Trade & Industry
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![[LONDON; DOLLS] Meech's Wax-Work Exhibition. 50 & 52, Kennington Road. The Automaton Flute Player. The Greatest Novelty of the Age. The Wonder of all Beholders.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/07/2026_DSFB_4591-300x300.jpg)
# 50821
[MEECH, Herbert John]
[LONDON; DOLLS] Meech’s Wax-Work Exhibition. 50 & 52, Kennington Road. The Automaton Flute Player. The Greatest Novelty of the Age. The Wonder of all Beholders.
Kennington Cross [London] : Merser & Gardner, printers, [1875]. Handbill, 140 x 110 mm, lithograph-printed on both sides; recto with an illustrated advertisement for the Automaton Flute Player; verso with a notice for Meech’s Wax Doll Bazaar (at the same address) ‘established over 27 years, and [containing] the handsomest collection of dressed dolls in the …
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![[BROADSIDE BALLAD] Chapter of Cheats. Or, the Roguery of all Trades.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/07/2026_DSFB_4589-300x300.jpg)
# 50823
[Anon.]
[BROADSIDE BALLAD] Chapter of Cheats. Or, the Roguery of all Trades.
Clerkenwell [London] : Printed and sold by J. V. Quick, 42 Bowling Green Lane, [c.1835]. Broadside, sheet size 245 x 200 mm, lithograph-printed on cheap paper; the text of the ballad is printed in two columns separated by a decorative border, with the title in bold, two woodcut illustrations, and publisher’s imprint above; verso blank; …
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![[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 …
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# 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. …
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# 50676
Anon.
Men of South Australia : representatives of the public, professional, ecclesiatical and business life of South Australia as existant in the year 1933. Private edition
Adelaide : Men of South Australia, 1933. Octavo (225 x 150 mm), original red diced morocco lettered and ruled in gilt (light edge wear); name stamped on upper board V. M. Newland, patterned gilded endpapers, , [106] leaves of plates, being photographs of the subjects with satirical drawings and biographical captions; a very good example …
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# 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 …
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# 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 …
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![[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, …
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![[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 …
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![[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: …
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# 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 …
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# 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 …
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# 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 …
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![[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 …
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![[BLUE MOUNTAINS] The Ministers request the honour of Mr J. G. O'Connor's company, on an Excursion to the Zig Zag, Lithgow Valley, on the Great Western Railway, on Wednesday, the 7th October [1885], to leave the Sydney Railway Station at 8.45 a.m.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/04/2026_DSFB_2407-300x300.jpg)
# 50077
NEW SOUTH WALES. COLONIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE.
[BLUE MOUNTAINS] The Ministers request the honour of Mr J. G. O’Connor’s company, on an Excursion to the Zig Zag, Lithgow Valley, on the Great Western Railway, on Wednesday, the 7th October [1885], to leave the Sydney Railway Station at 8.45 a.m.
[Sydney : Government Printer, 1885]. Invitation card, 113 x 115 mm; lithograph printed recto only in black on cream lightweight card stock; O’Connor’s name entered in manuscript; toned and lightly marked, tiny loss at one corner, verso with superficial loss from where the card was once mounted in an album. Provenance: Removed from a dilapidated …
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![[SYDNEY] Sydney International Exhibition 1879. The Executive Commissioner & Mrs. Jennings request the honor of Mr. & Mrs. J. G. O'Connor's Company at an Assembly on Tuesday 13th January, at 9 o'clock. 153 Macquarie Street.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/05/2026_DSFB_3083-300x300.jpg)
# 50274
JENNINGS, Patrick Alfred
[SYDNEY] Sydney International Exhibition 1879. The Executive Commissioner & Mrs. Jennings request the honor of Mr. & Mrs. J. G. O’Connor’s Company at an Assembly on Tuesday 13th January, at 9 o’clock. 153 Macquarie Street.
[Sydney : s.n.], 1879. Large invitation card, 155 x 230 mm; lithograph printed recto only in black on buff card; toning and light foxing, roughed at one edge, verso with some paper adhesion and residual glue from where the card was removed from an album leaf. Provenance: Removed from a dilapidated album of mounted printed …