Rare Books

# 50447

TURNER, John

Joseph Lycett. Governor Macquarie’s convict artist.

Newcastle : Hunter History Publications, 1997. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 148, illustrated, light edge wear, else a very good copy. A detailed study of Lycett by New South Wales historian Dr. John Turner.

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# 50433

[ROMAN CATHOLIC ARCHDIOCESE OF MELBOURNE.

[MELBOURNE] Consecration and solemn opening of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Melbourne, October 31st 1897. The Archbishop of Melbourne requests the favour of the presence of Mr. & Mrs. O’Connor …

[Melbourne : s.n.], 1897. Folding card, 125 x 160 mm, printed on [4] sides, lithograph printed, front with embossed episcopal coat of arms, second side with invitation including the names of the O’Connors in manuscript, third side with lithographed illustration of the cathedral; laid down on section of card cut from a nineteenth-century album leaf; …

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# 50432

[SYDNEY MUNICIPAL COUNCIL. CITIZENS' RECEPTION COMMITTEE]

[SYDNEY; MUSIC] To meet Miss Marie Narelle: The Premier and The Citizens’ Reception Committee request the pleasure of Mr. & Mrs. J. G. O’Connor’s Company at the Town Hall, Sydney, on Thursday Evening 15th June [1906] from 8 to 10 o’clock.

[Sydney : s.n., 1906]. Invitation card, 105 x 130 mm; lithograph printed; manuscript entry in ink recording that the invitation was issued to the O’Connors; scattered small stains, bottom edge roughened; laid down on section of card from a nineteenth-century album. Scarce ephemeral item associated with the career of the “Australian Queen of Irish Song”. …

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# 50430

WHITE, Patrick (1912 - 1990)

A woman’s hand

contained within Australian Letters. Vol. 7, No. 3, August 1966. Kapunda : Sun Books, 1966. First edition. Quarto, illustrated wrappers by Jacqueline Hick, lightly marked, pp. 82, illustrated by Jacqueline Hick. The first appearance in print of Patrick White’s novella A woman’s hand, published the same year as The solid mandala, and later collected in White’s 1974 …

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# 50422

JOHNSON, Vivien

Lives of the Papunya Tula artists

Alice Springs : IAD Press, 2008.Quarto, illustrated boards in dustjacket, illustrated endpapers, pp. xvi; 402, extensively illustrated. New copy. ”Lives of the Papunya Tula Artists’ chronicles the beginning of the Western Desert art movement and the phenomenal development of its founding art company over four decades. Through comprehensive and widely researched biographies of more than …

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# 50421

WINDSCHUTTLE, Keith (1942-2025)

The fabrication of Aboriginal history. Volume One : Van Diemen’s Land 1803-1847

Sydney, NSW, Macleay Press, 2002. First edition. Octavo, boards in dust jacket, handling creases, pp. 472, illustrations; a very good copy. A controversial book, self-described as ‘the most exhaustive analysis yet undertaken of relations between settlers and Aborigines from the time the British founded the colony in 1803’, which argues that the previous historians have …

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# 50420

ISAACS, Jennifer et al.

Le picture su corteccia di Oenpelli [= An Exhibition of Oenpelli paintings on bark]

[Sydney] : [Aboriginal Arts Board of the Australia Council], circa 1978. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, lightly rubbed, pp. 52, illustrated. Italian language edition.

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# 50278

MALORY, Sir Thomas; BEARDSLEY, Aubrey

Le Morte d’Arthur. The birth life and acts of King Arthur of his noble Knights of the Round Table, their marvellous enquests and adventures, the achieving of the San Greal, and in the end le morte Darthur with the dolourous death and departing out of this world of them all.

The text as written by Sir Thomas Malory and imprinted by William Caxton at Westminster the year MCCCCLXXXV and now spelled in modern style, embellished with many original designs by Aubrey Beardsley. With an introduction by Professor John Rhys and a note on Aubrey Beardsley by Aymer Vallance. London : Dent, 1927. Quarto: striking gilt …

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# 49328

GAULTIER, Théophile

Jean and Jeannette

With illustrations by Ad. Lalauze. Preface by Leo Clarate. Paris : Societe des Beaux Arts, 1890s. Quarto, in a magnificent binding of full levant morocco, upper and lower boards elaborately decorated in gilt and multiple inlaid leathers with a large central fleur de lys within a floral border, spine in compartments with raised bands, lettered …

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# 38356

GONZALEZ CABRERA BUENO, José (c. 1670 - after 1733)

Navegación Especulativa, y Práctica, con la Explicación de algunos Instrumentos, que están mas en uso en los Navegantes … …

Manila : Impresa en el Convento de Nuestra Señora de los Angeles de la Orden de Nro. Seraphico Padre San Francisco, 1734. First edition. Folio (315 x 210 mm), contemporary limp vellum (lacking ties, some age staining, small loss at front bottom corner), spine with title in manuscript in black ink; printed on rice and …

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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 fine …

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# 50226

CHAUCER, Geoffrey

The romaunt of the rose

Rendered out of the French into English by Geoffrey Chaucer. Illustrated by Keith Henderson and Norman Wilkinson. London : published for the Florence Press by Chatto and Windus, 1908. Quarto, finely bound by Bumpus of Oxford, full crushed levant morocco, upper and lower boards with gilt edge rule and elaborately floriated corner decorations with inlaid …

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# 49977

AWOKI, T. and SUSUKA, J.

Illustrated guide book for travellers round the world

Osaka : Awoki Szandow, circa 1885. Three volumes, small octavo, gilt-decorated impressed cloth over boards, titled in Japanese and English on the spine, the name AWOKI impressed into each over, edges worn, a few stains, hinges cracked and broken, title leaf (short tear at gutter), each volume approximately 200 pages, folded in the Japanese manner, …

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# 43407

[Photographer unknown].

Ambrotype portrait of “Jake and Charles. Two old cronies – intimate friends … Who can deny that we are a happy pair when together.” Dated 15 September, 1862.

[USA : unknown photographer], September 1862. Sixth-plate ambrotype with applied colouring, 53 x 62 mm (sight), in an oval brass mat with a scrolling foliate motif, housed in a half leather case with embossed geometric design; a fully contemporary inscription in pencil to the paper lining the inside wall of the case reads: ‘Taken Sept. …

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# 48431

BEATO, Felix; FLOYD, William Pryor; BOURNE, Samuel

Views in Japan, India, & China

[1867-1870]. Photograph album, large oblong folio (320 x 480 mm), original red morocco richly gilt (worn at corners and spine ends), upper board lettered in gilt ‘Views in Japan, India, & China’; all edges gilt; moire pastedowns and endpapers; verso of front free-endpaper with the inscription of the original owner Frederick Woods, dated July 1871; …

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# 49585

BEATO, Felice (1832-1909)

Peeps at Japan.

[Yokohama, 1872]. Oblong quarto (230 x 300 mm), half morocco over marbled papered boards (rubbed), upper board with original printed title label ‘Peeps at Japan’, spine lettered in gilt ‘Beato / Peeps at Japan’; original marbled endpapers, containing [20] albumen prints in format 155 x 200 mm, mounted recto only on leaves of lightweight card …

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