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Photography — Albums - Recreations & Pursuits - Charles Leski Auctions Pty. Ltd.

$2,587
Radio City Music Hall, Rockefeller Center New York: c1932, origi…
$2,300
Parer & McINTOSH/Aviation/Indonesia: 1919-20 photo album pages w…
$977
Australia: c1890 Photograph Album, with albumen paper prints of …
$552
Photographer unknown (late 19th-20th century) Photograph album c…








Auction House: Charles Leski Auctions Pty. Ltd.
Number of lots recorded: 12
Lots with images: 12
Prices available: 12
Category: Photography - Albums



Lot Description Price Image
*** Radio City Music Hall, Rockefeller Center New York: c1932, original sepia tone photographs of Radio City Music Hall stage, most with images of the Rockettes (the most famous dance troupe in the world) on stage and in costume (approx. 200); incl. 26 photographs of the interior of the Music Hall and its remarkable decor. All contained in four albums which also contain publicity department releases explaining the decor in detail.… ***
*** Parer & McINTOSH/Aviation/Indonesia: 1919-20 photo album pages with c66 photographs, many identified from Borneo & Indonesia, including 3 rare photographs of the wreck of Ray Parer & John McIntosh's DH9 'P.D.' at Gresik on the second flight from England to Australia and the first in a single-engine aircraft; plus 6 photographs of Ross & Keith Smith and their Vickers Vimy G-Eaou on the first England to Australia flight.… ***
*** Australia: c1890 Photograph Album, with albumen paper prints of Tasmania (34), Victoria (13) & NSW (12), some marvellous scenes including Hop-Picking in Tasmania, Kingstone, Port Arthur, Launceston, Degraves Brewery, Cascade Brewery, Old Hut at Mt.Wellington, Ballarat, Waterfalls, Gpo Sydney, Manly, Bondi, Coogee, Watsons Bay, Mosmans Bay. G/Vg ***
*** Photographer unknown (late 19th-20th century) Photograph album comprising of 27 early scenes of Melbourne Silver gelatin photographs Each 8.5 x 10 cm ***
*** Sydney: 'Views of Sydney', c1890 Photograph Album, with 37 albumen paper prints, each approx. 21 x 15 cm, with views of Bondi, Coogee, Manly, Circular Quay, Late Garden Palace (Exhibition Building burned down in 1882), Botanic Gardens, Katoomba Falls, Wentworth Falls, Blue Mountains. Foxing on mounts, though photographs generally in good condition. Bound in half red morocco, with gilt title 'Views of Sydney' & 'Mr & Mrs King from J.Macpherson'. ***
*** Sydney: 'Views of Sydney', c1890 Photograph Album, with 37 albumen paper prints, each approx. 21 x 15 cm, with views of Bondi, Coogee, Manly, Circular Quay, Late Garden Palace (Exhibition Building burned down in 1882), Botanic Gardens, Katoomba Falls, Wentworth Falls, Blue Mountains. Foxing on mounts, though photographs generally in good condition. Bound in half red morocco, with gilt title 'Views of Sydney' & 'Mr & Mrs King from J. Macpherson' ***
*** c1930s Photograph Album, with c243 photographs, including nice group from Japanese Occupation of China, including captured wall and fort; also some nice photos of Hong Kong including 1930s shot of Happy Valley racecourse ***
*** Melbourne: c1920 album with 25 albumen photographs (each 9 x 10 cm), marvellous street scenes with trams, horse-drawn vehicles, bicycles and vintage cars ***
*** Sydney: c1862-70s Cdv photograph album with brass clasp, two to the page, with 79 early Cartes-de-Visite, mostly Sydney studio shots including Hetzer, Boake, Bradley & Allen, Grenfeld, Dalton, Pickering, Oswald Allen & Newman; including Hetzer's & Bradley's portraits of singer Grace Egerton (as Mrs G.Case she performed on the Victorian goldfi elds 1864-68); two showing boys in military uniform with rifl es; and c30 family-related Uk CDVs ***
*** Photograph album, titled 'world Cruise of the British Special service Squadron 1923-1924', with 336 captioned photographs featuring Hms Hood, Hms Repulse, Hms Delhi, Hms dragon, Hms Dauntless & HMAS Adelaide, with places visited including Sierra Leone, South Africa, Zanzibar, Kenya, Ceylon, Malaya, Australia, NZ, Fiji, Honolulu, Canada, Panama Canal & Jamaica. Ex Australian seaman H.H.Sutton. Fine condition ***
*** South Australia: Presentation Photograph Album titled on cover 'Photographs, Botanic Garden, Adelaide, South Australia', and with dedication inside, 'To His Excellency the Governor and Lady Weigall, By the Board of Governors, Adelaide Botanic Garden, South Australia. April, 1922', with 26 silver gelatin photographs of the gardens, each 20 x 15 cm. Superb condition ***
*** c1876-90s Photograph Album with albumen prints (45) noted Switzerland with Lucerne, Rigi Railway, glaciers in the alps; Britain with Cathedrals, Rievauix Abbey, Holyrood Palace Edinburgh; Malta; c1880s albumen photograph of Barrenjoey Lighthouse, Broken Bay, NSW (window mounted, overall 38 x 30 cm); plus 1934-35 Competition photographs by Richard Simpson - 'The Valley of Romances' & 'Baffled Fury', titled and signed in ink by Richard Simpson on mount (some tone spots). (48 items) ***

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