Politics & Law
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# 45933
CONGRESS OF THE UNIVERSITIES OF THE EMPIRE
[WOMEN IN AUSTRALIAN UNIVERSITIES]. Congress of the Universities of the Empire. Information on the subjects to be considered on Friday, July 5th, 1912 : – Central University Bureau. Position of women. Representation of teachers and graduates on governing bodies.
London : University of London Press, 1912. Octavo, lettered wrappers (browned and slightly chipped, two stamps from the Ministry of Town and Country Planning Library), pp. 24, internally fine. ‘Women students are on exactly the same footing as men …’ – University of Melbourne report. A handbook summarising brief reports from British Empire universities on …
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# 45158
SMITH, C. C. (Colin Charles)
Sir Henry Parkes : greatest Australian statesman, Father of Federation.
Born May 27th, 1815. Died April 27th, 1896. [Drop title]. Sydney : R. Hickson, printer [for C. C. Smith, author], 1934. Duodecimo folding sheet, 86 x 138 mm, pp. 5, portrait of Parkes to front; at foot of p. 4: ‘Copies may be had from Mr. C. C. Smith, 1 Yanko Avenue, Bronte’; very good …
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# 45159
GORUS, John [PARKES, Henry, Sir 1815-1896]
Portrait of Henry Parkes (Sydney, 1839), published as a carte de visite in Sydney, late 1870s; plus Parkes family portraits and a view of his birthplace.
I. Albumen print photograph of a portrait painting, carte de visite format, 105 x 63 mm (mount); verso imprinted ‘From the Studio of J. T. Gorus, Photographic Artist, 101 King Street, Sydney, New South Wales’; some light surface rubbing, otherwise in very good condition. This portrait of Parkes, “Father of Federation”, was painted in Sydney …
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# 45458
SKELTON, John
Mary Stuart
London: Boussod, Valadon & Co., 1893. First edition. Quarto, full straight grained green morocco, lightly rubbed at corners and edges, a few scratches to lower board, spine in compartments with gilt lettering (a little faded), gilt borders and dentelles, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, exquisite frontispiece engraved portrait with hand painted detail in gold and …
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# 45631
AL-JOHARI [AL-JAUHARI], Bukhari
[ISLAM] De kroon aller koningen, van Bochârie van Djôhor, naar een oud Maleisch Handschrift vertaald door P. P. Roorda van Eijsinga,
Hoofdkommies belast met de afdeeling van Inlandsche Zaken, Lid van het Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen. Batavia : ter Lands Drukkerij, 1827. Square quarto (205 x 170 mm), contemporary gilt-lettered half morocco over marbled papered boards (boards rubbed and scuffed, leather worn and with backstop reattached, front hinge cracked, rear hinge almost completely split); …
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# 35336
RONJAT, Étienne Antoine Eugène, 1822-1912 (artist)
Reception of the foreign ministers by the Chinese Emperor, June 29 1873.
This Emperor, Toong Chir, died last winter of smallpox at the age of twenty. [Title from the inscription verso]. [U.S.A.? France? : s.n., probably 1875]. Albumen print photograph of a drawing by French artist Etienne Ronjat (after a Chinese painting), carte de visite format, 61 x 102 mm; verso with contemporary inscription in ink; both the print …
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# 45459
COLONY OF VICTORIA. ROYAL COMMISSIONS. [PATERSON, James]
The Melbourne Harbour Trust Commissioners. Reports of Royal Commissions on Noxious Trades, 1870 & 1871. Silting up of the Bay, 1871 & 1872. Low Lands, 1873. Commissioner Paterson.
Melbourne : Government Printer, 1870-75. Six Royal Commission reports printed for the Parliament of Victoria (itemised below). Foolscap folio (320 x 205 mm), in a special presentation binding for James Paterson, Melbourne Harbour Trust Commissioner, of limp maroon morocco with double-gilt rule (some light staining and moderate wear), cover stamped in gilt ‘The Melbourne Harbour …
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# 45613
MABEL COLLECTIVE [FIGNER, Vera, ed.]
Mabel : Australian feminist newspaper. No. 1 December 1975.
Sydney, N.S.W. : Mabel Collective, 1975. Folio newspaper, 24 pp, illustrated; original central horizontal fold, front page foxed, otherwise very good. Eight issues of Mabel were published between Dec. 1975 and Sept. 1977. A history of the newspaper by Paula J. Byrne, Mabelled, appeared in Hecate, v.22, no.2, 1996, p.87-100.
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# 45423
BRADLEY & ALLEN
[QUEENSLAND] Oscar de Satgé, pastoralist and politician : signed portrait photograph. Sydney, c.1865.
Albumen print photograph with hand tinting, in carte de visite format, 96 x 62 mm (mount); verso with the pictorial back mark of ‘Bradley & Allen, Artist Photographers from Dalton’s, 360 George Street, Sydney’, and inscribed in ink by the sitter: ‘With Oscar de Satgé’s affectionate regards’; the print with an oval halo caused by …
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# 45577
ARENAL, Concepción
[TRANSPORTATION] Las colonias penales de la Australia y la pena de deportación.
Memoria premiada por la Real Academia de Ciencias Morales y Politicas en el concurso ordinario de 1875. Madrid : Eduardo Martinez, 1877. Large octavo (255 x 170 mm), publisher’s wrappers (lightly marked, head and tail of spine chipped), 99 pp; text in Spanish; entirely unopened, a very good copy. Ferguson 6092. In 1875 the Spanish …
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# 45576
"WULLA MERRII" (pseud.)
[QUEENSLAND] The Fire Stick : incidents in the shearer’s strike : a tale of Australian bush life.
[s.l.] : [s.n.], [1893]. Octavo, illustrated boards (minor rubbing), recent bookplate to front pastedown, pp. 223; a very good copy. A novel set against the 1891 Queensland Shearer’s Strike. This dispute between unionised and non-unionised shearers is regarded as a direct precursor to the formation of the Australian Labor Party. The novel is written from …
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# 45536
THE AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE
Declaration of Human Rights. Submitted by The American Jewish Committee, 386 Fourth Avenue, New York City.
[New York, NY : The American Jewish Committee, 1944]. Broadsheet, 280 x 215 mm, printed recto only; used as a form for individuals to register their name and address as willing signatories to the Declaration; in very good condition. ‘With the inevitable end of Hitler, the struggle begins, not of tank and plane, but of …
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# 38366
[MANUSCRIPT] A Journal or Narrative of the Proceedings betweene the Commissioners appointed by His Majestie, and the Commissioners Deputed by the States Generall, pursuant to the Treaty of Peace made at Westminster 9/19 Ffebruary 1673/4 Concerning a Treaty Marine to be observed throughout all the World. And also an Article particularly relateing to the English and Dutch East India Companyes Concluded in the yeare 1674.
[London, 1674-75]. Folio (300 x 200 mm), old mottled calf gilt, spine with raised bands, gilt ornament, and contrasting title labels lettered in gilt; all edges gilt; manuscript written in English, Latin, Dutch and French in several contemporary secretarial hands; ff 269; clean and fresh throughout. An important contemporary manuscript record of the Mixed Commission established to draw up …
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# 44831
International Marxist Group
The Red Mole (complete run)
London : The Old Mole, 1970 – 1973. Newspaper. Eighty-two issues… 66 regular issues including one unnumbered issue (1st Sept. 1971) that falls between Vol. 1, No. 14, Aug 1971… the actual 27th issue release, and the issue numbered 27. In addition to the regular issues, the run includes 16 broadsheets. Various paginations, 12×18 inches …
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# 44870
MILLAR, Will. H.
Men of Queensland : representative of the public, professional, ecclesiatical and business life of Queensland as existant in the year 1928 A.D. Private edition.
Brisbane : Read Press Ltd., 1929. Octavo (225 x 150 mm), original red diced morocco lettered and ruled in gilt (chips to spine expertly repaired); colour frontispiece, [211] leaves of plates with accompanying text; a very good example of this scarce private printing, which provides a snapshot of Queensland’s rich and powerful on the eve …
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# 44696
BULWER-LYTTON, Edward George Earle, 1st Baron Lytton (1803-1873)
Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton, as Secretary of State for the Colonies : autograph note, signed. “Knebworth”, Stevenage, 23 September 1858.
Manuscript in ink, 1 page, quarto (230 x 180 mm); the note is addressed simply ‘Dear Sir’, and is signed ‘Yours truly, E. B. Lytton’, with Lytton’s private address and date below: ‘”Knebworth”, Stevenage, Sep. 23 [1858]’; the unidentified addressee is requested to visit Lytton at the Colonial Office on the following day at ‘1/4 …