Catalogue
Commercial letterheads, invoices, statements and receipts, mostly Victorian, dated 1884-1937. (approx 160 items)
Estimate $150
SOLD $120
Postal notes, 3/- South Australia Ungarra 1947 and 1948. Very fine (2)
Estimate $25
SOLD $40
Miscellaneous 19th century Australian Shares, Bank of Van Diemen's Land, Ltd. 1888, Hobart, 17 shares; another Atmospheric Gas Syndicate, 1 share of Ã…â€Å‣10, Sydney issued 1897. Fine. (2)
Estimate $20
SOLD $60
Mining, Cadia Gold mine 1940 script (Sydney); Lancefield (W.A.) Gold Mine script 1935 (Melbourne); documents (2) from London Paris Exchange Ltd. c.1908; Serbia bond issues 1907 (2). Very good - fine. (6)
Estimate $30
SOLD $50
Retail script, Hosking 161-5 George Street, Sydney c.1920's (6), Arthur Rickard & Co, c.1927 (6), Electric Timber Co. c.1901 (3), Kangaroo Boot Company Ltd. c. 1920 (2). Very fine. (17)
Estimate $100
SOLD $70
Share certificates, U.S.A. and world, all different, many with attractive vignettes. Very fine. (20)
Estimate $50
SOLD $60
Newspapers, The Sydney Mail, various issues from Nov. 17, 1915 - May 31 1916 and Nov. 28, 1934; The Lone Hand issue of August 1914. Generally in poor condition. (14)
Estimate $40
SOLD $40
Newspapers, Minature editions of Daily Telegraph 23/2/1911 - Coronation of KGV; Sydney Morning Herald 24/1/1901 - Death of Queen Victoria; Evening News 9/4/1924 - Visit of British Fleet; Star 20/8/1908 - Visit of American Fleet. Fine condition. (4)
Estimate $20
SOLD $60
Newspapers, Various old issues, Dubbo Liberal 17/2/1909; Cumberland Mercury 27/8/1887; Punch 8/5/1873; Maitland Mercury 31/8/1878; Sydney Evening News 5/9/1889; and a few others. Fair condition. (lot)
Estimate $30
SOLD $30
Naval Newspaper clippings, two large account books with cut outs of naval ships at war etc. from mostly Australian newspapers c. 1938-1940's, a few later press clippings included. (2)
Estimate $20
SOLD $40
A colour print, titled 'John Batman's Famous Treaty With The Native Chiefs of Port Phillip', from the oil painting by Raymond Lindsay. For the Melbourne Centenary number of the 'Sydney Mail' Raymond Lindsay was commissioned to paint on canvas the incident. Framed, some damage to frame.
Estimate $75
SOLD $0
Cricket, Sydney Cricket Ground annual Lady's Tickets for 1927-8 (4), 1928-9 (2), 1932-3 (2), Membership badge 1927-8 by Amor. Very fine. (9)
Estimate $40
SOLD $40
Odd and Curious, United Airlines 100,000 mile club metal pass, 1955; Pan American Clipper Club, c.1955, both to Norman Schureck. (2)
Estimate $20
SOLD $0
Photographs, Stereoscopic photographs of Jenolan Caves, c.1900. Interesting historial lot. Very good. (33)
Estimate $30
SOLD $40
Anonymous, 'A Journey From Sydney Over the Blue Mountains to Bathurst Forty Years Ago', by Sophia ..., Bathurst, 31pps, 1882. Cover detached, fair but excessively rare.
Estimate $200
SOLD $480
Bonwick, James., The Lost Tasmanian Rance, London 1884. Damage to spint.
Estimate $30
SOLD $60
Brennan, C.J. 'A Chant of Doom and other verses', with bookplate of F.R. Jordan, limited edition, No.9/50 copies, Sydney 1918, signed copy with dust jacket. Fine and rare.
Estimate $150
SOLD $100
(Gruner, Elioth), Art in Australia De-Luxe Edition, March 1929; 'The Recent Work of Elioth Gruner', includes ink signed print of `Man and Mountains'. Fine and rare.
Estimate $100
SOLD $60
(Gruner, Elioth), 'Elioth Gruner, Twenty-four Reproductions in Colour from Original Oil Paintings', Shepherd Press, Sydney 1947, with a foreward by Norman Lindsay, Fine.
Estimate $125
SOLD $90
Hawkesworth, John, 'An Account of the Voyages...For Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere', 3 volumes, Volume 1 with engraved frontpiece, Volume 2 with two engraved folded plates, Volume 3 with engraved folded frontpiece, all with some foxing, staining and offsetting, rebound in full green gilt tooled leather, edges stained green, octavo, London 1773.
Estimate $1,000
SOLD $460
Hunter, John., 'An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island, with the Discoveries which have been made in New South Wales and the Southern Ocean since the publication of Phillip's Voyage, compiled from the official papers, Including the Journals of Governors Phillip and King, and of lieut. Ball; and the Voyages From the first sailing of the Sirius in 1787, to the return of that Ship's Company to England in 1792.' Illustrated with 17 maps and views, London dated January 1, 1793. Cover with some toning, mostly a clean copy attractively rebound in half leather, fine and rare.
Estimate $3,500
SOLD $0
Johnson, J.C.F. 'An Austral Christmas', 2nd edition, Adelaide 1889, with bookplate of Henry L. White of Belltrees, Scone, NSW. Staining and damage to cover, contents fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $0
Landsborough, William, 'Journal of Landsborough's Expedition From Carpentaria, In Search of Burke and Wills', with photogramme and map (rebacked onto cloth and inserted in a pocket inside back cover), rebound retaining original card covers (stained), Melbourne, 1862.
Estimate $600
SOLD $200
(Prout, J. Skinner), 'Sydney Illustrated', with letterpress descriptions by John Rae, Tyrells, Sydney, nd. (c.1950). Fine, limited edition, No.111/750.
Estimate $150
SOLD $60
Schlank, Racey, 'Poems', Adelaide, 1895, presented as a prize to Ruby Bloom 1898, from Adelaide Hebrew Sabbath School. Some staining on the covers, contents very good.
Estimate $100
SOLD $100
Books, Bryon., May, 'A Day with Omar Khayyan', various editions of 'Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam' the Laurel Wreath Series; Golden Treasury series; Siegle Hill & Co; The Fitzgerald Edition. (5)
Estimate $20
SOLD $10
Akerman, John Yonge, 'An Introduction to the Study of Ancient and Modern Coins', London, 1848. Very good and scarce.
Estimate $30
SOLD $50
Akerman, John Yonge, 'Coins of the Romans relating to Britain, Described and Illustrated', London, 1844. Some foxing throughout, half leather, good and scarce.
Estimate $40
SOLD $60
Allen & Nash, 'The Coins of the Ancient Celts' Edinburgh, 1980; Brown & Dolley, 'Coin Hoards of Great Britain and Ireland 1500-1967', London 1971 RNS Spec. Pub. No.6; North, 'The Coinages of Edward I & II', London 1968; Richardson, 'Scottish Coins' Yarmouth, (1901) 1977 edn. Last scarce, others as new. (4)
Estimate $70
SOLD $50
Andrews, Dr, Arthur., 'Australian Tokens and Coins' Sydney, 1921, Blue cloth, internally fine.
Estimate $75
SOLD $90