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[MOUNTAINEERING] The International Himalayan Expedition (aka “The Times” Kanchenjunga Expedition), 1930 : a substantial archive of official photographs.

An archive of 44 original gelatin silver print photographs taken by the expedition photographer Harold Hoerlin; in uniform 260 x 200 mm or 200 x 260 mm format; versos with typed explanatory labels, “The Times Kanchenjunga Expedition” copyright stamps, and release date stamps: 24 May 1930 (10), 28 May 1930 (12), 21…

Morton [sic] Bay Figtree. Illawarra, 3 June 1852.

[Title from artist’s caption]. Graphite on paper, 220 x 155 mm, captioned by the artist in pencil l.r. ‘Morton [sic] Bay Figtree’, and with date and general location l.l. ‘3 June 1852 / Illawarra’; laid down on card and tipped onto a fully contemporary backing sheet, 300 x 240 mm;…

Sands & McDougall’s map of Melbourne and suburbs : showing tramways, railways streets, municipalities quarter mile radii etc. Revised to date

[Cover title : Map of Melbourne]. Melbourne : Sands & McDougall Pty. Ltd., [circa 1911]. Lithographed map, printed in black with red concentric circles, 98 x 74 cm, folded into titled cloth case, lightly marked, offsetting to one panel from the cloth case, a very good copy. An attractive street…

Jerusalem delivered : an heroic poem (large paper edition)

Translated from the Italian of Torquato Tasso, by John Hoyle. London : printed by T. Bentley for J. Johnson [and others], 1803. Eighth edition. Two volumes, octavo, finely bound in full straight grained red Morocco, elaborate gilt tooled floral borders, spines in compartments with raised bands, lettered and tooled in…

Arthur Boyd. (Deluxe edition with original signed lithograph)

With 44 colour plates and 134 monochrome plates. London : Thames and Hudson, 1967. Quarto, cloth in illustrated dustjacket, in gilt-lettered clamshell box, light foxing to the interior lining paper of the box and a trace to the endpapers, otherwise pristine, 288 pp., extensively illustrated. The deluxe edition, limited to…

[SWAN RIVER COLONY] Appendix to the first twenty-three volumes of Edwards’s Botanical Register :

consisting of a complete alphabetical and systematical index of names, synonymes, and matter, adjusted to the present state of systematical botany; together with A Sketch of the Vegetation of the Swan River Colony. With nine coloured plates, containing eighteen coloured figures of plants, and with four wood-cuts. London : James…

Portrait of a group of Menang Noongar men and women. Albany area, Western Australia, late 1880s.

Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 104 x 63 mm (mount), verso with wet stamp of ‘J. H. Otto, Portrait and Landscape Photographer, Albany, W.A.’; the print has mottling in the negative and has lost some contrast; the mount has old residual glue marks verso (the carte was once…

Globe terrestre

Dressé sur les Relations les plus nouvelles de Mrs. de l’Académie Royale des Sciences par L. C. Desnos et J. B. Nolin Géographe. Se fait et se vends chez Desnos, rue St. Jacque St. Severin, Quartier de la Place Maubert. Paris, 1760, avec privilége du Roy. Dedié au Roy, par…

[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…

Remembering the future : Warlpiri life through the prism of drawing

Canberra, A.C.T. : Aboriginal Studies Press [AIATSIS], 2014. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. xi, 178, illustrated. ‘What can a collection of drawings reveal about their makers? Crayon drawings collected by anthropologists provide an illuminating prism through which to explore how the Warlpiri people of Central Australia have seen their place in…

A curate in Bohemia

With thirty-seven illustrations by the author. Sydney : N.S.W. Bookstall Co., circa 1913. Octavo, illustrated wrappers (small loss to head of spine and upper panel, edges rubbed), pp. 192, occasional light scattered foxing, illustrated by Lindsay, a very good copy of a fragile and rare work. First edition, second issue,…

A Japanese grammar.

/ By J. J. Hoffmann. Leiden : E. J. Brill, 1876. Second edition. Quarto (280 x 200 mm), contemporary half calf over marbled papered boards (lightly rubbed), spine with gilt bands and contrasting leather title-piece lettered in gilt; marbled endpapers; [16], 367 pp; with 2 plates, one of them folding (short…

AUSTEN, Jane (1775-1817)

Pride and Prejudice.

[EMBROIDERED BINDING] Schola Crucis et Tessera Christianismi. En ret Christlig Undervissning om det gode Kaars,

Anon. [for THE WORKING MEN'S EDUCATIONAL UNION]

A missionary preaching to Chinese in Hong Kong.

JOHNSON, Rev. Richard, Chaplain to the Colonies.

An address to the inhabitants of the colonies established in New South Wales and Norfolk Island. Written in the year 1792.

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New Acquisitions May 2025

PICHON, René

An archive of Art Deco abstract designs

ALLANSON, Russell

Terraweena. A story of a mid-winter vacation in Australia

NAPANANGKA, June; WARLPIRI LITERATURE PRODUCTION CENTRE INC.

Warlpiri language readers

WARHOL, Andy (1928 - 1987)

The philosophy of Andy Warhol. (From A to B and back again). (Signed copy with drawing of a Campbell’s Soup can)

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[MOUNTAINEERING] The International Himalayan Expedition (aka “The Times” Kanchenjunga Expedition), 1930 : a substantial archive of official photographs.

Morton [sic] Bay Figtree. Illawarra, 3 June 1852.

Sands & McDougall’s map of Melbourne and suburbs : showing tramways, railways streets, municipalities quarter mile radii etc. Revised to date

Jerusalem delivered : an heroic poem (large paper edition)

Arthur Boyd. (Deluxe edition with original signed lithograph)

[SWAN RIVER COLONY] Appendix to the first twenty-three volumes of Edwards’s Botanical Register :

Portrait of a group of Menang Noongar men and women. Albany area, Western Australia, late 1880s.

Globe terrestre

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

Remembering the future : Warlpiri life through the prism of drawing

A curate in Bohemia

A Japanese grammar.