Trade & Industry
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# 15593
Maker unknown.
Fiji before Civilization … Dawn of Civilization … Advance of Civilization … Glorious Result of Civilization
[Crystal Palace, London : Machinery Department, c.1879]. Cotton handkerchief, 570 x 580 mm, lithograph printed in brown and red; old fold lines and some insignificant toning and spotting; a very well preserved example. These satirical cotton handkerchiefs lampooning the effects of the introduction of Western civilisation into a “primitive” society in the South Seas were printed in colour in the machinery …
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# 34674
Picton Hopkins & Son Pty Ltd
General catalogue of decorative plaster designs
Melbourne : Picton Hopkins & Son Pty. Ltd., 1920s. Oblong quarto, pressed boards (small chip to spine), pp. xxvi; [2]; 159; [4], illustrated throughout, light creasing to preliminaries, half of pp. 11-12 neatly excised as well as a small sections of pp. 21-22, 25-26, 29-30, where sample images have been neatly removed. A good reference …
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# 34201
ANDERSON'S PTY. LTD.
The home makers furnishing guide. Andersons, Clarendon St. South Melb.
[Cover title]. South Melbourne, Vic : Anderson’s Pty. Ltd., [between 1915 and 1920]. Large quarto (305 x 250 mm), original pictorial wrappers with circular cut-out to front (wrappers with a few light marks, short tears to paper along spine and to edge of cut-out, but overall in good condition), staple bound, 136 pp, illustrated throughout; …
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![[NEW GUINEA] Plumes from paradise : trade cycles in outer Southeast Asia and their impact on New Guinea and nearby islands until 1920.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/02/11120134/2022_DSFB_0773-300x300.jpg)
# 34083
SWADLING, Pamela
[NEW GUINEA] Plumes from paradise : trade cycles in outer Southeast Asia and their impact on New Guinea and nearby islands until 1920.
/ Pamela Swadling. With contributions by Roy Wagner and Billai Laba. Boroko : Papua New Guinea National Museum in association with Robert Brown & Associates (Qld) Pty Ltd, 1996. First edition. Small quarto (270 x 195 mm), publisher’s pictorial boards in the original dust jacket; pp 352, profusely illustrated with colour and b/w plates; maps, …
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# 34443
PHILP, J. E.
Whaling ways of Hobart Town
Hobart : J. Walch, [1936]. Octavo, illustrated wrappers ( spine chipped with loss), previous owner’s name to upper wrapper and title page, pp. 95, photographically illustrated.
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# 34384
LANGFORD, W. G. (Walter Gilbert)
Bulletin of the Territory of Papua. No. 4, 1918. Report on the geology of the Hohoro District, Papuan oilfield.
Melbourne : Dept. of Home and Territories, 1918. Quarto (275 x 220 mm), original printed grey wrappers (old collection stamp to front), pp 16, with a folding colour cross-sectional plan of the Vailala goldfields, and folding topographical and geological map of same, 2 leaves of photographic plates plus several photographic illustrations in the text; title page …
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# 33709
PERKINS, J. A.; EGGLESTON, Frederick William, et al.
Report of Committee appointed to survey the possibility of establishing a combined administration of the Territories of Papua and New Guinea, and to make a recommendation as to a capital site
(1) for the combined administration of that is favoured, or (2) for the Territory of New Guinea if the retention of separate administrations is recommended. August, 1939. Presented by Command, 12th September, 1939; ordered to be printed, 22nd September, 1939. At head of title: 1937-38-39. The Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia. Canberra : Printed …
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![[MELBOURNE] Staff, Lanes Motors Pty. Ltd., June 1924.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2021/11/29115144/2021_DSFB_8567-300x152.jpg)
# 33439
ADAMSON, T. G.
[MELBOURNE] Staff, Lanes Motors Pty. Ltd., June 1924.
[Title from caption in image]. Gelatin silver print photograph, panoramic format 100 x 320 mm; laid down on its original board mount, 250 x 455 mm, signed by the photographer lower right ‘T. G. Adamson Photo.’; the print has a few light surface marks and some fading and scattered ink spots at bottom right corner; …
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# 33207
ZIEGLER, Oswald L. (publisher); HURLEY, Frank (photographer)
Australia 1788-1938. (With an archive of unique ephemera associated with Ziegler’s publications for the Sesquicentenary)
Sydney, N.S.W. : Simmons Limited, 1938. “Produced by Oswald L. Ziegler under the authority of Australia’s 150th Anniversary Celebrations Council and in collaboration with its publicity committee.” (title page). Elephant folio (440 x 310 mm), publisher’s tan leather over boards (lightly rubbed and marked), upper board with black leather panel lettered in gilt 150 Years; all …
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# 33298
TERRITORY OF PAPUA. Department of Information and Extension Services
Official opening, Moveave Sawmill, Gulf District, Papua, by H. H. Reeve, 14th December 1963
[Port Moresby : s.n.], 1963. Quarto (270 x 220 mm), original pictorial wrappers, 8 pp (including wrappers), extensively photographically illustrated; a very good example. Scarce. Trove locates a single copy (NLA)
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# 32958
ABIGAIL, Francis; CENTENNIAL INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION (NEW SOUTH WALES COMMISSION)
Melbourne Centennial Exhibition, 1888. New South Wales Mineral Court. Descriptive catalogue of exhibits of metals, minerals, fossils, and timbers (Government and private), prepared and arranged on behalf of the New South Wales Commission,
by direction of the Honorable Francis Abigail, Minister for Mines, Sydney. Sydney : Charles Potter, Government Printer, 1888. Octavo (245 x 155 mm), publisher’s printed salmon-coloured wrappers (upper wrapper with edge and corner wear and annotations in pencil at top corner; spine ends with paper loss), pp 115; internally very clean, a good all-original copy.
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# 32949
KRIES, Mateo et al.
German Design 1949 – 1989. Two Countries, One History
Weil am Rhein (Germany) : Vitra Design Museum, 2021. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 320, illustrated. New copy. Selected by Mateo Kries and Thomas A. Geisler, Edited by Erika Pinner and Klara Nemeckova. The cheap, colourful plastic designs from East Germany pitted against the cool functionalism of West German design: The publication German Design 1949 – …
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# 31820
CRAIG, WILLIAMSON PTY. LTD.
Exceptional values in Craig fashions and fabrics for Autumn Winter wear, 1925. Craig’s, 8-26 Elizabeth St. Melbourne.
Melbourne : Keating-Wood Pty. Ltd., [1925]. Small octavo (180 x 120 mm), original pictorial wrappers (some pale foxing and light staining), lower wrapper with photographic illustration of the Soft Furnishings Dept., staple bound, pp 56, illustrated in black-and-white throughout; includes printed prices; a very good copy. A beautiful 1920’s women’s and children’s fashion catalogue for …
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# 32294
MILLER, Royal R.
The Upper Murray : a centenary survey (presentation copy)
With special reference to the Corryong District. Melbourne : Spectator Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd., 1934. Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth (slightly sun faded to spine), presentation inscription to endpaper ‘The Centenary Committee – with the compliments of the author’, pp. 124, photographic plates, a very good copy. Scarce.
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# 32057
Photographer unknown.
Road gang at work, Southern or Central Queensland, circa 1885.
Albumen print photograph, 190 x 235 mm, laid down on its original album leaf (now split); fully contemporary caption in ink beneath image ‘Road Gang’; a very strong print with excellent clarity and tonal range; offsetting around edges, otherwise in fine condition. This photograph came with a group of Queensland views originally sourced from the …
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# 32542
SCARDAMAGLIA, Amanda
Printed on Stone : the lithographs of Charles Troedel.
Melbourne : Melbourne Books, 2020. Quarto, laminated boards, pp. 256, illustrated with more than 70 colour prints from the Troedel archive, plus full reproduction of all 24 plates of The Melbourne Album (lithographic views of Melbourne from 1863–1864) plus select images from the New South Wales Album (1878). New copy. This book is the first to …