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Australian Retrospect Greeting Card: First Englishman
Kenneth Wallace-Crabbe
North Warrandyte: K. Wallace-Crabbe, No date.One in a series of wood engraved greeting cards produced by Kenneth Wallace-Crabbe at his Melbourne studio in the 1960s/early 1970s under the heading of Australian Retrospect. This card depicts Captain William Dampier cooking over a campfire. The caption reads: “FIRST ENGLISHMAN to land in Australia. Captain William Dampier at Shark’s Bay, on his 1699 second visit.” The interior contains a short printed greeting and his studio details printed on the verso.
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Australian Retrospect Christmas Card: Our First Troops
Kenneth Wallace-Crabbe
North Warrandyte: K. Wallace-Crabbe, No date.One in a series of wood engraved Christmas cards produced by Kenneth Wallace-Crabbe at his Melbourne studio in the 1960s/early 1970s under the heading of Australian Retrospect. This card depicts a group of soldiers singing in the street in Sydney. The caption reads: “1808. OUR FIRST TROOPS. Men of the New South Wales Regiment, (‘The Rum Corps’) sing anti-Bligh songs in George Street, Sydney.” The interior contains a short printed Christmas greeting and his studio details printed on the verso.
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Australian Retrospect Christmas Card: John Batman
Kenneth Wallace-Crabbe
North Warrandyte: K. Wallace-Crabbe, No date.One in a series of wood engraved Christmas cards produced by Kenneth Wallace-Crabbe at his Melbourne studio in the 1960s/early 1970s under the heading of Australian Retrospect. This card depicts John Batman setting up camp at what would become Melbourne. The caption reads: “1838. Parramatta-born JOHN BATMAN sails from Tasmania to Port Phillip. On Yarra River he selects site of Melbourne as ‘place for a village’.” The interior contains a short printed Christmas greeting and his studio details printed on the verso.
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4 Snapshot Photographs of a River Fishing Trip
Anonymous
[Australia]: Unknown, No date.1920s snapshot photographs of 2 men in their rowboat holding their catch and on the riverbank with their haul.
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Fantastic Animation Collection
Sato Yukiko; Shinohara Yu
Tokyo: [Zadi Films], No date.Japanese concertina book on four surreal animations: Alice (1988), La Planete Sauvage, Gandahar, and The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb.
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After You’ve Read This You’ll Want To Pucker Up
Howard Productions
[Sydney]: [Howard Productions], No date.A collection of 3 Howard magazines, being Australian men’s pulps filled with salacious pinups and some men’s magazine articles including words on Jean Spangler, rugby, grand prix, and sexual interests. Contains advertisements for various Australian adult bookstores, sex shops, and mail order businesses in Sydney and Melbourne.
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The Doodler’s Diary
Jimmy Dean Enterprises
Melbourne: Jimmy Dean Enterprises, No date.1950s unused diary calendar with cheeky text and illustrations filling the margins.
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Retrac Series Postcard 33: Memorial Hall and School of Arts, Woody Point. Q.
Retrac
Germany: Retrac, No date.One of the early 20th century Retrac series of postcards depicting scenes around Brisbane, Queensland. Printed in Germany.
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Your Host for Tonight: The Professional Emcee’s Handbook
Aldo Colombini
[Tampa]: Colombini Magic, No date.Guide book for MC’s by Italian-American magician Aldo Colombini. Valuable resource for MCing any event.
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Forschungen uber gleichgeschlechtliche Liebe
F. Karsch-Haack
: Book Renaissance, No date.Research on same-sex love.
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All Civic Group How To Vote Card (Cairns Election)
All Civic Group
Cairns: Authorised by W. C. Balzer, and printed by The Cairns Post, No date.How to vote card for the losing mayor in a 1950s Cairns local election. The All Civic Group with John Reid Warner for mayor wanted your vote “For Progress Without Politics”. He lost out to William John Fulton [Bill Fulton] who served as mayor from 1952-59 before being elected to the Australian House of Representatives.
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The Waysides of Cannes
Olive Underhill
Cannes: The Lounge Library, No date.Early 20th century travel guide to Cannes on the French Riviera. Provides short historical overview of Rivierian and Cannes history, the villas of Cannes, modern Cannes: its entertainment’s, sights, sports, and various excursions: Mont-Chevalier, Saint-Cassian, La Corniche d’Or, The Esterels, La Napoule, Theoule, La Croix-des-Gardes, Auribeau, The Tanneron, Notre-Dame de Peygros, Saint-Cassien-du_bois, Saint-Barthelemy, Ranguin, La Roquette, Le Cannet, Mougin, Notre-Dam-de-Vie, Castelaras, Grasse, Valley of the Loup, Gourdon, Super-Cannes, Vallauris, Biot, Villeneuve-Loubet, Saint-Paul-du-Var, CAgnes, Antibes, Les Iles de Lerins, and more. 3 double page maps. Scarce, one copy recorded in OCLC, at Cornell.
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The Sound of One Hand Clapping
Sloe Motion
Australia: Sloe Motion, No date.Hand-embellished Print. Very light soiling to border. Unframed. Signed and numbered 1/50.
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Etching
Daniel Friedemann Fuchs
Vienna: Daniel Friedemann Fuchs, No date.Fine Condition. Unframed. Signed and numbered 30/150.
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Ex Libris Etching
Hedwig Pauwels
Belgium: Hedwig Pauwels, No date.Framed. Signed. Framed size: 41.5cm x 32.5cm.
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Ex Libris Etching
Elly De Koster
Netherlands: Elly De Koster, No date.Framed. Signed & Numbered Edition: 19/100. Framed size: 41.5cm x 32.5cm.
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Ex Libris Etching
Zdenek Bugan
Belgium: Zdenek Bugan, No date.Framed. Signed & Numbered Limited Edition 77/100. Framed size: 41.5cm x 32.5cm.
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The adventures of Prince Seif Bin Dhi Yazzin: as interpreted by 16 young Egyptian artists in the 21st century
Ahmed El Attar
Cairo: French Center for Culture and Cooperation, No date. -
Backwoods Surgery & Medicine
Charles Stuart Moody
Olympia: Last Word Press, No date.Backwoods Surgery & Medicine, written a century ago, contains much relevant knowledge for how to treat the most common injuries, as well as more serious threats to life found in backcountry travel. Minor and compound fractures of limbs, bites from frost and snake, lions and tigers and bears, Moody describes the simplest methods of dealing with injuries in a clear, if archaic voice. Your great-grand-father probably read this book and saved your grandfather during a camping trip in the summer of 1923, thus resulting in your birth and the ability to read these pages now a century later.
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Nimbin’s Mardi Grass Official Joint-Rolling Handbook
Nimbin Hemp Embassy
Nimbin: Nimbin Hemp Embassy, No date.