*** | 1938 Hoadleys 'League Footballers', complete set (72). Mainly G/VG. | *** | |
*** | 1954 Coles 'Victorian Footballers' (series 1) complete set (56). G/VG. Superb condition. | *** | |
*** | 1964 Scanlens 'Footballers', part set (14/33). Fair/VG | *** | |
*** | 1968 Scanlens 'Footballers', Series B (scarcer - puzzle of team logos on reverse), complete set (40). VG. Hard to fi nd in this condition | *** | |
*** | C1950 Melbourne sports Depot 'Footballers Postcards', all Collingwood players - bill Twomey, Pat Twomey, George Hams, Jack Hamilton, Des Healey, Lou Richards and Ron Richards. G/VG. (the 'Australian Rules Football Cards' website lists 5 postcards known -… | *** | |
*** | 1907 Sniders & Abrahams æAustralian Footballers - Victorian League PlayersÆ, series C (half-length), complete set [56]. One creased, others G/VG | *** | |
*** | Horse racing photographs and Negatives, noted Phar Lap (negative and 5 photos) ; Carbine (2 negatives and photo) ; Kingston Town (colour negative and 4 photos) ; triple Dead Heat (3 negatives and 2 photos) ; plus range other negatives (8) and photos (21).… | *** | |
*** | 1921 J.J.Schuh (Magpie Cigarettes) 'Australian Footballers' (Rays), complete set [40]. G/VG | *** | |
*** | Tye & Co. Melbourne Furniture Manufacturers & Retailers: Original pen & ink artwork (by Edwin W. Slater) for six full-page illustrations of fully furnished rooms, as prepared for inclusion in a catalogue of their wares, circa 1900. Each illustration is a… | *** | |
*** | 1909 Unknown Publisher 'South Australian Footballers', the error card C.Adcock of South Adelaide with surround in colours of West Torrens. Cat.Number 25e. G/VG condition. Exceptional condition for this. Extremely rare. | *** | |
*** | 1909 Unknown Publisher 'South Australian Footballers', the error card D.McDougall of South Adelaide with surround in colours of Sturt. Cat.Number 28e. G/VG condition. Exceptional condition for this. Extremely rare. | *** | |
*** | 1969 Twisties/Sun Valley '1969 Football Game' complete set of Player Caricatures (24); plus Prize Card (1/3). Fair/VG. Good condition for these. (Total 25) | *** | |
*** | 1971 Sunicrust 'V.F.L. Footy Swap Cards', complete set (50), with Graeme Molloy card signed. G/VG | *** | |
*** | (Melbourne International Exhibition, 1888 - 89) Official Record of the Centennial International Exhibition, Melbourne, 1888 - 1889 Containing a sketch of the industrial and economic progress of the Australasian Colonies during the first century of their… | *** | |
*** | Giles, Ernest Australia Twice Traversed: The Romance of Exploration [Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, Limited, London, 1889] Two volumes, octavo, with plates, folding coloured maps and illustrations in the text; in the fully pictorial grey-green… | *** | |
*** | Film Poster: 'Inland with McDouall Stuart - A man of Stamina' [1956, lithograph in colours, William Brooks & Co., Sydney]. The film, a documentary about Stuart and about the Northern Territory, was made by Australian Instructional Fims, Sydney. 73 x 97 cm… | *** | |
*** | 1976 Scanlens 'Footballers' duplicates [194] incl. Michael Tuck (2), Leigh Matthews, Trevor Barker and Royce Hart (4), also checklists (15), mostly VG to Vf, also Scanlen's 1970s 'Card Locker', 14 segments (tear on one internal divider) for card storage… | *** | |
*** | Australian goldfields group of six cartes de visite of a theatrical troupe taken in Castlemaine Victoria, together with an 1852 edition of the London illustrated news with Victorian gold rush motif on the cover. (7 items) | *** | |
*** | 'The All-Australian Memorial History, Heroes and Helpers' Australian Commonwealth Military Forces single volume, full morocco with embossed gilt lettering, [published 1917], complete with fold-out sections. | *** | |
*** | 'The Tasmanian Royal Kalendar, Colonial register, and Almanck, 1849' compiled by James wood, [Launceston : Henry Dowling, Jun., and J.W.H. Walch, Hobart, 1849], 209pp + 26pp of advertisements; plus a bound-in advert from Henry Dowling, Launceston, the… | *** | |
*** | 'Wood's Royal Southern Kalendar, Tasmanian register, and general Australasian & East Indian official Directory, 1850' compiled by James wood, [Launceston : Henry Dowling, Jun., and J.W.H. Walch, Hobart, 1850], 252pp + 40pp of advertisements; bound by H.… | *** | |
*** | The First Detailed Mapping of The Adelaide Region, Carte Generale de la Terre Napoleon, [Baudin Expedition map] Louis de Freycinet, [Paris: grave par Tardieu, 1808.], attractively hand coloured, 54 x 78 cm (sight); framed 80 x 104 cm. At the time of the… | *** | |
*** | The B.A.N.Z. Antarctic Expedition:Official original photograph by Captain Frank Hurley:Image A5 - title: the Belle of Crozet,with official 'Mawson Antarctic Expedition' handstamp and release date 'Thursday Feb.13, 1930' verso, together with the official… | *** | |
*** | The B.A.N.Z. Antarctic Expedition:Official original photograph by Captain Frank Hurley:Image A57 - title: There's wind in the sky,with official 'Mawson Antarctic Expedition' handstamp and release date 'Tuesday May 6, 1930' verso, together with official… | *** | |
*** | Campaspie', 'Campaspie Fall Collection of assorted stereo cards, including Australian, British and novelty cards, 19th century. 60+ cards. Of note: Gold diggings Australia, Mt Macedon, 'Traveller Sleeping in Mia Mia', Hanging Rock Melbourne, 'On the… | *** | |
*** | The B.A.N.Z. Antarctic Expedition:Official original photograph by Captain Frank Hurley:Image B25 - title: first Antarctic Aeroplane,with official 'Mawson Antarctic Expedition' handstamp and release date 'Tuesday Jun. 2, 1931' verso, together with the… | *** | |
*** | 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… | *** | |
*** | Norman Lindsay (1879 - 1969), The Magic Pudding, [Sydney: Angas & Robertson, 1918], first edition, rebacked and with new endpapers, original dustjacket (with chip to spine). | *** | |
*** | The B.A.N.Z. Antarctic Expedition: official original photograph by Captain Frank Hurley: image B31 - title: Summertime in King George fifth land, with official 'Mawson Antarctic Expedition' handstamp and release date 'Tuesday Jun. 2, 1931' verso, together… | *** | |
*** | The sale of a house at Versailles - 1691, 14th February 1691, French seven-page document on vellum, being the contract covering the sale of a house at Versailles; signed on the last page by the seller (Bruneau) and the purchaser (Bontemps). Alexandre… | *** | |
*** | 507pp. With 16 mounted colour illustrat Malory, pollard, Alfred W. Rackham, Arthur (illus.), the Romance of King Arthur and his Knights of the round table. Abridged from Malory's Morte d'Arthur. [Published by Macmillan and Co. London, 1917], XXIV, 509pp.… | *** | |
*** | 'The History of New South Wales including Botany Bay' by Barrington [London, 1802], with engraved vignette, handcoloured title page, 18 hand-coloured plates and one uncoloured plate. Rebound, Fair condition | *** | |
*** | 1953 Argus '1953 football portraits', large size (11 x 19 cm), part set (21/72) | *** | |
*** | 1958 Atlantic 'Victorian League Stars', complete set [128] + 1 spare. Mainly G/Vg. (Total 129) | *** | |
*** | 1972 Scanlens 'Footballers', almost complete set (65/66) | *** | |
*** | W.D. & H.O. Wills: 1907-08 'Prominent Australian & English Cricketers', complete set (1-73 grey captions) plus the 1908 re-issued Series of 8 (66-73 red captions), G/VG. (Total: 81). Cat.£1,300. | *** | |
*** | Don Bradman: 1997 Sanitarium (Weet-Bix) Sir Donald Bradman AC Greatest Hits, complete set (16), with all cards signed by Don Bradman | *** | |
*** | 1982 Ardmona 'Big League series 2 - Hawthorn', complete set (18), including Gary Ablett Snr rookie card. G/VG. | *** | |
*** | Neil Armstrong, (1930- ), first person to walk on the moon, display comprising signed photo, window mounted with wonderful Apollo 11 photographs, framed and glazed, overall 105 x 74 cm | *** | |
*** | 1971 Sunicrust 'V.F.L. Footy Swap Cards', complete set (50). G/VG | *** | |
*** | 1969 Scanlen's 'Footballers', incomplete set (lacks only #4) + many duplicates, (199). Mixed condition. | *** | |
*** | Backhouse, James (1794 - 1869), A Narrative of a Visit to the Australian Colonies. [Hamilton, Adams & Co., London, 1843] Octavo, xviii, 560pp, cxliv (appendices) pages with in-text illustrations (by Backhouse), plates and 3 large folding maps.… | *** | |
*** | Postcards: Aboriginal Subjects, collection of (43) real photo cards, circa 1905-10, almost all postally used and the subjects mainly from identified locations: Queensland (5), South Australia (2), Tasmania (2), Victoria (10), Western Australia (14), and… | *** | |
*** | Nicholas Caire (Australian, 1837-1918), No.3. King Billy in camp, Gippsland, 1891, silver gelatin print, with Caire's handstamp and titled in manuscript verso,15 x 20 cm. | *** | |
*** | 1974 Scanlens 'Footballers', collectors duplicates incl. Don Scott (3), Leigh Matthews, Royce Hart, Kevin Bartlett, Sam Newman and Alex Jesaulenko, mostly VG to Vf. (130) | *** | |
*** | 1975 Scanlens 'Footballers' incomplete set [96/132] plus duplicates (64) and team checklists [9/12, with a few duplicates], G to Vf. (174) | *** | |
*** | 1914 Sniders & Abrahams: Victorian League: 'Portrait & Flag' design [28/60], generally G/VG. | *** | |
*** | 1972 Scanlens 'Footballers' complete set [66], including Bernie Quinlan, Kevin Bartlett, Barry Richardson and Keith Grieg, G/VG. (66). | *** | |
*** | 'John Monash Nov / 1926' dated signature to the blank front end paper of 'Old Colonial Architecture in New South Wales and Tasmania' by Hardy Wilson, [Sydney : Union house, 1924], 10, III, [+50 plates], signed by the author; limited edition No.891 of 1000… | *** | |
*** | 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. | *** | |
*** | Will Dyson, Foreword by H.G. Wells, Kultur cartoons, (Published by Stanley Paul, London, 1915). Mounted illustration to front wrapper; 20 mounted illustrations tipped in. | *** | |
*** | Hans Heysen (1877 - 1968) full signature on a one-page letter, dated 'Jan.22nd, Hahndorf' (circa 1940) to a 'Miss Fern' advising that he had just sent her three watercolours which he hopes 'may fall in with your client's wishes'. He also advises that… | *** | |
*** | The B.A.N.Z. Antarctic Expedition:Official original photograph by Captain Frank Hurley:Image A80 - title: an Antarctic Ferry,with official 'Mawson Antarctic Expedition' handstamp and release date 'Friday May 23, 1930' verso, together with official printed… | *** | |
*** | The B.A.N.Z. Antarctic Expedition:Official original photograph by Captain Frank Hurley:Image B29 - title: a Glittering Ruin,with official 'Mawson Antarctic Expedition' handstamp and release date 'Tuesday May 19, 1931' verso, together with the official… | *** | |
*** | Burke, Keast 'With Horse and Morse in Mesopotamia' The Story of Anzacs in Asia: 1st Edition (1927, Sydney) Hard cover, 200pp; minor foxing to edges of text pages and early text pages; photographic plates in excellent condition. Contains histories of the… | *** | |
*** | 1957 Kornies 'Footballer - Mascot Swap Cards', part set (18/36). Very scarce | *** | |
*** | 1974 Scanlens 'Footballers', complete set (132), plus Checklists (12). (total 144) | *** | |
*** | 1933 Allens 'League Footballers' (striped colours), complete set (144) plus the error card for No. 120 (one reads 'S. Barker', other reads 'S. Baker' (total 145) | *** | |
*** | NSW Government Gazette: 23 leather-bound volumes, comprising run of newspapers July-Dec. 1850; July-Dec. 1851; July 1852 - Dec. 1856; July 1857 - June 1861; Jan.-June 1862; Jan.-June 1863; Jan.-Dec. 1864. Incomplete though impressive run, with c2360… | *** | |
*** | De La Mano Magic Collection comprising: small magic booklet w/hand coloured cover: large broadside [110 x 37 cm] fabulous graphics: small broadside 63 x 10 cm fabulous graphics: small handout pamphlets printed on both sides great images(2): stock… | *** | |
*** | Frank Hurley (1885-1962) temple carved in one piece from the solid mountain, Petra, silver gelatin photograph 27.1 x 18.7 cm mounted, titled and captioned 'Note size of figure in doorway. Petra was a thriving mountain stronghold and distributing centre.… | *** | |
*** | Martin, R. Montgomery, 'The British Colonies; their History, Extent, Condition and Resources' (London, 1st ed. c1855), Six volumes, comprising Vol.1 British North America; Vol. II Australia; Vol. III New Zealand, Tasmania, etc. Vol. IV Africa and the West… | *** | |
*** | Family Ephemera, noted wonderful 1852 diary 'Route From Adelaide to the Victoria Diggings'; book of tailor's (cutters) dia grams used by W'm Shepherd in Inglewood Victoria in the 1850s; c1909-16 album with postcards (87) including real photo types of… | *** | |
*** | 1949 Victorian Nut Supplies (Australia) 'Caricatures of Australian Sportsmen By Bob Mirams', part set (8/36), comprising 3.Dick Reynolds, 8.Joe Louis, 11.Jock Spencer, 14.John Coleman, 15.Scobie Breasley, 25.Lou Richards, 2 9.Lindsay Hassett & 36.Tommy… | *** | |
*** | 1933 Australian (Giant Brand) Licorice 'Football Colours', part set (16/24) - Brighton, Brunswick, Camberwell, Carlton, Fitzroy, Footscray, Geelong, Melbourne (missing corner), North Melbourne, Oakleigh, Prahran, Port Melbourne, Preston, Sandringham,… | *** | |
*** | 1965 Scanlens 'Footballers', part set (21/36). Fair/VG | *** | |
*** | 1973 Scanlens 'Footballers', Series A, complete set (72). G/VG | *** | |
*** | 1924 G.G.Goode (Australia) 'Prominent Cricketer Series', complete set (17), noted Sutcliffe, Gilligan & Kilner. One Fair, others mainly G/VG | *** | |
*** | 1995 Futera 'The Heritage Collection - a Collection of Great Australian Cricketers', complete set (60), with 58 of the cards signed, including Don Bradman, Ray Lindwall, Neil Harvey & Graham McKenzie, window mounted, framed & glazed, overall 82 x 105 cm | *** | |
*** | [New South Wales - Electoral History], Lists of Electors for that Portion of the Electoral District of the Cumberland Boroughs being the Borough of Penrith in the Police District of Penrith for the years 1857 & 1858' each page bearing a hand-stamped oval… | *** | |
*** | Opening of old Parliament House Canberra, two panoramic views, one depicting the official opening with thronging crowd on the forcourt, the other a reverse angle panorama of Canberra showing a sparsly populated vista with Mount Ainsley in the background.… | *** | |
*** | William Hetzer (active in New South Wales 1850 - 1867), stereoview card of Miller's point from the Flagstaff, circa 1858 stereoscopic albumen print photographic pair, each approx. 80 x 74 mm and laid down on the original plain grey card, overall 82 x 172… | *** | |
*** | Morton Allport (1830-1878), two stereoview cards of Tasmania. Albumen paper photographs in stereoscope format, both from the Stereoscopic magazine, July 1862, one being 'Fern trees, near Hobart Town' (with arched tops); the other, a view of Hobart town.… | *** | |
*** | 1975 Scanlens: incomplete set [54/132] with many cards heavily duplicated plus duplicated checklists for Collingwood, Hawthorn, Melbourne, North Melbourne & St Kilda; to VG. (330+) | *** | |
*** | 1975 tip top (Sunblest bread) 'V.F.L. Footy Cards', incomplete set [25/28, ex Nos 12,16 &25] with duplicates including Alex Jesaulenko (no 2 x3), Max Richardson (No.4, x32) ,Keith Greig (No.11 x21), Kevin Bartlett (No.14 x5), Wayne Judson (No.19 x6), many… | *** | |
*** | Scanlens 1963 (first series): card #7 Johnny Raper, St.George dragons [1/18]; G/VG condition. | *** | |
*** | Thomas Reid, two voyages to New South Wales and van Diemen's land; with a Description of the Present condition of that interesting Colony including facts and observations relative to the state and management of convicts of both sexes. (London: Longman,… | *** | |
*** | A Hand-Written letter from Monash to his daughter, Bertha: dated Jan'y 19, 1929 and on 'Iona' letterhead, Monash writes his regrets in not being with 'Bert' on her birthday 'Owning to our respective peregrinations....'; he signs off 'Your affectionate… | *** | |
*** | The B.A.N.Z. Antarctic Expedition: official original photograph by Captain Frank Hurley: image B9 - title: their day out, with official 'Mawson Antarctic Expedition' handstamp and release date 'Tuesday Apr. 21, 1931' verso, together with the official… | *** | |
*** | The B.A.N.Z. Antarctic Expedition:Official original photograph by Captain Frank Hurley:Image B17 - title: rolling home through the 'Roaring Forties',with official 'Mawson Antarctic Expedition' handstamp verso,32 x 11.5 cm. | *** | |
*** | Hillary, Edmund, high adventure (signed), [London, Hodder & Stoughton], 1955, 1st edition; original blue, cloth binding; signed by the, author and with the bookplate, of Charles Bonython. | *** | |
*** | 1969 Scanlens 'Footballers', complete set (48). Mainly G/VG. | *** | |
*** | 1970 Scanlens 'Footballers', complete set (66). Fair/VG. | *** | |
*** | 1958 Atlantic 'Victorian League stars' almost complete set (126/128). Mainly | *** | |
*** | 1973 Scanlens 'Footballers', club mascot sticker inserts, complete set (12). Very scarce | *** | |
*** | 1908 Sniders & Abrahams 'Australian Footballers', series D (head and sholders), complete set [56] | *** | |
*** | 1912 F.& J. Smith 'Cricketers' (1-50), complete set, noted J.W.H.T. Douglas, Hobbs & Victor Trumper. (50) | *** | |
*** | A Ship Captain's note book dated 1793, containing recipes for medical cures, scientific formul', a 'How to make' section for everyday non-medical necessities, plus many others. 80 pages, vellum covers, very legible. There are a total of 250 cures and… | *** | |
*** | The Jamaica Kalendar for 1795, a most remarkable little kalendar, a leather bound printed and hand written account of an around the world voyage on the ship Rosalee, which left Halifax Jan.1775 and touched ports in Philadelphia, New York and many others,… | *** | |
*** | Auckland: albumen photographs (20 x 14 cm), by Beattie & Sanderson, Auckland, (1897-1900) - 'Auckland Wharf' (with horse-drawn wagon 'Furniture van No. 4 J.J. Craig); 'Auckland W, from Mt Eden'.. | *** | |
*** | 1967 Scanlens 'Krazy Kricket', complete set (68) + 4 spares. Fair/G. Very scarce set. | *** | |
*** | 1970 Scanlens 'Footballers', part set (42/66). G/Vg | *** | |
*** | 1974 Scanlens 'Footballers', almost complete set (123/132). Mainly G/Vg | *** | |
*** | Don Bradman: 1997 Sanitarium (Weet-Bix) 'Sir Donald Bradman AC Greatest Hits', complete set (16), with all cards signed by Don Bradman | *** | |
*** | 1968 Scanlens 'Footballers', Series B (scarcer - puzzle of team logos on reverse), complete set (40). Fair/G | *** | |
*** | 1966-76 Scanlens football cards, noted 1966 (47), 1974 (18), 1975 (107) & 1976 (11). Poor/G. (Total 183) | *** | |