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Printed & Written Material — Leonard Joel Pty. Ltd.
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- Books (63)
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- Historical Documents (23)
- Magazines (4)
- Maps (37)
- Movie Posters & Daybills (237)
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- Photographs (83)
- Postcards (36)
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| Lot | Description | Price | Image |
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| *** | The Famous Ned Kelly Boxing match photo, taken after his 1874 match Against Isaiah 'Wild' Wright, albumen paper photograph dated August 8, 1874 bears stamp of Melbourne Portrait Rooms and photographer J. J. Chidley on verso | *** |  |
| *** | The Far East, Black, John Reddie, a monthly Journal, R. Black (editor), Shanghai, August 1876- July 1877 illustrated with 79 original silver albumen photographs mounted on card with printed borders and captions, half leather binding, faults to spine,… | *** |  |
| *** | Carta Particolare Della Costa Australe Scoperta Dall'Olandesi, Giuseppe Cocchini, Florence, 17th century; the uncoloured engraved map showing the northeast coast of Australia. 39 cm x 46 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Kaart Der Reyse van Abel Tasman; Francois Valentijn (1666-1727), Amsterdam, 1726; Uncoloured map from Vol III, 2 of Valentijn's 'Old and New East India' detailing the discoveries of Abel Tasman in Australasia during the course of his two voyages of 1642 &… | *** |  |
| *** | Nova Guinea Forma & Situs; Cornelis De Jode (1568-1600), Antwerp, 1593; the rare uncoloured map of New Guinea, is recognised as the first printed map of Australia. The whole of the lower half of the map depicts an entirely imaginary northern coast of… | *** |  |
| *** | 'Journal of a voyage to New South Wales 1787-8' by John White Esq, 'With sixty-five plates of non-descript animals, birds, lizards, serpents, curious cones of trees and other natural reproductions', with an engraved title page and 65 coloured-plates,… | *** |  |
| *** | A 19th century Italian book of Naples miniature, watercolours, the leather embossed book with twenty five finely painted plates depicting various scenes of the Province of Naples inscribed Susan Griffith Buckingham 1848 Elizabeth Griffith Naples 1826. | *** |  |
| *** | Twelve volumes of Oriental ceramics - the World's Greatest Collections, [Various authors], Oriental ceramics - the World's Greatest Collections, vols 1-12, Tokyo, Kodansha, 1976-1977, the set numbered 10, in original cloth and individual clam shell cases. | *** |  |
| *** | A large collection of 1930s-1950s lobby cards and Stills more than 350 lobby cards for various films, mostly single cards including all About eve, 20th century fox,1950, title card; Abbot & Costello Meet, the Killer Boris Karloff, Universal, 1949, title… | *** |  |
| *** | Tolkien (John Ronald Reuel), the Lord of the rings trilogy (1954-1955), a first edition set, two of the volumes in their first impressions, J.J.R. Tolkien, the Lord of the rings trilogy, comprising the Fellowship of the ring (first edition [1954], ninth… | *** |  |
| *** | Cook, James, a voyage to the Pacific Ocean ... (1784), ['Cook's third Voyage'], with an atlas of the plates, James cook and James King, a voyage to the Pacific Ocean, Undertaken by the Command of his Majesty, for Making Discoveries in the Northern… | *** |  |
| *** | An important photo of Dan Kelly, brother of Ned Kelly, Taken in Melbourne in the late 19th century albumen paper photograph bears inscription 'Burman, 209 Bourke Street East and St. George's Hall' on Front, and Burman's Photographic Rooms Stamp on Verso | *** |  |
| *** | Cased ambrotype of Chapman's Tasmanian Store housed in maroon embossed leather case, circa 1860s, depicting store owner posing outside their Tasmanian Store | *** |  |
| *** | A collection of five framed Australian documents, 19th century and later, comprising a Victorian gold license, 1853, Victorian miner's right, 1913, Victorian ticket of leave, 1844, a New South Wales certificate of service, 1870 and a New South Wales… | *** |  |
| *** | Admiral Horatio Nelson, an autographed letter, dated 1803, headed 'Merton March 7th 1803', the recipient Matthew Nelson Esq, bearing the Brittania watermark, signed 'Nelson & Bronte'. The letter continuing over to verso of the paper. Accompanied with… | *** |  |
| *** | A quantity of catalogues on the Baur collection of Chinese works of Art, including ceramics, jades, and snuff bottles | *** |  |
| *** | A general map of the world, or Terraqueous globe, by Samuel Dunn, Published by Laurie & Whittle, no. 63 Fleet St, London, 12th May 1799. Hand coloured and printed on four sheets, joined. Glazed and framed in cedar. 102 cm x 124 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A complete map of the Southern Continent; Emanuel Bowen (1693-1767), London, 1744; the uncoloured map, surveyed by Capt. Abel Tasman & depicted by order of the East India Company in Holland in the Stadt house at Amsterdam, being the first English map of… | *** |  |
| *** | Nicholas John Caire, (1837-1913) two albums of Gippsland scenery consisting of forty-eight albumen prints from the Gippsland Scenery series each mounted on card with an attached label verso identifying the image, albumen prints,15.7 x 20.1 cm (image size) | *** |  |
| *** | Hemingway, Ernest, a Farewell to arms (1929), first edition, first printing, Ernest Hemingway, a Farewell to arms (Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1929), first edition, first printing (without the disclaimer on p. X and with 'Catherine' spelled as… | *** |  |
| *** | A Breakfast At Tiffany's (Paramount, 1961) U.S. one sheet poster, folded, good to very good 104 x 68 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Invasion of the Saucer Men (American International, 1957) U.S one sheet poster, folded, good to very good 104 x 68 cm | *** |  |
| *** | An Australian leatherwork mirror, circa 1870 oval, within an ornate relief moulded leather floriate and foliate surround 160 cm high, 90 cm wide | *** |  |
| *** | A framed display of four 1851-52 gold mining licences; issued to John Hewlett for the District of Boningong and Loddon as licence to dig | *** |  |
| *** | Rare Sutton panoramic plate of Australian gold Mining Town Dunolly, circa early 1860s exposed curved-glass plate showing view from the outskirts of the town with various buildings visible including Colonial Bank, Caledonian Hotel, Simpsons Bendigo Hotel… | *** |  |
| *** | Steinbeck (John), to a God unknown, first edition, first issue, John Steinbeck, to a God unknown (Robert O. Ballou, New York, 1933), first edition, first issue, octavo, in the publisher's gilt lettered green cloth with dust-jacket, housed in a custom-made… | *** |  |
| *** | Hawkesworth, John, an Account of the voyages ... In the Southern Hemisphere ... (1773), ['Cook's first Voyage'], John Hawkesworth, an Account of the voyages undertaken by the order of his Present Majesty for making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere… | *** |  |
| *** | World map, Orbis Terrae Compendiosa Descriptio. Rumold Mercator (1545-1599), dated 1587 (circa 1619); engraved & coloured double-hemisphere world map,; 52 x 28 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A selection of bound maps; including a general chart: exhibiting the discoveries made by Captain. James Cook in this and his two preceding voyages; with the tracks of the ships under his command. | *** |  |
| *** | Batchelder and O'Neill Photographer a Carte-de-Visite | *** |  |
| *** | An album of postcards consisting of approximately nine hundred assorted post cards from late 19th and early 20th century Australia, bound in a folio sized album | *** |  |
| *** | Carte Des Indes Orientales; Pierre du Val (1618-1683), Paris, 1665; the uncoloured map of the Indian Ocean, featuring the explorations of Abel Tasman, derived from his voyages to Australia and New Zealand, from 1642 to 1644; 55 cm x 41 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A Journal of a voyage to the south Seas, Sydney Parkinson, 1773; a journal of a voyage to the south Seas in his Majesty's ship, the Endeavour. Faithfully transcribed from the papers of the late Sydney Parkinson, Draughtsman to Joseph Banks, Esq, on his… | *** |  |
| *** | Large Collection of approximately 500 lobby cards majority 1940s, including East of the River, Warner Bros., 1940 (6); Tugboat Annie Sails Again, Warner Bros., 1940 (6); Tangier, Universal, 1946 (8); I was a Male War Bride, 20th century Fox, 1949 (6);… | *** |  |
| *** | A collection of William Blake's watercolour designs for the Poems of Thomas Gray in three volumes, printed for J. Murray, Fleet Street, 1972. First edition. Quarter leather bound, marbled boards, limited to 518 copies, each volume housed in individual… | *** |  |
| *** | Large collection of carte de visite including Portraits by N.J. Caire | *** |  |
| *** | Captain blood Warner Bros., 1935, set of 8 lobby cards, condition C+ to B (8) all 27.9 cm x 35.6 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Le Morte D'Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory with illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley, Jm Dent & Co, 1893, volume I & II, 1st edition, limited edition of 1500 unnumbered copies (not including the 300 on Dutch handmade paper), bound in original cream cloth, spines… | *** |  |
| *** | A collection of 'Clara Gibbings' daybill posters, C 1934 | *** |  |
| *** | Large collection of carte de visite | *** |  |
| *** | Large collection of Australian daybill and one-sheet posters circa 1970s, including Australian daybills for 'Diamonds Are Forever', United artists, 1971 and 'The Spy Who Loved Me', United artists, 1977, 3 x 'Elvis That's, the Way Love Is', Mgm, 1971; 3 x… | *** |  |
| *** | The Adventures of Robin hood Warner Bros.,1938, re-issue (1942) set of 8 lobby cards, condition B- to B+ (8) all 27.9 cm x 35.6 cm | *** |  |
| *** | The sea hawk Warner Bros., 1940, 7 lobby cards including title card, condition B- to B+ (7) | *** |  |
| *** | 'Kathleen's Voyage' by Jack Earl, Sydney, Weldon Publishing, 1991, volume I, the log book of Kathleen Gillett, written and illustrated by Jack Earl during his 1947-48 voyage around the world, limited edition 51/200, half-calf, gilt title on front cover… | *** |  |
| *** | A Land Grant for 35 Acres in van Diemen's Land Grant to John Piersall for 35 acres in the district of 'Kingboro (Sic)' dated 20th September 1813 registered in the secretary's office 31 July 1816 manuscript printed and handwritten on paper signed by… | *** |  |
| *** | Angels with Dirty Faces Warner Bros., 1938, 3 U.S. lobby cards including title card; and Oklahoma Kid, Warner Bros., 1939, U.S. lobby card, all with censor stamp, yellowed with loss to borders, pinholes, some creasing, condition C to B (4) All 28 cm x 35… | *** |  |
| *** | John William Lindt, (1845-1926), a collection of eighteen photographs depicting rural scenes in Victoria, the photographs mounted on gilt edged black card and are printed with 'J.W. Lindt, Melbourne' below each image. Also printed verso 'J.W. Lindt,… | *** |  |
| *** | Steinbeck (John), the moon is down, first edition, first issue, inscribed by the author, John Steinbeck, the moon is down (the Viking press, New York, 1942), first edition, first issue (with the unintended period between 'Talk' and 'This' on p. 112),… | *** |  |
| *** | Carte Reduite De Terres Australes; Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772), Paris, circa 1753; the hand coloured early map of Australia with Dutch Discoveries. 30 x 22 cm | *** |  |
| *** | The Leonard Gow collection of Chinese porcelain, R.L. Hobson, catalogue of the Leonard Gow collection of Chinese porcelain, London, printed for the author, 1931, signed by Leonard Gow and numbered 154 of 300 copies, in original gilt-lettered full… | *** |  |
| *** | Vivienne Westwood, Opus, Published 2008, from an edition of 900 | *** |  |
| *** | A collectors issue of first edition of 'Kingfishers and Related Birds' & 'Australian Parrots' by Joseph M. Forshaw, William T. Cooper Melbourne Lansdowne, Vol. I: Ceryle to Cittura (includes the fish-Eating and Specialist Kingfishers), 1983 signed by… | *** |  |
| *** | Japanese Art, the great European Collections, twelve volumes, Published by Kodansha, Japan, 1993, of twelve editions, in original silk cases and outer cardboard cases | *** |  |
| *** | Gould, John. 'The Birds of Australia ' 1971-75 complete set of large leather bound 1970's edition | *** |  |
| *** | Mare Del Sud, Detto Altrimenti Mare Pacifico; Vincenzo Maria Coronelli (1650-1718), Venice, circa 1691; an engraved and uncoloured map of the Pacific Ocean. 62 x 47 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Extensive collection of 8 X 10 vintage film Stills majority 1940s, representing many classic movies from the era including 4 x 'Phantom of the Opera', Universal Pictures, 1943; 3 x 'House of Dracula', Universal, 1945; 4 x 'Mummy's Ghost', Universal, 1944;… | *** |  |
| *** | Five Australian daybill posters Produced by Richardson Studios all Paramount films including 'The Lonely Man'; 'Run For Cover'; 'Two Years Before the Mast'; 'Three Violent People', 'Lucy Gallant'; and a approximately 80 other Australian daybills and… | *** |  |
| *** | Two Australian one sheet film posters, including 'Jedda' (1955) fully folded; and 'Age of Consent' (1969) (2) | *** |  |
| *** | A map of Hobson's Bay Melbourne circa 1915, the Melbourne Harbor Trust Commissioners General plan, showing proposed harbour improvements, 94 x 100 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Collection of sixteen glass plate Negatives for 1922 and 1923 Don photo series football postcards black and white, teams include Essendon (5), Collingwood, South Melbourne, Carlton, Fitzroy, Melbourne, Brunswick (damaged), St Kilda, North Melbourne,… | *** |  |
| *** | Terres Australes; Pierre du Val (1619-1683), Paris, 1684; a hand coloured map of the Dutch Discoveries in the New Holland and the Indian Ocean. Third issue, the first being 1677. 59.5 x 42 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A near complete set of 1966 Scanlen AFL cards (70/72 cards Present) | *** |  |
| *** | A collection of Documents and photographs, all relating to William Andrews, an Australian milliner, aspiring to construct a millinery in Hong Kong in the 1920s, collection includes Mr Andrews visiting cards, a1923 Hong Kong directory, an album of amateur… | *** |  |
| *** | The birds of Australia in eight volumes, John Gould, Lansdowne press, Melbourne, 1972-5, elephant folio, bound in morocco style faux leather, gilt titling and borders, facsimile edition with 681 coloured plates | *** |  |
| *** | Tabula Selenographica, Johann Gabriel Doppelmair (1671-1750), Nuremberg, circa 1742, hand coloured engraved double-hemisphere of the lunar surface, vertical seam to centre, the map, 47.5 x 59 cm. Provenance: Purchased from Baynton- Williams, London in the… | *** |  |
| *** | Hemingway (Ernest), the Torrents of spring and to have and have not, both first edition, first printing, two works by Ernest Hemingway the Torrents of spring (Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1926), first edition, first printing (with the publisher's… | *** |  |
| *** | Les Satyres de Guillaume Hogarth Published by Robert Sayer, 1768, first edition featuring 81 engraved plates after Hogarth's famous series including the Rake's progress, the Times of the day and Marriage a-la-Mode, height 47 cm, width 30 cm. Other Notes:… | *** |  |
| *** | 1954 Fyna Foods 'Victorian Football Caricatures' (by Weg), almost complete set [20/24]. Fair/VG. | *** |  |
| *** | The war of the Worlds, Paramount, 1953 set of eight lobby cards, condition B+ to A- (8) 28 cm x 38.5 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Peter Pan Rko, 1953, Australian daybill poster, condition a 76 cm x 33.5 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Anthony van Diemens Land; Francois Valentijn, Amsterdam, circa 1726; an early map of Tasmania showing the track of Abel Tasman's epic first voyage of 1642-1643, which resulted in the discovery of Tasmania and New Zealand. 19 cm x 30 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Sketch of van Diemen land; Strahan & Cadell, London, 1777; Explored by Captain Furneaux in March 1773, hand coloured. Being the first British chart of Tasmania. 23 cm x 16 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Set of six 20th century maps of sheep stations | *** |  |
| *** | Two vellum covered Texts | *** |  |
| *** | 'Le Morte D'Arthur' by Sir Thomas Malory, illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley, J.M. Dent & Co, second edition 1909, bookplate of James Williams Macarthur Onslow. | *** |  |
| *** | Outhwaite, Ida Rentoul. 'Elves and Fairies' first edition | *** |  |
| *** | The Dictionary of English furniture, Ralph Edwards, Vols I-III complete, second edition, London, country life, 1954, in original cloth and dust-wrappers | *** |  |
| *** | Invaders from Mars (20th century fox 1953) U.S. one sheet poster, folded, Canadian censor stamp (Quebec) to lower right corner, good to very good 104 x 68.5 cm | *** |  |
| *** | The private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex Warner Bros., 1939, set of 8 lobby cards, condition C to B (8) all 27.9 cm x 35.6 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Jedda Columbia Pictures, 1955, Australian one-sheet poster, condition B+ 101 cm high, 68 cm wide other notes Jedda was the first Australian film shot in colour and also the first to feature two Aboriginal leading actors, Robert Tudawali and Ngarla Kunoth. | *** |  |
| *** | Forbidden Planet Mgm, 1956, Australian daybill poster, condition A- 75 cm x 33 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Two Uncut Sheets of Allen's seventy two Australian Footballers 1934, one sheet torn bottom right, player statistics and Allen's Irish moss gum Jubes/ Allen's Curse-'Em-Quick Advertisement on Reverse of Cards (2) | *** |  |
| *** | Complete collection of ceramic Art Unearthed in China, 16 volumes, complete sixteen volume set by Zhang Bai, Science press, Beijing, 2007 | *** |  |
| *** | An album of Australian postcards | *** |  |
| *** | A pair of Ola Cohn ceramic bookends, each modelled as an academically robed figure reading a book, green bronzed glaze, incised Ola Cohn. Height 27 cm | *** |  |
| *** | An Australian daybill poster for 'Casablanca' Warner Bros., 1942, circa 1940s re-issue poster, condition A- 76 x 33 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Them (Warner Bros.,1954) U.S. one sheet poster, folded, very good 104 x 68 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A Deed of Grant, signed by Gov. Lachlan Macquarie, framed | *** |  |
| *** | A near complete set of 1967 Scanlen AFL cards (6 cards missing from set, several Duplicates Present, 89 cards total) | *** |  |
| *** | Murray Rose's FINA world record certificate, Awarded to 'M.Rose, 1500 Mtrs. Freestyle, 17 Min. 59,5 Sec. Made on October 30. 1956 at Melbourne. | *** |  |
| *** | Murray Rose's FINA world record certificate, Awarded to 'M.Rose, Australia. 1500 M. Freestyle, 17 Min. 01.8 Sec. Made on August 2, 1964 at Los Altos. | *** |  |
| *** | Two Australian daybill posters, including 'A Town Like Alice' (1956) and 'Rats of Tobruk' (1944), both fully folded (2) | *** |  |
| *** | Fantasia RKO, 1940, Australian one-sheet poster, printed by F. Cunningham & Co. Ltd. Litho, Sydney, Condition C; a large Australian Herald reprinted from the Sydney Morning Herald for 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs', RKO, 1937, Condition B; and a Herald… | *** |  |
| *** | Dumbo RKO, 1941, Australian daybill poster, right edged trimmed, Condition B 76 cm x 34.5 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Thirty 1950s/1960s Australian daybill posters including, the Time machine, Mgm, 1960; Carry on Teacher (2), 1959; and Carry on Constable, 1960, condition B+ to a (30) all 76 cm x 34 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Small collection of cabinet cards views including residential scenes, shop fronts, portrait of Queen Victoria, Victorian Football Club etc. | *** |  |