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Number of lots recorded:96
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*** 16 various Colonial documents. Renewal receipt, 1897 the Australian Mutual fire Insurance; private letter, sealed and stamped Sep 5 1851 New South Wales.; Pro forma for donation to the Minister's stipend 1863 Newtown Congregational church; pro forma for… ***
*** Four Colonial Charles Bayliss Photographs of Sydney. Each with impressed studio stamp, & circa 1880. 'Botany Bay & Bear Island;' 'Govt House from the Domain;' 'Lavender Bay;' & 'Watsons Bay.', 15 x 19 cm (each) ***
*** Australian Cinema Bills & Promotional Material. Incl. Strictly Ballroom premier booklets & die cut invitation, The Big Hurt folder & six photo stills; six daybills including Winter of Never, The Year of Living Dangerously; two full sheet bills, Hillary &… ***
*** Map, 'New South Wales,' 1833. Diffusion of Useful Knowledge from the M S maps in the Colonial office?' pub Sept 1st 1833 by Baldwin and Cradock, London. Engraved by J and C Walker, engraving, 40 x 34 cm ***
*** 1896 YMCA Sydney Illuminated certificate of Appreciation. Issued to Mr and Mrs H S Thompson upon their retirement to Newcastle. Lithography by John Sands, Sydney, including original photograph, presumably of the YMCA building, 43 x 33 cm ***
*** Two c1888 Sydney Views. Including south head Road (Fernleigh at rose Bay); and Lane Cove river. Soiled outer margins. Produced by Phillip - Stephan photo litho and Typographic process Co Ltd. Sydney, NSW. Photolithograph (2). 28 x 35 cm, and 29 x 36 cm,… ***
*** Books (3), history of Australian Army uniforms. 'Australian Military Uniforms (1800-1982),' Monty Wedd (1982), kangaroo press; 'The Australian Army Slouch Hat and Rising Sun Badge,' Rick Grebert (2002), NSW military historical Society Inc; & 'Military… ***
*** Maps (2), Australia and NSW. Australien by Petermann, pub. By Justus Perthes, Germany 1871. Has inset Map of port Jackson; and NSW pub. By Tallis & Co. London c.1853. Hand coloured with Three pictorial vignettes. Hand coloured steel engraving (2). 36 x 43… ***
*** Books, (5) 'Phil May's Sketch-Book,' published Chatto and Windus, 1897 and 1903, 2 volumes, both with loose boards; and 'Phil May in Australia,' published Bulletin Newspaper,1904 (3), all three with loose boards ***
*** Maps, two of polar Region. Southern Hemisphere by William Foden, pub. London 1802; & Sud polar Karte by Petermann, pub. Stieler, Germany, 1863. Hand coloured copper engraving & coloured steel engraving.60 x 60 cm & 34 x 41 cm ***
*** Maps, Tallis, Panama & British Guayana. Isthmus of Panama with hand coloured delineation including Proposed canal; & British Guayana; both with coloured vignettes by John Rapkin, pub. By Tallis & Co. London, 1851. Hand coloured steel engraving, 37 x 27 cm… ***
*** Book, 'John Coburn, the spirit of colour,' Lou Klepac. Sydney: the Beagle pair of ess, 2003. Quarto, yellow boards in illustrated dustjacket, 216pp. Illustrated. A fine copy. ***
*** Book, 'The New Guide to Masonry and Plastering.' Ed. H.R. Scott Burn; 160 plates etc; pub John G Murdoch, circa 1900. Binding worn. ***
*** Book, 'Worcester porcelain,' by R L Hobson. Pub. Bernard Quaritch, 1910. Some wear to lower right of handcut paper. ***
*** C. 1890 photograph Sydney Harbour. View East over Botanic Gardens. Blind stamp for Henry King. Albumin photograph 15 x 20 cm ***
*** 'Wembley Ware, a Collectors Price Guide,' by Paul Bisby, 2nd edition, 2007, signed and numbered '475/500' ***
*** Book: 'The Tokaido Fifty Three Stations by Hiroshige,' containing woodblock images. Label to cover: 'Uchida Art Co. Ltd, Kyoto Handicraft Centre.' Woodblocks ***
*** Book: 'Robert Dickerson Against the Tide' by Jennifer Dickerson. Published by Queen St fine Art, 1994. Signed by Robert Dickerson. ***
*** Early New South Wales Hunter Region Land Grant Site Document, signed by Governor Gipps dated 30th June 1845 relating to land 'At the Confluence of the Goulburn & Hunter Rivers.' ***
*** Colonial Proclamation from James Farnell, NSW Minister for Lands Appointing Charles Oliver Esq as Inspector of Crown Lands, date indecipherable, signature faint, ink on vellum 36 x 30 cm ***
*** Early Sydney Land Grant Site Documents, signed by Governer Denison date 11th March 1858 relating to land at 'Manly Cove - Near the Village of Balgowlah.' ***
*** Book: 'Eugene Von Guerard's Australian Landscapes.' limited to 1000 copies, signed by the author Marjorie Tipping ***
*** Postcard album and loose postcards. Mostly European and English views c.1910. Approx 100 ***
*** Early Photograph of the aircraft 'The Southern Cross' with printed facsimile signatures of Charles Kingsford Smith & 3 crew mates. 29.5 x 38 cm ***
*** Two books: N width Cayley 'What bird is that?' (complete works edition); and 'What Mammal is that?' ***
*** Two various sheet music. Irish Rebel song. The Jackets green. Cover illustration of a kneeling rifleman. Dublin. The Gaelic press, 1917; & Irish Rebel song. Wrap the green flag round Me Boys. Cover illustration of crossed Ira flags & a portrait of Major… ***
*** Seven North Shore & City Scenes. Incl. Kirribilli; Harbour View from Milson's Point; & Sydney from Lavender Bay. Produced by Phillip - Stephan Photo Litho & Typographic Process Co Ltd. Sydney, NSW, 28 x 37 cm (average) ***
*** Five Various 1888 Adelaide & Mt Macedon Views, including Mt Lofty; Prince Alfred College; & Lands Office. Soiling & short tears to outer margins. Produced by Phillip - Stephan Photo Litho & Typographic Process Co Ltd. Sydney, NSW, 29 x 35 cm (aveage image) ***
*** 1879 Birds-Eye View of Sydney. Full sized facsimile of original as issued in the Illustrated Sydney News, October, 1879. Lot also includes Margaret Preston facsimile woodblock, 'Wheelflower' as published in Art in Australia, Sept, 1929, 99 x 67 cm and 16… ***
*** Magazine (3) Captain Goodvibes. Incl 'Strange Tales,' pp 24,1975; 'Porkarama,' pp 66,1980, (poor condition); & 'My life as a Pork Chop,' 1973-1981. Tony Edwards, published by Flying Pineapple Media, Victoria, 2011 ***
*** Four various Sydney views. Including. Fort Macquarie sur La point & Jardins du Gouvernement a Sidney, after Touanne as published in de Bougainvilliers navigation Autour du globe, 1837. Also farm cove & circular Quay from Wills', Geographical dictionary or… ***
*** Maps (2), world and Hemispheres. Map of the world Mercators projection by Johnson, pub. By Johnson and Ward, NY 1863; and the century Atlas Hemispheres, pub. By century Co. NY 1897. Steel engraving (2). 42 x 64 cm and 28 x 39 cm ***
*** Books, (14) Zane Grey, Hodder and Stoughton Editions, including 'The Roaring U.P.Trail,' 'The Last of the great Scouts,' and 'The Man of the Forest,' etc. 10 with dust jackets. Some toning to paper and some covers loose, c.1930s ***
*** Book, 'The Art of the Tin Toy,' by David Pressland. Pub.1976 by new Cavendish books. Dust jacket and sleeve included ***
*** 19th century European tourist photo album. 34 leaves pasted both sides with published albumen photo prints. Mostly Florence with architectural views & Art works. All photos are titled. Albumen photographs. 19 x 25 cm (each) ***
*** Buck Jones white eagle movie poster. Australian release long daybill from 1941. Two folds (as issued), with puncture tear to bottom fold. 38 x 102 cm ***
*** Map, 'New South Wales.' J Rapkin / John Tallis. Coloured engraving. 35 x 25 cm ***
*** Three early New Zealand photographs. Burton Bros 'The Arthur river,' & 'Hall's arm - Looking?;' & one other untitled/unattributed. ***
*** Books (3): 'The Art of Arthur Streeton,' Limited edition1919, ed. S Ure Smith; 'Conrad Martens, the man and His Art,' by Lionel Lindsay, pub. Angus & Robertson,1920; & 'Conrad Martens, the man and His Art,' by Lionel Lindsay, revised ed. 1968. ***
*** Book, 'Robert Dickerson, Against the Tide' Jennifer Dickerson. First edition 1994, Published Queen Street fine Art. Hand signed by artist and author ***
*** Tooheys 1894 Christmas presentation photograph. Elizabeth St. Brewery Site in 1870. Impressed Pickering photo. Albumen photo. 24 x 30 cm ***
*** Group of Australian Ephemera, including World War II cartoon book by Armstrong; postcards of Australian actresses and travelling acts; and 'No no Nanette' theatre program. ***
*** 1911 real photo postcards Airship. Group of 7 postcards photos (some by Sankey) of the Vickers Air Ship at Barrow-in-Furness. Inc crashed 'Mayfly'. Two postally used, others have notes verso ***
*** Book. 'The Pottery & Ceramics of David & Hermia Boyd.' by John Vader. Published 1977. ***
*** Book: 'Pro Hart's Breaker Morant' inscribed and signed in biro by the artist with a sketch of two bullants. ***
*** Three various early photograph frames, including oval silver, gilded ornate oblong shape, and pewter decorated. Various ***
*** Book: 'A Midsummer-Night's Dream' Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Published London Width M Heinemann, Ny Doubleday, Page & Co., 1908. With colour plates. Foxing and wear, cover tatty. ***
*** Australian daybill 'White Cargo.' Hedy Lamar, 1942 Offset print 76 x 34 cm ***
*** Land Grant, Surveyor's hand drawn plan of F J Knight's 50 acres grant near Bondi. Parish of Alexandria County of Cumberland. Francis John knight 50 acres grant & neighbours J Regan, J W Cuming, rose bay view cottage, Baronsleigh Dairies with cow Sheds,… ***
*** Felix the cat Comics. Two, comprising 'Felix Ski Raiders' and 'Felix castle in Spain'. Licenced Australian issues c.1940s. 27 x 21 cm (largest) ***
*** C1888 Government house Sydney scene. Coach and attendants in foreground. Produced by Phillip - Stephan photo litho and Typographic process Co Ltd. Sydney, NSW. Photolithograph. 27 x 34 cm, (image) ***
*** Map, Afrique. By Levasseur, pub. In Atlas Universel Illustre, Paris c.1870. Hand coloured steel engraving. 33 x 45 cm ***
*** Books, (4) 'Fifty Enthralling Stories of the Mysterious East,' ed. The Sheik A. Abdulla, published Odhams; 'Myths of China and Japan,' by Donald A. Mackenzie; 'Island of Bali,' by Miguel Cobarrubias, published New York, 1937; 'Recherches Sur Les Monnaies… ***
*** Book, 'The Tichborne Trial: The Summing Up,' by the Lord Chief Justice of England, published Ward, Lock and Tyler, 1874 ***
*** Book, 'Donald Friend, the Cosmic Turtle' Carroll's Pty. Ltd. First edition 1976. Hand signed by artist, dated Nov. 1976 ***
*** Circa 1936 test Cricketer postcards. 21 cards of Australian & English test cricketers. Short biography verso to each. ***
*** Book: 'Norman Lindsay Pen Drawings.'. By Art in Australia, 1931.64 plates and text. Cover shabby. Interior shows handling but generally clean. ***
*** Book, 'Pen Drawings of Norman Lindsay.' Special number of Art in Australia, 1918. Covers shabby and detached. Interior straight and clean. ***
*** Two BOOKS, 'Chinese Celadons' & 'South-East Asian & Chinese Trade pottery.' both pub. Southeast Asian Ceramics Society, Hong Kong, 1979. ***
*** Two Australian Cartes de Visite. W.Keene, taken June 2, 1868 in the Studio of T. D. Webb, Launceston; railway worker, taken in the Studio of David Scott, Sydney. Albumin photograph 10 x 6 cm (each ) ***
*** Book: 'Noel Counihan', by Max Dimmack. Signed by Noel Counihan. ***
*** Book: 'The Art of John S Loxton,' Melbourne 1956. Limited to 1250 signed copies, with ephemera. ***
*** Book: 'Australian Pottery of the 19th & Early 20th century,' by Marjorie Graham. Pub. David Ell Press & National Trust, 1979.175p. ***
*** Book; 'Arts of the south Pacific,' author Jean Guiart. Published by Thames and Hudson, 1963, 460 p.p.28 x 22 cm ***
*** Twelve cigarette cards. V.C. Winners, 'Sniders and Abrahams Pty Ltd.' ***
*** 1866, the Australian News for home Readers. Two issues, June and September. Published by 'The Age.' Many engravings including full page of Yarra flats and Ballaarat industrial exhibition. 16 pages each. 44.5 x 29 cm ***
*** 26 Barrow Ship Yard postcards c.1910. 26 RAN and merchant (most real photo) postcards. Many relating to Barrow-in-Furness shipyards. Most postally used ***
*** 'Roy de Maistre, the Australian Years 1894-1930', by Heather Johnson, published by Craftsman house in 1988 ***
*** Two Early 18th century Maps Guillelmo De l'isle, 'Theatrum Historicum' (Roman Empire)1705. Map hgas accompanying sidebars of text and shows the Imperial Roman Empire from Eastern Europe to India; Sanson,' Hispaniae Antique tabula' (Ancient Spain) 1704. ***
*** Book: 'Master Humphrey's Clock,' by Charles Dickens. ***
*** Book: 'Norman Lindsay Selected Pen Drawings,' pub. By Angus and Robertson, 1968. ***
*** Photograph, Milton Kent. Lettering on mount: Australian Transport & Shipping Agency Co. Ltd. 243 Sussex Street, Sydney, NSW. Their fleet of 40 lorries and garage remises December 1935. Blind stamp lower right. Photo by Milton Kent Sydney. Unframed, image… ***
*** Collision on Sydney harbour, S.S. Tahiti collided with the Ferry Greycliffe 40 dead 1928. Press photo of S.S. Tahiti & eleven pages of typed letters from W. M. Ford Jnr, ship Yard Berry's bay & Morrison & Sinclair Ltd ship repairers regarding damage &… ***
*** Three boxes 'Walkabout' magazines, 1930s-1970s. ***
*** Maps (3), NSW County, Northumberland, Durham & Phillip, including. Towns, Newcastle, Singleton, Muscelbrook, Gressford & Mudgee, hand coloured lithograph (3), 38 x 53 cm (each) ***
*** Maps (2), including Colton's Australia, Published US c1865 & sketch map of New South Wales, showing pastoral districts, pub. Government Pairinter, 1876, lithograph (2), 34 x 40 cm & 37 x 44 cm ***
*** Two cigarette card albums. One late 19th/early 20th century from NSW & one dated 21/12/1900 from Britain, the British album including. Many Boer war & some Chinese cards. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth. ***
*** Maps (2), Brasil and Guayana; and Cuba, Jamaica and Porto Rico. Pub. NY c.1856 J.H.Colton & Co. Hand coloured steel engraving (2). 42 x 34 cm and 32 x 40 cm ***
*** Native odalisque. An original albumen photograph showing a Western pose, 1890s. Albumen photograph. 15 x 25 cm ***
*** Map, 'General Chart of Terra Australis.' official reprint of 1814 map charted by Matthew Flinders of the Investigator. Pair of int. 60 x 87 cm ***
*** Collection 12 Australian Fairyland books. Ida Outhwaite, Pixie O'Harris, two Vol. 'A golden Age,' Robert Holden ***
*** Framed certificate Order of the Bath. Conferring Grant of the Dignity of a Companion (military division) of the Order of the bathto Major-General Geoffrey Chicheley Kemp. M C, 11th June 1942. Facsimile signature George VI; hand signed by Prince Henry,… ***
*** 1916 World War I German Zeppelin commemorative book. 'Zeppeline Uber England.' Including postcard of pilot who shot down. Length 21 zeppelin. ***
*** CATO, Jack (b.1926), Flinders Street Railway station, Princes bridge & the Yarra river, Melbourne, silver Gelatin photograph, 25 x 30 cm ***
*** Two Displays early cigarette cards china. 40 in total. Ogden's cigarettes. Matching wood frames. Various ***
*** Victorian Ambrotype image. Young lady, in original leather velvet lined case ***
*** Book: 'Norman Lindsay, 80 Years of pencil drawing,' by Lin Bloomfield, Odana Editions, 2008. ***
*** Book: 'The Art and life of Weaver Hawkins,' by Eileen Chanin and Steven Miller. Published by Craftsmans Houses Sydney, 1995. Provenance: Hawkins family ***
*** Four Books: 'The Art of William Dobell,' author Brian Penton ***
*** Book: 'Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam' Illustrated by Edmund Dulac. Hodder & Stoughton, London. Tipped in colour plates. Discolouration, foxing, & wear to cover. ***
*** Australian daybill 'Jungle moon Men.' Johnny Weissmuller, 1954 lithograph 75.5 x 33 cm ***
*** Book; 'An Artist in Egypt,' by Walter Tyndale R.I. ***
*** Early 20th C postcards ***
*** Book: 'Robert Prenzel 1886-1941, His Life and Work,' by Terence Lane, Published by National of Victoria, 1994. ***
*** Two Max Dupain studio photographs. Radiogram probably an AWA Radiola. Ink stamped on back, Max Dupain 24 Bond St Sydney; & Radiola deep image TV set. Ink stamped on back Max Dupain studio 49 Clarence St Sydney. 25 x 20 cm (each) ***
*** Original Movie Poster, 'Bikini Beach,' 1964. Paramount. Pub. W Schey Poster Co, 102 x 68 cm ***