Tourism

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

    # 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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    # 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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  • Peeps at Japan.

    # 49585

    BEATO, Felice (1832-1909)

    Peeps at Japan.

    [Yokohama, 1872]. Oblong quarto (230 x 300 mm), half morocco over marbled papered boards (rubbed), upper board with original printed title label ‘Peeps at Japan’, spine lettered in gilt ‘Beato / Peeps at Japan’; original marbled endpapers, containing [20] albumen prints in format 155 x 200 mm, mounted recto only on leaves of lightweight card …

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  • Hongkong around and about

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

    # 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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  • [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.

    # 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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  • [BLUE MOUNTAINS] View in the Grose Valley, New South Wales, c.1890.

    # 50371

    [NEW SOUTH WALES. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE]

    [BLUE MOUNTAINS] View in the Grose Valley, New South Wales, c.1890.

    Large format albumen print photograph, 230 x 280 mm, captioned in the negative at lower right ‘Valley of the Gross NSW’; in fine condition, unmounted.

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  • Circular Quay on a holiday. Sydney, c.1895

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

    # 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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  • The Hotel Metropole, Sydney, c.1890.

    # 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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  • Souvenir album from Los Angeles and vicinity.

    # 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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  • Seeing Singapore.

    # 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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  • [SYDNEY] Kings Cross, 1936-1946.

    # 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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  • British Empire Exhibition 1924. Jammu and Kashmir State Handbook

    # 50295

    Anon

    British Empire Exhibition 1924. Jammu and Kashmir State Handbook

    [London : s.n., 1924]. Printed by Norbury, Natzio & Co., Manchester. Quarto, embossed lettered wrappers, card endpapers, pp. 62, ruled borders, a fine copy. Extremely rare and substantial handbook for Jammu and Kashmir State published for the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley Park, London, in 1924. The Exhibition ran from 23 April to 1 November …

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  • Macao : a short handbook. (Presentation copy)

    # 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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  • Williamstown illustrated.

    # 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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