Rare Books

  • [DUMONT D'URVILLE] Louis-Auguste de Sainson, artist on the Astrolabe expedition : autograph letter signed, dated August 1831.

    # 41476

    SAINSON, Louis-Auguste de (1800-1874)

    [DUMONT D’URVILLE] Louis-Auguste de Sainson, artist on the Astrolabe expedition : autograph letter signed, dated August 1831.

    Manuscript in ink written on 2 sides of a quarto bifolium, 240 x 185 mm; dated at Paris, 18 August 1831, and signed at the foot ‘De Sainson, painter du voyage de l’Astrolabe, rue St. André des arts 55’, the letter is addressed to ‘monsieur le Baron’; de Sainson writes to ensure that a promise obtained …

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  • 38 maps. Union atlas, containing new and improved maps of all the Empires, Kingdoms and States in the known world,

    # 31434

    DARTON, William (1755-1819)

    38 maps. Union atlas, containing new and improved maps of all the Empires, Kingdoms and States in the known world,

    designed as a companion to the various gazetteers & books of geography now in use, the whole clearly engraved by artists of eminence and carefully coloured. Including maps of the Roman Empire and Ancient Greece. London : William Darton, Jan. 25th 1812 (the maps dated between 1811 – 1812). First edition. Quarto, modern binding of half …

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  • Two studio portraits of Australian Aborigines from North Queensland in R. A. Cunningham’s second touring company, taken in San Francisco (late 1892) and New York (early 1894).

    # 43115

    ELITE STUDIO (JONES & LOTZ) (SAN FRANCISCO); WENDT, Frank (NEW YORK)

    Two studio portraits of Australian Aborigines from North Queensland in R. A. Cunningham’s second touring company, taken in San Francisco (late 1892) and New York (early 1894).

    I. San Francisco : Elite Studio, Jones & Lotz, 838 Market Street, [1892]. Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format (108 x 163 mm, mount), recto with embossed studio imprint at left margin; verso with contemporary inscription in ink: ‘Nov. 3 92 Stockton Cal. saw them throw them. Photo of Cannibals from Australia who use the …

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  • The house New Zealand built in England

    # 42611

    "The Daily Mail Ideal Home Exhibition"

    The house New Zealand built in England

    London : The Daily Mail Ideal Home Exhibition, 1950. Oblong quarto, full crushed red morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, London, the panels ruled and lettered in gilt, spine in compartments with raised bands, ruled in gilt, all edges gilt, endpapers creased, introductory text, 35 original photographs mounted on cards with printed captions opposite. Ex-library the …

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  • Puss. (Complete set, plus prospectus)

    # 41529

    HILLERSBERG, Lars; SVEDBERG, Lena; DE GEER, Carl Johan, et al.

    Puss. (Complete set, plus prospectus)

    Stockholm : Puss, 1968-1973. A complete set of twenty-five issues; number 1 (January 1968) – number 24, (1973), plus the unnumbered issue and the rare prospectus which advertises the Puss preview presented at the Konsthall, 2-14 December 1967. Quarto (nos. 1-21 and the unnumbered issue, as well as the 4-page prospectus) and folio (nos 22-24); …

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  • Bagot and Marsh camel train at Oodnadatta Railway Station, South Australia, 1903-04.

    # 43105

    SCOTT, Charles P. (1878-1928)

    Bagot and Marsh camel train at Oodnadatta Railway Station, South Australia, 1903-04.

    Gelatin silver print photograph, 90 x 135 mm, printed on postcard stock; image blind-stamped lower left ‘Chas. P. Scott / Unley, S.A.’ and wet-stamped upper right ‘Oodnadatta’; verso without message or inscription; in excellent condition. This commercial postcard was produced by photographer Charles P. Scott between 1905 and 1908, the year he relocated his business …

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  • Sandridge Railway Pier, Melbourne. November, 1866.

    # 42978

    [NETTLETON, Charles, 1826-1902] (attributed)

    Sandridge Railway Pier, Melbourne. November, 1866.

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 90 x 58 mm; laid down on a section cut from a nineteenth-century album page, the mount inscribed ‘Sandridge Railway Pier’; in good condition. An early photographic view of the Sandridge Railway Pier (now known as Station Pier) at Port Melbourne, which was opened in 1854. Although the …

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  • Super Eight : newsletter of the Melbourne Super 8 Film Group Inc. (Twenty-four individual issues, 1997-2001)

    # 42991

    WOODS, Tony; PATERSON, Rod; RYAN, Ben, et al. (eds.)

    Super Eight : newsletter of the Melbourne Super 8 Film Group Inc. (Twenty-four individual issues, 1997-2001)

    Fitzroy, Vic. : Melbourne Super 8 Film Group, September 1997 – March 2001. Twenty-four issues (itemised below); uniform format of foolscap folio, self-wrappers, [8] pp., illustrated; all issues in very good condition; from the estate of Virginia Fraser, artist, writer, editor and curator. The Melbourne Super 8 Film Group was an independent co-operative formed in …

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  • Goddess Films : sales & rentals.

    # 42985

    HAMMER, Barbara (1939- )

    Goddess Films : sales & rentals.

    Berkeley, CA : Barbara Hammer / Goddess Films, [1979?]. Single sheet, 350 x 270 mm, folding to 180 x 90 mm, printed on both sides, photographically illustrated; light creasing and marks to the outer covers when folded, otherwise excellent condition. Important – and very scarce – trade brochure for Goddess Films, the distribution company of …

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  • 3 Days of Peace & Music. Aquarian Exposition : Woodstock Music & Art Fair

    # 42254

    FORMAN, Michael (editor)

    3 Days of Peace & Music. Aquarian Exposition : Woodstock Music & Art Fair

    Official programme for the first Woodstock Music & Art Fair held in Woodstock, New York in August 1969. [Philadelphia?] : Concert Hall Publications, Inc., 1969. First edition, first issue, with the ‘f’ in the word ‘of’ on the upper wrapper overlapping a flower, adjusted for greater clarity in later reprints. Quarto, colour photographic wrappers, pp …

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  • 39th Melbourne International Film Festival, June 8-23, 1990.

    # 42996

    [MIFF]

    39th Melbourne International Film Festival, June 8-23, 1990.

    Melbourne : The Melbourne Film Festival, 1990. Official programme. Quarto (295 x 210 mm), stapled pictorial wrappers; pp. 72, illustrated in b/w; a couple of pages with highlighting, but an excellent copy with loosely inserted newspaper clipping on Kieslowski and the MIFF.

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  • Invisible Cinema present Loud Visual Noises. The Musicians Club, 65 Wellington St, St Kilda Thursday 15th July at 7.30 pm.

    # 42993

    [BRAKHAGE, et al]

    Invisible Cinema present Loud Visual Noises. The Musicians Club, 65 Wellington St, St Kilda Thursday 15th July at 7.30 pm.

    [Melbourne] : Invisible Cinema, [1993]. Foolscap folio flyer, photostatted, printed on both sides; some old water staining, otherwise good condition. A combination of the perpetual calendar and the nine-digit phone number allow us to date this obscure Melbourne experimental cinema event to 1993. The flyer is more than likely a unique survivor. The screening comprised …

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  • First Australian History and Film Conference. Canberra, 22nd to 27th November, 1981 at the National Library of Australia.

    # 42995

    [NATIONAL LIBRARY OF AUSTRALIA]

    First Australian History and Film Conference. Canberra, 22nd to 27th November, 1981 at the National Library of Australia.

    Canberra : National Library of Australia, 1981. Informational brochure. Folding sheet 220 x 360 mm (open), 220 x 90 mm (folded); with programme outline, brief synopses of proposed papers, registration details etc.; excellent condition.

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  • Sonnet in remembrance

    # 42629

    HOAD, Harold F.

    Sonnet in remembrance

    Lower Ferntree Gully, Vic. :  John T. Kirtley, 1949 . Folio, unbound sheets as issued, pp. [4] plus four blanks, printed letterpress, two illustrations signed Charles Crampton. One of only eighty hand-printed copies, numbered and signed by the author (this copy is numbered but not signed). John Kirtley (1897-1967) is an important figure in Australian …

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  • Birthday Greeting to Leah Witter. Fourteenth May. Written by Louis Politzer 1951

    # 42631

    POLITZER, Louis

    Birthday Greeting to Leah Witter. Fourteenth May. Written by Louis Politzer 1951

    Lower Ferntree Gully, Vic. :  John T. Kirtley, 1951 . Folio, unbound sheets as issued, pp. [4] plus four blanks, printed letterpress. One of only ten hand-printed copies, numbered and signed by the author. John Kirtley (1897-1967) is an important figure in Australian printing having produced the first Australian hand-printed books. Introduced by Philip Lindsay …

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  • The pen drawings of Norman Lindsay (deluxe edition)

    # 42266

    LINDSAY, Norman, 1879-1969

    The pen drawings of Norman Lindsay (deluxe edition)

    Special number of Art in Australia. Edited by Sydney Ure Smith & Bertram Stevens. Sydney: Angus & Robertson Ltd., 1918. Quarto, quarter cloth over papered boards (light water stain, corners a little bumped), photographic frontispiece, 55 tipped-in plates, a very good copy. Limited to 200 copies signed by Norman Lindsay. There was also a trade …

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