Trade & Industry
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# 26003
ORIENT STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD.
The Orient Steam Navigation Company, Limited. Prospectus.
London : The Orient Steam Navigation Co., Ltd., 13 Fenchurch Avenue, E.C., [1880]. Folio (420 x 265 mm) bifolium, 3 pp, folding to 265 x 105 mm with printed title to outer side; original share application form still loosely enclosed; outer side a little dusty, but a near fine example. ‘The Orient Steam Navigation Company …
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# 25835
DUNKLINGS PTY. LTD. (MELBOURNE)
Dunklings the Jewellers Pty. Ltd. Ladies’ and men’s high grade wrist watches.
Melbourne : Dunklings Pty. Ltd., [circa 1950]. Single sheet, 215 x 330 mm, printed both sides, folding to 215 x 82 mm, illustrated; original folds, a good example.
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# 25158
NORMAN BROS.
A catalogue of commercial stationery, office systems, notepaper & envelopes, fountain pens, society stationery, drawings materials, books & games
Melbourne : Norman Bros, April 1936. Quarto, decorated wrappers (a couple of small stains), pp. 36, illustrated, central crease. Melbourne trade catalogue.
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![[MELBOURNE] United Engineering & Malleable Co. Pty. Ltd. : catalogue of general hardware,](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2020/02/20124555/2020_DSFB_1011-300x300.jpg)
# 24919
UNITED ENGINEERING & MALLEABLE CO. PTY. LTD. (MELBOURNE)
[MELBOURNE] United Engineering & Malleable Co. Pty. Ltd. : catalogue of general hardware,
builders and furniture fittings, products of malleable iron, grey iron, steel and brass foundries; also of metal stampings, electro plating & engineering shops at … Gordon St., Footscray, Victoria. Cover title: 1939 Hardware. Footscray, Vic. : The Mail Publishers [for United Engineering & Malleable Co. Pty. Ltd.], June 1939. Octavo (245 x 155 mm), original …
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![[GOLD RUSH] For San Francisco, California. To Sail on the 25th of July, Positively. The First Class American Packet Ship “Louisa,” ...](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2020/03/26163936/2020_DSFB_1795-300x300.jpg)
# 25206
ADAMS & CO. (MELBOURNE)
[GOLD RUSH] For San Francisco, California. To Sail on the 25th of July, Positively. The First Class American Packet Ship “Louisa,” …
Fare to San Francisco : Steerage, £25. No Cabin Passengers taken. Freight taken at lower rates. For Freight or Passage, apply to Adams & Co., 69, Collins Street, West, Melbourne. Melbourne : Goodhugh & Trembath, 48, Flinders Lane, East, and 174, Elizabeth Street, [1854]. Clipper ship sailing card, 227 x 144 mm, printed recto only …
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![[GOLD MINING] Photograph album compiled by a globetrotting mining engineer between 1900 and 1910, with his unique panoramic views of the King of the Hills mine in Western Australia, and topographical views in West Africa, Colombia, and the Caucasus, many of them documenting gold mining enterprises.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2019/05/22154518/2019_DSFB_2456-300x224.jpg)
# 22385
Photographer unknown.
[GOLD MINING] Photograph album compiled by a globetrotting mining engineer between 1900 and 1910, with his unique panoramic views of the King of the Hills mine in Western Australia, and topographical views in West Africa, Colombia, and the Caucasus, many of them documenting gold mining enterprises.
Late nineteenth century photograph album, oblong folio (280 x 370 mm), half calf over black crushed morocco ruled in gilt (heavily worn, front board detached), all edges gilt, containing a total of 150+ silver gelatin photographs (and one albumen print) mounted on thick leaves; over 50 of the photographs were taken with a special panoramic …
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# 24914
PREMIER WIRE WORKS PTY. LTD. (MELBOURNE)
Premier Wire Works Pty. Ltd. Richmond, Vic.
Richmond, Vic. : Premier Wire Works, [1940?]. Quarto (260 x 210 mm), original rivet binding at top edge, [10] leaves roneo printed on one side only, all illustrated; dog-eared corners, pale water stain to top corners of a few leaves, else good. Cheaply produced in-house by Melbourne manufacturer Premier Wire Works of Richmond, this scarce …
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# 25038
Photographer(s) unknown.
Archive of photographs belonging to a Dutch East India Company coffee plantation overseer in East Java, early 1900s.
This small archive of 32 photographs – taken with a variety of camera types, and for the most part by different amateur photographers – was compiled by a Dutch East India Company employee, and documents his life as an overseer on a Company coffee plantation in East Java in the early 1900s. The backs of …
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# 24738
DURYEA, Townsend
Photographic portrait of businessman Edward Neale Wigg, eldest son of Adelaide bookseller E. S. Wigg. December, 1868.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 104 x 64 mm (mount), recto with a contemporary caption in ink identifying the sitter as ‘Edw. N. Wigg’ and dated December 27 1868; verso with the illustrated back mark of Adelaide’s most prestigious photographer, Townsend Duryea, and contemporary note in pencil ‘Son of E. S. Wigg’; both the print …
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# 24798
NORMAN BROS.
A catalogue of stationery
Melbourne : Norman Bros, July 1935. Quarto, decorated wrappers (a couple of small tears), pp. 36, illustrated, central crease, marginal water stain. Melbourne trade catalogue.
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![[MELBOURNE] What would you like in the way of music? You will find it in this list of music and musical instruments.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2019/12/18101212/2019_DSFB_7344-300x300.jpg)
# 24557
SUTTONS PTY. LTD. (MELBOURNE)
[MELBOURNE] What would you like in the way of music? You will find it in this list of music and musical instruments.
[Cover title]. Melbourne : Suttons Pty. Ltd., 290-292 Bourke St., [c. 1930]. Duodecimo (140 x 83 mm), pictorial wrappers, staple bound, [14] pp, with photogravure and line-drawn illustrations throughout; a fine copy. An exquisite little trade catalogue for player pianos (pianolas), upright and grand pianos, organs, phonographs (record players), phonograph records and accessories, player-rolls and …
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![[TRADE CATALOGUE] Ferranti electric clocks](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2019/12/11133251/2019_DSFB_7051-300x300.jpg)
# 24339
FERRANTI LTD. (U.K.)
[TRADE CATALOGUE] Ferranti electric clocks
[Hollinwood, U.K.] : Ferranti Ltd., December 1947. Single folding sheet, 280 x 350 mm, printed on both sides, folding to 150 x 90 mm, with 43 models photographically illustrated; in good condition. Scarce early post-war Ferranti clock catalogue, dating to the period when the firm was pioneering computer development (the Ferranti Mark 1 was completed in …
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# 23830
STEVENSON BROS. LIMITED (ADELAIDE)
Stevenson Bros. Limited. The leading diamond merchants. Designers, importers, manufacturing jewellers, practical watchmakers & opticians … 20 Rundle Street, Adelaide
and Bradford House, Barbican, London. Noted for quality and good value. Adelaide : Vardon & Sons Ltd. (printers), [c.1925]. Large oblong octavo (180 x 245 mm), original pictorial wrappers (some silverfishing), staple bound, pp 58, [1], lithographic illustrations throughout, including several colour plates; pp 33-34 with loss at top corner, centre pages loosened from staples, …
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# 23383
[SIMPSON'S GLOVES PTY. LTD.]
Catalogue of leather goods : Simpson’s Gloves Pty. Ltd.
North Richmond, Vic. : Simpson’s Gloves, [circa 1930]. Quarto, textured card covers (a few light marks, punch hole upper left), 28 pp, illustrated, includes losely inserted printed price list, a very good copy. A beautiful catalogue of Australian leather goods, including gloves, aviators’ caps, coats, handbags, wallets and note cases. Copies are recorded in three …
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# 22921
Photographer unknown.
Shop interior of W. Davies, musical instrument maker and repairer, Rundle Street, Adelaide, 1920s.
Silver gelatin print photograph, 120 x 180 mm, unmounted; verso with pencilled inscription ‘Inside W. Davies music shop Rundle St. 1920s; in fine condition with crisp detail. A fascinating glimpse into the cluttered retail showroom of W. Davies, who evidently also ran his School of Music in the same building. There is a vast array of …
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# 22313
MAIR, John
Book-keeping methodiz’d : or, a methodical treatise of merchant-accompts, according to the Italian form.
Wherein, the theory of the art is fully explained, and reduced to practice, by variety of suitable examples in all the branches of trade. To which is added, a large appendix, containing, I. Descriptions and Specimens of the Subsidiary Books used by Merchants. II. Monies and Exchanges, the Nature of Bills of Exchange. III. Precedents …