[MOUNTAINEERING] The International Himalayan Expedition (aka “The Times” Kanchenjunga Expedition), 1930 : a substantial archive of official photographs.

An archive of 44 original gelatin silver print photographs taken by the expedition photographer Harold Hoerlin; in uniform 260 x 200 mm or 200 x 260 mm format; versos with typed explanatory labels, “The Times Kanchenjunga Expedition” copyright stamps, and release date stamps: 24 May 1930 (10), 28 May 1930 (12), 21…

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Portrait of a group of Menang Noongar men and women. Albany area, Western Australia, late 1880s.

Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 104 x 63 mm (mount), verso with wet stamp of ‘J. H. Otto, Portrait and Landscape Photographer, Albany, W.A.’; the print has mottling in the negative and has lost some contrast; the mount has old residual glue marks verso (the carte was once…

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Remembering the future : Warlpiri life through the prism of drawing

Canberra, A.C.T. : Aboriginal Studies Press [AIATSIS], 2014. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. xi, 178, illustrated. ‘What can a collection of drawings reveal about their makers? Crayon drawings collected by anthropologists provide an illuminating prism through which to explore how the Warlpiri people of Central Australia have seen their place in…

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Globe terrestre

Dressé sur les Relations les plus nouvelles de Mrs. de l’Académie Royale des Sciences par L. C. Desnos et J. B. Nolin Géographe. Se fait et se vends chez Desnos, rue St. Jacque St. Severin, Quartier de la Place Maubert. Paris, 1760, avec privilége du Roy. Dedié au Roy, par…

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Jewelled nights

London : Hutchinson, [1923]. First edition. Octavo, publisher’s black-lettered blue cloth (spine ends a little softened); early ownership inscription to front free-endpaper; pp, 317; binding firm, very clean throughout, an excellent copy. Tasmanian novelist Marie Bjelke Petersen’s Jewelled nights tells the story of a runaway bride who seeks her fortune…

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Manhattanské noci

Brno : Průboj, 1948. Large octavo, original cloth-backed boards in dust jacket designed by Polášek (minor edge wear), pp 460; text in Czech; a fine copy. Translation of American writer Faith Baldwin’s romance novel Manhattan Nights (first published in 1937), featuring a dust jacket with a stunning Czech modernist design.

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Banyan trees and bush near Palmerston (Port Darwin), Northern Territory, c.1870

Two albumen print photographs, in identical 160 x 220 mm format, mounted recto and verso of a nineteenth-century album leaf of thick card, recto inscribed in pencil below the image by the album’s compiler ‘Banyan trees’, verso without caption; both are strong prints with excellent clarity, in fine condition; a…

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Studio portrait of a young girl from the Lower family, Kooringa, South Australia, 1867-8.

Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 102 x 63 mm; verso with the back mark in blue of ‘W. H. Batchelor, Photographer, Kooringa’, which features his family crest with the motto De coelo veritas (From Heaven, Truth); there is also a small inscription in ink in the upper corner,…

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Jerusalem delivered : an heroic poem (large paper edition)

Translated from the Italian of Torquato Tasso, by John Hoyle. London : printed by T. Bentley for J. Johnson [and others], 1803. Eighth edition. Two volumes, octavo, finely bound in full straight grained red Morocco, elaborate gilt tooled floral borders, spines in compartments with raised bands, lettered and tooled in…

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[SWAN RIVER COLONY] Appendix to the first twenty-three volumes of Edwards’s Botanical Register :

consisting of a complete alphabetical and systematical index of names, synonymes, and matter, adjusted to the present state of systematical botany; together with A Sketch of the Vegetation of the Swan River Colony. With nine coloured plates, containing eighteen coloured figures of plants, and with four wood-cuts. London : James…

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Sands & McDougall’s map of Melbourne and suburbs : showing tramways, railways streets, municipalities quarter mile radii etc. Revised to date

[Cover title : Map of Melbourne]. Melbourne : Sands & McDougall Pty. Ltd., [circa 1911]. Lithographed map, printed in black with red concentric circles, 98 x 74 cm, folded into titled cloth case, lightly marked, offsetting to one panel from the cloth case, a very good copy. An attractive street…

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A Japanese grammar.

/ By J. J. Hoffmann. Leiden : E. J. Brill, 1876. Second edition. Quarto (280 x 200 mm), contemporary half calf over marbled papered boards (lightly rubbed), spine with gilt bands and contrasting leather title-piece lettered in gilt; marbled endpapers; [16], 367 pp; with 2 plates, one of them folding (short…

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New Acquisitions June 2025

MORRISON, Robert (1782–1834)

五車韻府 A Dictionary of the Chinese Language, by the Rev. R. Morrison, D. D.

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LINDSAY, Norman (1879-1969)

Creative effort : an essay in affirmation (deluxe edition with original signed etching)

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CLARK, William (1770-1838)

[TERRITORY OF MISSOURI] Letter of Administration, signed by William Clark as Governor and Commander in Chief of Missouri Territory, 29 March 1814.

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LEWIS, Meriwether, & CLARK, William

Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. Performed by Order of the Government of the United States in the Years 1804, 1805 and 1806.

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Featured: Alexander von Humboldt, naturalist and explorer : autograph letter to a Captain Gowan. Paris, c.1830.

Manuscript in ink on fine wove paper with a monogram watermark; written entirely in the third person in French in Humboldt’s idiosyncratic scrawl.

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Events: The 55th Australian Antiquarian Book Fair

Wilson Hall 31 July – 2 August 2025

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