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  • Gold Mining and Milling in Western Australia

    # 47287

    CHARLETON, A. G.

    Gold Mining and Milling in Western Australia

    London : E. & F. N. Spon, and New York : Spon & Chamberlain, 1903. Thick octavo, gilt-lettered cloth, worn and rubbed (particularly at corners), rebacked with original spine laid down, cloth repairs to head and foot of spine, touching a few letters, advertisements to endpapers, previous owner’s wet stamp to endpaper and title page, …

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  • [FREEMASONRY; HONG KONG] Small archive of Masonic documents associated with Lodges in Hong Kong, 1890s-1930s.

    # 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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  • [FREEMASONRY; HONG KONG] Memorandum and Articles of Association of The Hongkong Masonic Club, Limited.

    # 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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  • A Japanese matchbox label album.

    # 47193

    Anon.

    A Japanese matchbox label album.

    Kobe, Japan : s.n., [c.1920]. Small quarto (250 x 180 mm), original ribbon-tied plain wrappers (chipped), the upper wrapper with onlaid sample matchbox label and printed title label ‘Match label. Including 500 different kinds. Kobe, Japan’; [50] pp, each page with 10 matchbox labels (rinpyo) carefully mounted, contents very clean and sound, with all labels …

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  • Papua and New Guinea Villager. (Editor's scrapbook used in the production of "New series", early 1950s).

    # 43679

    Papua and New Guinea Villager. (Editor’s scrapbook used in the production of “New series”, early 1950s).

    [Unpublished]. [Port Moresby : Department of Education, early 1950s]. Disbound foolscap folio scrapbook (a repurposed Australian Diary for 1950), containing hundreds of pasted in photographs and cuttings accompanied by handwritten and typed notes, which indicate the archive was kept as a picture resource for  the Papuan Villager magazine; some light foxing and old glue staining, …

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  • Group of correspondence from Henry Beit, land agent, Sydney, to E. V. Sandilands, cotton grower and Vice-Consul, Fiji. 1870-71.

    # 47222

    BEIT, Henry (1826-1881); SANDILANDS, Edward Vincent (1847-1871); GUTSCHMID, Felix von (1843-1905)

    Group of correspondence from Henry Beit, land agent, Sydney, to E. V. Sandilands, cotton grower and Vice-Consul, Fiji. 1870-71.

    Sydney businessman Henry Beit (1826-1881) was a land agent specialising in the sale of properties in outback New South Wales and Queensland, and also in the Fiji Islands. His correspondent, Edward Vincent Sandilands (1847-1871), was a young English cotton grower in the Yasawa Islands, Fiji, whose acquaintance Beit had presumably made when Sandilands had been …

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  • An early item of official of correspondence from the Sydney Railway Company, rejecting an application for the position of Engineer. 3 January, 1851.

    # 47225

    COWPER, Charles, Sir (1807-1875)

    An early item of official of correspondence from the Sydney Railway Company, rejecting an application for the position of Engineer. 3 January, 1851.

    Manuscript in ink on wove paper, on the lithographed letterhead of the Railway Office, Sydney, dated 3 January 1851. Quarto bifolium (225 x 185 mm), [4] pp, written on the first side only; a holograph note by Charles Cowper, Director of the Sydney Railway Company, to Mr. H. Biddulph, c/- Post Office, Wollongong, advising him …

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  • Sydney Harbour Bridge and City Railway

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

    # 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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  • Sammelband of Hong Kong newspapers, 1845-54

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

    # 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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  • Seaports of the Far East

    # 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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  • [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.

    # 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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  • Photograph album documenting experiences at a hydroelectric plant on the Swat River in Malakand District, Northwest Frontier Province, India, 1937-38.

    # 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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  • No Other Man No Other Store : The Extraordinary Life of Sir Charles Lloyd Jones: Painter, Patron and Patriot 1878-1958

    # 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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  • The Oriental Bank, corner of Queen Street and Flinders Lane, Melbourne, c.1864.

    # 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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