CATALOGUE 123

NOVEMBER 2011

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Assorted Books from an Itinerant Bookseller

G. P. JOUMARD (editor). Très Parisien 1921. Paris, 1921. Octavo, nine monthly issues for 1921, each illustrated with full-page pochoir plates on tissue, mounted to backing paper, one hundred and fifty-eight plates in all, the plates in fine condi-tion with vivid colouring, occa-sional gold and silver highlights added by hand, contempo-rary morocco, rebacked, a few corners of the backing sheets chipped (towards the end), small silverfishing rear endpa-pers. $3500Rare issues of Très Parisien, a wonderful high fashion periodi-cal for the stylish Paris woman. The pochoir process (adding sin-gle layers of colour by hand to a lithograph using a stencil) gives a fresh vibrancy to these beau-tiful images. Several accompa-nying text leaves describe each design and pattern, and there is also some commentary on sea-sonal trends.

On display at the ANZAAB Book Fair, Sydney, November 2011

With highlights such as: - a portrait sketch by Nicholas Chevalier of David Livingstone, the most famous explorer of his age - coloured fashion plates from Paris in the 1920s - the first edition of Charles Darwin’s major work on psychology, the only one of his titles to be illustrated with photographs - catalogue raisonné of Picasso lithographs, including original examples - a superb Australian timber specimen box - books from the library of the Lady of the Lamp - Henry Lawson in a signed edition, limited to 75 copies

Breton de la Martiniere: China.

Hermann BECKLER. A Journey to Cooper’s Creek. Miegunyah Press, 1993. Octavo, illustrations, pp. 205, fold-out map in back pocket, boards, dust-wrapper, a fine copy. $120Number 13 in the Miegunyah Press series.

Sir Edward BELCHER. Narrative of a voyage round the world, performed in Her Majesty’s Ship Sulphur, during the years 1836-1842, including details of the naval operations in China ... London, Henry Colburn, 1843. Two volumes, octavo, engraved frontispieces and plates (some with minor pale foxing) includ-ing views at Honolulu, Sitka, Panama, New Guinea and Canton, three folding maps (the large world map with an old repair at one fold), uncut, in original blindstamped cloth, an impressive set in original binding. $1800 First edition. In November 1836 Belcher was appointed to the Sulphur, on a voyage which spent three years exploring and sur-veying the western coast of North and South America. Receiving orders to return to England at the end of 1839, he visited sever-al island groups in the South Pacific before arriving at Singapore in October 1840. On account of the war he was sent to China, and in the following year was involved in operations in the Can-ton River. On January 26, 1841, Belcher and his men were the first of the British fleet to land on Possession Point at the north shore of Hong Kong for the British Crown. He made the first Brit-ish survey of Hong Kong harbour. The work contains a long ap-pendix on botany by Richard Hinds, the surgeon attached to the expedition, and this copy is signed on front endpaper in both volumes (though there is loss in one case because of a miss-ing corner) by the eminent Tasmanian botanist Ronald Gunn. Gunn had assisted Captains Ross and Crozier of the Erebus and Terror Antarctic expedition, accompanied their botanist, Joseph Dalton Hooker, on local excursions, and grew their plants from Kerguelen Island in his own garden behind Government House in Hobart. The folding maps often found in an endpocket are in this copy bound at the end of the text with advertisements dated 1848. Hill p. 20. Sabin 4390.

BLACKMAN. Felicity St. John MOORE. Schoolgirls And Angels: A Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Charles Blackman. Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria, 1993. Quar-to, illustrations, original wrappers. $200Scarce catalogue of the first survey exhibition of Blackman’s painting and drawing, held in 1993.

David BLAIR. The History of Australasia, from the first dawn of discovery in the Southern Ocean. Glasgow, Melbourne, and Dunedin, McGready, Thomson, & Niven, 1879. Quarto, addition-al pictorial title, frontispiece and numerous other fine plates and maps, minor flecking of final two blank and rear endpaper, a handsome copy in fine condition in publisher’s red morocco, gilt. $500A politician and controversialist, Blair was an active journalist in Melbourne for decades after his arrival in 1852.

Walter BONE. What Became of Them? Australian Stories For Children. Sydney, W.H. Bone & Co, 1952. Foolscap folio, colour illustrations, endpapers with shadow of through-printing, a fine copy in original plain cloth boards, with pictorial dust-wrapper. $100Edition limited to 1000 copies, this one un-numbered.

J. B. J. Breton de La Martiniere. China: its Costume, Arts, Manufactures, &c. edited principally from the originals in the cabinet of the late M. Bertin, with Observations, Explana-tory, Historical, and Literary, by M. Breton. Translated from the French. London, Howlett and Brimmer, 1824. Two vol-umes, small octavo, 4 engraved hand-coloured frontispieces and 76 fine hand-coloured stipple-and-line engraved plates, occasional pale marking, a fine set in contemporary straight-grained burgundy morocco, the boards with separate gilt and blind-stamped borders, all edges gilt, front hinge opened. $2600An attractive work depicting many Chinese crafts and occupa-tions, from agricultural to manufacturing, and including a se-quence on writing, papermaking, and printing. Breton was the author of books on Spain, Russia, Egypt, and Japan, as well as translating into French the voyages of John Barrow and Sir George Macartney. Abbey notes that a number of the plates have been copied from Mason’s Costume of China and Punish-ments of China. See Abbey No. 535 (1813 edition).

Kathleen AINSLIE. “Catharine Susan and Me’s Coming Out”. London, Castell Brothers, n.d. [1906]. Small octavo, four-teen full-page colour illustrations with facing text, in origi-nal pictorial card wrappers, tied with cord, a fine copy. $250

John P. ARNOLD. Origin and History of Beer and Brew-ing. Chicago, Alumni Ass’n of the Wahl-Henius Institute of Fermentology, 1911. Octavo, illustrated, original cloth. $800Very uncommon. Signed by the author.

Richard T. BAKER. The Australian Flora In Applied Art; Part 1 The Waratah in Applied Art and in Literature (All Published). Sydney, Department of Public Instruction. Technical Education Branch, 1915. Original cloth, a fine copy. $300With a supplement on Australian Waratah Legends.

M. BARNARD ELDERSHAW. A House is Built. London, George G. Harrap, 1929. Octavo, original foxed in dustwrapper (price-clipped), a near-fine copy. First edition: very scarce. $450

P. Neville BARNETT. The Bookplate in Australia; Its Inspiration and Development. Sydney, Tyrrell’s Galleries, 1930. Octavo, pp. 30, stapled and sewn in wrappers, the upper with a short tear to top edge, all edges uncut, in glassine wrapper (small loss). $140

Charles BARRETT. Across the Years; The Lure of Early Austra-lian Books. Melbourne, Seward, 1948. Quarto, a bright copy in original cloth. $150Limited edition of 650 copies, this one with loosely inserted sig-natures of the various contributors.

R.BATTARBEE. Modern Australian Aboriginal Art. Sydney, An-gus & Robertson, 1951. Small folio, coloured plates and illus-trations, pp.55 + plates, original cloth, slight marks on boards. $2750Scarce. Large paper edition limited to 130 numbered copies, containing two additional colour plates, and signed by all the artists.

Bookplates. The Australian Ex Libris Society Annual Report, (Period 1932). Sydney, Beacon Press, 1933. Octavo, tipped-in bookplates, illustrations, original silk tied wrappers, in glassine wrapper (small loss). $200Limited edition of 250 copies (#135).

X. M. BOULESTIN. Having Crossed the Channel ... with illus-trations by J. E. Laboureur. London, William Heinemann Ltd., 1934. Octavo, original engraved frontispiece, title with colour vignette, illustrated, a fine copy in white buckram, spine and front board lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, outer and lower edges uncut. $250La douceur de vivre - a little collection of impressions and use-ful information to help the reader look at things from the right angle, understand people, and eat and drink well. Limited edi-tion of 25 numbered copies on handmade paper, signed by the author, and containing an engraving by Laboureur.

Italo CALVINO. Invisible Cities. London, Secker & Warburg, 1974. Octavo, boards, silver dustwrapper (one fold creased). First English edition. $300

Charles BLACKMAN illustrates Lewis Carroll. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Edited by Nadine Amadio. Sydney, AH & AW Reed, 1982. Quarto, thirty-five colour plates, numerous black & white illustrations, pp. 128, dust-wrapper, cloth, a fine copy. $400“Dreams are what you’re made of, and very often nightmares too.” Scarce. This is Blackman’s most famous series of works, which is based on the Lewis Carroll book that triggered the art-ist’s fascination with surrealism. “The first time I heard ‘Alice in Wonderland’ was on a record ... from the talking book library for the blind. I think that was important, because it meant I never saw any illustrations. I came to the book completely fresh... The book triggered off in me a fascination with surrealism, and the idea that anything can happen in a certain sort of world”.

Alec H. CHISHOLM. The Story Of Elizabeth Gould. Melbourne, The Hawthorn Press, 1944. Octavo, frontispiece portrait, a fine copy in original cloth gilt. First edition: limited to 350 copies. With signed inscription from the author. $350

Nicholas CHEVALIER, 1828-1902. Fine portrait drawing of David Livingstone. Pencil, pen and ink, heightened with gouache, approximately 230 x 190 mm., initialled by the artist, and with his signed inscription to J. C. Hall, 1873. $4000An outstanding portrait of Livingstone, the most famous explor-er of his age, in an oval on the left, accompanied by six scenes from his life. Livingstone went to South Africa as a missionary in 1840, and made a series of journeys into the interior, discover-ing Lake Ngami, in 1849, and the Zambesi in the centre of the continent in 1851. He undertook the marathon journey from Cape Town through west central Africa from 1852-56. He spent the last years of his life in search of the sources of the Nile, and it was on one such expedition that he was rescued in 1871 by the journalist H. M. Stanley, 1871. Livingstone was renowned for his efforts to eradicate the slave trade, and his courage and integrity earned him public admiration. Chevalier has initialled the drawing within the image at bottom middle, and signed and inscribed it in pencil in the margin bottom right to J.C. Hall in the year of Livingstone’s death, 1873. He also provides a pencilled legend detailing the six numbered biographical scenes, which are divided into sections in the image by botanical specimens. The tribute is completed by a pedestal comprising artefacts, a telescope and quadrant, books including the explorer’s trav-els and journals, fittingly surmounted by an open copy of the bible.

tuguese island of Macao, and the travels of the court of Peking. Other notable voyages are Nieuhoff’s remarkable travels into Brazil and the East-Indies, Monck’s voyage to Hudson’s Straits in 1619-1620 with an early illustrated account of the whaling trade in Greenland, and Monson’s description of the East-India coast of Malabar and Coromandel, and of the island of Ceylon. This first edition of Churchill, which was subsequently extended with two further volumes in 1732, is extensively illustrated with one hundred and five fine engraved plates, five folding. Each volume with the armorial bookplate of Sir Warwick Morshead, pasted over his signature on the pastedown, volume one signed at the head of the title by John Morshead. See Sabin, 13015.

Samuel Taylor COLERIDGE. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner with drawings by Duncan Grant. London, Allen and Richard Lane, 1945. Octavo, five full-page plates in colour, uncut, origi-nal blue niger morocco, decorated with gilt medallion and let-tering designed by Percy Metcalfe, top edge gilt. $350Edition limited to 700 copies on hand-made paper.

Clifford CRAIG, Kevin FAHY, and E. Graeme ROBERTSON. Early Colonial Furniture in New South Wales and Van Diemen’s Land. Melbourne, Georgian House, 1972. Quarto, black & white illus-trations, original cloth in dustwrapper. $420

Stephen CRANE, The Open Boat. London, William Hei-nemann, 1898. Octavo, uncut edges, original decorated beige cloth, the advertisements undated. First edition. $150

J.S. CUMPSTON. Macquarie Island. Melbourne, Antarctic Division, Department of External Affairs, 1968. Octavo, black & white plates, maps, original cloth in dustwrapper, a mint copy. $250

Awnsham and John Churchill. A Collection of Voyages and Travels, some now first printed from original manuscripts, oth-ers Translated out of Foreign Languages, and now first Publish’d in English, to which are added some few that have formerly appear’d in English, but do now for their Excellency and Scarce-ness deserve to be Reprinted. With a General Preface, giving an Account of the Progress of Navigation, from its first Beginning to the Perfection it is now in, &c., the whole illustrated with a great number of useful maps, and cuts, all engraven on copper. London, Awnsham and John Churchill, 1704. Four volumes, folio, 2 engraved part titles, 2 engraved portraits, 105 engraved plates, of which 5 are folding, 100 engravings within the text, the pagination omitting 157-180 in volume two as in other sets we have handled, early panelled calf, old rebacking, minor external wear. $8000In the footsteps of the famous collective voyages prepared by Hakluyt and Purchas, the bookseller brothers Awnsham and John Churchill produced this excellent collection to satisfy popular curiosity about the world at large in the opening years of the eighteenth century. The accounts range widely across Africa, America, Asia and the Arctic: many are prepared from their manuscript originals, while others are published for the first time in English translation. Through these travels we see the charting of coastlines, examine the manners and customs of native peoples, learn about exotic plants and animals, discover important details of foreign cities and fortifications, and investi-gate local trades. Half of the first volume is devoted to the Em-pire of China, its historical, political, moral and religious aspects being described by the Spanish Dominican missionary Domingo Fernandez Navarrete. Again in the fourth volume China is ex-tensively described, this time by Dr John Francis Gemelli Careri. Careri mentions every place great or small he passed through in the vast Chinese empire, describing distances, roads and cities, the rivers, lakes and mountains, the great Tartar Wall, the Por

Taylor, had authorized five further editions, and three different printers were busy satisfying demand. Many unauthorized edi-tions and piracies appeared. The recognition of its importance continued to grow in strength, and it was specifically exempted by Dr Johnson when he asked rhetorically if there was ‘ever yet anything written by mere man that was wished longer by its readers’. In this edition, the second volume contains the Life of Daniel Defoe, with a list of his writings, by George Chalmers. Of interest for us on a different note is the publisher’s advertise-ment offering, inter alia, the second edition of Arthur Phillip’s Voyage, listing the 55 plates - with beautifully coloured copies available for 2l 12s 6d in boards. ESTC N47632.

Kevin FAHY & C. & A. SIMPSON. Nineteenth Century Australian Furniture. Sydney, 1985. Small folio, colour and black & white plates, pp. 624, cloth boards, gilt, dust-wrapper neat repair to bot-tom of spine, some annotations. $750Edition of 2000 copies only.

FEDERATION SOUVENIR ALBUM. Commonwealth of Aus-tralia Inaugural Celebrations in Sydney, January 1901. Oblong quarto, 36 items of ephemera mounted, includ-ing the Queen’s Proclamation, the Official Programme of Ceremonial and Entertainments, elaborate official invitations and souvenir menus printed in colour and gilt, and admission tickets to the fireworks, cycling, and theatre events, amongst others, in early crushed morocco, all edges gilt, both boards with elaborate gilt border and corner pieces, gilt dentelles. $2200A superb album of Sydney federation ephemera.

Miles FRANKLIN. Old Blastus Of Bandicoot, Opuscule on a Pioneer Tufted with Ragged Rhymes. London, Cecil Palmer, 1931. Octavo, original cloth, a fine copy in scarce dust-wrapper. $550First edition.

Miles FRANKLIN. Some Everyday Folk and Dawn. Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood & Sons, 1909. Octavo, book-plate removed, a near-fine copy in decorated and gilt cloth. $500First edition of the author’s second book.

Miles FRANKLIN, ‘Brent of Bin Bin’. Ten Creeks Run, A Tale of the Horse and Cattle Stations of the Murrumbidgee. London, Wil-liam Blackwood & Sons Ltd, 1930. Octavo, cloth, gilt, a fine copy in dust-wrapper. First edition. $350

George BARBIER illustrates Paul VERLAINE. Fêtes Galantes. Paris, Piazza, September 1928. Quarto, 20 beautiful pochoir plates by Georges Barbier, with duplicate set of plates in black and white, bound with the original colour pictorial wrappers, lat-er half morocco and marbled boards, a fine copy. $4500Barbier was a renowned theatre and cinema designer, whose work began with the Ballet Russe and went on to include col-laboration with Erté. He was also a celebrated fashion designer, a friend of Louis Cartier and the creator of the famous Cartier symbol, the black panther. His illustrations for books adorn some elegant editions of poetry and literature. This is copy 157 of the de-luxe edition of 200 copies on japon paper with an ad-ditional suite of black and white illustrations. Carteret Illustrés modernes IV, p. 393.

P. CUNNINGHAM. Two years in New South Wales; a series of letters, comprising sketches of the actual state of society in that colony... London, Henry Colburn, 1827. Two volumes, octavo, with folding map, early half calf and marbled boards. $350Second (generally preferred) edition with the map not included in the first edition of the same year. F. 1110.

Charles DARWIN. The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. London, John Murray, 1872. Octavo, first issue of first edition, 7 heliotype plates (3 folding), the first commercial use of heliotypes, blank leaf before title discarded, with the two ad-vertisement leaves, the plates numbered in Roman numerals (as in Darwin’s own copy), correct spelling ‘that’ at top p. 208, modern binder’s cloth, leather titling label. $1600The rare first issue of the first edition of Darwin’s major work on psychology, the only one of his titles to be illustrated with photographs.

[Daniel DEFOE.] The life and strange surprizing adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, Wo lived eight & twenty years all alone in an uninhabited Island on the Coast of America ... With an account how he was at last as strangely delivered by Pyrates. London, John Stockdale, 1790. Two volumes, en-graved title-pages and fifteen full page plates after Thomas Stothard, fine later tortoiseshell morocco, gilt, all edges gilt, inner gilt dentelles, faint inked presentation inscriptions on both title-pages, armorial bookplates of Viscount Birkenhead. $2200Fiction masquerading as fact, accessible to the reader, defying literary tradition, Robinson Crusoe was regarded with suspicion but quickly became a popular success. Within months of its publication on 25 April 1719 Defoe and his publisher, William

Limited edition of 150 numbered copies. With a check list of the bookplates. Scarce.

Gordon & Gotch. The Australian Handbook (Incorporating New Zealand, Fiji, and New Guinea), Shippers and Importers Directory & Business Guide for 1884. Melbourne &c.,Gordon & Gotch, 1884. Absurdly thick octavo, pp. 702 + 322 (Directo-ry and Colonial Buyers’ Guide), plates, numerous maps (some folding) including a New Plan of Melbourne and Suburbs, library stamp on title, a very good copy in original cloth, gilt, slight fading. $350Contains: calendar of notable events, public amusements, pub-lic offices, full details concerning emigration to the Australian colonies, mining and land regulations and a history, descriptive account and statistical information of each colony.

Edna HANRAHAN. Story of the Great Pacific Flight [wrapper ti-tle]. Melbourne, Hancock Press, n.d. (1928?). Quarto, 16-pages stapled in wrappers, portraits and illustrations, centrefold map. $200

J. Gordon HAYES. Antarctica: A Treatise on the Southern Con-tinent. London, The Richards Press, 1928. Octavo, six folding maps (four in rear end-pocket), eight full-page maps, sixteen black & white plates, tables and schedules, original buckram. $200

A. D. HOPE. The Drifting Continent and other poems. Canberra, Brindabella Press, 1979. Octavo, illustrations includ-ing sixteen full-page line drawings by Arthur Boyd, pp. 46, quar-ter leather over green buckram boards, gilt decoration to top board. $500 Edition of 285 numbered and signed copies by Hope and Boyd (#155).

Horseracing. “The Australasian” Turf Register, containing a full report of the past season’s racing, and entries for coming events; Rules of racing and steeplechasing, trotting and betting (Colonial and English), a list of the various Racing Clubs, Race-courses, &c., and of Jockeys, with their lowest Riding weights; Registered colours; Winners of the Principal Races in Great Britain and Australia. 1866-67. Melbourne, “The Australasian”, 1867. Octavo, contemporary full crimson morocco by Detmold and with his label, both boards with gilt rule and frame, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, a fine copy. $485 Includes suburban meetings at Heidelberg, Northcote, Prahran, and St. Kilda.

Geoffrey C. INGLETON. Charting a Continent: A Brief Memoir of Marine Exploration and Hydrographical Surveying in Austra-lian Waters. Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1944. Octavo, plates, bright original cloth with very scarce dustwrapper. First edition. With author’s signed inscription. $300

Owen JONES. The Grammar Of Ornament illustrated by exam-ples from various styles. London, Bernard Quaritch, reprinted 1928. Small folio, full-page chromolithographed plates, original gilt and decorated cloth over bevelled boards, all edges gilt, a fine copy. $1000With 112 chromolithgraphed plates and numerous black and white drawings in the text. This re-issue of the 1910 edition was created from the remainder sheets from the 1865 edition with a new title page and it was the last edition to be printed in chromolithography.

Donald FRIEND. The Life and Surprising Adventures of Blue-eyed Patty, the valiant female soldier. [Melbourne], The Croft Press, 1979. Octavo, illustrations by Donald Friend, a fine copy printed on German rag paper, illustrated stiffened wrappers. $250Limited edition of 250 numbered copies, signed by Donald Friend.

May GIBBS. Gum-Blossom Babies : Gumnut Babies : Boronia Babies. Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1922. Octavo, each with colour frontis., sepia plates, orig. wrappers with colour onlay. $300Three early Gibbs pamphlets. See Muir 2734, 2737 and 2741.

May GIBBS. Little Obelia and Further Adventures of Ragged Blossom , Snugglepot and Cuddlepie. Sydney, Angus & Rob-ertson, [1921]. Quarto, colour frontispiece and plate, full-page sepia plates, a very good copy, original cloth-backed decorated papered boards, no dust-wrapper, pictorial endpapers. $450 First edition.

May GIBBS. Boronia Babies. Sydney, Angus & Robertson Ltd., n.d. (1919). Octavo, colour frontispiece, plates, early inked inscription, original wrappers with coloured pictorial onlay. $250 First edition. Muir, 2740.

Thos. GRIFFITHS. Australian specimen box in book form. Brisbane, Lutwyche Rd., circa 1920. A superb display piece, tim-ber veneers arranged in decorative geometric patterns, approx-imately 18 x 12 x 4.5 cm, the top of the spine sliding to reveal an inner compartment lined in velvet: complete with the key in manuscript identifying each of the timbers used. $1250A fine early twentieth century piece, proudly made from “finest selected Queensland timber”. Before his move to Bris-bane Thomas Griffiths, timber merchant, advertised in the Cairns Morning Post in June 1908 urging the public to support Local Industry.

John B. GODSON. Bookplates. Melbourne, G.C. Ingleton [i.e. Golden Lantern Press] and printed by Colarts Studio, 1933. Small octavo, ten original tipped-in bookplates, cloth-backed boards, a fine copy. $350

sped between Australia and experts all over the world. The first volume of “The Birds of Australia” was published in London in 1910, the twelfth and final volume appeared in 1927. His sub-sequent publications included lists of Australian, New Zealand, Lord Howe and Norfolk Island birds. Mathews’ own collec-tion of skins, sold to Lord Rothschild in the 1920s, is now in the American Museum of Natural History, New York. (Tess Kloot, author of ADB entry). His books were donated to the Common-wealth government in 1938 and have been kept together as a formed collection in the National Library of Australia, where they have been added to by a number of subsequent ornithol-ogists including Neville Cayley, Tom Iredale, S.W. Jackson and H.M. Whittell.Ayer/Zimmer, p. 419, Anker, 328, Nissen IVB, 605, Nissen, SVB 329, Whittell, pp. 488-504, Wood, p. 454.

D. H. LAWRENCE. Birds, Beasts and Flowers, Poems by D. H. Lawrence, With Wood-Engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton. The Cresset Press, 1930. Folio, pp. [x], 194, [6], ten full-page and other wood-engravings, top ede gilt, others uncut, print-ed on Batchelor’s hand-made paper at the Shenval Press, a couple of spots on free end-paper, bound in full pig skin, title in gilt on backstrip, preserved in a suede-lined tan slipcase. $2500Deluxe issue of 30 copies only, with a separate suite of the ten plates in an endpocket.

Gregory MATHEWS. The Birds of Australia [and] Supple-ment Nos. 1-3, Check List of the Birds of Australia [and] Bibliography. London, Witherby, 1910-1927. Thirteen volumes, 75 parts, plus ‘Check List of the Birds of Australia’ in 3 parts, and ‘Bibliography of the Birds of Australia’ in 2 parts, 600 hand-coloured plates, in contemporary green half morocco, minor flecking of a few covers, all edges speckled: a handsome set. $26,000Limited edition of 225 numbered copies. The only edition of Mathews’s life work, the last of the great colourplate bird books, and the most lavish Australian book of the twentieth century. The beautiful handcoloured plates by Keulemans, Gronvold, Green, Goodchild, Frohawk, and others, are also considered the most ornithologically correct and about one hundred species not given in Gould’s Birds of Australia are figured in these volumes. Born in Australia Mathews sailed for England soon after his marriage in 1902, and it was after visiting the British Museum that he conceived the idea of producing an exhaustive work on Australian birds. He met R. Bowdler Sharpe, keeper of the bird collection, who encouraged him and ‘taught him how to work’. Once started on the huge undertaking, Mathews became fa-natical. Sixteen-hour days were spent in research, writing, skin and book-collecting: he bought, exchanged or obtained by hired collectors 30, 000 skins and amassed some 5000 books cover-ing every aspect of ornithology but, ‘essentially a bibliophile’, he ‘was not really interested in the living bird’. Correspondence

and illustrated by the author throughout in black-and-white, original cloth-backed boards, lettered and decorated, a couple of pale marks, dust-wrapper with colour pictorial onlay (expertly refurbished at head of the spine), a very appealing copy of the first issue, with green patterned endpapers. $4750 Written and illustrated by Lindsay to prove his point that a book about food would be more popular with children than fairy sto-ries, the Magic Pudding was promoted by Angus & Robertson as a collector’s item. Priced at a guinea, it sold a thousand copies. Lindsay, whose serious work could be purchased at the time for twelve shillings, was annoyed that the book had not been pub-lished ‘at a price that would allow the kid to tear it up with a clear conscience’, and indeed this lavish publication was quickly followed by a cheaper edition. Muir 4263.

Fernand MOURLOT. Picasso Lithographe 1. 1919-1947 2. 1947-1949 3. 1949-1956 4. 1956-1963.Monte Carlo, André Sauret, Éditions du Livre, 1949-1964. Four parts, with 8 lithographs by Picasso (4 cover designs and frontispieces), one coloured. $4000 Catalogue raisonné of Picasso lithographs. Limited edition, the first volume one of 2500 numbered copies, volume two 2000, volume 3 3000. Wrappers and frontispieces in each volume are original lithographs. All printed in Paris by Mourlot Freres and Georges & Louis Duval. The Mourlot studio, founded in 1852 and celebrated in that century for printed wallpaper and advertising art, was dedicated from 1920s onwards to fine art lithography. Under the direction of Fernand Mourlot the studio produced art posters for exhibitions by Daumier, Delacroix, Ma-net, Bonnard and Matisse. In collaboration with Teriade, found-er of the art review Verve, Fernand Mourlot helped Matisse, Braque, Bonnard, Rouault and Joan Miró to create important lithographs for the magazine. In 1945, Pablo Picasso selected the Mourlot studio for his return to the lithographic medium and in the quarter century to 1969 he created several hundred lithographs at Mourlot.

Henry LAWSON. Selected Poems ... Illustrated by Percy Leason.Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1918. Tall octavo, tipped-in il-lustrations including frontispiece in colour, pictorial endpapers, owner’s name on front paste-down, all edges uncut, papered boards and quarter cloth: a crisp and clean copy. $3000Very rare: one of 75 numbered copies, signed by both Lawson and Leason. Mackaness 24B.

Norman LINDSAY. The Magic Pudding; Being the Adventures of Billy Bluegum and his friends Bill Barnacle & Sam Sawnoff. Sydney, Angus & Robertson, first edition, first issue with A&R endpapers, 1918. Quarto, additional colour pictorial title-page

J. C. LOUDON. An Encyclopaedia of Cottage, Farm, and Villa Architecture and Furniture; Containing numerous designs for Dwellings, from the Cottage to the Villa ... And appropriate Offices, Gardens, and Garden Scenery ... London, 1857. Thick octavo, with over 90 lithographs and about 2000 in-text wood-cuts. $1200Archer’s work on the Literature of British Domestic Architecture notes that Loudon’s work broke new ground in requiring the critic to assess any design, past or present, as a component of an entire scenic, social, cultural and aesthetic context.

K. Langloh PARKER. Australian Legendary Tales. Folk-Lore of the Noongahburrahs as told to the Piccaninnies. With Introduction by Andrew Lang. Illustrations by a Native Artist, and a specimen of native text. London, David Nutt, and Melbourne, Melville, Mullen & Slade, 1897. Octavo, illustrations, a little pale foxing, the foot of the spine wearing, a good copy in original green decorated cloth. $150First published in 1896, this collection is one of the earliest attempts to present Aboriginal legends to the general public in a detailed and sympathetic manner. Parker, childless herself, took a particular interest in the Aborigines on her husband’s property. She respected their culture and traditions, learned some of their languages, and was careful to record the tales as they were told to her. She names a number of the individu-als who had helped by repeating their legends, and the book is dedicated to Peter Hippi, King of the Noongahburrahs. It was through Andrew Lang’s brother in Corowa that the silhouette illustrations were provided, coming from a sketchbook of 1886 by Tommy McRae (drawings now held by the Mitchell Library). McRae lived in a family camp on the edges of Lake Moodemere, Wahgunyah, selling his drawings of traditional aboriginal life to travellers in the area.

James NORTHFIELD. Fauna, Australia [Tourist Poster]. Australian National Publicity Association, n.d. (193-?). Colour lithographed poster, 105 x 63 cm., neat repair to tear on tree trunk, signed in the image Northfield, logo of Australian National Publicity Association, text “Bookings at all shipping offices & travel agencies”. $2000 Born near Geelong in 1887, Northfield trained under George King at the Gordon Technical College, and joined a local litho-graphic firm before moving to Melbourne where he served his apprenticeship with the leading lithographic printers, F. W. Niv-en & Co. Established around 1932 in his own studio in Flinders Street he became a skilled commercial artist and wascommissioned to design travel posters for the Victorian Railways and the Australian National Travel Association. One of the most popular poster artists of the age, Northfield produced powerful images for iconic Australian brands such as Foster’s Lager, Swal-low & Ariell biscuits, and Pelaco shirts. This large travel poster is on a cream background, with images of kangaroos and joey, koala and baby, kookaburra, magpie, jabiru and platypus.

D. MALOUF. Bicycle and Other Poems. St. Lucia, University of Queensland Press, 1970. Octavo, original card wrappers a little creased. $300 First edition of Malouf’s extremely scarce first book: Paperback Poets, first series, number 1, the correct first impression with the price ($1) on the front wrapper.

Sandra McGRATH. The Artist & the River; Arthur Boyd and the Shoalhaven. Sydney, Bay Books, 1982. Small folio, colour plates, illustrations throughout, cloth, gilt, with dust-wrapper, a fine copy. $300Scarce.

Ida Rentoul OUTHWAITE. The Sentry And The Shell Fairy. Mel-bourne, British Imperial Oil Company, n.d. [circa 1922]. Quarto, six full-page colour plates, plus black and white heading and tail-piece, stapled in original pictorial wrappers with a handful of tiny pale spots, centre leaf detached from staples, small pale stain at head of gutter. $1500 Very scarce and ephemeral advertising piece. Muir, 4851.

A.I. RENTOUL & I.S. Outhwaite. Mollie’s Staircase. Melbourne, M. L. Hutchinson, no date (1906). Oblong octavo, title-page vignette and twelve full-page black and white illustrations, plus designs in text, early inscription on title, original lettered yapp wrappers with original brown silk tie, a fine copy. $1500Ida Rentoul Outhwaite’s second work, illustrated with twelve full-page plates in black-and-white. Muir, 6333.

Catherine STOW (K. Langloh PARKER). Woggheeguy: Australian Aboriginal Legends Collected by Catherine Stow... Illustrated by Nora Heysen. Adelaide, F.W. Preece, 1930. Large octavo, plates and vignettes throughout by Nora Heysen, one leaf with a repaired tear, original cloth-backed boards with the uncommon dustwrapper. $200This handsome edition is illustrated with stylish full-page plates, designs in text, and endpapers by a young Nora Heysen, daugh-ter of Hans.

A. B. PATERSON. The Animals Noah Forgot, by A. B. Paterson (“Banjo”), Illustrated by Norman Lindsay. First edition, Sydney, Endeavour Press, 1933. Octavo, portrait and illustrations, three small spots on fore edge, a bright copy in papered boards, original dust-wrapper front and flap mounted to endpapers. $100

Henry PEMBERTON. A View of Sir Isaac Newton’s Philosophy. London, S. Palmer, 1728. Quarto, twelve folding engraved diagramatic plates (extended), plus engraved title vignette, headbands, tail-pieces, and historiated initials by John Pine after J. Grison, owner’s name and his blindstamp twice (a Ballarat picture framer), one leaf with an old tear along crease (partly sealed), modern marbled boards and half calf, an attractive, crisp and entirely uncut copy. $2200

An important guide to Newton for the common man, published one year before the first English edition of his Principia. Pem-berton had studied medicine in Leyden under Boerhaave, and anatomy in Paris, graduating in 1719. He wrote on medical and other subjects, including mathematics. One of these publica-tions brought him to Newton’s attention, and he was engaged to supervise the third edition of the Principia, which appeared in 1726. The VIEW is illustrated with many fine headpieces and initials by J. Pine (a pupil of Picart), England’s best engraver during the first half of the eighteenth-century. He provided a frontispiece for the first edition of Robinson Crusoe in 1719, and is known for his wonderful, engraved edition of Horace. Typo-graphically this book is important as the first book printed using Caslon’s Roman type. Babson 98, Wallis 132.

Ethel C. PEDLEY. Dot And The Kangaroo, with 19 illustrations by Frank P. Mahony. Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1920. Quarto, colour frontispiece and eighteen full-page tone plates, a very good copy, original cloth-backed papered boards, front board decorated and with colour pictorial onlay. $200 A famous story first published in 1899, this edition is the first since 1900 to reproduce all the illustrations of that original edi-tion. Mahony’s sympathetic evocation of native animals and pioneering life in the bush helped to give this story a popularity which it still retains today.

Katharine Susannah PRICHARD. Clovelly Verses. London, McAlland & Co., 1913. 16mo., pp. 20, original brown wrappers, minor staple stains. $1250A superb copy of the extremely scarce first printing of the au-thor’s first book that rarely appears on the market.

searchers after truth among the artizans of England. Their first meeting occurred in 1862 when Nightingale asked Jowett to come to London to give her the sacrament, which he did. Their relationship was thus centred on religion and the discussion of religion, and was conducted mainly by letter. Jowett was a bach-elor, and it is not impossible that he proposed marriage to Flor-ence Nightingale, as Cordelia Sorabji much later recalled being told by him. Jowett’s letters to Nightingale were edited by E. V. Quinn and John Prest in 1987, her letters to him were mostly destroyed by him shortly before his death. The volumes in this set have manuscript bookplates (not in her hand) from the li-brary of Florence Nightingale, and also plates from C[harles] and G[abrielle] M[adge] Bonham-Carter.

Tarlton RAYMENT. Profitable Honey Plants of Australasia. Melbourne, Whitcombe and Tombs Limited, no date (circa 1925).Octavo, bright original decorated cloth: very scarce. $350

George SLATER. The News Letter of Australasia Number IX, March, 1857 [and] Number X, April, 1857. Melbourne, George Slater, 1857. Two items - Number IX (March 1857) a single sheet, printed on fine paper, blank integral leaf discarded. Image of two Victorian aborigines engraved by Nicholas Che-valier from daguerreotypes by Hubert Haselden. Number X (April 1857) a double sheet, printed on fine paper, folded, containing a two-page ink autograph letter (overwritten), a number of paper tape repairs on integral leaf and with previ-ous postal markings excised. Images of South Park, Melbourne, and Thomas Bungeelene, an 11 y.o. aborigine, by Chevalier. $3200The News Letter, issued between 1856 and 1862, was generally a single leaf printed on very fine paper, folded with an engrav-ing on the front and a local news story, with blank pages inside to allow a correspondent in Australia to send news to friends at home. These rare 1850s ephemera coincided with the large temporary population attracted to the gold rushes, enabling diggers to send illustrated souvenirs of their surroundings.

George D. PERROTTET. The Bookplates. Adelaide, The Wakefield Press, 1942. Octavo, tipped-in bookplates (most-ly in colour), stiffened printed wrappers, a very good copy. $275Edition limited to 275 numbered copies. Inscribed to the Bread & Cheese Club and signed by Perrottet.

[Governor] Arthur PHILLIP. The Voyage Of Governor Phillip To Botany Bay; with an Account of the Establishment of the Colo-nies of Port Jackson and Norfolk Island... to which are added the Journals of Lieuts. Shortland, Watts, Ball and Capt. Marshall. London, John Stockdale, 1789. Quarto, engraved plates and charts, the frontispiece and title with pale foxing, tiny worming of the final few leaves, a handsome and clean copy in contempo-rary calf, rebacked, with engraved baronial bookplate. $4800 First edition of the foundation book for New South Wales, the ‘official’ account of the First Fleet voyage and settlement at Syd-ney Cove. In this copy the plate at page 150 is in the less com-mon “Wulpine” state; the engraved title is in the second state. Ferguson, 47; Wantrup, 5.

Tim McCORMICK et al. First Views of Australia, 1788-1825, A History of Early Sydney, Foreword by Bernard Smith. Sydney, David Ell Press, 1987. Quarto, colour plates, cloth in dust-wrapper, inscribed by previous owner, a good copy. $275

PLATO. B. JOWETT (translator). The Dialogues of Plato, Translated Into English With Analyses And Introductions By B. Jowett. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1892. Five volumes octavo, frontispiece portrait, contemporary pebble-grained morocco, front and rear boards with central gilt medallion, all edges gilt, a fine set. $2400Third edition: an attractive association copy, from the library of Florence Nightingale, educationist, nurse and popular heroine, who had given substantial help to Jowett in the preparation of this translation, and later in the library of Charles Bonham-Carter, son of Florence’s cousin Henry. Nightingale had corre-sponded regularly with Jowett since 1860, when he advised against publication of her draft Suggestions for thought to the

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Roselle ROSS. Kankie Kangaroo ... who couldn’t hop. Illustrated by Charles E. Bracker, covers by Paul Kaloda. New York, Maxton Publishers, 1945. A shape book, quarto by dimensions, illustrated throughout by Charles E. Bracker, original colour card cover by Paul Korda, a fine copy. $300From the ‘Wild Animal Series’. The cover in the shape of a mother kangaroo, with a stand-up joey which slips into her pouch (cut through the front cover). Not in Muir.

W. J. THOMAS. Yanks and Aussies in Battle, Official Pictures of Pacific War from Pearl Har-bour to Timor. Cover paintings Walter Jardine. Sydney, NSW Bookstall Co. Pty. Ltd., [1943]. Oc-tavo, illustrated after photographs, pp. 32, sta-pled within coloured pictorial wrappers, minor wear. $55 Documents all known views of Sydney for the period. The richest and most di-verse collection of early Australian art ever assembled.

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