Australia; Transportation
An Act for Making Perpetual so Much of an Act and Three Other Acts
1799. Four 1799 Parliamentary Acts Relating to Penal Transportation to Australia Australia. Transporation. An Act for Making Perpetual So Much of an Act Made in the Nineteenth Year of the Reign of His Present Majesty. An Act to Explain and Amend the Laws Relating to the Transportation Imprisonment And Other Punishments of Certain Offenders As Relates to the Punishment of Burning in the Hand of Certain Persons Convicted of Felony within the Benefit of Clergy drop-head title. London: Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan 1799. 437-438 2 pp. Woodcut arms of Great Britain above title. With An Act for Making Perpetual so Much of an Act Made in the Nineteenth Year of the Reign of His Present Majesty Chapter Seventy-Four Videlicet On the Twenty-Sixth Day of November One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy-Eight Intituled An Act to Explain and Amend the Laws Relating to Transportation Imprisonment And of the Punishment of Certain Offenders As Relates to the Lodgings of Judges at County Assizes drop-head title. London: Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan 1799. 441-442 2 pp. Second leaf blank. Woodcut arms of Great Britain above title. And An Act for Continuing Until the Twenty-Fifth Day Of March One Thousand Eight Hundred And Two Several Laws Relating to the Transportation of Felons and Other Offenders to Temporary Places of Confinement in England and Scotland Respectively drop-head title. London: Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan 1799. 461-462 2 pp. Second leaf blank. Woodcut arms of Great Britain above title. And An Act for Continuing Until the Twenty-Fifth Day of March One Thousand eight hundred and two So Much of an Act Made in the Nineteenth Year of the Reign of His Present Majesty Chapter Seventy-Four. Videlicit On the the Twenty-Sixth Day of November One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy-Eight Intituled An Act to Explain and Amend the Laws Relating to the Transportation Imprisonment And Other Punishments of Certain Offenders As Relates to Penitentiary Houses drop-head title. London: Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan 1799. 465-466 2 pp. Second leaf blank. Woodcut arms of Great Britain above title. Four disbound items 12-1/2" x 8." Light toning and edgewear light soiling to edges small chi. unknown books
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Brassey Lady Annie
The Last Voyage to India and Australia in the "Sunbeam"
New York and London: Longmans Green 1899. Hardcover. Very good. First edition American issue. 8vo. pp. xxiv 490; with two folding maps 20 full-page plates many other illustrations in the text. Original blue cloth stamped in gilt top edge gilt. Very mild spine slant rubbing to extremities; internals clean and sound. Lady Brassey was a skilled photographer and botanist and also had an interest in medicine. She and her husband a Member of Parliament and accomplished sailor traveled extensively on their yacht "Sunbeam" and Annie's lively books about their adventures found an eager audience. This book published after she died of malaria at age 48 recounts travels in India Sri Lanka Indonesia Malaysia and Australia. Longmans, Green hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 14880
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INDIGENOUS RIGHTS AUSTRALIA "DONA" design
Broadside: "Aboriginal People - Land Rights For Indigenous People
Pinnacle Creek Kimberley: S.i. 1981. Original photo-illustrated broadside xeroxed on a single sheet of white stock measuring 28cm x 21.5cm 11" x 8.5". Mild even toning with two small pinholes at upper corners; Very Good. Superb photographic broadside related to the struggle surrounding the Aboriginal Land Rights Act originating from the Walmajarri Tribe of Pinnacle Creek in Kimbereley Northwest Australia. The Act sought to grant Indigenous ownership and the right for Aboriginal tribes to claim royalties from the mining and farm companies to whom the Australian government had leased the land. While different states passed the Act as early as the late-1970's it was not passed in the Kimberlies until the mid-1980's. Not separately listed in OCLC. S.i. unknown books
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AUSTRALIA Norfolk Island
Album of photographs of the scenery and people of Norfolk Island in the South Pacific Ocean
Norfolk Island 1900. Oblong small folio. 13 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches. 42 carbon prints on 42 cream card album leaves each mounted within ruled frame with printed caption below the photographs measuring approximately 6x8 inches. Contemporary red morocco upper cover titled in gilt within a gilt border marbled endpapers gilt edges<br/> <br/>Provenance: Hon. B.R. Wise Attorney General lettered in gilt on upper cover<br/> <br/>Early photographs of a remote Pacific Island.<br/> <br/>Norfolk Island a largely autocratic dependency of Australia was first sighted by Captain James Cook on his second voyage and settled by the First Fleet in 1788. For the first half century of the 19th century the island was largely used as a penal colony with many of the worst offenders transferred from Australia to the remote island. In the 1850s after use of the island as a penal colony was abandoned the island was settled by the Pitcairn Island descendents of the Bligh mutineers. In the 1860s the Anglican church established a large Melanesian mission on the island. The present images by an unknown but likely Australian photographer comprise views of Kingston various lagoons and bays landscape scenes featuring the island's iconic pine tree and other vegetation images at the Melanesian Mission and group portraits of the island's inhabitants presumably including Bligh mutineer descendents. The original owner of this album was Bernhard Ringrose Wise 1858-1916 whose name appears on the upper cover; Wise served as the Attorney General of Australia from 1899-1904. unknown books
Bookseller reference : 29494
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Australia; South Australia
Acts of the Parliament of South Australia. 9 vols. 1867 1869-70.
1867. Early Parliamentary Acts of South Australia Australia. South Australia. Acts of the Parliament of South Australia 1867 1869-70 1874 1876-81. Adelaide: Nine volumes in all. 1881 volume: later three quarter cloth over paper boards typewritten paper title label to spine. Some shelfwear internally clean; other volumes: Quarter cloth over stiff printed wrappers. Moderate shelfwear spine ends worn internally clean. All 9 volumes: ex-library. Location labels to spines stamps to front covers and preliminaries. $750. South Australia's origin is unique. Established by an act of Parliament in 1834 it was a planned British province rather than a convict settlement. It was the first place in the world to grant universal suffrage and to allow women to run for parliament. It was one of the states that formed the Commonwealth of Australia in 1901. These volumes are from a series that ran from 1837 to 1957. Sweet & Maxwell A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 6:81. unknown books
Bookseller reference : 51875
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Western Australia
The Statutes Of Western Australia. By Authority. 2 volumes
1883. Western Australian Statutes 1883 Australia. The Statutes Of Western Australia. By Authority. Melbourne: M'Carron Bird & Co. 1883. 2 volumes. Quarto 10-1/2" x 8-1/2". Contemporary calf rebacked lettering pieces to spine. Moderate rubbing with some wear to extremities internally clean. Ex-library with shelf location labels to spines small property stamps to title pages. $500. Contents digested alphabetically. Topics include Aborigines administration of justice admiralty lands aliens hawking immigrants industrial schools intestates' estates jetties and bridges juries joint stock companies justices of the peace wild horses and wrecks. Sweet & Maxwell A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 6:91. unknown books
Bookseller reference : 51322
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Australia; Victoria
The Victorian Statutes. Published by Authority. 4 Volumes. 1866
1866. Melbourne: Printed by John Ferres 1866. 4 vols. Melbourne: Printed by John Ferres 1866. 4 vols. Victorian Acts in Force in 1866 Australia. Victoria. The Victorian Statutes. Published by Authority. Melbourne: Printed by John Ferres 1866. 4 volumes. Quarto 10-1/2" x 8-1/2". Modern cloth hardcover gilt titles to spines endpapers renewed internally clean. Ex-library with small stamps to title pages. $650. Only edition. A companion volume of imperial statutes in force in Victoria was published in 1868. The first three volumes contain general acts. Volume IV contains acts that relate to particular persons or localities or have a "special or limited operation." Both volumes are indexed have chronological tables and are digested alphabetically. OCLC locates 6 copies. Sweet & Maxwell A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 6:88. unknown books
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Australia; Queensland; Cooper Frederick Augustus
Statutes in Force in the Colony of Queensland. Edited by Frederick.
1881. Brisbane: Beal Government Printer 1881. 4 vols. Brisbane: Beal Government Printer 1881. 4 vols. The First Compilation of Queensland Statutes Australia. Queensland. Cooper Frederick Augustus Editor. Statutes in Force in the Colony of Queensland. Brisbane: James C. Beal Government Printer 1881. 4 volumes. Quarto 10-1/2" x 11". Recent cloth gilt titles to spine endpapers renewed internally clean. Ex-library. Small stamps to title pages. $500. Only edition. With a chronological table of acts. Volume IV is an index. "The object in view has been simply the compilation and revision of the existing Statute Law of the Colony of Queensland in such a manner as to facilitate the search of all whose avocations render reference to it necessary and not in any way to furnish the profession with the very large number of Imperial Acts applicable or apparently applicable to this colony.": Preface. OCLC locates 6 copies. Sweet & Maxwell A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 6:77. unknown books
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Australia; Victoria
A Digest of Reported Cases in the Supreme Court Court of Insolvency.
1902. London: Sweet & Maxwell 1902-1933. 7 vols. London: Sweet & Maxwell 1902-1933. 7 vols. Digest of Victorian Cases 1895-1932 Australia. Victoria. A Digest of Reported Cases in the Supreme Court Court of Insolvency and Courts of Mines of the State of Victoria. From 1895 to 1932. Melbourne: Charles F. Maxwell G. Partridge & Co. London: Sweet & Maxwell 1902-1933. 7 Vols. Complete set. Original cloth gilt titles to spines some shelfwear soiling and minor spotting internally clean. Ex-library. Location labels to spines notes in pencil to front pastedowns small stamps to title pages. $500. Only editions. These volumes were issued serially and are often catalogued as independent titles. No complete sets on OCLC. Sweet & Maxwell omits the 1895-1901 volume but it is listed in the Harvard Law Catalogue. See Sweet & Maxwell A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 6:17. Catalogue of the Library of the Harvard Law School 1909 I:590. unknown books
Bookseller reference : 51316
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Anson Brothers
Picturesque Southern Tasmania Port Arthur
Hobart: Anson's Photographs. Hardcover. Very good. Souvenir view book printed in Germany for this Australian photography firm. Undated internal evidence places it between 1890 and 1892. 5.75 x 4.25 inches oblong. Red paper-covered boards decorated in gilt and black containing 14 accordion-folded photolithographic albertype or a similar process views. Brothers Joshua Henry and William Anson established their photography studio in Hobart in the late 1870s and developed a trade in souvenir views of Tasmania. They published more than one view book with the name "Picturesque Southern Tasmania" we have seen two different ones and there may be others. This one focuses on the penal colony at Port Arthur which was by then closed and being promoted as a tourist attraction and the nearby landscape. The views are: Hall and Cell Divisions Model Prison; Exercise Yards and Solitary Cell Model Prison; Chapel in Model Prison; Invalide Depot & Lunatic Asylum; Commandant's Quarters From Magazine; View from the Grounds Commandant's Quarters; Underground Cells at Point Puer; Arthur Peak and Cliffs at Point Puer; Eagle Hawk Neck; Tesselated Pavement Eagle Hawk Neck; Blow-Hole Eagle Hawk Neck; Entrance to Blow Hole with Breaking Waves; Rock Scenery Entrance to Blow Hole; and Tasman's Arch Eagle Hawk Neck. Views are in very good condition cloth spine of album is partially separated from rear board and boards are edgeworn. On the rear pastedown a label from "Mrs. Richardson Fancy Goods Importer Richardson Street" covers part of the Anson's Photographers label. Around the edge is written in pencil: "Remember the last day with Mac. Viers. Purser Hunter at Hobart. Drive to Fern Tree Hotel Mt. Wellington. Jan 28 1892 M.E. Hunter." Anson's Photographs hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 20485
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WESTERN SAMOA TEACHERS' TRAINING COLLEGE Petaia Fiatala Editor
Tepa i Tua 1972
Apia Samoa 1972. Softcover. Very good. 8.5 x 11 in 138 pp printed wrappers. Yearbook of the Western Samoa Teachers' Training College illustrated with many b/w photographs. Light soiling to covers title handwritten in pen on spine; otherwise unmarked clean and sound. Includes staff photos and bios list and photos of all graduates list of trophies and awards messages from various school dignitaties letters to the editor student writing most describing what their school experience has meant to them poetry in both English and Samoan and typical yearbook photos of campus life sports clubs and other activities identifying students who participated in each. An interesting and scarce record of this educational institution which was merged into the National University of Samoa in 1997. paperback books
Bookseller reference : 14185
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Map Cartography 19th Century OW. Gray Australia Palestine O. W.
Map of Australia By Frank A. Gray with Palestine
Philadelphia PA: O.W. Gray & Son 1882. One sheet printed with 2 maps from the 1882 O.W. Gray National Atlas New York Edition: Gray's New Map of Australia by Frank A. Gray 1878 engraved by W.H. Holmes and Palestine. With hand-coloring in pastel tones; Approx. 14 3/8" x 17 1/4" overall size; a little even toning to the paper; in very good condition. . Map. Not Bound. Very Good. O.W. Gray & Son paperback books
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Shaler William; Bynum Lindley Introduction; Saunders Ruth Illustrator
Journal of a Voyage Between China and the Northwestern Coast of America Made in 1804 by William Shaler
Claremont CA: Saunders Studio Press 1935. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good. 109 pp map. Very light wear to edges; else fine. Dust jacket shows very light toning and has a few small chips and tears. Number 329 of an edition of 700. Reprinted from THe American Register: Or General Repository of History Politics and Science Part I for 1808 Vol. III. Narrative of an expedition that sailed from Canton to the coasts of California Baja California the Hawaiian Islands the Marianas and Macao. Hill 1555. Saunders Studio Press hardcover books
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Australia: Crime
TRIAL OF THE CASE MUDIE V. KINCHELA FOR HORSEWHIPPING THE PLAINTIFF IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW SOUTH WALES ON MONDAY OCTOBER 26 1840. BEFORE THE HON. MR. JUSTICE WILLIS AND A SPECIAL JURY
Sydney: W.A. Duncan Australasian Chronicle Office 1840. 52pp. Dbd. Minor toning some loose leaves. Good. A rare trial account of a peculiar though perhaps an oddly-justified assault in Australia in 1840. "James Mudie had in his book THE FELONRY OF NEW SOUTH WALES reflected upon the capacity of Kinchela's father in his office as judge. The younger Kinchela waited for Mudie who had recently returned to the colony and administered many lashes one witness said 50 with a horsewhip. The defence was that Mudie well deserved what he got as a common libeller and that Judge Kinchela was now aged and unable to take his own part. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff in the sum of £50 - one pound for each stroke" - Ferguson. Some might call the horsewhipping a simple case of frontier justice. <br> <br> Together Ferguson and OCLC locate only five copies all in Australia. FERGUSON 3104. OCLC 220294602. W.A. Duncan, Australasian Chronicle Office unknown books
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Australia
MINERAL MAP AND GENERAL STATISTICS OF NEW SOUTH WALES AUSTRALIA wrapper title
Sydney 1876. Color map folded into original printed wrappers. Ink signature and ownership stamp on front wrapper wrappers separated at seam. The map is very nice with some foxing but no tears at folds. The map engraved by G.W. Sharp is shaded with seven colors representing various minerals in New South Wales. On the verso of each panel are printed statistics for telegraphs railways livestock banks exports minerals etc. for 1874-75 as well as an article entitled "Advantages of New South Wales as a Home for the Emigrant." This is the first edition others issued later. FERGUSON 13171a. unknown books
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Australia: Earp G. Butler
THE GOLD COLONIES OF AUSTRALIA: COMPRISING THEIR HISTORY TERRITORIAL DIVISIONS PRODUCE AND CAPABILITIES; ALSO AMPLE NOTICES OF THE GOLD MINES AND HOW TO GET TO THEM; WITH EVERY ADVICE TO EMIGRANTS
London 1852. viii248pp. plus advertisements. Folding frontispiece map. 12mo. Original printed paper boards. Bit chipped at head and toe of spine hinges broken and textblock nearly detached. Text tanned but internally quite clean. Good. "Enlarged and Corrected Edition." Includes a history of Australian discovery with sections on Australia; New South Wales its industry produce and gold fields; Victoria its attributes location and gold fields; and advice to emigrants in reaching Australia. FERGUSON 9357. hardcover books
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Ship Log Australia
LOG KEPT ON BARQUE "JONATHAN BOURNE" WHILE ON A PASSAGE FROM NEW YORK TO MELBOURNE DEC. 10th 1883 manuscript title
Primarily at sea 1883. 111pp. carbon copy of a manuscript on sheets 10 1/4 x 8 inches brad-bound along top edge. Approximately 20500 words. First leaf torn along old creases with no loss to text. Several leaves chipped along edges. Some light dampstaining along bottom edge. Last two leaves mutilated. Fair. Young man's journal of a trip from New York to Melbourne Australia. He records a relatively calm and uneventful passage lasting just over three months. Though dreadfully seasick for the first week or two he eventually gains his sea legs and stomach and enjoys an easy if lengthy voyage. His activities aboard ship include fishing and shooting at birds with the captain as well as learning navigation and astronomy from the mate. unknown books
Bookseller reference : WRCAM40477
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AUSTRALIA. Kepars I.
Australia.
Oxford & Santa Barbara: Clio Press 1994. Second revised edition. xx 260 pp w/index. Spine sunned else fine in glossy illustrated boards. No dust jacket as issued. World Bibliographical Series Volume 46. Oxford & Santa Barbara: Clio Press hardcover books
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Australia Jameson RG. R. G.
Australia and Her Gold Regions: A Full Description of its Geology Climate Products Natives . Accompanied by a Map of the Country and Statistical Tables . the Whole Forming a Complete Guide-Book to the Gold Mines
New York: Cornish Lamport & Co. Publishers 1852. First edition. Handcoloured folding mapat front. iv 5-154 2 ads pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Brown blind-stamped cloth. Spine ends chipped else Fine. Ex-library stamps on map and title page card pockets removed. First edition. Handcoloured folding mapat front. iv 5-154 2 ads pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Ferguson: "At this time the author was conducting an 'Australian Emigration Office' at 120 Wall Street New York." Ferguson 10892 2 copies P.L. N.S.W. Cornish, Lamport & Co., Publishers unknown books
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Australia
A Compendious Geographical Dictionary containing a Concise Description of the Most Remarkable places Ancient and Modern Europe Asia Africa & America
London: Printed for W. Peacock and Sons 1802. The Third edition Correceted and Considerably enlarged. Embellished with Maps including thoe of Australia and Polynesia. 1 vols. 24mo. Bound in full contemporary red morocco a.e.g. Fine. The Third edition Correceted and Considerably enlarged. Embellished with Maps including thoe of Australia and Polynesia. 1 vols. 24mo. With a fine folding map of New Holland and New Zealand and a separate one of Polynesia including the Sandwich Islands. Not in Ferguson Printed for W. Peacock and Sons unknown books
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Australia
Australia; its Scenery Natural History and Resources and Settlements. With a Glance at its Gold Fields. Second part entitled Australia: Its Settlements
London: The Religious Tract Society 1854. Lacking frontispiece. 1 vols. 12mo. The two parts bound together fly title only on the second part. Original red stamped cloth by Davison Binder London with tag at back gilt decoration and edges. Minor discoloration to front lower edge of front cover front free endpaper and all preceding title removed remains of pasted paper on endpapers else a very good copy. Sold as is. Lacking frontispiece. 1 vols. 12mo. Contains an extensive description of the Australian gold fields a segment on the Aborigines a section for each on New South Wales Victoria and South and Western Australia as well as agricultural information. Ferguson "Bibliography of Australia" 6298 The Religious Tract Society unknown books
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Hatfield William Ernest Chapman
I Find Australia
London: Oxford University Press 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. viii 348 pp illustrations from photographs with index illustrated endpapers. Light shelf wear including lightly bumped upper corners; text clean binding sound. No dust jacket. Hatfield was born in Britain but decided to migrate to Australia at the age of 20 working his passage as a steward and landing at Port Adelaide in January 1912. "Hatfield soon became a first-rate bushman. For many years he worked in the north of South Australia Central Australia the Northern Territory and Queensland as a station-hand stockman drover cook horse-breaker kangaroo-shooter dingo-trapper book-keeper seaman miner fruit-picker painter and timber-worker. In 1915 he attempted to join the Light Horse but was rejected because of injuries. Over the years he sympathetically studied Aboriginal languages and customs" Dictionary of Australian Biography. Oxford University Press hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 2891
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Crozet Julien Marie; Roth Henry Ling
Crozet's Voyage to Tasmania New Zealand the Ladrone Islands and the Philippines in the Years 1771-1772
London: Truslove & Shirley 1891. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo 148 pp with eight photogravure plates folding plan of outrigger canoe folding chart and other illustrations. Number 291 of 500 copies issued. Spine lean rubbed and bumped corners old tape repair to verso of chart otherwise clean and sound. First English translation of Crozet's account of the South Pacific voyage of Marion du Fresne with Crozet as second captain which had two objectives: to return a Tahitian native who had been taken to France by Bougainville in 1769 and to seek the great southern continent" Terra Australis" which the French hoped to use as a base on the route to India and a strategic position to cut off British shipping lanes in wartime. The expedition discovered the Crozet islands in the southern Indian Ocean and visited Tasmania. Hill 401 402: "Reaching New Zealand a party put ashore in the Bay of Natives where Marion du Fresne and twenty-one of his men were massacred by the Maori. Crozet became captain and they sailed homeward via Guam the Philippines and Mauritius. An excellent description of New Zealand its products its natives and their customs is given. An extract from Jean de Surville's earlier voyage to New Zealand is added to this account." Truslove & Shirley hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 19168
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Images Australia
Architects & Interior Designers of Australia and New Zealand
Images Australia 1994. Large Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Lower jacket wrinkled. 1994 Large Hardcover. An overview of the Architectural firms and interior designers of Australia and New Zealand. Images Australia hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 2278403 ISBN : 1875498257 9781875498253
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Women's Studies Australia
THE WOMEN'S LIBERATION MOVEMENT IN AUSTRALIA
Very good. A collection of reports campaign literature newsletters and other literature produced in the early 1970s as part of the Women's Liberation Movement in Australia. Among the organizations represented are the Women's Electoral Lobby the Women's Liberation Center the Working Women's Group and the Women's Abortion Action Campaign. Suzanne Fairbanks senior archivist at The University of Melbourne Archives summarized this period: "In the midst of the social activism that characterized the late 1960s the women's movement in Australia regained the public visibility it had first achieved at the beginning of the 20th century. The energy of women's renewed campaigns was directed into strategies of which two stand out: work for equal civil rights through the courts and government; and actions for personal and social liberation through consciousness-raising direct activism and alternative arenas for self-expression. The fight for civil equality had a long tradition in the Australian women's movement but women were becoming frustrated. Following campaigns by unions and women in the post-war period in 1969 the Arbitration Commission awarded equal pay for women but only for strictly equal work. The commission's decision would have no impact on women who worked in predominantly 'female' jobs. Taking their lead from the early suffragists Zelda D'Aprano trade unionist and communist and teachers Thelma Solomon and Alva Geikie chained themselves to the door of the Arbitration Commission in a very public protest which attracted wide media attention. The success of direct protest action in gathering publicity and support led to these women's forming with Jessie 'Bon' Hull the Women's Action Committee WAC which engaged in further public protest such as insisting on paying only 75 per cent of the fare on trams as they received 75 per cent of a male wage. Most importantly in March 1972 WAC founded the Women's Liberation Centre in Melbourne to provide a meeting place and support centre for feminists. By 1972 women led by Beatrice Faust a University of Melbourne graduate and civil liberties campaigner established the Women's Electoral Lobby WEL which produced a form guide to all candidates in the December 1972 federal election. The results of WEL's Australia-wide survey of candidates' attitudes to child care equality in education and work and planned parenthood were published in newspapers in November 1972. In Victoria WEL targeted sitting members of parliament in marginal seats on polling day. When Gough Whitlam led the Australian Labor Party to victory women's issues were firmly to the fore. In Melbourne the Women's Liberation Movement WLM was closely connected to trade unions and the workers' movement. By the early 1970s a Women's Liberation Group had become affiliated with the Student Union at the University of Melbourne. Just as universities provided a haven for anti-war and radical ideas they proved favourable for the ideas and activism of the women's movement. Indeed the women's movement grew when women active in trade unions the Communist Party anti-conscription and anti-war movements perceived that the talk of a new society mostly included the old sexism. At the University of Melbourne the University Assembly formed a Women's Working Group which first reported on the status of women at the university in 1975; this report was instrumental in forcing the university to adopt equal opportunity policies." This collection consists of 28 pieces including one duplicate along with five pages of holographic notes and a newspaper clipping. Among the highlights are: EQUAL PAY VERDICT an undated leaflet 5 1/4" x 8 1/8" issued by the Union of Australian Women in Melbourne criticizing the 1969 decision of the Arbitration Commission "For some women the judgement will result in true equal pay but probably one woman in five will miss out."; SISTERHOOD IS POWERFUL No. 3 1972 mimeographed on both sides of a legal-size leaf this newsletter features a lengthy piece entitled "Women and the Environmental Crisis" "Since both the liberation of women and the rescue of the environment are essentially freedom-oriented pro-life movements they are inevitably inter-related."; WOMEN'S LIBERATION NEWSLETTER: March 1973 14 p. photomechanically reproduced on both sides of seven yellow legal-size leaves includes a report by co-editor Ky Barrett on the February general meeting a list of contacts the Manifesto of the Women's Liberation Movement event announcements etc.; JOIN HANDS. No. 2 - June 1973 an early publication of the Communist Party of Australia which was founded in 1971 this journal includes several pieces on the Women's Liberation Movement including "Towards a Science of Women's Liberation" by Isabel Larguia and John Dumoulin and "Historical Origins of Female Oppression" by Nola Cooper; SHOULD W.E.L. SUPPORT A MOTHER'S WAGE a nuanced discussion by feminist writer Elizabeth Windschuttle of the merits and shortcomings of the Department of Social Security's mother's wage proposal 1973 12 p. photomechanically reproduced on the recto of legal-size sheets of white paper and bound with a staple; and WOMEN'S INFORMATION SHEET circa 1973 includes the name and contact information for university action areas feminist organizations contraceptive services and child care as well as a feminist reading list produced by the Victorian Women's Liberation on two sheets of yellow legal-size paper and accompanied by another sheet listing the 45 Women's Liberation groups with contact information. The vast majority of the material in this collection is photomechanically reproduced on legal-size paper. Some have been hole punched along the left margin and a few bear holographic notations. There is some occasional toning and minor edgewear. Overall the material is in very good or better condition. unknown books
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Grey Charles PSEUD William Wolfe 1812 1898
Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia During the Years 1837 38 and 39; Describing Many Newly Discovered Important and Fertile Districts; with Observations on the Aboriginal Inhabitants etc.
2 Volumes: Volume I xiv412 pages with black and white frontispiece 5 color and 5 black and white plates 11 in text illustrations 2 maps in pocket. Volume II viii482 pages with color frontispiece 10 black and white plates 17 in text illustrations lacks four page prospectus for Gould's Birds of Australia. Royal Octavo " x 6" bound in original publisher's brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine. <i>Ferguson</i> 3228 First edition.<br /><br />Grey is best known for his expeditions in the north-west interior of the continent which resulted in the discover of the Glenelg River Stephen Range and Mount Lyell. As a young lieutenant he had made a proposal to the Colonial Office to mount an expedition to the north-west coast of Australia for the purposes of establishing a settlement there for starving Irish peasants. His plans were approved and he sailed for Australia in the Beagle in 1837. He wen on to mount two expedition in the north-west in 1838 and 1839 which yielded particularly important geographical discoveries: "His expeditions were the first to examine the previously ignored north-west interior of the continent and he discovered much useful territory. The inland explorations of Grey and Lushington his deputy complemented by the associated coastal explorations of Wickham and Stokes in the Beagle were a major advance in the discovery of the Australian continent" Wantrup p 206 <br /><br /><b>Condition:</b><br /><br />Recased with original spines laid on scattered foxing corners bumped. Else a very good copy. T & W Boone hardcover books
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Australia
1944 Map of Australia - East Coast Cape Grafton to Double Point from British Surveys Between 1848 and 1924
Washington D.C.: U.S. Navy Hydrographic Office 1944. Lightly tinted mostly black and white map; evidently produced for use during World War II with a Navy Department stamp to left margin dated 1945 indicating corrections noted map with a few extra dots of color for this; land features including the Liverpool Creek and Basilisk Range at the south to Cairns harbor at the northern part the coastline of this area of Queensland Australia as well as the off-shore reef systems Noggin Passage more; approx. 30" x 42" total size; light wear very clean and in very good condition. . Very Good. U.S. Navy Hydrographic Office unknown books
Bookseller reference : 20043
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Burt Jocelyn Compiler; Absalom Jack
Absalom's Outback Paintings
Canterbury: Five Mile Press 1983. Hardcover. Near fine/Near Fine. Approximately 60 pp with frontispiece 27 color illustrations. Pictorial boards show minor sheldwear internals clean and sound. Minimal wear to dust jacket. A collection of works by Australian artist Jack Absalom one of a group of five artists who exhibit under the moniker Brushmen of the Bush. Five Mile Press hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 728
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Chatwin Bruce
THE SONGLINES
Franklin Center: Franklin Library 1987. First edition. Signed by Chatwin as issued. Illustrated by Martha Phillips. "Special Message" by Chatwin not found in other editions. Publisher's letter to Signed First Edition Society members laid-in as issued. Gilt-stamped leather-covered boards all edges gilt satin pagemarker. In publisher's unopened shrinkwrap with all inserts included. Fine condition. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.<br />The image is of the book described and not a stock photo. Franklin Library hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 9017
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AUSTRALIA
The Australian Adventure: The Explorer's Guide to the Island Continent
Topsfield: Salem House 1988. hardcover. very good-/very good-. Profusely illustrated with color photographs. 528 pages 4to gilt-stamped black cloth corners bumped and rubbed dust wrapper rubbed. Topsfield: Salem House 1988. Very good-.<br/><br/> Salem House unknown books
Bookseller reference : 230832 ISBN : 088162361X 9780881623611
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National Gallery of Australia
National Gallery of Australia: an introduction to the collection
Canberra: National Gallery of Australia 1998. First edition. Paperback. Orig. illustrated stiff wrappers. Fine. 74 pages. 11 1/2 x 9 1/2". Copiously illustrated in color. National Gallery of Australia paperback books
Bookseller reference : 16984
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Australia Foigny Gabriel de
A New Discovery of Terra Incognita Australis or the Southern World. By James Sadeur a French-man. Who Being Cast there by a Shipwrack sic lived 35 years in that Country
London: for John Dunton 1693. First edition in English. 10 88 97-186 6 pp. Ad leaves in the rear. 12mo. Period calf rebacked. Early inscription on the front endpaper "Sale at King's Jan. 1806 2.6 3/6. First edition in English. 10 88 97-186 6 pp. Ad leaves in the rear. 12mo. The First Appearance of the Words "Australia" and "Australians" in Print. The rare first English edition of the most famous of all the fictitious accounts of Australia. <br/><br/>This amusing and entertaining imaginary voyage of Jacques Sadeur to the Congo and thence to 'Australia' recounts his multiple shipwrecks and being dropped on the western shores of Australia after being saved by a winged creature. He gives an imaginative description of 'Australian' laws and customs the region's hermaphroditic culture Sadeur being an hermaphrodite himself the natural history mineral resources religion and language. The book ends with a highly fanciful description of Madagascar.<br/><br/>First published in French in 1676 the author Foigny was a defrocked and exiled Franciscan and the work was banned by the Church. Of particular note is that John Dunton the translator and publisher of the present first Engish edition anglicises the name "Terre Australe" into Australia and the inhabitants into Australians -- the first such usage of the words in print.<br/><br/>The first edition in English is very rare with only a handful of institutional holdings in Great Britain North America and Australia. Wing F1395; ESTC R20648; Friedrich p. 16ff; Spate p. 83; Davidson A Book Collector's Notes pp. 41-42 for John Dunton unknown books
Bookseller reference : 319626
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Sotheby & Co. Australia: Sydney Opera House Nov. 19 1973
Catalogue of Paintings and Drawings From the Studio of Sir William Dobell
1973. Softcover. VG. Green wraps. 156 pp. 126 bw plates. Five-page introduction by James Gleeson catalogue of 126 annotated works each illustrated by a fine plate. unknown books
Bookseller reference : 11340
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Spartacist league in Australia
Australasian Spartacist 1973-1986 Nos. 131-212
Melbourne Australia: Spartacist League of Australian and New Zeland 1986. A rare full run of issues 131-212. Issue 136 is a xerographic reproduction of the is tabloid. Various pagination from 8 or 12 pages. Includes a bonus pamphlet letter sized newsletter size "For a Worekrs Repubic in Australia Part of a Socailist Asia!" collection comes in a professional level black archive archive box. Shelf worn else in good condition. Focusing on areas of Australia and New Zealand some analysis and news from other Asian nations. Spartacist League of Australian and New Zeland unknown books
Bookseller reference : 260736
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Spartacist league in Australia
Australasian Spartacist 1973-1986 Nos. 1-130
Melbourne Australia: Spartacist League of Australian and New Zeland 1986. A rare full run of issues 1-130. Nos. 1-5 were published as mimeographed copies on legal size paper. Nos. 6 through 130 were published on tabloid size newsprint. Various pagination from 8 or 12 pages. Comes in professional level archive box. Shelf worn else in good condition. Focusing on areas of Australia and New Zealand some analysis and news from other Asian nations. Spartacist League of Australian and New Zeland unknown books
Bookseller reference : 255361
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Communist Party of Australia
A new course for Australia: a proposal by the Communist Party of Australia
Sydney: Communist Party of Australia 1977. 23p. pamphlet 8.25x11.75 inches paper toned horizontal crease else good condition. Communist Party of Australia unknown books
Bookseller reference : 221898
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International Socialist Organization in Australia
Socialist Worker Australia 1994
Sydney: ISO Publishing Australia. multi-color newspaper 12pp shelf worn. Issues include Nos. 291 292 293 295 302 304 307 all in 1994. Twice monthly periodical of the Australia supporters of the British Socialist Workers Party. Published twice a month. ISO Publishing [Australia] unknown books
Bookseller reference : 253751
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JAZA Jews Against Zionism and Anti Semitism in Australia
Nazi-Zionist collaboration
n.p.: British Anti-Zionist Organisation and AZAN 1981. xiii 104 pages; old price penned in corner under the crossed-out original price otherwise very good. Discusses the case of Rudolf Kastner and others. A mixture of fact and conspiracy theory. British Anti-Zionist Organisation and AZAN unknown books
Bookseller reference : 236959
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Communist Party of Australia
Australian Marxist Review two issues
Surry Hills NSW: the Party 1999. Two issues of the staplebound journal no. 37 and 41; minor handling wear; 67 and 85 pages respectively. Includes discussion of racism in Australia. the Party unknown books
Bookseller reference : 235676
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Socialist Party of Australia and Socialist Workers Party
Joint statement of the Socialist Party of Australia and the Socialist Workers Party. April 1984
N.pl: the Parties 1984. Pamphlet. 11p. wraps 5.75x8.25 inches very good condition. the Parties unknown books
Bookseller reference : 63868
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Spartacist League of Australia
For a Workers Republic of Australia part of a socialist Asia! Program of the Spartacist League Australian section of the International Communist League Fourth Internationalist
Sydney: Spartacist ANZ Publishing Company 1998. 23p. very good in wraps 8x11.5 inches. Spartacist ANZ Publishing Company unknown books
Bookseller reference : 158025
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Socialist Workers Party Australia
Internal Information Bulletin no. 1 in 1983. Materials related to the split of the Deutschmann-Keig-McVey-Poulsen-Shnookal faction from the Socialist Workers Party
Australia: Socialist Workers Party 1971. 95p. wraps 7.5x9.75 inches pen notation on front cover. Collected executive reports and transcripts of recorded conversations. Much material on tensions with the US SWP. Socialist Workers Party unknown books
Bookseller reference : 146514
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Grigg Gordon; Jarman Peter; Hume. Ian
Kangaroos Wallabies and Rat-Kangaroos Two-Volume Set
Chipping Norton NSW: Surrey Beatty & Sons 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. Two volumes 8.5 x 12 inches 835 pp in total. Indexed illustrated with color photographs. Both volumes clean tightly bound and unmarked. Dust jackets have mild edgewear. "The first comprehensive review of the biology of kangaroos wallabies and rat-kangaroos of which about 50 species are known from Australia and a further 13 or so from Papua New Guinea" based on a symposium on the biology of macropods held in Sydney in May 1988. Includes 43 review papers and 16 research reports. Due to size/weight shipping charges will be more than standard for priority or international orders. Surrey Beatty & Sons hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 14024
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Australia Pilorgerie Jules de la
HISTOIRE DE BOTANY BAY ETAT PRESENT DES COLONIES PENALES DE L'ANGLETERRE DANS L'AUSTRALIE OU EXAMENS DES EGFFETS DE LA DEPORATATION
Paris: Paulin 1836. First Edition. 14 394 4pp. folding table. Contemp. marbled boards with leather spine gold stamped with 5 panels of decoration. Ferguson 2165a. Important work on this penal colony with material on Norfolk Island Van Diemen's Land Sydney Brisbane Creoles Bush Rangers etc. Paulin hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 33829
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Spate OHK. O. H.
Monopolists and Freebooters The Pacific since Magellan Volume II
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press 1983. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. 426 pp with index notes illustrations maps. Mild rubbing to extremities else a fine copy. Dust jacket has light edgewear. Second volume in this sweeping and well written series. University of Minnesota Press hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 14404
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Freeman Lewis R.
In the Tracks of the Trades The Account of a Fourteen Thousand Mile Yachting Cruise to the Hawaiis Marquesas Societies Samoas and Fijis SIGNED
London: William Heinemann 1921. First Edition. First UK edition. 380 pp illustrated with 48 black and white photographs. Signed "Lewis R. Freeman Grand Canyon 1923" on the front free endpaper. Original green cloth stamped in gilt. Lower corners rubbed some offsetting to endpapers otherwise minimal wear. Binding tight and square. Laid in are the front flap of the original dust jacket and a prospectus/order form for the book. Freeman who was raised in California traveled extensively all over the world and wrote a many engaging works about his adventures. His publisher touted the journey that forms the subject of this book as "the most successful from a yachtsman's standpoint of any of the South Sea pleasure voyages including those of Lord Brassey in the Sunbeam Stevenson in the Equator and Casco Lord Crawford in the Valhala and Jack London in the Snark." William Heinemann hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 13800
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Wood William Maxwell
Wandering Sketches of People and Things in South America Polynesia California and Other Places Visited During a Cruise on Board of the U.S. Ships Levant Portsmouth and Savannah
Philadelphia: Carey and Hart 1849. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. pp. x 13-386 in publisher's blind-stamped brown cloth. Losses to spine ends corners rubbed through slightly shaken but still a better than average copy of this title which is often found in poor condition. Hill 1910: The ships made port in Rio de Janierio Valparaiso Callao Paita the Marquesas Honolulu Monterey Mazatlan Manzanillo Acapulco and Gayamas. Extensive visits were made in Rio Lima California the Gulf of California and Mexico. Woods was traveling in central Mexico when the Mexican War began and he escaped via Vera Cruz. The intelligence gathered by Wood in Mexico was instrumental to the U.S. seizure of California by Commodore Sloat in that war. Carey and Hart hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 20650
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National Museum of Australia.; Guangzhou Museum of Art China
Stories from Australia: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples
Canberra: National Museum of Australia 2002. Softcover. NF. Orange wraps color illustration. 118 pp.; Profuse color illustrations including a map. Text: English and Chinese. An exhibition from the National Museum of Australia for the Guangzhou Museum of Art China. National Museum of Australia paperback books
Bookseller reference : 130420 ISBN : 1876944137 9781876944131
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Canberra Australia: National Gallery of Australia Mar. 7 to May 17 1998 three other locations
New Worlds from Old: 19th Century Australian and American Landscapes
Canberra / Hartford: National Gallery of Australia / Wadsworth Atheneum 1998. Hardcover. VG. Green cloth with color illustrated dj with french folds and red spine lettering. 271 pp. 59 bw 128 color plates. Illustrated and annotated catalogue of 123 works with essays and literature. Includes four essays on the Australian and American experience as portrayed by landscape artists biographies and three appendices: "Index of Works in the Exhibition "Cultural Social and Historical Events 1770-1901" and "Maps: Australia and United States of America". Gorgeous illustrations are scattered throughout the catalogue. A stunning exhibiton. This is a HARDCOVER EDITION of this book. National Gallery of Australia / Wadsworth Atheneum hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 14078 ISBN : 0642130949 9780642130945
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NEW ZEALAND LAND PROMOTION
Agricultural Opportunities in New Zealand
Wellington: New Zealand Government Publicity Department 1925. Stapled brochure 4.5 x 9 inches in illustrated cardstock wrappers. 32 pp with many illustrations from photographs. Slight edgewear; near fine. Promoting New Zealand as "The Great Britain of the South Seas" this brochure seeks to attract farmers on the basis of its climate soil quality and quality of life as well as the availability of financing for land and equipment agricultural education and practical research and advice from experts at the Department of Agriculture. Illustrations show bountiful crops and harvest scenes a view of the State Experimental Farm at Ruakora a warehouse where wool is being sorted for export and many handsome prize cattle and sheep. New Zealand Government Publicity Department unknown books
Bookseller reference : 19958
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