VICTORIA from Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints

Sydney: Illustrated Sydney News, 1891. A rare large woodcut panoramic birdseye view of Melbourne, issued as a "Supplement to the Illustrated Sydney News", December 19, 1891. Trove cites only one copy, at the SLNSW. Text in the lower left margin - "Area of City and Suburbs, 256 Square Miles." In the lower right margin - "Population of… Read more about this item

Melbourne: Hamel & Ferguson, 1867. Print. From Eugene von Guérard's Australian Landscapes 1866-68. Two horsemen are approaching a punt to cross the Goulbourn. A boat in the foreground holds two fishermen. Color lithograph, signed in the plate, with the oval blind stamp for the publisher Hamel & Ferguson below the title. Image incl. text 14 x… Read more about this item

London: British Hydrographic Office, 1851. 95x63 cm. Tooley. Maps. Very good overall. British Admiralty chart, updated to 1851. Tooley does not record this edition and it is not listed on Trove. Printed by the Admiralty just prior to the discovery of gold, it appears to be similar to 1844 first edition. The only additions so far located appear… Read more about this item

1867. Ephemera. Very good condition. A Victorian telegram form with hand written text, signed by S.W. Smyth. Sent to Mr. Samuel Davis, dated 31st December 1867. Text reads, "Sold twenty Kohmoors (?) ten to eleven /11/ pounds forward five scrip." Mr. S.W. Smyth is recorded as the manager of the Warrior Gold Mining Co., of 3 Eldon Chambers… Read more about this item

Melbourne: Government of the State of Victoria, 1920. Very good condition. Advertising targeted at Americans for emigration to Victoria, Australia. "Some facts about Victoria (UST.) - (A Country which is progressive and prosperous, where Settlers are required and will be gladly welcomed.)" For further information, "apply either personally or by letter to the Land Settlement Agent... c/o Peck… Read more about this item

Melbourne: Hamel & Ferguson, 1867. Print. Very good overall. From Eugene von Guérard's Australian Landscapes 1866-68. Von Guerard is said to have painted the work "at the entrance to Dobson's Gully in the Dandenong's'. The area was the location where Thomas Dobson made his home and established a timber camp. He called it 'Lightwood Gully', the original name… Read more about this item

Melbourne: Hamel & Ferguson, 1867. Print. Plate XVI from Eugene von Guérard's Australian Landscapes 1866-68. The location is now named Budj Bim and is a dormant volcano near Macarthur in southwestern Victoria, Australia. The volcanic history of this part of Victoria is remarkable, and the quarried black volcanic rock is seen throughout buildings & walls. Color lithograph, signed… Read more about this item

Melbourne: Hamel & Ferguson, 1867. Print. Plate II from Eugene von Guérard's Australian Landscapes 1866-68. Gold was discovered in Beechworth, Victoria in 1852, and shortly thereafter along the Ovens River. In the same year, Austrian-born von Guerard arrived in Victoria, Australia, determined to try his luck on the goldfields. Like many, he failed as a miner, but he… Read more about this item

1880. Fine. A page from a photo album of 4 albumen photos, with Lake Wendouree on one side, title and photographer as part of image, hand gilt decorative line around image and title in black and gold below. Verso has 3 images - ALL of Sri Lanka, despite two captioned "Western Australia" and "Aborigines". The third image titled… Read more about this item

Melbourne: Hamel & Ferguson, 1867. Print. Otherwise very good condition. Plate 5 in Eugene von Guérard's Australian Landscapes 1866-68. "The bold and romantic headland which bears this title forms one of the most picturesque "bits" of scenery on the Victorian coast. The rocks have been worn into the most grotesque and fantastic shapes by the action of… Read more about this item

Sydney: Town and Country Journal, 1874. Very good condition. 6 portraits of members of the Victoria State cricket team: Cooper, Cosstick, Gibson, Carr, Laughnan, Conway published in the Town and Country Journal. Woodcut with modern color. 7 x 5 1/2" on newspaper 11 1/2 x 8". Clean on trimmed newspaper page, slt ruffled at top margin not affecting… Read more about this item

Bairnsdale, Victoria: C. Mason, 1893. Very good overall. A handsome set of cabinet cards of the Bairnsdale area. The photographer is "C. Mason & Co., Photographers, Bairnsdale", so printed at the bottom of the cards. The State Library of Victoria holds one cabinet card "Portrait photograph of a young woman" [BIB ID 1804685] with the same card style,… Read more about this item

Melbourne, ca.. Very good condition. A colorful lemon conserve jam label from the H.W. Davidson company with factories in Melbourne and Kalgoorlie. 10 3/4 x 4 3/4", yellow background with white blossoms, pink circular 'good as gold' trademark, and one man handing fresh canned preserves to another, some faint cracks at edges starting.

Victoria, 1898. Very good condition. An indenture for 4 allotments in the township of Keilor, which is now a suburb of Melbourne just west of Tullamarine. The township was a noted camping place for people and bullock teams to and from the gold diggings at Castlemaine, Ballarat and Bendigo. Keilor Post Office opened on 2 March… Read more about this item

Victoria: James Tegg, 1894. Second edition. Good + overall. An extract of one of the most important journeys in Eastern Australia, to find new grazing land and where NSW's western rivers flowed. Ultimately Hovell and Hume found water and grazing land between the Murrumbidgee and the Murray, and established a route for new settlers to follow. With folding… Read more about this item

Melbourne: Robert Brain, Government Printer, 1892. Staplebound. Very good condition. 4to, original tan printed wrappers, complete with 10 b&w lithograph plates unnumbered with accompanying text pages. Original tan printed wrappers. Some very light fox spotting, altogether very clean and bright. Trove 2963753.

Melbourne: John Ferres, Government Printer, 1888. First edition. Wraps. Very good overall. Important work on Australian eucalyptus by Von Mueller (1825 - 1896), director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne. Von Mueller is noted particularly for making the blue gum (Eucalyptus globulus) known all over the world, and introducing it in Europe, North & South Africa, & California. … Read more about this item

London: Fisher Unwin, 1890. Hardcover. Very good condition. Travel work on a visit to Australia by an English journalist, with descriptions of Victoria, New South Wales, South Australia, life at a sheep station, the "larrikin in Australia", Australian wine growing, and emigration information. 8vo, x, 235pp, [1] pp advertisements. Rebound in modern green gilt cloth, new… Read more about this item

London: Colburn & Co, 1852. Hardcover. Good condition. Australian content includes: on Western Australia, zoology (kangaroos), farming, wine growing, New South Wales, gold discoveries, flight to the diggings, geology of the gold fields, Victoria & gold fields, South Australia, Adelaide, and the discoveries of Sturt and Barker. Book plate of the noted Western Australian Paul Hasluck, Australian statesman… Read more about this item

Australia, 1921. Very good condition. Two early glass negatives, one showing two Australian boxers, Micko Walsh and Fred Segar, and the second a portrait of their promoter, Will Young. Walsh (a.k.a. Welsh), a Melbourne resident, was born in 1871, debuted in 1892, and fought as a featherweight. He is listed as fighting 49 bouts and 286 rounds.… Read more about this item