Politics & Law
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# 50380
[BALMAIN. COUNCIL]
Souvenir to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the incorporation of the Municipality of Balmain, 1860-1910.
[Cover title: Municipal Jubilee. Balmain, 1860-1910]. Oblong octavo (135 x 218 mm), original stitched white wrappers lettered in red (very lightly marked); pp. 86, printed in blue ink, half-tone photographic illustrations throughout, and with advertisements for local businesses; contents very clean, an excellent example.
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# 50248
LOUIS XV, King of France
Lettres patentes concernant les Missions Étrangères.
[France, c.1773]. Manuscript in ink, [5] pp., folio; extremely well preserved; bound in modern papered boards with gilt-lettered red leather title label to the front; ex libris label of H. P. Kraus to front pastedown. One of the most important institutions in the history of evangelisation in Asia, the Missions Étrangères de Paris (MEP), or …
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# 50333
L'ESTRANGE, Hamon (1605-1660)
The reign of King Charles : an history faithfully and impartially delivered and disposed into annals.
London : printed by E. C. for Edward Dod, and Henry Seile the younger, 1655. Folio, nineteenth century calf (scuffed), ruled in blind with gilt corner pieces, gilt lettering to spine, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, bookplate to front pastedown, engraved title page, printed title page, pp. [viii], (a few preliminary leaves with a paper strip …
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![[SYDNEY] Parliamentary Refreshment Room, 22nd May 1906. Menu. Luncheon.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/05/2026_DSFB_3430-300x300.jpg)
# 50395
NEW SOUTH WALES. PARLIAMENT.
[SYDNEY] Parliamentary Refreshment Room, 22nd May 1906. Menu. Luncheon.
[Sydney : s.n.], 1906. Menu. Gilt-edged card, 163 x 110 mm; recto lithograph printed in gold and with gilt embossed coat of arms at head; lightly marked, verso with paper adhesion from where the card was removed from an album leaf. Provenance: Removed from a dilapidated album of mounted printed ephemera compiled by J. G. O’Connor …
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![[SYDNEY] State Banquet in commemoration of the completion of the First Hundred Years of Australian Settlement. January 26th 1888.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/05/2026_DSFB_3492-300x300.jpg)
# 50402
[NEW SOUTH WALES GOVERNMENT]
[SYDNEY] State Banquet in commemoration of the completion of the First Hundred Years of Australian Settlement. January 26th 1888.
Sydney : S. T. Leigh & Co., 1888. Menu. Folding gilt-edged card (195 x 135 mm), chromolithograph illustrated, with gold highlights; second and third sides with menu (catering was Baumann of Pitt Street under the supervision of W. G. Cassidy), toasts, and programme of music, featuring decorative borders with cartouche illustrations; light foxing overall, the …
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![[SYDNEY] Laying the Foundation Stone of the Houses of Parliament. Monday, 30th January, 1888, at noon. Lady's ticket.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/04/2026_DSFB_2417-300x300.jpg)
# 50070
BURNSIDE, C. L. (Sec. Secretary, Centennial Committee)
[SYDNEY] Laying the Foundation Stone of the Houses of Parliament. Monday, 30th January, 1888, at noon. Lady’s ticket.
[Sydney : Government Printer, 1888]. Duodecimo card, 60 x 92 mm, printed recto only in black on yellow card; signed by C. L. Burnside, Secretary of the Centennial Committee; some toning, verso with some superficial loss and residual glue from where the card was once mounted in an album, otherwise in very good condition. Provenance: …
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![[SYDNEY] Laying the Foundation Stone of the Houses of Parliament. Monday, 30th January, 1888, at noon. Admit Mr & Mrs J. G. O'Connor.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/04/2026_DSFB_2434-300x300.jpg)
# 50069
BURNSIDE, C. L. (Sec. Secretary, Centennial Committee)
[SYDNEY] Laying the Foundation Stone of the Houses of Parliament. Monday, 30th January, 1888, at noon. Admit Mr & Mrs J. G. O’Connor.
[Sydney : Government Printer, 1888]. Duodecimo card, 60 x 92 mm, printed recto only in black on brown card; the O’Connors’ names recorded in manuscript, also signed by C. L. Burnside, Secretary of the Centennial Committee; verso with some superficial loss and residual glue from where the card was once mounted in an album, otherwise …
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![[SYDNEY] Grand National Banquet (under the auspices of the Shamrock Club), to the Irish delegates (John Dillon, M.P., John Deasy, M.P., and Sir Thomas Grattan Esmonde, M.P.). Leigh House, Castlereagh-street, Thursday, May 16, 1889.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/06/2026_DSFB_3596-300x300.jpg)
# 50441
SHAMROCK CLUB (SYDNEY)
[SYDNEY] Grand National Banquet (under the auspices of the Shamrock Club), to the Irish delegates (John Dillon, M.P., John Deasy, M.P., and Sir Thomas Grattan Esmonde, M.P.). Leigh House, Castlereagh-street, Thursday, May 16, 1889.
Sydney : J. G. O’Connor, “Nation” Steam Printing Works, 1889. Menu. Folding card, 167 x 90 mm, lithograph printed in silver and green; second side with Wines and Menu, a shamrock at the head; third side with Programme of Toasts, a harp at the head; fourth side with harp, shamrocks, Irish landscape view, and list …
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![[SYDNEY] View of the New South Wales Parliament, Macquarie Street, c.1870.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/05/2026_DSFB_3116-300x300.jpg)
# 50313
DEGOTARDI, John (1823-1882) (attributed)
[SYDNEY] View of the New South Wales Parliament, Macquarie Street, c.1870.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 64 x 100 mm (mount); verso blank (i.e. without photographer’s imprint); both the print and the mount are in very good condition. New South Wales Parliament House is the oldest public building in continual use in Australia, having formerly been the northern wing of Governor Macquarie’s Rum Hospital, completed …
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![[SYDNEY] The Mayor of Sydney (Alderman John Harris) requests the pleasure of Mr. J. G. O'Connor's company at the Town Hall at 12 noon on Wednesday the 27th November [1888] on the occasion of the Opening of the Centennial Hall. This card to be presented.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/06/2026_DSFB_3608-300x300.jpg)
# 50435
[SYDNEY MUNICIPAL COUNCIL]
[SYDNEY] The Mayor of Sydney (Alderman John Harris) requests the pleasure of Mr. J. G. O’Connor’s company at the Town Hall at 12 noon on Wednesday the 27th November [1888] on the occasion of the Opening of the Centennial Hall. This card to be presented.
[Sydney : s.n., 1888]. Invitation card, 115 x 152 mm, lithograph printed in blue on buff card, O’Connor’s name entered in manuscript; toned, lightly foxed, top edge roughened, verso with some residual glue and paper adhesions from where the menu was removed from an album mount. The Centennial Hall in Sydney’s Town Hall was officially …
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![[SYDNEY] Complimentary Picnic to Kevin Izod O'Doherty, Esq., M.P. for Royal Meath. Upon his departure from Australia to take his seat in the House of Commons, Correy's Gardens, Cabarita, Monday, Jan. 25th, 1886. Lady's Ticket, 15s.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/05/2026_DSFB_3087-300x300.jpg)
# 50273
TOOHEY, James M., M.P. (Chairman)
[SYDNEY] Complimentary Picnic to Kevin Izod O’Doherty, Esq., M.P. for Royal Meath. Upon his departure from Australia to take his seat in the House of Commons, Correy’s Gardens, Cabarita, Monday, Jan. 25th, 1886. Lady’s Ticket, 15s.
[Sydney : s.n.], 1886. Duodecimo card, 78 x 115 mm; lithograph printed in red on glossy white lightweight card stock, and annotated in ink ’64’; roughened at one edge, otherwise very good (verso with residual glue and paper adhesion from where the card was once mounted in an album). Provenance: Removed from a dilapidated album …
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![[SYDNEY] To meet with their Excellencies The Governor General & The Lady Northcote, The Lord Mayor & The Lady Mayoress of Sydney (Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Hughes) request the honour of Mr. & Mrs. J. G. O'Connor's presence at the Town Hall on Tuesday the 25th August from 8.30 to 11 o'clock p.m.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/05/2026_DSFB_3050-300x300.jpg)
# 50265
SYDNEY. MUNICIPAL COUNCIL
[SYDNEY] To meet with their Excellencies The Governor General & The Lady Northcote, The Lord Mayor & The Lady Mayoress of Sydney (Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Hughes) request the honour of Mr. & Mrs. J. G. O’Connor’s presence at the Town Hall on Tuesday the 25th August from 8.30 to 11 o’clock p.m.
[Sydney : s.n., 1903]. Invitation card, 113 x 172 mm; lithograph printed recto only in black on white lightweight card stock; mounted in section cut from an album leaf. Provenance: Removed from a dilapidated album of mounted printed ephemera compiled by J. G. O’Connor (1839-1913), Irish-born Sydney journalist, printer, and politician. From the ADB: ‘Joseph Graham …
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![[SYDNEY] Complimentary pic-nic Mr J. G. O'Connor, at Sandringham, near Sans Souci, on Saturday, January 23, 1875.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/04/2026_DSFB_2655-300x300.jpg)
# 50109
MOLONY, M.
[SYDNEY] Complimentary pic-nic Mr J. G. O’Connor, at Sandringham, near Sans Souci, on Saturday, January 23, 1875.
[Sydney : s.n.], 1875. Invitation card, 78 x 115 mm; lithograph printed recto only in gold on glossy white lightweight card stock, and annotated in ink ‘no. 90’; light staining, nicked at bottom corner, verso with residual glue and paper adhesion from where the card was once mounted in an album. Provenance: Removed from a …
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![[SYDNEY] Mayoral Reception. Masonic Hall, King Street, Saturday, 21st September, 1895, at 3 o'clock p.m.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/05/2026_DSFB_3107-300x300.jpg)
# 50268
SYDNEY. MUNICIPAL COUNCIL
[SYDNEY] Mayoral Reception. Masonic Hall, King Street, Saturday, 21st September, 1895, at 3 o’clock p.m.
[Sydney : s.n.], 1895. Invitation card, 110 x 115 mm; lithograph printed recto only in blue on lightweight card stock; names of invitees Mr. & Mrs. J. G. O’Connor in manuscript; toned, chipped at lower left corner, verso with some paper adhesion from where the card was removed from an album mount. Provenance: Removed from …
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# 49967
[ABSOLON, John; GRIEVE, Thomas; TELBIN, William]
Royal Gallery of Illustration, 14, Regent Street, Pall Mall … Grand Moving Diorama, illustrating The Wellington Campaigns, with the additional pictures, The Lying in State; Funeral Procession; and Interior of St. Paul’s …
At head: Three Exhibitions Daily, during the Christmas Holidays, at 12, 3, and 8 o’Clock. London : printed by T. Brettell, Rupert Street, Haymarket, [December 1852]. Handbill, 218 x 142 mm, lithograph-printed recto only; early inscribed date of January 1853 to bottom margin; a fine example. The Duke of Wellington’s state funeral was held on 18 …
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# 50081
RICARDO, David
On the principles of political economy and taxation
London : John Murray, 1821. Third edition. Octavo, contemporary half calf over marbled papered boards, title label to spine (chipped), gilt rule, marbled edges and endpapers, armorial bookplate for Charles William Boase to front pastedown, pp. xii; 538, internally clean, a very good copy. The final edition of economist Daniel Ricardo’s On the principles of …