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# 46306

[MOUSOULIS, Bill]

[SEXUALITY] Desire : a film directed by Bill Mousoulis.

[Melbourne] : Innersense Productions, 1999. Foolscap folio flyer, printed recto only, illustrated; faint original folds, very good; [TOGETHER WITH] Invitation to a sneak preview of Desire, for ‘cast, crew and invited guests’; identical format to the flyer, original folds. Desire (1999) is a 16mm film by legendary Melbourne filmmaker Bill Mousoulis, starring Juliet Hone and Belinda …

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# 46300

SYDNEY FILMMAKERS CO-OPERATIVE LTD.

[SEXUALITY] In The Best Interests Of The Children : a film about lesbian mothers and child custody

by Iris Films/Iris Feminist Collective, Inc., 1977. 53 mins, col, 16mm, rental $60. [Drop title]. Darlinghurst, NSW : Sydney Filmmakers Co-Operative Ltd., [1977]. Foolscap folio sheet, printed on both sides, illustrated; light horizontal fold, good condition. ‘Even though In The Best Interests Of The Children is an American film it has wide application to the Australian …

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# 46645

DE LA MANO. [DREITZEHN, Zell, 1830-1882?]

Conjuring; or, magic made easy.

Containing an extensive collection of conjuring and legerdemain; sleights with cards, ribbons, rings, fruit, coin, balls, handkerchiefs, etc., all of which may be performed in the parlor or drawing room. New York Popular Publishing Company, n.d. [c 1878]. [Cover title : De La Mano’s great magic book]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers, 30 pp + 2 pp …

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# 46318

[Maker unknown]

A hand-embroidered silk shawl with peacock and roses design. Hong Kong, 1958.

Dimensions: 40 x 92 cm; embroidered lettering in yellow above and below the central peacock motif reads: ‘To Mum and Dad from Bob / Hong Kong 1957-58’; very good condition. Provenance: commissioned by Robert Hayes, a British soldier stationed in Hong Kong, as a souvenir for his parents; thence by descent to the previous owner.

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# 46657

KEYSSER, Christian, 1877-1961 / Lutheran Mission, New Guinea

[MISSIONARIES] Bai, the sorcerer

[Series : Lutheran Mission Tract, no. 1]. Brisbane : Lutheran Mission, New Guinea, 1925. Octavo, illutrated wrappers, 22 pp, illustrated with black and white photographic plates. A fine, clean copy. Written by German Lutheran missionary Christian Keysser, a member of the Neuendettelsau Mission in New Guinea and brother-in-law of South Australian missionary Carl Strehlow, this …

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# 46816

SARASIN, Fritz

Anthropologie der Neu-Caledonier und Loyalty-Insulaner

/ von Dr. Fritz Sarasin. Mit einem Atlas von 64 Tafeln in Heliogravure, Lithographie und Lichtdruck, sowie 55 Kurvenzeichnungen und Abbildungen im Text. Berlin : C. W. Kreidel’s Verlag, 1916-22. Text volume only (without the Atlas volume). Large quarto (290 x 230 mm), publisher’s blue wrappers lettered in black, pp. xiv, 651, [2 publisher’s ads.]; text illustrations, …

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# 46659

MONFAT, P.A.

[PACIFICA] Les Samoa, ou, Archipel des Navigateurs : etude historique & religieuse

Lyon : E. Vitte, 1890. Troisieme edition. Octavo, decorative wrappers (spine cracked, front wrapper neatly detached), decorative spine somewhat brittle and sunned, xv, 414 pp (scattered spotting throughout), [7] leaves of plates, map. A detailed study of Samoan culture, together with a history of French Catholic missions to this island group.

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# 46658

SOANE MALIA, P.

[TONGA; FIJI] Chez les Meridionaux du Pacifique

Lyon : Librairie Catholique Emmanuel Vitte, 1910. Octavo, printed paper wrappers, xv, 321 pp, illustrated with black and white photographic plates. A very good copy. Cultural history of Tonga and Fiji written from the perspective of a Catholic missionary. Includes much information on missionary activity in the islands.

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# 46585

[Photographer unknown].

[FEDERATION] View of the French Arch, corner of Pitt and Bridge Streets, Sydney, 1901.

Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each image 82 x 77 mm, on maroon mount 86 x 175 mm; no photographer’s imprint (verso blank); the prints and the mont are in excellent condition. An anonymous stereoview which shows the French Arch at the intersection of Pitt and Bridge Streets, Sydney, during the Commonwealth celebrations in January 1901. …

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# 46734

CHURCHILL, Winston (1874 - 1965)

The Great War

Fully Illustrated with Photographs, Drawings and Maps. London : George Newnes, 1934. Three volumes, octavo, gilt-lettered embossed blue cloth (edges slightly rubbed), edges speckled red, a very good set. Originally issued in 26 fortnightly parts, this is the first bound edition of Churchill’s monumental history of the First World War.

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# 46543

GASS, Patrick (1771 - 1870)

Lewis and Clarke’s journal to the Rocky Mountains in the years 1804, -5, -6; as related by Patrick Gass, one of the officers in the expedition.

New edition with numerous engravings. Dayton : Ells, Claflin, and Co., 1847. Octavo, later leather with title label, early ownership inscription to pastedown, pp. 238; (2 – advertisements), wood engraved plates, scattered foxing and a few stains, a folded slip of paper laid in with a note indicating it contains the original title label from …

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# 46386

AUSTEN, Jane (1775 - 1817)

Mansfield Park

With an introduction by Austin Dobson. London : Macmillan and Co., 1929. Octavo, decorated leather, lettered in gilt light wear to head and foot of spine, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, pp. xviii; 429, illustrated by Hugh Thomson, clean internally, a very good copy. A desirable Thomson illustrated edition of one of Jane Austen’s most …

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# 24237

MICHELL, H. (ed)

[HORSE RACING] Victoria’s greatest races.

With full descriptions of the Melbourne Cup 1921, Caulfield Cup 1922-3, Melbourne Cup 1922-3. Biographical sketches of owners – trainers – jockeys. Fully illustrated. [Cover title : The Melbourne Cup]. Melbourne : The British and Australasian Publishing Service, [ca. 1924]. Quarto, gilt-lettered full crushed morocco, spine in compartments with gilt-tooling, edges lightly rubbed, all edges …

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# 46813

[KATOOMBA COLLIERY LTD.]

[BLUE MOUNTAINS] Scenic Railway, Katoomba Colliery, 1933.

[Cover title]. Also titled: Katoomba’s scenic railway : at the coal mine, 200 yards beyond Katoomba Falls Kiosk. [Sydney : Katoomba Colliery Limited], 1933. Oblong octavo (138 x 220 mm), stapled pictorial red wrappers (upper wrapper lightly marked); [15] pp., b/w photographic illustrations throughout, with accompanying text; an excellent copy. Trove locates three copies (NLA; …

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# 46805

QUEENSLAND GOVERNMENT

The Gold Coast, Queensland

[Brisbane] : [Queensland Government Tourist Bureau] : circa 1985. Octavo, vibrant illustrated self-wrappers, pp. [16], illustrated. Distinctive Queensland tourist brochure from the Joh Bjelke-Petersen years, unashamedly spruiking the Gold Coast as ‘Australia’s favourite holiday playground’.

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# 46799

VICTORIAN RAILWAYS

The Grampians and district, Victoria, Australia.

[Melbourne] : Victorian Railways Commissioners, in conjunction with the Grampians District Tourist Association, 1949. First edition. Single sheet, 380 x 460 mm, folding to 220 x 110 mm, chiefly photographic illustrations, with accompanying text and map; tear along fold at one edge, otherwise a good example.

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