Rare Books

  • Australian birds in color. No. 1

    # 41394

    BARRETT, Charles

    Australian birds in color. No. 1

    Melbourne : Joseph Swanson Wilkinson for Cologravure Publications, [194-?]. Quarto, colour wrappers (lightly creased), pp. 33. illustrated in black and white with centre colour illustrations after Neville Cayley. A fine copy.

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  • Australian animals : a book for all nature lovers

    # 41395

    BARRETT, Charles

    Australian animals : a book for all nature lovers

    Melbourne : Sun News-Pictorial, [c. 1932]. Quarto, colour wrappers (lightly marked, staples rusted), pp. 43. gift inscription to first leaf, illustrated in black and white with centre colour illustrations detached. A very good copy. Sun nature book ; no. 2

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  • Australian birds & butterflies : a book for all nature lovers

    # 41396

    BARRETT, Charles

    Australian birds & butterflies : a book for all nature lovers

    Melbourne : Sun News-Pictorial, [c. 1932]. Quarto, colour wrappers (lightly marked), pp. 43, illustrated in black and white with centre colour illustrations after Neville Cayley. A very good copy. Sun nature book ; no. 3.

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  • Australian birds : the wonders of Birdland in picture and story

    # 41397

    BARRETT, Charles

    Australian birds : the wonders of Birdland in picture and story

    Melbourne : Sun News-Pictorial, [c. 1932]. Quarto, colour wrappers (staples rusted), pp. 43, illustrated in black and white with centre colour illustrations after Neville Cayley. A very good copy. Sun nature book ; no. 10.

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  • The Sun Zoo Book

    # 41400

    BARRETT, Charles

    The Sun Zoo Book

    Melbourne : Sun News-Pictorial, [c. 1937]. Quarto, colour wrappers (staples rusted), pp. 43, illustrated in black and white with centre colour illustrations after M. C. Tindall. A very good copy. Sun nature book ; no. 9.

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  • Australian birds & blossoms

    # 41401

    BARRETT, Charles

    Australian birds & blossoms

    Australian birds & blossoms, [c. 1932]. Quarto, colour wrappers (staples rusted), pp. 43, illustrated in black and white with centre colour illustrations possibly after Neville Cayley. A very good copy. A Sun book.

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  • The Weekly Times wild nature book

    # 41402

    BARRETT, Charles

    The Weekly Times wild nature book

    Melbourne : Herald and Weekly Times, 1931. Octavo, colour wrappers (staples rusted), pp. 96, illustrated in black and white with some colour illustrations. A very good copy.

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  • Australia's wonder animals

    # 41403

    BARRETT, Charles

    Australia’s wonder animals

    Australian birds & blossoms, [c. 1935]. Quarto, colour wrappers (staples rusted), pp. 43, illustrated in black and white. A very good copy. Sun nature book no. 6.

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  • [QUACK MEDICINE; HYDROTHERAPY] Songs of the Pacific : or, Light on the Samoan question.

    # 41334

    HENDERSON, Marc Antony (pseud. of STRONG, George Augustus 1832-1912]

    [QUACK MEDICINE; HYDROTHERAPY] Songs of the Pacific : or, Light on the Samoan question.

    San Francisco, Cal. : Pacific Bank, 1889. Small octavo (170 x 105 mm), original stitched yellow wrappers printed in black (light staining), the lower wrapper with an advertisement for the Pacific Bank; pp. 56; early pencilled calculations to inside of upper wrapper, otherwise internally clean and sound, a very good copy. A vicious satire on …

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  • [NEW GUINEA] Papuan junior reader no. 5. 1943.

    # 41307

    TERRITORY OF PAPUA. DEPARTMENT OF NATIVE EDUCATION

    [NEW GUINEA] Papuan junior reader no. 5. 1943.

    At head of title: Territory of Papua. Native Education. Canberra : L.F. Johnston, Commonwealth Govt. Printer, 1943. Octavo (185 x 125 mm), original printed stiff wrappers, pp [8], 198; photomechanical process and line-drawn illustrations throughout; text in English; an exceptional copy, in pristine condition; from The Papuan Collection of Charles Fletcher (Melbourne), his bookplate to the …

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  • Life’s wallaby / by Sydney Partrige

    # 41341

    "Sydney PARTRIGE" [PARTRIDGE, Kate, a.k.a. Mrs Hal E. STONE, 1871-1953]

    Life’s wallaby / by Sydney Partrige

    Norwood, S.A. : Printed and published by Sydney Partrige, [1908]. First edition. Octavo (190 x 120 mm), original pictorial wrappers (lightly marked, chips to head and foot of spine); [104] pp, headings printed in red; fore-edges uncut, contents excellent, with the contemporary ownership inscription of D[oris] Egerton Jones, Adelaide-born feminist novelist and playwright. This early …

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  • The Classical Theatre of China : New Zealand. Australia. 1956.

    # 41386

    GARNET H. CARROLL and J. C. WILLIAMSON THEATRES LTD.

    The Classical Theatre of China : New Zealand. Australia. 1956.

    Melbourne : Australian Pacific Agencies for The Classical Theatre of China, 1956. Large octavo (245 x 175 mm), pictorial wrappers, stapled; [32] pp., b/w photographic illustrations, advertisements for Melbourne businesses; a good copy. The Classical Theatre of China’s visit to Australia and New Zealand in 1956-57 was part of a world tour by the company, …

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  • [ADELAIDE] Norwood Town Hall. Monday, August 26, 1901. Grand Benefit Concert will be tendered by the Silver Star Vaudeville Co. to Mr. Harry Lane,

    # 41276

    [ADELAIDE] Norwood Town Hall. Monday, August 26, 1901. Grand Benefit Concert will be tendered by the Silver Star Vaudeville Co. to Mr. Harry Lane,

    who is unable to follow his employment owing to an accident he met with at the Marryatville Tramsheds. Adelaide : Smith & Heap, printers, Bray Street (late Quiz Office), 1901. Broadsheet, 295 x 225 mm, lithographically printed recto only; with programme of the evening’s entertainments, plus advertisements for 12 Adelaide businesses; printed on very cheap …

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  • [ADELAIDE] Federal Hall, Grote Street. Friday, August 14, 1903. A Grand Concert & Dance will be held in aid of Funds to erect a Memorial for the late Mr. C. Pryor, late member of the Cornwall Football Club,

    # 41279

    [ADELAIDE] Federal Hall, Grote Street. Friday, August 14, 1903. A Grand Concert & Dance will be held in aid of Funds to erect a Memorial for the late Mr. C. Pryor, late member of the Cornwall Football Club,

    and for many years in the employment of Messrs A. Simpson and Son. Adelaide : A. H. Kruss, Pirie Street, 1903. Folding broadsheet, 295 x 450 mm (fully opened), 295 x 225 mm (folded), lithographically printed on [4] sides; with programme of the evening’s entertainments, headlined by Will Raymond, Alf Bushby, Miss Mary Lawler, Bert …

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  • [ADELAIDE] Victoria Ramblers Football Club. Second Annual Concert in the Goodwood Institute, on Monday, July 8th [1901].

    # 41277

    [ADELAIDE] Victoria Ramblers Football Club. Second Annual Concert in the Goodwood Institute, on Monday, July 8th [1901].

    [Adelaide : A. & E. Lewis, printers, 1901]. Broadsheet, 295 x 225 mm, lithographically printed on both sides; recto with programme of the evening’s entertainments, plus advertisements for 12 Adelaide businesses; verso with full-page advertisement for J. Henry & Co.; printed on very cheap paper but well preserved; quite possibly a unique survivor.

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  • [NEW GUINEA; MISSIONS] Mitsinari : twenty-one years among the Papuans

    # 41587

    DUPEYRAT, André

    [NEW GUINEA; MISSIONS] Mitsinari : twenty-one years among the Papuans

    London : Staples Press, 1954. First UK edition. Octavo (220 x 145 mm), publisher’s gilt-lettered green cloth (a few marks), in the pictorial dust jacket (spine sunned, else edges chipped with small loss), endpaper maps, pp. 256, illustrated with numerous b/w photographic plates; preface by Paul Claudel; a very good copy, from The Papuan Collection …

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