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# 18654
BROADBENT, James
The Australian colonial house
Architecture and society in New South Wales 1788-1842. Sydney : Hordern House in association with the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, 1997. Quarto, cloth covered boards, pictorial dust jacket, pp. 400, limited to 2000 copies, contains 24 colour plates and over 100 monochrome plates, contains in-depth academic text on the architecture of houses …
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# 18074
[HONG KONG]. Soda Fountain Menu
Kowloon : The Kowloon Confectionery and Bakery, [c.1930]. Octavo, self-wrappers, pp. [12], worn, text in English and Cantonese, pen additions to the menu. Scarce and ephemeral menu from Hong Kong. Unrecorded.
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# 18080
Madame Chiang’s Chinese cook book
Translated in English. Winona, Minnesota, Chinese Cook Book Company, 1941. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, pp.64, illustrated with racially stereotypes caricatures of Chinese people. Fine.
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# 17892
AMIES, (Edwin) Hardy, 1909-2003
An ABC of men’s fashion
London : Newnes, 1964. First edition. Small octavo, publisher’s black buckram boards with gilt lettering to spine, in original illustrated dust jacket (some wear to top edges of front and back panels, otherwise very good), pp 128, with b/w photographic plates and line illustrations in the text; a fine copy. Very scarce first edition of …
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# 18068
HALES, Stephen (1677 - 1761)
A friendly admonition to the drinkers of gin, brandy, and other distilled spirituous liquors.
With an humble representation of the necessity of restraining a vice so destructive of the industry, morals, health, and lives of the people. To which are added, in an appendix, directions by a very eminent physician, to such as may be desirous to break off that odious and fatal habit of drinking drams. London : …
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# 17936
C. SHEEKEY
[BEER] Letterhead of The Standard Cordial Factory, C. Sheekey, Hop and Dandelion Ale Brewer, proprietor, Goulburn, New South Wales. Dated 1905.
Lithographed letterhead, 210 x 130 mm; manuscript entries dated January 11th 1905 recording receipt of payment of 10s from Miss DeLauren of ginger beer; old bill spike, short tear bottom edge.
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# 18027
CHELLARAM, D.
D. Chellaram, Hong Kong
[also titled on first page Beautiful Hong Kong. The Gateway to the East]. Hong Kong : Chellaram, circa 1925. Octavo, printed wrappers, pp. [16], photographic illustrations, map, inscription on one of the pages. Promotional booklet for the house of Chellaram (established 1860), a clothing retailer and supplier of silks, tapestries and curios on Queen’s Road.
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# 18426
The Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company .
P. & O. R.M.S. “Moldavia”, Colombo to Australia. Saturday, January 26th, 1935. Menu and invitation to Fancy Dress Ball.
Folding card, colour printed front with striking design of a masquerade ball (faint corner crease top right), centre pages with menu for dinner and invitation to the Fancy Dress Ball at 10 p.m., centre and rear pages with olive-tone vignette illustrations (mild foxing).
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# 18197
WALL, Dorothy (1894-1942)
The rainy day : gift book of the Commonwealth Savings Bank of Australia
“Story and illustrations by Dorothy Wall.” (p.[1]). [Sydney] : John Sands [for The Bank], [c.1925]. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers in green and black (small loss to corner), [18] pp, monochrome and colour illustrations, a good copy. Muir, 7843, recorded only with green and black wrappers, we have also handled copies printed in pink and black. …
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# 18019
Sale of the personal collection of Chanel. Saturday December 2 at 7.00 p.m. at Christie’s
[cover title]. Title page : The Chanel wardrobe and casket of costume jewellery assembled by Madame Lilian Grumbach, the closest colleague of Madmoiselle Chanel during the last fourteen years of her life. London : Christie, Manson & Woods Ltd., 1978. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 56, illustrated. Price list loosely enclosed. Rare auction catalogue of the …
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# 18065
BULLOCK, Thomas
Queer folk
A lecture delivered in the Manchester Road Schoolroom, Southport, January 2nd, 1872. Queer passionate folk. Queer sulking folk. Queer non-laughing folk. Queer flattering folk. Queer lounging folk. Manchester : John Heywood, c. 1872. Octavo, self-wrappers, pp. 16. A moral tract on good behaviour for the Victorian child lest their sulkiness, laziness etc results them as being …
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# 17873
DIOR, Christian
Hommage à Christian Dior 1947 – 1957.
Paris : Museé des arts de la mode, 1986. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (slightly toned), pp. 232, extensive illustrated with photographs and dress designs. Inscription to half-title. Several essays in French by Jacques Dransard, Mar Bohan and Maud Molyneux, Pierre Provoyer and others. A comprehensive reference on the great French designer.
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# 17834
[LIBERACE, Władziu Valentino, 1919-1987]; TRUAX, Carol
Liberace Cooks! : Recipes from his seven dining rooms : as told to Carol Truax. (Signed by Liberace)
New York : Double Day & Co., 1970. Octavo, blue cloth boards with blind reproduction of Liberace’s signature, pictorial dust jacket (small edge tears, residue from price sticker), inscribed and signed on the half-title by Liberace ‘To Patty, love’ and dated 1970, with a sketch of a piano and candelabra by Liberace; also signed by …
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# 17813
SARDI, Vincent, Jr. (1915-2007); BRYSON, Helen
[COOKERY] Curtain up at Sardi’s. (Signed by Vincent Sardi Jr.)
New York : Random House, 1957. First edition. Octavo, publisher’s illustrated gold and cream cloth boards in unclipped pictorial dust jacket (chipped at head and foot of spine), illustrated endpapers, inscribed and signed on the half-title by the famous restaurateur and unofficial mayor of Broadway: ‘With best wishes to Paul Denis with many thanks – …
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# 17808
DIAT, Louis Felix (1885-1957)
[COOKERY] Cooking à la Ritz. (Signed by Louis Diat)
/ Louis Diat. Chef, Ritz-Carlton Hotel, New York. Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott Company, 1941. First edition, first impression. Octavo, publisher’s burgundy cloth boards with white lettering and design, in original dust jacket (top and bottom edges chipped, inner front panel detached but preserved loose inside), inscribed by the famous chef and culinary writer on the …
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# 17391
EGGLESTON, E.H.; DARGE, Algernon
Australian squab culture
Melbourne : Algernon Darge, [1918]. First edition. Octavo, original pictorial green wrappers (mild creasing, original owner’s inscription on lower wrapper), pp 138, [2]; illustrated with photographic plates and line drawings; small ink stain to top corner of all leaves, occasional light handling marks and spotting; a fair copy. Guide to domesticating squabs for use as …