Tourism

# 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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# 50407

KERRY, Charles

The Hotel Metropole, Sydney, c.1890.

Albumen print photograph, 150 x 200 mm, 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: ‘Hotel Metropole, where Murch and I stopped 1st time. Sydney’; in fine condition; verso with another albumen print in similar …

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# 49874

THE O. NEWMAN COMPANY

Souvenir album from Los Angeles and vicinity.

Cover title: Souvenir from Los Angeles and Southern California. Los Angeles, CA : The O. Newman Company, [c.1915]. Small oblong quarto (210 x 265 mm), publisher’s pictorial card covers (moderate edge-wear, spine with paper split and loss, rear cover with a few spots of silverfish damage), original string ties; decorative glassine guard protecting title-page is …

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# 50379

Kings Cross Community Aid and Information Service

[SYDNEY] Kings Cross, 1936-1946.

Cover title: Memories, Kings Cross, 1936-1946. Potts Point [N.S.W.] : Kings Cross Community Aid and Information Service, 1981. Large quarto (305 x 210 mm), original stiff wrappers (light edge wear) with gold lettering; pp. 161, plus [17] pp of plates (including two paintings by Rosaleen Norton and a photograph of the Witch of Kings Cross working …

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# 48918

BRAGA, José Maria

Macao : a short handbook. (Presentation copy)

Macao : Information and Tourist Department, 1963. First edition, first printing, inscribed by the author on the half-title, ‘With compliments and every good wish, from J. M. Braga’. Octavo (225 x 160 mm), later marbled boards with gilt-lettered black morocco title label to front; pp. 64, with 27 b/w photographic illustrations, and a folding map; …

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# 49960

JOHNSTON, John (editor)

Williamstown illustrated.

Williamstown : Printed by Clark & Co., “Advertiser” Office, Nelson Place, 1904. Oblong octavo (150 x 250 mm), original grey wrappers lettered in yellow (lightly marked, sunned along spine and lower edges); pp. [64], illustrated throughout with half-tone photographs; upper margin of first page with a gift inscription dated Christmas Day 1904, and later family …

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# 19684

LINDHARDT, Knud

Europe’s Gay Gateway. See wonderful Copenhagen via SAS

[Copenhagen : Scandinavian Airlines System, circa 1956]. Offset lithograph, 970 x 720 mm, printed lower left ‘Printed in Denmark – Interprint A/S Stosv 1860’, light handling marks, else fine. A fabulously kitsch 1950s travel poster for the Danish capital, designed by Knud Lindhardt. The poster was issued in two sheets in mirror image, of which …

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# 50174

[Photographer unknown].

View of Clifton Springs on the Bellarine Peninsula, southwest of Melbourne, c.1930.

Sepia carbon print photograph, in very large 240 x 500 mm format; pencilled caption verso reads ‘Clifton Springs’; faint corner erase at upper right, otherwise in fine condition, unmounted.

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