Tourism
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# 46987
HETHERINGTON, Michelle
James Northfield. The art of selling Australia
Canberra : National Library of Australia, 2006. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp.96, illustrated. Striking modernist poster designs promoting Australian tourism.
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# 46600
MALAYSIAN AIRLINE SYSTEMS
This is our Malaysia
Kuala Lumpur : Malaysian Airline Systems, circa 1975. Tourist brochure, DL size, printed in colour, pp. [12], folding central pages with map, includes features on Kuala Lumpur, Penang, Sabah, Sarawak, Malacca etc.
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# 46595
Bureau Officiel du Tourisme Indochinois
French Indochina
Saigon : Bureau Officiel du Tourisme Indochinois, circa 1930. Tourisme brochure, DL size, singe; sheet folded, pp. [8], illustrated, some light foxing and wear along folds, wet stamp for Cook’s travel agent in Shanghai to upper panel.
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# 46586
[Photographer unknown].
View of Scott’s Hotel, Collins Street West, Melbourne, c.1880.
Albumen print photograph, 155 x 205 mm, laid down recto of card mount (250 x 360 mm) removed from a nineteenth-century album, with a contemporary caption in ink below the image: ‘Melbourne. Scotts Hotel, Collins Street West’; no photographer’s imprint; a beautiful print with excellent tonal range, in fine condition; verso with a faded albumen …
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# 46601
PENANG DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
Penang : pearl of the orient
[Georgetown] : Penang Development Corporation, circa 1975. Tourist brochure, DL size, printed in colour, pp. [10], photographs.
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# 46805
QUEENSLAND GOVERNMENT
The Gold Coast, Queensland
[Brisbane] : [Queensland Government Tourist Bureau] : circa 1985. Octavo, vibrant illustrated self-wrappers, pp. [16], illustrated. Distinctive Queensland tourist brochure from the Joh Bjelke-Petersen years, unashamedly spruiking the Gold Coast as ‘Australia’s favourite holiday playground’.
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# 46799
VICTORIAN RAILWAYS
The Grampians and district, Victoria, Australia.
[Melbourne] : Victorian Railways Commissioners, in conjunction with the Grampians District Tourist Association, 1949. First edition. Single sheet, 380 x 460 mm, folding to 220 x 110 mm, chiefly photographic illustrations, with accompanying text and map; tear along fold at one edge, otherwise a good example.
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# 46732
BRADFIELD, J. J. C. (John Job Crew) (1867-1943) (attributed); PHILLIPS, Harry (publisher)
Sydney Harbour Bridge and City Railway
Willoughby, N.S.W. : H. Phillips, [1930]. Large oblong octavo (210 x 260 mm), pictorial grey wrappers printed in blue, stapled; [44] pp, with b/w photographic illustrations and line drawings throughout; a fine copy. Internal references and illustrations indicate this pamphlet was probably published in 1930. One of the illustrations is an artist’s impression of how …
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# 46355
M. STERNGERG & TURCO-EGYPTIAN TOBACCO STORE (publishers)
Group of five chromolithographic postcards with views of Hong Kong, early 1900s.
I. M. Sternberg, publisher. Hongkong Star Ferry Wharf. II. M. Sternberg, publisher. View of Peak Buildings and Roads, Hongkong. III. M. Sternberg, publisher. Queen’s Road Central and Chinese New Year Decorations, Hongkong. IV. Turco-Egyptian Tobacco Store, publisher. Hongkong. Resting Place of the highest spot of the Peak. V. Turco-Egyptian Tobacco Store, publisher. The Peak of …
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# 46442
INDIAN STATE RAILWAYS
Kashmir. Indian State Railways.
Bombay : Times of India Press, [c.1930]. Tall narrow octavo (250 x 110 mm, folded), colour-illustrated wrappers; 16 double pages (each folds out to 250 x 220 mm); b/w photographic illustrations, large map; contents starting to detach from wrappers, otherwise very good condition. Attractive Indian tourist brochure from the late Raj. The text includes historical …
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# 46338
AMERICAN EXPRESS
Excursions in and around Singapore
Singapore : The American Express Company, Inc., [1920]. Tourist brochure, 180 x 85 mm (folded), four panels, pp. [8], double panel map of Singapore town, a few pen notes, adhesion marks on lower panel where stuck in an album, includes tours of Johore and Penang. A single example recorded on Worldcat (National Library of Singapore).
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# 45945
BAEDEKER, Karl
Egypt and the Sudan. Handbook for travellers.
Leipzig : Karl Baedeker, 1914. Seventh remodelled edition. Small octavo, original limp red cloth lettered in gilt; (expert repair to spine) front pastedown and endpaper with publisher’s advertisements; half-title page with owner’s inscription, pp cxc, 458; with 22 maps, 85 plans, and 55 vignettes; scattered light foxing; a very good copy. Guide to Egypt and …
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# 46507
Australian National Airways
A.N.A. Flight Schedules, effective 21st October, 1947
Melbourne : Australian National Airways, 1947. Brochure, DL size, 8 pp. folded, graphic cover design, with flight schedules for passenger services between Melbourne – Sydney – Brisbane – Cairns; Melbourne – Tasmania – Bass Strait Islands; Melbourne – Mildura – Broken Hill; Sydney – Mildura – Broken Hill; Sydney – Mildura – Adelaide; and Melbourne …
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# 46357
M. STERNGERG & TURCO-EGYPTIAN TOBACCO STORE (publishers)
Hongkong. View of the Peak Hotel taken from the Peak.
Hong Kong : Published by M. Sternberg, [c.1910]. Lithographic postcard, 91 x 135 mm; not mailed, in very fine condition.
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# 46514
BAEDEKER, Karl
Northern Germany as far as the Bavarian and Austrian borders. Handbook for travellers.
Leipzig : Karl Baedeker, 1910. Fifteenth revised edition. Small octavo, original limp red cloth lettered in gilt; (lightly rubbed) front pastedown and endpaper with publisher’s advertisements; pp. xxxviii, 430; with 47 maps, 81 plans, a very good copy.
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# 46390
[TROMPF, Percy (illustrator); Australian Railways Commissioners]
[IMMIGRATION] Australia calls you : the continent of opportunity
/ compiled and issued jointly by The Australian Railways Commissioners. Sydney : The Commissioners, 1928. Oblong octavo, illustrated wrappers with art works by Percy Trompf (lightly creased), string bound, 35 pp, illustrated, a few small stains. Brochure published for prospective migrants from the British Isles, with sections on each of the six States. Three copies …