New South Wales

  • Portrait of Henry Parkes (Sydney, 1839), published as a carte de visite in Sydney, late 1870s; plus Parkes family portraits and a view of his birthplace.

    # 45159

    GORUS, John [PARKES, Henry, Sir 1815-1896]

    Portrait of Henry Parkes (Sydney, 1839), published as a carte de visite in Sydney, late 1870s; plus Parkes family portraits and a view of his birthplace.

    I. Albumen print photograph of a portrait painting, carte de visite format, 105 x 63 mm (mount); verso imprinted ‘From the Studio of J. T. Gorus, Photographic Artist, 101 King Street, Sydney, New South Wales’; some light surface rubbing, otherwise in very good condition. This portrait of Parkes, “Father of Federation”, was painted in Sydney …

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  • [ASTRONOMY] Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. For the year MDCCCXXIX. Part III. Containing astronomical observations made at the Observatory at Parramatta ; by Charles Rumker, Esq.

    # 42877

    RÜMKER, Charles (1788-1862)

    [ASTRONOMY] Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. For the year MDCCCXXIX. Part III. Containing astronomical observations made at the Observatory at Parramatta ; by Charles Rumker, Esq.

    London : Printed by Richard Taylor, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street, 1829. Quarto (275 x 220 mm), period-style modern binding of half black calf over marbled papered boards, spine lettered in gilt; pp. v, [1 Contents], 152; astronomical tables throughout; a fine copy, with discreet stamps of the Dublin Library Society to a couple of …

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  • The Riverina : people and properties

    # 45754

    RONALD, Robert B.

    The Riverina : people and properties

    Melbourne : Cheshire, 1960. Octavo, gilt-lettered green cloth in very uncommon price clipped illustrated dustjacket (chipped with loss), maps to endpapers (tape marks), pp. [iv]; vi; 183, internally clean. Rare, especially with the dustjacket.

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  • Studio portrait of a young boy holding a cricket bat. Sydney, c.1882.

    # 45622

    RIISFELDT, Emil

    Studio portrait of a young boy holding a cricket bat. Sydney, c.1882.

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 105 x 64 mm (mount); verso with the imprint of ‘Palace Photographic. E. Riisfeldt, Artist Photographer. 488 (late 490) George Street, opposite Central Police Court, Sydney. First Prize, Melbourne International Exhibition’; the print has a bent top corner, but is otherwise in very good condition, as is the …

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  • Five studio portraits of comedian and female impersonator Gilbert Saroney (in and out of character). Sydney, 1880.

    # 45332

    RIISFELDT, Emil

    Five studio portraits of comedian and female impersonator Gilbert Saroney (in and out of character). Sydney, 1880.

    Five albumen print photographs, in uniform carte de visite format, 105 x 64 mm (mounts); verso with the imprint of ‘Palace Photographic. E. Riisfeldt, Artist Photographer. Hordern’s Chambers, 490 George Street, Sydney’; on the verso of one is a fully contemporary inscription in pencil ‘Saroney’; the prints and mounts are all in excellent condition. Provenance: …

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  • Mabel : Australian feminist newspaper. No. 1 December 1975.

    # 45613

    MABEL COLLECTIVE [FIGNER, Vera, ed.]

    Mabel : Australian feminist newspaper. No. 1 December 1975.

    Sydney, N.S.W. : Mabel Collective, 1975. Folio newspaper, 24 pp, illustrated; original central horizontal fold, front page foxed, otherwise very good. Eight issues of Mabel were published between Dec. 1975 and Sept. 1977. A history of the newspaper by Paula J. Byrne, Mabelled, appeared in Hecate, v.22, no.2, 1996, p.87-100.

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  • [MEDICINE] Portrait of Andrew W. Nash. Newcastle, New South Wales, c.1884.

    # 45552

    SLADE, William Joseph

    [MEDICINE] Portrait of Andrew W. Nash. Newcastle, New South Wales, c.1884.

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 105 x 63 mm; verso with the back mark of ‘SLADE (Late Williams), Artist in Photography, Hunter Stree, Newcastle, N.S.W.’, and a signed inscription in pencil by the sitter: ‘A. W. Nash, Australian Club, Edinburgh, Scotland. A.W.N.’; the print has some light rubbing and mottling in the negative; …

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  • Historical records of New South Wales

    # 44735

    BRITTON, A. (editor) et al.

    Historical records of New South Wales

    Mona Vale, N.S.W. : Lansdowne, Slattery and Company, 1978-1980. Facsimile edition of the first edition published between 1892 – 1901. Seven volumes in eight, octavo, cloth in dustjacket (edges lightly rubbed), pagination various, illustrated, together with the facsimile volume of charts, quarto, to accompany Vol. 1, Part 1. A very good set. Complete.

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  • Tracts relative to the Aborigines / published by direction of the Meeting for Sufferings from 1838 to 1842

    # 45110

    SOCIETY OF FRIENDS. LONDON YEARLY MEETING.

    Tracts relative to the Aborigines / published by direction of the Meeting for Sufferings from 1838 to 1842

    London : Edward Marsh, 84 Houndsditch, 1843. Series: Tracts relative to the Aborigines, nos. 1-8. Octavo (210 x 135 mm), original blind-blocked green cloth with gilt-lettered spine (upper board with stain at fore-edge penetrating to pastedown and front endpaper), front free-endpaper with two early North American Society of Friends Meeting inscriptions; pp. i-xii; 1-60 (Information …

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  • [SYDNEY; THEATRE] Minerva Theatre magazine programme. (For "French Without Tears", season commencing 23 May 1940)

    # 45568

    MINERVA THEATRE

    [SYDNEY; THEATRE] Minerva Theatre magazine programme. (For “French Without Tears”, season commencing 23 May 1940)

    Sydney, NSW : Whitmarks Pty. Ltd. [for Minerva Centre Ltd.], 1940. Small quarto (240 x 185 mm), original pictorial wrappers, staple bound; 20 pp, with photographic portraits of actors Aileen Britton, Don Nicol, Lloyd Lamble, Jane Conolly, and Charles Norman, and many fabulous advertisements for Kings Cross and Sydney businesses; a fine copy. Programme for …

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  • Studio portrait of an adolescent girl with bottle curls. Sydney, circa 1870.

    # 45163

    BOAKE, Barcroft Capel (1838-1921)

    Studio portrait of an adolescent girl with bottle curls. Sydney, circa 1870.

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 104 x 64 mm (mount); verso with imprint of ‘B. C. Boake. From Freeman Bros. Photographer. 330 George St. Sydney. (over Mr. Jones, Jeweller &c.)’; a strong print with excellent clarity; the print and mount are both in very good condition. A lovely full-length portrait by Irish-born photographer …

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  • Whaling scene at Twofold Bay, Eden, New South Wales, 1870.

    # 45527

    WALTER, Charles (Carl) (1831-1907)

    Whaling scene at Twofold Bay, Eden, New South Wales, 1870.

    Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each image approximately 82 x 82 mm (square format), signed and numbered by the photographer at lower right of the right-hand image ‘C. Walter 166’; on original black card mount, 87 x 177 mm, verso blank; slight loss of contrast in the upper part of each image, otherwise the prints are …

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  • [NEW SOUTH WALES] Australian aeronautical map: Bourke (Sheet H8)

    # 45484

    RAAF

    [NEW SOUTH WALES] Australian aeronautical map: Bourke (Sheet H8)

    [Canberra?] : RAAF Headquarters, 1945. “Reprinted June 1945, with minor amendments”. “For use in daylight or under red light”. Colour map, 48 x 70 cm. Equatorial scale 1:1,000,000; original folds, very slightly trimmed at right edge, otherwise very good.

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  • Autograph letter in the Tahitian language, written by a chief of Bora Bora to the LMS missionary, Rev. John Muggridge Orsmond. Bora Bora, 1822.

    # 43114

    [ORSMOND, John Muggridge, 1788-1856]

    Autograph letter in the Tahitian language, written by a chief of Bora Bora to the LMS missionary, Rev. John Muggridge Orsmond. Bora Bora, 1822.

    Manuscript in brown ink on laid paper, 3 pp. on quarto bifolium, 175 x 150 mm; letter in the Tahitian language addressed to missionary Rev. John Orsmond at Tahiti, written entirely in the hand of an unidentified chief of Bora Bora, signed ‘Porapora’ at the foot; undated, but probably 1822 (see below); traces of original …

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  • Stephen Eng - Batik Paintings

    # 45354

    ENG, Stephen

    Stephen Eng – Batik Paintings

    Sydney : Sebert Art Galleries, The Argyle Arts Centre, 1971. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, pp. 16, illustrated, catalogue of 62 works priced in Australian dollars. The first Australian exhibition of Sarawak artist Stephen Eng, organised under the patronage of the High Commission of Malaysia. Very scarce.

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  • Panorama of the old world and the new.

    # 44895

    PINNOCK, William

    Panorama of the old world and the new.

    Comprising a view of the present state of the nations of the world, their manners, customs, and peculiarities, and their political, moral, social, and industrial condition. Interspersed with historical sketches and anecdotes by William Pinnock. Enlarged, revised, and embellished with several hundred engravings, from designs of Croome, Devereux, and other distinguished artists. Boston : L. …

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