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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.
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Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales
AU$2,375.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn White
Melbourne: Edition Renard, 2002.Edition of 212 numbered copies, 200 only for sale, this one of 150 numbered copies of the Standard Edition. 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.
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The Queensland Bank Officer: The Official Organ of the United Bank Officers Association, Queensland (Vol. V., No. 9. November 15th, 1924)
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartThe United Bank Officers’ Association of Queensland
[Brisbane]: The United Bank Officers’ Association of Queensland, 1924. -
Soseiki: Wakaki hi no geijutsukatachi / Eikoh Hosoe Portraits
AU$450.00 Read MoreAdd to cartEikoh Hosoe
Tokyo: Kokusho Kankokai, 2012.125 mostly previously unpublished portraits of 35 of Japan’s leading 20th century artists in their youth. Features butoh dancers, writers, artists, and creatives such as Yayoi Kusama, Yukio Mishima, Kazuo Ohno, Tatsumi Hijikata, Min Tanaka, Akira Sato, Yoko Ashikawa, Masuo Ikeda, Shuji Terayama, and others. Limited to 1,500 unnumbered copies, this copy signed by Eikoh to the front free endpaper.
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Terra Australis: An English Teenage Migrant’s Experiences in Australia, 1926-1929
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartP. Prideaux
Mackay: Nindaroo Publishing Australia, 2022.A snapshot of daily life on outback properties in New South Wales and Queensland, 1925-29 told through a young man’s letters to his mother.
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Westminster School: Past and Present
AU$1,200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartFrederic H. Forshall
London: Wyman & Sons, 1884.A history of the Westminster School in London, though also a recording of its past customs and a lengthy biographical recording of headmasters and numerous distinguished students, and personal reminiscences. Frederic H. Forshall was a Queen’s Scholar at Westminster and won a scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge, but left after a year, moving to Sydney. He was part of the first cohort at The University of Sydney in 1852, and while still a student was appointed the University Librarian. In 1853 he was the first prizewinner for Greek verse composition which are printed here (pp. 358-360). Plates illustrating various interiors, Westminster beating Eton at rowing in 1845, and others.
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The Queensland Illustrated Guide; for the use of Farmers, Fruit-Growers, Vignerons, and Others
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cart[Alfred Midgley]
Brisbane: James C. Beal, Government Printer, 1888.Distributed in Great Britain to promote emigration to Queensland in the late 19th century. The 9 original photographs by prominent studio Poul C. Poulson. Includes folding Map of Queensland Shewing Land Agents Districts in rear pocket. FERGUSON 12573. This copy signed by the Under Secretary for Agriculture and with the stamp of the Department of Agriculture, Brisbane.
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Land, Labour, and Gold; or, Two Years in Victoria: with Visits to Sydney and Van Diemen’s Land
AU$800.00 Read MoreAdd to cart[Alfred] William Howitt
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855.The sought after first edition in original cloth of one of the classic Australian gold digger narratives. FERGUSON 10618, WANTRUP (2023) 415 with the Westley’s binder’s ticket, and the advertisments as identified in (a). Minor splitting to joints, a small chip to the backstrip of of Vol.1. Upper hinge of volume 1 cracked. Bookseller’s stamp of R. Burge, Manchester. Minor tanning and wear to interior.
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A Visit to Queensland and Her Goldfields
AU$1,500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartChas. H. Allen
London: Chapman and Hall, 1870.A memoir of the Queensland goldfields by English painter and traveller Charles H. Allen (1824-1904) during his time in in Queensland in 1868. This copy inscribed by the author to his son, Charles Mansfield Allen, additionally autographed with his name and address to the front endpaper.
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[Architecture of the Kaluga Region: From Antiquity to the Present Day]
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartA. C. Dneprovskiy-Orbeliani
Kaluga: N. F. Bochkareva, 2006. -
1987 Field Conference: Gympie District
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartC. G. Murray; J. B. Waterhouse
Brisbane: Geological Society of Australia, Queensland Division, 1987. -
The Cadia Valley Mines: A Mining Success Story
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartEd Malone
Melbourne: The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, 2011.7 page Appendix laid in.
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Journey To An Antique Land
AU$20.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHenry Miller
London: Village Press, 1973.A travel sketch of St. Remy, in the south of France, by Henry Miller and his impressions of the ruins of the Greco-Roman settlement, Glanum.
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T*
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGiordano Bonora
Milan: Mousse Publishing, 2019.“This book is inspired by the pictures that Giordano Bonora, a young streetcar operator and aspiring photographer, took of BolognaÂ’s small transgender community in 1980 (although it would be more correct to speak, in this case, of proto-Transgenderism). Reproduced here for the first time, these raw and gilded images reflect–during a period in Italy characterized by subversive movements and political revolts that were not just rooted in questions of identity–attempts made by T* people at a construction of the self outside the binary logic of the genotypically XY male/genotypically XX female.” (publisher’s blurb) This copy in the publisher’s plastic wrap.
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Fish Oregon Waters, Drive Oregon Highways
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartTravel and Information Department of the Oregon State Highway Commission
Salem: Travel and Information Department of the Oregon State Highway Commission, No date.1930s fishing travel guide to Oregon.
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Corpus Christi: The Sportsman’s Paradise: Port of Play and Profit
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartThe Chamber of Commerce
Corpus Christi: The Chamber of Commerce, No date.Circa 1940 fishing and hunting guide and map to Corpus Christi, Texas.
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The Wonder of Australia by The White Car Service [Time Table]
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartThe White Car Service
Cairns: The Prompt Printery, No date.Promotional booklet and time table for early 20th century North Queensland cab company White Cars.
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Memories of Tasmania’s West Coast: A Pictorial journey of road and rail vehicles of the past
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartL. J. Morley
Hobart: Wellington Bridge Press, 2011. -
South Manchuria Railway 1935
AU$600.00 Read MoreAdd to cartSouth Manchuria Railway Company
Dairen: South Manchuria Railway Company, 1935.Traces the history, development, and administration of The South Manchuria Railway Company as it expanded its enterprises to influence almost all areas of economic, political and social life in the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo. This copy with the company’s New York office stamp to the title page and with the 1936 Statistical Abstract laid in.