New South Wales

# 35585

[NEW SOUTH WALES TOURST BUREAU?]

[SNOWY MOUNTAINS] Three photographs of scenes around Mount Kosciusko, with their original Hotel Kosciusko envelope. Early 1920s.

Three gelatin silver print photographs on medium stock, in uniform format 115 x 160 mm, each wet stamped on the verso ‘Mount Kosciusko, N.S.W.’; all in good condition; purchased by a holidaymaker from the Hotel Kosciusko around 1920-25, the photos are accompanied by the original Hotel Kosciusko manila envelope, which is in pristine condition. …

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# 35507

LINDSAY, Lionel

Etchings of old Sydney by Lionel Lindsay. No. 5. The Commissariat Stores

Reproduced in photogravure from the original. Sydney : W. C. Penfold & Co., c. 1920. Small folio, folding card, reproduction of etching with caption, foxed. From a series of 5 cards reproducing Lindsay etchings, originally issued each in an envelope within a card box.

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# 35300

ESSON, Michael

Michael Esson : our identity is our discomfort (signed copy)

St Andrews (Scotland) : Crawford Arts Centre, 1990. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. [24], illustrated. Signed by the artist on preliminary blank. Michael Esson is a Scottish artist resident in Sydney, the catalogue includes an essay by Sydney resident poet Robert Gray.

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# 34753

[BURKE AND WILLS]. ROYAL SOCIETY OF VICTORIA

Progress Reports and Final Report of the Exploration Committee.

Melbourne : Royal Society of Victoria, [1863-73]. Small folio (315 x 200 mm), original printed papered limp boards (scuffed and marked) with cloth back strip; pp. [vi], 8, 4, 2, 6, 4, 4, 8, 6, 6, 8 (all on blue paper) + 16 (last leaf blank) on white; complete, with all of the reports in …

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# 34739

[GREAT BRITAIN. PARLIAMENT]

[TRANSPORTATION] An Act for the effectual Transportation of Felons and other Offenders ; and to authorize the Removal of Prisoners in certain Cases ; and for other Purposes therein mentioned.

[Drop-head title with coat of arms at head of text]. London : Printed by Charles Eyre and William Strahan, 1784. Foolscap folio, 320 x 200 mm, disbound, pp 907-919, [1 blank], [1 colophon], [1 blank]; first leaf with toning to bottom margin, else a fine copy. The Transportation, etc. Act 1784 (24 Geo. 3 c. …

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# 34743

[GREAT BRITAIN. PARLIAMENT]

[TARIFFS] An Act to continue, until the First Day of January [1824], an Act … relating to imposing and levying Duties in New South Wales ; to authorise the imposing and levying other Duties on Goods imported into the said Colony ; and to suspend, for Ten Years, the Payment of Duty on the Importation of certain Goods of Produce of New South Wales. 30th July 1822.

[Drop-head title with coat of arms at head of text]. London : Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1822. Foolscap folio, 305 x 190 mm, disbound, pp 913-918, [2 blank]; a fine copy. ‘For the purpose of tariff fixing, the colony of New South Wales made up all of the modern “Australia” until 1825. …

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# 35115

MANSFIELD, Mary

Arts and Crafts Studio : Mary Mansfield

Advertising leaflet for the arts and crafts studio of Mary Mansfield, Strand Arcade, Sydney, circa 1930, with fees for individual instruction in stencilling, raffia work, Indian basket work, pen painting, wood carving, leather work, Batik, French polishing and more. Accompanied by a second flyer for ‘The Artist’s Forum’ organised by Mary Mansfield, inviting visitors to …

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# 34554

LEE, Sydney Williams (1841-1917)

Manuscript letter from architect Sydney Williams Lee to artist John Seymour Lucas, March 1879, with an offer to purchase “The Gordon Riots”, the painting which was acquired by the Art Gallery of New South Wales at the Melbourne Exhibition in 1881.

Manuscript in ink on wove writing paper, octavo bifolium (179 x 112 mm), [4] pp, written on the first side only; headed ‘4 Burston Road, Putney. March 5th 1879’; signed at the foot ‘Sydney W. Lee’; the note is addressed ‘My dear Lucas’ (John Seymour Lucas, English historical genre painter, 1849-1923); Lee offers to buy …

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# 34107

Photographer unknown. [KINGSMILL, Charles, Rev. Canon]

A woman and her dog posing in front of a kangaroo-skin backdrop. Goulburn, New South Wales, circa 1905.

Silver gelatin print photograph, 65 x 100 mm; printed on postcard stock (89 x 139 mm); a brief message in ink on the front of the card – no doubt in the hand of the woman in the photograph – reads: ‘I find I can’t get round this evening. So sorry – love, A. S.’; …

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# 34222

KERRY & CO.

Child Studies no. 11

Sydney, NSW : Kerry & Co., [c.1905]. “Series 62”. Chromolithographic postcard, 140 x 90 mm; in the image are the series title and number and the imprint of photographer and publisher Kerry & Co; verso with handwritten message; mailed from Boolaroo (Newcastle) to Granville (Sydney), 1d New South Wales stamp with postmark dated May 18 1912; …

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# 33999

McLEAY, Alexander (1767-1848); LAIDLEY, James (1786-1835)

[POLICE; CONVICTS] Three New South Wales Legislative Council returns, 1835.

Disbound foolscap folio (295 x 190 mm), [8] pp with early manuscript pagination 369-376; comprising three Legislative Council returns (see below) printed on wove paper with Britannia watermark; some toning to first page, else fine. I. McLeay, Alexander. Numerical Return of the Police Force of New South Wales, with the charge for the same, for …

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# 28984

BRODIE, Alexander (photographer, attributed); [CLARKE, Jacob Richard, 1822-1893, publisher?]

Views of Sydney.

[1879-1880]. Photograph album. Small oblong quarto, 210 x 275 mm, original half green morocco over black pebbled cloth boards (lightly rubbed) with double gilt rule, upper board lettered in gilt ‘Views of Sydney’, spine with raised bands in gilt; all edges gilt, silk pastedowns and linen endpapers; containing 29 albumen print photographs in identical 150 …

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# 34174

FREEMAN, William (1809–1895)

Studio portrait of Lieutenant Count Frederick Cosmeto Metaxa of HMS Clio, Flagship of the Pacific Station. Sydney, 1872.

Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 105 x 63 mm (mount); recto with a fully contemporary caption in ink beneath the image: ‘Fredk. Metaxa’; verso imprinted ‘Freeman, late Oswald Allen. Artist Photographer. Crayon & Miniature Painter. 360 George Street, Sydney. Terms Cash on Delivery. Photographer by Appointment to His Excellency the Governor’; the print has …

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# 32941

Maker unknown.

Artist’s impression of the Harbour Bridge approaches, North Sydney. Late 1920s.

Silver gelatin print photograph of an artist’s drawing, 165 x 390 mm; verso annotated in ink ‘Harbour Bridge Approaches, North Sydney’, and with a newspaper editor’s annotations in pencil ‘1 / 17’ and ‘6 cols’; old vertical fold with a tiny tear at top edge, pin holes at top corners; unmounted.

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# 32435

SULMAN, Florence; MORT, Eirene

A popular guide to the wild flowers of New South Wales

With 51 full-page plates by Eirene Mort and Dorothy M. Watkins. London : Angus & Robertson Ltd., 1913 – 14. Two volumes, octavo, decorated cloth (a few small marks), pp. xxxii; 208; xxxii; 249; 32 (publisher’s catalogue), black and white plates predominately by Eirene Mort, folding maps, occasional light foxing, a very good set. An …

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# 33207

ZIEGLER, Oswald L. (publisher); HURLEY, Frank (photographer)

Australia 1788-1938. (With an archive of unique ephemera associated with Ziegler’s publications for the Sesquicentenary)

Sydney, N.S.W. : Simmons Limited, 1938. “Produced by Oswald L. Ziegler under the authority of Australia’s 150th Anniversary Celebrations Council and in collaboration with its publicity committee.” (title page). Elephant folio (440 x 310 mm), publisher’s tan leather over boards (lightly rubbed and marked), upper board with black leather panel lettered in gilt 150 Years; all …

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