Victoria

# 46850

BOTHAM, Helen

La Trobe’s Jolimont : a walk around my garden.

Melbourne : C.J. La Trobe Society and Australian Garden History Society, 2006. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 36, illustrated. A study of one of the first planted gardens in colonial Melbourne.

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# 46554

[FRASER, Virginia]

Unsettled : Virginia Fraser, Dirk de Bruyn, Lorraine Austin. Kraznapolsky, 12/14 Grey Street, St. Kilda. Opening 24 May [2002] 6pm.

St. Kilda, Vic. : Kraznapolsky Gallery, [2002]. Exhibition flyer. 110 x 300 mm, printed recto only; very good condition. Provenance: From the estate of Virginia Fraser (1947-2021), feminist, artist, writer, editor and curator.

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# 46799

VICTORIAN RAILWAYS

The Grampians and district, Victoria, Australia.

[Melbourne] : Victorian Railways Commissioners, in conjunction with the Grampians District Tourist Association, 1949. First edition. Single sheet, 380 x 460 mm, folding to 220 x 110 mm, chiefly photographic illustrations, with accompanying text and map; tear along fold at one edge, otherwise a good example.

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# 46716

TURNER, Henry Gyles

A history of the colony of Victoria, from its discovery to its absorption into the Commonwealth of Australia

Melbourne : Heritage Publications 1973 (first published 1904). Two volumes, octavo, boards in dustjacket, light handling wear, pp. xvi; 395; x; 389; folding map, a few small marks, a very good set. A history of the colony of Victoria from European arrivals in the late eighteenth century to Federation. Facsimile of the 1904 edition.

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# 46719

HANCOCK, Marguerite

Colonial consorts : the wives of Victoria’s Governors 1839 – 1900 (signed presentation copy)

Melbourne : The Miegunyah Press, 2001. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. xxii; 326, colour plates. From the library of noted art historian Ann Galbally, with a warm inscription to her from the author on the title page. ‘”Carrying out the duties of a governor’s wife was the pinnacle of public service for women in colonial …

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# 46545

FENNER, Brooke Shanti et al.

the mind of itself and the world

Northcote, Vic. : Light Projects, 2011. Octavo (210 x 150 mm), stapled pictorial wrappers, pp. 108, illustrated; an excellent copy. Booklet produced in the wake of the mind of itself and the world, a collaborative project at Light Projects (Northcote, Melbourne), 15 August-4 September 2011, facilitated by Brooke Shanti Fenner, Oliver Cloke and Tahlia Jolly, with artists Laura …

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# 46278

Robert ASHTON (1950- )

Portfolio of 19 copperplate photogravure prints from the exhibition “Photogravure Images”, United Artists Gallery, Melbourne, 1987.

[Melbourne : the artist, 1987]. Complete suite of nineteen copperplate photogravures, printed in an edition of 10; 195 x 295 mm (plate size), 370 x 460 mm (sheet size); all untitled, but signed and dated in the plate l.r. ‘Robert Ashton 1987’, and numbered at l.l. 1/10 (4), 2/10 (3), 3/10 (2), 4/10 (2), 5/10 …

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# 46202

MORRIS, Alfred

The Oriental Bank, corner of Queen Street and Flinders Lane, Melbourne, c.1864.

Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each individual image 74 x 72 mm (arch-top format), on pale yellow board mount 82 x 171 mm; verso with printed label worded ‘A. Morris & Co.’s Stereoscopic Views of Victoria. Oriental Bank [in ms.] Melbourne’, and with the firm’s address ’56 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne’ at lower right; both prints are …

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# 46287

BALBERYSZSKI, M. (Mendel) (1894-1966)

[HOLOCAUST; MELBOURNE] Likwidacja getta Wileńskiego

[=Liquidation of the Vilna Ghetto]. Warsawa ; Łodz ; Krakow : [Centralna Żydowska Komisja Historyczna], 1946. Octavo (205 x 145 mm), original grey wrappers lettered in black (sunned at edges); pp. 40; printed on cheap paper which has browned, but in all other respects an excellent copy. A scarce eyewitness account of the liquidation of …

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# 45940

CLUTTERBUCK, James Bennett

Port Phillip in 1849

London : John W. Parker, 1850. Duodecimo, original gilt-lettered green cloth (expertly rebacked, preserving original spine), folding frontispiece map of the colony with hand coloured outline, pp. [vi]; 166; 6 (advertisements), a few spots of foxing to preliminaries, a very good copy. First and only edition of this account of the early settlement of Port …

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# 46130

[Photographer unknown] A. PUMPHREY (publisher)

A Peep down the Melbourne Telescope.

[Title from printed caption in negative]. Circa 1870. Stereoscopic silver albumen print photographs, each individual image 68 x 72 mm, on yellow board mount 83 x 166 mm, with the publisher’s serial number and caption in the negative at far right edge ‘685. A Peep down the Melbourne Telescope’, along with the publisher’s imprint ‘A. Pumphrey, …

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# 46335

PRESKO BINOCULAR COMPANY

[RIVERINA] Spreading grapes to dry, Mildura, Australia.

[Title from printed caption on mount]. Chicago, IL : Presko Binocular Company, [c.1910]. Stereoscopic silver gelatin print photograph, each individual image 76 x 78 mm, on grey board mount 86 x 177 mm, with the publisher’s caption and serial number ‘Spreading grapes to dry, Mildura, Australia. 6018’, along with the publisher’s imprint ‘Presko Binocular Company, …

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# 46529

KOORIVISION INC.; DEACON, Destiny et al.

KooriVision Inc presents Kitch’en Koori. Art works, a kitchen, words, and an Oz kitsch dis-play. Fringe Studio, 1st Floor 184 Brunswick Street Fitzroy, 2-19 September 1992.

[Melbourne] : KooriVision Inc., 1992. Exhibition flyer/invitation. A4 sheet folded to form [4] sides (last side is blank), illustrated; very good condition; loosely inserted is a 2-page essay on the significance of the kitsch Aboriginalia display by Kylie Belling and Johnny Harding. This exhibition was part of the 1992 Melbourne Fringe Festival. It included a …

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# 46315

[Anon.]

[FEMINISM] Gynergy, Sat 18 April : wimmins energy wimmins dance. Benefit for the Wimmin Patriarchy and the Future Forum. Carlton Community Centre 150 Princes St. Hens Teeth & Toxic Shock. $4-3.

[Carlton, Vic.] : The Forum, 1981. Handbill, 205 x 295 mm, printed in b/w recto only; corner creasing and a few marks; unmounted. The Wimmin Patriarchy and the Future Forum was held 17-20 April 1981 at Princes Hill High School in Carlton, Melbourne. This is a rare handbill for a benefit dance associated with the forum, …

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# 42818

PARSONS Elizabeth (1831-1897)

Untitled (Pastoral view across St. Kilda and Albert Park) 1885

Watercolour on paper, 240 x 345 mm (image), signed and dated in image l.l. ‘E. Parsons 1885’; small vertical section of discolouration along right section of the image, otherwise very good condition; housed in a hand gilded period style frame by Jarman’s Framing after a design by recognised colonial framer Isaac Whitehead. Elizabeth Parsons (1831-1897) …

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# 46329

[BLACK, Wendy, designer & printer]

[FEMINISM; SEXUALITY] Life as a Body : 4 programmes of women’s films. Two sessions 12.30 / 5.30 daily. Presented by RMIT Union Arts Activities & RMIT Women’s Group.

Lipstick Addiction with The Blister Sisters, For Whom the Avon Bell[e] Tolls, The Object, Size 10, Farewell to Charms. Forester’s Lounge, July 30. / Taking Off Stereotypes: The Invisible Woman, Age Before Beauty, Take Off, The Stripper, A Comedy in Six Unnatural Acts. Forester’s Lounge, Wed. Aug. 6. / Bodies, We Should Call it a …

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