4. Ronald & Catherine BERNDT. Arnhem 10. Rev. J. B. GRIBBLE. “Black but Come- Land, Its History and Its People. Mel- ly”, Glimpses of Aboriginal life in Austra- bourne University Press, 1954. Octavo, lia. London, Morgan and Scott, (1884). frontispiece in colour, fifteen plates, end- Octavo, frontispiece and seven plates, paper maps, a good copy in original cloth original cloth, gilt and decorated, front (without dust-wrapper). $100 board with minor marking. $450 Born in Cornwall, Gribble was an infant 5. Daniel BUNCE. Language of the Aborig- when his parents arrived in Port Phillip ines of the Colony of , and other in 1848, settling in Geelong. After joining Australian Districts... Geelong, Thomas the Congregational Union of Victoria in Brown, 1859. Duodecimo, cloth-backed the late 1870s he became the first resi- printed boards. $450 dent missionary at Jerilderie, and from 1879 to 1883 worked at Warangesda Ab- original Mission on the Murrumbidgee. Gribble later established a mission at the Gascoyne River in Western Australia, but faced bitter opposition from local settlers who exploited native labour. His book Dark Deeds in a Sunny Land, published in 1886, created a furore and the mis- sion was abandoned the following year. Gribble’s eldest son, Ernest Richard Bul- mer, also a missionary, was the author of two 1930s works on aboriginals. Fergu- 1. Senator E. FINDLEY (editor and pub- son, 10093 (calling for seven, rather than lisher). The Sunrise, Souvenir of the eight, plates). Labour Fair 1908. , D. W. Pa- terson Co., 1908. Tall duodecimo, with group portraits of female stall com- mittee members, illustrated advertise- ments and line-drawn illustrations, stapled in original colour illustrated wrappers: a fine copy. $1850 Rare. Contributions from George Black (Humanity in Politics), Rev. Chas. Strong 6. Philip BATTY et al (editors). The Pho- (Some Ethical Aspects of the Labour tographs of Baldwin Spencer. Melbourne, Movement), Frank Anstey (The Progress Miegunyah Press and Museum Victoria, of Reform), and John B. Castieau (Wom- 2005. Quarto, black and white plates, en as Workers), plus a Randolph Bedford maps, pp. 223, boards with dust-wrap- story and some verse by Mary Gilmore. per, as new. $100 Chas. Johnston & Co.’s advertisement A recent expanded edition of the 1982 echoes political policy of the period, Currey/O’Neil publication, with essays by with its detailed argument for buying John Mulvaney, Nicolas Peterson, How- furniture made by Australian workers It ard Morphy and Philip Jones. costs less than Chinese-made rubbish. 7. Geoffrey BLAINEY. Triumph Of The Nomads: A History of Ancient Australia. ABORIGINES Melbourne, Macmillan, 1982. Octavo, maps, pp. 285, cloth, dust-wrapper, signed 11. Baldwin SPENCER and F. J. GIL- 2. Charles BARRETT and Robert H. by the author. $60 LEN. The Northern Tribes of Central CROLL. Art of The Australian Aboriginal. Australia. First edition, London, Mac- Melbourne, The Bread and Cheese Club, 8. D. J. MULVANEY & J. H. CALABY. ‘So millan, 1904. Octavo, pp. xxxvi, 784, fold- 1943. Large octavo, frontispiece in colour, Much That is New’; Baldwin Spencer, ing plates in colour, one strengthened black & white plates, erasure (stamp?) on 1860-1929, A Biography. Melbourne, Uni- along a fold, illustrated, original gilt and title-page, original card covers without versity of Melbourne Press, 1984. Octavo, decorated cloth, owner’s name in ink on four portraits in colour, black & white the dust-wrapper. $65 title, hinges rubbing at a couple of points plates, maps, pp. xii + 492, original boards . $1100 with dust-wrapper, unrelated inscription, 3. Ronald M. BERNDT. Djanggawul, An Spencer met Gillen while travelling on the a fine copy. $100 Aboriginal Religious Cult of North-East- Horn expedition in 1894 as scientist and ern Arnhem Land. London, Routledge 9. Barry HILL. Broken Song, T.G.H Stre- photographer. This book recounts their & Kegan Paul, 1952. Octavo, plates and fieldwork of 1901-1902 with the- War diagrams, pp. 320, pale foxing and off- hlow and Aboriginal Possession. Sydney, Random House, 2002. Octavo, black & ramunga, Kaitish and Arunta tribes, and setting of endpapers, original cloth, dust- provides a detailed photographic record wrapper sunned and with minor chips to white plates, pp.818, black boards maps to endpapers, gilt spine, dust-wrapper, as of the rites and ceremonies, as well as of edges, a good copy. $250 new. $150 daily life. 12. W. Baldwin SPENCER (editor). Hand- ART book of Melbourne, For the use of Mem- bers of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science. Melbourne Meeting, 1890. Melbourne, Spectator Publishing, 1890. Octavo, folding map, slight erasure from title, later boards re- taining original gilt-lettered limp cloth, a very good copy. $120 Contents include Alexander Sutherland on the History of Victoria, and Lorimer Fison on the Aborigines of Victoria.

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16. John POYNTER. Mr Felton’s Be- quests. Melbourne, Miegunyah Press, 2003. Octavo, plates, pp. 639, boards, dust-wrapper, as new. 21. Russell DRYSDALE. Russell Drysdale $70 Drawings 1935-1980, 16-31 March 1981. Most famous for enabling the purchase Melbourne, Joseph Brown Gallery, 1981. of major paintings by Victoria’s National Exhibition catalogue, sewn in stiffened Gallery during the twentieth century, wrappers, Foreword by Patrick McCa- Felton’s funds were also available to ughey, 121 plates (some in colour), one the Melbourne Public Library for sev- of 1500 numbered copies (No.1404). eral decades, and are responsible for $50 the Library’s acquisition of a number of treasures including medieval illuminated 22. Maureen WALSH. May Gibbs Mother manuscripts, William Caxton’s Myrrour of the Gumnuts, Her Life and Work [with] of the World, and the Sticht collection of Gumnut Classics, The Famous Gumnut typographical samples. Adventures. Sydney, Cornstalk Publish- 13. Dr. Arthur ANDREWS. The His- ing, 1991. Two volumes quarto, pp. x + tory Of Albury 1824 – 1895. Albury, 17. Franz PHILIPP. Arthur Boyd. 228, viii + 496, illustrated in colour, mint 1912. Octavo, scarce issue in origi- London, Thames & Hudson, 1967. Quarto, copies, boards with dust-wrappers, with nal cloth (spine slightly worn). $500 with 44 tipped-in colour plates, in original slipcase. $100 First edition: very scarce. Inscribed by the cloth with dust-wrapper, a fine copy. $400 author to his daughter in 1912. First edition: signed on the half-title by 23. Norman LINDSAY. Favourite Etchings. the artist. Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1977. Small 14. George ARDEN. Latest Information folio, plates, gilt and decorated boards with regard to Australia Felix, the finest 18. Sandra McGRATH. The Artist & The with dust-wrapper, shelf wear to edges, province of the great territory of New River, Arthur Boyd and the Shoalhaven. a general edition of part of the mate- South Wales; including the history, ge- Sydney, Bay Books, 1982. Small folio, rial included in the limited Two Hundred ography, natural resources, government, colour plates, illustrations throughout, pp. Etchings. $120 commerce, and finances of Port Phillip; 313, cloth, gilt, with dust-wrapper, a fine Sketches of the Aboriginal population copy. $300 24. Norman LINDSAY. Tales from the and advice to immigrants. Melbourne, Scarce. Heptameron of Marguerite of Navarre, Queensberry Hill Press, 1977. Octavo, Twenty-Eight Pen Drawings by Norman pp. ii + 118, one of 300 numbered cop- 19. Karen BURNS (editor). Robin Boyd- Lindsay. Melbourne University Press, ies (#16), publisher’s half morocco, card The Architect as Critic. Melbourne, Tran- 1976. Quarto, pp. viii+ 153, cloth blind slipcase. $150 sition Publishing, 1989. Small folio, illus- stamped, dust-wrapper chipped and Facsimile edition of 300 numbered trations, pp. 86, stiffened wrappers, a fine creased along back edges. $170 copies. copy. $70 Edition limited to 1000 copies (#919), Catalogue of La Trobe Library exhibition, with an Introduction by A. D. Hope. 15. Albert S. ARMSTRONG and G. Ord State Library of Victoria, 1989. CAMPBELL. Australian Sheep Husbandry; 25. Elwyn LYNN. Sidney Nolan - Austra- A Handbook of the Breeding and Treat- 20. Jack CATO. Melbourne. Melbourne, lia. Sydney, Bay Books, 1979. Tall quarto, ment of Sheep and Station Management, Georgian House, 1949. Quarto, plates, pp. plates in colour, pp.226, original cloth gilt with instructions for tank and well-sink- 99, green cloth, dust-wrapper chipped to with dust-wrapper, small tape marks on ing, fencing, dam-making. Melbourne, edges and clipped. $50 endpapers, a very good copy. $100 George Robertson, 1882. Octavo, origi- With a.l.s. (related to other Cato photo- Nolan’s Australian landscapes reproduced nal green pebbled cloth, ruled in blind, graphs) loosely inserted. in colour. gilt spine-lettering rubbed, an attractive copy. $120 28. Ivan SMITH. Dingo King, With paintings and drawings by Clifton Pugh.Melbourne, Wren Publishing, 1977. Quarto, pp.108, illustrated, boards with dust-wrapper, a very good copy. $50

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30. Bernard SMITH and Alwyne WHEELER. The Art of the First Fleet & oth- er early Australian drawings. Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1988. Small folio, pp. 256, illustrated throughout in colour and black-and-white, as new, with dust- wrapper. $140 A comprehensive visual supplement to

the history and scientific discoveries of 35. Gary BACKHOUSE & Jeffrey JEANES. early settlement. The Orchids of Victoria. Melbourne, Miegunyah Press, 1995. Octavo, plates, 31. Sydney URE SMITH and Bertram maps, pp. 388, endpaper maps, boards, STEVENS. Domestic Architecture in Aus- dust-wrapper, a fine copy. $300 26. John OLSEN with Mary DURACK, tralia...Special Number of Art in Australia. This is the fourth title in the second Mie- Geoffrey DUTTON, et al. The Land Be- Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1919. Large gunyah Press series. yond Time. A Modern Exploration of Aus- quarto, pp. [x] + 24 pp. of text, 47 tipped- tralia’s North-West Frontiers. Melbourne, in plates, 24 pp. of adverts., original Macmillan, 1984. Large quarto, maps, parchment-backed grey papered boards, photographs, colour and monochrome il- endpapers replaced, minor external flecks lustrations, original leather, a fine copy. and marks, a good copy. $350 $400 Edition limited to 2000 copies. With Limited to 500 copies, signed by Olsen, signed inscription from Sydney Ure Smith Durack, Dutton and others. to Judith [Fletcher], one of the early fe- 27. Roger BUTLER. The Prints of male portrait photographers to establish a name in Sydney; and also with a lengthy subsequent related inscription from E. A. Crome, aviation historian and photogra- pher.

32. Christopher UHL. Albert Tucker. Melbourne, Lansdowne, 1969. Square quarto, pp. 114, illustrated in black-and- white and with 32 tipped-in plates in colour, a good copy in boards with dust- wrapper. $125

33. Ivan SMITH and Jocelyn SMITH. The Die-Hard. Images by Albert Tucker. Syd- ney, Harper & Row, 1979. Quarto, tipped in coloured plates, original cloth in slip- 36. James BONWICK. John Batman, the case. $250 Founder of Victoria…, Profits of the work Edition limited to 500 copies (#165) to be devoted to the benefit of John Bat- signed by authors and artist. man’s grandsons. Melbourne, Samuel Mullen, 1867. Octavo, a bright copy in 34. Patrick McCAUGHEY. Fred Williams. the original blind-stamped green cloth, Margaret Preston, A Catalogue Raisonne. Sydney, Bay Books, 1980. Small folio, pp. title lettered in gilt on the front board. Australian National Gallery, Oxford Uni- 340, extensively illustrated and including First edition. $450 versity Press, Melbourne, 1987. Quarto, some fold-out plates, gilt and decorated The book includes extracts from the jour- plates, pp. 337, dust-wrapper, minor fox- cloth, dust-wrapper, a very good copy. nals of Batman and others during their ing to end-papers. $450 $150 expeditions which led to the founding of The uncommon issue in hardback. Melbourne. Ferguson, 7230; Pescott, 57. * * * * * * * 37. C. E. W. BEAN. Anzac To Amiens: A 40. Broken Hill Proprietary Company Shorter History of the Australian Fighting Limited. [Souvenir] Launching of S. S. Services in the First World War. , “Iron Yampi” at the Broken Hill Proprie- Australian War Memorial, 1946. Octavo, tary Company Limited Shipyard, Whyalla, plates, illustrations and maps, a very good South Australia, on Monday, 1st Septem- copy in slightly dusty original cloth, with ber, 1947. Melbourne, printed by J. T. remnants only of dust-wrapper. $120 Picken & Sons Pty. Ltd., no date (1947). First edition of the author’s condensed Octavo, pp. 20., illustrations including version of the Official History, which he one plate in colour, stapled in original had edited in twelve volumes. decorated wrappers, flecked. $80 The largest ship of its time built in Austra- 38. Robert Douglass BOYS. First Years lia, constructed for the transport of iron at Port Phillip. Melbourne, Robertson ore. & Mullens, 1935. Octavo, pp.158, origi- nal green cloth, minor marks on upper 41. George A. BROWN. Australian Me- board, a good copy. $80 rino Studs. Melbourne: Walker, May & Chronology extending from the first per- Co., Printers, 25 Mackillop St. 1904. Oc- manent settlement of Port Phillip, or Aus- tavo, plates, slightly canted in the original tralia Felix, at Portland Bay, by Edward cloth, gilt, minor marking of front board. Henty until the beginning of the first $250 Town Council in Melbourne. Third edition of this study of the breed- ing of merino sheep, which contains an extensive introduction, and a historical 45. Marie Beuzeville BYLES. By cargo boat sketch of the breed and its development & mountain: the unconventional experi- in Australia, as well as a study of notable ences of a woman on tramp round the studs in New South Wales, South Austra- world. London, Seeley, Service & Co., 1931. lia, Queensland and Victoria. Octavo, pp. 315, [1], plus 12pp. publish- er’s catalogue, frontispiece and 15 plates 42. A. J. BUCHANAN. The Trial Of Ron- reproducing 23 photographs, original ald Geeves Griggs; Famous Australian blue cloth, dust-wrapper a little chipped, Trials series. Sydney, The Law Book publisher’s ‘file copy’ stamp on outer Co., 1930. Octavo, pp. vi + 321, illus- edge. $500 trated with 11 plates, original cloth. First edition, with very uncommon dust- $250 wrapper. Marie Byles (1900-1979) gradu- Griggs was convicted and later acquitted ated from the University of Sydney’s Law of the murder of his wife. This is the first School in 1924, becoming the first female of the Famous Australian Trials series. solicitor in New South Wales. Famous for her views as a conservationist, femi- 43. Peter CHAPMAN (editor). T h e nist, and pacifist, she played a public role 39. John Ednie BROWN. A practical trea- Diaries and Letters of G. T. W. B. Boyes, in spreading Buddhism, and published tise on tree culture in South Australia. volume 1 1820-1832. Melbourne, Oxford several works on the religion in the mid Adelaide, Government Printer, 1886. Oc- University Press, 1985. Octavo, plates in twentieth century. This particular title tavo, twenty-nine attractive lithographed colour and black-and-white, a very good details her adventures in 1927, mountain plates by J. W. Love, deluxe presentation copy in original boards and dust-wrap- climbing in Canada, the United States, binding of full morocco, gilt, all edges per. $120 Great Britain, Norway, and New Zealand. gilt, floral gilt endpapers, with (on rear pastedown) the ticket of the Govern- 44. Colin CLARK. The National Income, 46. P. S. CLEARY. Australia’s Debt to Irish ment Printer, Adelaide: a fine copy. 1924-1931. London, Macmillan, 1932. Nation-Builders. Sydney, Angus & Rob- $450 Octavo, original cloth, with dust-wrapper, ertson, 1933. Octavo, pp. 280, blue cloth Second edition. Intended as a practical very minor wear: a good copy with the with scattered flecking, dust-wrapper laid work, enabling landholders to improve signature of noted economist L.F. Gib- down, new end-papers. $90 their properties by planting trees for both lin. $120 ornament and use. In 1890 Brown be- Born in London and educated at Oxford, 47. Valda COLE. Western Port Chronol- came director-general of forests in New Colin Clark spent significant portions of ogy, Exploration to Settlement. (Mel- South Wales, and after moving to the Bu- his working life in Australia, first as Gov- bourne), Shire of Hastings Historical So- reau of Agriculture in Western Australia ernment Statistician in Queensland, and ciety, 1984. Octavo, pp. 110, plates and in 1895 he became conservator in the later as Director of the Institute of Eco- maps, a fine copy with dust-wrapper. newly established Department of Woods nomic Progress at Monash University $70 and Forests the following year. Ferguson, (1969-1978). One of 500 numbered (#139) copies, 7513. signed by the author. 50. Catherine Drummond COTTON. 54. W. J. DAKIN. Whalemen Adventurers. Ludwig Leichhardt and the Great South Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1938 ( sec- Land. Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1938. ond revised edition).Octavo, frontispiece, Octavo, frontispiece and plates, pp. 296, plates, pp.286, endpaper maps, pale fox- cloth, scattered foxing to endpapers and ing to edges, dust-wrapper with small re- edges, previous owners name inscribed, pairs to verso, a bright copy. $185 scarce with dust-wrapper. $150 55. Thomas A. DARRAGH. Ludwig Becker, 51. Robert Henderson CROLL and Roland A Letter from Australia. Bacchus Marsh, R. WETTENHALL. Dr. Alexander Thomson: Garravembi Press, 1993. Octavo, fron- A Pioneer of Melbourne and Founder of tispiece and illustrations are tipped-in Geelong. Melbourne, Robertson & Mul- plates, two fold-out pages, pp. 72, quar- lens, 1937. Octavo, pp. 62 (last blank), ter cloth papered boards, dust-wrapper, plates, two-tone cloth. $50 bookplate and related letter inserted, a fine copy. $150 52. John CURREY (editor). Records of the Limited edition of 350 copies (#48). Port Phillip Expedition: Volume II. -Cor respondence, March 1803- September 56. Hyacinthe de BOUGAINVILLE. The 1804. Melbourne, Colony Press, 1991. Governor’s Noble Guest, Hyacinthe de Quarto, 133 leaves printed on rectos Bougainville’s account of Port Jackson, only, publisher’s buckram, contrasting 1825. Melbourne, The Miegunyah Press, spine label. $135 1999. Octavo, illustrations, pp. 291, 48. Francis CHICHESTER. Solo To Sydney. boards, marbled endpapers, dust-wrap- London, John Hamilton, c. 1930. Octavo, per, as new. $60 frontispiece, plates, pp. 208, a fine copy Edition of 1000 copies. in blue cloth, scarce with the uncommon dust-wrapper (clipped). $250 57. John DUNMORE. French Explorers In Account of the author’s flight in 1929, in The Pacific Vol. 2 [only] The Nineteenth a Gypsy Moth aircraft, from England to Century. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1969. Sydney. Octavo, maps, original cloth with dust- wrapper. $100 An informative and readable reference for French voyages in our region, 1800 to 1840s, covering Baudin, Freycinet, Dup- errey, Bougainville, Dumont d’Urville, Laplace, Vaillant, and Dupetit-Thouars, with useful Index and Bibliography.

53. Alexander DALRYMPLE. Scheme of a Voyage to Convey the Conveniencies of Life, Domestic Animals, Corn, Iron &c., to New Zeland, with Dr. Benjamin Franklin’s Sentiments upon the Subject. , James Dally, 1971. 16mo., a fine copy in publisher’s boards, with paper label to 49. William COOTE. History Of The Colony front cover. $300 Of Queensland. From 1770 To The Close Limited edition of 150 numbered copies Of The Year 1881, Volume 1 From 1770 initialled by the publisher (this is num- to the Separation of the District of More- ber 6), printed at the Nag’s Head Press, ton Bay from New South Wales, and its Christchurch. The very rare original edi- Constitution as a separate Colony in De- tion of 1771 was Dalrymple’s attempt 58. Edward DUYKER. Nature’s Argonaut, cember, 1859. Brisbane, William Thorne, to raise funds in England for a voyage to Daniel Solander 1733-1782, Naturalist 1882. Octavo, folding map, original blue New Zealand which he would command, and voyager with Cook and Banks. Mel- cloth, gilt, two corners with slight abra- prompted by the popular interest that bourne, The Miegunyah Press, reprinted sion. $650 attended Cook’s voyage. Hocken records 1999.Octavo, illustrations, pp. 380, blue Only edition: rare. The author’s death it as the first systematic proposal to con- boards, with dust-wrapper, as new. $50 prevented the publication of further vol- nect the two countries. One of the second numbered series of umes. Ferguson 8668. the Miegunyah volumes. 59. Edward DUYKER. Citizen Labillar- 63. John FLYNN. Northern Territory and 67. Louis de FREYCINET. Reflections on diere, a Naturalist’s Life in Revolution and Central Australia, A call to the church. New South Wales 1788-1839; Freycinet’s Exploration 1755-1834. Melbourne, Mie- Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1912. Oc- examination of the history and progress gunyah Press, 2003. Octavo, illustrations, tavo, plates, folding map, complete with of the colony of New South Wales dur- maps, pp. 383, cloth with dust-wrapper, the perforated Bush Brigade slips, a very ing the first fifty-two years, based on his as new. $55 good copy in original wrappers (small loss visit to Port Jackson as commander of One of the second numbered series of at corner of back wrapper). $300 the Uranie in 1819, his earlier visit with the Miegunyah volumes. First and only edition. Signed by the au- the Baudin voyage in 1802, his interviews thor. Flynn’s scarce early account of the and subsequent correspondence with 60. E. Jerome DYER (editor.) Victoria and Northern Territory is based on his two the colonists themselves, and his close its Resources, Illustrated by F.W. Niven. months’ tour in July and August of 1912. analysis of the published literature in Ballarat, F. W. Niven & Co., n.d. (1893.) ANB, 15859. 1839. Sydney, Hordern House, 2001. Folio, full-page plates, folding map, pub- Small quarto, colour and black & white lisher’s textured cloth flecked in a couple illustrations, pp. 670, pale green cloth of places, an agreeable copy. $600 with paper title label laid to upper board, The illustrations include full-page tinted as issued without dust-wrapper, a mint plates with montage views of Beech- copy. $500 worth, Ballarat, Bendigo, Horsham and First and only edition, translated for the Mildura, several within decorative litho- first time from the original publication graphed borders. These attractive plates of Freycinet’s Voyage autour du Monde are printed by the Crisp Photo process (Paris, 1824-1844) by Thomas Cullity, as- which Niven had developed with the help sisted by Katharine Pratt and Kean and of Henry Crisp. Niven’s most celebrated Bernice Pasquier. Edition limited to 300 colour printing must be the plate of the copies. Though recently published, this Eureka flag, printed by the novel method is a very scarce book indeed because of of steam lithography, in the 1870 first edi- the small edition number. The work con- tion of William Withers’ History of Bal- tains Freycinet’s and his companions’ larat. Through combining his own artistic impressions of the colony of New South talents with a career in printing, Niven Wales during the final years of Governor became a pioneer of colour lithography Macquarie’s era, together with a compre- in Australia, and in 1891 he took out a hensive survey of development into the patent on a gelatine printing plate. In 1830s, covering topography, economics, the period when his company was flour- social life, the convict system, and the ishing in Ballarat he employed seventy Aboriginal people. men. Amongst his other publications are W. B. Kimberly’s two 1895 works on the 64. Alexander FRANCIS. Then and Now, 68. Goldfields. Gold Regulations… [drop regions of Ballarat and Bendigo, his 1897 The Story of a Queenslander. London, title]. Melbourne, John Ferres, Govern- History of West Australia, and James Chapman & Hall, 1935. Octavo, pp. xii, ment Printer, 26 September, 1854. Fools- Smith’s 1903 three-volume Cyclopedia of 227, plates, boards, scarce pictorial dust- cap folio, pp. 2, single leaf printed on blue Victoria. Ferguson, 9314d. wrapper clipped and with minor chipping paper; loose as issued. $165 to edges, spine sunned. $150 Scarce: the official regulations publishing 61. Edmund FINN “Garryowen”. Chron- the new higher scales of fees for the dig- icles of Early Melbourne. Melbourne, 65. Pamela Jeanne FULTON (editor). The ger’s license. It was this single sheet of Fergusson and Mitchell, 1888. Two vol- Minerva Journal of John Washington paper that was the prime cause of the umes quarto, portraits and plates, front Price. A Voyage From Cork, Ireland, to Eureka Stockade rebellion. joints and the head of one spine expertly Sydney, New South Wales, 1798-1800. strengthened, publisher’s full burgundy Melbourne, Miegunyah Press, 2000. 69. David J. GORDON. The “Nile” Of roan over bevelled boards, elaborately Quarto, coloured plates, maps, original Australia. Nature’s Gateway to the Inte- gilt and decorated, all edges gilt, a bright papered boards in dust-wrapper, a fine rior. A plea for the grater utilization of and attractive set. $1100 copy. $60 the Murray and its tributaries. Adelaide, First edition: now quite scarce. A highly One of the second numbered Miegunyah W.K. Thomas & Co., 1906. Octavo, black detailed and important account of early series. & white plates, one plate with small loss Melbourne settlement by one of the and a neat repair, maps, contemporary cl city’s earliest residents and journalists. 66. Ernest GILES. $200 Ferguson, 9609. Geographic Travels In oth. Central Australia from 1872 to 1874. Mel- 62. J. FLYNN. The Bushman’s Companion, bourne, M’Carron, Bird for the Author, 70. Phillip L. HARRIS [editor]. Aussie. A Handful of Hints for Outbackers. Mel- 1875. Octavo, large folding map, pale fox- The Australian Soldiers’ Magazine. Nos. 2 bourne, Brown, Prior & Co., 1910. Duo- ing of a few leaves, a bright copy in original February 1918 - No. 12 March 1919.Print- decimo, diagrams in text, original semi- gilt-decorated cloth. $1350 ed in the Field [France] by the A.I.F. Print- limp cloth. $150 First edition. This copy with a presenta- ing Section, 1918-1919. Eleven issues (of Flynn went on to be the founder and tion inscription, unsigned, from the edi- thirteen), small octavo and quarto, illus- superintendent of the Australian Inland tor, Baron von Mueller. Ferguson 9912; trated. $500 Mission of the Presbyterian Church of Wantrup 203. Rare and famous A.I.F. newspapers. Australia. 73. Brian HANSEN. The Blue Boys, the sketchbook of watercolours from the pe- history of the Carlton Football Club from riod 1788 to 1790 was published by the 1864. Melbourne, for the author, 2002. National Library of Australia in 1989. The Folio, illustrated, boards with dust-wrap- celebrated plates in the Journal include per. $120 the first published view of Sydney after a drawing by Hunter, and a portrait of an 74. Bernadette HINCE (editor.) John Aboriginal family drawn by Philip Gidley BECHERVAISE. Unique and Unspoilt, A King and engraved by the poet and art- Year Among the Natural Wonders of ist William Blake. It was after the appear- Heard Island. Canberra, NLA, 2011. Octa- ance of this important Journal that Hunt- vo, pp. 210, plates, maps, stiffened wrap- er returned to New South Wales in 1795 pers, new. $35 to take up office as the second Governor Signed by the editor. of the colony. Ferguson, 152, Wantrup, 13. 75. Bernadette HINCE. The Antarctic Dic- tionary; A Complete Guide to Antarctic 79. Geoffrey C. INGLETON. Matthew English. Melbourne, CSIRO Publishing Flinders, Navigator and Chartmaker [and] and the Museum of Victoria, 2000. Oc- Private Journal 1803-1814. Guildford, tavo, pp. 394, glazed pictorial boards, as Genesis Publications, 1986. Two volumes, new. $40 folio, coloured plates, black & white illus- 71. Robert HANLON (editor). A Letter An essential reference: signed by the au- trations, original quarter morocco in slip- from a Convict in Australia to a Brother thor. case. $1000 in England.Melbourne, The Hawthorn Deluxe issue limited to 550 sets, signed Press, 1951. Octavo, original decorated 76. Mary HOBAN. Fifty-one Pieces of by the author. wrappers, in full burgundy crushed mo- Wedding Cake, a biography of Caroline rocco by Gordon Hughes and with his Chisholm. Kilmore, Lowden, 1973. Octa- 80. K. S. INGLIS. Sacred Places: War Me- embossed stamp, both boards echoing vo, pp. xii + 436, plates, cloth, dust-wrap- morials in the Australian Landscape. Mel- the quill decoration of the wrappers, the per clipped, inscribed by previous owner. bourne, Miegunyah Press, 1998. Octavo, front in gilt, the rear embossed, with sin- $50 plates, pp. 552, boards, dust-wrapper, as gle gilt fillet frame, inside of both boards new. $60 elaborately gilt and with coloured leather 77. Charles von HUGEL. New Holland Number 23 in the Second Numbered se- inlays, marbled endpapers. $660 Journal, November 1833-October 1834. ries of the Miegunyah Volumes. First separate edition: edition limited to Translated and edited by Dymphna 50 copies only, essentially for presenta- Clark. Melbourne, The Miegunyah Press, 81. Charles IREDELL. Ten Years’ Practice tion. The long autobiographical letter 1994. Octavo, black & white illustrations, in Australia. Melbourne, A. H. Massina & Co. for the Author, 1896. from a convict in Western Australia had coloured plates, maps, pp. 539, origi- Octavo, original first been published in the Cornhill Maga- nal papered boards in dust-wrapper, a wrappers (minor marking). $450 zine, April, 1866, and gives a good ac- fine copy. $70 Scarce. Essays on health and medical count of the life of a convict in the period practice, from an author who in 1896 Number 17 in the Miegunyah Press se- just before transportation ceased. had been practising in Melbourne for ten ries. years, and who continued until 1925. In- cludes chapters on food, drink, climate 78. John HUNTER. An Historical Journal and clothes. Ferguson, 10812a. Ford, of the Transactions at Port Jackson and 999. Norfolk Island, with the discoveries which have been made in New South Wales 82. Fred JOHNS. Who’s Who in the Com- and in the Southern Ocean, since the monwealth of Australia. Sydney, Angus & publication of Phillip’s Voyage. London, Robertson, 1922. Octavo, pencilled high- John Stockdale, 1793. Quarto, engraved lights and an occasional inked note, pale portrait frontispiece, vignette title-page, foxing, original cloth rubbed. $120 fifteen plates and folding maps, close to Scarce: the first appearance under this contemporary half calf, marbled boards title, continuing Johns’s biographical dic- fading, rebacked retaining the earlier tionary, Notable Australians, which had backstrip, the title date shaved as often, developed from his monthly column in an appealing copy, with recent cloth the Sydney Bulletin. bookform box. $5500 First edition. One of a handful of contem- 83. Labor Politics. Labor’s Thirty Years’ porary accounts published by officers of 72. J. B. HAWKINS. 19th. Century Aus- the First Fleet, Hunter’s narrative covers Record in South Australia, a short history tralian Silver. Woodbridge, Antique Col- much of the early exploring and surveying of the Labor movement in South Aus- lectors’ Club, 1990. Two volumes quarto, work in and around Sydney, in the course tralia, including biographical sketches of frontispiece and plates in colour, illustrat- of this he details numerous encounters leading members, 1893-1923. Adelaide, ed throughout, pp. 342 + 372, cloth with with the local tribes. He is a sympathetic The Daily Herald, n.d. (1923?). Octavo, dust-wrappers, fine, with matching cloth and watchful observer of the aborigines, stapled and detached within original pic- slipcase. $125 with a developed interest also in the torial cloth (very slight marking). $250 natural history of his surroundings. His Uncommon. end of the 1860s. Dealing principally with 89. Errol G. KNOX (editor). Who’s Who In station life, Kerr also provides an excellent Australia 1935. Biographical Sketches and picture of the development of the city of Photos of Representative Commercial, Melbourne. A number of the illustrations Professional, Financial, Pastoral, and Busi- were taken from Kerr’s own photographs. ness Men of Australia. Melbourne, Herald The Davidson copy with bookplate. Fer- & Weekly Times. Octavo, plates, pp. 552, guson, 11124 (miscollated). red boards, slight sunning to spine, gilt, a very good copy. $50 86. Phillip Parker KING. Narrative of a survey of the Intertropical and Western 90. Horace LEAF. Under The Southern Coasts of Australia, performed between Cross; A Record of a Pilgrimage... With an the years 1818 and 1822. London, John Introduction by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Murray, 1827. Two volumes, octavo, London, Cecil Palmer, 1923. Octavo, fron- with aquatint and engraved plates, maps tispiece, plates, pp. 263, foxing to edges, (some folding), and views, with errata original cloth, dust-wrapper chipped, a fine slips in each volume, bound without half- copy. $200 titles in contemporary quarter cloth and marbled boards, entirely uncut, trifling foxing of frontispiece and one title, a 91. John Dunmore LANG. Prospectus of a 84.Sidney William JACKSON. In the Bar- very clean set in a plain binding. $3600 Company, to be designated, The Scottish ron River Valley, North Queensland; Field First edition: the standard issue with titles Phillipsland Emigration Company [drop observations in the Tinaroo and Atherton dated 1827, and the normal form in which title]. No imprint [Edinburgh, circa 1847]. Scrubs, with photographs by the author. the book is found. The son of our third Folio, 4 pages, right margin cropped, a fine [In] The EMU: a Quarterly Magazine to governor, Philip Gidley King, Captain King copy, folded as issued. $750 popularize the Study and Protection of was born on Norfolk Island in 1791. He A rare and ephemeral document. Lang Native Birds. Volume VIII. 1st June, 1908- had a distinguished career as a naval of- proposes to form a company ‘to direct 1909. Melbourne, Walker, May & Co., ficer and noted hydrographer. Instructed a continuous and increasing stream of 1909. Octavo, coloured and black & white by the British Government to survey parts Emigration to Phillipsland’ from all parts plates, special issue in limp morocco, gilt of the west, north and north-east coast of Scotland, confining its operations to edges. $850 not covered by Flinders, he was also re- the part of the country extending from Born in Brisbane in 1873 Jackson was quested to look for any river which might Indented Head to the western extrem- interested in bird-watching and egg- make inland navigation possible, and to ity. The text includes details of regional collecting from an early age. In 1907 his collect information about climate, topog- geography, as well as sketchy accounts collection of eggs, catalogued by him and raphy, the natives, and natural history. of a couple of successful emigrants. Al- illustrated with his own photographs, King made four surveys in the Mermaid, exander Thomson, the Chairman of a was sold to the prominent collector H. and then in the Bathurst, and published public meeting held at Geelong on 13th L. White. This constitutes a major part the results in the present work, which is July 1846, reports on the practicability of illustrated partly from his own drawings. of the H. L. White egg collection now in constructing a railroad from Geelong to Ferguson, 1130; Wantrup, 84b. the National Museum of Victoria. For the Glenelg River. Ferguson, 4566 (locat- two decades after the sale Jackson was ing only the National Library, Mitchell Li- 87. Marsden HORDERN. King of the Aus- employed by White as curator of his col- brary, and Mackaness copies). lection and one of his chief field-workers. tralian Coast, The Work of Phillip Parker This copy of his field notes of a trip in King in the Mermaid and Bathurst, 1817- 1822. Melbourne, Miegunyah Press, 1997. 92. N. F. LEARMONTH. The Portland Bay northern Queensland is signed by the Settlement. Historical Committee of Port- author in 1909, and with a loose note Octavo, pp. xxii + 442, plates and maps, land, 1934. Octavo, illustrations, 2 fold- indicating this copy was presented to his folding maps in end-pocket, boards with ing maps, plates, with signatures of two parents: it was subsequently in the col- dust-wrapper, a fine copy of the scarce members of the Henry family (both town lection of, and signed by, the ornitholo- first edition. $300 clerks) and two unrelated bookplates, gist A. J. Marshall. Number 16 of the second numbered se- ries of the Miegunyah volumes. This first original blue cloth, a very good copy. edition comprises 1500 copies. $180 85. John Hunter KERR. Glimpses Of Life In Victoria by a Resident. Edinburgh, Ed- 88. [E. LLOYD]. A Visit to the Antipodes 93. Alexander MACONOCHIE. Norfolk monston & Douglas, 1872. Octavo, fron- with some reminiscences of a sojourn Island. Hobart, Sullivan’s Cove, 1973. tispiece, lithographed title-page, and six in Australia.London, Smith, Elder, 1846. other lithographed plates, original gilt- Octavo, a couple of faint spots of fleck- Small octavo, frontispiece portrait, pp. viii decorated cloth over bevelled boards, all ing on the boards, quarter crushed mo- + 188, a very good copy in original em- rocco. $450 edges gilt. $950 bossed cloth. $600 First edition: extremely scarce in such One of the deluxe copies (no. 9) in quar- Lloyd gives a short history of South Aus- ter morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. See good condition. John Hunter Kerr (circa tralia and attempts to analyse the eco- 1821 – 1874), great-nephew of Governor Ferguson 4582 for the original edition of nomic crisis which existed at the time of 1847. Maconochie wanted to rebut the John Hunter, was born in Edinburgh and his visit, and to assess future prospects assumption of members of the House emigrated to Port Phillip in 1839 on the for settlers. He was in Adelaide during of Commons that the system of convict first ship to make the voyage from Britain Sturt’s departure for Central Australia in management used at Norfolk Island be- directly to Port Phillip. His is an interest- 1844 and gives a colourful description ing and well-illustrated personal account of that event (Walsh and Hooton 144). tween 1840 and 1844 had failed. of the colony from first settlement to the Ferguson, 4334. 99. Herbert MOORE. Links With Other the first five leaves, pp. [xi]-154, [132] Days; Pen Drawings with some Notes. advertisements plus one tipped-in illus- Melbourne, Harvey, 1927. Octavo, 13 trated leaf on blue paper, early binder’s drawings, with notes on tissue, tied in cloth (wrongly lettered 1852), clean and wrappers, some foxing. $50 crisp $650 Sketches of historic Victorian homes and This is an uncommon and interesting public buildings. commercial record (even without the few preliminary leaves). The directory is 100. Marcie MUIR. Harry Muir- Book- classified according to occupations: mer- man: A Memoir. Melbourne, Croft Press, chants, bootmakers, pawnbrokers, gun 1993. Octavo, pp. 45, card with wrapper, makers, china and glass stores, carpen- as new. $60 ters and joiners, cutlers, cabinet makers Limited to 220 numbered and signed cop- and upholsterers, builders, tea and fancy ies (No. 164). warehouses, foundries, hair dressers, livery stables, green grocers, wholesale and retail grocers, ship chandlers, drap- ers, outfitters and hosiers, tobacconists, wholesale and retail tailors, letter press printers, engravers, plumbers, painters, 94. George MACKANESS. The Life of glaziers and paper hangers, gold bro- Vice-Admiral Bligh, a final biography. kers, cattle brokers, engineers, sail and Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1931. Two tent makers, milliners, flour factors and volumes, octavo, plates, folding map, bakers, hardware and ironmongers, hat original cloth, pale spots of foxing to manufacturers, stationers and booksell- edges and off-setting to endpapers, a fine ers, brewers, architects and surveyors, set complete with scarce dust-wrappers. basket makers, and the list goes on. The $400 Redmond Barry copy with bookplate. See First edition. Ferguson, 12415. 95. Arthur MAILEY. The Australian Fifteen for England (The Team that Won 103. Edward ORME. Foreign Field Sports, the Ashes) Caricatured by Austra- Fisheries, Sporting Anecdotes, &c. &c… lia’s Googly Bowler, Arthur Mailey, with With a Supplement of New South Wales. an Appreciation by Warwick Armstrong. Containing One Hundred and Ten Plates. Melbourne, Alexander McCubbin, 1921. London, Edward Orme, 1819. Large Quarto, 16 pp., original pictorial wrappers quarto, 110 fine hand-coloured aqua- (slightly edge-worn). $300 tint plates, contemporary (likely original) straight-grain black morocco, all edges 96. Charles MASSY. The Australian Meri- 101. Philip E. MUSKETT. The Book of gilt. $5500 no, The Story of a Nation.Sydney, Random Diet, with also a collection of savoury, The scarce second edition in larger - for House, 2007. Fat octavo, illustrations and choice, delicious and selected recipes. mat of a famous work, one of the most maps, pp. 1262, publisher’s boards, dust- Melbourne, Sydney &c., George Robert- famous hand-coloured aquatint books. wrapper, as new. $300 son & Co., no date (circa 1898). Octavo, Orme’s Foreign Field Sports combines The updated second edition of this defin- illustrated advertisements, pale water- 100 images of European, African, Indian, itive history of the golden fleece in Aus- stain at head of front wrapper, a very and American hunting, together with a tralia. good copy in original wrappers. $250 supplement of ten plates of Australian First edition: scarce. Ferguson, 13039. Aboriginal scenes. Wantrup notes the 97. . The Home Of The Muskett, a former Surgeon Superinten- vivid style and delicate detail in the de- Blizzard: Being the Story of the Austral- dent to the NSW Government, held se- pictions of Aboriginal life in the bush. asian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914… nior positions at the Quarantine Station Ferguson, 739; Wantrup, 213b (note) and London, William Heinemann, 1915. Two and Sydney Hospital. In addition to pub- pp. 280-3. volumes, octavo, black & white and lishing his own titles, he contributed to coloured plates (some folding), illustra- the Education Department several arti- 104. M. F. PERON. A Voyage of Discov- tions, maps (three folding maps in pocket cles on food and health in relation to the ery to the Southern Hemisphere, Per- at rear of volume II), original pictorial Australian climate. formed by Order of the Emperor Na- cloth (spine lettering worn). $2600 poleon, During the Years 1801, 1802, 1803, and 1804.... Translated from the 98. Henry MELVILLE. Observations Re- 102. Melbourne Directory. [The Mel- bourne Commercial Directory, includ- French. (Melbourne), Marsh Walsh, specting the Islands of the Mauritius, 1975. ing Collingwood and Richmond, and Octavo, folding frontispiece, pub- written during a short sojourn there in lisher’s full calf, a fine copy. $400 Almanac for the year 1853 : contain- 1828. Adelaide, James Dally, 2004. Octa- Facsimile edition, limited to 350 copies. ing calendar, merchants, traders, ho- vo, pp. 82, yellow cloth covered boards, Originally published in 1809 in London, tels, public institutions, &c., compiled quarter calf, as new. $150 this is a translation of the first of the two Edition limited to 55 numbered copies by P.W. Pierce]. Melbourne, Printed by volumes of French text. (#53). J. Shanley, n.d. (1853?). Octavo, lacking 107. Periodical. Aspro Year Book 1935, of the children of Gracius Broinowski 1937, 1939, 1940. Melbourne, Planet (Birds of Australia), was working for the Publicity Co., various years. Four items, Commonwealth government when it op- octavo, illustrations, opriginal pictorial erated from Melbourne. He developed wrappers. $50 his interest as a member of various lit- Content includes horse racing, gardening, erary societies including the Melbourne horoscopes, sporting results. Literary Club, and contributed his own verse to the magazine Birth. With the as- sistance of financial contributions from friends, he launched The Spinner which in monthly issues over a three year period regularly published the work of such po- ets as Mary Gilmore, John Shaw Neilson and Marie Pitt.

110. Rev. Thomas CAMPBELL. Diary of a Visit to England in 1775, by an Irishman (The Reverend Doctor Thomas Camp- bell...) With Notes by Samuel Raymond, M.A., Prothonotary of the Supreme Court of New South Wales. Sydney, Waugh and 105. Ray PARKIN. H. M. Bark Endeavour, Cox, 1854. Duodecimo, original cloth, gilt, Her Place in Australian History, With an with the bookbinding ticket of Conyber, Account of her Construction, Crew and 13 Park Street, Sydney, small repaired tear Equipment and a Narrative of her Voyage at inner margin of title, a bright copy. on the East Coast of New Holland in the $1200 Year 1770, With Plans, Charts and Illus- Very rare. Just as the pirated Tasmanian trations by the Author. First edition, Pickwick holds a special place in the bib- Melbourne, Miegunyah Press, 1997. Two 108. Periodical. The Publicist. liography of Dickens, this small volume volumes small folio, (the second being Group of eight issues in original wrap- represents an exotic and most uncom- charts and diagrams), red cloth in match- pers, Nos. 18, 36, 45-49, and 62. Sydney, mon item in the literature relating to ing slipcase, a fine set of the first edition. The Publicist Publishing Co., 1937-41. Doctor Johnson. How the diary reached $450 Quarto, stapled in original wrappers (sev- Australia is not known, but it was appar- Edition limited to 1000 copies: scarce. eral torn or detached, one back wrapper ently discovered behind a cupboard in lacking, but overall quite sound). $250 one of the offices of the Supreme Court Because of his activities as a contribu- of New South Wales. It is in fact the first tor to this paper, P. R. Stephenson was edition of a contemporary account of interned from March 1942 until August conversations with both Johnson and his 1945. His was the most notorious case in biographer Boswell, though published in a group of some fifty British-born Austra- the Antipodes so long after the event. lians interned for dissident behaviour or Inscribed from the editor to J.A. Panton, opinion during World War II. of Castlemaine, who was Assistant Gold- fields Commissioner, and one of the best- POETRY & LITERATURE known Victorian magistrates of his time. The Hobill Cole copy with bookplate, later 109. R. A. BROINOWSKI. The Spinner; in the collection of Dame Mabel Brookes. An Australasian Magazine of Verse .. Vol. Ferguson, 7913. I [and] II. Melbourne, Edward A. Vidler, 1924-26. The first two (of three) volumes, 111. Marcus CLARKE. The Marcus Clarke each containing twelve monthly issues Memorial Volume ... Compiled and Edited in original wrappers, most with portrait by Hamilton Mackinnon. Melbourne, Cam- frontispiece, with the preliminaries from eron, Laing & Co., 1884. Octavo, tipped- the annual volumes, recent navy crushed in frontispiece portrait photograph, pp. morocco by Bayntun, all edges gilt. $350 322 + illustrated advertisements, the Each volume with separate signed and deluxe issue in publisher’s navy morocco dated inscriptions from Kate Baker: in one over bevelled boards, boards with triple 106. Philately. The Postage Stamps, En- case, to the author Victor [Kennedy]. gilt rule, gilt-stamped emblem on front velopes, and Post Cards, of Australia and Baker was Joseph Furphy’s ‘gallant stan- board, all edges gilt, joints rubbed, book- the British Colonies of Oceania, with au- dard-bearer’, publishing his poems at her plate, newspaper clipping laid to early totype illustrations, compiled and pub- own expense in 1916, and arranging for leaf. $300 lished by the Philatelic Society, London. the first publication in book form of Rig- Edited, and with a biography, by Clarke’s London, 1887. Octavo, deluxe binding of by’s Romance in 1921. For her services literary executor, this volume of Clarke’s original presentation morocco over bev- to Furphy in particular, and to literature journalism was produced to give financial elled boards, this copy belonging to the in general, she was awarded an O.B.E. in assistance to Mrs. Clarke and her family. Inspector of Stamps, with the stamp of 1937. Ferguson, 8325 (noting ordinary issue in the Government Printing Office Sydney. Broinowski, public servant and poet, one cloth), Holden 29. $1250 112. C. J. DENNIS. The Singing Garden. 117. Jessica HAWKE. Follow My Dust! A 121. Printing. Edward FITZGERALD Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1935. Oc- Biography of Arthur Upfield. Heinemann, (printer). The Australasian Printers’ Keep- tavo, frontispiece and decorations, book- 1957. Octavo, pp. 238, small signs of sake, a selection of tales, essays, sketch- plate, clipping pasted to rear endpaper, foxing and flecking, dust-wrapper price- es, and verse illustrative of the craft in original cloth slightly rubbed. $150 clipped, a very good copy. $150 Australia. By Victorian Compositors. Mel- First edition: the author’s final book, pub- A scarce work. bourne, Edward Fitzgerald, 1885. Small lished three years before his death. Poetry octavo, pp. viii + 168 + ii (advertisement), and short prose pieces, dealing with the * * * * * * * a fine copy in original wrappers. $750 bird life and garden of Arden, the house Signed by E. Armstrong, with the note ap- that Dennis had built at Toolangi after his prenticed 1884. Ferguson, 6274. marriage in 1917. 122. E. Graeme ROBERTSON. Ornamen- 113. William HOWITT. Tallangetta, the tal Cast Iron in Melbourne. National Trust Squatter’s Home. A Story of Australian of Australia, 1972 reprint. Quarto, plates, Life. London, Longman, 1857. Two vol- diagrams, pp. 229, cloth, dust-wrapper umes, octavo, one rear endpaper re- clipped, small tear to dust-wrapper, a moved, original embossed cloth, sewing very good copy. $75 loosening, slightly canted: with advertise- ments for Howitt’s works pasted to the 123. (Queensland). British India and endpapers of the first volume. $550 Queensland Agency Company Ltd. Howitt’s visits to the Victorian goldfields Handbook of information for the colonies 118. Printing. Thomas DARRAGH. En- and India issued by the British India and commenced with some prospecting on graving and Lithography In Melbourne to the Ovens diggings at the end of 1852. In Queensland Agency Company Ltd. Bris- the Time of the Gold Rush. Thumb Creek, bane, Warwick & Sapsford, Printers, 1889. 1853 and 1854 he spent time at McIvor, NSW, Garravembi, 1990. Octavo, 25 Bendigo, Ballarat and Castlemaine, revis- Octavo, maps and illustrations, illustrated tipped-in illustrations, pp. 64, papered advertisements on coloured stock, small iting the Ovens before returning to Eng- boards, dust-wrapper, a fine copy. $100 defect in front endpaper, original cloth- land. Edition of 425 numbered copies. backed colour pictorial flushcut papered boards. $650 114. Les MURRAY. Sleepout, Wood en- Includes a 34-page itinerary of the Aus- graving by Rosalind Atkins. (Canberra), tralasian United Steam Navigation Co.’s Brindabella Press, 1994. Broadside, ap- lines, with useful information on ports in- proximately 36 x 48 cm., hand printed cluding Brisbane, Maryborough, Bundab- and illustrated, with the blindstamp of erg, Gladstone, Rockhampton, Mackay, the Press, mounted, framed and glazed. Bowen, Townsville, Dungeness, Cardwell, $400 Mourilyan Harbor, Geraldton, Cairns, Port Edition limited to 200 numbered copies, Douglas, Cooktown, Thursday Island, Nor- signed by the poet and the artist. manton and Burketown (eight of these il- lustrated). Apparently the second issue in 115. Nettie PALMER. The South Wind a series of twelve. See Ferguson, 7424. [with] Shadowy Paths. London, John G. Wilson, 1914 and London, The Euston 124. Ernest SCOTT. A History of the Uni- Press, (1915). Duodecimo, outer and low- versity of Melbourne. Melbourne Univer- er edges uncut, vellum-backed papered sity Press, 1936. Octavo, plates, slight ex- boards, spine titled in gilt, the second ternal sunned, end-papers offset, a fine work with pale foxing of endpapers, origi- copy in uncommon dust-wrapper. $150 nal lettered artifical vellum: a good pair. $350 125. (John SHILLINGLAW). 1878. Victoria. Scarce: the author’s first two books of 119. Printing. J.A. FERGUSON and oth- Port Phillip, First Survey and Settlement verse. Loosely inserted are two autograph ers. The Howes and their Press. Sydney, of. Return to an Order of the Legislative letters from 1932, signed, from Nettie Sunnybrook Press, 1936. Quarto, illus- Assembly ... Journal of Exploration of Port Palmer to R. H. Croll (both in envelopes, trated and with tipped-in plates, original Phillip made by Charles Grimes ... Journal one with stamps removed) dealing with cloth, paper label on upper board, a fine of the Rev. Robt. Knopwood, Chaplain to the endeavour to secure a Nobel Prize for copy, with the dust-wrapper, in (wearing) the Settlement, from 24 April 1803 to 31 Henry Handel Richardson. original card slip-case. $1000 December 1804. Melbourne, John Ferres, No. 104 of 120 copies only, signed by the 1878. Foolscap folio, portraits and sketch, 116. Arthur W. UPFIELD. An Author three authors and by the printer. folding lithographed facsimile of Grimes’s Bites The Dust. Sydney, Angus & Rob- chart laid down on linen in end-pocket, ertson, 1948. Octavo, paper tanned, 120. Lila RAIT. Through The Nursery Win- handsome modern calf-backed boards, original cloth in dust-wrapper (foxed dow, A History of Antique and Collectable Paper No. 15 of 1878. $850 and strengthened), a very good copy. Dolls in Australia, 1788-1950. Melbourne, Shillinglaw’s note to the Premier Graham $300 Oxford University Press, 1989. Quarto, il- Berry introduces these documents as the First edition. lustrated, boards with dust-wrapper, a fine First Annals of the colony. copy, signed by the author. $60 129. Captain Robert F. SCOTT. The Voy- 131. John TANNER. Tanner’s Melbourne age of the ‘Discovery’. London, Smith, Directory for 1859, containing street guide Elder & Co., 1905. Two volumes, octavo, and addresses of Melbourne proper, East plates, a bright set in full polished calf, & North Melbourne, Collingwood, Rich- slightly trimmed, all edges marbled. mond, and the business portions of Em- $1000 erald Hill, Sandridge and Williamstown. Second impression. Melbourne, John Tanner, 1859. Original cloth, upper corner stained - one leaf of 130. (South Australia). The South Aus- text missing (no apparent reason). $300 tralian Institute: comprising The Public Apparently the only year of issue. Fergu- Library, Art Gallery, and Museums. Ad- son 16701; Hyslop, 176. dresses delivered at the Laying of the Foundation Stone by His Excellency Sir TASMANIA W.F. Jervois... November 7, 1879. With a Sketch of the Initiation and Progress of the S.A. Institute, A Description of the Proposed Building, and an Account of the Ceremony. Adelaide, W. K. Thomas & Co., 1879. Octavo, original photographic 126. (Scotch College) Scotch College frontispiece, a bright copy in publisher’s War Memorial. Melbourne, Brown, Prior embossed blue moire cloth, gilt. $300 & Co., nd. Octavo, portraits and illustra- Rare. Ferguson, 15986 (omitting frontis- tions, pp. 48, stapled in original decorat- piece and noting wrappers only). ed wrappers, a fine copy. $100 Cover Title: The School at War.

127. Louis L. SMITH. Impotence and Ste- rility. Melbourne, for the author, 1864. Octavo, [iv] + [5]-132 (last blank) + iv advertisements, a good copy with slight 133. Quentin BERESFORD & Garry marking in text, original embossed cloth, BAILEY. Search for the Tasmanian spine and front board titled in gilt, spine Tiger. Hobart, Blubber Head Press, 1981. flecked. $450 Oblong octavo, pp. vi + 54, 4 plates in An uncommon work from the early colour, illustrated in black-and-white, Melbourne doctor and politician, Louis original pictorial wrappers, a very good copy. $50 Lawrence Smith. His surgery opened in 132. J. J. SPRUSON. Norfolk Island, outline Bourke Street in 1853, and within ten of its history from 1788 to 1884. Sydney, 134. (TASMAN). J. E. HEERES. A b e l years had expanded to include a museum Thomas Richards, Government Printer, Janszoon Tasman’s Journal of his Discov- of anatomy and the Polytechnic Hall (lat- 1885. Quarto, double-page frontispiece ery of Van Diemen’s Land and New Zea- er used for theatre). He used a popular and thirteen photographic plates, the land in 1642 with documents relating to approach to increase his income, offering text stamped a number of times, special his exploration of Australia in 1644... Los consultations and prescriptions by post, presentation binding of full navy morocco Angeles, Kovach, 1965.Large folio, five and publishing an annual Medical Alma- over bevelled boards. $850 folding charts in endpocket, text maps nac which promoted home treatment. By Very scarce: with the small stamp of the and many illustrations, original publisher’s 1863 he was spending £3000 a year on Colonial Secretary’s Office a few times cloth without dust-wrapper, faint mark- newspaper advertisements, and it is said repeated and with the familiar booklabel ing of fore-edges. $450 that by 1880 he was earning £10,000 a noting that this was part of the- Collec year. tion associated with Sir Henry Parkes pre- 135. Lucille ANDEL. Clerk of the House, served in the Colonial Secretary’s Office the reminiscences of Hugh Munro Hull 128. R. Brough SMYTH. Geological Survey until 1956. Melbourne, for the author, Of Victoria. Report of Progress (No. III), Richards introduced photo-lithography, 1818-1882. 1984. with Reports on the Geology, Mineralogy, stereo-typing and electro-typing into the Octavo, portraits, original cloth Mining, and Physical Structure of Various New South Wales Government Printing with dust-wrapper. $60 Parts of the Colony by Ferd. M. Krause, Office, after his appointment in 1859.- Be Edition limited to 1000 numbered Reginald A. F. Murray, Alfred Howitt, Nor- fore the select committee on the Govern- copies. man Taylor [and others]. Melbourne, John ment Printing Office in 1870 he praised Ferres, Government Printer, and London, his men for the “finest examples of the 137. John BROXUP. Life of John Broxup, Trubner and Co., 1876.Octavo, maps, modern technique of photo-lithography” Late Convict at Van Dieman’s Land. Hobart, plates and sketches, a very good copy in seen in the colonies. At the 1878 Paris Sullivan’s Cove, 1973. Octavo, retaining early full calf, the F. G. Coles and Bernard Universal Exhibition he won a silver and original wrappers, crushed morocco by Brett copy. $200 two bronze medals, and at the 1880 Mel- Sangorski and Sutcliffe, top edge gilt. Includes Report on the Ararat field by bourne International Exhibition he won $500 Ferd. Krause, and on South-Western five high diplomas for printing, bookbind- Deluxe issue (no. 2) initialled by the pub- Gippsland by Reginald Murray. ing and photography. Ferguson 16092. lisher, within an overall limitation of 125. VDL for officials, general readers, and their own accounts by James Calder in prospective emigrants. Ferguson, 861. 1881. [Adelaide], Sullivan’s Cove, 1984. Octavo, pp. 52, uncut, Sangorski & 141. James FENTON. A History of Tas- Sutcliffe crushed morocco. $500 mania From Its Discovery in 1642 to the Deluxe issue of ten copies (no. 2) initialled present time. Hobart, J.Walch & Sons, by the publisher, within an overall limita- 1884. Octavo, coloured folding frontis- tion of 200. piece map, four plates, one lithographed portrait, a very good copy in original cloth 147. Philip Gidley KING. Remarks on the 136. Marcus Blake BROWNRIGG. The (head and foot of spine showing a touch of Passage through Bass’s Straits, from the Cruise of the Freak: a narrative of a visit wear). $450 Westward. Hobart, Sullivan’s Cove, 1973. to the islands in Bass and Banks Straits First edition. Prized for the attractive Small octavo, pp. 12, sewn in wrappers, with some accounts of the islands. chromolithographed plates of Tasma- two tiny flecks at the foot of upper wrap- Launceston, J. S. V. Turner, [1872]. Oc- nian aborigines after original portraits by per. $100 tavo, frontispiece folding chart and eight Thomas Bock, this is a good early history Edition limited to 100 numbered copies tinted lithographed plates, original cloth, of Van Diemen’s Land. (#47) initialled by the publisher, printed rebacked preserving the earlier spine. at the Nag’s Head Press, Christchurch. $1000 142. Elizabeth FENTON. Mrs Fenton’s First edition. A very scarce narrative of a Tasmanian Journal, 1829-1830. Adelaide, voyage to the Bass Strait islands of the Sullivan’s Cove, 1986. Octavo, pp. 86, Kent and Furneaux Groups; of significant crushed morocco by Sangorski and Sutc- Aboriginal interest and with much detail liffe. $500 on natural history and on the few at- Deluxe issue of ten copies (no. 2) initialled tempts at settlements. Ferguson, 7578. by the publisher, within an overall limita- tion of 155. 138. James CALDER. Rambles on Betsy’s Island, Tasman’s Peninsula, and Foresti- 143. George FRANKLAND. The Narra- er’s Peninsula in Feburary 1848. Adelaide, tive of an Expedition to the Head of Sullivan’s Cove, 1984. Octavo, pp. 52, the Derwent, and to the Countries bor- uncut, Sangorski & Sutcliffe crushed dering the Huon, in 1835. Adelaide, morocco. $500 Sullivan’s Cove, 1983. Octavo, pp. 48, Deluxe issue of ten copies (no. 2) initialled crushed morocco by Sangorski and by the publisher, within an overall limita- Sutcliffe. tion of 175. $500 First and only edition. Deluxe issue of ten 139. John Charles DARKE. Journals of copies (no. 2) initialled by the publisher, Expeditions in Van Diemen’s Land 1833. within an overall limitation of 155. Adelaide, Sullivan’s Cove, 1985. Octavo, 148. Henry Butler STONEY. A Residence crushed morocco by Sangorski and Sutc- 144. Sir John and Lady Jane FRANKLIN. In Tasmania: with a descriptive tour liffe. $500 James Calder. Recollections of Sir John through the island, from Macquarie Har- Deluxe issue of ten copies (no. 2) initialled and Lady Franklin in Tasmania. Adelaide, bour to Circular Head. London, Smith, El- by the publisher, within an overall limita- Sullivan’s Cove, 1984. Octavo, pp. 80, un- der, 1856. Octavo, with plates and a dou- tion of 175. cut, Sangorski & Sutcliffe crushed moroc- ble-page map, a few generally pale spots, co. $500 a most attractive copy in bright original 140. George William EVANS. A Geo- Deluxe issue of ten copies (no. 2) ini- publisher’s blue frond-grain cloth, both graphical, Historical and Topographical tialled by the publisher, within an overall boards with elaborate gilt frame, spine Description of Van Diemen’s Land, with limitation of 200. Calder’s text is largely extra gilt, all edges gilt. $950 important Hints to Emigrants, and useful from the Tasmanian Tribune in 1875, with First London and first illustrated edition: information respecting the application slight alterations made from Calder’s cor- this is the rare publisher’s “cloth extra” for grants of land; together with a list of rections to that printing. gift binding. Ferguson 16295. the most necessary articles for persons to take out. Embellished by a correct view 145. Charles FURLONG. The Settler in 149. ‘Eustace FITZSYMONDS’ (editor). of Hobart Town. London, John Souter, Tasmania 1873-1879. Adelaide, Sullivan’s Mortmain. A collection of choice peti- 1822 [1824]. Octavo, folding engraved Cove, 1982. Octavo, pp. 132, crushed tions, memorials and letters of protest frontispiece view of Hobart (slight- fox morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe. and request from the convict colony of ing), a very good copy in half morocco, $500 Van Diemen’s Land, written by divers top edge gilt, early owner’s name on ti- Deluxe issue of ten copies (no. 2) initialled persons. Hobart, Sullivan’s Cove, 1977. tle. $1200 by the publisher, within an overall limita- Foolscap folio, pp. xvi + 262, illustrated Evans was the Deputy Surveyor General tion of 150. with facsimiles, title-page in red and of Tasmania from 1811 till 1822. Ian Wil- black, crushed morocco by Sangorski and son in his Collecting Old Tasmanian Books 146. James KELLY and James HOBBS. Sutcliffe. $500 notes this work as the most important The Circumnavigations of Van Die- Deluxe issue of ten copies (no. 2) ini- post-settlement book on the colony, men’s Land in 1815 by James Kelly and tialled by the publisher, within an overall which provided an accurate picture of in 1824 by James Hobbs; Edited from limitation of 500. 156. Frederick WIMPOLE. Visitors’ Guide to Melbourne, its suburbs, and interest- ing places of resort. Melbourne, Massina, 1881. Octavo, one folding and one full- page map, several plates included within the pagination, inked note on one leaf, original wrappers. $650 Wimpole was the proprietor of the George Hotel, opposite the St. Kilda Rail- way Station. Ferguson, 18673 (not noting the two maps).

157. William B. WITHERS. The History of Ballarat, from the First Pastoral Settlement to the Present Time, With Plans, Illustra- tions, and Original Documents.First edition, Ballarat, The “Ballarat Star” Office, 1870. Folding frontispiece panorama, eighteen plates (six double-page), first leaf creased and slightly chipped, the rare variant in 150. R. H. WIGRAM. Trout And Fly In 154. Henry Gyles TURNER. The First De- papered boards, a clean and attractive Tasmania. Sydney, Angus and Robertson, cade of the Australian Commonwealth, copy. $1250 1938. Octavo, black & white plates, an a chronicle of contemporary politics Ferguson 18713. attractive copy in original cloth, no dust- 1901 - 1910. Melbourne, Mason, wrapper. $850 Firth, M’Cutcheon, 1911. Octavo, original 158. Garnet WALCH. The Australian cloth, outer and lower edges untrimmed, Birthday Book and Record of Memorable a fine copy. $200 Events. Melbourne, Kemp & Boyce, Print- * * * * * * * From the library of (and signed by) J. G. ers, 1887. Duodecimo, small repair to first advertising leaf, original cloth-backed Roberts, bibliophile and patron of C. J. boards cut-flush, half a dozen names en- Dennis. 151. E. C. H. TAYLOR (editor.) 100 Years tered by hand, a fine copy. $440 of Football; The Story of the Melbourne Lettering on the front board announces 155. John WHITE. Voyage à La Nou- this as the Victorian Edition, published by Football Club 1858-1958, Research by velle Galles Du Sud, à Botany-bay, au Hugo Wertheim. Hugh Field, Photographs arranged by Port Jackson, en 1787, 1788, 1789... David Walker. Melbourne, (1958). Large Par John White, Chirurgien en Chef de octavo, tipped-in frontispiece portrait, L’Establissement des Anglais, Dans Cette plates, original binder’s cloth with dust- Partie du globe; Ouvrage ou l’on trouve wrapper, a very good copy. $100 de nouveaux details sur le caractère et les usages des habitans du cap de Bonne-Es- 152. J. H. TUCKEY. An Account of a Voy- perance, de l’ile Teneriffe, de Rio-Janeiro age to Establish a Colony at Port Philip in et de la Nouvelle Hollande, ainsi qu’une Bass’s Strait, on the South Coast of New description exacte de plusieurs ani- South Wales. Melbourne, Marsh, Taylor & maux inconnus jusqu’à present. Traduit Walsh, 1974. Octavo, original publisher’s de l’Anglais, avec des notes critiques et calf with slipcase. $150 philosophiques sur l’histoire naturelle et Facsimile edition, limited to 500 num- les moeurs; Par Charles Pougens. Paris, bered copies. Pougin, 1795. Octavo, a fine copy, com- plete with the half-title, in contempo- 153. Clive TURNBULL. Ned Kelly, Being rary French quarter calf, glazed boards His Own Story of His Life and Crimes. In- . $1000 troduction by Clive Turnbull. Melbourne, This first edition in French of the surgeon’s The Hawthorn Press, 1942. Octavo, un- paginated, illustrations by Adrian Feint, a First Fleet journal has extensive addi- little pale foxing, original green cloth, the tional notes by the translator Pougens, in front board with Kelly helmet in gilt. which he compares White’s observations $250 with those of Phillip and Tench, and also Reprint of a letter written by Kelly at the compares the natural history and the na- tives with those of other countries as ob- 159. United States Fleet. Programme of time of the Euroa robbery. Limited edi- Entertainments at Melbourne, 23 July served by earlier voyagers, both English tion of 150 copies (this one out-of-series 1925 to 6th August 1925. Melbourne H. and French. Ferguson 231 (calling in error and unnumbered), signed by Turnbull J. Green, Government Printer, 1925. Sex- and with a signed inscription by him on for the 2 plates found only in the second todecimo by dimension, folding map, front endpaper. French edition of 1798), Sabin 103406. pp. 48, stapled in pictorial wrappers. $85