Tourism
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# 40885
FUKUDA
8 Post Cards Beautiful Island of Japan
[Title from envelope]. [Yokohama] : Fukuda, [between 1955 and 1960]. Original illustrated envelope (some very light corner wear), 65 x 160 mm, verso with mailing address flap and publisher’s series “No. 1”, containing [5] (of 8) colour postcards of Japan, all in mint condition.
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# 40886
FUKUDA
Nara “Deer Park”
[Title from envelope]. [Yokohama] : Fukuda, [between 1955 and 1960]. Original illustrated envelope (very fine), 65 x 160 mm, verso with mailing address flap and publisher’s series “No. 12”, containing [6] (of 8) colour postcards of Tokyo, all in mint condition.
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# 40888
FUKUDA
The Largest Trading Port Kobe 8 Post Cards
[Title from envelope]. [Yokohama] : Fukuda, [between 1955 and 1960]. Original illustrated envelope (very good), 65 x 160 mm, verso with mailing address flap and publisher’s series “No. 9”, containing [4] (of 8) colour postcards of Kobe, all in mint condition.
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# 40887
FUKUDA
Japanese Girls
[Title from envelope]. [Yokohama] : Fukuda, [between 1955 and 1960]. Original illustrated envelope (some very light corner wear), 65 x 160 mm, verso with mailing address flap and publisher’s series “No. 5”, containing [8] (of 8) colour postcards of Japanese women in traditional costume, all in mint condition; complete, as issued, and scarce thus.
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# 22652
ADLER, Carl (printer)
The Bouquet of Sydney
Hamburg : C. Adler, before 1868. Chromolithographed and engraved folding card in the shape of a bouquet of flowers, housed in the original gilt-printed envelope with a lithographed view of Sydney, lettered in gold, the view measuring 520 x 118 mm, the envelope 86 x 142 mm, a fine example. Adler’s Bouquet of Sydney, a highly ephemeral …
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# 35385
Jubilee of Wollongong Municipality 1909
[Wollongong : s.n.], 1909. Oblong octavo, 14 x 23 cm, gilt-lettered blue wrappers, marks to spine, pp. [28], photographically illustrated with views of the Town Hall, Brighton Beach, Wollongong District School, the Golf Links, Crown Street, Wollongong Lighthouse, the Ladies’ Baths, Mt. Keira, Wollongong Railway Station, Surf Bathing Sheds and others, with text on the …
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# 41491
BEAUMONT, Norman E. and CURRAN, James F.
Early Days of Berwick and its surrounding districts Beaconsfield, Harkaway, and Narre Warren
Berwick : Berwick and District Agricultural and Horticultural Society, 1948. Octavo, lettered wrappers, a little silverfished, pp. 82, illustrated, photographic plates.
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# 40523
FOXCROFT, Frank L.
An important group of photographs of scenes in the Victorian Alps, circa 1900.
Group of 11 (eleven) sepia-tone gelatin silver print photographs, in uniform 140 x 200 mm format, laid down on the photographer’s pale green card mounts, 160 x 235 mm; eight are captioned (see below) and signed by the photographer in the negative ‘F. Foxcroft Photo. Bright’; one is signed, but without caption (scene of an …
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# 39619
BURROWS' STUDIOS (LAUNCESTON)
Photographic Memoirs: Visit to Launceston of September’s Prettiest Bride (Mrs W. H. Dando).
With Compliments from Burrows’ Studios, Launceston, 1926. Photograph album, oblong folio (240 x 340 mm), original burgundy crushed morocco over boards with gilt-stamped initials ‘T.D.’ (Thelma Dando) to front (upper boards with a few scuff marks; lower board with the leather worn at fore-edge); gilt-stamped title leaf, followed by [20] sepia-tone gelatin silver print photographs …
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# 40501
RUDD, Charles (photographer and publisher) (1849-1901)
[SYDNEY] Watson’s Bay and Beach, 1890s.
Printing out paper print, 140 x 200 mm, numbered 374 in the negative; preserved as issued, mounted on the original green backing sheet, 230 x 190 mm, imprinted in black ink, upper centre: ‘C. RUDD’S NEW VIEWS OF SYDNEY AND VICINITY.’, at l.l. ‘C. RUDD, PHOTO. ARTIST’, at l.r.: ‘151 (Late 162) BOURKE STREET EAST, MELBOURNE.’, …
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# 40728
COOPER, J.B.
Progressive Prahran : Its beginning, progress and achievements
Melbourne : The Prahran City Council, 1934. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (marks to upper wrappers, lower wrapper missing), defective, with the last few leaves stuck together. Printed for the occasion of Prahran’s centenary. Illustrated with numerous photographic plates, five of which are in colour. With sections on the local indigenous population, early land sales and schools …
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# 39584
[VICTORIAN GOVERNMENT RAILWAYS]
Buckland Valley from Mt. Buffalo National Park
[Melbourne, Vic. : Victorian Government Railways, between 1920 and 1930]. Large format gelatin silver print photograph, 260 x 360 mm, printed on thick board, 410 x 510 mm (mount), printed caption beneath image; the print is in superb condition; the mount has some surface loss at top right corner. A great example of the wonderful …
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# 39247
HITCHCOCK, J. K. and STEVENS, J. W. B.
The History of Fremantle : the front gate of Australia 1829 – 1929; also the history of the harbour
Fremantle : Fremantle City Council, 1929. Octavo, lettered wrappers (light edge wear), pp. 152, photographic plates (some folding), a couple of very small marks to final leaves, else fine. A rare locally printed history of Fremantle.
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# 38609
TEAGUE, Violet; REDE, Geraldine; GREGORY, Ina; ASHLEY, Alf (illustrators)
Birds of the sunny south, with Australian flowers / produced entirely by Australians
At the head of title: Greetings from Australia. Melbourne : Pater’s Printery, [c.1911]. Square duodecimo, original pictorial wrappers with yapp edges (edges worn, a couple of small chips), original string tie, printed title page, [11] eleven chromolithographic plates of Australian birds in natural settings; a good copy. Muir 704. A rare publication – both a …
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# 39237
BREADEN, J. C.
Port Arthur … 16 souvenir views by J. C. Breaden
Hobart : a souvenir from The Hotel Arthur, circa 1950. Oblong duodecimo, self-wrappers, pp. 16, photographically illustrated. Scarce.
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# 39396
Australia's 150th Anniversary Celebrations Council.
150 years in Australia / official souvenir programme for the National Celebrations to be held from Jan 26 to Apr 25, 1938.
[Sydney] : Oswald L. Ziegler for Australia’s 150th Anniversary Celebrations Council, 1937. Large quarto, pictorial wrappers, [72] pp, illustrations (some colour), a very good copy.