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[COOK] Newton’s new & improved terrestrial pocket globe 1817

London : John Newton, 1st January 1817. Terrestrial pocket globe, 3 inches in diameter, engraved gores with original hand colour over papier-mâché and plaster sphere, the surface in fine order with a recent wax applied for protection, two metal pins resting the globe in the original publisher’s shagreen case, titled…

Hymns Ancient and Modern

Melbourne : The Atlas Press (W. H. Newlands), Block Place, 1898. First and only edition. Small octavo (190 x 125 mm), original stiff green wrappers printed in black and red (spine expertly repaired); title-page stamped ‘With the author’s compliments’, pp. [1-6], 7-70; scattered foxing, mostly marginal but more pronounced on…

Untitled (Lady with monkey) 1923

Watercolour with gold highlights on card, 334 x 254 mm, signed and dated ‘Phil McLachlan 23’ lower right; in very good condition. Housed in a custom timber frame in period style by Philip Tregear, Melbourne. A stunning original watercolour from the artist’s estate. Painted when McLachlan was just 18, it…

[EARLY SYDNEY PRINTING] Receipt for payment of quit rent made to the Crown by Edward Robinson. Sydney, 29 January 1806.

Sydney, NSW : [George Howe, Government Printer], [printed 1802-06]. Printed in black ink on laid paper, 40 x 98 mm; manuscript date of 29 January 1806, with further clerical entries recording the receipt from Edwd. Robinson of 11 shillings, ‘being the Amount of one Year’s Quit-Rent due to the Crown…

The Ploughman and other poems. (The extraordinarily rare publisher’s edition – one of only three known copies)

Sydney : Beacon Press, 1935. Octavo, cloth in illustrated dustjacket (edges chipped, the spine perished and replaced with plain brown paper, paper reinforcements to the folds), [76] pp., illustrations by L. Roy Davies, light offsetting to endpapers, a remarkably crisp and clean copy. Limited to 300 copies and 6 numbered…

“Group of Aborigines, Lake Alexandrina” (1862).

[Title from contemporary inscription in ink verso]. Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each image approximately 70 x 75 mm (arch-top format), on original flat mount of pale green/azure card, 85 x 180 mm; fully contemporary inscription in ink verso: ‘Group of Aborigines, Lake Alexandrina’, with the original owner’s initials ‘M.A.H.’ and…

Sidetripping

New York : Strawberry Hill Publishing Co., 1975. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, light handling marks, small crease to edge of wrappers, pp. [80], photographically illustrated, text excerpted from various works by Burroughs. Scarce photobook of American subculture, including queer groups, religious groups, fetishists and exhibitionists.

Aboriginal artists of the nineteenth century (hardcover edition)

With a foreword by Lin Onus and a chapter by Carol Cooper. Melbourne : Oxford University Press in association with National Gallery of Australia, 1994. First edition. Quarto, boards in illustrated dustjacket, slight sunning to spine, pp. 162, illustrated. A very good copy. ‘Andrew Sayers examines a considerable body of…

Ethel Turner birthday book : a selection of passages from the books of Ethel Turner (Mrs. H.R. Curlewis)

Arranged by L.T.T. With foreword by Coulson Kernahan. London, Melbourne and Toronto : Ward, Lock, & Co., 1910. Duodecimo, gilt-lettered crushed green morocco, edges lightly rubbed, gilt edges, marbled endpapers, presentation inscription dated November 1910 to preliminary blank, portrait frontispiece, pp. [190], calendar with quotes from Ethel Turner’s published works,…

[MELBOURNE; LA TROBE FAMILY] Martha Browne, wife of colonial merchant Octavius Browne : entire letter to Henrietta Macartney, daughter of the Dean of Melbourne. Isle of Wight, September 1855.

Manuscript in ink, [6] pp. duodecimo (130 x 90 mm); headed ‘Orchard Leigh, Bonchurch, Sept. 29’, the letter is addressed ‘My dear Henrietta’, and is signed at the foot ‘your very affectionate friend, Mrs Browne’; original folds, clean and crisp; accompanied by its original mailing envelope, addressed to ‘Miss Macartney,…

The game of British Empire, or, Trading with the Colonies

“Glevum” series.. [Gloucester] : [Roberts Bros / Glevum Games], circa 1920. Cardboard box 235 x 332 x 38 mm., lithographed pictorial title label. Instructions pasted inside the side, folding card game board 305 x 610 mm., printed in colour, with a map of the British Empire, die and shaker, three…

[NATURAL HISTORY] Atlante zoologico popolare. Opera compilata sui più recenti lavori di zoologia italiani e stranieri

Napoli : Raimondo Petraroja, 1863-1879. First edition. Eight parts in four volumes, folio (390 x 280 mm), uniform contemporary half red calf over marbled papered boards, spines lettered and ruled in gilt; a total of 553 lithographic plates, all but 20 coloured by hand, with publisher’s blind stamp at foot…

T'ONG, Ting-kü (1832-1892)

全集語英 (Ying u Tsap Ts’un) or The Chinese and English Instructor

SMITH, John

An Appeal to all Missionaries in China.

FAR EASTERN REVIEW

Political railway map of China

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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New Acquisitions March 2025

BUACHE, Philippe (1700 - 1773)

Carte des Terres Australes comprises entre le Tropique du Capricorne et le Pôle Antarctique.

LUKE, Edmund T.

In Kewpie Land

Robert ASHTON (1950- )

Portfolio of 19 copperplate photogravure prints from the exhibition “Photogravure Images”, United Artists Gallery, Melbourne, 1987.

HETZER, William, fl. 1850-67

Scene on Middle Harbour, Sydney, 1858-59.

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[COOK] Newton’s new & improved terrestrial pocket globe 1817

Hymns Ancient and Modern

Untitled (Lady with monkey) 1923

[EARLY SYDNEY PRINTING] Receipt for payment of quit rent made to the Crown by Edward Robinson. Sydney, 29 January 1806.

The Ploughman and other poems. (The extraordinarily rare publisher’s edition – one of only three known copies)

“Group of Aborigines, Lake Alexandrina” (1862).

Sidetripping

Aboriginal artists of the nineteenth century (hardcover edition)

Ethel Turner birthday book : a selection of passages from the books of Ethel Turner (Mrs. H.R. Curlewis)

[MELBOURNE; LA TROBE FAMILY] Martha Browne, wife of colonial merchant Octavius Browne : entire letter to Henrietta Macartney, daughter of the Dean of Melbourne. Isle of Wight, September 1855.

The game of British Empire, or, Trading with the Colonies

[NATURAL HISTORY] Atlante zoologico popolare. Opera compilata sui più recenti lavori di zoologia italiani e stranieri

China & the Philippines