New South Wales

  • Twelve

    # 39717

    BONYTHON, Kym

    Twelve

    Presented
 by
 the
 Hungry
 Horse
 Art
 Gallery,
 Sydney
 [c.
 1963].
 Spiral
 bound
 book
 of
 twelve
 posters
 measuring
 330
 x
 300mm,
 each
 leaf
 featuring
 a
 single
 artist,
 verso
 blank, housed in a custom made clamshell box with title label. The artists are Robert Klippel, Stanislaus Rapotec, William Rose, Carl Plate, Colin Lanceley, Emanuel Raft, John Olsen, …

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  • Australia's Centenary : 150 years, January 26th 1788 / January 26th 1938. Bank of New South Wales 120 years, April 1817 / April 1937.

    # 39828

    BANK OF NEW SOUTH WALES

    Australia’s Centenary : 150 years, January 26th 1788 / January 26th 1938. Bank of New South Wales 120 years, April 1817 / April 1937.

    With the Season’s Greetings from the Bank of New South Wales, 1937-1938. Sydney, Australia. [Sydney : Bank of New South Wales, 1937]. Folding card 210 x 260 mm (a few light marks, tiny amount of insect damage at front top corner), front with the crest of the Bank of New South Wales at centre, original …

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  • [QUEENSLAND; ABORIGINES; KELLY GANG] Les squatters et l’Australie nouvelle

    # 39758

    AMERO, Constant

    [QUEENSLAND; ABORIGINES; KELLY GANG] Les squatters et l’Australie nouvelle

    Paris : Didot, [1894]. Octavo, red cloth with ornate black and gilt decoration, (rebacked, endpapers replaced), 108 pp, all edges gilt, illustrated. A very good copy. An account of contemporary life in the outback and regional centres of eastern Australia, which interweaves historical episodes into the narrative. It includes accounts of Chinese immigrants in Cooktown, …

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  • Rev. Canon Long, M.A., Bishop elect of Bathurst, N.S.W.

    # 39166

    BARNES, J. E.

    Rev. Canon Long, M.A., Bishop elect of Bathurst, N.S.W.

    [Title from handwritten caption in negative]. Kew (Vic.) : J. E. Barnes, Photo., [ca. September, 1911]. Gelatin silver print photograph, 138 x 86 mm, printed on Kodak Austral postcard stock; left edge a little roughened from where the photo was removed from an album mount, otherwise good condition. George Merrick Long (1874-1930), CBE, Anglican bishop …

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  • Studio portrait of a young boy wearing an embroidered jacket. Yass (or Burrowa, or Young), New South Wales, 1868 or 1869.

    # 39461

    BOSTON & BARKER

    Studio portrait of a young boy wearing an embroidered jacket. Yass (or Burrowa, or Young), New South Wales, 1868 or 1869.

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 104 x 63 mm (mount); verso with the imprint of ‘Boston & Barker, Artist Photographers’; some scattered light foxing, else very good condition; the mount is clean and stable. A rare example of a carte de visite studio portrait taken by travelling professional photographers who were only briefly …

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  • 20 Australian artists = 20 Artisti Australiani. (Unique inscribed and extra-illustrated copy)

    # 39000

    RAY HUGHES GALLERY

    20 Australian artists = 20 Artisti Australiani. (Unique inscribed and extra-illustrated copy)

    21 Maggio-29 Maggio 1990, Galleria San Vidal, Campo San Stefano, Venezia, 10 Oct.-11 Nov. 1990, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia. Surry Hills, NSW : Ray Hughes Gallery, 1990. Exhibition catalogue. Oblong quarto (220 x 260 mm), pictorial wrappers, stapled; 48 pp; two pages are devoted to each artist, including a full-page colour illustration of one of …

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  • [SHEET MUSIC] Hullo girlie : the popular White City waltz song

    # 38907

    ESLICK, T. H. (words); ROMAINE, W. H. (music)

    [SHEET MUSIC] Hullo girlie : the popular White City waltz song

     / words by T.H. Eslick ; music by W.H. Romaine. Sydney, NSW : London Music Agency, [1916]. Folio (350 x 250 mm), pictorial wrappers wet-stamped ‘Special White City Copy / Sixpence and with early ownership stamp of Hannah Morgan, Howe Street, Lambton (wrappers with light creasing); [3] pp music notation (arrangement for piano); some old tape …

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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.

    # 28563

    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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  • View of Sydney looking across Darling Harbour towards Flagstaff Hill from Balmain, late 1860s.

    # 38017

    DEGOTARDI, John, senior (1823-1882)

    View of Sydney looking across Darling Harbour towards Flagstaff Hill from Balmain, late 1860s.

    Albumen print photograph, 133 x 205 mm, blind-stamped bottom right ‘DEGOTARDI / SYDNEY’; on original mount of thin card with contemporary printed caption label ‘Sydney, from Balmain’; the print has faded, otherwise good condition; matted.

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  • Scarlet Creeper

    # 32313

    LEWIN, John William (1770-1819)

    Scarlet Creeper

    Etching, 290 x 210 mm, hand coloured in gouache, a fine example, in mount. A fine etching of the Australian Scarlet Creeper from John William Lewin’s A natural history of the birds of New South Wales, London : Henry H. Bohn, 1838. The naturalist and natural history artist John William Lewin arrived in New South Wales …

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  • Reed Warbler

    # 32314

    LEWIN, John William (1770-1819)

    Reed Warbler

    Etching, 290 x 210 mm, hand coloured in gouache, a fine example, in mount. A fine etching of the Australian Reed Warbler from John William Lewin’s A natural history of the birds of New South Wales, London : Henry H. Bohn, 1838. The naturalist and natural history artist John William Lewin arrived in New South Wales …

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  • Early Newcastle 1807-1853

    # 38766

    THOMAS, David

    Early Newcastle 1807-1853

    Newcastle : Newcastle City Art Gallery, 1970. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. [8], catalogue of works, two illustrations.

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  • Dawes Battery, Sydney, circa 1875.

    # 37921

    Photographer unknown.

    Dawes Battery, Sydney, circa 1875.

    [Title from caption on mount]. Albumen print photograph, 127 x 190 mm, laid down on a 19th-century album page, with manuscript caption in ink to lower margin; slight darkening at corners caused by the original mounting glue, otherwise in very good condition.

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  • Government Buildings, Sydney, circa 1875.

    # 37926

    Photographer unknown.

    Government Buildings, Sydney, circa 1875.

    [Title from caption on mount]. Albumen print photograph, 127 x 190 mm, laid down on a 19th-century album page, with manuscript caption in ink to lower margin; slight darkening at corners caused by the original mounting glue, and a short tear at bottom edge, otherwise in very good condition.

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  • The Australian Museum, Sydney, with staff outside including the Curator, Gerard Krefft. Circa 1868.

    # 37929

    Photographer unknown.

    The Australian Museum, Sydney, with staff outside including the Curator, Gerard Krefft. Circa 1868.

    Albumen print photograph, 135 x 225 mm, no photographer’s imprint; laid down on its original mount of thin card, with a fully contemporary caption in pencil ‘Museum’ at bottom left; the print has exceptional clarity and rich tonal range; the mount has some silverfishing at top left and right, encroaching on the print very slightly …

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  • Images of Australian womanhood, 1910-1925 : fifty photographic portraits of women by Australian studios.

    # 36836

    [VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS]

    Images of Australian womanhood, 1910-1925 : fifty photographic portraits of women by Australian studios.

    Group of 50 (fifty) gelatin silver print photographs, all printed on postcard stock (as was customary in this period) in uniform format 140 x 90 mm (approximate); 49/50 have studio imprints, and in some cases the sitters are identified on the back; a couple with corner wear and one with light marks, but overall the …

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