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BOOKFARE The newsletter of the Australian & New Zealand Association of Antiquarian Booksellers

July 2015

Well spin me round, round, baby, right round…it’s offer, follows. More information can also be found almost Rare Book Week! ANZAAB, in at www.rarebookfair.com. partnership with Melbourne’s foremost literary Melbourne Rare Book Fair also coincides institutions, historical societies, libraries and with the annual Open House Melbourne (OHM) bookshops, will present a stimulating and diverse program, with the Book Fair venue, Wilson Hall, array of lectures, presentations and exhibitions as being included in the OHM event. part of this year’s Rare Book Week program, culminating in the ANZAAB Australian Antiquarian Book Fair at the University of PENGUIN AND THE LANE BROTHERS: Melbourne’s historic Wilson Hall. And best of The Untold Story of a Publishing Revolution all—admission to all events is free. by Stuart Kells Melbourne Rare Book Week runs from Black Inc 9781863957571 Thursday, 16 July through to Sunday, 26 July. A (hardback) comprehensive listing of the events on offer is A ground-breaking counter-history of included in the ‘Don’t Miss…’ section of this Penguin Books—both amusing and newsletter and the program can also be viewed at moving, and with a strong new Australian aspect. www.rarebookweek.com. How did the three Lane brothers enter Leading Australian and international publishing and build Penguin into a antiquarian booksellers will bring a rich and global powerhouse? As this new book shows, their innovation and the diverse array of fine, rare and unusual books, creative opposition among them maps, manuscripts, prints, photographs and other would prove to be the company’s secret weapon. historical paper-based items together at this year’s The Lane boys did their best thinking together in bathroom 43rd ANZAAB Australian Antiquarian Book Fair board-meetings, where at least one director would always be which runs from Friday, 24 July to Sunday, 26 July. ‘mother naked’. The war, though, brought tragedy for the family. John Lane’s 1942 death in action during the North As the culminating event of Melbourne Rare Book African landings shattered the brothers’ intimate partnership. Week, the Melbourne Rare Book Fair will cater for Richard went on to share with Allen the leadership of one of all who genuinely love print on paper and who the first global media businesses. The Lanes built a firm and share a passion for books. Want to add to your a brand that became synonymous not only with paperbacks own personal library? Or would you like to know but also with a certain kind of publishing: switched-on, progressive, engaging. With its low-price, mass-distribution more about the world of book collecting? This is model, Penguin became a vast ‘poor man’s university’, a your opportunity to explore the world of books proto-internet made from paper and ink. with experts in their fields. featured prominently in the lives of the Lanes. Richard came to the country as a young man, and later A list of exhibitors, with some of the highlights on helped establish and lead Penguin Australia, which was so successful that it enabled its UK parent to stave off bankruptcy in the 1960s and 1970s. Relying on unprecedented access to Lane family sources, including Richard’s diaries and other papers, Penguin and the Lane Brothers sheds new light on the relationship between Allen, Richard and John, so crucial as a driver of Penguin’s spirit and success. It restores the younger Lane brothers to their rightful place in the fascinating story of this unlikely publishing triumph. Available from all good bookshops September 2015 A selection from exhibitors’ stock ANZAAB’s Melbourne Rare Book Fair, July 24–26

C.1500 CHOIR PSALTER LEAF WITH GROTESQUE FACES & BEAUTIFUL INITIALS Latin text on parchment in a high grade liturgical textus quadratus script. Verso: large illuminated initial ‘D’ in blue on gold grounds, infilled with strawberries and blossoms. Two grotesque human faces on initials ‘I’ and ‘A’. Recto with fine illuminated initial ‘M’ in gold on blue ground, with internal coloured floral decoration. Northern France/ Flanders, c.1500. Leaf: approx. 700 x 520 mm. Text and illuminated area approx. 560 x 320 mm.

LATE 15TH CENTURY BOOK OF HOURS LEAF IN MEDIEVAL FRENCH & LATIN RARE ‘WARBURG MISSAL’ LEAF, C.1325 WITH FINE Early 14th century leaf with Hufnagel RINCEAUX notation. A complex arrangement of ILLUMINATIONS blocks of text written on parchment in a Section of the gothic bookhand with sections of prayer known as liturgical chant. Produced for the use of ‘The 15 Joys of the Virgin Mary’, in French & a priest in the diocese of Würzburg, Latin, written in a Gothic bookhand on vellum. Germany, but later used in Warburg at One two-line & one one-line illuminated initial the church of St. John the Baptist, in raised and burnished gold, blue and red with diocese of Paderborn. Leaf: approx. 360 fine white penwork. A beautifully executed full x 260 mm. Written area: 290 x 190 mm. length panel of rinceaux illuminations beside Excellent provenance. the text. Paris: c.1490. Littera Scripta 18 Mitchell Street, Baringhup, VIC, 3463 Ph: +61 3 5475 1474 [email protected] litterascripta.com.au

DELUXE PRESENTATION COPY Sir Samuel Wilson. Salmon at the Antipodes, being an account of the successful introduction of Salmon and Trout into Australian Waters. London: Edward Stanford, 1879. Third edition.

SECOND AND BEST EDITION OF COOK’S FIRST VOYAGE John Hawkesworth. An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by Order of His Present Majesty for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere and Successively Performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Carteret, Captain and Captain Cook.... London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1773. Three volumes, quarto, contemporary marbled boards with later calf rebacking.

FIRST EDITION, IN FINE CONDITION Barron Field. Geographical Memoirs of New South Wales; by various hands, containing an account of the Surveyor-General’s late expedition to two new ports; the discovery of Moreton Bay River, with the adventures for seven months there of two shipwrecked men, etc. London: John Murray, 1825. First edition.

Books on Dean 3/444 Dean Street, Albury, NSW, 2640 Ph: +61 2 6021 3230 [email protected] www.booksondean.com.au PRESENTED TO THE QUEEN’S PERSONAL BODYGUARD DURING HER VISIT TO SOUTH AUSTRALIA IN FEBRUARY 2002 An original colour photograph (image size 198 x 146 mm) of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, mounted and glazed in the original presentation gilt-decorated leather frame (external dimensions 323 x 246 mm, stamped in gilt on the hinged support at the rear ‘Smythson of Bond Street’) The mount is personally (and individually) signed ‘Elizabeth R 2002’ (in blue ink) and ‘Philip’ (in black ink). With two associated event menus.

PHOTOGRAPH OF CALLIGRAPHIC TESTIMONIAL TO GEORGE CHRISTIAN CLAUSCEN, ‘MAYOR OF FITZROY AND ORIGINATOR OF THE NORTHCOTE CABLE TRAM’ Northcote Brass Band. An albumen paper cabinet photograph (image size 136 x 95 mm) on the original gilt-edged printed mount of Stewart and Co., 217 and 219 Bourke St East, Melbourne. Undated, but probably 1890s.

AN EXCELLENT COPY Arthur Mailey. Cricket Sketches and Short Stories. Glebe: Simmons Limited (Printers), [1933]. Padwick 6881.

Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers 196 North Terrace, SA 5000 Ph: +61 8 8223 1111 [email protected] treloars.com

ALBUM ILLUSTRATING CHINESE PASTIMES Chinese Pastimes–Album of Twelve Pith Paintings. Each painting is held in place by means of a blue ribbon border. These paintings are in particularly good condition for an album of 19th century pith paintings with only five paintings showing any minor damage at all. Original patterned woven fabric binding recased with modern silk spine, fabric ties. Inscription front free endpaper.

A VERY GOOD SET Collection of Hiroshige’s Masterpieces. Tokyo: Takejiro Hasegawa, 1914 (Vols. I & III) and [c.1904] (Vol. II). Complete in three volumes in original boxes. Each volume contains 12 colour woodblocks on 6 folded leaves (12pp). Each volume features a further two colour woodblocks on upper and lower covers, making a total of 14 woodblocks per volume. Printed on tan coloured hosho paper, contrasting string tie. Each volume is presented in its original card box with title label on the lid.

AUSTRALIAN FUNAMBULIST ELLA ZUILA AND OTHER 1880S PERFORMERS ON JAPANESE WOODBLOCK BROADSIDE Creped Paper Broadside for Royal Aquarium and Summer & Winter Garden Society, Limited. Two colour woodblocks feature side by side on single sheet of washi measuring 43.2 x 66 cm. Together these form a two panel broadside advertising the Royal Aquarium in Westminister’s Programme for the week ending October 9, 1888. A most attractive and unusual piece. Westminster October 1888. Asia Bookroom Unit 2, 1–3 Lawry Place, Macquarie, ACT, 2614 Ph: +61 2 6251 5191 [email protected] www.asiabookroom.com IMPRESSIVE MANUSCRIPT OF LATE BAROQUE LITURGICAL CHORAL MUSIC IN A MAGNIFICENT CONTEMPORARY BINDING [Joseph Fr. de la Cruz] An early 18th century Spanish antiphonal. León, Spain: Monasterio de Santa Maria de Carbajal, 1739. Manuscript, ink on vellum, large folio, in a contemporary binding of blind embossed calf over wooden boards (620 x 410 mm), spine with five raised bands, metal bosses on upper and lower boards, paste-downs and endpapers of contemporary manuscript vellum leaves with musical notation, [61] leaves with 32 large polychrome initials in mauresque style framed by double filets in various colours, and 91 slightly smaller, mostly black initials, most leaves with 5 or 6 staves and text in Latin, recto of first leaf with notes in Spanish on the patron and calligrapher of this manuscript.

SECOND, RATHER OBSCURE EDITION ONE OF THE FINEST Bailey, N[athan]. A New Universal Etymological AUSTRALIAN PRIVATE English Dictionary:…Originally compiled by N. Bailey; PRESS BOOKS assisted in the mathematical part by G. Gordon; in the Lindsay, Norman and botanical by P. Miller; and in the etymological, &c. by Jack Lindsay. A homage T. Lediard...and now re-published with many corrections, to Sappho. London: The additions, and literate improvements, by different Fanfrolico Press, 1928. hands…. London: Printed for T. Osborne in Limited to 70 signed Gray’s-Inn; R. Baldwin, in Pater-noster Row; copies. A beautiful J. Ward, in Cornhill; W. Johnston, in Ludgate production. Arnold 19. -Street; and S. Crowder and Co. on London Bridge [c.1760]. ESTC 199645.

Douglas Stewart Fine Books 720 High Street, Armadale, VIC, 3143 Ph: +61 3 9066 0200 [email protected] douglasstewart.com.au

UNIQUE COPY OF A TREATISE ON COLOUR THEORY COMPOSED BY THE ONLY WOMAN OF HER TIME WRITING ON THE SUBJECT M[ary] Gartside. An Essay on a New Theory of Colours.... [Working copy for an unpublished series?] Bound in quarter speckled calf over marbled boards, red leather spine label gilt. London: Printed by J. Barfield...for T. Gardiner..., W. Miller..., and I. and A. DEPERO’S FAMOUS Arch..., 1808. The stated Second ‘FUTURIST BOLTED BOOK’ Edition, however edits in contemporary ink manuscript on at least fifteen Fortunato Depero. Depero Futurista. pages—and a canceled line on the title- Milano/New York/Paris/Berlin: page, which seems to have read ‘Part Edizione Italiana Dinamo Azari, I’—indicate this may be a working copy 1927. Preserved in cloth box. for a three-part series in preparation at the time of Gartside’s death in 1809. Very rare.

FIRST AND ONLY EMBLEM BOOK WRITTEN BY A WOMAN, THE FIRST FRENCH EMBLEM BOOK WITH ENGRAVED EMBLEMS, AND ONE OF THE FIRST PROTESTANT EMBLEM BOOKS Georgette de Montenay. Emblemes, ou devises chrestiennes. Illustrated with wood engraved title-vignette and 100 engraved plates by Pierre Woeiriot. Bound in contemporary vellum, early manuscript title on spine. La Rochelle: Jean Dinet, 1620. Adams, Rawles & Saunders, French Emblem Books, F 437; Mortimer, French 380 (1571 edition); Baudrier X, 381; Fairfax Murray French 387; Landwehr, Romantic Emblem Books 533. A fine copy of a very rare book. Ursus Rare Books Third floor, 699 Madison Avenue, New York NY 10065 USA Ph: +1 212 772 8787 [email protected] ursusbooks.com ALMA MAGICAL COMPANY Will Alma. Will Alma’s Magical Magazine. No. 1: Jan–Feb. 1937; No. 2: March–April, 1937; No. 3: May–June 1937; and No. 4: July–August 1937. Will Alma was born in Melbourne in 1904 and his father, who abandoned the family when Will was a child, was also a vaudeville magician. Will became a performer but also was a manufacturer and supplier of tricks and equipment. In the 1930’s he established the Alma Magical Company which was also the publisher of this magazine. Scarce.

SIGNED LIMITED EDITION SCARCE IN THE FIRST EDITION Peter Crayford (editor) & John T. Wright. The History of Scotland: McDonald (introduction). The From the earliest period to the present time. Woodblock Paintings of Cressida Campbell. Self-published, no date (c.1829). 2 Bronte: Public Pictures, 2008. Signed volume set. With the large leather and numbered by the author as copy 56 of 99 published. Contained in a bookplate of Francis McKenzie 1829 blue solander box, ribbon book release. on both endpages. Out of Print Books 179 Canterbury Road, Canterbury NSW 2193 Ph: +61 2 9718 9262 [email protected] Outofprint.com.au

AN IMPORTANT BRITISH PRINTMAKER Sir Frank Short after George Frederick Watts. Orpheus and Eurydice. Mezzotint. Size: 315 mm by 490 mm (platemark). 1889. Signed in pencil by Watts, Short, and by the printer, Frederick Goulding.

PORTRAIT OF A NATIVE OF BOTANY BAY John Chapman after Johann Eberhard Ihle. An exact Portrait of A Savage of Botany Bay. Aquatint with engraving. Size: 210 mm by 125 mm (sheet). 1795.

ORIGINAL HAND-COLOURING Louis Portman after Jacques Kuyper. Nieuw- Hollanders. Stipple engraving with original hand- colouring. Size: 135 mm by 90 mm (image), 205 ETCHING OF SYDNEY UNIVERSITY mm by 120 mm (sheet). From De mensch, zoo als Edward Warner. The University, Sydney. hij voorkomt op den bekenden aardbol beschreven door Etching. Size: 155 mm by 203 mm Martinus Suart, afgebeeld door Jacques Kuyper, (platemark). 1935. Titled, editioned (24/100) Amsterdam: Johannes Allart, 1802. First and signed in pencil by the artist below the edition, in six parts. image. Sebra Prints 402 Burke Road, Camberwell, VIC, 3124 Ph: +61 3 9809 0222 [email protected] www.sebraprints.com.au CHINESE ANCIENT EROTIC FIGURES Five Colour Chinese Ancient Erotic Pictures lined on a folded board. Leather covers lined on the board.

A LOVELY FORE EDGE PAINTING A fore edge painting on a book True Stories or Interesting Anecdotes of Young Persons (1820). The fore edge is gilt and on the angle is a contemporary watercolour of an English river scene with a castle in the background.

THE FIRST FIFTEEN ISSUES OF MEANJIN Meanjin Papers. Number 1: Contemporary 1960 FIRST EDITION Queensland Verse Christmas 1940 through Robertson . Dangerous Cargoes. to Volume 3, Number 2: Winter 1944. The London: Robert Hale, 1960. First first issue is a slender 8 page pamphlet in a edition. Pseudonym of Australian writer numbered edition of 250 copies. The first Norman Lee who also wrote as Raymond six issues are all limited to 250 copies. Marshall and Mark Corrigan. Cornstalk Bookshop P.O. Box 336, Glebe NSW 2037 Ph: +61 452 228 982 [email protected] www.cornstalk.com.au

WHAT COULD BE THE ONLY KNOWN PHOTOGRAPHS OF A WOMEN’S INITIATION CEREMONY Albert Charles English. Presentation album of New Guinea photographs, c.1890–1906. There are 47 original photos in the album. Most are about 20 x 15 cm (three of the photos are about half this size). The album pages are bound with brass bolts and individual pages can be removed for display.

CAPTAIN COOK AND HIS THIRD VOYAGE TO THE PACIFIC W. Ellis. An Authentic Narrative of a Voyage performed by FIRST OFFICIAL Captain Cook and Captain Clerke in his Majesty’s Ships Resolution REPORT ON THE and Discovery. Illustrated with a chart and 21 plates in two EXCAVATIONS AT volumes. London: Robinson, Sewell and Debrett, 1782. HERCULANEUM First edition. Rebound in modern calf. M o n s i g n o r Ottavio Antonio Bayardi. Prodromo A DISSECTED PUZZLE Delle Antichita E. Wallis. The Principal Events in English D'Ercolano Alla History from the Landing of Caesar to Queen Maesta Del Re’ Delle . Produced by E. Wallis (the Due Sicilie. Napoli: originator of dissected puzzles in the late 1752. F i v e 18th century), 42 Skinner Street, London, volumes. Period leather covers with tooled c.1841. borders and corners, and gilt covers and spine. Mark’s Book Barn 215 Homer Street, Earlwood NSW 2206 Ph: +61 417 065 089 [email protected] COMPLETELY UNRESTORED THE LAST OF AND IN FINE CONDITION THE Breviarium s[ecundu]m usum Alme AUSTRALIAN EcclesieSaltzburgen[sis]. Pars Hyemalis. FOUNDATION (Salzburg breviary for devotions in BOOKS TO BE winter time.) Florence: Luke PUBLISHED Antonio Giunta at the expense of David Collins. Johannes Oswalt, 1518. Text An Account of the printed in red & black in 2 columns. English Colony in Gothic type. With woodcut arms of New South Wales the Archbishop of Salzburg on title, With Remarks on 4 full-page woodcuts, 13 borders the Dispositions, with multiple woodcuts, and many smaller woodcuts in the text including Customs, Manners, decorative initials. Original pigskin covered boards with blind-stamped religious &c. of the Native images, decorative brass corner pieces, clasps and catches, leather bookmark tabs Inhabitants of the still present although shortened. Contemporary manuscript devotional prayers on Country. To which blank prelims. are added, some Particulars of New Zealand; compiled, BOOKPLATES by Permission, from Adrian Feint. Bookplates by Adrian the MSS. of Lieutenant-Governor King. Feint. With an introduction by the Hon. London: T. Cadell Jun. & W. John Lane Mullins. Sydney: Palmtree Davies, 1798 & 1802. First editions. Press, 1928. Edition limited to 125 2 volumes, both in a recent period- numbered and signed copies, this style full morocco binding with raised being number 22. bands and gilt decorations on spine with red and green title labels.

Bellcourt Books 63 Gray Street, Hamilton VIC 3300 Ph: +61 3 5572 1310 [email protected]

A CANNIBAL IN THE PACIFIC [William Diaper]. Cannibal Jack, the King of the Cannibal Islands. Arrival in New York. Thirty years among the man-eaters. A singular story. Truth stranger than fiction [caption title]. 8 x 16-1⁄2 in. [Brattleboro, Vt.?: c.1870]. A charming broadside advertisement for an upcoming biography of William Diaper (1821?– 91), otherwise known as ‘Cannibal Jack’.

THE FAMED 1913 ARMORY ART SHOW [John Quinn]. Catalogue of International Exhibition of Modern Art. Association of American Painters and Sculptors. At the Armory… February Seventeenth to March Fifteenth. [Preface by Frederick James Gregg.] Printed at the Vreeland Advertising Press. New York: Association of American Painters and Sculptors, 1913. Original printed wrappers. John Quinn’s copy of the catalogue of the famed Armory Show of 1913. Quinn (1870–1924), New York attorney and collector, was one of two honorary members of the Association of American Painters and Sculptors noted at p. [15]; Frederick James Gregg, who wrote the preface, was the other. A rare work with important association interest.

THE FIRST BOOK ON SURFING Ron[ald Blake] Drummond. The Art of Wave Riding. Hollywood: The Cloister Press, 1931. First edition. Original printed pictorial wrappers. A fine copy. Described by Mark Hayes in his checklist, Early Surfing Books, as ‘beyond rare,’ this self-published work is widely considered to be the first book on surfing. It preceded Tom Blake’s Hawaiian Surfboard by some four years and its delicate format meant that very few have survived. De La Vega, B55; Hayes, Early Surfing Books, pp. 5–6.

James Cummins Bookseller 699 Madison Avenue, 7th Floor, New York NY 10065 USA Ph: +1 212 688 6441 [email protected] jamescumminsbookseller.com ALL APPARENTLY UNRECORDED Edward Lear. Two autograph letters, signed, to his friend the lawyer and fellow landscape artist Spencer Vincent, discussing paintings and arranging meetings, with flashes of his typical whimsy; with a third signed letter addressed to Vincent’s dog Fan, full of inventive puns and nonsense. London, 1868–72. In total 11 pages, octavo, including a self-portrait sketch and a page of drawings for Fan. Together with a Christmas card designed and engraved by Lear, depicting himself astride a Christmas pudding, encircled by a delightful Christmas poem.

RARE IN THE JACKETS Ernest Giles. Australia Twice Traversed. London: 1889. Two volumes, a fine set in the original pictorial cloth and pictorial dustjackets—possibly the only set retaining them.

RARE AND MUCH PRIZED William Bland (editor). Journey of discovery to Port Phillip, New South Wales, in 1824 and 1825. By W. H. Hovell and H. Hume, Esquires. Sydney: 1837. The first published edition, and the first with the map, following the extremely rare preliminary printing of 1831. A very good copy in early cloth, with the ticket of the Sydney binder, R. Dennis. From the library of the Sydney printer and newspaper editor Ralph Mansfield, a notable contemporary of the explorers, with his signature on the title and front endpaper.

Peter Arnold 606 High Street, Prahran VIC 3181 Ph: +61 3 9529 2933 [email protected] peterarnold.com.au

Sainsburys Books will bring a wide range of subjects with an emphasis on art, architecture, photography and literature. Among the art and photography are signed and inscribed books from the libraries of Lina Bryans and Jennifer Phipps. The architecture will be mainly modernist and include Jorn Utzon’s Sydney National Opera House known as the Red Book. Literature includes signed copies ranging from Thomas Hardy to Henry Miller. We also have a collection of Australian poetry such as Neighbours in a Thicket by David Malouf. Our general section will include Aboriginal history, military, ephemera and children’s books.

INSCRIBED BY OLA COHN Ola Cohn. Mostly Cats. Cohn, 1964. 8vo; card covers. Inscribed to Lina Bryans by Ola Cohn.

LIMITED, SIGNED COPY Henry Miller. My Bike & Other Friends. Capra Press, 1978.

IN A CUSTOM MADE CLAM SHELL BOX Jorn Utzon. Sydney National Opera House. Atelier Elekra, 1958. Oblong folio. Very good copy.

Sainsbury’s Books 534 Riversdale Road, Camberwell VIC 3124 Ph: +61 3 9882 7705 john @sainsburysbooks.com.au sainsburysbooks.com DEATH OF COOK John Webber. To the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of Great Britain & Co. This plate representing The Death of Captain Cook is humbly inscribed. Copper engraving. 1784. The largest and most famous of all 18th century depictions of the death of Cook, based on John Webbers oil, with the figures engraved by Francesco Bartolozzi and the landscape by William Byrne. Separately issued and more impressive than the smaller image that appears in the published accounts of the third voyage.

ALBUM OF 373 BOOKPLATES Ella Dwyer’s bookplates— Her Collection. A large collection of bookplates and letters collected by Ella Dwyer (1887–1979). Ella Maggie Dwyer was a printmaker and bookplate designer and a foundation member of the Australian Bookplate Club. Includes bookplates by Australian artists Lionel Lindsay, Adrian Fient, Gayfield Shaw, George Perrottet and David Souter; international bookplates; and a group of bookplates featuring the name ‘Smith’. c.1920/30s.

Antique Print & Map Room Shop 9, Lvl 2, Queen Victoria Bldg, 455 George St., Sydney NSW 2000 Ph: +61 2 9267 4355 [email protected] antiqueprintroom.com

A VERY GOOD COPY A BOOK OF LEGENDARY RARITY Henri Cartier-Bresson and Jean David Jones. Seven Fables of Aesop, printed in Miro. The Europeans. New York/Paris: Greek, with W. H. Shewring’s translations into Simon & Schuster/Verve, 1955. First English. London: Lanston Monotype U.S. edition. Illustrated boards Corporation, 1928. First edition. The text designed by Miro. With the separate composed in the New Hellenic designed by pamphlet of captions laid in. Victor Scholderer, printed in red and black; 7 original copper engravings by David Jones. The colophon at rear states that 150 copies were printed, but Stanley Morison believed that no more than 30 copies were actually published. The fine engravings measure 80 x 65 mm.

DANCES OF DEATH John [Hans] Holbein. The Dances Of Death through the various stages of human life: wherein the capriciousness of that tyrant is exhibited in forty-six copper plates done from the original designs which were cut in wood, and afterwoods painted. London: Printed by BOUND IN FULL VELLUM W. Smith for John Scott & Thomas William Blake. Auguries of Innocence. The calligraphy Ostell, 1803. Bound in full vellum, gilt. by Lillian Frost, printed in silver and red by James A very good copy, the plates crisp and Guthrie. London: The Pear Tree Press, 1914. First fresh. The text is in English and French, edition thus. Signed, at the foot of the colophon with the captions in the plates in Latin. page, ‘James Guthrie. Of 25 in vellum, Special No. 3’. With the bookplate of Dr Francis Henry Vivian Voss. Louella Kerr Old Fine & Rare Books 17 Palace Street Petersham NSW 2049 Ph: +61 2 9569 0156 [email protected] louellakerrbooks.com.au INCLUDES A SMALL ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATION CHIVERS Mervyn Peake. Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor. Eyre BINDING & Spottiswoode, 1945. Second edition. With a small E l e a n o r original blue ink illustration by Peake on the upper free Vere Boyle endpaper, above the signed presentation inscription. (‘E. V. B.’). D a y s a n d

ONE OF 5 ‘SPECIAL’ COPIES Hours in a G a r d e n . Winston S. Churchill. Marlborough. His life and times. L o n d o n : Harrap, 1933–38. First (limited) edition, being one Elliot Stock, of 155 copies thus bound and signed by Winston Churchill; this copy not numbered, but inscribed 1887. Sixth edition. A ‘Special’ (probably in b e a u t i f u l Churchill’s hand)—one of 5 binding, in copies so marked. In four volumes. Bound by Leighton- the vellucent style developed and made famous by Cedric Straker in full tan oasis morocco. Chivers, with his stamp in gilt on the lower Cohen A97.1.a (see footnote for pastedown. Housed within a lined brown the Special copies); Woods A40(a); Richard Langworth, A Connoisseur’s cloth slipcase. The Hon. Eleanore Vere Boyle (1825–1916) was one of the pre-eminent Guide to the Books of Sir Winston female artists of the Victorian era. Churchill, pp. 168–9.

Kay Craddock will offer a fine collection of books by Winston S. Churchill, including first editions of The Story of the Malakand Field Force (1898), Ian Hamilton’s March (1900), London to Ladysmith via Pretoria (1900), The River War (1899), his only novel Savrola (1900), and a special edition of Marlborough. His life and times (1933–38). Also featured will be a selection of militaria and books by and about T. E. Lawrence; a rare collection of books by E Nesbit, two of them inscribed by the author; two books by Mervyn Peake inscribed by the author; a range of Australian and English literature, including signed and inscribed copies; and an interesting collection of books about books from the library of the late Harry and Marcie Muir.

Kay Craddock – Antiquarian Bookseller 156 Collins Street, Melbourne, VIC, 3000 Ph: +61 3 9654 8506 [email protected] www.kaycraddock.com

SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR RARE LIFE’S WORK OF THE Frank J Hardy. Power FAMOUS EGYPTOLOGIST Without Glory. 1955. Sixth K. A. Kitchen. Ramesside Inscriptions. edition. In its brown paper Complete set, published by B. H. wrapper, rare banned book Blackwell over many years from the signed by the author. Star of mid 60’s to the early 1980’s. They are the Chadstone Communist extremely rare and in excellent book collection of Hilda condition. They were only available Smith. In very good to purchase through subscription or condition. at Blackwell’s in Oxford. 118 thin volumes in total.

GLORIOUS EXAMPLES OF RARE SIGNED THE PRINT MAKER’S ART FIRST EDITION Luigi Mayer. Views in Egypt. Frank J Hardy. With Views in Palestine and The Four-Legged Views in the Ottoman Empire. Lottery. 1958. London: Bensley, 1804, First edition. In 1803. 3 volumes bound in 2. e x c e l l e n t Bound in green quarter calf condition with over cloth sides, morocco d u s t - j a c k e t , titles with gilt lettering. Bland signed by author Ex Libris in both editions and in a strong bold some notes on the books hand. Rare in written on lined paper. In this condition. excellent condition. A rare pair of very fine books. Ankh Antiquarian Books P.O. Box 133, Darling VIC 3145 Ph: +61 3 9888 1990 [email protected] ankhantiquarianbooks.com.au AUSTRALIAN SOLDIER’S THE GADFLY MAGAZINE & A. E. MARTIN JAPANESE POW EPHEMERA 1906–1908 COLLECTION 1943–1945 Collection of material including five issues of The The collection comprises Gadfly, a periodical with process screen and colour line over 400 diverse objects block illustrations, six vintage silver gelatin collected by Private photographs, and Norman Julien Rosebery, several items of mostly during and after the correspondence period of time (1943–1945) and printed he spent in the Kawasaki ephemera including prisoner of war camp in pen and ink Kobe, Japan. A detailed list is available upon request. sketches, many items annotated, signed or dated. AUSTRALIE: TYPES ET COUTUMES C.1900 The collection Letterpress booklet with colour process pertains to The screen illustrations, each captioned in plate Gadfly Group and below image. Part 41 from the series includes a ‘Autour du Monde: Aquarelles, Souvenirs, photograph of the Voyages’, published in Paris by L. staff, dated October Boulange, éditeur, 90, Boulevard Mont par 1906 with a typed caption listing the sitters ‘A. E. nasse. Includes images of New Guinea, Martin, Bill Donald, Beaumont Smith, C. J. Dennis, Samoa, and possibly other locations in the Percy Bird, Geoff Burgoyne’ and the comment Pacific, as well as Australia. Some images ‘Irreverently known as the Trial of Beau Smith.’ The are reproductions of photographs by Gadfly was an illustrated weekly periodical founded by Henry King and Charles Kerry. It is C. J. Dennis in Adelaide in 1906 to showcase his and uncommon to find this publication 16-year-old cofounder Archie Martin’s writing talents. complete, with the original wrappers. Josef Lebovic Gallery 103a Anzac Parade, Kensington NSW 2033 Ph: +61 2 9663 4848/+61 411 755 887 [email protected] joseflebovicgallery.com

RARE BOOKLET LIMITED DELUXE EDITION Brian O’Higgins (Brian Ó Ida Rentoul Outhwaite hUigínn). Gair-chatha Gaedhal. [and] Grenbry Outhwaite. Sinn Fein and Freedom. Dublin: The Enchanted Forest. London: Sinn Fein Bureau, 16 Parnell A. & C. Black, 1921. No. Square, c.1932. A rare booklet 355 of the scarce limited de by then Sinn Fein President luxe edition of 500 copies. Brian O’Higgins, an address With 6 b/w vignettes, 15 b/w given at the 23rd Ard-Fheis plates and 16 tipped-in colour (Assembly or Party conference) plates (incl. frontispiece). of Sinn Fein on 9 October 1932. Orig. full cream cloth with He condemns the 1922 Treaty, gilt title and colour also quoting in full the Decree of decorations on the spine and Dail Eirann of 17 November the upped board, illustrated 1922. He argues that as this decree has never been endpapers. Very good. Muir revoked or rescinded ‘the “Free State” Government and 5595. Parliament...are illegal assemblies’.

THE FIFTH & SEVENTH BOOK PRINTED AND PUBLISHED IN PERTH, WESTERN AUSTRALIA Colonial Committee of Correspondence. Report on the statistics of Western Australia in 1840; With Observationss. Perth: Francis Lochee, 1841. [And] Journal of the Agricultural & Horticultural Society of Western Australia for the year 1842. Volume the First. [all published]. Perth: Francis Lochee, 1843. F3280 & 3543. The 1841 Report offers a comprehensive account of the Swan River settlement with chapters on the boundaries of the settlement, the Aboriginal people, religion, crime, agriculture, shipping, commerce, finance, the bank &c. The appendix is largely devoted to sailing directions by Surveyor-General John Septimus Roe. The 1843 Journal contains the first report of the Registrar-General, meteorological tables, remarks on the Aborigines, chapters on iron ore, wool etc. and a 20-page Chronicle of the principal events. This is essentially the first history of W.A. The 1841 Report is inscribed ‘George’s Congregational Library, Colyton, from W. Tanner’. The two books provide almost 200 pages on the early history and development of the Swan River settlement. They are the most substantial books printed in W.A. until that date, and have a most interesting provenance. Harbeck Rare Books P.O. Box 1610, Carindale QLD 4152 Ph: +61 416 362 443 [email protected] harbeck.com.au A CLASSIC OF AUSTRALIAN CHILDREN’S LITERATURE Norman Lindsay. The Magic Pudding: Being the adventures of Bunyip Bluegum and his friends Bill Barnacle & Sam Sawnoff. Sydney: Angus & Robertson, (1918). Quarto, bound in original quarter cloth with printed boards and a near perfect pictorial dustjacket. A superb copy of the first edition, first issue, with the green A & R patterned endpapers. Bearing a delightful contemporary inscription on half-title: ‘Himself from Herself, 17.10.18.’ Preserved in a custom-made glassine-fronted folding solander case.

A MOST SIGNIFICANT TEXT IN THE HISTORY OF HUMAN THOUGHT [Isaac Newton]. Opticks: or, a Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light. Also Two Treatises of the Species of Magnitude of Curvilinear Figures. London: Printed for Sam. Smith, and Benj. Walford, 1704. First edition, first issue. Complete. Quarto, bound in contemporary full panelled speckled calf; neatly re -backed, with raised bands, maroon morocco title- label and gilt lettering. Edges sprinkled with red spots. Title-page (without author’s name) printed in red and black ink. With 19 folding engraved plates. Opticks is a most significant text in the history of human thought. It was Newton’s second major publication, following his momentous Principia mathematica of 1687, in which he expounded his law of universal gravitation.

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TRAGIC LETTER TO A BROTHER MISSING ON THE VICTORIAN GOLDFIELDS Four-page letter plus original stamp-less envelope sent via Adams & Co.’s Express, 1855. Undelivered to the addressee: William F. Christie, Van Dieman’s Land, Pacific Ocean. Approximately 800 words of densely written text from one brother to another expressing extreme concern for the well being of the younger brother who travelled to Australia in 1853 to work the gold fields of Ballarat and Bendigo. In October 1854, the younger brother reported in a letter back to America that he was ill and no further correspondence was sent by him to his family in America. This letter reveals that James A. Christie had made numerous attempts to contact his sick brother without success. These attempts included multiple ‘letters & Bills of Exchange heretofore sent to Melbourne’.

DRAWN AT JINDABYNE WHEN TOURING WITH BANJO PATERSON FIRST UK EDITION Sir Lionel Lindsay. The Pannikin of Flour. Graham Greene. Etching, printed in black ink with plate-tone, The Quiet American. from one plate. 12.8 x 13.3 cm (plate-mark). London: William 1924. Fine. Heinemann, 1955. First U.K. edition.

BEAUTIFUL PRE-REVOLUTIONARY FRENCH BINDING WITH FIRST EDITION IMPORTANT ROYAL PROVENANCE Sylvia Plath. Table des sujets/Contenus dans les neuf premiers Cahiers (I) de l’Encyclopédie Winter Trees. Poétique, sous les lettres A, B, C, D, E (2). Full crimson morocco, gilt- London: Faber, lettered black leather title-label to spine, spine ruled & decorated in 1971. First edition. gilt, boards triple-ruled in gilt & gilt-embossed with the coat of arms of Maria Theresa of Savoy (1756–1805), the wife of Charles Philippe, Count of Artois, grandson of Louis XV and younger brother of Louis XVI, and later King Charles X of France.

Books of Kells P.O. Box 522, Camberwell VIC 3124 Ph: +61 400 518 955 [email protected] ‘SINGLE GREATEST BEQUEST OF RARE BOOKS IN THE STATE LIBRARY OF VICTORIA’S 160-YEAR HISTORY’ An extraordinary collection of books and T h e pamphlets was recently donated to the State S t a t e Library of Victoria by late Melbourne barrister Library and bibliophile Dr John Emmerson, QC. o f Valued at up to eight million dollars, the Victoria has indicated that it will take up to five collection includes extremely rare tracts and years to properly catalogue the Emmerson pamphlets printed during the English Civil War collection, a task which is being aided by former in the mid 17th century—including first-hand Monash Rare Books Librarian Richard Overell. accounts of the trial and execution of King A number of books from the Emmerson Charles I in 1649—books once owned by King collection will be put on permanent display in the Charles himself, and notable early editions of State Library’s domed reading room. works by Chaucer, Donne, Milton, Sterne, Defoe Dr Emmerson’s gift to the Sate Library and Swift. also included a sum of money to be used for the Dr Emmerson amassed his collection of care of his books, the acquisition of further rare books and pamphlets over a forty-six year books, and to fund fellowships for visiting period, commencing in the late 1960s while he scholars. was studying nuclear physics at Oxford Oxford’s Bodleian Library was also the University. He continued to augment his library recipient of a gift from Dr Emmerson: a upon his return to Melbourne in the 1970s, travelling library of miniature volumes belonging where he began a new career as a lawyer then to Charles I. barrister specialising in intellectual property.

Joseph Banks. Banks’ Florilegium: a publication in thirty-four parts of seven hundred and thirty- eight copperplate engravings of plants collected on Captain James Cook’s first voyage round the world in H.M.S. Endeavour, 1768–1771, with five supplementary plates… London: Alecto Historical Editions in association with the British Museum (Natural History), 1980–90. Andrew Isles Natural History Books www.andrewisles.com

AUSTRALASIAN RARE BOOKS SUMMER SCHOOL The 11th Australasian Rare Books Summer School will be held from 31 January to 5 February, 2016 in Sydney, New South Wales. The event will be hosted by the State Library of New South Wales at the State Library in Macquarie Street. The Summer School will commence with a Welcome reception on Sunday evening 31 January. Details have not been confirmed but four courses are planned, each of which will run for five full days. The final course ANZAAB CONFERENCE list will be confirmed in August 2015, when registration The next ANZAAB Conference will be held information will be released. One subject, Provenance: Tracing at the State Library of New South Wales on Owners & Collections, has been confirmed and will be presented by Thursday, April 21 and Friday, April 22, David Pearson, Director of Culture, Heritage and Libraries at the 2016. Librarians, collectors, booksellers and City of London Corporation. all interested in the book and printed The cost of each five-day course will be AUD $800. Places material on paper welcome. Full details will be strictly limited. available in September at www.anzaab.com For more details about RBSS 2016 contact: Maggie Patton on (02) 92731709 or at [email protected] Also exhibiting at ANZAAB’S MELBOURNE RARE BOOK FAIR 24—26 July 2015

ANDREW ISLES NATURAL HISTORY BOOKS KOOKABURRA BOOKS Rear of 115 Greville Street, Prahran VIC 3181 113 Hampden Road, Battery Point TAS 7004 Ph +61 3 9510 5750 Ph +61 3 6223 3251 [email protected] [email protected] andrewisles.com PETER HARRINGTON ASTROLABE BOOKSELLERS 100 Fulham Road, London SW3 6HS, UK P.O. Box 3113, West Hobart TAS 7000 Ph +44 20 7591 0220 Ph +61 408 132 970 [email protected] [email protected] peterharrington.co.uk astrolabebooks.com.au ROZ GREENWOOD OLD AND RARE BOOKS BOOKS FOR COOKS 107a Parker Street, Dunkeld VIC 3294 233 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy VIC 3065 Ph +61 417 360 362 Ph +61 3 8415 1415 [email protected] [email protected] SOMERSET HOUSE BOOKS booksforcooks.com.au Trading as Love Vintage Books, 563 Willoughby BRIGHTON ANTIQUE PRINTS & MAPS Road, Willoughby NSW 2068 388 Bay Street, Brighton VIC 3186 Ph +61 2 9967 0017 Ph +61 3 9596 9669 [email protected] [email protected] somersethousebooks.com.au antiqueprints.com.au SOPHIE SCHNEIDEMAN RARE BOOKS FULL CIRCLE 331 Portobello Road, London W10 5SA UK 59 Church Street, Hawthorn VIC 3122 Ph +44 7909 963836 Ph +61 3 9819 4042 [email protected] [email protected] Ssrbooks.com fullcircle.com.au TIM MCCORMICK GRANT’S BOOKSHOP 92 Queen Street, Woollahra NSW 2025 Unit 4, 91-95 Tulip Street, Ph +61 4 1151 4799 Sandringham VIC 3191 [email protected] Ph +61 3 9585 4181 mcccormickbooks.com.au [email protected] TIME BOOKSELLERS grantsbookshop.com.au Unit 1, 45 Simcock Street, Somerville VIC 3912 HORDERN HOUSE RARE BOOKS Ph +61 3 5977 6809 77 Victoria Street, Potts Point NSW 2011 [email protected] Ph +61 2 9356 4411 timebooksellers.com.au [email protected] hordern.com View of the Murray JEFF MASER, BOOKSELLER River (from Eugène von 911 Camelia Street, Berkeley Guérard’s Australian California 94710 USA Landscapes). Tinted Ph +1 510 524 8830 lithograph. 1867. 510 x 305 mm. [email protected] Full Circle detritus.com fullcircle.com.au

RECORD PRICE ACHIEVED FOR THE HOBBIT An exceptional presentation first edition of J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit was sold by Sotheby’s as part of the Library of an English Bibliophile on 4 June 2015 for £137,000, against an estimate of £50,000–£70,000. Inscribed by Tolkien, the price achieved for this outstanding copy was more than double the previous auction record set in 2008. DON’T MISS….

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INSPIRATION BY DESIGN/ AUSTRALIAN INSPIRATION State Library of New South Wales, Sydney READING ADVENTURES 8 July–27 September 2015 Baillieu Library, An exhibition showcasing some of the world’s 16 July 2015 finest book art, graphics, photography and Dr Grace Moore will present a floor talk that illustration. From London’s acclaimed Victoria and engages directly with the adventure narratives Albert Museum, Inspiration by Design celebrates 150 showcased in the exhibition Reading Adventures. years of collecting by the National Art Library. From tales of real-life heroism to the imagined Drawing on the State Library of New South exploits orphans at large, the talk will focus on Wale’s rich collections, Australian Inspiration texts that chart the rise of our appetite for focuses on how the waratah, the koala and adventure from Gulliver’s Travels and Robinson Crusoe Australia’s most recognizable building, the Sydney to stories set across Britain’s far-flung empire. Opera House, have become invaluable sources of www.rarebookweek.com inspiration and design. www.sl.nsw.gov.au/events/ exhibitions/future.html FIFTY YEARS A BOOKSELLER Morgans at 401, Melbourne 16 July 2015 Antiquarian bookseller Kay Craddock will talk about her life as a bookseller over five decades, drawing on the fascinating history of the rare book trade in second half of the 20th century, when antiquarian bookselling emerged as a recognised profession in Australia and New Zealand. www.rarebookweek.com WHITE LIBRARY Melbourne Athenaeum Library, Melbourne 16–26 July 2015 Ruth Johnstone’s White Library presents a tabula rasa—literally, blank tablets—as repositories of future information or, indeed, a lost body of knowledge, miniaturized and compacted. The micro-installation also offers reflection on the MEDICINE IN MELBOURNE IN THE compression of knowledge and the written word TIME OF LA TROBE and the function of a library in the digital age. Morgans at 401, Melbourne Presented by the Melbourne Athenaeum Library. 17 July 2015 www.rarebookweek.com Medicine in the days when Charles Joseph La

Trobe was Superintendent of the Port Phillip HOW DID WE LEARN? FIVE CENTURIES OF District and, later Lieutenant-Governor of BOOKS FOR LEARNING Victoria, was very different to the health care St Mary’s Newman Academic Centre, Parkville currently enjoyed by Australians. Dr Jonathan 16–26 July 2015 Burdon will present an overview of the health A display of the colleges’ oldest learning materials problems and services of the time with reference to including a first edition of Newton’s Opticks, the advances enjoyed in the 21st century. Presented magnificent art folios from the turn of the 20th by the C. J. La Trobe Society. century and French dictionaries printed before the www.rarebookweek.com Napoleonic Wars. www.rarebookweek.com

GEORGE CRUIKSHANK (1792–1878) AUSTRALIAN SKETCHBOOK: University of Melbourne, Parkville COLONIAL LIFE AND THE ART OF S. T. GILL 17 July 2015 State Library of Victoria, Melbourne This lecture by Sheila O’Connell, Curator of 17 July–25 October 2015 British Prints, British Museum, will examine the This first-ever retrospective brings a lifetime of S. artistic lives of George Cruikshank, printmaker, T. Gill’s work to light, showcasing more than 200 satirist and illustrator/collaborator with Charles paintings, drawings, watercolours and prints, and Dickens, outlining his artistic development in the providing a window onto everyday life on the context of changes in British society and in the art goldfields and in the bush, cities and towns of 19th world. Presented by the Australian Institute of Art -century Australia. www.slv.vic.gov.au/whats-on/ History. www.rarebookweek.com australian-sketchbook

AUSTRALIAN SKETCHBOOK: EXHIBITION CURATOR TOUR State Library of Victoria, Melbourne 17 & 19 July, 6 & 18 August 2015 Tour the exhibition Australian Sketchbook with curator and art historian Professor Sasha Grishin as he gives fascinating insights into colonial history READING ADVENTURES and the art of S. T. Gill. www.slv.vic.gov.au/whats- Baillieu Library, University of Melbourne on/australian-sketchbook-exhibition-curator-tour 16–26 July 2015 A showcase of adventure narratives, from Gulliver’s Travels and Robinson Crusoe to stories set across Britain’s far-flung empire. From tales of real-life heroism to the imagined exploits of orphans at large, the exhibition will bring together texts that chart the rise of our appetite for adventure. www.rarebookweek.com S. T. GILL AND THE COLONIAL WORLD CONFERENCE YEATS’ IRELAND: CELEBRATING 150 YEARS University of Melbourne, Parkville St Mary’s Newman Academic Centre, Parkville 18 July 2015 16–26 July 2015 In this conference, curators and art historians 2015 marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of discuss the art, life and times of the 19th-century William Butler Yeats. This exhibition will feature Australian artist S. T. Gill, whose work is first editions of Yeats’ work and related Irish showcased in the Australian Sketchbook: Colonial life books from the St Mary’s and Newman collections. and the art of S. T. Gill exhibition. Presented by the www.rarebookweek.com Australian Institute of Art History. www.rarebookweek.com

RARE BOOK DISCOVERY DAY SAMUEL JOHNSON AND HIS DICTIONARY Melbourne Museum, Carlton Tonic House, Melbourne 18 July 2015 18 July 2015 Bring along your books, maps and prints to this Professor Kate Burridge, prominent Australian and Antiques Roadshow-style event for discussion and international linguist, and John Byrne, a Governor informal appraisals from a panel of leading of Doctor Johnson’s House, London, and current antiquarian booksellers and dealers. The Museum’s President of the Johnson Society of Australia Inc., paper conservator, Belinda Gourley, will also give will discuss Samuel Johnson, his dictionary and its advice on the care and storage of your collections. place in society as one of the most influential www.rarebookweek.com dictionaries in the history of the English language. John will show books from his extensive Johnsonian collection. Presented by The Johnson Society of Australia Inc. www.rarebookweek.com

BOOK COLLECTING IN THE INTERNET AGE TIPS, TRICKS AND TRAPS Baillieu Library, University of Melbourne 19 July 2015 John Arnold will shed light on the world of book CARING FOR YOUR BOOKS collecting, covering topics such as: what is a book Melbourne Museum, Carlton collector, collecting terminology, the physical make 18 July 2015 -up of books and understanding seller descriptions. Belinda Gourley, Museum Victoria’s paper Presented by The Bibliographical Society of conservator, will share her expert knowledge on Australia and New Zealand. the care and storage of books and paper-based www.rarebookweek.com collections. www.rarebookweek.com ARCHBISHOP GOOLD AND CARING FOR YOUR PHOTOGRAPHS THE WILD, WILD WEST Melbourne Museum, Carlton Old Treasury Building, Melbourne 18 July 2015 19 July 2015 Belinda Gourley, Museum Victoria’s conservator of Shane Carmody will explore the extraordinary images and audio visual materials, will share her library developed by Melbourne’s first Catholic expert knowledge on the care and storage of Bishop, James Alipius Goold (1813–1886) and in photographs. www.rarebookweek.com particular one rare book and the story of exploration, forbidden love and buffaloes that led THE MUSEUM AS MUSE: to its publication. Presented by the Old Treasury THE SCIENCE OF RARE BOOKS Building. www.rarebookweek.com Melbourne Museum, Carlton 18 July 2015 Join Bec Carland for a rare look at illustrations, specimens and objects in Museum Victoria’s collections which have informed scientific publications since the earliest days of the colony. www.rarebookweek.com

THE JOY OF BOOKS COLLECTORS, THAT HAPPY BAND OF BOOK COLLECTING FOR EVERYONE PATRIOTS: GREY, HOCKEN AND REED Library at The Dock, Docklands THE 2015 FOXCROFT LECTURE 19 July 2015 State Library of Victoria, Melbourne Avid book collector Chris Browne describes his 20 July 2015 approach to collecting books, offers advice to Dr Donald Kerr looks at the role of collectors in aspiring book collectors and identifies ‘heffalump’ shaping public institutions. Without collecting traps for the unwary. He also has suggestions on there would be no scholarship. The efforts of book how to keep your book collection, marriage and collectors like Sir George Grey, Dr T. M. Hocken bank balance healthy and harmonious! Presented and Frank Reed, and their generosity in giving their by Melbourne Library Service. collections to institutions in New Zealand, means www.rarebookweek.com that scholars, researchers and the general public can view and use the treasures amassed. Their THE READERS’ WALK public-spiritedness has created a legacy of cultural HANDS IN PRINT LAUNCH and intellectual richness. www.rarebookweek.com Reader’s Feast Bookstore, Melbourne 20 July 2015 A creative interpretation of the written word and the connection between authors and readers. Artist Bridget Nicholson has worked with twelve authors from Australia and overseas to create a representation of their hands. Presented by The Readers’ Walk. www.rarebookweek.com

A FIRST WORLD WAR COLLECTION: THE FIRST WORLD WAR COLLECTION AT THE ROYAL UNITED SERVICES INSTITUTE OF VICTORIA LIBRARY Morgans at 401, Melbourne 20 July 2015 THE CLASSICAL TRADITION IN ARCHITECTURE Apart from general military history and strategic State Library of Victoria, Melbourne policy publications, the Library of the Royal United 20 July 2015 Services Institute of Victor contains some Drawing on the State Library’s rich collection of treasured books, ephemera and other items related architecture publications from the 16th to the 18th to WWI. Brigadier Ian Lillie (Ret’d) will explain the century, Harriet Edquist, Professor of Architectural Library’s collections policy and introduce some of History and Director of the RMIT Design its treasures. Presented by the Royal United Archives at RMIT University, will introduce the Services Institute of Victoria. histories of these books and their authors and www.rarebookweek.com reflect on the architectural legacy of the Classical world. www.rarebookweek.com S. T. GILL’S VIEWS OF THE GOLDFIELDS: FACT OR FICTION? State Library of Victoria, Melbourne 21 July 2015 Arriving on the Victorian goldfields in 1852, S. T. Gill produced a large number of sketches and watercolours of the diggings and diggers. In August of that year some of these were realised as black and white lithographs. What did Gill depict and what did he leave out in his wonderfully lively images? Join Professor Sasha Grishin to find out. www.rarebookweek.com

FOR THE LOVE OF MANUSCRIPTS Royal Historical Society of Victoria, A’Beckett St., Melbourne 21 July 2015 Join historian Emma Russell as she pulls together the rare and unique volumes from the RHSV manuscript collection that showcase the only written record of Victoria’s quieter history makers. www.rarebookweek.com FRENCH SURGICAL BOOKS FROM THE 16TH TO THE 18TH CENTURY Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, Melbourne 21 July 2015 Ambroise Paré is regarded as the father of modern surgery in France. He wrote many treatises, and his legacy ran strongly through the next two centuries. Plastic and reconstructive surgeon Felix Behan draws on the Cowlishaw Collection to explore the importance and place of French surgical books of Paré and his successors. www.rarebookweek.com ILLUSTRATED BOOKS Monash University Law Chambers, Melbourne 21 July 2015 A whirlwind tour through the history of illustrated books with Dr Stephen Herrin, Rare Books Librarian at Monash University Library, showing highlights in various genres and some of the techniques involved. www.rarebookweek.com

JOHN LEWIN: COLONIAL BIRDMAN State Library of Victoria, Melbourne 22 July 2015 John Lewin’s Birds of New South Wales, published in 1813, was the first natural history book and the first illustrated book printed in Australia. Alisa Bunbury tells the remarkable story of Lewin’s early 19TH AND 20TH CENTURY PAPERBACKS: natural history illustrations and this rare COLLECTING PAMPHLETS, YELLOW BACKS, publication. www.rarebookweek.com DIME NOVELS AND PENGUINS Melbourne Athenaeum Library, Melbourne 21 July 2015 Richard Overell, formerly the Rare Books Librarian at Monash University Library, will be speaking on opportunities for collecting 19th and 20th century paperbacks, including Penguins. www.rarebookweek.com BOYS (AND GIRLS) EXPLORE THE WORLD: BIBLIOPHILIA 19TH CENTURY BOYS’ BOOKS OF ADVENTURE, North Melbourne Library, North Melbourne EXPLORATION AND HISTORY 21 July 2015 Baillieu Library, University of Melbourne 22 July 2015 Love to read, admire and collect old books? Come along and share your favourite with friends at the Merete Smith will explore how the mid-to late 19th North Melbourne Library. century in England saw a new genre of fiction www.rarebookweek.com emerge with boy protagonists exploring distant lands or taking part in historical events around the DR LESLIE COWLISHAW AND Empire, allowing easy identification for young boy HIS BOOK COLLECTION readers. These stories (also read and enjoyed by Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, Melbourne girls) taught history and geography lessons in a 22 July 2015 much more interactive way than was possible through earlier fiction. www.rarebookweek.com During several visits to Britain and Europe between 1906–08, Sydney physician, medical historian and bibliophile Dr Leslie Cowlishaw purchased many early medical books. These became the foundation for his library, amassed in the second half of the 20th century. Rich in rare medical and surgical classics, it is the most important of its kind in Australia. Curator Geoff Down tells the story of this fascinating library. COLLECTING SPORT REVISITED www.rarebookweek.com MCC Library, East Melbourne

22 July 2015 THE JOHN EMMERSON COLLECTION A viewing of selected rare books at the MCC State Library of Victoria, Melbourne Library. To be followed by a stimulating and 23 July 2015 entertaining panel discussion on what people collect, use for research, and enjoy reading in the Nicholas Barker, editor of The Book Collector, world of sports books, magazines and related described the late John Emmerson as ‘one of the ephemera. www.rarebookweek.com great book collectors of our time’. In 2015, the John Emmerson collection, comprising over 5,000 early English books, with a particular emphasis on the English Civil War, was donated to the State Library of Victoria. Join Richard Overell as he looks at some of the highlights from the Emmerson Collection. www.rarebookweek.com

BOOK ART = RARE BOOK? City Library, Melbourne 22 July 2015 Nicolas Jones cuts intricate valleys and crevices into old books. His artistry adds value to the book from an art perspective, but does this make it a rare book? Join us in conversation with Nicholas BEHIND THE SCENES: ILLUMINATED Jones. Presented by the Melbourne Library Service. MANUSCRIPTS AND RARE BOOKS www.rarebookweek.com National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne 23 July 2015 RARE LETTERS: THE CORRESPONDENCE OF Come behind the scenes with Alisa Bunbury, HELENE HANFF’S 84 CHARING CROSS ROAD Curator Prints and Drawings, to see some of the Reader’s Feast Bookstore, Melbourne National Gallery of Victoria’s most significant 22 July 2015 books, including illuminated manuscripts, Reader’s Feast presents Debra Lawrance and Mark incunabula, illustrated books and artists’ books. Lee, two of Australia’s finest actors, reading www.rarebookweek.com selected letters from Helene Hanff’s 84 Charing Cross Road. To be followed by an audience THIEVERY, FAKERY AND PLUNDER: AN discussion of their most serendipitous book finds. EXCURSION INTO THE MURKY WORLD www.rarebookweek.com OF ART CRIME University of Sydney, Sydney 23 July 2015 In a burgeoning contemporary international market in art and antiquities both investors and WHITE LIBRARY: TABULA RASA criminals vie for big rewards. Join criminologist Melbourne Athenaeum Library, Melbourne Duncan Chappell on a trip into the murky world 23 July 2015 of art crime. www.whatson.sydney.edu.au/events/ Artist and academic Ruth Johnstone will talk about published/thievery,-fakery-and-plunder-an- her installation at the Athenaeum Library. She will excursion-into-the-murky-world-of-art-crime discuss her interest in the compression of knowledge, the written word and the function of a library in the digital age. www.rarebookweek.com

ATTENDING TO PLACE IN ACADEMIC LIFE: TELLING THE STORY OF THE 1881 CORANDERRK INQUIRY Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne, Parkville PRESERVATION OF BOOKS, PHOTOGRAPHS 23 July 2015 AND PAPER BASED ITEMS How can legal archives help Victorians understand Genealogical Society of Victoria, Melbourne the history of their own backyard? This lecture by 23 July 2015 Dr Julie Evans highlights the significance of legal Join Debra Parry, of Melbourne Conservation archives in supporting efforts to enhance Services, as she talks about how to look after your community understanding of how we might live collection of rare books, documents, works of art together justly in settler societies. on paper and photographs. www.rarebookweek.com www.rarebookweek.com

CROWD SOURCE LEGAL LUMINARIES AND THEIR BOOKS State Library of New South Wales, Sydney Supreme Court Law Library, Melbourne Until 23 August 2015 24 July 2015 An exhibition of photographs taken in Sydney in Dr Simon Smith (Monash University) will the 1880s by Arthur K Syer using his parcel- moderate a conversation between the Hon. Justice wrapped, hand-held ‘Detective Camera’ which Timothy Ginnane (Supreme Court of Victoria), allowed him to take photographs without the Emeritus Professor Louis Waller (Monash subject’s knowledge. www.sl.nsw.gov.au/events/ University) and Mr Jason Taliadoros (Deakin exhibitions/index.html University) about their tales and passions of book collecting. www.rarebookweek.com

THE AUSTRALIAN BOOK TRADE: A BOOKSELLER’S CONTRIBUTION TO ITS SHAKESPEARE IN MELBOURNE HISTORY. BY JOHN PERCY HOLROYD Baillieu Library, University of Melbourne, Parkville Douglas Stewart Fine Books, Armadale 24 July 2015 23 July 2015 The rivalry between touring Shakespearean actors John Holroyd’s reflections on his career in the Barry Sullivan and Charles and Ellen Kean—the book trade, spanning several decades in Melbourne ‘1863 Melbourne Shakespeare War’—has received and Sydney, are presented for the first time in The increased critical interest lately. The Baillieu Australian Book Trade: A Bookseller’s Contribution to its Library holds a virtually unknown or commented History. Join us for the launch of this limited upon prompt-book marked up for a slated edition publication. www.rarebookweek.com performance of Antony and Cleopatra at Melbourne’s Theatre Royal in 1855. Dr David McInnis, the Gerry Higgins Lecturer in Shakespeare Studies at first appeared in the ‘Us fellers’ comic strip in the University of Melbourne, will provide an Sydney’s Sunday Sun newspaper in 1921. This overview. www.rarebookweek.com exhibition features original strips by Bancks and his successors, and a diverse collection of Ginger Meggs memorabilia. sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/exhibitions/ginger- meggs-australias-favourite-boy

CONSERVATION LAB GUIDED TOUR State Library of Victoria, Melbourne 25–26 July 2015 Come behind the scenes and tour the Library’s intriguing Conservation Lab, where historic works S. T. GILL: THE ARTIST AS are treated and protected. The lab is located in SOCIAL COMMENTATOR Upper Swinburne Hall, which was built in 1887 as State Library of Victoria, Melbourne part of a wing adjoining the original building facing 27 July 2015 Swanston Street. This fascinating tour will reveal Australian Sketchbook curator Professor Sasha both the colourful history of the space and the day Grishin reveals S. T. Gill’s biting social -to-day experience inside a working lab. commentaries in this intriguing conversation with www.slv.vic.gov.au/whats-on/open-house- journalist and broadcaster Virginia Trioli. melbourne-conservation-lab-guided-tour www.slv.vic.gov.au/whats-on/st-gill-social- commentator

CONSERVATION CLINIC State Library of Queensland, Brisbane 6 August 2015 Meet with professional conservation staff from SLQ and Queensland Museum for one-on-one BUNYIPS AND DRAGONS: consultations to look at your personal treasures AUSTRALIAN CHILDREN’S BOOK and receive advice on how to maximise their ILLUSTRATIONS longevity. www.slq.qld.gov.au/whats-on/ NGV Australia, Melbourne calevents/general/learning/conservation-clinic- 25 July–4 October 2015 aug3 Drawn from a collection of Australian children’s book illustrations donated to the NGV by Albert Ullin OAM, this exhibition presents an overview of children’s picture books produced over the past forty years. www.ngv.vic.gov.au/exhibition/ bunyips-and-dragons

A TRAVELLING ARTIST ON THE GOLDFIELDS State Library of Victoria, Melbourne 13 August 2015 Creative Fellow Dr Ruth Pullin examines how Australian colonial landscape painter Eugene von Guérard combined life on the goldfields with his GINGER MEGGS: AUSTRALIA’S FAVOURITE BOY artistic practice, and how the experience of Museum of Sydney, Sydney travelling through the Australian landscape shaped 25 July–8 November 2015 the way he saw it. www.slv.vic.gov.au/whats-on/ Created by James ‘Jimmy’ Bancks, Ginger Meggs travelling-artist-goldfields THE REAL THING they explore Queensland’s experience of The State Library of New South Wales, Sydney Great War through the gems they’ve discovered in 14 August 2015 State Library’s collections and elsewhere. Catch a glimpse of the exciting material the Library www.slq.qld.gov.au/whats-on/calevents/general/ has acquired over the past twelve months. talks/a-night-in-the-jol-2015/your-affectionate-son www.sl.nsw.gov.au/events/events_talks/events/ the_real_thing.html

THE WRITER AND THE LIBRARIAN State Library of Victoria, Melbourne 21, 25 & 27 August 2015 Countless authors have penned books in the State MONSTERS Library, many working closely with librarians to State Library of New South Wales, Sydney uncover ‘just the right thing’ in the collection. In 27 August 2015 three sessions a selection of authors will discuss A talk dedicated to the fascinating mythological their experiences working inside, and getting beasts and monsters that decorate the rare books, inspired by, the State Library. www.slv.vic.gov.au/ manuscripts and maps in the Library’s collections. whats-on/writer-librarian www.sl.nsw.gov.au/events/events_talks/events/ Out_of_the_Vaults_Monsters.html

HONOURING AUSTRALIAN WRITERS State Library of New South Wales, Sydney 29 August 2015 The NSW Writers’ Centre annual Honouring GODS, HEROES AND CLOWNS: Australian Writers series pays tribute to writers PERFORMANCE AND NARRATIVE IN who have made an important contribution to our SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST ASIAN ART literary culture. In 2015 the subject is West NGV International, Melbourne Australian writer, poet and reviewer Randolph Until 4 October 2015 Stow. www.sl.nsw.gov.au/events/events_talks/ An exploration of the visual and performance art events/Honouring_Australian_Writers.html inspired by the many narratives that pervade South and Southeast Asia, including the great Hindu STORIES OF WAR epics, the Mahabharata and the Ramayana, and FROM THE UNIVERSITY COLLECTIONS ballads describing the exploits of local folk heroes. Fisher Library, University of Sydney www.ngv.vic.gov.au/exhibition/gods-heroes-and- Until 2 October 2015 clowns Drawn primarily from the University Archives and Rare Books and Special Collections, with contributions from the Macleay Museum and the Faculties of Medicine and Education and Social Work, this exhibition explores the nuanced and varied ways in which the University, and its men and women, experienced, understood and responded to World War I. whatson.sydney.edu.au/events/published/ YOUR AFFECTIONATE SON… State Library of Queensland, Brisbane exhibition-stories-of-war-from-the-university- 18 August 2015 collections Staff and an army of volunteers have meticulously itemised and digitised the State Library’s large Discovered a terrific new site? Or want collections of original letters, postcards and diaries to share your favourites? Send the links relating to WWI. Join Dr Robert Keane, Assoc. to [email protected] and we’ll add Prof. W. Ross Johnston and Dr Robert Hogg as them to ANZAAB’s website.