New South Wales

  • Quaranta Australis

    # 25478

    ANDERSON, Sue (1948 - ) and HARRISON, Gwen (1947 - )

    Quaranta Australis

    Sydney : Gwen Harrison and Sue Anderson, 2008. Artists’ book, circular shape (395 mm tall), the 20 pages each consisting of an original etching printed on Japanese tissue, laid on paper sheets, mounted with a vellum stub and bound in to an embossed vellum binding with goatskin cords, presented in a folding clamshell box by …

    $7,500.00 AUD Read more
  • Shore of certain happiness : 1788-2012

    # 25479

    ANDERSON, Sue and HARRISON, Gwen

    Shore of certain happiness : 1788-2012

    Sydney : Gwen Harrison and Sue Anderson, 2012. Quarto (370mm tall), full stained kangaroo with goat spine, pp. [50], comprised of multi-plate sugar-lift and aquatint etched plates, hand-finished with paint, with letterpress text, presented in a clamshell box. Limited to 6 copies signed by the artist. “This artwork comprises a series of prints and a …

    $2,850.00 AUD Read more
  • Gold from the diggings of J. Allen

    # 24976

    Gold from the diggings of J. Allen

    [Australia or New Zealand, probably 1860s]. Manuscript in brown ink written on a small piece of paper, 50 x 90 mm, folded to form an envelope 20 x 36 mm, containing a number of tiny gold nuggets. This fascinating little packet was sourced together with an Australian gold nugget and manuscript note given to a …

    $850.00 AUD Read more
  • Native Gold / Australia.

    # 25462

    Maker unknown.

    Native Gold / Australia.

    [Title from etched caption on mount]. [U.K.? : s.n., circa 1860]. Microscope slide, 79 x 25 mm, maker’s diamond-etched caption to mount ‘Native Gold / Australia’; the central raised circular section (diameter 16 mm) contains an “as found” tiny gold specimen in quartz; mount with repaired hairline crack at left hand edge. A scarce scientific …

    $200.00 AUD Read more
  • [GOLD RUSH] Portrait of traveller and writer Friedrich Gerstäcker.

    # 22961

    [GERSTÄCKER, Friedrich, 1816-1872]; WILLIAMS, Sophus (photographer); HADER, E. (artist)

    [GOLD RUSH] Portrait of traveller and writer Friedrich Gerstäcker.

    Albumen print photograph of a painted portrait, carte de visite format, 107 x 67 mm (mount), recto of mount with facsimile autograph of the famous writer, along with the artist’s details: ‘E. Hader pinxit’, the publisher’s copyright statement: ‘1882. Gesetzlich geschützt’, and the imprint of the photographer and publisher: ‘Photographie und Verlag v. Sophus Williams, …

    $125.00 AUD Read more
  • Two Aboriginal boys with three European men, posing in front of a homestead near Swan Hill on the Murray River (Victorian or New South Wales side), circa 1875.

    # 24892

    BRYSON & HEYWOOD (SWAN HILL)

    Two Aboriginal boys with three European men, posing in front of a homestead near Swan Hill on the Murray River (Victorian or New South Wales side), circa 1875.

    Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 92 x 120 mm (image), 108 x 165 mm (mount), verso with the photographers’ names in manuscript ‘Bryson & Heywood, Swan Hill’; there is some staining to the top edge of the print and to the margin of the mount, but the print, though a little pale, has excellent …

    $750.00 AUD Read more
  • Two snapshot photos of the railway station at Coledale, north of Wollongong, New South Wales, circa 1920.

    # 24672

    Photographer unknown.

    Two snapshot photos of the railway station at Coledale, north of Wollongong, New South Wales, circa 1920.

    Two black-and-white photographic prints, each 57 x 82 mm, versos with identifying caption in pencil ‘Coledale Station’; both in fine condition. The South Coast railway line to Coledale, a coal mining village on the coast north of Wollongong, was completed in 1902. The station building, still in current use, was built in 1915.

    $45.00 AUD Read more
  • Highway motor travel in Australia : Adelaide to Melbourne, Sydney and the Grampians with Pioneer.

    # 24565

    PIONEER TOURIST COACHES PTY. LTD. (MELBOURNE)

    Highway motor travel in Australia : Adelaide to Melbourne, Sydney and the Grampians with Pioneer.

    [Melbourne : Pioneer Tourist Coaches Pty. Ltd., c. 1935]. Large oblong octavo (180 x 210 mm), illustrated wrappers with photographic view of the Ocean Road near Angelsea (mild corner creasing and light marks), stapled, 7 pp, with itineraries and schematic maps for tours between Melbourne and Adelaide (both the Grampians and Princes Highway routes), Melbourne …

    $45.00 AUD Read more
  • Aboriginal group, including a man holding a broad shield, with two Europeans. Murray River (northern Victoria or southern New South Wales), circa 1868.

    # 23482

    BAUME, Joseph Wellesh

    Aboriginal group, including a man holding a broad shield, with two Europeans. Murray River (northern Victoria or southern New South Wales), circa 1868.

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 65 x 102 mm (mount), verso with wet stamp of ‘Jos[ep]h Baume, Photographic Artist. From Swanston Street, Melbourne.’ and inscription in ink ‘No. 3’ (presumably the photographer’s sequence number); the albumen print is in very good condition (a tiny dint above the man with the broad shield), with …

    $2,200.00 AUD Read more
  • [MICROSCOPE SLIDE] Precious Opal. Australia.

    # 23900

    Maker unknown.

    [MICROSCOPE SLIDE] Precious Opal. Australia.

    [United Kingdom : s.n., circa 1900]. Glass microscope slide, 75 x 25 mm, the mount with original label printed ‘Mineral’ and with contemporary manuscript caption in ink ‘Precious Opal. Australia’; in fine condition. An attractive microscope slide containing thousands of opal fragments, most likely from New South Wales, Queensland or South Australia.  

    $240.00 AUD Read more
  • The “Sydney Set”

    # 10934

    SHIRLOW, John (1869 - 1936)

    The “Sydney Set”

    Melbourne : Edward A. Vidler, 1918. Folio, gilt-lettered papered boards (a little marked), 8 folded sheets with six original etchings, each signed in pencil, tipped in, with three of the six captioned tissue guards, light foxing and offsetting, title page a little marked. The list of plates are: Sydney Cove, From Musgrave Street Wharf, 1917 …

    $7,500.00 AUD Read more
  • First report of the council of the Australian College.

    # 23407

    AUSTRALIAN COLLEGE. COUNCIL.

    First report of the council of the Australian College.

    Sydney : Printed by Horatio Wills for the executors of R. Howe, 1832. Small octavo, original blue paper wrappers, 8 pp, a fine, original copy. Ferguson, 1508. The Australian College for boys was established in Sydney by the Reverend John Dunmore Lang in November 1831. The Presbyterian teaching staff were recruited from Scottish universities, and …

    $300.00 AUD Read more
  • [CAMDEN] Reminiscences / by J.B.M. (The author's proof copy, with corrections and additions in manuscript)

    # 23431

    J. B. M. (John Benson MARTIN, 1818-1908)

    [CAMDEN] Reminiscences / by J.B.M. (The author’s proof copy, with corrections and additions in manuscript)

    Camden : A.J. Doust, ‘Times’ Office, 1884. “Being a reprint from the Camden Times, 1883.” Octavo, disbound (stapled by the printer, and later stitched by the author), a misprinted proof copy with several missing pages (33 ; 36-37 ; 40-41) supplied by the author in manuscript (in ink on ruled blue paper), with the author’s …

    $750.00 AUD Read more
  • Maggie Stone, granddaughter of Queen Mary of the Wolgalu (Monaro district, southern New South Wales). Photographed in the Tangambalanga district near the Murray River, northeast Victoria, circa 1869.

    # 23336

    [WASHBOURNE, Thomas Jetson, 1832-1905]

    Maggie Stone, granddaughter of Queen Mary of the Wolgalu (Monaro district, southern New South Wales). Photographed in the Tangambalanga district near the Murray River, northeast Victoria, circa 1869.

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 104 x 64 mm (mount); no photographer’s imprint (verso blank); a strong print with good tonal range and clarity. One of a seres of indigenous portraits taken in northeast Victoria around 1869 by travelling photographer Thomas J. Washbourne. These portraits were probably taken on the Aboriginal reserve at Tangambalanga …

    $2,200.00 AUD Read more
  • The Home. Vol. 19, No. 7, July 1, 1938

    # 22691

    GELLERT, Leon, URE SMITH, Sydney (editors); PRESTON, Margaret

    The Home. Vol. 19, No. 7, July 1, 1938

    Sydney : John Fairfax, 1938. Quarto, illustrated wrappers by Hera Roberts (small amount of wear to spine), pp. 74, a fine copy. This issue includes illustrated articles social life, fashion and art, architecture, house and garden etc. Literary contributors include David McNicoll, this issue also includes full page advertisements, and photographs by Frank Hurley. Includes …

    $325.00 AUD Read more
  • The Home. Vol. 22, No. 3. March 1, 1941

    # 22696

    GELLERT, Leon (editor)

    The Home. Vol. 22, No. 3. March 1, 1941

    Sydney : John Fairfax, 1941. Quarto, illustrated wrappers by Douglas Annand (small amount of wear to spine), pp. 64, a fine copy. This wartime issue includes contributions from Hugh McCrae, Harry Tatlock Miller, Myra Morris, Donald Friend, with numerous illustrations, photographs, advertisements etc. ‘Sydney Ure Smith’s ‘The Home’ magazine was one of the most sophisticated …

    $300.00 AUD Read more