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Michael Treloar: The Paul Lucas Collection of Australian Military History - Part III

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Auction Name	The Paul Lucas Collection of Australian Military History - Part III	Total Sales (AUD)	14,532.00
Auction Date	October 30, 2021 - October 30, 2021	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD)	12,210.00
Sale Number	#103021	High Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD)	21,120.00
Total Lots	199
Sold Lots	120.0	Low Estimate of All Lots (AUD)	21,230.00
% of Lots Sold	60.30%	High Estimate of All Lots (AUD)	36,200.00
Unsold Lots	79	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	40.14%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
70	[Gallipoli] [BLADEN, Reverend Albert Percy]	A superb collection of 60 vintage photographs showing life in the trenches at Gallipoli, possibly taken by Albert Percy Bladen, Methodist chaplain with the 23rd Battalion.		AUD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	AUD 1,800.00
59	BUTLER, Colonel Arthur Graham (and others)	The Official History of the Australian Army Medical Services in the War of 1914-1918. Volume 1 [to] Volume 3.	1938/ 1930, 1940 and 1943.	AUD 800.00 - 1,200.00	AUD 1,440.00
9	GURWOOD, Lieutenant John	An important autograph letter by Lieutenant John Gurwood, 52nd Regiment, written in Lisbon where he was recovering from wounds received in the Peninsular War.		AUD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	AUD 900.00
209	[Prisoner of War] ROBERTS, Lieutenant Warwick Hardy	A 'Wartime Log for British Prisoners' kept by Lieutenant Warwick Hardy, 2/3rd Pioneer Battalion, an Australian prisoner of war ('2381/24') held in Oflag VA, Weinsberg, Germany.		AUD 600.00 - 800.00	AUD 528.00
196		[Labuan War Cemetery] The War Dead of the British Commonwealth and Empire. The Register of the Names of those who fell in the 1939-1945 War and have no known Grave. The Labuan Memorial. Part II (Lab-Zin).	1958	AUD 50.00 - 100.00	AUD 384.00
72	[Gallipoli] PULLEY, 2008 Private William Henry	An improvised postcard from 2008 Private William Henry Pulley, B Company, 11th Battalion, from the Gallipoli Peninsula, 20 July 1915 (postmarked 26 July).		AUD 400.00 - 600.00	AUD 360.00
18		[5th Division Engineers] A '1st Kicking Football' medallion awarded in Bancourt, France in 1917 to Lance Corporal W.H. Taylor, 5th Division Engineers.		AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 264.00
161	[2/6th Australian General Hospital] FRYER, Private N.C. (editor)	6 AGH Weekly. Christmas Number 1942.	1942	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 216.00
54		[Battalion Christmas Cards] '6th Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Forces. On Service. Christmas 1916'.	1916	AUD 40.00 - 60.00	AUD 204.00
13		[2nd Cavalry Division, 1934] An original panoramic photograph of the '2nd Cavalry Division, Centenary Camp, Broadmeadows, 1934'.	1934	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 180.00
61		[Camberwell Convalescent Home, Victoria] A collection of photographs of 'Highton', 65 Mont Albert Road, Balwyn, while it was being used as a convalescent home for soldiers during the First World War.		AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 180.00
149		[5th Battalion, Victorian Scottish Regiment] A group photograph of over a hundred members of C Company, 5th Battalion, Victorian Scottish Regiment, in 1941.		AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 180.00
192		[HMAS 'Australia'] A Merry Christmas 1944. HMAS 'Australia'. Xmas Day Menu.	1944	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 180.00
29		[18th Battalion] Xmas 1917. 'Legionis Lampada Tradamus' ['Hand on the Torch of the Legion'].	1917	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 168.00
49		[Australian Engineers] Australian Commonwealth Military Forces. Australian Engineers ... On Active Service 1917 [a Christmas card].	1917	AUD 50.00 - 100.00	AUD 168.00
55		[Bayonet Training] Bayonet Training ... Issued with Army Orders dated 1st December 1916.	1916	AUD 40.00 - 60.00	AUD 168.00
241	[Vietnam] HOWE, Flight Lieutenant R.W. (editor)	1969. 2 Squadron Vietnam [cover title].	1970	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 156.00
71		[Gallipoli] The Dardanelles. An Epic told in Pictures [cover title].	[1916]	AUD 50.00 - 100.00	AUD 144.00
99		[Portraits] 'For King and Country'. A framed triptych of postcard-format photographs of three Australian soldiers in uniform.	[circa 1916].	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 144.00
67	DONNELL, Anne	Letters of an Australian Army Sister.	1920	AUD 50.00 - 100.00	AUD 132.00
69		[France] An appealing original watercolour of a 'small village church' in France, with a message on the verso from Lieutenant L.R.O. Stahle, 34th Battalion.		AUD 50.00 - 100.00	AUD 132.00
100		[Portraits] A framed triptych of postcard-format photographs of four Australian soldiers in uniform.		AUD 50.00 - 100.00	AUD 120.00
138	YOUNG, 6606 Lance Sergeant George Ernest	Five vintage photographs of the military funeral of 6606 George Ernest Young, 7th Battalion AIF.		AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 120.00
173	[2/17th Battalion] TREBECK, Bruce (and others, editors)	'What We Have, We Hold.' A History of 2/17th Australian Infantry Battalion, 1940-1945.	1998/ 1990.	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 120.00
16		[4th Australian Divisional Artillery] 4th Australian Divisional Artillery [cover title of a post-Armistice souvenir].	early 1919].	AUD 80.00 - 120.00	AUD 108.00

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Swann
Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
December 9, 2025

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 156: Cornelis de Jode, Americae pars Borealis, double-page engraved map of North America, Antwerp, 1593.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 206: John and Alexander Walker, Map of the United States, London and Liverpool, 1827.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 223: Abraham Ortelius, Typus Orbis Terrarum, hand-colored double-page engraved world map, Antwerp, 1575.

Swann
Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
December 9, 2025

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 233: Aaron Arrowsmith, Chart of the World, oversize engraved map on 8 sheets, London, 1790 (circa 1800).

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 239: Fielding Lucas, A General Atlas, 81 engraved maps and diagrams, Baltimore, 1823.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 240: Anthony Finley, A New American Atlas, 15 maps engraved by james hamilton young on 14 double-page sheets, Philadelphia, 1826.

Swann
Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
December 9, 2025

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 263: John Bachmann, Panorama of the Seat of War, portfolio of 4 double-page chromolithographed panoramic maps, New York, 1861.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 265: Sebastian Münster, Cosmographei, Basel: Sebastian Henricpetri, 1558.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 271: Abraham Ortelius, Epitome Theatri Orteliani, Antwerp: Johann Baptist Vrients, 1601.

Swann
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December 9, 2025

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 283: Joris van Spilbergen, Speculum Orientalis Occidentalisque Indiae, Leiden: Nicolaus van Geelkercken for Jodocus Hondius, 1619.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 285: Levinus Hulsius, Achtzehender Theil der Newen Welt, 14 engraved folding maps, Frankfurt: Johann Frederick Weiss, 1623.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 341: John James Audubon, Carolina Parrot, Plate 26, London, 1827.
SD Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions
The Odfjell Collection
Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books
Ending December 4th

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ROALD AMUNDSEN: «Sydpolen» [ The South Pole] 1912. First edition in jackets and publisher's slip case.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: AMUNDSEN & NANSEN: «Fram over Polhavet» [Farthest North] 1897. AMUNDSEN's COPY!

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ERNEST SHACKLETON [ed.]: «Aurora Australis» 1908. First edition. The NORWAY COPY.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ERNEST SHACKLETON: «The heart of the Antarctic» + SUPPLEMENT «The Antarctic Book», 1909.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: SHACKLETON, BERNACCHI, CHERRY-GARRARD [ed.]: «The South Polar Times» I-III, 1902-1911.

SD Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions
The Odfjell Collection
Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books
Ending December 4th

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: [WILLEM BARENTSZ & HENRY HUDSON] - SAEGHMAN: «Verhael van de vier eerste schip-vaerden […]», 1663.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION | LIEUTENANT HENRY ROBERTSON BOWERS: «At the South Pole.», Gelatin Silver Print. [10¾ x 15in. (27.2 x 38.1cm.) ].

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ELEAZAR ALBIN: «A natural History of Birds.» + «A Supplement», 1738-40. Wonderful coloured plates.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: PAUL GAIMARD: «Voyage de la Commision scientific du Nord, en Scandinavie, […]», c. 1842-46. ONLY HAND COLOURED COPY KNOWN WITH TWO ORIGINAL PAINTINGS BY BIARD.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: JAMES JOYCE: «Ulysses», 1922. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS.
Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 1997, first edition, hardback issue, inscribed by the author pre-publication. £100,000 to £150,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Autograph sketchleaf including a probable draft for the E flat Piano Quartet, K.493, 1786. £150,000 to £200,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Hooke, Robert. Micrographia: or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses. London: James Allestry for the Royal Society, 1667. $12,000 to $15,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Chappuzeau, Samuel. The history of jewels, first edition in English. London: T.N. for Hobart Kemp, 1671. $12,000 to $18,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Sowerby, James. Exotic Mineralogy, containing his most realistic mineral depictions, London: Benjamin Meredith, 1811, Arding and Merrett, 1817. $5,000 to $7,000.