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# 43962

SCOTT, Sir Walter (1771 - 1832)

The Waverley Novels

Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1862- 83. Twenty-five volumes, duodecimo, half-calf over marbled boards (rubbed), spines in compartments with gilt bands and contrasting morocco title labels, lettered in gilt, specked edges, engraved title pages, pagination various, a very good set. An attractive set of Scott’s widely popular novels of the Victorian period.

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# 44354

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

The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer

Dublin : William Curry, Jun. and Company, 1839. First Edition. Octavo (220 x 140 mm), slightly later binding of half calf over green moire silk (lightly rubbed), spine in compartments with gilt decoration and contrasting leather title-piece lettered in gilt; additional pictorial title-page, pp. xv, [1 blank], [1-3], 4-344; illustrated with 21 plates (including frontispiece); spotting to fore-edge …

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# 42906

ZUCCHINI, Andrea (1745 - 1810)

Sulla coltura e usi dell’acacia, o robinia, Robinia Pseudo-Acacia…

Florence : Gaetano Cambiagi de l’imprimerie grand-ducale, 1800. Octavo, marbled paper wrappers, folding copperplate engraving, pp. 25, inscription to title page No. XII indicating it was extracted from a sammelband, a crisp and fine copy. First and only edition of this treatise on the Robinia pseudoacacia, a poisonous tree native to the Appalachian region of the …

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# 44418

BAYLISS, Charles

Ships from the “Sydney Wool Fleet” at anchor in Darling Harbour. 15 September 1891.

Large format albumen print photograph, 210 x 290 mm; captioned in manuscript in the negative across the lower edge: ‘Sept. 15th 1891. Wilcannia / Rodney / Illawarra / Hubbock / Woolloomooloo / Tartar’, and with the photographer’s name ‘C. Bayliss Photo.’ at lower right; in good condition, laid down on the original card mount removed …

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# 43965

ALISON, Sir Archibald

History of Europe

from the Commencement of the French Revolution in M.DCC.LXXXIX. to the Restoration of the Bourbons in MDCCC.XV. Edinburgh and London : William Blackwood and Sons, 1853 – 1855. Ninth edition. Twelve volumes octavo (lacking the oblong quarto atlas), bound in uniform half calf, spine in compartments with raised bands and gilt ornamentation, contrasting morocco title …

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# 44066

DUKE, J. S.

[MELBOURNE] Manuscript notebooks (mostly devoted to literature and astronomy) compiled by J. S. Duke, of Elwood and Elsternwick, 1918-1927.

Melbourne : J. S. Duke, 1918-27 [unpublished]. Two small quarto-size notebooks, each 235 x 185 mm, original linen and black oilskin bindings, owner’s name and address to pastedown of one ‘J. S. Duke, Elwood’ with printed label beneath ‘456 New Street, Elsternwick’; in total both notebooks comprise approx. 250 pages filled with neat manuscript entries, …

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# 43895

LETTS, SON & CO. LTD.

Letts’s map of The Soudan, including the Nile, Red Sea, West Coast of Arabia, and Abyssinia, and a Plan of Khartum.

One Shilling. [Drop title]. London : Letts, Son & Co. Ltd., Map Publishers, 33 King William Street, London Bridge, [c.1885]. Third edition. Cased colour map titled ‘Letts’s Map of The Nile, embracing The Soudan, Abyssinia, the Red Sea, and Western Arabia’, 740 x 560 mm (sheet), folding to 200 x 100 mm, housed within in the …

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# 44490

LATHAM, J. G.

The Australian Eastern Mission, 1934. Report of the Right Honorable J. G. Latham, Leader of the Mission.

At head of title: 1932-33-34. The Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia. Canberra : L. F. Johnston, Government Printer, August 1934. Foolscap folio, pp. 27; a very good copy of this Parliamentary paper. The Mission visited the Netherlands East Indies, British Malaya, French Indo-China, Hong Kong, China (this included an Anzac Ball in Shanghai), Japan, …

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# 44398

[THE BUSH BOOK CLUB]

[SYDNEY] Dame Margaret Davidson, President of the Bush Book Club, and the Committee, invite you to … the Thirteenth Annual Meeting to be held at Government House, Sydney on Thursday 3rd May 1923, at 3.30 pm.

R.S.V.P. to The Secretary, The Bush Book Club, 161 Castlereagh St., Sydney. Sydney, NSW : The Bush Book Club, 1923. Invitation card, 105 x 125 mm, printed recto only; very good condition; verso blank. The Bush Book Club was established in Sydney in 1909, and continued as an entity up into the 1950s. It was a …

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# 44505

SCARBOROUGH, William (1841 - 1894)

A collection of Chinese proverbs

Translated and arranged by William Scarborough, Wesleyan Missionary, Hankow. With an introduction, notes, and copious index. Shanghai : American Presbyterian Mission Press, 1875. Octavo, lettered yellow cards, cloth spine (heavily worn, creased, mouse nibbling to lower corner), pp. xxxvi; 478. Text in English and Chinese. Scarce. ‘William Scarborough was a Wesleyan Methodict minister and missionary …

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# 44426

ELLIOTT & FRY

Signed portrait photograph of English actress Madge Kendal, circa 1890.

Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 165 x 110 mm, with the full autograph signature of the actress as ‘Madge Kendal’ written in ink in the lower margin recto; verso with the imprint of Elliott & Fry, 55 Baker Street, London, and a neat inscription in pencil ‘Mrs Kendal’; in very good condition. English actress …

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# 44256

RIALL, Richard

A new bibliography of Arthur Rackham

Bath : Ross Press, 1994. Folio, gilt-decorated cloth, pp. xx; 252, illustrated. Bibliography of Rackham.

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# 43972

THACKERAY, William Makepeace (1811 - 1863)

The Wolves and the Lamb, Lovel the Widower, Roundabout Papers, Denis Duval

London : Smith, Elder & Co., 1900. Octavo, in a fine prize binding for Sydney Grammar School, full polished calf, ruled in gilt with floral corner emblems, the school’s armorial crest with motto Schola Grammatica Sydneiensis on upper board, Senior Knox Prize lettered below, spine in compartments with raised bands, gilt tooling and contrasting morocco …

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# 43968

THACKERAY, William Makepeace (1811 - 1863)

Contributions to “Punch” etc.

London : Smith, Elder & Co., 1900. Octavo, in a fine prize binding for Sydney Grammar School, full polished calf, ruled in gilt with floral corner emblems, the school’s armorial crest with motto Schola Grammatica Sydneiensis on upper board, Senior Knox Prize lettered below, spine in compartments with raised bands, gilt tooling and contrasting morocco …

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# 43974

POULTON, Edward Bagnall

The colours of animals their meaning and use. Especially in the case of insects.

London : Megan Paul, Trench, Turner & Co., 1890. Second edition. Octavo, in a fine prize binding for Sydney Grammar School, full polished calf, ruled in gilt with floral corner emblems, the school’s armorial crest with motto Schola Grammatica Sydneiensis on upper board, Wigram Allen Prize lettered below, spine in compartments with raised bands, gilt …

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# 43966

THACKERAY, William Makepeace (1811 - 1863)

The Virginians

London : Smith, Elder & Co., 1899. Octavo, in a fine prize binding for Sydney Grammar School, full polished calf, ruled in gilt with floral corner emblems, the school’s armorial crest with motto Schola Grammatica Sydneiensis on upper board, Senior Knox Prize lettered below, spine in compartments with raised bands, gilt tooling and contrasting morocco title …

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