New South Wales

  • Foreign field sports, fisheries, sporting anecdotes, &c. &c. :

    # 47371

    CLARK, John Heaviside, ca. 1770-1863; [LEWIN, John William 1770-1819]

    Foreign field sports, fisheries, sporting anecdotes, &c. &c. :

    from drawings by Messrs. Howitt, Atkinson, Clark, Manskirch, &c. Containing one hundred plates. With a supplement of New South Wales. London : Published and sold by Edward Orme, 1814. Large quarto, contemporary blind tooled straight grained morocco, ornamental gilt edging, spine lettered in gilt with gilt tooling, gilt dentelles, all edges gilt, front pastedown with …

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  • The Zones of the Earth. Plate No. X. Productions of the Southern Temperate Zone.

    # 47283

    A. & S. JOSEPH, MYERS & CO. (publisher)

    The Zones of the Earth. Plate No. X. Productions of the Southern Temperate Zone.

    [Title from printed caption lower centre]. London : A. & S. Joseph, Myers & Co. 144 Leadenhall Street, [after 1842]. Chromolithograph, 253 x 378 mm, mounted on a fully contemporary backing sheet of marbled card, with an eyelet for hanging at top centre; some pale stains and light marks, mostly confined to the margins, otherwise …

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  • The New South Wales representative soccer team. Hobart, August 1911.

    # 47229

    BEATTIE, J. W. (John Watt)

    The New South Wales representative soccer team. Hobart, August 1911.

    Hobart : J. W. Beattie, [1911]. Gelatin silver print photograph, 85 x 132 mm, printed on Kodak Austral postcard stock; verso wet-stamped ‘Prepared by J. W. Beattie, Hobart, Tasmania’; not mailed; mild corner wear, verso with a few minor stains, else very good condition. A rare photograph documenting a significant event in the early history …

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  • Correspondence between Sir Alfred Stephen and wealthy pastoralist David Reid Jnr., re. donation of funds for the establishment of St. Paul's College, University of Sydney. October, 1855.

    # 47163

    STEPHEN, Alfred, Sir (1802-1894) & REID, David, jun. (1821-1906)

    Correspondence between Sir Alfred Stephen and wealthy pastoralist David Reid Jnr., re. donation of funds for the establishment of St. Paul’s College, University of Sydney. October, 1855.

    I. Sir Alfred Stephen, [Sydney] to David Reid [Jnr.], Goulburn. 2 October 1855. Manuscript letter, [4] pp., octavo; headed ‘In Court, Tuesday’, the letter is signed ‘in haste yours very truly Alfred Stephen’; the letter has some foxing and browning, but is complete and legible, tipped onto a nineteenth-century album leaf, along with the original …

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  • [UTOPIAS] Parjumouf : saga ifrån Nya Holland.

    # 2766

    ALMQVIST, Carl Jonas Love, 1793-1866

    [UTOPIAS] Parjumouf : saga ifrån Nya Holland.

    THE FIRST WORK OF FICTION WRITTEN IN SWEDISH TO HAVE AN AUSTRALIAN SETTING. Stockholm : Gadelius, 1817. First edition. Duodecimo, modern half green morocco over marbled boards, spine with raised bands and gilt lettering (sunned), modern marbled endpapers, original printed upper wrapper bound in (but lacking the lower wrapper), 98 pp; a crisp, clean copy …

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  • Excursions chez les peuples étranges : causeries ethnographiques

    # 19520

    DELISLE, Ferdinand; LEUTEMANN, Heinrich Gottlieb (Henrik) (illustrator)

    Excursions chez les peuples étranges : causeries ethnographiques

    / avec une préface de A.Quatrefages, membre de l’institut-professeur au muséum d’histoire naturelle; illustrations en couleur par H.Leutemann. Paris : Librairie de Théodore Lefèvre et Cie., Emile Guérin, éditeur, [1889]. First edition. Quarto, original cloth backed pictorial papered boards (lightly rubbed), pp vi, 71, [1 table of contents], with 12 double-leaf chromolithographic illustrations bound in …

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  • Studio portrait of Rev. H. A. Palmer, incumbent of Petersham, taken shortly before his death. Sydney, 1879.

    # 46280

    BOAKE, Barcroft Capel

    Studio portrait of Rev. H. A. Palmer, incumbent of Petersham, taken shortly before his death. Sydney, 1879.

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 103 x 63 mm (mount); verso with back mark of ‘B. Boake / Photographer, Miniature & Portrait Painter. 353 George Street [wet-stamped over 530 George Street] Sydney’, and fully contemporary inscription in ink identifying the sitter: ‘Revd. Mr. Palmer. Sydney, NSW 1879’; both the print and mount are …

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  • Signed and inscribed studio portrait of 4th Engineer John Hall, HMS Endymion, in full dress uniform. Sydney, New South Wales, December 1869.

    # 47086

    BOAKE, Barcroft Capel

    Signed and inscribed studio portrait of 4th Engineer John Hall, HMS Endymion, in full dress uniform. Sydney, New South Wales, December 1869.

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 104 x 64 mm (mount); verso with the back mark of ‘B. C. Boake, from Freeman Bros., Photographer, 330 George St., Sydney (over Mr. Jones, Jeweller &c.)’, and inscribed and signed in ink by the sitter: ‘In remembrance of your visit on board HMS Endymion. Jno. Hall’; both …

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  • Bitter fruit : Australian photographs to 1963

    # 45848

    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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  • Ueber gallenbildende Insekten in Australien.

    # 47227

    SCHRADER, H. L. (Leopold)

    Ueber gallenbildende Insekten in Australien.

    Briefliche Mittheilung von H. L. Schrader in Sidney. Mit 1 Tafel (Tab. III). Offprint from: Verhandlungen des Zoologisch-Botanischen Vereins in Wien, 13, Jan. 1863 (pp. 189 – 192). [Vienna? : s.n.],1863. Octavo, disbound with yellow paper backstrip, pp. 1-[5], with one plate; text in German; fine copy. The first published study of Australian insects that …

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  • Group of correspondence from Henry Beit, land agent, Sydney, to E. V. Sandilands, cotton grower and Vice-Consul, Fiji. 1870-71.

    # 47222

    BEIT, Henry (1826-1881); SANDILANDS, Edward Vincent (1847-1871); GUTSCHMID, Felix von (1843-1905)

    Group of correspondence from Henry Beit, land agent, Sydney, to E. V. Sandilands, cotton grower and Vice-Consul, Fiji. 1870-71.

    Sydney businessman Henry Beit (1826-1881) was a land agent specialising in the sale of properties in outback New South Wales and Queensland, and also in the Fiji Islands. His correspondent, Edward Vincent Sandilands (1847-1871), was a young English cotton grower in the Yasawa Islands, Fiji, whose acquaintance Beit had presumably made when Sandilands had been …

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  • Bill of purchase for the Wesleyan City Mission Chapel building, Sussex Street, Sydney, 7 April 1859.

    # 47226

    BOWDEN & THRELKELD; [CALDWELL, John, 1817-1884)

    Bill of purchase for the Wesleyan City Mission Chapel building, Sussex Street, Sydney, 7 April 1859.

    Foolscap folio bifolium (330 mm), with the printed letterhead ‘City Mart, 362, George Street, Sydney. By Bowden and Threlkeld, at auction.’; the first side with entries in manuscript, dated 7 April 1859, recording the sale ‘on account of Messrs. Spier, Callaghan and others’ of ‘A Building in Sussex St. used as a Chapel, purchased by …

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  • An early item of official of correspondence from the Sydney Railway Company, rejecting an application for the position of Engineer. 3 January, 1851.

    # 47225

    COWPER, Charles, Sir (1807-1875)

    An early item of official of correspondence from the Sydney Railway Company, rejecting an application for the position of Engineer. 3 January, 1851.

    Manuscript in ink on wove paper, on the lithographed letterhead of the Railway Office, Sydney, dated 3 January 1851. Quarto bifolium (225 x 185 mm), [4] pp, written on the first side only; a holograph note by Charles Cowper, Director of the Sydney Railway Company, to Mr. H. Biddulph, c/- Post Office, Wollongong, advising him …

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  • [LORD SYDNEY] Note of Fees on Swearing The Right Honourable Thomas Lord Sidney One of His Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State the 23d. Decr. 1783.

    # 47223

    TOWNSHEND, Thomas, 1st Viscount Sydney (1733-1800)

    [LORD SYDNEY] Note of Fees on Swearing The Right Honourable Thomas Lord Sidney One of His Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State the 23d. Decr. 1783.

    Manuscript in ink on single folio sheet with “GR” watermark by Jubb, 185 x 230 mm, above title in upper margin “Council Office”, below title a list of various expenses incurred by the swearing in of Lord Sydney for his second term as Home Secretary: “To the Clerks of the Council…£10:0:0d., To the Under Clerks…£4:0:0d…To …

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  • Gold and silver : an album of Hill End and Gulgong photographs from the Holterman Collection

    # 47126

    BURKE, Keast

    Gold and silver : an album of Hill End and Gulgong photographs from the Holterman Collection

    Melbourne : Heinemann, 1973. Quarto, cloth in dustjacket (verso foxed), pp. xii; 265, illustrated.

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  • Sydney Harbour Bridge and City Railway

    # 46732

    BRADFIELD, J. J. C. (John Job Crew) (1867-1943) (attributed); PHILLIPS, Harry (publisher)

    Sydney Harbour Bridge and City Railway

    Willoughby, N.S.W. : H. Phillips, [1930].  Large oblong octavo (210 x 260 mm), pictorial grey wrappers printed in blue, stapled; [44] pp, with b/w photographic illustrations and line drawings throughout; a fine copy. Internal references and illustrations indicate this pamphlet was probably published in 1930. One of the illustrations is an artist’s impression of how …

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