Victoria
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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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# 50791
MORA, Georges (President)
Contemporary Art Society Broadsheet 1959
[Melbourne] : Contemporary Art Society, 1959. Oblong quarto, illustrated wrappers (marked), stapled (detaching), offsetting to first leaf, pp. 24, with contributions from Georges Mora, John Reed, Ian Sime, Ron Greenaway, Peter Burns, Laurence Hope etc. An invaluable insight into the contemporary art scene in Melbourne in the late 1950s.
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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 …
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![[RIVER MURRAY] Clearing the land; digging an irrigation channel; harvesting wine grapes; view of a rural property with windmill pump. Renmark district, South Australia, late 1890s.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/06/2026_DSFB_3544-300x300.jpg)
# 50408
ROSSELL, Henry Norman
[RIVER MURRAY] Clearing the land; digging an irrigation channel; harvesting wine grapes; view of a rural property with windmill pump. Renmark district, South Australia, late 1890s.
Group of 4 (four) printing-out-paper print photographs, in panoramic format, each 100 x 200 mm; versos all wet-stamped in violet ‘H. Norman Rossell, Photographer, Renmark’, three have the photographer’s pencilled sequence number, and one – showing workers with a steam engine clearing the land – is annotated (by Rossell?): ‘The trees in background are Mallee …
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![[RIVER MURRAY] Clearing the land; workers in citrus fruit orchard. Renmark district, South Australia, late 1890s.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/06/2026_DSFB_3564-300x300.jpg)
# 50409
ROSSELL, Henry Norman
[RIVER MURRAY] Clearing the land; workers in citrus fruit orchard. Renmark district, South Australia, late 1890s.
Group of 4 (four) printing-out-paper print photographs, in small format, each 75 x 100 mm; versos all wet-stamped in violet ‘H. Norman Rossell, Photographer, Renmark’; all of the prints are in very good condition (unmounted). Trove locates no photographs by Rossell in Australian institutional collections. From Rossell’s obituary in The Chronicle (Adelaide), 12 November 1897: …
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# 50411
LINDT, J. W. (1845–1926)
Studio portraits of an officer in one of the Victorian volunteer regiments. Melbourne, c.1885.
Two albumen print photographs, carte de visite format, 105 x 64 mm (mount); versos with the highly decorative back mark of ‘J. W. Lindt, Photographer, 7 Collins Street East, Melbourne. Prize Medallist Philadelphia, Paris, Sydney, Brisbane, Sandhurst, Melbourne, Christchurch, Amsterdam’; both in fine condition. The carte can be dated to around 1885 based on the …
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# 50670
ROBB, E. M.
Early Toorak and district (signed presentation copy)
Melbourne : Robertson & Mullens Limited, 1934. Oblong folio, lettered cloth (marked, split to spine), illustrated. Photographically illustrated history of Toorak and the surrounding suburbs of Malvern, Prahran, South Yarra and Hawthorn. A fine record of nineteenth century colonial architecture and society in Melbourne. With a presentation inscription from the author to ‘R. H. Chaplin …
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# 50594
BATCHELDER & CO.
Studio portrait of Lieutenant Nassau Stephens, RN. Melbourne, December 1872.
Albumen print photograph in carte de visite format, 104 x 63 mm (mount); verso with the imprint of ‘Barchelder & Co., Artist Photographers, 41 Collins St. East, Melbourne’, and with a roughly contemporary inscription in ink ‘December 1872’; the print and the mount are both in good condition; the carte is accompanied by a section cut …
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![[MELBOURNE] Consecration and solemn opening of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne, October 31st 1897. The Archbishop of Melbourne requests the favour of the presence of Mr. & Mrs. O'Connor ...](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/06/2026_DSFB_3593-300x300.jpg)
# 50433
[ROMAN CATHOLIC ARCHDIOCESE OF MELBOURNE.
[MELBOURNE] Consecration and solemn opening of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Melbourne, October 31st 1897. The Archbishop of Melbourne requests the favour of the presence of Mr. & Mrs. O’Connor …
[Melbourne : s.n.], 1897. Folding card, 125 x 160 mm, printed on [4] sides, lithograph printed, front with embossed episcopal coat of arms, second side with invitation including the names of the O’Connors in manuscript, third side with lithographed illustration of the cathedral; laid down on section of card cut from a nineteenth-century album leaf; …
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# 50666
ARDEN, George
Latest information with regard to Australia Felix, the finest province of the great territory of New South Wales;
including the history, geography, natural resources, government, commerce, and finances of Port Phillip; sketches of the aboriginal population, and advice to immigrants; by the editor of the Port Philip Gazette, Melbourne. [Melbourne] : Arden and Strode, 1840 / Queensberry Hill Press, 1977. Facsimile edition. Octavo, half calf over cloth, spine in compartments with raised bands, …
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# 50611
BILLIS, R.V. & KENYON, A.S.
Pastures new. An account of the pastoral occupation of Port Phillip.
Melbourne : Macmillan, 1930. Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth in dustjacket (slightly edge worn), endpapers lightly offset, pp. xiv; 272, edges foxed, a fine copy, scarce in the dustjacket.
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# 50603
CURREY, John (editor)
David Collins. General Orders. Issued at Sullivan Bay Port Phillip. October 16 1803 – January 27 1804. With an Account of the First Printing Press in Victoria.
Melbourne : The Banks Society, 2025. Foolscap folio, quarter leather over marbled boards, spine in compartments with raised bands, contrasting title label lettered in gilt, pp. 142; colophon (with corrections slip); illustrations, folding plates, three facsimile orders (suitable for framing) loosely inserted in endpocket. Edition limited to 16 numbered copies. Includes facsimiles of all the …