of Parliament, and to the celebrations thereafter. (2 items) View details Quantity2Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$280StatusSold Lot #750 1901 FEDERATION: "Souvenir Of The Inauguration Of The Australian Commonwealth" [John Sand, 1901, presumed first and only edition], large format colour pictorial, 42 x 27cm, plus book of printed photographs of Melbourne and surrounds in 1890s. (2 items) View details Quantity2Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$320StatusSold Lot #751 PHARMACOLOGY: "The Australian Pharmaceutical Formulary, 1902" together with the 1911, 1921, 1925 and 1930 editions; also, "Emergency Formulary of Australia" (1941); the "Australian War Pharmacopaeia 1942", and the "First Addendum to the 1941 Emergency Formulary of Australia, Feb. 1st., 1942"; all complete. (8 items). View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$340StatusSold Lot #752 SMITH, James (ed.) The Cyclopedia Of Victoria (Illustrated). An Historical And Commercial Review. Descriptive And Biographical, Facts, Figures And Illustrations. An Epitome Of Progress. [Melbourne : The Cyclopedia Company, 1903]. Three volumes large 8vo, original half-leather boards, gilt decorations b&w frontis, b&w photos and illustrated throughout, edges marbled. View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #753 Group of three 1906 octavo format publications, comprising 'Studio Sketches' by William Moore with inscription by author to the title page, November 1906 Steele Rudd's Magazine (Steele Rudd was the pen name of Arthur Hoey Davis), and 1919 Steele Rudd's Annual. (3 items) View details Quantity3Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$120StatusSold Lot #754 The "Voyage of the S.S. Pukaki - Recruiting Trip" December 25th, 1915 to March 17th, 1916: Remarkable hand-written manuscript diary notes (24pp) believed to be written by IGNATIUS LLOYD (later to become Captain Lloyd), describing the journey from NAURU to PORT MORESBY during the early days of World War One. While the primary purpose of the voyage appears to have been transporting "170 Kanakas, men, women and children" to work in Australia - the infamous period of "blackbirding"..... Condition ReportWritten in ink with later emendments in pencil in the same hand. Spotting throughout with small loss to the last sheet. Overall very legible. View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$240StatusSold Lot #755 DENNIS, C.J. "Backblock Ballads and Other Verses by Den", [E.W. Cole, Book Arcade, Melbourne, 1913], 200pp; original blue cloth binding with illustration and titles in black and red. View details Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$100StatusSold Lot #756 ART IN AUSTRALIA various publications, 1916-1938, plus various later volumes and an assortment of books (qty) View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #757 "WESTRALIA GIFT BOOK - To Aid YMCA Military Work & Returned Nurses' Fund", [Perth : V.K. Jones & Co., 1916],192pp with original pictorial wrappers, tipped-in artworks, adverts., etc. View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$100StatusSold Lot #758 "ANZAC MEMORIAL 1917" [Sydney ; A.G. Stephens, 1917 2nd edition], pictorial board covers, 512pp; frontispiece portrait of Ida M. Greaves; published by The Returned Soldiers Association. View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$80StatusSold Lot #759 "The Kia Ora Coo-ee" official magazine of the Australian and New Zealand forces in Egypt, Palestine, Salonica & Mesopotamia, 1918 Second Series issues No. 4 & 5, together with 1918 'The Billy Book - 50 New Drawings By Low', 1938 'Ben Bowyang' Herald feature, 1945 'Stag At Bay!' Argus 7th volume of Armstrong war cartoons, and August 5th 1961 issue of The Bulletin. (7 items) View details Quantity7Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$100StatusSold Lot #760 "The Art of Arthur Streeton", edited by Sydney Ure Smith, special edition of Art in Australia, [Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1919]; ownership inscription of "Kathleen Hirschfeld, Xmas 1919". View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$180StatusSold Lot #761 HOYT'S CINEMA & THEATRE: Four issues of 'The Green Room - Moving Picture And Theatre Magazine', comprising January 1920, June 1920, July 1921, and August 1921. (4 items) View details Quantity4Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$60StatusSold Lot #762 SIR MACPHERSON ROBERTSON: 'A Young Man And A Nail Can' [Melbourne, 1921], signed & dedicated by Mac Robertson, together with pamphlet 'Press Extracts Concerning MacRobertson's Colossal Industrial Achievements in Australasia', plus press sheet. (3 items) View details Quantity3Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$1,000StatusSold Lot #763 Original pen and ink artworks by newspaper cartoonist, Samuel G. Wells, circa 1922-23: "The Rolling Stone that Gathered Some Moss"; Safety First on the roads; and "Sam Barton at the Tivoli", (3 items); the largest 20 x 35cm. View details Estimate$300 - $400StatusUnsold Lot #764 Group lot of five books comprising 1925 Vols 1+2 Angus & Robertson 'The Australian Encyclopedia', 1926 'The Adam Lindsay Gordon Memorial Volume' edited by Edward A. Vidler, 1935 'The History of Malvern' by John Butler Cooper, and 1961 'The Melbourne Album' edited by Clive Turnbull, with sleeve. View details Quantity5Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$160StatusSold Lot #765 'A Jubilee History Of The Melbourne Harbor Trust - 1877 to 1927' by Benjamin Hoare, published 1927 by Peacock Bros. Pty. Ltd., Bourke Street, Melbourne, 475 pp. with four fold-out maps. View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$80StatusSold Lot #766 SIR ERNEST HENRY WREFORD (1866 – 1938) January 1932, illuminated leather-bound presentation to Wreford on the Jubilee of his association with the National Bank of Australasia; presented by the members of the National Bank Staff Club: "congratulations upon the completion of your fiftieth year of service with the Bank, and we express our sincere hopes that you and Mrs. Wreford may be granted long life...." also, a leather-bound dinner menu on the April 1935 occasion of a retirement dinner. View details Estimate$1,000 - $2,000StatusUnsold Lot #767 DONALD FRIEND Ex Libris bookplate, circa 1930, framed with details verso, 19 x 7cm, 41 x 21cm overall View details Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$240StatusSold Lot #768 "The Weekly Times" Wild Nature Book", 1932 colour supplement in original card binding, 30 x 23cm, together with 1935 'Australian Wonder Book' by Aeneas Gunn/Tarella Quin Daskein/Tarlton Rayment/J.J. Hall, hardcover with black and white plates throughout. View details Quantity2Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$60StatusSold Lot #769 BENJAMIN EDWIN MINNS: Two copies of the December 1932 B.E. Minns issue of Art In Australia, plus original c. 1905 "The Glad Eye" B.E. Minns postcard. (3 items) View details Quantity3Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$80StatusSold Lot #770 "Sydney Town" by Harry J. Weston [Sydney & Melbourne Publishing Co., 1932], quarto with original pictorial wrappers, 12pp. A good copy of a very scarce publication only recorded in four Australian collections. View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$200StatusSold Lot #771 [SHEET MUSIC] "Our Boy, A Pathetic Song" Rare lithograph sheet music by Helen Bowen, signed "Sincerely, Helen Bowen" with printed dedication "Why Did they Take My Boy Away? Respectfully Dedicated To Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh." With attractive portrait and lithograph of the Spirit of St. Louis, 31.5 x 24cm, 48 x 38cm overall View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$60StatusSold Lot #772 NEW ZEALAND HERALD: Group of three anthologies of Gordon Minhinnick's political cartoons, comprising 1933 "Cartoons - Political And Otherwise", 1938 "Minhinnick Cartoons", and 1946 "Minhinnick's Cartoons And Old Soldier Sam"; publisher Wilson & Horton, Auckland. (3 items). View details Quantity3Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$200StatusSold Lot #773 Official Programme: 1936 Centenary of South Australia - "First Battle of Flowers". Published by Lindsay Fabre. Includes program at Wayville Showgrounds October 10th, 1936. Also many local advertisements, plus cooking, beauty, home tips, plus photos of floral floats, etc, 40pp text & illustrations; bound with original silk tie. View details Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$100StatusSold Lot #774 ION IDRIESS: "Forty Fathoms Deep" and "Madman's Island", first edition hard covers, (2 items). View details Quantity2Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$80StatusSold Lot #775 VARIOUS BOOKS, comprising 1941 'Now Came Still Evening On' signed by Julian Ashton, c. 1960s 'Ern Malley's Poems' signed by Max Harris, 1968 'Guide Rangi of Rotorua' signed by Rangi, 1975 'Times And Places' signed by Rowland & Boulton, 1996 'A Torrent of Words' signed by Souter, and 1997 and 2008 editions of 'The Australian Air Mail Catalogue', the first signed by Eustis. (7 items) View details Quantity7Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$100StatusSold Lot #776 MARTIN SHARP: 'Cartoons - A Selection From Oz, The Australian, The Sydney Morning Herald, Honi Soit, Tharunka..Etc..', [Scripts Pty Ltd Sydney, 1966.] View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$380StatusSold Lot #777 AUSTRALIAN ARTISTS: Various signed letters, photos, catalogues & brochures, incl. HANS HEYSEN one page letter dated July 1959; a LOUIS KAHAN signed etching plus extra signature on piece; a JOHN PERCIVAL signed letter dated June 1985; a DAVID BOYD signed card ,1984; a KARL DULDIG signed card; a WILLIAM RICKETTS signed brochure; a JUDY CASSAB signed letter, June 1972; a ROBERT DICKERSON signed letter; a MAX MIDDLETON signed letter, May 1972; a DESIDERIUS ORBAN signed letter, September 1969; (14). View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$750StatusSold Lot #778 "PORTRAITS OF THE FAMOUS AND INFAMOUS: AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND AND THE PACIFIC, 1492-1970" by Rex Nan Kivell and Sydney A. Spence. Hardcover, first edition, published by the authors, London, 332 pp, numerous colour & black & white illustrations. Scarce. Condition ReportIn very good condition, as new View details Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$120StatusSold Lot #779 'THE ABORIGINES OF VICTORIA and Other Parts of Australia and Tasmania' by R. Brough Smyth, 1972 reprint by John Currey, O'Neil [Melbourne] of 1876 original, in 2 volumes with pictorial dust jacket. View details Quantity2Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$120StatusSold Lot #780 "NINETEENTH CENTURY AUSTRALIAN FURNITURE", by Fahy, Simpson and Simpson [Syd. 1985], rare two volume hardcover edition in cloth boards with slip case, signed by Simpson and Simpson. Some toning and spotting to the covers and slipcase, otherwise, a good firm copy. View details Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$900StatusSold Lot #781 "MAPPING HONG KONG - A HISTORICAL ATLAS" by Hal Empson, former Senior Cartographer, Hong Kong. Published by Government Information Services, Hong Kong, 1992. Hardcover, dust wrapper, 252 pp with numerous colour and black & white maps and illustrations. Rare and in as new condition. View details Estimate$500 - $700StatusUnsold Lot #782 WEG (WILLIAM ELLIS GREEN, 1923-2008): A folio of original artworks and works-in-progress produced by WEG for his friend (and client?) Larry Mendonca, of the Rajah-Sahib restaurant in Queen Street, Melbourne, plus several images on corflute. View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #783 EPHEMERA & COLLECTABLES: Accumulation of assorted ephemera and publications including vintage sheet music with Australian themes, vintage pictorial travel brochures, prints, Melbourne Olympics memorabilia, MacRobertson, antique plates (Captain Cook's Voyages), philatelic material etc. View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$420StatusSold Lot #784 CAPTAIN COOK and DISCOVERY, group of five assorted antique framed prints, 57 x 46cm overall. Condition ReportThe larger image of James Cook is the engraving by Halls from “The Picturesque Atlas of Australasia”; The second and smaller image is a hand-coloured version of the same portrait surrounded by cartouches depicting scenes of his voyages. We are not sure of the origin. View details Quantity5Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$120StatusSold Lot #785 AUSTRALIAN THEMES: Handsome selection of reference books including "Australian Jewellery" by Anne Schofield & Kevin Fahy, "Early Australian Silver" by J. M. Houstone, "Australian Art Pottery, 1900-1950" [Casuarina Press], plus assorted books on scrimshaw, whaling, pottery, furniture, timbers and art catalogues, (31 volumes). View details Quantity30Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$500StatusSold Lot #786 AUSTRALIAN MEDALS: "Australian Historical Medals, 1877-1888", "Australian Commemorative Medals and Medalets From 1788" (with supplementary price guide), plus a paper bound volume "Australian Bicentenary Medals", (4 items). Condition ReportAll in as new condition. View details Quantity4Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$240StatusSold Lot #787 Three assorted antique hand-coloured engravings, two Australian and one English, including "Burke & Wills Monument, Melbourne" and "Vue de New Town", (3 items), the largest 35 x 34cm overall View details Quantity3Estimate$80 - $120Price Realized$120StatusSold Lot #788 BARRY HUMPHRIES' "LAST NIGHT OF THE POMS, FEATURING SIR LES PATTERSON, DAME EDNA EVERAGE." 1981 lithograph poster for a performance at the Royal Albert Hall, London. Endorsed and signed "Edna + Barry Humphries", 67 x 51cm overall. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$160StatusSold Lot #789 An original colour lithographic movie poster for "The Adventures of Barry McKenzie" [1972, printed in England by W.E. Berry], signed by BARRY HUMPHRIES (writer and actor) and BRUCE BERESFORD (writer and director) and PHILLIP ADAMS (producer); overall 76 x 101cm. View details Estimate$300 - $400Price Realized$260StatusSold Lot #790 ORIGINAL POSTER Rarely Everage - The Lives of Barry Humphries, Barry Humphries as Dame Edna as Christine Keeler, photographed by Lewis Morley, Nov.2002 - Feb. 2003 exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, Old Parliament House, Canberra, framed & glazed, overall 94 x 70cm. The exhibition subsequently moved to The Arts Centre, Melbourne for two months. View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$260StatusSold Lot #791 ORIGINAL POSTER Rarely Everage - The Lives of Barry Humphries, Nov.2002 - Feb. 2003 exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, Old Parliament House, Canberra,framed & glazed, overall 94 x 70cm.The exhibition subsequently moved to The Arts Centre, Melbourne for two months. View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #792 An old time leather album housing an interesting selection of mostly Australian themed postcards, including many real photo examples, highlights include "New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition", trams, military, portraits etc. Inspection will reward. Condition Report174 postcards, 99 photos (a few have been used as postcards) View details Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$420StatusSold Lot #793 GEORGE TAYLOR - ARTIST: Group of c.1900s Alphabet Series postcards, comprising a complete series of the letters G (Gold) through to L (Larrikin). (6 items) View details Quantity6Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$80StatusSold Lot #794 GEORGE TAYLOR - ARTIST: Set of c.1900s George Taylor postcards, comprising 'A Friend In Need', 'Home', 'Lighting Up', 'The Lone Fisherman', 'Telling A Yarn', and 'While The Billy Boils'. Extremely scarce. (6 items) View details Quantity6Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$160StatusSold Lot #795 POSTCARDS: Australian scenes, airship, military etc., an attractive range; together with a lepidero album of Sydney views, (qty). Condition Report51 postcards and one panorama card. View details Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$340StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1...67891011...16|Next12345678910111213141516 Previous 12345678910111213141516 Next Previous 12345678910111213141516 Next
