Western Australia
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# 44455
CASSIDY, C. T. (Clarence Thomas)
Random thoughts at Wyndham, W.A.
Wyndham, W.A. : C.T. Cassidy, [1977]. Quarto (260 x 205 mm), staple-bound illustrated wrappers (scattered stains and small amount of insect damage), 34 leaves roneo-printed on rectos only; internally very clean. Scarce self-published collection of poetry by Wyndham resident Clarence Cassidy, with themes including Aboriginal-settler relations, town characters, cattle droving, and the landscape of the …
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# 38367
CALLANDER, John (1722–1789)
Terra Australis Cognita : or, voyages to the Terra Australis, or Southern Hemisphere, during the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth Centuries.
Containing an account of the manners of the people, and the productions of the countries, hitherto found in the Southern latitudes; the advantages that may result from further discoveries on this great continent, and the methods of establishing colonies there, to the advantage of Great Britain. With a preface by the Editor, in which some …
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# 30098
GREAT BRITAIN. PARLIAMENTARY PAPER.
Australasia. Correspondence relating to Chinese immigration into the Australian colonies, with a Return of Acts passed by the Legislatures of those Colonies and of Canada and British Columbia on the subject.
London : Printed for His Majesty’s Stationery Office, by Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1888. Folio (330 mm), printed blue wrappers (a little chipped at edges, paper loss along spine), pp x, 87; a few pencilled annotations, but a very clean copy in the original wrappers.
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# 39542
DRYSDALE, Russell (1912 - 1981)
Western Desert
Watercolour, pen and ink on paper, watermarked Canson France, 145 x 225 mm (image), 162 x 248 mm (paper), titled and signed lower right, framed (framed size 465 x 525 mm). In this small gem of a painting, Drysdale effectively captures the expansive inland landscape, sparsely populated with the occasional rocky outcrop or patch of …
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# 39208
BARRY, Zachary (1827-1898)
Zachary Barry, minister of St. John’s, Fremantle, Western Australia: autograph letter signed, dated 27 August 1855, re. receipt of a shipment of Bibles from the British and Foreign Bible Society.
[2] pp, quarto (250 x 200 mm), manuscript in ink on unwatermarked writing paper; headed ‘Fremantle, Western Australia, 27 Aug. 1855’, the letter is addressed simply ‘Dear Sir’ and is signed at the foot ‘Yrs. very faithfully, Zachary Barry, Incumbent of St. John’s Church, Fremantle, West Australia’; Barry advises of the safe arrival from London, …
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# 42618
ZIMMER, Jenny
Art of the Absolons : John Absolon of London & John de Mansfield Absolon in Western Australia 1869-1879 (deluxe edition)
Melbourne : Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2020. Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth with pictorial inlay, pp 192, illustrated, in matching slipcase. The deluxe edition, limited to 100 copies signed and numbered by the author. ‘John Absolon was a well-known nineteenth-century London water-colour artist. John de Mansfield Absolon, one of his artist sons, married a daughter of Robert Mace …
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# 42916
[Società Geografica Italiana]
Bollettino della Società Geografica Italiana. [Serie prima:] Anno VII. Volume X. Fascicolo 1, iuglio 1873 – Fascicolo 6, dicembre 1873].
Roma : Stabilimento Giuseppe Civelli, June-December 1873. Six parts in five volumes (as issued), octavo, original printed blue wrappers (some light staining and foxing, early ownership inscription to two of the upper wrappers); pp. 1-120 (with folding colour map showing telegraph communication linking Europe and Asia); 1-92; 1-94; 1-117; 1-74 (with folding lithographed plate of …
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# 34720
[VAN DIEMEN'S LAND. COLLECTOR OF INTERNAL REVENUE]
[TASMANIA; WINE] Licence issued to Messrs. Henty & Company, Launceston, in pursuance of An Act for the Licensing of Wholesale Dealers in Wine and Sprituous Liquors. January 1842.
[Hobart Town : s.n.], 1842. Foolscap folio, 330 x 200 mm, letterpress printed recto only on laid paper with Britannia watermark; the manuscript entries record the successful application by Messrs. Henty & Co., Launceston, for a licence ‘to be a Dealer, under the said Act, In Wine and in Brandy, Rum, Gin, Whiskey, Cordials, and …
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# 41533
VANCOUVER, George, 1757-1798; SPARRMAN, Anders, 1748-1820
En upptäckts-resa till Norra Stilla Hafvet, och kring jordklotet : att på Kongl. Engelsk befallning och omkostnad i synnerhet forska efter något segelbart sammanhang imellan Norra Stilla och Norra Atlantiske Hafven förrättad åhren 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794, 1795, under commando af Capitain George Vancouver. Ifrån engelskan i sammandrag utgifven af Anders Sparrman.
Scarce Swedish edition of Vancouver’s voyage account, being Anders Sparrman’s abridgement of Voyage of discovery to the North Pacific Ocean and round the world (1798). Stockholm : Anders Zetterberg, 1800. Two parts in one volume, small octavo, contemporary half calf over speckled papered boards, spine ruled in gilt with title labels (spine and edges worn and rubbed); contemporary …
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# 32074
WEYGAND, F. J.
Globe artificiel et mécanique a l’usage du petit géographe.
Amsterdam ; La Haye [Netherlands] : F. J. Weygand, [ca.1840]. Collapsible globe in 6 gores, engraved with hand colouring, laid down on thin card, each gore 170 x 70 mm (irregular); in fine condition with vivid original colour, Australia with Terre de Witt, Terre d’Eendracht, Cape Leeuwin, Terre de Nuyts, Golfe de Spencer, Terre de Van …
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# 41961
H. B. ALBERT & CO.
Group of Wardandi Noongar people. Bunbury, Western Australia, early 1900s.
Perth & Bunbury : H. B. Albert & Co., Booksellers, [ca. 1906]. Chromolithographic postcard, 87 x 138 mm, recto with printed caption: ‘Group of Bunbury Aboriginal Natives, W. A.’, and brief inscriptions by the sender at upper left and top edge; verso with more substantial handwritten message (the whole of which must have been written …
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# 30235
MAITLAND, A. (Andrew) Gibb
Bibliography of the geology of Western Australia,
/ by A. Gibb Maitland, Government Geologist (Formerly of the Geological Survey of Queensland). Issued under the Authority of the Hon. E. H. Wittenoom, M.L.C., Minister for Mines. At head of title: 1898. Western Australia. Geological Survey. Perth, WA : Richard Pether, Government Printer, 1898. Series: Geological Survey of Western Australia, Bulletin no. 1. Octavo, original printed wrappers, …
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# 41107
[PRICHARD, Katharine Susannah, 1883-1969]
[SOUND RECORDING] Anna Maria Josephina [and] The Cooboo / read by the author Katharine Susannah Prichard. (Signed)
Perth, W.A. : Australian Peace Committee. West Australian Branch, [1963]. WA-006. Mono 33 1/3 rpm analog sound recording on 7″ microgroove vinyl; the label with the full signature in fountain pen of Katharine Susannah Prichard; vinyl in near mint condition; in the original sleeve, but without the jacket. Australian writer Katharine Susannah Prichard (1883-1969) resided …
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# 40193
WANTRUP, Jonathan
Australian Rare Books 1788 – 1900
Melbourne : Australian Book Auctions, 2023. Second edition, revised and enlarged. Two volumes, 255 x 180 mm, bound in dark green buckram, lettered in gilt, with colour pictorial dustwrappers, pp. 1400, 148 illustrations (43 in colour), glossary of book collecting terms, historical price estimates, indices of persons and titles. Printed and bound in Australia on …
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# 40762
LINTON, James W. R.
James W. R. Linton 1869-1947
[Perth, W.A.] : Western Australian Art Gallery, 1977. Quarto, lettered wrappers, pp. 24, catalogue, essays, illustrations.
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# 40117
MJÖBERG, Eric (1882-1938) et al.
Results of Dr. E. Mjöberg’s Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910-1913. (Twelve individual parts)
Series: Kungliga Svenska vetenskapsakademiens handlingar. Stockholm : Almqvist & Wiksells Boktryckeri, 1918-22. Twelve disbound individual issues, comprising Volume 58 nos. 6, 7, 9; Volume 59 nos. 1, 4; Volume 60 no. 4; Volume 61 nos. 5, 7, 8, 9, 10; Volume 63 no. 6. Uniform large quarto (310 x 250 mm), disbound, illustrated, partially unopened, …