A.C.T. / Canberra

  • Harold Holt, 17th Prime Minister of Australia : signed and inscribed portrait photograph

    # 46795

    SHMITH, Athol

    Harold Holt, 17th Prime Minister of Australia : signed and inscribed portrait photograph

    Gelatin silver print photograph, 155 x 110 mm, mounted in the original portfolio of the Athol Shmith studio, Collins Street, Melbourne (label to verso), boldly inscribed in black felt-tip pen below the photograph ‘Greetings from Harold Holt’; very fine. Harold Edward Holt (1908-1967) served as 17th Prime Minister of Australia from 26 January 1966 to …

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  • Narragunnawali : an exhibition by Aboriginal artists living in Canberra and the surrounding region

    # 46077

    HOUSE, Matilda and KLEINERT, Sylvia

    Narragunnawali : an exhibition by Aboriginal artists living in Canberra and the surrounding region

    Civic Square, A.C.T. : Canberra Contemporary Art Space, 1989. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. [12], illustrated. Includes artists Ricky Maynard, Ben Blakeney, Reuben Sky and others.

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  • [SPACE TRACKING / RADIO ASTRONOMY] Dedication of Tidbinbilla 64 metre antenna 13th April, 1973.

    # 45531

    [Compiler unknown]

    [SPACE TRACKING / RADIO ASTRONOMY] Dedication of Tidbinbilla 64 metre antenna 13th April, 1973.

    [s.l. : s.n., 1973]. Small oblong quarto photograph album (205 x 260 mm), spiral-bound navy blue pebbled cloth over boards, upper board lettered in gilt ‘Dedication of Tidbinbilla 64 metre antenna 13th April, 1973’; [12] b/w photographs and [1] colour photograph in uniform 150 x 170 mm format mounted recto only, with printed captions below …

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  • Valentine's Snapsots. Canberra, A.C.T. No. 2. 12 real photographs for your album. Hand coloured.

    # 44082

    JACKSON'S NEWSAGENCY (publisher)

    Valentine’s Snapsots. Canberra, A.C.T. No. 2. 12 real photographs for your album. Hand coloured.

    Canberra : Published for Jackson’s Newsagency, [c.1930]. Fourteen (yes, a baker’s dozen plus one!) gelatin silver print photographs with hand colouring, in uniform 65 x 105 mm format, with captions in the negatives; all in fine condition, accompanied by the original manila envelope, as issued (paper splits to edges).

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  • First Australian History and Film Conference. Canberra, 22nd to 27th November, 1981 at the National Library of Australia.

    # 42995

    [NATIONAL LIBRARY OF AUSTRALIA]

    First Australian History and Film Conference. Canberra, 22nd to 27th November, 1981 at the National Library of Australia.

    Canberra : National Library of Australia, 1981. Informational brochure. Folding sheet 220 x 360 mm (open), 220 x 90 mm (folded); with programme outline, brief synopses of proposed papers, registration details etc.; excellent condition.

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  • Australian Rare Books 1788 - 1900

    # 40193

    WANTRUP, Jonathan

    Australian Rare Books 1788 – 1900

    Melbourne : Australian Book Auctions, 2023. Second edition, revised and enlarged. Two volumes, 255 x 180 mm, bound in dark green buckram, lettered in gilt, with colour pictorial dustwrappers, pp. 1400, 148 illustrations (43 in colour), glossary of book collecting terms, historical price estimates, indices of persons and titles. Printed and bound in Australia on …

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  • Young men on the bank of the Goodradigbee River near Burrinjuck, New South Wales. August, 1914.

    # 36841

    HOWARD & SHEARSBY (YASS)

    Young men on the bank of the Goodradigbee River near Burrinjuck, New South Wales. August, 1914.

    Gelatin silver print photograph, 89 x 140 mm, printed on postcard stock; captioned in the negative ‘374. Goodradigbee River, Burrinjuck, Aug. 1914. H & S’; verso imprinted ‘Howard & Shearsby, Yass, N.S.W.’; a very sharp image with great depth of field; not postally used, in superb condition. We have not been able to locate any example …

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  • Canberra : Federal capital, 1927

    # 35554

    LUSCOMBE, J. A.

    Canberra : Federal capital, 1927

    Goulburn : photographed and published by J. A. Luscombe, 1927. Oblong folio, pictorial wrappers (a little marked), pp. [24], illustrated with photographic views including Parliament House, the residences of the Governor General and Prime Minister, Hotel Kurrajong, suburban streets etc.

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  • Australia 1788-1938. (With an archive of unique ephemera associated with Ziegler's publications for the Sesquicentenary)

    # 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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  • Ethnographical album of the Pacific Islands. Third series.

    # 33117

    Edge-Partington, James (1854-1930)

    Ethnographical album of the Pacific Islands. Third series.

    [Portfolio cover title]. Also titled: An album of the weapons, tools, ornaments, articles of dress &c. of the natives of the Pacific islands. Drawn and described from examples in public & private collections in Australasia by James Edge-Partington. Third series. [London] : Issued for private circulation by James Edge-Partington & Charles Heape, 1898. “Lithographed by Palmer, …

    $6,600.00 AUD Read more
  • St. John's Canberra

    # 30096

    "J M"

    St. John’s Canberra

    Linocut, 130 x 105 mm (image), 146 x 113 mm (sheet), captioned and initialled in pencil by the artist at lower margin ‘St. John’s Canberra / J M’; in very good condition, archivally matted; with a loosely preserved fully contemporary typed note, 150 x 120 mm, containing what is clearly an eyewitness account of a visit …

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  • Nolan at Lanyon

    # 20222

    [NOLAN, Sidney]

    Nolan at Lanyon

    Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service, 1975. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 46, full colour illustrations.

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