Street Incidents : a series of twenty-one permanent photographs, with descriptive letter-press.

London : Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1881. Quarto (285 x 220 mm), publisher’s pictorial red cloth stamped in gilt and black (boards with light staining and flecking, spine sunned and flecked), original patterned endpapers, pp [2], [1]-100, with 21 original woodburytypes from Thomson’s original dry-plate negatives, each with…

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An adventurous honeymoon : the first motor honeymoon around Australia (signed copy)

Brisbane : John Dorney, [1928]. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, slightly rubbed, tape marks to preliminaries, pp. [vi]; 21; (4 – adverts), map, photographic illustrations. Presentation inscription ‘With compliments from Muriel Dorney) on first blank, the author correcting the publisher’s address on the title page in pen, previous owner’s name to title…

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Model of the Earth

London : J. Manning, circa 1860. Miniature globe, 1¾” (45mm) diameter, twelve gores with hand colouring, two axis pins; in the original cylindrical morocco box; the globe and box in fine condition (box label in facsimile). A beautiful miniature globe from the mid nineteenth century. Alaska is still marked as…

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Hiroshige

Sydney : privately printed at the Beacon Press, 1938. Limited to 200 copies signed and numbered by the author. Small quarto, quarter-vellum over gilt-lettered boards, lacking the flimsy card slipcase, illustrated endpapers, pp 45, [1] colophon, illustrated with 20 chuban woodcut prints after Hiroshige, tipped in (some ghosting from the…

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Idyllia

[Sydney] : N.L. Press, [1922]. Large quarto (418 x 355 mm), bound in white calf over white papered boards with Norman Lindsay decoration in gold and red (a few light marks), 35 pp, with Lindsay decorations in black highlighted with gilt, further illustrated with five large original Norman Lindsay etchings…

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Tintype portrait of a young girl, 1860s.

[Probably USA : photographer unidentified, mid to late 1860s]. Sixth-plate tintype photograph with hand colouring, 66 x 53 mm (sight), in its original ormulu (copper foil) preserver with pressed design (82 x 69 mm), verso with remnants of the original paper-waste backing (suggesting an American origin); the tintype has some…

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Untitled, 1958

Oil on board, 200 x 145 mm, signed lower right. Painted 1958. Inscribed verso ‘To Dear Honoria and Edouardo from Giovanni, 1958’ A rare and important example of Gleeson’s surrealism, gifted to Edward M. Smith and his wife Honor with an affectionate and playful inscription in 1958. Smith was Gleeson’s art…

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Anish Kapoor : Uluru & Kata Tjuta

Göttingen : Steidl, 2020. Two volumes, octavo, 15.9 x 22.5 cm, cloth in illustrated slipcase, pp. 752, illustrated. New copy. The powerful religious sites of Uluru and Kata Tjuta in the Northern Territory of Australia have been of deep interest to the artist Anish Kapoor since he first visited them…

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New Acquisitions January 2021

DALRYMPLE, Alexander (1737-1808)

An historical collection of the several voyages and discoveries in the South Pacific Ocean.

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A Peep down the Melbourne Telescope.

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GILL, Samuel Thomas (1818 - 1880)

Baby

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HOWE, Robert (1795-1829) (printer and publisher); MANSFIELD, Ralph (1799-1880) (editor)

The Australian Magazine; or, Compendium of Religious, Literary, and Miscellaneous Intelligence. Volume 1. For 1821.

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