Trade & Industry
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![[WOOL INDUSTRY] H. G. Hibbard, breeder of thoroughbred Spanish Merino Sheep, Orwell, Vt.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2016/11/19002355/2012_DSFB_0429-300x190.jpg)
# 32032
H. G. HIBBARD
[WOOL INDUSTRY] H. G. Hibbard, breeder of thoroughbred Spanish Merino Sheep, Orwell, Vt.
East Shoreham, Vermont [U.S.A.] : F.L. Webster, [circa 1880]. Lithographed business card, 77 x 132 mm; printed recto only, illustration signed David No. 77. Fine condition. Having fiercely protected its merino bloodlines from foreign powers for so long, Spain had relinquished its monopoly on the hugely lucrative merino wool industry by the early 1800s. Merinos were introduced …
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# 32079
AUSTRALIAN WOMEN'S WEEKLY
Afghans to knit and crochet
Cover: Plus fashion designs using Afghan motifs. Sydney : [Australian Consolidated Press], 2 August, 1972. Small quarto (260 x 185 mm), pictorial wrappers, 16 pp (including wrappers), illustrated in colour and b/w; some pale marginal stains at bottom edges, but a good copy. Afghan cameleers were first brought to South Australia in 1838; in the …
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![[FEDERATION] View of the Ceres, or Wheat Arch in Bridge Street, Sydney. January, 1901.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2021/09/03092047/2021_DSFB_5926-300x206.jpg)
# 32044
LASSETTER & COY. (SYDNEY)
[FEDERATION] View of the Ceres, or Wheat Arch in Bridge Street, Sydney. January, 1901.
Albumen print photograph, 140 x 205 mm, laid down on its original board mount, 210 x 265 mm, verso with studio wet stamp of ‘Lassetter & Coy. Limited, Sydney’; the print is in good condition, with sharp detail; the borders of the mount are heavily foxed. The Ceres, or Wheat Arch in Bridge Street, was …
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# 31052
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, October 27, 1881. To commence at 1 o’clock precisely.
Cover title: Catalogue of the Fourth Annual Sale of Sir Samuel Wilson’s … … Ballarat, Vic. : James Curtis, printer [for Fiske, Gibson & Co.], 1881. 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 salmon-coloured endpapers, pp …
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# 31535
E. A. MACHIN & CO. LTD. (MELBOURNE)
E. A. Machin & Co. Ltd. 529-541 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne, C.1. Branches: Bendigo and Warrnambool … Automotive, engineering, industrial and domestic supplies and equipment. September 16, 1963.
Melbourne : E. A. Machin & Co. Ltd., 1963. Quarto (278 x 220 mm), pictorial wrappers (very lightly marked), staple bound, pp 24 (including wrappers); photo-mechanical process illustrations throughout; a very good copy. Melbourne trade catalogue for refrigerators, camping equipment (including luggage racks, picnic kits, “ice boxes”, portable BBQs, torches, and air beds), spray-painting equipment, …
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# 31132
BRADFIELD, J. J. C. (John Job Crew) (1867-1943) (attributed); PHILLIPS, Harry (publisher)
Sydney Harbour Bridge and City Railway
Willoughby, N.S.W. : H. Phillips, [1930]. Large oblong octavo (160 x 250 mm), pictorial red wrappers printed in black, stapled; [32] pp, with b/w photographic illustrations and line drawings throughout; a very good copy. Internal references and illustrations indicate this pamphlet was probably published in 1930. One of the illustrations is an artist’s impression of …
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# 31356
WILMOT & KEY
Headstone in the Geelong Eastern Cemetery of local hotelier, James Bedford. Circa 1865.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 105 x 64 mm (mount); verso imprinted ‘Wilmot & Key, Photographers, Geelong Portrait Gallery, 31 Malop Street, Geelong’; the print and mount are in good condition; [together with] another Wilmot & Key carte de visite probably dating to around 1864-65 (the back mark has a different and possibly …
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# 13741
VUITTON, Louis; LEHOT, G. de
Le confort et l’élégance de l’automobile
Paris : Louis Vuitton, 1925. Quarto, printed grey card portfolio (very lightly foxed, spine sunned), containing loose 6-page illustrated extract from Horizons de France, July 1925, specially printed for Louis Vuitton, as issued; occasional toning spots, else fine. A brief, poetic essay on motoring which extols the virtues of Louis Vuitton’s designer luggage – both …
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# 30262
HESLOP, Robert
Copper halfpenny token for Robert Heslop, dealer in natural curiosities, Finsbury Square, London, 1790s.
London : Robert Heslop, n.d. [c.1795]. Æ halfpenny, diameter 29.7 mm. Obverse: A male contortionist and a monkey. Around the perimeter: CAN YOU DO SO. Reverse: An inscription on six lines THE FIRST SHOP IN LONDON FOR NATURAL CURIOSITYS PAINTINGS COINS COLOURS FOR ARTISTS &c. Around the perimeter: R. HESLOP NO. 86 CHISWELL STREET FINSBURY …
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# 30970
NEW ZEALAND INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.
“Haere Mai” / “Welcome” : The President of the New Zealand International Exhibition requests the honour of the presence of W. Lamb-Smith Esq., at the Ceremony of Opening the Exhibition at Christchurch New Zealand on Thursday November 1st 1906.
Christchurch, NZ : [s.n.], July, 1906. Small quarto (255 x 175 mm), original thick grey paper covers, the front with printed greeting in Māori and English in silver lettering at head and foot, with a shaped chromolithograph onlay (155 x 110 mm, irregular) at the centre depicting the welcoming figures of a Māori woman and a …
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# 30756
GILMOUR, J. S. L. (John Scott Lennox) (1906-1986)
The species of tobacco grown in New Guinea
/ by J. S. L. Gilmour, with preface by Dr. A. C. Haddon. At head of title: Territory of Papua. Port Moresby : Edward George Baker, Government Printer, 1931. Series: Anthropology Report, no. 11. Octavo (230 mm), original printed blue wrappers (lightly marked, and with the author’s name ‘Gilmour’ in later pen to upper wrapper), pp …
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# 29993
THE BRITISH NEW GUINEA DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, LIMITED
The British New Guinea Development Company, Limited : participating preference share certificate, dated May, 1919.
London : [printed by Waterlow & Sons, for] The British New Guinea Development Company, Limited, [1919]. Single sheet, 260 x 300 mm, recto printed in reddish-brown, with manuscript entries dated 6 May 1919 recording the fully paid ownership of 42 preference shares by Ernest Alfred Parsloe; blind embossed company seal; verso with printed ledger (not filled …
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# 29990
[GREENHAM & EVANS]
Virgin forest, Karridale Timber Station, southwest Western Australia, 1901.
Albumen print photograph, 140 x 200 mm; manuscript caption in the negative ‘Virgin Forest, Karridale Timber Station’; laid down on a section of the original album mount of thin card; a superb print with beautiful tones, in fine condition. In the left foreground two men can be seen, dismounted beside their horses in the dense …
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![[BOOKMARK] Aberdeen and Commonwealth Line ... one class to England.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2019/09/25101550/2019_DSFB_5057-300x300.jpg)
# 30100
ABERDEEN AND COMMONWEALTH LINE
[BOOKMARK] Aberdeen and Commonwealth Line … one class to England.
[Melbourne?] : Dalgety & Coy. Limited and Aberdeen and Commonwealth Line, [between 1928 and 1933]. Bookmark, 132 x 57 mm, offset printed on thin card, recto with colour illustration of one the company’s “Bay” liners, verso with information about the service to London via Suez, inviting prospective travellers to contact the Dalgety & Co. or Aberdeen and Commonwealth Line …
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# 29654
HIS MASTER'S VOICE.
The new His Master’s Voice electrical recordings : Australian edition. June, 1929.
Cover: “Goldberg’s,” 85 Glenferrie Road, Glenferrie. “His Master’s Voice” Specialists. [Sydney : Gramophone Company Ltd. (His Master’s Voice), 1929]. Small octavo, original pictorial wrappers, stapled, 34 pp, a fine copy. Scarce. A single copy traced in Australian collections (SLV).
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# 29385
[DEVITT & MOORE; H. & C. TOULMIN]; MARSHALL & EDRIDGE (AGENTS)
Australian Line of Packet Ships, sailing the 15th of every month, for Sydney direct.
London : Marshall & Edridge, 22 February 845. Quarto sheet, 275 x 210 mm, printed recto only, a circular from the London shipping agents Marshall & Edridge, announcing the mutual co-operation of the shipping firms Devitt & Moore and H. & C. Toulmin re. the despatch of ships to Sydney, with Packets carrying cargo and …