New South Wales
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# 46997
HUNT, Susan and DAVISON, Graeme
Sydney views 1788-1888 from the Beat Knoblauch collection
Sydney : Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, 2007. Quarto, illustrated gatefold wrappers, pp. 144, illustrated. A fine copy.
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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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# 46207
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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 46706
EVANS, Susanna
Historic Sydney as seen by its early artists
Sydney : Doubleday, 1983. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, spine a little faded, pp. 160, illustrated in colour and black and white. The history of Australia’s first city told through its colonial artists.
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# 46662
JOHNSON, Heather
The Sydney art patronage system 1890-1940
Grass Point [N.S.W.] : Bungoona Technologies, 1997. Octavo, lettered wrappers, pp. 279, black and white illustrations. Scarce. From the library of renowned art historian Ann Galbally, signed by her on the half-title.
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# 46616
CAMPBELL, Jean
Early Sydney moderns : John Young and the Macquarie Galleries, 1916-1946
Sydney : Craftsman’s Press, 1988. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 208, illustrated. Foreword by Lloyd Rees. A fine copy.
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# 46021
HETZER, William, fl. 1850-67
Scene on Middle Harbour, Sydney, 1858-59.
Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each individual image 76 x 71 mm (arch-top format), original plain white mount 84 x 172 mm, recto with an erroneous lithographically printed caption ‘Wooloomooloo [sic] Bay, Pott’s Point, Sydney’; verso blank; both albumen prints are in fine condition, although a little dark; the mount is very clean and stable. An insect-damaged …
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# 14834
TENCH, Captain Watkin (1758-1833)
A narrative of the expedition to Botany Bay;
with an account of New south Wales, its production, inhabitants, &c. To which is subjoined, a list of the civil and military establishments at Port Jackson. London : J. Debrett, 1789. Second edition. Octavo, half-calf over marbled boards, spine in compartments with gilt fleurons, gilt lettered morocco title label, pp [xii, including the half-title], 146, …
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# 32327
ROUGEMONT, Louis de (Henri Louis GRIN) (1847-1921)
Louis de Rougement, colonial adventurer and hoaxer: autograph letter, signed, offering stories to an editor for publication. Ampthill, Bedfordshire, 1903.
Manuscript in ink on ruled paper, 160 x 200 mm; headed ‘Flitwick, Ampthill, 1.7.03’, the letter is addressed to The Author Syndicate, Lincoln Inn Field, London, and is signed at the foot ‘Yours, Louis de Rougemont’; wet stamped ‘Received 2 Jul 03’, and with a correspondence number in red crayon; original vertical fold, clean and …
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# 46347
MEINERS, C. (Christoph) (1747-1810)
[BIOLOGICAL RACISM] Betrachtungen über die Fruchtbarkeit, oder Unfruchtbarkeit, über den vormahligen und gegenwärtigen Zustand der vornehmsten Länder in Asien,
von C. Meiners…. [=Observations on fertility and sterility in the ancient and present states of the main regions of Asia]. Lübeck und Leipzig : im Verlage bey Bohn und Compagnie, 1795-96. Two volumes, octavo (195 x 125 mm), matching contemporary bindings of marbled papered boards (lightly rubbed, first volume with small paper loss, otherwise very …
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# 45876
EDEN SOCIETY STUDIOS
Studio portrait of a man in Salvation Army uniform, posed with his tuba. Sydney, late 1890s.
Sepia-tone gelatin silver print photograph, cabinet card format, 168 x 107 mm (mount); recto with the imprint of ‘Eden Society Studios’; the print is in very good condition; the mount has a couple of spots of foxing.