Tourism

# 50821

[MEECH, Herbert John]

[LONDON; DOLLS] Meech’s Wax-Work Exhibition. 50 & 52, Kennington Road. The Automaton Flute Player. The Greatest Novelty of the Age. The Wonder of all Beholders.

Kennington Cross [London] : Merser & Gardner, printers, [1875]. Handbill, 140 x 110 mm, lithograph-printed on both sides; recto with an illustrated advertisement for the Automaton Flute Player; verso with a notice for Meech’s Wax Doll Bazaar (at the same address) ‘established over 27 years, and [containing] the handsomest collection of dressed dolls in the …

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# 50822

[MEECH, Herbert John]

[LONDON; DOLLS] Meech’s Royal Exhibition of Mechanical and Wax Figures, 50 & 52, Kennington Road … Complimentary Lenten Order, admitting TWO on Payment for ONE,

To view the magnificent life-size Models in costly costumes of eminent persons, The Automaton Flute Player, with the wonderful mechanical Groupings, Works of Art, and the performances of Professor Burman, the Wizard, (From the Egyptian Hall) whose feats are still the delight and surprise of all. Admission 6d. Working Classes and Children 3d. Open daily …

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# 50391

RAND McNALLY & COMPANY

China and Japan pocket map showing political divisions, cities and towns, railroads, waterways, etc.

[Cover title]. New York ; Chicago ; San Francisco : Rand McNally & Company, [c.1938]. Tall octavo folding card (235 x 110 mm), front annotated by the original owner ‘Purchased 1952 March’; containing the large folding colour map ‘Rand McNally Standard Map of China and Japan’, 500 x 680 mm, scale 1:8,744,000; verso with printed …

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# 51036

BREDON, Juliet (1881 - 1937)

Peking. A historical and intimate description of its chief places of interest

With maps, plans and illustrations. Shanghai : Kelly & Walsh, 1920. First edition. Octavo, modern quarter crushed maroon goatskin over cloth, spine with raised bands, lettered in gilt, ruled in blind, pp. xvi; 478, numerous photographic illustrations and folding maps and plans of the city, a very good copy in modern binding. A popular guide …

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# 50760

Anon.

38 magnificent views illustrating Canberra, Australian Capital Territory

[Cover title : Canberra, Australian Capital Territory. 38 Views]. [Adelaide] : H.R. James & Co, circa 1930. Oblong quarto, lettered wrappers, lightly sunned and marked, staples rusted, pp. [16], photographically illustrated with views of Parliament House, Government House, Albert Hall, shipping centres at Civic, Hotel Canberra, the National Library, the Lodge etc.

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# 50608

CHAPAZ, George and HENRIOT, Alexandre

The Champagne Vine Country and Champagne Wine

[Epernay] : Moet et Chandon, circa 1920. Narrow octavo, illustrated wrappers, map of the Champagne region inside upper wrapper, pp. 32, illustrated. A charming English language tourist guide to the Champagne region, printed in Reims, and published by arguably the region’s most well known champagne houses, Moet et Chandon.

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# 50586

AH YUEN

Picturesque Hong Kong

Hong Kong : printed by Goodyear Printing Press, distributed by Ah Yuen Photo Service, circa. 1975. Booklet of colour postcards, with smaller versions of each image as a stub, seven (of eight) photographic postcards included, the first one neatly detached and lacking, the remaining images of Kowloon, Kai Tak Airport, Victoria City, Ocean Theatre, Banking …

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# 50457

[Société M. O. Wolff]

[IMPERIAL RUSSIA] St.-Pétersbourg et ses environs : guide pratique illustré. (With an extra map, issued only to conference delegates)

At head of title: Conférence Internationale des Horaires des Trains a St.-Pétersbourg pour le service d’hiver 1899-1900. St.-Pétersbourg & Moscou : Société M. O. Wolff, Imprimeurs-Editeurs-Libraires de la Cour Impériale, 1899. Small octavo (185 x 130 mm), original red cloth decorated in blind and lettered in gilt (nice and bright); half-title leaf, photographic frontispiece, title-leaf, …

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# 50542

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, includes tours of Johore and Penang, a fine copy. A single example recorded on Worldcat (National Library of Singapore).

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# 50390

AMERICAN EXPRESS CO., LTD.

Seeing Singapore.

[Cover title]. Singapore : Printers Ltd., [c.1935]. Octavo leaflet in the form of a single folding sheet (185 x 125 mm), [4] pp, illustrated; with information about the American Express Travel Service, excursions on Singapore Island and Johore, and a Suggested Tour in Malaya; very good condition.

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# 50554

Java the wonderland. Illustrated. Guide and tourist’s handbook.

Weltevreden (Batavia) : Official Tourist Bureau, c. 1900. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, cloth spine, pp. 106, extensively illustrated in black and white, folding colour map at rear, the title page neatly excised and a photocopy supplied, else a very good copy.

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# 50231

PEPLOW, S. H. and BARKER, M.

Hongkong around and about

Hong Kong : Ye Olde Printerie, 1931. Second edition, revised and enlarged. Octavo, quarter cloth over lettered papered boards, paper title label to spine, edges lightly rubbed, bookplate and early inscription to front free-endpaper, folding map in outline colour, pp. [ii]; 196; [6 – index], a fine copy. A charming guide to daily life in …

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# 50370

[NEW SOUTH WALES. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE]

Two views of Fitzroy Falls, Moss Vale, New South Wales, c.1890.

Two large format albumen print photographs, each 230 x 280 mm, both captioned in the negative at lower right ‘Fitzroy Falls, Moss Vale’; both in fine condition, unmounted. Fitzroy Falls is an 80-metre waterfall located in what is now the Morton National Park in the Southern Highlands region of New South Wales, just southeast of …

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# 50077

NEW SOUTH WALES. COLONIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE.

[BLUE MOUNTAINS] The Ministers request the honour of Mr J. G. O’Connor’s company, on an Excursion to the Zig Zag, Lithgow Valley, on the Great Western Railway, on Wednesday, the 7th October [1885], to leave the Sydney Railway Station at 8.45 a.m.

[Sydney : Government Printer, 1885]. Invitation card, 113 x 115 mm; lithograph printed recto only in black on cream lightweight card stock; O’Connor’s name entered in manuscript; toned and lightly marked, tiny loss at one corner, verso with superficial loss from where the card was once mounted in an album. Provenance: Removed from a dilapidated …

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# 50373

KERRY, Charles

Circular Quay on a holiday. Sydney, c.1895

Albumen print photograph, 150 x 200 mm, captioned in the negative at lower left ‘1682. Circular Quay on a holiday’, and with the blind stamp of ‘Kerry & Co. Photo., 308 Geo. St. Sydney Copyright’; mounted recto of a 19th-century album leaf of thick card, with manuscript caption to lower margin; in fine condition; verso …

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# 50372

[NEW SOUTH WALES. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE]

Three views in the Botanic Gardens, Sydney, New South Wales, c.1890.

Three large format albumen print photographs, each 230 x 280 mm, with captions in the negative; one print with a couple of nicks to top edge, otherwise all in fine condition, unmounted.

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