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1799Best.-Nr. 716781799. 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
1899Best.-Nr. 14880New 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
1981Best.-Nr. 34978Pinnacle 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
1900Best.-Nr. 29494Norfolk 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 Provenance: Hon. B.R. Wise Attorney General lettered in gilt on upper cover Early photographs of a remote Pacific Island. 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
1867Best.-Nr. 518751867. 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
1883Best.-Nr. 513221883. 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
1866Best.-Nr. 513171866. 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
1881Best.-Nr. 512811881. 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
1902Best.-Nr. 513161902. 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
Best.-Nr. 20485Hobart: 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
1972Best.-Nr. 14185Apia 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
1882Best.-Nr. 25034Philadelphia 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
1935Best.-Nr. 2262Claremont 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
1840Best.-Nr. WRCAM53792Sydney: 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. Together Ferguson and OCLC locate only five copies all in Australia. FERGUSON 3104. OCLC 220294602. W.A. Duncan, Australasian Chronicle Office unknown books
1876Best.-Nr. WRCAM7086Sydney 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
1852Best.-Nr. WRCAM7726London 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
1883Best.-Nr. WRCAM40477Primarily 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
1994Best.-Nr. 58946Oxford & 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
1852Best.-Nr. 57668New 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
1802Best.-Nr. 29606London: 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
1854Best.-Nr. 20130London: 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
1937Best.-Nr. 2891London: 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
1891Best.-Nr. 19168London: 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
1994Best.-Nr. 2278403Images 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
Best.-Nr. 71704Very 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
