Rare Books

  • Bill of purchase for the Wesleyan City Mission Chapel building, Sussex Street, Sydney, 7 April 1859.

    # 32963

    BOWDEN & THRELKELD; [CALDWELL, John, 1817-1884)

    Bill of purchase for the Wesleyan City Mission Chapel building, Sussex Street, Sydney, 7 April 1859.

    Foolscap folio bifolium (330 mm), with the printed letterhead ‘City Mart, 362, George Street, Sydney. By Bowden and Threlkeld, at auction.’; the first side with entries in manuscript, dated 7 April 1859, recording the sale ‘on account of Messrs. Spier, Callaghan and others’ of ‘A Building in Sussex St. used as a Chapel, purchased by …

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  • Saturdee

    # 42677

    LINDSAY, Norman (1879-1969)

    Saturdee

    Sydney : The Endeavour Press, 1933. First edition. Octavo, illustrated cards with Norman Lindsay illustration, 259 pp (light foxing to fore edge), a fine copy of the wrappered issue of the first edition.

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  • The ways of many waters

    # 42625

    BRADY, E. J.

    The ways of many waters

    Sydney : The Bulletin, 1899. Octavo, purple cloth, spine sunned, gilt-decoration and lettering to spine, endpapers foxed, pp. viii; 155, [blank], (4 – catalogue)

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  • An autobiography of a laughing jackass

    # 42868

    BOOTHBY, Mabel F. (1870 - 1944)

    An autobiography of a laughing jackass

    Melbourne : P.T. Law & Co., [1916]. Second edition. Octavo, illustrated wrappers (light edge wear), string bound, a few marks to the lower wrapper, gift inscription to title page, dated 1916, pp. 12, one colour and one folding black and white plate, light toning, a good example. A charming children’s book about the daily life …

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  • Original gouache for the cover of Vogue Paris, 1935

    # 12837

    BRET-KOCH, Ray (1902-1996)

    Original gouache for the cover of Vogue Paris, 1935

    Original gouache on card, 340 x 260 mm, signed in the image lower left, a little marked at edges. A stunning modernist painting by noted French designer Ray Bret-Koch for the front cover of Vogue Paris. Bret-Koch is recognised as a commercial illustrator and designer as well as architect active in Paris in the mid …

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  • Margaret Olley: far from a still life (signed presentation copy for Criss Canning)

    # 42362

    STEWART, Meg (1948 - ); OLLEY, Margaret (1923 - 2011)

    Margaret Olley: far from a still life (signed presentation copy for Criss Canning)

    NSW : Random House Australia, 2005. Octavo, cloth covered boards, illustrated dust jacket (light handling marks and a short tear), slightly canted, illustrated end papers, signed and inscribed by Margaret Olley the title page, pp. 568, first edition of this biography on Olley written by Meg Stewart, illustrated with several colour and black & white …

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  • A collection of 14 engraved bookseller's and art gallery receipts, 1930s

    # 42528

    [RIORDAN, Captain A. W.)

    A collection of 14 engraved bookseller’s and art gallery receipts, 1930s

    The receipts made out to Captain A. W. Riordan of Caulfield, Melbourne, for the purchase of rare books, paintings and etchings from H. A. Evans & son (four receipts), Dymock’s Book Arcade (one receipt), Robertson & Mullens (two receipts), N. H. Seward (one receipt), Henry Sotheran of London (two receipts) and The Sedan Galleries (four …

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  • A Jewish calendar for sixty-four years, detailing the new moons, festivals, and fasts,

    # 42921

    LINDO, E. H. (Elias Hayyim)

    A Jewish calendar for sixty-four years, detailing the new moons, festivals, and fasts,

    with the sections of the law as read in the synagogues every Sabbath during the year : also the days on which the hour for commencing Sabbath is altered, together with the corresponding Christian dates : to which are added tables for continuing the calendar to A.M 6000-2400 C.Æ, and a chronological table, forming a …

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  • The Jewish Chronicle Map of Israel

    # 42897

    GROSS, Alexander

    The Jewish Chronicle Map of Israel

    Cover title : Map of Israel, including plans of Jaffa – Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Haifa, the Middle East. London : Geographers’ Map Co. for The Jewish Chronicle, November 1949. Map, printed in colour, 101 x 76 cms, folded and housed in lettered card wrappers (small tears to the corners, and at the point where the …

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  • [ENVIRONMENTALISM] Anti-woodchipping postcard petitioning the Federal Government to grant parts of East Gippsland National Park protection.

    # 42847

    WILDERNESS SOCIETY

    [ENVIRONMENTALISM] Anti-woodchipping postcard petitioning the Federal Government to grant parts of East Gippsland National Park protection.

    [Melbourne] : Wilderness Society, [ca. 1990?]. Colour photographic postcard with image of a dead ringtail possum accompanied by main text ‘East Gippsland : wood chip licences available NOW!’, 103 x 110 mm; verso with printed text of petition and space for subscriber’s details; not mailed, in fine condition.

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  • Soundwave 2015. Official program

    # 42806

    SOUNDWAVE

    Soundwave 2015. Official program

    [Perth?] : Soundwave Festival, 2015. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, pp. [64], illustrated, bottom edge unopened. Soundwave was a music festival founded by AJ Maddah which originated in Perth and toured other major Australian cities from 2007 – 2015. The 2015 edition (the final one) saw international headliners Faith No More (USA), Soundgarden (USA), Incubus (USA), Lamb …

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  • The cousin from town

    # 17121

    BRUCE, Mary Grant (1878-1958)

    The cousin from town

    … For children aged 10 to 12 years. Melbourne : Whitcombe and Tombs, [1939]. Series: Whitcombe’s story books ; no. 522. Small octavo, publisher’s pictorial wrappers with original Whitcombe and Tombs sticker to front, frontispiece illustration by Esther Paterson, 108 pp; an exceptional copy. Muir 1110.

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  • [SHEET MUSIC] Light & shade patrol : for pianoforte

    # 14498

    GORDON, Gladys

    [SHEET MUSIC] Light & shade patrol : for pianoforte

    Sydney : Nicholson &​ Co., 1913. “Op. 56” (caption). Folio, illustrated wrappers (mild foxing, split along spine), 6 pp of music notation; internally clean. One of the most striking Australian-themed sheet music covers from the Federation period we have seen. The illustration is signed at lower right 'W. George'. The composer, Gladys Gordon, also performed …

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  • [FINE BINDING]. Liturgia, seu liber precum communium, et administrationis sacramentorum,

    # 20078

    DUREL, John (editor) [Queen's Binder B]

    [FINE BINDING]. Liturgia, seu liber precum communium, et administrationis sacramentorum,

    aliorumque rituum atque ceremoniarum ecclesiae, juxta usum ecclesiae Anglicanae una cum Psalterio seu Psalmis Davidis, ea functatione distinctis, qua cantari aut Recitari debent in Ecclesiis. London : excudit Rogerus Nortonus, regius in Latinis, Græcis & Hebraicis typographus; væneuntque apud Sam. Mearne, regium bibliopolam in Vico vulgariter dicto Little-Britain, 1670. Octavo, fine English ‘drawer-handle’ binding of elaborate …

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  • The description and use, of the universal planispheres ; or, terrestrial and celestial globes in plano.

    # 41471

    DUNN, Samuel (? - 1794)

    The description and use, of the universal planispheres ; or, terrestrial and celestial globes in plano.

    Being compleat substitutes for a large pair of globes. With their applications, in the solutions of all the capital problems in geography, astronomy, and navigation. Invented and delineated by Samuel Dunn. London : Printed and published (according to an Act of Parliament) for the author, and W. Owen, 1759. Second edition, with additions and improvements. …

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  • Engelske capitainens Wilhelm Blighs resa genom södra werlds-hafvet, tolf hundrade sjömil i öpen båt, från Tofoa till Timor.

    # 41616

    BLIGH, William [BURNEY, James]

    Engelske capitainens Wilhelm Blighs resa genom södra werlds-hafvet, tolf hundrade sjömil i öpen båt, från Tofoa till Timor.

    Upsala : J. Edmans enka, 1792 [but 1793]. Duodecimo (150 x 90 mm), contemporary half-calf (worn), spine with gilt-ruled raised bands and gilt lettering (tear to leather on lower section of spine, the front outer hinge starting to loosen); front pastedown with early acquisition note ‘Joh: Erik Sundberg er retta egaren till denna bok Boda …

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