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Baron Ferdinand von Mueller, botanist : autograph letter, signed, to a lady plant collector, re. an intriguing specimen she has sent him. Melbourne, October 1889.

Manuscript in ink, [3] pp., octavo (200 x 125 mm); dated 7 October 1889; although von Mueller addresses his correspondent only as ‘dear Madam’, she is Melbourne philanthropist Jane Emma Murphy (see note on provenance below); von Mueller discusses a plant specimen Murphy has sent him (almost certainly from the…

Globe en relief par Thury & Belnet

MÉDAILLE DE 2é CLASSE, EXPOSITION DE PARIS, 1855. Mèd.le de 1re Classe, Expon de Dijon 1858. – Méd.le d’Or Acadmie de Dijon BREVET D’INVENTION S.C.D.C. GLOBE EN RELIEF PAR THURY & BELNET GÉOGRAPHES, AUTEURS, ÉDITEURS, DIJON. Lith. Richard Dijon. Dijon : Thury & Belnet, circa 1860. Terrestrial globe titled Globe en…

A history of the birds of New Zealand. (Second edition, with supplement)

A magnificent example of the scarce large format second edition (with supplement) of an acclaimed ornithological work, illustrated by J.G. Keulemans. London : the author, 1888 – 1905. Second edition. The History (1888) : thirteen parts, bound in two volumes, quarto, publisher’s gilt-illustrated green cloth, top edges gilt, vol. I…

Ambrotype portrait of George West posing with a stock whip. Australia, late 1850s.

Ninth plate ambrotype photograph with applied colour, 53 x 40 mm (sight); housed in a brass mat with ormolu preserver, in a simple leather case with geometric design to front, which has a working clasp; the ambrotype is in fine condition; the original blue paper backing sheet bears a fully contemporary…

Group of Wardandi Noongar people. Bunbury, Western Australia, early 1900s.

Perth & Bunbury : H. B. Albert & Co., Booksellers, [ca. 1906]. Chromolithographic postcard, 87 x 138 mm, recto with printed caption: ‘Group of Bunbury Aboriginal Natives, W. A.’, and brief inscriptions by the sender at upper left and top edge; verso with more substantial handwritten message (the whole of…

Dictionarium sive thesauri linguae Iaponicae compendium …

Romae typis & impensis Sacr. Congr. de Prop. Fide, MDCXXXII [1632]; [bound with] Ars Grammaticae Iaponicae linguae … Romae typis & impensis Sacr. Congr. de Prop. Fide, MDCXXXII [1632]; [and bound with] Niffon no Cotōbani yô confesion, … [= modus confitendi et examinandi poenitentem Japonensem, formula suamet lingua Japonica … ]…

Paris

London : Adam & Charles Black, 1909. Quarto, gilt-lettered decorated cloth over bevelled boards (corners bumped, a few marks to spine), top edge gilt, others uncut, endpapers foxed, contemporary presentation inscription to front free endpaper, pp. xii; 185, illustrated with 75 colour plates with captioned tissue guards; occasional scattered foxing,…

Two panoramic photographs taken on Brighton Beach, Melbourne, summer 1905.

Two gelatin silver print photographs, in identical 100 x 330 mm format; no photographer’s imprint; both containing a wealth of detail and in very good condition. These wonderful views of Brighton Beach on Melbourne’s Port Phillip Bay were taken with the same special panoramic camera by an amateur photographer, and…

Principles of political economy : with some of their applications to social philosophy.

London : Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1865. Sixth edition. Two volumes, octavo (225 x 150 mm), uniform contemporary blind-blocked green cloth (fine and unrubbed), spines with printed paper title pieces (one title piece with minor loss at one edge); pp. xvi, 617, [2 publisher’s ads.]; xv, 608; half-title of…

Old Sinhalese nursery rhymes and folk songs

Collected and illustrated by Heather Hamer. With a Foreword by Sir Solomon Dias Bandaranaike, K.C.M.G. Ceylon : The Colombo Apothecaries Co., Ltd., 1935. Quarto, gilt-lettered diced road, lightly scuffed and worn, pp. [36], illustrated with twelve full page black and white illustrations by Hamer, with tissue guards, illustrating in modernist…

Manuscript letter written by Abbé Huc, sent from Macau in November 1846, addressed to his parents in Toulouse and reporting on his just-completed epic journey through Tartary and Tibet.

Macao, 1er. Novembre 1846. Entire letter, manuscript in ink on a single folio sheet of Chinese paper, folded to form 4 pages, written on 3½ pages; the panel on the outer side addressed to ‘Monsieur Huc, Rue Pargaminières 73, Toulouse, Haute-Garonne’, circular postal markings in black ‘Paris 8 Janv. 47’…

Joy of Summer (c.1938)

Oil on canvas, 49 x 39 cm; signed upper left; framed (frame size 75 x 65 cm), with certificate of authenticity from Lindsay authority Lin Bloomfield verso.

GOULD, John (1804 - 1881); GOULD, Elizabeth (1804 - 1841); RICHTER, Henry Constantine (1821 - 1902)

The Birds of Australia (complete set)

LINDSAY, Norman (1879-1969)

Joy of Summer (c.1938)

[MENZIES, Robert Gordon, Sir, 1894-1978]

Sir Robert Menzies, 12th Prime Minister of Australia : signed portrait photograph, inscribed for British Prime Minister Harold Wilson

TEAGUE, Violet; REDE, Geraldine

Night fall in the ti-tree

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New Acquisitions April 2025

HOWE, Robert (1795-1829) (printer and publisher); MANSFIELD, Ralph (1799-1880) (editor)

The Australian Magazine; or, Compendium of Religious, Literary, and Miscellaneous Intelligence. Volume 1. For 1821.

AMATI, Scipione; HENDSCHEL, Tobias (translator); [SOTELO, Luis, 1574-1624]

Relation und gründtlicher Bericht von dess Königreichs Voxu im Japonischen Keyserthumb

SPILBERGEN, Joris van (1568-1620)

Speculum orientalis occidentalisque Indiae navigationum.

Anon.

The universal spelling alphabet. An amusing parlour game

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Australian Art April 2025

NICOLAS, Alain (ed.)

Paysages rêvés : artistes aborigènes contemporains de Balgo Hills (Australie Occidentale)

[LINDSAY]. BLOOMFIELD, Lin.

The complete etchings of Norman Lindsay

Robert Jacks (1943 - 2014)

Robert Jacks / Some Rubber Stamp Books / 1973 – 1981

Robert Jacks (1943 - 2014)

Robert Jacks / Xerox / Melbourne / 1985

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GOULD, John (1804 – 1881)

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Baron Ferdinand von Mueller, botanist : autograph letter, signed, to a lady plant collector, re. an intriguing specimen she has sent him. Melbourne, October 1889.

Globe en relief par Thury & Belnet

A history of the birds of New Zealand. (Second edition, with supplement)

Ambrotype portrait of George West posing with a stock whip. Australia, late 1850s.

Group of Wardandi Noongar people. Bunbury, Western Australia, early 1900s.

Dictionarium sive thesauri linguae Iaponicae compendium …

Paris

Two panoramic photographs taken on Brighton Beach, Melbourne, summer 1905.

Principles of political economy : with some of their applications to social philosophy.

Old Sinhalese nursery rhymes and folk songs

Manuscript letter written by Abbé Huc, sent from Macau in November 1846, addressed to his parents in Toulouse and reporting on his just-completed epic journey through Tartary and Tibet.

Joy of Summer (c.1938)