Balance of collection including 'Ballarat and Vicinity' by Kimberley [Ballarat, 1894] (back cover damaged); 'The Pocket Queensland' from 1915 Paname-Pacific Exposition (missing last few pages); 'What is in Store for Shirley Temple' c.1937 press release & photos (3); 1916 Cecil Hart cartoon 'Australians in London'; May Gibbs scrapbook page; advertising records (8); c.1880s-1920s maps (17) including Melbourne & Suburbs 1922 & 1927, Queensland (6), South Australia, Cooktown, Brisbane Botanic Gardens, Canada (2), Cape of Good Hope, mainly Fair/Fine.  (32) (Image1)

Estimate AU$400

Box including 'Cricket Sketches 1928-29' by Arthur Mailey; WWI comic ''A.E.F. Fun in France' [New York, 1919]; WW2 comics 'Australia at War!' by Les Dixon & 'Snifter's War Effort'; 1916 Christmas Card from 1st Printing Coy RE in France; theatre programmes (22); dancer Ted Shawn signed postcard; 1965 'Stanley Matthews - This is Your Night' programme; Westphal & Clark's advertising sign; 1926 Calcutta Motor Car Licence; Hotel Mount Everest baggage label; Australian ration cards; NSW State Lottery tickets (48); car magazines (5) & service manuals (2); c.1940 brochure 'China Figurines Presented by Royal Doulton'; album of British & Australian Pennies (cleaned); real-photo postcard of NSW baseball team, mainly Fair/Fine.  (220+) (Image1)

Estimate AU$400

Bonds & Share Certificates 1847-1971 collection including 1847 Kursiong & Darjeeling Tea Company, 1919 Garden-Tennis Club De Cabourg; 1904 Shanghai-Nanking Railway; 1940 Luri Gold Areas Ltd; noted items from Austria, France, Hungary, India, Mexico, Netherlands, Netherlands Indies, South Africa, Spain, Sweden & UK, mainly Fair/Fine.  (30) (Image1)

Estimate AU$200

Caricature prints 1869-72 ex Vanity Fair magazine mounted in an album including the King of Prussia, Professor Huxley, Alfred Lord Tennyson and lots more politicians, lawyers & judges, etc, four missing (no Charles Darwin), some minor faults. An excellent collection of these popular prints.  (80) (Image1)

Estimate AU$200

Engravings from 'Universal System of Natural History' by Ebenezer Sibly [London, 1794], includes the image "The Female Hottentot, with natural Apron" depicting a Khoisan woman with elongated labia that so fascinated Europeans, mainly Fine condition.  (12) (Image1)

Estimate AU$200

Magazines collection in 11 cartons including 'Walkabout', 'Life', 'Womans Weekly', 'Womans Day', 'Post', 'Australian Outdoors', 'Chums', 'Pals', 'Hoofs & Horns', 'Illustrated London News', condition varies, Poor/Fine. Appox 145kg    (700+) (Image1)

Estimate AU$200

Magazines including 'Parade' (3 bound volumes with 34 issues + 17 loose issues); 'Sports Novels' (37), 'Sporting Life' (5), 'Sport Magazine' (8); 'Marine Corps Gazette' (46) & 'Leatherneck' (10), mainly Poor/Fine.  (157) (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

Theatre Programmes huge collection in ten cartons with plays, live shows, concerts, ballet, opera, circus, noted 'Rolling Stones Voodoo Lounge', Paul McCartney, Dame Nellie Melba, Barry Humphries, 'The Rocky Horror Show', 'My Fair Lady', 'A Chorus Line', 'Les Miserables', 'The King and I', 'Hair', 'Return of the Forbidden Planet', 'Sunset Blvd', 'Melbourne Military Tattoo', 'The Pirates of Penzance', 'Show Boat', 'The Greatest Circus on Earth', 'Stars of World Ballet', mainly Fair/Fine. Appox 130kg  (2200+) (Image1)

Estimate AU$500

AUSTRALIA - NEW SOUTH WALES: mid-1850s illustrated lettersheets by Frederick Terry each with the imprints 'Terry del 1853' & the printers 'Sands & Kenny Sydney & Melbourne' and comprising 'Court House and Scotch Church, Paramatta'; 'Double Bay from South Head Road'; 'Entrance to Sydney Harbour, North Head seen from the Flagstaff'; 'Fruit Market, Sydney'; 'Government House from the Botanical Gardens'; 'Newcastle from the Nobby'; 'North Head from Vaucluse'; 'Paramatta River from Fort Phillip'; 'Sydney Cove from Fort Macquarie', hand-tinted; 'Sydney from Old Point Piper Road'; 'Sydney Harbour from Watson's Bay' (hand-tinted); 'Sydney, Garden Island, Pinchgut &c from Point Piper'; 'The Nobbies from Newcastle'; 'Windsor Church'; printed from steel plates, the odd mostly minor blemish but nine of the group are graded A or A-, unused. The watercolourist & engraver Frederick Casemero Terry was born in England, trained in Switzerland & arrived in Sydney by early-1852 where his oeuvre was largely scenes of Sydney & surrounding areas. He established a reputation as one of the most accomplished artists in the Colony.  (14) (Image1)

Estimate AU$800

AUSTRALIA - NEW SOUTH WALES: c.1854 usage under cover of illustrated lettersheet 'ST JAMES CHURCH SYDNEY' with imprint 'C Ashton Sc' at L/R on thick 4to blue paper, 4pp fully written & being part of a longer missive, ink-blotch affects the right-hand side of the illustration & a few other minor blemishes still quite fine for these. The letter, from an American, is full of animated and largely positive social commentary, & states "...The Anniversary of the Founding of the Colony was an important time...equivalent to the 4th of July at home...Sydney [has] all sorts of people..." The heritage-listed St James' Church, in King Street, was consecrated in February 1824 by the infamous Rev Samuel Marsden. Designed by the convict architect, Francis Greenway, and erected by convict labour, it has been called by art historian Daniel Cruickshank, "one of the world's 80 greatest man-made treasures". It is the oldest-surviving church in Sydney. Charles Ashton was an engraver active in Sydney between 1844 & 1869. This appears to be a little-known image. (Image1)

Estimate AU$250

AUSTRALIA - SOUTH AUSTRALIA: 1885 'South Australia/ PREVENTION OF FIRE' poster size 36x49cm (some faults); plus 1950s Australian Road Safety Council M356 'This is our garden/This is our street' poster, size 51x74cm, mainly Fine.  (2) (Image1)

Estimate AU$200

AUSTRALIA - VICTORIA: Letter headed "Tarradale Augst 28th/1856" and signed "Thomas Ham/late 45 Swanston Street" who speaks of "...heavy pecuniary loss...risked my life in travelling through the diggings during the night...since I have retired from Engraving and Land Agency I have been engaged in Quartz Crushing..." He also complains about non-delivery of his mail, adding "...I am quite certain no blame can possibly lie with Mr Martin our postmaster here", tape stain below Ham's signature & a few minor blemishes. An intriguing document. Thomas Ham was the designer of the first Victorian postage stamps & engraved early Victorian banknotes. He later sought his fortune on the Taradale Diggings, then worked for the Victorian Geological Survey Office. In 1860, he went to Brisbane as Government Lithographer, where he produced further stamps for Queensland. (Image1)

Estimate AU$150

AUSTRALIA - VICTORIA: 1901 Opening of Parliament 'Programme of Celebrations, During the Visit of Their Royal Highnesses The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York, For the Opening of the First Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia' with cover artwork by Norman Lindsay; plus 'Historical Memento of The Opening of the First Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia by His Royal Highness the Duke of Cornwall and York at Melbourne, May, 1901', mainly Fine.  (2) (Image1)

Estimate AU$120