| *** | Tolkien, J.R.R. 1892-1973, Two pieces of correspondence Concerning the dating of the 14th century poem, 'Sir Gawain and the green Knight', a scholarly edition of this work was published by Tolkien and his colleague E.V. Gordon in 1925. The lot consists of… | *** |  |
| *** | Book, 'South Australia Illustrated.' by George French Angas 1822-1886 first edition, pub. 1846 1847, London. Containing 60 coloured plates. | *** |  |
| *** | Hand writen land grant from Governor MacQuarie, detailing the grant of 500 acres to pastoralist and explorer Gregory Blaxland on the Nepean at Cubbady River (now Cobbity, NSW), signed and sealed 'L. Macqurie' on 25 August 1812 | *** |  |
| *** | Book, 'Peking the Beautiful.' Herbert C White, pub. Shanghai 1927. In original cardboard box, embroidered blue silk cover. Provenance: George Halla, Czech Republic Consul to New South Wales, 1948; thence by descent. Private Collection, Sydney. | *** |  |
| *** | Map, New & Correct Map of the Whole World. Made or published by Herman Moll, London, 1719. Four joined sheets, hand coloured. Various repaired tears & small losses to the margins. 73 x 123 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Land Grant, 1797, signed by Governor Hunter NSW. 'Whereas full power & authority for granting Lands, in the Territory of New South Walesto such persons as May be desirous of becoming settlers therein, is vested in His Majesty's Captain General, & Governor… | *** |  |
| *** | 1827 Chart of part of New South Wales, with Plans of the Harbours. This is the 1828 issue, engraved & published by Joseph cross, London. Hand coloured engraving. 97 x 65 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Map, East India & Australia c1700. Africa to Japan incl. Australia. Made by van Kenlen, Amsterdam. Staining, watermarks & a few holes near the margins. Rebacked. Hand coloured engraving. 53 x 6 0 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Governor Macquarie land grant to Robert Fop for two hundred acres in the district of Bathurst, rectangular folio, dated Sydney, 10 June 1815, the manuscript in ink on vellum | *** |  |
| *** | Land Grant, Governor Macquarie. Unique 1810 Land Grant for Botany Bay to William Packer (late Sergeant in the 102nd Regiment) of one hundred acres in the district of Botany Bay.39 cm x 28 cm, oblong folio, dated Sydney, 1 January 1810. | *** |  |
| *** | Map, Insulae Indaie Orientalis in Quibus Moluccae Celeberrimae Sunt. Mapmaker Hondius, pub. Amsterdam 1613. Hand coloured engraving. 35 x 4 8 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Magic lantern slides of China, a mixture of personal photographs taken by china Inland Missionary, Dr Frank Burden in China 1890-1899. Also, various published views. Includes a 1922 flier for a presentation at Henley, South Australia. (100) | *** |  |
| *** | Oz magazine, Neville, Walsh, Sharp and Shead. Near complete run of this Sydney-centric iconic satirical publication, full of cheeky, revealing articles and the irreverent pop artwork of Martin Sharp and Garry Shead. Includes the famous cover of the… | *** |  |
| *** | Chart of van Diemen's Land. 'From the Best Authorities and From Actual Surveys and Measurements By Thomas Scott, Assistant Surveyor General of Lands in the Island.' engraved by Charles Thompson (cross) Edinburgh from the orginal survey brought home by… | *** |  |
| *** | Sydney Land Grant 1792. (1795 copy) signed by David Collins, original land grant was made under Captain Arthur Phillip on 22nd Feb. 1792 which was lost in a fire. This document is a copy of that document and is dated 16th November, 1795 and is signed by… | *** |  |
| *** | Book, Aubrey Beardsley, illustrator) Le Morte D'Arthur, J.M Dent 1893, publisher). Limited edition 1500 copies. Gilt embossed cloth covers, profusely illustrated by Beardsley. | *** |  |
| *** | Map, India Quae Orientalis et Insulae Adiacinte. Mapmaker, Willem Janszoon Blaeu, c.1635. Engraving. 43 x 5 2 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Land Grant signed by Governor Macquarie 1821. Awarding 50 acres of land to Henry Sells in the disrict of Bringelly, bordering the Nepean river. Original seal & ribbon extant. 28 x 33 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Reference plan of city Streets - Sydney, 1888. Extra supplement to the illustrated Sydney news Centennial number, January 26, 1888. List of commercial & public buildings (51 x 76 cm); & the city of Sydney looking East from Darling harbour, presented as a… | *** |  |
| *** | Map, 'Mar Di India,' 1659. Cartographer Johannes Janssonius 1588-1664). 43 x 54 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Book, 'Modern Australian Aboriginal Art, by Rex Battarbee. 1951 limited edition 79/130, signed by the author & ten Hermannsburg artists, including Albert Namatjira. With slip case. | *** |  |
| *** | A Humument. Tetrad press, London 1970. One of an edition of 100, with signed justification, every loose leaf signed and including hand inscribed extra leaf, ' a page for Ann with love from tom Phillips', Comes in gift inscribed box, 'A miscellany of… | *** |  |
| *** | Oz London Magazines. 24 various issues spanning the full publishing history, numbers1 (Jan 1967), 2 (x2) (with 1 Image Maker poster), 3, 4 (x2), 6,7,8 (including Che Guevara Poster), 9, 10, 13, 16,17; 19, 28 (infamous School Kids Issue), 30 (including… | *** |  |
| *** | Map, Mar di India, 1650. Cartographer Jansson, showing from cape of good Hope to Korea, including known parts of new Hollande, pub. Amsterdam, 1650, height and coloured copper engraving, 46 x 57 cm | *** |  |
| *** | 19th century photo album. Mixture of Grand Tour Italian images, Indian portraits, & English family life (carriages & posed family groups.) thin paper albumen corner pasted to both sides of a leaf. Some water damage to initial pages. Albumen photographs 16… | *** |  |
| *** | Quantity of Phantom Comics. 1960s-1970s. | *** |  |
| *** | Map, 'Mar Di India,' 1650. Cartographer Johannes Janssonius 1588-1664). 43 x 55 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Three various Colonial documents. Indenture Parramatta 1810, signed by Samuel Marsden, Robert Campbell et al. Enclosed in Mylar; indenture Richmond 1815, signed by Thomas Atkins, John Dight et al; & Surveyor's manuscript map of Samuel Marsden's land at… | *** |  |
| *** | Map, c1690 Indonesia, Australia & Philipines. Mapmaker Vincenzo Maria Coronelli, 'Isole Dell' Indie diuise in Filippine, Molucche e della Sonda. Pub. Venice. Engraving. 47 x 6 2 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Colonial photograph of Bernard Otto Holterman. C.1872. Gold miner, businessman, photographer and politician. In 1872 he found the largest gold speciman at Hill End 'The Holtermann Nugget'. Photograph signed in sepia ink, with studio stamp verso. 'American… | *** |  |
| *** | Volume Etchings 'The Works of James Gillray', 'The Works of James Gillray. From The Original Plates with the Addition of Many Subjects Not Before Collected.' Printed for Henry G. Bohn, York St, Covent Garden. (c. 1849). 1 volume elephant folio (631 x 484… | *** |  |
| *** | Map, Asia, Joannem de ram Novatotius Asiae Tabula, published Amsterdam c.1690. Hand coloured engraving. 46 x 5 7 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Sir Joseph Banks (the father of Australia) autograph soho square letter dated 5 August 1817, addressed to customs, alerting them of special experimental packages from France, signed 'I Am Sir Your Most Humble Servant Jos. Banks' | *** |  |
| *** | Map of Sydney 2nd edition. H E C Robinson Ltd colour litho laid down on linen, enclosed in Mylar, (97 x 70 cm). North Shore bridge under construction (Sydney Harbour Bridge). All of the named wharves in Darling harbour, Walsh bay, Sydney cove, Johnstones… | *** |  |
| *** | Book, 'Creative Effort.', by Norman Lindsay, Art in Australia, Sydney, 1920. No. 116 of 120. Containing original hand-signed etching, 'Creative Effort', (15 x 9 cm), a dedication from the author. | *** |  |
| *** | Map, India Orientalis. Published c.1570 Abraham Ortetius. Some restoration to centre fold. Hand coloured engraving. 35 x 5 0 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Two postcard albums. Early 20th century cards including New Zealand & Australian town photographic scenes. Also comic; English scenes; greeting etc. | *** |  |
| *** | 1798 map of Australia. 'La Nuova Olanda E La Nuova Guinea, Delineate Sulle Ultimo Osservazioni,' pub. Roma, Presso La Calografia Camerale, 1798. Hand coloured. Old central fold line. Laid down. Label verso 'The Arts Centre, Johannesburg.' engraving 37 x… | *** |  |
| *** | Book: 'Picasso's sketch book'. Limited edition in exact facsimile. 250 copies. Published by Thames and Hudson/Abrams, 1960. Original glassine wrappers, and 16 page introductory book. | *** |  |
| *** | Sheet Music Waltzing Matilda. Words by A.B. Paterson, author of 'The man from Snowy River.' music arranged by Marie Cowan, believed to be the 1st printed version of our famous song with advertisements for Billy tea & Goldenia tea, 1903. Two conjoined… | *** |  |
| *** | Map, Mar Del Zur Hispanis Mare Pacificum. Jan Jansson mapmaker, published Amsterdam 1650. Hand coloured engraving. 44 x 5 5 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Volume Etchings 'The Works of William Hogarth', 'The Works of William Hogarth. From The Original Plates Restored by James Heath, Esq. R.A. with the Addition of Many Subjects Not Before Collected.' Printed for Baldwin and Cradock, Paternoster Row, by G… | *** |  |
| *** | Smith & Gardiner's map of Sydney & Suburbs 1855. Leather bound cover (11.5 x 14 cm), inside folds out to a 32.5 x 38.5 cm map on material. Enclosed by a protective cardboard folder to fit. | *** |  |
| *** | Volumes, 2, 'Norman Lindsay,' by Lin Bloomfield. 'Norman Lindsay Oil Paintings, & Watercolours 1889-1969.', pub. odana editions 2006 & 2003. deluxe limited ed. #140/500. Each signed by the author, with tipped-in photograph & slipcase. | *** |  |
| *** | Poster plan of land for sale in Gippstown (Ashfield), 1840. Eighty two lots 'To be sold by Mr Stubbs at his rooms lower George Street Friday 3rd July, 1840.' coloured (42.5 x 54.5 cm). Enclosed in Mylar. | *** |  |
| *** | William Charles Wentworth (1797-1872), photographs, documents & letters. Document: abstract of the title of the Trustees of the Will of the late W.C. Wentworth, deceased, to land at Vaucluse near Sydney, 1902. W. M. Barker.Typed on five sheets of lawyers… | *** |  |
| *** | Map, Nouvelle Hollande, 1753. Cartographer Bellin, as published in Prevost Histoire Generale des Voyages, Paris, 1753, height and coloured copper engraving, 21 x 28 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Two Volumes: 'The Poems of W. B. Yeats.' in slipcase. Pub. By MacMillan & Co., 1949. Hand signed by W. B. Yeats # 54/350. Includes prospectus. Endpapers foxed, otherwise good. | *** |  |
| *** | Three various Colonial letters. Phillip Arthur King. Autograph letter from his property Dunhaved, near St Mary's, to London, 1832, postmark of Parramatta & GPO Sydney & other transit postmarks; autograph letter, Samuel Terry, Sydney, 1832. A sun Herald… | *** |  |
| *** | Bridge to Connect Sydney with north Sydney. Proposed Sydney Harbour crossing by NSW public works Committee bearing Jcc Bradfield signature. C1913, Enhanced photograph, 25 x 89 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Albumin cameo portrait photograph of Australia's first 'Responsible' government, the 1st NSW Legislative Assembly, with its original birds eye walnut frame, glass and backing | *** |  |
| *** | Supplement to the 'Illustrated Sydney News,' November 1877. Town and District of Parramatta, New South Wales. Borders illustrated with churches, public & commercial buildings. Gibbs, Shallard, & Co. Printers, 108 Pitt Street, Sydney. (47 x 89 cm).… | *** |  |
| *** | Mortier Pacific Ocean map. 'Mer de Sud ou Pacifique' from suite du Neptune Francois pub. Amsterdam 1,700. Short edge tears, foxing. Hand coloured copper engraving, 60 x 75 cm (plate) | *** |  |
| *** | Book, 'Pictorial Book Plates' by P.Neville Barnett. Privately printed 1931. Deluxe edition 95/100. Many tipped in book plates including signed originals by Adrian Feint, Norman Lindsay, Lloyd Rees etc. Missing Sydney long frontispiece | *** |  |
| *** | Original Printed Parchment 1823 Land Grant from NSW Governor Sir Thomas Brisbane. Grant is for 60 acres at Parramatta to Samuel Barber, signed by Brisbane & Registrar Goulburn. Has notation to verso by Barber transferring title to Richard Hunt in 1837. | *** |  |
| *** | Original 1823 Governor Brisbane Land Grant to emancipated convict David Horton Senior. Grant for 100 acres at Kurrajong with long hand written notation by Brisbane verso releasing Senior from the obligation to supply timber from this property for… | *** |  |
| *** | Deed of sale with a hand written description detailing the sale of 1,060 acres in 1835 for 265 pounds to Blue Mountains explorer William Lawson. This land was on the Coolaburragundy Creek near Coolah (Mudgee district NSW) | *** |  |
| *** | Hurley, Frank (1885-1962) - biplane over Megalong Valley. Hurley achieved prominence as an official World War I photographer, and Mawson/Shackleton Antarctic Expedition member. He was well known for interpolating aeroplane images into his photographs.… | *** |  |
| *** | Framed decorative colour map of the East Indies showing a portion of New Guinea. Insulae Indicae Orientalis Precipual. Image (40 x 53 cm) frame (57 x 68 cm) | *** |  |
| *** | 5 various Colonial documents. Samuel Terry and Simeon Lord. Auction return on two sheets. Account of sundry goods the property of Edw. Robinson, deceased. Sold by Simeon Lord at auction by order of Samuel Terry Esq the Administrator. Signed S long, Sydney… | *** |  |
| *** | Land Grant signed by Governor Darling 1831. Awarding John Earl of Sydney, 13 perches of land in parish of Saint Lawrence, county of Cumberland. Bounded on the west by Castlereagh St, dated 19th October, 1831. 31 x 38.5 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Map, Asiae Nova Descriptio. Map of Asia by Abraham Ortelius, pub. Amsterdam c.1574. Hand coloured engraving. 37 x 4 9 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Map, Indiae Orientalis nec Non Insularum Adiacentium Nova Descriptio. Map maker Nicholaus Visscher, pub. Amsterdam, 1670. Hand coloured engraving. 48 x 5 8 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Photographic panorama of Sydney Harbour circa 1890. Taken from North Sydney, Exchange Studio in the negative. In original frame with annotation verso 'Left behind in empty Pitt St. Premises of Raine and Horne Real Estate 1968.' Silver gelatin photograph.… | *** |  |
| *** | Group L. J. O'Malley Papua New Guinea photographs. In casual and ceremonial dress. Taken by Louis James O'Malley (1912-1975) in the 1930s. O'Malley was a patrol officer and explorer (Hides expedition 1935). 71 photos, mostly bearing O'Malley's stamp, some… | *** |  |
| *** | Photo album Egypt, circa 1880, 66 full plate photos by the studios of Lekegian (most) and Langaki. Scenes, natives and occupations. Some light foxing. Albumin photograph 20.5 x 25 cm (each) | *** |  |
| *** | Original Governor Charles Fitzroy 1853 Town Lot Grant (by purchase) to William Bligh John O'Connell under the reward's for army officers scheme. Grant is for 6 perches at Haymarket in Sydney bounded by George and Gipps Streets, signed boldly and legibly… | *** |  |
| *** | Blue Mountains views. Seven original c.1910 natural beauty photographs by Katoomba photographer George Kitch of Kitch and Co. Photographs are titled in the negative and also in white script on the original mount, presented in the original hardwood frame.… | *** |  |
| *** | Blue Mountains views. Seven original c.1910 natural beauty photographs by Katoomba photographer George Kitch of Kitch and Co. Photographs are titled in the negative and also in white script on the original mount, presented in the original hardwood frame.… | *** |  |
| *** | Leslie Squizzy Taylor Mugshot. 1920s Melbourne underworld chief police file photograph. Inscribed verso 'Squizzy Taylor from Det Clugston' | *** |  |
| *** | Book, 'The Art of Frederick Mccubbin', published 1916 by the Lothian book Publishing Co. Limited Edition #734/1000. Hand signed by McCubbin | *** |  |
| *** | Book, Visiones Apocalypticae. Title page at rear of various biblical engravings bound into one volume. 150+ engravings. | *** |  |
| *** | Two albums L. J. O'Malley Papuan photographs. Approx. 60 original photographs 1920s-30s mainly of full. Length portraits in casual and ceremonial dress, plus village and landscape views. Some extensively annotated and bearing O'Malley's stamp. | *** |  |
| *** | 25 stereoscope images, views of early Australian landscapes and civic buildings, mostly Victoria and Tasmania | *** |  |
| *** | Two Anthony Hordens' catalogues. Anthony Horderns' Christmas Gifts toy book 1937, 78 pages, Anthony Hordern & Sons limited Sydney, good condition; & Anthony Horderns' Christmas Gifts toy book 1940, 72 pages, Anthony Hordern & Sons Ltd Sydney, good… | *** |  |
| *** | Public house (liquor) license 1836. Licence to keep an Inn or public house New South Wales internal Revenue office Sydney 2nd August 1836. Issued to Michael Rafter to keep a Common Inn, ale house, or Victualing house at the sign of the bullock situated at… | *** |  |
| *** | Art Gout Beaute French Fashion Magazines. 12 various issues spanning December 1922 (special Christmas edition) to April 1925, (July 1923 x 3). Quality production with pochoir illustrations tipped in plates & fabric imprint endpapers | *** |  |
| *** | Photograph album, by John Paine (et al.) full leather, containing 30 large format albumen print photographs. Images include Government house, Sydney; Public works office, Sydney; four views of the sham naval fight on Sydney Harbour, staged by the detached… | *** |  |
| *** | Book: 'Earth Hold,' by Jennifer Rankin and John Olsen 1978, the deluxe edition, bound in leather. Includes an original signed John Olsen etching 'Banksia,' limited to 150 copies. Book and etching 34/150 | *** |  |
| *** | 1834 Governor Bourke Conditional Land Grant. Grant is 50 acres to William Harrington at Kurrajong as transferred from Richard Virgin for non compliance under the terms of the original Macquarie grant, signed boldly by Bourke | *** |  |
| *** | Book: 'Verve,' Matisse de La Couleur, 1945. Original wrappers (split to spine), and all plates intact. | *** |  |
| *** | Original photographic portrait of Albert Einstein. This photograph was taken in London 1933, showing Einstein in striped suit, with wide lapels, and a straight stem pipe. Einstein fled Europe threatened by the Nazi regime, it was thought he would remain… | *** |  |
| *** | Album early travel photographs. Luxembourg; France (many of Paris); Tasmania (total approximately 30 of Tasmanian subjects);& New Zealand . Approximately 62 photographs in total. C.1890s. | *** |  |
| *** | Maps (5) Early Maps of The Holy Land. 5 Maps of Western Mediterranean encompassing modern Palestine, Israel, Lebanon, Jordan & Syria, by Simeoni Bonnell & others. Pub. In A Pisgah-Sight of Palestine and the Confines Thereon by Thomas Fuller, 1650, 29 x 34… | *** |  |
| *** | 1921 French Fashion, Art Gout Beaute. 11 various original issues between, April 1921 & October 1922 (July 1922 x 2). Many pochoir illustrations, tipped in plates & fabric imprint endpapers | *** |  |
| *** | Map, Australia, by Jacques Nicholas Bellin, 'Ins Kleine Gebrachte Karte von den Sud-Landern', 1753. Copper engraving, 20 x 27.5 cm. | *** |  |
| *** | Map, 'Indiae Orientalis,' VISSCHER. Nicholas VISSCHER (1649-1702) 'Indiae Orientalis nec non Insularum Adiacentum.'. Engraving. 52 x 62 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Map, the world, 1748. 'Essay d' Une Carte Reduite Contenant les Partes Connuees du globe Terrestre,' by Jacques-Nicolas Bellin. Coloured copper engraving. 48 x 64 cm | *** |  |
| *** | 1845 van Diemens Land Pardon. Conditional pardon for Thomas Richardson, transported 1825. Signed by Sir John Eardley-Wilmot. Seal intact. 22 x 32 cm | *** |  |
| *** | 1850 van Diemens Land Pardon. Conditional pardon for Benjamin Bickmore, transported 1844. Signed by Sir William Denison. Seal intact. 20 x 34 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Map of the Broken Hill silver Mines New South Wales. Publ. By E R Morris, map lithographer & licensed draftsman Queensland offices bridge St, Sydney. Map laid on linen & folded into hard covers, c1895. (6.5 x 10.5 cm). | *** |  |
| *** | Book, 'John Allcot marine Artist,' limited edition #305/500. Hand signed by Rodney Allcot, pub. The Allcot Trust. With slipcase. | *** |  |
| *** | Three press photographs of Frank Hurley 1930. From the San Francisco Examiner archives & one international news photo 1923. One Inp photo of Sir Hubert Wilkins in New York 1930. | *** |  |
| *** | Autograph letter by Surveyor General John Oxley re land at Wilberforce. Written at Portland head Monday 12th June, 1826. Enclosed in Mylar; & a letter to John Oxley, Sydney, 1824. | *** |  |
| *** | Two Colonial letters. Letter from Colonial Secretary's office, signed by Alex McLeay Sydney,1829. Enclosed in Mylar; & letter signed by Surveyor General T L Mitchell Sydney, 1849. Enclosed in Mylar. | *** |  |
| *** | Newspaper New York packet 1789. Containing within the first report in an American newspaper of the first fleet arriving in Australia at Botany bay. | *** |  |