AUSTRALIAN BOOK AUCTIONS AUSTRALIAN BOOK AUCTIONS Monday 15 February 2016
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AUSTRALIAN BOOK AUCTIONS AUSTRALIAN BOOK AUCTIONS Monday 15 February 2016 ABA0079 Monday 15 February, 2016 at 6.30pm AUSTRALIAN BOOK AUCTIONS AUSTRALIAN BOOK AUCTIONS PTY. LTD. A.B.N 60 088 582 030 A.C.N 088 582 030 Barbara Hince, Director Jonathan Wantrup, Director Dr Gavin De Lacy, General Manager GALLERY AND SALEROOM: 909 High Street, Armadale, Victoria, 3143 TELEPHONE: (+61) 03 9822 4522 FACSIMILE: (+61)AUSTRALIAN 03 9822 6873 BOOK AUCTIONS EMAIL: [email protected] WEB ADDRESS: AUSTRALIANwww.australianbookauctions.com BOOK AUCTIONS AUSTRALIAN BOOK AUCTIONS PTY. LTD. A.B.N 60 088 582 030 A.C.N 088 582 030 AUSTRALIAN BOOK AUCTIONS PTY. LTD. A.B.N 60 088 582 030 A.C.N 088 582 030 Barbara Hince, Director Front cover lot 12 Jonathan Wantrup, Director Inside front cover lot 38 Inside back cover lot 204 Dr Gavin De Lacy, General Manager Barbara Hince, Director Back cover lot 176 Jonathan Wantrup, Director Dr Gavin De Lacy, General Manager GALLERY AND SALEROOM: 909 High Street, Armadale, Victoria, 3143 TELEPHONE: (+61) 03 9822 4522 GALLERY AND SALEROOM: 909 High Street, Armadale, Victoria, 3143 FACSIMILE: (+61) 03 9822 6873 TELEPHONE: (+61) 03 9822 4522 EMAIL: [email protected] FACSIMILE: (+61) 03 9822 6873 WEB ADDRESS: www.australianbookauctions.com EMAIL: [email protected] WEB ADDRESS: www.australianbookauctions.com AUSTRALIAN BOOK AUCTIONS ANGLING BOOKS: THE COLLECTION OF THE LATE JOHN CUMMINS To be sold by auction on Monday 15th February 2016 at 6.30 pm At Australian Book Auctions Gallery 909 High Street, Armadale, Victoria Telephone (+61) 03 9822 4522 Facsimile (+61) 03 9822 6873 Email [email protected] www.australianbookauctions.com On View At the Gallery, 909 High Street, Armadale, Victoria Friday 12th February from 10.00 am to 4.00 pm Saturday 13th February from 10.00 am to 4.00 pm Monday 15th February from 10.00 am to 4.00 pm Catalogue Price: $33.00 Important Information for Buyers Registration and Buyer’s numbers of 1.1% will be added to your invoice to cover bank The auction will be conducted using Buyer’s fees and charges. numbers. All prospective bidders are asked to register Condition of lots and collect a Buyer’s number before the sale. All lots are sold “as is”, in accordance with clauses 6a- Buyer’s premium f of the Conditions of Business, and Australian Book Please note that a Buyer’s premium of 19.8% Auctions makes no representation as to the condition of (inclusive of Goods and Services Tax) of the hammer any lot. Buyers should satisfy themselves as to the price on each lot is payable by the buyer. condition of any lot before the sale. Absentee bidding and Telephone bidding Every attempt is made to describe all lots accurately in As a convenience to buyers who are unable to attend the catalogue but condition of lots is not generally the auction in person, Australian Book Auctions will, noted. if so instructed in writing at least 24 hours before the Where a note describing the condition of any lot is sale, execute bids on behalf of prospective buyers. included in the catalogue this is intended as general Absentee bids can only be accepted on the guidance only for intending buyers who should satisfy appropriate form fully completed (the form is to be themselves as to the condition of any lot or as to any found at the end of this catalogue). Absentee bids other matter affecting the value of any lot before the cannot be accepted by telephone unless confirmed in sale, either by personal inspection or by obtaining any writing. independent expert advice reasonable in view of the In the case of lots with a lower estimate of at least buyers’ expertise and the value of the lot. Buyers will $1000, Australian Book Auctions will, if so requested be deemed to have knowledge of all matters which at least 24 hours before the sale, make all reasonable they could reasonably be expected to find out given the efforts to contact prospective buyers by telephone so exercise by them of reasonable due diligence. See as to enable them to participate in bidding. Requests especially clauses 6a-f and 7a-f of the Conditions of for this service must be confirmed in writing. In no Business. circumstance will Australian Book Auctions be held Sale Room Notices and Announcements from the responsible for any error or failure to execute bids. Rostrum Absentee bids should conform to the increments All conditions, notices, descriptions, statements and published in this catalogue (see page 3). An absentee other matters concerning a lot are subject to any bid that does not conform to the published increments statement modifying or affecting that lot made by the may be lowered to the next bidding interval. Auctioneer from the rostrum prior to any bid being Collection of purchases accepted on that lot. In general and where possible, any All lots purchased must be collected from the place of such matter will also be noted in a Sale Room Notice auction within seven days of the sale date. Collection posted prior to the sale. may be available for a brief period at the conclusion Pre-sale estimates of the sessions. The pre-sale estimates are intended as a guide for Uncollected lots may be placed in storage at the prospective buyers only. A bid between the listed Buyer’s risk and the Buyer’s expense. Australian figures should, in our opinion, offer a fair chance of Book Auctions will be pleased to assist any Buyer success. However, all lots, depending on the level of who wishes to make special arrangements for competition, can realise prices either above or below collection. Please notify us before the sale if you the listed estimates. require special assistance. Please note that where any lot is subject to a seller’s Methods of payment reserve in no case will the seller’s reserve exceed the Unless otherwise announced by the auctioneer, no lower estimate. purchases may be collected until the end of the sale. Conditions of Business Payment should be made in Australian dollars in The auction will be conducted in accordance with our cash, or bank cheque, or by telegraphic transfer to Conditions of Business printed in this catalogue. Australian Book Auction’s account. Personal cheques Prospective bidders should read these Conditions may be accepted at the discretion of Australian Book carefully before bidding. The above notes are for Auctions and, unless prior arrangements have been general guidance and should not be taken as a made, must be cleared before delivery of any lots. summary of the Conditions of Business nor an Credit card payments by Mastercard or Visa can also alternative to them. be accepted by prior arrangement. Please note that if payment is made by credit card, an additional charge Order of Sale Monday, 15th February 2016 at 6.30 pm Lots 1 – 15 Acclimatisation Lots 16 – 102 Australian Freshwater Fishing Lots 103 – 107 Australian Angling Associations Lots 108 – 129 Tourist Guides, &c. Lots 130 – 145 Trade Catalogues & Ephemera Lots 146 – 152 Catalogues & Reference Lots 153 – 168 Saltwater & Big Game Fishing Lots 169 – 199 Walton and Cotton Lots 200 – 244 Great Britain Angling Lots 245 – 266 Art & Natural History Lots 267 – 317 Quantity. To be sold without reserve. Room buyers only Bidding Increments Bidding generally opens below the lower estimate and advances in increments of up to 10%, subject to the auctioneer’s discretion. Absentee bids that do not conform to these published increments may be lowered to the next bidding interval. Up to $200 by $10s $5000 to $10,000 by $500s $200 to $500 by $20s $10,000 to $20,000 by $1000s $500 to $1000 by $50s $20,000 to $50,000 by $2000s $1000 to $2000 by $100s $50,000 to $100,000 by $5000s $2000 to $5000 by $200s $100,000+ auctioneer’s discretion John Cummins John Cummins: Of Family, Friends and Fishing August 24 last year was one of those cold, damp days so common during a Canberra winter. Occasionally a sharp gust brought a fresh round of showers, and mourners hurried into the warmth of the church. I could not help but think of the dissimilarity between the day’s bitter wind and rain, and the generous, warm nature of the man we had come together to remember. John Cummins was born in Gippsland in 1927. He loved the outdoors and spent much of his youth fishing the Thomson and McAlister Rivers and, later, the Glenmaggie Weir. He joined the Royal Australian Navy in 1948. In his early years of Navy service, he fished for trout when the occasion presented itself but visited many and different waters, including places as remote as Pattaya Beach in Thailand. In 1961, he was posted to Navy Office in Canberra, and in the ensuing years, he came to know well the lakes of the Snowy Range—particularly Eucumbene, Tantangara and Burrinjuck—and the rivers and streams that fed them. His timing could not have been better for Lake Eucumbene was slowly filling. Those days of big browns and leaping rainbows were favourite angling memories. After leaving the Navy, John had a stint with Fisheries, then worked in the Australian Senate. It was during this time, in 1983, that a bookseller friend invited him to join in a secondhand book venture. The new bookshop was in the Mill House Gallery, an ancient, two-storey building on the corner of Collett and Morrisett Streets in Queanbeyan. He was soon the sole owner, and Queanbeyan Books and Prints became well known to many.