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| ALLEN, George Wigram Dundas.: EARLY GEORGIAN. Extracts from the Journal of George Allen (1800-1877).
Book Number: 5579
Sydney Angus & Robertson 1958. 1st ed. 136pp, pictorial eps. Green stamped cloth with d/w (in pieces). Signed and dated by Dundas Allen (editor) on half title. Also has po name on fep. Allen was the first attorney and solicitor to be educated in New South Wales. His journal provides 'an illuminating picture of life in early Sydney'.
Keywords: early colonial life
Price: $85.00 |
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| Murray, James: Sydney: An Illustrated History
Book Number: 5657
Melbourne: Lansdowne Press, 1974 4to. Hardcover. 128pp. Index. Colour & b/w photos. Very good, previous owner's signature on fep. Very good d/w with faded spine.
Keywords: sydney australia history early photographs
Price: $22.00 |
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| Peter Fitzsimons: Everyone but Phar Lap
Book Number: 5660
Harper Sports 1997 8vo. hardcover. 260pp. colour & b/w illus. very good+. / very good+ d/w. Biographies on australian sporting legends.
Keywords: australian sporting legends, biographies
Price: $25.00 |
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| SUTCLIFFE, J. T.: A History of Trade Unionism in Australia
Book Number: 5661
Macmillan, Melbourne, 1921. In 'The W. E. A. Series'. [vi] + 226pp. 8vo. in cloth wrappers. Biblio & index
Keywords: unions, labour, work condition. Employer, employee
Price: $55.00 |
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| Reynolds, Peter, and Flottman, Paul: Half a Thousand Acres; Balmain, a History of the Land Grant
Book Number: 5702
Sydney: Balmain Association, 1976 Large 8vo. hardcover. 147pp. b/w illus, maps. very good. / very good, lightly chipped d/w.
Keywords: sydney history harbour balmain australian
Price: $25.00 |
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| Kirsty Brooks: Hitching - Tales from the Byways and superhighways
Book Number: 5720
Wakefield Press 1995 Illustrated wrappers, Illusatrated with photo's and six tear-out postcards. 144pp. Very good
Keywords: stories, non-ficiton
Price: $20.00 |
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| Clyne, Densey: Rainforest - A Journey into Nature's Richest Garden
Book Number: 5751
Sydney, Reed Books, 1989. 1st ed pictorial boards 96pp Illustrated with numerous excellent colour photographs with notes.
Keywords: Fungus, Fungi, The Forest Floor, furry creatures of the night, butterflies and moths, frogs and reptiles, special forms and habits, insects and spiders, birds, epiphytes, fruits and flowers,
Price: $18.00 |
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| MAXWELL, Eileen: WRITTEN IN GOLD The Story of Gulgong; The Town on the 1O Dollar Note
Book Number: 5762
Gulgong. Gulgong Pioneer's Museum and Historical Society. 1975 5th Edition. 84pp. 8vo. Paperback. Illustrated. History of a gold rush town includes poems by Henry Lawson. Local history, gold, photography, rags to riches stories
Keywords: Local history, gold, photography, rags to riches stories
Price: $30.00 |
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| CHANDLER, L. G.: BUSH CHARMS
Book Number: 5822
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA: WHITCOMBE & TOMBS LTD. 1950 Original Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Ex-lib with stamps. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Small bookseller's sticker on fpd. With an Intrduction by Charles Barrett. "The author has often been asked, if, on his many solitary rambles he did not find the bush a lonely place. This book is an answer to that question. There is no loneliness where one has the companionship of wild creatures, and forever before one an open storybook of inexhaustable wonders." 27 pages of photos by the author. 116 pp.
Keywords: australian bush stories
Price: $30.00 |
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| Adams, William & Co.: The Bell Wether William Adams-an Australian Company from Foundation to Takeover- 1884 to 1884
Book Number: 5827
Melbourne: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1984 4to. hardcover. 209pp. b/w illus. very good. / very good d/w.
Keywords: australian company william adams business
Price: $22.00 |
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