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  • The poetical works of Robert Burns. Printed for the booksellers in Australia, 1832.

    # 44524

    BURNS, Robert (1759-1796)

    The poetical works of Robert Burns. Printed for the booksellers in Australia, 1832.

    [Edinburgh?] : s.n., 1832. Small octavo (177 x 110 mm), later black morocco, spine ruled and lettered in gilt;  woodcut frontispiece portrait of the poet from Taylor’s Authenticated Picture, title-page with vignette woodcut of Tam O’Shanter and Souter Johnny captioned His ancient trusty drouthy crony, pp. ix, [1 blank], xiv, 284, 23 (glossary); front free-endpaper with original …

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  • Observations historical, critical, and medical, on the wines of the ancients.

    # 45636

    BARRY, Edward, Sir (1696-1776)

    Observations historical, critical, and medical, on the wines of the ancients.

    And the analogy between them and modern wines. With general observations on the principles and qualities of water, and in particular those of Bath. London : T. Cadell, 1775. First (and only) edition. Quarto, full tree calf (joints expertly reinforced), flat panelled spine ruled in gilt, red morocco title label lettered in gilt, armorial bookplate …

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  • Peking the goal, the sole hope of peace : a lecture delivered before the Canton community on the evening of April 14th 1873.

    # 39882

    NYE, Gideon (1812-1888)

    Peking the goal, the sole hope of peace : a lecture delivered before the Canton community on the evening of April 14th 1873.

    Also titled: Peking the goal, the sole hope of peace. Comprising an inquiry into the origin of the pretension of universal supremacy by China and into the causes of the first war: with incidents of the imprisonment of the foreign community and of the first campaign of Canton. 1841. Canton : s.n., 1873. Small quarto, original …

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  • Oranda tensetsu [和蘭天説] = Dutch astronomy explained

    # 43546

    SHIBA, Kōkan [司馬江漢] (c.1738-1818)

    Oranda tensetsu [和蘭天説] = Dutch astronomy explained

    Tōto [i.e. Tokyo] : Shunharō, Kansei heishin [1796]. Octavo (267 x 180 mm), original Japanese fukurotoji binding of patterned blue paper, stitch bound, printed title label (rubbed); 38 folded leaves, illustrated with woodcuts of astronomical diagrams; a fine example. The Copernican Revolution comes to Japan: the first publication of the heliocentric model of the universe …

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  • Tracts relative to the Aborigines / published by direction of the Meeting for Sufferings from 1838 to 1842

    # 45110

    SOCIETY OF FRIENDS. LONDON YEARLY MEETING.

    Tracts relative to the Aborigines / published by direction of the Meeting for Sufferings from 1838 to 1842

    London : Edward Marsh, 84 Houndsditch, 1843. Series: Tracts relative to the Aborigines, nos. 1-8. Octavo (210 x 135 mm), original blind-blocked green cloth with gilt-lettered spine (upper board with stain at fore-edge penetrating to pastedown and front endpaper), front free-endpaper with two early North American Society of Friends Meeting inscriptions; pp. i-xii; 1-60 (Information …

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  • Lettera annua del Giappone del M. DCXIV. Al molto Rever. Padre Generale della Compagnia di GIESU.

    # 42439

    Matos (Mattos), Gabriel de (1572-1633)

    Lettera annua del Giappone del M. DCXIV. Al molto Rever. Padre Generale della Compagnia di GIESU.

    Scritta dal Padre Gabriel de Mattos della medesima Compagnia di Giesù. Rome : Bartolomeo Zannetti, 1617. Octavo, later papered boards with gilt-lettered leather title-piece to spine; title with woodcut Jesuit device, and with an early nineteenth-century ownership inscription to bottom margin; pp. 205; occasional browning, a fine copy. ‘The first Italian edition (the original was …

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  • [NATURAL HISTORY; PALESTINE; ASIA MINOR; ARABIA; ETHIOPIA etc.] A collection of curious travels and voyages,

    # 37099

    RAY, John (1627-1705)

    [NATURAL HISTORY; PALESTINE; ASIA MINOR; ARABIA; ETHIOPIA etc.] A collection of curious travels and voyages,

    in two parts; the first containing Leonhart Rauwolff’s Itinerary into the Eastern countries; as Syria, Palestine, or the Holy Land, Armenia, Mesopotamia, Assyria, Chaldea, &c. Translated from the High Dutch by Nicholas Staphorst. The second taking in many parts of Greece, Asia Minor, Egypt, Arabia Felix, and Petraea, Ethiopia, the Red-Sea, &c. From the observations of …

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  • Picturesque scenery in The Holy Land and Syria, delineated during the campaigns of 1799 and 1800.

    # 30606

    SPILSBURY, F[rancis]. B.

    Picturesque scenery in The Holy Land and Syria, delineated during the campaigns of 1799 and 1800.

    / By F. B. Spilsbury, of His Majesty’s ship Le Tigre; surgeon in that expedition during both campaigns. London : Published by Edward Orme, Printseller to His Majesty and the Royal Family, 59, New Bond-street. Printed by W. Bulmer and Co. Cleveland-row, 1803. First edition. Large folio (470 x 335 mm), contemporary gilt-ruled half scarlet …

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  • An account of a voyage to establish a colony at Port Philip in Bass’s Strait,

    # 14833

    Tuckey, James Kingston (1776-1816)

    An account of a voyage to establish a colony at Port Philip in Bass’s Strait,

    on the South Coast of New South Wales : in His Majesty’s Ship Calcutta, in the years 1802-3-4 / by J. H. Tuckey, Esq. First Lieutenant of the Calcutta. London : Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme; and J.C. Mottley, 1805. First edition. Octavo, original polished calf, gilt-decoration, expertly recased with new spine to style by Aquarius, …

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  • Malaya 1948

    # 44804

    Malaya 1948

    Survey Dept. Malayan Union No. 15, 1948 Large scale separately issued map printed in colour, 910 x 635 mm, old folds, inset map of Langkawi Islands, lightly handled, very good condition. Detailed map of the Malayan Peninsula during the short lived period of the Malayan Union (1946 – 1948), which saw the Federated Malay States, …

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  • A collection of voyages. In four volumes.

    # 42701

    DAMPIER, William (1651-1715)

    A collection of voyages. In four volumes.

    I.  Captain William Dampier’s voyages round the world : describing particularly, the coasts and Islands in the East and West-Indies. The South-Sea coasts of Chili, Peru, and Mexico. The countries of Tonquin, Achin and Malacca. The Cape of Good Hope, New-Holland, &c. II. The voyages of Lionel Wafer; giving an account of his being left …

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  • Julie, ou J'ai sauvé ma rose / par Madame de C***.

    # 43914

    [Madame GUYOT, attributed]

    Julie, ou J’ai sauvé ma rose / par Madame de C***.

    “La mère en défendra la lecture à sa fille”. Nouvelle édition revue et corrigée. Hambourg ; Paris : Chez les Marchands de Nouveautés, 1807 [but 1821]. Second edition. Two volumes, duodecimo (180 x 110 mm), uniform half linen over marbled papered boards, spines with morocco title-pieces lettered in gilt; pp. [4], 252 + [4], 287; wide …

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  • Histoire naturelle des oiseaux exotiques

    # 41919

    LEMAIRE, Charles

    Histoire naturelle des oiseaux exotiques

    / ouvrage orné de figures peintes d’après nature par Pauquet. Et gravées sur acier. Paris : Pauquet Éditeur : Debure Libraire, 1836. First edition. Octavo, contemporary quarter morocco over blue marbled papered boards, spine ruled and lettered in gilt; ex-libris label to front pastedown; additional hand-coloured half-title; pp. 156; eighty finely engraved plates of exotic …

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  • The Ploughman and other poems. (The extraordinarily rare publisher’s edition - one of only three known copies)

    # 41475

    WHITE, Patrick (1912 - 1990)

    The Ploughman and other poems. (The extraordinarily rare publisher’s edition – one of only three known copies)

    Sydney : Beacon Press, 1935. Octavo, cloth in illustrated dustjacket (edges chipped, the spine perished and replaced with plain brown paper, paper reinforcements to the folds), [76] pp., illustrations by L. Roy Davies, light offsetting to endpapers, a remarkably crisp and clean copy. Limited to 300 copies and 6 numbered Publisher’s Copies. This is Publisher’s …

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  • The living and the dead (1st U.K. edition)

    # 42610

    WHITE, Patrick (1912-1990)

    The living and the dead (1st U.K. edition)

    London : George Routledge & Sons, 1941. First U.K. edition. Octavo, black cloth, lettered in green on spine, in clipped dustjacket (a few short tears and chips to edges, spine a little sunned with a chip with loss at foot), wet stamp of Tyrrells Book Shop, Sydney to front pastedown, previous owner’s name to pastedown, …

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  • Happy Valley : a novel

    # 41498

    WHITE, Patrick (1912 - 1990)

    Happy Valley : a novel

    London : George C. Harrap, 1939. First edition. Octavo, original blue-lettered tan cloth in full dust jacket (edges worn, spine chipped with loss to head and foot, tape repairs to tears verso), internally clean. Happy Valley, the first novel by arguably Australia’s greatest author, was published in London in 1939 when White was just 26 …

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