Queensland

# 15627

MARSH, S[tephen] H[ale] (1805 1888)

[SHEET MUSIC] Dr. Leichhardt’s March, for the piano, composed on the successful termination of his Expedition, after having traversed a distance of nearly 3000 miles through a portion of Australia, hitherto untrodden by civilized man, by his friend, S. H. March. 

London : T. Boosey & Co., [circa 1846]. Folio, lithographed title page [verso blank] with a scene of the expedition drawn by W. Boosey, slip cancel “for the piano” replacing “for the harp” (as in other copies); pp [1 blank], 2-5, [1 blank]; four leaves in total; occasional foxing, paper spine; a very good copy of this …

# 15753

HEXAGON PRODUCTIONS PTY. LTD.

Painted canvas backdrop used in the 1976 Australian film Eliza Fraser, depicting Aborigines attacking a shipwreck survivor

[Melbourne : Hexagon Productions Pty. Ltd., 1976]. Painted canvas, 180 x 200 cm; old folds and surface wear. The large budget 1976 Australian film Eliza Fraser was directed by Tim Burstall and starred Susannah York, Trevor Howard and Noel Ferrier. The screenplay was written by David Williamson, and it was filmed in Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland. …

# 15035

MÜLLER, Henry (Heinrich) (attributed)

Photographic portraits of a young Aboriginal woman, Toowoomba, 1868-69

Two albumen print photographs in carte de viste format, each 103 x 65 mm (mount); no photographer’s imprint (versos blank); some mild spotting, mostly confined to the peripheries of the prints and the mounts themselves. A pair of superb studio portraits of the same young woman, one a full length portrait of her holding a …

# 15048

[HOGG, John J., attributed]

Photographic portrait of an Aboriginal youth holding a sword club, Queensland, circa 1895

Albumen print photograph, 150 x mm, unmounted; no photographer’s imprint; some corner creasing at upper right corner, otherwise in good condition. The young subject is holding a sword club from the Queensland rainforest region; the other studio props are a Queensland Gulmari shield and a fighting boomerang. The photographer was possibly John Hogg, who produced …

# 14904

PARKER, R.S. (Robert Stewart) et al.

New states for Australia : The Australian Institute of Polictical Science ;

Spring Forum ; 1955 ; Proceedings. Sydney : Australian Institute of Polictical Science, 1955. Quarto, original card covers, roneo printed, 90 pp, 1 folding table, 3 folding maps; a very good copy. Contains four papers delivered at the Armidale forum by R.S. Parker (New states for Australia : why new states?), J. MacDonald Holmes (The proposed …

# 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 …

# 14524

STEPHENS, James Brunton; D'ARCY, Mary and Ellen

[UNIQUE EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED COPY] Convict once. “With Illustrations by M. and E. D’Arcy”.

London : Macmillan & Co., 1871. First edition. Small octavo, original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt; recased with new endpapers, but retaining the original free endpapers, the front endpaper bearing the blind stamp of Brisbane booksellers Watson & Co.; the title page inscribed 'Elly E. D'Arcy from Mary, 29th Decr. 1873' and at the …

# 14528

ROSE STEREOGRAPH CO.

Great suffragette demonstration in London. The Australian section

forming up on the Thames Embankment. Melbourne ; Sydney ; Wellington ; London : The Rose Stereograph Co., [1911]. Stereoscopic gelatin silver print photograph (mount 95 x 175 mm), from the series Great suffragette demonstration in London, serial no. 11,954, printed title beneath the images; recto of mount imprinted The Rose Stereographs Melbourne ; Sydney …

# 14233

Gourié, E.

Manuscript map of Australia, dated 1835

Ink and wash on paper, 350 x 455 mm (sheet); laid down on modern backing sheet; some loss along the early vertical fold line (mainly at the extremities) and in bottom left corner of sheet. A relatively early manuscript map showing Australia and Van Diemen's Land, as well as New Guinea and parts of the …

# 14280

THE GRAPHIC.

[TELEGRAPH; QUEENSLAND] Map of south-eastern Asia and Northern Australia

: showing the districts in Annam and Tonquin which France proposes to annex and to place under a Protectorate, the portion of New Guinea proposed to be acquired by Queensland, and the districts affected by the volcanic eruptions in Java. London : Letts Son &​ Co. Ltd., 1883 [issued as a supplement to The Graphic, …

# 13724

Photographer unknown.

Photographic portrait of King Tidy, Brisbane, circa 1868

[Title from engraved breastplate worn by the subject]. Albumen print, carte de visite format, 90 x 60 mm, on mount 104 x 65 mm; numeral “9” inscribed in ink in contemporary hand at lower margin recto of mount; verso blank; the albumen print in fine condition with rich tonal range. We can locate only two …

# 13728

KERRY, Charles, 1857-1928; [MESTON, Archibald, 1851-1924]

Aborigines from Meston’s Wild Australia troupe performing a staged corroboree, Sydney, 1893

Albumen print photograph, 155 x 205 mm, laid down on its original album page, blind stamped lower left Kerry & Co. Photo 308 Geo. St. Sydney; the albumen print is in fine condition. A rare and important image taken on a theatre stage with an elaborately painted backdrop of exotic tropical scenery. The men are part …

# 12178

GREAT BRITAIN. COLONIAL OFFICE. [ARROWSMITH, John, 1790-1873]; [GIPPS, George Sir, 1791-1847]

[STRZELECKI] Return to an address of the Honorable the House of Commons, dated 26 February 1841

: for, copy of a despatch from Sir G. Gipps, Governor of New South Wales, to the Secretary of State for the colonies, transmitting a report of the progressive discovery and occupation of that colony during the period of his administration of the government. [London] : Ordered, by the House of Commons, to be printed, …

# 13739

FORSTER, E.H.

Queensland Aboriginals. Photographed direct from life by E.H. Forster at his studio, Maryborough

1872-74. Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, image 79 x 52 mm (oval), mount 104 x 63 mm; verso imprinted Queensland Aboriginals. Photographed direct from life by E.H. Forster at his studio, Maryborough, with a lithographed illustration of Aborigines hunting kangaroos; a strong albumen print in very good condition; the mount with some light foxing. …

# 13839

MICHEL, Ernest

A travers l’hémisphère sud

: Equateur, Panama, Antilles, Mexique, Iles Sandwich, Nouvelle-Zélande, Tasmanie, Australie. Limoges : Marc Barbou, n.d. [c.1890]. Quarto, publisher's pictorial cloth gilt (rubbed), front hinge weakened, all edges gilt, 296 pp, illustrated with lithographed plates and line drawings in the text; scattered foxing; a good copy.  French travel memoir which includes detailed accounts of visits to …

# 13637

METCALFE & BENNETT

[PHOTOGRAPHIC MONTAGE] Queensland in Miniature

1878-79. Albumen print of a photographic montage, cabinet card format, 107 x 165 mm, captioned in the negative at lower margin Queensland in Miniature, and with the photographers' studio information at the centre of the image, Metcalfe & Bennett, Artist Photographers, Queen Street, Brisbane; the verso is blank; the albumen print is in good condition …

# 13084

QUEENSLAND ROYAL MAIL SERVICE.

Bill of lading for an oil painting shipped from London to Brisbane, 1887

Single sheet with lithographed letterhead, 230 x 280 mm, manuscript entries recording the shipment of an oil painting from London on board the steam ship Roma, to a Mrs. Pearce of Albert Street, Brisbane; dated 3 April 1887; embossed 6d revenue stamp at top left corner; original folds, in good condition.

# 12635

CAMERON, Keith

[QUEENSLAND]. The Gull

A weekly newspaper published on board the “Otago” during a four months' voyage from Glasgow to Brisbane. Also containing a complete and truthful statement of the privations and negligences experienced by the emigrants on the voyage, likewise a description of the treatment shown towards the immigrants on the voyage likewise a description of the treatment …

# 12370

[BRISBANE CITY COUNCIL?]

Views of Brisbane

Brisbane : R.G. Gillies & Co., Pty. Ltd., [c.1945]. Oblong octavo, pictorial card wrappers (sent through the post, with address and postage stamp to front and back), [32] pp, all black-and-white photographs, with page of introductory text on the City of Brisbane; a good copy.

# 11923

McANDREW, Harry

The inland saga : a sketch of the Australian Inland Mission through 60 years

[Sydney : Australian Inland Mission, 1972]. Octavo, pictorial stiff wrappers, 16 pp, illustrated map, a good copy.

# 11610

CHARGOIS, H.

Souvenir : Great Barrier Reef

Maroubra, N.S.W. : H. Chargois, n.d. [c.1935]. Shell-shaped pictorial card, 140 x 115 mm, stapled, original price label at one edge, containing 14 black and white photographic plates, folding concertina style to 80 x 80 mm, designed to be sent through the mail, the publisher's printed address label to the back cover with contemporary manuscript …

# 11488

BRADY, E.J.

The land of the sun

London : Edward Arnold & Co., 1924. First edition. Octavo, original decorated orange cloth boards (fine), in illustrated dust jacket (chipping at corners and edges), 303 pp, illustrated with [12] black and white photographic plates, folding map, internally clean and sound, pale flecking to fore-edge, a very good copy of this North Queensland travel memoir.

# 11336

A Queenly Colony. Pen sketches and camera glimpses

Brisbane : Government Printer, 1901. Quarto, gilt-lettered cloth, expertly rebacked, new endpapers, bookplate to front pastedown, pp. viii, 142, illustrations. An in depth look at Queensland and the time of Federation. 

# 11333

Views seen from Queensland railways.

Cover title : Album of views in Queensland. Northern scenes & central district. Brisbane : A.J. Cumming Government Printer, [1908]. Oblong quarto, illustrated card wrappers (detached), title page, [20] leaves of photographic illustrations printed recto only.

# 11170

SYDNEY CITY MISSION

[BRISBANE] Sydney City Mission herald. Vol. XVII, no. 13. September 1, 1914.

Sydney : The Mission, 1914. Folio newspaper, pp 1-16, i-xii supplement, = The proceedings of the 4th Australian City Mission Conference, held in Brisbane, Queensland, July 28th to August 1st 1914; illustrated, advertisements, a very good copy.