Fluent : Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Yvonne Koolmatrie, Judy Watson

XLVII esposizione internazionale d’arte La Biennale di Venezia 1997. Sydney, N.S.W : Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1997. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (corners slightly bent), pp. 52, illustrated, a few spots of foxing. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Australian Pavilion, 47th Venice Biennale, 15 June – 9 November…

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The world and its inhabitants

London : Darton and Clark, [c.1845]. Octavo, gilt-decorated red cloth with illustration (a little rubbed and marked); yellow endpapers; unpaginated, twenty leaves of text, nine hand-coloured lithographed plates (including title leaf) which include maps of the world and the local inhabitants, including plates on Italy, Russia, France, England, the West…

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Group of correspondence from Henry Beit, land agent, Sydney, to E. V. Sandilands, cotton grower and Vice-Consul, Fiji. 1870-71.

Sydney businessman Henry Beit (1826-1881) was a land agent specialising in the sale of properties in outback New South Wales and Queensland, and also in the Fiji Islands. His correspondent, Edward Vincent Sandilands (1847-1871), was a young English cotton grower in the Yasawa Islands, Fiji, whose acquaintance Beit had presumably…

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Seven little Australians

London : Ward Lock & Bowden, 1894. Second edition. Octavo (185 x 130 mm), gilt-illustrated cloth over bevelled boards (a little canted, edges slightly rubbed); early inscriptions to endpaper, verso of half-title and dedication leaf; pp. 240, (32 – illustrated publisher’s catalogue); illustrated with vignette line drawings and several full-page…

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Blek Le Rat (deluxe edition)

Ken McGregor ; with German translation by Sybille Prou. Melbourne : Thames & Hudson, 2017. Quarto, one of a handful of copies of the deluxe edition, specially bound in full leather with silhouette design on upper board, pp. 311, illustrated. Text in English and German. ‘Blek le Rat is known…

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Catalogue of roses cultivated for sale by Wm. Paul & Son

‘For Autumn 1886 & Spring 1887’. Waltham Cross [U.K.] : William Paul & Son, 1886. Quarto, illustrated yellow wrappers, pp. iv (printed on pink paper), 48, black and white engraved illustrations of roses, a very good copy. William Paul (1822–1905) was a noted English horticulturalist and writer, perhaps best known…

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A manual of photography

London : John Joseph Griffin & Co., 1853. Third edition, enlarged. Cabinet Edition of the Encyclopaedia Metropolitana, Second Division : applied sciences. Octavo (195 x 135 mm), blind-stamped and lettered red cloth, gilt lettering to spine (a few marks and slight wear to head and foot); publisher’s advertisements to endpapers,…

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Barbershop tableau. Queenstown, Tasmania, c.1910.

Sepia-tone gelatin silver print photograph, 137 x 89 mm, printed on postcard stock; verso with printed label of ‘A. S. Rutter, Artist, Queenstown, Tas.’; mild corner and edge wear. Alfred Rutter was the resident studio photographer in Queenstown, the centre of the Mount Lyell mining district on Tasmania’s west coast, between…

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J. M’Douall Stuart’s explorations across the continent of Australia. With charts. 1861 – 62.

Melbourne : F. F. Bailliere, 1863. First edition. Octavo, lettered pink papered cards (lightly discoloured), cloth spine, pp. [vi, advertisements], folding map (short tear at gutter), title page, 97; [3]; occasional foxing. Account of Stuart’s fifth and sixth expeditions from Adelaide to the north of Australia in search of new…

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Political railway map of China

[Shanghai] : Far Eastern Review, circa 1914. Map, printed in colour, 520 x 425 mm (sheet), a couple of small chips and edges and small stains lower left, showing the railways of China which are operational, under construction, contracted for, and projected, under French, Belgian, Russian, British, German, Japanese, American…

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Autograph signatures of poet Robert Browning, and artists William Logsdail, Ludwig Passini, Luke Fildes, Eugene de Blaas, and Franz Leo Ruben.

Piece of notepaper mounted on section of an album leaf, 125 x 110 mm, bearing the original autograph signatures (in ink) of six notable writers and artists of the late nineteenth century: Robert Browning (1812-1889), British poet and playwright; William Logsdail (1859-1944), British artist; Ludwig Johann Passini (1832–1903), Austrian artist; Sir Samuel…

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[GOLD RUSH] L’or

Paris : Nony & Cie., 1901. First edition. Large quarto, publisher’s pictorial green cloth gilt (lightly foxed and rubbed); decorative lining papers, front endpaper with label, all edges gilt (slightly flecked); early owner’s inscription to title page; pp. 363, [4] (advertisements); illustrated throughout with black-and-white plates and line drawings in…

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New Acquisitions June 2025

MORRISON, Robert (1782–1834)

五車韻府 A Dictionary of the Chinese Language, by the Rev. R. Morrison, D. D.

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LINDSAY, Norman (1879-1969)

Creative effort : an essay in affirmation (deluxe edition with original signed etching)

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CLARK, William (1770-1838)

[TERRITORY OF MISSOURI] Letter of Administration, signed by William Clark as Governor and Commander in Chief of Missouri Territory, 29 March 1814.

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LEWIS, Meriwether, & CLARK, William

Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. Performed by Order of the Government of the United States in the Years 1804, 1805 and 1806.

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