New Acquisitions
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# 51285
ROSE STEREOGRAPH CO.
The chief of one of the fortified islands in the Langa Langa lagoon, Malaita, Solomon Islands.
Melbourne ; Sydney ; Wellington ; London : The Rose Stereograph Co., [c.1911]. Stereoscopic gelatin silver print photograph (mount 95 x 175 mm), printed title beneath each image preceded by the serial no. 12,273, mount also imprinted at left and right margins The Rose Stereographs Melbourne ; Sydney ; Wellington ; London; verso blank; in fine condition.
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# 51396
GINNINGS, J. T.
William Savage Cottage, Robe, southeast South Australia, late 1860s.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 62 x 102 mm; verso with wet stamp of ‘J. T. Ginnings, Photographer’; the print has lost a fair amount of contrast; the mount is clean and stable. From a carte de visite album belonging to William Savage (1817-1890) and later his son Henry Savage (1857, Robe, S.A. …
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# 46777
ELITE PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPANY [WILLETTS, George]
Photographic portrait of a young woman holding a tennis racquet. Ballarat, c.1890.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 102 x 62 mm (mount); verso with imprint of ‘Elite Photographic Company’; both the albumen print and mount are in fine condition.
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# 51265
HAIGH, Edward (active Melbourne, 1861-62)
Market Place, Geelong, c.1861.
Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each individual image approximately 82 x 73 mm, mount 83 x 165 mm; verso with original printed paper label of the photographer Edward Haigh; the stereoscopic prints and the mounts are in fine condition. The English photographer Edward Haigh, who had studied with the Crimean War photographer Roger Fenton, arrived in Melbourne …
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# 51336
STAUNTON, H.
The Chess Tournament. A collection of the games played at this celebrated assemblage,
illustrated by copious diagrams, and notes, critical and explanatory. London : Henry G. Bohn, 1852. First edition. Octavo, bright red cloth, spine lettered in gilt with embossed decoration, gilt chess board to upper panel, publisher’s catalogue to endpapers, pp. lxci; [blank]; 377, illustrated with diagrams of chess boards. From the ‘Bohn’s Scientific Library’ series. An attractive …
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# 51301
O'CONNOR, Vic (1918 - 2010)
Fish Market c. 1948
Charcoal on paper, 115 x 180 mm (sheet) signed and title flower right, small cut to upper left margin, part of figurative sketch verso, unframed. A dynamic charcoal sketch of the Fish Market by the Melbourne social realist artist.
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# 51300
O'CONNOR, Vic (1918 - 2010)
Collingwood – Near Smith St. 1960
Charcoal on paper, 180 x 235 mm (sheet) signed and title flower right, unframed. A dynamic charcoal sketch of Collingwood by the Melbourne social realist artist.
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# 51302
O'CONNOR, Vic (1918 - 2010)
Study of the House of Parliament at the Embankment ’73
Charcoal on paper, 212 x 299 mm (sheet) signed and title flower centre, unframed. A dynamic charcoal sketch of the Palace of Westminster, London, by the Melbourne social realist artist.
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# 51030
LUBACH, D. & LOGEMAN, W. M.
Panorama der bewoonde aarde. Eene afbeelding en beschrijving van de merkwaardigste voortbrengselen der aarde en hare bewoners, naar de verschillende aardgordels.
/ door D. Lubach en W. M. Logeman. Schoonhove : S. E. van Nooten, 1851. First edition. Quarto (295 x 225 mm), publisher’s blind-blocked green cloth (boards rubbed and with scattered marks), spine lettered in gilt (sunned, ends frayed, outer hinge split near head); both inner hinges split; pp. i-xxviii, 1-180; illustrated with 10 folding …
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# 51253
PARTINGTON, JAMES Edge (1854 - 1930)
Catalogue of the Australasian Collection of books and pictures formed by the late James Edge Partington.
With a memoir by Harry G. Beasley. London : Francis Edwards, 1934. Octavo, lettered cloth, , pp. [iv]; 178; xi, catalogue of 2682 rare books, maps and pictures, with index and black and white illustrations. The single volume edition, in a dustjacket made by previous owner. The library of of one of the great collectors …
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# 24450
GIBBS, May (1877-1969)
Bib and Bub : their adventures.
Sydney : Cornstalk Publishing Company, 1925. First edition. Quarto, publisher’s decorated cloth (rubbed along lower edge upper board), dust jacket with colour illustrations (very slight rubbing to extremities), pictorial endpapers, contemporary gift inscription in pencil to half-title, title page (small wet stamp of previous owner), pp. 79; (1), coloured panelled illustrations throughout; a fine copy. ‘Rare: …
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# 39931
GIBBS, May (1877-1969)
Little Ragged Blossom & more about Snugglepot & Cuddlepie
Sydney : Angus & Robertson, [c.1920]. First edition. Quarto, illustrated boards, cloth spine (light edge wear), illustrated endpapers, pp. 98, illustrated in colour and black and white; a fine copy. Muir 2752.
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# 24452
GIBBS, May (1877 - 1969)
More funny stories about old friends Bib and Bub
Sydney : Cornstalk Publishing Company, 1928. First edition. Oblong quarto, publisher’s decorated cloth (rebacked), pictorial endpapers (with tape repair), contemporary gift inscription in pencil, title page, pp. (94), monochrome panelled illustrations throughout, a good copy. May Gibbs’s Bib and Bub comic strips were first published in the Sydney Sunday News and then issued in book …
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# 22920
GIBBS, May
Gumnuts
Sydney : Angus and Robertson, [194-]. Oblong quarto, illustrated colour wrappers (some edge tears, water stain around lower half of spine most apparent on front and back lining papers and title), illustrated lining papers, 48 pp (clean and sound), monochrome illustrations in green, sepia or black. Muir 2780. Scarce. Presented in a felt lined gilt-lettered …
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# 51298
MICHIE, Sir Archibald.
Readings in Melbourne; with an essay on the resources and prospects of Victoria, for the emigrant and uneasy classes.
London : Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1879. Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth, edges lightly rubbed and foxed, hinges cracked, upper free endpaper with a membership roster of members of a circulating Book Club, ownership name inscribed of E. A. Balderstone, pp. xvi; 328; 32 (publisher’s catalogue), edges foxed, internally clean, a very good copy. A …
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# 46568
GIBBS, May (1877-1969)
Bib and Bub : their adventures.
Sydney : Cornstalk Publishing Company, 1925. First edition. Quarto (240 x 210 mm), publisher’s blue cloth decorated in black (boards discoloured and very slightly warped), pictorial endpapers (front endpaper with off-setting), half-title, title, pp. 79, (1), colour panelled (i.e. comic strip format) illustrations throughout; contents with occasional toning and scattered foxing (more pronounced on preliminaries and last …