New South Wales

# 11430

STAR PHOTO CO.

Aboriginal, N.S.W.

[Sydney] : Star Photo. Co., [circa 1904]. Photogravure process postcard, 136 x 89 mm, contemporary annotation to front ‘Sydney 4/12/04’, postally used and postmarked December 5 1904; in fine condition. The images published by the Star Photo. Co. in its series of postcards of Aboriginal subjects are the epitome of Australian racist kitsch of the …

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# 11417

SYDNEY UNIVERSITY DENTAL UNDERGRADUATES' ASSOCIATION

The articulator : journal of the Sydney University Dental Undergraduates’ Association. Vol. 10, no. 3

Sydney : The Association, 1957. Small quarto, pictorial wrappers (upper wrapper with short tear at fore-edge), 91 pp, illustrated, a very good copy.

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# 10976

BRUCE, J.B.; SCARROTT, G.R. (proprietors)

Norfolk Island Times. Vol. 2 No. 61, Wednesday, April 11, 1934.

[Kingston], Norfolk Island : NI Times, Printed & published by G.R. Scarrott by arrangement with the proprietors J.B. Bruce, B.A., & G.R. Scarrott, 1934. Folio newspaper, roneo printed recto only of 9 sheets, includes illustrated advertisements for R. Hopkins, A.E. Martin, Burns Philp (2), a dance to raise funds for the Melanesian Mission, Producers’ Co-op …

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# 10126

WYLD, James

Map of South Australia, New South Wales, Van Diemens Land, and Settled parts of Australia.

Respectfully dedicated to Major Sir T.L. Mitchell K.t D.C.L. F.G.S. &c Surveyor General of New South Wales …. London : James Wyld, [c.1848]. Engraved map with hand colouring, 620 x 1000 mm, dissected and laid on linen and edged in green silk, as issued, folding to 210 x 130 mm, in original card slipcase with …

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# 9994

FERGUSSON & CO.

Commonwealth celebrations Sydney : descriptive and illustrative, with panorama.

Sydney and London : Fergusson & Co., [1901]. Fourth edition. Small oblong quarto, publisher's purple card covers with green embossed lettering and design and pictorial onlay of HMS Royal Arthur (stained), ownership inscription dated Feb. 1901, original ties replaced, [24] photographic plates and [1] folding panorama plate at rear, a good copy.

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# 9928

Photographer unknown.

Twelve photographic views of Sydney, circa 1890

Twelve albumen print photographs, each 140 x 200 mm, mounted recto and verso of three nineteenth century album pages, contemporary captions in French beneath most of the images, all are strong prints in fine condition, the pages free from foxing. Includes three superb views of Circular Quay; another of the harbour from Lavender Bay, and …

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# 9905

PAINE, John 1833-1908, attributed

Balmain from Observatory Hill

Circa 1880. Albumen print photograph, 115 x 185 mm, laid down on a section of its original album page of thin card, the albumen print in fine condition with rich tonal range. A lovely view across Darling Harbour, with terrace houses in Kent Street in the foreground.

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# 9710

MARSH, Henry (composer); ANGAS, George French, 1822 - 1886 (illustrator)

[SHEET MUSIC] The Chusan waltz

Cover: Dedicated to Captain Henry Down and the officers of the Peninsular and Oriental Navigation Company’s Steam Ship Chusan by Henry Marsh, Sydney. Sydney : Published by H. Marsh & Co. at the Sydney Pianoforte and Music Ware Rooms, 490 1/2 George Street, [c.1852]. Folio, front cover with a bichrome lithograph of the Chusan by …

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# 9698

FOX, Frank H.

[SHEET MUSIC] If I could meet the fellow that started ragtime

Cover: Introduced in George Willoghby’s Ltd. Gorgeous Presentation Aladdin Pantomime. Sydney : Alberts, 1914. Folio, illustrated cover by A. Morrow showing the unnamed female lead of the pantomime Aladdin (small burn mark to front), 3 pp of musical notation, a very good copy. Produced by Lester Brown and with musical direction by Wynne Jones, this Sydney …

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# 9643

BEARD WATSON LTD.

Modern furniture II : upholstery

Sydney : Beard Watson & Co. Ltd., [c.1921]. Quarto, highly decorative pictorial wrappers (short paper split at head of spine, lightly marked, original ownership inscription at top edge of upper wrapper), staple bound, 10 pp (first leaf detached), photographic illustrations throughout, a fair copy. A single copy is recorded in Australian collections (Historic Houses Trust …

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# 9302

DAVIES, Julian; DAY, Phil (illustrator)

A pile of hair : a short story

Braidwood, NSW : Finlay Press, 2003. Octavo, printed wrappers in card clipcase, unpaginated. The standard edition, one of 150 copies signed by the author and artists. This is copy no. 127. “… handset in Baskerville and printed on Magnani paper in an edition of 150 copies. Copies numbered 1 to 50 have three original etchings …

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# 7916

TOWNSHEND, Thomas, 1st Viscount Sydney (1733-1800)

[LORD SYDNEY] Note of Fees on Swearing The Right Honourable Thomas Lord Sidney

One of His Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State the 23d. Decr. 1783. Manuscript in brown ink on single folio sheet with “GR” watermark by Jubb, 185 x 230 mm, above title in upper margin “Council Office”, below title a list of various expenses incurred by the swearing in of Lord Sydney for his second term …

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# 7978

Photographer unknown. [RYDER, George 1905-1989)

[HORSE RACING] Artesian bore, Ryder’s Paddock, Hunter Valley, New South Wales, circa 1930

Three sepia tone photographs on printing out paper with celluloid coating, each 200 x 150 mm, laid down on their original board mounts, versos of mounts with contemporary inscriptions in pencil: 'Bore at G. Ryder's paddock'; 'Bore at G. Ryder's new house'; 'Mountain bore (H. Ryder's)'; one of the prints with foxing, the mounts with …

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# 7811

KERRY, Charles, 1857-1928

Sheep-shearing

Circa 1895. Albumen print photograph, 150 x 210 mm, laid down on its original album leaf of thick card, contemporary calligraphic caption in red ink to the mount beneath the image “Sheep-Shearing”; the print is in good condition, with some light mottling from the printing process; the album leaf has some mild foxing to the …

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# 6148

New South Wales. Government Printing Office. [PICKERING, Charles, attributed]

[SYDNEY] Mort’s Floating Dock.

Circa 1870. Albumen print photograph, 200 x 250 mm, unmounted, verso with contemporary inscription: ‘Mort’s floating dock’, some light creasing, but a sharply detailed print with rich tonal range. This photograph was sourced with a group that included similar format prints of the interior of the New South Wales Government Printing Office, strong evidence to …

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# 6002

HALES, Geoffrey (Australian, 1948- )

[BALLET] Kelvin Coe and Roslyn Anderson in Jeunesse, The Australian Ballet, 1968

Digital print on Epson archival matte paper, format Super A3 480 x 330 mm, scanned from the original negative, signed and captioned in lower margin by the photographer, Geoffrey Hales. Melbourne-born Geoffrey Hales is a musician, composer, artist and photographer who worked with the Australian Ballet in 1967-68. An archive of digital prints of Geoffrey …

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