Catalogue
Art, an assortment of books on art and history includes Norman Lindsay's Cats and The Pictorial Encyclopedia of Antiques. Very fine - extremely fine. (13)
Estimate $50
SOLD $10
The May Gibbs Collection, 2 Vols by Maureen Welsh, published by Angus & Robertson, Sydney 1985. In slip case.
Estimate $50
SOLD $10
Childhood in Bud and Blossom, The Souvenir Book of the Children's Hospital Bazaar, Melbourne, 1900, Delux Edition No.374, compiled and edited by Joshua Lake, by The Atlas Press, Melbourne, 1900, 122pp., a few pages with colour but mostly full page plates, portraits amd text illustrations in black and white, some writers include A.B. 'Banjo' Paterson, Major-General Baden-Powell, Mary Gaunt and excerpts from Shakespeare, Emerson, Tennyson, Longfellow and others, together with original Happy Birthday bookmark. Foxing on front and back fly leaf pages otherwise very fine and rare.
Estimate $500
Passed in
The Every Man Encyclopedia, vols 1-10 (spines damaged, binding poor); together with various history books including The Sydney Traders by D.R. Hainsworth. Poor - extremely fine. (18)
Estimate $50
SOLD $10
Ancient history, an assortment, subjects include, Ancient Egypt, Jewish and Biblical, Greek and Roman, lot also includes The Concise Encyclopedia of Archeology. Mostly very fine - extremely fine. (23)
Estimate $100
SOLD $110
Ancient history, an assortment, subjects include, Egypt, Biblical, Greek and Roman, includes the Encyclopedia of World Mythology. Very fine - extremely fine. (20)
Estimate $80
SOLD $70
Gibbon, Edward, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, The Folio Society, London, reprint, 1985, in eight volumes all within two slipcases, originally published 1776-1788. As new. (8)
Estimate $50
SOLD $50
Graves, Robert, The Greek Myths, in two volumes, The Folio Society in slip case, 1996 edition, 700 pp., and illustrated by plates throughout, based on the original edition published in 1955. As new. (2)
Estimate $30
SOLD $10