Queensland

  • Brisbane and Environs Illustrated: Twelve Views of the Scenery of the City and Neighbourhood.

    # 23023

    WRIGHT, George P[arkinson]. (photographer and publisher)

    Brisbane and Environs Illustrated: Twelve Views of the Scenery of the City and Neighbourhood.

    Second Series … [Contents …] Photographed by Geo. P. Wright, Creek Street, (Opposite the Union Bank) Brisbane. MDCCCLXXVIII. At head of title: Under the Patronage of His Excellency the Governor. Brisbane : George P. Wright [printed by Cleghorn & Co.], 1878. Oblong folio, original half morocco over brown cloth boards with gilt lettering (boards marked and …

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  • CHINESE IMMIGRANTS REGULATION ACT. An Act to regulate and restrict the immigration of Chinese and to make provision against their becoming a charge upon the Colony

    # 48382

    Legislative Assembly of Queensland

    CHINESE IMMIGRANTS REGULATION ACT. An Act to regulate and restrict the immigration of Chinese and to make provision against their becoming a charge upon the Colony

    Supplement to the Queensland Government Gazette of Saturday, 18th August, 1877 – No. 38. At head of title: (New Zealand, South Australia, and Tasmania agree to a Bill copied from the Queensland Act.). [Brisbane : Government Printer, 1877]. Two folio sheets, disbound from a larger volume, printed on three sides paginated 15-17; a good, clean …

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  • Man in landscape 1955

    # 48445

    BLACKMAN, Charles (1928 - 2018)

    Man in landscape 1955

    Pencil on tracing paper, 250 x 205 mm (sheet) mm, signed with initials and dated lower left ‘CB . 55’, a few spots of foxing and old creases. An original signed drawing by Charles Blackman of a man in a landscape, probably from his Mt Tambourine series, Queensland, 1955.   Provenance: The estate of the …

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  • Histoire des navigations aux terres australes

    # 29076

    BROSSES, Charles de (1709-1777)

    Histoire des navigations aux terres australes

    : contenant ce que l’on scait des moeurs & des productions des contrées decouvertes jusqu’à ce jour; & où il est traité de l’utilité d’y faire de plus amples découvertes, & des moyens d’y former un établissement. Paris : Chez Durand, 1756. First edition. Two volumes, quarto (260 x 200 mm), contemporary full calf (boards …

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  • The legends of Moonie Jarl

    # 48261

    REEVES, Wilf; MILLER, Olga (illustrator)

    The legends of Moonie Jarl

    / retold by Moonie Jarl (Wilf Reeves) ; illustrated by Wandi (Olga Miller). Brisbane : The Jacaranda Press, 1964. First edition. Quarto (250 x 190 mm), publisher’s pictorial boards (very fine) in dust jacket (corner wear, chipped around spine ends); 44 pp, with 9 full-page colour illustrations and b/w in-text vignettes; title page with previous …

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  • Palmetum (the author's copy with proof set)

    # 47588

    ADAMS, Tate; ZIMMER, Jenny et alia

    Palmetum (the author’s copy with proof set)

    “Depicted by” Juli Haas, Ray Crooke, Jan Senbergs, Anneke Silver, Cheryl Wildon, Danny Moynihan, Margaret Wilson, Normana Wight, Jorg Schmeisser, David Paulson, Ron McBurnie, Tate Adams, Anne Lord. With text by Jenny Zimmer. Introduction by John L. Dowe, Palm Biologist, James Cook University. Townsville : Lyrebird Press, 2002. Folio (470 x 395 mm), screen printed …

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  • Lure of the sun : Charles Blackman in Queensland

    # 48068

    [BLACKMAN, Charles]

    Lure of the sun : Charles Blackman in Queensland

    Brisbane : Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, 2015. Quarto, half cloth pictorial boards, impact dent to fore edge of lower board, pp 99. Illustrated in full colour.

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  • "Life in Queensland". Three outdoor photographs, late 1860s.

    # 47794

    [Photographer unknown].

    “Life in Queensland”. Three outdoor photographs, late 1860s.

    Three albumen print photographs, in uniform 73 x 98 mm format, mounted recto of a 19th-century album leaf, with fully contemporary caption in ink beneath the images ‘Life in Queensland’; all three albumen prints are in very good condition; the mount has a few spots of foxing. Although the photographer and precise location(s) are not …

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  • A Queensland Aboriginal man holding a throwing club and boomerang (possibly at Deebing Creek Mission, Ipswich), 1890s.

    # 47765

    [Photographer unknown]

    A Queensland Aboriginal man holding a throwing club and boomerang (possibly at Deebing Creek Mission, Ipswich), 1890s.

    Photographic glass magic lantern slide, 82 x 82 mm; a tiny ‘Ilford’ label on the mount, but without photographer’s imprint or caption label; some blue ink marks at right edge, loss to some of the black paper border, but no chips or cracks. This lantern slide was sourced together with another which was a group …

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  • 'Bail up!'. A romance of bushrangers and blacks.

    # 47696

    NISBET, (James) Hume (1849-1923)

    ‘Bail up!’. A romance of bushrangers and blacks.

    London : Chatto & Windus, 1890. Octavo, pictorial cloth (canted, spine faded), patterned endpapers (hinges a little cracked), bookseller’s label to front pastedown, frontispiece illustration by the author, pp. viii; 319; [blank]; 32 (publisher’s catalogue, dated January 1891), ex-library from the Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, with wet stamp to verso of title …

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  • Bitter fruit : Australian photographs to 1963

    # 45848

    GRAHAM-STEWART, Michael; McWHANNELL, Francis; DICKSON, Jonathan

    Bitter fruit : Australian photographs to 1963

    Melbourne : Michael Graham-Stewart, 2017. Quarto (285 x 230 mm), cloth boards in pictorial dust jacket, 280 pp, illustrated in colour throughout with hundreds of photographs documenting the collision of Indigenous Australian and European cultures; the photographs, ranging in date from the 1850s to the 1960s and taken in every region of Australia, represent some …

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  • [POETRY] Fingers at air : experimental poems 1969

    # 15889

    SHAPCOTT, Thomas W.

    [POETRY] Fingers at air : experimental poems 1969

    Ipswich, Qld : [printed privately], 1969. Edition limited to 200 signed copies (no. 169). Octavo, printed brown wrappers, previous owner’s name on half-title, unpaginated [48 pp]. An excellent copy. Scarce edition of poems by Queensland poet Thomas Shapcott AO.  

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  • Songs of a season

    # 16716

    KENNA, Francis

    Songs of a season

    Melbourne : Melville, Mullen & Slade, 1895. First edition. Octavo, original blind blocked brown cloth over bevelled boards, upper board lettered and decorated in gilt (upper board marked), previous owner’s bookplate to front pastedown, title page with original owner’s initials ‘E.B.L.’ and date ‘16.2.95’, pp. 52, occasional pencilled marginalia; otherwise a very good copy. Collection …

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  • [IMMIGRATION] Queensland Crown Lands.

    # 47211

    QUEENSLAND. AGENT-GENERAL.

    [IMMIGRATION] Queensland Crown Lands.

    London : Agent-General for Queensland, [c.1900]. Quarto (250 x 190 mm), bifolium, [4] pp; a very good copy. An official information brochure designed to encourage emigration from the United Kingdom to Queensland. The back page advertises the various free and assisted passage schemes available at the time, as well as boldly stating the claim that …

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  • [PILBARA; MORNINGTON ISLAND; BATHURST & MELVILLE ISLANDS] Papers in Australian Linguistics no. 2.

    # 47025

    WURM, S. A. (ed.); BRANDENSTEIN, C. G. von; CAPELL, Arthur; HALE, K.

    [PILBARA; MORNINGTON ISLAND; BATHURST & MELVILLE ISLANDS] Papers in Australian Linguistics no. 2.

    Canberra : ANU, 1967. Series: Pacific Linguistics. Series A – Occasional Papers, no. 11. Quarto (255 x 205 mm), publisher’s cloth-backed printed wrappers, pp. iii, 73, [3 publisher’s ads.]; includes maps, tables and diagrams; a very good copy. Contains the following papers: C. G. von Brandenstein. The language situation in the Pilbara, past and present. …

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  • Louis de Rougement, colonial adventurer and hoaxer: autograph letter, signed, offering stories to an editor for publication. Ampthill, Bedfordshire, 1903.

    # 32327

    ROUGEMONT, Louis de (Henri Louis GRIN) (1847-1921)

    Louis de Rougement, colonial adventurer and hoaxer: autograph letter, signed, offering stories to an editor for publication. Ampthill, Bedfordshire, 1903.

    Manuscript in ink on ruled paper, 160 x 200 mm; headed ‘Flitwick, Ampthill, 1.7.03’, the letter is addressed to The Author Syndicate, Lincoln Inn Field, London, and is signed at the foot ‘Yours, Louis de Rougemont’; wet stamped ‘Received 2 Jul 03’, and with a correspondence number in red crayon; original vertical fold, clean and …

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