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Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Book, William & Robert Chambers, Chambers' Encyclopaedia, Vol. II. BEA-CATA, 1888
Brown leather bound spine with maroon cloth-covered board covers. Gold lettering and gold graphics in six rectangles on spine. Leather corners on outer edges. -
Warrnambool and District Historical Society Inc.
Book, 1939
This book was a prize from Warrnambool High School and donated by Mrs J.P. McMeekin. Warrnambool High School was established in 1907 and merged in the 1990s with Warrnambool North Technical School to form Warrnambool College. Roy Andrews was the Head Master of Warrnambool High School from 1940 to 1947. The McMeekins were early settlers in Warrnambool with family members in the 19th century working for the Shire of Warrnambool and operating a produce store in Warrnambool. This book is of minor interest as it is connected to Warrnambool High School, the McMeekin family and Roy Andrews.This is a hard cover book of 277 pages. The cover is green with black printing on the front cover and spine. The cover is a little stained and rubbed. The bookplate on the first page has printed material and the logo of Warrnambool High School and it is pasted in. Other information on the bookplate is handwritten in black ink. ‘Form 1, Warrnambool High School, 1940, Prize awarded to Joyce …. (name obliterated), for 1st Sewing, Gift of Mrs J.P. McMeekin, R.W. Andrews, Headmaster.’ mcmeekin family, warnambool high school, roy andrews, history of warrnambool -
Supreme Court of Victoria Library
Books, Oeuvres de Voltaire, the Works of Voltaire
Voltaire (1694-1778) is a famous and influential French philosospher. The library purchased the 70 volumes of his complete works in the middle of the 19th Century. This purchase was made by Redmond Barry from the London booksellers Guillaume.This a rare set of volumes in Australia in excellent condition.70 Volumes of leather bound books with gold embossing. Oeuvres de Voltaire, has Guillaume, the booksellers, bookplate. -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Print, Dight's Falls & Kilby Farm, Kew, 1970s
Photographic reproduction of a bookplate from Dorothy Rogers' History of Kew (1973) showing Dights Falls and Kilby farm. dorothy rogers, dights falls, kilby farm -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Book, A Short History of Our Own Times, Vol. 1 of 2 : From the Accession of Queen Victoria to the General Election of 1880, 1881
Brown cloth-covered binding. Front cover decorated with two black framing patterns and a central gilded roundel with decorative design. Title and author on spine in gold lettering. 493pp.history, queen victoria, 1800s -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Book, Thomas Campbell, The Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell, n.d
Brown cloth-covered spine and board covers, impressed graphics and text in black, green and gold.thomas campbell, poetry -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Book, W.F. Rae, Wilkes, Sheridan, Fox: The Opposition Under George the Third, 1874
Red leather-bound spine and cover corners, marbled design paper on covers, red, blue, green and fawn. -
Federation University Historical Collection
Book, Robert H. Thurston, A Manual of the Steam Engine Part II Design, Construction and Operation of the Steam-Engine, 1891
This book was part of the Ballarat School of Mines LibraryA deep red plain cover with John Wiley and Sons name near the bottom of the spine using gold colour. Includes beautiful line illustrations.Bookplate - " School of Mines Ballarat / No. 1253 / Date 28 / 92"ballarat school of mines, ballarat school of mines library, steam, steam engine, ballarat school of mines library book, bookplate, experimental engine -
Federation University Historical Collection
Book, Ballarat Catholic Young Men's Society, 1892, 1892-1894
The Ballarat Catholic Young Men's Society was established on 01 August 1892. This is the organisation's first minute book. Rev. Dr Delaney advocated for the formation of the Ballarat Catholic Young Men's Society. Curtin and Scullin became members of this organisation, and it is where they learnt to debate. William White was one of the founders of the Hibernian Society. 09 August 1893 - Richard Sutton provided a piano for recital by Mr Bailey. Brown hard covered minute book with red spine. It is the first book of the Ballarat Catholic Young Men's Society. The minutes are handwritten in ink. This item is held offsite and will require up to a week to retrieve it into the Geoffrey Blainey Research Centre. Use the email link below right to discuss retrieval.Bookplate from M.C. Carey Post Office Stationary Warehouse. ballarat cathoic young men's society, j. murphy, r. hager, e.j. hayden, e. ryan, r.h. sutton, e.f. ryan, john meehan, w. hawley, w. maloney, e. harmer, james slater, patrick walton, j. parker, j. healey, w. moore, w. murphy, delaney, j.b. pearson, e. adams, george rode, j. moran, w. mcnamara, j.p. daly, y. mcmanamny, j. nugent, james shannon, francis clancy, george armstrong, william lamoriniere, john noonan, john hede, m. tierney, james foran, patrick o'donnell, thomas ballinger, thomas carey, h. bradley, j. cullan, j. o'callaghan, p. breheny, john hand, j. nrennan, w. mclennan, st patrick's day, p. russell, p.j. brown, john pratt, michael callinan, william white, richard h. sutton, carey ward, j. gillies, j. sheehan, rudy hager, w. armstrong, c. cusack, patrick o'hallaran, a. hager, j. manning, john o'grady, arthur smith, andrew quinn, john williams, r. wrigley, john murray, d. hanrahan, w. foley, martin tierney, g. o'malley, james bradley, john shelley, e.j. haydan, e. doherty, a.n.a. hall, w.h. davis, donald hayden, debating, fr o'dowd, south street debating society, bookplate, commercial bookplate, j.j. fitzgerald, p. walsh, h. elligott, j. hastings, j. redden, e. higgins, michael murphy, j. maher, h. mclennan, m. o'dwyer, m. kennedy, thomas nolan, thomas egan, edward mcintyre, w. bibby, j. bolger, st patrick's day procession, j.w. curran, reid's coffee palace, p. mcshane, j. lynch, thomas moran, f. mcconville, a. carnegie, father o'farrell, james carroll, john mcelroy, j. o'shannasay, a.c. carnegie, j.j. cardiff, p. nicholas, j. cullen, t. o'loughlin, thomas o'loughlin, w.h. david, thomas loughlin, h. mccauley, j. whiting, f. lynch, d. ryan, c. carey, m.c. carey, cyms -
Mont De Lancey
Book, The Girl's Own Annual, 1924
The contents of the book are for girls and women with stories, knitting and sewing patterns, handy home hints, factual information and more. There is an emphasis on Royal Family life.A large thick, heavy green hardcover Girl's Own Annual Volume 46 with a large square picture depicting two women walking in the snow holding bunches of holly. The title is in red print and there is holly surrounding the illustration. The spine has the title printed in gold lettering, holly leaves and Vol 46 in black type at the bottom. It is a 1924 edition of this series. The end papers show green tinted woods and a stream. The coloured frontispiece is of a woman decorating a Christmas Tree from the story - The Christmas Fairy. Tissue paper protects this page. The contents of the book are for girls and women with stories, knitting and sewing patterns, handy home hints, factual information and more. There is an emphasis on Royal Family life. Inside is a 1997 religious bookmark for a Ekankar Seminar, Brisbane Australia. A bookplate is pasted at the front of the book. non-fictionThe contents of the book are for girls and women with stories, knitting and sewing patterns, handy home hints, factual information and more. There is an emphasis on Royal Family life.books, children's books, awards, adventure stories, family life fiction, family life -
Mont De Lancey
Book, Diocesan Book Society, The Book of Common Prayer, c. 1800's
A miniature, antique, The Book of Common Prayer, and administration of the sacraments, and other rites and ceremonies of the church, according to the use of The Church of England: together with the Psalter or Psalms of David. Prayer books help us find the words when we are in a crisis and do not know what to say, as well as for daily and Sunday worship in the English language.A faded, badly damaged black miniature leatherette antique hardcover book, The Book of Common Prayer. The Church of England together with The Psalter or Psalms of David. On the front cover and the spine is stamped in gold lettering - Common Prayer. At the bottom of the spine is printed in gold: London. Underneath the title on the front are five tiny crowns in a line. At the back there are Forms of Prayer, The Form and Manner and other prayers. The pages have gilt edges. 355Pp but some are missing at the end. On the right front end paper is a bookplate from St Hilda's Sunday School , Macclesfield with the award to Ada ? 1904.non-fictionA miniature, antique, The Book of Common Prayer, and administration of the sacraments, and other rites and ceremonies of the church, according to the use of The Church of England: together with the Psalter or Psalms of David. Prayer books help us find the words when we are in a crisis and do not know what to say, as well as for daily and Sunday worship in the English language.religious books, hymn books, prayer books -
J. Ward Museum Complex
Book - Religious Text, The Traveller’s Guide from Death to Life - Editor: Mrs. Stephen Menzies
Religious text used in Victoria's mental institutionsA good example of the texts relating to Protestant Missions in the late 1800s18.5 cm x 25 cm. 160 pages. Hardcover [publisher’s original navy blue pebbled-finished cloth]. Gilt-stamped device with title and black tooled borders on front board. Blind border tooling to rear board. Fair condition with some significant signs of external wear. Faded and torn cloth at spine. Binding relatively firm and solid. Sharp cornered interior clean and with some aging. Tricoloured Bookplate carrying “Sin, Subsitution, Salvation” and similiarly themed quotes. bible, biblical commentary, protestantism, religious literature -
Federation University Historical Collection
Book, Railway Practice: a collection of working plans and practical details of construction in the public works of the most celebrated engineers, 1847 (exact)
A green cloth hard cover book. Title and author's name are engraved in gold on spine. This is the 3rd edition, first series with black and white illustrations. It describes the engineering practices of the early days of British railroads. The book includes (series 1 to 4)and it contains, roads, tramroads and railroads, bridges, aqueducts, viaducts, wharfs, warehouses, roofs, and sheds, canals, locks, sluices, & the various works on rivers, streams, etc., harbours, docks, piers and jetties, tunnels, cuttings and embankments, the several works connected with the drainage of marshes, marine sands, and the irrigation of land, water-works, gas-works, water-wheels, mills, engines.civil engineering, railway practice, rail constructions, s c brees, western railway great britain, public works, railroads, canals, s.c. brees, samuel brees, samuel charles brees -
Federation University Historical Collection
Book, Frederick Hovenden et al, "What is Heat? and What is Electricity?, 1900
This book was originally part of the library of the Ballarat Ironworkers' and Polytechnic Association. It is one of the volumes of the library of the late James Oddie. He bequeathed the book to the Ironworkers' Association in 1911. Green cloth covered book of 329 pages with gold letters on the spine and cover. The book includes illustrations.Bookplate on inside front cover "The Ballarat Ironworkers' and Polytechnic Association No 1660"electricity, heat, ballarat ironworkers' and polytechnic association, james oddie -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Book, Chambers' Encyclopaedia, Vol. IV, Dion to Pric, 1888
Brown leather bound spine with maroon cloth-covered board covers. Gold lettering and gold graphics in six rectangles on spine. Leather corners on outer edges.reference -
Federation University Historical Collection
Printing block, Ballarat Junior Technical School 'Ex Libris' printing Block
The Ballarat Junior Technical School was a division of the Ballarat School of Mines. A metal printing block mounted on timber. The block states 'Junior Technical School Ballarat. School of Mines. Ex Libris' and was used for printing bookplates.ballarat junior technical school, bookplate, printing, printing block -
Federation University Bookplate Collection
Work on paper - Bookplate, Alice in Wonderland
After a quiet period, interest in bookplates in Australia began to increase in the early 1970s, Entrepreneurial art and book collectors such as Edwin Jewell and others commissioned multiple Bookplate designs from a range of well known fine artists. At a 1997 meeting in Melbourne of the Ephemera Society of Australia Edwin Jewell and others announced the formation of the Australian Bookplate Society. The society was instrumental in promoting the art of the bookplate through establishment of the Australian Bookplate Design competition. The competition includes a design award for International bookplate designers and graphic artists. as well as Australian secondary school students. Art movements Artist’s statement Subjects Bookplate, Australian Bookplate Design awards, Kieth Wingrove Trust Entered in the International Bookplate Design section of the the Australian Bookplate Society's 'Australian Bookplate Design competition for 2020.Pencilled beneath image: 17/40- "Alice e il Bianconiglio" - signature of artist. -
Federation University Bookplate Collection
Work on paper - Bookplate, Centenary of Lithuania
After a quiet period, interest in bookplates in Australia began to increase in the early 1970s, Entrepreneurial art and book collectors such as Edwin Jewell and others commissioned multiple Bookplate designs from a range of well known fine artists. At a 1997 meeting in Melbourne of the Ephemera Society of Australia Edwin Jewell and others announced the formation of the Australian Bookplate Society. The society was instrumental in promoting the art of the bookplate through establishment of the Australian Bookplate Design competition. The competition includes a design award for International bookplate designers and graphic artists. as well as Australian secondary school students. Art movements Artist’s statement Subjects Bookplate, Australian Bookplate Design awards, Kieth Wingrove Trust Entered in the International Bookplate Design section of the the Australian Bookplate Society's 'Australian Bookplate Design competition for 2020. -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Book, The Victorian Statutes 1890, Vol VI, 1890
Fawn cloth bound, spine and covers. Black text on spine.victorian government, state government, parliament, governance -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Book - Book - The Victorian Statutes 1890, Vol III, The Victorian Statutes 1890, Vol III, 1890
Fawn cloth bound, spine and covers. Black text on spine. -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Book - Book - The Victorian Statutes 1890, Vol V, The Victorian Statutes 1890, Vol V, 1890
Fawn cloth bound, spine and covers. Black text on spine. -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Book, Alone, c. 1889
Blue cloth-covered binding. Title and author on spine in blue lettering against a gold design. 320pp.fictionromance, female author, woman, 1854, american -
Federation University Historical Collection
Book, Dr F. Knapp, Chemical Technology or, Chemistry Applied to the Arts and to Manufactures, Vol 3, 1851
Tan hard covered book on 458 pages. It includes illustrations.Bookplate - Ballarat School of Mines Library - Book No 874 Presented by R.H. Blandchemistry, rivet henry bland, ballarat school of mines library, bookplate -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Book - Book - Chambers' Encyclopaedia, Vol. III. Cata to Dion, William & Robert Chambers, Chambers' Encyclopaedia, Vol. III. Cata to Dion, 1888
Brown leather bound spine with maroon cloth-covered board covers. Gold lettering and gold graphics in six rectangles on spine. Leather corners on outer edges. -
Federation University Historical Collection
Book, The Engineer and Machinist's Drawing-Book: a complete course of instruction for the practical engineer, Possibly c1887
A large brown cloth hardcover book with black leather spine and corners. Title is engraved in gold on spine. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood and steel, including select details, and complete machines. Illustrations in b/w. It includes a list of b/w plates, a table of contents, 116 p. of text and 112 p. of plates. This workwork provids instruction on drawing and illustrating heavy machinery including steam engines. It also contains lessons in drawings and examples of approved construction. non-fictionengineer drawings, drawing instruments, the sector, the lines of numbers, drawing of elementary forms, m le blanc, mm armengaud, linear drawing, projection, eccentric curves, machinery sketching, forms of gearing, projections of shadows, spur gearing -
Ballarat Clarendon College
Book, The life of Nelson
Ian Graham attended Ballarat College 1924 - 1930; a member of Garbutt; Ian married old collegian Gwen Griffith (1935)Dark red leather bound book with gold lettering and ornamentation on spine; gold crest on front cover;bookplate in inside front cover; black and white illustrations;Book plate: Crest / Ballarat College / IV Form / 2nd prize / Awarded to / Ian Graham / A Richardson A / December / 1925ian graham, ballarat college -
Ballarat Clarendon College
Book, The heart of Mid-Lothian
Ian Graham attended Ballarat College 1924 - 1930; member of Garbutt House; he married old collegian Gwen Griffiths (1935) Dark red leather bound book with gold lettering and ornamentation on spine; gold crest on front cover; bookplate in inside front cover; black and white illustrations;Book plate; Crest / Ballarat College / V A Form / SECOND Prize / Awarded to / I G GRAHAM / A Richardson BA / December 1929 Principalian graham, ballarat college -
Ballarat Clarendon College
Book, Amercian notes and a child's history of England
Ian Graham attended Ballarat College 1924 - 1930; a member of Garbutt; Ian married old collegian Gwen Griffith (1935)Dark red leather bound book with gold lettering and ornamentation on spine; gold crest on front cover; bookplate in inside front cover; black and white illustrations;Book plate: Crest / Ballarat College / VB Form / Special Prize / The gift of Mrs John MacLeod / Awarded to / Ian Graham / A Richardson BA / December / 1926ian graham, ballarat college, book prize -
Ballarat Clarendon College
Book, Charles George Gordon
Awarded to Donald Neil Symons for excellence in Scripture during his final year at Ballarat College. Neil was educated at Ballarat College (Dux 1933) and Ormond College, Melbourne University. He became a Clothing industry leader and was Fletcher Jones' distinguished successor as chief executive of the FJ organisation, and a prominent advocate for the Australian textile and clothing industries, decentralised industry and government support of employee share ownership schemes. Small, maroon leather-bound book with gold title and detailing on spine and gold school crest on front cover; plain endpapers; bookplate inside front cover.Book plate inside front covers: school crest / Ballarat College / Sixth Form / Scripture Prize / (Gift of Mrs T R Cairns) / Awarded to / D N Symons / A Richardson, BA / December 1930 Principaldonald-neil-symons, fletcher-jones, cairns -
Federation University Bookplate Collection
Work on paper - Bookplate, Ex Libris Ramana Maharshi
After a quiet period, interest in bookplates in Australia began to increase in the early 1970s, Entrepreneurial art and book collectors such as Edwin Jewell and others commissioned multiple Bookplate designs from a range of well known fine artists. At a 1997 meeting in Melbourne of the Ephemera Society of Australia Edwin Jewell and others announced the formation of the Australian Bookplate Society. The society was instrumental in promoting the art of the bookplate through establishment of the Australian Bookplate Design competition. The competition included an award for International bookplate designs.Trio of stylised faces with 'Ex Libris Ramana Maharshi in balloon lower right.Pencilled beneath image EA 2/5 Milo 2019 and detail in Croatian with a circular impress stamp.bookplate, australian bookplate design awards, kieth wingrove trust, international bookplate design