Photograph Albums

  • The most up-to-date Sydney panoramic views

    # 34646

    PHILLIPS, Harry

    The most up-to-date Sydney panoramic views

    Katoomba, N.S.W. : H. Phillips, n.d. [circa 1910]. Oblong folio (240 x 580 mm), publisher’s green thick paper wrappers, front with decorative lettering in blue (a few light marks and edge chips), [24] pp, photogravure process plates, including several stunning double-page panoramas (almost 1200 mm across), some pale foxing to a couple of the plates, …

    $100.00 AUD Read more
  • Photograph album with views of the Snowy Mountains, southern New South Wales, 1891-1900.

    # 33452

    KERRY, Charles (1857-1928)

    Photograph album with views of the Snowy Mountains, southern New South Wales, 1891-1900.

    Oblong quarto album (250 x 300 mm), original gilt-ruled black crushed morocco over boards (expertly rebacked to style), all edges gilt; pastedowns and endpapers replaced, with the ownership inscription of the album’s first owner, Rosalie G. Harnett, dated 1908, preserved on a section of the original front endpaper which has been mounted on the new …

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    Reserved
  • [LEPORELLO] Album of Adelaide

    # 33264

    Anon.

    [LEPORELLO] Album of Adelaide

    [Germany] : s.n., [circa 1880]. Leporello album. Octavo (190 x 142 mm), red pebbled cloth over boards elaborately decorated in gilt (worn), original cloth spine, containing concertina foldout with [12] panels, with many lithographed views of Adelaide, including its principal public buildings, a fine view looking north from Victoria Square, Hawker’s residence, Unley Park, Glenelg, …

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  • A Riverina carte de visite album with portraits of members of the Officer-Blackwood and Watson families (southern New South Wales, and northern Victoria). Early 1860s to early 1880s.

    # 24908

    Various photographers (primarily studios in Echuca, Victoria).

    A Riverina carte de visite album with portraits of members of the Officer-Blackwood and Watson families (southern New South Wales, and northern Victoria). Early 1860s to early 1880s.

    Mid-nineteenth century photograph album, thick oblong quarto (165 x 230 x 70 mm), original full red leather binding with double-gilt rule (boards rubbed and a little scuffed), upper board with brass bosses, spine with blind blocked decoration, inner gilt dentelles, silk lining papers (front hinge split), all edges gilt; no ownership inscription; containing [94] albumen …

    $1,700.00 AUD Read more
  • The Visit of the Australian Goodwill Mission to the Republic of China, August 8-17th 1956. Photo Album.

    # 32161

    The Visit of the Australian Goodwill Mission to the Republic of China, August 8-17th 1956. Photo Album.

    [Cover title]. Oblong folio (240 x 350 mm), green velvet over boards with gilt-stamped lettering in Chinese and English to front (clean and bright), original yellow silk ties, with [93] glossy b/w photographs in format 100 x 120 mm, mounted on [47] pages; the photographs are uncaptioned but provide a comprehensive visual record of the …

    $9,500.00 AUD Read more
  • 'Into the hollow mountains' - photographs by Robert Ashton (signed copy)

    # 31897

    ASHTON, Robert (1950 - )

    ‘Into the hollow mountains’ – photographs by Robert Ashton (signed copy)

    Text edited by Mark Gillespie. Melbourne : Outback Press, 1974. Quarto, illustrated card wrappers (edges rubbed, light surface wear, small area of mousing to edge of upper wrapper and extreme margin of a few leaves), pp. 96, a few light marks, previous owner’s name to title page, a good copy. Signed by Robert Ashton on …

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  • A short history and description of the Parliament House, Melbourne.

    # 30166

    JENKINS, Geo. H. (George Henry) (1843-1911)

    A short history and description of the Parliament House, Melbourne.

    Prepared at the request of the Royal Commission on the Parliament Buildings, by Geo. H. Jenkins. At head of title: Victoria. Melbourne : John Ferres, Government Printer, 1886. Large quarto (305 x 250 mm), original red crushed morocoo with gilt lettering to upper board, both boards with ornate gilt borders (boards scuffed and darkened and …

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  • Photographs. New South Wales.

    # 31172

    [PAINE, John; BAYLISS, Charles, attributed]

    Photographs. New South Wales.

    Sydney : Charles Potter, Government Printer, 1889. Album of mounted [120] albumen silver print photographs. Oblong quarto, full red morocco blind stamped in gilt with coat of arms of New South Wales and lettering, silk lining papers, all edges gilt, title page with colophon, [120] albumen silver prints, each approximately 140 x 190 mm, mounted recto …

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  • Photographic Views of Victoria

    # 28496

    [NETTLETON, Charles, 1826-1902]

    Photographic Views of Victoria

    Photograph album, quarto (270 x 220 mm), original full black morocco over heavy boards, upper board with gilt-tooled ornament and title, silk endpapers, the front free-endpaper with a contemporary inscription in ink: ‘A Souvenir of Victoria. To Mrs. Rose from A. & S. M. Melbourne, 4th January 1882’; containing [36] albumen print photographs individually mounted …

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  • [PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM; CHINA] Through the Yantze Gorges.

    # 26481

    Photographer unknown.

    [PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM; CHINA] Through the Yantze Gorges.

    [Title stamped on upper board]. Photograph album, probably dating to the late 1890s. Large oblong quarto (240 x 375 mm), original quarter black morocco over black cloth boards, upper board with gilt rule and gilt-stamped title ‘THROUGH THE YANTZE [sic] GORGES.’ (loss of backstrip, remaining leather worn), silk lining papers, containing [138] silver albumen prints …

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  • Views of Whakarewarewa : the hot springs of New Zealand

    # 26213

    WHITCOMBE & TOMBS

    Views of Whakarewarewa : the hot springs of New Zealand

    Christchurch, NZ : Whitcombe & Tombs, [1903?]. Small oblong quarto (210 x 270 mm), original pictorial wrappers (light handling wear, lower wrapper with publisher’s advertisement, [36] ff., full-page black-and-white photographic views with printed captions; light foxing to bottom margin of title leaf, else internally clean; a very good copy. Features 14 photographic views of Whakarewarewa, …

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  • Picturesque Hongkong

    # 26134

    HAZELL, Denis H. (1897 - 1930)

    Picturesque Hongkong

    Hongkong : Ye Olde Printerie, circa 1925. Oblong folio, string bound lettered card wrappers with pasted on photograph of Hong Kong (upper left corner with paper restoration), title page with pasted on photograph (stained) pp. [vi – foreword]; 26 photographs tipped-on to 24 sheets (the final photographed chipped to one corner, the others fine) with …

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  • [GOLD MINING] Photograph album compiled by a globetrotting mining engineer between 1900 and 1910, with his unique panoramic views of the King of the Hills mine in Western Australia, and topographical views in West Africa, Colombia, and the Caucasus, many of them documenting gold mining enterprises.

    # 22385

    Photographer unknown.

    [GOLD MINING] Photograph album compiled by a globetrotting mining engineer between 1900 and 1910, with his unique panoramic views of the King of the Hills mine in Western Australia, and topographical views in West Africa, Colombia, and the Caucasus, many of them documenting gold mining enterprises.

    Late nineteenth century photograph album, oblong folio (280 x 370 mm), half calf over black crushed morocco ruled in gilt (heavily worn, front board detached), all edges gilt, containing a total of 150+ silver gelatin photographs (and one albumen print) mounted on thick leaves; over 50 of the photographs were taken with a special panoramic …

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  • [SILK] Souvenir photograph album of the Kyoto Sericulture Training School, Japan, 1938.

    # 25030

    [KYOTO SERICULTURE TRAINING COLLEGE]

    [SILK] Souvenir photograph album of the Kyoto Sericulture Training School, Japan, 1938.

    Large quarto album (320 x 270 mm), original custom binding of black velvet covered boards, the upper board with title in German stamped in gilt ‘Seidenzucht Hochschule zu Kioto / 1938’, original silk ties; ff [2] (preliminaries printed in Japanese), [88], with approximately 200 silver gelatin photographs in various formats tipped-in on the rectos of the thin …

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  • Photograph album of a colonial family’s visit to Himachal Pradesh and Punjab, India, circa 1930

    # 8401

    Anon.

    Photograph album of a colonial family’s visit to Himachal Pradesh and Punjab, India, circa 1930

    Small oblong quarto, boards with gilt design to front, [36] leaves with approximately 120 mounted black and white snapshot photographs, dimensions ranging from 115 x 75 mm to 65 x 43 mm, a few with manuscript captions, showing scenes in Punjab and northern Himachal Pradesh (near Jammu and Kashmir), including Palampur and Shanan in Himachal Pradesh; …

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  • Brisbane and Environs Illustrated: Twelve Views of the Scenery of the City and Neighbourhood.

    # 23023

    WRIGHT, George P[arkinson]. (photographer and publisher)

    Brisbane and Environs Illustrated: Twelve Views of the Scenery of the City and Neighbourhood.

    Second Series … [Contents …] Photographed by Geo. P. Wright, Creek Street, (Opposite the Union Bank) Brisbane. MDCCCLXXVIII. At head of title: Under the Patronage of His Excellency the Governor. Brisbane : George P. Wright [printed by Cleghorn & Co.], 1878. Oblong folio, original half morocco over brown cloth boards with gilt lettering (boards marked and …

    $3,750.00 AUD Read more