New South Wales
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# 40425
EVANS, Jane (attributed)
Keepsake in the form of a needlework sampler bookmark, commemorating the birth of John Evans at Round Mountain, near Rylstone, Central West New South Wales, on 17 June 1878.
Needlework sampler bookmark, 105 x 65 mm; very well preserved. The text reads: ‘John Evans / Born / June 17th 1878 / Round Mountain / Sweet copy far more dear to me / Than all the living forms could be. / Save him who placed thee next my Heart‘; [together with] another sampler bookmark, sewn …
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![[SYDNEY] Watson's Bay and Beach, 1890s.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2023/07/2023_DSFB_4263-300x262.jpg)
# 40501
RUDD, Charles (photographer and publisher) (1849-1901)
[SYDNEY] Watson’s Bay and Beach, 1890s.
Printing out paper print, 140 x 200 mm, numbered 374 in the negative; preserved as issued, mounted on the original green backing sheet, 230 x 190 mm, imprinted in black ink, upper centre: ‘C. RUDD’S NEW VIEWS OF SYDNEY AND VICINITY.’, at l.l. ‘C. RUDD, PHOTO. ARTIST’, at l.r.: ‘151 (Late 162) BOURKE STREET EAST, MELBOURNE.’, …
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# 40193
WANTRUP, Jonathan
Australian Rare Books 1788 – 1900
Melbourne : Australian Book Auctions, 2023. Second edition, revised and enlarged. Two volumes, 255 x 180 mm, bound in dark green buckram, lettered in gilt, with colour pictorial dustwrappers, pp. 1400, 148 illustrations (43 in colour), glossary of book collecting terms, historical price estimates, indices of persons and titles. Printed and bound in Australia on …
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# 36977
HAWKESWORTH, John (1715-1773); COOK, James (1728-1779); KING, James
The three voyages of Captain James Cook
1. An account of the voyages undertaken by the order of his present Majesty for making discoveries in the southern hemisphere, and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavour: drawn up from the journals which were kept by the several commanders, and …
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# 40477
[COOK, James, 1728-1779].
An abridgement of Captain Cook’s first and second voyages.
The first performed in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771 ; the second in 1772, 1773, 1774 and 1775. For making discoveries in the northern hemisphere, by order of his majesty. Extracted from the quarto edition, in five volumes. Containing a relation of all the interesting transactions; including an abridgement of Captain Furneaux’s narrative of …
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# 40288
LETAILLE, Charles
Croquis et Souvenirs d’un Artiste, ou détails les plus curieux d’un Voyage Autour du Monde.
Récreation instructive. Dédiée à la jeunesse par Chles. Letaille. Paris : chez les Principaux Mds. de nouveautés pour Etrennes et Cadeaux [Charles Letaille, 30 rue Saint-Jacques], [ca. 1855]. Original box of papered card, 265 x 200 x 30 mm, the lid with embossed gilt border and hand-coloured lithographic onlay depicting a New Zealand scene with Māori; the …
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# 40898
"MAMBO" [MOMBASSA, Reg (pseud.)]
Mambo. Summer 2001
[Sydney?] : Mambo, 2001. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (inner wrapper design by Christopher O’Doherty, better known by his pseudonym Reg Mombassa), pp. [52], illustrated. Summer 2001 catalogue for the iconic Australian streetwear and surfer clothing band, with numerous photographs. Includes designs by Red Mombassa, representative of the iconic status his illustrations have in the history of …
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# 40652
EMANUEL, Cedric
The etchings of Cedric Emanuel
Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1980. Folio, full leather in buckram slipcase, gilt-lettered on spine, 45 full page plates printed recto only, additional notes on the etchings by the artist. Original prospectus loosely enclosed. A near mint copy.
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# 40078
FREEMAN & PROUT
Signed portrait photograph of the Rev. George Fairfowl Macarthur, first Rector of St. Mark’s, Darling Point and Headmaster of The King’s School, Parramatta. Sydney, late 1860s.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 104 x 63 mm; signed in ink by the sitter ‘Yrs. faithfully Geo: F: Macarthur’; verso with the imprint of ‘Freeman & Prout, Photographers to Their Royal Highnesses The Prince & Princess of Wales & His Excellency the Governor, Sydney’; Rare portrait photograph – signed – of the …
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# 40355
LAPLACE, Cyrille Pierre Théodore (1793-1875)
Cyrille Laplace, French navigator : autograph letter, signed, regarding the published account of his circumnavigation in La Favorite. Toulon, 16 September 1835.
Manuscript in brown ink, 2 pp., octavo (200 x 135 mm), on wove paper watermarked ‘MARION’; headed ‘Toulon, 16 September 1835’, and signed at the foot ‘C. Laplace’, the letter is to an unnamed recipient (but the content makes it clear it is addressed to a representative of the Imprimerie Royale, the publisher of his …
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# 40306
BAYLISS, Charles (1850-1897)
Panorama of the Georges Head Battery and Sydney Harbour, looking across to North and South Head, 1874-75.
Two albumen print photographs, in identical 220 x 290 mm format, window-mounted side-by-side to form a contiguous two-part panorama; some light creasing, else very good condition. Two large-format prints forming a panorama of the Georges Head Battery looking east toward the Heads, and capturing the spectacular sweep of the harbour in the middle ground. Bayliss …
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# 40117
MJÖBERG, Eric (1882-1938) et al.
Results of Dr. E. Mjöberg’s Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910-1913. (Twelve individual parts)
Series: Kungliga Svenska vetenskapsakademiens handlingar. Stockholm : Almqvist & Wiksells Boktryckeri, 1918-22. Twelve disbound individual issues, comprising Volume 58 nos. 6, 7, 9; Volume 59 nos. 1, 4; Volume 60 no. 4; Volume 61 nos. 5, 7, 8, 9, 10; Volume 63 no. 6. Uniform large quarto (310 x 250 mm), disbound, illustrated, partially unopened, …
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# 40435
Photographer unknown.
View of Broken Hill mine and smelters. Far West New South Wales, 1890s.
Albumen print photograph, 150 x 200 mm, captioned in negative ‘Broken Hill’; laid down recto of a 19th-century album leaf, with handwritten caption ‘Broken Hill’ in bottom margin; the print is in very good condition, but the mount has some light foxing; verso has an identical format albumen print of a river scene with cliffs …
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# 40413
Avago [Art Gallery]
Avago 1981-1982 postcard book
/ designed and produced by T. Coleing and Shayne Higson ; photographs by Shane Higson. Paddington, N.S.W. : Avago, [1982?]. Folio, illustrated wrappers, spiral bound, 24 pp, illustrated (each page with four detachable photographic postcards). Scarce publication from the early ’80s Sydney underground art scene featuring the ‘Avago Art Gallery’ which, at 4 cubic feet, …
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![[SHEET MUSIC] A convenient list of Albert's catchy music carefully selected and alphabetically arranged.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2023/05/2023_DSFB_2823-300x300.jpg)
# 40063
CLEMINSON BROS. (PARRAMATTA); J. ALBERT & SON (MELBOURNE)
[SHEET MUSIC] A convenient list of Albert’s catchy music carefully selected and alphabetically arranged.
Cover title: Music hits of the hour from the home of catchy music. Parramatta, NSW : Cleminson Bros. (Late A.I.F.), 162 Church Street, [ca. 1920]. Trade catalogue. Small quarto (245 x 190 mm), illustrated stapled wrappers (chipped, original owner’s name ‘Miss Olive Burton’ to front), 44 pp., all advertisements for popular sheet music published by …
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# 40079
THE SWISS STUDIOS
Studio portrait of a young woman graduate of the University of Sydney, circa 1895.
Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 167 x 117 mm (mount); the print is blind-stamped ‘The Swiss Studios / Sydney’ at bottom right; recto of mount with gilt imprint of ‘The Swiss Studios, 117 King St., Sydney’, and with the studio monogram in gilt and red bottom right; a beautiful print, in superb condition; the mount is …