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Auction House:Mossgreen Auctions (No longer trading)Number of lots recorded:82
Sale Title:The Collection of John and Marita McIntoshLots with images:79
Auction Location:MelbournePrices available:71
Date:15-Oct-2013
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'Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe execute par ordre du roi, pendant les annees 1826-1827-1828-1829' by Dumont D'Urville (Jules Sebastian Cesar) [1790-1842] 22 volumes (various sizes), comprising engraved plates, maps, charts and extensive text descriptions and explanations. The Astrolabe, named in honour of one of the ships of La Perouse, sailed from Toulon on 22 April 1826, towards the Pacific, for a circumnavigation of the world that was destined to last nearly three years. Dumont D'Urville skirted the…
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'The birds of New Guinea and the adjacent Papuan Islands, including many new species recently discovered in Australia' by John Gould, F.R.S. [1804-81] & Richard Bowdler Sharpe [1847-1909] 5 volumes; 320 hand-coloured lithographic plates. Gould's last great work. With only about 250 sets made, it is amongst the rarest of all his works and was completed after his death by Richard Bowdler Sharpe, Gould's protege and devoted friend. Sharpe was more than forty years junior to Gould, whom he had meet when he was…
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'A General Chart Exhibiting the Discoveries made by Captn James Cook in this and his two preceding Voyages; with the Tracks of the Ships under his Command by Lieut Heny Roberts of His Majesty's Royal Navy' [W. Palmer sculp. (London, G. Nicol and T. Cadell, 1785)]; bound together with 60 full plate etchings illustrating the voyages and the 'Chart of the NW Coast of America and NE Coast of Asia explored in the Years 1778 & 1779'.
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'Voyage au Pole Sud et dan l'Oceanie sur les corvettes l'Astrolabe et la Zelee, execute par ordre du Roi pendant les annees 1837-1838-1839-1840' by Dumont D'Urville (Jules Sebastian Cesar) [1790-1842] in 30 volumes (in 3 sizes), comprising volumes of text, engraved and lithographed plates, maps and charts. The full official account of the great French expedition, commanded by Dumont D'Urville under the patronage of King Louis-Philippe, to explore in the Pacific and the Antarctic. Departing in 1837 in the…
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'The Banksias' by Celia E. Rosser and Alexander S. George Volumes I & II [1981-88, published in association with Monash University] Numbered 392 from the Limited Edition of 730.
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'Voyage autour du Monde,...sur La Corvette de Sa Majeste, La Coquille, pendant les annees 1822, 1823, 1824 et 1825,...par L.I. DUPERREY,....' 'Hydrographie' [ATLAS), Paris, Arthus Bertrand, 1827. Folio; engraved title-page, 22 text pages, 52 engraved maps (of which 20 are double-page) by Ambroise Tardieu after Duperrey and others, and 4 engraved plates of various native sailing vessels by Berard after Duperrey and others. The Atlas of sea-charts published to accompany Duperrey's account of his…
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'Voyage autour du Monde,...sur La Corvette de Sa Majeste, La Coquille, pendant les annees 1822, 1823, 1824 et 1825,...par L.I. Duperrey,....' A collection of Plates: 'Botanique', 'Zoologie' and 'Historique' - 323 plates, mainly coloured, contained in 57 folios of original issue.
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Webber, John, 'Views in the South Seas, from drawings by the late James Webber, draftsman on board the Resolution, Captain James Cooke, from the year 1776 to 1780. With letter-press, descriptive of the various scenery, & c... The drawings are in the possession of the Board of Admiralty. London: Published by Boydell & Co., [1808]' Folio, title-page and 16 hand-coloured aquatint plates with 15 leaves of descriptive text (one describing two plates); bound in period-style half calf and marbled boards. The only…
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A rare George I walnut bureau-cabinet in the Dutch influence, English, circa 1730. 223 cm high, 113 cm wide, 60 cm deep. Provenance: The Cunningham family, Somerset, England. John Dunn Antiques, Melbourne
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A fine mythological landscape tapestry, Flemish, circa 1700 depicting a mythological scene of Europa and the bull. Approx. 265 cm high, 380 cm wide. Provenance: Grosvenor House Antiques Fair London, 1989 - Mayorcas Ltd, Jermyn Street, London
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A pair of grey painted and gilded marble top console tables, French, circa 1865 carved with shields to the frieze, carved with the initials S, M. 73 cm high, 91 cm wide, 50 cm deep
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A rare pair of Coade stone pedestals, English dated 1840 Impressed: Coade's Lambeth 1840. 111 cm high, diameter at base approx 48 cm. Provenance: Seago London (35,000 pounds)
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A rare pair of gilt and polychrome decorated wall mirrors, Continental, 18th century. 185 cm high, 114 cm wide. Provenance: The Lillian Whiteman Collection South Yarra founder of Le Louvre
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A Biedermeier ash and ebonised small drop-side table, Swedish, 19th century. 74 cm high, 62 cm wide closed, 41 cm deep. Provenance: Roy's Antiques, Melbourne
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A Biedermeier birch and ebonised chest of drawers, Austrian, circa 1820. 80 cm high, 98 cm wide, 50 cm deep. Provenance: Roy's Antiques, Melbourne
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A Louis XV bronze mounted and polychrome decorated bracket clock, French 18th century. 90 cm high, 40 cm wide, 19 cm deep
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A rare red Chinoiserie lacquer wall mirror, English, circa 1700. 104 cm high, 70 cm wide. Provenance: John Dunn Antiques, Melbourne
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A good quality George III style mahogany triple pillar dining table, English 19th century with three leaves. 72 cm high, 365 cm long for the extended, 129 cm wide
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An early Victorian black papier mache and shell inlaid tea tray coffee table, English circa 1840, stand later. 50 cm high, 70 cm high
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A first period Worcester porcelain kakiemon and scale blue trio, English, 18th century Teacup 6 cm high, saucer 12 cm diameter, teabowl 8 cm diameter
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