Telephone: (03) 9809 1367 P.O. Box 1178 Facsimile: (03) 9889 0852 Hartwell Victoria 3124 E-mail: [email protected] Australia Web: www.hincebooks.com.au CATALOGUE 120 February 2010 Including: • Governor La Trobe’s 1853 Regulations for Ports and Harbours • Redmond Barry’s 1854 Rules for the Supreme Court • A record of the disastrous bushfires of 1898 • Almanacs, including Melbourne’s first • Federation souvenirs • Scarce immigration guides • An extensive group of tourist guides and views 160. 1. The AGE. The Age Annual; A Political & Statistical 3. Almanac. The Victorian Almanac for 1884 [1886, Register of the Colony of Victoria, 1880 ... Sixth Year. 1887, 1888, 1890 and 1896]. Melbourne, Mason, Firth & Melbourne, David Syme & Co., 1880. Octavo, pp. 143, lix (il- M’Cutcheon, 1884-1896. Six issues, octavo, all stapled as lustrated advertisements), original embossed cloth, gilt, end- issued in original wrappers (one back wrapper lacking), one papers browned, inscribed with the publishers compliments. with Observatory stamp on title, minor chipping but in good $120. state. $1,200. See Ferguson, 5772. Containing standard information-calendar, astronomical tables, postal rates, medical notes, notable events. 2. Agriculture. Victoria, The Garden State of Australia A good group starting with the twenty-fourth annual issue. [cover title]. Melbourne, H. J. Green, Government Printer, no date [1930s?]. Quarto, illustrated, map on inside rear wrapper, a fine copy in original wrappers with colour pictorial onlay. $150. Promoting Victoria’s butter, dried, canned and fresh fruit, wines, jams and jellies, lamb and wool, wheat growing. 4. American Fleet. Souvenir of the Visit Of The United States Fleet to Victoria, Australia Illustrating the Garden State of the Commonwealth. Melbourne, Osboldstone & Co., (1925). Oblong octavo, photographic plates, pp. [40], stapled in gilt-lettered wrappers (slightly marked). $125. 5. Dr. Arthur ANDREWS. The First Settlement of 14. Bendigo Advertiser. Bendigo’s Centenary 1851-1951. the Upper Murray. Facsimile edition, Sydney, 1979. Bendigo, 1951. Folio, illustrated, text on newsprint, stapled Octavo, frontispiece, folding map, original cloth. $60. in original decorated wrappers, a very good copy. $140. Edition limited to 1000 numbered copies. 15. Les BLAKE. Place Names of Victoria. Melbourne, 6. Max ANGUS. Simpkinson De Wesselow, Landscape Paint- Rigby, 1977. Octavo, plates, pp. 297, Illustrated glossy er in Van Diemen’s Land and the Port Phillip District. Hobart, boards, a fine copy. $85. Blubber Head Press, 1984. Quarto, pp. 191, full-page plates in Scarce, colour, folding panorama, includes illustrated catalogue of over 200 works, cloth, gilt, with dustwrapper, a very good copy. $200. Edition limited to 1000 copies: this one out-of-series, not num- bered or signed. 7. George ARDEN. A Sketch of Port Phillip, Being a review of the map of Australia Felix compiled, engraved and published by Thomas Ham of Melbourne, to which is added a Key to the Map of Australia Felix and its Squatting Districts in 1847, with a mod- ern introduction by Thomas A. Darragh. Thumb Creek NSW, Garravembi Press, 1991. Quarto, large folding map, quarter cloth and papered boards, with dustwrapper, a mint copy. $150. A review of the first map of the Port Phillip District produced in the Colony. Edition limited to 235 numbered copies (#143). 8. Edward and Fortescue ARTHUR. Journal of Events, from Melbourne, Port Phillip, to Mount Schank, in the Dis- trict of Adelaide, New Holland, a Distance of 400 Miles, un- dertaken in 1843 by Messrs Edward and Fortescue Arthur, sons of Captain Arthur, R. N., with a Flock of 400 sheep, also, an account of the Difficulties they experienced during a Sojourn of Twenty Months, which ended in the Total Fail- ure of their Enterprise. Hobart, Sullivan’s Cove, 1975. Small octavo, cloth with dustwrapper, a fine copy. $100. Edition limited to 150 numbered copies (#69) initialled by the publisher. 9. Ballarat. The Garden City, being a series of 31 magnificent panoramic views of Ballarat and district, with special descriptive article, “Ballarat Revisited”. 16. James BONWICK. Notes Of A Gold Digger And Gold Ballarat, H. J. Summerscales, 1906. Oblong octavo, Digger’s Guide, Introduction by E. E. Pescott. Melbourne, photographic souvenir, pp. [36], tied in gilt decorated wrappers, The Hawthorn Press, 1942. Octavo, pp. 47, a couple of spots a little pale foxing of edges and first leaf, a very good copy.$60. of pale foxing, a very good copy in publisher’s quarter calf, gilt. $120. 10. Ballarat. Mcconnell’s Street And General Directory To Edition limited to 250 copies. Ballarat [cover title]. [Melbourne], circa 1930. Octavo, pp. 88, illustrated advertisements,processed, stapled in original 17. Botanic Gardens, Melbourne. Guide to the Botan- wrappers. $150. ic Gardens, Melbourne; With Route Map, etc. Authorized An extensive and very scarce regional directory. Edition. Melbourne, Robt. S. Brain, Government Printer, no date (circa 1901). Octavo, folding view, folding colour litho- 11. F. Oswald BARNETT. The Unsuspected graphed plan of the gardens mounted on linen, original Slums. Melbourne, The Herald, c.1933. Octavo, front wrapper retained, new rear wrapper supplied. $185. illustrated, pp.36, stapled in wrappers, slight external soiling. $120. 18. Botanic Gardens. Ferdinand von MUELLER. An illustrated summary of a thesis submitted to the Annual Report of the Government Botanist and Direc- University of Melbourne surveying the local slum problem, tor of the Botanic Garden. Melbourne, John Ferres, this essay also deals with the work of the Methodist Babies’ Government Printer, 1865. Foolscap folio, pp. 24, large Home at South Yarra. Barnett went on to write a study of folding lithographed Plan of the Government House delinquency in Victoria, The Making of a Criminal (1942). Reserve Botanic Garden and its Domain by E. B. Heyne, sewn as issued (the sewing loosening). $200. 12. Rolf BOLDREWOOD. Old Melbourne Memories. With an introduction and editorial commentary by C. E. 19. Box Hill. The Suburban Guide and Business Directory Sayers. Melbourne, Heinemann, 1969. Octavo, pp. xxii Box Hill, Blackburn and Tunstall, containing A Map ... A + 210, boards with dustwrapper, a very good copy. $65. Directory of Streets ... A Calendar ... A carefully selected List of Recommended Traders. Melbourne, R. L. Jarrett, (1921). 13. James BONWICK. Discovery and Settlement of Port Duodecimo, pp. 32 stapled in title wrappers, folding map. $30. Phillip ... Melbourne, Published for the author by George Robertson, 1856 [but later]. Octavo, folding lithographed map, 20. Robert Douglass BOYS. First Years at Port Phillip one plate, newspaper clippings laid to several leaves, disbound, 1834-1842; Preceded by a Summary of Historical Events from original wrappers (dated 1859). $200. 1768. Melbourne, Robertson & Mullens, 1959. Octavo, plates, See Ferguson, 7201. a very good copy, original cloth with dustwrapper. $80. Second edition. 21. E. J. BRADY. The Overlander, The Prince’s 26. ABC Guide to Melbourne and Index to Streets; A Highway. Melbourne, Ramsay Publishing Pty. Directory of Essential Things for the use of visitors, strangers, Ltd., 1926. Quarto, folding route map, illustrated and citizens generally. Melbourne, Geo. R. Broadbent, no date photographically, original pictorial yapp wrappers a (190-?). Octavo, several plates, original decorated wrappers little chipped at margins, a very good copy, old adhesive printed by F. W. Niven & Co., a fine copy. $165. label on front wrapper, theRollo Hammet copy with book label. $185. Rare motoring and camping brochure. 22. E. J. BRADY. Picturesque Port Phillip. Melbourne, George Robertson & Company, n.d. (1911). Oblong quarto, numerous black & white illustrations, frontispiece map, original wrappers with coloured pictorial onlay, a couple of small patches of silverfishing, a very good copy. $250. A motor car tour around the Bay: Torquay, Portarlington, Mornington, and Sorrento, but centred on Geelong and with much pictorial content of its wool and other industries. 23. Bright Alpine Club. Illustrated Guide to the Australian Alps & Buffalo Ranges, 2nd. edition issued by the Bright Alpine Club [cover title]. Melbourne, D. W. Paterson, Printer, (1897). Octavo, two folding maps (one with a sliver lost along the fold), plates, pp. 76, original pictorial wrappers (a little foxed), neat- ly strengthened at spine and along the gutter of several leaves where originally stapled, loosely inserted in lettered cloth boards. $660. Scarce: a comprehensive tour guide to Mount Buffalo, Bright, Mount Hotham, Mount Feathertop, Eurobin Falls, and Har- rietville, for motorists, cyclists, walkers and skiers. 27. Geo. R. Broadbent’s Official Road and Railway Guide to Central Victoria, incorporating the holiday guide “Fifty Miles round Melbourne”, containing the new book- folding map. Melbourne, RACV, circa 1930s. Octavo, booklet of text and two large folding maps inserted into stiff papered card wrappers, a very good copy. $120. Broadbent Guides and Directories 24. Official Road Guide Melbourne to Adelaide [and Ad- elaide to Melbourne]. Melbourne, Wilkie & Coy., (circa 1936). Octavo, maps and illustrations, the two parts back to back in original wrappers, a touch of flecking. $60. 25. Official Guide. Broadbent’s Central Victoria, 60-120 Miles Round Melbourne, incorporating the new “book- folding” map. Melbourne, Broadbent, (circa 1940). Octavo, booklet of text and two large folding maps inserted into stiff papered card