Rare Books

# 47644

海田俊一 (KAIDA, Toshikazu)

World maps published in Tokugawa Japan : an illustrated catalogue

Tokyo : Arsmedica and Nagoya : Sankeisha, 2022. English language edition, revised edition. Quarto, illustrated laminated boards, pp. 600, illustrated. Printed in a limited edition of 200 numbered copies. New copy. Text in English with Japanese characters for names and quotes. The most scholarly and detailed reference books on Japanese world maps from the seventeenth …

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# 47682

CALL, Harold L. (editor)

Mattachine Review. Vol. VIII, No. 1, January 1962

San Francisco : Mattachine Society, 1962. Octavo, lettered wrappers (lightly toned), pp. 32, a very good copy of this scarce and important periodical from one of the first gay rights groups in the United States. This issue includes the articles ‘California’s new law on obscenity’, ‘New Illinois Penal Code’ and ‘Pornography, art and censorship’”. ‘The …

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# 47681

CALL, Harold L. (editor)

Mattachine Review. Vol. VII, No. 11, December 1961

San Francisco : Mattachine Society, 1962. Octavo, illustrated wrappers (lightly toned), pp. 32, a very good copy of this scarce and important periodical from one of the first gay rights groups in the United States. This issue includes the articles ‘The search for love’ and ‘To the barricades”. ‘The Mattachine Society (initially called the Mattachine …

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# 47680

CALL, Harold L. (editor)

Mattachine Review. Vol. VII, No. 9, September 1961

San Francisco : Mattachine Society, 1962. Octavo, illustrated wrappers (lightly toned), pp. 36, a very good copy of this scarce and important periodical from one of the first gay rights groups in the United States. This issue includes the articles ‘Preventing homosexuality’ and ‘The nature of man’ ‘The Mattachine Society (initially called the Mattachine Foundation) …

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# 47679

CALL, Harold L. (editor)

Mattachine Review. Vol. VII, No. 8, August 1961

San Francisco : Mattachine Society, 1962. Octavo, illustrated wrappers (lightly toned), pp. 32, a very good copy of this scarce and important periodical from one of the first gay rights groups in the United States. This issue includes the articles ‘The roots of bias’ and ‘Let’s go slow on free-wheeling legislation’. ‘The Mattachine Society (initially …

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# 47669

BROADBENT, James; RICKARD, Suzanne; STEVEN, Margaret

India, China, Australia : trade and society 1788-1850 (signed copy)

Sydney : Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, 2003. Edition limited to 1200 copies. Quarto, cloth boards in dust jacket, 207 pp, illustrated in colour throughout, a fine copy. ‘This book breaks new ground in exploring the trading and social links between Australia and India and China, and surveys their rich legacy of furniture, …

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# 47366

CRAIG, Eric (maker/artist)

New Zealand fern specimens in original kauri wood box, early 1880s.

Box, of solid mottled kauri, 266 x 183 x 50 mm, containing [25] specimens of New Zealand ferns pressed and mounted on individual cards in uniform 210 x 140 mm format, each mount with a printed label identifying the specimen by its botanical name, using the correct binomial nomenclature in Latin (the system developed by Linnaeus); …

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# 45542

HILDER, Brett (1911-1981)

Portrait of Wandjuk Marika. Yirrkala, October 1972.

Watercolour on artist’s board, 34 x 25 cm; unsigned, but inscribed and dated by the artist ‘WANDJUK MARIKA / YIRRKALA / 19.10.72‘; in very good condition. This portrait of Yolngu leader and artist Wandjuk Djuakan Marika (1927-1987) was painted at Yirrkala Mission on the Gove Peninsula in October 1972, by Captain Brett Hilder of the …

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# 46291

[INTERCOLONIAL EXHIBITION OF AUSTRALASIA]

[KULIN LANGUAGES] God hath made of one blood all nations of men : Acts 17th Chap. 25th verse : in 103 languages : a memorial of the Victorian Exhibition 1866, consisting of a verse from holy writ in above one hundred languages.

[Drop title]. [Melbourne : s.n., 1866]. Lithographic printing on linen-backed paper (apparently as issued), 325 x 375 mm (sheet); right-hand edge trimmed and roughened with some minor textual loss, upper left corner of sheet with small loss and a tiny tear, verso with traces of old glue at each corner (although the sheet appears to …

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# 45572

MONTI, Anne-Georges-Augustin de (1753-1788)

[LA PÉROUSE EXPEDITION] Handwritten document requesting additional equipment for the Astrolabe, written on board the ship prior to its departure from Brest, dated 10 June 1785.

Manuscript in ink on laid paper watermarked TM, 1 page, quarto (210 x 170 mm). [Brest], ‘à bord [l’Astrolabe], le 10 juin 1785’. Headed ‘pour L’astrolabe’, and signed at the foot ‘de Monti’, the note comprises a short list of equipment that is required for the vessel: ‘two rudder bars … a spike for the …

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# 46212

GRIMSTONE, Mary Leman (1796-1869)

The Beauty of the British Alps ; or, Love at First Sight.

London : Published by G. Virtue, 26, Ivy-lane, Paternoster-row ; Bath-street, Bristol ; and Queen-square, Liverpool, 1825. Octavo (204 x 130 mm), contemporary marbled calf, boards with ornamental gilt borders (boards a little scuffed, front joint superficially cracked, minor cracking at head of rear joint, corners a trifle worn), spine in compartments with gilt ornament and …

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# 47284

[BALLEONI, Paul]

Officium Beatae Mariae Virginis S. Pii V. Pontificio Maximi Jesse editum, et urbani VIII.

Venice : Balleoni, 1754. Octavo, magnificent contemporary à la cire binding of interlaced coloured calf with elaborate foliated gilt tooling, the interlacing infilled with dark brown wax paint, spine in compartments with raised bands, extensively tooled in gilt, two working metal clasps, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, engraved title page, pp. xxiv; 456; copperplate engraved illustrations, a …

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# 47513

[RACKSTROW'S MUSEUM]

[BOTANY BAY BIRDS] Rackstrow’s Museum, Pronounced to be of the First Importance in the World, Established upwards of Fifty Years ; lately Improved, Enlarged, and Enriched … It consists of most Curious Objects … Anatomical Collection … Collection of Natural Productions … Works of Art.

At head of text: No. 197, between Temple-Bar and Chancery-Lane, Fleet-Street. [London : s.n., between 1790 and 1800]. Handbill, small quarto (230 x 185 mm), letterpress printed recto and verso on laid paper; light folds, in excellent condition. “BEAUTIFUL BIRDS from BOTANY-BAY…“ A rare handbill for Rackstrow’s Museum, London’s only commercially-run waxwork anatomical museum of …

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# 47520

[Anon.]

Melancholy and dreadful loss of the Amphitrite : bound from Woolwich to Botany Bay, with 108 female convicts and 12 children, together with a crew of 16, being in the whole 136 souls; of which 133 perished in the dreadful gale of Saturday the 31st of August, 1833, off Boulogne.

[London] : J. Catnach, Printer, 2 & 3, Monmouth-court, 7 Dials, [1833]. Broadside, 250 x 190 mm, letterpress with large woodcut illustration, laid down on an old backing sheet; toned, ghosting from nineteenth-century glue at each corner, otherwise very good. A rare illustrated broadside ballad lamenting the wreck of the convict transport Amphitrite off the …

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# 47388

"NORROY" [pseud. of H. F. BROWNE]

A Tale of a Whale.

/ Written and illustrated by “Norroy”. London : Dean & Son, [1884]. [BOUND WITH] The Strange Adventures of a Carp. By “Norroy”, author of A Tale of a Whale. London : Dean & Son, [1884]. Two works bound in one, octavo (190 x 145 mm), publisher’s cloth-backed pictorial boards (rubbed and with light edge wear), …

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# 47285

DARWIN, Charles (1809 - 1882)

On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. Second edition (1860)

London : printed by W. Clowes and Sons for John Murray, 1860. Second edition, second state (fifth thousand). Octavo, original green cloth by Edmonds & Remnants, London retaining their ticket on lower pastedown, boards blocked in blind with rules enclosing foliate designs and central panel, spine gilt (recased with original spine laid down, repairs to …

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