Victoria
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# 50604
[Max Harris; Sidney Nolan; James McGuire; Harry Roskolenko]
Angry Penguins Broadsheet : a complete set of ten issues
Editors: Max Harris, nos. 1-10; James McGuire, nos. 1-9; Sidney Nolan, nos. 2-9; Harry Roskolenko, no. 10. [Melbourne : Reed & Harris, 1946]. Ten issues, no. 1 (Jan. 1946) – no. 10 (Dec. 1946), large octavo, staple-bound, pictorial wrappers, illustrated; a couple of minor stains, a very good complete set. The Angry Penguins Broadsheet was …
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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 …
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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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# 50563
VALLANCE, T. G. et al.
Nature’s investigator : the diary of Robert Brown in Australia, 1801-1805
Compiled by T.G. Vallance, D.T. Moore & E.W. Groves. Canberra, ACT : Australian Biological Resources Study (Flora), [2001]. Octavo, laminated pictorial boards, maps to endpapers, previous owner’s name to front free endpaper, pp. xii; 666, illustrations, a fine copy. Scarce. The diary of Robert Brown, naturalist on the ‘Investigator’ voyage of Matthew Flinders, with much …
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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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# 50536
HOWITT, A. W.
The native tribes of South-East Australia
London : Macmillan, 1904. Octavo, gilt-decorated cloth (rubbed, bottom corners bumped, spine ends softened with short split at head of spine); ex-library with stamp removed from spine, wetstamp and bookplate from the Royal Colonial Institute to front pastedown (no other markings), pp. xx, 819, maps and folding plates; light foxing to outermost leaves, a good …
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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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# 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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# 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.