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[COOK] Newton’s new terrestrial pocket globe 1818

London : John Newton, 1818. Terrestrial pocket globe, 2 inches in diameter; engraved gores with original hand-colouring over papier-mâché and plaster sphere, the surface in fine order with original varnish, very small areas of abrasion; two metal pins resting the globe in the original publisher’s shagreen case, with engraved diagrams…

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,…

Portrait of Henry Daniel Skinner, painted just before his departure from England for Port Phillip in 1852; accompanied by his waistcoat (as worn in the portrait).

Gouache and watercolour on paper, 24.0 x 20.5 cm (sight), signed by the artist l.r.; in fine condition, housed in a nineteenth-century bird’s-eye maple frame with original cover glass; [ACCOMPANIED BY] the embroidered silk waistcoat worn by Skinner in the portrait, approx. 50 x 40 cm (irregular), remarkably well preserved.…

The plains

Melbourne : Norstrilia Press, 1982. First edition. Octavo, fine blue cloth with gilt lettered spine, in near-fine dust jacket (very slight edge wear); 126 pp.; an excellent copy of the scarce first edition of Murnane’s third novel, in the second state dust jacket designed by Marius Foley.

Edward Eyre, explorer of the Australian interior and colonial administrator: presentation signature with accompanying autograph note, dated 20 April 1867.

Original ink signature of Edward Eyre, on front section of a small bifolium of notepaper (103 x 93 mm), with an autograph covering note by Eyre on the third side, written in the third person: ‘Mr. Eyre has much pleasure in presenting his autograph for Miss Christy’s collection as requested…

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…

Sydney-born Australian silent film actress Louise Lovely in two scenes from “Painted Lips” (1918).

Los Angeles, California : Edward LeSaint, [c.1918]. Two gelatin silver print photographs on lightweight card stock, in identical 160 x 210 mm format; the negatives inscribed ‘LeSaint 2439’ and ‘LeSaint 2739’ and the versos with old pencil annotations: ‘Louise Lovely’ and ‘The Straw Cellar’, respectively; both prints are in fine…

Through the looking-glass, and what Alice found there (first edition, second issue)

With fifty illustrations by John Tenniel. London : Macmillan and Co., 1872. Tenth thousand. First edition, second issue. Octavo, gilt-lettered red cloth with gilt rule and image of the Queen of Hearts to upper and lower boards (edges lightly rubbed), all edges gilt, early owner’s name to endpaper dated 1888,…

Ambrotype of pupils and teachers taken in the interior of Greensboro Female College, Greene County, Georgia, c.1860.

[USA : unidentified photographer, c.1860]. Quarter-plate ambrotype, 90 x 67 mm (sight); in an elliptical brass mat with ormolu preserver, housed in a leather case with embossed geometric design and ornamental gilt edges, with two working clasps; the ambrotype has some scattered marks but is otherwise in fine condition; the…

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,…

[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…

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.…

A rare fourteenth-century medieval coffret for a book of hours.

GAUTIER DE METZ (13th century)

[L’Image du monde]. Sensuyt lymaige du monde.

LODEWIJCKSZ, Willem

Premier livre de l’histoire de la navigation aux Indes Orientales, par les Hollandois;

SCHOUTEN, Willem Corneliszoon (c.1567-1625)

Diarivm vel descriptio laboriosissimi, & molestissimi itineris, facti à Gvilielmo Cornelii Schovtenio, Hornano, annis 1615. 1616. & 1617. Cum à parte Australi freti Magellanici, novum ductum, aut fretum, in Magnum Mare Australe detexit, totumq[ue] Orbem terrarum circumnavigavit. Quas Insulas, & regiones, & populos viderit, & quæ pericula subierit.

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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.

MENPES, Mortimer and Dorothy

World Pictures (deluxe edition, with original signed watercolour)

HUME, Fergus (1859-1932)

The Mystery of a hansom cab

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[COOK] Newton’s new terrestrial pocket globe 1818

Kunyu quantu [A map of the whole world]

Portrait of Henry Daniel Skinner, painted just before his departure from England for Port Phillip in 1852; accompanied by his waistcoat (as worn in the portrait).

The plains

Edward Eyre, explorer of the Australian interior and colonial administrator: presentation signature with accompanying autograph note, dated 20 April 1867.

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

Sydney-born Australian silent film actress Louise Lovely in two scenes from “Painted Lips” (1918).

Through the looking-glass, and what Alice found there (first edition, second issue)

Ambrotype of pupils and teachers taken in the interior of Greensboro Female College, Greene County, Georgia, c.1860.

On the origin of species, by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. (1859)

[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.

A Dictionary of the English Language :

Melbourne Rare Book Fair 2026

A rare fourteenth-century medieval coffret for a book of hours.

[L’Image du monde]. Sensuyt lymaige du monde.

Premier livre de l’histoire de la navigation aux Indes Orientales, par les Hollandois;

New Acquisitions July 2026

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

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