Victoria

# 16340

WATTS, H.E. (attributed)

Democratic government in Victoria : Reprinted from the “Westminster Review” for April, 1868

Melbourne : Published for and on account of Trübner &​ Co., by … George Robertson, 1868. Octavo, modern cloth boards with printed label to upper board, title page with contemporary underlining in red pencil, 40 pp, scattered foxing, a good copy. Ferguson, 9089. Attributed by H.G. Turner to H.E. Watts.

# 16339

WATTS, H.E. (attributed)

Democratic government in Victoria : Reprinted from the “Westminster Review” for April, 1868.

Melbourne : Published for and on account of Trübner &​ Co., by … George Robertson, 1868. Octavo, modern leather binding with gilt lettering to upper board, 40 pp, mild foxing to outer leaves, a very good copy. Ferguson, 9089. Attributed by H.G. Turner to H.E. Watts.

# 16185

"ZEPHYR"

Der Kaiser, Mein Got! : being a satire on the German Emperor / by Zephyr.

[Melbourne : Gordon &​ Gotch, 1915]. Duodecimo, original illustrated wrappers (mild water stain at top corners), 8 pp; some pages with a few light marks and stains; a fair copy. A scarce World War One Australian satirical publication. Written in verse, its lampoons the incorrect language and bad accent of a German speaker attempting to …

# 16169

NETTLETON, Charles (1826-1902), attributed

The first Scots Church and Burke and Wills monument, Collins Street East, Melbourne, late 1860s

Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 63 x 102 mm (mount); verso with contemporary inscription in pencil (in error) ‘Independent Ch. Collins Street’; no photographer’s imprint; a strong albumen print with good tonal range, the mount with a tiny amount of foxing but in very good condition. This view, taken from opposite St. Michael’s Church (not …

# 15881

FAIRFAX, William

Handbook to Australasia;

being a brief historical and descriptive account of Victoria,Tasmania, South Australia, New South Wales, Western Australia and New Zealand. With a map of the Australasian colonies. Melbourne : William Fairfax and Co., 1859. Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth by Detmold, binder’s ticket to front pastedown, spine with loss, advertisements to endpapers and bookplate for Rev. William McClure, …

# 15703

Gold fever! Life on the diggings 1851~1855

Canberra : National Library of Australia, 1994. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp 15. Exhibition catalogue for a travelling exhibition presented by the National Library of Australia and Sovereign Hill.

# 16177

NETTLETON, Charles (1826-1902), attributed

General Post Office, corner of Elizabeth and Bourke Streets, Melbourne, late 1860s

Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 63 x 102 mm (mount); verso with imprint of ‘W.J. Norman, Wholesale and Retail Looking Glass and Picture Frame Manufacturer, 94 & 170 Elizabeth Street Melbourne’ and contemporary inscription in pencil ‘P.O. Melbourne’; no photographer’s imprint; a strong albumen print with good tonal range, the mount also in fine condition. …

# 16175

NETTLETON, Charles (1826-1902), attributed

Library, Parliament House from gardens on corner of Albert and Spring Streets, Melbourne, late 1860s

Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 63 x 102 mm (mount); verso with imprint of ‘W.J. Norman, Wholesale and Retail Looking Glass and Picture Frame Manufacturer, 94 & 170 Elizabeth Street Melbourne’ and contemporary inscription in pencil ‘Parlt. House’; no photographer’s imprint; a superb albumen print with excellent tonal range, the mount also in fine condition. …

# 16176

NETTLETON, Charles (1826-1902), attributed

Treasury Building, Spring Street, Melbourne, late 1860s

Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 63 x 102 mm (mount); verso with imprint of ‘W.J. Norman, Wholesale and Retail Looking Glass and Picture Frame Manufacturer, 94 & 170 Elizabeth Street Melbourne’ and contemporary inscription in pencil ‘Treasury Melbourne’; no photographer’s imprint; a superb albumen print with excellent tonal range, the mount also in fine condition. …

# 16166

NETTLETON, Charles (1826-1902), attributed

Menzies Hotel, corner of Bourke and William Street, Melbourne, late 1860s

Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 63 x 102 mm (mount); verso with imprint of ‘W.J. Norman, Wholesale and Retail Looking Glass and Picture Frame Manufacturer, 94 & 170 Elizabeth Street Melbourne’ and contemporary inscription in pencil ‘Menzies Hotel’; no photographer’s imprint; a strong albumen print with excellent tonal range, the mount also in fine condition. …

# 15895

NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD

Norddeutscher Lloyd, Bremen. Handbuch der Reichspostdampfer-Linien nach Ostasien und Australien. No. 1, 1910.

Bremen : Norddeutscher Lloyd, 1910. Octavo, publisher’s pictorial wrappers with original owner’s signature to front (lightly foxed, short paper split at head of spine); pp 113, with folding tables and folding colour map at rear; a good copy. Scarce commercial shipping publication containing N.D.L.’s timetables, rates, baggage and freight allowances etc. for all lines, including …

# 15959

ASSOCIATED HUNT CLUBS OF VICTORIA.

[MELBOURNE; HORSE RACING] Associated Hunt Clubs Races … Mooney Valley Racecourse, Wednesday, 4th Sept., 1918. Official programme.

Melbourne : F.S. Treadwell, printer, 1918. Duodecimo, original illustrated wrappers printed in blue, information printed on lower and inside wrappers, staple bound, 32 pp, owner’s pencilled annotations; a very well preserved example.

# 15882

[HAMILTON, George]

Experiences of a colonist forty years ago; a journey from Port Phillip to South Australia in 1839 and a voyage from Port Phillip to Adelaide in 1846.

By an old hand. With illustrations. Adelaide : J. Williams, 1880. Octavo, gilt-lettered red cloth, blue endpapers with previous owner’s name neatly inscribed, photographic frontispiece, pp. [viii]; 84; 79; [1]; 23; two photographic plates reproducing four painted scenes, Second edition, the first with photographic illustrations. Ferguson 10184; Holden 49

# 15897

MUNDY, Godfrey Charles

Our antipodes : or, residence and rambles in the Australasian colonies. With a glimpse of the gold fields.

Third edition, complete in one volume. London : Richard Bentley, 1855. Octavo, gilt-decorated crushed morocco (edges rubbed), all edges gilt, presentation inscription to preliminary blank ‘Henry Bruce from his sincere friend Edward R. M. Baskerville on his leaving Eton, Election 1859’, tinted lithograph frontispiece, pp. [viii]; 637; seven further tinted lithographs, a very good copy.

# 16074

A brief statement of facts in connection with an overland expedition from Lake George to Port Phillip in 1824.

Third edition : with addenda. Yass : J. J. Brown, 1874. Octavo, original flush-cut pebbled cloth (upper board nearly detached), printed paper title label, bookplate inside upper board from Henry White, portrait frontispiece lithographed by Charles Turner of Melbourne, pp. 112, foxing to preliminaries. A good copy. The 1824 expedition overland to Port Phillip is …

# 16007

PETERMANN, August (1822-1878)

[GOLD RUSH] Géographie et statistique de la colonie de Victoria, dans l’Australie méridionale.

pp 147-159 in: Nouvelles Annales des Voyages, de la Géographie, de l’Histoire et de l’Archéologie. 6e. séries, 2e. année, Novembre 1856. Paris : Arthus Bertrand, 1856. Octavo, original printed wrappers; pp 129-256, folding map of Australia Felix by Malte-Brun (with offsetting); pages mostly uncut; scattered foxing, a good copy. Translated into French from the German of …

# 15845

BANK OF VICTORIA

Bank of Victoria sixty day sight note for £250, dated 26 December 1863

[Melbourne : Bank of Victoria]. Engraved design on watermarked pink paper; 118 x 240 mm; ‘… pay to the order of R. & H. Pamall & Co. Two hundred fifty pounds’; verso with an interesting endorsement correcting the payee information: ‘Pay to S. & T. Carrington (signed J.R. Hocknell) / The within was taken out in …

# 15821

FAWTHROP, James

Ephemera relating to the rescue of the survivors from the wreck of the Admella near Portland, Victoria, in 1859

One of the worst maritime disasters in Australia’s history, which saw the loss of 89 lives, the wreck of the Admella in 1859 on Carpenter’s Reef off the coast of far southeast South Australia was a headline event at the time, and it quickly entered into Australian folklore. Survivors clung to the wreck in mountainous seas …

# 15745

ORIENT LINE

Orient Line of Royal Mail Steam-ships to Australia. First class ticket, London to Sydney, 1895.

[London : Orient Line, 1895]. Quarto sheet, 270 x 205 mm, printed on both sides in sepia and blue, manuscript entries recording payment of £128 by the Hon. F.S. O’Grady [Frederick Standish O’Grady, 6th Viscount Guillamore, 1847-1927] and Hon. Mrs. O’Grady, for First Saloon passage on RMS Cuzco, departing London 6 September 1895, for Albany, Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney, being a …

# 15795

FORREST, Charles, Lieutenant (1809-1874)

Pencil drawing depicting a scene on the Yarra, Melbourne, circa 1870

Leaf from an artist’s sketchbook, 230 x 285 mm, unsigned; in fine condition, in an archival mat; verso of leaf with an unfinished pencil sketch by the same artist, depicting early settlers and wooden dwellings in the Australian bush; affixed to the back of the mat is the following typed declaration by a descendant of the artist, …

# 15734

Photographer unknown.

The Hanging Rock, Woodend, Victoria

[Melbourne : Maker unknown, circa 1900]. Photographic glass magic lantern slide with hand colouring, 82 x 82 mm, original paper label with typed caption and sequence number, 23. The Hanging Rock, Woodend, Victoria; in fine condition. A beautiful photographic view of one of the most romanticised natural attractions in Victoria.

# 15746

CAIRE, Nicholas James (1837-1918)

[ABORIGINES] Group of natives, Victoria

Circa 1895. Photographic glass magic lantern slide with hand colouring, 82 x 82 mm, original printed label affixed to one of the paper borders, ‘Group of Natives, Victoria’; in good condition. An exterior portrait of an Aboriginal group in European clothing at Lake Tyers Mission, in far eastern Victoria. The image was taken by the photographer …