South Australia
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# 35447
[HEYSEN, Hans]
Sir Hans Heysen O.B.E exhibition “Historic Hahndorf”
To honour the occasion of his 90th birthday and the opening of the Hahndorf Academy 8th October 1967, opened by His Excellency Dr. J. F. Ritter K.C.V.O. Adelaide : s.n., 1967. Octavo, lettered wrappers with tipped in colour plate, pp. 12, foreword by Colin Thiele, four colour plates, one black & white plate (photographic portrait), …
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# 35371
HYLTON, Jane
South Australian women artists : paintings from the 1890s to the 1940s
Adelaide : Art Gallery of South Australia, 1994. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. vii, 93, illustrated, light handling wear, A very good copy. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Art Gallery of South Australia, 15 April – 17 July 1994.Includes illustrations of works by Margaret Preston, Bessie Davidson, Stella Bowen, Nora Heysen, Dorrit Black, Gwen …
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# 33315
TURNBULL (LEAKE) (née GELLION), Mary (1841-1920) (compiler); BONNEY, Frederic (1842–1921) (photographer)
Two albums of photographs and ephemera compiled by Mrs Mary Turnbull (Leake), including photographs of Aborigines on Momba Station near Wilcannia, New South Wales, and a studio portrait of pastoral heiress Letitia Sarah Leake, of Glencoe Station, South Australia. Late 1870s to early 1880s.
Album 1. Quarto (280 x 220 mm), gilt-ruled half brown morocco over tan pebbled cloth boards (detached from contents), upper board with the initials ‘M. T.’ stamped in gilt, spine with raised gilt bands; all edges gilt, front pastedown with binder’s ticket of Charlwood & Son, Bourke Street, Melbourne; [85] leaves (thickish paper stock, the …
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# 34936
[VON HARTITZSCH, Otto]
Studio portrait of an Aboriginal woman wearing a kangaroo skin cloak, carrying her young child on her back. Adelaide, 1869-75.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 85 x 56 mm; unmounted; a strong print with excellent clarity, in very good condition. Another example of this carte de visite, on a mount bearing the imprint of Otto Von Hartitzsch & Co., 113 Rundle Street, Adelaide, was sold at Charles Leski Auctions (Melbourne) in September 2010. …
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# 34878
SWEET, Samuel White, Captain (1825-1886)
View of Port Darwin, near Palmerston, 1870.
Albumen print photograph, 152 x 203 mm, laid down on its original mount of thin cream-coloured card with gilt border (ass issued); verso of mount with fully contemporary caption in pencil ‘Port Darwin’; the print is in very good condition, with a little fading at the bottom edge and some mottling in the negative at …
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# 34755
LEAKE, Robert Rowland (1811-1860)
[TASMANIA; SOUTH AUSTRALIA] Manuscript letter from grazier Robert Leake to his brother, Edward Leake of Lewisham near Campbell Town, Van Diemen’s Land. Adelaide, October 1838.
Entire letter. Folding letter sheet, 315 x 200 mm, manuscript in ink on laid paper watermarked ‘J. Green & Co. 1836’, cross-written on [3] pages; headed ‘Adelaide S.A. / October 31st 1838’ and signed ‘Your affectionate brother Robt. Leake’, the letter is addressed on the outer side to ‘Edward Leake Esq. / Lewisham / near …
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# 15811
DURYEA, Townsend (1823-1888); "W.S.E."
Carte de visite with an acrostic laudatory poem to Tasmanian newspaper publisher and editor John Campbell Macdougall
Albumen print photograph of a lithographed poem titled ‘An Acrostic’, dated and initialled in the image ‘Hobart Town, 9th August 1848 / W.S.E.’, carte de visite format, 105 x 63 mm (mount), verso with imprint of ‘T. Duryea, Artist & Photographer, by Appointment, 66 & 68 King William St., Adelaide / Prize Medal, Universal Exhibition 1867’; both the …
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# 34908
C. G. GRAMP & SONS
[WINE] Drink & enjoy Gramp’s Orlando Gold Medal wines : compel your appreciation.
Rowland Flat, Barossa Valley, S.A. : C. G. Gramp & Sons, [c.1950]. Four playing cards, each 90 x 58 mm, the backs with advertisements for Orlando wines; three in very good condition, one a little darkened from handling.
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# 35018
PITT, C.A.
[NORTHERN TERRITORY] Magnificent views illustrating scenes along the North South Highway
Cover title: Series of magnificent views illustrating scenes along the North South Highway, Northern Territory, Australia. Payneham, South Australia : C. A. Pitt, [c.1950]. Oblong quarto, pictorial limp wrappers, 16 pp, black and white photographic plates, a very good copy.
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# 34594
HAYWARD, Martinus Peter (1817-1904); HAYWARD, Johnson Frederick (1822-1912); HAYWARD, Joakim Cooper (1782-1864)
[SOUTH AUSTRALIA] The Hayward brothers of McLaren Vale and Aroona Station : a small archive of correspondence (chiefly from 1854) and family-related documents and ephemera (1823-1890s).
Biographical notes: Martinus Peter Hayward (1817-1904) was the son of Joakim Cooper Hayward (1782-1864) of Hayward’s End, Stonehouse [in Gloucestershire]. A qualified doctor, he emigrated to South Australia on the Rajasthan in 1839-40. He was declared insolvent in the depression of 1843 and went back to England. He returned to Adelaide in 1846, serving as surgeon on …
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# 34650
SEMMLER, H. E.; HOFF, A. B. C. (Carl); [DULDIG FAMILY]
Koonibba Mission, South Australia : a small archive of private photographs, sent by Nurse Semmler to members of the Duldig family, 1924-29.
Group of 14 (fourteen) gelatin silver prints, various formats up to 85 x 110 mm, printed on Kodak paper; thirteen are inscribed verso in fountain pen or pencil by the Mission Nurse, Miss H. E. Semmler, most with a caption describing what is happening in the photograph, and a short greeting addressed either to her friends, …
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# 34367
NIESCHE, Charles (publisher); DURYEA, Townsend, (photographer)
Portrait of Sir Anthony Musgrave, Governor of South Australia, circa 1875.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 102 x 60 mm (mount); captioned in the image ‘Sir Anthony Musgrave / Melbourne copy’; verso with the lithographed back mark of ‘C. Niesche, Photographer and Picture Frame Manufacturer, 97 Rundle St., Adelaide’; in good, clean condition; the corners of the mount have been trimmed so the carte …
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# 34566
F. HUMPHRIS & SONS LTD. (Adelaide and Jamestown, South Australia)
Mandarin Phosphates
Adelaide and Jamestown, South Australia : F. Humphris & Sons Ltd., [after 1902, and probably before 1920]. Chromolithographed bottle label, 71 x 94 mm; a fine example. Frederina Humphris (née Gotte, 1841-1925), the widow of Edmund Humphris, continued her husband’s Jamestown enterprise, known as “The Emu Factory”, after his death in 1880. The Emu Factory …
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# 33741
SWEET, Samuel White (1825-1886)
Waterfall Gully (near Adelaide), circa 1880.
Albumen print photograph, 155 x 205 mm, laid down recto of a leaf removed from a 19th-century French traveller’s album, inscribed in ink below the image ‘Une cascade’; the print has excellent clarity and is in good condition (the small spot of discolouration at lower right is from the developing process). Held: AGSA (Accession number …
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# 34351
CHAPMAN, Barbara
Beatrice Darbyshire
Perth : Cygnet Books, 1990. Quarto, faux leather boards with dustjacket, 112pp. A biographical art monograph of South Australian draughtsman and etcher Beatrice Darbyshire.
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# 34171
PROCTOR, Gary
Ngayulu-latju palyantja = We made these things : from the Ngaanyatjarra lands
Catalogue, design concept and compilation, Gary Proctor. Alice Springs : WAP Press, 1999. Oblong quarto, illustrated wrappers (spine lightly sunned), pp. 48, illustrated. Includes works by Lorna Jennings, Belle Davidson, Fred Ward, Tjingapa Davies, Ngipi Ward and others.