New South Wales

# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 44840

COLES, John (1832-1910)

[CARTOGRAPHY] John Coles, Royal Geographical Society map curator : signed letter to A. C. Macdonald of the Geographical Society of Australasia, re. the gift of a large map of New South Wales. April, 1885.

Manuscript in ink, 1 page, small quarto (230 x 180 mm), on the letterhead of the RGS, London; dated 11 April 1885, the letter is addressed to ‘A. C. Macdonald Esq., Melbourne’; written in a secretarial hand, but with the autograph signature at the foot of ‘John Coles, Map Curator, RGS’; some off-setting and light …

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# 45076

DU RIETZ, Rolf

[ULIMAROA] Daniel Djurbergs namn på Australien.

/ av Rolf Du Rietz. Stockholm : Bortzells, 1961. “Särtryck ur Ymer 1961, h. 2.” [=Reprinted from: Ymer, vol.2 (1961)]. Octavo (230 x 150 mm), printed wrappers (a little sunned), the upper wrapper with a presentation inscription by Du Rietz for Swedish academic and collector Teddy Brunius; pp. 81-100; text in Swedish, with a summary …

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# 45179

JOPPIEN, Rüdiger and SMITH, Bernard

The art of Captain Cook’s voyages (four volume set)

Volume one : The voyage of the Endeavour 1768 – 1771. With a descriptive catalogue of all the known drawings of peoples, places, artefacts and events and the original engravings associated with them. Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1985 (reprint). Folio, cloth in dust jacket, pp. xv; 247, illustrated. Volume two : The voyage of …

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# 45103

DU RIETZ, Rolf

William Bligh

/ av Rolf Du Rietz. Åbo : Åbo Tidnings och Tryckeri, [1955?]. “Särtryck ur Finsk Tidskrift, H. 6, 1955” [=Reprinted from: Finsk Tidskrift, vol. 6 (1955)]. Octavo (210 x 145 mm), stapled wrappers, pp. 298-303; text in Swedish; at foot of text is written in blue pen (in the hand of Rolf Du Rietz) ‘Uppsala 1954’; …

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# 43901

HETZER, William

Studio portrait of William Huon, pioneer squatter in the Riverina district. Sydney, March 1866.

Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 104 x 62 mm (mount); verso with imprint of ‘W. Hetzer’s Photographic Gallery, 287, George Street, Sydney, N.S.W.’, and a fully contemporary inscription in ink, identifying the sitter: ‘W. Huon Esq., Wodonga, March 1866’; both the print and mount are in fine condition. William Huon (Campbelltown 1825 – …

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# 44821

MAGUIRE, H. J.

Studio portrait of a professional reciter and his prompter. Sydney, circa 1885.

Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 162 x 108 mm (mount); recto of mount imprinted ‘Maguire / Photographer, 195 George Street, Sydney’; verso blank; both the print and mount are in excellent condition. Although these two gentlemen are unidentified, there can be no doubt as to their professional roles. Public reciting was something of a …

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# 44843

ROSS & CO.'s ROYAL STUDIO OF ARTS

Tinted studio portrait of a young woman holding a flower. Deniliquin, New South Wales Riverina, circa 1877.

Albumen print photograph with hand colouring, carte de visite format, 100 x 63 mm (mount); verso imprinted ‘Ross & Co.’s Royal Studio of Arts, Cressy Street, Deniliquin’, surmounted by the British coat if arms; the print has a couple of tiny marks, but is otherwise in very good condition; the mount is clean. The following …

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# 44621

BLACKWOOD (Olaf) William (1824-1897)

View from the top of Government House looking towards Campbell’s Wharf on the west side of Circular Quay, Sydney, 1858.

Large format albumen print, 190 x 270 mm, in a specially prepared mount with a translucent backing sheet and cedar frame designed for viewing in a Polyrama Panoptique (see below); the cedar frame bears an early inscription in ink: ‘Campbell’s Wharf’; the print is a little faded and has scattered foxing and a few small …

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# 44478

FISON, Lorimer; HOWITT, A. W. (Alfred William)

Kamilaroi and Kurnai (Presentation copy from the authors)

: group-marriage and relationship, and marriage by elopement : drawn chiefly from the usage of the Australian aborigines : also the Kurnai tribe, their customs in peace and war. Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Brisbane : George Robertson, 1880. First edition. Octavo (225 x 150 mm), original blind-blocked brown cloth (bright and unrubbed), spine lettered in gilt; presentation …

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# 44728

GORTON, L. V.

A history of Woodville district

Woodville, N.S.W. : L. V. Gorton, 1959 (second edition, January 1987). Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 38, illustrated. Scarce local history. ‘Dunmore House, the Woodville shop/general store is Australia’s oldest continually running business still carrying on the same services it was licensed for in 1844’. – Wikipedia.

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# 44740

RIVIERE, Marc Serge

The Governors Noble Guest : Hyacinthe De Bougainville’s account of Port Jackson, 1825

Melbourne : Miegunyah Press, 1999. Octavo, boards in dustjacket, light shelf ware, pp. xxviii; 292, a very good copy.

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