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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 50004

Imperial Japanese Government Railways

An official guide to Eastern Asia. Trans-continental connections between Europe and Asia. Vol. IV CHINA

Tokyo : Department of Railways, 1915. Duodecimo, gilt-lettered cloth (label removed from spine), top edges gilt, maps to endpapers (lacking the folding map in rear endpocket), pp. cxxiv; 414; extensively illustrated with numerous maps (many folding and in colour, including Tientsin, Peking, Hong Kong, Foochow, Nanking, Soochow, Canton, Shanghai, Amoy, etc.).. The China volume from …

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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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# 50159

NUCOLORVUE

Kosciusko Road in summer, Snowy Mountains

Moorabbin, Vic. : Nucolorvue, [circa 1970]. Paper wallet, 113 x 153 mm, with colour photographic front; containing an accordion-style foldout with 10 colour photographic views; intended for mailing, but unused; in excellent condition.

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