AAADA Fair Melbourne 1-4 May 2025
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# 44456
NUTTALL, Charles (1872 - 1934)
Representative Australians. A series of portraits from original sketches by Charles Nuttall
Melbourne : McCarron, Bird & Co., 1902. Folio, illustrated papered boards with magnificent illustration of the Waratah (scattered foxing, lower board silverfished, a little bowed), patterned endpapers, 40 illustrations after Nuttall pencil drawings illustrating important figures of the Federation period. Subjects include Earl Hopetoun, Governor-General; Sir Edmund Barton, Prime Minister, and various Premiers, Attorneys-General, Government …
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# 43965
ALISON, Sir Archibald
History of Europe
from the Commencement of the French Revolution in M.DCC.LXXXIX. to the Restoration of the Bourbons in MDCCC.XV. Edinburgh and London : William Blackwood and Sons, 1853 – 1855. Ninth edition. Twelve volumes octavo (lacking the oblong quarto atlas), bound in uniform half calf, spine in compartments with raised bands and gilt ornamentation, contrasting morocco title …
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# 41886
THACKERAY, William Makepeace (1811 - 1863)
The works of William Makepeace Thackeray
In twelve volumes. London : Smith, Elder & Co., 1877. Twelve volumes, octavo, finely bound in half calf over marbled papered boards (lightly rubbed at edges), spines in compartments with raised bands and gilt decoration, dual contrasting Morocco title-pieces lettered in gilt, marbled edges and endpapers, each volume approximately 600 – 700 pages, frontispiece illustrations; …
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# 35749
A set of English Regency library or bedroom steps
65 cms tall, 40 cms wide, 62 cms deep, mahogany with elaborate decorative inlay, leather steps, two fitted drawers with original paper lining, brass handles.
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# 41036
Anon
A Regency folding card table circa 1835
Mahogany with Macassar ebony, inlaid decoration on a splay quatrefoil pedestal base, recent felt baize (lightly stained), measuring 72cm high, 91cm wide, and 46 cm deep, a few light scratches. A handsome Regency, practically useful closed or open for a number of purposes,
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# 37109
SAURIN, Jacques (1677-1730)
Discours historiques, critiques, théologiques et moraux sur les evenemens les plus mémorables du Vieux et du Nouveau Testament.
Amsterdam : Sauzet ; La Haye : Pierre de Hondt, 1720-1739. Ten volumes (complete), octavo (200 x 130 mm), uniform contemporary bindings of vellum over boards, spines with titles and volume numbers in early manuscript; VI-[1]-LXX-592 pp., 4 pl. + [5]-554-[86] pp., 15 pl. + [12]-XIV-[6]-494 pp., 1 pl. + [4]-563 pp., 5 pl. + …
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# 14447
Anon.
A massive Spanish manuscript choir book in Latin
An early eighteenth century Spanish Graduale Romanum, or Roman Gradual (the second of two volumes), with thick wooden boards and iron fittings, containing music and text for the proprium missal (proper of the mass), including a Peruvian credo and with an index to both volumes at the end arranged mostly alphabetically under five headings for the introits, graduals, …
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# 36648
Anon.
A colonial five-drawer cedar chest of drawers circa 1840.
Cedar with blackwood handles and huon pine secondary timbers, Tasmanian origin, circa 1840, measures 110cm high, 122cm wide, 55cm deep. A handsome colonial Australian chest in good working order. Provenance: The Rodney Pemberton Collection