Rare Books

  • [COOK] Sammandrag af Capitain Jacob Cooks åren 1772, 73, 74 och 1775 omkring Södra Polen förrättade resa :

    # 41536

    COOK, James, 1728-1779; FORSTER, Georg, 1754-1794; FURNEAUX, Tobias, 1735-1781

    [COOK] Sammandrag af Capitain Jacob Cooks åren 1772, 73, 74 och 1775 omkring Södra Polen förrättade resa :

    hwarwid Herrar Forsters och Furneaux journaler blifwit jämnförde och nyttjade : Innehållande det hufwudsakeligaste af de på denna resa gjorda nya uptäckter i söderhafwet, Rörande Södra Polens Ishaf nya uptäckte Öars naturalier och Inwånarnes Tänkesätt, Seder, Klädedrägt, m.m. Upsala [Sweden] : Johan Edman, 1783. Octavo, nineteenth century papered boards with title label to spine (edges …

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  • [LA PÉROUSE; BOTANY BAY] Poems, original and translated, by E. H. Smith, A. B., Incumbent of Killamarsh. / "Sweet heart-soothing poesie!"

    # 41725

    SMITH, Edward Herbert; [BRUGUIÈRE, Antoine André, Baron de Sorsum, 1773-1823]

    [LA PÉROUSE; BOTANY BAY] Poems, original and translated, by E. H. Smith, A. B., Incumbent of Killamarsh. / “Sweet heart-soothing poesie!”

    Foolscap folio (189 x 285 mm), full maroon calf (boards worn and scuffed), spine with gilt decoration; front pastedown with armorial bookplate with the motto VIRTUS INCENDIT VIRES and initials FLS below the coat of arms; manuscript in ink in the author’s own hand, [6] 147 [5] pp; the preliminaries comprise a title leaf and 3-page index …

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  • [NEW ZEALAND] The new London spelling book: or, The young gentlemen and ladies guide to the English tongue ...

    # 41724

    VYSE, Charles (active 1770-1815)

    [NEW ZEALAND] The new London spelling book: or, The young gentlemen and ladies guide to the English tongue …

    A new edition, with alterations, improvements and additions. London : printed for G. and J. Robinson, Paternoster-Row, by J. Crowder and E. Hemsted, Warwick-Square, 1803. Small octavo, contemporary brown cloth boards (rubbed and stained), pastedowns and front endpaper with contemporary child’s scribbling, front endpaper with modern biro inscription dated 1984; frontispiece engraved portrait of Charles …

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  • Franska capitainens och riddarens Jean François de Survilles upptäckts-resa i Söderhafvet, på egen och med-interessenters bekostnad anställd år 1769.

    # 41601

    FORSTER, Johann Georg Adam (1754-1794)

    Franska capitainens och riddarens Jean François de Survilles upptäckts-resa i Söderhafvet, på egen och med-interessenters bekostnad anställd år 1769.

    Öfversättning. Nyköping : J. P. Hammarin, 1795. Octavo (170 x 107 mm), disbound; pp. 96 (including title-page); text in Swedish; scattered light foxing, a vertical tear in the fore-edge margin of p. 15; title-page with contemporary ink signature. Slightly abridged Swedish translation (by Carl Fr. Landell) of Forster’s 1793 German version of the voyage account of Surville, …

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  • Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (First Australian edition)

    # 41700

    ROWLING, J. K.

    Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (First Australian edition)

    London : Bloomsbury, 1998 (but possibly 1999). Printed and bound in Australia by Australian Print Group, Marlborough, Vic. First issue of the first Australian edition, with number line 10 9 8 7 6 4 3 2 1. Octavo, laminated boards (slight bump to corners and head and foot of spine) in illustrated dustjacket (lightly edge …

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  • De veritate religionis christianae amica collatio cum erudito Judaeo.

    # 41473

    LIMBORCH, Philippus van (1633-1712)

    De veritate religionis christianae amica collatio cum erudito Judaeo.

    [= A friendly conversation with a Jew concerning the truth of the Christian religion]. Goudae, Justum ab Hoeve [Gouda : Justus van der Hoeve]. First edition. Small quarto (235 x 190 mm), contemporary full calf (new spine and title-piece, sympathetic to the style of the period); front pastedown with armorial bookplate of William Markham of Becca …

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  • [GEOGRAPHY] Lärobok i allmänna geographien, enligt de nyaste politiska förändringarne,

    # 41472

    STEIN, Christian Gottfried Daniel (1771-1830)

    [GEOGRAPHY] Lärobok i allmänna geographien, enligt de nyaste politiska förändringarne,

    af. Chr. Gottfr. Dan. Stein; efter 9:de upplagan af år 1819, översätt och försedd med en serskild artikel öfver Skandinavien, af C. Netherwood. Med ett fullständigt Register, som säljes särskildt, och varigenom arbetet tillika kan begagnas som Lexicon. Stockholm : Zacharias Haeggström, 1819. Small octavo (146 x 113 mm), contemporary half-calf over marbled papered boards (lightly …

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  • En utvandrares äfventyr samt efter skeppsbrottet. Två berättelser från Australien.

    # 41554

    LISTNER, Carl & GERSTÄCKER, Friedrich

    En utvandrares äfventyr samt efter skeppsbrottet. Två berättelser från Australien.

    Öfversättning. [=An emigrant’s adventure and After the shipwreck. Two stories from Australia. Translation]. Stockholm : S. Flodins boktryckeri, 1873. Small octavo (183 x 120 mm), contemporary marbled papered boards, black leather spine repaired with black tape; pp. [4], 95; text in Swedish (translated from the German); inner hinges a little weak, front pastedown with mark caused …

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  • Victoria ; late Australia Felix, Port Phillip District of New South Wales; being an historical and descriptive account of the colony and its gold mines.

    # 41619

    WESTGARTH, William

    Victoria ; late Australia Felix, Port Phillip District of New South Wales; being an historical and descriptive account of the colony and its gold mines.

    With an appendix, containing the reports of the Melbourne Chamber of Commerce for the last two years upon the condition and progress of the Colony. Edinburgh : Oliver & Boyd and London : Simpkin, Marshall & Co., 1853. Octavo, blind decorated boards (spine dulled, small chips to head and foot of spine), folding map frontispiece, …

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  • Nybyggarne på Van Diemens Land : en berättelse från det Australiska nybyggarlifvet

    # 41550

    ROWCROFT, Charles (1798-1856)

    Nybyggarne på Van Diemens Land : en berättelse från det Australiska nybyggarlifvet

     / af Charles Rowcroft ; öfversatt från den tyska bearbetningen för ungdom af Julius Hoffmann. Stockholm : Tryckt hos Eric Westrell, 1861. Octavo (185 x 120 mm), publisher’s printed papered boards (lightly marked, backstrip replaced), pp. [4], 128, with [4] leaves of chromolithographed plates; text in Swedish; front pastedown with partially erased ownership inscription dated …

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  • Reminiscences of an Australian pioneer

    # 41585

    BARTON, Robert D.

    Reminiscences of an Australian pioneer

    Sydney : Tyrrell’s, 1917. Octavo, gilt-lettered purple cloth (spine faded, boards discoloured and edge with rodent damage), pp. viii; 288, internally clean. Provenance: The Balcombe-Murphy family, “The Briars”, Mornington, Victoria; thence to the à Beckett family, with a note inserted relating to the author’s connection to the Murphys.

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  • [PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM] Souvenir of Palestine, compiled by Trooper J. Ellis, 7th Light Horse. 

    # 41237

    ELLIS, J., Trooper

    [PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM] Souvenir of Palestine, compiled by Trooper J. Ellis, 7th Light Horse. 

    [Cover title]. [s.l. : s.n., s.d.]. Photograph album. Oblong folio, 230 x 320 mm; original red cloth over boards, upper board with gilt-lettered title surmounted by the Australian Commonwealth Military Forces badge (also in gilt); front pastedown inscribed in ink ‘Sent by Dr. Goggins’; containing 96 black-and-white gelatin silver prints in uniform 60 x 100 mm format, …

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  • Papua : “A grandchild of the empire."

    # 41691

    INGLIS, Gordon

    Papua : “A grandchild of the empire.”

    [London] : Charles Hooper, [1912]. First edition. Small octavo (190 x 130 mm), publisher’s gilt-lettered blue cloth; pp. 47, with 16 b/w photographic plates; a fine copy, with the bookplate of The Papuan Collection of Charles Fletcher to the front free-endpaper.

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  • The new New Guinea.

    # 41689

    GRIMSHAW, Beatrice

    The new New Guinea.

    London : Hutchinson & Co., 1910. First edition. Thick octavo (230 x 150 mm), publisher’s gilt-decorated blue cloth (very lightly marked, spine ends a little softened); top-edge gilt; pp. viii, 322, [2] (colophon, verso blank), plus 48 leaves of b/w photographic plates, and a folding map; an excellent first edition copy, with the bookplate of …

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  • [NEW HEBRIDES; MISSIONS] Memoirs of Rev. S. F. Johnston, the Rev. J. W. Matheson, and Mrs. Mary Johnston Matheson, missionaries on Tanna.

    # 41701

    PATTERSON, George

    [NEW HEBRIDES; MISSIONS] Memoirs of Rev. S. F. Johnston, the Rev. J. W. Matheson, and Mrs. Mary Johnston Matheson, missionaries on Tanna.

    : with selections from their diaries and correspondence, and notices of the New Hebrides, their inhabitants and missionary work among them / by Rev. George Patterson, Pastor of the Presbyterian Church, Green Hill, Pictou, N.S. Philadelphia : W. S. & A. Martien, [1864]. First edition. Octavo (190 x 140 mm), publisher’s blind-blocked purple pebbled cloth (corners …

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  • Great Tokyo Post Card

    # 40883

    FUKUDA

    Great Tokyo Post Card

    [Title from envelope]. [Yokohama] : Fukuda, [between 1955 and 1960]. Original illustrated envelope (some very light corner wear), 65 x 160 mm, verso with mailing address flap and publisher’s series “No. 3”, containing [6] (of 8) colour postcards of Tokyo, all in mint condition.

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