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As ANZAAB President Dawn Albinger writes, “No one single dealer could present such a diverse range, but together we can offer you the most outstanding and interesting items available in our region.”

From illuminated manuscripts to maps, first editions to photo albums, the catalogue invites both seasoned collectors and curious newcomers to explore, and to discover something unexpected. Whether your interests lie in travel and voyages, natural history, or the more unusual corners of collecting, there is plenty here to intrigue and inspire.

"Whether you seek illuminated manuscripts, maps and charts, treatises on pharmacology or fencing, significant first editions, or photo albums, there will be something to entice you. If your taste runs to opulent and important offerings in travel and voyages, you will find something to consider acquiring. Or perhaps you are a collector of ephemera, stereographs, or motoring; of nineteenth-century natural history or twentieth-century cross-dressing — I am sure you will find something here worthy of your collection.
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We selected some highlights - delving into Australian and international history, literature, art and cartography:

EVANS, SIR FREDERICK JOHN OWEN (1815-1885): APPROACHES TO NEW YORK

Rare large scale detailed British Admiralty Hydrographic chart of New York

New York, first published 22nd October, 1877, with large corrections April, 1904 and small corrections to 1905.

$2,450 AUD - Antique Print & Map Room, Ultimo - New South Wales

WEDEL, GEORG WOLFGANG
OPIOLOGIA
Jenae: Johannis Fritschii, 1674.

20cm x 14.5cm. [8], 170, [2] pages. Half vellum, marbled papered boards. Text is in Latin.

First edition of this rare and early treatise on the pharmacological and therapeutic aspects of opium. The large title vignette one of the earliest illustrations of scoring and bleeding the poppy.

$4,000 AUD - The Book Merchant Jenkins, Geeveston - Tasmania

JERREMS, CAROL AND VIRGINIA FRASER: A BOOK ABOUT AUSTRALIAN WOMEN

Melbourne, Outback Press, 1974.

Quarto, 144 pages with 131 illustrations (including the cover illustrations).

Photographs by Carol Jerrems; text edited by Virginia Fraser. ‘This earnest and timely collaboration was conceived as a “collective portrait” of Australian women, and captures a significant period of change and activism. The book was launched by the very first Women’s Advisor to an Australian Federal Government, Elizabeth Reid, which drew what might otherwise have been a niche cultural object into mainstream discourse. It remains one of the most important photobooks made in Australia’ (National Portrait Gallery, Canberra).

Carol Jerrems (1949-1980) died of illness shortly before her 31st birthday.

$1,500 AUD - Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers, Adelaide

GOULD, JOHN & ELIZABETH, & HENRY CONSTANTINE RICHTER
THE MAMMALS OF AUSTRALIA
London : printed by Richard and John E. Taylor for the author, [1845] - 1863.
Three volumes, imperial folio, finely bound in full green crushed morocco by H. Stamper. Illustrated with a total of 172 hand-coloured lithographs drawn by Henry Constantine Richter and printed by Hullmandel & Walton, after original drawings and watercolours made in Australia by Gould and his wife Elizabeth (who died in 1841 and is uncredited in the publication). A fine complete set.
“John Gould’s three-volume folio of Australian mammals is one of the best of all Gould’s folios and the most engaging of all colour plate Australian natural history books, with some of the finest depictions of mammals ever produced”
(Wantrup 2023, I, p. 520).

$225,000 AUD, Douglas Stewart Fine Books, Melbourne

ROSE, GEORGE
11,950 GREAT SUFFRAGETTE DEMONSTRATION IN LONDON.

MRS FISHER, MRS MCGOWEN AND MISS VIDA GOLDSTEIN FROM AUSTRALIA

Gelatin silver stereoview photograph, circa 1911.

Vida Goldstein (1869 – 1949) was an early Australian feminist politician who campaigned for women’s suffrage and social reform. She was the first woman in the British Empire to stand for election to a national parliament.

$350 AUD - Sebra Prints, Doncaster, Victoria

BRISBANE, SIR THOMAS MACKDOUGALL
LAND GRANT TO WILLIAM WHITE OF 80 ACRES IN PARRAMATTA
Sydney 30 June 1823.

Oblong folio, partly printed and completed in manuscript, on vellum, with a good paper seal; in a brown half morocco binding by Collins & Newbold.

Grant of land in Paramatta signed by the sixth governor, Brisbane, witnessed by Robert Crawford and another (illegible). William White (c. 1790-1871) came out from England as a free settler in 1803 on the Glatton with his mother and stepfather Isaac Knight. He and Maria Batman (1793–1835) were married by Rev. Samuel Marsden at St John’s Parramatta. In the 1828 Census he was listed as a Wheelwright, age 38, at Parramatta, with his wife Maria, and their children Elizabeth, Isaac, Rachel, Maria, Thomas, and John.
They had three apprentices, two servants, and a convict, Thomas McCarty, who worked as a nailer. William’s 80 acres granted in this document had become ‘Brush Farm’, twenty acres of which had been cleared by the time of the Census, which recorded four horses there, as well as the fact that he also had sixty horned cattle at Hunters River.

$5,500 AUD - Hordern House, Sydney, New South Wales

RARE WWII PHOTOGRAPHIC ALBUM OF JAPANESE RED CROSS NURSES
[日本赤十字看護婦写真アルバム]

Photographic album, 15.2 x 21cm, [44]pp, 57 black and white photographs, many with captions and

identification of those in the photograph on reverse, cord tie. Some photographs loose and a little worn at edges, mild silvering on a few but overall a good and unusual collection.
[Japan. Circa 1945].

A rare visual record of Japanese Red Cross nurses working at naval rehabilitation hospitals in Yugawara, a hot spring resort west of Tokyo, during the final stages of the Pacific War. From around 1944, the Japanese Imperial Navy requisitioned local inns, including Seikoen and Seiranso, to treat repatriated sick and wounded servicemen, with Red Cross nurses assigned to care for them.

The album, titled Yugawara on the cover, does not name its compiler, though captions suggest it was assembled by a nurse from Wakayama Prefecture, part of a group of approximately twenty nurses who worked and lived together. Photographs depict group portraits, New Year gatherings, sports days, recreational activities, and personal portraits, alongside a small number of scenic views of Hakone. Despite the wartime context, the images convey a calm and communal atmosphere.

$1,250 AUD - Asia Bookroom, Canberra, ACT

JACK LONDON: THE PEOPLE OF THE ABYSS

Proof copy in wrappers for the first edition, inscribed by London with his corrections/revisions.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1903. Proof Copy. Softcover : pp. x, 280 : original printed tan wrappers : red half morocco slipcase. Wrappers a little worn ; head of spine chipped, foot of top joint separating (35mm); some creasing; bookplate to verso of upper wrapper.

London’s exposé of “the underside of capitalism.” (Alec Kershaw, Jack London: A Life, p.119).

With a presentation inscription by London incorporating the printed half title: “Dear Madeline. With best love, Respectfully yours (The) Person (of the Abyss), Jack London”. This prepublication copy printed six months before the first edition does not yet have the illustrations from photographs (nor a list of illustrations); page numbers in the two-page table of contents are represented by zeros; and some chapters do not have the beginning quotations as in the published version of October 1903. There are markings, corrections, deletions and other revisions by London in pencil on 13 pages (16 words in his hand). [BAL 11877; Sisson & Martens, p.16].

Provenance: Frederick W Skiff (bookplate); Sotheby’s - New York, April 2004 - The Maurice F. Neville Collection; Private collection, Australia.

$27,500 AUD - Archives Fine Books, Brisbane - Queensland