Politics & Law
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![[THARUNKA] The Satyricon Review](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2016/11/16142642/2016_DSFB_0086-230x300.jpg)
# 33731
[UNSW]; TAYLOR, Peter (publisher); BELL, Stephen (editor); BOWERS, Steve (artist);
[THARUNKA] The Satyricon Review
Sydney : Peter Taylor, Director of Student Publications, UNSW, 1971. Quarto (280 x 210 mm), illustrated wrappers with design by Steve Bowers, stapled; pp. 48, illustrated; a fine copy. The student newspaper Tharunka, the mouthpiece of the University of New South Wales Students’ Union, was founded in 1953. The 1971 Foundation Day issue was published …
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![[GOLD RUSH; EUREKA REBELLION] Riot at Ballaarat. Report of the Board appointed to enquire into circumstances connected with the late disturbance at Ballaarat, together with the evidence taken by the Board.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/02/11115959/2022_DSFB_0724-300x300.jpg)
# 33995
COLONY OF VICTORIA.
[GOLD RUSH; EUREKA REBELLION] Riot at Ballaarat. Report of the Board appointed to enquire into circumstances connected with the late disturbance at Ballaarat, together with the evidence taken by the Board.
Laid upon the Council table by the Colonial Secretary, His Excellency the Lieutenant Governor, and Ordered by the Council to be printed, 21st November, 1854. Melbourne : John Ferres, Government printer, 1854. Foolscap folio (340 mm), string bound, 22 pp; a fine copy. A key primary source document for the history of the Eureka Rebellion, …
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# 33992
THE GRAPHIC (LONDON)
A Literary & pictorial record of the Great Tichborne case : containing a complete history of this cause celebre, with numerous engravings from sketches and photographs, reprinted from the Graphic, and facsimile autographs of letters, now published for the first time.
[London : The Graphic, 1874]. Supplement to the London Graphic, 7 March 1874. Tabloid newspaper, 420 x 315 mm, 24 pp, lithographic illustrations (including 2 double-page and several full-page); original horizontal fold (short edge tears), outer pages lightly foxed and somewhat dusty, contents clean and sound. Ferguson, 17152. Trove locates four copies (Monash University Library; …
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![[PENNSYLVANIA] Report of the Board of Inspectors of the Western Penitentiary of Pennsylvania, for the year 1838 [1842; 1846; 1847].](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2016/11/16145345/2015_DSFB_5336-300x224.jpg)
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STATE PENITENTIARY FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA
[PENNSYLVANIA] Report of the Board of Inspectors of the Western Penitentiary of Pennsylvania, for the year 1838 [1842; 1846; 1847].
Pittsburgh, Pa. : Johnston and Stockton, 1839; 1843; 1847-1848. Four issues, uniform octavo (215 mm), three with original colour wrappers, issue for 1838 with contemporary plain wrappers, each with wet stamp, spine label and ms. markings of the nineteenth-century German library Bibliothek Bruchsal; pp 12; 20; 24; 27; two issues with light vertical crease, otherwise all …
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# 34012
GORDON, Donald Craigie
The Australian frontier in New Guinea 1870-1885
New York : Columbia University Press, 1951. First edition. Series: Studies in history, economics and public law. Edited by the Faculty of Political Science of Columbia University. Number 562. Octavo (225 x 150 mm), publisher’s green cloth over boards with gilt-lettered spine; frontispiece folding map, pp 301; a fine copy; from The Papuan Collection of …
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![Terms upon which land is granted to Settlers in New South Wales & Van Dieman's [sic] Land.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/01/28131608/2022_DSFB_0404-300x300.jpg)
# 33988
GREAT BRITAIN. COLONIAL OFFICE.
Terms upon which land is granted to Settlers in New South Wales & Van Dieman’s [sic] Land.
[Drop-head title]. London : Colonial Office, Downing-Street, April, 1827. Foolscap folio bifolium (340 mm); [3], [1 blank] pp; letterpress on wove paper with Britannia watermark and date 1825; edges untrimmed, neat old folds; a fine example. The rare first edition of this highly significant Colonial Office document outlining the rules by which the acquisition of …
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![[FEDERATION; COOK] Botany Commonwealth Celebrations. The Historic Landing of Capt. Cook in 1770. A Grand Picnic of the Residents of the District will be held on Monday, January 7, 1901.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2016/11/16111512/2015_DSFB_2537-300x249.jpg)
# 33645
BOTANY (NEW SOUTH WALES). COUNCIL.
[FEDERATION; COOK] Botany Commonwealth Celebrations. The Historic Landing of Capt. Cook in 1770. A Grand Picnic of the Residents of the District will be held on Monday, January 7, 1901.
The commodious Steamer “Clyde” will leave Botany Pier at 9 a.m., and hourly after until 2 p.m. landing Passengers at Kurnell Wharf. Last Return Trip will leave Kurnell Wharf at 7 p.m. Return Ticket – Adults, 1s. … … [Botany, N.S.W. : The Council, 1901]. Ticket, 75 x 95 mm, printed recto only in black …
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# 33862
"Garryowen" (FINN, Edmund, 1819-1898)
The chronicles of early Melbourne, 1835 to 1852. Historical, anecdotal and personal, by “Garryowen”
Centennial edition with portraits and illustrations. Melbourne : Fergusson and Mitchell, 1888. First edition. Two volumes, quarto, gilt-decorated roan (edges rubbed, as commonly found), all edges gilt, pen inscription to preliminary blank, pp. xiv; 1000, numerous lithographed illustrations, the occasional spot of foxing, overall a very good set, uncommon in this condition. “The two volumes of …
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![[ART DECO] Vanity Fair. November, 1932 : the "Hitler" issue.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/01/31162933/2022_DSFB_0518-300x300.jpg)
# 34176
GARRETTO, Paolo (1903-1989) (illustrator)
[ART DECO] Vanity Fair. November, 1932 : the “Hitler” issue.
New York : Condé Nast Publications, Inc., November 1932. Large quarto format (325 x 250 mm), original pictorial wrappers, the front cover design a lampoon of Adolf Hitler by Italian artist Paolo Garretto; 72 pp, illustrated in colour and black-and-white; the wrappers have some very light handling wear, and the paper spine is chipped in a few …
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![[BALLARAT; ART] Sesame and lilies.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2021/12/17131204/2021_DSFB_9178-300x300.jpg)
# 33517
RUSKIN, John (1819-1900); [CAREW-SMYTH, Ponsonby May, 1860-1939]
[BALLARAT; ART] Sesame and lilies.
Orpington, Kent : George Allen, 1891. Twelfth edition. Octavo (180 mm), original limp burgundy leather with gilt decoration, spine lettered in gilt (frayed at tail); all edges gilt; first blank inscribed in ink ‘Ballarat W[omen’s]. School of Art, 1892. Prize awarded to Miss May Anderson for excellence in home drawing. P. M. Carew-Smyth‘; pp. xi, …
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![[NEW GUINEA] Competitive leadership in Trobriand political organization.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2021/12/21103509/2021_DSFB_9262-300x300.jpg)
# 33670
POWELL, H. A.
[NEW GUINEA] Competitive leadership in Trobriand political organization.
Reprinted from The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 90, Part 1, 1960. [s.l. : s.n.], [1960?]. Large octavo (250 x 185 mm), printed green wrappers, inscription of previous owner to front endpaper, pp 118-145; a very good copy.
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# 33711
British New Guinea. Administrator.
British New Guinea. Report for the year 1887, by Her Majesty’s Special Commissioner for the Protected Territory, with appendices.
At head of title: 1888. Queensland. Brisbane : James C. Beal, Government Printer, 1888. Foolscap folio (330 mm), disbound, pp 49, 2, 13; some foxing at extremities, otherwise very good. Scarce.
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# 33705
MURRAY, J. H. P. (John Hubert Plunkett), Sir (1861-1940)
Papua. Offences by natives. Memorandum by the Lieutenant-Governor.
Presented by Command; ordered to be printed, 3rd June, 1915. At head of title: 1914-15. The Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia. [Melbourne] : Printed and published for the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia by Albert J. Mullett, Government Ptinter for the State of Victoria, 1915. Foolscap folio (330 mm), stapled, pp 9; a …
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# 33825
RIVETT, Kenneth (editor)
Control or Colour Bar? A proposal for change in Australia’s immigration policy.
Melbourne, The Immigration Reform Group, 1960. Octavo, lettered wrappers, pp. 52, small school stamp to title page and upper wrapper, neat pencil annotations, else fine. Academic essays advocating of reform of the White Australia policy.
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# 33709
PERKINS, J. A.; EGGLESTON, Frederick William, et al.
Report of Committee appointed to survey the possibility of establishing a combined administration of the Territories of Papua and New Guinea, and to make a recommendation as to a capital site
(1) for the combined administration of that is favoured, or (2) for the Territory of New Guinea if the retention of separate administrations is recommended. August, 1939. Presented by Command, 12th September, 1939; ordered to be printed, 22nd September, 1939. At head of title: 1937-38-39. The Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia. Canberra : Printed …
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# 33790
EVANS, Joyce (1929 - 2019)
We had such high hopes : student activism and the peace movement 1949-1952 : a photographic memoir
Melbourne : Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2019. Quarto, illustrated boards, pp. 183, illustrated. New copy. Some think it all happened in the 1960s but Joyce Evans, acclaimed photographer of Australia’s land and its people, goes back to her youth and memories of her many adventures as a student activist. In 1949, aged 19, she set sail …