Tasmania

  • Barbershop tableau. Queenstown, Tasmania, c.1910.

    # 47312

    RUTTER, A. S. (Alfred)

    Barbershop tableau. Queenstown, Tasmania, c.1910.

    Sepia-tone gelatin silver print photograph, 137 x 89 mm, printed on postcard stock; verso with printed label of ‘A. S. Rutter, Artist, Queenstown, Tas.’; mild corner and edge wear. Alfred Rutter was the resident studio photographer in Queenstown, the centre of the Mount Lyell mining district on Tasmania’s west coast, between 1903 and 1911, when he …

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  • Monanisms : Museum of Old and New Art

    # 47477

    WALSH, David et al.

    Monanisms : Museum of Old and New Art

    Hobart : Museum of Old and New Art, 2010. First edition. Quarto, lettered papered boards with cloth detailing, pp. xx; rotating volvelle, 386, CD-ROM inside lower board, illustrated, lacking the slipcase, but a fine copy of the landmark catalogue celebrating the launch of David Walsh’s iconic museum in Tasmania.

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  • In Port Esperance, Tasmania.

    # 47490

    ALLPORT, Morton (1830-1879)

    In Port Esperance, Tasmania.

    [Title from caption on mount]. Between 1862 and 1866. Albumen print photograph, 190 x 240 mm, laid down on original album leaf, 270 x 370 mm, contemporary manuscript title in ink beneath the image In Port Esperance, Tasmania; the print is in fine condition with excellent tonal range; the album sheet is entirely frre from foxing. …

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  • [TASMANIA] Ambrotype portrait of Dr. James Richardson and his second wife, Agnes Percy Peet. Launceston(?), c.1855; plus associated photographic portraits of members of the Richardson and Sherwin families.

    # 43660

    [Various photographers]

    [TASMANIA] Ambrotype portrait of Dr. James Richardson and his second wife, Agnes Percy Peet. Launceston(?), c.1855; plus associated photographic portraits of members of the Richardson and Sherwin families.

    I. Dr. James Richardson and his second wife, Agnes Percy Peet, c.1855. [Photographer unknown]. Half-plate ambrotype with hand colouring, 120 x 90 mm (sight), housed in a brass mat with ormolu preserver under the original cover glass and in the original leather half-case; verso with two brass hooks and wire for wall hanging; small areas …

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  • The Zones of the Earth. Plate No. X. Productions of the Southern Temperate Zone.

    # 47283

    A. & S. JOSEPH, MYERS & CO. (publisher)

    The Zones of the Earth. Plate No. X. Productions of the Southern Temperate Zone.

    [Title from printed caption lower centre]. London : A. & S. Joseph, Myers & Co. 144 Leadenhall Street, [after 1842]. Chromolithograph, 253 x 378 mm, mounted on a fully contemporary backing sheet of marbled card, with an eyelet for hanging at top centre; some pale stains and light marks, mostly confined to the margins, otherwise …

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  • The New South Wales representative soccer team. Hobart, August 1911.

    # 47229

    BEATTIE, J. W. (John Watt)

    The New South Wales representative soccer team. Hobart, August 1911.

    Hobart : J. W. Beattie, [1911]. Gelatin silver print photograph, 85 x 132 mm, printed on Kodak Austral postcard stock; verso wet-stamped ‘Prepared by J. W. Beattie, Hobart, Tasmania’; not mailed; mild corner wear, verso with a few minor stains, else very good condition. A rare photograph documenting a significant event in the early history …

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  • Jewelled nights

    # 47236

    BJELKE PETERSEN, Marie (1874-1969)

    Jewelled nights

    London : Hutchinson, [1923]. First edition. Octavo, publisher’s black-lettered blue cloth (spine ends a little softened); early ownership inscription to front free-endpaper; pp, 317; binding firm, very clean throughout, an excellent copy. Tasmanian novelist Marie Bjelke Petersen’s Jewelled nights tells the story of a runaway bride who seeks her fortune in the osmiridium fields on …

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  • Studio portrait of a gentleman wearing a white bow-tie. Hobart Town, Tasmania, early 1860s.

    # 46211

    WOOLLEY, Charles

    Studio portrait of a gentleman wearing a white bow-tie. Hobart Town, Tasmania, early 1860s.

    Albumen print photograph, 106 x 62 mm (mount); verso with back mark of ‘Chas. A. Woolley, 42 Macquarie St., Hobart Town’; the print and the mount are both in fine condition.    

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  • Tinted studio portrait of Miss M. Robertson. Hobart Town, Tasmania, 1868.

    # 46210

    SPURLING, Stephen (I)

    Tinted studio portrait of Miss M. Robertson. Hobart Town, Tasmania, 1868.

    Albumen print photograph with hand colouring, 102 x 63 mm (mount); verso with back mark of ‘S. Spurling, Photographer, Hobart Town. Prize Medallist, for Portraiture, Intercolonial Exhibition, Melbourne, 1866’, and a fully contemporary inscription in pencil: ‘Miss M. Robertson, Tasmania / 1868’; some very pale foxing to the print and the mount. The elegant sitter …

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  • Bitter fruit : Australian photographs to 1963

    # 45848

    GRAHAM-STEWART, Michael; McWHANNELL, Francis; DICKSON, Jonathan

    Bitter fruit : Australian photographs to 1963

    Melbourne : Michael Graham-Stewart, 2017. Quarto (285 x 230 mm), cloth boards in pictorial dust jacket, 280 pp, illustrated in colour throughout with hundreds of photographs documenting the collision of Indigenous Australian and European cultures; the photographs, ranging in date from the 1850s to the 1960s and taken in every region of Australia, represent some …

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  • [TASMANIA; WINE] Entire letter sent from Circular Head to Launceston, August 27 1847, regarding the purchase of port wine.

    # 47220

    [TASMANIA; WINE] Entire letter sent from Circular Head to Launceston, August 27 1847, regarding the purchase of port wine.

    Manuscript in ink, single folio sheet, 370 x 235 mm, folded, headed ‘Circular Head, August 27 1847’, signed at the foot ‘Yours truly, W. [Shepman?]’; outer side addressed to ‘W. Johnstone Esq. Launceston’ and endorsed ‘[Per] “Mercury”‘ / Paid’; old loss at 2 corners, small perforation from letter spike, but the letter itself is complete …

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  • Observations upon the marine barometer, made during the examination of the coasts of New Holland and New South Wales, in the years 1801, 1802, and 1803.

    # 30697

    FLINDERS, Matthew (1774-1814)

    Observations upon the marine barometer, made during the examination of the coasts of New Holland and New South Wales, in the years 1801, 1802, and 1803.

    Contained within: Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London for the year MDCCVI. Part II. London : printed by W. Bulmer, 1806. Quarto, original plain blue wrappers, pp. iv; 239 – 473; [8]; 12 engraved plates (some folding), the plates foxed but the text clean, all edges uncut and a little dusty, a fine …

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  • "Amy & Kathie". Launceston, Tasmania, late 1860s.

    # 47047

    WEBB, T. D.

    “Amy & Kathie”. Launceston, Tasmania, late 1860s.

    Albumen print with hand colouring, 102 x 63 mm (mount); verso with the imprint of ‘T. D. Webb, Photographer, St. John’s St., Launceston, Tasmania’, and early pencilled inscription ‘Amy & Kathie’ (the spelling of the latter name corrected from ‘Cathy’); the print is a little pale but is otherwise in very good condition, as is …

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  • Carte de visite commemorating Captain Edward Knowles and the emigrant ship "Northfleet", lost in the English Channel on 22 January 1873 en route to Hobart, Tasmania.

    # 46767

    THE LONDON STEREOSCOPIC & PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPANY

    Carte de visite commemorating Captain Edward Knowles and the emigrant ship “Northfleet”, lost in the English Channel on 22 January 1873 en route to Hobart, Tasmania.

    Albumen print photograph, 102 x 63 mm (mount); lower margin recto with printed caption: ‘Captain Knowles. Lost in the Northfleet off Dunganess, Jan. 22 1873’; verso with The London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company’s backmark; the print has a couple of light marks; the verso of the mount has some residual glue marks at the edges. …

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  • Joseph Lycett. Governor Macquarie’s convict artist.

    # 46499

    TURNER, John

    Joseph Lycett. Governor Macquarie’s convict artist.

    Newcastle : Hunter History Publications, 1997. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 148, illustrated, light handling marks, a very good copy. A detailed study of Lycett.

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  • Santa Claus and the shadow

    # 29410

    HUDSPETH, B. M.

    Santa Claus and the shadow

    Sydney : S. T. Leigh & Co., circa 1892. Quarto, lithographed papered boards, lithographed title page (reproducing the cover). pp. 69, text in sepia with border rule, a fine copy. A collection of Christmas stories for children by  ‘Miss B..M. Hudspeth, of Hobart, a lady who has already favourably established her name as an acceptable contributor to current Australian …

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