Tourism

  • Earthquake pictorial edition. Part one

    # 15340

    Earthquake pictorial edition. Part one

    Osaka : Osaka Mainichi, 1923. Oblong folio, lettered wrappers (creased), silt ribbon ties, photographic illustrations of the devastation caused by the 1923 earthquake.

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  • Sixth revised pamphlet on the port and district of Cairns, North Queensland, Australia

    # 13815

    Cairns Harbour Board

    Sixth revised pamphlet on the port and district of Cairns, North Queensland, Australia

    Cairns : Cairns Post, 1933. Octavo, printed wrappers (with colour maps), pp. 100, maps, photographic plates, a fine copy. Rare.

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  • Glimpses of Bermuda : a few highways and byways

    # 12741

    TUCKER, Ethel & TUCKER, Catherine F.

    Glimpses of Bermuda : a few highways and byways

    Sevenoaks, U.K. : J. Salmon  Ltd. (printer), [1930]. Large octavo, original pictorial card covers (lightly marked), unpaginated, illustrated with 12 tipped-in colour plates reproducing the authors' paintings, accompanied by text on facing pages, and with an introduction with description of the islands; contents clean and bright, a good copy of a charming privately published book.

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  • New Zealand

    # 11955

    New Zealand

    London, U.K. : Wightman Mountain & Andrews Ltd., printers [for High Commissioner for New Zealand?], [1908]. Small quarto, original pictorial wrappers, staple bound, pp 15, [2], photographic illustrations, map, statistical table, a very good copy. An information guide for prospective New Zealand immigrants. Appears unrecorded in Australian collections.

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  • With mountain, city and forest in New Zealand

    # 11629

    With mountain, city and forest in New Zealand

    Christchurch, N.Z. : Christchurch Engraving Company, n.d. [1898?]. Oblong octavo, original pictorial wrappers (upper wrapper with some staining), [48] pp, mostly full page photographic illustrations including views of Lyttelton, Christchurch, Wellington, Napier, Palmerston North, the Wanganui River, Port Chalmers, Dunedin, Auckland, Masterton, Lake WakatipuOtago, Pembroke Glacier, Oamaru, Invercargill and Queenstown; contents clean and sound. Scarce. …

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  • Norfolk Island Times. Vol. 2 No. 61, Wednesday, April 11, 1934.

    # 10976

    BRUCE, J.B.; SCARROTT, G.R. (proprietors)

    Norfolk Island Times. Vol. 2 No. 61, Wednesday, April 11, 1934.

    [Kingston], Norfolk Island : NI Times, Printed & published by G.R. Scarrott by arrangement with the proprietors J.B. Bruce, B.A., & G.R. Scarrott, 1934. Folio newspaper, roneo printed recto only of 9 sheets, includes illustrated advertisements for R. Hopkins, A.E. Martin, Burns Philp (2), a dance to raise funds for the Melanesian Mission, Producers’ Co-op …

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  • See Australia first : Townsville, N.Q.

    # 7977

    MURRAY VIEWS.

    See Australia first : Townsville, N.Q.

    Gympie, Qld. : Murray Views, [194-?] . Small quarto, pictorial wrappers with oval cut-outs to upper wrapper, [12] pp, colour and sepia tone photographic views, a very good copy. Copies are recorded in four Australian collections (James Cook University Library; Monash University Library; National Library of Australia; State Library of Queensland).

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  • New Zealand in a nutshell

    # 10393

    [New Zealand. Dept. of Tourism and Publicity]

    New Zealand in a nutshell

    [Wellington : Dept. of Tourism and Publicity, 1914]. Duodecimo, original pictorial wrappers, lower wrapper with advertisement for the New Zealand Pavilion at the Panama-Pacific Exposition, San Francisco (1915), staple bound, 34 pp, illustrated with black and white photographic plates, a fine copy. A scarce later edition of this publication, which appears to have been printed …

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  • Commonwealth celebrations Sydney : descriptive and illustrative, with panorama.

    # 9994

    FERGUSSON & CO.

    Commonwealth celebrations Sydney : descriptive and illustrative, with panorama.

    Sydney and London : Fergusson & Co., [1901]. Fourth edition. Small oblong quarto, publisher's purple card covers with green embossed lettering and design and pictorial onlay of HMS Royal Arthur (stained), ownership inscription dated Feb. 1901, original ties replaced, [24] photographic plates and [1] folding panorama plate at rear, a good copy.

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  • Melbourne illustrated and Victoria described

    # 9687

    PERKINS, Horace

    Melbourne illustrated and Victoria described

    Melbourne : H. Perkins & Co., The Gift Depot, 1880. Oblong octavo, original wrappers (lightly marked, lower wrapper with paper split along spine), 55 pp, text within red borders, contents clean and sound. Scarce. Ferguson, 14028. This booklet was published to accompany Perkins’ identically titled souvenir of the Melbourne Exhibition, an oblong octavo album with 12 …

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  • How to see Miyanoshita and Hakone

    # 8561

    Japan Tourist Bureau.

    How to see Miyanoshita and Hakone

    Tokyo : Japan Tourist Bureau, June 1935. Octavo, pictorial wrappers, staple bound, 9 pp, illustrated, map, a fine copy.

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  • Notes on Hong Kong

    # 7983

    HONG KONG GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

    Notes on Hong Kong

    [Hong Kong : General Chamber of Commerce, Business Promotion Department, [c.1968]. Quarto, printed yellow wrappers (lightly marked and with some pale foxing), roneo printed, 15 pp, includes fiscal statistical tables (1 folding)., contents very clean and sound.

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  • [BUDDHISM] Scene ethnographique : Temple bouddhique

    # 2789

    [Exposition Universelle, Paris]

    [BUDDHISM] Scene ethnographique : Temple bouddhique

    Photograph on printing out paper, 280 x 380 mm (unmounted), in good condition, with loss of contrast at upper right, small tear lower right corner. An official photograph most likely taken for the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris, showing the Buddhist temple display.

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