Full details of each lot are displayed, except the lot number, estimate and price. You must be a subscriber to view lot numbers, estimates and prices.
Printed & Written Material — Leski Auctions Pty. Ltd.
Auction House:
| Leski Auctions Pty. Ltd. | |
|---|---|
| Number of lots recorded: | 96 |
| Lots with images: | 96 |
| Prices available: | 96 |
Category:
Printed & Written Material
- Books (195)
- Cards - Cigarette & Trade (2085)
- Cards - Other (16)
- Comics (18)
- Historical Documents (347)
- Magazines (30)
- Maps (137)
- Movie Posters & Daybills (72)
- Newspapers (41)
- Photographs (753)
- Postcards (173)
- Sheet Music (9)
- Tickets (2)
- Zother (10)
| Lot | Description | Price | Image |
|---|---|---|---|
| *** | Bushranger - Captain Moonlite (Andrew George Scott 1845-80): a remarkable collection of letters and documents archive comprising 33 items: - 1858 (March 16) Extract from Register of Baptisms, giving birth date Jan.8 1845 & baptism date July 5 1845,… | *** |  |
| *** | Foelsche, Paul Heinrich Matthias [1831-1914]. An album containing 48 photographs, each approx. 16.5 x 12 cm. The title page of the album with a stuck-down label dated July 1898 'To My Friend J. Scott Black With Kind Regards from Paul Foelsche' (the name… | *** |  |
| *** | A correspondence of eleven letters from John Monash to Ada Benjamin (nee Krakowski): 1911 to 1926, during the turbulent and hugely consequential years that included his service during World War One, John Monash (1865 - 1931) maintained a correspondence… | *** |  |
| *** | Frank Hurley (1885 - 1962), 'A spectre ship looming stark and white against the darkness of the polar night', (the Endurance in the Antarctic winter darkness, trapped in the Weddell sea, Shackleton Expedition, 27 August 1915), silver gelatin photograph,… | *** |  |
| *** | The Archives of Rabbi Joseph Lipman Gurewicz Born in Vilna in 1885, Rabbi Gurewicz arrived in Australia in 1932, becoming the spiritual head of the United Congregations of Carlton. Rabbi Gurewicz was an authority in Halachic matters; in addition, he… | *** |  |
| *** | Freycinet, Louis-Claude De Saules De (1779-1842), 'Voyage de decouvertes aux Terres Australes, execute. sur les corvettes le Geographe, le Naturaliste, et la goelette le Casuarina, pendant les annees 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803 et 1804. Partie Navigation et… | *** |  |
| *** | An important and unique large folio of proof plans and maps by George Gordon and Calder Oliver, 1870s, comprising around 200 plates, many with hand annotations and colour lithographed. Housed in a modern custom made aluminium case, the folio was… | *** |  |
| *** | 'Illustrated Map of Melbourne and Suburbs Showing Government Sections and Allotments, Railways, Public Buildings, &c. Compiled from the latest Surveys and most authentic Sources to date. Published by Chas. F. Maxwell and W. Reed Phillips, 74 Chancery Lane… | *** |  |
| *** | United Tobacco Companies (South) Ltd., South Africa. The Springbok Series of 1912 Triangular Test Match Cricketers: A remarkable collection of these rarely seen cards comprising of Australian players (13-16 and 54-70), English players (33-52) and South… | *** |  |
| *** | A German Anthropologist in Australia, circa 1900 - 1910 An archive, written in German, which appears to be the field notes and typed manuscripts of an anthropologist who travelled extensively throughout Australia to visit, learn, record and preserve the… | *** |  |
| *** | 1906 Dungey Ralph (Sweet Nell) 'South Australian Footballers', complete set (49) in an uncut sheet, good condition with very fresh colours. Extremely rare; almost certainly unique and of the highest importance in a collection of Australian Rules football… | *** |  |
| *** | 1906 Dungey Ralph (Sweet Nell) 'South Australian Footballers', part set (37/49). 9 cards have corners clipped, otherwise good condition with very fresh colours. Extremely rare. | *** |  |
| *** | A History of the Maccabi Movement - 1900 to 2000. A collection in four volumes, illustrating the history of the Maccabi Sports Movement, with documents, photographs, letters, tickets, badges, participation cards, pro grams, newsletters, medals and other… | *** |  |
| *** | Tasmania: Walch's Tasmanian Almanac 1863 - 1979-80 complete (lacking only 1873), The Almanac had a range of variant titles in the time that it was published, but was commonly known as Walch's Almanac. Also known as the 'red book', it included detailed… | *** |  |
| *** | Books Eureka Rebellion/Police: the Victoria Police Gazette, 1853-55, the 382 page compiled publication containing police reports from this period encompassing gold Escort Robbery, murder, embezzlement, prostitution, cattle stealing and escaped convicts,… | *** |  |
| *** | Hawkesworth, John (1715 - 1773), An Account of the Voyages undertaken by the order, of His present Majesty for making Discoveries in the, Southern Hemisphere, and successively performed, by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain… | *** |  |
| *** | 1911 Sniders & Abrahams 'Australian Footballers', series F (Rays), almost complete set (58/60). (the rarest of the Sniders & Abrahams sets) | *** |  |
| *** | 'Sydney Harbour bridge official souvenir & Programme', the Mayor of north Sydney's commemorative, multi-signed book. Full black leather, scuffed edges and spine; gold blocked titles and drawing of the completed bridge, with 'Opening date 19th March 1932 /… | *** |  |
| *** | 'The Pastoral Homes of Australia - Victoria' published by the Pastoralists' Review [Melbourne, McCarron, Bird & Co, 1910] with introduction by W.H Lang; quarto, full morocco with gilt embossed board and spines, marbled endpapers with W.H. Lang's personal… | *** |  |
| *** | The British Scientific Expedition On The Great Barrier Reef 1928-29: Official original photographs by Charles Leslie Barrett (1879 - 1959: A collection of twenty-five original photographs, most with Barrett's notes affixed verso and several with the… | *** |  |
| *** | 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… | *** |  |
| *** | Albert Einstein (1879-1955, the father of modern physics & one of the most prolific intellects in human history), display comprising March 1939 signed letter on Princeton University letterhead, window mounted with the envelope in which it was posted from… | *** |  |
| *** | 1922 J.J.Schuh (Magpie Cigarettes) 'Portraits of our Leading FootballersÆ, complete set [106], includes numbers 1-96 with both types of Nos.15 and 16; plus the 8 unnumbered cards. One creased, one Fair, others G/VG, the first complete set of these cards… | *** |  |
| *** | Captain William Dampier, a new voyage round the world - 4th edition 1699;, voyages and Descriptions Vol. II. In three parts - 2nd edition, 1700;, and, a voyage to New Holland, &c in the year, 1699. In the year 1699, - with a Continuation of a voyage to… | *** |  |
| *** | 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).… | *** |  |
| *** | The Hobart town Almanack for the year 1832. With embellishments, 1 folding map (Launceston), lacks pictorial title, plates and a 2nd map, original green cloth with leather-reinforced spine, [Hobart town, van Diemen's land: printed by James Ross],… | *** |  |
| *** | 1909 Unknown Publisher 'South Australian Footballers', the almost complete Sturt set (7/56). Cat.Numbers 33-36 & 38-40. G/VG condition. Exceptional condition for these. Extremely rare | *** |  |
| *** | 1914 Sniders & Abrahams æAustralian FootballersÆ, series H (Shields), complete set [60]. One creased, others G/VG | *** |  |
| *** | Gracius J. Brionowski, The Birds of Australia, in six volumes [Charles Sturt & Co.,], 1890. Modern rebinding in leather with gilt decorations and raised bands to the spines. | *** |  |
| *** | 1926 Craig & Hales 'Australian Sportsmen and Racehorses', almost complete set (26/30 footballers). Fair/G. Rare | *** |  |
| *** | A.B.(Banjo) Paterson (1864-1941) : 'The Man From Snowy River & Other Verses' by A.B.Paterson (Sydney 1895) limited edition 16/25 signed by the author, with preface by Rolf Boldrewood. Navy blue cloth covered boards and gilt lettering on the spine. Slight… | *** |  |
| *** | Movie Poster Casablanca 1947 colour lithograph, 76.5 x 33.5 cm. Linen-backed. 'Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid. Their love story won the Academy Award! A Hal B. Wallis production… with Claude Rains, and Conrad Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet,… | *** |  |
| *** | Governor Arthur Phillip, 'The voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay; with an account of the Establishment of the Colonies of port Jackson & Norfolk Island; compiled from authentic papers, which have been obtained from the several Departments, to which… | *** |  |
| *** | Original photographs, re Hill End Gold Mines, c1873. Group of albumen photographs taken by Charles Bayliss (1858-97) & Henry Beaufoy Merlin (1830-73) of various gold mining images taken in the Hill End district in NSW: the Holtermann discovery of gold… | *** |  |
| *** | A Spectacular Body-Line Series Signed Cricket Bat. A 'Jack Ryder Special, Australian XI Jack Ryder Autograph ***' full sized cricket bat with a superb original pen and ink drawing signed by Arthur Mailey (a bewildered batsman looking at his scattered… | *** |  |
| *** | A unique Memento of the 1928 first flight Across the Pacific by Kingsford Smith, Ulm, Lyon and Warner: two U.S. Gold coins ($21/2 Indian head 1927 and $5 Indian head 1909) affixed to a document signed by Charles Kingsford Smith and his parents, William… | *** |  |
| *** | 'The Story of the Kelly Gang' circa 1909 original daybill advertising poster, approx. 78 x 29 cm printed in black on newspaper-quality stock; predominantly text with a vignette view of Ned Kelly wearing his 'helmet' and firing his gun in a forest scene.… | *** |  |
| *** | Baron Sir Ferdinand von Mueller [1825 - 1896], 1877 (September 1) autographed letter sheet written in ink to the Undersecretary of the Mining Departments, Sydney, in which von Mueller expresses his gratitude for 'a series of vegetable fossils' that had… | *** |  |
| *** | 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… | *** |  |
| *** | 1964 Scanlens 'Footballers', complete set [33]. Exceptionally good condition throughout. Extremely rare thus. | *** |  |
| *** | Emanuel Bowen (1693 - 1767). 'A complete map of the Southern Continent survey'd by Capt. Abel Tasman & depicted by order of the East India Company in Holland in the Stadt house at Amsterdam', copper plate engraving; London, circa 1744, with hand colouring… | *** |  |
| *** | Charles Bayliss (1850 - 1897) Six albumen paper panels from Bayliss' 11-panel panorama taken from the tower of the Sydney International Exhibition Building (Garden Palace) while it was still under construction in either 1878 or 1879 (the building burnt… | *** |  |
| *** | Australian opals, Len Cram, a Journey with colour in four volumes 'A history of Queensland opal 1869 - 1979', 'A history of white Cliffs opal 1889 - 1999', 'A history of South Australian opal 1840 - 2005' & 'A history of Lightning Ridge opal 1873 - 2003',… | *** |  |
| *** | 1887-89 Old Judge Cigarettes 'Celebrities - Norman Richards, Adelaide Football Club'. G/VG condition. Extremely rare | *** |  |
| *** | 1887-89 Old Judge Cigarettes 'Celebrities - Tommy Leyden, Captain Carlton Football Team'. G/VG condition. | *** |  |
| *** | The Illustrated Melbourne Post, February 1864 to December 1868 various editions in a bound volume containing No.59 (features a full-page 'View in Castlemaine Market Square', No.63 (View of Hobart Town), No.76 (The Departure of the Leichhardt Search… | *** |  |
| *** | Cecil W Bostock (Australian, 1884 - 1939) (Dockside, Penzance) c1919 Vintage silver gelatin photograph, laid down in acid free tissue 68 x 51 cm. Provenance: Bostock Studio sale, 1930s. One of Bostock's rarest and largest format photographs. Bostock had… | *** |  |
| *** | 'A spectre ship looming stark and white against the darkness of the polar night' (the Endurance in the Antarctic winter darkness, trapped in the Weddell sea, Shackleton Expedition, 27 August 1915), silver gelatin photograp Frank Hurley (1885 - 1962), 'We… | *** |  |
| *** | A 1901 Commonwealth of Australia group from the estate of Peter F. Thomson: a blue leather binding with gilt titles and decorations containing the 'Official programme of functions and displays to Celebrate the opening of the first Parliament of the… | *** |  |
| *** | Nicholas John Caire (1837-1918) Anglo-Australasian photo. Co. - views of Victoria - General series, complete folio of sixty albumen paper prints affixed to individual printed and numbered cards with printed text verso, 13.5 x 19 cm each approx. (60). | *** |  |
| *** | 1954 Argus 'Colour Team Photos', Preston and Moorabin, almost complete set (16/18). Fair/VG. | *** |  |
| *** | Max Dupain (Australian, 1911-1992). Sightseers in a Bus, 1956/later printing. Silver gelatin photograph, signed in pencil 'Max Dupain' on image lower right, 39.5 x 49.5 cm, laid down on original backing. Illustrated in Jill Whites, Dupain's Australians,… | *** |  |
| *** | C1934 Kings, theatre 'Australian Cricketers', appears to be complete set (15). Large size (89 x 146 mm). Not listed in Deadman catalogue. (15) | *** |  |
| *** | Australiana: 'An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island, with the Discoveries Which Have Been Made in New South Walesand in the Southern Ocean.' by John hunter (London 1793), with engraved frontispiece of the author,… | *** |  |
| *** | Lighthouses- An Archive of early and important plans, maps and design features of Australia's earliest lighthouses. Many of the plans were designed, signed and drawn by James Johnstone Barnet, (1827-1904), noted Australian Architect who was also… | *** |  |
| *** | 1907-09 British Antarctic Expedition: a fragment of an 'Erratic Boulder' from cape Royds, McMurdo sound, mounted on wood, 11 x 8 cm, with silver plaque engraved 'A fragment of Antarctica. May It Bring You Luck. May 31st 1940'. With accompanying framed… | *** |  |
| *** | Tasmanian Aboriginal Carte de Visits 'The Last Tasmanians' four photographs comprising, Truganinni (2), William Lanney or 'King Billy', Truganinni King Billy and other female. Three by photographer Charles Wolley, Hobart Town, other by H.H.Baily, Hobart… | *** |  |
| *** | £1 Colony of Victoria, miner's right printed on vellum, issued to Arthur hope 'At Melbourne' on the 11th of January, 1855 (shortly after his arrival in Melbourne) and endorsed to be in force until 10 January, 1856. The document is further endorsed verso… | *** |  |
| *** | Victorian Goldfields: A collection of 23 (of 24) lithographic plates from S.T.Gill's series 'The Diggers and Diggings of Victoria as they are in 1855' [James J. Blundell Co., Melbourne, 1855] in a later binding with several ownership notations on the… | *** |  |
| *** | Movie Flyers & Ephemera: Fabulous collection of movie flyers (158) mostly from Australian cinemas, noted 'Metropolis' (1927), 'The Ten Commandments' (1923), 'The Lost World' (1925), 'Son of the Sheik' (1926), 'Wings (1927), 'The Tunney Demsey 1927 Fight… | *** |  |
| *** | 1904 Sniders & Abrahams æAustralian FootballersÆ, series a - without framelines, almost complete set [49/50]. One Fair, others G/VG | *** |  |
| *** | 'Spinifex And Sand' by The Hon. David W. Carnegie [1898, Lon], first edition with pictorial embossed brown cloth boards, gilt lettering on spine and gilt top edge, 4 folding maps (two in endpocket), nice endorsement 'To George Macdonald from his friend… | *** |  |
| *** | Movie Daybills: Group of six circa 1930s movie daybills, colour lithograph on card, printed in Australian and New Zealand, 101 cm x 37 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Chester Melvin Vaniman, (American, 1866-1912). [Hobart From Salamanca Place, Tasmania], 1904 vintage platinum photograph, panorama, annotated and dated 'registered 1904', and signed in negative lower right, 37.6 x 118 cm. Laid down on acid-free backing.… | *** |  |
| *** | A hand-written invitation to dinner from President George Washington, 23rd February 1799 one-page invitation in Washington's distinctive hand, accompanied by the outer wrapper addressed to 'Mr and Mrs Ramsay &c in Alexandra' who were the recipients of the… | *** |  |
| *** | Photographer unknown Panorama of Sydney Looking East from tower of General post office five panel panorama, albumen paper prints laid down on linen 33.1 x 130 cm titled in the centre panel from the left, the first landmark is the Lands Department, looking… | *** |  |
| *** | 1904-08 Sniders & Abrahams 'Australian Football - Incidents in Play', complete set (16). (includes the card overwritten as 'Geelong and Melbourne'; does not include error card 'Carlton and Geelong') | *** |  |
| *** | 1910 Sniders & Abrahams 'Australian Footballers - Victorian League Players', series E, complete set (60) | *** |  |
| *** | 1922 J.J. Schuh (Magpie Cigarettes) 'Portraits of Our Leading Footballers', almost complete set (101/106), includes numbers 1-96 with both types of Nos. 15 and 16; plus the 3/8 unnumbered cards | *** |  |
| *** | Hodgkinson, Clement Australia from Port MacQuarie to Moreton Bay; with Description of the Natives, Their Manners and Customs; the Geology, Natural Productions, Fertility, and Resources of That Region; first Explored and Surveyed By Order of the Colonial… | *** |  |
| *** | Harold Cazneaux (Australian, 1878-1953). Punch And Judy, c1920s. Vintage silver gelatin photograph, titled and signed in pencil on backing below image, annotated in pencil on backing verso, 32.5 x 25 cm. Annotation reads 'Barmera (Sth Australia). Class 9.… | *** |  |
| *** | Andrew Barton ('Banjo') Paterson (1864 - 1941), The Man from Snowy River and other verses, (Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1st ed.) 8vo, original brown cloth; forward by Rolf Bolderwood. With a 6 page manuscript transcript of 'The Ballad of the Calliope'… | *** |  |
| *** | Last of the Tasmanian Aborigines photographs, a most remarkable collection of photographs from the great Grandson of Charles Woolley, principal photographer of the Tasmanian Aboriginals. Taken from life in 1866. They have been only in the possession of… | *** |  |
| *** | Dixon, Robert., This Map of the Colony of New South Wales, Exhibiting the Situation and Extent of The Appropriated Lands, including the Counties, Towns, Village-Reserves, &c Compiled from Authentic Surveys &c. is respectfully Dedicated to Sir John Barrow… | *** |  |
| *** | Alfred Bock pair of early senotype portraits in original Tasmanian musk frames, 19th century, both bearing original green paper labels verso. One sitter identified as Dr. William Henwood of Huntingfield, Tasmania. 41 x 36 cm each overall | *** |  |
| *** | Eureka Rebellion: a Victorian Government 'Blue Paper' Proclamation titled 'Disturbances at Ballaarat'. Lieutenant Governor Hotham 'Has the painful duty of informing the Legislative Council that serious disturbances have occurred at Ballaarat...' dated 5… | *** |  |
| *** | A spectacular & important illuminated presentation folio to Joseph Cook, M.H.R. A bi-fold, leather-bound presentation, with gilt embossed decorations and addressed to the Honourable Joseph Cook, M.H.R. On the front cover. Internally, a hand-painted and… | *** |  |
| *** | Australiana: 'An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island, with the Discoveries Which Have Been Made in New South Walesand in the Southern Ocean....' by John hunter (London 1793), with engraved frontispiece of the author,… | *** |  |
| *** | Kings Theatre 'Australian Cricketers', appears to be a complete set (15). Large size (89 x 146 mm). Not listed in Deadman catalogue. (15) | *** |  |
| *** | Herbert Ponting, (1870-1935): 'Weddell Seal (Diving Off the Ice. Cape Evans, March 15, 1911)', silver gelatin photograph (44 x 60 cm), the photographer's blindstamp 'H.G. Ponting' at lower right, titled and numbered '35' on the fine Art Society labels on… | *** |  |
| *** | 1904 Sniders & Abrahams æAustralian FootballersÆ, series a - with blue framelines, complete set [24]. G/VG | *** |  |
| *** | Prime Minister Edmond Barton's Private Secretary, Thomas Bavin (1874 - 1941), (Knighted 1933), Lawyer, judge, politician and Premier of New South Wales, 1927 - 1930, Bavin's 1902 diary, with an entry for almost every day of the year. On an introductory… | *** |  |
| *** | 1965 Scanlens 'Footballers' complete set [36] including Ted Whitten, Des Tuddenham, Kevin Murray, 'Polly' farmer, Bob Skilton and Darrel Baldock, mostly G/VG. Rare set. (36). | *** |  |
| *** | 1966 Scanlens 'Footballers' complete set [72], including all 14 die-cuts with Barry cable, Ron Barassi, Ken Fraser, Ted Whitten, 'Polly' farmer, Darrel Baldock and Bob Skilton, mostly G/VG. Another rare set. (72). | *** |  |
| *** | Hugh Munro hull (1818 - 1882), the Experience of forty Years in Tasmania, with folding engraved map of Tasmania, 10 engraved views on 3 leaves, lithographic frontispiece, original grey-green wrappers with gilt title 'Hull's Tasmania.' [London : Orger &… | *** |  |
| *** | An album with gilt title: 'Views of Warrnambool', containing 29 photographs that are clear and show a good cross-section of Warrnambool in the early 1890s. Subjects include: a panoramic view of the town from Liebig Street hill; Kepler Street; proud | *** |  |
| *** | Sydney Album 'Views of Sydney', circa 1890; 40 albumen paper prints, each approx. 21 x 15 cm laid down to pages in a red leather and morocco bound album with gilt title including 'Mr & Mrs King from J. Macpherson.' Images by 'J.P.' include Bondi, Coogee,… | *** |  |
| *** | Edward Gibbon, 'The works of Edward Gibbon', [New York, Fred de Fau, 1907], a complete set of 15 volumes, this set limited to 1000 numbered copies. Bound in half brown morocco over brown marbelled boards and matching endpapers. With 5 raised spine bands… | *** |  |
| *** | H. G. Wells: 'The Undying fire' (London, 1919) presentation copy signed and endorsed by Wells 'To cherry-Garrard, with Warmest Thanks for His Penguins, from H.G.Wells'; 'Phoenix - a Summary of the Inescapable Conditions of world Reorganisation' (London,… | *** |  |
| *** | Preserving the Visual and Literary History of Australia the Bread and Cheese Club Archive: Formed in Melbourne in June 1938 and devoted to 'Mateship, Art and Letters', the all-male Bread and Cheese Club was active in promoting Australian writers,… | *** |  |
| *** | Photographer unknown, Albert ground, Boxing day December 26 1877, Athletic sports and balloon Ascent two panel panorama, albumen paper prints laid down on linen 18.2 x 70.4 cm titled on label below repaired tears; creases; light foxing, extremely rare to… | *** |  |
| *** | 1964 Scanlens 'Footballers', complete set (33). Mainly G/VG. Extremely rare in this condition | *** |  |
| *** | Miner's Right Colony Of Victoria £1, Buninyong, August 11th, 1857, made out to John Aute Marshall, rare and early vellum issue No.28. Housed in a period cedar frame. 19 x 22 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Chirnside Family Werribee Park, scrap album and two photograph albums pertaining to the Chirnside family of Werribee Park Mansion, Victoria, (3 items). | *** |  |
| *** | A bearded footballer in full playing outfit with inflated oval ball at his side, circa 1880, Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 102 x 64 mm, verso imprinted 'From Burman's Photographic Rooms, 209 Bourke St. East, near Parliament Houses and… | *** |  |
| *** | H.M.S. Cossack: Album of 19th century silver gelatin photographs tracing the voyage of the Cossack from Sydney to Melbourne, Hobart, Fiji & on to England. Many photos captioned & pages adorned with superb cartoon caricatures & dated 1873. The Cossack was… | *** |  |