Rare Books

  • Big Oilman from Arabia

    # 43172

    CHENEY, Michael Sheldon.

    Big Oilman from Arabia

    London :Heinemann, 1958. First edition, first impression. Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth (spine a little dulled, slightly canted, lightly rubbed), maps to endpapers, pp. 320, black and white photographic plates, pale foxing to edges, a very good copy. The author recollects seven years spent with oil and construction firms in Saudi Arabia during a period of rapid …

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  • Horseshit : the offensive review. Number two.

    # 43054

    Robert & Thomas DUNKER

    Horseshit : the offensive review. Number two.

    Hermosa Beach, CA : Scum Publishing Company, 1967. “Fourth printing” (inner lower wrapper). Quarto (280 x 215 mm), original stapled pictorial wrappers, pp. 48, extensively illustrated, and with additional text and illustration on the inner wrappers; a very good copy. Horseshit was a counterculture magazine produced by brothers Robert and Thomas Dunker. Robert was responsible …

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  • Death Searches for you a second time. Poems by Carmelia Leonte

    # 42542

    LEONTE, Carmelia

    Death Searches for you a second time. Poems by Carmelia Leonte

    Northfield, Minnesota : Red Dragonfly Press, 2003. Small quarto, bound in lettered grey wrappers, pp. [28], printed letterpress. Printed in an edition of 140 copies.

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  • Art of the Absolons : John Absolon of London & John de Mansfield Absolon in Western Australia 1869-1879 (deluxe edition)

    # 42618

    ZIMMER, Jenny

    Art of the Absolons : John Absolon of London & John de Mansfield Absolon in Western Australia 1869-1879 (deluxe edition)

    Melbourne : Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2020. Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth with pictorial inlay, pp 192, illustrated, in matching slipcase. The deluxe edition, limited to 100 copies signed and numbered by the author. ‘John Absolon was a well-known nineteenth-century London water-colour artist. John de Mansfield Absolon, one of his artist sons, married a daughter of Robert Mace …

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  • They are meditating : bark paintings from the MCA's Arnott's Collection

    # 43318

    MUNDINE, Djon et al.

    They are meditating : bark paintings from the MCA’s Arnott’s Collection

    Sydney : Museum of Contemporary Art, 2008. Quarto, illustrated gatefold wrappers, pp. 272, illustrated, fine condition. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney: 14 February – 3 August 2008. ‘They are Meditating: Bark paintings from the MCA’s Arnott’s Collection showcased over 200 rare and significant Aboriginal bark paintings from the …

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  • The Tasmanian Aboriginal in Art

    # 43297

    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.

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  • Theologia naturalis sive Liber creatura[rum] specialiter de homine [et] de natura eius in qua[n]tum homo.

    # 22302

    Raymond of Sabunde (c.1385-1436)

    Theologia naturalis sive Liber creatura[rum] specialiter de homine [et] de natura eius in qua[n]tum homo.

    :[et] de his qu[a] sunt ei necessaria ad cognoscendu[m] seip[su]m [et] Deu[m] [et] om[n]e debitu[m] ad q[uo]d ho[mo] tenet[ur] et obligatur tam Deo q[uam] p[ro]ximo. Impressus Nurembergae : Per Anthoniu[m] koberger [sic] inibi co[n]cluem, 1502. Folio (290 x 210 mm), contemporary sheep over wooden boards (lacking clasps), elaborate blind-tooling to both boards, upper board including …

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  • Relation de ce qui s'est passé en l'année 1649. Dans les royaumes où les Peres de la Compagnie de Jésus de la province du Japon, publient le Saint Evangile.

    # 42339

    Rhodes, Alexandre de (1593-1660)

    Relation de ce qui s’est passé en l’année 1649. Dans les royaumes où les Peres de la Compagnie de Jésus de la province du Japon, publient le Saint Evangile.

    [Dediee a la Reyne de Pologne et de Suede. Par le P. Alexandre de Rhodes de la mesme Compagnie. A Paris, chez Florentin Lambert, M.DC.LV.]. Octavo (165 x 100 mm), modern panelled red calf, spine lettered in gilt; engraved frontispiece (not found in other examples), 120 pp; clean throughout, but lacking the title-leaf and the 6-page dedication …

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  • Abrégé de géographie pour les écoles.

    # 26028

    LAMP, Jean-Frédéric

    Abrégé de géographie pour les écoles.

    Par J. F. Lamp. A Paris : Chez F. G. Levrault, libraire, rue de la Harpe, no. 81 ; Strasbourg : rue des Juifs, no. 33, 1833. Troisième édition. Duodecimo (165 x 105 mm), original pink paper-covered boards printed in black, the upper board with vignette illustration of a globe, lower board with publisher’s advertisements, …

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  • Reise S.M.S. Stosch nach China und Japan 1881-1883.

    # 39977

    RIEMER, Gustav Adolf (1842-1899)

    Reise S.M.S. Stosch nach China und Japan 1881-1883.

    Photographirt und herausgegeben v. G. Riemer, Marine Zahlmeister. Band II [of 2] See- und Schiffsbilder. Leipzig : F. A. Brockhaus, 1883. Oblong folio (300 x 400 mm), original red cloth over boards decorated and lettered in gilt, upper board with titles in German, Chinese and Japanese (some light flecking and minor stains, lower board with damp …

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  • The birds of Celebes and the neighbouring islands.

    # 42654

    MEYER, A. B. and WIGLESWORTH, L. W.

    The birds of Celebes and the neighbouring islands.

    Berlin : R. Friedlander, 1898. Two volumes, quarto, black library buckram spines lettered in gilt, bump to upper corner of the first volume, original printed wrappers bound in, pp. xxxii; 392; 393 – 962, 7 coloured maps and 45 lithographed plates, of which 42 are hand-coloured; internally clean, a fine set. A rare scholarly work …

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  • Japan across Siberia, Russia and Germany. Impressions of a tour.

    # 21818

    MEGGITT, J. C.

    Japan across Siberia, Russia and Germany. Impressions of a tour.

    Cardiff : Western Mail and Echo Ltd, 1935. Octavo, lettered boards, pp. 80, illustrated. A series of articles reprinted from the Western Mail & South Wales News, including the Chinese of Penang and Singapore, fashion in the Straits, Hong Kong and Shanghai, farming in Japan etc. Folding map tipped-in at rear.

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  • Wild Raspberries. (Presentation copy inscribed by the artist)

    # 18052

    WARHOL, Andy (1928-1987); FRANKFURT, Suzie; WARHOLA, Júlia

    Wild Raspberries. (Presentation copy inscribed by the artist)

    New York : the artist, 1959. Folio (445 mm tall), original fuchsia papered boards (faded and paper lost at spine, as usual), title sheet, pp [42], comprised of 18 single illustrated leaves (one enhanced with original watercolour), one double-page illustration and one sheet with text, interleaved with eight sheets of fuchsia tissue paper, as issued; …

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  • [RU PAUL]. Make love not AIDS

    # 43136

    RU PAUL (supermodel of the world)

    [RU PAUL]. Make love not AIDS

    Postcard, unused, with portrait of RuPaul Charles by Mike Ruiz, printed verso ‘Make love not AIDS salutes RuPaul for his continued support in the fight against AIDS’.

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  • Tom of Finland : recent drawings. Philip Masonic : recent photographs

    # 43135

    TOM OF FINLAND

    Tom of Finland : recent drawings. Philip Masonic : recent photographs

    New York : Robert Samuel Gallery, 1980. Exhibition invitation card, 18 x 12 cms, three panels, folded, two illustrations, printed on heavy black card. Scarce Tom of Finland exhibition ephemera.

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  • Warka irititja munu kuwari kutu = Work from the past and the present : a celebration of fifty years of Ernabella Arts

    # 43148

    PARTOS, Louise (editor)

    Warka irititja munu kuwari kutu = Work from the past and the present : a celebration of fifty years of Ernabella Arts

    [Ernabella, S. Aust.] : Ernabella Arts Incorporated, [1998]. Small quarto (250 x 210 mm), pictorial wrappers, 64 pp., colour illustrations, map; a very good copy. ‘In-depth examination of the history, influences and activities of Ernabella arts ; includes interviews with artists Nura Rupert, Nyukana Baker, and Tjulkiwa; batik ; wood carving.’ (NLA)

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