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# 41445

[LINDSAY, Ruby]

Ruby Lindsay 1887 – 1919

Melbourne : Douglas Stewart Fine Books, 2010. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. [24], illustrated, essay, catalogue. Printed in an edition of 1000 copies.

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# 41133

[LYALL, Harewood, attributed]

[WESTERNPORT; DANCE] Manuscript with instructions for dancing the One-Step, Spanish One-Step, Fox Trot, and Tango Waltz, 1915-20.

Manuscript in ink, 2 pp, single quarto sheet (250 x 200 mm); written in a scrawly though legible hand; old horizontal and vertical folds, in very good condition. Provenance: Found among papers associated with the family of John Mickle Lyall (1869-1925) of Harewood House, Koo-Wee-Rup, Westernport, south of Melbourne. John was the son of Westernport …

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# 41185

CURDIE, Daniel (1810-1884)

[WESTERN DISTRICT; BOTANY] Dr. Daniel Curdie, pioneer colonist and naturalist : original signature on British Association for the Advancement of Science membership form, giving his address as Port Phillip, New Holland, dated 2 July 1851.

Manuscript in ink on section cut from printed British Association for the Advancement of Science form, 60 x 182 mm, with original full signature of ‘Daniel Curdie MD’, who also gives ‘Port Phillip, New Holland’ as his ‘usual residence’; in good condition. The following biography of Curdie was published in the Camperdown Chronicle (Vic.), 27 …

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# 41347

BURGESS, Francis (1793-1864)

[TASMANIA; BUSHRANGERS] Francis Burgess, Chief Police Magistrate, Hobart Town : autograph note signed, to the magistrate at Richmond regarding the dispatch of mounted policemen to help in the pursuit and capture of bushrangers in the Prosser’s Plains district. 29 November, 1843.

Manuscript in ink, single sheet (225 x 185 mm); signed ‘Fras. Burgess’ and headed ‘Police Department [Hobart Town], Nov. 29 1843’, the note is addressed to ‘Chas. Schaw Esq., Magistrate’; endorsed at Richmond ‘Recd. 1/4 past 2 of pm’; verso docketed ‘CPM, 29 Nov ’43, “Bushrangers”‘; two original horizontal folds, extremely well preserved. An interesting …

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# 41352

FORSTER, Matthew (1796-1846)

[TASMANIA; BUSHRANGERS] Matthew Forster, Chief Police Magistrate, Hobart Town : autograph letter signed, to the magistrate at Richmond regarding the cancellation of a Ticket of Leave pass in order to motivate convicts to assist in the capture of bushrangers. 7 April, 1843.

Manuscript in ink, 1 page, quarto (250 x 220 mm), written on the first side of a bifolium; signed ‘M. Forster, 7th April 1843’ and headed ‘Police Department [Hobart Town]’, the note is addressed to ‘The P. Magistrate, Richmond’ [Charles Schaw]; verso docketed ‘CPM, 7 Apl ’43, Respg. T.L. Pass’; two original horizontal folds, extremely …

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# 41356

[McKONE, Patrick]

[TASMANIA; CONVICTS] Police magistrate’s case summary against recidivist convict Patrick McKone, one of the longest-serving prisoners in the Van Diemen’s Land penal system. Flowerdale (Upper Esk), March 1846.

Manuscript in ink, 2 pp., foolscap folio (320 x 200 mm); original folds, short tear at top edge (no loss), otherwise well preserved. Case summary prepared by an unnamed police magistrate at Flowerdale, near Wynyard, northwest Tasmania, dated 12 March 1846. ‘March 12 46. P[olice ] M[agistrate], Flowerdale. Patrick McKone, Coromandel. TL, Life. Larceny of …

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# 41186

McLEAY, Alexander (1767-1848)

[NATURAL HISTORY] Alexander Macleay, New South Wales public servant and entomologist : autograph letter signed, re. the Linnean Society. London, October 1801.

Manuscript in ink, [2] pp., single quarto sheet (250 x 185 mm); headed ‘Transport Office, 10th October 1801’, signed ‘Your most obed. Serv. Alex McLeay’, the letter is addressed to D. Turner [Dawson Turner], and is a response to a request about the whereabouts of Professor Espir’s Diploma from the Linnean Society, which Macleay says …

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# 40523

FOXCROFT, Frank L.

An important group of photographs of scenes in the Victorian Alps, circa 1900.

Group of 11 (eleven) sepia-tone gelatin silver print photographs, in uniform 140 x 200 mm format, laid down on the photographer’s pale green card mounts, 160 x 235 mm; eight are captioned (see below) and signed by the photographer in the negative ‘F. Foxcroft Photo. Bright’; one is signed, but without caption (scene of an …

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# 34804

TULLOCH, David

[GOLD RUSH] Ham’s five views of the gold fields of Mount Alexander and Ballarat, in the Colony of Victoria,

drawn on the spot by D. Tulloch, engraved and published by Thomas Ham. Melbourne : Thomas Ham, 1852. Oblong folio, original cloth-backed pictorial stiff paper wrappers, the upper wrapper with six vignettes of goldfields scenes by Tulloch (stained and creased with short tears, old paper reinforcement lower wrapper), title page and five tinted lithographed plates, …

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# 41018

DOBSON, Rosemary (1920-2012)

Poems (signed copy)

[Mittagong, N.S.W.] : Frensham Press, 1937. Duodecimo, papered boards with red title label to front, black cloth spine (the backstop perished); light foxing to preliminaries, signed by the author on the title page. This slim volume of poetry is the rare first book by the highly-regarded Australian poet Rosemary Dobson. It was published when Dobson was …

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# 41103

BURTON BROTHERS

[SAMOA] Lt. Gaunt’s squad drilling. (Apia, 1899).

Albumen print photograph, 145 x 200 mm, laid down on its original card mount, 245 x 295 mm; ms. caption in the negative reads: ‘6395. Lt. Gaunt’s Squad drilling. Burton Bros. Dunedin. Protected, Oct. ’99’; the print is in good condition; the mount is sunned at the edges and has a tiny amount of insect damage at …

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# 39619

BURROWS' STUDIOS (LAUNCESTON)

Photographic Memoirs: Visit to Launceston of September’s Prettiest Bride (Mrs W. H. Dando).

With Compliments from Burrows’ Studios, Launceston, 1926. Photograph album, oblong folio (240 x 340 mm), original burgundy crushed morocco over boards with gilt-stamped initials ‘T.D.’ (Thelma Dando) to front (upper boards with a few scuff marks; lower board with the leather worn at fore-edge); gilt-stamped title leaf, followed by [20] sepia-tone gelatin silver print photographs …

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# 41107

[PRICHARD, Katharine Susannah, 1883-1969]

[SOUND RECORDING] Anna Maria Josephina [and] The Cooboo / read by the author Katharine Susannah Prichard. (Signed)

Perth, W.A. : Australian Peace Committee. West Australian Branch, [1963]. WA-006. Mono 33 1/3 rpm analog sound recording on 7″ microgroove vinyl; the label with the full signature in fountain pen of Katharine Susannah Prichard; vinyl in near mint condition; in the original sleeve, but without the jacket. Australian writer Katharine Susannah Prichard (1883-1969) resided …

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# 41143

DRISLANE, Jack (words); MEYER, George W. (music)

[SHEET MUSIC] You taught me how to love you (now teach me to forget.)

Melbourne, Bendigo & Geelong : Allan & Co., [ca. 1910]. Series: Allan’s Popular Sixpenny Edition, no. 403. Folio (355 x 250 mm), upper wrapper with portrait of Australian vaudeville singer Miss Maud Bletsoe by Punchinello Co., Manly, inscribed by original owner ‘R. Thomas 1912’; [3] pp music notation (arrangement for voice and piano); a fine …

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# 41146

MILLS, A. J. (words); SCOTT, Bennett (music)

[SHEET MUSIC] She was a girl in white.

Cover: Artistically sung by England’s dainty song artist Miss Florence Cromer Challis. Also now being sung with great success by Miss Ida Berridge. Melbourne : A.M. Dinsdale, [ca.1911]. Series: Dinsdale’s Popular sixpenny edition, no. 160. Folio, illustrated wrappers with vignette portrait of Miss Florence Cromer Challis by Talma (taken during her Australian tour in 1911), …

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# 41147

ARMSTRONG, Tom (words & music)

[SHEET MUSIC] Leonora, or, That dreamy Honolulu rag.

Cover: Tome Armstrong’s very latest bewitching rag song. Also sung with great success by Les Warton at Rickards’ Tivoli Theatres. Melbourne : A.M. Dinsdale, [ca.1911]. Series: Dinsdale’s Popular sixpenny edition, no. 169. Folio, illustrated wrappers with vignette portrait of Australian vaudeville star Tom Armstrong, [3] pp of music notation; a fine copy. Trove locates only the NLA …

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Ruby Lindsay 1887 – 1919

[WESTERNPORT; DANCE] Manuscript with instructions for dancing the One-Step, Spanish One-Step, Fox Trot, and Tango Waltz, 1915-20.

[WESTERN DISTRICT; BOTANY] Dr. Daniel Curdie, pioneer colonist and naturalist : original signature on British Association for the Advancement of Science membership form, giving his address as Port Phillip, New Holland, dated 2 July 1851.

[TASMANIA; BUSHRANGERS] Francis Burgess, Chief Police Magistrate, Hobart Town : autograph note signed, to the magistrate at Richmond regarding the dispatch of mounted policemen to help in the pursuit and capture of bushrangers in the Prosser’s Plains district. 29 November, 1843.

[TASMANIA; BUSHRANGERS] Matthew Forster, Chief Police Magistrate, Hobart Town : autograph letter signed, to the magistrate at Richmond regarding the cancellation of a Ticket of Leave pass in order to motivate convicts to assist in the capture of bushrangers. 7 April, 1843.

[TASMANIA; CONVICTS] Police magistrate’s case summary against recidivist convict Patrick McKone, one of the longest-serving prisoners in the Van Diemen’s Land penal system. Flowerdale (Upper Esk), March 1846.

[NATURAL HISTORY] Alexander Macleay, New South Wales public servant and entomologist : autograph letter signed, re. the Linnean Society. London, October 1801.

An important group of photographs of scenes in the Victorian Alps, circa 1900.

[GOLD RUSH] Ham’s five views of the gold fields of Mount Alexander and Ballarat, in the Colony of Victoria,

Poems (signed copy)

[SAMOA] Lt. Gaunt’s squad drilling. (Apia, 1899).

Photographic Memoirs: Visit to Launceston of September’s Prettiest Bride (Mrs W. H. Dando).

[SOUND RECORDING] Anna Maria Josephina [and] The Cooboo / read by the author Katharine Susannah Prichard. (Signed)

[SHEET MUSIC] You taught me how to love you (now teach me to forget.)

[SHEET MUSIC] She was a girl in white.

[SHEET MUSIC] Leonora, or, That dreamy Honolulu rag.

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