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  • Young actors Lily and Rose Dampier in stage costume. Sydney, c.1879.

    # 50133

    RIISFELDT, Emil

    Young actors Lily and Rose Dampier in stage costume. Sydney, c.1879.

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 103 x 63 mm (mount); verso with the back mark of Emil Riisfeldt’s “Palace Photographic” studio, Hordern Chambers, 490 George Street, Sydney; the print and the mount are both in fine condition. Provenance: from a group of theatre-related photographs belonging to the Sydney actor, stage manager and playwright …

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  • Young actors Lily and Rose Dampier in stage costume. Sydney, c.1879.

    # 50132

    RIISFELDT, Emil

    Young actors Lily and Rose Dampier in stage costume. Sydney, c.1879.

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 103 x 63 mm (mount); verso with the back mark of Emil Riisfeldt’s “Palace Photographic” studio, Hordern Chambers, 490 George Street, Sydney, and a later pencilled date of 1879 (this was the year Riisfeldt is listed at this address by Davies & Stanbury); the print and the mount …

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  • Actors Alfred and Katherine Dampier with their young daughters Lily and Rose: a theatrical family. Sydney, 1877-79.

    # 50131

    RIISFELDT, Emil

    Actors Alfred and Katherine Dampier with their young daughters Lily and Rose: a theatrical family. Sydney, 1877-79.

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 103 x 63 mm (mount); verso with the back mark of Emil Riisfeldt’s “London Photo Gallery”, 616 George Street, Sydney; the print and the mount are both in fine condition. Provenance: from a group of theatre-related photographs belonging to the Sydney actor, stage manager and playwright Alfred Dampier …

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  • Die siebenzehende Schiffart. Das ist: Eigentliche unnd wahrhaftige Beschreibung der wunderbahrē Reiß und Schiffart so durch Herr Georgio von Spitzbergen glücklichen volbracht.

    # 49765

    [SPILBERGEN, Joris van]

    Die siebenzehende Schiffart. Das ist: Eigentliche unnd wahrhaftige Beschreibung der wunderbahrē Reiß und Schiffart so durch Herr Georgio von Spitzbergen glücklichen volbracht.

    Beneben Erzehlung, was für Landschafften, Insuln Völcker vnd Nationen allda gefunden, und sich sonsten auff der Reiß denckwürdiges zugetragen. Mit schoenen Charten vnd Kupfferstücken erklärt und für Augen gestelt. Franckfurt am Mayn : durch Johan Hofern, sumptibus Hulsianis, 1620. Small quarto, later vellum over boards; gilded and gauffered edges; title with vignette of Spilbergen, sailing …

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  • The History of Japan : giving an Account of the Antient and Present State of Government of that Empire; ... together with a Description of the Kingdom of Siam.

    # 48351

    KAEMPFER, Engelbert (1651-1716)

    The History of Japan : giving an Account of the Antient and Present State of Government of that Empire; … together with a Description of the Kingdom of Siam.

    London : for the Publisher, and sold by T. Woodward and C. Davis, 1728. First edition in English, second issue (with the ‘Second Appendix’). Two volumes, folio, contemporary full speckled calf with double gilt rule (boards a little scuffed), expertly rebacked with new spines in period style, spines in compartments with raised bands, contrasting leather …

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  • [MEDICINE] Epistola admonitoria Iohannis Michaelis Bayer Oenipontani philosophiae et medicinae doctoris ad Franciscum Cimam medicum Venetum.

    # 49952

    BAYER, Johann Michael

    [MEDICINE] Epistola admonitoria Iohannis Michaelis Bayer Oenipontani philosophiae et medicinae doctoris ad Franciscum Cimam medicum Venetum.

    Padua : Typis Caroli Rizzardi, 1662. 16mo (140 x 86 mm), later full calf; pp. 142, 1, [1 blank]; title with woodcut vignette, and an early (ducal?) collection stamp in violet; a few leaves with loss at fore-edge margins (and with resultant loss of a couple of letters), and a few (including some preliminary leaves) …

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  • God's Man. A novel in woodcuts

    # 49949

    WARD, Lynd (1905 - 1985)

    God’s Man. A novel in woodcuts

    New York : Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, 1929. Second printing. Octavo, illustrated papered boards (edges slightly rubbed, small chip at foot of spine), label to spine, top edge stained black, others uncut, small marks to endpapers, unpaginated, the novel told entirely without words in a series of 139 full page woodcuts, one page with …

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  • [VIETNAM]. Relazione de’felici successi della Santa Fede predicata da padri della Compagnia di Giesv nel regno di Tvnchino,

    # 48849

    RHODES, Alexandre de, S.J. (1593-1660)

    [VIETNAM]. Relazione de’felici successi della Santa Fede predicata da padri della Compagnia di Giesv nel regno di Tvnchino,

    all santita di N.S. PP. Innocenzio Decimo. Di Alessandro de Rhodes Avignonese della medesima Compagnia, e Missionário Apostolico della Sacra Congregatione de Propaganda Fide. In Roma : Per Giuseppe Luna. L’anno del Giubileo, 1650. Small quarto, contemporary vellum, manuscript title to spine, folding frontispiece engraving, pp [16], folding engraved map, 326, [2 errata]; woodcut device …

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  • [NEW SOUTH WALES] Railway Opening to Young. Demonstration Banquet, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

    # 50074

    RAILWAY DEMONSTRATION COMMITTEE

    [NEW SOUTH WALES] Railway Opening to Young. Demonstration Banquet, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

    [Young, NSW? : s.n.], 1885. Gilt-edged card, 96 x 144 mm; lithograph printed recto only in gold on pale green heavy cardstock, annotated ‘Mr [J. G.] O’Connor’, who was an invitee to this banquet to mark the opening of the Murrumburrah to Young railway line; a few light marks, verso with residual glue from where …

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  • Historia Societatis Iesv,

    # 13318

    Orlandini, Nicolo, 1553-1606; Sacchini, Francesco, 1570-1625

    Historia Societatis Iesv,

    authore Nicolao Orlandino, Societatis eiusdem sacerdote. Nunc primum in Germania in lucem edita. Accessit index rerum memorabilium locupletissimus. Coloniæ Agrippinæ : Sumptibus Antonij Hierat, Anno M. DC. XV. [Cologne : Antonius Hierat, 1615] Quarto, contemporary vellum over boards with manuscript title in ink to spine; pp [viii], 578, [42 index]; pages 89, 268, 365, 488, …

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  • World's children (deluxe edition)

    # 49884

    MENPES, Mortimer and Dorothy

    World’s children (deluxe edition)

    London : Adam & Charles Black, 1903. Quarto, gilt-lettered decorated cloth over bevelled boards (lightly rubbed, a few light stains), top edge gilt, others uncut, endpapers foxed, pp. xii; 246, illustrated with 100 colour plates with captioned tissue guards; occasional scattered foxing, a very good copy. The edition de luxe, limited to 500 numbered copies …

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  • Bijzonderheden over Japan

    # 49391

    TITSINGH, Isaac (1745 - 1812)

    Bijzonderheden over Japan

    behelzende een verslag van de huwelijkse plegtigheden, begrafenissen en feesten der Japanezen. De Gedenkschriften der laatste Japansche keizers en andere merkwaardigheden nopens dat Rijk. ‘s Gravenhage (The Hague) : the widow of J. Allart, 1824. Two volumes, octavo, finely bound in modern half calf over marbled papered boards, spine with ornamental gilt tooling and contrasting …

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  • The origin of species (1892)

    # 49891

    DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882)

    The origin of species (1892)

    by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. London : John Murray, 1892. Sixth edition, with additions and corrections (forty-third thousand). Octavo, original publisher’s gilt-lettered green cloth (corners a little rubbed, slightly bruised at head and foot of spine, small stain to lower board) original endpapers (lightly …

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  • The origin of species (1891)

    # 49890

    DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882)

    The origin of species (1891)

    by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. London : John Murray, 1891. Sixth edition, with additions and corrections (forty-first thousand). Octavo, original publisher’s gilt-lettered green cloth (edges slightly rubbed, small stain to lower board), small nicks to head and foot of spine, original patterned endpapers (foxed, …

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  • Dell’ Historia della Compagnia di Giesv : l’Asia

    # 13447

    Bartoli, Danielo, 1608-1685

    Dell’ Historia della Compagnia di Giesv : l’Asia

    In Roma, M.DC.LIII. Nella Stamperia d’Ignatio de’ Lazzeri. [Rome : Ignazio de’ Lazzeri, 1653-1663] Folio, contemporary vellum over boards, spine with raised bands, manuscript title in ink and manuscript label with collection number “1692”; front pastedown with nineteenth century label of the Fürstlich Auerspergische Fideikommissbibliothek, Laibach; pp [iv], 904, [8]; engraved frontispiece by Bloemaert after a drawing …

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  • Catálogo de los religiosos de N.P. S. Agustin de la Provincia del Smo. Nombre de Jesus de Filipinas

    # 13560

    Cano, Gasper

    Catálogo de los religiosos de N.P. S. Agustin de la Provincia del Smo. Nombre de Jesus de Filipinas

    desde su establecimiento en estas islas hasta nuestros dias, con algunos datos biográficos de los mismos. Compuesto y ordenado siendo provincial de dicha provincia el M.R.P. Fr. Juan J. Aragonés, por su secretario Fr. Gaspar Cano. Manila, Imprenta de Ramirez y Giraudier, 1864. Small quarto, contemporary parchment over boards (slightly bowed; a few ink stains); preliminaries …

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