Tasmania

# 15686

[MEAGHER, Thomas Francis, 1823-67]

[TASMANIA] General Thomas Francis Meagher, Irish Nationalist, convict in Van Diemen’s Land

[U.S.A. : s.n., circa 1865. Albumen print photograph of a painting or drawing, carte de visite format (102 x 61 mm), printed caption below image ‘Maj. Gen. Meagher’; no studio imprint; in fine condition. Thomas Francis Meagher (1823-67) was a prominent figure in the 1848 Irish Rebellion, during which he was captured by the British and arrested …

# 15512

BANK OF VAN DIEMEN'S LAND; [KELLY, James, 1791-1859]

Bank of Van Diemen’s Land cashier’s cheque, Ten Pounds Sterling in favour of James Kelly, 1829

’16th May 1829. Pay to Self for house or Bearer the sum of Ten Pounds Sterling and place the same to Account of James Kelly [signatory]’; 94 x 175 mm, clean and legible. James Kelly (1791-1859), whaler and sealer, pilot and harbourmaster at Hobart Town, is known as the ‘father and founder of whaling’ in Tasmania (see entry on …

# 15271

GREENWOOD, John; SPEAK, Henry

A small archive of letters relating to the Baptist community at Constitution Hill, Van Diemen’s Land, 1860-62.

The unpublished letters in this recently discovered archive were written at Constitution Hill, north of Hobart Town, by John Greenwood (1778-1866), a devout Baptist and uncle of the noted early Tasmanian Baptist, Henry Speak. They are addressed to Greenwood’s former Baptist friends in New York State, where Greenwood had lived for a period earlier in his life after emigrating …

# 14882

STANTON, Don E.

Oh Australia!

Bermagui Sth., N.S.W. : Maranatha Revival Crusade, [1979]. Series: Monthly Message, no. 26. Octavo, pictorial wrappers (lower wrapper with stain), stapled, 112 pp, illustrated; a couple of annotations in biro, otherwise a very good copy. “Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people” (title page). Christian religious pamphlet written by an …

# 14904

PARKER, R.S. (Robert Stewart) et al.

New states for Australia : The Australian Institute of Polictical Science ;

Spring Forum ; 1955 ; Proceedings. Sydney : Australian Institute of Polictical Science, 1955. Quarto, original card covers, roneo printed, 90 pp, 1 folding table, 3 folding maps; a very good copy. Contains four papers delivered at the Armidale forum by R.S. Parker (New states for Australia : why new states?), J. MacDonald Holmes (The proposed …

# 14853

ROSS, James (1786-1838)

The Hobart Town Gazette (complete run of issues for the year 1829)

Hobart : James Ross, Government Printer, 1829. A complete run of 50 issues for the year 1829: vol. XIV, no. 660, January 3, 1829 – vol. XIV, no. 709, December 26, 1829. Large quarto, bound in contemporary blue-papered boards with manuscript dates to front and spine; most issues [4] pp; some issues with supplement (Government …

# 14856

ROSS, James (1786-1838)

The Hobart Town Gazette (complete run of issues for the year 1835)

Hobart : James Ross and George Howe, Government Printers, 1835. A complete run of 52 issues for 1835: vol. XX, no. 970, January 1, 1835 – vol. XIX, no. 1021, December 25, 1835. Quarto, all issues stitch bound, various paginations; a number of issues with supplements (Government acts); some issues with subscriber's name [H.B. Fortesse] …

# 14857

ROSS, James (1786-1838)

The Hobart Town Gazette (virtually complete run of issues for the year 1834)

Hobart : James Ross and George Howe, Government Printers, 1834. A run of 49 issues for 1834: vol. XIX, no. 919, January 10, 1834 – vol. XIX, no. 968, December 18, 1834 (missing nos. 918; 928; 969). Quarto, all issues stitch bound, various paginations; a number of issues with supplements (Government acts); some issues with …

# 14528

ROSE STEREOGRAPH CO.

Great suffragette demonstration in London. The Australian section

forming up on the Thames Embankment. Melbourne ; Sydney ; Wellington ; London : The Rose Stereograph Co., [1911]. Stereoscopic gelatin silver print photograph (mount 95 x 175 mm), from the series Great suffragette demonstration in London, serial no. 11,954, printed title beneath the images; recto of mount imprinted The Rose Stereographs Melbourne ; Sydney …

# 14628

GOESIN, Petrus de

Geographie, ofte beginselen der Land-Beschryvinge, zoo als die in haer eygen aerd, in verdeeling

van Landen en Gewesten met Wateren en Zee-en sig bevinden, en door Bergen, Rivieren en Stroomen onderscheiden zyn; als mede den principaelsten Koophandel die in elke Landen verrigt worden. Tot Gend [Ghent] : Petrus de Goesin, [1762]. Duodecimo, contemporary calf (heavily rubbed and scuffed), spine with raised bands, compartments with stamped floral design in gilt …

# 2049

[TASMANIA; MELBOURNE] Archive of ephemera relating to Robert William Nutt, lawyer and politician

Robert William Nutt (1813-1891) was one of Van Diemen's Land's pre-eminent early lawyers, practicing in partnership with Gamaliel Butler in Hobart Town in the 1840s. He was also a Member of the Legislative Council of Van Diemen's Land for 1851-52. In the late 1850s he relocated to Melbourne to work with James Hunter Ross, one …

# 14009

LITHGOW, J.H.

Presentation album of photographs by J.H. Lithgow, Launceston, Tasmania, 1900

Oblong quarto, half morocco over gilt lettered cloth boards (rubbed, lower board discoloured), front paste-down with calligraphic manuscript presentation inscription 'Mr. & Mrs. R.W. Hart. With sincere wishes for their Happiness and Prosperity, from Mr. & Mrs. J.H. Lithgow. 17.4.1900'; containing [24] toned carbon print photographs in format 150 x 200 mm, mounted recto and …

# 13798

SOCIETE ECONOMIQUE D'ALIMENTATION, LYON.

[THYLACINE; ABORIGINES] Australie

Lyon : Société Economique d'Alimentation, [c.1910]. Trade card, 73 x 166 mm, recto with chromolithographed design featuring a thylacine, Australian Aborigines and mia-mia, and a sulphur-crested cockatoo; verso with printed information about the Société Economique d'Alimentation in Lyon; in fine condition.

# 13839

MICHEL, Ernest

A travers l’hémisphère sud

: Equateur, Panama, Antilles, Mexique, Iles Sandwich, Nouvelle-Zélande, Tasmanie, Australie. Limoges : Marc Barbou, n.d. [c.1890]. Quarto, publisher's pictorial cloth gilt (rubbed), front hinge weakened, all edges gilt, 296 pp, illustrated with lithographed plates and line drawings in the text; scattered foxing; a good copy.  French travel memoir which includes detailed accounts of visits to …

# 12828

Photographer unknown.

The Museum, Hobart, in course of construction

[Title from later nineteenth century inscription verso]. Circa 1861. Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each image approximately 68 x 75 mm, on buff card mount, verso with later nineteenth century inscription in ink “The Museum Hobart in course of construction”; no photographer's imprint; the left hand albumen print unevenly trimmed; otherwise the prints are in good …

# 12742

CHEYNE, John Powles

Relics of Sir John Franklin’s Expedition, recently brought home by Captn. McClintock R.N.

Sent here by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. [Title from ms. label in image] [London : s.n., c.1861]. Stereographic albumen print photograph, each image approximately 74 x 65 mm (irregular), on pale yellow card mount; verso blank; the albumen prints are in fine condition and the mount is free from foxing. In 1861, with …

# 12745

CLIFFORD, Samuel (1827-1890) (attributed)

Hobart Town from the tower of St. David’s

[Title from contemporary inscription verso]. 1861-1865. Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each image approximately 80 x 80 mm, on pale grey card mount; the albumen prints are in good condition.

# 12744

CLIFFORD, Samuel (1827-1890) (attributed)

St. David’s, Hobart Town, Tasmania

[Title from contemporary inscription verso]. 1861-1865. Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each image approximately 80 x 80 mm, on pale yellow card mount; the albumen prints are in good condition.

# 12134

BEATTIE, John Watt (1859-1930); MUNDY, Godfrey Charles (1804-1860)

[TASMANIA] The Convict Railway, P.A. [Port Arthur]

Hobart : J.W. Beattie, [between 1895 and 1900]. Photographic glass magic lantern slide, 82 x 82 mm, mount with contemporary manuscript caption The Convict Railway, P.A., and stamped imprint with manuscript entries of J.W. Beattie, Hobart, no. 482B Lecture no. 16, with small label numbered 2; in fine condition. A photographic image of a drawing …

# 11931

[TASMANIA] Souvenir of Scottsdale centenary celebrations 1855-1955

[Scottsdale, Tas. : s.n., 1955]. Oblong octavo, pictorial stiff wrappers, 40 pp, illustrated, a good copy. 

# 11413

Anon.

[BALLAD] Van Dieman’s (sic) Land

IN: The everlasting songster, containing a great variety of sentimental, comic and other songs, for the present year. Lincoln : Printed by and for R.E. Leary, Silver-Street [c.1825]. Small octavo, title leaf with woodcut vignette, [22] pp, closely trimmed, but crisp and clean; an unrecorded ballad pamphlet. [BOUND WITH] The Royal Visit, containing a full …

# 11365

SPURLINGS PTY. LTD.

Pictorial souvenir of Launceston (Tasmania) and surrounding tourist resorts,

containing fifty artistic and up-to-date views by Spurlings Pty. Ltd. Launceston. Cover: … fifty-one artistic views. Launceston : Spurlings Pty. Ltd., [c.1925]. Oblong quarto, publisher's stiff pictorial wrappers (small amount of silverfishing to lower wrapper), [32] pp, all half tone photographic plates, contents exceptionally clean.

# 11018

CLIFFORD, Samuel (1827-1890)

[PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM] Tasmanian scenes.

[Hobart : Samuel Clifford, circa 1873]. Quarto (300 x 245 mm), original tan coloured cloth with gilt stamped title and decoration to front board (rubbed, upper corners worn, spine softened at head and tail), front free-endpaper with contemporary inscription in brown ink S. Clifford Photo., containing 24 albumen print photographs (format 105 x 180 mm) laid …

# 11202

AGENT GENERAL FOR TASMANIA; [BEATTIE, John Watt, 1859-1930]

Hop picking, Tasmania

London : Agent General for Tasmania, [c.1910]. Chromolithographic postcard, 87 x 138 mm, verso imprinted Pictorial Scenes of Tasmania / Published by the Agent General for Tasmania / (6) Hop picking, Tasmania; postally unused, in fine condition. Although not credited, the original photographer was J.W. Beattie.

# 10408

Various photographers.

[PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM] Australian Photographs

1880-1885. A fine nineteenth century album of photographs compiled by a traveller. Oblong folio, 290 x 430 mm, full leather with blind tooled decoration, upper and lower boards with gilt ornament and upper board titled in gilt Australian Photographs, inner boards with gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, containing [119] albumen print photographs in …