Paris, Henri Plon, Imprimeur-Editeur, 1869 (second edition)/ 1869. This work, the first of three volumes covering the author's world tour, went through at least a dozen editions in French and was translated into English (see Ferguson 6368-46 for some of them). 'The author reached Melbourne in 1866. He visited some..... More
[Adelaide, Unidentified Photographer, circa 1971]. 'An Arrente woman from Alice Springs, Auriel Andrew began her musical career in the late 1960s, "cutting her teeth" on the local live music circuits in Adelaide and Port Lincoln. She appeared on various live TV musical broadcasts before she became a regular on Channel..... More
Amsterdam, HUP Gallery, 2005. The catalogue for an exhibition held at the HUP Gallery in Amsterdam, 22 September to 10 November 2005. The first page is inscribed and signed by the photographer to Melbourne photographer and pioneering gallerist Joyce Evans OAM (1929-2019): 'for my dear Joyce! | touched by your..... More
Angaston, C.C. Yates [Photographer], [circa 1920s]. The details identifying the scene are written in pencil on the verso of the mount. Light Pass (as it is known today) is in the Barossa Valley, 3 kms from Nuriootpa. The tiny hamlet is home to two Lutheran churches (the Immanuel, and the..... More
Angaston, C.C. Yates [Photographer], [circa 1920s]. The details identifying the scene were written in pencil on the mount of another example of this photograph we have handled. Light Pass (as it is known today) is in the Barossa Valley, 3 kms from Nuriootpa. The tiny hamlet is home to two..... More
![Item #135923 Photographs of New South Wales. 1892 [cover title of an impressive album]. New South...](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/135923_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1693967046)
Sydney, Charles Potter, Government Printer, 1892. Mounted on the front pastedown is a leather presentation plate to 'The Lady Evelyn Gathorne Hardy | From George R. Dibbs'. Sir George Richard Dibbs (1834-1904) was Premier of NSW on three occasions (1885, 1889, and 1891-94). 'Dibbs visited London in 1892 hoping to..... More
Dedicated 'To His Worship The Mayor and the Aldermen of Warwick, England, from the Mayor and the Aldermen of Warwick, Queensland'. All photographs are captioned (mainly in the negative). Scenes of and in the town (193 × 243 mm) are 'Warwick from Free Stone Ck. Road'; 'Warwick from Waterworks'; Warwick..... More
Adelaide, Stump & Co. (credited in the negative), [circa 1896]. The bottom margin of the mount is inscribed 'Yours faithfully, A. Watson. Oct. 1896'. Archibald Watson was an 'erratic, histrionic genius', as his entry in the 'Australian Dictionary of Biography' proceeds to demonstrate. 'Appointed Elder professor of anatomy at the..... More
London, Wells, Gardner, Darton & Co., 1888/ 1887 (first edition, published in Adelaide). Pages ix-304 (from the table of contents onwards) are the sheets of the 1887 Adelaide edition. The first eight pages, the cloth colour, lettering and decoration for this London edition differ, and it invariably contains the Woodburytype..... More
This print comes from the original 1915 London exhibition of Hurley photographs. The printed label from the Fine Art Society, New Bond Street, London, is on the verso of the mount: 'This photograph is enlarged from a negative taken during Dr Mawson's Australasian Antarctic Expedition ...'. The title and London..... More
Adelaide, Townsend Duryea, [printed circa 1866; original negative circa 1863]. 'Townsend Duryea began making cartes de visite in late 1862 or early 1863, and was advertising his "new" style of carte in May 1863' (Bob Noye, AGSA website). The portrait, taken in Duryea's Adelaide studio, shows Stuart after his epic..... More
The photograph is inscribed and signed ('Every good wish, Bing Crosby') in black ink. It is uncredited and undated, but we suggest the 1940s. More
The photograph is inscribed and signed ('Sincerely, Bing Crosby') in deep blue ink. It is uncredited and undated, but we suggest the 1940s. More
Broughty Ferry, Dundee, [Unidentified Photographer], 1938. The Burnie 'Advocate' (Friday 5 August 1938) has an interesting account of the first day's play: 'The Australians arrived by charabanc at the picturesque Broughton [sic] Ferry ground to-day, wearing tartan bonnets, but there was nothing festive about their early batting on a good..... More
![Item #134254 'A Snow Cornice' [with Xavier Mertz]. Australasian Antarctic Expedition, Frank HURLEY](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/134254_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1690163975)
Significantly, this dramatic image of an expeditioner on skis, silhouetted against gigantic ice cliffs, features Xavier Mertz, one of the two men to lose their lives on the expedition. This photograph is reproduced in 'The Home of the Blizzard' with the caption 'Adelie Land. The cliffs at Land's End, Cape..... More
This print comes from the original 1915 London exhibition of Hurley photographs. The label of the Fine Art Society, New Bond Street, London is on the verso of this print, with the title (as above) and the London catalogue reference number 102 in ink. Provenance: Sir Douglas Mawson; purchased from..... More
London, [later 1900s]. Field-Marshal Lord Roberts has signed the bottom margin of the mount in pencil ('Roberts, F.M.' ). 'Field Marshal Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts, VC, KG, KP, GCB, OM, GCSI, GCIE, VD, PC, FRSGS (30 September 1832 - 14 November 1914) was a British Victorian era general..... More
'An ambrotype is comprised of an underexposed glass negative placed against a dark background. The dark backing material creates a positive image. Photographers often applied pigments to the surface of the plate to add color, often tinting cheeks and lips red and adding gold highlights to jewelry, buttons, and belt..... More
'Until the introduction by State associations and the Australian Cricket Board of Players' Provident Funds, it was the custom to reward prominent players for long service by granting them testimonial matches. Stan McCabe and Bill O'Reilly in 1956-57 were the last to be given an official benefit match' (Pollard). Bradman..... More
[Brisbane, Daniel Marquis, circa late 1860s]. Scottish-born photographer Daniel Marquis (1829-1879) emigrated to Brisbane in March 1865. By the end of that year he 'had rented studio and living space in George Street in Brisbane.... Daniel established a successful photographic business in the George Street studio. He made portraits that..... More
[Brisbane, Daniel Marquis, circa late 1860s]. Scottish-born photographer Daniel Marquis (1829-1879) emigrated to Brisbane in March 1865. By the end of that year he 'had rented studio and living space in George Street in Brisbane.... Daniel established a successful photographic business in the George Street studio. He made portraits that..... More
[Adelaide, Stump & Co., circa 1900]. An example of this photograph is in one of the University of Adelaide's special collections, where it is credited to Stump & Co., and given the date 1910. However, Watson appears in uniform as consultant surgeon in the Natal Field Force during the Boer..... More
Sydney, Kerry & Jones, 308 George Street, [1888]. This informal group portrait features the Governors of each of the Australian colonies, along with the Governors of Fiji and New Zealand. It was taken on 25 January 1888, the day before the centenary of the arrival of the First Fleet at..... More
Sydney, 1935. The photograph is inscribed in ink in the top left-hand corner 'To Mr F. Gordon with compliments from E.E. Bullen'. Errol Eviot Bullen was one 'of Australia's most prolific early game fishermen in the 1930s', and he was renowned for the high-quality custom-made reels he designed and marketed..... More
Sydney, Thomas Richards, Government Printer, 1886. 'Prepared specially for the Colonial and Indian Exhibition'. More