New South Wales

  • [SNOWY MOUNTAINS] Kosciusko

    # 43561

    NEW SOUTH WALES GOVERNMENT TOURIST BUREAU.

    [SNOWY MOUNTAINS] Kosciusko

    Sydney : NSW Government Tourist Bureau, [ca. 1955].  Single sheet, 205 x 285 mm, folding to 205 x 95 mm; printed on both sides, with [6] b/w photographic illustrations and informative text; very good condition.

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  • Granville Stapylton : Australia Felix 1836 : second in command to Major Mitchell

    # 43721

    ECCLESTON, Gregory C.

    Granville Stapylton : Australia Felix 1836 : second in command to Major Mitchell

    Melbourne : Evandale Publishing, 2018. Oblong quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. xix; 250; 46 pages of plates, a fine, new copy. “Granville Stapylton Australia Felix 1836 Second-in-command to Major Mitchell is based on the true journals of the pioneer land surveyor Granville Stapylton when he accompanied Major Thomas Mitchell on the famous ‘Australia Felix’ expedition …

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  • Robinson's week-end motor map of Sydney and adjoining districts.

    # 43055

    Robinson’s week-end motor map of Sydney and adjoining districts.

    Specially designed for projecting and recording short motor tours. Scale 2 miles to an inch = 1:126720. At head of title: No. 208. At foot of title is the copyright code: 621142. Canberra, ACT : H. E. C. Robinson Ltd., [1926]. Folding map, lithograph printed in colour, on linen backing, 870 x 580 mm, in very …

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  • New South Wales : map, illustrations and descriptive text.

    # 43058

    WALKER, Richard Cornelius Critchett (1841-1903)

    New South Wales : map, illustrations and descriptive text.

    [Cover title]. Sydney : Thomas Richards, Govt. Printer, 1884. Quarto (290 x 240 mm), publisher’s pictorial green cloth over boards with bevelled edges, the upper board with blind-blocked decoration and lettering in gilt and black (scattered light staining), inside upper board with contextual map of the Eastern Hemisphere illustrating shipping routes from London to Sydney, …

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  • Map of the central southern tourist district including Riverina, New South Wales, Australia

    # 43057

    NEW SOUTH WALES. DEPARTMENT OF LANDS.

    Map of the central southern tourist district including Riverina, New South Wales, Australia

    / compiled, drawn and printed at the Department of Lands, Sydney N.S.W. Sydney, NSW : Department of Lands, [1940]. “8th edition”. “40886”. Lithograph map printed in colour, 700 x 660 mm, linen-backed (as issued), folding to 250 x 180 mm; scale: 10 miles to 1 inch; with a decorative title cartouche at upper corner and …

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  • Souvenir of New South Wales.

    # 43045

    Anon

    Souvenir of New South Wales.

    [Cover title]. [Sydney, NSW : s.n., ca. 1880]. Leporello album. Oblong duodecimo (105 x 155 mm), publisher’s blind-blocked tan cloth, the upper board decorated and lettered in gilt; containing a concertina-style foldout with [24] panels of lithographed views after photographs (most, if not all, probably by Charles Bayliss and/or John Paine); the final panel has …

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  • Manuscript commercial letter addressed to John Fairfax & Sons, Sydney, New South Wales, from B. Smith & Son, London, 27 July 1863.

    # 39210

    B. SMITH & SON

    Manuscript commercial letter addressed to John Fairfax & Sons, Sydney, New South Wales, from B. Smith & Son, London, 27 July 1863.

    Manuscript in ink, 2 pp., quarto, on blue laid paper watermarked ‘A. C. & S.’; duplicate commercial letter headed ‘7 Wine Office Court, Fleet Street, London, July 27th 1863’, addressed to the publishing firm of Messrs J. Fairfax & Sons, Sydney; written and signed by Henry Durrant on behalf of B. Smith & Son, ink …

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  • The Falcon : magazine of the North Sydney Boys' High School. Vol. 4, no. 2. June, 1918.

    # 43225

    TEBBUTT, R. E. & HILL, L. G. (eds.)

    The Falcon : magazine of the North Sydney Boys’ High School. Vol. 4, no. 2. June, 1918.

    Crows Nest, NSW : Charles Dunn, printer (for NSBHS), 1918. Octavo, decorative wrappers in the school colours, lower wrapper with advertisement for Miller Street furnishing firm Gourlay Bros. (light crease to lower wrapper and last couple of leaves); pp. 36, photographically illustrated; includes staff list, editorial, obituaries, class reports, student poetry and articles, debating and …

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  • [SYDNEY] Camp in Middle Harbour.

    # 42979

    Photographer unknown.

    [SYDNEY] Camp in Middle Harbour.

    [Title from inscription]. Albumen print photograph, 105 x 190 mm; inscribed in pencil verso in a fully contemporary hand ‘Camp in Middle Harbour’; in very good condition; unmounted. A charming 1890s outdoor portrait by an unidentified photographer – possibly an amateur – of a group of Sydneysiders enjoying recreation time on the Middle Harbour foreshore. …

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  • Studio portrait of a gentleman with a long white beard, wearing a light-coloured hat. Sydney, late 1870s.

    # 42873

    GORUS, John T.

    Studio portrait of a gentleman with a long white beard, wearing a light-coloured hat. Sydney, late 1870s.

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 103 x 64 mm (mount), recto of mount imprinted J. T. Gorus Sydney; verso imprinted From the Studio of J. T. Gorus, Photographic Artist, 101 King Street, Sydney, New South Wales; both the print and mount are in excellent condition.

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  • Studio portrait of a teenage boy. Sydney, circa 1880.

    # 42874

    NEWMAN, J. (John) Hubert (1830-1916)

    Studio portrait of a teenage boy. Sydney, circa 1880.

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 102 x 62 mm (mount), verso with imprint of J. Hubert Newman, Photographer, Oil and Crayon Painter etc., No. 12 Oxford Street, Hyde Park, Sydney, N.S.W.; both the print and mount are in excellent condition. A superb head-and-shoulders portrait of a scholarly looking adolescent, no doubt a scion of …

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  • Un compagnon suédois du capitaine James Cook au cours de son deuxième voyage. (Presentation copy for Francis Edwards)

    # 41551

    SPARRMAN, Anders (1748-1820)

    Un compagnon suédois du capitaine James Cook au cours de son deuxième voyage. (Presentation copy for Francis Edwards)

    Oslo : La Coquille qui Chante, 1939. Edition limited to 100 numbered copies. (This copy is no. 29). Presentation copy, inscribed on the title-page by the work’s translator for London bookseller Francis Edwards: ‘Francis Edwards, with the compliments of Bjarne Kroepelien’. Octavo (225 x 150 mm), white pigskin over papered boards, spine with raised bands …

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  • Studio portrait of poet Henry Kendall. Sydney, circa 1880.

    # 42852

    NEWMAN, J. (John) Hubert (1830-1916)

    Studio portrait of poet Henry Kendall. Sydney, circa 1880.

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 102 x 62 mm (mount), verso with imprint of J. Hubert Newman, Photographer, Oil and Crayon Painter etc., No. 12 Oxford Street, Hyde Park, Sydney, N.S.W.; the print has some light rubbing and a few tiny ink spots, but is otherwise in very good condition, as is the mount. …

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  • [OPERA] Photographic portraits of Henry Squires and Lucy Escott, Sydney, early 1860s

    # 16383

    DALTON, Edward

    [OPERA] Photographic portraits of Henry Squires and Lucy Escott, Sydney, early 1860s

    Two albumen print photographs, carte de visite format, 101 x 64 mm (mounts), 90 x 57 mm (images), versos with imprint of Dalton’s Royal Photographic Gallery, Sydney; the albumen prints with some tiny ink spots, otherwise both cartes are in very good condition. The American opera singers Henry Squires (1825-1907) and Lucy Escott (1827-1895) arrived …

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  • Pen and ink : an anthology of prose and verse written by various members of the Frensham Pen and Ink Club. (With an original signed photograph by Harold Cazneaux)

    # 42867

    [DOBSON, Rosemary, KEESING, Nancy, et al.]

    Pen and ink : an anthology of prose and verse written by various members of the Frensham Pen and Ink Club. (With an original signed photograph by Harold Cazneaux)

    / chosen by E.L.T., R.D., J.P. ; the lino-cuts and the cover are designed by members of the Art Club. [Mittagong, N.S.W.] : Frensham Press, 1940. Octavo (190 x 130 mm), original mauve card covers with French flaps and linocut design to front (sunned at edges and along spine), inside front cover with limitation statement …

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  • Notice of protest form lodged on behalf of Joseph James against Garnham Blaxcell for a dishonoured promissory note; signed by Ellis Bent, Judge Advocate. Sydney, 1813.

    # 41913

    [HOWE, George 1769-1821, printer]; [BLAXCELL, Garnham 1778-1817]; [JAMES, Joseph]; BENT, Ellis 1783-1815; FOSTER, James

    Notice of protest form lodged on behalf of Joseph James against Garnham Blaxcell for a dishonoured promissory note; signed by Ellis Bent, Judge Advocate. Sydney, 1813.

    [Sydney, NSW : 16 August, 1813]. Small folio bifolium (250 x 200 mm), laid paper watermarked W. SHARP 1810; the first side contains a pro forma legal document printed in letterpress by George Howe, with manuscript entries in a clerical hand recording Judge Advocate of New South Wales Ellis Bent’s protest on behalf of Captain Joseph …

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