Politics & Law
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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] Complimentary Banquet to the Ministry of New South Wales. 23rd December, 1884.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/05/2026_DSFB_3093-300x300.jpg)
# 50269
NEW SOUTH WALES. GOVERNMENT MINISTRY.
[SYDNEY] Complimentary Banquet to the Ministry of New South Wales. 23rd December, 1884.
[Sydney : s.n.], 1884. Menu. Folding card, 87 x 125 mm; lithograph printed in sepia, black and blue on pale green card, on four sides; illustrated front, second and third sides with Menu (catering was by The Compagnoni Company), fourth (rear) side with Toasts; separated along the fold; the illustrated rear with residual glue and …
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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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![[NEW SOUTH WALES] Railway Opening to Young. Demonstration Banquet, Thursday, March 26, 1885.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/04/2026_DSFB_2413-300x300.jpg)
# 50074
RAILWAY DEMONSTRATION COMMITTEE
[NEW SOUTH WALES] Railway Opening to Young. Demonstration Banquet, Thursday, March 26, 1885.
[Young, NSW? : s.n.], 1885. Gilt-edged card, 96 x 144 mm; lithograph printed recto only in gold on pale green heavy cardstock, annotated ‘Mr [J. G.] O’Connor’, who was an invitee to this banquet to mark the opening of the Murrumburrah to Young railway line; a few light marks, verso with residual glue from where …
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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 …
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# 49929
WITHER, George
Britain’s Remembrancer. Containing a Narration of the Plague lately past; A Declaration of the Mischiefs present; And a Prediction of Judgments to come; (If Repentance prevent not.).
It is Dedicated (for the glory of God) to Posteritie; and, to These Times (if they please) by Geo: Wither. Imprinted for Great Britaine, and are to be sold by John Grismond in Ivie-Lane, 1628. First edition. Duodecimo (150 x 85 mm), early full calf double-ruled in gilt (boards heavily rubbed and scuffed), spine also …
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# 48952
LAFFITTE, Pierre; HALL, John Carey (translator)
A general view of Chinese civilization and of the relations of the West with China.
From the French of M. Pierre Laffitte, (Director of Positivism). Translated by John Carey Hall, M.A., Assistant Japanese Secretary to H.B.M.’s Legation, Tokyo. London : Trübner & Co. ; Yokohama, Shanghai & Hongkong : Kelly & Walsh (Limited) ; Tokyo & Yokohama : Z. P. Mary & Co. (Limited), 1887. Octavo (230 x 150 mm), …
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# 50197
SHAW, George Bernard
Peace Conference hints.
London : Constable and Company, 1919. First edition. Octavo, original black-lettered green wrappers (lightly marked, paper lifting at foot of spine), pp. 108, [2 ads.]; half-title leaf loose, otherwise internally sound and clean.
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![[OTTOMAN EMPIRE] Passport of safe conduct for travel to Malta issued to Captain Benjamin Adams (17th Light Dragoons) by the British consul at Alexandria, 17 May 1823.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2025/11/2025_DSFB_7153-300x300.jpg)
# 49083
Peter LEE (BRITISH CONSUL, ALEXANDRIA)
[OTTOMAN EMPIRE] Passport of safe conduct for travel to Malta issued to Captain Benjamin Adams (17th Light Dragoons) by the British consul at Alexandria, 17 May 1823.
[Alexandria in Egypt : British Consulate, 1823]. Lithographed pro-forma document with manuscript entries, 270 x 385 mm, on wove paper watermarked with an Eagle and FAG in roman (cf. Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries. Hilversum, 1950, p. 24); embossed paper seal of the British Consulate, Alexandria in Egypt intact at lower left; signed …
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# 50006
WIRGMAN, Charles (author, illustrator & publisher) (1835-1891)
Japan Punch. A sequential run of 60 monthly issues, 1879-1883.
Yokohama : Charles Wirgman, 1879-1883. Complete five-year run of 60 monthly issues for 1879-1883. Five volumes quarto, later half red calf over marbled papered boards, spines lettered in gilt; each volume containing twelve issues retaining the original wrappers (but not the fukuro-toji style binding), each issue typically with between 10 and 20 unnumbered leaves, woodblock printed or …
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# 49737
DA SILVA PEREIRA, Adriano Augusto
Manifesto do Governo Provisional dos Estados da India Portugueza,
em nome de Sua Magestade Fidelissima, a Rainha, Senhora D. Maria 2a. [Drophead title]. Goa : Na Typographia do Governo, [1835]. Quarto (290 x 210 mm), later gilt-ruled half calf over cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt; pp. [1]-[8] (last blank), 9-38; first leaf re-margined at gutter edge and with small restoration to upper …
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# 49322
[PHAROAH, J. B., publisher]
The Madras New Almanac, General Directory and Register for 1841
Madras : J. B. Pharaoh, 1841. Octavo, modern half calf over marbled papered boards, spine in compartments with gilt lettering, new endpapers, folding frontispiece map with original hand colouring titled ‘Map exhibiting the present partition of the country dependant on Fort St. George into military divisions with the several stations of troops’, engraved title page with …
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![Prime Minister Gough Whitlam pours soil into hand of traditional [Gurindji] landowner Vincent Lingiari, [Daguragu/Wattie Creek] Northern Territory.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/03/2026_DSFB_1652-300x298.jpg)
# 49856
BISHOP, Mervyn (b. 1945)
Prime Minister Gough Whitlam pours soil into hand of traditional [Gurindji] landowner Vincent Lingiari, [Daguragu/Wattie Creek] Northern Territory.
1975/2021. Edition number of 25. Digital c-type photograph, signed, dated and titled, 60 x 60 cm. Illustrated on page 81, In Dreams. Mervyn Bishop: Thirty Years of Photography, 1960-1990. Held in AGNSW, NGA. Mervyn Bishop was born in Brewarrina in 1945. He commenced a four-year photography cadetship with the Sydney Morning Herald in 1963 (where he would work for seventeen …