Rare Books

# 45339

SMITH, Thomas

Le Cabinet du jeune naturaliste, ou Tableaux intéressants de l’histoire des animaux … …

Paris : chez Maradan, libraire, rue des Grands Augustins, no. 9, 1810. Six volumes, octavo, uniform contemporary bindings of green straight-grain morocco, boards with double-gilt rule, spines with titles, volume numbers and animal vignettes in gilt; pastedowns all with the beautiful illustrated ex libris of Jean-Marie-Philippe Sauzey, avocat, pastedown of first volume also with ticket …

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# 45459

COLONY OF VICTORIA. ROYAL COMMISSIONS. [PATERSON, James]

The Melbourne Harbour Trust Commissioners. Reports of Royal Commissions on Noxious Trades, 1870 & 1871. Silting up of the Bay, 1871 & 1872. Low Lands, 1873. Commissioner Paterson.

Melbourne : Government Printer, 1870-75. Six Royal Commission reports printed for the Parliament of Victoria (itemised below). Foolscap folio (320 x 205 mm), in a special presentation binding for James Paterson, Melbourne Harbour Trust Commissioner, of limp maroon morocco with double-gilt rule (some light staining and moderate wear), cover stamped in gilt ‘The Melbourne Harbour …

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# 45613

MABEL COLLECTIVE [FIGNER, Vera, ed.]

Mabel : Australian feminist newspaper. No. 1 December 1975.

Sydney, N.S.W. : Mabel Collective, 1975. Folio newspaper, 24 pp, illustrated; original central horizontal fold, front page foxed, otherwise very good. Eight issues of Mabel were published between Dec. 1975 and Sept. 1977. A history of the newspaper by Paula J. Byrne, Mabelled, appeared in Hecate, v.22, no.2, 1996, p.87-100.

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# 44525

G. N. RAYMOND PTY. LTD. (Melbourne)

[GAME] Crazy Post.

Indoors or out, a kind of treasure hunt! For young & old. Collingwood, Vic. : G. N. Raymond Pty. Ltd., by arrangement with Universal Publications Ltd., London, [1941]. Publisher’s box with pictorial lid, 180 x 120 x 35 mm, containing 12 destination cards each printed with the detachable names of 32 Australian towns including Bunbury, …

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# 45552

SLADE, William Joseph

[MEDICINE] Portrait of Andrew W. Nash. Newcastle, New South Wales, c.1884.

Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 105 x 63 mm; verso with the back mark of ‘SLADE (Late Williams), Artist in Photography, Hunter Stree, Newcastle, N.S.W.’, and a signed inscription in pencil by the sitter: ‘A. W. Nash, Australian Club, Edinburgh, Scotland. A.W.N.’; the print has some light rubbing and mottling in the negative; …

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# 45460

BRONTE, Charlotte and Anne.

The novels of the sisters Bronte

Edinburgh : John Grant, 1924. The Thornton edition. Twelve volumes, octavo, original gilt-decorated cloth (a few corners slightly bumped, internally clean), top edges gilt, fore edges uncut, illustrated with numerous plates. A fine set of the collected works.

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# 41839

McLOUGHLIN BROTHERS

Game of Round the World with Nellie Bly, the World’s Globe Circler

A novel and fascinating game with plenty of excitement by land and sea. New York : McLoughlin Brothers, [c.1890]. Chromolithograph game board, 415 x 400 mm, in two sheets, folding, with vignettes of Nellie Bly, Jules Verne, a steam ship and a steam train; in fine condition, housed in a modern box in period style with …

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# 44735

BRITTON, A. (editor) et al.

Historical records of New South Wales

Mona Vale, N.S.W. : Lansdowne, Slattery and Company, 1978-1980. Facsimile edition of the first edition published between 1892 – 1901. Seven volumes in eight, octavo, cloth in dustjacket (edges lightly rubbed), pagination various, illustrated, together with the facsimile volume of charts, quarto, to accompany Vol. 1, Part 1. A very good set. Complete.

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# 45110

SOCIETY OF FRIENDS. LONDON YEARLY MEETING.

Tracts relative to the Aborigines / published by direction of the Meeting for Sufferings from 1838 to 1842

London : Edward Marsh, 84 Houndsditch, 1843. Series: Tracts relative to the Aborigines, nos. 1-8. Octavo (210 x 135 mm), original blind-blocked green cloth with gilt-lettered spine (upper board with stain at fore-edge penetrating to pastedown and front endpaper), front free-endpaper with two early North American Society of Friends Meeting inscriptions; pp. i-xii; 1-60 (Information …

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# 43550

[MacNAUGHTON FAMILY]

Album with original humorous and satirical drawings and sketches by members of a talented Scottish family, circa 1900.

Square octavo (180 x 145 mm), original grey cloth over boards (minor staining), the front board embroidered in blue thread ‘Album’; front pastedown with small ownership label of C. J. MacNaughton; containing approx. [30] pages with original drawings by three competent amateur artists, mainly in pen and ink but some in watercolour or pencil, which …

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# 45608

GLEESON-WHITE, Sarah

Ray Mathew : an Australian for life

Canberra : NLA, 2005. Square octavo (205 x 185 mm), pictorial French flaps, pp. 38, illustrated in b/w; includes interview with Mathew by Kate Jennings; an excellent copy. A homage to the Sydney-born poet, novelist, playwright, scriptwriter and critic Ray Mathew (1929-2002), who left Australia in 1960, near to return. He lived and worked in New …

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# 45569

J. C. WILLIAMSON THEATRES LTD.; AUSTRALIAN ELIZABETHAN THEATRE TRUST

[MELBOURNE; THEATRE] “Hamlet”, by William Shakespeare. (Season commencing 23 July 1957, at the Comedy Theatre)

Melbourne : J C. Williamson Theatres Ltd., 1957. Theatre programme. Octavo (215 x 140 mm), stapled wrappers, pp. 26, b/w photographic illustrations of the leading cast members, advertisements; a very good copy. Melbourne actress Zoe Caldwell (1933-2020) was a rising local star when she played Ophelia in this production at the Comedy Theatre; she went …

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# 45568

MINERVA THEATRE

[SYDNEY; THEATRE] Minerva Theatre magazine programme. (For “French Without Tears”, season commencing 23 May 1940)

Sydney, NSW : Whitmarks Pty. Ltd. [for Minerva Centre Ltd.], 1940. Small quarto (240 x 185 mm), original pictorial wrappers, staple bound; 20 pp, with photographic portraits of actors Aileen Britton, Don Nicol, Lloyd Lamble, Jane Conolly, and Charles Norman, and many fabulous advertisements for Kings Cross and Sydney businesses; a fine copy. Programme for …

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# 45556

W. J. NORMAN (publisher / retailer)

Carte de visite photograph of a French risqué print, published and sold in Melbourne around 1870.

Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 100 x 63 mm (mount); verso with the imprint of ‘W. J. Norman, Looking Glass & Picture Frame Manufacturer, 94 & 170 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne. Looking Glasses Re-silvered, Frames Re-gilded. Great variety of Photographs’; some very light foxing to the print, more pronounced on the verso. We have previously …

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# 45527

WALTER, Charles (Carl) (1831-1907)

Whaling scene at Twofold Bay, Eden, New South Wales, 1870.

Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each image approximately 82 x 82 mm (square format), signed and numbered by the photographer at lower right of the right-hand image ‘C. Walter 166’; on original black card mount, 87 x 177 mm, verso blank; slight loss of contrast in the upper part of each image, otherwise the prints are …

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# 45558

BRUTON, J. E. (photographer); YORK, Frederick (publisher)

H. M. Stanley, the African explorer.

[Title from printed caption on mount]. Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 105 x 63 mm; recto of mount printed in lower margin ‘H. M. Stanley, the African explorer. Photographed by J. E. Bruton, Cape Town. F. York, London, Copyright’; verso blank; in fine condition. A superb portrait of Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904), Welsh-American explorer, …

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