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  • [GLOBE] The earth.

    # 47150

    KLINGER, J. G. (firm)

    [GLOBE] The earth.

    Published by J. G. Klinger in Nuremberg. Constructed, delineated and etched by J. A. Buhler. Nuremberg : J[ohann]. G[eorg]. Klinger, [between 1841 – 1852]. Wooden and plaster globe (6 inches in diameter), covered with 12 glazed and hand-coloured gores, fitted and spinning with metal polar axis in a circular card box, the lid provided in …

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  • Sammelband of Hong Kong newspapers, 1845-54

    # 39126

    CAIRNS, John; STRACHAN, Robert

    Sammelband of Hong Kong newspapers, 1845-54

    A Sammelband of fifty-four individual issues of newspapers published in Hong Kong between 1845 and 1854, comprising twenty issues of the Overland Register, and Price Current and thirty-four issues of The Hongkong Register; together with two issues of newspapers published in India in 1852 and 1853. Large folio (510 x 340 mm), custom modern binding of …

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  • Thin Air : a portfolio of 12 copperplate photogravure prints of Ladakh.

    # 46721

    Robert ASHTON (1950- )

    Thin Air : a portfolio of 12 copperplate photogravure prints of Ladakh.

    [Ladakh and Melbourne : the artist, 2013]. Complete suite of twelve copperplate photogravures, printed in an edition of 5; 290 x 390 mm (plate size), 395 x 485 mm (sheet size); all titled and dated 2013 by the artist lower left, and signed by the artist lower right in 2023; very fine, loosely housed in …

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  • [ROLLING STONES CONTACT SHEET] Charlie Watts and Mick Taylor interviewed by Felix Dennis for London Oz magazine, 1971.

    # 47093

    [Photographer unidentified]

    [ROLLING STONES CONTACT SHEET] Charlie Watts and Mick Taylor interviewed by Felix Dennis for London Oz magazine, 1971.

    Gelatin silver print, 250 x 200 mm (sheet); inscribed on the verso in blue ballpoint by Oz magazine editor Felix Dennis: ‘F.D. interviews Charlie Watts & Mick Taylor, other members of Rolling Stones, for Oz. 1971?‘; in very good condition. The interview at which these photographs were taken (presumably by an Oz staff photographer – …

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  • The British Colonies; their history, extent, condition, and resources

    # 46524

    MARTIN, Robert Montgomery (1801 - 1868)

    The British Colonies; their history, extent, condition, and resources

    By Montgomery Martin, Esq., late Treasurer to the Queen at Hong-Kong; and member of Her Majesty’s Legislative Council in China. London and New York : The London Printing and Publishing Company [J. & F. Tallis], circa 1851. Six volumes bound in twelve (which are labelled as ‘Divisions’), quarto, publisher’s original gilt-lettered and decorated red cloth …

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  • Art in Australia (complete set)

    # 47043

    Sydney Ure Smith

    Art in Australia (complete set)

    Art in Australia. Series 1, No. 1 – Series 4, No. 6 (1916 – 1942). Completes set. Series 1 (11 issues, quarto), Series 2 (2 issues, large quarto), Series 3 (80 issues, quarto), Series 4 (6 issues, large quarto). Illustrated wrappers, occasional chipping and flecking, extensively illustrated, tipped-in plates, a very good set. The most …

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  • A true and exact history of the Island of Barbadoes.

    # 43061

    LIGON, Richard (1585? - 1682)

    A true and exact history of the Island of Barbadoes.

    Illustrated with a map of the island, as also the principal trees and plants there, set forth in their due proportions and shapes, drawn out by their several and respective scales, together with the ingenio that makes the sugar, with the plots of the several houses, rooms, and other places, that are used in the …

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  • Marie Corelli, novelist : autograph letter, signed, dated 5 July 1888.

    # 47058

    CORELLI, Marie [pseud. of Mary MACKAY, 1855-1924]

    Marie Corelli, novelist : autograph letter, signed, dated 5 July 1888.

    Manuscript in ink, 3 pp., on bifolium of octavo notepaper (180 x 113 mm); headed ’47 Longridge Road, Earl’s Court, S.W.’, the letter is addressed to a Mrs. Bateman, to whom Corelli apologises for being unable to attend a theatrical performance by Mrs. Bateman’s daughter, May (possibly the young writer, May Bateman); the letter is …

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  • Lajamunu women holding discussion with Hazel Hawke at Barunga, Northern Territory, 1988

    # 46883

    FORD, Sue (1943-2009)

    Lajamunu women holding discussion with Hazel Hawke at Barunga, Northern Territory, 1988

    Gelatin print, 40 x 60 cm; artist’s proof (from edition of 5); unmounted; fine condition. An important documentary photograph by acclaimed Australian feminist photographer, Sue Ford (1943-2009). Provenance: Gift of Sue Ford to her friend, Virginia Fraser (c.1989). Estate of Virginia Fraser (1947-2021), feminist, artist, writer, editor and curator. For an insightful analysis of Ford’s …

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  • Gum trees, Ambleside

    # 45887

    HEYSEN, Hans (1877-1968)

    Gum trees, Ambleside

    Charcoal on paper with conte highlights, 175 x 240 mm (sight), signed lower left, framed. A charming rural study by Hans Heysen, one of a number he made in and around Ambleside, his property at Hahndorf in the Adelaide Hills. The scenery is typically Heysen, featuring majestic gum trees in the landscape. Provenance : Private …

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  • An introduction to physiological and systematical botany.

    # 46747

    SMITH, James Edward (1759-1828)

    An introduction to physiological and systematical botany.

    London : Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809. Second edition. Octavo (215 x 140 mm), finely bound in half calf over marbled papered boards (lightly rubbed), spine in compartments with raised bands, ruled and ornamented in gilt and with contrasting morocco title table lettered in gilt; pp. xxiii; [blank]; 533; [1 – advertisements]; illustrated with …

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  • [BIBLE IN DANISH; DOS-À-DOS BINDING] Vor Herres og Frelseres Jesu Christi Nye Testamente,

    # 46168

    [BIBLE IN DANISH; DOS-À-DOS BINDING] Vor Herres og Frelseres Jesu Christi Nye Testamente,

    efter den Aar 1647. udgangne Version . . . Det VIII Oplag. Copenhagen : Royal Orphanage Press, 1759. pp. 357, [3]. [IN A DOS-À-DOS BINDING WITH] Den Forordnede Kirke-Psalme-Bog, med hosføyede Collecter, Epistler og Evangelier, og Jesu Christi lidelses historie … Copenhagen : Royal Orphanage Press, 1758. pp. 312. Two volumes, duodecimo (140 x 85 mm), contemporary vellum …

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  • True believers : the story of the federal parliamentary Labor Party (signed by three Australian Prime Ministers)

    # 46974

    FAULKNER, John et al.

    True believers : the story of the federal parliamentary Labor Party (signed by three Australian Prime Ministers)

    edited by John Faulkner & Stuart Macintyre. Sydney : Allen & Unwin, 2001. First edition. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. xxxi, 328, illustrated. Signed on the title page by Gough Whitlam, Prime Minister of Australia 1972 – 1975; and signed on the front free endpaper by Bob Hawke, Prime Minister of Australia 1983 – 1991, …

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  • Thieves' kitchen

    # 46602

    LINDSAY, Norman (1879-1969)

    Thieves’ kitchen

    Created 1929. Etching, engraving, and soft ground, 253 x 304 mm, signed and dated lower right, edition 25 of 55 copies, in a vintage black timber frame. An etching by Norman Lindsay with enormous visual power, being a rollicking response to the poem Thieves’ kitchen written by Kenneth Slessor (copied in full below), first published …

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  • View of part of the Moonta copper mines, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia, c.1882.

    # 47035

    SOUTH AUSTRALIAN PHOTOGRAPHIC ASSOCIATION (NIXON, Stephen Edward, 1842-1910)

    View of part of the Moonta copper mines, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia, c.1882.

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 64 x 105 mm (mount); recto with fully contemporary inscription in ink to lower margin: ‘Part of Moonta Mines, S. Australia’; verso with the lithographed back mark of ‘The South Australian Photographic Association. Taylor Street, Kadina. Stephen Nixon (Artist), Manager’; the print is in good condition; the mount …

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  • Under the spell of the tall poppies : from the series "Oz" (1998)

    # 47090

    DEACON, Destiny (1957-2024)

    Under the spell of the tall poppies : from the series “Oz” (1998)

    Bubblejet print from Polaroid photograph, 32.0 x 26.0 cm (sheet 42.0 x 29.5 cm); printed by the artist, not signed; light crease to the right of centre, else fine; unframed. This image from Indigenous artist Destiny Deacon’s digitally-printed Oz series was originally issued in an edition of 15, in a large format. This smaller scale …

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