New South Wales
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# 27968
KERRY, Charles (1857-1928)
Interior of the Helena Cave; entrance to the Arch Cave; entrance to the Imperial Cave. Jenolan Caves complex, New South Wales, early 1890s.
Three albumen print photographs, 150 x 200 mm, unmounted; all blind stamped bottom left ‘Kerry & Co. Photo 308 George Street Sydney’, and all with captions, studio name and Kerry’s sequence numbers 717, 735 and 782 in manuscript in the negative; one of the versos has a fully contemporary inscription in pencil ‘Jenolan Caves, Western Line’; some …
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![[SYDNEY HARBOUR] Snail's Bay Regatta, 1885.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2020/10/26153340/2020_DSFB_7739-300x300.jpg)
# 27972
KERRY & JONES
[SYDNEY HARBOUR] Snail’s Bay Regatta, 1885.
Albumen print photograph, 140 x 190 mm, unmounted; in manuscript in negative ‘Kerry & Jones Photo / Snail’s Bay Regatta 1885. 273’; verso with fully contemporary inscription in pencil ‘Snail Bay Regatta, Balmain’; in fine condition, with excellent contrast and tonal range. Scarce. No example located on Trove.
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![[PSYCHOGEOGRAPHY] Mirror Sydney](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2020/10/09154802/MIRROR-SYDNEY-209x300.jpg)
# 28217
BERRY, Vanessa
[PSYCHOGEOGRAPHY] Mirror Sydney
Artarmon, NSW : Giramondo, 2017. Large octavo (245 x 170 mm), pictorial card covers with French flaps, 304 pp, line illustrations; an as new copy. The fascinating essays in this collection are meditations on many of Sydney’s lost or disappearing buildings and sites. ‘In her delicately wrought essays and hand-drawn maps, Vanessa Berry describes her …
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# 28414
LANG, John Dunmore (1799-1878)
Account of the steps taken, in England, with a view to the establishment of an academic institution, or college, in New South Wales
: and to demonstrate the practicability of effecting an extensive emigration of the industrious classes from the mother country to that colony. Sydney : Printed by Stephens and Stokes, 1831. Octavo, old marbled wrappers, pp 27; first 2 leaves with minor creasing flaws, light foxing, pale water stain to top edges; a good copy. A …
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# 27343
[FITZSIMMONS, Robert ("Bob"), 1863-1917]; RICHARD K. FOX (publisher)
Photographic portrait of champion Anglo-New Zealand-Australian-American bare knuckle boxer Bob Fitzsimmons in a fighting stance, taken in New York in 1893.
Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 162 x 106 mm (mount); the print is embossed at lower left ‘Copyright 1893 Richard K. Fox’; removed from an old frame, the print and mount have suffered some surface loss around the edges, particularly at the bottom margin where Fox’s imprint with his Franklin Square, New York address …
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# 28083
[NEW SOUTH WALES GOVERNMENT PHOTOGRAPHER, attributed]
Panoramic view of Trial Bay, New South Wales, late 1870s.
Albumen print photograph, 220 x 355 mm, laid down on split card (section of original album page), titled Trial Bay in manuscript in negative bottom right; a superb print with rich tonal range and great clarity, in fine condition (very short edge tear bottom left). Rare early view of the settlement at Trial Bay on …
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# 26486
TOOSE, Henry
Children and teachers outside their school building. South coast of New South Wales, 1873.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 62 x 102 mm; verso with imprint of H. Toose, Photographic Artist, [the printed address, Corrimel Street, Wollongong, A few doors from Crown Street, has been crossed out by the photographer], and contemporary inscription in ink ‘Nov. 1st 73’; the albumen print has a little mottling in the negative, …
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![[TELEPHONES] The philosophy of time](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2020/09/25120554/2020_DSFB_6882-300x300.jpg)
# 27738
NEW SYSTEM TELEPHONES PTY. LTD.
[TELEPHONES] The philosophy of time
Melbourne : Arbuckle Waddell Pty. Ltd. [for New System Telephones Pty. Ltd.], [circa 1930]. Trade brochure. Single sheet, 530 x 430 mm, folding to 265 x 215 mm, lithograph printed in black and orange on both sides, with photographic process and line-drawn illustrations; mild edge wear, otherwise very good condition. A beautifully designed trade flyer …
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# 26875
TILLY, Onora (1773-1857)
Letter to Port Phillip pioneer Charles Parker Tilly from his mother in Falmouth, Cornwall. Dated 9 July, 1839.
[Entire letter]. Manuscript in ink written on 3 sides of a small quarto bifolium (230 x 185 mm); the outer side is addressed Mr. Charles Tilly, care of Messrs Welsh Eddy & Co. Merchants, Launceston, Van Diemen’s Land; the letter itself is headed Tremough, July 9th 1839, is addressed to My Beloved Children and is signed at …
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# 27278
COLONIAL SUGAR REFINING CO. LTD.
Masonite Temprtile : 5 yards of “tile” laid in one sheet
Sydney : CSR Building Materials Division, [October 1939]. (Date from printer’s code). Folding sheet 243 x 167 mm, folding to 143 x 83 mm, printed on both sides, colour illustrated; in very good condition. Trove locates two examples (SLNSW; Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales. Caroline Simpson Research Library).
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# 27135
SYDNEY TECHNICAL COLLEGE
Higher Trades printing students, Sydney Technical College present their sixth annual dinner : with which is incorporated celebrations of the five hundredth anniversary of printing, Pfahlert’s Hotel, Wednesday, 13th December 1939.
Presented in portfolio with cover title: Commemorating the 500th anniversary of the birth of printing. [Sydney] : Students of the Presswork Classes, Sydney Technical College, 1939. Quarto, pale blue thick paper covers with embossed portrait silhouette to front, original silk ties, printed on Strathmore watermarked paper, title page with device in red, [10], 28, [1] …
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# 18275
Photographer unknown.
Engine house and blast furnace of the Eskbank Ironworks Company, Lithgow, New South Wales, circa 1876.
Albumen print photograph, 115 x 185 mm, unmounted; verso with contemporary inscription in pencil ‘Lithgow’; no photographer’s imprint; 15 mm edge tear bottom right, otherwise in fine condition, with excellent tonal range and superb detail of the building’s infrastructure, 11 employees and their dog, and the scarified and partially denuded hillside in the background. An …
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# 26665
HORNE, H. E.; TREHARNE, Herbert F.; HELLEMANN, Christian
Ode for Australia’s 150th Anniversary. (Presentation copy for Francis Crosslé)
/ words by H.E. Horne ; music by Herbert F. Treharne and Christian Hellemann. Cover: “Schools’ concert, Town Hall, Sydney, 8th, 9th & 10th March, 1938”. Royal octavo (240 x 180 mm), original printed wrappers, staple bound, a presentation copy inscribed on the upper wrapper by the author H. E. Horne and composer Herbert F. …
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# 26003
ORIENT STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD.
The Orient Steam Navigation Company, Limited. Prospectus.
London : The Orient Steam Navigation Co., Ltd., 13 Fenchurch Avenue, E.C., [1880]. Folio (420 x 265 mm) bifolium, 3 pp, folding to 265 x 105 mm with printed title to outer side; original share application form still loosely enclosed; outer side a little dusty, but a near fine example. ‘The Orient Steam Navigation Company …
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![[SHEET MUSIC; SOUDAN CONTINGENT] The Harp of the Southern Cross : Australia's message.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2020/05/25174341/2020_DSFB_3620-300x300.jpg)
# 26140
GOERGS, Karl Wilhelm
[SHEET MUSIC; SOUDAN CONTINGENT] The Harp of the Southern Cross : Australia’s message.
/ by Karl Wilhelm Goergs. Author of Echoes of Australia &c. Cover: “For the Patriotic Fund”. Sydney : [K.W. Goergs?], 1885. Folio (345 x 250 mm), disbound, decorative covers featuring a diagram of the Southern Cross with the date March 3rd, 1885 (closely trimmed at top and bottom edges), [2] pp music notation (arrangement for …
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# 11262
MUIR, Thomas (1765-1799) [HAMILTON, George]
The telegraph; a consolatory epistle : from Thomas Muir, Esq. of Botany Bay,
to the Hon. Henry Erskine, late Dean of Faculty. [Edinburgh? : s.n., 1796]. Quarto, disbound, pp 11, [1], front with manuscript note in pencil referring to Muir’s handwriting and Hunter’s Hill, dated 1820, old horizontal fold throughout, otherwise a good copy. One of three variant quarto editions, this being the issue with signature B on page …