Queensland
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![[IMMIGRATION] Queensland Crown Lands.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2016/11/16163023/2014_DSFB_6380-228x300.jpg)
# 47211
QUEENSLAND. AGENT-GENERAL.
[IMMIGRATION] Queensland Crown Lands.
London : Agent-General for Queensland, [c.1900]. Quarto (250 x 190 mm), bifolium, [4] pp; a very good copy. An official information brochure designed to encourage emigration from the United Kingdom to Queensland. The back page advertises the various free and assisted passage schemes available at the time, as well as boldly stating the claim that …
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# 46922
DUESBURY, Samuel
Studio portrait of Turrbal or Jagera men and women. Brisbane, c.1870.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 104 x 61 mm (mount); verso with wet stamp of ‘S. Duesbury, Photographer, Brisbane’; some very pale foxing to the print and the mount. Staffordshire-born photographer Samuel Duesbury was active in Brisbane from 1868. Along with Thomas Bevan, Daniel Marquis, and John Watson, he was one of the four …
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![[PILBARA; MORNINGTON ISLAND; BATHURST & MELVILLE ISLANDS] Papers in Australian Linguistics no. 2.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2025/04/2025_DSFB_2145-300x300.jpg)
# 47025
WURM, S. A. (ed.); BRANDENSTEIN, C. G. von; CAPELL, Arthur; HALE, K.
[PILBARA; MORNINGTON ISLAND; BATHURST & MELVILLE ISLANDS] Papers in Australian Linguistics no. 2.
Canberra : ANU, 1967. Series: Pacific Linguistics. Series A – Occasional Papers, no. 11. Quarto (255 x 205 mm), publisher’s cloth-backed printed wrappers, pp. iii, 73, [3 publisher’s ads.]; includes maps, tables and diagrams; a very good copy. Contains the following papers: C. G. von Brandenstein. The language situation in the Pilbara, past and present. …
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# 46812
METHODIST MISSIONARY SOCIETY OF AUSTRALASIA
Methodist Home Missions Systematic Giving Envelope.
[Melbourne : Methodist Home Mission Society, between 1920 and 1930]. Stiff envelope, 112 x 150 mm, recto with map of Australia showing areas where the Home Missions are active (in Western Australia, the Northern Territory, and western and northern Queensland), and slogans including ‘This Society seeks the Salvation of men, women and children irrespective of …
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# 30697
FLINDERS, Matthew (1774-1814)
Observations upon the marine barometer, made during the examination of the coasts of New Holland and New South Wales, in the years 1801, 1802, and 1803.
Contained within: Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London for the year MDCCVI. Part II. London : printed by W. Bulmer, 1806. Quarto, original plain blue wrappers, pp. iv; 239 – 473; [8]; 12 engraved plates (some folding), the plates foxed but the text clean, all edges uncut and a little dusty, a fine …
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# 47064
ADAMS, Jeanie
Made with meaning. Crafts of Aboriginal far North Queensland : the Yalga-Binbi collection.
Cairns, Qld. : Yalga-Binbi Institute for Community Development, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Corporation and Cairns Regional Gallery, 1995. Oblong quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 48, illustrated. Published in conjunction with an exhibition, Made with meaning: crafts of Aboriginal far North Queensland, curated by Jeanie Adams and presented at Cairns Regional Gallery from July 15 to …
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# 29462
LEICHHARDT, Ludwig (1813-1848)
Journal of an overland expedition in Australia from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845.
London : T. & W. Boone, 1847. First edition. Octavo, bound in period style with half-calf over marbled papered boards, spine in compartments with contrasting morocco title labels, pp. xx, 544, 8 (publisher’s advertisements); frontispiece and [6] aquatint plates (1 folding), internally clean; with the rare separately issued, hand-coloured map on three sheets (as issued: …
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# 46805
QUEENSLAND GOVERNMENT
The Gold Coast, Queensland
[Brisbane] : [Queensland Government Tourist Bureau] : circa 1985. Octavo, vibrant illustrated self-wrappers, pp. [16], illustrated. Distinctive Queensland tourist brochure from the Joh Bjelke-Petersen years, unashamedly spruiking the Gold Coast as ‘Australia’s favourite holiday playground’.
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# 32327
ROUGEMONT, Louis de (Henri Louis GRIN) (1847-1921)
Louis de Rougement, colonial adventurer and hoaxer: autograph letter, signed, offering stories to an editor for publication. Ampthill, Bedfordshire, 1903.
Manuscript in ink on ruled paper, 160 x 200 mm; headed ‘Flitwick, Ampthill, 1.7.03’, the letter is addressed to The Author Syndicate, Lincoln Inn Field, London, and is signed at the foot ‘Yours, Louis de Rougemont’; wet stamped ‘Received 2 Jul 03’, and with a correspondence number in red crayon; original vertical fold, clean and …
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# 46334
B. W. KILBURN (publisher)
Coral divers with their wealth, on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia.
[Title from printed caption on mount]. Littleton, New Hampshire : B. W. Kilburn, 1904. Stereoscopic silver gelatin print photograph, each individual image 77 x 77 mm, on pink board mount 88 x 179 mm, with the publisher’s serial number and caption ‘15945. Coral divers with their wealth, on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia’, along with …
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# 46528
HOOKEY, Gordon (1961- )
Gordon Hookey : Con ject charr – jarr – yarh – “Arrgh!”
February 17th – March 17th. Melbourne : Nellie Castan Gallery, 2007. A4 sheet printed on both sides, illustrated in colour; verso with details of 22 works with prices; original folds, light creasing. Scarce piece of ephemera from a 2007 exhibition by Indigenous Queensland artist Gordon Hookey. No copies traced on Trove.
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# 45869
MATHEWSON & CO.
Studio portrait of a young woman in Salvation Army uniform. Brisbane, circa 1895.
Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 168 x 108 mm (mount); recto with the imprint in silver of ‘Mathewson & Co., Next Royal Bank only, Brisbane’; both the print and the mount are in good condition.
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![[GERMAN COMMUNITY IN QUEENSLAND] Old School of Arts. Masquerade Ball, under the auspices of the German Glee Club, Monday, April 19, 1880. No admittance without a mask before 12 o'clock. Doors open at 8 o'clock. Lady's Ticket. 2&6d.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2023/11/2023_DSFB_7144-300x300.jpg)
# 41964
GERMAN GLEE CLUB (BRISBANE)
[GERMAN COMMUNITY IN QUEENSLAND] Old School of Arts. Masquerade Ball, under the auspices of the German Glee Club, Monday, April 19, 1880. No admittance without a mask before 12 o’clock. Doors open at 8 o’clock. Lady’s Ticket. 2&6d.
[Brisbane, Qld. : s.n., 1880]. Admission ticket, 75 x 113 mm, printed recto only on orange card; the ticket is numbered in manuscript ‘123’, along with the price 2/6, and is signed lower left by the Club’s Hon. Secretary, J. Bauman; verso blank; fine condition. [TOGETHER WITH] Gentleman’s Ticket to the same ball, numbered 149, with the price …
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![[QUEENSLAND] Autograph signature of Anglo-Australian novelist, short-story writer and poet Kathleen Watson.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2023/10/2023_DSFB_6517-300x300.jpg)
# 41670
WATSON, Kathleen
[QUEENSLAND] Autograph signature of Anglo-Australian novelist, short-story writer and poet Kathleen Watson.
Cut signature, manuscript in ink on paper, 60 x 100 mm; identified in another hand below as ‘Writer’; light toning, otherwise fine. Bold autograph signature of Kathleen Watson Dearden, a significant figure on the Australian literary scene – particularly in Melbourne and Brisbane – in the first quarter of the twentieth century. Provenance: Autograph album …
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# 46109
ROTH, Walter Edmund, 1861-1933
Ethnological studies among the north-west-central Queensland Aborigines
Brisbane : Edmund Gregory, Government Printer, 1897. First edition. Royal octavo, original blind-blocked purple cloth boards with gilt lettering to upper board (a few marks), patterned endpapers, pp 199 (text) with 1 folding chart, followed by xxiv plates (4 colour), unexpurgated and including the controversial ‘ethno-pornographical’ plate xxiv which many copies lack, internally clean and …
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# 46106
MOORE, David R.
The Torres Strait collections of A. C. Haddon : a descriptive catalogue
London : British Museum Press, 1984. Quarto (280 x 210 mm), publisher’s cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 110 pp. + 80 pp. with 450 b/w photographic illustrations; a couple of pale spots of foxing to preliminaries, else a fine copy. An important catalogue – scholarly and very well illustrated – of the material culture field-collected …