Trade & Industry
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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 …
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![[SYDNEY] The New South Wales Master Printer's Association requests the pleasure of Mr. J. G. O'Connor's Company to a Dinner at Compagnoni's Cafe, Pitt Street, on Monday February 18th [1889], 7.30 o'clock.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/05/2026_DSFB_3426-300x300.jpg)
# 50394
FRANKS, Harry (Hon. Secretary)
[SYDNEY] The New South Wales Master Printer’s Association requests the pleasure of Mr. J. G. O’Connor’s Company to a Dinner at Compagnoni’s Cafe, Pitt Street, on Monday February 18th [1889], 7.30 o’clock.
[Sydney : s.n., 1889]. Duodecimo card, 103 x 122 mm; lithograph printed recto only in black on cream card; manuscript entry in ink recording that the invitation was issued to J. G. O’Connor; top edge toughened, verso with residual glue from where the card was once mounted in an album. Provenance: Removed from a dilapidated …
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![[SYDNEY] Third Annual Dinner of Office and Agecy Staff of the Citizens' Life Assurance Company Limited, on 27th February, 1890, at 7 p.m., Leigh House, 251 Castlereagh Street, Sydney. Admit J. G. O'Connor Esq.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/04/2026_DSFB_2411-300x300.jpg)
# 50075
CITIZENS' LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY LTD.
[SYDNEY] Third Annual Dinner of Office and Agecy Staff of the Citizens’ Life Assurance Company Limited, on 27th February, 1890, at 7 p.m., Leigh House, 251 Castlereagh Street, Sydney. Admit J. G. O’Connor Esq.
[Sydney: s.n.], 1890. Gilt-edged card, 100 x 149 mm; lithograph printed recto only in gold on grey card decorated with music notation; verso with residual glue from where the card was once mounted in an album, otherwise in very good condition. Provenance: Removed from a dilapidated album of mounted printed ephemera compiled by J. G. O’Connor …
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![[SYDNEY] Second Annual Dinner of Office and Agecy Staff of Citizens' Life Assurance Compy. Limited, 13th February, 1889. Menu.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/05/2026_DSFB_3423-300x300.jpg)
# 50400
CITIZENS' LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY LTD.
[SYDNEY] Second Annual Dinner of Office and Agecy Staff of Citizens’ Life Assurance Compy. Limited, 13th February, 1889. Menu.
[Sydney: Batson & Co., Printers], 1889. Folding card, 115 x 75 mm; lithograph printed on four sides, with menu across the inner two sides (catering was by John I. Smith, “Paragon” Catering); front lightly marked, verso with some residual glue and paper adhesions from where the card was once mounted in an album, otherwise in …
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![[SYDNEY] The Globe Evening Newspaper and Sunday Times, 78 King Street, Sydney. Luncheon, Printing House Lane, November 12th, 1885.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/04/2026_DSFB_2880-300x300.jpg)
# 50199
BAILEY, W. H. L. (Secretary)
[SYDNEY] The Globe Evening Newspaper and Sunday Times, 78 King Street, Sydney. Luncheon, Printing House Lane, November 12th, 1885.
[in manuscript] Editor, Express [i.e. J. G. O’Connor]. Sir, You are respectfully invited to attend at our Offices on Saturday next, November 14, at noon, to witness the starting of our Machinery on its mission of progress and enlightenment. Yours faithfully, W. H. L. Bailey, Secretary and Manager. Sydney : The Globe Evening Newspaper and …
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![[SYDNEY] Mr. & Mrs. J. G. O'Connor present their Compliments to ... and request the pleasure of ... Company, on Sunday, 6th June, at 10 a.m., on the occasion of the Marriage of their Daughter with Mr. M. J. Fitzpatrick. New Terrace, George Street North, May 29, 1882.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/06/2026_DSFB_3600-300x300.jpg)
# 50438
[O'CONNOR, J. G.]
[SYDNEY] Mr. & Mrs. J. G. O’Connor present their Compliments to … and request the pleasure of … Company, on Sunday, 6th June, at 10 a.m., on the occasion of the Marriage of their Daughter with Mr. M. J. Fitzpatrick. New Terrace, George Street North, May 29, 1882.
[Sydney : J. G. O’Connor], 1882. Invitation. Glossy white card, 106 x 154 mm, lithograph printed in gold and with a decorative die-cut border and scalloped edges; the bottom edge is a little roughened, the blank verso with paper adhesions from where the invitation was removed from an album mount. An attractive invitation for his …
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# 39210
B. SMITH & SON
Manuscript commercial letter addressed to John Fairfax & Sons, Sydney, New South Wales, from B. Smith & Son, London, 27 July 1863.
Manuscript in ink, 2 pp., quarto, on blue laid paper watermarked ‘A. C. & S.’; duplicate commercial letter headed ‘7 Wine Office Court, Fleet Street, London, July 27th 1863’, addressed to the publishing firm of Messrs J. Fairfax & Sons, Sydney; written and signed by Henry Durrant on behalf of B. Smith & Son, ink …