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51 Anon (D.C.) Vue Interieure d'une Baraque, 1830. Litho-graph, hand-coloured, signed in the plate, 22.9 x 35.9cm. A contemporary view of members of the French Assembly - the seats are filled with cabbages, logs, pans, chamber pots, poultry, etc. |
$550 |
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52 Anon Hieroglyphics, c.1820. Lithograph, hand-coloured, 33 x 23.7cm. Published by S.W. Fores, London. Four illustrations: Fruiterer, Tailor, Armourer, Fisherman. The figures have been constructed in the style of Archimboldo, using objects associated with each activity. |
$550 |
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53 Anon Mode Schmetterlinge, c.1820. Lithograph, hand-coloured, 18.5 x 17.5cm. Old crease. What the fashionable butterfly was wearing. |
$490 |
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54 Anon The Conchologist, 1830. Lithograph, hand-coloured, 10.6 x 10.6cm. Figure created from shells. |
$390 |
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55 [Comic Books] Lee Falk. The Phantom, 1937-38. Three comic books, Issues 1-3, 48.4 x 70cm. Repaired covers. Rare. The first edition of The Phantom comic book was published in Italian in 1936-37. The first English language edition was printed and published in Australia in 1937-38 by Henry Kenneth Prior for The Bulletin Newspaper. These are the first three issues of that first English language (Australian) edition of "the ghost who walks…" Diane Palmer, his girlfriend, returns to Sydney in the first issue. |
(3) $5,000 |
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56 Lewis Crusius Expert Testimony, c.1890. Colour litho-graph, 22 x 16.4cm. Skull-headed doctor. |
$390 |
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Harold Gaze Ten Humorous Illustrations, 1908. Pen & ink and watercolour, signed and dated lower left, each approximately 14 x 9.6cm. Harold Gaze (1885-1962) was born in NZ, but lived in Australia 1918-1921. He then moved to London where many of his books were published, finally settling in Pasadena, USA, in 1927. He is regarded as the most original illustrator of Australian children's books in the fairy genre after Ida Rentoul Outhwaite. These rare, early works date from 1908, before his arrival in Australia. |
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57 Harold Gaze Canary Senseless. Upturned canaries form flowers. |
$890 |
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58 Harold Gaze Trumpetibus Dam-Noisia. Trumpet-shaped flowers. |
$890 |
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59 Harold Gaze Little Maidia Upsidedownia (Ohdontlookia). Fuscia like flowers - but really ladies in full petal skirts. |
$890 |
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60 Harold Gaze Tom-Katia Cleania-Legia, 1906. Flowers shaped of two cats. |
$990 |
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