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1909261371909. Very good overall. Three large album pages and one scrap of pressed Australian wildflowers likely made by a Perth resident in the early 1900s. The album pages is entitled in manuscript "Wild Flowers of Western Australia" and signed in ink in the lower corner F. Cliff. <br /> <br /> The flowers loosely arranged in a heart shape are entitled in ink at the center of the arrangement "Kangaroo Paws. From Collie W. A. gathered in early Sept. 1909"; and "Kangaroo Paws. From various parts of W. A. Gathered in Sept. 1909". The small scrap approximately 4 x 6 1/2" is untitled with pencil notations 205 206 & 207.<br /> <br /> Ancestry locates a Norman Franklin Cliff residing in Perth from 1914 to 1917 and again in 1919 and 1921. In 1925 he is in Fremantle.<br /> <br /> 3 album pages 9 x 12 1/4" unknown
1876WRCAM7086Sydney 1876. Color map folded into original printed wrappers. Ink signature and ownership stamp on front wrapper wrappers separated at seam. The map is very nice with some foxing but no tears at folds. The map engraved by G.W. Sharp is shaded with seven colors representing various minerals in New South Wales. On the verso of each panel are printed statistics for telegraphs railways livestock banks exports minerals etc. for 1874-75 as well as an article entitled "Advantages of New South Wales as a Home for the Emigrant." This is the first edition others issued later. FERGUSON 13171a. unknown books
185228720Boston: Gleason's Pictorial Drawing Room Companion 1852. Hardcover book. Good overall. Gleason's Pictorial Drawing Room Companion a 19th century English newspaper/periodical well-known for its woodcut illustrations. The periodical ran from 1851 to 1859.<br /> <br /> This issue has articles and illustrations for Hawai'i Honolulu Cook's Monument and Sandwich Island dance 2pp; Niagara Falls A Valuable Series of Illustrated Views of Niagara Falls 2pp; West Point Second Series of Illustrated Views of West Point New York 2pp; Australia Departure of the Lizzie Webber the first Emigrant Ship to Australia from Sunderland UK 1pp; California A Series of Interesting Sketches and Scenes in California 2pp; Chicago 1pp and many other articles with a complete index. <br /> <br /> Folio 416pp No. 1 Vol. II Jan-June 1852; No. 1 Vol. III Jul-Dec 1852 3/4 black leather and brown cloth boards no title at spine covers detached but present some pages loose ruffled at edges but clean internally and complete. A view into the world in 1852. Gleason's Pictorial Drawing Room Companion hardcover
2001Star-9783540671107Springer 2001. Hardcover. New. Springer hardcover
2001Star-9783540671107Springer 2001. Hardcover. New. Springer hardcover
Pages 338-420 pages plus 16 pages of great vintage ads. Features: By Water in the Desert - an African witch doctor puts a curse on three white men; "Highclimbing" in the Tall Timbers - photo-illustrated article on high-climbers (high-riggers) of the Pacific Northwest which provides a vivid account of their work and its perils; Kwis-Kwis The Killer - British Columbia police sergeant Letherdale brings to book a most cunning and dangerous murderer in the vicinity of Queen Charlotte Sound; "Within the Law" - an unscrupulous Winnipeg estate agent tries to bring off an extra-smart deal; An African No Man's Land - the first crossing by white men of a queer region in the heart of the Belgian Congo - with photos; My Grandfather's Watch - after a watch is stolen in India, a servant suggests an unusual - and successful - method of retrieving it; Shark Catching Extraordinary - a local fisherman devises a novel method to take care of a shark which is threatening swimmers at a New Zealand resort; Through Spain in Disguise (part II) - Count and Countess Malmignati travel through Spain disguised as wandering Arab beggars; The Guru's Message - Journalist Colonel Charles Harrison Gibbons lay at death's door near the Khyber Pass but was relieved by a friend from a thousand miles away who was somehow contacted by an old native priest; The Big Voyage of the Little "Shanghai" (part IV) - the adventures of six young men sailing from Shanghai to Copenhagen; "On Construction" - the adventures of trying to build a new railway through the wilds of Africa; Experiences with the Alligators of Cambridge Gulf in Australia, with illustration of a Carl Jacobs alligator trap and photo of a massive 'gator caught at Wyndham; A Night with Lions - the appalling experience of corporal Fairweather of the B.S.A. Police on the banks of the Zambezi; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Book
Pages 291-348 plus several pages of great vintage ads. Features: "Killer Sleeman" - a Mountie's challenge handling a cop-killer; The Man Who Lost Face - a young ship's officer gets in the bad books of Chinese smugglers; The Inventor of the "Rugger" - William Webb Ellis; Amateur Bandit; A Paraguayan Dance - wild and wooly doings; "Humpie" - the unfortunate choice of a gold-seeking partner; Crocodiles in Northern Australia - article with great photos; The Clue of the Single Finger-Print - Part III of the robbery ofthe First National Bank at Lamar, Colorado and the bloody aftermath; "Bhang" - the smoking of this forbidden narcotic in Africa; My Elephant Drive - a tale from the Belgian Congo - with photos; Madui's Curse - a Rhodesian tale; Beachcombers' Luck - an amusing story from the British Columbia coast; Fish-Spearing in the South Seas; and more. Above-average external wear. Covers nearly loose. Contents clean and unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Book
84 pages plus 36 pages of nice vintage advertisements. Features: The "Fool Afoot" in Italy - Part I; The Pirates of the "Ethel" - a tale of Australian piracy from 1899; The White Wanderer - my life among the Nomad Arabs - article with nice photos; The Queer Side of Things - My "Hunch" - a cowboy's plain tale of an odd adventure in Nevada; The Mystery of the "Flying Stones" - a weird story related by a South African policeman; The Judge's Joke - Judge Sawicki of Cleveland was anxious to be rid of three drunks; "Slippery Wiley" Scores Again - an illicit gold buyer in Australia; Photo and caption of a 1.5 ton monster sea turtle caught off Lowestoft, on the east coast of England!; Children of the Desert - a first-hand study of the manners and customs of the Navajo Indians - article with nice photos; Hunter's Luck on the Lion Trail - a lion-hunting story from East Africa - with nice photos; Over the Victoria Falls in a Canoe - Trooper Ramsay survived the 420' fall!; The Haunted Cabin - a queer little tale from Maroon Mountain, British Columbia; Man and his Needs; Stamps of the World. Nice full-page ad for Barney's Tobacco inside front cover. Average wear. Small protective pieces of tape at each end of backstrip. Binding intact. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
96 pages. Features: A Dream Grows in Brooklyn - In Carroll Gardens a rising wave of new Italian immigrants blends with the old; The Automated Battlefield - Smart Bombs/Map-Reading Missiles/Fighting Satellites/Battlefield Sensors; Why Zoos? - they not only educate and please, but save species rarer than Rembrandts from extinction - article with photos, including a 1907 Bronx-bred bison; After the Cyclone - Photos and article on destruction in Darwin, Australia; A Sense of Wonder - Photo-illustrated feature article on musican Stevie Wonder; Crazy Edmos fabric ad with man wearing yellow shirt illustrated with an electrical plug, and lady wearing yellow shirt illustrated with plug receptacle; Child-Woman Clothes; International Style Revisited - the architecture of Richard Meier is exemplified in this three-story Westchester house designed by architect Christopher H.L. Owen; Rare one-page color-photo ad for Teacher's Scotch Whisky features caveman photo of Mel Brooks and humorous text referencing his movies; Photos of female twins inside back cover. Average wear. Small faint library stamp on each cover. A sound vintage copy. Book
90 pages. Wonderful colour and black and white photography. Features: Jackie Chan - four pages of colour photos; Chen Chen - two pages of colour photos; Lin Ching Hsia - two pages of colour photos; Hsu Feng - one page colour photo; Ou-Yang Ling Lung - beautiful colour foldout photo; Jo Jo Wang - colour photos; Jackie Chan - article of him hunting in Australia with photos of him shooting rifles; Pierre Rissent; Love With Tears; The Buddhist Fist; 52nd Oscar Ceremony; The Invincible Kung Fu Legs - colour photo ad on back cover; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
68 pages. Features: Nice colour ad for Cellophane inside front cover; Great two-colour full-page ad for International Trucks - Chicago Century of Progress Theme; Nice full-page ad for Investors Syndicate featuring photo of Roy A. Hunter of B.C.; Nice 2-page Mobiloil photo ad features large photo of four cars; Chipso Laundry Detergent ad; Heritage, by Albert M. Treynor; The Cinema Murder, by Phillips Oppenheim; The Oriental Threat - regarding oriental immigration "... In British Columbia the proportion is catastrophic, being one Asiatic to every twelve whites." - with photos, by Charles E. Hope and W.K. Earle; Garden Jungle, by C.R. K. Allen; Ace of Our Judges - Chief Justice Lyman Poore Duff, by M. Grattan O'Leary; Invitation, by Will R. Bird; Critic on the Hearth, by Arthur T. Munyan; Pud, by W.A. Fraser; Tides o' Fundy, by H.V. Chambers; By Express - stories of shipping animals long distances; There's Money in Stamps - Paul Montgomery writes about valuable early Canadian postage stamps - illustrated; Love Letters in a Jar, by Louis Arthur Cunningham; Nice colour Campbell Soup ad; My Hate of Jig-Saw Puzzles, by Edgar March; Every Russian to Bear Arms - Women and Children are Being Trained to Take Part in Soviet's Next War; Article titled "Inventions Are Badly Needed"; Nice two-color full-page ad for the New Chevrolet Sixes; Article on how motion pictures have almost displaced theatre in North America; Australia Sells its Steamships - claims operation a failure; Canada Needs Air Museum; Lovely Prudential Insurance ad features girl on roller skates on sidewalk rolling, arms open, to her dad; Nice ad for the Northern Electric Gurney Range; Lovely ad promotes golfing at Jasper Park by taking Canadian National; Cereals - article by Helen G. Campbell; Investing in Bank Stocks; Fantastic two-colour full-page ad for General Motors Trucks features a dumptruck being loaded by a large clamshell bucket; Nice ad for Dominions Tires; Excellent back cover colour photo ad for Winchester cigarettes. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book
Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: The Poachers - An amusing story of a chase after a wounded African elephant; The Mystery of the "Mary Clyne" - A chief officer's story of a weird and nerve-trying affair that happened on board a tramp steamer; Housekeeping in the Wilds of Bechuanaland - Vivian France explains how she set up her home a month's ox-cart journey from civilization - with nice photos ; Following the Frontier Trail - Part II - The continued adventures of Edith Ammons Kohl in Wyoming; Our Caribou Hunt - How four young Newfoundlanders went into the interior one winter to shoot caribou, and what happened to them; Pekin [Peking / Beijing] to London - Mostly By Car - Part II - A most adventurous 15,000 miles, with nautical detours around civil war in China, and floods in Siam and Burma - with nice photos; A Fool Afoot in France - Part I - The amusing narrative of a decidedly unathletic 46-year-old Londoner who decided to tramp from the French coast to Lourdes; The Black Trackers of Australia - follow-up to "The Great Boulder Murder Case" which appeared in the prior issue; Photo of sheep being used as pack animals on the way from Tibet to the Rampur Fair; A Chinese Night's Entertainment - A lively interlude in the peaceful routine of life at a mission-station in a remote Chinese town; Buddy Assheton's Return - A tragic story from Western Canada, as told by a member of the Mounted Police; My Room-Mate - The amusing story of what happened one night at a hotel in a Queensland township; The Unmasking of Gola Singh - A member of the Indian police goes bad, creating the need for a delicate investigation; A "Creeper" in Ceylon - Part I - C.V. Warren travels to a tea estate in Ceylon and describes his experiences and the general routine of the tea-planter's life, with photos. 84 pages plus 12 pages of great ads. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
Cover: Royal Highnesses Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, New Governor-General to Australia. Features include: Our Notebook; Book Review: "U.S. War Aims" by Walter Lippmann; The Great World War: "Mulberry" and the Invasion; Books of the Day and The World of Science: Kew and the War. Pictorial Journals include: Scenes from Athens: A Demonstration, and an Echo of a Shooting (illus, by Flight-Lieut. H.W. Hailstone); The Reign of Anarchy in Athens: Scenes in the Troubled Capital; Von Rundstedt's Sudden Drive into Belgium and Luxembourg (map); Germany's Drive into Belgium and Luxembourg: Towns in the News; Two German "Squirt Planes": The Me.262 and the Me.163 Fighters (illus. by G.H. Davis); The War in Italy: Eighth Army Troops Entering Faenza and Ravenna; London of the XVIth Century: Panoramas of the Ancient City as it Looked Before the Great Fire; London Triumphant: The Great Metropolis of the British Empire (Four page panoramic illustration by Sydney R. Jones); The City of London of the Future: Preliminary Proposals; A Scheme for the Prevention of Overcrowding in London; Aspects of the War in the West: Scenes from the Fighting Zones and a Panoramic of Port of Antwerp; Flooded Walcheren: Life on the Island Following the Devastation Caused by the Smashing of the Sea Dykes; and An Exhibition of Flemish Old Masters in Aid of Belgium Children. Back page missing. Contents clean and unmarked with minimal wear. A worthy copy. Book
Pages 169-252 plus 28 pages of ads. Features: Chink-Running - an account of the illegal smuggling of Chinese over the U.S. border from Canada via the Detroit River; Slippery Wiley's Luck - Mr. Wiley returns to the scene of his prior crime to con money from more victims in Australia; The Mysterious M'Zab - A description of a little-known country in the heart of the Sahara where, although the French are the nominal rulers, the people actually obey the edicts of a secret Government of their own - great photos; "Ning We Pulls the Strings" - A story of Colonel Mackenzie's inimitable Chinese detective; Our Gatta - a most amusing tale of a native regatta from West Africa; The Longest Canoe Voyage on Record, by John H.E. Nolan (Part 3 of 3) - with several photos; Murder Paul Jaworski is permitted to read advance copy of a magazine serial before being executed for his crime; Feather's Folly - a stirring sea yarn from Newfoundland; Seeing America on Thirteen Dollars - Carl N. Taylor describes his four year adventure which began when he was sixteen; At the Eleventh Hour - Racing A Dying Prospector in the Belgian Congo to British Territory for the sake of his life insurance policy; The Human Tiger - a man planning murder in Perth Australia sees his plan go wrong; A Break in Routine - a true story from a Commissioner of Police in Uganda. Unmarked. Moderate wear. Small tape reinforcements to each end of backstrip. A sound copy of this engaging vintage issue. Book
190513010262Howard Smith Company Melbourne 1905. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. Hardcover. 256 pages. PUBLISHING DETAILS: Howard Smith Company Melbourne 1905. First Edition. CONDITION: This book is in good condition but dust jacket is not included. Binding is loose but fully intact. Foxing front/rear pages but body of book is clean and unfoxed. Text pages are in excellent condition. No inscriptions. Page edges slightly foxed. The cloth on the boards has been quite heavily and unevenly discoloured by moisture however the boards are nice and straight. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Travel & Places; Australiana; Inventory No: 13010262. Howard Smith Company hardcover
8vo [23 x 15.5 cm]; xii, 456 pp, 8 fine lithographed plates, 7 being hand-colored, other tinted, other illustrations from drwgs, the plates drawn by J. Wolf, W. Fitch, George Angas (4 are botanical, others animals, birds). later sim. leather, gilt title lettering on red leather label, new endpapers, lightly foxed on few leaves, else clean, very good+ copy, well-bound. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. Ripley 26. Ferguson 6929. Wood 231: 'An interesting account of the author's observations on the flora and fauna of Australasia, in which birds figure large, at least half of the 23 chapters containing references to them'. The book contains an extensive chapter on the platypus, which the auithor here calls a water mole, together with a hand colored plate of same. Fitch, who painted the botanical subjects, was one of the most respected botanical artists of his time. Other subjects are by artists G.F. Angas, Thomas Baines and Joseph Wolf, each a highly respected and ijmportant natural history artist. An important contribution including marine biology, ornithology, bird migration, plants including those with agricultural application, botanic garden, medicinal remedies, etc. The last chapter describes overland routes from Sydney to Southampton. Included is a loose clipping from a periodical on the New Guinea Ant Eater with illustration.
8vo [22 x 14.5 cm]; 2 volumes, xiv, 254; xvii, [255] - 515, [iv, ads] pp, 7 color plates (including 4 natural history), 2 folding maps, 365 plates and illus. original pictorial gilt cloth, spines faded and worn, good set, interior with minor foxing on some pages but clean, mounted hand colored map of New South Wales, eastern coast dated 1835 on endpaper from other work. A picture of this book is available upon
1942R67222Sydney: Spartacus Press 1942. Very Good. octavo. wrappers c.600pp. Published for the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Australia. No. 8 January 1942 then No. 10 May 1942 to No. 40 December 1944 then No. 44 April 1945 then No. 47-49 51-52 December 1945. Nice wartime run with much of Soviet military & Aboriginal interest Spartacus Press unknown
14523The Oval cricket ground London 1948. A nice piece of cricket memorabilia. The match which Australia won is remembered as Bradman's last test in which he was bowled for a duck in the second innings denying him a three-figure average. On a 16 x 11 cm leaf removed from an autograph album. In very good condition on lightly-aged paper. Presented portrait-style with 'ENGLAND - OVAL - 1948' neatly written at the head. Beneath this in two irregular columns are the signatures of the players with the exception of the signature of Eric Hollies bowler of the ball which dismissed Bradman in the Australian second innings the signature of substitute Reg Simpson present instead. The signatories are in the first column: Jack Crapp John Dewes Allan Watkins Jack Young Alec Bedser Reg Simpson substitute for Eric Hollies; and in the second column: Norman Yardley Bill Edrich Denis Compton Len Hutton captain Godfrey Evans wicket-keeper. See signatures of the Australian Cricket Team 1948 #14522 above The Oval cricket ground, London, 1948. unknown
4876Victoria Australia c.1870. Photograph c.8 x 6" laid down on card of a group of policemen or militia men with equipment posed informally -some out of uniform and bent to tasks one in uniform carrying rifle. They are posed in front of a fence someone seems to be peeking over it perhaps on a parade ground in front of a large tent with the word "VICTORIA" presumably the State Crown colony as was written on it. See Image. Victoria, Australia c.1870?. unknown
18731206T099London: Sampson Low Marston Low and Searle 1873. 2nd Edition . Hardback. Printed pages: 8vo. xvi 304. Very Good Plus. 5.75 x 8.75 inches 14 x 22 cm. Half blue calf leather binding with marbled boards. Spine with five raised bands red morocco title label gilt decorated compartments. Marbled page edges marbled endpapers. Very solid binding with no cracking to joints. Light rubbing to boards. A few patches of foxing but overall an excellent example. Complete with all plates and the fold-out map with a short tear and some creasing. Several of the in-text illustrations are repeated. Previous owner's name to leading blank. Overall condition is Very Good Plus. Size: 5.75 x 8.75 inches 14 x 22 cm. Sampson Low, Marston, Low, and Searle hardcover
21672Government House Brisbane 1 December 1880. Vellum 12 x 17 inches folded in very good clean condition Queensland seal affixed. Frederick Waymouth Gibbs 1821-1898 Barrister and tutor to Edward VII. William Hemmant 1837-1916 see Australian Dictionary of Biography had alleged agency scandals in the purchase of railway lines and in contracts for the conveyance of immigrants.Sir Arthur Edward Kennedy GCMG CB 18091883 colonial administrator who served as governor of a number of British colonies namely Sierra Leone Western Australia Vancouver Island Hong Kong and Queensland. Sir Arthur Hunter Palmer 18191898 politician and pastoralist in Australia Premier of Queensland 1870-74. hardcover
1950S57794Perth: William H. Wyatt Government Printer 1950. iii 36 folding maps plans sections 33 col. . HB. 4to buckram. Withdrawn from an institutional library with neat ink stamp to title page and verso of final plate only. Very clean. . William H. Wyatt, Government Printer hardcover
250401915 1924 3 1925 3 and 1926 2. The nine items on letterheads of the metallurgy department of the National Physical Laboratory Teddington Middlesex. See his entries in the Oxford DNB and Australian Dictionary of Biography. The recipient George Kenneth Menzies 1869-1954 was Secretary to the Royal Society of Arts between 1917 and 1935. The nine items are in good condition lightly aged and are folded for postage. Each bears the stamp of the RSA some with manuscript docketting. Letters of 4 April and 18 September 1925 are in autograph the rest typed; all nine are signed ‘Walter Rosesnhain’. A letter of 1 October 1924 responds to a request for information about zirconium with reference to the ‘literature’ on the subject and British and American firms ‘interested in Zirconium products’. The rest of the correspondence is taken up with lecturing. The first item ANS 2 February 1915 is a covering note for ‘the synopsis of my forthcoming course of Cantor Lectures’. On 13 September 1924 Rosenhaim writes that he could ‘quite well give either one lecture or a course of three during the coming Autumn and Winter. The subject I habe in mind is the Inner Structure of Alloys on which I gave a Royal Institution Friday lecture last year. While it is possible to deal with the subject in a single lecture it would be much more satisfactory to give a course of three lectures upon it. The subject really relates to the X-ray study of crystal structures and its application to metallurgical problems and consitutes I think perhaps the most important metallurgical advance which has been achieved recently.’ He asks for a quick response as his ‘Winter engagements have a way of piling up during the year’. On 4 April 1925 he states that he has ‘mentioned the matter of Cantor lectures to one or two of my colleagues & I think either Mr. Higgins or one of the others might give a course on such a subject as “Thermometers†or possibly “High Vacua’ but before approaching them he would like to clarify the question of a fee. ‘I am also interested in the matter because although about a month has now elapsed since my recent course was finished I have received no fee & I am wondering whether a letter may have gone astray.’ The matter is presumably resolved as a few weeks later on 30 April 1925 he sends not present ‘a memorandum on the subject of a course to be entitled “Thermometry†by Mr W. F. Higgins of this Laboratory’ and mentions that ‘there is also a possible suggestion of a course entitled “The Production and Measurement of High Vacua†with experimental demonstrations by Dr G. W. C. Kaye’ both of which courses he thinks ‘would be very satisfactory for your Society but that of Dr Kaye would be particularly interesting and would I think attract a considerable audience as the whole problem of high vacua is becoming of every sic increasing importance in connexion with electric lamps and radio valves’. On 8 January 1926 he wonders whether Higgins’s communication with Menzies regarding a proposed lecture has also ‘gone astray’ and agrees to review ‘Sir Robert Hadfield’s book on Metallurgy’ for the RSA journal ‘provided that the review may be anonymous. I very much object to writing signed reviews’. On 11 February 1926 he asks for an offprint of a lecture by Sir Richard Paget: ‘I may be able to obtain a copy by asking Sir Richard Paget himself but I would prefer not to trouble him if it can be got from you.’ 1915, 1924 (3), 1925 (3) and 1926 (2). The nine items on letterheads of the metallurgy department of the National Physical Labor unknown
183617370L'Univers. Histoire et Description de tous les Peuples.Revue géographique et ethnographique de la Malaisie, de la Micronésie, de la Polynésie et de la Mélanésie; Offrant les résultats des voyages et des découvertes de l'Auteur et de ses Devanciers, ainsi que ses nouvelles classifications et divisions de ces contrées, par M.G.L. Domeny de Rienzy.Édition originale. Paris, Firmin Didot Frères - 1836-1837 - 399, 397 et 365 pages. 309 planches, dont 5 cartes repliées, réunies en fin de chaque volume. Texte sur 2 colonnes.Reliure demi-basane violine de l'époque. Dos lisse avec titres et filets dorés. Tranches jaspées bleues. Un mors fendillé en tête au T1. Rares rousseurs sur quelques gravures, texte épargné. Mouillures angulaires sans gravité au T2. Bon état. Format in-8°(21x14).Il s'agit d'une compilation des voyages de Cook et de Bougainville complétée par ceux de Rienzi lui-même. En outre de ses voyages, on lui doit aussi quelques partitions musicales et des poésies.
