New South Wales
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# 50592
BUSBY, James (1801-1871)
A treatise on the culture of the vine, and the art of making wine; compiled from the works of Chaptal, and other French writers; and from the notes of the compiler, during a residence in some of the Wine Provinces of France (facsimile edition)
Australia [i.e. Sydney], R. Howe, Government Printer, 1825 (but Sydney : David Ell Press, 1979). Facsimile edition. Octavo, gilt-lettered buckram, [pp. i – ii], pp. [iii] – xxxiv, 270 (actually 272, as the pagination 183 – 184 is duplicated), [1 – errata], [1 – blank], with one folding table (designated pp. 62-63, inserted after p. …
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# 50380
[BALMAIN. COUNCIL]
Souvenir to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the incorporation of the Municipality of Balmain, 1860-1910.
[Cover title: Municipal Jubilee. Balmain, 1860-1910]. Oblong octavo (135 x 218 mm), original stitched white wrappers lettered in red (very lightly marked); pp. 86, printed in blue ink, half-tone photographic illustrations throughout, and with advertisements for local businesses; contents very clean, an excellent example.
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# 50377
PHILLIP, Arthur
The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay; with an Account of the Establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson and Norfolk Island;
Compiled from authentic papers, which have been obtained from the several departments. To which are added, the Journals of Lieutenants Shortland, Watts, Ball and Captain Marshall; with an account of their new discoveries. The views &c. &c. drawn on the spot, by Capt. Hunter, Lieuts. Shortland, Watts, Dawes, Bradley, Capt. Marshall, &c. Dublin : Printed for …
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# 50563
VALLANCE, T. G. et al.
Nature’s investigator : the diary of Robert Brown in Australia, 1801-1805
Compiled by T.G. Vallance, D.T. Moore & E.W. Groves. Canberra, ACT : Australian Biological Resources Study (Flora), [2001]. Octavo, laminated pictorial boards, maps to endpapers, previous owner’s name to front free endpaper, pp. xii; 666, illustrations, a fine copy. Scarce. The diary of Robert Brown, naturalist on the ‘Investigator’ voyage of Matthew Flinders, with much …
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# 50550
McCORMICK, Tim
First views of Australia 1788-1825 : an early history of Sydney
Sydney : Longueville Publications, 1987. Edition limited to 2000 copies. Large quarto, publisher’s navy cloth boards lettered in gilt, in illustrated dust jacket, light handling marks and small tear, small stain to fore edge, 340 pp, illustrated throughout (mostly colour plates), introduction by Robert Irving, with biographical notes on the artists, index; a very good …
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# 50536
HOWITT, A. W.
The native tribes of South-East Australia
London : Macmillan, 1904. Octavo, gilt-decorated cloth (rubbed, bottom corners bumped, spine ends softened with short split at head of spine); ex-library with stamp removed from spine, wetstamp and bookplate from the Royal Colonial Institute to front pastedown (no other markings), pp. xx, 819, maps and folding plates; light foxing to outermost leaves, a good …
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# 50484
GROOM, Linda
First Fleet artist. George Raper’s birds & plants of Australia
Canberra : National Gallery of Australia, 2009. Quarto, illustrated boards, pp. 146, slight sunning to spine. Natural history and topographical art from the First Fleet.
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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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# 49558
SHEARSTON, John S.
H.M.S. “Nelson” : an account of her first commission on the Australian Station. The voyage out – arrival at Sydney – description of the ship – cruises and doings out here; with a detailed account of the establishment of British protectorate at New Guinea in 1884.
Sydney : Thomas Richards, Government Printer, 1885. First edition. Octavo (212 x 142 mm), original printed pink wrappers (light stains); pp.78; title-page with off-setting, else contents clean and sound; [TOGETHER WITH] An albumen print photograph (c.1885) by Charles Bayliss of HMS Nelson alongside the ferry Brighton in Sydney Harbour, inscribed verso in period hand ‘From …
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# 50097
AP HUW, D. Ap G.
Gwlad yr aur, neu, Gydymaith yr ymfudwr Cymreig i Australia :
yn cynwys, hanes y cyfandir australaidd, y trefedigaethau prydeinig ynddo, ac ardaloedd yr aur, eu tir, hinsawdd, masnach, cyflogau, deddfau, &c., &c.; yn nghyda lluaws o ffeithiau o ddyddordeb a phwys arbenig i’r ymfudwr. Gan D. Ap. G., Ap Huw, Feddyg. Caernarfon (Wales) : H. Humphreys, [1852]. Octavo, printed wrappers (neatly detached, chipped), folding frontispiece …
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# 50370
[NEW SOUTH WALES. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE]
Two views of Fitzroy Falls, Moss Vale, New South Wales, c.1890.
Two large format albumen print photographs, each 230 x 280 mm, both captioned in the negative at lower right ‘Fitzroy Falls, Moss Vale’; both in fine condition, unmounted. Fitzroy Falls is an 80-metre waterfall located in what is now the Morton National Park in the Southern Highlands region of New South Wales, just southeast of …
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# 50314
HART, Elijah
Portrait of Cyrus William Doyle, son of pioneer Hunter Valley pastoralist Edmund Doyle. West Maitland, New South Wales, late 1860s.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 101 x 62 mm (mount); verso with imprint of ‘Elijah Hart, Photographic Artist, High Street, West Maitland, N.S.W.’, and a full contemporary inscription in ink: ‘Cyrus’; the vignetted portrait has some light marks that are mostly confined to the edges of the print. We believe the sitter to …
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# 50213
BAUER, Carl Johann Sigmund, (1780-1857)
Fourteen ethnographic portraits from the miniature globe ‘The world with its inhabitants’
[Nuremberg : Bauer, c. 1830]. Concertina paper strip of vignettes of the races of the world, each vignette 55 x 45 mm, coloured by hand, the illustrations cut into sections and laid on an early leaf, perhaps from a scrapbook, with captions in German, including inhabitants from Greenland, Canada, Turkey, Arabia, Persia, China, Kamchatka, Van …
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# 50101
NEW SOUTH WALES. GOVERNMENT.
1856-1906. The Jubilee of Responsible Government, N.S.W. Programme.
[Sydney : Government Printer], 1906. Folding card, 170 x 108 mm; illustrated front lithograph printed in green, red and gold; second side blank, third side with brief programme schedule for the day’s events (22 May 1906); fold partially split, verso with residual glue and superficial loss from where the card was once mounted in an …
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![[SYDNEY] Parliamentary Refreshment Room, 22nd May 1906. Menu. Luncheon.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/05/2026_DSFB_3430-300x300.jpg)
# 50395
NEW SOUTH WALES. PARLIAMENT.
[SYDNEY] Parliamentary Refreshment Room, 22nd May 1906. Menu. Luncheon.
[Sydney : s.n.], 1906. Menu. Gilt-edged card, 163 x 110 mm; recto lithograph printed in gold and with gilt embossed coat of arms at head; lightly marked, verso with paper adhesion from where the card was removed from an album leaf. Provenance: Removed from a dilapidated album of mounted printed ephemera compiled by J. G. O’Connor …
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# 50338
THORNE (WATKINS), Rosalie Ann (1850-1927)
Rosalie Ann Thorne (later Watkins), of Rose Bay and Parramatta : a substantial archive of unique manuscript ephemera, 1850s-1890s, including family correspondence and material relating to the homeschooling of the Thorne and Watkins children.
Provenance: Rosalie Ann Thorne (1850-1927); Elizabeth Cecilia McNally, aka “The Duchess of Spring Hill” (1909-1996), legendary Brisbane antiques dealer and collector; private collection, Queensland. As the archive is so large, we have arranged it into four main sections catalogued under alphabetical headings, A – D (see below). ROSALIE ANN THORNE AND HER FAMILY Rosalie (“Rose”) Ann …