Trade & Industry
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# 46820
BESLEY, Richard Bradfield (1912-1990)
Photograph album documenting experiences at a hydroelectric plant on the Swat River in Malakand District, Northwest Frontier Province, India, 1937-38.
Small oblong quarto album (200 x 270 mm), original brown cloth over boards with string ties, containing 116 b/w photographs in corner mounts, 113 being in 60 x 60 mm format, with 3 in larger 115 x 160 mm format; the majority are captioned in ink below the image; very good condition throughout. This album …
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# 46732
BRADFIELD, J. J. C. (John Job Crew) (1867-1943) (attributed); PHILLIPS, Harry (publisher)
Sydney Harbour Bridge and City Railway
Willoughby, N.S.W. : H. Phillips, [1930]. Large oblong octavo (210 x 260 mm), pictorial grey wrappers printed in blue, stapled; [44] pp, with b/w photographic illustrations and line drawings throughout; a fine copy. Internal references and illustrations indicate this pamphlet was probably published in 1930. One of the illustrations is an artist’s impression of how …
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# 46687
CULLEN, Jenny
No Other Man No Other Store : The Extraordinary Life of Sir Charles Lloyd Jones: Painter, Patron and Patriot 1878-1958
Melbourne : Macmillan, 2013. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 239, illustrated. New copy of an out of print title, in storage since publication, still sealed in publisher’s plastic. Sir Charles Lloyd Jones always wanted to be an artist and, in his youth, studied painting for six and a half years, first at the Julian Ashton …
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# 46202
MORRIS, Alfred
The Oriental Bank, corner of Queen Street and Flinders Lane, Melbourne, c.1864.
Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each individual image 74 x 72 mm (arch-top format), on pale yellow board mount 82 x 171 mm; verso with printed label worded ‘A. Morris & Co.’s Stereoscopic Views of Victoria. Oriental Bank [in ms.] Melbourne’, and with the firm’s address ’56 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne’ at lower right; both prints are …
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# 46283
[Photographer unknown]
Occupational tintype portrait of two bakers, one holding a giant spatula. Australia, 1880s.
Gem tintype photograph, 40 x 30 mm (sight), in its original ormulu (copper foil) preserver with pressed design (50 x 37 mm), with the original cover glass; fine condition. Sourced with a group of Tasmanian cartes de visite, all portraits by H. H. Baily and Alfred Winter. The rough wooden fence behind the two men in …
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# 46443
[Photographer unknown].
View inside the trading post of Oloff & Co. at Lome, Togoland Protectorate, West Africa, c.1890.
Albumen print photograph, 100 x 140 mm, on original card mount, 185 x 220 mm, fully contemporary inscription in ink below the image: ‘T. Oloff & Co. / Factorei / Lome’; a very strong print with excellent clarity, in good condition; the mount is clean and stable. The Togoland Protectorate (Schutzgebiet Togo) was administered by …
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# 46335
PRESKO BINOCULAR COMPANY
[RIVERINA] Spreading grapes to dry, Mildura, Australia.
[Title from printed caption on mount]. Chicago, IL : Presko Binocular Company, [c.1910]. Stereoscopic silver gelatin print photograph, each individual image 76 x 78 mm, on grey board mount 86 x 177 mm, with the publisher’s caption and serial number ‘Spreading grapes to dry, Mildura, Australia. 6018’, along with the publisher’s imprint ‘Presko Binocular Company, …
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# 46334
B. W. KILBURN (publisher)
Coral divers with their wealth, on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia.
[Title from printed caption on mount]. Littleton, New Hampshire : B. W. Kilburn, 1904. Stereoscopic silver gelatin print photograph, each individual image 77 x 77 mm, on pink board mount 88 x 179 mm, with the publisher’s serial number and caption ‘15945. Coral divers with their wealth, on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia’, along with …
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# 46333
SOUTH AUSTRALIA. GOVERNMENT.
[WINE] Adelaide grapes – 5 bunches, total weight 67 lbs.
[Adelaide, SA : Government of South Australia, c.1905]. Lithographic postcard, 88 x 138 mm, verso imprinted ‘South Australia Post Card’ and with a handwritten message; in fine condition.
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# 45932
[BAKER, Henry George]
[FREEMASONRY; HONG KONG] Small archive of Masonic documents associated with Lodges in Hong Kong, 1890s-1930s.
A group of five original documents that chart the history of Henry George Baker as a Freemason in Hong Kong. Baker arrived in Hong Kong from Bristol in 1882 and worked in the Hong Kong Police Force until 1913, when he retired at the age of 52 with the rank of Chief Inspector. I. Grand …
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# 45926
[CHATER, C. P.; GOWER, S. J.; COX, G. C.; GRANT, C.; YOUNG, W.]
[FREEMASONRY; HONG KONG] Memorandum and Articles of Association of The Hongkong Masonic Club, Limited.
Board of Directors: C. P. Chater, Esq., S. J. Gower, Esq., G. C. Cox, Esq., C. J. Grant, Esq., Dr. Wm. Young. Bankers: The Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation. Solicitors: Messrs. Wotton & Deacon. Hongkong : Kelly & Wash, Limited, 1886. Small octavo (180 x 125 mm), original sewn green wrappers (some faint foxing), pp. …
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# 46086
Business card of the Long Beach Bar, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, c.1965.
[Kaohsiung, Taiwan : s.n., c.1965]. White card, 60 x 98 mm, printed recto in red, green and blue: ‘Welcome to Long Beach Air Conditioned Bar. No. 68 Chi Shian 3rd Road Kaohsiung Taiwan’ with illustration of a hostess, and verso in black: ‘In Bounds No. 78. 1. Welcome to our bar have a wonderfeul [sic] …
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# 46271
STANFORD & CO. (MELBOURNE)
Illustrated price list of the Singer Manufacturing Company’s lock-stitch sewing machines.
Melbourne : Stanford & Co., Colonial Agents for the Singer Manufacturing Company, Corner of Bourke and Russell Streets, 1877. Octavo leaflet (215 x 140 mm), [4] pp, lithograph printed in blue on mauve paper, front with vignette illustration of Stanford & Co.’s head agency in Melbourne; one corner stained, else a good example.
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# 46196
[WUNDERLICH LIMITED]
Embossed metal decorations suitable for peace celebrations.
[Redfern, N.S.W. : Wunderlich Limited], 15 May 1919. Broadsheet with photogravure illustrations, 310 x 250 mm, printed recto only; central horizontal fold, small perforation lower section, light edge wear. ‘Leaflet advertising Wunderlich coats of arms and shields with design numbers, dimensions, and materials used. Halftone photographs show the following designs: Royal Arms nos. 580, 719, …
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# 46277
SMITH, M. Staniforth
[NEW GUINEA] Handbook of the Territory of Papua. (First edition)
Melbourne : J. Kemp, Acting Government Printer, 1907. Octavo, original cloth backed papered boards (sunned and lightly marked), pp 108; internally very clean, a good copy. A comprehensive handbook for prospective traders, investors and residents. British New Guinea had been transferred to Australian control on 16 November 1905. Under Australian administration it became known as …
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# 46276
ABERDEEN AND COMMONWEALTH LINE
[BOOKMARK] Aberdeen and Commonwealth Line … one class to England.
[Melbourne?] : Dalgety & Coy. Limited and Aberdeen and Commonwealth Line, [between 1928 and 1933]. Bookmark, 132 x 57 mm, offset printed on thin card, recto with colour illustration of one the company’s “Bay” liners, verso with information about the service to London via Suez, inviting prospective travellers to contact the Dalgety & Co. or Aberdeen and Commonwealth Line …