Politics & Law
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# 20770
The Clarke brothers, bushrangers, photographed in Braidwood Gaol in May, 1867, soon after their capture.
Albumen print photograph, 72 x 54 mm (oval format), laid down on a section cut from a nineteenth century album page, contemporary inscription in ink above the image: ‘The brothers Clarkes [sic]. Bushrangers hung [sic] at Sydney 1867’, and a faint pencil caption below: ‘The Two Clarkes, Bushrangers’; at the foot of the sheet is …
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# 20783
LONDON STEREOSCOPIC & PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPANY.
Roger C. Tichborne, alleged to have been lost in the “Bella.”
[Title from printed caption on mount]. London : London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company, [1873]. Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format (103 x 63 mm), recto of mount with printed caption to lower margin, verso with photographer’s imprint and contemporary inscription in ink: ‘Taken fr. a Daguerreotype when in the Carbineers’; both the albumen print …
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# 21158
[LA PÉROUSE]. ASSEMBLÉE NATIONALE.
[LA PEROUSE] Loi relative à M. De la Peyrouse, et à l’impression des Cartes par lui envoyées.
Donnée à Paris, le 4 Mai 1791. Melun [Département de Seine et Marne] : Tarbé, 1791. Quarto, 4pp, letterpress, stitch-bound with a number of other pieces of legislation from the period, without further binding; in crisp, fine condition. This decree by the Assemblée Nationale is the official order to bring forth all documents and manuscripts …
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# 15206
Cerezo de Salamanca, Juan
[MANUSCRIPT] Traslado de la Ressidencia Original que el Señor Don Iuan Cereso Salamanca gouernador y Capitan general de estas islas philipinas y presidente de la Audiencia y Chancilleria …
de la año de 1626 hasta el de 1632 … Title to front: Traslado de la Residencia original que el señor don Ju<an>o Çerezo de Salamanca Gouern<ad> ory Capitan General de estas Yslas philipinas … tomo á D<on> Juan Niño de Tauora Gou<ernad>or … [14 July 1633]. Folio, original limp vellum (marked and stained), spine and cover with …
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# 14221
Gómez de Espinosa y Estrada, Salvador
Dictamen del licenciado Don Salvador Gomez de Espinosa, y Estrada, del Conseio de su Magestad, y su oidor en esta Real Audiencia;
sobre la translacion del Puerto de Cavite al de Lampon, en la junta que formó el Señor Don Sabiniano Manrique de Lara del Consejo de su Magestad, su Governador, Presidente y Capitan General en estas Islas Philipinas. Manila : [s.n.], [1656]. Folio, modern half vellum over cloth boards, spine lettered in black ink; printed on rice …
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# 15202
Suarez de Olivera, Manuel
Por la ivsticia del Maestre de Campo D. Avgvstin de Zepeda, en el pleito, que contra el sigue D. Pedro Sarmiento,
sobre pedir mandamiento de execuçion, por siete mil quinientos y cinquenta y dos pessos del dote de Doña Beatriz su pri nera muger. Y dezir el Maestre de Campo, que los bienes apreciados de la dote no los a de pagar por el precio que Doña Maria de Roa heredera los recibió, y venido, y …
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# 15170
Anon.
[MANUSCRIPT] Charges against the Government of the Philippines.
[Manila], 1680-85. Folio, ff 2 [the last blank], manuscript in ink in a secretarial hand; bound in modern marbled papered boards, leather title label lettered in gilt. Complaints against the governor (possibly Juan de Vargas y Hurtado) and other officials because of abuses and raising imposts, claiming, amongst other matters, that the governor in such a remote …
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# 13561
DRAPER, William, Sir, 1721-1787
Colonel Draper’s answer to the Spanish arguments, claiming the Galeon, and refusing payment of the Ransom Bills, for preserving Manila
from pillage and destruction : in a Letter addressed to the Earl of Halifax, His Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for the Southern Department. London : printed for J. Dodsley, 1764. Octavo, recent half calf over cloth boards with gilt rule; spine with raised bands ruled and lettered in gilt; pp 43 (but lacking half …
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# 14924
Viana, Francisco Leandro de (1730-1804)
[MANUSCRIPT] Demostración del mísero deplorable estado de las Islas Filipinas,
de la necesidad de abandonarlas o mantenerlas con fuerzas respetables: de los inconvenientes de lo primero, y ventajas de lo segundo; de lo que pueden producir a la Real Hacienda, de la navegación, extensión, y utilidad de su Comercio: con reflexiones que convencen la utilidad de formar una Compañía vajo Real Protección … … Manila, 10 …
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# 20868
SOLDATOW, Sasha (1947- )
What is this gay community shit?
Chippendale, NSW : Printed by Panacea Press, 2008. Octavo, printed yellow wrappers, [14] pp, with line illustrations (by the author?); fine. ‘My name is Sasha Soldatow, and I want to have a look at some of the issues being raised at the moment on the subject of the [Sydney] Gay Mardi Gras’ (p. [11]). Focuses …
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# 21150
NICHOLLS, Yvonne
Not slaves, not citizens : Condition of the Australian Aborigines in the Northern Territory
Melbourne : Australian Council for Civil Liberties, 1952. Octavo, printed wrappers, staple bound, 36 pp, a fine copy. “Survey of the conditions of the Northern Territory natives with an analysis of some important sections of the Aboriginal Ordinance; census of natives on missions, settlements, etc.; employment.”
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# 20192
NYE, Gideon (1812-1888)
The opium question and the Northern campaigns :
including notices of some strictures by reviewers of the former ; and indications of the salient points of the latter, down to the Treaty of Nanking … … Canton : [s.n.], 1875. Large octavo, original printed wrappers (brittle and chipped, paper loss along spine, upper wrapper with repair), pp [20], 26, [17]-68, [14]; internally clean and …
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# 20505
[STEPHEN, Alfred, Sir, 1802-1894]; [MANNING, William Montagu, Sir, 1811-1895]
[SYDNEY] Charter & statutes. University and Prince Alfred Hospital. (Inscribed by Sir Alfred Stephen for Sir William Manning)
[Sydney : s.n., 1881?]. Octavo, original limp red morocco lettered in gilt (rubbed and marked), a presentation copy inscribed on the front pastedown ‘Sir William M. Manning, Chancellor, from his friend Alfred Stephen, 12 June ’82’; pp [2 blank], [17]-94; mild scattered foxing, else internally sound and clean; a good association copy. Includes acts of Parliament …
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# 20850
ELLIOTT & FRY; [CHILDERS, Hugh Culling Eardley Childers, 1827-1896]
Photographic portrait of Hugh Childers, colonial civil servant and politician, circa 1885.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 104 x 63 mm (mount), recto and verso with imprint of Elliott & Fry, Photographers, London; both the print and mount are in fine condition. Oxford-educated civil servant Hugh Culling Eardley Childers (1827-1896) arrived in Melbourne with his wife in 1850. In 1851 he was appointed inspector of Denominational …
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# 20466
The beginnings of government in Australia
Sydney : W. A. Gullick, Government Printer, 1913. Folio, lettered green cloth, armorial bookplate for Edward Angas Johnson to front pastedown, pp. [viii]; 23; [134], facsimiles of historical documents and manuscripts, light foxing to preliminaries, a very good copy. Foundation documents for Australia.
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# 20050
[GHANA. NATIONAL LIBERATION COUNCIL]
Nkrumah’s subversion in Africa : documentary evidence of Nkrumah’s interference in the affairs of other African states.
[Accra : Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, 1966]. Quarto, original maroon buckram over boards (lightly rubbed), the upper board with stamped outline map of Africa and lettering including the first part of the title and the statement :’The tragedy of Africa is wrought by those who preach brotherhood while plotting the downfall of others’; an …