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# 51595

ESCHLIMANN, Henri & RIEGLER, François-Xavier (translators); COLUCCIA, Paolo (editor)

[NEW GUINEA; MISSIONS] Pietate Bukana.

Selon le texte du R.P. Eschliman, par le Padre Paolo Coluccia M.S.C. 10-III-1946, corrigée par Ikupu Mini Angelus le VII-VIII-1946. [Yule Island, Territory of Papua : Catholic Mission, 1946]. [Book of Piety. Roro language]. Small quarto (255 x 208 mm), original plain card wrappers with red cloth backstrip, manuscript title to front: ‘Pietate Bukana / H. Eschliman / …

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# 51417

HAIGH, Edward (attributed)

View in the Melbourne Cemetery. (1861-62)

Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each image approximately 73 x 73 mm, flat yellow mount 83 x 165 mm; verso with contemporary manuscript caption ‘View in the Melbourne Cemetery’, and below this in manuscript the original owner’s monogram and sequence number ‘MAH. 63’; both prints, as well as the mount, are in fine condition. A very …

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# 51339

HAIGH, Edward

Cemetery Lodge, Melbourne, Victoria. (1861-62)

Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each image approximately 73 x 73 mm, flat yellow mount 83 x 165 mm; verso with original printed label ’51. Cemetery Lodge, Melbourne, Victoria. Ed. Haigh, Photo.’; the right-hand print has some staining in the sky area, and the left-hand print has a small ink mark at left edge; the mount is …

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# 51416

HAIGH, Edward (attributed)

Cemetery, Melbourne. (1861-62)

Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each image approximately 73 x 73 mm, flat yellow mount 83 x 165 mm; verso with contemporary manuscript caption ‘Cemetery, Melbourne’, and below this in manuscript the original owner’s monogram and sequence number ‘MAH. 53’; both prints, as well as the mount, are in fine condition. A very early view of the …

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# 51586

WOOLLEY, Charles; WINTER, Alfred

Portraits of William Tarleton, government official and Police Magistrate of Hobart Town, and two of his children. Hobart, 1860s.

Four albumen print photographs in carte de visite format, all in very good condition. William Tarleton (1820-1895), by Charles Woolley (attributed), Hobart, 1865. Inscribed verso in pencil: ‘W. Tarleton 1865’. John Walter Tarleton (1852-1929), by Charles Woolley, Hobart, late 1860s. Inscribed verso in ink: ‘John Walter Tarleton’. Elizabeth Tarleton (later Bourdillon) (1855-1924), by Alfred Winter, …

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# 51418

THUNBERG, Carl Peter (1743-1828)

Resa uti Europa, Africa, Asia, förrättad åren 1770-1779.

Upsala : J. Edman & J. Edmans enka, 1788-1793. Four volumes octavo, original uniform binding of marbled papered boards (an expected amount of rubbing), spines with leather title labels in gilt; Vol. 1: pp. [26], 390 + [2] engraved plates; Vol. 2: pp. [32], 384 + [4] plates; Vol. 3: pp. [14], 286, 289-389, 400-414; …

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# 51407

THUNBERG, Carl Peter (1743-1828); LAMARCK, Jean-Baptiste de Monet de (1744-1829)

Voyages de C. P. Thunberg au Japon, par le Cap de Bonne-Espérance, les isles de la Sonde, &c.

Traduits, rédigés et augmentés de notes… particulièrement sur le Javan et le Malai, par L. Langlès,… et revus, quant à la partie d’histoire naturelle, par J.-B. Lamarck,… A Paris : Benoit Dandré, An IV 1796. Four volumes octavo, handsome contemporary full calf with gilt borders (bindings rubbed, and with a few scuff marks), flat spines …

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# 48914

CLAYTON, Samuel

Bookplate for Charles Izard Manigault, Sydney, 1818.

Engraving on thin paper, 88 x 65 mm (plate line), 107 x 66 mm (sheet), trimmed to the right plate line, unmounted, light toning; a very good example. See article: The earliest known Australian bookplate, by Matthew Fishburn, Hordern House, Sydney. This is perhaps the earliest known Australian bookplate, engraved by convict artist Samuel Clayton …

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# 51631

BLACKMAN, Charles

Untitled [Seated boy], 1954.

Pencil on paper, 238 x 203 mm (sheet), signed and dated in black felt-tip pen lower left: CB. 54; unmounted, in fine condition. Charles Blackman (1928-2018) was born in Sydney, New South Wales, and was first employed as a copy boy with the Sun newspaper. He simultaneously attended night classes in drawing, design, graphics and …

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# 51754

HARRISON, George (1943 - 2001)

Songs by George Harrison

Guildford (U.K.) : Genesis Publications, 1987. Octavo, half-crushed black morocco over cloth bound boards, embossed in blind with images of piano keys and a guitar, all edges gilt, in gilt-lettered black clamshell box, with an inner drawer housing a compact disk, 175 [5] pp., extensively illustrated in colour by Keith West. Printed in an edition …

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# 15798

BLOCKLEY, John (composer); NORTON, Caroline Sheridan

[SHEET MUSIC] Love not : a ballad / the music composed by J. Blockley ; the poetry selected from The soorows of Rosalie, written by The Honble. Mrs Norton.

Sydney : G. Hudson & Co., 377 Pitt Street North, [1849, or earlier]. Folio, disbound, with later paper spine, engraved cover with calligraphic lettering in a variety of fonts, 5 pp of music notation; a very good copy. A scarce Sydney sheet music imprint from the pre-gold rush period. Only two copies of this edition are recorded …

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# 9710

MARSH, Henry (composer); ANGAS, George French, 1822 - 1886 (illustrator)

[SHEET MUSIC] The Chusan waltz

Cover: Dedicated to Captain Henry Down and the officers of the Peninsular and Oriental Navigation Company’s Steam Ship Chusan by Henry Marsh, Sydney. Sydney : Published by H. Marsh & Co. at the Sydney Pianoforte and Music Ware Rooms, 490 1/2 George Street, [c.1852]. Folio, front cover with a bichrome lithograph of the Chusan by …

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# 51627

FORREST (HAMERSLEY), Lady Margaret Elvire (1844-1929)

Lady Margaret Elvire Forrest, botanical illustrator: cut signature (Western Australia, c.1890).

Manuscript in ink, 40 x 125 mm, mounted on a section of card cut from a nineteenth-century album leaf; very well preserved. Provenance: Autograph album compiled by Jane Emma Murphy (Balcombe) (1854-1924), “The Briars”, Mornington, Victoria, philanthropist, socialite and suffragist; à Beckett family, Melbourne (by descent). ‘Forrest, Margaret Elvire, Lady (née Hamersley) (1844-1929). Born …

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# 51576

NANCE, F. R. (Florence Rush)

Soochow : the garden city

Shanghai : Kelly & Walsh Limited, 1936. First edition. Octavo (185 x 125 mm), publisher’s pictorial boards (lightly foxed); endpaper maps, pp. [8], 76., with 24 b/w plates of photographs by C. H. Wong, 5 folding maps; binding firm, very clean throughout, an excellent copy. First edition of this guidebook to Soochow (Suzhou), written by …

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# 51558

STORRIE, A. L. and KETTLEWELL, J. W. (compilers)

The Eastern & Australian Steamship Co. Ltd. Tourist Guide to China, Japan, islands and ports en route, Australia and Tasmania

Sydney : William Dymock, 1899. Small quarto, gilt-lettered red cloth (marked, recessed), advertisement for David Jones to lower board, advertisements to endpapers, pp. xvi; 288, extensively photographically illustrated and with several two tone maps, a few marks, some bleeding from red boards to lower few leaves, a very good copy. A very scarce tourists guide …

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# 51308

[Photographer unknown]

[HAWAII] Archive of original photographs taken (and collected) by a US sailor in Hawaii in 1945.

Group of 120 gelatin silver print photographs in snapshot format, approx. 115 x 67 mm; the majority taken by an unidentified US serviceman using a personal Kodak camera, the remainder commercial photos obtained by him at the time; a small number with handwritten captions verso; a few images duplicated; in uniformly good condition, with a …

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