New South Wales

  • 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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  • [MAORI] Children brought to Christ. = Ka mau-ria nga ta-ma-ri-ki ki Te Ka-rai-ti.

    # 26476

    [JONES, William]

    [MAORI] Children brought to Christ. = Ka mau-ria nga ta-ma-ri-ki ki Te Ka-rai-ti.

    [Sydney, N.S.W. : Jones, Printer, Bridge Street, c.1833]. Broadsheet, 450 x 390 mm, letterpress printed; old horizontal and vertical crease, pale foxing, a very good example. Text in English and Māori. A rare broadside printed around 1833 by William Jones of Bridge Street, Sydney, for use in Church Missionary Society schools. It is a lesson …

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  • Morning Prayer [and] Evening Prayer.

    # 26492

    JONES, William (printer)

    Morning Prayer [and] Evening Prayer.

    Sydney : [William] Jones, Printer, Bridge-street, [circa 1835]. Pair of broadsides, each 450 x 390 mm, printed on letterpress; both examples with an old central horizontal fold and toning, the Morning Prayer sheet with some insect damage around the fold and at top right corner (no loss of text); both unmounted. These rare companion broadsides were …

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  • Sydney views 1788-1888 from the Beat Knoblauch collection

    # 34644

    HUNT, Susan and DAVISON, Graeme

    Sydney views 1788-1888 from the Beat Knoblauch collection

    Sydney : Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, 2007. Quarto, illustrated gatefold wrappers, pp. 144, illustrated. Fine copy.

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  • Manuscript letter written by an American fortune seeker during the Port Curtis gold rush. Sent from Gladstone, Queensland to New York, May, 1859.

    # 34264

    BATES, John

    Manuscript letter written by an American fortune seeker during the Port Curtis gold rush. Sent from Gladstone, Queensland to New York, May, 1859.

    Entire letter, bifolium, 260 x 205 mm, folding to 80 x 130 mm, with an enclosed sheet; at the top corner of the first side is the embossed stamp of Sydney stationers Smith & Hinton; [3] pp of manuscript in brown ink; headed ‘Port Curtiss [sic] May 24th ’59‘ and signed at the foot ‘Your affectionate …

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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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  • The three colonies of Australia : New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia; their pastures, copper mines & gold fields

    # 34180

    SIDNEY, Samuel

    The three colonies of Australia : New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia; their pastures, copper mines & gold fields

    London : Ingram, Cooke & Co., 1852. First edition. Octavo, gilt-lettered plum cloth (edges rubbed), pp. 427, all edges gilt, illustrated with engravings. History of the Australian colonies with a section on the gold rush. Ferguson 15679

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  • [THARUNKA] The Satyricon Review

    # 33731

    [UNSW]; TAYLOR, Peter (publisher); BELL, Stephen (editor); BOWERS, Steve (artist);

    [THARUNKA] The Satyricon Review

    Sydney : Peter Taylor, Director of Student Publications, UNSW, 1971. Quarto (280 x 210 mm), illustrated wrappers with design by Steve Bowers, stapled; pp. 48, illustrated; a fine copy. The student newspaper Tharunka, the mouthpiece of the University of New South Wales Students’ Union, was founded in 1953. The 1971 Foundation Day issue was published …

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  • A Literary & pictorial record of the Great Tichborne case : containing a complete history of this cause celebre, with numerous engravings from sketches and photographs, reprinted from the Graphic, and facsimile autographs of letters, now published for the first time.

    # 33992

    THE GRAPHIC (LONDON)

    A Literary & pictorial record of the Great Tichborne case : containing a complete history of this cause celebre, with numerous engravings from sketches and photographs, reprinted from the Graphic, and facsimile autographs of letters, now published for the first time.

    [London : The Graphic, 1874]. Supplement to the London Graphic, 7 March 1874. Tabloid newspaper, 420 x 315 mm, 24 pp, lithographic illustrations (including 2 double-page and several full-page); original horizontal fold (short edge tears), outer pages lightly foxed and somewhat dusty, contents clean and sound. Ferguson, 17152. Trove locates four copies (Monash University Library; …

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  • Studio portrait of Lieutenant Count Frederick Cosmeto Metaxa of HMS Clio, Flagship of the Pacific Station. Sydney, 1872.

    # 34174

    FREEMAN, William (1809–1895)

    Studio portrait of Lieutenant Count Frederick Cosmeto Metaxa of HMS Clio, Flagship of the Pacific Station. Sydney, 1872.

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 105 x 63 mm (mount); recto with a fully contemporary caption in ink beneath the image: ‘Fredk. Metaxa’; verso imprinted ‘Freeman, late Oswald Allen. Artist Photographer. Crayon & Miniature Painter. 360 George Street, Sydney. Terms Cash on Delivery. Photographer by Appointment to His Excellency the Governor’; the print has …

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  • Souvenir of Mary Immaculate Church, Waverley, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 1930

    # 34187

    McLeod & Smith

    Souvenir of Mary Immaculate Church, Waverley, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 1930

    Sydney : photographed and published by McLeod & Smith, 1930. Oblong quarto, illustrated wrappers, yapp edges with slight edge wear, pp. [28], staples rusted and central page detached, photographically illustrated. Rare with only two examples located on Trove (NLA; St. Paschal’s Library).

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  • Nouvelle-Hollande. Cour-Rou-Bari-Gal.

    # 34398

    ROGER, Barthelemy (1767-1841, engraver); PETIT, Nicolas-Martin (1777-1804, artist)

    Nouvelle-Hollande. Cour-Rou-Bari-Gal.

    [Paris : Arthus Bertrand, Libraire-Éditeur, 1824]. Copperplate stipple engraving with original hand colouring, 314 x 241 mm (plate mark), 365 x 280 mm (sheet), titled in the image lower centre, number 21 printed upper right. light foxing and handling marks. Source : Voyage de découvertes aux terres Australes. Exécuté par ordre de sa Majesté l’Empereur …

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  • Nouvelle-Hollande : Nouvelle-Galles du Sud. Bedgi-Bedgi, jeune homme de la tribu des Gwea-gal

    # 34397

    ROGER, Barthelemy (1767-1841, engraver); PETIT, Nicolas-Martin (1777-1804, artist)

    Nouvelle-Hollande : Nouvelle-Galles du Sud. Bedgi-Bedgi, jeune homme de la tribu des Gwea-gal

    [Paris : Arthus Bertrand, Libraire-Éditeur, 1824]. Copperplate stipple engraving, 318 x 242 mm (plate mark), 365 x 280 mm (sheet), titled in the image lower centre, number 22 printed upper right; pale foxing and handling marks, a very good example. Source : Voyage de découvertes aux terres Australes. Exécuté par ordre de sa Majesté l’Empereur …

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  • [SHEET MUSIC] In your green hat

    # 34238

    YELLEN, Jack (words); AGER, Milton (1893-1979) (music)

    [SHEET MUSIC] In your green hat

    Words by Jack Yellen / Music by Milton Ager. Ukulele arrangement by May Singhi Breen. Cover: Featured with great success by Miss Lila Rayne. Sydney : D. Davis & Co. Ltd., [1926]. Folio (310 x 240 mm), pictorial wrappers with inset portrait of Australian singer Lila Rayne, [3] pp music notation (arrangement for voice, piano …

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  • Guide to the orchids of New South Wales

    # 33822

    RUPP, H. M. R.

    Guide to the orchids of New South Wales

    With foreword by Edwin Cheel, President Linnean Society of N. S. W. Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1930. Small square octavo, illustrated cloth in dustjacket (edges rubbed, small chip to head of spine), light offsetting to endpapers, pp. viii; 157, illustrated. A dried specimen of what appears to be Diuris sulphurea is preserved between pp. 70 …

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  • Fares & Sailings. Hawaii - New Zealand - Australia

    # 33832

    MATSON LINES

    Fares & Sailings. Hawaii – New Zealand – Australia

    San Francisco : Matson Line, 1938. Quarto, folded in half to narrow octavo, self-wrappers, pp. [16], schedules of sailings from San Francisco and Los Angeles to Honolulu, with itineraries of Pacific cruises visiting Melbourne, Sydney, Auckland, Suva, etc. Usefully, the regulations included also give detail of what discounted fares may be applied to one’s servants …

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