New Acquisitions
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# 43404
[Photographer unknown].
Daguerreotype portrait of two sisters with arms linked.
[U.S.A., 1850-55]. Sixth plate daguerreotype with applied colour, 60 x 70 mm (sight); in excellent condition in the original nonpareil brass mat, housed in the original in a leather case with geometric design (working brass clasp).
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# 46887
MACMILLAN, Allister (compiler)
Seaports of the Far East
Historical and descriptive, commercial and industrial facts, figures & resources. London : W. H. & L. Collingridge 1925. Second edition. Quarto, gilt-decorated green cloth (slightly discoloured, lightly rubbed), edges speckled blue, pp. 530, extensively illustrate with black and white photographs, colour map, a fine copy. A highly detailed guide to commercial businesses in East Asia during …
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# 19197
The Victorian Schoolmaster and literary review (complete)
Vol. 1, No. 1 – vol. 1, No. 12. Melbourne : Alex. M’Kinley & Co., 1879 – 1880. Twelve issues (complete), contemporary cloth binding by Alex. Greig of Fitzroy, lettered in gilt to spine, bookplate to front free endpaper, pp. 156, institutional stamp with cancel stamp from the Melbourne Teacher’s College Library to the first …
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# 12393
MULLER, Elisabeth
Le monde en estampes (deluxe coloured edition)
Types et costumes des principaux peoples de l’univers. Paris : Bedelet, [c.1858]. Oblong quarto, polychrome cloth gilt (expertly rebacked), all edges gilt, 52 pp, with 24 hand coloured tinted lithographed plates; light foxing, but a very good copy. A finely illustrated study of the races of the world, with sections on the New Zealand Maori, Marquesas …
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# 9262
MÜLLER, Elisabeth
Le monde en estampes. Types et costumes des principaux peoples de l’univers.
Paris : Bédelet, n.d. [circa 1858]. Oblong quarto, original quarter black morocco over blind blocked black cloth boards (rubbed) with gilt lettering and design to upper board, spine with gilt lettering and ornament (softened at head and tail), all edges gilt, 52 pp, illustrated with lithographed vignettes + 24 tinted lithographed plates by J. Bocquin after …
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# 46588
LINDSAY, Norman
Norman Lindsay water colour book
Eighteen reproductions in colour from original watercolours with an appreciation of the medium by Norman Lindsay and a biographical survey of the artist’s life and work by Godfrey Blunden. Sydney : The Springwood Press, 1939. Quarto, embossed green cloth in dustjacket (small chip to head of spine, scattered foxing), warm gift inscription (in both pen …
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# 46886
HAMER, Heather (1885 - 1962)
Old Sinhalese nursery rhymes and folk songs
Collected and illustrated by Heather Hamer. With a Foreword by Sir Solomon Dias Bandaranaike, K.C.M.G. Ceylon : The Colombo Apothecaries Co., Ltd., 1935. Quarto, gilt-lettered diced road, lightly scuffed and worn, pp. [36], illustrated with twelve full page black and white illustrations by Hamer, with tissue guards, illustrating in modernist style the nursery rhymes. Heather …
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# 37242
DEAN, Arthur and Eric W. GUTTERIDGE
The Seventh Battalion, A.I.F. : resume of the activities of the Seventh Battalion in the Great War, 1914-1918
/ by Arthur Dean [and] Eric W. Gutteridge. Melbourne : A. Dean and E.W. Gutteridge (printed by W. & K. Purbrick Pty Ltd), 1933. First edition. Octavo (220 mm), original maroon buckram over boards, spine lettered in gilt; two-colour title page with the battalion’s colour patch reproduced, 190 pp., [3] b/w plates, 7 maps; nominal …
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# 46978
COOK, Captain James
The journals of Captain James Cook on his voyages of discovery (complete set)
Cambridge : Published for the Hakluyt Society at the University Press, 1968-1969. Five volumes octavo, gilt-decorated cloth in dustjackets (lightly marked), plus the folio of maps and charts. Light scattered foxing, more prominent to the gutters and in the folds of the panels of the portfolio of charts. A good set.
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# 46910
SMITH, Arthur H.
Proverbs and common sayings from the Chinese, together with much related and unrelated matter Interspersed with observations on Chinese things-in-general.
Shanghai : American Presbyterian Mission Press, 1902. Revised edition. Octavo, half-calf over pebbled cloth, loss to head and foot of spine, pp. viii; 374, xxx, preliminaries foxed, otherwise very good. Text in English and Chinese.
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# 46931
[CRUIKSHANK]. MAYHEW, Henry, editor
The Comic Almanack and Diary 1851 (coloured version)
Illustrated by George Cruikshank and H. G. Hine. London: David Bogue, 1851. Octavo, gilt-decorated flush cut cloth covered boards (dulled), text block slightly cracked, pp. 64, 24 (adverts.), extensively illustrated throughout, folding frontispiece by Cruikshank, fine original hand colouring. The frontispiece is an etching measuring 165 x 410mm, titled ‘Probable effects of over female emigration, …
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# 46374
PENTON, Brian
Landtakers : the story of an epoch
New York : Farrar & Rinehart 1935. First US edition (first published in Sydney in 1934). Octavo, lettered cloth in illustrated dustjacket (light edge wear with small chips), pp. x; 485, a fine copy. This story of pioneers in 1840s Queensland is rated by Geoffrey Dutton as one of the 100 most important Australian novels.
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# 47073
NODDER, Frederick Polydore (1751 - 1800)
Macropus Giganteus (Great Kanguroo)
London : F. P. Nodder, 1790. Engraving 225 x 135 mm, original hand colouring, very unusually printed on vellum, accompanied by the original letterpress description on paper, 6 pages in Latin and English. An exquisite eighteenth century engraving of the Eastern Grey Kangaroo (here described as the ‘Great Kanguroo’), taken from Nodder’s monumental 24 volume …
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# 47056
HINDS, John (1950 - )
The English Suite : a new catalogue of nostalgic wallpapers designed for the Antipodes
Melbourne : the artist, 2012. Elephant folio (580 mm tall), lettered cloth, title page, preface, 14 leaves of designs stencilled in colour, which reference traditional English patterns and iconography, but have been re-designed to reflect a contemporary theme or topic, ostensibly as prototypes for wallpapers for distribution in the Antipodes. A printed sheet of notes …
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# 34948
SOUTER, D. H.
Bubbles. His book
Written by R. F. Irvine. Illustrated by D. H. Souter. Sydney and Brisbane : William Brooks & Co., [1899]. Quarto, lettered blind-embossed cloth over bevelled boards, edges lightly rubbed, illustrated endpapers (light offsetting), colour title page, pp. 111, fourteen colour plates, text illustrations by Souter, occasional light scattered foxing, a very good copy. Muir 3721
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# 18980
ELKINGTON, J. S. C.
[NORMAN LINDSAY]. Health Reader with chapters on elementary school hygiene (the author’s copy)
Illustrated by Norman Lindsay. Christchurch : Whitcombe and Tombs, n.d. [c. 1908]. Octavo, lettered cloth (a little marked), 139 pp. with numerous illustrations by Norman Lindsay. Very scarce and early Lindsayana. The author’s copy, with his Norman Lindsay designed bookplate to front pastedown.