Tourism

  • [SNOWY MOUNTAINS] Highlights of Kosciusko

    # 50158

    THE GREGORY PICTORIAL COMPANY

    [SNOWY MOUNTAINS] Highlights of Kosciusko

    Sydney : The Gregory Pictorial Company, [between 1955 and 1960]. Paper wallet, 113 x 147 mm, with illustrated front; containing an accordion-style foldout with 12 b/w photographic views; intended for mailing, but unused; in excellent condition.

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  • Burma

    # 50156

    Burma

    [Rangoon] : Ministry of Information, circa 1966. Oblong octavo, illustrated wrappers (slightly silverfished), pp. [24], illustrated. Propogandist tourist brochure for Burma (Myanmar) while under military rule.

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  • Hawaii. The big island of the Hawaiian group

    # 50155

    Hawaii. The big island of the Hawaiian group

    Honolulu : Hawaii Tourist Bureau, circa 1950. Single sheet, folded to make a tourist brochure on the Big Island, map.

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  • Holidays on the Great Barrier Reef

    # 50151

    Barrier Reef Islands Pty. Ltd

    Holidays on the Great Barrier Reef

    Mackay : Barrier Reef Islands Pty. Ltd., circa 1960. Tourist brochure, folding to DL size, illustrated wrappers, pp. [12], illustrated. Includes popular tourist activities such as climbing coconut palms, poking coral and riding turtles on the Great Barrier Reef.

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  • Souvenir of Mount Gambier South Australia

    # 50148

    KANNENBERG, B. (publisher)

    Souvenir of Mount Gambier South Australia

    [Cover title : Mount Gambier Illustrated]. Mount Gambier : B. Kannenberg, circa 19Oblong quarto, lettered wrappers, string bound, pp. [14], black and white illustrations. The cover indicated ‘Colour supplement of Blue Lake’, which is not present in this copy.

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  • The Chalet, Kiandra, N.S.W. : Snowy Mountains of Australia.

    # 50147

    SKI STUDIO (SYDNEY)

    The Chalet, Kiandra, N.S.W. : Snowy Mountains of Australia.

    [Sydney, NSW] : Ski Studio, 106 Riley Street, [circa 1950]. Promotional flyer, 215 x 140 mm, printed recto only on thin card; vignette illustration and information about accommodation for skiers and holidaymakers in the ‘completely modernised brick and stone building, supplied with electric light, hot and cold water, sewerage and central heating’; light foxing and …

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  • Canberra - four tourist brochures circa 1960

    # 50143

    Anon.

    Canberra – four tourist brochures circa 1960

      Canberra. Points of interest. Canberra : A. J. Arthur, C’wealth Govt. Printer, May, 1957. Tourist brochure, narrow octavo, folding. Planning a national capital. Canberra : National Capital Development Commission, circa 1962. Tourist brochure, narrow octavo, folding. Canberra. Your capital. Canberra : Department of the Interior, circa 1960. Tourist brochure, narrow octavo, folding, illustrated in black …

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  • The Granite Belt, South Queensland

    # 50142

    QUEENSLAND GOVERNMENT TOURIST BUREAU

    The Granite Belt, South Queensland

    Brisbane : Government Printer, [between 1935 and 1940]. Single folded sheet, 430 x 280 mm, printed on both sides in green and black, folded to 220 x 150 mm, text accompanied by photographic illustrations (including Stanthorpe Golf Links, Egg Rock, Undercliffe Falls, orchards), map, short essay on ‘Ever-cool Stanthorpe’; a fine copy. Rare. Appears unrecorded …

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  • Long Island, Happy Bay, Great Barrier Reef.

    # 50139

    QUEENSLAND GOVERNMENT TOURIST BUREAU

    Long Island, Happy Bay, Great Barrier Reef.

    Brisbane : Queensland Government Tourist Bureau, [1940]. Single sheet, 280 x 440 mm, folding to 220 x 140 mm, printed on both sides; with sepia tone photographic illustrations, map; light wear to top edge, some pale foxing. The text is a tourist guide promoting Long Island in the Whitsunday archipelago on the North East Queensland …

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  • Peking the beautiful

    # 48287

    WHITE, Herbert C.

    Peking the beautiful

    Comprising seventy photographic studies of the celebrated monuments of China’s northern capital and its environs complete with descriptive and historical notes. By Herbert C. White, Art Director, Signs of the Times Publishing House, Shanghai. Introduction by Dr. Hu Shih, Celebrated Chinese scholar, philosopher, and leader of the Chinese Renaissance. Shanghai : The Commercial Press, 1927. …

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  • A rare collection of menus from Chinese restaurants in India, circa 1930s.

    # 49980

    Various

    A rare collection of menus from Chinese restaurants in India, circa 1930s.

    A collection of six rare menus, early to mid twentieth century, from Chinese restaurants in Bombay, Madras, Chittagong, and Rawalpindi, servicing expatriate diners, during the 1930s and the wartime of the 1940s. Highly ephemeral and evocative of the melting post of British, Indian, Chinese and American cultures just prior to and during the Second World …

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  • فزان / Fezzan

    # 49023

    Anon.

    فزان / Fezzan

    S.l. : s.n., circa 1960. Tourist brochure, single sheet, folded, pp. [12], illustrated in colour, lightly marked, text in Arabic, French and German. Tourist brochure for the south-west region of Libya.

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  • We Japanese. Being descriptions of many of the customs, manners, ceremonies, festivals, arts and crafts of the Japanese besides numerous other subjects.

    # 49004

    GARIS, Frederic de.

    We Japanese. Being descriptions of many of the customs, manners, ceremonies, festivals, arts and crafts of the Japanese besides numerous other subjects.

    Miyanashita, Japan : Fujiya Hotel, 1950. Combined edition of three books, Book One (first published 1934) : ninth printing; Book Two (first published 1937) : sixth printing; Book Three (first published 1949) : second printing. Octavo, silk wrappers, bound in the Japanese manner, pp. [xxii]; 591, printed on folded Japanese paper, extensively illustrated, in Japanese …

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  • [CORNWALL] A week at the Lizard.

    # 49794

    JOHNS, Rev. C. A. (Charles Alexander)

    [CORNWALL] A week at the Lizard.

    / by the Rev. C. A. Johns, B.A., F.L.S., author of “Botanical Rambles,” “Flowers of the Field,” “British Birds in their Haunts,” &c. London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, [1874]. Small octavo (165 x 110 mm), publisher’s brown cloth with black decoration to upper board, spine with gilt-lettered title and black decoration; pp. xvi, …

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  • Walks in the city of Canton.

    # 39899

    GRAY, John Henry (1828-1890)

    Walks in the city of Canton.

    … With an itinerary. Victoria, Hongkong : De Souza & Co., 1875. Octavo, contemporary half calf over dark brown linen boards (rubbed and lightly marked, corners worn), spine with raised bands lettered and ruled in gilt (some wear to the bands, head and tail), front pastedown with full signature of the original owner, American diplomat …

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  • The Treaty Ports of China and Japan (Louis de Geofroy's copy, French Ambassador to China 1872 - 75)

    # 49287

    MAYERS, William Frederick; DENNYS, Nicholas Belfield; KING, Charles

    The Treaty Ports of China and Japan (Louis de Geofroy’s copy, French Ambassador to China 1872 – 75)

    A complete guide to the open ports of those countries, together with Peking, Yedo, Hongkong and Macao : forming a guide book & vade mecum for travellers, merchants, and residents in general : with 29 maps and plans. London : Trübner and Co. ; Hongkong : A. Shortrede and Co, 1867. First edition. Octavo, publisher’s …

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