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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.…

Navegación Especulativa, y Práctica, con la Explicación de algunos Instrumentos, que están mas en uso en los Navegantes … …

Manila : Impresa en el Convento de Nuestra Señora de los Angeles de la Orden de Nro. Seraphico Padre San Francisco, 1734. First edition. Folio (315 x 210 mm), contemporary limp vellum (lacking ties, some age staining, small loss at front bottom corner), spine with title in manuscript in black…

[VIETNAM]. Relazione de’felici successi della Santa Fede predicata da padri della Compagnia di Giesv nel regno di Tvnchino,

all santita di N.S. PP. Innocenzio Decimo. Di Alessandro de Rhodes Avignonese della medesima Compagnia, e Missionário Apostolico della Sacra Congregatione de Propaganda Fide. In Roma : Per Giuseppe Luna. L’anno del Giubileo, 1650. Small quarto, contemporary vellum, manuscript title to spine, folding frontispiece engraving, pp [16], folding engraved map,…

Studio portrait of a tattooed Marquesan dancer.

[Circa 1887]. Albumen print photograph, 200 x 140 mm, unmounted; verso with fully contemporary caption in pencil: Marquesan dancer; a strong print with rich tonal range and excellent clarity and contrast; the print is in very good condition, with the tiniest of nicks at two of the corners and some…

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

Albumen print, cabinet card format, 165 x 108 mm (mount), blind stamp of the photographer J. Lévy & cie., Paris in the image lower right; verso blank; a superb print in fine condition. This larger-than-life allegorical statue, sculpted from marble and titled Australie, was exhibited in the display of decorative arts during…

Stanfield Hall Murders. Now exhibiting at the Cosmorama Rooms, 209, Regent Street. Models of Stanfield Hall, the seat of the late J. Jerry Esq. ; and Pot-Ash Farm, lately occupied by the assassin Rush.

Also, may be had a complete Narrative of every particular connected with the above Murders, with an exact likeness of Rush, & correct plans of Stanfield Hall, and Pot-Ash Farm, also a survey of the two Estates, copies of the plans, &c, made for the late Trial at Norwich. Open…

[CONVICT TRANSPORTATION] Henry Day, convicted at the Wallingford General Quarter Sessions, 3 July 1835, of receiving goods under false pretence; sentenced to 7 years transportation.

[Wallingford, Berks. : s.n.], 1835. Transportation order. Folio sheet, 330 x 210 mm, printed recto only, with ms. entries dated 3 July 1835 recording the Court Order that Henry Day be transported for a term of 7 years for the felony of obtaining goods under false pretence; docketed title verso;…

The selfish gene

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1976. Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth in illustrated dustjacket (very light handling marks), pp. xii; 224, internally clean with no inscriptions, marks or foxing, not price clipped, a fine copy. First edition of the groundbreaking work by British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins which posits a gene-centred basis…

Tense past : Julie Gough

Tebrakunna [Tas.] : Tebrikunna Press & OUTSIDE THE BOX / Earth Arts Rights, 2021 (2023 reprint). Octavo, gilt-lettered leather over illustrated cloth, illustrated endpapers, pp. 326; (2), illustrated. New copy. ‘This title documents Tasmanian Aboriginal artist Julie Gough’s major survey show held at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart…

Redheap

London : Faber & Faber, 1930. First edition. Octavo, gilt-lettered red cloth, in the rare illustrated dust jacket by L. Lapthorn (not price-clipped, chips with loss to head and foot of spine, tears with old tape repairs verso ); pp. 318; related newspaper clippings loosely enclosed; a good copy of…

The Odyssey of Homer. Done into English prose

London : Macmillan, 1919. Octavo, presentation prize binding of full vellum, lettered in gilt, from Chigwell School, lightly marked, top edge gilt, others uncut, presentation inscription from the Headmaster to the front free endpaper, pp. xxiv; 428, a very good copy of this classical work in Greek literature.

The Chinese Drama from the earliest times until today

A panoramic study of the art in China, tracing its origin and describing its actors (in both male and female roles); their costumes and make-ups, superstitions and stage slang: the accompanying music and musical instruments: concluding with synopses of thirty Chinese plays. Shanghai : Kelly and Walsh, 1930. Quarto, quarter…

[NEVILLE, Richard; WALSH, Richard; SHARP, Martin et al.]

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

WADDY, E. M.

Australia and radiant health. (Signed presentation copy)

LOCKE, John, 1632-1704

Some thoughts concerning education

GRAHAM, Anne Marie (1925 - )

10 lithographs on “Australians” by Anne Graham. (Copy number 1)

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Melbourne Rare Book Fair 2026

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

Navegación Especulativa, y Práctica, con la Explicación de algunos Instrumentos, que están mas en uso en los Navegantes … …

[VIETNAM]. Relazione de’felici successi della Santa Fede predicata da padri della Compagnia di Giesv nel regno di Tvnchino,

Studio portrait of a tattooed Marquesan dancer.

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

Stanfield Hall Murders. Now exhibiting at the Cosmorama Rooms, 209, Regent Street. Models of Stanfield Hall, the seat of the late J. Jerry Esq. ; and Pot-Ash Farm, lately occupied by the assassin Rush.

[CONVICT TRANSPORTATION] Henry Day, convicted at the Wallingford General Quarter Sessions, 3 July 1835, of receiving goods under false pretence; sentenced to 7 years transportation.

The selfish gene

Tense past : Julie Gough

Redheap

The Odyssey of Homer. Done into English prose

The Chinese Drama from the earliest times until today

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