1880. Pair of hand-coloured wood engravings, 22.7 x 32.9cm; 24.4 x 22.3cm. Creases, repaired tears to edges, slight soiling and foxing. Captions for one image read “No. 1 General view: night attack by the police on the inn; No. 2 After the fight: Ned Kelly wounded, lying at the railway..... More

c1880s. Double-sided colour lithograph, 9.5 x 16.8cm. Minor paper remnants to both sides. Text includes “May all your friends be kind and true this Merry Christmas Day. Gibbs, Shallard & Co.” One side depicts a cockatoo in a cage, a shield with an Aboriginal face flanked by spears, coral and..... More

c1880. Ink and watercolour on linen, annotated “Reuss & Halloran, Architects & Surveyors, 100 Pitt Street” in ink lower right, 33.2 x 44cm. Old folds, slight foxing. Map shows early landowners of the area, including F. Giles, John Hay, Lennon, G.A. Lloyd, Manning, Nott, S. Thompson, and I.E. Threlkeld. The..... More

c1880. Soft-cover catalogue with lithographic illustrations and letterpress text, Australian distributor’s wet stamp throughout, 34.5 x 27cm. Well worn from age and handling, front cover detached, back cover missing, tears, creases, missing portions with perforations, some pages secured with old string. Cover includes publisher’s line “Palm, Fechteler & Co. Chicago, New..... More

1881. Lithograph and letterpress pamphlet, dated “1881” in ink on front cover, 19.5 x 12.7cm. Title page loose from binding, stains, split to fold. Text includes “Waverley Tramways. Mill Hill estate, the site of Hough’s old windmill. South Head Rd, Waverley, at the tollbar. As subdivided by Herbert S. Thompson…into..... More

1882. Hardcover quarto with gilt impressed and coloured board, gilt and deckled top and fore-edge, inscribed in ink on title page, 34.5 x 27cm. Soiling, rubbing and wear to covers, large stain to second etching, slight discolouration to edges of pages, cracking to hinges. Published by T. Fisher Unwin, London..... More

1884. Lithograph, estate plan, 39 x 47.5cm. Repaired tears and old folds, strikethrough from handwritten text in ink verso. The plan includes printer’s line “J. Allan Lithog., 2 Bridge St. [Sydney]” and shows named streets, landowners, numbered and measured portions and allotments, Toxteth House and “pleasure grounds”, chapel, garden, paddock..... More

1887. Hand-coloured lithograph, text with date and title in image, 18.9 x 24.5cm. Slight foxing overall, minor tears and crinkles to margins. Text includes “The Australasian Builder and Contractor’s News, May 21, 1887. Messrs Backhouse & Haslam, Architects.” The competition was won by architect John Smedley for a more modest..... More

c1882 & 1888. Pair of batons: (a) Retractable brass baton with machine-finished design and inlaid mother-of-pearl handle, stamped with patent date “Nov 28, 1882”, 26.5cm (total length) and 12.4cm (retracted) x 1.5cm (diameter), small dent to upper mount. Features a patented retractable mechanism with a spring-loaded upper portion which allows..... More

1885-c1890s. (1) Church Hill Estate [Crown St], Wollongong, 1885. Pen and ink plan drawing, annotated in ink and pencil verso, 24.5 x 35cm. Foxing, old folds, tears to uneven edges. Text includes “C.A. Atchison, Licensed Surveyor under Real Property Act, 20th Nov’r 1885.” Annotations include “Church Hill Estate, No. 16c..... More

c1890s. Pen and ink sketch with watercolour, trimmed portion of handwritten letter in ink verso, 13.9 x 12.3cm. Old folds, creases. The letter, in an unknown hand, includes “I hope Mr Gorman is none the worse for his coach accident. I would like to know about it when you write..... More

c1870s-1890s. Five colour lithographic strips, each strip with caption “es propiedad” and series number, 5.3 x 54.5cm (paper, approx. each). One strip with minor perforations to right side of image. A zoetrope is an animation device where the user spins a cylinder and sees a rapid succession of images, producing..... More