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A Survey of, and Report Upon, the Hotel Industry of New South Wales
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAsher Joel Advertising
Sydney: The Langlea Printery, 1958.Submitted to the United Licensed Victuallers Association.
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Saltwater People of the Broken Bays: Sydney’s Northern Beaches
AU$90.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Ogden
Sydney: Cyclops Press, 2011.A focused look at the shorelines of northern Sydney, New South Wales, and the people who inhabit them, from ancient times through to modern surfing.
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Saltwater People of the Broken Bays / Fatal Shore: Sydney’s Northern / Southern Beaches (2 Volumes)
AU$160.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Ogden
Sydney: Cyclops Press, 2012.The slipcased issue of both volumes, together encompassing a focused look at the shorelines of Sydney, New South Wales, and the people who inhabit them, from ancient times through to modern surfing.
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The Language of Oysters
AU$250.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRobert Adamson; Juno Gemes
Sydney: Craftsman House, 1997.Photo and poetry book on the lives of the oyster farmers on the Hawkesbury River, New South Wales. This copy inscribed by the photographer, Juno Gemes.
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Rage Against The Light
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMarkus Andersen
Sydney: T&G Publishing, 2015.“Markus Andersen’s photographs feature the city of Sydney as an abstracted backdrop for a fragile human presence, one dwarfed by overwhelming architectural development and consumerism. In these moody black-and-white images, people scurry about and are literally exposed by light. Struck by shafts of illumination between buildings, they are like insects coming out for food.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Waiting Under Southern Skies
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartColin Abbott
Sydney: T&G Publishing, [2019].“Waiting Under Southern Skies is a selection of evocative, and previously unpublished, images from Colin AbbottÂ’s personal archive of over 50 years documenting Australian life, as it presented to him. It is an intimate narrative of people and places during a period of immense social change in Australia.” (publisher’s blurb) This copy signed by Abbott on the title page and with a signed photographic print in a paper folder laid in.
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Cabramatta: A Moment in Time
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMarkus Andersen
Sydney: T&G Publishing, 2016.“Cabramatta is not your typical Australian suburb. If you took a stroll through the streets of this south-western Sydney hub, you may feel like you are in Southeast Asia. However, the suburb of Cabramatta is emblematic of modern Australia — urban, busy and brimming with multicultural activity. Sydney photographer Markus Andersen has captured this melting pot of cultures in his distinctive, street photography style. His raw, sometimes playful images show the uniquely diverse and human side of Cabramatta, seizing little moments of beauty in everyday life. A year in the life of one of AustraliaÂ’s most vivid multicultural communities, suspended in the amber of Markus Andersen’s lens.” (publisher’s blurb) This copy signed by Andersen.
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Ubu Films: Sydney Underground Movies, 1965-1970
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPeter Mudie
Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 1997.Documentation of the Ubu Films group formed by Albie Thoms, David Perry, Aggy Read, and John Clark in Sydney in 1965.
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A Tale of Two Teams: In Bonalbo League, 1964-1972
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMargaret Marshall
[Brisbane]: Margaret Marshall, 2008. -
Kyogle: Ninety Five Years of Commerce, 1902 to 1997: A History of the Kyogle Commercial Precinct
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMonty Hasthorpe
Kyogle: Kyogle & District Historical Society, 2007. -
Humane Policy; or Justice to the Aborigines of New Settlements
AU$1,200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartS. Bannister
London: Thomas and George Underwood, 1830.Saxe Bannister (1790-1877) was the first Attorney-General of New South Wales, though short-lived in the position due to constant clashing with other figures of the new colony, including over the mistreatment of the Aborigines. Though failing to find content in his work he is noted as being philanthropic and humane in his disposition with “a devotion to the welfare of children, convicts, and coloured inhabitants of the Empire” (ADB). Upon returning to England he authored numerous pamphlets on behalf of indigenous people in the colonies, and this, his longest work on the subject, largely devoted to South Africa, though with numerous references from his time in New South Wales. This copy with the armorial bookplate of Fairclough and the Aborigines Protection Society in manuscript at the crown of the title page.
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Tiger Territory: The History of Oberon Rugby League
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Mudgee: Landers Publishing, 2009. -
The State of Religion and Education in New South Wales
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartWilliam Westbrooke Burton
London: J. Cross and Simpkin and Marshall, 1840.This copy from the collection of Melbourne bibliophile Rollo Hammet, with his label, and the ownership signature of W. Champion Hackett. FERGUSON 2943.
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Street Seen: A History of Oxford Street
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartClive Faro; Garry Wotherspoon
Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2000. -
Out There: A Potted History of a Revolution Called Nimbin
AU$120.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGoffin Marion; Quentin Merlaud
Nimbin: Out There Publishing, 2024.39 Spoken Stories Told by Locals: An Antidote to Conventional Thinking.
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The Aldine Centennial History of New South Wales (2 Volumes)
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartW. Frederic Morrison
Sydney: The Aldine Publishing Company, 1888.Illustrated, embracing sketches and portraits of her noted people; the rise and progress of her varied enterprises; and illustrations of her boundless wealth, together with maps of latest survey. FERGUSON 12863
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The Edible Fishes of New South Wales: Their Present Important and Their Potentialities
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDavid G. Stead
Sydney: Government of the State of New South Wales, 1908.Listing of edible fish species of New South Wales with descriptions of each, together with photographic plates and a large folding colour map of New South Wales.
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Woolloomooloo: Save The Loo Now
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBrenda Humble
Sydney: Inner Sydney Regional Council for Social Development, 1976.A record of the fight of residents and unions to preserve the working class residences of the Sydney suburb of Woolloomooloo that came under threat by developers in the 1970s. Includes a photographic record of many buildings, as well as resident reflections, protest chants, organising posters, and newsclippings from the time.
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A Brief Account of the Colony of Port-Jackson,
AU$75.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGeorge Bond; Julien Renard
Melbourne: Edition Renard, 2005.in New South Wales; Its Native Inhabitants, Productions, &c. &c. By George Bond. First published by the Author at Southampton in 1803 and reprinted for Him at Oxford, London, Cork and Dublin in various Years to about 1810. Eighth Edition, faithfully reprinted from the first, incorporating the additions and corrections of the later editions. Edited, with bibliographical notes by Julien Renard. Limited Edition of 100 copies within a total edition of 200 numbered copies, and now first published since about 1810. All the original editions are of great rarity. No copies of the 2nd or 3rd editions have been recorded and the first (Southampton, 1803) edition is extremely rare, while the 4th (Oxford, 1806), 5th (London, 1809), 5th (i.e. 6th, Cork, undated), and 6th (i.e. 7th, Dublin, also undated), editions are all very rare. The work is of considerable importance as one of the few accounts of Hunter’s period as Governor. Hunter was dissatisfied with Bond’s behaviour in the colony and complained of him in dispatches. Hunter was instructed to return him to England and Bond left the colony under a cloud in 1800, but his narrative was evidently very popular. He gives an account of the operation of the convict system and the economic corruption in the colony, and describes early efforts to encourage free settlers. He includes also comments on the Aborigines and on the natural history of the colony, including much from first-hand experience. See FERGUSON 480; WANTRUP, pp. 91-3.
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Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales
AU$3,250.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn White
Melbourne: Edition Renard, 2002.Edition of 212 numbered copies, 200 only for sale, this being one of 40 deluxe copies with the plates in both coloured and uncoloured states. This sumptuous new edition is reprinted with the text entirely reset in Garamond, attractively printed in black, red, and green, and the plates enlarged by 50%. The plates, by Sarah Stone, F. P. Nodder, and other fine artists comprise 29 of birds (including splendid parrots), 10 of reptiles and amphibians, 7 mammals (marsupials and the Dingo), 6 of fishes, 9 of plants (including magnificent Banksias), 2 of invertebrates, and 2 of Aboriginal weapons and artefacts. In the original edition the leaf Hh4 is cancelled in some copies with a variant text describing in the cancelled state a description of the Wattled Bee-Eater, or Merops, Female and in the uncancelled state a description of the male bird. Both texts have been reproduced here and there are some bibliographical and publishing notes appended. This was the first natural history book on Australia of any significance to be published after the arrival of the First Fleet and has never before been republished with the plates in colour. Edition Renard was awarded two Gold Medals at the 20th National Print Awards, and a Certificate of Manufacturing Excellence of the Victorian Manufacturers Hall of Fame for this book, the first publication under the imprint.