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# 37154

Maker unknown.

A unique handmade Asian conical hat constructed from Turf Virginia cigarette packets. Australia, between 1930 and 1945.

A conical hat (also known as a rice hat), 42 cm in diameter, constructed using a total of 183 individual Turf Virginia cigarette packets, with four tiers of meticulously arranged overlapping sections – reminiscent of plate armour – entirely hand-stitched with fine twine (no tape or glue was used!); the hat is surmounted by a …

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# 34709

[LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR ARTHUR]

[TASMANIA; ALCOHOL] Licence to keep an Inn or a Public House, circa 1836.

[Hobart Town : s.n., circa 1836]. Foolscap folio, 315 x 200 mm, letterpress printed recto only on laid paper with watermark ‘W. Warren 1836’; a colonial Government licence ‘to keep an Inn or a Public House … and to sell and retail therein Ale, Beer, and other Malt Liquors, and Wines, Cider, Ginger Beer, Spruce …

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# 42699

[THOMSON, John (1837-1921) (photographer) and Adolphe Smith HEADINGLEY (1846-1924)]

Street Incidents : a series of twenty-one permanent photographs, with descriptive letter-press.

London : Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1881. Quarto (285 x 220 mm), publisher’s pictorial red cloth stamped in gilt and black (boards with light staining and flecking, spine sunned and flecked, text block a little sprung), original patterned endpapers, pp [2], [1]-100, with 21 original woodburytypes from Thomson’s original dry-plate negatives, each with …

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# 42781

LETTS, SON & CO.

[NEW ZEALAND] Letts’s Australasian pocket diary, with an almanac for 1885.

Being the forty-eighth year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria (Accession June 20, 1837). London : Letts, Son & Co. Limited, [1884]. “Pocket series, no. 25”. Narrow octavo (180 x 90 mm), original green pebbled cloth with wallet-style flap, publisher’s gilt-stamped crest to front; title page with original owner’s name D. S. McKelne, Perth …

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# 42273

WILSON, Sir Samuel

Salmon at the Antipodes : being an account of the successful introduction of salmon and trout into Australian waters

London : Edward Stanford, 1879. First edition. Octavo, finely bound in half crushed morocco over marbled papered boards, spine in compartments with gilt-lettering and angling related devices, edges rubbed, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers with collector’s leather heraldic label to front pastedown (unidentified), photographic frontispiece, pp. viii; folding map; 252, a fine copy. Ferguson 18663.

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# 41742

READ, D. B.

Pair of photographs of stevedores at work on the Melbourne docks, 1913.

Two gelatin silver print photographs, in uniform 105 x 150 mm format, on their original plain board mounts, each captioned in pencil beneath the image ‘”The Docks” 1913 / D. B. Read, Melb.’; the prints have good tonal range and excellent clarity; one has a tiny closed tear at top right corner (probably from the …

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# 41809

FYSH, Hudson (1895 - 1974)

Qantas rising : the autobiography of the Flying Fysh (signed copy)

Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1965 (1966 reprint). Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth in dustjacket (edges lightly rubbed, slightly chipped at head of spine), pp. xii; [ii]; 296, photographically illustrated. Signed by the author on the title page. The first volume of the author’s three volume autobiography, documenting his role in founding Qantas, Australia’s national airline.

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# 41699

KAY, Rev. John

[QUEENSLAND; BLACKBIRDING; MISSIONS] The slave trade in the New Hebrides : being papers read at the annual meeting of the New Hebrides Mission held at Aniwa, July 1871,

and published by the authority of the Meeting. Edited by the Rev. John Kay, Coatbridge, Secretary to the Foreign Mission Committee of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of Scotland. Edinburgh : Edmonston & Douglas, 1872. Octavo (210 x 140 mm), disbound; pp. [i]-iv, [5]-91; last few leaves with some marginal toning, otherwise fine condition throughout. Rare.

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# 12106

LANG, John Dunmore (1799-1878)

Prospectus of a company, to be designated the Scottish Phillipsland Emigration Company.

[Edinburgh? : J.D. Lang?, c.1847]. Foolscap folio, [4] pp, original horizontal folds, trimmed closely along the fore-edge margin, but a good, clean copy of a rare document. Ferguson, 4566. Lang’s proposal for the formation of an Edinburgh- or Glasgow-based company which would organise large-scale emigration of Protestants, particularly from the Scottish Highlands and western islands, …

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# 33626

SANDS & McDOUGALL

Sands & McDougall’s Monthly Diary. Giving departure of Mails, Sunrise and Sunset, Phases of Moon, Railway Time Tables, &c. July, 1880.

Melbourne : Victoria Stationery Warehouse, 46 Collins Street West, 1880. Quadragesimo-octavo (100 x 70 mm), publisher’s printed yellow stiff wrappers, stitched, pp 73; a very good, clean example, most diary pages with the original owner’s short neat ink entries recording over the course of the month a multitude of Melbourne surnames (possibly legal or business …

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# 31051

FISKEN, GIBSON & Co., AGENTS; [BARDWELL, William, photographer]

Catalogue of Sir Samuel Wilson’s pure merino ewes and rams for sale at Ercildoune, by Fisken, Gibson, & Co., on Thursday, November 1, 1883. To commence at 1 o’clock precisely.

Cover title: Catalogue of the Sixth Annual Sale of Sir Samuel Wilson’s … … Ballarat, Vic. : James Curtis, printer [for Fiske, Gibson & Co.], 1883. Duodecimo (170 mm), original limp red morocco covers with gilt-stamped pictorial device and lettering to front, and a second pictorial device to rear; marbled edges, original olive endpapers, pp …

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# 41348

BURN & SON

Superior jewellery, gold & silver watches, clocks, chains, Alberts, brooches, rings, etc. etc. being the residue of the stock of Mr. D. Barclay; … will be sold by public auction at the Mart, Elizabeth-Street, by order of Mr. Golding, by Burn and Son, on Thursday, May 15, 1879, without the slightest reserve.

Catalogues to be had at the Mart, where the above are now on view. Hobart Town : Davies Bros., Printers, “Mercury” Office, 1879. Single sheet, 225 x 160 mm, lithograph-printed recto only; the flyer was evidently preserved flat for a century or so inside a Hobart newspaper, as it has offsetting from the newsprint on …

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# 41384

RUDD, Charles (photographer and publisher) (1849-1901)

[GOLD MINING] Three photographs documenting gold sluicing at Uralla on the Northern Tablelands of New South Wales, early 1890s.

Three albumen print photographs in identical 140 x 200 mm format, each with the photographer’s manuscript captions and consecutive serial numbers (999-1000-1001) in the negative; all preserved as issued, mounted on the original green backing sheets, 230 x 190 mm, imprinted in red ink, upper centre: ‘C. RUDD, VIEW SPECIALIST, 257 BOURKE STREET.’, at l.l. ‘C. …

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# 41525

Yamanaka Zensaburo

[WORLD MAP] Bankokushnghizu

Japan : (Meiji 14) [1881]. Handcoloured copperplate print, 990 x 700 mm, folding to 130 x 180 mm, some silverfishing and creases with some splitting, both repaired with Japanese tissue. A map of the world on Mercator’s projection by Japanese cartographer Yamanaka Zensaburo. Obviously derived from European sources, it shows the voyages of famous explorers …

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# 41380

SWEET, Samuel White (1825-1886)

View of the interior of the Adelaide Arcade, December 1885.

Albumen print photograph, 160 x 223 mm, with ‘Sweet, Adelaide’ in manuscript in negative at bottom edge left of centre; laid down on its original mount of thickish card, captioned ‘Arcade’ in red ink below the image; the tones are a little dark (to be expected) but the image contains a wealth of detail such …

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# 41103

BURTON BROTHERS

[SAMOA] Lt. Gaunt’s squad drilling. (Apia, 1899).

Albumen print photograph, 145 x 200 mm, laid down on its original card mount, 245 x 295 mm; ms. caption in the negative reads: ‘6395. Lt. Gaunt’s Squad drilling. Burton Bros. Dunedin. Protected, Oct. ’99’; the print is in good condition; the mount is sunned at the edges and has a tiny amount of insect damage at …

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