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Decorative Arts, Day 2 — Leski Auctions Pty. Ltd.

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Auction House:Leski Auctions Pty. Ltd.Number of lots recorded:709
Sale Title:Decorative Arts, Day 2Lots with images:702
Auction Location:MelbournePrices available:547
Date:27-Mar-2022
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Accumulation of assorted coins including 1937 Australian silver crown and Australian 1927 silver florin, (quantity)
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An Egyptian carved stone bust, 19th/20th century, 23 cm high
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Egyptian carved sandstone Thoth statue and a lidded jar, 20th century, (2 items), 12 cm high
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African bronze monkey statue, ceramic grotesque, painted egg ornament, brass goblet, and carved bone ornament, 19th and 20th century, (5 items), the egg ornament 15 cm high
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Carved ivory statue, Chinese miniature sceptre, animal carvings, trinket boxes and amber specimen, (6 items), the ivory statue 7 cm high
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A trench art jug, leather purse, felt box, brass canister, vintage baby's plate, Royal Doulton rose bowl, ceramic ashtray and triangular vase (8 items), triangular vase 17 cm high
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Bennetts Pottery vase and a pottery water vessel, 20th century, the larger 33 cm high
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Porcelain platter, crystal plate and bowl, assorted hatpins in holder, ornaments etc, 20th century (11 items), the platter 30 cm diameter
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An 18¼' panel plane, user made cast steel with rosewood infill, 19th century
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Two antique brass and rosewood spirit levels, 19th century, 26 cm and 21.5 cm long
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Alex Mathieson 24' brass and mahogany 71D antique spirit level, 19th century
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Fifteen assorted antique putty knives and scrapers, steel with rosewood and ebony handles
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Collection of assorted antique and vintage hand tools in wooden packing crate, 19th and 20th century, the crate 56 cm wide
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Assorted miniature gaming pieces including chess and dice, 19th century, (quantity), the largest 2 cm high
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Edison 'Diamond Disc' record player, model C.150, with additional gramophone head. Early 20th century, (plays well), 113 cm high, 49 cm wide, 51 cm deep
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Edison 'Diamond Disc' records, (100+)
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Assorted gramophone needles, tins, H.M.V. Bakelite badge and pictorial printers block with Astor Mickey image
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Collection of assorted vintage 45's including the Beatles, Elvis, Nancy Sinatra, Scott McKenzie, Canned Heat, the Monkees and more, (100+)
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Ericofon cobra 1960s vintage telephone made in Sweden by Lm Ericsson, 21 cm high
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Optiscope vintage glass slide projector by W. Butcher & Sons of London, early to mid 20th century, 25 cm high, 40 cm long
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Kodak 'Carosel' vintage slide projector in case with instructions, 20th century, the case 37 cm high
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Maginon field scope (20-60 x 60) on tripod
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An antique Scottish basket hilt sword in scabbard, early 20th century, stamped 'Cold steel, 9/20/03', 98 cm long
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An antique Burmese dha dagger with ivory handle and silver scabbard, 19th century, 29.5 cm long
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Kentucky antique percussion cap long gun with octagonal barrel, stamped 'Pennsylvania rifle Works', early to mid 19th century, together with a powder horn, (2 items), 138 cm long
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An antique Scottish basket hilt sword, 19th century, 98 cm long, Note: Collectors of Guild licence required
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An antique powder flask, brass and copper with repousse decoration, 19th century, 21 cm high
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An antique dagger with British acid etched steel blade with brass handle bone hilt and scabbard, 19th century, 31 cm long
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An antique kukri, steel blade with bone handle and decorative scabbard set with cabochon stones, 19th century, 38 cm long
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Three antique and vintage bayonets, 19th and 20th century, the largest 50 cm long
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A Russian vintage diver's helmet and knife, 20th century, 52 cm high
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An antique Serbian dagger with carved horn handle, 19th century, 32 cm high
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Medals - Germany: 1941 Russian Campaign Medal with ribbon; also Australia 1953 Coronation medal, and 1954 Royal visit medal. (3 items)
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World War II 20' parabolic mirror, painted copper rim with supported wire mesh, marked 'C. A. Parsons, 17.11.42', 50 cm diameter
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Buttons, medals, plane ornament, pocket compass, lighters and oddments, 20th century, (quantity)
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Medals - china: 1947 north East Democratic Allied army field medal with ribbon; also a replica medallion of a World War II Japanese War Medal. (2 items)
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'Strike and Return' limited edition lithograph 86/150 by Robert Taylor, signed by the artist lower left, with additional signatures in the lower margin of flight Lieutenant W.E. 'Jerry' Bateman, flying Officer Hilary M. Bayliss DFC, flight Lieutenant Phillip J. Coffey DFC Dfm, flight Lieutenant John R. Gardner DFC, flight Lieutenant R. Gordon Goodwin DSO Dfm, flying Officer Lawrence W. Woods DFC, 72 x 90 cm overall
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'First flight of the Spitfire, 5th Marh 1936', limited edition lithograph 567/978 by by Jim Mitchell, signed in pencil in the lower margin by Jeffery quill (test pilot), Humphrey E.J. (RAF test pilot), Sammy Wroath (RAF test pilot), and Jim Mitchell (artist), with additional pencil sketch lower right signed 'J.M.W. 60/97', 72 x 84 cm overall
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'in Defence of Darwin', limited edition lithograph 394/500 by Norman Clifford, signed in the lower margin by Norman Clifford and wing Commander Clive R. Caldwell, 74 x 91 cm overall
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'Meteor Strike', limited edition lithograph 11/500 by Frank Wootton, signed in pencil in the lower margin by the artist and four Meteor Pilots wing Commander Dick Cresswell DFC, DFC (US), Am (US), flying Officer George Hale mid, group Captain Les reading DFC, Am (US) and air Vice Marshall bill Simmonds Ao, mid, Am (US), 78 x 95 cm overall
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'Victory Salute', lithograph by Robert Taylor, signed in pencil in the lower margin by the artist as well as wing Commander Bob Stanford-Tuck DSO DFC, and air Commodore Alan Deere DSO Obe DFC, 58 x 70 cm overall
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General Nicolas Changarnier (1793-1877), lithograph caricature from a French periodical, circa 1875, attractively framed and glazed, overall 50 x 41 cm
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A vintage Nepalese kukri in scabbard, 44 cm long overall
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A Nepalese khukri in scabbard, 42 cm long overall
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Aviation: group of five assorted lithographs and prints, the largest 55 x 64 cm overall
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Selection with ADF Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal with presentation case, unusual Australian Commonwealth military Forces 'Sweetheart' hat-shaped enamel badge, 'Rising sun; cap badges (2) Royal tank Corps 'Fear Naught' badge, Royal Electrical and mechanical engineers badges (2), Returned from active service badge, plus buttons, buckles, military ribbons, dog tags, etc; also New Zealand Returned Services badge, 'Royal New Zealand Regiment' (2) & 'New Zealand' (4) cloth shoulder titles. (quantity)
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Badges - military: with lots of enamel types for military veterans groups, Rsl & Anzac remembrance types, A.A.O.C. Civilian Employee badge; plus veterans/patriotic belt buckles, cloth badges including for Vietnam Veteran's Association of Australia; also large Australian flag 85 x 180 cm by Foxcraft of Brisbane, plus a World War II parachute for a magnesium flare, the annotation stating it was recovered from the Libyan desert. (quantity)
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Four assorted hunting knives in scabbards, 20th century, the largest 26 cm long
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British official air Ministry photographs: a collection of 1930s-40s original photographs with explanations affixed verso; noted 'Italian Bombers shot down in England Nov.1940', 'One of the seven Downed German Planes 19.6.40', 'Another Nazi bomber shot down, Sept.1940', 'The end of a raid', 'Bombing the barges at Dunkirk', 'After the attack on the Italian Fleet at Taranto....11/12th Nov. 1940', etc. Mixed sizes, (20 items)
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Aircraft of the Mid-1930s: a collection of original photographs, mixed sizes (the largest being 20 x 25 cm), including Vought Pursuit, Scout bomber, a Polish Single-seat fighter, a Miles Mohawk, a hawk Trainer, a Beechcraft airlines, North American NA16, a Burnelli Ub-14, a Seversky P-35, a Lockheed 12, etc. (19 items).
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Wide world photos: World War two era original photographs with attached details for possible publication. Subjects include 'The Desert Patrol' (Dec.1940), 'A flying Fortress leaves the Ground' (Nov.1940), 'Training Parachute Troops' (Jan.1941), 'A Nazi Dernier being heavily attacked' (Jan.1941), 'Poles repay Nazis with bombs Nov.1940', 'Italian air Activity on the Greek Front' (Dec.1940), 'Camera record of the aerial combat over Britain', etc. Various sizes; mixed condition. (20 items).
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World War two era & later military aircraft: a collection of original photographs issued by North American Aviation, Inc., bell aircraft Corp., Douglas aircraft Corp., Lockheed, de Havilland, Vickers, Republic Aviation Corp., Bellanca aircraft Corp., Seversky aircraft Corp., etc. Mixed sizes but mainly approx. 20 x 25 cm. (20 items)
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'Spitting is Forbidden, Spitting Creates Disease' vintage Indian enamel railways sign written in Hindi, English, Arabic and Chinese, 20th century, 17.5 x 51 cm
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Braun (1541 - 1622) & Hogenberg (1535 - 1590) Duynkerke (Dunkirk) being a double-page spread from volume 2 of 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum' (Cities of the world) (1575), with Gravelines and Bourbourg in the lower panels, copper engraving, hand-coloured, 31 x 49 cm; attractively framed and glazed, overall 51 x 68 cm.
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Braun (1541 - 1622) & Hogenberg (1535 - 1590) Francenbergum (Frankenberg, a town in Hesse) being a double-page spread birds-eye view from volume 3 of 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum' (Cities of the world) (1581), copper engraving, hand-coloured, 31 x 49 cm; attractively framed and glazed, overall 51 x 68 cm.
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Braun (1541 - 1622) & Hogenberg (1535 - 1590) Nurnberg (Nuremberg) being a double-page spread panoramic view from volume 1 of 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum' (Cities of the world) (1593), copper engraving, hand-coloured, 31 x 49 cm; attractively framed and glazed, overall 51 x 68 cm, Translation of cartouche text: the well-known city of Nuremberg is effectively the centre of all Germany and is distinguished by public and private buildings, very rich merchants and a wise council; it has skilled master craftsmen…
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Braun (1541 - 1622) & Hogenberg (1535 - 1590) Polna (in Bohemia) being a double-page spread birds-eye view from volume 6 of 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum' (Cities of the world) (1617), copper engraving, hand-coloured, 31 x 49 cm; attractively framed and glazed, overall 51 x 68 cm.
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United East India Company: manuscript map, 'This survey of Gaspar & Clement's Straits is respectfully dedicated to the Honorable the court of Directors for the Affairs of the United East India Company by their obedient servant D. Ross Commander in the H.C. Marine, 1818, drawn by M. Houghton, I was assisted in this survey by Lieut't P. Maughan, assistant Surveyor, and by Lieut't J. Crawford commanding the Investigator. D.R.', 91 x 61 cm overall
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Arch. Fullarton & Co.: Northumberland, steel engraving, 1833, with contemporary hand colouring; framed & glazed, overall 36.5 x 29.5 cm.
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Francois Xavier Bianconi (French, 1840-19..?), carte Speciale de le Chine, rare engraved geo-political French map of China, detailing political and economic spheres of influence of western world powers including France, Russia, Germany, England and Japan. Published in Paris, 1900. Sectioned into 18 panels mounted on cloth backing, 64 x 80 cm overall, note: as a direct consequence of the events leading to the boxer Rebellion (1899-1900) and the Eight-Nation Alliance formed in 1900 to suppress the uprising,…
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Australian Geographic globe of the world, 21st century, 45 cm high
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A globe of the world with embossed leather finish and metal stand, circa 2000, 74 cm high
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Ofo [Medicine, Science & Religion], Browne, Thomas (1605 - 1682), The works of the Learned Sr. Thomas brown, Kt, [London, Tho. Basset, Ric. Chiswell, et al., 1686], 1st edition; original boards, replaced spine & end, papers. Engraved portrait, the works of the Learned Sr. Thomas brown, Kt, Doctor of Physick, late of Norwich, containing I. Enquiries into Vulgar and Common Errors, II. Religio Medici: with Annotations and Observatioons upon it, III. Hydriotaphia; or, Urn-Burial: together with, The garden of…
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Kashmiri Islamic manuscript. An antique Quran manuscript leaf in nashki script, one loose folio with recto, 18th century, 16.5 x 9.2 cm, note: this fine manuscript page is purportedly from a broken Quran scribed in Kashmir for the Nawab Amir Khan in 1727. It is of high quality with gold discs marking the ends of the verses and fine sura headings and marginal devices marking the fifth and tenth verses. Provenance: Private Collection, Melbourne. Formerly the Dr. W. M. Bogdanowicz (1936-2017) collection,…
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Chinese Islamic manuscript. A rare antique Chinese Quran manuscript leaf written in the Chinese Arabic Sini script, one loose folio with recto, 18th century, 16.2 x 12 cm, note: Sini is a calligraphic style used in China for Arabic script and can be distinguished by its roundness of form, with no embellishments other than the sura headings and ruled margins.The style is bold and is used mostly in mosques in Eastern china and to a lesser extent in Gansu, Ningxia and Shaanxi, Provenance: Private Collection,…
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Modern hard cover, half- l Butler, Samuel (1613 - 1680), Hudibras in three parts. Written in the Time, of the late Wars. Corrected and Amended...', [London; Bathurst, Johnson, Davies, etal.,], 1775, 415pp + 'Cutts, designed and engraved, by Mr. Hogarth.' later hard cover, half-, leather over marbled boards; new end papers.
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[Medicine & Pharmacology] 'The new British Dispensatory : containing the Preparations and Compositions of the new London and Edinburgh Pharmacopoeias.....' [Published for the Royal College of Physicians of London, printed for F. Newbery, the corner of St. Paul's Church-Yard, London, 1781.] small 8vo. XI, [1], 173, [11] pages, with the final leaf of advertisements for books printed for E. Newbery. Original leather binding with replaced spine; ownership inscription of F. Rigby Brodbelt dated 1782, F. Rigby…
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Early documents on vellum: February 1789 indenture between Joseph Myers of Preston in Lancashire, John Myers, Thomas Leeming and Thomas Myers for the purchase of a portion of the property they inherited from the estate of Richard Myers; signed and sealed with intact tax stamp; also, a 1856 Lease for a house in Bedford Street, Covent garden, London signed by both parties, Francis, Duke of Bedford and John Cornish (Hassock and Doormat maker), with seals and 12 shillings in tax stamps. (2 items).
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[English Local Histories] 'The history of Derby from the remote Ages of Antiquity, to the year Mdccxci.' by Hutton, W. [London: J Nichols, 1791] first edition, 8vo, pp XVI, 320, frontispiece (Prospect of Derby), plan of town, 17 plates, contemporary brown full calf, rebound with replaced spine; also, 'The history and Antiquities of Newbury and Its Environs......also a catalogue of Plants....' [Speenhamland : hall & Marsh] 1839; ex libris W.P. Hurst; original half-leather. (2 vols.).
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Walker, John. A Critical Pronouncing dictionary and Expositor of the English Language. [London: G. G. And J. Robinson, et al, 1797]. Second edition. Quarto. Unpaginated with two-page Supplement at end. Text in three columns. Rebound to style in half brown levant morocco over marbled boards, spine ruled in gilt in compartments, brown gilt morocco lettering label, five raised bands.
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Robertson, William 'The history of the Reign of the emperor, Charles the Fifth.' [Workington : Edmund Bowness, 1809]: 1st ed., in 2 vols., attractively rebound with buff leather spines and blue marbled paper; new endpapers.
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Dickens, Charles (1812 - 1870), 'The personal history of David Copperfield', with illustratons by H.K. Browne, [London : Bradbury & Evans, 1850] 1st ed., xivi + 624pp; completely recased in, marbled boards with 3/4 buckram; gilt, title to spine; new end-papers; illustrated, with an engraved frontispiece and title page, along with 38 plates.
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Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton library: a nine volume uniformly bound set of the works of 'Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton', each with illustrated frontispieces, 1850-59, [Chapman & Hall, London]; half calf over marbled boards; gilt ornamentation and lettering to spine between five raised bands. (9 vols.).
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Legal documents relating to 3-5 Bedford row, Worthing, Sussex: July 1866 Blaker to Maxfield Conveyance; December 1869 Maxfield to Renshaw Mortgage (transferred in 1879); November 1893 Maxfield to Blaker Conveyance; August 1895 Maxfield to Maxfield Conveyance; October 1895 Blakefield to Maxfield Conveyance; all signed, sealed and with tax stamps; also, July 1916 aircraft and Bombardment Insurance Policy over the same property. (6 items).
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Carlo Pellegrini: Ape: vanity caricatures for 1869: No.14 (W.E. Gladstone) with faults; No.15 (J. Bright) with faults; No.16 (Mary Ann star); No.17 (Robert Lowe); No.18 (William Edward Forster) and No.19 (George Leveson Gower). (6 items).
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Carlo Pellegrini: Ape: vanity caricatures for 1869: No.21 (Spencer Compton Cavendish); No.22 (Edward Cardwell); No.25 (George Frederick Villiers); No.27 (Henry George grey) with faults; No.32 (George Joachim Goschen) and No.33 (Hugh Childers). (6 items).
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Carlo Pellegrini: Ape: vanity caricatures for 1869: No.34 (Lord Stanley); No.35 (the Bishop of Peterborough); No.37 (John Wodehouse, the Earl of Kimberley); No.38 (Samuel Wilberforce, the Bishop of Oxford); No.40 (Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset) and No.41 (Chichester Fortescue), (6 items).
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Carlo Pellegrini: Ape: vanity caricatures for 1869: No.43 (Austen Henry Layard); No.45 (Henry Herbert, Earl of Carnarvon); No.47 (James Hamilton, Duke of Abercorn); No.54 (Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury) and No.55 (John James Manners, Duke of Rutland). (5 items).
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Leather bindings: English & European books attractively rebound including 'The Posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club' by Dickens [1887]; 'The complete Concordance to Shakespeare...' by Cowden Clarke [1875]; plus 4 others. (6).
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Jameson, Anna, 'Memoirs of celebrated female Sovereigns' [London, George Routledge and Sons, 1880], 8vo full leather with gilt decorations and titles, red inset label to spine with 5 raised bands; gilt edges. Ex libris label of 'Alice Courtney' to Ifc; ownership endorsement to blank endpaper 'Miss Madford, Dec'r 22nd, 1880, Longcliffe House'. Also, 'A child's garden of Verses' by R.L. Stevenson with illustrations by Charles Robinson (1909). (2 vols.)
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Vanity caricatures by various artists: 1 July 1882 (Lord Henniker) by 'T'; 8 July 1882 (John Bennet Lawes) by 'T'; 7 Feb. 1885 (George Chetwynd) by 'Spy'; 24 Dec. 1887 (John Lambton, Earl of Durham) by 'Spy'; 23 Mar. 1889 (J.T. Mackenzie, Earl of Seaforth) by 'Lib'; 9 Nov. 1889 (Henry Aaron Isaacs) by 'Spy'; 22 Aug. 1891 (Charles Taylor du plat) by 'Spy' and 22 Aug. 1895 (Tom Simpson Jay) by 'Spy'. (8 items).
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'Fancy Dresses Described' or 'What to Wear at fancy Balls' by Ardern Holt, fifth edition, published by Debenham & Freebody (London, 1887), 253pp hardbound, cloth spine with gilt lettering, 16 colour lithograph plates; cover wear.
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Stevenson, Robert Louis, Memories & portraits, [London, Chatto & Windus, 1888], 2nd ed., octavo, half leather binding by Zaehnsdorf with five raised bands to spine, gilt lettering, top edges gilt.
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Punch: a collection of hard-bound semi-annuals, special collections and individual loose editions, as well as a range of giles collections, (80+ items).
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[English Colonial History] Lugard, Captain F.D., the Rise of our East African Empire : early Efforts in Nyasaland and Uganda, [William blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh, 1893]; 2 vols., half calf, hardcovers. Vol 1: viii-xix, 563pp, 130 illustrations, maps; Vol 2: vi-ix, 682pp.; Wolseley, general Viscount, the life of John Churchill Duke of Marlborough [Richard Bentley & Son, London, 1894], 2 vols.; Roberts, field Marshal, Lord, Forty-One Years in India, [Richard Bentley & Son, London, 1897], 2 vols.; Maxwell.…
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Thornbury, Walter & Walford, Edward, old and new London: a narrative of its history, its people, and its places, [Cassell, London,1897] in six volumes; also, Walford, Edward, Greater London, [Cassell, London, 1898] in two volumes. Uniformly bound in green with gilt titles and rules to spines. (8 vols.).
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The strand magazine, half-yearly bound volumes for 1897 (July - Dec.) and 1898, 1901 and 1902. Includes early appearances of Sherlock Holmes. (7 volumes).
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[Medicine] Vallack, Arthur styles, 'The Principles and Practice of Asepsis' [Bailliere, Tindall and Cox, London, 1905] 1st ed., red boards with gilt titles; 95pp., with dedication from the author.
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A general library on five shelves; mainly hardcovers with dust jackets. (120+ volumes).
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Asprey reference library set of eight books bound in full morocco with embossed gilt decoration housed in original fitted walnut stand, early 20th century, the stand 21 cm wide
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March 1932 'Sydney Harbour Bridge official souvenir & programme [Alfred James Kent, Government Printer, Sydney], 180pp.
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Hammerton, A.J. (ed.), the new punch library in 20 volumes, [The Educational book Co. Ltd., London], circa 1930s, attractive set in deep blue buckram with gilt spine titling and punch motif. Each volume has a colour frontis tipped in plate.
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A shelf of books and booklets predominantly on the English County of Sussex. (22+ items).
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A Churchill library, (27 volumes).
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Australian Subjects: a varied library filling five shelves; mainly hardcovers with dust jackets but including some pamphlets, brochures, etc. (130+ items).
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An Anthony Powell Collection: 'A Buyer's Market' (1952, 1st ed.), 'The Kindly Ones' (1962, 1st ed.), 'Agents and Patients' (1966), 'Venusberg' (1967), 'Afternoon Men' (1967), 'The military Philosophers' (1968, 1st ed.), 'Books do furnish a Room' (1971 1st ed.), 'From a view to a Death' (1972), and 'Temporary Kings' (1973, 1st ed.). All published by Heinemann and with original dust jackets. (9 vols.).
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A maritime & naval history group, (32 volumes).
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India, Indian history & the British in India: a library of books, (47 volumes).
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Australia at war, including the Battle for Wau by Bardley, a history of 2/18th Infantry Battalion AIF by silver, Gallipoli by Carlyon, the Korean war by Forbes, the Embarrassing Australian by Gordon, etc. (17 volumes).
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A collection of books on London - the history, the architecture, the scandals and the personalities, (22 volumes).
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