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The trials of life. A natural history of animal behaviour. (Signed copy)

London : William Collins, 2025 (reprint). Signed edition. Octavo, boards in illustrated dust jacket; pp. [vi]; 282, extensively illustrated. Signed by David Attenborough in black pen on the front free endpaper. A fine copy. The final book in David Attenborough’s ‘Life Trilogy’ series.

Winged fairy with bubble

Watercolour on card, 250 x 175 mm, initialed in ink lower right ‘I.R.O’, housed in a period moulded white timber frame. A stunning watercolour by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite featuring her most beloved subject, a winged fairy, interacting with a magical bubble. Outhwaite’s winged fairies feature in some of her most…

Molecular biology of the gene. (Carsten Bresch’s copy)

New York : W.A. Benjamin Inc., 1965. Octavo, white cloth with double-helix design on upper board, lettered on spine, illustrated dustjacket (corners bumped, edges rubbed, chipped and worn), pp. xxii, 494, with numerous diagrams, a couple of instances of highlighter underlining by Bresch, a very good copy. The foundation book…

The Lord of the Rings trilogy

1. TOLKIEN, J. R. R. The Fellowship of the Ring. Being the first part of The Lord of the Rings. London : George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1965. First edition, fourteenth impression. Octavo, red cloth over boards (edges a little rubbed), gilt-lettered spine, top edge red, 423 pp., folding map…

Palmetum. (Author’s copy with proof set)

“Depicted by” Juli Haas, Ray Crooke, Jan Senbergs, Anneke Silver, Cheryl Wildon, Danny Moynihan, Margaret Wilson, Normana Wight, Jorg Schmeisser, David Paulson, Ron McBurnie, Tate Adams, Anne Lord. With text by Jenny Zimmer. Introduction by John L. Dowe, Palm Biologist, James Cook University. Townsville : Lyrebird Press, 2002. Folio (470…

New South Wales Pocket Almanack, for the Year of Our Lord 1815;

Being the third after Bissextile, or Leap Year; and the fifty-fifth of the Reign of His Present Majesty King George the Third. Published under the Sanction and Patronage of His Excellency the Governor and Commander in Chief. Sydney : Compiled and Printed by G. Howe, Government Printer, [1815]. Duodecimo (155…

The Ballad of Reading Gaol. By C. 3. 3.

London : Leonard Smithers, 1898. First edition. Octavo, two toned gilt-lettered cloth (spine discoloured), offsetting to endpapers, fore and lower edges uncut, pp. [viii]; 31; (1), printed rectos only, internally clean, a very good copy. Printed in an edition of 800 copies on handmade paper and 30 copies on Japanese…

Jeffrey Smart. (Deluxe edition with original signed etching)

By Peter Quartermaine; foreword by Germaine Greer. On the half title: A man is illogical on horseback; but in a satellite, surreal. South Yarra : Gryphon Books, 1983. Quarto, gilt-titled quarter morocco over grey linen, black buckram slipcase, pp 131; the deluxe edition, limited to 100 numbered copies signed by the…

[NORMAN LINDSAY] Five bells : XX poems. (Signed copy)

Sydney : Frank C. Johnson, 1939. First edition. Octavo, wrappers illustrated by Norman Lindsay), signed by Ken Slessor on the front free endpaper, pp. 43, with six illustrations by Norman Lindsay; a fine copy. Printed in an edition of 500 copies. Signed copies are rare.

The Anzac war-trail. With the Light Horse in Sinai

London : Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1919. First edition. Octavo, pictorial cloth, light edge wear, bookplate to front pastedown, edges stained blue, colour frontispiece. viii; [9] – 281; (7 – catalogue), colour plates, a very good copy. The second in Bowes’s series of Great War adventure novels, in attractive…

A complete set of the first editions of the Harry Potter series.

London : Bloomsbury, 1997 – 2006. Seven volumes, octavo, illustrated wrappers; slight sunning to spine of the second title, light handing wear, a near fine set. A rare complete set of the first seven titles in the Harry Potter series, including the true first edition, first printing, of the first…

Storm Boy

Illustrated by John Baily. Adelaide : Rigby Limited, 1963. First edition. Octavo, illustrated boards in illustrated dustjacket (not price-clipped, verso foxed, edge wear), contemporary bookseller’s label to front pastedown, pp. 52, illustrated, occasional foxing, a good copy. The classic Australian children’s novel about a boy and his pelican set in…

EMPRESS SHOTOKU-TENNO (718 - 770 CE)

Hyakumantō Dhāraṇī (百万塔陀羅尼) : an example of the earliest printed text that can be accurately dated (with the Jishin-in darani).

MONTAIGNAC DE CHAUVANCE, Louis Raymond de (1811-1891)

The illustrated voyage journal of a French naval officer written during the circumnavigation of the Artémise under Captain Cyrille Laplace (1837-1840).

FREUD, Sigmund (1856-1939)

Selbstdarstellung. (Signed copy)

ROWLING, J. K. (1965 - )

A complete set of the first editions of the Harry Potter series.

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New Acquisitions October 2026

[LINDSAY, Norman]

God bless dear Daddy who is fighting the Hun and send him Help

COLE, T. C.

Cole’s Gardening in Victoria;

Prévost, Antoine François (Abbé) (1697-1763)

Histoire générale des voyages,

FRIEDRICH, C. (pseud.)

Reise-Abenteuer eines braven Deutschen im Lande der Kangaroo. / G. C. C. [German Concentration Camp] Liverpool, Australia.

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Australian portrait photographs 1860-1930

HODGES, Henry George

Self-portrait of the photographer, and of a young woman (possibly his wife). Melbourne, c.1865.

TAYLOR, Richard

Timboo and Ellen, with Ellen’s dog. Geelong, 1863-64.

NOBLE, Timothy

Studio portrait of African-American musician and actor, Hosea Easton. Melbourne, 1877-78.

GLAISTER, Thomas Skelton (1825-1904)

Studio portrait of two identically dressed young brothers, one holding a cricket bat. Sydney, 1864-5.

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The unpublished diary of a year in the brief life of Mondle Phillips, scion of one of Sydney’s (and later Melbourne’s) most prominent early Jewish families.

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The trials of life. A natural history of animal behaviour. (Signed copy)

Winged fairy with bubble

Molecular biology of the gene. (Carsten Bresch’s copy)

The Lord of the Rings trilogy

Palmetum. (Author’s copy with proof set)

New South Wales Pocket Almanack, for the Year of Our Lord 1815;

The Ballad of Reading Gaol. By C. 3. 3.

Jeffrey Smart. (Deluxe edition with original signed etching)

[NORMAN LINDSAY] Five bells : XX poems. (Signed copy)

The Anzac war-trail. With the Light Horse in Sinai

A complete set of the first editions of the Harry Potter series.

Storm Boy

Sydney 2026

Hyakumantō Dhāraṇī (百万塔陀羅尼) : an example of the earliest printed text that can be accurately dated (with the Jishin-in darani).