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  • Ornamental cast iron in Melbourne.

    # 34557

    ROBERTSON, E. Graeme

    Ornamental cast iron in Melbourne.

    Melbourne : Georgian House, 1967. First edition. Large quarto, publisher’s cloth over boards in pictorial dust jacket (corners rubbed), endpaper maps, pp x, 229, profusely illustrated with b/w photographic plates; pale stain to final few leaves.

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  • The home makers furnishing guide. Andersons, Clarendon St. South Melb.

    # 34201

    ANDERSON'S PTY. LTD.

    The home makers furnishing guide. Andersons, Clarendon St. South Melb.

    [Cover title]. South Melbourne, Vic : Anderson’s Pty. Ltd., [between 1915 and 1920]. Large quarto (305 x 250 mm), original pictorial wrappers with circular cut-out to front (wrappers with a few light marks, short tears to paper along spine and to edge of cut-out, but overall in good condition), staple bound, 136 pp, illustrated throughout; …

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  • Golden recipes for the use of all ages.

    # 34506

    WHITE, W.

    Golden recipes for the use of all ages.

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  • Giorgio Armani

    # 33660

    CELANT, Germano et al

    Giorgio Armani

    New York : Guggenheim Museum, 2000. Quarto, boards in illustrated dustjacket, pp. xxiv; 382, extensively illustrated. Published on the occasion of the Giorgio Armani exhibition held at Guggenheim Museum, New York. “He is the man who got rid of the grey flannel suit. The stiff, heavy, gray flannel suit. The designer who showed women they …

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  • Early colonial furniture in New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land

    # 33850

    CRAIG, Clifford (1896-1986); ROBERTSON, E. Graeme (Edward Graeme) (1903-1975); FAHY Kevin

    Early colonial furniture in New South Wales and Van Diemen’s Land

    Melbourne : Georgian House, 1972. First edition. Quarto cloth in dustjacket, pp. 220, extensively illustrated. Pale foxing to preliminaries else a fine copy.  

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  • Days Gone By, volume 2: A meeting of East and West

    # 33800

    RAMSAY, Christine Wu

    Days Gone By, volume 2: A meeting of East and West

    Melbourne : Macmillan Art Publishing, 2013. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 119, illustrated. New copy. In Days Gone By, Volume 2: A Meeting of East and West, Christine Wu Ramsay continues the personal story of her life in an ever-widening world – as East meets West. The story is told with warmth, insight and her …

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  • Australia Beautiful. The Home Easter Pictorial 1931

    # 33734

    ART IN AUSTRALIA

    Australia Beautiful. The Home Easter Pictorial 1931

    Sydney : Art in Australia, 1931. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (edge wear), reproducing a painting by James R. Jackson, pp. [viii], 52, illustrated, light handling marks and some light foxing. Includes photographic illustrations of Australian tourism and reproductions of paintings by Hans Heysen and others.  Attractive advertisements.

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  • Helen’s babies! With some account of their ways: innocent, crafty, angelic, impish, witching and repulsive.

    # 33644

    [HABBERTON, John] ; STEAD, W. T. (editor)

    Helen’s babies! With some account of their ways: innocent, crafty, angelic, impish, witching and repulsive.

    Also a partial record of their actions during ten days of their existence. By their latest victim. (Abridged). Cover title: Helen’s Babies. By their latest victim. Melbourne : “Review of Reviews” Office, [c.1900]. Series: The Masterpiece Library. Popular 2d. Novels Series, vol. viii, no. 31. “Australasian edition”. Octavo (190 x 130 mm), original pictorial wrappers, pp 60, …

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  • An Australian family and their pet dogs and cats: a furry snapshot group, 1915-1920.

    # 33112

    Photographer unknown.

    An Australian family and their pet dogs and cats: a furry snapshot group, 1915-1920.

    Group of 7 (seven) gelatin silver print photographs, format 60 x 85 mm, all mounted on sections cut from old album pages, in fine condition.

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  • Our Christmas festivities

    # 33461

    J. T. WOOD (LONDON)

    Our Christmas festivities

    London : J. T. Wood, 1859. Die-cut paper, 162 x 162 mm, folding to form a miniature triangular shapebook, longest side 115 mm; printed recto and verso in gold, with 14 vignette lithographs illustrating various aspects of a traditional Christmas as enjoyed by upper and middle-class English families: the pantomime, Blind Man’s Buff, the mistletoe, …

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  • Featherston chairs (signed copy)

    # 33224

    LANE, Terence

    Featherston chairs (signed copy)

    Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 1988. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, one corner bumped, pp. 71, extensively illustrated, a fine copy, signed by the author Terence Lane. Rare.

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  • D. Chellaram, Hong Kong

    # 18027

    CHELLARAM, D.

    D. Chellaram, Hong Kong

    [also titled on first page Beautiful Hong Kong. The Gateway to the East]. Hong Kong : Chellaram, circa 1925. Octavo, printed wrappers, pp. [16], photographic illustrations, map, inscription on one of the pages. Promotional booklet for the house of Chellaram (established 1860), a clothing retailer and supplier of silks, tapestries and curios on Queen’s Road.

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  • [GLASS CINEMA SLIDE] Town Hall Bakery, Dandenong. E. Redston. Speciality: Wedding cakes. Fancy pastry fresh daily. Families waited on for orders. A trial solicited.

    # 32619

    E. REDSTON; O. S. HEMPEL (maker)

    [GLASS CINEMA SLIDE] Town Hall Bakery, Dandenong. E. Redston. Speciality: Wedding cakes. Fancy pastry fresh daily. Families waited on for orders. A trial solicited.

    [Melbourne?] : O. S. Hempel, [circa 1918]. Glass magic lantern slide, 82 x 82 mm (image), 85 x 120 mm (glass); maker’s name ‘O. S. Hempel’ in image lower left; in fine condition. A World War One-era glass cinema slide advertising E. Redston’s Town Hall Bakery, in Dandenong, southeast of Melbourne. The slide would almost …

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  • [GLASS CINEMA SLIDE] C. W. Russell, grain merchant, Dandenong. Farm & garden seeds. Farm machinery. Poultry foods a speciality.

    # 32620

    C. W. RUSSELL; O. S. HEMPEL (maker)

    [GLASS CINEMA SLIDE] C. W. Russell, grain merchant, Dandenong. Farm & garden seeds. Farm machinery. Poultry foods a speciality.

    [Melbourne?] : O. S. Hempel, [circa 1918]. Glass magic lantern slide, 82 x 82 mm (image), 85 x 120 mm (glass); maker’s name ‘O. S. Hempel’ in image lower left; in fine condition. A World War One-era glass cinema slide advertising the firm of agricultural supplier and nurseryman C. W. Russell, in Dandenong, southeast of …

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  • Australian colonial furniture : a guidebook

    # 33133

    BUTTSWORTH, John

    Australian colonial furniture : a guidebook

    Sydney : Colonial Living Press, 1987. Quarto, illustrated gatefold wrappers, pp. 140, 61 colour plates of colonial furniture. Sotheby’s price list for sale of author’s collection stapled to upper wrapper. A fine copy.

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  • The Australian colonial house. Architecture and society in New South Wales 1788-1842.

    # 33017

    BROADBENT, James

    The Australian colonial house. Architecture and society in New South Wales 1788-1842.

    Sydney : Hordern House in association with the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, 1997. Quarto, cloth covered boards, pictorial dust jacket, pp. 400, limited to 2000 copies, contains 24 colour plates and over 100 monochrome plates, contains in-depth academic text on the architecture of houses and buildings in New South Wales in the …

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