Rare Books

# 51186

DAVIS, John Staige

Plastic surgery : its principles and practice.

With 864 illustrations containing 1637 figures. Philadelphia : P. Blakiston’s Son & Co. 1919. First edition. Octavo, gilt-lettered burgundy cloth, spine slightly sunned, contemporary booksellers label of Angus & Robertson, Sydney, to front pastedown, pp. xv; [blank]; 770, extensively illustrated with black and white photographs and diagrams, edges and preliminaries slightly foxed, a very good …

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# 51309

CUTLER, Elliott C., and ZOLLINGER, Robert

Atlas of surgical operations

Illustrated by Mildred B. Codding. New York : The Macmillan Company, 1939. First edition. Folio. publisher’s gilt-lettered cloth, lightly rubbed, pp. x; [ii]; 181; [blank], illustrated with 84 black and white plates of the human anatomy and surgical procedures, internally clean, a fine copy. Cutler and Zollinger’s Atlas of Surgical Operations is considered one of the …

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# 51021

NEWTON & CO. (maker)

[ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION] Scott’s “Discovery” Expedition (1901-04) and “Terra Nova” Expedition (1910-13), and the Shackleton-Rowett “Quest” Expedition (1921-22): a near-complete set of magic lantern slides.

London : Newton & Co., [between 1922 and 1925]. Group of 38 (of 42) photographic glass magic lantern slides, in uniform 82 x 82 mm format (mount size); the outer black paper borders all neatly titled in ms. in white ink: ‘Antarctic Expeditions’, along with a sequence number in the range 1-42 (lacking nos. 22/36/37/41); …

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# 51365

HENTY, E. A. (Mrs. Edward Starkey)

Australian shooting sketches, and other stories

London : Digby, Long, & Co., 1907. Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth (slightly dulled), presentations inscription from the author to the front free endpaper (with an old repaired tear), pp. 319; (1 – advertisement), a few spots of foxing but a very good copy. Mrs. Edward Starkey was a member of the Henty family, her grandmother (described …

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# 50011

NOBEL, Alfred

Expériences avec la Nitroglycerine (Produit liquide pour l’Explosion des Mines).

Bruxelles : Alfred Nobel, chausée de Louvain 126b, le 18 juillet 1865. Lithographed invitation, single quarto sheet (270 x 210 mm), printed recto only; light old vertical and horizontal folds and diagonal crease lower left, a small amount of foxing, and a couple of tiny perforations; overall a well-preserved example. In 1865, Alfred Nobel and …

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# 49528

MAWE, John (1764-1829)

The voyager’s companion, or shell collector’s pilot;

with instructions and directions where to find the finest shells; also for preserving the skins of animals; and the best methods of catching and preserving insects &c. &c. &c. London : printed for and sold by the author, and by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1825. Fourth edition. Duodecimo, publisher’s green cloth, title …

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# 51192

WALKER, Henrietta C.

Bungalook basketry and rafia hats.

/ With photographic illustrations. Cover title: Bungalook basketry : a new handicraft and a profitable hobby. What can be done with stringy-bark. Also how to make rafia hats. Melbourne : Printed by Fitchett Brothers Pty. Ltd., 376 Swanston Street, [1918]. Small octavo (180 x 120 mm), publisher’s stapled illustrated wrappers (lightly marked) with original owner’s …

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# 51368

SANDS & McDOUGALL

[Map of Melbourne and suburbs]

Melbourne : Sands & McDougall Pty. Ltd., circa 1900. Lithographed map, printed in colour, 97 x 73 cm, dissected and laid on linen, folded, corners rubbed, a few minor stains, a very good copy. An attractive street map of Melbourne ranging from Broadmeadows to Mordialloc, showing their distances from central Melbourne in concentric circles at …

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# 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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# 51261

HAIGH, Edward (attributed)

Grand Stand on the Werribee, Victoria.

[April, 1862]. Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each image approximately 73 x 73 mm, flat yellow mount 83 x 165 mm, verso with contemporary manuscript caption ‘Grand Stand on the Werribee, Victoria’, and below this in manuscript the monogram and sequence number of the original owner ‘MAH. 68’; both prints, as well as the mount, are …

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# 51263

[Photographer unknown]

Side view of Christ Church, Hawthorn, Melbourne. Dated 1862.

Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each image 72 x 75 mm, on original brown card mount 81 x 172 mm; verso with period inscriptions in pencil ‘Hawthorn Church’ and ink ‘Hawthorn Church, Melbourne, 1862’; both albumen prints have rich tonal range and are in fine condition; the mount has a small stain at one corner but is …

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# 51529

GREENHAM, C. G. (Charles George) (1853-1925)

“Cherry Mount” homestead, Western District of Victoria, c.1890.

Albumen print photograph, in very large 220 x 290 mm format; on the photographer’s mount, 300 x 420 mm; manuscript caption ‘CHERRY MOUNT’ in the negative lower centre; verso wet-stamped ‘The “Herodotus” Studio, C.G. Greenham, Photographer, Hawthorn’; the print is in fine condition; the mount has residual glue marks from where the mount was once housed …

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# 51195

MOORHOUSE, Frank

The illegal relatives

[Sydney : Tomato Press, for the author, c.1973]. Octavo (212 x 139 mm), original pictorial stapled self-wrappers, pp. [96]; Moorhouse’s erotic stories accompanied by line-drawn illustrations in several colours by uncredited artists including Jenny Coopes; slight browning at edges (as usual), a fine copy. Moorhouse produced this pirated edition of his own illustrated erotic stories …

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# 51189

LOWE, E. J.

Ferns : British and exotic

London : George Bell & Sons, 1872. Second edition. Eight volumes, octavo, publisher’s blind embossed maroon cloth (a few marks), gilt-lettered spines (slightly sunned), fern illustrations to upper panels, armorial bookplates for B. Jones-Bateman to upper pastedowns, line illustrations, 479 chromolithographed plates, The second edition of Lowe’s expansive work on ferns, which was first published …

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# 51143

MEYER, A. B. and WIGLESWORTH, L. W.

The birds of Celebes and the neighbouring islands.

Berlin : R. Friedlander, 1898. Two volumes, quarto, fine modern binding of quarter green goatskin over cloth bound boards, ruled in blind, spine in compartments with contrasting morocco title labels, tooled in gilt, vellum tips, pp. xxxii; 392; 393 – 962, 7 coloured maps and 45 lithographed plates, of which 42 are hand-coloured; internally clean, …

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# 51203

"Garryowen" (FINN, Edmund, 1819-1898)

The chronicles of early Melbourne, 1835 to 1852. Historical, anecdotal and personal, by “Garryowen”

Centennial edition with portraits and illustrations. Melbourne : Fergusson and Mitchell, 1888. First edition. Two volumes, quarto, gilt-decorated roan (edges rubbed and scuffed as usual, but a solid set), all edges gilt, joints and hinges sound, pp. xiv; 1000, numerous lithographed illustrations, occasional marginal foxing, text block cracked at final leaf of first volume, overall …

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