Queensland
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# 44338
HADDON, Alfred Cort (1855-1940)
Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits. (6 volumes)
New York : Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1971. Six volumes large octavo (255 x 180 mm), uniform bindings of silver-lettered brown cloth, spines with black leather title-pieces lettered in silver; illustrated with 103 plates reproducing a large number of photographs, 604 text figures, and 23 maps; a complete set of the scarce reprint of the original …
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# 44286
COLLINS, Clyde (words and music)
The Sunshine State : official theme song of the Queensland Centenary Celebrations.
Words and music by Clyde Collins. Cover: ‘Recorded by Horrie Dargie Quintet on Columbia / Northern Command Band on Festival.’ Brisbane : Clyde Collins Music Co., 1958. Quarto (280 x 220 mm), pictorial wrappers, [3] pp. music notation; a good copy.
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# 43601
KERRY, Charles (1858-1928)
Contact sheet with fifteen portraits of Aboriginal men from New South Wales and Queensland, 1888-1895.
Albumen print, 145 x 190 mm; each of the fifteen portraits is numbered and captioned in the negative, with vertical imprint of ‘Kerry’s Studios, 310 George St., near Hunter St., Sydney.’; in very good condition. A composite of fifteen portraits produced by Kerry from his own standard format albumen prints. Kerry used this form of …
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# 43682
WRIGHT. Geo. P. (George Parkinson)
Brisbane illustrated : a series of twelve views of some of the principal public buildings and scenery of the city / photographed and published by Geo P. Wright.
Brisbane : Geo. P. Wright, James Street, Fortitude Valley, 1875. Oblong elephant folio (340 x 440 mm), original half black morocco over dark green cloth ruled in gilt, upper board titled in gilt (boards rubbed, spine somewhat worn); marbled endpapers, title-leaf printed in red and black, [12] albumen print photographs in more or less uniform …
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# 43572
DUNCAN, W[illiam]. A[ugustine]., Esq. (1811 - 1885)
Lecture on national education delivered in the School of Arts, Brisbane, on Thursday, the 20th June, 1850.
Brisbane : James Swan, 1850. Octavo, stab-sewn self-wrappers, pp. [24], uncut and unopened, a fine copy. The first book or pamphlet printed in Brisbane, written by the founding president of the School of Arts. At the time of printing, Brisbane had a European population of about 2000 persons. Rare. Ferguson 5340
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# 10384
NORTHFIELD, James (1887-1973) (artist)
Australia : Great Barrier Reef, Queensland
Particulars at government, shipping & travel offices. Melbourne : Australian National Publicity Association, [1930s]. Offset lithograph, 1030 x 630 mm, a few tears expertly conserved, professionally cleaned and laid on linen. Text continues “Australian National Publicity Association, Railway Building, Flinders St, Melbourne. No. 103. Photo Litho., McLarens, Melbourne.” A stunning travel poster of North Queensland …
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# 30098
GREAT BRITAIN. PARLIAMENTARY PAPER.
Australasia. Correspondence relating to Chinese immigration into the Australian colonies, with a Return of Acts passed by the Legislatures of those Colonies and of Canada and British Columbia on the subject.
London : Printed for His Majesty’s Stationery Office, by Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1888. Folio (330 mm), printed blue wrappers (a little chipped at edges, paper loss along spine), pp x, 87; a few pencilled annotations, but a very clean copy in the original wrappers.
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# 43115
ELITE STUDIO (JONES & LOTZ) (SAN FRANCISCO); WENDT, Frank (NEW YORK)
Two studio portraits of Australian Aborigines from North Queensland in R. A. Cunningham’s second touring company, taken in San Francisco (late 1892) and New York (early 1894).
I. San Francisco : Elite Studio, Jones & Lotz, 838 Market Street, [1892]. Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format (108 x 163 mm, mount), recto with embossed studio imprint at left margin; verso with contemporary inscription in ink: ‘Nov. 3 92 Stockton Cal. saw them throw them. Photo of Cannibals from Australia who use the …
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# 42723
MALLET, Alain Manesson
[QUEENSLAND; NORTHERN AUSTRALIA] Nouvelle Guinée et Carpentarie
[Paris] : [Chez Denis Thierry], [1683]. Octavo leaf (209 x 131 mm) from Mallet’s Description de l’Univers, the text verso in French with two brief entries titled De la Terre des Papous and De La Carpentarie. The map itself shows the north coast of the island of New Guinea and offshore islands with some accuracy, …
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# 42673
FINN, J. T.
Charleville centenary celebrations, November, 1947
[Charleville, Qld. : Celebrations Committee], 1947. Printed by R. G. Gillies & Co., Brisbane. Octavo, illustrated wrappers (short tear), pp. 100, errata slip, illustrations, internally fine. Rare souvenir booklet from the central Queensland township.
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# 41951
BONAPARTE, Prince Roland (1858-1924)
Billy, Jenny and her son Toby: the last three survivors of R. A. Cunningham’s touring company of Aborigines from North Queensland. Paris, November 1885.
Two albumen print photographs, in identical 160 x 117 mm format (approximately cabinet card size); laid down side-by-side on their original mount of thin card, 310 x 405 mm, lower margin of the mount with a calligraphic caption in ink: Collection anthropologique du Prince Roland Bonaparte; both prints with some loss of contrast, scattered pale …
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# 41963
GESANG VEREINS "GERMANIA" (BRISBANE)
[GERMAN COMMUNITY IN QUEENSLAND] Ball und Stiftungsfeier des Gesang Vereins Germania, in School of Arts, Brisbane, Montag, 20th September, 1875. Eintritt 7/6.
[=Ball and foundation ceremony of the “Germania” Choral Society … Admission. The Committee]. Brisbane, Qld. : Cleghorn, printer, 1875. Admission ticket, 59 x 91 mm, printed recto only on buff card; the ticket is numbered in manuscript ’38’, and beside the word Eintritt (Admission) is written the price 7/6; the ticket was initialed by the seller C.H.; verso …
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# 41953
BONAPARTE, Prince Roland (1858-1924)
Billy, one of the last three survivors of R. A. Cunningham’s touring company of Aborigines from North Queensland. Paris, November 1885.
BONAPARTE, Prince Roland (1858-1924) Billy, one of the last three survivors of R. A. Cunningham’s touring company of Aborigines from North Queensland. Paris, November 1885. Two albumen print photographs, in identical large 220 x 170 mm format; laid down side-by-side on their original mount of thin card, 310 x 405 mm, lower margin of the …
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# 40442
FOX, H. W.
Studio portrait of a gentleman standing in front of a trompe l’œil backdrop. Fortitude Valley, Brisbane, circa 1866.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 101 x 65 mm (mount); verso with the back mark of ‘H. W. Fox, Photographic Artist, Ann Street, Fortitude Valley’; print and mount are in excellent condition. An extremely rare carte de visite by H. W. Fox. Remarkably, Trove locates no examples of Fox’s photographs in Australian collections. …
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# 40440
DUESBURY, Samuel
Woman seated beside a man standing and holding an axe. Brisbane, circa 1870.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 104 x 61 mm (mount); verso with wet stamp of ‘S. Duesbury, Photographer, Brisbane’; a superb print with rich tonal range, in excellent condition. 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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# 41293
WILEY, John S.
Studio portrait of socialite Miss Lilian M. Drury. Brisbane, Queensland, 1896.
Albumen print photograph, Paris Panel format, 250 x 160 mm, signed and dated in ink by the sitter ‘Lilian M. Drury 1896’ ; recto of mount with imprint of ‘Wiley, 8 Queen Street, Brisbane’; the print has a light horizontal crease extending from the lower right edge; the mount has some pale foxing and corner …