New Acquisitions
We present our list of recent acquisitions for October: 200+ items, including travel and exploration, natural history, art, literature, religion, medicine, nineteenth-century photographs, maps and globes, and ephemera.
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# 45019
GUILFOYLE, W. R.
Australian botany : specially designed for the use of schools
First Book. Illustrated by the author. Melbourne : A. Mullen, 1878. Octavo, elaborately decorated gilt illustrated green cloth (a little rubbed), edges rubbed, bookplate to upper pastedown, pp. [vi]; 109; errata, wood engravings by Guilfoyle, a very good copy. An attractive primer on botany for Australian students by the Director of the Melbourne Botanic Gardens. …
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# 44864
SONNERAT, Pierre (1748 – 1814)
Voyage à la Nouvelle Guinée, dans lequel on trouve la description des lieux, des observations physiques & morales, & des détails relatifs à l’Histoire Naturelle dans le Règne Animal & le Règne Végétal
Paris : Chez Ruault, 1776. Quarto, full speckled calf, corners subbed and bumped, rebacked with new head and tail caps, preserving original spine, spine in compartments with contrasting morocco title label lettered in gilt, marbled edges and endpapers, bookplate for Henry White to front pastedown with bookseller’s label of A. H. Spencer, half-title, engraved frontispiece, …
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# 45024
CAMPBELL, Archibald James (1853-1929)
Three photographs taken on Flinders Island in the Furneaux Group, Bass Strait, November 1893.
Three albumen print photographs, in uniform 100 x 150 mm format, on original plain card mounts 130 x 187 mm; versos with fully contemporary captions in pencil and ink; the prints have excellent clarity and are in fine condition; the mounts are very clean and stable. These important photographs were taken on Flinders Island by …
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# 44855
GOOS, Pieter
Pascaerte vande Zuyd-Zee tussche California, en Ilhas de Ladrones
Amsterdam : Pieter Goos, op’t Waater inde Vergulde Zeespiegel, 1666. 430 x 538 mm (image), 465 x 555 mm (sheet), had coloured, decorative cartouche, a fine example. A fine example of Pieter Goos’ sea chart of the Pacific Ocean. Extending from Van Diemen’s Land to Japan, and from New Zealand to California, it significantly notes discoveries …
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# 44920
EDWARD, David Farquhar (1867-1896)
Aboriginal cricket team at Deebing Creek Mission, Ipswich, Queensland, 1894.
Photographic glass magic lantern slide, 82 x 82 mm; the negative has a manuscript caption along the left and right edges: Deebing Creek Cricket Club / from Deebing Creek Mission Station, and across the top and bottom edges are written the names of the eleven players who feature in the portrait: Billy Brown, Coolool, Thompson, Curtis …
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# 45101
BOSCHI, Giovanni
[NATURAL HISTORY] Atlante zoologico popolare. Opera compilata sui più recenti lavori di zoologia italiani e stranieri
Napoli : Raimondo Petraroja, 1863-1879. First edition. Eight parts in four volumes, folio (390 x 280 mm), uniform contemporary half red calf over marbled papered boards, spines lettered and ruled in gilt; a total of 553 lithographic plates, all but 20 coloured by hand, with publisher’s blind stamp at foot of plates; each part with …
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# 44930
JONES, John H. (1817?-1872)
Traveller sleeping in a mia mia. Central or northern Victoria, circa 1862.
Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each individual image 74 x 73 mm (arched-top format), on original card mount 83 x 175 mm; recto of mount inscribed in ink: ‘Traveller sleeping in a mia mia’; verso with pencilled name of the original owner ‘McMillan’; both prints are in very good condition, as is the mount. This stereoscopic photograph …
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# 45107
MALBY & SON
Malby’s terrestrial globe
Compiled from the latest & most authentic sources, including all the recent geographical discoveries. London : published under the superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Malby & Son. 37 Parker Street, Little Queen Street, 1851. Terrestrial globe, 6 inches in diameter, printed gores with original hand colour over plaster base …
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# 44856
OTTENS, Reinier (1698 - 1750); de WIT, Frederik (1629 - 1706)
Magnum Mare del Zur cum Insula California. De Groote Zuyd-Zee en ‘t Eylandt California
Amsterdam : [R. & I. Ottens, 1745]. Copperplate engraving, 490 x 560 mm (image); 565 x 665 mm (sheet), hand coloured, small repair to tear in cartouche and a couple of pinholes, else fine. A striking example of Reiner and Joshua Ottens’ chart of the Pacific Ocean, an updated state of Frederick De Wit’s chart …
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# 44895
PINNOCK, William
Panorama of the old world and the new.
Comprising a view of the present state of the nations of the world, their manners, customs, and peculiarities, and their political, moral, social, and industrial condition. Interspersed with historical sketches and anecdotes by William Pinnock. Enlarged, revised, and embellished with several hundred engravings, from designs of Croome, Devereux, and other distinguished artists. Boston : L. …
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# 44759
ZACUTUS LUSITANUS (Manuel Alvares de Tavara, 1575-1642)
[MEDICINE] De medicorum principum historia
libri sex. In quibus medicinales omnes medicorum principum historiae, utili, & compendioso ordine disposiate proponuntur, paraphrasi, & commentarijs enarrantur, disputationibus, dubijs, & auctoris peculiaribus observationibus illustrantu. Quorum primus liber nunc primum in lucem exit … … Leiden : Johannes Maire, 1629. Thick octavo (185 x 125 mm), contemporary full vellum over bevelled boards (lightly marked), spine somewhat darkened …
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# 45172
WARADGERY CLUB
Waradgery Club : looking backward for half a century.
Hay [N.S.W.] : Printed at “The Riverina Grazier” Office, c. 1935. Octavo, illustrated wrappers (with image of Indigenous Australian, the Club’s name taken from the name of the local Aboriginal tribe), light stain, central crease, pp. 28, illustrated. Scarce local N.S.W. history.
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# 14833
Tuckey, James Kingston (1776-1816)
An account of a voyage to establish a colony at Port Philip in Bass’s Strait,
on the South Coast of New South Wales : in His Majesty’s Ship Calcutta, in the years 1802-3-4 / by J. H. Tuckey, Esq. First Lieutenant of the Calcutta. London : Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme; and J.C. Mottley, 1805. First edition. Octavo, original polished calf, gilt-decoration, expertly recased with new spine to style by Aquarius, …
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# 45175
WEST BOURKE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY
West Bourke Agricultural Society Annual Show : group of prize certificates awarded to James Williams, 1887-1900.
West Melbourne, Vic. : Kemp & Boyce, 1887 (one certificate); Melbourne : Centennial Printing & Publishing Co., 1889 (three certificates); Romsey, Vic. : Printed at the Examiner Office, 1891-1892-1900 (five certificates). Total of nine lithographed certificates, in uniform 165 x 195 mm format, printed on different coloured card stock, some with original ribbons attached; scattered foxing. …
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# 44910
CAIRE, Nicholas John (1837-1918)
[GIPPSLAND] Aboriginal natives of Victoria hop gathering.
[Melbourne : Anglo-Australasian Photo. Co., 1877]. From Caire’s photographic portfolio Views of Victoria (no. 50). Albumen print photograph, 150 x 205 mm, laid down on original card mount, 245 x 300 mm, recto with printed caption beneath image: Aboriginal natives of Victoria hop gathering; verso with series title and number, followed by a paragraph of printed text: …
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# 45074
[CORNELL, Frederick, 1834-1890, attributed]
Suite of five large-format views of Sale and East Gippsland, circa 1880.
Five albumen print photographs in uniform 215 x 270 mm format; versos with fully contemporary captions in pencil; a few edge nicks, otherwise in good condition, unmounted. The attribution to Sale-based professional photographer Frederick Cornell (1834-1890) is based on comparison with prints in the album of Cornell’s Gippsland views presented to Lady Loch in 1885, …