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Auction House:Leski Auctions Pty. Ltd.Number of lots recorded:462
Sale Title:Australian & ColonialLots with images:460
Auction Location:MelbournePrices available:306
Date:2-Dec-2018
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Anne Mercer Three celadon glazed vessels, impressed monogram 'A.M., the tallest 18 cm high
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Sandra Black Two pierced ceramic vases, a cream jug and a jewel box with bird motif, circa 1980s, incised 'Sandra Black', some with dates, the tallest 9 cm high
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Les Blakeborough Two ceramic vases with decoration, hand signed and impressed mark, 10 cm and 11 cm high
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Milton Moon Three studio pottery bowels with decoration, incised 'Milton Moon, the largest 22 cm diameter
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Derek Smith Ceramic bowl with gilt glazed interior, monogram 'D.S., 10 cm high, 20 cm diameter
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Carl McConnell sang de boeuf studio pottery vase, impressed monogram mark, 17 cm high
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Victor Greenaway Six assorted studio pottery vases and dishes, monogrammed and signed, the tallest 15 cm
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Tim Strachan Tall studio pottery vase, incised 'T. Strachan '84', 34 cm high
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Tim Strachan Tall studio pottery vase, incised 'T. Strachan '84', 32 cm high
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Two studio pottery platters and a terracotta vase, monogrammed marks, the vase 29 cm
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A kookaburra slip cast ceramic tree stump vase, 20th century, incised 'M.R. Made In Australia, 28 cm high
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Doug Alexander Brown glazed ceramic vase and bowl, together with a Valley Plains pottery charger by Zak Chalmers, monogrammed and incised marks, the charger 39 cm diameter
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Five pieces of Australian studio pottery including Jeff Mincham, Pamela Martin and Kay Jensen, monogrammed impressed marks, the vase 37 cm high
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Harold Hughan studio pottery vase, terra cotta, internally glazed in gray, circa 1950, monogram mark and signature 'H.G.I. Hughan, 26 cm high
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Avital Sheffer, Elul 1', dry painted ceramic vase, signed 'A. Shefferr., 74 cm high
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Avital Sheffer, Lishaana, dry painted ceramic vase, signed 'A. Sheffer., 66 cm high
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Avital Sheffer, Seeds VI, dry painted ceramic vase, signed 'A. Sheffer., 65 cm high
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Welcome Nugget' chromolithographic broadside advertising for T.C.Williams Co. Virginia tobacco, c1870s, 27 x 27 cm
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New Zealanders: The London Chronicle - March 17 to 19, 1778., The lead article, covering more than a page is titled 'Some farther Particulars of the Disposition and Manners of the New Zealanders. From the New Discoveries concerning the World and its Inhabitants.' '.....Their wardance consists of a great variety of violent motions, and hideous contortions of the limbs during which the countenance also performs its part. The tongue is frequently thrust out to an incredible length...nor is any thing neglected…
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Australia & New Zealand in English Newspapers: 1779 - 1857, Jackson's Oxford Journal of April 3, 1779 carries a note about Captain Cook of the Adventure then supposed to be in Japan, the Liverpool Courier of Aug.3, 1831 carries a long article headed 'Cannibalism in New Zealand' and another about the opening of 'The New London Bridge', the Daily News of Aug.15, 1846 provides coverage of the present agricultural, financial and industrial state of the colony, another, about the better governorship of New…
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First Fleet & Botany Bay: the London Chronicle June 23-25, 1789, This edition features a small and intriguing article about 'the dispute between the Governor and Lieutenant Governor of the new settlement at Botany Bay.' (Governor Phillip, Lieutenant-Governor Ross, Major Bruce and the Adjutant General, David Collins are arguing about who is in charge!). Details are also provided of the corps that was being raised 'for the defence of the colony' listing a total of 316 men. This information, together with the…
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Botany Bay: the London Chronicle September 8-10, 1789, Includes extracts from a Letter from Portsmouth: '....Nine convicts from the hulks at Langston harbour, and 16 from the hulk lying off Weevil....were this day embarked on board his Majesty's ship Guardian, bound to Port Jackson, Botany Bay. The Guardian will sail.....loaded with beds, clothing, and every other necessary which Commander Phillips did not take out. The 25 convicts now embarked are....chiefly house carpenters and blacksmiths.' Sir Joseph…
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Botany Bay: the London Chronicle September 10-12, 1789, Includes a short piece about a curious item 'imported from Botany Bay...a leaf of very uncommon properties, the most extraordinary is, that when dried, even without being pulverised, it goes off on application of a match, with an explosion somewhat in the manner of gunpowder, the air is afterwards agreeably perfumed......
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First Fleet & Botany Bay: the London Chronicle October 22-24, 1789, Includes a very detailed, full column description of the book about to be published, 'Governor Phillip's Voyage to Botany Bay.' With a list of engravings and charts, a list of the booksellers who will be stocking the volume and the price, £1/11/6. This edition also carries a detailed article about the boxing match between Perrins and Johnson at Banbury: '...Sixty-two rounds of fair and hard fighting, which lasted exactly one hour and 15…
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Botany Bay: the London Chronicle Oct. 31 - Nov. 3, 1789, This edition includes a small entry regarding a group of three felons who had previously 'rejected his Majesty's [offer of] clemency on condition of being transported to Botany Bay' but who had since 'thought [it] proper to accept.
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D'Arcy Wentworth: the London Chronicle Nov. 19-21 & 28-Dec. 1 The lengthy saga of Wentworth's legal battle is covered in both these editions. There are also interesting articles from the Jamaica Royal Gazette '...There has not been any busines done here these three days past, owing to the great Revolution in France, which has reached this place [St.Pierre, Martinique] in all its force...', from Warsaw '...The Polish regiments are said to have complained to the Commission of War that they do not receive…
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Bound For Botany Bay - the Whitehall Evening Post - 20 - 22 August 1789 and later editions, An advertisement on the front page of the first edition calls for tenders to transport convicts to New South Wales and another report about the details of the contract, the 1 - 3 December 1789 edition reports the arrival at Plymouth of Captain Gilbert on the Neptune with convicts for Botany Bay, the 15 - 17 December edition reports on Sir Joseph Banks' visit to the Discovery, then equipping at Deptford. (3).
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The Mutiny On the Bounty - The Whitehall Evening Post - September 19 - 22, 1789 to July 17 - 20, 1790., Four complete editions of this broadsheet newspaper each of which carries a news update from Lieutenant Bligh and the Bounty. In the first edition, The Bounty is reported to have reached the Society Islands, the edition of March 13 - 16 carries the first published report of an account of a mutiny on board the ship, the edition of 18 - 20 March carries a more detailed account of the mutiny and the 17 - 20…
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Botany Bay & Port Jackson: the London Chronicle Feb. 5-8 & Nov. 15-17, 1791, The first edition carries a short piece regarding Sir Charles Bunbury's intention to report on the felon's employment bill relative to the prisoners at Botany Bay and Port Jackson, the later edition carries a distressing letter from the Chaplain at Port Jackson regarding convict deaths on transport ships. (2 items).
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Lieutenant McCLUER Visits the Pelew Islands (Palau): the London Chronicle Sept. 1-3, 3-6 & 13-15, 1791, These editions carry extensive coverage of this visit. In August 1790, when he was 31 years old, McCluer was sent to the Pelew (Palau) Islands in the Panther, accompanied by the Endeavour, commanded by Lieutenant William Drummond, to inform the King of the death in London of his son Lee Boo, who had been brought to England by Captain Henry Wilson, whose vessel the Antelope had been wrecked on the Pelew…
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Bligh, William (1754-1817), Surville, Jean Francois de (1717-1770), Forster, Georg (1754-1794), William Bligh's Reise in da Sudmeer, German translation of Bligh's 'A Voyage to the South Sea', a variant edition of Ferguson 147, which was also published by Voss in Berlin in 1793 but with different pagination and plates. Bound together with Imlay, Gilbert 'Imlay's Nachrichten von dem westlichen Lande der Nord-Americanischen Freistaaten'. (A Topographical Description of the Western Territory of North America).…
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Mutiny On the Bounty - Hamilton, George, Reise um die Welt in der Konlichen Fregatte Pandora, [Berlin, Bossischen Buchhandlung, 1794] pp 104, Octavo, contemporary half calf over papered boards, 19th century bookplate of Soren Hansen., First German translation of George Hamilton's 'A Voyage Round the World in His Majesty's Frigate Pandora' (1793). Hamilton was surgeon aboard the Pandora, which, under Captain Edwards, was sent to track down mutineers from the Bounty. 'In 1791, the expedition arrived at…
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James Semple, Botany Bay & New Zealand: the London Chronicle Jan. 28-31, April 8-11, July 27-29 & Aug. 5-8, 1797, The first edition reports that 'Major Semple' was being sent to the hulks at Portsmouth prior to transportation. In 1784, Semple had been arrested for obtaining goods by false pretences, and in 1786 was sentenced to 7 years' transportation. Released on condition of quitting England, he went to Paris, where he represented himself as serving on General Berruyer's staff, and witnessing the…
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Thomas Muir Escapes Botany Bay On the 'Otter': the London Chronicle Feb. 11-14, 1797, A short article giving an update on this notorious series of events. Also, armed robberies in Belgium, bankruptcies in London, a trial for seditious libel, the 'wholesomeness' of the new prison at Clerkenwell, French troops gathering on the coast near Jersey, and much more.
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Wilson, James, A Missionary Voyage to the Southern Pacific Ocean, Performed in the Years 1796, 1797, 1798 in the Ship Duff, commanded by Captain James Wilson, compiled from journals of the officers and the missionaries, and illustrated with maps, charts and views, drawn by Mr. William Wilson, and engraved by the most eminent artists. With a preliminary discourse on the geography and history of the South Sea islands, and an appendix, including details never before published, of the natural and civil state…
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The Morning Herald, London: 1805, A group of complete editions of this large-format newspaper, each of which carries news or information from Botany Bay, which 'may give some idea of the state of society in this extraordinary colony....' The Feb.28 edition provides snippets and advertisements transcribed from 'The Sydney Gazettes' recently received in London, the April 16 edition reports on the possible new Governor of New South Wales as well as the immenent departure of various families of British…
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News From Australia in the Lancaster Gazette - 1807, Three editions (21 February, 23 May & 17 October) each with a report from Australia, firstly, news received from Captain Sladen who had arrived with despatches from Governor David Collins regarding the new settlement on Van Diemen's Land, secondly, news of the prices of grain, vegetables and other provisions in New South Wales, and thirdly, a lengthy article by Matthew Flinders regarding his 'Expedition Around the World'. (3).
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Australasia Reported in the Liverpool Mercury, 1824-25, The April 30, 1824 edition carries a long article headed 'Emigration to Van Diemen's Land', the January 14, 1825 carries a report of the trial of Alexander Pierce at Hobart Town, who was tried for the murder of Thomas Cox and for subsequently cannibalizing his body 'to exist upon', the February 18, 1825 edition reports on the arrival of the Urania from New Zealand, bringing a maori chief to meet King George III. (3).
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James Scott 1810 - 1884 - A Surveyor of Van Diemen's Land, An important group of items from the estate of James Scott, brother of Thomas Scott (1800-1855), surveyor and landowner, from Berwickshire, Scotland. Thomas came to Hobart Town in 1820 in the Skelton and temporarily became superintendent of government stock. The following year he was appointed by Governor Lachlan Macquarie as assistant surveyor under the deputy surveyor general, George Evans. He was active in his profession and responsible for…
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Jemima (Mima) Stormant, tilt-top occasional table, Tasmanian huon pine with painted floral board by Jemima Stormant, circa 1880., Jemima Stormant was the only child of John Stormant the overseer at Mt. Morriston in Tasmania, she married Robert Scott the son of Tasmanian surveyor James Scott. James and Jemima lived at Mt Morriston until her passing., signed in Mima Stormant's own hand, 70 cm high, 62 cm diameter. Provenance: Private Collection, Tasmania
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Jemima (Mima) Stormant Set of 10 Minton plates hand painted with Tasmanian wildflowers, circa 1880s, hand signed, titled and dated 1886, 21 cm diameter. Provenance: Private Collection, Tasmania
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James Scott Family jewellery comprising a fine Australian 15ct gold and ruby brooch in original box circa 1850s, a Scottish gold and citrine brooch in original box, a sterling silver sovereign case engraved with Scott monogram, and an unusual wedding band made from stone and copper in a Launceston jewellers box. Provenance: Private Collection, Tasmania
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Raymond, James (compiler), The New South Wales Calendar and General Post Office Directory,1832, [Sydney, Stephens & Stokes, 1832.] Octavo, original green cloth, remnants of original paper label to spine, folding frontispiece map of Sydney Town dated 1831, colour folding plate of flags mostly missing. The first year of issue., The fascinating textual content is a valuable primary source for the period, and includes a detailed list of civil servants and Colonial administrators, terms of advertisements for…
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News From Australasia in the Morning Post, London - 1832 - 1838, Twelve complete editions of this large broadsheet newspaper, with very diverse reports from Australia, including the murder of Captain Thomas and Mr Parker at Port Sorell (April 1832), the discovery of a white colony on the northern shore of New Holland (Feb.1834), a letter from Swan River (May 1834), a History of Austral Asia (April 1836), a new colony at Port Philip (August 1836), the wreck of the Sterling Castle and subsequent events…
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South Australia, Immigration: The Newitt family archive, including a ticket to Adelaide from London, 1854., A group of 9 ephemeral items relating to the family of Thomas Newitt, who arrived at Port Adelaide in 1854. Includes the 1836 marriage certificate of Thomas & Ann Newitt at Lambeth, Surrey, the Passenger's Contract Ticket for carriage per the ship Fortitude for Thomas, Mary and James (aged 8), a manuscript letter from Thomas to his wife (July 1862) in Melbourne, James Newitt's Freemason's certificate…
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Australia in the Illustrated London News - 1846 to 1864, Thirty-seven complete editions, each one carrying at least one article or illustration (often both) from Australia. From 'The Convict System - Economy of the Hulks', to the report of a 'New Route for the Australian Mails through Torres Strait, views of 'The Emigrant Ship 'Artemesia' bound for Moreton Bay, a full page devoted to 'The Burra Burra Copper - Mine in South Australia, the discovery of gold by Mr Hargreaves, the Diggings at Bathurst, Gold in…
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The News Letter of Australasia or Narrative of Events, A Letter to send to Friends. No. VIII - February 1857' front sheet, printed by W.H.Williams & published by George Slater, Melbourne && Sandhurst, depicts 'A View on the Yarra - The Willows', engraved by Calvert from a painting by Nicholas Chevalier.
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The News Letter of Australasia. Melbourne, November, 1859' complete 4-page edition, printed & published at 'The Herald' Office, with lengthy coverage of the new Parliament following elections, ('Measures have been prepared to amend our gold fields legislation, and to legalize mining on private property...', 'The subject of the defences of the ports and harbours will demand your early and serious attention....The recent arrival of H.M.S Pelorus....completes the naval armament destined by the imperial…
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News Letter of Australasia. A Narrative to send to Friends. No.42 - Feb.1860' cover sheet, printed and published at 'The Herald' Office, Melbourne, depicting 'A day on the sands: Queenscliffe', a cricket match, swimming in the Yarra, a horse race, a rowing competition, and the departure of the first train from Flinders Street Station. Engravings by Samuel Calvert.
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The Tasmanian Standard Newspaper 1861-62, The Tasmanian Standard. For the Family, the Library and the People' No.1 Vol.1 (November 30, 1861) to No.14 Vol.1 (March 1862) complete in a bound volume., A combination of commercial, legal, sporting and social news, prices, shipping information, advertisements and stories, 'Published every Saturday morning.' Printed by John Davies at the Mercury Steam Printing Office, Macquarie Street, Hobart Town....for the Proprietor, Charles Orlando Atkins, Murray Street.,…
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Greenwood, James, Wild Sports of the World: A Book of Natural History and Adventure., [S.O. Beeton, London, 1862] 1st ed. 426pp + colour plates with woodcuts from designs by Harden Melville and William Harvey, coloured illustrations, portraits and folding maps. Good tight condition, full leather, gilt decorations., Ex Libris label to front paste down, mss dedication to Robert D. Jackson 'on his leaving Eton, 1866'
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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, 'Published by Charles Boyce, Sole Proprietor at the Weekly Times Printing Office, 51 Murray Street, Hobart Town., These 42 editions are the complete output of The Weekly Times. It was briefly resurrected in 1868-69. Is the publisher the same Charles Boyce…
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The Illustrated Melbourne Post, February 1864 to December 1868 various editions in a bound volume containing No.59 (features a full-page 'View in Castlemaine Market Square', No.63 (View of Hobart Town), No.76 (The Departure of the Leichhardt Search Expedition by Calvert), No.70 (Grand Volunteer Review on the Melbourne Racecourse (by Calvert), No.71 (The Confederate War Steamer Shenandoah in Hobson's Bay), No.73 (The Governor's Visit to Ballaarat), No.74 (Railway accident on the Port Line, South Australia),…
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Lochhead, J. McK., [Manuscript] Book with an account of the voige [sic] from Sydney, NSW to London, England., in Bord of the Ship Bruckley [sic] Castle, 1868., A fascinating well-travelled journal which contains the lengthy shipboard diary of a Scottish passenger on a voyage from Australia to England in 1868, and a short record of this person's arrival as a pioneer settler in Kansas Territory, USA in 1869.
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Post Office Circular. Monday, August 23, 1875, 1875 folio broadsheet, includes an announcement regarding Homeward Australian Mails: 'The Australian Mails via Brindisi, due in London on Monday the 30th August, having missed the junction with the proper Packet at Point de Galle, will be a fortnight late. They may be expected in London on Monday, 13th September', original horizontal fold, in fine condition. A good illustration of the vagaries of the Colonial postal service in the nineteenth century.
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Government Appointment of the Honorable Graham Berry to become Premier & Treasurer of the Colony of Victoria in 1875, signed by Graham Berry & Sir William Foster Stawell, Chief Justice of the Colony of Victoria. Blind embossed seal, mounted & framed. 35 x 45 cm
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An Original Director & Early Chairman of B.H.P. - Duncan E. McBryde, Illuminated presentation manuscript to McBryde dated March 1878 from his 'numerous friends in Bulla and the surrounding District...' expressing their 'extreme regret' on the occasion of his departing the district., Lovely artwork and calligraphy by F. Whitehead & Co., Melbourne. Red leather binding, with gilt lettering and decoration, satin interior. 44.5 x 35 cm., McBryde (1854, 1920) was born in Scotland and migrated to New South Wales…
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An archive of documents, scrapbooks (dating from 1880 - 1896), engravings,etc., from the estate of Charles Stephen Simmonds of Hobart, Tasmania. Includes his appointment as a Lieutenant of the Citizen Forces of the Defence of the Commonwealth (1900, signed by Lord Denman), as Superintendent, H.M.Gaol, Hobart (1913), a Commissioner of the Supreme Court of Tasmania (1920), Judge's Associate of the Supreme Court of Victoria (1924), Commissioner of the Supreme Court of New South Wales (1924), South Australia…
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Our National Church', coloured lithograph in fine Australian huon pine frame, 19th century, 61 cm x 78 cm
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Broinowski, Gracius (1837-1913, The Birds of Australia, comprising three hundred full-page illustrations with a descriptive account of the life and characteristic habits of over seven hundred species, [Melbourne: Charles Stuart & Co., 1890-1891], six volumes, folio, full straight-grained black morocco, gilt rule, gilt-lettered labels to spine (lacking on first volume), bookplates for Bernard Gore Brette to pastedowns, 303 chromolithographed plates.
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[Brassey, Thomas]. Palgrave, F.T., Dawson, W.J., Two books presented by the Governor of Victoria, Thomas Brassey and his wife., Palgrave, F.T. The Treasury of Sacred Song Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1890. Octavo, quarter-vellum over gilt lettered maroon cloth boards, 374pp. Inscribed on front endpaper by Thomas Brassey, the Governor of Victoria, to Florence Neville, on leaving Melbourne, Nov. 23rd 1897, from her good friend and Governor, Brassey., and Dawson, W.J. The Making of Manhood, London, Hodder and…
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Ethal Jackson Morris (1891-1885) engraved bookplate 'Lamb', framed and glazed, 28 x 23 cm overall
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Peebles, J.M. 'Three Journeys Around the World, or Travels in the Pacific Islands, New Zealand, Australia, Ceylon, India, Egypt, and other Oriental Countries' [Boston, 1898]. 454pp. illlustrated, in original blue cloth decorated in gilt. Clean, tight, and unmarked. The author, a Spiritualist minister, visited Hawaii, New Zealand, Australia, China, Singapore, India, Egypt, Jerusalem, and Turkey. He offers observations on the customs and culture of each place visited, with particular attention to religious…
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Postcards: Collection of predominantly World War I period and related postcards including Australian hospital ships, soldiers, tanks, 57th Battalion A.I.F and embroidered souvenirs from The Great War (approx 80)
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Ethel Turner and Mary Gran Bruce Group of 14 hard cover books by the renowned Australian children's authors (14 books)
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The Boys Weekly, from Sydney Australia, April 16, 1926 to December 16, 1927: the complete run of 88 editions of this delightful newspaper/magazine, printed and published by Alfred Crew Parsons for The Daily Telegraph, Sydney., Sports news (especially cricket), stamp collecting, adventure serials, short stories, instructions, jokes, natural history, scouting, competitions, wireless, how to, advertisements, and general chit chat. The 'Weekly' ceased publication when the parent company was taken over by a…
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Movie Daybills: Group of six circa 1930s movie daybills, colour lithograph on card, printed in Australian and New Zealand, 101 cm x 37 cm
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Lynn, Elwyn, The Australian Landscape and its Artists., [Bay Books, Sydney, 1977], Oblong folio. Bound in simulated full leather with gilt decoration by Sidney Nolan on front cover. In slipcase. 160pp. With 100 full-page colour plates by 50 different artists. The limited edition of 200 numbered copies only fully signed 'Elwyn Lynn', this is #190.
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Lewin, John William, A Natural History of the Birds of New South Wales, collected, engraved, and faithfully painted after nature., Introduction and biographical descriptions by Allan McEvey, Curator of Birds, National Museum of Victoria., [Queensberry Hill Press, Melbourne, 1978], Folio, with coloured frontispiece tipped in and 26 coloured plates, original blind-tooled kangaroo, cloth box. Edition limited to 500 numbered copies with two proof plates as issued, this is #320. Facsimile of the 1838 edition…
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Krefft, Gerard, The Mammals of Australia. With a Short Account of all the Species hitherto described.., [Lansdowne, Melbourne, 1979] Sydney 1871 Facsimile reprint. Folio. Orig. half morocco. viii, 4, 42pp. With 16 full-page plates from illusts. by H. Scott and H. Forde. Lim. ed. #20 of 350 copies numbered and signed 'B.J. Marlow' Curator of Mammals at the Australian Museum.
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Morris, Frank T., Robins and Wrens of Australia. A Selection., [Lansdowne, Melbourne, 1979]., Limited edition 249/500 signed by the artist/author., Folio, 71pp, colour illustrations. A very good hardback copy in quarter calf binding with gilt title on spine.
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Lindsay, Norman, Micomicana, [Melbourne University Press,1979]. Folio., Original full calf. Gilt. Spine gilt with raised bands and morocco title-labels. Top edge gilt. Profusely illustrated throughout. Edition limited to 527 numbered copies signed by the artist's daughter, Jane Lindsay, this is #460. In original velvet lined buckram box., Lindsay wrote of this work, 'it is just a series of cheerful, bawdy short stories, placed in a country called Pattipanonia, the dukedom of the Duke of Fanfrolico, the…
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Art & Artists: A small group including Mendelssohn's 'Sydney Long' [1979], Boddington's 'Drysdale Photographer' [1987, signed], Strutt's 'Victoria the Golden' [1980], plus 2 others. (5 items).
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Schodde, Richard & Mason, Ian, Nocturnal Birds of Australia illustrated by Jeremy Boot, [Lansdowne, Melbourne, 1980], No 528 of a Limited Edition of 750. Signed by authors and artist. Elephant Folio. Full leather with gilt titling to spine.
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Smith, Meredith J., Marsupials of Australia. Vol. 1: Possums the Koala and Wombats. Foreword by J.H. Calaby., [Lansdowne Editions, Melbourne, 1980] pp. 202, 24 coloured and 4 tinted plates, glossary, references, systematic list of species., Folio, full canvas with an inlaid leather panel decorated in blind within gilt border on upper board, spine with gilt lettered and decorated leather onlay. Edition limited to 1000 numbered copies, signed by the author and artist, this is #899.
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Friend, Donald, An Alphabet of Owls et cetera. With a text suitable for all children grown-ups, non-readers, ornamental hermits, et alia., [Gryphon Books, Melbourne, 1981], Folio. Orig. full buckram with illust. morocco title-label on front cover. Printed in red/black ink on hand-made paper and fully illustrated by the artist, the edition is limited to 150 numbered copies fully signed 'Donald Friend', this is #125., Printed at the Croft Press on handmade Bemboka paper with the illustrations in black and…
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Morris, Frank. T., Birds of the Australian Swamps. Vol. 2: Herons-Spoonbills., [Lansdowne, Melbourne 1981]., Folio. Original half leather. Spine gilt with raised bands. With 21 full-page colour plates and associated charcoal flight drawings/silhouettes for each species. Ed. lim. to 500 numbered copies signed by the author, this is #292.
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Ching, Raymond, Studies and sketches of a bird painter., [Lansdowne Editions, Melbourne, 1981], Small folio,260 pp., colour plates, text illustrations. Publisher's full grey calf and Solander box, edition limited to 500 copies, numbered and signed by the artist, this is #190.
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Broinowski, Gracius J., The Cockatoos and Nestors of Australia., [Lansdowne Editions, Melbourne, 1981], Original black leather with gilt border and title. Signed by Baron Broinowski (great-grandson of the original author) on limitation page. Edition limited to 500 copies of which these are #s 283, 284 & 285. Facsimile reprint of the original 1888 edition.
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An early Colonial library bookcase with astragal glazed doors, Australian cedar, Tasmanian origin, circa 1830, Hobart address on the back, full cedar construction with original untouched finish, 240 cm high, 147 cm wide, 42 cm deep. Provenance: The Rodney Pemberton Collection
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A Colonial Australian secretaire with Thomas Hope scroll back, shield doors and turn half columns, Tasmanian origin, circa 1840, interior fitted with drawers and compartments, fine cross-banded edge, full cedar construction, extremely rare, 153 cm high, 122 cm wide, 59 cm deep. Provenance: The Rodney Pemberton collection, ex Toby & Julianna Hooper Collection
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A fine pair of Australian cedar Gothic armchairs purported to have come from the original Melbourne stock exchange, mid 19th century, 61 cm across the arms
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A Colonial five drawer chest, solid birdseye huon pine, Tasmanian origin, circa 1840, huon pine secondary timbers and turned blackwood knobs, 114 cm high, 111 cm wide, 55 cm deep
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A rare Colonial campaigne bureau, mahogany and cedar with ebony inlay, possibly Anglo-Indian, circa 1810, fold out writing slope, cabinet fitted with slide drawer, field panel cedar back with peg joined construction, 77 cm high, 79 cm wide, 44 cm deep
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A rare Colonial Australian drum table, cedar and blackwood, Tasmanian origin, circa 1840, 82 cm high, 107 cm diameter. Provenance: The Rodney Pemberton Collection
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A Colonial five drawer chest, cedar with blackwood handles and huon pine secondary timbers, Tasmanian origin, circa 1840, 110 cm high, 122 cm wide, 55 cm deep. Provenance: 'The Rodney Pemberton Collection
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Early Colonial riding boot and whip stand, Australian cedar, Tasmania origin, circa 1840, 92 cm high, 92 cm wide, 37 cm deep
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A Colonial sewing table, Australian cedar, Tasmanian origin, circa 1835, dropside with cross banded cedar edge, drawer fitted with cedar compartments, 75 cm high, 53 cm wide (extends to 90 cm wide), 46 cm deep
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A child's spade back high chair, Australian cedar, circa 1850, 81 cm high, 36 cm across the arms. Provenance: The Rodney Pemberton Collection
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A Colonial games top wine table, cedar, musk and huon pine, Tasmanian origin, circa 1850, 73 cm high, 50 cm wide, 41 cm deep
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An early Australian cedar sideboard with Thomas Hope scroll back and shield doors, New South Wales origin, circa 1835-1840, full cedar secondary construction, 144 cm high, 203 cm wide, 53 cm deep
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An Anglo-Indian Colonial cellarette, Indian cedar, circa 1820, 64 cm high, 80 cm wide, 49 cm deep
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A dressing table, huon pine with marble top, Melbourne, circa 1875, 172 cm high, 129 cm wide, 54 cm deep
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An early Australian Colonial meatsafe, cedar with pierced zinc sides, circa 1830, a similar example of the pattern zinc work illustrated on the end papers of 'Memories: A survey of early Australian furniture in the collection of the Lord McAlpine of West Green' by Graham Cornall, 100 cm high, 82 cm wide, 47 cm deep
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A Colonial tilt-top oval supper table with unusual carved column and base, blackwood, Tasmanian origin, mid 19th century, 75 cm high, 125 cm wide, 90 cm deep
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A rare set of four Tasmanian blackwood dining chairs attributed to James Lumsden, Hobart, circa 1845, similar examples illustrated in 'Australian Furniture Pictorial History and History 1788-1938', by Fahy & Simpson [Casuarina Press, Sydney], page 260
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An Important Exhibition Table, W. H. Rocke & Co. 1880 Melbourne International Exhibition writing table, fiddleback blackwood, huon pine and walnut., This fine table was displayed on the Rocke & Co. stand at the Great Exhibition in Melbourne, where the exhibit won a silver medal in the Victorian Section, this being the only remaining piece in private hands. The other pieces reside in the collections of the NGV and the Melbourne Museum. The Exhibition Jury report of the day stated 'In The Victorian Court we…
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A fine Australian dressing table, fiddleback blackwood, Melbourne, circa 1885, 174 cm high
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An impressive Colonial Australian chest of eight drawers with plum pudding cuts of cedar and turned columns, New South Wales origin, circa 1860, full cedar secondary construction, base plate hand adzed, 164 cm high, 135 cm wide, 65 cm deep. Provenance: The Rodney Pemberton Collection
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A Colonial double ended settee, Australian cedar, Adelaide, South Australian origin, circa 1845, 230 cm across the arms
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