Rare Books

  • Lewin : wild art

    # 47141

    NEVILLE, Richard (curator)

    Lewin : wild art

    Sydney : State Library of New South Wales, 2012. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, lightly rubbed, pp. 12, catalogue of 159 works, no illustrations.

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  • Feather and Brush : three centuries of Australian bird art

    # 47138

    OLSEN, Penny

    Feather and Brush : three centuries of Australian bird art

    Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, 2001. Quarto, boards in dustjacket (lightly foxed verso), pp. 228, a good copy. This volume traces the 300-year history of bird art in Australia, from the crudely illustrated records of the earliest European voyages of discovery to the diversity of artwork available at the start of the 21st century. There are …

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  • An exquisite eye : the Australian flora & fauna drawings 1801-1820 of Ferdinand Bauer

    # 47135

    WATTS, Peter et al.

    An exquisite eye : the Australian flora & fauna drawings 1801-1820 of Ferdinand Bauer

    Sydney : Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, 1997. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 167, illustrated. A very good copy. “This publication coincides with an exhibition of the same title held at the Focus Gallery, Museum of Sydney on the site of first Government House, between 13 December 1997 and 19 April 1998.”

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  • [EMBROIDERED BINDING] Schola Crucis et Tessera Christianismi. En ret Christlig Undervissning om det gode Kaars,

    # 47085

    [EMBROIDERED BINDING] Schola Crucis et Tessera Christianismi. En ret Christlig Undervissning om det gode Kaars,

    som er alle troe Christne deris rette Hofffarffve, huor nyttelig oc fructbarlig det er, oc huorledis en huer skal sig der udi skicke og forholde…. Oc nu paa ny igjen offverseet, oc med nogle Capitteler formeeret, oc ført udi rictig Ordning … Kiøbenhaffn : Georg Lamprecht, 1652. Duodecimo (150 x 95 mm), contemporary embroidered binding, the …

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  • To the South Polar Regions. Expedition of 1898 - 1900

    # 47127

    BERNACCHI, Louis (1876 - 1942)

    To the South Polar Regions. Expedition of 1898 – 1900

    London : Hurst and Blackett, 1901. First edition, first issue. Octavo, in a fine prize binding for Sydney Grammar School, full polished calf, ruled in gilt with floral corner emblems, the school’s armorial crest with motto Schola Grammatica Sydneiensis on upper board, spine in compartments with raised bands, gilt tooling and contrasting morocco title labels, …

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  • The Birds of Australia (complete set)

    # 47089

    GOULD, John (1804 - 1881); GOULD, Elizabeth (1804 - 1841); RICHTER, Henry Constantine (1821 - 1902)

    The Birds of Australia (complete set)

    London : printed by Richard and John Taylor for the author, 1848. Seven volumes, imperial folio, finely bound by Sotheran and Co. in full green crushed morocco over boards, elaborate gilt panels and rules, spine in compartments with raised bands, lettered and tooled in gilt (bindings with some light edge rubbing and scuffs); all edges …

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  • Sir Robert Menzies, 12th Prime Minister of Australia : signed portrait photograph, inscribed for British Prime Minister Harold Wilson

    # 46796

    [MENZIES, Robert Gordon, Sir, 1894-1978]

    Sir Robert Menzies, 12th Prime Minister of Australia : signed portrait photograph, inscribed for British Prime Minister Harold Wilson

    Gelatin silver print, 270 x 220 mm; inscribed, signed and dated on the mount ‘for Harold Wilson, with warm regards Robert Menzies / 1965’; fine condition, presented in a silver frame, housed in a custom blue velvet-lined case. Sir Robert Menzies (1894-1978) served two terms as Prime Minister of Australia, the first from 1939 to …

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  • An address to the inhabitants of the colonies established in New South Wales and Norfolk Island. Written in the year 1792.

    # 42885

    JOHNSON, Rev. Richard, Chaplain to the Colonies.

    An address to the inhabitants of the colonies established in New South Wales and Norfolk Island. Written in the year 1792.

    London : Printed for the author : and sold by Mathews, Strand; Deighton, Holborn; Trap, Paternoster-Row; and Goff and Amey, No. 8, Ivy-Lane, 1794. Duodecimo (170 x 100 mm), original paper wrappers, inside upper wrapper with ownership inscription of ‘Margaret Amey, No 8 Ivy Lane, May 23d 1808’, upper wrapper with ownership inscription of Rev. …

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  • Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation, Shanghai : pass book belonging to T. Rorison, 1914-17.

    # 46809

    HONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION

    Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation, Shanghai : pass book belonging to T. Rorison, 1914-17.

    [Shanghai : Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation, c.1914]. Account holder’s pass book, 155 x 110 mm, original blue linen over stiff card with flap at rear; front with label inscribed with the owner’s name in ms. ‘T. Rorison, [M?]. E. Institute’; front pastedown with printed bank regulations including ‘Accounts will be kept either in Mexican …

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  • Pride and Prejudice.

    # 46394

    AUSTEN, Jane (1775-1817)

    Pride and Prejudice.

    With a Preface by George Saintsbury and illustrations by Hugh Thomson. London : George Allen, 1894. First edition thus. Octavo, elaborately gilt-illustrated cloth by illustrator Hugh Thomson (very slightest impressions to head and foot of spine, barely visible marks to lower board, the gilt to the cover and spine uniformly crisp and bright, all edges …

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  • English Love Lyrics

    # 46649

    HULBURD, Percy (ed.)

    English Love Lyrics

    Selected and Edited, with an introduction by Percy Hulburd. London : Walter Scott Ltd. c.1900, A charmingly bound copy, most probably a gift or token of love from Moyra Brodick’s future husband General Sir Henry Charles Loyd. An eye catching, rose-festooned Bumpus binding in good condition. Beautiful spine in 5 panels, a little sunned, incorporating …

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  • [AMERICAN CIVIL WAR] Henry Morton Stanley : a rare studio portrait of the African explorer in his Union naval uniform, taken during his service on USS Minnesota in late 1864 or early 1865.

    # 46765

    STANLEY, Henry Morton [ROWLANDS, John]

    [AMERICAN CIVIL WAR] Henry Morton Stanley : a rare studio portrait of the African explorer in his Union naval uniform, taken during his service on USS Minnesota in late 1864 or early 1865.

    Albumen print photograph (a copy print made in 1872 from a print made by an unidentified American studio in 1864-65), carte de visite format, 103 x 63 mm (mount); verso with imprint of ‘J. Laing, Portrait & Landscape Photographer, Miniature & Portrait Painter. Castle Street, Shrewsbury’, and with an inscription in ink by the original …

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  • Night fall in the ti-tree

    # 47128

    TEAGUE, Violet; REDE, Geraldine

    Night fall in the ti-tree

    Woodcuts by Geraldine Rede and Violet Teague. Melbourne and London : Sign of the Rabbit and Elgin Mathews, 1906. Small folio, ribbon-tied woodcut-printed wrappers (lightly rubbed, ribbons replaced, the original silk ribbon as always deteriorated, and preserved separately), illustrated endpapers, fourteen leaves folded in the Japanese manner illustrated with original woodcuts by Teague and Rede, …

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  • Joan Miro. The illustrated books : catalogue raisonné.

    # 47124

    CRAMER, Patrick

    Joan Miro. The illustrated books : catalogue raisonné.

    Preface by Rosa Maria Malet. Geneva : Patrick Cramer, 1989. Quarto, cloth in dustjacket, slipcase, pp. 676, extensively illustrated with over a thousand images. A fine copy. The invaluable catalogue raisonné of all of Miro’s illustrated books. An indispensable reference.

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  • Aboriginal art and spirituality (signed and inscribed copy)

    # 47088

    CRUMLIN, Rosemary

    Aboriginal art and spirituality (signed and inscribed copy)

    Melbourne : Collins Dove, 1991. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 151, illustrated. With a long and warm signed inscription from Rosemary Crumlin on the title page. Contributors include Judith Ryan, Roy Churcher, Christopher Hodges, Gabrielle Pizzi, Margaret Woodward and Fiona Foley. “Painting has become a powerful vehicle for the transmission of a culture: the myths, …

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  • [PILBARA; MORNINGTON ISLAND; BATHURST & MELVILLE ISLANDS] Papers in Australian Linguistics no. 2.

    # 47025

    WURM, S. A. (ed.); BRANDENSTEIN, C. G. von; CAPELL, Arthur; HALE, K.

    [PILBARA; MORNINGTON ISLAND; BATHURST & MELVILLE ISLANDS] Papers in Australian Linguistics no. 2.

    Canberra : ANU, 1967. Series: Pacific Linguistics. Series A – Occasional Papers, no. 11. Quarto (255 x 205 mm), publisher’s cloth-backed printed wrappers, pp. iii, 73, [3 publisher’s ads.]; includes maps, tables and diagrams; a very good copy. Contains the following papers: C. G. von Brandenstein. The language situation in the Pilbara, past and present. …

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