Sydney bridge celebrations, 1932

Sydney : Art in Australia Ltd., 1932. Quarto, illustrated wrappers with silver highlights (staples slightly rusted, as usual), slight edge wear, pp. 80. illustrated, colour advertisements. A fine Australian art deco publication. A bright copy.

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Views from the balcony. A biography of Catherine Duncan.

Melbourne : Macmillan, 2014. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, pp. 222, illustrated. New copy. This is the remarkable and revealing story of Catherine Duncan, a leading Australian actress and playwright during the golden years of radio, the winner along with Peter Finch of the 1947 Macquarie Award and Australias first official female…

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A leaf from the Gutenberg Bible

[Mainz : Johannes Gutenberg, circa 1454-55]. Single folio leaf. 371 x 300 mm, printed on recto and verso, black gothic lettering of forty-two lines in double columns, large two-line initial letters rubricated in red; light foxing and very small edge chips, remnants of binding along one edge with tiny fragments of…

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[HAWAII; CALIFORNIA] Viaggio intorno al globo principalmente alla California ed alle isole Sandwich negli anni 1826, 1827, 1828 e 1829

di A. Duhaut-Cilly con l’aggiunta delle osservazioni degli abitanti di quei paesi di Paolo Emilio Botta ; traduzione dal francese nell’ italiano di Carlo Botta. Torino : Stabilimento Tipografico Fontana, 1841. First Italian edition. (Note: although the imprint on the bindings is dated 1843, the title pages of both volumes…

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Tarot and Divination Cards : a visual archive

New York : Abrams, 2021. Small quarto, illustrated boards, pp. 400, extensively illustrated. New copy. Used for self-exploration or divination, Tarot has, for more than a 500 years, been the most popular and accessible of all esoteric tools, looming large in today’s mainstream culture. Why? Because the cards are inexpensive…

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[BIBLE. TAHITIAN] Te Bibilia moa ra, oia te oia te Faufaa Tahito e te Faufaa Api ra : iritihia ei parau Tahiti. E ua faa au maite hia i na parau tumu ra, e ua hope hoi i te faa titiaifaro hia.

Lonedona : Neia e William Watts, na te Taieti Bibilia i Beritani e te mau penua ‘toa i faa tupu hia i Lonedona ra i te Matahiti 1804, 1847. [London : William Watts, for The British and Foreign Bible Society, 1847]. Thick octavo (217 x 135 mm), contemporary panelled calf by…

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A group of twenty-four stereoscopic views of rock formations and other topographical features along the coastline of southwest Victoria, circa 1865.

[Melbourne : Age Office, circa 1865]. Twenty-four stereoscopic albumen print photographs, each image approximately 80 x 80 mm (arched format), on original yellow card mounts, 90 x 170 mm, versos with original paper labels printed with the series title ‘AUSTRALIAN SCENERY’ and the photographer’s information ‘Chas. Walter. Photographic Artist to…

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The chronicles of early Melbourne, 1835 to 1852. Historical, anecdotal and personal, by “Garryowen”

Centennial edition with portraits and illustrations. Melbourne : Fergusson and Mitchell, 1888. First edition. Two volumes, quarto, gilt-decorated roan (edges rubbed, as commonly found), all edges gilt, pen inscription to preliminary blank, pp. xiv; 1000, numerous lithographed illustrations, the occasional spot of foxing, overall a very good set, uncommon in this…

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Governor Davey’s Proclamation to the Aborigines, 1816.

[Circa 1890]. Watercolour and ink on paper, 400 x 235 mm (image), 460 x 290 mm (sheet), with calligraphic caption in black ink at head of image (erroneously attributing the Proclamation to Governor Davey) surmounting four illustrations separated by ink-ruled lines; these pictorial sequences are intended to be read from…

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[ABORIGINAL WELFARE] One people : 1961

Box Hill, Vic. : Printed by the Dominion Press, [1961]. Octavo (195 mm), pictorial wrappers, stapled; pp 32, b/w photographic illustrations throughout; a fine copy. ‘Prepared under the authority of the Minister for Territories, with the co-operation of the Ministers responsible for aboriginal welfare in the Australian States, for use…

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Pictures of the gone world. (Inscribed, with a drawing, by Ferlinghetti for Geoffrey and Ninette Dutton)

San Francisco : City Lights Books, 1969. Fifteenth printing. Series: The Pocket Poets Series, Number one. Square duodecimo (160 x 125 mm), printed yellow and black wrappers, a presentation copy inscribed on the front free-endpaper by the poet in black texta ‘To Nin + Geoffrey at Old Anlaby, March 1972’,…

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The voyage of the ‘Discovery’

London : Smith, Elder & Co., 1905. Two volumes, octavo, gilt lettered cloth with gilt medallions on upper boards (corners bumped, edges slightly worn), top edges gilt, fore edge foxed, pp xx, 556; xii, 508; photogravure frontispieces, numerous plates, folding maps in endpockets. A very good set of one of…

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New Acquisitions March 2022

TURNER, Ethel (Mrs. H. R. Curlewis) (1870 - 1958)

Seven little Australians

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[CAXTON, William, c. 1422 - c. 1491]; HIGDEN, Ranulf, c. 1280 - 1364 (

A leaf from William Caxton’s Polychronicon, printed in 1482.

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[PAGE, Harlan]

Memoir of Thomas Hamitah Patoo : a native of the Marquesas Islands, who died June 19, 1823, while a member of the Foreign Mission School in Cornwall, Connecticut.

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Maker unknown.

An elaborately carved seventeenth-century oak ‘Bible box’.

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