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CATALOGUE 120 February 2010

Including: • Governor La Trobe’s 1853 Regulations for Ports and Harbours • Redmond Barry’s 1854 Rules for the Supreme Court • A record of the disastrous bushfires of 1898 • Almanacs, including ’s first • Federation souvenirs • Scarce immigration guides • An extensive group of tourist guides and views

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1. The AGE. The Age Annual; A Political & Statistical 3. Almanac. The Victorian Almanac for 1884 [1886, Register of the Colony of Victoria, 1880 ... Sixth Year. 1887, 1888, 1890 and 1896]. Melbourne, Mason, Firth & Melbourne, David Syme & Co., 1880. Octavo, pp. 143, lix (il- M’Cutcheon, 1884-1896. Six issues, octavo, all stapled as lustrated advertisements), original embossed cloth, gilt, end- issued in original wrappers (one back wrapper lacking), one papers browned, inscribed with the publishers compliments. with Observatory stamp on title, minor chipping but in good $120. state. $1,200. See Ferguson, 5772. Containing standard information-calendar, astronomical tables, postal rates, medical notes, notable events. 2. Agriculture. Victoria, The Garden State of Australia A good group starting with the twenty-fourth annual issue. [cover title]. Melbourne, H. J. Green, Government Printer, no date [1930s?]. Quarto, illustrated, map on inside rear wrapper, a fine copy in original wrappers with colour pictorial onlay. $150. Promoting Victoria’s butter, dried, canned and fresh fruit, wines, jams and jellies, lamb and wool, wheat growing.

4. American Fleet. Souvenir of the Visit Of The United States Fleet to Victoria, Australia Illustrating the Garden State of the Commonwealth. Melbourne, Osboldstone & Co., (1925). Oblong octavo, photographic plates, pp. [40], stapled in gilt-lettered wrappers (slightly marked). $125. 5. Dr. Arthur ANDREWS. The First Settlement of 14. Bendigo Advertiser. Bendigo’s Centenary 1851-1951. the Upper Murray. Facsimile edition, Sydney, 1979. Bendigo, 1951. Folio, illustrated, text on newsprint, stapled Octavo, frontispiece, folding map, original cloth. $60. in original decorated wrappers, a very good copy. $140. Edition limited to 1000 numbered copies. 15. Les BLAKE. Place Names of Victoria. Melbourne, 6. Max ANGUS. Simpkinson De Wesselow, Landscape Paint- Rigby, 1977. Octavo, plates, pp. 297, Illustrated glossy er in Van Diemen’s Land and the Port Phillip District. Hobart, boards, a fine copy. $85. Blubber Head Press, 1984. Quarto, pp. 191, full-page plates in Scarce, colour, folding panorama, includes illustrated catalogue of over 200 works, cloth, gilt, with dustwrapper, a very good copy. $200. Edition limited to 1000 copies: this one out-of-series, not num- bered or signed.

7. George ARDEN. A Sketch of Port Phillip, Being a review of the map of Australia Felix compiled, engraved and published by Thomas Ham of Melbourne, to which is added a Key to the Map of Australia Felix and its Squatting Districts in 1847, with a mod- ern introduction by Thomas A. Darragh. Thumb Creek NSW, Garravembi Press, 1991. Quarto, large folding map, quarter cloth and papered boards, with dustwrapper, a mint copy. $150. A review of the first map of the Port Phillip District produced in the Colony. Edition limited to 235 numbered copies (#143).

8. Edward and Fortescue ARTHUR. Journal of Events, from Melbourne, Port Phillip, to Mount Schank, in the Dis- trict of Adelaide, New Holland, a Distance of 400 Miles, un- dertaken in 1843 by Messrs Edward and Fortescue Arthur, sons of Captain Arthur, R. N., with a Flock of 400 sheep, also, an account of the Difficulties they experienced during a Sojourn of Twenty Months, which ended in the Total Fail- ure of their Enterprise. Hobart, Sullivan’s Cove, 1975. Small octavo, cloth with dustwrapper, a fine copy. $100. Edition limited to 150 numbered copies (#69) initialled by the publisher.

9. Ballarat. The Garden City, being a series of 31 magnificent panoramic views of Ballarat and district, with special descriptive article, “Ballarat Revisited”. 16. James BONWICK. Notes Of A Gold Digger And Gold Ballarat, H. J. Summerscales, 1906. Oblong octavo, Digger’s Guide, Introduction by E. E. Pescott. Melbourne, photographic souvenir, pp. [36], tied in gilt decorated wrappers, The Hawthorn Press, 1942. Octavo, pp. 47, a couple of spots a little pale foxing of edges and first leaf, a very good copy.$60. of pale foxing, a very good copy in publisher’s quarter calf, gilt. $120. 10. Ballarat. Mcconnell’s Street And General Directory To Edition limited to 250 copies. Ballarat [cover title]. [Melbourne], circa 1930. Octavo, pp. 88, illustrated advertisements,processed, stapled in original 17. Botanic Gardens, Melbourne. Guide to the Botan- wrappers. $150. ic Gardens, Melbourne; With Route Map, etc. Authorized An extensive and very scarce regional directory. Edition. Melbourne, Robt. S. Brain, Government Printer, no date (circa 1901). Octavo, folding view, folding colour litho- 11. F. Oswald BARNETT. The Unsuspected graphed plan of the gardens mounted on linen, original Slums. Melbourne, The Herald, c.1933. Octavo, front wrapper retained, new rear wrapper supplied. $185. illustrated, pp.36, stapled in wrappers, slight external soiling. $120. 18. Botanic Gardens. Ferdinand von MUELLER. An illustrated summary of a thesis submitted to the Annual Report of the Government Botanist and Direc- University of Melbourne surveying the local slum problem, tor of the Botanic Garden. Melbourne, John Ferres, this essay also deals with the work of the Methodist Babies’ Government Printer, 1865. Foolscap folio, pp. 24, large Home at South Yarra. Barnett went on to write a study of folding lithographed Plan of the Government House delinquency in Victoria, The Making of a Criminal (1942). Reserve Botanic Garden and its Domain by E. B. Heyne, sewn as issued (the sewing loosening). $200. 12. Rolf BOLDREWOOD. Old Melbourne Memories. With an introduction and editorial commentary by C. E. 19. Box Hill. The Suburban Guide and Business Directory Sayers. Melbourne, Heinemann, 1969. Octavo, pp. xxii Box Hill, Blackburn and Tunstall, containing A Map ... A + 210, boards with dustwrapper, a very good copy. $65. Directory of Streets ... A Calendar ... A carefully selected List of Recommended Traders. Melbourne, R. L. Jarrett, (1921). 13. James BONWICK. Discovery and Settlement of Port Duodecimo, pp. 32 stapled in title wrappers, folding map. $30. Phillip ... Melbourne, Published for the author by George Robertson, 1856 [but later]. Octavo, folding lithographed map, 20. Robert Douglass BOYS. First Years at Port Phillip one plate, newspaper clippings laid to several leaves, disbound, 1834-1842; Preceded by a Summary of Historical Events from original wrappers (dated 1859). $200. 1768. Melbourne, Robertson & Mullens, 1959. Octavo, plates, See Ferguson, 7201. a very good copy, original cloth with dustwrapper. $80. Second edition. 21. E. J. BRADY. The Overlander, The Prince’s 26. ABC Guide to Melbourne and Index to Streets; A Highway. Melbourne, Ramsay Publishing Pty. Directory of Essential Things for the use of visitors, strangers, Ltd., 1926. Quarto, folding route map, illustrated and citizens generally. Melbourne, Geo. R. Broadbent, no date photographically, original pictorial yapp wrappers a (190-?). Octavo, several plates, original decorated wrappers little chipped at margins, a very good copy, old adhesive printed by F. W. Niven & Co., a fine copy. $165. label on front wrapper, theRollo Hammet copy with book label. $185. Rare motoring and camping brochure.

22. E. J. BRADY. Picturesque Port Phillip. Melbourne, George Robertson & Company, n.d. (1911). Oblong quarto, numerous black & white illustrations, frontispiece map, original wrappers with coloured pictorial onlay, a couple of small patches of silverfishing, a very good copy. $250. A motor car tour around the Bay: Torquay, Portarlington, Mornington, and Sorrento, but centred on and with much pictorial content of its wool and other industries.

23. Bright Alpine Club. Illustrated Guide to the Australian Alps & Buffalo Ranges, 2nd. edition issued by the Bright Alpine Club [cover title]. Melbourne, D. W. Paterson, Printer, (1897). Octavo, two folding maps (one with a sliver lost along the fold), plates, pp. 76, original pictorial wrappers (a little foxed), neat- ly strengthened at spine and along the gutter of several leaves where originally stapled, loosely inserted in lettered cloth boards. $660. Scarce: a comprehensive tour guide to Mount Buffalo, Bright, Mount Hotham, Mount Feathertop, Eurobin Falls, and Har- rietville, for motorists, cyclists, walkers and skiers.

27. Geo. R. Broadbent’s Official Road and Railway Guide to Central Victoria, incorporating the holiday guide “Fifty Miles round Melbourne”, containing the new book- folding map. Melbourne, RACV, circa 1930s. Octavo, booklet of text and two large folding maps inserted into stiff papered card wrappers, a very good copy. $120.

Broadbent Guides and Directories

24. Official Road Guide Melbourne to Adelaide [and Ad- elaide to Melbourne]. Melbourne, Wilkie & Coy., (circa 1936). Octavo, maps and illustrations, the two parts back to back in original wrappers, a touch of flecking. $60.

25. Official Guide. Broadbent’s Central Victoria, 60-120 Miles Round Melbourne, incorporating the new “book- folding” map. Melbourne, Broadbent, (circa 1940). Octavo, booklet of text and two large folding maps inserted into stiff papered card wrappers, a very good copy. $150. 28. Broadbent’s Road and Railway Map of Victoria, 33. James COLLIER. The Pastoral Age in Australasia. Eastern Section [and] Western Section. Melbourne, (circa Whitcombe & Tombs, 1911. Octavo, plates, pp. 345, cloth, a 1950). Two parts, octavo, illustrated and each with large very good copy. $60. folding map, stapled in original pictorial wrappers, minor foxing $120. 34. Centenary Tattoo. The Services’ Tattoo, Royal Agricultural Society’s Showgrounds, Flemington, 7th and 12th November, 1934. Official Souvenir Programme & Time Table. (Melbourne, 1934). Quarto, plan, illustrated adver- tisements, stapled in original pictorial wrappers, a fine copy. $165.

29. Standard and Official Motor Guide: Melbourne to Sydney (and back); The Federal Highway. Melbourne, 1927. Oblong octavo, strip maps, illustrated advertisements, two parts back to back, stapled in pictorial wrappers, rear wrap- per stained and worn, one leaf with tear repaired. $120. New and revised edition.

35. Centenary Train. The 1951 Centenary and Jubilee Train. Melbourne, J. J. Gourley, Govt. Print., (1951). Single sheet folded to eight pages of quarto dimension, illustrated ------and with plan, text in double column, printed throughout in blue, old fold and a little marking. $125. 30. W.A. BRODRIBB. Recollections Of An Australian Celebrating the centenary of the separation of Victoria, and Squatter 1835-1883. Sydney, John Ferguson, 1978. Octavo, the golden jubilee of Federation, the Victorian Government pictorial endpapers, original boards with dustwrapper (front organised this tour of Victoria on a train carrying exhibitions flap creased). $50. of art and famous manuscripts, as well as displays from most Brodribb established stations in Gundagai, the Broken government departments including the armed services. River, and Deniliquin, and he was the second person to over- land cattle to Port Phillip. He explored parts of Gippsland and travelled across the Australian Alps. This facsimile of the 1883 first edition includes an introduction by Professor A. G. L. Shaw.

31. Richard BROOME. Coburg - Between Two Creeks. Melbourne, Lothian, 1987. Octavo, pp. x, 336, boards with dustwrapper, a mint copy. $55.

32. Camberwell. The Suburban Guide and Business Directory Camberwell, containing A Map.... A Directory of Streets ... A Calendar for 1920. No imprint [Melbourne,1920]. Duodecimo, pp. 32 stapled in title wrappers, folding map. $50. 36. David COLLINS. Account of a Voyage to Establish a 41. Creswick. John A. GRAHAM. The Creswick Grammar Settlement in Bass’s Straits, to which is added a Description School History, with Lists of Teachers and Scholars and of Port Phillip, and an account of the landing at the Derwent Reminiscences by Former Scholars. Melbourne, Brown Prior in 1804, Edited from the Despatches of David Collins Esq. Anderson Pty. Ltd., 1940. Octavo, plates, original cloth with Lieut.-Governor by John Currey. Melbourne, The Colony dustwrapper (strengthened at front fold), signed and dated Press, 1986. Tall octavo, pp. 259, marbled boards and quarter by the author, a very good copy. $130. calf, outer edges uncut, a fine copy. $350. One of 320 numbered copies (#6). 42. Arthur DEAN. A Multitude Of Counsellors, A History of the Bar of Victoria. Melbourne, F. W. Cheshire, 1968. Octavo, frontispiece portrait, plates, a fine copy in linen 37. Christian Brothers. Souvenir of the Golden Jubilee of boards with quarter olive morocco spine. $200. the Christian Brothers in Australia 1869-1919. Sydney, Wil- The deluxe issue of 300 numbered copies (#170), signed by liam Brooks & Co., 1919. Quarto, black & white illustrations, the author. original cloth backed pictorial papered boards, corners rubbing, owner’s name stamped on title (and also erased from 43. A. W. DENNIS. Six Generations, a history of the Dennis endpapers). $180. family [cover title]. No imprint, [the author], 1963. Large octavo, illustrated and with folding tables, processed on rectos only, 148 leaves, stapled in original cloth-backed wrappers. $40. The Dennises were early settlers who established Tarndwarncoort at Birregurra.

44. David DUNSTAN. Governing the Metropolis, Politics, technology and social change in a Victorian city: Melbourne 1850 - 1891. Melbourne University Press, 1984. Octavo, plates and illustrations, original cloth with dustwrapper, a mint copy. $50.

45. David DUNSTAN. Victorian Icon: The Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne. Melbourne, The Exhibition Trustees, 1996. Quarto, coloured and black & white illustrations, pictorial endpapers, suede-backed leather. $225. Edition limited to 200 copies (#40), signed by the author.

46. Chas. EDGERTON. A Trip Round the World. Melbourne, Edgerton & Moore, 1904. Octavo, illustrated, text in double column, a fine copy in original lettered cloth. $200.

47. William H. ELSUM. Victoria Afire, a record of the disastrous bush fires of 1898, in prose and verse, illustrated. The Wallaby Series, No. 1 [cover title]. Williamstown, Fyfe & Co., Printers, 1898. Duodecimo, stapled in original title wrappers, the rear wrapper with a neat old repair, inserted in old marbled boards. $450. A scarce work on the South Gippsland fires of 1898 which burnt out over a quarter of a million hectares, from the author who subsequently published the History of William- stown. The illustrations which are mentioned on the wrap- per, and attributed to the Melbourne Leader in the Preface, are not present. We have not been able to trace another copy. Not in Ferguson. 38. B. COWDEROY. Melbourne’s Commercial Jubilee, Notes from the records of fifty years’ work of the Melbourne Chamber of Commerce. Melbourne, Mason, Firth & Mc- Cutcheon, 1901. Octavo, portrait frontispiece and two plates, a very good copy in original cloth (a little flecked along outer edge), Wantrup copy with book label. $200.

39. Creswick. Creswick Celebration of Peace Day, Saturday, 19th July, 1919. Souvenir Programme. Creswick, Advertiser Print. Octavo, pp. 4, folded as issued, printed within red, white and blue frame, some wear and tear. $85.

40. Creswick. John A. GRAHAM. Early Creswick, the First Century. Melbourne, Arbuckle, Waddell, 1942. Octavo, pp. 276 (last blank), plus plates, unrelated inscription on an early blank, a fine copy. $200. Scarce. 48. Exhibitions. Robert WHITWORTH. The Official 54. Finance. Port Phillip. Revenue and Expenditure, Port Handbook & Guide to Melbourne, and to the cities, principal Phillip. Melbourne, John Ferres, Government Printing Office, towns, mining and other districts of Victoria, with maps, 1852. Foolscap folio, pp. [x] last blank, stab-sewn as issued. plans, etc. (Melbourne), F. F. Bailliere, 1880. Duodecimo, pp. $200. 316 (last blank) + xxxvi (advertisements on coloured paper), With four related 1850s papers on Victorian revenue. lithographed plans, folding coloured end-pocket map of Victoria showing roads and railways (two small splits along 55. Dr. W. H. FITCHETT (publisher). Architectural and folds), original cloth, gilt. $330. Floral Aspects of the Methodist Ladies’ College, Hawthorn, A pocket guide for the Exhibition visitor. Includes plans of Victoria [cover title]. Melbourne, no date (circa 1926). Oblong Melbourne, the Botanic Gardens, Geelong, Ballarat, quarto, plates, stapled in original wrappers, a fine copy.$150. Ararat, Hamilton, Portland, Kyneton, Echuca, Beechworth “Much is being done to give our girls at the M.L.C. a good and Warrnambool. Ferguson, 18509. grounding in the housewifely arts: and many a young hus- band in the not too far distant future, when he arrives home 49. Federation. Historical Memento of the Opening of the to find a dainty, appetising meal awaiting him, will have First Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia by His cause to be thankful that his wife was once a student in the Royal Highness the Duke of Cornwall and York at Domestic Sciences Branch”. Melbourne, May, 1901. Melbourne, Osboldstone & Attkins, 1901. Oblong octavo, pp. [24], photographic illustrations, original gilt printed wrappers, silk ties. $185.

56. Tom GARNETT. Man of Roses, Alister Clark of Glenara 50. Federation. Our invited guests: an official directory of and his family. Kenthurst, Kangaroo Press, 1990. Octavo, the guests invited to Melbourne for the opening of the first frontispiece portrait, colour plates and other illustrations, pp. Commonwealth Parliament of Australia, 9th May, 1901. 128, a fine copy, original boards with dustwrapper. $75. Melbourne, Leslie W. Craw, (1901). Oblong quarto, portraits Scarce. and plates, vignette title, a very good copy, original wrap- pers, gilt, small loss at head of spine. $250. 57. Geelong. A Souvenir of Geelong Centenary Celebrations 1938, from pictures published in the “Geelong Advertiser”. 51. Federation. Souvenir Of The Federation Of Australia, No imprint. Oblong quarto, illustrated throughout, pp. 60, 1st January, 1901. One Queen, One Country, One People, two leaves lightly foxed, original wrappers. $100. One Destiny [cover title]. Melbourne, E. Whitehead & Co., 1901. Oblong octavo, map, photographic illustrations, 58. Goldfields. Gold Regulations… [drop title]. Melbourne, pp.[20], card wrappers decorated in silver, gilt and colours, John Ferres, Government Printer, 26 September, 1854. front wrapper creased, central leaf detached from staples, a Foolscap folio, pp. 2, single leaf printed on blue paper; loose good copy. $150. as issued. $165. Scarce: the official regulations publishing the new higher 52. Finance. Sir George GIPPS. Finance. Message from scales of fees for the digger’s license. It was this single sheet His Excellency the Governor to the Legislative Council, on of paper that was the prime cause of the Eureka Stockade presenting to them the Estimates for the year 1844. Sydney, rebellion. William John Row, Government Printer Office, 1844. Foolscap folio, pp. 6 (last blank), disbound. $220. 59. Goldfields. The Inglewood Goldfield; Past History and Port Phillip is included in the estimates. See Ferguson, 3675. Future Prospects [drop- title]. No imprint. Octavo, pp. 28, inked number on endpaper, cloth, gilt. $60. 53. Captain Foster FYANS. Memoirs recorded at Geelong, Victoria, Australia by Captain Foster Fyans (1790 - 1870), 60. Goldfields. John C. SCOFFERN and W.M. HIGGINS. Transcribed from his holograph manuscript given by The Victorian Gold Valuer’s Ready Reckoner. London, W. descendants to the State Library, Melbourne, Editor P. L. S. Orr & Co., Melbourne, South Australia [sic], J. Pullar & Brown. Geelong, The Geelong Advertiser, 1986. Large octavo, Co., [1853]. Octavo, pp. [ii], vii - xii, 13 - 115 [116 - 234], 16 endpaper map, frontispiece portrait, illustrations, pp. 287, a (advertisements), many illustrations in-text, original green fine copy in original boards with dustwrapper. $130. cloth, spine lettered in gilt. $360. Edition limited to 1000 copies (#711), and scarce. First edition and very scarce. Ferguson’s collation requires correction as above. See Ferguson, 15508. 61. Government of Victoria. Special Report of the 68. Robert Hoddle. A Chapter on Port Phillip; Being an Metropolitan Town Planning Commission - Removal of the account of the settlement from its formation, with a map, by Livestock Markets, Abattoirs &c. Melbourne, 1926. Mel- Robert Hoddle, Surveyor, late in charge of the Survey bourne, Government Printer, 1926. Foolscap folio, pp. 32, four Department - 1840 ... With an introduction by Gordon folding maps, two plans, original lettered wrappers, a fine Scurfield and Judith M. Scurfield.Thumb Creek, Garravembi copy. $135. Press, 1991. Octavo, one folding table and one folding map, pp. xx + 23, publisher’s half morocco, in card slipcase, a fine 62. Henry Field GURNER. Chronicle of Port Phillip, Now copy. $250. the Colony of Victoria, from 1770 to 1840. Melbourne, George The title of a text published on 31 July 1841 as a full-page in Robertson, 1876. Octavo, pp. iv + 52, retaining original rear the Port Phillip Gazette. Edition limited to 235 (#11) wrapper only, later plain wrappers added. $250. numbered copies - this is one of the special copies (of unspeci- fied limitation), bound at the press for subscribers only. 63. David HAY. The Life And Times Of William Hay Of Boomanoomana, 1816-1908. Melbourne, Hyland House, 1990. 69. Illustrated Journal. Supplement to Illustrated Octavo, plates, boards with dustwrapper. $25. Australian News, August 1, 1888. A [drop Biography of a pioneer of the Riverina pastoral industry. title]. Melbourne, David Syme and Co. at “The Age” Office, 1888. Folio, pp. 20, with wood-engraved illustrations, a little 64. G. H. HAYDON. Five Years Experience in Australia spotting but a fine copy bound in modern quarter brown Felix. Melbourne, Queensberry Hill Press, 1983. Two morocco by Bayntun. $750. volumes, tipped- in frontispieces, 2 tipped-in plates (vol. 2), Rare and ephemeral supplement: well illustrated with fine pp. 130 + 123, publisher’s leather binding, five raised bands, wood-engravings by John MacFarlane, George Rossi Ashton, gilt, card slipcase, a fine set. $360. Frank Maloney, James Waltham Curtis, and A.H. Fullwood. Limited to 155 copies (#57). 70. Immigration. Victoria for the Settler. The Irrigated 65. Henry Heylyn HAYTER. Notes on the Colony of Areas [cover title]. Melbourne, Advertising & Intelligence Victoria; Historical and Geographical. Melbourne, George Bureau, 1912. Octavo, illustrated photographically, Skinner, 1875. Octavo, pp. 51, wrappers. $150. a fine copy in colour decorated wrappers. $185. Issued for schools, and not containing the map mentioned in A scarce publication encouraging emigration particularly Ferguson 10320. from America, and to the Murray and Goulburn River irrigation settlements. 66. Ernestine HILL. Water into Gold. Melbourne, Robertson & Mullens, 1937 reprint. Octavo, illustrations, pp. 334, frontispiece, original green cloth, endpaper maps, dustwrapper with minor chipping to edges. $100. A history of the Mildura irrigation settlement and the Murray River vinelands, published to mark the Jubilee of the Australian Dried Fruits Industry.

67. Horseracing. “The Australasian” Turf Register containing a full report of the past season’s racing, and entries for coming events; Rules of racing and steeplechasing, trotting and betting (Colonial and English) a list of the various Racing Clubs, Racecourses, &c., and of Jockeys, with their lowest Riding weights; Registered colours; Winners of the Principal Races in Great Britain and Australia. 1868. Melbourne, “The Australasian”, 1868. Octavo, contemporary full crimson morocco by Detmold and with his blindstamp, both boards with gilt rule and frame, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, later owner’s bookplate, a fine copy. $385. 71. Immigration. Includes suburban meetings at Brighton Beach, Dromana, Settling In, Victoria Heidelberg, Preston, St. Kilda and Williamstown. Edition: A Guide for your Early Days in Australia [cover title]. London, Australian News and Information Bureau, second edition, July, 1952. Octavo, illus- trated, pp. 52, stapled in pictorial wrappers, a fine copy. $60. The booklet gives de- tails of Victoria’s edu- cation, housing, social and health services, churches, employment, government, and rural life, as well as suggestions on establishing a business. 72. Immigration. An Australian Colony. The Government 82. Patrick M’GRATH and others. The Story of Handbook of Victoria. Melbourne, Robt. S. Brain, [1898]. Browns and Scarsdale ... Edited by John West ... Jubilee Octavo, plates, folding maps, original pictorial wrappers, Souvenir, 1912. Melbourne, 1912. Octavo, pp. vi, 160, folding front wrapper creased and partly detached. $135. map, illustrated, the cloth with very minor flecking (partly along edges),several library stamps, a good copy of a work 73. Immigration. Minister of Lands, Victoria. Short Guide normally in inferior condition. $100. for Intending Emigrants to Victoria, the Garden State of Australia. Melbourne, Sands & McDougall Ltd., January 83. W. G. MANIFOLD. The Wished-for-Land, The migra- 1907. Octavo, illustrated and with folding map, pp. 16, tions and settlement of the Manifolds of Western Victoria. stapled as issued in original wrappers (back wrapper Geelong, Neptune Press, 1984. Octavo, illustrated, pp. 240, detached and with an old tape repair). $250. original boards with dustwrapper, a fine copy. $70. Soliciting farmers in particular, but aimed at all energetic, hardworking, sober, white citizens. 84. Map. Melville & Mullen Pty. Ltd. New 74. G. F. JAMES. A Homestead History; Being the Reminis- Map of Melbourne and cences and Letters of Alfred Joyce of Plaistow and Norwood, Suburbs, showing Port Phillip, 1843 to 1864. Second edition, Melbourne Uni- tramways, railways, versity Press, 1949. Octavo, frontispiece and plates, original streets, municipalities, cloth with dustwrapper (minor chipping to top edge). $55. bowling clubs, town & shire halls, quarter-mile 75. D. F. JOWETT & I. G. WEICKHARDT. Return to radii, etc., Revised to Rosstown, Railways, Land Sales and Sugar Beet Ventures date. Melbourne, Sands in Caulfield.Mordialloc, Rosstown Historical Research & McDougall Pty. Ltd., Group, 1978. Octavo, plates, pp. vii + 181, with dustwrapper, [190-?]. Lithographed scarce,a very good copy. $60. map in colour, approxi- mately 100 x 73 cm., 76. William KELLY. Life in Victoria or Victoria in 1853, dissected in 30 sections, and Victoria in 1858, Showing the march of improvement folding into original yapp made by the colony within those periods, in town and wrappers, one short tear country, cities and the diggings. Kilmore, Lowden Publishing on fold, in fine condition. Co., 1977. Octavo, fold-out map, facsimile edition (the two $400. volumes here in one), includes Index and Notes, boards with With three inset maps: dustwrapper, as new. $100. West Footscray, Sunshine & Braybrook - Surrey Hills & Box Hill - Oakleigh. 77. William KERR. Kerr’s Melbourne Almanac, and Port This map is identical to one handled recently by us (see Cata- Phillip Directory, for 1841; A Compendium of useful and logue 119), which had been issued by Sands and MacDougall accurate information connected with Port Phillip. Melbourne, under their own imprint. Kerr and Holmes, 1841. Octavo, a fine copy in modern half calf and marbled boards, complete with the 28pp. 85. Map. Collins’ advertisements on coloured paper. $5,000. Victorian road guide Rare: the first Melbourne-printed almanac, and one of the containing maps of first books printed in Melbourne. Ferguson, 3233. 1. Victoria 2. Popular day-runs 78. W. B. KIMBERLY. Ballarat and Vicinity; A Condensed around Melbourne but Comprehensive Account of Her Financial, Commercial, 3. Great Ocean Road Manufacturing, Mining, and Agricultural Enterprises... 4. Melbourne-Sydney- Ballarat, F. W. Niven, [1895]. Quarto, plates, illustrations, a Adelaide routes fine copy in recent morocco-backed boards, retaining the title 5. Canberra from the original cloth. $650. 6. Mt. Buffalo The first fifty pages alternate between text and full-page 7. Main roads through photographic views : a suitable advertisement for Niven’s (a) Geelong “Crisp Photo” process. Not in Ferguson although other works (b) Ballarat & by the author are. Beaumont, 350. Melbourne (c) Bendigo. 79. N. F. LEARMONTH. The Portland Bay Settlement. [Melbourne], Collins, Historical Committee of Portland, 1934. Octavo, 1938. illustrations, 2 fold-out maps, plates, pp. 285, blue cloth, part Folding coloured map of (only) of manuscript letter adhering to front endpaper, a very Victoria, dimensions of good copy. $250. image unfolded 46 x 57 Inscribed and signed by Learmonth, and also later by the cm., on the verso eight writer Bernard Cronin. maps, folding into original pictorial 80. Miles LEWIS. The Essential Maldon. Melbourne, wrappers, minor wear. Greenhouse, 1983. Quarto, pp. 146, with illustrations by $50. G. H. Morton, boards with dustwrapper, a fine copy. $50. Issued as a free supplement to Collins’ 81. Daryl LINDSAY. The Felton Bequest, an historical Street Directory. record 1904 - 1959. Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1963. Octavo, plates, in presentation (?) quarter calf, loosely inserted clippings, a fine copy. $100.

86. Map. Sands and Macdougall. Map of Melbourne and 93. Melbourne. The Melbourne Guide Book; With Picto- Suburbs, showing postal districts, tramways, railways, rial Map of the City ... Melbourne, McCarron, Bird & Co., bowling clubs, town and shire halls. Melbourne, Sands & Melville & Mullen, E. W. Cole, n.d., circa 1906. McDougall Pty. Ltd., no date [1940?]. Large map in colour, Small octavo, large folding chromolithograph map, double- approximately 99 x 74 cm., dissected in 30 sections, folding page plans and maps, short tear in title-page, sewing opened into original yapp wrappers (edges worn). $150. at front hinge, original limp cloth. $150. Fourth edition, revised throughout. 87. Davis McCAUGHEY et al. Victoria’s Colonial Governors 1839 - 1900. Melbourne, Miegunyah Press, 1993. Octavo, plates and illustrations, original boards with dustwrapper, a mint copy. $50. Number 15 in the Miegunyah Press series.

88. The Hon. Thomas McCOMBIE. The History of the Colony of Victoria, from its settlement to the death of Sir Charles Hotham. Melbourne and Sydney, Sands and Kenny, 1858. Octavo, occasional pencilled marginalia, generally a clean copy in modern half calf. $350. McCombie edited the Port Phillip Gazette between 1843 and 1851, and devotes his final chapter here to the newspaper press of Victoria, and the history of various magazines and early publications. Ferguson, 11879.

89. Hugh MCCRAE (editor). Georgiana’s Journal. Melbourne A Hundred Years Ago. Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1934. Octavo, frontispiece in colour, plates, pale foxing, original cloth, a portion of dustwrapper loosely inserted. $100. 94. Melbourne & Metropolitan Board of Works. First edition. Water Supply and Sewerage, Etc., Photographic Views. Melbourne, Osboldstone & Co., 1908. Oblong octavo, plates, 90. Melbourne Land Boom Controversy. [R. J. AR- one folding, a bright copy in original textured cloth over CHER]. Euchred. No imprint, [c.1889]. Octavo, some pencil bevelled boards, gilt, all edges gilt. $120. lining, bound with the title wrappers in modern buckram. $650. 95. Metropolitan Town Planning Commission, An interesting account of dealings with Fink, Bent, and C. Melbourne. First Report of the Metropolitan Town Planning B. Fisher during the land boom of the 1880s. At trial, Mr Commission. Melbourne, Government Printer, 1925. Justice Webb found that Archer had lost his share of Foolscap folio, folding maps and plates (some in colour), interest in the Maribyrnong Estate : this subsequent original cloth-backed stiffened wrappers, a fine copy. $450. pamphlet outlines Archer’s case against those three, and- Plates include Melbourne in 1855, in 1873, in 1899, and in several other speculators. Rare: this copy is the Clifford 1924. Craig copy, one of two identified by Ferguson, 6068.

96. George MEUDELL. The Pleasant Career of a 91. Melbourne and Spendthrift. London, George Routledge, [1929]. Octavo, Metropolitan original cloth, minor marking and fading, name erased from Tramways Board. front pastedown, T. M. Ramsay copy with blindstamp. $225. Centenary Souvenir First edition, very scarce. Meudell later wrote that the book [cover title]. was “boycotted, banned, suppressed by the Booksellers Footscray, The Mail Association”. Publishers, 1934-5. Small octavo, 97. F. J. MEYRICK. Life In The Bush (1840 – 1847): A illustrated with line Memoir of Henry Howard Meyrick. London, Thomas Nelson, drawings by Clive 1939. Octavo, plates and maps, original cloth in slightly Fink, a fine copy in foxed dustwrapper. $150. original wrappers. First edition: scarce memoir of a squatter in the early days $85. of the Port Phillip settlement, with original reporting on the

early years of Melbourne and Gippsland.

98. Royal R. MILLER. The Upper Murray, A Centenary Survey With Special References to the Corryong District. Melbourne, 1934. Octavo, frontispiece and plates, pp. 124, a little foxing (mainly on fore-edge), spine with a few pale spots, a very good copy in original cloth, gilt, inscribed by previous owner. $220. Scarce. 92. Melbourne. Proposed Greater Melbourne Council. 99. Mount Eliza. The Early History of Mount Eliza on Report of Municipal Conference in regard to the question the Mornington Peninsula, compiled for The Mount Eliza of the creation of a Greater Melbourne Council. Town Hall, Progress Association. (Frankston &c.), 1926. Octavo, pp. 32, Melbourne, 12th June 1925. Melbourne, Modern Printing Co. frontispiece folding map, plate and plan in-text, some biro Pty. Ltd., 1925. Foolscap folio, large folding map, pp. 8, scoring and notations in margins and on outer lower original wrappers. $250. wrapper. $65. 100. Morgan’s. New Official Street Directory 1930 Mel- bourne & Suburbs [cover title]. Melbourne, Troedel & Cooper Pty. Ltd. for Val Morgan Pty. Ltd., (1930). Octavo, original cloth backed papered boards, a fine copy. $65. Fourteenth edition.

101. Morgan’s. Official Street Directory Melbourne 1946 [cover title]. Melbourne, Troedel & Cooper Pty. Ltd. for Val Morgan Pty. Ltd., (1946). Octavo, folding map in rear end-pocket, original cloth backed papered boards, a very good copy. $40. 108. Penal Discipline. Progress Report of the Royal Com- mission on Penal and Prison Discipline. Melbourne, John 102. Morgan’s. Official Street Directory Melbourne 1951. Ferres, Government Printer, 1870. Foolscap folio, two plans Melbourne, 1951. Octavo, original cloth backed papered (one folding), pp. xx + 26, sewn as issued, pale foxing of first l boards, a fine copy. $40. eaf. $125. Thirty-second edition. Paper No. 18 of the Second Session, 1870.

103. Lady MITCHELL. Three-Quarters of a Century. 109. Penal Discipline. Report from the Select Committee London, Methuen & Co., 1940. Octavo, pp. xvi + 222, plates, upon Penal Discipline, together with the Proceedings of the title and last page offset, cloth, dustwrapper clipped and Committee, Minutes of Evidence, and Appendices. Mel- small chips. $85. bourne, John Ferres, Government Printer, 1856-1857. Fools- “ ... childhood in the Victoria of coaching days and cap folio, pp. xxiv + 100, blue paper, sewn as issued. $175. bushrangers; fifty years of happy marriage to a famous Paper D, No. 48a. An important report which led to the end Australian lawyer; contact with leading personalities in of the Williamstown convict hulks. Witnesses before the many countries ...” Committee included John Price, who was murdered before the release of the Report. 104. Francis H. NIXON. Population; A Plea For Victoria. Being a Few Remarks on the Subject of Immigration With 110. E. E. PESCOTT. James Bonwick: A writer of school Reference to the Condition and Progress of the Colony. books and histories -with a bibliography of his writings. Reported to the House of Assembly. Addressed to the Hon. Melbourne, H. A.Evans and Son, 1939. Octavo, frontispiece, R. S. Anderson, Chief Commissioner of Trade and Customs. original cloth-backed papered boards, a fine copy. $150. Melbourne, W. B. Stephens, 1862. Octavo, original wrappers. Edition limited to 250 signed and numbered copies ( #235 ). $125. Nixon was the Anglican bishop of Tasmania. Ferguson, 111. Pioneer Families. Victoria and Riverina... A Biograph- 13416. ical Record of Some of the Pioneer Families of Victoria and the Riverina. Melbourne, McCarron, Bird, 1933. Quarto, pp. 105. G. Claud NOTMAN. Of Sheep and Men, A story of the 454, numerous portraits in-text, original cloth a little flecked, flocks, the founders and descendants of Victoria’s small tear to title page. $600. Western Plains over a period of almost 200 years in First edition of this very scarce genealogical record. Australia’s history. Ballarat, Waller & Chester, reprinted 1981. Octavo, illustrated, pp. 228, boards, dustwrapper, a 112. George PRESHAW. Banking under Difficulties, or fine copy. $100. Life on the Goldfields of Victoria, & New Signed by the author. Zealand ... Melbourne, Edwards Dunlop & Co, 1888. Octavo, a very good copy in original pebbled cloth, previous 106. J. W. PAYNE. The Plenty; A Centenary History of the owners label, Ferguson 14379. $375. Whittlesea Shire. Kilmore, Lowden, 1975. Octavo, plates and maps, original cloth with dustwrapper. $65. 113. Port of Melbourne. Lieutenant Governor Charles Joseph La TROBE. Regulations relating to Ports and 107. Ferdinand von MUELLER. Introduction to Botanic Harbors in the Colony of Victoria [drop-title]. Melbourne, Teachings at the Schools of Victoria, through references to John Ferres, Government Printing Office, (1853). Foolscap leading native plants. Melbourne, John Ferres, 1877. Octavo, folio, ten pages blue paper, sewn as issued, early blindstamp, illustrations, pp. 152, the superior issue in publisher’s manuscript addition to List of Signals on final leaf. $650. presentation crimson morocco, a splendid copy. $950. Scarce. The Regulations cover Victorian ports including First edition. Ferguson, 12935. Geelong, give details of rules for the Yarra River, and list the signals in use in Melbourne and Geelong. 114. Port of 122. E. M. ROBB. Early Toorak and District. Melbourne. Mel- Melbourne, Robertson and Mullens Limited, 1934. Oblong bourne Harbor Trust. octavo, pp. 137 including plates, minor flecking and marking, Melbourne. Victoria. a good copy in the original contrasting cloth, lettered, without Information Relative dustwrapper. $300. to the Port. Fitzroy, W. and J. Barr, Print- 123. Heather B. RONALD. Wool Past the Winning Post, A ers, 1910. Octavo, History of the Chirnside Family. Melbourne, Landvale Press, large colour litho- 1978. Oblong octavo, pp. 204, illustrated in black & white, graphed General Plan, five plates in colour, dustwrapper, minor foxing to edges$60. folding black & white birds’ eye view of Port Phillip 124. Royal Visit. and Corio Bay, and Royal Visit to folding colour litho- North-East graphed view of River Victoria, 5 March, Yarra and Victoria 1954. Dock, Melbourne, illustrated, a bright Government copy in original cloth, Printer, 1954. gilt. Octavo, pp. 32, $350. centrefold map of Benalla with 115. Port of Melbourne. Sir John COODE. Reports by Sir tipped-in Key, John Coode, C.E., on Works of Improvement to the Port of illustrated Melbourne (1879 and 1886). Melbourne, Government Printer, photographically, 1910. Foolscap folio, stapled as issued. $160. patriotic wrap- The text of Coode’s 1879 report, originally published in Lon- pers, a fine copy. don. $165.

116. Phyllis M. POWER. From These Descended. Kilmore, Homestead Books, 1977. Octavo, plates, quarter calf, in papered slipcase, a mint copy. $100. Edition limited to 100 copies signed by the author and specially bound, within an overall edition of 500. Largely the story of the Clarkes of Rupertswood and Cliveden. The 125. Royal Visit. Brief Description Of The Geology, Flora, author was the elder daughter of Sir Rupert Clarke, and And Fauna Of The Country To Be Traversed Between great-granddaughter of W. J. T. “Big” Clarke. Bombala And Bairnsdale By H.R.H. The Duke Of Gloucester on the occasion of his visit to East Gippsland, 26th October 117. Public Library of Victoria. The Catalogue of 1934 [with] A Brief Description … of the Otway district. Donations to the Public Library of Victoria from 1856 to Melbourne, Forests Commission of Victoria, 1934. Octavo, 1872. Melbourne, Clarson, Massina, & Co., 1873. Octavo, each with folding map, title wrappers, the two pamphlets tinted lithographed frontispiece, title-page with floral border, sewn together in presentation morocco boards. $300. a fine copy in presentation crimson morocco by Detmold, both Signed “Henry” by the Duke of Gloucester. From the collec- boards with decorated gilt borders, inner gilt dentelles, all tion of Rollo Hammet, with his book label. edges gilt, a fine copy. $650. Produced on the twentieth anniversary of the library’s 126. Royal Visit. Addresses to His Royal Highness The opening, and this copy presented to James Goodall Francis, Duke of Cornwall and York and to His Excellency The M.L.A., the Chief Secretary. Governor General from the Municipalities of Victoria. Melbourne, 1901. Quarto, plates in colour, original red cloth 118. Ettie E. F. PULLMAN. They Came From The Mall; rubbed. $150. Being an Account of the Lives of James Wentworth and Sophia Letitia Davis. Frankston City Press, 1982. Octavo, 127. John George SAXTON. Victoria: Place-Names and plates, maps, pp. 184, publishers cloth, gilt, a fine copy. $40. their Origin. Clifton Hill, Saxton and Buckie, 1907. Octavo, stapled as issued in cloth-backed cut-flush papered boards, a 119. John O. RANDELL. Kimbolton. Melbourne, fine copy. $250. Queensberry Hill Press, 1976. Octavo, pp. iv + 116, plates, Uncommon. The work is aimed at providing a keynote of the folding maps and plans, quarter calf. $140. history of the state. One of 100 copies of the de-luxe edition, numbered and signed by Randell. 128. C. E. SAYERS. Of Many Things; A History of Warrnambool Shire. Olinda, 1972. Octavo, plates, pp. xii + 120. J. O. RANDELL. McIvor, A History of the Shire and 196, boards, dustwrapper, price stamped on title-page. $50. the Township of Heathcote. Melbourne, Shire of McIvor, 1985. Octavo, pp. xiv + 384, illustrated, boards with 129. Isaac SELBY. The Old Pioneers’ Memorial History Of dustwrapper, owner’s name on title-page, a fine copy. $100. Melbourne; From The Discovery Of Port Phillip Down To The Uncommon. World War. Melbourne, The Old Pioneers’ Memorial Fund, n.d. (1924). Quarto, maps and illustrations, with errata slip, 121. John REID (editor). When Memory Turns the Key; folding plan of Melbourne and of Old Melbourne Cemetery, The history of the . Bacchus Marsh, Shire of one corner bruised, rear hinge starting, a very good copy in Romsey, 1992. Octavo, illustrated, original boards in original pebbled cloth. $200. dustwrapper. $65. 130. Mary Turner SHAW. On Mount Emu Creek, The 139. Souvenir Views. Melbourne Today,a selection of Story of a Nineteenth-Century Victorian Sheep Station. airviews. Sydney, Beckett Sterling Ltd., no date (circa 1935). Melbourne, Robertson & Mullens, 1969. Octavo, pp. 208, Oblong octavo, stapled in original title wrappers. $40. plates, cloth, with dustwrapper, a good copy. $50. 140. James SMITH. From Melbourne to Melrose. 131. Thomas SHAW. A Victorian in Europe, by a Visitor Melbourne, The Centennial Publishing Company, 1888. from the Western District. Geelong, Henry Franks, 1883. Octavo, tipped-in photographic frontispiece portrait, a fine Octavo, a bright copy in original decorated green cloth over copy in original elaborately decorated cloth with two pictorial bevelled boards, a trifle flecked, all edges gilt. $400. onlays, boards bevelled, all edges gilt. $275. Rare. Ferguson, 15618. Ferguson, 15820.

132. Des SHIEL. Eucalyptus: Essence of Australia; The story of the Eucalyptus oil industry- and of the “eucy” men, and their contribution to the Australian bush tradition. Melbourne, Queensberry Hill Press, 1985. Quarto, coloured and black & white illustrations, publisher’s morocco. $200. Edition limited to 350 numbered and signed copies.

133. Shipping. Rules and Regulations for the Ports in Vic- toria; With Rules for the Management of the Alfred Graving- Dock, Shipyard, and Seventy-Ton Crane, and Miscellaneous Information. 1913. Melbourne, Government Printer, 1913. Small octavo, bound with the original wrappers in later cloth, spine with calf label, the Ingleton copy, with bookplate.$260. Covers the ports of Melbourne, Geelong, Warrnambool, Port Fairy, Portland, Western Port, Corner Inlet and Port Albert, Gippsland Lakes, Snowy River, Mallacoota, Lorne, Apollo Bay, Gabo Island, and Port Campbell.

134. Shipping. Accounts of the Pilot Board of Victoria for the year ending 31st August, 1858. Melbourne, John Ferres, Government Printer, 1859. Foolscap folio, blue paper. $185.

135. Shrine of Remembrance. The National War Memo- rial of Victoria, 1924. The First Brochure on the first premi- ated design The National War Memorial of Victoria [drop-ti- tle]. Melbourne, G. W. Green & Sons, Printers, 1924. Octavo, tipped-in plates, a little pale foxing, original title wrappers (showing faint ink marking). . $225. Extremely scarce. Compiled by Hudson & Wardrop, archi- tects, the brochure is illustrated with tipped-in drawings, and was issued by the National Memorial Executive Com- mittee. Loosely inserted is a circular letter, signed by John Monash, soliciting funds for the building.

136. Snowy River Committee. Proposals to Divert the Snowy River. November, 1948. Foolscap folio, processed, 141. William STRUTT. Victoria the Golden; Scenes, printed on rectos only, with two large folding plans, stapled Sketches and Jottings from Nature. Melbourne, Parliament in original card wrappers, with three related 1960s pieces of of Victoria, 1980. Oblong folio, colour illustrations, original ephemera. $125. gilt-decorated morocco. $400. Proposals for development of the waters of the Snowy River Special deluxe issue of 250 numbered copies (#80). Faithful date back to 1884, but the first proposal involving both ir- facsimile edition of Strutt’s own sketchbook. rigation and electricity generation was not put forward until 1944. This first report of the Committee (comprising Com- 142. Supreme Court of Victoria. Barristers - Attorneys, monwealth, NSW and Victorian members) recommends a Rules and Regulations. [with] 1854. Amended Rules of the scheme diverting water from the Eucumbene, Upper Murray Supreme Court (Redmond Barry, Acting Chief Justice). and Upper Murrumbidgee catchments to the Tumut River. Melbourne, John Ferres, Government Printing Office, 1852. Foolscap folio, pp. 4, blue paper, disbound [with] Foolscap 137. [Arthur SMITH]. The History of Hawthorn to 1895. folio, single sheet. $165. Hawthorn, Smith & Corrigan, 1896. Small octavo, pp. 113, modern quarter red morocco over marbled boards, a very 143. Alexander SUTHERLAND. Victoria and its Metropo- good copy. $650. lis, Past and Present. Melbourne, McCarron, Bird & Co., Reprinted from the Hawthorn and Boroondara Standard. 1888. Two volumes, quarto, frontispieces, illustrations, origi- nal claret morocco, gilt-decorated, all edges gilt, small defects 138. Sunshine. Sunshine Cavalcade, Souvenir booklet at head of both spines, a superior set, strong in the binding commemorating the Proclamation of the City of Sunshine. and with virtually none of the typical wear and rubbing. Sunshine, May 1951. Small quarto, wrappers, pp. 80, $1750. illustrated. $150. First edition: a suitably impressive centenary production, Scarce. The souvenir has good pictorial content, showing with extensive biographical detail of our leading citizens, a both domestic and industrial buildings, and also includes an history of the state, and separate accounts of the different Honor Roll for both wars. regions of Victoria. Ferguson, 16439. 144. Tatura. Back To Tatura. Souvenir Edition. Tatura, 150. Picturesque Victoria and how to get there. Guardian Office, 1923. Broadsheet, illustrated, stapled and Melbourne, McCarron, Bird & Co., Printers, January 1905. folded, illustrated front cover printed in violet. $150. Octavo, tipped-in colour lithographed map of Gippsland Very scarce. Lakes, illustrated throughout, original wrappers, flecked on verso of front wrapper. $100. 145. Andrew alias William TODD. The Todd Journal; Revised edition. John Batman’s Recorder and his Indented Head Journal 1835. Geelong Historical Society, 1989. Octavo, plates, 151. Picturesque Victoria and how to get there, A illustrations, pp. 119, maps to end-papers, boards, handbook for tourists containing general information regard- dustwrapper, a fine copy. $45. ing railways, coaches, steamboats, fares, etc., issued by Signed by the editor, P. L. Brown. the Victorian Railways. Melbourne, Osboldstone & Co. Pty. Ltd., Printers, November 1912. Octavo, folding map at rear, tipped-in colour lithographed map of Gippsland Lakes, illus- Tourist Guides trated throughout, original pictorial card covers (two spots), a very good copy. $150. 146. Melbourne Subur- Seventh edition. ban Hotel, Guest & Boarding House Guide 152. Standard Guide to Victoria, containing a comprehen- and Tourist Handbook. sive description of the principal country towns and tourists’ Melbourne, Victorian resorts. Melbourne, A. N. Smith, 1899. Octavo, folding map Railways Advertising tipped to front endpaper, stapled as issued, original pictorial Division, (1924-25). card wrappers, the front wrapper partly detached with conse- Oblong octavo, illustrated quent tears to Index leaf. $300. and with folding map, Ferguson, 15770a. stapled in original pictorial wrappers. $100. 153. Visitors’ Guide to Melbourne. Above, No. 146. Melbourne, Victorian Below, No. 147. Government Tourist Bureau, no date (circa 1925). 147. Melbourne Sub- Octavo, illustrated, urban Hotel, Guest & Boarding House Guide and folding street and Tourist Handbook. Melbourne, Victorian Railways Adver- tramway map, tising Division, (1927-1928). Oblong octavo, illustrated original pictorial and with folding map, stapled in original pictorial wrappers. wrappers. $100. $65. Beach trips, riverside trips, tram trips. 148. Official Melbourne and Suburban Hotel and Guest- House Guide. Melbourne, Vic- torian Railways Advertising 154. The Division, (1940- Melbourne Guide 41). Book; With Bird’s Octavo, illus- Eye View of Hob- trated and with son’s Bay and other folding map illustrations. Mel- loosely inserted bourne, McCarron, (a couple of Bird & Co., E. W. tears), Cole, no date [1925]. original pictorial Small octavo, plan, wrappers. map, and illustra- $100. tions, stapled in original pictorial wrappers (torn at foot of spine). $100. Sixth edition, 149. Mt Buffalo National Park, Victoria, Australia. completely revised. Melbourne, Victorian Railways, no date (circa 1930s). Octavo, black & white photographic views, double-page map in colour, stapled as issued in original wrappers. $75. Pictorial study of the snowfields, chalet, and surrounding countryside. 155. The Tourists’ Guide to Picturesque Healesville 160. “Where to Go” in Victoria. Melbourne, Victorian and District. Melbourne, J. C. Stephens, 1910. Small octa- Govt. Tourist Bureau, 1935-36. Oblong octavo, illustrated vo, illustrated photographically, stapled in original wrappers, and with folding map, original pictorial wrappers (one crease in fine condition, housed in folding cloth-backed case. $85. at bottom corner), an attractive copy. $120.

156. Trips from Melbourne to the Nearer Ranges; Issued by the Victorian Government Tourist Bureau. Melbourne, Victorian Government Tourist Bureau, no date [1910?]. Tall narrow octavo, illustrated photographically, stapled in original pictorial wrappers, slight flecking of spine fold, in fine condition, with loosely inserted sheet of train fares. $120. Mount Dandenong, Warburton, Healesville, Alexandra, Mount Macedon and regions.

161. [James HINGSTON]. Guide to Excursionists from 157. The Melbourne Booklet, containing particulars of Melbourne, containing Outs for shooting and fishing, scenery Melbourne’s places of beauty & interest, places of and picnic, outs on the bay and the Yarra and for walking, amusement, travelling facilities, prominent business houses, riding and driving. Dedicated to all in search of Health, views of Victoria, and other information of use to country, Recreation and Pleasure. Melbourne, H. Thomas, no date interstate and overseas visitors [cover title]. Melbourne, (circa 1869). Duodecimo, original wrappers, the front with a Frank Buckland & Co., no date [1950s?]. Octavo, illustrated, corner lost, the back decorated with six pictorial vignettes, pp. 32 stapled in original pictorial wrappers, pale marking of pp. [iv] + 25-192, apparently complete but presumably first few leaves. $65. lacking final leaf as the one-page Index lists entries for p. 193. $400. Described in the Preface as an old friend with a new face. 158. Herald & Weekly Times “All that made Outs interesting will be found in this.” Ltd. The Herald Road Guide See Ferguson, 10437e and 10437f. showing the main roads of Victoria - Interstate Routes to 162. Healesville. Companion Guide to Healesville, Blacks’ Sydney, Brisbane, Canberra, Spur, Narbethong, Marysville, Mt. Donnabuang, Ben Cairn Adelaide ... in Speedo Maps. and the Taggerty, Illustrated. Melbourne, The Atlas Press, Melbourne, The Herald & (1916-1917). Octavo, pp. 88 + 17 plates on 9 leaves, Weekly Times Ltd., (circa folding map detached from rear cover, original pictorial 1940s). Octavo, folding map wrappers. $220. with short tear, pp. 216, Scarce. original wrappers. $80.

159. “Where to Go” in Victoria. The Country Hotel & Guest House Guide. Melbourne, The Tourist Development Authority of Victoria, 1947-48. Oblong octavo, illustrated and with folding map, original pictorial wrappers (one crease). $85.

No. 163. No. 162.

163. Healesville. LINDT, J. W. Companion Guide to Healesville, Blacks’ Spur, Narbethong, and Marysville, with sixty-five illustrations. Melbourne, The Atlas Press, 1904 [but later]. Octavo, pp. 72 + 64 pages of plates including 14 in gilt borders, folding map tipped to rear cover, original pictorial wrappers, a fine copy. $250. A Victorian Railways advertisement on the rear cover offers “Through rail & coach tickets from 15th November, 1907, till 30th April, 1908 ...”. 164. Geelong. Easy 173. Souvenir of Melbourne, containing 40 views of the Indicator & Directory principal streets, buildings, etc. Melbourne, Robert Jolley, no to Streets, Shopping & date [circa 1920s]. Oblong octavo, monochrome plates, pp. 32, General Information: tied in original decorated wrappers. $100. Geelong & Seaside Melbourne Illustrated [cover title]. districts, Colac, Lorne Etc. St. Kilda, D. M. McConnell, 174. Souvenir of Melbourne, containing the latest aerial circa 1930. and street views of the principal thoroughfares, buildings, Octavo, two folding maps, river scenes, etc. Melbourne, Osboldstone & Co. Pty. Ltd., no pp. 100, illustrated date [circa 1920s]. Oblong octavo, monochrome plates, pp. advertisements, processed, 32, stapled in original decorated wrappers, with the stamp of stapled in original wrappers, Robertson & Mullens on front wrapper, street grid on inside old ink stain throughout at rear wrapper. $100. upper corner. Melbourne Illustrated [cover title]. $150. 175. Souvenir of Melbourne, containing the latest aerial and street views of the principal thoroughfares, buildings, river scenes, etc. Melbourne, Osboldstone & Co. Pty. Ltd, no date [1920s]. Oblong octavo, monochrome plates, pp. 32, stapled in original decorated wrappers. $100. Tourist Views Melbourne Illustrated, Present-Day Views. [cover title].

165. Beautiful East Gippsland [wrappers title], containing 176. Souvenir of Victoria and Its Metropolis and the views of Bairnsdale, along the Prince’s Highway, The Lakes Leading Inland Cities, 64 Beautiful City and Country Views, and Buchan Caves. Bairnsdale, Howard D. Bulmer, no date with colored frontispiece from Oil Painting by J. H. (1923?). Oblong octavo, pp. 36, full-page photographic plates, Scheltema, illustrating the Garden State of the stapled in original wrappers, lettered in gilt. $140. Commonwealth. Melbourne, Osboldstone & Co., n.d. [191-?). Second edition. Oblong octavo, pp. [64], frontispiece in colour, photographic plates, stapled, partly detached within original decorated 166. Beautiful Melbourne, containing 100 views of wrappers. $125. principal streets, buildings and beauty spots in and around Melbourne. Melbourne, The Specialty Press Pty. Ltd., no date 177. Souvenir of Victoria, Photos by J. A. Sears. Sydney, [circa 1910?]. Oblong octavo, monochrome views, the N.S.W. Bookstall Co., no date [1900?]. Oblong octavo, pp. 32 wrappers with railway and street plans, sewn in original including title, plus folding panorama of Melbourne from the yapp wrappers. $120. Yarra, tied in original decorated wrappers, lettered in gilt. $125. 167. Beauty Spots of Our City, Melbourne, Australia. Melbourne, Osboldstone & Co., Pty. Ltd., no date [circa 178. Souvenir View Book of Melbourne, “The Garden 1924]. Oblong quarto, monochrome illustrations, sewn, in City of the South”. Melbourne, Osboldstone & Co., Pty. Ltd., original decorated wrappers. $100. no date [circa 1950]. Oblong folio, monochrome illustrations, Photographs by Charles Greenham. pp. 56, a fine copy in original yapp wrappers. Includes a double-page view of Melbourne Cup Day at Flemington. $95. 168. East Gippsland and Lakes Entrance [wrappers title], containing views of Bairnsdale, Tambo River, Buchan Caves, 179. Travellers’ Guide to Places of Interest and and Natives of Lake Tyers. Bairnsdale, Howard D. Bulmer, Souvenir of Melbourne. Melbourne, J. Roy Stevens, no date (1920s). Oblong octavo, pp. 28, full-page photograph- Printers, no date [1930s?]. Oblong octavo, stapled in original ic plates (the first in colour), stapled in original wrappers, wrappers, full-page illustrations and maps, printed small crease at inner corner. $85. throughout in brown ink. $125. Seventh edition. Tour guide for visitors arriving by ship. 169. Mount Buffalo : “The Garden of the Gods”, containing ------the latest views of Mount Buffalo, etc. Photos by Vict. Railways and F. Foxcroft. Melbourne, Osboldstone & Co., 180. James TUCKEY. Memoir of a Chart of Port Philip no date [191-?]. Oblong octavo, photographically illustrated, Surveyed in October 1803 ... Edited ... by John Currey. sewn into decorated wrappers. $65. Melbourne, Colony Press, 1987. Octavo, pp. 129, one of 225 numbered copies (#85), marbled boards and quarter calf, fine 170. Pictorial Melbourne, containing the latest views of copy. $150. principal streets, buildings, etc. Melbourne, Gordon and Gotch, no date [1922?]. Oblong octavo, monochrome illustra- 181. Henry Gyles TURNER. A History Of The Colony Of tions, stapled in original wrappers, slight flecking. $100. Victoria, From its Discovery to its Absorption into the Commonwealth of Australia in Two Volumes. London, 171. Scenic Melbourne. Panoramic View of Melbourne, Longmans, Green and Co, 1904. Two volumes octavo, taken from the Fire Station. Sydney, N.S.W. Bookstall Co., double-page street plan, large folding map, pp. 394 + 389, no date. Oblong quarto, panorama of six panels, folding into traces of pale foxing, original cloth gilt with minor original wrappers lettered in gilt. $150. marking, outer and lower edges untrimmed, a very good set. $350. 172. Souvenir of Melbourne, containing 39 views of the The extensive Index was compiled by E. A. Petherick, the principal streets, buildings, etc. Melbourne, Robert Jolley, no bibliographer and book collector, who was at the time a date [circa 1920s]. Oblong octavo, monochrome plates, pp. 32, cataloguer with Francis Edwards & Co. tied in original decorated wrappers, minor blemishes. $100. Melbourne Illustrated, Present-Day Views. [cover title]. 182. C. J. TYERS. Report of an Expedition to Ascertain the 188. Robert WHITWORTH. Bailliere’s Victorian Gazetteer Position of the 141st Degree of East Longitude being the and Road Guide, Containing the most recent and accurate Boundary between New South Wales & South Australia. information as to every place in the colony ... Melbourne, F. Melbourne, Queensberry Hill Press, 1976. Octavo, marbled F. Bailliere, 1865. Octavo, large folding lithographed map, boards and quarter morocco, end-pocket map, pp. 14 + iv, one title-page in red and black, illustrated advertisements, an of 350 (#54)numbered copies, fine. $150. attractive copy in original embossed cloth, rear joint opening, with the binder’s ticket of William Detmold. $1250. 183. Victoria. Souvenir of the Visit of the Empire This is the first of Bailliere’s Victorian Gazetteers. It is now Parliamentary Delegation to Victoria, Australia. very uncommon to find one of these Gazetteers complete with Melbourne, Osboldstone & Co., (1926). Oblong octavo, pp. the map. Ferguson, 6528. [44], photographic illustrations, stapled in original gilt printed wrappers, a fine copy. $125. 189. Robert WHITWORTH. Bailliere’s Victorian Gazetteer and Road Guide, Containing the most recent and accurate 184. Victorian Government Printing Office. Hearty information as to every place in the colony ... Melbourne, Greetings, 1916-17 [cover title]. [Melbourne, 1916]. Oblong Bailliere, 1879. Octavo, large folding lithographed map with octavo, plates, pp. [20], tied with patriotic ribbon in original sellotape repairs on verso of one face, rebound preserving the card wrappers, minor pale stain at foot of front wrapper and original cloth, new endpapers, both boards darkened, corre- first two leaves. $75. sponding tide-mark on fore-edge, a good copy. $850. Attractive Christmas brochure which includes the Office’s Roll of Honour. 190. Williamstown. Convict Labor in Williamstown, Return shewing quantity and value of convict labor performed at 185. Victorian Railways. Report of the Victorian Railways Williamstown, from 1st to 31st October, 1855. Melbourne, Commissioner for the year ending 30th June 1906, 1910, John Ferres, Government Printer, 1855. Foolscap folio, single 1913 and 1923. Melbourne, Government Printer, 1906-1923. sheet, with table showing the number of men employed, Foolscap folio, a series of four annual reports, illustrated hours spent, and description of work. $120. with photographs, diagrams, folding tables & maps (in Parliamentary Paper A, No. 5, 1855. colour), stapled as issued, one blank lower wrapper detached. $200. 191. William B. WITHERS. The History of Ballarat, from the First Pastoral Settlement to the Present Time, With 186. Western District. The Western District Centenary Plans, Illustrations, and Original Documents. Ballarat, The Souvenir, One hundred years of Progress. Terang, Express “Ballarat Star” Office, 1870. Octavo, additional chromolitho- Office, (1934). Folio, illustrated and with full-page map, graphic title-page, folding frontispiece view, eighteen plates original decorated wrappers, a fine copy. $200. (six double-page), pp. 216, errata slip, original embossed Very scarce pictorial souvenir. cloth, backstrip sunned, hinges weak, a clean and attractive copy, presentation inscription from the Vice-President of the With the Map in Colour School of Mines, see F. 18713. $1250. 187. Robert WHITWORTH. Bailliere’s Victorian Gazetteer First edition. and Road Guide, Containing the most recent and accurate in- formation as to every place in the colony ... Melbourne, F. F. 192. Mick WOIWOD. Kangaroo Ground, the highland Bailliere, 1865. Octavo, large folding lithographed map with taken. (Melbourne?), Tarcoola Press, 1994. Quarto, illus- original outline hand-colouring, the map with neat repairs trated, pp. 312, original glazed pictorial boards, fine.$100. to short tears at the gutter, and with a little spotted fox- Uncommon. ing, title-page in red and black, illustrated advertisements, a good copy in early half morocco, a little rubbed, with the 193. Peter YULE (editor). Carlton, a history. Melbourne binder’s stamp of William Detmold. $1750. University Press, 2004. Small quarto, illustrations, pp. 571, An unusual issue of the Gazetteer, in which the map has pictorial wrappers, a mint copy. $65. been hand-coloured to show the outline of the counties. Ferguson, 6528.

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