New Acquisitions

We present 200 recent acquisitions: art, literature, exploration, natural history, war, Norman Lindsay, 19th-century photographs, ephemera – and much more.

  • The Yellow Book : an illustrated quarterly.

    # 49703

    BEARDSLEY, Aubrey et al.

    The Yellow Book : an illustrated quarterly.

    London : Elkin Mathews & John Lane; Boston, MA: Copeland & Day, 1894 – 97. Thirteen volumes, octavo, black-stamped yellow cloth; lightly marked, corners a little bumped, top edges dust soiled, a very good mixed set. Vol. 1: 272 (reprint with “April” corrected on front cover, repaired tear to foot of spine); Vol. 2, reprint, …

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  • The allegorical statue "Australie", photographed in situ at the Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1878.

    # 51278

    J. LEVY & CIE. (PARIS) (photographer)

    The allegorical statue “Australie”, photographed in situ at the Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1878.

    Albumen print, cabinet card format, 165 x 108 mm (mount), blind stamp of the photographer J. Lévy & cie., Paris in the image lower right; verso blank; a superb print in fine condition. This larger-than-life allegorical statue, sculpted from marble and titled Australie, was exhibited in the display of decorative arts during the Paris Exposition Universelle in …

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  • Renaissance 1961

    # 51559

    LINDSAY, Norman (1879-1969)

    Renaissance 1961

    Watercolour on paper, 56.0 x 89.0 cm; 85.0 x 115.0 cm (framed), signed and dated lower right: Norman Lindsay / 1961. One of the most ambitious watercolours ever created by Norman Lindsay, painted in epic large format. A highly complex figurative composition, in which the octogenarian painter displays a lifetime of experience in capturing the …

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  • Péking : histoire et description.

    # 50775

    FAVIER, Alphonse

    Péking : histoire et description.

    Peking [Beijing] : Imprimerie des Lazaristes au Pé-T’ang, 1897. First edition, deluxe issue (with 10 coloured plates). Folio (255 x 355 mm), two volumes in one, contemporary three-quarter morocco over marbled papered boards, spine in compartments with gilt decoration and lettering; marbled pastedowns and endpapers, each pastedown with a mounted original watercolour (one of flowers, the …

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  • [BATTLE OF COCOS] Group of original photographs taken by a crew member of HMAS Sydney in the aftermath of the engagement with the Emden on 9 November, 1914.

    # 51434

    [Photographer unknown]

    [BATTLE OF COCOS] Group of original photographs taken by a crew member of HMAS Sydney in the aftermath of the engagement with the Emden on 9 November, 1914.

    Group of 5 (five) gelatin silver print photographs, in uniform 85 x 130 mm format; all in good condition, the versos numbered 1 to 5 in ink in a fully contemporary hand; these numbers correspond to the five brief descriptions typed on an accompanying sheet, 160 x 200 mm, old folds but well preserved. On …

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  • [BLUE MOUNTAINS CROSSING] Neue Allgemeine Geographische Ephemeriden.

    # 49446

    BERTUCH, F. J. (Friedrich Justin) (editor)

    [BLUE MOUNTAINS CROSSING] Neue Allgemeine Geographische Ephemeriden.

    Verfasset von einer Gesellschaft von Gelehrten, und herausgegeben von Dr. F. J. Bertuch … … Erster Band. Weimar : im Verlage des Landes-Industrie-Comptoirs, 1817.  Octavo, four parts in one volume, octavo (192 x 120 mm), contemporary cloth-backed marbled papered boards (lightly rubbed), expertly re-backed; front pastedown with 19th-century University College, London bookplate; frontispiece folding engraved …

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  • The Silver Branch

    # 51215

    DEAMER, Dulcie (1890 - 1972)

    The Silver Branch

    Twenty-seven poems by Dulcie Deamer. Dover Heights (Sydney) : Swinburne Press, 1948. Octavo, quarter cloth over lettered boards, Norman Lindsay illustrated dustjacket (lightly marked and edge worn), slight split to upper hinge, frontispiece illustration by Rosaleen Norton, pp. 89; colophon, limited to 250 numbered copies signed by Dulcie Deamer.  Very scarce. ‘Mary Elizabeth Kathleen Dulcie …

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  • War impressions (deluxe edition, copy number 1, with original signed watercolour)

    # 50806

    MENPES, Mortimer and Dorothy

    War impressions (deluxe edition, copy number 1, with original signed watercolour)

    Being a record in colour by Mortimer Menpes. Transcribed by Dorothy Menpes. London : Adam & Charles Black, 1901. Quarto, in a fine signed binding by Bickers of London of full levant morocco, elaborately ruled and tooled in gilt, spine in compartments with raised bands, gilt lettering and tooling, edges slightly rubbed, morocco turn-ins with …

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  • Stanfield Hall Murders. Now exhibiting at the Cosmorama Rooms, 209, Regent Street. Models of Stanfield Hall, the seat of the late J. Jerry Esq. ; and Pot-Ash Farm, lately occupied by the assassin Rush.

    # 51352

    [COSMORAMA]

    Stanfield Hall Murders. Now exhibiting at the Cosmorama Rooms, 209, Regent Street. Models of Stanfield Hall, the seat of the late J. Jerry Esq. ; and Pot-Ash Farm, lately occupied by the assassin Rush.

    Also, may be had a complete Narrative of every particular connected with the above Murders, with an exact likeness of Rush, & correct plans of Stanfield Hall, and Pot-Ash Farm, also a survey of the two Estates, copies of the plans, &c, made for the late Trial at Norwich. Open from Ten till Five, and …

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  • Through the looking-glass, and what Alice found there (first edition, second issue)

    # 50730

    CARROLL, Lewis, (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), 1832-1898

    Through the looking-glass, and what Alice found there (first edition, second issue)

    With fifty illustrations by John Tenniel. London : Macmillan and Co., 1872. Tenth thousand. First edition, second issue. Octavo, gilt-lettered red cloth with gilt rule and image of the Queen of Hearts to upper and lower boards (edges lightly rubbed), all edges gilt, early owner’s name to endpaper dated 1888, pp. [xii], 224; (2 – …

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  • De Christiana expeditione apud Sinas suscepta ab Societate Iesu.

    # 51151

    RICCI, Matteo (1552-1610); TRIGAULT, Nicolas (1577-1628) (editor)

    De Christiana expeditione apud Sinas suscepta ab Societate Iesu.

    ex P. Matthaei Ricii eiusdem Societatis com[m]entarijs Libri V : ad S.D.N. Paulum V. in quibus Sinensis Regni mores, leges atque instituta & nouae illius Ecclesiae difficillima primordia accurate & summa fide describuntur. Lyon : Horace Cardon, 1616. Quarto (235 x 170 mm), contemporary limp vellum (upper cover with small loss at bottom corner), spine …

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  • [SIGNED BY HERMANNSBURG MISSION STAFF] Galtjindinjamea-pepa : Aranda-Wolambarinjaka.

    # 51150

    STREHLOW, Carl (1871-1922)

    [SIGNED BY HERMANNSBURG MISSION STAFF] Galtjindinjamea-pepa : Aranda-Wolambarinjaka.

    / nana intalelamala C. Strehlow, Galtjindanindanala. [Stories from the Bible, hymns, prayers, and catechism, translated from German into Arrernte by C. Strehlow]. Tanunda [South Australia] : Printed at Auricht’s Printing Office, 1924. A significant association copy signed on the front free-endpaper by several prominent figures from the Lutheran Hermannsburg Mission: Hilda Wurst (Headmistress of the Mission …

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  • Catalogue of the magnificent furniture, art treasures, costly appointments and effects ... throughout the residence 'Wyldefel', Wylde Street, Potts Point.

    # 51472

    LAWSON, James R.

    Catalogue of the magnificent furniture, art treasures, costly appointments and effects … throughout the residence ‘Wyldefel’, Wylde Street, Potts Point.

    Sydney : James R. Lawson, 1935. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, marked with tears to the yapp edges, pp. 132, occasional foxing. Lavish catalogue of the opulent contents of ‘Wyldefel’ owned by Mr. W. A. Crowle. Includes rare Lalique glass, silver, Chinese ivory and Japanese antiques, exhibition quality furniture etc. The artworks include numerous etchings by Norman …

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  • The florist's directory; or a treatise on the culture of flowers;

    # 51367

    MADDOCK, James (1718 - 1786)

    The florist’s directory; or a treatise on the culture of flowers;

    to which is added a supplementary dissertation on soil, manures, &c. London : B. White & Sons; G. G. J. & J. Robinson, and T. & J. Egerton, 1792. First edition. Octavo, contemporary speckled calf, gilt decorated edges, spine in compartments with contrasting morocco title label lettered in gilt, speckled edges, engraved title page with …

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  • Plastic surgery : its principles and practice.

    # 51186

    DAVIS, John Staige

    Plastic surgery : its principles and practice.

    With 864 illustrations containing 1637 figures. Philadelphia : P. Blakiston’s Son & Co. 1919. First edition. Octavo, gilt-lettered burgundy cloth, spine slightly sunned, contemporary booksellers label of Angus & Robertson, Sydney, to front pastedown, pp. xv; [blank]; 770, extensively illustrated with black and white photographs and diagrams, edges and preliminaries slightly foxed, a very good …

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  • Atlas of surgical operations

    # 51309

    CUTLER, Elliott C., and ZOLLINGER, Robert

    Atlas of surgical operations

    Illustrated by Mildred B. Codding. New York : The Macmillan Company, 1939. First edition. Folio. publisher’s gilt-lettered cloth, lightly rubbed, pp. x; [ii]; 181; [blank], illustrated with 84 black and white plates of the human anatomy and surgical procedures, internally clean, a fine copy. Cutler and Zollinger’s Atlas of Surgical Operations is considered one of the …

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