Victoria
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# 50597
DAVIES & CO.
A post-mortem photograph of “Baby Sellar”, St. Kilda (Melbourne), 1862.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 110 x 68 mm (mount); recto with contemporary inscription in ink: ‘Baby Sellar’; verso with studio’s printed label: ‘Photographed by Davies & Co., Artists, 98, Bourke Street East, Opposite the Theatre Royal, Melbourne, and High Street, Junction, St. Kilda’; very light foxing to both sides. According to Davies …
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# 50756
LEVEY, George Collins
Colony of Victoria at the Amsterdam International and Colonial Exhibition, 1883 (Dutch)
Amsterdamsche Internationale en Koloniale Tentoonstelling, 1883 / Korte beschrijving der Kolonie Victoria (Australie). Geschiedenis, aardrijkskunde, klimaat, regeering, landbouw, mijnwezen, nijverheid, staathuishoudkunde en maatschappelijke toestand. Melbourne : John Ferres, 1883. Octavo, printed wrappers, stitch bound, 20 pp, foldout map printed in colour. Important glimpse of how the colony was represented to European visitors to the exhibition. …
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# 49878
NEW SOUTH WALES. PARLIAMENT. LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY.
The Riverine question. Speeches in the Legislative Assembly of New South Wales.
Melbourne : printed by Wilson and Mackinnon, Collins Street East, 1864. Octavo (215 x 140 mm), publisher’s blind-blocked green pebbled cloth (rubbed), spine lettered in gilt; original yellow endpapers; title with ownership inscription of John Bowie Wilson (New South Wales Government Minister for Lands in the 1860s); pp. vii, [viii-x], 241, [3 blank]; preliminaries with …
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# 51035
[Photographer unknown].
Men at leisure: a spot of rowing, some beach cricket, a picnic hamper, and a bottle of wine. Near Melbourne, c.1910.
Silver bromide print, 150 x 200 mm; very good condition, on it original board mount, 180 x 235 mm (chipped at one corner). From a large group of Melbourne family photographs.
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# 50728
HOGAN, James Francis
The Irish in Australia
London : Ward & Downey, 1887. Octavo, lettered cloth (edges rubbed, wear to head and foot of spine), patterned endpapers, faded stamp to half-title, pp. [viii]; 348; [blank]; viii, text block slightly shaken, a good copy. Written mostly in Melbourne, Hogan’s history of the Irish population in Australia covers the history of Irish emigration to …
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# 51130
WILLIAMS, Fred (1927 - 1982)
Fred Williams : Bass Strait landscapes 1971-78
Hobart : Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 1981. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, 31pp. Lists 30 works with introduction by curator Hendrick Kolenburg.
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# 47061
HARDY, Thomas
Portrait of Henry Daniel Skinner, painted just before his departure from England for Port Phillip in 1852; accompanied by his waistcoat (as worn in the portrait).
Gouache and watercolour on paper, 24.0 x 20.5 cm (sight), signed by the artist l.r.; in fine condition, housed in a nineteenth-century bird’s-eye maple frame with original cover glass; [ACCOMPANIED BY] the embroidered silk waistcoat worn by Skinner in the portrait, approx. 50 x 40 cm (irregular), remarkably well preserved. Souvenirs of a young Englishman’s …
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# 50754
LEVEY, George Collins
Colony of Victoria at the Amsterdam International and Colonial Exhibition, 1883 (French)
Exposition Internationale et Coloniale an Amsterdam, 1883 / Esai sur la Colonie de Victoria (Australie). Histoire, geographie, climat, gouvernement, agriculture, produits mineraux et industriels, etat economique et social. Melbourne : John Ferres, 1883. Octavo, printed wrappers (heavily silverfished and detached), 20 pp, internally clean, LACKING foldout map. Important glimpse of how the colony was represented to …
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# 50824
TINDALE, Norman B.
Nomenclature of archaeological cultures and associated implements in Australia.
Adelaide : A. B. James, Government Printer, 1968. Reprint ‘From the Records of the South Australian Museum, Vol. XV, No. 4, November 5th, 1965’. Large octavo (240 x 175 mm), printed brown wrappers; pp. 615-640; with 21 line-drawn figures; a fine copy.
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![[WINE]. Notes of an Australian vine grower](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/06/2026_DSFB_3955-300x300.jpg)
# 50551
DE CASTELLA, Hubert (1825 - 1907)
[WINE]. Notes of an Australian vine grower
Translated, with preface and notes, by C.B. Thornton-Smith. Melbourne : Mast Gully Press, 1979. Limited edition of 750 copies (plus an additional 50 copies in quarter morocco by Bayntun of Bath), this copy out of series. Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth in illustrated dustjacket, 75 pp, illustrated, a fine copy which may have slight edge wear or …
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# 50801
SCOTT, Ernest
Historical memoir of the Melbourne Club
Melbourne : The Specialty Press, 1936. Octavo, gilt decorated full crushed morocco (edges slightly rubbed), pp. xi; [blank]; 111; [blank], photographic illustrations, errata sheet pasted to lower pastedown, a few specks of foxing, else fine. Edition limited to 650 numbered copies, bookplate and owner’s name to endpapers.
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# 50747
PESCOTT, Edward Edgar.
James Bonwick : A writer of school books and histories with a bibliography of his writings.
Melbourne : H. A. Evans, 1939. Quarto, quarter cloth over lettered boards (lightly marked), 43 pp., frontispiece portrait. Limited to 250 copies signed by Pescott.
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# 49803
EMBLING, Sabina Howitt [&] SINGLETON, Violet Etta
Commonplace book compiled by a young Melbourne woman (1867-78) with later entries by her daughter (1889-1890).
An astonishing artefact of Melbourne social history, in which the intimate voices of two young women – a mother and daughter from one of the city’s most elite families of the second half of the nineteenth century – cry, whisper and sing from the pages, after having been lost to history for over 130 years. …
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![[MELBOURNE THEATRE] Weston's New Opera House. Bourke Str. East, Melbourne. Soirée d'Ethiop. Opera. Instrumental. Comedy. Terpsichore. Burlesque. West & Hussey's Minstrels, presented with the compliments of Messrs. Weston & Hussey. H. Peachman, Agent.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/06/2026_DSFB_3996-300x300.jpg)
# 50560
TROEDEL, Charles (printer)
[MELBOURNE THEATRE] Weston’s New Opera House. Bourke Str. East, Melbourne. Soirée d’Ethiop. Opera. Instrumental. Comedy. Terpsichore. Burlesque. West & Hussey’s Minstrels, presented with the compliments of Messrs. Weston & Hussey. H. Peachman, Agent.
[Drop title]. [Melbourne : Charles Troedel, 1869]. Souvenir programme printed in purple on cream silk, bifolium, 200 x 140 mm, a bifolium printed on two of [4] sides, stitched at left edge and opening to reveal the third side containing the programme itself, headed ‘Grand Vice-Regal Command Night’; extremely well preserved; accompanied by two typed …
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# 50406
DE PINNA, Prof. Francis "Frank"
A Melbourne family posed outside their mansion (possibly on St. Kilda Road), c.1895.
Large format silver albumen print, 230 x 285 mm, on photographer’s studio mount of brown card with gilt decorative border and imprint: ‘Prof. de Pinna / Melb.’; both the print and the mount are in excellent condition. Relatively little is known about Prof. Francis “Frank” de Pinna, artist, musician and photographer (1864-1914), although he was …
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# 46852
McCRAE, George Gordon (1833-1927)
Carrion Vulture (Vultur Bismarckii)
[Melbourne, c.1871]. Ink and wash on paper, 235 x 285 mm (sheet), signed in the image lower left ‘G G McCrae’, titled by the artist lower centre ‘Carrion Vulture (Vultur Bismarckii)’; laid down on board. A large-scale allegorical sketch depicting Bismarck picking over the corpses of France and Liberty, by the Melbourne literary figure George …