Search Results: NEW SOUTH WALES from Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints

London: Chatto & Windus, The Hogarth Press, 1985. Paperback. Very good condition. An autobiography in which the author describes his childhood home in Brisbane, the Tuscan village he resides in for part of the year, a visit to India, and a wartime train journey from Brisbane to Sydney. A description of the work printed at the front free end paper. 8vo, 134pp. Patterned maroon paper wrappers, interlocked cupids.

Bangalore, India, 1877. Very good condition. Four large albumen photographs with pen and ink decoration surrounding them, of the famed Victorian light cavalry regiment known as the Hussars, in India. The albumen photographs on the front are: a portrait of three relaxed officers lounging in uniform on the terrace of a colonial building in India, captioned in ink in a period hand, "McBurn, Capt. Malone, and Hon.ble H. G. Gough". The two men at the left wear small round caps; the man at the right sits with one leg flung over the arm of his chair. The second image is a large group portrait of the regiment in civilian dress, including wives and Indian servants, at the colonnaded facade of an imposing building, captioned "XIV Hussars Group, Mess House, Bangalore, 1877". Below this image, an unidentified member of the regiment and his wife are portrayed in a charming pen and ink cartoon of the couple in a row boat, with a clipped photo of their faces pasted in. On the verso, an impressive private… Read More

1880. Very good condition. Four glossy albumen photographs, two images of the Sydney Heads & the 3rd possibly the Manly Esplanade area (a cove with a curving promenade). The 4th image is of two women in long white summer dresses and holding dark parasols, just passing in front of a colonnaded building (possibly Melbourne?) where horse drawn carriages await passengers. Images 4 3/4 x 3 3/4", slightly smaller than postcard size. Contemporary penciled numbers on the verso of 351, 359, 360 & 369.

Tokyo, 1940. Very good overall. Japanese postcard with printed photograph group portrait of aboriginal family, all standing, with smallest child held on the shoulders of the father, strangely smiling as if he is showing off new dentures; all wearing loin cloths and standing in a natural setting. With Japanese text in red printed below the picture. Divided back, not posted, with "Made in Japan Seikaido Tokyo" printed in the divider. 3 1/2 x 5 1/2"

Sydney: Royal Society of New South Wales, 1889. Hardcover. Very good condition. Two extracts from the Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales. The Aborigines of Australia by Edward Stephens, read before the Royal Society NSW, October 2, 1889. [With] "New South Wales as a Health Resort in Phthisis Pulmonalis" (tuberculosis), read before the Medical Section of the Royal Society of NSW, July 19, 1889. 8vo, "The Aborigines of Australia", pp 476-503, color folding map, 1 plate; "New South Wales as a Health Resort", pp 503 -510, with large folding map. Bound in modern gray cloth, not titled. Folding maps bright and clean.

Australian Museum Magazine, 1961. Paperback. Very good. Extracted from: The Australian Museum Magazine, June 1961. pp319-323, ills in text, stapled. With McCarthy's Australian Museum stamp & Meggitt's initials.

Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1937. First edition. Hardcover. Good +. Presentation copy signed by author, "To my good American friendm Robert E. Woodward with good wishes. G.Machaness. 3d viii 43". 8vo, 536pp, blue cloth boards, gilt title on spine, spine slt sunned, ruffled at head, corners slt bumped, interior clean.

London, 1904. Very good overall. A color advertising trade card for the "Splendid Iron Clipper, Cimba", with text and the ship's flag printed in red and dark blue, and displaying five different type fonts. The Cimba was built in 1878 in Aberdeen, Scotland. Cimba sailed for 20 years between Sydney and London carrying wool, and also to Port Jackson. She was an impressive heavily rigged ship, 223 feet long, with green hull with gold scrolls, white bulwarks and yellow stripe, with lion figurehead. Her first captain, J. Fimster, served until 1895; he was succeeded by Captain J. W. Holmes who served until 1906, when the ship was sold to a Norwegian outfit. The card is dated 1904 and lists her berth at South West India Dock; the managers listed are Wincott, Cooper & Co. Very mild foxing at lower right edge. Printed in 2 colors, one side only. 4 3/4 x 3 1/2". Not found on Trove.

Sydney: New South Wales Intelligence Dept, 1907. First printing. Ephemera. Very good condition. A pamphlet promoting agriculture in New South Wales. The map shows colored zones for dairying and intense cultivation, mixed farming with some dairying, wheat and sheep, artesian areas. Uncolored areas are delineated as "Pastoral with Cultivation within Irrigation Areas." With small inset of Australia and NSW highlighted. On the verso is explanatory text outlining the agricultural potential to sustain primary industries and then promoting increased immigration and tourism, including fares and regulations for assisted passages, climate, cost of living. This pamphlet features a tinted picture of Martin Place "The Soil of New South Wales is rich in Potential Wealth" "Lumps of Gold await the sturdy Settler who brings a fair measure of Application, Pluck, and Perseverance..." 22 1/2 x 17 1/2" folds to 8 3/4 x 3 3/4", Libraries Australia ID 44011705.

1880. Four albumen photographs of Sydney, all with the Charles Bayliss blind stamp. Charles Bayliss (1850 - 1897), one of Australia's preeminent landscape photographers, who worked for years with Merlin and Holtermann before setting up his own shop in Sydney in 1879. He established his studio at 348 George Street; then moved to 335a George Street, advertising himself as a photographer of city and country views, often with people, and making views to be sold individually while also contributing images for albums. He also made remarkable 360 degree panoramas of the city of Sydney around this time. These four images are mounted on a page from an album, with handwritten captions in black ink. The first photograph, "Sydney Harbor, NSW" is a view looking over rooftops toward the harbor and tall masted ships moored and docked; and "Sydney Observatory", looking up toward the building from a lower vantage point; both with handwritten labels laid down and with the C. Bayliss stamp at the lower left. On the… Read More

1890. Australian Christmas card showing the harbor with a three-masted tall ship at anchor. Mounted on dark green stiff card akin to stereo cards, printed in the margins "A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year" and "The Land of the Golden Fleece". The "Botanical Gardens Sydney" title is handwritten with a fine gold ink. Text in gilt, gilt beveled edge. Photo 6 x 3 1/2" on card 6 1/2 x 4 1/4". Corners a bit rubbed, image quite bright in the foreground, the ship a trifle less distinct. Not found on Trove.

1886. Very good condition. Very large albumen photograph of Sydney's harbor of the area now known as Farm Cove, with the Charles Bayliss stamp at the lower left corner. Charles Bayliss (1850 - 1897), one of Australia's preeminent landscape photographers, who worked for years with Merlin and Holtermann before setting up his own shop in Sydney in 1879. He established his studio at 348 George Street; then moved to 335a George Street, advertising himself as a photographer of city and country views, often with people, and making views to be sold individually while also contributing images for albums. He also made remarkable 360 degree panoramas of the city of Sydney around this time. Mounted on a page from an album, with handwritten caption in pencil. "C. Bayliss, Photo, Sydney". 10 3/4 x 8" (20 x 27cm) print; album page: 16 x 12". Trove 41642848 cites a photograph of the same title but at a much smaller scale (20 x 15cm).

Sydney, 1890. Very good overall. Australian Christmas card showing three tall masted ships in the harbor. A private residence is under construction in the foreground, with scaffolding visible around the chimney. Mounted on dark green stiff card akin to stereo cards, printed in the margins "Wishing You the Season's Compliments" and "The Land of the Golden Fleece". The "Balmain from Berrys Bay" title is handwritten with a fine gold ink. Text in gilt, gilt beveled edge. Photo 6 x 3 1/2" on card 6 1/2 x 4 1/4". Corners a bit rubbed, image quite bright. Not found on Trove.

Melbourne: M.U.P., 1970. Hardcover. Good + overall. Account of the English botanist, noted for botanical collecting and exploring in Australia, especially the discovery of the important agricultural area of the Darling Downs. 8vo, 148pp, maps, illustrations. In the pictorial dust jacket, marked at front panel and sunned at spine, price clipped; library donation slip at ffep.

Melbourne: Angus & Robertson, 1965. Hardcover. Very good overall. A record of New South Wales and Tasmania in the 1830s & 1840's & later in Scotland. 8vo, 179pp, fold out house plan at back. Publishers orange boards fine and slt. rubbed dj.

Switzerland, 1850. Very good condition. Striking lithograph of the view at Port Jackson, of the Sydney Heads, taken from the foot of the lighthouse. From a German edition of Dumont D'Urville's 'Voyage Autour du Monde'. A view of the cliffs, with ships out to sea and three gentlemen viewers in the lower left foreground, one possibly sketching. Paper size, 10 1/4 x 6 1/2". Very bright and clean image.

Melbourne, Australia, 1888. From the wool collection of W.G. Markham of Avon, N.Y., an important importer, exporter and breeder of sheep in the United States. The archive includes four auction catalogues from August & September 1883; Goldsbrough's Monthly Circular for February 20, 1878 (the folio size); 13 wool samples in pictorial envelopes from the Columbia Cream Separator Co, Avon, NY marked with the weight, age of ram/ewe and "M&P" or "Split Ear", etc.; some samples within an envelope the Government Technological Museum, Sydney. The auction catalogues include: Catalogue of Pure Merino and Lincoln Sheep 26th August 1886 by Fisken, Gibson & Co, Melbourne, M'Carron, Bird & Co., 8vo, 66pp, with period price notes; Catalogue of Exhibits Entered for the Corowa Pastoral, Agricultural and Horticultural Society's Show... 8th & 9th August, 1888. Albury, Adams, Cooper and Adams 1889, 8vo, 20pp, pink printed wrappers a bit ruffled; Catalogue of Pure Merino Rams and Pure Lincoln Rams for sale by Messrs.… Read More

St. Lucia, 1967. Hardcover. Very good condition. Reprint of 1873 ed. Meggitt copy. 4to, 792pp with illustrations, leatherette binding in the original pictorial boards slip case.

1938. Very good condition. Two unusually artistic photograph albums filled with collage photographic images of New South Wales, the South coast, and New Guinea. Adorned with poetry, philosophy, wit and wisdom, and the author's personal commentary written in gold ink to accompany the photographs of a man identifying himself as 'The Vagabond', in his travels through Australia and New Guinea in 1936 and 1938. The author of these albums is unidentified except by his pseudonym. There are several snapshots of the man, who looks to be in his 50's or 60's, or lived hard in the years he's wearing. Several of the poems give us clues that he is an American, working and traveling in Australia in 1936 and 1938. "I've swum the Colorado where it runs down near to hell, I've been jerked around with many a locoed (?) cow I've mixed it with some tough Guys down along the Rio Grande But You ought to get an eyeful of me now. The Vagabond" The albums are inscribed to two different women - 'Bettie' in 1936 and… Read More

London: Hamilton, Adams, 1862. Third edition. Hardcover. Good + overall. Fine colour lithograph frontispiece, view of Sydney from the North Shore. Australian content includes: Tasmania, convicts, Hobart Town, Melbourne, Sydney, Botany Bay, notes on New South Wales, Australasian conference on Methodism, visit to Kapunda mining region, and Aborigines. Small 8vo, 281pp, 6pp ads. Maroon and gilt cloth. A bit rubbed at extremes, but expertly rebacked. F10945.