The universal spelling alphabet. An amusing parlour game

S.l. : s.n., circa 1840. Cedar box 125 x 180 x 30 mm, sliding lid with engraved decorative title label, instruction sheet pasted to underside (titled ‘The Moveable Spelling Alphabet’), containing numerous letters and punctuation marks printed on white and blue cards. A charming Victorian spelling game, probably English, in…

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Commentarios do grande Afonso Dalboquerque, capitão geral que foi das Indias Orientaes em tempo do muito poderoso rey D. Manuel, o primeiro deste nome.

Lisbon : Regia Officina Typografica, 1774. Four volumes, octavo, finely bound in contemporary speckled calf, ruled in blind, spines with gilt rule and contrasting morocco title labels, lettered in gilt, edges speckled red, marbled endpapers, private ex-libris book labels to pastedowns, engraved portrait frontispiece, pp. [viii]; xliv; 343; large folding…

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Barbara Hepworth catalogue raisonne. (Deluxe edition with original signed screenprint)

HODIN, J. P. Barbara Hepworth. Neuchatel, Switzerland : Editions du Griffon, 1961. Quarto, lettered cloth in dustjacket (light edge wear), pp. 172, illustrated. The French language edition, printed in Switzerland. Together with: The complete sculpture of Barbara Hepworth 1960 – 69. Edited by Alan Bowness. New York : Praeger, 1971. Quarto, gilt-decorated cloth in illustrated…

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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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Carte de visite commemorating Captain Edward Knowles and the emigrant ship “Northfleet”, lost in the English Channel on 22 January 1873 en route to Hobart, Tasmania.

Albumen print photograph, 102 x 63 mm (mount); lower margin recto with printed caption: ‘Captain Knowles. Lost in the Northfleet off Dunganess, Jan. 22 1873’; verso with The London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company’s backmark; the print has a couple of light marks; the verso of the mount has some residual…

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A souvenir of the Great World War and the glorious part played by Australia and New Zealand.

[United Kingdom? : s.n., c.1915]. Cotton handkerchief, 450 x 600 mm, recto lithograph printed in colour, with patriotic illustrations featuring a large central cartouche captioned ‘The Landing of our Gallant Sons of Empire on the Gallipoli Peninsula’, smaller uncaptioned cartouches at each corner depicting ships of the Royal Australian Navy…

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The Magic Pudding. (Signed first edition)

/ Being the adventures of Bunyip Bluegum and his friends Bill Barnacle & Sam Sawnoff. Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1918. Quarto, quarter-cloth over papered boards, lettered in gilt on the spine, in fine original illustrated dust jacket (corners rubbed, Japanese paper reinforcements to a few splits), patterned green A…

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Street Incidents : a series of twenty-one permanent photographs, with descriptive letter-press.

London : Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1881. Quarto (285 x 220 mm), publisher’s pictorial red cloth stamped in gilt and black (boards with light staining and flecking, spine sunned and flecked, text block a little sprung), original patterned endpapers, pp [2], [1]-100, with 21 original woodburytypes from Thomson’s…

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The Australian babes in the wood : a true story told in rhyme for the young

/ by the author of ‘Little Jessie,’ etc. ; illustrated by Hugh Cameron, J. M’Whirter, G. Hay, J. Lawson, etc., and engraved by R. Paterson. London : Griffith and Farran, 1866. Small octavo, original blind blocked blue cloth boards, upper board with lettering and pictorial device stamped in gilt (boards lightly…

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Justinian and Theodora : drama, being a chapter of history and the one gleam of light during the Dark Ages

East Aurora, N.Y. : Roycroft Press, 1906. Octavo, finely bound in half mauve crushed Morocco over marbled papered boards, spine in compartments with raised bands, lettered and decorated in gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut, marbled endpapers, pp. 107; (2), decorated title page, head and tail pieces, the deluxe edition…

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Soviet Russian Art and Handicraft Exposition. Grand Central Palace, New York, February 1929

[Cover title]. Also titled: Art and Handicraft Exposition of Soviet Russia. New York : Peasant Art & Handicraft Department of Amatory Trading Corporation, 1929. Small quarto (265 x 180 mm), illustrated wrappers with original owner’s name to front, original ties, [15], [1] pp, numerous illustrations (some colour); an excellent copy.…

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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.

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

Relation und gründtlicher Bericht von dess Königreichs Voxu im Japonischen Keyserthumb

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SPILBERGEN, Joris van (1568-1620)

Speculum orientalis occidentalisque Indiae navigationum.

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T'ONG, Ting-kü (1832-1892)

全 集 語 英 (Ying u Tsap Ts’un) or The Chinese and English Instructor

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SMITH, John

An Appeal to all Missionaries in China.

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FAR EASTERN REVIEW

Political railway map of China

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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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A charming rural study by Hans Heysen, one of a number he made in and around Ambleside, his property at Hahndorf in the Adelaide Hills.

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