Victoria
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# 34629
WADELTON, David
Small business
Melbourne : M.33, 2020. Quarto, illustrated boards, pp. 171, illustrated. New copy, printed in an edition of 500 copies. Small Business is a companion volume to David Wadelton’s Suburban Baroque – with the focus this time on work rather than domestic spaces. Designed once again by Yanni Florence and with an accompanying essay by Professor Natalie King OAM, Small Business looks at the small but …
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# 34628
MARLOW, Jesse
Jesse Marlow – Second City
Melbourne : Sling Shot Press, 2021. Quarto, illustrated boards, pp. 96, illustrated. New copy. Printed in an edition of 900 copies. ‘When I was at photography school, every few weeks our photojournalism teacher would send the class off into the city on “Citywalks”. With an otherwise open brief, our only task was to keep an …
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# 34539
BOWRING, Emily
Sketches in early Tasmania and Victoria by Emily Bowring (deluxe edition)
Edited by K. R. von Stieglitz, O.B.E. Victorian captions by P. L. Brown. Hobart : Fuller’s Bookshop, 1965. Oblong quarto, gilt-lettered cloth in illustrated dustjacket (silver fishing, mainly to lower wrapper), pp. [40], illustrated. Presentation copy from von Stieglitz to historian Marnie Bassett with signed inscription, with related correspondence loosely enclosed. ‘The author’s known and …
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# 34557
ROBERTSON, E. Graeme
Ornamental cast iron in Melbourne.
Melbourne : Georgian House, 1967. First edition. Large quarto, publisher’s cloth over boards in pictorial dust jacket (corners rubbed), endpaper maps, pp x, 229, profusely illustrated with b/w photographic plates; pale stain to final few leaves.
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# 34478
WILLIAMS, Fred (1927 - 1982)
The continuous landscape of distance : Fred Williams Bass Strait Island paintings
[Launceston, Tasmania] : Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, [2014]. Oblong quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. [28], illustrated. A fine copy.
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# 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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![[GOLD RUSH; EUREKA REBELLION] Riot at Ballaarat. Report of the Board appointed to enquire into circumstances connected with the late disturbance at Ballaarat, together with the evidence taken by the Board.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/02/11115959/2022_DSFB_0724-300x300.jpg)
# 33995
COLONY OF VICTORIA.
[GOLD RUSH; EUREKA REBELLION] Riot at Ballaarat. Report of the Board appointed to enquire into circumstances connected with the late disturbance at Ballaarat, together with the evidence taken by the Board.
Laid upon the Council table by the Colonial Secretary, His Excellency the Lieutenant Governor, and Ordered by the Council to be printed, 21st November, 1854. Melbourne : John Ferres, Government printer, 1854. Foolscap folio (340 mm), string bound, 22 pp; a fine copy. A key primary source document for the history of the Eureka Rebellion, …
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![[SHEET MUSIC; FISK JUBILEE SINGERS] Laugh and the world laughs with you : song](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/02/11120010/2022_DSFB_0730-300x300.jpg)
# 34251
HALL, Fred (words and music); TISDALE, Clarence (performer)
[SHEET MUSIC; FISK JUBILEE SINGERS] Laugh and the world laughs with you : song
Cover: “Sung by Clarence Tisdale”. Melbourne : Allan & Co., [c.1908]. Series: Allan’s Popular Sixpenny Edition, no. 200. Folio (350 x 250 mm), illustrated cover with inset portrait of African-American tenor Clarence Tisdale by Talma Studios and vignette portrait of Fred Hall, original owner’s name ‘Roland Thomas’ and wet stamp of Melbourne music seller Miss …
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# 34201
ANDERSON'S PTY. LTD.
The home makers furnishing guide. Andersons, Clarendon St. South Melb.
[Cover title]. South Melbourne, Vic : Anderson’s Pty. Ltd., [between 1915 and 1920]. Large quarto (305 x 250 mm), original pictorial wrappers with circular cut-out to front (wrappers with a few light marks, short tears to paper along spine and to edge of cut-out, but overall in good condition), staple bound, 136 pp, illustrated throughout; …
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![[SHEET MUSIC; MELBOURNE] Seventy-six negro spirituals and plantation songs.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/02/19091207/2022_DSFB_0900-300x300.jpg)
# 34302
Various.
[SHEET MUSIC; MELBOURNE] Seventy-six negro spirituals and plantation songs.
Series: The Australian Music Books, no. 43. Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Bendigo : Allan & Co., Ltd., [August, 1929]. Folio (330 x 250 mm), original lithographed pictorial wrappers with a beautiful design of native ferns and palms and a vignette view of Melbourne from the southern end of Princes Bridge (old tape reinforcement along spine), pp …
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![[MELBOURNE; NEWMARKET SALEYARDS] Important notice. First week in August. Adamson, Strettle & Co.‘s Parade and Sale of Stallions and Mares.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2016/11/16103341/2015_DSFB_5159-237x300.jpg)
# 33730
ADAMSON, STRETTLE & CO.
[MELBOURNE; NEWMARKET SALEYARDS] Important notice. First week in August. Adamson, Strettle & Co.‘s Parade and Sale of Stallions and Mares.
Melbourne : Adamson, Strettle & Co., Victoria Horse Bazaar, 396 Bourke Street, 8 April 1910. Single quarto sheet, printed recto only, on Adamson, Strettle & Co.’s letterhead, verso with recipient’s annotation in ink, original folds, in good condition. Adamson, Strettle & Co.’s circular letter is addressed “To the Horse Breeders of Australia and New Zealand”. The …
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![[SHEET MUSIC; MELBOURNE] Allan's Australian music books no. 5](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/02/11120023/2022_DSFB_0738-300x300.jpg)
# 34246
Various.
[SHEET MUSIC; MELBOURNE] Allan’s Australian music books no. 5
Cover: No. 5 Popular Songs (Second Series). Melbourne : Allan & Co. Ltd., The Block, Collins Street, [between 1890 and 1899]. Folio (360 x 260 mm), original lithographed pictorial wrappers with a beautiful design of native ferns and palms and a vignette view of Melbourne from the southern end of Princes Bridge (the wrappers are …
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# 34236
RICHARDS, George
A tinted wedding portrait of a young couple. Ballarat, Victoria, early 1880s.
Albumen print photograph with hand colouring, carte de visite format, 102 x 63 mm (mount); verso imprinted in gold ‘From the Studio of Geo. Richards, Art Photographer, Ballarat’, illustrated with an artist’s palette; both the print and mount are in excellent condition. An exceptional over-painted wedding portrait taken in the studio of Ballarat photographer George …
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# 33824
GILBERT, W. S. (1836 - 1911)
Fifty “Bab” ballads. Much sound and little sense
Melbourne : E. W. Cole, circa 1890. Octavo, early plan green cloth (remanants of old paper label), pp. [viii] (but paginated xii); 255, illustrated, the final leaf partly pasted down, the binding with a few splits to the text block, general wear. Printed by Dalziel Brothers, London. Melbourne E. W. Cole imprint W. S. Gilbert’s …
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# 34162
BURROWS, J. W.
Studio portrait of a woman standing in front of a painted backdrop. Sandhurst (Bendigo), Victoria, circa 1872.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 105 x 63 mm (mount), recto imprinted ‘Burrows, Photo., Sandhurst’; verso with the photographer’s illustrated back mark surmounted by a crown and a pair of doves, ‘J. W. Burrows, Photo Artist. Next Commercial Hotel, Pall Mall, Sandhurst. (Late Chevalier)’; the print and mount are both in very good condition. …
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# 34301
CONTINENTAL SUSPENDER MANUFACTURING CO. (MELBOURNE)
Price list. October, 1923. Braces. Continental Suspender Manufacturing Co. Wholesale manufacturers. Specialists in braces and gents’ suspenders. Factory: 29-31 Rathdown Street, Carlton, Melbourne.
Opposite Exhibition Gardens, near Victoria Street. [Cover title]. Melbourne : Modern Printing Co. Pty. Ltd., 1923. Octavo (215 x 135 mm), black-lettered red wrappers, stapled, 8 pp; non-illustrated; a very good copy.