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# 36913

VICTORIAN GOVERNMENT RAILWAYS

Mitchell River, Bairnsdale

[Melbourne, Vic.] : Victorian Government Railways, [between 1920 and 1930]. Sepia tone silver bromide print photograph, 385 x 445 mm, printed on thick board; printed caption label lower centre; blind-stamped lower left ‘Victorian Railways Photo.’; wear at bottom corners, but overall in very good condition. A fine example of the large-format photographs of Victorian scenery …

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# 37291

Photographer unknown.

Landau carriage, Hobart, late 1920s.

Gelatin silver print photograph, 120 x 200 mm, laid down on its original card mount; the image has an early inscription in black ink ‘In Hobart, Tas. Feb. 29’, and in later blue pen the date ‘1925’ has been written twice; the verso of the mount has a faded newspaper cutting from the period with …

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# 37335

SAMUELL, Di

Samuell’s illustrated pocket guide to Sydney

With which is incorporated ‘How to know Sydney’. Sydney : Di Samuell, 1899. Duodecimo, lettered cards, cloth spine, pp. xxxviii; 352, folding maps, photographic illustrations, a very good copy. Very scarce.

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# 37211

MURRAY, A. S.

Twelve hundred miles on the River Murray

With facsimile illustrations in colours by the author. Australia : George Robertson, and London : J. S. Virtue, 1898. Oblong folio, gilt-lettered cloth, lacking the front free endpaper, pp. 36, 15 tipped-in colour plates, corners torn on the frontispiece plate, else a very good copy. Murray’s oversized illustrated folio on the Murray, retracing the route …

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# 36899

VICTORIAN GOVERNMENT RAILWAYS

Sierra Ranges, Dunkeld

[Melbourne, Vic.] : Victorian Government Railways, [between 1920 and 1930]. Sepia tone silver bromide print photograph, 385 x 445 mm, printed on thick board; printed caption label lower centre; blind-stamped lower left ‘Victorian Railways Photo.’; a few light marks, but overall in very good condition. A fine example of the large-format photographs of Victorian scenery …

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# 36115

COLE, Edward R.

Royal Sydney souvenir / second series

Sydney : Edward R. Cole, [1880?]. Square octavo, pebbled burgundy cloth on boards (dulled) with gilt embossed decoration and title (publisher’s information pasted down inside back board), concertina foldout of twelve panels, each with two Leporello views of Sydney, including St Andrews College, Exchange, Circular Quay (two views), Herald Office, Captain Cook statue, Botanic Gardens, …

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# 35601

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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# 36953

Anon.

Alice Springs … Centre of the living heart

Issued under the authority of the Administrator of the Northern Territory. [Canberra? : A. J. Arthur, Commonwealth Printer, circa 1965]. Oblong quarto, colour wrappers, pp. 32, illustrations, map. Includes a reproduction of an Albert Namatjira painting, discussion of the Aranda School of watercolour painting, and a description of Rex Battarbee’s Tmama-Rama Galleries. Scarce

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# 35842

[NEW SOUTH WALES GOVERNMENT TOURIST BUREAU]; ASHTON, Will (artist)

[SNOWY MOUNTAINS] Hotel Kosciusko, 5000 ft. : Mount Kosciusko, 7305 ft. : the home of winter sport in Australia

[s.l. : s.n., circa 1930]. Folding card, 205 x 150 mm, colour pictorial front depicting skiers outside the Hotel (from a painting by Will Ashton), annotated by the original owner, who spent her winter holiday at the hotel in the year 1930, ‘25.5.30 – 31.5.30‘, and with her ownership wet stamp ‘Mrs G.C.E. Single, “Brunch”, …

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# 35600

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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# 36307

QUEENSLAND GOVERNMENT TOURIST BUREAU

Toowoomba and the Darling Downs, Queensland.

Brisbane : A. H. Tucker, Government Printer, [ca. 1948]. Octavo (210 x 140 mm), pictorial wrappers (map to lower wrapper), stapled; pp [16] including wrappers; photographic illustrations, full-page street plan of Toowoomba; a fine copy. Dating from internal reference to population of Warwick as of June, 1947.

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# 36222

GEORGE ROSE (MELBOURNE)

The Dragon’s Mouth Geyser, Wairakei, New Zealand.

Melbourne : George Rose, [between 1900 and 1910]. Rose’s Stereoscopic Views. Sold only by George Rose, Publisher, Melbourne. Stereoscopic silver albumen print photograph, each individual image 90 x 75 mm, on board mount 102 x 177 mm, with the publisher’s imprint to recto; printed caption beneath both images The Dragon’s Mouth Geyser, Wairakei, New Zealand. It plays …

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# 36118

[MAROOCHY JUBILEE CELEBRATIONS COMMITTEE]; GOODWIN, John T.

[QUEENSLAND] Commemorating the golden jubilee of the Commonwealth of Australia, 1900 …

and the diamond jubilee of the Maroochy Shire which was constituted on the 5th day of July, 1890. Cover title: Diamond jubilee the Shire of Maroochy. Souvenir and brochure. [Brisbane : C.V. Rhodes, 1950]. Octavo, publisher’s pictorial wrappers (light stains and creasing to corners), 96 pp, illustrated, advertisements, contents clean and sound. Copies are recorded …

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# 32898

Anon.

[LEPORELLO] Album of Sandhurst views

[Melbourne : Schütze, Steffens & Co., 272 Little Collins Street (but printed in Germany), c.1891]. Leporello album. Octavo, original cloth backed pictorial boards gilt (corners bumped), containing a concertina foldout with [13] panels of lithographed views (after photographs) of Sandhurst, including a four-panel panorama of the town, public buildings and churches, Alexandra Fountain and Pall …

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# 27971

CITY OF PRAHRAN

Jubilee history : City of Prahran and illustrated handbook : South Yarra, Toorak, Malvern, etc. (Deluxe publisher’s binding)

[Cover title : Jubilee history of Prahran]. Melbourne : Periodicals Pub. Co., 1906. Quarto, publisher’s deluxe binding of gilt-lettered morocco over gilt-lettered purple cloth (expertly rebacked with new spine), pp. [iv]; 5 – 205, extensively illustrated with photographs, occasional spots of foxing, a very good copy. A detailed and very well illustrated history of the …

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# 35554

LUSCOMBE, J. A.

Canberra : Federal capital, 1927

Goulburn : photographed and published by J. A. Luscombe, 1927. Oblong folio, pictorial wrappers (a little marked), pp. [24], illustrated with photographic views including Parliament House, the residences of the Governor General and Prime Minister, Hotel Kurrajong, suburban streets etc.

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