Rare Books
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# 42287
YANG, William
Sydney Diary 1974 – 1984
Sydney : James Fraser, 1984. Folio, boards in dustjacket (spine sunned), 143 pp., previous owner’s name neatly written on endpaper, small spot of foxing to title page, illustrated throughout. William Yang’s honest and unabashed portraits of Sydney in the 1970s and 80s record a time of cultural renewal and new identity. Yang’s photographs record the …
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# 40169
Anon.
Miniature calendar for the year 1810
[France : s.n.], 1810. Miniature book (45 x 80 mm, full straight-grained morocco with gilt border, housed in matching morocco slipcase with the word Souvenir lettered in gilt (lower edge with short split), text block neatly detached, folding letterpress calendar on two sheets for the year 1810, the leaves comprising stiff erasable cards lettered with …
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# 42192
SWINBURNE, Algernon
Songs before sunrise
London : Chatto & Windus, 1875. New edition. Octavo, gilt-decorated blue cloth, lightly rubbed, previous owner’s name to half-title, pp. viii; 287; (blank), 40 (publisher’s catalogue dated December 1874).
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# 42191
SWINBURNE, Algernon
Atalanta in Calydon : A Tragedy
London : Chatto & Windus, 1875. New edition. Octavo, gilt-ruled blue cloth, lightly rubbed (crease to lower board), previous owner’s name to half-title, pp. xvi; 98; (2, blanks), 32 (publisher’s catalogue dated November 1877).
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# 42190
SWINBURNE, Algernon
Songs of two nations
London : Chatto & Windus, 1875. First edition. Octavo, gilt-ruled blue cloth, lightly rubbed, previous owner’s name to half-title, pp. viii; 78; (2, blanks), 32 (publisher’s catalogue dated November 1875).
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# 42132
THOMPSON, Christian (1978 - )
Ritual intimacy.
Caulfield East, Vic. : Monash University Museum of Art, 2017. Reprinted 2019. Small quarto (230 x 170 mm), pictorial card covers, 128 pp, 92 pages of colour plates of indigenous multidisciplinary artist Christian Thompson’s work; catalogue essays by Charlotte Day, Brian Catling and Marina Warner; Christian Thompson and Hetti Perkins in conversation; an as new …
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# 41953
BONAPARTE, Prince Roland (1858-1924)
Billy, one of the last three survivors of R. A. Cunningham’s touring company of Aborigines from North Queensland. Paris, November 1885.
BONAPARTE, Prince Roland (1858-1924) Billy, one of 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 large 220 x 170 mm format; laid down side-by-side on their original mount of thin card, 310 x 405 mm, lower margin of the …
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# 41961
H. B. ALBERT & CO.
Group of Wardandi Noongar people. Bunbury, Western Australia, early 1900s.
Perth & Bunbury : H. B. Albert & Co., Booksellers, [ca. 1906]. Chromolithographic postcard, 87 x 138 mm, recto with printed caption: ‘Group of Bunbury Aboriginal Natives, W. A.’, and brief inscriptions by the sender at upper left and top edge; verso with more substantial handwritten message (the whole of which must have been written …
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# 41840
RUDD, Charles (photographer and publisher) (1849-1901)
The Great Melbourne Telescope.
[Late 1880s]. Albumen print, 130 x 195 mm; preserved as issued mounted on the original green backing sheet, 190 x 230 mm, imprinted in red ink, upper centre: ‘C. RUDD. View Specialist. 257 Bourke Street’, and at lower centre: ‘VICTORIAN PHOTOGRAPHS.’; both the print and the secondary support are in excellent condition. Rare 1880s view …
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# 41553
TUTTLE & CO.
Photographic portrait of Australian professional rower William “Bill” Beach, unbeaten as World Sculling Champion 1884-87. Sydney, circa 1884.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 103 x 63 mm (mount); recto of mount with imprint of ‘Tuttle & Co., Corner of George & Market Sts., Sydney’; verso with advertisement for the New York Tailoring Company, 667 George Street, Haymarket; print with pale foxing, mount a little darkened from handling otherwise very good. William Beach …
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# 25154
STEIN, Maurice and MILLER, Larry
Blueprint for counter education
Curriculum, handbook, wall decoration, shooting script. New York : Doubleday, 1970. First edition. Illustrated card box containing an unpaginated book and three large folding posters, 94 x 124 cm opened, complete. Designed by Marshall Henrichs. The original first edition of this icon of counterculture, the counter-university. This seminal work was reprinted in 2016, with the …
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# 41890
LINDSAY, Norman.
The Flyaway Highway
Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1936. First edition. Large octavo, Lindsay decorated papered boards, illustrated dust jacket (front flap neatly detached and absent, several edge tears and chips with area of loss), 120pp., light foxing, with numerous Lindsay illustrations. First edition of Lindsay’s second children’s book, the first being The Magic Pudding. A good copy, rare …
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# 41923
[LINDSAY]. BLOOMFIELD, Lin (ed.).
Norman Lindsay : Oil Paintings 1889-1969. (Standard edition)
Bungendore, NSW : Odana Editions, 2006. Quarto, pictorial boards in dust jacket (light handling marks, spine slightly faded, as usual), 308pp. A very good copy. The most substantial book produced on Lindsay’s oil paintings. Over a period of eighty years Australian artist Norman Alfred Williams Lindsay (1879-1969) painted in oils. Apart from the classical portraits …
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# 41742
READ, D. B.
Pair of photographs of stevedores at work on the Melbourne docks, 1913.
Two gelatin silver print photographs, in uniform 105 x 150 mm format, on their original plain board mounts, each captioned in pencil beneath the image ‘”The Docks” 1913 / D. B. Read, Melb.’; the prints have good tonal range and excellent clarity; one has a tiny closed tear at top right corner (probably from the …
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# 41946
DARWIN, Charles (1809 - 1882)
The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex (1894)
London : John Murray, 1894. Second edition, revised and augmented. Thirty-first thousand. Octavo, gilt-lettered green cloth (corners and edges rubbed), light foxing to patterned endpapers, previous owner’s name to half-title, pp. xvi; 693; blank, 78 text illustrations, a very good copy. The second edition, reprinted, of Darwin’s important work on natural selection. As Freeman notes: …
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# 41899
DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882)
The origin of species (1891)
by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. With portrait. London : John Murray, 1891. Two volumes, octavo, original publisher’s gilt-lettered grey-green cloth (light corner wear, lightly bruised with small tears at head and foot of spine, spine lightly sunned), original navy blue chalk-surfaced endpapers; Vol. I, …