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# 49787

EMPRESS SHOTOKU-TENNO (718 - 770 CE)

Hyakumantō Dhāraṇī (百万塔陀羅尼) : an example of the earliest printed text that can be accurately dated (with the Jishin-in darani).

Japan : Nara period [764-770 CE]. Three-tier turned wooden pagoda made of hinoki (Japanese cypress), with original white gesso wash made from seashells in the eighth century (a crack to upper ring expertly conserved), separate turned katsura wood finial (edge chips to the rings), overall height 220 mm; housed in the cavity of the pagoda …

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# 51778

FREUD, Sigmund (1856-1939)

Selbstdarstellung. (Signed copy)

Zweite, durchgesehene und erweiterte Auflage. Wien : Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag, 1936. Second edition, revised and enlarged. Octavo (190 x 135 mm), publisher’s light blue cloth, the upper board with a facsimile of Freud’s famous signature in darker blue, spine also lettered in dark blue (a little rubbed), in the publisher’s dust jacket featuring a portrait …

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# 51522

ROWLING, J. K. (1965 - )

A complete set of the first editions of the Harry Potter series

London : Bloomsbury, 1997 – 2006. Seven volumes, octavo, illustrated wrappers; slight sunning to spine of the second title, light handing wear, a near fine set. A rare complete set of the first seven titles in the Harry Potter series, including the true first edition, first printing, of the first and rarest volume, Harry Potter …

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# 51874

ROWLING, J. K.

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. (Signed edition for Black Saturday bushfire survivors)

London : Bloomsbury, 2001 (reprint). Octavo, gilt-lettered wrappers (rubbed, light handling creases, spine cracked); pp. 223; entirely clean and unmarked internally, a very good copy. Signed edition for Black Saturday bushfire survivors, signed by J. K. Rowling on an Allen & Unwin publisher’s label affixed to the half-title, with hologram J. K. Rowling authenticity sticker, …

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# 50596

ROWLING, J. K.

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. (First Australian edition)

London : Bloomsbury, 1997 [1998]. Printed and bound in Australia by Australian Print Group, Maryborough, Vic. First issue of the first Australian edition. Octavo, laminated boards (corners slightly bumped, slight bruising at head and foot of spine) in illustrated dust jacket ((light edge wear, very light stain at head and foot of spine, only visible …

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# 51765

TOLKIEN, J. R. R. (1892-1973)

The Lord of the Rings trilogy

1. TOLKIEN, J. R. R. The Fellowship of the Ring. Being the first part of The Lord of the Rings. London : George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1965. First edition, fourteenth impression. Octavo, red cloth over boards (edges a little rubbed), gilt-lettered spine, top edge red, 423 pp., folding map tipped-in at rear (small hole …

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# 50655

HOWE, George (1769-1821)

The Sydney Gazette, and New South Wales Advertiser. Vols I – II, 1803-1805.

THE CRADLE OF PRINTING, PUBLISHING AND JOURNALISM IN AUSTRALIA : AN IMPORTANT COLLECTION OF EARLY ISSUES OF AUSTRALIA’S FIRST NEWSPAPER, FROM ITS FIRST TWO YEARS OF PUBLICATION. Sydney : G. Howe, 1803-05. A total of 91 (ninety-one) issues, housed in two calf clamshell cases, silk-lined and with gilt lettering, custom made to the highest standard. Vol. …

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# 47089

GOULD, John (1804 - 1881); GOULD, Elizabeth (1804 - 1841); RICHTER, Henry Constantine (1821 - 1902)

The Birds of Australia. (Complete set)

London : printed by Richard and John Taylor for the author, 1848. Seven volumes, imperial folio, finely bound by Sotheran and Co. in full green crushed morocco over boards, elaborate gilt panels and rules, spine in compartments with raised bands, lettered and tooled in gilt (bindings with some light edge rubbing and scuffs); all edges …

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# 51618

PHILLIPS, Mondle Emanuel (1841-1865)

[JUDAICA] Manuscript diary of Mondle Emanuel Phillips, law clerk. Sandhurst (Bendigo), Victoria, July 1857 to May 1858.

Small quarto (205 x 170 mm), half calf over marbled boards (rubbed, leather backstrip lifting and with loss); marbled endpapers; manuscript in ink, [55] + [40] pp., the front of the diary with a title-page worded: ‘Diary of a Law Clerk. Sandhurst, July 1st 1857. Mondle E. Phillips’, followed by entries written in a neat, clerical …

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# 45670

GUTENBERG, Johannes (ca. 1398-1468) (printer)

[INCUNABLE] A leaf from the Gutenberg Bible

[Mainz : Johannes Gutenberg, circa 1454-55]. Single folio leaf, 390 x 286 mm, printed recto and verso, black gothic lettering of forty-two lines in double columns, large two-line initial letter rubricated in red; ox-head watermark clearly visible at the centre of the leaf; light foxing, neat paper reinforcement along margin (probably from when included in …

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# 51218

OUTHWAITE, Ida Rentoul (1888-1960)

Winged fairy with bubble

Watercolour on card, 250 x 175 mm, initialed in ink lower right ‘I.R.O’, housed in a period moulded white timber frame. A stunning watercolour by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite featuring her most beloved subject, a winged fairy, interacting with a magical bubble. Outhwaite’s winged fairies feature in some of her most popular books, including Elves and …

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# 51759

OUTHWAITE, Ida Rentoul (1888 - 1960)

Elves & Fairies of Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

Verses by Annie R. Rentoul. Edited by Grenbry Outhwaite. Melbourne & Sydney : Lothian, 1916. Folio, gilt-illustrated boards (gilt dulled as usual on spine), early gift inscription to front free endpaper, 118 pp., with 45 colour and black and white plates tipped-in, illustrated endpapers, lettered tissue-guards (creased), the occasional spot of foxing. Limited to 1500 …

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# 44110

NOLAN, Sidney (1917-1992); CLARK, Kenneth; MACINNES, Colin; ROBERTSON, Bryan

Sidney Nolan. (Deluxe edition with original monotype)

London : Thames and Hudson, 1961. Quarto, gilt-lettered half calf over linen, matching slipcase (lightly foxed), all edges gilt, 119 plates (16 in colour tipped-in), signed by Sidney Nolan and the three authors, with an original signed monotype of a Gallipoli soldier tipped-in. Limited to 60 copies. The first monograph on an Australian artist published …

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# 45252

QUARTERMAINE, Peter

Jeffrey Smart. (Deluxe edition with original signed etching)

By Peter Quartermaine; foreword by Germaine Greer. On the half title: A man is illogical on horseback; but in a satellite, surreal. South Yarra : Gryphon Books, 1983. Quarto, gilt-titled quarter morocco over grey linen, black buckram slipcase, pp 131; the deluxe edition, limited to 100 numbered copies signed by the artist on colophon at rear, …

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# 49329

PRESTON, Margaret (1875 - 1963)

Margaret Preston Recent Paintings 1929

The most sought after of all Margaret Preston books, with a magnificent signed colour woodcut. Sydney : Art in Australia, 1929. Quarto, folding white buckram clamshell box with gilt-lettered title label (edges and joints restored), original ribbon ties, containing the following elements: 1. A black card folio, inside which is a copy of the publication …

$35,000.00 AUD Read more
# 51311

BERTIE, Charles H.

[MARGARET PRESTON] Sydney streets

Sydney : Art in Australia Ltd., 1928. Octavo, orange card covers, with a Preston woodcut reproduced on the front panel (a couple of small stains), title page reproducing Margaret Preston woodcut of St. Philip’s Church, [10] pp text, [10] leaves with tipped-in sepia-tone plates of Harold Cazneaux photographs, etchings by E. Warner and J.C. Goodchild, …

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