[TASMANIA] Apple picking at Glenora by BEATTIE, John Watt (1859-1930)

Paperback. Fine. softcover

Beatties Studio, Hobart 1990. 23.0 x 26.0cms (landscape), 64pp, b/w illusts, very good paperback & cover (stain on back cover) These photograp[hs are stored in the Beatties Photography Museum, Muray Street Hobart

South Melbourne: Macmillan Australia, 1981. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 255mm x 260mm. Jacket has moderate wear and some sunning. No tears. Signature to half-title page, otherwise internally very clean. Binding tight. 156pp.

MacMillan, 1981. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. cm tear to sunfaded dj at spine

The Macmillan Company, Melbourne, Australia. 1981. First Edition. DW. Landscape 4to. Illustrated. Board extremities rubbed. Contents clean. Wrapper soiled and partially faded o/w VG/VG-. ISBN: 0333337379

Macmillan. PAPERBACK. 0333337379 1st Edition 1981 MacMillan Publishing. Book is in very good condition, dustcover has a little edge wear but still in very good condition. Customer service is our #1 priority. We sell great books at great prices with super fast shipping and free tracking. . Fine.

[Sydney, NSW; Hobart, Tasmania & New York: Beatties Studio; Photographers Photo Service, ca. 1927-1934]. Two vols. Thick oblong folio. 13.5 x 10.25 x 2 in. [200; 170 pp (unpaginated).], on thick black paper stock. With 197 silver gelatin photographs all tipped-in, nearly all w/ typescript mimeograph captions mounted below, or alongside, sized from 5 x 7 in. up to 8 x 10 in. (most sized 8 x 10 in.), all printed on glossy photo stock, some on thicker heavier weight, most w/ pencil annotations, typescript, or imprints on verso, a few w/ photographer’s imprint w/in negative at lower fore-edge, others w/ embossed armorial photo studio stamp of kangaroo on shield. Uniformly bound in contemporary black pebbled flexible shagreen, nested steel backed post-binders, black brass screw-posts at gutter margin (chipping, edgewear to covers, some scuffing, spine leather covering perished, occasional closed tears & chipping to some leaves, light faint previous mounting offsetting, occasional soiling or slight… Read More

Wellington Bridge, Hobart, Australia: Anson Brothers Firm; John Watt Beattie, 1900. Folio albums. Sizes: (9 1/4 x 12 inches) 24 ff.; (14 x 17 inches) 68 ff.; (14 x 17 inches) 40 ff. Image Sizes: (5 3/4 x 8 inches); (10 x 13 inches). 100 photographs in 3 albums. First is 48 albumen photographs mounted recto verso on thick paper, all but two with manuscript titles in ink or pencil underneath photographs. "Anson's Photographs" label printed in black on inside front cover. Pencil signature of "John L [indecipherable]" on front flyleaf. Second is 32 albumen photographs, most with white titling on front of photographs. "T. Keig, Photographer" bookplate label on inside back cover. Third is 20 albumen photographs with white titling on most. First volume with original publisher's binding half-bound in black Morocco with gilt tooling, brown cloth boards with embossed gilt titles, ornament, and edges. Second and third volumes half-bound in black Morocco with blue boards and gilt letters, ruling, bands, and… Read More

Beautifully bound album with a magnificent collection of 32 original photographs of Tasmania, made by John Watt Beattie (1859-1930) at the end of the 19th century. Beattie arrived in Tasmania in 1879 as an amateur dry-plate photographer of scenic views. He began to work with the Anson Brothers in 1882. In 1892, Beattie bought out the Anson Brothers' very large collection of large format studio portraits and negatives. The photographs include 10 views of Hobart and surroundings (including a view from the bay, a photograph of an original sketch by an eye-witness: "The first days of Hobart, Collins Camp, Sullivan's Cove, Feb. 1804", Elizabeth Street, Cathedral, Bellerive), Mount Wellington with hunter, Mount Ida, Lake St. Clair (3), Mount Byron & Cuvier, giant eucalyptus giant, cedar trees on way to Great Lake, Mount King William, from track to Arrowsmith, Track to Fern Tree Bower, forest views, Mount Olympus from Laura Creek, King Williams Pines, Lake Marion, Garrs Tree Hill track, Hartz Mountains, etc.… Read More