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The complete illustrated manuscript journal of French naval ensign Louis Raymond de Montaignac de Chauvance (1811-1891), including his original daily journal kept on board l’Artémise, under the command of Captain Cyrille Pierre Théodore Laplace (1793-1875), during its circumnavigation in 1837-1840. Illustrated with numerous watercolours documenting the voyage to Malacca, Batavia, Cochinchina, Manila, Macao, Hobart and Sydney (reprising his visits in 1831, during his first circumnavigation in La Favorite), Tahiti, California, Peru and Brazil.

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Winged fairy with bubble

$12500

Watercolour on card, 250 x 175 mm, initialed in ink lower right ‘I.R.O’, housed in a period moulded white timber frame. A stunning watercolour by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite featuring her most beloved subject, a winged fairy, interacting with a magical bubble.

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The Birds of Australia

$750000

London : printed by Richard and John Taylor for the author, 1848. Eight volumes, imperial folio, finely bound by Sotheran and Co. in full green crushed morocco over boards, a clean, vibrant set in a firm and solid binding, an exceptional work with 681 full-page hand-coloured lithographs. The finest of all Australian colour plate books, and Gould’s ‘greatest achievement’ (Wantrup).

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Household, Geoffrey - Rogue Male

$12500

First US 1939. New York: Little, Brown and Company. 8vo. original green cloth in dustwrapper. A classic tale of foiled revenge, pursuit and survival in the English countryside, as the protagonist goes underground to escape his hunters. Notable for its gripping scenes within the claustrophobic confines of an old badger sett dug into the banks of a ‘holloway’ in Dorset. Acknowledged as the inspiration of David Morrell’s ‘First Blood’ (‘Rambo’), and lauded as a significant literary contribution to the field of British landscape writing Robert MacFarlane. A superb copy signed by the author.

栗林徳一 [Kuribayashi Tokuichi]. 1943. 秘庫ニューギニア [New Guinea, Hidden Places].

$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.

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The reptiles of British India.

$2000

Gunther, Albert C. L. G. London: Ray Society, 1864. Folio, 26 uncoloured lithographic plates. Publisher's boards with label, rebacked to match with later maroon quarter cloth, some cracking and minor fraying of corners, a few minor spots, all contained in a modern maroon solander box. German born British herpetologist and ichthyologist Albert Karl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther (1830-1914) was, along with his near contemporary Alfred George Boulenger, the most prolific of all reptile taxonomists with more than 340 descriptions to his name.

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THE SALZBURG TALES by Christina Stead.

$850

New York, D. Appleton-Century Company, 1934. Octavo, bookseller's label tipped-in on rear paste-down, near fine in bright original black boards with paper labels on spine & upper board, fore and bottom edges uncut with striking silver paper Deco dustwrapper. First US edition of the author's first book with an exceptional example of the impractical silver paper dustwrapper. Stead's subsequent two books, Seven Poor Men of Sydney and The Beauties and Furies, were issued in the US by D. Appleton-Century Company, uniformly bound with similar Deco red, black & silver Deco dustwrappers [by Neely].

The fire at Anthony Horden's, Sydney, 1901

$180

Silver gelatin stereoview photograph. 1901. 86mm by 177mm (card). On 10th July 1901 a disastrous fire razed the Anthony Horden building, costing the lives of 5 employees at the time, and another death during demolition. A couple of light foxing spots.

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Ishihara Shinobu. 1932. The Series of Plates Designed as Tests for Colour-Blindness.

$300

Cosmology and wonder-tales, splendidly illustrated. - Qazwini, Zakariyya ibn Muhammad al-. [A section of The Wonders of Creation and the Oddities of Existence]. India, late 18th/early 19th century CE.

Early English-language edition of Dr Ishihara Shinobu's landmark work for the detection of colour vision deficiency. The Ishihara plates remain the foundational method for colour-blindness testing in clinical and occupational settings to this day.

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$72500

Persian manuscript on paper. Folio (190 x 310 mm). 212 ff. - The great work of the cosmographer al-Qazwini: a manuscript comprising several sections of his "'Aja'ib al-Makhluqat", wonderfully illustrated with over one hundred and seventy miniatures. These colourful paintings show the astrological signs, an astronomer at work with telescope and astrolabe, a series of Islamic angels, a particularly wide range of mystical beasts, including a phoenix and dragon, numerous fish both real and imagined, including one full-page watery scene, etc.

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Edmund Barton Letter

$750

Handwritten letter from Edmund Barton on High Court of Australia notepaper, 2nd October 1914. Signed by Barton who was Australia's first Prime Minister from 1901 to 1903. We have many other previous PM signatures including Alfred Deakin, John Curtin, Ben Chifley & Robert Menzies. These will be displayed and offered for sale at the Book Fair.

The Songlines Bruce Chatwin

$330

The Songlines. By Bruce Chatwin. Franklin Library. 1987. Signed First Edition. Decorated full leather with Aboriginal motifs.

Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban [1st Ed, 1st state issue]

$6500

The most collectible standard issue Harry Potter book [aside from the "Philosopher’s Stone" first printings], Errington states only 5,150 copies of the First Edition of "Azkaban" were printed, with an estimated 2,500 of these being this First State issue [with significant printing error present]. An excellent copy with the only significant fault being a faded spine on the jacket. We will also be bringing a copy of the third state issue [for comparison and/or purchase]

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[Sydney from the North Shore 1842]

$13500

Rare first issue, a proof before letters, of Conrad Martens's view of Sydney from the North Shore, drawn in 1842 and issued as a hand coloured lithograph in London in 1843; Wantrup calls it "a great rarity". The panorama looks south across a harbour crowded with shipping to the town, with Dawes Point and its battery, St James's Church above the buildings, Government House and the Government Stables towards the right and Fort Macquarie at the left. Martens turned to lithography in the depression of the early 1840s to circulate his views of Sydney.

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History of Joseph.

$3750

Original watercolour design, dated 1883, by the London stained glass firm Ward & Hughes for a great seven-light window of the History of Joseph, identified as the scheme proposed for the north transept of Selby Abbey, Yorkshire. Fourteen scenes from Genesis fill two tiers of lights beneath Gothic canopies, with six sons of Jacob, six Apostles and the Annunciation in the tracery. Baddeley's 1890 guide records the window as about to be filled with glass by Ward and Hughes, but it appears never to have been made: the north transept kept plain glass until 1914.

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Goos' West-Indische paskaert in its very rare first state: a monumental nautical chart of the Atlantic Ocean in Mercator projection on vellum, used by the Dutch West Indian Company (WIC)

$300000

GOOS, Pieter. West-Indische Paskaert … Amsterdam, Pieter Goos, [ca. 1660]. Printed on vellum (ca. 80 x 98 cm) from one large copperplate engraving, partly coloured by a contemporary hand.

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"PHYSIQUE" [PHYSICS]

$650

From: “TABLEAUX ACCOMPLIS DE TOUS LES ARTS LIBÉRAUX” contenans brièvement et clerement par... - 1587 - CHRISTOPHE DE SAVIGNY (Savigny[?] 1530- c.1587) WOODCUT Christophe de Savigny's "Tableaux accomplis de tous les arts libéraux"; one of the sixteen full-page woodcuts representing diagrams of all liberal arts. Very decorative diagram, in colourful oval ornamental border, consisting of words linked together which explain the liberal art in question. Very Rare. Original woodcut printed on thin French laid paper with watermark: "Hand",Published in Paris by Gourmont frères in 1587, First Edition.

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Comet In Moominland [1st Ed, 1951]

$3750

Beautiful copy of the first English translation of Tove Jansson's classic Moomin book. Keenly sought, this edition rarely comes on to the open market, even less commonly with complete original dustjacket

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The Land | Sackville-West, Vita

$890

First published in 1926, this is a famous poetry collection of the changing of the seasons with secondary subjects such as the British Yeoman, Cider making and wildflowers, etc., annotated at the edge of each subsequent page. Good Condition - Note: Internally, it is devoid of any extraneous markings or prior ownership identifiers. The book is largely free of foxing other than two strips of tanning on both fep's. Hardcover done in burgundy publisher's cloth with minor scuffing and corner bruising.

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[Autograph Album of Novelist Helen Hudson]

$7500

Autograph album of the novelist and animal protectionist Helen Hudson of Hillsborough, on the Hunter River near Maitland, filled between about 1905 and 1917. It holds over 40 original artworks and about 100 signatures by Sydney artists, journalists, family and men of H.M.S. Challenger. Contributors include D. H. Souter, A. J. Daplyn, James R. Jackson, A. J. Fischer, Alfred T. Clint, David Barker and Harry J. Weston, and Rose Scott, founder of the Womanhood Suffrage League, wishes her "Self-development and Freedom". Her Leichhardt novel Flames in the Wind appeared in London in 1917.

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HARBOUR BEAUTIFUL. Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

$375

Sydney, 1938. Folding brochure with fabulous Harry Weston cover art & characteristic large pictorial map (40 x 70cm) of Sydney Harbour. New South Wales Government Tourist Bureau brochure.

1949 Universal-International Film Promotional Book

$400

Large-format (Elephant Folio) Universal-International trade catalogue issued for the 1949 film programme. 27 total posters. Illustrated throughout with full-page promotional artwork for Australian productions, including Charles Chauvel’s Sons of Matthew, The Valley Is Ours (promoted as “The Murray Valley”), the Australian National Film Board’s Australian Diary series and Into the Straight (Horse Racing/ Melbourne Cup). A scarce piece of post-war Australian cinema-distribution ephemera, combining documentary, feature-film and studio promotional material.

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Rosaleen Norton Exhibit

Josef Lebovic Gallery

Josef Lebovic Gallery is proud to present the largest collection of Rosaleen Norton’s drawings and watercolours to come up for sale since her death in 1979. The collection consists of 30 items by or relating to Norton and her circle in Sydney during the 1940s and 1950s.

Selbstdarstellung (signed copy)

$9500

The second edition of Freud's autobiography, greatly enlarged and revised. Signed by the founder of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud (1856-1939).

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Charles Dickens - The Works. Complete in 30 volumes c.1880

$3500

London. Chapman & Hall. c.1880. Finely & uniformly bound in half morocco. Illustrated throughout. A splendid set.

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J K Rowling. Uncorrected Proof Copy

$30000

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J K Rowling. An Uncorrected Proof Copy, published by Bloomsbury in 1999. This is the 2nd state edition of the proof version of this book, with the green covers. A very rare book, with a known number of only 150 copies produced. A softcover book, with the binding firm and sound. There is some slight colour loss along a crease line and on the spine. Some very light foxing to the page edges. Pages are clean and unmarked. Corners are lightly bumped. Now housed in a custom-made presentation box. A Very Good copy of this rare and highly collectible book.

Success, Convict hulk

$380

The Convict Ship 'Success' Albumen photograph cabinet card. C1890. 105mm by 165mm (card). Cabinet card size albumen photograph of the convict ship 'Success'. 'Wishing you a Merry Xmas' printed on right side of the card. 'Convict hulk 'Success'' inscribed in pencil on the reverse. 'Success' was an Australian prison ship, built in 1840 at Natmoo, Burma, for Cockerell & Co. of Calcutta. Between the 1890s and the 1930s, she was converted into a floating museum displaying relics of the convict era.

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Cancer Ward | Alexander Solzhenitsyn

$105

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander (Translated by N. Bethell and D. Burg ) 1968 (First UK Edition). The Bodley Head, London, England Considered by the author (1918-2008) to be his most important novel, 'Portraying the relationships of a group of people from a remarkable cross-section of contemporary Russian characters and attitudes' in the cancer ward of a provincial Soviet hospital.

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[Australia's Wool Trade Through Osaka]. 1935. 大阪ト海運ニテ貨物五千噸以上ヲ取引スル各地 [Ports Trading Over 5,000 Tonnes with Osaka].

$450

This fascinating map of the world shows amounts and import/export trading ratios from the Port of Osaka as of 1935. Around the period, Osaka was one of the major trading ports in Japan as textile and manufacturing industries thrived in the area. The map provides excellent visual cues of the bulk of trades and ratios of import/export with various overseas ports.

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First Edition Set, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 20 Vols

$9000

First Edition Set, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 20 volumes. Founded mainly on the materials collected by the Philological Society. Edited by Sir James Murray, sometime president of the Philological Society, with the assistance of many scholars and men of science. Published Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1888 - 1928 (First Volume Published 1888 and last in 1928). A combination of burgundy and red leather hardbound covers. Gilt cornering and lining on covers, and gilt lettering on spine. Very Good - Excellent Condition.

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“CARTE DE LA NOUVELLE-HOLLANDE”

$2750

“CARTE DE LA NOUVELLE-HOLLANDE” 1824 Cartographer: LOUIS CLAUDE DE SAULCES DE FREYCINET (1779-1841) COPPER ENGRAVING DESCRIPTION: 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...

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May We Borrow Your Husband Signed | Graham Greene

$980

1967 (First and limited edition). The Bodley Head Ltd , London, England An extra-fine and autographed copy of his famous book that encompasses twelve brief tales including that of the book title that inspired the famous 1963 Dirk Bogarde film of the same name. A rare and totally complete book for Greene devotees.

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THE HOME: The Australian Journal of Quality. Vol. 11, No. 5 (May 1930).

$220

Sydney, Art in Australia, 1930. Quarto, 96pp., illustrations, advertisements, original pictorial wrappers. Fabulous period design including cover art by Adrian Feint, and Deco typography.

Sir Ralph Darling, mezzotint engraving

$3800

Mezzotint by John Richardson Jackson (1819-1877) after John Linnell (1792-1882) C1845. 310mm by 235mm (image) 420mm by 330mm (sheet). India-laid proof. After an oil dated 1825. A couple of very minor marks in margins.

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The Audacity of Hope Signed | Barack Obama

$3150

2006. Crown Publishers , New York Thoughts "On Reclaiming the American Dream" purchased at auction from Forum Auctions London, and written by Obama when he was the junior member for Illinois and not the President. Provenance is excellent and the book has been signed on the 31st October 2006 at Alverno College in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, following a Democrat rally in Pere Marquette Park.

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More For Your Garden | Sackville-West, Vita

$1100

1955. Michael Joseph , Bloomsbury, London, United Kingdom Another of her books about gardening following from In Your Garden and In Your Garden Again. Renowned for many reasons Vita wrote large numbers of poetry collections and at least 13 books on various subjects. Important in the Bloomsbury literary group and bears a neat inscription on front end free paper from ‘V’. Very Good Condition - Note: Done in light red publishers cloth with gold title on a very firm spine, the corners are bumped but otherwise there is no major wear and tear seen.

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Atomic Energy and Radiological Defense

$250

Thiebaud, K.E. and Hoyt S. Vandenburg (fwd.) Air Force Manual 52-6 – Restricted Security Information Reissue 1956. Washington: Department of the Air Force. 4to. original printed paper wraps (slightly rubbed & marked). A technical manual presenting the science and method of nuclear warfare, issued in very small numbers (limited to 116 copies) to US Air Force Staff. The flippancy with which the subject is sometimes presented belies its seriousness, and clearly predates the onset of radiation related illnesses suffered by US serviceman involved in the programme. A very good copy.

Prost

$1000

STANKOWSKI, Anton (1906–1998). Prost! Stuttgart, 1996. Two-colour serigraph on Fabriano paper. Image 265 × 188 mm; sheet 378 × 270 mm. Signed and titled in pencil. Fine. A geometric composition of two glasses raised in a toast. Prost! is the familiar German expression used when raising a glass. The work recalls Stankowski’s 1952 photogram of the same title, revisiting the subject in a concise arrangement of colour and form. Stankowski was a significant figure in modern German graphic design, working across photography, painting, printmaking and commercial graphics.

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LINDSAY, Lionel: Twenty-One Woodcuts. Drawn, engraved & printed by Lionel Lindsay (signed)

$4500

Sydney, Meryon Press, 1924. 'This book, the first of the "Meryon Press", was printed by Lionel Lindsay on the hand press given to him by his friend The Honourable John Lane Mullins M.L.C. It was completed in May, 1924. Of this edition 30 copies are on full vellum of Nikko, & 95 on Japanese vellum tipped on white Whatman. This copy is Number 16'; the colophon is signed by Lionel Lindsay.

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1875 Bound copy of Newspapers Published in New South Wales

$900

89 Newspapers in total, to include: Albury Banner and Wodonga Express, Bathurst Times, Cumberland Mercury, Echo, Forbes Times, Illustrated Sydney News, Western Examiner, Sydney Punch, Sydney Mail, Sydney Morning Herald, Town and Country Journal, Wagga Wagga advertiser, etc. Includes index.

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MAXWELL, James Clerk: A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism (J.J. Thomson's working copy)

$200000

Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1881 (second edition, revised)/ 1873. The personal working set of Sir Joseph John Thomson (Nobel Prize winner and discoverer of the electron), with extensive annotations in his hand made while editing the third edition of Maxwell's important treatise. Later provenance from his son, Sir George Paget Thomson, also a Nobel Prize-winning physicist.

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“NYMPHEE”

$1450

Artist: ROBERTO MATTA (Santiago 1911- Civitavecchia 2002), Chilean artist. Title: “NYMPHEE” 1979 ETCHING & AQUATINT PRINTED IN COLOUR DESCRIPTION: "Nymphee" is a colourful Roberto Matta large 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. NOTE: Original etching and aquatint printed in colour on wove paper “ARCHES". Signed in pencil by the artist. Numbered 58/100 lower left; limited edition of 100.

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[Ottoman General Map of the Empire and the Crimean War Theatre]

$55000

Monumental sectional map of the whole Crimean War theatre in Ottoman Turkish, printed at the Imperial Military Engineering School press and dated May 1854 in the title cartouche, within months of the Anglo-French entry into the war. It reaches from Italy, Sicily and Malta across the Balkans, the Black Sea and Crimea, Anatolia and the Levant to Egypt, the Caucasus and western Persia, and appears to be the Ottoman military edition of Kiepert's general map of the Turkish Empire (Berlin, 1853). No other example of this edition has been traced.

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"INDIA ORIENTALIS" cum Adjacentibus Insulis Nova Delineatione ob oculos posita.

$2250

c.1742 MATTHAÜS SEUTTER (Augsburg 1678- 1757) COPPER ENGRAVING The map extends from China, Japan and Persia in the North and in the south stretching from The Maldives east to Northern Australia. Of note, Australia continues to be attached to Nova Guinea, albeit with some hesitation, as the image extends outside the inner neat-line to convey this information - even though 20+ names are confidently engraved around Northern Australia Coastline. Original contemporary hand-colouring. From: "Atlas Novus", published in Augsburg, c.1742. Ref: Norwich; M&B; Tooley.

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Anne McCaffrey, Restoree 1st Edition 1967

$400

First UK edition: octavo; hardcover, with silver-gilt spine titles; 256pp. Mild wear; a little rolled; text block edges lightly toned; some light offset to the endpapers. Dustwrapper is a little rubbed and edgeworn; retailer’s bookplate to the lower panel; a small tear with associated creasing to the top of the upper panel (now repaired); protected by non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good.

"THE CARD PLAYERS AND DEATH"

$4800

JAN LIEVENS (Leyden 1607- Amsterdam 1674) - Dutch school "THE CARD PLAYERS AND DEATH" c.1638 ETCHING In Lievens "Fighting Card Players and Death", two men come to blows over a game. One threatens his opponent with a knife, overturning the gaming board in the process, while the other seizes a jug and retaliates. Death, wearing an ivy crown and waving a bone as a club, joins the fray, grabs the man with the knife by the shirt, and prepares to strike him. While themes related to life's brevity and the elusiveness of worldly possessions occur in seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish painting...

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The work that revolutionised ocean navigation

$145000

[ZACUTO, Abraham Ben Samuel]. Ephemerides sive Almanach perpetuu[m]. (Colophon:) Venice, Petrus Liechtenstein, for Johannes Lucilius Santritter, October 1498. 4to. With a woodcut title page and numerous tables. 20th-century limp vellum, sewn on 2 thin vellum straps laced through the joints, with the manuscript name of the (wrong) author and year of publication on the spine. The work is housed in a modern marbled paper slipcase.

The Tower menagerie: comprising the natural history of the animals contained in that establishment; with anecdotes of their characters and history.

$1200

[Bennett, Edward T]. London: Robert Jennings, 1831. Octavo, wood-engraved illustrations; finely bound by Ramage in plum morocco, spines elaborately gilt, sides with ornamental corner-pieces within rules, top edges gilt (spines faded), a superb set bound by John Ramage. A history of the strange and exotic collection of wild animals kept in the Tower of London, which were used at various times for both entertainment and scientific study by royalty and members of English society. With chapters on Kangaroo and Emu.

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Battle of words over the best practical solution to the determination of longitude before Harrison's chronometer

$89000

LEY, Jan Hendrick Jarichs van der. Het gulden zeeghel des grooten zeevaerts… Leeuwarden, Abraham vanden Rade, 1615. Oblong 4to (16.5 x 22 cm). With an emblematic engraved device/navigational diagram on the title-page, 27 woodcut figures: 18 printed on integral leaves and the others on 3 folding plates. Further with a woodcut headpiece, tailpiece and decorated initials. 18th-century(?) half vellum, sewn on 3 cords, blue-green paper sides, with manuscript author and title in sloped capitals on spine.

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Complete DeMask Catalogue Collection

$1000

Complete set of the four printed catalogues of Dutch latex and leather store DeMask. Throughout the 1990s DeMask helped shape the international fetish scene hosting events (Europerve, Rubber Ball, et al.) in collaboration with Skin Two magazine.

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Rare Hondius globe dedicated to Archduke Albert and Archduchess Isabella of Austria, with their arms on the globe and on the pedestal

$365000

HONDIUS, Jodocus. [Terrestrial globe]. Antwerp, Joan Baptist Vrients [produced by Hondius in Amsterdam], “1601” [= ca. 1603?]. Diameter 21 cm. Overall height 50cm. The globe is assembled from 12 engraved gores hand-coloured in outline, some areas with full colour infill. A decorative cartouche set in North America crowned with the coat of arms of the Albert and Isabella Clara of Austria, signed below by Hondius and Vrients dedicating this globe to Albert and Isabella. One face of the walnut mount carved with the coat of arms of Albert and Isabella.

Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Libri rethoricarum artium libri II. Rein Abbey, Styria, c. 1100.

$773000

An outstanding witness to medieval teaching and learning, this richly illustrated manuscript of Cicero's earliest work on rhetoric combines an extensive apparatus of glosses and diagrams with substantial additions of medieval Latin verse. Its exceptional format, fine early protogothic script, decorated initials and carefully planned presentation of text and commentary make it a substantial monument of medieval learning.

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Extremely rare atlas with 76 very large hand-coloured maps

$72500

WIT, Frederick de. Atlas maior. Amsterdam, Johannes Covens & Cornelis Mortier, [ca. 1725]. Imperial folio (53 x 35.5 cm). With engraved title page and 76 double-page (8 larger folding) engraved maps, the title page and all maps and their decorations coloured by a contemporary hand. Half tanned sheepskin (ca. 1900), sewn on 6 recessed cords, gold-tooled spine with black morocco label, with the bookbinder's ticket of Cornelis Marinus Remigius (1868-1929) in Middelberg, successor to Cornelis Willem Dhuij (1822/23-1904). The edges decorated with blue paste, probably for the original binding.

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A Topographical plan of the Settlements of New South Wales, including Port Jackson, Botany Bay and Broken Bay, Surveyed by Messrs. Grimes & Flinders.

$47500

Rare first edition of Aaron Arrowsmith's chart of the settlements of New South Wales, published in London on 12 March 1799. The first separately issued map to show the spread of settlement in the colony, it combines Charles Grimes's surveys of Port Jackson, Prospect Hill and the Hawkesbury with Matthew Flinders's sketches of the coast, and was the first published chart to include a survey by Flinders. Landholdings are laid down along the Parramatta and Hawkesbury rivers, with a table of landholders across the top, and the tracks of Bass and Flinders in the Tom Thumb are shown.

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Manchuria: Fortnightly Publication of The Manchuria Daily News [Vol. 1, No. 1] (July 1, 1936)

$400

First issue of the fortnightly magazine of The Manchuria Daily News, the English-language newspaper published at Dairen from 1908 to 1940 under the South Manchuria Railway Company to present Japan’s case in Manchuria to foreign readers.

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Cunningham, Joseph Davey. 1849. A History of the Sikhs, From the Origin of the Nation to the Battles of the Sutlej.

$6250

Joseph Davey Cunningham (1812-1851) wrote this landmark English work on the history of the Sikhs whilst serving as a Captain in the Bengal Engineers and the Political Agent to Bhopal. He had gathered extensive first-hand knowledge during eight years of service as a political assistant on the Sikh frontier. The work gained notoriety for Cunningham's criticism of Sir Henry Hardinge's management of the Anglo-Sikh War - the subsequent disgrace led to his professional ruin and is reported to have hastened his early death at the age of 38.

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A View of the Cove and Part of Sydney, New South Wales.

$8500

Rare hand coloured engraving of Sydney Cove from Dawes Battery during the Macquarie period, drawn by Captain James Wallis and engraved by Walter Preston, from Wallis's An Historical Account of the Colony of New South Wales (1821). The town extends along both shores of the Cove, with wharves, warehouses and small craft on the waterfront, the Commissariat Stores and buildings along George Street, and windmills on the higher ground beyond. Part of the earliest substantial series of engraved views of Sydney.

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The largest photograph in the world: never seen on the market. [Fra Mauro Mappa Mundi - Carlo Naya]. Life-size 1871 photograph of the Fra Mauro map of the world.

$193300

Photograph of the Fra Mauro mappamundi, ca. 223 x 223 cm (when joined). 16 albumen prints, each measuring 600 x 600 mm and mounted on the original cardboard, mounted on linen. Loosely stored in original cloth portfolio, marbled boards, ties intact. - A life-sized photograph of the famous world map made around 1450 by Fra Mauro, the greatest medieval map of the world: an astonishing accomplishment of art history, cartography, and photography.

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How Buddhahood may be realized in one’s present body: a 14th-century manuscript of 28 metres. - Seishin.Japan, 1352 CE.

$177200

The first Armenian atlas - Hovhannes Amira Dadian (Tatean). Atlas ashkharhats'oyts' patkerats'. Venice, Monastery of St. Lazarus, 1849.Folio (454 x 595 mm). (4), 46 pp. With 10 hand-coloured double-page engraved maps.

Manuscript, complete in two scrolls (both 25 cm high, 15 and 13 meters long). - An imposing medieval witness to one of the central ideas of Shingon Buddhism. This complete two-volume manuscript preserves extracts from Seishin's Sokushin-gi Mitsudan-sho, with a dated colophon by its scribe Kenpo, and thus offers an early and clearly dated example of the scholastic tradition that grew around Kukai’s doctrine that Buddhahood may be realized in one's present body.

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$104700

The first world atlas in the Armenian language, published by the Mekhitarist monastery of San Lazaro under the patronage of Yovhannes Dadian (Tatean), with text and map lettering entirely in Armenian. The ten maps depict the solar system, the world in double hemispheres, Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, South America and Oceania, together with separate maps of ancient Armenia and the Ottoman Empire. All the maps were engraved in Paris, principally after contemporary French models.

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Il Cuoco Francese

$4800

de LA VARENNE, François Pierre Il Cuoco Francese... Bologna : [Giacomo Pellegrino] il Longhi, 1693. First Italian edition. In Italian. A rare and bibliographically intriguing Italian cookery book, traditionally described as the first Italian edition of La Varenne's Le Cuisinier François (1651) offering an unusual insight into the transmission and adaptation of French culinary practice in late-seventeenth-century pe. Rare. An important bibliographical conundrum in the history of European cookery.

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Garden of Eden: The Shamanic Use of Psychoactive Flora and Fauna, and the Study of Consciousness

$4500

Encyclopedia of psychoactive plants, animals and other organisms, and their uses in shamanism, spiritual exploration and healing.

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Exceptional Portolan chart, likely made by famed cartographer and chart maker, Luis Texeira

$525000

[PORTOLAN CHART - Luis TEXEIRA]. [Portolan chart of the Mediterranean basin]. [Iberian peninsula, second half of the 16th century, before 1574?]. 96 x 61 cm. Manuscript nautical chart on a single sheet of vellum, centred on the Mediterranean basin.

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[Royal Visits Album of Detective N. D. James]

$25000

Album kept by Norman Devine James of the New South Wales Police, a plain-clothes personal escort on the royal tours of the Prince of Wales in 1920, the Duke and Duchess of York in 1927 and the Duke of Gloucester in 1934. Around 340 items dated 1920 to 1949, including 95 original photographs, ephemera and press cuttings. Beside the souvenirs are the papers of an officer on duty: working programmes, royal train berth labels, motor transport passes and the Buckingham Palace notice of his Royal Victorian Medal. Also the openings of Parliament House, Canberra, and the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

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A Walk in Sydney Streets on the Shady Side

$2500

Lithographed studies of Sydney street life in the 1880s focusing on the working and marginal figures of the city, including sex workers, the drunk, the infirm, street performers, a Chinese vegetable seller, and others.

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“THE FLUTE-PLAYER” - (het Uylenspiegeltje)

$36000

REMBRANDT HARMENSZOON VAN RIJN [REMBRAND] (Leyden 1606-Amsterdam 1669), Dutch school. “THE FLUTE-PLAYER” (het Uylenspiegeltje), 1642. ETCHING AND DRYPOINT 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 a transparent game.. Fourth state of four, without the face among the branches. Barstch 188, Hollstein Dutch 144, New Hollstein 211

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Lew Hoad Tennis Player No 1. in Prague, 1956

$2000

Original portrait of Lew Hoad by Czech artist Marcel Niederle (1898-1990), drawn in Prague two days after Hoad’s victory at the French Championships, and signed by Hoad the following day. Hoad appeared in Prague for two days at the invitation of the Czechoslovak tennis authorities, before going onto win Wimbledon a little over a month later.

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内田勇太郎 [Uchida Yutaro]. 1941. 水盤生花指導書 [Guide to Arranging Flowers in a Water Dish].

$375

Japanese flower arrangement has two main styles according to the types of containers they use: basin and vase. This instruction book shows how to arrange a variety of flowers in various types of basins. Double page illustrations feature arrangements in colour on the left and in black and white with numbers on the right. The numbers on the indicate the correct sequence of putting the flowers together.

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The working library of Michael Sharland

$18000

Seven bespoke boxes containing signed copies of Michael Sharland's books, ephemera, and an extensive collection of other titles. A spreadsheet is available.

Nests and eggs of birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania.

$2500

North, Alfred J. Sydney: Australian Museum, 1901-1914. Quarto, 25 egg plates, uncoloured vignettes by Neville Cayley senior, photographs by the author and H. Barnes. Contemporary green binder's cloth with later red labels, a very good set. Alfred John North (1855-1917) was one of the greatest of all Australian ornithologists and a founding member in 1880 of the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria. He was appointed Assistant Curator of Birds at the Australian Museum, under E. P. Ramsay, in 1891, a position he held until his death in 1917.

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Kings Way The Beginnings of Australian Graffiti Melbourne 1983-93

$450

A hardcover book, in very good condition. Published by Miegunyah Press in 2009. In a barrage of blinding colour, cryptic words and bombed out train carriages, Kings Way tells the story of Melbourne’s emerging underground writing scene and the youth integral to it. Using the city’s walls and trains as their ephemeral canvas, these writers pioneered the elaborate spray painted artworks that continue to dominate Melbourne’s cityscape. With more than 1200 full colour images, part visual encyclopedia, part social history.

Symonowicz, Wanda (ed.) - Beyond Human Endurance

$250

Beyond Human Endurance. The Ravensbrück Women Tell Their Stories First English 1970. Warsaw: Interpress Publishers 8vo. original printed paper wraps, French flaps (slightly frayed). Harrowing stories of the mostly Jewish young women who were forced subjects of human vivisection at a Nazi concentration camp. The tests involved deliberating wounding and infecting the victim’s legs in order to trial new drugs for use by the German army. A very good copy of an uncommon work.

One of the most important pilot guides of the 17th century

$195000

BLAEU, Willem Jansz. Zeespiegel… Amsterdam, Willem Jansz. Blaeu, 1627. 3 parts in 1 volume, parts 2 and 3 consist of 6 books each. Folio. With 108 numbered engraved charts (1 folding, 104 double-page, 3 full-page), 2 half-page engraved charts, 2 volvelles, a woodcut vignette on the divisional title page of each part, and numerous woodcut illustrations in the text. Contemporary overlapping vellum, sewn on 5 supports laced through the joints, with the manuscript title and shelfmark on the spine. The work is preserved in a gold-tooled half red morocco clamshell box.

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Slouching Towards Bethlehem [1st UK]

$1750

Didion's second book & first collection of essays established her at the forefront of New Journalism. The book takes its title from a line in the Yeats poem "The Second Coming" and is also the title of an essay in the collection [labelled "...by far the best account of the hippies yet written..."] First UK Edition [Andre Deutsch, London, 1969]; xviii, 238 pages; red cloth, gold titling to spine, a near-fine copy; in unclipped, illustrated dustjacket

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POTTER, Beatrix: The Tale of Tom Kitten (first edition, deluxe issue)

$7500

London, Frederick Warne and Co., 1907. A very bright and desirable example of the scarce deluxe edition, undoubtedly rare in this condition.

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A natural history of British birds.

$14000

Hayes, William. London: Author, [1771-1779]. Folio, 40 proof plates handcoloured by Hayes and his family, without a title page. All but seven signed, captioned and dated. The Green Woodpecker has the signature of William Hayes and Gabriel Smith. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, a few spots but otherwise the plates in fine crisp condition, very scarce. William Hayes (1735-1802) was an early English bird artist who was a postmaster for much of his life. He had a large family, was often in financial difficulties, and was helped with the colouring of his plates by his daughters.

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The Anglo-Israelite: Monthly Journal

$1500

2 bound volumes, presenting The Anglo-Israelite Monthly Journal’s Vol. 1 - 4. Book 1: Volume I (March 1880 - February 1881, 194 pages), Volume II (March 1881 - February 1882, 236 pages + Index). Book 2: Volume III (March 1882 - February 1883, 240 Pages + Index), Volume IV (March 1883 - February 1884, 244 Pages), Volume V (March 1884 - February 1885, 240 Pages). Printed G & J Black, Edward St Brisbane. Rebound in cloth with new end-papers. A one page note from previous owner written in pencil. Very good to excellent condition.

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Drug Poems [1st Ed]

$450

First printing of the third book from this tragic Australian counter-culture poet who died, aged just 24, shortly after publication. Scarce book rarely found this well-preserved. "If he (or any of us) has the luck to be spared, he will still be writing poetry when some of his bright contemporaries are shining less brightly or writing nothing at all..." [from blurb]

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MAIDEN, J.H.: The Flowering Plants and Ferns of New South Wales

$950

Sydney, Government Printer, 1895 to 1898. The complete run of 7 parts, with a total of 28 full-page chromolithographs.

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George Eliot, Novels of George Eliot in Eleven Volumes

$2000

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, 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. Very good.

RABARBARO ZUCCA

$2750

RABARBARO ZUCCA Original advertising poster, circa 1950 Vevey: Säuberlin & Pfeiffer S.A. 1280 × 900 mm. Printed in colours on yellow stock. A striking example of mid-century Italian drinks advertising, featuring the Zucca bottle set diagonally against a stylised woman whose body and outstretched arms form the letter ‘Z’. The design continues a distinctive Zucca advertising motif documented in an earlier poster by Sergio Franciscone, circa 1936. Rabarbaro Zucca, a rhubarb-based Italian amaro, was established in 1845 and became associated with Milanese aperitivo culture. As new. Pristine su

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Living in the Other World Kingdom: Real State of Dominant Women

$2500

The founding charter of The Other World Kingdom (OWK), a BDSM and femdom resort and micronation in Czechia.

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The Great Dune Trilogy | Frank Herbert

$820

1979 (First Edition Thus). Victor Gollancz Ltd , London, England These three volumes have been hailed as collectively three of the finest achievements of post-war science fiction. This is the first time that three great Dune novels have appeared in one volume. Worthy of a spot in anyone's library.

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1962 Standardisation of Railway Gauge b/w Sydney & Melbourne

$1000

1962 Standardisation of Railway Gauge b/w Sydney & Melbourne. 14 Items collected by H. Kingsmill, NSW Railways Superintendent, to include Souvenirs, Ticket, Dinner Menus, Official Event Ephemera.

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The selfish gene

$950

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1976. First edition of the groundbreaking work by British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins which posits a gene-centred basis for evolution, in essence the more genes that are shared between two individuals, the more likely it is they will cooperate together. Hugely popular at the time of publication and in print ever since, The Selfish Gene is seen as an extension of Darwin’s theory of evolution. Famously, it introduced the term meme for a unit of cultural evolution analogous to the gene.

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MILNE, A.A.: The Very Young Calendar 1930. Verses by A.A. Milne. Decorations by E.H. Shepard

$1100

New York, E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., [1929]. Apart from the cover-title leaf, there is a leaf for each month of the year, with a verse from Milne's 'When We Were Very Young'. In the original box.

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Oz Magazine (Australia) Complete Set with Newsletters

$15000

A high point of Australian underground publishing. Complete in 41 issues of the magazine proper, together with a complete set of the rarely seen newsletters.

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Premiers Conference 1931 - Major Attendee Signatures

$1200

PREMIER’S CONFERENCE, JUNE 1931, MELBOURNE Quarto Sheet of Legislative Council Victoria notepaper signed in ink by the major attendees. That conference resulted in the adoption of the “Premiers’ Plan”, a severe deflationary economic strategy designed to guide Australia through the Great Depression. Signed by the then Prime Minister J.H.Scullin, the Federal Treasure Ted Theodore, the NSW Premier, Jack Lang, the Premiers of the other states, a couple of State Treasurers, and J.G.Latham, then Deputy Leader of the Opposition in Victoria and who later became the 5th High Court Chief Justice.

Bailey, Fredk. Manson - The Fern World of Australia

$750

First Edition 1881. Brisbane: Gordon & Gotch. 8vo. original pictorial boards (a little rubbed & marked). A very good copy of an uncommon work.

Rose, Frank - A Gringo in Latin America

$500

First 1933. Wynberg, The Speciality Press of S. Africa Ltd, for the author, Havana, Cuba 8vo. original green cloth gilt, errata slip. A most unusual book of tall tales set in South America, purportedly true, by an Englishman resident in Havana. Some were apparently first published in Wide World Magazine, and are here appropriately accompanied with racy illustrations. A very good copy with lengthy presentation inscription by the author, and his occasional corrections to the text.

Hortus Cliffortianus

$15000

One of the foundational texts of modern systematic botany and the most lavish of Linnaeus' works.

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An introduction to the Trochilidae, or family of humming-birds.

$4500

Gould, J. London: Author, 1861. Small octavo, Publisher's cloth, a fine copy. Inscribed "Professor Huxley from the author 22 March 67". A magnificent association copy, from John Gould to Thomas Henry Huxley ("Darwin's bulldog").

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Cognac

$1800

LARMAT, Louis. Atlas de la France Vinicole. Tome VI: Les Eaux-de-Vie de France – Le Cognac. Paris: Louis Larmat, 1947. First edition. In the original illustrated portfolio, as issued. Near fine, with the maps fine. The final volume of Larmat’s celebrated atlas of French wine appellations, published with the support of the French wine authorities. A magnificent folio with six large, finely detailed colour lithographic maps charting Cognac and its constituent crus, accompanied by sepia photogravure illustrations of production, technical diagrams and multilingual text.

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The most important 13th-century textbook of canon law. - Decretales Gregorii IX. Bologna, ca. 1260.

$217400

Latin manuscript on vellum. Decorated manuscript on vellum. Folio. 252 ff. 41-42 lines, 2 columns, surrounded by gloss in smaller script, headings in red, running titles and 1-line initials in red and blue, with larger blue and red flourished penwork initials throughout. - An imposing folio manuscript of the most important legal textbook of the 13th century, in its original binding.

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Ion Idriess The Australian Guerrilla Series

$450

Facsimile copy of the Australian Guerrilla Series by Ion Idriess. Six paperbacks with French flaps in a stiff card slip case. The volumes are Shoot to Kill; Sniping; Guerrilla Tactics; Trapping the Jap; Lurking Death; The Scout. Published by Idriess Enterprises, one of 500 copies produced. In Near Fine condition

Those Were The Days Signed | A A Milne

$950

1929 (First and Limited Edition). Methuen, London, England A collection of stories and essays. This is a signed limited edition of 250 copies, of which this is numbered 249, printed on India paper.

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Picnic at Hanging Rock Limited Edition by Joan Lindsay

$425

Published by Macedon Ranges Shire Council in 2002, with images from the production of Peter Weir’s film of the novel and excerpts from the screenplay by Cliff Green. Very Good condition.

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich | Alexander Solzhenitsyn

$150

This novel caused a sensation when first published in the USSR in 1962. Internally there is no foxing original prior owner markings on front free endpaper, so the text is in very good condition and with no cracking of spine, the book remains in a very good original better state overall.

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A Rare Miniature of Lord Nelson

$1500

Ankh Antiquarian Books

A small, charming ivory painting of Lord Nelson, expertly painted, measuring 7 X 9 cms, showing Nelson in a classic pose, wearing his naval uniform with medals and orders. Since this "artistic" photo the piece has been beautifully framed with museum glass in a 19th century frame. Most likely made in the 19th century, possibly not long after Nelson’s death, for a wealthy admirer. I have sought provenance and dating with this piece through the Grimwade Institute along with some other pieces bought from the same previous owner. They all came up approx 1810. Very rare.

Cry the Beloved Country | Alan Paton

$2100

1948 (First US Edition). Charles Scribner's Sons , New York, United States Said to be one of the most significant novels to have ever come out of South Africa. " The book came out in 1948, some few months before The National Party took power and made apartheid law ... so the novel is a famous social protest against the structures in South African society that would later give rise to apartheid ", written by this strong Christian and Anglican outspoken critic of the South African government. Not quite as rare as the UK first edition, but it is a great addition to any library.

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Storm Boy

$500

Illustrated by John Baily. Adelaide : Rigby Limited, 1963. First edition. Octavo, illustrated boards in illustrated dustjacket (not price-clipped, verso foxed, edge wear), contemporary bookseller’s label to front pastedown, pp. 52, illustrated, occasional foxing, a good copy. The classic Australian children’s novel about a boy and his pelican set in the Coorong region of South Australia. The 1976 film adaptation Storm Boy won both the Jury Prize and Best Film at the 1977 Australian Film Institute Awards.

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Margaret Preston Recent Paintings 1929

$35000

Sydney : Art in Australia, 1929. The most sought after of all Margaret Preston books, with a magnificent signed colour woodcut.

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Jeffrey Smart (deluxe edition with original signed etching)

$12000

Gryphon Books, 1983. Quarto, gilt-titled quarter morocco over grey linen, black buckram slipcase, pp 131; the deluxe edition, limited to 100 numbered copies signed by the artist on colophon at rear, with a limited edition colour etching ‘Man with Bouquet’ (240 x 195 mm) signed by Smart loosely enclosed at front.

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KING, Stephen: Six Stories (signed)

$4000

Bangor, Maine, Philtrum Press, 1997. Number 487 of 1100 copies signed by Stephen King. The edition was designed by Michael Alpert and printed at the Stinehour Press for Stephen King's small publishing house, Philtrum Press. The six stories are 'Lunch at the Gotham Cafe'; 'L.T.'s Theory of Pets'; 'Luckey Quarter'; 'Autopsy Room Four'; 'Blind Willie'; and 'The Man in the Black Suit'. Several of them are published here for the first time.

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”XANSI" Imperii Sinarvm Provincia Secvnda.

$1500

Conchology, or the natural history of shells: containing a new arrangement of the genera and species, illustrated by coloured engravings executed from the natural specimens, and including the latest discoveries.

”XANSI" Imperii Sinarvm Provincia Secvnda. 1655 Cartographer: JOAN BLAEU (Alkmaar 1596- Amsterdam 1673) COPPER ENGRAVING Very decorative map of the second Chinese province 'Xansi', with the typical high decorative title cartouche and the ornated mileage scale. The map itself covers the province Xansi, the centre of the map shows the cities Fuencheu, Taiyven, Che, Leao, Pingyang, Lugan, Hoaiking and many other smaller cities and place names. The upper left portion of the map is ornated with an impressive 'Great Wall'. Published in Blaeu's "NOVUS ATLAS SINENSIS" Ref: Koeman II, map 8422:2.

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$12500

Perry, George. London: Printed by William Miller, by W. Bulmer and Co., 1811. Large folio, 61 fine handcoloured engraved plates, illustrating hundreds of specimens, and interleaved descriptive text. modern quarter calf and marbled boards, with red label; a fine tall, uncut copy with the plates clean and crisp. Perry's Conchology was the subject of considerable criticism at the time of publication and many of the leading conchologists, such as L. A Reeve, author of the Conchologia iconica, were particularly scathing.

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History of Cheshire . By George Ormerod. Three volumes 1819

$1750

THE HISTORY OF THE COUNTY PALATINE AND CITY OF CHESTER By George Ormerod. 3 vols. Lond. Lackington Hughes &c. 1819 Large folio. Full leather, rebacked. One of 65 large paper sets. Very Scarce.

Crossing the Water Uncorrected Proof | Sylvia Plath

$835

1971. Faber and Faber , London, United Kingdom A soft card covered Uncorrected Proof of one of her most famous poems. Very Good Condition - Note: The spine is in excellent condition with a simple flat stitched bind that remains very sound and there are no loose or absent pages nor are there any tears or blemishes other than that the edge browning continues throughout on the classical poor quality paper stock used in early proofs. No pen marks are present with no prior ownership name either.

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The Cook's Complete Guide

$750

COPLEY, Esther. The Cook’s Complete Guide. London: George Virtue, [circa 1826]. Quarto. Half calf, marbled boards. Manuscript ginger-beer recipe laid in. An extensive late Georgian domestic manual, with approximately 2,800 recipes spanning plain and elaborate cookery, brewing, gardening, domestic medicine and household management. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece, an alternative engraved title and ten plates. Copley, best known for Cottage Comforts, here addresses the well-appointed middle-class household. With notable colonial provenance

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Max Dupain Bookplate 1938

$3300

Josef Lebovic Gallery

Max Dupain (Bookplate), c1938. Silver gelatin photo, 7.3 x 5.1cm. Slight silvering to edges. Rare, early photographic bookplate used by Dupain in only a few books in his own library. Provance: Max Dupain estate.

Ivor's Art Review... An Adelaide Commentary on Contemporary Art Affairs

$1100

Adelaide, Ivor Francis, 1956 to 1960. A near-complete run of this scarce journal, lacking only Volume 1, Numbers 1 and 3. Quarto, 40 issues, each one comprising a single leaf printed recto and verso, with (on average) an illustration per issue.

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Dame Tartine

$225

MARISOL and MAZE, Renée. Dame Tartine. Paris: Flammarion, [1929]. An illustrated adaptation of the traditional French children's song, with vivid colour illustrations of cakes, pastries and sweets appearing as human figures in a world of confectionery. The opening leaf gives the music, followed by nine couplets recounting the marriage of Dame Tartine and Monsieur Gimblette. Renée Maze (1888–1980) illustrated the book; Marisol may be a pseudonym for her sister Andrée Maze, known as La Mazille, author of La Bonne Cuisine du Périgord. The Dame Tartine tradition continues in Périgueux, where a chi

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Themidore ou Mon Histoire et Celle de ma Maitresse

$2000

Extra-illustrated and finely bound copy of Godard d’Aucourt’s libertine novel, with original drawings and the plates in multiple states.

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby 1948

$2000

1948. Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. London: The Grey Walls Press Ltd., 1948. First Grey Walls edition; 164pp. A significant English issue of Fitzgerald’s classic Jazz Age novel. This 1948 Grey Walls edition was the first printing of The Great Gatsby to be newly typeset in England; the earlier 1926 Chatto & Windus issue had been printed from American plates. Grey Walls Press was central to Fitzgerald’s post-war British revival, and this edition is recognised by booksellers as the first distinct English edition.

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Vita Sackville-West - Seducers In Ecuador

$395

Vita Sackville-West Seducers in Ecuador Lond. Hogarth Press. 1924 Nicely Bound in full calf gilt. t.e.g. 1,500 copies printed First Edition

The Wind in the Willows | Kenneth Grahame

$1500

Grahame, Kenneth 1931. Methuen and Co., London, England Arguably one of the most famous of children's books, it was not until the 38th edition that the great illustrator Ernest Shepard was invited to produce his classic drawings of the different characters on the riverside and despite multiple other illustrators trying their hand, it is these pictures that have stood the test of time. Surprisingly scarce, this edition is quite difficult to track down and this particular example is very beautiful indeed.

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Play Parade. The Collected Plays of Noel Coward Volume Six

$750

First thus 1962. London: William Heinemann. 8vo. original green cloth gilt in dustwrapper (slightly rubbed & sunned). Inscribed on front endpaper by Noel Coward, ‘For Mary, Happy Christmas and Love, Noel’. A very good copy.

”VEDUTA DEL PONTE MOLLE SUL TEVERE DUE MIGLIA LONTAN DA ROMA" [THE PONTE MOLLE]

$2850

Foundation document for the history of the exploration of Australia and the Pacific. - Pedro Fernández de Quirós, explorer and navigator (1563-1614). Manuscript memorial to Philip III of Spain. [Madrid, possibly before September 1611].

GIOVANNI BATTISTA PIRANESI (Mogliano Veneto 1720-Roma 1778), Italian school. ”VEDUTA DEL PONTE MOLLE SUL TEVERE DUE MIGLIA LONTAN DA ROMA", 1762. ETCHING Original etching from the "Vedute di Roma". This superb etching depicts the historic Ponte Milvio, known in Piranesi's day as the Ponte Molle, spanning the River Tiber just north of Rome. One of the most celebrated crossings into the city since antiquity, the bridge is presented not merely as a topographical landmark... NOTE: Life-time Rome edition on thick Roman laid paper. First state of four, with address and price; Hind, 64 [i/iv].

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$563700

Folio (ca. 315 × 220 mm). Spanish manuscript, ink on paper. (22) pp. + 2 lines, blank verso, 2 final blank leaves, the last docketed "Del Capitan Quiros" on verso. - One of the greatest rarities in the field of voyage and exploration: an original manuscript petition, not recorded in any other copy, written to the King of Spain by the Portuguese-Spanish seafarer and discoverer Pedro Fernández de Quirós, proposing to settle the "Austral lands" for the Spanish crown.

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Collected Lyrics: 1970-2015 [Signed]

$700

Flat signed by Patti Smith to title page. Released in celebration of the 40th anniversary of the release of her seminal album "Horses". Illustrated with manuscripts of lyrics from Smith's personal archive

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A Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas, in his Majesty's Ship The Endeavour.

$27500

Rare large paper copy of the 1784 issue of Sydney Parkinson's journal of Cook's first voyage, in Wantrup's words "undeniably the most handsome of all the unofficial accounts of any of Cook's voyages". Parkinson sailed in the Endeavour as natural history draughtsman to Joseph Banks and died at sea in 1771. In 1784 John Coakley Lettsom reissued the sheets with Fothergill's Remarks, a double-page map of the hemispheres and an appendix on the voyages from Byron to Clerke. Imperial quarto, with an engraved frontispiece portrait, 27 numbered plates and the map: 29 plates in all.

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WODEHOUSE, P.G.: Tales of St Austin's

$6500

London, Adam & Charles Black, 1903 (first edition, first issue). Octavo, [xii], 282, [2] (advertisements) pages plus 12 plates by T.M.R. Whitwell, R. Noel Pocock, and E.F. Skinner (the frontispiece with a tissue-guard). An exceptional copy of Wodehouse's third book, a collection of 16 public school tales, here in its first-issue binding: an uncommonly bright example of a book notoriously susceptible to fading.

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Spectacular 18th-century Dutch composite sea atlas with 3 detailed manuscript charts, all charts and the engraved title page expertly coloured by a contemporary hand

$800000

[KEULEN, Gerard and Johannes van, and others]. [Composite sea atlas containing 56 detailed charts incl. 3 manuscript charts]. Amsterdam, [Johannes van Keulen and others, 1700-1753, engraved title page dated 1734]. Large folio. With an engraved allegorical title page, and 56 detailed sea charts, the whole expertly coloured by a contemporary hand. The atlas includes 22 large folding charts, including 3 manuscript charts, 27 double-page charts, 1 full-page chart, and 6 half-page charts, most of them with beautiful cartouches. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum, with green cloth closing ties.

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"The greatest and finest atlas ever published", with 610 maps, plans and views, coloured by a contemporary hand

$1095000

**BLAEU, Joan.** Grooten atlas, oft werelt-beschryving… Amsterdam, Joan Blaeu, 1664-1665. 9 vols. Imperial folio. With 8 letterpress titles, 1 half-title, 9 engraved titles with letterpress slips, an engraved frontispiece and 610 engraved maps, views and plans, mostly double-page, 7 folding; many with inset maps, plans and views. Also compass rose, nearly 100 woodcuts, 5 tailpieces and 58 decorated initials. Many plates contemporaneously coloured, some extensively heightened in gold. Contemporary gold-tooled vellum with fore-edge flaps, sewn on 6 vellum tapes, laced through the joints.

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The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick

$1500

First UK edition. 1988-1990. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd 5 vols. 8vo. black boards gilt in unclipped jackets. The first comprehensive collection of Dick’s shorter fiction, originally published in a limited edition of 400 sets by Underwood/Miller in 1987. The individual volumes comprise (1) Beyond Lies the Wub, (2) Second Variety, (3) The Father-Thing, (4) The Days of Perky Pat and (5) The Little Black Box. Provenance: The A&B Cox collection of science fiction works nos. 880/4110, 4168, 4298, 4199 & 4402, with bookplates. A near fine set.

Theatrum Orbis Terrarum / Parergon / Nomenclator Ptolemaicus.

$395000

The final edition (1601) of the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum printed at the Plantin press, complete with the Parergon and the Nomenclator, in rich contemporary hand colour.

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Robinson's Aeroplane Map of Sydney, Port Jackson, N.S.W.

$2350

Early c.20th map of central Sydney published by H. E. C. Robinson and lithographed in colour, with a biplane flying over the city in the title at top left and decorative scrollwork in the corners. Numerous prominent buildings are drawn pictorially and named. The map covers Sydney from Careening Cove to Redfern Park and from Glebe Island to Elizabeth Bay.

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徳力富吉郎 [Tokuriki Tomikichiro]. (Circa 1940s). 富士見高原の富士 [Fuji from the Fujimi Tableland].

$550

Appealing woodblock print by Tokuriki Tomikichiro, one of Japan's leading printmakers, being No. 7 from the series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji. The series was inspired by Hokusai's Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji and Hiroshige's works, while being depicted with a modern sensibility. Mt. Fuji is depicted in early spring from the Fujimi tablelands with the forest at its foot and fields with some remaining snow in the foreground.

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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.

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Rime of the Ancient Mariner Illustrated by Errol Le Cain

$3500

LE CAIN, Erroll (Illustrator) THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER. ONE OF 100 COPIES. By Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Illustrations by Erroll Le Cain. Calligraphy by David Howells. Paper by Philip H.Rowson. Lond. The Arcadia Press. 1972. Folio. Hand-bound by Zaehnsdorf in quarter vellum with seaweed paper sides. 55pp. t.e.g. Calligraphic text on seaweed paper pages. Ten striking tipped-in colour plates by Erroll Le Cain. No.50 of 110 numbered copies signed by the illustrator, the calligrapher and the paper-maker. Fine in the slip-case. Particularly scarce.

L’Effort

$5000

A high point of Art Nouveau illustrated books featuring four symbolist tales each illustrated by a different artist in a different technique.

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“ST. MARY'S CATHEDRAL WITH SYDNEY HARBOUR IN THE BACKGROUND"

$1650

LEON WILLIAM HANSON [signed R. PARSONS, pseudonym of] (Australian 1918-2011) 1950s 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". Marcel Chicoteau, French art historian and archae...

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Birds of Arabia. Edition de Luxe.

$6000

Meinertzhagen, R. London: Henry Sotheran, 1980. Quarto, tipped in plates, folding map. Full green morocco with inlaid leather falcon design on upper board, silk endpapers, all edges gilt. The special issue of ten copies lettered A-K, this copy is "I". Limited to ten copies bound in a spectacular full morocco; the standard issue of the reprint of Meinertzhagen's classic Birds of Arabia (first published 1954) was limited to 295 numbered copies and bound in half morocco.

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Savary, Letters on Egypt

$5000

Ankh Antiquarian Books

Letters on Egypt with a parallel between the Manners of its ancient and modern inhabitant. 1786 by Mr Savary, author of the Life of Mahomet, in two volumes. London GGJ and J Robinson. With numerous maps, foldouts, view and plans of the great pyramid at Gizeh. In very good - excellent condition. Very rare and highly desirable.

Hector Berlioz. Signed autograph letter.

$2200

Two pages ink manuscript in French, with conjugate blank, folded, a short split sealed. Signed in full, 16 July 1860. One of the few surviving Berlioz letters dealing with the 1860 season in Baden-Baden. Written to Joanna Pohl, wife of the writer & journalist Richard Pohl, Berlioz's translator. Berlioz advises that she refrain from asking Liszt to the concert, as the pieces are already known to him and there will not be anything to engage his interest. Nothing of The Trojans will be performed this summer, it would have been rather out of place. Correspondance Général (vol. vi, 1995), CG 2509.

[Japanese Declaration of War on America and Britain]. 1941. 詔書 [Imperial Rescript].

$650

Handwritten scroll reproducing the Imperial Rescript issued on 8 December 1941, when Japan declared war against the United States and United Kingdom at the beginning of the Pacific War. The text was copied in full in a neat hand, apparently by a member of the public, perhaps as an expression of support for the Emperor’s words and the national war effort.

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The insects of Australia and New Zealand.

$1000

Tillyard, R. J. Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1926. Octavo, illustrations, very fine copy, scarce in this condition. Tipped in letters from Tillyard to Charles Barrett. A wonderful copy, with important letters, and almost certainly Charles Barrett's copy.

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Nock & Kirby’s General Catalogue 1927

$600

1927. Nock & Kirby’s General Catalog. Sydney: Nock & Kirby Ltd., 1927. 160pp. plus covers; set and printed by The Harbour Newspaper & Publishing Co., Chalmers Street, Sydney. Substantial illustrated trade catalogue issued by the celebrated Sydney specialty hardware store at 188 George Street. A strong example of Australian interwar retail ephemera, with an especially attractive colour Art Deco cover promoting “Everything for the Home.” Nock & Kirby, established in 1894, developed into one of Sydney’s best-known hardware and household-goods retailers.

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First authorised edition, with many corrections, additions and improvements by the author, of an important work on the Jewish calendar and on Jewish customs in Palestine

$61500

SUSAN, Issachar ben Mordecai ibn. [in Hebrew:] Sefer Ibur shanim. Venice, Giovanni di Gara, [5]339 [= 1578/79]. Small 4to (19.5 x 15 cm). With the title set in a woodcut architectural arch with fruit garlands, 6 round woodcut calendrical or astrological diagrams, woodcut crown and olive branch ornaments, a vine leaf (Vervliet 38), and many letterpress tables. Set entirely in Hebrew type, the main text in semi-cursive (rabbinical) and the headings in meruba, each in at least 3 sizes. Contemporary limp sheepskin wrap-around cover, sewn on 2 leather, the sewing and most of the straps recent.

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Camus' The Stranger [Illustrated Ltd Ed]

$550

Handsome leatherbound edition of the Stuart Gilbert translation, with ten full-colour illustrations by Daniel Maffia. Printed in 1971 and limited to 1,500 copies distributed for members of The Limited Editions Club [this is #548]

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We Love You Beatles [1st Ed]

$700

Written / illustrated by Margaret SUTTON. Delightful visual homage to the Fab Four - pure seventies! The story of The Beatles from their humble beginnings to stardom told through a bold explosion of fun colour-saturated graphics. NY, Doubleday, 1971 [1st Ed], 20 x 26cm, [48 pages], illustrated papered board cover, discolouration of inner hinges, else fine, in the like illustrated jacket [small bump withe creasing & 5mm tear to top edge]

Landor, A. Henry Savage. 1899. In the Forbidden Land. An Account of a Journey into Tibet.

$750

Profusely illustrated account of Landor’s 1897 expedition to Tibet, a region then closed to foreigners. It details his attempts to reach Lhasa, his eventual capture by Tibetan soldiers, and descriptions of the torture and imprisonment he and his servants endured before their release.

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A Fleet of Transports under Convoy

$4800

After Richard Dighton A Fleet of Transports under Convoy Mezzotint. 1781. 340mm by 249mm (sheet). Printed and sold by Carrington Bowles, London, c1781. Rare mezzotint engraving depicting convicts on their way from Newgate Prison to the docks for transportation. CONDITION : Trimmed to the image and below the title. Publication line missing. A couple of small faint creases. A couple of small areas of very faint browning. Some marks on the reverse of the sheet. Professionally conserved.

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HURLEY, Frank: A group of ten photographs from Sir Douglas Mawson's British, Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE), 1929-1931

$5500

Seven photographs date from the the expedition's first voyage over the summer of 1929-30. These images show scenes from sub-Antarctic islands, including a fine three-panel panorama of the Kerguelen Islands, as the expedition did not set foot on continental Antarctica. The final three images relate to the second voyage, over the summer of 1930-31.

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合信氏 [Hobson, Benjamin]. 1858. 西醫略論 [First Lines on the Practice of Surgery in the West].

$3000

Missionary Benjamin Hobson's seminal work on Western medicine, prepared for a Chinese audience. The book covers a wide range of medical subjects, discussing various medical problems and their remedies. The second of the five medical textbooks in Chinese written by Hobson between 1881 and 1858 - it is generally regarded as his best.

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Alice in Wonderland Calendar for 1911

$900

Alice in Wonderland Calendar for 1911. London: Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd., 1911. Complete six-page hanging calendar illustrated in colour by Mabel Lucie Attwell, with original red cord and tassel. Each leaf features a different Alice-themed illustration with the 1911 calendar months. The cover shows Alice and the White Rabbit and is printed “From the Originals Painted by Mabel Lucie Attwell.” A scarce Edwardian Raphael Tuck children’s calendar, appealing to collectors of Alice, Attwell illustration and antique calendars.

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Meiji Period Omacha-e Word Chart of Vegetables & Fruit

$325

[UNKNOWN] 新板單語野菜菓物 Shinban Tango Yasai Kashimonoban [New Edition Word Chart of Vegetables and Fruits]. [Edo, Japan] : early Meiji period, circa 1870. Original single-leaf colour woodblock omocha-e print An attractive and well-preserved educational toy print, combining colourful botanical imagery with vocabulary instruction. Unrecorded. An excellent example of early Meiji educational printing and the visual culture of Japanese elementary education.

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Hyakumantō Dhāraṇī (百万塔陀羅尼) : an example of the earliest printed text that can be accurately dated (with the Jishin-in darani).

$85000

Japan : Nara period [764-770 CE]. Three-tier turned wooden pagoda made of hinoki (Japanese cypress), housed in the cavity of the pagoda is the original printed dhāraṇī, a fine, unrestored example. A rare example of the earliest printed text to have survived in Eastern or Western cultures that can be verifiably dated, pre-dating the movable type of Gutenberg by some seven centuries.

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Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. (Signed edition for Black Saturday bushfire survivors)

$2750

London : Bloomsbury, 2001. ‘Celebration’ edition. Signed by J. K. Rowling on an Allen & Unwin publisher’s label affixed to the half-title, for Black Saturday bushfire victims and survivors in 2009, with hologram J. K. Rowling authenticity sticker, and printed message from the author inside the upper wrapper. This particular example was given to Australian author Ella Holcombe, who tragically lost both her parents, her home, and her family dog in the bushfire. Accompanied by her own book for children, 'The House on the mountain', inspired by those tragic events.

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RHYMES OF SYDNEY. Sung by Colin Wills With Backgrounds by "Wep" [William Edwin Pidgeon].

$750

Sydney, Frank C. Johnson, 1933. Quarto, 48pp. on laid paper, illustrations, neat modern inscription on half-title page, bright original coloured pictorial wrappers. First edition. Very scarce and ephemeral 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 drinking map of Sydney 'With Wep Where it's Wet'.

[Japanese Pan-Asianism in Shanghai]. 1944. 上海東亜同文書院大学在籍日本人学生による書簡 [Letters Home from a Japanese Student at Tung Wen College].

$1750

A fascinating collection of Japanese wartime letters sent between members of an Okayama-based family named Takei, dating from the last two years of the Pacific War. The eldest of the three sons of the family was at that time a student at the Tōa Dōbun Shoin University (also known as Tung Wen College) in Shanghai, a Pan-Asianist higher educational college established in 1939.

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The History of Italy, Francesco Guicciardini

$2000

Guicciardini's History of Italy is regarded as one of the greatest historical works of the Renaissance, providing a detailed contemporary account of the Italian Wars and the political history of Italy from 1490 to 1532. Written by a close associate of the Medici family and Niccolò Machiavelli, it remains an essential work for collectors of early European history and political literature. This is the complete ten-volume English edition: Volumes I–IV: 1753 Volumes V–VII: 1754 Volume VIII: 1755 Volumes IX–X: 1756

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Jonathan Swift, Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts, by Lemuel Gulliver, first a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships.

$85000

Al-Zarquali's astronomical tables: a precious Renaissance manuscript, completed at Toledo around 1080. - Abu Ishaq Ibrahim al-Zarqali / Giovanni Bianchini (ed.). Tabulae de motibus planetarum. [Ferrara, ca. 1475].

First edition, first issue, two volumes, octavo, London, 1726. One of the most famous works in English literature, Swift's Travels was published three hundred years ago this year. A stunningly satirical fable, it met with instant success, with three editions appearing between October and December 1726, and over a hundred published by 1800.

Samuel Stebbing A Genealogical History of the Kings and Queens of England and Monarchs of Great Britain.

$5000

Ankh Antiquarian Books

A discourse of their several lives, Marriages and Issues, with the times of their births, deaths, places of burial and monumental inscriptions. Also their effigies, seals, tombs, cenotaphs, Devises, Arms, Quarterings, Crests and supporters. 1707. Folio in fine calf, original covers with lightly incised covers, a later re-backing with new spine in slightly lighter calf with raised band. Bookplate of Stephen Martin Leake (1702–1773), a prominent heraldist and another more modern bookplate with no name just an engraving of Englishmen and a slave!

$451000

The so-called "Toledan Tables" are astronomical tables used to predict the movements of the Sun, Moon and planets relative to the fixed stars. They were completed around the year 1080 at Toledo by a group of Arab astronomers, led by the mathematician and astronomer Al-Zarqali (known to the Western World as Arzachel), and were first updated in the 1270s, afterwards to be referred to as the "Alfonsine Tables of Toledo".

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GIBBS, May: Bib and Bub Painting Book

$1100

Sydney, Printed by W.C. Penfold & Co. [for May Gibbs, 1932]. The charming comic stip-style outline illustrations are designed to be coloured in. '24 New Bib & Bub Stories | One hundred & forty four Pictures to Colour | ... | We painted these to show the way we do it | Bib Bub' (text on the outside rear cover surrounding a full-colour strip of illustrations). Printed on the inside front cover is 'Bib's Advice' on 'How to put on Paint'; Bub's tips on 'How not to paint' appear on the inside rear cover.

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Charles Darwin - Collection of 13 titles in 14 volumes

$8000

Finely and uniformly bound in half calf gilt with raised bands. 1876-1890. Various editions. Includes the 6th edition of "The Origin of Species". A listing of the collection is available on request

First edition of the book that inspired the Red Cross - Henry Dunant. Un souvenir de Solferino. Geneva, Jules-Guillaume Fick, 1862.

$20200

4to (180 x 266 mm). (4), 115, (1) pp. With the double-page "Plan des environs de Solférino". Brown half cloth over marbled boards, smooth spine ruled in blind, small green cloth corners. - First edition of the book that inspired the Red Cross. Dunant's seminal account of the Battle of Solferino and its wounded, privately printed at his own expense, in the issue bearing the words "Ne se vend pas" on the title-page. This copy preserves the important double-page plan prepared by B. Müller, captain in the Swiss engineer corps, after Dunant's own directions.

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Bradshaw Art of the Kimberley

$1750

Bradshaw Art of the Kimberley By Grahame L.Walsh Toowong. 2000. Oblong folio. Profusely illustrated in colour with ancient Aboriginal rock art.

The earliest known copy of the first humanist Latin grammar. - Gaspar Veronensis (Gaspar of Verona). Regulae de constructione. Italy, Veneto [possibly Verona], 1463.

$104700

8vo (ca. 125 x 180 mm). Latin manuscript on vellum. 55, (1) ff., textually complete, ruled space ca. 70 x 115 mm, 24 lines in a fine Humanistic script signed and dated by the scribe. - An exceptional medieval manuscript of Gaspar of Verona's Latin grammar "Regulae de constructione", here in the earliest known dated copy, signed and dated by the scribe and preserved in its original binding. This manuscript was created during the lifetime of the author, and barely a day’s ride from his hometown.

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The Pilots’ Book of Everest

$150

The Marquess of Douglas, Squadron Leader and Flight Lieutenant D. F. McIntyre First 1936. London, William Hodge & Company, Limited 8vo. original grey cloth in clipped dustwrapper. The story of the Houston-Mount Everest Expedition, in which two Westland aircraft flew over the summit of Mount Everest on 3rd April 1933. This second book on the expedition was jointly written by the two pilots involved. A very good copy in the uncommon jacket.

New Testament 1630

$1250

The New Testament of our Lord & Saviour Jesus Christ Bound with The Whole Book of Psalmes. Lond. Bonham Norton & John Bill. 1630, 1629 Modern full calf gilt.

The Illustrated Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams

$165

994 (First Edition Thus). Weidenfeld & Nicolson , London, England The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is at last published in panoramic, earth-shattering, hyper-hysterical format, illustrated in glorious technicolor, bringing alive horridly quivering Vogan monster flesh and vividly throbbing spacecraft by means of revolutionary digital graphic 'paintbox' technology. In short, a truly amazing book and interior design with spectacular endpapers.

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The Mind and Times of Reg Mombassa – signed, limited edition

$550