1908. Group of five letterpress booklets with colour lineblock and process screen illustrations, each dated on cover, some images with artist’s signature replicated in image, sizes from 15.3 x 10.4cm to 23.9 x 31.5cm. Slight soiling, wear, tears and creases to covers and pages, repairs to spine. Details for booklets... More

c1880s-1909. Newspaper cuttings in a hardcover quarto leather-bound book, 40.6 x 33cm. Scuffing and leather loss to boards, minor foxing throughout. This album contains newspaper cuttings relating to the work of Australian botanical painter Ellis Rowan (1848-1922), including reviews and critiques of her work, a column by Rowan herself entitled... More

c1911. Enamel on tin, 30.7 x 45.9cm. Surface and paint loss, crazing, missing portions to upper corners. Partly obscured text continues “C. Ritchie…Sydney…Adelaide.” The Referee was a newspaper published in Sydney from 1886 to 1939. The Globe (1911-1914) was a weekly newspaper published by Alfred Herbert Howard Aldworth in Sydney..... More

c1914. Printed cotton scarf, captioned throughout, 47.5 x 61.5cm. Stains and foxing overall. Captions include notes on the landing places of various allied troops, including the ANZACs. Captions on flags in corners read “Australia, well done! New Zealand, well done! Army and navy, well done! Eclipse of the star &... More

1916. Letterpress and line block, handbill, artist’s name in lower portion, 32 x 25.4cm (paper). Missing portions, old folds. Text includes “‘They gave me the ballot paper, the grim death-warrant of doom, and I smugly sentenced the man to death, in that dreadful little room. I put it inside the..... More

c1916. Painted plaster, 29.4 x 9.9 x 11.9cm. Surface loss and chips overall, cracks to neck of figure. Uncommon plaster of a WWI digger. More

1917. Letterpress, handbill, 43.4 x 25.7cm. Old folds, creases, stains, slight missing portions and tears overall. Text includes “Commonwealth of Australia Department of Defence. Amended notice. Notice is hereby given that all persons (male and female) who are not British subjects and who are not exempted under the Regulations are... More

1918. Bronze sculpture, signed, annotated “Hanoi” and dated on base, 30 x 12 x 10.5cm. Rare western-style bronze, produced when Vietnam was part of the French colonial Indochina empire which ran from the 1880s to 1940s. More

1919. Cotton crochet doily with verse, 49.5 x 55.2cm. Minor stains to edges. Framed. Verse reads “After years of strife / the triumph of liberty and justice / Peace 1919 / Float our bunting on the breeze / Australia’s flag of pride / for which her many valiant sons /... More

1921. Hardcover quarto with woodblock print on blue cloth pictorial boards, 66pp, autographed “W.M. Hughes” and dated “2/6/21” by then-Prime Minister Billy Hughes along with other passengers, 30.5 x 25cm. Replaced spine and endpapers, scuffing and slight soiling to boards, some foxing throughout. Published by The London Stereoscopic Company. Fourth..... More

c1927. Pen and ink with gouache, captioned throughout image, initialled “M.E.C.” lower right, titled in pencil in lower margin, annotated “Q.Q.” in an unknown hand in ink verso, 25.1 x 25cm. Old horizontal folds, slight surface loss, foxing and creases. Captions read “Canberra. ‘Onward.’ SA, Queensl’d, NSW, Victoria, WA, Tasmania.”..... More

c1929. Letterpress and colour process screen leaflet, four pages, 26.4 x 21.1cm (folded). Slight crinkles and foxing overall, some offsetting of text to back page. Text includes “This property consisting of 639 acres is the most picturesque in the County of Cumberland… £1,000,000 to be made out of The Riviera... More

c1930s. Canvas with screenprint, 60 x 180cm. Minor stains overall. This gangway canvas would have been used at Rose Bay’s flying boat base, which operated between 1938 and 1974, except during the mid and post-war years of the 1940s. Accompanied with vintage silver gelatin postcard depicting the flying boat base... More