New South Wales

# 44737

MUDIE, James

The Felonry of New South Wales. Being a faithful picture of the real romance of life in Botany Bay with anecdotes of Botany Bay Society and a plan of Sydney.

Edited by Walter Stone. Melbourne; Lansdowne Press; 1965. Octavo. boards in dustjacket, pp. xiv; 215, a very good copy. Re-issue of the original edition of 1837 with annotations and additional contributions by the Editor.

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# 41714

ERSKINE, Captain John Elphinstone, R.N.

A short account of the late discoveries of Gold in Australia;

With notes of a visit to the Gold District. London; T. & W. Boone; 1851. First Edition. Octavo, contemporary calf-backed cloth boards, armorially stamped; pp. [ii], 102 (last blank); folding map (partially hand-coloured, a little toned) showing the location of the goldfields; (first four leaves slightly foxed; otherwise fine and clean); top edge gilt, others …

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# 44417

PICKERING, Charles Percy (1825-1908)

Argyle Cut, The Rocks, Sydney, circa 1872.

Large format albumen print photograph, 230 x 280 mm; captioned in negative l.r. ‘Argyle Cut’; a beautifully crisp print in fine condition, unmounted. From the DAAO: ‘Under the direction of Colonial Architect James Barnet, Pickering was commissioned by the New South Wales government in January 1871 to prepare “a number of photographic views of Sydney …

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# 44463

MATHEWS, R. H. (Robert Hamilton) (1841-1918)

Languages of the Kamilaroi and other Aboriginal tribes of New South Wales.

London : Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 1903. “Reprinted from the Journal of the Anthropological Institute, Vol. XXXIII, July-December 1903”. Quarto (270 x 180 mm), publisher’s printed green wrappers (edges sunned, original owner’s name to front and first page of text), pp. 259-283; an excellent copy, bound in later limp morocco with silver …

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# 44499

BARTHOLOMEW, J[ohn], W. HUGHES, and Sidney HALL (engravers)

Atlas of Australia with all the Gold Regions

A series of maps from the latest and best authorities. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, c. 1853. Quarto, later gilt-lettered cloth, containing six hand-coloured engraved maps (five double page, and one folding) of the gold regions of Australia, a few pale stains, short tape repair to the margin of the first map, and a …

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# 42906

ZUCCHINI, Andrea (1745 - 1810)

Sulla coltura e usi dell’acacia, o robinia, Robinia Pseudo-Acacia…

Florence : Gaetano Cambiagi de l’imprimerie grand-ducale, 1800. Octavo, marbled paper wrappers, folding copperplate engraving, pp. 25, inscription to title page No. XII indicating it was extracted from a sammelband, a crisp and fine copy. First and only edition of this treatise on the Robinia pseudoacacia, a poisonous tree native to the Appalachian region of the …

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# 44418

BAYLISS, Charles

Ships from the “Sydney Wool Fleet” at anchor in Darling Harbour. 15 September 1891.

Large format albumen print photograph, 210 x 290 mm; captioned in manuscript in the negative across the lower edge: ‘Sept. 15th 1891. Wilcannia / Rodney / Illawarra / Hubbock / Woolloomooloo / Tartar’, and with the photographer’s name ‘C. Bayliss Photo.’ at lower right; in good condition, laid down on the original card mount removed …

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# 44398

[THE BUSH BOOK CLUB]

[SYDNEY] Dame Margaret Davidson, President of the Bush Book Club, and the Committee, invite you to … the Thirteenth Annual Meeting to be held at Government House, Sydney on Thursday 3rd May 1923, at 3.30 pm.

R.S.V.P. to The Secretary, The Bush Book Club, 161 Castlereagh St., Sydney. Sydney, NSW : The Bush Book Club, 1923. Invitation card, 105 x 125 mm, printed recto only; very good condition; verso blank. The Bush Book Club was established in Sydney in 1909, and continued as an entity up into the 1950s. It was a …

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# 43738

OSBORNE, G. A. (George Alexander)

[SHEET MUSIC] La pluie de perles : valse brillante

Sydney : Published by H. Marsh & Co., 490/2 & 484 George Street, 1853. Folio (340 x 260 mm), front wrapper with lithographed lettering in decorative fonts, with the ownership inscription of J. B. Steel (1853) struck out and inscribed below by the music’s second owner ‘E. J. M. Stewart, Bathurst, 1854’; fully contemporary linen …

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# 44370

ALLEN, Walter (words); MACKENZIE, Harry (music)

[SHEET MUSIC; GLEBE, SYDNEY] Such is life

Words by Walter Allen. Music by Harry Mackenzie. Cover: Written by Walter Allen Esqr., composed by Harry Mackenzie. Sydney : J. Reading & Co., Music-sellers & Publishers, 356 George Street, [ ]. Folio (335 x 250 mm), upper wrapper lettered in decorative fonts (faint early music seller’s stamp to upper margin); [6] pp. of music …

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# 44245

[KING, Philip Gidley].

New South Wales General Standing Orders :

selected from the general orders issued by former governors, from the 16th of February, 1791 to the 6th of September, 1800 : also, General orders issued by Governor King from the 28th of September, 1800 to the 30th of September, 1802. Melbourne, Black Rock: History Books Australia, 1983. Octavo, cloth over marbled boards, matching slipcase, …

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# 44394

ANGLICAN DIOCESE OF SYDNEY. HOME MISSION SOCIETY

[SYDNEY] Ladies’ Auxiliary to Home Mission. Mrs Palmer requests the pleasure of Mrs Weston and friends’ company on Tuesday, August 18th at 3 o’clock, in Pitt Street School Hall.

Mr. T. Harper, Home Mission Evangelist, will give a short address. Music, recitations, etc. Sydney, NSW : Ladies’ Auxiliary to Home Mission, [probably 1903 or 1908]. Invitation card, 88 x 114 mm, printed recto only, with name of invitee in manuscript; some old water staining (no loss of text); verso blank. ‘The Home Mission Society …

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# 44399

[CROWN STREET WOMEN'S HOSPITAL]

[SYDNEY] Lady de Chair requests the pleasure of the company of Mrs A. Weston at a Meeting at Government House, on 11th March at 11 am, to form a Committee to organise a Ball at “The Wentworth,” for the Babies in the Women’s Hospital, Crown Street.

R.S.V.P. to the A.D.C. in waiting, Government House. Sydney, NSW : Government House, [1924]. Invitation card, 160 x 100 mm, printed recto only, with name of invitee in manuscript; old water staining (no loss of text); verso blank. ‘Crown Street Women’s Hospital was established in Hay Street in 1893 and moved to Surry Hills in 1897. …

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# 44396

[ST. JOSEPH'S HOSPITAL, AUBURN]

[SYDNEY] The Lady Mayoress of Sydney (Mrs W. H. Lambert) requests the pleasure of Mrs A. Weston’s Company at A Gift Afternoon in her Rooms at the Town Hall on Thursday the 2nd June …

from 3.30 pm to 5 pm. Gifts of linen or money will be thankfully received for the assistance of the St. Joseph’s Hospital, Auburn. Sydney, NSW : Mrs. W. H. Lambert, Lady Mayoress, [1921]. Invitation card, 105 x 130 mm, printed recto only, with name of invitee in manuscript; mild toning; verso blank. ‘The story of …

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# 44335

DAVIES, Alan (curator)

[HOLTERMANN COLLECTION; GOLD RUSH] The Greatest Wonder of the World

Sydney : SLNSW, 2013. Quarto (295 x 210 mm), wrappers lettered in gold, pp. 32, b/w photographic illustrations throughout; an as new copy. Catalogue to accompany an exhibition at the State Library of New South Wales, 23 February to 12 May 2013, curated by Alan Davies, which presented photographs from the historically important Holtermann Collection. …

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# 44292

SMITH, L. Richard

The Sydney Cove Medallion

Sydney : The Wedgwood Press, 1987. Third edition. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, pp. 36, illustrated. Includes printed updates dated July 1999 and June 2005, listing the locations of all eleven examples of the Sydney Cove Medallion located at the time.

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