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Estate & Collector — Davidson Auctions

Auction House:Davidson AuctionsNumber of lots recorded:670
Sale Title:Estate & CollectorLots with images:647
Auction Location:SydneyPrices available:484
Date:23-Oct-2016
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Aboriginal woman's boomerang. Airfoil form with hatch scratched underside. Provenance: Bungan Castle Museum collection.
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Early Aboriginal hunting boomerang. Long flattened crescent form. Lightly worked scored surface & remnants of handgrip transverse scoring. Provenance: Bungan Castle Museum collection.
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19th century Aboriginal Sydney sword. Tooth incised wave top decoration with transverse bands verso. Provenance: Bungan Castle Museum collection.
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19th century Aboriginal hunting boomerang. Sword form with broad, flat section end. Lightly scored surface. Provenance: Bungan Castle Museum collection.
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Aboriginal boomerang. Deep scored tranverse banding & handgrip to one side. Chopped point to tip. Provenance: Bungan Castle Museum collection.
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Aboriginal club. three cornered head with incised handle. Old splits to head, stable. Provenance: Bungan Castle Museum collection.
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Aboriginal hand Stencil. Negative hand print with sprayed white ochre on flat freestanding stone. Label verso, 'Presented to F young Esq. 1907. Warradgeri.' Collected Ulan/Mudgee, 1907. Provenance: Bungan Castle Museum collection.
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19th century Aboriginal club. Queensland style with pointed trapezoidal head & bulbous hand terminal. Very dense hardwood. Provenance: Bungan Castle Museum collection.
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Aboriginal Paroo sword club. Dense smooth hardwood with scratches. Small losses. Provenance: Bungan Castle Museum collection.
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Early Aboriginal Message stick. Tapered spindle form with resin fixed ochre decoration to both sides. Provenance: Bungan Castle Museum collection.
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19th century Aboriginal club. Of flattened form, sinuous shaft in dense hardwood. Scored full length, both sides. Provenance: Bungan Castle Museum collection.
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Early Aboriginal club. Fully grooved shaft. Dense hardwood with some older stable drying splits. Provenance: Bungan Castle Museum collection.
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Early Aboriginal club. Tapered & curved hardwood with fully scored shaft. Old split, stable. Provenance: Bungan Castle Museum collection.
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Aboriginal Digging stick or club. Older short club in dense hardwood, shaft fully scored. Old drying split, stable. Provenance: Bungan Castle Museum collection.
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Aboriginal stone Chopper. Long quartz stone with ochre coating. Provenance: Bungan Castle Museum collection.
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Early 20th century Aboriginal boomerang. Airfoil section, undecorated with use scratches & nicks. Provenance: Bungan Castle Museum collection.
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Early Aboriginal ceremonial club. Scored symbols to ducksbill tip. Use patina & scored shaft. Provenance: Bungan Castle Museum collection.
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19th century Aboriginal shield. Lightly curved with medial line to both sides. Highly scratch decorated surface. Use patina. Provenance: Bungan Castle Museum collection.
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19th century Aboriginal hunting boomerang. Mild hook form, broad flat end & bulbous terminal to hand grip. Lightly scored surface. Provenance: Bungan Castle Museum collection.
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19th century Aboriginal shield. Spindle form with holes for cane handle. Scored lines & dots all over decoration. North Coast NSW. Provenance: Bungan Castle Museum collection.
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Aboriginal Message stick. Flattened spindle form with ochre filled sinuous incissions to one side. Provenance: Bungan Castle Museum collection.
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Aboriginal King plate. Crescent form, brass block engraved 'William King of Wells Springs.' Provenance: Bungan Castle Museum collection.
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Aboriginal King plate. Crescent form, brass with rustic engraving 'King Jack Dales Creek.' Thought to be hunter Valley. Scratch engraved verso 'S (?) Lawler.' Provenance: Bungan Castle Museum collection.
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Early Aboriginal hair ornament. Crescent form, decorated with the five Sisters. Provenance: Bungan Castle Museum collection.
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Aboriginal spear. Old iron tip bound with cane & resin to wood shaft. Provenance: Bungan Castle Museum collection.
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Early Himalayan Vajra. Carved wood with metal sheathed tip. Lengthy use patination.
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Early New Guinea Massim horn mortar & pestle. Intricately carved head & torso form mortar, & carved pestle. Provenance: Private Collection.
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Four Balinese food Utensils, including three decoratively carved food paddles; & sheathed iron betel chisel.
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Indonesian carved Kris etc. Carved deer antler handle in Hanuman form, decorated with inlaid glass pieces; & two various forged spear tips.
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Two various ancient Aboriginal cylcons. Two ritual pieces fashioned from fine sedimentary stone. Collected over three generations of a farming family on a Walgett property.
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Three various Timorese powder horns. Formed from buffalo horn, two deeply carved & decorated.
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Pair of mid 20th century Groote Eyland Clapsticks. Ochre decorations of marine & land animals, including dugong, octopus, ray, & emu chicks. Two mounting holes to each stick.
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Two various African Thumb Harps. Wide range harp with neck rope & bottle cap rattle; & hollow bodied harp.
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Four various Indonesian food Utensils, including two Lombok food scoops; & Sulawesi knife & scoop. All older pieces with use patination.
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Two Older Dyak Magic figures. Carved wood seated figures, 1 with losses.
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Four various African artefacts, including two carved decorated loom pulleys; & two thumb harps.
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Two various Dyak carved pieces, including squatting ancestor figure; & double headed blowpipe poison preparation board.
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Five various Aboriginal stone tools, including small blade & granite cutter/scraper, & pounder etc. Collected Walgett c.1960.
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Papua New Guinea early Sepik Nogwi figure. Carved standing female figure. Natural pigment decoration. On metal stand. Provenance: Private Collection.
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Timor carved Scraper stand. Animal form with lizard decorated head, used as stand for coconut scraping.
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Papua New Guinea Sepik gable mask. Carved face. Ochre decoration. C1900. Provenance: ex Kellner gallery, Sydney, thence held in a private collection.
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Two Trobriand Island wave Splitters. Carved & pierced wood; 1 painted; the other display mounted.
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Papua New Guinea Highlands shield. Red, black & white natural pigments. Provenance: collected c1960 by Australian Patrol Officer, Ian Leslie Kelly, thence held in a private collection.
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Pair of early Colonial New Zealand Maori figures. Intricately carved man & woman standing figures. Paua shell inset eyes. Provenance: Private Collection.
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Early Aboriginal Grinding stone (2). Rectangular limestone tablet & grinding stone. Collected Watgett c1960.
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Aboriginal large Grinding stone (2). Part double-sided limestone tablet & larger flat tablet. Collected Walgett c1960.
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Four various West African Heddle Pulleys. three with carved face decoration; 1 with carved lizard decoration (restored).
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African Cameroon leather covered Quiver & Arrows, including 7 metal tipped cane arrows. Marked 'Kapsiki Cameroun.'
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Aboriginal Grinding stones (2). Round river stone with hollow & grinder; double sided tablet, one side with groove & small grinder. Collected Walgett c1960.
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Aboriginal hardwood Coolamon.
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Quantity of Papua New Guinea Milne Bay shell artefacts
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Three various Humboldt Bay canoe Decorations. Carved & pierced scrolling decoration with face forms on both.
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Two various carved wood Loom posts, including old Sumba articulated human form; & Timor figural with top knot.
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Two various Lombok rice Sheaf Tying implements. Carved dense wood curved form. Use patina.
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Aboriginal Grinding stone (2). Red sedimentary tablet with hollow & pointed grinder; pair small flat stones. Collected Walgett c1960.
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Six Aboriginal stone tools, including two bladesterling silvercrapers; & quartz pounder etc. Collected Walgett c1960.
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Papua New Guinea Sepik river carved stone head
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Three various Dyak figures. Carved wood. 1 hatted colonial figure. Two of some age & good patina.
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Two various Naga carved wood spoons. Long handled cooking stirrers with scallop form bowls.
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Various Indian & Thai carved figures, including three Indian deities; Indian swing lid swan form box; & Thai mythical duck lidded box.
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Three various Papunya items, including message board; & pair clapping sticks. All traditionally decorated. C1970s
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Two various Massim wave Splitters. Both stylised animal form carved wood. Aged patina.
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Two East African carved hardwood figures. 1 figure as inspected.
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Two various African Thumb Harps. 1 utilizing a gourd body. The other incorporates a rattle.
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Four various Tahitian shell necklaces.
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Two various Pacific Island carved walking canes. Shell inlay eyes to 1. Both with carved head decoration.
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Three various Pacific Island necklaces, including 1 with green beetle shell decoration; seed & shell decorated; & shell decorated on woven flax band.
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Three various Fijian pottery items, including gourd shaped vase, embossed decoration; bowl; & necklace, shell decorated.
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Three various Naga Stirring spoons. Triangular form scoops on long decorated handles. Two have much use patination.
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Two Lombok wood Planes & spoons, including traditional hardwood plane bodies, no blades; & three carved wood cooking spoons.
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Prenzel, Robert (1866-1941) Aboriginal woman in Headscarf Smoking a pipe, 1920. Signed 'R Prenzel, 1920.' wood carving 67 x 57 cm
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Mapmaker, William Bligh, Tasmania. Showing from Maria Island to Sw cape with elevations. Pub. C1785 from a Dutch issue of 'A new Authentic and complete account of Voyages Around the world.' copper engraving 23 x 36 cm
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1930s Sydney Harbour Bridge construction Photos. As published for sale by various Sydney studios. Some stamped verso 'Haringtons' (Henri Mallard) & 'Renella Studio.' most appear to be printed from the original negative. There are 41 photos, 25 of which are postcard size, the remainder slightly smaller. Also a small qty of family photos. Silver Gelatin photograph 8 x 13 cm (average)
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Two early Maps, Pacific & Australian Exploration. 'Carte de la Route des Corvettes L'Astrolabe, et la Zelee a travers le Detroit de Torres,' by Vincendon-Dumoulin, c1842; 'Carte de la Partie Septentrionale de la Nouvelle Bretagno, decouverte par Dampier, en 1,700, reconnue par le contre-amiral Bruny d'Entrecasteaux, en Juillet 1793,' by Beautemps-Beaupre & Francois, 1807. Tear & staining. Copper engraving 47 x 63 cm & 51 x 76 cm
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8 Maps from Cooks 3rd voyage. Various Pacific maps as pub. In a Dutch issue of 'A new Authentic and complete account of Voyages Around the world.' Also Batavia, Strafs Sunda by Heydt. Engraving (9) 17 x 23 cm (average)
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Colonial Tasmania, after Le Breton, Louis (French 1818-1866) 'New Town - Ile van Diemen,' 1841. From voyage au pole Sud et dans I'Oceanie, Atlas Pittoresque, pub. Gide, Paris, 1841-55. Coloured litho 22 x 29 cm
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Various early New Guinea & Indonesian Exploration prints, including de Sainson & New Guinea costumes; Jacques Arago, four x Indonesian types of indiginous, c1822. Stipple engraving (4) & litho (1)
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Quantity of early Australian engravings, after Lesener (4). Cabanes des Naturels de la Presqu Ile Peron (2), Navigation, Tombeau des Naturels, Habitations; after N. Petit, Norou-gal-derri; after F. C. Terry, bridge St, Sydney, Looking East, Street Views of Sydney (2) from Percy doves Plans of Sydney. Engravings (7) & litho (1) 20 x 27 cm (average)
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Collection Australian school works Les Graham, 'Critics of the arts,' pen & ink (28 x 24 cm); W J Wadham, Hillside, w/clr (25 x 19 cm); H Carter, landscape, pen & ink (40 x 18 cm); Walter Dallimore, 'Cooktown harbour,' w/clr (22 x 27 cm); Frank Mahony, standing horse, charcoal (38 x 54 cm); F Sidney Walker, 'Fort Denison, Sydney Harbour, 1926,' etching (15 x 20 cm); unsigned, Sydney Harbour Bridge, etching (11 x 23 cm); Molly Johnson (5), named portrait studies, charcoal (37 x 26 cm each)
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Various early Sporting prints, including swordplay & staff fighting prints by Scolin, c1745; Boxing, Richard Curtis, pub. Fores, c1820; hunting, At Fault, 1790; Doncaster Winner Rockingham, 1833; Hambletonian, 1799; Hambletonian, pub. Harris, 1,800; Amato & Coronation (2), pub, S & J Fuller c1845; Gladiateur, litho by Gengembre c1865; John Booth, pub. John Sunter, 1842; St Albans steeple Chase; hunting, the Chase 1790; Thoroughbreds, pub. Fores, 1846; hunting, Branching into cover, 1790; & Haphazard, pub.…
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Cruikshank, George (British 1792-1878) 'A party of Pleasure' 'Dedicated to the Funny club.' pub. June 25th, 1822 by G. Humphrey, 27 St James Street, London. Coloured engraving 22 x 35 cm
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Four New Guinea antique prints, including de Sainson Vue du Villiage de Dorey; & page of artefacts; E. Paris, plans & elevations of canoes; A. Pellion, Divers portraits de Naturals vus sur L'isle Rawak.29 x 40 cm (largest)
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Quantity of early French Oceania prints, including 8 Louis Duperrey from voyage Antour du Monde. Paris 1826, the Caroline Isles etc; de Saison, the Astrolabe at New Ireland; Bevalet, artefacts of the Carolines; also 5 small Dutch engravings, Marquesas, St. Christina, etc; Le Breton, Philipines View; Lejeune & Chasal, Bora Bora. Coloured engraving (11) & litho (5)26 x 34 cm (average)
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Iribe, Paul (1883-1935) three Images from 'Bleu, Blanc, rouge,' Draeger, Paris, 1932. Machinisme - L'or du Rhin; La Liberte des Mers; Utopie - Dumping. Print 31 x 50 cm
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Benedictus, Edouard (French 1878-1930) 13 various Art Deco designs from the 'Relais' folio. Pochoir print 36 x 28 cm (printed area)
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Kolb, Alois (German 1875-1942) female nude etching 5/10 25 x 20 cm
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Quantity of 17th century botanical prints, including 8 by H. A. Van Rheede tot Draakestein from Hortus Indicus Malbaricus c1678; & also 8 other similar. Hand coloured copper engraving (16)36 x 43 cm (average)
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Eight various 18th & 19th century political Caricatures & Cartoons, including three by Cruikshank. Coloured copper engraving (8)22 x 27 cm (average)
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Nine various military prints. Various conflicts including Spanish-American war & Prussian, pub by the Werner Company (USA) Chromolitho (9)24 x 34 cm (each)
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1920s Fashion plates. Two large original studies of feminine attire, signed John. Conte & Watercolour (2)70 x 30 cm (sheet size) (each)
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Quantity of 1920s French costume designs. 21 original showgirl & stage costumes designs by Charles Gesmar. W/Clr, 48 x 32 cm (average page)
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Quantity of 1920s French costume designs. 13 original Paris cabaret costume designs from Jose de Zamora. Watercolour (13)32 x 26 cm (each)
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Circa 1909 original Jugendstil designs by Erwin Gadomski. Various painted designs for lighting & furniture, plus illustrations of a dragon, mythical figure, & a Mallard accompanied by photos of church chandeliers, metal work, & sculpture. Also printed examples of work all by Erwin Gadomski, most dated between 1905-09. Silver Gelatin photograph & prints (12)30 x 40 cm (average) (each)
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Quantity of French school Art Deco designs. Edouard Benedictus x 3; Augustus Thomas x 6. Pochoir print, 37 x 26 cm (average)
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18 German Secessionist interior Decorations. Original handpainted wall paper & gouache decorative secessionist & jungendstil designs by Max Starcke, Dresden. Prepared for publication by Holze & Pahl, Dresden. Various, 49 x 31 cm
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Jan Wandelaar, (Dutch 1690-1759) four Skeletal studies. From the Anatomical Atlas Tabular V, pub by Joannem & Verbeek, 1740. Two have major losses to bottom 12 cm. Also French anatomical charts, 1 with index. Hand coloured copper etching (8) 54 x 39 cm (each)
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9 various Sporting & Pastimes prints, including two pages from Blome's 'The gentleman's Recreation,' (London 1686). Also sundry hunting prints & cockfighting, Russian fishing, coursing etc. Coloured stipple engravings & copper engravings.28 x 24 cm (average)
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William Hayes bird plates. 6 various plates hand coloured by the Hayes family. four signed. Also three plates by Peter brown from 'New Illustrations of Zoology,' pub. 1776. Plus two bird chromolithographs from U. S. P. R. R. Expedition. Hand coloured engraving (7)27 x 21 cm (sheet)
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Quantity of early Oceania & naval prints. Capture of La Chiffonne; Capture of the Island of Banda; Capture & destruction of four Spanish frigates, pub 1817; Establissement des Missionnaires Anglais a Kidrkidi (Nouvelle-Zelands); Gezigt van het Eiland Otahiti en enige...., 1793; Ile Rawak: Tombeaux des Papous; new Caladonian implements; Vue prise a Ombay; & Het Huis in de Morai... Steel engraving (10)size various
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Five early Horseracing prints. Epsom Panorama - 'Industry,' Epsom 1838; 'Satirist,' Doncaster 1841; 'Phenomena,' c1813; 'Robert the Devil prize of Paris,' 1880; 'The Struggle for Victory,' 1873; a watercolour 'Grand National Steeplechase,' 1921, by Shaun Spadah; & 'Panorama of Epsom' pub. By Ackermann & Co, 1884;coloured engraving.20 x 217 cm (panorama) 58 x 76 cm (rest, average)
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