New Acquisitions

  • # 46335

    PRESKO BINOCULAR COMPANY

    [RIVERINA] Spreading grapes to dry, Mildura, Australia.

    [Title from printed caption on mount]. Chicago, IL : Presko Binocular Company, [c.1910]. Stereoscopic silver gelatin print photograph, each individual image 76 x 78 mm, on grey board mount 86 x 177 mm, with the publisher’s caption and serial number ‘Spreading grapes to dry, Mildura, Australia. 6018’, along with the publisher’s imprint ‘Presko Binocular Company, …

  • # 46334

    B. W. KILBURN (publisher)

    Coral divers with their wealth, on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia.

    [Title from printed caption on mount]. Littleton, New Hampshire : B. W. Kilburn, 1904. Stereoscopic silver gelatin print photograph, each individual image 77 x 77 mm, on pink board mount 88 x 179 mm, with the publisher’s serial number and caption ‘15945. Coral divers with their wealth, on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia’, along with …

  • # 46333

    SOUTH AUSTRALIA. GOVERNMENT.

    [WINE] Adelaide grapes – 5 bunches, total weight 67 lbs.

    [Adelaide, SA : Government of South Australia, c.1905]. Lithographic postcard, 88 x 138 mm, verso imprinted ‘South Australia Post Card’ and with a handwritten message; in fine condition.

  • # 46507

    Australian National Airways

    A.N.A. Flight Schedules, effective 21st October, 1947

    Melbourne : Australian National Airways, 1947. Brochure, DL size, 8 pp. folded, graphic cover design, with flight schedules for passenger services between Melbourne – Sydney – Brisbane – Cairns; Melbourne – Tasmania – Bass Strait Islands; Melbourne – Mildura – Broken Hill; Sydney – Mildura – Broken Hill; Sydney – Mildura – Adelaide; and Melbourne …

  • # 46357

    M. STERNGERG & TURCO-EGYPTIAN TOBACCO STORE (publishers)

    Hongkong. View of the Peak Hotel taken from the Peak.

    Hong Kong : Published by M. Sternberg, [c.1910]. Lithographic postcard, 91 x 135 mm; not mailed, in very fine condition.

  • # 46514

    BAEDEKER, Karl

    Northern Germany as far as the Bavarian and Austrian borders. Handbook for travellers.

    Leipzig : Karl Baedeker, 1910. Fifteenth revised edition. Small octavo, original limp red cloth lettered in gilt; (lightly rubbed) front pastedown and endpaper with publisher’s advertisements; pp. xxxviii, 430; with 47 maps, 81 plans, a very good copy.  

  • # 46517

    PALEY, William (1743 - 1805)

    The principles of moral and political philosophy

    London : Baldwin @ Co., 1821. A new edition, corrected and revised. Octavo, full calf (worn and stained), spine lettered in blind, short split to joint, pp. xvi; 512, small stain to fore edge, a good copy. ‘William Paley (July 1743 – 25 May 1805) was an English Anglican clergyman, Christian apologist, philosopher, and utilitarian. …

  • # 46519

    SOULÉ, Frank et al.

    The annals of San Francisco ;

    Containing a summary of the history of the first discovery, settlement, progress and present condition of California, and a complete history of all the events connected with its great city : to which are added, biographical memoirs of some prominent citizens. By Frank Soulè, John H. Gihon and James Nisbet. New York : D. Appleton …

  • # 46023

    HENSON, Bill (1955 -)

    Principio erat (Artist’s edition B)

    Paris : Editions Bessard, 2019. Folio, pictorial laminated boards, pp. [70], several double fold-out pages, printed on high quality matt photographic paper. As new. Principio erat is published in a standard and deluxe edition – described as the ‘Artist’s edition’ by the publisher. The standard edition is published in two variations, each limited to 500 …

  • # 46314

    PECKHAM, Sarah; CLARK, Geoff

    Gariwerd : a kit for teaching Aboriginal Rights and the history of the Grampians / Gariwerd area.

    Malvern, Vic. : Action for Aboriginal Rights, 1992. Foolscap folio (300 x 210 mm), spiral-bound clear plastic over pictorial wrappers; pp. 61, [5], illustrated; plus 2 brochures and 1 leaflet for the Brambuk Living Cultural Centre in loosely inserted plastic sleeve; a very good copy. ‘Contains teachers guide, role play activity, student notes; appendices include …

  • # 46321

    MOORE, Ross

    Dear Primitive : black bodies as decor. 27 October – 13 November 1994. Temple Studio, Macquarie Street & St Edmonds Road, Prahran.

    Prahran, Vic. : Temple Studio, 1994. Quarto folding card (290 x 210 mm), printed on [4] sides, illustrated; very good condition; invitation to exhibition opening loosely inserted. ‘”Dear Primitive” quite deliberately takes popular “Aboriginalia” imagery of the 1950s-60s (the stuff of kids’ books and wall ceramics) in order to expose it, in the psychic sense, …

  • # 46370

    KEESING, Felix M.

    The Pacific Island peoples in the postwar world

    Eugene, OR : Oregon State System of Higher Education, 1959. Condon Lectures. Octavo, lettered wrappers, bookplate to pastedown, pp. 48, photographic illustrations, maps. A study of evolving societies in Tahiti, Hawaii, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Guam, Solomon Islands, and Mariana Islands.

  • # 46369

    DOVER, K. J.

    Greek homosexuality

    Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1978. First edition. Octavo, cloth in dustjacket (light edge wear), pp. x; 244, illustrated. A fine copy of this important and influential study of homosexuality in Ancient Greece, written by eminent classicist Sir Kenneth Dover, President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

  • # 46372

    SYMONDS, John Addington (1840-1893)

    A problem in Greek ethics : being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion addressed especially to medical psychologists and jurists.

    London: Privately printed, 1901. Octavo, lettered cloth (spine dulled), pp. 73, old tape repair to margin of p. 21, printed in a limited edition of 100 copies for private circulation, this is copy number 96. An influential early study of homosexuality.

  • # 46528

    HOOKEY, Gordon (1961- )

    Gordon Hookey : Con ject charr – jarr – yarh – “Arrgh!”

    February 17th – March 17th. Melbourne : Nellie Castan Gallery, 2007. A4 sheet printed on both sides, illustrated in colour; verso with details of 22 works with prices; original folds, light creasing. Scarce piece of ephemera from a 2007 exhibition by Indigenous Queensland artist Gordon Hookey. No copies traced on Trove.

  • # 46531

    TSIOLKAS, Christos; GLASS, Alexie (curator)

    40 degrees

    Fitzroy, Vic. : Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, 2007. Square octavo (210 x 210 mm), stapled pictorial wrappers, [8] pp, colour illustrated; essay Christos Tsiolkas; a good copy. Catalogue of a group exhibition held at Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Fitzroy, Victoria, 2-24 February 2007, curated by Alexie Glass. Exhibiting artists: Joel Anderson, Stephen Birch, Rhys Graham, …