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  • Tinted daguerreotype portrait of a young man holding a daguerreotype case, 1845-48.

    # 43253

    [Photographer unknown]

    Tinted daguerreotype portrait of a young man holding a daguerreotype case, 1845-48.

    [Bristish, c.1850]. Ninth-plate daguerreotype with applied colour, 55 x 42 mm (sight); in a rectangular brass mat, housed in a plain leather case with push-button lock; the daguerreotype is in fine condition as is the case. Ex Berry Collection Part 1, Young’s Auctions, Melbourne, 25 August 2008, lot 433 (part)

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  • Daguerreotype portrait of a handsome young man with his hand hidden in his suit coat, c.1850.

    # 43257

    [Photographer unknown].

    Daguerreotype portrait of a handsome young man with his hand hidden in his suit coat, c.1850.

    [British, c.1850]. Ninth-plate daguerreotype with applied colour, 55 x 40 mm (sight); in an arch-top brass mat, housed in a plain leather case with working clasp; the daguerreotype is in very fine condition, with a slight tarnish halo. Ex Ken Turner Collection.

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  • Studio portrait of a gentleman wearing a black cravat. Adelaide, South Australia, c.1873.

    # 51038

    DURYEA, Townsend

    Studio portrait of a gentleman wearing a black cravat. Adelaide, South Australia, c.1873.

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 104 x 64 mm; verso with the elaborate back mark of ‘Townsend Duryea, Artist Photographer. By Appointment. 66 & 68 King William Street, Adelaide’, surrounded by the crests of the Duke of Edinburgh, Sir James Fergusson, Sir Dominick Daly, Sir R. G. MacDonnell, and Anthony Musgrave; both the …

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  • A practical treatise on the cultivation of the grape vine on open walls.

    # 50558

    HOARE, Clement

    A practical treatise on the cultivation of the grape vine on open walls.

    London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1841. Third edition. Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth (edges rubbed), owner’s name roughly erased from from pastedown, pp. xii; 210; 32 (adverts.), partly unopened, text figures, a few annotations, a very good copy. First published in 1835, an important text on viticulture.

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  • China and Japan pocket map showing political divisions, cities and towns, railroads, waterways, etc.

    # 50391

    RAND McNALLY & COMPANY

    China and Japan pocket map showing political divisions, cities and towns, railroads, waterways, etc.

    [Cover title]. New York ; Chicago ; San Francisco : Rand McNally & Company, [c.1938]. Tall octavo folding card (235 x 110 mm), front annotated by the original owner ‘Purchased 1952 March’; containing the large folding colour map ‘Rand McNally Standard Map of China and Japan’, 500 x 680 mm, scale 1:8,744,000; verso with printed …

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  • Old Korea : the land of morning calm

    # 50624

    KEITH, Elizabeth (illustrator); SCOTT, Elspet Keith Robertson (text)

    Old Korea : the land of morning calm

    London : Hutchinson & Co., 1946. Quarto, decorated cloth (a few marks), pp. 72, colour frontispiece, illustrated with colour and black and white plates, preliminaries foxed, internally fine. Scarce, a very good copy, an important illustrated account of Korea.

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  • Studio portrait of Gastone Lurini, brother of Futurist artist Marisa Mori, c.1915.

    # 50837

    [Photographer unknown].

    Studio portrait of Gastone Lurini, brother of Futurist artist Marisa Mori, c.1915.

    [Italy : s.n., c.1915]. Gelatin print photograph printed on postcard stock, 137 x 87 mm; verso inscribed in ink: ‘Gastone Lurini’; in good condition, the verso with paper borders from an old mount. Gastone Lurini (1898-1916) was the son of Italian writer and intellectual Edmea Lurini Bernini, and older brother of Marisa Mori (1900-1985), a …

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  • La dame aux camélias

    # 50588

    DUMAS, Alexandre, fils; BÉCAT, Paul (illustrator)

    La dame aux camélias

    / Illustrations en couleurs de Paul-Émile Bécat. Paris : L’Édition d’Art H. Piazza, 19 rue Bonaparte, [1935]. One of 2400 examples on vélin chiffon numbered 601 to 3000 (this copy is no. 1678). Octavo (200 x 145 mm), near-contemporary deluxe binding of half red morocco over marbled papered boards, spine in compartments with gilt decoration …

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  • Tacitus

    # 50851

    SYME, Sir Ronald

    Tacitus

    Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1967 (reprint). Two volumes octavo, gilt-lettered cloth, dustaackets (price clipped, a little silverfished and edge worn), foxing to preliminaries, pp. xii; 464, 465 – 856, a very good set. An important study on Publius Cornelius Tacitus (c. AD 56 – c. 120); senator, orator, and one of the greatest historians of …

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  • Group portrait of the family of the young Norman C. Deck (later photographer and missionary in the Solomon Islands). Sydney, c.1890.

    # 51099

    CREELMAN & CO.

    Group portrait of the family of the young Norman C. Deck (later photographer and missionary in the Solomon Islands). Sydney, c.1890.

    Albumen print photograph, Paris Panel format, 200 x 250 mm; recto with imprint of ‘Creelman & Co., Burlington Galleries, corner of King & George Sts., Sydney Arcade’; verso with later family member’s annotations in pen, identifying all of the sitters in the portrait with their names and birth and death dates; the print has mottling …

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  • Australian stages. A play in verse for radio.

    # 51029

    TURNER, Alexander

    Australian stages. A play in verse for radio.

    Illustrated by Justin O’Brien. With a preface by George Landed Dann. Sydney : Mulga Publications, 1944. Octavo, papered boards with Justin O’Brien cover design, yapp edges with a couple of short tears, pp. x; 22, with illustrations by Justin O’Brien. The first book illustrated by Justin O’Brien, in this wartime radio play about a soldier’s …

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  • The native tribes of Central Australia

    # 50555

    SPENCER, Baldwin and GILLEN, F. J. (Francis James)

    The native tribes of Central Australia

    London : Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1899. First edition. Octavo, publisher’s gilt-decorated cloth over boards (rubbed), spine lettered in gilt, plain paper label to pastedown, pp. xx, 672 (last blank), [2 publisher’s advertisements]; illustrated with black-and-white plates and diagrams, folding colour and black-and-white, folding colour plates; scattered foxing throughout, a good copy.

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  • Men of South Australia : representatives of the public, professional, ecclesiatical and business life of South Australia as existant in the year 1933. Private edition

    # 50676

    Anon.

    Men of South Australia : representatives of the public, professional, ecclesiatical and business life of South Australia as existant in the year 1933. Private edition

    Adelaide : Men of South Australia, 1933. Octavo (225 x 150 mm), original red diced morocco lettered and ruled in gilt (light edge wear); name stamped on upper board V. M. Newland, patterned gilded endpapers, , [106] leaves of plates, being photographs of the subjects with satirical drawings and biographical captions; a very good example …

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  • China's Millions (January - December 1901)

    # 50800

    HUDSON TAYLOR, Rev. J. (General Director)

    China’s Millions (January – December 1901)

    Melbourne : China Inland Mission, 1901. Australasian edition. Quarto, contemporary gilt-lettered plum cloth (spine sunned), bookplate residue to front pastedown, pagination various, a complete set of issues for they year 1901, with Supplements, numerous maps and black and white photographic illustrations, a few spots of foxing and small marks, a very good set. Australian version …

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  • Peking. A historical and intimate description of its chief places of interest

    # 51036

    BREDON, Juliet (1881 - 1937)

    Peking. A historical and intimate description of its chief places of interest

    With maps, plans and illustrations. Shanghai : Kelly & Walsh, 1920. First edition. Octavo, modern quarter crushed maroon goatskin over cloth, spine with raised bands, lettered in gilt, ruled in blind, pp. xvi; 478, numerous photographic illustrations and folding maps and plans of the city, a very good copy in modern binding. A popular guide …

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  • Yochi shiryaku [Outlines of World Geography or a Short Description of the World]. Volume 12. [Australia and the Pacific].

    # 50720

    UCHIDA, Masao (1838-1876)

    Yochi shiryaku [Outlines of World Geography or a Short Description of the World]. Volume 12. [Australia and the Pacific].

    Tokyo : Uchida Masayoshi zoban, 1880. Volume 12 only (of thirteen volumes published between 1870 and 1880), Large octavo (253 x 178 mm), original wrappers with title labels, string-bound in the Japanese manner, printed woodblock text on folded rice paper, with numerous lithograph illustrations and a folding map; occasional pale water staining to bottom corners, map …

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