Western Australia
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# 40219
VIVIENNE, May
Travels in Western Australia. Being a description of the various cities and towns, goldfields, and agricultural districts of that state (first edition)
London : William Heinemann, 1901. First edition. Octavo, publisher’s red cloth boards with gilt vignettes and lettering (corners and edges lightly bumped and rubbed), hinges cracked, light foxing to endpapers and preliminaries, pp. xv, 344, frontispiece with black-and-white photographic portrait of the author; illustrated with numerous black-and-white photographic plates; pages uncut, occasional light foxing, a …
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# 40120
MOSSGREEN
Mossgreen Auctions. The Tony Norton & Jann Williams Collection of Australia Indigenous Fine Art. Melbourne, Monday 4 April 2016.
Melbourne : Mossgreen, 2016. Auction catalogue. Small square quarto (240 x 240 mm), pictorial stiff wrappers, pp. 112, with 100 lots, all illustrated in colour, and index of artists; includes paintings by Paddy Bedford, Spinifex Artists, and major Central and Western Desert artists; an excellent copy.
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# 40039
DUYKER, Edward
François Péron : an impetuous life : naturalist and voyager
Carlton, Vic. : The Miegunyah Press, 2006. Series: Miegunyah Press series. Series 2 ; Number 75. Octavo (240 x 160 mm), publisher’s cloth over boards in pictorial dust jacket, xxiii, 349 pp., plus 16 unnumbered pages of plates; maps; a very fine copy of this now scarce book. ‘Presents a balanced assessment of the difficult …
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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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# 39247
HITCHCOCK, J. K. and STEVENS, J. W. B.
The History of Fremantle : the front gate of Australia 1829 – 1929; also the history of the harbour
Fremantle : Fremantle City Council, 1929. Octavo, lettered wrappers (light edge wear), pp. 152, photographic plates (some folding), a couple of very small marks to final leaves, else fine. A rare locally printed history of Fremantle.
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# 39176
CHADWICK, Ross; CRUTHERS, John; LANE, Carly
Spinifex : people of the sun and shadow
/ curators : Ross Chadwick, John Cruthers, Carly Lane. Bentley, W.A. : John Curtin Gallery, 2012. Quarto (275 x 230 mm), pictorial card covers with French flaps, photographic endpapers, 70 pp., colour illustrations; an excellent copy. Now very hard to find, this scholarly and well-illustrated catalogue was produced to accompany an exhibition of art by …
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# 39171
RAFT ARTSPACE
Winpa : Raft, August 2007
Parap, N.T. : Raft Artspace, 2007. Folding card, 210 x 145 mm, [8] panels, illustrated in colour, with a catalogue essay by Emily Rohr; a fine copy. “Raft Artspace & Short St. Gallery present ‘Winpa’ : works by the Yulparitja artists of Bidyadanga, showing August 11 – September 1” (rear panel). The artists whose work …
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# 38510
RITCHIE, Edward Samuel; [GIBBS, Robert]
Catalogue of articles for a whaling voyage.
New Bedford, Massachusetts : E. S. Ritchie, dealer in ship chandlery, and importer of hard-ware. Rodman’s Buildings, No. 61 North Water Street, [ca. 1849]. Octodecimo (160 x 100 mm), original leather-backed stiff wrappers (stained, small loss to leather at tail of spine), the upper wrapper lettered in black and inscribed in ink – evidently in …
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# 37094
Photographer unknown.
Giant ant hill or termite nest, Western Australia. Late 1890s.
Printing-out-paper gelatin silver print, 108 x 114 mm; inscribed in pencil on the verso ‘An Ant-hill, West. Aus.’; in fine condition, unmounted. This photograph was probably taken by an amateur photographer, and is therefore quite possibly a unique image. A NOTE ON THE PRINTING-OUT-PAPER PROCESS ‘A process common from 1860 to 1940, printing-out-paper (POP) uses …
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# 37273
GREENHAM & EVANS
View of Albany, Western Australia, 1894.
Albumen print photograph, 115 x 200 mm, captioned in manuscript in the negative ‘Albany’; unmounted, the verso inscribed in pencil ‘Albany 1894’; fine condition. The State Library of Western Australia, in its Collection of photographs by Greenham & Evans, holds another example of this albumen print (BA129/5). Charles George Greenham (1853-1925) appears to have commenced his career …
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# 36372
ANDERSON, Roderick
Western Australian art : a selection of early works from the Robert Holmes a Court collection (deluxe edition)
Perth, W.A. : Heytesbury Holdings, 1986. Quarto, gilt-lettered calf, dustjacket, pp.80, illustrated, in leather slipcase. The deluxe edition, limited to 100 numbered copies signed by Robert Holmes a Court.
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# 29580
STOW, J[efferson]. P[ickman]. (1830 - 1908)
The voyage of the Forlorn Hope 1865.
Melbourne : George Robertson & Co., 1894. Octavo, lettered wrappers (chipped and torn with loss to spine, repaired by an expert paper conservator), title page with silverfishing and loss, conserved with Japanese tissue, presentation inscription from the author’s daughter to Alfred Rowan dated at Adelaide, 1907 (some loss to the inscription), pp. [vi], 42, (2 …
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# 35908
[NORMAN, James, 1790-1868] SCOTT, Thomas Hobbes, Archdeacon; HILL, Richard, Rev.; ARTHUR, George, Lieutenant-Governor
Official duplicate correspondence re. reimbursement to the Church Missionary Society in Sydney for Rev. James Norman’s passage to Tasmania from England. February-October, 1829.
[Sydney, NSW, 1829]. Manuscript in ink, [3] pp, foolscap folio bifolium; in the hand of a CMS clerk; being duplicate copies of three letters, comprising: 1. Sydney, 17 February 1829. Archdeacon Thomas Hobbes Scott, to the Rev. Richard Hill of the CMS, Sydney; 2. Sydney, 26 August 1829. Rev. Richard Hill, to Archdeacon Thomas Hobbes …
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# 29076
BROSSES, Charles de (1709-1777)
Histoire des navigations aux terres australes
: contenant ce que l’on scait des moeurs & des productions des contrées decouvertes jusqu’à ce jour; & où il est traité de l’utilité d’y faire de plus amples découvertes, & des moyens d’y former un établissement. Paris : Chez Durand, 1756. First edition. Two volumes, quarto (260 x 200 mm), contemporary full calf (boards …
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# 30173
VANCOUVER, George (1757-1798)
A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean, and round the world;
in which the coast of North-West America has been carefully examined and accurately surveyed. Undertaken by his Majesty’s command principally with a view to ascertain the existence of any navigable communication between the North Pacific and North Atlantic Oceans; and performed in the year 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, in the Discovery sloop …
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# 34601
[BIRDWOOD, William Riddell, Field Marshal, 1st Baron Birdwood, 1865-1951]; BIRDWOOD, Christopher Bromhead, 2nd Baron Birdwood, 1899-1962 (compiler)
Birdwood family scrapbook relating to the military service of Field Marshal William Riddell Birdwood (Commander of ANZAC) and his son, Major Christopher Bromhead Birdwood (Aide-de-Camp, Australian Corps). Gallipoli, Western Front and India, 1915-1930.
An important archive containing approximately 50 items of manuscript and printed ephemera (letters, maps, documents and photographs) pertaining to the military service of Field Marshal William Birdwood (1865-1951), commander of ANZAC at Gallipoli in the Great War, and of his son Christopher Bromhead Birdwood (1899-1962), who acted as the Field Marshal’s Aide-de-Camp in France while …