New South Wales
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# 19629
GRAHAM-STEWART, Michael; McWHANNELL, Francis; DICKSON, Jonathan
Bitter fruit : Australian photographs to 1963
Melbourne : Michael Graham-Stewart, 2017. Quarto (285 x 230 mm), cloth boards in pictorial dust jacket, 280 pp, illustrated in colour throughout with hundreds of photographs documenting the collision of Indigenous Australian and European cultures; the photographs, ranging in date from the 1850s to the 1960s and taken in every region of Australia, represent some …
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# 19494
BENNETT, Mary M. (1881-1961)
Human rights for Aborigines : how can they learn without a teacher?
Brisbane : Printed by “Truth” and “Sportsman” Ltd., [1957?]. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers (sunned at edges), lower wrapper with map of Central and Western Aboriginal Reserves and the Rocket Range, staple bound, 63 pp, illustrated, a fine copy. An important work by a significant advocate of Aboriginal rights, based to a large extent on Bennett’s …
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# 19269
WHITE, John (1756-1832)
Journal of a voyage to New South Wales. (Coloured edition)
/ with sixty-five plates of non descript animals, birds, lizards, serpents, curious cones of trees and other natural productions by John White Esqre., Surgeon General to the settlement. London : J. Debrett, 1790. Quarto, full speckled calf, expertly rebacked with new spine, contrasting morocco title labels, decorated in gilt, marbled edges, pp [xviii], 299, [36], …
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# 19270
WHITE, John (1756-1832)
Journal of a voyage to New South Wales
with sixty-five plates of non descript animals, birds, lizards, serpents, curious cones of trees and other natural productions by John White Esqre., Surgeon General to the settlement. London : J. Debrett, 1790. Quarto, full tree calf, gilt decorated borders, spine with detailed ornamental tooling, contrasting morocco title label, marbled endpapers, pp [xviii], 299, [36], 65 …
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# 18928
STANFORD, Edward
Map of the province of Victoria (Australia,) showing all the roads, rivers, towns, counties, gold diggings, sheep & cattle stations, &c.
London : Edward Stanford, s.n. [c. 1860]. Engraved map, 480 x 730 mm, dissected and laid on linen, original hand colouring, housed in publisher’s cloth case with paper title label. A fine copy. An attractive and detailed map of the newly formed colony of Victoria at the height of the gold rush, showing the newly …
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# 10546
KELL, Julius
Reise nach der Verbrecher-Colonie Neu-Südwales
[=Voyage to the penal colony of New South Wales]. Series: Neueren Entdeckungsreisen Nach grösseren Reisewerken für die Jugend; Band 3. Leipzig : Julius Meissner, 1848. Small octavo, contemporary half blue morocco over marbled papered boards, 240 pp, illustrated with [4] steel-engraved plates, scattered foxing and browning (particularly to the plates), a small faint damp stain …
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# 19373
KELLY, Michael, Archbishop of Sydney (1850 - 1940)
Pastoral letter of Michael Archbishop of Sydney to the clergy and faithful of the Archdiocese of Sydney.
Annual offering of Peter’s Pence Feast of St Peter in Chains, 1936. Sydney : Lionel Flynn, 1936. Octavo, lettered wrappers, pp.4. One of a series of pastoral letters issued by the Archbishop.
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# 12178
GREAT BRITAIN. COLONIAL OFFICE. [ARROWSMITH, John, 1790-1873]; [GIPPS, George Sir, 1791-1847]
[STRZELECKI] Return to an address of the Honorable the House of Commons, dated 26 February 1841
: for, copy of a despatch from Sir G. Gipps, Governor of New South Wales, to the Secretary of State for the colonies, transmitting a report of the progressive discovery and occupation of that colony during the period of his administration of the government. [London] : Ordered, by the House of Commons, to be printed, …
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# 12790
NEWTON, Rev. John, 1725-1807; [JOHNSON, Rev. Richard, 1753-1827]
[BOTANY BAY] Twenty-one letters written to a near relative at school.
/ By the Rev. John Newton … extracted from his posthumous works. To which are annexed a few pieces of poetry, by the same author. London : Printed for J. Johnson et al., 1809. Octavo, straight-grained morocco (rebacked); inscription to front free endpaper ‘Priscilla Martha Victoria Vickers, given to her mother by her early friend Mrs …
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# 19085
Anon.
[NEW SOUTH WALES] Roll of deaths in the 50th (Queen’s Own) Regiment of Foot from April 1841 to May 1843
[Drop title] Nominal Roll of of Men who have become Non Effective Since the Regiment left New South Wales, up to the 1 May 1843, Cawnpore, 1843. Manuscript in ink on pale blue wove paper, folio (340 x 205 mm), 2 bifolia written on [6] sides in a neat clerical hand, manuscript column rules; a …
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# 19213
RAYMOND, James (compiler)
The New South Wales Calendar and General Post Office Directory, 1833
[Sydney] : [Stephens & Stokes], [1832 or 1833]. Octavo, original half morocco over marbled boards, rebacked, preserving the original gilt decorated backstrip; front pastedown with early binder’s label of William Moffitt, King Street, Sydney, and twentieth century bookplate; front free-endpaper with a presentation inscription from the Sydney shipping agents Messrs. Aspinall, Brown & Co., Sydney …
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# 18999
Broken Hill
Broken Hill : Council of the City of Broken Hill, circa 1965. Tourist brochure, large folded sheet, illustrated. Together with a two page typescript description of the city from the New South Wales Tourist Bureau.
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# 19114
ROLLAND, W. M.
Growing up in early Canberra : birthpangs of a capital city (signed copy)
Sydney : Kangaroo Press, 1988. Octavo, pictorial boards, pp. 112, illustrated. Signed by the author. Documents the construction and early years of the capital.
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# 18626
THE ECLIPSE PHOTO COMPANY [G.B.D. KITCH & CO.]
A family posing outside their house, Sunny Corner, central west New South Wales, circa 1890
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 63 x 113 mm (mount), verso with imprint of ‘The Eclipse Photo Compy., G.B.D. Kitch & Co., Sunny Corner’; the albumen print is in fine condition and has great detail; the mount with a small mark to the margin recto, otherwise also fine. Sunny Corner, originally a coal …
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# 18587
[SYDNEY] ADELAIDE PHOTO. COMPANY
Photographic portrait of a barman pouring beer, Sydney, 1892.
Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 163 x 108 mm (mount); recto imprinted ‘Adelaide Photo. Company. Corner of Pitt St. and Park St., Sydney. Over Drew’s Stationery Depot’; in fine condition, with the original illustrated tissue guard still attached. A superb Australian occupational cabinet card. According to Davies & Stanbury (Mechanical Eye) the Adelaide Photo. Company …
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# 18806
PAINE, John (1833-1908)
Aboriginal men painted for corroboree, New South Wales, circa 1890
Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 151 x 108 mm (mount); no photographer’s imprint; verso blank; both the albumen print and gilt-edged mount are fine condition. Taken in an unknown location in New South Wales, but attributed to Sydney-based photographer John Paine (another copy sighted with Paine’s imprint verso).