Wine
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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 …
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# 49987
ROBERTS, W. H.
The British wine-maker, and domestic brewer.
A complete, practical, and easy treatise on the art of making and managing British wines and liqueurs: also domestic brewing. Edinburgh : Oliver and Boyd, and London : Whittaker and Co., 1838. Third edition. Octavo, publisher’s cloth, paper title label to spine, hinges cracked, pp. 12 (critical notices to the earlier editions), title leaf, xii (the …
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# 50034
BUSBY, James (1801-1871)
Journal of a Tour through some of the Vineyards of Spain and France (facsimile edition)
Sydney : printed by Stephens & Stokes, 1833 (but Sydney : David Ell Press, 1979). Facsimile edition. Octavo, gilt-lettered buckram, pp. iv; 141; a very good copy. Facsimile of the first edition of one of the first Australian books on wine. Regarded as the father of the Australian wine industry, James Busby arrived in Sydney …
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# 50033
BUSBY, James (1801-1871)
A manual of plain directions for planting and cultivating vineyards and for making wine in New South Wales (facsimile edition)
Sydney : printed by R. Mansfield for the Executors of R. Howe (but Sydney : David Ell Press, 1979). Facsimile edition. Octavo, gilt-lettered buckram, pp. vi; 96; (3); bookseller’s label to front pastedown, very slightly marked on fore edge, a very good copy. Facsimile of the first edition of one of the first Australian books …
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# 49851
THOMSON, William
A practical treatise on the cultivation of the grape vine.
Edinburgh : William Blackwood, 1862. First edition. Octavo (230 x 145 mm), original blind-decorated green cloth with gilt lettering to upper board (a few faint marks); pp. x, 69, [1 blank], [32 publisher’s catalogue]; illustrated with several text figures; p. 55 with early marginalia; front-free-endpaper, half-title, and publisher’s catalogue all with light foxing, otherwise the …
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# 49892
MIDGLEY, Alfred
The Queensland illustrated guide : for the use of farmers, fruit-growers, vignerons, and others. With a map.
Brisbane : James C. Beal, Government Printer, 1888. Octavo, gilt-lettered bling embossed green cloth (light edge wear, corners a little bent), patterned endpapers, title page in red and black (wet stamp of the Department of Agriculture, Brisbane), pp. viii; 222, large folding map printed in colour loose at rear, scattered foxing throughout, illustrated with nine …
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# 44160
"AGRICOLA" (ANGAS, George Fife, 1789-1879) [ANGAS, George French, 1822-1886, illustrator].
Description of the Barossa Range and its neighbourhood, in South Australia.
By “Agricola”. Illustrated with maps and coloured plates, from original drawings made on the spot, by George French Angas. London : Smith, Elder, & Co., Cornwall, 1849. Quarto, recent half-calf over original embossed cloth-covered boards, original gilt-lettered title label to upper board; marbled endpapers; pp. 20, with six fine hand-coloured lithographed plates (tissue guards intact) …
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![[BEER] Caution to victuallers and retailers of beer ... Hastings, 5th Dec., 1848.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2025/06/2025_DSFB_3146-300x300.jpg)
# 47348
WINTER, Henry (printer)
[BEER] Caution to victuallers and retailers of beer … Hastings, 5th Dec., 1848.
Hastings [UK] : printed by H. Winter, 59 George Street, 1848. Broadside, 335 x 210 mm, printed on letterpress recto only; some very light toning, but an extremely well preserved example. This early Victorian broadside reminds purveyors of beer, spirits and wine of the recently passed Parliamentary Act of 14 August 1848, regulating the sale …