Catalogue
Despatch, Journals of the N.S.W Military Historical Society; together with pamphlets from Ku-Ring-Gai Minicipal Council. Fine - very fine. (approx 50)
Estimate $50
SOLD $10
Various papers, pamphlets and journals from different branches of the military, together with photocopies of military related articles. Poor - extremely fine. (approx 50)
Estimate $40
SOLD $20
Various journals, historic numismatic and military in mixed conditions. Very fine - extremely fine. (approx 50)
Estimate $50
SOLD $20
Military history, an assortment, includes Great Military Battles by Cyrill Falls and The Great Anglo Boer War by Byron Farwell. Generally very fine - extremely fine. (20)
Estimate $60
SOLD $100
Military history, an assortment, includes The Personal Account of The Conquest of Germany by Field - Marshal the Viscount Montgomery. Generally very fine - extremely fine. (19)
Estimate $80
SOLD $130
Military history, an assortment, Boer War through to Vietnam, includes Crete by Anthony Beevor. Very fine - extremely fine. (26)
Estimate $100
SOLD $130
An assortment, history and military history, includes I Claudius and Claudius the God by Robert Graves. Very fine - extremely fine. (approx 40)
Estimate $70
SOLD $180
An assortment, various subjects including art, history, military history and literature, includes Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T.E. Lawrence. Poor - extremely fine. (approx 50)
Estimate $70
SOLD $40
Journals, magazines, various military and history paperbacks, museum brochures and historical pamphlets. Generally very fine - extremely fine. (approx 100)
Estimate $50
SOLD $20
History, an assortment, includes Roman Britain and the English Settlements 2nd edition by R.G. Collingwood and J.N.L. Myers. Very fine - extremely fine. (20)
Estimate $70
SOLD $20
History books, an assortment, includes books on King Arthur and The Memoirs of Garibaldi by Alexander Dumas. Very fine - extremely fine. (16)
Estimate $60
SOLD $20
English history, an assortment from prehistoric through to medieval. Mostly very fine - extremely fine. (13)
Estimate $80
SOLD $20
English and Medieval European History, an assortment, includes La Rousse Encyclopedia of Ancient and Medieval History by Paul Hamlyn. Very fine - extremely fine. (32)
Estimate $100
SOLD $20
An assortment of history books, on various subjects. Very fine - extremely fine. (approx 40)
Estimate $40
SOLD $10
History, Australian and world, includes Sandstone Sydney by Douglas Baglin and Yvonne Austin; History of Australian Bushranging by Charles White. Very fine - extremely fine. (20)
Estimate $80
SOLD $20
Australian history, an assortment, includes Australia's Heritage The Making of a Nation vols 8-13. Generally very fine - extremely fine. (20)
Estimate $60
SOLD $10
Australian history, an assortment, subjects include, politics, exploration and general Australiana. Very fine - extremely fine. (25)
Estimate $70
SOLD $10
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
Macedon, Kingdom of Philip II, (359-336 B.C.), gold stater, (8.55 grams), Pella II mint, issued c.340-328 B.C., obv. head of Apollo to right with laureate wreath, rev. galloping biga to right driven by charioteer holding kentron in right hand, reins in left hand, horizontal thunderbolt below horses, in exergue **FILIPPOU*, (cf.S.6663, Le Rider Group II cf.Pl.56, SNG ANS 130-137), Slight rubbing on cheek, of fine style, nearly extremely fine and very scarce.
Estimate $3,000
SOLD $2,700
Macedon, Kingdom of, Alexander III, (336-323 B.C.), gold stater, (8.58 grams), `Amphipolis' mint, issued c.330-320 B.C., obv. head of Athena to right in crested Corinthian helmet, ornamented with serpent, rev. Nike standing to left, holding wreath in outstretched hand, kantharos in left field, to right **ALEXANDPOU*, (cf.S.6702; Price 168, M.193, BMC 168a-d). Well centred, probably from a clamp mounting with surface smoothing, otherwise good very fine.
Estimate $1,600
SOLD $1,350
Thrace, Kingdom of, Lysimachos, (323-281 B.C.), gold stater, (8.28 grams), Callatis mint, posthumous issue c.88-86 B.C., obv. diademed head of Alexander the Great to right, wearing horn of Ammon, rev. Athena enthroned to left, holding Nike and resting left arm on shield, transverse spear resting against right side to right, to right **BASILEWS, to left **LUSIMACOU, HP monogram below arm, KA**L* on throne, trident below in exergue, (cf.S.6813, M.266, SNG Cop.1089). Extremely fine and virtually as struck.
Estimate $1,800
SOLD $1,800
Titus, (A.D. 79-81), gold aureus, Rome mint, issue of A.D. 80, (7.33 grams), obv. IMP TITVS CAES VESPASIANVS AVG P M, laureate head to right, rev. TR P IX IMP XV COS VIII P P, dolphin entwined around anchor, (S.2499, RIC 26(b), BMC 76, C.-). Extremely fine and very rare in this condition.
Estimate $6,000
SOLD $6,700
Trajan, (A.D. 98-117), gold aureus, issued 107, Rome mint, (7.24 grams), obv. laureate bust, draped and cuirassed of Trajan, around IMP TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P, rev. Ceres standing to left holding corn-ears and long torch, around COS V P P S P Q R OPTIMO PRINC, (S.3087, RIC 109, C.65). Test cut on neck, banker's mark on obverse and reverse and slightly bent, otherwise nearly very fine and rare.
Estimate $1,200
SOLD $1,000