New Acquisitions
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# 46795
SHMITH, Athol
Harold Holt, 17th Prime Minister of Australia : signed and inscribed portrait photograph
Gelatin silver print photograph, 155 x 110 mm, mounted in the original portfolio of the Athol Shmith studio, Collins Street, Melbourne (label to verso), boldly inscribed in black felt-tip pen below the photograph ‘Greetings from Harold Holt’; very fine. Harold Edward Holt (1908-1967) served as 17th Prime Minister of Australia from 26 January 1966 to …
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# 46553
Uḷḷamuḍaiyān (translator); HOISINGTON, Henry Richard (translator)
ேசாதிசாதீதிரம். [Sothi Sastra]. The Oriental astronomer : being a complete system of Hindu astronomy, accompanied with a translation and numerous explanatory notes. With an appendix
[Bound with] : A complete system of Hindu astronomy, being a translation of the foregoing work. Jaffna : American Mission Press, 1848. Octavo, original Ceylonese binding of half-roan over marbled papered boards (worn, joints rubbed with cords exposed, spine cracked, edges and boards rubbed), local binder’s ticket of Apaswamy, pp. [ii – title leaf]; 177; [3 …
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# 46365
ALBUQUERQUE, Alfonso de (c. 1453 - 1515)
Commentarios do grande Afonso Dalboquerque, capitão geral que foi das Indias Orientaes em tempo do muito poderoso rey D. Manuel, o primeiro deste nome.
Lisbon : Regia Officina Typografica, 1774. Four volumes, octavo, finely bound in contemporary speckled calf, ruled in blind, spines with gilt rule and contrasting morocco title labels, lettered in gilt, edges speckled red, marbled endpapers, private ex-libris book labels to pastedowns, engraved portrait frontispiece, pp. [viii]; xliv; 343; large folding map of the Indian Ocean; …
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# 46580
MEDINA, Balthasar de
Vida martyrio, y beatificación del invicto proto-martyr de el Japan San Felipe de Jesús, patron de Mexico, su patria,
imperial corte de Nueva España en el Nuevo Mundo … Segunda Impressión … Madrid : en la imprenta de los Herederos de la Viuda de Juan García Infanzón, 1751. Quarto (205 x 145 mm), contemporary limp vellum (ties replaced); pp. [28], 176, with one engraved plate depicting the crucifixion of San Felipe; scattered light foxing, else contents very good; …
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# 42456
Nueva-España. Tribunal de Minería
Reales ordenanzas para la direccion, regimen y gobierno del importante cuerpo de la mineria de Nueva-España
: y de su real tribunal general : de orden de su magestad. Lima : [s.n.], Año de 1785 [i.e. 1786, with contemporary ms correction on title]. Folio (295 x 200 mm), contemporary half calf over marbled papered boards (rubbed), spine with contrasting leather title-piece lettered in gilt and gilt bands; marbled endpapers, front pastedown with bookplate …
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# 46648
ROBLEY, Horatio Gordon, Major-General (1840-1930)
Moko; or Maori tattooing
London : Chapman & Hall, 1896. Quarto, gilt-lettered brown cloth with moko decoration, (a couple of light stains, minor rubbing at edges, corners a little bumped, small impaction dent to spine), bookplate to front pastedown, photographic frontispiece, 180 illustrations and photographs; a good copy of this scarce publication. Horatio Gordon Robley (1840-1930) was a soldier, …
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# 46581
Anonymous.
Breve resumen de la vida y martyrio del inclyto mexicano y proto-martyr del Japón, el Beato San Felipe de Jesús.
Añadidas algunas obvias reflecciones en honor del mismo Héroe esclarecido, y de esta dichosísima Ciudad felize en ser su Patria. Por un Eclesiástico de este Arzobispado … … México : En la Oficina Madrileña de la Calle de Sto. Domingo y Esquina de Tacuba, 1802. Octavo (195 x 140 mm), contemporary full mottled calf (very good, with some minor staining and edge wear), spine with gilt decoration, …
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# 46683
BRIGHTWELL, L[eonard] R[obert] F.Z.S. (1889 - 1983)
Wild Friends at Home (original cover art)
Gouache on paper, measures 430 x 310mm, being the original painting illustrating the cover of E. Chivers Davies’ ‘Wild Friends at Home’ (London : 1920). In this volume a little boy enters the imaginary worlds of the wild animals whose pictures decorate the walls of his nursery. The fifteen short tales include his adventure with …
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# 46388
TASSO, Torquato [1544 - 1595]
Jerusalem delivered : an heroic poem (large paper edition)
Translated from the Italian of Torquato Tasso, by John Hoyle. London : printed by T. Bentley for J. Johnson [and others], 1803. Eighth edition. Two volumes, octavo, finely bound in full straight grained red Morocco, elaborate gilt tooled floral borders, spines in compartments with raised bands, lettered and tooled in gilt (slightly faded), edges a …
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# 46801
[ST. ARNAUD TIMES]
[WIMMERA] St. Arnaud Business Guide.
[St. Arnaud, Vic. : St. Arnaud Times, c.1930]. Printed on the verso of a mailing envelope, 90 x 145 mm; recto with typed address ‘Mr. O. W. Bibby, Navarre, Vic.’; fine condition. An ingenious piece of commercial stationery, no doubt a co-operative effort on the part of the twelve local advertisers: (“this job was done …
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# 42884
LANG, John Dunmore (1799-1878)
An historical and statistical account of New South Wales, both as a penal settlement and as a British colony.
London : Cochrane and M’Crone, 1834. First edition. Two volumes, octavo (190 x 125 mm), contemporary uniform calf, spines in compartments with gilt lettering and decoration; pastedowns with early ownership inscription of S. A. Cooper, Canterbury, Kent; Vol. 1. pp. xiv, 401, frontispiece folding engraved map with hand-coloured outlines; Vol. 2. pp. iv, 443; a …
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# 46800
AMTORG TRADING CORPORATION (New York)
Soviet Russian Art and Handicraft Exposition. Grand Central Palace, New York, February 1929
[Cover title]. Also titled: Art and Handicraft Exposition of Soviet Russia. New York : Peasant Art & Handicraft Department of Amatory Trading Corporation, 1929. Small quarto (265 x 180 mm), illustrated wrappers with original owner’s name to front, original ties, [15], [1] pp, numerous illustrations (some colour); an excellent copy. A scarce catalogue of Russian …
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# 42472
Van Gulik, Robert (1910-1967)
The given day : an Amsterdam mystery.
Kuala Lumpur : Art Printing Works, 1964. First edition. Octavo, pictorial wrappers (canted, lightly marked, glue marks to gutters of endpapers); pp. 132, with illustrations by the author; a very good copy (without the production fault found in other copies on pp.21-30). Robert van Gulik (1910-1967) was a Dutch orientalist, diplomat, musician, and writer. He …
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# 46820
BESLEY, Richard Bradfield (1912-1990)
Photograph album documenting experiences at a hydroelectric plant on the Swat River in Malakand District, Northwest Frontier Province, India, 1937-38.
Small oblong quarto album (200 x 270 mm), original brown cloth over boards with string ties, containing 116 b/w photographs in corner mounts, 113 being in 60 x 60 mm format, with 3 in larger 115 x 160 mm format; the majority are captioned in ink below the image; very good condition throughout. This album …
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# 46324
BROPHY, Philip & CHESWORTH, David (co-ordinators)
[MELBOURNE POST-PUNK] New Music 1980 number 4. Double issue.
Northcote, Vic. : Philip Brophy & David Chesworth (funded by → ↑ →), 1980. Foolscap folio (300 x 210 mm), stapled pictorial wrappers (silverfished), 53 pp, illustrated; contents in very good condition. Very scarce original issue of Philip Brophy and David Chesworth’s serious magazine New Music (well, it’s definitely not a fanzine). Packed with interviews …
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# 46527
WARDLE, Darrell; INGLETON, Suzanne, WINIKOFF, Tamara; GOLLINGS, John; KLEY, Heinrich et al.
[UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE] Architects’ Revue 1965. Union Theatre: August 11 to 21.
[Parkville, Vic. : Faculty of Architecture, University of Melbourne, 1986]. Programme, large sheet 570 x 340, folding to 190 x 340 mm, printed on both sides in black on glossy paper; illustrated; programme design by Sue Ingleton who is also credited as Assistant Producer of the revue; dog-eared corners and light creasing, small amount of …