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# 23345
CUTTING, C.K.; THE NAYTURA FOODATORIUM (MELBOURNE)
Chart No. 1 Planned Menus : Diet and rejuvenation chart; Chart No. 2 Plain facts worth a fortune : Health rules and hints; Chart No. 3 Classification and combined meals : Simple health food combination chart.
Melbourne : The Naytura Foodatorium (The Nutritional Reasearch Group), 300 Little Collins Street, [between 1930 and 1940]. Three folding cards in identical narrow folio format (320 x 125 mm folded, opening to 320 x 600 mm), printed on yellow, orange and green card respectively, each with dietary information and planned menus printed across [8] panels; …
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# 23242
SCOTT, John
The puzzle king
Amusing arithmetic, book-keeping blunders, commercial comicalities, curious ‘catches’, peculiar problems, perplexing paradoxes, quaint questions, queer quibbles, school stories, interesting items. Tricks with figures, cards, draughts, dice, dominoes, etc., etc., etc. Brisbane : H.J. Diddams, 1899. Octavo, gilt-illustrated cloth (a few light stains), pp. 112, illustrations and diagrams, advertisements for A.M.P. Society, Brisbane to endpapers. Rare …
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# 23083
FAHY, Kevin; SIMPSON, Christina; SIMPSON, Andrew
Nineteenth century Australian furniture
Sydney : David Ell Press, 1985. Thick quarto, boards in dustjacket, pale foxing to endpapers, pp. 624, extensively illustrated. Original order form and invoices enclosed. 2000 copies printed. In the original mailing carton.
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# 23347
HOBART METHODIST CENTRAL MISSION
Hobart cookery book of tested recipes, household hints and home remedies / compiled by a Committee of Ladies for the Methodist Central Mission, Melville Street, Hobart.
Hobart : Davies Brothers Limited, [1912?]. Third edition. Octavo, publisher’s cloth backed printed papered boards (detached and stained), xiii, 131 pp, scattered foxing and staing and occasional annotations in pencil; a well-used copy. Hoyle, 839. Two copies of the third edition are recorded in Australian collections (National Library of Australia; State Library of New South …
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# 23346
RUTLEDGE, Jean
The Goulburn cookery book / compiled by Mrs. Forster Rutledge. Eighteenth edition.
Sydney : Edwards, Dunlop & Co. Limited, 1916. Octavo, printed blue cloth over boards (stained and detached), inner boards with illustrated advertisements, 199 pp, with unpaginated advertisements at front and rear (first leaf of advertisments detached and torn), original owner’s name ‘E.A. Frost’ to front pastedown and title page, occasional annotations in pencil; a well-used …
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# 23343
"THE WARDMASTER" [Disabled Men's Association of Australia]
The home nurse
Melbourne : Veritas Pub. Co., 1930. Octavo (183 x 123 mm), illustrated stiff wrappers, 63 pp, a very good copy.
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# 23337
ARTHUR YATES & CO. (SYDNEY)
Getting down to business on the food front : Yates’ seed book of what & when to sow : a real war job.
Sydney : Yates, [1944]. Small quarto (245 x 185 mm), pictorial wrappers (some light creasing), staple bound, pp 48, illustrated throughout in b/w with colour illustrated inner wrappers; a good copy. This wartime publication was the first by Yates & Co. since 1941 (page one). As the latest internal date mentioned is 1943, the most …
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# 23555
SANTICH, Barbara
In the land of the Magic Pudding : a gastronomic miscellany
Kent Town, South Australia : Wakefield Press, 2000. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, pp. 235. Writings on the theme of food in Australia, inspired by the Lindsay classic.
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# 23084
DODD, Graeme; VIDLER, Kornelia.
1988 commemorative collection of fine colonial furniture
Sydney : Rustic Charm, 1988. Quarto, illustrated boards, pp. 120, illustrated.
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# 23076
The Australian Woman’s World : a town & country journal for Australian women. October, 1930. Vol. 10, no. 118.
Melbourne : Australian Woman’s World, 1930. Quarto (310 x 230 mm), pictorial wrappers, pp 84 (including wrappers), illustrations (some colour), advertisements; a near fine copy. Fashion, home decor, needlework and knitting, household hints (including cookery recipes), short fiction etc.
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# 23080
CRAIG, Clifford (1896-1986); ROBERTSON, E. Graeme (Edward Graeme) (1903-1975); FAHY Kevin
Early colonial furniture in New South Wales and Van Diemen’s Land
Melbourne : Georgian House, 1972. Quarto cloth in dustjacket, pp. 220, extensively illustrated.
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# 23220
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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# 23090
Éloge des pierreries
Paris : Cartier, 1947. Quarto, two volumes housed in crimson slipcase. Vol 1, pp 45, loose as issued in printed card covers, minor loss on spine, with original lithograph by André Derian on frontispiece, printed by Jean Vigneau at the press of Paul Dupont. Vol 2, pp 23, boards with monogrammed dust jacket, with bound-in gouache Collier …
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# 22933
Rice Marketing Board for the State of New South Wales
192 of the best recipes for rice : the food of the people
Leeton, N.S.W. : Rice Marketing Board for the State of N.S.W., [1950?]
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# 22800
Eight Heinz promotional bookmarks in the shape of pickles with young girls
Eight examples of Heinz’ diecut card promotional bookmarks, each approximately 13 cm long, the card embossed with the wart like texture of the skin of the pickle, each with the image of a young girl holding or eating a Heinz product (baked beans, tomato soup etc.), the verso with information about the Henz company (a …
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# 22699
GELLERT, Leon; URE SMITH, Sydney (editors)
The Home. Vol. 19, No. 12. December 1, 1938
Sydney : John Fairfax, 1938. Quarto, illustrated wrappers by Hera Roberts (some wear along spine), pp. 92, a fine copy. This issue includes illustrated articles on Sydney fashion and society, home and gardens, with a feature on the Russian Ballet and numerous photographs and advertisements for P & O, Ardath cigarettes, David Jones, Arnott’s biscuits …