Trade & Industry

# 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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# 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 …

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# 38352

STALKER, John

A treatise of Japaning and varnishing, being a compleat discovery of those arts.

With the best way of making all sorts of varnish for Japan, wood, prints, plate or pictures. The method of guilding, burnishing and lackering, with the art of guilding, seperating, and refining metals, and the most curious way of painting on glass, or otherwise. Also rules for counterfeiting tortoise-shell, and marble, and for staining or …

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# 38392

PALMER, Aaron Haight (1779-1863)

Letter to the Hon. John M. Clayton, Secretary of State, enclosing a paper, geographical, political, and commercial, on the independent oriental nations;

and submitting a plan for opening, extending, and protecting American commerce in the East, &c. Respectfully submitted to the President and Cabinet, by Aaron Haight Palmer, Counsellor of the Supreme Court of the U.S. Published by direction of the Department of State in the National Intelligence of the 6th September, 1849. Revised, and now published with …

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# 45866

GOODE, Bernard (1834-1897)

View of Rundle Street, Adelaide, circa 1864.

Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each individual image 72 x 62 mm (octagonal format), original yellow card mount 85 x 173 mm, verso with small printed label ‘B. Goode, Photographer, 69, Rundle Street, Adelaide’, and a manuscript caption in ink ‘Rundle Street’; both prints are in good condition; the mount has some light handling marks. This view …

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# 45851

CATO, Jack (1889-1971)

The “Gothic Bank” building, corner of Collins and Queen Streets, Melbourne, circa 1950.

Large-format gelatin silver print photograph, 460 x 370 mm; on the original board mount, signed in full by the photographer beneath the image; a touch of silverfishing at the bottom edge of the print, else fine condition; in a later gazed timber frame. An evocative early post-war Melbourne street view by photographer and photographic historian …

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# 45930

[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. 5766 [i.e. 5866], A.D. 1866. Cover title: By-laws of the Zetland Lodge, No. 525, Hongkong. Hongkong : Printed at the China Magazine Office, 1870. Octavo (218 x 140 mm), original sewn cream wrappers with lettering and decorative border in blue (upper wrapper with small loss at top corner), pp. 12; contents …

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# 45927

[HONGKONG MASONIC CLUB]

[FREEMASONRY; HONG KONG] Provisional Rules of The Hongkong Masonic Club, (Limited.)

Hongkong : Kelly & Wash, Limited, [1887]. Duodecimo (163 x 110 mm), original sewn wrappers with ownership inscription of S. J. Gower (one of the Club’s Directors) dated 19 April 1887 to front; pp. [2], 11; a very fine example. ‘The accompanying Provisional Rules have been framed by the Directors on the lines of those …

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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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