New South Wales

# 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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# 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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# 30070

Photographer unknown.

View of Sydney Harbour from the Botanic Gardens, circa 1885.

Albumen print photograph, 152 x 207 mm, laid down on its original 19th-century album page of thin card, 315 x 245 mm; both the print and mount are in fine condition. This view was most likely taken by Charles Bayliss (or possibly John Paine). It looks northeast across the harbour from close to the foreshore …

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# 28787

WILHELMI, Johann Friedrich Carl (1829 - 1884).

Carl Wilhelmi, German naturalist in Australia: three autograph letters, signed, with significant content on Murray Aboriginal customs and botanical collecting. June 1860; September 1860; October 1871.

Carl Wilhelmi (1829-1884), German seedsman and botanical collector, arrived in Adelaide in March 1849, having been sent out to South Australia by the Dresden Lutheran Missionary Society. During his almost twenty-year sojourn in Australia, he made major contributions in the fields of both botanical science and anthropology. Early on, Wilhelmi collected botanical specimens extensively throughout …

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# 29749

LOVEGROVE, Austin

Images of an Australian enlightenment : the story of Lachlan and Elizabeth Macquarie’s treatment of the convicts as a history tale for today.

London : Unicorn, [2019]. Small quarto (245 x 200 mm), publisher’s cloth backed pictorial boards with a specially commissioned design by Indigenous artist Rosella Namok; 272 pp, extensively illustrated, with Notes, Select Bibliography and Index; a new copy. ‘This is the story of two Scots: Lachlan Macquarie, governor of the British colony of New South …

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# 29654

HIS MASTER'S VOICE.

The new His Master’s Voice electrical recordings : Australian edition. June, 1929.

Cover: “Goldberg’s,” 85 Glenferrie Road, Glenferrie. “His Master’s Voice” Specialists. [Sydney : Gramophone Company Ltd. (His Master’s Voice), 1929]. Small octavo, original pictorial wrappers, stapled, 34 pp, a fine copy. Scarce. A single copy traced in Australian collections (SLV).

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# 29385

[DEVITT & MOORE; H. & C. TOULMIN]; MARSHALL & EDRIDGE (AGENTS)

Australian Line of Packet Ships, sailing the 15th of every month, for Sydney direct.

London : Marshall & Edridge, 22 February 845. Quarto sheet, 275 x 210 mm, printed recto only, a circular from the London shipping agents Marshall & Edridge, announcing the mutual co-operation of the shipping firms Devitt & Moore and H. & C. Toulmin re. the despatch of ships to Sydney, with Packets carrying cargo and …

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# 29662

PHILLIPS, H. (Harry), 1873-1944

[SYDNEY HARBOUR] The Beautiful Illawarra, South Coast, N.S.W.

[Cover title]. Willoughby, N.S.W. : H. Phillips, [circa 1930]. ‘Photographed and published by H. Phillips, Willoughby, N.S.W., for C. Moore, Bulli Pass Refreshment Kiosk (right at the Lookout), where Picnic Parties and Tourists are amply catered for’. Small oblong quarto, pictorial wrappers, containing double-sided concertina foldout with 6 b/w half-tone photographic views of the Bulli …

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# 29348

BERKOFF, Steven (1937 - )

East : elegy for the East End and its energetic waste

[Adelaide : s.n., 1978]. Octavo (260 mm), illustrated wrappers, staple bound, [46] pp; printed on cheap newsprint paper; light foxing at edges, but a very good copy. Rare theatre programme for the 1978 Australian tour of Steven Berkoff’s controversial play set in London’s East End, containing the complete playscript as well as an interview with …

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# 28569

ALBERT, Charles d' (1809-1886) (composer)

[SHEET MUSIC] Little Bo-Peep quadrilles, founded on popular nursery rhymes.

At head of title: D’Albert’s celebrated. Sydney : Published by Woolcott and Clarke, Music Sellers, Print Sellers, etc., George Street, [between 1859 and 1865?]. Folio, publisher’s decorative wrappers lithographed by F. Cunninghame, 7 pp of music notation (arrangement for piano); lower wrapper with full-page advertisement for Woolcott & Clarke’s sheet music with hundreds of titles; …

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# 28998

NEWELL, HOOPER & STEVENS (SYDNEY & MELBOURNE); Wm. LINCOLN (BOSTON)

[GOLD RUSH] Circular announcing the opening of commission agencies in Sydney and Melbourne by the Boston firm of Newell, Hooper & Stevens. January, 1853.

Quarto-size letter sheet (250 x 200 mm), bifolium, lithograph printed on the first side only; headed ‘Boston, January 19, 1853’, the circular announces that Newell, Hooper & Stevens have formed a co-partnership ‘for the transaction of Commission Business, at SYDNEY AND MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA, and respectfully tender their services to their friends, with the assurance that …

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# 28657

HETZER, William fl. 1850-67

View of Circular Quay, Sydney, taken in early 1859.

Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each individual image 80 x 77 mm (arched format), original plain grey mount 84 x 172 mm, verso with fully contemporary inscription in ink ‘Circular Quay’ (but lacking Hetzer’s printed label) and an accompanying contemporary caption in ink ‘Circular Quay’; both of the prints are strong and have excellent tonal range; the …

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