Rare Books

# 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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# 41948

DARWIN, Charles (1809 - 1882)

The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex (1872)

New York; D. Appleton and Company; 1872. Two volumes, octavo, brown cloth with black decoration, lettered in gilt to spine (chipped at head and foot of spines), previous owner’s name to endpapers, Vol. I, pp. [iv]; (blank); vi, 409; (blank); [2 – advertisements); [2 – blank]; 25 text illustrations; Vol. II, pp. [ii]; (blank), viii, …

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# 41903

DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882)

The formation of vegetable mould through the action of worms; with observations on their habits (1882)

London : John Murray, 1882. First edition. Seventh thousand (corrected). Octavo, publisher’s blind blocked dark green cloth (edges rubbed, small tears to head and foot of spine), spine lettered in gilt; endpapers rubbed, pp. [ii], viii, 328, [2] (adv.); 15 text illustrations, index; original cloth; uncut; light foxing to preliminaries (inscription on title-page & long …

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# 41909

Photographer unknown.

The Devil’s Hands, Nowra (New South Wales).

Sepia-tone gelatin silver print photograph, printed on postcard stock, 137 x 86 mm; manuscript caption in image lower left ‘The Devil’s Hands, Nowra’; mailed from Nowra to Parramatta on 10 April 1909 by a Shoalhaven tourist who writes: ‘Good walk across scenery worth seeing’; in excellent condition. Rare early photograph of a painted rock shelter at …

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# 42028

BATCHELDER, Benjamin Pierce

Pair of photographic portraits of a young Scottish immigrant family. Sandhurst (Bendigo), Victoria, 1866-67.

Two albumen print photographs, carte de visite format, in uniform 105 x 62 mm format (mounts); versos imprinted ‘Photographed by Batchelder, Pall Mall, Sandhurst’; rectos with fully contemporary inscriptions in ink identifying the four children by their first names, Jessie & Robert (with their father) and Willie & Mary (with their mother); both prints are in …

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# 41963

GESANG VEREINS "GERMANIA" (BRISBANE)

[GERMAN COMMUNITY IN QUEENSLAND] Ball und Stiftungsfeier des Gesang Vereins Germania, in School of Arts, Brisbane, Montag, 20th September, 1875. Eintritt 7/6.

[=Ball and foundation ceremony of the “Germania” Choral Society … Admission. The Committee]. Brisbane, Qld. : Cleghorn, printer, 1875. Admission ticket, 59 x 91 mm, printed recto only on buff card; the ticket is numbered in manuscript ’38’, and beside the word Eintritt (Admission) is written the price 7/6; the ticket was initialed by the seller C.H.; verso …

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# 42193

BINYON, Laurence

The madness of Merlin

With an introduction by Gordon Bottomley. London : Macmillan, 1947. Octavo, cloth in dustjacket (price-clipped, a few stains), pp. xii; 58. Part 1 of an unfinished poem about the Welsh prince Merlin who sees apparitions amidst battle against the Picts.

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# 42031

PERRON D'ARC, Henri

[ABORIGINES] Aventures d’un voyageur en Australie : neuf mois de séjour chez les Nagarnooks

Paris : L. Hachette et Cie., 1870. Second edition. Small octavo, gilt-lettered cloth (edges rubbed), spine with gilt lettering (slight wear at head and tail), [iv]; 351 pp, 24 engraved plates, scattered foxing. Description of life amongst Australian Aboriginal peoples, the illustrations including depictions of corroboree, burial platform, hunting scene, and men in possum skin …

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# 42238

G. V. & W. R. HISCOCK (publishers)

Beautiful Australian wildflowers of the Grampians

Sydney & Melbourne : Valentine Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd, [ca. 1960]. Illustrated mailing envelope, 105 x 160 mm, containing a concertina fold-out with 9 colour photographic plates of Grampians wildflowers (credited to H. T. Reeves, Melbourne); plus one panel with text by J. H. Willis, National Herbarium (Melbourne); verso of envelope with previous owner’s name …

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# 42614

MacNEIL, N. H.

The history of Wesley College 1920 – 40 (deluxe edition)

Melbourne : McCarron, Bird & Co., 1941. Octavo, gilt-lettered full purple Morocco (spine sunned with wear to head and foot), purple and gold marbled endpapers, pp. [viii]; 136, errata slip, limitation statement signed by the Headmaster MacNeil stating the edition is limited to 300 copies, illustrated. Scarce. Limited edition history of the private school in …

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# 42918

HOLDEN, Robert

Cover up: the art of magazine covers in Australia

Sydney : Hodder & Stoughton, 1995. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 168, a little edge wear, illustrated throughout with plates of magazine covers by famous Australian artists including iconic publications such as The Home, The Lone Hand and The Sydney Mail. A good copy.

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# 42521

WESLEY COLLEGE

Wesley College songs (Fourteenth edition)

Fourteenth edition, 2009. Melbourne : Wesley College, 2009. Fourteenth edition. Small quarto, gilt-decorated purple cloth, light edge wear, pp. 117, sheet music and songs, photographic illustrations. A scarce Wesley College song book. Includes favourites such as ‘Grey Towers’, ‘The Wesley chorus’, and ‘The best school of all’. Loosely enclosed : the eight page printed program …

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# 42606

BLAINEY, Geoffrey; MORRISSEY, James and HULME, S. E. K.

Wesley College : the first hundred years (Bruce Gregory’s copy)

Melbourne : Wesley College in association with Robertson and Mullens, 1967. Octavo, boards in illustrated dustacket (edge wear), illustrated endpapers, pp. 240, illustrated. Presentation label on the half-title to Bruce Gregory (former Headmaster of the Junior School) to the half-title, signed by Gregory on the same page. Loosely enclosed, the original publication of The Lion …

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# 42568

KOHEN, Apolline (curator)

John Mawurndjul : new paintings

Annandale, NSW : Annandale Galleries, 2004. Square octavo (210 x 210 mm), pictorial stiff wrappers, pp. 20, colour illustrations; a fine copy.

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# 42560

RAMSAY, Christine Wu

Days Gone By, volume 2: A meeting of East and West

Melbourne : Macmillan Art Publishing, 2013. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 119, illustrated. New copy. In Days Gone By, Volume 2: A Meeting of East and West, Christine Wu Ramsay continues the personal story of her life in an ever-widening world – as East meets West. The story is told with warmth, insight and her …

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# 42529

COOK, Michael (1968 - )

Michael Cook

Brisbane : Andrew Baker Art Dealer, circa 2015. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. [20], illustrated. ‘Michael Cook is a photographer who worked commercially both in Australia and overseas for twenty-five years. In 2009, Cook was drawn into art photography by an increasingly urgent desire to learn about his Aboriginal ancestry and identity. As a child, Cook …

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