Victoria
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# 43886
SANDS & McDOUGALL
The Victoria gold ready reckoner,
carefully revised. Commencing at £3 and terminating at £4. 5s 9d per ounce. Melbourne: Sands and McDougall, 1878. Fifth edition. Sextodecimo (110 x 73 mm), original blind-embossed brown cloth over boards with gilt lettering to upper board (boards rubbed, spine slightly rolled and ends a little frayed); front pastedown with early ownership inscription of ‘A. …
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![[KELLY GANG; CRICKET] Signed studio portrait of Francis Augustus Hare, Superintendent of the Victorian Mounted Police, inscribed by Hare for Ivo Bligh, captain of the visiting English cricket team. "Rupertswood", Sunbury, Christmas 1882.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2024/05/2024_DSFB_3110-300x300.jpg)
# 42245
FOSTER & MARTIN
[KELLY GANG; CRICKET] Signed studio portrait of Francis Augustus Hare, Superintendent of the Victorian Mounted Police, inscribed by Hare for Ivo Bligh, captain of the visiting English cricket team. “Rupertswood”, Sunbury, Christmas 1882.
Melbourne : Foster & Martin, [1882]. Albumen print photograph in cabinet card format, 165 x 110 mm; verso with imprint of ‘Foster & Martin, Artists & Photographers, 29 & 31 Collins St. East, Melbourne’, and a presentation inscription in ink by the sitter: Francis Hare, for The Honbl. Ivo Blyth [sic – *see note below]; …
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# 37054
HUME, Fergus (1859-1932)
The Mystery of a hansom cab
A sensational novel … A startling and realistic story of Melbourne social life. London : The Hansom Cab Publishing Coy., 60 Ludgate Hill, [1888]. “One Hundred and Seventy-Fifth Thousand” (t.p.). Small octavo (182 x 122 mm), original pictorial wrappers, the upper wrapper featuring an illustration of the hansom cab in a Melbourne street, lower wrapper …
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# 41477
MARSHALL-HALL, G. W. L. (George William Louis) (1862-1915)
Hymns Ancient and Modern
Melbourne : The Atlas Press (W. H. Newlands), Block Place, 1898. First and only edition. Small octavo (190 x 125 mm), original stiff green wrappers printed in black and red (spine expertly repaired); title-page stamped ‘With the author’s compliments’, pp. [1-6], 7-70; scattered foxing, mostly marginal but more pronounced on the preliminary and last few …
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# 43632
[HUMPHRIES, M., attributed]
Two panoramic photographs taken on Brighton Beach, Melbourne, summer 1905.
Two gelatin silver print photographs, in identical 100 x 330 mm format; no photographer’s imprint; both containing a wealth of detail and in very good condition. These wonderful views of Brighton Beach on Melbourne’s Port Phillip Bay were taken with the same special panoramic camera by an amateur photographer, and are almost certainly unique images. …
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# 43816
[BARRY, Sir Redmond]
Exposition Intercoloniale, 1866. Vocabulaire des dialectes des aborigenes de l’Australie.
Melbourne : Masterman, Printer, Brunswick Street, Fitzroy, 1867. Octavo, original printed yellow wrappers (some chipping and foxing to the edges, lacking the lower wrapper), sewn, pp xiv, [2], 6 large format tables of vocabulary (each folding to 460 x 580 mm),the tables detached from the text block, which is perforated along the gutter. French language …
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![[MELBOURNE] Town Lot purchase document for land in present-day Carlton, with signature and seal of Lieutenant-Governor Charles La Trobe, countersigned by William Lonsdale. 16 May, 1853.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2024/06/2024_DSFB_3069-300x300.jpg)
# 43897
LA TROBE, Charles Joseph; LONSDALE, William [HEPBURN, Robert]
[MELBOURNE] Town Lot purchase document for land in present-day Carlton, with signature and seal of Lieutenant-Governor Charles La Trobe, countersigned by William Lonsdale. 16 May, 1853.
[Melbourne : Government of the Colony of Victoria]. Pro forma document printed on vellum, 340 x 430 mm, with manuscript entries recording the purchase by Robert Hepburn for £270 of a Town Lot measuring one rood (1/4 acre) at the corner of Queensberry Street and Bouverie Street (now Carlton), in the County of Bourke, Parish of …
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# 43802
[GIBSON, Robert, 1856-1880]
In Affectionate Remembrance of Robert Gibson, husband of Catherine Lily Gibson, Who was Killed by the accidental discharge of a gun, on the 22nd June, 1880, at Serpentine Creek, Victoria, aged 26 years
and was interred in the Bridgewater-on-Loddon Cemetery, 27th June, 1880. [Sandhurst?] : [s.n.], 1880. Die-cut mourning card, 75 x 114 mm; light foxing, otherwise in very good condition. A poignant mourning card recording the accidental death of Robert Gibson near Serpentine Creek, northwest of Bendigo, in June 1880. Robert had married 17-year-old Catherine Lily Threlfall, …
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# 44084
BLAND, C. V.
Lawn bowls team. Geelong, circa 1925.
Gelatin silver print photograph, 165 x 215 mm, laid down on its original board mount with the handwritten details of the photographer on the mount l.r. ‘C. V. Bland Photo Geelong’; verso with fully contemporary inscription in pencil identifying the four gentlemen as ‘McIntyre, Prowse, Batty, Hall’; in excellent condition. Mr. C. V. Bland was …
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# 43862
A. W. BURMAN [JOHNSON, Annie]
Studio portrait of Alfred Goddard in his postal worker’s uniform. Melbourne, circa 1885.
Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 164 x 108 mm (mount); recto of mount imprinted ‘A. W. Burman, 100 Chapel Street, Prahran – near Town Hall’; the print has a small mark at upper right, but is otherwise in good condition; the mount is very clean (verso blank). This cabinet card came from a distressed …
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# 44065
JONES, John H. (1817?-1872)
Stereoscopic view of scenery at Mount Macedon, Victoria, circa 1862.
Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each individual image 70 x 72 mm, on original card mount 83 x 173 mm; recto of mount imprinted ‘Jones’s Photographs of Australian Sceneries’, and with a fully contemporary inscription in ink: ‘Scenery at Mount Macedon’; verso with pencilled name of the original owner ‘McMillan’; both prints are in very good condition; …
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# 43838
HARVEY & DUNDEN (GEELONG)
“Contributions Solicited” : carte de visite album “opener”. Geelong, early 1870s.
Albumen print, carte de visite format, 101 x 64 mm (mount); verso with back mark in green of ‘Harvey & Dunden, Corner Portrait Gallery, Moorabool St., Geelong’; foxing to both sides. Cartes de visite of this type – usually comprising a short rhyming verse decorated with any one of a multitude of different pictorial themes …
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# 43840
ALLAN, Mark Joseph
Pair of studio portraits of a Salvation Army couple in uniform. Melbourne, late 1880s.
Two albumen print photographs, carte de visite format, 104 x 63 mm (mounts); rectos of mounts imprinted ‘Allan, 270 Smith Street, Collingwood’; both prints and mounts are in excellent condition. These portraits were clearly taken during the same visit to Allan’s studio, probably around 1888, the year Allan commenced business in Smith Street. They were found …
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# 43846
BARDWELL, William
Studio portrait of a young woman wearing a crocheted shawl and holding a book. Ballarat, mid 1870s.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 102 x 62 mm (mount); verso of mount imprinted ‘Bardwell, Ballarat. Photographer By Special Appointment to HRH The Duke of Edinburgh and His Excellency Sir George Bowen. Awarded the three First Prize Medals at the International Exhibition 1872-3, and the First Gold Medal from the South Kensington Exhibition …
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# 44064
JONES, John H. (1817?-1872)
Stereoscopic view of the Devil’s Glen Falls on the Campaspe River, Victoria, circa 1862.
Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each individual image 70 x 72 mm, on original card mount 83 x 173 mm; recto of mount imprinted ‘Jones’s Photographs of Australian Sceneries’, and with a fully contemporary inscription in ink: ‘On the Campaspe / View of Devil’s Glen Falls’; verso with pencilled name of the original owner ‘McMillan’; both prints …
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# 43728
BROOKES' PHOTOGRAPHIC UNION [BROOKES, Albert Edward; BROOKES, Frederick Augustus]
Western Victoria : companion to “Gippsland Through The Camera”. Illustrated by gems of photography.
[Geelong, Vic.] : Brookes’ Photographic Union, [1891]. Large quarto portfolio (285 x 260 mm), pebbled blue cloth over boards, the upper board with title surmounted by crown and company motto, all in gilt; boards scuffed and stained, cloth split along spine; interior with cloth-covered flaps, but containing no photographs. Quite possibly a unique survivor, this …