Victoria

# 49997

COLE, T. C.

Cole’s Gardening in Victoria;

containing full directions for the formation and general management of a good garden ; together with a comprehensive calendar for the operations of each month in the year. Melbourne : W. Fairfax and Co., 1860. Octavo, publisher’s gilt-lettered pebbled cloth embossed in blind (spine slightly sunned and edges a little rubbed); binder’s ticket for Detmold …

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# 51488

SIVRONI, Ernest

The SS Runic. From Melbourne to London. The World’s Polite Entertainers : Entertainment in aid of the Liverpool Seamen’s Orphanage Fund. Programme. (12 July, 1901)

[At sea : on board SS Runic, July 1901]. Folio bifolium (330 x 200 mm), roneo-printed in violet on the first side only, on re-purposed faint-ruled writing paper; with three satirical line-drawn illustrations; light horizontal fold, some toning, but overall well preserved. An unrecorded shipboard programme that features the names of several colonial stage performers, …

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# 51287

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

Aborigines’ war implements. (Coranderrk, c.1877)

[Title from printed caption on mount]. Albumen print photograph, 125 x 81 mm, on the original paper mount with lithographed imprint: ‘Fred. Kruger, Photo. (Gold Medallist) Geelong / KRUGER’S VICTORIAN SCENERY / Aborigines’ war implements’; both the print and the mount are in excellent condition. This image is one of several known variants of similar displays …

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# 51417

HAIGH, Edward (attributed)

View in the Melbourne Cemetery. (1861-62)

Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each image approximately 73 x 73 mm, flat yellow mount 83 x 165 mm; verso with contemporary manuscript caption ‘View in the Melbourne Cemetery’, and below this in manuscript the original owner’s monogram and sequence number ‘MAH. 63’; both prints, as well as the mount, are in fine condition. A very …

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# 51339

HAIGH, Edward

Cemetery Lodge, Melbourne, Victoria. (1861-62)

2Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each image approximately 73 x 73 mm, flat yellow mount 83 x 165 mm; verso with original printed label ’51. Cemetery Lodge, Melbourne, Victoria. Ed. Haigh, Photo.’; the right-hand print has some staining in the sky area, and the left-hand print has a small ink mark at left edge; the mount is …

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# 51416

HAIGH, Edward (attributed)

Cemetery, Melbourne. (1861-62)

Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each image approximately 73 x 73 mm, flat yellow mount 83 x 165 mm; verso with contemporary manuscript caption ‘Cemetery, Melbourne’, and below this in manuscript the original owner’s monogram and sequence number ‘MAH. 53’; both prints, as well as the mount, are in fine condition. A very early view of the …

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# 51558

STORRIE, A. L. and KETTLEWELL, J. W. (compilers)

The Eastern & Australian Steamship Co. Ltd. Tourist Guide to China, Japan, islands and ports en route, Australia and Tasmania

Sydney : William Dymock, 1899. Small quarto, gilt-lettered red cloth (marked, recessed), advertisement for David Jones to lower board, advertisements to endpapers, pp. xvi; 288, extensively photographically illustrated and with several two tone maps, a few marks, some bleeding from red boards to lower few leaves, a very good copy. A very scarce tourists guide …

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# 51337

SMITH, James (editor)

The Cyclopedia of Victoria (Illustrated).

An historical and commercial review. Descriptive and biographical, facts, figures and illustrations. An epitome of progress. Melbourne : The Cyclopedia Company and Ballarat : F. W. Niven and Co., 1903 – 5. Three volumes, quarto, modern binding of half goatskin over blue cloth, contrasting morocco title labels to spines, lettered in gilt, new endpapers, marbled …

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# 51432

BATCHELDER, Benjamin Pierce

Studio portrait of young brothers Charles James and William Walter Stebbing. Sandhurst (Bendigo), Victorian goldfields, c.1865.

Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 101 x 64 mm (mount); verso imprinted ‘Photographed by Batchelder, Pall Mall, Sandhurst’, and with a fully contemporary inscription in ink by the father of the sitters, Frederick Stebbing: ‘Charles James / William Walter / Our last child is called Mary, after my wife’s [name], she is just …

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# 51616

RUDD, Charles (photographer and publisher) (1849-1901)

[MELBOURNE] Prahran Arcade, Chapel Street, early 1890s.

Albumen print photograph, 200 x 130 mm; mounted on the original green backing sheet, 230 x 190 mm, imprinted in black with the studio details of photographer and publisher Charles Rudd, 162 Bourke Street, and with a fully contemporary caption in ink ‘Prahran Arcade’; the print is in good condition; the paper mount has some …

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# 51626

STANDISH, Frederick Charles (1824-1883)

Captain Frederick Standish, Chief Commissioner of Police in Victoria: cut signature (c.1880).

Manuscript in ink, 45 x 80 mm, cut from the foot of a letter and reading ‘Very sincerely yours, Fredk. C. Standish’; mounted on a section of card cut from a nineteenth-century album leaf, the mount inscribed in the hand of Jane Emma Murphy (see below) ‘Capt. Standish, first Chief Inspector of Police in Melbourne’; …

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# 51629

BATEMAN, Edward La Trobe (1815-1897)

Edward La Trobe Bateman, artist and garden designer: cut signature (Melbourne, c.1868-69).

Manuscript in ink, 80 x 110 mm, cut from the foot of a letter and reading ‘… Mr Burrell, ever yours, Edward La Trobe Bateman‘, with the addressee’s name also in Bateman’s hand ‘J. B. Burrell Esq. J. P., Arthur’s Seat‘ (note that Bateman was writing with his left hand due to the accident he …

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# 51239

LISTON, J. J.

[VICTORIAN PROHIBITION REFERENDUM] 20,000 more unemployed : It’s up to you – give the men a fair show, don’t forget to VOTE NO.

Melbourne : Authorised by J. J. Liston, The Block, Collins Street, [1930]. Broadsheet, 330 x 188 mm, printed recto only, illustrated; light vertical and horizontal folds, a good example. On 29 March, 1930 the Victorian Government held a referendum to decide if the sale of alcohol should be banned in the State. Victorians rejected the …

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# 51640

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, pale foxing to lower panel, spine …

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# 9694

LORRAINE Paul

[SHEET MUSIC] La Carita (Tempo di Marcia).

Melbourne : Allan & Co., c.1908. Folio, illustrated cover with lithographed portrait of a young gypsy woman by W. George (front cover detached, with wet stamp of T.L. Hood Music seller, Hobart, and ownership inscription blacked out), 7 pp of musical notation (pencilled annotations), plus extracts from other pieces on inner rear and rear covers. Unrecorded …

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# 9693

HAUERBACH, Oscar (lyrics); HOSCHNA, Karl L. (music)

[SHEET MUSIC] Every little movement

Cover: Sung in J.C. Williamson's production of the musical play The Night Birds staged by C. Wenman. Melbourne : Allan & Co, 1910. Folio, illustrated cover with inset portrait of English actress and musical comedy star Sybil Arundale, who was to tour Australia in 1912-13 (bookseller's label of A.W. Birchall & Sons, Launceston, and original ownership …

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