Robert O’Hara Burke, explorer : his official certificate of discharge from the Imperial Austrian Army, dated at Vienna, 15 June 1848.

[Vienna : Imperial Austrian Army, 1848]. Lithograph printed certificate, 320 x 460 mm, Imperial Austrian double-headed eagle in upper margin; printed text and manuscript entries in German recording the voluntary resignation of Herr Oberlieutenant Robert O’Hara Burke from the Imperial Austrian army, in which he has served for a period…

Read more

The Sydney Gazette, and New South Wales Advertiser. Vols I – II, 1803-1805.

THE CRADLE OF PRINTING, PUBLISHING AND JOURNALISM IN AUSTRALIA : AN IMPORTANT COLLECTION OF EARLY ISSUES OF AUSTRALIA’S FIRST NEWSPAPER, FROM ITS FIRST TWO YEARS OF PUBLICATION. Sydney : G. Howe, 1803-05. A total of 91 (ninety-one) issues, housed in two calf clamshell cases, silk-lined and with gilt lettering, custom made…

Read more

­[REVERSE-GLASS BINDING]. Hommage aux dames.

Paris : Louis Janet, 1830. Duodecimo (121 x 78 mm), in a rare contemporary binding consisting of a hand-coloured engraved title image, tortoiseshell-pattern border and lower panel, the upper and lower panels presented under glass; gilt and gauffred cartonnage edging, gilt spine with floral pattern; green endpapers; pp. [28], [14…

Read more

La dame aux camélias

/ Illustrations en couleurs de Paul-Émile Bécat. Paris : L’Édition d’Art H. Piazza, 19 rue Bonaparte, [1935]. One of 2400 examples on vélin chiffon numbered 601 to 3000 (this copy is no. 1678). Octavo (200 x 145 mm), near-contemporary deluxe binding of half red morocco over marbled papered boards, spine…

Read more

Kunyu quantu [A map of the whole world]

[Korea, between 1860 and 1931; after the original map printed in Peking in 1674]. World map, printed by woodblocks in six sheets, each measuring 182.0 x 57.5 cm; expertly cleaned and lined by paper conservators on Japanese kozo tissue, traces of old fold lines; a superb example with full sheets,…

Read more

Oz magazine : a complete set of the Australian issues, no. 1, April 1963 – no. 41, February 1969

Sydney : Oz Publications Ink Limited, 1963-1969. Forty-one issues, quarto, original stapled wrappers, various paginations between 16 and 20 pages, all illustrated; an expected amount of toning and occasional mild foxing; small tear to lower edge of upper wrapper of first issue, else overall in very good condition throughout; a…

Read more

[LONDON; DOLLS] Meech’s Wax-Work Exhibition. 50 & 52, Kennington Road. The Automaton Flute Player. The Greatest Novelty of the Age. The Wonder of all Beholders.

Kennington Cross [London] : Merser & Gardner, printers, [1875]. Handbill, 140 x 110 mm, lithograph-printed on both sides; recto with an illustrated advertisement for the Automaton Flute Player; verso with a notice for Meech’s Wax Doll Bazaar (at the same address) ‘established over 27 years, and [containing] the handsomest collection…

Read more

A Dictionary of the English Language :

in which the words are deduced from their originals, and illustrated in their different significations by examples from the best writers. To which are prefixed, a history of the language, and an English grammar. By Samuel Johnson, A. M. In two volumes. London : Printed by W. Strahan, for J.…

Read more

Calling the shots : Aboriginal photographies

Canberra : Aboriginal Studies Press, 2014. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, pp. xii; 280, illustrated with images of indigenous Australians from across Australia. Edited by Jane Lydon, with contributions from Julie Gough, Sari Braithwaite, Shauna Bostock-Smith, Lawrence Bamblett, Michael Aird, Karen Hughes, Aunty Ellen Trevorrow, Donna Oxenham, Laurie Baymarrwangga and Bentley James.

Read more

Planisphère mobile.

Au moyen du quel on peut apprendre l’Astronomie seul et sans le secours des Mathématiques. Imité de l’Anglais par Melle. Ginot Desroys. Prix 4 f. Paris : chez Bachelier, 1847. Planisphere, 355 mm in diameter, comprising four die-cut discs (or volvelles) of engraved paper over card, pointer, central screw, and holes…

Read more

AUSTRALIAN ART July 2026

[BLACKMAN, Charles]

Untitled [Boys near window, with swords], mid-1950s.

Read more

MORA, Georges (President)

Contemporary Art Society Broadsheet 1959

Read more

JACK, Kenneth (1924 - 2006)

Kenneth Jack’s holograph manuscript copy of Aaron Berkman’s book on art theory ‘Art and Space’

Read more

LINDSAY, Lionel

Three generations of painters (signed by Julian Ashton, Howard Ashton and Richard Ashton)

Read more
View all 100 items

New Acquisitions July 2026

EMBLING, Sabina Howitt [&] SINGLETON, Violet Etta

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

Read more

[Photographer unknown].

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

Read more

MELA, Pomponius (c.15 - 45 CE)

De Situ Orbis Libri III.

Read more

MENPES, Mortimer and Dorothy

World Pictures (deluxe edition, with original signed watercolour)

Read more
View all 122 items

Our Shop

Location

Get directions

Phone

+61 3 9066 0200

Opening Hours

Monday – Friday  10am – 6pm
Saturday  11am – 4pm
Closed public holidays

Read more

Featured item: Weston’s New Opera House. Bourke Str. East, Melbourne.

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.

Read more

Events: Melbourne Rare Book Fair, 2026.

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

Read more