New Acquisitions
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# 49430
CRASSET, Jean
Außführliche Geschicht der in dem äussersten Welt-Theil gelegenen Japonesischen Kirch,
worinn die glückliche Vertilgung der Abgötterey, Einführung, Fortpflanzung, Verfolgung. Augsburg : Franz Anton Ilger, 1738. Folio, contemporary full calf, ruled in gilt, the upper panel stamped in gilt ‘AD USUM JOSEPHI DE LONDRES C.R.C’, expertly rebacked with new spine to style, in compartments with elaborate gilt tooling and lettering, small wet stamps to first two …
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# 14845
COXE, William (1748-1828)
Account of the Russian discoveries between Asia and America.
To which are added, the conquest of Siberia, and the history of the transactions and commerce between Russia and China. London : J. Nichols, 1780. First edition. Quarto, full polished calf (a couple of scuffs to the boards), spine extensively decorated in gilt, contrasting morocco title label, expertly rebacked, folding frontispiece map of the Russian …
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# 46950
PINTO, Fernam (Fernão) Mendez
Peregrinacam
… … no reyno da China, no de Tartaria, no de Pegu, no de Martavao, & em outros muitos reynos y senhorios das partes Orientae … … Lisbon : A. Craesbeeck de Mello, 1678. Folio (330 x 225 mm), later quarter calf over marbled papered boards (rubbed), spine with gilt decoration and black morocco title-piece …
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# 13310
GOBIEN, Charles le (1653-1708) (compiler); QUERBEUF, Y.M.M.T. de (editor)
Lettres édifiantes et curieuses, écrites des missions étrangères par quelques missionnaires de la Compagnie de Jésus.
Paris, Chez J.G. Merigot, 1780-1783. Twenty-six volumes, small octavo; contemporary uniform speckled calf, spines in compartments with gilt tooling and contrasting morocco labels; edges stained red; marbled endpapers; pastedowns with armorial bookplate of Rev. G.C. Fenwicke (Franks 10381); with a total of 55 maps, plans, plates and tables hors texte, including 28 folding maps and plans, 24 plates …
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# 50099
ANSON, George, Baron (1696-1762); WALTER, Richard
A voyage round the world in the years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV. (Large paper copy)
By George Anson Esq; Commander in Chief of a squadron of His Majesty’s ships, sent upon an expedition to the South-Seas. Compiled from the papers and other materials of the Right Honourable George Lord Anson, and published under his direction, by Richard Walter, M. A. Chaplain of his Majesty’s ship the Centurion, in that expedition. …
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# 50093
ANDERSON, John
English intercourse with Siam in the seventeenth century
London : Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1890. Octavo, publisher’s gilt-lettered maroon cloth, spine lettered in gilt (corners bumped, edge wear, lower board marked); endpapers foxed; pp. xiii, [blank], folding map printed in colour (a couple of corners creased), 503, [blank], bound without advertisements; internally clean, a good copy. Very scarce account of English …
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# 49846
WHEATLEY, Henry B. (editor)
The Diary of Samuel Pepys. (Large paper issue, bound by Zaehnsdorf)
Transcribed from the shorthand manuscript in the Pepysian Library Magdalene College Cambridge by the Rev. Mynors Bright. With Lord Braybrooke’s notes. Edited with additions by Henry B. Wheatley. London : George Bell & Sons, 1893-99. Number 230 of 250 special large paper copies. Ten volumes, octavo (235 x 175 mm), bound by Zaehnsdorf in handsome …
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# 50102
[Photographer unknown].
View of buildings and pearling luggers in the harbour at Thursday Island, 1891.
Albumen print photograph, 95 x 150 mm; laid down on a section of card cut from a nineteenth-century French traveller’s album, with a caption in French below in blue pencil: ‘Vue de l’Ile Thursday Island, ou Ile Jeudi, située au nord de l’Australie près du Détroit de Torres et faisant partie de la province de Queensland. …
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# 49960
JOHNSTON, John (editor)
Williamstown illustrated.
Williamstown : Printed by Clark & Co., “Advertiser” Office, Nelson Place, 1904. Oblong octavo (150 x 250 mm), original grey wrappers lettered in yellow (lightly marked, sunned along spine and lower edges); pp. [64], illustrated throughout with half-tone photographs; upper margin of first page with a gift inscription dated Christmas Day 1904, and later family …
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# 50172
DEGOTARDI, John (1823-1882) (attributed)
View looking east across Woolloomooloo Bay to Potts Point, with the mansion “Bomera” prominent, early 1870s.
Albumen print photograph, 128 x 190 mm; laid down recto of a 19th-century album leaf with a fully contemporary caption beneath: Potts Point, Woolomoloo [sic]; a very stromg print with rich tonal range, in excellent condition. A rare early photograph of the magnificent Potts Point mansion “Bomera”, which was built in 1856 by architect John …
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# 50130
NICHOLAS & CO.
The Black Mine, Jundah, Central West Queensland (the first black opal mine in Australia), c.1900.
Gelatin silver print photograph, cabinet card format, 108 x 164 mm (mount); verso with wet stamp of travelling Queensland outback photographers Nicholas & Co., and a fully contemporary inscription in pencil; ‘The Black Mine. For Miss A. (?)Garries’; the print has excellent clarity and is in very good condition, as is the mount. Quite possibly …
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# 50170
[Photographer unknown].
Front view of the Thomas Walker Convalescent Hospital, Concord West, Sydney, c.1893.
Albumen print photograph, 138 x 206 mm, laid down recto of a 19th-century album leaf of heavy cardstock; mount with fully contemporary caption in pencil: ‘Walker Hospital, Parramatta River’, and another in a different hand: ‘near Sydney’; a very strong print in excellent condition; mounted on the verso is another print in identical format (so …
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# 49951
LUCAS, E. V.
Playtime & Company
Pictures by E. H. Shepherd. Quarto, quarter-cloth over papered boards, lightly marked, printed title label, pp. 95, mostly unopened, edges uncut, beautifully illustrated by Ernest Shepherd, best known for his enchanting illustrations for the Winnie-the-Pooh series. The deluxe edition, on fine hand-made paper, limited to 100 copies signed by both the artist and author.
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# 49950
STEVENSON, Robert Louis
A child’s garden of verse
Illustrated by Charles Robinson. London : John Lane, The Bodley Head, circa 1910. Octavo, finely bound by Bayntun-Riviere of Bath in full crushed blue morocco, ruled in gilt with decorative floral design on upper and lower boards, spine in compartments with raised bands, lettered in gilt with floral ornamentation, gilt dentelles, all edges gilt, marbled …
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# 49932
SYMMONS, Edward
A vindication of King Charles: or, A loyal subjects duty. Manifested in vindicating his Soveraigne from those aspersions cast upon him by certaine persons, in a scandalous libel, entituled, The Kings cabinet opened: and published (as they say) by authority of Parliament.
Whereunto is added, a true parallel betwixt the sufferings of our Saviour and our soveraign, in divers particulars, &c. By Edw: Symmons, a minister, not of the late confused new, but of the ancient, orderly, and true Church of England. [s.l. : s.n.], 1648 [but 1647]. Small quarto (185 x 140 mm), contemporary gilt-ruled panelled …
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# 49967
[ABSOLON, John; GRIEVE, Thomas; TELBIN, William]
Royal Gallery of Illustration, 14, Regent Street, Pall Mall … Grand Moving Diorama, illustrating The Wellington Campaigns, with the additional pictures, The Lying in State; Funeral Procession; and Interior of St. Paul’s …
At head: Three Exhibitions Daily, during the Christmas Holidays, at 12, 3, and 8 o’Clock. London : printed by T. Brettell, Rupert Street, Haymarket, [December 1852]. Handbill, 218 x 142 mm, lithograph-printed recto only; early inscribed date of January 1853 to bottom margin; a fine example. The Duke of Wellington’s state funeral was held on 18 …