Rare Books

# 41850

ALBRECHT, Kurt

Nineteenth century Australian gold & silver smiths

Melbourne : Hutchinson Australia, 1969. Quarto, boards in dustjacket (lightly marked), pp. 69, light foxing to preliminaries, illustrated.

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# 41659

BARDIN, William (c.1740-1798)

Wright’s new improved terrestrial globe,

on which the Latitudes and Longitudes of Places are Carefully laid down, with all the New Discoveries Made by the late CAPT. COOK and other current NAVIGATORS to the Present Time. London : William Bardin, 1782. Terrestrial globe, 9 inches in diameter, engraved gores and two polar calottes with original hand colouring over papier mache …

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# 41531

KANN, Charles Albert (1813-1866)

[GOLD RUSH] Australien och dess guldregioner : tillförlitliga underrättelser för utwandrare till Australien, i synnerhet med afseende på öfwerfart, ankomst, bosättning och guld-gräfning.

Götheborg [Sweden] : C.F. Arwidsson, [1853]. First edition. Octavo, publisher’s contemporary buff boards (lightly marked) with blue cloth spine, contemporary ownership inscription dated 1853 to front pastedown, [2], v, [1], 104 pp. Text in Swedish. Ferguson, 11049a. The first Scandinavian gold digger’s guidebook. A guide book for prospective Swedish travellers to the Victorian and New …

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# 41628

[MAX HARRIS; JOHN REED]

[ANGRY PENGUINS] Ern Malley’s Journal (complete set)

Volume 1, nos. 1-4. Heidelberg, Vic. : M. Harris, J. Reed, B. Reid, November 1952 – October, 1953; Volume 2, nos 1 – 2, Heidelberg, Vic. : M. Harris, J. Reed, B. Reid, May – November 1955 . Six issues, octavo, original wrappers (cover to Vol. 2, No. 1 by Charles Blackman; cover to Vol. …

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# 41696

INGLIS, Rev. John

[NEW HEBRIDES; MISSIONS] A dictionary of the Aneityumese language. (Presentation copy from the author to Rev. Clark of Williamstown).

In two parts. I. Aneityumese and English. II. English and Aneityumese. Also outlines of Aneityumese grammar. And an introduction, containing notices of the missions to the native races, and illustrations of the principles and peculiarities of the Aneityumese language. By the Rev. John Inglis, thirty-three years a missionary, first of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of Scotland, …

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# 41512

MOORE-JONES, Horace (1868 - 1922)

Sketches made at Anzac

during the occupation of that portion of the Gallipoli Peninsula by the Imperial Forces. By Sapper H. Moore-Jones N.Z.E.F. 1915. First Series [all published]. London : Hugh Rees Ltd., 1916. Original publisher’s gilt-lettered cloth gatefold portfolio, 360 x 810 mm, edges rubbed and worn, splits along folds, housing ten large format reproductions of panoramic paintings …

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# 41389

GRANVILLE, Austyn (1854-1922)

The fallen race

/ With an introduction by Opie Read. New York : F. T. Neely, 1892. Octavo, gilt-titled two-tone cloth (edges worn, spine chipped at head and foot, hinges with glue repairs), patterned endpapers (contemporary ownership inscription to front endpaper), pp 352 (text block cracked, a few wet stamps from Prospect Point Manor, Michigan), illustrated with five …

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# 41371

WHITE, John (1756-1832)

John Whites resa till Nya Holland, åren 1787 och 1788.

I sammandrag af Samuel Ödmann. Upsala [i.e. Uppsala] : J. Edmans Enka, 1793. Octavo, contemporary half-calf over papered boards (rubbed), spine with gilt-ruled raised bands and contrasting title-piece lettered in gilt (the leather a little dry and worn); pp. XII, 147, [1], illustrated with 4 engraved plates; front pastedown with early ownership inscription in pencil, front …

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# 39538

COZENS, Charles

[TRANSPORTATION] Adventures of a Guardsman.

London : Richard Bentley, 1848. First edition. Duodecimo (170 x 110 mm), contemporary half red calf over cloth, spine in compartments with gilt decoration and contrasting leather title piece lettered in gilt; top edge gilt, original marbled endpapers, pp. viii, 272; occasional light foxing, several leaves with browning, else internally excellent; ex St. John’s College Library, …

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# 41699

KAY, Rev. John

[QUEENSLAND; BLACKBIRDING; MISSIONS] The slave trade in the New Hebrides : being papers read at the annual meeting of the New Hebrides Mission held at Aniwa, July 1871,

and published by the authority of the Meeting. Edited by the Rev. John Kay, Coatbridge, Secretary to the Foreign Mission Committee of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of Scotland. Edinburgh : Edmonston & Douglas, 1872. Octavo (210 x 140 mm), disbound; pp. [i]-iv, [5]-91; last few leaves with some marginal toning, otherwise fine condition throughout. Rare.

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# 41555

LEJEUNE, Augustin-Laurent

[IMAGINARY VOYAGES; NEW ZEALAND] Den unga vilden.

Öfversättning af Joh. P. Renmark. I-II. Stockholm : C. F. Marquard, 1802. Octavo (172 x 106 mm), handsome contemporary half calf over marbled papered boards, spine with gilt rule and contrasting title- and number-pieces in gilt; pp. [2], 176 + 240; separate title-pages for each part; some browning and very occasional and minor marginal stains; early …

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# 41621

MANSFIELD, Ralph

Australian Almanack, for the Year of Our Lord 1832;

being bissextile, or leap year; and the second of the reign of His Most Gracious Majesty William The Fourth. Published under the sanction and patronage of His Excellency Major-General Richard Bourke. Sydney : edited, printed and published by Ralph Mansfield for the executors of R. Howe, 1832. Octavo, early marbled boards, rebacked in morocco, modern …

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# 41707

KEANE, John F.

My journey to Medinah: describing a Pilgrimage to Medinah performed by the author disguised as a Mohammedan.

London : Tinsley Bros., 1881. Octavo, gilt-illustrated blue cloth over bevelled boards (spine discoloured, chip with loss to centre of spine, head and foot worn), bookplate for W. Arthur Jeffrey to front pastedown, signed by Jeffrey on the front free endpaper, old bookseller’s label removed, hinges a little cracked, pp. viii; 212, internally clean, a …

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# 41663

HAGGARD, H. Rider (1856-1925)

H. Rider Haggard, novelist : presentation autograph signature, dated 1888.

Manuscript in ink on card, 110 x 90 mm; verso with some paper adhesions from where the piece was once mounted in an album. H. Rider Haggard (1856-1925), English writer of adventure fiction, was the author of King Solomon’s Mines (1885) and She (1887), among many other popular works. Provenance: Autograph album compiled by Jane Emma Murphy (Balcombe) …

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# 41420

[NEILD, John Cash, 1846-1911]

[SYDNEY] A group of personal calling cards collected by politician John Cash Neild of “Greycairn”, Edgecliff Road, Woollahra, 1890s.

Group of 17 (seventeen) lithographically printed calling cards, various dimensions (smallest 40 x 75 mm, largest 57 x 93 mm); a number are annotated, some with PPC (Pour prendre congé, indicating a temporary absence), and several with the name of Major (or Lt. Colonel) Neild; all in good condition, with occasional light marks and toning. A …

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# 41626

TAYLER, W. G.

The “Lord’s Prayer” written 4 times in the space of a Shilling. Dr. W. G. Tayler, “Etrenne”, Woollahra, 6th May 1897.

Manuscript in black, brown and red ink on paper, approx. 45 x 45 mm, cut in octagonal shape and mounted on plain card, 120 x 90 mm; border ruled in green and red ink; with a caption title in manuscript on the mount, also bordered in coloured inks; very well preserved, with some toning and …

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