The Beauty of the British Alps ; or, Love at First Sight.

London : Published by G. Virtue, 26, Ivy-lane, Paternoster-row ; Bath-street, Bristol ; and Queen-square, Liverpool, 1825. Octavo (204 x 130 mm), contemporary marbled calf, boards with ornamental gilt borders (boards a little scuffed, front joint superficially cracked, minor cracking at head of rear joint, corners a trifle worn), spine in…

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Outdoor ambrotype of a family group with three generations of women (and a pet pony). U.S.A., 1856-57.

Sixth-plate ambrotype (wet collodion positive), 70 x 80 mm (sight); housed in an oval brass mat under cover glass, in an A. P. Critchlow thermoplastic Union case, 82 x 94 mm, with Mother Embracing Child 2 design (Berg 1-14); the ambrotype and case are in superb condition. A beautifully composed outdoor…

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Officium Beatae Mariae Virginis S. Pii V. Pontificio Maximi Jesse editum, et urbani VIII.

Venice : Balleoni, 1754. Octavo, magnificent contemporary à la cire binding of interlaced coloured calf with elaborate foliated gilt tooling, the interlacing infilled with dark brown wax paint, spine in compartments with raised bands, extensively tooled in gilt, two working metal clasps, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, engraved title page, pp. xxiv;…

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[SYDNEY] A group of personal calling cards collected by politician John Cash Neild of “Greycairn”, Edgecliff Road, Woollahra, 1890s.

Group of 17 (seventeen) lithographically printed calling cards, various dimensions (smallest 40 x 75 mm, largest 57 x 93 mm); a number are annotated, some with PPC (Pour prendre congé, indicating a temporary absence), and several with the name of Major (or Lt. Colonel) Neild; all in good condition, with occasional…

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The “Lord’s Prayer” written 4 times in the space of a Shilling. Dr. W. G. Tayler, “Etrenne”, Woollahra, 6th May 1897.

Manuscript in black, brown and red ink on paper, approx. 45 x 45 mm, cut in octagonal shape and mounted on plain card, 120 x 90 mm; border ruled in green and red ink; with a caption title in manuscript on the mount, also bordered in coloured inks; very well…

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A 10th-century manuscript fragment in Caroline (Carolingian) minuscule, with part of Jerome’s Preface to the Commentary on Matthew.

[Holy Roman Empire, late tenth century]. Manuscript fragment on vellum, 312 x 216 mm (slightly irregular), recto with 32 complete lines of text in Caroline minuscule, comprising a portion of the last section of Jerome’s Preface to the Commentary on Matthew; on the right is the partially preserved text (the…

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“Queen Mary, Ballarat”.

[Caption from inscription on verso of mount]. Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 102 x 62 mm (mount); verso inscribed in ink (probably in the hand of the photographer) ‘Queen Mary / Ballarat’; a beautiful print with excellent clarity; the mount is clean and stable. This full-length portrait of…

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A treatise on the culture of the vine, and the art of making wine; compiled from the works of Chaptal, and other French writers; and from the notes of the compiler, during a residence in some of the Wine Provinces of France. 

Australia [i.e. Sydney] : R. Howe, Government Printer, 1825. Small quarto (octavo in fours), early half-calf over papered boards, rebacked with new spine in period style, ruled in gilt with contrasting morocco title label lettered in gilt; bound as usual without the half title pp. [3], xxxiv, 270 (actually 272,…

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官許 新刊輿地全圖 [Kankyo shinkan yochi zenzu] [Officially Licenced New Map of the World]

Edo (Tokyo), Japan : 萬屋兵四郎 [Yorozuya Heishirō], [1862] (Bunkyū 2). Hand coloured woodblock print, 1360 x 1350 mm., original cloth covers and paper portfolio, both with title labels (portfolio with some silverfishing and lacking left-hand flap), map with some foxing and silverfishing, repaired with Japanese tissue. A detailed map of…

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The avi-fauna of Australia : comprising Gould’s Birds of Australia and all other birds discovered in the Australian colonies since 1850.

[Sydney?] : [G.J. Broinowski?], 1897. Quarto, publisher’s black paper wrappers, stitch bound, edges slightly chipped, [2 preliminary blanks], title page, [blank], [2 Advertisement], [2 blanks], [6]; 4 chromolithographed plates, [2 terminal blanks]; very pale foxing and toning, a fine complete example housed in a folding clamshell box with gilt-lettered morocco…

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The Hobart Town Almanack for the year MDCCCXXXIV. (Inscribed by Ronald Campbell Gunn to fellow botanist William Jackson Hooker)

Also titled: (Ross’s) Van Diemen’s Land Annual and Hobart Town Almanack, for the year 1834. Hobart Town, Van Diemen’s Land : Printed by James Ross, [December, 1833]. Small octavo (180 x 115 mm), original blue paper wrappers with early vellum backstrip (moderate wear); front free-endpaper with a presentation inscription in ink:…

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[NEW TESTAMENT; TAHITIAN] Te mau Episetole a te Aposetolo ra a Paulo.

I to Galatia, Ephesia, Philipi, Colosa, Tesalonia, ia Timoteo hoi, Tito, e Philemona. Te taio ra, e haapao oia iaite. Iesu Christi. Tahiti : i neia i te nenei raa a te mau misionari ra [colophon: printed at the Windward Mission Press], 1824. Duodecimo (175 x 110 mm), contemporary diced russia (rubbed, with chips at spine ends), spine with contrasting…

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New Acquisitions July 2025

CRAIG, Eric (maker/artist)

New Zealand fern specimens in original kauri wood box, early 1880s.

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HILDER, Brett (1911-1981)

Portrait of Wandjuk Marika. Yirrkala, October 1972.

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[INTERCOLONIAL EXHIBITION OF AUSTRALASIA]

[KULIN LANGUAGES] God hath made of one blood all nations of men : Acts 17th Chap. 25th verse : in 103 languages : a memorial of the Victorian Exhibition 1866, consisting of a verse from holy writ in above one hundred languages.

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MONTI, Anne-Georges-Augustin de (1753-1788)

[LA PÉROUSE EXPEDITION] Handwritten document requesting additional equipment for the Astrolabe, written on board the ship prior to its departure from Brest, dated 10 June 1785.

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Featured: Third Report of the Auxiliary Bible Society of New South Wales. 1819. With a list of benefactions and subscriptions paid since the publication of the 2nd report. (Edward Wise’s copy)

Scarce Macquarie-era imprint, printed by George Howe, Australia’s first government printer.

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Events: The 55th Australian Antiquarian Book Fair

Wilson Hall 31 July – 2 August 2025

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