Rare Books

  • Early houses of northern Tasmania

    # 34661

    ROBERTSON, E. Graeme and CRAIG, Edith N.

    Early houses of northern Tasmania

    Melbourne: Georgian House, 1966. Abridged edition. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, price clipped, pp. vii; 323, illustrated. A very good copy of a scarce reference.  

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  • Pioneers of modernism : the arts and crafts movement in Australia

    # 34660

    EDQUIST, Harriet

    Pioneers of modernism : the arts and crafts movement in Australia

    Melbourne : Miegunyah Press, 2008. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 268, illustrated. Out of print and scarce. Between 1890 and 1930, a number of Australian architects and garden designers were heavily influenced by British and American Arts and Crafts movements. This book explores the work of four of Australia’s most radical and innovative Arts and …

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  • Terre Napoleon. Australia through French eyes 1800 - 1804

    # 34659

    HUNT, Susan and CARTER, Paul

    Terre Napoleon. Australia through French eyes 1800 – 1804

    Sydney : Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales in association with Hordern House, 1999. Quarto, illustrated cards, pp. 150, extensively illustrated. Art from the Baudin voyage to Australia. A fine copy.

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  • Rock art of the Kimberley

    # 34648

    DONALDSON, Mike and KENNEALLY, Kevin (editors)

    Rock art of the Kimberley

    Proceedings of the Kimberley Society Rock Art Seminar held at the University of Western Australia, Perth 10 September, 2005. Perth : Kimberley Society, 2007. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 158, illustrated. Contents : Introduction and overview of Kimberley rocka rt /​ Mike Donaldson Rock art as inspiration for contemporary Aboriginal painting /​ Donny Woolagoodja (with an …

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  • Tiger-Wolf & wombat

    # 25162

    Anon.

    Tiger-Wolf & wombat

    Also titled lower centre : Australia (Van Diemen’s Land). Lithograph printed in colour, 173 x 260 mm (image), plate number XXIV upper right, very pale foxing, else fine. Originally published in: Wilde Thiere aller Zonen. Ihre Gewohnheiten und Lebensweise, ihr Nutzen und Schaden in 60 nach der Natur gezeichneten und gemalten Tafeln zum Anschauungs-Unterricht für Schulen und …

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  • A broadside tribute to Charles Darwin's dog

    # 22606

    SPRING, Jessica

    A broadside tribute to Charles Darwin’s dog

    Tacoma [WA] : Springtide Press, 2009. Screenprinted broadside with hand colouring, 145 x 215 mm (image); 355 x 460 mm (sheet), with the printed quote from CHarles Darwin’s On the Origin if Species (1859) ‘I feel most deeply that this whole question of Creation is too profound for human intellect. A dog might as well speculate on …

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  • Relacion breve de la embaxada y presente que la Magestad del Rey Don Felipe

    # 13715

    MORAGA, Hernando de (d. 1620)

    Relacion breve de la embaxada y presente que la Magestad del Rey Don Felipe

    Tercero Rey de las Españas, y Emperador del Nuevo mundo, hizo á Xaabay Rey de Persia clarissimo: la qual embaxada dio Don García de Silua y Figueroa su Embaxador, el año passado de 1618 años, hecha por fray Hernando Moraga, Custodio de la Prouincia de San Gregorio de Felipinas, que se halló presente en la Corte del Persiano, …

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  • [MAORI] Children brought to Christ. = Ka mau-ria nga ta-ma-ri-ki ki Te Ka-rai-ti.

    # 26476

    [JONES, William]

    [MAORI] Children brought to Christ. = Ka mau-ria nga ta-ma-ri-ki ki Te Ka-rai-ti.

    [Sydney, N.S.W. : Jones, Printer, Bridge Street, c.1833]. Broadsheet, 450 x 390 mm, letterpress printed; old horizontal and vertical crease, pale foxing, a very good example. Text in English and Māori. A rare broadside printed around 1833 by William Jones of Bridge Street, Sydney, for use in Church Missionary Society schools. It is a lesson …

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  • Morning Prayer [and] Evening Prayer.

    # 26492

    JONES, William (printer)

    Morning Prayer [and] Evening Prayer.

    Sydney : [William] Jones, Printer, Bridge-street, [circa 1835]. Pair of broadsides, each 450 x 390 mm, printed on letterpress; both examples with an old central horizontal fold and toning, the Morning Prayer sheet with some insect damage around the fold and at top right corner (no loss of text); both unmounted. These rare companion broadsides were …

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  • [THEATRE BROADSIDE] Savage of the Island; Or, the Orang Outang

    # 1774

    Theatre, Northampton

    [THEATRE BROADSIDE] Savage of the Island; Or, the Orang Outang

    Single printed sheet (470 x 170 mm). 'For the Benefit of M. Gouffee…On Monday August 8th, 1831…Savage of the Island; Or, the Orang Outang….Lieut. Falkner (shipwrecked on the island), Mr. Green. Kantibuo, a Savage-chief, Mr. Millton. Omolo, Mr. Connor. Kanko, Mr. Cook. Boatswain, Mr. Owen. Spritsall, Mr. Spencer. Orang Outang, M. Gouffee, In which he …

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  • [PETER CAREY] Then he crept up the stairs. (Signed broadside)

    # 2597

    [Burke's Book Store; Terry Chouinard, designer]

    [PETER CAREY] Then he crept up the stairs. (Signed broadside)

    and, on the upper landing, drew his long arms around his chest. … Memphis, TN : Handprinted by Terry Choinard of the Wing & the Wheel Press, Tuscaloosa, Alabama [for Burke’s Book Store], 1998. ONE OF ONLY 100 NUMBERED COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR (number 68). Broadside, 480 x 155 mm, featuring an extract from Carey’s ‘Jack Maggs‘ …

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  • Natural Curiosity : unseen art of the First Fleet.

    # 34645

    ANEMAAT, Louise

    Natural Curiosity : unseen art of the First Fleet.

    Sydney : State Library of New South Wales, 2014. Quarto, illustrated limp boards, pp. 256, illustrated. A sense of awe swept through natural history circles in 18th-century London when the first ships returned from Sydney with their cargo of exotic animals, birds, and plants—and striking watercolor illustrations. The sudden emergence, in 2011, of a large …

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  • Sydney views 1788-1888 from the Beat Knoblauch collection

    # 34644

    HUNT, Susan and DAVISON, Graeme

    Sydney views 1788-1888 from the Beat Knoblauch collection

    Sydney : Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, 2007. Quarto, illustrated gatefold wrappers, pp. 144, illustrated. Fine copy.

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  • [CHILDREN’S] Un oncle d’Australie

    # 34643

    PECH, Émile

    [CHILDREN’S] Un oncle d’Australie

    Paris : Ancienne Libraire Furne, Jouvet &​ Cie, 5 rue Palatine, [c 1895]. Quarto, contemporary half red cloth over marbled boards, spine with gilt lettering, (joints weakened, edges rubbed with chips to spine), 286 pp (scattered foxing), illustrated with 73 gravures in the text. A fair copy. A French children’s story in which much of …

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  • Dream walls

    # 34636

    LETI Bruno (1941 - ); PESSOA, Fernando (1888 - 1935)

    Dream walls

    Melbourne : the artist, 2018. Octavo, printed gatefold wrappers, pp. 114, photographs and images by Bruno Leti. Printed in a small run of unnumbered copies. Signed by the artist. Images of Roman walls at Herculaneum and Pompeii taken by the artist with his painted responses.

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  • The drawings of Ruby Lind (Mrs. Will Dyson)

    # 34621

    [RUBY LINDSAY, 1887-1919]

    The drawings of Ruby Lind (Mrs. Will Dyson)

    London : Cecil Palmer, 1920. Quarto, buckram over papered boards (light scuff marks), gilt title, 51 pp, illustrated in black and white and colour. Bookplate to front pastedown of Molly Coen, sister of Margaret Coen (who designed the bookplate) and friend of the Lindsay family. A very good copy. This work, available only to subscribers, …

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