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Auction House:Leski Auctions Pty. Ltd.Number of lots recorded:480
Sale Title:Australian & ColonialLots with images:462
Auction Location:MelbournePrices available:381
Date:24-Nov-2019
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Merric Boyd rare pottery lidded circular box with applied quandong seed, leaves and branch, incised 'Merric Boyd, 1935', 7 cm high, 9 cm diameter
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Remued Pottery jug with windswept tree and branch handle, early colourway, circa 1933, incised 'Remued' with no other marks, 23.5 cm high
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Remued Pottery gumleaf and gumnut jug glazed in pink, green and brown, incised 'Remued, Hand Made, 119M', 10.5 cm high
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William Ricketts rare and early pottery vase with applied koala on tree stump spirit figure, circa 1939, incised 'Wm. Ricketts, Potter's Sanctuary, Mt. Dandenong, May God Watch Over You Both, Also Edward, To Mr. & Mrs. Roberts, 1939', accompanied by a single page hand written letter addressed to Mr. & Mrs. Roberts signed by Ricketts from the Pottery Sanctuary' 30 cm high
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William Ricketts early pottery tree stump jug with applied kangaroo and branch handle, the interior glazed in green, circa 1930s, inscription illegible, 13 cm high
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William Ricketts pottery teapot of tree stump form with applied gum leaves and nuts with branch handle, inscribed 'Wm. Ricketts, Potters Sanctuary Mt. Dandenong, 1936', 17 cm high
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Neil Douglas & Arthur Merric Boyd pottery plate with sgraffito emus in landscape, incised 'Neil Douglas, A.M.B. Australia, 1951 25 cm diameter
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Arthur Merric Boyd pottery vase with finely painted goanna in landscape. Potted by Boyd, the decoration has often be attributed to Peter Herbst who help set up the Murrumbeena Pottery along with John Perceval and Arthur Merric Boyd. Works by Herbst are extremely rare and only a few known pieces survive. incised 'Arthur Merric Boyd', 11.5 cm high
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Five pieces of studio pottery including David Leach and John Ward, late 20th century, the tallest 13 cm high
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Francis Michael Forde: autographed letter, signed F.M. Forde in ink, and dated April 1971, from his home in Brisbane to a correspondent in Canada, where Forde had served for 6½ years as High Commissioner for Australia. Forde was the 15th Prime Minister of Australia - serving for just over a week, from 6 to 13 July 1945. He held office after the death of John Curtin, and is the shortest serving prime minister in Australia's history.
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Dame Nellie Melba (1861-1931) two full ink signatures on promotional postcards, together with a selection Melba photographs and memorabilia
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Robert & Pattie Menzies: 22nd Feb. 1966 autographed letter on Canberra A.C.T. letterhead (with stamped Haverbrack Ave., home address) from Robert Menzies (12th Prime Minister of Australia) following his retirement from the Prime Ministership in early 1966; accompanied by an autographed letter from Pattie Menzies (c/- Australia House, London) to the same correspondents, thanking them (in June 1966) for some flowers that welcomed them at their apartment in London. Also, two contemporary photographs. (4…
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Assorted trade catalogues, cigarette cards and ephemera inclugin McPherson's Engineering, Alstons' Patent Steel Windmills, Lysaght Bros. and lots more
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(An Early History of Europe) Matthew Paris (English, circa 1200 - 1259) Matthaei Paris Monachi Albanensis Angli, Historia Major. Justa Exemplar Londinense 1640. verbatim recusa. Et cum Rogeri Wendoveri, Williemi Rishangeri, authorisque majori minorque historiis, chronicisque Mss, in Biblioteca Regia, Collegii Corporis Christi Cantabrigiae, Cottoniaque< fideliter collata. (London, Abel Swale, 1686) folio, full vellum, gilt lettered calf title label, bookplate of George Chetwynd to pastedown. The…
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(Captain James Cook, R.N.) The Gentleman's Magazine for July 1784, (London : Printed by J. Nichols, for D. Henry, late of St. John's Gate, July 1784) being the first number of vol. Liv part II. Octavo, disbound, frontispiece, folding copper engraving after John Webber ('A Canoe of the Sandwich Islands....' and with a second plate showing engravings of the Royal Society's medal for Captain Cook, described in detail in a letter to the editor at p.483.)
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(Shipwreck of the Guardian, 1789) Melancholy Disaster of his majesty's ship The Guardian, Bound to Botany Bay with Stores and Convicts, Lieut. Riou, Commander, Which struck on an island of ice, December 24, 1789; Providential Escape of part of the crew in boats, Fortitude of the Captain, and wonderful recovery of the vessel. Also an account of an Indian woman, &c. (London : Thomas Tegg, 1809) 28pp, 1 folding plate. Ferguson 464. Extracted from the 'Mariner's marvelous Magazine or wonders of the ocean,…
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Thomas Muir (1765 - 1799) and George Hamilton (1783 - 1830) 'The Telegraph; a Consolatory Epistle from Thomas Muir, Esq. of Botany Bay....' Quarto, disbound, pp 11, (1), front with mss note in pencil dated 1820, referring to Muir's handwriting and Hunter's Hill. One of three variant quarto editions, this being the issue with signature 'B' at the foot of page 5. Ferguson 242. Thomas Muir, a Glasgow lawyer, was one of a group of five radicals known as the Scottish Martyrs, sentenced in 1794 to 14 years…
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John Preston Neale (1780 - 1847) The History and Antiquities of the Abbey Church of St. Peter, Westminster : including Notices and Biographical Memoirs of the Abbots and Deans of that Foundation. Illustrated by John Preston Neale. The whole of the Literary Department by Edward Wedlake Brayley. (London : J.P. Neale, 1818 - 1823) two volumes.
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(Atlas) A. Lesage (pseud.); (Comte de las Cases) Atlas historique, genealogique, chronologique et geographique de A. Lesage. (Paris : Chez Dolloye; c.1837) Folio, bound in contemporary quarter morocco over marbled boards; spine with gilt lettering and ornament; unpaginated, all tables and maps coloured by a contemporary hand, as issued, including a mappe-monde showing the voyages of the great navigators. The Comte de Las Cases first published his atlas in 1802 under the pseudonym A. Lesage. It proved to be…
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(Melbourne Garrick Club) Amateur Performance in aid of...the Benevolent Asylum, June 4th, 1856, at the Olympic Theatre. Broadside with original silk and fine lace border, 31 x 28 cm Printed at the 'Auction Mart Daily Advertiser' Office, 23 Collins Street, East. An apparently unrecorded broadside from the earliest days of Melbourne theatre, advertising a charity performance staged by the Garrick Club at George Coppin's Olympic Theatre (on the corner of Exhibition & Lonsdale Streets).
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'Prince Alfred In Victoria, Narrative Of The Visit Of His Royal Highness The Duke Of Edinburgh To The Colony Of Victoria, Australia' Compiled by J.G. Knight (Melb. 1868), blue cloth boards with embossed gilt border and pictorial cover, corners a little chipped and boards a bit grubby, otherwise good firm copy.
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(Victoria) Fac-simile of Address from the Old Colonists of Victoria to H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh K.G. (Melbourne; E. Whitehead & Co., c1870) Folio, original quarter red morocco over purple cloth with gilt embossed crown, lettering and double-ruled borders, silk endpapers. Includes the facsimile signatures and arrival dates of all the Old Colonists together with the Duke's reply.
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(Maritime; New Zealand) F. E. Raynal Les Naufrages ou Vingt Mois Sur un Recif des Iles Auckland (Paris : Hachette, 1870) 2nd edition. Quarto, quarter morocco over cloth boards, all edges gilt, spine decorated in gilt, 374pp with numerous full page illustrations, folding map. Raynal's popular account of the maritime tragedy of the Grafton, wrecked in the Auckland Islands south of New Zealand in 1864.
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(South Australia - Immigration) 'South Australia Land Order Warrants of the value of £20 Are granted by the Agent-General for South Australia, to all persons approved as suitable......' (London, Agent-General for South Australia; circa 1875) broadside, printed in blue and brown, 43 x 28 cm. The land-order warrant system, which offered inexpensive passage for prospective emigrants to the colonies of South Australia and Queensland, came into effect in 1872 and continued until 1885.
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Alex. Keith Johnston Handy Royal Atlas of Modern Geography (Edinburgh & London; W. & A.K. Johnston, 1877) Folio, half-crushed green morocco over pebbled cloth; all edges gilt, frontispiece chart of the North Polar regions. 45 double-page engraved maps; 2 with pasted on printed revisions.
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Edward Vaughan Kenealy (1819 - 1880) The Trial at bar of Sir Roger C.D. Tichborne, Bart., in the Court of Queen's Bench at Westminster, before Lord Chief Justice Cockburn, Mr. Justice Mellor, and Mr. Justice Lush, for perjury..... (London : 'Englishman Office', 1875-80) six (of nine) volumes, folio, half morocco, spines with titles in gilt.
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H. Mortimer Franklyn (1848 - 1900) A Glance at Australia in 1880 : or, Food from the South: (Melbourne, The Victorian Review Publishing Co., 1881) large octavo, publisher's pictorial cloth. With a mss dedication from John Dunn & Co. of Adelaide.
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Circa 1880 Melbourne real estate poster 'Seddon, 27 Regent Street', printed at 'Reporter ' Office, 35 Hyde Street. 88 x 57 cm
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(Sydney International Exhibition 1879-80) A scrapbook of clippings from Australian newspapers and journals, 1860-80. Folio ledger book, original half red calf over cloth boards, original marbled endpapers; containing (at the front) 50 pages of pasted-in clippings related to the Sydney International Exhibition of 1879-80; and (at the back) clippings from 1860s editions of the Sydney newspaper The Empire, most related to theatrical and musical performances; 1871-72 clippings from the Western Examiner…
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Northern Territory Land Company Ltd 1882-1980s archive of documents including 1882 bank & legal correspondence with C.J. Sanders (company secretary) relating to the March 1882 incorparation of the company, plus Bank of Australasia opening account books, early map of Port Darwin area showing land divisions, 1901 booklet 'The Sugar Question in Queensland', copy of 1902 Act providing for construction of Oodnadatta to Pine Creek railway line with attached map of existing Australian railway lines and showing…
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'Picturesque Atlas of Australasia' edited by Hon. Andrew Garran (Melb. Syd. 1886), 3 vol. blue morocco, ex library edition, boards chipped and scuffed, internally good.
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(Melbourne International Exhibition, 1888 - 89) Official Record of the Centennial International Exhibition, Melbourne, 1888 - 1889 Containing a sketch of the industrial and economic progress of the Australasian Colonies during the first century of their existence : (Melbourne; Sands & McDougall, 1890) Octavo, publisher's gilt-lettered cloth, all edges gilt, bookplate to front pastedown, photo-lithograph frontispiece. 1138pp.
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Jules Verne (1828 - 1905) Les Enfants du Capitaine Grant : Voyage autour du Monde (Paris : J. Hetzel et Cie; n.d. but 1890); large octavo, 3 volumes in one, original publisher's pictorial blue and red cloth gilt, spine with gilt lettering and decoration, all edges gilt, engraved frontispiece, 624pp, 170+ illustrations. Verne's adventure story originally published in 1868, the second volume of which is set mainly in Australia and the third in New Zealand, where encounters with the maori play a central role…
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Sir Hayden Erskine Starke (1871 - 1958) and his son, Sir John Erskine Starke (1913 - 1994): An archive. Comprising of five letters to Hayden Erskine Starke (1892-1939) who became a Justice of the High Court of Australia (1920-50), 2 portrait photographs of him and a 'Low' caricature. However, the majority of the archive concerns John Erskine Starke, who became a Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria following his military service during World War II. Present are his group of seven medals (1939-45 Star,…
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The Yellow Book - Vol.1 to Vol.5 - 1894-95 Published by John Lane & Elkin Mathews. Editors, (Ballantyne Press, London) A literary & artistic source for the 1890's & known through its association with all the foremost writers of the time & its famous black & white illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley (who was art editor & foremost illustrator. Other contributors include M Beerbohm, H James, Walter Sickert, Kenneth Grahame, Charles Conder, Edmund Gosse, Anatole France, etc.
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(French Children's Book) Emile Pech Un oncle d'Australie (Paris : Jouvet & Cie, c1895) Quarto, contemporary half red cloth over marbled boards, spine with gilt lettering, all edges gilt, 286pp, illustrated with 73 gravures in the text. A French children's story in which much of the story is set in Australia - in particular Melbourne and Ballarat.
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Colonial Premiers: 'Special Issue Of The Punch, The Careers Of The Colonial Premiers, On The Imperial Wallaby In England', sixpence edition dated Tuesday, July 27th, circa 1901; together with 9 Picturesque Atlas of Australasia subscription journals (10 items)
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A German Anthropologist in Australia, circa 1900 - 1910 An archive, written in German, which appears to be the field notes and typed manuscripts of an anthropologist who travelled extensively throughout Australia to visit, learn, record and preserve the aboriginal culture and way of life that he had observed and studied. Comprising of hundreds of pages of hand-written notes, approximately 600 typed pages, and many hundreds of hand-drawn and painted and reproduced illustrations, this remarkable 'fundgrube'…
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Percy Spence (1868 - 1933) 'Britain's Austral Empire portraits of the Statemen and Officials concerned in the work of establishing the Commonwealth of Australia....' The portraits from life, drawn by Percy F.S. Spence. The letterpress by G. Firth Scott (London : Sampson Low, et al, 1901) Folio, gilt decorated cloth portfolio containing one volume of letterpress text, and one volume of engraved plates with title guards (lacks plates 34 & 36).
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Annie R. Rentoul (1882 - 1978) The Lady of the Blue Beads illustrated by Ida S. Rentoul (Melbourne, George Robertson & Co., n.d. 1908) Quarto, printed grey papered flushcut boards, rexine backstrip, endpapers replaced. 102pp.
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Harry Phillips (1873 - 1944) Three different oblong folio publications featuring Phillips' work; all circa 1910; titled '81 Views Blue Mountains Wonderland, N.S.W.', 'Most Up-To-Date Sydney Panoramic Views' and 'Views of the Far Famed Blue Mountains N.S.W.' each folio 24 x 58 cm.
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Norman Lindsay (1879 - 1969) Petronius - A Revised Latin Text of the Satyricon with the earliest English Translation (1694) now first reprinted with an introduction, together with one hundred illustrations by Norman Lindsay. (London : Privately Printed by Ralph Straus, 1910) Quarto, later full vellum, ruled in gilt, morocco title label to spine, new blank endpaper card slipcase, top edges gilt, other edges uncut, 303pp, 100 black, and white plates by Lindsay. No.79 of 250 numbered and signed by the artist…
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(Fred McCubbin) James Macdonald The Art of Frederick McCubbin (Melbourne & Sydney : Lothian, 1916) Limited to 1000 copies, signed by McCubbin, this is #858. Folio, gilt lettered cloth covered boards, 104pp, 45 plates tipped in.
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May Gibbs (1877 - 1969) Hullo! Sporty Boy! Three letterpress calendar cards, original grey boards, imprinted at lower margins 'Copyright May Gibbs', and each with a shaped colour process Gumnut Babies design with printed May Gibbs signature in the image. (3).
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Norman Lindsay; Hugh McCRAE Colombine by Hugh McCrae with XI illustrations by Norman Lindsay. (Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1920) Limited to 1000 copies. Quarto, papered boards with cloth spine, 53pp, 11 tipped-in plates.
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Edy Legrand (Edouard Leon Louis Warschawsky) (1892 - 1970) Voyages et glorieuses decouvertes des grands navigateurs et explorateurs Francais (Paris; Tolmer, 1921) Folio, original pictorial boards, decorative endpapers, 32pp, 54 colour illustrations including a folding map of La Perouse's voyages.
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(Norman Lindsay) Vision : A Literary Quarterly Edited by Frank C. Johnson, Jack Lindsay & Kenneth Slessor. (Sydney : The Vision Press, 1923-24) Four editions (all that were published), quarto, bound together in quarter blue morocco over cloth boards; each issue with the original wrappers designed by Norman Lindsay, illustrated throughout with vignettes by Lindsay.
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Ida Rentoul Outhwaite & Grenbry Outhwaite The Little Fairy Sister, (London : A. & C. Black, 1929) Original cloth backed patterned paper boards with titling-label mounted on front cover. (viii, 92, 4pp.). With colour frontisp., title-vign., 15 full-page plates of which 7 are colour, text-illusts., and illust. endpapers.
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Herbert Basedow 1881 - 1933) The Australian Aboriginal (Adelaide: F.W. Preece & Sons, 1929, 2nd Impression) 422pp hard cover with (part) d/j.
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Mary & Elizabeth Durack The Way of the Whirlwind (Sydney; Consolidated Press, 1941) First edition. Folio, pictorial boards, illustrated with twelve tipped-in plates and vignette illustrations throughout.
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(Greeting Cards) An archive of approximately 1500 cards in three massive leather-bound salesman's sample albums. Mainly English, Australian and American manufacturers, the albums, dated 1954 appear to have been prepared for a business called 'Batman Wholesalers'. The subjects include birthdays, engagements, weddings, condolences, Christmas, births, deaths, party invitations, etc. The cards are stuck down and are accompanied by hand-written pricing details. (Please note: very heavy.)
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Albert Namatjira: Two sets of six colour postcards of the artist's Hermannsburg landscapes, 2nd and 3rd series in original covers, circa 1950s, 11 x 16 cm
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