Politics & Law
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# 44756
[SOCIALIST REALISM] Social Kunst. Nos. 1; 2; 5; 6; 7; 9
København : Mondes Forlag; Oslo : Fram Forlag, 1932. Six individual issues (of the nine issued) : no. 1. Aksel Jørgensen; 2. Anton Hansen; 5. Robert Storm Petersen; 6. Tegnekunsten i Sovjetunionen (=Design in the Soviet Union); 7. Anton Hansen, anden samling; 9. George Grosz. Uniform small quarto (260 x 200 mm), pictorial card covers (no. 6 …
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# 44496
Anon.
I am opposed to woman’s suffrage
Pledge card, U.S.A. circa 1910, 77 x 126 mm, with the name and street name of an anti-suffragette, fine condition. Passed by Congress June 4, 1919, and ratified on August 18, 1920, the 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution granted women the right to vote in the United States. Both pro- and anti-suffrage movements were …
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# 44816
Anon.
Australian Marriage Equality campaign placard
[Melbourne?] : 2017. Printed placard with an inverted pink triangle and the word YES, 420 x 295 mm, fine condition. Until 2017, marriage in Australia was defined as “the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others, voluntarily entered into for life”. Same sex couples were treated as de facto …
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# 44868
MALONE, Betty et al.
The Prahran Historical Series
Melbourne : Prahran Historical and Arts Society and Prahran Mechanic’s Institute, 1982 – 1985. Eight volumes, octavo, illustrated wrappers, between 24 – 80 pages each, in publisher’s slipcase. A detailed history on the suburb of Prahran in Melbourne.
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# 43944
WOOD, J. E.
[AFRICAN-AMERICANA] Letter by a 6th Ohio Cavalry veteran advocating black suffrage. La Grange, Iowa, June 1865.
Manuscript in ink, [3] pp. quarto (245 x 195 mm); headed ‘Lagrange, Lucas Co., Iowa, June 12th 1865’, the letter is addressed ‘Dear Miller’ and is signed at the foot ‘Your friend, J. E. Wood’; accompanied by the original postal envelope, addressed to ‘L. D. Miller Esq., Newton Falls, Trumbull Co., Ohio’, with pen-cancelled 3¢ …
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# 44456
NUTTALL, Charles (1872 - 1934)
Representative Australians. A series of portraits from original sketches by Charles Nuttall
Melbourne : McCarron, Bird & Co., 1902. Folio, illustrated papered boards with magnificent illustration of the Waratah (scattered foxing, lower board silverfished, a little bowed), patterned endpapers, 40 illustrations after Nuttall pencil drawings illustrating important figures of the Federation period. Subjects include Earl Hopetoun, Governor-General; Sir Edmund Barton, Prime Minister, and various Premiers, Attorneys-General, Government …
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# 44490
LATHAM, J. G.
The Australian Eastern Mission, 1934. Report of the Right Honorable J. G. Latham, Leader of the Mission.
At head of title: 1932-33-34. The Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia. Canberra : L. F. Johnston, Government Printer, August 1934. Foolscap folio, pp. 27; a very good copy of this Parliamentary paper. The Mission visited the Netherlands East Indies, British Malaya, French Indo-China, Hong Kong, China (this included an Anzac Ball in Shanghai), Japan, …
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# 42922
Henry BONE, ARA (1755-1834), after Sir William Beechey, RA (1753-1839)
Portrait miniature of Robert, Lord Hobart, 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire (1760-1816).
Enamel on copper, image 75 x 60 mm (oval format); inscribed, signed and dated on the counter-enamel verso: ‘The Rt. Honble. The Earl of Buckinghamshire. Painted by Henry Bone ARA. Enamel Painter to HRH the Prince of Wales. Jany 1806’; some traces of surface dirt to the sitter’s face and hair, and some very minor …
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# 42245
FOSTER & MARTIN
[KELLY GANG; CRICKET] Signed studio portrait of Francis Augustus Hare, Superintendent of the Victorian Mounted Police, inscribed by Hare for Ivo Bligh, captain of the visiting English cricket team. “Rupertswood”, Sunbury, Christmas 1882.
Melbourne : Foster & Martin, [1882]. Albumen print photograph in cabinet card format, 165 x 110 mm; verso with imprint of ‘Foster & Martin, Artists & Photographers, 29 & 31 Collins St. East, Melbourne’, and a presentation inscription in ink by the sitter: Francis Hare, for The Honbl. Ivo Blyth [sic – *see note below]; …
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# 42678
OBAMA, Barack Hussein II (b. 1961)
Dreams from my father : a story of race and inheritance. (First edition)
New York: Times Books/ Random House, 1995. First printing of the first edition, with the number line ending at 2, as called for. Octavo, publisher’s papered boards in unclipped dust jacket (light handling wear, short split to one corner), pp. 401, [1]; a very good copy. Obama’s autobiographical masterpiece, a work of profound wisdom and …
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# 41664
HADFIELD, James (1771/2 - 1841)
Epitaph of my poor Jack, SQUIRREL. … Died Sunday Morning, July 23rd, 1826.
[Bethlem Hospital, London, before 1841]. Manuscript in brown ink with calligraphic title in blue and decoration in black, yellow and magenta inks, 230 x 185 mm (sheet); written entirely in the hand of criminally insane inmate James Hadfield, and signed by him in full at the foot, followed by ‘Bethlem Hospital’ in sanguine ink; mounted …
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# 43677
PALMER, Tony
The trials of Oz. (Felix Dennis’ copy)
Manchester : Blond & Briggs, 1971. First edition. Octavo trade paperback, 274, [1] pp, with illustrations by Felix Topolski; wrappers lightly rubbed, internally very clean and sound; a significant association copy, with the ex libris of Felix Dennis (1947 -2014), editor of London Oz, publisher and later media tycoon, to the inside of the front wrapper. …
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# 43897
LA TROBE, Charles Joseph; LONSDALE, William [HEPBURN, Robert]
[MELBOURNE] Town Lot purchase document for land in present-day Carlton, with signature and seal of Lieutenant-Governor Charles La Trobe, countersigned by William Lonsdale. 16 May, 1853.
[Melbourne : Government of the Colony of Victoria]. Pro forma document printed on vellum, 340 x 430 mm, with manuscript entries recording the purchase by Robert Hepburn for £270 of a Town Lot measuring one rood (1/4 acre) at the corner of Queensberry Street and Bouverie Street (now Carlton), in the County of Bourke, Parish of …
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# 43910
[HOWE, Robert, printer]; DARLING, Ralph; McLEAY, Alexander
Acts and Ordinances of the Governor and Council of New South Wales … of His Excellency Lieut. Gen. Ralph Darling. 1826.
Sydney : Printed by Robert Howe, Government Printer, 1827. Foolscap folio, original grey wrappers with ‘1826’ in ms. to upper wrapper; letterpress printed. Contents: pp. 25-27 (three 1826 Proclamations by Governor Darling), [4] (title-leaf and index for Acts and Ordinances of the Governor and Council of New South Wales … passed during the administration of …
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# 43912
[MANSFIELD, Ralph, printer]; DARLING, Ralph; McLEAY, Alexander
Acts and Ordinances of the Governor and Council of New South Wales, … during the administration of His Excellency Lieut. Gen. Ralph Darling. 1830.
Sydney : Printed by R. Mansfield, for the executors of R. Howe, 1830. Foolscap folio, original grey wrappers with ‘Proclamations, Acts of Council, Government Orders and Notices from 7th July to 15th November 1830’ in ms. to upper wrapper (wrappers stained and with some silverfishing); letterpress printed. Contents: [6] (title-leaf and Table of contents for Acts …
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# 43902
Mass'oud Mirza Zell-e Soltan (1850-1918)
[PERSIA] Prince Mass’oud Mirza Zell-e Soltan, as Governor of Isfahan : autograph letter signed, to a British military officer. Isfahan, 18 January 1902.
Manuscript in violet ink, 2 pp., on bifolium of pink silk-stock notepaper with embossed letterhead in gold in the form of the Lion and Sun emblem of the Kingdom of Persia; the letter is written in English, headed ‘Esfahan, January 18th 1902’, and addressed simply ‘Excellence!’; it is signed at the foot ‘Your sincere friend, …