Trade & Industry

# 35611

SHELL (AUSTRALIA) LTD.

[AUTOMOBILES] The whys and wherefores of car lubrication.

[Sydney, NSW] : Shell Company of Australia Ltd., [1935?]. Oblong quarto (210 x 245 mm), original pictorial card covers (light creasing), pp 28, with numerous monochrome line-drawn illustrations and several superb colour fold-outs showing cross-sections of car engines, and an additional colour fold-out of a Lucas cut-out and voltage regulator at rear; title page with …

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# 36049

GRACE BROS. PTY. LTD. (SYDNEY)

1953 May-June clearance catalogue. Grace Bros. Pty. Ltd.

[Cover title]. Sydney, NSW : Grace Bros., 1953. Trade catalogue. Quarto (245 x 210 mm), pictorial wrappers (a couple of light stains), 47 pp, monochrome illustrations throughout; bottom corners dog-eared, otherwise contents very good. An early post-war Grace Bros. catalogue. Great resource for researchers in or collectors of vintage Australian fashion.

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# 33996

COLONY OF VICTORIA.

[GOLD RUSH] Report of the Royal Commission, appointed to enquire into the best method of removing the sludge from the gold fields; together with proceedings of the Commission, minutes of evidence, and appendices.

Melbourne : Government printer, 1859. Foolscap folio (340 mm), string bound, 80 pp, including a splendid large folding colour plan of the valley of Bendigo and numerous other folding tables and plans; a fine example.

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# 35613

"VELMOL"

Inspirations in hair styles (“damp-set” with Velmol)

Sydney : Clinton-Williams, [between 1945 and 1950]. Illustrated paper folder (140 x 85 mm), with five tinted photographs of hair styles created using the Velmol product, captions verso. Wetstamps from a local pharmacy on wrappers. Scarce mid-century Australian trade publication illustrating some highly elaborate women’s hair styles to advertise a hair product.

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# 34957

THE UNION MANUFACTURING & AGENCY COMPANY

General Catalogue. The Union Manufacturing & Agency Company, 299 Elizabeth Street near G.P.O., Melbourne.

Melbourne : Alpha Printing Co., 71-73 Hardware St., [c.1930]. Octavo (185 x 125 mm), colour pictorial wrappers (upper wrapper with original owner’s name, chipped at fore-edge, corners bent; spine ends with short paper splits); pp 160; line-drawn illustrations throughout; ownership inscription in pencil to first page, corners dog-eared, but contents clean; order form loosely inserted. …

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# 18176

[TAKAMATSU, M.]

Japanese merchant’s catalogue of Chinese export furniture, with original mounted photographs.

[Japan] : M. Takamatsu, [c.1910]. Quarto, 250 x 190 mm, bound in Japanese folding accordion style, in the original wooden boards (textile coverings perished), wet stamp of the merchant ‘M. Takamatsu’ to front and rear pastedowns, comprising [38] leaves of thick card with 152 sepia printing-out paper photographs of Chinese export furniture, probably destined for …

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# 34722

ELLIS, William H.; SHALVEY, James; GORDON, James (1779-1842)

[TASMANIA; POLICE; CONVICTS] Manuscript letter from William H. Ellis, Hobart Town, to the Chief Magistrate of Police of Van Diemen’s Land, seeking reimbursement for providing a member of the convict Field Police with clothing. April 1831.

Foolscap folio, 335 x 210 mm, manuscript in ink on laid paper watermarked ‘Gilling & Alford 1828’; 1 page autograph letter signed by William H. Ellis, headed Hobart Town, 11 August 1831, addressed to James Gordon Esq., Chief Police Magistrate: ‘I most respectfully request you will be pleased to stop from Constable Shalvey’s Salary the …

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# 34743

[GREAT BRITAIN. PARLIAMENT]

[TARIFFS] An Act to continue, until the First Day of January [1824], an Act … relating to imposing and levying Duties in New South Wales ; to authorise the imposing and levying other Duties on Goods imported into the said Colony ; and to suspend, for Ten Years, the Payment of Duty on the Importation of certain Goods of Produce of New South Wales. 30th July 1822.

[Drop-head title with coat of arms at head of text]. London : Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1822. Foolscap folio, 305 x 190 mm, disbound, pp 913-918, [2 blank]; a fine copy. ‘For the purpose of tariff fixing, the colony of New South Wales made up all of the modern “Australia” until 1825. …

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# 35113

CONDRUP Ltd.

Handbook on poker work, chip carving, pewter modelling, Sir-Ver embossing … and … marquetry staining

London : Condrup Ltd., circa 1920. Octavo, lettered wrappers (foxed), pp. 24, illustrated. Illustrated catalogue with equipment for the lost art of poker working, carving and modelling etc., including poker working machines and sundries, portfolios of designs, chip carving tools, knives, and accessories, and equipment for ‘sir-ver’ embossing, or the art of embossing on silk …

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# 35020

[Ancient Order of Foresters Friendly Society]

[FREEMASONRY; MELBOURNE] A.O.F. Court Perserverance, No. 2727

[Melbourne : Ancient Order of Foresters, United Melbourne District, circa 1880]. Single sheet, folded into 4 pp, octavo, letterpress, printed on one side only, illustrated with the Society’s crest, ‘Dear Sir and Brother, You are hereby informed that by the Cash Book you are in arrear to the Court of £ :, and unless the same, …

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# 35015

Oil exploration in Papua and the Mandated Territory of New Guinea

Melbourne : Australian Petroleum Company Pty. Ltd., and Island Exploration Company Pty. Ltd., 1940. Large octavo (228 x 153 mm), original printed wrappers (lightly foxed), staple bound, 31 pp, b/w photographic illustrations throughout; internally clean and sound.

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# 35012

J.H. ABBOTT & CO.

J.H. Abbott & Co. Tanners & Curriers … Pall Mall, Bendigo, High Street, Echuca

Bendigo : Bolton Bros, [1900-1910]. Quarto, printed on black ink on red paper, upper wrapper with various calligraphic typefaces, lower wrapper illustrated, staple bound, [8] pp, descriptions and prices of all types of footwear, includes illustrations of ladies’ shoes and boots; fine.

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# 34107

Photographer unknown. [KINGSMILL, Charles, Rev. Canon]

A woman and her dog posing in front of a kangaroo-skin backdrop. Goulburn, New South Wales, circa 1905.

Silver gelatin print photograph, 65 x 100 mm; printed on postcard stock (89 x 139 mm); a brief message in ink on the front of the card – no doubt in the hand of the woman in the photograph – reads: ‘I find I can’t get round this evening. So sorry – love, A. S.’; …

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# 34002

PAPUAN PLANTING & TRADING COMPANY.

[NEW GUINEA; RUBBER] Prospectus of the extension of the Papuan Planting & Trading Syndicate into the Papuan Planting & Trading Company.

At head of title: For Private Circulation only. Carlton, Vic. : Ford & Son, printers, [1898]. Foolscap folio (340 mm), [4] pp; original folds, edges with some insect nibbling and very short tears, else clean. ‘Capital – £3,000 in 300 Shares of £10 each. Capital required £1500. 300 Shares are issued at £10 per Share. …

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# 34566

F. HUMPHRIS & SONS LTD. (Adelaide and Jamestown, South Australia)

Mandarin Phosphates

Adelaide and Jamestown, South Australia : F. Humphris & Sons Ltd., [after 1902, and probably before 1920]. Chromolithographed bottle label, 71 x 94 mm; a fine example. Frederina Humphris (née Gotte, 1841-1925), the widow of Edmund Humphris, continued her husband’s Jamestown enterprise, known as “The Emu Factory”, after his death in 1880. The Emu Factory …

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# 34410

JOHNSTONE, John

The mode of draining land, according to the system practised by the late Mr. Joseph Elkington.

Drawn up for the consideration of the Board of Agriculture, by John Johnstone, Land-Surveyor. With Nineteen Plates. London : J. Taylor, 1841. A new edition. Octavo, green cloth, lightly marked, with paper title label to spine, contemporary gift inscription in pencil to endpaper, name torn from head of title page, pp. xiv; 118; 19 folding …

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