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# 22696

GELLERT, Leon (editor)

The Home. Vol. 22, No. 3. March 1, 1941

Sydney : John Fairfax, 1941. Quarto, illustrated wrappers by Douglas Annand (small amount of wear to spine), pp. 64, a fine copy. This wartime issue includes contributions from Hugh McCrae, Harry Tatlock Miller, Myra Morris, Donald Friend, with numerous illustrations, photographs, advertisements etc. ‘Sydney Ure Smith’s ‘The Home’ magazine was one of the most sophisticated …

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# 22693

GELLERT, Leon, URE SMITH, Sydney (editors); PRESTON, Margaret

The Home. Vol. 20, No. 10. October 2, 1939

Sydney : John Fairfax, 1939. Quarto, illustrated wrappers by Hinder (small amount of wear to spine), pp. 72, a fine copy. This issue includes illustrated articles social life, fashion and art, architecture, house and garden etc. horse racing, military aviation, colour advertisements and photographs. ‘Sydney Ure Smith’s ‘The Home’ magazine was one of the most …

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# 22700

GELLERT, Leon (editor)

The Home. Vol. 21, No. 2. February 1, 1940

Sydney : John Fairfax, 1940. Quarto, illustrated wrappers by John Lee (small amount of wear to spine), pp. 68, a fine copy. This wartime issue includes articles on Sydney fashion, society, house and garden, furniture and interiors, with numerous illustrations, photographs, advertisements etc. ‘Sydney Ure Smith’s ‘The Home’ magazine was one of the most sophisticated …

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# 19085

Anon.

[NEW SOUTH WALES] Roll of deaths in the 50th (Queen’s Own) Regiment of Foot from April 1841 to May 1843

[Drop title] Nominal Roll of of Men who have become Non Effective Since the Regiment left New South Wales, up to the 1 May 1843, Cawnpore, 1843. Manuscript in ink on pale blue wove paper, folio (340 x 205 mm), 2 bifolia written on [6] sides in a neat clerical hand, manuscript column rules; a …

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# 18916

NETTLETON, Charles (1826-1902), attributed

The Victoria Volunteer Engineers in camp near Melbourne, 1871

Albumen print photograph, 200 x 270 mm, no photographer’s imprint; laid down on its original album page, contemporary manuscript caption in ink beneath image ‘Victoria Engineer Volunteers [sic] in Camp near Melbourne 1871’; verso blank; the albumen print is in fine condition, and the page is free from foxing. This large format composition shows the …

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# 16645

CUSHING, C.; EVARTS, W.M; WAITE, M.R., et al.

[CSS SHENANDOAH] Two parliamentary papers concerning the British involvement in the American Civil War

Two contemporary official documents relating to Britain’s support of the Confederacy during the American Civil War (1861-1865), and accounts of the actions of British built warships, including the Confederate raider Shenandoah and its controversial stopover in Melbourne. (1) North America. No. 12 (1872). Argument of the United States delivered to the tribunal of arbitration at Geneva, …

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# 16492

PROUTIERE, Réné

[CRIMEAN WAR] Manuscript compiled by a French cotton merchant and soldier, 1852-54.

Unbound manuscript in ink on laid paper, large octavo (200 x 150 mm), original stitching, first page with owner’s inscription ‘Cahier de coton de 1852 et 1853. Monsieur Proutière Réné, soldat au 35eme de ligne 1er Bataillon 4ème Compagnie, à Inkermann (Crimée) armée D’orient Inkermann’; [9] pages of accounts relating to the purchase and sale of …

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# 14772

OLDMAN, William O. (1879-1949)

[POLYNESIA] Illustrated Catalogue of Ethnographical Specimens, Eastern Arms &c.

Issued by W.O. Oldman, 77, Brixton Hill, London, S.W. November 1904. No. 20. Octavo, original printed wrappers, pp 2 (brief descriptions of 69 items), followed by 2 photographic plates (tissue guards intact) illustrating all items; a fine copy. Scarce original sales catalogue of the renowned early ethnographic dealer W.O. Oldman. Includes artefacts from New Zealand …

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# 14775

OLDMAN, William O. (1879-1949)

[GILBERT ISLANDS] Illustrated Catalogue of Ethnographical Specimens.

Issued by W.O. Oldman, 77, Brixton Hill, London, S.W. September 1905. No. 30. Octavo, original printed wrappers (detached), pp 2 (brief descriptions of 37 items), followed by 2 tipped-in silver gelatin photographs, illustrating most items. Scarce original sales catalogue of the renowned early ethnographic dealer W.O. Oldman. Includes 11 artefacts from the Gilbert Islands, among …

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# 14777

OLDMAN, William O. (1879-1949)

[SOUTH AMERICA] Illustrated Catalogue of Ethnographical Specimens.

Issued by W.O. Oldman, 77, Brixton Hill, London, S.W. October 1905. No. 31. Octavo, original printed wrappers (edges a little chipped), pp 2 (brief descriptions of 36 items), followed by 2 tipped-in silver gelatin photographs, illustrating most items. Scarce original sales catalogue of the renowned early ethnographic dealer W.O. Oldman. Includes 36 artefacts from India …

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# 14779

OLDMAN, William O. (1879-1949)

[NEW HEBRIDES] Illustrated Catalogue of Ethnographical Specimens.

Issued by W.O. Oldman, 77, Brixton Hill, London, S.W. July, 1905. No. 28. Octavo, original printed wrappers (detached), pp 2 (brief descriptions of 30 items), followed by 2 tipped-in silver gelatin photographs, illustrating all items. Scarce original sales catalogue of the renowned early ethnographic dealer W.O. Oldman. Includes 15 artefacts from the Naga hill tribes …

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# 5668

[GEORGE III]

[MARITIME] Manuscript documents relating to the prize San Cristoforo, captured by HMS Anson, 1804

The Spanish ship San Cristoforo was captured in the Mediterranean by HMS Anson, under the command of William Cracraft, on December 8 1804. She was carrying a cargo of hides and other products from Montevideo in the New World and was bound for Barcelona. The Anson was at the time acting independently of the rest …

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# 11904

NICHOLSON, James B. (editor)]

Parsons or pumps?

Also titled: A souvenir. Sydney : The Central Press Pty. Ltd., [between 1939 and 1945]. Duodecimo, original card wallet with illustration of a boomerang and printed information for postal use, staple bound, pp 79, [1], a very good copy. A Christian publication distributed to Australian soldiers during World War II. “If you are sending this …

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# 10403

AUSTRALIAN NEWS AND INFORMATION BUREAU.

Maralinga atomic testing ground

Canberra : Australian News and Information Bureau, 1957. Two press photographs, black and white prints on glossy printing out paper, each 165 x 215 mm, versos with typed labels date stamped April 2, 1957, with Australian Government propaganda about the preparation for a series of tests which would be carried out later in 1957. Both …

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# 10402

UNITED PRESS [Photographer unknown]

Atomic bomb test, Monte Bello Islands, Western Australia, 1952

Cleveland, Ohio : United Press, 1952. Press photograph, black and white print on glossy printing out paper, 155 x 230 mm, verso with typed label: ‘Monte Bello, Australia: Britain’s first atomic weapon test is held in the Monte Bello Islands, fifty miles off the northwest coast of Australia, October 3. Thirty minutes after the explosion …

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# 11039

VICTORIA. PARLIAMENTARY PAPER. [PELHAM-CLINTON, Henry, 5th Duke of Newcastle, 1811-1864; BARKLY, Sir Henry, 1815-1898]

War with America.

Copy of a Despatch from the Secretary of State relative to the disposal of the Naval Forces of Great Britain in the event of War, and urging the completeion of certain measures of Defence required in this Colony ; also intimating that the Trops sent to New Zealand shall be forthwith returned. Presented to both …

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