Militaria
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# 37959
GELLERT, Leon, URE SMITH, Sydney (editors)
The Home. Vol. 18, No. 10. October 1st, 1937
Sydney : John Fairfax, 1937. Quarto, illustrated wrappers by Douglas Annand (small amount of wear to spine), pp. 92, a fine copy. Australian Capital Cities Number. This issue includes illustrated articles social life, fashion and art, architecture, house and garden etc. colour advertisements and photographs of Australian capital cities. ‘Sydney Ure Smith’s ‘The Home’ magazine …
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# 37957
GELLERT, Leon, URE SMITH, Sydney (editors); PRESTON, Margaret
The Home. Vol. 20, No. 11. November 1, 1939
Sydney : John Fairfax, 1939. Quarto, illustrated wrappers by Lee (small amount of wear to spine), pp. 68, a very good copy. This issue includes illustrated articles social life, fashion and art, architecture, house and garden etc. horse racing, road racing, military matters (with a double fold out illustration of an aircraft carrier), colour advertisements …
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# 37958
GELLERT, Leon, URE SMITH, Sydney (editors)
The Home. Vol. 18, No. 3. March 1, 1937
Sydney : John Fairfax, 1937. Quarto, illustrated wrappers by Lee (spine chipped with some paper loss, crease and tear to lower wrapper); pp. 92, illustrations throughout (some colour); large section of pages 75-76 excised, light water stain to last 20 pages. This issue includes illustrated articles social life, fashion and art, architecture, house and garden etc., …
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![[GALLIPOLI] An improvised On Active Service postcard handwritten on a souvenired Ottoman Turkish soap packet, sent home from Gallipoli by a New Zealand infantryman in June 1915.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/08/19101935/2022_DSFB_5064.jpg)
# 36664
[GALLIPOLI] An improvised On Active Service postcard handwritten on a souvenired Ottoman Turkish soap packet, sent home from Gallipoli by a New Zealand infantryman in June 1915.
Section of cardboard cut from a Turkish soap packet, approx. 90 x 140 mm (slightly irregular), the verso with handwritten message in violet pencil headed ‘Post Card / On Active Service / June 5th’, addressed to the sender’s aunt, Mrs S. S. Clarke in Ponsonby, Auckland, New Zealand, with ‘INFANTRY BRIGADE/FIELD/10JU15/POST OFFICE/NZ DIVISION’ circular date …
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# 37242
DEAN, Arthur and Eric W. GUTTERIDGE
The Seventh Battalion, A.I.F. : resume of the activities of the Seventh Battalion in the Great War, 1914-1918
/ by Arthur Dean [and] Eric W. Gutteridge. Melbourne : A. Dean and E.W. Gutteridge (printed by W. & K. Purbrick Pty Ltd), 1933. First edition. Octavo (220 mm), original maroon buckram over boards, spine lettered in gilt; two-colour title page with the battalion’s colour patch reproduced, 190 pp., [3] b/w plates, 7 maps; nominal …
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# 37227
FRY, Gavin
Nolan’s Gallipoli
Adelaide: Rigby, 1983. Folio, green cloth over boards in dust jacket, 118 pages illustrated in colour, a good copy.
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# 37160
BEAN, C. E. W. (1879 - 1968)
Flagships three
London : Alston Rivers, 1915. Cheap edition. Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth (edges lightly rubbed), bookplate to endpaper, pp. xvi; 339, illustrated. The development of the Australian navy. A very good copy.
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![[GOLD RUSH; EUREKA REBELLION] Mr. B. S. Hassall. Claim for compensation. With copies of evidence, &c. Return to Address, Mr. Humffray, 21st February, 1856.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/08/12104111/2022_DSFB_4831-300x300.jpg)
# 36448
VICTORIA. LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
[GOLD RUSH; EUREKA REBELLION] Mr. B. S. Hassall. Claim for compensation. With copies of evidence, &c. Return to Address, Mr. Humffray, 21st February, 1856.
Melbourne : John Ferres, Government printer, 1856. Foolscap folio, 3 pp; fine. Benden Sherral Hassall, publican of the London Hotel, Ballarat, was shot in the leg by soldiers after giving them directions to the Government Camp on the night of 28 November 1854.
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![[GOLD RUSH; EUREKA REBELLION] Ballaarat Riots. Expenses of Troops and Police. Return to Address. Mr. Wheeler, 17th January, 1856.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/08/12104121/2022_DSFB_4835-300x300.jpg)
# 36446
VICTORIA. LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
[GOLD RUSH; EUREKA REBELLION] Ballaarat Riots. Expenses of Troops and Police. Return to Address. Mr. Wheeler, 17th January, 1856.
Laid upon the Council table by the Chief Secretary, by command of His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, and Ordered by the Council to be printed, 17th March, 1856. Melbourne : John Ferres, Government printer, 1856. Foolscap folio, 6 pp; fine. Provides a detailed breakdown of the government’s expenditure on enforcing law and order …
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![[GOLD RUSH; EUREKA REBELLION] Gold Fields correspondence. Letter of Lieutenant Colonel Valiant. Laid upon the Council table by the Colonial Secretary, by Command of His Excellency the Lieutenant Governor, and Ordered by the Council to be printed, 18th October, 1853.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/08/12104135/2022_DSFB_4841-300x300.jpg)
# 36443
VICTORIA. LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
[GOLD RUSH; EUREKA REBELLION] Gold Fields correspondence. Letter of Lieutenant Colonel Valiant. Laid upon the Council table by the Colonial Secretary, by Command of His Excellency the Lieutenant Governor, and Ordered by the Council to be printed, 18th October, 1853.
Melbourne : John Ferres, Government printer, 1854. Foolscap folio, 2 pp; fine. Officer commanding the Troops in Victoria, Lt. Col. Thomas Valiant’s letter advising of reinforcements for the detachment of the 40th Regiment on the Sandhurst (Bendigo) gold fields, because of the threat of disturbances by miners. These extra troops have been brought from Melbourne …
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# 34601
[BIRDWOOD, William Riddell, Field Marshal, 1st Baron Birdwood, 1865-1951]; BIRDWOOD, Christopher Bromhead, 2nd Baron Birdwood, 1899-1962 (compiler)
Birdwood family scrapbook relating to the military service of Field Marshal William Riddell Birdwood (Commander of ANZAC) and his son, Major Christopher Bromhead Birdwood (Aide-de-Camp, Australian Corps). Gallipoli, Western Front and India, 1915-1930.
An important archive containing approximately 50 items of manuscript and printed ephemera (letters, maps, documents and photographs) pertaining to the military service of Field Marshal William Birdwood (1865-1951), commander of ANZAC at Gallipoli in the Great War, and of his son Christopher Bromhead Birdwood (1899-1962), who acted as the Field Marshal’s Aide-de-Camp in France while …
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# 36039
LINDSAY, Norman; FULLERTON, Peter
Norman Lindsay war cartoons, 1914-1918
/ edited and with a commentary by Peter Fullerton. Carlton, Vic. : Melbourne University Press, 1983. Large quarto, brown cloth boards with pictorial dustjacket (spine slightly sunned, a couple of short edge tears, a small stain on upper wrapper), 251 pp, illustrated in black and white, 4 colour plates, a very good copy. Lindsay’s World War …
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# 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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# 33819
JACKSON, Gladys (1881 - ?)
Under the banyan. (Signed presentation copy)
Hong Kong : privately printed, 1925. Octavo, lettered flushcut cloth wrappers (lightly stained and edge worn), presentation inscription to the front free endpaper ‘To Blanch and George, with best Xmas wishes from Gladys. 166, The Peak, Hong Kong. Dec. 1926.’ pp. [iv]; iv; [ii]; 114, light foxing to preliminaries else very good. Includes a number …
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# 33114
SPURLING, Stephen (1821-1892); BAILY, Henry Hall (1839-1896)
Studio portraits of five officers of the Russian naval corvette “Boyarin”. Hobart, May-June 1870.
Five albumen print photographs in carte de visite format, mount sizes 101 x 63 mm (1) and 105 x 63 mm (4); one with the back mark of H. H. Baily, Hobart and four with the back mark of S. Spurling, Hobart; the versos have fully contemporary inscriptions written in ink or pencil, identifying the …
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# 33027
PARER, Damien Peter (1912-1944)
During the advance on Salamaua Sergeant Gordon Raymond Charles Ayre MM … in pouring rain assists a wounded mate, Private William Oswald Wallace Johnson….
[New Guinea, 1943]. Black-and-white press photograph on glossy paper, 205 x 295 mm, with editor’s markings by a staff member of the San Francisco Examiner (?); verso with pasted-on cutting from the newspaper issue in which it was printed (with Associated Press Wirephoto credit), stamped Oct 23 1943, below it the wet stamp ‘Received Examiner Reference Library Oct …