Performing Arts
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![[LONDON; DOLLS] Meech's Royal Exhibition of Mechanical and Wax Figures, 50 & 52, Kennington Road ... Complimentary Lenten Order, admitting TWO on Payment for ONE,](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/07/2026_DSFB_4598-300x300.jpg)
# 50822
[MEECH, Herbert John]
[LONDON; DOLLS] Meech’s Royal Exhibition of Mechanical and Wax Figures, 50 & 52, Kennington Road … Complimentary Lenten Order, admitting TWO on Payment for ONE,
To view the magnificent life-size Models in costly costumes of eminent persons, The Automaton Flute Player, with the wonderful mechanical Groupings, Works of Art, and the performances of Professor Burman, the Wizard, (From the Egyptian Hall) whose feats are still the delight and surprise of all. Admission 6d. Working Classes and Children 3d. Open daily …
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# 50836
LESAINT, Edward (1870-1940) (director)
Sydney-born Australian silent film actress Louise Lovely in two scenes from “Painted Lips” (1918).
Los Angeles, California : Edward LeSaint, [c.1918]. Two gelatin silver print photographs on lightweight card stock, in identical 160 x 210 mm format; the negatives inscribed ‘LeSaint 2439’ and ‘LeSaint 2739’ and the versos with old pencil annotations: ‘Louise Lovely’ and ‘The Straw Cellar’, respectively; both prints are in fine condition (unframed). Two stills from …
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![[CIRCUS HISTORY] "Cleopatra", snake handler in the "Wild Australia" show : holograph letter, to her cousin. Java, August 1918.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/07/2026_DSFB_4768-300x300.jpg)
# 50908
[DRESCHER, Harriett, aka "CLEOPATRA"]
[CIRCUS HISTORY] “Cleopatra”, snake handler in the “Wild Australia” show : holograph letter, to her cousin. Java, August 1918.
Manuscript in ink, 4 pages, octavo (210 x 140 mm); headed ‘Permanent postal address: Savoy Hotel, Calcutta, India. 8-8-’18’ (but actually written in Java), the letter is written by “Cleopatra” (real name Harriett Drescher) and addressed to her cousin Louis (Jessop) in England; it is signed at the foot ‘Always, Cleo, xxxxx’; original folds, short …
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# 50895
YANG, William et al.
William Yang : Seeing and Being Seen (deluxe edition with signed archival print)
Brisbane : Queensland Art Gallery I Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA), 2021. Quarto, gilt-lettered pictorial boards, pp. 220, extensively illustrated. Fine copy. The rare deluxe edition, limited to only 50 copies signed by the artist. Mounted inside the upper board is a mylar sleeve housing a limited edition archival inkjet print Golden Summer 1987 / 2016 …
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# 51050
BIONDO, Sam and PUGH, Rohan
Skins ‘n’ Sharps. The forgotten subculture Melbourne 1971 to 1979.
Melbourne : Skins ‘n’ Sharps, 2006. Quarto (295 x 210 mm), pictorial wrappers, staple bound, 14 pp (including wrappers), b/w and colour illustrations throughout; an as new copy. Superbly illustrated catalogue produced to accompany a low-key Melbourne exhibition staged in 2006, Skins ‘n’ Sharps. The catalogue contains many original photographs, previously unpublished, documenting the unique …
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![[MELBOURNE THEATRE] Weston's New Opera House. Bourke Str. East, Melbourne. Soirée d'Ethiop. Opera. Instrumental. Comedy. Terpsichore. Burlesque. West & Hussey's Minstrels, presented with the compliments of Messrs. Weston & Hussey. H. Peachman, Agent.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/06/2026_DSFB_3996-300x300.jpg)
# 50560
TROEDEL, Charles (printer)
[MELBOURNE THEATRE] Weston’s New Opera House. Bourke Str. East, Melbourne. Soirée d’Ethiop. Opera. Instrumental. Comedy. Terpsichore. Burlesque. West & Hussey’s Minstrels, presented with the compliments of Messrs. Weston & Hussey. H. Peachman, Agent.
[Drop title]. [Melbourne : Charles Troedel, 1869]. Souvenir programme printed in purple on cream silk, bifolium, 200 x 140 mm, printed on the first and third of [4] sides, stitched at left edge and opening to reveal the third side containing the programme itself, headed ‘Grand Vice-Regal Command Night’; extremely well preserved; accompanied by two …
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# 50511
ARLINGTON, L. C.
The Chinese Drama from the earliest times until today
A panoramic study of the art in China, tracing its origin and describing its actors (in both male and female roles); their costumes and make-ups, superstitions and stage slang: the accompanying music and musical instruments: concluding with synopses of thirty Chinese plays. Shanghai : Kelly and Walsh, 1930. Quarto, quarter cloth, lettered in gilt, over …
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![[SYDNEY; MUSIC] To meet Miss Marie Narelle: The Premier and The Citizens' Reception Committee request the pleasure of Mr. & Mrs. J. G. O'Connor's Company at the Town Hall, Sydney, on Thursday Evening 15th June [1906] from 8 to 10 o'clock.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/06/2026_DSFB_3591-300x300.jpg)
# 50432
[SYDNEY MUNICIPAL COUNCIL. CITIZENS' RECEPTION COMMITTEE]
[SYDNEY; MUSIC] To meet Miss Marie Narelle: The Premier and The Citizens’ Reception Committee request the pleasure of Mr. & Mrs. J. G. O’Connor’s Company at the Town Hall, Sydney, on Thursday Evening 15th June [1906] from 8 to 10 o’clock.
[Sydney : s.n., 1906]. Invitation card, 105 x 130 mm; lithograph printed; manuscript entry in ink recording that the invitation was issued to the O’Connors; scattered small stains, bottom edge roughened; laid down on section of card from a nineteenth-century album. Scarce ephemeral item associated with the career of the “Australian Queen of Irish Song”. …
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![[SYDNEY] East Sydney Gymnastic & Social Club, 123 William Street. A Musical and Variety Entertainment will be held on Tuesday, 17th December, 1889, at 8 o'clock p.m.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/05/2026_DSFB_3434-300x300.jpg)
# 50401
HUGHES, Thomas W. & QUINLAN, Henry G. (Hon. Secretaries)
[SYDNEY] East Sydney Gymnastic & Social Club, 123 William Street. A Musical and Variety Entertainment will be held on Tuesday, 17th December, 1889, at 8 o’clock p.m.
[Sydney: s.n.], 1889. Invitation card, 115 x 75 mm; lithograph printed recto only in red on lightweight buff card; endirsed ‘Complimentary’ in pencil, and initialled by a committee member; toned and lightly marked, small loss at one corner, verso with some residual glue and paper adhesions from where the card was once mounted in an …
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![[SYDNEY] St. Vincent's Convent. The Reverend Mother and the Community request the honor of Mr. O'Connor's presence at the Annual Soiree Musicale, St. Vincent's College, Victoria Street North, Tuesday next 10th inst. at 3 o'c.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/06/2026_DSFB_3602-300x300.jpg)
# 50446
ST. VINCENT'S CONVENT (DARLINGHURST)
[SYDNEY] St. Vincent’s Convent. The Reverend Mother and the Community request the honor of Mr. O’Connor’s presence at the Annual Soiree Musicale, St. Vincent’s College, Victoria Street North, Tuesday next 10th inst. at 3 o’c.
[Sydney : s.n., c.1890]. Invitation card, 115 x 150 mm, printed recto only in sepia on buff card; O’Connor’s name recorded in manuscript; the word ‘Hospital’ struck to and revised to ‘Convent’, ‘Bi-Annual’ changed to ‘Annual’, ‘7.30 p.m.’ revised to ‘3 o’c’, ‘Carriages at 9.30’ struck out; lightly foxed overall, left side with some minor …
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![[SYDNEY] The Mayor & Mayoress of Sydney request the honor of Mr. & Mrs. J. G. O'Connor's company to a Ball at the Exhibition Building on Thursday the 10th of April 1890 at 9 o'clock. Please reply to the Town Clerk. Carriages at 1 o'clock.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/06/2026_DSFB_3604-300x300.jpg)
# 50437
SYDNEY MUNICIPAL COUNCIL. TOWN CLERK.
[SYDNEY] The Mayor & Mayoress of Sydney request the honor of Mr. & Mrs. J. G. O’Connor’s company to a Ball at the Exhibition Building on Thursday the 10th of April 1890 at 9 o’clock. Please reply to the Town Clerk. Carriages at 1 o’clock.
[Sydney : s.n., 1890]. Invitation card, 120 x 185 mm, lithograph printed recto only in black on buff card with embossed crest of the Sydney Town Hall at the head, the O’Connors’ names entered in manuscript; toned, lightly foxed, left edge roughened, laid down on a section of card cut from a nineteenth-century album mount. …
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# 50012
EGAN, Pierce
The life of an actor
The poetical descriptions by T. Greenwood. Embellished with twenty-seven characteristic scenes, etched by Theodore Lane. London : Pickering and Chatto, 1892. Octavo, finely bound in half crushed Morocco over buckram, ruled in gilt, spine in compartments with raised bands, lettered in gilt, lightly rubbed at edges, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, pp. xvi; 257, colour plates (a …
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![[TORONTO] Concert. The Alleghanians, Vocalists and Bell Players. Organised in 1846 by J. M. Boulard.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/04/2026_DSFB_2767-300x300.jpg)
# 50128
[BOULARD, J. M.]
[TORONTO] Concert. The Alleghanians, Vocalists and Bell Players. Organised in 1846 by J. M. Boulard.
Miss Carry Hiffert, contralto; Miss Toma Hanlon, mezzo-soprano; Mr. Walter Field, buffo’ Mr. J. M. Boulard, basso; Miss Eva Leroy, accompanist. Toronto [Canada] : Mail Printing Co., [1850]. Handbill, 230 x 105 mm, lithograph-printed on both sides; recto with vignette illustration at head, list of performers, and concert programme; verso with complete lyrics to “The Burning …
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# 50084
YANG, William et al.
William Yang : Seeing and Being Seen
Brisbane : Queensland Art Gallery I Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA), 2021. Reprinted 2022. Quarto, gilt-lettered pictorial boards, pp. 220, extensively illustrated. Queensland-born, Sydney-based photographer William Yang’s significant contribution to Australian photography spans five decades. Known for his reflective and joyous depictions of Australia’s LGBTQI scene in the late 70s and 80s through to the …
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# 49795
SMITH, Patti (1946 - )
Just kids. (Signed deluxe edition)
New York : Ecco (Harper Collins), 2010. Octavo, silver lettered. blue cloth, ribbon marker, decorated endpapers, pp. xii; 280; (12), photographically illustrated, housed in a silver lettered blue cloth folding clamshell box, with an additional broadside Reflecting Robert loosely enclosed. The deluxe edition, limited to 1000 hand numbered copies signed in pen by Patti Smith. …
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![[JAZZ] Discography : for the jazz student](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2016/11/16215237/2015_DSFB_2719-300x277.jpg)
# 11025
JONES, Clifford (editor)
[JAZZ] Discography : for the jazz student
Willesden, U.K. : Clifford Jones, for the Discographical Society, January – February – March – May – June – July – August, 1943. Seven individual issues, uniform format square quarto (225 x 200 mm), newspaper print, 8 pp., illustrated; all issues complete and in good condition. These scarce wartime issues of Discography – essentially an early …