CATALOGUE 128. July A selection from our stock on display at the Melbourne Rare Book Fair, University of Melbourne, July 2013.

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1 CATALOGUE 128 July 2013 A selection from our stock on display at the Melbourne Rare Book Fair, University of Melbourne, July ANZAC. St. Kilda s 1914 Anzacs, Second Welcome and Presentations to St. Kilda s (1914) Anzacs, St. Kilda Town Hall, Wednesday May 14th at 8 o clock (wrapper title). Without imprint, but Four-page programme, stapled in colour pictorial wrappers, the back wrapper illustrated with 1914 sepia photograph, a fine copy. $280 SUNNY SOUTH SERIES. A Kookaburra Shape Book from this rare Sydney series. Sydney, John Sands, November See details within. Kenneth Hince Old & Fine Books Pty. Ltd. Barbara Hince - Manager Telephone: (03) Facsimile: (03) bookshop@hincebooks.com.au Web: P.O Box 1178, Hartwell 3124 Victoria A.B.N

2 $ Albert Charles. COOKE (artist and engraver). [Bird s-eye View of Melbourne from the South]. [Melbourne, Sands & McDougall Limited, 1882]. Colour woodblock, approximately 395 x 655 mm. visible, framed and glazed within window mount. $6000 This colourful panoramic view is taken from the south-west side of the Yarra, showing the river, shipping, bridges and railways in the foreground, and extending to the Exhibition Buildings and University. The layout of city streets is shown in great detail. Cooke arrived in Melbourne from England in 1854 at the age of 18. He set up as a draughtsman and became a prolific illustrator of newspapers. He was a noted watercolour artist, exhibiting subjects including views of Port Phillip Bay at the Victorian Academy of the Arts between 1870 and Kerr s Dictionary of Australian Artists notes that he was made a fellow of the Royal Victorian Institute of Architects despite the lack of any formal architectural training. Several versions of this colourful and detailed view of Melbourne were published in the 1880s by Sands and McDougall. See our catalogue 117, September 2008, for the example issued for the 1888 Melbourne International Exhibition. 2. J. B. J. BRETON. China: its Costume, Arts, Manufactures, &c.edited principally from the originals in the cabinet of the late M. Bertin, with Observations, Explanatory, Historical, and Literary, by M. Breton. Translated from the French. London, Howlett and Brimmer, Two volumes, 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. $1750 An attractive work depicting many Chinese crafts and occupations, from agricultural to manufacturing, and including a sequence 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 Punishments of China. See Abbey No. 535 (1813 edition). 4. Samuel CALVERT. Melbourne, Victoria- from the Tower of St. Patrick s Cathedral, Eastern Hill. Melbourne, The Illustrated Melbourne Post, Wood engraving, 255 x 845 mm., sight, caption above and title below, signed in image bottom left, in a window mount, framed and glazed. $6600 Calvert arrived in Melbourne in 1852 after spending three years in Adelaide, and his earliest recorded work here was the map and frontispiece which he prepared for James Bonwick s Notes of a Gold Digger and Gold Diggers Guide, published in the same year. In the mid 1860s he constructed a studio at the rear of his Fitzroy house, and in 1867 set up commercially as a wood engraver in Little Collins Street, close to his brother William s printing business. A talented painter and wood-engraver, he exhibited regularly over three decades from 1850s to 1880s, and his work is found in nearly all the illustrated Melbourne papers of the period, as well as in the equivalent interstate publications. This view was Issued as a supplement to The Illustrated Melbourne Post, 27 July, llustrated below.

3 5. George Barbier illustrates Paul VERLAINE. Fêtes Galantes. Paris, Piazza, September Quarto, 20 beautiful pochoir plates by Georges Barbier, with duplicate set of plates in black and white, bound with the original colour pictorial wrappers, later half morocco and marbled boards, a fine copy. $4500 Barbier was a renowned theatre and cinema designer, whose work began with the Ballet Russe and went on to include collaboration with Erté. He was also a celebrated fashion designer, a friend of Louis Cartier and the creator of the famous Cartier black panther symbol. 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 additional suite of black and white illustrations. Carteret Illustrés modernes IV, p Gibbs Shallard & Co. Christmas Card.A Merry Christmas Here and There. (Sydney), Gibbs Shallard & Co., no date (circa 1880s). Colour lithographed greetings card, approximately 212 x 150 mm., recto (in colour) a cockatoo flying under the Southern Cross, verso (uncoloured) an aboriginal child delivering mail while sitting on an albatross, with sentimental verse, small blemishes. $ Robert J. HADDON. Australian Architecture, A Technical Manual for all those engaged in Architectural and Building work. Melbourne, George Robertson & Co., no date, (circa 1908).Octavo, one coloured plate, numerous sketches and plans, pp. xiv (advertisements), vi (prelims), 544 (including Index), early inscription, original red cloth, gilt and ruled, the spine sunned, a bright copy. $1450 First edition of Australia s first architecture text-book: very rare. Haddon s approach was a contemporary and a local one. He calls for modern and honest use of materials, and for a response to distinctive local conditions. His designs cover the widest range of construction from shearing sheds, stables and butter factories to hotels, banks, churches and hospitals. There are also chapters on garden design, concrete construction, ventilation, roofing, glazing, painting and decorating, and carpentry. This copy is a second issue, in which some advertisement leaves are discarded. 8. Samuel JOHNSON. A Dictionary of the English Language in which the words are deduced from their originals.london, W. Strahan for J. & P. Knapton [and others], Two volumes (in three), folio, unpaginated, text in double columns, a few gatherings slightly aged or with pale spotting, an impressively clean and crisp set, antique mottled calf, rebacked. $27,500 First edition: one of 2000 copies. The most celebrated single work of eighteenth-century scholarship, in which Johnson provided full and clear definitions, expanding them with quotations from a wide range of literature. This early binding ignores the original division into two volumes, and instead divides the 1160 leaves into three volumes, placing the second volume title-page at the start of that volume and no title-page in the third. ESTC: t Printing and the Mind of Man, 201.

4 Various styles of ornament from The Grammar of Ornament 9. Owen JONES. The Grammar Of Ornament illustrated by examples from various styles of ornament. London, Bernard Quaritch, reprinted Small folio, 112 full-page chromolithgraph plates, numerous black and white drawings in the text, original gilt and decorated cloth over bevelled boards, all edges gilt, a fine copy. $1000 The last edition of this famous illustrated survey to be printed in chromolithography. rison s Vocabulary of the Canton Dialect (1828) was the first Western attempt to compile a glossary for the dialect, and its publication was sponsored by the East India Company at a time when the opium trade was in full swing. In large part, the concern to provide a glossary of items of trade and useful phrases for commercial communication appears to have dictated the scope of the work. In the introduction, Morrison laments the difficulties attendant upon such a task, and notes that [t]he names of foreign articles of commerce in Canton are very irregularly and variously written among different shopmen and dealers and that [n]ames of goods are sometimes entirely foreign: at other times a translation of foreign Names; and occasionally they are half Chinese and half foreign. The work is divided into three parts, English and Chinese, Chinese and English, and Chinese words and phrases (including a useful section on Wicked Banditti ). 11. George D. PERROTTET. The Bookplates Of G.D. Perrottet. Adelaide, The Wakefield Press, Octavo, tipped-in bookplates (mostly in colour), stiffened printed wrappers, a very good copy.$275 Edition limited to 275 numbered copies. Inscribed to the Bread & Cheese Club and signed by Perrottet, the H. B. M[uir] preface inscribed and signed by Muir to noted collector J. K. Moir. 10. R. MORRISON. Vocabulary of the Canton Dialect. Kuang-tung sheng t u-hua tzu-hui. Macao, Printed at the Honorable East India Company s Press, by G. J. Steyn, and Brother, Octavo, an attractive copy, clean and fresh, in contemporary half calf, specked edges, front hinge cracking but firm, library bookplate and disposal stamp. $6200 Dr Robert Morrison ( ) was the first lay Protestant missionary in China. He was the first to translate and publish the Bible in Chinese and he produced the first Chinese dictionary. He also evangelized and baptized the first Chinese Protestant convert Mr Choi Kou. Mor- 12. Siegfried SASSOON. Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, with Illustrations by Barnett Freedman. London, Faber and Faber, Octavo, frontispiece and plates in colour, other illustrations and decorations, pictorial parchment boards, top edge gilt, others uncut, colour pictorial endpapers, complete with very good dust-wrapper and slightly browned pictorial board slipcase (minor rubbing along shelf edge) : a fine copy. $1500 First illustrated edition, limited to 320 copies, signed by Sassoon and Freedman. Keynes, A33e. By turning his own experience in the trenches into a novel Sassooon offers us a realistic and compassionate narrative of life in the wartime world of 1916 and 1917.

5 13. Rare children s game. A. RONGEAT. An Amusing and Instructive Geography dedicated to the Youth of England. The Names of the principal Cities in the World, their situation, population & distance from London. London, Ackermann & Co., no date (circa 1846). Roan slipcase containing ten double-sided gilt-edged lithographed and hand-coloured cards, plus Explanation sheet, housed in original roan slipcover, approximately 108 x 80 mm., the original paper title label pasted on the slipcase is also coloured (now slightly darkened), all in fine state. $4600 Each card with a city view on one side, and portions of the world map on reverse, all in colour. One map shows New Holland, and the borders of South Australia. Another card lists Sidney, capital of the British Colony in New Holland. A delightful early game in excellent condition. 14. SANDS &McDOUGALL Limited. Melbourne International Exhibition Melbourne, David Syme and Co., Colour lithograph, approximately 485 x 670 mm. visible, with title and imprint below. $1850 A fine exterior view of the recently-completed Exhibition Building, with a foreground of the extensive formal gardens. Issued as a Supplement to The Illustrated Australian News, 9 October, The image is not signed.

6 15. Athol SHMITH Melbourne photographs. Suite of five gelatin silver photographs, black & white, each approximately x 49 cm., studio stamp on versos, mounted, framed and glazed. $3000 A fine suite of post-war Melbourne images. These views of the city skyline from the south side of the Yarra, and of the city from the Shrine, show Melbourne at its 1940s best, when the landmark buildings included Ball and Welch and the Forum Theatre on Flinders Street, and the T & G tower on Collins. The Russell St Police tower, here shown under construction, was finished by Isobel Crombie s monograph on Shmith notes that most of his original vintage photographs were either destroyed or lost. 16. SUNNY SOUTH SERIES. A Kookaburra Shape Book from this rare Sydney series. Sydney, John Sands, November Tall narrow duodecimo by dimensions, colour-illustrated card wrappers in the shape of a kookaburra, a fine copy.$1000 Rare: one in a series of about four untitled shape books, the verse unsigned, issued by Sands during the Depression, undated but copyright Muir, SUNNY SOUTH SERIES. A Parrot Shape Book from this rare Sydney series. Sydney, John Sands, November Tall narrow duodecimo by dimensions, colour-illustrated card wrappers in the shape of a parrot, a little marked.$1000 Rare: one in a series of about four untitled shape books, the verse unsigned, issued by Sands during the Depression, undated but copyright Muir, 7214.

7 18. Charles TROEDEL.The Melbourne Album, containing a Series of Views of Melbourne & Country Districts. Respectfully dedicated to, and Patronized by His Excellency Sir Charles Darling, K.C.B. Melbourne, Bruno Riemann [and Charles Troedel], n.d. but after Oblong folio, lithographed titling-wrapper on cream paper, bound in as title-page as issued, twelve fine tinted lithographed plates, traces of pale foxing on a few plates, small repairs to the bottom margin of several plates, in the original publisher s half red roan and green cloth, titled in gilt, neatly rebacked with new endpapers. $28,600 Very rare: one of the short sets of twelve large and elegant delicately tinted lithographs of scenery in Melbourne and Victoria that make up Troedel s Melbourne Album of , perhaps the finest work of urban topography produced in Australia in the nineteenth century (Wantrup). Troedel was a pioneer of lithographic printing in Melbourne, having arrived with his own press in This famous Album was his first publishing venture, undertaken as partner to the lithographer Francis Cogne. Notable contemporary artists including Nicholas Chevalier, Eugen von Guerard, Edward Gilks and Henry Gritten contributed to the Album, and most of the plates were then drawn and lithographed by Cogne. There were different editions and impressions of the complete Melbourne Album, which contains twenty-four plates, and it is clear that Troedel also issued the plates separately. Plates exist with variant imprints, including that of the publisher Riemann, as well as of Shuhkrafft, Troedel s patron. During the 1860s both Troedel and Riemann issued short sets consisting of twelve plates. Ferguson lists four such sets, all of which vary as to contents and which also vary from this example. This copy comes from the Brown Library, sold by H. A. Evans in 1966, and subsequently from the collection of Rodney Davidson. Six of the twelve plates are views in the city of Melbourne: Bourke Street, Great Lonsdale Street East, The Eastern Market, View on Eastern Hill, Queen s Wharf, and Treasury Buildings, and six are suburban and country scenes: Sandridge, View from Studley Park, Sheepwash Creek, Lal Lal Falls, View on the Upper Mitta Mitta, and Wentworth River Diggings. Ferguson, Wantrup 262c.

8 19. Nicholas VISSCHER. Indiae Orientalis, nec non insularum adiacentium nova descriptio per Nicolaum Visscher.[Amsterdam, circa 1690]. Engraved map with original colouring, approximately 46.5 x 56 cm., with decorative cartouche at lower left below compass rose, two vertical folds, outer black frame slightly trimmed on right margin, a fresh and clean copy. $2000 An attractive and colourful map of Asia, showing India, Indonesia, the Philippines, and part of New Guinea. A substantial part of Australia s north coast includes a number of features which are named for the first time, including Aernhems Landt, C. van Diemens and R. Carpentier. Visscher was a leading Dutch mapmaker of the period. Tooley Advertising Posters. Tasmanian Apples [and] Australian Fruit, British Grown for the Growing British. A pair of colour printed posters, each approximately 176 x 760 mm., undated, circa 1940s. $600