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1880166761880. Four albumen photographs of Sydney all with the Charles Bayliss blind stamp. <br /> Charles Bayliss 1850 - 1897 one of Australia's preeminent landscape photographers who worked for years with Merlin and Holtermann before setting up his own shop in Sydney in 1879. He established his studio at 348 George Street; then moved to 335a George Street advertising himself as a photographer of city and country views often with people and making views to be sold individually while also contributing images for albums. He also made remarkable 360 degree panoramas of the city of Sydney around this time.<br /> These four images are mounted on a page from an album with handwritten captions in black ink. The first photograph "Sydney Harbor NSW" is a view looking over rooftops toward the harbor and tall masted ships moored and docked; and "Sydney Observatory" looking up toward the building from a lower vantage point; both with handwritten labels laid down and with the C. Bayliss stamp at the lower left. On the verso are "Botanical Gardens Sydney" which shows an entrance gate with an open doorway and view into the garden at the right and "Nepean River NSW" with a view across the river to cliffs on the far side are blind stamped at the lower right "C. Bayliss Photo Copyright". Album page 9 x 11 1/2"; each photograph 7 x 4 1/2". Album page chipped at corners; photographs very good condition. unknown
55088The seventeen signatures are Lawry Captain Ian Chappell Connolly Cowper Freeman Gleeson Hawke Inverarity Jarman Joslin Mallett McKenzie Renneberg Redpath Sheahan Taber and Walters. Very slightly creased; a fine copy. unknown
185021187Switzerland 1850. Very good condition. Striking lithograph of the view at Port Jackson of the Sydney Heads taken from the foot of the lighthouse. From a German edition of Dumont D'Urville's 'Voyage Autour du Monde'. A view of the cliffs with ships out to sea and three gentlemen viewers in the lower left foreground one possibly sketching. Paper size 10 1/4 x 6 1/2". Very bright and clean image. unknown
1915134649Sydney: Trustees of the National Art Gallery of NSW 1915. Very Good. Sydney Trustees of the National Art Gallery of NSW 1915. Quarto a portfolio containing 7 plates tipped in on thin gilt-captioned card mounts external dimensions 220 × 285 mm housed in the original glassine sleeve. A portfolio of gilt-lettered dark green paper over thin card a little bowed; extremities a little rubbed with minor wear to the head of the spine; front pastedown unevenly discoloured; overall in excellent condition the contents are fine. The first plate is a photographic view of the Gallery building; the others reproduce paintings by Arthur Burgess George Lambert William Lister Lister Fred Mahony A. de Neuville France and Sir Luke Fildes Britain. The only war-related images are one of the Australian Fleet in 1913 and 'The Defence of Rorke's Drift' from the Zulu War in 1879! Several relics of the day are pinned to the flaps on the rear cover of the portfolio: a large inscribed gum leaf surmounted by the Australian Coat of Arms printed on a small card disc with an attached blue ribbon; a stickpin with a small enamel Australian flag; a flower made out of felt; and a white ribbon tied in a bow with a small piece of red white and blue ribbon around the centre. <p>For the record the Sir John Monash Centre at the Australian National Memorial in France has this to say about Australia Day: 'In 1915 Australia Day was part of a fundraising plan for Australian troops serving in the war to help improve the general living conditions of the soldiers and to enable the Red Cross and other organisations such as the South Australians Soldiers' Fund to provide more comfort and care for injured and ill Australian soldiers. <p>It was the mother of four Australian soldiers Mrs Ellen Wharton-Kirke who suggested the organisation of a national patriotic fundraising day to celebrate Australia's military achievements in the conflict and help improve the lives of Australians serving on the front line. The idea was taken up by the government and the date of the first "Australia Day" was set for 30 July 1915. <p>Three months after the landing of Australian troops in Gallipoli Australian communities took part in Australia Day. During this day marches fairs auctions and performances are organised all over Australia to raise funds for the troops. <p>Commemorative items such as ribbons handkerchiefs badges or matchboxes were made and sold in the streets of Australia. The messages written on these objects appealed to Australian patriotic sentiment and the development of a strong national identity. The day was also an opportunity for those who could not serve to support the troops. <p>In 1915 Australia Day was a success and continued in the subsequent years to support the troops fighting on the frontline. It was not until 1935 that Australia Day became Australia's national holiday and was celebrated on 26 January'. Trustees of the National Art Gallery of NSW unknown
25015'Royal Mint Melbourne Australia / 21 May 1875'. Barton who was born in London joined the Royal Mint’s Melbourne branch as one of two assayers on its opening in 1869; in 1887 he was promoted to Superintendent and in 1895 to Deputy Master holding that position until his reitrement in 1904. See his entry in the Encyclopaedia of Australian Science and Innovation. In case Barton has misspelled the name the recipient may be William Dawson Grubb 1817-1879 or his son Frederick William Grubb 1844-1923 who have a joint-entry in the Australian Dictionary of National Biography. 3pp 12mo. Bifolium. Signed ‘Robert Barton’. In very good condition lightly aged and folded twice for postage. Begins: ‘Dear Grubbe / I met the writer of the enclosed letter not present after you left & he told me that between us we could not have advised you to go to a worse place for the sport you want than Echuca I feel therefore that I have been instrumental although far from my intention in leading you a wild duck chase.’ He has been informed by ‘Singleton’ that ‘there are very few Kangaroo if any near Echuca & the duck are impossible to get near’. He suggests that Grubbe takes the steamer to Albury and proceeds as Singleton directs ‘& you are in a country abounding with Kangaroo & splendid duck shooting’. Barton is enclosing a note from his friend ‘to his brother who is managing the “Walla Walla†station’ and whom Grubbe will find ‘a very decent fellow. He is a batchelor sic I believe living in a large house. Ask at Albury if you are anywhere near Tumbarumba Caves because if so they are one of the finest sights of the Colonies.’ Barton wishes he had known this information before Grubbe left ‘as then you might have gone to Albury via the new line but if you elect to go from Echuca you will at all events see the river Murray’. 'Royal Mint [Melbourne, Australia] / 21 May 1875'. unknown
192760008Sydney NSW; Hobart Tasmania & New York: Beatties Studio; Photographers Photo Service ca. 1927-1934. Two vols. Thick oblong folio. 13.5 x 10.25 x 2 in. 200; 170 pp unpaginated. on thick black paper stock. With 197 silver gelatin photographs all tipped-in nearly all w/ typescript mimeograph captions mounted below or alongside sized from 5 x 7 in. up to 8 x 10 in. most sized 8 x 10 in. all printed on glossy photo stock some on thicker heavier weight most w/ pencil annotations typescript or imprints on verso a few w/ photographer’s imprint w/in negative at lower fore-edge others w/ embossed armorial photo studio stamp of kangaroo on shield. Uniformly bound in contemporary black pebbled flexible shagreen nested steel backed post-binders black brass screw-posts at gutter margin chipping edgewear to covers some scuffing spine leather covering perished occasional closed tears & chipping to some leaves light faint previous mounting offsetting occasional soiling or slight dampstaining to a few leaves still a VG- set of albums with nearly all of the photographs in excellent condition and with strong bright contrast. These substantial land promotion albums appear to have been designed to tout the advantages for potential homesteaders investors and visitors to Australia from the end of the Roaring 20’s into the Great Depression. Nearly 200 photos depicting bustling cities & shipping ports mines manufacturing burgeoning housing sports flora & fauna and some of the indigenous Australian Aborigine peoples extol the possibilities in Oceania’s economic engine. Following World War I Australia had seen massive changes in population and increasing economic and social changes following the devastation of World War I and the worldwide influenza pandemic with over 215000 killed and wounded between both catastrophes. With the onset of the Great Depression economic activity slowed and unemployment soared to nearly 20%. These albums include several photos of the newly constructed Canberra Provisional Parliament House completed in 1927 with bare land and little infrastructure nearby except for the Hotel Canberra. Designed originally to hold politicians and visitors when the parliament was in session the Hotel was built by contractor John Howie and designed by John Smith Murdoch. Several photos of Sydney Australia the streets a flapper driving her sporty 1927 Chevrolet Capitol AA Roadster and the famed beaches of Sydney. Several photos depict the Australian Lifesaving Clubs which began in 1907 as surf life saving with the Bondi Surf Bathers’ Life Saving Club but which denied full membership to women until 1980. One particular photo depicts a young comely Australian woman surfer leaning against her wooden longboard only about 15 years after Isabel Letham’s famed ride with Duke Kahanamoku in 1915. Many of the Sydney images reveal a capitol city in transition including horse-drawn cars alongside 1920’s automobiles and electric trolleys and trams. Also featured are photographs of the New Castle Steel works the Lithgow Steel Works whose blast furnace site closed in 1928 and the Mt. Boppy gold mining process mill depicting the cyanid vats to extract the ore. Still others show the Burrinjack Dam construction which had begun before World War I but not finished until 1928; horse-drawn silver ore mining wagons in the Barrgorang Valley from the Yerranderle Mines along roads to Camden NSW; orchards long the McDonald River and raising rabbits for the New South Wales Wool & Fur Co. Ltd. at Castle HIll near Parramatta. Also featured are many aerial and street photos of Queensland Brisbane Docks Victoria Bridge Queen Street with streetcars horse breaking in outback stations grape & cotton harvesting children attending “Bush Schools†and more. Still more reveal the bustling wharves at the Freemantle sheep sheering railway yards boaters on Henley-on-Yarra Flinders Street Station wheat harvest and farming and even the one of the famed wheat windjammers “The Carnandale.†Several of the photos depict the indigenous Australian Aborigines with one of the captions noting that 60000 “Full-Blood and 19000 half-caste Aborigines with 40000 still nomadic and others working sheep and cattle stations.†Another photo is included of two young Maori girls as well.The second album also contains views of a traveling salesman or traveling “Bust Hawker†featuring a horse-drawn wagon with sides hinged up and shoppers as well as aerial photos of gardens banana plantations date farms logging Kerri Trees in Western Australia and an entire section devoted to photos of Australian fauna. These depict Wombats Kangaroos pink & white Cockatoos Cassowary birds Wallabys Barn Owls Koala Bears Black Swans Opossums a Platypus Lyre-birds Kokaburra birds Australian penguins and others. Identified photographs by John Beattie Jr. from Beatties Studio Hobart Tasmania include Mt. Rugby from Balmoral Beach Big Ben Gum Tree on the estate of W.L. Clennett Saw Mill Proprietor Port Esperance whose height was nearly 250 feet as well as Dobson’s Basin Geeveston depicting a remarkable group of fen tree bowers. Originally founded in the 1840’s by the Anson Brothers John Beattie d. 1930 son of a Scottish-Australian emigre photographer worked for them in the 1880’s and then purchased the business renaming it Beatties Studio. He operated the studio for decades was the photographer who first developed all of Amundsen’s original photos of his South Pole Expedition in a single day and was an active proponent of the indigenous Aborigine population often defying popular opinion and authority over their historical mistreatment. Sadly a 1933 fire destroyed the studio and most of the negatives but it was reconstituted and many negatives and images rediscovered afterwards. See: Elizabeth Heffernan Exciting New World: Australia in the 1920s Royal Australian Historical Society 2022; Georgie Burgess Photography Pioneer John Beattie Shared Tasmania’s Wild Places with the World ABC Radio Hobart March 9 2019. Beatties Studio; Photographers Photo Service, hardcover
182124880Philadelphia 1821. Good condition. Newspaper article by recent immigrant to Australia titled "New South Wales" by William Smith concerning Smith's views on education the voyage to Australia escaped convicts and New South Wales.<br /> <br /> Smith was the first teacher in the New York Free School to introduce the "Lancastrian system" of education to the New York City school system and to Australia. He emigrated in 1818 to New South Wales via Hobart. He notes the ship 'Discovery' in Sydney Harbor as well as French and Russian ships and the ship 'Gen. Gates' under Captain Riggs. Riggs inadvertently left Sydney with 10 stow away escaped convicts and later incurred a large fine.<br /> <br /> The Smith article at p3 12 column inches. With a period manuscript note "W. Lee" likely for Washington & Lee University. Folio 4pp 13 x 21" period fold. Overall toning center fold cracking. unknown
193759485New York & Toronto: Longmans Green & Co. 1937. 8vo. 8 241 1 pp. Photo frontisp. 3 plates. Blue publisher’s cloth gilt lettering front cover & spine pictorial map endpapers minor sunning light offset toning on endpapers w/ d.j. cover art of the schooner Sirocco by John O’Hara Cosgrave II photo of author & three shipmates on back cover minor chipping head & foot of spine couple closed tears edgewear still VG/VG- copy w/ former ownership markings on ffep. First edition 2nd printing stated of the author’s first book and autobiographical memoir expanded from his June 1930 article entitled “The Sirocco Calls-In†in the Rockhampton Morning Bulletin. By 1930 Flynn had been expelled from Sydney Grammar for theft dismissed from a Sydney Shipping Co. for helping himself to the petty cash and usually just ahead of the law had washed up in New Guinea where he purchased the cutter Sirocco from Lars Halvorsen. After stowing provisions he and three mates set out on a 2000 mile voyage up the East coast of Australia to New Guinea while claiming that they’d been shipwrecked. His later memoirs recount Flynn’s adventures in New Guinea dabbling with slave trade standing trial for murder mining the New Guinea gold fields and succession of romantic epic movies. Longmans, Green & Co., hardcover
55645Tanunda: German Lutheran Church in Australia. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Tanunda German Lutheran Church in Australia n.d. Octavo 48 pages. Card covers a little marked; an excellent copy. Text wholly in German. German Lutheran Church in Australia paperback
187123255Sydney: Caxton Steam Machine Printing Office 1871. Wraps. Very good - condition. Scarce biographical booklet the only one on Ristori published in Sydney describing the life of the Italian actress Adelaide Ristori renowned as a tragedienne. Ristori visited Australia with a large Italian entourage for 4 months in 1875 performing in Ballarat Melbourne and Sydney and this booklet was likely published as a promotional piece for the tour.<br /> <br /> This Australian booklet is not dated although Ferguson's Bibliography of Australia assigns a date ca. 1871. It was translated from Italian into English to be used as an advertising piece for Ristori's 1875 Australia tour. It was published at the Caxton printing office which was functioning under that name until 1876.<br /> <br /> Adelaide Ristori 1822 - 1906 toured widely including Paris 1855 1856 London Madrid 1857 and the United States 1866. The booklet describes Ristori's American visits: the first tour was mainly in the North the events of the Civil War making a stop in New Orleans impossible. Ristori did eventually visit there reciting pieces at the grand bazaar following which she "had to accept a sumptuous supper which was attended by the leading people of the South headed by the generals Beauregard and Lee". p19.<br /> <br /> In 1875 after one of her American tours she traveled to Australia where her company's lavish productions of historical drama were performed in Italian. Ristori performed the roles of Medea Mary Stuart and the title role in Elizabeth Queen of England written especially for her by Paolo Giacometti. Such was Ristori's popularity that in Victoria a company working several gold mines on the rich Berry Lead near Allendale north of Ballarat was named Ristori after her. This led to an adjoining town being named Ristori Town.<br /> <br /> 8vo 29pp. Printed glossy paper wrappers the title printed in black at front wrapper with "Adelaide Ristori" in an elaborate type font. Staplebound. The wrappers slightly dusty the rear wrapper with two small areas where the gloss surface of the wrapper has been rubbed away; small amount of fox spotting to final leaves. Libraries Australia ID 5200078. OCLC: 219812323 locates 4 copies at Monash NLA SL NSW and SL Victoria. Ferguson 14938. Caxton Steam Machine Printing Office paperback
188916673Richmond Virginia: Allen & Ginter 1889. First printing. Ephemera. Otherwise very good condition. Chromolithographic illustrations of Australian birds in tobacco advertising picture book from Richmond Virginia cigarette manufacturer. Lovely illustrations of birds including the apteryx cassowary kingfisher bird of paradise and lyre bird. Oblong 8vo not paginated 10 leaves with 50 striking bird images Tobacco advertisment in inside rear cover. Pictorial stiff paper wrappers with ornate tilte in blue at front cover surrounded by birds of Paradice and humming birds; AG logo on back cover with more humming birds. String bound. Few chips at edges of covers o/w very good. Allen & Ginter unknown
196060174London: Heinemann 1960. 8vo. 208 pp. Black tweed boards silver lettering on spine slight bumping to corners minor shelfwear w/ d.j. variant issue cover art by Fratini of masked figure holding a revolver price-clipped NF/VG copy w/ Boans Book Salon Perth label on front pastedown. First edition of this Australian mystery featuring Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte hunting for a murder amidst the Cork Valley Irish community in New South Wales. Heinemann, hardcover
193356620Sydney Australia: Angus & Robertson Ltd. 1933. 8vo. viii 2 297 1 pp. Photo frontisp. numerous photo plates maps on endpapers. Gray publisher’s cloth lettered & decorated in blue minor shelfwear light foxing to upper fore-edges of textblock w/ d.j. cover art of Plowman on camel back minor chipping head of spine edgewear still VG/VG copy w/ former ownership markings on ffep. Second edition of this fascinating travelogue through the Oodnadatta country filled with delightful cameos amusing anecdotes and character sketches of the country and its inhabitants. Scarce in original dustjacket. Angus & Robertson, Ltd., hardcover
1774143635Paris: Chez Saillant et Nyon . chez Panckoucke 1774. Near fine. Paris Chez Saillant et Nyon . chez Panckoucke 1774 first thus. An original map printed surface 365 × 771 mm sheet size approximately 410 × 830 mm engraved under the direction of Robert Bénard. Trimmed outside the plate-mark leaving ample margins; vertical and horizontal folds; a couple of trifling spots of foxing; small production flaw to the edge of the right-hand margin; some very faint offsetting and other trifling signs of age; in near-fine condition. A map of the east coast of Australia from Point Hicks to Cape Cornwall by way of Botany Bay and Port Jackson as charted by Cook on his first voyage. It comes from the first French edition of the official account of the voyage 'Relation des voyages entrepris . pour faire des découvertes dans l'hémisphère méridional' 'Tome III. Pl. 16'. <p>Tooley 342; see Beddie 659. Chez Saillant et Nyon ... chez Panckoucke unknown
193463220Sydney Australia: Angus & Robertson Ltd. 1934. 12mo. xviii 378 pp. plus 8 pp. publisher’s ads. Photo frntsp. numerous photo illusts. map endpapers. Red pubisher’s cloth black lettering & ruling minor shelfwear rubbing slight foxing w/ d.j. vivid Art Deco cover art minor creasing edgewear slight chipping head of spine couple very small closed tears still VG/VG- copy. Sixth edition of this popular Idriess title set against the backdrop of head-hunting aborigine peoples and inter-racial relations in the Torres Strait Islands near the Great Barrier Reef and Papua New Guinea replete with many photos and illustrations of Indigenous artifacts. Angus & Robertson, Ltd., hardcover
190026434Liebig Company 1900. Very good condition. Set of six beautifully colored lithographic trade cards of Australia including a kangaroo image issued by the Liebig company with the text in Italian. The set is titled "In Australia". The Italian set is identical to the French edition but more uncommon. One of the most graphic sets produced by this European company which enjoyed an international market in the late 19th and early 20th century. Pictured are indigenous peoples a kangaroo and an emu natural scenery and an exotic plant; farming and ranching and seaport scenes. Liebig Company unknown
1865214355Johnson and Ward. Circa1865. Hand coloured map 32.3 x 39.7 x cms including the decorative border; 35.6 x 45.8 cms sheet key to major centres unrelated text on verso sheet age toned in very good condition. Detailed map from the leading mid 19th Century American firm of Johnson and Ward. Although Tasmania was known as such from 1856 the map refers to "Van Diemen Land". . Johnson and Ward. unknown
190026433Liebig Company 1900. Very good condition. Set of six beautifully colored lithographic trade cards of Australia including a kangaroo image issued by the Liebig company with the text in French. The set is titled "L'Australie". One of the most graphic sets produced by this European company which enjoyed an international market in the late 19th and early 20th century. Pictured are indigenous peoples a kangaroo and an emu natural scenery and an exotic plant; farming and ranching and seaport scenes. Liebig Company unknown
190023450Liebig Company 1900. Very good condition. Set of six beautifully colored lithographic trade cards of Australia including a kangaroo image issued by the Liebig company with the text in French. The set is titled "L'Australie". One of the most graphic sets produced by this European company which enjoyed an international market in the late 19th and early 20th century. Pictured are indigenous peoples a kangaroo and an emu natural scenery and an exotic plant; farming and ranching and seaport scenes. Liebig Company unknown
192459545Adelaide: South Australian Football League Limited and printed by Lonnen & Cope 1924. Fine. Adelaide South Australian Football League Limited and printed by Lonnen & Cope 1924. Duodecimo 163 x 104 mm 16 pages last page the colophon plus the title-cover. Saddle-stapled card; a fine copy. 'Umpires and stewards must report bad language and foul play such as hitting with the fist and with the elbow. The game according to the laws is strong enough there being no occasion for foulness of any sort. The fair player must be protected' page 11. Not in Trove. South Australian Football League Limited (and printed by Lonnen & Cope) unknown
195616664Perth: Patterson Brokensha Pty Ltd. 1956. Pamphlet. The story of the Swan River Colony and Peel's role in its development. 8vo 96pp maps b&w ills throughout. Yellow stiff paper wraps with title in black at front spine. No title at staple bound spine. Covers slt dusty slt marked top and bottom edge front cover overall very good. Patterson Brokensha Pty Ltd. unknown
185223519London 1852. Ephemera. Very good condition. The emigrant ship 'Roman Emperor' brought migrants to Sydney Australia and Lyttleton New Zealand and sailed a number of times in the 1850s and 1860s under Captain Champion who signed this document. The ship is recorded as sailing to the Australian Colonies in 1850 dispatched by ship brokers Marshall and Edridge and weighing 793 tons.<br /> <br /> This is a single half sheet letter of recommendation for a William Struthers who sailed as second officer on one of these voyages from London to Sydney via India and back. The National Library of Australia holds the diary of a Mr. Harry Woolley who was a passenger on that voyage. 7 5/8 x 6 1/4". Blue laid paper contemporary folds. unknown
1800144429London: Printed by Luke Hansard . and sold by John White 1800. Very Good. London Printed by Luke Hansard . and sold by John White 1800. An engraved map printed surface 498 × 585 mm sheet size approximately 560 × 690 mm engraved by W. Palmer. Folded as issued; old repaired tear near the stub just encroaching on the printed surface; some moderate foxing; in very good condition with ample margins. A map of Australia labelled 'New Holland' noting but not showing the 'Supposed New discov'd Straits' between Tasmania and the mainland Matthew Flinders and George Bass had discovered Bass Strait in 1798. Bound as issued in the fourth volume of Pennant's 'Outlines of the Globe' titled 'The View of the Malayan Isles New Holland and the Spicy Islands' quarto contemporary quarter calf and marbled boards; edges uncut; covers worn; in very good condition overall with pages 97-147 devoted to New Holland. <p>See Ferguson 278; not in Tooley; Perry and Prescott 1800.11. Printed by Luke Hansard ... and sold by John White unknown
1950219557Australia. circa1950s. Small bronze ornament possibly for use as a belt buckle or hat badge approx 4 x 6 cms a crocodile jaws ready to strike be-striding a base plate in the shape of mainland Australia the surface knobbled suggestive of terrain its head and body in the "Top End" its tail encircling South-eastern Australia inlaid with a white opal the verso smooth and stamped with two pairs of initials possibly makers': O.Z. and N.R. the whole a little oxidised but in very good condition. Appealing and well-made piece of Australian vernacular memorabilia by an unknown maker the fabled crocodile dominating the piece and its territory primarily Northen Australia the decorative white opal set a little distant from its main source in Coober Pedy South Australia. . unknown
29379Melbourne: McPherson's Proprietary Limited 1935. Paper wrappers pamphlet. Very good condition. 1935 hardware catalogue this edition not recorded on Trove which records only a 1933 edition. The Australian firm specialized in farming machinery. This edition shows locations in Sydney Melbourne Adelaide Perth with an ad for the Adelaide location on back cover.<br /> <br /> 8vo printed orange paper wrappers 248pp with illustrations and diagrams throughout. Cover illustration by Percy Trompf. A small deliberate hole in top left for attaching the catalogue by chain or string to the counter. Slt wear to cover but overall vgc. Aus library call #: NL338-4762190294M172 for 1933 edition. McPherson's Proprietary Limited unknown