Rare Books

  • Australians at home : a documentary history of Australian domestic interiors from 1788 to 1914

    # 46691

    LANE, Terence; SEARLE, Jessie

    Australians at home : a documentary history of Australian domestic interiors from 1788 to 1914

    Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1990. Quarto, boards in dustjacket (spine sunned), pp. 449, extensively illustrated. A very good copy. “This study of Australian home interiors surveys the decoration, arrangement, and use of domestic interiors from the time the Europeans settled at Sydney Cove in the eighteenth century until 1914. Richly illustrated with over 500 …

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  • [SHEET MUSIC] More Australian songs for young and old

    # 46559

    RENTOUL, Annie R.; OUTHWAITE, Ida Rentoul (illustrator); PETERSON, Georgette (music)

    [SHEET MUSIC] More Australian songs for young and old

    Words by Annie R. Rentoul. Music by Georgette Peterson. Pictures by I. Rentoul Outhwaite. Melbourne: George Robertson & Company, [1913]. Oblong quarto (245 x 310 mm), pictorial wrappers with original ties (wrappers very lightly foxed, lengthy paper split along spine), title page with early gift inscription, 36 pp., illustrated.; internally very good. Muir 6349.

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  • Action Man Story

    # 46817

    HOWARD, Ian (1947 - )

    Action Man Story

    Montreal : the artist, 1976. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (a hint of foxing), 40pp. with offset lithographed photographic images and text throughout. An important early experimental artist’s book created by the Australian artist while completing a master’s degree in Canada. Like much of his work, this book draws on Howard background in the military, it is …

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  • Criss Canning : Instagram moments (from the library of Criss Canning)

    # 46826

    CANNING, Criss

    Criss Canning : Instagram moments (from the library of Criss Canning)

    Unpublished : the artist, 2020. Oblong quarto, illustrated boards, approximately 160 pages, illustrated with photographs taken from the artist’s Instagram account, documenting her painting, home, garden and travels. Printed in an edition of 10 copies for family. A self-published book of reminiscences and inspiration created by Criss Canning during the COVID-19 lockdowns in Australia in …

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  • S.T. Gill & his audiences

    # 46917

    GRISHIN, Sasha

    S.T. Gill & his audiences

    Canberra, ACT ; [Melbourne] : National Library of Australia Publishing in Association with the State Library of Victoria, 2015. Quarto, illustrated cloth, pp. 255, illustrated, a fine copy. ‘Samuel Thomas Gill, or STG as he was universally known, was Australia’s most significant and popular artist of the mid-nineteenth century. For his contemporaries he epitomised ‘Marvellous …

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  • Men of Yesterday : a social history of the Western District of Victoria, 1834-1890

    # 46847

    KIDDLE, Margaret

    Men of Yesterday : a social history of the Western District of Victoria, 1834-1890

    Melbourne : Melbourne University Press, 1967 (reprint). Octavo, cloth in illustrated dustjacket (edges lightly rubbed, short tear t lower panel), maps to endpapers, pp. xviii; 573, illustrated. A fine copy.

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  • La Trobe's Jolimont : a walk around my garden.

    # 46850

    BOTHAM, Helen

    La Trobe’s Jolimont : a walk around my garden.

    Melbourne : C.J. La Trobe Society and Australian Garden History Society, 2006. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 36, illustrated. A study of one of the first planted gardens in colonial Melbourne.

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  • 全 集 語 英 (Ying u Tsap Ts'un) or The Chinese and English Instructor

    # 45937

    T'ONG, Ting-kü (1832-1892)

    全 集 語 英 (Ying u Tsap Ts’un) or The Chinese and English Instructor

    Canton : 1862. Six volumes (complete), tall octavo (279 x 153mm), original stitched wrappers (the first volume lacking the lower wrapper), printed title labels (with remnants on a few volumes), some rubbing and light stains; text in English and Chinese; text blocks folded in fukurotoji style, housed in original wooden boards (one crack repaired) titled …

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  • Political railway map of China

    # 46762

    FAR EASTERN REVIEW

    Political railway map of China

    [Shanghai] : Far Eastern Review, circa 1914. Map, printed in colour, 520 x 425 mm (sheet), a couple of small chips and edges and small stains lower left, showing the railways of China which are operational, under construction, contracted for, and projected, under French, Belgian, Russian, British, German, Japanese, American and Chinese control. The train …

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  • 五車韻府 A Dictionary of the Chinese Language, by the Rev. R. Morrison, D. D.

    # 46474

    MORRISON, Robert (1782–1834)

    五車韻府 A Dictionary of the Chinese Language, by the Rev. R. Morrison, D. D.

    Shanghae : London Mission Press; London : Trübner & Co., 1865. Second edition. Two volumes, octavo, contemporary half-russet roan over marbled papered boards, spines in compartments with raised bands, lettered in gilt, shelf labels to foot of spines, light edge wear, shelf marks to front pastedowns and title pages, pp. ix; [blank]; 224, 224-239, 239 …

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  • Manuscript letter written by Abbé Huc, sent from Macau in November 1846, addressed to his parents in Toulouse and reporting on his just-completed epic journey through Tartary and Tibet.

    # 45888

    HUC, Évariste Régis, Abbé (1813-1860)

    Manuscript letter written by Abbé Huc, sent from Macau in November 1846, addressed to his parents in Toulouse and reporting on his just-completed epic journey through Tartary and Tibet.

    Macao, 1er. Novembre 1846. Entire letter, manuscript in ink on a single folio sheet of Chinese paper, folded to form 4 pages, written on 3½ pages; the panel on the outer side addressed to ‘Monsieur Huc, Rue Pargaminières 73, Toulouse, Haute-Garonne’, circular postal markings in black ‘Paris 8 Janv. 47’ and ‘Toulouse 11 Janv. 47’; …

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  • The Gold Coast, Queensland

    # 46805

    QUEENSLAND GOVERNMENT

    The Gold Coast, Queensland

    [Brisbane] : [Queensland Government Tourist Bureau] : circa 1985. Octavo, vibrant illustrated self-wrappers, pp. [16], illustrated. Distinctive Queensland tourist brochure from the Joh Bjelke-Petersen years, unashamedly spruiking the Gold Coast as ‘Australia’s favourite holiday playground’.

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  • The Grampians and district, Victoria, Australia.

    # 46799

    VICTORIAN RAILWAYS

    The Grampians and district, Victoria, Australia.

    [Melbourne] : Victorian Railways Commissioners, in conjunction with the Grampians District Tourist Association, 1949. First edition. Single sheet, 380 x 460 mm, folding to 220 x 110 mm, chiefly photographic illustrations, with accompanying text and map; tear along fold at one edge, otherwise a good example.  

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  • Catálogo de la Biblioteca Filipina de W. E. Retana. (Limited edition, presentation copy inscribed by Retana for Hiersemann)

    # 46753

    RETANA, W. E. (Wenceslao Emiliano)

    Catálogo de la Biblioteca Filipina de W. E. Retana. (Limited edition, presentation copy inscribed by Retana for Hiersemann)

    Edición de treinta ejemplares. Madrid : Imprenta de la viuda de M. Minuesa De Los Rios, 1893. Folio (350 x 250 mm), original leather-backed marbled papered boards (a trifle scuffed), spine with raised bands and red morocco title label lettered in gilt; original marbled endpapers; the limitation page records the names of institutional and private …

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  • Histoire de la Navigation de Jean Hugues de Linschot Hollandois, aux Indes Orientales.

    # 38432

    LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huygen van (1563-1611)

    Histoire de la Navigation de Jean Hugues de Linschot Hollandois, aux Indes Orientales.

    Contenant diverses descriptions des lieux jusques à présent descouverts par les Portugais: observations des Coustumes & singularitez de delà, & autres declarations … … Troisieme édition, augmentée. Amsterdam: Evert Cloppenburgh, 1638. Three parts in one volume, folio (310 x 200 mm), contemporary mottled calf (rubbed), spine in compartments with ornate gilt decoration and lettering; edges speckled …

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  • Primo volume et quarta edizione. Delle Navigationi et viaggi raccolto da m. Gio. Batt. Ramusio et con molti vaghi

    # 15201

    RAMUSIO, Giovanni Battista (1485-1557)

    Primo volume et quarta edizione. Delle Navigationi et viaggi raccolto da m. Gio. Batt. Ramusio et con molti vaghi

    discorsi da lui in molti luoghi dichiarato et illustrato … … Venetia : nella Stamperia de’ Giunti, 1588. [TOGETHER WITH] Secondo volume Delle Navigationi et viaggi raccolto da m. Gio. Batt. Ramusio … Venetia : Appresso i Giunti, 1583. [TOGETHER WITH] Terzo volume Delle Navigationi et viaggi raccolto da m. Gio. Batt. Ramusio … Venetia : nella Stamperia de’ Giunti, …

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