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Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of Investigation Under The Land and Water Resources Development Acts, 1943 to 1946 (for the Year 1947)
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJ. R. Kemp
Brisbane: A. H. Tucker, Government Printer, 1948.Results of surveys and investigations of land and water resources in Queensland. Illustrated throughout with photographs and maps.
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Notes on Fossil Plants from Duaringa, Ipswich, Dawson River, and Stanwell and on Fossil Woods from the Ipswich Beds, Boggo Road, Brisbane
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Shirley
Brisbane: George Arthur Vaughan, Government Printer, 1902.Queensland Department of Mines Geological Survey Bulletin No. 18.
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12 Snapshot Photographs of a Holiday Trip to South Australia
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAnonymous
[Australia]: No publisher, 1965.Lot of twelve snapshot photographs taken on a 1965 road trip to South Australia. Photographs are captioned on the verso and views include the Murray River near Murray Bridge, Adelaide War Memorial, Bonython Fountain on Opening Day, Lake Meningie, and Carpenter’s Rock.
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Tohoku Japan, 10-15 June, 1999
AU$10.00 Read MoreAdd to cart[Great Nippon Travel Agent]
[Tokyo]: Great Nippon Travel Agent, 1999.Photo album for a Sydney family’s trip to Northern Japan together with a 10 leaf itinerary (printed recto only). Of particular note is the signed introductory letter, which even accounting for rough translation offers a concerning glimpse into the tour: “We hope that you behave reasonably well in front of our chief tour conductor,.. not insisting so much with your traditional habit back home. You are encouraged to consume as much alcohol as you wish while traveling by car, unless you are taking your turn on the wheel, otherwise you as well as your tour conductors will be in trouble with the local police. Your chief conductor,.. already has enough remarkable records with the police without your additional helps to make it even more memorable from the police’s point of view.”
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The Sixties
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGary Baigent; Les Cleveland; Peter Turner
Wellington: Peter McLeavey Gallery, 1998.A book made to mark an exhibition “The Sixties”, held at Peter McLeavey Gallery, 147 Cuba Street, Wellington, from 7th of February 1998 to 28th of February 1998. One hundred copies made. Contains text by Peter Turner and an original photograph by both Gary Baigent and Les Cleveland.
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Extracts from Report of Director of the Botanic Gardens, Government Domains, Garden Palace Grounds, Centennial Park, and Cambelltown State Nursery for 1920
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJ. H. Maiden
Sydney: Donald Campbell, Government Printer, 1922.NSW Government Report by Joseph Henry Maiden. Appointed Government Botanist and Director of the Botanic Gardens in 1896 and from that date produced voluminous reports most years throughout his tenure. A talented and enthusiastic botanist Maiden immediately set to work establishing the colony’s first herbarium, the National Herbarium of New South Wales, together with a museum and library. He was also responsible for the construction of Sydney’s first playground and worked tirelessly to develop the educational value of the Botanical Gardens for all Australians. His reports provide detailed insight into such endeavours, as well as the year on year goings on of the gardens in the late 19th and early 20th century, with its developments and challenges, from the growth and maintenance of the grounds, to projects, staff, botanical samples and seed exchanges, botanical and library acquisitions, and more. This extract provides a glimpse into the gardens in 1920 and includes 8 large photographs of trees.
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Oversea Marketing of Certain Primary Products of New South Wales
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartB. S. B. Stevens
Sydney: David Harold Paisley, Government Printer, 1937.NSW Government Report by Bertram Stevens, at the time Premier of New South Wales, Embodying his Observations and Conclusions regarding the Marketing Overseas, and particular in the United Kingdom, of Primary Products of New South Wales. That being largely dairy products, butter, eggs, citrus fruits, mutton, lamb, beef, pork, and bacon. Includes tables of port dues, storage and handling charges, and railway freights in various UK cities.
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Capturing Brisbane: The City’s First Photographers, 1855 to 1901
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBrian G. Rough
Brisbane: Brian Rough, 2022.“Photographers have made a significant contribution towards our understanding and interpretation of the CityÂ’s past by recording the people and places around them. Capturing Brisbane provides the stories of 158 commercial photographers and 54 photographic studios operating in the City between 1855 and 1901. By accurately identifying the people who created the images, and from when and where they were operating, it provides a very useful tool to assist in dating Brisbane photographs.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Die Graeber- und Textilfunde von Achmim-Panopolis
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartR. Forrer
Strassburg: Emil Birkhauser, Basel, 1891.The burial and textile finds from Akhmim-Panopolis. With 16 plates and 250 illustrations.
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The Rock Photography
AU$165.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRex R. Kubota; Erica Nakada
Tokyo: Sunday-sha, 1979.Photography of 1970s Japanese rock bands on and off stage. Photographs by Masakazu Sakomizu, George Ide, Takumi Uchida, Kenji Suzuki, and Nobuhiro Sakagami. Rare, unrecorded in OCLC at January 2022.
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Sky Walker’s Sightseeing
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMasuda Yoshiro; Uchibori Hidetaka
[Osaka]: Masuda Yoshiro and Uchibori Hidetaka, 2003.Artist photography book, largely architectural photographs and photographs taken from high vantage points. A collaboration between Japanese photography Masuda Yoshiro and designer Uchibori Hidetaka. Unrecorded in OCLC.
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The Temple Dances in Bali
AU$3,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartTyra de Kleen
Stockholm: Bokforlags Aktiebolaget Thule, 1936.Tyra Kleen (1874-1951) was a Swedish artist, ethnographic researcher, keen theosophist, cosmopolitan woman of the world, and a founding member of Foreningen Svenska Konstnarinnor (The Association of Swedish Women Artists). Kleen studied painting in Germany and France, lived and socialised with the cultural elite in Rome at the turn of the 19th century, and travelled, exhibited, and socialised extensively around the world. A fiercely independent character, despite rampant misogyny, she managed to skilfully manoeuvre and at times manipulate to achieve her ambitious goals. She spent many years throughout the 1910s and 1920s in Indonesia, studying ceremonial dance, and produced a number of books on dance, theatre, and ritual in Java and Bali, and in 1938 was awarded the Johan August Wahlberg for her work there. The Temple Dances in Bali includes short text on the Legong, Chalon Arong, and Joghed dances, costume, and music, with illustrations in the text, complimented by numerous captioned plates by Kleen. First published in Swedish in a limited edition of 300 copies as Tempeldanser och musikinstrument pa Bali, and here translated into English for the first time. The Ethnographical Museum of Sweden, Stockholm (Statens Etnografiska Museum) New Series, Publication No. 2.
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Mie Kimono Shiryokan Zuroku
AU$55.00 Read MoreAdd to cartUeda Mie
Tokyo: Mie Kimono Shiryokan, 1983.Catalogue of kimono designs.
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Ipswich Grammar School, 1863-1913
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartB. G. Lawrence
Maitland: T. Dimmock, 1914. -
Colonial and Indian Exhibition, 1886. Queensland: Its Resources and Institutions
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPrice Fletcher
London: William Clowes and Sons, 1886.Essays; prepared by the authority of the executive commissioners in Queensland for the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, 1866, being 1. Queensland: An Introductory Essay by A. J. Boyd; 2. Education in Queensland by the Rev. William Poole; 3. The Commerce and Industries of Queensland by Horace Earle; 4. The Mineral Industries of Queensland by K. T. Staiger; 5. Agriculture in Queensland by Price Fletcher; 6. The Sugar Industry in Queensland by Price Fletcher; 7. The Pastoral Industry by P. R. Gordon; 8. Horticulture by Theodore Wright; 9. Hints to Immigrants: A Practical Essay upon Bush Life in Queensland by Price Fletcher; 10. The Flora of Queensland by Fredk. Manson Bailey; 11. The Geology of Queensland by Robert L. Jack; 12. A Contribution to Pharmacy from Queensland by Joseph Bancroft; 13. A Popular Sketch of the Natural History of Queensland by Price Fletcher; 14. Emigration to Queensland: or, How to Get to that Colony; 15. How to Settle on the Land in the Colony of Queensland. Edited by Price Fletcher, with a frontispiece map of Queensland. This copy bearing the bookplate of the John M. Chapman Collection and with Compliments card of Sir James Garick, Executive Commissioner for Queensland, tipped in, and Royal Society of Edinburgh stamps.
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The Kangaroo Heads South: Midshipman Cruise Alfa – USS Canberra – June 8 to August 6, 1957
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCanberra (Guided missile heavy cruiser : CAG-2)
Norfolk: Tidewater Offset Printing Service, [1957].Being a Pictorial Voyage of the Kan-Do Kangaroo, on a Midshipman Training Cruise from the US east coast to South America and back. A cruiser of the United States Navy named to honour the Australian cruiser HMAS Canberra sunk during the Battle of Savo Island. The first USN warship named after a foreign capital city. Illustrated throughout with photographs of the crew and illustrations of kangaroos. A ship tune, ‘sail on, Canberra’, sung to the tune of Waltzing Matilda. Inscribed by a US Navy Captain to the front cover. 1 copy in OCLC at the United States Naval Academy.
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Personal Projects: Australiana / A Picture Book of Down Under
AU$55.00 Read MoreAdd to cartSimon Eeles
[Bologna]: Damiani Editore, 2016.Now out of print. “The first book by up-and-coming photographer Simon Eeles (born 1983), named Harper Bazaar’s Young Photographer of the Year in 2009, Australiana is the result of a cross-continental road trip Eeles undertook in his homeland after years of working in the US and abroad. Featuring beachside portraits, images of his nieces and nephews playing in his mother’s backyard on a small dairy farm in Tasmania, as well as landscape images of the country’s vegetation, the volume aims to paint a portrait of a place and a culture geographically separated. Having worked under renowned British fashion photographer Craig McDean, Eeles creates images with sharp, fashion-world glamour, even as he captures a relaxing day on an Australian beach. It is this rich and unusual combination of sensibilities–the outback hardness with New York glitz–that informs this first monograph, an homage to the diverse landscapes and hard light of the faraway continent.” (publisher’s blurb)
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A Synopsis of the Queensland Flora; Containing both the Phaenogamous and Cryptogamous Plants
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartFredk. Manson Bailey
Brisbane: James C. Beal, Government Printer, 1883.A thorough catalogue of short descriptions for the identification of plants found in the colony of Queensland. FERGUSON 6498a.
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1888 Report on the Oyster Fisheries of Moreton Bay
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCecil S. Fison
Brisbane: James C. Beal, Government Printer, 1888.The most detailed of the reports to the Queensland Parliament on the oyster fisheries of Moreton Bay, stretching from Caloundra in the north to Point Danger in the south. The 1888 report came 2 years after The Oyster Act of 1886 which outlined transferrable leases for the bank and dredge collection and cultivation of oysters in Moreton Bay and attempted to make the industry more sustainable by introducing measures to stop the naked exploitation and then abandonment which earlier leases suffered from by less forward thinking license holders. The bay was divided into numerous dredge sections and portions of bank, and now having been in place since the Oyster Act of 1874 and with Fison settled into his role he largely reports on various developments related to the leases. The report is further extended with detailed reports on Queensland fisheries and oysters more broadly throughout the state including a more detailed report on oysters and fisheries in Maryborough, as well as with lengthy tables detailing leases and returns of oysters and fish. Includes 3 plates with 6 figures illustrating the development of oyster cultivation in Moreton Bay, a dugong, a Moreton Bay crustacea, and a clam from Barron River Cairns, as well as a map of the fishing area around Stradbroke, and 3 large fold out maps illustrating allotments in the central, northern and southern parts of the bay, and of the Maryborough region.
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A Queenly Colony: Pen Sketches and Camera Glimpses
AU$350.00 Read MoreAdd to cart[William Henry Traill]
Brisbane: Edmund Gregory, Government Printer, 1901.Photographs of early Queensland collected from various government departments depicting the state in the late 19th century with accompanying descriptive text by William Henry Traill. Depicts farming, industry, Brisbane, regional townships and farmlands, and notable individuals. An excellent copy in the original cloth.