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| *** | Lawrence, Thomas Edward (1888 - 1935) seven pillars of Wisdom, a triumph. [London; Jonathan cape, 1935. First trade edition.] Deluxe edition, limited to 750 numbered copies; this being #459. Quarto, quarter pigskin over brown buckram with crossed swords… | *** |  |
| *** | Books 'Cyaniding For Gold' by Ion Idriess, a very rare first edition 1939. a complete, simple but detailed account of the process written especially for the working miner and the small syndicate, the Quintessential Australian gold Mining book | *** |  |
| *** | 1909 Sniders & Abrahams æAustralian Footballers - Victorian League PlayersÆ, series D, complete set [60]. G/VG | *** |  |
| *** | Silk Postcards: c1905-20 Wonderful collection of silk postcards, many with handkerchief inserts. The silk card was once an ornate greeting, hitting a peak of popularity in the early 20th century, especially during World War I. Collectors seek cards that… | *** |  |
| *** | Don Bradman, display comprising complete set of 1997 'Sir Donald Bradman AC Greatest Hits' cards (16) - with each card signed by Bradman, window mounted, framed and glazed, overall 42 x 52 cm. | *** |  |
| *** | 1972 Scanlens 'Footballers', part set (59/66) + 2 spares. G/Vg. (Total 61) | *** |  |
| *** | 1967 Scanlens 'Footballers', part set (64/72). Mainly G/VG | *** |  |
| *** | Don Bradman: 1995 Sanitarium (Weet-Bix) 'The Bradman Collection', complete set (20), with all cards signed by Don Bradman | *** |  |
| *** | Captain Thomas Watson (1795-1879): Pair of photographs, one of Captain Thomas Watson, Harbour Master of Sydney, other of his wife Hannah (taken from an oil painting), both with highlights hand-painted in gold, framed & glazed, each overall 30 x 35 cm.… | *** |  |
| *** | Austen, Jane 'Pride and Prejudice', (Richard Bentley, London, 1839). Hard cover. Engraved 1833 frontis. In good condition and complete with all 340 pages. 'E. Kimpton, Bookseller & Stationer, 68 Gt. Russell Street, Bloomsbury' label affixed to inside… | *** |  |
| *** | Kerry & Co., attrib. View from rose Bay Convent looking West up the harbour c1900/1920s two panel panorama, silver gelatin prints laid down on linen 35.6 x 125.8 cm Shows rose Bay, double Bay, Clark & shark Islands, Fort Denison and the North Shore | *** |  |
| *** | Kerry & Co. Harbour from north Sydney (from Holtermann's Tower)/1920s two panel panorama, silver gelatin prints laid down on linen 37.5 x 114.5 cm titled, numbered '22' and signed 'Kerry Sydney' in the plate lower right Places are noted as follows, left… | *** |  |
| *** | Bulkeley, John; Cummins, John. A Voyage to the South-Seas, in the Years 1740-1. Containing, a Faithful Narrative of the Loss of His Majesty's Ship the Wager on a Desolate Island in the Latitude 47 South, Longitude 81:40 West. With the Proceedings and… | *** |  |
| *** | Cook, James (Captain) A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean; Undertaken by Command of His Majesty, for Making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere: Performed Under the Direction of Captains Cook, Clerke, and Gore, in the Years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780.… | *** |  |
| *** | A Conditional Pardon signed by Queen Victoria: Andrew Munro, 'now under Sentence of Transportation in Millbank Prison, he having been convicted of felony at Perth in April 1846?' is the beneficiary of this Conditional Pardon, granted and signed by Queen… | *** |  |
| *** | Francis Edwin Birtles [1881-1941] Birtles made an overland speed record-breaking trip in an Oldsmobile 30 in November 1924. It became the subject of a book entitled 'Darwin to Adelaide, 9 days, 9 hours, 15 minutes: Francis Birtles' history making journey,… | *** |  |
| *** | British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-13: Edward Kebel Chatterton (1878-1944) 'Sailing Ships and their Story' [London, 1909] 362pp, 64 plates, 3 folding plans. Original blue decorative cloth. A book from the 'Terra Nova' library. Provenance: Author's… | *** |  |
| *** | 1908 Sniders & Abrahams 'Australian Footballers - Victorian League Players' (D series), complete set (56) with two different backs (56) | *** |  |
| *** | Books 'The Victoria Gold Ready Reckoner', by William Clarke, Gold Broker and Assayer, 86 Elizabeth Street Melbourne, published by Sands and Kenny (Melbourne & Sydney)1857. A fine and early example, hard to find, in original leather case | *** |  |
| *** | 1968 Scanlens 'VFL Club Mascots Inserts', complete set (12). Fair/VG (each card with small puncture at top). Rare. | *** |  |
| *** | Captain Cook: 'An Account of the Voyages, Undertaken by the Order of His Present Majesty, for Making discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and Successively Performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, in the dolphin,… | *** |  |
| *** | Victoria: 'Gippsland Scenery' Series by Nicholas Caire, (1837-1918), albumen photographs, each 20 x 16 cm, mounted on card, comprising 'Toorloo Bay, Lake Tyers'; 'Scenes in the South Gippsland Mountains'; 'Scene on the Broadribb River'; 'Iron Bark Cove';… | *** |  |
| *** | 1965 Scanlens 'Footballers', complete set (36). | *** |  |
| *** | Victoria: 'Gippsland Scenery' binder with 19 photographs from the series by Nicholas Caire, (1837-1918), albumen photographs, each 20 x 15 cm, mounted on card, including three showing Aboriginals - 'Native Camp in Gippsland', 'Native bark Canoes' and… | *** |  |
| *** | The Kelly Gang: c1907 Regal Post Card Co. 'The Kelly Gang - From An Original Photograph. Steve Hart, Dan Kelly, Ned Kelly'. Taken from an original c1870 photograph. Rare, only a few examples known. (One example, in poor condition, is in the National… | *** |  |
| *** | 1995 Futera 'The Heritage Collection - a Collection of Great Australian Cricketers', complete set (60) in album, with 58 of the cards signed, including Don Bradman, ray Lindwall, Neil Harvey and Graham McKenzie. VG. Numbered 'Player/500'. Ex Ron Hamence… | *** |  |
| *** | Australian Aborigines: album of c1900-70s postcards (87) and photographs (2). Mainly G/VG. (89 items) | *** |  |
| *** | J. A. Turner Artists Postcards: Complete set of postcards (46) in album, Turner's paintings recorded in painstaking detail the life and daily pursuits of the small rural settler in the mountain ranges of Victoria, noted scarce scenes including… | *** |  |
| *** | Magic Lantern group of seven coloured slides by Newton & Co. Fleet Street of London, 10 x 16.5 cm each | *** |  |
| *** | The Weekly Times Newspaper 1863, The Weekly Times' No.1 Vol.1 (March 1863) to No.42 Vol.1 (December 1863), complete in a bound volume., A combination of commercial, legal, sporting and social news, prices, shipping information, advertisements and stories,… | *** |  |
| *** | 1974 Scanlen's 'Footballers' almost complete set [130/132] + many duplicates. [Total: 549]. Mixed condition. | *** |  |
| *** | W. D. & H. O. Wills: 1910-11 Australian and South African Cricketers large part set (43/60) with red or blue borders and with 'Capstan' or 'Vice-Regal' advertising backs. | *** |  |
| *** | Photographic panorama of Sydney Harbour from North Sydney, circa 1880, Robinson, Francis Whitfoeld (attrib.), Five albumen print photographs laid down on contemporary board with surrounding border, the panorama 250 x 1550 mm (individual panels being 250 x… | *** |  |
| *** | Abraham Elias Appointed to Administer the Estate of Joseph Solomon - 1824, 14th May 1824 vellum document with intact seal, titled 'Administration of the Goods Chattels..of Solomon Josephs late of Windsor, dec'ed - to - Abraham Elias adm'or' and signed by… | *** |  |
| *** | Victorian Railways Flinders Street New Station Buildings' elevated architectural views to Flinders Street and Swanston Street, Railway Department Melbourne March 1908, No. 203. Scale 20 feet to an inch., 37 x 130 cm | *** |  |
| *** | 1979 Scanlens: incomplete set with some heavy duplication of some players, comprising Carlton [57] incl. Alex Jesaulenko (5), Collingwood [42], Essendon [37], Fitzroy [54], Footscray [28], Geelong [54], Hawthorn [35] including Leigh Matthews (4),… | *** |  |
| *** | 1968 Scanlens 'Footballers' series B (featuring a team logo puzzle on reverse), complete set [40], generally G/VG. (40). | *** |  |
| *** | Bellin, Jacques Nicolas (1703-1772). 'Carte Reduite Des Mers Comprises Entre L'Asie et L'Amerique Apelees par les Navigateurs Mer Du Sud ouMer Pacifique...', [Paris: Depot de la Marine, 1776.], attractively hand-coloured, 55 x 82 cm (image), 83 x 112 cm… | *** |  |
| *** | James S. MacDONALD, the Art of Charles Wheeler, O.B.E., D.C.M., (Melbourne: Lothian Publishing Co., 1952), large 4to; 37pp; tipped-in colour frontispiece plate, 34 plates (of which 14 are colour, tipped-in), bottom of pages uncut; excellent dustjacket.… | *** |  |
| *** | Queensland At The 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition. Illuminated presentation certificate, hand-illustrated and with calligraphy by H.W. Fox, the recipient being Angus Mackay, who was the Commissioner for Queensland at the exhibition, which took… | *** |  |
| *** | 'The Emu, A Quarterly Magazine To Popularise The Study And Protection Of Native Birds', bound 11 full morocco volumes with embossed gilt lettering and pictorial boards. Volumes 110, 13,14,15,16,17,19,20,21 and an index volume. (1901-1922) | *** |  |
| *** | 1905-10 Wills 'Past and Present Champions', complete set (50). Fair/VG | *** |  |
| *** | 1968 Scanlens 'VFL club Mascots inserts', complete set (12). Fair/VG (each card with small puncture at top). | *** |  |
| *** | 1927 Royal Visit to Australia: Autograph letter written by the future Queen Elizabeth (The Queen Mother) as Duchess of York, from her residence at 145 Piccadilly, to Madame Handley Seymour, regarding the cost of her wardrobe for the Royal visit to… | *** |  |
| *** | War movie posters collection: Huge collection including 6-sheet poster ('Tora! Tora! Tora!); 3-sheet posters (6); UK 2-sheet poster; US one-sheet posters (36); UK one-sheet posters (29); Belgian poster (1); German poster (1); Australian Onesheet posters… | *** |  |
| *** | Frederick Kruger (1831-1888) Aboriginal men with weapons, Geelong, albumen paper photograph 20 x 13 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Don Bradman, complete set of 1995, the Bradman collection cards (20) - with the 18 cards depicting Bradman signed by him on front | *** |  |
| *** | Carte De Visite: 1861-1888 an extraordinary collection including an image from the Queen's photographer, Caldesi Blanford & Co, (1860-62) of Japanese Samurai Dr.Kawasaki, believed to be a member of the First Japanese Embassy to Europe, (1862) (Note: A… | *** |  |
| *** | Vietnam War: Group from Private Bruce Clifton who served as tracker dog handler. Includes medal group of five - Vietnam Medal, Vietnam Star, Australian Active Service Medal 1945-75 with Vietnam clasp, National Medal & Australian Defence Medal. Also… | *** |  |
| *** | c1912 original watercolours (complete set of 60) for Sniders & Abrahams 'Animals', each signed by artist Prae, size 20 x 12 cm. Ex archive of Osboldstone & Co. Printers, Melb. (60 items) | *** |  |
| *** | 1955 Coles 'Victorian Footballers', part set (41/56). Fair/VG | *** |  |
| *** | C1910 O.T. Beverage 'Red Chillie Flags' - Port Adelaide. Fair/Good condition. Extremely rare. The 'Australian Rules Football Cards' website states 'These cards show club colour fl ags with a red chillie in the background. It is believed that one was… | *** |  |
| *** | 1938 Hoadleys 'League Footballers', complete set (72). Mainly G/VG. | *** |  |
| *** | 1954 Coles 'Victorian Footballers' (series 1) complete set (56). G/VG. Superb condition. | *** |  |
| *** | 1964 Scanlens 'Footballers', part set (14/33). Fair/VG | *** |  |
| *** | 1968 Scanlens 'Footballers', Series B (scarcer - puzzle of team logos on reverse), complete set (40). VG. Hard to fi nd in this condition | *** |  |
| *** | C1950 Melbourne sports Depot 'Footballers Postcards', all Collingwood players - bill Twomey, Pat Twomey, George Hams, Jack Hamilton, Des Healey, Lou Richards and Ron Richards. G/VG. (the 'Australian Rules Football Cards' website lists 5 postcards known -… | *** |  |
| *** | 1907 Sniders & Abrahams æAustralian Footballers - Victorian League PlayersÆ, series C (half-length), complete set [56]. One creased, others G/VG | *** |  |
| *** | Horse racing photographs and Negatives, noted Phar Lap (negative and 5 photos) ; Carbine (2 negatives and photo) ; Kingston Town (colour negative and 4 photos) ; triple Dead Heat (3 negatives and 2 photos) ; plus range other negatives (8) and photos (21).… | *** |  |
| *** | 1921 J.J.Schuh (Magpie Cigarettes) 'Australian Footballers' (Rays), complete set [40]. G/VG | *** |  |
| *** | Tye & Co. Melbourne Furniture Manufacturers & Retailers: Original pen & ink artwork (by Edwin W. Slater) for six full-page illustrations of fully furnished rooms, as prepared for inclusion in a catalogue of their wares, circa 1900. Each illustration is a… | *** |  |
| *** | 1909 Unknown Publisher 'South Australian Footballers', the error card C.Adcock of South Adelaide with surround in colours of West Torrens. Cat.Number 25e. G/VG condition. Exceptional condition for this. Extremely rare. | *** |  |
| *** | 1909 Unknown Publisher 'South Australian Footballers', the error card D.McDougall of South Adelaide with surround in colours of Sturt. Cat.Number 28e. G/VG condition. Exceptional condition for this. Extremely rare. | *** |  |
| *** | 1969 Twisties/Sun Valley '1969 Football Game' complete set of Player Caricatures (24); plus Prize Card (1/3). Fair/VG. Good condition for these. (Total 25) | *** |  |
| *** | 1971 Sunicrust 'V.F.L. Footy Swap Cards', complete set (50), with Graeme Molloy card signed. G/VG | *** |  |
| *** | (Melbourne International Exhibition, 1888 - 89) Official Record of the Centennial International Exhibition, Melbourne, 1888 - 1889 Containing a sketch of the industrial and economic progress of the Australasian Colonies during the first century of their… | *** |  |
| *** | Giles, Ernest Australia Twice Traversed: The Romance of Exploration [Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, Limited, London, 1889] Two volumes, octavo, with plates, folding coloured maps and illustrations in the text; in the fully pictorial grey-green… | *** |  |
| *** | Film Poster: 'Inland with McDouall Stuart - A man of Stamina' [1956, lithograph in colours, William Brooks & Co., Sydney]. The film, a documentary about Stuart and about the Northern Territory, was made by Australian Instructional Fims, Sydney. 73 x 97 cm… | *** |  |
| *** | 1976 Scanlens 'Footballers' duplicates [194] incl. Michael Tuck (2), Leigh Matthews, Trevor Barker and Royce Hart (4), also checklists (15), mostly VG to Vf, also Scanlen's 1970s 'Card Locker', 14 segments (tear on one internal divider) for card storage… | *** |  |
| *** | Australian goldfields group of six cartes de visite of a theatrical troupe taken in Castlemaine Victoria, together with an 1852 edition of the London illustrated news with Victorian gold rush motif on the cover. (7 items) | *** |  |
| *** | 'The All-Australian Memorial History, Heroes and Helpers' Australian Commonwealth Military Forces single volume, full morocco with embossed gilt lettering, [published 1917], complete with fold-out sections. | *** |  |
| *** | The First Detailed Mapping of The Adelaide Region, Carte Generale de la Terre Napoleon, [Baudin Expedition map] Louis de Freycinet, [Paris: grave par Tardieu, 1808.], attractively hand coloured, 54 x 78 cm (sight); framed 80 x 104 cm. At the time of the… | *** |  |
| *** | Campaspie', 'Campaspie Fall Collection of assorted stereo cards, including Australian, British and novelty cards, 19th century. 60+ cards. Of note: Gold diggings Australia, Mt Macedon, 'Traveller Sleeping in Mia Mia', Hanging Rock Melbourne, 'On the… | *** |  |
| *** | Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, Elves & Fairies of Ida Rentoule Outhwaite, Verses by Annie R. Rentoul, [Lothian, Melbourne & Sydney, 1916], folio, one of 1500 copies. With the original thick card slip-case (faults) of which few survive today., Outhwaite's first… | *** |  |
| *** | Norman Lindsay (1879 - 1969), The Magic Pudding, [Sydney: Angas & Robertson, 1918], first edition, rebacked and with new endpapers, original dustjacket (with chip to spine). | *** |  |
| *** | The sale of a house at Versailles - 1691, 14th February 1691, French seven-page document on vellum, being the contract covering the sale of a house at Versailles; signed on the last page by the seller (Bruneau) and the purchaser (Bontemps). Alexandre… | *** |  |
| *** | 507pp. With 16 mounted colour illustrat Malory, pollard, Alfred W. Rackham, Arthur (illus.), the Romance of King Arthur and his Knights of the round table. Abridged from Malory's Morte d'Arthur. [Published by Macmillan and Co. London, 1917], XXIV, 509pp.… | *** |  |
| *** | 'The History of New South Wales including Botany Bay' by Barrington [London, 1802], with engraved vignette, handcoloured title page, 18 hand-coloured plates and one uncoloured plate. Rebound, Fair condition | *** |  |
| *** | 1953 Argus '1953 football portraits', large size (11 x 19 cm), part set (21/72) | *** |  |
| *** | 1958 Atlantic 'Victorian League Stars', complete set [128] + 1 spare. Mainly G/Vg. (Total 129) | *** |  |
| *** | 1972 Scanlens 'Footballers', almost complete set (65/66) | *** |  |
| *** | W.D. & H.O. Wills: 1907-08 'Prominent Australian & English Cricketers', complete set (1-73 grey captions) plus the 1908 re-issued Series of 8 (66-73 red captions), G/VG. (Total: 81). Cat.£1,300. | *** |  |
| *** | Don Bradman: 1997 Sanitarium (Weet-Bix) Sir Donald Bradman AC Greatest Hits, complete set (16), with all cards signed by Don Bradman | *** |  |
| *** | 1982 Ardmona 'Big League series 2 - Hawthorn', complete set (18), including Gary Ablett Snr rookie card. G/VG. | *** |  |
| *** | Neil Armstrong, (1930- ), first person to walk on the moon, display comprising signed photo, window mounted with wonderful Apollo 11 photographs, framed and glazed, overall 105 x 74 cm | *** |  |
| *** | 1971 Sunicrust 'V.F.L. Footy Swap Cards', complete set (50). G/VG | *** |  |
| *** | 1969 Scanlen's 'Footballers', incomplete set (lacks only #4) + many duplicates, (199). Mixed condition. | *** |  |
| *** | Backhouse, James (1794 - 1869), A Narrative of a Visit to the Australian Colonies. [Hamilton, Adams & Co., London, 1843] Octavo, xviii, 560pp, cxliv (appendices) pages with in-text illustrations (by Backhouse), plates and 3 large folding maps.… | *** |  |
| *** | Postcards: Aboriginal Subjects, collection of (43) real photo cards, circa 1905-10, almost all postally used and the subjects mainly from identified locations: Queensland (5), South Australia (2), Tasmania (2), Victoria (10), Western Australia (14), and… | *** |  |
| *** | 1974 Scanlens 'Footballers', collectors duplicates incl. Don Scott (3), Leigh Matthews, Royce Hart, Kevin Bartlett, Sam Newman and Alex Jesaulenko, mostly VG to Vf. (130) | *** |  |
| *** | 1975 Scanlens 'Footballers' incomplete set [96/132] plus duplicates (64) and team checklists [9/12, with a few duplicates], G to Vf. (174) | *** |  |
| *** | 1914 Sniders & Abrahams: Victorian League: 'Portrait & Flag' design [28/60], generally G/VG. | *** |  |
| *** | 1972 Scanlens 'Footballers' complete set [66], including Bernie Quinlan, Kevin Bartlett, Barry Richardson and Keith Grieg, G/VG. (66). | *** |  |
| *** | Will Dyson, Foreword by H.G. Wells, Kultur cartoons, (Published by Stanley Paul, London, 1915). Mounted illustration to front wrapper; 20 mounted illustrations tipped in. | *** |  |
| *** | Hans Heysen (1877 - 1968) full signature on a one-page letter, dated 'Jan.22nd, Hahndorf' (circa 1940) to a 'Miss Fern' advising that he had just sent her three watercolours which he hopes 'may fall in with your client's wishes'. He also advises that… | *** |  |
| *** | Burke, Keast 'With Horse and Morse in Mesopotamia' The Story of Anzacs in Asia: 1st Edition (1927, Sydney) Hard cover, 200pp; minor foxing to edges of text pages and early text pages; photographic plates in excellent condition. Contains histories of the… | *** |  |