New Acquisitions
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# 46546
WOMEN'S THEATRE GROUP (Melbourne)
Report for the Theatre Board of the Australian Council for the Arts, for Jan. to Jul. ’78, from Women’s Theatre Group, Melbourne.
[Melbourne : Women’s Theatre Group, 1978]. Foolscap folio (330 x 220 mm), stapled self-wrappers, [10] pp, roneo-printed; very good condition. Provenance: From the estate of Virginia Fraser (1947-2021), feminist, artist, writer, editor and curator.
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# 46552
Galarrwuy Yunupingu; Kevin Gilbert et al.
[LAND RIGHTS] Newsletter on Aboriginal Affairs. No. 1. [April, 1972].
Carlton, Vic. : Group for Information on Aboriginal Affairs associated with the Victorian Council of Churches’ Aboriginal Affairs Committee, [April, 1972]. “Information for this Newsletter is collected with the co-operation of the Monash Aboriginal Land Rights Committee”. Quarto (260 x 205 mm), stapled wrappers, pp. 26; a very good copy. Contributors include Kevin Gilbert, Galarrwuy of …
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# 46599
SHELL
Road map of Ipoh Town
[Kuala Lumpur?] : The Shell Co. of the Federation of Malaya Ltd., circa 1950. Printed map, 40 x 32 cms (image), silver fishing with small area of loss in centre, folded as issued, some toning, in card wrappers (chipped and detached along spine). Road map of the city of Ipoh, situated in Malaysia between Kuala …
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# 46600
MALAYSIAN AIRLINE SYSTEMS
This is our Malaysia
Kuala Lumpur : Malaysian Airline Systems, circa 1975. Tourist brochure, DL size, printed in colour, pp. [12], folding central pages with map, includes features on Kuala Lumpur, Penang, Sabah, Sarawak, Malacca etc.
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# 46595
Bureau Officiel du Tourisme Indochinois
French Indochina
Saigon : Bureau Officiel du Tourisme Indochinois, circa 1930. Tourisme brochure, DL size, singe; sheet folded, pp. [8], illustrated, some light foxing and wear along folds, wet stamp for Cook’s travel agent in Shanghai to upper panel.
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# 46647
MOORHOUSE, James
The morality of vivisection
By James Moorhouse, Bishop of Manchester, formerly Bishop of Melbourne. From an article in the “NINETEENTH CENTURY” for December, 1892. Issued by the Melbourne Branch of the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection. [Melbourne : Melbourne Branch of the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection, 1892]. Octavo, pamphlet, folded sheet, pp. [4], wet …
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# 46667
THOMPSON, Francis
Shelley
With an introduction by the Rt. Hobble. George Wyndham. London : Burne & Oates, 1909. Octavo, finely bound by Zaehnsdorf with their binder’s stamp in half crushed Morocco over marbled papered boards, spine in compartments with raised bands, ruled and lettered in gilt with ornamentation, edges faintly rubbed, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, pp. 91, …
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# 46593
ATTENBOROUGH, David (1926 - )
The private life of plants. A natural history of plant behaviour (signed copy)
London : BBC Books, 1995. First edition. Octavo, boards in illustrated dustjacket, pp. 320, extensively illustrated. Signed by David Attenborough in blue pen on the half-title ‘David Attenborough’. A fine copy. The second work in the ‘Life’ series by popular naturalist and television broadcaster David Attenborough.
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# 36315
Anon.
A man of Dakar, Senegal, holding guinea fowl and rifle. Circa 1840.
Watercolour on laid paper with watermark of a royal horseman with lance, 200 x 146 mm (sheet); captioned in ink ‘Dackar’ (i.e. Dakar) at bottom left, and with a foliation number ‘114’ in the same hand at bottom right; the sheet is unmounted (verso blank), and the drawing has survived in fine condition – virtually in …
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# 46750
THE LONDON STEREOSCOPIC & PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPANY
Studio portrait of Robert Moffatt, LMS missionary in Southern Africa. London, late 1860s.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 102 x 63 mm (mount); recto of mount with printed signature of Robert Moffatt to lower margin; verso with the back mark of the London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company; both the print and the mount are in excellent condition. ‘Robert Moffatt (Ormiston, East Lothian, Scotland, December 21, 1795-Leigh, …
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# 46586
[Photographer unknown].
View of Scott’s Hotel, Collins Street West, Melbourne, c.1880.
Albumen print photograph, 155 x 205 mm, laid down recto of card mount (250 x 360 mm) removed from a nineteenth-century album, with a contemporary caption in ink below the image: ‘Melbourne. Scotts Hotel, Collins Street West’; no photographer’s imprint; a beautiful print with excellent tonal range, in fine condition; verso with a faded albumen …
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# 46587
[SINCLAIR, Henry Daniel 1818-1868] [Photographer unknown]
Photograph of a portrait painting of Captain Henry Sinclair, explorer and founder of Port Denison (Bowen), Queensland.
Gelatin silver print photograph, produced around 1900, of a portrait painting dating to around 1865; cabinet card format, 185 x 135 mm (mount); no photographer’s imprint; old pencil inscription verso identifies the subject as ‘Captain Sinclair, who discovered Port Denison’; 4cm tear lower left edge (not affecting the oval portrait itself), small loss at each …
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# 46767
THE LONDON STEREOSCOPIC & PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPANY
Carte de visite commemorating Captain Edward Knowles and the emigrant ship “Northfleet”, lost in the English Channel on 22 January 1873 en route to Hobart, Tasmania.
Albumen print photograph, 102 x 63 mm (mount); lower margin recto with printed caption: ‘Captain Knowles. Lost in the Northfleet off Dunganess, Jan. 22 1873’; verso with The London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company’s backmark; the print has a couple of light marks; the verso of the mount has some residual glue marks at the edges. …
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# 46665
HYDE, Edward, Earl of Clarendon
The Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon, Lord High Chancellor of England, and Chancellor of the University of Oxford
Containing, I. An account of the Chancellor’s life from his birth to the restoration in 1660. II. A continuation of the same, and of his history of the Grand Rebellion, from the restoration to his banishment in 1667. Written by himself. Printed from the original manuscripts, given to the University of Oxford, by the heirs …
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# 46668
GRAY, Thomas (1716 - 1771)
Poems and letters
London : Chiswick Press, 1879. Quarto, full polished calf by Riviere and Sons, with their binder’s stamp, spine in compartments with raised bands, ruled and ornamented in gilt, contrasting morocco title label lettered in gilt, light edge rubbing and a few small stamps, all edges gilt, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, foxing to preliminaries, pp. xvi; …
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# 45874
KRIESS, Frederico
[MAP] Plan de terrains appartenant à la Société Foncière du Paraguay
Paris : Maison Andriveau-Goujon, [c.1906]. Colour map, 1000 x 860 mm, dissected and laid on canvas; the map is in superb condition and folds into its original pebbled cloth chemise, 175 x 260 mm, which in turn is housed in the original cloth slipcase (mild edge and corner wear) with contrasting title piece lettered in …