New South Wales
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# 46201
HARRIS, Walter Kilroy
[PROSPECTUS] Outback in Australia; or three Australian overlanders
Being an account of the longest overlanding journey ever attempted in Australia with a single horse, and including chapters on various phases of outback life. Letchworth, U.K. : Garden City Press, 1913. Single sheet, folded into 4 pp octavo, three illustrations. Fine. Scarce prospectus for this account of an eccentric English traveller’s experiences droving in …
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# 46200
LANG, George Dunmore (et al)
[PRESBYTERIANS IN NEW SOUTH WALES] Prospectus of a weekly paper, to be entitled “The Colonist.”
[Caption title]. Beneath title: “Union is Strength”. Sydney : Printed by F. Mason, [1863]. Broadside (250 x 203 mm), lithograph printed recto only on blue paper; very mild sunning and wear at edges, but a near fine copy. Ferguson, 14446 This obscure prospectus for a Sydney newspaper aimed at the Presbyterian readership in New South Wales …
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# 46114
GUNSON, Niel (ed.)
Australian reminiscences and papers of L. E. Threlkeld, missionary to the Aborigines, 1824-1859.
Canberra : Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1974. Series: Australian Aboriginal Studies no. 40. Ethnohistory series no. 2. Two volumes, large quarto (260 x 205 mm), pictorial stiff wrappers; endpaper maps; pp. xii, 1-176; vi, 177-382; illustrated; an excellent set. Although published over fifty years ago, Gunson’s scholarly presentation of the papers and miscellaneous writings …
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# 46096
TROY, Jakelin
The Sydney language
Canberra : Australian Dictionaries Project and Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, 1994. First edition. Quarto (295 x 210 mm), pictorial wrappers; pp. 116, illustrated with b/w plates and line-drawn text illustrations, maps; a very good copy.
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# 46042
NEW SOUTH WALES. NATIONAL PARKS & WILDLIFE SERVICE.
The Aborigines of New South Wales
Sydney : National Parks & Wildlife Service, [1981]. Reprint from Parks & Wildlife, vol. 2 no. 5. Quarto (270 x 200 mm), pictorial stiff wrappers, 124 pp, illustrated throughout in b/w and colour, maps; a fine copy. Scholarly and extremely well illustrated introduction to Aboriginal culture from prehistory to the present, with a guide to …
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# 45901
LEWIN, John William (1770-1819)
A natural history of the birds of New South Wales, collected, engraved and faithfully painted after nature. (The Bradley Martin copy)
By John William Lewin, A.L.S., late of Paramatta, New South Wales. New and improved edition, to which is added a list of the synonymes of each species, incorporating the labours of T. Gould, Esq., N. A. Vigors, Esq., T. Horsfield, M.D., and W. Swainson, Esq. A fine example, in original condition, of one of the …
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# 44844
CADELL, Thomas (1787-1857)
[BEER] Thomas Cadell, brewer : entire letter, sent from his Hawkesbury Brewery at Windsor, New South Wales, to his uncle in Scotland, dated November 1839.
Manuscript in ink, [3 1/2] pp., quarto, cross-written; headed ‘Hawkesbury Brewery, Windsor, Nov. 26th 1839’; the letter is addressed ‘My dear Uncle’ and signed at the foot ‘Very sincerely yours, Thos. Cadell’; the outer panel is addressed ‘Robert Cadell Esq., Athole Crescent, Edinburgh, North Britain’; prepaid 10d in red ms. and octagonal framed ‘WINDSOR / …
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# 44577
METAL-WOOD REPETITIONS CO. (Sydney)
[GAME] Chung Kuo Chun Tzü (Chinese Gentleman)
A fascinating game for two, three or four players. Sydney, NSW : Metal-Wood Repetitions Co., [1944]. Publisher’s box with pictorial hinged lid, 240 x 160 x 40 mm, containing the complete set of original wood, paper and card components in fine condition (minor damage to one piece), along with the original directions sheet. The aim of …
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# 44524
BURNS, Robert (1759-1796)
The poetical works of Robert Burns. Printed for the booksellers in Australia, 1832.
[Edinburgh?] : s.n., 1832. Small octavo (177 x 110 mm), later black morocco, spine ruled and lettered in gilt; woodcut frontispiece portrait of the poet from Taylor’s Authenticated Picture, title-page with vignette woodcut of Tam O’Shanter and Souter Johnny captioned His ancient trusty drouthy crony, pp. ix, [1 blank], xiv, 284, 23 (glossary); front free-endpaper with original …
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# 45544
HOPKINS, Gertrude (1869-1894)
Gertrude’s poems
Sydney, Newcastle and London : W. E. Smith [for John Hopkins], 1895. Octavo (180 x 125 mm), original royal blue cloth over boards with gilt-lettered title to upper board (boards with flecking and light staining, spine darkened and frayed at ends); all edges gilt; front pastedown with bookbinder’s ticket of W. E. Smith, Sydney; page …
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# 44863
PHILLIP, Arthur (1738-1814)
The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay
with an account of the establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson & Norfolk Island; compiled from authentic papers, which have been obtained from the several departments, to which are added, the journals of Lieuts. Shortland, Watts, Ball, & Capt. Marshall; with an account of their new discoveries. London : John Stockdale, 1789. Quarto, full …
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# 45073
WEISS, John Von Mangerhausen (1796-1872)
Manuscript letter addressed to Ann Hurst, wife of Rev. Benjamin Hurst, Wesleyan minister at Bathurst, New South Wales. Sydney, January 1846.
Manuscript in ink, [3] pp quarto; headed ‘Sydney, January 16th 1846’, addressed ‘My dear Mrs. Hurst’, and signed at the foot ‘Yours in the bonds of the Cross, Jno. V. M. Weiss’; outer panel addressed to ‘Rev. Mr. Hurst, Wesleyan Minister, Bathurst / For Mrs. Hurst (too late)’, with fine ‘ ‘POST PAID/AT SYDNEY’ in …
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# 45889
CAZNEAUX, Harold Pierce (1878-1953)
Two portraits of photographer and missionary Norman Deck. Sydney, 1905.
Two carbon print photographs, each 145 x 110 mm, on the original textured card mounts, 305 x 190 mm, both signed and inscribed on the mount in pencil by the photographer ‘H. Cazneaux / Portraits’; verso of one mount inscribed in pencil in Deck’s hand ‘Norman Deck 1905. Portrait by H. Cazneaux’; both prints are …
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# 45624
EDEN SOCIETY STUDIOS
Wedding cake. Sydney, 1890s.
Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 167 x 109 mm (mount); recto of mount with the embossed imprint of ‘Eden Society Studios’; the print is in excellent condition; the mount has some minor foxing. A studio “portrait” with an uncommon subject.
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# 45625
ADELAIDE PHOTO. COMPANY (SYDNEY)
Studio portrait of a fashionably dressed young woman. Sydney, c.1895.
Printing-out-paper print photograph, carte de visite format, 92 x 57 mm (no mount); verso wet stamped ‘Adelaide Photo. Company. Corner of Pitt St. and Park St., Sydney. One door from Criterion Theatre.’; in very good condition. Possibly a stage performer from the Criterion Theatre?
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# 45551
DAVIS, John
Portrait of Wellington Ngu (later Second Crown Prince of Tonga) in military uniform, c.1878.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 106 x 64 mm; verso with the back mark of ‘J. DAVIS, PHOTOGRAPHER, 21 Botany Street, near Oxford Street, SYDNEY. View of Friendly and Navigators Islands.’; a superb print with excellent tonal range; [TOGETHER WITH] another carte de visite in identical format (but for some reason without Davis’ …