Politics & Law

# 51422

CAINS, Geoffrey

Access denied : a bibliography of suppressed Australian literature

Haberfied, NSW : Longueville Media, for the author, 2021. Large octavo, publisher’s red cloth with pictorial dust jacket; pp. xiii, [1], 294; with numerous colour illustrations; a very fine copy.

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# 51352

[COSMORAMA]

Stanfield Hall Murders. Now exhibiting at the Cosmorama Rooms, 209, Regent Street. Models of Stanfield Hall, the seat of the late J. Jerry Esq. ; and Pot-Ash Farm, lately occupied by the assassin Rush.

Also, may be had a complete Narrative of every particular connected with the above Murders, with an exact likeness of Rush, & correct plans of Stanfield Hall, and Pot-Ash Farm, also a survey of the two Estates, copies of the plans, &c, made for the late Trial at Norwich. Open from Ten till Five, and …

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# 50746

[NEVILLE, Richard; WALSH, Richard; SHARP, Martin et al.]

Oz magazine : a complete set of the Australian issues, no. 1, April 1963 – no. 41, February 1969

Sydney : Oz Publications Ink Limited, 1963-1969. Forty-one issues, quarto, original stapled wrappers, various paginations between 16 and 20 pages, all illustrated; an expected amount of toning and occasional mild foxing; small tear to lower edge of upper wrapper of first issue, else overall in very good condition throughout; a rare complete set of the …

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# 50718

EYRE, Edward (1815-1901)

Edward Eyre, explorer of the Australian interior and colonial administrator: presentation signature with accompanying autograph note, dated 20 April 1867.

Original ink signature of Edward Eyre, on front section of a small bifolium of notepaper (103 x 93 mm), with an autograph covering note by Eyre on the third side, written in the third person: ‘Mr. Eyre has much pleasure in presenting his autograph for Miss Christy’s collection as requested in Mr. Christy’s letter of …

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# 50749

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; [blank]; bound with the half title (which is …

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# 50676

Anon.

Men of South Australia : representatives of the public, professional, ecclesiatical and business life of South Australia as existant in the year 1933. Private edition

Adelaide : Men of South Australia, 1933. Octavo (225 x 150 mm), original red diced morocco lettered and ruled in gilt (light edge wear); name stamped on upper board V. M. Newland, patterned gilded endpapers, , [106] leaves of plates, being photographs of the subjects with satirical drawings and biographical captions; a very good example …

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# 49878

NEW SOUTH WALES. PARLIAMENT. LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY.

The Riverine question. Speeches in the Legislative Assembly of New South Wales.

Melbourne : printed by Wilson and Mackinnon, Collins Street East, 1864. Octavo (215 x 140 mm), publisher’s blind-blocked green pebbled cloth (rubbed), spine lettered in gilt; original yellow endpapers; title with ownership inscription of John Bowie Wilson (New South Wales Government Minister for Lands in the 1860s); pp. vii, [viii-x], 241, [3 blank]; preliminaries with …

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# 50728

HOGAN, James Francis

The Irish in Australia

London : Ward & Downey, 1887. Octavo, lettered cloth (edges rubbed, wear to head and foot of spine), patterned endpapers, faded stamp to half-title, pp. [viii]; 348; [blank]; viii, text block slightly shaken, a good copy. Written mostly in Melbourne, Hogan’s history of the Irish population in Australia covers the history of Irish emigration to …

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# 51048

FEND, Peter

Planet policy United States

Berlin : AKV Berlin, 2015. Quarto, self-wrappers in colour dustjacket, pp. 18. Printed risograph in an edition of 100 copies. An artist’s book / zine / small press publication on US foreign policy released at the time of the US General Election. Includes commentary on Australia, Arabia, China, Russia etc. “The book is intended for …

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# 50626

COLE, E.W.

A White Australia Impossible

[Cover title : The White Australia Question.]. Melbourne : E. W. Cole Book Arcade, c. 1903. Fourth Edition. Octavo, lettered red cloth (lightly marked), previous owner’s name roughly erased on front pastedown, four parts titled 1. A White Australia Impossible. 2. The Cause of Color in Mankind. 3. The Whole Human Race is Mixing. 4. …

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# 50601

MITCHEL, John (1815 - 1875)

The Last Conquest of Ireland (Perhaps)

Author’s edition. Glasgow : Cameron & Ferguson, circa 1900. Octavo, half calf over green cloth (rubbed and scuffed), spine with gilt bands, gilt-lettered red morocco title label, marbled endpapers with bookseller’s ticket of A. H. Spencer, Melbourne, pp. vi; 220, internally clean. A later printing of Mitchel’s 1861 treatise criticising British policy during the Great …

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# 50248

LOUIS XV, King of France

Lettres patentes concernant les Missions Étrangères.

[France, c.1773]. Manuscript in ink, [5] pp., folio; extremely well preserved; bound in modern papered boards with gilt-lettered red leather title label to the front; ex libris label of H. P. Kraus to front pastedown. One of the most important institutions in the history of evangelisation in Asia, the Missions Étrangères de Paris (MEP), or …

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# 50333

L'ESTRANGE, Hamon (1605-1660)

The reign of King Charles : an history faithfully and impartially delivered and disposed into annals.

London : printed by E. C. for Edward Dod, and Henry Seile the younger, 1655. Folio, nineteenth century calf (scuffed), ruled in blind with gilt corner pieces, gilt lettering to spine, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, bookplate to front pastedown, engraved title page, printed title page, pp. [viii], (a few preliminary leaves with a paper strip …

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# 50395

NEW SOUTH WALES. PARLIAMENT.

[SYDNEY] Parliamentary Refreshment Room, 22nd May 1906. Menu. Luncheon.

[Sydney : s.n.], 1906. Menu. Gilt-edged card, 163 x 110 mm; recto lithograph printed in gold and with gilt embossed coat of arms at head; lightly marked, verso with paper adhesion from where the card was removed from an album leaf. Provenance: Removed from a dilapidated album of mounted printed ephemera compiled by J. G. O’Connor …

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# 50402

[NEW SOUTH WALES GOVERNMENT]

[SYDNEY] State Banquet in commemoration of the completion of the First Hundred Years of Australian Settlement. January 26th 1888.

Sydney : S. T. Leigh & Co., 1888. Menu. Folding gilt-edged card (195 x 135 mm), chromolithograph illustrated, with gold highlights; second and third sides with menu (catering was Baumann of Pitt Street under the supervision of W. G. Cassidy), toasts, and programme of music, featuring decorative borders with cartouche illustrations; light foxing overall, the …

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# 50070

BURNSIDE, C. L. (Sec. Secretary, Centennial Committee)

[SYDNEY] Laying the Foundation Stone of the Houses of Parliament. Monday, 30th January, 1888, at noon. Lady’s ticket.

[Sydney : Government Printer, 1888]. Duodecimo card, 60 x 92 mm, printed recto only in black on yellow card; signed by C. L. Burnside, Secretary of the Centennial Committee; some toning, verso with some superficial loss and residual glue from where the card was once mounted in an album, otherwise in very good condition. Provenance: …

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