Trade & Industry

# 47210

J. H. ABBOTT & CO.

J. H. Abbott & Co. Tanners & Curriers … Pall Mall, Bendigo, High Street, Echuca.

Bendigo, Vic. : Bolton Bros, [1900-1910]. Quarto (260 x 200 mm), stapled wrappers, printed in black ink on buff paper, upper wrapper with various calligraphic typefaces, lower wrapper illustrated, [8] pp; contains descriptions and prices of all types of footwear, includes illustrations of ladies’ shoes and boots; very fine.

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# 39126

CAIRNS, John; STRACHAN, Robert

Sammelband of Hong Kong newspapers, 1845-54

A Sammelband of fifty-four individual issues of newspapers published in Hong Kong between 1845 and 1854, comprising twenty issues of the Overland Register, and Price Current and thirty-four issues of The Hongkong Register; together with two issues of newspapers published in India in 1852 and 1853. Large folio (510 x 340 mm), custom modern binding of …

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# 47035

SOUTH AUSTRALIAN PHOTOGRAPHIC ASSOCIATION (NIXON, Stephen Edward, 1842-1910)

View of part of the Moonta copper mines, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia, c.1882.

Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 64 x 105 mm (mount); recto with fully contemporary inscription in ink to lower margin: ‘Part of Moonta Mines, S. Australia’; verso with the lithographed back mark of ‘The South Australian Photographic Association. Taylor Street, Kadina. Stephen Nixon (Artist), Manager’; the print is in good condition; the mount …

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# 46887

MACMILLAN, Allister (compiler)

Seaports of the Far East

Historical and descriptive, commercial and industrial facts, figures & resources. London : W. H. & L. Collingridge 1925. Second edition. Quarto, gilt-decorated green cloth (slightly discoloured, lightly rubbed), edges speckled blue, pp. 530, extensively illustrate with black and white photographs, colour map, a fine copy. A highly detailed guide to commercial businesses in East Asia during …

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# 45929

[ZETLAND LODGE]

[FREEMASONRY; HONG KONG] By-laws of the Zetland Lodge, No. 525, of Free and Accepted Masons, holding warrant under the United Grand Lodge of England.

Revised and passed 1st November, A.L. 5866, A.D. 1866. Cover title: By-laws of the Zetland Lodge, No. 525, Hongkong. Hongkong : Printed by A. Shortrede & Co., 1866. Small octavo (172 x 118 mm), original sewn yellow wrappers, pp. [4], 41; a very fine example.

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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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# 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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