Wine
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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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![[SWAN RIVER COLONY]. The South African Almanac and Directory for the year 1833](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/03/2026_DSFB_2089-300x300.jpg)
# 49972
GREIG, George
[SWAN RIVER COLONY]. The South African Almanac and Directory for the year 1833
Cape Town : Printed and Published by the Proprietor, George Greig, Keizersgracht, [1832]. Octavo, printed blue wrappers (light edge wear), pp. [xviii – advertisements]; five lithographed plates of views of Cape Town; title leaf; preface leaf; lxxxiii; [i]; 13 – 292, occasional light foxing or spotting, a very good copy. A scarce Cape Town colonial …
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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 …