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# 47054

MICHNIEWICZ, Onufry et al.

Manuscript testimonial for Polish revolutionaries Roch Rupniewski and Severin Dziewicki, written and signed by Polish political refugees at Portsmouth, 1835.

[Portsmouth, 11 March 1835]. Single sheet, 230 x 200 mm, mounted on the recto of a nineteenth-century album leaf, along with the envelope in which it was originally contained; manuscript in ink, with a five-line declaration written in French at the head: ‘Nous [les] sous signés cértifi[ons par la] présente que [Sls?] Roch Rupniewski et …

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# 47037

[ADAMS, Marcus]

Queen Elizabeth II : signed photograph (“Elizabeth R”), also signed by Prince Philip. 1955.

Gelatin silver print photograph, 200 x 150 mm, on its original plain card mount signed in fountain pen in the bottom margin by both Queen Elizabeth II (Elizabeth R) and Prince Philip (Philip) with the date 1955 in between the two signatures; the photograph is in fine condition; the royal signatures are both strong and …

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# 17466

AMATI, Scipione; HENDSCHEL, Tobias (translator); [SOTELO, Luis, 1574-1624]

Relation und gründtlicher Bericht von dess Königreichs Voxu im Japonischen Keyserthumb

gottseliger Bekehrung und dessentwegen außgefertigter Ambasciada : an Päbst. Heil. gen Rom Paulum den fünfften, und an die Cathol. May. Philip. den dritten König in Hispania etc. Anno 1615. durch Ludovicum Sotelum S. Francisci Ordens … und … Don: Rocuyemon Faxecura … … Ingolstadt: in der Ederischen Truckerey, bey Elisabeth Angermayrin, Wittib, 1617. Small quarto, recent …

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# 46388

TASSO, Torquato [1544 - 1595]

Jerusalem delivered : an heroic poem (large paper edition)

Translated from the Italian of Torquato Tasso, by John Hoyle. London : printed by T. Bentley for J. Johnson [and others], 1803. Eighth edition. Two volumes, octavo, finely bound in full straight grained red Morocco, elaborate gilt tooled floral borders, spines in compartments with raised bands, lettered and tooled in gilt (slightly faded), edges a …

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# 46800

AMTORG TRADING CORPORATION (New York)

Soviet Russian Art and Handicraft Exposition. Grand Central Palace, New York, February 1929

[Cover title]. Also titled: Art and Handicraft Exposition of Soviet Russia. New York : Peasant Art & Handicraft Department of Amatory Trading Corporation, 1929. Small quarto (265 x 180 mm), illustrated wrappers with original owner’s name to front, original ties, [15], [1] pp, numerous illustrations (some colour); an excellent copy. A scarce catalogue of Russian …

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# 46285

TROTSKY, Leon (1879-1940), et al.

Leon Trotsky : a group of ephemeral publications, 1930s-40s.

I. Trotsky, Leon. Stalinism and Bolshevism : concerning the historical and theoretical roots of the Fourth International. New York : Pioneer Publishers, 1937. Octavo, original printed wrappers, stapled, 29, [1] pp; a fine copy. II. Trotsky, Leon. In defense of the Soviet Union : a compilation 1927-1937. New York : Pioneer Publishers, 1937. Octavo, original printed wrappers, stapled, …

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# 45783

WOLRAB, Johann Jacob (1675-1746)

An early eighteenth-century German perpetual calendar.

Nürnberg : Johann Jacob Wolrab, [circa 1720]. Original wooden box, 270 x 105 x 40 mm, with two compartments containing removable cards: 6 double-sided cards for the months and 16 smaller double-sided cards for the days; each card is engraved and hand-coloured, but the larger cards also have hand-painted gouache decorations illustrating the months and …

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# 46720

GOTT, Ted et al.

Napoleon : revolution to empire

Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 2012. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. xv, 313, illustrated. Includes a chapter on the Baudin Expedition to Australia. ” This panoramic volume tells the story of French art, culture and life from the 1770s to the 1820s: the first French voyages of discovery to Australia, the stormy period of social …

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# 46669

DELOUCHE, Denise

Monet à Belle-Ile

Paris : Éditions Palantines, 2006. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 136, illustrated. Text in French. Includes several references to Australian impressionist John Peter Russell.

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# 45779

LAS CASAS, Bartholomé de (1484-1566)

Den spiegel der Spaensche Tyranny gheschieht in West-Indien.

Waer in te sien is de onmenschelicke wreede feyten der Spangiaerden : met t’samen de beschrijvinge der selver Landen, Volckeren aert ende natuere … … [BOUND WITH] Tweede Deel van de Spieghel der Spaense Tyrannye, gheschiet in Nederlant. Waer in te sien is de onmenschelicke ende wreede handelinghen der Spaengiaerden … … Amsterdam : Jan Everts. …

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# 45939

TOMES, Robert

The Champagne country

New York : George Routledge, 1867. Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth (boards a little marked, slight bumps to head and foot of spine), pp. xv; [blank]’ 231; [blank]; (8 – advertisements), slight edge wear to pp. xiii-xiv, else a fine copy, internally clean. The first book in English on Champagne. A charming guide to the Champagne region …

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# 46287

BALBERYSZSKI, M. (Mendel) (1894-1966)

[HOLOCAUST; MELBOURNE] Likwidacja getta Wileńskiego

[=Liquidation of the Vilna Ghetto]. Warsawa ; Łodz ; Krakow : [Centralna Żydowska Komisja Historyczna], 1946. Octavo (205 x 145 mm), original grey wrappers lettered in black (sunned at edges); pp. 40; printed on cheap paper which has browned, but in all other respects an excellent copy. A scarce eyewitness account of the liquidation of …

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# 46550

KNIGHT, Charles

A history of England

London : Bradbury, Evans & Co., circa 1860. Eight volumes, octavo, finely bound in half calf over marbled papered boards (edges a little rubbed), spines in compartments with raised bands, elaborate gilt tooling and contrasting morocco title labels with gilt lettering (spines a little scuffed at heads); marbled edges and endpapers; various paginations, with numerous engraved plates …

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# 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.

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# 45823

APIANUS, Petrus (1495-1552); FRISIUS, Reiner Gemma (1508-1555)

Cosmographia

Petri Apiani, per Gemmam Frisium apud Lovanienses Medicum & Mathematicu[m] insignem, … … Antwerp: Aegidius Coppenius Diesthensis for Gregorius Bontius, 1545. Small quarto (230 x 160 mm), contemporary limp vellum envelope binding with (possibly later) calf ties; front and rear endpapers with extensive relevant early notes in Dutch on the astrolabe and calculations of the sun’s …

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# 45915

CUNNINGHAM, Peter (editor)

The letters of Horace Walpole, Fourth Earl of Orford

Edited by Peter Cunningham,. Now first chronologically arranged. London : Richard Bentley, 1891. Nine volumes, octavo, finely bound by Riviere & Son in full polished tan calf, their binder’s stamps to versos of front free endpapers, decorative gilt borders, spines in compartments with raised bands, glued and decorated in gilt, contrasting morocco title labels lettered …

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