Queensland
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# 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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# 34328
HUTCHISON & CO. (ELITE PHOTO CO.)
Aboriginal group, including a man wearing a king plate and a Queensland Native Police tracker aiming a rifle. Brisbane, circa 1885.
Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 163 x 108 mm (mount); recto with imprint of ‘Hutchison & Co., Elite [Photo Co.], 8 Queen St., Brisbane’; the print has some pale foxing scattered around the margins; the mount is clean and stable. This group portrait was taken in a photographer’s studio, presumably that of Eddie Hutchison’s …
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# 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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![[NEW GUINEA] Ocean and isle. (First edition, signed by the author)](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/02/11120351/2022_DSFB_0835-300x300.jpg)
# 34015
GEIL, William Edgar (1865-1925)
[NEW GUINEA] Ocean and isle. (First edition, signed by the author)
Melbourne : Wm. T. Pater & Co., 1902. First edition. Octavo (220 x 150 mm), publisher’s maroon cloth over boards with gilt-lettered spine (a few light marks, spine ends softened), patterned endpapers, first blank with a Biblical quote (Luke 19:13) inscribed by the author in ink and with his signature beneath in pencil, frontispiece photographic …
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![[TORRES STRAIT; PAPUAN GULF] Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. Volume II. December 10, 1913.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/02/19091321/2022_DSFB_0928-300x300.jpg)
# 34355
HAMLYN-HARRIS, R. (editor)
[TORRES STRAIT; PAPUAN GULF] Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. Volume II. December 10, 1913.
Brisbane : Queensland Museum, 1913. Small quarto (245 x 185 mm), original printed green wrappers with old paper reinforcement along spine, pp 38, with 17 full-page b/w photographic plates of ethnographic artefacts (a stone “god” from Darnley Island, Torres Strait; Papuan Gulf masks and headdresses; Queensland bullroarers) which accompany essays by Hamlyn-Harris (Director of …
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# 32327
ROUGEMONT, Louis de (Henri Louis GRIN) (1847-1921)
Louis de Rougement, colonial adventurer and hoaxer: autograph letter, signed, offering stories to an editor for publication. Ampthill, Bedfordshire, 1903.
Manuscript in ink on ruled paper, 160 x 200 mm; headed ‘Flitwick, Ampthill, 1.7.03’, the letter is addressed to The Author Syndicate, Lincoln Inn Field, London, and is signed at the foot ‘Yours, Louis de Rougemont’; wet stamped ‘Received 2 Jul 03’, and with a correspondence number in red crayon; original vertical fold, clean and …
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# 33819
JACKSON, Gladys (1881 - ?)
Under the banyan (signed presentation copy)
Hong Kong : privately printed, 1925. Octavo, lettered flushcut cloth wrappers (lightly stained and edge worn), presentation inscription to the front free endpaper ‘To Blanch and George, with best Xmas wishes from Gladys. 166, The Peak, Hong Kong. Dec. 1926.’ pp. [iv]; iv; [ii]; 114, light foxing to preliminaries else very good. Includes a number …
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![[TOOWOOMBA] Account for purchases made from Alexander Davis, Fancy Bread and Biscuit Baker, Ruthven Street, Toowoomba, by J. Walker, dated 1 March 1869.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2021/12/10123111/2021_DSFB_8926-300x300.jpg)
# 33564
DAVIS, Alexander
[TOOWOOMBA] Account for purchases made from Alexander Davis, Fancy Bread and Biscuit Baker, Ruthven Street, Toowoomba, by J. Walker, dated 1 March 1869.
Single octavo sheet (170 x 110 mm), on letterhead of Alexander Davis, Fancy Bread and Biscuit Baker, Ruthven Street, Toowoomba, with manuscript entries recording the date March 1st 1869, the name of the debtor J. Walker, and itemised account for Walker’s purchases of loaves of bread during February, 1869; Queensland 1d revenue stamp affixed; verso …
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# 33711
British New Guinea. Administrator.
British New Guinea. Report for the year 1887, by Her Majesty’s Special Commissioner for the Protected Territory, with appendices.
At head of title: 1888. Queensland. Brisbane : James C. Beal, Government Printer, 1888. Foolscap folio (330 mm), disbound, pp 49, 2, 13; some foxing at extremities, otherwise very good. Scarce.
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# 33633
QUEENSLAND GOVERNMENT TOURIST BUREAU
Long Island, Happy Bay, Great Barrier Reef.
Brisbane : Queensland Government Tourist Bureau, [1940]. Single sheet, 280 x 440 mm, folding to 220 x 140 mm, printed on both sides; with sepia tone photographic illustrations, map; light wear to top edge, some pale foxing. The text is a tourist guide promoting Long Island in the Whitsunday archipelago on the North East Queensland …
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# 33632
South Molle Island, Whitsunday Passage, Queensland : for the tourist.
Brisbane : Queensland Government Tourist Bureau, [between 1940 and 1950]. Single sheet, 270 x 420 mm, folding to 210 x 135 mm, printed on both sides; with b/w photographic illustrations, map; short tear at edge of central fold, some pale foxing to map; with loosely inserted roneo-printed sheet (2 pages) containing information on transport options …
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# 33721
ROSE STEREOGRAPH COMPANY
A Torres Strait Island man on Palm Island, North Queensland, circa 1930.
Gelatin silver print photograph printed on card stock; recto with printed caption across lower margin ‘The Rose Series P7307. Nth. Queensland Aboriginal, Palm Island’; verso printed ‘Post Card’ and with imprint of the Rose Stereoview Co., Armadale, Victoria, and brief handwritten message with racist remark ‘How would you like to meet one of these?’; mailed from …
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# 34045
MUTCH, Rebecca (ed.)
Transparent: Watercolour in Queensland 1850s–1980s
South Brisbane, Queensland : Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art, [2014]. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 180, illustrated. Watercolour has long been an important medium in Queensland. Transparent is the first comprehensive survey of the Gallery’s watercolour collection, bringing to light many never seen before works from our substantial holdings from the mid nineteenth …
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# 33584
DEMOZAY, Marion
Gatherings II : contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art from Queensland, Australia
Southport, Queensland : Keeaira Press, 2006. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 224, illustrated. Artists featured: Albert, Tony Anderson, Yvonne Anning, Michael Assan, Mario Barkus, Rosie Beetson, Bianca Bell, Jack Bell, Marshall Bosun, David Canuto, Karen Clarmont, Sammy Close, Belinda Cope, Megan Croft, Pamela Cummins, John Cummins, Luke Currie, Nalingu Joanne Davis, Lyndon Deemera, Edward de Jersey, …
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# 33631
Great Britain. Oversea Settlement Dept.
Australia, the land of hope and sunshine : how women can get there, and what they say of it.
[London : Oversea Settlement Dept.], August, 1925. Series: E.S.A. 26. Small octavo (185 mm), stapled, 8 pp; a fine example. Designed to encourage women to emigrate from Great Britain to Australia, this pamphlet contains information on job opportunities for women in Australia – sadly only household work, employment on farms and stations and in country …
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# 33293
HURLEY, Frank (1885-1962); STOLL FILM CO. LTD.
Pearls and Savages : programme produced for screenings of the Frank Hurley film at the Polytechnic Theatre, London, 1924.
Cover title: The Stoll Film Co. Ltd., presents Captain Frank Hurley and “Pearls and savages”. The remarkable film record of his adventures in the air, on sea and land, among the Headhunters of New Guinea. The Polytechnic Cinema Theatre, Regent Street, W. London : Stoll Film Co. Ltd., [1924]. Quarto (280 x 220 mm), original …