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Number of lots recorded:96
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*** Calvin Coolidge, 30th President of the United States. An Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge, Cosmopolitan book Corporation, New York, 1929, signed 'Calvin Coolidge,' limited edition No. 712 of 1000. in slip case ***
*** Australian postcards c.1910. Inc 2x US fleet, real photo Sydney suburbs & sanatoria consumptive womens home stamp card. 55 cards ***
*** 1936 Buck Rogers Solar Scouts secret club booklet. Cereal premiun from cream of wheat. Also Solar Scouts membership badge in gilt brass, gilt traces remaining. Booklet near mint. ***
*** Vanity magazine, 1931 (12). Full year, except July; 2 issues of February (12) ***
*** Vanity magazine, 1933 (9). Missing April, May, September and November. 2 issues of January ***
*** Vanity Magazine,1932 (13). Complete year with extra November ***
*** Map, L'Asie Divisee en ses pair of incipaux Etats. Mapmaker, Jean Janvier, pub. Paris 1760. Hand coloured engraving. 49 x 6 8 cm ***
*** Map, L'Africa Divisa Ne Suoi Principali Stati. By Antonio Zatta, pub. Venice 1776. Hand coloured with pictorial title vignettes. Copper engraving. 31 x 41 cm ***
*** Book, 'The Arthur Streeton Catalogue.' Melbourne,1935. Quarto, gilt-lettered purple cloth (a little sun faded), 141 pp, numerous tipped-in colour and black and white plates, essays by J. S. Macdonald, Irwin Macdonald and Lionel Lindsay. Limited to 500… ***
*** Circa 1910 postcard album. Over 200 cards mostly English & European, including 20+ real photos of Cleckheaton and district. Also some 1940's Australian ***
*** Book. 'The Lives of the Primitive Fathers,' by William Cave. Printed by Richard Chiswell, 1677. This copy for Reverend Roger Kay ex St John's College, Cambridge (d.1731) ***
*** Book: 'Made in Australia,' 1938. 270 glossy pages of Australian industries. Also, three Tasmania tourist booklets, and Java travel brochure. 33 x 36 cm (largest) ***
*** Sir Henry Parkes. The Father of Federation. Summons document served against Sir Henry Parkes. 1p folio on blue watermarked paper. 25 September 1886. from The Commercial Union Assurance Company Limited concerning a dishonoured cheque for 112 pounds ten… ***
*** Sir Robert Menzies, 16th Prime Minister of Australia, black and white photograph, stamped verso 'Associated Newspapers Ltd 'Sun' Feature Bureau, Sydney. The Prime Minister and his wife (Dame) Pattie Menzies are seen escorting Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth… ***
*** Candid Nellie Melba photo posed with Camel and photo of Madames Wayda and de Ciseros, Marseille 1911. Also photo of the Melba Grand opera Co. Departing Melbourne on board the 'Mahra,' Dec. 1911; and unpublished article on Melba opera Co. Provenance:… ***
*** Four photographs New South Wales Militia in camp scenes. Three of the images are (10 x 6 cm) & one is (13 x 16.5 cm). They are all mounted on board. The larger image has an imprint lower right Laker & Co 49 Goulburn St, Sydney. C1900. Including. A leather… ***
*** 7 Buck Rogers original Australian edition, Tip-Top Comics. Issues no. 121, 123, 129, 133, 140, 151 and 166. ***
*** Four Australian Colonial documents. Early printed Indenture,1824. Thomas Campbell at Wilberforce. Enclosed in Mylar; sale plan of Windsor, c1820. Enclosed in Mylar; small Grant of 60 acres to John Francis at Kurrajong 22nd April, 1831. Signed by Colonial… ***
*** Three Colonial NSW Electors' Lists, c1850s. Manuscript list of Electors Burrough of Penrith NSW 1857-1858. Dated at Penrith 27th June, 1857 by the Chief Constable & Collector; manuscript list of Electors Burrough of Liverpool NSW 1857-1858; & manuscript… ***
*** Map, Ortelius, Daniae Regni Typus. 2 Maps, Denmark by Anthoniszoon & Oldenburg Commit. Pub. By Ortelius, Antwerp, 1598, 35 x 50 cm ***
*** PHOTOS (2), zig zag Railway and Lithgow, albumen print (2), 25 x 33 cm and 14 x 20 cm ***
*** Map, Ortelius map of Cuba. 'Hispanilae, Cubae, Aliarumque Insularum Circumiacientium, Delineatio,' from Theatrum Orbis Terrarum by Abraham Ortelius, pub. Antwerp, 1570. Hand coloured engraving, 37 x 50 cm ***
*** 5 Australian Oz magazines. Seminal Australian Satire by Richard Neville, Martin Sharp, Garry Shead, Peter Kingston et al. Numbers 17,18, 26, 28 and 37 ***
*** Scanlans magazine complete run. Counter cultural muck making incl. Original work by hunter S Thompson, Ralph Steadman, Robert crumb et al, including rare no 8 (final) issue which had to be printed in Quebec. Nine issues, March 1970 to January 1971, no 1… ***
*** Maps (3), NSW County, St Vincent, Murray & King, including. Towns, Araluen, Braidwood, Queanbeyan (Canberra area noted), Dalton & Gunning. Publ. 1872, hand coloured lithograph (3), 38 x 53 cm (each) ***
*** Six items. After Jean Piron, 'Femme Du Cap De Diemen.' plate 6 form 'Atlas Du Voyage a La Recherche De La Perouse,' pub. Paris 1800 etching (44 x 31 cm). Also, 5 wood engravings depicting aboriginal subjects including. King Billy & Truganini. Collection… ***
*** Map, Carte Reduite de L'Ocean Oriental ou Mer des Indes. Mapmaker J N Bellin, pub. Paris, 1757. Hand coloured engraving. 56 x 8 8 cm ***
*** Various early botanical & Faunal prints, including Phalanger Tachete by A. Prevost. From Atlas Zoologique which accompanied voyage Antour de Monde by Saulces & Freycinet, Paris c1820; 11 botanical prints by Weinmann, c1745; three German fruit prints, 1708… ***
*** Two early Australian Maps. 'Track of the Expedition from Coopers Creek to Carpentaria by Burke, Wills, King & grey.' pub. De Gruchy & Leigh Melbourne, 1861.linen backed, top margin trimmed, stains. Also 'Map of the Town of Sydney, 1833.' engraved by… ***
*** Signed Thea Proctor Xmas card & 12 H George works. Ballerinas & other dancers. Thea Proctor Christmas card to Mr & Mrs Robert Campbell. Pencil & watercolour (12). 10 x 7.7 cm (each) ***
*** Large album of Australian & New Zealand postcards. About half Australian & New Zealand scenic subjects. Remainder mostly British & a section of amateur hand drawn. Mostly used. ***
*** Album 19th century photographs etc. Carte de visite, famous figures incl. Lincoln & HRH the Prince of Wales; some explorer & town views, children & animals. Mostly English. ***
*** C 1947 Hiroshima District Panoramas. 11 various photographic panoramas of city & surrounding areas depicting strategic installations & reconstruction & some plain views. 127 x 1 4 cm. (each) ***
*** Book: 'The Odyssey of Homer,' illustrated by W.Russell Flint. Pub. Medici Society, 1924 # 201/500. Original wrapper and papers foxed. Interior tight and clean. ***
*** Blue Mountains & Mt Wilson postcard album c.1930. 50+ real photo views inc. Many by Katoomba photographer Manning ***
*** C.1910 English R.P.P.C York and Environs collection of 58 postcards ***
*** Two Social history photographs. Photograph of a family outside their makeshift house. Mother is holding baby & dad is holding a small child. An older girl stands between them with her hand on dad's shoulder. The image is 10.5 x 15.5 cm, mounted on board… ***
*** Edwardian postcard album. Large album containing approx 180 postcards addressed to Miss Spencer of Hobart, height 34 cm (album) ***
*** Vanity magazine, 1935 (8). Missing April, August, November and December ***
*** Photograph c1880, Kaawirn Kuunawarn (Hissing swan), Chief of the Kirrae Wuurong (blood tip tribe). Old ink inscription verso dated April 1881, mounted. Original photograph (15 x 10 cm). Collection Dr John Raven, Perth. ***
*** Books, (2) 'History of India,' by James Grant, published Cassell, Petter, Galpin. Vol. I and II ***
*** Pulp Dime mystery book magazine 1933. 13 issues - Dec.1932 - Dec.1933. Transitions from book cover to full cover illustration September 1933. Fair condition; back cover missing from Jan'33 ***
*** Maps 2, Africa & Bay of Bengal. A new & correct map of Africa, by Emanuel Bowen, pub. London 1744; & a new Chart of the Gulf or Bay of Bengal, by Laurie & Whittle, pub. London, 1797. Copper engraving, 38 x 46 cm & 62 x 66 cm ***
*** Framed English document hand written in Latin on vellum. written in sepia and dated 1613 to reverse (during reign of King James I, no applied seals). 25 x 41 cm ***
*** Federation of Australia Stereoviews 1901. 36 views of decorations of Duke of York's activities during Federation celebrations. Published by G. Rose. ***
*** Book: 'Lysistrata by Aristophanes'. In English, translated by Jack Lindsay. Four plates by Norman Lindsay, & other illustrations. Half morocco & blue cloth. Published by Fanfrolico Press, London,1926. Edition 37/725 ***
*** Hiroshige, Utagawa fifty three Stations of the Tokaido. Modern folio with book and 55 prints. Print 21.5 x 33.5 cm ***
*** Postcard album, predominately Australian and world views with some Royal Navy. 250+ cards. ***
*** Press photo, Southern Cross on Runway at Oakland for Hawaii flight. 10.5 x 33.5 cm ***
*** Book, 'Mickey mouse Anuual, 1930. London, Dean & Son Ltd. Pictorial boards & spine, colour frontispiece & 3 colour plates as called for (see Hamer Comic Annual guide No.1). Owner's name on the first pastedown with the inscribed date 1930. Original,… ***
*** The Will of Paul Randall, February 25th,1832. Probably in Randall's hand & signed Paul Randall. Witnesses' signatures Paul Randall, convict, was transported to New South Wales in 1791. Not much is known Randall in the colony until he was granted the… ***
*** First 2 Issues Egoiste magazine. Seminal copies of this legendary French publication. No 2 features cover of Mick Jagger by Helmut Newton, November and December 1977 ***
*** Two original engravings from the illustrated Sydney News May 26th and Sept 15th. Both hand coloured; and with label verso for antique print room, Sydney, 38 x 23.5 cm (each) ***
*** Three postcard albums. 1920s-30s Canada & Nth America Tour (mixed used & unused); c.1910 European Tour (postally unused); c.1965 European (postally unused). ***
*** 1940's Occupied Japan service Housing Ephemera, including comprehensive book on dependant's housing, official B.C.O.F. Plan (165 pages) & about 1200 photos of construction, all captioned. ***
*** English postcard album, 200+ lithographed cards, mostly town views ***
*** Belfast and N.Z. Postcard Album. including photos and some ephemera, patriotic Orange Men. Over 300 pieces ***
*** Four albumen prints/photographs of Sandhurst gold diggings, and two of Sydney Harbour. 13 x 17 cm ***
*** Book: 'The life and work of Sydney long,' by Joanna Mendlessohn, the deluxe edition, bound in leather on special paper limited to 275 signed copies. ***
*** 1931 ginger Meggs Sunbeams book. Series 8 full colour comic annual. Published by Sun Newspapers. 30 x 25 cm ***
*** Buck Rogers original Tip-Top Comics. Five special editions: 1 (2), 3, 4, and 8. ***
*** Three photographs, Coogee bay Sydney. Late Victorian beach scenes. Ladies with parasols, children paddling, gentlemen in suits, bathing machines & a few swimmers, c1890. 16.5 x 21 cm (each) ***
*** 1925 Randwick land auction photograph, 'Bishopscourt Estate, Randwick. A record Attendance at first sale, 21st Nov. 1925.' inscribed 'Hall & Co. Photo' lower right, mounted silver gelatin photograph (40 x 69 cm, including. Mount) ***
*** PHOTO, view from Brawleys head to Government house, 1870s, albumen print, 18 x 20 cm ***
*** C.1888 lake Tyers Aboriginal group. 'Aboriginal Tribe', Produced by Phillip - Stephan photo litho and Typographic process Co Ltd. Sydney, NSW. Photolithograph (2). 30 x 36 cm, (image) ***
*** Map, in Notitiam Ecclesiasticam Africae. Map of Spain, Eastern Mediterranean and north Africa by Philippe Buache, pub. Paris 1745. Hand coloured copper engraving. 49 x 64 cm ***
*** Map, Sanson, Le Bresil, dont la Coste. Brasil from the Amazon to Rio de Janeiro by Nicholas Sanson, pub. Paris, 1656. Later colouring to cartouche. Hand coloured copper engraving, 40 x 55 cm ***
*** Waters, B Photographic portrait of John Dunn, member for Mt Barker, S.A. 1857-1868. Label verso for 'A Molton and Son, Flinders St, Adelaide. Photograph on milk glass 35 x 26 cm ***
*** 17th century map of Java and part Borneo, Sumatra. 'Insul' Iav' Cum Parte Insularum Borneo Sumatr',' by Schenk and Valk, pub. Amsterdam c.1650. Hand coloured engraving. 40 x 51 cm ***
*** Series of 14 early Tasmanian photographs. Tasmanian landscapes c.1860 & Hobart Regatta c.1888 by Henry hall Baily. Images approx. 16 x 21 cm ***
*** 15 Stereoview cards Jenolan Caves. Published (& photographed) by Edward J Cooke, Kiosk Jenolan Caves. Curved mount, hand titled ***
*** Book: 'Ex Libris - Keith Wingrove,' by Robert Littlewood. Pub. Littlewood press, Melbourne, 1996. Edition 65 of 150. Many tipped in book plates. ***
*** Book: 'Hommage a George Braque Derriere Le Miroir' Essays and artwork by Giacometti, Picasso, Heidegger, man ray and many others. Published by Aime M'ght, 1964. ***
*** Early Australian Illuminated Certificate of Appreciation. To Robert. Width Hardie from members of Burwood (NSW) Congregational Church, with text and signatures, as well as illustrations of the church, Sydney landscapes (including harbour), inside floral… ***
*** Book: 'Mao and China's 10 Year Anniversary, 1959.' 545 pages, many tipped in plates on the Revolution and Cultural items. 39 x 32 cm ***
*** (Cecil Beaton) Sir Winston S. Churchill, matt finish black and white photograph of the great statesman looking bullishly direct at the camera from behind his desk crowded with papers, correspondence and telephones ***
*** Dorothea Mackellar. Australian Poet. Crystal inkwell from her estate together with the book a Peck O'Maut, by Patrick R. Chalmers, Methuen, London, 1925, from her library with her ink signature: 'Dorothea Mackellar' to front end paper. Purchased at Estat ***
*** Two NSW Colonial town Grants town lot on vellum, Wentworth, NSW, 1862: & town Grant on vellum, town of Richmond, 1838, Robert Martin ***
*** Maps (20), various Colonial County Maps. Octavo sized County/Parish maps as pub. 'A Geographical Dictionary or Gazetteer of the Australian Colonies,' W H Wells, published 1848. Boundaries are hand coloured. Majority are NSW, 23 x 15 (paper size) ***
*** Seven various early Sydney harbour views. As published In 'The Australasian Sketcher' between 1874 and 1881. Steel engraving, 7 16 x 24 cm, average ***
*** Map, Eastern Hemisphere of the earth on a Plane. By J.Hardy, pub. By Newbery, London 1776. Shows van Diemens Land attached to mainland Australia. Hand coloured copper engraving. 24 x 22 cm ***
*** Book, 'The Life and Work of Sydney Long.' by Joanna Mendelssohn. Ltd. Ed #50/275 published 1979, Copperfield Publishing. Signed by the author. In original carton ***
*** Circa 1598 Braun & Hogenberg map of Toledo. Hand coloured aerial perspective view of Toledo with vignettes of the Cathedral & Palace. Text verso. Fold line, tear & foxing. Coloured copper engraving. 40 x 52 cm ***
*** Cased 43 World War I magic lantern slides. Scenes of shelled churches, stations, tanks etc ***
*** Group 19th century photographs. 25 thin paper albumen photos of Middle Eastern & European scenes, including Studies of Arabic women & camps. Some titled in the negative. Albumen photographs 26 x 20 cm. (average) ***
*** Early Photographic View of Sydney. 'No.10 Harbour & Botanical Gardens,' by hall & Co, 20 hunter St, Sydney. 22 x 98 cm ***
*** 19th century photograph entitled 'Mimukulari.', albumen photo of posed Aboriginal woman mounted on book leaf with printed title. 'A woman of the Coorong Clan of the Narrinyeri.', photograph, 12 x 9.5 cm ***
*** 1936 ginger Meggs Sunbeams book. Series 13 full colour comic annual. Published by Sun Newspapers. 30 x 25 cm ***
*** Six Various Early Views Botanical Gardens Sydney. Incl entrance to Goverment House. C1880-1900. Mild to extensive foxing, 25 x 35 cm (average) ***
*** NSW Police News magazines. 3 Police Association Weekly magazines from the 1920s. Policing, police humour, Union news and advertising. 40+ pages each ***
*** Book, 'John Olsen', by Deborah Hart. First Ed. 1991 Craftsman house. Hand signed by artist, dated 1999 ***
*** Book, 'Australian jewellery 19th and early 20th century,' by Anne Schofield and Kevin Fahy. Pub. David Eall pair of ess 1990. Ltd edt. Of 2000 copies. ***
*** Book 'Wood Engravings.' by L. Roy Davies, pub. Odana Editions. No. 58/104. Signed by the author ***
*** Australian postcard album with 30 real photo and litho views of Bowral, Austinmer, Nowra and South Coast. ***
*** Book: 'Ovide illustrated by Picasso Les Metamorphoses' facsimile limited edition (no.1328a) on Bellerive paper by production Edito-Services S.A. Geneva N.D. ***
*** 1934 ginger Meggs Sunbeams book. Series 11 full colour comic annual. Published by Sun Newspapers., 30 x 25 cm ***