Victoria
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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 …
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# 43894
SEARLE, Ken
Ken Searle : North Geelong. 21 January – 19 February, 1995, Geelong Art Gallery : 23 February – 16 March 1995, Charles Nodrum Gallery. (Inscribed by the artist for Lady Maisie Drysdale)
Folding card, 255 x 205 mm; front with colour reproduction of Searle’s painting North Geelong, second side with exhibition information, and inscribed by the artist in pen ‘To Maisie, Happy Xmas. Best wishes, Ken’; third side with detailed analysis of North Geelong by John Forbes; fourth side with Searle’s exhibition CV; good condition; [TOGETHER WITH] …
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![[TASMANIA; PORT PHILLIP] Studio portraits of Wimmera squatter Monckton Synnot (ca. 1864), his wife Anne (Wedge) Synnot (ca. 1870), and their seven children (1863).](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2024/04/2024_DSFB_2208-300x300.jpg)
# 43443
ROBERTS, W. F.; BOTTERILL, John; BATCHELDER & O'NEILL
[TASMANIA; PORT PHILLIP] Studio portraits of Wimmera squatter Monckton Synnot (ca. 1864), his wife Anne (Wedge) Synnot (ca. 1870), and their seven children (1863).
I. W. F. Roberts, Market Square, Geelong, photographer. [Probably taken on the same day in late 1863]. Seven albumen print studio portraits, in uniform carte de visite format. The seven young sitters are all identified in a fully contemporary hand on the versos as follows: Monckton Davy Synott (1854-1938), Jane Elizabeth Synott (1855-1933), Richard Walter …
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# 43430
Photographer unknown.
Members of the Sandhurst Volunteer Fire Brigade. Bendigo, Victoria, circa 1890.
Silver bromide copy print, in very large format 370 x 300 mm; in very good condition, with photographic studio’s re-touching highlighting the brigade’s initials on the uniforms; in the original gilded frame, 590 x 480 mm. The SVFB was formed in 1855, but it became known as the Bendigo Fire Brigade in 1891, which means …
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# 42575
Hamilton Centenary Committee
Major Mitchell Centenary Celebrations, Hamilton. March 8th to the 15th, 1937. Official souvenir programme and history
Hamilton : Hamilton Centenary Committee, 1937. Quarto, lettered pink wrappers (slightly foxed, light central crease), pp. [20], illustrated. Loosely enclosed, an engraved letterhead from T. J. Laidlaw & Co., Auctioneers, Stock & Station Agents, Melbourne and Hamilton. Provenance : Jonathan Wantrup, his book label inside upper wrapper.
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# 43548
D. & J. EVANS PTY. LTD. (MELBOURNE)
Dunlop Perdriau dependable garden hose
Hawthorn, Vic. : D. & J. Evans Pty. Ltd., [1947]. Single sheet, 140 x 270 mm, folding to 140 x 90 mm, printed in colour on both sides, illustrated; in very good condition. Trade brochure for Dunlop Perdriau hoses produced by agents D. & J. Evans, ironmongers and timber merchants, Camberwell Road, Hawthorn.
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# 42522
WALLACE-CRABBE, Chris (editor)
Compass. No. 2, Spring 1956
Melbourne : Melbourne University Literature Club, 1956. Quarto, stapled wrappers (stencilled design by Ray Wilson), pp. 31 printed roneo, poetry by the students.
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# 43721
ECCLESTON, Gregory C.
Granville Stapylton : Australia Felix 1836 : second in command to Major Mitchell
Melbourne : Evandale Publishing, 2018. Oblong quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. xix; 250; 46 pages of plates, a fine, new copy. “Granville Stapylton Australia Felix 1836 Second-in-command to Major Mitchell is based on the true journals of the pioneer land surveyor Granville Stapylton when he accompanied Major Thomas Mitchell on the famous ‘Australia Felix’ expedition …
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# 37236
SCOTT, Robert Vere (1877-1940)
River Yarra, Melbourne.
[Circa 1904]. Panoramic gelatin silver print photograph, 230 x 570 mm, signed and titled in the negative at bottom left and right ‘R. Vere Scott, Copyright / River Yarra, Melbourne’; on the original board mount, 330 x 690 mm, with the title repeated in calligraphic lettering across the lower margin; a superb print in pristine …
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# 43579
ANGUS, Max
Simpkinson de Wesselow. Landscape painter in Van Diemen’s Land and the Port Phillip district 1844 – 1848
Hobart : Blubber Head Press, 1984. Quarto, gilt-decorated cloth in illustrated dustjacket, pp. 191, previous owner’s name to endpaper, extensively illustrated, including a foldout panorama. Limited to 1000 copies signed by the author. A fine copy.
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# 40580
BROOKS, ROBINSON & CO. (MELBOURNE & SYDNEY)
Wallpaper sample book, 1931
[Melbourne?] : Brooks, Robinson & Co., 1931. Oblong large folio (250 x 500 mm), maker’s canvas-covered boards (heavily rubbed and stained) with hand-coloured decorative title to front ‘Brooks Robinson & Co. Ltd. / Wall Papers / 1931′, original rivet binding with leather carry strap, containing over [200] samples of wallpaper friezes and drops in a …
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# 30358
Anon.
In Memory of John Dowel Whittle, who was drowned off Cape Otway (Bass St.), N.W. 10 miles, 7 a.m., 29th July, 1852, aged 23 years.
[Melbourne, s.n., 1852]. Broadside, 210 x 150 mm, printed on one side only, text set within decorative border surrounding the heading and Psalm LXIX, and with a fully contemporary annotation at top left, ‘P. & O. S. “Chusan” 1st arrival at Port Phillip’; in fine condition, mounted on card and housed in a modern frame with …
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# 42978
[NETTLETON, Charles, 1826-1902] (attributed)
Sandridge Railway Pier, Melbourne. November, 1866.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 90 x 58 mm; laid down on a section cut from a nineteenth-century album page, the mount inscribed ‘Sandridge Railway Pier’; in good condition. An early photographic view of the Sandridge Railway Pier (now known as Station Pier) at Port Melbourne, which was opened in 1854. Although the …
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# 42991
WOODS, Tony; PATERSON, Rod; RYAN, Ben, et al. (eds.)
Super Eight : newsletter of the Melbourne Super 8 Film Group Inc. (Twenty-four individual issues, 1997-2001)
Fitzroy, Vic. : Melbourne Super 8 Film Group, September 1997 – March 2001. Twenty-four issues (itemised below); uniform format of foolscap folio, self-wrappers, [8] pp., illustrated; all issues in very good condition; from the estate of Virginia Fraser, artist, writer, editor and curator. The Melbourne Super 8 Film Group was an independent co-operative formed in …
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# 42996
[MIFF]
39th Melbourne International Film Festival, June 8-23, 1990.
Melbourne : The Melbourne Film Festival, 1990. Official programme. Quarto (295 x 210 mm), stapled pictorial wrappers; pp. 72, illustrated in b/w; a couple of pages with highlighting, but an excellent copy with loosely inserted newspaper clipping on Kieslowski and the MIFF.
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# 42993
[BRAKHAGE, et al]
Invisible Cinema present Loud Visual Noises. The Musicians Club, 65 Wellington St, St Kilda Thursday 15th July at 7.30 pm.
[Melbourne] : Invisible Cinema, [1993]. Foolscap folio flyer, photostatted, printed on both sides; some old water staining, otherwise good condition. A combination of the perpetual calendar and the nine-digit phone number allow us to date this obscure Melbourne experimental cinema event to 1993. The flyer is more than likely a unique survivor. The screening comprised …