Catalogues

CATALOGUE 123: Assorted Books from an Itinerant Bookseller
Issued November 2011
Including:
• A portrait sketch by Nicholas Chevalier of David Livingstone, the most famous explorer of his age.
• Coloured fashion plates from Paris in the 1920s.
• The first edition of Charles Darwin’s major work on psychology, the only one of his titles to be illustrated with photographs.
• Catalogue raisonné of Picasso lithographs, including original examples.
• A superb Australian timber specimen box.
• Books from the library of the Lady of the Lamp.
• Henry Lawson in a signed edition, limited to 75 copies.

CATALOGUE 122: Australian Artists and Bookplates -
Issued August 2011
Including:
• The first separate publication on bookplates in Australia
• A fine portrait drawing of David Livingstone by Nicholas Chevalier
• The scarce first issue of Norman Lindsay's Magic Pudding
• An attractive Northfield 1930 tourist poster.
• Outhwaite's first two publications and a rare advertising piece
• Koala and Kangaroo shape books

CATALOGUE 121: Issued March 2011
Including:
• The Henty Brothers advocating for a land grant
• Family copies of motoring and tourist guides from the publisher G. R. Broadbent, some inscribed and signed, plus Broadbent’s own copy of a rare early cycling guide.
• Scarce souvenirs of wartime fund-raising events.
• Unusual local histories from the 1920s and 1930s.
• Melbourne theatre programs printed on silk.
• Fine illuminated addresses.
• A suite of late-Victorian prize books from a Melbourne author.

CATALOGUE Hobart Book Fair: Issued February 2011
Including:
• Douglas Mawson's 1915, Home of the Blizzard
• Rex Battarbee's Modern Australian Aboriginal Art, 1951
• Official Programs of the 1889 & 1890 Hobart Regattas
• Abel Tasman's Journal of his Discovery of Van Diemen's Land in 1642
• Original Pencil Sketch of Willow, Newtown, by William Swainson
• Scarce autographed letters
• An extensive group of books on voyages by ship or plane.

CATALOGUE 120: Issued February 2010
Including:
• Governor La Trobe’s 1853 Regulations for Ports and Harbours
• Redmond Barry’s 1854 Rules for the Supreme Court
• A record of the disastrous bushfires of 1898
• Almanacs, including Melbourne’s first
• Federation souvenirs
• Scarce immigration guides
• An extensive group of tourist guides and views
NOTE: This is a large pdf document of 16 pages (3.95mb)

Choice Australian Books, Pictures, Manuscripts and Maps.
CATALOGUE 119: Issued November 2009
Including a handsome set of collected early voyages, the first view of habitation in Victoria, an interesting shipping record of 1807, accounts of the exploration of inland Australia, the first book on Australian wine, the finest views of Melbourne topography, the earliest survey of Port Phillip Bay, the 1847 first edition of Ham’s squatting map, rare publications on the goldfields, and a suite of attractive nineteenth century maps.
NOTE: This is a large pdf document of 36 pages (4.23mb)