New Acquisitions
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# 46347
MEINERS, C. (Christoph) (1747-1810)
[BIOLOGICAL RACISM] Betrachtungen über die Fruchtbarkeit, oder Unfruchtbarkeit, über den vormahligen und gegenwärtigen Zustand der vornehmsten Länder in Asien,
von C. Meiners…. [=Observations on fertility and sterility in the ancient and present states of the main regions of Asia]. Lübeck und Leipzig : im Verlage bey Bohn und Compagnie, 1795-96. Two volumes, octavo (195 x 125 mm), matching contemporary bindings of marbled papered boards (lightly rubbed, first volume with small paper loss, otherwise very …
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# 46387
WARREN, John
The Conchologist
Boston : Russell, Odiorne & Metcalf, 1834. Small quarto, quarter roan over papered boards (worn), typed paper title label pasted on spine, owner’s name to endpaper, lithographed frontispiece, pp. [vi]; 204, sixteen lithographed plates, scattered foxing and toning, pp. 3 – 6 loosening and nearly detached, some pencil annotations, a good copy. The first American …
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# 46389
TOBIAS, R. B. (Roscoe Burdette) and MARCY, Mary E.
Women as sex vendors, or, Why women are conservative (being a view of the economic status of women).
Chicago : Charles H. Kerr & Company Co-operative, 1918. Small octavo (170 x 130 mm), publisher’s olive green papered boards with black lettering to front (boards heavily rubbed and marked; corners, edges and spine worn); half-title with early gift inscription ‘Violet Wilson from Otto Elsner’; pp. 59; front hinge cracked, occasional pencilled marginalia (presumably by Violet …
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# 45939
TOMES, Robert
The Champagne country
New York : George Routledge, 1867. Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth (boards a little marked, slight bumps to head and foot of spine), pp. xv; [blank]’ 231; [blank]; (8 – advertisements), slight edge wear to pp. xiii-xiv, else a fine copy, internally clean. The first book in English on Champagne. A charming guide to the Champagne region …
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# 46563
RENTOUL, Annie R.; RENTOUL, Ida S. (illustrator)
The lady of the blue beads
/ Her book, being an account of her first blue moon spent on Sun Island. Melbourne: George Robertson & Co., [1908]. Quarto (280 x 220 mm), publisher’s oatmeal cloth boards, the upper board decorated in orange and blue (bright and unrubbed); pp. 102, with 13 full-page monochrome plates and in-text illustrations and decorations by Ida …
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# 46364
HUBBARD, Elbert Green and HUBBARD, Alice Moore
Justinian and Theodora : drama, being a chapter of history and the one gleam of light during the Dark Ages
East Aurora, N.Y. : Roycroft Press, 1906. Octavo, finely bound in half mauve crushed Morocco over marbled papered boards, spine in compartments with raised bands, lettered and decorated in gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut, marbled endpapers, pp. 107; (2), decorated title page, head and tail pieces, the deluxe edition limited to 106 copies printed …
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# 46287
BALBERYSZSKI, M. (Mendel) (1894-1966)
[HOLOCAUST; MELBOURNE] Likwidacja getta Wileńskiego
[=Liquidation of the Vilna Ghetto]. Warsawa ; Łodz ; Krakow : [Centralna Żydowska Komisja Historyczna], 1946. Octavo (205 x 145 mm), original grey wrappers lettered in black (sunned at edges); pp. 40; printed on cheap paper which has browned, but in all other respects an excellent copy. A scarce eyewitness account of the liquidation of …
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# 46292
[Théâtre Sarah-Bernhardt]
Théatre Sarah Bernhardt : programme [L’Aiglon : drame en six actes et en vers de M. Edmond Rostand]
Paris : Théâtre Sarah-Bernhardt, [1900]. Octavo (210 x 130 mm), stapled pictorial wrappers with portrait of Bernhardt in profile; pp. [18], with 3-page fold-out at centre, illustrations, advertisements; upper wrapper with some light foxing and partially remnant decorative blue ribbon, contents very clean, an excellent example. Original programme for Sarah Bernhardt and M. Guitry in …
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# 46396
HASKELL, Arnold (editor)
Memorial exhibition of Russian ballet. Illustrated catalogue
London : The Claridge Gallery, 1930. Octavo, printed wrappers with inlay illustration, portion of original wrap around banner, pp. 58, (6), photographic illustrations by Sasha. A fine, near mint copy. A rare contemporary catalogue of an important exhibition of material relating to the Ballets Russes. As well as many beautiful photographs it includes a list …
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# 46472
[DEFOE, Daniel 1660-1731, attributed]
The History of the Devil, Ancient and Modern.
In two parts. Part First containing, a state of the Devil’s circumstances, from his expulsion out of heaven, to the creation; with remarks on the several mistakes concerning his fall. Part Second containing his more private conduct down to the present times; his government, his appearances, his manner of working, and the tools he works …
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# 46509
MALORY, Thomas (1414 - 1471)
Morte d’Arthur. Sir Thomas Malory’s Book of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table.
The original edition of Caxton revised for modern use, with an appendix by Sir Edward Strachey, Bart. London : Macmillan and Co., 1868. Second edition. Octavo, fine presentation binding from Wesley College, Melbourne, full polished calf, vignette of the College on upper board, spine in compartments with raised bands, gilt ornamentation, contrasting Morocco title label …
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# 46283
[Photographer unknown]
Occupational tintype portrait of two bakers, one holding a giant spatula. Australia, 1880s.
Gem tintype photograph, 40 x 30 mm (sight), in its original ormulu (copper foil) preserver with pressed design (50 x 37 mm), with the original cover glass; fine condition. Sourced with a group of Tasmanian cartes de visite, all portraits by H. H. Baily and Alfred Winter. The rough wooden fence behind the two men in …
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# 41187
WOLF, Josef (1820-1899)
[NATURAL HISTORY] Josef Wolf, animal painter : autograph letter signed, discussing the overpainting of an ornithological photograph. London, June 1870.
Manuscript in ink, 4 pp., octavo bifolium (175 x 110 mm); headed ’59 Berners Street, London, 17 June 1870′, and signed ‘J. Wolf’, the letter is addressed to an anonymous recipient (‘Dear Sir’), informing him that ‘The Photograph of the Great Bustard is in the hands of Mr. Smit’, and promising to let him know …
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# 43312
LINDSAY, Norman (1879-1969)
The Magic Pudding (fourth edition, 1935)
: being the adventures of Bunyip Bluegum and his friends Bill Barnacle & Sam Sawnoff. Sydney : Angus & Robertson, [1935]. Quarto, blue papered boards, in fine original illustrated dust jacket (minor wear to corners), endpapers lightly foxed, colour frontispiece, contemporary inscription to endpaper, unpaginated, illustrated throughout by Lindsay, scattered foxing to edges and preliminaries, …
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# 45940
CLUTTERBUCK, James Bennett
Port Phillip in 1849
London : John W. Parker, 1850. Duodecimo, original gilt-lettered green cloth (expertly rebacked, preserving original spine), folding frontispiece map of the colony with hand coloured outline, pp. [vi]; 166; 6 (advertisements), a few spots of foxing to preliminaries, a very good copy. First and only edition of this account of the early settlement of Port …
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# 46281
HARVEY & DUNDEN
Studio portrait of Andrew Sloan, seated and holding a book. Geelong, Victoria, c.1875.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 102 x 63 mm (mount); recto of mount with a fully contemporary inscription in ink identifying the sitter as ‘Andrew Sloan’; verso with back mark of ‘Harvey & Dunden, Corner Portrait Gallery, Moorabool St., Geelong’; some very light foxing to the print and the mount. We are confident …