Trade & Industry

  • # 41026

    [SANDS & McDOUGALL, manufacturing stationers]

    [WESTERN DISTRICT; MARITIME] Ledger book of James Henty & Co., Melbourne, 1873-5.

    Large heavy folio, 480 x 330 x 130 mm, weighing 16 kg (!); original binding of reverse calf over heavy boards, external leather bands with decorative lacing patterns (some light staining and edge wear), spine with red and green morocco title-pieces stamped in gilt ‘LEDGER’ / ‘J.H. & CO.’ / ‘No. 5’, and with the Sands & …

  • # 40435

    Photographer unknown.

    View of Broken Hill mine and smelters. Far West New South Wales, 1890s.

    Albumen print photograph, 150 x 200 mm, captioned in negative ‘Broken Hill’; laid down recto of a 19th-century album leaf, with handwritten caption ‘Broken Hill’ in bottom margin; the print is in very good condition, but the mount has some light foxing; verso has an identical format albumen print of a river scene with cliffs …

  • # 40359

    PONTISSALIENNE (PARIS)

    [ABSINTHE] Catalogue Général … Distillerie Pontissalienne … Fabrique d’Absinthe Supérieure.

    Pontarlier, Doubs: Distillerie Pontissalienne, [circa 1900]. Small octavo (150 x 105 mm), maroon faux crocodile-skin textured stiff card wrappers, gilt lettering to the front; 20 pp, chromolithographic pastedowns with Art Nouveau designs by the celebrated lithographers A. Waton of St. Etienne, title page and text in red and black, double-page halftone plate at centre; a superb …

  • # 40395

    CHITTENDEN, Hiram Martin

    The American fur trade of the far west

    New York : Barnes & Noble, 1935. Second edition. Two volumes, octavo, gilt-lettered cloth, spines slightly sunned, slipcase (edges cracked), pp. xxx; 1014, folding map in rear pocket, a very good set.

  • # 40073

    COLONY OF VICTORIA. Department of Lands and Survey.

    [CHINESE PRINTING] Garden License issued at Sandhurst (Bendigo) to William Hyde, dated 28 August 1883.

    Melbourne : Government printer, [1883]. Lithograph printing, 210 x 220 mm, printed on both sides with parallel text in English and Chinese characters; manuscript entries record the issue of the License to William Hyde of Sandhurst on 28 August 1883; the License (no. 122155) authorizes Hyde to maintain a garden and residence on Crown Lands …

  • # 40083

    MARCHANT, Percy

    [WESTERN DISTRICT] Mr. Marchant, consulting optician, “Kent House”, Geelong.

    Visits professionally as follows: Ararat – Tuesday morning, June 11th, at Mr. Wild’s Pharmacy. Coleraine – Wednesday (till 2.30 only), June 12th, at Mrs. Braithwaite’s Koroit Inn. Heywood – Thursday morning, June 13th, at Righetti’s Hotel. Portland – Thursday afternoon and evening, June 13th, at Mr. Martell’s Pharmacy. Hamilton – Friday (from 11 till 5), …

  • # 40025

    ELLIOTT, W.

    Cole’s Australasian gardening and domestic floriculture.

    Melbourne : E. W. Cole Book Arcade, [1915]. Octavo (180 x 125 mm), original pictorial wrappers (scattered stains), pp. 361, [5 publisher’s advertisements]; title leaf with small marginal tears at fore-edge, top corners of first few leaves a little-dog-eared, otherwise internally clean and sound; a very good, all-original copy. Although the format is identical to …

  • # 40063

    CLEMINSON BROS. (PARRAMATTA); J. ALBERT & SON (MELBOURNE)

    [SHEET MUSIC] A convenient list of Albert’s catchy music carefully selected and alphabetically arranged.

    Cover title: Music hits of the hour from the home of catchy music. Parramatta, NSW : Cleminson Bros. (Late A.I.F.), 162 Church Street, [ca. 1920]. Trade catalogue. Small quarto (245 x 190 mm), illustrated stapled wrappers (chipped, original owner’s name ‘Miss Olive Burton’ to front), 44 pp., all advertisements for popular sheet music published by …

  • # 40019

    RICHARDSON, Ralph A.

    Electricity and wheels.

    Detroit, USA : Dept. of Public Relations, General Motors Corporation, [1939]. Title page: General Motors-Holden’s Ltd. Brisbane – Sydney – Melbourne – Adelaide – Perth. Inside rear cover: Printed in Australia. Octavo (210 x 135 mm), pictorial wrappers, stapled; 32 pp, illustrated; a fine copy. Trove locates no copies of this Australian imprint in Australian …

  • # 19088

    BOULTER, Daniel (1740-1802); BOULTER, Joseph (1743-1819); BOULTER, John (1745-1816)

    Copper halfpenny token for Daniel Boulter’s ‘Exhibition of natural and artificial curiosities’, Yarmouth, Norfolk, 1796.

    Yarmouth : Joseph, Daniel and John Boulter, 1796. Æ halfpenny, diameter 29.8 mm. Obverse: A female seated holding a scroll inscribed BOULTER’S EXHIBITION OF NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL CURIOSITIES. In ex. YARMOUTH in a straight line. Reverse: Three figures symbolising Asia, Africa and America presenting various curiosities to Britannia, who is recording them in a book. …

  • # 39828

    BANK OF NEW SOUTH WALES

    Australia’s Centenary : 150 years, January 26th 1788 / January 26th 1938. Bank of New South Wales 120 years, April 1817 / April 1937.

    With the Season’s Greetings from the Bank of New South Wales, 1937-1938. Sydney, Australia. [Sydney : Bank of New South Wales, 1937]. Folding card 210 x 260 mm (a few light marks, tiny amount of insect damage at front top corner), front with the crest of the Bank of New South Wales at centre, original …

  • # 39477

    DAILEY, S. J.

    Timber cutting scene, Kangaroo Island, South Australia, circa 1890.

    Sepia-tone gelatin silver print photograph, 155 x 210 mm; verso with the wet stamp of ‘S. J. Dailey, Photographic Artist, 151 Franklin Street, Adelaide’, and a fully contemporary caption in pencil: ‘Timber cutting, Kangaroo Island, S. A.’; the print has a few short edge tears and some loss at the corners; nevertheless, it is an exceptionally …

  • # 39300

    BEATTIE, John Watt (1859-1930)

    [TASMANIA] Apple picking at Glenora

    [Circa 1890]. Albumen print photograph, in large format 170 x 225 mm; inscribed in the negative: ‘Apple picking at Glenora. 974B. Beattie, Hobart’; unmounted; in very fine condition.

  • # 38510

    RITCHIE, Edward Samuel; [GIBBS, Robert]

    Catalogue of articles for a whaling voyage.

    New Bedford, Massachusetts : E. S. Ritchie, dealer in ship chandlery, and importer of hard-ware. Rodman’s Buildings, No. 61 North Water Street, [ca. 1849]. Octodecimo (160 x 100 mm), original leather-backed stiff wrappers (stained, small loss to leather at tail of spine), the upper wrapper lettered in black and inscribed in ink – evidently in …

  • # 37798

    QUEENSLAND GOVERNMENT TOURIST BUREAU.

    Wheat, Darling Downs, near Warwick.

    [Brisbane : Queensland Government Tourist Bureau, between 1930 and 1940]. Large format gelatin silver print photograph, 300 x 370 mm; window-mounted in the original display mount of heavy board, the mount with manuscript calligraphic captions in ink and circular ‘Queensland Government Tourist Bureau’ with hand-drawn map; this photograph would have been used in either a …

  • # 28563

    COWPER, Charles, Sir (1807-1875)

    An early item of official of correspondence from the Sydney Railway Company, rejecting an application for the position of Engineer. 3 January, 1851.

    Manuscript in ink on wove paper, on the lithographed letterhead of the Railway Office, Sydney, dated 3 January 1851. Quarto bifolium (225 x 185 mm), [4] pp, written on the first side only; a holograph note by Charles Cowper, Director of the Sydney Railway Company, to Mr. H. Biddulph, c/- Post Office, Wollongong, advising him …