Sydney Rare Book Fair

CL146 112- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec: 1864-1901, Peintre, Vol. I and Vol. II, Dessins, Estampes, Affiches

$6600

1898/1926 & 1927. Pair of soft-cover letterpress books with original paper wrappers, each containing three original drypoints in two states (black and bistre), each volume stamped with number “149” from an edition of 200 on colophon, 26.2 x 20.5 x 6cm. Fully illustrated on the website. Text by Maurice Joyant, published by H. Floury, éditeur, Paris. Ref: Adriani #242-246, 248. Toulouse-Lautrec only produced nine drypoint images during his lifetime; six of these are presented here: ref CL146-112

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Fishwives, Etaples c1910 by Hilda Rix Nicholas

$8500

Fishwives, Etaples is a pastel on paper (35.7 x 26.5 cm) dated circa 1910. Hilda was born in Ballarat, Victoria. She had a studio in the artists' colony at Etaples. With the declaration of war in 1914, she escaped Etaples to England. This piece was exhibited in her 1922 Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings of Australian Life and Landscape (No. 30, 15 gn) which toured provincial English galleries. These idealized images of the Australian 'country, its beauty and types of virile manhood', stimulated migration to Australia from northern towns disrupted by industrial unrest (Avenel Mitchell,1988)

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CL146 113-Felix Vallotton (Swiss/French, 1865-1925). Crimes Et Châtiments (Crime And Punishment),

$3800

1902. Periodical containing 23 original colour lithographs, each initialled in image lower left or right and captioned in French below image, 26.8 x 20.5cm (approx. each); 32.4 x 25.5cm (periodical). Discolouration and chips to edges. Fully illustrated on website. Extremely rare special issue of L’Assiette Au Beurre, (No. 48, 1902), a satirical weekly founded in 1901.Ref CL146-113

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CL158 160-Paris [Images By Prominent Artists],

$8800

1937. French binding (unbound) with buckram covers with leather label, featuring 62 original etchings and two original colour woodcuts on inside cover and frontispiece, most etchings signed in plate, editioned 187/500 on colophon, 35.7 x 28cm. Minor wear and soiling to inside cover. The 62 etchings comprise 31 full-page and 31 half-page formats. Artists featured include Bonnard, Le Breton, Derain, Dufy, Laborde, Laboureur, Laurencin, Lhote, Marquet, Matisse, Segonzac, van Dongen, Vlaminck, Vuillard. Ref CL158-160

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1979 ROBERTO MATTA, Chilean; “NYMPHEE”, Original Etching & Aquatint.

$1800

"Nymphee" is a colourful Roberto Matta etching from his portfolio “Requiem pour la Fin des Temps” . Signed and numbered in pencil with the publisher blind-stamps “George Visat” lower right and “Galleria dell’Incisione Milano” lower left. Etching and Aquatint printed in colour on "ARCHES" wove paper. Signed in pencil by the artist. Numbered 58/100 lower left; limited edition of 100. 420mm(H) x 320mm(L) [plate] 648mm(H) x 495mm(L) [sheet] Excellent impression on wove paper with watermark: “ARCHES France”. Besides a trace of humidityon the edge of lower right margin in excellent condition

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A New Voyage Round the World

$5250

A good set of William Dampier’s voyages, four volumes bound into three. c1705-1709

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CL184 144-Raphael Sabatini (American,1898-1985). 7 Shots From The Spot-light

$2450

1927. Folio of seven original lithographs, with contents page and frontispiece in linocut, title and date on contents page, each lithograph signed in pencil below image, 25.6 x 18cm (each); 40.2 x 32.7cm (folio). Tears and missing portions to contents page, old glue stains to upper edge of four lithographs with minor cockling, slight discolouration to old mats and folio cover. Text on frontispiece includes “Limited to 53 sets.” Held in Whitney Museum of American Art. ref CL184-144

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1854 “AMÉRIQUE DU NORD” [Wall Map], ADOLPHE HIPPOLYTE DUFOUR.

$1380

Rare wall map of North America, which appeared in Andriveau-Goujon's Atlas Choix. Very unusual treatment of the Transmississippi West, including a misshaped Texas, Ozark District, Mandan District, Osage District, Massive Nebraska Territory. Early primitive attempt to depict Washington and Oregon Territiories, and a host of other fascination details. A highly detailed and scarce map. Text by Warin; engraved by Flahaut, contemporary hand colouring. Laid back on canvas and divided into 21 foldable quadrants; with the original very elegant marbled hardcover. Published by Andriveau-Goujon.

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Cabinet Timbers of Australia

$450

CABINET TIMBERS OF AUSTRALIA. By R.T.Baker. Syd. W.A.Gullick, Govt. Printer. 1913. Oblong 4to. Or.cl. 186pp. Numerous Col.plates of timbers and b/w plates of uses of timber in furniture and building. A very good copy. 1st ed. Very Scarce. An important reference for the Australian furniture collector.

“Silver John”, Target Tank (The history of the 2/3rd Australian Anti-Tank Regiment, 9th Division, A.I.F.), Cumberland Newspapers Limited, Parramatta NSW, nd. (1957).

$500

First edition: octavo; hardcover, full cloth with gilt spine titles and blind-ruling to the boards; 354pp., with a colour frontispiece, 31pp. of monochrome plates and many maps. Mild wear; shaken and rolled; spine extremities softened; text block edges toned and top edge dusted; light scattered foxing to the preliminaries; some minor internal marks. Dustwrapper is well-rubbed and edgeworn with some light insect damage; some scraping to the hinges; now professionally protected by no -adhesive polypropylene film. Very good.

HENRI PRIVAT-LIVEMONT; c.1898 “ALLEGORISCHE...", 2 Lithographic Allegory Cards.

$850

HENRI PRIVAT-LIVEMONT (Schaerbeek 1861- 1936) Belgian school “ALLEGORISCHE FRAUENGESTALTEN. DARSTELLUNG WEIBLICHER HANDARBEITEN” (Two Allegory Cards) [Allegorical Female Figures Representation of Female Handicraft] 1898 Technique: LITHOGRAPHY Two allegorical cards by Art Nouveau master Henri Privat-Livemont depicting two female figures, in a floral environment, in handicraft occupations. A good example of Privat-Livemont design. Original colour lithographs, blank at verso. From a series of 4 printed on one sheet published in Stuttgart by Hoffmann, c.1898. In excellent condition.

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CL158 90-Claude Flight (British, 1881-1955). [Houses By A Hillside],

$3300

1924. Pencil and watercolour, signed and dated in pencil lower left, 26.3 x 34.4cm. Slight foxing and stains to edges of image. Ref 158-90

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Relation Herrn Petri Fernandes de Quir

$95000

Douglas Stewart Fine Books

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".

George Eliot, Novels of George Eliot in Eleven Volumes, William Blackwood and Sons London 1875-1881.

$3500

Eleven volumes bound in ten, octavo; hardcover, half-bound in brown morocco with marbled boards, gilt rules, spine titles and decorations in compartments between five raised bands and marbled endpapers; 4,589pp. [470pp. + 486pp. + 158pp. + 330pp. + 430pp. + 504pp. + 621pp. + 612pp. + 382pp. + 303pp. + 293pp.], edges marbled, with decorated titles and 25 monochrome engraved plates. Minor wear; mild bumps and scuffs to the board edges and leather; some boards mildly rubbed; contemporary retailer’s bookplates to the first and last volumes. No dustwrappers. Very good.

Norman Lindsay handwritten letter to Hugh McCrae c.1919

$595

LINDSAY, Norman. HANDWRITTEN LETTER TO HUGH McCRAE. Two leaves written in ink on both sides. n.d. but c.1919. To “Dear Hugh” and signed “Norman.” Norman speaks of his “personal affection” for Hugh and says that the longer he lives with his work the more he considers him a “great poet”. And “a greater poet than Burns because you have a rare spirit.” And much else in this regard. He says the he is doing some etchings for a work by Leon Gellert (Isle of San) but says he would be much happier doing a rare edition by “a truly great poet whose name is Hugh McCrae. Well why not?”

CL198 52-“Poseidon” Winner Melbourne Cup

$1250

1906. Watercolour, titled and signed “C.W. Read” lower left to right, 50.3 x 67.8cm. Slight foxing and stains, minor missing portions and repaired tears to edges. Poseidon was an Australian Thoroughbred Hall of Fame racehorse who became the first horse to win both the Caulfield Cup and Melbourne Cup in 1906. He is depicted here with his rider, Australian jockey Tom Clayton (1882–1909). Ref: Wiki. Item #CL198-52

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Native Tribes of Central Australia

$1450

SPENCER, Baldwin & GILLEN, F.J. THE NATIVE TRIBES OF CENTRAL AUSTRALIA. Lond. Macmillan & Co. 1899. Or.buckram decorated with gilt Aboriginal motifs. xx,671pp. uncut. 129 b/w ills., mostly photographic, 4 folding coloured plates of aboriginal art, folding tables & 2 folding maps. The binding rebacked else a very good copy. 1st ed. Very Scarce. A landmark anthropological work, profusely illustrated.

[The Unit History Editorial Committee], “White over Green” – The 2/4th Battalion and reference to the 4th Battalion, Angus and Robertson/the 2/4th Australian Infantry Battalion Association, Sydney NSW, 1963.

$500

Octavo; hardcover; full cloth with upper board titles and decorations; 364pp., with 41pp. of monochrome plates, 5 colour maps, and many other monochrome maps and illustrations. Moderate wear; shaken and rolled; spine extremities softened and a large chip from the lower hinge; moisture damage to the boards; text block edges lightly toned; light offset to the endpapers; some internal marks. Dustwrapper is now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene film. Good. A rare and comprehensive reference work.

Godfrey Charles Mundy, Our Antipodes: Residence and Rambles in the Australasian Colonies; With a Glimpse of the Gold Fields; in Three Volumes, Second Edition, Revised

$600

Revised reprint: three volumes, published by Richard Bentley, London, 1852. Octavo; full cloth decorated in blind, with gilt spine titles and upper board decorations; 1,246pp. with three engraved monochrome frontispieces, and 12 plates likewise. Rebound, using the original cloth; all volumes rolled and crushed with bumped corners and softened spine extremities; shelf wear and light rubbing to the boards and edges; spines sunned; text block and page edges mildly toned; endpapers replaced; some light offset to the preliminaries; some small repaired tears to a few early page edges. Very good.

Houses Under the Sea - Caitlin R. Kiernan

$750

In this remarkable collection the author has selected over two dozen of her best Lovecraftian tales ranging from 2000s “ Valentian ” to her more recent classic “ A Mountain Walked ” as well as including the complete Dandridge Cycle, as well as a new story, “ M Is for Mars. ” In short, this is a cornerstone volume for Kiernan fans and Mythos devotees alike. This edition is limited to 500 signed copies, each signed by Caitlín R. Kiernan, Michael Cisco, S.T. Joshi, and the artists: Piotr Jablonski, Richard A. Kirk, John Kenn Mortensen, and Vince Locke. Oversize at 6 ½ × 11 inches. 55

Murray Waldren, The Mind and Times of Reg Mombassa – signed, limited edition, HarperCollins Publishers (Aust.) Pty. Ltd., Pymble NSW, 2009.

$600

Two slipcased volumes, quarto; hardcover and paperback; with illustrated boards and wrappers and decorative endpapers; 476pp. [432pp. + 44pp.], with many colour illustrations. Number 96 of 1,200 copies: minor wear; signed and numbered by the artist in ink to the flyleaf. Dustwrapper, with folding poster on the verso. Near fine in a specially printed slipcase, with the additional catalogue material.

Rainbow Lorikeet in a Suburban Garden 1978 by Peter Trusler

$8000

Rainbow Lorikeet in a Suburban Garden 1978 (25 x 34 cm) is part of Peter Trusler's Birds of Australian Gardens series which he worked on alongside authors Tess Kloot and Ellen M. McCulloch. Their collective four year commitment to study and research birds in Australia had a significant contribution to ornithological artistry and literature. Trusler uses a 'photographic' style in order to present every detail of colour to utmost value. The painting has been in The National Bank Collection of Modern Art from 1980 until 2022.

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The Mammals of Australia

$225000

Douglas Stewart Fine Books

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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REMBRANDT HARMENSZOON VAN RIJN (1606-1669) “THE FLUTE-PLAYER” (het Uylenspiegeltje), Etching & Drypoint, 1642.

$22000

REMBRANDT HARMENSZOON VAN RIJN (Leyden 1606-Amsterdam1669) Dutch school “THE FLUTE-PLAYER” (het Uylenspiegeltje) 1642 TECHNIQUE: 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... NOTE: Fourth state of four, without the face among the branches. Barstch 188, Hollstein Dutch 144, New Hollstein 211.

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Forty Drawings of Fishes

$350

FORTY DRAWINGS OF FISHES made by artists who accompanied Captain James Cook on his three voyages to the Pacific 1768-71, 1772-75, 1776-80. Some being used by authors in the description of new species. Text by P.J.P.Whitehead. Lond. The British Museum. 1968. Folio. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 31pp. + 40 plates mostly in colour. Very good copy. 1st ed.

View of Part of Sydney, the Capital of New South Wales. Taken from Bene Longs Point.

$35000

Exceptionally rare engraved view of Sydney Cove looking west from part one, plate 4, of Absalom West’s Views published on January 1st, 1813.

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David Gemmell, Waylander, 1st Ed. Century Hutchinson 1986.

$1250

First edition: octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titles; 323pp. Mild wear; very slightly rolled; text block and page edges toned. Dustwrapper now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good.

Northmost Australia

$650

NORTHMOST AUSTRALIA. By Robert Logan Jack. Three Centuries of Exploration, Discovery and Adventure in and around the Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, with a study of the narratives of all the explorers by sea and land in the light of modern charting, many original or hitherto unpublished documents... 2 vols. Melb. George Robertson & Co. 1922. Or.green cloth boards. xvi,366;xiv,403pp. A little foxing. 39 b/w plates. 17 folding maps loose in back pockets as issued. 1st Aust.ed. A very good set of a particularly scarce work on Queensland exploration.

CL201 2-Sir Joseph Banks Letter and Caricature

$6600

1790s–c1851. (1) Letter By Sir Joseph Banks, President Of The Royal Society, c1790s. One-page, two-sided manuscript handwritten in ink, 18.5 x 11.5cm (paper). Discoloration to edges, old folds. The letter, addressed to a Mr. Bellemy and signed “Jos Banks”, conveys Banks’ concerns about the delay in receiving minutes of the last meeting of the Royal Society, and whether they had been checked by the chairman. Sir Joseph Banks (1743–1820) was president of the Royal Society from November 1778 to his death. The society, originally known as The Royal Society.

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CL146 85-Fernand Léger (French, 1881-1955). Les Illuminations. [Poems By Rimbaud],

$5500

1949. As issued, unbound letterpress book (French binding) with original paper wrappers, comprising 15 original lithographs, 13 with pochoir, all initialled 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, 33 x 25cm (paper). In excellent condition.Ref CL146-85

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"ASIA"; ANDRÉ THEVET, 1575; Rare First Edition [First state of 3].

$4800

Rare and exquisitely designed 16th Century map of Asia, by the fantastically entertaining cosmographer André de Thevet. This important and beautifully composed woodcut map embraces all of Asia during the great early period of European exploration in South and East Asia. The depiction of these regions is ultimately based on Portuguese sources, who since Vasco da Gama's first voyage to India in 1498, had a virtual monopoly on the maritime knowledge of the Indian Ocean and East Asia. Showing "Partie de la Terre Australle", long before its recorded discovery.

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Living Room Tokyo. By Masato Seto (Photographer)

$395

Tokyo. 1996. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 46 images of Tokyoites in their homes, each image has the names, ages & nationalities of their subjects. The pages arranged in concertina style, printed on both sides and spanning 9 metres when fully open. Part interiors and part portraits, it gives an insight into the tiny spaces of the city. Very good copy. Seto is one of Japan's leading photographers. Fine. 1st ed. Rare

AARON ARROWSMITH; UNTITLED 1811 [Two Sheets composing Oceania], Very Rare.

$3800

AARON ARROWSMITH (Winston 1750- London 1823) UNTITLED [Chart of the World on Mercator Projections] 1811 Technique:COPPER ENGRAVING, contemporary hand-colour. Two portions/sections of the scarce 1811 edition of the “Monumental World Map” by Aaron Arrowsmith showing updated discoveries. The two joinable sheets shows very detailed geographical informations including the south part of the Indian Subcontinent, South-East Asia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand and South Pacific Islands. South Australia is left untracked and blank waiting for the updating informations...

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A Murder in Sydney: A Novel by Leonard Mann.

$550

London, Jonathan Cape [Sydney, Halstead Press], 1937. Octavo, 303pp., contemporary inscription on front free endpaper, pale foxing on edges and endpapers, very good in bright original burgundy cloth with wood engraving pictorial dustwrapper (bit chipped). First edition. Very scarce with dustwrapper.

A Song of Ice and Fire - George R.R. Martin

$20000

We're really conflicted here, we will present the full signed limited set of the Ice and Fire series from Subterranean Press - not something you'll see everyday..

“NOËL 1893" [Christmas 1893], EUGÈNE GRASSET.

$450

EUGÈNE GRASSET (1845- 1917) “NOËL 1893" [Christmas 1893] Technique: Lithography DESCRIPTION: Cover image for the French journal “L’ILLUSTRATION” of December 1893 by Art Nouveau’s master Eugène Grasset. The scene depicts female angels working in a cozy kitchen, peeling potatoes, stirring pots, preparing food while the Holy Mary is breastfeeding baby Jesus at bottom left. Perfect example of Eugène Grasset design. Original lithograph. Advertising text at verso. Signed on the stone at bottom left of the image. In perfect condition. Excellent impression & colour.

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Omai a Native of Ulaietea, Brought into England in the Year 1774, by Tobias Furneaux

$7500

Rare c.18th full length portrait of Omai (more correctly Mae or Mai) who was the young Raiatean (Society Islands) taken on Furneaux’s Adventure to England in 1774.

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The Aeroplane Spotter (Complete set of 217 issues)

$550

THE AEROPLANE SPOTTER. Incorporating The Hearkers’ Club Bulletin. A complete unbound set of 217 issues. From Vol.1. No.1. Jan 2, 1941 to Vol.IX. No. 217, July 10, 1946. Each issue 8-12pp. Many photographic and diagrammatic illustrations. Very Scarce.

Our Island Home

$850

OUR ISLAND HOME. A Tasmanian Sketchbook. By Louisa A. Meredith. The Plates Printed in Autotype, from the Author's Pencil Drawings. Hobart Town. Walch & Sons. 1879. Folio. Original decorated cloth (sl rubbed) 44 leaves. a.e.g. Illustrated title page and 12 full-page autotype plates from pencil drawings by the author. Each text page with a decorated border. Slight foxing else a very good copy. 1st ed. Very Scarce.

BIBLIOMANIA or BOOK MADNESS

$1495

BIBLIOMANIA or BOOK-MADNESS. By Thomas Frognall Dibdin. Lond. Henry G.Bohn. 1842 (New edition) In spectacularly fine condi¬tion in a splendid full Cape Morocco binding by Riviere with an elaborately gilt spine, all edges gilt. Illustrated with woodcuts.

On the origin of species

$625000

Douglas Stewart Fine Books

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.”

Pennant’ Outlines of the Globe, vol. 4: The view of the Malayan Isles, New Holland

$4850

The rare fourth volume of Pennant’s Outlines of the globe containing the large map of Australia, titled: Map For Mr. Pennants Outline of the Globe.

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Christina Stead, Seven Poor Men of Sydney.

$850

London, Peter Davies, 1934. Octavo, small contemporary bookseller's label on front paste-down, original blue cloth lettered in gilt on spine with decorated dustwrapper (bit sunned on spine), priced at 7/6, foxing on edges. First edition. Stead's first novel. Set in Sydney in the 1920s, the literary historian H.M. Green noted that 'it is full of glimpses of crowds and scenes and places; shabby, bedraggled, gaudy, or simply illustrative of episodes in ordinary everyday life, all of which are characteristic and alive.'

CL161 130-Dave Sands, Australian Boxer, c1946-1951. Group of eight silver gelatin photographs taken from press photographs,

$990

seven with captions below image, all stamped verso, sizes from 8.9 x 10.9cm to 12.8 x 8.5cm. Stamp reads “W. O’Loughlin, PO Box 29, South West Rocks, NSW, 2431.” Images show Dave Sands fighting Jack Kirkham, Sydney Stadium, 1946; Art Lind, Sydney Stadium, 1947; Geo.Allen (NZ), Rushcutters Bay Stadium, 1947; Don Mullett, Wellington, NZ, 1948; O’Neil Bell (USA), Rushcutters Bay Stadium, 1948; Tommy Yarosz, London, 1949; Boy Brooks, Melbourne Stadium, 1951

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"SPECIALKARTE VON AUSTRALIEN" [Special Map of Australia] In 8 Blättern von A. Petermann, 1871.

$1200

AUGUSTUS HEINRICH PETERMANN Technique: LITHOGRAPHY Scarce 8 sheets map of Australia by Augustus Petermann. Large map of Australia showing towns, river system, railways and telegraph lines and county boundaries. The map features the routes taken by a number of important overland explorers, during a time period when the interior parts of Australia were still largely unknown. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights with annotations on vegetation. Height loose joinable sheets. Published by Justus Perthes., Gotha, 1871; Tooley, R.V. (Australia) 1531. In perfect condition.

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William J.D. MIRA, From Cowrie to Kina: The Coinages, Currencies, Badges, Medals, Awards and Decorations of PAPUA NEW GUINEA (signed by the author), Spink & Son (Aust.) Pty. Ltd., Sydney NSW, 1986.

$300

Octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titles; 332pp., with many monochrome illustrations. Dustwrapper. Moderate wear; a little cocked; author’s inked inscription to the half-title page. Dustwrapper a little rubbed and edgeworn. Very good.

Groups of Cattle drawn from Nature by T.S.Cooper 1839

$3500

First edition of Thomas Sidney Cooper’s outstanding study of cattle.

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Par Voltaire, Siècles de Louis XIV et de Louis XV

$450

Edition Stereotype dares le procédé de Firmin Didot. Published Pierre Didot, Paris 1803, 3 Vols. 32mo. Buff leather spine, with Pink insert title and green volume with gilt letters, and various gilt decorations, boards marbled, endpapers marbled, edges yellow with top faded, With owners ex libris Viet Valentin. Good-very good condition, silk bookmarks intact. Tom 1- II, 245pp lightly foxed, Tom III-IV 262pp edges lightly worn, interior bright with minimal marks, Tom V-VI 336pp. A beautiful small set.

Mt. Dromedary and Inlet c1880 by James Howe Carse

$15000

At the Inaugural Arts Society of NSW Exhibition in 1880, James Howe Carse exhibited ten paintings mainly of scenes on the south coast of NSW, with another ten in 1883, two in 1884 and nine in 1885. According to Stephen Scheding, this painting could date from any of those years. Carse painted scenes of Bermagui, Tilba Tilba, Wallaga Lake, Mount Dromedary amongst others. This painting was also exhibited at Charles Nodrum Gallery in 2023 and was in private collection in NSW until 2018.

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Norman Lindsay, Mr. Gresham and Olympus.

$750

New York, Farrar & Rinehart, 1932. Octavo, original blue buckram lettered in red, fore-edge uncut, publisher's red topstain, with Norman Lindsay pictorial dustwrapper. First US edition. Precedes the English edition, published later in the same year as Miracles by Arrangement (but issued with a typographical rather than pictorial dustwrapper). Scarce with the fabulous Lindsay dustwrapper.

Heart of Spring by Shaw Neilson.

$850

Sydney, The Bookfellow, 1919. Octavo, very good in original blue streaked cloth, author & title in gilt gothic font on upper board with typographical dustwrapper. First edition, the rare first (uncancelled) state with the final lines of the third & fifth stanzas of 'Love's Coming' transposed. Signed by the author on the half-title page. Rare with dustwrapper.

The Wench is Dead. An Inspector Morse Novel. By Colin Dexter.

$175

London. Macmillan. 1989. Fine first edition in the dustjacket. Inscribed by Colin Dexter on an inserted slip.

J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter Boxed Set: Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, The Chamber of Secrets & The Prisoner of Azkaban, Bloomsbury Publishing

$500

Three volumes: octavo; hardcover, with illustrated boards; 791pp. [223pp.+251pp.+317pp.] (+10pp. of adverts). Minor wear. Dustwrappers. Near fine in a specially printed slipcase.

Trutta the Trout by David Scholes. Illustrations by Monika Bisits.

$2000

Melbourne, Gryphon Books, [1978]. Octavo, illustrations, pale foxing on edges, green leather with silver trout vignette on front board. First edition. One of 20 special copies, numbered and signed by the author and illustrator (and subsequently signed by the Scholes on the title-page). One of the publisher Richard Griffin's idiosyncratic limited editions. This special issue not in Kerry White's continuation of Muir's bibliography. Rare by definition.

A View of Sydney Cove, New South Wales

$18500

Rare historically important, separately issued aquatint of Sydney Cove.

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Alexander Wilson & Charles Lucien Bonaparte, American Ornithology; or, The Natural History of the Birds of the United States, with The Illustrative Notes and Life of Wilson by William Jardine, in Three Volumes, Cassell Petter & Galpin, London (c.1877)

$1750

Three volumes, Octavo; hardcover, quarter-bound in black morocco and red cloth boards with gilt spine titles and decorations and black endpapers; top edges gilt, with an engraved portrait frontispiece, 104 chromolithographic plates and some other monochrome engraved illustrations. Mild wear, somewhat rolled; boards a bit rubbed with some minor insect damage to the cloth; spines mildly sunned, extremities a little worn and the head of Volume III pulled slightly; text block edges lightly toned; lower hinge of Volume I cracked (but still strong); light scattered foxing throughout. Very good

Journal of a Voyage to new South Wales

$7500

First edition of John White’s account of the natural history of the new colony at Sydney Cove, printed for J. Debrett Piccadilly, London. C1790

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Bernoulli, Jean, Tresaguet, Polini, Royal Academy of Sciences Awards in 1737

$3000

Winners of the Medals. Paris, 1737. Printed by the Royal Publishing House. 1 vol. in-4, 8vo 159 pp. 20th century binding in glazed blonde leather on spine and corners, with marbled cover, gilt title on black leather with engraved jewels. In exceptional condition with few minor spots in French and Latin. A wonderful rare book containing stunning fold-outs - showing smelting, casting and other techniques for making anchors and other useful tools. A beautifully bound book - a real treasure.

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

$1750

"UESUGI NO TERUTORA RIDING INTO BATTLE" 1883 Woodblock printed in colours 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. Kenshin (1530-78) is best known as the opponent of Takeda Shingen... 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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David Roberts, The Holy Land.

$10000

Featuring Syria, Idumean, Arabia, Egypt & Nubia. 1855, published by London Day & Son, hc, Six vols, 4to, blue cloth, richly gilt borders and arms of the city of Jerusalem on cover. The first quarto edition of Roberts' The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, & Nubia, one of the most important and elaborate ventures of nineteenth century publishing and one that is highly valued and collected.

Port Jackson Harbour, in New South Wales: with a distant view of the Blue Mountains.

$25000

Exceptionally rare engraved view of Sydney taken from South Head looking west, from part one, plate 2, of Absalom West’s Views published on January 1st, 1813.

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La Nuova Olanda

$9250

Very rare and important c.18th map of Australia based on Cook’s first voyage observations and one of only a handful of maps to be solely devoted to the Australia continent.

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Robbery Under Arms. The rare first edition

$3750

BOLDERWOOD (sic), Rolf. ROBBERY UNDER ARMS. A story of life and adventure in the bush and in the goldfields of Australia. Three volumes. Lond. Remington & Co. 1888. Rebound in half calf with cloth sides. 300,300,291pp. The cloth sides sl.discoloured and a little foxing else a very good set of the Extremely Rare first edition of this classic of Australian literature.

Liber Chronicarum (The Nuremberg Chronicle)

$165000

Douglas Stewart Fine Books

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).

CL161 123-Russell Roberts (Aust., 1904-1999). [Flying Boat “Coogee VH-ABC”]

$1650

On Sydney Harbour At Rose Bay], c1938-1940. Silver gelatin photograph, photographer’s stamp with ambiguous negative number in ink verso, 43.7 x57.4cm. Slight surface loss, repaired tears, stains and discolouration to edges of image, some surface loss verso. Stamp includes “Russell Roberts Pty. Ltd. Fraser Uther Bldg., 6 Underwood St., Sydney. Negative number [62 or 32]. Photographic Department.” The flying boat Coogee VH-ABC was bought by Qantas Empire Airways in September 1938, then acquired by the RAAF in June 1940, nd

1824 “CARTE DE LA NOUVELLE-HOLLANDE”; LOUIS CLAUDE DE SAULCES DE FREYCINET.

$2750

This is the rare updated version of Freycinet’s seminal map of Australia which was first issued in 1807 in a larger format in the accounts of the French expedition under the command of Nicholas Baudin. Freycinet was the cartographer for the expedition and his map of Australia was the first to show a complete coastline of the Continent before Matthew Flinders’s chart which was issued in 1814 due to his imprisonment on Mauritius Island by the French. In this version, Freycinet removes the Imperialist ambitious naming of “Terre de Napoléon” and Imperial French names for many parts of the coast...

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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

Douglas Stewart Fine Books

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.

Rhymes of Sydney. Sung by Colin Wills With Backgrounds by "Wep" [William Edwin Pidgeon].

$750

Sydney, Frank C. Johnson, 1933. Quarto, 48pp., black & white illustrations, neat modern inscription on half-title page, bright original colour pictorial wrappers. First edition. Very scarce Frank Johnson publication in uncommonly good condition. Wills & Wep's Sydney of the early 1930s, flappers, six-o'clock closing, and the Harbour Bridge &c. Pidgeon's striking illustrations include his useful & important drinking map of Sydney 'With Wep Where it's Wet'. A 'Magnificent souvenir of Sydney'.

Across Australia

$495

SPENCER, Baldwin & GILLEN, F.J. ACROSS AUSTRALIA. 2 vols. Lond. Macmillan & Co. September, 1912. Or.cl. with gilt pictorial decorations on front boards and spines. xiv,254,2;xvii,261,2pp. 7 Colour plates, 365 b/w plates and two folding maps. A very good set. The second edition published three months after the first. The narrative of Spencer & Gillen's expeditions through Central Australia with much on the aborigines, their customs and their way of life. The expeditions were the beginning of modern Australian anthropological fieldwork.

Salem's Lot - The Centipede Gift Edition - Stephen King

$1100

Salem's Lot: The Centipede Press cloth-bound hardback. This edition of Salem’s Lot was widely held to be the best Stephen King-limited edition ever published. It has Jerry Uelsmann photographs reprinted as gorgeous duotones. This is a copy of the Centipede Press gift edition limited to 600 unsigned copies, still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

William Yarrell, A History of British Birds in three volumes, together with the two Supplements bound as one additional volume

$400

Four volumes, published by Jan van Voorst, London, 1843 and 1845. octavo; hardcover, full green calf, boards ruled in gold, gilt spine titles on brown labels between five raised bands, marbled endpapers with gilt dentelles and an olive ribbon, all edges marbled, with decorated title pages and many engraved illustrations. Mild wear; boards rubbed and edgeworn with scuffing to the hinges and spine extremities; spine labels to the first three volumes missing; text block top edges dusted; previous owner’s contemporary bookplates to the front pastedown of each volume. No dustwrappers. Very good.

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

$225000

Douglas Stewart Fine Books

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.

The Poppy War - R.F.Kuang

$2000

The Poppy War is a Chinese-history inspired epic fantasy trilogy about empire, warfare, shamanism, and opium. The Poppy War is a Goodreads Choice Award finalist (twice over), Nebula Award finalist, Locus Award finalist, and winner of the Stabby, Crawford, and Compton Crook Awards. Limited: 500 signed numbered hardcover copies

Parte Occidentale della China

$16500

A complete set of the most sought after c.18th maps of China by Vincenzo Coronelli (1650-1718). The map depicts the eastern part of China with Korea -correctly- as a peninsula. Formosa is included as well.

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