New South Wales

  • The Home. Vol. 20, No. 10. October 2, 1939

    # 22693

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

    The Home. Vol. 20, No. 10. October 2, 1939

    Sydney : John Fairfax, 1939. Quarto, illustrated wrappers by Hinder (small amount of wear to spine), pp. 72, a fine copy. This issue includes illustrated articles social life, fashion and art, architecture, house and garden etc. horse racing, military aviation, colour advertisements and photographs. ‘Sydney Ure Smith’s ‘The Home’ magazine was one of the most …

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  • The Home. Vol. 21, No. 2. February 1, 1940

    # 22700

    GELLERT, Leon (editor)

    The Home. Vol. 21, No. 2. February 1, 1940

    Sydney : John Fairfax, 1940. Quarto, illustrated wrappers by John Lee (small amount of wear to spine), pp. 68, a fine copy. This wartime issue includes articles on Sydney fashion, society, house and garden, furniture and interiors, with numerous illustrations, photographs, advertisements etc. ‘Sydney Ure Smith’s ‘The Home’ magazine was one of the most sophisticated …

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  • [SYDNEY]. Godaishu Kanyu Sugoroku [Boardgame of a World Trip]

    # 21871

    NOBUKAZU, Yosai (1872 - 1944)

    [SYDNEY]. Godaishu Kanyu Sugoroku [Boardgame of a World Trip]

    Tokyo : Tsunashima Kamekichi, Meiji 23 (1890). Woodblock printed in colour, 712 x 698 mm, lined with Japanese tissue, old folds as issued, a clean and bright example. A board game of a voyage around the world, starting in Yokohama and with illustrated vignette scenes of the destinations visited, including Vanvouver, San Francisco, Niagara Falls, New …

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  • [NORFOLK ISLAND; MISSIONS] John Coleridge Patteson : an account of his death at Nakapu,

    # 22622

    DRUMMOND, H. N.

    [NORFOLK ISLAND; MISSIONS] John Coleridge Patteson : an account of his death at Nakapu,

    and description of S. Barnabas Chapel, Norfolk Island, dedicated to his memory. Cover title: Bishop Patteson : pioneer and martyr. With an account of the Memorial Chapel. Parkstone, U.K. : Ralph & Brown, 1930. Quarto, publisher’s printed card wrappers, a presentation copy inscribed by the author on the inner front wrapper, 45 pp, illustrated; contents clean …

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  • [SHEET MUSIC] Selection from Going Up

    # 21431

    HARBACH, Otto (lyrics); HIRSCH, Louis A. (music)

    [SHEET MUSIC] Selection from Going Up

    Cover: J.C. Williamson Ltd. present the musical play Going up / book by Otto Harbach and James Montgomery ; lyrics by Otto Harbach ; music by Louis A. Hirsch … New York : M. Witmark & Sons ; Sydney : J. Albert & Son, [1919]. Quarto, original illustrated wrappers with splendid illustration of an aviatrix flying …

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  • Studio portrait of a wealthy Sydney lady posing in front of a painted backdrop depicting Government House, circa 1864.

    # 20855

    JOHN T. GORUS

    Studio portrait of a wealthy Sydney lady posing in front of a painted backdrop depicting Government House, circa 1864.

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 101 x 64 mm (mount), verso with imprint of ‘John T. Gorus, Photographic Artist, 101 King St. Sydney’; the sitter has a touch of rose tinting on her lips; both the print and mount in very good condition. In addition to being a minor masterpiece of 1860s colonial …

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  • View of Millers Point, Parramatta River from the Flagstaff, Sydney, 1858-59.

    # 20453

    HETZER, William fl. 1850-67

    View of Millers Point, Parramatta River from the Flagstaff, Sydney, 1858-59.

    Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each individual image 80 x 77 mm (arched format), original plain greyish buff mount 84 x 172 mm, verso with studio label printed in blue ‘Stereoscopic Views of Sydney and Environs by W. Hetzer, Photographic Artist, 287 George Street, Sydney, N.S.W.’ and an accompanying contemporary caption in ink ‘Millers Point – Parramatta …

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  • Sydney from Governor Bourke's statue, on the edge of the Inner Domain, circa 1859.

    # 20447

    HETZER, William fl. 1850-67

    Sydney from Governor Bourke’s statue, on the edge of the Inner Domain, circa 1859.

    Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each individual image 80 x 77 mm (arched format), original plain greyish buff mount 84 x 172 mm, verso with contemporary caption in ink ‘Sydney – from the Domain’; both albumen prints are in fine condition, with good tonal range and sharp detail; the mount is free from foxing. This view, looking …

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  • View of George Street, Sydney, showing the Commercial Bank and Bank of New South Wales, 1860-63.

    # 20442

    HETZER, William fl. 1850-67

    View of George Street, Sydney, showing the Commercial Bank and Bank of New South Wales, 1860-63.

    Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each individual image 80 x 77 mm (arched format), original plain greyish buff mount 84 x 172 mm, verso with studio label printed in blue ‘Stereoscopic Views of Sydney and Environs by W. Hetzer, Photographic Artist, 287 George Street, Sydney, N.S.W.’ and an accompanying contemporary caption in ink ‘George St. / Commercial …

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  • The fountain in Coonamble Park, Central West New South Wales, circa 1920.

    # 20766

    Photographer unknown.

    The fountain in Coonamble Park, Central West New South Wales, circa 1920.

    Sepia photograph on glossy printing out paper, 140 x 95 mm, tipped onto a card mount, contemporary caption in ink across bottom margin of mount: ‘Coonamble Park, N.S.W.’; fine condition. The Coonamble fountain is mentioned in the opening stanza of Along the Castlereagh, a poem by commercial traveller and bush lyricist Jack Moses (1861-1945), first …

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  • Group of correspondence from Henry Beit, land agent, Sydney, to E.V. Sandilands, cotton grower and Vice-Consul, Fiji. 1870-71.

    # 21090

    BEIT, Henry (1826-1881); SANDILANDS, Edward Vincent (1847-1871); GUTSCHMID, Felix von (1843-1905)

    Group of correspondence from Henry Beit, land agent, Sydney, to E.V. Sandilands, cotton grower and Vice-Consul, Fiji. 1870-71.

    Sydney businessman Henry Beit (1826-1881) was a land agent specialising in the sale of properties in outback New South Wales and Queensland, and also in the Fiji Islands. His correspondent, Edward Vincent Sandilands (1847-1871), was a young English cotton grower in the Yasawa Islands, Fiji, whose acquaintance Beit had presumably made when Sandilands had been …

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  • The young sailor, or the sea-life of Tom Bowline.

    # 20065

    The young sailor, or the sea-life of Tom Bowline.

    New York: Kiggins & Kellogg, n.d. [c. 1856]. Duodecimo, printed salmon wrappers with woodcut vignette, 16 pp., illustrated with wood-engravings including a title vignette, 1 text & 5 full-page illustrations.  “Third Series–No. 8” on the front wrapper. A crisp copy. Chapbook tale of young Tom, who is drawn to the sea, and sails on the ship …

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  • Text and texture : contemporary design bindings of the novels of Patrick White

    # 19726

    OPPEN, Monica et al

    Text and texture : contemporary design bindings of the novels of Patrick White

    Sydney : Ant Press, 2012. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, pp. 28, illustrated. Exhibition catalogue of the Design Bookbinding Exhibition held at the State Library of NSW Bookshop 13th August to 29th October 2012. “This exhibition, Text and texture, of Australian contemporary designer bindings was prepared in conjunction with the exhibition The life of Patrick White…”–page [22] …

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  • [NEW SOUTH WALES] Roll of deaths in the 50th (Queen's Own) Regiment of Foot from April 1841 to May 1843

    # 19085

    Anon.

    [NEW SOUTH WALES] Roll of deaths in the 50th (Queen’s Own) Regiment of Foot from April 1841 to May 1843

    [Drop title] Nominal Roll of of Men who have become Non Effective Since the Regiment left New South Wales, up to the 1 May 1843, Cawnpore, 1843. Manuscript in ink on pale blue wove paper, folio (340 x 205 mm), 2 bifolia written on [6] sides in a neat clerical hand, manuscript column rules; a …

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  • Costumes, usos e trajos de todos os povos do mundo,

    # 18053

    WAHLEN, Auguste

    Costumes, usos e trajos de todos os povos do mundo,

    em face de documentos authenticos e das mais recentes viagens. Lisboa : Impresa Lusitana, 1872-1873-1874-1876-1878. Five volumes, octavo, original quarter blue calf over marbled papered boards (lightly rubbed, corners bumped, upper board of vol. 4 with several scratches), spines with gilt lettering and rule; vol. 1 (Asia) 421, [1]; vol. 2 (Asia, India) 439, [4]; …

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  • Sydney Dance Company : Melbourne debut season, 1980

    # 18524

    SYDNEY DANCE COMPANY; [MURPHY, Graeme]

    Sydney Dance Company : Melbourne debut season, 1980

    Woolloomooloo, N.S.W : Sydney Dance Company, 1980. Quarto, pictorial wrappers, [24] pp, photographic illustrations in b/w and colour; a very good copy. An important programme from the Company’s early period under Graeme Murphy. A single copy is recorded in Australian collections (Deakin University Library).

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