Rare Books

  • The stone implements of the Maori.

    # 50553

    BEST, Elsdon

    The stone implements of the Maori.

    Wellington, NZ : John Mackay, Government Printer, 1912. Series: Dominion Museum. Bulletin No. 4. First edition. Quarto (285 x 225 mm), recent half calf over marbled papered boards, spine in compartments with gilt-lettered black leather title label; title-leaf, pp. 410; with 50 b/w photographic plates and one folding line-drawn plate, plus other illustrations in the …

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  • Norman Lindsay : drawn to women. The complete published etchings

    # 50568

    HAPLEY, Melissa

    Norman Lindsay : drawn to women. The complete published etchings

    Perth, W.A. : Art Gallery of Western Australia, [2006]. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (rubbed, light handling marks) , pp. 46, illustrated. Catalogue of exhibition held at the Art Gallery of Western Australia from 15 October 2006 to 14 January 2007.

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  • Carte de l'île de la Réunion, par Bory de S.t Vincent, officier d'État-Major, pour servir à son Voyage dans quatre îles des mers d'Afrique;

    # 50497

    BORY DE SAINT-VINCENT, Jean-Baptiste (1778-1846)

    Carte de l’île de la Réunion, par Bory de S.t Vincent, officier d’État-Major, pour servir à son Voyage dans quatre îles des mers d’Afrique;

    Dédiée à son Excellence le Maréchal Berthier, Ministre de la Guerre. [Paris, Dépôt de la Guerre, 1804]. Engraved map, dissected into eighteen panels and laid on linen,  645 x 860 mm., some light stains and wear along the folds, title label with manuscript Carte de Bourbon, a very good example. The very rare separately issued version …

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  • Nature's investigator : the diary of Robert Brown in Australia, 1801-1805

    # 50563

    VALLANCE, T. G. et al.

    Nature’s investigator : the diary of Robert Brown in Australia, 1801-1805

    Compiled by T.G. Vallance, D.T. Moore & E.W. Groves. Canberra, ACT : Australian Biological Resources Study (Flora), [2001]. Octavo, laminated pictorial boards, maps to endpapers, previous owner’s name to front free endpaper, pp. xii; 666, illustrations, a fine copy. Scarce. The diary of Robert Brown, naturalist on the ‘Investigator’ voyage of Matthew Flinders, with much …

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    # 50554

    Java the wonderland. Illustrated. Guide and tourist’s handbook.

    Weltevreden (Batavia) : Official Tourist Bureau, c. 1900. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, cloth spine, pp. 106, extensively illustrated in black and white, folding colour map at rear, the title page neatly excised and a photocopy supplied, else a very good copy.

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  • [MELBOURNE THEATRE] Weston's New Opera House. Bourke Str. East, Melbourne. Soirée d'Ethiop. Opera. Instrumental. Comedy. Terpsichore. Burlesque. West & Hussey's Minstrels, presented with the compliments of Messrs. Weston & Hussey. H. Peachman, Agent.

    # 50560

    TROEDEL, Charles (printer)

    [MELBOURNE THEATRE] Weston’s New Opera House. Bourke Str. East, Melbourne. Soirée d’Ethiop. Opera. Instrumental. Comedy. Terpsichore. Burlesque. West & Hussey’s Minstrels, presented with the compliments of Messrs. Weston & Hussey. H. Peachman, Agent.

    [Drop title]. [Melbourne : Charles Troedel, 1869]. Souvenir programme printed in purple on cream silk, bifolium, 200 x 140 mm, a bifolium printed on two of [4] sides, stitched at left edge and opening to reveal the third side containing the programme itself, headed ‘Grand Vice-Regal Command Night’; extremely well preserved; accompanied by two typed …

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  • First views of Australia 1788-1825 : an early history of Sydney

    # 50550

    McCORMICK, Tim

    First views of Australia 1788-1825 : an early history of Sydney

    Sydney : Longueville Publications, 1987. Edition limited to 2000 copies. Large quarto, publisher’s navy cloth boards lettered in gilt, in illustrated dust jacket, light handling marks and small tear, small stain to fore edge, 340 pp, illustrated throughout (mostly colour plates), introduction by Robert Irving, with biographical notes on the artists, index; a very good …

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  • Ferdinand Bauer : the Australian natural history drawings

    # 50549

    NORST, Marlene J.

    Ferdinand Bauer : the Australian natural history drawings

    Melbourne : Lothian, 1989. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, some light edge wear, pp. 120, illustrated.

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  • Brittany

    # 50545

    MENPES, Mortimer and Dorothy

    Brittany

    London : Adam & Charles Black, 1905. Quarto, gilt-lettered decorated cloth over bevelled boards (lightly marked, spine slightly dulled), top edge gilt, others uncut, endpapers lightly foxed, pp. x; 254, illustrated with 75 colour plates with captioned tissue guards, occasional scattered foxing, a very good copy. The edition de luxe, limited to 350 numbered copies …

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  • The native tribes of South-East Australia

    # 50536

    HOWITT, A. W.

    The native tribes of South-East Australia

    London : Macmillan, 1904. Octavo, gilt-decorated cloth (rubbed, bottom corners bumped, spine ends softened with short split at head of spine); ex-library with stamp removed from spine, wetstamp and bookplate from the Royal Colonial Institute to front pastedown (no other markings), pp. xx, 819, maps and folding plates; light foxing to outermost leaves, a good …

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  • The northern tribes of Central Australia

    # 50534

    SPENCER, Baldwin and GILLEN, F. J. (Francis James)

    The northern tribes of Central Australia

    London : Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1904. Octavo, publisher’s gilt-decorated cloth over boards (some flecking and light marks), spine lettered in gilt; bookseller’s label removed from pastedown; pp xxxv, 784, [2 publisher’s advertisements], illustrated with black-and-white plates and diagrams, folding colour and black-and-white, folding colour plates; front hinge cracked, lightly foxed, extensively annotated in pencil.

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  • The Chater collection. Pictures relating to China, Hongkong, Macao, 1655 - 1860

    # 50532

    ORANGE, James

    The Chater collection. Pictures relating to China, Hongkong, Macao, 1655 – 1860

    With historical and descriptive letterpress. London : Thornton Butterworth, 1924. Quarto, gilt-lettered cloth (lightly marked), top edge gilt, pp. 528, numerous colour and black and white plates, tissue guards; a very good copy. Limited to 750 numbered copies. “The book was compiled by James Orange in 1924 and is one of the most significant historical …

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  • Norman Lindsay: 80 Years of Pencil Drawings.

    # 50502

    [LINDSAY, Norman]. BLOOMFIELD, Lin (ed.).

    Norman Lindsay: 80 Years of Pencil Drawings.

    Bungendore : Odana Editions, 2008. Quarto, pictorial boards (very small bump to one corner), 335 pages, profusely illustrated; a new copy. During his long creative life Norman Lindsay produced works in many media, but pencil was the only one he used continuously from childhood to old age. The earliest drawing reproduced in this book was …

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  • True light and shade : an aboriginal perspective of Joseph Lycett's art

    # 50498

    MAYNARD, John

    True light and shade : an aboriginal perspective of Joseph Lycett’s art

    Canberra : National Library of Australia, 2014. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 168, illustrated. Out of print, a fine copy. ‘True light and shade’ is filled with beautiful images by convict artist Joseph Lycett that powerfully capture in intimate detail Aboriginal life, a rare record of Aboriginal people within the vicinity of Newcastle and how they …

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  • First Fleet artist. George Raper's birds & plants of Australia

    # 50484

    GROOM, Linda

    First Fleet artist. George Raper’s birds & plants of Australia

    Canberra : National Gallery of Australia, 2009. Quarto, illustrated boards, pp. 146, slight sunning to spine. Natural history and topographical art from the First Fleet.

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  • Fleeting encounters : pictures & chronicles of the First Fleet

    # 50483

    EMMETT, Peter

    Fleeting encounters : pictures & chronicles of the First Fleet

    Sydney : Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, 1995. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 132, illustrated.

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