Performing Arts
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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] Opening of St. Mary's Cathedral. Programme of music to be performed during the Triduum, 8th, 9th, & 10th Sept., 1882.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/04/2026_DSFB_2429-300x300.jpg)
# 50062
[FITZPATRICK, M. J., Hon. Secretary]
[SYDNEY] Opening of St. Mary’s Cathedral. Programme of music to be performed during the Triduum, 8th, 9th, & 10th Sept., 1882.
[Sydney] : J. G. O’Connor, Printer, 26 Jamison-street, 1882. Duodecimo folding card, 150 x 90 mm, printed on [4] sides, text and illustration in purple, decorative borders in silver; front with manuscript entry in ink recording that the programme was issued to Miss Scollen, an official guest; last side with some superficial loss and residual …
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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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# 45560
LAMARTINIERE, Alexander Henry
Studio portrait of comedian, singer and theatrical entrepreneur Harry Rickards and his first wife, actress Caroline Hayden. Sydney, c.1872.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 102 x 62 mm (mount); verso with imprint of ‘Lamartiniere & Co., late Dalton’s, Photographic Artists. 320 George Street, 6 doors from Hunter St., Sydney’, and wet stamp in purple ink ‘The Rickards Comique Concert Party’; the print has some light mottling in the negative, but is in …
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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 …
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# 26665
HORNE, H. E.; TREHARNE, Herbert F.; HELLEMANN, Christian
Ode for Australia’s 150th Anniversary. (Presentation copy for Francis Crosslé)
/ words by H.E. Horne ; music by Herbert F. Treharne and Christian Hellemann. Cover: “Schools’ concert, Town Hall, Sydney, 8th, 9th & 10th March, 1938”. Royal octavo (240 x 180 mm), original printed wrappers, staple bound, a presentation copy inscribed on the upper wrapper by the author H. E. Horne and composer Herbert F. …
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# 49813
BRAMLY, Sophie et al.
Yo! The early days of Hip Hop 1982 – 84
London : Soul Jazz Records, 2022. Quarto, illustrated limp boards, pp. 304, illustrated. New copy. Over 250 rarely seen stunning images documenting the rise of hip-hop in the early 1980s. Photographs by Sophie Bramly, Introduction by Bill Adler, Text by Fab Five Freddy, Grand Mixer D.ST, Rahiem (The Furious Five), Arthur Baker, Zephyr Muhamad (The …
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# 45462
[CLEARY, Thomas]
A pair of tableau photographs forming part of a narrative sequence, showing white women being aided by Aborigines. Northern Victoria or Southern New South Wales, 1896-98.
Two gelatin silver print photographs, in uniform 230 x 270 mm format; no photographer’s imprint; in original grey board mounts (one with a very old auction sticker), 360 x 400 mm; the prints are in superb condition, and the mounts clean and stable. The only two known surviving original prints from an extraordinary sub-group of …
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# 48514
THESPIAN DRAMATIC COMPANY (Perth)
Inaugural entertainment, St. George’s Hall, Perth, Western Australia, under the patronage of His Excellency Major-General Sir Harry St. George Ord … on Thursday and Monday, December 4 and 8, 1879,
an Amateur Company will perform the well-known 3-act musical melodrama the Colleen Bawn, or the Brides of Garryowen … … Perth, W.A. : Stirling Bros., Printers, 1879. Quarto bifolium, [4] pp., printed entirely in gold ink; short closed tear at upper margin of second leaf, last side lightly marked, otherwise extremely well preserved; accompanied by …
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# 49412
COLLIER, Jeremy
A short view of the immorality and profaneness of the English stage : together with the sense of antiquity upon this argument.
London : S. Keble, 1698. Second edition. Octavo, contemporary English panelled calf, ruled in blind (rubbed and worn, rebacked with new spine lettered in gilt),preliminary blank, title leaf, pp. [iv – Preface]; [x – xiv – Contents, Errata, Books printed for R. Sare and H. Hindmarch, the last leaf loose]; 288, general foxing and toning, …
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# 36864
HERBERTE, H. A.
A group of young men relaxing at Tocumwal in the New South Wales southern Riverina, circa 1910.
Gelatin silver print photograph, 87 x 137 mm, printed on postcard stock; verso wet-stamped ‘H. A. Herberte, Photo., Tocumwal’; a few marks to the margins, but the image itself is hardly affected. These likely lads were probably part of a sporting team or church social group out for a picnic in the fresh air at …
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# 49462
GOPINATH & S. V. RAMANA RAO
The classical dance poses of India (Yvonne Audette’s copy)
Madras : Natana Niketan Publications, 1955. Second edition. Quarto, plain papered boards, cloth spine, in illustrated dustjacket (silverfished and foxed), unpaginated, illustrated with the Mudras (the twenty four basic hand gestures) and 105 classical dance poses. Provenance: Australian artist Yvonne Audette (born 1930), her wet stamp to the endpaper, acquired in 2025.