Gold Rush
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# 22018
Two letters addressed to Benjamin Hurst, Wesleyan minister at Goulburn, New South Wales, from fellow ministers James Somerville (Braidwood) and Benjamin Chapman (Sydney). 1853-54.
Benjamin Hurst (1811-1857), in company with Francis Tuckfield, had been sent from England to work as a Wesleyan missionary among the Port Phillip Aborigines in 1838. Hurst worked with Tuckfield in the Geelong-Colac area for a number of years before his appointment as minister at Goulburn, the fledgling pastoral township on the South Tablelands of …
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# 21779
DOVE, William Woodman, Rev. (1832-1867)
[HUNTER VALLEY; DARLING DOWNS] Letter from clergyman and colonial artist Rev. William Woodman Dove, to his sister in Gloucestershire. Sydney, 1857.
Manuscript in ink, 1 page, small quarto, written by William W. Dove and addressed to his younger sister, Miss Selma Dove, of Falfield House, Berkeley, Gloucestershire, dated 22 January 1857 and written from Sydney while Dove was on Sabbatical from the Darling Downs; signed at the foot ‘My dear Selma, Your loving brother, William W. …
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# 21785
ALSTON, John; [OSBORNE, Isabella, 1831-1854]
A suicide on the morning of her wedding : Isabella Osborne, of Yackandandah, northeast Victoria, hangs herself at Sutton Forest, Southern Highlands, New South Wales, on 21 March 1854.
A previously unknown (hence unpublished) letter containing a first-hand account by John Alston, the shocked and grief-stricken father of the groom, describing the tragedy that occurred at Sutton Forest on Tuesday, 21 March 1854, when the bride-to-be and his future daughter-in-law, Isabella Osborne, hanged herself on the morning of her proposed wedding to his son, …
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# 21801
HORE, E. O. (Miss); [CUTLER, Mary Anne, 1843-1937]
Handwritten invitation to Miss Cutler from Miss Hore to attend her birthday party, to be held at Mrs. Kells’, George Street, Parramatta, on May 8 [1858?]. “Dancing commences at 7. Private entrance”.
Manuscript in ink, on one side only of a single octavo size sheet of notepaper (182 x 114 mm) with embossed fleur-de-lis at upper left corner; dated at the foot May 4th; original folds, in fine condition. This charming ephemeral piece relates to a manuscript held in the State Library of New South Wales: a …
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# 21237
JONES, Frederic; [DRAPER, Daniel James, 1810-1866]
Photographic portrait of colonial Wesleyan minister Rev. D. J. Draper, lost in “The London”, Jan. 11th 1866.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 97 x 64 mm (mount), recto of mount with printed caption beneath image: ‘Revd. D. J. Draper. Lost in “The London, Jany. 11th 1866’; verso with imprint of Frederic Jones, 146 Oxford Street, London’; the print has a couple of small ink marks, but is otherwise in good …
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# 21018
GILL, W. B.
The comic history of Victoria, after the style of Gilbert A. a’Beckett (a very long way)
Written by W. B. Gill ; and delivered by him, with immense applause, at the suburban penny readings. Melbourne : Charlwood and Son, [1871]. Duodecimo, printed paper wrappers, 4pp, in early gilt-lettered cloth folder. A humorous take on Victoria’s first fifty years. Ferguson 9927.
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# 20276
JOHNSTONE, O'SHANNESSY & CO.
Photograph of the R.H. Horne portrait medallion by Charles Summers, Melbourne, circa 1865.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 103 x 63 mm (mount), recto with contemporary inscription in ink ‘R.H. Horne’, verso with a second inscription in the same hand ‘From a medallion by C. Summers, Melbourne’, and imprinted ‘Johnstone, O’Shannessy & Co. Artist Photographers, 3 Bourke Street, East, next the Post Office, Melbourne’; both the albumen print …
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# 20777
HEMUS & HALL. [HEMUS, James, 1860-1936]
Man mounted on a racing camel near Coolgardie, Western Australian goldfields, late 1890s.
Albumen print photograph, 150 x 200 mm, manuscript caption in negative lower left: ‘A Thoroughbred Racer’, and at lower right: ‘Hemus & Hall Photos’; laid down on its original nineteenth century album page of thin card; the print is in good condition, with some pale foxing in the sky area. ‘James William Hemus (born 1860, …
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# 20924
MOSER, Barry (1940 - )
Gold rush. Twenty-five wood engravings by Barry Moser on a theme of the discovery and mining of gold in America, Africa and Australia.
With a note on those prints by the artist. Los Angeles : Arundel Press, 1985. Folio, gilt lettered black cloth clamshell box, 7 leaves text; 25 original wood engravings each hand-signed by the artist. Printed for the Arundel Press by Harold McGrath at the Hampshire Typothetae in West Hatfield, Massachusetts on Rives BFK. Limited to …
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# 20795
GILL, Samuel Thomas (1818 - 1880); TINGLE, J.
Ballaarat, looking N. W. from Mount Bunningyong, 1857
Steel engraving, vignette approximately 100 x 160 mm, on sheet 205 x 275 mm, uncoloured as issued, a couple of small spots of foxing and faint tide mark to margin not affecting the image. Published in the volume Victoria Illustrated, Melbourne and Sydney : Sands & Kenny; and Geelong : Thomas Brown, 1857 (Ferguson 9924; Wantrup 260a). …
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# 20799
GILL, Samuel Thomas (1818 - 1880); TINGLE, J.
Kyneton, looking towards the bridge, 1857
Steel engraving, vignette approximately 100 x 160 mm, on sheet 205 x 275 mm, uncoloured as issued, a couple of small spots of foxing. Published in the volume Victoria Illustrated, Melbourne and Sydney : Sands & Kenny; and Geelong : Thomas Brown, 1857 (Ferguson 9924; Wantrup 260a). After the success of Frederick Terry’s ‘Landscape Scenery’ in 1855 …
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# 20798
GILL, Samuel Thomas (1818 - 1880); TINGLE, J.
Lydiart St. from Bath’s Hotel, Ballaarat, 1857
Steel engraving, vignette approximately 100 x 160 mm, on sheet 205 x 275 mm, uncoloured as issued, a couple of small spots of foxing. Published in the volume Victoria Illustrated, Melbourne and Sydney : Sands & Kenny; and Geelong : Thomas Brown, 1857 (Ferguson 9924; Wantrup 260a). After the success of Frederick Terry’s ‘Landscape Scenery’ in 1855 …
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# 20796
GILL, Samuel Thomas (1818 - 1880); TINGLE, J.
Ballaarat Flat from the Black Hill, 1857
Steel engraving, vignette approximately 100 x 160 mm, on sheet 205 x 275 mm, uncoloured as issued, a couple of small spots of foxing and faint tide mark to margin not affecting the image. Published in the volume Victoria Illustrated, Melbourne and Sydney : Sands & Kenny; and Geelong : Thomas Brown, 1857 (Ferguson 9924; Wantrup 260a). …
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# 20833
GILL, Samuel Thomas (1818 - 1880); TINGLE, J.
View on the Yarra, near Dight’s Mill, 1857
Steel engraving, vignette approximately 100 x 160 mm, on sheet 205 x 275 mm, uncoloured as issued, a couple of small spots of foxing. Published in the volume Victoria Illustrated, Melbourne and Sydney : Sands & Kenny; and Geelong : Thomas Brown, 1857 (Ferguson 9924; Wantrup 260a). After the success of Frederick Terry’s ‘Landscape Scenery’ in 1855 …
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# 20831
GILL, Samuel Thomas (1818 - 1880); TINGLE, J.
Hobson’s Bay, &c., from Signal Station, 1857
Steel engraving, vignette approximately 100 x 160 mm, on sheet 205 x 275 mm, uncoloured as issued, a couple of small spots of foxing. Published in the volume Victoria Illustrated, Melbourne and Sydney : Sands & Kenny; and Geelong : Thomas Brown, 1857 (Ferguson 9924; Wantrup 260a). After the success of Frederick Terry’s ‘Landscape Scenery’ in 1855 …
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# 20830
GILL, Samuel Thomas (1818 - 1880); TINGLE, J.
Dight’s Mill, Yarra Yarra, 1857
Steel engraving, vignette approximately 100 x 160 mm, on sheet 205 x 275 mm, uncoloured as issued, a couple of small spots of foxing. Published in the volume Victoria Illustrated, Melbourne and Sydney : Sands & Kenny; and Geelong : Thomas Brown, 1857 (Ferguson 9924; Wantrup 260a). After the success of Frederick Terry’s ‘Landscape Scenery’ in 1855 …