New South Wales

  • William Westall, voyage artist: autograph receipt for the sale a drawing for Mrs. Haldimand, dated 31 October 1826.

    # 32325

    WESTALL, William (1781-1850)

    William Westall, voyage artist: autograph receipt for the sale a drawing for Mrs. Haldimand, dated 31 October 1826.

    Manuscript in ink on laid paper, 75 x 180 mm; dated ‘Oct. 31st 1826’, the document is written in Westall’s hand and is worded: ‘Recd. of G. J. Robson Esqre. Ten Guineas for a Drawing for Mrs. Haldimand. [Signed] W. Westall. / £10.10’; blind stamped at left margin ‘Receipt Three Pence’; clean and complete. Rare …

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  • Melbourne Centennial Exhibition, 1888. New South Wales Mineral Court. Descriptive catalogue of exhibits of metals, minerals, fossils, and timbers (Government and private), prepared and arranged on behalf of the New South Wales Commission,

    # 32958

    ABIGAIL, Francis; CENTENNIAL INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION (NEW SOUTH WALES COMMISSION)

    Melbourne Centennial Exhibition, 1888. New South Wales Mineral Court. Descriptive catalogue of exhibits of metals, minerals, fossils, and timbers (Government and private), prepared and arranged on behalf of the New South Wales Commission,

    by direction of the Honorable Francis Abigail, Minister for Mines, Sydney. Sydney : Charles Potter, Government Printer, 1888. Octavo (245 x 155 mm), publisher’s printed salmon-coloured wrappers (upper wrapper with edge and corner wear and annotations in pencil at top corner; spine ends with paper loss), pp 115; internally very clean, a good all-original copy.

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  • Gleanings from my scrap-book (presentation copy)

    # 32756

    RAE, John (1813 - 1900)

    Gleanings from my scrap-book (presentation copy)

    Third series. Sydney : Printed by the Author, 1874. Octavo, half-crushed morocco over marbled papered boards, spine in compartments lettered in gilt, edges dyed red, presentation inscription to preliminary blank to Joseph James Phelps, Member of the NSW Legislative Assembly ‘J. J. Phelps Esq. M. P. with the author’s compliment 2 August 1875’, double page lithographed …

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  • [SYDNEY; THEATRE; CINEMA] Minerva. Whitehall Productions presents "Mr. Smart Guy".

    # 24171

    WHITEHALL PRODUCTIONS (SYDNEY); [MINERVA THEATRE]; [COPPEL, Alec]

    [SYDNEY; THEATRE; CINEMA] Minerva. Whitehall Productions presents “Mr. Smart Guy”.

    [Cover title]. Sydney, NSW : Publicity Pty. Ltd., 1941. Small quarto (247 x 184 mm), original pictorial wrappers (light vertical fold), staple bound, 16 pp, with photographic portraits, including writer/director Alec Coppel and actors, advertisements for local businesses; a good copy. Programme produced for the world premiere on May 10 1941 of the play Mr. …

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  • Ethnographical album of the Pacific Islands. Third series.

    # 33117

    Edge-Partington, James (1854-1930)

    Ethnographical album of the Pacific Islands. Third series.

    [Portfolio cover title]. Also titled: An album of the weapons, tools, ornaments, articles of dress &c. of the natives of the Pacific islands. Drawn and described from examples in public & private collections in Australasia by James Edge-Partington. Third series. [London] : Issued for private circulation by James Edge-Partington & Charles Heape, 1898. “Lithographed by Palmer, …

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  • The artist : a journal devoted to the interests of the graphic arts and sculpture

    # 32723

    YOUNG, John

    The artist : a journal devoted to the interests of the graphic arts and sculpture

    Sydney : J. Young. 1941. Vol. 1, No. 1 – Vol. 1, No. 3. Three issues, octavo, each pp. 8, light general wear. Journal for artists from the owner of Macquarie Galleries, with articles by Roland Wakelin, and reviews of artists Ralph Balson, Isabel McWhannel et alia.

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  • Australian Water Colour Institute. Annual Exhibition. March 1926

    # 32722

    Australian Water Colour Institute

    Australian Water Colour Institute. Annual Exhibition. March 1926

    Sydney : Australian Water Colour Institute, 1926. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, previous owner’s name in pen, pp. [8], catalogue of 155 works priced in guineas, heavily annotated and crossed out by the previous owner (indicating the works sold), admission ticket intact. Includes works by Charles Conder, Lionel Lindsay, Kenneth Macquieen, Rah Fizelle, Vida Lahey, Harold Herbert, …

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  • [SHEET MUSIC] Along the road to Gundagai : song.

    # 32643

    O'HAGAN, Jack (1898-1987) (words & music); HALL, Frederick (arranger)

    [SHEET MUSIC] Along the road to Gundagai : song.

    / Words and music by Jack O’Hagan. Melbourne : Allan, 1922. Publisher’s number “B558”. Folio (315 x 240 mm), disbound, original pictorial wrappers (light printing flaws front and back) with inset portrait of “The Big Four” singers, and the early ownership signature of Grace Ward; 4 pp music notation (arrangement for voice and piano, with …

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  • The Upper Murray : a centenary survey (presentation copy)

    # 32294

    MILLER, Royal R.

    The Upper Murray : a centenary survey (presentation copy)

    With special reference to the Corryong District. Melbourne : Spectator Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd., 1934. Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth (slightly sun faded to spine), presentation inscription to endpaper ‘The Centenary Committee – with the compliments of the author’, pp. 124, photographic plates, a very good copy. Scarce.

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  • Royal Art Society of New South Wales. Memorandum and Articles of Association and by-laws. Revised July, 1904. (Squire Morgan's copy)

    # 32724

    ROYAL ART SOCIETY OF NEW SOUTH WALES [MORGAN, James Squire Woodward, 1886-1974]

    Royal Art Society of New South Wales. Memorandum and Articles of Association and by-laws. Revised July, 1904. (Squire Morgan’s copy)

    Sydney : W. C. Penfold, 1904. Octavo (215 x 140 mm), original wrappers printed in blue (stained and lightly creased, upper wrapper with 1930s ownership signature of Society member, Sydney etching artist Squire Morgan (James Squire Woodward Morgan, 1886-1974); staple bound; pp [8], 24; some marginalia in pen and pencil and numerous printed errata and emendations tipped …

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  • Australian Aboriginal, N.S.W.

    # 32085

    KING, Henry (1855-1923)

    Australian Aboriginal, N.S.W.

    [Between 1890 and 1900]. Albumen print photograph, 200 x 150 mm, in manuscript in the negative at bottom left ‘481. Australian Aboriginal, N.S.W. / H. King Photo.’; verso with wet stamp of ‘Tost & Rohu, Furriers, Tanners, Naturalists, Taxidermists. Sydney, Aus.’; an exceptionally strong print with excellent clarity, but foxed and with some very light …

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  • [MARITIME BINDING] Lives of Eminent Anglo-Saxons; illustrating the dawn of Christianity and civilization in Great Britain. Part I [& II].

    # 31882

    Anon.

    [MARITIME BINDING] Lives of Eminent Anglo-Saxons; illustrating the dawn of Christianity and civilization in Great Britain. Part I [& II].

    London : The Religious Tract Society, [circa 1850]. Two volumes in one, duodecimo (145 x 95 mm), in a special ship’s binding of gilt-ruled calf, the upper board with gilt-stamped pictorial device and below the ship’s name ‘S.S. William Denny’, the spine in compartments with contrasting leather title piece lettered in gilt and with ‘The …

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  • Sydney from the air. Second series.

    # 32144

    John Fairfax & Sons

    Sydney from the air. Second series.

    Sydney : John Fairfax & Sons, [1937]. Oblong quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 24, photographically illustrated. Fascinating view book of interwar Sydney from the air.

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  • [FEDERATION] View of the Ceres, or Wheat Arch in Bridge Street, Sydney. January, 1901.

    # 32044

    LASSETTER & COY. (SYDNEY)

    [FEDERATION] View of the Ceres, or Wheat Arch in Bridge Street, Sydney. January, 1901.

    Albumen print photograph, 140 x 205 mm, laid down on its original board mount, 210 x 265 mm, verso with studio wet stamp of ‘Lassetter & Coy. Limited, Sydney’; the print is in good condition, with sharp detail; the borders of the mount are heavily foxed. The Ceres, or Wheat Arch in Bridge Street, was …

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  • Australian Gold Dust.

    # 28163

    Maker unknown.

    Australian Gold Dust.

    [Title from manuscript label on mount]. [U.K.? : s.n., probably before 1860]. Microscope slide, 76 x 26 mm, maker’s manuscript label to mount; sealed underneath the circular glass (diameter 13 mm) at the centre of the mount is a quantity of specimens of gold dust (unspecified nett weight); the glass has a hairline crack but …

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  • Catalogue of the A. J. Swan collection of oriental and European art treasures, including rare Chinese porcelains of the Sung, Ming, K'ang Hsi, Ch'ien Lung and modern periods

    # 31706

    LAWSON, James R.

    Catalogue of the A. J. Swan collection of oriental and European art treasures, including rare Chinese porcelains of the Sung, Ming, K’ang Hsi, Ch’ien Lung and modern periods

    … valuable oriental and European ivories … to be sold by auction … on Wednesday and Thursday, 27th and 28th April, 1949, under instructions from and as directed by Mrs. A. J. Swan. Sydney : James R. Lawson, 1949. Quarto, lettered wrappers (marked, small hole upper panel), pp. 51.

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