Books & Items of Interest

196

FORBES, James, ORIENTAL MEMOIRS ... (1813)

James Forbes, Oriental Memoirs: Selected and abridged from a series of familiar letters written during seventeen years residence in India … (Printed for the author by T. Bensley, London, 1813)

Quarto, four volumes, contemporary burgundy morocco panelled front and back with gilt foliate borders enclosing the arms of John Frederick Campbell, 1st Earl Cawdor, the labelled spines giltdecorated

With all but two of the ninety-three engraved and coloured lithographed plates called for (lacking either pl. LI or LII and LXXX) but with one additional coloured lithograph plate

PROVENANCE:

John Frederick Campbell, 1st Earl Cawdor (his arms gilt-tooled to the front and back covers)

$4,000-6,000

197

VICTORIA [Queen], LEAVES FROM THE JOURNAL OF OUR LIFE IN THE HIGHLANDS … (1868)

With Victoria’s autograph presentation inscription [Queen] Victoria, Leaves from the Journal of our Life in the Highlands from 1848 to 1861 [ … ], edited by Arthur Helps (Smith, Elder, and Co., London, 1868)

Second edition, octavo, in the publisher’s original gilt-panelled grained green cloth with crossed antler devices to front and back and gilt-lettered spine

Inscribed by Queen Victoria in brown ink to the fly-leaf: ‘To John New[?] from Victoria R Inveraray Sept. 27. 1875’

$800-1,200

198

TROEDEL, Charles, THE MELBOURNE ALBUM (circa 1864)

Charles Troedel [publisher], The Melbourne Album, containing a series of views of Melbourne & country districts … (C. Troedel, Melbourne, circa 1864) Oblong folio, in the publisher’s half red roan over gilt-lettered green cloth, the cover gilt-lettered with the short title

Fifteen tinted lithographs (lacking title)

Together with a framed and glazed impression of ‘View on Eastern Hill (from Half Way House, Albert Street)’ from the same work

Framed 42.5cm high, 53cm wide $2,000-3,000

199 HUNTER, John, AN HISTORICAL JOURNAL OF THE TRANSACTIONS AT PORT JACKSON AND NORFOLK ISLAND ... (1773)

John Hunter, An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island, with the Discoveries which have been made in New South Wales and in the Southern Ocean, since the publication of Phillip’s Voyage ... (John Stockdale, London, 1793)

Large quarto, contemporary green half morocco with marbled paper boards, the spine labelled ‘HUNTER’S VOYAGES’

With all but one of the seventeen plates and charts called for (lacking the chart of Norfolk Island)

$1,600-2,200

200

WHITE, John, JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE TO NEW SOUTH WALES ... (1790)

John White, Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales, with Sixty-five Plates of Non descript Animals, Birds, Lizards, Serpents, curious Cones of Trees and other Natural Productions (J. Debrett, London, 1790)

Quarto, contemporary diced calf with gilt-lettered spine

With all plates called for, these uncoloured $2,000-2,500

201

COLLINS, David, AN ACCOUNT OF THE ENGLISH COLONY IN NEW SOUTH WALES ... (1798)

David Collins White, An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales with Remarks on the Dispositions, Customs, Manners, &c. of the Native inhabitants of that Country … (T. Cadell Jun., and W. Davies, London, 1798)

Quarto, contemporary burgundy half morocco with marbled paper boards and gilt-lettered spine With all plates called for $1,400-1,800

STOKES, J.L., DISCOVERIES IN AUSTRALIA ... (1846)

J. Lort Stokes, Discoveries in Australia; with an Account of the Coasts and Rivers explored and surveyed during the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle in the years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43 … (T. and W. Boone, London, 1846)

Octavo, two volumes, contemporary tan calf with labelled and gilt-decorated spines

With all but one of the plates and charts called for (lacking the chart of Part of Western Australia); the General Chart of Australia is bound into vol. 2 rather than vol. 1 as called for $1,200-1,600

203

AN AUSTRALIAN KANGAROO HIDE STOCKWHIP GIFTED BY ‘FRED LINDSAY’, WITH RELATED AUTOGRAPH LETTER

Mid-20th century

The whip of typical form with a tapering turned hardwood handle with shaped grip and tapering hide plait

Accompanied by an autograph letter signed by Holman James (a.k.a. ‘Fred Lindsay’) in black ink on Constitutional Club, London, note paper, dated 11 December (without year) mentioning to the recipient (name unclear) that the whip had been posted to him and explaining that it is an unused large whip of particularly good quality

Together also with a small group of promotional material and press clippings relating to ‘Fred Lindsay’ and Holman James

The whip 412cm long overall

OTHER NOTES:

Fred Lindsay was the stage name of the Bendigoborn Colonel Holman James (1874–1946) who, as a gentleman-adventurer and former army officer, toured Britain and the United States in the early decades of the twentieth century as a stockwhipcracking showman and raconteur.

$600-800

206

AN ANTIQUE HARDWOOD WHIP HANDLE CARVED WITH AUSTRALIAN NATIONALIST MOTIFS, OF SOUTH AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL INTEREST

Late 19th century

Of typical tapering form in a dense close-grained figured wood, the shaft above the grip carved in relief in several registers, the lowest with a kangaroo and emu flanking a sun-topped cross on one side and cricket bats, wicket, and ball to the other, the other registers variously with a sheep dog, shears, anchor, clover, thistle, and an encircling snake, the top of the grip incised ‘ADVANCE AUSTRALIA’, the grip inlaid in white metal ‘F.H. WELLS.’ above a lattice design

37cm long

OTHER NOTES:

Francis Harry Wells (1863–1937) served as a South Australian Police Force mounted constable in various rural districts from 1888 to 1912, following which he was appointed South Australia’s first Registrar of Motor Vehicles.

$600-800

205

AN EARLY OAK ALMS BOX

17th century, English or Northern European Cube-shaped with a raised arched back and hinged cover secured with an iron lock (operating), retaining some of its original paint including an illegible inscription to the back

29cm high, 18.5cm wide, 16.5cm deep

$500-700

A CHARLES II PEWTER CHARGER, AND ANOTHER SIMILAR

The first, by Erasmus Dole, the second unidentified The Dole charger with a dished centre and broad rim with reeded edge, duty marks to its upper side and the maker’s touchmark to its underside, the other charger of similar form with a raised edge, its marks indistinct

46cm and 42cm diameter

$500-800

207

A GEORGE III SATINWOOD AND MARQUETRY

TEA CADDY

Late 18th/Early 19th century

Of oval outline, the hinged cover enclosing two covered compartments, the top and front inlaid with floral designs with pen work details, the upper edges and foot cross-banded in rosewood 13cm high, 19cm wide, 11cm deep

PROVENANCE:

Sallea Antiques (Sally B. Kaltman), Connecticut, 1990s (her label)

$600-800

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208

A PAIR OF CHARLES X ORMOLU AND VERD ANTIQUE SERPENTINE SIX-LIGHT CANDELABRA

Circa 1830

In Neo-Classical manner, each with a raised central light with removable flamiform finial surrounded by five further lights raised on a triangular column with a scrolling tripod base on a concave-sided triangular plinth, modelled with stylised foliate details throughout 69cm high

PROVENANCE:

Christie’s, Melbourne, November 16, 1998, lot 436

$1,400-1,800

209

A PAIR OF FRENCH LOUIS XVI-STYLE ORMOLUMOUNTED BRECHE VIOLETTE MARBLE URNS

Early 20th century

Each of Classical baluster form on a moulded square foot and mounted with an ormolu finial, swagged collar, pair of cornucopia-form handles, and foliate stem, the tops not removable

51cm high

$1,600-2,400

210

A VICTORIAN MARBLE BASIN ON FOOT

Second half 19th century

Of Classical form in white marble, elliptical in outline, the swelling body with a moulded rim and foot and scroll handle to each side, the front with incised monogram HC 29cm high, 54cm wide, 29cm deep

$400-600

211

AN ANTIQUE NEO-CLASSICAL MARBLE CASKET 19th century, probably Italian

In white marble, based on the design of the sarcophagus of Lucius Cornelius Scipio Barbatus, the cover enclosing an interior compartment 26cm high, 42cm wide, 34cm deep

$700-1,000

212

A VICTORIAN NEO-CLASSICAL MARBLE CENTREPIECE

Second half 19th century

Of stadium outline in grey-veined cream and orange marble, the moulded body with shallow interior raised on a conforming foot 18cm high, 32cm wide, 23cm deep

$500-800

A MATCHED SET OF FOUR VICTORIAN MARBLE BASINS

Late 19th century

In similar grey-veined cream and orange marbles, of near-identical Classical form in different sizes, each with a hemispherical body with egg-and-dart rim on a carved base with square foot

The largest 20cm high, 30.5cm diameter

$500-800

214

A PAIR OF FRENCH BRONZE FIGURES OF MUSICAL SATYRS

Second half 19th century

Each modelled seated and playing an instrument, respectively the Pan pipes and the tibia, in dark green patina, mounted on painted wood plinths

34cm high overall

$700-1,000

215

A PAIR OF FRENCH BRONZE GRYPHON FIGURE CANDLESTICKS

Second half 19th century

Each in the form of a gryphon rampant supporting a candle socket with pan, all on a circular low plinth base, in mottled green-brown patina

19cm high, 17cm wide, 10.5cm deep

$500-700

216

A PAIR OF BRONZE FIGURES OF GRYPHONS RAMPANT

Late 19th / early 20th century, probably French

In a dark green patina, fully modelled in the round 31cm high, 34cm wide, 11cm deep

$600-900

217

A GROUP OF THREE LIFE-SIZE PAINTED BRONZE FIGURES OF SPOTTED DEER

Early 20th century

A family of an adult and two young, naturalistically modelled in various standing poses, the adult with (detachable) antlers

The largest 140cm high (including antlers)

PROVENANCE:

Tiger Balm Gardens, Singapore (information from Graham Geddes)

Acquired by Graham Geddes, in 1976, then remaining in his personal collection

Graham Gedddes Antiques, Melbourne, 2004, from whom acquired by the late owner

$2,000-4,000

218

A VICTORIAN CAST IRON FIGURE OF A LION

Last quarter 19th century

Modelled in ‘sejant’ pose 75cm high, 64cm wide, 30cm deep

$600-900

219

A HARDWOOD STATIC MODEL OF THE FRENCH NAVY SCHOONER ‘BELLE POULE’

With cloth sails, fibre rigging, and fittings in wood and metal, on a wood stand 85cm high (on stand), 93cm long

$600-800

220

A SCRATCH-BUILT HARDWOOD STATIC MODEL OF THE MALMÖ KETCH ‘FREJA’

Second quarter 20th century

With cloth sails, fibre rigging, and individually made fittings in wood and metal, on a wood stand 128cm high (on stand), 145cm long

$700-1,000