c1953. Three items consisting of a vintage silver gelatin photograph with “Sydney Morning Herald” copyright stamp verso, a colour process lithograph pamphlet with price list, and a roneoed typed letter with Penfolds letterhead, 25.3 x 20.6cm (photograph). Minor creases, scuffing and tears to photograph, slight foxing to pamphlet. The pamphlet..... More
c1860. Albumen paper photograph, and hand-written poem, inscribed “for my ever dearest friend Annie Bisdee Thorne” from “E.H. Dumaresq, Tivoli, Rose Bay, Australia”, 18.2 x 13.2cm (photograph). Added pencil to image, old paper remnants surrounding image, obscuring caption in pencil, laid down on original backing; poem with creases and tears..... More
![Item #CL205-7 Plan Of 39 Market Garden Allotments Situate [Sic] At Botany, Near The Sir...](/pictures/thumb/CL205-7.jpg?v=1655438314)
c1854. Lithograph, text including captions, name of lithographer and surveyors, annotated in ink on image upper right and verso, 54.3 x 39.8cm. Missing portions, tears, stains, old folds. Text includes “J. Allan Lithog., 23 Bridge St. Brownrigg & Roe, Surveyors.” Annotations include “Day of sale, Monday, 13 Nov[ember], Mort’s Rooms.” The..... More
![Item #CL198-167 Plan Of Littles Wharf, Dowling Street, Wooloomooloo [Sic] Bay [NSW](/pictures/thumb/CL198-167.jpg?v=1576815155)
1856. Ink and watercolour on paper, dated “August 1st, 1856” and inscribed “William H. Wells, surveyor” in ink lower left, titled in ink verso, 43.3 x 34cm. Old folds. This map shows the early streets around Woolloomooloo in Sydney: Dowling, Duke, Brougham and Victoria Streets. Also notes the site of..... More
1888. Ink with watercolour on paper, titled in ink upper centre, 54 x 27.5cm. Ink stains to lower portion, old folds. Annotations include “Dawson and Dawson Lic’d Surveyors, 88 Pitt Street, 14/9/88.” Also shows part of Sussex St, Sydney. Provenance: Daniel Cooper estate. Daniel Cooper (1785–1853) was a pardoned convict..... More
1861. Hand-coloured lithograph, title, date and text “Sig. 157” in image upper centre and lower right, 67.6 x 48.6cm. Uneven margins, foxing overall, minor tears to old folds. This plan of Parramatta Gaol was attached to the “Report of the Select Committee on the Public Prisons of Sydney & Cumberland”..... 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
![Item #CL198-168 Plan Of Road From Dapto [Creek] To NW Corner Of W.F. Weston’s 500 Acres [NSW](/pictures/thumb/CL198-168.jpg?v=1576815156)
c1850–1860s. Ink and watercolour on linen, titled in ink upper left, 28 x 50.5cm. Old folds, stains. Shows West Dapto Road “to be opened as shown by a red line.” Provenance: Daniel Cooper estate. William Frances Weston’s 500 acres in Dapto, bordered on the north by West Dapto Road, were..... More
1895. Black and red ink and watercolour on linen, titled, annotated and dated “Carl Weber, Surveyor, Wollongong 10/10/95” in ink lower right, 51 x 43.3cm. Old folds, slight stains. Insert of a small map details “Part of Parish of Calderwood” with landowners: J. Brown, John Carrell, Henry Green, J. Moore..... More
1931. Wooden vase with pokerwork, inscribed and dated in pokerwork and ink (partly on front of vase, signed “A. Donavon” in ink on base, 23 x 9.5 x 9.5cm. Crazing and minor surface loss to varnish, dents, paint splatters to lower back portion, some of the inscription partially obscured. Inscription reads “Presented..... More
c1960s. (1) [Ben Chifley in London]. Silver gelatin photograph, c1946/later printing, 24 x 17.7cm. Ref: National Archives of Australia; (2) Ben Chifley, PM of Australia, 1945-1949, c1960s. Process screen pamphlet, 21.8 x 14.7cm (folded). The pamphlet provides information covering the life of Bathurst-born Joseph Benedict Chifley (1885-1951) who was Prime..... More
c1960s. Carved, stained wooden profile on plinth, initialled “E.J” on back of profile, 30 x 7.5 x 6.1cm. More
1855. Sheet music, engraved cover, facsimile signature of composer and singer Henry Russell in image lower left, 34 x 24.1cm (paper). Old paper tape and tears to edges, minor foxing to image, front sheet loose. Text reads “Musical Bouquet. Written and sung by Harry Lee Carter, in his entertainment of..... More
1957. Letterpress newspaper headline, 59.7 x 41.9cm. Major tears, creases, surface loss, old folds. Text includes “Daily Mirror, Monday, May 20, 1957. Printed and published by Donald Bennett, 112 Beach Street, Coogee, for Truth and Sportsman Limited, at the office of the company, corner Kippax and Holt Streets, Sydney. Lotto..... More
c1910s–1950s. Consisting of 15 items made up of four pieces of sheet music, one comic booklet, nine theatre programmes and one plaster figurine of “Mo”, sizes range from 28.7 x 11.3cm (folded) to 34.9 x 26.1cm, 23.5 x 9 x 7.5cm (figurine). Old folds, creases, soiling and minor tears, some..... More
c1898. Signed hand-written letter in ink, 42.5 x 38cm (overall). Old discoloured mount. Framed. A typed transcript of the letter is framed alongside two reproduction portraits of Rudyard Kipling (Brit., 1865–1936): a silver gelatin photograph originally taken in 1934, and a newspaper clipping with image captioned “Rudyard Kipling in his..... 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
c1931. Tin and wood model ship on wooden base with a glass case, ship’s name on stern and bow, model maker “C. Boor”, ship name and date on bronze plaque attached to base, 93 x 40 x 14.5cm (ship); 120 x 10 x 35cm (base). Provenance: Burns Philp auction, Sydney..... More
c1900s. Eight process lithographs, postcard format, each captioned “Shirley, Edgecliff Road” and titled in letterpress below image, 8.7 x 13.8cm (approx. each). In January 1900, Margaret Emily Hodge and Harriet Christina Newcomb opened a demonstration and training school for girls at Shirley, Edgecliff Road, Sydney. They aimed to “give the..... More
1910-c1920s. Pair of postcards, one process screen with letterpress, and one vintage silver gelatin photograph, 14.1 x 8.3cm; 8.7 x 13.8cm. Pinholes, creases, foxing. Text for the process screen postcard includes “The Crown Studios, Vice-regal photographers, Sydney. While in town get photographed in ‘Emblo’. The Crown Studios, 448 George Street..... More
c1890s & 1935. Plaster relief portrait with hand-painted border, and watercolour with pencil, plaster relief titled “Sir Henry Parkes” in ink verso, watercolour initialled “E.H.B.” and dated “1935” in pencil lower right with caption in ink below image, 23cm (plaster diameter) and 15.8 x 11.3cm (watercolour). Slight stains and foxing..... More
1790s–c1851. (1) Letter By Sir Joseph Banks, President Of The Royal Society, c1790s. One-page, two-sided manuscript handwritten in ink, 18.5 x 11.5cm (paper). Discolouration to edges, old folds.The letter, addressed to a Mr Bellemy and signed “Jos Banks”, conveys Banks’ concerns about the delay in receiving minutes of the last..... More
c1939-1942. Comprising of approx. 108 pencil and watercolour illustrations over four notebooks, all annotated “Betty Tyson”, some addressed “7 Malacoota Road, Northbridge [NSW]”, and some images dated “28.12.39”, “31.1.40” or “4.4.42”, sizes from 20.5 x 16.4cm to 18.1 x 25cm. Minor tears and stains to covers, some pages loose from..... More
1880. Letterpress pamphlet, annotated and dated “Election 7th July 1880” in ink below, 20.6 x 13.4cm. Trimmed edges, minor creases, stains. Text includes “(Air–HMS Pinafore): When Murray came to this sunny shore, He wrought very hard to improve his store…His efforts were rewarded so triumphantly, that he longed to be..... More
c1945-1947. Group of six publications comprising five roneoed bulletins with colour lineblock and letterpress covers, and a letterpress exhibition catalogue, most illustrations with artists’ signatures replicated in block, bulletins dated “1945”, catalogue signed and dated “3/9/47” in an unknown hand in pencil, accompanied with slip of newsprint annotated and dated..... More