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  • From Third World to First. The Singapore story: 1965 - 2000. Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew (presentation copy for the Hon. Alexander Downer)

    # 51561

    LEE, Kuan Yew

    From Third World to First. The Singapore story: 1965 – 2000. Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew (presentation copy for the Hon. Alexander Downer)

    Singapore : Times Media, 2000. Octavo, boards in dustjacket, pp. 778, illustrated. Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew (1923 – 2015), the first Prime Minister of Singapore. Provenance : The Hon. Alexander Downer, Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs 1996 – 2007. With a presentation bookplate inscribed to him pasted on the front free endpaper signed by …

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  • Tim Storrier

    # 51599

    McGREGOR, Ken, ZIMMER, Jenny,

    Tim Storrier

    Melbourne : Macmillan Art, 2007. Octavo, boards in dustjacket, pp. 142, illustrated. Macmillan Mini-Art Series number 4. New copy. Tim Storrier has painted sites in Egypt, Africa, Turkey and the West coast of America. Earning the respect of the art world in 1968 at nineteen by being the youngest ever recipient of the Sulman Prize, …

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  • Storm Boy

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    THIELE, Colin (1920-2006)

    Storm Boy

    Illustrated by John Baily. Adelaide : Rigby Limited, 1963. First edition. Octavo, illustrated boards in illustrated dustjacket (not price-clipped, verso foxed, edge wear), contemporary bookseller’s label to front pastedown, pp. 52, illustrated, occasional foxing, a good copy. The classic Australian children’s novel about a boy and his pelican set in the Coorong region of South …

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  • True light and shade : an Aboriginal perspective of Joseph Lycett's art

    # 51596

    MAYNARD, John

    True light and shade : an Aboriginal perspective of Joseph Lycett’s art

    Canberra : National Library of Australia, 2014. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 168, illustrated. Out of print, a fine copy. ‘True light and shade’ is filled with beautiful images by convict artist Joseph Lycett that powerfully capture in intimate detail Aboriginal life, a rare record of Aboriginal people within the vicinity of Newcastle and how they …

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  • Rosalie Gascoigne : Plain air

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    GASCOIGNE, Rosalie

    Rosalie Gascoigne : Plain air

    Wellington : City Gallery Wellington and Victoria University Press, 2004. Oblong quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 88, illustrated; a very good copy. Survey exhibition of the New Zealand born, Australian resident artist.

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  • Criss Canning

    # 51591

    McGREGOR, Ken and ZIMMER, Jenny

    Criss Canning

    Melbourne : Macmillan Art Publishing, 2010. Series: Macmillan mini-art series number 5. Small square octavo, pictorial boards in dust jacket, 144 pp extensively illustrated. An as new copy.

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  • Changes and chances : a personal history of All Saints Jakarta

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    LAKE, Andrew

    Changes and chances : a personal history of All Saints Jakarta

    Jakarta : All Saints Church, 2004. Octavo trade paperback, pp. xix, [1 blank], 202; with numerous b/w photographic illustrations; an excellent copy, inscribed on the half-title for the visiting Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs, the Hon. Alexander Downer, presumably by an Australian embassy staff member: ‘Dec. ’04. Dear Minister Downer, Welcome back to Jakarta. I …

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  • [CHILDREN’S GAME] Jigsaw puzzles with children’s scenes.

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    [ANON.]

    [CHILDREN’S GAME] Jigsaw puzzles with children’s scenes.

    [France, c.1890]. Oblong box of very thick card (345 x 258 x 45 mm), the lid with a superb chromolithographic illustration depicting children and families at the zoo, with camel and elephant rides and an ostrich-drawn carriage. The box contains four chromolithographic scenes pasted onto wood and cut into jigsaw puzzles; each puzzle is complete …

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  • Howard Arkley

    # 51590

    ARKLEY, Howard (1951 - 1999)

    Howard Arkley

    Melbourne : Council of Trustees of the National Gallery of Victoria, 2006. Octavo, illustrated wrappers (with an image of Arkley’s portrait of Nick Cave), pp. 30, a fine copy of this illustrated catalogue of Arkley’s 2006 exhibition at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia at Federation Square Brochure and exhibition prepared by Jason Smith, additional …

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  • Great suffragette demonstration in London : The Empire Car (different colonies) passing through Trafalgar Square.

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    ROSE STEREOGRAPH CO.

    Great suffragette demonstration in London : The Empire Car (different colonies) passing through Trafalgar Square.

    Melbourne ; Sydney ; Wellington ; London : The Rose Stereograph Co., [1911]. Stereoscopic gelatin silver print photograph (mount 95 x 175 mm), from the series Great suffragette demonstration in London, serial no. 11,951, printed title beneath the images The Empire Car (different colonies) passing through Trafalgar Square, recto of mount imprinted The Rose Stereographs …

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  • The rainy day : gift book of the Commonwealth Savings Bank of Australia

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    WALL, Dorothy (1894-1942)

    The rainy day : gift book of the Commonwealth Savings Bank of Australia

    “Story and illustrations by Dorothy Wall.” (p.[1]). [Sydney] : John Sands [for The Bank], [c.1925]. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers in green and black (small loss to corner), [18] pp, monochrome and colour illustrations; internally very good. A morality tale teaching children the virtue of thrift, by the creator of Blinky Bill. Muir, 7843, recording only …

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  • Dunklings the Jewellers Pty. Ltd. Ladies' and men's high grade wrist watches.

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    DUNKLINGS PTY. LTD. (MELBOURNE)

    Dunklings the Jewellers Pty. Ltd. Ladies’ and men’s high grade wrist watches.

    Melbourne : Dunklings Pty. Ltd., [circa 1950]. Single sheet, 215 x 330 mm, printed both sides, folding to 215 x 82 mm, illustrated; original folds, a good example.

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  • How to get the most out of your Electrolux

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    ELECTROLUX PTY. LTD. (Australia)

    How to get the most out of your Electrolux

    Melbourne : Electrolux Pty. Ltd. (Australia), [c.1950]. Octavo, lettered wrappers (marked), pp. 24, numerous b/w photographic illustrations on how the model housewife uses her Electrolux vacuum cleaner to optimum perfection. Trove locates no copies in Australian libraries.

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  • A prayer to be used every day next after the prayer in time of war and tumults, in all cathedral, collegiate, and parochial churches and chapels throughout England and Ireland, during the war.

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    A prayer to be used every day next after the prayer in time of war and tumults, in all cathedral, collegiate, and parochial churches and chapels throughout England and Ireland, during the war.

    London : George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1803. Quarto, pp. 4, single sheet, folded, a little worn. Ephemeral religious printing praising the British armed forces during the Napoleonic Wars.

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  • Some polychrome incised pottery ware from Mt. Turu, New Guinea.

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    TINDALE, Norman B.

    Some polychrome incised pottery ware from Mt. Turu, New Guinea.

    Adelaide : The Hassell Press, [1941]. Offprint from Records of the South Australian Museum, vol. VI, no. 4, February 28th, 1941. Small quarto (245 x 185 mm), original printed buff wrappers, pp 357-362, with line-drawn text illustrations plus [2] full-page photographic plates; very short tear at top edges of leaves, else a good copy. A …

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  • The Articulator : journal of the Sydney University Dental Undergraduates’ Association. Vol. 10, no. 3

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    SYDNEY UNIVERSITY DENTAL UNDERGRADUATES' ASSOCIATION

    The Articulator : journal of the Sydney University Dental Undergraduates’ Association. Vol. 10, no. 3

    Sydney : The Association, 1957. Small quarto, pictorial wrappers (upper wrapper with short tear at fore-edge), 91 pp, illustrated, a very good copy.

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