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Di Lucio Vitruvio Pollione De Architectura Libri Dece Traducti de Latino in Vulgare affigurati:

commentati: & con mirando ordine insigniti: per il quale facilmente potrai tovare la multitudine de lí abstrusi & reconditi Vocabuli a li soi loci & in epsa tabula con summo studio expositi & enucleati ad Immensa utilitate de ciascuno Studioso & benivolo di epsa opera. [Como, Lombardy] : Gotardus de Ponte,…

An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales :

With Remarks on the Dispositions, Customs, Manners, &c. of the Native Inhabitants of that Country. [Together with] An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales from its first Settlement, in January 1788, to August 1801: with Remarks on the Dispositions, Customs, Manners, &c. of the Native Inhabitants of…

[INDIA] Historisch-Genealogischer Calender oder Jahrbuch der merkwürdigsten neuen Weltbegebenheiten für 1786.

Leipzig zur Messe : Haude und Spener von Berlin, [1786]. Duodecimo (105 x 71 mm), contemporary marbled card covers, all edges gilt, engraved title page, pp [38] (with 12 leaves of engraved plates depicting Indian customs and scenes), 64, [10], folding colour engraved map of India (240 x 230 mm),…

Australia at the Venice Biennale : a century of contemporary art. (Signed copy)

Melbourne : The Miegunyah Press, 2021. Quarto, laminated boards reproducing a painting by Howard Arkley, pp. 262, extensively illustrated. New copy, signed by the author. With works from Sidney Nolan, Howard Arkley and more, this richly illustrated work illuminates the untold stories and origins of the most important event of…

Signed photograph of dancer Edna Busse, of the Borovansky Ballet. Melbourne, 1946.

Gelatin silver print photograph, 140 x 90 mm, signed in ink at lower right ‘Edna Busse’; verso with original owner’s annotation in pencil ‘21.11.46’; the print is in fine condition, although the verso is foxed. A superb signed portrait of Australian dancer Edna Busse, of the Borovansky Ballet, taken in…

A Peep down the Melbourne Telescope.

[Title from printed caption in negative]. Circa 1870. Stereoscopic silver albumen print photographs, each individual image 68 x 72 mm, on yellow board mount 83 x 166 mm, with the publisher’s serial number and caption in the negative at far right edge ‘685. A Peep down the Melbourne Telescope’, recto…

The origin of species

by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life.New York : D. Appleton & Company, 1889. With additions and corrections from Sixth and last English edition. Two volumes, octavo, original publisher’s gilt-lettered brown cloth (edges rubbed) original endpapers (with ex libris bookplates), pp…

Ambrotype portrait of a young married couple. Geelong, February 1865.

Quarter plate ambrotype with hand colouring, 90 x 64 mm (sight), housed in its original wooden-based leather case with embossed velvet lining, 117 x 93 mm, the case with floral and geometric designs and gilt borders to front and back (lightly rubbed), and with a working brass clasp; the ambrotype…

Cindy Ray : tattooing and animal marking equipment. (With related commercial ephemera)

[Drop title]. Ivanhoe, Vic. : Miss Cindy Ray, [1964 or 1965]. Large square octavo (205 x 170 mm), original pictorial wrappers, staple bound, pp 16 (including wrappers), illustrated; a superb copy; [TOGETHER WITH] loosely enclosed roneo-printed Mail Order forms for Cindy Ray’s equipment and collectors’ cards; a roneo-printed open letter…

FAUCHERY, Antoine (1823-1861) and DAINTREE, Richard (1832-1878)

View near Heidelberg, the Yarra flooded, 1858.

HETZER, William fl. 1850-1867

Studio portrait of a lady in a polka dot dress holding a lace shawl. Sydney, early 1860s.

HILL'S GALLERY [Thomas Adams HILL]

Studio portrait of a gentleman. Melbourne, early 1860s.

FREEMAN BROS. [HALL, Ben, 1837-1865]

A portrait photograph of the bushranger Ben Hall.

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The Visit of the Australian Goodwill Mission to the Republic of China, August 8-17th 1956. Photo Album.

"FANNY"

A scrap album belonging to an Australian woman, compiled between 1870 and 1880.

ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE (LAMBETH); Hugo VAMP (pseud. of J. R. O'NEILL]

Astley’s Royal Amphitheatre. Amakosa! or Scenes of Kaffir Warfare … [and] “In For a Dig,” or, Life at the Diggings.

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[MARITIME BINDING] Lives of Eminent Anglo-Saxons; illustrating the dawn of Christianity and civilization in Great Britain. Part I [& II].

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Di Lucio Vitruvio Pollione De Architectura Libri Dece Traducti de Latino in Vulgare affigurati:

An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales :

[INDIA] Historisch-Genealogischer Calender oder Jahrbuch der merkwürdigsten neuen Weltbegebenheiten für 1786.

Australia at the Venice Biennale : a century of contemporary art. (Signed copy)

Signed photograph of dancer Edna Busse, of the Borovansky Ballet. Melbourne, 1946.

A Peep down the Melbourne Telescope.

The origin of species

Ambrotype portrait of a young married couple. Geelong, February 1865.

Cindy Ray : tattooing and animal marking equipment. (With related commercial ephemera)

Photography in Australasia 1850s - 1920

View near Heidelberg, the Yarra flooded, 1858.

Studio portrait of a lady in a polka dot dress holding a lace shawl. Sydney, early 1860s.

Studio portrait of a gentleman. Melbourne, early 1860s.

A portrait photograph of the bushranger Ben Hall.

New Acquisitions September 2021

The Visit of the Australian Goodwill Mission to the Republic of China, August 8-17th 1956. Photo Album.

A scrap album belonging to an Australian woman, compiled between 1870 and 1880.

Astley’s Royal Amphitheatre. Amakosa! or Scenes of Kaffir Warfare … [and] “In For a Dig,” or, Life at the Diggings.

[MARITIME BINDING] Lives of Eminent Anglo-Saxons; illustrating the dawn of Christianity and civilization in Great Britain. Part I [& II].

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THE LIFE AND TIMES OF ALBERT NAMATJIRA

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Di Lucio Vitruvio Pollione De Architectura Libri Dece Traducti de Latino in Vulgare affigurati:

An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales :

[INDIA] Historisch-Genealogischer Calender oder Jahrbuch der merkwürdigsten neuen Weltbegebenheiten für 1786.

Australia at the Venice Biennale : a century of contemporary art. (Signed copy)

Signed photograph of dancer Edna Busse, of the Borovansky Ballet. Melbourne, 1946.

A Peep down the Melbourne Telescope.

The origin of species

Ambrotype portrait of a young married couple. Geelong, February 1865.

Cindy Ray : tattooing and animal marking equipment. (With related commercial ephemera)

Photography in Australasia 1850s - 1920

View near Heidelberg, the Yarra flooded, 1858.

Studio portrait of a lady in a polka dot dress holding a lace shawl. Sydney, early 1860s.

Studio portrait of a gentleman. Melbourne, early 1860s.

A portrait photograph of the bushranger Ben Hall.

New Acquisitions September 2021

The Visit of the Australian Goodwill Mission to the Republic of China, August 8-17th 1956. Photo Album.

A scrap album belonging to an Australian woman, compiled between 1870 and 1880.

Astley’s Royal Amphitheatre. Amakosa! or Scenes of Kaffir Warfare … [and] “In For a Dig,” or, Life at the Diggings.

[MARITIME BINDING] Lives of Eminent Anglo-Saxons; illustrating the dawn of Christianity and civilization in Great Britain. Part I [& II].

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A matching pair of cased terrestrial and celestial pocket globes.

THE LIFE AND TIMES OF ALBERT NAMATJIRA

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