Melbourne Rare Book Fair

BECKETT, Samuel. The Unnamable.

$2150

London: Calder & Boyars (1975). First UK edition. 132 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Translated by Beckett from his original French text. The first separate publication of this novel in the UK. SIGNED by Beckett on the title page.

"INDIA ORIENTALIS" cum Adjacentibus Insulis Nova Delineatione ob oculos posita. MATTHAÜS SEUTTER, c.1742.

$2250

Sartoni Antique Prints

"INDIA ORIENTALIS" cum Adjacentibus Insulis Nova Delineatione ob oculos posita. c.1742. MATTHAÜS SEUTTER (Augsburg 1678- 1757) COPPER ENGRAVING [with contemporary hand-colouring] The map extends from China, Japan and Persia in the North and in the south stretching from The Maldives east to Northern Australia. Of note, Australia continues to be attached to Nova Guinea, albeit with some hesitation, as the image extends outside the inner neat-line to convey this information - even though 20+ names are confidently engraved around Northern Australia Coastline...

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WASHBOURNE, Thomas: A collection of 24 carte-de-visite portrait photographs of Indigenous Australians, circa 1860s, most from the Yarra Valley and North-East Victoria

$45000

Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers

The Aboriginal portraits of Thomas Jeston Washbourne (1832-1905) are rare on the open market and in institutional holdings. The images comprise a series of ten tableaux taken in or near Wangaratta around 1866, and fourteen further portraits, most likely taken at Coranderrk Aboriginal Station (and almost certainly also by Washbourne)

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Sweeney Reed. Moments of Mind [Keepsakekeep e]

$750

Mount of Alex - Arapiles Mountain Books

1st Edition 1977. St Kilda: Tolarno Galleries. 16mo. original printed paper wraps; pp. [iv], with photo portrait. Catalogue from the artist's first solo exhibition of prints held May 25th - June 17th 1977. No. 74 of 120 copies signed by Sweeney Reed, with offset-lithographic print on front cover. Rare self-published 'keepsake' from the boy at the centre of the Heide circle 'who had five parents or maybe none at all' (The Age). He took his life two years later aged 35. A fine copy.

Flora Australasica; or a selection of handsome or curious plants, natives of New Holland, and the South Sea Islands

$6500

Andrew Isles Natural History Books

Sweet, Robert. London: James Ridgway, [1827-1838]. Octavo, 56 handcoloured engraved plates with accompanying leaves and interleaving. Modern half morocco with gilt spine and cloth covered boards, a handsome crisp copy. One of the most attractive of all Australian botanical books and the first to use live specimens for illustration instead of dried plants or field sketches. The species depicted were all grown from seed in London nurseries.

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Thomas Watling: Limner of Dumfries

$1200

Andrew Isles Natural History Books

Gladstone, Hugh S. Sydney: Reprinted for private circulation, from the Transactions of the Dumfrieesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society, 1938. Large octavo, 76 pp., uncoloured plates. Publisher's green cloth, inscribed "To D. Dickison with regards K. A. Hindwood 4/7/1958," scarce. Fifty copies were printed. Keth Hindwood distributed the book in Australia. PROVENANCE: Dudley Dickison (1896-1967) was a well known Melbourne bibliophile who assembled one the finest ever collections of Australian ornithology.

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Abel Janszoon Tasman’s Journal of His Discovery of Van Diemens Land and New Zealand in 1642 with Documents Relating to His Exploration of Australia in 1644.

$4750

Antique Print & Map Room

“The most comprehensive account of Tasman’s life and achievement; ” (Schilder, Australia unveiled, p.157) of which only 200 copies were printed.

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1962 Standardisation of Railway Gauge Sydney & Melbourne

$1000

Mark's Book Barn

1962 Standardisation of Railway Gauge b/w Sydney & Melbourne. 14 Items collected by H. Kingsmill, NSW Railways Superintendent, to include Souvenirs, Ticket, Dinner Menus, Official Event Ephemera.

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Reinhart, Verena: S'Märli vom Hansli und vom Gretli. Zürich, Ernst Waldmann Verlag [1922].

$390

Antiquariat Hans Lindner

16,5 x 12,8 cm. 18, (2) pp. with 8 full-page colour lithographs and 1 closing vignette, original half cloth with a colour illustration on the cover. Swiss Picture Book Illustrators 656 (with a full-page colour illustration on plate 32); Kaiser (Swiss Picture Books) p. 36ff. (with ill.): “A fairy-tale picture book by the seventeen-year-old artist, featuring her own version of the text. The illustrations (lithographs) depict Teddies from Switzerland ... This little book is a real find.” – First e

Edward Clifford’s Bible, with inscription by Saint Damien of Molokai, the Apostle of the Lepers

$135000

HS Rare Books

[Biblia anglica] Clifford, Edward, British artist (1844-1907) / Saint Damien de Veuster, Belgian priest (1840-1889). The English Version of the Polyglot Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments: With a Copious and Original Selection of References to Parallel and Illustrative Passages, London, Samuel Bagster, [ca. 1865]. The British artist Edward Clifford’s Bible with an inscription by Saint Damien of Molokai: a heavily worked and extraordinarily personal copy of Bagster’s English Polyglot Bible.

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A Fleet of Transports under Convoy

$4800

Sebra Prints

After Richard Dighton A Fleet of Transports under Convoy Mezzotint. 1781. 340mm by 249mm (sheet). Printed and sold by Carrington Bowles, London, c1781. Rare mezzotint engraving depicting convicts on their way from Newgate Prison to the docks for transportation. CONDITION : Trimmed to the image and below the title. Publication line missing. A couple of small faint creases. A couple of small areas of very faint browning. Some marks on the reverse of the sheet. Professionally conserved.

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Kubasta, Vojtech, The Day of the Bison Hunt [An American Indian Camp]

$330

Kenneth Hince Old & Fine Books

London, Bancroft & Co., circa 1962. F'cap folio, 8pp. text, near fine in original cloth backed pictorial boards. With loosely inserted publisher's advertisement. One of Kubasta's elaborate pop-ups, moveable parts in working order. An exceptional copy.

Beautiful copy of the most important collection of Dutch voyages of the 17th century

$81500

Antiquariaat FORUM BV

[COMMELIN, Isaac]. Begin ende voortgangh, van de Vereenigde Nederlantsche Geoctroyeerde Oost-Indische Compagnie. [Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius], 1646. 21 parts in 2 volumes. Oblong 4to. With a richly engraved allegorical frontispiece in each volume (one by J. van Meurs, the other unsigned), and 229 engraved maps, views and plates illustrating the voyages, several double-page or folding, including a large folding map of the world. Modern vellum.

Postans, Mrs (Marianne) - Cutch, or Random Sketches of Western India.

$3750

Asia Bookroom

A scarce, pioneering account of India under Company rule, beautifully illustrated after sketches by the author.

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Kreidolf, Ernst: Die Wiesenzwerge. Cöln, Verlag: Schafstein & Co [1902].

$580

Antiquariat Hans Lindner

30,5 x 23,3 cm. 24 uncut pages with a colour-illustrated title page, a colour dedication page,10 full-page colour illustrations, 2 text illustrations and 2 (1 colour) end vignettes, illustrated endpapers in dark green and white, original boards. Hess/Wachter A 3; Bilderwelt 487: “The >Wiesenzwerge< are not merely an idyll of nature-loving creatures; as the quarrel between the two families shows, they are also a realistic portrayal of human life, in which even conflicts are not excluded.” (Hans Ries). – One of th

Betts’s New Portable Terrestrial Globe

$3500

Antique Print & Map Room

Impressive 21 inch collapsible terrestrial globe made by Betts in the 1870s.

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GIAMBATTISTA PIRANESI, "VEDUTA DEL PONTE MOLLE SUL TEVERE DUE MIGLIA LONTAN DA ROMA"[THE PONTE MOLLE]; 1762, First State.

$2850

Sartoni Antique Prints

GIOVANNI BATTISTA PIRANESI (Mogliano Veneto 1720-Roma 1778) Italian school "VEDUTA DEL PONTE MOLLE SUL TEVERE DUE MIGLIA LONTAN DA ROMA" [THE PONTE MOLLE] 1762 Technique: ETCHING DESCRIPTION: Original etching from the "Vedute di Roma". This superb etching depicts the historic Ponte Milvio, known in Piranesi's day as the Ponte Molle, spanning the River Tiber just north of Rome. One of the most celebrated crossings into the city since antiquity, the bridge is presented not merely as a topographical landmark but as a dramatic monument of Roman history and landscape. Piranesi adopts a low...

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Biba Fashion Catalogues Archive

$4000

The Book Merchant Jenkins

A complete set of the Biba mail order catalogues with a small archive of extra materials.

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A Midsummer Nights Dream

$3200

Somerset House Books

(First Edition Thus No. 513 of limited edition of 1000) Heinemann, London, England, 1908 A scarce volume being a highly sought-after example of Rackham's skilful artwork (with signature) in vellum that has cleaning potential as well. Hardcover in soiled full white vegetable with gilt lettering and design and two small repaired cracks to the front spine gutter that is otherwise sound and tight, TEG and other edges rough cut but with no original slip-case and missing original ribbon ties and no dust wrapper as issued of course.

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GOREY, Edward. L’Heure Bleue.

$500

Jeff Maser, Bookseller

(np): Fantod Press (1975). First edition, numbered & signed issue. [32 pp]. A few spots of foxing to fore-edge and faintly to endpapers, else near fine in illustrated wrapper. One of 500 numbered copies SIGNED by Gorey. Illustrations in black, white, and blue, with Gorey’s short texts.

Gamiani ou Deux Nuits d’Exces

$1500

The Book Merchant Jenkins

The first serious reprint of Gamiani, with the text revised against the original edition, and the preface, by Louis Perceau, for the first time attempting a bibliography of the much reprinted work. One of 300 copies, this one with the plates hand-coloured.

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A work at the forefront of Renaissance ethnography, with woodcuts by Burgkmair

$44000

HS Rare Books

Botero, Giovanni Le relationi universali [...], divise in sette parti. Quinta impressione stampate & ricorrette. (With:) Aggiunta alla quarta parte dell'Indie [...], 1622-1623. Venice. Alessandro Vecchi. A pioneering work of Renaissance ethnography, in its rarer revised and augmented form, including the "Aggiunta" and additional woodcuts by the great German printmaker Hans Burgkmair, depicting fantastical and legendary creatures believed to inhabit the far reaches of the world, as well as indigenous peoples of Africa, Arabia, etc. Arabia.

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CRICKET. Souvenir programme for the 1948 Australian test tour of England, signed by the Don, his 16 fellow players, and the team manager, Keith Johnson. 1948.

$2850

Peter Harrington

“The Invincibles”. An impressive collection of signatures gathered by a steward onboard RMS Strathaird, the P&O vessel that brought Bradman and his now-legendary team to England. Pleasingly, Sidney Barnes, who averaged 56 with the willow during the tour, has signed with a pen rather than using his customary rubber stamp. One pamphlet. Original wrappers.

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GLAISHER, Cecilia & James. “On the Severe Weather at the beginning of the year 1855; and on Snow and Snow-crystals.” 1855.

$18500

Peter Harrington

“The most accurate observations published before the development of photomicrography”. First edition of this skilfully executed catalogue of snowflakes, their distinctive schematic forms engraved in bright colours. A collaborative effort between husband and wife, the study simultaneously influenced the sciences and the decorative arts. One volume. Contemporary cloth.

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