The ornithology of Australia, by Silvester Diggles. Four original parts, 24 plates, in publisher’s wrappers.

Brisbane : Printed for the author by T.P. Pugh, [circa 1865 – 66]. Four parts (out of a total of twenty-one, these are numbers 2; 3; 7; 8, numbered in pen), folio, publisher’s wrappers (edges chipped, dusty, a couple of blind stamps) each containing 6 hand-coloured lithographed plates, heightened with gum…

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The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay (coloured edition)

with an account of the establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson & Norfolk Island; compiled from authentic papers, which have been obtained from the several departments, to which are added, the journals of Lieuts. Shortland, Watts, Ball, & Capt. Marshall; with an account of their new discoveries. London :…

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Bill Henson Photographs 1974 – 1984

With contributions by David Malouf, Peter Schjeldahl. Melbourne : Deutscher Fine Art, 1989. Quarto, pictorial wrappers, 103 pp., previous owner’s stamp to inside wrapper and half-title, pale foxing to preliminaries, small crease to corner, illustrated throughout. Very scarce.

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Dictionarium Latino-Nankinense. / Dialogi Nankinensi lingua. / Dictionarium Latino Nankinense. Juxta materiarum ordinem dispositum.

An extremely rare Nanjing Mandarin-Latin dictionary, accompanied by its two scarcely-recorded supplementary works (a chrestomathy and a glossary in the same languages). All three works were compiled and printed by the Jesuit missionary Benjamin Brueyre and his Chinese assistants in the small seminary at Wamdam, near Shanghai. I. Dictionarium Latino-Nankinense. Wam-dom A. M. D.…

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Tableau des decouvertes du Capne. Cook & de la Perouse

Paris : chez l’auteur, rue Coqueron Mon. de France ; Bordeaux : chez le Cne. S. Sauveur sous le peristyle de la Grande Comedie, l’an 7 de la Republique Francaise [1798 or 1799]. Aquatint with hand colouring, 430 x 534 mm (sheet), old mount burn to margins, a very good…

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The Victoria gold ready reckoner

Carefully revised. Commencing at £3 and terminating at £4. 5s 9d per ounce. Melbourne: Sands and Kenny, 1857. Sextodecimo, cloth bound blind-embossed boards with gilt lettering to upper board, 218 pp, one gathering with soiling and wear from use, most liking during mining activities, advertisement endpapers, charming contemporary ownership inscription…

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Around the world with Nellie Bly

New York : McLoughlin Brothers, c. 1890. Game board, 415 x 400 mm, chromolithograph playing board in two sheets, folding, with vignettes of Nellie Bly, Jules Verne, a steam ship and a steam train. Fine condition. Housed in original box with chromolithograph illustration, containing spinner card and four wooden counters. “Famed…

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Seven little Australians

Illustrated by A. J. Johnson. London, New York and Melbourne : Ward, Lock & Co. Limited, n.d. [April, 1900]. Octavo, gilt-decorated pictorial maroon cloth, very light foxing to edges and preliminaries, front hinge a little shaken, black and white frontispiece, pp. 236; 20 (publisher’s catalogue), black and white plates and…

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New Acquisitions February

The pearling disaster, 1899. A memorial.

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Mawson, Douglas, Sir (1882-1958)

The home of the blizzard : being the story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911 – 1914 (signed presentation copy)

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NATIONAL GAME COMPANY.

[BOARD GAME] Commonwealth Navy

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BARTON, Edmund, Sir (1849-1920)

Edmund Barton, first Prime Minister of Australia : private autograph letter, signed, to J. M. Flatau, regarding mining investments. Melbourne, 23 October, 1901.

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