Victoria

# 42518

HAM, Thomas

The squatting map of Victoria

Also titled: Squatters’ directory, road guide, and key to the squatting map of Victoria. Melbourne : Blundell and Ford, 1864-1865 [map published 1864; directory 1865]. Folding map, 464 x 705 mm, folded to 180 x 120 mm, linen backed, in original brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to front,190 x 130 mm, the map attached …

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# 44186

[HARLAND FAMILY]

[BALLARAT] Wesleyan Sabbath School, Scotchman’s Lead : book prize awarded to George Harland, April 1870. (With associated ephemera)

PROSSER, Mrs. (Sophie Amelia). Quality Fogg’s old ledger. London : The Religious Tract Society, [1869]. Square octavo, gilt-decorated brown cloth over boards (rubbed and marked); front free-endpaper inscribed in ink: ‘Presented to George Harland by the Primitive Methodist Sabbath School, Scotchman’s Lead, April 5th 1870’; pp. 162, [6], woodcut illustrations; occasional staining, otherwise sound; [TOGETHER WITH] An …

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# 44035

LINDT, John William (1845-1926)

Victorian Volunteer Artillery at the Dandenong Encampment, April 1882.

Two albumen print photographs in identical Paris Panel format, 170 x 245 mm, the rectos and versos of the matching gilt-edged mounts with the gilt imprint of J. W. Lindt, 7 Collins Street East, Melbourne; both rectos with faint contemporary inscription at left of lower margin: ‘Dandenong Encampment’, one with the additional caption ‘Gun Drill’; …

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# 44499

BARTHOLOMEW, J[ohn], W. HUGHES, and Sidney HALL (engravers)

Atlas of Australia with all the Gold Regions

A series of maps from the latest and best authorities. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, c. 1853. Quarto, later gilt-lettered cloth, containing six hand-coloured engraved maps (five double page, and one folding) of the gold regions of Australia, a few pale stains, short tape repair to the margin of the first map, and a …

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# 44089

JARRATT, A. E. (Albert Ellingworth) (1886-1962)

Two panoramic costal views taken at Lorne, Victoria, circa 1920.

Two gelatin silver print photographs taken with the same panoramic camera, in 90 x 250 mm format; laid down on original textured card mounts with photographer’s signature in pencil at lower right ‘A. E. Jarratt’; both prints and both mounts are in virtually pristine condition. Lorne resident A. E. Jarratt (1886-1962) was for many years …

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# 44066

DUKE, J. S.

[MELBOURNE] Manuscript notebooks (mostly devoted to literature and astronomy) compiled by J. S. Duke, of Elwood and Elsternwick, 1918-1927.

Melbourne : J. S. Duke, 1918-27 [unpublished]. Two small quarto-size notebooks, each 235 x 185 mm, original linen and black oilskin bindings, owner’s name and address to pastedown of one ‘J. S. Duke, Elwood’ with printed label beneath ‘456 New Street, Elsternwick’; in total both notebooks comprise approx. 250 pages filled with neat manuscript entries, …

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# 44088

Photographer unknown.

Large social outing on Mount Korong, central Victoria, circa 1900.

Gelatin silver print photograph, 112 x 152 mm, laid down on its original grey card mount, 128 x 188 mm; verso inscribed in a slightly later hand ‘Mount Korong’; fine condition. Despite the fact that it was probably taken by an amateur photographer, this is a fabulous outdoor photograph: the more you look, the more …

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# 44090

Photographer unknown.

[MELBOURNE] Suite of four views of Oakover Bridge on Merri Creek between Coburg and Preston. Early 1925.

Four large format gelatin silver print photographs, in uniform 150 x 200 mm format, on original matching board mounts each 245 x 300 mm; no photographer indicated; verso of one photograph has a slightly later explanatory inscription in pencil which reads: ‘Oakover Bridge opp. Oakover Road, Preston. Crosses Merri Ck. to Grant St. Coburg. Photo …

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# 44125

Photographer unknown.

[MELBOURNE] “Hawksview”, Manningtree Road, Hawthorn, circa 1900.

Large format sepia-tone gelatin silver print photograph, 145 x 180 mm, laid down on its original board mount, 255 x 300 mm; verso inscribed in a later hand ‘Hawksview / Manningtree Road’; the print is in excellent condition; the mount has some light foxing. “Hawksview” was an impressive Hawthorn family residence built in the 1870s, …

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# 44091

WATTS, W. H.

Visiting dignitaries at Paraparap State School No. 3634, Victoria. Possibly a record of the school’s opening day, 12 December 1909.

Large format gelatin silver print photograph,150 x 200 mm, laid down on its original board mount with the studio’s embossed name at lower right ‘W. H. Watts, Ryrie Street, Geelong’; the print has excellent clarity and is in very good condition; the mount is foxed. The tiny Paraparap State School No. 3634 was a humble …

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# 44151

FRAZER, C. J.

Catholic Federation Summer School, Queenscliff, Victoria, February 1923.

Gelatin silver print photograph, 150 x 200 mm, on the original studio mount with imprint of ‘C. J. Frazer, Photo, Melbourne’; mount inscribed in pencil ‘S.S. 1923 Queenscliff’, and in pen in a later hand ‘Catholic Federation, Queenscliffe 1923’; the verso has the name ‘K. McCarthy’ in pen; the print has excellent clarity and is …

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# 41832

KERR, William (1812 - 1859)

Kerr’s Melbourne almanac, and Port Phillip directory, for 1842.

A compendium of useful and accurate information connected with Port Phillip. Melbourne: printed and published by Kerr and Thompson, at the Port Phillip Patriot Office, Collins Street, 1842. Octavo, original half cloth over papered boards (some wear and stains), expertly rebacked, worn paper label to spine; early ownership inscription of Alexander Beatson Balcombe (“Tichingorourke, 1842, …

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# 33495

GILL, S. T. (Samuel Thomas) (1818-1880)

Diggers shipping from Melbourne / The Shipping Agents are netting handsome.

[Melbourne : James J. Blundell, between 1852 and 1855]. Illustrated letter paper, 182 x 115 mm, bifolium with lithographed letterhead reproducing one of the plates from S.T. Gill’s Sketches of the Victoria gold diggings and diggers as they are (Melbourne : Macartney & Galbraith, August 1852); lithographed image, including captions, 90 x 90 mm; the rear blank side has a …

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# 16379

SANDS AND KENNY

The Victoria gold ready reckoner

Carefully revised. Commencing at £3 and terminating at £4. 5s 9d per ounce. Melbourne: Sands and Kenny, 1857. Sextodecimo, cloth bound blind-embossed boards with gilt lettering to upper board, 218 pp, one gathering with soiling and wear from use, most liking during mining activities, advertisement endpapers, charming contemporary ownership inscription of a gold miner ‘A. …

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# 40880

[GILL, S. T.]

[The Melbourne Rose].

[The Melbourne Rose. Part II. Honour to the brave memory of John King, R. O’Hara Burke, William John Wills]. [London : Myers & Co., 1862 (printed in Hamburg)]. Chromolithographed and engraved folding pictorial ephemeron, die cut in the shape of a rose (small loss to a couple of small pieces in the centre), without the …

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# 24975

[HAMILTON, Mrs.]; [DEUCHAR, John, Mrs.]

A Nugget of Gold from Australia!!! presented to Mrs John Deuchar by Mrs Hamilton on 12th Aug. 1867, New Zealand.

Manuscript note in brown ink on a small scrap of paper, 50 x 60 mm, laid down on later card backing; old fold lines (the gold nugget was originally enclosed inside the note), a small perforation and two short edge tears, resulting in the loss of a couple of letters, else complete; [together with] the …

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