Principio erat (Artist’s edition A)

Paris : Editions Bessard, 2019. Folio, pictorial laminated boards, pp. [70], several double fold-out pages, printed on high quality matt photographic paper. Principio erat is published in a standard and deluxe edition – described as the ‘Artist’s edition’ by the publisher. The standard edition is published in two variations, each…

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The hidden nugget : a story of the Australian goldfields

London : Blackie and Son Limited, 1910. First edition. Thick octavo, original pictorial blue cloth with gilt lettering on upper board and spine, olivine edges, grey endpapers, first blank with pencilled gift inscription dated Xmas 1909 (predating publication date!), pp 284, [16] publisher’s advertisements, illustrated with 7 monochrome plates; occasional…

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The Victoria gold ready reckoner

Carefully revised. Commencing at £3 and terminating at £4. 5s 9d per ounce. Melbourne: Sands and Kenny, 1857. Sextodecimo, cloth bound blind-embossed boards with gilt lettering to upper board, 218 pp, one gathering with soiling and wear from use, most liking during mining activities, advertisement endpapers, charming contemporary ownership inscription…

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Photograph of the oil painting “Chloé” at its first showing at the Paris Salon, 1875.

Albumen print photograph, 270 x 137 mm, blind stamped lower left ‘Goupil & Cie.’, laid down on its original board mount, lithographed text across the bottom margin: ‘1478. Chloé. Peint. par Lefebvre / Photographié par Goupil & Cie. Galerie Photographique / Salon de 1875. Publié par Goupil & Cie., Editeurs’,…

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Clarence River man holding a didjeridu.

[Circa 1873]. Albumen print photograph, 200 x 150 mm, manuscript sequence number ‘4’ in negative lower right; a strong print with good tonal range, small flaw in the negative upper right, but in fine condition; mounted and framed. One of the famous series of tableau portraits of Clarence Valley Aboriginal…

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[The Bordello]

Woodcut, 150 x 150 mm (image), 230 x 210 mm (sheet), signed and dated in the image lower right ‘Janusz Maria Brzeski / Paris 1929’; on fine tissue paper; out of series (artist’s proof?), but other examples indicate an edition of 100; some scattered foxing (the spots so tiny as…

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Cindy Ray : tattooing and animal marking equipment. (With related commercial ephemera)

[Drop title]. Ivanhoe, Vic. : Miss Cindy Ray, [1964 or 1965]. Large square octavo (205 x 170 mm), original pictorial wrappers, staple bound, pp 16 (including wrappers), illustrated; a superb copy; [TOGETHER WITH] loosely enclosed roneo-printed Mail Order forms for Cindy Ray’s equipment and collectors’ cards; a roneo-printed open letter…

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FAIR | Firsts: London 2020

BOWIE, David, & SUKITA, Masayoshi

Speed of Life

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ELEFTHERIADES, Efstratios (TÉRIADE)

Verve : revue artistique et littéraire, 1937-1960. (Complete set of French first editions)

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Various artists; JOHNSON, Phyllis (publisher)

Aspen. (Complete run of 10 issues)

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YOUNG, James Lyle (1849-1929), collector (attributed); SPITZ Charles Georges (1857-1894); HOARE, Sophia; HOARE, Charles

An important album with photographs of Tahiti, the Marquesas, the Tuamotus and Cook Islands, collected in Papeete in the 1880s by Pacific Islands trader James Lyle Young.

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New Acquisitions June

PARFITT, Iris G.J.

Jail-bird jottings : the impressions of a Singapore internee.

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COPE, Walter D. (composer); CLARKE, J. R. (publisher)

[SHEET MUSIC] Eucalypti waltzes.

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ARNOLD, J.

Picturesque Hong Kong : a handbook for travellers

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WYLD, James (1812-87)

The World, designed to show the languages and dialects into which The British & Foreign Bible Society has translated the Scriptures or aided in their distribution

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