Queensland

  • Brisbane and Environs Illustrated: Twelve Views of the Scenery of the City and Neighbourhood.

    # 23023

    WRIGHT, George P[arkinson]. (photographer and publisher)

    Brisbane and Environs Illustrated: Twelve Views of the Scenery of the City and Neighbourhood.

    Second Series … [Contents …] Photographed by Geo. P. Wright, Creek Street, (Opposite the Union Bank) Brisbane. MDCCCLXXVIII. At head of title: Under the Patronage of His Excellency the Governor. Brisbane : George P. Wright [printed by Cleghorn & Co.], 1878. Oblong folio, original half morocco over brown cloth boards with gilt lettering (boards marked and …

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  • Group of correspondence from Henry Beit, land agent, Sydney, to E.V. Sandilands, cotton grower and Vice-Consul, Fiji. 1870-71.

    # 21090

    BEIT, Henry (1826-1881); SANDILANDS, Edward Vincent (1847-1871); GUTSCHMID, Felix von (1843-1905)

    Group of correspondence from Henry Beit, land agent, Sydney, to E.V. Sandilands, cotton grower and Vice-Consul, Fiji. 1870-71.

    Sydney businessman Henry Beit (1826-1881) was a land agent specialising in the sale of properties in outback New South Wales and Queensland, and also in the Fiji Islands. His correspondent, Edward Vincent Sandilands (1847-1871), was a young English cotton grower in the Yasawa Islands, Fiji, whose acquaintance Beit had presumably made when Sandilands had been …

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  • [MANUSCRIPT] Unpublished poem about a bushfire suicide, composed by an amateur Brisbane poet. Dated December 1861.

    # 20266

    MEE, Samuel Gill

    [MANUSCRIPT] Unpublished poem about a bushfire suicide, composed by an amateur Brisbane poet. Dated December 1861.

    Manuscript in ink on blue paper (245 x 195 mm), an untitled poem of 7 quatrains (4-line stanzas), with an extensive explanatory footnote; signed and dated at bottom margin in the same hand ‘Brisbane, December 2nd 1861 / Samuel Gill Mee’; verso with newspaper cuttings from 1861, suggesting that the sheet was removed from a commonplace book …

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  • [POETRY] Fingers at air : experimental poems 1969

    # 15889

    SHAPCOTT, Thomas W.

    [POETRY] Fingers at air : experimental poems 1969

    Ipswich, Qld : [printed privately], 1969. Edition limited to 200 signed copies (no. 169). Octavo, printed brown wrappers, previous owner’s name on half-title, unpaginated [48 pp]. An excellent copy. Scarce edition of poems by Queensland poet Thomas Shapcott AO.  

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  • Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia

    # 18997

    MT. ISA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

    Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia

    Mt. Isa : Mt. Isa Chamber of Commerce, circa 1970. Tourist brochure, single folded sheet, 220 x 560 mm, folding to 220 x 97 mm, printed on both sides (12 panels in total), illustrated in colour with accompanying text; fine condition.

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  • View of Bourbong Street, Bundaberg, Queensland, late 1890s

    # 18809

    Photographer unknown.

    View of Bourbong Street, Bundaberg, Queensland, late 1890s

    Albumen print photograph, 240 x 370 mm, no photographer’s imprint; verso with later pencil inscription ‘Main street, Bundaberg’; unmounted; a superb print with beautiful tones and sharp detail; the small white fleck at upper left is in the negative. A large format view of Bourbong Street looking west, with the Post Office in the distance. …

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  • View of Ruthven Street, Toowoomba, Queensland, late 1890s

    # 18808

    Photographer unknown.

    View of Ruthven Street, Toowoomba, Queensland, late 1890s

    Albumen print photograph, 260 x 370 mm, no photographer’s imprint; verso with faint contemporary pencil inscription ‘Ruthven Street, Toowoomba’; unmounted; tiny loss at bottom right corner, otherwise a superb print with beautiful tones and sharp detail. A wonderful, large format view of Ruthven Street looking south, with much of the street signage legible. Prominent businesses …

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  • Songs of a season

    # 16716

    KENNA, Francis

    Songs of a season

    Melbourne : Melville, Mullen & Slade, 1895. First edition. Octavo, original blind blocked brown cloth over bevelled boards, upper board lettered and decorated in gilt (upper board marked), previous owner’s bookplate to front pastedown, title page with original owner’s initials ‘E.B.L.’ and date ‘16.2.95’, pp. 52, occasional pencilled marginalia; otherwise a very good copy. Collection …

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  • Photographic portrait of a lady in a fine dress, holding a book. Brisbane, 1862-65.

    # 18329

    WATSON, John

    Photographic portrait of a lady in a fine dress, holding a book. Brisbane, 1862-65.

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 103 x 63 mm, verso with studio imprint of J. Watson, Photographer, Queen-street, Brisbane; the albumen print has a couple of light surface marks (but what appears to be a stain at upper left is in fact simply the dark section of the painted backdrop and a shadow …

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  • 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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  • Photographic portrait of King Tidy, Brisbane, circa 1868

    # 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 …

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  • Group of Aboriginal women and breastfeeding infant, Brisbane, circa 1868

    # 13729

    COURRET HERMANOS, CALLAO; [DUESBURY, Samuel, attributed]

    Group of Aboriginal women and breastfeeding infant, Brisbane, circa 1868

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 90 x 56 mm, mount 103 x 67 mm; recto with red printed border, lower margin with imprint of Courret Hermanos, 36 Calle de la Constitucion, Callao in red, and a contemporary inscription in ink Indians – Eastern Peru and a faint pencilled inscription in the same hand Indios de …

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  • Two studio photographs of Aborigines, Brisbane, late 1860s

    # 13855

    MARQUIS, Daniel

    Two studio photographs of Aborigines, Brisbane, late 1860s

    Albumen print photographs, carte de visite format, each 101 x 64 mm, versos with imprint of Marquis, Photographer, George Street, Brisbane; both of the albumen prints are in very good condition, the mounts with some pale foxing. Marquis opened his studio at 82 George Street in 1866. These elaborately composed portraits – a tableau of an …

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  • Shearing sheep by machine in North Queensland

    # 13894

    CAPRA, Giuseppe (1873-1952)

    Shearing sheep by machine in North Queensland

    Circa 1910. [Title from translation of inscription verso]. Silver gelatin photograph, 165 x 210 mm, contemporary inscriptions in ink verso: “Tosatura a macchina delle pecore in N. Queensland” and “D.G. Capra, Pont St Martin”; unmounted; tiny crease at top right corner, otherwise fine. A photograph showing the animated interior of a Queensland shearing shed. A …

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  • [PHOTOGRAPHIC MONTAGE] Queensland in Miniature

    # 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 …

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  • See Australia first : Townsville, N.Q.

    # 7977

    MURRAY VIEWS.

    See Australia first : Townsville, N.Q.

    Gympie, Qld. : Murray Views, [194-?] . Small quarto, pictorial wrappers with oval cut-outs to upper wrapper, [12] pp, colour and sepia tone photographic views, a very good copy. Copies are recorded in four Australian collections (James Cook University Library; Monash University Library; National Library of Australia; State Library of Queensland).

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