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Bataille de Dorking, Invasion des Prussiens en Angleterre.
Paris: Henri Plon, 1871. Duodecimo, quarter red-brown morocco. Early French edition of Chesney's electrifying tale of the German invasion of England. Its depiction of the humiliation of the English in battle, but also the crushing despair of life under German rule, positions this work as one of the most important...
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$785.00
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Ref: #3006529
Letters written by the Late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope…
London: John Nichols, 1800. Four volumes, octavo; title pages with armorial ownership stamp; in a fine contemporary binding of tree calf, flat spines gilt, double morocco labels. A most attractive set of this famous book. Chesterfield (1694-1773) is chiefly remembered as the author of these famous Letters, begun in 1737...
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$2,700.00
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Ref: #3409291
N. Chevalier's Album of Chromo Lithographs.
Melbourne: C. Troedel, 1865.
Pioneering chromlithograpy depicting the wilderness regions of Victoria
Imperial folio; 12 unnumbered chromolithographs mounted on stiff white sheets, with Troedel's blind-stamped mark in the margins and printed captions on the verso of each plate; original cloth portfolio lettered as above on front cover. Melbourne, C. Troedel...
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$16,500.00
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Ref: #3705993
The Answer.
Melbourne: Australasian Authors' Agency, 1911. Octavo, 80 pp. (last blank), frontispiece; a few old library stamps and scattered pithy marginalia; original printed wrappers. Uncommon Melbourne-printed first edition of one of the most eccentric Australian publications: much republished, this first edition includes the notorious folding colour frontispiece depicting criminal, lunatic and...
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$500.00
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Ref: #4103469
An Outpost In Papua.
London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1911.
"A picture which grips the imagination"
Octavo, black & white photographic illustrations; original green cloth. Day by day account of a missionary's life in Papua. The Archbishop of Brisbane, in his preface, says of the book "the freshness and humour, the varying moods, and...
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$210.00
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Ref: #2710203
Alfred Dudley; or, The Australian Settlers.
London: Harvey & Darton, 1830. Duodecimo, with an engraved frontispiece and three plates;, in the original quarter red roan with marbled boards, First edition: considered the first novel of Australia. This is an exemplary copy of the very scarce first edition, bound with the advertisements in the publisher's roan-backed marbled...
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$6,750.00
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Ref: #3308859
Les Buffon des Enfans ou Histoire des Animaux…
Paris: Martial Ardant freres, 1851. Small octavo, woodcuts throughout; original embossed boards. French natural history primer with two pages dedicated to the kangaroo.
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$575.00
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Ref: #2909748
Scenes in Asia: For the Amusement & Instruction of Little Tarry-At-Home Travellers.
London: Harris, 1821. Octavo with a folding frontispice map, 84 hand-coloured engravings on 28 plates (three on each); original printed boards. Second edition of this children's study of Asian lands. Each engraving is numbered and complimented by a corresponding description. The pictures and text cover a number of Asian countries...
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$750.00
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Ref: #3002961
An Historical Account of the Embassy to the Emperor of China…
London: J. Stockdale, 1797.
The Macartney embassy to China
Octavo, folding map; contemporary sprinkled calf. An attractive copy of the reduced octavo version of the official narrative of the important Macartney embassy to China, by which the British sought to establish formal diplomatic and commercial relations. Staunton served as a....
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$2,750.00
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Ref: #2909765
Chinese and Gold Fields Revenue, Belvoir; and Customs, Murray.
Melbourne: John Ferres, Government printer, 1 March, 1860.
Revenue from Chinese gold-miners.
Single foolscap sheet. 'Statement of the amount of Chinese and gold fields revenue collected at Belvoir, from the date of Mr. Hanify's appointment as Chinese protector to the present time, and statement relating to the collection of customs...
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$150.00
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Ref: #4108182
The Caroline Islands. Travel in the sea of the little lands.
London: Methuen & Co., 1899.
The journal of a searcher in a "sea of small islands"
Octavo, frontispiece and numerous photo-plates throughout, three plans and two folding maps; publisher's decorated green cloth with gilt spine lettering;. The author was Robert Louis Stevenson's neighbour in Samoa between 1890 and 1893 whilst...
Price (AUD):
$395.00
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Ref: #3602289
A Cabinet of Quadrupeds [Large Paper Copy] …
London: Darton and Harvey, 1794-1805.
Superb Large Paper example in fine contemporary binding
Two volumes, folio, 402 x 266 mm, with 84 engraved images, engraved and printed title-pages; contemporary green straight-grained morocco, ornately decorated in gilt and blind with complex borders and panels to sides and spines, stylish dark grey...
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$5,500.00
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Ref: #4504492
A Collection of Voyages and Travels.
London: John Walthoe, 1732.
Churchill's great voyage collection, complete
Eight volumes, folio, comprising two works in matching bindings, containing some 213 engraved plates including work by Herman Moll, Johannes Kip, and others (many double-page or folding), engraved and woodcut illustrations throughout; late eighteenth-century Russia, marbled edges. A splendid set of...
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$44,000.00
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Ref: #3706073
Love's Last Shift or, the Fool in Fashion. A Comedy.
London: H. Rhodes, et al. 1696.
Before Laureateship
Quarto; in a vellum by Riviere. First edition of Cibber's first play. Colley Cibber (1671-1757) was himself an actor, especially noted for playing lead roles, most usually fops. Eventually he became a leading player/manager in Drury Lane, as well as the author...
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$650.00
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Ref: #2408076
Marci Tullii Ciceronis Opera quae extant Omnia ex MSS. codicibus emendata…
Lyon: Vander Aa, 1692.
Handsome uniform panelled calf binding
Eleven volumes, duodecimo, the first with four engraved folding plates, and all eleven volumes embellished with charming ornamental title-pages; a handsome set in mid eighteenth-century panelled calf with original labels. Attractively bound set of Cicero in eleven volumes, noted as 'respectable...
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$2,450.00
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Ref: #3306804
Foreign Field Sports, Fisheries, Sporting Anecdotes…
London: Edward Orme, circa 1823.
The anonymous work of John Lewin?
Quarto, pp. with 110 hand coloured aquatints (including the New South Wales plates), a good copy in ornate contemporary gilt decorated deep green morocco with all edges gilt. An attractive copy of one of the outstanding aquatint books of...
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$8,000.00
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Ref: #3911447
Foreign Field Sports, Fisheries, Sporting Anecdotes…
London: Edward Orme, 1814.
Famous colourplate book including a section on the Aborigines of NSW
Quarto, 160 pages letterpress without pagination, 100 handcoloured aquatints with the 1813 New South Wales supplement bound at rear (this comprising separate title-page, dedication leaf, 10 handcoloured aquatints and 14 letterpress pages); a fine copy...
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$17,500.00
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Ref: #4205932
Field Sports, &c. &c. of the Native Inhabitants of New South Wales with ten plates by the Author.
London: Edward Orme, 1813.
Dedicated to Bligh: the first book on the Australian Aborigines
Quarto, 10 coloured aquatints; modern half calf, spine gilt-titled. A very good copy of the first issue of this important Australian plate book.This was the first work to be published on the Australian Aborigines. Clark dedicated...
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$7,500.00
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Ref: #4503983
Simple Abstract of the Geography and History of Tasmania…
Launceston: Hudson & Hopwood, circa 1871. Octavo, frontispiece folding colour map, author's presentation dated 1872; original green cloth. Author's presentation copy of this rare Launceston-printed primer on the history and geography of Tasmania.The author begins by describing the physical characteristics of the Island, flora and fauna. Then goes on to...
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$885.00
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Ref: #3006546
Australian Album 1857.
Sydney: J.R. Clarke, 1857.
The first music album published in New South Wales
Large quarto, with a total of ten lithographic plates, including the illustrated title-page and frontispiece; comprising eight musical scores with introductory letterpress (preface and contents leaves); a very good copy in original red cloth decorated in gilt...
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$6,500.00
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Ref: #4308572
Les Animaux Sauvages.
Paris: circa 1940.
A primer
Colour printed cloth book measuring 230 x 115, stitch sewn and folded to form four pages with illustrated covers. Vibrant French natural history primer for young children, with a kangaroo; old cloth books such as this example are typically worn and ravaged, making this fine example most unusual.
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$275.00
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Ref: #2810766
Cockatoo Island, and other Penal Establishments…
Sydney: Thomas Richards, 1866. Foolscap folio, 9pp.; in recent binder's cloth. Cockatoo Island was established as a penal settlement in 1839, by Governor Gipps primarily to alleviate the overcrowding on Norfolk Island. Three years after this report was published the settlement was closed in 1869 and the prisoners transferred to Darlinghurst Gaol.
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$275.00
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Ref: #3205440
Charge of the Lord Chief Justice of England to the Grand Jury at the Central Criminal Court in the Case…
London: William Ridgway, 1867.
Court martial of George William Gordon in the Jamaica uprising
Octavo, 166 pp.; in publisher's gilt lettered cloth. Second edition. Details legal proceedings brought against Colonel Nelson and Lieutenant Brand for their role in the court martial trial, and subsequent execution, of George William Gordon during...
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$600.00
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Ref: #4106118
Nomenclature of South Australia.
Adelaide: W.K. Thomas & Co., 1908. Octavo, with two frontispiece portraits; in the original handsome decorated boards. History of South Australian place names.
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$200.00
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Ref: #4108102