New South Wales

# 12705

GURNEY, Joseph

[BOTANY BAY]. The whole proceedings on the trials of two informations

exhibited ex officio by the King’s Attorney-General against George Gordon, Esq. commonly called Lord George Gordon : one for a libel on the Queen of France and the French Ambassador; the other for a libel on the judges, and the administration of the laws in England. Also of Thomas Wilkins, for printing the last-mentioned libel. …

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# 16352

[LANG, John, 1816-64]

[FISHER’S GHOST] Une cause célèbre en Australie. L’esprit.

IN: L’ami de la maison, Paris : Paulin et Le Chevalier, vol. 1 no 11, March 20 1856, pp161-67 and vol. 1 no. 12, March 27 1856, pp177-82, each part with 3 engraved illustrations; contained within a bound volume of nos. 1-25 (the complete first volume), January-June 1856, quarto, contemporary quarter calf over marbled papered …

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# 16001

CROFT, Thomas; TERRY, F.C. [Frederic Casemero] (artist), 1825-1869; SANDS & KENNY

[EASTER ISLAND] Double Bay from South Head Road. [1853]

Sydney & Melbourne: Sands & Kenny, [c.1867]. Illustrated letter paper, sheet 252 x 200 mm (lacking the blank third and fourth sides), steel engraving in black ink 118 x 168 mm (irregular), signed in image ‘Terry, del., 1853’; the letter paper is written on both remaining sides and bears a letter from the Tahiti-based merchant Thomas …

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# 16000

TERRY, F.C. [Frederic Casemero] (artist), 1825-1869; SANDS & KENNY

Government House from the Botanical Gardens. [1853]

Sydney & Melbourne: Sands & Kenny, [c.1867]. Illustrated letter paper, sheet 252 x 200 mm (folded in half), paper watermarked ‘Sands & Kenny’, steel engraving in black ink 110 x 144 mm (irregular), signed in image ‘Terry, del., 1853’; second side with wet stamp of Sydney publisher and stationer J.R. Clarke; the letter paper is unused …

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# 16014

REEP, Richard Thompson; [CAMERON, Roderick William, 1823-1900]; [ROYAL MAIL STEAM PACKET COMPANY]

[MARITIME] Letter from the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company to shipping line owner R.W. Cameron regarding the conveyance of mails on the new Panama Route to Australia

London, 12 August 1859. Entire letter, 2 pp small quarto, on the engraved letterhead of the ‘Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, No 55, Moorgate Street, London’, from Richard Thompson Reep, Secretary of the RMSCPC, to R.W. Cameron, owner of the R.M. Cameron & Co. Shipping Line, New York; Reep’s message is a reply to Cameron’s enquiries about …

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# 15798

BLOCKLEY, John (composer); NORTON, Caroline Sheridan

[SHEET MUSIC] Love not : a ballad / the music composed by J. Blockley ; the poetry selected from The soorows of Rosalie, written by The Honble. Mrs Norton.

Sydney : G. Hudson & Co., 377 Pitt Street North, [1849, or earlier]. Folio, disbound, with later paper spine, engraved cover with calligraphic lettering in a variety of fonts, 5 pp of music notation; a very good copy. A scarce Sydney sheet music imprint from the pre-gold rush period. Only two copies of this edition are recorded in Australian …

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# 15626

CHERRY, J. W. (John William), 1824-1869; LAKE, J.W.; DEGOTARDI, Johann Nepomuk, 1823-1882.

[SHEET MUSIC] Shells of ocean / words by J.W. Lake ; music by J.W. Cherry.

Sydney : Woolcott and Clarke, [1853 or 1854]. Folio, disbound, original illustrated wrappers lithographed by John Degotardi (old paper reinforcement to original stitching and small closed tear at fore-edge), 6 pp of engraved music notation for voice and piano; page 2 has a publisher’s advertisement at the head of the music; internally very clean, a good example. …

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# 14831

NEWMAN, John Hubert

Photographic portrait of Rev. William Curnow, Wesleyan minister and journalist, Sydney, 1865-68

Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format (107 x 64 mm, mount; 60 x 48 mm, oval image); inscribed beneath image in ink in a contemporary hand 'Rev. W. Curnow'; recto and verso with imprint of J.H. Newman, 53 South Head Road, Sydney; recto with light staining and rubbing. Wesleyan Methodist clergyman and journalist William Curnow …

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# 14251

SYDNEY MAIL NEWSPAPER

Loading blocks of granodiorite to be used in constructing the pylons of the Harbour Bridge. Moruya.

[Sydney] : Sydney Mail, [between 1925 and 1931]. Panoramic photograph from two gelatin silver prints, 143 x 340 mm, laid down on its original board mount; verso with wet stamp ‘Copyright Photograph by “Sydney Mail”‘; the gelatin prints are in very good condition; accompanied by contemporary card inscribed ‘Loading blocks of granodiorite to be used …

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# 14051

EGAN, Pierce, 1772-1849; [JOHN THURTELL; JOSEPH HUNT]

Recollections of John Thurtell, who was executed at Hertford … for murdering Mr. W. Weare …

London : Knight & Lacey, 1824. Octavo, recent half black morocco over marbled boards, gilt, spine with raised bands lettered in gilt, modern marbled endpapers, frontispiece engraving, A correct view of the execution, taken on the spot by an eminent artist (as called for by Ferguson), with a second frontispiece engraving (apparently not present in any …

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# 12925

READING, James; SANDOE, Francis

Colonial literary journal and weekly miscellany of useful information. Vol. 1 no. 19 October 31 1844

Sydney : Printed and published by James Reading and Francis Sandoe, at the General Printing Office, 1844. Quarto newspaper, front with decorative masthead, pp 289-304; text in double columns; occasional toning and light staining, but a good copy. Ferguson, 3809. The Colonial literary journal was a short-lived periodical published weekly in Sydney between June, 1844 …

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# 12924

READING, James; SANDOE, Francis

Colonial literary journal and weekly miscellany of useful information. Vol. 1 no. 18 October 24 1844

Sydney : Printed and published by James Reading and Francis Sandoe, at the General Printing Office, 1844. Quarto newspaper, front with decorative masthead, pp 273-288; text in double colums; occasional toning, but a good copy. Ferguson, 3809. The Colonial literary journal was a short-lived periodical published weekly in Sydney between June, 1844 (vol. 1, no. …

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# 12558

CARROLL, Harry (music); MACDONALD, Ballard (words)

[SHEET MUSIC] I’m a married man

Cover: Introduced in George Marlow's brilliant Adelphi success “Under two flags”. Sydney : Albert's, [c.1910]. Folio, publisher's pictorial wrappers with vignette portrait of Australian performer Wilton Welch, 5 pp of musical notation (arrangement for solo voices, chorus and piano), lower wrapper with publisher's advertisements; a fine copy. Two copies are recorded in Australian collections (National …

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# 12556

CAMPBELL, Hal (words & music)

[SHEET MUSIC] The girl up there

Cover: Featured with enormous success by Stella Gastelle in J.C. Williamson's pantomime Hack & Jill. Sydney : Albert's, [c.1910]. Folio, publisher's pictorial wrappers with vignette portrait of Australian performer Stella Gastelle, contemporary ownership signature of Roland Thomas and music seller's stamp of Dinsdale, Melbourne, [3] pp of musical notation (arrangement for piano and voice), lower …

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# 12551

LOVELL, H.C. (music); DAVID, Worton (words)

[SHEET MUSIC] I played my concertina

Cover: Sung by Sam Mayo, also by William Cromwell, in Rupert Clarke, Meynell & Gunn's operatic pantomime Cinderella. Produced by Charles A. Wenman. Sydney : Albert's, [1909]. Folio, publisher's pictorial wrappers with vignette portrait of Australian performer William Cromwell, ownership signature of Roland Thomas dated 1909, [3] pp of musical notation, lower wrapper with publisher's …

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# 12180

BOAKE, Barcroft Capel

Photographic portrait of a Royal Navy Commodore, Sydney, 1867-77

Albumen print photograph with hand colouring, carte de visite format, 106 x 63 mm, image 77 x 55 mm (oval format), blind stamped lower left Boake Sydney; the verso with imprint of B.C. Boake. Photographer. 330 George St. Sydney. (over Mr. Jones, Jeweller &c.); both the the albumen print and mount are in fine condition. …

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