Trade & Industry
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# 49995
OWEN, T. C.
The tea planter’s manual
With coloured lithographed plans of an iron, and a wood-and-stone, tea factory, drawn to scale. Colombo : A. M. & J. Ferguson, 1886. Octavo, Ceylonese binding of plum papered boards, title label to upper board (edges rubbed), owner’s name to title leaf (recto and verso), xxiv; errata leaf, ‘memo’ slip, 162, xvi (advertisements), two very …
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![[NEW SOUTH WALES] Railway Opening to Young. Demonstration Banquet, Thursday, March 26, 1885.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/04/2026_DSFB_2413-300x300.jpg)
# 50074
RAILWAY DEMONSTRATION COMMITTEE
[NEW SOUTH WALES] Railway Opening to Young. Demonstration Banquet, Thursday, March 26, 1885.
[Young, NSW? : s.n.], 1885. Gilt-edged card, 96 x 144 mm; lithograph printed recto only in gold on pale green heavy cardstock, annotated ‘Mr [J. G.] O’Connor’, who was an invitee to this banquet to mark the opening of the Murrumburrah to Young railway line; a few light marks, verso with residual glue from where …
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# 49960
JOHNSTON, John (editor)
Williamstown illustrated.
Williamstown : Printed by Clark & Co., “Advertiser” Office, Nelson Place, 1904. Oblong octavo (150 x 250 mm), original grey wrappers lettered in yellow (lightly marked, sunned along spine and lower edges); pp. [64], illustrated throughout with half-tone photographs; upper margin of first page with a gift inscription dated Christmas Day 1904, and later family …
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# 50130
NICHOLAS & CO.
The Black Mine, Jundah, Central West Queensland (the first black opal mine in Australia), c.1900.
Gelatin silver print photograph, cabinet card format, 108 x 164 mm (mount); verso with wet stamp of travelling Queensland outback photographers Nicholas & Co., and a fully contemporary inscription in pencil; ‘The Black Mine. For Miss A. (?)Garries’; the print has excellent clarity and is in very good condition, as is the mount. Quite possibly …
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# 50147
SKI STUDIO (SYDNEY)
The Chalet, Kiandra, N.S.W. : Snowy Mountains of Australia.
[Sydney, NSW] : Ski Studio, 106 Riley Street, [circa 1950]. Promotional flyer, 215 x 140 mm, printed recto only on thin card; vignette illustration and information about accommodation for skiers and holidaymakers in the ‘completely modernised brick and stone building, supplied with electric light, hot and cold water, sewerage and central heating’; light foxing and …
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# 50060
ROGERS, Captain Woodes
A cruising voyage round the world : first to the South-Sea, thence to the East-Indies, and homewards by the Cape of Good Hope. Begun in 1708, and finish’d in 1711.
Containing a journal of all the remarkable transactions; particularly of the taking of Puna and Guiaquil, of the Acapulca ship, and other prizes : an account of Alexander Selkirk’s living alone four years and four months in an island; and a brief description of several countries in our course noted for trade, especially in the …
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# 49285
TAYLOR, W. Cooke
A popular history of British India, commercial intercourse with China, and the insular possessions of England in the Eastern Seas.
London : James Madden & Co., 1842. Octavo, publisher’s green cloth (rebacked, preserving original spine with is rubbed), remnants of gilt lettering to spine, pp. viii; 508, internally clean, many leaves remaining unopened (a few have been roughly opened), a very good copy. With a detailed contemporary account of the war with China which saw …
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# 48956
MORRISON, John Robert (1814-1843) [WILLIAMS, Samuel Wells]
A Chinese commercial guide, consisting of a collection of details and regulations respecting foreign trade with China.
By the late Hon. J. R. Morrison. Third edition, revised throughout, and made applicable to the trade as at present conducted. Canton : Printed at the Office of the Chinese Repository, 1848. Third edition. Octavo, recent half morocco over marbled papered boards, spine ruled in gilt with contrasting morocco title label lettered in gilt; pp. …
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# 49578
Anon.
The China Directory for 1863 (with contemporary provenance from a Tientsin based company listed in the Directory)
Fourth Annual Publication. Hong Kong : A. Shorted & Co., 1863. Octavo, gilt-illustrated black cloth (spine expertly replaced), contemporary ownership inscription for the company of Pedder & Co. of Tientsin, dated 7th March,1863 to front pastedown (Pedder & Co. are listed in the Directory on p. 52), folding table ‘Peninsular & Oriental S. N. Co.’s …
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# 49968
[ABSOLON, John; GRIEVE, Thomas; TELBIN, William; HERRING, J. F.]
Gallery of Illustration, 14, Regent Street, Waterloo Place … A Grand Moving Diorama, Route of the Overland Mail to India, on a scale of unequalled magnitude,
accompanied by a descriptive detail of every object worthy of Notice on that highly interesting Journey ; being the first illustrated Lecture of the Series to be given by a Society having among its Members some of the first Literary and Artistic Talent … … London : printed by T. Brettell, Rupert Street, Haymarket, [1850]. …
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# 49072
RHODES, W. (for HENRY SIMON LTD.)
Report to the Government of Iraq on the production, storage and handling of grain in Iraq
Stockport [U.K.] : Henry Simon Ltd., 1937. Folio, lettered papered boards (edges rubbed), spine in binder’s cloth, three folios printed recto only, colour printed map of Iraq and neighbours showing the routes of transportation, ff. 37; a further 12 folios (appendices, including graphs printed in colour); three large folding diagrams printed in colour being engineering …
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# 50089
Anon
The Cyclopedia of India. Biographical – Historical – Administrative – Commercial.
Calcutta : The Cyclopedia Publishing Company, 1907 – 1909. Three volumes, complete, quarto, publisher’s half leather over buckram, edges rubbed and a little marked, gilt emblems to upper boards, gilt lettered on spine, marbled endpapers, colour frontispieces; pp. 400; (5); 390; (5); 502; (3), extensively illustrated with black and white photographs, a very good set. …
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# 49892
MIDGLEY, Alfred
The Queensland illustrated guide : for the use of farmers, fruit-growers, vignerons, and others. With a map.
Brisbane : James C. Beal, Government Printer, 1888. Octavo, gilt-lettered bling embossed green cloth (light edge wear, corners a little bent), patterned endpapers, title page in red and black (wet stamp of the Department of Agriculture, Brisbane), pp. viii; 222, large folding map printed in colour loose at rear, scattered foxing throughout, illustrated with nine …
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![[MELBOURNE] Besses Banquet, Vienna Café, 20 July 1911.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2017/02/03163147/2016_DSFB_4810-152x300.jpg)
# 14719
[VIENNA CAFE]
[MELBOURNE] Besses Banquet, Vienna Café, 20 July 1911.
Pen-and-ink illustration and calligraphy with onlaid silver gelatin photograph, on thin card, 420 x 200 mm (sheet); a few light marks to the upper margins, otherwise fine condition. A significant piece of ephemera from one of Melbourne’s most famous dining establishments of the 1890s and early 1900s, the Vienna Café, which occupied the grand premises …
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# 26670
MORTESON, G.
General description of the Wiluna Gold Mines Ltd, Wiluna, Western Australia. (Prepared for the Members of the Australian Institute of Mining & Metallurgy).
[Wiluna, W.A.] : G. Morteson [for Wiluna Gold Mines Ltd.], [1933]. Small square quarto (245 x 210 mm), original cloth-backed paper wrappers, the upper wrapper featuring a map of Western Australia hand-drawn in black ink, with Wiluna marked in red and the names Meeka[tharra] and Laverton added later in pencil, the upper margin with typed …
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# 49782
HAYES, Denis, FALK, Jim and BARRETT, Neil.
Red light for yellow-cake : the case against uranium mining.
Melbourne : Friends of the Earth Australia, 1977. Octavo, stapled yellow wrappers printed in red; pp. 96; map; foreword by Manning Clark; a very good copy.