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1865ref. ZB414791Springfield: Baker & Phillips 1865. 88 pp. disbound else text block clean & tight. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Springfield: Baker & Phillips unknown
ref. 49878Melbourne : printed by Wilson and Mackinnon Collins Street East 1864. Octavo 215 x 140 mm publisher's blind-blocked green pebbled cloth rubbed spine lettered in gilt; original yellow endpapers; title with ownership inscription of John Bowie Wilson New South Wales Government Minister for Lands in the 1860s; pp. vii viii-x 241 3 blank; preliminaries with small toning spot towards fore-edge margin otherwise very clean throughout a near fine copy with a significant political association. In 1863 ""The Riverine Petition"" was sent from the Riverina District of southern New South Wales to Queen Victoria pleading for independence from the colony. Settlers cited geographical isolation neglect of local infrastructure and a desire to align with Melbourne's pastoral interests essentially seeking to separate and form a new colony. This is often referred to as the Riverine District Association movement. Ferguson 14944 Very scarce. hardcover
ref. 48382Supplement to the Queensland Government Gazette of Saturday 18th August 1877 - No. 38. At head of title: New Zealand South Australia and Tasmania agree to a Bill copied from the Queensland Act. Brisbane : Government Printer 1877. Two folio sheets disbound from a larger volume printed on three sides paginated 15-17; a good clean copy of this important Act. 'In early 1877 there were no immigration restrictions in any of the Australian colonies. Queensland's Chinese Immigrants Regulation Act of 1877 was the first of many laws that restricted Chinese immigration in a movement that ultimately led to the White Australia legislation of 1901-2. ' - Abstract of article by Phil Griffiths 'The strategic fears of the ruling class: the construction of Queensland's Chinese Immigrants Regulation Act of 1877' https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q1402/the-strategic-fears-of-the-ruling-class-the-construction-of-queensland-s-chinese-immigrants-regulation-act-of-1877 unknown
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ref. A9789210033947Paperback / softback. New. An annual report presents a detailed account of the Committee for Programme and Coordination’s sixtieth session conducted from 8 June to 3 July 2020. Submitted to the General Assembly it chronicles key deliberations procedural undertakings and coordinated efforts aimed at reinforcing programme oversight. paperback
1832ref. 339004New Haven: Palladium and Republican Office 1832. First edition of Rules for 1832. Broadside 1 page. Printed recto only. Text is printed in two columns within elemental border; printed area including ornamental border. circa 11-1/4 by 1- 7/16 inches. Paper is moderately foxed folded twice with light wear along folds bit of creasing at corners else a very good copy of a scarce broadside. First edition of Rules for 1832. Broadside 1 page. Printed recto only. Text is printed in two columns within elemental border; printed area including ornamental border. circa 11-1/4 by 1- 7/16 inches. OCLC lists no worldwide holdings. Not in American Imprints; not in OCLC Palladium and Republican Office unknown
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ref. 34022Ordered by the Legislative Assembly to be printed 27 February 1857. Sydney : Government printer 1857. Foolscap folio string bound pp 1 15; marginal water damage at top edges else fine. 'Return to an Address from the Honorable the Legislative Assembly dated 10 February 1857 requesting that His Excellency the Governor General would be pleased to cause to be laid upon the Table - ""Copies of all Correspondence between the Government and all other persons with reference to the massacre of the crew and passengers of the brig ""Gazelle"" at Woodlark Island."" In late August 1855 the Gazelle under Captain W. T. Parkin had sailed from Sydney bound for Woodlark Island in the Trobriands having on board a quantity of stores for the Roman Catholic mission station there and a new missionary for the island the Italian clergyman Fr. Giovanni Battista Mazzucconi who was martyred in the massacre. In response to petitioning by the relatives of the victims the New South Wales government authorised a punitive expedition to Woodlark some two years after the event. unknown
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1791ref. 717381791. France Grants Suffrage to People of Color Born to Free Parents France. Assemblee Nationale Constituante. Loi Relative Aux Colonies Avec l'Expose des Motifs qui en ont Determine les Dispositions. Donnee a Paris Le 1.er Juin 1791. Drop- Head Title. Paris: De l'Imprimerie Royale 1791. 12 pp. Quarto 9-3/4" x 7-3/4"; 24.5 x 19.7 cm. Disbound single-column text large woodcut vignette above title stamps of National Assembly in red ink and stamped signature of Marguerite-Louis-Francois Duport-Dutertre minister of justice at end of text. Moderate toning light edgewear and soiling first and final leaves detached annotation in early hand above vignette. $300. Grounded in the liberalizing spirit of the French Revolution this act granted the right of membership in colonial assemblies to people of color born to free parents. OCLC locates 9 copies of this imprint 4 in North America American Philosophical Society Hagley Museum Northwestern University University of Michigan. Not in Bissainthe. unknown
1755ref. 22872Paris: Chez P. G. Simon 1755. 4 pp. Ornamental headpiece. 1 vols. 4to. Disbound some light browning else very good. 4 pp. Ornamental headpiece. 1 vols. 4to. A case in the Chambres assemblés concerning the failure by the Porte-dieu the Vicar of the Parish and anotherto provide Eucharist and extreme unction for a dying M. Lallemant as requested by his daughter and the surgeon. The decision of the court given by Ysabeau. Not cited in Kress. Not cited in Kress Chez P. G. Simon unknown
1788ref. 22877Rouen: de l'Imprimerie de Louis Oursel 1788. pp. 6 2-blank. 1 vols. 4to. Disbound some light soiling else very good. pp. 6 2-blank. 1 vols. 4to. Concerning the disposition of the commonly-held pasture "Le Homme" which the Seigneur de Charleval had for years attempted to claim. The decision signed by Bréant. Not cited in Kress. Not cited in Kress de l'Imprimerie de Louis Oursel unknown