New Acquisitions

Our May list has 200+ items: voyages and travel, natural history, art, politics and law, Australian First Nations languages, nineteenth-century photographs – and much more!

  • An archive of Art Deco abstract designs

    # 17365

    PICHON, René

    An archive of Art Deco abstract designs

    Consisting of 31 works in watercolour and gouache, laid on original cardboard, some with original glassine, all numbered on recto, with sheets ranging in size from 391 x 280 mm to 180 x 168 mm. A collection of striking design studies, all presented as nets of decorative boxes or cylinders. The designs range broadly in …

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  • Terraweena. A story of a mid-winter vacation in Australia

    # 46907

    ALLANSON, Russell

    Terraweena. A story of a mid-winter vacation in Australia

    Illustrated by W. H. C. Groome. London : Wells Gardner, Darton & Co., 1905. First edition. Octavo, glazed pictorial boards (edges worn), advertisements to lower board, cloth spine (“Chatterbox Library”); school prize label to front free endpaper, pp. 185; [blank]; (6 – advertisements), 4 black-and-white illustrations. Scarce. Children’s story which begins in Sydney, from whence …

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  • Warlpiri language readers

    # 47029

    NAPANANGKA, June; WARLPIRI LITERATURE PRODUCTION CENTRE INC.

    Warlpiri language readers

    Yuendumu, N.T. : Warlpiri Literature Production Centre Inc., 1981. Group of 7 (seven) booklets, stapled pictorial wrappers in uniform 100 x 145 mm format, each with a 16-page story in Warlpiri, followed by [2] pages of English translation; line-drawn illustrations; a few of the wrappers with some light staining, contents excellent throughout. A very scarce …

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  • The philosophy of Andy Warhol. (From A to B and back again). (Signed copy with drawing of a Campbell's Soup can)

    # 46392

    WARHOL, Andy (1928 - 1987)

    The philosophy of Andy Warhol. (From A to B and back again). (Signed copy with drawing of a Campbell’s Soup can)

    New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975. First edition. Octavo, boards in dust jacket, pp 241; a fine copy; the half-title is signed and inscribed by Warhol, accompanied by an original pen drawing by the artist of a Campbell’s Tomato Soup can, his most iconic image. Andy Warhol’s seminal self-analysing memoir, filled with his reflections of …

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  • "Queen Mary, Ballarat".

    # 46920

    KRUGER, Johann Friedrich Carl (Fred), (1831-1888)

    “Queen Mary, Ballarat”.

    [Caption from inscription on verso of mount]. Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 102 x 62 mm (mount); verso inscribed in ink (probably in the hand of the photographer) ‘Queen Mary / Ballarat’; a beautiful print with excellent clarity; the mount is clean and stable. This full-length portrait of Mary Phillips, who was commonly …

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  • Ambrotype of a woman standing beside a chair draped with clothing. (New South Wales?), c.1863.

    # 41769

    [Photographer unknown].

    Ambrotype of a woman standing beside a chair draped with clothing. (New South Wales?), c.1863.

    Sixth plate ambrotype with applied colour, 70 x 60 mm (sight); in fine condition, in the original large oval brass mat, housed in the original leather case with simple geometric design (working brass clasp); inserted in the case is a lock of the sitter’s beautiful auburn hair contained in an envelope which is inscribed in …

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  • Economic structure and the ceremonial exchange cycle in Arnhem Land. (With an autograph note signed by Thomson)

    # 46993

    THOMSON, Donald F. (1901-1970)

    Economic structure and the ceremonial exchange cycle in Arnhem Land. (With an autograph note signed by Thomson)

    Melbourne : Macmillan & Co., 1949. First edition. Octavo (220 x 145 mm), publisher’s gilt-lettered burgundy boards (pristine) in pictorial dust jacket (lightly rubbed, front panel with tiny tear at top edge); front free-endpaper with ownership inscription of Australian archaeologist Isabel McBryde, dated 1950; pp. [vi], 106, with numerous b/w photographic plates, and 2 folding …

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  • The works of the famous Nicolas Machiavel, Citizen and Secretary of Florence.

    # 46824

    [MACHIAVELLI, Niccolò di Bernardo dei, 1469-1527]

    The works of the famous Nicolas Machiavel, Citizen and Secretary of Florence.

    Written originally in Italian, and from thence newly and faithfully translated into English. London : printed for R. Clavel, Cha. Harper, Jonathan Robinson, Joh. Emery, A. and J. Churchil, 1694. Quarto (320 x 205 mm), contemporary mottled calf (boards a little scuffed and worn at edges), rebacked; hinges cracked; front free-endpaper with discreet ownership inscription …

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  • Stanford’s Library Map of Australasia constructed by A. Keith Johnston F.R.S.E., F.R.G.S. &c.

    # 43594

    JOHNSTON, Keith, 1844-1879

    Stanford’s Library Map of Australasia constructed by A. Keith Johnston F.R.S.E., F.R.G.S. &c.

    Cover title: Stanford’s map of Australasia. London : Edward Stanford, [1859]. First edition. Steel-engraved map with hand colouring, total dimensions 1550 x 1740 mm, dissected into 48 sections, laid onto linen edged with blue silk, folding to 255 x 215 mm, housed within original embossed brown morocco boards with gilt lettering and ornament (rubbed, spine …

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  • M. C. Escher : 16 facsimile prints.

    # 47111

    ESCHER, M. C.

    M. C. Escher : 16 facsimile prints.

    With an introduction by J. L. Locher, former Director of the Gemeentemuseum, The Hague. Baarn [The Netherlands] : The Escher Foundation, 2008. Sixteen museum quality giclee reproduction prints of some of Escher’s most iconic images, printed on  310 gsm. handmade and acid-free German Etching paper from Hahnemühle, each 650 x 550 mm, accompanied by a …

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  • Beknopte handleiding tot de geneesmiddelleer : ten gebruike van de Keizerlijke Japansche Geneeskundige School te Nagasaki.

    # 38365

    POMPE VAN MEERDERVOORT, Johannes Lijdius Catharinus (1829-1908)

    Beknopte handleiding tot de geneesmiddelleer : ten gebruike van de Keizerlijke Japansche Geneeskundige School te Nagasaki.

    Desima [Nagasaki] : ter Nederlandsche Drukkerij, 1862. Octavo (190 mm), contemporary Japanese binding of half calf over marbled papered boards, mauve endpapers, the front free-endpaper with early inscription in Japanese and straight-line stamp of the Deutsche Jesuiten-Mission Japan e. V. Köln, half title with circular stamp of the same library and early Japanese owner’s seal stamp …

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  • Portrait of Ermes de Zan [Study for 'Portici' 1987], with another sketch verso

    # 47076

    SMART, Jeffrey (1921 - 2013)

    Portrait of Ermes de Zan [Study for ‘Portici’ 1987], with another sketch verso

    Ink on paper, 165 x 205 mm (image), signed and inscribed lower right ‘for dear Janet, love Jeffrey Smart’, inscription relating to colours verso, to which is attached another small, unsigned pen sketch drawn on notepaper in blue ink of a road and urban landscape, 70 x 20 mm, framed in timber with glass both …

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  • [The race to Sydney game].

    # 46825

    [NATIONAL GAME COMPANY]

    [The race to Sydney game].

    [Title devised from the game’s content: original title unknown]. [Ballarat and Melbourne : National Game Co., c.1918]. Thin card game board, 256 x 256 mm, folding to 256 x 128 mm; recto with colour printed design, verso blank; in very good condition. This is a very scarce Australian game which we have handled only twice before. …

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  • On the origin of species (fifth edition)

    # 46823

    DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882)

    On the origin of species (fifth edition)

    by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. London : John Murray, 1869. Fifth edition, with additions and corrections (tenth thousand). Octavo, original publisher’s gilt-lettered green cloth (lightly rubbed, light wear and short split at head and foot of spine); binder’s ticket of Edmonds and Remnants to …

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  • The origin of species (sixth edition, first impression)

    # 46819

    DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882)

    The origin of species (sixth edition, first impression)

    by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. London : John Murray, 1872. Sixth edition, with additions and corrections (eleventh thousand). Octavo, original publisher’s gilt-lettered green cloth (lightly rubbed, small scratch and indent to spine below Species); original endpapers, pp xxi, [blank], 458, folding lithographed plate; internally …

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  • [AMERICAN CIVIL WAR; MEDICINE] Studio portrait of Mary Edwards Walker, the first American female surgeon and the only woman to be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. Manchester, 1866.

    # 46766

    WALKER, Mary Edwards (1832-1919)

    [AMERICAN CIVIL WAR; MEDICINE] Studio portrait of Mary Edwards Walker, the first American female surgeon and the only woman to be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. Manchester, 1866.

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 101 x 64 mm (mount); lower margin recto with imprint of ‘Joseph B. Forster, Pho.’, and a roughly contemporary inscription in pencil identifying the sitter as ‘Dr. Mary Walker’; verso with the studio’s printed motto ‘Light and Truth’; in very good condition. A rare full-length studio portrait of …

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