Rare Books

  • Globe terrestre

    # 42870

    J. FOREST

    Globe terrestre

    [Paris] : J. Forest, [c.1935]. Terrestrial globe titled Globe terrestre, 6 inches in diameter, lithographed gores over papier-mâché sphere, metal pins on a turned French ebonised wooden stand, original, with distressed finish. A good example of an uncommon table globe from the interwar period, showing the geographical names Leningrad, Istanbul, Iran and Mandchukuo, dating it …

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  • Shadow boxer

    # 43577

    Karla DICKENS, BLAK DOUGLAS et al.

    Shadow boxer

    Maitland, NSW : Maitland Regional Art Gallery, 2021. Small quarto (240170 mm), pictorial card covers printed in black on silver (lightly rubbed); pp. 72, illustrated in colour and b/w; texts by the exhibiting artists as well as Wesley Enoch and Keri Glastonbury; an as new copy. Superbly produced catalogue to accompany the exhibition Shadow Boxer, …

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  • The adidas Archive. The Footwear Collection

    # 43596

    ADIDAS

    The adidas Archive. The Footwear Collection

    Cologne : Taschen, 2020. Quarto, 34 x 38 cm, (weighs 5.6 kgs), illustrated boards, publisher’s illustrated box, pp. 644, illustrated. New copy. Photographs by Christian Habermeier and Sebastian Jäger 100 years ago the brothers Adolf (“Adi”) and Rudolf Dassler made their first pair of sports shoes. Hundreds of groundbreaking designs, epic moments, and star-studded collabs …

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  • The Tasmanian Aboriginal in Art

    # 43540

    JONES, Rhys

    The Tasmanian Aboriginal in Art

    Hobart : Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 1976. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 24, illustrated. Text by Rhys Jones. Catalogue of 115 works, including works by Arago, Bock, Becker, Dowling, Duterrau, Glover, Gould, Lesueur, Simkinson de Wesselow, Webber and photographs by Nixon, Winter, Woolley, and others. Note : this copy has heavy creases to the covers …

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  • [BROADSIDE] Great Living Wonders! / Immense Attraction / The Wild Australian Children

    # 17332

    VAN AMBURGH & CO.

    [BROADSIDE] Great Living Wonders! / Immense Attraction / The Wild Australian Children

    are Evidently of a Cannibal Race! / Judging From Their Natural Proclivities, Their Long Sharp Teeth, etc. / Perhaps the Only Specimen From That Country Now Living … These Wonders of All Wonders were captured about 7 years ago by a party of gold hunters in the mountainous regions of Australia … Can Be Seen In a …

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  • De Sacra Poesi Hebræorum.

    # 43242

    LOWTH, Robert (1710-1787)

    De Sacra Poesi Hebræorum.

    Prælectiones Academicæ Oxonii Habitæ a Roberto Lowth A. M. college novi nuper socio, et poeticæ publico prælectore … … Oxonii : E Typographeo Clarendoniano, M DCC LIII [Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1753]. First edition. Quarto (275 x 230 mm), contemporary full calf, boards ruled in gilt (a little scuffed and marked), spine with raised bands …

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  • Wallpaper sample book, 1931

    # 40580

    BROOKS, ROBINSON & CO. (MELBOURNE & SYDNEY)

    Wallpaper sample book, 1931

    [Melbourne?] : Brooks, Robinson & Co., 1931. Oblong large folio (250 x 500 mm), maker’s canvas-covered boards (heavily rubbed and stained) with hand-coloured decorative title to front ‘Brooks Robinson & Co. Ltd. / Wall Papers / 1931′, original rivet binding with leather carry strap, containing over [200] samples of wallpaper friezes and drops in a …

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  • Zachary Barry, minister of St. John's, Fremantle, Western Australia: autograph letter signed, dated 27 August 1855, re. receipt of a shipment of Bibles from the British and Foreign Bible Society.

    # 39208

    BARRY, Zachary (1827-1898)

    Zachary Barry, minister of St. John’s, Fremantle, Western Australia: autograph letter signed, dated 27 August 1855, re. receipt of a shipment of Bibles from the British and Foreign Bible Society.

    [2] pp, quarto (250 x 200 mm), manuscript in ink on unwatermarked writing paper; headed ‘Fremantle, Western Australia, 27 Aug. 1855’, the letter is addressed simply ‘Dear Sir’ and is signed at the foot ‘Yrs. very faithfully, Zachary Barry, Incumbent of St. John’s Church, Fremantle, West Australia’; Barry advises of the safe arrival from London, …

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  • The works of William Makepeace Thackeray

    # 41886

    THACKERAY, William Makepeace (1811 - 1863)

    The works of William Makepeace Thackeray

    In twelve volumes. London : Smith, Elder & Co., 1877. Twelve volumes, octavo, finely bound in half calf over marbled papered boards (lightly rubbed at edges), spines in compartments with raised bands and gilt decoration, dual contrasting Morocco title-pieces lettered in gilt, marbled edges and endpapers, each volume approximately 600 – 700 pages, frontispiece illustrations; …

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  • New South Wales : map, illustrations and descriptive text.

    # 43058

    WALKER, Richard Cornelius Critchett (1841-1903)

    New South Wales : map, illustrations and descriptive text.

    [Cover title]. Sydney : Thomas Richards, Govt. Printer, 1884. Quarto (290 x 240 mm), publisher’s pictorial green cloth over boards with bevelled edges, the upper board with blind-blocked decoration and lettering in gilt and black (scattered light staining), inside upper board with contextual map of the Eastern Hemisphere illustrating shipping routes from London to Sydney, …

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  • Souvenir of New South Wales.

    # 43045

    Anon

    Souvenir of New South Wales.

    [Cover title]. [Sydney, NSW : s.n., ca. 1880]. Leporello album. Oblong duodecimo (105 x 155 mm), publisher’s blind-blocked tan cloth, the upper board decorated and lettered in gilt; containing a concertina-style foldout with [24] panels of lithographed views after photographs (most, if not all, probably by Charles Bayliss and/or John Paine); the final panel has …

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  • Manuscript commercial letter addressed to John Fairfax & Sons, Sydney, New South Wales, from B. Smith & Son, London, 27 July 1863.

    # 39210

    B. SMITH & SON

    Manuscript commercial letter addressed to John Fairfax & Sons, Sydney, New South Wales, from B. Smith & Son, London, 27 July 1863.

    Manuscript in ink, 2 pp., quarto, on blue laid paper watermarked ‘A. C. & S.’; duplicate commercial letter headed ‘7 Wine Office Court, Fleet Street, London, July 27th 1863’, addressed to the publishing firm of Messrs J. Fairfax & Sons, Sydney; written and signed by Henry Durrant on behalf of B. Smith & Son, ink …

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  • In Memory of John Dowel Whittle, who was drowned off Cape Otway (Bass St.), N.W. 10 miles, 7 a.m., 29th July, 1852, aged 23 years.

    # 30358

    Anon.

    In Memory of John Dowel Whittle, who was drowned off Cape Otway (Bass St.), N.W. 10 miles, 7 a.m., 29th July, 1852, aged 23 years.

    [Melbourne, s.n., 1852]. Broadside, 210 x 150 mm, printed on one side only, text set within decorative border surrounding the heading and Psalm LXIX, and with a fully contemporary annotation at top left, ‘P. & O. S. “Chusan” 1st arrival at Port Phillip’; in fine condition, mounted on card and housed in a modern frame with …

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  • The Falcon : magazine of the North Sydney Boys' High School. Vol. 4, no. 2. June, 1918.

    # 43225

    TEBBUTT, R. E. & HILL, L. G. (eds.)

    The Falcon : magazine of the North Sydney Boys’ High School. Vol. 4, no. 2. June, 1918.

    Crows Nest, NSW : Charles Dunn, printer (for NSBHS), 1918. Octavo, decorative wrappers in the school colours, lower wrapper with advertisement for Miller Street furnishing firm Gourlay Bros. (light crease to lower wrapper and last couple of leaves); pp. 36, photographically illustrated; includes staff list, editorial, obituaries, class reports, student poetry and articles, debating and …

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  • The Wavering Scales

    # 42646

    RITSOS, Giannis / Ρίτσος, Γιάννης (1909-1990)

    The Wavering Scales

    Red Wing, Minnesota : Red Dragonfly Press, 2006. Quarto, lettered wrappers, pp. 31, printed letterpress. Poem concerning German occupation written by Ritsos in Athens in 1943. ‘Martin McKinsey translated sections 1 through 4. Scott King translated sections 6 through 9. In section 5, the two translators overlaid their approaches. 110 copies printed using Eric Gill’s …

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  • The poems of William Canton. (First edition, with an autograph letter signed by the author)

    # 43235

    CANTON, William (1845-1926)

    The poems of William Canton. (First edition, with an autograph letter signed by the author)

    London ; Calcutta ; Sydney : George G. Harrap, 1927. First edition. Octavo (175 mm), publisher’s gilt-lettered and decorated navy cloth (very fine), in unclipped dust jacket (spine sunned, otherwise excellent); frontispiece portrait of the author, pp. 173; edges with spotting, but internally very clean throughout; loosely inserted is a handwritten letter from William Canton …

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