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Some Telephone Suggestions
Southern California Telephone Company
[California]: Southern California Telephone Company, No date.1930s instruction booklet for conducting polite business communication on the telephone. “To have persons habitually look forward to a pleasant experience when they deal with your business is one of the greatest assets your firm can have. There are ways by which your staff’s use of the telephone can have a big effect in creating such an attitude. ” (from wrapper) Unrecorded in OCLC.
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America’s Most Famous Teeth
Reidar F. Sognnaes
Washington, DC: Vick Clark Cleveland, 1974.Reprinted from the Smithsonian Magazine, February 1973. “What kind of dentures did Washington wear? Wood, elephant tusks, elk’s teeth, gold?” (from p.1). Published by a denture company.
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Teatro Reale Dell’ Opera [Roma]: Il Nuovo Palcoscenico Meccanico
Casa Editrice D’arte Bestetti e Tumminelli
Milano and Roma: Casa Editrice D’arte Bestetti e Tumminelli, 1929.Royal Opera Theatre: The New Mechanical Stage. Promotional booklet after the 1926 renovations of the theatre which reopened in 1928.
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Davida Allen: In the Moment
Davida Allen; Angela Goddard
Brisbane: Griffith University Art Museum, 2018.Catalogue of an exhibition held 3 May-30 June 2018.
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Red Azalea: Life and Love in China
Anchee Min
London: Victor Gollancz, 1993. -
Vedic and Mesopotamian Interactions
N. Kazanas
Adyar: The Adyar Library and Research Centre, The Theosophical Society, 2007. -
Katu Folktales and Society
Institute of Research on Lao Culture and Society; Nancy A. Costello
Vientiane: Ministry of Information and Culture, Institute of Research on Lao Culture and Society, 1993.A collection of stories of the Katu peoples of Vietnam and Laos. An oral storytelling tradition many stories are here recorded in Katu phonetically and with Lao and English translation.
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Dikter
Johan Bergman
Goteborg: Wettergren & Kerber, 1894.Poetry by Swedish archeologist and parliamentarian Johan Bergman (1864-1951).
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Three Years in Cachar: With a Short Account of the Manipur Massacre
M. J. Wright; James H. Hartley
London: S. W. Partridge & Co, [1895].An account by a lady missionary of life in Assam, describing the people and their way of life and her encounters with wild animals. It also includes her description of the events in Manipur in 1890-91 when a military expedition was sent to respond to the murders of five British soldiers by insurgent Manipuris. Five Manipuri commanders were hanged for waging war against the British, who installed the boy Meidingngu Churachand on the throne.
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Tours in Sunny New South Wales
Edward Lynch
Sydney: Edward Lynch, No date.1920s NSW travel guide. Published in collaboration with the Government Railways’ Publicity Department.
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A Nocturne and Other Malayan Stories and Sketches
Frank Swettenham; William R. Roff
Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1993.Sir Frank Swettenham (1850-1946) was the first Resident General, from 1896 to 1901, of the Federated Malay States, which brought together the states of Selangor, Perak, Negeri Sembilan and Pahang. “His interest in the country and its people is reflected in the wide range of his stories and sketches.” (from wrapper)
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The Land of the Prairie: And the Wonders of the Gospel’s Power among the Mochicans and Red Indians
[John Ritchie]
Kilmarnock: John Ritchie, No date.Stories of some of the missionaries to the American Indians including John Elliot, a Puritan missionary who with others is credited with editing the Bay Psalm Book, the first book published in North America in 1640. Other missionaries mentioned include David Brainerd, John and Charles Wesley and David Zeisberger. Published by Christian Literature published John Ritchie. Unrecorded in OCLC.
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British Salmonidae
W. Jardine
London: Decimus, 1979.First published privately in Edinburgh between 1839 and 1841, this facsimile is limited to 500 numbered copies, of which this is number 327. Paintings by Jardine, engraved by William Lazars, who engraved the early sets of Audubon’s Birds. Four page essay ‘Sir William Jardine and the British Salmonidae’ by Alwyne Wheeler, Curator of European fishes at the British Museum (Natural History), laid in.
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The Making of Women: The History of Mac Robertson Girls’ High School
Pauline F. Parker
Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2006. -
Garrets and Pretenders: Bohemian Life in America from Poe to Kerouac
Albert Parry
Mineola: Dover, 2012. -
Souvenir Programme: Crowning Ceremony: Miss Sydney Competition, Anzac House Appeal
Returned Sailors, Soldiers & Airmens Imperial Australia League
Sydney: The Market Print, 1944.Programme for a beauty pageant at the Royal Agricultural Society’s Ground, Saturday, 9th September, 1944, organised by the RSL to raise funds for development of Anzac House, Sydney. Contains a brief pitch for the development, programme of events, and portraits of the competitors, most representing different government departments and ministries.
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Ceremonial Parade: On the occasion of the Laying Up of the Queen’s & Regimental Colours of the 9th Infantry Battalion (The Moreton Regt.) Sunday, 23rd March, 1969
9 Battalion, The Royal Queensland Regiment
Brisbane: Neta, 1969.Program for a Ceremonial Parade.
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Narrative of a Voyage Round the World; Comprehending an Account of the Wreck of the Ship “Governor Ready”, in Torres Straits;
T. B. Wilson
London: Sherwood, Gilbert, & Piper, 1835.A description of the British Settlements of the Coasts of New Holland, more particularly Raffles Bay, Melville Island, Swan River, and King George’s Sound; also, the manners and customs of the Aboriginal Tribes: with an appendix, containing remarks on transportation, the treatment of convicts during the voyage, and advice to persons intending to emigrate to the Australian Colonies. FERGUSON 2073. This copy without the 10 page catalogue of books and the plates bound in a different order.
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Revidirte Statuten fur den Deutschen Kranken=Verein in Brisbane
Deutschen Kranken-Vereins
Brisbane: A. Cleghorn, 1872.Revised statutes for the German Health Association in Brisbane.
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Constitution and Rules of the Queensland Branch of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia
Queensland Branch of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia
[Brisbane]: Watson, Ferguson, and Co., 1891.Founded, 1885. Amended at the Annual General Meeting, July 6, 1891. FERGUSON 15166a.