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| Rasmussen, Carolyn: A Museum for the People: A History of Museum Victoria and its Predecessors 1854-2000
Book Number: 48022
Scribe Publications Pty Ltd. April 1, 2002 4to hardcover 400pp very good. This is a superbly written, designed, and illustrated history of Victoria's museums of natural history, ethnography, applied science, technology, and social history from 1854 to the present. This mainly chronological narrative is interspersed with short studies by 46 authors on the objects, specimens, stories, and people that are the essence of Museum Victoria. It will appeal to the general reader with an interest in museums and history as well as those interested in the cultural, social, and technological growth of the state of Victoria in Australia.
Keywords: A Museum for the People A History of Museum Victoria and its Predecessors 1854 2000 Rasmussen Carolyn
Price: $55.00 |
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| Watson, Anne: Building A Masterpiece: The Sydney Opera House
Book Number: 48023
Lund Humphries Pub Ltd October 31, 2006 4to hardcover in d/w 191pp very good. Signed and inscribed by Anne Watson. Half a century has passed since Australia's New South Wales government launched a competition to give Sydney a new music and performance centre. The result of that competition is the magnificent Sydney Opera House designed by the visionary Danish architect Jorn Utzon (b.1918) and the starting point for "Building a Masterpiece: The Sydney Opera House". When construction began, few could have imagined the enduring impact that Utzon's creation would have on Sydney, nor indeed Australia. But any great feat of imagination and ingenuity creates sub-plots, and the Opera House, perhaps more than any other twentieth-century structure of its stature, has generated many. "Building a Masterpiece" explores the many untold chapters in the long history of the Opera House's gestation, development and completion - of individuals whose careers were made or broken by the Opera House, the companies whose reputations were secured through their association with the building, and the pioneering construction methods, innovative technologies and methodologies developed to meet the demands of its unprecedented design and challenging construction. The workers who built the building, the politicians, architects and members of the public who championed it and its often beleaguered architect are discussed too as is its current world status as a symbol of Australia. Comprising an introduction and ten engaging essays, written by eminent authors and experts in the field, this comprehensive and richly illustrated book offers a unique account of the Sydney Opera House and is essential reading for anyone wishing to gain fresh insights into the complex history of this iconic building.
Keywords: Building A Masterpiece The Sydney Opera House Watson Anne
Price: $45.00 |
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| O'Reilly, Bernard: Green Mountains; Cullenbenbong; Over the Hills
Book Number: 48060
Envirobook, Sydney, 1998. 8vo. hardcover. 246pp. Sepia plates & b/w drawings. Very good+. / Very good d/w.
Keywords: Green Mountains Cullenbenbong queensland local history australian Stinson wreck plane
Price: $55.00 |
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| Sharpe, Alan.: Manly to Palm Beach : pictorial memories
Book Number: 48082
London ; Sydney Atrand 1983, 1987 reprint. Oblong. 4to hardcover 143pp b/w illus. very good.
Keywords: Manly (N S W Municipality) History Warringah (N S W ) History Manly to Palm Beach pictorial memories Sharpe Alan
Price: $18.00 |
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| Leatherbee, Albert T. (editor): Knocking About Being Some Adventures of Augustus Baker Pierce in Australia
Book Number: 48134
Shoestring Press 1984 Facsimile edition 8vo. hardcover. 181pp. index, b/w illus. Very good. / Very good d/w.
Keywords: Augustus Baker Pierce in Australia
Price: $18.00 |
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| Ashton, Adrian: Sydney Savages 1956-1974
Book Number: 48148
Sydney Australia: The Sydney Savage Club, 1974 4to. red cloth hardcover. 176pp, b/w illus. very good. / Very good d/w. Limited to 500 copies of which this is no.23.
Keywords: Sydney Australia: The Sydney Savage Club
Price: $25.00 |
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| Waddell, Dorothy C.: Freshwater to Broughton Creek : a biography of Andrew Waddell and Victoria Reid
Book Number: 48159
DNG Publishers 1995 8vo softcover 292pp near fine. Index. Illustrated with photo's and certificates, letters and maps. Freshwater to Broughton Creek explores the lives of a Scottish lad and a Colonial girl. Andrew arrived in the South Coast town of Berry in 1884 from Scotland, where he met the strong-willed and vivacious Victoria Reid. Their love affair was neither conventional nor plain sailing. Victoria was a woman before her time, who showed and independence of spirit which came to be recognised as a truly Australian trait. Her move to Manly and their prolific correspondence means that their story is interwoven with the people and history of both Manly and Berry. This true story was extensively researched from letters and other historical documents and records.
Keywords: Freshwater to Broughton Creek a biography of Andrew Waddell and Victoria Reid
| Idriess, Ion.: The Tin Scratchers - The story of tin mining in the far North
Book Number: 48212
Sydney Angus and Robertson, 1959 8vo. paperback. 260pp. b/w plates. endpaper maps. Good+ ex-lib. / Good+ d/w with tape repairs.
Keywords: australian history travel tin mining northern queensland
Price: $40.00 |
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| Idriess, Ion L.: The Desert Column
Book Number: 48213
Angus & Robertson 1951 8vo. cloth hardcover. 312pp. index, b/w plates. good, spine slightly slanted. foxing to endpapers, rubbing to cover edges.
Keywords: Idriess, Ion L. signed national edition australian history
Price: $55.00 |
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| Bateson, Charles: The Convict Ships 1787 - 1868
Book Number: 48223
Reed, 1969 8vo. softcover. 421pp. index, b/w illus. Very good, owner's inscription on fep.
Keywords: Convict Ships australian maritime history marine
Price: $35.00 |
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