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# 49972

GREIG, George

[SWAN RIVER COLONY]. The South African Almanac and Directory for the year 1833

Cape Town : Printed and Published by the Proprietor, George Greig, Keizersgracht, [1832]. Octavo, printed blue wrappers (light edge wear), pp. [xviii – advertisements]; five lithographed plates of views of Cape Town; title leaf; preface leaf; lxxxiii; [i]; 13 – 292, occasional light foxing or spotting, a very good copy. A scarce Cape Town colonial …

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# 50681

KLINGENDER, Tim

Sotheby’s. The John McCaffrey Collection of Kimberley Art. Sydney, 28 July 2003

Melbourne : Sotheby’s, 2003. Quarto (270 x 210 mm), illustrated card covers (spine rubbed), pp 104, auction catalogue with 71 lots, most illustrated in colour; including works on paper by Indigenous artists from the Kimberley region of Western Australia, decorated coolamons, boomerangs and spearthrowers, and boab nuts carved by Jack Wherra.

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# 50635

FRY, Gavin

William Boissevain. A passion for colour (signed copy)

Introduction by Gavin Fry. Foreword by Janet Holmes a Court. Sydney : The Beagle Press, 1998. Quarto, lettered boards, illustrated dustjacket (edge wear, foxed verso), 160pp. illustrated throughout, preliminaries foxed, signed and inscribed by the artist on the title page.

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# 50605

WALSH, Grahame L. (1944 - 2007)

Bradshaw’s ancient rock paintings of north-west Australia

Geneva : Edition Limitee for The Bradshaw Foundation, 1994. Quarto, boards in dustjacket (light handling marks), pp. xviii; 284, 99 colour plates, maps. A fine copy. Printed in an edition of 1000 copies. Housed in the original publisher’s mailing carton, with the original prospectus, order form, and related clippings. Since their ‘discovery’ by pastoralist Joseph …

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# 50100

STOKES, John Lort (1811-1885)

Discoveries in Australia : with an account of the coasts and rivers explored and surveyed during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle in the years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43, by command of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, also, a narrative of Captain Owen Stanley’s visits to the islands in the Arafura Sea.

London : T. and W. Boone, 1846. Three volumes, octavo, later uniform half green calf over green cloth (boards with some flecking), spines in compartments with gilt decoration and with contrasting leather title labels lettered in gilt; marbled endpapers; pp. xv, 521; x, 543, with 26 plates (15 engraved, 11 lithographed) depicting events and scenes …

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# 39617

de WIT, Frederick (1630-1706)

Accuratissima totius Asiae tabula : in omnes partes divisa, de nova correcta, ac in lucem edita

per Fredericum de Witt Amstelodami cum privilegio D.D. ordinum Hollandiae Westristacqs ; F. de Wit excudit. [Amsterdam : Frederik de Wit, circa 1688]. Copperplate engraving on paper, 58.0 cm in diameter, on sheet 51.0 x 61.0 cm, original hand colouring, a couple of paper reinforcements verso, a very good copy. A fine large format seventeenth century …

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# 26670

MORTESON, G.

General description of the Wiluna Gold Mines Ltd, Wiluna, Western Australia. (Prepared for the Members of the Australian Institute of Mining & Metallurgy).

[Wiluna, W.A.] : G. Morteson [for Wiluna Gold Mines Ltd.], [1933]. Small square quarto (245 x 210 mm), original cloth-backed paper wrappers, the upper wrapper featuring a map of Western Australia hand-drawn in black ink, with Wiluna marked in red and the names Meeka[tharra] and Laverton added later in pencil, the upper margin with typed …

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# 49782

HAYES, Denis, FALK, Jim and BARRETT, Neil.

Red light for yellow-cake : the case against uranium mining.

Melbourne : Friends of the Earth Australia, 1977. Octavo, stapled yellow wrappers printed in red; pp. 96; map; foreword by Manning Clark; a very good copy.

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# 48514

THESPIAN DRAMATIC COMPANY (Perth)

Inaugural entertainment, St. George’s Hall, Perth, Western Australia, under the patronage of His Excellency Major-General Sir Harry St. George Ord … on Thursday and Monday, December 4 and 8, 1879,

an Amateur Company will perform the well-known 3-act musical melodrama the Colleen Bawn, or the Brides of Garryowen … … Perth, W.A. : Stirling Bros., Printers, 1879. Quarto bifolium, [4] pp., printed entirely in gold ink; short closed tear at upper margin of second leaf, last side lightly marked, otherwise extremely well preserved; accompanied by …

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# 49394

BECHER, A. B.

Navigation of the Atlantic Ocean [together with] Navigation of the Indian Ocean, China and Australian Seas

Navigation of the Atlantic Ocean, containing a brief account of the winds, weather, and currents prevailing therein. With charts. London : J. D. Potter, 1859. Second edition. [Together with] : Navigation of the Indian Ocean, China and Australian Seas, with an account of the winds, weather, and currents found therein throughout the year. London : …

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# 49242

TRENDELL, A. J. R.

Colonial and Indian Exhibition, 1886. Her Majesty’s Colonies.

A series of original papers issued under the authority of the Royal Commission. London : William Clowes and Sons, 1886. Octavo, presentation binding of full crushed morocco over bevelled boards, ruled in gilt, spine in compartments with gilt rule and lettering (edges a little rubbed), all edges gilt, gilt-lettered morocco presentation label to front pastedown to …

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# 47146

[ROBINSON, William Cleaver Francis, Sir]

[PLAYBILL] Private Theatricals given by H. E. The Governor & Mrs. Robinson. Perth, W.A., December 15, 1876. Dearest Mamma … Whitebait at Greenwich.

[Perth, WA : s.n., 1876]. Broadsheet, 215 x 140 mm, lithograph-printed recto in blue on buff paper, text set within decorative border with royal coat of arms at head; tipped onto a section of a nineteenth-century album leaf, single horizontal fold, otherwise fine. Perth playbill listing the casts of two theatrical pieces. Performers include Mr. H. …

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# 33117

Edge-Partington, James (1854-1930)

Ethnographical album of the Pacific Islands. Third series.

[Portfolio cover title]. Also titled: An album of the weapons, tools, ornaments, articles of dress &c. of the natives of the Pacific islands. Drawn and described from examples in public & private collections in Australasia by James Edge-Partington. Third series. [London] : Issued for private circulation by James Edge-Partington & Charles Heape, 1898. “Lithographed by Palmer, …

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# 46209

METHODIST MISSIONARY SOCIETY OF AUSTRALASIA

[ARNHEM LAND] The Methodist Missionary Society of Australasia Systematic Giving League. Systematic Giving Box.

[Sydney] : The Methodist Missionary Society of Australasia, circa 1920. Tin collection box with hinged lid, 130 x 80 x 20 mm, lettering on the lid; some oxidisation, overall in very good condition. Wesleyan Methodism is generally considered to have formally been established in Australia in 1815 with the arrival of clergyman Samuel Leigh, although …

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# 48371

PELSAERT, Francois (c.1595-1630)

Ongeluckige voyagie, van’t schip Batavia, nae de Oost-Indien.

Amsterdam : Jan Jansz, 1647. First edition. Small quarto, papered boards; title-leaf, pp. 118, lacking final blank (as in most copies); six folding copperplates (plate V provided in expert facsimile); some very pale marginal water stains, tiny worm hole to margin of first few leaves; a clean and well preserved copy, housed in a calf …

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# 15496

PELSAERT, François (1595-1630)

Ongeluckige voyagie van het schip Batavia uytgevaren onder’t beleydt van den E. Francois Pelsaert, na Oost-Indien, en gebleven is op de Abrollos van Frederick Houtman, … Verhalende ‘t verongelucken des schips / en de grouwelijcke moordery onder ‘t scheeps-volck / op ‘t eylandt Bataviers Kerckhof, nevens de justitie gedaen sen de moetwillige in de jaren 1628 en 1629.

Amsterdam : Gillis Joosten Saeghman, [c.1663]. Small quarto, later half vellum over marbled boards (rubbed), manuscript title to spine; ex libris bookplates to front pastedown and endpaper; pp. 44, title page with woodcut vignette (paper repair to the gutter), and allegorical woodcut verso; a further 6 copperplate vignette illustrations in the text, which is printed in two columns with occasional side …

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