Rare Books
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# 46777
ELITE PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPANY [WILLETTS, George]
Photographic portrait of a young woman holding a tennis racquet. Ballarat, c.1890.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 102 x 62 mm (mount); verso with imprint of ‘Elite Photographic Company’; both the albumen print and mount are in fine condition.
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# 47552
YOUNG AUSTRALIA LEAGUE
Australia to Japan : girls’ tour – with the Young Australia League, August to December 1935.
Melbourne : Renwick Pride Pty. Ltd., printer, [1935]. Tour prospectus. Small quarto (225 x 170 mm), stapled pictorial self-wrappers (light horizontal fold; upper wrapper with corner crease; lower wrapper with short corner tear); pp. 16, with numerous b/w photographic illustrations, map; very clean throughout; loosely enclosed is the official application form for the tour, plus …
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# 51429
REILLY, Dianne; HAMMOND, Victoria
Charles Joseph La Trobe : landscapes and sketches
Introduced by Dianne Reilly ; notes by Victoria Hammond. Melbourne : State Library of Victoria in association with Tarcoola Press and National Trust of Australia (Victoria), 1999. Quarto, gilt-lettered faux morocco in matching slipcase, a few small marks, pp. xviii, 341, extensively illustrated in colour. Limited to 500 numbered copies, a very good copy on …
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# 51446
ELLIS, Rennie (1940 - 2003)
Decade 1970-1980.
Melbourne : Hardie Grant Books and the State Library of Victoria, 2013. Quarto (295 x 260 mm), diecut boards, pp. 255, illustrated; a mint copy. Winner, Best Designed Fully-illustrated Book Over $50, Designers’ Choice Book of the Year, Australian Book Designers Association 2014. ‘His photographs explore the cultures and subcultures of the decade, as well as …
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# 51436
JOHNSON, Heather
The Sydney art patronage system 1890-1940
Grass Point [N.S.W.] : Bungoona Technologies, 1997. Octavo, lettered wrappers, pp. 279, black and white illustrations. Scarce. Includes numerous references to Norman Lindsay, Lionel Lindsay and other artists of the period. A mint copy.
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# 51422
CAINS, Geoffrey
Access denied : a bibliography of suppressed Australian literature
Haberfied, NSW : Longueville Media, for the author, 2021. Large octavo, publisher’s red cloth with pictorial dust jacket; pp. xiii, [1], 294; with numerous colour illustrations; a very fine copy.
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![[HAWAII] Archive of original photographs taken (and collected) by a US sailor in Hawaii in 1945.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/08/2026_DSFB_5516-300x300.jpg)
# 51308
[Photographer unknown]
[HAWAII] Archive of original photographs taken (and collected) by a US sailor in Hawaii in 1945.
Group of 120 gelatin silver print photographs in snapshot format, approx. 115 x 67 mm; the majority taken by an unidentified US serviceman using a personal Kodak camera, the remainder commercial photos obtained by him at the time; a small number with handwritten captions verso; a few images duplicated; in uniformly good condition, with a …
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![[GOLD MINING] Russell's Gold Battery on Tararu Creek, Thames Goldfields, Coromandel Peninsula, New Zealand, 1869.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/08/2026_DSFB_5513-223x300.jpg)
# 51355
MUNDY, Daniel Louis (1826-1881)
[GOLD MINING] Russell’s Gold Battery on Tararu Creek, Thames Goldfields, Coromandel Peninsula, New Zealand, 1869.
Albumen print photograph, 225 x 170 mm; mounted on section of a leaf of thickish card removed from a nineteenth-century album; in fine condition. The Auckland Museum (Mundy Album, no. 2) holds a number of Mundy’s photographs of the Thames Goldfields, including another example of the view offered here, which it dates to 1869. The scene …
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![[LINDSAY]. Our new selection](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2020/01/08164353/2020_DSFB_0072-300x300.jpg)
# 51404
RUDD, Steele (pseud.).
[LINDSAY]. Our new selection
Sydney : The Bulletin Newspaper Company, 1903. Octavo, illustrated cloth (lightly marked), pp. [xii]; 211; 16, occasional scattered foxing, edges stained red, illustrated throughout by Norman, Lionel and Percy Lindsay.
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# 51386
GELLERT, Leon; LINDSAY, Norman
Songs of a campaign. (Presentation copy for Bertram Stevens, signed by Gellert)
Sydney : Angus & Robertson 1917. Third, enlarged edition. Octavo, decorated cloth (slightly rubbed), illustrated endpapers, pp. 124, illustrated by Norman Lindsay. Presentation inscription ‘Mr. Bertram Stevens, The Lone Hand’ on the half-title, signed by the author Leon Gellert on title page, some pencil annotations throughout. First edition to be illustrated by Lindsay. Rare signed.
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# 50733
MÜLLER, Andreas
Andr. Mülleri Greiffenhagii Besser Unterricht Von der Sineser Schrifft und Druck/ Als etwa in Herrn Doct. Eliae Grebnitzen Unterricht Von der Reformirten Und Lutherischen Kirchen enthalten ist.
Berlin : bey Christoff Runge, 1680. Quarto, modern papered boards with gilt-lettered red leather title label to front; pp. 28 (including title), lacking the four unnumbered Addenda leaves at rear; woodcut headpiece, Chinese character (p. 12) and various other symbols in text; first two leaves with minor restoration at gutter, paper browned; ex libris label of …
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# 51316
[PROPAGANDE FIDE]
Augusto Friderico, magnae Britanniae principi, Georgii Regis filio, Carmina linguis exoticis in honorem Dei pueri a tribus magis adorati …
[Rome : Propaganda Fide Press, 1793], Folio (360 x 230 mm), original decorative paper wrappers (upper wrapper almost detached, and lacking backstrip); ff. [1 blank], I-XXIII (i.e. 23 numbered leaves); printed on recto only and within an ornamental border; engraved arms of the Duke of Sussex at the head of title-page; verso of first blank …
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# 51229
LANGSDORFF, Georg Heinrich von
Bemerkungen auf einer Reise um die Welt in den Jahren 1803 bis 1807,
von G. H. von Langsdorff, Kaiserlich-Russischen Hofrath, Ritter es St. Annen-Orens zweiter Classe, Mitglied mehrerer Akademien und gelehrten Gesellschaften … … Frankfurt am Mayn : Im Verlag bey Friedrich Wilmans, 1812. Two volumes, quarto (270 x 220 mm), contemporary uniform bindings of half calf over marbled papered boards (rubbed, corners somewhat worn), spines in compartments …
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# 51227
[HARTGERS, Joost]
Wonderlijcke Voyagie, by de Hollanders gedaen, door de Strate Magalanes, ende voorts den gantschen kloot des Aertbodems om, met vier Schepen : onder den Admirael Olivier van Noort,
uytghevaren Anno 1598. Hier achter is by-gevoeght de tweede Voyagie an Iacob van Neck, naer Oost-Indien. t’Amstelredam : Joost Hartgerts, 1648. Quarto (240 x 185 mm), later vellum-backed marbled papered boards; pp. 88; title with large woodcut, one foldout plate with 6 woodcuts; decorated initials, tailpieces; a very good copy with wide margins. The fourth European …
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# 51213
[LOUIS-LE-GRAND]
Catalogue des livres de la bibliothèque des ci-devant soi-disant Jésuites du Collége de Clermont, dont la Vente commencera le Lundi 19 Mars 1764.
Paris : Saugrain & Leclerc, 1764. Octavo, contemporary sheep-backed speckled papered boards (joints expertly repaired), flat spine with gilt lettering and decoration; edges stained red; half-title leaf, pp. xviii, 488; later pencilled annotation on the title notes that the sale was finished on the 18 August 1764; a few marginal annotations, (quite possibly by the …
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# 50758
MAIORICA, Girolamo; SEMEDO, Àlvaro; TRIGAULT, Nicolas
De novis Christianae Religionis progressibvs, et certaminibus in Iaponia, anno M. DC. XXII. in Regno Sinarvm, M. DC. XXI. et M. DC. XXII. Litterae; ad Reuerendum in Christo Patrem Mvtivm Vitellescvm Praepositvm Generalem Societatis Iesv
ad Reuerendum in Christo Patrem Mvtivm Vitellescvm Praepositvm Generalem Societatis Iesv. Monasterii Westphaliae [Münster] : Ex Officina Typographica Michaelis Dalii [Michael Dalius, or Daly], 1627. Quarto (200 x 160 mm), contemporary limp vellum with early manuscript lettering to spine; title with woodcut Jesuit device, early ownership inscription of the Collegium Embricense (the Jesuit college at Emmerich …