New Acquisitions
We are pleased to present our New Acquisitions list for March, a selection of 200+ items. Happy browsing!
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# 33890
TURNER, Ethel (Mrs. H. R. Curlewis) (1870 - 1958)
Seven little Australians
Illustrated by A. J. Johnson. London : Ward, Lock & Bowden, Limited, 1894. First edition. Octavo, gilt-decorated pictorial cloth, (edges rubbed, recased and endpapers replaced), black and white frontispiece, pp. 240; 16 (publisher’s catalogue), black and white plates and text illustrations, wet stamp of Mrs. Sawley’s Book Exchange of Albert Park to half-title and p. …
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# 34254
[CAXTON, William, c. 1422 - c. 1491]; HIGDEN, Ranulf, c. 1280 - 1364 (
A leaf from William Caxton’s Polychronicon, printed in 1482.
Westminster : William Caxton, between 2 July and 8 October 1482. Single leaf from Liber Quartus, f. CCii, 37 lines and headline (recto) and 40 lines and headline (verso), 274 x 206 mm (leaf), rubricated in red, with very early marginalia (several red inked notational marks likely done around the time of printing, and a …
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# 34378
[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.
New York : American Tract Society, 144 Nassau-street, [1829]. At foot of wrapper title: Series IV., no. 1. Duodecimo (132 x 85 mm), illustrated yellow wrappers, stitch bound; original owner’s name (Charles A. Pierce, Groton, Mass.) to both sides of the upper wrapper; lower wrapper with publisher’s advertisement and Fanshaw, printer at foot; pp 36, …
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# 34286
Maker unknown.
An elaborately carved seventeenth-century oak ‘Bible box’.
English (?) oak box with elaborately carved foliation in relief, 265 mm tall x 485 mm wide x 430 mm deep, with iron reinforcements to the corners of lid and sides of the box, two iron handles, the lid with the lettered ‘IHS KMD’ in relief and the front panel with carved date ‘ANO 1647’; …
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# 34457
[Max Harris; Sidney Nolan; James McGuire; Harry Roskolenko]
Angry Penguins Broadsheet : a complete set of ten issues
Editors: Max Harris, nos. 1-10; James McGuire, nos. 1-9; Sidney Nolan, nos. 2-9; Harry Roskolenko, no. 10. [Melbourne : Reed & Harris, 1946]. Ten issues, no. 1 (Jan. 1946) – no. 10 (Dec. 1946), large octavo, staple-bound, pictorial wrappers, illustrated; a very good complete set. The Angry Penguins Broadsheet was an offshoot of Max Harris’ …
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# 34328
HUTCHISON & CO. (ELITE PHOTO CO.)
Aboriginal group, including a man wearing a king plate and a Queensland Native Police tracker aiming a rifle. Brisbane, circa 1885.
Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 163 x 108 mm (mount); recto with imprint of ‘Hutchison & Co., Elite [Photo Co.], 8 Queen St., Brisbane’; the print has some pale foxing scattered around the margins; the mount is clean and stable. This group portrait was taken in a photographer’s studio, presumably that of Eddie Hutchison’s …
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# 34212
MENPES, Mortimer and Dorothy
Brittany
London : Adam & Charles Black, 1905. Quarto, gilt-lettered decorated cloth over bevelled boards (lightly marked), top edge gilt, others uncut, endpapers foxed, pp. x; 254, illustrated with 75 colour plates with captioned tissue guards, occasional scattered foxing, a very good copy. The edition de luxe, limited to 350 numbered copies signed by Mortime Menpes. …
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# 34438
WARD, R. H.
A drug-taker’s notes (the author’s own signed lending copy)
London : Victor Gollancz, 1957. Octavo, lettered boards (sunned at head and foot of spine) in dustjacket (chipped and torn with loss, old tape repairs), occasional scattered foxing. Ward’s landmark study of the effects of L.S.D. recording the six times the author took the psychotrope under medical supervision. One of the earliest books about acid …
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# 34264
BATES, John
Manuscript letter written by an American fortune seeker during the Port Curtis gold rush. Sent from Gladstone, Queensland to New York, May, 1859.
Entire letter, bifolium, 260 x 205 mm, folding to 80 x 130 mm, with an enclosed sheet; at the top corner of the first side is the embossed stamp of Sydney stationers Smith & Hinton; [3] pp of manuscript in brown ink; headed ‘Port Curtiss [sic] May 24th ’59‘ and signed at the foot ‘Your affectionate …
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# 34198
SALGARI, Emilio (1862-1911)
Au Pôle sud à bicyclette
Traduction de l’Italien par J. Fargeau ; illustrations de Cazenove et Fontanez. Paris : Delagrave, c. 1908. Quarto, original pictorial boards gilt (lightly rubbed), pictorial spine with gilt lettering and decoration (rubbed), all edges gilt, 240 pp, illustrated; a very good copy. Text in French. A translation from the Italian of Salgari’s Al Polo Australe …
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# 33706
THOMPSON, D. (Duncan) Lindsay
Blue Brander : a story of adventure and Australian school life
London and Melbourne : Ward Lock & Co., 1927. First edition. Thick octavo (190 x 130 mm), pictorial cloth (some flecking to to both boards, but otherwise bright and unmarked), front free-endpaper with school prize certificate dated 1946, pp 313, [6 publisher’s advertisements], illustrated with numerous b/w plates; light foxing to half title, else very …
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![[WARHOL] Aspen : the magazine in a box. Vol. 1, No. 3, ‘The Pop Art Issue’.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/02/25164227/2022_DSFB_1068-300x300.jpg)
# 34389
WARHOL, Andy; DALTON, David; JOHNSON, Phyllis (editor)
[WARHOL] Aspen : the magazine in a box. Vol. 1, No. 3, ‘The Pop Art Issue’.
Cover title: Now Aspen in an all new fab issue. Vol. 1 no. 3. New York : Roaring Fork Press, December 1966. Box with colour graphic based on Fab laundry detergent, 310 x 230 x 20 mm (edge wear and splits at corners), containing a flip-book of Warhol’s film Kiss and Jack Smith’s film Buzzards …
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# 34191
ELEFTHERIADES, Efstratios (TÉRIADE)
Verve : Vol. VIII, No. 29/30. Suite de 180 dessins de Picasso
Paris : Éditions de la revue Verve, 1954. Distributed in Great Britain and the Dominions by A. Zwemmer Ltd. Quarto, papered boards with Picasso illustration designed for this publication (spine and upper board sunned, edges rubbed and split to head of spine), pp. [204], text by Tériade, Michel Leiris and Rebecca West, illustrated with heliogravure reproductions …
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# 34502
QUIN, Tarella; OUTHWAITE, Ida Rentoul (ill.)
Before the lamps are lit
Melbourne : George Robertson & Co., [1911]. Oblong quarto, illustrated cloth boards (minor rubbing), inscription on front endpaper, pp 189. A compilation of six children’s stories with engravings by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite. Muir 1907.
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# 28984
BRODIE, Alexander (photographer, attributed); [CLARKE, Jacob Richard, 1822-1893, publisher?]
Views of Sydney.
[1879-1880]. Photograph album. Small oblong quarto, 210 x 275 mm, original half green morocco over black pebbled cloth boards (lightly rubbed) with double gilt rule, upper board lettered in gilt ‘Views of Sydney’, spine with raised bands in gilt; all edges gilt, silk pastedowns and linen endpapers; containing 29 albumen print photographs in identical 150 …
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# 34318
DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882)
The origin of species
by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. London : John Murray, 1888. Sixth edition, with additions and corrections (thirty-fifth thousand). Octavo, original publisher’s gilt-lettered green cloth (slightly canted, edges rubbed, small tears to head and foot of spine) original endpapers (book label to front pastedown, stationer’s blindstamp …