New Acquisitions
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# 40452
DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882)
The origin of species (1880)
by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. London : John Murray, 1880. Sixth edition, with additions and corrections to 1872 (twenty-second thousand). Octavo, original publisher’s gilt-lettered green cloth (corners a little rubbed, slightly bruised with short tear at head and foot of spine) original endpapers (lightly …
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# 41732
WRIGGLESWORTH & BINNS
Studio portrait of two actors in costume as Robinson Crusoe and Friday. Wellington, New Zealand, 17 October 1881.
Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 163 x 116 mm; verso with imprint of ‘Wrigglesworth & Binns, Willis Street, Wellington, New Zealand’, and contemporary inscription in ink ‘Oct. 17th 1881’; both the print and mount are in fine condition.
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# 45876
EDEN SOCIETY STUDIOS
Studio portrait of a man in Salvation Army uniform, posed with his tuba. Sydney, late 1890s.
Sepia-tone gelatin silver print photograph, cabinet card format, 168 x 107 mm (mount); recto with the imprint of ‘Eden Society Studios’; the print is in very good condition; the mount has a couple of spots of foxing.
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# 45877
THE CROWN STUDIOS
Studio portrait of a couple in Salvation Army uniform. Sydney, late 1890s.
Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 163 x 106 mm (mount); recto with the imprint of ‘The Crown Studios, George and Market Streets, Sydney’; the print is in very good condition; the mount has some toning.
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# 45878
PEEL'S MODERN STUDIOS
Studio portrait of Master Laban Rixon in Salvation Army uniform, posed with his tuba. Sydney, 1909-10.
Sepia-tone gelatin silver print photograph, cabinet card format, 165 x 106 mm (mount); recto with the imprint of ‘Peel’s Modern Studios, 482 George St., Sydney’; verso with a fully contemporary inscription in pencil ‘Mr. Laban Rixon’; the print has a few light marks, and the mount is toned. We believe the young sitter is Laban …
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# 45870
EDEN SOCIETY STUDIOS
Studio portrait of a young woman in Salvation Army uniform, posed with her zither. Sydney, circa 1895.
Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 168 x 107 mm (mount); recto with the imprint of ‘Eden Society Studios’; the print has a few tiny burn marks (probably cigar ash) towards the top edge, but is otherwise in excellent condition, as is the mount.
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# 46367
GORDON, Adam Lindsay (1833 - 1870)
Ashtaroth : a dramatic lyric
Melbourne : Carson, Massina & Co., 1867. Octavo, gilt-lettered green cloth, pp. 96, a fine copy. The first published book by Adam Lindsay Gordon.
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# 46469
DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882)
On the origin of species (First ‘Australian’ edition)
by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. With a new preface by Charles G. Darwin. Illustrated with wood engravings by Paul Landcare. [New York] : Limited Editions Club, 1963. Printed for The Limited Editions Club at The Griffin Press, Adelaide, South Australia. Quarto, quarter wallaby over …
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# 45953
MILLER, George (b. 1793)
A trip to sea from 1810 to 1815
Long Sutton : Printed and Published by John Swain, 1854. Small octavo, original green cloth boards with gilt lettering to upper board (boards a little rubbed), contemporary owner’s name to front free endpaper dated 1855, vi, 92 pp, internally sound, the pages with occasional fingermarks and some sparse foxing and fingermarks. Ferguson, 12598. Autobiographical account …
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# 46407
OCEANIC STEAMSHIP COMPANY; C. BREWER & CO. LTD. (Honolulu)
Summer tours to Australia via the South Seas. Sailings from Honolulu: June 14, July 5, August 16, September 6, 1926.
[Drop title]. Honolulu, HI : C. Brewer & Co., Ltd., [1926]. Quarto (280 x 210 mm), [4] pp., illustrated ; original horizontal folds, an excellent example. Attractive 1920s brochure compiled by the Honolulu agent for the Oceanic Steamship Company, Brewer, advertising cruises to Sydney, Australia from San Francisco via Hawaii, Samoa, Tonga, Fiji, and New …
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# 45945
BAEDEKER, Karl
Egypt and the Sudan. Handbook for travellers.
Leipzig : Karl Baedeker, 1914. Seventh remodelled edition. Small octavo, original limp red cloth lettered in gilt; (expert repair to spine) front pastedown and endpaper with publisher’s advertisements; half-title page with owner’s inscription, pp cxc, 458; with 22 maps, 85 plans, and 55 vignettes; scattered light foxing; a very good copy. Guide to Egypt and …
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# 46576
CROKER, T. Crofton (1798-1854)
[Port Jackson] The Christmas box : an annual present for children.
London : William Harrison Ainsworth, 1828. Duodecimo, original moire silk (rebacked) with gilt lettered spine, front pastedown and first blank with presentation inscriptions dated January 8 1828, pp xii, 233, [2 publisher’s advertisements], illustrated with wood engravings; scattered foxing, a very good copy. Ferguson, 1180aa; Muir, 1827. This charming pot pourri of around thirty traditional and …
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# 41942
DARWIN, Charles (1809 - 1882)
The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex (1885)
London : John Murray, 1885. Second edition, revised and augmented. Nineteenth thousand. Octavo, gilt-lettered green cloth (edges slightly rubbed), light foxing to endpapers, pp. xvi; 693; blank, 32 (advertisements, dated January, 1885), 78 text illustrations, a very good copy. The second edition, eighth issue, of Darwin’s important work on natural selection. As Freeman notes: the …
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# 46382
SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe
The complete poetical works of Percy Bysshe Shelley
Boston and New York : Houghton Mifflin Company, The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1901. Octavo, finely bound in half crushed Morocco over marbled papered boards, spine in compartments with raised bands, lettered and tooled in gilt, lightly rubbed at edges, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, engraved portrait frontispiece and title page, pp. xliii; [blank]; 651, internally …
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# 46293
FLECHTHEIM, Alfred
Matisse, Braque, Picasso: 60 Werke aus deutschem Besitz. Galerie Alfred Flechtheim, Berlin … 21. September bis Mitte Oktober 1930.
Berlin : Galerie Alfred Flechtheim, 1930. Original stapled cream-coloured wrappers with lettering and art dealer’s monogram in brown (scattered foxing to both wrappers); pp. 24, illustrated with 15 b/w plates; lists 10 works by Matisse, 24 works by Braque, and 26 works by Picasso; text in German; contents with some pale foxing (mostly confined to the outermost leaves), …
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# 30085
CAMERON, Roderick William, Sir (1823-1900)
Australia Pioneer Line … Carrying the United States Mails … From Pier 18 East River. The noble clipper ship “Thomas H. Perkins” … For Sydney, N.S.W.
[New York] : Nesbitt & Co. printers [for R. W. Cameron], [1859]. Clipper card, 150 x 92 mm, lithograph printed recto only in red and blue on glossy white card; some toning, verso with old glue stains. Scarce clipper card advertising a sailing of the ship Thomas H. Perkins from New York to Sydney in October 1859. …