Victoria
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# 23576
SUZUKI, Yoshinori [editor]; WAKAMATSU, Fujio [photographer]
‘Meruborun: Dai 16-kai Orinpiādo’ [メルボルン 第16回オリンピアード] : A Japanese Record of the Melbourne Olympics
Tōkyō : Nihon Orinpikku Kōenkai, Shōwa 32 [1957]. First edition. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, lightly soiled, errata sheet tipped-in to lower pastedown, pp. 161 – 200. Text in Japanese. An album created by the Nihon Orinpikku Kōenkai (Japan Olympics Support Group) to record the Japanese effort in the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games. The book includes photographic illustrations …
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# 23613
VAL MORGAN PTY. LTD. (MELBOURNE)
[CINEMA] Capitol Theatre, Melbourne : a group of 22 programmes from 1925-26.
Melbourne : Printed by Troedel & Cooper Pty. Ltd. … for the Publishers, Val Morgan Pty. Ltd, 1925-[26]. Twenty-two individual issues, small octavo (197 x 132 mm), in original wrappers (all identically illustrated, back and front), 34 pp, with b/w photographic illustrations and advertisements throughout, inside wrappers with colour advertisements, centre pages with main programme …
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# 23336
[WASHBOURNE, Thomas Jetson, 1832-1905]
Maggie Stone, granddaughter of Queen Mary of the Wolgalu (Monaro district, southern New South Wales). Photographed in the Tangambalanga district near the Murray River, northeast Victoria, circa 1869.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 104 x 64 mm (mount); no photographer’s imprint (verso blank); a strong print with good tonal range and clarity. One of a seres of indigenous portraits taken in northeast Victoria around 1869 by travelling photographer Thomas J. Washbourne. These portraits were probably taken on the Aboriginal reserve at Tangambalanga …
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# 23345
CUTTING, C.K.; THE NAYTURA FOODATORIUM (MELBOURNE)
Chart No. 1 Planned Menus : Diet and rejuvenation chart; Chart No. 2 Plain facts worth a fortune : Health rules and hints; Chart No. 3 Classification and combined meals : Simple health food combination chart.
Melbourne : The Naytura Foodatorium (The Nutritional Reasearch Group), 300 Little Collins Street, [between 1930 and 1940]. Three folding cards in identical narrow folio format (320 x 125 mm folded, opening to 320 x 600 mm), printed on yellow, orange and green card respectively, each with dietary information and planned menus printed across [8] panels; …
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# 23278
[GIESEKING, Walter, 1895-1956]; YOUTH SECTION OF THE JEWISH COUNCIL (MELBOURNE)
[MELBOURNE JEWISH ANTI-NAZI BROADSIDE] This is the true Gieseking.
St. Kilda, Vic. : Issued by the Youth Section of the Jewish Council to combat Fascism and anti-Semitism, printed by L. Shaffel, 37 High Street, [1952]. Broadside, 230 x 150 mm, printed recto only on yellow paper; in very good condition. A rare broadside protesting against the presence in Australia of visiting French-born German concert pianist, Walter …
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# 23272
MONASH, John
Map of Heidelberg district
Compiled from the information contained in Parish & County maps, supplemented by field surveys carried out under the direction of the Australian Intelligence Corps (3rd MD), John Monash Lt. Col. Photo-lithographed at the Dept. of Lands and Survey, Melbourne by W.J. Butson, 12.3.13. Melbourne : the Department, 1913. Lithographed map, 350 x 460 mm, printed …
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# 23077
WHITEHEAD, E.
Whitehead’s new map of Victoria with alphabetical key 1867 – 8
Melbourne : E. Whitehead, 1867. Folding lithographed map, hand coloured, 490 x 750 mm, laid on linen, some stains and wear along folds.
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# 23184
CARRERAS LTD. (MELBOURNE)
The Arcadia Fine Cut book of wrestling.
[Melbourne : Carreras Ltd., 1937]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers (detached), 31 pp, photographic illustrations throughout; original owner’s inscription dated 23/9/37 on page 1; contents clean. Scarce booklet on wrestling promoting both the sport and the products of Australian tobacco manufacturer Carreras Ltd. Copies are recorded in three Australian collections (National Library of Australia; Monash University …
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# 23078
PEARSON, J.
Pearson’s distinct road map of New South Wales for motorists, cyclists and travellers
Compiled and published by J. Pearson ; drawn by Kenneth Craigie. Sydney : J. Pearson, circa 1925. Map measuring 94 x 74 cm, folding in publisher’s illustrated paper wrappers, a couple of tears along folds, else very good. Cover title : Pearson’s reliable road map. A complete guide to New South Wales and important parts …
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# 23294
Victorian Storekeepers and Traders' Association
The Australian Storekeepers and Traders’ Journal. Vol. XIV, no. 9. September 27, 1907.
Melbourne : Storekeepers and Traders’ Association, 1907. Large quarto (310 x 240 mm), original wrappers printed in blue (rodent damage at bottom corners and fore-edge margins), 40 pp, illustrated advertisements; contents clean.
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# 23238
DOYLE, Edward A. (editor)
The official report of the organizing committee for the XVI Olympiad Melbourne 1956.
Melbourne : W. M. Houston, Government Printer, 1958. Quarto, gilt-lettered green imitation leather, dustjacket (a few edge tears), illustrated endpapers, pp. 760, extensively illustrated.
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# 23289
CLARKE, Frank
[MELBOURNE] In the Botanic Gardens : their history, art and design, with stories of the trees.
Cover title: In the Botanic Gardens, Melbourne. Melbourne : Robertson & Mullens, 1938. Small quarto (258 x 190 mm), publisher’s card covers with photographic onlay to front, pp 50, illustrated with 11 photographic plates by Sears; a fine copy of the larger and more desirable 1938 edition.
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# 23112
SANDS & McDOUGALL
[MELBOURNE] Sands & McDougall’s Monthly Diary. October, 1883.
Giving departure of mails, sunrise & sunset, phases of moon, railway time tables &c. [Drop title]. Melbourne : Sands & McDougall, 1883. Duodecimo (106 x 68 mm), illustrated wrappers (staple rusted), unpaginated; original owner’s brief entries in ink or pencil, usually recording names of people involved in social card games or tennis matches (including Dempster, …
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# 23505
DOOLEY, Gillian and Danielle CLODE
The first wave : exploring early coastal contact history in Australia
Mile End, S.A. : Wakefield Press, 2019. Large octavo (234 x 136 mm) trade paperback, pp x, 448, colour illustrations, maps; brand new publication. ‘The European maritime explorers who first visited the bays and beaches of Australia brought with them diverse assumptions about the inhabitants of the country, most of them based on sketchy or …
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# 23686
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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# 23286
FAIGAN, Julian
The colonial art of the Western District
Hamilton : City of Hamilton Art Gallery, 1984. Oblong quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. [60], illustrated in colour and black and white.