Victoria
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# 45113
McCOY, Frederick (1817 - 1899)
Natural History of Victoria. Prodromus of the Zoology of Victoria; or, figures and descriptions of the living classes of the Victorian indigenous animals
Melbourne : Robert S. Brain, 1885 – 1890. Two volumes octavo, in two non-matching fine bindings, complete with all 20 Decades, 199 lithographic plates (including one double folding plate), mostly chromolithographed, some with additional hand colouring; Volume 1 (the first ten Decades) in elaborately gilt-decorated full crushed red morocco, gauffered gilt edges, gilt dentelles, silk …
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# 43711
RAYNER, Hewitt Henry (1902-1957)
[MELBOURNE] “Child, when my ship comes in” : unpublished manuscript of an autobiographical novel based on the artist’s childhood in Melbourne before the Great War.
[London, UK : H. H. Rayner, 1935-38]. Three unbound manuscript drafts for the same work, entitled “Child, when my ship comes in”, all handwritten in fountain pen by Rayner on foolscap folio paper (ruled and unruled); Draft I. with the address 13 Great College Street, dated April 1935, 168 pages, with the subtitle ‘An Autobiographical …
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# 44961
BROWNE, Martha Sweet (Cummins) (1816-1893)
[MELBOURNE; LA TROBE FAMILY] Martha Browne, wife of colonial merchant Octavius Browne : entire letter to Henrietta Macartney, daughter of the Dean of Melbourne. Isle of Wight, September 1855.
Manuscript in ink, [6] pp. duodecimo (130 x 90 mm); headed ‘Orchard Leigh, Bonchurch, Sept. 29’, the letter is addressed ‘My dear Henrietta’, and is signed at the foot ‘your very affectionate friend, Mrs Browne’; original folds, clean and crisp; accompanied by its original mailing envelope, addressed to ‘Miss Macartney, care of Revd. John Brougham, …
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# 45459
COLONY OF VICTORIA. ROYAL COMMISSIONS. [PATERSON, James]
The Melbourne Harbour Trust Commissioners. Reports of Royal Commissions on Noxious Trades, 1870 & 1871. Silting up of the Bay, 1871 & 1872. Low Lands, 1873. Commissioner Paterson.
Melbourne : Government Printer, 1870-75. Six Royal Commission reports printed for the Parliament of Victoria (itemised below). Foolscap folio (320 x 205 mm), in a special presentation binding for James Paterson, Melbourne Harbour Trust Commissioner, of limp maroon morocco with double-gilt rule (some light staining and moderate wear), cover stamped in gilt ‘The Melbourne Harbour …
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# 45570
BURN, Hilda May (1868-1949)
[NURSING] Scrap album of testimonials compiled by Melbourne, Beechworth and Bendigo nurse Hilda Burn (Morres), 1897-1902.
Quarto album (265 x 215 mm), original limp sheepskin ruled in gilt, the upper cover lettered in gilt ‘Testimonials. Nurse Burn. Melbourne Hospital’ (covers very lightly scuffed, spine ends a little worn); front pastedown with binder’s ticket of Sands & McDougall Bookbinders Ltd, Melbourne, and later inscription in pen by a family member fully identifying …
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# 45585
MILNE, Peter
Juvenilia
Curated by Helen Frajman and Linsey Gosper. Fitzroy, Vic. : Strange Neighbour, [2015]. Square quarto, pictorial wrappers, stapled; pp. 23, [1]; b/w and colour illustrations throughout; an excellent copy; loosely enclosed is the gallery’s printed list of 113 works with prices for limited edition prints. Extremely hard-to-find catalogue for this fabulous exhibition of Peter Milne’s …
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# 45569
J. C. WILLIAMSON THEATRES LTD.; AUSTRALIAN ELIZABETHAN THEATRE TRUST
[MELBOURNE; THEATRE] “Hamlet”, by William Shakespeare. (Season commencing 23 July 1957, at the Comedy Theatre)
Melbourne : J C. Williamson Theatres Ltd., 1957. Theatre programme. Octavo (215 x 140 mm), stapled wrappers, pp. 26, b/w photographic illustrations of the leading cast members, advertisements; a very good copy. Melbourne actress Zoe Caldwell (1933-2020) was a rising local star when she played Ophelia in this production at the Comedy Theatre; she went …
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# 45156
BATCHELDER & O'NEILL
Studio portrait of an elegant young lady. Melbourne, circa 1864.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 101 x 61 mm (mount); verso imprinted ‘Photographed by Batchelder & O’Neill, 41 Collins Street East, Melbourne’; both the print and mount are in superb condition.
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# 45556
W. J. NORMAN (publisher / retailer)
Carte de visite photograph of a French risqué print, published and sold in Melbourne around 1870.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 100 x 63 mm (mount); verso with the imprint of ‘W. J. Norman, Looking Glass & Picture Frame Manufacturer, 94 & 170 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne. Looking Glasses Re-silvered, Frames Re-gilded. Great variety of Photographs’; some very light foxing to the print, more pronounced on the verso. We have previously …
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# 45561
[MOORE, Maggie, 1851-1926] [WILLIAMSON, James Cassius, 1845-1913] NOBLE, Timothy
Studio portraits of actor and theatrical entrepreneur J. C. Williamson and his wife, actress Maggie Moore. Melbourne, ca. 1874.
Two albumen print photographs, carte de visite format, 102 x 62 mm (mounts); versos with studio back mark in gold of ‘T. Noble, Artist Photographer, 135 Bourke St., East, Four doors from Russell St., Melbourne’; rectos of both cartes have some discolouration at upper corners and lower edges. American-born actress Maggie Moore (born Margaret Virginia Sullivan) …
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# 45528
ROBB, E. M.
Early Toorak and district
Melbourne : Robertson & Mullens Limited, 1934. Oblong quarto (190 x 250 mm), lettered cloth (boards lightly marked and flecked); pp. 137, illustrated throughout with b/w photographic plates; internally very clean, a good copy. Scarce photographically-illustrated history of Toorak and the surrounding suburbs of Malvern, Prahran, South Yarra and Hawthorn. An excellent record of nineteenth-century …
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# 45019
GUILFOYLE, W. R.
Australian botany : specially designed for the use of schools
First Book. Illustrated by the author. Melbourne : A. Mullen, 1878. Octavo, elaborately decorated gilt illustrated green cloth (a little rubbed), edges rubbed, bookplate to upper pastedown, pp. [vi]; 109; errata, wood engravings by Guilfoyle, a very good copy. An attractive primer on botany for Australian students by the Director of the Melbourne Botanic Gardens. …
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# 44930
JONES, John H. (1817?-1872)
Traveller sleeping in a mia mia. Central or northern Victoria, circa 1862.
Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each individual image 74 x 73 mm (arched-top format), on original card mount 83 x 175 mm; recto of mount inscribed in ink: ‘Traveller sleeping in a mia mia’; verso with pencilled name of the original owner ‘McMillan’; both prints are in very good condition, as is the mount. This stereoscopic photograph …
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# 14833
Tuckey, James Kingston (1776-1816)
An account of a voyage to establish a colony at Port Philip in Bass’s Strait,
on the South Coast of New South Wales : in His Majesty’s Ship Calcutta, in the years 1802-3-4 / by J. H. Tuckey, Esq. First Lieutenant of the Calcutta. London : Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme; and J.C. Mottley, 1805. First edition. Octavo, original polished calf, gilt-decoration, expertly recased with new spine to style by Aquarius, …
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# 45175
WEST BOURKE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY
West Bourke Agricultural Society Annual Show : group of prize certificates awarded to James Williams, 1887-1900.
West Melbourne, Vic. : Kemp & Boyce, 1887 (one certificate); Melbourne : Centennial Printing & Publishing Co., 1889 (three certificates); Romsey, Vic. : Printed at the Examiner Office, 1891-1892-1900 (five certificates). Total of nine lithographed certificates, in uniform 165 x 195 mm format, printed on different coloured card stock, some with original ribbons attached; scattered foxing. …
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# 45074
[CORNELL, Frederick, 1834-1890, attributed]
Suite of five large-format views of Sale and East Gippsland, circa 1880.
Five albumen print photographs in uniform 215 x 270 mm format; versos with fully contemporary captions in pencil; a few edge nicks, otherwise in good condition, unmounted. The attribution to Sale-based professional photographer Frederick Cornell (1834-1890) is based on comparison with prints in the album of Cornell’s Gippsland views presented to Lady Loch in 1885, …