The avi-fauna of Australia : comprising Gould’s Birds of Australia and all other birds discovered in the Australian colonies since 1850.

[Sydney?] : [G.J. Broinowski?], 1897. Quarto, publisher’s black paper wrappers, stitch bound, edges slightly chipped, [2 preliminary blanks], title page, [blank], [2 Advertisement], [2 blanks], [6]; 4 chromolithographed plates, [2 terminal blanks]; very pale foxing and toning, a fine complete example housed in a folding clamshell box with gilt-lettered morocco…

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Marie Corelli, novelist : autograph letter, signed, dated 5 July 1888.

Manuscript in ink, 3 pp., on bifolium of octavo notepaper (180 x 113 mm); headed ’47 Longridge Road, Earl’s Court, S.W.’, the letter is addressed to a Mrs. Bateman, to whom Corelli apologises for being unable to attend a theatrical performance by Mrs. Bateman’s daughter, May (possibly the young writer,…

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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…

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The artist and companions from the Astrolabe in the rainforest at Carteret Harbour, New Ireland (1827).

Watercolour and ink on paper, 398 x 287 mm (entire sheet); contemporary inscription in ink to verso: 80. Vue du grand torrent et d’une forêt / Hâvre Carteret; the artist’s own re-worked section (80 x 110 mm, irregular) carefully pasted on at lower left; short closed tear at right edge; extremely well preserved.…

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The Zones of the Earth. Plate No. X. Productions of the Southern Temperate Zone.

[Title from printed caption lower centre]. London : A. & S. Joseph, Myers & Co. 144 Leadenhall Street, [after 1842]. Chromolithograph, 253 x 378 mm, mounted on a fully contemporary backing sheet of marbled card, with an eyelet for hanging at top centre; some pale stains and light marks, mostly…

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Bitter fruit : Australian photographs to 1963

Melbourne : Michael Graham-Stewart, 2017. Quarto (285 x 230 mm), cloth boards in pictorial dust jacket, 280 pp, illustrated in colour throughout with hundreds of photographs documenting the collision of Indigenous Australian and European cultures; the photographs, ranging in date from the 1850s to the 1960s and taken in every…

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Rosalie Gascoigne : material as landscape

Sydney : Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1997. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 62, illustrated throughout in colour, essay on the artist by Deborah Edwards, preface by Edmund Capon, text by James Mollison and Steven Heath, includes list of plates, catalogue of works and biographical notes. Published for the exhibition…

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Studio portrait of a young girl posed in front of a trompe l’oeil backdrop. Melbourne, late 1860s.

Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 102 x 62 mm (mount); verso imprinted ‘Batchelder & Co., Artist Photographers, 41 Collins St. East, Melbourne’, and with an inscription in ink: ‘For dear Louisa with much love from her old friend H.M.B.’; both the print and mount are in fine condition.…

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

Single leaf, 308 x 187 mm, laid paper without visible watermark; pro-forma document printed on the recto, headed TERRITORY OF LOUISIANA, with LOUISIANA struck through and amended to Missouri in manuscript; dated at Saint Louis, Missouri Territory on 29 March 1814, the document has manuscript entries which record the granting…

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Description of the Barossa Range and its neighbourhood, in South Australia.

By “Agricola”. Illustrated with maps and coloured plates, from original drawings made on the spot, by George French Angas. London : Smith, Elder, & Co., Cornwall, 1849. Quarto, recent half-calf over original embossed cloth-covered boards, original gilt-lettered title label to upper board; marbled endpapers; pp. 20, with six fine hand-coloured…

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Men wearing waninga headdresses. Kimberley region, Western Australia, c.1920.

Photographic glass magic lantern slide, 75 x 75 mm, in original wooden mount, 102 x 170 mm, which has an old sequence number ’14’ in white chalk; in fine condition. We believe this rare photograph of men wearing elaborate headdresses (waninga) and pearl shell ornaments (riji) was taken in the Kimberley…

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The world and its inhabitants

London : Darton and Clark, [c.1845]. Octavo (210 x 170 mm), red cloth with gilt pictorial device and lettering to upper board (a little rubbed and marked); yellow endpapers; unpaginated, [20] leaves of text, [9] hand-coloured lithographed plates (including title leaf) comprising maps of the world and depictions of the…

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New Acquisitions July 2025

CRAIG, Eric (maker/artist)

New Zealand fern specimens in original kauri wood box, early 1880s.

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HILDER, Brett (1911-1981)

Portrait of Wandjuk Marika. Yirrkala, October 1972.

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[INTERCOLONIAL EXHIBITION OF AUSTRALASIA]

[KULIN LANGUAGES] God hath made of one blood all nations of men : Acts 17th Chap. 25th verse : in 103 languages : a memorial of the Victorian Exhibition 1866, consisting of a verse from holy writ in above one hundred languages.

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MONTI, Anne-Georges-Augustin de (1753-1788)

[LA PÉROUSE EXPEDITION] Handwritten document requesting additional equipment for the Astrolabe, written on board the ship prior to its departure from Brest, dated 10 June 1785.

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