Politics & Law
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# 29137
EVANS, Joyce (1929 - 2019)
We had such high hopes : student activism and the peace movement 1949-1952 : a photographic memoir
Melbourne : Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2019. Quarto, illustrated boards, pp. 183, illustrated. New copy. Some think it all happened in the 1960s but Joyce Evans, acclaimed photographer of Australia’s land and its people, goes back to her youth and memories of her many adventures as a student activist. In 1949, aged 19, she set sail …
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# 29205
RUSDEN, George William
[NEW ZEALAND] A letter on an article in the “Times” of 13th March, 1886.
Not sent for insertion in the “Times”, but printed as a pamphlet. Also titled: The law of libel. London : William Ridgway, 1890. Small quarto, original printed pale green wrappers (light foxing along spine), 16 pp, a gopd copy. Ferguson, 15226. Rusden’s scarce commentary on legal proceedings in the case of Bryce versus Rusden for libel.
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# 29204
SELLMAN, Julius
[NEW ZEALAND] Nya Zeeland : arbetarnes paradis : en studie.
[=New Zealand : the workers’ paradise : a study]. Stockholm : Nordiska Bokhandeln, 1908. Octavo, publisher’s pictorial wrappers (edges sunned, upper wrapper with corner and edge tears), 97 pp (clean and unopened), 1 colour map. Text in Swedish. An analysis of New Zealand’s economy from the 1870s up until the publication date. Three copies recorded …
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# 28944
KEITH, Elizabeth (illustrator); SCOTT, Espet Keith Robertson (text)
Old Korea : the land of morning calm
London : Hutchinson & Co., 1946. Quarto, decorated cloth in dustjacket (foxed, a couple of short tears), 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. From Clara: Database of Women Artists (National …
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# 28798
COUNIHAN, Noel (1913-1986)
Group of Soviet propaganda postcards featuring social realist works by Australian communist artist Noel Counihan.
Moskva : Izogis (Experimentalnaya Tipografiya VNIIPP), 1960. Eight postcards (all issued?), 150 x 105 mm, six printed in black-and-white and two in colour, reproducing both lithographs and paintings; versos with ‘Noel Counihan – Australia’, title of work and ‘Australian Artists Exhibition’ in Russian; all in superb condition. In 1960 Counihan travelled to Moscow and Leningrad …
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# 28849
GEDDES, W. R. (William Robert)
Maori and Aborigine : a comparison of attitudes and policies.
Presidential address delivered by Professor W. R. Geddes, Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Sydney, at A.N.Z.A.A.S. Congress, Brisbane, 1961. Fitzroy, Vic. : W. & J. Barr (Printers) Pty. Ltd., [1962]. Series: Aboriginal Affairs Information Paper Number 1, April 1962. Quarto (280 x 220 mm), self-wrappers (old horizontal fold, sunned, short repair at top edge …
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# 28851
BUCHANAN, Cheryl
[INDIGENOUS RIGHTS] We have bugger all! : the Kulaluk story
Octavo (210 mm), pictorial wrappers, staple bound, [27] pp, b/w photographic illustrations; a very good copy. ‘History of the Kulaluk land claim by the Gwalwa Daraniki Association from 1971-74; outlines struggle by Larrakia people for rights to land in the Darwin area.’ (Trove)
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# 28958
ROSE STEREOGRAPH CO.
[VIDA GOLDSTEIN] Great suffragette demonstration in London
Melbourne ; Sydney ; Wellington ; London : The Rose Stereograph Co., [1911]. Stereoscopic gelatin silver print photograph, each image 78 x 76 mm, mount 95 x 175 mm, from the series Great suffragette demonstration in London, serial no. 11,950, printed title beneath image Mrs. Fisher, Mrs. McGowen and Miss Vida Goldstein from Australia; both …
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# 28589
CITY OF MELBOURNE
Reception to meet Vice-Admiral Seizo Kobayashi, His Imperial Highness Prince Takamatsu and Officers of The Japanese Training Squadron. Given by The Lord Mayor of Melbourne and The Lady Mayoress (Alderman Sir Stephen and Lady Morell). Town Hall, Melbourne, 4th July, 1928.
Duodecimo folding card, 125 x 95 mm, front with embossed crest of the City of Melbourne in blue, 4-page programme printed in sepia sewn in, the first page with photogravure illustration of the Town Hall and the last with a view of Princes Bridge, the centre pages with the programme of the evening’s musical entertainment …
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# 28571
MILLER, E. Morris (Edmund Morris), 1881-1964
Some phases of preference in imperial policy.
Cover: Imperial Federation League of Ausralia. Melbourne : Paul Hewitt on behalf of the Imperial Federation League of Australia, 1911. Series: Imperial Federation League of Australia. Addresses and Proceedings 1911, no. 1. Octavo (215 mm), publisher’s printed white wrappers (a little dusty), staple bound, pp 31; inside lower wrapper with list of members of the …
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# 28333
ÉDITIONS DELANDRE
Set of original designs by Delandre for patriotic vignettes used during World War One, including two commemorating the ANZACs.
[France : Delandre, 1916]. A set of six original handmade designs, together with the printer’s proof sheet, for patriotic and propaganda charity stamps intended to raise money for the Triple Entente powers and the Red Cross in World War One. These designs were created and subsequently printed and issued as vignette labels (for use on …
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# 28413
[WRAXALL, Sir Nathaniel William, 1751-1831]
[BOTANY BAY] A Short Review of the Political State of Great Britain at the Commencement
of the Year One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty-Seven … The Sixth Edition, with additions. London : Printed for J. Debrett, opposite Burlington House, Piccadilly, 1787. Octavo, in modern marbled wrappers, pp iv, 86; internally clean and fresh, a very good copy. Ferguson 27; Sabin 80688 (4th edition). On pages 77-83, the anonymous author, now known to be …
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# 27991
MÜLLER, Oscar (publisher); SCHÜRMANN, C. W. (editor); PETERS, W. (editor) [EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN SYNOD IN AUSTRALIA]
[WESTERN DISTRICT] Aus Welt und Zeit : Beiblatt zum Lutherischen Kirchenboten für Australien. 16. Jahrg. No. 6. Hochkirch, Juni 1889.
Hochkirch [Vic.] : Oscar Müller, 1889. Folio newspaper (460 x 300 mm), [4] pp; complete; printed in German in Gothic type in three columns; includes lengthy news articles from the Australian colonies and Europe and brief reports from Asia, Africa and the Americas; the last column on the rear page has advertisements for Otto Dettmann …
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# 27982
BATHO, Tom
[AUSTRALIAN SOCIALISM] The privileged loafer : who he is, what he is, where he came from, and what he has done.
Cover: Being a series of articles reprinted from The People in reply to assertions made by the “Daily Telegraph” as to Privileged Loaferdom being the chief feature of unemployment, and showing the privileges enjoyed by the poor “loafer”, together with historical and statistical facts from which the real Privileged Loafer is placed in his economic …
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# 27913
BASEDOW, Martin Peter Friedrich (Frederick) (1829-1902) (editor)
[SOUTH AUSTRALIA] Australische Deutsche Zeitung. No. 27. 9 Jahrg. Tanunda, den 7. Juli 1871.
Tanunda, S.A. : Australische Deutsche Zeitung, 1871. Folio newspaper (495 x 340 mm), 8 pp; complete; printed in German in Gothic type; includes news reports from the Australian colonies and on the Franco-Prussian war, plus two full pages with many dozens of advertisements for Adelaide and Barossa Valley businesses; subscriber’s name in pencil J. Koithan …
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# 27881
LANG, George Dunmore (et al)
[PRESBYTERIANS IN NEW SOUTH WALES] Prospectus of a weekly paper, to be entitled “The Colonist.”
[Caption title]. Beneath title: “Union is Strength”. Sydney : Printed by F. Mason, [1863]. Broadside (250 x 203 mm), lithograph printed recto only on blue paper; very mild sunning and wear at edges, but a near fine copy. Ferguson, 14446 This obscure prospectus for a Sydney newspaper aimed at the Presbyterian readership in New South Wales …