New South Wales
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# 39209
PEGGOTT, William
Manuscript letter addressed to Rev. Benjamin Hurst, Wesleyan minister at Goulburn, New South Wales, from fellow Wesleyan William Peggott, Leicestershire, dated 2 June 1855.
Benjamin Hurst (1811-1857), in company with Francis Tuckfield, was sent from England to work as a Wesleyan missionary among the Port Phillip Aborigines in 1838. In 1839-40 he was at the Buntingdale Mission Station in the Geelong-Colac area. He next worked at the Wesleyan Chapel in Collins Street, Melbourne before being posted to Sydney in August …
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# 32963
BOWDEN & THRELKELD; [CALDWELL, John, 1817-1884)
Bill of purchase for the Wesleyan City Mission Chapel building, Sussex Street, Sydney, 7 April 1859.
Foolscap folio bifolium (330 mm), with the printed letterhead ‘City Mart, 362, George Street, Sydney. By Bowden and Threlkeld, at auction.’; the first side with entries in manuscript, dated 7 April 1859, recording the sale ‘on account of Messrs. Spier, Callaghan and others’ of ‘A Building in Sussex St. used as a Chapel, purchased by …
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# 42450
BROUGHTON, William Robert (1762-1821)
A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean … Performed in His Majesty’s Sloop Providence and her Tender, in the years 1795, 1796, 1797, 1798.
London : T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1804. Quarto, full contemporary calf, spine renewed in period style; pp. xx, 393, [1], [2 publisher’s advertisements]; with three charts and six plates and views (most folding); a fine wide-margined copy, with fresh plates and maps. Broughton’s A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean is an acknowledged …
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# 32074
WEYGAND, F. J.
Globe artificiel et mécanique a l’usage du petit géographe.
Amsterdam ; La Haye [Netherlands] : F. J. Weygand, [ca.1840]. Collapsible globe in 6 gores, engraved with hand colouring, laid down on thin card, each gore 170 x 70 mm (irregular); in fine condition with vivid original colour, Australia with Terre de Witt, Terre d’Eendracht, Cape Leeuwin, Terre de Nuyts, Golfe de Spencer, Terre de Van …
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# 41909
Photographer unknown.
The Devil’s Hands, Nowra (New South Wales).
Sepia-tone gelatin silver print photograph, printed on postcard stock, 137 x 86 mm; manuscript caption in image lower left ‘The Devil’s Hands, Nowra’; mailed from Nowra to Parramatta on 10 April 1909 by a Shoalhaven tourist who writes: ‘Good walk across scenery worth seeing’; in excellent condition. Rare early photograph of a painted rock shelter at …
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# 41576
BOAKE, Barcroft Capel
Studio portrait of a young man holding a book. Sydney, circa 1867.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format; verso with imprint of ‘B. C. Boake. / From Freeman Bros. / Photographer. / 330 George St., Sydney / (over Mr. Jones, Jeweller &c.); the print and mount are both in good condition.
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# 41553
TUTTLE & CO.
Photographic portrait of Australian professional rower William “Bill” Beach, unbeaten as World Sculling Champion 1884-87. Sydney, circa 1884.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 103 x 63 mm (mount); recto of mount with imprint of ‘Tuttle & Co., Corner of George & Market Sts., Sydney’; verso with advertisement for the New York Tailoring Company, 667 George Street, Haymarket; print with pale foxing, mount a little darkened from handling otherwise very good. William Beach …
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![[TRANSPORTATION] Court examen de l'etat politique de la Grande-Bretagne au commencement de l'année 1787;](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2023/11/2023_DSFB_7185-300x300.jpg)
# 42007
[WRAXALL, Nathaniel William, Sir, 1751-1831] and [FOX, Charles James, 1749-1806]
[TRANSPORTATION] Court examen de l’etat politique de la Grande-Bretagne au commencement de l’année 1787;
Traduit de l’anglais, de M. P., sur la septieme Édition. Par M. L. D. Paris : chez Hardouin & Gattey, 1787. Octavo (185 x 120 mm), disbound; pp. iv. [5]-76; a crisp, clean example. French translation of the seventh edition of a work attributed to Tory politician Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall, 1st Baronet (1751-1831), A short …
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# 41989
TERRY, Frederick Charles, (1825 - 1869)
View of East Maitland
Steel engraving, vignette approximately 110 x 150 mm, on sheet 205 x 275 mm, uncoloured as issued, a couple of small spots of foxing. Published in the volume Landscape scenery : illustrating Sydney, and Port Jackson, New South Wales, Sydney : Sands & Kenny ; London : Sands & Son, 1855. (Ferguson 15440a).
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# 40123
BROWN, Joseph Lyne
Studio portrait of a lady in a fine taffeta dress. Singleton, Hunter Valley, New South Wales, circa 1862.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 103 x 61 mm (mount); verso imprinted ‘Lyne Brown, Artist Photographer, Singleton’; a lovely crisp print with good tonal range, in fine condition; the mount has a bumped bottom corner but is otherwise clean and unmarked. A rare example of a carte de visite portrait with Lyne Brown’s …
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# 40401
THURSTON, Horatio (1838-1881)
Gentleman seated at a table, holding a photograph album. Mudgee, New South Wales, 1867-68.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 101 x 63 mm (mount), verso with wet stamp of ‘H. Thurston, Photographic Artist & Stationer, Mudgee’; both the print and mount are in excellent condition. An extremely rare example of a carte de visite studio portrait from Horatio Thurston’s brief career as a professional photographer in Mudgee, …
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# 41575
BOAKE, Barcroft Capel
Studio portrait of a young woman with bottle curls. Sydney, circa 1867.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format; verso with imprint of ‘B. C. Boake. / From Freeman Bros. / Photographer. / 330 George St., Sydney / (over Mr. Jones, Jeweller &c.); the print has lovely dark tones and is in good condition; the mount has some light handling marks and mild foxing.
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# 40984
Photographer unknown.
Mr. J. Harding, “Tabrabucca”, Ilford, south of Cudgegong, New South Wales, circa 1885.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 103 x 63 mm (mount); verso with inscription in ink, evidently by an artist whom the sitter had commissioned to paint his portrait: ‘Mr. J. Harding, Tabrabucca, Ilford. / Hair Dk brown / Eyes Grey Hue / Comp Med. dk. / Dress / Suitable / (Do from this …
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![[GOLD RUSH] Australien och dess guldregioner : tillförlitliga underrättelser för utwandrare till Australien, i synnerhet med afseende på öfwerfart, ankomst, bosättning och guld-gräfning.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2016/11/19085414/2012_DSFB_4875-186x300.jpg)
# 41531
KANN, Charles Albert (1813-1866)
[GOLD RUSH] Australien och dess guldregioner : tillförlitliga underrättelser för utwandrare till Australien, i synnerhet med afseende på öfwerfart, ankomst, bosättning och guld-gräfning.
Götheborg [Sweden] : C.F. Arwidsson, [1853]. First edition. Octavo, publisher’s contemporary buff boards (lightly marked) with blue cloth spine, contemporary ownership inscription dated 1853 to front pastedown, [2], v, [1], 104 pp. Text in Swedish. Ferguson, 11049a. The first Scandinavian gold digger’s guidebook. A guide book for prospective Swedish travellers to the Victorian and New …
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# 41371
WHITE, John (1756-1832)
John Whites resa till Nya Holland, åren 1787 och 1788.
I sammandrag af Samuel Ödmann. Upsala [i.e. Uppsala] : J. Edmans Enka, 1793. Octavo, contemporary half-calf over papered boards (rubbed), spine with gilt-ruled raised bands and contrasting title-piece lettered in gilt (the leather a little dry and worn); pp. XII, 147, [1], illustrated with 4 engraved plates; front pastedown with early ownership inscription in pencil, front …
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![[TRANSPORTATION] Adventures of a Guardsman.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2023/04/2023_DSFB_2059-300x300.jpg)
# 39538
COZENS, Charles
[TRANSPORTATION] Adventures of a Guardsman.
London : Richard Bentley, 1848. First edition. Duodecimo (170 x 110 mm), contemporary half red calf over cloth, spine in compartments with gilt decoration and contrasting leather title piece lettered in gilt; top edge gilt, original marbled endpapers, pp. viii, 272; occasional light foxing, several leaves with browning, else internally excellent; ex St. John’s College Library, …