Rare Books

  • 8 Post Cards Beautiful Island of Japan

    # 40885

    FUKUDA

    8 Post Cards Beautiful Island of Japan

    [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. 1”, containing [5] (of 8) colour postcards of Japan, all in mint condition.

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  • Nara "Deer Park"

    # 40886

    FUKUDA

    Nara “Deer Park”

    [Title from envelope]. [Yokohama] : Fukuda, [between 1955 and 1960]. Original illustrated envelope (very fine), 65 x 160 mm, verso with mailing address flap and publisher’s series “No. 12”, containing [6] (of 8) colour postcards of Tokyo, all in mint condition.

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  • The Largest Trading Port Kobe 8 Post Cards

    # 40888

    FUKUDA

    The Largest Trading Port Kobe 8 Post Cards

    [Title from envelope]. [Yokohama] : Fukuda, [between 1955 and 1960]. Original illustrated envelope (very good), 65 x 160 mm, verso with mailing address flap and publisher’s series “No. 9”, containing [4] (of 8) colour postcards of Kobe, all in mint condition.

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  • Japanese Girls

    # 40887

    FUKUDA

    Japanese Girls

    [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. 5”, containing [8] (of 8) colour postcards of Japanese women in traditional costume, all in mint condition; complete, as issued, and scarce thus.

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  • Woodcuts. With an original woodcut by Lionel Lindsay.

    # 41777

    [LINDSAY, Lionel]. STEPHENS, A. G.

    Woodcuts. With an original woodcut by Lionel Lindsay.

    Decorations by Roy Davies. Sydney: Tyrrells’ Limited, 1923. Quarto, illustrated boards with cord ties (edges rubbed), 34pp. with essays on the history of woodcuts, and the woodcut in Australia, as well a catalogue of woodcuts for sale by Lionel Lindsay, Margaret Preston, Napier Waller and Roy Davies et al. Limited to 125 copies, of which …

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  • Art in Australia. A Quarterly Magazine. Third Series, Number Thirty-Nine. Daryl Lindsay Number (signed copy with original drawing)

    # 41579

    Sydney Ure Smith

    Art in Australia. A Quarterly Magazine. Third Series, Number Thirty-Nine. Daryl Lindsay Number (signed copy with original drawing)

    Edited by Sydney Ure Smith & Leon Gellert. Sydney : Art in Australia, 1931. Octavo, gilt-lettered library buckram, with the original wrappers bound in, preliminaries with contemporary news clippings pasted in, 74pp, illustrated with tipped-in colour plates, plus b/w plates, a fine copy signed by the artist on the title page, with a full page …

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  • Terre Napoleon. Australia through French eyes 1800 - 1804

    # 41798

    HUNT, Susan and CARTER, Paul

    Terre Napoleon. Australia through French eyes 1800 – 1804

    Sydney : Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales in association with Hordern House, 1999. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 150, gift inscription to title page, extensively illustrated. Art from the Baudin voyage to Australia.

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  • [WINE FROM THE ENDEAVOUR] A Catalogue of a Small Cellar of Curious Old Wines of the Late Joseph Steavenson, Esq. which will be Sold by Auction, by Mr. Lahee ... No. 23, Gilbert Street, Grosvenor Square, on Tuesday, the 31st day of March, 1840, ...

    # 24992

    [BANKS, Joseph, Sir, 1743-1820]

    [WINE FROM THE ENDEAVOUR] A Catalogue of a Small Cellar of Curious Old Wines of the Late Joseph Steavenson, Esq. which will be Sold by Auction, by Mr. Lahee … No. 23, Gilbert Street, Grosvenor Square, on Tuesday, the 31st day of March, 1840, …

    [London] : s.n., 1840. Octavo (225 x 143 mm), [4] pp; contemporary ink annotation beside lot 11 “East India”; a couple of small closed tears, light foxing. Apparently unrecorded, this unassuming little catalogue is a record of the sale by auction of wines from the deceased estate of London wine and brandy merchant, Joseph Steavenson. A …

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  • Prospectus of a company, to be designated the Scottish Phillipsland Emigration Company.

    # 12106

    LANG, John Dunmore (1799-1878)

    Prospectus of a company, to be designated the Scottish Phillipsland Emigration Company.

    [Edinburgh? : J.D. Lang?, c.1847]. Foolscap folio, [4] pp, original horizontal folds, trimmed closely along the fore-edge margin, but a good, clean copy of a rare document. Ferguson, 4566. Lang’s proposal for the formation of an Edinburgh- or Glasgow-based company which would organise large-scale emigration of Protestants, particularly from the Scottish Highlands and western islands, …

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  • Intercolonial Exhibition, 1866. Vocabulary of dialects spoken by Aboriginal natives of Australia.

    # 34589

    [BARRY, Sir Redmond]

    Intercolonial Exhibition, 1866. Vocabulary of dialects spoken by Aboriginal natives of Australia.

    Melbourne : Masterman, Printer, Brunswick Street, Fitzroy, 1867. Only edition in English. Octavo, original printed green wrappers (some chipping to the edges, pale water stain and foxing to fore edge), sewn, pp xiv, [2], 6 large format tables of vocabulary (each folding to 460 x 580 mm, in fine condition), an excellent copy. Ferguson notes …

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  • The Bouquet of Sydney

    # 22652

    ADLER, Carl (printer)

    The Bouquet of Sydney

    Hamburg : C. Adler, before 1868. Chromolithographed and engraved folding card in the shape of a bouquet of flowers, housed in the original gilt-printed envelope with a lithographed view of Sydney, lettered in gold, the view measuring 520 x 118 mm, the envelope 86 x 142 mm, a fine example. Adler’s Bouquet of Sydney, a highly ephemeral …

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  • Album of the kings &​ queens of Victoria

    # 33446

    KRUGER, Johann Friedrich Carl (Fred), (1831-1888); [PERKINS, Horace]

    Album of the kings &​ queens of Victoria

    [Melbourne : compiled and published by H. Perkins & Co., The Gift Depot, c.1880]. Duodecimo, blue papered boards with gilt stamped lettering and ornament, cloth spine, containing folding concertina of [12] panels with lithographic illustrations after Kruger’s photographic portraits of surviving leaders of Aboriginal tribes of Victoria, originally taken at various times between around 1866 …

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  • Sands & McDougall's Monthly Diary. Giving departure of Mails, Sunrise and Sunset, Phases of Moon, Railway Time Tables, &c. July, 1880.

    # 33626

    SANDS & McDOUGALL

    Sands & McDougall’s Monthly Diary. Giving departure of Mails, Sunrise and Sunset, Phases of Moon, Railway Time Tables, &c. July, 1880.

    Melbourne : Victoria Stationery Warehouse, 46 Collins Street West, 1880. Quadragesimo-octavo (100 x 70 mm), publisher’s printed yellow stiff wrappers, stitched, pp 73; a very good, clean example, most diary pages with the original owner’s short neat ink entries recording over the course of the month a multitude of Melbourne surnames (possibly legal or business …

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  • Catalogue of Sir Samuel Wilson's pure merino ewes and rams for sale at Ercildoune, by Fisken, Gibson, & Co., on Thursday, November 1, 1883. To commence at 1 o'clock precisely.

    # 31051

    FISKEN, GIBSON & Co., AGENTS; [BARDWELL, William, photographer]

    Catalogue of Sir Samuel Wilson’s pure merino ewes and rams for sale at Ercildoune, by Fisken, Gibson, & Co., on Thursday, November 1, 1883. To commence at 1 o’clock precisely.

    Cover title: Catalogue of the Sixth Annual Sale of Sir Samuel Wilson’s … … Ballarat, Vic. : James Curtis, printer [for Fiske, Gibson & Co.], 1883. Duodecimo (170 mm), original limp red morocco covers with gilt-stamped pictorial device and lettering to front, and a second pictorial device to rear; marbled edges, original olive endpapers, pp …

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  • An agnostic's progress from the known to the unknown

    # 41261

    [SPENCE, Catherine Helen]

    An agnostic’s progress from the known to the unknown

    London and Edinburgh : Williams and Norgte, 1884. Octavo, gilt-lettered brown cloth (lightly flecked and rubbed), small owner’s stamp to front pastedown, small stain to lower margin of pastedowns, pp. [ii]; 266, 8 (catalogue), a very good copy. A rare work by Catherine Helen Spence (1825-1910) – writer and suffragist, Australia’s first female political candidate, …

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  • "Humanity" / Number one, containing: the human race at a glance, by E.W. Cole.

    # 16754

    COLE, E.W. (1832-1918)

    “Humanity” / Number one, containing: the human race at a glance, by E.W. Cole.

    [Caption title]. Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide : E. W. Cole, Book Arcade, [1893]. Large quarto, original printed stiff wrappers (marked and foxed, paper splitting along spine), pp. 32, pages 5-31 comprised entirely of  lithographed vignette illustrations of racial types from around the world (arranged 25 to a page), with Cole’s essay occupying the first 4 …

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