New South Wales

  • The artist and the patron : aspects of colonial art in New South Wales

    # 46423

    McDONALD, Patricia R.; PEARCE, Barry

    The artist and the patron : aspects of colonial art in New South Wales

    Sydney : Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1988. Quarto, pictorial wrappers (light handling creases), 187 pp, colour and black and white illustrations, a very good copy. From the library of renowned art historian Ann Galbally, signed by her on the half title.

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  • Mr J W Lewin : painter & naturalist

    # 46295

    NEVILLE, Richard

    Mr J W Lewin : painter & naturalist

    Sydney : NewSouth Publishing, 2012. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (light handling wear, spine sunned), pp. 272, illustrated; internally very clean, a good copy. Author, illustrator, printmaker and natural historian, John William Lewin created the first illustrated book ever published in Australia – Birds of New South Wales, in 1813. Featuring more than 150 exquisite artworks, Mr …

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  • [TICHBORNE CASE] "Twenty Years After," Roger Tichborne was lost A.D. 1854, the Claimant was lost A.D. 1874.

    # 45880

    MENDELSSOHN, Albert

    [TICHBORNE CASE] “Twenty Years After,” Roger Tichborne was lost A.D. 1854, the Claimant was lost A.D. 1874.

    [Title from artist’s caption]. London : Albert Mendelssohn, [1874]. Albumen print photograph of a satirical cartoon (artist’s monogram W.R. in the image), carte de visite format, 103 x 63 mm (mount), recto with the artist’s printed caption to lower margin; verso with wet stamp of ‘Albert Mendelssohn, Publisher, London’; in fine condition. The case of the …

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  • Campagne de l'Uranie (1817-1820) : journal de Madame Rose de Saulces de Freycinet, d'après le manuscrit original

    # 45873

    FREYCINET, Rose Marie Pinon de (1794-1832)

    Campagne de l’Uranie (1817-1820) : journal de Madame Rose de Saulces de Freycinet, d’après le manuscrit original

    / accompagné de notes par Charles Duplomb. Paris : Societé d’Éditions Géographiques, Maritimes et Coloniales, 1927. First edition. Large quarto (285 x 230 mm), publisher’s printed wrappers with French flaps (sunned, spine with water staining and small paper loss at ends), pp. [2 blank], xiii, [1 blank], 190, [2], with 25 plates (13 in colour, …

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  • Letter from an aristocratic Scottish squatter to his father, written on "Bendinine", near Yass, New South Wales, December 1843.

    # 45908

    MACPHERSON GRANT, James (1811-1847)

    Letter from an aristocratic Scottish squatter to his father, written on “Bendinine”, near Yass, New South Wales, December 1843.

    Manuscript in ink, 2 pp, quarto (lacking the first sheet), signed at the foot ‘Your affectionate son, J. Macpherson Grant’; outer wrapper addressed to Sir George Macpherson Grant, Baronet, Edinburgh (but redirected to Ballindalloch), with framed ‘YASS / POST PAID’ in red, and oval ‘PAID SHIP LETTER / SYDNEY’ dated ‘DE 23 1843’ in red; …

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  • [FIRST SYDNEY MARDI GRAS]. Gay Community News. Vol. 6, No. 2, July 29 1978.

    # 45984

    BURNS, Richard; ROFES, Eric and MARKO, Jim (editors)

    [FIRST SYDNEY MARDI GRAS]. Gay Community News. Vol. 6, No. 2, July 29 1978.

    Boston : Gay Community News, 1978. Tabloid newspaper, folded as issued, pp. 16, illustrated. The Gay Community News (1973 – 1999) was Boston’s leading queer newspaper, focussed on political rather than social affairs. The lead article (with a photograph of NSW Premier Neville Wran), titled ’53 arrested, scores injured in Sydney. Violence, arrests mar celebration in Australia’ …

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  • Photographic portrait of the tragic actor G. V. Brooke. Melbourne, 1866.

    # 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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  • Studio portrait of a young woman in Salvation Army uniform. Sydney, late 1890s.

    # 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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  • [PRESBYTERIANS IN NEW SOUTH WALES] Prospectus of a weekly paper, to be entitled "The Colonist."

    # 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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  • A natural history of the birds of New South Wales, collected, engraved and faithfully painted after nature. (The Bradley Martin copy)

    # 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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  • The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay

    # 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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  • Two portraits of photographer and missionary Norman Deck. Sydney, 1905.

    # 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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  • Wedding cake. Sydney, 1890s.

    # 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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  • Studio portrait of a fashionably dressed young woman. Sydney, c.1895.

    # 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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  • Portrait of Wellington Ngu (later Second Crown Prince of Tonga) in military uniform, c.1878.

    # 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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  • Studio portrait of comedian, singer and theatrical entrepreneur Harry Rickards and his first wife, actress Caroline Hayden. Sydney, c.1872.

    # 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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