Photographs - Topographic
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# 22385
Photographer unknown.
[GOLD MINING] Photograph album compiled by a globetrotting mining engineer between 1900 and 1910, with his unique panoramic views of the King of the Hills mine in Western Australia, and topographical views in West Africa, Colombia, and the Caucasus, many of them documenting gold mining enterprises.
Late nineteenth century photograph album, oblong folio (280 x 370 mm), half calf over black crushed morocco ruled in gilt (heavily worn, front board detached), all edges gilt, containing a total of 150+ silver gelatin photographs (and one albumen print) mounted on thick leaves; over 50 of the photographs were taken with a special panoramic …
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# 22422
Sydney, N.S.W. during the visit of H.R.H. The Duke of Edinburgh in the Galatea, 1868.
[Title from contemporary caption in ink on mount]. Four albumen print photographs laid down on an album page; clockwise, from left, the prints are individually captioned in pencil: ‘Triumphal Arch, Macquarie Street, Sydney’; ‘Triumphal Arch, Circular Quay, Sydney’; ‘Hyde Park & Pavilion, Sydney’; ‘Triumphal Arch, Government House, Sydney’, and (at centre) ‘Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh. HMS …
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# 22420
Photographer unknown.
Lyons Terrace, Sydney, N.S.W.
Circa 1868. [Title from contemporary caption in ink on mount]. Albumen print photograph, 120 x 160 mm, laid down on a section cut from an album page; a strong print in fine condition. From an album of Sydney views compiled during Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh’s Australian visit of 1867-68, which included a number of …
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# 22185
[EDWARD, PRINCE OF WALES, 1894-1972)
An archive of private photographs documenting the visit of HRH Edward, Prince of Wales (the future Edward VIII) to Australia and New Zealand in 1920, annotated by the Prince himself and originally forming part of his correspondence with his mistress, Freda Dudley Ward.
Group of 18 black and white photographs taken by various photographers in the Prince’s entourage during his Australasian tour in 1920, different formats to 155 x 110 mm; most are annotated verso in pencil in Edward’s own hand; one, of the Australian Prime Minister Billy Hughes, bears a deprecatory caption in ink recto; the group is …
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# 21659
Photographer unknown.
Portland Harbour (Western Victoria)
[Between 1900 and 1910]. Stereographic albumen print photograph, each image approximately 80 x 80 mm, handwritten caption in the negative of the right hand print; original grey card mount; verso blank; in good condition. A splendid Federation period view of women and children enjoying the beach at Portland, in Victoria’s far southwest.
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# 21658
Photographer unknown.
Sturt Street, Ballarat.
[Between 1900 and 1910]. Stereographic albumen print photograph, each image approximately 80 x 80 mm, handwritten caption in the negative of the right hand print; original grey card mount; verso blank; in good condition.
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# 22015
JOUVIN, Hippolyte (1825-1887)
[NADAR’S BALLOON] Vue instantanée de la Fête de St. Cloud. N°98. Ascension du Ballon (1)
[1863]. Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each individual image 80 x 76 mm (arched format), original plain yellow mount 87 x 172 mm, verso with original printed label ‘Vue instantanée de la Fête de St. Cloud. N°98. Ascension du Ballon (1)’; both albumen prints are in very good condition; verso of mount with a few light marks. This …
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# 22014
WILSON, George Washington (1823-1893)
H.M.S. “Impregnable,” 104 Guns – Guard-ship in Hamoaze. No. 313 D.
[Circa 1860]. Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each individual image 73 x 73 mm, original plain yellow mount 85 x 174 mm, verso with original printed label ‘H.M.S. “Impregnable,” 104 Guns – Guard-ship in Hamoaze. No. 313 D. / G. W. Wilson, Photographer, Aberdeen’; both albumen prints are in good condition (some light rubbing and toning), with …
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# 22013
WILSON, George Washington (1823-1893)
Stonehenge – Near View from the South. No. 210.
[Circa 1860]. Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each individual image 73 x 73 mm, original plain yellow mount 85 x 174 mm, verso with original printed label ‘Stonehenge – Near View from the South. No. 210 / G. W. Wilson, Photographer, Aberdeen’; both albumen prints are in very good condition (a few toning spots), with rich tonal …
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# 21645
F.G. RADCLIFFE (publisher)
[SPELEOLOGY] Waitomo, Ruakuri and Aranui, New Zealand. “The most beautiful caves in the world.”
Whangarei, NZ : F.G. Radcliffe [c.1910]. Small oblong quarto, original silver-lettered grey wrappers and green ties, [24] pp, all monochrome photographic illustrations; a pristine copy.
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# 21617
Hong Kong Harbour & Victoria City from The Peak.
[Hong Kong : s.n., c.1920]. Real photo postcard. Gelatin silver print on card stock, 87 x 137 mm, titled in the negative along with sequence number ’42’; verso printed ‘Post Card’ (without publisher’s imprint); not postally used; pin hole at top edge centre, tiny surface blemish towards left edge centre, else fine condition.
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# 21602
Photographer unknown.
Photograph of the Repulse Bay Hotel, Hong Kong, circa 1930.
Original gelatin silver print on matte paper, 80 x 130 mm; taken by an unidentified amateur photographer, inscribed in ink verso: ‘Repulse Bay with Hotel in background. Hong Kong’; fine condition.
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# 21318
Anon.
Photographs of British colonials and local Malays on Bukit Hitam rubber plantation, Selangor, Malaysia, circa 1910.
Group of 21 gelatin silver photographs, most in format 80 x 100 mm (some 135 x 85 mm), mounted recto and verso of 3 album leaves removed from a disbound album; the album owner’s handwritren captions to pages, identifying a number of the people in the photographs (we know the compiler of the album was …
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# 21611
[UNDY; EVANS; TUFFIN; PEARCE; SINCLAIR; YOUNG; DIEMER; LYNCH; ROBERTS; SALVATORE; CURRIE; BORNSTEIN; TESTER; GLATTAUER; CHAPMAN; NAISMITH]
The spirit within Australia : the land and the people
A limited fine press edition artists’ book designed to showcase Australia via original photographic based art from a selection of established and emerging Australian artists. Woodinville, WA (USA) : Veritas Editions, 2017. Album (310 x 383 x 35 mm) with 15 tipped in original prints, plus 1 loose original print in a custom linen-covered portfolio …
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# 21603
REPUBLIC OF CHINA. MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND COMMERCE.
China’s New Industrial Enterprises (中國新事業之一斑), 1915
[Drop title]. [Shanghai? San Francisco?] : s.n., [1915]. Oblong octavo (130 x 195 mm), original cloth backed pictorial wrappers (lightly foxed), pp 64, all full page half tone photographic plates with captions in Chinese and English; introduction by Chang Chien, Minister of Agriculture and Commerce (also printed in Chinese and English); contents very clean and …
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# 21231
[KING, Henry, 1855-1923]
[HUNTER VALLEY] View of the Post Office, West Maitland, showing the adjacent W. Bussell’s Post Office Hotel and premises of T. Edmunds, saddler, circa 1890.
Photographic glass magic lantern slide with hand colouring, 82 x 82 mm, typed caption to mount: ‘New South Wales, &c.’, together with printed label with sequence number ’26’; photographer’s manuscript caption in negative at lower left is only partially legible: ‘[Henry King] Sydney’; the slide is in fine condition. The Post Office in High Street, …