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Photographs of a kangaroo and dingo in captivity, taken at London Zoo, 1864
HAES, Frank (1832-1916)
These two stereoviews are almost certainly the earliest known photographic images of a living kangaroo or a dingo. The
pair formed part of Haes’ first series of portraits of animals in London Zoo, taken in 1864. He produced a second series
in 1866. Haes’ photograph of the kangaroo is remarkable for the fact that it does not capture the animal in what we have
come to regard as its characteristic, even iconic, profile. It concentrates instead on anatomical detail, depicting the female
standing upright with her pouch exposed. The dingo is photographed with a top-hatted handler who, whilst he holds the
dog on an iron chain, pats the animal reassuringly with the other hand, an early recognition of the dingo’s potential to be
domesticated.
$ 8,000 AUD # 10758
Photograph of Aborigines at Maloga Mission, inscribed by Djadjawurrung man Martin Simpson
CAIRE, Nicholas John (1837-1918)
Maloga Mission was founded in 1874, on the New South Wales side of the Murray River. Two of the residents in this
strict, Wesleyan establishment were Martin Simpson, a Djadjawurrung man, and his wife, Matilda. Martin was one of
several Aboriginal men who learned to read and write at Maloga, and was one of a group from the mission that toured
Victoria in the 1880s, delivering evangelical and temperance sermons. This carte de visite photograph was taken at
Maloga by Nicholas Caire in 1884. The verso bears Martin Simpson’s manuscript greeting to Melbourne philanthropist
Dr. John Singleton: “To dear Dr. Singleton from Martin and Matilda Simpson - God Bless you Sir, Amen”. This inscription
is a rare nineteenth century specimen of handwriting of an Australian indigenous person. It is also significant because it
demonstrates that some indigenous people had ownership and control of photographic images of their own group. $ 4,500 AUD
# 10757
A treatise describing and explaining the construction and use of new celestial and terrestrial
globe. Designed to illustrate, in the most easy and natural manner, the phoenomena of the
earth and heavens...
[JOHNSON, Samuel]; ADAMS, George.
London : George Adams, 1766. With the scarce eight page Catalogue of mathematical, philosophical, and optical instruments
made and sold by George Adams bound in at the rear. The first edition of the treatise on globes by George Adams Senior,
the great English globe-maker and Mathematical Instrument Maker to His Majesty’s Office, written at the same time as his
publication of a new set of large library globes. In 1767-68 Adams supplied Cook with his scientific instruments aboard
the Endeavour, a number of which are almost certainly listed in the catalogue bound at the rear of the treatise. $ 2,750 AUD
# 10415
An early eighteenth century Spanish antiphonal
[DE LA CRUZ, Joseph Fr.]
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. An impressive manuscript of late Baroque liturgical choral music in a magnificent contemporary binding.
$ 18,000 AUD
# 10413
The Blonde Captive
“The story of a white woman lost among the oldest living race!” [Los Angeles, California] : Columbia Pictures, [1932].
Lithographic poster for the film The Blonde Captive (1932).This controversial film by American explorer Paul Withington
only managed to see the light of day because of a highly unethical and extreme editing process: what was supposed to
be legitimate documentary film footage, shot on location in Western Australia, was manipulated in a sinister and cynical
manner in order to produce a sensationalist film that was only ever screened in North American movie theatres, gaining
a short release in 1932. The film was banned in Australia and until recently had never been screened publically in this
country.
$ 4,400 AUD
# 10608
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The tree of man (Presentation copy for Gunnar Brusewitz, designer of the Nobel Prize
diploma)
WHITE, Patrick (1912 - 1990)
Between 1963 and 1988 the Swedish artist and writer Gunnar Brusewitz (1924-2004) designed diplomas for the Nobel
Prize in Literature, which were presented to recipients along with a gold medal originally designed by Erik Lindberg
in 1902. The diplomas Brusewitz created included the one presented to Australian writer Patrick White in 1973, a
watercolour design inspired by White's novel, The Tree of Man. In May, 1974, White presented both his Nobel Prize medal
and diploma to the State Library of New South Wales. White remains the only Australian writer to have been awarded
the Nobel Prize in Literature.
$ 4,500 AUD
# 5215
Wurnuga waltz pardon valse
RICHMOND, Kathleen
Cover: "To Thomas Playfair Esq Mayor of the City of Sydney". Sydney : Schott & Co., n.d. [1885-89]. Folio, illustrated front
cover (detached) with chromolithographed design featuring a European woman and an Aboriginal man (she appears to
be 'pardoning' him), 7 pp of musical notation, internally clean and sound. Scarce.
$ 400 AUD # 9902
Photographic portrait of the explorer Robert O’Hara Burke
[THOMAS ADAMS HILL] ; DAVIES & CO.
Mid-1860 [but probably published early 1863]. Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, approximately 97 x 63
mm, verso with the imprint of 'Davies & Co., Photographers, 5, Collins St. West, (3 Doors from Elizabeth St.) Melbourne',
the albumen print in oval format with light rubbing at upper right, otherwise a good, stong print; the mount clean, with
a tiny amount of foxing to the verso. A rare portrait photograph of one of the most celebrated figures in the history of
Australian exploration.
$ 3,300 AUD
# 10275
Ueber den Ursprung des bürgerlichen Lebens und der Staatsform in den Südsee-Inseln, und
zwar auf der Insel Nuckahiwah, einer der Washington-Inseln. TILESIUS VON TILENAU, Wilhelm Gottlieb (1769-1857)
pp 133-168 in: Karl Heinrich Ludwig Pőlitz (editor), Jahrbücher der Geschichte und Staatskunst : eine Monatsschrift. Leipzig
: Hinrichs, May, 1828. Octavo, original printed wrappers, pp 113-224, partially uncut, with folio size folding lithographic plate
of Marquesan tattoo designs at rear, a fine copy. Text in German in Fraktur. Extremely rare.
$ 2,500 AUD
# 10668
The man who loved children (First edition; Florence James’ and Christina Stead’s copy)
STEAD, Christina (1902-1983)
London : Peter Davies, 1941. First U.K. edition. Octavo, red cloth boards (upper board lightly marked), the personal copy
of both Florence James (19 David St. Mosman) and later Christina Stead (Camberley, Surrey), the ownership signatures of
both women on the front free endpaper, 480 pp (edges flecked), a well read copy, housed in a quarter blue morocco and
blue cloth clamshell box.
Perhaps the ultimate copy of Stead’s most acclaimed novel: not only did it originally belong to her dear friend, the writer
and literary agent Florence James, but it subsequently passed back into the author’s own hands.
$ 3,250 AUD
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