Rare Books
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# 42619
BRUCE, Mary Grant (1878 - 1958)
Seahawk
London : Ward, Lock & Co., 1934. First edition. Octavo, pictorial cloth, illustrated dustjacket (price-clipped, edges chipped with small areas of loss to edges and spine, foxed), frontispiece and illustrations, pp. 256, a few spots of foxing.
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# 42900
THE SPECTATOR
The Hamilton Spectator directory and almanac 1912.
Presented to the subscribers of “The Spectator”. Hamilton [Vic.] : Printed at the “Spectator” Office, [1911]. Octavo, printed wrappers, (upper wrapper with stamp of Hamilton & District Historical Society, chipped along the spine); pp. 120, with detailed information about Ararat, Port Fairy, Warrnambool, Hamilton, Horsham, Koroit, Dunkeld, Camperdown, Terang, Stawell, Nhill, Warracknabeal, Harrow and other …
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# 41551
SPARRMAN, Anders (1748-1820)
Un compagnon suédois du capitaine James Cook au cours de son deuxième voyage. (Presentation copy for Francis Edwards)
Oslo : La Coquille qui Chante, 1939. Edition limited to 100 numbered copies. (This copy is no. 29). Presentation copy, inscribed on the title-page by the work’s translator for London bookseller Francis Edwards: ‘Francis Edwards, with the compliments of Bjarne Kroepelien’. Octavo (225 x 150 mm), white pigskin over papered boards, spine with raised bands …
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![[MAPS] 万国地誌略諳射訳図 (萬國地誌略諳射譯圖)(萬國地誌畧諳射譯圖) [Bankoku Chishiryaku Ansha Yakuzu]](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2018/05/31145003/2018_DSFB_2064-300x300.jpg)
# 18614
山田申太郎 (Yamada Shintarō) & 高原徹也 (Takahara Tetsuya), edited by 日原昌造 (Hihara Shōzō).
[MAPS] 万国地誌略諳射訳図 (萬國地誌略諳射譯圖)(萬國地誌畧諳射譯圖) [Bankoku Chishiryaku Ansha Yakuzu]
Complete set of 6 copperplate engraved maps with hand colouring. Maps 1-4 published by 岡安慶介 (Okayasu Keisuke) [1878] (Meiji 11); Maps 5 & 6 published by 桑原伊之助 (Kuwabara Inosuke) [1880] (Meiji 13). 1. Asia, the Middle East, and Russia east of the Urals (340 x 400 mm); 2. Africa (310 x 260 mm); 3. Europe, with Russia …
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![輿地新. [Yochi shinzu furoku]. [Supplement to the Map of the World].](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2018/05/31155048/2018_DSFB_2093-300x300.jpg)
# 18584
BERGHAUS, Hermann; 村田文夫 [MURATA, Fumio, translator]
輿地新. [Yochi shinzu furoku]. [Supplement to the Map of the World].
Kyoto, Osaka, and Tokyo: 勝村治右衛門 [Katsumura Jihei], 柳原喜兵衛 [Yanahara Kihei], 北畠茂兵衛 [Kitahata Mohei] et al.. 1874. Two volumes, small quarto (250 x 180 mm), Japanese 5 hole stab binding, original yellow paper covers (rubbed) and title labels; with volvelle showing the earth’s orbit, 3 double page copper engraved colour maps, and numerous black and white maps and …
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# 42756
BIG DAY OUT
Big Day Out Version .09. Program Manual
[Sydney?] : Big Day Out, 2009. Duodecimo, illustrated wrappers, pp. 124, illustrated, a very good copy. Event guide for the Big Day Out music festival, which was staged in Auckland, Gold Coast, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth in January/February 2009. It featured Australian and international acts including Arctic Monkeys, Sneaky Sound System, Birds of Tokyo, …
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# 42757
BIG DAY OUT
Big Day Out Summer 2010 Festival Guide
[Sydney?] : Big Day Out, 2010. Duodecimo, illustrated wrappers, pp. 132, illustrated, a very good copy. Event guide for the Big Day Out music festival, which was staged in Auckland, Gold Coast, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth in January/February 2010. It featured Australian and international acts including Powderfinger, Lily Allen, Hilltop Hoods, Kasabian, Muse, Dizzee …
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# 20079
GRENET, l'Abbe; BONNE, Rigobert
Atlas portatif general pour servir a l’intelligence des auteurs classiques.
Paris : Jean, circa 1790. Quarto, papered boards (worn, lacking the spine and paper to lower board); preliminary blank loose, engraved title page, 91 double-page copperplate engraved maps by Bonne dated between 1780 – 1800, all with hand-colouring in outline; table (index). Grenet’s atlas of the world with engraved maps by Bonne, Ingenieur-Hydrographe de la …
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# 42576
Hamilton Pastoral & Agricultural Society
Hamilton Pastoral & Agricultural Society Annual Show. Show Grounds, Hamilton, Wednesday & Thursday, Sept. 18 & 19, 1907.
Lithographed poster, 90 x 57cms, old folds, tear with marginal loss, tear along central fold, light stain, overall a good copy of a rare agricultural show poster, with detailed lists of the prizes.
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# 42634
CARPZOV, Johann Gottlob (1679 - 1767)
Apparatus historico criticus Antiquitatum sacri Codicis et gentis Hebraeae.
Uberrimis annotationibus in Thomae Goodwini Mosen et Aaronem. Frankfurt am Main und Leipzig, Gleditsch, 1748. Quarto, blind-embossed contemporary vellum, a little marked, manuscript title to spine, hinges and joints expertly strengthened, bookplate to front pastedown, portrait frontispiece, title in red and black, pp. x; [vi]; 164; [2]; 820; (66 – index], woodcut headpieces and initials, …
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# 42931
HOUGHTON, Suzanne
Goat on a boat (original cover art for the publication)
Colour pencil and watercolour on artist’s card, 310 x 295 mm, signed lower right, accompanied by a signed letter and related ephemera. The original cover illustration for the children’s book Goat on a boat (Sydney : Omnibus, 2019), written by Nick Dent and illustrated by Suzanne Houghton. ‘When a goat arrives on a rocky island, the …
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![Bollettino della Società Geografica Italiana. [Serie prima:] Anno VII. Volume X. Fascicolo 1, iuglio 1873 - Fascicolo 6, dicembre 1873].](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2024/02/2024_DSFB_0789-300x296.jpg)
# 42916
[Società Geografica Italiana]
Bollettino della Società Geografica Italiana. [Serie prima:] Anno VII. Volume X. Fascicolo 1, iuglio 1873 – Fascicolo 6, dicembre 1873].
Roma : Stabilimento Giuseppe Civelli, June-December 1873. Six parts in five volumes (as issued), octavo, original printed blue wrappers (some light staining and foxing, early ownership inscription to two of the upper wrappers); pp. 1-120 (with folding colour map showing telegraph communication linking Europe and Asia); 1-92; 1-94; 1-117; 1-74 (with folding lithographed plate of …
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# 43024
BIONDO, Sam and PUGH, Rohan
Skins ‘n’ Sharps. The forgotten subculture Melbourne 1971 to 1979.
Melbourne : Skins ‘n’ Sharps, 2006. Quarto (295 x 210 mm), pictorial wrappers, staple bound, 14 pp (including wrappers), b/w and colour illustrations throughout; an as new copy. Superbly illustrated catalogue produced to accompany a low-key Melbourne exhibition staged in 2006, Skins ‘n’ Sharps. The catalogue contains many original photographs, previously unpublished, documenting the unique …
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# 42515
[MILK, Harvey 1930 - 1978)
Gay vote. News from the San Francisco Gay Democratic Club
San Francisco : the Club, 1978 – 79. A collection of 13 issues of a highly significant periodical in the gay civil rights movement, commencing with vol. 1 no. 2. Each issue pp. 4, illustrated, in fine condition, unfolded and unposted. The first issues are subtitled News from the San Francisco Gay Democratic Club, and …
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# 42496
HOGAN, Lou Rand; COSTAIN, David (illustrator)
The Gay Cookbook (first edition)
/ by Lou Rand Hogan. Campy cartoons by David Costain. Los Angeles : Sherbourne Press, 1965. First edition, first impression. Large octavo, lettered paper boards (bumped at corners, spine sunned, lightly marked, stain to fore edge), pp. viii; 280, line illustrations; internally clean. A good copy of the true first edition, issued in much larger format …
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# 43014
MIZER, Bob (1922 - 1992); LEYLAND, Winston
Physique. A pictorial history of the Athletic Model Guild
San Francisco : Gay Sunshine Press, 1982. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. [96], illustrated with erotic photography of male nudes. Physique Pictorial, published by Bob Mizer’s Athletic Model Guild (AMG) was the first all-male and all-nude magazine in the United States. It is an example of a ‘beefcake’ magazine which published images of athletic and attractive …