Tourism

# 27972

KERRY & JONES

[SYDNEY HARBOUR] Snail’s Bay Regatta, 1885.

Albumen print photograph, 140 x 190 mm, unmounted; in manuscript in negative ‘Kerry & Jones Photo / Snail’s Bay Regatta 1885. 273’; verso with fully contemporary inscription in pencil ‘Snail Bay Regatta, Balmain’; in fine condition, with excellent contrast and tonal range. Scarce. No example located on Trove.

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# 28217

BERRY, Vanessa

[PSYCHOGEOGRAPHY] Mirror Sydney

Artarmon, NSW : Giramondo, 2017. Large octavo (245 x 170 mm), pictorial card covers with French flaps, 304 pp, line illustrations; an as new copy. The fascinating essays in this collection are meditations on many of Sydney’s lost or disappearing buildings and sites. ‘In her delicately wrought essays and hand-drawn maps, Vanessa Berry describes her …

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# 27131

JAPAN TOURIST BUREAU

How to see Nikko

Tokyo : Japan Tourist Bureau, April 1936. Octavo (187 x 127 mm), pictorial wrappers, staple bound, 9 pp, illustrated, with map; a fine copy.

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# 26213

WHITCOMBE & TOMBS

Views of Whakarewarewa : the hot springs of New Zealand

Christchurch, NZ : Whitcombe & Tombs, [1903?]. Small oblong quarto (210 x 270 mm), original pictorial wrappers (light handling wear, lower wrapper with publisher’s advertisement, [36] ff., full-page black-and-white photographic views with printed captions; light foxing to bottom margin of title leaf, else internally clean; a very good copy. Features 14 photographic views of Whakarewarewa, …

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# 25651

Queensland Government Tourist Bureau

Rockhampton and district. Central Queensland.

Brisbane : Dan Whyte, Government Printer, [c.1950]. Octavo, single sheet folded, illustrations, map. Scarce.

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# 25650

Queensland Government Tourist Bureau

Townsville and the Tropic Coast.

Brisbane : Queensland Government Tourist Bureau, [c.1960]. Octavo, pictorial self wrappers, staple bound, [16] pp, illustrated in b/w and colour, lower wrapper with map,; occasional underling in red, else a very good copy. Tourism in Downsville, Magnetic Island, Palm Island, Mt. Spec, Hinchinbrook, Dunk Island etc. Scarce.

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# 25649

Queensland Government Tourist Bureau

By mountain and sea. The near North Coast.

Brisbane : Queensland Government Tourist Bureau, [c.1960]. Octavo, pictorial self wrappers, staple bound, [20] pp, illustrated in b/w and colour, lower wrapper with map, a fine copy. Tourism in Caloundra, Maleny, Nambour, Buderim, Mooloolaba, Maroochydore, Montville, Mapleton, Coolum, Tewantin, Noosa Heads, Gympie etc. Scarce.

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# 25621

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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# 25618

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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# 24922

QUEENSLAND GOVERNMENT TOURIST BUREAU

Queensland travel bargains : concession rail fares for tourists.

Brisbane : Queensland Government Tourist Bureau, [between 1945 and 1950]. Single sheet 215 x 280 mm, folding to 215 x 140 mm, [4] pp, pictorial front and small b/w photographic illustration of Kuranda rainforest on back page; text comprises explanation of the special concession rates available to tourists for numerous different rail trips in Queensland; …

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# 25213

STONE, Albert and REED, J. Hammond (editors)

Historic Lushan : the Kuling Mountains

Hankow : Arthington Press, Religious Tract Society, 1921. Octavo, gilt-lettered moiré cloth, previous owner’s name to endpaper, pp. [vi]; map; ii; 106, numerous photographic plates with tissue guards, large folding map (old tape repair), a very good copy. “Mount Lu or Lushan (simplified Chinese: 庐山; traditional Chinese: 廬山; pinyin: Lúshān, Gan: Lu-san), also known as …

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# 24588

ORIENT STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LTD.

Orient Line to England : list of passengers and general information. R.M.S. Orama … from Brisbane … Sydney … Melbourne … Adelaide … Fremantle … September 1935.

[Sydney] : Orient Steam Navigation Company, [1935]. Octavo (186 x 127 mm), original red wrappers with embossed gold lettering to front (a few light marks), staple bound, [16] pp, text printed in black and red with decorative borders in red at top and bottom margins; internally pristine, a very good copy. The 20,000 ton Royal …

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# 24565

PIONEER TOURIST COACHES PTY. LTD. (MELBOURNE)

Highway motor travel in Australia : Adelaide to Melbourne, Sydney and the Grampians with Pioneer.

[Melbourne : Pioneer Tourist Coaches Pty. Ltd., c. 1935]. Large oblong octavo (180 x 210 mm), illustrated wrappers with photographic view of the Ocean Road near Angelsea (mild corner creasing and light marks), stapled, 7 pp, with itineraries and schematic maps for tours between Melbourne and Adelaide (both the Grampians and Princes Highway routes), Melbourne …

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# 22625

WESTERN AUTRALIA. GOVERNMENT TOURIST BUREAU.

Visit Western Australia’s world famed Golden Mile.

[Perth, W.A. : Government Tourist Bureau, 1928]. Small quarto, original stiff printed wrappers printed in black on gold paper, 23, [1] pp (designed to be folded into the covers), half tone photographic illustrations, Govt. printer’s date of 1928 on the final page, some pale foxing to the outer leaves, otherwise a fine copy. An attractively …

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# 22359

Various.

[INDIA] Small group of printed ephemera relating to curio and arts and crafts traders in Jaipur, Rajasthan, 1890s.

I. NUR BAKSH, KHUDA BAKSH KA, Dealer in Arms, old and new ; Koftgari in gold and silver ; Enamel ; Silver and Brass, old and new ; Pottery ; and miscellaneous other things, CLOSE TO THE SCHOOL OF ART, JEYPORE. Business card, 102 x 64 mm, letterpress on thick paper; fine. II. NOTICE. SCHOOL OF …

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# 22340

Tahiti

Paris : Transports Aeriens Intercontinentaux, circa 1960. Tourist brochure, narrow octavo, folding, map. Within the brochure are two booklets ‘Learn to speak Tahitian like a native’ (24pp) and ‘Bienbenue a Tahiti’, text in English and French. Tourism in the South Pacific

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