Politics & Law

  • Sir Robert Menzies, 12th Prime Minister of Australia : signed portrait photograph, inscribed for British Prime Minister Harold Wilson

    # 46796

    [MENZIES, Robert Gordon, Sir, 1894-1978]

    Sir Robert Menzies, 12th Prime Minister of Australia : signed portrait photograph, inscribed for British Prime Minister Harold Wilson

    Gelatin silver print, 270 x 220 mm; inscribed, signed and dated on the mount ‘for Harold Wilson, with warm regards Robert Menzies / 1965’; fine condition, presented in a silver frame, housed in a custom blue velvet-lined case. Sir Robert Menzies (1894-1978) served two terms as Prime Minister of Australia, the first from 1939 to …

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  • Manuscript testimonial for Polish revolutionaries Roch Rupniewski and Severin Dziewicki, written and signed by Polish political refugees at Portsmouth, 1835.

    # 47054

    MICHNIEWICZ, Onufry et al.

    Manuscript testimonial for Polish revolutionaries Roch Rupniewski and Severin Dziewicki, written and signed by Polish political refugees at Portsmouth, 1835.

    [Portsmouth, 11 March 1835]. Single sheet, 230 x 200 mm, mounted on the recto of a nineteenth-century album leaf, along with the envelope in which it was originally contained; manuscript in ink, with a five-line declaration written in French at the head: ‘Nous [les] sous signés cértifi[ons par la] présente que [Sls?] Roch Rupniewski et …

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  • [AMERICAN CIVIL WAR; MEDICINE] Studio portrait of Mary Edwards Walker, the first American female surgeon and the only woman to be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. Manchester, 1866.

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    WALKER, Mary Edwards (1832-1919)

    [AMERICAN CIVIL WAR; MEDICINE] Studio portrait of Mary Edwards Walker, the first American female surgeon and the only woman to be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. Manchester, 1866.

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 101 x 64 mm (mount); lower margin recto with imprint of ‘Joseph B. Forster, Pho.’, and a roughly contemporary inscription in pencil identifying the sitter as ‘Dr. Mary Walker’; verso with the studio’s printed motto ‘Light and Truth’; in very good condition. A rare full-length studio portrait of …

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  • Lajamunu women holding discussion with Hazel Hawke at Barunga, Northern Territory, 1988

    # 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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  • Studio portrait of Māori chief Wiremu Tāmihana (aka William Thompson), "The Kingmaker", 1865.

    # 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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  • Harold Holt, 17th Prime Minister of Australia : signed and inscribed portrait photograph

    # 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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  • Old Korea : the land of morning calm

    # 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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  • Leon Trotsky : a group of ephemeral publications, 1930s-40s.

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    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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  • [MELBOURNE; FEMINISM] Victorian Women's Liberation Newsletter. A new collective.

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    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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  • [MELBOURNE] "Wring out Fairlea" : another afternoon of entertainment & action to encircle Fairlea Women's Prison by linking arms. Sunday 25th March

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    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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  • [MELBOURNE] International Women's Day. 8 March [1990]. 3CR 855 kHz.

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    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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  • [FEDERATION] View of the French Arch, corner of Pitt and Bridge Streets, Sydney, 1901.

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    [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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  • Napoleon : revolution to empire

    # 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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  • Alexander Maconochie of Norfolk Island (signed copy with letter)

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    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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  • Anno Domini 2000 : or, Woman's destiny. (First edition, colonial issue)

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    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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  • Den spiegel der Spaensche Tyranny gheschieht in West-Indien.

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    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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