Rare Books
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# 49733
SCHMIDT, I. J. (Isaac Jacob)
Grammatik der Tibetischen Sprache,
verfasst von I. J. Schmidt. St. Petersburg : Gräff ; Leipzig : Voss, 1839. Quarto (280 x 210 mm), contemporary red calf, richly gilt, spine with gilt lettering and decoration, gilt dentelles; all edges gilt; blue endpapers; pp. xv, [1 blank], 318, [2 Errata]; text in German (roman) and Tibetan script; scattered light foxing, a …
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# 49978
KRUGER, Johann Friedrich Carl (Fred), (1831-1888); [PERKINS, Horace]
Album of the kings & queens of Victoria
[Melbourne : compiled and published by H. Perkins & Co., The Gift Depot, c.1880]. Duodecimo, pink papered boards with gilt-stamped lettering and ornament, cloth spine; containing folding concertina of [12] panels with lithographic illustrations after Kruger’s photographic portraits of surviving leaders of Aboriginal tribes of Victoria, originally taken at various times between around 1866 and …
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# 13336
HAY, John, 1546-1607
De rebus Iaponicis, Indicis et Peruanis epistolae recentiores.
A Joanne Hayo Dalgatttiensi Scoto Societatis Jesu in librum unum coacervatae. Antuerpiæ : Ex officina Martini Nutij, ad insigne duarum Ciconiarum, Anno M. DC. V. [Antwerp : Martin Nutius, 1605]. Octavo, fine Jesuit binding of full calf ruled in gilt with ornamental cornerpieces; upper board with central Jesuit device, lower board with heraldic crest; flat-panel spine tooled …
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# 49578
[Anon.]
The China Directory for 1863. (With contemporary provenance from a Tientsin-based company listed in the Directory)
Fourth Annual Publication. Hong Kong : A. Shorted & Co., 1863. Octavo, gilt-illustrated black cloth (spine expertly replaced), contemporary ownership inscription for the company of Pedder & Co. of Tientsin, dated 7th March,1863 to front pastedown (Pedder & Co. are listed in the Directory on p. 52), folding table ‘Peninsular & Oriental S. N. Co.’s …
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# 51561
LEE, Kuan Yew
From Third World to First. The Singapore story: 1965 – 2000. Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew (presentation copy for the Hon. Alexander Downer)
Singapore : Times Media, 2000. Octavo, boards in dustjacket, pp. 778, illustrated. Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew (1923 – 2015), the first Prime Minister of Singapore. Provenance : The Hon. Alexander Downer, Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs 1996 – 2007. With a presentation bookplate inscribed to him pasted on the front free endpaper signed by …
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# 50019
THIELE, Colin (1920-2006)
Storm Boy
Illustrated by John Baily. Adelaide : Rigby Limited, 1963. First edition. Octavo, illustrated boards in illustrated dustjacket (not price-clipped, verso foxed, edge wear), contemporary bookseller’s label to front pastedown, pp. 52, illustrated, occasional foxing, a good copy. The classic Australian children’s novel about a boy and his pelican set in the Coorong region of South …
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# 51596
MAYNARD, John
True light and shade : an Aboriginal perspective of Joseph Lycett’s art
Canberra : National Library of Australia, 2014. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 168, illustrated. Out of print, a fine copy. ‘True light and shade’ is filled with beautiful images by convict artist Joseph Lycett that powerfully capture in intimate detail Aboriginal life, a rare record of Aboriginal people within the vicinity of Newcastle and how they …
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# 51560
LAKE, Andrew
Changes and chances : a personal history of All Saints Jakarta
Jakarta : All Saints Church, 2004. Octavo trade paperback, pp. xix, [1 blank], 202; with numerous b/w photographic illustrations; an excellent copy, inscribed on the half-title for the visiting Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs, the Hon. Alexander Downer, presumably by an Australian embassy staff member: ‘Dec. ’04. Dear Minister Downer, Welcome back to Jakarta. I …
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# 51589
ROSE STEREOGRAPH CO.
Great suffragette demonstration in London : The Empire Car (different colonies) passing through Trafalgar Square.
Melbourne ; Sydney ; Wellington ; London : The Rose Stereograph Co., [1911]. Stereoscopic gelatin silver print photograph (mount 95 x 175 mm), from the series Great suffragette demonstration in London, serial no. 11,951, printed title beneath the images The Empire Car (different colonies) passing through Trafalgar Square, recto of mount imprinted The Rose Stereographs …
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# 18197
WALL, Dorothy (1894-1942)
The rainy day : gift book of the Commonwealth Savings Bank of Australia
“Story and illustrations by Dorothy Wall.” (p.[1]). [Sydney] : John Sands [for The Bank], [c.1925]. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers in green and black (small loss to corner), [18] pp, monochrome and colour illustrations; internally very good. A morality tale teaching children the virtue of thrift, by the creator of Blinky Bill. Muir, 7843, recording only …
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# 25835
DUNKLINGS PTY. LTD. (MELBOURNE)
Dunklings the Jewellers Pty. Ltd. Ladies’ and men’s high grade wrist watches.
Melbourne : Dunklings Pty. Ltd., [circa 1950]. Single sheet, 215 x 330 mm, printed both sides, folding to 215 x 82 mm, illustrated; original folds, a good example.
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# 25160
ELECTROLUX PTY. LTD. (Australia)
How to get the most out of your Electrolux
Melbourne : Electrolux Pty. Ltd. (Australia), [c.1950]. Octavo, lettered wrappers (marked), pp. 24, numerous b/w photographic illustrations on how the model housewife uses her Electrolux vacuum cleaner to optimum perfection. Trove locates no copies in Australian libraries.
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# 24084
A prayer to be used every day next after the prayer in time of war and tumults, in all cathedral, collegiate, and parochial churches and chapels throughout England and Ireland, during the war.
London : George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1803. Quarto, pp. 4, single sheet, folded, a little worn. Ephemeral religious printing praising the British armed forces during the Napoleonic Wars.
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# 26921
TINDALE, Norman B.
Some polychrome incised pottery ware from Mt. Turu, New Guinea.
Adelaide : The Hassell Press, [1941]. Offprint from Records of the South Australian Museum, vol. VI, no. 4, February 28th, 1941. Small quarto (245 x 185 mm), original printed buff wrappers, pp 357-362, with line-drawn text illustrations plus [2] full-page photographic plates; very short tear at top edges of leaves, else a good copy. A …
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# 11417
SYDNEY UNIVERSITY DENTAL UNDERGRADUATES' ASSOCIATION
The Articulator : journal of the Sydney University Dental Undergraduates’ Association. Vol. 10, no. 3
Sydney : The Association, 1957. Small quarto, pictorial wrappers (upper wrapper with short tear at fore-edge), 91 pp, illustrated, a very good copy.
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# 14673
Church of England. Diocese of Adelaide.
Ceremony of laying the first stone of the collegiate school of St. Peter’s, Adelaide, by the Lord Bishop of Adelaide, on Thursday, May 24, 1849 …
Adelaide : Printed by George Dehane, King William Street, 1849. Quarto, printed wrappers, 6 pp, mild vertical fold line and some corner creasing; ex Webster Collection, with small red stamp and manuscript collection number (2657) to last page; a good copy. Ferguson 5160. Copies are recorded in three Australian collections (National Library of Australia; State …