Decorative Arts & Collectables (#469) Closed Auction Info PDF Prices RealizedPDF Catalogue View ▼ Items per page 102550100 Sort by DefaultTime LeftLot#Lot NameNewestHighest PriceLowest PriceBidsViews Filter By Categories Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above Featured Exclude closed lots Price Lot Number Results: Viewing items 1301-1400 of 1467. Previous|1...89101112131415|Next123456789101112131415 Lot 1305 KINGSFORD SMITH'S RECORD ENGLAND - AUSTRALIA SOLO FLIGHT: 4 October 1933 original Dutch press photo with affixed details: "Sir Charles Kingsford Smith studying a map of the route he will take before leaving Heston Aerodrome today." The plane was a Percival D.2 Gull IV named "Miss Southern Cross". A new record elapsed time for the flight was set: 7 days, 4 hours, 44 minutes. The previous record for a solo flight was 8 days, 20 hours, 47 minutes, set by Charles William Anderson Scott in 1932. View details Estimate$120 - $150Price Realized$120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1306 KINGSFORD SMITH & THE SOUTHERN CROSS FLY TO NEW ZEALAND: January 1934. A Kingsford Smith Air Service Limited envelope carried on the third trans-Tasman flight in the "Southern Cross", cancelled before departure at MASCOT on January 12th, and cancelled on arrival at NEW PLYMOUTH on January 15th. The envelope, part of a very small mail carried on the flight is signed by Kingsford Smith. Other crew members were P.G. Taylor, T. Pethybridge and John Stannage. [See The Australian Airmail Catalogue, N View details Estimate$500 - $750StatusCLOSED! Lot 1307 CHARLES KINGSFORD SMITH: 21 March 1934 letter from Christchurch addressed to a correspondent in Invercargill; typed, but signed by Kingsford Smith, in which he explains that he did not carry mail on his flight between those two cities. View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$80StatusSold Lot 1308 29 March 1934 the "SOUTHERN CROSS" carries mail from New Zealand to Australia: A Vacuum Oil Company photograph showing the crew (Kingsford Smith, Stannage, Percival, Pethybridge & Taylor) who had carried the airmail in a record time of 13 hours, 25 minutes; also a composite photo depicting the "Southern Cross" in flight with Mt.Egmont (now known as Mt. Taranaki) in the background and with inset photos of Kingsford Smith & Ulm. (2 items). View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$180StatusSold Lot 1309 THE APRIL 1934 AIRMAIL FLIGHT TO NEW ZEALAND: 11th April 1934, two-page Imperial cablegram reporting that the short-wave (radio) operator at Auckland had heard Ulm calling the "Kalingo" and also calling other vessels "using the main and emergency [radio] sets. Evidently monoplane [Faith in Australia] running smoothly..." stamped at Sydney. Ulm, Allan & Boulton flew a large quantity of airmail letters from Australia to New Zealand (April 10-11) and return. View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$80StatusSold Lot 1310 THE MacROBERTSON AIR RACE from ENGLAND to AUSTRALIA, October 1934: An album containing a collection of original photographs of different sizes, the largest being 19.5 x 31cm. Subjects include C.W.A. Scott & T. Campbell Black (the winning pilots), the Dutch "Uiver: and crew (which won the handicap section), the trophy, a DH Comet on the ground at Mascot, etc. (12 items). View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1311 THE LOSS OF THE "STELLA AUSTRALIS" - CHARLES ULM & CREW - DECEMBER 1934. A folio of 21 original press photographs (various sizes), and 3 original hand-drawn maps (as published), all from the "San Francisco Examiner" archives. The photos show Ulm and his crew preparing for the flight, signing registers, fuelling the plane and the plane at take off. The maps show the planned route from San Francisco via Honolulu, Fanning Island, Suva, Auckland and on to Sydney, plus the area from which the last d View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Price Realized$1,600StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1312 TRANS-TASMAN AIR SERVICE DEVELOPMENT COMPANY LIMITED: MINUTE BOOK from 14th June 1935, the first meeting of the Board of Directors: Sir Charles Kingsford Smith, Captain P.G. Taylor, B.T. Sheil and J.W. Stannage, up to the final entry on 29th May1936 following the loss of Kingsford Smith en route from England. View details Estimate$8,000 - $10,000Price Realized$5,000StatusSold Lot 1313 BRITISH OFFICIAL AIR MINISTRY PHOTOGRAPHS: A collection of 1930s-40s original photgraphs with explanations affixed verso; noted "Italian Bombers shot down in England Nov.1940", "One of the Seven Downed German Planes 19.6.40", "Another Nazi Bomber shot down, Sept.1940", "The end of a raid", "Bombing the barges at Dunkirk", "After the attack on the Italian Fleet at Taranto....11/12th Nov. 1940", etc. Mixed sizes, (20 items)., View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusCLOSED! Lot 1314 THE "SUN" - "TELEGRAPH" AIRWAYS EXHIBITION, February 1935 at the Sun-Telegraph Building, Sydney: a complete original catalogue for this important exhibition, 24pp + covers. The exhibition featured "A collection of photographs and exhibits illustrative of the development of aviation in the Empire, with special reference to Australian aviators..." Section E featured many aviators with Australian connections including W.E. Hart, Harry Hawker, Ross Smith, Parer & McIntosh, Allan Cobham, Bert Hinkler View details Estimate$120 - $150Price Realized$100StatusSold Lot 1315 THE LAST FLIGHT OF THE "SOUTHERN CROSS". 18th July 1935 special envelope carried aboard the "Southern Cross" on its' flight from Mascot to Richmond. The envelope is numbered "16" and has been signed by everyone on board: Charles Kingsford Smith, Mary Kingsford Smith, Beau Shiel, John Stannage, P.G. Taylor, John Ulm and C.G. Scrimgeour. Self-addressed to well-known aviation historian and collector, Ernest A. Crome, the envelope also bears a perforated example of the Crome-designed vignette which View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Price Realized$800StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1316 THE LAST FLIGHT OF THE "SOUTHERN CROSS". Another example of the envelopes flown and fully signed by all on board the "Southern Cross". This envelope is numbered "43" and bears the very scarce IMPERFORATE form of the round-the-world route map vignette. View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,600Price Realized$1,000StatusSold Lot 1317 THE LAST FLIGHT OF THE "SOUTHERN CROSS". A complete proof sheetlet of four of the round-the-world-route-map vignettes designed by Ernest Crome. Provenance: From the estate of Ernest Crome. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$180StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1318 THE LAST FLIGHT OF THE "SOUTHERN CROSS". A complete IMPERFORATE proof sheetlet of four of the round-the-world-route-map vignettes designed by Ernest Crome. Provenance: From the estate of Ernest Crome. View details Estimate$400 - $500Price Realized$300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1319 THE LAST FLIGHT OF THE "SOUTHERN CROSS". A special envelope postmarked at RICHMOND on 18th July 1935 at the conclusion of the short flight from Mascot; signed by the pilot, Charles Kingsford Smith, bearing a perforated vignette and addressed to Ernie Crome. Accompanied by a QANTAS reproduction photograph of the "Southern Cross" in flight. Also, a B.D.V. cigarette card featuring CKS. (3 items). View details Estimate$500 - $750StatusCLOSED! Lot 1320 THE LOSS OF CHARLES KINGSFORD SMITH & TOMMY PETHYBRIDGE: A scrapbook containing many newspaper cuttings regarding their flight from England to Australia, during which they hoped to break the speed record established by Scott & Campbell-Black a year earlier. The loss of contact with their aeroplane, the Lady Southern Cross, as they flew through a storm between Allahbad and Singapore, is graphically described in these pages, as is the search, the speculation about where they might be.... View details Estimate$500 - $1,000Price Realized$400StatusSold Lot 1321 EUROPEAN AEROPLANES: A folder containing 1936-37 original photographs of Junkers planes including the JU86 "Buckeberg", the plane under construction, the JU86 model under construction for South African Railways & Harbours, the Dornier DO-18 flying boat, the DO-22, the Lufthansa HA-139 "Nordstern", the French flying boat "Bretagne", the Focke-Wulf FW-44, the Junkers JU-90 and the Arado AR76. (19 items, mainly approx. 12 x 17cm.). View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$160StatusSold Lot 1322 AIRCRAFT OF THE MID-1930s: A collection of original photographs, mixed sizes (the largest being 20 x 25cm), including Vought Pursuit, Scout Bomber, a Polish Single-seat fighter, a Miles Mohawk, a Hawk Trainer, a Beechcraft airlines, North American NA16, a Burnelli UB-14, a Seversky P-35, a Lockheed 12, etc. (19 items). View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusCLOSED! Lot 1323 THE CRASH OF THE AIRLINES OF AUSTRALIA STINSON ON LAMINGTON PLATEAU, FEBRUARY 1937: A folder containing original photographs, some research material, a cockpit photo and an original "Pre-Announcement of the 1936 Stinson MULTI-PURPOSE Reliant" from the manufacturer in Wayne, Michigan. (In the Australian Airmail Catalogue, the Lamington Crash is referenced as AAMC.704a). View details Estimate$250 - $300Price Realized$240StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1324 WIDE WORLD PHOTOS: World War Two era original photographs with attached details for possible publication. Subjects include "The Desert Patrol" (Dec.1940), "A Flying Fortress Leaves the Ground" (Nov.1940), "Training Parachute Troops" (Jan.1941), "A Nazi Dernier being heavily attacked" (Jan.1941), "Poles repay Nazis with bombs Nov.1940", "Italian Air Activity on the Greek Front" (Dec.1940), "Camera Record of the Aerial Combat over Britain", etc. Various sizes; mixed condition. (20 items). View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusCLOSED! Lot 1325 AMERICAN WW2 WARPLANE PRODUCTION: A folder of original photographs from the Curtiss-Wright Corporation, the Allison Division of General Motors, and a two-page text document from The Glenn L. Martin Company, mainly 25 x 20cm. (15 items). View details Estimate$300 - $400Price Realized$240StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1326 WORLD WAR TWO R.A.A.F. PHOTOGRAPHS: A collection of various sizes, the largest being 22 x 32cm, depicting a crew about to climb aboard their plane at Wagga RAAF Station 1941, a trainee pilot, planes in flight, loading bombs, R.A.A.F. crews departing from Sydney by ship, etc., some still in proof sheets or strips. (38 images; slight duplication). View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1327 WORLD WAR TWO ERA & LATER MILITARY AIRCRAFT: A collection of original photographs issued by North American Aviation, Inc., Bell Aircraft Corp., Douglas Aircraft Corp., Lockheed, De Havilland, Vickers, Republic Aviation Corp., Bellanca Aircraft Corp., Seversky Aircraft Corp., etc. Mixed sizes but mainly approx. 20 x 25cm. (20 items) View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusCLOSED! Lot 1328 AVIATION MEMORABILIA: photographs, postcards, documents, letters and printed ephemera contained in 10 folders. Folder titles include "Wagga 1942", "WWII RAAF", "HELICOPTER. SHELL CO., C.L.S. DOUGLAS", "STINSON ENVOY", "PERCIVAL GULL", "WWII PLANE ENGINES", "CRADLE TO GRAVE - WAR PLANE - '38, '39, '40" View details Estimate$500 - $1,000Price Realized$300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1329 CONCORDE: A duplicated range of original photographs comprising "Concorde 01, the first pre-production aircraft, on a test flight from its base at Fairford, Gloucestershire, England" (4); "Concorde 002 over England on a test flight from its base at Fairford, Gloucestershire" (5); "A view of the cockpit of Concorde 002" (4); "The interior of the Concorde full-scale passenger cabin mock-up at British Aircraft Corporation's Filton Works. (6). Mainly fine; all 20 x 25cm. (Total: 19 items). View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$220StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1330 CONCORDE: A duplicated range of 1966-71 original photographs from Rolls Royce (re the Olympus 593 Mk 602 engine), the pilots, the final assembly of the 2nd and 4th Concorde production aircraft at BAC's Filton, Bristol factory, the 1st and 3rd Concorde production aircraft on the assembly line at the Aerospatiale Toulouse factory, three Concordes on the ground at the BAC test flight base at Fairford, Gloucestershire; mainly fine. All approx. 20 x 25cm. (22 items). View details Estimate$400 - $500Price Realized$300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1331 A substantial accumulation of scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, correspondence, original photographs, research notes, etc. Rather untidily stored, so a wonderful opportunity for the student of early aviation in Australia and overseas. Mixed condition. (qty.) View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$240StatusSold Lot 1332 An accumulation of early magazines and periodicals including "The Aeroplane" (issues between 1934 and 1954), "Air Pictorial and Air Reserve Gazette" (issues between 1956 and 1961), plus others. Mixed condition. View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$40StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1333 CIGARETTE CARDS: AVIATION, etc.: W.D. & H.O. WILLS: 1930 "Speed" complete set (50) EF. The set includes "The Southern Cross", "The Graf Zeppelin", "The Bluebird", "The Royal Scot" and "The Mauritania". View details Estimate$120 - $150Price Realized$80StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1334 CIGARETTE CARDS: Lambert & Butler: 1932 "A History of Aviation (green images)" complete set (25); superb condition. View details Estimate$80 - $100Price Realized$120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1335 CIGARETTE CARDS: John Player & Sons 1935 "Aeroplanes (Civil)" complete set (50) in the special Players album. View details Estimate$100 - $125Price Realized$100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1336 CIGARETTE CARDS: United Kingdom Tobacco Co.: 1938 "Aircraft" complete set (50) with "The Greys Cigarettes" adhesive backs; superb condition. View details Estimate$120 - $150StatusCLOSED! Lot 1337 CIGARETTE CARDS: Pattreiouex Ltd (Senior Service Cigarettes): 1938 "Flying" complete set (48); superb condition. View details Estimate$50 - $75Price Realized$40StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1338 CIGARETTE CARDS: John Player & Sons 1938 "Aircraft of the Royal Air Force" complete set in special Players album. View details Estimate$100 - $125Price Realized$120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1339 An antique railway luggage rack, copper brass and hardwood with wire mesh, 19th/20th century, 260cm long View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$220StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1340 'LADY JANE' - STEAM LOCOMOTIVE, TENDER & CARRIAGE: a well engineered 5" gauge model of a 4-2-0 Crampton locomotive (c.1854), featuring a timber clad boiler, brass banding, dome and chimney top and four large driving wheels, length (including tender & carriage) 184cm. View details Estimate$6,000 - $8,000Price Realized$4,800StatusSold Lot 1341 'DYAK' 2-6-0 LOCOMOTIVE AND TENDER: 2.5 inch gauge model of c.1938 steam locomotive built to LBSC design, copper boiler and fittings including water and pressure gauges, length (with tender) 80cm, weight 13kg; accompanied by a wooden display board with track. View details Estimate$2,000 - $4,000Price Realized$1,200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1342 CLAYTON UNDERTYPE STEAM WAGON: model of c.1922 steam wagon built to a Robin Dyer 2-inch scale design, livery in green, tractor unit length 81cm, trailer length 120cm; accompanied by copious 1979 Model Engineer magazine extracts detailing the design and construction of the model. View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusCLOSED! Lot 1343 ENGLISH COUNTY MAPS: with "Oxford Shire" [1695] & "The East Riding of Yorkshire" [c.1720], both by Robert Mordern; attractively framed & glazed, each 55 x 61cm. (2) View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$140StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1344 [GERMANY], JOHANN BAPTIST HOMANN, Circuli Westphaliae in omnes suos Status Et Provincias accuratè divisi Nova et exacta Tabula / edita sumtibus Ioh. Baptistae Homan, Published at Noribergae, [ca. 1720], hand-coloured copper engraving, 57 x 48.5cm. From Bremen in the north to Witgenstein in the south and with Muenster in the middle. A detailed early map with a fine cartouche. View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusCLOSED! Lot 1345 Jacques Nicolas BELLIN (1703-1772), Carte Reduite du Detroit De Magellan..., [The Strait of Magellan], copper engraving, 1753, from Vol.11 of Antoine Francois Prevost's 'L`Histoire Generale des Voyages' published by Pierre de Hondt, The Hague between 1747 & 1780. Plate: 19 x 34.5cm; Sheet: 28 x 36cm. View details Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$240StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1346 Robert Wilkinson: "ASIA, drawn from the latest Astronomical Observations", contemporary hand-colouring, [London, 1808], includes New Holland, 34 x 27cm View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$420StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1347 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). View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$1,000StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1348 Three large vellum sheets on which are recorded the details of land holdings and transactions in and around Liverpool during the reign of King George 1 (early 1700s) and later. With relevant tax stamps but lacking seals. Each approx. 64 x 72cm. View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1349 KINGO, Th[omas]. Den forordnede Ny Kirke-Psalme-Bog, [Copenhagen, 1723]. Contemporary silk over wooden boards, marbled end-papers, silver clasps and decorations to upper and lower boards. View details Estimate$200 - $400Price Realized$1,900StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1350 A group of seven framed antique documents and indentures written in French and English, 18th/19th century, the largest frame 45 x 81cm overall View details Quantity7Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$260StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1351 A range of etchings and engravings affixed to the pages of a dilapidated album, or loosely inserted; various sizes and subjects (approx. 220 items). Includes some Australasian subjects. Mixed condition. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1352 LEGAL DOCUMENTS: A collection of 1880s - 1900s framed & glazed indentures and conveyances, mainly English; all with appropriate revenue stamps, signatures and hand-drawn maps, where relevant. (11 items). The largest 64 x 78cm. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1353 TENISON-WOODS, J.E. Fish and Fisheries of N.S.Wales, [Thomas Richards, Government Printer, Sydney 1882]. First edition. pp 213, Octavo, half leather bound with marbled boards, gilt lettering on spine, fifty photographic plates, bindings intact. View details Estimate$120 - $180Price Realized$200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1354 "The Works of Sir Edwin Landseer" in three (dilapidated) volumes, text by W. Cosmo Monkhouse, the gilt-tooled cloth bindings are more or less detached with many loose pages evident, however most of the 44 steel engravings and numerous woodcuts appear to be present; peripheral foxing on many pages; publisher Virtue & Co (London), c.1880s. View details Estimate$80 - $120Price Realized$60StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1355 BALL, SIR ROBERT STAWELL, An Atlas of Astronomy: A Series of Seventy-Two Plates with Introduction and Index. [George Philip & Son, London, 1892] 1st ed., 72 lithographic plates, with spacers and tissue guards. Original blue cloth binding with gilt decorations and lettering; all edges gilt. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$280StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1356 MOUNTAINS & MOUNTAINEERING: A shelf of books including " View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1357 "A Chart of the British Empire showing the growth of the Empire during the Queen's Reign and also the relative prosperity of its various divisions at the present time." circa 1900 supplement to "The Graphic", 84 x 125cm. A remarkable document, listing, amongst other things "The growth of large towns" (Melbourne: 490,000; Adelaide: 133,000); "Deficiency of Females in each 100 Males" (New Zealand: 11; Western Australia: 55); etc. View details Estimate$200 - $400Price Realized$850StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1358 ELLIS, Edward S. (1840 - 1916) "Ned in the Block House", "Ned in the Woods", "Ned on the River" and "Footprints in the Forest", all Cassell & Co. hardcover editions with attractive illustrated covers, View details Estimate$80 - $120Price Realized$220StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1359 SCOTT, Captain Robert. Scott's Last Expedition. Being the journals . . . arranged by Leonard Huxley. [London, Smith, Elder & Co.,1913] Two volumes, original blue cloth. First edition. View details Estimate$400 - $500Price Realized$340StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1360 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, 507pp. With 16 mounted colour illustrations by Arthur Rackham, each with printed tissue overleaf, plus text illustrations in black and white. Folio, publisher's gilt-decorated vellum, First edition; No. 345 of 500 copies signed by Rackham. View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Price Realized$1,000StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1361 LORD GEORGE GORDON BYRON, "Marino Faliero : Doge of Venice : An Historical Tragedy, in Fife Acts" [Avalun-Verlag, Vienna, 1922]; limited edition #145 of 275 numbered and signed by Frank Sepp, the illustrator. Hardcover, quarter parchment, 112pp., 1st ed. View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$60StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1362 POLAR EXPLORATION: A shelf of books, mainly hardcover with d/jackets, including "Willis Island" by Davis (1923, signed), "Polar Exploration" by Croft (1939), "The Crossing of Antarctica" by Fuchs & Hillary (1958), "The Far South" by Bechervaise (1961), "Blizzard and Fire" by Bechervaise (1963, signed), "The Worst Journey in the World" by Cherry-Garrard (1965), "The Sea and the Snow" by Temple (1966), "Mawson : A Life" by Ayres (1999), plus 8 others. (16 vols). View details Estimate$400 - $500Price Realized$440StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1363 ABEL PFEFFERMANN PANN (1883 - 1963), "Bereshit: Genesis, from the Creation Until the Deluge, twenty five original coloured lithographs reproduced by The Author, issued by The Palestine Art Publishing Co. Ltd. Jerusalem.", c1925, half-calf binding with gilt decorations and title to spine. 45 x 31cm. View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$340StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1364 CHRISTIE, Agatha, The Secret of Chimneys, [John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1925], 306pp, rebound in hard covers for Northcote Free Library; foxing throughout; p225/6 dislodged from binding but present. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1365 PROGRAMMES, ETC.: "Theatre de Monte-Carlo 1925 Programme Officieal de la season d'Opera", "Folies Bergere" (circa 1961), Latin Quarter, and "The Elks National Memorial" book, 1931. (5 items). View details Quantity5Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1366 EPHEMERA & NEWPAPERS: Assortment with several newspaper 'Royalty' commemorative editions incl. "The Argus" 1937 (May 24) Coronation Souvenir, "The Star" 1934 (Dec.8) for Royal Centenary Visit (2), "The Sun" 1934 (Dec.11) Centenary Celebrations, also 1910 (May 24) Illustrated London News edition for "Funeral Procession of KEVII" and 1910 (May 21) "Gentlewoman's In Memoriam of KEVII" supplement; also Woman's Weekly "The Australian Year" (1957); View details Estimate$120 - $160Price Realized$100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1367 EVERARD, John, PORTRAIT OF A MODEL, with an Introduction by Charles Simpson, R.I. [London; George Routledge & Sons], 1st edition, 1939, oatmeal cloth covers with red titles to front and spine. (47 of 48 plates present). View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusCLOSED! Lot 1368 MOUNTAINS & MOUNTAINEERING: A shelf of books including " View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1369 GLAMOUR CALENDAR IMAGES: selection of 1950s-70s images including pin-up artwork by Vaughan Bass, Art Frahm, Gil Elvgren, Knute Munson & Charles Showalter, images used to promote H & R Seddon, Dripping Suppliers (East Preston, Melbourne); one image with 1971 calendar still attached; few duplicates, condition variable. (23) View details Estimate$60 - $100Price Realized$180StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1370 SHEET MUSIC: quantity of early to mid 20th century sheet music mostly in A4 booklet form, noting Britten, Delius, Puccini, "Chappell's album of song, dance and talkie hits" and works by Australian composer George Clutsam. Fair to good condition (Qty) View details Estimate$60 - $80Price Realized$80StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1371 MOUNTAINS & MOUNTAINEERING: A shelf of books including "Mountains and Men" by Noyce (1947),"Mountains of Memory" by Lunn (1948), "The Alpine Annual 1950" (h/s, d/j), "The Mountain World" 1953, '54 & '55 (all h/cover with d/js), "High Mountains" by Meade (1954), "K2 The Savage Mountain" by Houston & Bates (1955), plus 12 others. (20 vols). View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1372 HILLARY, Edmund High Adventure (signed), [London, Hodder & Stoughton] 1955, 1st edition; original blue cloth binding; signed by the author and with the bookplate of Charles Bonython. View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$900StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1373 GEOLOGY, MINING, NATURAL RESOURCES & PEST CONTROL: Selection of titles incl. "The Physiography of Victoria" by E. Sherborn Hills (1940), "Bulletins of the Geological Survey of Victoria" (1926) and "Prospectors Guide" (1963) both issued by Department of Mines (Victoria) & "Mines in the Spinifex" by Geoffrey Blainey; also Department of Defence Military Survey Map of Evandale, Tasmania. (1939). (10 items) View details Estimate$80 - $120Price Realized$140StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1374 MARITIME, NAVAL & SHIPWRECKS: library with better hardbound titles incl "Historic Naval Events of Australia, Day-by-Day" by Lew Lind, "Warships of Australia" by Ross Gillett "History of An Australian Schooner 1903-1975" by Captain Ralph McDonell, "New Zealand Shipwrecks 1795 to 1960" by Ingram & Wheatley, "The Lighthouses of Victoria" by Dacre Smyth; also softbound "The 'Graphic' souvenir of the German Navy's Surrender" (1918), View details Estimate$160 - $240Price Realized$240StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1375 MARITIME & NAVAL: selection of hardbound titles, several of "coffee-table" magnitude including "Lost Liners" by Ballard & Archbold, "Titanic" by Leo Marriott, "Jane's Fighting Ships of World War I" & "The Royal Australian Navy" by George Odgers; also "Exploring the Lusitania" by Ballard, "Lost Ships of Guadacanal" by Ballard, "Ships in Australian Waters" by Williams & Serle, "Australian & New Zealand Warships 1914-1945" by Ross Gillett. (13) View details Estimate$140 - $180Price Realized$180StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1376 SHIPS & SHIPPING: with "Passenger Ships of Australia & New Zealand: Volume I 1876-1912" by Plowman, "The Royal Australian Navy - A Pictorial Review" by John Mortimer; also softbound "The Story of P&O" by David & Stephen Howarth, "Australian Coastal Shipping" by Barry Pemberton, etc, plus some booklets/magazines. (qty) View details Estimate$60 - $80Price Realized$260StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1377 AUSTRALIAN SHIPWRECKS: Assembly of predominantly softbound titles many by Jack Loney including "Mysteries of the Bass Strait Triangle", "Wrecks along the Great Ocean Road", "Wrecks on the Gippsland Coast", "Wrecks on the New South Wales Coast", "Wrecks on the Western Australian Coast", "Wrecks on the Queensland Coast" & "Victorian Shipwrecks" (hardbound); also "Australian Shipwrecks: 1622-1850" by Bateson (hardbound), "Wrecks in Tasmanian Waters" (2, both hardbound) & "Wrecks in Darwin Waters" b View details Estimate$120 - $160Price Realized$440StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1378 "Royal Australian Navy 1939-1942" (686pp) & "1942-1945" (753pp) by G. Hermon Gill, published 1957 & 1968 respectively by the Australian War Memorial (Canberra), both editions with dust jackets. (2) View details Quantity2Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$60StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1379 POLAR EXPLORATION: A shelf of books, mainly hardcover with d/jackets, including View details Estimate$250 - $300Price Realized$280StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1380 A VLADIMIR NABOKOV LIBRARY: including "The Gift" [1963, 1st ed.], "Poems and Problems" [1970, 1st ed.], "Ada" [1969 1st ed.] plus four others; all hardback with dust jackets; also View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$260StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1381 BIRDS & BIRDWATCHING: small library of titles incl. "Birds of Western Australia" by Serventy & Whittell, "The Mallee-Fowl; The Bird that Builds an Incubator" by Frith, "The Romance of the Lyrebird" by Chisholm and "Australia Finches" by Immelmann; overseas titles incl. "Manual of British Birds" by Saunders (1889, first edn.); few other natural history books incl. "Marine Molluscs of Victoria" by Macpherson & Gabriel. (30) View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1382 AUSTRALIA - EXPLORATION, TRAVEL & SETTLEMENT: small library of books with "ANARE" by Law & Bechervaise (1957), "Railroading in Tasmania 1830-1962" by Colley, "So fine a Country: A History of the Shire of Corio" (Ian Wynd, 1981), "Pictorial Guide to West Coat of Tasmania" (facsimile edition, 1971), "The Streets of Melbourne from early Photographs" (1985), "Australia on Wheels - Early Beginning to the Present Day" (1999); also guides, pamhplets & magazines incl. "Aboriginal Polices of the Aborigin View details Estimate$80 - $120Price Realized$100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1383 AUSTRALIA - HISTORY, GEOGRAPHY & TRAVEL: with "coffee table" tomes "Australia: A Timeless Grandeur" by Grasswill & "Australia: The Greatest Island" by Raymond both lavishly illustrated with Reg Morrison photography; also "Australia: The Wild Continent" by Morcombe, "Cradle Mountain, Lake St Clair National Park" by Chapman, "Explore Australia's Great Rivers" by Andrews and "A Coastal Diary" by John Landy; plus softbound "Stories of Australian Colonial Days" (2), View details Estimate$120 - $160Price Realized$40StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1384 PALMER, Samuel, A Vision Recaptured: The Complete Etchings and the Paintings for Milton and for Virgil. No.169 from a limited edition; Small folio, 88pp., 23 plates in colour and black and white, with 5 facsimile prints in a separate folder, contained in a cloth portfolio. Also, "Rouault" by Edward Alden Jewell (1947) and "Robertson/Russell/Snowdon Private View : The Lively World of British Art" (1965). (3 vols.). View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusCLOSED! Lot 1385 AUSTRALIAN ARTISTS group of nine hardback reference books including Charles Blackman, John Perceval, Brett Whiteley, Norman Lindsay, Sidney Nolan, Pro Hart, Arthur Boyd etc. View details Quantity9Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$380StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1386 TAYLOR, Derek; HARRISON, George, FIFTY YEARS ADRIFT. [Genesis Publications Ltd, Guildford, 1984]. Signed by Derek Taylor and George Harrison. Limited to 2000 numbered copies of which this #917. Publisher's original dark brown half leather, with five raised bands and gilt title and decorations to the spine, a gilt ship illustration to the upper board, and a gilt reproduction of Taylor's signature to the lower board. All page edges gilt and with bound in marking ribbon and buckram slipcase. Illust View details Estimate$3,000 - $4,000Price Realized$2,600StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1387 "Australia's Wilderness Heritage" by Meier, Figgis & Mosley (1988), in two volumes, both 400pp hardbound with dustjackets, lavishly illustrated; almost as new. View details Estimate$60 - $80Price Realized$40StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1388 BALANCE OF A LIBRARY: mainly hardbound, many maritime related incl. "Man on the Rim: The Peopling of the Pacific" by Thorne & Raymond (1989); also noted "Lebanon to Labuan - A Story of Mapping by the Australian Survey Corps, World War II" by Lawrence Fitzgerald (1980); plus a few magazines & guides. (40+ items) View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$180StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1389 INSTITUTE OF DOCUMENTATION FOR THE INVESTIGATION OF NAZI WAR CRIMES: six volumes of documents, published between 1991 and 1996, compiled by the Institute's director Tuviah Freedman. (6) View details Estimate$160 - $220StatusCLOSED! Lot 1390 "COLOR" ATLAS: standard colour measure scale for "nomenclature, identification, analysis and production of colour" for use in "photo processes, multicolour printing and other branches of industrial arts", published by Huebner Laboratories (New York, 1936), elephant folio sized at 53x46cm, weight 10.3kg. View details Estimate$150 - $250StatusCLOSED! Lot 1391 Smith, Michael; Byrne, Jennifer; et al. BRUCE POSTLE : THE IMAGE MAKER, [Melbourne, 2011] 1st edition. 374pp., No.572 from a limited edition of 1000, signed by Postle. View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$140StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1392 Love That Burns: A Chronicle of Fleetwood Mac : Volume One 1967 - 1974, by Mick Fleetwood COLLECTORS EDITION: A chronicle of the first seven years of Fleetwood Mac. This official limited edition autobiography contains over 400 rare images and contributions from early Fleetwood Mac members including the legendary Peter Green, Christine McVie and John McVie and Jeremy Spencer. No.602 of a limited edition of only 1,650 copies worldwide; signed by Mick Fleetwood. In the original publisher's packagin View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$420StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1393 JEAN BOICHARD, Cirque D'Hiver, lithograph in colour, laid down on linen, signed in the plate lower right, c.1890, View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,250Price Realized$750StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1394 [EARLY CIRCUS POSTER] LOUIS GALICE (1864-1935), Blanche Allarty et ses Méharas, colour lithograph, circa 1900, Printed by: Affiches Louis Galice, Paris, 100 x 65cm. View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$400StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1395 [CIRCUS POSTER], Candido Aragonez DE FARIA (1849-1911), La Centauresse Blanche Allarty : Hippodrome Bostock, Printer: Affiches Faria, Paris, View details Estimate$800 - $1,000Price Realized$750StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1396 PEARS SOAP "The Fisherman's Wooing" chromolithograph advertising poster in timber frame, late 19th century, 94 x 49cm overall View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$160StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1397 SVEN HENRIKSEN (1890 - 1935), ZOOLOGISK HAVE KOBENHAVN, 1914, The Hippopotamus, printed by Andreas & Lachmann Ltd., 86 x 62cm (framed & glazed, 106 x 80cm overall). View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$240StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1398 SVEN BRASCH (1886-1970) ZOOLOGISK HAVE, 1924 The Hippopotamus, printed by Sylvester Hvid, Copenhagen , 79 x 55cm (sight); (framed & glazed, 108.5 x 79cm overall). View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$420StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1399 Travel Association of Great Britain, six different monochrome photographic posters including The Cathedral Norwich, Cathedral and River Wye Hereford, The Old Town Hall Bridgnorth Shropshire, The Abbey and Mill Tewkesbury, The Giant's Causeway Northern Ireland & Harlech Castle and Snowdonia Wales, printed circa 1938, various sizes, the largest 103 x 64cm. Mixed condition. (6). View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1400 DANISH ANTI-NAZI POSTER: WW2-era anti-Nazi propaganda poster "NAZISTERNE gaar til Angreb" [The Nazis go on the attack...], lithograph in colour, artwork by "E.S." and printed by Dyva & Jeppesens Bogtrykkeri Aktieselskab, Copenhagen. 85 x 62cm, laid down on linen. View details Estimate$500 - $750StatusCLOSED! Lot 1401 ANTI-NAZI PARTY FROM GENERAL MOTORS: "IF THERE'S ANY LEAD IT SHOULD BE IN THE AXIS : KEEP 'EM FIGHTING!", 1942, colour lithograph, produced by the Fisher Body Division of General Motors Corporation, 104 x 79cm (laid down on linen; framed and glazed, overall 128 x 103cm. Probably the scarcest of the GM posters, with a barrage of General Motors’ bullets flying at Hitler’s ‘Axis’. View details Estimate$600 - $800Price Realized$1,100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1402 MARTIN PEIKERT (1901-1975), Les Diablerets 1200 - 3000m. Suisse Schweiz Switzerland, 1963, 99 x 65cm (sight); (framed & glazed 122 x 87cm overall) View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Price Realized$1,000StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1403 JOSEPH EULA (1925 - 2004), The Supremes, Lincoln Center, Philharmonic Hall, Friday October 15, 1965, lithograph in colours, signed in the plate at lower left, View details Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$550StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1404 1900s-30s array (few later) in album many from British Commonwealth islands including Aden, Barbados, Bermuda (incl. "Hamilton Cricket Field"), Ceylon, Fiji (real-photo types), Gibraltar, Jamaica, Malta, St Lucia (incl. "Ladies Pavilion, Cricket Field, Castries"), Trinidad (incl. "Lunatic Asylum"); also Cuba, Egypt incl Suez Canal, Haiti, Kirkwall (Scotland), Martinique, Nova Scotia (Canada), Panama; some evocative subject matters and plenty of animated scenes. Good lot. (180 approx) View details Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$220StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Items per page 102550100 Previous|1...89101112131415|Next123456789101112131415 Previous 123456789101112131415 Next Previous 123456789101112131415 Next
