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# 46645

DE LA MANO. [DREITZEHN, Zell, 1830-1882?]

Conjuring; or, magic made easy.

Containing an extensive collection of conjuring and legerdemain; sleights with cards, ribbons, rings, fruit, coin, balls, handkerchiefs, etc., all of which may be performed in the parlor or drawing room. New York Popular Publishing Company, n.d. [c 1878]. [Cover title : De La Mano’s great magic book]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers, 30 pp + 2 pp …

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# 46816

SARASIN, Fritz

Anthropologie der Neu-Caledonier und Loyalty-Insulaner

/ von Dr. Fritz Sarasin. Mit einem Atlas von 64 Tafeln in Heliogravure, Lithographie und Lichtdruck, sowie 55 Kurvenzeichnungen und Abbildungen im Text. Berlin : C. W. Kreidel’s Verlag, 1916-22. Text volume only (without the Atlas volume). Large quarto (290 x 230 mm), publisher’s blue wrappers lettered in black, pp. xiv, 651, [2 publisher’s ads.]; text illustrations, …

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# 46659

MONFAT, P.A.

[PACIFICA] Les Samoa, ou, Archipel des Navigateurs : etude historique & religieuse

Lyon : E. Vitte, 1890. Troisieme edition. Octavo, decorative wrappers (spine cracked, front wrapper neatly detached), decorative spine somewhat brittle and sunned, xv, 414 pp (scattered spotting throughout), [7] leaves of plates, map. A detailed study of Samoan culture, together with a history of French Catholic missions to this island group.

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# 46658

SOANE MALIA, P.

[TONGA; FIJI] Chez les Meridionaux du Pacifique

Lyon : Librairie Catholique Emmanuel Vitte, 1910. Octavo, printed paper wrappers, xv, 321 pp, illustrated with black and white photographic plates. A very good copy. Cultural history of Tonga and Fiji written from the perspective of a Catholic missionary. Includes much information on missionary activity in the islands.

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# 46585

[Photographer unknown].

[FEDERATION] View of the French Arch, corner of Pitt and Bridge Streets, Sydney, 1901.

Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each image 82 x 77 mm, on maroon mount 86 x 175 mm; no photographer’s imprint (verso blank); the prints and the mont are in excellent condition. An anonymous stereoview which shows the French Arch at the intersection of Pitt and Bridge Streets, Sydney, during the Commonwealth celebrations in January 1901. …

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# 46734

CHURCHILL, Winston (1874 - 1965)

The Great War

Fully Illustrated with Photographs, Drawings and Maps. London : George Newnes, 1934. Three volumes, octavo, gilt-lettered embossed blue cloth (edges slightly rubbed), edges speckled red, a very good set. Originally issued in 26 fortnightly parts, this is the first bound edition of Churchill’s monumental history of the First World War.

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# 46543

GASS, Patrick (1771 - 1870)

Lewis and Clarke’s journal to the Rocky Mountains in the years 1804, -5, -6; as related by Patrick Gass, one of the officers in the expedition.

New edition with numerous engravings. Dayton : Ells, Claflin, and Co., 1847. Octavo, later leather with title label, early ownership inscription to pastedown, pp. 238; (2 – advertisements), wood engraved plates, scattered foxing and a few stains, a folded slip of paper laid in with a note indicating it contains the original title label from …

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# 46386

AUSTEN, Jane (1775 - 1817)

Mansfield Park

With an introduction by Austin Dobson. London : Macmillan and Co., 1929. Octavo, decorated leather, lettered in gilt light wear to head and foot of spine, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, pp. xviii; 429, illustrated by Hugh Thomson, clean internally, a very good copy. A desirable Thomson illustrated edition of one of Jane Austen’s most …

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# 24237

MICHELL, H. (ed)

[HORSE RACING] Victoria’s greatest races.

With full descriptions of the Melbourne Cup 1921, Caulfield Cup 1922-3, Melbourne Cup 1922-3. Biographical sketches of owners – trainers – jockeys. Fully illustrated. [Cover title : The Melbourne Cup]. Melbourne : The British and Australasian Publishing Service, [ca. 1924]. Quarto, gilt-lettered full crushed morocco, spine in compartments with gilt-tooling, edges lightly rubbed, all edges …

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# 46589

LINDSAY, Norman (1879-1969)

Creative effort : an essay in affirmation (deluxe edition with original signed etching)

Sydney : published for the author by Art in Australia, 1920. First edition. Octavo, quarter cloth over papered boards, spine lettered in gilt (a fine example); inscribed by the artist in pen on the front pastedown ‘Yours sincerely, Norman Lindsay’, small tape marks to endpapers, upper hinge slightly split, original signed etching by Norman Lindsay …

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# 46784

MACKENNAL, Bertram (1863-1931)

Bertram Mackennal, Australian sculptor : autograph letter signed, dated 27 November 1922, thanking a well-wisher for congratulating him on his election to the Royal Academy.

1 page, octavo, on embossed letterhead with the artist’s St. John’s Wood address; written in fountain pen entirely in Mackennal’s hand, the letter is dated 27 November 1922, addressed to ‘Dear Mr Bowles’, and signed at the foot ‘Yours sincerely, Bertram Mackennal’; Mackennal had just become a Royal Academician, and although it is not mentioned …

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# 46602

LINDSAY, Norman (1879-1969)

Thieves’ kitchen

Created 1929. Etching, engraving, and soft ground, 253 x 304 mm, signed and dated lower right, edition 25 of 55 copies, in a vintage black timber frame. An etching by Norman Lindsay with enormous visual power, being a rollicking response to the poem Thieves’ kitchen written by Kenneth Slessor (copied in full below), first published …

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# 46678

CARMICHAEL, John (1803-1857)

Melbourne from the south side of the Yarra Yarra 1839

Original etching and engraving, 177 x 357 mm (plate line), mount burn, engraved inscription lower left Drawn by J. A. Adamson Esq., engraved inscription lower right Eng.d by J. Carmichael. for R.Clint, manuscript inscription lower centre in Tate Adams’ hand Melbourne 1839. Printed from the original plate in an edition of 100. No. 85 / …

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# 46660

[LINDSAY]. BLOOMFIELD, Lin.

The complete etchings of Norman Lindsay

Sydney: Odana Editions,1998. Large quarto, gilt lettered boards with pictorial inlay in colour illustrated wrappers, 480pp, signed by Lin Bloomfield on the title page (lightly foxed) and a large pen inscription on the front free endpaper from Merlin & Chris Costello and family, who were involved in the publication of the book. Light handling marks, …

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# 15277

MENARD, Romuald George (painter); THIERRY FRÈRES; SABATIER, Léon Jean Baptiste (lithographers)

Vue de Sydney et de l’entree de la Riviere de Paramatta (panorama in two sections)

Two plates, forming a continuous panorama, from: Voyage autour du monde sur la frégate la Vénus, pendant les années 1836-1839 … atlas pittoresque. [Paris : Gide, 1841]. Tinted lithographs, 170 x 420 mm; pale foxing to the margins of the first plate, else in fine condition. Custom framed in museum timber, measures 422 x 1138 mm. The voyage …

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# 46707

SAYERS, Andrew (1957 - 2015)

Aboriginal artists of the nineteenth century (hardcover edition)

With a foreword by Lin Onus and a chapter by Carol Cooper. Melbourne : Oxford University Press in association with National Gallery of Australia, 1994. First edition. Quarto, boards in illustrated dustjacket, slight sunning to spine, pp. 162, illustrated. A very good copy. ‘Andrew Sayers examines a considerable body of drawings produced by Aboriginal artists …

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