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June Emporium Auction — Theodore Bruce Auctioneers & Valuers
| Auction House: | Theodore Bruce Auctioneers & Valuers | Number of lots recorded: | 539 |
| Sale Title: | June Emporium Auction | Lots with images: | 500 |
| Auction Location: | Sydney | Prices available: | 346 |
| Date: | 26-Jun-2016 |
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An extensive illustrated part-set of Nobel Peace prize for Literature hardback volumes in German (45) includes works by Churchill, Kipling, Bernard Shaw, Glasworthy and Camus, comprising 1901-09, 1911-13, 1915-17, 1919-22, 1924-28, 1930-33, 1936-39, 1945, 1947, 1951-53, 1955, 1957-62.
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A set of ten illustrated hardback Nobel Peace prize for Literature volumes in German from 1966-1991, each cloth-bound in olive green with gold trim, in a slipcover.
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Seven volumes: the illustrated Chambers's Encyclopaedia, 1924-26 (6) and the illustrated Australian Encyclopaedia, 1925 (1), Chambers's Encyclopaedia comprising 'Volume I: a to Beatty' (1924), 'Volume II: Beaucaire to Cataract' (1924), 'Volume III: Catarrh to Diophantus' (1924), 'Volume V: Frejus to Humboldtia' (1924), 'Volume VI: Hume to Manche' (1925), 'Volume VII: Machester to Pennywort' (1926), and the Australian Encyclopaedia 'Volume I: a to Lys' (1925).
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Three volumes: 'Cassell's History of the United States' volumes I, II and III, by Edmund Ollier (1874), Published by Cassell Petter & Galpin, London, each cloth bound, with engravings.
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Six volumes of: 'Household words: a Weekly Journal,' edited by Charles Dickens (1850-1853), comprising: volume I: March - September (1850), volume II: September - March (1850-1), volume III: March - September (1851), volume IV: September - March (1851), volume V: March - September (1852), volume VI: September - February (1853), each cloth-bound hardbacks with engravings.
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A complete set of the fireside Dickens, by Charles Dickens (22), Chapman & & Hall, London, with illustration by Cruikshank & Phiz etc. Red calf, gilt embossed titles to spines, damaged & missing, foxed, Ex libris Thomas Freer Ash, Mary Louisa Ash, fair
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Two volumes: 'The pictorial home and farm manual,' by Jonathan Periam (1885), and 'Live Stock in Health and Disease,' by J. Prince-Sheldon (1910), the pictorial home and farm manual': 'Adapted to the Australasian Colonies by R.W. Emerson MacIvor,' published by McNeil & coffee Publishers, Sydney. Cloth-bound hardcover with black & white and colour engravings. 'Live Stock in Health and Disease,' published by Cassell & Company, London. Leather-bound hardcover with engravings and colour plates.
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Six volumes of: 'The Anglo-Saxon Review: a Quarterly Miscellany,' edited by lady Randolph Spencer Churchill (1900-01), Published by John Lane, London and Mrs George Cornwallis-West, London., comprising: volume IV: March 1900, volume V: June 1900, volume VI: September 1900, volume VII: December 1900, volume VIII: March 1901, volume IX: June 1901., each cloth-bound hardback featuring gold-embossed covers in different patterns, with black & white plates.
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Dalziel's illustrated Goldsmith, Ward and Lock, London 1865, comprising the Vicar of Wakefiled etc. With one hundred pictures drawn by G J Pinwell, gilt embossed blue cloth cover & spine, worn, loose, some foxing to frontispiece, Ex Libris Ruth Evans, Haydock Grange, fair
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Two volumes: 'The illustrated Australian medical Guide' volumes I and II, by Philip E. Muskett (1909), Published by William Brooks & Co Ltd, Sydney. Leather-bound hardbacks with illustrations.
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Three hardback volumes on Aviation and Australian Outlaw History, comprising 'The illustrated History of World War II, volume 13: the Air war in the Pacific,' by Trevor Nevitt Dupuy, 'The RAAF at war,' by the Royal Australian Air Force, (1954), 'A pictorial History of Bushrangers,' by Prior, Wannan and Nunn (1969).
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An 1850s boxed set of five Novels by the Bronte Sisters, and 'Cobbett's Advice to young Men,' by William Cobbett., Bronte box set comprising: 'The Tenant of Wildfell hall,' by Anne Bronte, 'Wuthering Heights,' by Emily Bront, 'Jane Eyre,' by Charlotte Bronte, 'Villette,' by Charlotte Bronte and a Poetry collection by the Bronte sisters., Published by Collins' clear-type press, 1850s. Leather-bound softcovers with gilt edged pages.
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A six volume set of 'Old & new London,' by Walter Thornberry and Edward Walford, c.1880, includes all volumes 1-6. Covering central London, Westminster and the Western, Northern and Southern suburbs., Published by Cassell, Peter & Galpin, London, c.1880. Hardcovers bound by marbled covers and black leather spines with gilt lettering. Illustrated with engravings.
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Twenty-four volumes of 'The Encyclopaedia Britannica,' 1964, comprising A-Z and 'The Index and Atlas'., Published by William Benton, Chicago, 1964. Red leather-bound hardbacks with gilt embossing and photograph plates.
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A collection of books on Antiques and decorative arts (14), comprising 'Faberge,' by Peter Carl, 'Collecting African Art,' by Werner Gillon, 'The antique tool collector's Guide to Value,' by Ronald S. Barlow, 'Treasures of the National Trust,' 'English furniture,' by David Nickerson, 'Chippendale and his Contemporaries,' by John Kenworthy-Browne, 'Ivory,' by O. Beigbeder, 'Bronzes,' by Jennifer Montagu, 'Faberge 1846-1920,' 'European bronze Statuettes,' by Anthony Radcliffe, 'A Concise History of Bronzes,'…
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A cased Bakelite Viewmaster Stereoscope with approx. 16 3D reels, reels include scenes of Bath, Devon, London, Florence, Cambridge University, Newmarket, and Honolulu and film captures from Alice in Wonderland, and Cinderella, etc.
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A Tiffany Padova Parmesan silver handled knife & a Forge de Laguiole 'Jojo long legs' cheese knife, designed by Philippe Starck (2), with polished Bakelite black handle and large stainless steel blade, self standing, originally displayed at world Exposition in Seville, silver handled parmesan knife designed by Elsa Peretti
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$10 Commonwealth Games coin, Brisbane 1982 Designers: Stuart Devlin, Arnold Machin, Commonwealth mint, Commemoration of bi-Centenary of Captain Cook's voyage of Discovery 1770 - 1970, designed and struck by Stokes, Melbourne. Provenance: Ken Cavill collection
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A gold-mounted crocodile tooth vesta box, 9ct the vesta box is formed from a large tooth, likely to have belonged to a Crocodilus Porosus, or a salt-water dwelling crocodile found in the river estuaries of Northern Australia. The tooth is gold-mounted (9ct) and features a ridged lid as a striking surface. The banding is engraved with 'Dr J.W.G. Powell', and the mount is engraved with 'From J.H. Press'. Impressed to the interior of the lid is the makers mark 'H&P', or horn & Peterson, established in the…
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Two 19th century snuff boxes, brass. (2), the first with freshwater mollusc shell lid, the second with engraved lid 'J. McIntyre 1882', probably English. Provenance: Ken Cavill collection
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Two brass vesta boxes, early 20th century Commen Flip top & bottom book shaped, (2) for Coronation of Edward VII UK and cylindrical Marbles patent, 'Waterproof' box, Gladstone, Michigan USA. Provenance: Ken Cavill collection
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Two Scottish sycamore vesta boxes and a Swiss box (3), one with applied Tartan decoration, the second with multiple layer opening and a Swiss box with carved edelweiss to lid, slide opening and RIGI KULM c.1900. Provenance: Ken Cavill collection
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Scottish souvenir match box, cylindrical (h. 7 cm) slip on lid with bone match holder, 'Mauchline' style 'Abbotsford' print. 'Old Thorn from Rymers Glen 1870s' on reverse, and 'Abbottsford 1871'. Provenance: Ken Cavill collection
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Large vesta box of book form + one other (2), with impressed geometric pattern, probably USA & second with moulded horse-shoe shape probably England c.1900. Provenance: Ken Cavill collection
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A Matchbook case, gun metal by J R Grunt, London and two others (3), second case, gold plated on brass identical with sterling silver case by G & E Rodd, Melbourne early 20th century plus souvenir case, Palace of Industry Exhibition, 1930 Adelaide. Provenance: Ken Cavill collection
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An Australian sterling silver commemorative medallion., bi-Centenary of Captain Cook's voyage of Discovery 1770-1970, designed and struck by Stokes (A/asia) Melbourne. Provenance: Ken Cavill collection
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Four original Sun records (45 rpm), plus one Dodge label 'the Megatons' (5), other artists include Carl Perkins, Mack Owen, Bobby Sheridan, Billy Adams
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A pair of porcelain vases with ormolu mounts converted to table lamps, cream silk shades
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