925
“Water Supply Systems of the Melbourne and Metropolitan 
Board of Works - Compiled from Official Documents by 
George A. Gibbs - 1915” [D.W. Paterson Co. Pty. Ltd., 
49 Collins Street, Melbourne, 83pp], together with “Illustrated 
Catalogue of the National Gallery” [Trustees of the Public 
Library, Museums, and National Gallery of Victoria, 1908, 
189pp]. (2 items)
$100–150 ❖
926
C.J. DENNIS and HAL GYE, The Moods of Ginger Mick, 
[Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1916], 1st ed., illustrated 
green cloth boards, 143pp + 24pp publisher’s catalogue date 
September 1916; illustrated by Hal Gye; signed and dedicated 
to the title page “Cheero to Charlie! C.J. Dennis, Melbourne 
Nov.10th 1916” and also signed by “Hal Gye”.
“Charlie” is Charles Henderson Croll (1865 - 1938), the older 
brother of Robert Henderson Croll (1869 - 1947), an Australian 
writer, poet, bushwalker, book collector and public servant.
$600–1,000 ❖
927
ANZACS: “The Dardanelles - An Epic told in Pictures” 
by Sir Ian Hamilton, c.1917, second edition published by 
The Cornish Press (London), oblong octavo with ninety-three 
images and map.
$100–200 ❖
928
PRISONER No.317, GOULBURN GOAL, 1918 - 1930: 
A series of letters to and from Herbert Keith Shaw (found 
guilty of murder at Katoomba) to his mother and twin brother 
(who was acquitted in the same trial); the letters from 
Shaw on printed stationery headed “PRISONER’S LETTER 
- PASSED BY PERMISSION”. Some original envelopes still 
present.
$150–250 ❖
929
An album containing family correspondence, mainly during the 
WW1 period, and mainly reflecting the family involvement in 
charitable works; including an August 1916 note headed from 
the “Department for Neglected Children and Reformatory 
Schools, Melbourne” asking permission for a mother to be 
able to see her child “from time to time”; several with original 
envelopes still present.
$150–250 ❖
930
[AUSTRALIAN ART] “Frederick McCubbin - A Consideration 
by Alexander Colquhoun”, [Melbourne : Alexander McCubbin, 
n.d. but 1919], a small monograph with tipped-in plates.
$50–100 ❖
931
NORMAN LINDSAY (1879-1969), original pen and ink black 
and white cartoon artwork signed upper right “NORMAN 
LINDSAY” and bearing a somewhat antisemitic caption “The 
Inebriated - Gotter clean shirt in yer shop?. Cohen - Vy of 
course my friend. Dothens of them! The Inedriated - Then why 
in the ‘hic’ hell don’t yer put one on?”.
49 x 29cm overall.
$1,200–2,000
932
AN AUSTRALIAN ELEVEN HONOUR CERTIFICATE, 
circa 1920, framed chromolithograph with ornithological 
vignettes,
62 x 44cm overall.
$120–200 ❖
933
OUTHWAITE, IDA RENTOUL & GRENBY: “The Enchanted 
Forest”, 1921, A.&C. Black (London), deluxe first edition 
#333/500, complete with all thirty-one plates (of which 
sixteen tipped-in colour).
$1,500–2,500 ❖
934
Sir ROSS SMITH,
14,000 MILES THROUGH THE AIR,
[London : Macmillan and Co., 1922 1st ed.] 136pp plus a 
double page map and 49 pages of plates; blue cloth, with 
rarely seen original dustjacket (defects).
$100–150 ❖
935
PATENT APPLICATIONS: A file box containing an 
accumulation of 1920s-30s patent applications from a 
Victorian inventor, including documentation, correspondence, 
letters of commendation, designs, and examples of one of the 
“inventions”; also, several envelopes addressed to Sydney 
Museum in the 1870s, and a small metal box containing 
various medallions, badges, etc.
$200–300 ❖
931
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