South Australia
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# 41378
Photographer unknown.
The ford and bridge, Laura, South Australia, mid 1870s.
Albumen print photograph, 95 x 136 mm, laid down recto of its original card mount, 250 x 300 mm, with calligraphic manuscript caption in ink in the bottom margin of the mount: ‘S.A. / The Ford and Bridge / Laura’; verso with old ownership wet stamp of ‘W. W. Courtney, Chemist, Cheltenham. Phone 233’; the print …
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# 41463
FISCHER, Theodor
Vagabondlif I Australien
/ af Theodor Fischer. Stockholm : Albert Bonniers Förlag, 1879. Small octavo (185 x 125 mm), contemporary half-calf over marbled papered boards; pp. 124, illustrated with 5 b/w lithographic plates (including one of a large Aboriginal group titled ‘King Okalia and entourage’; text in Swedish; a fine copy. Memoir of a Swedish drifter in the …
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![[ADELAIDE] Norwood Town Hall. Monday, August 26, 1901. Grand Benefit Concert will be tendered by the Silver Star Vaudeville Co. to Mr. Harry Lane,](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2023/08/2023_DSFB_5317-300x300.jpg)
# 41276
[ADELAIDE] Norwood Town Hall. Monday, August 26, 1901. Grand Benefit Concert will be tendered by the Silver Star Vaudeville Co. to Mr. Harry Lane,
who is unable to follow his employment owing to an accident he met with at the Marryatville Tramsheds. Adelaide : Smith & Heap, printers, Bray Street (late Quiz Office), 1901. Broadsheet, 295 x 225 mm, lithographically printed recto only; with programme of the evening’s entertainments, plus advertisements for 12 Adelaide businesses; printed on very cheap …
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![[ADELAIDE] Federal Hall, Grote Street. Friday, August 14, 1903. A Grand Concert & Dance will be held in aid of Funds to erect a Memorial for the late Mr. C. Pryor, late member of the Cornwall Football Club,](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2023/08/2023_DSFB_5310-300x300.jpg)
# 41279
[ADELAIDE] Federal Hall, Grote Street. Friday, August 14, 1903. A Grand Concert & Dance will be held in aid of Funds to erect a Memorial for the late Mr. C. Pryor, late member of the Cornwall Football Club,
and for many years in the employment of Messrs A. Simpson and Son. Adelaide : A. H. Kruss, Pirie Street, 1903. Folding broadsheet, 295 x 450 mm (fully opened), 295 x 225 mm (folded), lithographically printed on [4] sides; with programme of the evening’s entertainments, headlined by Will Raymond, Alf Bushby, Miss Mary Lawler, Bert …
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![[ADELAIDE] Victoria Ramblers Football Club. Second Annual Concert in the Goodwood Institute, on Monday, July 8th [1901].](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2023/08/2023_DSFB_5314-300x300.jpg)
# 41277
[ADELAIDE] Victoria Ramblers Football Club. Second Annual Concert in the Goodwood Institute, on Monday, July 8th [1901].
[Adelaide : A. & E. Lewis, printers, 1901]. Broadsheet, 295 x 225 mm, lithographically printed on both sides; recto with programme of the evening’s entertainments, plus advertisements for 12 Adelaide businesses; verso with full-page advertisement for J. Henry & Co.; printed on very cheap paper but well preserved; quite possibly a unique survivor.
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# 40961
PEAKE, Andrew Guy
Gardens, Orchards and Vines: The Histories of Wilson, Neilson and Townsend Families of Penola, South Australia
Adelaide : Tudor Australian Press, 2014. Quarto, cards with plastic cover, pp. 160, illustrated. New copy. ‘Traces the descendants of William Wilson (1816-1891) who emigrated with his family from Scotland on the Agincourt in 1850. He became a shepherd on sheep runs round Penola. After a trip to the Victorian goldfields, he was able to …
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# 41088
WHITEFIELD'S INSTITUTE (ADELAIDE)
Whitefield’s Hindmarsh. Pennies for the Poor. Four hundred families amid the dense poverty of Southwark, Hindmarsh, Brompton, Bowden and Devon Park look to us for aid. Giving makes us glad.
Hindmarsh, S.A. : Whitefield’s Congregational Institute, [circa 1927]. Collection box, 142 x 235 mm (still folded flat), printed in red and blue on white card, with two illustrations; fine condition. The Whitefield’s Institute was a mission to the Adelaide poor established in 1927 by Rev. Wilfred J. Magor, minister of the Congregational Church in the …
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# 40514
PERRY, H. R. (ca. 1846-1936)
Mount Remarkable, Flinders Ranges, South Australia, 1875-76
Albumen print photograph, 170 x 225 mm, laid down recto of its original card mount, 250 x 305 mm, with manuscript caption in ink in a neat hand: ‘Mount Remarkable’; verso with old ownership wet stamp of ‘W. W. Courtney, Chemist, Cheltenham. Phone 233’; the print is in good condition, with some spotting and a small …
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# 40513
PERRY, H. R. (ca. 1846-1936)
Woolundunga Springs near Port Augusta, 1875-76
Albumen print photograph, 170 x 225 mm, laid down recto of its original card mount, 250 x 305 mm, with manuscript caption in ink in a neat hand: ‘Woolundunga Springs near Port Augusta. / Verdant vales and fountains bright, Trees that nod on sloping hills, caves that echo, tinkling rills.’; verso with old ownership wet stamp …
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# 40193
WANTRUP, Jonathan
Australian Rare Books 1788 – 1900
Melbourne : Australian Book Auctions, 2023. Second edition, revised and enlarged. Two volumes, 255 x 180 mm, bound in dark green buckram, lettered in gilt, with colour pictorial dustwrappers, pp. 1400, 148 illustrations (43 in colour), glossary of book collecting terms, historical price estimates, indices of persons and titles. Printed and bound in Australia on …
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# 39647
DAVID, Lindsay
Journal of the Elder Scientific Exploring Expedition, 1891-2.
Under command of D. Lindsay. Equipped solely at the cost of Sir Thomas Elder G.C.M.G. for the purpose of completing the exploration of Australia … Adelaide: Corkwood Press, 1999. Octavo, gilt-lettered blue buckram, pp. 207. Facsimile of the 1893 original edition. Accompanied by the two large folding maps in separate buckram folder. Together with : …
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# 39477
DAILEY, S. J.
Timber cutting scene, Kangaroo Island, South Australia, circa 1890.
Sepia-tone gelatin silver print photograph, 155 x 210 mm; verso with the wet stamp of ‘S. J. Dailey, Photographic Artist, 151 Franklin Street, Adelaide’, and a fully contemporary caption in pencil: ‘Timber cutting, Kangaroo Island, S. A.’; the print has a few short edge tears and some loss at the corners; nevertheless, it is an exceptionally …
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# 39428
MARCHANT, Philip James (1846-1910)
Two portraits of elderly couples, one taken in a garden, the other in the studio. Gawler, South Australia, late 1890s.
I. Couple seated in a garden. Sepia-tone gelatin silver print photograph, cabinet card format, 166 x 112 mm; recto of round-cornered mount with silver-embossed imprint of ‘Marchant’s Studio, Gawler, S.A.’; verso blank; both the print and mount are in excellent condition. II. Couple in a studio with elaborate painted backdrop. Gelatin silver print photograph, cabinet …
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# 38848
Photographer unknown.
Beauty Spots of Adelaide, S. Australia.
[Circa 1914]. Handmade photo album, 80 x 210 mm, original textured brown paper wrappers with manuscript title in white ink to front ‘Beauty Spots of Adelaide, S. Australia’; containing [5] silver bromide prints, in uniform panoramic format 54 x 155 mm, mounted individually on the rectos of [5] leaves, each with a ms. caption in …
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# 36836
[VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS]
Images of Australian womanhood, 1910-1925 : fifty photographic portraits of women by Australian studios.
Group of 50 (fifty) gelatin silver print photographs, all printed on postcard stock (as was customary in this period) in uniform format 140 x 90 mm (approximate); 49/50 have studio imprints, and in some cases the sitters are identified on the back; a couple with corner wear and one with light marks, but overall the …
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# 37699
TAYLOR, J. (James)
Kangaroo hunting. Aboriginals of Musgrave Ranges, Central Australia, August 22nd 1889.
[Title from printed caption in lower margin]. [Published ca. 1900]. Collotype process print with hand colouring,175 x 225 mm (image), on sheet 250 x 300 mm; lower margin of sheet with imprint of ‘J. Taylor, Collotype, Adelaide, Copyright’ and printed caption in black; the print is in excellent condition; some light marks to margins of …