New Acquisitions

# 50461

NOLAN, Sidney and LYNN, Elwyn

Sidney Nolan – Australia (deluxe edition)

Sydney and London: Bay Books, 1979. Quarto, gilt-lettered calf with Nolan Kelly pictorial design in cloth slipcase (lightly marked) , 226pp. illustrated throughout, a fine copy The deluxe edition, limited to 200 numbered copies signed by Sidney Nolan.

$700.00 AUD Read more
# 50411

LINDT, J. W. (1845–1926)

Studio portraits of an officer in one of the Victorian volunteer regiments. Melbourne, c.1885.

Two albumen print photographs, carte de visite format, 105 x 64 mm (mount); versos with the highly decorative back mark of ‘J. W. Lindt, Photographer, 7 Collins Street East, Melbourne. Prize Medallist Philadelphia, Paris, Sydney, Brisbane, Sandhurst, Melbourne, Christchurch, Amsterdam’; both in fine condition. The carte can be dated to around 1885 based on the …

$240.00 AUD Read more
# 50670

ROBB, E. M.

Early Toorak and district (signed presentation copy)

Melbourne : Robertson & Mullens Limited, 1934. Oblong folio, lettered cloth (marked, split to spine), illustrated. Photographically illustrated history of Toorak and the surrounding suburbs of Malvern, Prahran, South Yarra and Hawthorn. A fine record of nineteenth century colonial architecture and society in Melbourne. With a presentation inscription from the author to ‘R. H. Chaplin …

$440.00 AUD Read more
# 49727

BASTERFIELD, Keith

[UFOLOGY] A reference catalogue of interesting cases reported to the Centre in 1978. Compiled by Keith Basterfield. The Australian Centre for UFO Studies.

Copyright: The Australian Centre for UFO Studies, Jan. 1980. [Cover title]. At head of title: ACUFOS D-1. [Gosford, NSW] : The Australian Centre for UFO Studies, January 1980. “Reprinted July, 1982 by Arcturus Book Service [Scotia, NY] with Permission of The Australian Centre for UFO Studies” (inside upper wrapper). Foolscap folio, stapled wrappers (a few …

Read more
Sold
# 50594

BATCHELDER & CO.

Studio portrait of Lieutenant Nassau Stephens, RN. Melbourne, December 1872.

Albumen print photograph in carte de visite format, 104 x 63 mm (mount); verso with the imprint of ‘Barchelder & Co., Artist Photographers, 41 Collins St. East, Melbourne’, and with a roughly contemporary inscription in ink ‘December 1872’; the print and the mount are both in good condition; the carte is accompanied by a section cut …

$175.00 AUD Read more
# 50595

WEBB, T. D.

Studio portrait of a mother and her young son. Launceston, c.1867.

Albumen print photograph with hand tinting, carte de visite format, 94 x 64 mm (mount); verso with photographer’s own manuscript back mark: ‘T. D. Webb / Photo / Launceston’; the print and the mount are both in excellent condition. T. D. Webb & Son were active at their studio in St. John’s Street, Launceston in 1867-70. …

Read more
Sold
# 50626

COLE, E.W.

A White Australia Impossible

[Cover title : The White Australia Question.]. Melbourne : E. W. Cole Book Arcade, c. 1903. Fourth Edition. Octavo, lettered red cloth (lightly marked), previous owner’s name roughly erased on front pastedown, four parts titled 1. A White Australia Impossible. 2. The Cause of Color in Mankind. 3. The Whole Human Race is Mixing. 4. …

$400.00 AUD Read more
# 50433

[ROMAN CATHOLIC ARCHDIOCESE OF MELBOURNE.

[MELBOURNE] Consecration and solemn opening of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Melbourne, October 31st 1897. The Archbishop of Melbourne requests the favour of the presence of Mr. & Mrs. O’Connor …

[Melbourne : s.n.], 1897. Folding card, 125 x 160 mm, printed on [4] sides, lithograph printed, front with embossed episcopal coat of arms, second side with invitation including the names of the O’Connors in manuscript, third side with lithographed illustration of the cathedral; laid down on section of card cut from a nineteenth-century album leaf; …

$100.00 AUD Read more
# 50432

[SYDNEY MUNICIPAL COUNCIL. CITIZENS' RECEPTION COMMITTEE]

[SYDNEY; MUSIC] To meet Miss Marie Narelle: The Premier and The Citizens’ Reception Committee request the pleasure of Mr. & Mrs. J. G. O’Connor’s Company at the Town Hall, Sydney, on Thursday Evening 15th June [1906] from 8 to 10 o’clock.

[Sydney : s.n., 1906]. Invitation card, 105 x 130 mm; lithograph printed; manuscript entry in ink recording that the invitation was issued to the O’Connors; scattered small stains, bottom edge roughened; laid down on section of card from a nineteenth-century album. Scarce ephemeral item associated with the career of the “Australian Queen of Irish Song”. …

$50.00 AUD Read more
# 50392

BOYD, Thomas H.

Portrait of J. J. Casey and another gentleman. Sydney, 1882.

Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 165 x 100 mm; verso of mount imprinted Boyd San Francisco Palace of Art 250 & 252 George Street, Sydney, and with an inscription (presumably) by one of the two sitters: ‘J. J. Casey & [xxxx], May 1882’; the albumen print is in superb condition; the mount is clean …

$50.00 AUD Read more
# 50380

[BALMAIN. COUNCIL]

Souvenir to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the incorporation of the Municipality of Balmain, 1860-1910.

[Cover title: Municipal Jubilee. Balmain, 1860-1910]. Oblong octavo (135 x 218 mm), original stitched white wrappers lettered in red (very lightly marked); pp. 86, printed in blue ink, half-tone photographic illustrations throughout, and with advertisements for local businesses; contents very clean, an excellent example.

Read more
Sold
# 50542

AMERICAN EXPRESS

Excursions in and around Singapore

Singapore : The American Express Company, Inc., [1920]. Tourist brochure, 180 x 85 mm (folded), four panels, pp. [8], double panel map of Singapore town, includes tours of Johore and Penang, a fine copy. A single example recorded on Worldcat (National Library of Singapore).

$140.00 AUD Read more
# 50584

BIRD, Isabella

The Hawaiian Archipelago. Six months among the palm groves, coral reefs, and volcanoes of the Sandwich Islands.

London : John Murray, 1890. Seventh edition, a later issue, with advertisements dated June 1897. Octavo, bright gilt-illustrated green cloth, very lightly rubbed at edges, gift inscription to the verso of the front free endpaper, pp. xvi; folding map, 318; 32, fore edge foxed, else a very fine copy.

$350.00 AUD Read more
# 49972

GREIG, George

[SWAN RIVER COLONY]. The South African Almanac and Directory for the year 1833

Cape Town : Printed and Published by the Proprietor, George Greig, Keizersgracht, [1832]. Octavo, printed blue wrappers (light edge wear), pp. [xviii – advertisements]; five lithographed plates of views of Cape Town; title leaf; preface leaf; lxxxiii; [i]; 13 – 292, occasional light foxing or spotting, a very good copy. A scarce Cape Town colonial …

Read more
Sold
# 50532

ORANGE, James

The Chater collection. Pictures relating to China, Hongkong, Macao, 1655 – 1860

With historical and descriptive letterpress. London : Thornton Butterworth, 1924. Quarto, gilt-lettered cloth (lightly marked), top edge gilt, pp. 528, numerous colour and black and white plates, tissue guards; a very good copy. Limited to 750 numbered copies. “The book was compiled by James Orange in 1924 and is one of the most significant historical …

$2,500.00 AUD Read more
# 50591

SOMERSET, FitzRoy James Henry

[CRIMEAN WAR] Free frank front signed by Lord FitzRoy Somerset, later Field Marshal and 1st Baron Raglan, one of the main protagonists in the Charge of the Light Brigade in 1854.

Free frank front, 85 x 125 mm, dated at London, 8 December 1828, addressed to ‘Mrs. Cuffe, St. Wolston’s, Celbridge, Ireland’, and signed lower left ‘FitzRoy Somerset’; laid down on a section cut from a leaf removed from a nineteenth-century autograph album (see note on provenance below), with an annotation by the album’s compiler identifying the …

$50.00 AUD Read more