AAADA Fair Melbourne 1-4 May 2025

  • Representative Australians. A series of portraits from original sketches by Charles Nuttall

    # 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 …

  • History of Europe

    # 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 …

  • The works of William Makepeace Thackeray

    # 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; …

  • A set of English Regency library or bedroom steps

    # 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.

  • A Regency folding card table circa 1835

    # 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,  

  • Discours historiques, critiques, théologiques et moraux sur les evenemens les plus mémorables du Vieux et du Nouveau Testament.

    # 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. + …

  • A massive Spanish manuscript choir book in Latin

    # 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, …

  • A colonial five-drawer cedar chest of drawers circa 1840.

    # 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