Broadsides
Printed Admiralty order regarding venereal disease…
London: Office of the Admiralty, 5 October 1757.
"The Risque of getting those Distempers"
Folio, 6 pages plus integral blank; folded to docket size with manuscript annotation "Admiralty New Instructions relating to Surgeons" A scarce and desirable relic of eighteenth-century naval life: an official printed order from the Admiralty concerning...
Price (AUD):
$985.00
Ref: #4403246
Aris's Birmingham Gazette: or, the General Correspondent. Monday January 3 1743. No. LX.
Birmingham: T. Aris, 1743.
Eight Million Pieces of Eight
Bifolium; franked. Original newspaper containing exciting news of Anson's buccaneering windfall: 'that Commodore Anson has taken eight rich Prizes, and after ravaging the Coast, departed about the middle of April for the East Indies; that he has two Ships with him...
Price (AUD):
$360.00
Ref: #4403248
The Atmotic Ship…
Sydney: David Mason, printer, circa 1866.
Atmotic: pioneering steam driven airship in 1860s Sydney
Single printed sheet measuring 570 x 445 mm. in good condition, mounted. Rare Sydney broadside and a milestone in aviation history. This ephemeral large single sheet promotes the 'Atmotic Ship' – an early steam driven airship...
Price (AUD):
$4,250.00
Ref: #4403227
Panorama of Australia and America…
England: 1851.
"Positively for 2 nights only"
Broadside, halved at central rule to form two sheets measuring 330 x 255 mm. & 330 x 260 mm., illustrated with four dramatic woodcut scenes. Rare and significant broadside advertising a panoramic lecture show on the Australian colonies that toured England in 1850...
Price (AUD):
$4,200.00
Ref: #3910334
Despatch from the Colonial Secretary to Governor Sir Charles Darling concerning the removal of convicts from Victoria to Western Australia.
Melbourne: Government printer, 1864.
Western Australia - the last convict colony
Single foolscap sheet. Parliamentary printing of a despatch from the acting Colonial Secretary, Henry Pelham Clinton (the fifth Lord Newcastle) to Governor Sir Charles Darling concerning the removal of convicts from Victoria to Western Australia: 'recommends that all male...
Price (AUD):
$300.00
Ref: #4108184
Two paired broadsides titled "Gordon and Eyre" denouncing former Jamaican governor John Edward Eyre.
Birmingham: E.C. Osborne, printer, undated, yet 1866.
An intrepid explorer caught in the aftermath of the Jamaican uprising
Two sheets measuring 690 x 1080 mm. each; neatly folded. Two spectacular, large broadsides denouncing the conduct of former Australian explorer John Edward Eyre, in his role as governor of Jamaica during...
Price (AUD):
$6,850.00
Ref: #4202847
To The Independent Electors of the Borough of Newark.
Saracen's Head, Newark: Weaver, 25 March, 1870.
"our Colonies would be regarded as the natural outlet for our excessive population…'
Printed broadside, 505 x 380 mm. A most unusual survival: a political broadside from the later career of Sir George Grey, seeking to capitalise on his Colonial experience.Although fresh from...
Price (AUD):
$1,250.00
Ref: #4106536
The Smallest Boat that ever crossed the Atlantic Ocean!
New York: Ingersoll's Great American Boat and Oar Bazaar, circa 1867.
Across the Atlantic in just 35 days
Broadside, lithographed on fine paper, 28 x 21 cm. Rare and fragile broadside celebrating an amazing short-handed crossing of the Atlantic. Captain Hudson accompanied only by his friend Fitch and his dog...
Price (AUD):
$675.00
Ref: #3808845
The Lord's Prayer.
Sydney: W. Baker. Hibernian Press, King Street, Sydney, 1845.
Setting of the Lord's Prayer by the early Australian composer and collaborator of Lord Byron
A bifolium sheet of music, 345 x 270 mm; unbound. A rare and fragile piece of early pianoforte music by the vibrant and mercurial musician Isaac...
Price (AUD):
$2,850.00
Ref: #4505076
The Drama of Everyday Life…
London: W.S.Johnson & Co., 1864. Folio broadside, 505 x 510 mm.; with a central fold, in fine condition. London theatre bill for The Ticket of Leave Man, "a drama of every-day life, in four acts, by Tom Taylor, Esq.".The melodrama was first performed at the Olympic Theatre on 27 May...
Price (AUD):
$295.00
Ref: #3410372
An Act for making perpetual… An Act to explain and amend the Laws relating to the Transportation, Imprisonment, and other Punishments of certain Offenders, as relates to the Punishment of burning in the Hand of certain Persons convicted of Felony within the Benefit of Clergy.
London: George Eyre & Andrew Strahan, 20 May 1799.
The branding of felons enacted
Printed bifolium, pp. [437]-438, armorial letterhead, last 2pp. blank; fine. This Act makes perpetual the practice of branding the hands of felons convicted of stealing from churches or the clergy. It continues previous law to this...
Price (AUD):
$375.00
Ref: #4403336
Cap. LII. An Act for continuing… An Act to explain and amend the Laws relating to the Transportation, Imprisonment, and other Punishments of certain Offenders, as relates to Penitentiary Houses.
London: George Eyre & Andrew Strahan, 13 June 1799. Printed bifolium, pp. [465]-466, armorial letterhead, last 2pp. blank; very good. Continues pre-existing law regarding the penitentiary management.
Price (AUD):
$300.00
Ref: #4403337