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A large Australian Colonial cedar and rose mahogany breakfront bookcase for the Mitchell Library, mid 19th century, the moulded cornice above stepped frieze, having three pairs of glazed doors flanked by panelled pilasters, the lower section with conformin

Album By W.Blackwood of Australian Scenery, 12 albumen photoprints, images approx. 21.5 x 29.5 laid down in album with manuscript titles in the mount., One of Blackwood's albums of Sydney views produced in 1858 and 1859, with subjects include, The Great So

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 in

Bill Woodfull's 1932-33 Bodyline Tour photograph album: Large photograph album, very well annotated, with photographs (126), including the Bodyline tour (84); beautiful photograph titled 'Village Cricket - England'; 1930 Ashes tour (2); 1933-34 Sheffield S

A grey sandstone torso of a deity, Khmer, Angkor Period, 12th/ 13th century together with two installation shots by Max Dupain for the exhibition at the David Jones' Art Gallery, 57.5 cm high. Provenance: (of the Torso) David Jones' Art Gallery, Indian, Th

Bill Woodfull's 1930 Ashes Tour Photograph Album, A large photograph album (34 x 52.5 cm), very well annotated in Woodfull's hand, with 200+ photographs including the highlight, a photograph of Don Bradman walking out to bat at Leeds (for his record 334),

John Hunter Kerr (1821-1874), photograph album of 12 views of Melbourne taken from the Club, 1861, bound in leather with slip-case, The photographer of these fine and unique early photographs (John Hunter Kerr) of Melbourne, was the author of 'Glimpses of

The William Vance Archive of Correspondence, Publications, Articles and Photographs relating to the Theo Schoon Cave Art Project. William Vance was born in Lyttelton in 1900 and during his secondary school years began collecting New Zealand books and artef

Robert Prenzel, (1866-1941) A rare relief carved panel depicting a koala perched on a leafy eucalyptus branch signed R. Prenzel / South Yarra VIC / 1925, 68 x 44.5 cm. Provenance: The collection of the late Theodore Fink (1855-1942); thence by family desce

Bob Simpson's 1961 Baggy Green Cap, Bob Simpson's 'Baggy Green' Australian Test Team cap, green wool with embroidered Australian coat of arms and the series date '1961' embroidered to the front panel. Farmer's Sydney makers label to inside crown with 'R. S

J. W. Lindt (1845-1926) & H.King (1855-1923) - An album of albumen photographs, An album containing 49 Lindt albumen photographs of Melbourne street scenes and buildings including several infrequently seen images (Little Collins St, William St, The Junctio

The Far East, Black, John Reddie, a monthly Journal, R. Black (editor), Shanghai, August 1876- July 1877 illustrated with 79 original silver albumen photographs mounted on card with printed borders and captions, half leather binding, faults to spine, front

Northern Territory: An album of 48 albumen photographs, circa 1880s, titled in pencil below the image, subjects include Abraham's Billabong, Ironstone Camp Birdum Creek, Daly Waters Telegraph Station, Typical Chinese Hut, N. T., Daly Waters Telegraph Stati

Kelly Gang signed photograph an original carte de visite, pasted down on a Tasmanian photographer's card, then further pasted down to a 1920s Kodak paper, showing Dan Kelly, Ned Kelly & Steve Hart on a verandah, probably at Euroa. This has been signed Dan

Giovanni Fontana, circa 1821-1893, Jephthah and his Daughter (circa 1883), carrara and verde marble, signed and inscribed 'G Fontana's / Alas, My Daughter! Thou Hast Brought Me very Low' on base, sculpture 115.5 x 55 x 43 cm; 216 cm high (including plinth)

1970 Carlton Premiership Medal, front design of a footballer by Andor Meszaros (1900-72, who had also designed the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games medals), reverse shows players names in their positions, surrounded by text 'Victorian Football League/ Carlton:

Bill Woodfull's 1930 Ashes Tour photograph album: Large photograph album, very well annotated by Woodfull, with photographs (207), the highlight, a photograph of Don Bradman walking out to bat at Leeds (for his record 334), signed & endorsed 'To Billy Wood

Fred Kruger (1831-1888), Victoria, An album containing 60 albumen photographs with subjects including: Yarra Street Wharf Corio Bay, Geelong, Victorian Aboriginals and War Implements, Victorian Aboriginals and Canoe, New Lighthouse and Quarters, Dromana, W

1989 Australian tour to England, official team sheet with 19 signatures including Allan Border, Geoff Marsh & Mark Taylor; plus signed photographs (11) & signed scorecard. (Qty 13)

Tour of the Fifteenth Australian cricket Team in England and South Africa - Season 1921, the personal photographs and annotated album assembled by the team scorer, bill Ferguson. The title page bearing a team photographic postcard (by Bolland) signed in in

John Pascoe Fawkner Important archive collection of documents, papers and notes relating to and in many cases written by John Pascoe Fawkner, including a fine collection of calling cards of Melbourne dignitaries, invitations addressed to Fawkner, family ph

Fred Kruger (1831-1888), Fine Art Photographs of Victoria, Australia - Fred Kruger, Gold Medallist, A fine leather bound album with gold embossed titles to front cover containing a collection of 67 albumen photographic prints, the subjects include Ballarat

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 offici

Charles Bristow Walker (1835-1901) Photographs of Melbourne & Suburbs, [c.1897]. Each photograph is titled in pencil. 30 photographic prints mounted in an album with gold lettered title on front cover. The British photographer Charles Bristow Walker arrive

Theo Schoon, biomorphic bowl, unglazed vitreous stoneware, 1955, impressed mark to the base, width 19.5 cm. Note: The clay was loaded with managanese dioxide and volcanic ash from Rangitoto Island. Illustrated: Steve Rumsey, 'Theo Schoon - furt

Views of Victoria and the Fijis, An album of 105 photographs including photographs Nicholas Caire, Fred Kruger, depicting scenes of Victoria, Geelong, Queenscliff, Bendigo, NSW, Blue Mountains, NZ, Fiji, Tonga and Samoa, 14 x 20 cm each approx.

An impressive album of photographs assembled for H.J.Younger in 1890. Titled 'Vol.1. Melbourne & the Surrounding Country' with 87 images of Melbourne, Fernshaw, Geelong, Bendigo, Ballarat, Sandhurst, Aborigines and several of Malta. 87 photographs, a numbe

'Nathan Buckley Masterclass', display comprising of a signed Collingwood jumper, window mounted with four photographs and replica Norm Smith & Brownlow Medals. Limited edition 5/200, framed & glazed, overall 188 x 117 cm.

Baron (Sterling Henry Nahum) (1906 - 1956), a magnificent pair of photogravure portraits of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, individually framed and glazed and both signed and dated '1954' in pen, on the occasion of the 1954 Royal visit to Australia.

New Zealand and Australia, An album containing approx. 180 photographs in varying sizes, of particular note are five Maori portraits by Arthur James Iles [1870 - 1943], each 20 x 13.5 cm (approx.). Other New Zealand photographs include R.B. Graham, Muir &

Ellis Silas, (1885-1972), a portrait of a working man, oil on canvas, signed and dated 1914 lower left, 94 x 72 cm. Provenance: The Estate of the late Hylton Grimmer. Other Notes: in juxtaposing a fit, strong working man with the recruiting poster on the w

Laurence George Hatton Marshall (1884 - 1966), Victorian Imperial Bushmens Regiment Trooper No.100. Awarded the Queen's South Africa Medal with clasps for Cape Colony, Rhodesia, Orange Free State & Transvaal, and the the King's South Africa Medal, with cla

The Changi Prison Australian Rules Association Premiership Trophy Plaque, 1942 the hand-lettered and illustrated cardboard trophy laid down on metal backing and with a later plastic protector, inscribed in pencil 'Richmond Football Club, Premiers, 1942, Au

1977 Australian tour to England, official team sheet with 17 signatures including Greg Chappell, David Hookes & Doug Walters; plus six signed photographs. (Qty 7)

Anna Pavlova Chinese red silk Mandarin coat, early 19th century, richly embroidered in gold thread with dragons amidst clouds above scrolling waves, re-cut and fitted with dark velvet lining, This coat was probably a gift to the great ballerina Anna Pavlov

Samuel Clifford (1827-1890), Tasmanian Scenes, An album of 48 photographs each with hand written inscriptions, 10.5 cm x 15 cm each approx

Charles Henry Kerry (1857-1928), Charles Kerry Photographs of Norfolk Island and Fiji, 52 albumen prints circa 1890 affixed in later album, subjects include The Old Jail Kingston(e), Cricket Ground, Norfolk Island, Bloody Bridge, Norfolk Island, Cutting in

Album - Samoa, Fiji, Tonga and New Zealand, 50 photographs by John Davis, C. Pulman, James Valentine and others. Various sizes.

Exley O gauge LNER 4-6-2 flying Scotsman. Rebuilt and repainted by J.S. Beeson, 1980. This important Exley model has full provenance, recorded on the back of 2 photographs, beginning with Edward Exley signed retrospective certification that it was built fo

Captain John Claude Moseley Harper, 7th Australian field ambulance, the military cross awarded to Captain Harper: 'During the operations on the Somme river and East of Mont St.Quentin on August 29 and Sept 2 1918, he displayed the greatest gallantry and co

1897 'West Australia' Photographs Album containing 35 albumen prints (each 240 x 175 mm) of photographic montages individually mounted on thick gilt-edged, linen-hinged card pages, showing images of personalities, localities & industries throughout Western

Edwin Flack: Collection including transcripts of 1896 letters from Edwin Flack to his father; invitations (2) re 1914 Olympic Congress in Paris; 1914 letters to Flack from British Olympic Association & Gordon Inglis (head of the Australian delegation); ran

A silver mounted polar bear skull with gaping jaws and three removable silver beakers, 25 cm high, 31 cm long, The skull was part of the Archive of Gordon Burt, OBE (Christie's Australia, 28 November 1996, Lot 472). Gordon Burt was the Engineer on the 1925

A good N.Z. colonial Maori subject photo album, with many images by Josiah Martin, mainly larger vintage black and white photographs within a vintage album, each inscribed by hand in black ink beneath the image including 'Tangi-Over the Dead, Rotoiti', 'De

[Photographic Album] Large horizontal format album with red leather and gilt lettered title to half-leather & cloth upper board 'Victorian Celebrations May 1901' and further titled on the marbled free endleaf 'A Souvenir of the Visit of Their Royal Highnes

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 an

Raewyn Atkinson (b 1955), Gifts of Civilization coil vessel red earthenware clay slip, scraffito, transfer print & oxide, signed & dated '03 to base with original paper label, 19 cm height, 44 cm length, 27 cm width. Provenance, purchased from Avid, Wellin

Photograph Album: An impressive album of photographs assembled for Hj Younger in 1890, titled 'Vol.1 Melbourne & The Surrounding Country', with 87 images of Melbourne, Ballarat, Bendigo (Sandhurst), Geelong, Maryville, Fernshaw, Aborigines & several of Mal

Sir Hayden Erskine Starke (1871 - 1958) and his son, Sir John Erskine Starke (1913 - 1994): An archive. Comprising of five letters to Hayden Erskine Starke (1892-1939) who became a Justice of the High Court of Australia (1920-50), 2 portrait photographs of

An autograph book belonging to the Reverend W.T McCormick, A.K.C; F.R.G.S; F.R.H.S; F.I.Inst F.C and containing letters, photographs and signatures, commenced in 1891, notable inclusions: European royalty and aristocrats, prime ministers Joseph Chamberlain

Australian Governors-General: Complete collection of Australia's first 25 Governors-General from 1901 Federation (Earl of Hopeton) to 2014 (Quentin Bryce). Includes documents, letters & pieces; some accompanying photographs; signatures of spouses; plus NSW

Victorian Aboriginal & Tasmanian interest: a travel album, 19th century, with many photographs, sketches, seaweed samples and watercolours. Of note is a group of four albumen prints (15.5 x 21 cm) of Aboriginal subjects including canoes on what appears to

Thursday Island & Far north Queensland: large format album with red leather spine and corners, gilt titles 'Thursday Island', circa 1985, with approximately 40 albumen print photographs affixed back-to-back to the thick card pages, several titled in the pl

The Changi prison Australian rules football association premiers trophy plaque, 1942 the hand written cardboard trophy laid down on metal backing with a later plastic protector, drawn and inscribed in pencil 'Richmond Football Club, Premiers, 1942, Austral

Melbourne Photograph Album, A leather bound album with gold embossing containing 61 photographs, circa 1880s, subjects include public buildings and monuments, Melbourne street scenes, railway stations, The Alfred Hospital, The Exhibition Building, Sandridg

Signed Photographs, noted George Foreman, Marvellous Marvin Hagler, Michael Spinks & Leon Spinks. All framed. (4 items)

A collection of six photographs depicting Aboriginal family groups and portraits, including images from Northern Australia, Murray River, Port Augusta and Inniminka, 19 x 15 cm (average size)

Laurence George Hatton Marshall (1884 - 1966), Victorian Imperial Bushmens Regiment trooper No.100. Awarded the Queen's South Africa medal with clasps for cape Colony, Rhodesia, orange free state & Transvaal. Pioneer Aviator and Politician. An archive cont

South Africa: c.1895-2015 Collection of signed photographs (192), pictures (10), cricket cards (2) & pieces (28) in two albums, noted 'Cje Smith' signature on travel permit. (Qty 230 approx)

John Paine (1834-1915), Large black leather-bound presentation album with gold embossed decorations. Contains a collection of Sydney and New South Wales images, circa 1890. 88 photographs, mostly titled in the image or in mss below, and mainly 14.5 x 20.5

Thomas Foster Chuck (Circa 1826-1898) photographer: Blue bound album with 60 photographs of Regional Victoria, Government House and Botanical Gardens, Maryborough, Warrnambool, Queenscliff, etc. Annotated in pencil below each image. Mainly 14 x 19 cm.

Balance of Alf Brown Collection, noted 1946 Victoria team photo; black and white photographs (37) with nice action photos of John Coleman (17) & Jack Dyer (2); various books with annuals for 1946, 1948, 1954 & 1959; 'Collingwood Players Album 1962'; 'Geelo

An Australian full cedar pedestal sideboard, circa 1830, the scrolled back with carved fan and applied roundel decoration above a rectangular top with one long and two short half round drawers, the two pedestals with raised panels between carved feather de

Two framed photographs Bob Hawke playing tennis black and white (2)

Photographic album: views of Fremantle, Western Australia c. Late 19th century by the Nonpariel photographic Company contains 12 uncaptioned silver gelatin photographs in uniform format 15.5 x 20.5 cm (i) View of vessels at the main pier (ii) View of inner

Australiana: interesting collection including rare real photographs, country towns, post offices, Tasmania, Korumburra, north Queensland etc. Well worth close inspection, over 450 cards

J. W. Lindt (1845-1926), An album of 24 Photographs of Victoria, New Guinea, Fiji, New Hebrides, 20 x 15 cm average

Charles Henry Kerry (1857-1928), Charles Kerry Photographs of Tonga, Treasury Island, Fiji, Samoa, New Caledonia & Tokelau, 40 albumen prints circa 1890 affixed in later album, subjects include Nukulofa Tonga, Girl's School, Mua, Tonga, Mafinga, Tonga Tabu

A set of four rare early 20th century tourist art tin plates, made in Germany, chromolithographed with medallions depicting Guide Sophia, a Maori Mother and Child, a Maori Maiden and double portrait of Guides Maggie and Bella; from Arthur Iles photographs

An uncommon triple strand cultured pearl necklace with gem stone clasp by Dorrie Nossiter, the 220 pearls reported as 'slightly graduated good quality' and of bright lustre and thick nacre. The silver clasp with gold tongue fitting set with peridots, ameth

The Eliott Family Scrapbook, This, and the following four lots are from the collection of the Eliott family, one of the first families to settle in the New England area of Northern New South Wales. The book has been passed down through five generations to

Military: 1903-14 Victoria Military Camp group photographs on backing card comprising 'East Camp of Rangers Sunbury 1903', 'First Light Horse Camp Lancefield 1904', 'Sgts Mess 10th Alh Kilmore Camp 1912', 'Sgts Mess Wallan Camp 4th to 15th March 1913' & 'O

St Kilda: Extraordinary c1886-91 photograph album/scrapbook compiled by Arthur Stooke, secretary of the St Kilda Football Club, and Hon. Treasurer of the Victorian Football Association. Battered album with initials 'A.S.' on cover, containing range of pres

H.M.S. Jupiter 1897-1900: a collection of 281 annotated photographs (many dated) in a large album which belonged to Lieut. F.G. Loving, R.N. The images show scenes on board and at Plymouth, Gibraltar, Sardinia, Lisbon, Cernuschi bay, Arosa bay (Spai

Fivet Taylor, Derek; Harrison, George, fifty Years Adrift. [Genesis publications Ltd, Guildford, 1984]. Signed by Derek Taylor and George Harrison. Limited to 2000 numbered copies of which this #917. Publisher's original dark brown half leather, with five

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 o

World War II group attributed to Medical Paratrooper Thomas Courtney. Consisting of the following medals and items: I) 1939-45 star, Pacific star, France & Germany star, Defence medal & war medal-all unnamed as per. British issue, plus miniatures. ii) six

James J Corbett V Bob Fitzsimmons: rare boxing glove-shaped programme 'Contest for the Worlds Championship, Carson, Nevada, March 17th 1897', 20 pages plus covers, includes photographs of the contestants with biographies, published in San Francisco with ma

Australia: 1900s - 2015 Collection of photographs (963) & pieces (56) signed by First Class players, in 14 folders & box. (Qty 1000+)

1912 Stockholm Olympics: Photograph album with 182 photographs, mainly tracking Australia's Rowing Eight, on the voyage, training & competing in the UK, and at the Stockholm Olympics. Includes wonderful photos of the swimming & diving, with Australia's Fan

Collection of albumen prints of the Methodist Mission at Kiriwina, Trobriand Islands, circa 1905, many with captions offering a fascinating ethnographic insight to island life and culture with images of warriors, albino child, mission school, native life,

Charles Bayliss (1850-1897) photographer: Albumen prints of Melbourne (with several of maritime and shipping interest), Sydney, Geelong and a few foreign. 85 photographs, various sizes, smallest 11 x 16 cm to largest 22 x 27 cm.

From Maffra to Mansfield Through Unsurveyed Victoria, A fine, leather bound album with gold embossed title to front cover, circa 1890, with printed title page followed by a tipped-in map showing the route of a survey conducted on horseback with the locatio

Signed Photographs, noted Rocky Graziano, Archie Moore, Joe Brown & Willie Pepp. All framed. (4 items)

Gallipoli - 'With The Camera At Anzac': group of 40 photographs (each 11.5 x 16 cm) taken by three young Australian soldiers Henry James Lowe, Arthur James Cook & George Downs at Anzac Cove and surrounding areas in 1915. This is an almost complete represen

John Noone (photographer), Biographical charts of Italian Painters of the schools of Venice, the Venetian States, Genoa, Cremona, Mantua, Milan, Ferrara, Modena and Parma [Vol.1]; of the schools of Bologna, Florence, Naples, Romes, Sienna [Vol.11]. Compile

'James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Annual' for 1873 (second year of publication)-1900. A fabulous run, though 8 issues (1877-79, 1881-83, 1886 & 1896 missing photographs). Fair/Good condition. (28).

A good historical New Zealand and Pacific 19th century photograph album, includes: Fiji Islands, 26 albumen prints, 'Fijian Cannibal Feast', signed and other portraits, 'Making Kava', 'Fijians selling produce» etc., mostly 13.9 cm x 20.2 cm; 11 albumen and

Album of Photographs, C.W. Reid Station Manager, Elderslie Station, Omaru, New Zealand, 1895, Inscribed inside 'To Mr. and Mrs. McDougall with Mr. Reid's Compliments. Elderslie 20th April 1895., 28 photographs, each 14.5 x 25 cm

New Zealand: Leather-bound album containing a collection of albumen prints by Frank A. Coxhead, Burton Brothers, Wheeler & Son, James Valentine and others. Includes Dunedin scenes, Christchurch, Invercargill, Queenstown,Milford Sound, Auckland, Momona Bay,

Charles Henry Kerry (1857-1928), Charles Kerry Photographs of Samoa, Tonga, 52 albumen prints circa 1900 affixed in later album, subjects include Working a 4 in. Naval Gun, Malietoe Natives Drilling, Making Tappa Cloth, Lieutenant Gaunt's Squad, Street Vie

An antique Australian Royal Reception Committee locket, Oval hinged form overlaid with a red and white enamelled flag to a blue enamel ground, applied gold lettering Royal Reception Committee to a fleur-de-lys bale. Hand engraved to the reverse ' Visit of

Football Team Photographs: 1907 team photo with football marked 'Efc 1907' (the Association Essendon team sometimes called Essendon Town and nicknamed the Dreadnoughts. They lasted from 1900 to 1921, played at Windy Hill and won premierships in 1911 and 19

Two historically important c1910 photograph albums of Anthony 'Tony' Wilding and other Wimbledon tennis players, includes 28 original pre World War I era photographs (5.3 cm x 8 cm) taken at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships circa 1910, showing among othe

Western Australian Interest: early Perth silver Gelatin Topographical photographs c.1885 - 1906 a collection of 6 silver gelatin prints pertaining to Perth Ironmonger Merchant Levi green the photographs date from c.1885... All miners Requisites to 1906 new

A large oval gilt bevelled mirror, Intricately carved by Harold English in 1997, the gilding by David Butler, Sydney. Note, inspired by the original mirror for Yves St Laurent's muse, Ines de la Fressange, see photographs and drawings, height 180 cm, width