Trade & Industry

# 41026

[SANDS & McDOUGALL, manufacturing stationers]

[WESTERN DISTRICT; MARITIME] Ledger book of James Henty & Co., Melbourne, 1873-5.

Large heavy folio, 480 x 330 x 130 mm, weighing 16 kg (!); original binding of reverse calf over heavy boards, external leather bands with decorative lacing patterns (some light staining and edge wear), spine with red and green morocco title-pieces stamped in gilt ‘LEDGER’ / ‘J.H. & CO.’ / ‘No. 5’, and with the Sands & …

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# 40435

Photographer unknown.

View of Broken Hill mine and smelters. Far West New South Wales, 1890s.

Albumen print photograph, 150 x 200 mm, captioned in negative ‘Broken Hill’; laid down recto of a 19th-century album leaf, with handwritten caption ‘Broken Hill’ in bottom margin; the print is in very good condition, but the mount has some light foxing; verso has an identical format albumen print of a river scene with cliffs …

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# 40359

PONTISSALIENNE (PARIS)

[ABSINTHE] Catalogue Général … Distillerie Pontissalienne … Fabrique d’Absinthe Supérieure.

Pontarlier, Doubs: Distillerie Pontissalienne, [circa 1900]. Small octavo (150 x 105 mm), maroon faux crocodile-skin textured stiff card wrappers, gilt lettering to the front; 20 pp, chromolithographic pastedowns with Art Nouveau designs by the celebrated lithographers A. Waton of St. Etienne, title page and text in red and black, double-page halftone plate at centre; a superb …

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# 40395

CHITTENDEN, Hiram Martin

The American fur trade of the far west

New York : Barnes & Noble, 1935. Second edition. Two volumes, octavo, gilt-lettered cloth, spines slightly sunned, slipcase (edges cracked), pp. xxx; 1014, folding map in rear pocket, a very good set.

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# 40073

COLONY OF VICTORIA. Department of Lands and Survey.

[CHINESE PRINTING] Garden License issued at Sandhurst (Bendigo) to William Hyde, dated 28 August 1883.

Melbourne : Government printer, [1883]. Lithograph printing, 210 x 220 mm, printed on both sides with parallel text in English and Chinese characters; manuscript entries record the issue of the License to William Hyde of Sandhurst on 28 August 1883; the License (no. 122155) authorizes Hyde to maintain a garden and residence on Crown Lands …

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# 40083

MARCHANT, Percy

[WESTERN DISTRICT] Mr. Marchant, consulting optician, “Kent House”, Geelong.

Visits professionally as follows: Ararat – Tuesday morning, June 11th, at Mr. Wild’s Pharmacy. Coleraine – Wednesday (till 2.30 only), June 12th, at Mrs. Braithwaite’s Koroit Inn. Heywood – Thursday morning, June 13th, at Righetti’s Hotel. Portland – Thursday afternoon and evening, June 13th, at Mr. Martell’s Pharmacy. Hamilton – Friday (from 11 till 5), …

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# 40025

ELLIOTT, W.

Cole’s Australasian gardening and domestic floriculture.

Melbourne : E. W. Cole Book Arcade, [1915]. Octavo (180 x 125 mm), original pictorial wrappers (scattered stains), pp. 361, [5 publisher’s advertisements]; title leaf with small marginal tears at fore-edge, top corners of first few leaves a little-dog-eared, otherwise internally clean and sound; a very good, all-original copy. Although the format is identical to …

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# 40063

CLEMINSON BROS. (PARRAMATTA); J. ALBERT & SON (MELBOURNE)

[SHEET MUSIC] A convenient list of Albert’s catchy music carefully selected and alphabetically arranged.

Cover title: Music hits of the hour from the home of catchy music. Parramatta, NSW : Cleminson Bros. (Late A.I.F.), 162 Church Street, [ca. 1920]. Trade catalogue. Small quarto (245 x 190 mm), illustrated stapled wrappers (chipped, original owner’s name ‘Miss Olive Burton’ to front), 44 pp., all advertisements for popular sheet music published by …

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# 40019

RICHARDSON, Ralph A.

Electricity and wheels.

Detroit, USA : Dept. of Public Relations, General Motors Corporation, [1939]. Title page: General Motors-Holden’s Ltd. Brisbane – Sydney – Melbourne – Adelaide – Perth. Inside rear cover: Printed in Australia. Octavo (210 x 135 mm), pictorial wrappers, stapled; 32 pp, illustrated; a fine copy. Trove locates no copies of this Australian imprint in Australian …

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# 28091

[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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# 19088

BOULTER, Daniel (1740-1802); BOULTER, Joseph (1743-1819); BOULTER, John (1745-1816)

Copper halfpenny token for Daniel Boulter’s ‘Exhibition of natural and artificial curiosities’, Yarmouth, Norfolk, 1796.

Yarmouth : Joseph, Daniel and John Boulter, 1796. Æ halfpenny, diameter 29.8 mm. Obverse: A female seated holding a scroll inscribed BOULTER’S EXHIBITION OF NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL CURIOSITIES. In ex. YARMOUTH in a straight line. Reverse: Three figures symbolising Asia, Africa and America presenting various curiosities to Britannia, who is recording them in a book. …

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# 39828

BANK OF NEW SOUTH WALES

Australia’s Centenary : 150 years, January 26th 1788 / January 26th 1938. Bank of New South Wales 120 years, April 1817 / April 1937.

With the Season’s Greetings from the Bank of New South Wales, 1937-1938. Sydney, Australia. [Sydney : Bank of New South Wales, 1937]. Folding card 210 x 260 mm (a few light marks, tiny amount of insect damage at front top corner), front with the crest of the Bank of New South Wales at centre, original …

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# 39477

DAILEY, S. J.

Timber cutting scene, Kangaroo Island, South Australia, circa 1890.

Sepia-tone gelatin silver print photograph, 155 x 210 mm; verso with the wet stamp of ‘S. J. Dailey, Photographic Artist, 151 Franklin Street, Adelaide’, and a fully contemporary caption in pencil: ‘Timber cutting, Kangaroo Island, S. A.’; the print has a few short edge tears and some loss at the corners; nevertheless, it is an exceptionally …

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# 39300

BEATTIE, John Watt (1859-1930)

[TASMANIA] Apple picking at Glenora

[Circa 1890]. Albumen print photograph, in large format 170 x 225 mm; inscribed in the negative: ‘Apple picking at Glenora. 974B. Beattie, Hobart’; unmounted; in very fine condition.

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# 38510

RITCHIE, Edward Samuel; [GIBBS, Robert]

Catalogue of articles for a whaling voyage.

New Bedford, Massachusetts : E. S. Ritchie, dealer in ship chandlery, and importer of hard-ware. Rodman’s Buildings, No. 61 North Water Street, [ca. 1849]. Octodecimo (160 x 100 mm), original leather-backed stiff wrappers (stained, small loss to leather at tail of spine), the upper wrapper lettered in black and inscribed in ink – evidently in …

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# 37798

QUEENSLAND GOVERNMENT TOURIST BUREAU.

Wheat, Darling Downs, near Warwick.

[Brisbane : Queensland Government Tourist Bureau, between 1930 and 1940]. Large format gelatin silver print photograph, 300 x 370 mm; window-mounted in the original display mount of heavy board, the mount with manuscript calligraphic captions in ink and circular ‘Queensland Government Tourist Bureau’ with hand-drawn map; this photograph would have been used in either a …

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