Performing Arts

# 16492

PROUTIERE, Réné

[CRIMEAN WAR] Manuscript compiled by a French cotton merchant and soldier, 1852-54.

Unbound manuscript in ink on laid paper, large octavo (200 x 150 mm), original stitching, first page with owner’s inscription ‘Cahier de coton de 1852 et 1853. Monsieur Proutière Réné, soldat au 35eme de ligne 1er Bataillon 4ème Compagnie, à Inkermann (Crimée) armée D’orient Inkermann’; [9] pages of accounts relating to the purchase and sale of …

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# 16333

[FAWCETT, John]

[LA PEROUSE] The grand interesting Pantomime of La Perouse; Or the Desolate Island

[Liverpool] : Egerton Smith and Co. Printers, Pool-Lane, [1811]. A good copy, with a small amount of loss to three corners and some mild spotting. Playbill, single sheet (300 x 185 mm), advertising a performance at the Theatre-Royal, Liverpool, on Friday, June 7th, 1811. The play opening the bill is ‘George Barnwell’. The full cast …

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# 16335

[PALTOCK, Robert]

[THEATRE PLAYBILL] Peter Wilkins, or, The flying Indians.

London : W. Reynolds, 1827. Theatre playbill, single sheet (330 x 200 mm), advertising a production at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden on Tuesday May 8 1827 of the ‘Melo-Dramatic Romantic Spectacle, in 2 acts, founded on the fanciful Adventures of Peter Wilkins, or, The Flying Indians‘, giving a full list of the cast and …

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# 16332

[FAWCETT, John]

[LA PEROUSE] The grand interesting Pantomime of La Perouse; Or the Desolate Island

[Liverpool] : Egerton Smith and Co. Printers, Pool-Lane, [1811]. A good copy, with a small amount of chipping to the edges and some mild spotting. Playbill, single sheet (310 x 187 mm), advertising a performance of the tragedy ‘Jane Shore‘ on Thursday June 6th 1811, at the Theatre-Royal, Liverpool, and giving notice of a performance of …

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# 16326

[FAWCETT, John]

[LA PEROUSE] The Grand Serious Pantomime De la Perouse.

With New Scenery, Machinery, Dresses and Decorations. [Liverpool] : E. and W. Smith, Printers, Pool-Lane, [1809]. A good copy, with a very small amount of edge loss at lower left. Playbill, single sheet (285 x 190 mm), advertising a performance at the Theatre-Royal, Liverpool, on Friday, September 15th, 1809. The play opening the bill is …

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# 16325

[FAWCETT, John]

[LA PEROUSE] The Pantomime De la Perouse.

[Liverpool] : [E. and W. Smith, Printers, Pool-Lane], [1809]. A very good copy. Playbill, single sheet (285 x 190 mm), advertising a performance of ‘The Exile‘ at the Theatre-Royal, Liverpool, on Thursday September 14th, 1809, and giving notice of a forthcoming performance of ‘The Pantomime De la Perouse‘ the following evening, Friday September 15th, 1809, …

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# 16323

BLEEKER, Sylvester

Gen. Tom Thumb’s three years’ tour around the world, accompanied by his wife,

Lavinia Warren Stratton, Commodore Nutt, Miss Minnie Warren, and party. New York : S. Booth, printer [1872]. Octavo, original pictorial yellow wrappers with later paper backing (some chipping and loss), 144 pp, illustrated, small loss to margin of pp 93-94 (not affecting the text), otherwise the contents sound and clean. Scarce. American stage performer General Tom …

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# 15798

BLOCKLEY, John (composer); NORTON, Caroline Sheridan

[SHEET MUSIC] Love not : a ballad / the music composed by J. Blockley ; the poetry selected from The soorows of Rosalie, written by The Honble. Mrs Norton.

Sydney : G. Hudson & Co., 377 Pitt Street North, [1849, or earlier]. Folio, disbound, with later paper spine, engraved cover with calligraphic lettering in a variety of fonts, 5 pp of music notation; a very good copy. A scarce Sydney sheet music imprint from the pre-gold rush period. Only two copies of this edition are recorded in Australian …

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# 14753

OLD PIONEERS MEMORIAL FUND.

[MELBOURNE] Educational pictorial and musical entertainment in aid of the Old Pioneers Memorial Fund

: souvenir ticket and programme. At head of title: 97th anniversary of pioneer day. The Foundation Day of Victoria, 19th Nov. 1931. [Melbourne : Old Pioneers’ Memorial Fund, 1931]. Octavo, beige wrappers with cartouche illustrations of Edward Henty and Aborigine (upper wrapper with small pen annotation at top edge), staple bound, [12] pp, illustrated; a …

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# 12581

[FREDRICKS, Charles D.]

[CIRCUS HISTORY] Wild Australian Children

Buffalo ; New York : Warren Johnson & Co., circa 1864. Promotional card with colour lithograph design, after a photograph by Charles D. Fredricks, carte de visite format (102 x 67 mm), printed caption and publisher’s imprint in lower margin, verso blank; in good condition, a little darkened and with a small amount of pale …

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# 12555

HAMILL, Fred J. & ROBINSON, Charles (words); WENRICH, Percy (music)

[SHEET MUSIC] Take me some place will you Johnnie

Cover: Sung with great success in J.C. Williamson's pantomime Aladdin. Melbourne : Allan & Co., [1909]. Folio, publisher's pictorial wrappers with vignette portrait of Australian performer Miss Clara Beck, contemporary ownership signature of Roland Thomas dated 1909, 7 pp of musical notation (arrangement for piano and voice), lower wrapper with publisher's advertisements; a fine copy. …

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# 12553

ARMSTRONG, Tom

[SHEET MUSIC] Zambesi : an African love serenade

Cover: Written, composed and sung by Tom Armstrong. Melbourne : A.M. Dinsdale, [c.1911]. Folio, publisher's pictorial wrappers (small mark near centre), contemporary ownership signature of Roland Thomas dated 1911, [4] pp of musical notation (piano and voice arrangement), lower wrapper with publisher's advertisements; a near fine copy. Copies are recorded in two Australian collections (National …

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# 12551

LOVELL, H.C. (music); DAVID, Worton (words)

[SHEET MUSIC] I played my concertina

Cover: Sung by Sam Mayo, also by William Cromwell, in Rupert Clarke, Meynell & Gunn's operatic pantomime Cinderella. Produced by Charles A. Wenman. Sydney : Albert's, [1909]. Folio, publisher's pictorial wrappers with vignette portrait of Australian performer William Cromwell, ownership signature of Roland Thomas dated 1909, [3] pp of musical notation, lower wrapper with publisher's …

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# 11801

LESSER, Sol (director)

[TAHITI; EARLY CINEMA] “Isle of Desire”

[U.S.A. : Adventure Pictures, directed by Sol Lesser, 1930]. Lobby card, 280 x 350 mm, colour process printed, advertising the feature film Isle of desire, which was shot on location in Tahiti and featured an all-indigenous cast; the lobby card is in fine condition.

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# 11802

LESSER, Sol (director)

[TAHITI; EARLY CINEMA] “Isle of Desire”

[U.S.A. : Adventure Pictures, directed by Sol Lesser, 1930]. Lobby card, 280 x 350 mm, colour process printed, advertising the feature film Isle of desire, which was shot on location in Tahiti and featured an all-indigenous cast; the lobby card is in fine condition.

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# 11549

SELBY, Charles (1802?-1863)

[AUSTRALIA]. Harold Hawk ; or, The convict’s vengeance : an original domestic drama in two acts

/ by Charles Selby, comedian. London : Samuel French [for Thomas Hailes Lacy], 1858. Series: Lacy’s Acting Edition of Plays, 38. Octavo, disbound, the publisher’s imprint on the first page, Samuel French, publisher, 89, Strand, partially concealed by the contemporary label of the Chicago bookseller J. McGrath, pp 1-26, the second and third pages being …

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