Militaria

# 42553

FERRIS, A. J.

When Russia invades Palestine

Or “Zechariah’s End-of-the-age Message to the Anglo-Saxon-Israel Peoples as in Zech. 12 to 14”. London : the author, 1939. First edition. Octavo, illustrated wrappers by J. J. Hall, previous owner’s name in ink on upper wrapper and title page, pp. 100, illustrated with maps and photographs, small edge tears to pp. 91 – 94, a …

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# 41819

HURLEY, Frank (1885-1962)

[WWI] Idiot Corner, Westhoek Ridge, Belgium, 5 November 1917.

Gelatin silver print photograph, 14.5 x 20 cm; verso with the wet stamp of the A.I.F Publications Section, Australia House (London); superb condition. A significant example of the controversial use of montage by Australia’s pre-eminent war photographer, Frank Hurley (1885-1962). From mid 1917 to early September 1918 the Australian photographer and adventurer Frank Hurley, who …

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# 40384

VAN BERCKELAER, Isadore

Studio portrait of a soldier wearing the uniform of a colonial regiment. St. Kilda, Melbourne, late 1860s.

Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 103 x 63 mm (mount); recto and verso imprinted ‘I. Van Berckelaer High Street St. Kilda’; both the print and mount in excellent condition. A full-length portrait of a soldier in the uniform of the Victorian Military Forces. Under magnification, he is clearly wearing the VMF belt buckle with crown at centre …

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# 41512

MOORE-JONES, Horace (1868 - 1922)

Sketches made at Anzac

during the occupation of that portion of the Gallipoli Peninsula by the Imperial Forces. By Sapper H. Moore-Jones N.Z.E.F. 1915. First Series [all published]. London : Hugh Rees Ltd., 1916. Original publisher’s gilt-lettered cloth gatefold portfolio, 360 x 810 mm, edges rubbed and worn, splits along folds, housing ten large format reproductions of panoramic paintings …

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# 41420

[NEILD, John Cash, 1846-1911]

[SYDNEY] A group of personal calling cards collected by politician John Cash Neild of “Greycairn”, Edgecliff Road, Woollahra, 1890s.

Group of 17 (seventeen) lithographically printed calling cards, various dimensions (smallest 40 x 75 mm, largest 57 x 93 mm); a number are annotated, some with PPC (Pour prendre congé, indicating a temporary absence), and several with the name of Major (or Lt. Colonel) Neild; all in good condition, with occasional light marks and toning. A …

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# 41237

ELLIS, J., Trooper

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

[Cover title]. [s.l. : s.n., s.d.]. Photograph album. 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, …

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# 23436

HAZELWOOD, Art

Into Iraq

[San Francisco : Art Hazelwood], 2010. Handmade artist’s book, boards with paper cover illustrated with a linocut, linocut title page, signed and editioned by the artist, 32 linocut illustrations (two are double page), a fine copy. Limited to 30 copies signed by the artist. ‘At the beginning of the Iraq war it seemed like a …

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# 41383

HOOPER, James

Studio portrait of a Private in the Victorian Regular Infantry. Melbourne, circa 1888.

Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 165 x 110 mm (mount); recto of mount with imprint of ‘West End Portrait Parlors, 112 & 114 Victoria Street, West Melbourne. James Hooper, Proprietor.’; a strong print in good condition (some surface scratches in the bottom right corner); the mount is a little darkened from handling. This colonial …

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# 40921

URE SMITH, Sydney (editor)

The Home. Vol. 15, No. 4. April 3rd, 1934

Sydney : Sydney Morning Herald, 1934. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (small wear to spine), pp. 84, a very good copy. This issue includes illustrated articles social life, fashion and art, architecture, house and garden etc., an article ‘The wicked spots of Old Sydney’, articles on interior decoration, a women’s fashion supplement, colour advertisements (including those by …

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# 40784

GELLERT, Leon; URE SMITH, Sydney (editors)

The Home. Vol. 19, No. 3. March 1, 1938

Sydney : John Fairfax, 1939. Quarto, illustrated wrappers by Douglas Annand (small amount of wear to spine), pp. 88, without the removable map of Sydney, a very good copy. This issue includes illustrated articles social life, fashion and art, architecture, house and garden etc., colour advertisements and photographs. ‘Sydney Ure Smith’s ‘The Home’ magazine was …

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# 40783

GELLERT, Leon; URE SMITH, Sydney (editors)

The Home. Vol. 19, No. 1. January 3rd, 1938

Sydney : John Fairfax, 1938. Quarto, illustrated wrappers by Douglas Annand (some light wear along spine), pp. 78, a very good copy. This issue includes illustrated articles on Sydney fashion and society, home and gardens, with numerous photographs and advertisements for Electrolux, Rolex, Hardy Bros, Orient Line, P. & O., etc. ‘Sydney Ure Smith’s ‘The …

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# 40306

BAYLISS, Charles (1850-1897)

Panorama of the Georges Head Battery and Sydney Harbour, looking across to North and South Head, 1874-75.

Two albumen print photographs, in identical 220 x 290 mm format, window-mounted side-by-side to form a contiguous two-part panorama; some light creasing, else very good condition. Two large-format prints forming a panorama of the Georges Head Battery looking east toward the Heads, and capturing the spectacular sweep of the harbour in the middle ground. Bayliss …

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# 39526

HARE, Joseph

[NAPOLEONIC WARS] A captured British sailor’s petition to the prize commissioners at Greenwich Hospital, written at the depot for British prisoners of war at Givet, northeast France in September, 1813.

Manuscript in ink on laid paper, 1 page (240 x 195 mm); headed ‘Depot of British Prisoners at Givet in France, September 6th 1813’, the document is a petition by an imprisoned British naval seaman, Joseph Hare, formerly of HMS Hussar, to the Royal Navy’s prize commissioners at Greenwich Hospital, requesting that the share of …

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# 39391

URE SMITH, Sydney (editor)

The Home. Vol. 15, No. 11. November 1st, 1934

Sydney : Sydney Morning Herald, 1934. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (small wear to spine), pp. 92, a very goof copy. This issue includes illustrated articles social life, fashion and art, architecture, house and garden etc. an article on Melbourne’s cafes, colour advertisements and photographs of Australian capital cities. ‘Sydney Ure Smith’s ‘The Home’ magazine was one …

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# 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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# 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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