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Black, White and Colour. (Standard edition, signed by the photographer and the author)

Melbourne : Ginninderra Press, 2025. ISBN 9781761097089. Quarto, hardcover, 207 pages; offset printed on ivory silk paper for superior image reproduction and touch. Designed and typeset by Isambard Thomas. This biography of one of Australia’s treasured artists offers an intimate portrait of the struggles and triumphs of Mervyn Bishop, Australia’s ground-breaking…

The English Parnassus : or a help to English poesie.

Containing a collection of all the rhythming monosyllables, the choicest epithets and phrases. With some general forms upon all occasions, subjects, and themes, alphabetically digested. London: Henry Brome, Thomas Bassett, and John Wright, 1677. Second edition (first published in 1657). Octavo, finely bound in nineteenth century full vellum by Seton…

Beyond Sacred. Recent paintings from Australia’s remote Aboriginal communities : the collection of Colin and Elizabeth Laverty

Melbourne : Hardie Grant Books, 2008. First edition. Folio (34 cm tall), boards in diecut folding dustjacket, illustrated endpapers, pp. [viii]; 352, extensively illustrated. A mint copy, as new. A comprehensive, visually stunning survey of recent Aboriginal art, with images of more than 250 paintings. It tells the story of…

[BOARD GAME] The National Yacht Race.

Ballarat and Melbourne : National Game Co., [between 1912 and 1915?]. “Copyright no. 2607”. Thin board with original cloth backstrip, 310 x 480 mm, folding; chromolithographed game board in red, blue, yellow and black; pictorial onlaid title label to outer board; an extremely god example. This appears to be an…

Map of the countries lying between Turkey & Birmah, comprising Asia Minor, Persia, India, Egypt & Arabia, and including the Black, Caspian & Red Seas

[Cover title : Map of the countries between Turkey & Burmah, comprising Turkey, Egypt, Arabia, Persia, Bokhara and India, and particularly contract dot show the Overland Route to India]. London : James Wyld, 1839. Engraved map with original outline hand colouring, dissected and laid on linen, 78.5 x 108 cms,…

The guinea pig, or domestic cavy for food, fur, and fancy. Illustrated. (With a gift inscription and pen sketches by H. G. Wells)

London : L. Upcott Gill, [1886]. First edition. Octavo (190 x 130 mm), publisher’s decorated green cloth over boards, the upper board with gilt lettering and guinea pig device (both boards rubbed and lightly marked, corners a little worn), spine with gilt lettering and device (very heavily faded and frayed…

The Emigrants’ Voyage [to Australia]. (Complete set of 12 magic lantern glass slides)

[London : Theobold & Co, c.1900]. Complete set of twelve magic lantern glass slides, uniform 82 x 82 mm format, illustrated by the chromolithographic transfer process; numbered printed caption labels to top edges of mounts; one slide is lacking its label, another has a diagonal hairline crack across the front…

Cholera and its treatment on homoeopathic principles

(Based mainly on the results of fourteen years practice as a homoeopath.) Calcutta : published for the author by Berigny & Co, 1887. Printed by G. P. Roy & Co, Calcutta. Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth with blind decoration, lightly rubbed at edges, pencilled ‘Duplicate’ on front free endpaper, title leaf, pp.…

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…

Premari Notitia Linguae sinicae. Ex Apographo, Ipsius Premari manu emendato, quod In Bibliotheca Regia Parisiensi servatuo, Accurate descripsit Stanislaus Julien.

[circa 1825]. Folio, modern full vellum binding by Aquarius; p. 466, [3 blank]; manuscript in ink entirely in the hand of Stanislas Julien; in Latin and Chinese, the Chinese characters written from left to right; title-page with wet-stamped monogram of sinologist Marquis d’Hervey de Saint-Denys (1822-1892), his manuscript collection label…

Autograph letter in the Tahitian language, written by a chief of Bora Bora to the LMS missionary, Rev. John Muggridge Orsmond. Bora Bora, 1822.

Manuscript in brown ink on laid paper, 3 pp. on quarto bifolium, 175 x 150 mm; letter in the Tahitian language addressed to missionary Rev. John Orsmond at Tahiti, written entirely in the hand of an unidentified chief of Bora Bora, signed ‘Porapora’ at the foot; undated, but probably 1822…

Ambrotype portrait of “Jake and Charles. Two old cronies – intimate friends … Who can deny that we are a happy pair when together.” Dated 15 September, 1862.

[USA : unknown photographer], September 1862. Sixth-plate ambrotype with applied colouring, 53 x 62 mm (sight), in an oval brass mat with a scrolling foliate motif, housed in a half leather case with embossed geometric design; a fully contemporary inscription in pencil to the paper lining the inside wall of…

THORNE (WATKINS), Rosalie Ann (1850-1927)

Rosalie Ann Thorne (later Watkins), of Rose Bay and Parramatta : a substantial archive of unique manuscript ephemera, 1850s-1890s, including family correspondence and material relating to the homeschooling of the Thorne and Watkins children.

GLAISTER, Thomas Skelton (1825-1904)

Portrait of the photographer’s wife, Elizabeth Glaister. Sydney, c. 1865.

[NEW SOUTH WALES GOVERNMENT]

[SYDNEY] State Banquet in commemoration of the completion of the First Hundred Years of Australian Settlement. January 26th 1888.

[FITZPATRICK, M. J., Hon. Secretary]

[SYDNEY] Opening of St. Mary’s Cathedral. Programme of music to be performed during the Triduum, 8th, 9th, & 10th Sept., 1882.

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GONZALEZ CABRERA BUENO, José (c. 1670 - after 1733)

Navegación Especulativa, y Práctica, con la Explicación de algunos Instrumentos, que están mas en uso en los Navegantes … …

SCHMIDT, I. J. (Isaac Jacob)

Grammatik der Tibetischen Sprache,

CHAUCER, Geoffrey

The romaunt of the rose

[Photographer unknown].

Ambrotype portrait of “Jake and Charles. Two old cronies – intimate friends … Who can deny that we are a happy pair when together.” Dated 15 September, 1862.

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Black, White and Colour. (Standard edition, signed by the photographer and the author)

The English Parnassus : or a help to English poesie.

Beyond Sacred. Recent paintings from Australia’s remote Aboriginal communities : the collection of Colin and Elizabeth Laverty

[BOARD GAME] The National Yacht Race.

Map of the countries lying between Turkey & Birmah, comprising Asia Minor, Persia, India, Egypt & Arabia, and including the Black, Caspian & Red Seas

The guinea pig, or domestic cavy for food, fur, and fancy. Illustrated. (With a gift inscription and pen sketches by H. G. Wells)

The Emigrants’ Voyage [to Australia]. (Complete set of 12 magic lantern glass slides)

Cholera and its treatment on homoeopathic principles

A Japanese grammar.

Premari Notitia Linguae sinicae. Ex Apographo, Ipsius Premari manu emendato, quod In Bibliotheca Regia Parisiensi servatuo, Accurate descripsit Stanislaus Julien.

Autograph letter in the Tahitian language, written by a chief of Bora Bora to the LMS missionary, Rev. John Muggridge Orsmond. Bora Bora, 1822.

Ambrotype portrait of “Jake and Charles. Two old cronies – intimate friends … Who can deny that we are a happy pair when together.” Dated 15 September, 1862.

Sydney 1850-1900

Rosalie Ann Thorne (later Watkins), of Rose Bay and Parramatta : a substantial archive of unique manuscript ephemera, 1850s-1890s, including family correspondence and material relating to the homeschooling of the Thorne and Watkins children.

Portrait of the photographer’s wife, Elizabeth Glaister. Sydney, c. 1865.

[SYDNEY] State Banquet in commemoration of the completion of the First Hundred Years of Australian Settlement. January 26th 1888.

[SYDNEY] Opening of St. Mary’s Cathedral. Programme of music to be performed during the Triduum, 8th, 9th, & 10th Sept., 1882.

New Acquisitions June 2026