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# 45577

ARENAL, Concepción

[TRANSPORTATION] Las colonias penales de la Australia y la pena de deportación.

Memoria premiada por la Real Academia de Ciencias Morales y Politicas en el concurso ordinario de 1875. Madrid : Eduardo Martinez, 1877. Large octavo (255 x 170 mm), publisher’s wrappers (lightly marked, head and tail of spine chipped), 99 pp; text in Spanish; entirely unopened, a very good copy. Ferguson 6092. In 1875 the Spanish …

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# 45576

"WULLA MERRII" (pseud.)

[QUEENSLAND] The Fire Stick : incidents in the shearer’s strike : a tale of Australian bush life.

[s.l.] : [s.n.], [1893]. Octavo, illustrated boards (minor rubbing), recent bookplate to front pastedown, pp. 223; a very good copy. A novel set against the 1891 Queensland Shearer’s Strike. This dispute between unionised and non-unionised shearers is regarded as a direct precursor to the formation of the Australian Labor Party. The novel is written from …

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# 45575

JACKSON, Gladys (1881 - ?)

Under the banyan. (Signed presentation copy)

Hong Kong : privately printed, 1925. Octavo, lettered flushcut cloth wrappers (lightly stained and edge worn), presentation inscription to the front free endpaper ‘With love and best wishes, Gladys Jackson. Hong Kong, Feb. 1929’. pp. [iv]; iv; [ii]; 114, light foxing to preliminaries else very good. Includes a number of poems relating to the Great …

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# 40345

SMOLLETT, Thomas

[FORE-EDGE PAINTING]. The history of England, from the revolution in 1688, to the death of George the Second.

London : Christie & Son, et al., 1918. Volume 1 (only). Duodecimo, full straight-grained red Morocco, gilded borders and emblem, spine in compartments with gilt-lettering and ornaments (a little scuffed and rubbed), all edges gilt, owner’s label of Rollo Hammett to front pastedown, pp. x; 419, with a fore-edge painting of a lake scene with …

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# 45114

ROBINSON, Catharine

[MAP OF MATRIMONY; AUSTRALIAN NATIVE BIRDS] A late Georgian-era album amicorum belonging to a London lady, with original drawings and poetry dating from 1832 to 1860.

Quarto (245 x 200 mm), original luxurious binding of full leather elaborately embossed, both boards featuring a central cartouche with a depiction of the Roman goddess Luna in her chariot and holding torch, the spine with the word ‘ALBUM’ in gilt at the head; gilt dentelles, all edges gilt, original endpapers; pictorial title leaf engraved …

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# 45536

THE AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE

Declaration of Human Rights. Submitted by The American Jewish Committee, 386 Fourth Avenue, New York City.

[New York, NY : The American Jewish Committee, 1944]. Broadsheet, 280 x 215 mm, printed recto only; used as a form for individuals to register their name and address as willing signatories to the Declaration; in very good condition. ‘With the inevitable end of Hitler, the struggle begins, not of tank and plane, but of …

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# 45069

BERAN, Harry; CRAIG, Barry

Shields of Melanesia

/ Edited by Harry Beran and Barry Craig. Honolulu, HI : University of Hawai’i Press, in association with Oceanic Art Society, Sydney, 2005. Quarto (295 x 215 mm), publisher’s black cloth-covered boards in pictorial dust jacket; pp. xix, [1], 287; illustrated in colour and b/w; maps; light handling wear, an excellent copy.

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# 44733

VALLERY-RADOT, Rene

The life of Pasteur

Translated from the French by Mrs. R. L. Devonshire. London : Constable & Company, 1948. Reprint. Octavo, Geelong College prize binding of full calf, ruled in gilt, the school’s motto to upper board, spine sunned, spine in compartments with raised bands, gilt ornamentation, contrasting morocco title label, marbled edges and endpapers, prize label to upper …

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# 45483

RAAF

[NORTHERN TERRITORY] Australian aeronautical map: Barrow Creek (Sheet F6)

[Canberra?] : RAAF Headquarters, 1944. “Reprinted August 1944, with minor amendments”. “For use in daylight or under red light”. Colour map, 48 x 70 cm. Equatorial scale 1:1,000,000; original folds, very slightly trimmed at right edge, otherwise very good.

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# 45481

RAAF

[QUEENSLAND] Australian aeronautical map: Cloncurry (Sheet F7)

[Canberra?] : RAAF Headquarters, 1945. “Reprinted July 1945, with minor adjustments”. “For use in daylight or under red light”. Colour map, 48 x 70 cm. Equatorial scale 1:1,000,000; original folds, very slightly trimmed at right edge, a few minor stains in lower section, otherwise very good.

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# 45482

RAAF

[NORTHERN TERRITORY] Australian aeronautical map: Darwin (Sheet D6)

[Canberra?] : RAAF Headquarters, 1945. “Reprinted June 1945, with major amendments”. “For use in daylight or under red light”. Colour map, 48 x 70 cm. Equatorial scale 1:1,000,000; one flight path marked in red pencil; original folds, very slightly trimmed at right edge, otherwise very good.

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# 45484

RAAF

[NEW SOUTH WALES] Australian aeronautical map: Bourke (Sheet H8)

[Canberra?] : RAAF Headquarters, 1945. “Reprinted June 1945, with minor amendments”. “For use in daylight or under red light”. Colour map, 48 x 70 cm. Equatorial scale 1:1,000,000; original folds, very slightly trimmed at right edge, otherwise very good.

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# 38393

LOPEZ DE GOMARA, Francisco

Primera y secunda parte de la historia general de las Indias

cõ todo el descubrimiento, y cosas notables que han acaescido donde que se ganaron hasta el año de 1551. Con la conquista de Mexico, y dela nueva España. Medina del Campo : Guillermo de Millis, 1553. Second edition.Two parts in one, folio (275 x 200 mm), contemporary vellum over boards, original ties partially intact, spine with early title …

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# 43448

POMIS, David ben Isaac de (1524 - ca.1594)

De Medico Hebraeo Enarratio Apologica … …

Venice : Apud Ioannem Variscum [Giovanni Varisco], 1588. First (and only) edition. Octavo (190 x 140 mm), modern brown cloth over boards; original first blank with early ownership signature to verso (browned, clipped at upper corner), title-page with vignette woodcut printer’s device, and with coat of arms to verso; pp. [7] (Dedication to Francesco Maria II …

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# 42439

Matos (Mattos), Gabriel de (1572-1633)

Lettera annua del Giappone del M. DCXIV. Al molto Rever. Padre Generale della Compagnia di GIESU.

Scritta dal Padre Gabriel de Mattos della medesima Compagnia di Giesù. Rome : Bartolomeo Zannetti, 1617. Octavo, later papered boards with gilt-lettered leather title-piece to spine; title with woodcut Jesuit device, and with an early nineteenth-century ownership inscription to bottom margin; pp. 205; occasional browning, a fine copy. ‘The first Italian edition (the original was …

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# 38366

[MANUSCRIPT] A Journal or Narrative of the Proceedings betweene the Commissioners appointed by His Majestie, and the Commissioners Deputed by the States Generall, pursuant to the Treaty of Peace made at Westminster 9/19 Ffebruary 1673/4 Concerning a Treaty Marine to be observed throughout all the World. And also an Article particularly relateing to the English and Dutch East India Companyes Concluded in the yeare 1674.

[London, 1674-75]. Folio (300 x 200 mm), old mottled calf gilt, spine with raised bands, gilt ornament, and contrasting title labels lettered in gilt; all edges gilt; manuscript written in English, Latin, Dutch and French in several contemporary secretarial hands; ff 269; clean and fresh throughout. An important contemporary manuscript record of the Mixed Commission established to draw up …

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