Queensland

# 41127

FREMLIN, Frank

Provocateuse. Rockhampton, Queensland, March 1926.

Gelatin silver print, 103 x 80 mm; inscribed in ink by the photographer across the bottom margin: Rockhampton March 1926′; verso stamped ‘Kodak Print’; very good condition. This risque snap came from an album belonging to Frank Fremlin, a member of the Palermo-Chefalo magic troupe that visited Australia in 1926.

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# 41699

KAY, Rev. John

[QUEENSLAND; BLACKBIRDING; MISSIONS] The slave trade in the New Hebrides : being papers read at the annual meeting of the New Hebrides Mission held at Aniwa, July 1871,

and published by the authority of the Meeting. Edited by the Rev. John Kay, Coatbridge, Secretary to the Foreign Mission Committee of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of Scotland. Edinburgh : Edmonston & Douglas, 1872. Octavo (210 x 140 mm), disbound; pp. [i]-iv, [5]-91; last few leaves with some marginal toning, otherwise fine condition throughout. Rare.

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# 41554

LISTNER, Carl & GERSTÄCKER, Friedrich

En utvandrares äfventyr samt efter skeppsbrottet. Två berättelser från Australien.

Öfversättning. [=An emigrant’s adventure and After the shipwreck. Two stories from Australia. Translation]. Stockholm : S. Flodins boktryckeri, 1873. Small octavo (183 x 120 mm), contemporary marbled papered boards, black leather spine repaired with black tape; pp. [4], 95; text in Swedish (translated from the German); inner hinges a little weak, front pastedown with mark caused …

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# 41521

MARCET, Edouard

Australie. Un voyage a travers le bush.

Dessins de Mm. G. Liquier et D. d’apres les indications de l’auteur. Geneve : Jules-Guillaume Fick, 1868. Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth (spine glued down), all edges gilt, pp. 268, the text set in ornamental borders with decorated initials, illustrated with 20 original photographs after drawings by the author. Printed in an edition of 200 copies. Rare …

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# 41523

VOWLES, George (1844 - 1928)

Sunbeams in Queensland

Brisbane : printed by Rogers & Harley, 1870. Duodecimo, gilt-decorated green cloth (marked) with binder’s ticket of O’Hagen, Brisbane, yellow endpapers, pp. xi; [i]; 204, occasional foxing. The first published book of poetry by a Queensland born writer. Vowles was born in Ipswich in 1844.

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# 39251

MacPHERSON, Allan

Mount Abundance, or, the experiences of a pioneer squatter in Australia thirty years ago

Facsimile edition [sl : sn, ca. 1940]. London : Fleet Street Printing Works, [1879?]. Octavo, lettered wrappers (edges sunned, short tear to spine), pp. 54; title-page annotated: ‘Son of William M McPherson who was at one time Clerk of the House of Representatives in Melbourne Australia’; a good copy. ‘The Mount Abundance run was taken …

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# 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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# 36977

HAWKESWORTH, John (1715-1773); COOK, James (1728-1779); KING, James

The three voyages of Captain James Cook

1. An account of the voyages undertaken by the order of his present Majesty for making discoveries in the southern hemisphere, and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavour: drawn up from the journals which were kept by the several commanders, and …

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# 40696

HEISER, Bruce

Jon Molvig : the tree of man paintings

Brisbane : Koro Press & AndAlso Books, 2022. Quarto, illustrated gatefold wrappers, pp. 79, illustrated. New copy. ‘Jon Molvig settled in Brisbane in the mid-1950s, where he became an influential creative presence and produced the most accomplished works of his career. In turn provocative, empathetic, taciturn, and vulnerable, he remains one of his generations least …

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# 40117

MJÖBERG, Eric (1882-1938) et al.

Results of Dr. E. Mjöberg’s Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910-1913. (Twelve individual parts)

Series: Kungliga Svenska vetenskapsakademiens handlingar. Stockholm : Almqvist & Wiksells Boktryckeri, 1918-22. Twelve disbound individual issues, comprising Volume 58 nos. 6, 7, 9; Volume 59 nos. 1, 4; Volume 60 no. 4; Volume 61 nos. 5, 7, 8, 9, 10; Volume 63 no. 6. Uniform large quarto (310 x 250 mm), disbound, illustrated, partially unopened, …

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# 40262

SPRY, W. J. J. (William James Joseph)

The cruise of Her Majesty’s ship “Challenger” : voyages over many seas, scenes in many lands.

/ By W. J. J. Spry, R.N. With map and illustrations. London : Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1877. Second edition. Octavo (220 x 150 mm), publisher’s blind-blocked and gilt-decorated green cloth over boards with bevelled edges (lightly rubbed, spine-ends softened); frontispiece plate, title with vignette portrait of Captain Nares; pp. xviii, 388, [24 …

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# 40109

BLACKHEATH & THORNBURGH COLLEGES (Charters Towers)

[QUEENSLAND] The Blackthorn Magazine. October, 1927.

Charters Towers, Qld. : Blackheath and Thornburgh Colleges, October 1927. Octavo (240 x 150 mm), original printed wrappers (paper splits at spine ends), stapled; pp 34; illustrated with photographic plates and advertisements for local businesses; contents in very good condition. A scarce single issue of the bi-annual magazine of Blackheath and Thornburgh Colleges, Charters Towers, Queensland. From Wiki: ‘By 1918, …

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# 40110

BLACKHEATH & THORNBURGH COLLEGES (Charters Towers)

[QUEENSLAND] The Blackthorn Magazine. April, 1927.

Charters Towers, Qld. : Blackheath and Thornburgh Colleges, April 1927. Octavo (240 x 150 mm), original printed wrappers (short paper split at tail of spine, edges a little worn), stapled; pp 40; illustrated with photographic plates and advertisements for local businesses; contents in very good condition. A scarce single issue of the bi-annual magazine of Blackheath and Thornburgh Colleges, Charters …

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# 39758

AMERO, Constant

[QUEENSLAND; ABORIGINES; KELLY GANG] Les squatters et l’Australie nouvelle

Paris : Didot, [1894]. Octavo, red cloth with ornate black and gilt decoration, (rebacked, endpapers replaced), 108 pp, all edges gilt, illustrated. A very good copy. An account of contemporary life in the outback and regional centres of eastern Australia, which interweaves historical episodes into the narrative. It includes accounts of Chinese immigrants in Cooktown, …

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# 37798

QUEENSLAND GOVERNMENT TOURIST BUREAU.

Wheat, Darling Downs, near Warwick.

[Brisbane : Queensland Government Tourist Bureau, between 1930 and 1940]. Large format gelatin silver print photograph, 300 x 370 mm; window-mounted in the original display mount of heavy board, the mount with manuscript calligraphic captions in ink and circular ‘Queensland Government Tourist Bureau’ with hand-drawn map; this photograph would have been used in either a …

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# 37657

QUEENSLAND GOVERNMENT TOURIST BUREAU.

Whitsunday Islands : Great Barrier Reef

[Brisbane : Queensland Government Tourist Bureau, between 1930 and 1940]. Six large gelatin silver print photographs in panoramic format, each 170 x 520 mm; window-mounted in pairs in three original display mounts of heavy board; each mount has a poetic manuscript calligraphic caption in ink at the centre, plus across the lower margin ‘Whitsunday Islands …

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