b'16411471147 1150ANSON BROTHERS Tasmanian scenes, c.1880s.AUGUSTINE E. DYER - BRITISH NEW GUINEATwenty-two albumen paper prints, with manuscriptFifteen original albumen photographs, taken during the captions, mounted in a small blue album with gilt cover titleExpedition of the Australian Squadron to south-east New Tasmanian Scenes. By Anson Bros., Guinea, October - December 1884. Dyer was the Australian includes detailed images of Port Arthur;Government Printing Office photographer who went to British mainly 10 x 14cm approx. New Guinea with John Paine (a studio photographer), for the $8001,200 purpose of recording the British annexation of the territory. He travelled more extensively with Paine in 1884 through PNG 1148 visiting Port Moresby, Motu-Motu, Kerepunu, South Cape, Dinner Island and Teste Island.Tuttle & Co. Views of New South Wales: ornate(15) all approx. 23 x 29cm.folio, circa 1880, containing 25 photogravure plates, each depicting a building or scene in Sydney andPROVENANCENew South Wales; each plate is captioned; the images approx.Thomas H. Knott, fleet surgeon, H.M.S. Nelson; Melbourne. 15 x 10cm or 10 x 15cm. Overall, the folio is 25 x 17cm. (Launched in 1876 and completed in 1881. She sailed for the $400600Australia Station after commissioning and became the flagship there in 1885. Knott joined the Nelson in June 1881.Other images taken by the photographers Dyer and 1149 Paine can be found in the book Narrative of the Circa 1880 carte-de-visite size albumen paper print laid downExpedition of the Australian Squadron to the south-east on backing card, depicting four men on horseback, a man on acoast of New Guinea, October to December 1884 by horse & cart, a man kneeling with a dog, all in front of a new(?)Commodore James E. Erskine. [Sydney: Thomas Richards, home, with the ladies posing on the front verandah.Government Printer, 1885].Overall 61 x 102mm. $1,0001,500 $100150 1152'