Wine
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![[SYDNEY] Complimentary Banquet to the Ministry of New South Wales. 23rd December, 1884.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/05/2026_DSFB_3093-300x300.jpg)
# 50269
NEW SOUTH WALES. GOVERNMENT MINISTRY.
[SYDNEY] Complimentary Banquet to the Ministry of New South Wales. 23rd December, 1884.
[Sydney : s.n.], 1884. Menu. Folding card, 87 x 125 mm; lithograph printed in sepia, black and blue on pale green card, on four sides; illustrated front, second and third sides with Menu (catering was by The Compagnoni Company), fourth (rear) side with Toasts; separated along the fold; the illustrated rear with residual glue and …
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![[NEW SOUTH WALES] Railway Opening to Young. Demonstration Banquet, Thursday, March 26, 1885.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/04/2026_DSFB_2413-300x300.jpg)
# 50074
RAILWAY DEMONSTRATION COMMITTEE
[NEW SOUTH WALES] Railway Opening to Young. Demonstration Banquet, Thursday, March 26, 1885.
[Young, NSW? : s.n.], 1885. Gilt-edged card, 96 x 144 mm; lithograph printed recto only in gold on pale green heavy cardstock, annotated ‘Mr [J. G.] O’Connor’, who was an invitee to this banquet to mark the opening of the Murrumburrah to Young railway line; a few light marks, verso with residual glue from where …
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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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![[WINE] The nomenclature of Australian wines in relation to historical commercial usage of European wine names, international conventions for the protection of industrial property. and recent European commercial treaties.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2016/11/20145556/2014_DSFB_1972-189x300.jpg)
# 50247
WILKINSON, W. Percy
[WINE] The nomenclature of Australian wines in relation to historical commercial usage of European wine names, international conventions for the protection of industrial property. and recent European commercial treaties.
Melbourne : Royal Geographical Society of Australasia (Victoria Branch), 1919. “A paper read at a Meeting of the Society, 13th December 1918.” “Reprinted from the Victorian Geographical Journal, vol. 24, 1918.” Octavo, printed wrappers, small bump to foot of spine, 54 pp, a very good copy.
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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 …
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![[TASMANIA; WINE] Entire letter sent from Circular Head to Launceston, August 27 1847, regarding the purchase of port wine.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2017/11/21164456/2017_DSFB_5075-300x300.jpg)
# 47220
[TASMANIA; WINE] Entire letter sent from Circular Head to Launceston, August 27 1847, regarding the purchase of port wine.
Manuscript in ink, single folio sheet, 370 x 235 mm, folded, headed ‘Circular Head, August 27 1847’, signed at the foot ‘Yours truly, W. [Shepman?]’; outer side addressed to ‘W. Johnstone Esq. Launceston’ and endorsed ‘[Per] “Mercury”‘ / Paid’; old loss at 2 corners, small perforation from letter spike, but the letter itself is complete …
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# 47224
[Anon.]
Two menus handmade and illustrated by a French child, 1918-19.
Pencil on paper, on the rectos of two sheets thick paper, each 240 x 160 mm, one dated December 8 1918 and the other February 2 1919; charming juvenilia, in good condition.
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![[WINE] Adelaide grapes - 5 bunches, total weight 67 lbs.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2025/02/2025_DSFB_0849-300x300.jpg)
# 46333
SOUTH AUSTRALIA. GOVERNMENT.
[WINE] Adelaide grapes – 5 bunches, total weight 67 lbs.
[Adelaide, SA : Government of South Australia, c.1905]. Lithographic postcard, 88 x 138 mm, verso imprinted ‘South Australia Post Card’ and with a handwritten message; in fine condition.
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![[WINE] Commercial letter to Curcier & Adet, Bordeaux wine merchants, concerning an Australian shipment. May, 1871.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2024/09/2024_DSFB_5323-300x300.jpg)
# 45147
[CURCIER & ADET]
[WINE] Commercial letter to Curcier & Adet, Bordeaux wine merchants, concerning an Australian shipment. May, 1871.
Manuscript letter, 1 1/2 pages, quarto, on the letterhead of shipping brokers Constantin, Boisson & Co., Rochefort, addressed to Messieurs Curcier & Adet, Bordeaux, dated 21 May 1871; the letter concerns correspondence that has been received from Curcier & Adet’s Melbourne office re. a claim for payment that has been made by Constantin, Boisson & Co. …
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![[WINE] Front view of a colonial cottage showing rows of neatly planted grape vines. Melbourne (or Beechworth?), 1869-70.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2024/08/2024_DSFB_4332-300x300.jpg)
# 44635
AMERICAN & AUSTRALIAN PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPANY [LIND, James P.]
[WINE] Front view of a colonial cottage showing rows of neatly planted grape vines. Melbourne (or Beechworth?), 1869-70.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 64 x 103 mm (mount); recto of mount inscribed in ink at top edge: ‘William’s cottage’; verso with the imprint of ‘American and Australian Photographic Company. Melbourne Office, 73 Little Collins St. East’; both print and mount are in excellent condition. The American & Australian Photographic Company was …
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# 44491
McWILLIAM'S WINES PTY. LTD.
Wine guide.
Pyrmont, NSW : McWilliam’s Wines Pty. Ltd., [1968]. Small oblong quarto (210 x 260 mm), colour pictorial wrappers, pp. [32], illustrated throughout in colour and b/w; a very good copy.