Elist 41 ~ Posters, Maps, Rugby, Military, Australia, China

Elist 41 ~ Posters, Maps, Rugby, Military, Australia, China

75 items including a group of Australian travel posters by Northfield, Trompf and others; a letter from a woman tradesperson in 1850 Adelaide urging her plumber sister to immigrate; a Paris postcard posted from Germany on the eve of the 1936 Berlin Olympics; maps including Bougainville’s Port Jackson, 1837, Alexandria by Braun & Hogenberg, ca. 1575; Karma, a Story of Early Buddhism by Hasagewa, 1896; 1939 photograph & trip ephemera album of the “Prime Minister of Mirth”, George Robey and wife, their return to England flying Qantas necessitated by the start of W.W.I.I.;  Salictum Woburnense: or, a Catalogue of Willows Indigenous and Foreign, one of 50 copies privately printed, 1829 with 140 plates;  Gen. Winfield Scott, Rules and Regulations for the Field Exercise and Manoeuvres of Infantry in original boards, 1815; print of the dingo from rare colored edition of Philip’s Voyage… to Botany Bay.

Photographs, books, maps, ephemera