Rare Books

  • Permissive Australia

    # 47212

    JARRATT, Suzy

    Permissive Australia

    Photographs by Paul Muller. Sydney : Jack de Lissa (Aust.), [1970]. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, pp. 192, photographically illustrated; a fine copy. The author’s forthright opinions on civil freedoms in Australia, with nine chapters on Hippies, Religion, Sex, The Arts, Sports, Fashion, Drugs, Advertising, & Politics. ‘Australia is a man’s world? Not when it comes to sex, …

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  • [IMMIGRATION] Queensland Crown Lands.

    # 47211

    QUEENSLAND. AGENT-GENERAL.

    [IMMIGRATION] Queensland Crown Lands.

    London : Agent-General for Queensland, [c.1900]. Quarto (250 x 190 mm), bifolium, [4] pp; a very good copy. An official information brochure designed to encourage emigration from the United Kingdom to Queensland. The back page advertises the various free and assisted passage schemes available at the time, as well as boldly stating the claim that …

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  • J. H. Abbott & Co. Tanners & Curriers ... Pall Mall, Bendigo, High Street, Echuca.

    # 47210

    J. H. ABBOTT & CO.

    J. H. Abbott & Co. Tanners & Curriers … Pall Mall, Bendigo, High Street, Echuca.

    Bendigo, Vic. : Bolton Bros, [1900-1910]. Quarto (260 x 200 mm), stapled wrappers, printed in black ink on buff paper, upper wrapper with various calligraphic typefaces, lower wrapper illustrated, [8] pp; contains descriptions and prices of all types of footwear, includes illustrations of ladies’ shoes and boots; very fine.

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  • [SYDNEY] The prevalent forms and causes of Sabbath desecration.

    # 47207

    McINTYRE, William (1805-1870); HOWE, Robert Charles (1820-1875), publisher

    [SYDNEY] The prevalent forms and causes of Sabbath desecration.

    Sydney : R. Howe, “Gazette” office, Lower George-street, [1841]. At head of title: Lecture III. Duodecimo, original plain blue wrappers, hand-sewn, 24 pp; a fine copy. Ferguson, 3244. The third in the series Lectures on the Sabbath, which was also published, along with lectures by John Dunmore Lang, M.T. Adam, James Fullerton, and John Tait, in …

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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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  • A missionary preaching to Chinese in Hong Kong.

    # 46516

    Anon. [for THE WORKING MEN'S EDUCATIONAL UNION]

    A missionary preaching to Chinese in Hong Kong.

    London : The Working Men’s Educational Union, King William Street, Trafalgar Square [1854]. Coloured lithographic wall hanging printed on calico, 880 x 1160 mm; original brass eyelets at each corner; numbered ‘LM No. 12’ lower left; slightly creased, but a well preserved example, the hand colouring still strong and vibrant. The Working Men’s Educational Union was …

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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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  • [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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  • Resa till Goda Hopps-Udden, södra pol-kretsen och omkring jordklotet, samt till Hottentott- och Caffer-landen, åren 1772-76.

    # 41535

    SPARRMAN, Anders (1747-1820)

    Resa till Goda Hopps-Udden, södra pol-kretsen och omkring jordklotet, samt till Hottentott- och Caffer-landen, åren 1772-76.

    Stockholm : Anders J. Nordström, 1783; Carl Deleen, 1802 – 1818. Octavo, three volumes, fine early nineteenth century Swedish half-calf over marbled boards, spines in compartments with contrasting red morocco title labels, the last two volumes bound in uniform, with the volume numbers I; II  reversed by the binder, a fine set in early bindings …

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  • On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life (fourth edition)

    # 46544

    DARWIN, Charles

    On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life (fourth edition)

    London : printed by W. Clowes and Sons for John Murray, 1866. Fourth edition, second state (eighth thousand). Octavo, original green cloth, boards blocked in blind, spine gilt (light bumping to corners, very minor stains), green endpapers (previous owner’s name to front pastedown), pp. xxi; [blank], 593; [blank], folding lithographic plate by William West after …

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  • On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life (third edition)

    # 41593

    DARWIN, Charles

    On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life (third edition)

    London : printed by W. Clowes and Sons for John Murray, 1861. Third edition. Octavo, original green cloth, boards blocked in blind, spine gilt (corners rubbed, a few light marks, small splits to head and foot of spine), hinges unobtrusively strengthened, binding variant A, with full point (period) after “MURRAY” in spine imprint, tan endpapers …

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  • [INCUNABLE] A leaf from the Gutenberg Bible

    # 45670

    GUTENBERG, Johannes (ca. 1398-1468) (printer)

    [INCUNABLE] A leaf from the Gutenberg Bible

    [Mainz : Johannes Gutenberg, circa 1454-55]. Single folio leaf. 390 x 286 mm, printed on recto and verso, black gothic lettering of forty-two lines in double columns, large two-line initial letter rubricated in red; light foxing, ox head watermark clearly visible at the centre of the leaf, neat paper reinforcement along margin (probably from when …

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  • A small archive of programmes for amateur theatrical performances and music concerts in Perth, Western Australia, 1873-1883.

    # 47142

    [Various]

    A small archive of programmes for amateur theatrical performances and music concerts in Perth, Western Australia, 1873-1883.

    This important group of thirteen programmes can be regarded as a time capsule of amateur theatrical and musical performance in Perth, Western Australia in the 1870s and early 1880s. A number of the programmes in this archive appear to be completely unrecorded, and are quite possibly unique survivors. These highly ephemeral printings date from a …

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  • A far microcosm : building and architecture in Van Diemen’s Land and Tasmania 1803-1914

    # 47197

    RATCLIFF, Eric

    A far microcosm : building and architecture in Van Diemen’s Land and Tasmania 1803-1914

    Launceston, Tas. : Fullers Bookshop with Foot and Playsted, 2015. Edition limited to 500 copies. Four volumes, small quarto, pictorial laminated card covers, illustrated, in pictorial slipcase. “A Far Microcosm is a detailed history to 1914 of Tasmania’s architecture, its influences, its construction, and the adaption of forms and building methods to suit the climate …

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  • Globes at Greenwich : a catalogue of the globes and armillary spheres in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich

    # 47194

    DEKKER, Elly et al.

    Globes at Greenwich : a catalogue of the globes and armillary spheres in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich

    Elly Dekker ; with contributions from Silke Ackermann … [et al.] ; edited by Kristen Lippincott, Pieter van der Merwe, and Maria Blyzinsky. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press and the National Maritime Museum, 1999. Quarto, buckram in illustrated dustjacket, light handling marks, slipcase slightly marked, pp. xi, 592, illustrations and maps. An …

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  • Portrait of a group of Menang Noongar men and women. Albany area, Western Australia, late 1880s.

    # 47154

    OTTO, J. H. (Johann Henri)

    Portrait of a group of Menang Noongar men and women. Albany area, Western Australia, late 1880s.

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 104 x 63 mm (mount), verso with wet stamp of ‘J. H. Otto, Portrait and Landscape Photographer, Albany, W.A.’; the print has mottling in the negative and has lost some contrast; the mount has old residual glue marks verso (the carte was once mounted in an album). A …

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