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  • A journal of a tour of discovery across the Blue Mountains, in New South Wales, in the year 1813.

    # 49473

    BLAXLAND, Gregory (1778 - 1853)

    A journal of a tour of discovery across the Blue Mountains, in New South Wales, in the year 1813.

    Sydney : Gibbs, Shallard, & Co., [1870]. Second edition. Octavo, original mustard printed wrappers, a couple of very faint stains, pp. 46; [2 – blank], scattered foxing as usual, a fine, crisp copy. The second edition, published in 1870 by the explorer’s son, as the first edition from 1823 was now unprocurable. The journal accounts …

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  • New South Wales Pocket Almanack, for the Year of Our Lord 1814;

    # 42933

    HOWE, George (compiler and printer)

    New South Wales Pocket Almanack, for the Year of Our Lord 1814;

    Being the second after Bissextile, or Leap Year; and the fifty-fourth of the Reign of His Present Majesty King George the Third. Published under the Sanction and Patronage of His Excellency the Governor and Commander in Chief. Sydney : Compiled and Printed by G. Howe, Government Printer, [1813]. Duodecimo (170 x 105 mm), later half …

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  • New South Wales Pocket Almanack, for the Year of Our Lord 1815;

    # 42022

    HOWE, George (compiler and printer)

    New South Wales Pocket Almanack, for the Year of Our Lord 1815;

    Being the third after Bissextile, or Leap Year; and the fifty-fifth of the Reign of His Present Majesty King George the Third. Published under the Sanction and Patronage of His Excellency the Governor and Commander in Chief. Sydney : Compiled and Printed by G. Howe, Government Printer, [1815]. Duodecimo (155 x 95 mm), later half …

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  • [TRANSPORTATION] A Letter and Lamentation of John Moreton, now under sentence of death in Stafford Gaol. For house-breaking, at Shelton, and ordered for Execution on Saturday, the 3rd. day of April, 1819.

    # 50583

    [MORETON, John]

    [TRANSPORTATION] A Letter and Lamentation of John Moreton, now under sentence of death in Stafford Gaol. For house-breaking, at Shelton, and ordered for Execution on Saturday, the 3rd. day of April, 1819.

    [Stafford? Newcastle-under-Lyme?] : [s.n.], [1819]. Broadside, 250 x 180 mm, printed on the recto only; edges uncut; some very minor creasing, but a fine example. A rare printing associated with repentant convict John Moreton, a Staffordshire potter who had worked with Josiah Wedgwood. Moreton was transported to New South Wales, where he was placed in …

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  • The New South Wales Magazine. August to December, 1833 & January to February 1834.

    # 51454

    MANSFIELD, Ralph (proprietor)

    The New South Wales Magazine. August to December, 1833 & January to February 1834.

    Sydney : Ralph Mansfield, 1833-1834. Numbers I-VII (of VIII). Octavo (220 x 140 mm), contemporary half leather over marbled boards (spine replaced); front free-endpaper with early ownership inscription of ‘William Pemberton Palmer, Pemberton Cottage, New South Wales 1838‘; pp. ix, [1 blank], [1 Description of Dockcairn, Bathurst], [1 blank], [2 Contents], 1-64, [2 Contents], 65-128, [2 …

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  • The picture of Sydney and stranger's guide in New South Wales for 1838 :

    # 48527

    MACLEHOSE, James.

    The picture of Sydney and stranger’s guide in New South Wales for 1838 :

    embellished with forty-three engravings of the public buildings and picturesque land and water views in and near Sydney. Sydney : J. Maclehose, 1838. Octavo, later half calf over cloth, spine lettered in gilt; new endpapers, folding frontispiece map of Sydney (some paper reinforcements to folds verso), inserted leaf with manuscript inscription, pp. viii, 188; engraved …

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  • New South Wales : Emigration - Colonization. To young gentlemen & young married couples.

    # 51458

    [PRACTICAL SHEEP-FARMING ASSOCIATION] [MACKENZIE, William Henry]

    New South Wales : Emigration – Colonization. To young gentlemen & young married couples.

    [Drophead title]. [London : W. H. Mackenzie, 1848]. Small octavo bifolium (180 x 107 mm), letterpress on the first three sides only; first side with two addresses for the Practical Sheep-Farming Association supplied in manuscript, given as ‘No. 8 Sussex Terrace, Bridge Road, Hammersmith’, and ‘No. 2 Alchurch Lane, King William St., City, at Messrs. …

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  • Globe terrestre

    # 50602

    DESNOS, Louis-Charles (1725-1805)

    Globe terrestre

    se Fait et vend chez Desnos rue St. Jacques St. Severin. A  Paris, 1753. Terrestrial globe, 3 ¼ inches in diameter (79 mm), papier mâché, covered with plaster coating and 12 hand-coloured engraved paper gores, graduated equator, tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, ecliptic and Premiere Meridian [fixe de l’isle de fer] (the prime meridian on …

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  • Apparitions; or, the mystery of ghosts, hobgoblins, and haunted houses, developed.

    # 48114

    TAYLOR, Joseph

    Apparitions; or, the mystery of ghosts, hobgoblins, and haunted houses, developed.

    Being a collection of entertaining stories, founded on fact, and selected for the purpose of eradicating those fears, which the ignorant, the weak, and the superstitious are but too apt to encourage, for want of properly examining into the causes of such absurd impositions. London : printed for Lackington, Allen, and Co., 1815. The second …

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  • [NORMAN LINDSAY] Five bells : XX poems. (Signed copy)

    # 51821

    SLESSOR, Kenneth (author); LINDSAY, Norman (illustrator)

    [NORMAN LINDSAY] Five bells : XX poems. (Signed copy)

    Sydney : Frank C. Johnson, 1939. First edition. Octavo, wrappers illustrated by Norman Lindsay), signed by Ken Slessor on the front free endpaper, pp. 43, with six illustrations by Norman Lindsay; a fine copy. Printed in an edition of 500 copies. Signed copies are rare.  

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  • Storm Boy

    # 50019

    THIELE, Colin (1920-2006)

    Storm Boy

    Illustrated by John Baily. Adelaide : Rigby Limited, 1963. First edition. Octavo, illustrated boards in illustrated dustjacket (not price-clipped, verso foxed, edge wear), contemporary bookseller’s label to front pastedown, pp. 52, illustrated, occasional foxing, a good copy. The classic Australian children’s novel about a boy and his pelican set in the Coorong region of South …

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  • The plains

    # 51156

    MURNANE, Gerald (1939 - )

    The plains

    Melbourne : Norstrilia Press, 1982. First edition. Octavo, fine blue cloth with gilt lettered spine, in near-fine dust jacket (very slight edge wear); 126 pp.; an excellent copy of the scarce first edition of Murnane’s third novel, in the second state dust jacket designed by Marius Foley.

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  • The Darkening Ecliptic by Ern Malley.

    # 51788

    [McAULEY, James and STEWART, Harold]. “MALLEY, Ern”.

    The Darkening Ecliptic by Ern Malley.

    Melbourne and Adelaide: Reed and Harris, 1944. Small quarto, 46 pages, in original wrappers illustrated by Sidney Nolan of ‘The Arabian Tree’ from the ‘Malley’ poem Petit Testament, further reproduced as a black and white frontispiece, spine chipped, a couple of minor stains, upper wrapper nearly detached. The first edition variant in illustrated wrappers, a …

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  • The Anzac war-trail. With the Light Horse in Sinai

    # 51705

    BOWES, Joseph

    The Anzac war-trail. With the Light Horse in Sinai

    London : Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1919. First edition. Octavo, pictorial cloth, light edge wear, bookplate to front pastedown, edges stained blue, colour frontispiece. viii; [9] – 281; (7 – catalogue), colour plates, a very good copy. The second in Bowes’s series of Great War adventure novels, in attractive pictorial cloth featuring Australian troops. …

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  • The dog in Australasia

    # 41440

    BEILBY, Walter

    The dog in Australasia

    Melbourne : George Robertson and Company, 1897. Octavo, gilt-illustrated maroon patterned cloth (light edge wear), expertly rebacked, endpapers replaced, pp. [xii, of xiv – advertisements – one leaf removed]; xvi; 475; (21 – advertisements), photographic plates, folding tables (one neatly detached), a couple of small stains and marginal edge tears, a couple of miscreases, one …

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  • The Ballad of Reading Gaol. By C. 3. 3.

    # 51767

    WILDE, Oscar (1854 - 1900)

    The Ballad of Reading Gaol. By C. 3. 3.

    London : Leonard Smithers, 1898. First edition. Octavo, two toned gilt-lettered cloth (spine discoloured), offsetting to endpapers, fore and lower edges uncut, pp. [viii]; 31; (1), printed rectos only, internally clean, a very good copy. Printed in an edition of 800 copies on handmade paper and 30 copies on Japanese vellum. The true first edition …

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