Queensland

  • Photographic portrait of Rev. William Curnow, Wesleyan minister and journalist, Sydney, 1865-68

    # 14831

    NEWMAN, John Hubert

    Photographic portrait of Rev. William Curnow, Wesleyan minister and journalist, Sydney, 1865-68

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format (107 x 64 mm, mount; 60 x 48 mm, oval image); inscribed beneath image in ink in a contemporary hand ‘Rev. W. Curnow’; recto and verso with imprint of J.H. Newman, 53 South Head Road, Sydney; recto with light staining and rubbing. Wesleyan Methodist clergyman and journalist William Curnow …

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  • The Black Mine, Jundah, Central West Queensland (the first black opal mine in Australia), c.1900.

    # 50130

    NICHOLAS & CO.

    The Black Mine, Jundah, Central West Queensland (the first black opal mine in Australia), c.1900.

    Gelatin silver print photograph, cabinet card format, 108 x 164 mm (mount); verso with wet stamp of travelling Queensland outback photographers Nicholas & Co., and a fully contemporary inscription in pencil; ‘The Black Mine. For Miss A. (?)Garries’; the print has excellent clarity and is in very good condition, as is the mount. Quite possibly …

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  • Discoveries in Australia : with an account of the coasts and rivers explored and surveyed during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle in the years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43, by command of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, also, a narrative of Captain Owen Stanley's visits to the islands in the Arafura Sea.

    # 50100

    STOKES, John Lort (1811-1885)

    Discoveries in Australia : with an account of the coasts and rivers explored and surveyed during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle in the years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43, by command of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, also, a narrative of Captain Owen Stanley’s visits to the islands in the Arafura Sea.

    London : T. and W. Boone, 1846. Three volumes, octavo, later uniform half green calf over green cloth (boards with some flecking), spines in compartments with gilt decoration and with contrasting leather title labels lettered in gilt; marbled endpapers; pp. xv, 521; x, 543, with 26 plates (15 engraved, 11 lithographed) depicting events and scenes …

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  • Holidays on the Great Barrier Reef

    # 50151

    Barrier Reef Islands Pty. Ltd

    Holidays on the Great Barrier Reef

    Mackay : Barrier Reef Islands Pty. Ltd., circa 1960. Tourist brochure, folding to DL size, illustrated wrappers, pp. [12], illustrated. Includes popular tourist activities such as climbing coconut palms, poking coral and riding turtles on the Great Barrier Reef.

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  • The Granite Belt, South Queensland

    # 50142

    QUEENSLAND GOVERNMENT TOURIST BUREAU

    The Granite Belt, South Queensland

    Brisbane : Government Printer, [between 1935 and 1940]. Single folded sheet, 430 x 280 mm, printed on both sides in green and black, folded to 220 x 150 mm, text accompanied by photographic illustrations (including Stanthorpe Golf Links, Egg Rock, Undercliffe Falls, orchards), map, short essay on ‘Ever-cool Stanthorpe’; a fine copy. Rare. Appears unrecorded …

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  • Long Island, Happy Bay, Great Barrier Reef.

    # 50139

    QUEENSLAND GOVERNMENT TOURIST BUREAU

    Long Island, Happy Bay, Great Barrier Reef.

    Brisbane : Queensland Government Tourist Bureau, [1940]. Single sheet, 280 x 440 mm, folding to 220 x 140 mm, printed on both sides; with sepia tone photographic illustrations, map; light wear to top edge, some pale foxing. The text is a tourist guide promoting Long Island in the Whitsunday archipelago on the North East Queensland …

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  • Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits. Volume II. Physiology and Psychology. Parts I & II. (In the original wrappers)

    # 48976

    [HADDON, Alfred Cort]; RIVERS, W. H. R.; SELIGMAN, C. G.; MYERS, Charles; McDOUGALL, W.

    Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits. Volume II. Physiology and Psychology. Parts I & II. (In the original wrappers)

    Cambridge, UK : at the University Press, 1901-03. Two volumes, large quarto (280 x 210 mm), in uniform cloth-backed printed green wrappers as originally issued (Part I in superb condition, the upper wrapper of Part II with a lengthy tear and chipped corner, both Parts slightly sunned at edges and with the original printed price …

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  • The Queensland illustrated guide : for the use of farmers, fruit-growers, vignerons, and others. With a map.

    # 49892

    MIDGLEY, Alfred

    The Queensland illustrated guide : for the use of farmers, fruit-growers, vignerons, and others. With a map.

    Brisbane : James C. Beal, Government Printer, 1888. Octavo, gilt-lettered bling embossed green cloth (light edge wear, corners a little bent), patterned endpapers, title page in red and black (wet stamp of the Department of Agriculture, Brisbane), pp. viii; 222, large folding map printed in colour loose at rear, scattered foxing throughout, illustrated with nine …

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  • Isaac Walter Jenner (signed copy)

    # 49597

    FRY, Gavin; MAHONEY, Bronwyn; MacAULAY, Bettina.

    Isaac Walter Jenner (signed copy)

    By Gavin Fry and Bronwyn Mahoney, with additional text, notes and catalogue entries by Bettina MacAulay. Sydney : The Beagle Press, 1994. Quarto, boards in illustrated dustjacket, pp. 128, illustrated. A fine copy. This copy signed by the three authors on the title page, and with an unrelated gift inscription on the half-title. Isaac Walter …

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  • Madman's Island. (First edition, in dust jacket, with a signed presentation inscription by the author)

    # 49483

    IDRIESS, Ion Llewelynn (1889 - 1979)

    Madman’s Island. (First edition, in dust jacket, with a signed presentation inscription by the author)

    Sydney : Cornstalk Publishing Company, 1927. Octavo, bright original red cloth (slightly pushed at head of spine), lettered in black on upper panel and spine, in the original dust jacket with illustration by Edgar A. Holloway (edges slightly rubbed), advertisements of ‘Some interesting books’ to lower panel and flaps, printed advertisement for ‘The Famous Bellbird …

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  • Navigation of the Atlantic Ocean [together with] Navigation of the Indian Ocean, China and Australian Seas

    # 49394

    BECHER, A. B.

    Navigation of the Atlantic Ocean [together with] Navigation of the Indian Ocean, China and Australian Seas

    Navigation of the Atlantic Ocean, containing a brief account of the winds, weather, and currents prevailing therein. With charts. London : J. D. Potter, 1859. Second edition. [Together with] : Navigation of the Indian Ocean, China and Australian Seas, with an account of the winds, weather, and currents found therein throughout the year. London : …

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  • Studio portrait of Mr. D. Ross and his young son. Ipswich, Queensland, circa 1874.

    # 49096

    POOCHEE, Biggingee Sorabjee

    Studio portrait of Mr. D. Ross and his young son. Ipswich, Queensland, circa 1874.

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 100 x 64 mm (mount); verso imprinted ‘Photographed by Biggingee Sorabjee Poochee, Brisbane Street, Ipswich’; removed by the previous owner from an album window mount which was inscribed ‘D. Ross’ follow by an abbreviated word (possibly “kindred”) – see accompanying image; both the print and the mount are in …

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  • Colonial and Indian Exhibition, 1886. Her Majesty's Colonies.

    # 49242

    TRENDELL, A. J. R.

    Colonial and Indian Exhibition, 1886. Her Majesty’s Colonies.

    A series of original papers issued under the authority of the Royal Commission. London : William Clowes and Sons, 1886. Octavo, presentation binding of full crushed morocco over bevelled boards, ruled in gilt, spine in compartments with gilt rule and lettering (edges a little rubbed), all edges gilt, gilt-lettered morocco presentation label to front pastedown to …

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  • The pocket Brisbane

    # 49049

    Queensland Government Intelligence and Tourist Bureau.

    The pocket Brisbane

    compiled by the Queensland Government Intelligence and Tourist Bureau. Brisbane : The Intelligence and Tourist Bureau, Queensland, 1921. New edition. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers, a little age rubbed, short tears, the upper wrappers with a view of the city from the interior of a tram, the lower wrapper with a colour map, staple bound, previous …

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  • Ethnographical album of the Pacific Islands. Third series.

    # 33117

    Edge-Partington, James (1854-1930)

    Ethnographical album of the Pacific Islands. Third series.

    [Portfolio cover title]. Also titled: An album of the weapons, tools, ornaments, articles of dress &c. of the natives of the Pacific islands. Drawn and described from examples in public & private collections in Australasia by James Edge-Partington. Third series. [London] : Issued for private circulation by James Edge-Partington & Charles Heape, 1898. “Lithographed by Palmer, …

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  • [ARNHEM LAND] The Methodist Missionary Society of Australasia Systematic Giving League. Systematic Giving Box.

    # 46209

    METHODIST MISSIONARY SOCIETY OF AUSTRALASIA

    [ARNHEM LAND] The Methodist Missionary Society of Australasia Systematic Giving League. Systematic Giving Box.

    [Sydney] : The Methodist Missionary Society of Australasia, circa 1920. Tin collection box with hinged lid, 130 x 80 x 20 mm, lettering on the lid; some oxidisation, overall in very good condition. Wesleyan Methodism is generally considered to have formally been established in Australia in 1815 with the arrival of clergyman Samuel Leigh, although …

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