Victoria
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![[WINE] Commercial letter to Curcier & Adet, Bordeaux wine merchants, concerning an Australian shipment. May, 1871.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2024/09/2024_DSFB_5323-300x300.jpg)
# 45147
[CURCIER & ADET]
[WINE] Commercial letter to Curcier & Adet, Bordeaux wine merchants, concerning an Australian shipment. May, 1871.
Manuscript letter, 1 1/2 pages, quarto, on the letterhead of shipping brokers Constantin, Boisson & Co., Rochefort, addressed to Messieurs Curcier & Adet, Bordeaux, dated 21 May 1871; the letter concerns correspondence that has been received from Curcier & Adet’s Melbourne office re. a claim for payment that has been made by Constantin, Boisson & Co. …
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# 45138
[ALEXANDER, Selig]
Deed of conveyance between Selig Alexander and Charles Williams, relating to a land allotment in Sandridge (Port Melbourne), November 1857.
Manuscript on parchment, folio bifolium (470 x 320 mm), [3] pages, written in a fine clerical hand, dated 18 November 1857 and recording the conveyance of part of Allotment 3, Section 9 in the Parish of South Melbourne at Sandridge (on Stoke Street in what is now Port Melbourne), from Selig Alexander, merchant, of the …
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# 44914
[Photographer unknown]
Collingwood, East view.
[circa 1865]. Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, 77 x 72 mm each image; original buff-coloured mount, with a very faint contemporary inscription in pencil verso ‘Collingwood, East view’; the left-hand print has a couple of tiny marks, otherwise the prints are in good condition; the mount is clean and stable. An early view of Collingwood from the banks …
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![[Teledex]](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2024/08/2024_DSFB_4754-300x300.jpg)
# 44832
HOPKINS, Ted (1949 - 2023)
[Teledex]
[Melbourne : Champion Books, 1980]. Artist’s book in the form of a teledex telephone director, folding box made of steel with alphabet index design, index cards with poems in alphabetical order. Many of the poems focus on Melbourne and Victoria.
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![Robert Boynes, paintings / Donald Stewart, sculpture. Realities, 60 Ross Street, Toorak, 13-30 November [1974].](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2024/09/2024_DSFB_5138-300x300.jpg)
# 45070
BOYNES, Robert; STEWART, Donald (Don)
Robert Boynes, paintings / Donald Stewart, sculpture. Realities, 60 Ross Street, Toorak, 13-30 November [1974].
[Toorak : Realities Gallery, 1974]. Postcard, 120 x 170 mm, recto illustrated in b/w, verso with curriculum vitae of Boynes (b. 1942) and the younger Stewart (b. 1950); this was sculptor Don Stewart’s first major exhibition, at which he showed his work The Sunbathers; the card is in good condition. Note: this exhibition seems to …
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# 43901
HETZER, William
Studio portrait of William Huon, pioneer squatter in the Riverina district. Sydney, March 1866.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 104 x 62 mm (mount); verso with imprint of ‘W. Hetzer’s Photographic Gallery, 287, George Street, Sydney, N.S.W.’, and a fully contemporary inscription in ink, identifying the sitter: ‘W. Huon Esq., Wodonga, March 1866’; both the print and mount are in fine condition. William Huon (Campbelltown 1825 – …
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# 44633
WHITE, Nicholas
Tinted studio portrait of an adolescent girl, posed beside an unusual bronze statuette. Sandhurst (Bendigo), Victoria, circa 1875.
Albumen print with hand colouring, carte de visite format, 105 x 62 mm (mount); verso with the decorative back mark in violet of ‘N. White, Photographer, Mitchell St., Sandhurst. Opposite St. Paul’s Tower’; both print and mount are in excellent condition. A striking mid-1870s over-painted portrait, from the goldfields studio of Nicolas White.
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# 44824
DAVIES & CO.
Studio portrait of a gentleman wearing a cravat. Melbourne, 1863-65.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 102 x 63 mm (mount); verso with imprint of ‘Davies & Co. Photographers, 5 Collins St. West, 3 doors from Elizabeth St., Melbourne’; the print has some small surface marks at the corners, but is otherwise excellent; the mount is very clean. Perhaps a high-ranking public servant, or …
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# 44086
JOHNSTONE, O'SHANNESSY & CO.
Studio portrait of a young bride in her wedding dress. Melbourne, circa 1875.
Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 165 x 110 mm (mount); verso with the imprint of ‘Johnstone, O’Shannessy & Co., 3 Bourke Street, next Post Office, Melbourne’; both the print and mount are in excellent condition.
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# 44085
THE BURLINGTON STUDIOS
“Aunt Lizzie and Charles”. Melbourne, circa 1910.
Gelatin silver print photograph, 180 x 130 mm (oval format), laid down on the original board mount with the embossed imprint of ‘The Burlington Studios, 294 Bourke St., Melbourne’; verso with contemporary inscription in pencil identifying the sitters as ‘Aunt Lizzie & Charles’; the print is in superb condition; the mount has been slightly trimmed …
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# 44080
LOCKWOOD, John
Studio portrait of Lilian Pyers of Charlton, Victoria. Geelong, circa 1912.
Gelatin silver print photograph, 135 x 90 mm (oval format), on the original studio mount of grey board embossed in gilt at lower left ‘J. Lockwood, Geelong’; verso with contemporary caption in pencil: ‘Lil Pyers’; the print and mount are in excellent condition. A stunning portrait of Miss Lilian Pyers, dressed to the nines and …
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![[WINE] Front view of a colonial cottage showing rows of neatly planted grape vines. Melbourne (or Beechworth?), 1869-70.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2024/08/2024_DSFB_4332-300x300.jpg)
# 44635
AMERICAN & AUSTRALIAN PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPANY [LIND, James P.]
[WINE] Front view of a colonial cottage showing rows of neatly planted grape vines. Melbourne (or Beechworth?), 1869-70.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 64 x 103 mm (mount); recto of mount inscribed in ink at top edge: ‘William’s cottage’; verso with the imprint of ‘American and Australian Photographic Company. Melbourne Office, 73 Little Collins St. East’; both print and mount are in excellent condition. The American & Australian Photographic Company was …
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![[WESTERN DISTRICT, VICTORIA] Entire letter written by John Simpson of Cowtan & Bland, Belfast (Port Fairy), addressed to James Greig of Glen Ronald Station near Wickliffe. 2 April 1859.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2024/08/2024_DSFB_4308-300x300.jpg)
# 44598
[SIMPSON, John] COWTAN & BLAND
[WESTERN DISTRICT, VICTORIA] Entire letter written by John Simpson of Cowtan & Bland, Belfast (Port Fairy), addressed to James Greig of Glen Ronald Station near Wickliffe. 2 April 1859.
Manuscript in ink, 1 page, written on the first side of a quarto bifolium of blue paper; headed ‘Belfast, 2 April 1859’, the letter is addressed to ‘Mr. James Greig, Glen Ronald’, and is signed at the foot ‘Truly yours, Cowtan & Bland’; front panel addressed to ‘Mr. James Greig, Glen Ronald by Wycliffe [i.e. …
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![[SHEET MUSIC; ST. KILDA, MELBOURNE] Sea Grove : polka brilliante. Dedicated to his pupils, the Misses M. F. and M. E. Symonds, Sea Grove Villas, St. Kilda, by the composer, George R. G. Pringle.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2024/08/2024_DSFB_4300-300x300.jpg)
# 44595
PRINGLE, George R. G.
[SHEET MUSIC; ST. KILDA, MELBOURNE] Sea Grove : polka brilliante. Dedicated to his pupils, the Misses M. F. and M. E. Symonds, Sea Grove Villas, St. Kilda, by the composer, George R. G. Pringle.
At head of title: Second Edition. Melbourne : Published by Wilkie, Webster, & Co., Collins Street East, and may be had of Mr George R. G. Pringle, 161 Collins Street East, [between 1865 and 1870]. Folio (340 x 240 mm), upper wrapper lettered in decorative fonts (original owner’s name ‘M. Macvean’ to upper margin); [4] pp. …
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# 44613
HAIGH, Edward
Gold washing, at the Ovens, Victoria.
[1861-1862]. Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each image approximately 73 x 73 mm, flat yellow mount 83 x 165 mm; verso with printed label ’40. Gold washing, at the Ovens, Victoria. Ed. Haigh, Photo.’, and below this in manuscript the monogram and sequence number of the original owner ‘MAH. 72’; both prints, as well as the mount, …
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# 44618
FRASER, Thomas M'Kenzie
Sermons for colonists
Geelong : Wish & Downie, 1867. Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth (heavily worn, boards water stained), pp. xii; 392, pale water stain to preliminaries, text clean, a couple of quires slightly spring, a good copy of a rare book. Ferguson 9746 ‘Rev. Thomas McKenzie Frazer was notable among the founders of Geelong College as a member of …