New South Wales

# 47207

McINTYRE, William (1805-1870); HOWE, Robert Charles (1820-1875), publisher

[SYDNEY] The prevalent forms and causes of Sabbath desecration.

Sydney : R. Howe, “Gazette” office, Lower George-street, [1841]. At head of title: Lecture III. Duodecimo, original plain blue wrappers, hand-sewn, 24 pp; a fine copy. Ferguson, 3244. The third in the series Lectures on the Sabbath, which was also published, along with lectures by John Dunmore Lang, M.T. Adam, James Fullerton, and John Tait, in …

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# 42885

JOHNSON, Rev. Richard, Chaplain to the Colonies.

An address to the inhabitants of the colonies established in New South Wales and Norfolk Island. Written in the year 1792.

London : Printed for the author : and sold by Mathews, Strand; Deighton, Holborn; Trap, Paternoster-Row; and Goff and Amey, No. 8, Ivy-Lane, 1794. Duodecimo (170 x 100 mm), original paper wrappers, inside upper wrapper with ownership inscription of ‘Margaret Amey, No 8 Ivy Lane, May 23d 1808’, upper wrapper with ownership inscription of Rev. …

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# 41769

[Photographer unknown].

Ambrotype of a woman standing beside a chair draped with clothing. (New South Wales?), c.1863.

Sixth plate ambrotype with applied colour, 70 x 60 mm (sight); in fine condition, in the original large oval brass mat, housed in the original leather case with simple geometric design (working brass clasp); inserted in the case is a lock of the sitter’s beautiful auburn hair contained in an envelope which is inscribed in …

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# 46772

RUDGE, Edward; BOURKE LAMBERT, Aylmer et al.]

[BOTANY; KANGAROO; NEW HOLLAND] The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. Volume VIII. [1807]

London : Richard Taylor & Co., 1807. Quarto (285 x 220 mm), later green cloth with gilt-lettered spine, front pastedown with bookplate of distinguished German-born Australian botanist Sophie Ducker (1909-2004); pp. viii, 364, [3]; illustrated with 20 engraved plates (some folding, and including a number of hand-coloured conchological plates); a few of the plates with offsetting, …

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# 46773

RUDGE, Edward; SMITH, James Edward et al.]

[BOTANY; NEW HOLLAND] The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. Volume X. [1811]

London : Richard Taylor & Co., 1811. Quarto (285 x 220 mm), later green cloth with gilt-lettered spine, front pastedown with bookplate of distinguished German-born Australian botanist Sophie Ducker (1909-2004); pp. vi, 414, [2]; illustrated with 32 engraved plates (some folding); a few of the plates with foxing and/or offsetting, otherwise internally excellent. Includes two …

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# 15277

MENARD, Romuald George (painter); THIERRY FRÈRES; SABATIER, Léon Jean Baptiste (lithographers)

Vue de Sydney et de l’entree de la Riviere de Paramatta (panorama in two sections)

Two plates, forming a continuous panorama, from: Voyage autour du monde sur la frégate la Vénus, pendant les années 1836-1839 … atlas pittoresque. [Paris : Gide, 1841]. Tinted lithographs, 170 x 420 mm; pale foxing to the margins of the first plate, else in fine condition. Custom framed in museum timber, measures 422 x 1138 mm. The voyage …

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# 42877

RÜMKER, Charles (1788-1862)

[ASTRONOMY] Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. For the year MDCCCXXIX. Part III. Containing astronomical observations made at the Observatory at Parramatta ; by Charles Rumker, Esq.

London : Printed by Richard Taylor, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street, 1829. Quarto (275 x 220 mm), period-style modern binding of half black calf over marbled papered boards, spine lettered in gilt; pp. v, [1 Contents], 152; astronomical tables throughout; a fine copy, with discreet stamps of the Dublin Library Society to a couple of …

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# 30697

FLINDERS, Matthew (1774-1814)

Observations upon the marine barometer, made during the examination of the coasts of New Holland and New South Wales, in the years 1801, 1802, and 1803.

Contained within: Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London for the year MDCCVI. Part II. London : printed by W. Bulmer, 1806. Quarto, original plain blue wrappers, pp. iv; 239 – 473; [8]; 12 engraved plates (some folding), the plates foxed but the text clean, all edges uncut and a little dusty, a fine …

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# 30679

FOUNIET, Ernest

Allan, le jeune déporté a Botany-Bay.

Paris : Martial Ardant, 1845. Third edition. Duodecimo, contemporary blue boards with embossed gilt ornament (rubbed), spine with gilt title and ornament (bumped at head and tail), engraved frontispiece, 260 pp, illustrated; text in French; scattered light foxing, a good copy. A very early children’s book set in Australia. Muir 2598.

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# 47126

BURKE, Keast

Gold and silver : an album of Hill End and Gulgong photographs from the Holterman Collection

Melbourne : Heinemann, 1973. Quarto, cloth in dustjacket (verso foxed), pp. xii; 265, illustrated.

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# 46913

CALABY, John (editor)

The Hunter sketchbook : birds & flowers of New South Wales drawn on the spot in 1788, 89 & 90

By Captain John Hunter RN of the First Fleet ; general editor John Calaby. Canberra : National Library of Australia, 1988. Quarto, illustrated cards, pp. [viii], 251, illustrated with exquisite paintings recording the fauna and flora around Sydney and on Norfolk Island.

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# 29073

HOWE, Robert (1795-1829) (printer and publisher); MANSFIELD, Ralph (1799-1880) (editor)

The Australian Magazine; or, Compendium of Religious, Literary, and Miscellaneous Intelligence. Volume 1. For 1821.

Sydney : Printed by Robert Howe, Government Printer, 1821. Volume 1, Number 1, May 1 1821, to Volume 1, Number 8, December 1, 1821 (i.e. the first eight issues). Octavo (190 x 125 mm), contemporary half calf over pink papered boards (heavily rubbed, with some surface loss), spine with contrasting red morocco title label lettered in …

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# 42884

LANG, John Dunmore (1799-1878)

An historical and statistical account of New South Wales, both as a penal settlement and as a British colony.

London : Cochrane and M’Crone, 1834. First edition. Two volumes, octavo (190 x 125 mm), contemporary uniform calf, spines in compartments with gilt lettering and decoration; pastedowns with early ownership inscription of S. A. Cooper, Canterbury, Kent; Vol. 1. pp. xiv, 401, frontispiece folding engraved map with hand-coloured outlines; Vol. 2. pp. iv, 443; a …

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# 46585

[Photographer unknown].

[FEDERATION] View of the French Arch, corner of Pitt and Bridge Streets, Sydney, 1901.

Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each image 82 x 77 mm, on maroon mount 86 x 175 mm; no photographer’s imprint (verso blank); the prints and the mont are in excellent condition. An anonymous stereoview which shows the French Arch at the intersection of Pitt and Bridge Streets, Sydney, during the Commonwealth celebrations in January 1901. …

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# 46732

BRADFIELD, J. J. C. (John Job Crew) (1867-1943) (attributed); PHILLIPS, Harry (publisher)

Sydney Harbour Bridge and City Railway

Willoughby, N.S.W. : H. Phillips, [1930]. Large oblong octavo (210 x 260 mm), pictorial grey wrappers printed in blue, stapled; [44] pp, with b/w photographic illustrations and line drawings throughout; a fine copy. Internal references and illustrations indicate this pamphlet was probably published in 1930. One of the illustrations is an artist’s impression of how …

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# 46718

BARRY, John Vincent

Alexander Maconochie of Norfolk Island (signed copy with letter)

A study of a pioneer in penal reform. Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1958. Octavo, cloth in dustjacket, signed by the author on the title page, pp. xxii;277, a fine copy. From the library of noted art historian Ann Galbally. Loosely enclosed, a letter from the author The Hon. Sir John Barry addressed to the …

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[SYDNEY] The prevalent forms and causes of Sabbath desecration.

An address to the inhabitants of the colonies established in New South Wales and Norfolk Island. Written in the year 1792.

Ambrotype of a woman standing beside a chair draped with clothing. (New South Wales?), c.1863.

[BOTANY; KANGAROO; NEW HOLLAND] The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. Volume VIII. [1807]

[BOTANY; NEW HOLLAND] The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. Volume X. [1811]

Vue de Sydney et de l’entree de la Riviere de Paramatta (panorama in two sections)

[ASTRONOMY] Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. For the year MDCCCXXIX. Part III. Containing astronomical observations made at the Observatory at Parramatta ; by Charles Rumker, Esq.

Observations upon the marine barometer, made during the examination of the coasts of New Holland and New South Wales, in the years 1801, 1802, and 1803.

Allan, le jeune déporté a Botany-Bay.

Gold and silver : an album of Hill End and Gulgong photographs from the Holterman Collection

The Hunter sketchbook : birds & flowers of New South Wales drawn on the spot in 1788, 89 & 90

The Australian Magazine; or, Compendium of Religious, Literary, and Miscellaneous Intelligence. Volume 1. For 1821.

An historical and statistical account of New South Wales, both as a penal settlement and as a British colony.

[FEDERATION] View of the French Arch, corner of Pitt and Bridge Streets, Sydney, 1901.

Sydney Harbour Bridge and City Railway

Alexander Maconochie of Norfolk Island (signed copy with letter)

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