Kenneth Hince Old & Fine Books

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George Johnston, My Brother Jack: A Novel.
$440
London - Sydney, Collins, 1964. Octavo, some marginalia, original tan cloth lettered in gilt on spine with Sidney Nolan pictorial dustwrapper. First edition. Signed & inscribed by the author in the year of publication for the ABC television journalist Gerald Lyons: 'For Gerald Lyons with great respect and best wishes. George Johnston. Melb. 1964.' Quintessential Melbourne novel, set in the 1930s. Signed copies &c. are uncommon.
Salmon at the Antipodes: Being an Account of the Successful Introduction of Salmon and Trout into Australian Waters. By Sir Samuel Wilson.
$1750
London, Edward Stanford, 1879. Octavo, mounted photographic frontispiece 'Trout Pond at Ercildoune', folding map, index, lemon china clay endpapers, bright original decorated terracotta cloth, lettered in gilt, vignette of a salmon in silver on front board, small lozenge binder's ticket on rear pastedown, near fine copy. 'Third Edition'. Presentation copy.
Madman's Island. By Ion L. Idriess.
$550
Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1938. Octavo, frontispiece, 24 Percy Lindsay illustrations, map on endpapers, 4pp. publisher's advertisements, some foxing but very good in original orange cloth lettered and ruled in black with bright pictorial dustwrapper (bit chipped). First edition thus. First issue dustwrapper with fabulous (unsigned) Percy Lindsay art (subsequently issued with a variant silhouette pictorial dustwrapper).
John Harris, Navigantium atque itinerantium bibliotheca: or, A Complete Collection of Voyages and Travels. Consisting of above six hundred of the most authentic writers.
$17000
London, T. Woodward, et al., 1744 - 1748. Two volumes, thick folio, titles in black & red, complete with 61 maps, charts, and plates. The second edition of Harris's great collection of travels, preferred for its new maps prepared by Emmanuel Bowen. The most notable is Bowen's version of the Thévenot Tasman map, "A Complete Map of the Southern Continent surveyed by Capt. Abel Tasman". This is the first English map of Australia (and the first map of Australia since Thévenot in 1663).
Charles Troedel. The Melbourne Album, containing a Series of Views of Melbourne & Country Districts.
$12000
Oblong folio, lithographed titling-wrapper on cream paper, bound in as title-page as issued, twelve fine tinted lithographed plates, Very rare: one of the short sets of twelve elegant tinted lithographs that make up Troedel's Melbourne Album of 1863-4, "perhaps the finest work of urban topography produced in Australia in the nineteenth century" (Wantrup). Notable contemporary artists including Nicholas Chevalier, Eugen von Guerard, Edward Gilks and Henry Gritten contributed to the Album.