Militaria

  • Government Buildings, Sydney, circa 1875.

    # 37926

    Photographer unknown.

    Government Buildings, Sydney, circa 1875.

    [Title from caption on mount]. Albumen print photograph, 127 x 190 mm, laid down on a 19th-century album page, with manuscript caption in ink to lower margin; slight darkening at corners caused by the original mounting glue, and a short tear at bottom edge, otherwise in very good condition.

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  • Dawes Battery, Sydney, circa 1875.

    # 37921

    Photographer unknown.

    Dawes Battery, Sydney, circa 1875.

    [Title from caption on mount]. Albumen print photograph, 127 x 190 mm, laid down on a 19th-century album page, with manuscript caption in ink to lower margin; slight darkening at corners caused by the original mounting glue, otherwise in very good condition.

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  • Armidale ‘42 Memory and imagination : a survivor’s account

    # 49517

    MADIGAN, Col; SENBERGS, Jan and WATSON, Don

    Armidale ‘42 Memory and imagination : a survivor’s account

    A collaboration between survivor Col Madigan; artist Jan Senbergs; historian Don Watson. Melbourne : Macmillan, 2000. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, pp. 92; (4), illustrated. The ‘HMAS Armidale was sunk by aerial torpedoes on 1 December 1942. One hundred lives were lost. Survivors from the sea returned to Darwin 10 December, 1942’ – the publisher.

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  • Burford's Panorama, Leicester Square. A sublime and beautiful view of Switzerland from Rigi Kulm:

    # 49241

    BURFORD, Robert (1791-1861)

    Burford’s Panorama, Leicester Square. A sublime and beautiful view of Switzerland from Rigi Kulm:

    also a view of the ruins of Pompeii, the city of the dead: and a view of Paris, taken during one of the most important periods of the recent political events. Admission to each view, one shilling, or the three views, half-a-crown. Open from ten till dusk. London : W. J. Holborn, [1849]. Broadside, printed letterpress, …

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  • The opium question and the Northern campaigns : (signed presentation copy)

    # 49291

    NYE, Gideon (1812-1888)

    The opium question and the Northern campaigns : (signed presentation copy)

    including notices of some strictures by reviewers of the former ; and indications of the salient points of the latter, down to the Treaty of Nanking … … Canton : [s.n.], 1875. Large octavo, original printed wrappers with bookseller’s ticket of F. R. Wetmore, Yokohama, (brittle and chipped along edges, as usual), stamp from New …

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  • [MAP] Eastern Turkey in Asia : Alexandretta

    # 48811

    GREAT BRITAIN. WAR OFFICE. INTELLIGENCE DIVISION.

    [MAP] Eastern Turkey in Asia : Alexandretta

    Great Britain : War Office, Intelligence Division, 1915. “Sheet 28. I.D.W.O. no. 1522”. “Lithd. at the Intel. Div. War Office May 1902. Corrected to Nov. 1915”. Colour map, 650 x 820 mm (sheet), linen-backed and folding to 210 x 170 mm; relief shown by form lines and spot heights; fine condition, verso annotated ‘Alexandretta 1/250000 …

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  • With Kuroki in Manchuria

    # 49160

    PALMER, Frederick

    With Kuroki in Manchuria

    London : Methuen, 1904. Methuen’s Colonial Library. Octavo, gilt-lettered red cloth (lightly flecked), frontispiece photograph with tissue guard, pp. viii; 295; [1]; 40 (catalogue), photographic plates, occasional light foxing, a very good copy. An account of the Russo-Japanese War in Manchuria as recounted by a correspondent embedded with Count Kuroki Tamemoto GCMG (黒木 為楨; 3 …

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  • Rand McNally Standard Map of China and Japan

    # 49207

    RAND McNALLY

    Rand McNally Standard Map of China and Japan

    Chicago : Rand McNally, circa 1910. Map, printed in colour, 535 x 670 mm, folded as issued, in letters card wrappers, showing China, Korea (Chosen) and Japan, the verso with an extensive list of place names, a fine example. This scarce map shows Japanese controlled or annexed areas in Chosen (Korea), Taiwan and Karafuto & …

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  • Kultur Cartoons.

    # 49020

    DYSON, Will (1880 - 1938)

    Kultur Cartoons.

    Foreword by H. G. Wells. London : Stanley Paul, and Boston : The Page Company 1915. Folio, illustrated card wrappers (a little edge worn and pale stains), string bound, pp. [6]; 20 leaves each illustrated with a tipped-in Dyson cartoon on brown card. Will Dyson’s satirical cartoons illustrating the Kaiser and Germans during the First …

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  • Carte planisphere de la guerre mondiale "1942"

    # 34603

    Anon.

    Carte planisphere de la guerre mondiale “1942”

    Lille : Imprimerie Industrielle, 1942. Map of the world on Mercator’s projection, printed in colour, old folds as issued, 645 x 990 mm, inset maps of North Africa and South Asia, very good condition. Map of the world showing colonies, possessions and occupied territories during the Second World War.

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  • [PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM] Souvenir of Sinai & Palestine, compiled by Trooper J. Ellis, 7th Light Horse.

    # 41319

    ELLIS, J., Trooper

    [PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM] Souvenir of Sinai & Palestine, compiled by Trooper J. Ellis, 7th Light Horse.

    [Cover title]. [London? : privately published, c.1918]. Oblong folio, 230 x 320 mm; original red cloth over boards, upper board with gilt-lettered title surmounted by the Australian Commonwealth Military Forces badge (also in gilt); front pastedown inscribed in ink ‘Sent by Dr. Goggins’; containing 96 black-and-white gelatin silver prints in uniform 60 x 100 mm format, window-mounted …

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  • [PHILIPPINE REVOLUTION] Album of photographs of the Philippines and Japan, c.1900.

    # 48365

    CHIVI, P.; KIMBEI, Kusakabe, et al

    [PHILIPPINE REVOLUTION] Album of photographs of the Philippines and Japan, c.1900.

    Late nineteenth-century Japanese export lacquerware photograph album, oblong folio (320 x 400 mm), upper board with small loss to mother-of-pearl inlay, leather backstrip worn; original moire pastedowns and endpapers; the album was evidently compiled by a traveller to the Far East around the time of the Philippine Revolution (just after the Spanish-American War), as the …

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  • Document signed by William McKinley, 25th President of the United States of America

    # 48425

    Document signed by William McKinley, 25th President of the United States of America

    The President of the United States of America appointment document, printed on vellum, 435 x 345 mm (window), engraved illustrations, completed in manuscript, appointing Mervyn Chandos Buckey to the position of Second Lieutenant, countersigned by Robert Alger, Secretary of War, dated 7th July, 1897. Seal of the War Office of the United States of America. …

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  • The significance of the Peace Conference from an Australian point of view.

    # 48909

    LATHAM, J. G. (John Greig, Sir)

    The significance of the Peace Conference from an Australian point of view.

    / by J. G. Latham. [Melbourne] : Melville & Mullen, 1920. Octavo (210 x 140 mm), stapled printed wrappers, pp. 24; a very good copy.

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  • Parsons or pumps?

    # 11906

    NICHOLSON, James B. (editor)

    Parsons or pumps?

    Also titled: A souvenir. Melbourne : S. John Bacon, [1943]. Duodecimo, original card wallet with illustration of a boomerang and printed information for postal use, staple bound, pp 79, [1], illustrated, a fine copy. A Christian publication distributed to Australian soldiers during World War II. “The New Edition of ‘A Souvenir’ completes 45,000 copies issued …

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  • Birdwood of Anzac : autograph on card

    # 46793

    BIRDWOOD, William Riddell, Field Marshal, 1st Baron Birdwood (1865-1951)

    Birdwood of Anzac : autograph on card

    Bold signature in black ink on card (87 x 113 mm), ‘Birdwood of Anzac, F.M. / 28 Nov. 50’; accompanied by its original (pre-addressed) mailing envelope endorsed by Birdwood ‘F-M. W. R. Birdwood’; original collector’s typed biographical information on Birdwood to verso; fine condition. Field Marshal William Riddell Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood (1865-1951), was the …

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