Rare Books

# 44044

LEWIN, Thomas (1774-1840)

A Gang-gang Cockatoo (Callocephalon fimbriatum).

[London, 1829]. Body colour, watercolour with touches of gum arabic, and pen and grey ink on paper watermarked J. Watman, measuring 440 x 330 mm; signed, inscribed and dated I.r. D & P by Thos. Lewin 1829; verso inscribed in a contemporary hand in pen and brown ink: Species from New Holland (very scarce) Lewin. …

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# 41919

LEMAIRE, Charles

Histoire naturelle des oiseaux exotiques

/ ouvrage orné de figures peintes d’après nature par Pauquet. Et gravées sur acier. Paris : Pauquet Éditeur : Debure Libraire, 1836. First edition. Octavo, contemporary quarter morocco over blue marbled papered boards, spine ruled and lettered in gilt; ex-libris label to front pastedown; additional hand-coloured half-title; pp. 156; eighty finely engraved plates of exotic …

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# 41832

KERR, William (1812 - 1859)

Kerr’s Melbourne almanac, and Port Phillip directory, for 1842.

A compendium of useful and accurate information connected with Port Phillip. Melbourne: printed and published by Kerr and Thompson, at the Port Phillip Patriot Office, Collins Street, 1842. Octavo, original half cloth over papered boards (some wear and stains), expertly rebacked, worn paper label to spine; early ownership inscription of Alexander Beatson Balcombe (“Tichingorourke, 1842, …

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# 43742

LORING, Josiah (1775 - c. 1840)

Loring’s nine and half inch terrestrial globe.

Drawn and engraved by W, B. Annin. Boston : Josiah Loring, [c.1845]. Terrestrial globe, 9 1/2 inches in diameter, engraved gores and two polar calottes with original hand colouring over papier mache base, graduated equator, ecliptic and date line meridian, the oceans with an analemma showing the delineation of the sun for every day of the …

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# 44160

"AGRICOLA" (ANGAS, George Fife, 1789 - 1879).

Description of the Barossa Range and its neighbourhood, in South Australia.

By “Agricola”. Illustrated with maps and coloured plates, from original drawings made on the spot, by George French Angas. London : Smith, Elder, & Co., Cornwall, 1849. Quarto, recent half-calf over original embossed cloth-covered boards, original gilt-lettered title label to upper board; marbled endpapers, pp. 20, with six fine hand-coloured lithographed plates with tissue guards, …

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# 33495

GILL, S. T. (Samuel Thomas) (1818-1880)

Diggers shipping from Melbourne / The Shipping Agents are netting handsome.

[Melbourne : James J. Blundell, between 1852 and 1855]. Illustrated letter paper, 182 x 115 mm, bifolium with lithographed letterhead reproducing one of the plates from S.T. Gill’s Sketches of the Victoria gold diggings and diggers as they are (Melbourne : Macartney & Galbraith, August 1852); lithographed image, including captions, 90 x 90 mm; the rear blank side has a …

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# 16379

SANDS AND KENNY

The Victoria gold ready reckoner

Carefully revised. Commencing at £3 and terminating at £4. 5s 9d per ounce. Melbourne: Sands and Kenny, 1857. Sextodecimo, cloth bound blind-embossed boards with gilt lettering to upper board, 218 pp, one gathering with soiling and wear from use, most liking during mining activities, advertisement endpapers, charming contemporary ownership inscription of a gold miner ‘A. …

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# 41958

DARWIN, Charles (1809 - 1882)

On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. (Third edition)

London : printed by W. Clowes and Sons for John Murray, 1861. Third edition. Octavo, original green cloth, boards blocked in blind, spine gilt (corners slightly bumped, light bumping to head and foot of spine, small damp mark to upper panel, small 10 mm mark recoloured to spine), binding variant B (no preference), without full …

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# 40880

[GILL, S. T.]

[The Melbourne Rose].

[The Melbourne Rose. Part II. Honour to the brave memory of John King, R. O’Hara Burke, William John Wills]. [London : Myers & Co., 1862 (printed in Hamburg)]. Chromolithographed and engraved folding pictorial ephemeron, die cut in the shape of a rose (small loss to a couple of small pieces in the centre), without the …

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# 24975

[HAMILTON, Mrs.]; [DEUCHAR, John, Mrs.]

A Nugget of Gold from Australia!!! presented to Mrs John Deuchar by Mrs Hamilton on 12th Aug. 1867, New Zealand.

Manuscript note in brown ink on a small scrap of paper, 50 x 60 mm, laid down on later card backing; old fold lines (the gold nugget was originally enclosed inside the note), a small perforation and two short edge tears, resulting in the loss of a couple of letters, else complete; [together with] the …

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# 43886

SANDS & McDOUGALL

The Victoria gold ready reckoner,

carefully revised. Commencing at £3 and terminating at £4. 5s 9d per ounce. Melbourne: Sands and McDougall, 1878. Fifth edition. Sextodecimo (110 x 73 mm), original blind-embossed brown cloth over boards with gilt lettering to upper board (boards rubbed, spine slightly rolled and ends a little frayed); front pastedown with early ownership inscription of ‘A. …

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# 42245

FOSTER & MARTIN

[KELLY GANG; CRICKET] Signed studio portrait of Francis Augustus Hare, Superintendent of the Victorian Mounted Police, inscribed by Hare for Ivo Bligh, captain of the visiting English cricket team. “Rupertswood”, Sunbury, Christmas 1882.

Melbourne : Foster & Martin, [1882]. Albumen print photograph in cabinet card format, 165 x 110 mm; verso with imprint of ‘Foster & Martin, Artists & Photographers, 29 & 31 Collins St. East, Melbourne’, and a presentation inscription in ink by the sitter: Francis Hare, for The Honbl. Ivo Blyth [sic – *see note below]; …

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# 37054

HUME, Fergus (1859-1932)

The Mystery of a hansom cab

A sensational novel … A startling and realistic story of Melbourne social life. London : The Hansom Cab Publishing Coy., 60 Ludgate Hill, [1888]. “One Hundred and Seventy-Fifth Thousand” (t.p.). Small octavo (182 x 122 mm), original pictorial wrappers, the upper wrapper featuring an illustration of the hansom cab in a Melbourne street, lower wrapper …

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# 41477

MARSHALL-HALL, G. W. L. (George William Louis) (1862-1915)

Hymns Ancient and Modern

Melbourne : The Atlas Press (W. H. Newlands), Block Place, 1898. First and only edition. Small octavo (190 x 125 mm), original stiff green wrappers printed in black and red (spine expertly repaired); title-page stamped ‘With the author’s compliments’, pp. [1-6], 7-70; scattered foxing, mostly marginal but more pronounced on the preliminary and last few …

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# 41475

WHITE, Patrick (1912 - 1990)

The Ploughman and other poems. (The extraordinarily rare publisher’s edition – one of only three known copies)

Sydney : Beacon Press, 1935. Octavo, cloth in illustrated dustjacket (edges chipped, the spine perished and replaced with plain brown paper, paper reinforcements to the folds), [76] pp., illustrations by L. Roy Davies, light offsetting to endpapers, a remarkably crisp and clean copy. Limited to 300 copies and 6 numbered Publisher’s Copies. This is Publisher’s …

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# 44349

ANEMAAT, Louise

Natural Curiosity : unseen art of the First Fleet)

Sydney : State Library of New South Wales, 2014. Quarto, illustrated limp boards, light handling marks, pp. 256, illustrated. A fine copy. A sense of awe swept through natural history circles in 18th-century London when the first ships returned from Sydney with their cargo of exotic animals, birds, and plants—and striking watercolor illustrations. The sudden …

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