Politics & Law
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# 46323
THE AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE
Committee Reporter. Vol. 1, nos. 1-9, March-December 1944. (Complete run) [PLUS] Vol. 2, nos. 1-12, January-December 1945. (Complete run)
New York, NY : The American Jewish Committee, March 1944 to December 1945. Twenty-one individual issues (i.e. not bound), uniform quarto (280 x 220 mm), self-wrappers, 8-page format; occasional illustrations; very good condition throughout. ‘The American Jewish Committee (AJC) is a civil rights group and Jewish advocacy group established on November 11, 1906. It is one of the oldest …
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# 46550
KNIGHT, Charles
A history of England
London : Bradbury, Evans & Co., circa 1860. Eight volumes, octavo, finely bound in half calf over marbled papered boards (edges a little rubbed), spines in compartments with raised bands, elaborate gilt tooling and contrasting morocco title labels with gilt lettering (spines a little scuffed at heads); marbled edges and endpapers; various paginations, with numerous engraved plates …
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# 43634
Photographer unknown.
Ambrotype portrait of Lady Susannah Wilson (Edmeades) Hindmarsh, wife of the first Governor of South Australia, Sir John Hindmarsh. Taken in England, circa 1856; reframed in Melbourne, 1859.
Quarter-plate ambrotype (wet collodion positive on glass), 100 x 80 mm (sight), in a paper and card mount with oval inset, housed within a colonial gilded timber wall frame with original cover glass (95 x 170 mm); the paper on the back of the frame with an inscription in ink in a refined hand identifying …
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# 44961
BROWNE, Martha Sweet (Cummins) (1816-1893)
[MELBOURNE; LA TROBE FAMILY] Martha Browne, wife of colonial merchant Octavius Browne : entire letter to Henrietta Macartney, daughter of the Dean of Melbourne. Isle of Wight, September 1855.
Manuscript in ink, [6] pp. duodecimo (130 x 90 mm); headed ‘Orchard Leigh, Bonchurch, Sept. 29’, the letter is addressed ‘My dear Henrietta’, and is signed at the foot ‘your very affectionate friend, Mrs Browne’; original folds, clean and crisp; accompanied by its original mailing envelope, addressed to ‘Miss Macartney, care of Revd. John Brougham, …
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# 46313
[WARNER, Chris and McCARTHY, Maureen]
[FEMINISM] Working Up : a film about women at work in Australia
[Melbourne : Schools Commission and the Women’s Film Fund, 1979]. Broadsheet, 210 x 470 mm, folding to 210 x 80 mm, printed on both sides, illustrated; very good condition; [TOGETHER WITH] Working Up. Transcript. Northcote, Vic. : Chris Warner and Maureen McCarthy, [1979]. Foolscap folio, 16 pp, roneo-printed. Promotional flyer for Working Up (1979), an Australian …
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# 46311
A.T.O.M.
[FEMINISM] For Love or Money : a study guide
Australian Feature Films in the classroom. [Cover title]. Carlton South, Vic. : ATOM (Australian Teachers of Media), 1983. Quarto (290 X 210 mm), stapled pictorial wrappers (marked and dog-eared), 30 pp., illustrated; occasional creasing. For love or money : a history of women and work in Australia (1983) is a 16mm feature-length documentary film by Megan …
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# 45903
SWISS STUDIOS
Studio portrait of Ada Evans, the first Australian woman to obtain a law degree and the first woman admitted to the Bar in New South Wales. Sydney, circa 1905.
Gelatin silver print photograph, oval Paris Panel format, 190 x 140 mm, on the original card mount with the blind stamp of Swiss Studios, Sydney; in superb condition, with the original tissue guard preserved (lightly foxed) and still housed in the studio’s green card portfolio, 310 x 235 mm (sunned at edges). Ada Emily Evans …
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# 46480
LESBIAN DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ACTION GROUP (Melbourne)
[MELBOURNE] Lesbian violence phone-in, early December 1990.
Lesbian violence is not on!! … The violence has to stop. [Melbourne] : Lesbian Domestic Violence Action Group, [1990]. Handbill, A4 size, printed recto only; faint original folds, some light marks. Provenance: From the estate of Virginia Fraser (1947-2021), feminist, artist, writer, editor and curator.
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# 45880
MENDELSSOHN, Albert
[TICHBORNE CASE] “Twenty Years After,” Roger Tichborne was lost A.D. 1854, the Claimant was lost A.D. 1874.
[Title from artist’s caption]. London : Albert Mendelssohn, [1874]. Albumen print photograph of a satirical cartoon (artist’s monogram W.R. in the image), carte de visite format, 103 x 63 mm (mount), recto with the artist’s printed caption to lower margin; verso with wet stamp of ‘Albert Mendelssohn, Publisher, London’; in fine condition. The case of the …
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# 45949
BREIRA (New York)
InterChange: a monthly review of issues facing Israel and the diaspora. (Complete run)
New York : Breira, 1975-1977. Vol. 1, no. 1 (September 1975) – no. 10 (June 1976); Vol. 2, no. 1 (September 1976) – no. 10 (June 1977); Vol. 3, no. 1 (September 1977); twenty-one issues (all issued). Uniform quarto newsprint (280 x 215 mm), pagination varies, illustrated; extremely good condition throughout; [WITH] Breira Report – …
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# 45984
BURNS, Richard; ROFES, Eric and MARKO, Jim (editors)
[FIRST SYDNEY MARDI GRAS]. Gay Community News. Vol. 6, No. 2, July 29 1978.
Boston : Gay Community News, 1978. Tabloid newspaper, folded as issued, pp. 16, illustrated. The Gay Community News (1973 – 1999) was Boston’s leading queer newspaper, focussed on political rather than social affairs. The lead article (with a photograph of NSW Premier Neville Wran), titled ’53 arrested, scores injured in Sydney. Violence, arrests mar celebration in Australia’ …
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# 46200
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 …
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# 46274
JENKINS, John Greeley (1851-1923)
The Northern Territory of South Australia : its development.
Proposals of the government, as announced by the Premier and Minister controlling the Northern Territory. Adelaide : J. L. Bonython & Co., 1904. Tall octavo pamphlet, original printed orange wrappers, staple bound, 11 pp, a fine copy.
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# 44067
[COLONY OF VICTORIA]
Death warrants for Samuel Gibbs, an African-American from Philadelphia, and George Thompson, of African heritage from the West Indies, both found guilty of murder in Ballarat on the Victorian goldfields. Melbourne, November 1858.
I. Death warrant for Samuel Gibbs. Pro-forma document printed on laid paper, 420 x 320 mm, with manuscript entry in a secretarial hand, dated 2 November 1858; authorised by His Excellency Sir Henry Barkly, Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief of the Colony of Victoria, addressed to the Sheriff of the Colony of Victoria: ‘Whereas at the Circuit …
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# 39126
CAIRNS, John; STRACHAN, Robert
Sammelband of Hong Kong newspapers, 1845-54
A Sammelband of fifty-four individual issues of newspapers published in Hong Kong between 1845 and 1854, comprising twenty issues of the Overland Register, and Price Current and thirty-four issues of The Hongkong Register; together with two issues of newspapers published in India in 1852 and 1853. Large folio (510 x 340 mm), custom modern binding of …
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# 38392
PALMER, Aaron Haight (1779-1863)
Letter to the Hon. John M. Clayton, Secretary of State, enclosing a paper, geographical, political, and commercial, on the independent oriental nations;
and submitting a plan for opening, extending, and protecting American commerce in the East, &c. Respectfully submitted to the President and Cabinet, by Aaron Haight Palmer, Counsellor of the Supreme Court of the U.S. Published by direction of the Department of State in the National Intelligence of the 6th September, 1849. Revised, and now published with …