New South Wales
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# 37177
THOMPSON, James (editor)
The financial statements of the colonial Treasurers of New South Wales (presentation copy)
from the introduction of responsible government on the 24th November 1855, to the close of the Parliamentary session of 1880-81, on the 6th April, 1881; together with an appendix by the editor, James Thomson. Sydney : Thomas Richards, Government Printer, 1881. Octavo, colonial binding of full crushed morocco, extensively tooled in gilt, light rubbing, all edges …
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# 37097
THE CROWN STUDIOS (SYDNEY)
Presented to the Hon. W. A. Holman, M.L.A., leader of the Parliamentary Labor Party and Premier of New South Wales, by his colleagues, in token of esteem and to wish him “Many Happy Returns of the Day”. August 4th 1914.
[Title from caption in negative]. Gelatin silver print, 370 x 280 mm, laid down on its original mount of thick board; a composite photograph with head-and-shoulder vignette portraits of all the elected MLAs of the New South Wales Labor Party, with W. A. Holman at the centre; a few tiny marks at upper left, otherwise in …
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# 35703
PORT PHILLIP. SUPREME COURT.
Warrant on Fi. Fa. in Assumpsit. Samuel Raymond Esq., Deputy Sheriff of the District of Port Phillip, in the Colony of New South Wales, to William Johnson Sugden, my Bailiff, Greeting:
Sydney : W. J. Row, Government Printer, [1842, or earlier]. Foolscap folio (335 x 210 mm), single sheet of laid paper with Britannia watermark, printed recto only, with manuscript entries; a warrant on Fieri Facias In Assumpsit empowering William Johnson Sugden, the Deputy Sheriff’s Bailiff, to recover the sum of £23 10/- 8d in damages …
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# 37092
Photographer unknown
Sydney Harbour Bridge under construction, ca. 1930.
Gelatin silver print photograph, 138 x 87 mm, printed on postcard stock; in excellent condition (verso with residual hinges at corners). This photograph, taken looking north across the harbour from Circular Quay, shows a part of the deck being suspended from the newly completed arch during the latter part of 1930. The bridge was officially …
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![[SYDNEY] Anthony Hordern & Sons' new building at Brickfield Hill under construction, circa 1905.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/09/16115347/2022_DSFB_5675.jpg)
# 36916
[SYDNEY] Anthony Hordern & Sons’ new building at Brickfield Hill under construction, circa 1905.
[Sydney, NSW : s.n., ca. 1905]. Sepia tone gelatin silver print photograph, 270 x 315 mm (oval format), laid down on its original thick board mount, 350 x 400 mm; fully contemporary inscription in pencil beneath the image: ‘Anthony Hordern’s Brickfield Hill store under construction’; the print is in flawless condition, the mount has some …
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# 36716
HURLEY, Frank (1885-1962)
View on Norfolk Island.
[Sydney : Government Printing Office, ca. 1920]. Gelatin silver print photograph on heavy paper stock, 250 x 295 mm; from the original negative of a photograph taken by Hurley around 1910; not captioned (but possibly a view of part of Kingston?); verso with serial number 89; bottom left corner softened, otherwise in fine condition; unmounted.
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# 36706
HURLEY, Frank (1885-1962)
Panorama of Kingston, Norfolk Island.
[Sydney : Government Printing Office, ca. 1920]. Gelatin silver print photograph on heavy paper stock, 250 x 295 mm; from the original negative of a photograph taken by Hurley around 1910; captioned (by the printer) in the negative lower right; verso with serial number 90; in fine condition; unmounted. The original Hurley negative is held …
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# 36715
Photographer unknown.
Patteson Memorial Chapel, Norfolk Island.
[Sydney : Government Printing Office, ca. 1920]. [From the original negative of a photograph taken in the early 1880s by an unidentified photographer]. Gelatin silver print photograph on heavy paper stock, 235 x 260 mm; caption (added by the printer) in the negative lower right; in fine condition; verso with serial number 86; unmounted. St. …
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# 36661
Photographer unknown.
Stereoscopic view of a private colonial residence with a bark roof. Possibly Sydney region, circa 1860.
Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each image 72 x 79 mm (square format), on yellow mount 83 x 172 mm; verso blank; the surfaces of both prints are lightly rubbed, and the left-hand print has lost contrast at the left edge, while the right-hand print – which has the stronger definition of the pair – has …
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# 36864
HERBERTE, H. A.
A group of young men relaxing at Tocumwal in the New South Wales southern Riverina, circa 1910.
Gelatin silver print photograph, 87 x 137 mm, printed on postcard stock; verso wet-stamped ‘H. A. Herberte, Photo., Tocumwal’; a few marks to the margins, but the image itself is hardly affected. These likely lads were probably part of a sporting team or church social group out for a picnic in the fresh air at …
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![[EARLY SYDNEY PRINTING] Receipt for payment of quit rent made to the Crown by Edward Robinson. Sydney, 29 January 1806.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/06/27165736/2022_DSFB_4071-300x300.jpg)
# 35815
HOWE, George (1771-1821) (printer)
[EARLY SYDNEY PRINTING] Receipt for payment of quit rent made to the Crown by Edward Robinson. Sydney, 29 January 1806.
Sydney, NSW : [George Howe, Government Printer], [printed 1802-06]. Printed in black ink on laid paper, 40 x 98 mm; manuscript date of 29 January 1806, with further clerical entries recording the receipt from Edwd. Robinson of 11 shillings, ‘being the Amount of one Year’s Quit-Rent due to the Crown the 28th of Sept. 1805 …
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# 28901
BOWLES AND CARVER
Bowles’s new one sheet map of Asia, divided into its Empires, Kingdoms, States, and other subdivisions; laid down from observations of the most celebrated geographers.
London : Bowles and Carver, 1801. Engraved map with original hand colouring, laid on wood and dissected, three blank replacement pieces (the lost pieces in the regions of Java, Sumatra and Hokkaido), the assembled map measuring 485 x 582 mm, housed in the original cedar box with sliding lid, letterpress title label. A fine early …
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# 35908
[NORMAN, James, 1790-1868] SCOTT, Thomas Hobbes, Archdeacon; HILL, Richard, Rev.; ARTHUR, George, Lieutenant-Governor
Official duplicate correspondence re. reimbursement to the Church Missionary Society in Sydney for Rev. James Norman’s passage to Tasmania from England. February-October, 1829.
[Sydney, NSW, 1829]. Manuscript in ink, [3] pp, foolscap folio bifolium; in the hand of a CMS clerk; being duplicate copies of three letters, comprising: 1. Sydney, 17 February 1829. Archdeacon Thomas Hobbes Scott, to the Rev. Richard Hill of the CMS, Sydney; 2. Sydney, 26 August 1829. Rev. Richard Hill, to Archdeacon Thomas Hobbes …
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# 35803
NEWMAN, J. (John) Hubert (1830-1916)
Tinted studio portrait of a girl cradling her doll. Sydney, late 1870s.
Albumen print photograph with hand colouring, carte de visite format, 102 x 62 mm (mount), verso with imprint of J. Hubert Newman, Photographer, Oil and Crayon Painter etc., No. 12 Oxford Street, Hyde Park, Sydney, N.S.W.; the print and mount are both in excellent condition.
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# 27893
"Giacomo di Rosenberg" (James Tucker)
Ralph Rashleigh, or the life of an exile. (Deluxe edition)
Now first published from the original manuscript. Edited with introduction and notes by Colin Roderick, M. A. Sydney and London : Angus and Robertson, 1952. Folio, gilt-lettered quarter crushed morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, London, gilt-decorated cloth, top edge gilt, pictorial map endpapers (signed Mayo), etched frontispiece titled ‘Port Hunter, 1832’ by Geoffrey Ingleton, signed …
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# 35613
"VELMOL"
Inspirations in hair styles (“damp-set” with Velmol)
Sydney : Clinton-Williams, [between 1945 and 1950]. Illustrated paper folder (140 x 85 mm), with five tinted photographs of hair styles created using the Velmol product, captions verso. Wetstamps from a local pharmacy on wrappers. Scarce mid-century Australian trade publication illustrating some highly elaborate women’s hair styles to advertise a hair product.