Politics & Law
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# 30217
BOYD, Charles, 1827-1897 (printer); [CLISSOLD, Stephen Thomas, 1825-1898]
Complimentary Dinner to S. T. Clissold, Esq., P.M., at Craig’s Royal Hotel, Ballarat on Friday, September 18th., 1863.
Chairman – R. Le Poer Trench, Esq., Vice-Chairman – Robert Lewis Esq., C.M.C., James Baker, Esq., Hon.Sec. Boyd, Printer, Ballarat. Lithograph printed on silk in oval format, 105 x 80 mm (irregular), laid down on the original tissue backing, 220 x 190 mm, with original paper lace overlay, 220 x 190 mm; two light vertical and …
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# 30098
GREAT BRITAIN. PARLIAMENTARY PAPER.
Australasia. Correspondence relating to Chinese immigration into the Australian colonies, with a Return of Acts passed by the Legislatures of those Colonies and of Canada and British Columbia on the subject.
London : Printed for His Majesty’s Stationery Office, by Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1888. Folio (330 mm), printed blue wrappers (a little chipped at edges, paper loss along spine), pp x, 87; a few pencilled annotations, but a very clean copy in the original wrappers.
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# 29406
MUSGRAVE, Anthony (1849-1912)
British New Guinea : an abstract of statistical notes, etc. prepared for the use of publishers of almanacs, directories, &c., for the year 1891.
Brisbane : Watson, Ferguson & Co., printers, Queen Street, 1890. Octavo (212 mm), modern wrappers with facsimile of the original front cover laid on, 16 pp (including title leaf); light foxing to first and last leaves, else very good. With notes on geography, public officers (judicial, constabulary, treasury, customs, native control etc.), demographics, trade, settlements, …
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# 30315
AUBREY, William Hickman Smith
The National and Domestic History of England.
London : James Hagger, circa 1870. Three volumes, quarto, half blue calf over marbled papered boards (scuffed), contrasting morocco title labels lettered in gilt, marbled edges, marbled endpapers, bookplates, pp. xi; 790; xi; 762; xx; 1023; xliii, illustrated with numerous illustrations, plates, maps and facsimiles. A very good set.
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# 29197
CALDESI, BLANFORD & CO.
Studio portrait of Henry George Grey, 3rd Earl Grey, Secretary for the Colonies. Early 1860s.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 98 x 58 mm (mount), verso with imprint of Caldesi, Blanford & Co., Photographers, 13 Pall Mall East, London; the print has lost a little definition but is in very good condition, as is the mount. Photographic portrait of Henry George Grey, 3rd Earl Grey (1802-1894). As Colonial …
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# 29454
HOMOSEXUAL CONFERENCE COLLECTIVE
Papers and proceedings : First National Homosexual Conference, Melbourne 16-17 August, 1975
[Melbourne : Homosexual Collective, 1975]. Oblong quarto, illustrated card wrappers (marked and stained), plastic comb binding, pp. 86, a few light stains. ‘Forty-two years before the same-sex marriage postal survey, twenty-two years before Ellen DeGeneres came out on television, one month before sexual acts between men were even legal anywhere in Australia, six hundred self-identified …
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# 29588
ALLEY, Rewi
Yo Banfa! (We have a way!)
Edited by Shirley Barton. Foreword by Joseph Needham, F. R. S. Shanghai : China Monthly Review, 1952. Octavo, illustrated wrappers (toned), pp. [xiv]; 196, illustrated. The author, a New Zealander, had lived in China for 25 years and witnessed great poverty and hardship among the Chinese people. This is his account of why the 1949 …
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# 29749
LOVEGROVE, Austin
Images of an Australian enlightenment : the story of Lachlan and Elizabeth Macquarie’s treatment of the convicts as a history tale for today.
London : Unicorn, [2019]. Small quarto (245 x 20 mm), publisher’s cloth backed pictorial boards with a specially commissioned design by Indigenous artist Rosella Namok; 272 pp, extensively illustrated, with Notes, Select Bibliography and Index; a new copy. ‘This is the story of two Scots: Lachlan Macquarie, governor of the British colony of New South …
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# 29560
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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# 29264
STEIN, Leonard
Memorandum on the “Report of the Commission on the Palestine Disturbances of August 1929.”
London : The Jewish Agency for Palestine, May 1930. Octavo, original printed grey wrappers (sunned along spine and with a couple of insignificant marks), pp 111; internally clean and bright, a near fine copy. A rare Zionist publication issued as a response to the Shaw Commission Report of March 1930 on the riots that erupted …
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# 29293
HIMMELWEITH, Susan et al.
Papers on patriarchy. Patriarchy Conference, London 1976
London : PDC and Womens Publishing Collective, 1976 (1978 edition). Octavo, illustrated wrappers (some browning), pp. 83, previous owner’s name to title page, a very good copy. Includes essays by Susan Himmelweit, Allison Tomlin, Ross Coward, Cora Kaplan, Kate Young, Patricia Langton, Elisabeth Croll, Erica Flegg, and Mary McIntosh.
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# 29294
KOEN, Susan and SWAIM, Nina
Ain’t no where we can run: Handbook for women on the nuclear mentality
Norwich VT : WAND, 1982. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, pp. 74, illustrated. A feminist anti-nuclear manifesto.
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# 29296
CHESTER, Gail et al.
Feminist practice. Notes from the tenth year! (Theoretically speaking)
London : In Theory Press, 1979. Octavo, lettered wrappers, pp. 38, folding table (Tendencies in the Women’s Liberation Movement). ‘These papers were produced by the organising collective for the one-day Radical Feminist meeting held at White Lion Free School, London N1 on April 8th, 1979’.
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# 29290
Women's Collective, Communist Party of Australia.
Women on women : submission to the Queensland Commission of Inquiry into the Status of Women (1973-1974)
Brisbane : Communist Party of Australia, 1974. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (marked), staple bound, pp. iv; 53, roneo typescript. Queensland feminism in the 1970s.
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# 29291
HESS, Katharine; LANGFORD, Jean and ROSS, Kathy
Feminismo primero : un ensayo sobre separatismo lesbiano = Feminism first : an essay on lesbian separatism
Seattle, WA : Tsunami Press, 1981. Octavo, lettered wrappers, staple bound, pp. 112, text in Spanish and English. Translated by Helen Weber & Fabiola Rodriguez. ‘Lesbian separatism is most importantly a tactic rather than a goal. It is a way of building a strong feminist movement to work for feminist revolution. It is not an …
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# 29066
MENDELSSOHN, Albert
[TICHBORNE CASE] The great fight for £40,000 a year, between “Little Touchbone” the “Hampshire Infant” and Stoney-Hurst, the great Australian slogger.
[Title from artist’s caption]. London : Albert Mendelssohn, [1871]. Albumen print photograph of a satirical cartoon (artist’s monogram W.L. in the image), carte de visite format, 63 x 103 mm (mount), artist’s manuscript caption across the bottom margin of the image, mount with blind stamp of ‘Albert Mendelssohn, London’; recto printed ‘Copyright Registered’, verso with wet stamp …