Trade & Industry
-
# 25835
DUNKLINGS PTY. LTD. (MELBOURNE)
Dunklings the Jewellers Pty. Ltd. Ladies’ and men’s high grade wrist watches.
Melbourne : Dunklings Pty. Ltd., [circa 1950]. Single sheet, 215 x 330 mm, printed both sides, folding to 215 x 82 mm, illustrated; original folds, a good example.
-
# 51352
[COSMORAMA]
Stanfield Hall Murders. Now exhibiting at the Cosmorama Rooms, 209, Regent Street. Models of Stanfield Hall, the seat of the late J. Jerry Esq. ; and Pot-Ash Farm, lately occupied by the assassin Rush.
Also, may be had a complete Narrative of every particular connected with the above Murders, with an exact likeness of Rush, & correct plans of Stanfield Hall, and Pot-Ash Farm, also a survey of the two Estates, copies of the plans, &c, made for the late Trial at Norwich. Open from Ten till Five, and …
-
# 50011
NOBEL, Alfred
Expériences avec la Nitroglycerine (Produit liquide pour l’Explosion des Mines).
Bruxelles : Alfred Nobel, chausée de Louvain 126b, le 18 juillet 1865. Lithographed invitation, single quarto sheet (270 x 210 mm), printed recto only; light old vertical and horizontal folds and diagonal crease lower left, a small amount of foxing, and a couple of tiny perforations; overall a well-preserved example. In 1865, Alfred Nobel and …
-
# 51192
WALKER, Henrietta C.
Bungalook basketry and rafia hats.
/ With photographic illustrations. Cover title: Bungalook basketry : a new handicraft and a profitable hobby. What can be done with stringy-bark. Also how to make rafia hats. Melbourne : Printed by Fitchett Brothers Pty. Ltd., 376 Swanston Street, [1918]. Small octavo (180 x 120 mm), publisher’s stapled illustrated wrappers (lightly marked) with original owner’s …
-
![[GOLD MINING] Russell's Gold Battery on Tararu Creek, Thames Goldfields, Coromandel Peninsula, New Zealand, 1869.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/08/2026_DSFB_5513-223x300.jpg)
# 51355
MUNDY, Daniel Louis (1826-1881)
[GOLD MINING] Russell’s Gold Battery on Tararu Creek, Thames Goldfields, Coromandel Peninsula, New Zealand, 1869.
Albumen print photograph, 225 x 170 mm; mounted on section of a leaf of thickish card removed from a nineteenth-century album; in fine condition. The Auckland Museum (Mundy Album, no. 2) holds a number of Mundy’s photographs of the Thames Goldfields, including another example of the view offered here, which it dates to 1869. The scene …
-
![[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 …
-
# 50756
LEVEY, George Collins
Colony of Victoria at the Amsterdam International and Colonial Exhibition, 1883 (Dutch)
Amsterdamsche Internationale en Koloniale Tentoonstelling, 1883 / Korte beschrijving der Kolonie Victoria (Australie). Geschiedenis, aardrijkskunde, klimaat, regeering, landbouw, mijnwezen, nijverheid, staathuishoudkunde en maatschappelijke toestand. Melbourne : John Ferres, 1883. Octavo, printed wrappers, stitch bound, 20 pp, foldout map printed in colour. Important glimpse of how the colony was represented to European visitors to the exhibition. …
-
# 50754
LEVEY, George Collins
Colony of Victoria at the Amsterdam International and Colonial Exhibition, 1883 (French)
Exposition Internationale et Coloniale an Amsterdam, 1883 / Esai sur la Colonie de Victoria (Australie). Histoire, geographie, climat, gouvernement, agriculture, produits mineraux et industriels, etat economique et social. Melbourne : John Ferres, 1883. Octavo, printed wrappers (heavily silverfished and detached), 20 pp, internally clean, LACKING foldout map. Important glimpse of how the colony was represented to …
-
# 50812
ADIDAS
The adidas Archive. The Footwear Collection
Cologne : Taschen, 2020. Quarto, 34 x 38 cm, (weighs 5.6 kgs), illustrated boards, publisher’s illustrated box, pp. 644, illustrated. New copy. Photographs by Christian Habermeier and Sebastian Jäger 100 years ago the brothers Adolf (“Adi”) and Rudolf Dassler made their first pair of sports shoes. Hundreds of groundbreaking designs, epic moments, and star-studded collabs …
-
![[NEW CALEDONIA] Archive of original photographs taken by a German geologist, documenting mining, interactions with indigenous people, and the landscape in New Caledonia's North Province, 1930-31.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/06/2026_DSFB_3652-300x300.jpg)
# 50453
"J. O. H." (photographer and compiler)
[NEW CALEDONIA] Archive of original photographs taken by a German geologist, documenting mining, interactions with indigenous people, and the landscape in New Caledonia’s North Province, 1930-31.
Group of 58 (fifty-eight) gelatin silver print photographs, in uniform 80 x 110 mm format, all neatly mounted on green paper backing sheets, 140 x 210 mm, each with the meticulous cataloguing of the photographer in the form of typed information in German, including in the upper margin a main heading ‘Neu-Kaledonien’ and a sub-heading, …
-
![[RIVER MURRAY] Clearing the land; digging an irrigation channel; harvesting wine grapes; view of a rural property with windmill pump. Renmark district, South Australia, late 1890s.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/06/2026_DSFB_3544-300x300.jpg)
# 50408
ROSSELL, Henry Norman
[RIVER MURRAY] Clearing the land; digging an irrigation channel; harvesting wine grapes; view of a rural property with windmill pump. Renmark district, South Australia, late 1890s.
Group of 4 (four) printing-out-paper print photographs, in panoramic format, each 100 x 200 mm; versos all wet-stamped in violet ‘H. Norman Rossell, Photographer, Renmark’, three have the photographer’s pencilled sequence number, and one – showing workers with a steam engine clearing the land – is annotated (by Rossell?): ‘The trees in background are Mallee …
-
![[RIVER MURRAY] Clearing the land; workers in citrus fruit orchard. Renmark district, South Australia, late 1890s.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/06/2026_DSFB_3564-300x300.jpg)
# 50409
ROSSELL, Henry Norman
[RIVER MURRAY] Clearing the land; workers in citrus fruit orchard. Renmark district, South Australia, late 1890s.
Group of 4 (four) printing-out-paper print photographs, in small format, each 75 x 100 mm; versos all wet-stamped in violet ‘H. Norman Rossell, Photographer, Renmark’; all of the prints are in very good condition (unmounted). Trove locates no photographs by Rossell in Australian institutional collections. From Rossell’s obituary in The Chronicle (Adelaide), 12 November 1897: …
-
# 48671
[EAST INDIA COMPANY]
A remonstrance of the Directors of the Netherlands East India Company,
presented to the Lords States Generall of the united Provinces, in defence of the said Company, touching the bloudy proceedings against the English Merchants, executed at Amboyna. Together, with the Acts of the Processe, against the sayd English, and the Reply of the English East India Company, to the said Remonstrance and Defence. Published by …
-
# 16576
[Bataillonschool]
Reglement op de exercitien en manoeuvres der infanterie. Derde gedeelte. Bataillonschool.
Breda, 1855 [but Dejima, 1857]. Octavo, contemporary Japanese binding of half green calf over marbled papered boards; front free-endpaper with early Japanese owner’s seal stamps in red; pp. vi, 147; Japanese inscription in kanji to rear pastedown; a few leaves with minor worming, else a good copy, housed in a gilt decorated morocco clamshell box …
-
# 50101
NEW SOUTH WALES. GOVERNMENT.
1856-1906. The Jubilee of Responsible Government, N.S.W. Programme.
[Sydney : Government Printer], 1906. Folding card, 170 x 108 mm; illustrated front lithograph printed in green, red and gold; second side blank, third side with brief programme schedule for the day’s events (22 May 1906); fold partially split, verso with residual glue and superficial loss from where the card was once mounted in an …
-
![[SYDNEY] Agricultural Society of N.S.W. Great Centennial Intercolonial Exhibition, 1888. Complimentary.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/04/2026_DSFB_2423-300x300.jpg)
# 50065
WEBSTER, F. (Secretary)
[SYDNEY] Agricultural Society of N.S.W. Great Centennial Intercolonial Exhibition, 1888. Complimentary.
[Sydney : s.n.], 1888. Hexagonal card, 65 mm diameter; lithograph printed recto only; printed in gold on blue card; a little rubbed, small loss at bottom edge, verso with residual glue and superficial loss from where the card was once mounted in an album, otherwise in very good condition. Provenance: Removed from a dilapidated album …