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# 50457

[Société M. O. Wolff]

[IMPERIAL RUSSIA] St.-Pétersbourg et ses environs : guide pratique illustré. (With an extra map, issued only to conference delegates)

At head of title: Conférence Internationale des Horaires des Trains a St.-Pétersbourg pour le service d’hiver 1899-1900. St.-Pétersbourg & Moscou : Société M. O. Wolff, Imprimeurs-Editeurs-Libraires de la Cour Impériale, 1899. Small octavo (185 x 130 mm), original red cloth decorated in blind and lettered in gilt (nice and bright); half-title leaf, photographic frontispiece, title-leaf, …

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# 50152

WELLS, H. G. (1866-1946)

When the sleeper wakes : a story of the years to come. (Presentation copy inscribed by H. G. Wells for Hubert Bland)

London and New York : Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1899. First edition. Octavo (200 x 130 mm), publisher’s gilt-lettered red cloth (boards heavily waterstained, spine darkened and frayed at ends); half-title with a presentation inscription in ink signed by the author: ‘To Mr. Hubert Bland / a present from Sandgate. H. G. Wells’; pp. [8], …

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# 46852

McCRAE, George Gordon (1833-1927)

Carrion Vulture (Vultur Bismarckii)

[Melbourne, c.1871]. Ink and wash on paper, 235 x 285 mm (sheet), signed in the image lower left ‘G G McCrae’, titled by the artist lower centre ‘Carrion Vulture (Vultur Bismarckii)’; laid down on board. A large-scale allegorical sketch depicting Bismarck picking over the corpses of France and Liberty, by the Melbourne literary figure George …

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# 50509

BENNETT, Jas. F.

South Australian Almanack and General Directory for 1841,

being the first year after leap year. Calculated for the meridian of Adelaide. Adelaide : Robert Thomas & Co., [1840]. Duodecimo, modern calf, spine lettered in gilt, bookplate from Geoffrey Farmer collection to front pastedown, offset to free endpaper, all edges gilt, pp. 150, xix (advertisements); blank, a few spots of foxing, but a clean …

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# 50632

Anon.

Bartender’s guide to the best mixed drinks

Tokyo : Kasuga Boeki K.K., circa 1955. Revised edition. Distributed by Charles E. Tuttle Co., Small quarto, illustrated boards, title leaf, pp. 143; [blank]; 7, black and white photographic plates of bar utensils, wet stamp from a Melbourne bookshop to front endpaper, a very fine copy. Attractive bartender’s guide to mixing over 220 cocktails in …

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# 50408

ROSSELL, Henry Norman

[RIVER MURRAY] Clearing the land; digging an irrigation channel; harvesting wine grapes; view of a rural property with windmill pump. Renmark district, South Australia, late 1890s.

Group of 4 (four) printing-out-paper print photographs, in panoramic format, each 100 x 200 mm; versos all wet-stamped in violet ‘H. Norman Rossell, Photographer, Renmark’, three have the photographer’s pencilled sequence number, and one – showing workers with a steam engine clearing the land – is annotated (by Rossell?): ‘The trees in background are Mallee …

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# 50409

ROSSELL, Henry Norman

[RIVER MURRAY] Clearing the land; workers in citrus fruit orchard. Renmark district, South Australia, late 1890s.

Group of 4 (four) printing-out-paper print photographs, in small format, each 75 x 100 mm; versos all wet-stamped in violet ‘H. Norman Rossell, Photographer, Renmark’; all of the prints are in very good condition (unmounted). Trove locates no photographs by Rossell in Australian institutional collections. From Rossell’s obituary in The Chronicle (Adelaide), 12 November 1897: …

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# 49476

FEINT, Adrian

A signed Christmas card by Adrian Feint

Folded sheet, 102 x 125 mm, colour illustration with silver highlights to upper panel, a typical surrealist work signed in the image by Adrian Feint, the interior with a printed poem addressed ‘To Adrian’ by Sydney Ure Smith, and with a manuscript Christmas greeting from Adrian Feint dated 1950. A nice piece of festive Australian …

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# 50628

[NAMATJIRA, Albert]

Water colours of Central Australia by Albert Namatjira (Arunta Tribe)

Melbourne : Myer Mural Hall, 1944. Octavo, folded sheet (old creases and edge wear), pp. 4 (last side blank), black & white reproduction of photograph of Namatjira painting, by C. P. Mountford, catalogue of 38 works by Namatjira with prices, very scarce.

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# 50460

[WHITELEY, Brett]. MCGRATH, Sandra

Brett Whiteley (deluxe signed edition)

Sydney : Bay Books, 1979. Quarto, full leather with gilt embossed signature in slipcase (lightly marked), pp. 232 fully illustrated. The deluxe edition, limited to 200 copies signed by the artist Brett Whiteley, presented in a special deluxe binding (this is copy 45), pale foxing to preliminaries, a very good copy of a rare edition. …

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# 50668

SMART, Jeffrey (1921-2013)

[JEFFREY SMART] Evening. Lino Cut by Jeff Smart.

Full-page offset printed illustration, page 19 in: The Torch : Published annually by the Adelaide Teachers’ College. Vol. XXI, December, 1941. Adelaide : Printed at The Hassell Press, 1941. Small quarto, original textured paper wrappers with yapp edges (some light marks and edge wear), upper wrapper with design in blue and black (silverfished, light stains, light warping …

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# 50489

BUTCHER, S. H. and LAND, A. (translators)

The Odyssey of Homer. Done into English prose

London : Macmillan, 1919. Octavo, presentation prize binding of full vellum, lettered in gilt, from Chigwell School, lightly marked, top edge gilt, others uncut, presentation inscription from the Headmaster to the front free endpaper, pp. xxiv; 428, a very good copy of this classical work in Greek literature.

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# 50571

WALLACE, Alfred Russell (1823 - 1913)

Tropical nature, and other essays

London : Macmillan and Co., 1878. Second edition. Octavo, gilt-lettered green cloth (lightly marked, bruised at head and foot of spine), armorial bookplate of Thomas Merthyr Guest (1838-1904) to front pastedown, hinges slightly cracked, pp. xiii; [iii]; 356; (1 – catalogue); (blank), occasional light foxing, a very good copy of a book difficult to find …

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# 50545

MENPES, Mortimer and Dorothy

Brittany

London : Adam & Charles Black, 1905. Quarto, gilt-lettered decorated cloth over bevelled boards (lightly marked, spine slightly dulled), top edge gilt, others uncut, endpapers lightly foxed, pp. x; 254, illustrated with 75 colour plates with captioned tissue guards, occasional scattered foxing, a very good copy. The edition de luxe, limited to 350 numbered copies …

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# 50570

WOOD, Rev. J. G.

My feathered friends

With illustrations by Harrison Weir. London : G. Routledge, 1858. Octavo, gilt pictorial cloth by Leighton, lightly rubbed, armorial bookplate to front pastedown, owner’s name to title page, pp. xii; 396, wood engraved illustrations, a fine copy. Includes the cassowary, emu, falcon, kestrel, kite, ostrich, parakeet, etc. A charming work.

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# 50615

SEEMANN, Berthold

Viti : an account of a government mission to the Vitian or Fijian Islands in the years 1860 – 61

Cambridge : Macmillan & Co., 1862. Octavo, full polished calf, ruled in gilt, edges a little rubbed, spine slightly faded, bound in compartments with raised bands, gilt rule and tooling, contrasting morocco title label lettered in gilt, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, school prize label to front pastedown and armorial bookplate to front free endpaper …

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