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Soochow : the garden city

Shanghai : Kelly & Walsh Limited, 1936. First edition. Octavo (185 x 125 mm), publisher’s pictorial boards (lightly foxed); endpaper maps, pp. [8], 76., with 24 b/w plates of photographs by C. H. Wong, 5 folding maps; binding firm, very clean throughout, an excellent copy. First edition of this guidebook…

Ongeluckige voyagie, van’t schip Batavia, nae de Oost-Indien.

Amsterdam : Jan Jansz, 1647. First edition. Small quarto, papered boards; title-leaf, pp. 118, lacking final blank (as in most copies); six folding copperplates (plate V provided in expert facsimile); some very pale marginal water stains, tiny worm hole to margin of first few leaves; a clean and well preserved…

Joan Miró lithographs : first four volumes of the catalogue raisonne

A complete mixed language set of the first four volumes of the catalogue raisonné of lithographs by the great Spanish abstract artist Joan Miró. Printed between 1972 and 1981, the first four volumes include a total of 32 original colour lithographs by Miro bound into the text, some double page,…

[SHEET MUSIC; QUEENSLAND] The Pioneer Schottische, or, The Alligator Hop

[Cover title: The Pioneer or The Alligator Hop. Dedicated to the pioneers of Australia. Performed by the Band of the Grenadier Guards at the Colonial & Indian Exhibition]. London : Keith, Prowse & Co., [1886]. Quarto, original wrappers with charming and vibrant front cover design, 4 pp. music notation; split…

The chronicles of early Melbourne, 1835 to 1852. Historical, anecdotal and personal, by “Garryowen”

Centennial edition with portraits and illustrations. Melbourne : Fergusson and Mitchell, 1888. First edition. Two volumes, quarto, gilt-decorated roan (edges rubbed and scuffed as usual, but a solid set), all edges gilt, joints and hinges sound, pp. xiv; 1000, numerous lithographed illustrations, occasional marginal foxing, text block cracked at final…

A matching pair of Georgian terrestrial and celestial table globes

A new, accurate and compleat terrestrial globe, accompanying the Geographical Magazine. Originally laid down by Mr. James Ferguson, F. R. S. Improv’d by G. Wright, and made by W. Bardin, Fleet Street, London. Published as the act directs by Harrison & Co., No. 18 Paternoster Row, Augt. 1st, 1783 (cartouche).…

Facts about Champagne and other sparkling wines,

collected during numerous visits to the Champagne and other viticultural districts of France, and the principal remaining wine-producing countries of Europe. London : Ward, Lock, and Co., 1879. Octavo, half crushed morocco over cloth by Bayntun’s of Bath, spine in compartments with raised bands, lettered and tooled in gilt, edges…

Norman Lindsay and Elioth Gruner, c.1922.

Gelatin silver print photograph, 153 x 97 mm, on lightweight matte card stock; verso blank; fine condition. This informal photograph of Norman Lindsay (1879-1969) and his friend, fellow artist Elioth Gruner (1882-1939), is by an unidentified photographer. It is likely to have been taken on Lindsay’s Springwood property in the…

Primera y secunda parte de la historia general de las Indias

cõ todo el descubrimiento, y cosas notables que han acaescido donde que se ganaron hasta el año de 1551. Con la conquista de Mexico, y dela nueva España. Medina del Campo : Guillermo de Millis, 1553. Second edition.Two parts in one, folio (275 x 200 mm), contemporary vellum over boards, original ties partially…

Tattoo

Arles : Musée du quai Branly Actes sud, [2014]. Quarto, illustrated laminated boards,, pp. 303, illustrated. new copy. ‘The practice of tattooing has an extensive primitive history in Asian and African countries, where it had social, religious and mystical roles. In 3000 BC, Otzi (whose mummy was famously discovered in…

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,…

[BYRON] The Hon. Augusta Mary Leigh: autograph letter signed, re. a dinner invitation. St. James’s Palace, 5 August 1833.

Autograph letter, manuscript on ink, 2 pp. written on the first two sides of an octavo bifolium (185 x 115 mm); signed and dated at the foot of the second side ‘Augusta Leigh, St. James’s Palace, Apl. 5th 1833’, the letter is addressed simply ‘My dear Sir’ – who inner…

HODGES, Henry George

Self-portrait of the photographer, and of a young woman (possibly his wife). Melbourne, c.1865.

TAYLOR, Richard

Timboo and Ellen, with Ellen’s dog. Geelong, 1863-64.

NOBLE, Timothy

Studio portrait of African-American musician and actor, Hosea Easton. Melbourne, 1877-78.

GLAISTER, Thomas Skelton (1825-1904)

Studio portrait of two identically dressed young brothers, one holding a cricket bat. Sydney, 1864-5.

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Rare Books Berlin 2026

SCHMIDT, I. J. (Isaac Jacob)

Grammatik der Tibetischen Sprache,

KRUGER, Johann Friedrich Carl (Fred), (1831-1888); [PERKINS, Horace]

Album of the kings & queens of Victoria

HAY, John, 1546-1607

De rebus Iaponicis, Indicis et Peruanis epistolae recentiores.

[Anon.]

The China Directory for 1863. (With contemporary provenance from a Tientsin-based company listed in the Directory)

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New Acquisitions September 2026

BEARDSLEY, Aubrey et al.

The Yellow Book : an illustrated quarterly.

J. LEVY & CIE. (PARIS) (photographer)

The allegorical statue “Australie”, photographed in situ at the Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1878.

LATHAM, John (1740 - 1897)

A General History of Birds. (Deluxe issue)

LINDSAY, Norman (1879-1969)

Renaissance 1961

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An unpublished letter from von Mueller to one of his circle of women plant collectors, a significant coterie that included Louisa Atkinson, Annie Walker, Ellis Rowan, and Harriet and Helena Scott.

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Soochow : the garden city

Ongeluckige voyagie, van’t schip Batavia, nae de Oost-Indien.

Joan Miró lithographs : first four volumes of the catalogue raisonne

[SHEET MUSIC; QUEENSLAND] The Pioneer Schottische, or, The Alligator Hop

The chronicles of early Melbourne, 1835 to 1852. Historical, anecdotal and personal, by “Garryowen”

A matching pair of Georgian terrestrial and celestial table globes

Facts about Champagne and other sparkling wines,

Norman Lindsay and Elioth Gruner, c.1922.

Primera y secunda parte de la historia general de las Indias

Tattoo

Kunyu quantu [A map of the whole world]

[BYRON] The Hon. Augusta Mary Leigh: autograph letter signed, re. a dinner invitation. St. James’s Palace, 5 August 1833.

Australian portrait photographs 1860-1930

Self-portrait of the photographer, and of a young woman (possibly his wife). Melbourne, c.1865.

Timboo and Ellen, with Ellen’s dog. Geelong, 1863-64.

Studio portrait of African-American musician and actor, Hosea Easton. Melbourne, 1877-78.

Studio portrait of two identically dressed young brothers, one holding a cricket bat. Sydney, 1864-5.