Rare Books

# 23436

HAZELWOOD, Art

Into Iraq

[San Francisco : Art Hazelwood], 2010. Handmade artist’s book, boards with paper cover illustrated with a linocut, linocut title page, signed and editioned by the artist, 32 linocut illustrations (two are double page), a fine copy. Limited to 30 copies signed by the artist. ‘At the beginning of the Iraq war it seemed like a …

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# 41709

HOWARD, Paul; BARWICK, Rusty; BAKER, Bryan; RAWLINS, Adrian; RUSSELL-CLARKE, Peter; TANDBERG, RON

[MELBOURNE; SATIRE; RACISM] Tom Thumb. Number 13. October 1966.

Glen Iris, Vic. : Baker Publishing Co., October 1966. Quarto newspaper (270 x 215 mm), pictorial wrappers printed in red and black, staple bound, 24 pp (including wrappers), photographic illustrations, cartoons; a very good copy. A sleazier and intellectually less ambitious counterpart to Oz magazine, Tom Thumb did however provide some biting and witty social …

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# 41618

SCHOFIELD, Anne and FAHY, Kevin

Australian Jewellery : 19th and early 20th Century

Sydney : David Ell, 1990. Quarto, gilt-lettered cloth in illustrated dustjacket, bookplate from the Chapman collection to front pastedown, pp. [viii]; 284, extensively illustrated. Printed in an edition of 2000 copies.

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# 41312

SAINT NERSES SHNORHALI [AUCHER, Paschal, editor]

Preces S. Niersis Clajensis Armeniorum Patriarchae viginti quatuor linguis editae.

Venice : In Insula S. Lazari [at the Armenian press], 1823. Duodecimo (150 x 100 mm), contemporary marbled calf with ornate gilt borders, spine with stamped title and decoration; original owner’s inscription to recto of first blank: ‘Given to E. Alexander Whytt Esq. by Paschal Aucher, St. Lazarus 5th October 1824.’; verso of the front …

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# 41193

HIGHLAND SOCIETY OF NEW SOUTH WALES

[SCOTTISH COMMUNITY IN AUSTRALIA] Letter copybooks of the Highland Society of New South Wales (1881-86).

[Sydney : Highland Society of New South Wales, Bell’s Chambers, Pitt Street, 1881-86]. Three letter copybooks produced by Sydney stationery firm John Sands. Uniform quarto (270 x 220 mm), half leather over cloth or marbled papered boards (mild rubbing and some wear to extremities), spines stamped in gilt ‘Letter Book’; alphabetical tab dividers; containing a …

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# 41162

GAELIC SOCIETY OF NEW SOUTH WALES

[SCOTTISH COMMUNITY IN AUSTRALIA] Letter copybook of the Gaelic Society of New South Wales (1875-77).

[Sydney : Gaelic Society of New South Wales, 3 Hunter Street, 1875-77]. Letter copybook. Quarto (270 x 220 mm), half calf over marbled papered boards (boards rubbed, leather a little worn); spine stamped in gilt ‘Letter Book’; alphabetical tab dividers; contains numerous copies on onion-skin paper of outgoing local and overseas correspondence (some written in …

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# 41348

BURN & SON

Superior jewellery, gold & silver watches, clocks, chains, Alberts, brooches, rings, etc. etc. being the residue of the stock of Mr. D. Barclay; … will be sold by public auction at the Mart, Elizabeth-Street, by order of Mr. Golding, by Burn and Son, on Thursday, May 15, 1879, without the slightest reserve.

Catalogues to be had at the Mart, where the above are now on view. Hobart Town : Davies Bros., Printers, “Mercury” Office, 1879. Single sheet, 225 x 160 mm, lithograph-printed recto only; the flyer was evidently preserved flat for a century or so inside a Hobart newspaper, as it has offsetting from the newsprint on …

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# 41358

WAIN, Louis

Louis Wain’s Baby’s picture book.

London : James Clarke & Co., 1903. First edition. Small quarto (240 x 195 mm), publisher’s pictorial papered boards (lightly rubbed), with advertisements for Cadbury’s Cocoa and Pear’s Soap to lower board; title page with mild off-setting, original owner’s name Bertha Irene Ricardo neatly inscribed in upper margin of first page of text, pp. [60], …

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# 41384

RUDD, Charles (photographer and publisher) (1849-1901)

[GOLD MINING] Three photographs documenting gold sluicing at Uralla on the Northern Tablelands of New South Wales, early 1890s.

Three albumen print photographs in identical 140 x 200 mm format, each with the photographer’s manuscript captions and consecutive serial numbers (999-1000-1001) in the negative; all preserved as issued, mounted on the original green backing sheets, 230 x 190 mm, imprinted in red ink, upper centre: ‘C. RUDD, VIEW SPECIALIST, 257 BOURKE STREET.’, at l.l. ‘C. …

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# 41521

MARCET, Edouard

Australie. Un voyage a travers le bush.

Dessins de Mm. G. Liquier et D. d’apres les indications de l’auteur. Geneve : Jules-Guillaume Fick, 1868. Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth (spine glued down), all edges gilt, pp. 268, the text set in ornamental borders with decorated initials, illustrated with 20 original photographs after drawings by the author. Printed in an edition of 200 copies. Rare …

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# 41271

CROOKE, Ray

An epistle from Oberea (signed twice by Ray Crooke)

With decorations by Ray Crooke. Ferntree Gully, Vic. : The Rams Skull Press, 1955. Quarto, hessian bound boards with traditional Polynesian tapa design, signed ‘Ray Crooke 21 October 65’ on the endpaper, 24 pp, illustrated with seven original silk screens by Ray Crooke. Limited to 250 copies signed by the artist; the cover was also …

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# 41525

Yamanaka Zensaburo

[WORLD MAP] Bankokushnghizu

Japan : (Meiji 14) [1881]. Handcoloured copperplate print, 990 x 700 mm, folding to 130 x 180 mm, some silverfishing and creases with some splitting, both repaired with Japanese tissue. A map of the world on Mercator’s projection by Japanese cartographer Yamanaka Zensaburo. Obviously derived from European sources, it shows the voyages of famous explorers …

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# 41523

VOWLES, George (1844 - 1928)

Sunbeams in Queensland

Brisbane : printed by Rogers & Harley, 1870. Duodecimo, gilt-decorated green cloth (marked) with binder’s ticket of O’Hagen, Brisbane, yellow endpapers, pp. xi; [i]; 204, occasional foxing. The first published book of poetry by a Queensland born writer. Vowles was born in Ipswich in 1844.

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# 41226

BATTEN, George Henry (1819-1881)

[MELBOURNE] A small archive of original poetry by G. H. Batten, Master of Richmond Grammar School and Honorary Secretary to Governor Sir Henry Barkly. 1859-1880.

G. H. Batten (1819-1881) was a schoolmaster in Devon for many years before emigrating to Port Phillip in 1856, where he served for a brief time as Honorary Secretary to the Governor of Victoria, Sir Henry Barkly. In January 1857 Batten became the proprietor and master of the Richmond Grammar School, a school for young gentlemen in …

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# 41221

LILLECRAPP, William Spettigue (1840-1920)

[BAROSSA VALLEY] The manuscript diary of William Spettigue Lillecrapp, September 1863-April 1864.

Large octavo journal (210 x 165 mm), original half green morocco over grey cloth (boards marked and sun-faded; corners worn; some loss to leather on spine); verso of front free-endpaper with ownership signature and date ‘W. S. Lillecrapp, 23 September, 1863’; manuscript in ink on unruled paper, pp. [157 Lillecrapp’s diary, September 1863-April 1864], [2 blank], [25 …

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# 41383

HOOPER, James

Studio portrait of a Private in the Victorian Regular Infantry. Melbourne, circa 1888.

Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 165 x 110 mm (mount); recto of mount with imprint of ‘West End Portrait Parlors, 112 & 114 Victoria Street, West Melbourne. James Hooper, Proprietor.’; a strong print in good condition (some surface scratches in the bottom right corner); the mount is a little darkened from handling. This colonial …

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