New South Wales

# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 31089

BELLINI, Vincenzo (1801-1835) (composer); GROCOTT, James Turner (publisher)

[SHEET MUSIC] Do not mingle : air as sung by Madame Malibran in the opera La Sonnambula / composed by Bellini.

Sydney : Published at Grocott’s Music Saloon, George Street, [probably 1847]. Folio (340 mm), disbound from a nineteenth-century music album, original stitching with remnants of old paper spine, 7 pp of engraved music notation with decorative title and publisher’s imprint at head of first page; original owner’s manuscript pagination at top corners; paper browned, otherwise …

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# 31132

BRADFIELD, J. J. C. (John Job Crew) (1867-1943) (attributed); PHILLIPS, Harry (publisher)

Sydney Harbour Bridge and City Railway

Willoughby, N.S.W. : H. Phillips, [1930]. Large oblong octavo (160 x 250 mm), pictorial red wrappers printed in black, stapled; [32] pp, with b/w photographic illustrations and line drawings throughout; a very good copy. Internal references and illustrations indicate this pamphlet was probably published in 1930. One of the illustrations is an artist’s impression of …

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# 30817

ROYAL ART SOCIETY OF NEW SOUTH WALES [TOOVEY, Dora, 1898-1986]

Royal Art Society of New South Wales. Memorandum and Articles of Association and by-laws. Revised July, 1904. (Dora Toovey’s copy, with related ephemera)

Sydney : W. C. Penfold, 1904. Octavo (215 x 140 mm), original wrappers printed in blue (upper wrapper with 1930s ownership signature of Dora Toovey, Society member, and her annotation ‘original RAS‘, both in blue fountain pen; light creasing), staple bound; pp [8], 24; the title page is further inscribed by Toovey ‘Dora Toovey, FRAS, rep. portraits …

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# 30803

CONTEMPORARY ART SOCIETY

The Contemporary Art Society Broadsheet : October, 1962 (N.S.W. Branch)

Octavo, pp. 8, roneo. Includes announcements about exhibitions, prizes, new publications and a discussion on the Antipodeans movement. The list of new members includes Mrs. J. Jackson (Dora Toovey), from whose estate this broadsheet came.

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# 30755

[GREAT BRITAIN. PARLIAMENT] SPEARMAN, A. Y. and Charles GRANT, 1st Baron GLENELG

[CONVICTS] Police Establishment at Port Macquarie.

Despatch from the Right Honorable Lord Glenelg to His Excellency Sir George Gipps, stating that the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury do not disapprove of the increase of the Police Establishment at Port Macquarie, but suggest the apportionment of the expence [sic] between the Colonial and Convict Funds. No.3. Downing Street, 14th October, 1837 … …

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# 30697

FLINDERS, Matthew (1774-1814)

Observations upon the marine barometer, made during the examination of the coasts of New Holland and New South Wales, in the years 1801, 1802, and 1803.

Contained within: Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London for the year MDCCVI. Part II. London : printed by W. Bulmer, 1806. Quarto, original plain blue wrappers, pp. iv; 239 – 473; [8]; 12 engraved plates (some folding), the plates foxed but the text clean, all edges uncut and a little dusty, a fine …

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# 28919

Artist unknown.

[PORT PHILLIP] No. 1 Nelson’s Place, Williams Town. June 1840.

Ink on paper, 122 x 270 mm; unsigned, but with artist’s manuscript caption lower left ‘No. 1 Nelson’s Place, Williams Town. June 1840’; scattered light foxing and toning, old central verical fold line, mild creasing at upper left corner and right edge; verso with a later manuscript note in pencil ‘Please [xxxxx] without fail for W. …

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