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# 51365

HENTY, E. A. (Mrs. Edward Starkey)

Australian shooting sketches, and other stories

London : Digby, Long, & Co., 1907. Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth (slightly dulled), presentations inscription from the author to the front free endpaper (with an old repaired tear), pp. 319; (1 – advertisement), a few spots of foxing but a very good copy. Mrs. Edward Starkey was a member of the Henty family, her grandmother (described …

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# 50011

NOBEL, Alfred

Expériences avec la Nitroglycerine (Produit liquide pour l’Explosion des Mines).

Bruxelles : Alfred Nobel, chausée de Louvain 126b, le 18 juillet 1865. Lithographed invitation, single quarto sheet (270 x 210 mm), printed recto only; light old vertical and horizontal folds and diagonal crease lower left, a small amount of foxing, and a couple of tiny perforations; overall a well-preserved example. In 1865, Alfred Nobel and …

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# 51192

WALKER, Henrietta C.

Bungalook basketry and rafia hats.

/ With photographic illustrations. Cover title: Bungalook basketry : a new handicraft and a profitable hobby. What can be done with stringy-bark. Also how to make rafia hats. Melbourne : Printed by Fitchett Brothers Pty. Ltd., 376 Swanston Street, [1918]. Small octavo (180 x 120 mm), publisher’s stapled illustrated wrappers (lightly marked) with original owner’s …

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# 51368

SANDS & McDOUGALL

[Map of Melbourne and suburbs]

Melbourne : Sands & McDougall Pty. Ltd., circa 1900. Lithographed map, printed in colour, 97 x 73 cm, dissected and laid on linen, folded, corners rubbed, a few minor stains, a very good copy. An attractive street map of Melbourne ranging from Broadmeadows to Mordialloc, showing their distances from central Melbourne in concentric circles at …

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# 51355

MUNDY, Daniel Louis (1826-1881)

[GOLD MINING] Russell’s Gold Battery on Tararu Creek, Thames Goldfields, Coromandel Peninsula, New Zealand, 1869.

Albumen print photograph, 225 x 170 mm; mounted on section of a leaf of thickish card removed from a nineteenth-century album; in fine condition. The Auckland Museum (Mundy Album, no. 2) holds a number of Mundy’s photographs of the Thames Goldfields, including another example of the view offered here, which it dates to 1869. The scene …

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# 51261

HAIGH, Edward (attributed)

Grand Stand on the Werribee, Victoria.

[April, 1862]. Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each image approximately 73 x 73 mm, flat yellow mount 83 x 165 mm, verso with contemporary manuscript caption ‘Grand Stand on the Werribee, Victoria’, and below this in manuscript the monogram and sequence number of the original owner ‘MAH. 68’; both prints, as well as the mount, are …

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# 51263

[Photographer unknown]

Side view of Christ Church, Hawthorn, Melbourne. Dated 1862.

Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each image 72 x 75 mm, on original brown card mount 81 x 172 mm; verso with period inscriptions in pencil ‘Hawthorn Church’ and ink ‘Hawthorn Church, Melbourne, 1862’; both albumen prints have rich tonal range and are in fine condition; the mount has a small stain at one corner but is …

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# 51525

GREENHAM, C. G. (Charles George) (1853-1925)

“Nangwarry” homestead, southeast South Australia, c.1890.

Albumen print photograph, in very large 220 x 290 mm format; on the photographer’s mount, 330 x 400 mm; manuscript caption ‘NANGWARRY’ in the negative lower left, and with the photographer’s pencilled signature ‘C. G. Greenham’ below the image at right; verso wet-stamped ‘The “Herodotus” Studio, C.G. Greenham, Photographer, Hawthorn’; both the print and the mount …

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# 51529

GREENHAM, C. G. (Charles George) (1853-1925)

“Cherry Mount” homestead, Western District of Victoria, c.1890.

Albumen print photograph, in very large 220 x 290 mm format; on the photographer’s mount, 300 x 420 mm; manuscript caption ‘CHERRY MOUNT’ in the negative lower centre; verso wet-stamped ‘The “Herodotus” Studio, C.G. Greenham, Photographer, Hawthorn’; the print is in fine condition; the mount has residual glue marks from where the mount was once housed …

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# 51195

MOORHOUSE, Frank

The illegal relatives

[Sydney : Tomato Press, for the author, c.1973]. Octavo (212 x 139 mm), original pictorial stapled self-wrappers, pp. [96]; Moorhouse’s erotic stories accompanied by line-drawn illustrations in several colours by uncredited artists including Jenny Coopes; slight browning at edges (as usual), a fine copy. Moorhouse produced this pirated edition of his own illustrated erotic stories …

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# 51189

LOWE, E. J.

Ferns : British and exotic

London : George Bell & Sons, 1872. Second edition. Eight volumes, octavo, publisher’s blind embossed maroon cloth (a few marks), gilt-lettered spines (slightly sunned), fern illustrations to upper panels, armorial bookplates for B. Jones-Bateman to upper pastedowns, line illustrations, 479 chromolithographed plates, The second edition of Lowe’s expansive work on ferns, which was first published …

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# 51143

MEYER, A. B. and WIGLESWORTH, L. W.

The birds of Celebes and the neighbouring islands.

Berlin : R. Friedlander, 1898. Two volumes, quarto, fine modern binding of quarter green goatskin over cloth bound boards, ruled in blind, spine in compartments with contrasting morocco title labels, tooled in gilt, vellum tips, pp. xxxii; 392; 393 – 962, 7 coloured maps and 45 lithographed plates, of which 42 are hand-coloured; internally clean, …

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# 51203

"Garryowen" (FINN, Edmund, 1819-1898)

The chronicles of early Melbourne, 1835 to 1852. Historical, anecdotal and personal, by “Garryowen”

Centennial edition with portraits and illustrations. Melbourne : Fergusson and Mitchell, 1888. First edition. Two volumes, quarto, gilt-decorated roan (edges rubbed and scuffed as usual, but a solid set), all edges gilt, joints and hinges sound, pp. xiv; 1000, numerous lithographed illustrations, occasional marginal foxing, text block cracked at final leaf of first volume, overall …

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# 51284

DUFTY, E. H. (Edward Henry)

Photographic portrait of two Kanak men. Noumea, New Caledonia, late 1870s.

Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 105 x 65 mm (mount); verso with studio imprint of ‘E. H. Dufty, Photographer, Noumea, Nouvelle Caledonie’; the albumen print is in excellent condition, with very slight fading at the upper and lower edges; the gold-bordered mount is clean and stable. Edward Henry Dufty (1850-1905), the son of …

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# 43341

[Photographer unknown]

Outdoor ambrotype of Bradworthy Vicarage, Devon, dated 29 July 1862.

Sixth-plate ambrotype, 72 x 58 mm (sight); in an elliptical brass mat with ormolu preserver (no case); fully contemporary inscription in ink to backing paper verso: ‘Bradworthy Vicarage, July 28th 1862’; a very sharp image; the original cover glass has a crack at upper right corner. Side view of the Bradworthy Vicarage, today a Grade II …

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# 51267

HAIGH, Edward

[MELBOURNE] Entrance to Park, St. Kilda (1861-2)

Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each image approximately 73 x 73 mm, flat yellow mount 83 x 165 mm, verso with original printed label ’13. Entrance to Park, St. Kilda, Victoria. Ed. Haigh, Photo.’ and contemporary inscription in ink ‘Melbourne’; the right hand stereoscopic print has a few smal marks towards the top edge; otherwise both …

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