Victoria

  • 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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  • Sands & McDougall's map of Melbourne and suburbs : showing tramways, railways streets, municipalities quarter mile radii etc. Revised to date

    # 47166

    SANDS & McDOUGALL

    Sands & McDougall’s map of Melbourne and suburbs : showing tramways, railways streets, municipalities quarter mile radii etc. Revised to date

    [Cover title : Map of Melbourne]. Melbourne : Sands & McDougall Pty. Ltd., [circa 1911]. Lithographed map, printed in black with red concentric circles, 98 x 74 cm, folded into titled cloth case, lightly marked, offsetting to one panel from the cloth case, a very good copy. An attractive street map of Melbourne extending from …

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  • Studio portrait of a dapper young man seated on a chair. Hamilton, Victoria, c.1890.

    # 47082

    MEEK, James

    Studio portrait of a dapper young man seated on a chair. Hamilton, Victoria, c.1890.

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 104 x 63 mm; recto of mount imprinted ‘ Meek / Grey St., Hamilton’; verso blank; both the albumen print and mount are in fine condition.

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  • Studio portrait of young woman in a fine dress, holding a carte de visite album. Melbourne, c.1865.

    # 46183

    JOHNSTONE, O'SHANNNESSY & CO.

    Studio portrait of young woman in a fine dress, holding a carte de visite album. Melbourne, c.1865.

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 104 x 63 mm (mount); verso with imprint of ‘Johnstone, O’Shannessy & Co., Artist Photographers, 3 Bourke Street East, next the Post Office, Melbourne’; both the print and the mount are in excellent condition. Provenance: From a family album belonging to Alexander Sloane (1829-1907) and his wife Annabella …

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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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  • Victoria and its metropolis, past and present (facsimile edition)

    # 45789

    SUTHERLAND, Alexander

    Victoria and its metropolis, past and present (facsimile edition)

    Melbourne : Today’s Heritage, [1988] (originally published in Melbourne by McCarron, Bird & Co., 1888). Facsimile edition. Three volumes, quarto, gilt-lettered rexine, pp. xii; 594; [viii]; 439; [vi]; 441 – 882; numerous black and white illustrations, traces of foxing to fore edges, a very good set. Printed in an edition of 500 numbered copies. Ferguson …

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  • The plumed voice. Poems by Leonard Mann. (Inscribed copy)

    # 16474

    MANN, Leonard

    The plumed voice. Poems by Leonard Mann. (Inscribed copy)

    Sydney : Angus & Robertson Limited, 1938. Octavo, original boards in dust jacket (lightly marked, chipped at head of spine and a litle worn at top edges); signed in full by the author on the front free-endpaper; pp 45; a near fine copy. The first published volume of poetry by Melbourne poet Leonard Mann.

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  • The chronicles of early Melbourne, 1835 to 1852. Historical, anecdotal and personal, by "Garryowen" (Facsimile edition)

    # 47119

    "Garryowen" (FINN, Edmund, 1819-1898)

    The chronicles of early Melbourne, 1835 to 1852. Historical, anecdotal and personal, by “Garryowen” (Facsimile edition)

    Centennial edition with portraits and illustrations. Melbourne : Fergusson and Mitchell, 1888. [Melbourne : Heritage editions, 1976]. Facsimile edition. Three volumes, quarto, gilt-lettered rexine, pp. x; [iv]; 1000; 120; numerous lithographed illustrations, the occasional spot of foxing, overall a very good set. Includes : The Chronicles of early melbourne. Biographical notes by Michael Cannon. Descriptive …

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  • Moyarra : an Australian legend in two cantos.

    # 16746

    "YITTADAIRN" [RUSDEN, George William]

    Moyarra : an Australian legend in two cantos.

    London : E. A. Petherick & Co., 1891. Second edition. Octavo, original blind blocked blue cloth lettered in gilt (upper board soiled at bottom edge), edges uncut, patterned endpapers, front pastedown with later ex libris, frontispiece with illustration of a reclining Aboriginal female by Sir Thomas L. Mitchell, title page with early owner’s annotation beneath …

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  • J. H. Abbott & Co. Tanners & Curriers ... Pall Mall, Bendigo, High Street, Echuca.

    # 47210

    J. H. ABBOTT & CO.

    J. H. Abbott & Co. Tanners & Curriers … Pall Mall, Bendigo, High Street, Echuca.

    Bendigo, Vic. : Bolton Bros, [1900-1910]. Quarto (260 x 200 mm), stapled wrappers, printed in black ink on buff paper, upper wrapper with various calligraphic typefaces, lower wrapper illustrated, [8] pp; contains descriptions and prices of all types of footwear, includes illustrations of ladies’ shoes and boots; very fine.

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  • "Queen Mary, Ballarat".

    # 46920

    KRUGER, Johann Friedrich Carl (Fred), (1831-1888)

    “Queen Mary, Ballarat”.

    [Caption from inscription on verso of mount]. Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 102 x 62 mm (mount); verso inscribed in ink (probably in the hand of the photographer) ‘Queen Mary / Ballarat’; a beautiful print with excellent clarity; the mount is clean and stable. This full-length portrait of Mary Phillips, who was commonly …

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  • Correspondence concerning the great Melbourne telescope. In three parts: 1852 -1870.

    # 46905

    Royal Society (Great Britain). Southern Telescope Committee.

    Correspondence concerning the great Melbourne telescope. In three parts: 1852 -1870.

    London : Taylor and Francis, 1871. Octavo, lettered flush cut papered boards, cloth spine (a few minor marks), presentation label to upper pastedown ‘Presented to W. H. Miller by the Royal Society’, pp. viii]; 45; [blank]; 3; [blank]; 40; [ii]; 59; [blank]; five lithographed plates (two folding), occasional light foxing, pale water stain to contents …

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  • Reasons suggestive of mining on physical principles for gold and coal. A review of the assumptions of geologists

    # 46908

    WOOD BEILBY, J.

    Reasons suggestive of mining on physical principles for gold and coal. A review of the assumptions of geologists

    Melbourne : Walker, May and Co., 1875. Octavo, lettered salmon wrappers, pp. 54, a clean copy. Ferguson, 6882.

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  • The chronicles of early Melbourne, 1835 to 1852. Historical, anecdotal and personal, by "Garryowen"

    # 46874

    "Garryowen" (FINN, Edmund, 1819-1898)

    The chronicles of early Melbourne, 1835 to 1852. Historical, anecdotal and personal, by “Garryowen”

    Centennial edition with portraits and illustrations. Melbourne : Fergusson and Mitchell, 1888. First edition. Two volumes, quarto, gilt-decorated roan (refurbished and recoloured, expertly rebacked with new spines lettered in gilt, a pencilled note on the endpaper of the second volume reads ‘Repaired H. Green £6.6.0’), all edges gilt, endpapers replaced, bookplates of Bernard Gore Brett …

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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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  • [CARTE DE VISITE ALBUM "OPENER"] The Victorian Album Almanack 1866.

    # 46776

    [Anon.]

    [CARTE DE VISITE ALBUM “OPENER”] The Victorian Album Almanack 1866.

    [Title from caption at centre of image]. Albumen print of calendar for 1866 with two illustrations, one of shipping in Hobson’s Bay, the other a view of the city of Melbourne from the Yarra; carte de visite format, 101 x 63 mm (mount); recto of mount imprinted at bottom margin ‘Pt. No. 5 / Copyright …

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