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Sydney-born Australian silent film actress Louise Lovely in two scenes from “Painted Lips” (1918).

Los Angeles, California : Edward LeSaint, [c.1918]. Two gelatin silver print photographs on lightweight card stock, in identical 160 x 210 mm format; the negatives inscribed ‘LeSaint 2439’ and ‘LeSaint 2739’ and the versos with old pencil annotations: ‘Louise Lovely’ and ‘The Straw Cellar’, respectively; both prints are in fine…

[COOK] Newton’s new terrestrial pocket globe 1818

London : John Newton, 1818. Terrestrial pocket globe, 2 inches in diameter; engraved gores with original hand-colouring over papier-mâché and plaster sphere, the surface in fine order with original varnish, very small areas of abrasion; two metal pins resting the globe in the original publisher’s shagreen case, with engraved diagrams…

The Sydney Gazette, and New South Wales Advertiser. Vols I – II, 1803-1805.

THE CRADLE OF PRINTING, PUBLISHING AND JOURNALISM IN AUSTRALIA : AN IMPORTANT COLLECTION OF EARLY ISSUES OF AUSTRALIA’S FIRST NEWSPAPER, FROM ITS FIRST TWO YEARS OF PUBLICATION. Sydney : G. Howe, 1803-05. A total of 91 (ninety-one) issues, housed in two calf clamshell cases, silk-lined and with gilt lettering, custom made…

Kunyu quantu [A map of the whole world]

[Korea, between 1860 and 1931; after the original map printed in Peking in 1674]. World map, printed by woodblocks in six sheets, each measuring 182.0 x 57.5 cm; expertly cleaned and lined by paper conservators on Japanese kozo tissue, traces of old fold lines; a superb example with full sheets,…

The plains

Melbourne : Norstrilia Press, 1982. First edition. Octavo, fine blue cloth with gilt lettered spine, in near-fine dust jacket (very slight edge wear); 126 pp.; an excellent copy of the scarce first edition of Murnane’s third novel, in the second state dust jacket designed by Marius Foley.

A Dictionary of the English Language :

in which the words are deduced from their originals, and illustrated in their different significations by examples from the best writers. To which are prefixed, a history of the language, and an English grammar. By Samuel Johnson, A. M. In two volumes. London : Printed by W. Strahan, for J.…

Portrait of Henry Daniel Skinner, painted just before his departure from England for Port Phillip in 1852; accompanied by his waistcoat (as worn in the portrait).

Gouache and watercolour on paper, 24.0 x 20.5 cm (sight), signed by the artist l.r.; in fine condition, housed in a nineteenth-century bird’s-eye maple frame with original cover glass; [ACCOMPANIED BY] the embroidered silk waistcoat worn by Skinner in the portrait, approx. 50 x 40 cm (irregular), remarkably well preserved.…

Edward Eyre, explorer of the Australian interior and colonial administrator: presentation signature with accompanying autograph note, dated 20 April 1867.

Original ink signature of Edward Eyre, on front section of a small bifolium of notepaper (103 x 93 mm), with an autograph covering note by Eyre on the third side, written in the third person: ‘Mr. Eyre has much pleasure in presenting his autograph for Miss Christy’s collection as requested…

[LONDON; DOLLS] Meech’s Wax-Work Exhibition. 50 & 52, Kennington Road. The Automaton Flute Player. The Greatest Novelty of the Age. The Wonder of all Beholders.

Kennington Cross [London] : Merser & Gardner, printers, [1875]. Handbill, 140 x 110 mm, lithograph-printed on both sides; recto with an illustrated advertisement for the Automaton Flute Player; verso with a notice for Meech’s Wax Doll Bazaar (at the same address) ‘established over 27 years, and [containing] the handsomest collection…

On the origin of species, by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. (1859)

London : John Murray, 1859. First edition (with two quotations only, from Whewell and Bacon, on the verso of the half-title leaf). Octavo, original publisher’s gilt-lettered green cloth by Edmonds & Remnants of London with their binder’s ticket to rear pastedown (very slightly bruised at head and foot of spine,…

[NEVILLE, Richard; WALSH, Richard; SHARP, Martin et al.]

Oz magazine : a complete set of the Australian issues, no. 1, April 1963 – no. 41, February 1969

WADDY, E. M.

Australia and radiant health. (Signed presentation copy)

LOCKE, John, 1632-1704

Some thoughts concerning education

GRAHAM, Anne Marie (1925 - )

10 lithographs on “Australians” by Anne Graham. (Copy number 1)

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Melbourne Rare Book Fair 2026

A rare fourteenth-century medieval coffret for a book of hours.

GAUTIER DE METZ (13th century)

[L’Image du monde]. Sensuyt lymaige du monde.

LODEWIJCKSZ, Willem

Premier livre de l’histoire de la navigation aux Indes Orientales, par les Hollandois;

SCHOUTEN, Willem Corneliszoon (c.1567-1625)

Diarivm vel descriptio laboriosissimi, & molestissimi itineris, facti à Gvilielmo Cornelii Schovtenio, Hornano, annis 1615. 1616. & 1617. Cum à parte Australi freti Magellanici, novum ductum, aut fretum, in Magnum Mare Australe detexit, totumq[ue] Orbem terrarum circumnavigavit. Quas Insulas, & regiones, & populos viderit, & quæ pericula subierit.

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Sydney-born Australian silent film actress Louise Lovely in two scenes from “Painted Lips” (1918).

[COOK] Newton’s new terrestrial pocket globe 1818

The Sydney Gazette, and New South Wales Advertiser. Vols I – II, 1803-1805.

Kunyu quantu [A map of the whole world]

The plains

A Dictionary of the English Language :

Portrait of Henry Daniel Skinner, painted just before his departure from England for Port Phillip in 1852; accompanied by his waistcoat (as worn in the portrait).

Edward Eyre, explorer of the Australian interior and colonial administrator: presentation signature with accompanying autograph note, dated 20 April 1867.

[LONDON; DOLLS] Meech’s Wax-Work Exhibition. 50 & 52, Kennington Road. The Automaton Flute Player. The Greatest Novelty of the Age. The Wonder of all Beholders.

On the origin of species, by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. (1859)

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Oz magazine : a complete set of the Australian issues, no. 1, April 1963 – no. 41, February 1969