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# 17284

GENERAL FOODS CORPORATION

Chocolate cookery

New York : General Foods Corporation, 1929. Third printing. Tall octavo, pictorial wrappers, staple bound, 36 pp, photographic and small black-and-white illustrations; a fine copy.

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# 11016

[TAHITI; MISSIONS] Saturday Magazine. No. 87. November 9th, 1833.

London : John William Parker, West Strand, 1833. Quarto, disbound, 8 pp, printed in double columns, a fine copy. Includes the third part of an article titled Polynesia, an account of the first missionaries in Tahiti (five columns; with woodcuts of a Hawaiian burial ground and an outrigger canoe).

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# 26915

STONE-WIGG, Montagu, Right Reverend

[NEW GUINEA; MISSIONS] The Papuans : a people of the South Pacific.

By the Right Rev. Montagu John Stone-Wigg, M.A. (Bishop of New Guinea, 1898-1909). With later additions by the Right Rev. Henry Newton, D.D. (Bishop of New Guinea, 1922- ). Sydney : Australian Board of Missions, 1933. Second edition. Octavo, original printed paper wrappers, stapled, slightly worn, pp 76, photographic frontispiece and 3 full-page photographic illustrations, full-page …

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# 18308

CUMMINGS, J.A.

School atlas to Cummings’ Ancient & Modern Geography

Boston : Cummings and Hilliard, [c.1820]. Sixth edition. Octavo, printed wrappers, double page folding world map, double page maps of North America, the United States, South America, Europe, Britain, Asia and Africa, outline hand colour, occasional toning but very good.

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# 16856

KERSTEN, Wim; OUDSHOORN, G.

[OCEANIC ART] Kunst uit Nieuw Guinea

Amsterdam : Museum Fodor, 1963. Small quarto, pictorial wrappers (lightly marked), 24 pp, illustrated with black-and-white photographic plates; a good copy. Catalogue produced for Museum Fodor’s exhibition of objects from the astonishing private collection of Peter Kohler, Ascona (Switzerland), staged from 22 May to 30 June 1963. It features many sculptural masterpieces from the Sepik, …

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# 51552

MILLER, Harry Tatlock

Manuscripts : a miscellany of art and letters : no. 2.

Geelong, Vic. : at the Bookshop [H. Tatlock Miller, proprietor], [1932]. Quarto, pictorial card wrappers designed by A.N. Baldwinson (a few light marks), 134 pp (edges with light foxing), illustrated. This issue printed in an edition of 750 copies. Harry Tatlock Miller edited and published this important quarterly journal of Australian art and literature between …

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# 51551

MILLER, Harry Tatlock

Manuscripts : a miscellany of art and letters : no. 4. February 1933

Geelong, Vic. : at the Bookshop [H. Tatlock Miller, proprietor], 1934. Quarto, pictorial card wrappers designed by A.N. Baldwinson (a few light marks), 73 pp (edges with light foxing), illustrated. Harry Tatlock Miller edited and published this important quarterly journal of Australian art and literature between 1931 and 1935. Lacking the resources to print illustrations …

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# 51311

BERTIE, Charles H.

[MARGARET PRESTON] Sydney streets

Sydney : Art in Australia Ltd., 1928. Octavo, orange card covers, with a Preston woodcut reproduced on the front panel (a couple of small stains), title page reproducing Margaret Preston woodcut of St. Philip’s Church, [10] pp text, [10] leaves with tipped-in sepia-tone plates of Harold Cazneaux photographs, etchings by E. Warner and J.C. Goodchild, …

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# 44384

FEINT, Adrian

The Home Annual

Sydney : Art in Australia, 1st October, 1932. Quarto, illustrated wrappers by Adrian Feint (staples rusted), pp. 66, illustrated with fine reproductions of Australian art and photographs from the art deco period. Includes reproductions after Margaret Preston, Hans Heysen and Kenneth Macqueen, photography by Cazneaux and Hoppe, and articles on architectural design, and Australian travel …

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# 51572

JOHNSON, Heather

The Sydney art patronage system 1890-1940

Grass Point [N.S.W.] : Bungoona Technologies, 1997. Octavo, lettered wrappers, pp. 279, black and white illustrations. Scarce. Includes numerous references to Margaret Preston, Norman Lindsay, Lionel Lindsay and other artists of the period. A mint copy.

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# 51567

Col. Sharom bin Hashim, Editor-in-Chief

The Malaysian Army’s battle against communist insurgency in Peninsula Malaysia 1968-1989 (signed presentation copy for the Hon. Alexander Downer)

Kuala Lumpur : Army Headquarters, Ministry of Defence, 2001. Folio, gilt-lettered leather in dustjacket, slipcase, pp. 218, illustrated. A very scarce book about guerrilla warfare in Malaysia in the twentieth century. Provenance: The Hon. Alexander Downer, Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs 1996 – 2007. With a signed presentation inscription to him from Minister of Defence …

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# 51566

Hassanal Bolkiah Muiz'zaddin Wad'daulah, Sultan of Brunei

Abode of Peace : Brunei Darussalam (signed presentation copy for the Hon. Alexander Downer)

Singapore : Editions Didier Millet, 1993. Folio, boards in illustrated dustjacket, laminated illustrated slipcase (slightly scuffed), diecut endpaper, pp. 208, illustrated. An illustrated photobook about the small southeast Asian nation Brunei, formally named Negara Brunei Darussalam which translates to ‘The country of Brunei : Abode of Peace’. With a foreword by His Majesty The Sultan …

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# 51565

RAMOS, Fidel (1928 - 2022)

Philippines 2000 : a vision for the nation (signed presentation copy for the Hon. Alexander Downer)

Makati City, (Manila, The Philippines) : Studio 5 Design, 1996. Second edition. Folio, boards in dustjacket, pp. 223; (17), illustrated. The detailed illustrated book outlining President Fidel Ramos’s flagship socio-economic development plan ‘Philippines 2000’ aimed at seeing the Philippines achieving a newly industrialized country status by the year 2000. Provenance : The Hon. Alexander Downer, …

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# 51564

LIU, Gretchen

Singapore. A pictorial history 1819 – 2000 (presentation copy for the Hon. Alexander Downer)

Singapore : Archipelago Press, 2000 (second impression). Quarto, illustrated boards in dustjacket, light edge wear and sunning to spine, pp. 400, extensively illustrated. Historical photographs of Singapore. Provenance : The Hon. Alexander Downer, Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs 1996 – 2007. With a signed presentation inscription to him from Low Choon Ming, High Commissioner for …

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# 51563

MBEKI, Thabo (1942 - )

Africa : the time has come. Selected speeches (signed presentation copy for the Hon. Alexander Downer)

Cape Town : Tafelberg and Johannesburg : Mafube, 1999 (second impression). Octavo, illustrated boards in dustjacket, pp. xxiv; 302, illustrated. Political speeches by South African politician and economist Thabo Mbeki, who served as the second President of South Africa from 1999 until his resignation in 2008. He previously served as Deputy President under Nelson Mandela …

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# 51562

TEMKIN, Ben

Buthelezi : a biography (presentation copy for the Hon. Alexander Downer)

London : Frank Cass, 2003. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, pp. xx; 415, illustrated. Biography of Prince Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi (1928 – 2023), South African politician and Zulu Prince, who served as the traditional prime minister to the Zulu royal family from 1954 until his death in 2023. Buthelezi was appointed by Nelson Mandela as Minister of …

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