New Acquisitions
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# 51510
Almanach parisien, en faveur des étrangers et des personnes curieuses:
Indiquant par ordre alphabétique tous les Monumens des Beaux Arts, répandus dans la ville de Paris & aux environs : ce qui a pour objet Les lieux remarquables, ou par la grandeur du dessein, ou par les morceaux de Peinture & de Sculpture qu’on y voit ; Edifices sacrés, Châteaux & Maisons Royales, Palais, Hôtels, …
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# 51383
INGLETON, Geoffrey C.; COLWELL, Max; TENNANT, Kylie
“Peter the Whaler in Southern Seas” : an archive relating to the book’s creation and publication.
Peter the Whaler in Southern Seas was an Australian collaboration between writer Max Colwell and artist Geoffrey C. Ingleton. The book tells the story of Australian whaling for young readers. It was published in 1964 by Macmillan in its series Great Stories of Australia, which was edited by another Australian writer, Kylie Tennant. The book was printed …
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# 51337
SMITH, James (editor)
The Cyclopedia of Victoria (Illustrated).
An historical and commercial review. Descriptive and biographical, facts, figures and illustrations. An epitome of progress. Melbourne : The Cyclopedia Company and Ballarat : F. W. Niven and Co., 1903 – 5. Three volumes, quarto, modern binding of half goatskin over blue cloth, contrasting morocco title labels to spines, lettered in gilt, new endpapers, marbled …
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# 51340
TOLKIEN, J. R. R. (1892-1973)
The Lord of the Rings. (Deluxe edition)
Part 1 : The Fellowship of the Ring. Part II : The two towers. Part III : The return of the king. London : George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1969 (1974, fourth impression). Deluxe edition printed on India paper. Octavo, gilt-illustrated black cloth (a few marks), marbled endpapers, pp. 1193, (2); title page in red …
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# 50813
BENESCH, Otto (1896 - 1964)
The drawings of Rembrandt. The first complete edition in six volumes
London : The Phaeton Press, 1954 – 1957. Six volumes (complete), folios, gilt lettered buckram in paper dustjacket (torn with losses, lacking the jacket to the third volume), pp. 469, 1734 black and white reproductions, a very good set in worn jackets. The first complete catalog of Rembrandt drawings, based on much original research by …
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# 51555
MILLER, Harry Tatlock
Manuscripts : a miscellany of art and letters : no. 11. November 25, 1934
Geelong, Vic. : at the Bookshop [H. Tatlock Miller, proprietor], [1934]. Quarto, pictorial card wrappers designed by A.N. Baldwinson (a few light marks, foxing towards spine), 64 pp (edges with light foxing), illustrated. Harry Tatlock Miller edited and published this important quarterly journal of Australian art and literature between 1931 and 1935. Lacking the resources …
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# 51550
MILLER, Harry Tatlock
Manuscripts : a miscellany of art and letters : no. 9. May 1934.
Geelong, Vic. : at the Bookshop [H. Tatlock Miller, proprietor], 1934. Quarto, pictorial card wrappers designed by A.N. Baldwinson (some light discolouration and edge chipping), 77 pp (edges with light foxing), illustrated. Harry Tatlock Miller edited and published this important quarterly journal of Australian art and literature between 1931 and 1935. Lacking the resources to …
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# 51553
MILLER, Harry Tatlock
Manuscripts : a miscellany of art and letters : no. 5. May 1933
Geelong, Vic. : at the Bookshop [H. Tatlock Miller, proprietor], [1932]. Quarto, pictorial card wrappers designed by A.N. Baldwinson (a few light marks), 134 pp (edges with light foxing), illustrated. Harry Tatlock Miller edited and published this important quarterly journal of Australian art and literature between 1931 and 1935. Lacking the resources to print illustrations …
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# 14673
Church of England. Diocese of Adelaide.
Ceremony of laying the first stone of the collegiate school of St. Peter’s, Adelaide, by the Lord Bishop of Adelaide, on Thursday, May 24, 1849 …
Adelaide : Printed by George Dehane, King William Street, 1849. Quarto, printed wrappers, 6 pp, mild vertical fold line and some corner creasing; ex Webster Collection, with small red stamp and manuscript collection number (2657) to last page; a good copy. Ferguson 5160. Copies are recorded in three Australian collections (National Library of Australia; State …
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# 51378
HOFF, Raynor, LINDSAY, Norman and others
The work of Eileen McGrath
Sydney : Sydney Technical College, 1931. Quarto, boards in illustrated paper wrappers (edges rubbed), 48 pp., illustrated with numerous art deco designs, illustrations and tipped-in colour plates.. Limited to 1000 copies, this is number 641, signed by Eileen McGrath, Rayner Hoff and E. H. O’Shea. Contributions by Norman Lindsay, Raynor Hoff and others, a fine …
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# 51601
[Photographer unknown]
View of Castle Hill, Townsville, North Queensland, c.1890.
Albumen print photograph, 185 x 240 mm; unmounted, verso blank; a strong print with nice tones, in excellent condition.
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# 51432
BATCHELDER, Benjamin Pierce
Studio portrait of young brothers Charles James and William Walter Stebbing. Sandhurst (Bendigo), Victorian goldfields, c.1865.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 101 x 64 mm (mount); verso imprinted ‘Photographed by Batchelder, Pall Mall, Sandhurst’, and with a fully contemporary inscription in ink by the father of the sitters, Frederick Stebbing: ‘Charles James / William Walter / Our last child is called Mary, after my wife’s [name], she is just …
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# 51428
RIISFELDT, Emil
Companion studio portraits of actors Alfred and Katherine Dampier and their children, Lily and Rose. Sydney, c.1879.
Four albumen print photographs, carte de visite format, 103 x 63 mm (mounts); versos with the back mark of Emil Riisfeldt’s “London Photo Gallery”, 616 George Street, Sydney; the portrait of Alfred has a heavy rubbing mark, and the portrait of Rose has some glue stains at top and bottom edges; otherwise the prints and …
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# 51589
ROSE STEREOGRAPH CO.
Great suffragette demonstration in London : The Empire Car (different colonies) passing through Trafalgar Square.
Melbourne ; Sydney ; Wellington ; London : The Rose Stereograph Co., [1911]. Stereoscopic gelatin silver print photograph (mount 95 x 175 mm), from the series Great suffragette demonstration in London, serial no. 11,951, printed title beneath the images The Empire Car (different colonies) passing through Trafalgar Square, recto of mount imprinted The Rose Stereographs …
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![[ANGLING] Three photographs of large New Zealand trout caught in Lake Rotorua, Lake Victoria, and the Waimakariri River, early 1900s.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/09/DSFB_20260916_0080-300x300.jpg)
# 51603
NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT TOURIST DEPARTMENT, et al.
[ANGLING] Three photographs of large New Zealand trout caught in Lake Rotorua, Lake Victoria, and the Waimakariri River, early 1900s.
Gelatin silver print, 150 x 200 mm; New Zealand Government Tourist Department crest in image lower left; unmounted; inscribed verso in pencil: ‘Rainbow trout / 16lbs, L. Rotorua’, and with wet stamp of the NZGTD; very good condition. Gelatin silver print, 140 x 200 mm; no photographer identified; on original card mount, inscribed below …
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# 51616
RUDD, Charles (photographer and publisher) (1849-1901)
[MELBOURNE] Prahran Arcade, Chapel Street, early 1890s.
Albumen print photograph, 200 x 130 mm; mounted on the original green backing sheet, 230 x 190 mm, imprinted in black with the studio details of photographer and publisher Charles Rudd, 162 Bourke Street, and with a fully contemporary caption in ink ‘Prahran Arcade’; the print is in good condition; the paper mount has some …