New South Wales
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# 18626
THE ECLIPSE PHOTO 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).
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# 18836
KING, Henry (1855-1923)
New South Wales Aborigine posing with lil-lil club and shield, Sydney, circa 1890
Albumen print photograph, 197 x 150 mm, laid down on original album page of thick card; contemporary caption in ink to mount beneath image ‘Australian Aboriginal, N.S.W.’ (reflecting the original handwritten generic caption in the negative, which was trimmed before mounting); the albumen print and mount are in very good condition; verso with a view …
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# 18975
LINDT, J.W. (John William) (1845-1926)
“Snowy and his gin”. Grafton, northern New South Wales, 1870-73.
[Pirated printing, probably 1880-90]. Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 93 x 57 mm; no photographer’s or publisher’s imprint; mounted on section cut from the original split album page, with a generic caption in period hand in ink beneath image ‘Aboriginals of Australia’; both the print and mount are in very good condition. This …
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# 18545
[STUART, William Slade]
[SECOND ANGLO-BOER WAR] New South Wales Mounted Rifles.
[London : W.S. Stuart, between 1899 and 1902]. Photographic glass magic lantern slide with hand colouring, 82 x 82 mm, manuscript title in the negative ‘New South Wales Mounted Rifles 2567 Stuart Copyright’, original printed label ‘The British Army’ and manuscript label with sequence number ’13’; a superb, crisp image in fine condition. ‘The regiment …
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# 18857
MASON, Ernest
Premises of A. Dean, coachbuilder and blacksmith. Goulburn, New South Wales, circa 1900
Albumen silver print photograph, 153 x 208 mm, laid down on its original board mount; lower margin of mount wet stamped ‘Ernest Mason / 211 Auburn Street Goulburn’; the print is in fine condition; the mount has a tear at bottom right corner. Clearly taken before the advent of the motorcar in the Southern Tablelands, this …
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# 18612
大倉孫兵衛 [Ōkura Magobei], (1843-1921) (publisher)
[MELBOURNE; SYDNEY] 万国名所双録（萬國名所雙録) [Bankoku Meisho Sugoroku] (Famous Places of the World Sugoroku)
[Tokyo] : Published by 大倉孫兵衛 (Ōkura Magobei), [1887] (Meiji 20). Traditional Japanese children’s dice game, sugoroku. Colour woodblock print on paper, 800 x 710 mm (opened, not including the title slip affixed to the top of the board), folding to 253 x 205 mm; pictorial cover; a fine example. There are two varieties of sugoroku, one …
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# 18907
"MARCONI"
American Novelty Entertainers : Wild West dramas : Deadwood Dick … The Kelly Gang … Buffalo Bill … The Silent Chief …For Liberty & the Flag … The Waif of the Waves …
West Maitland, NSW : T. Dimmock, Litho. and General Machine Printer, [1902-1906]. Chromolithographed poster, 960 x 380 mm, contemporary handwritten notice across upper margin ‘Benefit to Blondin’; old vertical and horizontal folds, mild creasing and marginal staining, edges a little roughened, a few annotations in pencil, small loss at top corner; unbacked. An unrecorded theatre …
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# 18914
Souvenir programme of Coogee’s farewell to Miss Phyllis Gibbs, Winner of First National Australasian Film Contest, and Evening News Unshingled Beauty Contest.
Also titled: Coogee’s public farewell to Miss Phyllis Gibbs, Boomerang Theatre, Thursday, 19th May 1927. Octavo, pictorial wrappers (hole punched) with portrait of Miss Gibbs and artist’s impression of the completed Coogee Pier (1928-34); staples rusted; [12] pp, including full-page photographic montage with nine portraits of the photogenic Miss Gibbs, ‘Australia’s latest offer to American …
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# 18845
McBEATH, Neil (words and music)
[SHEET MUSIC] Make for old Canberra in the morning : fox-trot.
Cover: ‘”Hullo, Australia” / Song dictated to Sydney. Exhibition broadcasting success. Unique radio experiment’. Dunedin, N.Z. : Neil McBeath, [1925]. Quarto, pictorial wrappers (original owner’s name to front), [3] pp of music notation, arrangement for voice and piano; a few short edge tears, but a good copy. The printed notice on the front cover explains that …
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# 18671
McCALLUM, M.W. (Mungo William), 1854-1942
Browning after a generation : The first presidential address to the Australian English Association, Sydney.
Cover: Leaflet no. 3, May 1924. Sydney : Privately printed for members of the Association by H.T. Dunn, 1924. Duodecimo, original wrappers printed in red and black, 33 pp; upper corners a little dog-eared, title page with a mild foxing and a few light marks, off-setting on pp2-3, else a good copy. “”.
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# 18925
AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES' MISSION
Australian Aborigines’ advocate : a record of work amongst the dark people of Australia / the organ of the Australian Aborigines’ Mission. December 31, 1926.
Annandale, NSW : T.E. Colebrook, 1926. Small quarto newspaper, 255 x 195 mm, single sheet folding to form 8 pages; illustrated masthead, text in two columns; a fine copy. The Australian Aborigines’ Mission (AAM) was an interdenominational Protestant organisation active in most states of Australia between 1908 and 1929. It had grown out of the New …
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# 18917
AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES' MISSION
Australian Aborigines’ advocate : a record of work amongst the dark people of Australia / the organ of the Australian Aborigines’ Mission. September 30, 1927.
Annandale, NSW : T.E. Colebrook, 1927. Small quarto newspaper, 255 x 195 mm, single sheet folding to form 8 pages; illustrated masthead, text in two columns; faint vertical fold, but a fine copy. The Australian Aborigines’ Mission (AAM) was an interdenominational Protestant organisation active in most states of Australia between 1908 and 1929. It had …
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# 18924
AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES' MISSION
Australian Aborigines’ advocate : a record of work amongst the dark people of Australia / the organ of the Australian Aborigines’ Mission. May 31, 1927.
Annandale, NSW : T.E. Colebrook, 1927. Small quarto newspaper, 255 x 195 mm, single sheet folding to form 8 pages; illustrated masthead, text in two columns; a little roughened at top edges, a couple of annotations made by the original owner, else a fine copy. The Australian Aborigines’ Mission (AAM) was an interdenominational Protestant organisation …
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# 18923
AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES' MISSION
Australian Aborigines’ advocate : a record of work amongst the dark people of Australia / the organ of the Australian Aborigines’ Mission. June 30, 1927.
Annandale, NSW : T.E. Colebrook, 1927. Small quarto newspaper, 255 x 195 mm, single sheet folding to form 8 pages; illustrated masthead, text in two columns; short marginal tears at fore-edges (no loss of text), else a fine copy. The Australian Aborigines’ Mission (AAM) was an interdenominational Protestant organisation active in most states of Australia …