Politics & Law
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# 46883
FORD, Sue (1943-2009)
Lajamunu women holding discussion with Hazel Hawke at Barunga, Northern Territory, 1988
Gelatin print, 40 x 60 cm; artist’s proof (from edition of 5); unmounted; fine condition. An important documentary photograph by acclaimed Australian feminist photographer, Sue Ford (1943-2009). Provenance: Gift of Sue Ford to her friend, Virginia Fraser (c.1989). Estate of Virginia Fraser (1947-2021), feminist, artist, writer, editor and curator. For an insightful analysis of Ford’s …
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# 46462
[WEBSTER, Hartley]
Studio portrait of Māori chief Wiremu Tāmihana (aka William Thompson), “The Kingmaker”, 1865.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 105 x 63 mm (mount); no photographer’s imprint; verso with fully contemporary note in pencil: ‘Wiremue Tomsana [sic] or William Thompson, The King maker’; both the print and the mount are in very good condition. This would appear to be a pirated copy, probably circulated after the death …
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# 46795
SHMITH, Athol
Harold Holt, 17th Prime Minister of Australia : signed and inscribed portrait photograph
Gelatin silver print photograph, 155 x 110 mm, mounted in the original portfolio of the Athol Shmith studio, Collins Street, Melbourne (label to verso), boldly inscribed in black felt-tip pen below the photograph ‘Greetings from Harold Holt’; very fine. Harold Edward Holt (1908-1967) served as 17th Prime Minister of Australia from 26 January 1966 to …
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# 46700
KEITH, Elizabeth (illustrator); SCOTT, Elspet Keith Robertson (text)
Old Korea : the land of morning calm
London : Hutchinson & Co., 1946. Quarto, decorated cloth in dustjacket (worn, chips with losses, old tape repairs), pp. 72, colour frontispiece, illustrated with colour and black and white plates, preliminaries foxed, internally fine. Scarce, a very good copy in the flimsy dustjacket, an important illustrated account of Korea.
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# 46285
TROTSKY, Leon (1879-1940), et al.
Leon Trotsky : a group of ephemeral publications, 1930s-40s.
I. Trotsky, Leon. Stalinism and Bolshevism : concerning the historical and theoretical roots of the Fourth International. New York : Pioneer Publishers, 1937. Octavo, original printed wrappers, stapled, 29, [1] pp; a fine copy. II. Trotsky, Leon. In defense of the Soviet Union : a compilation 1927-1937. New York : Pioneer Publishers, 1937. Octavo, original printed wrappers, stapled, …
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# 46556
VWLN (Melbourne)
[MELBOURNE; FEMINISM] Victorian Women’s Liberation Newsletter. A new collective.
Melbourne : Women’s Liberation Newsletter, [1989]. Handbill, A4 size, printed recto only; original folds and light corner creasing, otherwise good condition. The MWLN (aka VWLN) ran its first edition in February 1972, and was published monthly. This flyer appeals for subscriptions for 1990, which saw a new incarnation of the newsletter: ‘Womens liberation newsletter is a …
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# 46549
COALITION AGAINST WOMEN'S IMPRISONMENT
[MELBOURNE] “Wring out Fairlea” : another afternoon of entertainment & action to encircle Fairlea Women’s Prison by linking arms. Sunday 25th March
[Melbourne] : Coalition Against Women’s Imprisonment, [1988]. A4 sheet, printed on both sides; verso with list of the Coalition’s demands to the State and Federal Governments re. Fairlea Women’s Prison; entertainment for attendees at the protest included music from Ruby Hunter and Archie Roach; original folds and light marks. Provenance: From the estate of Virginia …
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# 46555
3CR
[MELBOURNE] International Women’s Day. 8 March [1990]. 3CR 855 kHz.
[Melbourne] : 3CR Community Radio, [1990]. Handbill, A4 size, printed recto only; 24-hour programme schedule for IWD; light corner creasing, otherwise good condition. Provenance: From the estate of Virginia Fraser (1947-2021), feminist, artist, writer, editor and curator.
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# 46585
[Photographer unknown].
[FEDERATION] View of the French Arch, corner of Pitt and Bridge Streets, Sydney, 1901.
Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each image 82 x 77 mm, on maroon mount 86 x 175 mm; no photographer’s imprint (verso blank); the prints and the mont are in excellent condition. An anonymous stereoview which shows the French Arch at the intersection of Pitt and Bridge Streets, Sydney, during the Commonwealth celebrations in January 1901. …
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# 46720
GOTT, Ted et al.
Napoleon : revolution to empire
Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 2012. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. xv, 313, illustrated. Includes a chapter on the Baudin Expedition to Australia. ” This panoramic volume tells the story of French art, culture and life from the 1770s to the 1820s: the first French voyages of discovery to Australia, the stormy period of social …
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# 46718
BARRY, John Vincent
Alexander Maconochie of Norfolk Island (signed copy with letter)
A study of a pioneer in penal reform. Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1958. Octavo, cloth in dustjacket, signed by the author on the title page, pp. xxii;277, a fine copy. From the library of noted art historian Ann Galbally. Loosely enclosed, a letter from the author The Hon. Sir John Barry addressed to the …
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# 45923
VOGEL, Julius, Sir (1835-1899)
Anno Domini 2000 : or, Woman’s destiny. (First edition, colonial issue)
/ by Sir Julius Vogel, K.C.M.G. London : Hutchinson and Co., 1889. “Colonial edition”. Octavo (195 x 130 mm), publisher’s gilt-lettered pictorial grey cloth (boards rubbed and lightly marked, corners bumped; spine sunned and marked, frayed at ends); frontispiece portrait of the author, pp. viii, [1]-331, [4 publisher’s advertisements]; newspaper cutting to verso of front endpaper …
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# 45779
LAS CASAS, Bartholomé de (1484-1566)
Den spiegel der Spaensche Tyranny gheschieht in West-Indien.
Waer in te sien is de onmenschelicke wreede feyten der Spangiaerden : met t’samen de beschrijvinge der selver Landen, Volckeren aert ende natuere … … [BOUND WITH] Tweede Deel van de Spieghel der Spaense Tyrannye, gheschiet in Nederlant. Waer in te sien is de onmenschelicke ende wreede handelinghen der Spaengiaerden … … Amsterdam : Jan Everts. …
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# 46389
TOBIAS, R. B. (Roscoe Burdette) and MARCY, Mary E.
Women as sex vendors, or, Why women are conservative (being a view of the economic status of women).
Chicago : Charles H. Kerr & Company Co-operative, 1918. Small octavo (170 x 130 mm), publisher’s olive green papered boards with black lettering to front (boards heavily rubbed and marked; corners, edges and spine worn); half-title with early gift inscription ‘Violet Wilson from Otto Elsner’; pp. 59; front hinge cracked, occasional pencilled marginalia (presumably by Violet …
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# 46287
BALBERYSZSKI, M. (Mendel) (1894-1966)
[HOLOCAUST; MELBOURNE] Likwidacja getta Wileńskiego
[=Liquidation of the Vilna Ghetto]. Warsawa ; Łodz ; Krakow : [Centralna Żydowska Komisja Historyczna], 1946. Octavo (205 x 145 mm), original grey wrappers lettered in black (sunned at edges); pp. 40; printed on cheap paper which has browned, but in all other respects an excellent copy. A scarce eyewitness account of the liquidation of …
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# 46418
GOVERNMENT OF SINGAPORE
Singapore Year Book 1965
Singapore : Government Printing Office, 1965. Octavo, decorated boards, illustrated dutjacket (light edge wear, a coupe of small tears, spine a little sunned), maps to endpapers, pp. [viii]; 360, numerous photographic illustrations, ‘Complimentary’ stamp to preliminary blank, a very good copy.