Victoria

# 49786

GRANT, James (1772-1833)

The narrative of a voyage of discovery performed in His Majesty’s vessel the Lady Nelson, of sixty tons burthen, with sliding keels, in the years 1800, 1801, and 1802, to New South Wales.

Including Remarks on the Cape de Verd Islands, Cape of Good Hope, the hitherto Unknown Parts of New Holland, discovered by him in his Passage (the first ever attempted from Europe) through the Streight separating that Island from the Land discovered by Van Dieman: Together with Various Details of his Interviews with the Natives of …

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# 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 to the upper margins, 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 grand premises …

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# 49824

IMPERIAL PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPANY

Studio portrait of a woman with her dogs. Melbourne, mid 1880s.

Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 104 x 63 mm (mount); verso imprinted ‘”Imperial”, 109 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne’ (this studio was later operated by E. C. Waddington), and with fully contemporary pencilled initials ‘E. H.’; both the print and mount are in very good condition. A lovely studio portrait of a Melbourne woman with her arm …

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# 25835

DUNKLINGS PTY. LTD. (MELBOURNE)

Dunklings the Jewellers Pty. Ltd. Ladies’ and men’s high grade wrist watches.

Melbourne : Dunklings Pty. Ltd., [circa 1950]. Single sheet, 215 x 330 mm, printed both sides, folding to 215 x 82 mm, illustrated; original folds, a good example.

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# 23410

FRYER, Benjamin N.

[HAWTHORN PRESS] Internationalism in typography

Melbourne : The Hawthorn Press, 1936. Edition limited to 70 copies. Duodecimo, textured paper wrappers (sunned along spine), stitched, [5] pp, some offsetting to first page, a few spots of foxing, but as good a copy as one could hope to find of a delicate and rare publication, the very first imprint of The Hawthorn …

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# 49781

BEATON, Florence

A woman’s work : the story of a Mallee farmer’s wife from 1913. (Signed copy)

Red Cliffs, Vic. : The Sunnyland Press, 1985. Quarto (250 x 185 mm), stapled pictorial wrappers; half-title signed and dated by the author Florence McNabb Beation 3/2/1985, pp. 92, profusely illustrated in b/w; an excellent copy of this now-scarce study of a pioneer female settler in the Mallee region of northwest Victoria prior to World War …

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# 49835

MASSOLA, Aldo

The parrying shields of south-east Australia.

Melbourne : Royal Society of Victoria, 1963. ‘Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, Vol. 76, Part 2. Issued separately, 28 June, 1963’. Small quarto (250 x 180 mm), stapled printed grey wrappers; pp. 227-232; illustrated with line-drawn figures, distribution map; bibliography; a very good copy.

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# 45462

[CLEARY, Thomas]

A pair of tableau photographs forming part of a narrative sequence, showing white women being aided by Aborigines. Northern Victoria or Southern New South Wales, 1896-98.

Two gelatin silver print photographs, in uniform 230 x 270 mm format; no photographer’s imprint; in original grey board mounts (one with a very old auction sticker), 360 x 400 mm; the prints are in superb condition, and the mounts clean and stable. The only two known surviving original prints from an extraordinary sub-group of …

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# 49728

[CAIRE, N. J., attributed]

[MELBOURNE] Mathinna Falls, near Healesville.

[Late 1890s]. Albumen print photograph, 200 x 155 mm; fully contemporary inscription in pencil to verso: ‘Mathinna Falls nr. Healesville’; unmounted, in very good condition.

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# 49610

Victoria. Ministry of Aboriginal Affairs

Lake Tyers land title.

Melbourne : Ministry of Aboriginal Affairs, 1971. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, pp. 16, illustrated. ‘Explanatory booklet with brief history of Lake Tyers, explanation of Aboriginal Lands Act, 1970, foundation of Lake Tyers Aboriginal Trust.’ – Trove

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# 49653

BROOME, Richard

Walata Tyamateetj : a guide to government records about Aboriginal people in Victoria.

North Melbourne, Vic. : Public Records Office Victoria, 2014. Large quarto (295 x 210 mm), pictorial wrappers; pp. 87; with numerous photographic illustrations of important manuscripts, printed documents and other ephemera; an as new copy.

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# 49556

BATE, Weston (editor)

Liardet’s water-colours of early Melbourne.

Introduction and captions by Susan Adams. Edited by Weston Bate. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press on behalf of the Library Council of Victoria, 1972. First edition. Oblong quarto (230 x 300 mm), linen over boards in illustrated dust jacket; illustrated endpapers, pp. ix, 101; internally very clean, an excellent copy.

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# 49051

BOGARDUS, Abraham

[MELBOURNE] Studio portrait of Henry Varley, Baptist preacher and moral campaigner. New York, c.1875.

Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 163 x 114 mm; recto of mount with printed caption ‘HENRY VARLEY, EVANGELIST‘; verso with the pictorial back mark of ‘Bogardus’ Souvenir Card, 872 Broadway, cor. 18th St., New York‘; both the print and the mount are in excellent condition. This fine portrait of Varley was taken in 1875 …

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# 49242

TRENDELL, A. J. R.

Colonial and Indian Exhibition, 1886. Her Majesty’s Colonies.

A series of original papers issued under the authority of the Royal Commission. London : William Clowes and Sons, 1886. Octavo, presentation binding of full crushed morocco over bevelled boards, ruled in gilt, spine in compartments with gilt rule and lettering (edges a little rubbed), all edges gilt, gilt-lettered morocco presentation label to front pastedown to …

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# 43726

HODGES, Ralph Morwell (1896-1957)

[HEALESVILLE SANCTUARY] Two albums of original photographs of native animals, including “Splash” the platypus, plus local views and portraits, 1930s-40s.

Album 1. Oblong quarto (205 x 285 mm), embossed red leather over boards; front endpaper with ownership inscription of Morwell Hodges; approx. [50] mounted b/w gelatin silver print photographs, most 150 x 200 mm format, and several newspaper cuttings relating to the Healesville wildlife sanctuary and Coranderrk Aboriginal reserve; subjects include “Splash”, the famous Healesville …

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# 46146

WRIGHT, John

Studio portrait of two identically dressed young brothers. Ballarat, Victoria, late 1860s.

Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 103 x 63 mm (mount); verso with imprint of J. Wright, Photographer, Sturt St., Ballarat’; the print has rich tonal range and is in excellent condition; the mount has a few small marks to the borders and some old paper adhesions at the corners on the verso.

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