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“Souvenir of the Official Opening of the Sydney-Melbourne Standard Gauge Railway Line”, Department of Railways New South Wales, 12 April 1962; ring-bound booklet with colour and black & white photographs “Location Diagram Showing Departure Arrangements at Sydney Terminal Station” Official Opening of the Sydney - Melbourne Standard Gauge Railway Line 12 April 1962; Dept Railways NSW diagram “Inauguration of Standard Gauge Passenger Services, General Information for Departmental Officers”; 3 typed pages *Note this is only part of the lot.

Map of Sydney & Suburbs Showing Tramway Lines and Stopping Places.

$2950

Scarce large scale detailed map of Sydney tramway lines. McCarron Stewart & Co, continually updated this map, ours includes the Woolloomooloo Line

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J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings – 1969 First std India paper edition, George Allen & Unwin Ltd. .

$1950

First edition, thus: octavo; hardcover, full buckram cloth with gilt spine rules and titles and upper board decoration, and marbled endpapers; 1,195pp., all edges marbled, with red titles to the title page, another instance of red Elvish text, and two red-embellished maps, one of “A Part of the Shire” and a folding chart of Middle Earth, along with some alphabetical tables and genealogical charts. Minor wear; some buckling to the early pages, as per usual with this stock; some dog-eared pages. No dust wrapper as issued. Near fine in a slightly rubbed slipcase.

EXPLORATIONS IN SOUTH-WEST AFRICA

$1500

EXPLORATIONS IN SOUTH-WEST AFRICA. By Thomas Baines. Being an Account of a Journey in the Years 1861 and 1862 from Walvisch Bay, on the Western Coast, to Lake Ngami and the Victoria Falls. Lond. Longman Green Longman Roberts 1864. A first edition copy rebound in half morocco with cloth sides. 535pp. t.e.g. (sl foxing) Chromo-lithograph frontispiece, 7 b/w plates, b/w ills. + three fold-out maps. Very good copy. 1st ed. Scarce. Between 1861 & 1862 the British explorer undertook an expedition to South West Africa with James Chapman. With maps by Baines & wood engravings by G. Pearson.

La Fille aux Yeux d’Or

$2000

An aristocratic libertine becomes obsessed with a beautiful woman and sets about seducing her. Alas, his conquest uncovers a hidden lesbian relationship and he finds himself entangled in web of erotic obsession and fatal jealousy. The first edition with illustrations by Almery Lobel-Riche. One of 40 numbered copies on Japanese paper with the etchings in 3 states and an original drawing.

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Hurricane Hawk Magazines

$1200

No. 4, November 1938. 64 pages. ($300) No. 7. 48 pages. ($300) No. 8, April 1939. 48 pages. ($300) No. 13, September 1939. 48 pages. ($300)

BRADSHAW ART OF THE KIMBERLEY

$2200

BRADSHAW ART OF THE KIMBERLEY. By Grahame L.Walsh. Toowong. Takarakka Nowan Kas Publs. 2000. Oblong Folio. Or.bds. 464pp. Profusely illustrated in colour with much of the Aboriginal splendid rock art of the Kimberley region. Fine copy. 1st ed. A splendid volume. Very Scarce.

The poultry book; comprising the characteristics, management, breeding, and medical treatment of poultry ...

$850

Wingfield, W. and C. W. Johnson, editors. London: William S. Orr, 1853. Small quarto, 21 chromolithographs by Harrison Weir. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, some wear, a leaf and one plate loose, gilt spine, all edges marbled, a sound copy of a handsome book. "The plates are early chromolithographs. A second edition, rearranged by Tegetmeier, was put out in 15 monthly parts in 1856-7" Palmer p. 30.

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Peking. The Beautiful. Comprising Seventy Photographic Studies of the Celebrated Monuments of China's Northern Capital and its Environs Complete with Descriptive and Historical Notes.

$4250

Handsome publication of scenic and historical monuments of Beijing, including the city gates and walls, Temple of Heaven, Forbidden City, Summer Palace, Hunting Park, South Sea Palaces, pagodas, and temples. 71 tipped-in full-page monochrome and colour photographic plates, each with a decorative border and caption in Chinese, descriptive text leaf (in English) opposite. With an elegant Chinese calligraphic inscription from Han Huida [韩辉达] with his chop, for presentation "To Miss Xihuo" [希活姑娘芳鑒], possibly as a formal business gift.

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Theatrum Botanicum: The Theater of Plants. Or, An Herball of Large Extent

$5500

Monumental work of herbal medicine by the English herbalist and botanist John Parkinson (1567-1650) in which over 3,800 plants are described and illustrated by approximately 2,600 woodcut illustrations. Theatrum Botanicum was a standard reference for apothecaries for over a century after it was published.

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New South Wales Pocket Almanack, for the Year of Our Lord 1814

$20000

Sydney : Compiled and Printed by G. Howe, Government Printer, [1813]. One of the earliest books printed in Australia, compiled and printed by the first government printer, George Howe. As noted by Wantrup, 'about the earliest Australian printed book still available' (Joachim catalogue, 2016).

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A cluster of bees: sixty essays on the life-histories of Australian bees.

$1500

Octavo, coloured frontispiece and numerous illustrations. Secondary (?) publisher's binding, lengthy inscription form the author.

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HENRI MATISSE [after] “LE CHEVAL, L’ECUYÈRE ET LE CLOWN” “ICARE” “L’AVALEUR DE SABRES”, 1947, supplement for the magazine "JOUR DE FRANCE".

$2500

HENRI MATISSE [after] (Le Cateau-Cambrésis 1869- Nice 1954) “LE CHEVAL, L’ECUYÈRE ET LE CLOWN” “ICARE” “L’AVALEUR DE SABRES” 1947 LITHOGRAPHY DESCRIPTION: “The Horse, The Rider and The Clown”; “Icarus”; “Sword Swallower”; Advertising for the series “JAZZ”. Three lithography on two sheets with text at verso. Supplementary publication for the magazine “JOUR DE FRANCE” to advertise the publication of the illustrated book “Jazz” by Henry Matisse. Printed by Tériade in Paris, 1947. SIZE: 315mm(H) x 490mm(L) [both sheets]

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Le Diable au Corps

$2000

The story of a young married woman’s affair with a teenage boy while her husband is away fighting in WWI. The first edition with erotic illustrations by Becat, and with an introduction by Jean Cocteau. The superlative issue, one of 16 numbered copies on Japanese paper with an original signed drawing in pencil and white gouache, with the composition then hand coloured and signed by Becat, the 16 illustrations by Becat hand coloured by Jean and Paulette Monnier, followed by a suite containing the illustrations in black in two states.

1642, THE FLUTE-PLAYER (het Uylenspiegeltje), REMBRANDT HARMENSZOON VAN RIJN, Etching and Drypoint.

$36000

REMBRANDT HARMENSZOON VAN RIJN (Leyden 1606-Amsterdam1669) Dutch school “THE FLUTE-PLAYER” (HET UYLENSPIEGELTJE) 1642 Etching and drypoint DESCRIPTION: A young couple resting beside a stream, the man playing flute with an owl perched on his shoulder, the girl making a flower garland at left. Shepherds do more than their fair share of walking, but their lives also provide ample opportunity for relaxation. It represents an amorous situation and Rembrandt played... NOTE: Fourth state of four, without the face among the branches. Barstch 188, Hollstein Dutch 144,New Hollstein 211.

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THE GAS LASH

$450

“The Gas Lash”, drawn by Martin Sharp first appeared in the OWeek edition of Tharunka, the UNSW student magazine, on February 17, 1964. As a result of a complaint the Vice Squad interviewed Sharp, the printer Francis James and two editors and they were charged and found guilty in the Magistrate’s Court of publishing an obscene publication. On appeal the original verdict was later quashed by Judge A.Levine. This is a separate printing of the cartoon, appearing at the same time as the original in 1964. 370x310cm. Mounted. Fine. Very Scarce. An artefact of 60's Australian censorship struggles.

Edgar Allan Poe (Edmund Dulac, illus.), The Bells and other Poems, Hodder and Stoughton (1912)

$550

Quarto; hardcover, full cloth with gilt spine and upper board titles and decorations, and decorative endpapers; unpaginated, on thick laid paper, with a tipped-in colour frontispiece (with tissue guard), 27 plates likewise, a decorated title page and many other monochrome decorations and illustrations. Moderate wear; a bit shaken; spine cracked; spine a little sunned; text block edges toned and top edge a bit dusted; mild offset to the endpapers; previous owner’s bookplate to the front pastedown; light scattered foxing throughout, mainly to the preliminaries. No dustwrapper. Very good.

The Expected Good End

$12000

Rare Judaica by the Sephardi rabbi and Freemason Solomon Mordecai Ximenes; Containing, The Birth of Jacob, his Dream of the Ladder, his Commandments, and his several prophetic Blessings to his Posterity; and various future Events promised by the Prophets.

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For Sydney, N.S.W., from Battery Wharf, the first-class fast sailing American barque "Witch", 400 tons register ... Boston, October 18, 1869

$800

Boston, Massachusetts : Railway Steam Printing Works, 1869. Clipper card, 165 x 105 mm, lithograph-printed recto only in carmine, azure, and gold on white enamel card; at the head is a vignette illustration with a New Zealand scene, flanked by the United States and British coats of arms, and with the names of the shipping agents Neal & Crowninshield and ship owners Australasian Packet Line above and below; fine condition. Scarce and attractive clipper card advertising a sailing of the Witch, an Australasian Packet Line ship, from Boston to Sydney in October 1869.

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The Adventures of Buck Rogers

$300

“The Adventures of Buck Rogers” No. 12 Dec 1st 1938. Printed and published by Fitchett Brothers Pty. Ltd. Stanley St., West Melbourne, Vic. 64 pages plus covers. Specifications: 21.5 x 27cm

Parramatta and District Soldiers Who Fought in the Great War 1914-1919

$1200

“Parramatta and District Soldiers Who Fought In The Great War 1914-1919”. Printed and wholly set up in 1919 at the Works of “The Cumberland Argus”, from the records of which the Soldiers’ Pages are compiled. Cloth hardback, 266 pages. A comprehensive photographic portrait collection compiled from the records of “The Cumberland Argus”. A combination of black and white pen pictures in addition to other photographs. Local Parramatta region advertisements at front of book.

The Call of the Surf

$250

12 page photographic pictorial of surfing and bathing at Sydney Beaches. Also to include the harbour and coastal views. Photographed, printed and published by Harry Phillips, Katoomba st., Katoomba, circa. 1930s.

Robinson’s road, rail & tramway map of Sydney & Suburbs

$3250

Rare, very large scale c.20th detailed cased map by H.E.C. Robinson showing Sydney and suburbs railways and tramways.

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The confessions of a beachcomber: scenes and incidents in the career of an unprofessional beachcomber in tropical Queensland.

$450

Sharland wrote for over forty years for the Hobart Mercury under the nom de plum Peregrine. He was an admirer of Banfield.

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Life-sized Dolls Exhibited at Asakusa Okuyama (Asakusa Okuyama iki-ningyô)

$2250

Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797–1861) Life-sized Dolls exhibited at Asakusa Okuyama were iki-ningyō (living dolls) created by Matsumoto Kisaburō in 1855, depicting extraordinarily realistic figures made of papier-mâché and bamboo.

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Electrification of Railway Line to Gosford

$450

Souvenir Envelope “Sydney-Gosford Electrification 23.1.1960”, Department of Railways NSW, ‘On Her Majesty’s Service’, 31x42cm “Souvenir Time Table Graph Showing the running of The Official Train that will Inaugurate The Electric Train Service to Gosford, special services conveying interested spectators and regular passenger trains are also included Saturday 23rd January 1960”, 28.5x52cm Souvenir Red Ribbon marked ”First Electric Train Service to Gosford N.S.W. 23rd January 1960” with train picture, 5.5x15cm *Note this is only part of the lot.

A New Dictionary of Natural History; or, Compleat Universal Display or Animated Nature…

$9750

One of the great popular works of natural history, this beautiful large-format work is largely based on the great collection of curiosities and exotic specimens of Sir Ashton Lever, the most influential eighteenth-century collector.

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(LONDON) PANORAMA OF LONDON FROM THE RIVER THAMES.

$595

Wood engraving. A fold-out panorama twenty-one feet in length. Looks northward from the newly-built Houses of Parliament to the Tower of London and St.Katharine’s Docks to the Royal Victualling Office.. Lond. Charles Evans. c.1844. The panorama folds into an octavo booklet which has been rebound but has portion of the original gilt decorated cloth pasted to the front board. Some of the folds have been repaired on the verso of the panorama, else a good copy. Very Scarce. (Image shows only a small part of panorama) Very Scarce. The activity on the Thames shows its importance as a thoroughfare.

“BEAUTY WITH UMBRELLA" c.1830, KIKUKAWA EIZAN, Japanese Woodblock.

$1750

KIKUKAWA EIZAN (1787-1867) “BEAUTY WITH UMBRELLA" c.1830 Woodblock printed in colours DESCRIPTION: Kakemono-e (2 oban prints assembled vertically), depicting a Bijin walking with her umbrella in her kimono. Signed at right. Rare. NOTE: Original woodblocks printed in colours on rice paper. Kakemono-e (two oban assembled vertically). Rare. SIZE: 755mm(H) x 245mm(L) CONDITION: Very good impression. Paper slightly yellowed homogeneously, due to exposition to light (always the case with highly decorative kakemono-e format). Colours slightly faded. Otherwise in very good condition.

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The Worm and the Ring by Anthony Burgess

$2750

London: Heinemann, 1961. Original maroon cloth. Unclipped dustjacket with illustration by John Rowland. First edition in excellent condition. Structured after Wagner's opera Ring Cycle, this story of a teacher in an unhappy marriage and a young girl's stolen diary containing depictions of erotic fantasies was pulled from the market shortly after its publication because of a libel lawsuit.

”GOAT AND RHODODENDRON", 1933c., LIONEL ARTHUR LINDSAY.

$1650

Kenneth Hince Old & Fine Books

LIONEL ARTHUR LINDSAY (Creswick 17-10-1874/Hornsby 22-5-1961) ”GOAT AND RHODODENDRON" c.1933 Wood Engraving DESCRIPTION: A profile of a goat in bust, looking toward left between rhododendron flowers. One of Lionel Lindsay's most well-known and sought after wood engravings. This is considered to be one of Lindsay’s most renowned wood engravings for technical execution. Last of Lindsay's goat subjects and most highly stylised. NOTE: Signed in pencil lower left. Numbered 100 lower right (edition of 100). Mendelssohn p.154. CONDITION: Excellent impression printed on thick ivory wove paper, mounted

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Power Without Glory a Novel in Three Parts by Frank J. Hardy "Ross Franklyn".

$440

Melbourne, Realist Printing and Publishing Co., 1950. Octavo, illustrations, name & date (August 1950) on front paste-down, original brick red cloth lettered in black on spine with Ambrose Dyson dustwrapper (bit chipped). First edition. With loosely inserted contemporary (folded foolscap folio) processed typescript key to the characters. While the first edition had an unusually large print run, the dustwrapper – especially in good state – is uncommon. Cains, 64.

"Les Illuminations" [Poems by Rimbaud], 1949.

$5500

Author: Léger, Fernand. Rimbaud, Arthur. Publisher: Grosclaude, Editions des Gaules, Lausanne. Format: French bound [looseleaf] letterpress book on handmade paper, with paper wrappers, 134pp, 33 x 25cm. Comprising 15 original lithographs, 13 with pochoir, all initialled “F.R” in image lower right. Stamped number “342” from an edition of 395 and signed in pencil and in ink by Léger and editor Louis Grosclaude on colophon. Lithographed preface by Henry Miller. Text in French. Held in MoMA. See more at link.

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QUEEN VICTORIA SIGNED DOCUMENT

$650

QUEEN VICTORIA SIGNATURE. GRANT OF THE ORDER OF THE BATH TO COLONEL HUGH GOUGH, 3 JUNE 1899. Document of a single paper leaf folded. Signed by Queen Victoria at the head of the document and at the end of the document by Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, who became Edward VII in 1901 on the passing of the Queen. Fine copy. Details of the military career of Colonel Gough are provided with the document. Very Scarce.

ADELAIDE OVAL TEST CRICKET 1884-1984, with Don Bradman Signed Cricket Ball

$550

ADELAIDE OVAL TEST CRICKET 1884-1984. By Bernard Whimpress & Nigel Hart. The De-Luxe Edition. Adel. Wakefield Press. 1984. Folio. Full leather binding with gilt SACA logo on front board. 262pp. Many b/w ills. Fine in the original cardboard box. Very Scarce. Limited edition of 299 numbered copies (marking Don Bradman’s highest score made at Adelaide Oval in a Test Match) with a gilt-embossed leather cricket ball signed by Sir Donald Bradman. This copy is no.90.

Les Fleurs du Mal

$9000

The first, and widely considered the best, illustrated edition of Baudelaire's The Flowers of Evil, being the chef d’oeuvre of Belgian artist Armand Rassenfosse. This copy from the collection of Barry Humphries in a fine signed binding.

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The lizards of Australia and New Zealand in the collection of the British Museum.

$16000

The rarest of all Australian reptile books and the first monograph on Australian reptiles. The specimens were collected on the Erebus and Terror Expedition of 1839-1843. The Lizards of Australia and New Zealand is bibliographically complex but essentially there were two parts published in the Zoology of the Erebus and Terror which, when combined, form a complete copy. The first part was written by John Edward Gray and published in 1845. It has eight pages and plates 1-4, 8-9, 12-14 and 20. The concluding part was written by Albert Gunther and published in 1875. It has pages 9-19 and plates 5-

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The Razor's Edge

$5000

MAUGHAM, W.S. The Razor's Edge Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1944. Limited Edition. Octavo : pp. [viii] 343 [3] (blank) : SIGNED : No. 308 of 750 copies : publisher's cloth over bevelled boards, black and gilt title panel to spine. Tip of pp. 145-148 creased. Near fine. Item #15546 “The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.” — Maugham. This limited, signed edition preceded both the American and English trade editions. A bright copy of Maugham's masterpiece of human desire, ambition and success.

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SEVEN LITTLE AUSTRALIANS

$2500

SEVEN LITTLE AUSTRALIANS. By Ethel Turner. Illustrated by A.J.Johnson. Lond. Ward Lock & Bowden Ltd. 1894. Or.decorated cloth. 240,16pp. b/w plates & illustrations. Sl.wear to corners & tail of spine, some tanning to pages & a few spots internally. Name on ffe. A generally good copy of the truly rare first edition of the author's first book, an Australian children's book classic.

Liber Chronicarum (The Nuremberg Chronicle)

$165000

Nuremberg : Anton Koberger, for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister, 12 July 1493. First edition, in Latin. The most substantial of all printed incunables and ‘the largest printing enterprise of the entire incunable period’ (Posselt).

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Armed with Madness

$3250

A masterpiece of modernist prose by a one time student of Aleister Crowley. In 1921 she spent time at Crowley’s Abbey of Thelema, not enjoying her stay, and departing with a drug habit. Armed with Madness explores the relationships (including homoeroticism and bisexuality) and ritualism among a group of young bohemians living at a country home. One of 100 numbered copies of the Deluxe Edition on handmade paper with illustrations by Jean Cocteau.

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[戦前芸者舞妓の生い立ちアルバム]. [Two Pre-World World II Photograph Albums Depicting the Life of Maiko and Geisha].

$1800

Two intriguing albums containing 183 black-and-white photos some showing family scenes, many depicting geisha and maiko (training geisha), in some cases with their clients. One album, probably from the 1910s-1920s, has the words Ono and Miyakoya on the front, suggesting that it was compiled by someone name Ono, who ran an inn or hot spring resort called Miyakoya. The second album, dating from the 1930s, includes a photo of a group of people at the front of a building with a sign reading 'onsen' (hot spring), while another depicts a female entertainer pouring a drink for a military officer.

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[三國通覽全圖. [General Map of Three Countries].

$6500

The controversial Japanese book and five accompanying maps, published in 1785, describes the geography and customs of three countries - Kankoku (Korea) , Yezo or Ezo (Hokkaido), and Ryükyü (Okinawa). This particular map shows the disputed islands, known to the Japanese as Takeshima たけしま/竹島 (Dokdo 독도/獨島 to Koreans) and Liancourt Rocks to English speakers, crucially marked as "Korea's possession". The map is imprecise, especially as it moves towards the border regions. However the purpose was to show the location of Japan amongst its neighbouring countries rather to give a precise description.

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Jane Austen - Bentley’s Standard Novels 1833

$10000

Austen, Jane. 6 Novels in 5 Volumes. Published, London: Richard Bentley, 1833. Important first collected and first illustrated edition of the novels of Jane Austen, printed from the plates of Bentley's "Standard Novel" editions of 1833, each volume with engraved frontispiece illustration and vignette title page, finely bound. Small octavo, wine red calf skin half covers with gilt-lettering on spine.

A history of the birds of New Zealand [and] Supplement to the Birds of New Zealand.

$12000

Second edition with supplements. A History of the Birds of New Zealand, in either edition, is one of the best, and most underrated, of all nineteenth century colour-plate bird books. The plates of the second edition show Keulemans at his best and are superb examples of chromolithography. "The book itself is on a larger scale [than the first edition], being Imperial instead of Royal quarto, and the plates, instead of being handcoloured lithographs, have been produced by the more costly but more exact and satisfactory process of printing in colours ..." (Preface). Although 1,000 sets of the 1888

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秘庫ニューギニア. 完. [New Guinea, Hidden Places. Complete].

$850

This scrapbook contains a series of newspaper articles by Kuribayashi Tokuichi on his travels in New Guinea shortly before the Pacific War. Once held by a teacher’s college in Yamagata Prefecture, the volume is neatly arranged with articles carefully laid down on to each page. Appearing just as the Pacific War began, such articles reflected the heightened interest in the South Seas and South-East Asia, regions central to the expansion of the Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere. For young readers, including students, reports like these were both informative and ideologically significant.

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On the origin of species

$625000

London : John Murray, 1859. First edition. An entirely unrestored, crisp and sharp copy of one of the most significant publications in the history of humanity. Freeman, 373 “the most important biological work ever written.” Dibner, 199 "the most important single work in science.”

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Ch’onha Chido (Atlas of all under heaven)

$12500

Korea : mid eighteenth century. Folio, 315 x 180 mm, original wrappers with manuscript title, twelve double page manuscript maps in colour. The Ch'onha chido (Atlas of the World) circulated widely in manuscript format in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as well as some rare woodcut editions. The maps would typically feature a world map, or Chonha-Do, based on Buddhist maps, with the others of Korea, China and Japan based on those made during the Ming Dynasty in China (1368-1644).

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Salome. Drame en un acte.

$4000

First edition of Oscar Wilde's classic, one of 600 copies, the title page device by Felicien Rops. MASON 348. This copy in a fine signed art nouveau binding by Hatchards.

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A Moorish Mosque at Bangalore.

$1025

A beautifully executed aquatint from the series 'Picturesque Scenery in the Kingdom of Mysore' by James Hunter first published in 'A Brief History of Ancient and Modern India' by Francis William Blagdon in 1805 (the engraving is dated on the plate June 4 1804). This may be from a subsequent edition (see Abbey, #425). Handcoloured aquatint engraving measuring 27.8 x 34cm. Sheet including platemark and generous margins measures 41.8 x 58.8cm. Very slight toning at the platemark, but the plate in very bright clean condition.

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A Monograph of the Genus Casuarius .. [drop title].

$6000

The entire issue of the Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, Volume 15, Part five and the only monograph on the most spectacular of all the large flightless birds. Cassowaries are confined only to Australia and New Guinea. Rothschild assembled a large collection of live cassowaries at his estate at Tring in Hertfordshire, England, and Keulemans used them as subjects for his outstanding plates. With one exception all the plates are head studies. His enthusiasm for Cassowaries is neatly described By Miriam Rothschild.

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Homer. Iliad & Odyssey Set. Alexander Pope Translation

$450

HOMER. THE ILIAD AND THE ODYSSEY. Two volumes in the slip-case. English & Greek parallel texts. Translated by Alexander Pope. Chestertown. Chester River Press. 2011. Large folio. Or.cl. Dustjackets. 550,434pp. t.e.g. Special edition illustrated with fifty-two illustrations in Greek vase style. Introduction by Pope scholar Professor Steven Shankman. Fine set. Scarce. Each illustration in this splendid edition portrays a specific scene from each of the 48 books making up the Iliad and the Odyssey. (Overall size in slip-case 390x330x105cm)

Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End – SIGNED, Sidgwick and Jackson, London, 1954.

$2500

First edition: octavo; hardcover, full cloth with gilt spine titles; 253pp. Author’s signature in ink to the title page. Mild wear; spine extremities lightly softened; some light corner-bumping; text block edges toned and top edge mildly dusted; light offset and old tape stains to the endpapers; retailer’s bookplate to the front pastedown; very light spotting to the preliminaries. Price-clipped dustwrapper is a bit rubbed and edgeworn with some minor marks; spine lightly sunned; some light offset and creasing to the flaps. Very good.

Relation Herrn Petri Fernandes de Quir

$95000

Augspurg [i.e. Augsburg] : bey Chrysostomo Dabertzhofer, 1611. Rare first German edition of the Memorial octavo of the explorer Fernández de Quirós, a report relating the discovery of the southern continent or "Terra Australis Incognita".

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Elizabeth Bay and Sydney painted from Mrs Darling’s Point Road

$68750

A superb Sydney Harbour watercolour c. 1845 by Conrad Martens, sweeping from Elizabeth Bay House in the middle-ground around to the lower north shore, showcasing Martens’s remarkable talent at capturing the shimmering waters and the intense light of the city.

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浅草観音？雨の図. [Kannon Temple in Asakusa in Rain].

$5250

Exceedingly rare limited edition woodblock print by Ginnosuke Yokouchi (also known as Kiyoharu Youkouchi), a Yokohama-based artist who began his career as a watercolour landscape painter, before producing eight self-published woodblock prints in the 1930s. Colour woodblock print 41.1 x 28.5cm (including margins), title in the lower margin, publisher's seals left margin, with artist's signature lower left and chop lower right, limited edition stamp on the verso (177 of 300), sheet a little age-toned, but the image in very good condition.

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Call of the Wild [PRESENTATION COPY]

$5000

LONDON, Jack. Call of the Wild. New York: Published for the Review of Reviews Company by the Macmillan Company, 1913 : bookplate of A.R. and M.M. Goodman : INSCRIBED BY JACK LONDON TO DR. GOODMAN on the recto of the f.f.e.p. Fine. Dr Goodman, a northern Californian doctor, treated Jack London after his return from Mexico in 1914. The inscription reads, "Dear Doctor Goodman, It takes than you think to make me dopey - witness my shameless confession when we next meet, Jack London, July 10, 1914."

“One of the rarest items of early Australiana”

$84000

This is the narrative of the French navigator Binot Paulmyer sieur de Gonneville’s early sixteenth-century voyage from France that claims to have reached the Terre Australe or southern continent. Exceptionally rare: of two or possibly three issues that appeared at around the same time this is an example of the fullest with additional prefatory material.

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First book. Australian botany: specially designed for the use of schools.

$800

Guilfoyle, W. R. Sydney: S. Mullen, 1878. Octavo, folding frontispiece, 4 uncoloured plates. Handsome decorated publisher's cloth in gold and green. "To the Hon. Graham Berry M. P. Services- Treasurer of Victoria with the authors kindest regards 8 August 1878". Also the signatures of Charles French and R. T. M. Prescott, a wonderful association copy.

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Seen in the Hadhramaut by Freya Stark

$550

London: John Murray, 1938. Small quarto. Original oatmeal coloured cloth with green text. Illustrated dustjacket (spine lightly faded and edges lightly chipped). Title-page printed in red/black. Full-page map printed in green coloured paper and photographic plates. First edition. A fine copy. Freya Stark was a women ahead of her time who travelled through the Middle East and Afghanistan many times. She was the first European women to explore Luristan, a remote part of Iran.

萬国総界圖. [Map of the World].

$15000

A famous woodblock-printed Japanese map of the world by renowned Edo Period map-maker Ishikawa Tomonobu, who is also known as Ishikawa Ryūsen. This is a revised version of an earlier map produced by Ishikawa in 1688. 55.8 x 127cm (map); 59.5 x 131cm (sheet), folding into the original Japanese wrappers (chipped and rather worn) 26.4 x 17.4cm, the map with old repairs, laid down on washi, overall in remarkably good condition. Preserved in a modern blue linen Japanese case with toggle-closures.

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The Bellevue Hill-Bondi estate was submitted to the market in three separate selling exercises.

$2750

Cooper’s Bellevue Hill-Bondi Estate 3rd. Subdivision Sat. 15th. March 1919 at 3p.m.

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GIOVANNI BATTISTA PIRANESI, "LA TOMBA DI NERONE" [THE TOMB OF NERO]; From "GROTTESCHI".

$2750

GIOVANNI BATTISTA PIRANESI (Mogliano Veneto 1720-Roma 1778) Italian school. "LA TOMBA DI NERONE" [THE TOMB OF NERO] c.1750 [c.1807 Paris edition] TECHNIQUE: Etching, Burin, Drypoint & Burnishing DESCRIPTION: "The Tomb of Nero", from the series called “I GROTTESCHI” (Grotesques). In 1750 Piranesi collected in a miscellaneous volume published at the expense of the editor Giovanni Bouchard a collection of the works engraved by him up to that moment, some already published, others unpublished. The volume was published with the title serie"Opere Varie di Architettura Prospettive Grotteschi Antic...

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Bligh Family manuscripts: with the signatures of William Bligh and his wife Betsy

$22500

A remarkable group of manuscripts regarding the ownership of a property in Exeter over a period of a century and involving William Bligh and numerous close family members. The collection includes a rare example of the signatures of both William Bligh and his wife Elizabeth on the same manuscript document, together with the signatures of Bligh’s nephews Thomas and Francis Godolphin Bond (both of whom had long careers in the Royal Navy, and the latter of whom went on Bligh’s second breadfruit voyage and kept up an important and revealing correspondence with his uncle).

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Orbis Terrarum Nova et Accuratissima Tabula.

$11500

Second state of van Loon’s famous, rare double hemisphere map of the world first printed in Amsterdam 1666, issued with the additions of the dedication to Charles II and his coat-of-arms for Moses Pitt’s English Atlas.

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Native Flora of New South Wales, 1911.

$440

Author: Maiden, J.H. Publisher: William Applegate Gullick, Government Printer, Sydney. Format: Hardcover folio with original board wrappers in letterpress, 18 plates, each captioned below image, 35.8 x 28.5cm. Cover includes “Department of Public Instruction, New South Wales. Photographed from selected specimens. Brief botanical description of each specimen by J.H. Maiden, FLS. Sydney, William Applegate Gullick, Government Printer, 1911.” Contains 18 crisp illustrations of Australian flora including flannel flowers, banksia, and waratah, with index inside front cover.

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"I CARMI DI CATULLO" - FILIPPO DE PISIS, illustrated with 17 original lithograph by the artist.

$5800

"I CARMI DI CATULLO" - FILIPPO DE PISIS Scelti e nuovamente tradotti in versi da Vincenzo Errante e decorati con litografie da Filippo De Pisis. Verona, Officina Bodoni/Milano, Ulrico Hoepli, 1945. Small folio (38.8 x 28.5cm); 170 unnumbered pages, printed on Fabriano handmade paper with uncut margins. With 17 original lithographs by Filippo De Pisis, 14 of which are full-page, tipped-in, and the others in the text. Bound in half canvas with a title tag on the spine and pink Ingres paper quadrants, canvas cardboard slipcase. Edition of 150; The copy presented here bears the number 135.

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“The Brothers Grimm” Arthur Rackham illustrator, The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm, Constable & Company Ltd., London, 1909.

$1600

Gift Book edition: quarto; hardcover, full red cloth with gilt spine and upper board titles and decorations and decorative endpapers; 326pp., top edges dyed red, with a tipped-in colour frontispiece (with tissue guard), 39 plates likewise and many other monochrome illustrations. Moderate wear; somewhat cocked and a little rolled; lower hinge cracked (but strong); boards somewhat bowed with some mild rubbing and minor insect damage; text block edges toned; mild offset to the endpapers; very light scattered foxing to the preliminaries. No dustwrapper. Very good.

The Art of Brian Dunlop

$600

WHITE, Paul William The Art of Brian Dunlop Frenchs Forest: The Craftsman’s Press, 1984. First Edition. Oblong hardcover in matching slipcase : 144pp : Numbered and signed by Brian Dunlop at limitation page : SIGNED & NUMBERED ETCHING : number 14 of 200 copies. The title on the spine has small patches of loss. Near fine. Brian Dunlop (1938-2009) was an Australian realist painter. His work is held in every state gallery in Australia as well as the National Portrait Gallery. He won the Sulman Prize in 1980 for The Old Physics Building which is reproduced in this compilation.

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AUSTRALIA [North eastern coast of Australia, Tasmania and New Guinea], 1697, VINCENZO CORONELLI.

$3500

Untitled (AUSTRALIA) [North eastern coast of Australia, the southern portion of Tasmania and New Guinea], 1697. Cartographer: VINCENZO CORONELLI (Venice 1650-1718) Copper Engraving DESCRIPTION: Coronelli’s rare gore showing the north eastern coast of Australia, the southern portion of Tasmania and New Guinea. One of the three Coronelli’s gores covering up the Australian continent in his massive world globe. Cartography is based on the earlier discoveries made by Tasman and the others Dutch navigators up 1644. From “Libro dei Globi” published in Venice, 1697.

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"DESEMBARQUE CON RIO BAJO" (Buenos Aires); 1864, LÉON PALLIÈRE, very rare Argentinian lithograph.

$900

LÉON PALLIÈRE (Rio de Janeiro 1823- Lorris 1887) "DESEMBARQUE CON RIO BAJO" (Buenos Aires) 1864 LITHOGRAPHY Original tinted lithograph from “ALBUM PALLIERE, ESCENAS AMERICANAS, REDUCCION DE CUADROS, AQUARELLES Y BOSQUEJOS”. One of the series of 52 lithographs depicting South American scenes drawn by Léon Pallière, and then printed as lithographic plates in Buenos Aires by J. Pelvilain. Very Rare. NOTE: Original tinted lithograph in sepia tones printed on thick wove paper. Produced in by J. PELVILAIN and sold by LA CASA DE LOS SEÑORES FUSONI, in Buenos Aires, 1864.

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Steele Rudd Manuscript

$15000

[STEELE RUDD] DAVIS, Arthur Hoey. Original Signed Manuscript of "The Letter Under the Mirror". n.d. [c.1927]. Original autograph manuscript : 24 leaves : black ink on rectos only : 276 edits : signed "Steele Rudd" on p.24 : vertical note in another hand and initialed " W. H." at the left margin of the first leaf. Near fine. Although this manuscript is undated, a version of this story first appeared in The Brisbane Courier on Saturday 10th September 1927 under the title, "Grey-green Homestead".

The Ship That Sailed to Mars by William M Timlin

$3350

A Fantasy of interplanetary travel by the South African architect, William Timlin. An Old Man sails “by way of the Moon and the more friendly planets” to Mars. Blends Science Fiction and Fantasy. Lond. George G.Harrap & Co. 1923. 4to. Or.quarter vellum with grey printed paper sides, the spine heavily ornamented. 48 tipped-in full-page colour plates. 48 tipped-in printed pages of calligraphic lettering in the author’s hand, mounted on grey paper. Sl.foxing else a very good copy of a rare illustrated book. First Edition. 2,000 copies were printed but most were destroyed in WWII bombing.

I Me Mine by George Harrison

$5500

Guildford: Genesis Publication, 1980. Royal octavo. Original half calf (by Zaehnsdorf, London) with gilt onlay on front cover. Spine gilt with raised bands and contrasting morocco title-label. Edges gilt. In slip-case with label on front cover. 2 tipped-in colour portraits, numerous plates one of which is folding, numerous facsimile examples of Harrison's hand-writing and illustrated endpapers. Limited edition of 2000 copies, signed by "George Harrison". Fine and extremely scarce. The lyrics and life of George Harrison, the lead guitarist of one of the most influential bands of all times.

Kellogg’s Aviation Cadet Corps Handbook

$300

“Kellogg’s Aviation Cadet Corps Handbook” Printed by Printers Pty ltd. Rosebery Sydney, 32 pages plus covers. Also comes with original Kellogg’s mailing envelope.

The first Australian botanical book to be illustrated from live specimens

$11850

James Sweet's "Flora Australasica" is of the most attractive of all Australian botanical books and the first with illustrations taken from live specimens rather than dried plants or field sketches, the species depicted having been grown from seeds in London nurseries. This experimentation directly resulted from Joseph Banks’s methods and indicates how widely his influence had spread. This was the third illustrated work devoted to the botany of Australia (the first was James Edward Smith’s of 1793, and the second Bauer’s exceptionally rare "Illustrationes Floræ Novæ Hollandiæ" of 1813).

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A General Chart of the Indian and Part of the Pacific Oceans

$7950

Magnificent 2m wide hydrographic wall chart of the sea routes for the eastern trade.

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Ballynascreen School Needlework Specimen Book, 1853.

$3500

Format: Hardcover octavo in quarter-leather and buckram binding, gilt title with date on leather label attached to front cover, 24 x 15cm. This book contains 62 examples of needlework, including crochet, knitting, quilting, tatting, and embroidery. The samples are in the form of doilies, swatches, collars, buttonholes, bookmarks and buttons. Fabrics include wool, velvet and cotton. Ballinascreen is a parish in the Northern Irish district of Mid-Ulster. The village of Draperstown is “part of the Church of Ireland parish of Ballynascreen and the Catholic parish of Ballinascreen.” Ref: Wiki.

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The Mammals of Australia

$225000

London : printed by Richard and John E. Taylor for the author, [1845] - 1863. "It was not until I arrived in the country, and found myself surrounded by objects as strange as if I had been transported to another planet, that I conceived the idea of devoting a portion of my attention to the mammalian class of its extraordinary fauna" (the preface). "John Gould's three-volume folio of Australian mammals is one of the best of all Gould's folios and the most engaging of all colour plate Australian natural history books, with some of the finest depictions of mammals ever produced" (Wantrup 2023).

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Daguerreotype of a seated gentleman wearing a silk cravat, velvet waistcoat and woollen overcoat. Sydney, 1854-55.

$14000

Sixth-plate daguerreotype with applied colour, 70 x 60 mm (sight); in a round-cornered square brass mat and ormolu preserver, the mat stamped at lower right 'GOW / 253 GEORGE ST.'; housed in a half leather case with embossed floral design. An extremely rare example of a portrait by Sydney daguerreotypist James Gow. The only James Gow daguerreotype we have been able to trace in Australian public collections is the portrait of James Allpress, tipstaff at the Supreme Court, held in the Powerhouse Collection.

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Ongeluckige voyagie, van’t schip Batavia, nae de Oost-Indien.

$200000

Amsterdam : Jan Jansz, 1647. First edition. The first full account of the wreck of the Batavia; the first European images of Australia; ‘an especially outstanding rarity’ (Wantrup). The earliest procurable book on Australia. The first printed views of Australia. The first published description of the kangaroo.

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A Dictionary of the Chinese Language.

$8000

Scarce reprint of the second part of Morrison's Dictionary published between 1815 and 1823, with a notable provenance. The 1865 reprint was issued as a single volume, combining the second part of the dictionary with an index of characters arranged according to the Kangxi radicals. With the early inked signature of "Hugh Wadell, Newchwang 1869", the pioneering missionary whose work laid the foundation for the Irish Presbyterian Church's long-term presence in East Asia. Recent signature of A. Allan Shearer, Wellington.

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Native Legends, 1929.

$550

Author: Unaipon, David. Publisher: Hunkin, Ellis & King, Ltd, Adelaide. Format: Letterpress booklet with process screen illustrations, 15pp, 21.6 x 13.8cm. David Unaipon (Ngarrindjeri/Australian, 1872–1967) was a preacher, inventor and the first Indigenous-Australian writer to be published. Unaipon’s contribution to Australian society helped to break many stereotypes for Aboriginal Australians, and he is depicted on the fifty dollar note as recognition for his work. Native Legends was Unaipon’s third book. Ref: NLA; Wiki.

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HANDBOOK OF AUSTRALIAN NEW ZEALAND AND ANTARCTIC BIRDS

$2250

Handbook of Australian New Zealand Antarctic Birds. By MARCHANT, S., HIGGINS, P.J. et al. Melbourne. OUP. 1990 – 2006. 7 vols in 9. 4to (272x195mm), orig. cloth. Profusely illustrated, mostly in colour. All vols are first editions and are Fine in dustjackets. Vol. 1 Rarities to Ducks, Part A: Ratites to Petrels; Part B: Australian Pelican to Ducks; Vol. 2: Raptors to Lapwings; Vol. 3: Snipe to Pigeons; Vol. 4: Parrots to Dollarbird: Vol. 5: Tyrant-Flycatchers to Chats; Vol. 6: Pardalotes to Shrike-Thrushes; Vol. 7 Boatbill to Starlings, Part A: Boatbill to Larks; Part B: Dunnock to Starlings.

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The City and Harbour of Sydney, from Near Vaucluse.

$9500

Rare and important, separately issued view of Sydney looking from Vaucluse by George French Angas (1822-1886).

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Antonio hors de galaxie

$950

POMERAND, Gabriel Antonio hors de galaxie Paris: Jacques Loyau, 1954. First Edition. Softcover : 64pp. (unpaginated) : photographic cover : silent spine : two line drawings by Cocteau : 6 tipped in photographic prints. One of 100 copies. Gabriel Pomerand (c. 1926–1972) was a French poet, artist and a co-founder of lettrism. "Pomerand was the mouthpiece of the movement...He organized scandalous public lectures, gave reputedly remarkable performances of sound poetry, painted oils, and made an award-winning short movie. This consideration of the avant garde dancer Antonio is scarce.

1896-98 Sketchbook and Diary of Edward Cyril Bowden-Smith nephew of Sir Nathaniel Bowden-Smith, the Commander in Chief of the Australia Station (1892-1895)

$4250

Edward (or Ned) Cyril Bowden-Smith, nephew by a younger brother to Sir Nathaniel Bowden-Smith, the Commander in Chief of the Australia Station (1892-94), made a trip from the UK to Adelaide in 1896-7 on the Clipper Torrens, returning on the Royal Mail Ship Oroya. The Torrens is notable as the last sailing ship on which Joseph Conrad served before he began his writing career. Bowden-Smith’s trip formed the basis of his short book Land Ho! The Last of Her Race which was published in 1931.

The Idol: Opium, Heroin, Morphine and Their Kingdoms

$4000

Kenneth Hince Old & Fine Books

Considered one of the scarcest books in all of psychoactive drug literature and one of the most important on opiate addiction, predicting the development of synthetic opioids by some 35 years.

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The Great Sermon Handicap by P.G. Wodehouse.

$1500

London, Hodder and Stoughton, [1933]. Duodecimo, neat contemporary inscription on rear free endpaper, very good in original gilt-lettered and decorated crimson boards with pictorial dustwrapper (minor foxing), marbled endpapers. First separate edition. McIlvaine, A49a. Charming small format edition (with dustwrapper in uncommonly good condition) of the quintessential Jeeves & Bertie story: '"Well, all I can say," he cried, "is that it's a bit thick! Preaching another man's sermon! Do you call that honest? Do you call that playing the game?"'

LONDON, Jack. The Game [Presentation Copy]

$15000

Kenneth Hince Old & Fine Books

New York: Macmillan, 1905. First Edition, second printing. [PRESENTATION copy, INSCRIBED to one of the book's illustrators] Octavo : pp. [14] 15-182 [6] (publisher's advertisements) : illustrated by Henry Hutt and decorated by T.C. Lawrence : t.e.g. : green publisher's cloth lettered in red with vignette of shrouded Death snipping a thread : image repeated on scarce pictorial dust jacket in blue against orange and white background, lettering also in blue : inscribed by the author at the half title to "Henry Hutt, with grateful appreciation and hearty best wishes, Jack London, Glen Ellen...".

Leonard Mann, A Murder in Sydney.

$275

Garden City, Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1937. Octavo, very good in original turquoise cloth blocked in black with pictorial dustwrapper priced at $2.00, publisher's green topstain, other edges uncut (publisher's small remainder? 'J' stamps on front pastedown & front flap as found on all copies examined). First US edition. Scarce. Often mis-described as a crime novel, Mann preferred his working title 'The Disaffected', but this was changed by his Australian publisher.

The Great Battle of Shijô-Nawate on the Fifth Day of the First Month, 1350

$2350

Rare c.19th-century sammaitsuzuki (triptych) colour woodblock print by Utagawa Yoshitora (c.1836-1880) of the great battle of Shijô-Nawate on the fifth day of the first month, 1350 (Shôhei gonen shôgatsu itsuka Shijô-Nawate ôgassen no zu).

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Verve: An Artistic and Literary Quarterly. Edited by E. Teriade.

$950

Paris: Verve, 1937. Folio. Original illustrated colour boards. Contains 4 original lithographs by Leger, Miro, Rattner and Bores, plus illustrations by Brassai, Man Ray, Henry Cartier-Bresson, Picasso, Matisse. Cover by Henry Matisse. Housed in repaired original decorated cardboard box. A fine copy of the first Volumes of this important artistic journal. Established in 1937, Verve focused on bringing the ideas and techniques of French modern art to a new generation of painters and intellectuals.

Cosmography Epitomised, In Six Copper Plate Delineations.

$2350

Rare set of six c.18th celestial hand coloured engraved celestial maps by Samuel Dunn (1732-1794), published by Robert Sayer (1725-1794)

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“ST. MARY'S CATHEDRAL WITH SYDNEY HARBOUR IN THE BACKGROUND", LEON WILLIAM HAlNSON, 1950s; Oil on canvas.

$1850

“ST. MARY'S CATHEDRAL WITH SYDNEY HARBOUR IN THE BACKGROUND " 1950s LEON WILLIAM HANSON (Australian 1918-2011) [signed R. PARSONS, pseudonym of] Oil on canvas on board DESCRIPTION: Panoramic view of Sydney Harbour with a detailed depiction of St. Mary's Cathedral, with Archibald Fountain lower left. The street in front of the cathedral is animated with people, vehicles and a tramway; a ferry is navigating in the Harbour. Interesting depiction of this historical part of Sydney and the Harbour. Printed description at the back, ending with: "Gift of Marcel Chicoteau to Sister Frances O'Donogue".

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察南自治政府四大綱領. [Propaganda Posters - Four Mottos of the South Chahar Autonomous Government].

$1600

A set of four propaganda posters, complete, prepared by the short- lived (1937-1939) Japanese puppet state - South Chahar Autonomous Government. Tiny closed tear upper margin of first poster now neatly repaired with washi. An impressive set in excellent condition. 79 x 17.5cm.

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$1500

10 manuscript sheets of varying size, minor wear at edges, some occasional browning but overall very good. The documents reflect a wide variety of official and diplomatic concerns. Names of major historical significance appear across the documents, including Iwakura Tomomi (岩倉具視), Shimazu Jusan’I (島津従三位), Sanjō Saneyoshi (三条実美), and three notable British figures: Sir Harry Parkes, William George Aston, and Ernest Mason Satow. This distinctive collection offers valuable insight into the shifting political and diplomatic landscape of mid-19th-century Japan.

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Lloyd Bonney Archive

$1200

Eleven Programmes Quantity of entry forms and related items for Lloyd Bonney 1934-1939. Blue Riband. Preston Prof. Cycling Club 1939. 62 Miles Road Championship won by Lloyd Bonney. Two photographs of Lloyd Bonney during the Barnet Glass Grand Prix Cup 1938 - one photo during the race and one being presented with the winning cup. Lloyd Bonney’s note book on race bike specifications with notes on the leading riders’ road and track frames to incl. Opperman, Guyatt, Moritz, etc. Multitude of newspaper cutouts relating to Lloyd Bonnie and the era of cycling.

Rapport

$500

DEBORD, G. E.[Guy] Rapport; sur la construction des situations et sur les conditions de l'orginisation et de l'action de la tendance situanniste internationale n.d. [1957]. First Edition. Stapled pamphlet in red cover : 20pp.(French) : slight bleed of printed ink through wraps. The foundation text of the Situationniste Internationale.

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1883 “UESUGI KENSHIN NYUDO TERUTORA”; TSUKIOKA YOSHITOSHI, Woodblock.

$1750

TSUKIOKA YOSHITOSHI (Edo 1839- Ryōgoku 1892) “UESUGI KENSHIN NYUDO TERUTORA” [UESUGI NO TERUTORA RIDING INTO BATTLE] 1883 Woodblock printed in colours DESCRIPTION: From the series “Yoshitoshi Musha Burui” (Yoshitoshi’s Courageous Warriors). Fantastic portrait of Kenshin, seen riding nobly into battle on horseback, surrounded by billowing plumes of smoke. NOTE: Signature: Taiso Yoshitoshi ga. Publisher: Kobayashi Tetsujiro. First edition: Three-colour cartouche; Two red seals and publisher address in blue at bottom left.

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Julie, ou J’ai Sauve ma Rose. Par Madame de C***.

$3500

Possibly the first sapphic novel written by a woman, over a century before Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness. The vivid depiction of lesbian love lends to the warning on the title page, “La mere en defendra la lecture a sa fille” [The mother will forbid her daughter to read it], and led to the novel’s censure in 1825 and on the ruling of obscenity and its order of destruction in 1827

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Apparition

$1150

ALVAREZ, A. ; Blackman, Charles Apparition St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1971. Limited Edition. Hardcover 36 x 26cm : pp. [9] 50 [52] : 7 full page full colour tipped in plates : warm yellow e.p.s : polished calf with gilt line drawing after Blackman : scarce glassine wrapper with spiderweb pattern : slipcase : SIGNED by Blackman and Alvarez at the limitation page. The de luxe edition with manuscript copies of the poems and seven full colour plates after the gouache paintings of Blackman. The cobweb patterned wrapper is littered with flies and one very plump spider.

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Bondi Beach Estate Auction Sale

$2750

Rare poster for the auction sale of the Bondi Beach Estate on Saturday 13th November 1915.

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A natural history of the lepidopterous insects of New South Wales [manuscript copy]

$25000

An early incomplete manuscript copy of John William Lewin's 'A natural history of the Lepidopterous insects of New South Wales, 1822' with a handwritten title page, partial text on separate leaves to accompany thirteen watercolour plates. Then follows a pencil sketch of an African scorpion and thirteen leaves of watercolours, plus two pencil sketches, of British Flowers. The front pastedown has an inscription in a very neat hand "Beauteous nature moves on unerring principles. The contemplation of her works should be the study of all her ...” The first thirteen plates are accurate copies, many

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Illustrations of China and its people.

$65000

A series of two hundred photographs with letterpress descriptions of the places and people represented. London : Sampson Low, Marston, Low, and Searle, 1873 – 74. First edition. Four volumes, folio. A complete set of the first edition of one of the most significant photographic publications of China in the nineteenth century.

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Written from the Sirius, flagship of the First Fleet, 10 May, 1787

$165000