Victoria

# 15433

[GEORGE WILLIAM PERRY; WILMOT & KEY; JOSEPH TURNER]

[GEELONG] Photographic portraits of Rebecca Greenwood (née Morrison) and her children

1865-1870. Five albumen print photographs, carte de visite format, each approximately 100 x 60 mm; two with the imprint of George William Perry, Melbourne (mother and daughter); one with the imprint of Wilmot & Key, Geelong (boy holding tall-backed chair, dated May 1867); one with the imprint of Turner’s New Portrait Rooms (hand coloured), and …

# 15237

GILL, S.T. (Samuel Thomas), 1818-1880

Diggers shipping from Melbourne / The Shipping Agents are netting handsome

[Melbourne : James J. Blundell, between 1852 and 1855]. Illustrated letter paper, 182 x 115 mm, bifolium with lithographed letterhead reproducing one of the plates from S.T. Gill’s Sketches of the Victoria gold diggings and diggers as they are (Melbourne : Macartney & Galbraith, August 1852); lithographed image, including captions, 90 x 90 mm; the rear blank side has a …

# 15236

GROSSE, Frederick, 1828-1894 (illustrator); SLATER, George (publisher)

The News Letter of Australasia; or Narrative of events: a Letter to send to friends. Number XIII. July, 1857.

Melbourne : George Slater, Publisher, 94 Bourke Street East, 1857. Bifolium, 260 x 205 mm, cover sheet and [2] blank sides, printed on thin writing paper, wood engraving by Frederick Grosse titled ‘View on the Yarra. – Hodgson’s Punt’, signed in the image at lower right; below the image 4 lines of letterpress describing the …

# 14900

C. JONES

[GEELONG; EQUESTRIAN] Prince Leo II. Champion pony stallion.

Geelong : Oglethorpe Printer [for C. Jones], [c.1918]. Oblong duodecimo, original illustrated wrappers (creased and lightly marked), [4] pp; scattered foxing. This pamphlet, which appears unrecorded, was produced for C. Jones, proprietor of Sadonia stud, Marshall Street, Geelong. The latest internal date is 1917.

# 14882

STANTON, Don E.

Oh Australia!

Bermagui Sth., N.S.W. : Maranatha Revival Crusade, [1979]. Series: Monthly Message, no. 26. Octavo, pictorial wrappers (lower wrapper with stain), stapled, 112 pp, illustrated; a couple of annotations in biro, otherwise a very good copy. “Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people” (title page). Christian religious pamphlet written by an …

# 14911

KENYON, Alfred Stephen

Stone implements of the Australian Aborigine. Guide to the classified collection

in the Australian Room, National Museum, Public Library Buildings, Melbourne, arranged for the Australian meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. Melbourne : Arnale and Jackson Press, 1914. Octavo, printed green wrappers, staple bound, 16 pp; a good copy. The collection is comprised mainly of artefacts from southeastern Australia, but also includes stone …

# 14957

STEWART, C.S. (Charles Samuel), 1795-1870

A visit to the South Seas, in the United States’ ship Vincennes, during the years 1829 and 1830;

including scenes in Brazil, Peru, Manilla (sic), the Cape of Good Hope, and St. Helena. London : Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1832. Two volumes in one, thick octavo, contemporary half green morocco over marbled papered boards (rubbed), spine with raised bands and gilt lettering and ornament, hinges cracked, front free-endpaper with early presentation inscription ‘To …

# 14716

[KOSSATZ, Les 1943-2011]

[POSTER]. Grafik aus Australien 9. April – 15 Mai 1983 … Universität Bayreuth.

Zwölf Künstler aus Melbourne. Im Iwalewa-Haus, Münzgasse 9. Printed poster, 740 x 590 mm; unmounted; fine condition. Poster for a group exhibition by 12 Melbourne printmakers, including Heather Shimmen and Les Kossatz, featuring a work by Les Kossatz, Primary Bird. The exhibition catalogue was written by Melbourne designer and publisher Jenny Zimmer.  Appears unrecorded in …

# 15414

HEALINGS PTY LTD.

[TRADE CATALOGUE] All aboard for Healing’s Swanston St. Store. 261 Swanston St., Melbourne. Special Price List.

Melbourne : Healings Pty. Ltd. [1935]. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (foxed, faint horizontal fold), [8] pp, illustrated. Trade catalogue for radio parts and small electrical products including irons, clocks and jugs.

# 14719

[VIENNA CAFE]

[MELBOURNE] Besses Banquet, Vienna Café, 20 July 1911.

Pen and ink illustration and calligraphy with onlaid silver gelatin photograph, on thin card, 420 x 200 mm (sheet); a few light marks around the upper edges, otherwise fine condition. A significant piece of ephemera from one of Melbourne's most famous dining establishments of the 1890s and early 1900s, the Vienna Café, which occupied the …

# 14671

WINBORN, W.G.T.

[MELBOURNE] Original pencil drawings of Hampton and Middle Brighton, 1910

Pencil on paper, recto of a leaf removed from a sketchbook, 200 x 250 mm; captioned by the artist, 'View of Hampton' and 'Off Mdl. Brighton', respectively; signed and dated at lower margin 'W.G.T. Winborn 26/12/10'; verso blank; mild foxing at lower left and a few small toning spots, otherwise in very good condition.  A pair …

# 14733

Photographer unknown.

Rio Vista. Residence of Mr. Chaffey, Mildura.

[Circa 1914]. Gelatin silver print photograph with hand tinting, printed on postcard stock, 88 x 140 mm; postally used from Williamstown (Melbourne) to South Africa; the message verso is dated June 14 1914 and reads: 'This picture represents the residence of one of the founders of the Mildura settlement (founded in 1887 by two brothers …

# 14519

Anon. [EDGELL, John, Trowbridge, Wiltshire 1813 - Sugarloaf Creek, Victoria, 1848]

Silhouette of Port Phillip squatter John Edgell of Mount Piper Station

[United Kingdom, 1841]. Silhouette of John Edgell. Watercolour and ink on paper, 265 x 165 mm, unsigned but dated in pencil lower left '24 April 1841'; [together with] Silhouette of Clara Edgell. Watercolour and ink on paper, 180 x 140 mm, unsigned; both portraits are mounted behind glass in later gilded plaster frames.  The 26,000 …

# 14466

The Victorian Schoolmaster and literary review (complete)

Vol. 1, No. 1 – vol. 1, No. 12. Melbourne : Alex. M'Kinley & Co., 1879 – 1880. Twelve issues (complete), contemporary cloth binding by Alex. Greig of Fitzroy, lettered in gilt to spine, bookplate to front free endpaper, pp. 156, insitutional stamp with cancel stamp from the Melbourne Teacher's College Library to the first …

# 14375

WALLER, Olga D. A.

Clay sculptures of Australian Aboriginal folk-lore by William Ricketts

(Based on folk-lore gathered by Sir Baldwin Spencer and Davd Unaipon). Foreword and catalogue with synopsis of legends. [Melbourne] : [s.n.], [circa 1938]. Quarto, printed wrappers, staple bound, 7 leaves, roneo printed; contains an essay titled “William Ricketts' interpretation of Australia Aboriginal folk-lore” by Olga D. A. Waller, which clearly relates to an exhibition of Rickett's …

# 14371

ALDEN, W.L. (William Livingston) (1837-1908)

Shooting stars as observed from the “sixth column” of the Times

Melbourne : George Robertson, 1878. Octavo, original printed orange wrappers (light corner creasing; a few marks; paperloss at tail of spine); lower wrapper with illustrated advertisement for W.H. Rocke & Co., Bourke Street furniture and carpet warehouse; pp 144; occasional foxing; a good copy. Ferguson, 5819. A collection of essays by American journalist and humorist …

# 14509

Official record of the Centennial International Exhibition, Melbourne, 1888 – 1889,

Containing a sketch of the industrial and economic progress of the Australasian Colonies during the first century of their existence: and of the exhibition held in Melbourne, Victoria, to commemorate the close of that period: also records of the manner in which the work of the different sections of the exhibition was carried out, the …

# 14134

GLADSTONES, John

Manuscript letter by John Gladstones, an early photographer on the Victorian goldfields, 1858

Entire letter addressed to James H. Gladstones, care of Messrs. Jones Loyd & Co. 43 Lothbury, London, bearing 1/- light blue octagonal imperforate Queen's head, cancelled with barred numeral “4” and with circular handstamp SANDHURST VICTORIA DC 14 58 in black; transit mark of MELBOURNE OC 16 58, and endorsed 'Per “Columbian” via Marseilles'; arrival …

# 14233

Gourié, E.

Manuscript map of Australia, dated 1835

Ink and wash on paper, 350 x 455 mm (sheet); laid down on modern backing sheet; some loss along the early vertical fold line (mainly at the extremities) and in bottom left corner of sheet. A relatively early manuscript map showing Australia and Van Diemen's Land, as well as New Guinea and parts of the …

# 14161

MUNTZ BROS., AND HEIGHWAY

Sale of township allotments at Numurkah. Friday, January 13th [1911]

Numurkah, Vic. : Leader Print (for Muntz Bros. and Heighway, Auctioneers, Geelong, under instructions from Alexander Miller, Esq.), [1911]. Broadside, 340 x 430 mm, annotated with details of individual lot prices and names of purchasers, and year '1911' in red; verso with contemporary manuscript title 'Alexander Miller Esq., Sale of Subdivisional Allotments (Numurkah)'; old fold …

# 14056

PATERSON, William and ROBERTS, William

Gold standarding tables

showing the weight in standard gold equivalent to the scale weight of gold of a greater or less degree of fineness. Melbourne : Sands & McDougall, 1890. Second edition. Folio, contemporary full roan (rubbed) lettered in gilt to upper board GOLD, marbled endpapers, pp 129, statistical tables; a good copy in a characterful and evocative …

# 14050

McCOY, Frederick (1817-1899)

Notes sur la Zoologie, et la paleontologie de Victoria

par Frederick M'Coy … traduit de l'anglais par E. Lissignol. At head of title: Exposition intercoloniale, 1866. Fitzroy, Vic. : Masterman, Imprimeur, 1866. Octavo, original printed yellow wrappers, 35 pp; a good copy. Ferguson, 11890a. The distinguished geologist and palaeontologist Professor Frederick McCoy was the first director of the National Museum in Melbourne. This pamphlet, a …

# 1119

EARLES, Chester (1821-1905)

[MANUSCRIPT] Four autograph letters signed by the colonial artist Chester Earles, 1856-57

4 letters, 7 pp (each 178 x 110 mm), tipped on to one old album page. Fine condition. A series of four letters, written when Earles was still resident in London (2 Gower Street), to Henry Mogford, organiser of exhibitions at the Crystal Palace. Earles refers to his paintings 'At the Foot of the Cross', …

# 14005

[VICTORIA. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE] Photographer unknown.

Photograph of the Victorian Better Farming Train and associated dignitaries, 1924

Gelatin silver photograph, 150 x 200 mm, laid down on its original board mount; the print has some mild staining and the mount is lightly foxed. The Better Farming Train was an agricultural demonstration train which toured Victoria in the 1920s to promote better farming practices. The Department of Agriculture described the train as an …