Australiana
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[ABORIGINES].
Cabinet card, NSW, three men in body decoration.
Australia, circa, 1890.
Cabinet card measuring 105 x 145 mm., mounted, gilt edged; the bottom edge neatly trimmed, otherwise fine.
A fine period cabinet card depicting three Aboriginal men in a traditional manner with body paint and hunting...
Australian: $485 (Approx. US $506, Euro €352) Quote ref.
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ALMQVIST, Carl Jonas Love.
Parjumouf. Saga ifran Nya Holland.
Stockholm, A. Gadelius, 1817.
Duodecimo, 98 pp.; in good condition in a neat modern morocco binding.
An interesting early Swedish fiction set in colonial Australia, here called "Ulimaroa", the term invented by Djurberg...
Du Rietz, Swansea, 92.
Australian: $2650 (Approx. US $2765, Euro €1921) Quote ref.
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ANDERSSON, Gunnar.
Australien Natur och Kultur - Studier och Minnen.
Stockholm, Hugo Gebers förlag, 1915.
Octavo, with 48 plates and two colour maps, original green cloth with attractive gilt blocked kangaroo motif, fine.
An excellent copy of this generously illustrated survey of Australia's agriculture and natural resources by Professor...
Australian: $175 (Approx. US $183, Euro €127) Quote ref.
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ANGAS, George French.
The Wreck of the "Admella," and Other Poems.
London, 1874.
Octavo, 91 pp.; original green cloth, rebacked; couple of stains on upper board, some shelfwear.
Presentation copy inscribed by George French Angas to his daughter Georgiana: she and her three sisters were the...
Australian: $1250 (Approx. US $1304, Euro €906) Quote ref.
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ARMYTAGE, James Charles [engraver].
Ballarat, Victoria.
London, Virtue & Co., 1873.
Steel-engraving, 129 x 184 mm; mounted, fine.
A detailed and finely engraved view of Ballarat, from Edwin Carton Booth's Australia Illustrated. The print is...
Australian: $120 (Approx. US $125, Euro €87) Quote ref.
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[AUSTRALIAN JOCKEY CLUB] FITZROY, George.
Autograph letter signed to James Gibson regarding the Homebush race meeting.
Government House, Sydney, 12 May, 1851.
Manuscript letter, 230 x 180 mm., laid paper folded to form four pages, excellent condition.
Rare original letter concerning a race meeting at Homebush in 1851, written by George FitzRoy, son of Governor-General...
Australian: $1250 (Approx. US $1304, Euro €906) Quote ref.
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[AUSTRALIAN THEATRE] SULLIVAN, Barry.
Carte de visite of Barry Sullivan.
Melbourne, Davies & Co., circa, 1870.
Carte de visite, 63 x 102 mm., fine.
A rare theatrical photograph of Barry Sullivan (1821-1891), the English actor who revolutionised the Melbourne stage in...
Australian: $525 (Approx. US $548, Euro €381) Quote ref.
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BABU, M.L.
Les Mines d'or de l'Australie...
Paris, Vve. Ch. Dunod et P. Vicq, 1896.
Octavo, pp. 86, illustrations and four large folding plans; some foxing and embrowning throughout, and the paper...
A very scarce detailed study of Victorian gold and New South Wales silver deposits, not recorded by...
Not in Ferguson.
Australian: $1450 (Approx. US $1513, Euro €1051) Quote ref.
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[BARRINGTON] ANON.
Portrait of George Barrington.
London, 1804- 1809.
Stippled engraving, 98 x 75 mm.; very good.
A very good portrait of Barrington, within an octagonal border. George Barrington was convicted of felonry and...
Nan Kivell and Spence, p. 23.
Australian: $450 (Approx. US $470, Euro €326) Quote ref.
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BARRINGTON, George.
A Voyage to Botany Bay...
London, C. Lowndes and H.D. Symonds, circa 1800 [and], 1801.
Small octavo, two works bound together, the first with an engraved frontispiece and vignette on title, the second...
The latest news from the new colony of New South Wales. This is an early pairing of the two initial "Barrington" Botany...
Ferguson, 206 & 328; Garvey, 'George Barrington', AB17 & AB18.
Australian: $4800 (Approx. US $5008, Euro €3480) Quote ref.
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