Rare Books

# 48914

CLAYTON, Samuel

Bookplate for Charles Izard Manigault, Sydney, 1818.

Engraving on thin paper, 88 x 65 mm (plate line), 107 x 66 mm (sheet), trimmed to the right plate line, unmounted, light toning; a very good example. See article: The earliest known Australian bookplate, by Matthew Fishburn, Hordern House, Sydney. This is perhaps the earliest known Australian bookplate, engraved by convict artist Samuel Clayton …

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# 51579

ATTENBOROUGH, David (1926 - )

Life stories. (Signed copy)

London : Harper Collins, 2009. First edition. Octavo, boards in illustrated dust jacket; pp. 224, extensively illustrated. Signed and inscribed by David Attenborough in blue pen on the title-page: ‘To Mark, David Attenborough’. A fine copy. Collected stories from the ‘Life’ series by popular naturalist and television broadcaster David Attenborough.

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# 51754

HARRISON, George (1943 - 2001)

Songs by George Harrison

Guildford (U.K.) : Genesis Publications, 1987. Octavo, half-crushed black morocco over cloth bound boards, embossed in blind with images of piano keys and a guitar, all edges gilt, in gilt-lettered black clamshell box, with an inner drawer housing a compact disk, 175 [5] pp., extensively illustrated in colour by Keith West. Printed in an edition …

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# 15798

BLOCKLEY, John (composer); NORTON, Caroline Sheridan

[SHEET MUSIC] Love not : a ballad / the music composed by J. Blockley ; the poetry selected from The soorows of Rosalie, written by The Honble. Mrs Norton.

Sydney : G. Hudson & Co., 377 Pitt Street North, [1849, or earlier]. Folio, disbound, with later paper spine, engraved cover with calligraphic lettering in a variety of fonts, 5 pp of music notation; a very good copy. A scarce Sydney sheet music imprint from the pre-gold rush period. Only two copies of this edition are recorded …

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# 51627

FORREST (HAMERSLEY), Lady Margaret Elvire (1844-1929)

Lady Margaret Elvire Forrest, botanical illustrator: cut signature (Western Australia, c.1890).

Manuscript in ink, 40 x 125 mm, mounted on a section of card cut from a nineteenth-century album leaf; very well preserved. Provenance: Autograph album compiled by Jane Emma Murphy (Balcombe) (1854-1924), “The Briars”, Mornington, Victoria, philanthropist, socialite and suffragist; à Beckett family, Melbourne (by descent). ‘Forrest, Margaret Elvire, Lady (née Hamersley) (1844-1929). Born …

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# 51576

NANCE, F. R. (Florence Rush)

Soochow : the garden city

Shanghai : Kelly & Walsh Limited, 1936. First edition. Octavo (185 x 125 mm), publisher’s pictorial boards (lightly foxed); endpaper maps, pp. [8], 76., with 24 b/w plates of photographs by C. H. Wong, 5 folding maps; binding firm, very clean throughout, an excellent copy. First edition of this guidebook to Soochow (Suzhou), written by …

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# 51558

STORRIE, A. L. and KETTLEWELL, J. W. (compilers)

The Eastern & Australian Steamship Co. Ltd. Tourist Guide to China, Japan, islands and ports en route, Australia and Tasmania

Sydney : William Dymock, 1899. Small quarto, gilt-lettered red cloth (marked, recessed), advertisement for David Jones to lower board, advertisements to endpapers, pp. xvi; 288, extensively photographically illustrated and with several two tone maps, a few marks, some bleeding from red boards to lower few leaves, a very good copy. A very scarce tourists guide …

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# 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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# 51510

Almanach parisien, en faveur des étrangers et des personnes curieuses:

Indiquant par ordre alphabétique tous les Monumens des Beaux Arts, répandus dans la ville de Paris & aux environs : ce qui a pour objet Les lieux remarquables, ou par la grandeur du dessein, ou par les morceaux de Peinture & de Sculpture qu’on y voit ; Edifices sacrés, Châteaux & Maisons Royales, Palais, Hôtels, …

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# 51383

INGLETON, Geoffrey C.; COLWELL, Max; TENNANT, Kylie

“Peter the Whaler in Southern Seas” : an archive relating to the book’s creation and publication.

Peter the Whaler in Southern Seas was an Australian collaboration between writer Max Colwell and artist Geoffrey C. Ingleton. The book tells the story of Australian whaling for young readers. It was published in 1964 by Macmillan in its series Great Stories of Australia, which was edited by another Australian writer, Kylie Tennant. The book was printed …

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# 51503

SLESSOR, Kenneth

Cuckooz Contrey

With a reproduction of an etching by Norman Lindsay. Sydney : Frank Johnson, 1932. Octavo, lettered papered boards in dustjacket (small chips to spine and upper panel), frontispiece reproduction of a Lindsay etching, pp. 77, occasional foxing. The Jacaranda Tree Book of Australian Verse, Number Two. Printed in an edition of 500 copies. Rare in …

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# 51337

SMITH, James (editor)

The Cyclopedia of Victoria (Illustrated).

An historical and commercial review. Descriptive and biographical, facts, figures and illustrations. An epitome of progress. Melbourne : The Cyclopedia Company and Ballarat : F. W. Niven and Co., 1903 – 5. Three volumes, quarto, modern binding of half goatskin over blue cloth, contrasting morocco title labels to spines, lettered in gilt, new endpapers, marbled …

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# 51340

TOLKIEN, J. R. R. (1892-1973)

The Lord of the Rings. (Deluxe edition)

Part 1 : The Fellowship of the Ring. Part II : The two towers. Part III : The return of the king. London : George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1969 (1974, fourth impression). Deluxe edition printed on India paper. Octavo, gilt-illustrated black cloth (a few marks), marbled endpapers, pp. 1193, (2); title page in red …

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# 51450

STEWART, Douglas; LINDSAY, Norman (illustrator)

[NORMAN LINDSAY] Fisher’s ghost : an historical comedy (with proof illustrations)

by Douglas Stewart. Illustrated by Norman Lindsay. Sydney : The Wentworth Press, 1960. Limited edition of 200 copies (this copy number 60), signed in full on the colophon by Douglas Stewart, Norman Lindsay and Walter Stone. Royal octavo, fine blue cloth covered boards with gilt lettering to front, in Norman Lindsay dustjacket (a couple of …

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# 51555

MILLER, Harry Tatlock

Manuscripts : a miscellany of art and letters : no. 11. November 25, 1934

Geelong, Vic. : at the Bookshop [H. Tatlock Miller, proprietor], [1934]. Quarto, pictorial card wrappers designed by A.N. Baldwinson (a few light marks, foxing towards spine), 64 pp (edges with light foxing), illustrated. Harry Tatlock Miller edited and published this important quarterly journal of Australian art and literature between 1931 and 1935. Lacking the resources …

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# 51550

MILLER, Harry Tatlock

Manuscripts : a miscellany of art and letters : no. 9. May 1934.

Geelong, Vic. : at the Bookshop [H. Tatlock Miller, proprietor], 1934. Quarto, pictorial card wrappers designed by A.N. Baldwinson (some light discolouration and edge chipping), 77 pp (edges with light foxing), illustrated. Harry Tatlock Miller edited and published this important quarterly journal of Australian art and literature between 1931 and 1935. Lacking the resources to …

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