Rare Books

  • [ABOLITIONISM] Nya resa genom Nord-americanska fri-staterna år 1788.

    # 41557

    BRISSOT, Jacques-Pierre (1754-1793)

    [ABOLITIONISM] Nya resa genom Nord-americanska fri-staterna år 1788.

    Från franska originalet sammandragen, och med anmärkningar försedd af Johan Reinhold Forster. Öfwersatt från tyskan. Stockholm : A. J. Nordström, 1799. Octavo (172 x 112 mm), contemporary half calf over papered boards (rubbed and with light staining, corners bumped), spine richly gilt (a little faded and with a couple of small marks) and with dark …

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  • En upptäckts-resa till Norra Stilla Hafvet, och kring jordklotet : att på Kongl. Engelsk befallning och omkostnad i synnerhet forska efter något segelbart sammanhang imellan Norra Stilla och Norra Atlantiske Hafven förrättad åhren 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794, 1795, under commando af Capitain George Vancouver. Ifrån engelskan i sammandrag utgifven af Anders Sparrman.

    # 41533

    VANCOUVER, George, 1757-1798; SPARRMAN, Anders, 1748-1820

    En upptäckts-resa till Norra Stilla Hafvet, och kring jordklotet : att på Kongl. Engelsk befallning och omkostnad i synnerhet forska efter något segelbart sammanhang imellan Norra Stilla och Norra Atlantiske Hafven förrättad åhren 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794, 1795, under commando af Capitain George Vancouver. Ifrån engelskan i sammandrag utgifven af Anders Sparrman.

    Scarce Swedish edition of Vancouver’s voyage account, being Anders Sparrman’s abridgement of Voyage of discovery to the North Pacific Ocean and round the world (1798). Stockholm : Anders Zetterberg, 1800. Two parts in one volume, small octavo, contemporary half calf over speckled papered boards, spine ruled in gilt with title labels (spine and edges worn and rubbed); contemporary …

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  • A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean ... Performed in His Majesty's Sloop Providence and her Tender, in the years 1795, 1796, 1797, 1798.

    # 42450

    BROUGHTON, William Robert (1762-1821)

    A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean … Performed in His Majesty’s Sloop Providence and her Tender, in the years 1795, 1796, 1797, 1798.

    London : T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1804. Quarto, full contemporary calf, spine renewed in period style; pp. xx, 393, [1], [2 publisher’s advertisements]; with three charts and six plates and views (most folding); a fine wide-margined copy, with fresh plates and maps. Broughton’s A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean is an acknowledged …

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  • Globe artificiel et mécanique a l’usage du petit géographe.

    # 32074

    WEYGAND, F. J.

    Globe artificiel et mécanique a l’usage du petit géographe.

    Amsterdam ; La Haye [Netherlands] : F. J. Weygand, [ca.1840]. Collapsible globe in 6 gores, engraved with hand colouring, laid down on thin card, each gore 170 x 70 mm (irregular); in fine condition with vivid original colour, Australia with Terre de Witt, Terre d’Eendracht, Cape Leeuwin, Terre de Nuyts, Golfe de Spencer, Terre de Van …

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  • Dream Road (deluxe edition with original Ray Crooke artwork)

    # 42784

    HERBERT, Xavier (1901 - 1984); CROOKE, Ray (1922 - 2015)

    Dream Road (deluxe edition with original Ray Crooke artwork)

    Illustrated by Ray Crooke. Foreword by H. P. Hesseltine. Sydney : William Collins, 1977. Quarto, gilt-lettered quarter-lambskin over gilt-decorated cloth (spine sunned and discoloured, as often found), slipcase with colour illustrations (light foxing), illustrated endpapers, pp. 119, illustrated by Crooke. The deluxe edition, limited to 180 copies (150 for sale), specially bound, numbered by hand, …

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  • [GOLD RUSH] The Australian journal of William Strutt, A.R.A., 1850-1862

    # 42776

    STRUTT, William (1825-1915); MACKANESS, George

    [GOLD RUSH] The Australian journal of William Strutt, A.R.A., 1850-1862

    / Edited, with an Introduction, Notes and Commentary by George Mackaness. Dubbo : Review Publications, 1979. Second edition, originally published in 1958. Australian Historical Monographs (New Series), Vol. XLI. Two parts, octavo, stiff green wrappers, pp. xiii; [I], 42 ; [iv], 48, frontispiece to each part, plus 8 full page illustrations, notes and commentary, appendices; …

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  • Asiatic impressions

    # 42270

    PRATTEN, H. E.

    Asiatic impressions

    A collection of articles by H. E. Pratten. Sydney : Fergusson, 1908. First edition. Octavo, illustrated wrappers by Harry Weston, small chips to head and foot of spine, previous owner’s name to title page, pp. 95, occasional underlining in blue pencil, photographically illustrated plates. The author’s descriptions of The Philippines, Japan, Hong Kong, China, India, …

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  • [WWI] Idiot Corner, Westhoek Ridge, Belgium, 5 November 1917.

    # 41819

    HURLEY, Frank (1885-1962)

    [WWI] Idiot Corner, Westhoek Ridge, Belgium, 5 November 1917.

    Gelatin silver print photograph, 14.5 x 20 cm; verso with the wet stamp of the A.I.F Publications Section, Australia House (London); superb condition. A significant example of the controversial use of montage by Australia’s pre-eminent war photographer, Frank Hurley (1885-1962). From mid 1917 to early September 1918 the Australian photographer and adventurer Frank Hurley, who …

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  • Bring the monkey

    # 41829

    FRANKLIN, Miles (1879-1954)

    Bring the monkey

    Sydney : Endeavour Press, 1933. Octavo, black-lettered red cloth, dust jacket with illustration by Norman Lindsay (light edge wear, chip with loss to head of spine); pp. 246, line illustrations; a very good copy in the rare and substantially complete dust jacket, seldom found thus.

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  • Billy, Jenny and her son Toby: the last three survivors of R. A. Cunningham’s touring company of Aborigines from North Queensland. Paris, November 1885.

    # 41951

    BONAPARTE, Prince Roland (1858-1924)

    Billy, Jenny and her son Toby: the last three survivors of R. A. Cunningham’s touring company of Aborigines from North Queensland. Paris, November 1885.

    Two albumen print photographs, in identical 160 x 117 mm format (approximately cabinet card size); laid down side-by-side on their original mount of thin card, 310 x 405 mm, lower margin of the mount with a calligraphic caption in ink: Collection anthropologique du Prince Roland Bonaparte; both prints with some loss of contrast, scattered pale …

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  • Sir Frederic Leighton, British painter and sculptor : presentation signature dated March, 1892.

    # 41904

    LEIGHTON, Frederic, Sir (1830-1896)

    Sir Frederic Leighton, British painter and sculptor : presentation signature dated March, 1892.

    Manuscript in ink on Leighton’s personal card with black mourning border and printed address ‘2, Holland Park Road, Kensington, W.’ , 90 x 115 mm; signed by the artist with his distinctive flourishes above and below the initial letters ‘Fred. Leighton / March 1892’; the signature is bold and very well preserved; the card has …

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  • Royal ordinance signed by Louis XVI. Versailles, January 1787.

    # 41666

    LOUIS XVI, KING OF FRANCE & NAVARRE (1754-1793)

    Royal ordinance signed by Louis XVI. Versailles, January 1787.

    Manuscript in ink on parchment, 320 x 250 mm; a royal ordinance approving a property exchange between an aristocrat and an educational institution; dated at Versailles, January 1787, the document bears the signature of Louis XVI, King of France and Navarre, in the lower margin: ‘Louis’, with the phrase ‘par le Roi’ immediately below; some …

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  • Salmon at the Antipodes : being an account of the successful introduction of salmon and trout into Australian waters

    # 42273

    WILSON, Sir Samuel

    Salmon at the Antipodes : being an account of the successful introduction of salmon and trout into Australian waters

    London : Edward Stanford, 1879. First edition. Octavo, finely bound in half crushed morocco over marbled papered boards, spine in compartments with gilt-lettering and angling related devices, edges rubbed, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers with collector’s leather heraldic label to front pastedown (unidentified), photographic frontispiece, pp. viii; folding map; 252, a fine copy. Ferguson 18663.

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  • The Magic Pudding. (First U.S. edition, 1934-36)

    # 41289

    LINDSAY, Norman (1879-1969)

    The Magic Pudding. (First U.S. edition, 1934-36)

    : being the adventures of Bunyip Bluegum and his friends Bill Barnacle & Sam Sawnoff. New York : Farrar & Rinehart, [1934-36]. Octavo, black-lettered red cloth, original dust jacket (chipped at corners and head of spine), a couple of small edge tears, contemporary inscription to endpaper, pp. [159], illustrated throughout by Lindsay; a very good …

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  • Tristram of Lyonesse and other poems

    # 42189

    SWINBURNE, Algernon

    Tristram of Lyonesse and other poems

    London : Chatto & Windus, 1882. First edition. Octavo, gilt-ruled blue cloth, lightly rubbed, previous owner’s name to half-title, pp. xii; 361; (3, blanks), 32 (publisher’s catalogue dated May 1882).

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  • Menniskans härledning och Könsurvalet. (First Swedish edition of The Descent of Man)

    # 41597

    DARWIN, Charles

    Menniskans härledning och Könsurvalet. (First Swedish edition of The Descent of Man)

    Stockholm : Albert Bonnier, 1872. Two volumes, octavo, contemporary gilt-lettered half-morocco over pebbled cloth (edges scuffed, particularly at head and foot of spine), marbled edges, pink endpapers, pp. [iv]; 314; (2); [iv]; xv; [blank]; 294; (6), portrait frontispiece of Darwin to volume two, text illustrations, internally fine, a fine set. The first Swedish edition of …

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