Rare Books

# 43970

THACKERAY, William Makepeace (1811 - 1863)

The memoirs of Mr. Charles Yellowplush, The Great Hogarth Diamond, etc.

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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# 43975

POULTON, Edward Bagnall

Man and the Glacial Period

London : Megan Paul, Trench, Turner & Co., 1898. 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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# 43967

THACKERAY, William Makepeace (1811 - 1863)

The Newcomes

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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# 43971

THACKERAY, William Makepeace (1811 - 1863)

The memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq., The Fitz-Boodle Papers, Men’s Wives, etc. etc.

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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# 43969

THACKERAY, William Makepeace (1811 - 1863)

Ballads, Critical Reviews, Tales, Various Essays, Letters, Sketches, 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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# 41287

BURNE, Hewetson

[SHEET MUSIC; QUEENSLAND] The Pioneer Schottische, or, The Alligator Hop

[Cover title: The Pioneer or The Alligator Hop. Dedicated to the pioneers of Australia. Performed by the Band of the Grenadier Guards at the Colonial & Indian Exhibition]. London : Keith, Prowse & Co., [1886]. Quarto, original wrappers with charming and vibrant front cover design, 4 pp. music notation; split along spine, moderate foxing, edge …

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# 43738

OSBORNE, G. A. (George Alexander)

[SHEET MUSIC] La pluie de perles : valse brillante

Sydney : Published by H. Marsh & Co., 490/2 & 484 George Street, 1853. Folio (340 x 260 mm), front wrapper with lithographed lettering in decorative fonts, with the ownership inscription of J. B. Steel (1853) struck out and inscribed below by the music’s second owner ‘E. J. M. Stewart, Bathurst, 1854’; fully contemporary linen …

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# 44370

ALLEN, Walter (words); MACKENZIE, Harry (music)

[SHEET MUSIC; GLEBE, SYDNEY] Such is life

Words by Walter Allen. Music by Harry Mackenzie. Cover: Written by Walter Allen Esqr., composed by Harry Mackenzie. Sydney : J. Reading & Co., Music-sellers & Publishers, 356 George Street, [ ]. Folio (335 x 250 mm), upper wrapper lettered in decorative fonts (faint early music seller’s stamp to upper margin); [6] pp. of music …

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# 44338

HADDON, Alfred Cort (1855-1940)

Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits. (6 volumes)

New York : Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1971. Six volumes large octavo (255 x 180 mm), uniform bindings of silver-lettered brown cloth, spines with black leather title-pieces lettered in silver; illustrated with 103 plates reproducing a large number of photographs, 604 text figures, and 23 maps; a complete set of the scarce reprint of the original …

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# 40455

DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882)

The origin of species (1880)

by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. London : John Murray, 1880. Sixth edition, with additions and corrections to 1872 (twenty-second thousand). Octavo, full calf prize binding by Bickers and Son, for the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, with their emblem in gilt to the front board, …

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# 44353

YANG, William et al.

William Yang : Seeing and Being Seen (deluxe edition with signed archival print)

Brisbane : Queensland Art Gallery I Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA), 2021. Quarto, gilt-lettered pictorial boards, pp. 220, extensively illustrated. New copy. The rare deluxe edition, limited to only 50 copies signed by the artist. Mounted inside the upper board is a mylar sleeve housing a limited edition archival inkjet print Golden Summer 1987 / 2016 …

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# 44154

JUDIN, Juerg et al, editor

Tom of Finland : an imaginary sketchbook

Edited by Juerg Judin and Pay Matthis Karstens. Milan : Skira, 2022. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 128, illustrated. The importance of drawing in the work of the Finnish artist, icon of gayness. Tom of Finland undoubtedly counts among the great and truly influential artists of the latter 20th century. Through his iconic images, he almost …

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# 44128

BOULTER, Jason

Unemployable. 30 Years of Hardcore, Skate and Street (signed presentation copy)

Melbourne : Thames and Hudson, 2016. Thick quarto, letters cloth with pictorial inlay, [xv]; 693, extensively illustrated, a fine copy. This copy with a personal signed inscription from the author to arts publisher Jenny Zimmer, dated 2.11.2016. ‘Unemployable traces the origins of the Hill brothers’ passion for skateboarding to the founding of their initial company …

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# 44516

HORNADGE, Bill

Ern Malley and the “Angry Penguins”

Being a review of the greatest hoax in Australia’s literary history, and the subsequent ‘Indecency Trial’. Lismore: W. Hornage, [1945]. Octavo, wrappers illustrated with a sour-faced penguin (light marks), 20pp. A scarce contemporary pamphlet reviewing the literary hoax. A fine copy, with ownership inscription of author and academic John Tregenza to first leaf.

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# 44402

CARLIER, Jean-Edouard

Micronésie et Para-Micronésie.

Paris : Galerie Voyageurs et Curieux, 2 rue Visconti, 2007. Quarto (290 x 200 mm), publisher’s pictorial papered boards; pp. 136, with 95 colour photographic illustrations by Hughes Dubois illustrating 120 objects (plus 7 b/w illustrations); text in French by Jean-Edouard Carlier; map; bibliography; a pristine copy. The Oceanic Art catalogues of Voyageurs et Curieux …

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# 44403

CARLIER, Jean-Edouard

Art de Papouasie Nouvelle-Guinée.

Paris : Galerie Voyageurs et Curieux, 2 rue Visconti, 2010. Quarto (290 x 200 mm), publisher’s pictorial papered boards; pp. 160, with 130 colour photographic illustrations by Hughes Dubois illustrating 124 objects (plus 6 b/w illustrations); text in French by Jean-Edouard Carlier; bibliography; a pristine copy. The Oceanic Art catalogues of Voyageurs et Curieux are …

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