c1835-1840. Colour woodcut, signed and titled in Japanese in block, 36 x 24.3cm. Old stains, repaired paper loss to centre of image and to margins. An original certificate of purchase from a Japanese dealer in 1958 is attached to the mount verso. More

c1840s. Watercolour, annotated “W.A. Rae” [William Allwood Rae, son of John Rae] in pencil on backing verso, artist’s name and provenance in ink on accompanying old frame backing, 14.3 x 19.5cm. Slight foxing to image, laid down on old backing. Provenance: John Rae collection. Public servant, author and painter John..... More

c1841. Pair of tinted lithographs, text including plate numbers “157” and “158”, artist and title above and below image, 19.5x 29.3cm to 20.3 x 33.8cm. Slight foxing and crinkles, repaired tears to edges, including left edge of one image. Text reads “Voyage au Pole Sud et Dans L’oceanie, Atlas Pittoresque..... More

1842. Hand-coloured lithograph, signed in image lower left, title in lower margin, 18.9 x 28.1cm. Crinkles and minor stains overall, slight chips to edges of margins, old mount burn. More

1842. Letterpress document on parchment with affixed embossed official seal, stamped, inscribed with dates and signed in ink in various hands including Sir George Gipps, Governor-in-Chief, and E.D. Thomson, Colonial Secretary, stamped verso, 35.7 x 44.1cm. Soiling, cockling and old folds overall, minor tears to edges. The land, in the..... More

1842. Hardcover quarto with gilt-illustrated and lettered leather boards, gilt edges, 28.5 x 22cm. Split joint between cover and text block, scuffing and bumping to boards, edgewear, slight foxing to interior. Published by George Virtue, London, 115pp, frontispiece and 63 steel engraved plates, all with tissue guards. Canadian Scenery followed..... More

1844. Pair of lithographs, Dutch and French text including title and artist above and below image, 28.1 x 33.4cm (each). Slight foxing overall. Framed. Text includes “48. C.W.M. van de Velde. F. Lauters. La Rade de Padang. Uitgegeven by Frans Buffa en Zonen, te Amsterdam.” Charles William Meredith van de..... More

c1845. Salt paper photograph, 14.4 x 19.6cm. Old stain to upper right corner. Illustrated in Stevenson, David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson, 1981, p183, with the caption “The reporters’ table - Skene standing, W. Robertson, J.R. Fyfe, John Johnstone, John MacDonald and Rev Andrew Cameron.”. More

1845. Engraving with hand-colouring, title including date in plate lower centre, 33.2 x 92.7cm. Minor perforations to old folds, slight stains, trimmed left margin, sections repaired with tape verso. Title and text continue “And overland from Adelaide to King George’s Sound, 1840– 1. Drawn by John Arrowsmith. London, W.&T. Boone..... More

1846. Tinted lithograph, artist’s name in image lower right, text including “plate 9” and title above and below image, 17 x 30.3cm. Tears to left margin, slight stains. Plate 9 from Edward Lear, Illustrated Excursions in Italy, Volume 2, 1846. Ref: Noakes #65. Image shows Castello Caetani, a large fortress..... More

1846. Hand-coloured lithograph, text including artist and title above and below image, 18.1 x 31.1cm (image). Repaired tear to image right side, slight creases to upper and left edges. Framed. Text reads “Dessiné par Le Breton, lith. par Lassalle. Gide editeur. Imp. Lemercier, Benard & Co. Voyage au Pole Sud..... More

1847. Lithograph, signed and dated in image lower left, 18.5 x 16.3cm. Minor creases, ragged right edge. From Heads of the People: An illustrated journal of literature, whims, and oddities. Held in NGA. “In the crucial decade of the 1840s in New South Wales no other single figure stands out..... More