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  • Studio portrait of Robert Moffatt, LMS missionary in Southern Africa. London, late 1860s.

    # 46750

    THE LONDON STEREOSCOPIC & PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPANY

    Studio portrait of Robert Moffatt, LMS missionary in Southern Africa. London, late 1860s.

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 102 x 63 mm (mount); recto of mount with printed signature of Robert Moffatt to lower margin; verso with the back mark of the London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company; both the print and the mount are in excellent condition. ‘Robert Moffatt (Ormiston, East Lothian, Scotland, December 21, 1795-Leigh, …

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  • View of Scott's Hotel, Collins Street West, Melbourne, c.1880.

    # 46586

    [Photographer unknown].

    View of Scott’s Hotel, Collins Street West, Melbourne, c.1880.

    Albumen print photograph, 155 x 205 mm, laid down recto of card mount (250 x 360 mm) removed from a nineteenth-century album, with a contemporary caption in ink below the image: ‘Melbourne. Scotts Hotel, Collins Street West’; no photographer’s imprint; a beautiful print with excellent tonal range, in fine condition; verso with a faded albumen …

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  • Photograph of a portrait painting of Captain Henry Sinclair, explorer and founder of Port Denison (Bowen), Queensland.

    # 46587

    [SINCLAIR, Henry Daniel 1818-1868] [Photographer unknown]

    Photograph of a portrait painting of Captain Henry Sinclair, explorer and founder of Port Denison (Bowen), Queensland.

    Gelatin silver print photograph, produced around 1900, of a portrait painting dating to around 1865; cabinet card format, 185 x 135 mm (mount); no photographer’s imprint; old pencil inscription verso identifies the subject as ‘Captain Sinclair, who discovered Port Denison’; 4cm tear lower left edge (not affecting the oval portrait itself), small loss at each …

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  • Carte de visite commemorating Captain Edward Knowles and the emigrant ship "Northfleet", lost in the English Channel on 22 January 1873 en route to Hobart, Tasmania.

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    THE LONDON STEREOSCOPIC & PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPANY

    Carte de visite commemorating Captain Edward Knowles and the emigrant ship “Northfleet”, lost in the English Channel on 22 January 1873 en route to Hobart, Tasmania.

    Albumen print photograph, 102 x 63 mm (mount); lower margin recto with printed caption: ‘Captain Knowles. Lost in the Northfleet off Dunganess, Jan. 22 1873’; verso with The London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company’s backmark; the print has a couple of light marks; the verso of the mount has some residual glue marks at the edges. …

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  • Poems and letters

    # 46668

    GRAY, Thomas (1716 - 1771)

    Poems and letters

    London : Chiswick Press, 1879. Quarto, full polished calf by Riviere and Sons, with their binder’s stamp, spine in compartments with raised bands, ruled and ornamented in gilt, contrasting morocco title label lettered in gilt, light edge rubbing and a few small stamps, all edges gilt, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, foxing to preliminaries, pp. xvi; …

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  • [MAP] Plan de terrains appartenant à la Société Foncière du Paraguay

    # 45874

    KRIESS, Frederico

    [MAP] Plan de terrains appartenant à la Société Foncière du Paraguay

    Paris : Maison Andriveau-Goujon, [c.1906]. Colour map, 1000 x 860 mm, dissected and laid on canvas; the map is in superb condition and folds into its original pebbled cloth chemise, 175 x 260 mm, which in turn is housed in the original cloth slipcase (mild edge and corner wear) with contrasting title piece lettered in …

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  • The complete letters of Vincent van Gogh : with reproductions of all the drawings in the correspondence

    # 46724

    van GOGH, Vincent (1853 - 1890)

    The complete letters of Vincent van Gogh : with reproductions of all the drawings in the correspondence

    Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 2001. A Bulfinch Press Book. Third edition, second printing. Three volumes, octavo, blue buckram lettered in gilt on the spine, with gilt decoration, pp. lxviii; 559; 625; 625, illustrations, a fine set housed in the publisher’s buckram slipcase. ‘One of the most important and powerful works in the literature …

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  • Les Heures de la Cour, contenant la Ste. Messe, les Vêpres et l'Office des grandes fêtes en français et en latin en gros caractères ornées de 4 jolies figures

    # 46405

    Les Heures de la Cour, contenant la Ste. Messe, les Vêpres et l’Office des grandes fêtes en français et en latin en gros caractères ornées de 4 jolies figures

    Paris : chez Saintin, libraire, rue de Bussy, no. 15, au premier, [c.1805]. Duodecimo (133 x 82 mm), contemporary red straight-grained morocco decorated in gilt (boards lightly marked; corners worn; spine ends softened; some wear along the outer hinges); all edges gilt; marbled endpapers, two separate title-pages (both bearing the same imprint), one with vignette …

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  • Old Korea : the land of morning calm

    # 46700

    KEITH, Elizabeth (illustrator); SCOTT, Elspet Keith Robertson (text)

    Old Korea : the land of morning calm

    London : Hutchinson & Co., 1946. Quarto, decorated cloth in dustjacket (worn, chips with losses, old tape repairs), pp. 72, colour frontispiece, illustrated with colour and black and white plates, preliminaries foxed, internally fine. Scarce, a very good copy in the flimsy dustjacket, an important illustrated account of Korea.

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  • Relance da historia do Japão.

    # 42469

    Moraes, Wenceslau de (1854-1929)

    Relance da historia do Japão.

    Porto : Maranus, 1924. First edition. Octavo, later half red calf over marbled papered boards, spine with raised bands and gilt decoration and lettering; later silk endpapers and bookplate of Fernando Alves Barata; original wrappers bound in, the upper wrapper with tipped-on photographic illustration; pp. 299, [6], with one map; fine copy.

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  • Relance da alma japoneza. (Special edition limited to 200 copies)

    # 42471

    Moraes, Wenceslau de (1854-1929)

    Relance da alma japoneza. (Special edition limited to 200 copies)

    Lisbon : Portugal-Brasil and Arthur Brandão (1925 or 1926). Octavo, later half red calf over marbled papered boards, spine with raised bands and gilt decoration and lettering; later silk endpapers and bookplate of Fernando Alves Barata; original wrappers bound in, the upper wrapper with illustration, the lower with publisher’s ads.; pp. 256, [4]; edition limited to …

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  • Relance da alma japoneza.

    # 42462

    Moraes, Wenceslau de (1854-1929)

    Relance da alma japoneza.

    Lisbon : Portugal-Brasil and Arthur Brandão (1925 or 1926). Octavo, later half calf, spine with gilt decoration and contrasting leather title-piece lettered in gilt; original wrappers bound in, the upper wrapper with illustration, the lower with publisher’s ads.; pp. 256, [4]; half-title with early ownership signature; fine copy.

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  • Malaya 1950

    # 46016

    Surveyor General

    Malaya 1950

    [Kuala Lumpur] : Surveyor General, Malaya, 1950. Map, printed in colour, 990 x 720 mm (sheet), laid on linen, in plain card boards, fine. A highly detailed map of the newly formed Federation of Malaya on (established 1 February 1948), including the separate state of Singapore, with an inset map ‘Malaya and adjacent territories’.  

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  • Penang : pearl of the orient

    # 46601

    PENANG DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION

    Penang : pearl of the orient

    [Georgetown] : Penang Development Corporation, circa 1975. Tourist brochure, DL size, printed in colour, pp. [10], photographs.

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  • [SYDNEY] The prevalent forms and causes of Sabbath desecration.

    # 46207

    McINTYRE, William (1805-1870); HOWE, Robert Charles (1820-1875), publisher

    [SYDNEY] The prevalent forms and causes of Sabbath desecration.

    Sydney : R. Howe, “Gazette” office, Lower George-street, [1841]. At head of title: Lecture III. Duodecimo, original plain blue wrappers, hand-sewn, 24 pp; a fine copy. Ferguson, 3244. The third in the series Lectures on the Sabbath, which was also published, along with lectures by John Dunmore Lang, M.T. Adam, James Fullerton, and John Tait, in …

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  • Early Toorak and district

    # 46713

    ROBB, E. M.

    Early Toorak and district

    Melbourne : Robertson & Mullens Limited, 1934. Oblong quarto (190 x 250 mm), lettered cloth (boards lightly stained and flecked); pp. 137, illustrated throughout with b/w photographic plates, gift inscription to front free endpaper, blind stamps to half-title and title pages, light foxing to preliminaries, a good copy. Scarce photographically-illustrated history of Toorak and the …

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