Rare Books

# 42240

PATERSON BROS.

Studio portrait of Signor Battista Antonio Borsa, brewery and guesthouse owner and prominent member of the Swiss-Italian community in the Daylesford area, Victorian goldfields. Melbourne, 1870.

Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 105 x 62 mm (mount); bottom margin with studio wet stamp of ‘Paterson, 8 Bourke St. E., Melb.’; verso inscribed in pencil by the sitter: ‘Presented to Wm. Jervis by Signor Borsa Antonio, Bellinzona, Switzerland. Sepr. 25th 1870’; a very strong print in excellent condition, the mount with …

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# 34720

[VAN DIEMEN'S LAND. COLLECTOR OF INTERNAL REVENUE]

[TASMANIA; WINE] Licence issued to Messrs. Henty & Company, Launceston, in pursuance of An Act for the Licensing of Wholesale Dealers in Wine and Sprituous Liquors. January 1842.

[Hobart Town : s.n.], 1842. Foolscap folio, 330 x 200 mm, letterpress printed recto only on laid paper with Britannia watermark; the manuscript entries record the successful application by Messrs. Henty & Co., Launceston, for a licence ‘to be a Dealer, under the said Act, In Wine and in Brandy, Rum, Gin, Whiskey, Cordials, and …

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# 37154

Maker unknown.

A unique handmade Asian conical hat constructed from Turf Virginia cigarette packets. Australia, between 1930 and 1945.

A conical hat (also known as a rice hat), 42 cm in diameter, constructed using a total of 183 individual Turf Virginia cigarette packets, with four tiers of meticulously arranged overlapping sections – reminiscent of plate armour – entirely hand-stitched with fine twine (no tape or glue was used!); the hat is surmounted by a …

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# 34709

[LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR ARTHUR]

[TASMANIA; ALCOHOL] Licence to keep an Inn or a Public House, circa 1836.

[Hobart Town : s.n., circa 1836]. Foolscap folio, 315 x 200 mm, letterpress printed recto only on laid paper with watermark ‘W. Warren 1836’; a colonial Government licence ‘to keep an Inn or a Public House … and to sell and retail therein Ale, Beer, and other Malt Liquors, and Wines, Cider, Ginger Beer, Spruce …

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# 42888

BARTON, Crawford (1943 - 1993)

Beautiful men

San Mateo, CA : Liberation Publications, 1976. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (a little rubbed and creased), pp. [96], internally fine. Iconic and seminal photobook, the first publication from Crawford Barton, who is noted for his documentation of the emergent gay subculture in San Francisco from the 1960s to 1980s. Rare.

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# 42724

NORMAN, Karyl [performer and lyricist]; WEBER, Edwin J. [music]; BERRY, Hyatt (lyrics)

[SHEET MUSIC] Nobody lied (when they said that I cried over you)

New York : Jerome H. Remick & Co., 1922. Sheet music, cover illustration of Karyl Norman (aka George Francis Peduzzi) ‘The Creole Fashion Plate’ in full drag, pp. 6, owner’s name to upper panel, a fine copy. ‘Karyl Norman’ (1897 – 1947) was born in Baltimore, leaving home at the age of 16 and performing …

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# 42699

[THOMSON, John (1837-1921) (photographer) and Adolphe Smith HEADINGLEY (1846-1924)]

Street Incidents : a series of twenty-one permanent photographs, with descriptive letter-press.

London : Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1881. Quarto (285 x 220 mm), publisher’s pictorial red cloth stamped in gilt and black (boards with light staining and flecking, spine sunned and flecked, text block a little sprung), original patterned endpapers, pp [2], [1]-100, with 21 original woodburytypes from Thomson’s original dry-plate negatives, each with …

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# 42700

RACKHAM, Arthur

The Wendy Calendar by Arthur Rackham

London : Hodder & Stoughton [1911]. Thick card envelope (284 x 367 mm, some stains and edge wear), printed title and tipped-on colour plate by Rackham, containing The Wendy Calendar, consisting of six cards printed in colour, each card with a pasted on colour plate by Rackham and a small calendar for two months of …

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# 42821

Various.

[FEMINISM] Lip. Issue 7. 1982/3. A feminist arts journal.

Melbourne : Women in the Visual Arts Collective, [1982]. Quarto, original wrappers (light handling marks), pp 89, b/w illustrations, a very good copy. ‘Lip is a collective of feminists who represent a wide range of political, social and cultural stances’ (p. 1) Lip was published in 8 issues from 1976 to 1984. This issue includes …

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# 42812

YOUNG'S AUCTIONS, MELBOURNE.

The Berry Collection. Part II. Auction of Australian Aboriginal & Pacific Island artefacts,

ceramics & glassware, Oriental items, silver, Australian pottery, art & items of interest. East Hawthorn, Vic. : Young’s Auctions, 2009. Quarto, pictorial stiff wrappers, pp 81, with descriptions of 913 lots, most illustrated in colour; a fine copy. Catalogue for one of a series of auctions held in 2007, 2008 and 2009 which featured items …

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# 42781

LETTS, SON & CO.

[NEW ZEALAND] Letts’s Australasian pocket diary, with an almanac for 1885.

Being the forty-eighth year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria (Accession June 20, 1837). London : Letts, Son & Co. Limited, [1884]. “Pocket series, no. 25”. Narrow octavo (180 x 90 mm), original green pebbled cloth with wallet-style flap, publisher’s gilt-stamped crest to front; title page with original owner’s name D. S. McKelne, Perth …

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# 42773

WIGRAM, R.H.

Trout and fly in Tasmania

Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1938. Octavo, green cloth boards, pp 94; edges foxed, previous owner’s name to endpaper, illustrated with seven photographic plates. Scarce. Richard Henry Wigram emigrated to Tasmania in 1924, and was a keen angler at an early age. He was known for his innovative fly designs as well as authoring a wide …

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# 41913

[HOWE, George 1769-1821, printer]; [BLAXCELL, Garnham 1778-1817]; [JAMES, Joseph]; BENT, Ellis 1783-1815; FOSTER, James

Notice of protest form lodged on behalf of Joseph James against Garnham Blaxcell for a dishonoured promissory note; signed by Ellis Bent, Judge Advocate. Sydney, 1813.

[Sydney, NSW : 16 August, 1813]. Small folio bifolium (250 x 200 mm), laid paper watermarked W. SHARP 1810; the first side contains a pro forma legal document printed in letterpress by George Howe, with manuscript entries in a clerical hand recording Judge Advocate of New South Wales Ellis Bent’s protest on behalf of Captain Joseph …

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# 41974

CRUIKSHANK, George (1792-1878)

George Cruikshank, illustrator and caricaturist : presentation signature, dated 20 December 1844.

Large, bold full signature in ink of British illustrator George Cruikshank, on paper sheet (80 x 180 mm) laid down on a section cut from a mid-nineteenth century album page; dated in Cruikshank’s own hand ‘Dec. 20th 1844′; a very well preserved example of Cruikshank’s flamboyant signature. George Cruikshank (1792-1878) achieved notoriety in his lifetime …

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# 42674

RIBELLE, Charles de.

Voyages a travers le monde et l’industrie des nations (coloured version)

Paris: Amable Rigaud, c. 1863. Folio, plum cloth with fine morocco spine gilt-decorated in compartments, all edges gilt, 292pp., scattered foxing, silk endpapers (marked), 16 coloured lithographed plates. The last section concerns Oceania and Australia. The chapters in the section on the Americas include sugar cane, cotton, Mexico, California, Panama, Araucania, the Guyanas, Brasil, Peru, …

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# 39209

PEGGOTT, William

Manuscript letter addressed to Rev. Benjamin Hurst, Wesleyan minister at Goulburn, New South Wales, from fellow Wesleyan William Peggott, Leicestershire, dated 2 June 1855.

Benjamin Hurst (1811-1857), in company with Francis Tuckfield, was sent from England to work as a Wesleyan missionary among the Port Phillip Aborigines in 1838. In 1839-40 he was at the Buntingdale Mission Station in the Geelong-Colac area. He next worked at the Wesleyan Chapel in Collins Street, Melbourne before being posted to Sydney in August …

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