Rare Books

  • Histoire générale des voyages,

    # 51307

    Prévost, Antoine François (Abbé) (1697-1763)

    Histoire générale des voyages,

    ou, Nouvelle collection de toutes les relations de voyages par mer et par terre, qui ont été publiées jusqu’à présent dans les différentes langues de toutes les nations connues … … Paris : Didot, 1746 – 1789. First edition. Twenty volumes, quarto (258 x 200 mm), uniformly bound in period half French speckled calf, spines …

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  • Reise-Abenteuer eines braven Deutschen im Lande der Kangaroo. / G. C. C. [German Concentration Camp] Liverpool, Australia.

    # 51047

    FRIEDRICH, C. (pseud.)

    Reise-Abenteuer eines braven Deutschen im Lande der Kangaroo. / G. C. C. [German Concentration Camp] Liverpool, Australia.

    Liverpool, [N.S.W.] : G.C.C., [1918?]. Oblong octavo (105 x 210 mm), stitch-bound; original pictorial wrappers in sepia, [6] unnumbered leaves printed recto only, each with two cartoon panels printed in sepia and hand-coloured, numbered 13-24; text in German; upper wrapper slightly toned, lower wrapper with chipped corners and top edge, but internally excellent; a very …

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  • [NEW GUINEA; GOLD; AVIATION] Guinea Airways Limited : save time by flying to the goldfields.

    # 51517

    GUINEA AIRWAYS LIMITED

    [NEW GUINEA; GOLD; AVIATION] Guinea Airways Limited : save time by flying to the goldfields.

    Port Moresby, Papua to Wau, Bulolo, Bulwa, Lae, or Salamaua, Mandated Territory of New Guinea. At head of title: Travel with Guinea Airways for speed, comfort, reliability! [Adelaide?] : Guinea Airways Limited, [c.1936]. Single sheet, 300 x 360 mm, folding to 300 x 120 mm; the recto divided into three panels of text that includes …

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  • [GOLF] 20th Chief of Clanranald: autograph letter signed, mentioning his "match" at the Musselburgh links. Edinburgh, c.1840.

    # 51624

    MACDONALD, George Ranald (1788-1873)

    [GOLF] 20th Chief of Clanranald: autograph letter signed, mentioning his “match” at the Musselburgh links. Edinburgh, c.1840.

    [Undated, but probably c.1840]. Manuscript in ink, 1 page, octavo (195 x 120 mm); headed ‘Brn. Place [i.e. Broughton Place, Edinburgh], Thursday’, the note is addressed to ‘My dear Col. Swinburne’ [i.e.Thomas Robert Swinburne of Marcus, 1794-1864], and is signed at the foot ‘Clansranald’ [i.e. Ranald George Macdonald, 1788-1873, Chief of Clanranald, who was the …

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  • [BYRON] The Hon. Augusta Mary Leigh: autograph letter signed, re. a dinner invitation. St. James's Palace, 5 August 1833.

    # 51621

    LEIGH (BYRON), Hon. Augusta Mary (1783-1851)

    [BYRON] The Hon. Augusta Mary Leigh: autograph letter signed, re. a dinner invitation. St. James’s Palace, 5 August 1833.

    Autograph letter, manuscript on ink, 2 pp. written on the first two sides of an octavo bifolium (185 x 115 mm); signed and dated at the foot of the second side ‘Augusta Leigh, St. James’s Palace, Apl. 5th 1833’, the letter is addressed simply ‘My dear Sir’ – who inner references inform us is a …

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  • Rudiments of conchology : intended as a familiar introduction to the science.

    # 51583

    [VENNING, Mary Anne]

    Rudiments of conchology : intended as a familiar introduction to the science.

    With explanatory plates, and references to the collection of shells in the British Museum. By the author of “The geographical present,” &c. A new and improved edition. London : Darton and Harvey, Gracechurch Street, [n.d., but c.1837]. Small octavo (185 x 110 mm), original blind-blocked green cloth, te upper board with gilt-stamped cartouche with title ‘Conversations …

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  • An account of the natives of the Tonga Islands, in the South Pacific Ocean. With an original grammar and vocabulary of their language.

    # 51423

    MARTIN, John; MARINER, William

    An account of the natives of the Tonga Islands, in the South Pacific Ocean. With an original grammar and vocabulary of their language.

    Compiled and arranged from the extensive communications of Mr. William Mariner, several years resident in those islands … In two volumes. London : printed for the author, and sold by John Murray, 1817. Two volumes, octavo, matching contemporary bindings of full calf ruled in double gilt, flat spines in compartments with gilt decoration and lettering …

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  • The SS Runic. From Melbourne to London. The World's Polite Entertainers : Entertainment in aid of the Liverpool Seamen's Orphanage Fund. Programme. (12 July, 1901)

    # 51488

    SIVRONI, Ernest

    The SS Runic. From Melbourne to London. The World’s Polite Entertainers : Entertainment in aid of the Liverpool Seamen’s Orphanage Fund. Programme. (12 July, 1901)

    [At sea : on board SS Runic, July 1901]. Folio bifolium (330 x 200 mm), roneo-printed in violet on the first side only, on re-purposed faint-ruled writing paper; with three satirical line-drawn illustrations; light horizontal fold, some toning, but overall well preserved. An unrecorded shipboard programme that features the names of several colonial stage performers, …

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  • Aborigines' war implements. (Coranderrk, c.1877)

    # 51287

    KRUGER, Johan Friedrich Carl (Fred) (1831-1888)

    Aborigines’ war implements. (Coranderrk, c.1877)

    [Title from printed caption on mount]. Albumen print photograph, 125 x 81 mm, on the original paper mount with lithographed imprint: ‘Fred. Kruger, Photo. (Gold Medallist) Geelong / KRUGER’S VICTORIAN SCENERY / Aborigines’ war implements’; both the print and the mount are in excellent condition. This image is one of several known variants of similar displays …

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  • Ngarrindjeri weapons, ornaments and baskets. Point McLeay Mission, 1880.

    # 51286

    SWEET, Samuel White (1825-1886)

    Ngarrindjeri weapons, ornaments and baskets. Point McLeay Mission, 1880.

    Albumen print photograph, 140 x 215 mm, mounted recto of a nineteenth-century album leaf of thick card; inscribed in negative at lower centre Sweet Adelaide 462; a number is also scratched into the negative beside each object (these numbers refer to a key that is known to exist which names and describes the objects); a very …

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  • Nouvelle-Hollande. Vases, Armes, Pêche.

    # 51288

    DIEN, Claude-Marie-François (1787-1865, engraver); LESUEUR, Charles-Alexandre (1778-1846 , artist)

    Nouvelle-Hollande. Vases, Armes, Pêche.

    [Paris : De l’Imprimerie Impériale, 1807-1817]. Copperplate stipple engraving with original hand colouring, 315 x 240 mm (plate mark), 330 x 253 mm (sheet), titled in the image lower centre, ‘XXII’ printed upper right; fine condition. Source: Plate XXII from the Atlas historique volume of the first edition of Voyage de decouvertes aux terres australes, the …

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  • Nouvelle-Hollande : Nouvelle Galles du Sud. Armes, Ustencils et Ornemens.

    # 51289

    TESTARD, François-Martin (fl. 1790-1819, engraver); LESUEUR, Charles-Alexandre (1778-1846 , artist)

    Nouvelle-Hollande : Nouvelle Galles du Sud. Armes, Ustencils et Ornemens.

    [Paris : Arthus Bertrand, 1824]. Copperplate stipple engraving, 315 x 240 mm (plate mark), 258 x 344 mm (sheet), titled in the image lower centre, ’29’ printed upper right; fine condition. Source: Plate 29 from the Atlas historique volume of the second edition of Voyage de decouvertes aux terres australes, the official account of the Baudin …

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  • [SHEET MUSIC] Shells of ocean /​ words by J.W. Lake ; music by J.W. Cherry.

    # 15626

    CHERRY, J. W. (John William), 1824-1869; LAKE, J.W.; DEGOTARDI, Johann Nepomuk, 1823-1882.

    [SHEET MUSIC] Shells of ocean /​ words by J.W. Lake ; music by J.W. Cherry.

    Sydney : Woolcott and Clarke, [1853 or 1854]. Folio, disbound, original illustrated wrappers lithographed by John Degotardi (old paper reinforcement to original stitching and small closed tear at fore-edge), 6 pp of engraved music notation for voice and piano; page 2 has a publisher’s advertisement at the head of the music; internally very clean, a good example. …

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  • Studio portrait of an Aboriginal man holding his hat. Adelaide, 1864-65.

    # 51283

    ADELAIDE PHOTOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION

    Studio portrait of an Aboriginal man holding his hat. Adelaide, 1864-65.

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 103 x 62 mm (mount); verso imprinted ‘Photographed by Anson & Francis, Adelaide Photographic Institution, 97 Rundle Street’; the albumen print with dark tones; some very light foxing, bottom corner of mount chipped. A striking full-length portrait of an unidentified sitter posing shirtless, but with European trousers, boots …

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  • [NEW GUINEA; MISSIONS] Pietate Bukana.

    # 51595

    ESCHLIMANN, Henri & RIEGLER, François-Xavier (translators); COLUCCIA, Paolo (editor)

    [NEW GUINEA; MISSIONS] Pietate Bukana.

    Selon le texte du R.P. Eschliman, par le Padre Paolo Coluccia M.S.C. 10-III-1946, corrigée par Ikupu Mini Angelus le VII-VIII-1946. [Yule Island, Territory of Papua : Catholic Mission, 1946]. [Book of Piety. Roro language]. Small quarto (255 x 208 mm), original plain card wrappers with red cloth backstrip, manuscript title to front: ‘Pietate Bukana / H. Eschliman / …

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  • Resa uti Europa, Africa, Asia, förrättad åren 1770-1779.

    # 51418

    THUNBERG, Carl Peter (1743-1828)

    Resa uti Europa, Africa, Asia, förrättad åren 1770-1779.

    Upsala : J. Edman & J. Edmans enka, 1788-1793. Four volumes octavo, original uniform binding of marbled papered boards (an expected amount of rubbing), spines  with leather title labels in gilt; Vol. 1: pp. [26], 390 + [2] engraved plates; Vol. 2: pp. [32], 384 + [4] plates; Vol. 3: pp. [14], 286, 289-389, 400-414; …

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