Daguerreotype portrait of a gentleman. Sydney, c.1855.

Sixth-plate daguerreotype with applied colour, 70 x 58 mm (sight); in a square brass mat with arch-top window; housed in a full leather case with the gilt-stamped crest of the photographers ‘FREEMAN BROTHERS / SYDNEY’ to verso, and with two working brass clasps; the daguerreotype is in excellent condition (a…

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[THYLACINE; GOLD RUSH] Display of gold from the Colony of Victoria at the International Exhibition, London, 1862

London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company, 1862. Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, 80 x 80 mm each image (arched format), on yellow mount 84 x 173 mm; recto with printed title: The International Exhibition of 1862: No. 141 – N. E. Transcept, and Australian Gold Case; under magnification, the sign on the case reads:…

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天文図解 Tenmon Zukai (= Illustrated Explanation of Astronomy)

Osaka : Ganshōdō, 1897 (first published in Osaka by Itamiya Mohe Kaihan, 1689). Meiji era printing. Five volumes, octavo, original printed wrappers (lightly marked), printed title labels, 32, 31, 37, 64, 54 folding leaves, with 60 woodcut illustrations of astronomical diagrams, devices and star maps, including a volvelle in volume…

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[SYDNEY] St. Ignatius’ College Rowing Club. Regatta … Riverview. Saturday, June 8th, 1889.

Sydney : Batson & Co., 1889. Duodecimo folding card, 120 x 75 mm; lithograph printed on all four sides, in red, blue, green, orange and gold on pale green card; second and third sides with Programme of races (a few pencil annotations); fourth side with Club officers and statement of…

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English lyrics from Spenser to Milton.

Illustrations by Robert Anning Bell and introduction by John Dennis. London : George Bell and Sons, 1898. Octavo, finely bound (probably by Riviere) for Hatchards of London, full crushed levant morocco, foliated corner ornamentation intertwined with thin gilt rule, spine in compartments with raised bands, ruled and lettered in gilt…

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New celestial globe

[London] : J. & W. Cary, [between 1791 and 1820]. Celestial pocket globe, 3 1/2 inches in diameter, engraved gores over plaster and wooden sphere, two metal pins, housed in red morocco case lined with felt, bright original colour, some old discolouration under the varnish, metal eye hooks, the globe…

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Histoire de la Révolution française.

Tours : Ad. Mame et Cie, Impimeurs-Libraires, 1857. Second edition. Octavo (245 x 160 mm), in an exquisite binding commissioned by the publisher Alfred Mame, of full red crushed morocco with intricate and extensive gilt-tooled decoration repeated on both boards, spine in six compartments with ornate gilt ornament and title…

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[INCUNABLE] Quaestiones circa confessionem seu Sacramentum poenitentiae.

[Drophead title]. Rome : Johann Besicken, [c.1493]. Octavo (215 x 145 mm), bound in recent boards (some paper loss at foot of spine); [7] unnumbered leaves, with 33 lines per page; one small woodblock initial; no colophon, as issued; some leaves with light browning or foxing, but a good example.…

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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,…

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Daughters of the sun. Christian Waller & Klytie Pate (deluxe edition)

Bendigo : Bendigo Art Gallery, 2018. Folio, gilt-lettered green cloth, pp. [iv]; 117, (3), fully illustrated, including fold out plates. Lavishly produced exhibition catalogue for the first major retrospective on the two Melbourne artists (aunt and niece) in several decades. Includes Waller’s magnificent art deco publications The great breath  and The gates…

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Schoolboys playing cricket and leapfrog outside the Camberwell Common School building, Melbourne, c.1867.

Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 63 x 104 mm (mount); verso with the imprint of ‘Paterson Brothers, Photographic Artists. Portrait Rooms, 8 Bourke St. East, Melbourne’; both the print and the mount are in fine condition. A very early colonial cricket photograph.  The Camberwell Common School opened on…

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Firsts. London’s Rare Book Fair, 2026

CASTANHEDA, Fernão Lopes de

The first booke of the historie of the discouerie and conquest of the East Indias, enterprised by the Portingales, in their daungerous nauigations, in the time of King Don Iohn, the second of that name.

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HAKLUYT, Richard (1552?-1616)

The principal navigations, voiages, traffiqves and discoueries of the English nation, made by sea

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HAWKINS, Sir Richard, c. 1562 - 1622

The observations of Sir Richard Hawkins, Knight, in his voyage into the south sea : Anno Domini 1593.

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SEMEDO, Alvaro

The History of that Great and Renowned Monarchy of China.

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New Acquisitions May 2026

FLAUBERT, Gustave

Herodias

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[CIRCLE OF THE GRAHAME FAMILY]

“New Zealand ferns collected for Miss Grahame by her friends at Hazelbank, Auckland, 1860”.

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[BARTELS, Albert]. INOUYE, T.

The modern linguist, or conversations in English, French, German and Japanese

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[KELMSCOTT PRESS]. CLANVOWE, Sir Thomas

[KELMSCOTT PRESS]. The floure and the leafe, & the boke of Cupid, god of love, or the cuckow and the nightingale

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Featured item: 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)

Japan : Nara period [764-770 CE].

Pre-dating the movable type of Gutenberg by some seven centuries.

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