Queensland

  • Australia to Japan : girls' tour - with the Young Australia League, August to December 1935.

    # 47552

    YOUNG AUSTRALIA LEAGUE

    Australia to Japan : girls’ tour – with the Young Australia League, August to December 1935.

    Melbourne : Renwick Pride Pty. Ltd., printer, [1935]. Tour prospectus. Small quarto (225 x 170 mm), stapled pictorial self-wrappers (light horizontal fold; upper wrapper with corner crease; lower wrapper with short corner tear); pp. 16, with numerous b/w photographic illustrations, map; very clean throughout; loosely enclosed is the official application form for the tour, plus …

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  • Photographs taken on Norley Station, including Aboriginal nanny "Lollypop" with white children. Channel Country, Southwest Queensland, 1917.

    # 50951

    [Photographer unknown].

    Photographs taken on Norley Station, including Aboriginal nanny “Lollypop” with white children. Channel Country, Southwest Queensland, 1917.

    Three gelatin silver print photographs, in uniform 110 x 66 mm format; two have annotations by the photographer on the verso, reading: ‘Lollypop, Baby & Mary / Norley 1917’, and ‘Maggie cleaning knives; Lollypop & children under kitchen verandah / Norley 1917’; the third is not captioned but shows a large group of Aborigines assembled …

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  • Journal of an overland expedition in Australia from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845.

    # 29462

    LEICHHARDT, Ludwig (1813-1848)

    Journal of an overland expedition in Australia from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845.

    London : T. &​ W. Boone, 1847. First edition. Octavo, bound in period style with half-calf over marbled papered boards, spine in compartments with contrasting morocco title labels, pp. xx, 544, 8 (publisher’s advertisements); frontispiece and [6] aquatint plates (1 folding), internally clean; with the rare separately issued, hand-coloured map on three sheets (as issued: …

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  • Madman's Island. (First edition, in dust jacket, with a signed presentation inscription by the author)

    # 49483

    IDRIESS, Ion Llewelynn (1889 - 1979)

    Madman’s Island. (First edition, in dust jacket, with a signed presentation inscription by the author)

    Sydney : Cornstalk Publishing Company, 1927. Octavo, bright original red cloth (slightly pushed at head of spine), lettered in black on upper panel and spine, in the original dust jacket with illustration by Edgar A. Holloway (edges slightly rubbed), advertisements of ‘Some interesting books’ to lower panel and flaps, printed advertisement for ‘The Famous Bellbird …

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  • Danie Mellor : exotic lies sacred ties

    # 50820

    PALMER, Maudie; LITTLEY, Samantha

    Danie Mellor : exotic lies sacred ties

    Brisbane : University of Queensland Art Museum, 2014. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 144, illustrated. A fine copy. Book to accompany the exhibition. ‘This major survey will focus on the past decade of the artist’s practice. Mellor’s Indigenous heritage informs his art, which considers Australia’s colonial legacy. Born at Mackay, Queensland, in 1971 he maintains …

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  • Aboriginal group with gulmari shields, Macintyre River (Northern New South Wales or South-East Queensland), c.1870.

    # 50593

    [Photographer unknown].

    Aboriginal group with gulmari shields, Macintyre River (Northern New South Wales or South-East Queensland), c.1870.

    Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each half of the image approximately 72 x 75 mm, on original flat mount of grey card, 83 x 173 mm; the mount has a fully contemporary inscription in ink in the right margin: ‘McIntire Blacks’; verso blank; the print and mount are in very good condition. The Macintyre River, which …

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  • Study for 'Mrs. Fraser' c. 1966

    # 50491

    NOLAN, Sidney (1917 - 1922)

    Study for ‘Mrs. Fraser’ c. 1966

    Coloured crayons on card, 27 x 25.5 cm (image), 33 x 25 cm (sheet), signed in pencil centre right. A study, or abstracted variation for the major the 1947 painting of Mrs Fraser, a theme Nolan would return to in the 1960s and 70s. ‘A female figure representing a certain Mrs Fraser … has the …

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  • The Black Mine, Jundah, Central West Queensland (the first black opal mine in Australia), c.1900.

    # 50130

    NICHOLAS & CO.

    The Black Mine, Jundah, Central West Queensland (the first black opal mine in Australia), c.1900.

    Gelatin silver print photograph, cabinet card format, 108 x 164 mm (mount); verso with wet stamp of travelling Queensland outback photographers Nicholas & Co., and a fully contemporary inscription in pencil; ‘The Black Mine. For Miss A. (?)Garries’; the print has excellent clarity and is in very good condition, as is the mount. Quite possibly …

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  • Holidays on the Great Barrier Reef

    # 50151

    Barrier Reef Islands Pty. Ltd

    Holidays on the Great Barrier Reef

    Mackay : Barrier Reef Islands Pty. Ltd., circa 1960. Tourist brochure, folding to DL size, illustrated wrappers, pp. [12], illustrated. Includes popular tourist activities such as climbing coconut palms, poking coral and riding turtles on the Great Barrier Reef.

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  • The Granite Belt, South Queensland

    # 50142

    QUEENSLAND GOVERNMENT TOURIST BUREAU

    The Granite Belt, South Queensland

    Brisbane : Government Printer, [between 1935 and 1940]. Single folded sheet, 430 x 280 mm, printed on both sides in green and black, folded to 220 x 150 mm, text accompanied by photographic illustrations (including Stanthorpe Golf Links, Egg Rock, Undercliffe Falls, orchards), map, short essay on ‘Ever-cool Stanthorpe’; a fine copy. Rare. Appears unrecorded …

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  • Long Island, Happy Bay, Great Barrier Reef.

    # 50139

    QUEENSLAND GOVERNMENT TOURIST BUREAU

    Long Island, Happy Bay, Great Barrier Reef.

    Brisbane : Queensland Government Tourist Bureau, [1940]. Single sheet, 280 x 440 mm, folding to 220 x 140 mm, printed on both sides; with sepia tone photographic illustrations, map; light wear to top edge, some pale foxing. The text is a tourist guide promoting Long Island in the Whitsunday archipelago on the North East Queensland …

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  • Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits. Volume II. Physiology and Psychology. Parts I & II. (In the original wrappers)

    # 48976

    [HADDON, Alfred Cort]; RIVERS, W. H. R.; SELIGMAN, C. G.; MYERS, Charles; McDOUGALL, W.

    Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits. Volume II. Physiology and Psychology. Parts I & II. (In the original wrappers)

    Cambridge, UK : at the University Press, 1901-03. Two volumes, large quarto (280 x 210 mm), in uniform cloth-backed printed green wrappers as originally issued (Part I in superb condition, the upper wrapper of Part II detached, both Parts slightly sunned at edges and with the original printed price labels); Part I. pp. vi, [2], …

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  • The Queensland illustrated guide : for the use of farmers, fruit-growers, vignerons, and others. With a map.

    # 49892

    MIDGLEY, Alfred

    The Queensland illustrated guide : for the use of farmers, fruit-growers, vignerons, and others. With a map.

    Brisbane : James C. Beal, Government Printer, 1888. Octavo, gilt-lettered bling embossed green cloth (light edge wear, corners a little bent), patterned endpapers, title page in red and black (wet stamp of the Department of Agriculture, Brisbane), pp. viii; 222, large folding map printed in colour loose at rear, scattered foxing throughout, illustrated with nine …

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  • Isaac Walter Jenner (signed copy)

    # 49597

    FRY, Gavin; MAHONEY, Bronwyn; MacAULAY, Bettina.

    Isaac Walter Jenner (signed copy)

    By Gavin Fry and Bronwyn Mahoney, with additional text, notes and catalogue entries by Bettina MacAulay. Sydney : The Beagle Press, 1994. Quarto, boards in illustrated dustjacket, pp. 128, illustrated. A fine copy. This copy signed by the three authors on the title page, and with an unrelated gift inscription on the half-title. Isaac Walter …

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  • Navigation of the Atlantic Ocean [together with] Navigation of the Indian Ocean, China and Australian Seas

    # 49394

    BECHER, A. B.

    Navigation of the Atlantic Ocean [together with] Navigation of the Indian Ocean, China and Australian Seas

    Navigation of the Atlantic Ocean, containing a brief account of the winds, weather, and currents prevailing therein. With charts. London : J. D. Potter, 1859. Second edition. [Together with] : Navigation of the Indian Ocean, China and Australian Seas, with an account of the winds, weather, and currents found therein throughout the year. London : …

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  • Studio portrait of Mr. D. Ross and his young son. Ipswich, Queensland, circa 1874.

    # 49096

    POOCHEE, Biggingee Sorabjee

    Studio portrait of Mr. D. Ross and his young son. Ipswich, Queensland, circa 1874.

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 100 x 64 mm (mount); verso imprinted ‘Photographed by Biggingee Sorabjee Poochee, Brisbane Street, Ipswich’; removed by the previous owner from an album window mount which was inscribed ‘D. Ross’ follow by an abbreviated word (possibly “kindred”) – see accompanying image; both the print and the mount are in …

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