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

Auction House:Leski Auctions Pty. Ltd.Number of lots recorded:262
Sale Title:Australian & Historical, Day 2Lots with images:258
Auction Location:MelbournePrices available:221
Date:30-May-2021
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Exploration: group of titles comprising hardbound 'South with Endurance - Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition 1914-17' (penguin books, 2001), lavishly illustrated featuring the photographs of Frank Hurley, 320pp, hardbound; 'Shackleton & the Antarctic Explorers' by Gavin Mortimer (Carlton books, 1999), 128pp, hardbound; also 'Mawson a Life' by Tim Bowden (2003), 321pp soft bound. (3)
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Balance of an Australian comic collection: diverse array of earlier issues comprising 'Adventure Comics - featuring Superboy' Nos 3 & 4, 'Archie' No.2, 'Archie's Pal Jughead' No.2, 'Blackhawk' No.12, 'Buck Rogers' No.171, 'Captain Atom' No.21, 'Captain Triumph' Nos 12 & 15, 'Cometman' Nos 23 & 24, 'Congo Bill' Nos 4 & 5, 'Hurricane Comic' Nos 6 & 11, 'Jet Fury' No.29, 'Jungle Comic' No.4, 'Mandrake - the Magician' two unnumbered issues (large format) & 'Mandrake - Supercomic Series' Nos 10 & 24, 'Marmaduke…
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Comics - Australian number '1' Issues: selection of first Issues comprising 'Buccaneers', 'Congo Bill', 'Dick Tracy', 'G-Man', 'Jumbo Comic', 'Ken Shannon - private Eye', 'Outlaws', 'Roundup', 'Supa Dupa Man', 'Taxi O'Hara' and 'Yarmak - jungle King' (plus issues #2 & 5); all are priced at 6d or 8d, c.1950s; generally good or above-average condition. Desirable group. (13)
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Comics (Australian) - Detective/Crime Titles: selection with 'Cole Steele' No.2, 'Corrigan secret Agent' No.15, 'Famous Yank Police Comics' No.17, 'Grey Domino' No.8, 'Kerry Drake Detective' No.25, 'Manhunter' Nos 31, 34, 39 & 43, 'Red Finnegan' No.2, 'Rip Kirby' No.7, 'The Shadow' No.20, 'Speck Ryan' No.5, 'Steve Roper - American Crime Reporter' No.16; also 'Johnny Hazard - America's Super-Ace Pilot' Nos 2 to 7; all are priced at 6d or 8d, c.1950s; generally good or above-average condition. (20)
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Comics (Australian) - featuring female Heroes: selection comprising 'Belinda - the girl film Star' No.3, 'Black Cat' No.2, 'Brenda Starr' Nos 4, 6, 7, & 8, 'Cowgirl' Nos 1 to 7, 'Rangers comic - featuring Firehair' issues Nos 7 & 13 and 'Firehair Comic' No.1, 'Fight Comics - featuring tiger Girl' No.3, and 'Jane' no. 2; all are priced at 6d or 8d, c.1950s; generally good or above-average condition. (18)
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Comics (Australian) - 'Western' themed: group comprising 'Adventure Comics' no 6, 8, 10 & 17, 'Ben Barbary Bushranger' No.4, 'Hopalong Cassidy' No.5, 'Indians' No.5, 'Kit Carson' No.16, 'Northwest Mounties' No.7, 'Phantom Ranger' Nos 14 & 27, 'Rocky Lane' No.26, 'Roy Rogers' Nos 2 32, 39, 42, 45, 48, 51 & 57, 'Straight Arrow' No.15, 'Western' No.2 & 'Western Hero' Nos 4 & 5; all are priced at 6d or 8d, c.1950s; generally good or above-average condition. (24)
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Comics - Batman (Australian issue): complete run of issues #1 to 34 plus issue #49, priced at 6d (issues 1-10) or 8d (from issue #11 onwards), generally well above-average condition, published by colour Comics Pty Ltd /K.G. Murray Publishing Co (Sydney). (35)
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Comics - Superboy (Australian issue): bundle of earlier issues comprising #7, 9-10, 12-23, 25-29, 33-44, 47-48, 50-51, foxing on earlier issues, nonetheless presentable condition overall, K.G. Murray Publishing Co (Sydney). (35)
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Comics - Superman (Australian issue): bundle of earlier issues comprising #22-23, 27-29, 36-43, 45-58, 60-68, priced at 6d or 8d (from issue #46), condition variable, but generally most presentable, published by colour Comics Pty Ltd /K.G. Murray Publishing Co (Sydney). (36)
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Comics - super adventure comic (Australian issue): bundle of early issues comprising #1, 4-5, 8-15, 18-24, 27-28, 30-32, 35, 42 & 79; all front covers feature Superman and Batman, and often Superboy and/or Robin too, priced at 6d or 8d (from issue #11); some foxing early issues, overall above-average condition. (26)
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1900s-50s Melbourne selection including. Real photo, and animated scenes, others of Ormonde College, Princess Theatre, Prince's court, exhibition Buildings & Government house, photographers including. Robert Jolley; condition variable. (60 approx)
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1900s-50s mostly Melbourne & Regional Victoria selection with Melbourne street scenes, others of Ballarat, Bendigo & Werribee Gorge, etc; some real-photo cards noted; condition variable. (50 approx)
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1900-50 selection with Sydney & NSW views including coloured real-photo of Macquarie lighthouse, Mosman's bay & 'Suspension Bridge', quite a few actress types used in Tasmania, plus greeting types and some foreign cards including. New Zealand & Singapore; mixed condition. (75)
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Cigarette cards: 1910s-20s assortment with themes noted including Sniders & Abrahams 'Butterflies & Moths' (90+); real-photo world views, birds & wildlife, medals & crests; duplication throughout, condition variable. (few 100s).
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1950s-80s array of Australian, British and European cards; also 1937 HMSO (London) Royal Botanic Gardens booklet with 12 coloured views, and ship menus including 1937 for S.S. Nieuw Holland (3) and 1956 P&O 'The Retired Pirate' set of 12 children's menus. (quantity)
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(Parte Del Mare Pacifica), engraved by Vincent Mario Coronelli (Theologian, Mathematician & Cartographer, Venice), 1691. 46.5 x 61.5 cm (plate size), finely executed copperplate-engraved map with some sensitive hand-colouring showing the west coast of Australia and the East coast of New Zealand, as discovered by the Dutch in 1654; block-mounted, gilt framed and glazed, overall 76 x 91 cm. Coronelli was appointed cosmographer to the Venetian Republic and was commissioned to produce terrestrial and celestial…
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Jacques Bellin: 'Carte Reduite Des Terres Australes, Par le Sr Bellin....', (Paris, 1753), lovely map showing hypothetical East coast of Australia, being the Dutch edition of 1758, 36 x 25 cm. This Dutch edition, published in 1758, is scarcer than its French counterpart, published 5 years earlier. The original was produced by Jacques Nicolas Bellin, the inaugural Ingenieur de la marine of the Depot des cartes et plans de la marine (the French Hydrographic office). The present map is augmented with several…
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New Zealand : James Cook: 'Carte de la N.le Zelande visitee en 1769 et 1770 par le Lieutenant J. Cook Commandant de l'Endeavour vaißeau de la Majeste', James Cook, Published Paris, 1774; engraved by Robert Benard. 49 x 38 cm. The original French edition of James Cook's chart of New Zealand, from the first French edition of Hawkesworth's Voyages. This is the first French edition of the most important single map in New Zealand's history and the first complete map of the two islands' coastlines. It confirmed…
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New Zealand: 'Chart of Cook's Strait in New Zealand. From Alexander Hogg's edition of Cook's voyage to the South Pacific, (1784), copper plate engraving, 23 x 33.5 cm.
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Tahiti: William Bligh's 'Sketch of the Harbours on the north side of Eimeo. Taloo Harbour', copper plate engraving, 19 x 22 cm. The anchorage indicated at the head of one of the deep-water arms was where Cook's ships of the third voyage (Resolution & Discovery) were anchored in early October 1777 and 'Moored with a hawser fast to the shore'.
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Rigobert Bonne (1727 - 1794), Nlle Galles Meridle ou Cote Orientale de La Nouvelle Hollande, (with) Esquisse de La Terre Van-Diemen... (and) Partie...Nouvelle Galles Meridionale (with) Baie Botanique, (Paris, 1787), 35 x 24 cm.
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Samuel Dunn, 'South America as divided amongst the Spaniards and the Portuguese, the French and the Dutch', published by Laurie & Whittle, London; 1794. 31 x 44 cm.
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'Polynesia' including the north East quadrant of Australia. (Tooley 980) drawn under the direction of Mr. Pinkerton by I. Hebert, Neele sculpt. Published Janr. 1st 1813 by Cadell & Davies, strand, and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & brown, Paternoster row. Hand coloured, copper engraving, 50 x 69 cm.
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W. & A.K. Johnston, 'Van Diemen's land or Tasmania : lithographed Edition', highly detailed hand-coloured map, circa 1846, 65 x 53 cm.
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Johnston, A.K. New Zealand, Published in Edinburgh, 1855, 66.5 x 55 cm.
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Wharton, Capt. W.J.L., RN, Australia - East coast: Admiralty chart (no 2924) 'Cape Grafton to hope Islands, with the adjacent Barrier Reefs', February 1909 edition, overall 103 x 69 cm. Endorsed verso 'S S Essex Lance Owner's Chart'.
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English Counties: Philips' new series of County maps from the ordnance survey - cloth edition: (Published by George Philip & Son Ltd.), six individual folding maps, linen backed in hardcovers for Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Norfolk, north Wales, Suffolk & Warwickshire. (6).
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Craigie's Graphic map of Victoria, by Craigie map Company, Sydney, circa 1960, framed & glazed, overall 92 x 104 cm.
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Victoria, by Craigie map Company, Sydney, circa 1960, Craigie's Graphic map of Western Australia, by Craigie map Company, Sydney, circa 1960, framed & glazed, overall 107 x 90 cm.
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Craigie's Graphic school map of New South Wales, by Craigie map Company, Sydney, circa 1960, framed & glazed, overall 92 x 104 cm.
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Craigie's Graphic map of Tasmania, by Craigie map Company, Sydney, circa 1960, framed & glazed, overall 107 x 90 cm.
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Australian Antarctic Expedition 1911-14 Scientific report 'Mollusca' by C. Hedley, F.L.S. (1916); 'Sea-Floor Deposits from Soundings. (1922) and 'Geology : a group of Gneisses...from the Moraines at cape Denison, Antarctica' by C.E. Tilley (1940); B.A.N.Z. Antarctic Research Expedition 1929-31 report 'Marine Tertiary Fossils.....from Kerguelen Island' by H.O. Fletcher (1938); British Graham land Expedition 1934-37 Scientific report : the Breeding Behaviour of Penguins...' by Brian Roberts (1940), (5 items).
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Australian Antarctic Expedition 1911-14 Scientific report: Vol.III part 1 'The metamorphic rocks of Adelie Land' section 1 by F.L. Stillwell, (March 1918); with numerous photographic plates by Frank Hurley.
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Melbourne & provincial Tramways: selection of items comprising Conductor's leather satchel with shoulder strap, the brass plate intact and inscribed 'M61', c.1940s-60s; complete books of 13c, 15c, 16c provincial Tramways Tickets, issued by the state Electricity Commission of Victoria, c.1970s; 1916 duplicate copy of Mitchell's report on 'The condition of the Southern Tracks' commissioned by the Tramway board of Melbourne; two bundles of Tramway inspection cards for 'Toorak Line/Domain Road' dated…
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Railway Tickets - New South Wales: 1960s-1990s Edmondson Tickets 'A' to' Y' collection of 'Scheme' era tickets in three volumes, mostly in green with some other colours noted, Suburban and country routes. (approx 730).
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Railway Tickets - New South Wales: state railway authority 'Periodical Weekly' tickets 'A' to 'Y' collection in three volumes, tickets are mostly in white with a few in pink (NSWGR, several for Guildford) or yellow. (approx 930).
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Railway Tickets - New South Wales: state railway authority 'Minifare' & 'Child Minifare' and 'Off Peak' and 'Child off Peak' selection in alphabetical order; also special Excursion & child special Excursion including 1950s-60s tickets; 1980s-90s Sra family tickets and adult + child combination types, special events, Showground & child Showground, shark-illustrated off Peak adult & child tickets for Underwater World/Sydney aquarium, Zoolink, etc. (295)
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Railway Tickets - New South Wales: 1960s-80 Edmondson selection with Australian Railways historical Society, and other special train services or dated event tickets; also Museum tickets including. NSW rail transport Museum types, heritage railway types with zig zag railway (35) plus Illawarra light railway & Lachlan valley railway. Good lot. (290 approx)
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Railway Tickets - Tasmania: 1960s-2000 Edmondson Tickets with Tgr & transport Dept Rly branch withdrawal tickets, emu bay railway Co withdrawals (21); also Don river Tramway, Don river railway issues and 1990s tickets from other minor railways. Excellent variety. (approx 285)
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Railway Tickets - Victoria: Edmondson Tickets in 2 volumes with VR Rail/Bus services including. Brighton-St Kilda bus, Mt Evelyn bus, VFL park bus, VR weekly tickets; also change of Class, Periodical Passes, Overprinted 'E' extension tickets of Journey, of off Peak or of time; race meeting tickets including. Colac, Geelong, Werribee & Warrnambool plus lots of Flemington types including. 'Cup Day'; also Melbourne Showgrounds, Mt buffalo park chalet with hire services tickets including. 'Skis, boots &…
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Edmonson Tickets in 2 volumes including Museum Tickets, coal creek railway, south Gippsland railway, Castlemaine & Maldon railway, central Highlands tourist railway, Belmont Common railway, Yarra valley Tour, railway Tickets - Victoria: collection of Edmondson Tickets in 2 volumes including Museum Tickets, coal creek railway, south Gippsland railway, Castlemaine & Maldon railway, central Highlands tourist railway, Belmont Common railway, Yarra valley tourist railway, Puffing Billy (including. Earlier…
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Melbourne Metropolitan Tramways board: an 'Employee's free Pass' for 1954, three badges (by Luke or Stokes) and 11 buttons. Also, a small group of early tickets, mainly in strips.
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Melbourne Tramways Destination roll: large section of roll with destinations including Flinders St, St Kilda Jctn, St Kilda beach, University, Sth Melb Depot, East Coburg, Sth Melb beach, Nth Fitzroy/Barkly St, city, Albert Park beach, City/Nolan St/Arts centre; circa 1960s, length 550 cm width 100 cm.
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Melbourne Tramways Destination roll: section of destination roll, with parts of the roll wrapped around wooden spindles at both ends, destinations including football, Racecourse, East Malvern/Darling Road, Elsternwick, Carnegie, Glen Iris, Carnegie, Glen Iris, Camberwell, Chapel St via Toorak Rd, Toorak/Orrong Road, circa 1960s; length 207 cm, width 100 cm.
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A carriage plate, cast metal 'Wagon no 22278, 1970', 12 cm wide
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Early Melbourne Accommodation: large letterpress poster (63 x 100 cm), circa 1890s, offering 'Comfort & Cleanliness' at 194 - 196 Collins Street, Melbourne; 'Meals from 1s. Refreshments at all hours. Electric light throughout. Open all night. Hot and cold baths free of charge. For late trains or Overdue Boats....Wedding breakfasts provided at short Notice.' printed by McCarron, bird & Co., 479 Collins St.
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Manchester Unity Friendly Society calendar/poster for 1902 featuring King Edward VII, Queen Alexandra, the Prince and Princess of Wales and details of the Society. The coats of arms of Australia, New Zealand and Africa feature at right. In an original period frame with gilt slip, overall 64 x 48 cm.
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Medicine: a poster (50 x 31 cm; with defects) advertising the Intercolonial medical Journal of Australasia, published by Stillwell & Co., of Melbourne; circa 1910.
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Tooth & Co. Poster: 'Auld Jock' Finest old Scotch Whisky poster, circa 1910 in period frame, overall 70 x 58 cm.
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Railway travel poster, 'Travel across Australia by the Trans-Australian railway: Go by train - Save Days', colour lithographic poster published for the Commonwealth Railways Commissioner and printed by A.J. Mullett, Government Printer, Melbourne, circa 1917, 62 x 49 cm. Laid down on linen. In 1917 the existing lines connecting Rockhampton - Brisbane - Sydney - Melbourne and Adelaide were joined to the final sections which brought the port Augusta to Kalgoorlie and Perth sections into the national grid.…
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New South Wales real Estate poster, wall park. Heart of seven hills Estate, 1923 colour lithograph, 82 x 56 cm. Linen-backed. Text includes 'Cheaper land. On the great Western line within an hour from town. Eighteen trains a day. The dawn of a new commercial centre. One station this side of Blacktown, two stations beyond Wentworthville, one station above Toongabbie. Auction sale on the ground Saturday 3pm, May 26th, 1923. Buy where the price is right and make some money. Stamp duty to be paid by purchaser,…
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Advertising: 'Sparking Elmsdale Apple Cider, 4d & 6d Per Bottle' circa 1930s colour lithographic poster printed by the mail newspapers, Currie St., Adelaide' framed & glazed; also, three H.Jones & Co. IXL jam labels (grape fruit marmalade, sweet orange marmalade & melon & lemon jam) presented together in one frame. (2 items).
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James Northfield (1887 - 1973), 'Travel by - train : winter in Central Australia', circa 1930s colour lithograph, Commonwealth Railways poster No.16, printed by A.C. Brooks, Commonwealth Printer, Melbourne., framed & glazed, overall 109 x 78 cm.
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Charles Meere (London 1890 – Sydney, 1961), '1788 ... 1938, 150 Years of progress, Australia Celebrates, January 26 ... April 25 1938', lithographed and printed by Hackett Offset Printing Company, Sydney & Melbourne. 101 x 64 cm; signed and dated ''37' in the plate. The English-born Matthew Charles Meere first visited Australia in 1927 to work as a graphic designer. Having studied Art in France and England and served in world war I, Meere pursued further study in design and mural painting at London's Royal…
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Victorian Railways travel poster, Gert Sellheim, (Estonia, Australia, 1901-1970). The Grampians Victoria Australia, c1939 colour process lithograph, signed in image lower right, 101 x 63 cm. Linen-backed. Text continues 'Victorian Railways Australia. Poster no. 177. Take a Kodak.', Sellheim studied architecture in Berlin, Munich and Graz before travelling to London in the 1920s. He migrated to Australia arriving in Fremantle in January 1926. After a year of labouring in rural WA he gained employment as a…
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Movie poster, the Overlanders, 1946 colour lithograph, initialled 'F.T.' in image lower right, 77 x 34.5 cm. Text reads 'A dramatic epic that echoes the heart beats of Australia's greatness!' written and directed in Australia by Harry Watt.... Printed by W.E. Smith Ltd., Sydney.', also, Australian film Award 1946 'Presented by the Victorian branch of the Royal Empire Society awarded to the Overlanders produced by Ealing Studios London'. Bronze statue by Stanley Hammond dated 1947 on marble base with silver…
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Harold Emanuel Freedman (1915 - 1999), men of service (the driver), colour lithographic poster, circa 1947, poster No.247 for Victorian Railways, printed by F.W. Niven. Linen backed, 101 x 63 cm.
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Craigie's Graphic map of Queensland, by Craigie map Company, Sydney, circa 1960, framed & glazed, overall 107 x 90 cm.
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Craigie's Graphic map of South Australia, by Craigie map Company, Sydney, circa 1960, framed & glazed, overall 107 x 90 cm.
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Craigie's map of the Pacific on Mercator's Projection, by Craigie map Company, Sydney, circa 1960, framed & glazed, overall 93 x 114 cm.
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Qantas AIRCRAFT1920 - 1971, c1971 colour process lithograph, 50 x 67 cm. Linen-backed. Includes illustrations and descriptions of the, Wright Brothers plane, on which the 'First, powered, controlled flight in history was made, in December, 1903', and a succession of, aeroplane types operated by Qantas: Avro, 504K, 1921; Dh.50A, 1924; short Empire, flying boat, 1938; Lockheed L1049 super, constellation, 1954; Boeing 707-338C, 1965, and the newly introduced Boeing 747-238B.
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Pram factory Theatre poster: 'A night in Rio and other bummers : Australian Performing Group's rock Musical' at the pram factory (1972/3) poster by Peelprint Pty Ltd., Peel St., North Melbourne. 57 x 44 cm. Cartoons on poster verso by Peter Lillie, including cast list of the programme (John Romeril, Bob Thornycroft, Graeme Blundell, etc.).
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Pram factory poster: 'A Stretch of the Imagination' by Jack Hibberd with Peter Cummins as monk O'Neill. (1972), 57 x 44 cm.
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Theatre poster: 'Dimboola : a wedding Reception by Jack Hibberd', an original poster advertising the 1973 production at the pram factory, Carlton; directed by David Williamson and featuring Bruce Spence, Fay Mokotow, Wilfred last, Tim Robertson, Jan Freidel, bill Garner, Evelyn Krape, Robert Meldrum and Max Gillies. 54 x 44 cm.
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Pram factory Apg poster: 'Earth-Air-Fire & water Show' Apg at the pram factory (October 1973); original artwork on layout board together with a printed example of the poster. (2 items). 62.5 x 51 cm (artwork); 55 x 45 cm (poster). (2 items). The programme presented a series of sketches by Jack Hibberd and John Romeril. Set designer and Art by Soosie Adshead.
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A collection of Apg/Pram factory posters including 'The Bob and Joe Show'; 'New Plays by Romeril & de Groen directed by Graeme Blundell' (He can swagger sitting down & Chicago Chicago); 'Dragon lady's Revenge'; 'Who?' by Jack Hibberd & 'The dumb Waiter' by Harold Pinter; 'A season of Romeril & Hibberd Plays' (one of Nature's Gentlemen, Mrs. Thally F., Just before the Honeymoon, and O.), plus one other. (6 items).
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Soosie Adshead & others: a collection of 1970s-80s posters including for the central Theatre, Auckland; Melbourne University, Rmit gallery, Crafts Council of Australia gallery, etc. (16 items).
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20th April 1975 Australian concert for Bangladesh poster, featuring Daddy cool, Dingoes, AC/DC, Hush and others at the Sydney Myer music bowl;, framed & glazed, overall 107 x 41 cm. AC/DC (billed 6th) played a 45 minute set while on their 1975 'High Voltage' Australian Tour.
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After the Dismissal of Whitlam, Michael Callaghan, (Australian, 1952-2012). Give Frazer the razor, 1977 colour screenprint, 76 x 56 cm. Text continues 'Cutback the ruling class. Fight for a worker's economy.', the poster was produced at Earthworks poster Collective (1971-1980). An extremely scarce survivor of the charged political atmosphere that, ensued in the years following the dismissal of the Whitlam Labor Government.
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Political poster: 'I'm still a Yellowcake Kid', 1978 colour screenprint, signed 'Without Authority' and dated in image lower right, 69 x 51 cm. Text includes 'Max Mutant, real estate executive. One of the best things Yellowcake is the plutonium – it has a half-life of 24,000 years! and that's great value! Yellowcake. Concentrated plutonium. Liberals. Frazer Inc., Parliament house, ACT.', .
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'Brer dog - an image by Noeline Lucas and Terry Reid : radio Ozone Broadcast : open drawers Sedition : Archival print: Robert McFarlane; screen negative: Paul Cochran, movement media; plate & Printing: Augustine of El Faro's; Typesetting: Gay of Propaganda' (radio Ozone, Darlinghurst, Sydney); photo-lithograph on aluminium sheet, 58 x 44 cm.
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Latrobe Union gallery: a group of 1980s exhibition posters, including 'Two women - Environments and works : Ann Fogerty dream space : Margaret Scott Fragments'; 'John Coorbett : works in Paper'; 'Keogh Parker contemporary Sculpture'; 'Costumes & photographs of circus Oz by laurel Frank & Ponch Hawkes', and 3 others. (7 items). All approx. 60 x 44 cm.
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Martin Sharp (1942-2013), Nimrod 10, screenprint, 1980, editioned (870/1000) in lower margin; signed lower right, framed & glazed, overall 105 x 79 cm.
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Australian Crawl 'Thongs & T-Shirts Tour 1981/82' poster, completed in felt-pen for the Apolooa bay leisure centre, Sunday Jan.3rd 1982. Framed & glazed, overall 75 x 52 cm.
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Dianne Barrett (b.1947), Grace (Jones), screenprint, editioned (2/26), titled and signed in lower margin;, dedicated verso to Soosie Adsead. Grace Jones performed at the Palais Theatre in St.Kilda in 1982
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Martin Sharp (1942 - 2013), Kold Komfort Kaffee (Nimrod), Screen-printed poster, editioned 241/1000 lower left, dated 2.12.82 centre; signed lower right, framed & glazed, overall 110 x 46 cm.
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Martin Sharp (1942 - 2013), Sideshow in Burlesco (Nimrod), Screen-printed poster, editioned 241/1000 lower left, dated 2.12.82 centre; signed lower right, framed & glazed, overall 108 x 46 cm.
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Soosie Adshead, Southbank, Melbourne, felt-tipped pen and ink on board, signed and dated '84 lower right, 60 x 43 cm. Original artwork created for the Ministry of Planning & Environment, Melbourne.
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The Dynamic Hepnotics poster for the release of 'Strangeland' (1982), framed & glazed, overall 107 x 81 cm.
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Soosie Adshead, 'Smoke Gets in Your Eyes...and in your lungs', circa 1985, original artwork on layout board, working drawing and printed poster, created for the 'Victorian smoking & Health Project', (3 items).
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H.F. Dufty group of seven cartes-de-visite portrait photographs including native Fijian, 19th century, reverses labelled 'F.H. Dufty Photographer Levuka, Fiji' and 'Photo by F.H. Dufty Victoria studio, Levuka, Fiji'
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Adelaide & South Australian photographers: portraits, cartes-de-visite, etc., by Thomas Adcock (King William St.); Adelaide photo Co. (Rundle St.); Adelaide photographic Co. (King William St.); Adelaide school of Photography (Rundle St.); American studio (King William St.); Buonavista (Stanley St.); B.J. Davey (Burra); J.R. Dobson (Rundle St.); Duryea (Rundle St.); T. Duryea (Moonta); Duryea's studio (King William St.); Edward Farndell (Hindley St.); William a. Francis (Rundle St.); George & Walton (Rundle…
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Indian photographs: two albumen prints, circa 1870, probably by A.T.W. Penn, comprising 'No.4: Ootacamund from church hill showing the church, public offices, Library.' and '17. Ootacamund. Entrance to the botanical gardens, from within'. (both labelled in pencil, verso). Each 21 x 28 cm. (2 items).
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Small leather-bound album containing cartes-de-visite, with an 1873-dated presentation inscription on the title page. The Cdv's primarily of Melbourne and Ballarat photographic studios. (49 items, including 3 tintypes.)
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An old-time album of cartes-de-visite apparently related to the Chirnside family of Werribee mansion, circa 1870s, (75 items).
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Launceston: Photographer unknown, c1880 albumen print of James French's newly extended shop and dwelling in Paterson Street with external signage reading 'Kerosine oil & lamps / room paper & window glass / Paints oils Colors &c.'; also, a Feb. 1893 albumen print of eagle Street, Brisbane in flood (by Wiley) on a damaged mount. (2 items), both approx. 15.5 x 21 cm.
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A collection of early photographs, various formats, with images including a Victorian Railways porter in full uniform, a Melbourne street scene by Nettleton, a Melbourne Cup jockey, a group of sportsmen (by W.D. Thrower, Chapel St., Windsor), 3 gentlemen with their penny-farthing, Leeor railway station, a brass band, a Kew cycling club outing, (50 items).
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Victorian Aboriginal & Tasmanian interest: a travel album, 19th century, with many photographs, sketches, seaweed samples and watercolours. Of note is a group of four albumen prints (15.5 x 21 cm) of Aboriginal subjects including canoes on what appears to be the Yarra river, circa 1886. Plus several Tasmanian views including Hobart, mount Wellington, near new Norfolk, the Hobart Regatta and others. A fascinating collection, inspection will reward. Album size 30 x 26 cm overall
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A group of albumen prints, circa 1880s, mounted on pages from an old album. Most images feature scenes in England and Scotland with a particularly nice series on the Thames at Richmond, several of Southampton and Warwick. Various sizes, mainly 13 x 20.5 cm. (24).
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A group of albumen prints, circa 1880s, mounted on pages removed from an old-time album. The images include South Africa, Malaya, Suez Canal views, a scene at the boating clubhouse Richmond (England), port Said, etc. Mostly 21 x 27.5 cm. (16 items).
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Phillip-Stephan studio, bird's eye view, Sandhurst, Victoria, c1890s colour photo-lithograph, text including title below image reads 'Phillip-Stephan photo litho & Typographic process Co. Ld. Sydney, NSW.', 28.5 x 35.5 cm.
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Cartes-De-Visite accumulation from various Australian studios, several portrait cards, a glass side, a cut-down postcard of Phar lap, an original autograph of Lord Melbourne (on piece), etc. (quantity.).
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A leather-bound album containing cartes-de-visite; mainly of South Australian and Victorian origin. (199 images).
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Phillip-Stephan studio, botanical gardens Melbourne, c1890s colour photo-lithograph, text including title below image reads 'Phillip-Stephan photo litho & Typographic process Co. Ld. Sydney, NSW.' a rarely seen image. 26 x 37 cm.
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Phillip-Stephan studio, Queenscliff & Port Phillip heads, Victoria, c1890s colour photo-lithograph, text including title below image reads 'Phillip-Stephan photo litho & Typographic process Co. Ld. Sydney, NSW.', 28.5 x 36.6 cm (image).
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Phillip-Stephan studio, Swanston Street Melbourne, c1890s colour photo-lithograph, text including title below image reads 'Phillip-Stephan photo litho & Typographic process Co. Ld. Sydney, NSW.', 28.5 x 36.5 cm (image).
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'Sydney & Harbour: a complete panoramic view showing the whole of Sydney Harbour: printed in Britain', circa 1900; oblong 8vo. In original brown boards with white title to front cover. Photographic b/w view of Sydney and harbour measuring 260 x 21.5 cm folded concertina-style into cover.
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Stereo cards: a collection of the cards created by the rose Stereograph Company on the occasion of the visit to Australia of the American Fleet, (33, all different). Also, 15 additional stereo view cards of general world interest. (total: 48). On 20 August 1908 well over half a million people turned out in Sydney to watch the arrival of the US Navy's 'Great white Fleet'. For a city of around 600,000 this was no mean achievement. The largest gathering yet seen in Australia, it far exceeded the numbers that…
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Brevetes Verascope Richard stereo viewer, mahogany and nickel plated, circa 1910, superb condition in original box. Accompanied by a quantity of glass stereo views, family and travel photographs in various formats, glass plates, etc., mainly from Paris studios and some depicting visits to Lebanon and Syria.
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Four vintage and antique Australian photographs including a boxer, women in Chinese costume, souvenir of Jenolan caves and a convent. The largest 30 x 24 cm
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