New South Wales
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# 46174
BURMAN, F. C.
Photographic portrait of the tragic actor G. V. Brooke. Melbourne, 1866.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 104 x 62 mm (mount); verso with imprint of ‘F. C. Burman, Photographic Artist, 41 Madeline Street, Carlton, Melbourne’; both the print and mount are have some light marks. The great Irish-born Shakespearean actor Gustavus Vaughan Brooke (1818-1866) was a significant figure on the Australian colonial stage from …
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# 45879
EDEN SOCIETY STUDIOS
Studio portrait of a young woman in Salvation Army uniform. Sydney, late 1890s.
Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 168 x 107 mm (mount); recto with the imprint of ‘Eden Society Studios’; the print is in very good condition; the mount has scattered foxing.
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# 46200
LANG, George Dunmore (et al)
[PRESBYTERIANS IN NEW SOUTH WALES] Prospectus of a weekly paper, to be entitled “The Colonist.”
[Caption title]. Beneath title: “Union is Strength”. Sydney : Printed by F. Mason, [1863]. Broadside (250 x 203 mm), lithograph printed recto only on blue paper; very mild sunning and wear at edges, but a near fine copy. Ferguson, 14446 This obscure prospectus for a Sydney newspaper aimed at the Presbyterian readership in New South Wales …
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# 45901
LEWIN, John William (1770-1819)
A natural history of the birds of New South Wales, collected, engraved and faithfully painted after nature. (The Bradley Martin copy)
By John William Lewin, A.L.S., late of Paramatta, New South Wales. New and improved edition, to which is added a list of the synonymes of each species, incorporating the labours of T. Gould, Esq., N. A. Vigors, Esq., T. Horsfield, M.D., and W. Swainson, Esq. A fine example, in original condition, of one of the …
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# 44524
BURNS, Robert (1759-1796)
The poetical works of Robert Burns. Printed for the booksellers in Australia, 1832.
[Edinburgh?] : s.n., 1832. Small octavo (177 x 110 mm), later black morocco, spine ruled and lettered in gilt; woodcut frontispiece portrait of the poet from Taylor’s Authenticated Picture, title-page with vignette woodcut of Tam O’Shanter and Souter Johnny captioned His ancient trusty drouthy crony, pp. ix, [1 blank], xiv, 284, 23 (glossary); front free-endpaper with original …
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# 44863
PHILLIP, Arthur (1738-1814)
The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay
with an account of the establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson & Norfolk Island; compiled from authentic papers, which have been obtained from the several departments, to which are added, the journals of Lieuts. Shortland, Watts, Ball, & Capt. Marshall; with an account of their new discoveries. London : John Stockdale, 1789. Quarto, full …
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# 45889
CAZNEAUX, Harold Pierce (1878-1953)
Two portraits of photographer and missionary Norman Deck. Sydney, 1905.
Two carbon print photographs, each 145 x 110 mm, on the original textured card mounts, 305 x 190 mm, both signed and inscribed on the mount in pencil by the photographer ‘H. Cazneaux / Portraits’; verso of one mount inscribed in pencil in Deck’s hand ‘Norman Deck 1905. Portrait by H. Cazneaux’; both prints are …
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# 45624
EDEN SOCIETY STUDIOS
Wedding cake. Sydney, 1890s.
Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 167 x 109 mm (mount); recto of mount with the embossed imprint of ‘Eden Society Studios’; the print is in excellent condition; the mount has some minor foxing. A studio “portrait” with an uncommon subject.
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# 45625
ADELAIDE PHOTO. COMPANY (SYDNEY)
Studio portrait of a fashionably dressed young woman. Sydney, c.1895.
Printing-out-paper print photograph, carte de visite format, 92 x 57 mm (no mount); verso wet stamped ‘Adelaide Photo. Company. Corner of Pitt St. and Park St., Sydney. One door from Criterion Theatre.’; in very good condition. Possibly a stage performer from the Criterion Theatre?
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# 45551
DAVIS, John
Portrait of Wellington Ngu (later Second Crown Prince of Tonga) in military uniform, c.1878.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 106 x 64 mm; verso with the back mark of ‘J. DAVIS, PHOTOGRAPHER, 21 Botany Street, near Oxford Street, SYDNEY. View of Friendly and Navigators Islands.’; a superb print with excellent tonal range; [TOGETHER WITH] another carte de visite in identical format (but for some reason without Davis’ …
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# 45560
LAMARTINIERE, Alexandra Henry
Studio portrait of comedian, singer and theatrical entrepreneur Harry Rickards and his first wife, actress Caroline Hayden. Sydney, c.1872.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 102 x 62 mm (mount); verso with imprint of ‘Lamartiniere & Co., late Dalton’s, Photographic Artists. 320 George Street, 6 doors from Hunter St., Sydney’, and wet stamp in purple ink ‘The Rickards Comique Concert Party’; the print has some light mottling in the negative, but is in …
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# 45875
TASMA
Studio portrait of a young man in Salvation Army uniform, posed with his banjo and tuba. Sydney, late 1890s.
Sepia-tone gelatin silver print photograph, cabinet card format, 163 x 106 mm (mount); recto with the imprint of ‘TASMA 176 King Street, Newton, Sydney’; both the print and mount are in excellent condition.
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# 45158
SMITH, C. C. (Colin Charles)
Sir Henry Parkes : greatest Australian statesman, Father of Federation.
Born May 27th, 1815. Died April 27th, 1896. [Drop title]. Sydney : R. Hickson, printer [for C. C. Smith, author], 1934. Duodecimo folding sheet, 86 x 138 mm, pp. 5, portrait of Parkes to front; at foot of p. 4: ‘Copies may be had from Mr. C. C. Smith, 1 Yanko Avenue, Bronte’; very good …
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# 44051
SWAINSON, William (1789-1855)
Mount Keera [sic] from Wollongong Rocks, N. S. Wales. 4 June 1852.
[Title from artist’s caption]. Graphite on paper, 140 x 210 mm, initialed in pencil l.r. ‘W. S.’, with caption in ink beneath ‘Mount Keera [sic] from Wollongong Rocks, N. S. Wales’; dated l.l. in pencil ‘4 June’ and in ink beneath ‘1852’; laid down on card and tipped onto a fully contemporary backing sheet, 275 …
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# 44055
SWAINSON, William (1789-1855)
Nettle Tree, ab[out] 15 f. high. Dapto Bridge, Illawarra, NSW. 29 May 1852.
[Title from artist’s caption]. Graphite on paper, 155 x 120 mm, captioned by the artist in pencil l.r. ‘Nettle Tree, ab[out] 15 f. high. Dapto Bridge’, and with date and general location l.l. ’29 May 1852 / Illawarra, NSW’; laid down on card and tipped onto a fully contemporary backing sheet, 300 x 240 mm; …
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# 44057
SWAINSON, William (1789-1855)
Cabbage tree palms, [American] Creek, Illawarra. [ca. 1852].
[Title from artist’s captions]. Graphite on paper, 180 x 130 mm, initialed in ink l.l. ‘W. S.’, and with the artist’s pencilled captions u.l. and u.r. ‘Cabbage’ [i.e. Cabbage tree palm]; laid down on card with the artist’s additional captions in pencil l.l. ‘Illawarra’ and l.r. ‘American Creek’ (the first word is very faint, but …