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Gold Tailings Forgotten Histories Of Family And Community On The Central Victorian Goldfields
by Charles And Mayne, Alan Fahey
The Vegetation Of the Chatham-Islands Sketched By Ferdinand Mueller
by Baron Sir Ferdinance Jacob Heinrich Von Mueller Von Mueller
Victoria Books & Ephemera
A vintage cabinet photograph of the Northcote Brass Band [circa 1890s]
by [Northcote Brass Band]
An albumen paper cabinet photograph (136 × 95 mm), on the original gilt-edged printed mount of Stewart and Co., 217 and 219 Bourke St East, Melbourne. Undated, but probably 1890s. Photograph lightly tanned (possibly from the acidic mount); slight erasure to the mount near the address numbers; in excellent condition. This is a photograph of a calligraphic testimonial that contained 31 portrait photographs (30 uniform-sized ones of members of the band, and a larger one of the recipient of the...
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A$250.00
Rich Vein Of Learning. The Origins Of The University Of Ballarat 1869-1993
by Sunter, Anne Beggs
Ballarat: University of Ballarat. 1994. Very Good condition. Gift card pasted to half-title page. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 199 pages. . 1st Edition. Trade Paperback.
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A$25.00
The Vanished Land Disappearing Dynasties of Victoria's Western Districts
by Zachariah, Richard
Mile End, SA: Wakefield Press. 2017. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. MINT - a NEW copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. 328 pages. The Vanished Land is the Western District of Victoria stripped of its identity, its social elite of grazing dynasties departed for their own reasons. This melancholy exodus has increased recently as the myriad pressures of holding inherited land have become intolerable in a nation never intimidated by ditching its past. No longer is the Western District...
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A$34.95
Phillip Island to Wilsons Prom A photographic tour by old postcards. (Signed copy)
by Blum, Ron (written and compiled by)
Oaklands Park, South Australia: Published by Author. [2022]. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. MINT - a NEW copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Signed by the author. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 48 pages. Images of postcards produced by the Rose Stereograph Company of Victoria between 1913 and 1967. Ron Blum is an expert and has included two essays ' The Wonderful Postcard' and 'The Printing Machines". Book Thirteen in the...
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A$25.00
Frankston and nearby Seaford & Mt Eliza A photographic tour by old postcards. (Signed copy)
by Blum, Ron (written and compiled by)
Oaklands Park, South Australia: Published by Author. [2020]. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. MINT - a NEW copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Signed by the author. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 48 pages. Images of postcards produced by the Rose Stereograph Company of Victoria between 1913 and 1967. Ron Blum is an expert and has included two essays ' The Wonderful Postcard' and 'The Printing Machines". . New. 1st Edition....
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A$25.00
Still Stands the Schoolhouse by the Road. The Old National School at Koroit and Early Education in the Western District
by Uhl, Jean
Wendouree, Vic: Koroit & District Historical Society. 1987. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs and Maps. Previous owner's details and cataloguing information to preliminary pages. 84 pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Softcover.
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A$15.00
Iconography of Candolleaceous Plants (First Decade)
by Von Mueller, Baron Ferd
Melbourne: Robert Brain, Government Printer, 1892. Staplebound. Very good condition. 4to, original tan printed wrappers, complete with 10 b&w lithograph plates unnumbered with accompanying text pages. Original tan printed wrappers. Some very light fox spotting, altogether very clean and bright. Trove 2963753.
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A$100.71
St Michael's Grammar School. A study in Educational Change
by Peel, Victoria
Sydney: Allen & Unwin. 1999. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ spine slightly sunned & now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Previous owner's details to front free end paper. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 335 pages. A history of the St Kilda private school. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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A$22.00
Healesville to Warburton via Marysville A photographic tour by old postcards [Signed copy]
by Blum, Ron (Written and compiled by)
Oaklands Park, South Australia: Published by Author. 2022. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. MINT - a NEW copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Signed by the author. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 48 pages. Images of postcards produced by the Rose Stereograph Company of Victoria between 1913 and 1967. Ron Blum is an expert and has included two essays ' The Wonderful Postcard' and 'The Printing Machines". . New. 1st Edition....
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A$26.95
Shipwrecks
by Mackenzie, Margaret E
Melbourne: The National Press, Pty. Ltd. 1964. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. Light wear to dustjacket edges and corners and faint sticker stain to lower edge. Previous owner's details to front free end paper. Illustrated with Black and White plates. Double page map. 135 pages. The historical account of 18 Shipwrecks along the Victorian coast from Cape Otway to Port Fairy 1836-1914....
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A$15.00
The Departure, Second Class Car" and "The Return, First Class Car" appearing in Godey's Lady's Book 1859
by Solomon, Abraham. [Australian gold fields]
Philadelphia: Louis A. Godey, 1859. Wraps. Good + overall. The monthly issue for December 1859, with the classic Australian two full page steel engravings of the famous railway scenes, 'The Departure, Second Class Car' and 'The Return, First Class Car' depicting a young man leaving to make his fortune in the Australian gold fields, with advertising for ships departing to 'Port Phillip' and 'Sydney' visible on the wall behind his head. Here they appear re-engraved in a smaller format by an unknown...
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A$271.15
1898 Indenture for 4 town lots in Keilor, Victoria
by [Victoria; Land Deeds]
Victoria, 1898. Very good condition. An indenture for 4 allotments in the township of Keilor, which is now a suburb of Melbourne just west of Tullamarine. The township was a noted camping place for people and bullock teams to and from the gold diggings at Castlemaine, Ballarat and Bendigo. Keilor Post Office opened on 2 March 1854 and a general store, blacksmith, hotel, police station, courthouse and bridge were all built during this time. The indenture is between Donald McDonald of Derriliquin and...
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A$232.41
Epics from Victorian History
by Cranfield, Louis R
Ilfracombe, Devon: Arthur H. Stockwell Ltd. 1969. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Good Dustjacket - now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. DJ is lightly chipped at corners and spine ends with a few small closed tears to lower edge. 145 pages. The spirit of the Australian pioneer is the keynote of this book. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 2nd [Enlarged] Edition. Hardback.
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A$25.00
East Gippsland A photographic tour by old postcards. (Signed copy)
by Blum, Ron (written and compiled by)
Oaklands Park, South Australia: Published by Author. [2021]. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. MINT - a NEW copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Signed by the author. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 48 pages. Images of postcards produced by the Rose Stereograph Company of Victoria between 1913 and 1967. Ron Blum is an expert and has included two essays ' The Wonderful Postcard' and 'The Printing Machines". Book Twelve in the...
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A$25.00
Land, Labour & Gold, or Two Years in Victoria, with Visits to Sydney and Van Diemen's Land. Volumes I and II. With an Introduction by Professor S.J. Butlin
by HOWITT, William
Sydney: Sydney University Press, 1972. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. Sydney, Sydney University Press, 1972 (facsimile edition)/ 1855. Octavo, 14, xvi, 360, 31 (Index) pages. Cloth; bottom corners slightly bumped; foot of the spine very slightly sunned; edges slightly marked; rear hinge cracked (the binding remains sound); a very good copy with the slightly rubbed, marked and bumped dustwrapper a little sunned on the spine, with the laminate lifting slightly along the top edge and a very...
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A$75.00
Mornington to Dromana A photographic tour by old postcards. (Signed copy)
by Blum, Ron (written and compiled by)
Oaklands Park, South Australia: Published by Author. [2020]. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. MINT - a NEW copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Signed by the author. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 48 pages. Images of postcards produced by the Rose Stereograph Company of Victoria between 1913 and 1967. Ron Blum is an expert and has included two essays ' The Wonderful Postcard' and 'The Printing Machines". . New. 1st Edition....
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A$25.00
Charles Joseph La Trobe. Superintendent of the Port Phillip District 1839-1851 Lieutenant-Governor of Victoria 1851-1854
by Gross, Alan
Melbourne: Melbourne University Press. 1956. Octavo Size [approx 14x22cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. Illustrated with Black and White plates. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 157 pages. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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A$15.00
The Government of Victoria requests the honor of the presence of [Mr. W. Lowrie - Professor of Agriculture, South Australia] at a Conversazione in the Exhibition Building on the Evening of Tuesday 7th May 1901, at 8 pm
by [Federation]
Melbourne: Sands & McDougall Limited, 1901. Melbourne, Sands & McDougall Limited, 1901. A large chromolithographed invitation card, recently rematted and reinserted behind glass in its contemporary wooden frame (visible image size approximately 230 × 300 mm, external dimensions 460 × 565 mm). Both the invitation and the frame are in excellent condition. An attractive invitation features a large chromolithographic illustration of the Exhibition Building, with vignette illustrations of the capital...
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A$450.00
Early Memories of Queenscliff
by D.O.D
Geelong: Published by Author [Presumed]. 1931. Octavo Size [approx 14x21cm]. Very Good condition - some light wear to corners. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Uncommon. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 100 pages. . 1st Edition. Softcover.
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A$50.00
A detached autograph album leaf (165 × 200 mm) signed in pencil by the Australian team for the First Test against South Africa in Brisbane, 5-10 December 1952
by [Cricket]. [Australia, 1952 and Victoria, 1953]
The 12 signatures are Hassett (Captain), Benaud (12th man), Harvey, Hole, Ian Johnson, Bill Johnston, Langley, Lindwall, McDonald, Miller, Morris and Ring. A heavyweight team by any account, with eight former Invincibles and five future Australian Captains. On the verso are the pencil signatures of the Victorian team for the match against Queensland in Brisbane, 16-20 January 1953 (SSM 444). The 12 signatures are Hassett (Captain), Chambers, Fitchett (12th man), Harvey, Hill, Ian Johnson, Bill Johnston,...
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A$450.00
Lyre Bird engraving
by Schach, C, lithographer
Stuttgart, Germany, 1843. Very good condition. A beautiful image of a lyre bird, the bird in a striking pose, almost naive in lovely muted colors, with surrounding habitat in black & white. Printed for a German natural history magazine published in a somewhat larger & squarer format than usual. "Lith. Anst. v. C. Schach in Stuttgart" at the bottom. With an early nonsense fable handwritten (in English) on the verso in pencil, "The Fable of the Nashorn [rhino] and the chese" (sic), with the moral "Be...
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A$271.15
Geelong & The Bellarine A photographic tour by old postcards. (Signed copy)
by Blum, Ron (written and compiled by)
Oaklands Park, South Australia: Published by Author. [2020]. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. MINT - a NEW copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Signed by the author. 48 pages. Images of postcards produced by the Rose Stereograph Company of Victoria between 1913 and 1967. Ron Blum is an expert and has included two essays ' The Wonderful Postcard' and 'The Printing Machines". Book Nine in the Postcard Series. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for...
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A$25.00
Journal of Discovery to Port Phillip, New South Wales, in 1824 and 1825 in the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia
by Hovell, W.H. and H. Hume; W. Bland (ed.)
Victoria: James Tegg, 1894. Second edition. Good + overall. An extract of one of the most important journeys in Eastern Australia, to find new grazing land and where NSW's western rivers flowed. Ultimately Hovell and Hume found water and grazing land between the Murrumbidgee and the Murray, and established a route for new settlers to follow. With folding map of southeast Australia. 8vo, pp65 - 124, map, 9 b&w illustrations, spine bound with archival tape, internally clean. Trove 51970073.
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A$116.21
Historical Records of Victoria Foundation Series Volumes 1-8 [in 9 books]
by Cannon, Michael [Editor in Chief]
Melbourne: Victorian Government Printing Office. From1981to 2002. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Volumes 1-8 complete. Volume 1, Beginnings of Permanent Government; Volume 2 is in 2 parts. Volume 2A, The Aborigines of Port Phillip 1835-1839; Volume 2B, Aborigines and Protectors 1838-1839; Volume 3, The Early Development of Melbourne 1836-1839; Volume 4, Communications,Trade...
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A$500.00