Tourism

  • # 45533

    FERGUSSON & CO.

    Commonwealth celebrations Sydney : descriptive and illustrative, with panorama.

    [Drop title]. Sydney and London : Fergusson & Co., [1901]. Fourth edition. Small oblong quarto (195 x 240 mm), publisher’s olive-green wrappers with gold embossed lettering and decoration and pictorial onlay of HMS Royal Arthur (wrappers lightly marked and a little edge-worn), original ribbon ties; fully contemporary gift inscription to first page; [24] photographic plates …

  • # 44876

    COGNE, Francois (1829–1883); TROEDEL, Charles (1836-1906)

    Swanston Street (1863)

    Tinted lithograph, printed on stone, 26.5 × 36.5 cm (image); 28.0 × 37.9 cm (outer framing line); 35.5 x 45.5 cm (trimmed sheet), a few spots of foxing, old repaired tear extending to the edge of the image upper right, mounted. A fine view looking down the main boulevard of Melbourne during the height of …

  • # 44874

    COGNE, Francois (1829–1883); TROEDEL, Charles (1836-1906)

    Sandridge from Hobson’s Bay (1863)

    Tinted lithograph, printed on stone, 26.6 × 35.7 cm (image); 28.0 × 37.1 cm (outer framing line); 40.1 × 52.3 cm (sheet), a few spots of foxing, old repaired tear extending to the edge of the image upper right, mounted. A fine, animated view of Sandridge (now called Port Melbourne), from Troedel’s The Melbourne album …

  • # 44875

    COGNE, Francois (1829–1883); TROEDEL, Charles (1836-1906)

    Botanical Gardens (1863)

    Tinted lithograph, printed on stone, 26.3 × 36.1 cm (image); 28.1 × 37.8 cm (outer framing line); 31.6 × 41.0 cm (trimmed sheet), a few spots of foxing, mounted. A fine view looking across the Yarra River and the City of Melbourne from the Botanical Gardens, taken from Troedel’s The Melbourne album (Melbourne : Charles …

  • # 45043

    JAMES, H. R. (publisher)

    Sixteen beautiful photogravure views representing Australian country life

    Adelaide : H.R. James, c. 1935. Oblong octavo, lettered wrappers (stained), title sheet, sixteen photogravure plates of Australian iconic picturesque scenery of sheep, cattle and wheat farming.

  • # 44899

    Beira and Mashonaland and Rhodesia Railways

    Guide to Rhodesia for the use of tourists & settlers

    With illustrations, maps and plans. [Bulawayo] : Beira and Mashonaland and Rhodesia Railways, 1914. Octavo, striking papered boards in leopard skin pattern, edges a little rubbed; ‘Gratis Copy’ wet stamp to title page; pp. xvi, 395; inserted leaf updating tariffs to 1917, folding maps, advertisement inserts printed on coloured papers; a very good copy. Wonderful …

  • # 45096

    PITT, C.A.

    [NORTHERN TERRITORY] Magnificent views illustrating scenes along the North South Highway

    Cover title: Series of magnificent views illustrating scenes along the North South Highway, Northern Territory, Australia. Payneham, South Australia : C. A. Pitt, [c.1950]. Oblong quarto, pictorial limp wrappers (grey variant, other examples printed on yellow and red paper stocks), 16 pp, black and white photographic plates of Alice Springs, Aileron, Barrow Creek, the Devil’s Marbles, …

  • # 45095

    PITT, C.A.

    [NORTHERN TERRITORY] Magnificent views illustrating scenes along the North South Highway

    Cover title: Series of magnificent views illustrating scenes along the North South Highway, Northern Territory, Australia. Payneham, South Australia : C. A. Pitt, [c.1950]. Oblong quarto, pictorial limp wrappers (red variant, other examples printed on yellow and grey paper stocks), 16 pp, black and white photographic plates of Alice Springs, Aileron, Barrow Creek, the Devil’s Marbles, …

  • # 45090

    KOREAN TOURIST BUREAU

    Warm welcome to Korea

    Seoul : Korean Tourist Bureau, circa 1960. Tourist brochure, narrow octavo, pp. 16, illustrated in colour, map. Tourism in the East Asia

  • # 45052

    MIZUNO, Hidehiko

    Cherry Blossoms of Kyoto : a seasonal portfolio (from the library of Criss Canning)

    Photographs by Hidehiko Mizuno, Kayu Mizuno, Yasutaka Ogaway. Tokyo ; New York : Kodansha International, 2009. Quarto, illustrated wrappers in dustjacket, pp. 103, illustrated. ‘This book features forty-eight superlative cherry blossom viewing locations captured by three photographers born and raised in Kyoto, who have made documenting its beauty their life’s work. In these pages we …

  • # 44813

    [Various].

    [VIETNAM WAR] Collection of business cards for bars and nightclubs catering to US servicemen on R&R in the Wanchai red-light district of Hong Kong.

    [Hong Kong : various establishments, 1965-70]. Collection of 18 (eighteen) business cards, largest 63 x 106 mm, most printed on both sides; a few with toning or light marks, but a very well preserved group. During the Vietnam War, Hong Kong – along with Sydney, Taipei, Bangkok and Manila – was one of the main …

  • # 44548

    [SCHROEDER & CIE.]

    [MOUNTAINEERING] Glacier des Bossons.

    [Zürich : Schroeder & Cie., 1885]. Large format albumen print, 220 x 275 mm, captioned in the negative ‘399.Glacier des Bossons’; mounted recto of a nineteenth-century album leaf; in very good condition, the mount annotated with the word ‘Switzerland’ (in error) in blue fountain pen at lower left; the verso with another albumen print in …

  • # 44868

    MALONE, Betty et al.

    The Prahran Historical Series

    Melbourne : Prahran Historical and Arts Society and Prahran Mechanic’s Institute, 1982 – 1985. Eight volumes, octavo, illustrated wrappers, between 24 – 80 pages each, in publisher’s slipcase. A detailed history on the suburb of Prahran in Melbourne.

  • # 44385

    ANNAND, Douglas

    The Home Annual 1939

    Sydney : Sydney Morngin Herlamd, October 16th, 1939. Quarto, illustrated wrappers by Douglas Annand (some creases and paper loss along spine), pp. 92, illustrated with fine reproductions of Australian art and photographs from the art deco period, and many stylish advertisements. Includes reproductions after Fred Leist and Sydney Long, articles illustrated by Douglas Annand, photography …

  • # 44088

    Photographer unknown.

    Large social outing on Mount Korong, central Victoria, circa 1900.

    Gelatin silver print photograph, 112 x 152 mm, laid down on its original grey card mount, 128 x 188 mm; verso inscribed in a slightly later hand ‘Mount Korong’; fine condition. Despite the fact that it was probably taken by an amateur photographer, this is a fabulous outdoor photograph: the more you look, the more …

  • # 44082

    JACKSON'S NEWSAGENCY (publisher)

    Valentine’s Snapsots. Canberra, A.C.T. No. 2. 12 real photographs for your album. Hand coloured.

    Canberra : Published for Jackson’s Newsagency, [c.1930]. Fourteen (yes, a baker’s dozen plus one!) gelatin silver print photographs with hand colouring, in uniform 65 x 105 mm format, with captions in the negatives; all in fine condition, accompanied by the original manila envelope, as issued (paper splits to edges).