Tourism

  • Souvenir of Mary Immaculate Church, Waverley, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 1930

    # 34187

    McLeod & Smith

    Souvenir of Mary Immaculate Church, Waverley, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 1930

    Sydney : photographed and published by McLeod & Smith, 1930. Oblong quarto, illustrated wrappers, yapp edges with slight edge wear, pp. [28], staples rusted and central page detached, photographically illustrated. Rare with only two examples located on Trove (NLA; St. Paschal’s Library).

    $220.00 AUD Read more
  • Waterfall Gully (near Adelaide), circa 1880.

    # 33741

    SWEET, Samuel White (1825-1886)

    Waterfall Gully (near Adelaide), circa 1880.

    Albumen print photograph, 155 x 205 mm, laid down recto of a leaf removed from a 19th-century French traveller’s album, inscribed in ink below the image ‘Une cascade’; the print has excellent clarity and is in good condition (the small spot of discolouration at lower right is from the developing process). Held: AGSA (Accession number …

    $100.00 AUD Read more
  • Fares & Sailings. Hawaii - New Zealand - Australia

    # 33832

    MATSON LINES

    Fares & Sailings. Hawaii – New Zealand – Australia

    San Francisco : Matson Line, 1938. Quarto, folded in half to narrow octavo, self-wrappers, pp. [16], schedules of sailings from San Francisco and Los Angeles to Honolulu, with itineraries of Pacific cruises visiting Melbourne, Sydney, Auckland, Suva, etc. Usefully, the regulations included also give detail of what discounted fares may be applied to one’s servants …

    $50.00 AUD Read more
  • Six coloured views of Darwin, Northern Territory

    # 34439

    Anon.

    Six coloured views of Darwin, Northern Territory

    Payneham, S.A. : C. A. Pitt, circa 1960. Diecut wrappers containing six colour photographic postcards of Darwin, including the Airport, War Memorial, Smith Street, the Botanic Gardens etc.

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  • The Maori

    # 33880

    COWAN, James

    The Maori

    [Wellington?] : New Zealand Government Publicity Production, 1928. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (foxed, silverfished), string bound, pp. [32], photographically illustrated, light foxing.

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  • Fiji before Civilization ... Dawn of Civilization ... Advance of Civilization ... Glorious Result of Civilization

    # 15593

    Maker unknown.

    Fiji before Civilization … Dawn of Civilization … Advance of Civilization … Glorious Result of Civilization

    [Crystal Palace, London : Machinery Department, c.1879]. Cotton handkerchief, 570 x 580 mm, lithograph printed in brown and red; old fold lines and some insignificant toning and spotting; a very well preserved example. These satirical cotton handkerchiefs lampooning the effects of the introduction of Western civilisation into a “primitive” society in the South Seas were printed in colour in the machinery …

    $750.00 AUD Read more
  • The Nepean Hotel, Portsea, Victoria: two visitors' books for 1873-1882 and 1898-1908.

    # 32787

    The Nepean Hotel, Portsea, Victoria: two visitors’ books for 1873-1882 and 1898-1908.

    I. Visitors’ book, 1898-1908 Folio (330 x 220 mm), original straight-grain brown morocco (rubbed and marked), boards ruled in gilt, the upper board with gilt-stamped lettering ‘Visitors’ Book / Nepean Hotel / Portsea‘ and royal coat of arms, spine with double gilt-ruled bands; front pastedown with binder’s ticket of the Melbourne stationers Arnall & Jackson, …

    $5,500.00 AUD Read more
  • Photograph album with views of the Snowy Mountains, southern New South Wales, 1891-1900.

    # 33452

    KERRY, Charles (1857-1928)

    Photograph album with views of the Snowy Mountains, southern New South Wales, 1891-1900.

    Oblong quarto album (250 x 300 mm), original gilt-ruled black crushed morocco over boards (expertly rebacked to style), all edges gilt; pastedowns and endpapers replaced, with the ownership inscription of the album’s first owner, Rosalie G. Harnett, dated 1908, preserved on a section of the original front endpaper which has been mounted on the new …

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  • Sydney bridge celebrations, 1932

    # 33769

    SMITH, Sydney Ure; GELLERT, Leon

    Sydney bridge celebrations, 1932

    Sydney : Art in Australia Ltd., 1932. Quarto, illustrated wrappers with silver highlights (staples slightly rusted, as usual), slight edge wear, pp. 80. illustrated, colour advertisements. A fine Australian art deco publication. A bright copy.

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  • The River Murray South Australia. Australia's noblest waterway. From Renmark to the mouth. 100 magnificent views.

    # 33622

    H. R. JAMES & COMPANY (publisher)

    The River Murray South Australia. Australia’s noblest waterway. From Renmark to the mouth. 100 magnificent views.

    [Cover title]. Also titled: 100 magnificent views illustrating the River Murray, South Australia. Adelaide : Published by H. R. James & Coy., [circa 1930]. Oblong quarto, original printed wrappers (sunned at edges, lower wrapper with ink marks at top corner), stapled, inside front wrapper with map and text, [24] b/w plates; first leaf with gift …

    $90.00 AUD Read more
  • Long Island, Happy Bay, Great Barrier Reef.

    # 33633

    QUEENSLAND GOVERNMENT TOURIST BUREAU

    Long Island, Happy Bay, Great Barrier Reef.

    Brisbane : Queensland Government Tourist Bureau, [1940]. Single sheet, 280 x 440 mm, folding to 220 x 140 mm, printed on both sides; with sepia tone photographic illustrations, map; light wear to top edge, some pale foxing. The text is a tourist guide promoting Long Island in the Whitsunday archipelago on the North East Queensland …

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  • South Molle Island, Whitsunday Passage, Queensland : for the tourist.

    # 33632

    South Molle Island, Whitsunday Passage, Queensland : for the tourist.

    Brisbane : Queensland Government Tourist Bureau, [between 1940 and 1950]. Single sheet, 270 x 420 mm, folding to 210 x 135 mm, printed on both sides; with b/w photographic illustrations, map; short tear at edge of central fold, some pale foxing to map; with loosely inserted roneo-printed sheet (2 pages) containing information on transport options …

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  • Sydney

    # 32338

    SAMUEL WOOD (publisher)

    Sydney

    Sydney, NSW : Samuel Wood, [circa 1920]. Oblong octavo (125 x 200 mm), publisher’s brown card wrappers with embossed lettering to front, original ribbon tie; all illustrated, with [24] leaves of sepia tone photogravure views of Sydney and the Harbour, including George Street, Pitt Street, King Street, Martin Place, Art Gallery, St. Andrew’s Cathedral, Town …

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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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  • Souvenir of Kuringai Chase and Bobbin Head, the beautiful.

    # 33658

    Souvenir of Kuringai Chase and Bobbin Head, the beautiful.

    Also titled: Souvenir of Bobbin Head, the beautiful, Kuring-gai Chase, N.S.W. Parramatta : Cumberland Newspapers Ltd., [1938?]. Small oblong quarto (195 x 250 mm), original pictorial card covers, printed text on inside covers, [12] pp, all photographic illustrations; a very good copy. This edition appears to be a variant (predecessor?) of the 1939 edition, which was …

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  • [HOLLYWOOD] Welcome to Universal International.

    # 33646

    UNIVERSAL INTERNATIONAL STUDIO

    [HOLLYWOOD] Welcome to Universal International.

    Hollywood, California : Universal International Studio, [between 1955 and 1960]. Oblong octavo (140 x 220 mm), pictorial wrappers, stapled, [8] pp, a visitor’s guide with double-page of thumbnail photographic portraits of current stars, and illustrations of and printed information about the Studio; a fine copy.

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