New South Wales

  • Squire Morgan, Sydney printmaker, painter and photographer: a small archive of ephemera, including proof etchings, printing blocks, original photographs, and books from his studio.

    # 42660

    [MORGAN, James Squire Woodward, 1886-1974)

    Squire Morgan, Sydney printmaker, painter and photographer: a small archive of ephemera, including proof etchings, printing blocks, original photographs, and books from his studio.

    Group of approximately 85 gelatin silver print photographs, 1940s-1960s; various dimensions up to 250 x 300 mm; mainly comprising Squire Morgan’s photographic reproductions of his own artworks, some mounted on card by the artist (frequent duplication), but also including outdoor scenes later used in artworks, and a significant portrait study of the artist at work …

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  • Elderly gentleman standing beside a high-backed chair. Mudgee, New South Wales, circa 1870.

    # 43729

    GOODES, Henry R.

    Elderly gentleman standing beside a high-backed chair. Mudgee, New South Wales, circa 1870.

    Albumen print photograph with subtle hand tinting, carte de visite format, 104 x 64 mm (mount); recto imprinted ‘H. Goodes Photo., Mudgee’; verso blank; print and mount are both in very good condition. The unidentified sitter is likely to have been one of the first white settlers in the Mudgee district. From an album belonging …

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  • Endeavour voyage : the untold stories of Cook and the first Australians

    # 42547

    COATES, Ian (editor)

    Endeavour voyage : the untold stories of Cook and the first Australians

    Canberra, ACT : National Museum Of Australia, 2020. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 200, illustrated. ‘The Story of Cook and 1770 marks the first moment of British contact with the east coast of the continent we now know as Australia. It is one of our nation’s origin stories, although remembered very differently by Anglo-Australians and by …

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  • Sydney Art School Magazine. The Art Student. Volume One, Number One (with a related signed letter to the Editor by Sydney Ure Smith)

    # 43532

    CUNNINGHAM, W. (editor)

    Sydney Art School Magazine. The Art Student. Volume One, Number One (with a related signed letter to the Editor by Sydney Ure Smith)

    Sydney : Sydney Art School, 1930. Large octavo, red wrappers with printed title label, pp. [32], illustrated with a reproduction of a George Lambert drawing of Julian Ashton, and with an original linocut titled Mother by Joshua Smith, occasional foxing, articles and verse. Printed in an edition of 200 copies. Loosely enclosed, a signed typed letter …

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  • [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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  • 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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  • 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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