South Australia
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# 41682
[Photographer unknown]
Outdoor ambrotype of a man standing in a bush setting. South Australia, circa 1860.
Quarter plate ambrotype photograph, 110 x 80 mm; housed in original brass preserver, lacking a case; some loss of emulsion at the edges of the plate, scattered tiny marks and minor crazing; resealed. Provenance: Private collection, Melbourne; acquired from Christopher Wahren Fine Photographs, New Haven, CT, USA, December 2009; evidently the ambrotype was resealed by …
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# 44081
MARCHANT, Ebenezer Tasman
Tinted studio portrait of a wedding party. Gawler, South Australia, circa 1910.
Sepia-tone gelatin print photograph with hand colouring, 150 x 200 mm; laid down on the original board mount stamped ‘Marchant’s Studio, Gawler’, 250 x 300 mm; verso with studio advertisement pasted on; superb condition. A truly exceptional Australian wedding portrait from the Federation period.
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# 43882
JONES, Henry
Studio portrait of a young boy seated on a high-backed chair, holding a spade. Adelaide, South Australia, circa 1876.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 105 x 62 mm (mount); verso with imprint of ‘H. Jones, Photographer. Opposite Whites Rooms, King William Street, Adelaide / Awarded Society of Arts Prize for Portraits of Children’; both print and mount are in fine condition. Henry Jones mentioned his Society of Arts Prize for Portraits of …
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# 43681
WARD, Jack (compiler)
[SOUTH AUSTRALIA; THEATRE] Jack Ward, vaudeville performer : his personal scrapbook, documenting his career on the stage in Adelaide and regional towns, 1895-1905.
[Adelaide : Jack Ward, c.1895-1905]. Handmade scrapbook, elephant folio (440 x 300 mm), original red pebbled cloth over boards (stained and rubbed), printed name of the compiler ‘JACK WARD’ mounted at centre of upper board, spine reinforced with a later leather backstrip; it is evident that the boards were repurposed by Jack Ward, as the …
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# 44499
BARTHOLOMEW, J[ohn], W. HUGHES, and Sidney HALL (engravers)
Atlas of Australia with all the Gold Regions
A series of maps from the latest and best authorities. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, c. 1853. Quarto, later gilt-lettered cloth, containing six hand-coloured engraved maps (five double page, and one folding) of the gold regions of Australia, a few pale stains, short tape repair to the margin of the first map, and a …
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# 44160
"AGRICOLA" (ANGAS, George Fife, 1789 - 1879).
Description of the Barossa Range and its neighbourhood, in South Australia.
By “Agricola”. Illustrated with maps and coloured plates, from original drawings made on the spot, by George French Angas. London : Smith, Elder, & Co., Cornwall, 1849. Quarto, recent half-calf over original embossed cloth-covered boards, original gilt-lettered title label to upper board; marbled endpapers, pp. 20, with six fine hand-coloured lithographed plates with tissue guards, …
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# 44017
GREEN, Rev. Samuel G.
[ADELAIDE PRESENTATION BINDING] Pictures from the German Fatherland drawn with pen and pencil
London : The Religious Tract Society, [c.1880]. Folio, fine presentation binding of full Prussian blue leather, ruled in gilt, spine in compartments with raised bands and gilt ornament, contrasting morocco title label lettered in gilt, gilt illustration and motto of Prince Alfred College, Adelaide to upper board; marbled edges and endpapers, presentation prize label from …
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# 43719
FARNDELL, Francis ("Frank")
Studio portraits of a young man and woman, possibly siblings. Adelaide, 1865-67.
I. [Portrait of a young woman standing beside a chair]. Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 104 x 64 mm (mount); verso with back mark of ‘Frank Farndell, Photographer, 167 Rundle St. East, Adelaide, S.A.’; the print has a surface scratch near the centre of the image which crosses the sitter’s face; mount in good …
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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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# 43721
ECCLESTON, Gregory C.
Granville Stapylton : Australia Felix 1836 : second in command to Major Mitchell
Melbourne : Evandale Publishing, 2018. Oblong quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. xix; 250; 46 pages of plates, a fine, new copy. “Granville Stapylton Australia Felix 1836 Second-in-command to Major Mitchell is based on the true journals of the pioneer land surveyor Granville Stapylton when he accompanied Major Thomas Mitchell on the famous ‘Australia Felix’ expedition …
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# 43620
KEMPF, Franz (President)
Contemporary Art Society of Australia (S.A.) Inc. Broadsheet. October 1966
[Adelaide] : Contemporary Art Society of South Australia, 1966. Octavo, decorated wrappers, pp. [8] printed roneo, includes local art news.
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# 43105
SCOTT, Charles P. (1878-1928)
Bagot and Marsh camel train at Oodnadatta Railway Station, South Australia, 1903-04.
Gelatin silver print photograph, 90 x 135 mm, printed on postcard stock; image blind-stamped lower left ‘Chas. P. Scott / Unley, S.A.’ and wet-stamped upper right ‘Oodnadatta’; verso without message or inscription; in excellent condition. This commercial postcard was produced by photographer Charles P. Scott between 1905 and 1908, the year he relocated his business …
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# 32074
WEYGAND, F. J.
Globe artificiel et mécanique a l’usage du petit géographe.
Amsterdam ; La Haye [Netherlands] : F. J. Weygand, [ca.1840]. Collapsible globe in 6 gores, engraved with hand colouring, laid down on thin card, each gore 170 x 70 mm (irregular); in fine condition with vivid original colour, Australia with Terre de Witt, Terre d’Eendracht, Cape Leeuwin, Terre de Nuyts, Golfe de Spencer, Terre de Van …
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# 42738
SCHOFF, James (editor)
The British Collection at Carrick Hill : The Hayward Bequest of British Paintings (the Director’s copy)
Adelaide : Carrick Hill Trust, 1991. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 64, illustrated. From the library of art curator and author David Thomas, former Keeper of Pictorial Collections, National Library of Australia, and Director of the Newcastle City Art Gallery, Australian Gallery Directors Council, Art Gallery of South Australia, Carrick Hill, Adelaide, and Bendigo Art Gallery, …
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# 42415
[HEYSEN]. HEYSEN, Sue
Heysen. Recollections of the Cedars (signed copy)
North Adelaide : Sue Heysen, 1991. Quarto, illustrated boards, pp. 86, text in three parts; ‘the early days of Heysen’, ‘my memories of the artist’ and ‘a time to remember’, a recount of the life of Sir Hans Heysen from the personal and intimate view of his daughter-in-law, illustrated throughout with colour and black & …
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# 41467
Photographer unknown.
Graziers showing off their two fine merino rams, South Australia (possibly Mount Gambier), early 1860s.
Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each image approximately 70 x 70 mm (arched-top format), buff-coloured mount 88 x 173 mm; no photographer’s imprint or inscription on verso; both are strong prints with excellent clarity, and they have survived virtually unscathed; the mount has a central vertical crease, foxing and light staining, as well as a small …