New South Wales
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# 51027
NICHOLAS, G. H.
Portraits of Captain Edward Montague Battye of the Mounted Police, and his wife Catherine. Cooma, New South Wales, mid 1870s.
A companion pair of albumen print photographs, carte de visite format, 98 x 64 mm (mounts); versos with the back mark of travelling photographer G. H. Nicholas, one inscribed in ink in his hand ‘Cooma’; a few spots of foxing outside the oval portrait cartouches, otherwise both cartes are in very good condition. These portraits …
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# 48249
WILSON, Hardy
Old colonial architecture in New South Wales and Tasmania
Sydney : published by the author at Union House, 1924. Edition limited to 1000 numbered and signed copies (no. 324). Large folio, original papered boards (rubbed, upper board with a couple of small marks, spine a little stained), upper board with gilt lettering and “bat and peaches” device, paste-downs and endpapers with a small amount …
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# 50727
CURREY, John (1940 - )
Arthur Phillip. Private letters 1787 – 1796
Selected, with notes and commentary, by John Currey. [Melbourne] : The Banks Society, 2017. Octavo, finely bound in papered boards, pp. 213 set on Caslon typeface printed on Mohawk Superfine Eggshell Soft White 118 gsm, illustrated, folding map. ‘Twenty-five copies of this book marked A to Y were made by John Currey at The Colony …
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# 51099
CREELMAN & CO.
Group portrait of the family of the young Norman C. Deck (later photographer and missionary in the Solomon Islands). Sydney, c.1890.
Albumen print photograph, Paris Panel format, 200 x 250 mm; recto with imprint of ‘Creelman & Co., Burlington Galleries, corner of King & George Sts., Sydney Arcade’; verso with later family member’s annotations in pen, identifying all of the sitters in the portrait with their names and birth and death dates; the print has mottling …
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# 49878
NEW SOUTH WALES. PARLIAMENT. LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY.
The Riverine question. Speeches in the Legislative Assembly of New South Wales.
Melbourne : printed by Wilson and Mackinnon, Collins Street East, 1864. Octavo (215 x 140 mm), publisher’s blind-blocked green pebbled cloth (rubbed), spine lettered in gilt; original yellow endpapers; title with ownership inscription of John Bowie Wilson (New South Wales Government Minister for Lands in the 1860s); pp. vii, [viii-x], 241, [3 blank]; preliminaries with …
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![[CHILDREN’S] L’Océanie d’après les voyageurs les plus célèbres, par un homme de lettres](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/06/2026_DSFB_4001-300x300.jpg)
# 50537
Anon.
[CHILDREN’S] L’Océanie d’après les voyageurs les plus célèbres, par un homme de lettres
Lille : L. Lefort, 1849. First edition. Small octavo, publisher’s papered cartonnage binding with gilt decoration, frontispiece (Prise de possession des Iles marquises), previous owner’s name to front pastedown, pp. 201,a fine copy. Accounts of European exploration and discovery of and early settlements in the Pacific, with chapters on the Malay archipelago, Melanesia (includes New …
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![[BATHURST] The President of St. Stanislaus' College, Bathurst, requests the honour of Mr. O'Connor's presence at the Academical Execises and Distribution of Premiums ... Tuesday, December 10 [1889] ...](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/07/2026_DSFB_4419-300x300.jpg)
# 50783
BYRNE, James (President)
[BATHURST] The President of St. Stanislaus’ College, Bathurst, requests the honour of Mr. O’Connor’s presence at the Academical Execises and Distribution of Premiums … Tuesday, December 10 [1889] …
[Bathurst : s.n.], 1889. Duodecimo card, 90 x 118 mm; lithograph printed recto only, in black on buff card, with chromolithographed border; some loss along bottom edge, verso with residual glue from an album mount. Provenance: Removed from a dilapidated album of mounted printed ephemera compiled by J. G. O’Connor (1839-1913), Irish-born Sydney journalist, printer, and …
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# 48666
EHLERS, Carl
Tableau of a white settler attacking an Aboriginal man. Grafton, New South Wales, 1890s.
Gelatin silver print, in uncommonly large 30 x 26.4 cm format, on original mount blind-stamped ‘Ehlers & Dalby, Grafton’; fine condition; in a later glazed frame. Like his better-known compatriot J. W. Lindt before him, German-born Carl Ehlers was a professional photographer who worked in the New South Wales Northern Rivers township of Grafton. He …
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# 50655
HOWE, George (1769-1821)
The Sydney Gazette, and New South Wales Advertiser. Vols I – II, 1803-1805.
THE CRADLE OF PRINTING, PUBLISHING AND JOURNALISM IN AUSTRALIA : AN IMPORTANT COLLECTION OF EARLY ISSUES OF AUSTRALIA’S FIRST NEWSPAPER, FROM ITS FIRST TWO YEARS OF PUBLICATION. Sydney : G. Howe, 1803-05. A total of 91 (ninety-one) issues, housed in two calf clamshell cases, silk-lined and with gilt lettering, custom made to the highest standard. Vol. …
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# 49798
VIANA, Francisco Javier de (1764-1820)
Diario del teniente de navio D. Francisco Xavier de Viana, trabajado en el viage de las corbetas de S.M.C. “Descubierta” y “Atrevida” en los años de 1789, 1790, 1791, 1792 y 1793.
[Also titled: Diario del viage explorador de las corbetas españolas “Descubierta” y “Atrevida”, en los años de 1789 á 1794]. Cerrito de la Victoria [Uruguay] : Imprenta del ejército, 1849. Octavo, quarter crushed morocco over marbled papered boards, spine ruled and lettered in gilt (small expert restorations to head and foot of spine); marbled endpapers; …
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# 50899
HERINGTON, David
Stage Right
Bexhill [N.S.W.]: the artist, 2020. Small quarto, illustrated wrappers, edge stain and rubbing to lower panel and adjacent pages, pp. 48, photographically illustrated. Limited to 100 numbered copies. Very scarce. ‘Stage Right is a 50 page, 8×8 inch perfect bound book featuring 36 photographs of both colour and black and white as well as four …
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# 50824
TINDALE, Norman B.
Nomenclature of archaeological cultures and associated implements in Australia.
Adelaide : A. B. James, Government Printer, 1968. Reprint ‘From the Records of the South Australian Museum, Vol. XV, No. 4, November 5th, 1965’. Large octavo (240 x 175 mm), printed brown wrappers; pp. 615-640; with 21 line-drawn figures; a fine copy.
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# 42022
HOWE, George (compiler and printer)
New South Wales Pocket Almanack, for the Year of Our Lord 1815;
Being the third after Bissextile, or Leap Year; and the fifty-fifth of the Reign of His Present Majesty King George the Third. Published under the Sanction and Patronage of His Excellency the Governor and Commander in Chief. Sydney : Compiled and Printed by G. Howe, Government Printer, [1815]. Duodecimo (155 x 95 mm), later half …
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# 50593
[Photographer unknown].
Aboriginal group with gulmari shields, Macintyre River (Northern New South Wales or South-East Queensland), c.1870.
Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each half of the image approximately 72 x 75 mm, on original flat mount of grey card, 83 x 173 mm; the mount has a fully contemporary inscription in ink in the right margin: ‘McIntire Blacks’; verso blank; the print and mount are in very good condition. The Macintyre River, which …
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![[SYDNEY; MUSIC] To meet Miss Marie Narelle: The Premier and The Citizens' Reception Committee request the pleasure of Mr. & Mrs. J. G. O'Connor's Company at the Town Hall, Sydney, on Thursday Evening 15th June [1906] from 8 to 10 o'clock.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/06/2026_DSFB_3591-300x300.jpg)
# 50432
[SYDNEY MUNICIPAL COUNCIL. CITIZENS' RECEPTION COMMITTEE]
[SYDNEY; MUSIC] To meet Miss Marie Narelle: The Premier and The Citizens’ Reception Committee request the pleasure of Mr. & Mrs. J. G. O’Connor’s Company at the Town Hall, Sydney, on Thursday Evening 15th June [1906] from 8 to 10 o’clock.
[Sydney : s.n., 1906]. Invitation card, 105 x 130 mm; lithograph printed; manuscript entry in ink recording that the invitation was issued to the O’Connors; scattered small stains, bottom edge roughened; laid down on section of card from a nineteenth-century album. Scarce ephemeral item associated with the career of the “Australian Queen of Irish Song”. …
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# 50392
BOYD, Thomas H.
Portrait of J. J. Casey and another gentleman. Sydney, 1882.
Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 165 x 100 mm; verso of mount imprinted Boyd San Francisco Palace of Art 250 & 252 George Street, Sydney, and with an inscription (presumably) by one of the two sitters: ‘J. J. Casey & [xxxx], May 1882’; the albumen print is in superb condition; the mount is clean …