Photograph Albums
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# 18219
Photographers unknown. [CLOUGH, Anne Jemima, 1820-1892]; [LINDT, John William, 1845-1926]
[WOMEN’S EDUCATION] Photograph album of the University of Cambridge, compiled by a graduate of Newnham College. Bound in Melbourne, early 1890s.
Photograph album by J.W. Lindt, Melbourne, early 1890s. Oblong quarto, padded leather with gilt blind-tooling stamped ‘From J.W. Lindt’s Studio, Melbourne’, lining papers with floral decoration in gold, all edges gilt, containing [12] leaves of thick card with 20 albumen silver photographs (photographer unidentified) of the University of Cambridge, in uniform format 150 x 205 …
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# 18176
[TAKAMATSU, M.]
Japanese merchant’s catalogue of Chinese export furniture, with original mounted photographs.
[Japan] : M. Takamatsu, [c.1910]. Quarto, 250 x 190 mm, bound in Japanese folding accordion style, in the original wooden boards (textile coverings perished), wet stamp of the merchant ‘M. Takamatsu’ to front and rear pastedowns, comprising [38] leaves of thick card with 152 sepia printing-out paper photographs of Chinese export furniture, probably destined for …
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# 17961
[FRANZEN, Claus, 1857-1947]
[PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM] Die erste Reise S.M.S. Bismarck
An important archive of photographs taken on the first voyage of the German Imperial Navy warship SMS Bismarck, 1879-1880, documenting the ship’s visits to Patagonia, Tahiti, Rarotonga, Samoa, Fiji, Tonga, Sydney, Peru and the Falkland Islands. Provenance: From the Estate of Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898), the “Iron Chancellor”. Folio portfolio, 450 x 360 mm, contemporary full crushed …
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# 18142
THE LIVERPOOL DRY PLATE AND PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPANY
[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY] The Liverpool Dry Plate and Photographic Printing Company. Price list of Collodio-Bromide plates.
Liverpool, U.K. : Henry Greenwood, Printer, [1873]. Octavo sheet, 200 x 125 mm, printed recto only; [together with] the original covering letter relating to the price list, in manuscript on the company letterhead, octavo, 2 pp, written by the owner Peter Mawdsley to an American customer, George May Powell, dated 6 September 1873, explaining the …
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# 15940
[MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY; ARGENTINA] Agar Cross & Co., Buenos Aires : a photographic archive, c 1912
A group of twenty-one large format bromide print photographs (230 x 150 mm), all unmounted (some minor edge tears and curling, but overall good condition), showing the premises of the major Argentinian manufacturing import enterprise, Agar Cross & Co. Ltd, Buenos Aires, c 1912. Photographer unknown. Most of the photographs bear a typed caption verso. …
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# 12879
Views of Western Australia’s cities of gold
Kalgoorlie, W.A. : E. S. Wigg & Son, [1918]. Oblong quarto, publisher's printed wrappers (lower edge discoloured, some small tears), original cord ties, [23] pp, illustrated with half-tone photographic views of Kalgoorlie and Boulder, a very good copy. Four copies are recorded in Australian collections (National Library of Australia; State Library of New South Wales; …
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# 12816
TANAKA, Ryozo, ed.
The “Sino-Japanese Disturbances” souvenir album. Shanghai. 1932
[Tokyo: Shomi-do, 1932]. Oblong quarto, silk-bound boards with ribbon binding, unpaginated, title page, two maps printed in colour, 48 leaves of photographic plates interlined with tissue, colophon, a fine copy in the original lettered cardboard box. Scarce in this condition.
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# 12786
SPEER, D.
48 views of the Concentration Camp, Berrima, New South Wales, Australia, 1914-1919.
Sydney : Epworth Press, [c.1919]. First (and only) edition. Oblong octavo, publisher's printed grey wrappers. 48 pp, all half tone black and white photographic plates, internally clean and sound. Scarce. These photographs of the Berrima Internment Camp were taken by D. Speer, a Bowral photographer. Among the images are numerous shots of the internees on …
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# 11954
Album of New Zealand views
Wellington, N.Z. : S. & W. Mackay, (Triad Office), n.d. [c.1900]. Oblong octavo, original decorative stiff wrappers and ties, [35] leaves with photographic illustrations printed recto only, including one folding panorama of Wellington, a near fine copy. The views are from all parts of both the North and South Island and include Christchurch, Napier, Whanganui …
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# 11350
[FRANCOIS, Philippe, 1859-1908] CAIRE, Nicholas; BAYLISS, Charles; KERRY, Charles
[PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM] Australie. Ph. François 1888
Nineteenth century photograph album, oblong folio (270 x 380 mm), original half dark green morocco over green pebbled cloth, the upper board lettered in gilt Australie. Ph. François 1888 and both boards with double gilt rule, spine with raised bands and gilt ornament, marbled endpapers, with [51] albumen print photographs by various Australian commercial photographers …
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# 11364
SPURLINGS PTY. LTD.
Tasmania illustrated : a complete pictorial record containing 122 views
of all parts of the Garden Isle. / plates engraved, printed and bound at “The Examiner” and “Weekly Courier” offices ; photographs by Spurlings Pty. Ltd. Launceston : Spurlings, [c.1920]. Oblong folio (310 x 500 mm), original cloth backed pictorial stiff wrappers printed in gold, black and cream, staple bound, [48] pp, all half tone photographic …
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# 11018
CLIFFORD, Samuel (1827-1890)
[PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM] Tasmanian scenes.
[Hobart : Samuel Clifford, circa 1873]. Quarto (300 x 245 mm), original tan coloured cloth with gilt stamped title and decoration to front board (rubbed, upper corners worn, spine softened at head and tail), front free-endpaper with contemporary inscription in brown ink S. Clifford Photo., containing 24 albumen print photographs (format 105 x 180 mm) laid …
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# 10999
Photographer unknown.
Photograph album with views of Canberra, circa 1927
Art Deco style large quarto album, original brown cloth boards, upper board with decorative device and title Photographs in gilt, contemporary manuscript paper title label to spine New Zealand, s.s. Taiping, Canberra, containing [97] window-mounted (i.e. removable) sepia carbon print photographs on card, in uniform format 120 x 165 mm, including views of Canberra (10), New …
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# 10408
Various photographers.
[PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM] Australian Photographs
1880-1885. A fine nineteenth century album of photographs compiled by a traveller. Oblong folio, 290 x 430 mm, full leather with blind tooled decoration, upper and lower boards with gilt ornament and upper board titled in gilt Australian Photographs, inner boards with gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, containing [119] albumen print photographs in …
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# 8555
MILLER, Thomas (publisher)
Maryborough
Maryborough, Qld. : Thomas Miller, [c. 1905]. Oblong quarto, original decorative green wrappers (some edge wear and loss to paper along spine), pp [1] text, [11] leaves of black and white photographic plates, some printed on blue paper, corners dog-eared, old waterstain to lower right corners resulting in some surface loss to the margins, otherwise …
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# 10331
Queensland. Government Intelligence and Tourist Bureau.
Glimpses of sunny Queensland
Issued by the Queensland Government Intelligence & Tourist Bureau. Brisbane : Government Printer, [1911?]. Second edition. Oblong octavo, original pictorial wrappers (small amount of paper loss at foot of spine), 64 leaves of captioned photographic plates, a near fine copy.