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[Angas Family Property]. [SMITH, Douglas Darian]

A large aerial photograph of Lindsay Park (circa 1930), the sprawling homestead near Angaston in the Barossa Valley which George Fife Angas made his home upon his arrival in South Australia in 1851. Long know as a stud for thoroughbred racehorses, the property is now owned by Goldin Farms

While the photographer is not identified on the image, we believe it to have been taken by Adelaide photographer Darian Smith in the early 1930s, around the time he was producing numerous aerial views of South Australian landmarks for his publication 'Adelaide, South Australia, from the Air' (Adelaide, Gillingham &... More

Price: $900.00

ANGAS, George Fife

A vintage carte de visite photographic portrait of George Fife Angas (1789-1879), the influential South Australian pioneer

The albumen paper photograph (94 × 61 mm) is mounted on the printed card (104 × 63 mm) of The Adelaide Photographic Company. There is an example of the same image in the State Library of NSW (a gift from a family member, John Howard Johnson); it is dated January... More

Price: $750.00

[ANGAS, George Fife]

A framed and glazed original pen and ink portrait of George Fife Angas (1789-1879), South Australian pioneer

It is based on one of the (variant) frontispiece portraits used in Edwin Hodder's 1891 biography, 'George Fife Angas. Father and Founder of South Australia'; we have identified different images and reproduction processes for this frontispiece. This portrait is based on a photograph, but whether it was done from an... More

Price: $1,100.00

BERNHARDT, Sarah (1844-1923)

An 1887 autograph note signed by this famous French stage actress to 'Mon cher Paul', mentioning her pretty niece, and trying to arrange a suitable time to catch up

Offered together with a photographic portrait of Bernhardt as 'The Lady of the Camellias' (a vintage cabinet card, image size 140 × 85 mm, circa 1881), and five ephemeral portraits (vintage trade cards and an early commemorative postage stamp). More

Price: $750.00

[Ceylon, Egypt and Malta]

A fine morocco album (365 × 290 mm) containing 90 albumen paper photographs of Ceylon, Egypt and the Suez Canal, Malta and England, put together in the late 1880s by a well-heeled traveller

Many of the photographs are large-format prints (on average 220 × 280 mm); apart from a little foxing to some of the mounts, the album and its contents are in excellent condition. The most appealing images are the dozen of Ceylon; 11 of them carry the blindstamp of the Colombo... More

Price: $1,650.00

[Cricket]. BRADMAN, Sir Donald

A masterly 1977 portrait by the Adelaide photographer David Simpson, featuring a distinguished but relaxed Sir Don at home, standing in front of his familiar portrait in oils

It is an exceptional gelatin silver photographic print measuring a gigantic 530 × 510 mm (approximately), printed from the negative by the photographer for Michael Treloar in the mid-1990s. Treloar went to an exhibition of Simpson's work at his studio at the time, and saw the image on display. It... More

Price: $2,000.00

DISDERI, André Adolphe-Eugène

A stereo-daguerreotype (86 × 173 mm) of the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1855, the first International Exhibition held in France

Disderi obtained the rights to photograph the products and artworks at the Exposition as a distinguished daguerreotypist, but his lasting fame is that he took out the first patent for the carte de visite in 1854. Ironically, this inexpensive mass-produced paper photograph hastened the demise of these beautiful precursors. More

Price: $9,000.00

FISHER, Angela

Africa Adorned

London, Collins, 1984 (first edition). More

Price: $150.00

[Gallipoli]

An extraordinary collection of 27 well-captioned photographs (each approximately 90 × 115 mm) taken at Gallipoli, attributed to 1043 Private Thomas English, attached to B Section, 4th Field Ambulance

Scenes of or around field hospitals, in particular at Anzac Gully and Hotchkiss Gully, are a feature of ten of the photographs. 'Turkish Prisoners at work, Anzac' is another impressive image. South Australian-born Thomas Wolmer (or Woolmer) English (1894-1956) transferred to the 50th Battalion in March 1916 and survived the... More

Price: $2,500.00

HURLEY, Frank

'The Pallid Glow of a Midwinter Noon at Cape Denison' [Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914]

A very large vintage blue-toned carbon print (visible image size 422 × 577 mm) on the original thick cardboard mount, recently matted, framed and glazed (external dimensions, an impressive 690 × 835 mm). The original printed label from the Fine Art Society, New Bond Street, London, is on the verso... More

Price: $18,000.00

[Japan and Korea]

A large photograph album (275 × 390 mm) of Japanese origin and Korean War vintage, with the lacquered front cover extensively hand-decorated in colour

Maps of the four main islands of Japan and the Korean Peninsula are surrounded by borders of cherry blossom and bamboo, with scenes of Mt Fuji, a pagoda, and birds on the wing. Major cities are shown on the maps; Korea has Pyongyang, Seoul and Pusan, with '38° LINE' in..... More

Price: $750.00

[Java]

'Views of Java.. SS "Minderoo" - SS "Charon" - SS "Gorgon". West Australian Ports to Java and Singapore. Dalgety & Co. Ltd., Agents'

A very large advertisement on thick card, recently mounted and matted (visible image size 508 × 778 mm); laid down on the card are six original gelatin silver photographs (all sepia-toned, each one approximately 165 × 230 mm). The photographs are in two rows of three, with captions underneath. The... More

Price: $750.00

[Kangaroo Dog]

An extraordinary pair of snapshot photographs of a fight to the death between a large kangaroo and an even larger kangaroo dog

The pictures tell the story ... They are preserved behind glass in a contemporary wooden frame (probably 1920s). Size of images, 60 × 105 mm; overall external dimensions, 165 × 345 mm. More

Price: $1,100.00

KAUFFMANN, John

'The Temple Steps, Kandy'. A vintage carbon print (float-mounted, image size 297 × 358 mm) on the original mount

Circa 1897 (a Sri Lankan scene, printed later). Signed on the lower right of the image, with the title in pencil on the original mount. Reproduced in NEWTON, Gael: 'John Kauffmann, Art Photographer' (NGA, 1996), page 37 (this print, which also appeared in the accompanying travelling exhibition, 'Soft but True')... More

Price: $11,000.00

KAUFFMANN, John

'The Tug'. A vintage gelatin silver photograph (visible image size 335 × 297 mm) on the original mount

[Circa 1910s]. Signed and titled (twice) in pencil on the original mount (now concealed by the mat). Provenance: from the family of John Kauffmann, by descent (sold by Sotheby's Australia, 24 July 1988); private collection, Sydney. Adelaide-born John Kauffmann (1864-1942), a pioneering photo-impressionist, spent a decade in Europe studying art... More

Price: $5,000.00

KAUFFMANN, John

'The Turkey'. A vintage carbon print (visible image size, a 290 mm diameter circle) on the original paper mount

Circa 1910. Reproduced in NEWTON, Gael: 'John Kauffmann, Art Photographer' (NGA, 1996), page 56 (this print, which also appeared in the accompanying travelling exhibition, 'Soft but True'). Provenance: from the family of John Kauffmann, by descent (sold by Sotheby's Australia, 24 July 1988); private collection, Sydney. Adelaide-born John Kauffmann (1864-1942)... More

Price: $7,000.00

LOYAU, George E.

Notable South Australians; or, Colonists - Past and Present

Adelaide, Carey, Page & Co., Printers ('Published under the Author's own immediate Supervision'), 1885. The lithographs are a delightful frontispiece view of Glenelg in 1837 after John Michael Skipper and 15 full-page portraits. The photograph is of Loyau, facing the camera, with his eyes looking a little to his right;... More

Price: $200.00

[MOSLEY, Oswald (1896-1980)]

A vintage press photograph captioned on the verso 'The Nation's Last Homage to Marquess Curzon at Westminster Abbey ..'

The gelatin silver print (120 × 167 mm) has a shallow v-shaped hairline crack in the emulsion at the top centre; overall it is in excellent condition. The photographer is not credited; the verso is ink-stamped 'Photo supplied Central News', and tipped in on it is the duplicate typescript caption... More

Price: $750.00

[Skiing]

An album of photographs of a skiing holiday at the Cresta Palace Hotel, Celerina (near St Moritz), Switzerland, in the winter of 1912-1913

The first seven photographs (captioned on the album leaves), and another 22 loosely inserted in an envelope mounted on the rear pastedown (15 postcard-format, 6 small snapshots, all captioned on the verso), show members of the Reid family of Glasgow and various friends enjoying themselves in the snow and on... More

Price: $350.00

SOUBHY, Dr Saleh

Pèlerinage à la Mecque et à Médine. Précédé d'un aperçu sur l'islamisme et suivi de considérations générales au point de vue sanitaire et d'un appendice sur la circoncision

Cairo, Imprimerie Nationale, June 1894. A very rare account of pilgrimages to Mecca and Medina in 1888 and 1891, by an Egyptian doctor sent at the behest of his government to report on sanitary conditions for pilgrims on the Hajj. The illustrations include reproductions of images by the two earliest... More

Price: $6,000.00

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