Victoria
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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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![[CRICKET] Studio portraits of Arthur and George O'Mullane, sons of Dr. Arthur O'Mullane. Melbourne, c.1863-64.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/05/2026_DSFB_3378-300x300.jpg)
# 50375
BATCHELDER & O'NEILL
[CRICKET] Studio portraits of Arthur and George O’Mullane, sons of Dr. Arthur O’Mullane. Melbourne, c.1863-64.
I. Portrait of Arthur Augustus O’Mullane (1841-1865), by Batchelder & O’Neill (41 Collins Street, East, Melbourne). Albumen print, carte de visite format (103 x 63 mm. mount). Fine condition; accompanied by its original album window mount inscribed with the sitter’s name ‘Arthur O’Mullane’. II. Portrait of George Jeremiah Patrick O’Mullane (1842-1866), by Batchelder & O’Neill …
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![[WINE] Studio portrait of John Charles Johnston of Craiglee Vineyard, Sunbury, Victoria, late 1860s.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2024/11/2024_DSFB_6557-300x300.jpg)
# 45812
JOHNSTONE, O'SHANNESSY & CO.
[WINE] Studio portrait of John Charles Johnston of Craiglee Vineyard, Sunbury, Victoria, late 1860s.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 104 x 63 mm (mount); recto inscribed in ink in a fully contemporary hand in the lower margin: ‘J. C. J. … Sunbury’; verso inscribed in the same hand ‘John Charles Johnston’, and with the gilt back mark of ‘Johnstone, O’Shannessy & Co., Artist Photographers, 3 Bourke Street …
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# 50334
SOLOMON & BARDWELL
Studio portrait of a young woman holding a carte de visite album, her white gloves placed in a wire “glove basket”. Ballarat, Victorian goldfields, c.1865.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 94 x 64 mm; verso with imprint of ‘Solomon & Bardwell, Photographers, Ballarat’ contemporary inscription in ink: ‘M. Strack’; the print has some mottling in the negative and some very light creasing at left edge.
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# 50097
AP HUW, D. Ap G.
Gwlad yr aur, neu, Gydymaith yr ymfudwr Cymreig i Australia :
yn cynwys, hanes y cyfandir australaidd, y trefedigaethau prydeinig ynddo, ac ardaloedd yr aur, eu tir, hinsawdd, masnach, cyflogau, deddfau, &c., &c.; yn nghyda lluaws o ffeithiau o ddyddordeb a phwys arbenig i’r ymfudwr. Gan D. Ap. G., Ap Huw, Feddyg. Caernarfon (Wales) : H. Humphreys, [1852]. Octavo, printed wrappers (neatly detached, chipped), folding frontispiece …
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# 45560
LAMARTINIERE, Alexander Henry
Studio portrait of comedian, singer and theatrical entrepreneur Harry Rickards and his first wife, actress Caroline Hayden. Sydney, c.1872.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 102 x 62 mm (mount); verso with imprint of ‘Lamartiniere & Co., late Dalton’s, Photographic Artists. 320 George Street, 6 doors from Hunter St., Sydney’, and wet stamp in purple ink ‘The Rickards Comique Concert Party’; the print has some light mottling in the negative, but is in …
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# 48769
FRASER, Joseph
Melbourne and Mars : my mysterious life on two planets. Extracts from the diary of a Melbourne merchant
Melbourne : Pater & Knapton, 1889. Octavo, lettered wrappers (fragile, edges conserved; title page, presentation inscription in pencil to p. 3, pp. 104; [8 – catalogue]; internally clean, a very good copy. Housed in a custom cloth clamshell box with gilt-lettered leather title label. Melbourne and Mars is an early Australian work of utopian science …
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![[THYLACINE; GOLD RUSH] Display of gold from the Colony of Victoria at the International Exhibition, London, 1862](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2020/01/08164638/2020_DSFB_0121-2-300x300.jpg)
# 40072
LONDON STEREOSCOPIC & PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPANY
[THYLACINE; GOLD RUSH] Display of gold from the Colony of Victoria at the International Exhibition, London, 1862
London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company, 1862. Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, 80 x 80 mm each image (arched format), on yellow mount 84 x 173 mm; recto with printed title: The International Exhibition of 1862: No. 141 – N. E. Transcept, and Australian Gold Case; under magnification, the sign on the case reads: The Stamping Machine / Victoria …
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# 49964
PATERSON BROTHERS
Schoolboys playing cricket and leapfrog outside the Camberwell Common School building, Melbourne, c.1867.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 63 x 104 mm (mount); verso with the imprint of ‘Paterson Brothers, Photographic Artists. Portrait Rooms, 8 Bourke St. East, Melbourne’; both the print and the mount are in fine condition. A very early colonial cricket photograph. The Camberwell Common School opened on 19 August 1867, roughly on …
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# 49960
JOHNSTON, John (editor)
Williamstown illustrated.
Williamstown : Printed by Clark & Co., “Advertiser” Office, Nelson Place, 1904. Oblong octavo (150 x 250 mm), original grey wrappers lettered in yellow (lightly marked, sunned along spine and lower edges); pp. [64], illustrated throughout with half-tone photographs; upper margin of first page with a gift inscription dated Christmas Day 1904, and later family …
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# 45852
CATO, Jack (1889-1971)
The Exhibition Building and Carlton Gardens, Melbourne, circa 1950.
Large-format gelatin silver print photograph, 460 x 370 mm; on the original board mount, signed in full by the photographer beneath the image; a touch of silverfishing at the edges of the print, else fine condition; in a later gazed timber frame. An early post-war view of an iconic Melbourne building, by photographer and photographic …
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# 50173
[Photographer unknown].
View of Greensborough, northeast of Melbourne, c.1930.
Sepia carbon print photograph, in very large 240 x 500 mm format; pencilled caption verso reads ‘Greens Borough’ [sic]; in fine condition, unmounted.
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# 50174
[Photographer unknown].
View of Clifton Springs on the Bellarine Peninsula, southwest of Melbourne, c.1930.
Sepia carbon print photograph, in very large 240 x 500 mm format; pencilled caption verso reads ‘Clifton Springs’; faint corner erase at upper right, otherwise in fine condition, unmounted.
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# 50159
NUCOLORVUE
Kosciusko Road in summer, Snowy Mountains
Moorabbin, Vic. : Nucolorvue, [circa 1970]. Paper wallet, 113 x 153 mm, with colour photographic front; containing an accordion-style foldout with 10 colour photographic views; intended for mailing, but unused; in excellent condition.
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![Government House from the Botanical Gardens. [1853]](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2017/07/27135847/2017_DSFB_3024-300x300.jpg)
# 50136
TERRY, F.C. [Frederic Casemero] (artist), 1825-1869; SANDS & KENNY
Government House from the Botanical Gardens. [1853]
Sydney & Melbourne: Sands & Kenny, [c.1867]. Illustrated letter paper, sheet 252 x 200 mm (folded in half), paper watermarked ‘Sands & Kenny’, steel engraving in black ink 110 x 144 mm (irregular), signed in image ‘Terry, del., 1853’; second side with wet stamp of Sydney publisher and stationer J.R. Clarke; the letter paper is unused …
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![[GOLD RUSH] Ham’s five views of the gold fields of Mount Alexander and Ballarat, in the Colony of Victoria,](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/05/07134049/2022_DSFB_2774-300x300.jpg)
# 34804
TULLOCH, David
[GOLD RUSH] Ham’s five views of the gold fields of Mount Alexander and Ballarat, in the Colony of Victoria,
drawn on the spot by D. Tulloch, engraved and published by Thomas Ham. Melbourne : Thomas Ham, 1852. Oblong folio, original cloth-backed pictorial stiff paper wrappers, the upper wrapper with six vignettes of goldfields scenes by Tulloch (stained and creased with short tears, old paper reinforcement lower wrapper), title page and five tinted lithographed plates, …