Victoria
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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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![[RIVER MURRAY] Clearing the land; digging an irrigation channel; harvesting wine grapes; view of a rural property with windmill pump. Renmark district, South Australia, late 1890s.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/06/2026_DSFB_3544-300x300.jpg)
# 50408
ROSSELL, Henry Norman
[RIVER MURRAY] Clearing the land; digging an irrigation channel; harvesting wine grapes; view of a rural property with windmill pump. Renmark district, South Australia, late 1890s.
Group of 4 (four) printing-out-paper print photographs, in panoramic format, each 100 x 200 mm; versos all wet-stamped in violet ‘H. Norman Rossell, Photographer, Renmark’, three have the photographer’s pencilled sequence number, and one – showing workers with a steam engine clearing the land – is annotated (by Rossell?): ‘The trees in background are Mallee …
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![[RIVER MURRAY] Clearing the land; workers in citrus fruit orchard. Renmark district, South Australia, late 1890s.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/06/2026_DSFB_3564-300x300.jpg)
# 50409
ROSSELL, Henry Norman
[RIVER MURRAY] Clearing the land; workers in citrus fruit orchard. Renmark district, South Australia, late 1890s.
Group of 4 (four) printing-out-paper print photographs, in small format, each 75 x 100 mm; versos all wet-stamped in violet ‘H. Norman Rossell, Photographer, Renmark’; all of the prints are in very good condition (unmounted). Trove locates no photographs by Rossell in Australian institutional collections. From Rossell’s obituary in The Chronicle (Adelaide), 12 November 1897: …
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# 50411
LINDT, J. W. (1845–1926)
Studio portraits of an officer in one of the Victorian volunteer regiments. Melbourne, c.1885.
Two albumen print photographs, carte de visite format, 105 x 64 mm (mount); versos with the highly decorative back mark of ‘J. W. Lindt, Photographer, 7 Collins Street East, Melbourne. Prize Medallist Philadelphia, Paris, Sydney, Brisbane, Sandhurst, Melbourne, Christchurch, Amsterdam’; both in fine condition. The carte can be dated to around 1885 based on the …
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# 50670
ROBB, E. M.
Early Toorak and district (signed presentation copy)
Melbourne : Robertson & Mullens Limited, 1934. Oblong folio, lettered cloth (marked, split to spine), illustrated. Photographically illustrated history of Toorak and the surrounding suburbs of Malvern, Prahran, South Yarra and Hawthorn. A fine record of nineteenth century colonial architecture and society in Melbourne. With a presentation inscription from the author to ‘R. H. Chaplin …
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# 50594
BATCHELDER & CO.
Studio portrait of Lieutenant Nassau Stephens, RN. Melbourne, December 1872.
Albumen print photograph in carte de visite format, 104 x 63 mm (mount); verso with the imprint of ‘Barchelder & Co., Artist Photographers, 41 Collins St. East, Melbourne’, and with a roughly contemporary inscription in ink ‘December 1872’; the print and the mount are both in good condition; the carte is accompanied by a section cut …
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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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# 50666
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, spine in compartments with raised bands, …
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# 50611
BILLIS, R.V. & KENYON, A.S.
Pastures new. An account of the pastoral occupation of Port Phillip.
Melbourne : Macmillan, 1930. Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth in dustjacket (slightly edge worn), endpapers lightly offset, pp. xiv; 272, edges foxed, a fine copy, scarce in the dustjacket.
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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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# 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 …