| *** | Salvadori, Tommaso. [Collection of 29 ornithological papers]. Genoa, 1874-91. Together in two volumes octavo, in total approx. 780 pages, with 2 hand-coloured plates, binder's cloth retaining the wrappers., A rare series, entirely relating to the birds of… | *** |  |
| *** | First Fleet & Botany Bay: the London Chronicle. The first printed accounts of the Expedition to and the Settlement at Sydney Cove, in issues of the London Chronicle newspaper issued in early 1789, March 24-26, 1879: A lengthy article, '...Of the convicts… | *** |  |
| *** | Bumbooziana: 'Sundry Notes & Papers, being the recently discovered notes and documents of the Natural & Instinctive Bestiality Research Expedition. collected and collated under the title Bumbooziana wherein is set down the illfated Expedition's numerous… | *** |  |
| *** | The Eliott Family Scrapbook, This, and the following four lots are from the collection of the Eliott family, one of the first families to settle in the New England area of Northern New South Wales. The book has been passed down through five generations to… | *** |  |
| *** | Terrific register: or record of Crimes Judgements, compendium of Shocking stories including some Australian pieces Sherwood & Co., London 1825 (2 volumes) | *** |  |
| *** | A Japanese book 19th century. With a set of twelve erotic paintings in ink and colour on silk | *** |  |
| *** | List of Male Convict Ships - Old Class & Probation Class, Ink script on paper with headings proving the dates of arrival in Hobart, the name of the ship, the number of prisoners and the annual total, framed && glazed, 47.75 x 58.5 (sight). Provenance: Dr… | *** |  |
| *** | 'Bondi', black and white photograph Max Dupain 30 x 43 cm Daughters authentication label to verso | *** |  |
| *** | D'Albertis, L. M. and Salvadori, T. Catalogo degli uccelli raccolti da L.M. D'Albertis durante la seconda e terza esplorazione del Fiume Fly negli anni 1876 e 1877. Genoa, 1879. Octavo, pp. 132 with text figures, contemporary quarter cloth., Presentation… | *** |  |
| *** | Peters, W. and Doria, W. Enumerazione dei mammiferi raccolti da O. Beccari, L. M. D'Albertis ed A.A. Bruijn, nella Nuova Guinea propriamenti detta W. Peters e G. Doria. Genoa, 1881. Octavo, pp.48, [ii], with 14 plates (10 coloured), contemporary quarter… | *** |  |
| *** | Collection of albumen prints of the Methodist Mission at Kiriwina, Trobriand Islands, circa 1905, many with captions offering a fascinating ethnographic insight to island life and culture with images of warriors, albino child, mission school, native life,… | *** |  |
| *** | Charles Bayliss (1850-1897) photographer: Albumen prints of Melbourne (with several of maritime and shipping interest), Sydney, Geelong and a few foreign. 85 photographs, various sizes, smallest 11 x 16 cm to largest 22 x 27 cm. | *** |  |
| *** | Scrapbook: containing a collection of albumen prints of Sydney, Tasmania and New Zealand, 60 imagess including 4 Maori subjects, photographers include Paine, Bayliss and Josiah Martin. Mainly 20 x 15 cm some larger, largest being 28.5 x 25 cm. | *** |  |
| *** | Edmund Wheeler & Son, New Zealand photographers, Circa 1880's, Album titled 'New Zealand Scenery' with 10 albumen prints comprising images of Lyttelton, Sumner and Christchurch. 18 x 23 cm. | *** |  |
| *** | From Maffra to Mansfield Through Unsurveyed Victoria, A fine, leather bound album with gold embossed title to front cover, circa 1890, with printed title page followed by a tipped-in map showing the route of a survey conducted on horseback with the… | *** |  |
| *** | Photographer Unknown, but many images probably by Daniel Mundy or his brother, William Mundy. The handstamp 'Australasian Series by D.L. Mundy, F.R.G.S. Lanscape Photographer & Publisher.....Melbourne & Sydney.' appearing on the back of about half the… | *** |  |
| *** | A Victorian pair of mother of pearl reverse painted on glass prints of Great Exhibition and Albert Monument, circa 1850, one signed 'Lanes Patent', 23 x 32 cm | *** |  |
| *** | 1911 Wills (Australia) 'Australian & English Cricketers', complete set (59). Fair/VG | *** |  |
| *** | A pair of fluted column lamps with octagonal bases, and parchment shades, 86 cm high | *** |  |
| *** | A rare silver gelatin print captioned in photograph 'Hugh. McKay Sunshine Harvester For America Complete Train Load. 300 tons. July 1903'. Note this photograph was taken at Ballarat. 37 x 26 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A collection of nineteen photographic and lithographic images by Alphonse Chargois, G W Cole, Purnall and others, of Australian Aborigines depicting hunting, in family groups and ceremonies, 10 x 14.5 cm (average) | *** |  |
| *** | A collection ten photograph and lithographic images, depicting Australian Aboriginies and Indeigenous life, including Family Mia Mia, Native Encampment River Murray, Camp of Young Lubra, Kangaroo Hunting, King John's Mia Mia, Lubra and Pegeanini, Native… | *** |  |
| *** | A collection of eighteen photographic and lithographic images of Australian Aborigines depicting hunting, in family groups and ceremonies, 14 x 20 cm (average each) | *** |  |
| *** | Views Of Victoria 1853-4' lithographed from original drawings by Edmund Thomas & published by F.Varley, oblong red leather boards with embossed gilt title on the front, some wear to the boards, toning and foxing throughout | *** |  |
| *** | Charles Henry Kerry (1857-1928), Charles Kerry Photographs of Samoa, Tonga, 52 albumen prints circa 1900 affixed in later album, subjects include Working a 4 in. Naval Gun, Malietoe Natives Drilling, Making Tappa Cloth, Lieutenant Gaunt's Squad, Street… | *** |  |
| *** | New Zealand: Leather-bound album containing a collection of albumen prints by Frank A. Coxhead, Burton Brothers, Wheeler & Son, James Valentine and others. Includes Dunedin scenes, Christchurch, Invercargill, Queenstown,Milford Sound, Auckland, Momona Bay… | *** |  |
| *** | Photographer Unknown, but many images probably by Daniel Mundy or his brother, William Mundy. The handstamp 'Australasian Series by D.L. Mundy, F.R.G.S. Lanscape Photographer & Publisher.....Melbourne & Sydney.' appearing on the back of about half the… | *** |  |
| *** | Doyley, Charles 'The European in India, From a Collection of Drawings, By Charles Doyley, Esq. Engraved by J. H. Clark and C. Dubourg, With a Preface and Copious Descriptions, By Captain Thomas Williamson, Accompanied with A Brief History of Ancient and… | *** |  |
| *** | 'A Voyage to Terra Australis; Undertaken for the Purpose of Completing the Discovery of that Vast Country, and Prosecuted in the Years 1801, 1802 and 1803 in His Magesty's Ship the Investigator.' by Matthew Flinders [Lon, 1814] rebound in 2 volumes (atlas… | *** |  |
| *** | The Tankard Malting Company Limited, 3 share certificates to Ephrain L. Zox of Melbourne, dated 1886; plus 'Montgomerie's Brewery Company Limited, West Melbourne', share certificate to James Warne of Melbourne dated 1888. | *** |  |
| *** | The Australian Seasoned Timber Coy Ltd. Wandong, Warburton, Yarrawonga, Victoria, Australia. An impressive book of silver gelatin albumen prints many with hand written captions, bound in full red morocco with embossed gilt titled cover. | *** |  |
| *** | A supposed description of Terra Australis, HALL, Joseph [1574-1656] Pseudonym: Mercurio Britannico: 'Mundus alter et idem sive Terra Australis ante hac semper incognita longis itineribus peregrini academici nuperrime lustrata' [Gulielmus Antonius, Hanau,… | *** |  |
| *** | Kuhl, Heinrich. Conspectus psittacorum. [Bonn, 1820]. Quarto, pp.104, with 3 hand-coloured plates, uncut in original cloth-backed wrappers (spine worn, with defective label), with the bookplates of Frederick Ducane Godman, J.H. Calaby and H.W.Whittell. A… | *** |  |
| *** | C1922 Davies & Herbert 'Newcastle Famous Footballers' (rugby & soccer), almost complete set [49/50] with red ornamental border; plus missing card [1/50] with blue border. Fair/G. Rare set. | *** |  |
| *** | Moore, George Fletcher. Extracts from the letters and journals of George Fletcher Moore, now filling a judicial office at the Swan River Settlement. London, 1834. Small octavo, with a folding map, original cloth(spine wearing, the label defective, front… | *** |  |
| *** | 1963 'Scanlens 3D. Football card gum' wrapper - the first of the Scanlen's wrappers. Extremely rare | *** |  |
| *** | Herbert George Ponting (1870-1935) Birth of an Iceberg titled and numbered '24' on the on the Fine Art Society label on the reverse carbon print, 45 x 61 cm. Provenance: George Clarke Simpson, meteorologist on the Terra Nova expedition 1878-1965 and then… | *** |  |
| *** | c1907-33 cricket cards in album, noted 1907 Wills 'Prominent Australian & English Cricketers' (14); Godfrey Phillips 'Test Cricketers 1932-1933' (38); postcards (2). Fair/VG. (Total 103) | *** |  |
| *** | Piggoreet Murder: Facinating group of 19th century photograph including 3 captioned carte de visites of the murder scene near Ballarat showing where Mr Ballan shot Mr T Ulicke Burke, 'Black trackers finding the pistol', 'The exact spot.....', & 'The tree… | *** |  |
| *** | A journal by Nurse Alice Stilwell, kept at Fir Grove Military Hospital, Hampshire, 1915/17 with cartoons, caricatures and messages of thanks from soldiers from the Sutherland Highlanders, South Wales Borderer's, Royal Sussex Regiment, Devonshire Regiment,… | *** |  |
| *** | 1897 British American Tobacco (issued in Australia) badges 'Famous Cricketers', complete set [14] - A.E.Stoddart, E.Wainwright, W.Storer, J.T.Hearne, A.C.Maclaren, J.R.Mason, John Briggs, Kumar Shri Ranjitsinhji, G.H.Hirst, N.F.Druce, J.H.Board, T… | *** |  |
| *** | Signed Cricket Cards: c1987-2000 collection in album, with c371 signed cards, plus few signed covers & letter from Keith Miller | *** |  |
| *** | Shakespeare’s dramatic works | *** |  |
| *** | 'The Spit, with sailing boat', black and white photograph Max Dupain signed verso 37 x 48 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A collection of reference books on Chinese Art, Oriental porcelain, pottery, Japanese Art and Asian history | *** |  |
| *** | A collection of five photographs - Nicholas Caire and unknown photographers, King Billy Maloga, Aboriginal Native Group, Aboriginals, Lake Tyers, Aborignal Ceremony, Aborignal Mother and Child, 14 x 19 cm (average each) | *** |  |
| *** | Photographer Unknown, but many images probably by Daniel Mundy or his brother, William Mundy. The handstamp 'Australasian Series by D.L. Mundy, F.R.G.S. Lanscape Photographer & Publisher.....Melbourne & Sydney.' appearing on the back of about half the… | *** |  |
| *** | 1904 Sniders & Abrahams 'Australian Footballers', Series A - without framelines, almost complete set [49/50]. Mainly G/VG. (Missing only the G.Miller card - there are some doubts as to whether it exists) | *** |  |
| *** | 1923 J.J.Schuh (Magpie Cigarettes) 'Portraits of our Leading Footballers', almost complete set [101/106], includes numbers 1-96 with both types of Nos.15 & 16; plus the 3/8 unnumbered cards - L.Murphy, C.Tyson & R.Watt. G/VG | *** |  |
| *** | A rectangular steel wine rack with double doors, French 19th century 114 cm high, 112.5 cm wide, 57 cm deep | *** |  |
| *** | First Fleet & Botany Bay: the London Chronicle. The first printed accounts of the Expedition to and the Settlement at Sydney Cove, in issues of the London Chronicle newspaper issued in early 1789, February 26-28, 1879: Regarding the safe arrival of… | *** |  |
| *** | Stephens & Stokes: 'New South Wales Calendar and General Post Office Directory, 1833.' [Sydney: December, 1832.] with folding map, engraved title-page with view of the GPO, two folding tables, two folding plates (one hand-coloured), map of Mount Victoria,… | *** |  |
| *** | 1932 Hoadleys (3d violet Nutty bar) 'Victorian League Footballers', part set [64/108] + 2 spares. Fair/G. Rarity 8. The first of the Hoadleys sets and the hardest to complete | *** |  |
| *** | A Victorian carved wax flower display, framed and glazed, 98 x 66 cm | *** |  |
| *** | 1887-89 old Judge Cigarettes 'Celebrities - George Mckenzie, Ballarat Football Club'. Good condition. Extremely rare. | *** |  |
| *** | Victorian Goldfields, Colony Of Victoria, £1 Miner's Right Issued At Sandhurst (Bendigo), March 1857 Letterpress in blue, printed on vellum, inscribed and dated in ink, 21 x 23 cm. Inscriptions include '(District) Sandhurst. 16 March 1857. (Issued to)… | *** |  |
| *** | 'Australian Parrots' by Joseph M Forshaw & William T. Cooper [Melbourne, 1980], second revised edition limited 518/1000, signed by the author and illustrator, 2 Vol., full green Morocco folio in original cloth covered case | *** |  |
| *** | Burton Bros, Dunedin & Wheeler & Son, Christchurch, New Zealand, A collection of 19 various early photographs depicting scenes of Invercargill, Makarewa River, Maori Land, Cathedral Square, Otira Gorge, Avon River, Lake Wakatipu, Christchurch, Dunedin and… | *** |  |
| *** | The 1851 New South Wales Gold Rush at Bathurst, 27th May 1851 complete original letter from Sydney to Yorkshire, carried on the 'Thomas Arbuthnot', a fast sailing ship, which was also carrying the first shipment of gold from Australia to England. The… | *** |  |
| *** | Tea Trade Archive. A fascinating album of early to late 19th century ephemera. Predominantly English. Well worth close inspection. | *** |  |
| *** | Herbert George Ponting (1870 - 1935) Cumulus Clouds rising up over Barne Glacier the photographer's blindstamp 'H.G. Ponting' in lower right margin carbon print, 49.5 x 65.3 cm numbered '105' on the Fine Art Society label on the reverse . Provenance:… | *** |  |
| *** | Herbert George Ponting (1870 - 1935) Face of the Great Ice Barrier and Mount Terror the photographer's blindstamp 'H.G. Ponting' in lower right margin carbon print, 49.5 x 65.3 cm numbered '20' on the Fine Art Society label on the reverse. Provenance:… | *** |  |
| *** | Photographs. New South Wales' leather bound collection of sepia albumen images tipped into the album. (Sydney: Charles Potter, Government Printer), 1889. Album of mounted (100) albumen silver print photographs. Oblong quarto, full blue morocco blind… | *** |  |
| *** | 'female nude', black and white photograph by Max Dupain, signed verso 48 x 35 cm | *** |  |
| *** | The Kelly Gang: Steve Hart and Sub-Inspector O'Connor, c1870s, Pair of albumen paper photographs, captioned in ink on part pages below each image, 9.1 x 5.7 cm (approx). Hart's photograph has a hole to the centre of image, both photographs have a trimmed… | *** |  |
| *** | Carte Reduite Des Terres Australes, Pour servir a l'Histoire des Voyages' by Jacques Bellin, [Paris, 1753], lovely map showing hypothetical east coast of Australia, 36 x 25 cm. | *** |  |
| *** | 'The Ring' magazine [USA], incomplete run with 25 bound volumes & 9 unbound volumes - comprising 1931-32, 1934, 1937-40, 1944-55, 1957, 1960, 1962-63, 1966, 1968, 1973-75, 1981, 1986, 1988, 1990 & 1992-93. Also 'Fighter' magazine [Australia] 1971 bound… | *** |  |
| *** | A pair of Gothic revival table-lamps, French, 19th century, 78 cm high, including the parchment shades | *** |  |
| *** | The QUEENS CLOSET OPENED: Incomparable Secrets in Physick, Chyrugery, Preserving and Candying, &c. Which were presented unto the QUEEN By the most Experienced Persons of the Times. .' [London, Christ. Eccleston, 1662]. bound together with 'A QUEENS… | *** |  |
| *** | 1906 Sniders & Abrahams 'Cricketers in Action', complete set [40]. Mainly G/VG | *** |  |
| *** | 1932-37 football & cricket cards, noted 1932 Clarke-Ellis 'Footballers' (5); other football cards (10); 1936-37 Allens 'Cricketers' (17) & other cards (3). Poor/G. (Total 35) | *** |  |
| *** | Crime and Punishment, September 1849 printed court document completed in manuscript 'Ext. Sentence of Transportation against John Cameron' confirming the sentence of seven years transportation to Van Diemen's Land for theft and a previous conviction; a… | *** |  |
| *** | 1912-13 Sniders & Abrahams 'Australian Footballers', Series H (Stars), complete set [60]. Mainly G/VG. Very scarce set | *** |  |
| *** | 1913-14 Sniders & Abrahams 'Victorian Footballers', Series I (Shields), complete set [60]. Mainly G/VG | *** |  |
| *** | [Great Britain, Board of Agriculture]. Davis, Richard. General view of the agriculture of the County of Oxford, with observations on the means of its improvement. London, 1794. Quarto, pp.40, with hand-coloured map (slightly cropped), bound with 45 other… | *** |  |
| *** | Stokes, John Lort Stokes. Discoveries in Australia, with an account of the coasts and rivers explored and surveyed during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in the years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. London, 1846. Two volumes thick octavo, with 8 folding engraved… | *** |  |
| *** | First Fleet & Botany Bay: the London Chronicle. The first printed accounts of the Expedition to and the Settlement at Sydney Cove, in issues of the London Chronicle newspaper issued in early 1789, May 5-7, 1789: Containing a long and detailed 'Authentic… | *** |  |
| *** | Map of the District of Adelaide, South Australia, published by John Arrowsmith, 1840, lithograph, 65 x 55 cm | *** |  |
| *** | c1906-95 cricket cards, noted 1906 Sniders & Abrahams 'Cricketers in Action' (10); 1909 Wills 'Australian & English Cricketers' (2); 1910 Wills 'Australian & South African Cricketers' (11). Poor/G. (Total 178) | *** |  |
| *** | EVELYN, John, F.R.S. [1620-1706] 'SYLVA, or a Discourse of FOREST-TREES and the Propagation of Timber In His Majesties Dominions. . To which is annexed POMONA, or, An Appendix concerning Fruit-Trees in relation to CIDER, The Making, and severall wayes of… | *** |  |
| *** | Sentenced to Be Transported For Life, January 1852 printed Statement of charges against James Parr, completed in manuscript at New Norfolk, Van Diemen's Land, for stealing and feloniously killing 'one sheep of the price of seven shillings...'; signed by… | *** |  |
| *** | 1905 Wills 'Past & Present Champions', almost complete set (41/50 + 1 spare). G/VG condition. | *** |  |
| *** | 1963 Scanlens 'Footballers' No.12 Graham 'Polly' Farmer (Geelong), signed by Graham Farmer at top. Fair/G. | *** |  |
| *** | Arago, Francois. Narrative of a voyage round the world in the Uranie and Physicienne corvettes commanded by Captain Freycinet, in the years 1817, 1818, 1819, and 1820. London, 1823. Quarto, with folding map and 25 lithographed plates after drawings by the… | *** |  |
| *** | Photographs of New South Wales, a collection of forty nine photgraphs, c. 1880, including Sydney, Hawkesbury River, Gosford, Woy, Woy, Ryde, Lake Macquarie, Newcastle and Jenolan Caves, housed in leather gilt embossed cylinder, 24 x 28 cm (approx each) | *** |  |
| *** | Rev. John Waterhouse and Family, interesting and important family archive of correspondence, documents, photographs, ephemera, banking documents, share certificates, birth certificates and papers pertaining to several generations of the Waterhouse family… | *** |  |
| *** | William Dampier: 'A New Voyage Around The World', 2nd Edition, 8vo, original calf, folding maps, London 1697 | *** |  |
| *** | 1916 Conscription Referendum: Original 4-page Pamphlet from Prime Minister W. M. Hughes supporting the 'Yes' case; plus 3 lapel badges 'No', 'Yes' & 'Oct 28 1916/ Vote Yes'. | *** |  |
| *** | Bronlow Medallists: Autographs collection with signed pieces (44), pictures (6) & football cards (8), includes Dick Reynolds, Norm Ware, Fred Goldsmith, Bobby Skilton, Ian Stewart, Robert Harvey & Jim Stynes. (58 items) | *** |  |
| *** | 1964 Scanlens 'Footballers', complete set (33). Poor/G. Extremely rare. | *** |  |
| *** | A collection of Aboriginal portraits, including Truganini, Queen Truganini, King Billy, an Aboriginal Chief and a family portrait, lithographic and sepia prints, 13 x 7.5 cm (average size) | *** |  |
| *** | Gould, John. An introduction to the mammals of Australia. London, The Author, 1863. Octavo, original cloth. Very scarce. | *** |  |
| *** | Spencer, Baldwin and Gillen, F.J. The northern tribes of central Australia. London, 1904. Thick octavo, with folding map, 2 folding coloured plates, 3 folding tables and numerous illustrations, original gilt-decorated cloth (wearing). With, Spencer and… | *** |  |
| *** | Book of New Zealand Ferns, Eric Craige (1829-1923, compilor and retailer)An album of mounted specimens, with ink-stamped title 'New Zealand ferns mounted by Eric Craig, Princess Street, Auckland.circa 1880 | *** |  |
| *** | Stereoviews: 'Last of the Aborigines of Tasmania' by S. Clifford, Hobart Town, very scarce, together with a selection of card of Tasmania and European scenes, (89 items plus stereoviewer) | *** |  |
| *** | Donald Friend (1914-1989), the Farce of Sodom, The farce of Sodom. By the Right Honourable Earl of Rochester. Written for the Royal Company of Whoremasters, and printed a-new upon the three hundredth anniversary of the untimely demise of our noble author… | *** |  |
