Rare Books

  • View of the interior of the Adelaide Arcade, December 1885.

    # 41380

    SWEET, Samuel White (1825-1886)

    View of the interior of the Adelaide Arcade, December 1885.

    Albumen print photograph, 160 x 223 mm, with ‘Sweet, Adelaide’ in manuscript in negative at bottom edge left of centre; laid down on its original mount of thickish card, captioned ‘Arcade’ in red ink below the image; the tones are a little dark (to be expected) but the image contains a wealth of detail such …

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  • Aboriginal man in a fighting stance, with parrying shield, club and boomerang.

    # 41372

    KING, Henry (1855-1923)

    Aboriginal man in a fighting stance, with parrying shield, club and boomerang.

    [Between 1890 and 1900]. Albumen print photograph, 205 x 155 mm; in manuscript in the negative at bottom left ‘624. Australian Aboriginal, N.S.W. / H. King Photo., Syd.’; mounted recto of its original 19th-century album leaf (the leaf has been professionally “split”); in very good condition. Unfortunately this image bears one of Henry King’s characteristically generic …

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  • Camp in Otway Ranges, Victoria, early 1890s.

    # 41385

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

    Camp in Otway Ranges, Victoria, early 1890s.

    [Title from caption in negative]. Albumen print photograph, 140 x 210 mm, numbered 991 in the negative; 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’, with at l.l. ‘C. RUDD, …

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  • Narrative of the visit of His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh to the Colony of Victoria, Australia.

    # 41489

    KNIGHT, J. G. (John George) (1826-1892)

    Narrative of the visit of His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh to the Colony of Victoria, Australia.

    Compiled by J. G. Knight. Melbourne : Mason, Firth and Co., 1868. Quarto (280 x 225 mm), publisher’s blue cloth over bevelled boards with gilt device, lettering and rule to upper board, lower board with same device stamped in blind (lightly marked, edges rubbed), all edges gilt, photographic frontispiece with tipped-in oval albumen print portrait …

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  • [NEW ZEALAND] Cricket team from Pukeuri, north of Oamaru, Otago, circa 1900.

    # 41392

    Photographer unknown.

    [NEW ZEALAND] Cricket team from Pukeuri, north of Oamaru, Otago, circa 1900.

    Sepia-toned gelatin silver print photograph, 150 x 200 mm; laid down on its original board mount with decorative lithographic border; verso with an inscription in fountain pen in a later hand headed ‘Pukeuri Cricket Team’ and identifying the XI by name (plus two others); the print has beautiful tones and excellent clarity, and is in …

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  • [NEW GUINEA] Dancing in Poreporena.

    # 41303

    GROVES, Murray

    [NEW GUINEA] Dancing in Poreporena.

    The Arthur Maurice Hocart Memorial Prize Essay, 1954. Offprint from The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 84: 75-90. London : RAI, [1954?]. Quarto (285 x 225 mm), original stapled green wrappers (sunned along spine, very light vertical crease, pen annotation to upper wrapper), pp. 16; internally excellent; from …

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  • Wilhelmsen Line / Norwegian Australian Line ... The fast motor ship "Thermopylae" will be despatched ... from Melbourne about 14th April, 1938 ...

    # 41308

    WILH. WILHELMSEN AGENCY PTY. LTD. [ARBUCKLE, WADDELL, printers]

    Wilhelmsen Line / Norwegian Australian Line … The fast motor ship “Thermopylae” will be despatched … from Melbourne about 14th April, 1938 …

    Melbourne : Arbuckle, Waddell Pty. Ltd., printers [for Wilh. Wilhelmsen Agency Pty. Ltd.], [1938]. Proof printing for an advertising flyer (160 x 215 mm), printed in blue on buff card, marked ‘Sample’ in manuscript at top right corner along with the wet stamp of Arbuckle, Waddell Pty. Ltd.; small loss at top left corner, otherwise …

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  • Introduction to Tensors, Spinors and Relativistic Wave Equations (relative structure)

    # 41324

    CORSON, Edward M.

    Introduction to Tensors, Spinors and Relativistic Wave Equations (relative structure)

    London : Black and Son, 1954 (second printing). Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth in dustjacket (a little toned at spine, price-clipped), contemporary owner’s name to endpaper, pp. xii; [ii]; 221, a fine copy.

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  • The Differential Invariants of Generalized Spaces

    # 41328

    THOMAS, T. Y.

    The Differential Invariants of Generalized Spaces

    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1934. Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth in dustjacket (small chips to edges and spine), pp. x; 242, a very good copy.

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  • Modern cosmology and the Christian idea of God

    # 41327

    MILNE, E. A. (1896 - 1950)

    Modern cosmology and the Christian idea of God

    Being the Edward Cadbury Lectures in the University of Birmingham for 1950. Oxford : at the Clarendon Press, 1952. First edition. Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth in dustjacket (price-clipped, original owner’s name in pencil to upper panel), pp. [viii]; 160, a fine copy. An important series of lectures on Christianity and cosmology given just before the author’s …

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  • Élisabeth, ou Les exilés de Sibérie.

    # 41382

    COTTIN, Marie (1770-1807)

    Élisabeth, ou Les exilés de Sibérie.

    Par Mme. Cottin. Paris, et se trouve à Londres, chez Sharpe et Hailes, à Musée, Piccadilly, 1813. Duodecimo (133 x 85 mm), contemporary tree calf (rubbed, corners worn, outer front hinge weak), spine ruled in gilt and with red morocco title-pice lettered in gilt; pp. vii, [1 blank], 176; internally very clean, a good copy …

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  • Early Days of Berwick and its surrounding districts Beaconsfield, Harkaway, and Narre Warren

    # 41491

    BEAUMONT, Norman E. and CURRAN, James F.

    Early Days of Berwick and its surrounding districts Beaconsfield, Harkaway, and Narre Warren

    Berwick : Berwick and District Agricultural and Horticultural Society, 1948. Octavo, lettered wrappers, a little silverfished, pp. 82, illustrated, photographic plates.

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  • The Australian Ex Libris Society. Journal No. 1

    # 41244

    BARNETT, P. Neville et alia

    The Australian Ex Libris Society. Journal No. 1

    Sydney: the Society, 1930. Octavo, printed wrappers (lightly foxed), pp. 48, illustrated with eight bookplates reproduced by Norman Lindsay, and others. Limited to 300 copies (this is copy 253). Bookplate for Jean and Jeff Bidgood to inside of front wrapper. A valuable collection of miniature artworks by Australian artists of the interwar period.  

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  • The Australian Ex Libris Society Year Book, 1934

    # 41243

    AUSTRALIAN EX LIBRIS SOCIETY

    The Australian Ex Libris Society Year Book, 1934

    Sydney : Beacon Press, 1934. Edition limited to 250 copies (this is copy no. 60). Octavo, printed wrappers in glassine wrapper (a couple of small tears), 43 pp, light offsetting, tipped-in bookplates by P. Roach Pierson, J.C. Goodchild, Eirene Mort, Douglas Pratt, George Perrottet, Ethleen Palmer, Adrian Feint, Helen Ogilvie, L. Roy Davies , and …

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  • The Australian Ex Libris Society Year Book, 1930

    # 41245

    AUSTRALIAN EX LIBRIS SOCIETY

    The Australian Ex Libris Society Year Book, 1930

    Sydney : Beacon Press, 1930. Edition limited to 300 copies (this is copy no. 39). Octavo, printed wrappers in glassine wrapper (a couple of chips), 48 pp, light foxing, tipped-in bookplates by Adrian Feint, L. Roy Davies, Eric Thake, R. A. Clive, Will Mahoney, Hector MacDonald, P. Neville Barnett, Pixie O’Harris, Hilda Wiseman and others; …

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  • The Australian Ex Libris Society Year Book, 1930-32

    # 41248

    AUSTRALIAN EX LIBRIS SOCIETY

    The Australian Ex Libris Society Year Book, 1930-32

    Sydney : Beacon Press, 1931. Edition limited to 250 copies (this is copy no. 2). Octavo, printed wrappers in glassine wrapper (a couple of small tears, chips with loss), 48 pp, light offsetting, tipped-in bookplates by G. D. Perrottet, John D. Godson, Walter Jardine, Adrian Feint, Eric Thake, Aileen Walker, Ella Dwyer, D. H. Souter, …

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