New Acquisitions

We present 150 recent acquisitions: travel and exploration, natural history, Norman Lindsay, ephemera, literature, 19th-century photographs – and much more

  • Oz magazine : a complete set of the Australian issues, no. 1, April 1963 - no. 41, February 1969

    # 50746

    [NEVILLE, Richard; WALSH, Richard; SHARP, Martin et al.]

    Oz magazine : a complete set of the Australian issues, no. 1, April 1963 – no. 41, February 1969

    Sydney : Oz Publications Ink Limited, 1963-1969. Forty-one issues, quarto, original stapled wrappers, various paginations between 16 and 20 pages, all illustrated; an expected amount of toning and occasional mild foxing; small tear to lower edge of upper wrapper of first issue, else overall in very good condition throughout; a rare complete set of the …

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  • Australia and radiant health. (Signed presentation copy)

    # 50886

    WADDY, E. M.

    Australia and radiant health. (Signed presentation copy)

    Canberra : [s.n.], [c.1938]. Quarto, lettered wrappers (some chipping and silver fishing), pictorial onlay; pp. 64, errata slip, signed inscription on p. 3 from E. M. Waddy to a recipient on the printed greetings section (perhaps all copies bear a manuscript inscription?). Scarce guide to health and vitality with sections on diet, medicines, vitamins, sunshine, …

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  • Some thoughts concerning education

    # 50863

    LOCKE, John, 1632-1704

    Some thoughts concerning education

    London : A. Bettesworth, C. Hitch and E. Symon, 1738. Tenth edition. Octavo, contemporary speckled calf, ruled in gilt, spine in compartments with raised bands, ruled and tooled in gilt, contrasting morocco title label lettered in gilt, edges rubbed, snagged at head of spine, armorial bookplate (with text in Hebrew) for David Durell to front …

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  • 10 lithographs on "Australians" by Anne Graham. (Copy number 1)

    # 50907

    GRAHAM, Anne Marie (1925 - )

    10 lithographs on “Australians” by Anne Graham. (Copy number 1)

    [Melbourne?] : [the artist?], 1975. Gilt-lettered cloth portfolio (lightly flecked) titled ‘Anne Graham Lithographs’, 44 x 61 cm; containing a lettered title sheet (discoloured, with a couple of small holes) and ten lithographs, each with a numbered tissue guard (some are creased); the graphics all in fine condition, each signed, titled and numbered by the …

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  • [LONDON; DOLLS] Meech's Wax-Work Exhibition. 50 & 52, Kennington Road. The Automaton Flute Player. The Greatest Novelty of the Age. The Wonder of all Beholders.

    # 50821

    [MEECH, Herbert John]

    [LONDON; DOLLS] Meech’s Wax-Work Exhibition. 50 & 52, Kennington Road. The Automaton Flute Player. The Greatest Novelty of the Age. The Wonder of all Beholders.

    Kennington Cross [London] : Merser & Gardner, printers, [1875]. Handbill, 140 x 110 mm, lithograph-printed on both sides; recto with an illustrated advertisement for the Automaton Flute Player; verso with a notice for Meech’s Wax Doll Bazaar (at the same address) ‘established over 27 years, and [containing] the handsomest collection of dressed dolls in the …

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  • Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (First Australian edition)

    # 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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  • [BALLARAT] The intellectual life

    # 50862

    HAMERTON, Philip Gilbert

    [BALLARAT] The intellectual life

    London : Macmillan and Co., 1875. Second edition. Octavo, full polished calf by Bickers of London, edges rubbed, spine in compartments with gilt rule and ornamentation, contrasting morocco title label lettered in gilt, marbled edges and endpapers, upper hinge a little cracked, etched portrait frontispiece of Leonardo da Vinci by Leopold Flameng, pp. xxx; 455, …

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  • New South Wales : its progress and resources; and official catalogue of exhibits from the colony forwarded to the International, Colonial, and Export Trade Exhibition of 1883 at Amsterdam.

    # 50755

    NEW SOUTH WALES COMMISSION

    New South Wales : its progress and resources; and official catalogue of exhibits from the colony forwarded to the International, Colonial, and Export Trade Exhibition of 1883 at Amsterdam.

    By Authority of the New South Wales Commission. Sydney : Thomas Richards, Government Printer, 1883. Octavo, lettered salmon wrappers (toned), pp. 43; [blank]; [4]; 76; viii (index); internally clean. A scarce catalogue of New South Wales’s involvement at the 1883 International Exhibition in Amsterdam, which was organised by Edouard Agostini, a French entrepreneur who had …

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  • Portraits of Captain Edward Montague Battye of the Mounted Police, and his wife Catherine. Cooma, New South Wales, mid 1870s.

    # 51027

    NICHOLAS, G. H.

    Portraits of Captain Edward Montague Battye of the Mounted Police, and his wife Catherine. Cooma, New South Wales, mid 1870s.

    A companion pair of albumen print photographs, carte de visite format, 98 x 64 mm (mounts); versos with the back mark of travelling photographer G. H. Nicholas, one inscribed in ink in his hand ‘Cooma’; a few spots of foxing outside the oval portrait cartouches, otherwise both cartes are in very good condition. These portraits …

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  • A post-mortem photograph of "Baby Sellar", St. Kilda (Melbourne), 1862.

    # 50597

    DAVIES & CO.

    A post-mortem photograph of “Baby Sellar”, St. Kilda (Melbourne), 1862.

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 110 x 68 mm (mount); recto with contemporary inscription in ink: ‘Baby Sellar’; verso with studio’s printed label: ‘Photographed by Davies & Co., Artists, 98, Bourke Street East, Opposite the Theatre Royal, Melbourne, and High Street, Junction, St. Kilda’; very light foxing to both sides. According to Davies …

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  • Photographs taken on Norley Station, including Aboriginal nanny "Lollypop" with white children. Channel Country, Southwest Queensland, 1917.

    # 50951

    [Photographer unknown].

    Photographs taken on Norley Station, including Aboriginal nanny “Lollypop” with white children. Channel Country, Southwest Queensland, 1917.

    Three gelatin silver print photographs, in uniform 110 x 66 mm format; two have annotations by the photographer on the verso, reading: ‘Lollypop, Baby & Mary / Norley 1917’, and ‘Maggie cleaning knives; Lollypop & children under kitchen verandah / Norley 1917’; the third is not captioned but shows a large group of Aborigines assembled …

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  • Old colonial architecture in New South Wales and Tasmania

    # 48249

    WILSON, Hardy

    Old colonial architecture in New South Wales and Tasmania

    Sydney : published by the author at Union House, 1924. Edition limited to 1000 numbered and signed copies (no. 324). Large folio, original papered boards (rubbed, upper board with a couple of small marks, spine a little stained), upper board with gilt lettering and “bat and peaches” device, paste-downs and endpapers with a small amount …

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  • Tinted daguerreotype portrait of a seated woman in profile with painted cloud backdrop, dated February 1854.

    # 43255

    [Photographer unknown]

    Tinted daguerreotype portrait of a seated woman in profile with painted cloud backdrop, dated February 1854.

    [British, 1854]. Ninth-plate daguerreotype with applied colour, 55 x 42 mm (sight), inscribed in ink verso ‘Feby 54’; in an arch-top brass mat with ormolu preserver, housed in a plain leather case with working clasp; the daguerreotype is in very fine condition, with just a a tiny area of tarnish at lower right corner; the …

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  • History of Australia

    # 51028

    RUSDEN, G. W.

    History of Australia

    Melbourne : Melville, Mullen & Slade, 1897. Second edition. Three volumes, octavo, in fine presentation binding of gull polished calf, spines in compartments with raised bands, ruled, lettered nd tooled in gilt, contrasting morocco title labels lettered in gilt, armorial stamp for Scotch College, Melbourne to upper panels, edges slightly scuffed, marbled edges and endpapers, …

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  • [BROADSIDE BALLAD] Chapter of Cheats. Or, the Roguery of all Trades.

    # 50823

    [Anon.]

    [BROADSIDE BALLAD] Chapter of Cheats. Or, the Roguery of all Trades.

    Clerkenwell [London] : Printed and sold by J. V. Quick, 42 Bowling Green Lane, [c.1835]. Broadside, sheet size 245 x 200 mm, lithograph-printed on cheap paper; the text of the ballad is printed in two columns separated by a decorative border, with the title in bold, two woodcut illustrations, and publisher’s imprint above; verso blank; …

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  • On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. Second edition (1860)

    # 50697

    DARWIN, Charles (1809 - 1882)

    On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. Second edition (1860)

    London : printed by W. Clowes and Sons for John Murray, 1860. Second edition, second state (fifth thousand). Octavo, original green cloth by Edmonds & Remnants, London retaining their ticket on lower pastedown, boards blocked in blind with rules enclosing foliate designs and central panel, spine gilt, expertly recased, restoration to head and foot of …

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