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  • View of Sydney Harbour, looking across Berrys Bay from Waverton towards Cockatoo Island, 1870s.

    # 51602

    [Photographer unknown]

    View of Sydney Harbour, looking across Berrys Bay from Waverton towards Cockatoo Island, 1870s.

    Albumen print photograph, 185 x 280 mm; on its original card mount, with calligraphic caption in ink below the image: ‘Part of the Harbour, Sydney’. a strong print with good tonal range, in excellent condition.

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  • The Home. Vol. 18, No. 10. October 1st, 1937

    # 51719

    GELLERT, Leon, URE SMITH, Sydney (editors)

    The Home. Vol. 18, No. 10. October 1st, 1937

    Sydney : John Fairfax, 1937. Quarto, illustrated wrappers by Douglas Annand (small amount of wear to spine), pp. 92, a fine copy. Australian Capital Cities Number. This issue includes illustrated articles social life, fashion and art, architecture, house and garden etc. colour advertisements and photographs of Australian capital cities. ‘Sydney Ure Smith’s ‘The Home’ magazine …

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  • Emily Kame Kngwarreye : paintings

    # 50741

    [KNGWARREYE]. ISAACS, Jennifer et al.

    Emily Kame Kngwarreye : paintings

    With contributions by Jennifer Isaacs, Terry Smith, Judith Ryan, Donald Holt & Janet Holt. Sydney : Craftsman House, 1998. First edition. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 204, illustrated in colour throughout, a fine copy of this scholarly publication, scarce. The first book dedicated to the art of Emily Kame Kngwarre, released on1st February, 1998.  Emily …

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  • Patrick White : a life (signed deluxe edition)

    # 51756

    MARR, David (1947 - )

    Patrick White : a life (signed deluxe edition)

    Sydney : Random House Australia, 1991. First edition, deluxe issue. Octavo, blue leather boards, title and spine with gold inlaid title, in slipcase, pp 727, photographic plates. Clean, without internal or external damage. Deluxe copy of the authoratative biography on Patrick White with images by Melbourne artist David Bromley. The deluxe edition was limited to …

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  • [RAILWAYS] Hon. Lawrence Dundas of Aske, North Yorkshire (2nd Baron Dundas): autograph letter signed, re. an intended railway in his local district, 19 November 1829.

    # 51622

    DUNDAS, Hon. Lawrence, 2nd Baron Dundas (1766-1839)

    [RAILWAYS] Hon. Lawrence Dundas of Aske, North Yorkshire (2nd Baron Dundas): autograph letter signed, re. an intended railway in his local district, 19 November 1829.

    Manuscript in ink, 1 page, quarto (250 x 200 mm); headed ‘Aske, 19th Nov: 1829’, the letter is addressed simply ‘Dear Sir’, and is signed at the foot ‘Your faithful humble servant, Lawn. Dundas’; original folds, annotated at lower margin in the hand of Jane Emma Murphy (see below) ‘Earl of Zetland 1766-1838’ [sic]; verso …

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  • Rev. W. G. Lawes, pioneer LMS missionary in Niue and New Guinea: cut signature (c.1890).

    # 51628

    LAWES, William George (1839-1907)

    Rev. W. G. Lawes, pioneer LMS missionary in Niue and New Guinea: cut signature (c.1890).

    Manuscript in ink, 50 x 180 mm, cut from the foot of a letter and reading ‘… paper you request I do not take photographs now and have no copies of my old ones. I am, Yours very sincerely, W. G. Lawes‘; mounted on a section of card cut from a nineteenth-century album leaf, annotated …

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  • Captain Frederick Standish, Chief Commissioner of Police in Victoria: cut signature (c.1880).

    # 51626

    STANDISH, Frederick Charles (1824-1883)

    Captain Frederick Standish, Chief Commissioner of Police in Victoria: cut signature (c.1880).

    Manuscript in ink, 45 x 80 mm, cut from the foot of a letter and reading ‘Very sincerely yours, Fredk. C. Standish’; mounted on a section of card cut from a nineteenth-century album leaf, the mount inscribed in the hand of Jane Emma Murphy (see below) ‘Capt. Standish, first Chief Inspector of Police in Melbourne’; …

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  • Edward La Trobe Bateman, artist and garden designer: cut signature (Melbourne, c.1868-69).

    # 51629

    BATEMAN, Edward La Trobe (1815-1897)

    Edward La Trobe Bateman, artist and garden designer: cut signature (Melbourne, c.1868-69).

    Manuscript in ink, 80 x 110 mm, cut from the foot of a letter and reading ‘… Mr Burrell, ever yours, Edward La Trobe Bateman‘, with the addressee’s name also in Bateman’s hand ‘J. B. Burrell Esq. J. P., Arthur’s Seat‘ (note that Bateman was writing with his left hand due to the accident he …

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  • The Die-Hard

    # 51755

    SMITH, Ivan and Jocelyn

    The Die-Hard

    Images by Albert Tucker. Sydney : Harper & Row, 1979. Quarto, linen bound boards in slipcase (lightly sunned), pp. 108, numerous tipped-in colour plates by Albert Tucker. Limited to 500 copies signed by Tucker and the authors. The story of Lasseter’s search for gold in the Northern Territory. A very good copy in sunned slipcase.

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  • [CHILDREN’S GAME] Jigsaw puzzles with children’s scenes.

    # 1067

    [ANON.]

    [CHILDREN’S GAME] Jigsaw puzzles with children’s scenes.

    [France, c.1890]. Oblong box of very thick card (345 x 258 x 45 mm), the lid with a superb chromolithographic illustration depicting children and families at the zoo, with camel and elephant rides and an ostrich-drawn carriage. The box contains four chromolithographic scenes pasted onto wood and cut into jigsaw puzzles; each puzzle is complete …

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  • Keijo

    # 51516

    Anon.

    Keijo

    Japan : Toppan Printing Company, circa 1935. Map, printed in colour, old folds, 24 x 33 cms (image). inset map of the region. Scarce pre-war English language tourist map of Keijo (Seoul) in Chosen (Korea) during the period of Japanese occupation (1910 – 1945).

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  • [VICTORIAN PROHIBITION REFERENDUM] 20,000 more unemployed : It's up to you - give the men a fair show, don't forget to VOTE NO.

    # 51239

    LISTON, J. J.

    [VICTORIAN PROHIBITION REFERENDUM] 20,000 more unemployed : It’s up to you – give the men a fair show, don’t forget to VOTE NO.

    Melbourne : Authorised by J. J. Liston, The Block, Collins Street, [1930]. Broadsheet, 330 x 188 mm, printed recto only, illustrated; light vertical and horizontal folds, a good example. On 29 March, 1930 the Victorian Government held a referendum to decide if the sale of alcohol should be banned in the State. Victorians rejected the …

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  • Persuasion

    # 51344

    AUSTEN, Jane (1775 - 1817)

    Persuasion

    With an introduction by Louis Auchincloss and illustrations by Tony Buonpastore. Westport, Connecticut : printed for members of the Limited Edition Club, 1977. Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth, speckled edges, pp. x; [ii]; 241; colophon, illustrations, housed in original slipcase (lightly sunned). Printed in a limited edition go 1600 numbered copies, signed by the artist. Loosely enclosed …

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  • The personal history of David Copperfield

    # 51343

    DICKENS, Charles (1812 - 1870)

    The personal history of David Copperfield

    With illustrations by H. K. Browne. London : Fraser Press, 1970.  Octavo, gilt-decorated buckram (lightly sunned), morocco title label lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, illustrated endpapers, pp. 795, colophon. Printed in a limited edition of 1560 numbered copies. A very attractive edition of this classic by Dickens.

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  • Wuthering Heights

    # 51342

    BRONTË, Emily (1818-1848)

    Wuthering Heights

    London : Fraser Press, 1970.  Octavo, full crushed morocco, lettered in gilt, spine faded, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, pp. 360, colophon. Printed in a limited edition of 1560 numbered copies. A very attractive edition of this classic by Bronte.

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  • Latest information with regard to Australia Felix, the finest province of the great territory of New South Wales;

    # 51640

    ARDEN, George

    Latest information with regard to Australia Felix, the finest province of the great territory of New South Wales;

    including the history, geography, natural resources, government, commerce, and finances of Port Phillip; sketches of the aboriginal population, and advice to immigrants; by the editor of the Port Philip Gazette, Melbourne. [Melbourne] : Arden and Strode, 1840 / Queensberry Hill Press, 1977. Facsimile edition. Octavo, half calf over cloth, pale foxing to lower panel, spine …

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