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Australian & Historical - Day 2 — Leski Auctions Pty. Ltd.

Auction House:Leski Auctions Pty. Ltd.Number of lots recorded:376
Sale Title:Australian & Historical - Day 2Lots with images:364
Auction Location:MelbournePrices available:333
Date:26-Jun-2022
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Australian Interest, small library of books, including 'David and Hermia Boyd', (qty)
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Australian Art & Artists range of books including works on Norman Lindsay, Australian Impressionists, The Blue Mountains, William Dobell, Lionel Lindsay, and others. (11 vols.).
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'Victoria The Golden - Scenes, Sketches, and Jottings From Nature By William Strutt. Melbourne, Victoria 1850-1862' Published by Library Committee, Parliament of Victoria, Melbourne (1980), large format (36.5 x 51 cm), 84pp hardbound with protective plastic dust cover and original cardboard box.
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Paynting & Grant Victoria Illustrated, 1984 Blue cloth boards with title in silver on spine and pastedown on front board. In handsome slipcase. 532pp.
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Australian Photographers: A collection of books featuring the work of Max Dupain, Sam Hood, Harold Cazneaux, Olive Cotton, Frank Hurley, Damien Parer, and others. Mainly hardcover, (13 vols.).
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'Marsupials of Australia' Landsdowne Edition [N.S.W. 1987], limited edition of 1000 copies signed by the authors, folio with beige cloth boards and brown embossed cover and spine. A good firm copy
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Carter's Price Guide, (11 vols.)
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96: The covers & many complete pages of the large format book (31 x 38.5 cm page size). Signatures and dedications noted include Rod Marsh, Max Walker, Greg Norman, Rolf Harris, Harry Secombe, B Burswood Hotel, Perth Visitors Book, circa 1992 - 1996: The covers and many complete pages of the large format book (31 x 38.5 cm page size). Signatures and dedications noted include Rod Marsh, Max Walker, Greg Norman, Rolf Harris, Harry Secombe, Billy Ray Cyrus, Monica Seles, Steffi Graf, Barry Humphries, Ken…
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Muir, Marcie (Vol.1) and White, Kerry (Vols.2 & 3) Australian Children's Books: A Bibliography. Three volumes: 1774-1972; 1973-1988; and 1989-2000 [Melbourne University Press, Carlton; 1992 & 2004] Volume One, 1992: xxi + 547 pp; Volume Two, 1992: xxii + 477 pp; and Volume Three, 2004: xxiv + 689 pp; each title and illustrator indexes. hardcovers in dustjackets..
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Kevin Fahy & Andrew Simpson, 'Australian Furniture Pictorial History And Dictionary, 1788-1938', [Syd. 1998] limited edition 2000/2000 with d/j and slip case, near mint condition
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'The Etched Works of Mortimer Menpes 1855-1938', Vol 1 2 3, by Gary Morgan, [Sth Aust. 2012], limited edition 126/500 copies signed by the author. Isbn 978.0.9807130.2.2
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'Melbourne From The South Side Of The Yarra,1839' facsimile print in timber frame 70 x 87 cm overall
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'The Tasmanian Tiger' facsimile print with descriptive page verso 32 x 42 cm, 58 x 68 cm overall
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A collection of 'The Annotated...' series published by W.W. Norton & Co., including 'Wind in the Willows', 'Huckleberry Finn', 'Wizard of Oz', 'Uncle Tom's Cabin', 'Hans Christian Andersen', and four others; all hardcover with dustjackets, 'as new'. (9 vols.).
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[New Guinea] Smallhorn, Jacinta 'The Binanderean Languages of Papua New Guinea: Reconstruction and Subgrouping', [The Australian National University, 2011], 466 pp., bibliography. Soft cover. Also, 'New Guinea Highlands - Art from the Jolika Collection' ed. Friede, Hays & Hellmich, [DelMonico Books, 2017] 666pp hard cover with d/jacket. Both new. (2).
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Greetings Postcards: mostly 1900s-1930s selection with World War I silks addressed from France to Australia (5), range of New Year, Easter, Christmas greeting types mostly American or British and few cards used in Australia; also a range of Dutch New Year cards; condition is variable.
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Ships & Shipping: 1900-1950s array in album with better real-photo types including dual image card showing 'HMS Psyche in a heavy sea, Bass Straits' dated 1908, crew of trading ship Sv Port Jackson (cadet training ship, torpedoed in 1917), also 'A.R. Woods DSO, Captain of HMS Concord, taken in Australia in 1925', c.1908 image of passengers aboard former prison ship HMS Success; another showing SS Paparoa at sea, postally used from Hobart in 1915; many other showing ships or ship's crew; also few World War…
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Thematic Selection: mostly 1900s-1930s selection including actors/actresses including Adrienne Augarde & Maude Fealy ( both real-photo), Tittell Brune, Maud Jeffries, Edna May (signed by her), approximately 50% used with Australia, plus a few studio photographs with facsimile signatures; other themes including Children incl. real-photo portraits, Novelty, Romantic/Risque and Humorous themed cards incl. Donald McGill types; various other including real-photo of Canadian soldiers outside Convalescent…
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Australia: 1900s-1950s array with Melbourne street scenes and views, also MCG card showing 'English Eleven at play in 1904', 'The Glaciarium - Melbourne', 'Echuca Park', 1930s-60s real-photo cards including 'Mildura Base Hospital', 'Main Street, Stawell', 'The Hermitage, Seaford'; also a few actress real-photo studio cards (Harcourt McGuffie Co, Hobart) and some New Zealand cards. (100+)
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Australia: 1900s-1950s array with World War I silks sent from Western Front to Australia (9), NSW and Victoria views, studio portrait postcards, some New Zealand cards; condition variable. (80+)
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Australian States: 1900s-1950s assortment with selections from Canberra/ACT (15) incl. real-photo of 'Hotel Ainslie', 'View from Mt Ainslie', 'A Glimpse of Canberra from Red Hill', South Australia (15) including 'Adelaide Hills, Montacute Road', Queensland (11) incl. real-photo of 'Guest House, Lake Barrine, N.Q.' and 'Lake Eacham, Yungaburra, N.Q.' and Western Australia (3); condition is variable. (44)
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New South Wales: 1900s-40s bundle with plenty of Jenolan/Jenolan Caves cards including real-photo types some showing vintage automobiles; also topographical views, waterfalls including Kerry types, coastal/beach views, Sydney & environs, country town scenes including Albury, Bathurst & Grafton; condition variable. (85)
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Tasmania: 1900s-50s array with many real-photo cards, publishers incl. Ash Bester (9), plus others by Murray Views, Rose Stereograph Co, and Valentine's with a coloured view of Brisbane St, Launceston; condition variable. (26)
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Victoria: 1900s-50s array with suburban Melbourne cards incl. 'Town Hall, Richmond', regional Victoria incl. 'Suspension Bridge, San Remo', 'Sutton Springs, Daylesford', 'Aerial Panorama of Deep Water Port, Portland' (real-photo); also Victoria Crown Land semi-official 'Farm Life' cards (2), rural views including river scenes, Great Ocean Road scenes etc; condition variable. (48)
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Australian & Foreign: 1900s-1970s bundle including some early 1900s real-photo cards (unannotated) of various scenes incl. cattle droving, family picnic, & school photos; World War I cards including real photo cards showing diggers at Anzac Cove, another showing gun mounted on Hmat Persic (A34), also British & foreign card incl. 'Anzac Revue, H.M. The King Inspecting Infantry, September 27th, 1916.', plus humorous & greetings types and few greeting cards; later period including war memorial types, etc.…
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Australia - Norfolk Island: 1930s real-photo selection many by local photographer F. Parton, with better images including 'Capt Macarthur Onslow's deportation farewell, 1934' (Hansard records that he was deported for failing to pass a dictation test in German!), 'Tourists at Kingston', 'Norfolk Island Jetty', 'Wild Hyacinth', 'Gallows Gate' (2), 'Anson Bay', etc; generally very good condition. (15)
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Australia: 1930s-70s souvenir card packs including 'Souvenir of Araluen' (WA) Series No 1 & No 2 'Queenstown' (Tas), 'Beautiful North West Coast of Tasmania', 'Mt Beauty and the Kiewa Scheme' (Vic), 'Picturesque view of Dunkeld' (Vic), 'Beautiful Albany' (WA), etc. (50 approx)
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Charlie Chaplin: 1910s-40s mostly European or American cards depicting the comic actor including c.1910 real-photo portrait card by Witzel, published by Rotary Photo, 1914 real-photo card used internally within Finland with censor handstamp, c.1915 'Charles Chaplin (Charlot)' real-photo portrait card, 1916-17 Cobb & Shinn caricature cards (12, all different) 1918 card addressed to a member of the American Expeditionary Forces, c.1921 British Cinema Card promoting Chaplin film 'The Idle Class'; many other…
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John Olday: A series of photographic postcards [36, each 14 x 8.7 cm] printed on high quality Agfa-Gevaert matte stock, all showing reproductions of Olday's works, each captioned and initialled by the artist in pen, plus two leaflets of similar proportions inscribed 'Outsider - John Olday Exhibits - 40 Paintings, 70 Drawings at the Royal Admiral Hotel - 10th March - 21st March, 1964', Olday having written his address on the back of one of the leaflets 'c/o Fergusons Boat Shed, The Spit, Mosman, N.S.W.'
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Advertising: 'Havelock Self-Raising Flour' point-of-sale display card, printed by P.C.Grosser, with a mono-colour version of the same image verso; circa 1920s. The Havelock Flour Factory was in Mt. Alexander Road, Flemington, Victoria. 44 x 31 cm (framed & glazed).
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'Christmas Presents', circa 1925 colour lithograph poster. 'The Disabled Men's Association of Australia.' in lower margin at left. the Disabled men's Association of Australia, established in the wake of World War one had its' head office in the St. James building, little Collins Street, Melbourne. As well as establishing workshops for disabled veterans to make toys and other saleable items, the Association also published a very popular recipe book which ran to several editions during subsequent years. a…
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Two vintage Australia Post framed posters, circa 1950s, 34 x 46 cm and 44 x 33.5 cm
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British Recruitment Poster: 'Join the Boys' Regiment - Royal Artillery if you are between 15 and 17½ apply to:..', colour lithograph, circa 1951 [Carillon Press, Bournmouth] 75 x 50 cm.
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[Airline Poster - Artist Unknown], 'There and Back with TAA - Trans-Australia Airlines' colour lithograph by Victory Publicity, circa 1950s 96 x 59 cm.
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Knud Lindhardt 'Europe's Gay Gateway - See Wonderful Copenhagen via Sas' colour lithographic poster for Scandinavian Airlines System, circa 1956 [Interprint A/S] 97 x 62 cm.
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Fly Fastest - Fly TAA Jetliner poster depicting the Electra Mk.II, the Super Viscount and the TAA Friendship with a lovely interior view Artist Unknown 90 x 60 cm.
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Allan A. Hedges (photographer) Jenolan Caves, New South Wales poster showing 'The Indian Canopy, Orient Cave', issued by the New South Wales Department of Tourist Activities. Printed by Artcarft, Sydney., circa 1950s. 100 x 61 cm. Note: We have previously only seen this image overprinted 'Go there by Train' for the NSW Railways Department.
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Ern. McQuillan (photographer), Australian Bush Babies New South Wales, Australia, poster issued by the New South Wales Department of Tourist Activities, circa 1960; printed by Posters Pty Ltd., 100 x 61 cm.
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'Allan & Co., Melbourne - The First & Oldest Music Establishment in Australia' poster, glazed & framed, 105 x 76 cm overall.
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Political Poster: 'I'm Still A Yellowcake Kid', 1978 colour screenprint, signed 'Without Authority' and dated in image lower right 69 x 51 cm. Text includes 'Max Mutant, real estate executive. One of the best things about Yellowcake is the plutonium - it has a half-life of 24,000 years! And that's great value! Yellowcake. Concentrated plutonium. Liberals. Frazer Inc., Parliament House, ACT.', .
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King Johnny Aboriginal in European clothing, wearing a king-plate, circa 1880 carte-de-visite albumen paper print on unknown photographer's card, 10.5 x 6.5 cm.
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Melbourne Photographers: Portraits, cartes-de-visite, etc., by Allen Studios (Smith St., Collingwood); Allen Gove (Swanston St.); Bardwell (Collins St., East); Bardwell (Ballarat), Batchelder & Co. (Collins St., East); Beaumont (Burwood Rd., Hawthorn); Dr. Beckett (Northcote); Benson & Stevenson (Elizabeth St.); I. Van Berckelaer (High St., St.Kilda); J. Botterill (Collins St., East & Bee-Hive Chambers, Elizabeth St.); Browning & Son, Royal Arcade); A.W. Burman (Bourke St., East); T.F. Chuck (Royal Arcade)…
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Photographers:Portraits, cartes-de-visite, etc., (50 items). Melbourne Photographers: Portraits, cartes-de-visite, etc., by E. Sands (Bourke St.); J. T. Seymour (Wellington St.); William Short & Co (Bourke St. East); Stevenson & McNicoll (Elizabeth St.); Stewart & Co. (Bourke St. East); Stewart & Co. (Bourke St.); Talma (Swanston St.); Taylor & Withers (Collins St.); Tuttle & Co. (Elizabeth St.); University Studio (Lygon St., Carlton); Vanderwyde (Bourke St.); Vandyck (Bourke St. East); Vita (Swanston St.)…
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Shoalhaven District (N.S.W.). Two black and white albumen photographs, each captioned lower left: I.) Road Scene Kangaroo Valley II.) Road Scene On The Camberwarra Mountain. sheet size 27 x 35 cm each
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'Old Independent Church, Collins Street' framed albumen print in original gilt frame with title caption, by John Gaul of Swanston Street Melbourne, 19th century, 13.5 x 20 cm, 27 x 32 cm overall; together with a 19th century photograph titled 'Hanging Rock, Woodend', 28 x 24 cm, 42 x 37 cm overall. (2 items).
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Samuel White Sweet (1825 - 1886) Coast Native's Wurlie, 1878 albumen print photograph laid down on cabinet card with red printed title and frame overall 11 x 16.5 cm.
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Samuel White Sweet (1825 - 1886) Natives at [Point Macleay] Mission Station,1878 albumen print photograph laid down on cabinet card with red printed title and frame signed and numbered '453' in the plate overall 11 x 16.5 cm.
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Charles Bayliss (1850 - 1897) Six albumen paper panels from Bayliss' 11-panel panorama taken from the tower of the Sydney International Exhibition Building (Garden Palace) while it was still under construction in either 1878 or 1879 (the building burnt down in 1882). Framed in original oak and gold frame. Overall 186 x 39.5 cm.
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Campaspie', 'Campaspie Fall Collection of assorted stereo cards, including Australian, British and novelty cards, 19th century. 60+ cards. Of note: Gold diggings Australia, Mt Macedon, 'Traveller Sleeping in Mia Mia', Hanging Rock Melbourne, 'On the Campaspe', 'Campaspe Falls' and many more. Inspection will reward.
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Cabinet Portraits, Australian photographers and subjects, late 19th century, (24 items) the largest 17 x 11 cm overall
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Sydney Album 'Views of Sydney', circa 1890; 40 albumen paper prints, each approx. 21 x 15 cm laid down to pages in a red leather and morocco bound album with gilt title including 'Mr & Mrs King from J. Macpherson.' Images by 'J.P.' include Bondi, Coogee, Manly, Circular Quay, Late Garden Palace (Exhibition Buildings), Blue Mountains, etc.
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[Photographic Album] Large horizontal format album with red leather and gilt lettered title to half-leather & cloth upper board 'Victorian Celebrations May 1901' and further titled on the marbled free endleaf 'A Souvenir of the Visit of Their Royal Highnesses The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York to Melbourne, Victoria, to open the First Parliament of The Commonwealth of Australia.' The album contains 47 silver gelatin photographs laid down on numbered, annotated pages.
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Stereo Cards: Accumulation of cards including The Rose Stereograph Company for the visit to Australia of The American Fleet, (30, all different); miscellaneous others incl. for Duke of York Celebrations (5), plus a few overseas cards including New Zealand views. (48)
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Photographer Unknown Entrance to the Port of Sydney - Arrival of American Fleet. fold-out photogravure, circa 1919 overall 19 x 62 cm.
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Photographer Unknown Walsh Bay Wharfage fold-out photogravure, circa 1910 overall 21 x 59 cm.
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Photographer Unknown Entrance to the Port of Sydney fold-out photogravure, circa 1910 overall 20 x 35 cm.
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Photographer Unknown Darling Harbour - Port of Sydney fold-out photogravure, circa 1910 overall 20 x 83 cm.
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Photographer Unknown Panoramic View of Sydney Harbour from North Shore fold-out photogravure, circa 1910 overall 20 x 83 cm.
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Photographer Unknown Circular Quay, Sydney Cove. fold-out photogravure, circa 1910 overall 20 x 63 cm.
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After Laurence William Wilson (Britain, New Zealand, 1851-1912) Melbourne 1906 photogravure, panorama 'Printed in Vienna' above image upper right 41 x 100 cm, 64 x 123 cm overall
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Melbourne vintage aerial photograph, circa 1930 46 x 72 cm, 50 x 76 cm overall
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Photographer Unknown Lake Tyers Aboriginal Settlement, early 20th century black and white lantern slides depicting Aboriginal women weaving baskets, Aboriginal boys fishing, Lake Tyers cottages, and a Portrait of 'Kitty' at the Lake Tyers Mission, c.1905 (attributed to Douglas McNaughton.), (4 items), all 8.2 x 8.2 cm.
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A photograph album titled 'From My Camera' with photos taken by Noel Swinnerton of Balmain; each of the (32) prints is annotated and most are dated. They include the Sydney Harbour Bridge on 19th March 1932, Smithy and the Southern Cross at Mascot Aerodrome 1932, the S.S.Karoola with the Bridge behind it, other ships in Sydney Harbour, Flying Boats at Farm Cove, H.M.S. Sussex, etc.
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Mining in Australia series of 8 framed black and white promotional photographs, all captioned and framed, mid 20th century each 56 x 43 cm overall
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Miss Australia 1954 'Shirley Bliss' black and white portrait photograph in original period frame 50 x 40 cm, 70 x 58 cm overall
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Four framed Melbourne scene photographic prints with scenes of the Yarra River and Flinders Street Station the largest 48 x 62 cm overall
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William Dampier (1651 - 1715) Three copper engraved plates from 'A Voyage to New Holland' [1703]: 'Plants found in Brasil', 'Plants found in New Holland & Timor' and 'Plants found in ye Sea neer New Guinea', all approx. 19 x 12 cm (sheet size). (3 items).
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Francois Valentijn (1666 - 1727) Anthony van Diemens Land, 1724 copper plate engraving by Frederick Ottens 13 x 16 cm (image) overall sheet 33 x 20 cm. This remarkable engraving is from Francois Valentijn's ' Oud en Nieuw Oost Indien...' The work was published in Amsterdam between 1724 and 1726 and described the history of the Dutch East India Company and the territories of the Far East including Australia, Ceylon, India, China, and Japan. Valentijn was a Dutch minister and naturalist. He was employed as a…
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George Stubbs (after) 'Kangaroo' copper engraving from Hawkesworth's account of Cook's Voyages, 1st edition published in 1773, plate 20. Being the first known rendering of a kangaroo in Britain. 23 x 27 cm, 48 x 61 cm overall
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Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber (1739 - 1810) Lipurus cinereus [Koala] hand-coloured lithograph 24 x 19 cm. from ' Die Saugthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Beschreibungen' published by Wolfgang Walther, Erlangen: 1775-1792. The multi-volume set of books entitled ' Die Saugethiere in Abbildungen.....', focused on the mammals of the world. Many of the animals included were given a scientific name for the first time, following the binomial system of Carl Linnaeus. From 1791 until his death in…
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Joseph Paxton: A collection of plates from his 'Paxton's Magazine of botany and register of flowering plants', [London, Orr & Smith, 1838-49], (20, all different); many with their accompanying explanatory pages.
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Atlantic trumpetfish, Aulostomus maculatus (Aulostoma maculatum). Hand-colored engraving by Oudet after an illustration by Frank, from Charles d'Orbigny's 'Dictionnaire Universel d'Histoire Naturelle', Paris, 1849; displayed in an antique maple frame; overall 54.5 x 68 cm.
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Gracius Joseph Broinowski (1837-1913) i.) Great Sulphur-crested cockatoo II.) Three Parrots, (New Zealand) III.) Ka-Ka Parrot and Prince of Essling's Parrot IV.) Leadbeater's Cockatoo V.) Bloodstained Cockatoo VI.) Pale Headed Parrakeet and Yellow Cheeked Parrakeet, coloured lithograph plates each 32 x 23 cm, 52 x 43 cm overall
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Gracius Joseph Broinowski (1837 - 1913) A collection of coloured lithographic plates from his 'The Birds Of Australia' published by Charles Stuart & Co Sydney, 1887-1891; including owls, eagles, falcons, kites, hawks, petrels, swallows, warblers and robins. All different, (40). Each 46 x 25 cm horizontally or vertically.
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Selection comprising S.T. Gill lithograph showing 'Market Square, Geelong'; hand-coloured 1870s newspaper cutting showing 'The Intercolonial Eight-Oared Race; limited edition print showing 'Mercantile Rowing Club' by J.P. Garr (1968) numbered #23 of 100; and photograph showing 'Princes Bridge, Melbourne, Vic 1920s'; all items framed and glazed. (4)
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Folio of assorted loose artworks, watercolours and lithographs, 19th and 20th century, (26 items) the largest 33 x 27 cm
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