New Acquisitions
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# 46335
PRESKO BINOCULAR COMPANY
[RIVERINA] Spreading grapes to dry, Mildura, Australia.
[Title from printed caption on mount]. Chicago, IL : Presko Binocular Company, [c.1910]. Stereoscopic silver gelatin print photograph, each individual image 76 x 78 mm, on grey board mount 86 x 177 mm, with the publisher’s caption and serial number ‘Spreading grapes to dry, Mildura, Australia. 6018’, along with the publisher’s imprint ‘Presko Binocular Company, …
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# 46334
B. W. KILBURN (publisher)
Coral divers with their wealth, on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia.
[Title from printed caption on mount]. Littleton, New Hampshire : B. W. Kilburn, 1904. Stereoscopic silver gelatin print photograph, each individual image 77 x 77 mm, on pink board mount 88 x 179 mm, with the publisher’s serial number and caption ‘15945. Coral divers with their wealth, on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia’, along with …
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# 46333
SOUTH AUSTRALIA. GOVERNMENT.
[WINE] Adelaide grapes – 5 bunches, total weight 67 lbs.
[Adelaide, SA : Government of South Australia, c.1905]. Lithographic postcard, 88 x 138 mm, verso imprinted ‘South Australia Post Card’ and with a handwritten message; in fine condition.
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# 46507
Australian National Airways
A.N.A. Flight Schedules, effective 21st October, 1947
Melbourne : Australian National Airways, 1947. Brochure, DL size, 8 pp. folded, graphic cover design, with flight schedules for passenger services between Melbourne – Sydney – Brisbane – Cairns; Melbourne – Tasmania – Bass Strait Islands; Melbourne – Mildura – Broken Hill; Sydney – Mildura – Broken Hill; Sydney – Mildura – Adelaide; and Melbourne …
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# 46357
M. STERNGERG & TURCO-EGYPTIAN TOBACCO STORE (publishers)
Hongkong. View of the Peak Hotel taken from the Peak.
Hong Kong : Published by M. Sternberg, [c.1910]. Lithographic postcard, 91 x 135 mm; not mailed, in very fine condition.
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# 46514
BAEDEKER, Karl
Northern Germany as far as the Bavarian and Austrian borders. Handbook for travellers.
Leipzig : Karl Baedeker, 1910. Fifteenth revised edition. Small octavo, original limp red cloth lettered in gilt; (lightly rubbed) front pastedown and endpaper with publisher’s advertisements; pp. xxxviii, 430; with 47 maps, 81 plans, a very good copy.
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# 46517
PALEY, William (1743 - 1805)
The principles of moral and political philosophy
London : Baldwin @ Co., 1821. A new edition, corrected and revised. Octavo, full calf (worn and stained), spine lettered in blind, short split to joint, pp. xvi; 512, small stain to fore edge, a good copy. ‘William Paley (July 1743 – 25 May 1805) was an English Anglican clergyman, Christian apologist, philosopher, and utilitarian. …
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# 46519
SOULÉ, Frank et al.
The annals of San Francisco ;
Containing a summary of the history of the first discovery, settlement, progress and present condition of California, and a complete history of all the events connected with its great city : to which are added, biographical memoirs of some prominent citizens. By Frank Soulè, John H. Gihon and James Nisbet. New York : D. Appleton …
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# 46023
HENSON, Bill (1955 -)
Principio erat (Artist’s edition B)
Paris : Editions Bessard, 2019. Folio, pictorial laminated boards, pp. [70], several double fold-out pages, printed on high quality matt photographic paper. As new. Principio erat is published in a standard and deluxe edition – described as the ‘Artist’s edition’ by the publisher. The standard edition is published in two variations, each limited to 500 …
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# 46314
PECKHAM, Sarah; CLARK, Geoff
Gariwerd : a kit for teaching Aboriginal Rights and the history of the Grampians / Gariwerd area.
Malvern, Vic. : Action for Aboriginal Rights, 1992. Foolscap folio (300 x 210 mm), spiral-bound clear plastic over pictorial wrappers; pp. 61, [5], illustrated; plus 2 brochures and 1 leaflet for the Brambuk Living Cultural Centre in loosely inserted plastic sleeve; a very good copy. ‘Contains teachers guide, role play activity, student notes; appendices include …
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# 46321
MOORE, Ross
Dear Primitive : black bodies as decor. 27 October – 13 November 1994. Temple Studio, Macquarie Street & St Edmonds Road, Prahran.
Prahran, Vic. : Temple Studio, 1994. Quarto folding card (290 x 210 mm), printed on [4] sides, illustrated; very good condition; invitation to exhibition opening loosely inserted. ‘”Dear Primitive” quite deliberately takes popular “Aboriginalia” imagery of the 1950s-60s (the stuff of kids’ books and wall ceramics) in order to expose it, in the psychic sense, …
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# 46370
KEESING, Felix M.
The Pacific Island peoples in the postwar world
Eugene, OR : Oregon State System of Higher Education, 1959. Condon Lectures. Octavo, lettered wrappers, bookplate to pastedown, pp. 48, photographic illustrations, maps. A study of evolving societies in Tahiti, Hawaii, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Guam, Solomon Islands, and Mariana Islands.
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# 46369
DOVER, K. J.
Greek homosexuality
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1978. First edition. Octavo, cloth in dustjacket (light edge wear), pp. x; 244, illustrated. A fine copy of this important and influential study of homosexuality in Ancient Greece, written by eminent classicist Sir Kenneth Dover, President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
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# 46372
SYMONDS, John Addington (1840-1893)
A problem in Greek ethics : being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion addressed especially to medical psychologists and jurists.
London: Privately printed, 1901. Octavo, lettered cloth (spine dulled), pp. 73, old tape repair to margin of p. 21, printed in a limited edition of 100 copies for private circulation, this is copy number 96. An influential early study of homosexuality.
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# 46528
HOOKEY, Gordon (1961- )
Gordon Hookey : Con ject charr – jarr – yarh – “Arrgh!”
February 17th – March 17th. Melbourne : Nellie Castan Gallery, 2007. A4 sheet printed on both sides, illustrated in colour; verso with details of 22 works with prices; original folds, light creasing. Scarce piece of ephemera from a 2007 exhibition by Indigenous Queensland artist Gordon Hookey. No copies traced on Trove.
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# 46531
TSIOLKAS, Christos; GLASS, Alexie (curator)
40 degrees
Fitzroy, Vic. : Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, 2007. Square octavo (210 x 210 mm), stapled pictorial wrappers, [8] pp, colour illustrated; essay Christos Tsiolkas; a good copy. Catalogue of a group exhibition held at Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Fitzroy, Victoria, 2-24 February 2007, curated by Alexie Glass. Exhibiting artists: Joel Anderson, Stephen Birch, Rhys Graham, …