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Tree Fern, Botanical Gardens, Sydney (1856-1860)

Wet plate collodion print, 200 x 155 mm, signed in the negative lower left ‘M. F. Moresby’; on section cut from a mid-19th-century album leaf, with the photographer’s pencilled caption on the mount below the image: ‘Tree Fern, Botanical Gardens, Sydney’; the print has excellent clarity and tonal range, and…

[NEW CALEDONIA] Archive of original photographs taken by a German geologist, documenting mining, interactions with indigenous people, and the landscape in New Caledonia’s North Province, 1930-31.

Group of 58 (fifty-eight) gelatin silver print photographs, in uniform 80 x 110 mm format, all neatly mounted on green paper backing sheets, 140 x 210 mm, each with the meticulous cataloguing of the photographer in the form of typed information in German, including in the upper margin a main…

The Chinese Drama from the earliest times until today

A panoramic study of the art in China, tracing its origin and describing its actors (in both male and female roles); their costumes and make-ups, superstitions and stage slang: the accompanying music and musical instruments: concluding with synopses of thirty Chinese plays. Shanghai : Kelly and Walsh, 1930. Quarto, quarter…

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

Sydney : S. T. Leigh & Co., 1888. Menu. Folding gilt-edged card (195 x 135 mm), chromolithograph illustrated, with gold highlights; second and third sides with menu (catering was Baumann of Pitt Street under the supervision of W. G. Cassidy), toasts, and programme of music, featuring decorative borders with cartouche…

[IMPERIAL RUSSIA] St.-Pétersbourg et ses environs : guide pratique illustré. (With an extra map, issued only to conference delegates)

At head of title: Conférence Internationale des Horaires des Trains a St.-Pétersbourg pour le service d’hiver 1899-1900. St.-Pétersbourg & Moscou : Société M. O. Wolff, Imprimeurs-Editeurs-Libraires de la Cour Impériale, 1899. Small octavo (185 x 130 mm), original red cloth decorated in blind and lettered in gilt (nice and bright);…

Carte de l’île de la Réunion, par Bory de S.t Vincent, officier d’État-Major, pour servir à son Voyage dans quatre îles des mers d’Afrique;

Dédiée à son Excellence le Maréchal Berthier, Ministre de la Guerre. [Paris, Dépôt de la Guerre, 1804]. Engraved map, dissected into eighteen panels and laid on linen, 645 x 860 mm., some light stains and wear along the folds, title label with manuscript Carte de Bourbon, a very good example. The…

Robert Prenzel 1866 – 1941 : his life and work

Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 1994. Quarto, softcovers, pp. 64, illustrated, light edge wear, a very good copy. An essential reference on this important art-nouveau Australian wood carver. Long out of print, this is a scarce copy.

A signed Christmas card by Adrian Feint

Folded sheet, 102 x 125 mm, colour illustration with silver highlights to upper panel, a typical surrealist work signed in the image by Adrian Feint, the interior with a printed poem addressed ‘To Adrian’ by Sydney Ure Smith, and with a manuscript Christmas greeting from Adrian Feint dated 1950. A…

Cosmographie, in four books. Containing the Chorographie & Historie of the whole World, and all the Principal Kingdoms, Provinces, Seas, and Isles thereof.

by Peter Heylyn. With an accurate and an approved Index of all the Kingdoms, Provinces, Countries, Inhabitants, People, Cities, Mountains, Rivers, Seas, Islands, Forts, Bays, Capes, Forests, &c. of any Remarque in the whole World; Much wanted and desired in the former, and now annexed to this last Impression, Revised and…

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.

Provenance: Rosalie Ann Thorne (1850-1927); Elizabeth Cecilia McNally, aka “The Duchess of Spring Hill” (1909-1996), legendary Brisbane antiques dealer and collector; private collection, Queensland. As the archive is so large, we have arranged it into four main sections catalogued under alphabetical headings, A – D (see below). ROSALIE ANN THORNE AND…

De Situ Orbis Libri III.

Cum notis integris Hermolai Barbari, Petri Joannis Olivarii, Fredenandi Nonii Pintiani, Petri Ciacconii, Andreae Schotti, Isaaci Vossii, et Jacobi Gronovii. Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden] : apud Samuelem et Johannem Luchtmans, Academiae Typographos, 1782. Third edition. Three parts in one volume, thick octavo (215 x 140 x 80 mm), in a contemporary academic…

Rex Battarbee : artist & Albert Namatjira’s friend

Melbourne : Badger Editions, 2026. Quarto (315 x 250 mm), pictorial laminate boards; pp. 296, extensively illustrated. Printed in a small edition of only 300 copies. New copy of a title not in commercial distribution. This beautifully produced monograph on Australian painter Rex Battarbee (1893-1973) promises to become the definitive…

EMBLING, Sabina Howitt [&] SINGLETON, Violet Etta

Commonplace book compiled by a young Melbourne woman (1867-78) with later entries by her daughter (1889-1890).

[Photographer unknown].

Aboriginal group with gulmari shields, Macintyre River (Northern New South Wales or South-East Queensland), c.1870.

MELA, Pomponius (c.15 - 45 CE)

De Situ Orbis Libri III.

MENPES, Mortimer and Dorothy

World Pictures (deluxe edition, with original signed watercolour)

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P. NEVILLE BARNETT

BARNETT, P. Neville (1881-1953)

Woodcut book-plates (deluxe edition)

BARNETT, P. Neville

Armorial book-plates (deluxe edition)

Barnett, P. Neville

Pictorial book-plates : their origin and their use in Australia (Deluxe edition)

Barnett, P. Neville

Pictorial book-plates : their origin and their use in Australia (Deluxe edition)

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Sydney 1850-1900

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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A rare piece of Melbourne theatre ephemera, this silk souvenir was printed by Melbourne’s leading printer Charles Troedel for a special evening of entertainments presented by Weston and Hussey’s minstrel troupe.

Returns again in July 2026 to Wilson Hall, the University of Melbourne.

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Tree Fern, Botanical Gardens, Sydney (1856-1860)

[NEW CALEDONIA] Archive of original photographs taken by a German geologist, documenting mining, interactions with indigenous people, and the landscape in New Caledonia’s North Province, 1930-31.

The Chinese Drama from the earliest times until today

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

[IMPERIAL RUSSIA] St.-Pétersbourg et ses environs : guide pratique illustré. (With an extra map, issued only to conference delegates)

Carte de l’île de la Réunion, par Bory de S.t Vincent, officier d’État-Major, pour servir à son Voyage dans quatre îles des mers d’Afrique;

Robert Prenzel 1866 – 1941 : his life and work

A signed Christmas card by Adrian Feint

Cosmographie, in four books. Containing the Chorographie & Historie of the whole World, and all the Principal Kingdoms, Provinces, Seas, and Isles thereof.

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.

De Situ Orbis Libri III.

Rex Battarbee : artist & Albert Namatjira’s friend

New Acquisitions July 2026

Commonplace book compiled by a young Melbourne woman (1867-78) with later entries by her daughter (1889-1890).