AAADA Fair Melbourne 1-4 May 2025
We would like to invite you to join us at the AAADA Antiques & Art Fair at the Malvern Town Hall.
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# 47089
GOULD, John (1804 - 1881); GOULD, Elizabeth (1804 - 1841); RICHTER, Henry Constantine (1821 - 1902)
The Birds of Australia (complete set)
London : printed by Richard and John Taylor for the author, 1848. Seven volumes, imperial folio, finely bound by Sotheran and Co. in full green crushed morocco over boards, elaborate gilt panels and rules, spine in compartments with raised bands, lettered and tooled in gilt (bindings with some light edge rubbing and scuffs); all edges …
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# 45770
LINDSAY, Norman (1879-1969)
Joy of Summer (c.1938)
Oil on canvas, 49 x 39 cm; signed upper left; framed (frame size 75 x 65 cm), with certificate of authenticity from Lindsay authority Lin Bloomfield verso.
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# 46796
[MENZIES, Robert Gordon, Sir, 1894-1978]
Sir Robert Menzies, 12th Prime Minister of Australia : signed portrait photograph, inscribed for British Prime Minister Harold Wilson
Gelatin silver print, 270 x 220 mm; inscribed, signed and dated on the mount ‘for Harold Wilson, with warm regards Robert Menzies / 1965’; fine condition, presented in a silver frame, housed in a custom blue velvet-lined case. Sir Robert Menzies (1894-1978) served two terms as Prime Minister of Australia, the first from 1939 to …
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# 47128
TEAGUE, Violet; REDE, Geraldine
Night fall in the ti-tree
Woodcuts by Geraldine Rede and Violet Teague. Melbourne and London : Sign of the Rabbit and Elgin Mathews, 1906. Small folio, ribbon-tied woodcut-printed wrappers (lightly rubbed, ribbons replaced, the original silk ribbon as always deteriorated, and preserved separately), illustrated endpapers, fourteen leaves folded in the Japanese manner illustrated with original woodcuts by Teague and Rede, …
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# 47037
[ADAMS, Marcus]
Queen Elizabeth II : signed photograph (“Elizabeth R”), also signed by Prince Philip. 1955.
Gelatin silver print photograph, 200 x 150 mm, on its original plain card mount signed in fountain pen in the bottom margin by both Queen Elizabeth II (Elizabeth R) and Prince Philip (Philip) with the date 1955 in between the two signatures; the photograph is in fine condition; the royal signatures are both strong and …
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# 45783
WOLRAB, Johann Jacob (1675-1746)
An early eighteenth-century German perpetual calendar.
Nürnberg : Johann Jacob Wolrab, [circa 1720]. Original wooden box, 270 x 105 x 40 mm, with two compartments containing removable cards: 6 double-sided cards for the months and 16 smaller double-sided cards for the days; each card is engraved and hand-coloured, but the larger cards also have hand-painted gouache decorations illustrating the months and …
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# 46111
DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870)
The Works of Charles Dickens. The Pocket Volume Edition.
London : Chapman and Hall, 1880. Thirty volumes bound in fifteen, small octavo (150 x 105 mm); contemporary uniform bindings of half navy calf over marbled papered boards (very lightly rubbed), spines in compartments with gilt decoration and contrasting red and brown leather title-pieces lettered in gilt (gleaming and bright); marbled edges and endpapers; bindings …
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# 46550
KNIGHT, Charles
A history of England
London : Bradbury, Evans & Co., circa 1860. Eight volumes, octavo, finely bound in half calf over marbled papered boards (edges a little rubbed), spines in compartments with raised bands, elaborate gilt tooling and contrasting morocco title labels with gilt lettering (spines a little scuffed at heads); marbled edges and endpapers; various paginations, with numerous engraved plates …
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# 46572
DESNOS, Louis-Charles (1725 - 1805); NOLIN, Jean-Baptiste (1686-1762)
Globe terrestre
Dressé sur les Relations les plus nouvelles de Mrs. de l’Académie Royale des Sciences par L. C. Desnos et J. B. Nolin Géographe. Se fait et se vends chez Desnos, rue St. Jacque St. Severin, Quartier de la Place Maubert. Paris, 1760, avec privilége du Roy. Dedié au Roy, par son trés humble trés obéissant …
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# 45915
CUNNINGHAM, Peter (editor)
The letters of Horace Walpole, Fourth Earl of Orford
Edited by Peter Cunningham,. Now first chronologically arranged. London : Richard Bentley, 1891. Nine volumes, octavo, finely bound by Riviere & Son in full polished tan calf, their binder’s stamps to versos of front free endpapers, decorative gilt borders, spines in compartments with raised bands, glued and decorated in gilt, contrasting morocco title labels lettered …
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# 45638
CERVANTES, Miguel de (1547 - 1616)
The ingenious gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha
Done into English by Henry Edward Watts. A new edition, with notes, original and selected. In four volumes. London : Adam and Charles Black, 1894. Four volumes, octavo, finely bound by Denny of London in half-calf over cloth, the spines in compartments with contrasting morocco title labels lettered in gilt, attractive air nouveau ornamentation, marbled …
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# 45460
BRONTE, Charlotte and Anne.
The novels of the sisters Bronte
Edinburgh : John Grant, 1924. The Thornton edition. Twelve volumes, octavo, original gilt-decorated cloth (a few corners slightly bumped, internally clean), top edges gilt, fore edges uncut, illustrated with numerous plates. A fine set of the collected works.
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# 44752
BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett (1806 - 1861)
The poems of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
A new edition, carefully corrected by the last London edition. With an introductory essay. New York : C. S. Francis & Co., 1857. Four volumes, octavo, half calf over marbled papered boards, spines in compartments with raised bands, gilt decoration, contrasting morocco title-pieces lettered in gilt, marbled edges and endpapers, pp. xx; 21 – 313; …
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# 44648
AUSTEN, Jane
The Novels of Jane Austen. The Winchester Edition. Complete in twelve volumes.
Edinburgh : John Grant, 1911 (and 1912). Twelve volumes, octavo (210 x 150 mm), bound in original uniform blue cloth (a few light marks, else very good), spines with gilt titles and decoration (a trifle rubbed); top edges gilt, other edges rough cut (as issued); engraved portrait frontispiece to Vol. 1; internally very clean, with …
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# 44507
TAYLOR, James
The pictorial history of Scotland
London and New York : George Virtue [1859]. Two volumes, thick octavo, contemporary half calf over pebbled cloth, spines in compartments with raised bands, decorated in gilt, contrasting Morocco title labels with gilt lettering,, edges speckled red, marbled endpapers, pp. xcvi; 808; 968, numerous fine steel engravings, folding map, a fine set. Binder’s stamp of …
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# 44344
GELLIUS, Aulus [GRONOVIUS, Jacob, editor]
Auli Gellii Noctes Atticae ex editione Jacobi Gronovii. Cum notis et interpretatione in usum Delphini variis lectionibus notis variorum recent edition et modicum.
London : A. J. Valpy, 1824. Four volumes in three, octavo (215 x 140 mm), in a handsome contemporary University of Glasgow prize binding by Carrs – the most prestigious Glasgow bookbinder of the period – of full vellum with gilt ornament and arms; the set was awarded as a First Class prize in Latin …