Green/Yellow covered card. Gold lettering, depiction of sea on front cover. Black lettering on gold on spine. 301 pages.

Front Cover: Blue/Green background woman in red top centre woman with hair swept to one side black long earings, black necklace black lace fan. Back Cover: Advertisement for Bushells Coffee Essence. 48 pages.

Light green cloth-covered board covers and spine. Black text on front cover and spine. Free Library label on inside front cover. Bell's Illustrated Classics: Vergil's Aeneid Book 2 and Caesar De Bello Gallico Book 2poetry, history, ancient rome, caesar, virgil

Illustrated book with carboard cover. Front cover has a central colour illustration of a church, a bell and a fir tree bough. 28 pp. Gilt edges to pages.The story involves Bessie, a young woman whose lover, Basil Underwood, has been arrested, thrown in prison by the Puritans and sentenced to die that night when the curfew bell rings. Knowing that Oliver Cromwell will be late in arriving, the young woman begs the old sexton to prevent the ringing of the curfew bell. When he refuses, she climbs to the top of the bell tower and heroically risks her life by manually stopping the bell from ringing. Cromwell hears of her deed and is so moved that he issues a pardon for Underwood.poem, narrative, puritans, civil war

Collection of reference texts on seashells. Includes: Dance, Peter S., "Seashells", London: Treasure Press, 1971 (4111.1); "Handy Pocket Guide to Tropical Seashelss of Indonesia, 2004 (4111.2); Dance, Peter S., "Shells", Pymble: Harper Collins, 1992 (4111.3); Linder, Gert, "Seahshells of the world", Sydney: Australia & New Zealand Book Company, 1977 (4111.4); Wilson, B. R. & K. Gillett, "Australian Shells", Sydney: Reed, 1971 (4111.5); Harasewych, M.G., "Shells: Jewels from the Sea", New York: Rizzoli, 1989 (4111.6); "The Golden Stamp Book of Seashells", Wisonsin: Golden Books, 1975 (4111.7); Taylor, John & Jerry G. Walls, "Cowries", Neputune City: T.F.H. Pblications, 1975 (4111.8); Child, John & John Currey, "Shells and the Seashore", Melbourne: Landsdowne Press, 1972 (4111.9); "Sea Shells", London: Orbis Books, 1971 (4111.10); Dance, S. Peter, "Shells and shell collecting", London: Hamlyn, 1972 (4111.11); Clayton, JM, "All colour book of Seashells:, London: Octopus Books, 1974 (4111.12); "Exploring the Secrets of Nature", London: Reader's Digest, 1994 (4111.13); Habe, Tadashige, "Shells of the Western Pacific in colour: Vol I", Osaka: Hoikusha, 1964 (4111.14); Habe, Tadashige, "Shells of the Western Pacific in colour: Vol II", Osaka: Hoikusha, 1964 (4111.15); Dance, Peter S. (ed.), "The Encyclopedia of Shells", Sydney: Australia & New Zealand Book Company, 1977 (4111.16); Hinton, Alan, "Guide to Shells of Papua New Guinea", Port Moseby: Robert Brown and Associates, nd (4111.17); Hinton, Alan, "Guide to Australian Shells", Port Moseby: Robert Brown and Associates, nd (4111.18); "The How and Why wonder book of seashells", New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1972 (4111.19); Child, J., "Australian Golden Stamp Book: Australian Seashells",Sydney: Golden Press, 1971 (4111.20); Hinton, Alan, "Shells of New Guinea and the Central Indo-Pacific", Port Morsby; Milton: Robert Brown and Associates Pty Ltd; The Jacaranda Press, 1975 (4111.21); Coleman, Neville, "Shells in Australia", Sydney: Reed, 1978 (4111.22); Coleman, Neville, "What Shell is That?", Sydney: Ure Smith Press, 1988 (4111.23); Coleman, Neville, "Shells Alive!", Adelaide: Rigby Publishers, 1981 (4111.24); Deas, Walter, "Seashells of Australia", Adelaide: Rigby Ltd, 1974 (4111.25).maritime, marine ecology, sea shells, reference, natural history

Light green cloth-covered board covers and spine. Black text on front cover and spine. Portland Free Library label on inside front cover.poetry, roman, ancient, aeneid, classical poetry

Dark green cloth-covered board covers and spine. Red borders impressed on cover. Graphics on cover and spine in red and black and gold.An historical tale set in Scotland at the time of the Reformation in the mid sixteenth century.reformation, fiction, scotland

Light blue cloth-covered spine and covers. Graphics lower right hand front cover, gold. Text on spine, discoloured gold.

Light brown leather bound spine and corners. Gold on spine hi-lighted by red background textured blue/dark brown cloth covered covers.state government, victorian government, governance, parliament, administration

Green cloth-covered book with picture of a poppy on the cover and main title and author's name in gold lettering. Floral end papers. 264 pp.

Blue cloth binding over carboard covers, with title in gold on spine. Title in white outlined with black on front cover, with picture of two men in pith helmets seated before tents and camels. Detailed in white. 360 pp.history, war

Light brown leather bound spine and corners. Gold on spine hi-lighted by red background textured blue/dark brown cloth covered covers.victorian government, state government, administration, governance

Dark green grained fabric over hard cardboard, red leather corners and spine. Gold lettering on black band on spine. Gold crown & lettering on spine.victorian government, state government, administration, governance

Red cloth-covered spine and covers. Impressed design on cover and spine. Gold text and graphics on spine.history, queen victoria, royal history, 1900s, 1800s

Red cloth-covered spine and covers. Impressed design on cover and spine. Gold text and graphics on spine.history, queen victoria, royal history, biography

Maroon cloth binding over carboard covers, with title and author in gold on spine and cover, within framing design. Gold edged pages. 366 pp.My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year by John Henry Jowett is about Jowett's daily meditations on the Word of God. Excerpt: "BRAM began his journey without any knowledge of his ultimate destination. He obeyed a noble impulse without any discernment of its consequences. He took "one step," and he did not "ask to see the distant scene." And that is faith, to do God's will here and now, quietly leaving the results to Him."meditation, religion, christianity

Pearson Family Bible. Tan leather bound King James bible, embossed on front & Back covers. Spine also embossed and ridged horizontally. Gold lettering on spine. Gold edges to pages. Two brown satin bookmarks contains family register between Old and New Testamentsreligious text, religion, bible, family bible, pearson family, king james

Green cloth binding over carboard covers, with title in gold in top right corner. Depiction of two boys within a roundel on front cover with flowers. Details picked out in red. 121 pp.victorian fiction

Two metal Pelaco Counter-top Signs, from Campbell's Stores, Percy Street. Portland Front Black. with metal border. Printing in red and white.

Blue cloth binding over carboard covers, with title and author in gold on spine and cover. 446 pp.medicine, holistic, homeopathy

Red cloth binding over carboard covers, with title in gold at top edge. Black and white drawing depicting a girl and a boy seated on a part bench on the front cover, with floral decoration surrounding them. 177 pp.childrens fiction, fiction, women authors

Tan cloth-covered binding with section of dustjacket glued to front cover. Title and author on spine in black lettering. 223pp.Account of an Australian woman in Vanuatu when it was the New Hebrides and and 'outpost' of Empirehistory, social history, vanuatu, new hebrides, colonial, womens history, women authors

Pale green paper binding covers, with title and author in black on spine and cover (within deceorative borders). 446 pp.

Blue cloth binding over carboard covers, with title in gold at top edge. Man riding a chariot with four horses depicted in a roundel at lower edge of cover, with details in gold. 200 pp.childrens fiction, fiction, women authors

Tourist guide to Portland, produced by Barcham's chemist; historical notes and places and buildings to see. Yellow, 3 fold, black print.tourism, portland, travel, advertising

Pale green paper binding covers, with title and author in black on spine and cover (within deceorative borders). 446 pp.archives, reference, state library, catalogue, victoria

Blue cloth-covered book with title in gold on banners depicted on front, and side view of head with stylised brain. Advertisements in final pages. 88 pp.phrenology, brain, medical, reference

Red cloth binding over carboard covers, with title in gold in top left corner. 191 pp.Engaged to the young king of Bukhara, Lalla Rookh goes forth to meet him, but falls in love with Feramorz, a poet from her entourage. The bulk of the work consists of four interpolated tales sung by the poet: "The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan" (loosely based upon the story of Al-Muqanna), "Paradise and the Peri", "The Fire-Worshippers", and "The Light of the Harem". When Lalla Rookh enters the palace of her bridegroom she swoons away, but revives at the sound of a familiar voice. She awakes with rapture to find that the poet she loves is none other than the king to whom she is engagedpoem, oriental, persian, thomas moore, irish, 18th century

Fawn cloth bound, spine and covers. Black text on spine. The General Public Acts of Victoria in 5 Volumes.victorian government, state government, administration, governance