Grosvenor Prints

[Railway Station / Adelaide] Genuine original etching limited edition by Fabian Swire (London Artist) / Series three views of South Australia.
[n.d., after 1930.]
Signed etching with original label as issued; 75 x 130mm (3 x 5"). Sheet laid at top in original mount.
A view of the railway station in Adelaide, published as part of Fabian Swire's third series Views of South Australia.
[Ref: 54014] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Western Australian Company, Settlement of Australind. Town Land+Order. no 1680. Order of Choice. Original. [&] Duplicated original.
[1843.]
Unique letterpress contract completed with ink mss. Sheet 520 x 490mm (20½ x 16½"). Creases, wear to edges.
Very early West Australiana item. The 'Original' and 'Duplicate Original' of a land ownership contract, relating to the new settlement of Australind in Western Australia, the third part, the 'Counterpart', was retained by the company. The colony was set up with the intention of breeding horses for the army in India (thus the name Austral-Ind), and plots were sold to investors and prospective settlers in London and elsewhere. By 1841 there were 440 settlers but that year Methodist minister Rev. John Smithies wrote to the Wesleyan Missionary Society in London, ''If any of your friends are thinking of Austral-Ind as a point of emigration tell them to Stop. It is one of the greatest puffs that there has been for some time. I should be sorry if any of our Methodist friends or others should be so deluded as to embark for such a place''. Poor soil, summer droughts and winter deluges meant that by 1875 the settlement was abandoned.
McNair & Rumney: Pioneer Aboriginal Mission, 1981.
[Ref: 54957] £650.00

No. 3 Camp.
135-150 / E. Warner.
[n.d. after 1922]
Signed etching. 125 x 175mm (5 x 7"). Sheet laid at top on original mount. Some toning around edges of the mount.
A very atmospheric view of a settlement in a woodland clearing.
[Ref: 54032] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Lake Camperdown / Victoria. B/7
Stuart E. Wade 13/47.
[n.d. 1920].
Signed etching. 235 x 185mm (9¼ x 7¼"), with large margins. Uncut. Toning.
A view of a lake in Camperdown, a rural town in Southwestern Victoria, Australia.
[Ref: 54029] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Stretch on Back. Bringing in the Milkers.
E. Warner.
[n.d .after 1922]
Signed etching. 180 x 270mm (7 x 11") very large margins.
A landscape of a man on horseback herding a small group of cows. Very atmospheric.
[Ref: 54033] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Sulphur-Crested Cockatoo] The Crested Parrot or Cockatoo.
Eleazar Albin del Jul 28, 1735.
[n.d., c.1735.]
Etching with fine hand colour, 18th century watermark, 250 x 195mm (9¾ x 7¾"), with large margins. Faded.
A Sulphur Crested cockatoo, from Albin's 'A natural history of birds : illustrated with a hundred and one copper plates, curiously engraven from the life', published 1731-8.
[Ref: 54754] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Sulphur-Crested Cockatoo] Petit Kakatoes à hupe jaune.
Dessiné et gravé par Martinet.
[n.d., c.1760.]
Etching with fine hand colour. 265 x 215mm (10½ x 8½"). Small stain on right top. Large margins on 3 sides.
A Sulphur Crested cockatoo, drawn by François-Nicolas Martinet (1731-1800)
[Ref: 54753] £320.00 (£384.00 incl.VAT)

[Psittacus albus cristatus maximus.]
G. Edwards.
[n.d., c.1760.]
Etching with fine hand colour. 230 x 185mm (9 x 7¼"), large margins. Small stain on top centre edge of plate.
A crested cockatoo, from 'Gleanings of Natural History' by George Edwards (1694-1773), who is regarded as 'the father of British ornithology'.
[Ref: 54752] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Erskine Falls / Lorne]. Genuine original etching limited edition by Fabian Swire (London artist) / Series five Subjects and Places of Interest.
[n.d. after 1930].
Signed etching with original label as issued. 130 x 80mm (5 x 3¼") large margins. Sheet laid at top in original mount.
A view of the Erskine Falls in Lorne, published as part of Fabian Swire's fifth series Subjects and Places of Interest.
[Ref: 54021] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Estuary. With best wishes for a happy Xmas.
F. Sidney Walker,
1925.
Signed etching. In ink at bottom of mount "With Best Wishes for a Happy X-Mas 1925"; 90 x 150mm (3½ x 6"), with large margins Sheet laid at top in original mount. Time stained.
A view of an estuary from a wooded hill by Australian artist F. Sidney Walker (1888-1972).
[Ref: 54023] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

An Hieroglyphic Epistle from a (sailor) on board a (ship) (toe) his Sweet(heart).
[Printed 21st October, 1799, by Laurie & Whittle, N° 53 Fleet Street, London.]
Engraving. Sheet 340 x 230mm (13½ x 9"). Trimmed, losing publication line, laid on album paper, glue stains.
A supposed letter partly written in symbols (a Rhymed Rebuser), for example a wind-head for wind, a bee for the letter 'b', and a 't' and a hat for 'that'. Other graphics are more symbolic, for example an anchor for 'hope', a very popular tattoo for sailors. These symbols were used as tattoos by sailors all over the world and as well as convicts transported to Australia.
BM 9505. Simon Barnard's 'Convict Tattoos: Marked Men & Women of Australia.
[Ref: 55073] £320.00

Abstract of the Title of John Bevan Junior to 11 acres and 2¼ perches of land situate at Field of Mars near Paramatta in the colony of New South Wales. [&] Warrent of Title of John M Macey and Sarah Anne Macey [crossed out] to certain lands and heredetainments at Peuuaut Hills
31st May 1880.
Two documents: 4pp, ink mss, pinned, sheets 420 x 345mm (16½ x 13½"); and 17pp, ink mss. pinned, sheets 420 x 345mm (16½ x 13½").
Two early documents relating to land ownership in New South Wales. One relates to John Bevan (1828-1900).
[Ref: 54960] £580.00 view all images for this item

Assignment of Lease of Kohurau Block No.1. From Hon. G. O. Waterhouse
Dated 23rd day of July 1883.
Mss, 4pp. with mss. map and tax stamp.
A land lease document for a plot of land of over 10,000 acres, near Kurow in the Waitaki District, New Zealand.
[Ref: 54936] £450.00

Memorandum of Transfer... [mss names] , being enrolled on the Court Rolls of the Native Land Court, of the District of Otaki, in the Provincial District of Wellington, as the owners, according to Native custom, of all that pieces of Land situate at or near Otaki, in the aforesaid District, known by the name of Ngakaroro.
[23rd of November 1886.]
Letterpress and ink mss on vellum, 2pp. with mss. map and tax stamps.
A record of the purchase of land of 359 acres from Maori (signed by over 10) by James Gear (1838?-1911) and Isabella Ling (1829-1921), for the grazing of cattle. Gear, a butcher, had purchased the butchery business of Benjamin Ling in 1868, although Ling seems to have retained an interest in the business, which he passed onto his widow when he died in 1881.
[Ref: 54937] £650.00

[The Foreshore / Lorne] Genuine original etching limited edition by Fabian Swire (London Artist) / Series One Views of Victoria.
1934-5.
Signed etching, with original label as issued. 85 x 140mm (3½ x 5½"), with margins. Letterpress souvenir of Melbourne & centenary edition on reverse Sheet laid at top in original mount. Stain in the centre at the top of the mount.
A view of shore from the seaside town Lorne, in the Victoria state, published as part of Fabian Swire's first series Views of Victoria. The souvenir slip attached to the back of the mount celebrates 100 years since the city of Melbourne was founded, in August 1835.
[Ref: 54016] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Collins St. / Melbourne]. Genuine original etching limited edition by Fabian Swire (London artist) / Series five Subjects and Places of Interest.
[n.d. after 1930].
Signed etching with original label as issued.130 x 75mm (5 x 3"), with margins. Sheet laid at top in original mount. Slight foxing below signature.
A view of Collins Street, which runs through the centre of Melbourne, published as part of Fabian Swire's fifth series Subjects and Places of Interest.
[Ref: 54019] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

City of Melbourne, Capital of Australia Felix. Founded June 1837. No. 2. Native Woman. Bushman. Native Black. Roughing it out. - I say Jack when did you put off your Clothes? Not for this last Fortnight!!
[drawn by John Adamson.]
[Glasgow, Maclure & MacDonald, 1840.]
Scarce lithograph. Sheet 235 z 175mm (9¼ x 7"). Trimmed, losing map of Melbourne underneath, creases. Damaged.
A rare broadsheet with a prospect of Melbourne before it became a city, three half-length portraits of local residents and a satire of European bushmen.
State Library of Victoria H95.183.
[Ref: 55049] £450.00

Along the Murrumbidgee. N.S.W. Trial Proof. D.
F. Sidney Walker
1924.
Signed etching. 125 x 150mm (5 x 6"), with large margins. Minor toning.
A view of the Murrumbidgee River by Australian artist F. Sidney Walker (1888-1972).
[Ref: 54025] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Parish of Wallendoon, County of Harden : Land Districts of Young & Cootamundry.
Compiles, Drawn and Printed at the Department of Lands, Sydney N.S.W. Feb.y 1899.
Rare lithographic map. Sheet 520 x 620mm (20½ x 24½"). Folded as issued.
A land ownership map of the environs of Wallendbeen, near Cootamundra, New South Wales.
[Ref: 54958] £260.00

New South Wales. [Land Grant.] A. Land Purchase.
[1881]
Letterpress & ink mss on parchment, with tax stamp and wax seal. Sheet 500 x 340mm (19¾ x 13¼"). Wax seal crumbling.
A deed for a property on the corner of Myall Street & Alma Street, Walgett, bought by Alexander Patterson.
[Ref: 54959] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Parliament House.
52-100 / E. Warner.
[n.d. after 1922]
Signed etching. 135 x 230mm (5¼ x 9"), with large margins. Fragile sheet. Some minor creasing. Toning.
A view of Parliament House. Edward Warner (Australian 1879-1968)
[Ref: 54028] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

The Augean Stables. Rattlesnake or Adelaide Punch No. 1.
JH [monogram].
[Adelaide: Haddrick and East] Thursday, January 24, 1878.
Lithograph. 275 x 425mm (10¾ x 16¾"). Trimmed, losing explanatory title, split in centre fold repaired, laid on archival tissue.
An allegorical figure of Adelaide thanks Hercules (holding a theatrical mask over his face), for cleaning out the ghostly figures of 'Fever', 'Contagion' and 'Malaria', referring to 'Mr Clark' and asks if he can help to get rid of another nuisance. A bearded man, possibly journalist John Howward Clark (1830-78), sits to one side. Unfortunately a second, explanatory title has been lost. An extremely rare satire from the first issue of the 'Rattlesnake or Adelaide Punch', a fortnightly Australian humorous magazine. It survived for only a few issues, before failing and being taken over by the printers, Scrymgour and Sons. Renamed 'The Adelaide Punch', it lasted until 1884.
[Ref: 54813] £260.00

Beaumont Read.
[Illegible artist's signature.]
Hopewood & Crew, 42 New Bond St. W. [n.d., c.1870.]
Tinted lithograph. Trimmed in oval, 225 x 190mm (8¾ x 7½"). Trimmed from larger sheet, slight spotting.
Beaumont Read (1833-1910), an American singer said to be the greatest male alto singer to appear on the Australian stage. Having been a member of ''Hague’s Georgia Slave Troupe'' (when it included white performers), he came to Australia via South Africa in 1874. After a failed attempt to run a photographic business in Melbourne he became a huge star with ''Hiscocks' Federal Minstrals'' in the 1880s. Read retired in 1903 and moved to Adelaide where he taught singing. This portrait is probably from the cover of sheet music.
[Ref: 54804] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Shrine of Remembrance / Melbourne]. Genuine original etching limited edition by Fabian Swire (London artist) / Series five Subjects and Places of Interest.
[n.d. after 1930].
Signed etching with original label as issued. 85 x 115mm (3¼ x 4½"), with margins. Sheet laid at top in original mount.
A view of the Shrine of Remembrance, a grand war memorial erected in 1934 in Melbourne, published as part of Fabian Swire's fifth series Subjects and Places of Interest.
[Ref: 54020] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[St. Peter's Cathedral / Adelaide] Genuine original etching limited edition by Fabian Swire (London Artist) / Series three views of South Australia.
[n.d., after 1934.]
Signed etching, with original label as issued. 75 x 130mm (3 x 5"), with margins. Sheet laid at top in original mount.
A view of St. Peter's Cathedral in Adelaide, founded in 1869, published as part of Fabian Swire's third series Views of South Australia.
[Ref: 54015] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Sidney in Neu-Holland. Pl. 14.
J. Rothmüller del.t. Lith. de Engelmann et Cie.
[After Lesueur n.d., c.1830.]
Lithograph. Sheet 200 x 260mm (8 x 10¼").
A view of Sydney from the harbour.
[Ref: 54750] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Ansicht von Sidney von der Südseite, und er Mündung des Parramatta Fluesses. Taf. 2.
[after C.A. Lesueur.]
[Germany, c.1810.]
Engraving, 18th century watermark; 160 x 320mm (6¼ x 12½"). Folds and creases as normal.
A view of Sydney Cove with the camp of the French Baudin expedition on the foreshore and an aborigine camp to the left. It was published in a German edition of the official account of the Baudin voyage.
[Ref: 54751] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Pitt St. Sydney. / N.S.W]. Genuine original etching limited edition by Fabian Swire (London artist) / Series Two Views of North South Wales.
[n.d. after 1930].
Signed etching with original label as issued. 75 x 130mm (3 x 5"), with margins. Sheet laid at top in original mount. Light foxing
A view of busy Pitt Street, currently a major street in Sydney's business district, published as part of Fabian Swire's second series Views of North South Wales.
[Ref: 54018] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Sunshine + Cloud B/4.
Stuart E. Wade 13/4.
[n.d., c.1920.]
Signed etching. 235 x 170mm (9¼ x 6¾"), with large margins. Good condition.
View of a yacht sailing.
[Ref: 54030] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[The Yarra / Melbourne]. Genuine original etching limited edition by Fabian Swire (London Artist) / Series One Views of Victoria.
[n.d. after 1930].
Signed etching, with original label as issued. 85 x 125mm (3¼ x 5") with margins. Sheet laid at top in original mount. Slight printer's crease on left margin.
A view of the Yarra River, which flows from the Yarra Ranges and through Greater Melbourne, published as part of Fabian Swire's first series Views of Victoria.
[Ref: 54017] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

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