AUSTRALIAN & HISTORICAL (#486) Closed Auction Info PDF Prices Realized 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 701-800 of 1271. Previous|1...678910111213|Next12345678910111213 Lot 690 BELT BUCKLE COMPONENTS, unfinished cast brass prototypes, 19th century ( 6 pieces), the largest 7cm wide View details Quantity6Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$140StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 691 PAIR: 1914-15 Star and British War Medal, named to 709 PTE. O. BATES. 7/L. H. RGT. A.I.F. (2). View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 692 PAIR: British War Medal 1914-18 and Victory Medal 1914-19, named to 7319 SPR. W. WALSH 3 TUN COY. A.I.F. (2). View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$420StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 693 LIGHT HORSE WW1 period spurs, plated steel with original leather straps. Broad arrow mark stamped "1914" with maker's mark (illegible), 15cm long View details Estimate$300 - $400Price Realized$360StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 694 Princess Mary's "Christmas 1914" cake tin with her 1915 Victorious New Year card; the tin containing the 1914-15 Star, British War Medal 1914-18 and the Victory Medal 1914-19 issued to 749 SGT.A.H. WARREN A.S.C. A.I.F, together with his dog tag, various badges, a lighter with his engraved initials, etc. (21 items). View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$850StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 695 A CORRESPONDENCE OF ELEVEN LETTERS FROM JOHN MONASH TO ADA BENJAMIN (née Krakowski) : 1911 to 1926 During the turbulent and hugely consequential years that included his service during World War One, John Monash [1865 - 1931] maintained a correspondence with his "old flame" Ada Krakowski [1864 - 1937]. View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Price Realized$26,000StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 696 GALLIPOLI souvenir scarf "A Souvenir Of The Great World War And The Glorious Part Played By Australia And New Zealand" with flags and scene of the Gallipoli landing and the wreck of the Emden after her fight with The Sydney off the Cocos Islands. Housed in a fine Australian blackwood Folk Art style frame with gilt slip. scarf 46 x 60cm, 83 x 102cm overall View details Estimate$600 - $800StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 697 "SUPREME SACRIFICE, HE GAVE HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS, GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN", WW1 period framed military photo portrait, 33 x 28cm overall View details Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$400StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 698 SECOND LIEUTENANT ALEXANDER JOHN ROBERTSON - KILLED IN ACTION AT GALLIPOLI, AUGUST 1915 A group of items associated with Robertson's death, shortly after his arrival at Gallipoli, together with some Robertson family items: 1: The "Dead Man's Penny" issued in Robertson's name, accompanied by the "letter" from George V headed "Buckingham Palace" and the folded cardboard case in which it was delivered. Also 8 other items. View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Price Realized$3,800StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 699 TURKEY - World War One Star, also known as the Gallipoli Star medal/badge; 1915, with "B.B.&Co" verso under pin; enamel and nickel-plated brass. Some (remnant) ribbon present. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$420StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 700 WWI BRONZE MEMORIAL PLAQUE: inscribed 'He Died for Freedom and Honour', in the name of 'LEO ALPHONSUS KENNEDY', and issued to his next of kin; pierced at top, blank on reverse, 120cm diameter, weight 14.7gr. View details Estimate$160 - $200Price Realized$1,300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 701 WORLD WAR ONE DIARIES & DOCUMENTS - 50th BRIGADE MACHINE GUN COMPANY, 1916-18: The hand-written diaries are the detailed operation records/reports belonging to the estate of the late William B. Martin of Ballarat, Victoria. View details Estimate$1,000 - $2,000Price Realized$750StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 702 WW1 TURKISH P.O.W. beadwork bag emblazoned "TURKISH PRISONERS, 1917", adorned with an image of the prison. A rare survivor in excellent condition, only the second example seen in our rooms. 25cm high overall, 12cm wide View details Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$800StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 703 WW1 "DEATH PENNY" for GEORGE HENRY WOODHOUSE, together with a small accumulation of WW1 items including a 1914 Christmas tin, a Field Service Post Card, a real photo military portrait postcard, a carved mother of pearl rising sun brooch, A Syrian trinket box and an embroidered handkerchief and a military patch, (7 items) View details Quantity7Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$700StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 704 WW1 9ct yellow gold military fob, made by WILLIS & SONS of Melbourne, engraved verso "TO E. CLOHESY FROM F.T.G.P.S. 1919", stamped "9.W." with unicorn mark, 4cm high, 5 grams View details Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$380StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 705 WW1 binoculars in original leather case, stamped "W. SWART. 1917, No.27734, H. 20 MAN", View details Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$260StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 706 AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH MILITARY FORCES sweetheart brooch with enamel decoration, stamped "9ct SL", 2.4cm wide View details Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$340StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 707 BEAN, C.E.W. "Official History Of Australia In The War Of 1914-18" published by Angus & Robertson [Syd. 1934] 3rd edition, 2 vol. hardback in maroon boards with gilt lettering on the spines View details Quantity2Estimate$60 - $100Price Realized$300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 708 WW1 two service medals awarded to 1272. PTE. A.A. RAYNER, 52-BN. A.I.F. View details Quantity2Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$600StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 709 WW1 period "UNITED WE STAND, FOR HOME AND EMPIRE" porcelain baby plate by Grimwades of England, 17cm diameter View details Estimate$80 - $120Price Realized$60StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 710 ANDREW HARDIE GILCHRIST. A document issued in the name of King George V, stamped "Temporary" and dated 6th February 1919, appointing Andrew Hardie Gilchrist a Second Lieutenant in the A.I.F. Land Forces on 22nd April 1918. (Gilchrist departed on that date as part of the 10th General Service Reinforcements; returning to Australia on 4th January 1919.). plus 2 other items. View details Quantity3Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 711 CAPTAIN JOHN CLAUDE MOSELEY HARPER, 7th Australian Field Ambulance The Military Cross awarded to Captain Harper: "During the operations on the Somme River and east of Mont St.Quentin on August 29 and Sept 2, 1918, he displayed the greatest gallantry and coolness in attending the wounded although he was under heavy shell and machine gun fire the whole time." Engraved verso "CAPT. J.C.M. HARPER, A.M.C., A.I.F." in the original case of issue. Accompanied by the formal letter and extract, etc. View details Estimate$3,500 - $4,500Price Realized$4,400StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 712 Private Cecil Thomas Adams (1891 - 1916), a certificate presented to members of Adams' family acknowledging his death in action in France in November 1916, presented by the residence of Rockhampton and district with a photograph of Adams inserted in the vignette, 29 x 40cm View details Estimate$50 - $100Price Realized$200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 713 H.M.A.S. SYDNEY Australian pokerwork waratah plate by FRANK WALTER CUNEO, emblazoned on the front "H.M.A.S. SYDNEY DESTROYED EMDEN 1914", and further noted verso "TIMBER OUT OF H.M.A.S. SYDNEY. DESTROYED EMDEN 1914. F.W.C.", 22cm diameter View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$650StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 714 A small accumulation, including a German 1914-18 Hindenberg Cross, German WW1 loyalty medal, a George VI France & Germany Star, two 1939-45 Victory Medal, 2 1939-45 Australian Service Medals, and various other items. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$700StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 715 AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH MILITARY FORCES: 9ct gold fob badge presented to "Pte A. Shipton by the residents of Rooty Hill District"; weight 6gr. View details Estimate$160 - $200Price Realized$600StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 716 AUSTRALIAN CHIVALRY, J.L. Treloar, Editor, Reproductions in Colour and Duo-Tone of OFFICIAL WAR PAINTINGS, [Australian War Memorial, 1933], original blue cloth binding and with original decorated slipcase. View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$80StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 717 RAAF pennant, military badges, and pins etc (100+ items) View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$500StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 718 A pair of WW2 period leather gaiters, stamped with Defence Department broad arrow mark, and dated 1943, 30cm high View details Quantity2Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$280StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 719 Two WW2 period RAF pilot's microphones, stamped "A.M REF. No.10A/11994 View details Quantity2Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 720 An antique spinner's chair with later WW2 period folk art chip carving displaying American and Australian flags, rising sun, propeller, wings and aeroplanes, 125cm high View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$280StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 721 H.M.A.S. WANGANELLA PENNANT, No.45 wire work bird cage fashioned as a WW2 hospital ship, 93cm long. Together with an original black and white photograph of the WANGANELLA with numerous signatures verso of patients returning from New Guinea. View details Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$240StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 722 WW2 MEDAL GROUP OF SIX: 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Pacific Star; Defence Medal 1939-45; War Medal 1939-45; Australia Service Medal 1939-45. VX9868 G.H. THOMPSON; the last 3 impressed. Display mounted. Accompanied by Member's Personal Equipment Card, Demobilization Procedure Book, Army Driving Licence, The Australian Soldiers' Pocket Book and other items. George Henry Thompson of Collingwood, Melbourne, served in 2/20 Australian Transport Platoon, driving a 2.5 ton Amphibious 6x6 Transport. View details Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$460StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 723 JAPANESE P.O.W. carved teak panel with a scene of Fuji, notation verso reads "Japanese P.O.W. 1946-1948, Singapore, who worked for my father constructing for the British Army (Royal Engineers), 20 x 28cm View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$80StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 724 An accumulation of Australian Commonwealth Military Forces "Rising Sun" badges, various buttons, insignia, "dog" tags, collar pins, etc. Great opportunity. View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$380StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 725 A small accumulation of badges, buttons, etc. incl. "Patriotic Carnival Burwood 1941", "Victoria ARP Warden", "R.A.N. Relief Fund", "Air Force Association", etc. (19 items). View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$240StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 726 JOHN BEW "The archipelago of the East : being the Sunda, the Molucca, and Phillipp Islands ; the chief settlements of the Dutch in India are in the Sunda and Molucca Islands", London : Published as the Act directs, by J. Bew, Pater Noster Row, Feby. 28th 1781. 28 x 38cm, 38 x 58cm overall View details Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$260StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 727 [GREAT BRITAIN - HYDROGRAPHIC DEPT. CHART], Chart of the north coast of Australia. by Phillip P. King, Commander R.N., 1818-21; with additions by Commanders Wickham and Stokes, 1839.; Sheet IV; J. Walker, sculpt. linen backed and displayed between oak hanging rails. 94 x 61cm overall. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$420StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 728 AUSTRALIA IN 1839. Published by The Society For The Diffusion Of Useful Knowledge. Showing the establishment of the new colony of South Australia., 34 x 41cm, 50 x 56cm overall View details Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$140StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 729 JAMES WYLD, Map of South Australia, New South Wales, Van Diemen's Land, and Settled parts of Australia., Respectfully dedicated to Major Sir T.L. Mitchell K.t D.C.L. F.G.S. &c Surveyor General of New South Wales [London : circa 1841], 62 x 94cm; hand coloured, linen backed; framed 78 x 109cm overall. View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Price Realized$750StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 730 EDWARD WELLER, Australia & New Zealand, c1860, with inset of Torres Strait at upper right, 34 x 50cm; framed 53 x 68cm overall. View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 731 AUGUST PETERMANN, "Specialkarte von Australien in 9 Blattern. Nach originalen & Officiellen Quellen von A. Peterman 1875", Lithograph in colour; nine sheets, each 40 x 48cm. [Gotha : Justus Perthes, 1875]. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 732 FIJI ISLANDS, with inset map showing the relative position of the Fiji Islands and the Australian Colonies, [Andrew Garran, The Picturesque Atlas, 1888], engraved with colour, sheet size 43 x 66cm. View details Estimate$150 - $200StatusCLOSED! Lot 733 EASTERN ENTRANCE TO WESTERN PORT (Victoria), Admiralty chart 1707. No.5011. 56 x 73cm View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 734 A collection of assorted maps and charts View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$80StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 735 RICHARD WALTER HILLSDON, Photographer, Lyttelton, New Zealand, sepia photographic print dated 26/11/10, laid down on card, titled "OFFICERS AND CREW CAPT. SCOTT'S ANTARCTIC EXPED.1910" depicting the men in full uniform on board the 'Terra Nova' prior to departure, 24 x 30cm; in contemporary frame, 51 x 56cm. View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,250Price Realized$2,600StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 736 CAPTAIN SCOTT'S SHIP 'THE DISCOVERY': Stereo Card showing 'The Discovery in Dock, Lyttleton, N.Z.', photographer 'J.G. Lamb, Clare Road, St Albans, Christchurch', circa October-November 1901. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$750StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 737 1907-09 BRITISH ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION: "Ponies on Arrival in Antarctic" and "Joyce, Dogs & Penguins"; (2) original unused photo postcards. View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 738 ERNEST SHACKLETON (1874-1922),The Heart of the Antarctic, [London: William Heinemann, 1909], first ed., 2 vols. thick quarto. Vol.I, 373 pp, complete, with sepia coloured frontispiece and 6 colour plates with captioned tissue-guards, 125 B&W photos and 11 diagrams. Vol.II, 419 pp, complete with sepia coloured frontispiece and 6 colour plates with captioned tissue-guards, 132 B&W photos, other illusts. & maps. Ex. Library. View details Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$800StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 739 FRANK HURLEY (1885 - 1962) "A spectre ship looming stark and white against the darkness of the polar night" [the Endurance in the Antarctic winter darkness, trapped in the Weddell Sea, Shackleton Expedition, 27 August 1915], silver gelatin photograph, 15 x 20cm. Provenance: The Estate of Archdeacon John Bidwell (1884-1974); presented to him by Frank Hurley. View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Price Realized$22,000StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 740 FRANK HURLEY (1885 - 1962) "We pulled the three boats a little higher on the beach" [the James Caird, the Dudley Docker and the Stancomb Wills, the day after the first landing on Elephant Island, Shackleton Expedition, 15 April 1916], silver gelatin photograph, 20 x 12cm. Provenance: The Estate of Archdeacon John Bidwell (1884-1974); presented to him by Frank Hurley. View details Estimate$500 - $1,000Price Realized$4,000StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 741 Sir DOUGLAS MAWSON (1882-1958), Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911-14 under the Leadership of Sir Douglas Mawson, D.Sc., B.E.: The complete set of Scientific Reports, all 91 parts as issued from 1916 to 1947. View details Estimate$4,000 - $5,000Price Realized$3,400StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 742 FRANK HURLEY (1885 - 1962), "Panorama from Mt. Wellington, Tas.", sepia tone print, circa 1939, annotated at base. [Ref. Hurley no.: *H51.], mounted on board, 27.5 x 35cm. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 745 AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC TERRITORY: 1957-59 (SG. 1-5) Inaugural stamp issues in complete sheets comprising 1957 2/- Map two sheets of 60, 1959 5d on 4d sheet of 120, 8d on 7d, 1/- & 2/3d in sheets of 80, all pristine MUH, Cat £920++. Hard to source. (6 sheets) View details Estimate$800 - $1,000Price Realized$700StatusSold Lot 746 ROBIN SMITH (b.1927) "An emperor penquin. These elegant birds stand about 115cm high, Bay of Whales, 1958", silver gelatin photograph, annotated, signed and dated verso, 25 x 20cm. View details Estimate$800 - $1,000Price Realized$500StatusSold Lot 747 ROBIN SMITH (b.1927) "Bay of Whales, the gesture of this Emperor penguin is suggestive of a traffic policeman at a street intersection Bay of Whales, 1958" silver gelatin photograph, annotated, signed and dated verso, 25 x 20cm. View details Estimate$800 - $1,000Price Realized$600StatusSold Lot 748 "VICEROY PURE INDIAN TEAS" (Wilkinson & Co. Australia) chromolithograph point of sale advertising poster depicting an Indian man proudly displaying his wares over the body of a Chinese man, 19th century, 49.5 x 38cm, 63 x 53cm overall View details Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$700StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 749 JOHN WEBBER (1751-1793), "A Man Of Van Diemen's Land. A Woman & Child Of Van Diemen's Land", engraving from "Cook's Voyages", 18th century, 24 x 39cm, 34 x 48cm overall View details Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$240StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 750 JOHN WEBBER (1751-1793), "A Man Of New Zealand. A Woman & Child Of New Zealand", engraving from "Cook's Voyages" circa 1784. 24.5 x 39cm, 34 x 48cm overall View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusCLOSED! Lot 751 ANDREW KIPPIS, THE LIFE OF CAPTAIN JAMES COOK, [Dublin : Chamberlaine, Colles, et al., 1788] 1st Irish edition, issued in the same year as the first London edition; 8vo, contemporary calf, the spine with gilt and contrasting label, blank endpapers, xvi, 527pp, bookplate of William Blair of Blair to front paste down. View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Price Realized$1,400StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 752 GOVERNOR ARTHUR PHILLIP, "The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay; with an Account of the Establishment of the Colonies of PORT JACKSON & NORFOLK ISLAND; compiled from Authentic Papers, which have been obtained from the several Departments, to which are added the Journals of Lieuts. Shortland, Watts, Ball, & Capt. Marshall, with an Account of their New Discoveries. Embellished with fifty five Copper Plates, The Maps and Charts taken from Actual Surveys, & the Plans & Views drawn on the Spot View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Price Realized$4,600StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 753 GOVERNOR ARTHUR PHILLIP, "The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay...", The 1950 facsimile edition of the 1789 original, [Georgian House, Melbourne, 1950] #425 of 1000. Excellent condition, with defective d/j. View details Estimate$60 - $80Price Realized$140StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 754 CAPTAIN WILLIAM DAMPIER, A NEW VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD - 4th Edition 1699; VOYAGES AND DESCRIPTIONS Vol. II. in THREE Parts - 2nd Edition, 1700; and, A VOYAGE TO NEW HOLLAND, &c IN THE YEAR, 1699. in the Year 1699 - with a Continuation of a Voyage to New Holland, 1st Edition, 1703. [London : James Knapton], contemporary decorated calf, the spines in six compartments with five raised bands, gilt lettering and decorations. View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Price Realized$5,500StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 755 "NEW SOUTH WALES WOLF" handcoloured engraving of a thylacine (Tasmanian Tiger), based on the 1850s image by JOHN TALLIS, as printed in his "The Natural History of The Sacred Scriptures, And Guide To General Zoology". 9 x13cm, 24 x 29cm overall (in a rosewood frame). View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$600StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 756 THOMAS REID, TWO VOYAGES TO NEW SOUTH WALES AND VAN DIEMEN'S LAND; with a Description of the Present Condition of that Interesting Colony including facts and observations relative to the State and management of convicts of both sexes. [London : Longman, Hurst..., 1822] 1st ed., 8vo, xxi, 391pp + errata; contemporary half calf, marbled end papers. Ferguson 876. View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$900StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 757 "Report made to the Special General Meeting of the Van Diemen's Land Company....31st October, 1833: Octavo, (22 x 14.5cm), original 8pp, unopened example. View details Estimate$80 - $120Price Realized$140StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 758 [ALLAN CUNNINGHAM] The Works of Robert Burns, complete in two volumes, With Life by Allan Cunningham, [Edinburgh : Thomas C. Jack], n.d. but circa 1850; half leather, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration. (2 vols.). View details Estimate$80 - $120Price Realized$220StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 759 CAPTAIN H. BUTLER STONEY "VICTORIA with a description of its principal cities, Melbourne and Geelong : and remarks on the present state of the colony; including an account of the Ballaarat disturbances, and of the death of Captain Wise, 40th Regiment." [London : Smith, Elder, 1856] 1st ed., 219pp + 16pp of adverts.; 8 engraved plates incl. title, folding map; original blind-stamped blue cloth binding with gilt decorations and title; all page edges gilt. View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$800StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 760 SAMUEL THOMAS GILL (1818 - 1880), "VICTORIA ILLUSTRATED", [Sands & Kenny: Melbourne & Sydney], 1857, oblong quarto, engraved vignette title page and 45 steel engraved plates; original rich blue cloth elaborately decorated in gilt and the pages with gilt edges. View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Price Realized$1,400StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 761 Thomas McCOMBIE, The History of the Colony of Victoria from its settlement to the death of Sir Charles Hotham, [Melbourne : Sandy and Kenny, 1858] 1st ed., 8vo, iv, 336pp; original cloth binding, gilt titles to spine, Detmold binding label. Extensive references to contacts and relationships between the aborigines and the early settlers. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$750StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 762 JOHN PASCOE FAWKNER signature on the title page of "Last Day Of Dibden" [Lon. 1833] View details Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$550StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 763 Two antique hand-coloured engravings: I.) Diggers On The Road To The Rush, II.) Gladstone, Queensland, 39 x 40cm each overall View details Quantity2Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$220StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 764 SAMUEL THOMAS GILL (1818 - 1880), NICHOLAS CHEVALIER (1828 - 1902), and others, "VICTORIA ILLUSTRATED Second Series with descriptive letterpress.", [Sands & Kenny: Melbourne & Sydney], 1862, oblong quarto, engraved vignette title page and 41 steel engraved plates interleaved with pages of descriptive text; original deep green cloth elaborately decorated in gilt and the pages with gilt edges. View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Price Realized$2,200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 765 R. THERRY "Reminiscences Of Thirty Years' Residence In New South Wales And Victoria" [Lon. 1863], hardcover in brown cloth boards, View details Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$220StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 766 BENTHAM & VON MUELLER, Flora Australiensis: A description of the Plants of the Australian Territory, six volumes; the first 3 published in 1863, 1864 & 1866 are first editions in the original bindings; the last 3 are the 1967 reprints, similarly bound. (6 vols). View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 767 FERDINAND VON MUELLER [1825 - 1896],Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae, Volumes VI (1867-8), IX (1875), X (1876-7) & XI (1878-81), [Melbourne : John Ferres]; original green boards; gilt titles. Ex library. (4 vols).; also, 3 booklets on Victorian Indigenous Animals by Frederick McCoy (1884, 1886 & 1887). (7 items). View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$320StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 768 JAMES BONWICK, JOHN BATMAN, THE FOUNDER OF VICTORIA, [Melbourne : Fergusson and Moore, 1868], 2nd ed. Duodecimo, xii, [iii]-iv, 106 (last blank), [2] (review notices of earlier publications) pages. The preliminaries comprise a 12-page section tipped in before the original preface, blind-decorated green stippled cloth lettered in gilt on the front cover. View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 769 LUDOVIC, Marquis de BEAUVOIR, A Voyage Round the World - in two Volumes: Vol.1 AUSTRALIA; Vol 11 JAVA, SIAM, CANTON., [London : John Murray, 1870], 1st English edition; 8vo; Vol.1 pp. xii, 307; Vol.2 pp. vi, 388.; original dark brown cloth bindings; later black endpapers. (2 vols). View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$240StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 770 "AUSTRALIEN (NEUHOLLAND)" chromolithograph, 19th century, 20.5 x 25.5cm View details Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$140StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 771 EDWIN CARTON BOOTH, F.R.C.I., "AUSTRALIA illustrated with drawings by Skinner Prout, N. Chevalier, & c.&c.", [London; Virtue & Co., 1873-76]; 2 vols., green half leather with gilt titles and decorations; gilt page edges; numerous engraved plates with original tissue guards. View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$700StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 772 [MELBOURNE BOTANICAL GARDENS] WILLIAM R. GUILFOYLE, Curator Domain & Botanical Gardens, Gardens and Parks. Report of the Inspector-General of Gardens, Parks, and Reserves, Foolscap folio, folding map of the Botanical Gardens, four plates, sewn as issued. [Melbourne, John Ferres, Government Printer, 1873]. Victorian Parliamentary Paper. Provenance: The Denis Joachim Collection, Lot 387, June 2016. View details Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$280StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 773 ARTHUR STOCK (1810 - 1901) Astronomy for Beginners, who live in the Southern Hemisphere, [Wellington : T.A. Bowden, 1874] duodecimo,i-iv, 5-44pp, original cloth-backed printed card covers, endpapers with advertisements; early printed ownership label of "Mr. R. Wilson, Craiglea, Benhar, Otago"; illustrated with diagrams. Only two examples of this first edition are recorded in Australian collections: NLA and SLNSW. View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$400StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 774 Three Broinowski Australiana engravings, 35 x 28cm View details Estimate$100 - $160Price Realized$260StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 775 Elisee RECLUS, The Universal Geography with illustrations & maps, [London ; Virtue & Co., 1876 - 1894], 12 volumes, bound in green cloth with ornate gilt and black titles and decorations. Europe, Asia, The British Isles. View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$360StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 776 ADVANCE AUSTRALIA - ALBUM OF MELBOURNE VIEWS, blue covers with ornate gilt title and decorations, cloth spine, with 24 illustrations, mainly notable buildings including the newly erected Exhibition Building. View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$180StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 777 "Catalogue Of The Public Library Of Victoria" 2 vol. full red morocco with embossed gilt lettering to the spines and pictorial boards, [published in 1880], complete but fair condition only, vol.2 front board detached, both scuffed. View details Quantity2Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$180StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 778 "THE PICTURESQUE ATLAS OF AUSTRALASIA" [Melbourne. 1888], vol. I. and II., full morocco with embossed gilt lettering View details Quantity2Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$1,100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 779 [GARDENING] "A dictionary of Popular Names of the Plants which furnish the Natural and Acquired Wants of Man...." by John Smith [London : Macmillan and Co., 1882] publisher's green buckram binding, 457pp; also, "The Century Book of Gardening" by E.T. Cook, circa 1900 [London : Country Life] 610pp in a half-leather binding by E.G. Wigg & Son of Adelaide. Both books with the armorial bookplate of John Bagot of Forest Lodge, Adelaide Hills. (2 vols). View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$80StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 780 "The Warrnambool Standard Almanac And Tourist Guide To Warrnambool & District, For 1884" View details Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$2,200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 781 WILLIAM BRAMWELL WITHERS The History of Ballarat, from the First Pastoral Settlement to the Present Time. [Ballarat : F.W. Niven, 1887] Second edition, 8vo, 362pp with two folding panoramas, tinted and b/w plates, original gilt pictorial cloth. View details Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$340StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 782 "THE CHRONICLES OF EARLY MELBOURNE 1835 TO 1852, HISTORICAL, ANECDOTAL AND PERSONAL" centennial edition by Garryowen [Melb. 1888], 2 vol. hardcover full red morocco with gilt titled boards, View details Quantity2Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$550StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 783 "THE PICTURESQUE ATLAS OF AUSTRALASIA" [Melbourne. 1888], vol. I., full morocco with embossed gilt lettering on the spine View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$160StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 784 "CASSELL'S PICTURESQUE AUSTRALASIA", edited by E.E. Morris, [Cassell & Co., London, 1889-90] 1st ed. in 4 vols., original green half-leather bindings, gilt titles to spines, numerous full page plates and text illustrations and 5 maps. View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 785 "THE BLOCK" In Collins Street Melbourne, 1890 supplement from The London Illustrated News (later framing), 68 x 79cm overall View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 786 Three old Melbourne prints: I.) THOMAS HAM "The Post Office, Melbourne". II.) S.T. GILL "City Police Station and Town Hall, Melbourne". III.) S.T. GILL "The National Model & Training School, Melbourne". the largest 19 x 23cm, 33 x 38cm overall View details Quantity3Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 787 "THE OCTOPUS OF MONOPOLY" original cartoon artwork done in ink, signed lower left (illegible), 22 x 26cm, 31.5 x 36cm overall View details Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$60StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 788 W. SAVILLE-KENT, "The Great Barrier Reef of Australia; Its Products and Potentialities.", [W.H.Allen & Co., London, 1893], folio, orig. blue cloth with gilt title on front cover; (xx, 387pp.). With 48 full-page b/w plates, 16 full-page chromo-lithograph colour plates, all with protective tissue-guards, text-illusts., graphs and maps of which one is folding. View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$550StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 789 CHARLES DARWIN, Journal of Researches Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited during the Voyage of the HMS Beagle Round the World under the command of Captain Fitz Roy R.N. View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$380StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 790 Andrew Barton ("Banjo") PATERSON (1864 - 1941), The Man from Snowy River and other verses [Sydney : Angus and Robertson, 1st ed.] 8vo, original brown cloth; forward by Rolf Bolderwood. With a 6 page manuscript transcript of "The Ballad of the Calliope" written, signed and dated Xmas '97 by Paterson. View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$3,200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 791 ROBERT HAWCRIDGE (New Zealand, 1866 - 1920) BICYCLE MANUFACTURING: A superb leather-bound and gilt titled, hand painted and illuminated presentation from the employees of the Massey Harris Company of New Zealand, to William Andrew Shields, September 1900, on the occasion of his "Promotion to the Management of the Company's Implement Business in Victoria.....with original watercolour illuminations by Hawcridge. View details Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$420StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Items per page 102550100 Previous|1...678910111213|Next12345678910111213 Previous 12345678910111213 Next Previous 12345678910111213 Next
