Europe

  • [WOMEN'S EDUCATION] Photograph album of the University of Cambridge, compiled by a graduate of Newnham College. Bound in Melbourne, early 1890s.

    # 18219

    Photographers unknown. [CLOUGH, Anne Jemima, 1820-1892]; [LINDT, John William, 1845-1926]

    [WOMEN’S EDUCATION] Photograph album of the University of Cambridge, compiled by a graduate of Newnham College. Bound in Melbourne, early 1890s.

    Photograph album by J.W. Lindt, Melbourne, early 1890s. Oblong quarto, padded leather with gilt blind-tooling stamped ‘From J.W. Lindt’s Studio, Melbourne’, lining papers with floral decoration in gold, all edges gilt, containing [12] leaves of thick card with 20 albumen silver photographs (photographer unidentified) of the University of Cambridge, in uniform format 150 x 205 …

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  • Costumes, usos e trajos de todos os povos do mundo,

    # 18053

    WAHLEN, Auguste

    Costumes, usos e trajos de todos os povos do mundo,

    em face de documentos authenticos e das mais recentes viagens. Lisboa : Impresa Lusitana, 1872-1873-1874-1876-1878. Five volumes, octavo, original quarter blue calf over marbled papered boards (lightly rubbed, corners bumped, upper board of vol. 4 with several scratches), spines with gilt lettering and rule; vol. 1 (Asia) 421, [1]; vol. 2 (Asia, India) 439, [4]; …

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  • [SWEDISH UNDERGOUND] Huvudbladet

    # 16715

    [SWEDISH UNDERGOUND] Huvudbladet

    Stockholm : Huvudbladet, 1971-1972. Issues 1 – 4 (all published). Folio newspaper, photo montage and comic strip illustrations (some colour), the first issue with large format (390 x 550 mm) insert photographic poster by Hans Esselius of Jimi Hendrix with printed lyrics of Pass it on (Straight Ahead); all issues in fine condition. Rare complete …

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  • [CRIMEAN WAR] Manuscript compiled by a French cotton merchant and soldier, 1852-54.

    # 16492

    PROUTIERE, Réné

    [CRIMEAN WAR] Manuscript compiled by a French cotton merchant and soldier, 1852-54.

    Unbound manuscript in ink on laid paper, large octavo (200 x 150 mm), original stitching, first page with owner’s inscription ‘Cahier de coton de 1852 et 1853. Monsieur Proutière Réné, soldat au 35eme de ligne 1er Bataillon 4ème Compagnie, à Inkermann (Crimée) armée D’orient Inkermann’; [9] pages of accounts relating to the purchase and sale of …

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  • Album des voyages anciens et modernes.

    # 16356

    JOUHANNEAUD, Paul

    Album des voyages anciens et modernes.

    Limoges: Martial Ardant frères, 1854. Octavo, polychromatic cloth, all edges gilt, 208 pp., 23 plates of races of the world, including the Americas,Asia, Europe, Africa and the Pacific. A French geographical book for children, recounting the stories of voyages made by great explorers to the four corners of the globe. Includes the expeditions of Columbus, Cook, …

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  • Catalogue of the A. B. Triggs collections of historical documents and autograph letters, old master

    # 14859

    JAMES R. LAWSON PTY. LTD.

    Catalogue of the A. B. Triggs collections of historical documents and autograph letters, old master

    drawings, historic and modern laces, coins, tokens and medals, to be sold by public auction on Tuesday, 27th, Wednesday 28th, Thursday 29th, November, 1945, under instruction from and as directed by the executors of the will of the Late Mrs. A. B. Triggs. Sydney : Websdale, Shoosmith, 1945. Large quarto, original printed wrappers (lightly marked and …

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  • British Museum : handbook to the ethnographical collections

    # 12198

    BRITISH MUSEUM. TRUSTEES.

    British Museum : handbook to the ethnographical collections

    Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1925. Second edition. Octavo, original cloth backed pictorial papered boards (lightly marked; cloth frayed at tail of spine), colour frontispiece plate, xvi, 319 pp, 20 plates, 293 illustrations and 3 maps, contents clean and sound, a good copy.

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  • [UTOPIAS] Parjumouf : saga ifrån Nya Holland.

    # 2766

    ALMQVIST, Carl Jonas Love, 1793-1866

    [UTOPIAS] Parjumouf : saga ifrån Nya Holland.

    THE FIRST WORK OF FICTION WRITTEN IN SWEDISH TO HAVE AN AUSTRALIAN SETTING. Stockholm : Gadelius, 1817. First edition. Duodecimo, modern half green morocco over marbled boards, spine with raised bands and gilt lettering (sunned), modern marbled endpapers, original printed upper wrapper bound in (but lacking the lower wrapper), 98 pp; a crisp, clean copy …

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