Wine
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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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# 50558
HOARE, Clement
A practical treatise on the cultivation of the grape vine on open walls.
London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1841. Third edition. Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth (edges rubbed), owner’s name roughly erased from from pastedown, pp. xii; 210; 32 (adverts.), partly unopened, text figures, a few annotations, a very good copy. First published in 1835, an important text on viticulture.
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# 50677
VITZELLY, Henry
Facts about Champagne and other sparkling wines,
collected during numerous visits to the Champagne and other viticultural districts of France, and the principal remaining wine-producing countries of Europe. London : Ward, Lock, and Co., 1879. Octavo, half crushed Morocco over cloth by Bayntun’s of Bath, spine in compartments with raised bands, lettered and tooled in gilt, edges rubbed, top edge gilt, marbled …
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# 50608
CHAPAZ, George and HENRIOT, Alexandre
The Champagne Vine Country and Champagne Wine
[Epernay] : Moet et Chandon, circa 1920. Narrow octavo, illustrated wrappers, map of the Champagne region inside upper wrapper, pp. 32, illustrated. A charming English language tourist guide to the Champagne region, printed in Reims, and published by arguably the region’s most well known champagne houses, Moet et Chandon.
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![[WINE]. Notes of an Australian vine grower](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/06/2026_DSFB_3955-300x300.jpg)
# 50551
DE CASTELLA, Hubert (1825 - 1907)
[WINE]. Notes of an Australian vine grower
Translated, with preface and notes, by C.B. Thornton-Smith. Melbourne : Mast Gully Press, 1979. Limited edition of 750 copies (plus an additional 50 copies in quarter morocco by Bayntun of Bath), this copy out of series. Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth in illustrated dustjacket, 75 pp, illustrated, a fine copy which may have slight edge wear or …
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# 50632
Anon.
Bartender’s guide to the best mixed drinks
Tokyo : Kasuga Boeki K.K., circa 1955. Revised edition. Distributed by Charles E. Tuttle Co., Small quarto, illustrated boards, title leaf, pp. 143; [blank]; 7, black and white photographic plates of bar utensils, wet stamp from a Melbourne bookshop to front endpaper, a very fine copy. Attractive bartender’s guide to mixing over 220 cocktails in …
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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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# 50592
BUSBY, James (1801-1871)
A treatise on the culture of the vine, and the art of making wine; compiled from the works of Chaptal, and other French writers; and from the notes of the compiler, during a residence in some of the Wine Provinces of France (facsimile edition)
Australia [i.e. Sydney], R. Howe, Government Printer, 1825 (but Sydney : David Ell Press, 1979). Facsimile edition. Octavo, gilt-lettered buckram, [pp. i – ii], pp. [iii] – xxxiv, 270 (actually 272, as the pagination 183 – 184 is duplicated), [1 – errata], [1 – blank], with one folding table (designated pp. 62-63, inserted after p. …
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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] Parliamentary Refreshment Room, 22nd May 1906. Menu. Luncheon.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/05/2026_DSFB_3430-300x300.jpg)
# 50395
NEW SOUTH WALES. PARLIAMENT.
[SYDNEY] Parliamentary Refreshment Room, 22nd May 1906. Menu. Luncheon.
[Sydney : s.n.], 1906. Menu. Gilt-edged card, 163 x 110 mm; recto lithograph printed in gold and with gilt embossed coat of arms at head; lightly marked, verso with paper adhesion from where the card was removed from an album leaf. Provenance: Removed from a dilapidated album of mounted printed ephemera compiled by J. G. O’Connor …
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![[SYDNEY] State Banquet in commemoration of the completion of the First Hundred Years of Australian Settlement. January 26th 1888.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/05/2026_DSFB_3492-300x300.jpg)
# 50402
[NEW SOUTH WALES GOVERNMENT]
[SYDNEY] State Banquet in commemoration of the completion of the First Hundred Years of Australian Settlement. January 26th 1888.
Sydney : S. T. Leigh & Co., 1888. Menu. Folding gilt-edged card (195 x 135 mm), chromolithograph illustrated, with gold highlights; second and third sides with menu (catering was Baumann of Pitt Street under the supervision of W. G. Cassidy), toasts, and programme of music, featuring decorative borders with cartouche illustrations; light foxing overall, the …
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![[SYDNEY] Grand National Banquet (under the auspices of the Shamrock Club), to the Irish delegates (John Dillon, M.P., John Deasy, M.P., and Sir Thomas Grattan Esmonde, M.P.). Leigh House, Castlereagh-street, Thursday, May 16, 1889.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/06/2026_DSFB_3596-300x300.jpg)
# 50441
SHAMROCK CLUB (SYDNEY)
[SYDNEY] Grand National Banquet (under the auspices of the Shamrock Club), to the Irish delegates (John Dillon, M.P., John Deasy, M.P., and Sir Thomas Grattan Esmonde, M.P.). Leigh House, Castlereagh-street, Thursday, May 16, 1889.
Sydney : J. G. O’Connor, “Nation” Steam Printing Works, 1889. Menu. Folding card, 167 x 90 mm, lithograph printed in silver and green; second side with Wines and Menu, a shamrock at the head; third side with Programme of Toasts, a harp at the head; fourth side with harp, shamrocks, Irish landscape view, and list …
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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] Complimentary Banquet to the Very Rev. P. Bermingham, D.D., previous to his departure for Europe, will take place in the Town Hall, George-St., on Monday, 29th January, 1883. Dinner on the table at 8 p.m. Tickets - one guinea.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/05/2026_DSFB_3428-300x300.jpg)
# 50398
O'CONNOR, J. G. (Hon. Secretary)
[SYDNEY] Complimentary Banquet to the Very Rev. P. Bermingham, D.D., previous to his departure for Europe, will take place in the Town Hall, George-St., on Monday, 29th January, 1883. Dinner on the table at 8 p.m. Tickets – one guinea.
[Sydney : J. G. O’Connor], 1883. Invitation. Glossy white card, 106 x 154 mm, lithograph printed in gold and with a decorative die-cut border and scalloped edges; in very good condition, the blank verso with paper adhesions and some residual glue from where the card was removed from an album mount. An attractive invitation printed …
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![[SYDNEY] The Government of New South Wales request the honor of Mr J. G. O'Connor's company at a Banquet in celebration of the Opening of the Railway Bridge over the Hawkesbury, to be held on the river on the 12th May, 1889 ...](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/04/2026_DSFB_2409-300x300.jpg)
# 50076
NEW SOUTH WALES. GOVERNMENT.
[SYDNEY] The Government of New South Wales request the honor of Mr J. G. O’Connor’s company at a Banquet in celebration of the Opening of the Railway Bridge over the Hawkesbury, to be held on the river on the 12th May, 1889 …
[Sydney : Government Printer], 1889. Invitation card, 120 x 175 mm; lithograph printed recto only in black on white lightweight card stock; toned and with some loss along two edges, verso with residual glue from where the card was once mounted in an album. Provenance: Removed from a dilapidated album of mounted printed ephemera compiled …