New South Wales

  • Australian Almanack, for the Year of Our Lord 1832;

    # 41621

    MANSFIELD, Ralph

    Australian Almanack, for the Year of Our Lord 1832;

    being bissextile, or leap year; and the second of the reign of His Most Gracious Majesty William The Fourth. Published under the sanction and patronage of His Excellency Major-General Richard Bourke. Sydney : edited, printed and published by Ralph Mansfield for the executors of R. Howe, 1832. Octavo, early marbled boards, rebacked in morocco, modern …

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  • [SYDNEY] A group of personal calling cards collected by politician John Cash Neild of "Greycairn", Edgecliff Road, Woollahra, 1890s.

    # 41420

    [NEILD, John Cash, 1846-1911]

    [SYDNEY] A group of personal calling cards collected by politician John Cash Neild of “Greycairn”, Edgecliff Road, Woollahra, 1890s.

    Group of 17 (seventeen) lithographically printed calling cards, various dimensions (smallest 40 x 75 mm, largest 57 x 93 mm); a number are annotated, some with PPC (Pour prendre congé, indicating a temporary absence), and several with the name of Major (or Lt. Colonel) Neild; all in good condition, with occasional light marks and toning. A …

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  • The "Lord's Prayer" written 4 times in the space of a Shilling. Dr. W. G. Tayler, "Etrenne", Woollahra, 6th May 1897.

    # 41626

    TAYLER, W. G.

    The “Lord’s Prayer” written 4 times in the space of a Shilling. Dr. W. G. Tayler, “Etrenne”, Woollahra, 6th May 1897.

    Manuscript in black, brown and red ink on paper, approx. 45 x 45 mm, cut in octagonal shape and mounted on plain card, 120 x 90 mm; border ruled in green and red ink; with a caption title in manuscript on the mount, also bordered in coloured inks; very well preserved, with some toning and …

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  • [LA PÉROUSE; BOTANY BAY] Poems, original and translated, by E. H. Smith, A. B., Incumbent of Killamarsh. / "Sweet heart-soothing poesie!"

    # 41725

    SMITH, Edward Herbert; [BRUGUIÈRE, Antoine André, Baron de Sorsum, 1773-1823]

    [LA PÉROUSE; BOTANY BAY] Poems, original and translated, by E. H. Smith, A. B., Incumbent of Killamarsh. / “Sweet heart-soothing poesie!”

    Foolscap folio (189 x 285 mm), full maroon calf (boards worn and scuffed), spine with gilt decoration; front pastedown with armorial bookplate with the motto VIRTUS INCENDIT VIRES and initials FLS below the coat of arms; manuscript in ink in the author’s own hand, [6] 147 [5] pp; the preliminaries comprise a title leaf and 3-page index …

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  • Reminiscences of an Australian pioneer

    # 41585

    BARTON, Robert D.

    Reminiscences of an Australian pioneer

    Sydney : Tyrrell’s, 1917. Octavo, gilt-lettered purple cloth (spine faded, boards discoloured and edge with rodent damage), pp. viii; 288, internally clean. Provenance: The Balcombe-Murphy family, “The Briars”, Mornington, Victoria; thence to the à Beckett family, with a note inserted relating to the author’s connection to the Murphys.

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  • Prospectus of a company, to be designated the Scottish Phillipsland Emigration Company.

    # 12106

    LANG, John Dunmore (1799-1878)

    Prospectus of a company, to be designated the Scottish Phillipsland Emigration Company.

    [Edinburgh? : J.D. Lang?, c.1847]. Foolscap folio, [4] pp, original horizontal folds, trimmed closely along the fore-edge margin, but a good, clean copy of a rare document. Ferguson, 4566. Lang’s proposal for the formation of an Edinburgh- or Glasgow-based company which would organise large-scale emigration of Protestants, particularly from the Scottish Highlands and western islands, …

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  • The Bouquet of Sydney

    # 22652

    ADLER, Carl (printer)

    The Bouquet of Sydney

    Hamburg : C. Adler, before 1868. Chromolithographed and engraved folding card in the shape of a bouquet of flowers, housed in the original gilt-printed envelope with a lithographed view of Sydney, lettered in gold, the view measuring 520 x 118 mm, the envelope 86 x 142 mm, a fine example. Adler’s Bouquet of Sydney, a highly ephemeral …

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  • Jubilee of Wollongong Municipality 1909

    # 35385

    Jubilee of Wollongong Municipality 1909

    [Wollongong : s.n.], 1909. Oblong octavo, 14 x 23 cm, gilt-lettered blue wrappers, marks to spine, pp. [28], photographically illustrated with views of the Town Hall, Brighton Beach, Wollongong District School, the Golf Links, Crown Street, Wollongong Lighthouse, the Ladies’ Baths, Mt. Keira, Wollongong Railway Station, Surf Bathing Sheds and others, with text on the …

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  • Old colonial by-ways (deluxe edition, presentation copy)

    # 28995

    URE SMITH, Sydney and BERTIE, Charles

    Old colonial by-ways (deluxe edition, presentation copy)

    Sydney : Art in Australia, 1928. Quarto, quarter-cloth over papered boards (somewhat sunned and flecked), essay, 55 plates (some in colour, tipped-in), the deluxe edition, limited to 40 copies, with an original signed by Ure Smith. Presentation copy with signed inscription from Sydney Ure Smith to Maie Casey, dated 1940. Rare.

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  • [SCOTTISH COMMUNITY IN AUSTRALIA] Letter copybooks of the Highland Society of New South Wales (1881-86).

    # 41193

    HIGHLAND SOCIETY OF NEW SOUTH WALES

    [SCOTTISH COMMUNITY IN AUSTRALIA] Letter copybooks of the Highland Society of New South Wales (1881-86).

    [Sydney : Highland Society of New South Wales, Bell’s Chambers, Pitt Street, 1881-86]. Three letter copybooks produced by Sydney stationery firm John Sands. Uniform quarto (270 x 220 mm), half leather over cloth or marbled papered boards (mild rubbing and some wear to extremities), spines stamped in gilt ‘Letter Book’; alphabetical tab dividers; containing a …

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  • [SCOTTISH COMMUNITY IN AUSTRALIA] Letter copybook of the Gaelic Society of New South Wales (1875-77).

    # 41162

    GAELIC SOCIETY OF NEW SOUTH WALES

    [SCOTTISH COMMUNITY IN AUSTRALIA] Letter copybook of the Gaelic Society of New South Wales (1875-77).

    [Sydney : Gaelic Society of New South Wales, 3 Hunter Street, 1875-77]. Letter copybook. Quarto (270 x 220 mm), half calf over marbled papered boards (boards rubbed, leather a little worn); spine stamped in gilt ‘Letter Book’; alphabetical tab dividers; contains numerous copies on onion-skin paper of outgoing local and overseas correspondence (some written in …

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  • [GOLD MINING] Three photographs documenting gold sluicing at Uralla on the Northern Tablelands of New South Wales, early 1890s.

    # 41384

    RUDD, Charles (photographer and publisher) (1849-1901)

    [GOLD MINING] Three photographs documenting gold sluicing at Uralla on the Northern Tablelands of New South Wales, early 1890s.

    Three albumen print photographs in identical 140 x 200 mm format, each with the photographer’s manuscript captions and consecutive serial numbers (999-1000-1001) in the negative; all preserved as issued, mounted on the original green backing sheets, 230 x 190 mm, imprinted in red ink, upper centre: ‘C. RUDD, VIEW SPECIALIST, 257 BOURKE STREET.’, at l.l. ‘C. …

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  • Aboriginal man in a fighting stance, with parrying shield, club and boomerang.

    # 41372

    KING, Henry (1855-1923)

    Aboriginal man in a fighting stance, with parrying shield, club and boomerang.

    [Between 1890 and 1900]. Albumen print photograph, 205 x 155 mm; in manuscript in the negative at bottom left ‘624. Australian Aboriginal, N.S.W. / H. King Photo., Syd.’; mounted recto of its original 19th-century album leaf (the leaf has been professionally “split”); in very good condition. Unfortunately this image bears one of Henry King’s characteristically generic …

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  • [NATURAL HISTORY] Alexander Macleay, New South Wales public servant and entomologist : autograph letter signed, re. the Linnean Society. London, October 1801.

    # 41186

    McLEAY, Alexander (1767-1848)

    [NATURAL HISTORY] Alexander Macleay, New South Wales public servant and entomologist : autograph letter signed, re. the Linnean Society. London, October 1801.

    Manuscript in ink, [2] pp., single quarto sheet (250 x 185 mm); headed ‘Transport Office, 10th October 1801’, signed ‘Your most obed. Serv. Alex McLeay’, the letter is addressed to D. Turner [Dawson Turner], and is a response to a request about the whereabouts of Professor Espir’s Diploma from the Linnean Society, which Macleay says …

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  • Old Medical School, University of Sydney

    # 41113

    REES, Lloyd (1895 - 1988)

    Old Medical School, University of Sydney

    Etching and drypoint on cream 270 gsm Velin Arches, 152 x 101 mm (plate); 525 x 375 mm (paper), signed lower right and dated 1922 – 76, titled and editioned 47/90 lower left. Fine condition, near mint, unframed. Lloyd Rees’ earliest extant etching, one of two works he created in 1922.  Old Medical School, University …

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  • [HOLBROOK] School of Arts, Germanton ... Maurice Gerald’s Famous Dramatic Company ... Conn, the Shaughraun.

    # 41156

    [GERALD, Maurice]

    [HOLBROOK] School of Arts, Germanton … Maurice Gerald’s Famous Dramatic Company … Conn, the Shaughraun.

    Germanton [i.e. Holbrook], N.S.W. : “The Courier” office, [circa 1908]. Broadsheet, 220 x 140 mm, printed on both sides, verso with lithographed portraits of Maurice Gerald (acror-manager) and Miss Maud Philippi (actor); loss to upper corner (marginal only), old fold lines. Maurice Gerald’s Dramatic Company toured extensively throughout Victoria, New South Wales, Tasmania and New …

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