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Estate & Collector incl. Late David Spode Collection — Davidson Auctions

Auction House:Davidson AuctionsNumber of lots recorded:1,064
Sale Title:Estate & Collector incl. Late David Spode CollectionLots with images:707
Auction Location:SydneyPrices available:920
Date:2-Aug-2014
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Book, Bibliography. Crime Fiction 1749-1980, Hubin Garland, Ny 1984. with supplement in separate volume.
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Quantity Childrens & Humour Books, including the Story of Sylvie & Bruno, Carroll, Macmillan 1910; Joe Miller in Motley, Hazlitt, Leadenhall Press 1892; 6 Early Puffin Books; and 4 Babar vols., 1930s.
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Quantity Woodcuts & Engravings Books, including Dictionaire Des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs, Grund 1976. in 10 vols; Bibliography of Eric Gill, Shewring, Cassell, 1953 & the German Single Leaf Woodcut 1500-1550, Geisberg, Hacker 1974.
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Quantity Bibliographies, including T.S.Eliot, Gallup, Faber 1952; William Caxton, Painter, Chatto & Wyndus 1976; a Bibliography of Wyndham Lewis, Morrow, Black Sparrow Press 1978; and a Checklist of the Writings of Daniel Defoe, Moore, Archon Books 1971. (35+).
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Quantity Art & Prints Books. the Pre-Raphaelite Illustrators, Suriano, Oak Knoll Press 2000; the Science of Art, Kemp, Yale University Press 1990; French Books 16C-19C, vol 1, Weibenson, National Gallery of Art 1993; and the Art of the Print, Eichenberg, Thames & Hudson.
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Quantity Bibliographies, including Australian Childrens Books (2 vols.) Ketty White, Melbourne University Press 1992; Australian Science Fiction Bibliography, Stone, Sydney 2010; Marcus Clarke Annotated Bibliography, McLaren, Library Council Victoria 1982; and Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, 4 of 5 vols.(20+).
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Quantity Art Books, including Five Centuries of Siamese painting, Dini, Thames & Hudson, 1998; Jackson Pollock, Landau, Abrams, 1989; the Art of Ancient Peru, Anton, Putnam, 1972; and Miro's posters, Picazo, Chartwell Books, 11980.
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Quantity Photography Books, including Atgets Seven Albums, Nesbit, Yale University Press, 1991; Ph Emerson, New Hall, Aperture, Ny, 1978; Faces, Maddow, Ny Graphic Society 1977; and the Collection of Alfred Streglitz, Naef, Viking, 1978. (20+).
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Quantity Typography Ornament & Engraving Books, including the Pens Excellencie, Whalley, Midas Books, 1980; Ornament, Durant, MacDonald 1986; Hoffmann's Schriftatlas, Hoffmann, Stuttgart 1930; and Paint & its Part in Architecture, Jenson & Nicholson 1930. (20+).
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Quantity French Magazines & Ephemera, including Bound volumes of Le Panorama, c.1890; L'art Nouveau Jugend - Stil cartoon album, 1907; Modeles Exclusifs Fashion books c.1958 (8); and 2 Parisian review programmes.
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Quantity India Books, including a Portrait of the Hindus, Hardgrave, Oxford 2004; 2 copies Basohli Painting, Ministry of Information India 1959; and Topkapi Manuscripts, Rogers, Little Brown Co., 1986.
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Quantity Orientalist Themed Books, including Qur'ans of the Mamluks, James, Thames & Hudson 1988; the ottoman World, 3 vols. Sothebys catalogues of the Library of Sefik E. Atabey 2002; and Islamic Pottery of the 8th - 15th C., Grube Faber & Faber 1976.
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Quantity Art Books, including the Image of the Black in Western Art. 4 vols., Bindman, Harvard University Press, 2010; Colour & Culture Gage, Thames & Hudson 1993; Howard Hodgkin Complete Paintings, Price, Thames & Hudson 2006; and Paul Iribe, Bachollet, Denoel, Paris 1982. (15).
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Quantity Asian Art Books. Mostly Japanese, incl. Primitive Ukiyo-e, Link, University Press of Hawaii 1980; Yokahama 19C Prints, Yonemura, Smithsonian 1990; Art of Japanese Postcard, Morse, Lund Humphries 2004; and Samurai Stars of the Stage & Beautiful Women, Siftung Museum, Dusseldorf, Cantz, N.D.
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Quantity Books on Printmaker Subjects, including Bonnard Complete Graphic Works, Bouvet, Rizzoli 1981; William Blake, the Complete Illuminated Books, Birdman, Thames & Hudson, 2000; Turner Prints, Hermann, Phaidon 1990; and the London Printseller 1642-1665, Globe, Ubc Press 1985.
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Quantity Bibliographies, including Mortons Medical Bibliography, Norman, Scolar Press, 1993; Maps & Map Makers, Tooley, Batsford 1972; Six-Guns & Saddle Leather, Adams, Dover 1998; and Bibliography of Printing, Bigmore, Holland Press, 1978.
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Quantity Bibliographies, including 19th century Fiction, Wolff, Garland, New York, 1986; Printing in Calcutta to 1800, Shaw, Bibliographical Society, 1981; Gastronomic Bibliography, Bitting, Holland Press 1981; London Bookbinders, 1780-1840, Ramsden, Batsford, 1987.
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Large Quantity of Books on Prints, including British Prints Dictionary & Price Guide, Mackenzie, Antique Collectors Club, London 1987; Pierre Bonard Illustrator, Tewrrasse, Thames & Hudson, 1989; From a Mighty Fortress, Prints Drawings & Books in the Age of Luther 1483-1546, Anderson, Detroit Institute of Arts, 1983; Dutch & Flemish Woodcuts of the 15C; Schretlen, Erest Bemn, London, 1925. (40+).
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Quantity Books on Bookbinding, including Bookbinding its Background & Technique, Diehl, Kennikat Press, Washington 1965; Art Nouveau & Art Deco Bookbinding, de Bartha, Thames & Hudson, 1989; Head-Bands, Greenfield, Oak Knoll Press, 2001; History of English Craft Bookbinding Technique, Middleton, Holland Press, 1988.
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Quantity Bookbinding Books, including English Bookbinding Styles 1450-1800, Pearson, Knoll Press 2005; marbled Paper, Wolfe, University of Philadelphia Press 1990; La Reliune d 'Art, Bologna, Grund 1999 & Miniature Books, Bromer, Grollier, 2007.
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Quantity Early Science Books, including Richard Trevithick, Dickinson & Titley, Cambridge University Press, 1934; Spinning Tops, Perry, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1890; the Potato, Grubb, Constable & Co, 1913; and the Science of Beauty, Holmes-Forbes, Trubner. London 1881. (13)
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Quantity Science & Medicine Books, including the Mechanism of Speech, Alexander Graham Bell, Funk & Wagnall, 1910; Practical Treatise on the Grape Vine, Thomson, Blackwood 1963; Story of Our Planet, Bonney, Cassell 1897; and Arnott on Indigestion, Arnott, Churchill London 1847. (14)
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Large Quantity Books on Prints, including Aubrey Beardsley, Macfall, Bodley Head, 1928; the Graphic Work of Edouard Vuillard, Roger-Marks-Wofsy, 1990; Charles Maryon, catalogue Raisonne, Schneiderman, Garton & Co, 1999; George Cruikshank, catalogue Raisonne, Cohn, Bookmans Journal, 1924.
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Quantity Books on Photography, including the Panorama, Oettermann, Zone Books, Ny, 1997; the Art of the French Callotype, Jammes, Princeton University Press, 1983; Australian Women Photographers 1840-1960, Hall, Greenhouse, 1986; Aboriginal Photographs of Baldwin Spencer, Walker, Viking O'Neil, Melbourne 1987.
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Quantity Bibliographies, including Australian National Bibliography 1901-1950, in 4 vols; Pop-up & Moveable Books, a Bibliography, Montanaro, Scarecrow Press, 1993; and American Fiction 1774 - 1850, Wright, Huntington Library 1969.
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Quantity Books on Japanese Art, including Reading Surimona, Carpenter, Hotei Publishing, Leiden, 2008; a Dictionary of Japanese Artists, Roberts, Weatherhill, Tokyo, 1980; the History of Japanese Printing & Book Illustration, Chibbett, Kodansha, Tokyo, 1977; the Theatrical World of Osaka Prints, Keyes, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1973. (20+).
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Quantity Bibliographies, including Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature 1800-1900 (vol 4) 199; English Books with coloured plates, Tooley, Batsford, London, 1987; Australian Crime Fiction 1857-1993, Loder, Thorp, Melbourne 1994; Bibliographie Gastronomique, Vicaire, Holland Press, London 1987. (20+)
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Quantity Books on Early Photography, including History of Photography in China 1842-1860, Bennett, Quartoch, 2000; the Daguerreotype in America, New Hall, Duell Sloan & Pearce, 1961; French Daguerreotypes, Buerger, University Chicago press, 1989; and a Century of Japanese Photography, Dower, Hutchinson 1981.(20+).
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Quantity Travel Books, including the Famine Campaign in Southern India (2 vols.) Digby, Longmans 1878; Travels through the Balearic & Pithuisian Islands, Sauveur, Phillips, London 1808; the Roanoke Voyages 1584-90 (2 vols.), Quinn, Hakluyt Society 1955; and Post Roads of Europe, Leigh London 1820 (20+).
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Quantity Geopolitical & Travel Books, including Australie, Comte de Beauvoir, Plan Paris, 1871; a Desert Journal, French, Constable 1934; Rambles in the Country, a Sherwood Forrester, Miller London 1842; and the Voyage of the Dayspring, Hastings, Bodley Head 1926.
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Quantity English Literature & Illustration Books, including Samuel Palmer's Sketchbook, Butlin, Trianon Press 1962; War Pictures by British Artists - Air Raids, Spender, Oxford University Press 1943; the Dome, Unicorn Press 1907; and Five Lyrics of the 15th century. Lear Press 1959.
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Quantity Bibliographies, including Bibiotheca Mechinica, Roberts & Trent, Johnathan Hill Ny 1991; the Literature of Domestic British Architecture 1715-1842, Archer, Mit Press, Cambridge 1985; South African War Books, Hacket Privately Printed, London 1984; Rickards Encyclopaedia of Ephemera, British Library, 2000; Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2 vols. to 1960. 20+
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Quantity Art Decorative Arts Books, including Wearing Propaganda, Atkins, Yale University Press 2006; Glass in Architecture & Art Decoration, McGrath, Architectural Press 1961; Stage & Film Art Deco, Myerscough - Walker, Pitman 1940; and Cast Iron Furniture, Himmelheber, Wilson 1996.
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Quantity Australian Themed Ephemera & Books, including Consider the Lilies, Scougall & Halford, Ure Smith, Sydney 1953; Boronia Babies, May Gibbs, Angus & Robertson 1922; Hinemoa, 'E.M.', A.D.Wills, Wanganui N.Z. and the Art of Dorrit Black, North, Macmillan 1979.
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Quantity Childrens Books, including Dracula, Edward Gorey (signed), Scribners 1979; Some More Nonsense, a Nobody, Wells Gardner Darton, 1896; the Hole & Corner Book, Parker, Chambers c.1900; and Little Nemo, McCay, Editions Pierre Horay 1969. (4)
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Three Books Architecture Palast Architektur. Dr. Albrecht Haupt. Published Ernst Wasmuth, Berlin 1908. 3 large folios of loose drawings & lithographs of Italian architecture ex Sydney University Library. Much handled. 56 x 39 cm
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Early Comic Book, Buster Brown's Antics. British edition of this American comic as originally published in the Denver Post. Full colour. Pub. N R Chambers, 1912. 29 x 42 cm
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Two Books Art Treasure of the UK. Published c.1860. Many chronolithographs of artistic manufactured goods. Cover & bindings broken. Also scenes from Abroad in 2 volumes. Paintings with text, pub. C.1880. Cover detached.
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Book, Butterworth & Sons New UNIVERSAL Penman. Pub. Edinburgh 1809. 31 pages, rebound, foxed.
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Sem (Georges Goursat, French 1863-1934) Folio of 33 Sheets of Caricatures. Some double, c.1910. Edges poor. 53 x 36 cm
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1920s Catalogue of Designs. 112 designs on 63 plates. Chromolithograph 37 x 26 cm
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Hiroshige, Utagawa (1797-1858) 'One Hundred Famous Views of Edo.' Ota Memorial Museum of Art, Tokyo, Taschen. Full size lithographic reproductions, single sided folded pages with traditional binding. 44 x 36 cm
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Folio of C1910 Arts & Crafts, Sessessionist Interior Decorative Treatments. As originally issued in 'The Art Decorator'. Lithographed by Grevel & Co., London. 26 sheets. Litho 35 x 25 cm
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Four Bound Volumes of Simplicimus 1904. Numbers 27-52, April to September 1906, October 1906-March 1907, 1927 numbers 1-27. Also some partial loose copies. Paper friable & tanned.
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Four Folios American Architecture 20th century. Pub. Architectural Book Publishing Co. Photos New York 1927 & measured drawings of civic commercial & industrial buildings. Well handled, ex Sydney University.
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Album Photographic Groups of Eminent Personages. 3 leaves of montaged portraits with printed keys. Publisher unknown. C.1875. Albumen Photograph 25 x 19 cm
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Sotheby's Macclesfield Library Catalogue. 11 volumes (of 12), ranging from 2004-2008.
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Literature & Ephemera, including Le Vignole de Poche, Vitry, Paris 1838; Commentaria Theologie Moralis, Alasa, 1830; letters; manilla envelope, Poetry of James Fenton etc.
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Three Nautical Themed Books. the Port of Glasgow, Clyde Navigation Trust, 1947; Paying Out the Boat Falls, A/P Schat, c.1930. Treatise & catalogue for lifeboat lowering system; and Hounsells Flags of All Nations, Hounsell; Field & Tuer London 1873.
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Quantity Books on Art & Architecture, including Examples of Architectural Grandeur, Wild, Bohn London 1843; the Sculpture of Africa, Elisofon, Praeger Ny 1958; the Australian Colonial House, Broadbent, Hordern House, Sydney 1997.
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Various Ephemera & Magazines etc, including part Journal of Indian Art 1886; L'Illustration 1930's; Burlington Magazine; and Ures Dictionary of Arts Manufactures.
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Folio of Prospectuses. 9 Various Prospectuses, mostly from the 1920s & 30s incl. Gregynog Press, Greyhound Press, & Nonsuch Press. Various
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Quantity Meiji Era Japanese Books, including Shrine Architecture, Fish Identification, Decorating Devices, Medical Atlas & 2 Vols. Pictorial of Clothing & Accessories.
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Various Japanese Books, including Bound glossy news magazine, early 20th century album of photo lithographs depicting Royal Tour (?); Japan's Grand Old Man, Bunji Omura, George Aarrup 1938; and postcards of beauties.
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12 Japanese Ukiyo-e Story Books, including a full colour war story (much handled). 2 with worm damage.
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12 Japanese Ukiyo-e Story Books. Most with colour covers. Minor losses to a couple.
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10 Japanese Ukiyo-e Story Books. Early Meiji era incl. part Shunga. 3 badly wormed.
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12 Japanese Ukiyo-e Story Books. Most with pictorial covers. Some damaged.
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Five Meiji Era Japanese Books. 3 childrens tales in English; and 2 hard cover school primers.
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Three Meiji Era Japanese Books. 3 Medical Atlases; and earlier 1834 book of Tangrams.
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Book 1882 Popular History of Japan. 3 chapters (in 6 volumes) incomplete. Yoshikata Watanabe. Published Furusuke Tojoka 1881.
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9 Various Japanese Fairy Tale Books. Meiji era. Crepe & plain paper colour woodblocked books in English. Mainly good condition.
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Box of Ephemera & Catalogues, including Waring & Gillow (post war) Spalding Robbins Plough, Brunat; Bird Cages, Sara Bernhardt, Program, Royal Doulton China, English W.A.A. Brassware & postcards.
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Five Various Adjustable Shelf Bookcases. Offers accepted on all or any.
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