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Claude Debussy : autograph note on his personal calling card, circa 1900.

[Paris, n.d., but 1899-1904]. Carte de visite, 47 x 95 mm, recto printed CLAUDE DEBUSSY at centre and with his address 58, rue Cardinet at lower right (Debussy lived at this address in the years 1899-1904); inscribed in ink by Debussy below his printed name: ‘avec son meilleur remerciement a Monsieur L…

The Sydneysider. Vol. 4, no. 11. November, 1929.

Redfern, NSW : Printed by W. J. Anderson & Co. for Sydneysider Company, 1929. Small quarto, original pictorial wrappers (very lightly creased) with striking cover design by New Zealand-born Sydney based commercial artist Reg Coulter (see DAAO) featuring a woman in a bathing costume “erupting” from the surf; staple bound,…

[POP-UP BOOK] How Columbus discovered America

London : Bancroft & Co., [1960]. Quarto, pictorial boards, 8 pp (some mild foxing), small circle of wear with loss on the centre of the text pages from the metal pin holding the revolving wheel, the rear covers with colour illustration and three-dimensional rotating ship’s wheel, the inner rear cover…

A 14th century Ming Dynasty 1 kuan note : an example of the oldest extant paper currency

[China : c.1375]. Printed during the reign (1368-1398) of the first Ming emperor, Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang (Ming Taizu), a paper note with the original cash value of a string of 1,000 copper coins, or 1 kuan. Woodblock printed in black ink on a sheet of grey mulberry paper, 340 x 220 mm;…

A map of China prepared for the China Inland Mission 1923.

London : China Inland Mission and Edward Stanford, 1923. Map printed in colour, 1060 x 880 mm, dissected and laid on linen, pale waterstain, cloth slipcase lettered in gilt (discoloured), overall in good condition. A detailed map showing Protestant missions across Eastern China.

Baby

Watercolour, 220 x 335 mm, signed lower left S.T.G. and inscribed in pencil ‘Xmas ’67’ inscribed ‘Baby’ lower right, light scattered foxing, otherwise fine. Framed. By the 1860s S. T. Gill was a famed local artist, returning to Melbourne in 1864 after a period in Sydney. Gill’s depictions of life…

Ambrotype portrait of Jane Richardson (née Clokey), an Irish emigrant to New Zealand and later, Australia. Taken in Auckland, circa 1865.

Sixth plate ambrotype with hand colouring, 70 x 55 mm (sight), housed in its original wooden-based leather case with embossed velvet lining, 92 x 80 mm, the case with repeating floral motifs (rubbed), and with two working brass hook clasps; the ambrotype is still sealed beneath the original glass, in…

15 drawings. Colin McCahon December ’51 to May ’52

Dunedin : Hocken Library, University of Otago, 1976. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, ribbon tie, twenty-five sheets offset-lithograph (including the covers) reproducing a McCahon sketchbook held in the Hocken. Slight mark to upper wrapper, a fine copy. ‘In 1951 McCahon made a book of ink drawings for a friend, the poet Charles Brasch.…

[NEW GUINEA; MISSIONS] Iesu Keriso. ‘Ida ‘Inapwana ta ‘Ida To-‘Etoseana ‘ina Onoaupaupa Auauna. (Missionary Sister Badcock’s own copy, with a manuscript letter in Dobuan from a woman at the leper colony on Ubuia Island)

Verso of title page: The New Testament in Dobuan, Papua, New Guinea. Sydney : Auxiliary of the British and Foreign Bible Society, 1908. First edition. Octavo (210 x 140 mm), contemporary yapp-edged limp morocco (a little scuffed, worn at head and tail of spine and rear top edge) with the name ‘Sister Irene…

Album of manuscript poetry by Julia Fanny Bouverie (née Montolieu), wife of Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Frederick Bouverie. Portugal, 1827-28.

Small quarto album (225 x 190 mm), half straight-grain black morocco over gilt-ruled straight-grain burgundy morocco boards (rubbed and with light staining, both boards with remnants of old paper labels); all edges gilt; front free-endpaper with ownership signature of Julia Fanny Bouverie, [80] pages of manuscript in ink on unruled paper,…

SPILSBURY, F[rancis]. B.

Picturesque scenery in The Holy Land and Syria, delineated during the campaigns of 1799 and 1800.

MACKELLAR, Isobel Marion Dorothea (1885-1968)

An archive of unpublished writings by Dorothea Mackellar, circa 1904 – 1932.

WEBER & RICE'S HEALTH & STRENGTH COLLEGE [WEBER, Clarence and John A. RICE]

Souvenir Programme : Twenty-seventh Annual Health and Strength Demonstration by the Principals, Instructors and Pupils (Ladies and Gentlemen) of Weber & Rice’s Health and Strength College, 236 Elizabeth St., Melbourne … and at 41 Currie Street, Adelaide.

BIRD, I. (?)

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Claude Debussy : autograph note on his personal calling card, circa 1900.

The Sydneysider. Vol. 4, no. 11. November, 1929.

[POP-UP BOOK] How Columbus discovered America

A 14th century Ming Dynasty 1 kuan note : an example of the oldest extant paper currency

A map of China prepared for the China Inland Mission 1923.

Baby

Ambrotype portrait of Jane Richardson (née Clokey), an Irish emigrant to New Zealand and later, Australia. Taken in Auckland, circa 1865.

15 drawings. Colin McCahon December ’51 to May ’52

[NEW GUINEA; MISSIONS] Iesu Keriso. ‘Ida ‘Inapwana ta ‘Ida To-‘Etoseana ‘ina Onoaupaupa Auauna. (Missionary Sister Badcock’s own copy, with a manuscript letter in Dobuan from a woman at the leper colony on Ubuia Island)

Album of manuscript poetry by Julia Fanny Bouverie (née Montolieu), wife of Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Frederick Bouverie. Portugal, 1827-28.

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Picturesque scenery in The Holy Land and Syria, delineated during the campaigns of 1799 and 1800.

An archive of unpublished writings by Dorothea Mackellar, circa 1904 – 1932.