Catalogue 75
Our larger-than-usual catalogue contains an entertaining (and occasionally edifying) miscellany, including 25 classic Australian comic annuals (Ginger Meggs, Wally and the Major, Bluey and Curley); an original 1883-84 Melbourne Cricket Club Honorary Member's Ticket; Crombie’s Laws of Cricket (circa 1907); George Goyder’s set of Sturt’s Narrative of an Expedition into Central Australia (1849), and Stephen King Jnr’s copy of Searcy’s In Australian Tropics (1907); and numerous monographs on photographers, not least, signed copies of books by Max Dupain and Ansel Adams.
The sections on Egyptology, New Guinea, Indigenous Australia, and botany and gardening all contain much of interest, and there are many unusual and rare items scattered throughout the list.