Rare Books

  • [GALLIPOLI] Photographs of the Third Australian General Hospital taken on Lemnos (1915-16) and in Egypt (1916).

    # 44287

    SAVAGE, Albert William

    [GALLIPOLI] Photographs of the Third Australian General Hospital taken on Lemnos (1915-16) and in Egypt (1916).

    Group of 13 (thirteen) gelatin silver print photographs in uniform 110 x 150 mm format, versos all with a blue wet stamp ‘Photographed by A. W. Savage, No. 3 Australian General Hospital (Not to be used for Publication)’, and with a fully contemporary handwritten caption (often with a date) in violet ink; the group comprises …

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  • Unique album presented to the Duke and Duchess of York by the citizens of South Canterbury, New Zealand, during the royal visit in March 1927: with an illuminated address and original watercolours.

    # 43629

    SOUTH CANTERBURY COUNCIL; CONVENT OF THE SACRED HEART (TIMARU)

    Unique album presented to the Duke and Duchess of York by the citizens of South Canterbury, New Zealand, during the royal visit in March 1927: with an illuminated address and original watercolours.

    Large square quarto, 310 x 280 mm, purple suede over bevelled boards (virtually unrubbed), front board with gilt-tooled decoration and lettering ‘South Canterbury, New Zealand, 16th March 1927’, lower board also decorated in gilt; all edges gilt; silk endpapers; [14] leaves of white card, the first [6] containing an elaborate illuminated address headed ‘To Your …

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  • Passeggiata intorno al mondo negli anni 1817 - 18 - 19 - 20 sopra le corvette del Re di Francia l'Urania e la Fisica, comandante dal Sig. Freycinet

    # 42898

    ARAGO, Jacques (1790-1855)

    Passeggiata intorno al mondo negli anni 1817 – 18 – 19 – 20 sopra le corvette del Re di Francia l’Urania e la Fisica, comandante dal Sig. Freycinet

    Opera del Sig. Arago, disegnatore della spedizione. Milano : dalla dalla tipografia e’fratelli Sonzogno, 1824. Four volumes, duodecimo, publisher’s original printed grey wrappers with decorative borders, some light edge wear, manuscript Roman numerals to spine, various pagination, all edges uncut, occasional light foxing, small stain to lower wrapper of second volume, thirteen finely coloured engraved plates, …

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  • [AFRICAN-AMERICANA] Letter by a 6th Ohio Cavalry veteran advocating black suffrage. La Grange, Iowa, June 1865.

    # 43944

    WOOD, J. E.

    [AFRICAN-AMERICANA] Letter by a 6th Ohio Cavalry veteran advocating black suffrage. La Grange, Iowa, June 1865.

    Manuscript in ink, [3] pp. quarto (245 x 195 mm); headed ‘Lagrange, Lucas Co., Iowa, June 12th 1865’, the letter is addressed ‘Dear Miller’ and is signed at the foot ‘Your friend, J. E. Wood’; accompanied by the original postal envelope, addressed to ‘L. D. Miller Esq., Newton Falls, Trumbull Co., Ohio’, with pen-cancelled 3¢ …

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  • The squatting map of Victoria

    # 42518

    HAM, Thomas

    The squatting map of Victoria

    Also titled: Squatters’ directory, road guide, and key to the squatting map of Victoria. Melbourne : Blundell and Ford, 1864-1865 [map published 1864; directory 1865]. Folding map, 464 x 705 mm, folded to 180 x 120 mm, linen backed, in original brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to front,190 x 130 mm, the map attached …

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  • Languages of the Kamilaroi and other Aboriginal tribes of New South Wales.

    # 44463

    MATHEWS, R. H. (Robert Hamilton) (1841-1918)

    Languages of the Kamilaroi and other Aboriginal tribes of New South Wales.

    London : Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 1903. “Reprinted from the Journal of the Anthropological Institute, Vol. XXXIII, July-December 1903”. Quarto (270 x 180 mm), publisher’s printed green wrappers (edges sunned, original owner’s name to front and first page of text), pp. 259-283; an excellent copy, bound in later limp morocco with silver …

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  • Auli Gellii Noctes Atticae ex editione Jacobi Gronovii. Cum notis et interpretatione in usum Delphini variis lectionibus notis variorum recent edition et modicum.

    # 44344

    GELLIUS, Aulus [GRONOVIUS, Jacob, editor]

    Auli Gellii Noctes Atticae ex editione Jacobi Gronovii. Cum notis et interpretatione in usum Delphini variis lectionibus notis variorum recent edition et modicum.

    London : A. J. Valpy, 1824. Four volumes in three, octavo (215 x 140 mm), in a handsome contemporary University of Glasgow prize binding by Carrs – the most prestigious Glasgow bookbinder of the period – of full vellum with gilt ornament and arms; the set was awarded as a First Class prize in Latin …

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  • [BALLARAT] Wesleyan Sabbath School, Scotchman's Lead : book prize awarded to George Harland, April 1870. (With associated ephemera)

    # 44186

    [HARLAND FAMILY]

    [BALLARAT] Wesleyan Sabbath School, Scotchman’s Lead : book prize awarded to George Harland, April 1870. (With associated ephemera)

    PROSSER, Mrs. (Sophie Amelia). Quality Fogg’s old ledger. London : The Religious Tract Society, [1869]. Square octavo, gilt-decorated brown cloth over boards (rubbed and marked); front free-endpaper inscribed in ink: ‘Presented to George Harland by the Primitive Methodist Sabbath School, Scotchman’s Lead, April 5th 1870’; pp. 162, [6], woodcut illustrations; occasional staining, otherwise sound; [TOGETHER WITH] An …

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  • British New Guinea. (Association copy, inscribed for conchologist Charles Hedley of the Australian Museum)

    # 44324

    THOMSON, J. P. (James Park) (1854-1941)

    British New Guinea. (Association copy, inscribed for conchologist Charles Hedley of the Australian Museum)

    London : George Philip & Son ; Brisbane : Alexr. Muir & Morcom, 1892. First edition. Large octavo (230 x 165 mm), publisher’s gilt-decorated maroon cloth over boards (lightly rubbed), spine lettered in gilt (sunned); a significant association copy, with a presentation inscription on the verso of the front free-endpaper by the author for conchologist Charles …

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  • Victorian Volunteer Artillery at the Dandenong Encampment, April 1882.

    # 44035

    LINDT, John William (1845-1926)

    Victorian Volunteer Artillery at the Dandenong Encampment, April 1882.

    Two albumen print photographs in identical Paris Panel format, 170 x 245 mm, the rectos and versos of the matching gilt-edged mounts with the gilt imprint of J. W. Lindt, 7 Collins Street East, Melbourne; both rectos with faint contemporary inscription at left of lower margin: ‘Dandenong Encampment’, one with the additional caption ‘Gun Drill’; …

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  • The Billabonga Bird

    # 44320

    GAZE, Harold (1884 - 1963)

    The Billabonga Bird

    Melbourne : Whitcombe & Tombs, 1919. Quarto, illustrated card wrappers, string-bound (now perished, spine glued down, edges with expert paper repairs), contemporary bookplate to inside upper wrapper, 30 pp (lightly foxed, short edge tears), 3 tipped-in plates (2 colour, one monochrome), black and white line drawings.The adventures of an imaginary bird, a bush fairy and …

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  • Atlas of Australia with all the Gold Regions

    # 44499

    BARTHOLOMEW, J[ohn], W. HUGHES, and Sidney HALL (engravers)

    Atlas of Australia with all the Gold Regions

    A series of maps from the latest and best authorities. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, c. 1853. Quarto, later gilt-lettered cloth, containing six hand-coloured engraved maps (five double page, and one folding) of the gold regions of Australia, a few pale stains, short tape repair to the margin of the first map, and a …

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  • The songs of Scotland, ancient and modern;

    # 44357

    CUNNINGHAM, Allan (1784 - 1842)

    The songs of Scotland, ancient and modern;

    with an introduction and notes, historical and critical, and characters of the lyric poets. London : John Taylor, 1825. Four volumes, octavo, in attractive bindings of half calf over marbled papered boards, flat-panelled spines with decorative tooling, contrasting morocco title-pieces lettered in gilt (some light scuffing); marbled edges and endpapers, pp. vii; [blank]; 352; viii; …

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  • [MAORI LANGUAGE] Ko te tuarua o nga pukapuka waki; hei wakakite atu i nga henga a te Hahi o Roma.

    # 42355

    TE AROHA PONO [COLENSO, William 1811-1899]

    [MAORI LANGUAGE] Ko te tuarua o nga pukapuka waki; hei wakakite atu i nga henga a te Hahi o Roma.

    Hopataone [Hobart Town] : He mea ta i te Perehi o te Watahaoha ratou ko nga teina [printed by R. S. Waterhouse and Brothers], 1840. Small octavo (180 x 110 mm), recent stitched marbled wrappers; pp. 24; text in Māori; first leaf with small perforation to top margin, a lightly creased top corner and some mild …

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  • Representative Australians. A series of portraits from original sketches by Charles Nuttall

    # 44456

    NUTTALL, Charles (1872 - 1934)

    Representative Australians. A series of portraits from original sketches by Charles Nuttall

    Melbourne : McCarron, Bird & Co., 1902. Folio, illustrated papered boards with magnificent illustration of the Waratah (scattered foxing, lower board silverfished, a little bowed), patterned endpapers, 40 illustrations after Nuttall pencil drawings illustrating important figures of the Federation period. Subjects include Earl Hopetoun, Governor-General; Sir Edmund Barton, Prime Minister, and various Premiers, Attorneys-General, Government …

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  • Charles O'Malley, the Irish dragoon

    # 44355

    LEVER, Charles (1806-72); "PHIZ" [Hablot K. Browne] (illustrator)

    Charles O’Malley, the Irish dragoon

    Dublin : William Curry, Jun. and Company, 1841. First Edition. Two volumes, octavo (220 x 140 mm), slightly later uniform binding of half calf over green moire silk (lightly rubbed), spines in compartments with gilt decoration and contrasting leather title-pieces lettered in gilt; both volumes with additional pictorial title-page; Vol. I. pp. xiv, [1]-348; Vol. II. pp. viii, …

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