Australian & Historical (#536) Auction Info View ▼ Items per page 102550100 Sort by DefaultTime LeftLot#Lot NameNewestHighest PriceLowest PriceBids (Low - High)Bids (High - Low)Views (Low - High)Views (High - Low)Relevance Filter By Categories Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above Featured Exclude closed lots Price Lot Number Results: Viewing items 1301-1400 of 1671. Previous|1...1011121314151617|Next Lot #1284 Assorted books, journals, autographs and unused rolls of tickets, (qty). Inspection will reward. Login to bid Estimate$100 - $200Orig. Starting Price$80 Lot #1285 Bessie THREADGILL, "South Australian Land Exploration 1856-1880", [ADELAIDE : The Hassell Press, 1922]; in 2 volumes; original wrappers; part one is the text, part two has the accompanying maps of South Australia. Login to bid Estimate$100 - $150Orig. Starting Price$80 Lot #1286 ART IN AUSTRALIA MAGAZINE: Group comprising issue #3, as well as November 1922, August 1923, March 1925, October-November 1930, and April 1932, plus 1932 "Lilacs out of the Dead Land" by Edgar Holt. (7 items) Login to bid Quantity7Estimate$150 - $200Orig. Starting Price$120 Lot #1287 TRADE PUBLICATION: "Hoskins Iron & Steel Company Ltd., Sydney - Lithgow - Rhodes - Brisbane", c. 1920s, oblong quarto, 120pp., original gilt ruled leather covers. Login to bid Estimate$200 - $300Orig. Starting Price$160 Lot #1288 TRADE PUBLICATION: "The Iron Industry - G. & C. Hoskins Limited - Iron and Steel Works - Lithgow and Sydney", published 1925; oblong quarto, 120pp., original decorated cloth boards. Login to bid Estimate$200 - $300Orig. Starting Price$160 Lot #1289 TASMANIAN INTEREST: A group of books, mostly hardcovers; noted 1926 "Tasmania at Home - The Land of Opportunity" by Lynch, 1962 "Journals of the Land Commissioners for Van Diemen's Land 1826-28" by McKay (editor), and 1977 "Alexander Pearce of Macquarie Harbour: Convict, Bushranger, Cannibal" by Sprod. (14 items) Login to bid Quantity14Estimate$200 - $250Orig. Starting Price$160Current starting$160 (1 bid) Lot #1290 "Lysistrata by Aristophanes done into English by Jack Lindsay, Illustrations by Norman Lindsay" [London; Fanfrolico Press, 1926], signed limited edition #223/725 (overseas copy), 51pp.; folio, half morocco, gilt decoration to cover; covers and spine worn. Login to bid Estimate$300 - $500Orig. Starting Price$240 Lot #1291 A group of early-20th century books regarding Tasmania, mostly clothbound hardcovers; noted 1927 "The Voyage of the Caroline from England to Van Diemen's Land and Batavia in 1827-28" by Lee, 1935 "The Presbyterian Pioneers of Van Diemen's Land" by Heyer, and 1948 "Black War" by Turnbull. (9 items) Login to bid Quantity9Estimate$200 - $250Orig. Starting Price$160Current starting$160 (1 bid) Lot #1292 JACK & NORMAN LINDSAY, "Loving Mad Tom - Bedlamite Verses of the XVI and XVII Centuries with Five Illustrations by Norman Lindsay" [London; Fanfrolico Press, 1927], limited edition #54/375, 110pp.; quarto, quarter leather binding, green paper boards, gilt design to cover and gilt title to spine. Login to bid Estimate$250 - $350Orig. Starting Price$200 Lot #1293 HARRY (Hal) COLEBATCH, Sir (1872 - 1953), (ed.), "A Story of a Hundred Years", [Perth : Fred. Wm. Simpson, 1929; 1st ed.], 476pp plus coloured plates and numerous other illustrations; original cloth; pen endorsement by Colebatch to front blank endpaper, July 1936. Login to bid Estimate$100 - $150Orig. Starting Price$80Current starting$80 (1 bid) Lot #1294 "Women in Parliament by Aristophanes done into English by Jack Lindsay, with Illustrations by Norman Lindsay and a foreword by Edgell Rickword" [London; Fanfrolico Press, 1929], limited edition #456/500, 59pp.; folio, half morocco, gilt decoration to cover. Login to bid Estimate$400 - $600Orig. Starting Price$320 Lot #1295 A group of hardcover books comprising rare 1929 "The Canine King - The Working Sheep Dog" by James L. Moore (original blue boards with gilt vignette of a dog's head to cover), 1937 "The House that Hitler Built" by Stephen H. Roberts (dust jacket present), and 1960 "Kings in Grass Castles" by Mary Durack (dust jacket present). (3 items) Login to bid Quantity3Estimate$200 - $250Orig. Starting Price$160 Lot #1296 Re. Dr. Frank CASH, "Parables of the Sydney Harbour Bridge: - Setting forth the preparation for, and progressive growth of, the Sydney Harbour Bridge, to April 1930", [Sydney : Townsend & Co., 1st edition, 1930], original blue cloth with gilt titles to front and spine, 518pp including photo plates + fold-out photo with key. Login to bid Estimate$200 - $300Orig. Starting Price$160 Lot #1297 JOHN BUTLER COOPER: Group of hardcover books comprising 1931 "The History of St. Kilda 1840-1930" (volumes I and II) and 1935 "The History of Malvern 1836-1936" (2); all with cloth boards, gilt text to spine, and gilt city emblems to covers. (4 items) Login to bid Quantity4Estimate$150 - $200Orig. Starting Price$120 Lot #1298 WILLIAM JOHN DAKIN, "Whalemen Adventurers - The Story of Whaling in Australian Waters and other Southern Seas Related Thereto, from the Days of Sails to Modern Times" [Sydney; Angus & Robertson, 1934 1st ed.], xx + 263pp.; original blue cloth boards and endpapers, gilt text to spine. Login to bid Estimate$200 - $300Orig. Starting Price$160 Lot #1299 AUSTRALIAN MILITARY UNIT HISTORIES: A group of books including hardcovers with dust jackets; noted 1945 "The Surprising Battalion - Australian Commandos in China" by Noonan, 1973 "That Mob - The Story of the 55th/53rd AIF" by Budden, 1974 "WAAAF at War" by Robertson (signed), and 1996 "Wewak Mission - Coastwatchers at War in New Guinea" by Veale (signed). (18 items) Login to bid Quantity18Estimate$200 - $300Orig. Starting Price$160 Lot #1300 Group of hardcover books, mainly Australian Political themes, including "Three Years with Eisenhower" by Harry C. Butcher (Heinemann, London, 1946), "Sir Robert Menzies" by Sir Percy Joske (Angus & Robertson, 1978), "The Rise and Rise of Kerry Packer" by Paul Barry (Bantam, Ultimo, 1993), and "Australian Prime Ministers" by Michelle Grattan (New Holland, Sydney, 2010). (8 items) Login to bid Quantity8Estimate$100 - $200Orig. Starting Price$80 Lot #1301 ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIA: A group of books, mostly hardcovers with dust jackets; noted 1948 "Black War - The Extermination of the Tasmanian Aborigines" by Turnbull, 1963 "Bibliography of the Australian Aborigines and the Native Peoples of Torres Strait to 1959" by Greenway, 1974 "White on Black" by Dutton, and 1975 "Aboriginal Bark Canoes of the Murray Valley" by Edwards. (6 items) Login to bid Quantity6Estimate$200 - $250Orig. Starting Price$160 Lot #1302 Group of hardcover books comprising "Present Day Art in Australia" by Sydney Ure Smith [Ure Smith Pty. Ltd., Sydney, 1949], "Documents on art and taste in Australia" by Bernard Smith [Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1975], "The Wharncliffe Hours" [Thames and Hudson, London, 1981], and "Decorative Cast Iron in Australia" by E. Graeme Robertson [Penguin Books, Ringwood, 1984]. (4 items) Login to bid Estimate$100 - $150Orig. Starting Price$80 Lot #1303 AUSTRALIANA: SANITARIUM HEALTH FOOD CO.: 1950 "Aboriginal Tribes and Customs" complete set of (50) in specially printed album "The Sanitarium Children's Library - Volume 4"; together with 1948 "Marvels of the Great Barrier Reef" complete set of (50) in specially printed album "A Pictorial Record of Australia's Marine Wonderland" and 1954/55 "The Story of the Pacific" complete set of (60) in specially printed album "The Sanitarium Children's Library - Volume 7". Login to bid Estimate$200 - $250Orig. Starting Price$160 Lot #1304 TASMANIAN INTEREST: A group of books including hardcovers with dust jackets; noted 1951 "The Struggle for Self-Government in Tasmania" by Townsley (first edition), 1988 "Pioneers of Tasmania's West Coast" by Binks, 1992 "Land Settlement in Early Tasmania" by Morgan, and 1992 "Tasmanian Insights - Essays in Honour of Geoffrey Thomas Stillwell" by Winter (editor). (16 items) Login to bid Quantity16Estimate$300 - $400Orig. Starting Price$240Current starting$240 (1 bid) Lot #1305 NEW SOUTH WALES: A group of hardcover books with dust jackets; noted 1952 "Old Books, Old Friends, Old Sydney" by Tyrrell (first edition), 1978 "Colonial Improver - Edward Deas Thomson" by Foster, and 1981 "Homesteads of Southern New South Wales 1830-1900" by Cantlon (limited edition). (16 items) Login to bid Quantity16Estimate$250 - $350Orig. Starting Price$200 Lot #1306 TASMANIAN INTEREST: A group of hardcover books with dust jackets; noted 1954 "The Viking of Van Diemen's Land" by Clune & Stephensen (signed first edition), 1969 "Early Tasmanian Bridges" by Smith, and 1973 "The Van Diemen's Land Edition of The Pickwick Papers - A General and Bibliographical Study..." by Craig (limited edition). (16 items) Login to bid Quantity16Estimate$250 - $350Orig. Starting Price$200 Lot #1307 THE CLYDE COMPANY PAPERS: Complete set of seven hardcover volumes (plus two duplicates), edited by P.L. Brown, comprising 1956 vol.1 "Prologue 1821-35" (reprint), 1952 "Volume II 1836-40" (2), 1958 "Volume III 1841-45" (2), 1959 "Volume IV 1846-50", 1963 "Volume V 1851-53", 1968 "Volume VI 1854-58", and 1971 "Volume VII 1859-73"; Oxford University Press, Melbourne. (9 items) Login to bid Quantity9Estimate$200 - $250Orig. Starting Price$160 Lot #1308 Group of hardcover books comprising "Australian Image - 50 Landscapes in Colour" by Colin Simpson (Legend Press, Sydney, 1956), "The Gold Smugglers" by John Gunn (Lansdowne Press, Melbourne, 1962), "So Came They South" by Robert Clancy & Alan Richardson (Shakespeare Head Press, Silverwater, 1988), and "The Golden Horseshoe" by Anne and Robin Bailey & Margaret Howes (Duckett 150th Anniversary Committe, Hawthorn, 1999; signed by several of the contributors). (4 items) Login to bid Quantity4Estimate$120 - $200Orig. Starting Price$100 Lot #1309 A diverse group of books on Australian topics, mostly hardcovers with dust jackets; noted 1956 "John Graham, Convict - An Historical Narrative" by Robert Gibbings, 1972 "Land Boom and Bust" by Cannon (signed limited edition), and 2001 "Pictorial Gisborne - A Journey through Time 1851-2001" by Gisborne and Mount Macedon Districts Historical Society (limited edition). (17 items) Login to bid Quantity17Estimate$150 - $200Orig. Starting Price$120 Lot #1310 GEORGE MACKANESS, "The Art of Book-Collecting in Australia" [Melbourne; Angus & Robertson, 1956], 185pp., clothbound hardcover with gilt text to cover and spine; limited edition #171/500 signed by the author. Login to bid Estimate$150 - $200Orig. Starting Price$120 Lot #1311 INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIA: Group of pamphlets and softcover books, including 1957 "The Aboriginal Australians" by A.P. Elki, 1960 "The Aboriginal Word Book" by Justine Kenyon, 1968 "After the Dreaming" by W.E.H. Stanner, 1970 "To Achieve our Country" by Lorna Lippmann, 1979 "It's Coming Yet..." by Stewart Harris, and many others. (17 items) Login to bid Quantity17Estimate$80 - $120Orig. Starting Price$60 Lot #1312 A diverse group of books on Australian topics, mostly hardcovers with dust jackets; noted 1958 "Back O' Cairns" by Idriess (first edition), 1998 "The French Consul's Wife - Memoirs of Celeste de Chabrillan in Gold-Rush Australia" by Clancy & Allen, and 1999 "The Tomorrow Series Diary" by Marsden (signed). (17 items) Login to bid Quantity17Estimate$150 - $200Orig. Starting Price$120 Lot #1313 A group of books, including noted 1959 "The Last Frontier" by MacLean (1st ed.), 1983 "The Brand on his Coat - Biographies of some Western Australian convicts" by Erickson, 1989 "Jacka, V.C." by Grant (1st ed.), 2004 "The life story of Young 38 - Mosquito Nightfighter - Buzz Bomb Ace" by Keith Roediger (signed), and others. (6 items) Login to bid Quantity6Estimate$150 - $200Orig. Starting Price$120 Lot #1314 SECOND WORLD WAR - AUSTRALIA: A group of books including hardcovers with dust jackets; noted first editions of Ray Parkin's 1960 "Out of the Smoke", 1963 "Into the Smother", and 1968 "The Sword and the Blossom", also 1992 "Onward Boy Soldiers - The Battle for Milne Bay" by Henderson and 2004 "I Was a Rat - Tobruk 1941" by Goodman (signed). (11 items) Login to bid Quantity11Estimate$200 - $250Orig. Starting Price$160 Lot #1315 TUCKFIELDS TEA CARDS: Complete set of 480 "Bird" series cards, in five matching Tuckfields albums, together with 1992 RAM "Australian Species" commemorative medallion sets (3), "Spirit of Australia" 20-medallion sets (2), and two others. (qty.) Login to bid Estimate$100 - $200Orig. Starting Price$80 Lot #1316 TASMANIA - RAILWAY HISTORIES: A group of books including hardcovers with dust jackets; publication dates 1960s and later; noted "Railroading in Tasmania 1830-1962" by Cooley and "The ABT Railway & Railways of the Lyell Region" by Rae. (5 items) Login to bid Quantity5Estimate$100 - $150Orig. Starting Price$80 Lot #1317 C.M.H. CLARK, "A History of Australia" in six volumes [Parkville; Melbourne University Press, 1962-1987]; all in very good condition with dust jackets present. (6 items) Login to bid Quantity6Estimate$200 - $250Orig. Starting Price$160 Lot #1318 AUSTRALIAN SPORT: A group of hardcover books; noted 1962 "The Paddock that Grew" by Dunstan, 1987 "The History of the Richmond Cricket Club" by Tyson, 1991 "Bound for Glory - The Story of the Port Adelaide Football Club" by Wood, and 2000 "The People's Ground - The MCG" by Dunstan. (6 items) Login to bid Quantity6Estimate$100 - $150Orig. Starting Price$80 Lot #1319 OZ MAGAZINE (Sydney) 1964 - 1968, a collection of nine complete editions: Nos.7, 8, 20, 21, 27, 29, 30, 32 and 39; in very good condition. Edited by Richard Walsh and Richard Neville and with some of the earliest published work by Martin Sharp, Gary Shead, Mike Glasheen, and others. (9). Login to bid Estimate$500 - $750Orig. Starting Price$400 Lot #1320 HISTORY OF AUSTRALIAN PUBLISHING: A group of books including hardcovers with dust jackets; noted 1964 "Australian Little Magazines 1923-1954" by Tregenza, 1970 "A Bibliography of Australian Children's Books" by Muir, 1979 "Small Press Publishing in Australia - the early 1970s" by Denholm, and 1981 "The Golden Age of Booksellers - Fifty Years in the Trade" by Abbey (limited edition). (9 items) Login to bid Quantity9Estimate$150 - $200Orig. Starting Price$120 Lot #1321 A group of facsimile editions and reprints; noted 1801 "Observations on the Coasts of Van Diemen's Land on Bass's Strait and its Islands..." (1965 Libraries Board of South Australia), 1828 "Census of New South Wales" (1980 Library of Australian History), and 1869 "The Gold Fields and Mineral Districts of Victoria" (1980 Queensberry Hill Press). (8 items) Login to bid Quantity8Estimate$300 - $400Orig. Starting Price$240 Lot #1322 LOCAL HISTORIES: Mostly hardcover group comprising "The Story of the Flinders Ranges" (Hans Mincham, 1965), "Shepherd's Gold - The Story of Stawell" (C.E. Sayers, 1966), "The River of Little Fish - A History of Traralgon" (William J. Cuthill, 1970), "Gold at Harrietville" (Brian Lloyd, 1982), "A History of the Shire of Dimboola" (Anne Longmire, 1985), and "How Shipping on the Lakes Shaped Gippsland" (Peter Synan, 1989, signed by the author). (6 items) Login to bid Quantity10Estimate$100 - $150Orig. Starting Price$80 Lot #1323 MATTHEW FLINDERS (1774 - 1814), "A VOYAGE TO TERRA AUSTRALIS undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that vast country...", facsimile edition [Adelaide; Libraries Board of South Australia 1966]; three volumes bound in cream cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. Login to bid Estimate$300 - $400Orig. Starting Price$240 Lot #1324 Remainder lot of softcover publications, including a first edition 1966 Melway Street Directory (188pp.), 1939 D.W. Chandler General Hardware Catalogue (180pp.), the October 1st 1941 Australasian Annual (81pp.), 1965 Elliot-Lucas tool catalogue, and two others. (6 items) Login to bid Quantity6Estimate$80 - $120Orig. Starting Price$60 Lot #1325 "South Australia Illustrated" by George French Angas, facsimile edition #382/1000 [Artarmon; Reed, 1967]; half morocco folio with marbled paper boards; 60 colour plates, a great many of which focused on Indigenous Australians. Login to bid Estimate$300 - $400Orig. Starting Price$240 Lot #1326 A group of facsimile editions and reprints; noted 1803 "Voyage of the Lady Nelson to New South Wales 1800-2" (1973 Libraries Board of South Australia), 1840 "Report of an Expedition" (1976 Queensberry Hill Press), and 1873 "Anthony Trollope Australia" (1967 University of Queensland Press). (10 items) Login to bid Quantity10Estimate$300 - $400Orig. Starting Price$240 Lot #1327 VICTORIA (EASTERN) - LOCAL HISTORIES: A group of books including hardcovers with dust jackets; noted 1967 "Old Walhalla - Portrait of a Gippsland Gold Town" by Paull & Paoletti (signed limited edition), 1972 "A History of Greta" by Ellis (signed limited edition), and 1987 "Mickle Memories of Koo-Wee-Rup" by Mickle (vols. I/II; signed). (16 items) Login to bid Quantity16Estimate$200 - $300Orig. Starting Price$160 Lot #1328 HISTORY OF MELBOURNE AND VICTORIA: A group of books including hardcovers with dust jackets; noted 1967 "Homesteads of Victoria 1836-1900" by Cantlon, 1978 "Gold at the Ten Mile - The Jamieson Goldfield" by Lloyd, and 1982 "An Artist on the Goldfields - The Diary of Eugene von Guerard" by Tipping. (19 items) Login to bid Quantity19Estimate$200 - $250Orig. Starting Price$160 Lot #1329 [NED KELLY & THE KELLY GANG] "POLICE COMMISSION. Minutes of Evidence taken before Royal Commission on the Police Force of Victoria...", facsimile edition, [Melbourne : Heinemann, 1968], 720pp; #227 from a limited edition of 250; foolscap folio, original blue cloth with plastic dustwrapper, as issued. Login to bid Estimate$200 - $300Orig. Starting Price$160 Lot #1330 W.H. NICHOLLS, "Orchids of Australia - The Complete Edition" [Melbourne; Thomas Nelson, 1969]; 129 pages of descriptive text, 476 pages of detailed colour illustrations, plus preface, introduction, glossary, and index; dust jacket and box present. Login to bid Estimate$300 - $400Orig. Starting Price$240 Lot #1331 VICTORIA (WESTERN) - LOCAL HISTORIES: A group of books including hardcovers with dust jackets; noted 1969 "Smoke from the Hill - A Story of the Boort District" by Stevens, 1979 "Queenscliff Early Days" by D.O.D. (limited edition), and 1988 "Footprints - A History of the Shire of Tullaroop" by Willis. (10 items) Login to bid Quantity10Estimate$150 - $200Orig. Starting Price$120 Lot #1332 EARLY VICTORIA: A group of books including hardcovers with dust jackets; noted 1970 "The Western Port Settlement and its Leading Personalities" by Bowden, 1991 Garravembi Press edition of "A Sketch of Port Phillip by George Arden", and 1996 "A History of the Port Phillip District - Victoria Before Separation" by Shaw. (8 items) Login to bid Quantity8Estimate$150 - $200Orig. Starting Price$120 Lot #1333 GREATER MELBOURNE - LOCAL HISTORIES: A group of books including hardcovers with dust jackets; noted 1972 "The History of Nunawading" by Brennan, 1980 "From Sand, Swamp and Heath - A History of Caulfield" by Murray & Wells, 1984 "A History of the City of Springvale - Constellation of Communities" by Hibbins, and 1998 "The Way We Were...Pioneering Families of the Mornington Peninsula" by Shaw. (14 items) Login to bid Quantity14Estimate$200 - $250Orig. Starting Price$160 Lot #1334 VICTORIA - RAILWAY HISTORIES: A group of books including hardcovers with dust jackets; noted 1973 "The Golden Steam of Ballarat" by King & Dooley, 1979 "A History of the Oakleigh to Fairfield Railway" by Beardsell & Herbert, and 1997 "Trains, Tracks, Travellers - A History of the Victorian Railways" by Fiddian. (15 items) Login to bid Quantity15Estimate$200 - $300Orig. Starting Price$160 Lot #1335 "The Journal of Post Captain Nicolas Baudin", translated from the French by Christine Cornell [Adelaide; Libraries Board of South Australia, 1974], 609pp.; green cloth boards with gilt text to cover and spine; dust jacket present. Login to bid Estimate$100 - $150Orig. Starting Price$80Current starting$80 (1 bid) Lot #1336 VICTORIA (CENTRAL) - LOCAL HISTORIES: A group of books including hardcovers with dust jackets; noted 1974 "...A History of Pyramid Hill and District" by Kent, 1992 "Nature's Plenty - History of the City of Whittlesea" by Jones, and 1992 "...The Early Years of the Fernihurst District" by Margaret Munro et al. (7 items) Login to bid Quantity7Estimate$150 - $200Orig. Starting Price$120 Lot #1337 Group of books comprising "Documents on Australian Foreign Policy 1937-49 - Volume I" by R.G. Neale (editor) [Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, 1975], "Triumph of the Nomads" by Geoffrey Blainey [Macmillan, South Melbourne, 1975, signed by the author], "Naught To Thirty-Three" by Randolph Bedford [Melbourne University Press, Carlton, 1976], together with two others. (5 items) Login to bid Estimate$150 - $200Orig. Starting Price$120 Lot #1338 MORRIS, "Finches of Australia - a folio" [Melbourne; Landsdown Editions, 1976], softcover, 68pp., 18 colour plates, together with 1886 "The New Atlas of Australia - Western Australia" folio (condition issues). (2 items) Login to bid Quantity2Estimate$80 - $120Orig. Starting Price$60 Lot #1339 HISTORY OF CONVICTS AND TRANSPORTATION: A group of books, mostly hardcovers with dust jackets; noted a 1977 leatherbound limited edition facsimile of "Convict Discipline 1833" in slipcase, 1988 "Convicts Unbound - The Story of the Calcutta Convicts and their Settlement in Australia" by Tipping (signed), and 1990 "The Convict Probation System: Van Diemen's Land 1839-1854" by Brand (signed). (8 items) Login to bid Quantity8Estimate$300 - $400Orig. Starting Price$240 Lot #1340 Collection remainder comprising 1979 "Leask's Geneaological Guide to some Australian Families, their Antecedents and Geneaologies" by Leask (2), 1982 "Haughton Forrest 1826-1925" by Brown, and 1999 "H.M. Bark Endeavour - Her Place in Australian History" by Parkin (2). (5 items) Login to bid Quantity5Estimate$100 - $150Orig. Starting Price$120Current starting$120 (1 bid) Lot #1341 PORT PHILLIP GAZETTE 1838-1841: 1979 set of five large-format hardcover facsimile editions by Stephen Lansdown & Company (vols. I-V), limited edition #173/285, all with dust jackets. Login to bid Quantity5Estimate$150 - $200Orig. Starting Price$120 Lot #1342 "RUSSELL DRYSDALE" Collector Reproductions, Richmond Hill Press, [Melb. 1979] Limited Edition 342/500 signed by the artist, half morocco with brown cloth covered boards in original slip case. Login to bid Estimate$200 - $300Orig. Starting Price$160 Lot #1343 NORFOLK ISLAND: A group of hardcover books (some duplication); noted 1979 "Norfolk Island - The Botany Bay of Botany Bay - The Accounts of Stuart and Naylor" (limited edition), 1984 "Punishment Short of Death - A History of the Penal Settlement at Norfolk Island" by Hazzard, and 1989 "Musters of New South Wales and Norfolk Island 1805-1806" by Baxter. (9 items) Login to bid Quantity9Estimate$100 - $150Orig. Starting Price$80 Lot #1344 DONALD FRIEND, "Bumbooziana: Sundry Notes & Papers; being the recently discovered notes and documents of the Natural & Instinctive Bestiality Research Expedition. collected and collated under the title Bumbooziana wherein is set down the ill-fated Expedition's numerous adventures and the results of their investigations into the private habits of elephants, camels, zebras, leopards, etc. and the equally strange customs of men, accurately and profusely illustrated, described and anatomised by an A Login to bid Quantity2Estimate$2,000 - $2,500Orig. Starting Price$1,600 Lot #1345 K.G. & F.F. LAYCOCK, "Canberra District Lives - Birth Marriage and Death Notices from the Sydney Morning Herald 1851 to 1875", 1979 five-volume set; each volume bound in red cloth boards with gilt text to spine. Login to bid Quantity5Estimate$150 - $200Orig. Starting Price$120 Lot #1346 CEDRIC EMANUEL, "The Etchings of Cedric Emanuel" large-format hardcover in slipcase [Melbourne; Angus & Robertson, 1980]; signed limited edition #236/300. Login to bid Estimate$150 - $200Orig. Starting Price$120 Lot #1347 A diverse group of books on Australian topics, mostly hardcovers with dust jackets; noted 1980 "Rude Timber Buildings in Australia" by Cox, Freeland & Stacey, 1989 "The Founders of Australia - A Biographical Dictionary of the First Fleet" by Gillen, and 1998 "First in First Aid - The History of St John Ambulance in Queensland" by Wales & Pearn (signed). (15 items) Login to bid Quantity15Estimate$150 - $200Orig. Starting Price$120 Lot #1348 AUSTRALIAN THEMES group of art reference books and publications, (19 vol.) Login to bid Quantity19Estimate$120 - $200Orig. Starting Price$100 Lot #1349 SYDNEY PARKINSON - FLORILEGIUM: Group of twenty-four 1980s reproduction plates in titled window mounts by Alecto Historical Editions, comprising twenty-four of Parkinson's 1770s botanical illustrations (plate numbers 139, 147, 148, 195, 200, 202, 205, 206, 210, 220, 250, 252, 253, 304, 312, 361, 363, 366, 371, 373, 382, 389, 439, and 461), in four 74 x 58cm portfolios. Login to bid Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Orig. Starting Price$1,200 Lot #1350 HISTORY OF AUSTRALIAN PUBLISHING: A group of books including hardcovers with dust jackets; noted 1980 "The Early Australian Booksellers - The Australian Booksellers Association Memorial Book of Fellowship" by the Australian Booksellers Association (limited edition) and 1990 "The Establishment and Development of Engraving and Lithography in Melbourne to the time of the Gold Rush" by Darragh. (11 items) Login to bid Quantity11Estimate$200 - $300Orig. Starting Price$160 Lot #1351 A diverse group of books on Australian topics, mostly hardcovers with dust jackets; noted 1980 "The Tregurtha Log - relating the adventurous life of Capt. Edward Primrose Tregurtha" by Sprod (signed review copy), 1981 "The Minorca Pipers" by G.M.H. Piper (signed), and 2002 "Matthew Flinders - personal letters from an extraordinary life" by Brunton (signed). (11 items) Login to bid Quantity11Estimate$200 - $250Orig. Starting Price$160 Lot #1352 AUSTRALIAN FAMILY HISTORIES: A group of hardcover books (clothbound), mostly produced around the time of the Australian Bicentenary; noted 1981 "The Foldi Family of Milan and Australia" (signed), 1982 "Tardent Family History & Geneaology", and 1985 "Genealogy of a Ngalia Family" by Muir & Pukungka. (9 items) Login to bid Quantity9Estimate$200 - $250Orig. Starting Price$160 Lot #1353 "A Monograph of the Macropodidae or Family of Kangaroos" by John Gould, facsimile edition #722/750 [Melbourne; Lansdowne, 1981]; folio, 30 colour plates, cloth boards with locket portrait to cover. Login to bid Estimate$150 - $200Orig. Starting Price$120 Lot #1354 AUSTRALIA - EUROPEAN DISCOVERY AND SETTLEMENT: A group of hardcover books with dust jackets; noted 1981 "Macquarie Harbour 1834 - The Capture of the Frederick" by Porter (limited edition), 1989 "The Founders of Australia - A Biographical Dictionary of the First Fleet" by Gillen (subscriber's edition), and 1999 "Sent Forth a Dove - Discovery of the Duyfken" by Henderson (signed limited edition). (16 items) Login to bid Quantity16Estimate$200 - $250Orig. Starting Price$160 Lot #1355 CELIA E. ROSSER and ALEXANDER S. GEORGE "The Banksias" [1981-2000], large folio set of three volumes, half green morocco in solander box of issue, from the limited edition of 730, all plates present and in very fine condition. Login to bid Quantity3Estimate$1,200 - $1,500Orig. Starting Price$1,000Current starting$1,000 (1 bid) Lot #1356 AUSTRALIAN FAMILY HISTORIES: A group of books including hardcovers with dust jackets; noted 1981 "Of Sheep and Men...the Founders and Descendants of Victoria's Western Plains..." (signed), 1982 "Happy was our Valley - The Douglas Family History" by Mullins, and 1986 "The Clelands of Beaumont" by Simpson (signed limited edition). (11 items) Login to bid Quantity11Estimate$200 - $250Orig. Starting Price$160 Lot #1357 CELIA E. ROSSER and ALEXANDER S. GEORGE "The Banksias", five original plates, each attractively displayed in matching timber frames and mounts, 93 x 71cm each overall. Accompanied by a selection of unassociated descriptive pages. Login to bid Quantity6Estimate$300 - $500Orig. Starting Price$240 Lot #1358 TASMANIAN INTEREST: A group of books including hardcovers with dust jackets; noted 1982 "Pro Hart's Legendary Tasmania" by White, 1986 "With the Volunteers - A Historical Diary of the Volunteer Military Forces of the North West and West Coasts of Tasmania" by Wyatt (signed limited edition), and 2000 "Banditti, Beware! Bushranging with Brady in old Van Diemen's Land" by Minchin (signed). (21 items) Login to bid Quantity21Estimate$300 - $400Orig. Starting Price$240 Lot #1359 BUSHRANGERS: A group of books including hardcovers with dust jackets; noted 1983 "A Real Flash Cove - The Story of the Bushranger John Gilbert" by Penzig (signed), 1994 "The Tale of Jimmy Lee - A Story of Cattle Duffing across the High Country" by Murphy, 1995 "Ned Kelly - A Short Life" by Jones (signed), and 2004 "What They Said About Ned - An Annotated Bibliography of the Kelly Gang" by McDonald (signed). (9 items) Login to bid Quantity9Estimate$250 - $350Orig. Starting Price$200 Lot #1360 PAYNTING & GRANT, "Wheels in Victoria 1824-1984" hardcover with slipcase [Port Melbourne; Victorian Automobile Chamber of Commerce, 1984], 528pp., signed limited edition #3211/4000; superb as new condition. Login to bid Estimate$150 - $200Orig. Starting Price$120 Lot #1361 THE VICTORIANS: Signed 1984 three-volume hardcover set, comprising "Arriving" by Richard Broome, "Settling" by Tony Dingle, and "Making Their Mark" by Susan Priestley, together with an unsigned set. (6 items) Login to bid Quantity6Estimate$150 - $200Orig. Starting Price$120 Lot #1362 BROWN, "Lake Pedder" clothbound hardcover with slipcase [Hobart; The Wilderness Society, 1985]; superb as new condition. Login to bid Estimate$150 - $200Orig. Starting Price$120 Lot #1363 "Wayzgoose - The Australian Journal of Book Arts" [Sydney; The Wayzgoose Press, 1985], 93pp., numerous plates in colour, limited edition #166/450; superb condition. Login to bid Estimate$150 - $200Orig. Starting Price$120 Lot #1364 PHILLIPS, "Making More Adequate Provision - State Education in Tasmania 1839-1985" [Tasmania; Caudell, 1985], 394pp., limited edition #182/200, bound in leather, signed by the author; condition superb. Login to bid Estimate$200 - $250Orig. Starting Price$160 Lot #1365 SOLDIER SETTLEMENT HISTORIES: A group of hardcovers with dust jackets, comprising 1987 "The Limits of Hope - Soldier Settlement in Victoria 1915-38" by Lake, 1992 "Hard to go Bung: World War II Soldier Settlement in Victoria 1945-1962" by Smallwood, and 1995 "A Land Fit for Heroes - The Story of the Soldier Settlement of Red Cliffs..." by Wright. (3 items) Login to bid Quantity3Estimate$100 - $150Orig. Starting Price$80 Lot #1366 Jonathan WANTRUP, "Australian Rare Books 1788 - 1900", [Sydney : Hordern House, 1987]; signed limited edition (#67/125) in slipcase with companion volume. Login to bid Estimate$100 - $150Orig. Starting Price$80 Lot #1367 N.J.B. PLOMLEY, "Weep in Silence - A History of the Flinders Island Aboriginal Settlement" [Hobart; Blubber Head Press, 1987], 1034pp., first edition clothbound hardcover with dust jacket. Login to bid Estimate$500 - $750Orig. Starting Price$400 Lot #1368 AUSTRALIAN FAMILY HISTORIES: A group of hardcover books (leatherbound), produced around the time of the Australian Bicentenary; noted "The Pastoral Pattersons - Myles Patterson and his Descendants 1822-1976" by Randell (signed limited edition), "From These Descended" by Power (signed limited edition with slipcase), and "The Hassall Family - Celebrating 200 Years in Australia 1798-1998" by D.J. Hassall (signed limited edition). (9 items) Login to bid Quantity9Estimate$250 - $350Orig. Starting Price$200 Lot #1369 VIETNAM WAR - AUSTRALIA: A group of books including hardcovers with dust jackets; noted 1988 "First to Fight" by Breen (signed), 2005 "Long Tan and Beyond - Alpha Company 6 RAR in Vietnam" by Mollison, and 2009 "The Year of the Tigers - The Second Tour of 5th Battalion, The RAR in South Vietnam" by Brattle & Wilkins. (8 items). Login to bid Quantity8Estimate$200 - $300Orig. Starting Price$160 Lot #1370 "Australia's Greatest Rock Art" by Grahame L. Walsh, hardcover with dust jacket, 312pp., publisher E.J. Brill - Robert Brown & Associates Pty. Ltd., Bathurst, 1988. Login to bid Estimate$250 - $350Orig. Starting Price$200 Lot #1371 MATTHEW FLINDERS (1774 - 1814), "A VOYAGE TO TERRA AUSTRALIS undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that vast country...", facsimile edition [Adelaide; Government Printer, 1989], elephant folio atlas together with two large quarto volumes of text, all three volumes bound in the style of the period of the first edition (cream cloth boards with navy half leather); limited edition #148/500, of which only about a third were issued in the red felt storage box with hinged two-door l Login to bid Estimate$800 - $1,200Orig. Starting Price$600 Lot #1372 BROWNHILL & WYND, "The History of Geelong and Corio Bay" with postscript [Geelong; The Geelong Advertiser, 1990], 740pp., limited edition #587/1000; superb as new condition. Login to bid Estimate$150 - $250Orig. Starting Price$120 Lot #1373 A shelf of 1990s-2000s books, all signed by their authors, some with accompanying dedication to Australian politican Alexander Downer; titles include "Arthur Nutter Thomas - Bishop of Adelaide 1906-1940", "Australia Exposed", "Chif's Obsession", "David Dridan", "Heide Smith's Canberra", and others. (11 items) Login to bid Quantity11Estimate$150 - $200Orig. Starting Price$120 Lot #1374 A diverse group of books on Australian topics, mostly clothbound hardcovers; noted 1990 "Barcaldine 1846-1986" by Hoch, 1994 "Medical Organisations in Colonial Queensland" by O'Shea, and 1994 "In the Wake of History 1801-1994" by Rogers. (12 items) Login to bid Quantity12Estimate$200 - $250Orig. Starting Price$160 Lot #1375 BROADBENT, "The Australian Colonial House - Architecture and Society in New South Wales 1788-1842" [Sydney; Hordern House, 1997], 400pp., signed by the author, dust jacket present. Login to bid Estimate$100 - $150Orig. Starting Price$80 Lot #1376 CARNEGIE, "Spinifex and Sand - A Narrative of Five Years' Pioneering and Exploration in Western Australia" facsimile edition of the 1898 original [North Adelaide; Corkwood Press, 1998], 454pp. with four large folding maps in matching folio, deluxe full-leather limited edition #25/50. (2 items) Login to bid Quantity2Estimate$250 - $350Orig. Starting Price$200 Lot #1377 AUSTRALIAN MARITIME SERIES: A group of Hordern House limited facsimile editions, comprising 1999 "Mirror of the Australian Navigation by Jacob Le Maire" (2) and 2007 "Cook, the Discoverer by Georg Forster" (bound in quarter tan kangaroo with speckled papered sides). (3 items) Login to bid Quantity3Estimate$100 - $150Orig. Starting Price$80 Lot #1378 [MELBOURNE INTEREST] Two antique hand-coloured engravings, comprising of "The University of Melbourne" by S. T. Gill and "The Post Office, Melbourne" by J. C. Armytage, both framed and glazed, 24 x 27cm each overall. Login to bid Quantity2Estimate$100 - $200Orig. Starting Price$80 Lot #1379 THE PARSONS COLLECTION: A duplicated group of 2005-06 Hordern House hardcover reference catalogues for a collection of "rare Pacific voyage books from the collection of David Parsons", comprising Part I - Dampier to Cook (2) and Part II - La Perouse to Wilkes (3, one still shrinkwrapped). (5 items) Login to bid Quantity5Estimate$100 - $200Orig. Starting Price$80Current starting$80 (1 bid) Lot #1380 "Australian Book Collectors", volumes I-V complete set, edited by Charles Stitz [Melbourne; Bread Street or Green Olive Presses, 2010-2016]; one of only five hundred limited edition clothbound sets; superb as new condition. (5 items) Login to bid Quantity5Estimate$200 - $250Orig. Starting Price$160Current starting$160 (1 bid) Lot #1381 "Australian Book Collectors", volumes I-V complete set, edited by Charles Stitz [Melbourne; Bread Street or Green Olive Presses, 2010-2016]; one of only five hundred limited edition clothbound sets; superb as new condition. (5 items) Login to bid Quantity5Estimate$200 - $250Orig. Starting Price$160 Lot #1382 LUCAS JANSZOON WAGHENAER (circa 1534-1606), "De Zee Custe, met de Eijlande van Bretaignen, tusschenn Blauet en Picqueliers.", [Antwerp, 1583], copper engraving, a maritime chart of the coast of Britanny Login to bid Estimate$500 - $750Orig. Starting Price$400 Lot #1383 SAMUEL PURCHAS "The Map of China" original copper engraved print, [London : Henry Featherstone, 1626], on horizontally laid paper with vertical watermarks. Second State with altered page numbers, overall 33 x 39.5cm. Login to bid Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Orig. 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