Photographs - Topographic

  • 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, …

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  • Capturing Brisbane : the city's first photographers, 1855 to 1901.

    # 34592

    ROUGH, Brian G.

    Capturing Brisbane : the city’s first photographers, 1855 to 1901.

    Brisbane, Qld. : the author, 2022. Large quarto (305 x 220 mm), pictorial paper boards, pp 137; biographies of individual photographers and studios, numerous photographic illustrations, glossary of terms, index; errata page loosely inserted; an as new copy of what will surely be a useful reference for collectors of nineteenth-century Australian photographs, as well as …

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  • Views of Sydney.

    # 28984

    BRODIE, Alexander (photographer, attributed); [CLARKE, Jacob Richard, 1822-1893, publisher?]

    Views of Sydney.

    [1879-1880]. Photograph album. Small oblong quarto, 210 x 275 mm, original half green morocco over black pebbled cloth boards (lightly rubbed) with double gilt rule, upper board lettered in gilt ‘Views of Sydney’, spine with raised bands in gilt; all edges gilt, silk pastedowns and linen endpapers; containing 29 albumen print photographs in identical 150 …

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  • Waterfall Gully (near Adelaide), circa 1880.

    # 33741

    SWEET, Samuel White (1825-1886)

    Waterfall Gully (near Adelaide), circa 1880.

    Albumen print photograph, 155 x 205 mm, laid down recto of a leaf removed from a 19th-century French traveller’s album, inscribed in ink below the image ‘Une cascade’; the print has excellent clarity and is in good condition (the small spot of discolouration at lower right is from the developing process). Held: AGSA (Accession number …

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  • 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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  • Commonplace book of J. R. Forster, manager of the Commercial Bank at Milton on the New South Wales south coast, including original photographs of Milton and other south coast townships. Dated 1876.

    # 32578

    FORSTER, J. R. (compiler); TOOSE, Henry (photographer) (attributed)

    Commonplace book of J. R. Forster, manager of the Commercial Bank at Milton on the New South Wales south coast, including original photographs of Milton and other south coast townships. Dated 1876.

    Small square quarto (250 x 200 mm), original blind-blocked green cloth over boards (rubbed and marked), upper board stamped in gilt ‘Album’; all edges gilt; first blank inscribed ‘J. R. Forster / from his friend / Mary Child / July 11th 1876’; wove paper in a variety of colours, approximately [70] pages, of which 40 …

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  • Artist's impression of the Harbour Bridge approaches, North Sydney. Late 1920s.

    # 32941

    Maker unknown.

    Artist’s impression of the Harbour Bridge approaches, North Sydney. Late 1920s.

    Silver gelatin print photograph of an artist’s drawing, 165 x 390 mm; verso annotated in ink ‘Harbour Bridge Approaches, North Sydney’, and with a newspaper editor’s annotations in pencil ‘1 / 17’ and ‘6 cols’; old vertical fold with a tiny tear at top edge, pin holes at top corners; unmounted.

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  • Hobart Town, the capital of Tasmania.

    # 33639

    CLIFFORD, Samuel (1827-1890) (after)

    Hobart Town, the capital of Tasmania.

    [Title from printed caption below image]. Wood-engraved panorama, 195 x 550 mm (sheet); no engraver’s details; central vertical fold with light foxing, else very good. This engraved view was removed (by a previous owner) from a copy of the April 4 1868 edition of the Illustrated London News, in which the panorama was one of …

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  • [LEPORELLO] Album of Bathurst views

    # 33349

    W. J. NORWOOD (BATHURST) (publisher); BEAVIS BROS. (photographer)

    [LEPORELLO] Album of Bathurst views

    Bathurst, NSW : W. J. Norwood, Stationers Hall, William Street (but printed in Germany), [circa 1886]. Leporello album. Octavo, original cloth backed pictorial boards gilt (upper boards lightly marked at top edge), lower board stamped in gilt ‘The views published in this book are reproductions from photographs taken by Beavis Bros., Royal Studios, Bathurst’; containing …

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  • On board the yacht "Maraquita", photographed by Captain Henry at sea, on her outward bound voyage to Iceland, November 1858.

    # 33051

    HENRY, R. J., Captain

    On board the yacht “Maraquita”, photographed by Captain Henry at sea, on her outward bound voyage to Iceland, November 1858.

    [British, November 1858]. Stereoscopic photograph, each individual image 71 x 64 mm (arched format), on original card mount 110 x 170 mm (trimmed at the lower margin and so lacking the printed caption), verso with fully contemporary caption in pencil ‘On Board the Yacht – Maraquita’ (same wording as the original printed caption); the prints are …

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  • [LEPORELLO] Album of Sandhurst views

    # 32898

    Anon.

    [LEPORELLO] Album of Sandhurst views

    [Melbourne : Schütze, Steffens & Co., 272 Little Collins Street (but printed in Germany), c.1891]. Leporello album. Octavo, original cloth backed pictorial boards gilt (corners bumped), containing a concertina foldout with [13] panels of lithographed views (after photographs) of Sandhurst, including a four-panel panorama of the town, public buildings and churches, Alexandra Fountain and Pall …

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  • View from the foot of Splitter Falls, on the Erskine River near Lorne, Victoria, circa 1880.

    # 33140

    CAIRE, Nicholas John (1837-1918)

    View from the foot of Splitter Falls, on the Erskine River near Lorne, Victoria, circa 1880.

    Albumen print photograph, 280 x 230 mm, laid down on its original album leaf of thin card, with a fully contemporary pencilled caption in French beneath the image: ‘Splitters fall (partie du milieu) haute 200 pieds’; a strong print with good tonal range, slight yellowing at edges; in very good condition (tiny amount of loss …

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  • French tissue stereoview of the Tsar Canon, Moscow, with contrasting non-firing and firing views. Circa 1870.

    # 32366

    BLOCK, Adolphe (1829-1918)

    French tissue stereoview of the Tsar Canon, Moscow, with contrasting non-firing and firing views. Circa 1870.

    Tissue stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each image 70 x 70 mm (arched top format), white card mount 88 x 175 mm, with printed decoration, series title ‘Incendies & Surprises’ and imprint of the photographer and publisher Adolphe Block ‘B. K. Edit., A Paris’, all in blue; verso with fully contemporary caption in ink ‘Gros Canon, …

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  • View of the Melbourne Hospital. Early 1860s.

    # 31818

    Photographer unknown.

    View of the Melbourne Hospital. Early 1860s.

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 59 x 98 mm (mount); verso with fully contemporary captions in both pencil and ink ‘Melbourne Hospital’, and with a later inscription ‘From Mrs A. Eddie, Woodlands, Greensborough’, and a wet-stamped collection number; a strong print with great detail, in good condition; the mount has been very slightly trimmed. …

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  • View of Rundle Street, Adelaide, circa 1864.

    # 31813

    GOODE, Bernard (1834-1897)

    View of Rundle Street, Adelaide, circa 1864.

    Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each individual image 72 x 62 mm (octagonal format), original yellow card mount 85 x 173 mm, verso with small printed label ‘B. Goode, Photographer, 69, Rundle Street, Adelaide’, and a manuscript caption in ink ‘Rundle Street; both are strong prints, with a tiny amount of foxing to each one; the mounts …

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  • A group of twenty-four stereoscopic views of rock formations and other topographical features along the coastline of southwest Victoria, circa 1865.

    # 30868

    WALTER, Charles (Carl) (1831-1907)

    A group of twenty-four stereoscopic views of rock formations and other topographical features along the coastline of southwest Victoria, circa 1865.

    [Melbourne : Age Office, circa 1865]. Twenty-four stereoscopic albumen print photographs, each image approximately 80 x 80 mm (arched format), on original yellow card mounts, 90 x 170 mm, versos with original paper labels printed with the series title ‘AUSTRALIAN SCENERY’ and the photographer’s information ‘Chas. Walter. Photographic Artist to The Illustrated Australian News, The …

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