Terra Australis Cognita : or, voyages to the Terra Australis, or Southern Hemisphere, during the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth Centuries.

Containing an account of the manners of the people, and the productions of the countries, hitherto found in the Southern latitudes; the advantages that may result from further discoveries on this great continent, and the methods of establishing colonies there, to the advantage of Great Britain. With a preface by…

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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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Bib and Bub : their adventures.

In two parts. Sydney : Cornstalk Publishing Company, 1925. First edition. Two volumes, quarto, publisher’s wrappers printed in colour (a few very light marks), contemporary gift inscription to half-titles, title pages, pp. 79 (across the two parts), coloured panelled illustrations throughout, a clean and well presented set. ‘Rare: the earliest publication…

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The Magic Pudding (first edition)

Being the adventures of Bunyip Bluegum and his friends Bill Barnacle & Sam Sawnoff. Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1918. Quarto, quarter-cloth over papered boards (corners expertly reinforced), lettered in gilt on the spine, in very good original illustrated dust jacket (expert paper reinforcements to a few tears), patterned green…

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The enchanted forest (de luxe edition)

London : A. & C. Black, 1921. The de luxe edition, limited to 500 numbered copies. Quarto, gilt-lettered and decorated white buckram (lightly marked, the cloth lifting a little in one section), illustrated endpapers, 93 pp, occasional light scattered foxing, gift inscription to preliminary, colour Outhwaite postcard from the A…

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The world dissected upon the best principles to teach youth geography.

London : made by William Darton, 58 Holborn Hill, 1820. Jigsaw puzzle map of the world in two hemispheres, dissected and laid on mahogany, in the publisher’s original wooden box with sliding lid, paper labels to the lid and sides, ‘Darton, London. Warranted’; also titled ‘The world from the best…

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Photographic portraits of Aborigines from New South Wales, Queensland and Northern Territory, 1892-95.

Suite of fifteen albumen print photographs, format 200 x 150 mm; each with blind stamp of ‘Kerry & Co. Photo, 308 George St. Sydney’ and with manuscript sequence number and title in the negative; a few with some toning or fading, but the majority are strong prints in very good condition;…

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A suite of nine plates from Shaw’s Zoology of New Holland, 1794.

[London] : Printed by J. Davis : Published by J. Sowerby, 1794. Nine engravings with original hand colour, each approximately 230 x 160 mm (plate lines), on J. Whatman watermarked paper, 303 x 242 mm (sheet), titled and imprinted in the image (imprint erased from one as issued), small stab…

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Histoire générale des voyages,

ou, Nouvelle collection de toutes les relations de voyages par mer et par terre, qui ont été publiées jusqu’à présent dans les différentes langues de toutes les nations connues … … Paris : Didot, 1746 – 1789. Twenty volumes, quarto (290 x 230 mm), uniformly bound in period full French…

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Esculetin

Woodcut. Created 2012. Measures 470 x 560 mm (sheet), signed lower right, editioned out of 55 copies verso, presented floating in a white timber frame. Active in London’s contemporary art scene since the 1980s, Damien Hirst shot to national prominence as part of the Young British Artists movement in the…

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New Acquisitions October

San Vitores, Diego Luis de, 1627-1672

Memorial, que el P. Diego Luys de Sanvitores, religioso de la Compañia de Jesus,

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MAWE, John (1764 - 1829)

The voyager’s companion, or shell collector’s pilot;

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ASHTON, Julian Rossi (1851-1942)

Design for Society of Artists Exhibition, circa 1901

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American & Australasian Photographic Company. [MERLIN, Beaufoy, c.1830-1873]

A wealthy Sydney family on their croquet lawn, 1870-72.

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Seven Centuries

ZIEGLER, Hieronymus; BIRCK, Sixt; CROCUS, Cornelius; ZOVITIUS, Jacobus

[BINDING] Dramata sacra : comoediae atque tragoediae aliquot e Veteri Testamento desumptae, quibus praecipuae ipsius historiae ita eleganter in scenam producuntur, ut vix quicquam in hoc argumenti genere juventuti Christianae proponi utilius possit : magna parte nunc primum in lucem editae : earum vero catalogum statim a praefatione invenies.

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LINDSAY, Norman (1879-1969)

The Magic Pudding (first edition, second issue)

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MORT, Eirene (1879-1977); CROOK, Ethel Frances (1885-1973)

First Australian Exhibition of Women’s Work, 1907. Diploma, Second Class. Awarded to Bendigo artist Ethel Crook, and accompanied by an archive of her designs.

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LANG, John Dunmore, Rev. (1799-1878)

A sermon, preached on Sunday, June 15, 1823, to the congregation of Scots Presbyterians, in Sydney, New South Wales; preparatory to the building of a Scots church.

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LATEST CATALOGUE: Seven Centuries

We are excited to present our catalogue Seven Centuries.

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2019 Sydney Rare Book Fair

Fri, 1 Nov 2019 – Sat, 2 Nov 2019
MacLaurin Hall (A14D), Camperdown, New South Wales

We’re thrilled to be exhibiting our treasures at MacLaurin Hall (A14D) on Friday, 1 November – Saturday, 2 November 2019. See you there.

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