New South Wales
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# 45877
THE CROWN STUDIOS
Studio portrait of a couple in Salvation Army uniform. Sydney, late 1890s.
Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 163 x 106 mm (mount); recto with the imprint of ‘The Crown Studios, George and Market Streets, Sydney’; the print is in very good condition; the mount has some toning.
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# 45878
PEEL'S MODERN STUDIOS
Studio portrait of Master Laban Rixon in Salvation Army uniform, posed with his tuba. Sydney, 1909-10.
Sepia-tone gelatin silver print photograph, cabinet card format, 165 x 106 mm (mount); recto with the imprint of ‘Peel’s Modern Studios, 482 George St., Sydney’; verso with a fully contemporary inscription in pencil ‘Mr. Laban Rixon’; the print has a few light marks, and the mount is toned. We believe the young sitter is Laban …
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# 46499
TURNER, John
Joseph Lycett. Governor Macquarie’s convict artist.
Newcastle : Hunter History Publications, 1997. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 148, illustrated, light handling marks, a very good copy. A detailed study of Lycett.
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# 41770
CROFT BROTHERS
Ambrotype portrait of a seated woman in a blue dress and lace holding a daguerreotype case. Sydney, New South Wales, circa 1861.
Sixth plate ambrotype photograph with applied colour, 80 x 70 mm; housed in a nonpareil brass mat stamped ‘CROFT’ at l.r., in a leather case with embossed ‘vase of flowers’ motif (case separated along the cloth hinge, but with a working clasp); the ambrotype is in exceptionally fine condition. This enigmatic studio portrait of a strikingly …
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# 45903
SWISS STUDIOS
Studio portrait of Ada Evans, the first Australian woman to obtain a law degree and the first woman admitted to the Bar in New South Wales. Sydney, circa 1905.
Gelatin silver print photograph, oval Paris Panel format, 190 x 140 mm, on the original card mount with the blind stamp of Swiss Studios, Sydney; in superb condition, with the original tissue guard preserved (lightly foxed) and still housed in the studio’s green card portfolio, 310 x 235 mm (sunned at edges). Ada Emily Evans …
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# 28922
FRADELLE & MARSHALL
Studio portrait of Minnie Walton, Australian actress and singer. London, circa 1874.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 106 x 65 mm (mount); recto and verso with imprint of Fradelle & Marshall, Regent Street, London; verso also inscribed in pencil in period hand ‘Minnie Walton’; the print is a little pale but in good condition, as is the mount. Minnie Walton was a popular Australian performer …
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# 29301
[WARNER BROS.] [RALSTON, Marcia, 1906-1988]
Signed photographic portrait of Australian Hollywood screen actress Marcia Ralston, circa 1937.
[Burbank, Ca. : Warner Bros. Pictures Inc., circa 1937]. Gelatin silver print publicity photograph, 175 x 125 mm, inscribed in white fountain pen by the actress ‘Sincerely, Marcia Ralston’; verso blank; in fine condition. The classically beautiful Sydney-born actress Marcia Ralston – winner of a Miss Australia contest – was one of a small number …
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# 43102
GREENFELD, M. W. (Maximilian William)
Studio portrait of two elegant young ladies reading a letter. Sydney, ca. 1875.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 101 x 64 mm (mount); verso with the back mark of ‘The Royal Studio, M. W. Greenfeld, Photographer, Artist in Oil, Water Colors & Crayons. 328, George Street, Sydney’, incorporating a vignette illustration of an artist’s palette; the print has some light surface rubbing in the upper section, …
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# 45544
HOPKINS, Gertrude (1869-1894)
Gertrude’s poems
Sydney, Newcastle and London : W. E. Smith [for John Hopkins], 1895. Octavo (180 x 125 mm), original royal blue cloth over boards with gilt-lettered title to upper board (boards with flecking and light staining, spine darkened and frayed at ends); all edges gilt; front pastedown with bookbinder’s ticket of W. E. Smith, Sydney; page …
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# 45623
ADELAIDE PHOTO. COMPANY (SYDNEY)
Dancer in front of a painted studio backdrop. Sydney, early 1890s.
Sepia-tone gelatin silver print photograph, cabinet card format, 166 x 110 mm (mount); recto of mount imprinted in gold ‘Adelaide Photo. Company. Corner of Pitt St. and Park St., Sydney. One door from Criterion Theatre.’; the print has pin holes at the corners but is otherwise excellent; the mount is a little toned (verso blank). …
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# 46423
McDONALD, Patricia R.; PEARCE, Barry
The artist and the patron : aspects of colonial art in New South Wales
Sydney : Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1988. Quarto, pictorial wrappers (light handling creases), 187 pp, colour and black and white illustrations, a very good copy. From the library of renowned art historian Ann Galbally, signed by her on the half title.
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# 46295
NEVILLE, Richard
Mr J W Lewin : painter & naturalist
Sydney : NewSouth Publishing, 2012. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (light handling wear, spine sunned), pp. 272, illustrated; internally very clean, a good copy. Author, illustrator, printmaker and natural historian, John William Lewin created the first illustrated book ever published in Australia – Birds of New South Wales, in 1813. Featuring more than 150 exquisite artworks, Mr …
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# 45880
MENDELSSOHN, Albert
[TICHBORNE CASE] “Twenty Years After,” Roger Tichborne was lost A.D. 1854, the Claimant was lost A.D. 1874.
[Title from artist’s caption]. London : Albert Mendelssohn, [1874]. Albumen print photograph of a satirical cartoon (artist’s monogram W.R. in the image), carte de visite format, 103 x 63 mm (mount), recto with the artist’s printed caption to lower margin; verso with wet stamp of ‘Albert Mendelssohn, Publisher, London’; in fine condition. The case of the …
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# 45873
FREYCINET, Rose Marie Pinon de (1794-1832)
Campagne de l’Uranie (1817-1820) : journal de Madame Rose de Saulces de Freycinet, d’après le manuscrit original
/ accompagné de notes par Charles Duplomb. Paris : Societé d’Éditions Géographiques, Maritimes et Coloniales, 1927. First edition. Large quarto (285 x 230 mm), publisher’s printed wrappers with French flaps (sunned, spine with water staining and small paper loss at ends), pp. [2 blank], xiii, [1 blank], 190, [2], with 25 plates (13 in colour, …
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# 45908
MACPHERSON GRANT, James (1811-1847)
Letter from an aristocratic Scottish squatter to his father, written on “Bendinine”, near Yass, New South Wales, December 1843.
Manuscript in ink, 2 pp, quarto (lacking the first sheet), signed at the foot ‘Your affectionate son, J. Macpherson Grant’; outer wrapper addressed to Sir George Macpherson Grant, Baronet, Edinburgh (but redirected to Ballindalloch), with framed ‘YASS / POST PAID’ in red, and oval ‘PAID SHIP LETTER / SYDNEY’ dated ‘DE 23 1843’ in red; …
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# 45984
BURNS, Richard; ROFES, Eric and MARKO, Jim (editors)
[FIRST SYDNEY MARDI GRAS]. Gay Community News. Vol. 6, No. 2, July 29 1978.
Boston : Gay Community News, 1978. Tabloid newspaper, folded as issued, pp. 16, illustrated. The Gay Community News (1973 – 1999) was Boston’s leading queer newspaper, focussed on political rather than social affairs. The lead article (with a photograph of NSW Premier Neville Wran), titled ’53 arrested, scores injured in Sydney. Violence, arrests mar celebration in Australia’ …