Rare Books

  • Photograph album documenting experiences at a hydroelectric plant on the Swat River in Malakand District, Northwest Frontier Province, India, 1937-38.

    # 46820

    BESLEY, Richard Bradfield (1912-1990)

    Photograph album documenting experiences at a hydroelectric plant on the Swat River in Malakand District, Northwest Frontier Province, India, 1937-38.

    Small oblong quarto album (200 x 270 mm), original brown cloth over boards with string ties, containing 116 b/w photographs in corner mounts, 113 being in 60 x 60 mm format, with 3 in larger 115 x 160 mm format; the majority are captioned in ink below the image; very good condition throughout. This album …

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  • Report for the Theatre Board of the Australian Council for the Arts, for Jan. to Jul. '78, from Women's Theatre Group, Melbourne.

    # 46546

    WOMEN'S THEATRE GROUP (Melbourne)

    Report for the Theatre Board of the Australian Council for the Arts, for Jan. to Jul. ’78, from Women’s Theatre Group, Melbourne.

    [Melbourne : Women’s Theatre Group, 1978]. Foolscap folio (330 x 220 mm), stapled self-wrappers, [10] pp, roneo-printed; very good condition. Provenance: From the estate of Virginia Fraser (1947-2021), feminist, artist, writer, editor and curator.

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  • This is our Malaysia

    # 46600

    MALAYSIAN AIRLINE SYSTEMS

    This is our Malaysia

    Kuala Lumpur : Malaysian Airline Systems, circa 1975. Tourist brochure, DL size, printed in colour, pp. [12], folding central pages with map, includes features on Kuala Lumpur, Penang, Sabah, Sarawak, Malacca etc.

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  • French Indochina

    # 46595

    Bureau Officiel du Tourisme Indochinois

    French Indochina

    Saigon : Bureau Officiel du Tourisme Indochinois, circa 1930. Tourisme brochure, DL size, singe; sheet folded, pp. [8], illustrated, some light foxing and wear along folds, wet stamp for Cook’s travel agent in Shanghai to upper panel.

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  • Shelley

    # 46667

    THOMPSON, Francis

    Shelley

    With an introduction by the Rt. Hobble. George Wyndham. London : Burne & Oates, 1909. Octavo, finely bound by Zaehnsdorf with their binder’s stamp in half crushed Morocco over marbled papered boards, spine in compartments with raised bands, ruled and lettered in gilt with ornamentation, edges faintly rubbed, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, pp. 91, …

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  • The private life of plants. A natural history of plant behaviour (signed copy)

    # 46593

    ATTENBOROUGH, David (1926 - )

    The private life of plants. A natural history of plant behaviour (signed copy)

    London : BBC Books, 1995. First edition. Octavo, boards in illustrated dustjacket, pp. 320, extensively illustrated. Signed by David Attenborough in blue pen on the half-title ‘David Attenborough’. A fine copy. The second work in the ‘Life’ series by popular naturalist and television broadcaster David Attenborough.

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  • A man of Dakar, Senegal, holding guinea fowl and rifle. Circa 1840.

    # 36315

    Anon.

    A man of Dakar, Senegal, holding guinea fowl and rifle. Circa 1840.

    Watercolour on laid paper with watermark of a royal horseman with lance, 200 x 146 mm (sheet); captioned in ink ‘Dackar’ (i.e. Dakar) at bottom left, and with a foliation number ‘114’ in the same hand at bottom right; the sheet is unmounted (verso blank), and the drawing has survived in fine condition – virtually in …

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  • Studio portrait of Robert Moffatt, LMS missionary in Southern Africa. London, late 1860s.

    # 46750

    THE LONDON STEREOSCOPIC & PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPANY

    Studio portrait of Robert Moffatt, LMS missionary in Southern Africa. London, late 1860s.

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 102 x 63 mm (mount); recto of mount with printed signature of Robert Moffatt to lower margin; verso with the back mark of the London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company; both the print and the mount are in excellent condition. ‘Robert Moffatt (Ormiston, East Lothian, Scotland, December 21, 1795-Leigh, …

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  • View of Scott's Hotel, Collins Street West, Melbourne, c.1880.

    # 46586

    [Photographer unknown].

    View of Scott’s Hotel, Collins Street West, Melbourne, c.1880.

    Albumen print photograph, 155 x 205 mm, laid down recto of card mount (250 x 360 mm) removed from a nineteenth-century album, with a contemporary caption in ink below the image: ‘Melbourne. Scotts Hotel, Collins Street West’; no photographer’s imprint; a beautiful print with excellent tonal range, in fine condition; verso with a faded albumen …

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  • Photograph of a portrait painting of Captain Henry Sinclair, explorer and founder of Port Denison (Bowen), Queensland.

    # 46587

    [SINCLAIR, Henry Daniel 1818-1868] [Photographer unknown]

    Photograph of a portrait painting of Captain Henry Sinclair, explorer and founder of Port Denison (Bowen), Queensland.

    Gelatin silver print photograph, produced around 1900, of a portrait painting dating to around 1865; cabinet card format, 185 x 135 mm (mount); no photographer’s imprint; old pencil inscription verso identifies the subject as ‘Captain Sinclair, who discovered Port Denison’; 4cm tear lower left edge (not affecting the oval portrait itself), small loss at each …

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  • Carte de visite commemorating Captain Edward Knowles and the emigrant ship "Northfleet", lost in the English Channel on 22 January 1873 en route to Hobart, Tasmania.

    # 46767

    THE LONDON STEREOSCOPIC & PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPANY

    Carte de visite commemorating Captain Edward Knowles and the emigrant ship “Northfleet”, lost in the English Channel on 22 January 1873 en route to Hobart, Tasmania.

    Albumen print photograph, 102 x 63 mm (mount); lower margin recto with printed caption: ‘Captain Knowles. Lost in the Northfleet off Dunganess, Jan. 22 1873’; verso with The London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company’s backmark; the print has a couple of light marks; the verso of the mount has some residual glue marks at the edges. …

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  • Poems and letters

    # 46668

    GRAY, Thomas (1716 - 1771)

    Poems and letters

    London : Chiswick Press, 1879. Quarto, full polished calf by Riviere and Sons, with their binder’s stamp, spine in compartments with raised bands, ruled and ornamented in gilt, contrasting morocco title label lettered in gilt, light edge rubbing and a few small stamps, all edges gilt, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, foxing to preliminaries, pp. xvi; …

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  • [MAP] Plan de terrains appartenant à la Société Foncière du Paraguay

    # 45874

    KRIESS, Frederico

    [MAP] Plan de terrains appartenant à la Société Foncière du Paraguay

    Paris : Maison Andriveau-Goujon, [c.1906]. Colour map, 1000 x 860 mm, dissected and laid on canvas; the map is in superb condition and folds into its original pebbled cloth chemise, 175 x 260 mm, which in turn is housed in the original cloth slipcase (mild edge and corner wear) with contrasting title piece lettered in …

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  • Les Heures de la Cour, contenant la Ste. Messe, les Vêpres et l'Office des grandes fêtes en français et en latin en gros caractères ornées de 4 jolies figures

    # 46405

    Les Heures de la Cour, contenant la Ste. Messe, les Vêpres et l’Office des grandes fêtes en français et en latin en gros caractères ornées de 4 jolies figures

    Paris : chez Saintin, libraire, rue de Bussy, no. 15, au premier, [c.1805]. Duodecimo (133 x 82 mm), contemporary red straight-grained morocco decorated in gilt (boards lightly marked; corners worn; spine ends softened; some wear along the outer hinges); all edges gilt; marbled endpapers, two separate title-pages (both bearing the same imprint), one with vignette …

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  • Old Korea : the land of morning calm

    # 46700

    KEITH, Elizabeth (illustrator); SCOTT, Elspet Keith Robertson (text)

    Old Korea : the land of morning calm

    London : Hutchinson & Co., 1946. Quarto, decorated cloth in dustjacket (worn, chips with losses, old tape repairs), pp. 72, colour frontispiece, illustrated with colour and black and white plates, preliminaries foxed, internally fine. Scarce, a very good copy in the flimsy dustjacket, an important illustrated account of Korea.

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  • Relance da historia do Japão.

    # 42469

    Moraes, Wenceslau de (1854-1929)

    Relance da historia do Japão.

    Porto : Maranus, 1924. First edition. Octavo, later half red calf over marbled papered boards, spine with raised bands and gilt decoration and lettering; later silk endpapers and bookplate of Fernando Alves Barata; original wrappers bound in, the upper wrapper with tipped-on photographic illustration; pp. 299, [6], with one map; fine copy.

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