Victoria
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# 46174
BURMAN, F. C.
Photographic portrait of the tragic actor G. V. Brooke. Melbourne, 1866.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 104 x 62 mm (mount); verso with imprint of ‘F. C. Burman, Photographic Artist, 41 Madeline Street, Carlton, Melbourne’; both the print and mount are have some light marks. The great Irish-born Shakespearean actor Gustavus Vaughan Brooke (1818-1866) was a significant figure on the Australian colonial stage from …
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# 46175
KRUGER, J. C. A.
Studio portrait of a lady in mourning resting her hand on a plinth. Hamilton, Victoria, 1863-6.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 106 x 62 mm; verso imprinted ‘Photographed by J. C. A. Kruger’; the print has some surface scratches toward the the top edge, but is otherwise in good condition; the mount is toned and has some light stains on the verso. From contemporary newspaper notices we can piece …
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# 46271
STANFORD & CO. (MELBOURNE)
Illustrated price list of the Singer Manufacturing Company’s lock-stitch sewing machines.
Melbourne : Stanford & Co., Colonial Agents for the Singer Manufacturing Company, Corner of Bourke and Russell Streets, 1877. Octavo leaflet (215 x 140 mm), [4] pp, lithograph printed in blue on mauve paper, front with vignette illustration of Stanford & Co.’s head agency in Melbourne; one corner stained, else a good example.
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# 46100
ABORIGINAL & TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER COMMISSION
Aboriginal people of Victoria
Canberra : Published for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission by the Australian Government Publishing Service, 1990. Foolscap folio (295 x 210 mm), stapled pictorial wrappers with Tommy McRae drawing to front and colour language map to rear, pp. 15, profusely illustrated in colour and b/w; a very good copy. An excellent introduction to …
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# 46143
Douglas Stewart Fine Books
DOUGLAS STEWART FINE BOOKS – Cotton canvas tote bag
Exclusive to Douglas Stewart Fine Books, this high quality canvas tote bag is the perfect accessory for any book lover. Custom designed for our bookshop with heavy, thick cotton, extra reinforced stitching and wide, comfortable canvas handles, the DSFB Tote is a quality product designed to be reused. Measurements : 39 x 35 cms, with …
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# 45912
MUELLER, Ferdinand von, Baron (1825-1896)
Baron Ferdinand von Mueller, botanist : autograph letter, signed, to a lady plant collector, re. an intriguing specimen she has sent him. Melbourne, October 1889.
Manuscript in ink, [3] pp., octavo (200 x 125 mm); dated 7 October 1889; although von Mueller addresses his correspondent only as ‘dear Madam’, she is Melbourne philanthropist Jane Emma Murphy (see note on provenance below); von Mueller discusses a plant specimen Murphy has sent him (almost certainly from the Mornington area, where she resided), …
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# 44067
[COLONY OF VICTORIA]
Death warrants for Samuel Gibbs, an African-American from Philadelphia, and George Thompson, of African heritage from the West Indies, both found guilty of murder in Ballarat on the Victorian goldfields. Melbourne, November 1858.
I. Death warrant for Samuel Gibbs. Pro-forma document printed on laid paper, 420 x 320 mm, with manuscript entry in a secretarial hand, dated 2 November 1858; authorised by His Excellency Sir Henry Barkly, Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief of the Colony of Victoria, addressed to the Sheriff of the Colony of Victoria: ‘Whereas at the Circuit …
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# 43243
BALCOMBE, Emma Juana (1823-1907)
Commonplace album of Emma Juana Balcombe (Reid), of “The Briars”, Mornington, Victoria. 1860s-80s.
Quarto (290 x 240 mm), lacking the upper board, but retaining the original elaborately tooled leather lower board and backstrip; approximately [70] leaves of paper in a variety of colours, containing more than 30 original pencil sketches and watercolour drawings by amateur artist Emma Juana Balcombe (Mrs Alexander Beatson Balcombe), including studies of native flowers, …
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# 45871
SHERER, John
The gold-finder of Australia; how he went, how he fared, and how he made his fortune.
Illustrated with forty-eight magnificent engravings, from authentic sketches taken in the Colony. London : Clarke, Beeton & Co., [1853]. Octavo (227 x 145 mm), contemporary blind-blocked green cloth (scattered tiny paint spots, mostly confined to the lower board and spine), gilt-lettered spine (softened at ends); front pastedown with original owner’s initials JWB, engraved title page …
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![[MELBOURNE] Thomas N. Fitzgerald, surgeon : autograph private note, signed, on his "Rostella" letterhead. Melbourne, October 1903.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2024/12/2024_DSFB_6668-300x300.jpg)
# 45860
FITZGERALD, Thomas Naghten, Sir (1838-1908)
[MELBOURNE] Thomas N. Fitzgerald, surgeon : autograph private note, signed, on his “Rostella” letterhead. Melbourne, October 1903.
Manuscript in ink, 1 page, octavo (200 x 125 mm), on FitzGerald’s personal stationery with embossed letterhead of a racehorse and jockey and the name of his residence, Rostella; dated ‘Saturday Oct 12 03’, the note is addressed ‘My dear Mrs McWilliams’ and is signed in full at the foot ‘T. N. FitzGerald’, who writes: …
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# 45867
BARDWELL, William H. (1836-1929)
Signed studio portrait of actress Alice Lingard. Melbourne, 1876.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 105 x 63 mm (mount), recto signed by the sitter in ink across the studio imprint in the lower margin ‘Alice Lingard’; verso with ‘Bardwell, Melbourne’ printed in gold ink, along with the wet stamp of the ‘William Horace Lingard Comedy Company’; in fine condition. English actress Alice Dunning …
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# 45863
[Photographer unknown].
View of the Market Square, Geelong, Victoria late 1860s.
Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each image approximately 82 x 82 mm (arch-top format), on original yellow card mount, 84 x 173 mm; the verso has a mounted label with the word ‘Geelong’ and a double border in gold (it is evident that this has been cut from a larger label); light surface marks to the …
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# 45851
CATO, Jack (1889-1971)
The “Gothic Bank” building, corner of Collins and Queen Streets, 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 bottom edge of the print, else fine condition; in a later gazed timber frame. An evocative early post-war Melbourne street view by photographer and photographic historian …
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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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![[MELBOURNE] The Wesley College.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2024/12/2024_DSFB_6617-300x300.jpg)
# 45857
CAIRE, Nicholas John (1837-1918) (ANGLO-AUSTRALASIAN PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPANY)
[MELBOURNE] The Wesley College.
[Late 1870s]. Albumen print photograph, 135 x 190 mm, on the photographer’s original card mount with printed caption below the image and descriptive text verso; titled ‘The Wesley College’, this is no. 27. from Caire’s portfolio series ‘The Public Buildings of Melbourne and Suburbs’; the print and the mount are both in fine condition.
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![[MARITIME] Joseph and Mary Ann Jewell, survivors of the wreck of the General Grant, shipwrecked in the Auckland Islands south of New Zealand in May 1866.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2024/10/2024_DSFB_5928-300x300.jpg)
# 45562
HEWITT, Charles
[MARITIME] Joseph and Mary Ann Jewell, survivors of the wreck of the General Grant, shipwrecked in the Auckland Islands south of New Zealand in May 1866.
[Circa 1868]. Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 102 x 61 mm (mount); recto inscribed ‘9d pence each’ (presumably in the hand of a Melbourne print- or bookseller); verso with imprint of ‘C. Hewitt, Photographer, Australasian Studio, 95, Swanston Street. Melbourne’; a strong print but with scattered foxing; the back mark is faded. The American …