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Australian & Historical, Day 2 — Leski Auctions Pty. Ltd.

Auction House:Leski Auctions Pty. Ltd.Number of lots recorded:326
Sale Title:Australian & Historical, Day 2Lots with images:314
Auction Location:MelbournePrices available:259
Date:29-Nov-2020
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World War I period Australian Police Brodie helmet
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Australian Army slouch hat and a Fez hat, 20th century, (2 items).
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World war one: It's a long, long way to Tipperary' souvenir silk scarf, printed by a Feldman & Co (London, 1918), 48 x 48 cm.
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World war one: small archive of material relating to Pte John Wright, service no #4633 AIF 6th Infantry Battalion, including British War Medal and Victory medal with ribbons, family correspondence/mementos including photograph of 'The Innocent Imps, Broadmeadows, 27-12-15' (training camp for AIF) silk and real-photo postcards, 1916 (May 7) letter from France stating 'The Zeppelins are getting lively...we had one here a fortnight ago, it dropped a few bombs and flew away again without killing anything but a…
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French Legion of Honour (Honneur et Patrie Legion) medal, decorated in green and white enamel, early 20th century, 6 x 4 cm, weight 20grams.
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World war one: group of items relating to Lieut. Edwin Bennett 'Ted' Spargo of 6th Battalion AIF, comprising suitcase with gilt inscription ''Lieut E.B.Spargo/6th Battn/A.I.F', plus three books including 'War Services of old Melburnians 1914-1918' (Melbourne church of England Grammar school) by J. Beacham Kiddle (1923), with biographies of pupils, including Spargo, who served during the great war., Lieut. Spargo, was killed in action at Gallipoli in an attack on a German Officers' trench on 6-7th August…
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World War II 11½lb. R.A.F. Bomb, circa 1942, has been defused, 45 cm long
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Australian & Allied Forces selection: with family photographs of Sir Bernard Evans (World War II military officer and former Mayor of Melbourne), other World War II era photographs of servicemen and officers (few framed) plus others showing military engineers at work, warships, etc, 1934-35 photographs of British ship hallmarked sterling centurion showing damage inflicted in trials with dive bombers, also service stripes & other military adornments. (quantity).
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Sgt Elizabeth Harvey Parker, RAAF/Women's auxiliary Air Force (Waaaf): seven uniform buttons, 2 identity discs, 1 metal RAAF cap badge, membership badge of the Air Force Association and a ½ shilling Japanese Occupation currency note. (12 items).
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Nulli Secundus - a history of the second Battalion, A.I.F. 1914 - 1919' compiled by Taylor & Cusack (1942) (poor condition), 'Purple over green - the history of the 2/2 Australian Infantry Battalion 1939 - 1945' by Wick (1977), 'Active service - with Australia in the middle East' (1950) and 'The lost Diggers' by Coulthart (2012). (4 vols.).
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World war II: British RAF 'Pilot's flying log Book' for flight Officer Kenneth Robert Thompson of Drummoyne NSW. First entry for June 1942 for a 'Tiger Moth' training flight. Further 1943-44 training flights in Airspeed 'As.10 Oxford', progressing to Bristol 'Blenheim' and Martin 'Baltimore' bombers. Active sorties as pilot commencing in August 1944 with raids on targets in Italy until shot-down by anti-aircraft fire in November 1944 near Faenza, Italy when piloting a Baltimore bomber. Final log entry…
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World War II P.O.W. Internment Camps: 1d and 3d ('Camps') Currency tokens in Vf-Ef condition. (2).
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R.A.A.F. (Royal Australian Air Force) English porcelain butter dish and cover, 11 cm high, 21 cm wide, 17 cm deep
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Service Medals, medallions and badges, (13 items)
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World War II Royal Air Force officer's beret by Comptom Webb Ltd. Size 57.
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RAAF chrome aeroplane desk ornament on marble base with gilt metal decoration, circa 1940s, 28 cm high, 34 cm wingspan
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A chrome aeroplane desk ornament on green Bakelite stand, circa 1940s, 12 cm high, 14 cm wingspan
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A chrome aeroplane ornament mounted on blue glass circular panel, circa 1940s, 31 cm diameter
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A timber propeller desk clock on chrome stand, circa 1940, 59 cm wide
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Japanese set of six boxed silver plated teaspoons with Japanese World War II warship handles, near mint condition, the box 18 cm wide
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World War II rare Japanese officer's leather pistol holster in remarkably good condition. Made for a Browning pistol this was not standard issue for the Japanese Imperial forces and most likely a high ranking officer's personal purchase. Faint Japanese ownership inscription on the back., 22 cm high
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World War II Japanese military themed sake cups and jars as well as a Japanese World War II medal, (17 items), the largest 16 cm high
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Selection with 1939-1945 Kgvi War Medal and Defence medal, World War I Royal engineers cap badge, Australian Commonwealth military Forces cap badges (3), Royal artillery cap badge, East Lancashire Regiment 'Egypt' campaign cap badge, also sew-on badges & stripes, brass buttons, few non-military items including 'City of St Kilda' black linen sash. (50 items approx)
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Australian World War II Service Medals (2) and assorted Dutch medals and medalettes, 20th century, (14 items)
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Bulgarian medal display, 8 medals with ribbons attractively mounted and framed, label with details verso, 48 x 48 cm overall
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RAAF Warrant Officer 1950s cap and brass cap badge, plus assorted RAAF badges, buttons, dog tag, epaulettes and stripes., (approx 50 items)
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A library: comprising of 33 volumes published 1955 - 1967 by the medical Department of the U.S. Army with comprehensive reports of the activities, difficulties and discoveries of the Department during World War II. Subjects include Communicable Diseases Malaria, Arthropodborne Diseases other Than Malaria, Communicable Diseases Transmitted chiefly through Respiratory and Alimentary Tracts, general Surgery, Vascular Surgery, activities of Surgical Consultants, Infectious Diseases, Thoracic Surgery,…
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Armstrong Whitworth locomotives, circa 1920 hardback catalogue depicting 'Some Examples of locomotives constructed at Spotswood works, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.' with 19 tipped-in large photographs. Locomotives constructed for the home market as well as Indian, Nigerian, Dutch Colonial, Irish, Belgian and other customers. 24.5 x 32 cm.
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Railway Tickets - Victoria & NSW: 1940s-50s Edmondson railway tickets with Victoria (25) including Workman's Tickets, break ticket, day Returns, first & second Class, child tickets, NSW (18) including school Pupil, child's Weekly Periodical, free school Term, perambulator & Bicycle tickets. (43)
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Melbourne Tram Destination roll: circa 1960s, for inner Eastern & Northern Suburban lines, destinations/routes including West Preston/Northcote, Hanna St Depot, Albert Park beach, South Melbourne beach, football, Racecourse, Showgrounds, Victoria bridge, Northcote via St Georges Rd, city - Elizabeth St & city - Spencer St, 101 cm wide, approx 850 cm long.
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Adelaide bus Destination roll: circa 1960s, destinations including Hackney, Kilkenny, Toorak, Col. Light gardens, show G'ds and paradise, 49.5 cm wide, 980 cm long. Route number signage replaced destination rolls in 1970.
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V/Line Australian folk art model locomotive and carriage, late 20th century, 145 cm long overall
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Pan American Airways system to Mexico' brochure, circa 1943, Airlines of New South Wales' official journal (Vol1, issue No.2), circa 1960, Qantas 90th anniversary issue in flight magazine, November 2010, Qantas 95th anniversary issue in flight magazine, November 2015., (4 items)
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Embraer Erj 145 Xr model on stand in original box, 21 cm long
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Qantas Ist class pair of porcelain salt and pepper shakers by Wedgwood, circa 1960, stamped 'Wedgwood, made in England, 4.5 cm high
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Picturesque atlas of Australasia three volumes, full morocco with gilt embossed boards and spines, complete but worn and slightly dilapidated
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[Judaica]., a small library of religious publications including 'Text-book of the Jewish Religion' by Friedlander (London, 1896), Passover Haggadahs (1923 Vienna & 1928, New York), a festival prayer book (Vienna, 1900) endorsed 'To Jack Cohen....July 1929', a prayer book (Vilna, 1924), daily Prayers with English instructions (Roedelheim, 1933), the five books of Moses in a miniature boxed edition (Jerusalem 1962), (13 vols.) mixed condition.
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The holy bible containing the old Testament and the new. Newly translated out of the original Tongues and with the former translations diligently compared and revised. With Marginal notes, Shewing, that Scripture is the best Interpreter of Scripture, [London, printed by Charles bill and the Executrix of Thomas Newcomb deceas'd, Printers to the King's most excellent Majesty., 1700]. Leather binding with raised bands and gilt decorations. Unpaginated., manuscript entries to front blank leaves re Howard…
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Anon: 'Advice to the officers of the British army with the Addition of some Hints to the Drummer and private Soldier...The Seventh edition, to which is now added, for the first time, some Advice to the officers of the ordnance, and to the Secretary of War.' [London, Published by W.Richardson for G.Kearsly, London, 1783]. 16 x 10 cm. Marbled boards, later leather spine and replaced endpapers. 188pp with folding satirical frontispiece., Satirical advice for all ranks. The Commander in chief - Take care of…
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Cook, James & Forster, George, a voyage round the world Performed in his Britannic Majesty's ships the Resolution and adventure, in the Years 1772, 1773, 1774, and 1775....Illustrated with a chart of the Southern Hemisphere...[Dublin, W.Whitestone, S.Watson, R. Cross, J. Potts &&., Dublin, 1777] four volumes XVIII, xxx,372pp. 6, 392pp. 2 492pp. 2 518pp. Large folding map of Southern Hemisphere, six engraved plates, folding table. Contemporary calf with later title labels. A fine complete set of this…
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Cook, James (Captain), a voyage to the Pacific Ocean, Undertaken by Command of his Majesty, for Making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere: Performed under the Direction of Captains cook, Clerke, and Gore, in the Years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780., [London, Stockdale, Scatcherd & Whitaker, Fielding && Hardy, 1784] first edition. Hardcover. First octavo edition. In four volumes. XII, [v]-viii, 370pp, XII, 359pp, XII, 400pp, XII, 310pp + index and 6 pages of publisher's adverts. Contemporary calf…
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Arthur Phillip (1738 - 1814), the voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany bay with an Account of the Establishment of the Colonies of port Jackson & Norfolk Island...., [London: John Stockdale, 1789], Quarto, half-calf over marbled boards, spine ruled and lettered in gilt, armorial bookplate of H. Holland Edwards to front pastedown, armorial bookplate of Henry Hampden Dutton to front free endpaper, frontispiece portrait, engraved title (in the first state, foxed), pp 6 [errata, blank], VIII, [8 - list of…
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John white (1756 - 1832), Journal of a voyage to New South Wales, with Sixty-five plates of Non descript animals, birds, Lizards, Serpents, curious Cones of trees and other natural Productions by John white Esqre, Surgeon general to the Settlement., [London: J. Debrett, 1790], Quarto, in an Italian binding of full white vellum, with contrasting morocco title labels, gilt decorations, engraved 1802 map of the greater Sydney basin (extracted from a copy of Collins) pasted on the front pastedown, mss title in…
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1817 Lottery Handbills - England - Thomas Bish, Twenty-two different printed handbills advertising an upcoming lottery (Jan.21) each with an engraved illustration of a national 'Type' and comical verse -- includes England, china, Russia, South Africa, Algiers, Corsica (depicting Napoleon), Ireland and Italy, etc., Thomas Bish (1779-1843) - English proprietor of lottery offices at Charing cross, Cornhill and several provincial cities. He was noted for his elaborate lottery promotions. The final English…
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[Tribal warfare van Dieman's Land], view taken in the interior of New Holland, near the torrent of Kirkham, Jaques Arago engraving from his 1818 sketch made during Louis Freycinet's visit to eastern Tasmania aboard 'L'Uranie'. The engraving was prepared in 1823 for inclusion in Freycinet's publication 'Voyage autour du monde sur les corvettes ''l'Uranie' et 'La Physicienne., framed and glazed, overall 27 x 30 cm.
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Maslen, T.J., the friend of Australia, or, a plan for Exploring the interior, and for carrying on a survey of the Whole Continent of Australia. By a Retired Officer of the Hon. East India Company's service. Illustrated with a map of Australia, and five plates. Pp. Xxiv+428+[2] (Supplemental note, verso blank), 5 double page plates (4 being hand-coloured aquatints), large folding map at end, appendix, [Hurst, Chance & Co., London, 1830], rebound preserving the upper and lower boards and the paper label to…
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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, front pastedown with early binder's ticket of William Moffitt, King St., Sydney, 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…
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Howe, Anne: 'The New South Wales calendar and general post office Directory, 1836' [Sydney, Gazette office, undated but 1835]. 410 pp + the general post office Directory of 147 pp. With the map of Sydney (incomplete), all plates and engraved advertisements as called for. Ferguson 2157.
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Legal Affairs in the District of Port Phillip - 1842 to 1861, a group of six (6) documents, mainly warrants created by the Deputy Sherrifs (Samuel Rayward, Alistair MacKenzie) in discharging their roles in settling disputes between free settlers. Three are printed forms which have been completed in manuscript, the others are all hand-written. In May 1842 Raymond instructs his Bailiff to 'Take John William Thurlow....and him safely keep, so that I May have his body before her Majesty's Justice in the…
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James Backhouse (1794 - 1869), a narrative of a visit to the Australian Colonies., [London, Hamilton, Adams & Co., 1843.], Pp. XVIII, 569, appendixes pp. Cxliv. With three large folding maps by James Wyld, 15 full page etchings and many illustrations in the text., black half calf over cloth boards, with gilt title and raised bands to spine. Fergusson 3558.
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An 1852 Victorian land Grant by purchase, February 1852 land grant to Robert McEWIN of a town lot in the town of Footscray, signed and sealed by the Lieutenant Governor, Charles Latrobe. (the price of £14/-/- is detailed in manuscript and the exact location is described in manuscript. 34 x 44.5 cm., the population of Victoria was growing rapidly at this time. In December 1851 it was 83,350, by December 1852 it was 148,627.
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An 1855 Tasmanian land Grant by purchase, October 1855 land grant to Frederick green of a 4 acre Township allotment in York town, van Diemen's land, signed and sealed by the Governor, Sir Henry Edward fox young. (the price of £16/10/- is detailed in manuscript and a map illustrating the grant is shown at left, also signed by William Henty, Colonial Secretary. 35 x 60 cm., Green's beach (and the later Green's beach Road), are associated with this family. York town was one of the earliest settlements in…
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Phrenology in early Melbourne, four written and printed reports on the 'Character and talents' of Melbourne residents of the 1850s, mixed condition., October 1856 - an adult male assessed by Philomon Sohier (at Sohier's Phrenological cabinet, 18 Gt. Collins St East) 'Not proud - very sensitive, too much at times to the praise or censure of others....., November 1857 - an adult male assessed by Philomon Sohier (at Sohier's Phrenological Museum, 84 Elizabeth St.) 'A quick appreciation of argument - quickly…
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An 1855 Tasmanian land Grant by purchase, October 1855 land grant to Edward John Dawes of a Township allotment in York town, van Diemen's land, signed and sealed by the Governor, Sir Henry Edward fox young. (the price of £16/10/- is detailed in manuscript and a map illustrating the grant is shown at left, also signed by William Henty, Colonial Secretary. 40 x 69 cm., the land was on Aldridge Street to the north with the West arm of the Tamar River to the south.
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An 1856 Tasmanian land Grant by purchase, March 1856 land grant to James Reid of 500 acres in the vicinity of the river Inglis, County of Wellington, Tasmania, signed and sealed by the Governor, Sir Henry Edward fox young. (the price of £1 per acre is detailed in manuscript and a map illustrating the grant is shown at left, also signed by William Henty, Colonial Secretary. 40 x 60 cm., the outflow of the Inglis river is in Wynyard, on the north-west coast. Reid Street, Wynyard is named after this early…
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An 1857 Tasmanian land Grant, August 1857 land grant to Robert Thirkell, of 189 acres in the Parish of Longford, County of Westmoreland Tasmania, signed and sealed by the Governor, Sir Henry Edward fox young. (the price of £1 per acre is detailed in manuscript and a map illustrating the grant is shown at left, also signed by William Henty, Colonial Secretary. 40 x 59.5 cm., Robert Thirkell died in 1876 at the age of 85 at his residence in Launceston. The published obituary described him as a colonist of 56…
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An 1858 Victorian land Grant during the gold rush, October 1858 land grant by purchase to Joseph ball of an allotment in Castlemaine, signed and sealed by the Governor, Sir Henry Barkly. (the price of £39/5/- is detailed in manuscript. 35 x 45 cm., the land in question, 'Suburban lot 11', was a 'Town allotment' of 1 rood, (just over 1000 square meters or the traditional 'Quarter acre block'). Gold was discovered near present-day Castlemaine (Mt Alexander goldfields) in July 1851 at specimen Gully on…
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English interest: three original Acts of Parliament, comprising July 1814 re 'The East India Company', March 1864 re 'Sir John Laird Mair Lawrence to receive the full Benefit of the Salary of Governor general of India...', and July 1864 'An Act to facilitate...the obtaining of Powers for the construction of Railways.' also, a Nov.1893 letter from the George Jennings Sanitary engineers Co. To H.H. The Thakore Sahib of Gondal (re an unpaid account) and a 1913 invoice from Harrods, Ltd. (5 items).
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Smith, Philip, an ancient history from the Earliest records to the fall of the Western Empire., [London: James Walton, 1868]. Three volumes, contemporary calf with gilt borders and emblem of Dorset County school, raised bands, spine compartments with ornate design, red and green morocco labels, marbled edges and endpapers. With numerous fold-out maps and in-text maps. Front flyleaf with inked prize presentation: 'Divinity & Mathematics.....June 22nd, 1869'.
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An 1870 Victorian land Grant by purchase, December 1870 land grant to Edward Fletcher of an allotment in Lygon Street, Carlton, signed and sealed by the Governor, Viscount canterbury (John Henry Thomas Manners-Sutton). (the price of £106 is detailed in manuscript and a map illustrating the grant is shown at left.) 35 x 45 cm., Viscount canterbury was Governor of Victoria from 1866 to 1873. The suburb of canterbury was named in his honour. The piece of land in Lygon Street was between Macpherson St and…
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Taylor, Alfred Swaine, Md Frs (1806-1880), an 8 page a.I.s from a practitioner in Geelong to Dr A.Taylor who appears to have been experimenting with paraffin or kerosene in solution. Also enclosed are 3 small papers that he has experimented on with pencilled notes., also an a.I.s from Reese, John, the American editor of the 7th edition of Dr Taylor's book 'A manual of medical Jurisprudence' to Dr Alfred Swaine Taylor, dated 20th of August, 1874., Dr Taylor, toxicologist and medical writer was considered…
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Three Broinowski Australiana engravings, 35 x 28 cm
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Australia and New Zealand' Vol. 2 by Anthony Trollope [1876], 'Australasia' by A.R.Wallace [1883], 'Official record of the Proceedings of the Australasian Federation Conference, 1890', 'Fact'ry 'Ands' by Edward & Will Dyson [1918], 'Maori Witchery' by C.R. Browne [1929], plus 4 other volumes. (9 items). Mixed condition.
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Emerald hill band of Hope' chromolithograph temperance movement membership certificate to George Thomas Schollick (no. 1481), June 4th, 1877. Emerald hill is now goes by the name South Melbourne. 15 x 16.5 cm
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Grandmamma's Verse book for young Australian, part 1' by Mrs. Meredith, [Hobart, Tasmania, 1878]
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India: a range of early real photo postcards (mostly Nilgiris, Coonoor, Ootacamund), various signed letters, including. Mar.1910 from Lord Wenlock (Governor of Madras), Lord Elphinstone, etc. Mixed condition. (37 items).
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City of Richmond, Victoria: 1884 - 1898 'Corporation of the city of Richmond' salary sheets comprising the hand-written name, position, amount of pay and the signature of every employee., several Richmond street names recall some of the signatories on these 21 pages, which include Thomas Gardner, Alex Edward Butler, Charles Blazey, Richard Miles page (Inspector of Nuisances), Alfre Clayton, William Cuddon, etc.
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Thackeray, William Makepeace, the works of William Makepeace Thackeray, illustrated by the author and Richard Doyle, Published by Smith, elder, & Co., London, 1886-88, an incomplete set of 13 volumes, uniformly bound, half calf, with marbled endpapers and gilt titles, on red and green spine labels., Titles include 'Lovel the Widower', 'Sketches and Travels, in London', 'The Irish sketch Book', 'The Virginians, vanity Fair', 'The Adventures of Philip', etc.
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Ruskin, John, Praeterita - Outlines of scenes and Thoughts Perhaps Worthy of the Memory of My Past life, three volumes - first edition, [Published by George Allen, Sunnyside, Orpington, Kent, 1886], original half-vellum bindings.
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History of Ballarat - from the first pastoral Settlement to the Present Time' by W.B. Withers (1887, revised 2nd edition) published by F.W. Niven & Co (Ballarat), bound in olive-green cloth boards with gilt decoration. Contents include a 32 cm x 88 cm fold-out chromolithograph 'View of Ballaarat' and a 37 cm x 62 cm fold-out plan of the Ballarat and Sebastopol gold Mines, illustrations include reward-for-capture notices, proclamations & licences. One chapter is devoted to the Eureka Stockade, 362pp…
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Leavitt, T.W.H and Lilburn, W.D., the Jubilee history of Victoria and Melbourne. Illustrated, [Melbourne, Duffus Bros., 1888] volume 1 (of 2), 4to. Orig. Half roan over gilt titled red cloth boards., also, Blair, David, Cyclopaedia of Australasia, or, dictionary of Facts, Events, dates, persons, and Places.....to the year 1881', [Melbourne, Fergusson and Moore, 1881] 780pp + XV.
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The Australian Irrigation Colonies illustrated on the river Murray in Victoria and South Australia, [Chaffey Bros., London: 1888], hard cover folio edition, half red morocco with embossed gilt lettering and coat of arms to the front boards, with numerous attractive and fascinating advertisements., issued in association with the 1888 Melbourne international exhibition.
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[French Children's Book], Emile Pech, Un oncle d'Australie, [Paris: Jouvet & Cie, c1895], Quarto, gilt decorated green cloth, spine with gilt decoration, 286pp, illustrated with 73 gravures in the text., also, another example in quarter red calf over red pebbled cloth. (2 vols.), a French children's story in which much of the story is set in Australia - in particular Melbourne and Ballarat and the inheritance of a fortune made on the goldfields.
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Timber building at Murtoa, for Mrs McKean' scale 8 feet to 1 inch, original architectural plans, ink and watercolour, 19th century, 51 x 73 cm, frame 75 x 97 cm
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Collingwood, W.G. (ed.), the Poems of John Ruskin, Vol. 1 Poems written in Boyhood, Vol II Poems written in youth 1836-1845, and later Poems, [Published by George Allen, London, 1891], complete 2 volume set, with early facsimiles of Mss., and illustrations by the author. Half-leather, spine, with raised bands, gilt titles and top edges.
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The Lascelles family of Geelong & Melbourne, an archive including a blank share certificate for Dennys, Lascelles Ltd, an 1893 letter to Mr Lascelles from Lord Hopetoun, a 1911 letter and signed photograph from Mary Gibson-Carmichael (wife of the Governor) to Mrs Lascelles, a Nov.1923 bearer's letter signed by the Premier of Victoria (Harry Lawson), various travel and business related documents. (13 items).
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[Judaica], the Pentateuch with Haftaroth and Prayers for Sabbath, Hebrew and English, [Budapest, M.E. Lowy's Son, 1893], 5 vols., tooled black leather with gilt decoration and titles to spines., each volume endorsed in manuscript, Ballarat Hebrew school., first prize, awarded to master Hyman Grinblat., October 1905 - Tishrei 5666., Benzion Lenzer, Principal., presented by Mr.L.Slutzkin., Hyman Bennett Bainish 'Hymie' Grinblat (1895 - 1956) is buried at Fawkner Memorial park.
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The yellow book - Vol.1 to Vol.5 - 1894-95, Published by John Lane & Elkin Mathews. Editors, [Ballantyne press, London], a literary & artistic source for the 1890's & known through its association with all the foremost writers of the time & its famous black & white illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley (who was Art editor & foremost illustrator. Other contributors include M Beerbohm, H James, Walter Sickert, Kenneth Grahame, Charles Conder, Edmund Gosse, Anatole France, etc.
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Ruskin, John [1819 - 1900], Fors Clavigera - letters to the workmen, and Labourers of Great Britain, in 8 volumes + index for the 8 vols., [London, George Allen, 1895 and earlier], uniformly bound in half-calf with marbled, end papers, gilt titles and decorations, gilt top edges. (9 vols.).
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[Consumptives Homes, New South Wales] 'Souvenir book: Published in connection with the grand and press Bazaar in aid of the Queen Victoria Homes for Consumptives' / edited by Lord Beauchamp, [Sydney, William Brooks, 1899], [4] pages, [65] leaves of plates: illustrations, music, portraits.
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1899 Australasian Federal Referendum colour lithograph certificate, inscribed to 'A.E. Farmer', illustrated with captioned portraits of the six state Premiers and Parliament house, framed & glazed, overall 48 x 63 cm. Also c.1919 lithographic poster 'Record of the Australian Imperial Force in the great war, framed & glazed 61 x 46 cm. (2 items)
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Beer labels: collection including Ballarat (Bertie) Bitters, Ballarat XXX ale, Victoria Lager, Carlton, Fosters, Melbourne Bitter etc, (quantity)
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F.Humphris & Sons (Adelaide) food labels: attractive selection with duplication including Pickles Chow Chow (5), hop beer (9), real Bobs sauce (12), Booemerang Tonic (5), and others. (70+)
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Morris Jacobs of Geelong, a March 1902 contract between Hendy & Apted, architects (Moorabool St.) and Mr. Morris Jacobs, for 'Works to be done and material to be used in the alteration to shopfronts, repairs, painting, etc., to the premises in Malop Street'. The four-page printed contract is signed by Jacobs and Frank Apted and is accompanied by six pages of hand-written specifications., Morris Jacobs was born in 1825, to Jewish draper, Michael Jacobs and his wife Rachel. For 100 years, the shop he…
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1900s-1950s Donaldson/Warren family archive housed in old-time projector box with two large bundles of Warren family World War II correspondence plus a 1943 letter to Acting Sergeant Sidney Warren from then RAAF flight Sergeant John (bay) Adams whilst training in Canada, World War II military documents for Lance Sergeant Sidney Warren including. Record of service book, army Driving Licence, Demobilization Procedure book & certificate of Discharge, postcards including. Real-photo types & photographs…
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William H. Ogilvie (1869 - 1963): manuscript copy (in ink) of a tribute to Adam Lindsay Gordon, titled 'From 'Hearts of Gold' by Will H. Ogilvie' with five stanzas followed at base by the signature 'Will H. Ogilvie'. Mounted & framed together with a photograph of Ogilvie in later life. Overall 57.5 x 29 cm., Ogilvie was a Scottish-Australian narrative poet and horseman, jackaroo, and drover. He was part of the early 20th century trio of Australian bush poets, with banjo Paterson (1864 - 1941) and Henry…
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Playing cards - 'Picturesque Australia': early 1900s full deck cards showing monochrome photographic images of Australian scenes in the centre of each card with representations from every Australian state, complete with original box. (54 cards)
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Views of Victoria in 1857 - cigarette cards: 1906-11 Sniders & Abrahams large-part set [29/32], plus various duplicates, condition to fine. (64)
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Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, the lady of the blue beads: her book, written by Annie R. Rentoul, [Melbourne: George Robertson, n.d. But 1908], faults, but scarce.
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Proposed alterations to Gippsland Hotel, Swanston Street, Melbourne, for W.H. Higgins Esq.', scale half inch to one foot, architects original elevations and scale drawings in ink and watercolour, circa 1910, 57 x 84 cm, (framed: 82 x 106 cm overall)., the Gippsland Hotel', owned by John a Parer & William Higgins between 1891 and 1911, is now known as 'Young & Jacksons
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Tarella Quin & Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, before the lamps are Lit, [Melbourne, George Robertson, 1911], oblong quarto, illustrated cloth boards, 189pp., a compilation of six children's stories with engravings by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite.
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Public Hospital Wonthaggi' original architectural rendering and sectional views in ink and watercolour for the successful tender by G.S. Matthews (for £5866) showing elevated views of the 'Mortuary, administrative Wards & kitchen Block' scale 8 feet to 1 inch, signed and dated lower left 1913, 53 x 74 cm, frame 79 x 99 cm., the successful tender was reported in 'The Argus' of 29 November 1913, just above a letter to the editor, Sir, the paragraph in the Argus of 25lh inst regarding a threatened strike…
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Brady, Edwin J. [1869 - 1952], Australia Unlimited, [Melbourne, George Robertson, undated but circa 1918] 1084pp + lvi, thick 4to, red cloth hardcover with gilt title and decoration to front cover. Profusely illust. With frontisp. And photo plates many of which are full-page.
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Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, Elves & Fairies of Ida Rentoule Outhwaite, Verses by Annie R. Rentoul, [Lothian, Melbourne & Sydney, 1916], folio, one of 1500 copies. With the original thick card slip-case (faults) of which few survive today., Outhwaite's first book of colour illustrations.
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Norman Lindsay (1879 - 1969), The Magic Pudding, [Sydney: Angas & Robertson, 1918], first edition, rebacked and with new endpapers, original dustjacket (with chip to spine).
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Ethel C. Pedley, dot and the kangaroo, [Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1920], 82pp, colour frontispiece, sepia plates, cloth backed pictorial boards, original dust jacket.
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Travel & Photography: folding maps and street guides for Adelaide & Suburbs (1930s), Brisbane (c1920s), tourist map of Canberra (1954), Whitcombe's map of Auckland (1933) and various pictorial booklets including 'Canberra the city Beautiful' (c1960), 'Picturesque Hobart and Surroundings' by Spurlings (1925), 'Queensland illustrated - 70 exquisite Views' (c1910), 'Northern Territory Australia - Illustrating scenes along the north south Highway' (C.A.Pitt, Ltd., c1950), etc. (11 items). Mixed condition.
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[Judaica]., service of the Synagogue: a new edition of the festival Prayers with an English Translation in Prose and Verse, [London, George Routledge & Sons, (n.d. 1927) ], 5 volumes, padded leather bindings, gilt edges and titles., each volume endorsed in manuscript, to Dear Harold, on the occasion of his Barmitzvah, with love from, Grandpa & Grendma Grinblat, Iyar 13 - 5694, May 20 - 1934'
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Assortment with 1930-40s autograph book with signatures of actors/performers Walter Niblo (music hall comedian, on photograph) & Georgie wood ('Wee Georgie Wood') with dated pen & ink drawing of himself alongside and Owen Nares (actor), cigarette cards Wills 1929 'Crests and colours of Australian Universities, Colleges & Schools' [67/68], also Millhoff (London) 1931-33 Real-Photo series (70) & Gallagher's park drive 1937 'The Navy' (56) including duplicates, Orient line late-1950s passenger guides (2), SS…
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May Gibbs, Tales of Snugglepot & Cuddlepie: all two little Gum-Nut babies & their Adventures wonderful, [Angus & Robertson, Sydney nd (1934)], 88pp, sepia illustrations & colour frontispiece, hardback with dustjacket., also, 'Little Obelia and further Adventures of Ragged blossom Snugglepot and Cuddlepie, [Angus & Robertson]. (2 vols.).
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