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182124880Philadelphia 1821. Good condition. Newspaper article by recent immigrant to Australia titled "New South Wales" by William Smith concerning Smith's views on education the voyage to Australia escaped convicts and New South Wales.<br /> <br /> Smith was the first teacher in the New York Free School to introduce the "Lancastrian system" of education to the New York City school system and to Australia. He emigrated in 1818 to New South Wales via Hobart. He notes the ship 'Discovery' in Sydney Harbor as well as French and Russian ships and the ship 'Gen. Gates' under Captain Riggs. Riggs inadvertently left Sydney with 10 stow away escaped convicts and later incurred a large fine.<br /> <br /> The Smith article at p3 12 column inches. With a period manuscript note "W. Lee" likely for Washington & Lee University. Folio 4pp 13 x 21" period fold. Overall toning center fold cracking. unknown
193759485New York & Toronto: Longmans Green & Co. 1937. 8vo. 8 241 1 pp. Photo frontisp. 3 plates. Blue publisher’s cloth gilt lettering front cover & spine pictorial map endpapers minor sunning light offset toning on endpapers w/ d.j. cover art of the schooner Sirocco by John O’Hara Cosgrave II photo of author & three shipmates on back cover minor chipping head & foot of spine couple closed tears edgewear still VG/VG- copy w/ former ownership markings on ffep. First edition 2nd printing stated of the author’s first book and autobiographical memoir expanded from his June 1930 article entitled “The Sirocco Calls-In†in the Rockhampton Morning Bulletin. By 1930 Flynn had been expelled from Sydney Grammar for theft dismissed from a Sydney Shipping Co. for helping himself to the petty cash and usually just ahead of the law had washed up in New Guinea where he purchased the cutter Sirocco from Lars Halvorsen. After stowing provisions he and three mates set out on a 2000 mile voyage up the East coast of Australia to New Guinea while claiming that they’d been shipwrecked. His later memoirs recount Flynn’s adventures in New Guinea dabbling with slave trade standing trial for murder mining the New Guinea gold fields and succession of romantic epic movies. Longmans, Green & Co., hardcover
55645Tanunda: German Lutheran Church in Australia. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Tanunda German Lutheran Church in Australia n.d. Octavo 48 pages. Card covers a little marked; an excellent copy. Text wholly in German. German Lutheran Church in Australia paperback
187123255Sydney: Caxton Steam Machine Printing Office 1871. Wraps. Very good - condition. Scarce biographical booklet the only one on Ristori published in Sydney describing the life of the Italian actress Adelaide Ristori renowned as a tragedienne. Ristori visited Australia with a large Italian entourage for 4 months in 1875 performing in Ballarat Melbourne and Sydney and this booklet was likely published as a promotional piece for the tour.<br /> <br /> This Australian booklet is not dated although Ferguson's Bibliography of Australia assigns a date ca. 1871. It was translated from Italian into English to be used as an advertising piece for Ristori's 1875 Australia tour. It was published at the Caxton printing office which was functioning under that name until 1876.<br /> <br /> Adelaide Ristori 1822 - 1906 toured widely including Paris 1855 1856 London Madrid 1857 and the United States 1866. The booklet describes Ristori's American visits: the first tour was mainly in the North the events of the Civil War making a stop in New Orleans impossible. Ristori did eventually visit there reciting pieces at the grand bazaar following which she "had to accept a sumptuous supper which was attended by the leading people of the South headed by the generals Beauregard and Lee". p19.<br /> <br /> In 1875 after one of her American tours she traveled to Australia where her company's lavish productions of historical drama were performed in Italian. Ristori performed the roles of Medea Mary Stuart and the title role in Elizabeth Queen of England written especially for her by Paolo Giacometti. Such was Ristori's popularity that in Victoria a company working several gold mines on the rich Berry Lead near Allendale north of Ballarat was named Ristori after her. This led to an adjoining town being named Ristori Town.<br /> <br /> 8vo 29pp. Printed glossy paper wrappers the title printed in black at front wrapper with "Adelaide Ristori" in an elaborate type font. Staplebound. The wrappers slightly dusty the rear wrapper with two small areas where the gloss surface of the wrapper has been rubbed away; small amount of fox spotting to final leaves. Libraries Australia ID 5200078. OCLC: 219812323 locates 4 copies at Monash NLA SL NSW and SL Victoria. Ferguson 14938. Caxton Steam Machine Printing Office paperback
188916673Richmond Virginia: Allen & Ginter 1889. First printing. Ephemera. Otherwise very good condition. Chromolithographic illustrations of Australian birds in tobacco advertising picture book from Richmond Virginia cigarette manufacturer. Lovely illustrations of birds including the apteryx cassowary kingfisher bird of paradise and lyre bird. Oblong 8vo not paginated 10 leaves with 50 striking bird images Tobacco advertisment in inside rear cover. Pictorial stiff paper wrappers with ornate tilte in blue at front cover surrounded by birds of Paradice and humming birds; AG logo on back cover with more humming birds. String bound. Few chips at edges of covers o/w very good. Allen & Ginter unknown
196060174London: Heinemann 1960. 8vo. 208 pp. Black tweed boards silver lettering on spine slight bumping to corners minor shelfwear w/ d.j. variant issue cover art by Fratini of masked figure holding a revolver price-clipped NF/VG copy w/ Boans Book Salon Perth label on front pastedown. First edition of this Australian mystery featuring Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte hunting for a murder amidst the Cork Valley Irish community in New South Wales. Heinemann, hardcover
193356620Sydney Australia: Angus & Robertson Ltd. 1933. 8vo. viii 2 297 1 pp. Photo frontisp. numerous photo plates maps on endpapers. Gray publisher’s cloth lettered & decorated in blue minor shelfwear light foxing to upper fore-edges of textblock w/ d.j. cover art of Plowman on camel back minor chipping head of spine edgewear still VG/VG copy w/ former ownership markings on ffep. Second edition of this fascinating travelogue through the Oodnadatta country filled with delightful cameos amusing anecdotes and character sketches of the country and its inhabitants. Scarce in original dustjacket. Angus & Robertson, Ltd., hardcover
1774143635Paris: Chez Saillant et Nyon . chez Panckoucke 1774. Near fine. Paris Chez Saillant et Nyon . chez Panckoucke 1774 first thus. An original map printed surface 365 × 771 mm sheet size approximately 410 × 830 mm engraved under the direction of Robert Bénard. Trimmed outside the plate-mark leaving ample margins; vertical and horizontal folds; a couple of trifling spots of foxing; small production flaw to the edge of the right-hand margin; some very faint offsetting and other trifling signs of age; in near-fine condition. A map of the east coast of Australia from Point Hicks to Cape Cornwall by way of Botany Bay and Port Jackson as charted by Cook on his first voyage. It comes from the first French edition of the official account of the voyage 'Relation des voyages entrepris . pour faire des découvertes dans l'hémisphère méridional' 'Tome III. Pl. 16'. <p>Tooley 342; see Beddie 659. Chez Saillant et Nyon ... chez Panckoucke unknown
193463220Sydney Australia: Angus & Robertson Ltd. 1934. 12mo. xviii 378 pp. plus 8 pp. publisher’s ads. Photo frntsp. numerous photo illusts. map endpapers. Red pubisher’s cloth black lettering & ruling minor shelfwear rubbing slight foxing w/ d.j. vivid Art Deco cover art minor creasing edgewear slight chipping head of spine couple very small closed tears still VG/VG- copy. Sixth edition of this popular Idriess title set against the backdrop of head-hunting aborigine peoples and inter-racial relations in the Torres Strait Islands near the Great Barrier Reef and Papua New Guinea replete with many photos and illustrations of Indigenous artifacts. Angus & Robertson, Ltd., hardcover
190026434Liebig Company 1900. Very good condition. Set of six beautifully colored lithographic trade cards of Australia including a kangaroo image issued by the Liebig company with the text in Italian. The set is titled "In Australia". The Italian set is identical to the French edition but more uncommon. One of the most graphic sets produced by this European company which enjoyed an international market in the late 19th and early 20th century. Pictured are indigenous peoples a kangaroo and an emu natural scenery and an exotic plant; farming and ranching and seaport scenes. Liebig Company unknown
1865214355Johnson and Ward. Circa1865. Hand coloured map 32.3 x 39.7 x cms including the decorative border; 35.6 x 45.8 cms sheet key to major centres unrelated text on verso sheet age toned in very good condition. Detailed map from the leading mid 19th Century American firm of Johnson and Ward. Although Tasmania was known as such from 1856 the map refers to "Van Diemen Land". . Johnson and Ward. unknown
190026433Liebig Company 1900. Very good condition. Set of six beautifully colored lithographic trade cards of Australia including a kangaroo image issued by the Liebig company with the text in French. The set is titled "L'Australie". One of the most graphic sets produced by this European company which enjoyed an international market in the late 19th and early 20th century. Pictured are indigenous peoples a kangaroo and an emu natural scenery and an exotic plant; farming and ranching and seaport scenes. Liebig Company unknown
190023450Liebig Company 1900. Very good condition. Set of six beautifully colored lithographic trade cards of Australia including a kangaroo image issued by the Liebig company with the text in French. The set is titled "L'Australie". One of the most graphic sets produced by this European company which enjoyed an international market in the late 19th and early 20th century. Pictured are indigenous peoples a kangaroo and an emu natural scenery and an exotic plant; farming and ranching and seaport scenes. Liebig Company unknown
192459545Adelaide: South Australian Football League Limited and printed by Lonnen & Cope 1924. Fine. Adelaide South Australian Football League Limited and printed by Lonnen & Cope 1924. Duodecimo 163 x 104 mm 16 pages last page the colophon plus the title-cover. Saddle-stapled card; a fine copy. 'Umpires and stewards must report bad language and foul play such as hitting with the fist and with the elbow. The game according to the laws is strong enough there being no occasion for foulness of any sort. The fair player must be protected' page 11. Not in Trove. South Australian Football League Limited (and printed by Lonnen & Cope) unknown
195616664Perth: Patterson Brokensha Pty Ltd. 1956. Pamphlet. The story of the Swan River Colony and Peel's role in its development. 8vo 96pp maps b&w ills throughout. Yellow stiff paper wraps with title in black at front spine. No title at staple bound spine. Covers slt dusty slt marked top and bottom edge front cover overall very good. Patterson Brokensha Pty Ltd. unknown
185223519London 1852. Ephemera. Very good condition. The emigrant ship 'Roman Emperor' brought migrants to Sydney Australia and Lyttleton New Zealand and sailed a number of times in the 1850s and 1860s under Captain Champion who signed this document. The ship is recorded as sailing to the Australian Colonies in 1850 dispatched by ship brokers Marshall and Edridge and weighing 793 tons.<br /> <br /> This is a single half sheet letter of recommendation for a William Struthers who sailed as second officer on one of these voyages from London to Sydney via India and back. The National Library of Australia holds the diary of a Mr. Harry Woolley who was a passenger on that voyage. 7 5/8 x 6 1/4". Blue laid paper contemporary folds. unknown
1800144429London: Printed by Luke Hansard . and sold by John White 1800. Very Good. London Printed by Luke Hansard . and sold by John White 1800. An engraved map printed surface 498 × 585 mm sheet size approximately 560 × 690 mm engraved by W. Palmer. Folded as issued; old repaired tear near the stub just encroaching on the printed surface; some moderate foxing; in very good condition with ample margins. A map of Australia labelled 'New Holland' noting but not showing the 'Supposed New discov'd Straits' between Tasmania and the mainland Matthew Flinders and George Bass had discovered Bass Strait in 1798. Bound as issued in the fourth volume of Pennant's 'Outlines of the Globe' titled 'The View of the Malayan Isles New Holland and the Spicy Islands' quarto contemporary quarter calf and marbled boards; edges uncut; covers worn; in very good condition overall with pages 97-147 devoted to New Holland. <p>See Ferguson 278; not in Tooley; Perry and Prescott 1800.11. Printed by Luke Hansard ... and sold by John White unknown
1950219557Australia. circa1950s. Small bronze ornament possibly for use as a belt buckle or hat badge approx 4 x 6 cms a crocodile jaws ready to strike be-striding a base plate in the shape of mainland Australia the surface knobbled suggestive of terrain its head and body in the "Top End" its tail encircling South-eastern Australia inlaid with a white opal the verso smooth and stamped with two pairs of initials possibly makers': O.Z. and N.R. the whole a little oxidised but in very good condition. Appealing and well-made piece of Australian vernacular memorabilia by an unknown maker the fabled crocodile dominating the piece and its territory primarily Northen Australia the decorative white opal set a little distant from its main source in Coober Pedy South Australia. . unknown
29379Melbourne: McPherson's Proprietary Limited 1935. Paper wrappers pamphlet. Very good condition. 1935 hardware catalogue this edition not recorded on Trove which records only a 1933 edition. The Australian firm specialized in farming machinery. This edition shows locations in Sydney Melbourne Adelaide Perth with an ad for the Adelaide location on back cover.<br /> <br /> 8vo printed orange paper wrappers 248pp with illustrations and diagrams throughout. Cover illustration by Percy Trompf. A small deliberate hole in top left for attaching the catalogue by chain or string to the counter. Slt wear to cover but overall vgc. Aus library call #: NL338-4762190294M172 for 1933 edition. McPherson's Proprietary Limited unknown
64286c.1880. . Albumen print. Fair tonal range and in good condition pasted on original mount.<br /> <br /> [c.1880]. unknown
189622304Kempten Germany: Jos. Kosel'schen Buchhandlung 1896. Paperback. Good overall. A German emigration guide of agricultural & mining conditions along with the voyage to Australia through the Suez Canal and stops in Sri Lanka. No emigrant seems to have used it as it is unopened and uncut. 8vo v 156pp 13 printed photograph illustrations. Illustrations include a fantastical image of Cook landing at Botany Bay dressed in Spanish explorers garb arriving on a mountainous coastline to the wonderment of a passive group of aborigines; wool bags in a Sydney the railway between Bundaberg & Gladstone Queensland. Publishers tan wrappers printed in red and black with decorative border. Front wrapper a little marked and rubbed loose. Ferguson 5759; Trove 8830372; OCLC 633998056. Jos. Kosel'schen Buchhandlung paperback
1947130623Adelaide: Economy Press 1947. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Economy Press 1947. Octavo 60 first and last blank pages. Original wrappers an excellent copy. Inscribed dated 1962 and signed in pencil by the editor on the first page. Preface by William Carlos Williams. Economy Press paperback
1950166911950. Very good condition. Early advertising card for the famous Australian luxury resort and hotel developed in the 1950s by millionaire Reginald Ansett founder of Ansett Australia an Australian air line group based in Melbourne. With color illustration of two women and a young man in bathing costume on a pristine beach. Hayman Island the most northerly of the Whitsunday Group was named for George Nares' navigator Thomas Hayman. In the 1930s a biological research laboratory was established there by Edwin Embury & was soon joined by the Great Barrier Reef Game Fish Angling Club which attracted game fishermen such as Zane Grey American novelist and filmmaker. Ansett acquired the island in 1947 and worked on the Royal Hayman Hotel which opened in 1950 with a Royal Charter granted in anticipation of a royal visit. 5 x 5 1/2" unknown
1920166841920. Announcement card for royal visit to Australia of Prince Edward who famously abdicated the throne in 1936 to marry the American divorcee Wallis Simpson. The public reception for this visit to Sydney was held at 10:30 am Friday 18th June 1920; the reaction to his visit is described by Edward in his autobiography: "The ‘touching mania' one of the most remarkable phenomena connected with my travels took the form of a mass impulse to prod some part of the Prince of Wales. Whenever I entered a crowd it closed around me like an octopus. I can still hear the shrill excited cry ‘I touched him!' If I were out of reach then a blow to my head with a folded newspaper appeared to satisfy the impulse". With floral border flag crests battleship. Color printed card 9 1/2 x 6 3/4". Short crease at upper left corner o/w very good. unknown
1820201111820. An intriguing item. The image seems to be inspired by the anecdote related in James Boswell's book "Life of Johnson" where he describes Dr. Samuel Johnson in 1793 hopping around the room to explain to people how a kangaroo moved. The hand-penned caption below entitles it "Shade of a Dandy" the caricature poking fun of the ridiculousness of the gentleman with his frizzy hairstyle pointed nose and chin holding a monocle. He stands in the corner of a room and the shadow he casts on the wall looks like a kangaroo with a suggestion of a halter. The room has flower-decorated floor covering a border around the wall which also has a framed landscape hanging and a window with drapes behind him. Kangaroos have held a long fascination for the Northern hemisphere particularly after their arrival on English shores with Joseph Banks fresh from Cook's first voyage in 1769. The man's cut of coat and slim trousers suggest an early 19th century style. 7x10" on paper 8 x 10 3/8". With some later faintly bizarre coloring on the figure of the man in either pastel or crayon. Mounted on a larger sheet of blue paper perhaps from an early album. Blue backing sheet with a closed tear otherwise in very good condition. unknown
