Victoria
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# 45560
LAMARTINIERE, Alexandra Henry
Studio portrait of comedian, singer and theatrical entrepreneur Harry Rickards and his first wife, actress Caroline Hayden. Sydney, c.1872.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 102 x 62 mm (mount); verso with imprint of ‘Lamartiniere & Co., late Dalton’s, Photographic Artists. 320 George Street, 6 doors from Hunter St., Sydney’, and wet stamp in purple ink ‘The Rickards Comique Concert Party’; the print has some light mottling in the negative, but is in …
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# 45814
AMERICAN & AUSTRALIAN PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPANY [LIND, James P.]
A couple posing on the verandah of their double-fronted timber cottage. Melbourne, 1869-70.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 64 x 103 mm (mount); verso with the imprint of ‘American and Australian Photographic Company. Melbourne Office, 73 Little Collins St. East’; both print and mount are in superb condition. The American & Australian Photographic Company was the Melbourne arm of the American & Australasian Photographic Company (note the …
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# 45950
RYAN, Judith
Remembering Barak
Melbourne., Victoria : National Gallery of Victoria, 2003. Quarto (260 x 200 mm), illustrated card wrappers, pp. 64; illustrated in colour; essays by Judith Ryan and Carol Cooper; a pristine copy. Discussion and commemoration of the work and life of William Barak, leader and artist.
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# 44664
[Photographer unknown]
A game of croquet in progress. Geelong, Victoria, circa 1875.
Albumen print photograph, 140 x 200 mm, on its original card mount with printed red border; the print has some fading at the right-hand edge but is otherwise in very good condition; the mount is clean and stable. This photograph was sourced as part of a group of albumen prints taken in the mid 1870s …
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# 45781
FOSTER & MARTIN
Young woman with unkempt hair and averted gaze – an actress? Melbourne, mid 1880s.
Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 168 x 114 mm (mount), verso with the imprint of ‘Foster & Martin, Artists & Photographers, 29 & 31 Collins St. East, Melbourne’, and the initials ‘E. H.’ in pencil in a fully contemporary hand; the print has some very light foxing. An enigmatic portrait of a waif-like woman …
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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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# 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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# 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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# 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, …
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# 44876
COGNE, Francois (1829–1883); TROEDEL, Charles (1836-1906)
Swanston Street (1863)
Tinted lithograph, printed on stone, 26.5 × 36.5 cm (image); 28.0 × 37.9 cm (outer framing line); 35.5 x 45.5 cm (trimmed sheet), a few spots of foxing, old repaired tear extending to the edge of the image upper right, mounted. A fine view looking down the main boulevard of Melbourne during the height of …
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# 44874
COGNE, Francois (1829–1883); TROEDEL, Charles (1836-1906)
Sandridge from Hobson’s Bay (1863)
Tinted lithograph, printed on stone, 26.6 × 35.7 cm (image); 28.0 × 37.1 cm (outer framing line); 40.1 × 52.3 cm (sheet), a few spots of foxing, old repaired tear extending to the edge of the image upper right, mounted. A fine, animated view of Sandridge (now called Port Melbourne), from Troedel’s The Melbourne album …