Trade & Industry
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# 45754
RONALD, Robert B.
The Riverina : people and properties
Melbourne : Cheshire, 1960. Octavo, gilt-lettered green cloth in very uncommon price clipped illustrated dustjacket (chipped with loss), maps to endpapers (tape marks), pp. [iv]; vi; 183, internally clean. Rare, especially with the dustjacket.
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# 45459
COLONY OF VICTORIA. ROYAL COMMISSIONS. [PATERSON, James]
The Melbourne Harbour Trust Commissioners. Reports of Royal Commissions on Noxious Trades, 1870 & 1871. Silting up of the Bay, 1871 & 1872. Low Lands, 1873. Commissioner Paterson.
Melbourne : Government Printer, 1870-75. Six Royal Commission reports printed for the Parliament of Victoria (itemised below). Foolscap folio (320 x 205 mm), in a special presentation binding for James Paterson, Melbourne Harbour Trust Commissioner, of limp maroon morocco with double-gilt rule (some light staining and moderate wear), cover stamped in gilt ‘The Melbourne Harbour …
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# 45527
WALTER, Charles (Carl) (1831-1907)
Whaling scene at Twofold Bay, Eden, New South Wales, 1870.
Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each image approximately 82 x 82 mm (square format), signed and numbered by the photographer at lower right of the right-hand image ‘C. Walter 166’; on original black card mount, 87 x 177 mm, verso blank; slight loss of contrast in the upper part of each image, otherwise the prints are …
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# 38366
[MANUSCRIPT] A Journal or Narrative of the Proceedings betweene the Commissioners appointed by His Majestie, and the Commissioners Deputed by the States Generall, pursuant to the Treaty of Peace made at Westminster 9/19 Ffebruary 1673/4 Concerning a Treaty Marine to be observed throughout all the World. And also an Article particularly relateing to the English and Dutch East India Companyes Concluded in the yeare 1674.
[London, 1674-75]. Folio (300 x 200 mm), old mottled calf gilt, spine with raised bands, gilt ornament, and contrasting title labels lettered in gilt; all edges gilt; manuscript written in English, Latin, Dutch and French in several contemporary secretarial hands; ff 269; clean and fresh throughout. An important contemporary manuscript record of the Mixed Commission established to draw up …
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# 45175
WEST BOURKE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY
West Bourke Agricultural Society Annual Show : group of prize certificates awarded to James Williams, 1887-1900.
West Melbourne, Vic. : Kemp & Boyce, 1887 (one certificate); Melbourne : Centennial Printing & Publishing Co., 1889 (three certificates); Romsey, Vic. : Printed at the Examiner Office, 1891-1892-1900 (five certificates). Total of nine lithographed certificates, in uniform 165 x 195 mm format, printed on different coloured card stock, some with original ribbons attached; scattered foxing. …
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# 45147
[CURCIER & ADET]
[WINE] Commercial letter to Curcier & Adet, Bordeaux wine merchants, concerning an Australian shipment. May, 1871.
Manuscript letter, 1 1/2 pages, quarto, on the letterhead of shipping brokers Constantin, Boisson & Co., Rochefort, addressed to Messieurs Curcier & Adet, Bordeaux, dated 21 May 1871; the letter concerns correspondence that has been received from Curcier & Adet’s Melbourne office re. a claim for payment that has been made by Constantin, Boisson & Co. …
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# 45138
[ALEXANDER, Selig]
Deed of conveyance between Selig Alexander and Charles Williams, relating to a land allotment in Sandridge (Port Melbourne), November 1857.
Manuscript on parchment, folio bifolium (470 x 320 mm), [3] pages, written in a fine clerical hand, dated 18 November 1857 and recording the conveyance of part of Allotment 3, Section 9 in the Parish of South Melbourne at Sandridge (on Stoke Street in what is now Port Melbourne), from Selig Alexander, merchant, of the …
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# 45099
BARTLETT, N. S. (compiler)
Department of Lands and Surveys, Western Australia. Handbook for surveyors and draftsmen
Perth : Fred W. Simpson, Government Printer, 1911. Octavo, gilt-lettered roan, light edge wear, hinges cracked, pp. [vi]; 110, diagrams, folding ‘Map of Western Australia shewing T.S. Plan System’, another folding plate, and contained within and endpocket, ‘Chart shewing nautical almanac stars’ and a diagram of the South Pole and collatitude circle printed on linen. …
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# 44870
MILLAR, Will. H.
Men of Queensland : representative of the public, professional, ecclesiatical and business life of Queensland as existant in the year 1928 A.D. Private edition.
Brisbane : Read Press Ltd., 1929. Octavo (225 x 150 mm), original red diced morocco lettered and ruled in gilt (chips to spine expertly repaired); colour frontispiece, [211] leaves of plates with accompanying text; a very good example of this scarce private printing, which provides a snapshot of Queensland’s rich and powerful on the eve …
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# 44613
HAIGH, Edward
Gold washing, at the Ovens, Victoria.
[1861-1862]. Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each image approximately 73 x 73 mm, flat yellow mount 83 x 165 mm; verso with printed label ’40. Gold washing, at the Ovens, Victoria. Ed. Haigh, Photo.’, and below this in manuscript the monogram and sequence number of the original owner ‘MAH. 72’; both prints, as well as the mount, …
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# 44428
BENNETT, A. E.
Journalism for women : a practical guide.
London and New York : John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1898. Duodecimo (170 x 125 mm), publisher’s pictorial boards (bright and unrubbed), pp. 98, xii (advertisements); all edges untrimmed; light foxing to endpapers, otherwise internally excellent, a beautiful copy.
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# 44490
LATHAM, J. G.
The Australian Eastern Mission, 1934. Report of the Right Honorable J. G. Latham, Leader of the Mission.
At head of title: 1932-33-34. The Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia. Canberra : L. F. Johnston, Government Printer, August 1934. Foolscap folio, pp. 27; a very good copy of this Parliamentary paper. The Mission visited the Netherlands East Indies, British Malaya, French Indo-China, Hong Kong, China (this included an Anzac Ball in Shanghai), Japan, …
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# 44128
BOULTER, Jason
Unemployable. 30 Years of Hardcore, Skate and Street (signed presentation copy)
Melbourne : Thames and Hudson, 2016. Thick quarto, letters cloth with pictorial inlay, [xv]; 693, extensively illustrated, a fine copy. This copy with a personal signed inscription from the author to arts publisher Jenny Zimmer, dated 2.11.2016. ‘Unemployable traces the origins of the Hill brothers’ passion for skateboarding to the founding of their initial company …
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# 44491
McWILLIAM'S WINES PTY. LTD.
Wine guide.
Pyrmont, NSW : McWilliam’s Wines Pty. Ltd., [1968]. Small oblong quarto (210 x 260 mm), colour pictorial wrappers, pp. [32], illustrated throughout in colour and b/w; a very good copy.
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# 41832
KERR, William (1812 - 1859)
Kerr’s Melbourne almanac, and Port Phillip directory, for 1842.
A compendium of useful and accurate information connected with Port Phillip. Melbourne: printed and published by Kerr and Thompson, at the Port Phillip Patriot Office, Collins Street, 1842. Octavo, original half cloth over papered boards (some wear and stains), expertly rebacked, worn paper label to spine; early ownership inscription of Alexander Beatson Balcombe (“Tichingorourke, 1842, …
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# 43092
MICHAUT-DELACROIX, V.
[CALCULATING DEVICE]. Cercle calculateur mobile.
… par V. Michaut Delacroix de Châtillon (Côte d’Or). Paris : Lith. de Paul Dupont et Cie., 1840. Printed card, 275 mm in diameter, wooden handle 290 mm in length, mounted in the centre to rotate; one side calculates rates of interest for wages, calculated at 6% from one day to 360 days; the other …