HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS, BOOKS & EPHEMERA
Historical Documents, Books & Ephemera
| LotNo. |
Symbol |
Lot Description |
Estimate in AU$'s |
| 2411 |
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 Books balance of collection, noted 'Marilyn' by Norman Mailer; 'Marilyn - A Never-Ending Dream' by Luitjers; '1001 Movies You Must See
Before You Die'; Star Wars (10); magazines (3), mainly Fair/Fine.
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Estimate AU$80
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| 2412 |
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 Books 'The Life & Art of William Strutt 1825-1915' by Heather Curnow [Martinborogh NZ, 1980], limited edition 579/1500, 259pp, Fine
condition in clamshell box. (Image1)
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Estimate AU$180
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| 2413 |
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 Books 'Leonard Long' [Melbourne, 1986] leather edition 66/500 signed by the artist in slipcase; 'The Art of Dale Marsh' [NSW, 1981]
leather edition 164/400 signed by the artist in slipcase; 'Graham Cox - The Journey Begins' [Sydney, 1988], mainly Fine.
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Estimate AU$100
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| 2414 |
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 Books 'Facsimile Editions of Early English Children's Books from the Osborne Collection' edited by Margaret Crawford Maloney, Toronto
Public Library [London, 1983], 35 facsimile volumes in 28 slipcases plus the descriptive companion volume [the originals date from the 1700s and 1800s], titles include 'The Traditional Faery Tales of Little Red Riding Hood, Beauty and the Beast &
Jack and the Bean Stalk', 'Puss in Boots' & 'The Nursery Alice', fine condition.
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Estimate AU$400
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| 2415 |
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 Books 'Eugene von Guerard - A German Romantic in the Antipodes 1811-1901' by Bruce, Comstock & McDonald [Martinborogh NZ, 1982],
limited edition 298/500, 306pp, Fine condition in clamshell box. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$400
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| 2416 |
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 Sydney Opera House 1973 Opening group with Invitation, Admittance Cards (2), Waratah Festival Programmes (2), Official Opening
Programmes (2), Royal Concert Programme, plus few letters & ephemerra. Ex Alan Davidson collection.
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Estimate AU$200
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PHOTOGRAPHS & PHOTOGRAPHY
Photographs & Photography
| LotNo. |
Symbol |
Lot Description |
Estimate in AU$'s |
| 2417 |
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 Collection including circa 1900-30s reprinted farming photographs (18); large colour photos (46x30cm) of Kimberleys (14); street
scenes including Sydney Harbour Bridge (2), mainly Fine.
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Estimate AU$100
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| 2418 |
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 1880s-1890s (circa) original Balfour Family album of cabinet cards including annotated portraits of Prime Ministers William Gladstone,
Lord Rosebery and Lord Salisbury, General William Booth and Mrs Catherine Booth of Salvation Army fame, the Duke of Argyll, a veritable congregation of Free Church of Scotland/New College Edinburgh notables Robert Rainy, Marcus Dods, AB Davidson,
Alexander Whyte, Rev Sir Henry Wellwood Moncrieff (died 1883), James Cameron Lees, James MacGregor (Chaplain to Queen Victoria, KEVII & KGV), the brothers Horatius & Andrew Bonar, James Begg (died 1883), John MacNeil (died 1896 in Queensland) & his
wife, etc, plus a montage of eight New College professors, a thronging crowd outside a Revivalist Tent, and four views along the Rhine. The photographs & the cards are generally very fine to superb.
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Estimate AU$1,000
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| 2419 |
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 1900s (circa) original Balfour Family album of cabinet cards & endorsed "Unnamed probably student friends of Graham Balfour while at
Ormond College Melbourne [University]", one identified as a group of students forming the cast of a Greek play at Ormond (a sadly degraded print), also of Erskine Presbyterian Church (Carlton) with the late-Victorian manse alongside (a bit spotty),
and 'Round Hill' stately home in the Federation style, some with advertising mostly on the reverse for Melbourne photographers including Batchelder & Co, Foster & Martin, Grozelle, Johnstone O'Shannessy & Co, Tuttle & Co, Loch & Co (Richmond) &
Paterson Bros (Carlton) and a beautiful card for S Solomon (Adelaide). The photographs & the cards are generally very fine to superb.
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Estimate AU$300
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THE PHOTOGRAPHIC ART OF WOLFGANG SIEVERS
The Photographic Art Of Wolfgang Sievers
| LotNo. |
Symbol |
Lot Description |
Estimate in AU$'s |
| 2420 |
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 1937 'Scene of Rooftops in the Old Part of Frankfurt, 1937', archival silver-gelatin 1980s print (49x55cm), signed & dated "Wolfgang
Sievers 1937" at lower-right, double-matted framed & glazed, overall 66x77cm. Superb. An unusual aerial aspect, highlighting the architectural significance of medieval Frankfurt, the largest community of its type in Germany. During World War II,
Allied bombing virtually destroyed the Old City. [Josef Lebovic Gallery in Sydney currently has a much smaller (19x21½cm) print, signed on the reverse, for sale at $5500] (Image1)
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Estimate AU$10,000
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| 2421 |
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 1939 'Manufacture of Matches, Bryant & May, Richmond, Vic 1939' vintage archival silver-gelatin print (41x50cm), signed & dated by
Wolfgang Sievers at lower-right in black ink, three small pieces of acid-free mounting tape on the reverse, pencilled "Not good" on the reverse but Focal Point Gallery have advised that it is a very fine print. [A slightly smaller mounted version
sold at a Melbourne auction in 2010 for $9000] (Image1)
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Estimate AU$3,000
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| 2422 |
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 1939 'Manufacture of Matches, Bryant & May, Richmond, Vic 1939' archival silver-gelatin print from the 1980s signed & dated "Wolfgang
Sievers 1939" at lower-right, image size 50x60cm, recess mounted, framed & glazed, overall 66x83cm, very fine. A larger version of this iconic image than the previous lot. (Image1)
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Estimate AU$8,000
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| 2423 |
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 1939 'Manufacture of Matches, Bryant & May, Richmond, Vic 1939', Ilford Digital True-B&W archival C-Type print (70x101cm plus 5cm
black border), unsigned, mounted on 20mm museum-grade foamcore, very fine. An impressively large version of this truly extraordinary image, demonstrating the scale of the match-making operation, and the industrial complexity that goes into the
production of the simplest of household items: from these impressive machines, to the humble matchbox. [From as early as the 1920s, Bryant & May operated a 'model factory' at Richmond, an inner-Melbourne suburb, with staff amenities that even today
would be considered exceptional. Their matches are now imported from Sweden but the complex, which closed in the early-1980s, lives on, having been re-purposed for apartments] (Image1)
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Estimate AU$6,000
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| 2424 |
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 1959 'Sulphuric Acid Plant, Electolytic Industries, Risdon, Tas, 1959', Ilford Digital True-B&W archival C-Type print (79x101cm plus
5cm black border), unsigned, mounted on 20mm museum-grade foamcore, very fine. An unusual & remarkably perceptive composition of intricate industrial pipework, rather reminiscent of the Pompidou Centre in Paris. (Image1)
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Estimate AU$6,000
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| 2425 |
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 1962 'Employee Making Rope with Ropeway at Miller Rope, Brunswick, Victoria, 1962', vintage archival silver-gelatin print (44x60cm,
slight silvering at the edges), signed in pencil on front, mounted on 3mm artboard, endorsed on the reverse "1962 archival print. Checked April 1995. Perfect archival print". An exhibiting form for the Institute of Australian Photography is attached
to the reverse: the fee was $2! Art Gallery of NSW notation alongside. [This was Wolfgang Siever's favourite image from his own oeuvre, because it shows "the dignity of the working man". A slightly smaller print sold at auction in 2010 for $5760.
Josef Lebovic Gallery in Sydney currently has a print (41x51cm), signed on the reverse, for sale at $8800] (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$10,000
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| 2426 |
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 1962 'Employee making rope with Ropeway at Miller Rope, Brunswick, Vic, 1962', Ilford Digital True-B&W archival C-Type print (68x101cm
plus 5cm black border), unsigned, mounted on 20mm museum-grade foamcore, very fine. The largest print of another of Wolfgang Siever's iconic images, the presence of the worker demonstrating the massive size of the rope & the spindle. [Established in
1863, James Miller & Co was one of the three largest rope-makers in Victoria. The substantial factory complex in Brunswick has now been repurposed for housing & is now home to the Melbourne College of Textiles] (Image1)
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Estimate AU$6,000
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| 2427 |
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 1967 'Gears For Mining Industry, Vickers Ruwalt, Burnley, Victoria, 1967', Ilford Digital True-B&W archival C-Type print (78x101cm
plus 5cm black border), unsigned, mounted on 20mm museum-grade foamcore, very fine. This iconic photograph, Sievers' most famous image, was staged for the camera to highlight the enormity of the task of one man attempting maintenance of such enormous
equipment. It was selected for the 1991 '150 Years of Photography in Australia' stamp issue: Stanley Gibbons #1292. [Vickers Ruwolt Ltd was created in 1948, when the British firm Vickers Ltd purchased Ruwolts, one of Australia's largest engineering
firms. The company's foundries were closed in the early-1980s]
Josef Lebovic Gallery in Sydney is currently offering for $33,000 a smaller version (60x48cm) with the comment that it is the largest known "aside from a very large blow-up for a display, which entailed a loss of image quality". If their reference is
to the current print, then it is inaccurate: both this and the next lot are significantly larger and show no evidence of loss of image quality, a tribute to the work of Bond Imaging. (Image1)
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Estimate AU$6,000
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| 2428 |
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 1967 'Gears For Mining Industry, Vickers Ruwalt, Burnley, Victoria, 1967', Ilford Digital True-B&W archival C-Type print (101x130cm
plus 5cm black border), signed & dated on the face at lower-right, mounted on 20mm museum-grade foamcore, superb condition. This is the largest print known to exist, which makes it one of the most important Australian photographic items of the 20th
Century. (Image1)
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Estimate AU$15,000
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| 2429 |
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 1971 'Stockpiling bauxite, Comalco, Weipa, Cape York, North Queensland, 1971', Ilford Ilfotech High-Gloss Colour Archival C-Type print
(40x50cm), signed & dated at lower-right (difficult to see on dark foreground), mounted on 20mm museum-grade foamcore, very fine condition. Comalco, now part of Rio Tinto, discovered bauxite at Weipa in 1955. To facilitate mining operations, the
local aboriginal reserve was rescinded, the people were forcibly relocated, & a huge tract of land was effectively given to Comalco. [A similar print of the same size sold at auction in 2010 for $3600] (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$4,000
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| 2430 |
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 1971 'Stockpiling bauxite, Comalco, Weipa, Cape York, North Queensland, 1971', Ilford Ilfotech High-Gloss Colour Archival C-Type print
(78x101cm plus 5cm black border), unsigned, mounted on 20mm museum-grade foamcore, fine condition. The largest recorded print of this marvellous almost sexualised image that juxtaposes the disgorging of the raw material from the enormous conveyor
system with creation of the golden mound. (Image1)
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Estimate AU$5,000
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