Rare Books

  • [MELBOURNE] "Hawksview", Manningtree Road, Hawthorn, circa 1900.

    # 44125

    Photographer unknown.

    [MELBOURNE] “Hawksview”, Manningtree Road, Hawthorn, circa 1900.

    Large format sepia-tone gelatin silver print photograph, 145 x 180 mm, laid down on its original board mount, 255 x 300 mm; verso inscribed in a later hand ‘Hawksview / Manningtree Road’; the print is in excellent condition; the mount has some light foxing. “Hawksview” was an impressive Hawthorn family residence built in the 1870s, …

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  • Valentine's Snapsots. Canberra, A.C.T. No. 2. 12 real photographs for your album. Hand coloured.

    # 44082

    JACKSON'S NEWSAGENCY (publisher)

    Valentine’s Snapsots. Canberra, A.C.T. No. 2. 12 real photographs for your album. Hand coloured.

    Canberra : Published for Jackson’s Newsagency, [c.1930]. Fourteen (yes, a baker’s dozen plus one!) gelatin silver print photographs with hand colouring, in uniform 65 x 105 mm format, with captions in the negatives; all in fine condition, accompanied by the original manila envelope, as issued (paper splits to edges).

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  • The Sunshine State : official theme song of the Queensland Centenary Celebrations.

    # 44286

    COLLINS, Clyde (words and music)

    The Sunshine State : official theme song of the Queensland Centenary Celebrations.

    Words and music by Clyde Collins. Cover: ‘Recorded by Horrie Dargie Quintet on Columbia / Northern Command Band on Festival.’ Brisbane : Clyde Collins Music Co., 1958. Quarto (280 x 220 mm), pictorial wrappers, [3] pp. music notation; a good copy.

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  • [HOLTERMANN COLLECTION; GOLD RUSH] The Greatest Wonder of the World

    # 44335

    DAVIES, Alan (curator)

    [HOLTERMANN COLLECTION; GOLD RUSH] The Greatest Wonder of the World

    Sydney : SLNSW, 2013. Quarto (295 x 210 mm), wrappers lettered in gold, pp. 32, b/w photographic illustrations throughout; an as new copy. Catalogue to accompany an exhibition at the State Library of New South Wales, 23 February to 12 May 2013, curated by Alan Davies, which presented photographs from the historically important Holtermann Collection. …

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  • Catholic Federation Summer School, Queenscliff, Victoria, February 1923.

    # 44151

    FRAZER, C. J.

    Catholic Federation Summer School, Queenscliff, Victoria, February 1923.

    Gelatin silver print photograph, 150 x 200 mm, on the original studio mount with imprint of ‘C. J. Frazer, Photo, Melbourne’; mount inscribed in pencil ‘S.S. 1923 Queenscliff’, and in pen in a later hand ‘Catholic Federation, Queenscliffe 1923’; the verso has the name ‘K. McCarthy’ in pen; the print has excellent clarity and is …

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  • U.S. iana (1650 - 1950) : a selective bibliography in which are described 11,620 uncommon and significant books relating to the continental portion of the United States

    # 44283

    HOWES, Wright

    U.S. iana (1650 – 1950) : a selective bibliography in which are described 11,620 uncommon and significant books relating to the continental portion of the United States

    New York : R. R. Bowker for the Newberry Library, 1962 (1978 reprint). Second edition, revised and enlarged. Octavo, lettered cloth, pp. 652, bibliography. Book label to front free endpaper with bleed through. A classic bibliography of Americana with Pacific references.

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  • Rosenbach : a biography

    # 44282

    WOLF, Edwin, 2nd; and John F. Fleming

    Rosenbach : a biography

    Cleveland and New York : The World Publishing Company, 1960. Octavo, lettered cloth (rubbed), previous owner’s name to endpaper, pp. 618, photographic illustrations.

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  • The Golden age of booksellers : fifty years in the trade

    # 44280

    ABBEY, Ron et al.

    The Golden age of booksellers : fifty years in the trade

    Sydney : Abbey Press, 1981. Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth in dustjacket (wear to corners), old tape marks to endpapers and owner’s name to half-title, limited to 1000 numbered copies, pp. xviii; 224, illustrated. Interviews and biographies of Australian booksellers, including many second hand and antiquarian, who have been in the trade for fifty years or more.

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  • The Sydney Cove Medallion

    # 44292

    SMITH, L. Richard

    The Sydney Cove Medallion

    Sydney : The Wedgwood Press, 1987. Third edition. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, pp. 36, illustrated. Includes printed updates dated July 1999 and June 2005, listing the locations of all eleven examples of the Sydney Cove Medallion located at the time.

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  • Arthur Philip 1738 - 1814 : his voyaging

    # 44149

    FROST, Alan

    Arthur Philip 1738 – 1814 : his voyaging

    Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1987. Quarto, boards in illustrated dustjacket, light handling marks, pp. xii; 320, illustrated in black and white.

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  • The voyager's companion; or shell collector's pilot. The world's first shell collecting guide by John Mawe.

    # 44275

    STILWELL, Jeffrey D.

    The voyager’s companion; or shell collector’s pilot. The world’s first shell collecting guide by John Mawe.

    Perth : Western Australian Museum, 2003. Quarto, paperback, pp. 80, illustrated in colour. Illustrated facsimile of John Mawe’s first shell collecting guide of 1804, together with his complete edition of 1821, The voyager’s companion; or shell collector’s pilot, with early references to Australian specimens.

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  • Discourses on the Bhagavat Gita.

    # 44453

    ROW, T. Subba

    Discourses on the Bhagavat Gita.

    To help students in studying its philosophy. By Mr. T. Subba Row, B.A., B.L., F.T.S. Printed for the Bombay Theosophical Publication Fund by Tookram Tayta. Bombay : printed at the Joint-Stock Printing Press, 1888. Octavo, plum cloth (spine sunned, lightly marked), offsetting to endpaper, pp. viii; 94, a few pencil annotations.

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  • Pioneers of the Pacific : voyages of exploration 1787 - 1810

    # 44130

    RIGBY, Nigel et al.

    Pioneers of the Pacific : voyages of exploration 1787 – 1810

    Perth : University of Western Australia Press, 2005. Quarto, boards in illustrated dustjacket, pp. 144, illustrated, a fine copy. ‘Due to the dominance of Captain Cook’s Pacific exploration, many voyages of science and exploration following him to the Pacific have not received the attention they deserved. This title aims to correct this imbalance through the …

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  • [NEW GUINEA; MISSIONS] Sivarai namo Mareko ia gwauraia. / (St. Mark in Police Motu).

    # 44432

    [NEW GUINEA; MISSIONS] Sivarai namo Mareko ia gwauraia. / (St. Mark in Police Motu).

    London, Canberra, Cape Town, Toronto, Wellington : The British & Foreign Bible Society, [1964]. First edition. Small octavo (180 x 123 mm), publisher’s pictorial stiff wrappers, staple bound, 56 pp, line-drawn illustrations, map; a very good copy; from The Papuan Collection of Charles Fletcher (Melbourne). ‘Hiri Motu, also known as Police Motu, Pidgin Motu, or just …

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  • Wine guide.

    # 44491

    McWILLIAM'S WINES PTY. LTD.

    Wine guide.

    Pyrmont, NSW : McWilliam’s Wines Pty. Ltd., [1968]. Small oblong quarto (210 x 260 mm), colour pictorial wrappers, pp. [32], illustrated throughout in colour and b/w; a very good copy.

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  • [HARDY WILSON] Catalogue of drawings of early Greek and Chinese architecture

    # 44559

    WILSON, W. Hardy

    [HARDY WILSON] Catalogue of drawings of early Greek and Chinese architecture

    “On view in the print room of the National Gallery of Victoria” [cover title]. Canberra : L.F. Johnson, Government Printer, 1935. Small quarto, textured card wrappers, original silk ties, [4] pp, including [2] full page plates, a very fine copy. ‘This collection of fifty drawings of the finest examples of Classical Greek and early Chinese …

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