Trade & Industry
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# 34592
ROUGH, Brian G.
Capturing Brisbane : the city’s first photographers, 1855 to 1901.
Brisbane, Qld. : the author, 2022. Large quarto (305 x 220 mm), pictorial paper boards, pp 137; biographies of individual photographers and studios, numerous photographic illustrations, glossary of terms, index; errata page loosely inserted; an as new copy of what will surely be a useful reference for collectors of nineteenth-century Australian photographs, as well as …
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# 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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![[MELBOURNE; NEWMARKET SALEYARDS] Important notice. First week in August. Adamson, Strettle & Co.‘s Parade and Sale of Stallions and Mares.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2016/11/16103341/2015_DSFB_5159-237x300.jpg)
# 33730
ADAMSON, STRETTLE & CO.
[MELBOURNE; NEWMARKET SALEYARDS] Important notice. First week in August. Adamson, Strettle & Co.‘s Parade and Sale of Stallions and Mares.
Melbourne : Adamson, Strettle & Co., Victoria Horse Bazaar, 396 Bourke Street, 8 April 1910. Single quarto sheet, printed recto only, on Adamson, Strettle & Co.’s letterhead, verso with recipient’s annotation in ink, original folds, in good condition. Adamson, Strettle & Co.’s circular letter is addressed “To the Horse Breeders of Australia and New Zealand”. The …
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![[NEW GUINEA] Plumes from paradise : trade cycles in outer Southeast Asia and their impact on New Guinea and nearby islands until 1920.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/02/11120134/2022_DSFB_0773-300x300.jpg)
# 34083
SWADLING, Pamela
[NEW GUINEA] Plumes from paradise : trade cycles in outer Southeast Asia and their impact on New Guinea and nearby islands until 1920.
/ Pamela Swadling. With contributions by Roy Wagner and Billai Laba. Boroko : Papua New Guinea National Museum in association with Robert Brown & Associates (Qld) Pty Ltd, 1996. First edition. Small quarto (270 x 195 mm), publisher’s pictorial boards in the original dust jacket; pp 352, profusely illustrated with colour and b/w plates; maps, …
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# 34294
NEWITT, Lyn et al.
Convicts and Carriageways : Tasmanian road development until 1880
Researched and written by Lyn Newitt ; edited by Alan Jones. Tasmania : Department of Main Roads, 1988. Folio, illustrated cloth in illustrated dustjacket, pp. ix, 332, illustrated, previous owner’s blind stamp to half-title, a fine copy.
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![[NEW GUINEA; GOLD MINING] Ok Tedi : the pot of gold](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/02/11115653/2022_DSFB_0650-300x300.jpg)
# 34232
JACKSON, Richard
[NEW GUINEA; GOLD MINING] Ok Tedi : the pot of gold
Boroko, PNG : The University of Papua New Guinea, [c.1980]. Octavo (210 mm), pictorial card covers, 200 pp, illustrated with 16 pp of colour and b/w photos, maps, index; a very good copy; from The Papuan Collection of Charles Fletcher (Melbourne), his bookplate to the front free-endpaper. ‘The dramatic story of the Ok Tedi gold/copper …
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# 34301
CONTINENTAL SUSPENDER MANUFACTURING CO. (MELBOURNE)
Price list. October, 1923. Braces. Continental Suspender Manufacturing Co. Wholesale manufacturers. Specialists in braces and gents’ suspenders. Factory: 29-31 Rathdown Street, Carlton, Melbourne.
Opposite Exhibition Gardens, near Victoria Street. [Cover title]. Melbourne : Modern Printing Co. Pty. Ltd., 1923. Octavo (215 x 135 mm), black-lettered red wrappers, stapled, 8 pp; non-illustrated; a very good copy.
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# 34443
PHILP, J. E.
Whaling ways of Hobart Town
Hobart : J. Walch, [1936]. Octavo, illustrated wrappers ( spine chipped with loss), previous owner’s name to upper wrapper and title page, pp. 95, photographically illustrated.
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# 33982
RICKWOOD, Frank
The Kutubu discovery : Papua New Guinea, its people, the country and the exploration and discovery of oil
Sydney : F. Rickwood, 1992. Quarto (290 x 220 mm), brown cloth over boards with gilt-lettered spine, in pictorial dust jacket; endpaper maps, inscribed by the author on the title page, pp. xx, 172, profusely illustrated with colour and b/w plates, maps; a superb copy; from The Papuan Collection of Charles Fletcher (Melbourne), his bookplate …
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![[NEW GUINEA] Black, white and gold : gold mining in Papua New Guinea, 1878-1930](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/02/04101110/2022_DSFB_0596-300x300.jpg)
# 33984
NELSON, Hank (1937-2012)
[NEW GUINEA] Black, white and gold : gold mining in Papua New Guinea, 1878-1930
Canberra, A.C.T. : ANU Press, 1976. First edition. Octavo (240 x 155 mm), black cloth over boards with gilt-lettered spine, in publisher’s dust jacket; pp xx, 298, with line-drawn and photographic illustrations, maps; tiny nick at top edge of half title page, else a fine copy; from The Papuan Collection of Charles Fletcher (Melbourne), his …
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# 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 …
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# 34496
SCARDAMAGLIA, Amanda
Printed on Stone : the lithographs of Charles Troedel.
Melbourne : Melbourne Books, 2020. Quarto, laminated boards, pp. 256, illustrated with more than 70 colour prints from the Troedel archive, plus full reproduction of all 24 plates of The Melbourne Album (lithographic views of Melbourne from 1863–1864) plus select images from the New South Wales Album (1878). New copy. Note : the title printed on …
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# 34384
LANGFORD, W. G. (Walter Gilbert)
Bulletin of the Territory of Papua. No. 4, 1918. Report on the geology of the Hohoro District, Papuan oilfield.
Melbourne : Dept. of Home and Territories, 1918. Quarto (275 x 220 mm), original printed grey wrappers (old collection stamp to front), pp 16, with a folding colour cross-sectional plan of the Vailala goldfields, and folding topographical and geological map of same, 2 leaves of photographic plates plus several photographic illustrations in the text; title page …
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# 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, …
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# 33714
NEWMAN, J. (John) Hubert (1830-1916)
Studio portrait of Joseph Grafton Ross, Sydney businessman and philanthropist, circa 1874.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 101 x 63 mm; recto with fully contemporary caption in ink at lower margin ‘Grafton Ross, Sydney’; verso with imprint of ‘J. H. Newman, 12 South Head Road, close to Hyde Park, Sydney’; the print has a faint oval ‘halo’ from its longtime contact with an album window …
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# 33626
SANDS & McDOUGALL
Sands & McDougall’s Monthly Diary. Giving departure of Mails, Sunrise and Sunset, Phases of Moon, Railway Time Tables, &c. July, 1880.
Melbourne : Victoria Stationery Warehouse, 46 Collins Street West, 1880. Quadragesimo-octavo (100 x 70 mm), publisher’s printed yellow stiff wrappers, stitched, pp 73; a very good, clean example, most diary pages with the original owner’s short neat ink entries recording over the course of the month a multitude of Melbourne surnames (possibly legal or business …