No dust jacketnon-fictionsea voyage, allan villiers (1903-1982), keith oliver, donation, windjammers

The brass cornet was owned by early Australian Jazz musician and multi-instrumentalist Benny Featherstone Benny Featherstone is considered "one of the most fascinating and gifted musicians in the history of Australian jazz" (Johnson, Oxford Companion to Australian Jazz, p 154). Once described as "Australia's Louis Armstrong"Buescher brass cornetTrue tone. Pat. Oct 89.07 287335 LP 262 The Buescher Elkhart Ind. U.S.A.benny featherstone, prince of good fellows, thirties, jazz musician, melbourne jazz musician, drummer, 1930 s, buescher cornet, trumpeter, trombonist, clarinetist, pianist, early australian jazz

The Ballarat School of Mines was the first school of technical education in Australasia.Double page, double sided, newspaper article from The Weekly Times with 10 images and captions depicting scenes within the School of Mines and Industries, Ballarat Technical Art School and Junior Technical School, Ballarat. Verso: Top Half page: 5 photographs on Callawadda, A pastoral district near Glenorchy Verso Bottom Half page: large photograph of boys attending the Junior technical school at Ballarat Verso Right hand page: 7 "Intersting photographs from England, Scotland and The United StatesSide A: Magazine- Section 8, The Weekley Times, Heading and captions, torn lower left corner to centre, small tears throughout especially left hand side and centre fold, Side B: the weekly times, school of mines and industries, scientific instruments, junior technical school, ballarat, smb, ballarat school of mines, university of ballarat, 1934, callawadda, glenorchy, boys, hutchings, mr j. c. hutchings j.p., state school, bryn avon homestead, broadcasting, mrs hutchings, sheep, xray, cancer treatment, northern belle, loch lomond, oxford college, red lion brewery, aldershot tattoo, siege of namur, battleship, idianapolis battleship, new york, quartz crushing battery, machine shop, pottery, electrical engineering, art department, dressmaking, building, woodwork, assaying, laboratory, architectural drawing, engineering drawing, drawing, assay, drawing from the antique, plaster casts, assay room, ballarat technical art school, bicycles

Black cloth covered book with leather spine. Colour illustrationsballarat technical art school, ballarat technical art school library, bank of australasia, mount kosciusko, siry henry parkes, pyrmont bridge, maori, ancient egypt, julian ashton, st andrew'e cathedral sydney, edmond thomas blacket, sydney university, comisariat stores circular quay, the rocks, w. lister-lister, sydney domestic architecture, james barnet, john horbury hunt, sidney long, maori art, wall decoratoni, paperhangings, australian stained glass, art and architecture, stamped metalwork, w.c. piguenit, australian architecture, rose bay convent chapel, australian posters, pottery, cyril blacket, bookbinding, new south wales state library architecture, oxford st sydney'tom roberts, repousse, sydney harbour bridge, john longstaff, women painters, the great pyramid of egypt, skyscraper comes to new south wales, melbourne hospital plans, governor bligh, electric illumination

Four handrwriiten reports to the Ballarat School of Mines Council. ballarat school of mines, principals report, maurice copland, herbert h. smith, l.t. smith, architect, lewis s. smith, ballarat technical art school, motor car mechanics, wanliss & boyd, ballarat trustees executors & agency company limited, letterhead, oxford chambers, oxford chambers tenancy

The Oxford Companion to Australian Military History covers all aspects of this complex and fascinating subject.australia - history, military - encyclopedias, australia - armed forces - biography

Inscribed on back of plaque "Presented To Laurie MacPherson"

Ill, p.320.fictionCommemorating the 150th anniversary of one of the most beloved classics of children's literature, this illustrated edition presents Alice like you've never seen her before. In 1865, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, an Oxford mathematician and Anglican deacon, published a story about a little girl who tumbles down a rabbit hole. Thus was the world first introduced to Alice and her pseudonymous creator, Lewis Carroll. childrens literature, fictional literature

An old rare damaged brown heavily embossed patterned hardcover book, The Life of The Rev. John Wesley, A.M. by Richard Watson. The spine is missing. There are loose pages particularly at the front with pencil and ink inscriptions. A sewing pin is holding the black and white portrait of John Wesley to the endpaper. The spine edge inside has grey tape holding the endpapers together. There are dirty marks, severe tanning and foxing noted all through this 1851 edition. 485p. with a few pages at the back of further religious works by the publisher John Mason.non-fictionThe life of The Rev. John Wesley, A.M. sometime fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford and founder of the Methodist Societies.religion, biography, methodist church history